1 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,280 What's going on? Everybody beats you unleashed in 2 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,800 the house. My God, the snow. 3 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,480 I can't stand it. I, I, I cannot stand the snow to 4 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:38,320 the point where I'm actually in a bad mood today like I I can't 5 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:44,240 stand it I'm done with it It's cute in January it's fine in 6 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,520 early as February see, this is what I think about right? 7 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,840 And it's so funny because my wife is from Dallas and it's the 8 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,600 snow and I, I'm, I'm, I'm a weather snob, right? 9 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,720 And I'm a weather snob that traces back to my days of when I 10 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,560 was playing a lot of golf before kids, before I was married right 11 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,319 now, playing three times a week, sometimes a little bit more than 12 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,040 that. And I would stretch out the golf 13 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,160 season. I remember actually playing 14 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,960 rounds. I remember playing on New Year's 15 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:15,480 Day once in in the Northeast. So I would go out and I would 16 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,000 play November and I'd have the skull cap on. 17 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,640 And you know, Wendy, as long as it wasn't raining, if it was 18 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,480 windy, if it was kind of dry, I was out there and I would get 19 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,040 out there as early as I can, right? 20 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,680 So when you want to play golf that way, you've got to 21 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,480 understand the weather and you just lock in, you dial in, you 22 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,880 follow the weather and just suck it up and you go play, right? 23 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,840 Now my mind shifts to, OK, when are we on the baseball field 24 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,040 with the kids? Like that's And then obviously 25 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:44,840 I'll play a little, little bit of golf myself. 26 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,280 But like, when can I get outside? 27 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,240 Because I can't stand being trapped. 28 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,080 I can't stand it. I can't stand going out in the 29 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,760 backyard, you know, maybe once a month or twice a month to hang 30 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,560 out by the fire pit and shovel to get to the fire pit. 31 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,480 So yesterday as this starts to come down, as I start to say, my 32 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,480 wife is from Dallas. So like, oh, this is so amazing. 33 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,639 This is so fantastic. And all I keep saying is no, 34 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:15,360 it's not This is this is going to set us back a long time now, 35 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:20,320 Jay Ron, I want to know what what does somebody go is been 36 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,440 better? Honestly, I'm not in good mood 37 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,200 today like this snow is depressing and I don't very I 38 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:26,760 don't really get depressed very often. 39 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,680 I'm actually depressed. I can I can't go anywhere to 40 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:32,760 there's nowhere to go. There's nothing to do. 41 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,560 That to me is not exciting. Like we watched a movie last 42 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,160 night with the kids. It was great. 43 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:39,920 We watched the Titanic with them. 44 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:42,560 We, you know, we Fast forward classic that one scene, of 45 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,080 course, when they're in the car. So we did that. 46 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,080 There's only so many movies to watch. 47 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,560 Like I just start pacing the house. 48 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,160 I got nowhere to go. I can't even go for a ride. 49 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,280 I like there's nothing to do. So you're in an apartment. 50 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:56,800 What what? What do you do today? 51 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,120 I mean, nothing like honestly similar vibe my roommate and I 52 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,040 like. Last night we watched what, the 53 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:08,680 Tom Cruise movie Vanilla Sky. Today we'll probably, you know, 54 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,640 watch a couple more movies. I mean, do some podcasts and 55 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:15,920 stuff, you know, in the car, but no, we're trapped. 56 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:19,240 I mean really the only places like, you know, in New York it's 57 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,560 a little different because at least there's still a couple 58 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:26,160 corner delis you could walk to within like a 20 foot radius 59 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,320 other than that on your side. Yeah, I hear you. 60 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,360 And by the way, this is the little false, false 61 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,680 representation here at Slay under score kids. 62 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,160 BT acts like he's actually go out and clean the snow today. 63 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,520 I, I always that matter of fact, I've told the story many times 64 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,480 where I have enjoyed going out and taking care of the snow like 65 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,360 when like for, you know, when the kids were little, we lived 66 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,600 in a condo. So they would do that like the, 67 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,200 the building would take care of that once we move to our home. 68 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,080 Like something clicked in first time homeowner, dad, little 69 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,080 kids. I, I embraced it and I enjoyed 70 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:02,840 it. And I've told you like I would, 71 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,400 I would open up the garage door. I would bring out a little 72 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,800 bottle of Scotch. I would pour a little little 73 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,640 little here and there. I'd have the music going from 74 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,760 the garage and I would get down to work and I would, I would do 75 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,720 it myself. The last one was so heavy that 76 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,279 I'm like, you know what? One of the women down the 77 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,760 street, I guess you sent out a text to all the moms then and 78 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:26,920 all the wives, all the friends. Hey, you know, so and so hired 79 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,560 somebody to come in and you know, I plow the driveways. 80 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,520 I'm like, you know what? How about do it, Do it. 81 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,480 And it was the easy way out. And she knows I'd never do that. 82 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,360 So she was surprised that I wanted to do it. 83 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,880 And now I'm starting to find my because I'm like, it was 200 84 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:40,880 bucks. I'm like, dude, I don't care if 85 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,400 it's $2000. Like the way it's out there, I'm 86 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:44,840 not going out. I'm not messing around with 87 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:46,800 that. So when I knew what was coming 88 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,520 today, I told her to try to get out in front of this and see if 89 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,920 we can get the same person to come and play the, the, the, 90 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,280 the, the grounds. I guess they weren't available. 91 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,360 So somebody down the street, I think he's like a 19 year old 92 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,400 kid athlete, you know, wrestler, whatever plays hockey, he's 93 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,840 going to come and do it. And now I'm like, but no, it's 94 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:09,280 not nice because I'm I'm re evaluate like I enjoy it, but 95 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,920 there's just there's a limit. Like I'm telling you, I am, I 96 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,280 am. This is not for Oh, let's 97 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:18,360 pretend that it's you. I am actually down today. 98 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,040 I am I woke up. I'm like this fucking sucks that 99 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,240 it's snowing this much. I got literally nowhere to go 100 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,920 and I'm depressed. Like I'm, I'm bothered by this. 101 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,600 I am absolutely bothered by the inability to do anything. 102 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,000 I can't sit around all day. I get antsy. 103 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,880 I get, I start pacing. I need stuff to do. 104 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,080 I can only create so many graphics and images and do 105 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,400 things for the show. Like I got to do something. 106 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,760 I have to do something, even if it's to get in the car to go get 107 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,560 gas just to leave the house. And I can't even do that today. 108 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,600 So that's where we're at, buddy. That's where we're at. 109 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,480 Might have to go Leonardo DiCaprio and The Revenant or 110 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,440 something. Go on a a little adventure. 111 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:02,480 Good line. That's a good movie, by the way. 112 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,080 Yeah, that was a good one. All right, all right, we do. 113 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:06,600 We do have some stuff for you today. 114 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,800 And real quick before I get to Team USA, great, great job by 115 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,000 the Olympic team. Winning gold yesterday, beaten 116 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,760 Canada. Sick game, sick finish. 117 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,880 Six circumstances. So let me at least alert you 118 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,080 guys about this or of this year. So what I did was over the 119 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:22,520 weekend, J Rod, I know you saw this. 120 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,640 You helped me with this in terms of the shorts which are doing 121 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,680 really well. So I'm going to start pumping 122 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,920 out some new content. OK, so today apartment yesterday 123 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,400 put up my old time Yankees lineup from 1980 forward and I 124 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,240 ran through it. A lot of debate, a lot of, you 125 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,400 know, points of contention for some of you. 126 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,240 What I'm going to do is obviously The Daily Show will do 127 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,160 that Monday through Friday and you know, from 10 until about 128 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,240 11:30 sometimes if there's a lot going on, I'll stick on it. 129 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,360 I'll stick around until noon. But I, I, I want that and it's 130 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,520 been on my mind. I'm like, I don't want to just 131 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,160 do a live show. I want to be able to provide 132 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,880 some other stuff, some more Evergreen stuff that I think is 133 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,880 going to really come out well and really, quite frankly, give 134 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,520 me a chance to not Only Connect and communicate more with you 135 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,440 guys, but really tap into to one of my what what you know, I say 136 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,440 this very humbly, but what I perceive to be one of my 137 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,480 ultimate strengths and that is connecting history and and doing 138 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,360 all that stuff here. So the Yankee Lotup is up there. 139 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,240 Obviously, again, Reggie's not on my team. 140 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,320 I did not put Reggie on my team. Understand this before I get to 141 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,240 the hockey and the other stuff, there's two things. 142 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,760 There's only two rules #1 you had to it's, it's got to be from 143 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,160 post 1980 on. So really what I could actually 144 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,760 recollect like somewhat watching games and and process like I'm 145 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,000 the, I mean, anybody could put Garrick and Babe Ruth and Mickey 146 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,480 Mantle and Yogi Berra and Joe Di Maggio out there. 147 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,400 Like I want to make it more personalized, which I did. 148 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,480 So that's rule #1 the other rule. 149 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,560 And no, it's not an anti Juan Soto rule. 150 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,520 I know some of you think that I created this just because I'm, 151 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,240 I'm still annoyed, which I'm not, that Juan Soto let the 152 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,840 Yankees for the Mets. But the other rule and these are 153 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:02,720 the only two rules. Otherwise you do what you want. 154 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,560 You had to have played for the Yankees for at least more than 155 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,800 one year. All right, so Juan Soto 156 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,800 ineligible for this team now he's going to be eligible for 157 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,600 the Mets one, which I'm going to do. 158 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,960 I just started doing the the research there. 159 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,200 I've got something cooking which is going to drop right before 160 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,440 the Big East tournament. My all time Big East team that's 161 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,200 already done like the graphics done. 162 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,760 My team is constructed. I've got to do a little bit more 163 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:32,200 so I can really, you know, church up the presentation a 164 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,280 little bit, but it's already done and that took forever not 165 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,919 to start supporting 5. That was pretty good and that 166 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:41,840 was pretty, pretty easy for me. But running through the bench 167 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:46,120 and then even coming up with the coach lot of fun detail process. 168 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,040 So this is going to be more content that I'm going to drop 169 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:52,000 to you guys and and even other things like I was thinking about 170 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,080 this just so it's not always about sports. 171 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,040 I've got something coming soon. You know, I love my sneakers, 172 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:01,840 right, top ten sneakers, top ten albums, top ten concerts, stuff 173 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:04,080 like that. So well, many, many things that 174 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:05,240 are coming to beat you unleashed. 175 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,240 Happy to have you like it, subscribe it. 176 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,160 Bang that button in there. All right, can we get something 177 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,320 straight? Yesterday was not a miracle, 178 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,040 guys. It was an amazing moment for 179 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,400 United States hockey. It was a combination of where 180 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,360 the, the hockey world on our soil has has come. 181 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:25,040 I was reading some stuff yesterday, right? 182 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:29,320 So, and you know this, you know that there was a large gap of, 183 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,320 of, of, of non winning, if you will, right. 184 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,200 So when they won in 1980, of course, the team of amateurs. 185 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,520 We just saw the documentary the couple of weeks ago, which was 186 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,440 great with Brooks, you know, just putting them through 187 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,240 torture for the training camp and who made the team 188 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,600 phenomenal. I, I love that. 189 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,520 And I'm not even a massive hockey fan, you know that. 190 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,280 But the documentary was great and I appreciate great stories. 191 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,400 So once they won up at Lake Placid in 1980, they had five 192 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,240 straight Olympics without a single medal, not even gold. 193 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:00,960 No, no silver, no bronze, nothing. 194 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:05,480 And and obviously USA Hockey was at a distinct disadvantage. 195 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,120 Clearly. And This is why, though it's not 196 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:09,840 a it's not even close to being a miracle. 197 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,040 And I understand guys, it's a cute play on words. 198 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,720 Oh, and you, I saw this everywhere this morning. 199 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,720 Miracle on Ice 2.0. Wow, we did it again. 200 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:24,640 Miracle, you know, it's not a miracle because once the the 201 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,400 miracle Lake Placid happened, there was this reinvestment 202 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,520 after that, like the five Olympics that were lean, as I 203 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:37,000 said, after that, you can visibly see where the seeds for 204 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,440 USA Hockey were planted. Check this out. 205 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,040 J Rod, this is this to me. This is where it really started, 206 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:47,040 and it usually starts in a way that's fairly benign, that's not 207 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:51,480 incredibly obvious. Well, USA Hockey in 1990 and 208 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:55,040 1991 had 100. This was per the USA Hockey 209 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,520 database, right? So these are numbers that are 210 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,760 absolutely legit. I want to do a little digging 211 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,720 here. 195,000 registered ice hockey players. 212 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,320 So we'll just round it up. We'll say 200,000 back in, 213 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,960 199091 registered US hockey players. 214 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:15,800 And now you look from 1991, a decade after that, it doubled. 215 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,480 It actually more than doubled to over 400,000. 216 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,840 So when you have that kind of that kind of explosion, number 217 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,920 one, what's going to happen is you going to get better athletes 218 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,800 on the ice #1 and maybe some athletes who have may have gone 219 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,640 to different sports back in the day when the number goes from 220 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:36,120 200,000 to over 400,000. There are some young athletes. 221 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,520 And I don't just mean in the hot pockets of like Minnesota and 222 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:44,320 Michigan and maybe Ohio and some other pockets where there's 223 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,280 obviously a very fervent hockey base. 224 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:48,920 New Jersey's got some great hockey. 225 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,600 I know a lot of the that the private schools are really, 226 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,480 really good. Club hockey around here is 227 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,640 really, really good. And then you start to look at 228 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,080 like, and this whole time into a bigger picture, the expansion of 229 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,960 the NHL and obviously go to some warm weather cities, many of 230 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:07,400 which have proved very viable. And here we are now I, you know, 231 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,960 every time this happens and I'm very transparent with this and I 232 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,320 always have been. So my hockey experience was 233 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,560 limited to playing in the street, not being very good. 234 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,240 Not just there was like the one sport. 235 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,560 I just never just couldn't, I couldn't skate grade. 236 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:25,680 I just, I didn't, I don't know, I just wasn't very good. 237 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:30,160 And that along with the fact that my dad never watched one 238 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,440 shift at the NHL, not once. So it was never, never, never on 239 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,320 in our home. And, you know, my dad's a devout 240 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,880 sports fan. Every night, Yankees, Mets, 241 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,120 Nicks, St. Johns, every single Sunday, 242 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,800 Jets, Giants, Lord knows what he's betting on. 243 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,120 Because I could see in the old newspaper he's got this circle 244 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,560 then like reverse, you know -110 and all the. 245 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,560 So I figured out pretty early my dad was, you know, was having 246 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:55,640 some fun with some of these games. 247 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:00,560 But hockey was the one sport that was not centrally at all in 248 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:04,040 my home. And and I, I, I really like a 249 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,720 moment like yesterday. There's a part of me now. 250 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,760 There's only so many rooms, so much room for so many sports. 251 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:14,920 Like you can't be a maniacal fan about every single sport because 252 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,360 I just a little sideswipe here. I remember talking to Donald 253 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,320 Gregg about this years ago. Donnie's great hockey guy and a 254 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,680 great guy. And I remember saying to Don, 255 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,240 I'm like, you know, it's it's almost impossible to have that 256 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,960 equal attention to hockey and the NBAI don't know, I don't 257 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:34,240 know one person. I don't know one that is equal 258 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,560 parts fervent in terms of hockey and the NBA. 259 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:39,160 At some point, you got to be there. 260 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:44,840 Or I mean, totally with you, all of my friends, most people are 261 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:50,040 NBA guys, but I'd say the ones who are NHL fans, strictly NHL 262 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:54,960 fans, maybe a little, maybe a little at like they're NANFL and 263 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,080 MLB fans fans as well, but they're NHL fandom. 264 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,440 Reign supreme. Oh, listen, the one thing that 265 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,000 I've always said, now I understand and I agree and it's 266 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,600 unfortunate and there's a lot of reasons, reasons I won't really 267 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,680 get into now just because I think we kind of already know 268 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:13,080 what they are in terms of the, the popularity. 269 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:14,560 Well, you know what? Maybe I will cause I've never 270 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:16,600 really done it on this show. Very quickly. 271 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,600 The reason why, and I don't mean popularity amongst those devout 272 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,720 hockey fans. I mean hockey permeating the, 273 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,120 you know, the, the mainstream cross section of fans. 274 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,720 And I don't want to turn this into what I'm not going to like 275 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,480 a lazy regurgitation of, well, hockey will never be popular 276 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,360 because you can't follow the puck and it's not transferable 277 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,080 to TV like that. That's lazy. 278 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:42,600 I mean, it's a maybe a little true, but those are things that 279 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,800 people who have nothing to say about hockey, that's what they 280 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,320 continuously spit out. Like if they know nothing, 281 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,760 right? And and I actually do know 282 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:54,760 hockey, at least from my childhood, I suppress it because 283 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,080 I I'm no longer following the way I once did. 284 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,920 But there was a point where I was playing hockey in the street 285 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:01,560 every day. As I said, I was I was an 286 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,200 Islanders fan growing up, those teams that won a bunch of 287 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,120 championships with the Bossies and the pot Fins and the Clark 288 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,000 Gillies and Al Barber was the head coach, of course, Hall of 289 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,560 Famer Billy Smith and pipes, I mean, and just more Bobby 290 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,000 Nystrom and then La Fontaine. And like I, I actually did 291 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,400 follow a little bit of hockey. But the point is, right a day 292 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:26,240 like yesterday, I am envious of of of those who were so 293 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,480 emotionally invested, like those who really love hockey and 294 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,360 really follow the storylines. It's not that I don't respect 295 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,040 it. I do matter of fact, you can 296 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,920 make a case. People say that maybe NBA 297 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,000 players are the best athletes or certain positions in football. 298 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,880 You could make the case that it's actually hockey players 299 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,160 when like the the real skilled guys who are going up and down a 300 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:52,120 sheet of ice on skates, moving at a ridiculous rate of speed, 301 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,280 holding a stick control of the puck and avoiding getting their 302 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,880 brains blasted into the board. So you you can make that case. 303 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,320 It's not that I don't appreciate the sport. 304 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,720 It's not even that I don't understand the sport. 305 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:08,200 I am just built when I did you can play a sport like with at at 306 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,840 a fairly high level. My my database of knowledge and 307 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,320 interest. It wanes. 308 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,240 So I'm watching the our country go crazy yesterday. 309 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,640 And I'll be honest, man, I'm kind of on the side of the road 310 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:24,640 saying I trust me, you know, You know, I love our country. 311 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:27,520 I'm I'm thrilled for us. It's a great unifier, all that 312 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,880 good stuff. But did it strike me the way it 313 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:31,240 struck others? No. 314 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:33,960 And I wish that it did. I wish that it did. 315 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,680 No, I mean, I'm with you. I, I feel like it's been a long 316 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:39,440 time, you know, because US typically wins gold. 317 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,320 And even if US won gold in basketball, you're not going to 318 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,640 see me going. Oh, my gosh, they won. 319 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:48,000 But I mean, yeah, I'm totally with you. 320 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,080 It's funny, you know, seeing some people even my age who are 321 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:56,400 at bars breaking down in tears. Wow. 10 in the morning because 322 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,080 they just won like the gold and you know, and to me it's just 323 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,400 like similar to you. That's something that I guess 324 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,599 it's not really, it doesn't come. 325 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:06,480 It doesn't hit me emotionally that way. 326 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,119 It's like, OK, great. There's like a moment of pride 327 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:10,599 for the nation, but it's not like. 328 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:12,040 We did it. We. 329 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,079 Overcame on logs kind of deal. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't 330 00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:18,079 know what I would have felt in in 1980. 331 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:20,160 I guess when that happened, I was what, 6? 332 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:22,680 I don't even really remember, like back in the day when 333 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,720 something big would happen in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, 334 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,920 whether it was New Year's Eve or like the Yankees. 335 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,680 I do remember this, and it's funny, but maybe my dad just 336 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,520 wasn't that into it because it was hockey, because this was a 337 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,520 couple of years after. And I do remember very, very 338 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,000 vaguely when the Yankees won the World Series in 78. 339 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,040 I remember everybody going out and like banging the pots in the 340 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:44,920 pans. And I do, I remember actually 341 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,880 hearing that, that rattle that is still reverberating 342 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,960 throughout my mind, or at least my mind's eye. 343 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:51,920 I can still remember that a little bit. 344 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,280 And then, of course, you know, a couple of New Year's Eves after 345 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,760 that, you go out there, you bang the pots and the wooden spoon 346 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,080 and you smashed up together. I don't remember that with the 347 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:04,560 miracle about on on ice in 80, but I would have to think, you 348 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,000 know, especially if I was older, OK, you know, if I'm nine or 349 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,320 ten, which I wasn't or 12 or 15, you're not that into politics. 350 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,000 You don't really know what's going on in the world. 351 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,800 That's one thing. But if you are of the of the age 352 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,680 in 1980 and of the political mindset, or at least you know, 353 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:24,400 not, not not to even elevate one party over the other. 354 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,800 I'm just talking about an awareness and more of a pride 355 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,400 for our country. I mean, you're talking about 356 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,400 that point when obviously, I mean, the Cold War was at its 357 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:34,640 height. That's number one. 358 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,400 You could barely buy a home. Like the mortgage rates were 359 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,600 like 19 and 20%. That was the Carter 360 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,400 administration. You had hostages in Iran. 361 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,840 I mean, you had some real heavy heavy. 362 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,760 That was a dark time. Late 70s New York was a 363 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,200 disaster. Heroin hit the scene. 364 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:54,920 You know, if Times Square was a mess, kids are home. 365 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,240 I don't want to say what it was, but you guys know what it was. 366 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,280 If if you're of the right age, you know what it was. 367 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,160 You know what was going on back then, Some of those movie 368 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,360 theaters. So it was just a it was 369 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,640 disgusting and like the world was at a dark place and that was 370 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:08,920 a unifier. That was an uplifting moment. 371 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,640 This does, even though there's a lot going in the world going on 372 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,160 in the world now, I feel like there's so much division 373 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,320 politically and emotionally. I'd love to say that this is 374 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,120 going to be the the impetus to, you know, get people. 375 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:24,760 It's not. Let's not fool each other. 376 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,520 There's no way it is. I mean, you're right back to 377 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,640 whatever you were saying the day before about the country or the 378 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,200 president or the previous president. 379 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,800 But I love moments like this. I don't take them for granted. 380 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,400 I just wish that as transparent as I could be, that it hit me 381 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,160 and resonated more like it has many of you. 382 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:42,440 I I respect that. I get it. 383 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,000 It's awesome. But they really played their 384 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,720 asses off. And by the way, 41 out of 42 385 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:52,080 saves, that is the most saves in any medal game in the history of 386 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:56,800 the Olympics. 41 saves on 42 shots, including some shots that 387 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,320 were insanely, I mean, ridiculous. 388 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,080 It's great job by our country. I'm proud. 389 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,320 Really, really good. Let's go. 390 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,400 Really, really good. Alright, got a few other things 391 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,440 for you here today. Is the Is the unleashed fam 392 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,760 jacked up about this? Yeah, I mean, it seems like 393 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,840 people, what do we know? We got awesome game. 394 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,160 Thanks for talking about US hockey. 395 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,960 Amazing morning and game. I'll remember forever. 396 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,320 Nothing better than hockey except golf. 397 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,400 Not a miracle because NHL players. 398 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,000 That's part of it. Yeah, totally. 399 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,120 That's part of it. Yep, Yep, yeah. 400 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:32,880 And I just wanted to again, that's that's not me being Mr. 401 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,480 Negative. I'm I'm as happy as anybody 402 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,360 here. But it's it's not. 403 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:40,120 But let's not lose position. And because I think if you 404 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:42,480 position this one as a miracle, what you're doing is you're 405 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,960 really, truly marginalizing what really was a miracle when you 406 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,200 had a collection of collegiate students, you know, college 407 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,000 athletes going against grown men, professionals in the Soviet 408 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,200 Union. No, that's not even comparable 409 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,480 here, but it is, you know what it does too. 410 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,520 And you know, and I've often it bothers me because it takes away 411 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,840 from our product, But you're going to see, you know, I, I 412 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,280 don't know if it's ten years, 20 years or 40 years, but 413 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:13,880 eventually the efforts by the NFL going to play in Germany and 414 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,880 going to play in London and Brazil and Mexico and some of 415 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,760 these other markets and, and you know, off away from our soil, 416 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,320 You're going to see to what extent I'm not really sure, but 417 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:29,280 you're going to see an explosion somewhere and that's going to 418 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,600 permeate the NFL, which is largely stateside, obviously, 419 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:34,080 because you know what happened there. 420 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:36,080 Listen, there's, there's evidence of this. 421 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,000 This happened back in 92 with Barcelona. 422 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,280 And we've all seen the documentaries. 423 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,080 I know you love hoops as well. And we've all seen it, Jay, 424 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:50,920 where the world was so enamored with Jordan and Magic and Bird 425 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,080 like they were they were The Beatles, they were the rock 426 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,960 stores, Barkley, obviously the entire team. 427 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,200 And then it went from an incredible admiration, like we 428 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,880 have no chance to beat you. Can you please sign my jersey? 429 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:05,320 Because suddenly you look around the NBA. 430 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,360 Let's face it, there are more, you know, white. 431 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:13,000 Europeans of influence in the NBA there are then there are 432 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,040 white kids who grew up in any state in the United States 433 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,480 easily. I mean, not even close, not even 434 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,040 because the last, you know, I, I feel like my roommates and I 435 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:23,920 will talk, we'll talk about this sometimes. 436 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:28,880 Like who was the true last Great American white guy in the NBA? 437 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,320 Like great. OK, let let me hear you what 438 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,560 what what comes up in the conversation so. 439 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,680 Right now, I mean the last, Well, if you were to use the 440 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,640 word great, you might have to go back to like Mark Price, 441 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,040 something like that. So Mark brought point guard. 442 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,600 Georgia Tech Yeah, Mark was really good. 443 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:47,800 But like. Steve Nash's kid. 444 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,320 So it's not Nash. He's Canadian. 445 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,040 Yeah, no, Canadian doesn't count. 446 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:53,720 Then I I would throw him out of there. 447 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,360 I mean, you know, you think of the All Stars, OK, you've got 448 00:22:57,360 --> 00:23:00,920 Gordon Hayward. I mean, yeah, like he's not. 449 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,640 There's no. Greatness there there's. 450 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,560 Goodness, he was certainly good. He was good Cooper flag 451 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,720 obviously looks like he'll be that he will guy for the future. 452 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,640 He certainly will be. But like in terms of the 21st 453 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:20,080 century, like a true, you know, not not like I'm trying to sound 454 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,320 like some guy here, but like it's a funny it's a funny 455 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,640 question. Like I can't think of a a true 456 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,480 great like American white dude of the 21st century. 457 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,560 Well, think about this. I mean, just think about and and 458 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:36,840 and and for a moment, just from a separate the the actual like 459 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,200 roots of the country. So like Canada, I'm just told 460 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,840 like what just light skin, right, Like Dirk, not American, 461 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,240 Steve Nash, not American. There's very few. 462 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:48,960 I mean, you know, Jokic, not American. 463 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,360 No, your points well taken. I mean, really, if you want to 464 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:56,000 talk about like true superstore, it's bird, it's bird mullet, 465 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,840 it's bird. I mean, you know, is, is that 466 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,440 where we're going? Might be it might be, it might 467 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:02,480 be. I mean, it really might be. 468 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,280 I mean, that's that's a long time ago so. 469 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,240 This is my buddy Steve Novak. Come on. 470 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,160 Come on, Stevie Novak, Stevie. Like, you know, Stevie could 471 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,480 shoot. But yeah, Stevie was a role 472 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,640 player, as we know. The the one thing too. 473 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,120 And I'm curious and I want to learn more about this how the 474 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:25,720 USA Hockey like what, what pages have we taken from other 475 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,480 countries? Like we know that they took some 476 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,440 play some pages from our basketball playbook and they've 477 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,200 caught up in and in some areas they far exceeded what what some 478 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,000 what some Americans do right. But one of the things that I 479 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,920 know for a fact that they do in Europe, overseas for bad I don't 480 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,120 know about I don't know about hockey, but certainly in 481 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:46,960 basketball is that they basically practice six days a 482 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:51,080 week and they play one game and if you look or maybe 2, but they 483 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,360 basically it is a constant theme of training and drilling. 484 00:24:56,360 --> 00:25:00,200 And if you look at our model in the United States, it's the 485 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,760 exact opposite. It couldn't. 486 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,440 Yeah, it couldn't be flipped more, Jay, because what happens 487 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,800 now, even guys like Cooper Flag, I mean, they went through this, 488 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,880 right? We're on a Saturday, you play at 489 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,680 a Sunday, you play 5 or 6 games in succession AAU game after 490 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,760 game, after game after game. And really you you don't now you 491 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,760 work individually on your drills, otherwise you're not 492 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,200 going to be that good. But one of the reasons why the 493 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:29,400 Europeans seem to have a more cohesive feel for the game is 494 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,400 because not only there are they drilling jab steps and pump 495 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,640 fakes and shooting mechanics and those things individually, but 496 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,000 they are drilling. They they are, they are, they 497 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,680 are playing together and they are learning the like the fabric 498 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,920 of team basketball, cut and moving without the ball, without 499 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,320 the ball setting screens, seeing things before they happen. 500 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,960 And you don't you don't get that on the AAU circuit. 501 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,280 You just don't. It's going out there and you 502 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,840 know, try to throw down 30 or 40 to impress, honestly, to impress 503 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:02,120 somebody, to get a full ride, get some nil money and increase 504 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:04,160 your worth, which I have no problem with. 505 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,640 But it's just a very different concept. 506 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,520 And you see the flawed, the flawedness, if you will, of the 507 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,280 American, not all, but of most American basketball players 508 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,200 versus their European counterparts. 509 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,480 It's a real thing, Charlie. F with potentially the only 510 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,520 other answer, John Stockton. Oh yeah, there's no doubt John 511 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,160 Stockton an absolute all time great point guard. 512 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:31,760 I look at John Stockton as now. Stockton came in a little bit 513 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,680 after, obviously after Larry Bird. 514 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,880 To me, Stockton is more Mullins era. 515 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,480 You know John Stockton, he came in, he was on that 92 dream 516 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,920 team. What I feel like he can you 517 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,080 double check when John was drafted out of Gonzaga, I know 518 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,960 Mulley was the 85 draft. I want to say Stockton was 519 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,040 around the 80. 4. OK, there you go, 84. 520 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,360 So when when Bobby Knight was coaching that Olympic team with 521 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:05,040 Jordan with Mullen and that and that crew, Stockton, I believe 522 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,160 had already gone to the NBA was drafted the year before. 523 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,520 We know that doesn't make sense to hold on because Jordan was 524 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:16,040 drafted in 84. So maybe Stockton was maybe 525 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:17,760 Stockton got cut. Matter of fact, I think he did 526 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:18,960 get cut. Either way. 527 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,000 Stockton to me, I don't think Byrd, I think that Mullen ear 528 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:22,840 it. That's what I think. 529 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,200 All right, so let's get some other AJ Rod. 530 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,440 You see something pop up with a good text about hockey fired up 531 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,920 USA really proud of the boys played awesome. 532 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,160 But again, not a miracle. You know, 46 years after being 533 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,720 on top. That was a hockey miracle. 534 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,640 That was a sporty miracle. Yesterday was just the the 535 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:47,560 continuation of a revamped hockey approach and more 536 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,000 athletes. The number doubled from the 537 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,200 early 90s to the early 2000s in terms of registered US hockey 538 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,120 players. This was not an accident. 539 00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:58,920 This was not some colossal, massive, unexpected 540 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,520 overachievement. I mean, they got a crew. 541 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,920 I mean, in that picture with Hughes, you know, bleeding, 542 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,120 missing the tooth and then banging in the golden bucket or 543 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:08,720 the gold part of the golden buck. 544 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:12,360 You see, that's the the golden, the golden shot, golden goal. 545 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,440 Incredible stuff. I mean, really, really 546 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,320 incredible stuff. Now some other stuff that we 547 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,480 have. We're going to get to our 548 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,320 burning questions a little bit here. 549 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,680 Let me set you up with not yet though, J Rod, let me set you up 550 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,200 with this. So it's also a big week guys, is 551 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,200 the NFL combine. So obviously Lucas Oil out there 552 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,640 in Indianapolis going to be front and center. 553 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,480 Now, listen, I do think like everything, there's an 554 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,080 expiration point myself. Maybe you guys enjoy this. 555 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,360 I do, But again, with with with limits here, just how much of 556 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,680 the combine coverage I generally can consume because usually what 557 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,000 happens, and this is not to impugn the broadcasting 558 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,240 integrity or the approach of anybody who does this right. 559 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,960 There's a market for it. It's a dead point in the NFL 560 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,240 season. You may as well throw it on TV, 561 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,040 get some clicks, get some eyeballs out of begrudge him for 562 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,800 doing it. But there's only so many, you 563 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,640 know, reps that I can watch and then hear the same people 564 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,360 regurgitate the same verbiage. Oh, look at those hips. 565 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,480 Like you talk about a cornerback doing these, you know, backward 566 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,240 drills. Oh, look at the shuffle. 567 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,760 Look at the whatever he's, you know, look at the change in 568 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,760 direction. Look at the receiver, look at 569 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,360 the catch radius, look at the high point going up to get that 570 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,240 ball. And then we've seen it a million 571 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,400 times. And maybe I am burned by this. 572 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,280 So with the quarterbacks, I I really don't care anymore at the 573 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,320 quarterbacks. But how many times have we 574 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,000 watched the guy? Wow, 60 miles an hour 61 Let 575 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:42,640 that rib throwing 65 yards on a on on a run across his body like 576 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,680 Zach Wilson. I just don't get overly enamored 577 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,800 with with the combine. Again, I'm not here to denounce 578 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,520 it because there's obviously great value, especially the 579 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,040 interviews and some of that stuff and also some of the 580 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,360 measurables. You want to know what guys are 581 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,720 running not at their pro day on on their campus where it might 582 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,600 be a little, you know, a 10th of a of a second off. 583 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,280 I want to know what these numbers are. 584 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,600 I want to know exactly how how strong they are, what they check 585 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,920 in what I know this sounds nuts, but a quarterback, how big are 586 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,320 your hands? Like I do, I do pay attention to 587 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:19,440 that stuff, but usually I I check in and then I very quickly 588 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,320 check out a little bit different for me this year, it's a little 589 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,560 different and and not just because The Jets have a lot of 590 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,360 picks. I think it's a very intriguing 591 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,600 draft this year. I can't wait for the draft 592 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,480 coverage. I've already told you that we're 593 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,960 going to do some amazing content here on unleash. 594 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,560 It's going to be fantastic. So let me at least give you the 595 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,200 schedule, tell you what I'm excited for. 596 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,560 So we have a couple of days. I know they'll they'll check in 597 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,120 Now whatever it really starts on Thursday goes to Sunday. 598 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,880 All right. Now the first day you'll get the 599 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,440 D lineman, you get the you'll get the linebackers, you get the 600 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:49,600 kickers. That's day one. 601 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,280 Day 2 you get the the D backs and the so you go D lineman, 602 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,080 linebackers, kickers. Then you go defensive backs and 603 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,120 the tight ends on Friday, Obviously Saturday if you want 604 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,760 to see Ty Simpson, I don't even know if Mendoza is going to 605 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,840 throw. And you can make a case that 606 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,680 like, why would he? I mean, there's really no need 607 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,400 to throw unless he's just that ultra competitive and wants to 608 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,240 let it RIP, But we'll see. But day three on Saturday is the 609 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,400 quarterbacks, the receivers and the running backs. 610 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,120 And then obviously on Sundays the offensive lineman. 611 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,080 And by then I'm I'm really checked out because I mean, what 612 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,120 are you going to see the old lineman doing these little back 613 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,000 drills said come on, it is a weak quarterback group. 614 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,320 Unfortunately for those teams that need a quarterback. 615 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:34,520 We know, I think that it's a very weak draft for the for some 616 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,880 of the interior spots on the on the old line, like particularly 617 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,000 the, the guard position seems to be very weak and the running 618 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,920 back crew outside of Jeremiah Love and a few others is thought 619 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,000 to be very, very kid from Notre Dame, thought to be very, very 620 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,240 thin. Now where is it strongest at? 621 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,520 You got the edge rushers, you've got the the corners are pretty 622 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,480 strong and the wide receiver group is absolutely very strong. 623 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,360 So depending upon what you guys need, that's probably going to 624 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,520 be is is going to impact how much you watch here. 625 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,280 Now Mendoza's going one, I'll give you a quick little 626 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,080 snapshot. Names you're going to hear 627 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,320 early, names that will impact The Jets and the Giants, names 628 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,040 that I believe will be called very, very early. 629 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,760 This is just some cursory stuff. Many of you know this. 630 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,200 Obviously Mendoza, I don't think there's any trade offer that can 631 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,000 entice the Raiders not to take him. 632 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,640 Ruben Bayne, Jordan Tyson, receiver. 633 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,480 Obviously Arizona State, you're going to get Carnell Tate called 634 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,440 early. Ohio State's going to be, it's 635 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,480 going to be a procession of Buckeyes up there in the top 10 636 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:34,840 or 12. It's absolutely amazing. 637 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,160 So Tate's a wide receiver, he's a Buckeye. 638 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,920 You're going to get Reese, who is connected, Arvel Reese, 639 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,640 linebacker, Little Edge as well. Again, you seeing him in a lot 640 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:49,080 of mocks at #2 to The Jets. I wouldn't go there myself, but 641 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,560 you know, Muji has shown some early chops and if he likes them 642 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,160 then I'll prefer. I wouldn't pick him right now, 643 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,920 but there's a chance The Jets will ease a Buckeyes. 644 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,600 Well, you know, I love Caleb Downs, I've talked about him a 645 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,360 lot. Safety from Ohio State, Peter 646 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,120 Woods, he's Clemson D tackle Jeremiah Love, running back, 647 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,760 Notre Dame. I don't know where the running 648 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,640 back, where he will go was a running back, but he's going to 649 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,560 go high. So I just think that of those 650 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,480 names I gave you about 9 or 10 names. 651 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,280 I would have to think that. I mean, maybe Love doesn't go 652 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,960 top ten, but any, maybe even Woods from from Clemson maybe 653 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,160 drops out of the top ten. Those are names you're going to 654 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,240 hear incredibly early. And I think from a just from a 655 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,680 local perspective for a moment, Jets at #2 Giants at #5 I 656 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,880 believe of within those eight or nine names I gave you, those are 657 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,480 the names you will hear for The Jets or the job. 658 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,800 I would be stunned unless The Jets were to trade out of two. 659 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:43,200 Wait. I mean, I don't know why you 660 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,640 would but. And I think the Giants, we heard 661 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,840 Harbaugh just lusting after Caleb down. 662 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,440 So if he's there 5, they're taking them. 663 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,760 And I think it's, I mean, I'm, I'm running to the podium. 664 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,480 If I could do that for sure, I would absolutely do that. 665 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,200 I think those are the names that you will hear. 666 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,960 I don't think The Jets do anything wacky at quarterback. 667 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,200 I'm very curious, though, where the rest of the league goes with 668 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,440 with with Ty Simpson. I was talking about this the 669 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,560 other the other day on the show. I think he's getting a bit of a 670 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,480 bad rap. I think he's the kind of player 671 00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:16,040 and maybe this could impact The Jets at 16. 672 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,080 I still don't think that they will, but if they were to maybe. 673 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,040 And by the way, Jets aren't the only team, you know, the Browns 674 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,880 and some other teams. Obviously we'll see what the 675 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,280 Cardinals do. You know, Kyler Murray going to 676 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,280 be gone. There's some other veterans who 677 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,000 will be cut. So there there's always a a 678 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,880 potential sleeper or outlier right now that we're not really 679 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,080 thinking as a quarterback, you know, locked into the 680 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,960 quarterback market. But if Ty Simpson has a great 681 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,719 combine, Ty Simpson's going to skyrocket. 682 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,920 I'm just telling you right now, now many of you are going to 683 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,000 resist that. Oh, I don't like Ty Simpson. 684 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,600 Oh wow, the Babel wasn't that good. 685 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:52,880 That's fine. And if that's your opinion, I 686 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,760 respect it. But my next question would be 687 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,680 how much of this Alabama team do you really know about? 688 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:05,720 Because let's face it, you know, this is not too, you know, 689 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:10,160 denigrate your football acumen. But I know the way it works cuz 690 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,960 I know a lot of guys that even I've worked with in the past, 691 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:15,080 they know nothing about college football. 692 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,560 They just don't they start to get up to speed right about now. 693 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,800 What they'll do is they'll look at The Jets and the Giants and 694 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,080 they obviously know what positions The Jets and the 695 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,440 Giants need. So there will be names that will 696 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,040 they will be able to spit out, you know, reflexively. 697 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,960 But like, if you actually talk about some of the in the weeds 698 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,560 stuff pertaining to some of these players, you know, it it 699 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:41,200 really it's just it's it's not as deep a dive as you think with 700 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,040 the ability to deep dive is just not there. 701 00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:46,480 And the one thing I'm telling you about Ty Simpson now, if he 702 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,920 doesn't have a good combine that different, I think he'll 703 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,000 interview very well. But you know, you want to see 704 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,400 how fast is he, how big is he? All the other stuff? 705 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,360 Yeah, Ty Simpson's a player because I don't think there's 706 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,280 any other quarterback that's going to shoot up the draft 707 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,320 board. Like nobody is going to get 708 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,280 drafted a quarterback before Ty Simpson outside of Mendoza. 709 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,520 I don't see it now. Beauty's in the eye of the of 710 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,120 the of the beholder. It's incredibly subjective. 711 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,680 I, I admit I could be wrong on that, but it's rooted in, you 712 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,200 know, not just throwing a dart. It's rooted in opinion. 713 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,600 Like I do think Ty Simpson is very good. 714 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,720 I think Ty Simpson's getting a bad rap here because not enough 715 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:27,200 people understood or really understand that this was a very 716 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,520 down Alabama team. They could not run the ball. 717 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,200 I'm not going to reset this. I did this the other day, but 718 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,200 really the main reason that Ty Simpson and he didn't play well 719 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,840 in that playoff game, but he got hurt as well. 720 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,240 But I think if you evaluate him fairly and you incorporate that 721 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:45,480 they're running game was among the worst in the country, let 722 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,560 alone in the SEC and let alone nowhere near vintage Alabama, 723 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,720 you will have a much greater appreciation for what Ty Simpson 724 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:54,880 did in college. Now, I know he hasn't played a 725 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,120 lot. I get that there's a connection. 726 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,000 You know, when you have more than 16 starts, you become this. 727 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,480 When you have fewer than 16, you kind of become this. 728 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,520 And that is not exactly three that I'm looking to challenge 729 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,040 right now from a Jets point of view or from any team. 730 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,720 Like from the Browns point of view, I'm not looking to do 731 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:15,040 that. Like if you're a bad moribund 732 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,160 franchise, you haven't earned the right. 733 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,600 Brian Cashman is not earned the right, you know? 734 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,560 You haven't earned the right to take a flyer on a quarterback 735 00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:27,080 who hasn't played that much. Like it's not up to you to defy 736 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,160 history. Leave it as somebody who knows 737 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,240 what they're doing to defy. You want to tell me Sean Payton 738 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,560 wants to take somebody a little bit early, All right, that's 739 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,200 fine. You won't even tell me, you 740 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,640 know, I was going to say horrible, but you don't need one 741 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,640 because you have Jackson either way. 742 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,360 You know that you, Andy Reid, you want to take a flyer on 743 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,440 somebody, go for it. Even Siriani, who a lot of 744 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,800 Eagles, Eagles fans can't stand or don't trust or a lot of 745 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,840 football fans dump on, like there's certain franchises that 746 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,400 have earned the benefit of the doubt. 747 00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,120 We know the ones who have and we know the ones who have not. 748 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,800 So there's a lot of history there. 749 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,640 But Simpson to me is a guy that I do think could really 750 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,160 skyrocket. Wouldn't surprise me if what 751 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,120 it's all said and done, he's inside the top 15. 752 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:12,120 Won't surprise me at all. All right, let me read that in a 753 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,960 second here. All right, this one is from boss 754 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,880 girl 18 BT Reese going to be an all pro edge for The Jets for a 755 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,560 decade. All right, we thought that with 756 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:26,080 Vernon Goldston, even though, you know, I'm so tap the brakes. 757 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:31,080 Strongest linebacker for a linebacker guy or pound for 758 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,600 pound guy in the draft. They go LB that that was tricky 759 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:35,720 to mess up. You can't deal with it. 760 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:41,200 Come on high school and high football IQ only 20 pictures, 35 761 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:45,040 inch arms demolishing Campbell's T Rex arms twice a year. 762 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,960 I like Reese. I I do I like Reese. 763 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,840 I don't love him at #2 I'm sorry. 764 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,360 I just don't now. I always thank you for the text 765 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,520 though. I also appreciate the thought 766 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:58,840 like, and this does make sense, like if you love somebody, I 767 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,680 think it's actually kind of dumb to say, well, I'll pick up at 768 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,440 5:00, but number 2 is a little bit too rich, a little bit too 769 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:06,920 early for my blood. Why? 770 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,840 Because the objective of drafting somebody inside the top 771 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,600 10 is that you believe that you're drafting a future Hall of 772 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,640 Famer. And that's on the the highest 773 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,600 end, of course. And, and even if it falls a 774 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:21,320 little short and you get 6 or 7 Pro Bowls and one or two old 775 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,360 pros, that suffices. So I get it. 776 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,680 I just, I, I think there's better players. 777 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,400 I do, I think there's better pure pass rushers. 778 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,360 There's things about him that that I hesitate on. 779 00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:37,760 So I'm not saying they're not going to take him to number 2. 780 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,480 And I'm not saying that after this process, I can't come 781 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,680 around and get down a little bit more. 782 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:46,480 With Reese going #2 right now going into the draft process, 783 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,640 Reese from Ohio State at #2 for The Jets seems like a not a 784 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:51,880 reach. That's not fair. 785 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,960 Just a little a little ambitious a little there's other players 786 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,720 that like more. All right. 787 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,280 Is there a sleeper quarterback that you like in the draft? 788 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:06,200 Like like, you know, it depends what you define. 789 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,840 Thank you for that. What do you define as a sleeper? 790 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:12,520 Like you talking maybe have a second round pick and you jump 791 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,200 back in back into the first round and you you draft somebody 792 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,880 there. You know, going into the season, 793 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,160 I thought, I thought the kid from LSU might be that guy. 794 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,960 He's definitely not. It's a weak quarterback crop, 795 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,680 guys. It really is like I am, you know 796 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,440 what I'm done with? Here's what I'm done with 797 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,480 because it sounds so good. It really does. 798 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:35,760 Look, I'm going to dispel something right now. 799 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,760 It sounds great and it sounds appealing, and the more you do 800 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,240 it, time and repetition is on your side. 801 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,840 But how often does it really work, right? 802 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:52,040 Let's grab a guy, you know, Round 2, even round three, maybe 803 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,320 even round 4. Let's grab somebody and put him 804 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,880 in that developmental laboratory, let him get some 805 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,120 reps in, you know, let's insulate him properly with 806 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,680 coaching and, you know, let him do some work on the side and 807 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,240 eventually he's going to be ready to take over. 808 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,040 Isn't that what they said about Kellen Clemens back in the day 809 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,400 with The Jets? Isn't that what they said about 810 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,400 I was the dudes? I won't forget to say the dude 811 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,240 from Penn State who stunk. What the hell was his name? 812 00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:21,960 Never even played big dude 65. I'm forgetting his name off the 813 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,000 top of my head right now, but you know what I'm talking about. 814 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,520 Second round pick. I, I just, I don't subscribe to 815 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,480 that. I'm looking for ball players. 816 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,640 I'm looking for guys that I know can step in and get the job done 817 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,320 and commensurate with where you get drafted. 818 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,440 That's what I expect you to be like. 819 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,000 I'm not going to burn a third round pick on a guy that I hope 820 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,640 with perfect coaching and perfect circumstances could 821 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:51,520 maybe transform himself into a viable player in the league. 822 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,200 I'm not doing that anymore. I'm just getting dogs. 823 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,720 I'm going out and I'm going to stock those cupboards with 824 00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:59,480 horses, period. Guys who could play, guys who 825 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,640 could run, guys who I know on film, on tape. 826 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,720 Look the part, you know, because if you think about this, hold 827 00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:08,280 on, I'll get that and keep that up there. 828 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:14,080 J Rob, please, Sir, if you think about this, then like if you 829 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:18,320 just continuously draft on potential and possibility and 830 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:23,040 hope, that's a really dangerous to me without enough reward 831 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,040 route to go down. And if you're a team that 832 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,280 consistently wins, like you want to tell me that the Buffalo 833 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:33,480 Bills, if the Buffalo Bills were sitting here and they were, they 834 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,560 were going to subscribe to this thought process. 835 00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,480 Like, all right, hey, we got our Hall of Famer, we got our guy. 836 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,800 We know Josh, you know, I'm knock on wood for Bills fans and 837 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,640 for the NFL, knock on wood. Josh Allen stays healthy for a 838 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,520 while. Well, we, we're good minimally 839 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,560 for the next 6-7 years, he's going to be an absolute rock 840 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,440 star and make that new stadium, you know, pop even more than the 841 00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,920 old one. And hopefully he gets to and has 842 00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:02,880 a chance to win a Super Bowl and hopefully the Bills continue to 843 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:04,600 draft around him and, and build around him. 844 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,520 The point is, if you have somebody like Josh Allen or 845 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:11,400 somebody like Mahomes or again, varying degrees of of where they 846 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,280 are injuries now, some disappointment, I'll throw the 847 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,880 more on that list as well. If you've got a guy like that, 848 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:21,680 well, sure, that developmental prospect is appealing because he 849 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,000 doesn't have to play. You know, you're not leaning on 850 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,120 the guy when you draft the a developmental quarterback when 851 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,160 you don't have a quarterback. The thought is like, all right, 852 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,520 let's let's you know, let's let's put them off to the side 853 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,000 for a little bit and then, you know, hopefully when oh, he's 854 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,760 ready and hopefully he saves us. It's the wrong way to look at 855 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,720 it. It's it's an ass backwards 856 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:44,000 philosophy. Find a quarterback that can play 857 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,360 and then find players that can help that quarterback. 858 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:51,040 Like I'm just done reaching and throwing darts and hoping I'm 859 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:56,280 not doing it anymore. It's over at Jim hard 10 SBT, 860 00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:58,960 Oh, rock Tavern, New York. There you go. 861 00:43:58,960 --> 00:43:59,840 What up there? Nice. 862 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,960 Will you get into WBC this year? What is your stance on the 863 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,080 tournament? Matter of fact, I'm going to get 864 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,680 into it and it might be a part of something I'm prepared to do 865 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,400 a little bit right now when we're going to get to it. 866 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,000 But that leads us up into it. How about little little 3 867 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,280 burning questions there, J Roddy, ready to have a little 868 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:17,120 fun? That's right. 869 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,760 Look at that graphic. Woof, look at that fantastic, 870 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,640 beautiful graphic. So every Monday on the show, 3 871 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:28,080 burning questions with BT brought to you by my friends at 872 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,440 Sullivan Propane. Get fired up with Sullivan 873 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,240 Propane at every St. John's home game this season at 874 00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:35,280 the Garden. Remember the name Sullivan 875 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,640 Propane. A winning team on the court, in 876 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,120 the courtroom as well. Find 877 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:43,760 sullivanpropane@triallaw1.com. That's trial law1.com. 878 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,240 Sullivan Propane. Remember the name Sullivan 879 00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:51,200 Propane. All right, question number 13, 880 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,040 burning questions with BT Boom, look at that. 881 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,760 Are you excited for the WBC? Going to be honest with you 882 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,560 here, generally don't get that fired up. 883 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,440 I'm pretty excited about it. Now, listen, you know, I love 884 00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,280 baseball. I'm one of these guys who, you 885 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,000 know, I've got the SEC Network. If there's nothing going on and 886 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,840 I'm buzzing between the Yanks and the Mets, or now that the 887 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,000 college season has started and I get a chance to watch a little, 888 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,600 I don't know, Vanderbilt, which, by the way, played my alma mater 889 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,680 over the weekend. Poor Marist had to play 890 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,240 Vanderbilt. Didn't go very well. 891 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,440 But anytime I can see like a Tennessee or you know, a Florida 892 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,520 or, you know, big time baseball out West like USC or UCLAI will 893 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:32,680 watch it. I love baseball. 894 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,240 I am excited for this one and not just because Aaron Judge is 895 00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:40,160 the captain for team USAI was loaded their lineup. 896 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,200 Now they might very well have a very different configuration. 897 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,240 How about Bobby Witt leading off? 898 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:46,960 How about Aaron Judge Batten second? 899 00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,440 How about Cal roley Batten 3rd? If you want to really mess 900 00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,920 around, you can go Bobby Witt one, Corbin Carroll 2. 901 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,400 How about that speed power combination? 902 00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:01,120 Judge 3, Cal Roley 4. You can put Kyle Schwarber in 903 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,120 the two spot just be on base all day. 904 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,880 Unconventional, but we've seen the Phillies Bees and he's let 905 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,840 off many times, right? You've got Bryce Harper going to 906 00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:10,240 be somewhere in the meat of the order there. 907 00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:13,960 I mentioned Corbin Carroll. So yeah, when when the WBC comes 908 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,600 along, you just pray that your players, you know, get out of 909 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,240 there unscathed there. And I am excited for it. 910 00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:24,280 It's a great, great tournament. It is an amazing compilation of 911 00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,680 the best players out there. And from a time frame, what does 912 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,320 it start? I think it starts like May or 913 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,920 March 3rd some, yeah, pool players March 5th. 914 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,280 And then you've got, you know, the 20 total teams. 915 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,920 I know Lindor is not playing and you know that that team's going 916 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:39,920 to be diminished a bit. That's a great team as well. 917 00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,160 But you get the quarter finals on the 13th and the 14th of 918 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,000 March, and then the semis down to Miami, right? 919 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,880 You know, the day before Saint Patty's Day and on Saint Patty's 920 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,280 Day, the semifinals in the finals. 921 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:55,720 So yes, question number one, are you excited for the WBCI AM? 922 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,800 I am very excited. All right, question #2 Birdie 923 00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,200 questions every Monday here on BT Unleashed. 924 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,280 All right, is it OK to begin trusting the Knicks again after 925 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,520 this weekend? Interesting weekend for the 926 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,480 Knicks. I mean, wow, You want to talk 927 00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,520 about two different sets of emotions? 928 00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,600 And I watched that entire game against the Rockets on Saturday. 929 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,200 Quite frankly, didn't watch a ton of the Knicks Bulls 930 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,080 yesterday, but of course they won. 931 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,160 And and you know, Bridges with that big, you know, that big 932 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,280 three late and the Knicks did just enough. 933 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,040 And by the way, the energy to be fair to the Knicks. 934 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,840 So I've been all over, especially Cat and the head 935 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,840 coach and Bridges is playing like a mouse, invisible and 936 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,280 Brunson's been a little too ISO dominant. 937 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,560 There were signs over the weekend that maybe this Nick 938 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:44,840 team could regenerate a little bit and and maybe as they tweak 939 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,640 their identity and and maybe become more of what they're 940 00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,160 destined to become this year, maybe it's better than I 941 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,320 thought. Alvarado was clutching the 942 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,160 fourth quarter on Saturday. I thought that I thought that 943 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,320 Karl Anthony Town, I mean, this is amazing. 944 00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,800 Karl Anthony Towns actually set the tone on defense on Saturday 945 00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:04,480 night. So that was pretty good to see. 946 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,560 They made some big buckets. Brunson was off the whole night, 947 00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:10,320 took four shots in the fourth quarter, hit them all. 948 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,600 Gordon was on fire. Durant couldn't buy a bucket. 949 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,520 That was fun. Listen, I'm never going to be 950 00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:20,120 that guy who says something and then just to be right is going 951 00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,680 to stick to it no matter if something to the contrary pops 952 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,760 up. I loved what I didn't like what 953 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,400 I saw from the Knicks most of the game. 954 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,480 But I love the way the Knicks finished on Saturday night. 955 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,640 And even though the Bulls stink and they barely won, you know, 956 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,560 the energy that they exerted Saturday, that could have been. 957 00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,400 We're tired. We're tapped Outback to back. 958 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,120 They want it. And and I'm not looking for 959 00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,880 style points, just win that kind of game. 960 00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,840 So, yeah, I think you could trust them a little bit more 961 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,880 after the week. And I'll say work in progress. 962 00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,520 I still don't think they'll beat the Pistons, which is my 963 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,760 ultimate fear because I think the Pistons are tougher and 964 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,120 nobody on the court is stopping Kate Cunningham. 965 00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:57,840 But do I feel a little bit better? 966 00:48:58,160 --> 00:48:59,880 I do. I do feel a little bit better 967 00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:03,480 about the Knicks. All right, burning question #3 968 00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,080 here on our lease. BT with you here. 969 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:11,000 All right, can Spencer Jones make the Yankees opening day 970 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,600 roster? Well, obviously this question is 971 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:18,200 tied into the fact that Spencer Jones hit a ball out of George 972 00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:19,720 Steinbrenner Field over the weekend. 973 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:23,360 You know, didn't hit a home run, hit the ball out of the stadium. 974 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:27,160 I think I saw the exit Velo was about 117 or what about? 975 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,600 I don't think 410 feet. Obviously a bit of a smaller 976 00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,360 stadium there down South. But no, I don't think that 977 00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:39,400 Spencer Jones has any chance 0.0 to make the Yankees Opening Day 978 00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:42,080 roster. I don't think that they view him 979 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,520 that way. I'm not surprised to get a home 980 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,880 run right away. I expect a couple of more as 981 00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,560 some of these pitchers are still just kind of throwing straight 982 00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,880 fast balls to stretch themselves out and get used to being on a 983 00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,040 mound again. There are a lot of guys over the 984 00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,520 years. Hell, Spencer Jones did it a 985 00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:03,320 year ago where they just show this amazing offensive 986 00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,080 propensity early. But then you start getting to 987 00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,680 the games and you know the the wrinkles and the curves and the 988 00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:13,360 sliders and the secondary stuff starts exploding and they can't 989 00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,760 handle it. So I do not think he makes the 990 00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:19,200 opening day roster at all. I think Dominguez is going to 991 00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,680 start the year in the minors as well and that bothers me. 992 00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,280 So if Dominguez is not on the team, I don't think there's 993 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:25,960 going to be any room. I don't care if Spencer Jones 994 00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,880 hits 350 with six home runs. He's not making the team. 995 00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,840 Because the one thing that the Yankees need to see is that 40% 996 00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,360 strikeout rate start to, you know, diminish. 997 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,120 I I, I really just don't see it. So I would love to see it 998 00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,520 because he's got a, a very tantalizing skill set. 999 00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:48,000 He's he's plus speed, not not necessarily out-of-the-box, but 1000 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,520 when he gets his stride going, he is plus speed, 1st to 3rd, 1001 00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,120 1st to home, second to home. He's got a rocket. 1002 00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,960 He's I think he's better equipped to play center than 1003 00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,480 Dominguez and he's got some of the most ridiculous power that 1004 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,120 you've ever seen. But 40% strikeout rate is beyond 1005 00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,520 untenable. And they need to see that change 1006 00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,880 in the minors before they mess around with that in the major. 1007 00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:11,680 So there it is. Of course, Bernie questions 1008 00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:13,680 every Monday here on Unleashed and of course, sports. 1009 00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,040 You buy my good friends at Sullivan Papayne. 1010 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,600 Remember the name Sullivan Papayne. 1011 00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:21,800 There you go. How about those graphics? 1012 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,280 J Rod. How good did that look? 1013 00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:28,200 Come on now, come on, you know it. 1014 00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,520 No, I mean, to me it is crazy. I mean, I don't know if you know 1015 00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:36,120 anyone in the fan base here is like, you know, AI users or 1016 00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:40,320 anything like that, but man, the the way this stuff has 1017 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,320 progressed into being able to just generate the text and like 1018 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:48,320 a beautiful aesthetic, man. Well, now some of it now, by the 1019 00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:49,480 way, some of it's a little wacky. 1020 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,360 I'm I'm putting you on the spot. I meant to actually text you 1021 00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,760 this earlier, so my bad. I know you got the Pat Riley 1022 00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:54,680 thing. I'll get to that in a minute. 1023 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:59,200 Not yet. Can you pull up the and even if 1024 00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,160 you don't do it immediately, just find it and then you can do 1025 00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:02,800 it and just let me know pop in interrupt. 1026 00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:06,080 It's all good. The update went my filled out 1027 00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,400 all time Yankee lineup. I want to kind of run through 1028 00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,400 Yeah, OK, look at this. I actually created a different 1029 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,000 one that even looks better, but but that's fine. 1030 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:15,560 I wanted to get it up there. That's good. 1031 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:20,800 So now listen guys, I dropped this yesterday, all right, J Rod 1032 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,360 made a beautiful short out of it. 1033 00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,720 So it's obviously on YouTube and Instagram and all that stuff. 1034 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,760 You can keep that up there. I'm going to do this, as I said 1035 00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,680 at the start of the show a lot more all right, I want to delve 1036 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:32,160 into some different type of content. 1037 00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,280 I wanted to get some traction with the show. 1038 00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,520 I wanted to get some views. I wanted to get some 1039 00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:39,600 consistency. So even in the snowstorm here I 1040 00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,680 am, you know, 10:00 AM in the morning do with the show. 1041 00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,240 So that's not going to change. But I'm going to start doing 1042 00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:46,720 stuff like this, right. I've got the Mets line up up 1043 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,640 coming up. I've got the my old time Big 1044 00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,760 East team that'll drop the night before the Big East tournament. 1045 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,520 I've got my top ten favorite sneakers that that I that I have 1046 00:52:55,520 --> 00:53:00,680 rocked personally, my top ten CDs, top ten concerts, a lot of 1047 00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,400 different top 10 sitcoms, just some different stuff. 1048 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,760 Right. So I was coming up with this 1049 00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,440 over the weekend and I'm OK with it. 1050 00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,400 Like I realize many of you aren't. 1051 00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:12,840 That's fine. We'll make your own list. 1052 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,880 No Reggie, no Reggie. Now this is post 1980. 1053 00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,720 I got Ricky, I got jeets, I got Donnie, I got Judge in the four 1054 00:53:19,720 --> 00:53:22,120 spot. I got a Rod batting fit playing 1055 00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,960 third, little switch hitter action Bernie and center Winnie 1056 00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:28,440 DH batting 7th. I got Jorge behind the plate and 1057 00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:30,200 I've got Robinson Cano at second base. 1058 00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,680 Now, depending upon how old you, you can keep it up there, Jay. 1059 00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:39,120 The only, the only points of contention would be for me #1 if 1060 00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,800 you're really old school, do you want to give Willie Randolph a 1061 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:43,240 little bit of love at second base? 1062 00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,160 Do you want to penalize Robinson Cano for the steroids? 1063 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,200 I elect not to mean Robinson Cano. 1064 00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,960 I mean one year he had 40, what is it, 46 double S for the 1065 00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,600 Yankees. He won a championship, 300 1066 00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,240 hitter. Couple of Gold Gloves like 1067 00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:58,800 Robinson Cano is going to be there. 1068 00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,960 The one that I really struggle with because he did not play 1069 00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,480 well at all in the 81 World Series. 1070 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,440 It was Dave Winfield. I was trying to come up. 1071 00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,640 I'm like, do I go Paul O'Neill in left field? 1072 00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:17,320 Do I put Paulie in right, Judge in center and then maybe, you 1073 00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:21,440 know somebody else in left and then have Ricky DH because Ricky 1074 00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,920 wasn't a great fielder. This is what I settled on. 1075 00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,280 The other thing was, you know, some of you younger fans, like 1076 00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,000 how do you put Madeline in the three spot? 1077 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:30,520 This is all based on their prime year. 1078 00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,040 And what I did was, by the way, I set to grab this hold on. 1079 00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:37,320 What I did was I went back and I went and I took their absolute 1080 00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,760 best years. So like so best years with the 1081 00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:42,400 Yankees. So the year that I used, for 1082 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,080 example, for for Don Mattingly. Now, of course Mark Teixeira was 1083 00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:47,960 terrific. Of course Tino was terrific. 1084 00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,720 You know, there's other options there and it and it is 1085 00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:53,000 subjective. But when I look at Mattingly's 1086 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,120 80 now, I could have picked his 84 season when he won the 1087 00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,960 batting title when he beat out Winfield, which is part of the 1088 00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,920 reason why Winfield's there for me as well. 1089 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:05,160 All right, because Dave Winfield could run had power also hit 340 1090 00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:07,440 in 1980. But the year that I went with 1091 00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:11,600 with Donnie, who was 85 when he won the MVP, when he had the 1092 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:15,200 Gold Glove, when he had 211 hits, when he led the league 1093 00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:19,800 with 48 double S, when he led the league with 145 RBI's, when 1094 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,400 he led the league with 370 total bases. 1095 00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:26,840 We had 324 average 940. Opsi know I'm hitting you with a 1096 00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:28,400 lot of numbers. All right now you can get me get 1097 00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,120 me back on the screen there. J Rod, the only number that you 1098 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,880 really need to know about Mattingly. 1099 00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:37,200 All right, because I was trying to obviously create this where 1100 00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,160 you know, the first guy obviously is going to run and 1101 00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:41,840 he's the greatest lead off hitter in the history of 1102 00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:43,520 baseball. You bet you're behind. 1103 00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:44,720 Ricky's going to be on this team. 1104 00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,560 And then obviously I want to say, all right, so if Ricky's 1105 00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,640 always on who's in the I thought about Judge from I even thought 1106 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:54,000 about Mattingly in the two spot, maybe put judge 3. 1107 00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,560 But to me, the guy that I wanted in the two spot was a guy who 1108 00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:00,400 could run equally and not an equal to Ricky, but could run 1109 00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,320 like Derek, right? A guy who has a real ability to 1110 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,920 hit the right field, set up those first and 3rd situations, 1111 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:09,240 a guy who's, you know, going to bang out a ton of hits. 1112 00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:11,840 He's got what, 3536 hundred hits Jeter. 1113 00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,840 And then when I got to the third spot, and here's the stat. 1114 00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:19,600 Those of you who didn't see Mattingly or did, and maybe 1115 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,840 you're not a Yankee fan and maybe you don't fully appreciate 1116 00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,000 it, but that's fine. Don Mattingly. 1117 00:56:24,240 --> 00:56:27,800 Now this year coming up, there's going to be multiple Yankees, 1118 00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:33,240 McMahon, some others that strike out minimally 180 hundred 90. 1119 00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:36,800 There'll be a couple of guys in baseball that strike out 200 1120 00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:39,280 times. Don Mattingly in route to the 1121 00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:44,880 MVP and 146 RB is and all the crazy stuff that he did. 1122 00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:49,040 He struck out less than 50 times. 1123 00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,240 He struck out 41 times that season. 1124 00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,400 So Ricky on base and by the way, if you try to throw a cookie to 1125 00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,480 Ricky because you don't want to have to deal with Jeter and 1126 00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:03,600 Mattingly and Judge and a rod 2345 right And you try to just, 1127 00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:05,680 you know, throw one by Ricky's taking you deep. 1128 00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,440 I mean Ricky had 24 home runs that year and we know that Ricky 1129 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:11,880 had some power. If you got if you got lazy, you 1130 00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:15,760 know, Ricky always with frequency jumped on first pitch 1131 00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,280 fastballs goodbye. So you didn't have that luxury. 1132 00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:19,760 So you had to mess around with Ricky. 1133 00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,560 And when you mess around with Ricky, Ricky's usually on first 1134 00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,560 base. And then obviously somebody like 1135 00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:29,400 Jeter, who was a lifetime 300 hitter and six most hits all 1136 00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,920 time in the history of the game, he can bump, he can run. 1137 00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,600 Have fun with that. As like, as soon as Ricky steals 1138 00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,680 second, you know, Derek just lines a base hit to write. 1139 00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,560 All right, go get him. Donnie 1st and 3rd, nobody out. 1140 00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,480 And then you got to deal with him with MVP version of 1141 00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:44,520 Mattingly. I know. 1142 00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:46,760 Yeah. By the way, if you happen to get 1143 00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,480 one of those dudes out, have fun with Aaron Judge. 1144 00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:53,760 So I was thinking about this right and I think it's a great 1145 00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,680 challenge and I'm going to do the Mets next. 1146 00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:59,200 And I've got I've got most of my met players like to me, I'm not 1147 00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,880 going to give it away, but like first base is simple. 1148 00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:06,400 DH is simple for me, catcher, simple, center field, simple 1149 00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,920 shortstop is simple. Third base is simple. 1150 00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:13,040 Second base is simple. Really kind of like the Yankees 1151 00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:16,040 left field, although the the the old time Mets lineup is going to 1152 00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,240 pale in comparison to the Yankees, but the left field spot 1153 00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,920 for that Mets team is a little tricky. 1154 00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,440 There's not great options. I've I've got my guy without 1155 00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:31,440 divulging it, but I do feel badly that I did not get Reggie 1156 00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,640 on my team and I I feel a little badly that I didn't get, you 1157 00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:38,000 know, to share or maybe more so Tino, who was in the middle of 1158 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:39,520 the order for all those championship teams. 1159 00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,720 And Oh yeah, by the way, was a terrific fielder as a 1160 00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:44,120 right-handed fielding first baseman. 1161 00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,960 But again, that's why I read you the numbers from Mattingly. 1162 00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:50,280 When you hear that, wait, wait, you, you hit three, basically 1163 00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:56,480 hit 3:30 with 140 plus RB is and almost 50 double s and all the 1164 00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:58,880 other things you and you struck out 41 times. 1165 00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:03,120 That's the guy who's batting 3rd for me, you know, And then I'm 1166 00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,000 like, why do I mess around? Because Bernie, I thought, I 1167 00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,040 always thought Bernie was a little bit of a of an overrated 1168 00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:10,720 defensive center fielder, not an overrated player. 1169 00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:13,960 But what, a couple of Gold Gloves had a weak arm, didn't 1170 00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:15,360 always get great jumps on the ball. 1171 00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:20,480 Like Bernie's makeup speed was what I think got got him some of 1172 00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:23,080 that that recognition. I could still if I close my 1173 00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:26,720 eyes, I don't see Bernie making a diving catch as much as I do 1174 00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:28,680 or certainly from somebody out on the bases. 1175 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,480 I close my eyes and a vintage Bernie Williams defensive play 1176 00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:36,320 was Bernie in either gap, a left center gap or right center gap 1177 00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:41,240 on his horse making a play and and and having such great top 1178 00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,600 speed once he finally and it took him a minute to get there. 1179 00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:46,240 That's why I didn't really steal a lot of bases wasn't great off 1180 00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:49,960 the jump off first base right. And he his instincts were like 1181 00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,040 he didn't grow up as a pure, pure baseball. 1182 00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:56,280 He was wrong when he was coming up, but once he got cooking and 1183 00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,760 he had 100 mph, like I could still see Bernie snagging that 1184 00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:03,920 ball in the gap and then decelerating very gracefully and 1185 01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:07,160 making that play. But that's that's the Yankees. 1186 01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,480 And I think that if you go, if you go around and this is the 1187 01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:13,200 challenge for some of you guys, if you go around the game, 1188 01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:15,480 right. And again, it's post 1980 and 1189 01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:19,320 you had to play for the team for at least at least two years. 1190 01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:22,800 So Soto. And you imagine if I put Soto in 1191 01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:26,080 this Yankee lineup, but and I didn't make it to just keep Soto 1192 01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:27,400 out. Or maybe I don't know, Did I? 1193 01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:28,920 I don't know. It's the Soto rule. 1194 01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,240 Right. So he's not eligible because he 1195 01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:35,080 only played one year, but go around every team in baseball 1196 01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:38,680 and again post 80. So the big Red machine, you're 1197 01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:40,400 going to lose components of that, right. 1198 01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:43,800 You want to talk about some other teams? 1199 01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,640 Like I think that I'm very curious how somebody would 1200 01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:51,880 construct all time Red Sox team, you know, from 1980 on, because 1201 01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:55,680 at that point you'd have Wade Boggs at his absolute apex 1202 01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:59,760 powers, you know, hitting 3435358, never striking out, 1203 01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:02,680 always on base. You'd have a big poppy, you'd 1204 01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:07,760 have a Manny, you'd have a no more like there's there's only a 1205 01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,080 few. And again, all time nobody can 1206 01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:13,320 touch the Yankees. But post 80, I'm not even sure 1207 01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:16,480 if anybody can. Maybe the Red Sox. 1208 01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,800 I was even thinking about like the Oakland A's, like you get 1209 01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,560 the Bash Brothers and then obviously Ricky as well. 1210 01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:26,440 She'd have Ricky with the A's, you'd have McGuire, you'd have 1211 01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,880 Conseco, you'd have Giambi. You know, I mean, that's there's 1212 01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:33,080 a couple you'd have to hop at shortstop. 1213 01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:38,200 Anyway, a fun exercise. I hope you guys enjoyed it. 1214 01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:41,560 Get those comments going. We're building out some cool 1215 01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,200 graphics, doing some cool stuff here. 1216 01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:44,960 I want to get to Pat Riley in a moment. 1217 01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:46,560 All right? Paul was good. 1218 01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:48,840 Real deal, but not great. Some good years, but nothing 1219 01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:51,680 amazing. Yeah, I mean, I I think that, 1220 01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,000 well, I think of Paul O'Neill, right? 1221 01:01:55,080 --> 01:02:00,400 I think of the absolute, you know, just a gamer and is so 1222 01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:04,400 reliable physically in a like just a really good field. 1223 01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:08,640 Or think about the play he made on on Polonia, you know, in the 1224 01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:10,480 in the 96th world with a bad hamstring. 1225 01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:14,920 I mean, think about the slide to second against the then Indians 1226 01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,520 on a bad hamstring. Like the guy was just the 1227 01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:18,600 warrior. It's his nickname. 1228 01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:22,760 Could field, could hit power average good eye grinder, just 1229 01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,560 an A phenomenal ball player. He's not judge, so he's not 1230 01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:27,440 playing right field. Yeah. 1231 01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:30,160 I mean, I I I guess if you want to really push back a little bit 1232 01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:31,520 and say maybe should be in left field. 1233 01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:35,280 OK, but that's why I do this to, you know, to to show you what 1234 01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:37,480 I'm thinking and then some of you guys disagree. 1235 01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:38,520 It's fine. All right. 1236 01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:39,880 I don't know if you'll disagree with this. 1237 01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:43,080 Get this up on the stage. If can there J Rob Pat Riley 1238 01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:48,280 said something interesting about a tire old school, new school. 1239 01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:51,320 And I'm both like, I just because I'm older doesn't mean 1240 01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:53,920 that I gravitate to every old school thought. 1241 01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,960 Like there's some things about the old school that are weak and 1242 01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:58,920 there's a lot of things about the old school that obviously 1243 01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,520 will always resonate with me because I'm old school. 1244 01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:04,360 And just based on what I was born anyway, quote, I never 1245 01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:07,040 changed much. I wish they went back to coats 1246 01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:09,920 and ties. I think an audience wants to see 1247 01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:14,840 somebody on the sideline who looks like a leader and quote 1248 01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:17,360 the great Pat Riley on the dress code. 1249 01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:20,480 So on the left you see the suit and the tie, and on the right, 1250 01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,040 nobody's really wearing that kind of a hoodie. 1251 01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,640 But you know what they wear that's AI for you. 1252 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,240 But they're wearing like the zip up suits or like that golf thing 1253 01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:30,440 that you wear in September in the Northeast, like a little zip 1254 01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:33,720 up, 3/4 zip. All right, So I agree with Pat 1255 01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,800 on this. I would love to see NBA head 1256 01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:39,280 coaches rocking suits. I don't need the assistance to 1257 01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:43,200 wear the suits, but there is something to be said for it's 1258 01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:47,000 not even a class thing, But again, protect projecting like 1259 01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:50,520 an elevated role, like when all the coaches look the same with 1260 01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:53,080 whether it's a golf shirt and I know it started COVID the 1261 01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:54,320 bubble. I I I get it. 1262 01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:59,280 I would love for coaches to go back to the that's why I love I 1263 01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:02,200 love what Rick Pitino does. I love it, you know, and Rick is 1264 01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:05,320 old school like Pat Riley and Rick has said, you know, let me 1265 01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:06,920 just shut that TV off. Now I'm seeing an extra 1266 01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:08,720 reflection. That's the other thing you get. 1267 01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:14,400 It will be fixed soon, promise. So if I was coaching now, my 1268 01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,400 age, there's not a doubt in mind, doubt in my mind I'd be 1269 01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:21,560 wearing suits now, I'm sure, to the chagrin of my wife, maybe I 1270 01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,400 would have a turtleneck and then a nice blazer or whatever, a 1271 01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:26,600 nice pocket square and church it up the watch. 1272 01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:29,680 And, you know, maybe I might even still wear like, suit 1273 01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:31,680 sneakers. I don't, I don't know, but it's 1274 01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:34,560 just a sloppy look. If there's anything that needs 1275 01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:37,200 to be re examined really, you know what it is. 1276 01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:39,600 I'm going to tell you because hockey coaches get suited up, 1277 01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:41,520 they look great, they look distinguished. 1278 01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:43,520 There's no doubt who's in charge on the ice, right? 1279 01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:45,600 You know who the where the pecking order is, It's the head 1280 01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:46,720 coach. He's got the suit. 1281 01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:48,960 The thing that really should change. 1282 01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:54,240 Why in the world does a baseball manager have to wear a uniform? 1283 01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:58,720 Like if you want to change something like that, that to me, 1284 01:04:58,920 --> 01:05:02,440 it's probably time to change that now, especially, you know, 1285 01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:04,360 used to. I know the games got a little 1286 01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:08,240 bit younger, but you see some of these older pitching coaches or 1287 01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:09,640 what did the older third base go? 1288 01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,560 Do you really need to see some of these guys looking like 1289 01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:15,880 Weeble wobbles out there, you know, just waddling out there 1290 01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:19,280 trying to stuff their bodies into a baseball uniform? 1291 01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:23,520 Like, what's the appeal of that? You know, Aaron Boone still is 1292 01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:27,720 in pretty good shape, pretty good shape. 1293 01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:30,520 You know, sometimes Boonie looks a little thicker than other 1294 01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:31,840 times. He'll be the first to tell you 1295 01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:34,680 that. But you know, you could tell he 1296 01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:36,200 he was a former player. He's a big guy. 1297 01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:39,080 And you know, when he came to hang out with Meet Me and Sal 1298 01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:43,160 for the BT and Sal Live show at Red Bank at the Vogel Theater in 1299 01:05:43,160 --> 01:05:46,440 January, like the way he presents himself in a, in a 1300 01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:49,320 sports jacket and a shirt. Like, you could tell he's an 1301 01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:50,960 athlete. Like, he's an inch bigger. 1302 01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:56,520 And I'm a fairly big guy, 6-2 ish, maybe a tick more 2:20-ish. 1303 01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,120 You know, Booney is, is even bigger than me. 1304 01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:01,720 And he just, he like, he looks like he played, you know, he 1305 01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:03,520 played something. But then you see him in the 1306 01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:05,600 dugout depending upon what shirt he's wearing. 1307 01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:07,120 Yeah. I don't know. 1308 01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:08,560 I don't know that we really need that. 1309 01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:13,000 I would love to have like the first base and the third base 1310 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:17,960 coach in in not in uniform like a literal uniform, but uniformly 1311 01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:20,160 dressed. So wear this like a zip up, 1312 01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,360 whatever it might be. Keep the hat on. 1313 01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:23,440 You want to wear the hat. Yep. 1314 01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:25,680 Basically do what I do when I coach third base. 1315 01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:29,040 I got the hat for my team, for my son's travel team and my 1316 01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:31,600 daughter's team. And then, you know, I've got a 1317 01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:35,640 depending upon how how cold or warm it is, I'm going to adjust. 1318 01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:37,320 If it's really warm out, I'm going to wear suit. 1319 01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:39,800 I'm going to wear shorts. Sometimes I'll wear those those 1320 01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:43,160 like, what do they call those? Like not this like the, the, the 1321 01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:45,560 leggings, like the spandex that come down all the way to the 1322 01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:47,360 ankles, right. I'll wear those and they'll wear 1323 01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:48,680 shorts. I'll wear shorts over it. 1324 01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:51,480 I've got a couple of sweatshirts. 1325 01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:54,040 Some are cut off. Not that I'm, I mean, of course 1326 01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:55,080 I'm always going to wear AT shirt. 1327 01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:57,320 I'm not going to go out there like John Travolta in grease, 1328 01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,240 you know, when he when he's cleaning up the car grease 1329 01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,520 lightning. But I've got the I've got that 1330 01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,160 sweatshirt. I might have like a long sleeve 1331 01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:09,040 shirt under it or if it's really called the turtleneck, you know, 1332 01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:11,120 but I so I've got some variants there. 1333 01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:15,120 I just don't think like managers need to wear uniforms. 1334 01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:18,840 They don't look good. They don't like uniforms don't 1335 01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:20,560 do anything unless you're an amazing shape. 1336 01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:24,000 Like if you're like soda looks great uniform Jeter looked 1337 01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:26,720 great. Judge looks like Zeus in a 1338 01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:28,880 uniform. I mean, players for the most 1339 01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:33,640 part look good in uniforms, but as you're aging, it's really not 1340 01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:36,720 flattering here. The man boobs, you know, what 1341 01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:39,160 are we doing? So I would like to see baseball 1342 01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:41,600 change that. You know, I don't need a suit 1343 01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:42,840 and tie. Just give me a zip up. 1344 01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:46,120 What do you think, J Rod? You're younger When you see an 1345 01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:49,840 old like you, you know, you see Boonie or you see Mendoza, you 1346 01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:53,240 see, you know that they look fine, but you know, do you 1347 01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,920 really see need to see men in their 40s and 50s and beyond 1348 01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,760 wearing uniforms like they go to play softball? 1349 01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,480 I don't know. I mean, right when you started 1350 01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:05,200 getting on this point, I started cracking up just because like 1351 01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:08,360 the other week I was doing like one of the clips and it's just 1352 01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:11,160 like a picture of Boonie in the Yankees uniform. 1353 01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:14,680 I don't know, there's something it, it's weird. 1354 01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:18,279 It's like a weird agita. I think that like it brings 1355 01:08:18,279 --> 01:08:20,880 about when you see one of these older dudes and they're kind of 1356 01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:23,760 stuffed up in it. They look kind of like, I don't 1357 01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:27,800 know, they look kind of young, like, and young and like like a 1358 01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:30,640 Little League sense, like they're wearing like when 1359 01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:33,399 they're wearing the uniform. So, yeah, I mean, listen, I'm 1360 01:08:33,399 --> 01:08:35,640 all for the tradition aspect of it. 1361 01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:37,600 I think it's fun. I think, you know, it's 1362 01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:39,520 something that kind of gets passed down. 1363 01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:41,080 But do I think it's a great look? 1364 01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:44,000 No, no, it's not a great look. It's definitely, definitely not 1365 01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:46,200 a great look there, homie. I would have got homie Simpson 1366 01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:49,439 370 texts here. Some people act like putting on 1367 01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:52,040 a suit as a kid to Superman putting on his camp or 1368 01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:54,720 something. I don't think leader when I see 1369 01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:58,520 somebody in a suit, I see a corporate puppet, I mean. 1370 01:08:58,880 --> 01:08:59,680 Corporate. Puppet. 1371 01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:01,880 Well, I mean that's OK. I mean, I don't I don't I 1372 01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:03,920 understand you. You might disagree with the fact 1373 01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:07,439 that, but I mean so so everybody that wears a suit's a puppet. 1374 01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:09,319 That makes no sense. I mean come on, that's 1375 01:09:09,319 --> 01:09:11,439 ridiculous. I respect your opinion not 1376 01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:16,279 wanting a suit, but I would even challenge your opinion that that 1377 01:09:16,359 --> 01:09:20,000 that a suit doesn't provide at least some aesthetical some like 1378 01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:23,040 the of, of the just the, the, the eye of the, the mind and the 1379 01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:28,160 just the overall presentation. That a suit doesn't elevate that 1380 01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:31,279 person, even if it's perceptual, doesn't mean they're going to be 1381 01:09:31,279 --> 01:09:33,080 a great coach, doesn't mean they're going to be a great 1382 01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:35,279 leader. But if you see, you know, 12 1383 01:09:35,279 --> 01:09:38,120 guys who were suited up in uniforms, you know the players 1384 01:09:38,399 --> 01:09:41,680 and you see, you know, now they have like 9 coaches, 9 1385 01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:45,319 assistants wearing zip UPS and you see, you know, Mike Brown 1386 01:09:45,359 --> 01:09:47,960 and these these other coaches wearing actual suits. 1387 01:09:48,399 --> 01:09:49,720 I know they don't want to do look. 1388 01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:52,600 Yeah, it yes, there's definitely an elevator. 1389 01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:56,640 There's definitely an elevation. So I agree with Pat Riley on 1390 01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:57,480 that. I do. 1391 01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:00,400 Let's see. Kneeland in the uniform was 1392 01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:02,720 funny. Terry Collins, too. 1393 01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:04,400 Well, how about, yeah, how about Don Zimmer? 1394 01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:06,600 I mean, you get to you get to some of the older guys. 1395 01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:09,040 That's what I'm saying. At that point, it goes from like 1396 01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:11,960 Zim was older. So it goes from like not 1397 01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:14,120 flattering to like cute. Like look at him. 1398 01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:18,000 He's still look at his guy. Oh man, well, that is a that's a 1399 01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:20,520 funny picture of his army helmet. 1400 01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:22,760 Oh, that's the best. That's what he got basically 1401 01:10:23,480 --> 01:10:25,800 because he. Zimmer had a plate in his head 1402 01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:27,280 from an accident back in the day. 1403 01:10:27,480 --> 01:10:28,800 Yeah, literally had a steel plate. 1404 01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,160 And then there was a couple of foul balls in the dugout. 1405 01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:32,760 And I remember Jeter. I don't know. 1406 01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:36,320 Jeter actually got the helmet, but they put the helmet on him 1407 01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:38,160 and like they were making sure he was OK. 1408 01:10:38,440 --> 01:10:41,040 Those are the things like, you don't get that anymore. 1409 01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:44,120 What was the, you know, and I don't know if it's because a lot 1410 01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:46,720 of the coaches are younger than they used to be. 1411 01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:49,440 So it's it's closer. They're they're older than the 1412 01:10:49,440 --> 01:10:52,480 players in most cases. But there was such a gap back in 1413 01:10:52,480 --> 01:10:53,760 the day. There was a different level of 1414 01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:57,280 affinity and a different interaction between player and 1415 01:10:57,320 --> 01:11:00,800 old coach or older coach. I kind of like that. 1416 01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:05,360 No, there's something like kind of sweeter about it, like more 1417 01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:08,160 endearing because now it's like, I mean, you look at the NBA, 1418 01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:10,480 you've got a lot of head coaches who are younger than their 1419 01:11:10,480 --> 01:11:12,640 players. You know, Missoula, like when he 1420 01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,880 had, when we had Horford or whoever, he was straight up 1421 01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:18,200 younger than like two players on the roster. 1422 01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:19,960 Yep, Yep. No, I hear you. 1423 01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:24,200 What do we got here at Coke Boy? OK. 1424 01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:29,080 At Coke Boy 35. Hopefully he's talking soda. 1425 01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:32,720 BT Keep up the great show. Shout out from Allentown, PA. 1426 01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:34,600 Allentown, PA. Let's go. 1427 01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:37,120 My first job, brother. My first job. 1428 01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:39,040 Yeah. Oh, God, that's where it 1429 01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:42,400 started. I remember when do you want to 1430 01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:45,360 laugh here a little little. We got we got to come up with a 1431 01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:47,720 graphic story time with BT like when we start. 1432 01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:50,800 To I'll cook something up today. Cook something up there, maybe 1433 01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,480 even a little like the the harp music, you know? 1434 01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:56,720 Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, I can't force it. 1435 01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:59,080 That's why I want you guys to let me know where, where you're 1436 01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:02,160 texting from or where you're watching from this way, because 1437 01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:04,800 I've been to 43 of the 50 states. 1438 01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:07,840 So there's a good chance I've been where you're texting from 1439 01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:10,000 or listening from. And you never know what it could 1440 01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:12,280 propel anyway. So I'm in Allentown, right? 1441 01:12:12,320 --> 01:12:15,680 And my, it's my first radio job. Little teeny tiny station. 1442 01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,920 Always, always have great love for them, great affinity, great 1443 01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:22,520 respect, great people. Anyway, I'm doing the morning 1444 01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:24,040 show and I, I know I've said this part before. 1445 01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,200 It was also like the promotions director, whatever it was, I 1446 01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:27,240 didn't even know what I was doing. 1447 01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:30,000 I'm trying to make promotions to run on the station. 1448 01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:31,720 I don't, I don't know how to use the equipment. 1449 01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:34,680 All I want to do is do a show. So I'm basically mailing that. 1450 01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:36,760 I just want to open up the mic and start yapping. 1451 01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:39,040 That's all I care about. That's and that's, I was going 1452 01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:41,760 to say that's all I know, but I don't even really know that yet 1453 01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:44,200 because every show that I've done was like a simulated show 1454 01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:45,800 because it's my first show, right? 1455 01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:47,360 But I knew I would figure it out. 1456 01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:52,600 So I'm doing the show and I'm making $16,000 a year. 1457 01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:55,440 That's what I was making. Now, I was only there eight 1458 01:12:55,440 --> 01:12:58,360 months because as I've said one other time, this the the station 1459 01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:03,240 got, it was it got sold. It was by a little private, a 1460 01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:08,120 private family, right? And it got sold and it was 1461 01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:11,160 reformatted to salsa music and I think it was sold for 1462 01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:13,000 $2,000,000. So your boys out of a job. 1463 01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:14,680 Yeah. So your boys out of a job right 1464 01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:17,440 after about 8 months. But I remember like 2 months in, 1465 01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:22,880 I remember my boss coming to me, man, I just so happy that like 1466 01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:24,640 if they don't hire me, I mean, who knows? 1467 01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:26,800 I mean I'm, I'm sure I'm going to find a way to get in the 1468 01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:29,440 business. But you just, you can't lose 1469 01:13:29,440 --> 01:13:31,800 that appreciation for somebody that gave you a chance. 1470 01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:34,560 The, and I know it's changed now with podcasts and different, but 1471 01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:38,200 back then for somebody, even though it was a menial wage for 1472 01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:42,080 somebody to actually pay you to get on the air, that was the 1473 01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:45,600 deepest level of trust. And without that first bridge 1474 01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:48,200 that I crossed there, who knows how long it would have taken 1475 01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:50,720 anyway. So I'm making peanuts and I'm 1476 01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:54,840 having a blast and I'm young and I remember my boss is coming and 1477 01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:57,880 saying, Hey, can you, can you do high school? 1478 01:13:58,000 --> 01:13:59,960 Get can you do football play by play? 1479 01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:02,240 I've never done it once in my life. 1480 01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:04,200 And I'm like, Yep, I can absolutely. 1481 01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:06,320 I could do, I could do anything. Basketball, football, whatever 1482 01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:09,120 you need. So I remember I'm going to some 1483 01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:12,160 of these high schools in the Allentown, PA, and very good 1484 01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:15,120 high school football, very good. I remember a couple of teams 1485 01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:19,120 came in from Ohio. Becca High was one of those 1486 01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:22,600 Catholic schools there. Central, like just great, great 1487 01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:24,560 Pennsylvania football. You know how good it is. 1488 01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,880 And they give me this machine, this little device called the 1489 01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:30,960 Marty, and it was like an antenna that you'd have to set 1490 01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:32,400 up. I didn't know how to set it up. 1491 01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:34,360 I'm just praying that I'm on the air. 1492 01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:37,080 I have no idea how to do that. I really have no idea how to do. 1493 01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:40,080 And I figure it out. And that's the first time I had 1494 01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,960 ever done play by play outside of like faking it in my basement 1495 01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:47,760 or faking it when I was an intern to WFAN or in my car. 1496 01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:51,480 And it started up and the game was, I'm like, oh, I could do 1497 01:14:51,480 --> 01:14:52,920 this. I, I, I know I could do this. 1498 01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:56,680 Then the game starts. It's like I'm like stumbling, 1499 01:14:56,680 --> 01:14:58,280 I'm a mess. I'm missing everything. 1500 01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:00,800 That's where it started in Allentown, PA. 1501 01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:02,640 So I appreciate you listening from there. 1502 01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:04,320 Oh, yeah. Shouting out for the PA. 1503 01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:05,480 What does that say? Hold on. 1504 01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:09,600 Put the glasses on for this one. All right? 1505 01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:13,120 BTI always wanted to see how you and Evan went back and forth. 1506 01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:15,800 Or you want to see, all right, Mets and Yanks anyway, to have 1507 01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:18,960 them as a special guest before the season talking about Evan 1508 01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:20,200 Roberts. Yeah, I would have Evan on, 1509 01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:22,240 Sure. I mean, but when you really 1510 01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:26,360 think about it, to be fair, why would I invite Evan on when he's 1511 01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:28,880 never invited me on? Like, doesn't it have to be some 1512 01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:31,800 sort of return engagement here? I mean, Evan's the one who's had 1513 01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:35,600 the Rico for how many years? You ever invite me to come on 1514 01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:37,800 and talk about the Yankees or about baseball? 1515 01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:40,560 I'd have to think I know as much baseball as anybody at the 1516 01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:43,360 station, if not more. I mean, did did Evan ever reach 1517 01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:45,920 out? Gotts is what Evan did. 1518 01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:51,200 So I like Evan, but 0.0% invites. 1519 01:15:51,480 --> 01:15:53,360 So no. Why am I going to be the first? 1520 01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:55,600 I'll I'll, I'll get Sal back up on the show. 1521 01:15:56,440 --> 01:15:59,440 I'll get Tiki on the show to talk about Giants, maybe some 1522 01:15:59,440 --> 01:16:02,280 others, maybe not whatever. But no, no, I think it's 1523 01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:05,800 incumbent upon Evan to reach out to me to see if I want to go on 1524 01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:07,760 his show. And if he does, I'll happily 1525 01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:10,880 come on and chop it up. Maybe it's because it's Mets 1526 01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:13,480 intensive. He sees, sees no need for me to 1527 01:16:13,480 --> 01:16:17,520 come on. Maybe when he sees my post 1980 1528 01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:21,280 all time Mets lineup, maybe he'll be inspired to challenge 1529 01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,920 that and and maybe that's the impetus for change. 1530 01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:25,800 Maybe Evan will then invite me on. 1531 01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:30,720 But no, no, Evan has been doing it for I would have to guess 1532 01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:33,960 because all the time that Hoff was my producer going back to 1533 01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:37,920 what it was me and Tiki before me and Sal Hoff was producing 1534 01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:42,680 the Rico and I worked with Hoff for at least I think at least 1535 01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:46,080 four years. So, and I don't think that he 1536 01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:48,720 just started the Rico then. So it's probably 5 or 6 years. 1537 01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:52,400 So no, no, no, no, Evan reaches Evans got and I like Evan, I 1538 01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:54,400 really do. He's an oddball. 1539 01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:57,360 He's out of his mind. He's, you know, he's he's 1540 01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:01,480 definitely different. But I think Evan's a good dude. 1541 01:17:01,480 --> 01:17:04,200 I I have nothing bad to say. And even if I did, I wouldn't. 1542 01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:07,960 I I really do like Evan, but he's got to invite me. 1543 01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:10,040 I'm not inviting him first. That's the new rule here. 1544 01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:12,400 Anything in FAN? They got to make the first move, 1545 01:17:13,440 --> 01:17:15,440 honestly. No, I I think that's totally 1546 01:17:15,440 --> 01:17:18,640 found me AM. I going to go start kissing 1547 01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:21,160 their ass. No, you you want you know what I 1548 01:17:21,200 --> 01:17:23,680 got you know what I did hit me up. 1549 01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:27,440 I'll come on. Omar is a yeah. 1550 01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:30,360 Is Allentown, PA sports rated just covered in Philly sports, 1551 01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:33,280 no matter of fact. And that's, that's one of the 1552 01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:37,840 things that I don't think as many young broadcasters really 1553 01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:41,200 get a chance to do that. Just Omar, I'll answer the 1554 01:17:41,200 --> 01:17:43,320 question, but I, I just a little backdrop here, a little 1555 01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:45,720 background. So, you know, when you start a 1556 01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:48,320 podcast, and again, I don't, I don't begrudge those for younger 1557 01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:52,680 people for doing it. But back in the day, you really, 1558 01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:55,320 you know, you had to really pack up your bags and for the most 1559 01:17:55,320 --> 01:18:00,640 part go somewhere to get a job. And that's what separated a lot 1560 01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:05,520 of people from pursuing that. Now somebody like Don McGregor 1561 01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:06,560 who I'm definitely going to have on. 1562 01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:08,400 I've already asked him. He already said yeah, love Don 1563 01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:10,280 former colleague at 10:50 back in the day. 1564 01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,720 Hockey guys so happy with his Devils job and just awesome. 1565 01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:18,000 Donnie's Donnie's terrific guy. Somebody like Don was able to 1566 01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:21,640 carve out this great career and never leave New York like sports 1567 01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:25,160 phone and then at the fan part time and then climbed way up a 1568 01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:28,520 little bit doing updates there and then obviously 1050 open 1569 01:18:29,040 --> 01:18:32,080 open their doors basically 20 years ago, whatever it was and 1570 01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:36,520 right spot first voice on 10:50 and then he earned more and more 1571 01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:38,200 reps and he's done what he's done. 1572 01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:41,280 But back that like that was very, very rare. 1573 01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:43,960 For the most part. You have even Gio had to go to 1574 01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:45,600 Pittsburgh. You know, like that's just kind 1575 01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:48,320 of the way it was. You know, Evan, I think was in 1576 01:18:48,320 --> 01:18:52,480 Washington DCI know he bounced around a little bit did did some 1577 01:18:52,480 --> 01:18:54,680 stuff for Sirius as well. And I'm not talking about the 1578 01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:57,280 athletes like boomer or Tiki. I'm talking about the more 1579 01:18:57,280 --> 01:18:59,560 conventional, you know, hey, study journalism. 1580 01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:02,880 Want to get on the air. And when you do that, I just lay 1581 01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,440 all that out. When you do that, I you have, I 1582 01:19:05,440 --> 01:19:06,640 don't want to say you're going to be better. 1583 01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:08,840 I'm certainly not saying that because there's so many people 1584 01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:11,440 who are incredibly successful who never did that. 1585 01:19:11,440 --> 01:19:14,520 But I think you have maybe a little bit of a deeper 1586 01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:18,200 appreciation for the grind. Maybe, maybe maybe that's not 1587 01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:19,040 true. I think it is. 1588 01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:21,640 But that's just my perspective. And the other thing that you get 1589 01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:25,400 to do is you learn how to cover teams, usually small teams. 1590 01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:28,920 So now I could get to Omar's question, like, did we talk 1591 01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:32,080 about just Philly teams? Well, the station that I was on, 1592 01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:34,440 and it's 13. Do I still have it? 1593 01:19:34,440 --> 01:19:37,040 Oh, I put it away. I have my Mike flag from back 1594 01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:38,120 then. I was going to pull it up for 1595 01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:39,680 it. I have every Mike flag I've ever 1596 01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:42,360 worked at. Yeah, except the fan I should 1597 01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:43,720 have. I'm going to go with a steel 1598 01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:44,560 one. Right. 1599 01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:47,720 I got other stuff from the fan. So we were the home of the 1600 01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:49,600 Steelers. I remember, even though 1601 01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:54,960 Pittsburgh is very far away, but I remember going to Lehigh 1602 01:19:54,960 --> 01:19:57,600 University, getting credentialed, which was a big 1603 01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:00,160 thing for me. I was 23 and I get my first 1604 01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:02,600 credential and I'm going out to Lehigh. 1605 01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:06,960 And that was Andy Reid's first year coaching the Eagles. 1606 01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:10,800 They had just drafted McNab. Doug Peterson was the starting 1607 01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:13,680 quarterback until and they just let him get his brains beat in 1608 01:20:13,680 --> 01:20:15,120 until they they thought it was safer. 1609 01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:18,760 McNabb and that Eagles team was hideous man, But you really 1610 01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:21,680 learn. How to navigate like a scrum 1611 01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:25,040 and, and to be in there amongst reporters and you learn how not 1612 01:20:25,040 --> 01:20:28,720 to be nerd. I remember I'm, I'm on the field 1613 01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:31,280 at Lehigh on one of the backfields and I, I do a call 1614 01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:33,280 in, even though I'm the morning show host with my, with my 1615 01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:38,240 partner Tom, I do a call in and because it was like sponsored. 1616 01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:40,760 Hey, you know what, we're out at Lehigh camp, BT whatever, what 1617 01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:43,160 whatever it was the sponsored by whomever. 1618 01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:46,640 And I'm like, Hey, I'm watching this, this this guy bang 60 1619 01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:50,040 something yarders with ease. It was David Akers and nobody 1620 01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:52,960 knew about him. And I'm not saying I was some 1621 01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:55,520 amazing scout that was like, oh, this guy's going to be a bit. 1622 01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:57,360 But I'm like, this guy looks different. 1623 01:20:57,360 --> 01:20:59,320 I mean, the ball is just banging off his foot. 1624 01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:01,200 How is he not going to make this team? 1625 01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:03,320 And he wound up making the team and having a great career in the 1626 01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:06,120 NFL. And like I remember interviewing 1627 01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:09,120 him when he walked off the field doing his work and I was 1628 01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,480 nervous. Like, how do you structure? 1629 01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:14,800 How do you, first of all, how do you approach a pro athlete? 1630 01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:18,480 Hey, you know, excuse me, so and so, you know, I'm so and so you 1631 01:21:18,480 --> 01:21:19,720 have a couple of minutes like that. 1632 01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:23,520 It sounds easy when you're used to doing it, but it's but it's 1633 01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:27,880 not So that's the value to me of but I know the world's change of 1634 01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:30,440 starting at a small station in a small market. 1635 01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:33,600 And then maybe it's even like Lehigh football. 1636 01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:37,000 I would go and, and, and I would go to their weekly press 1637 01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:41,240 conference at some hotel and, and they were actually really 1638 01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:42,480 good. They were very good one AA 1639 01:21:42,480 --> 01:21:44,240 program. And the reason, quite honestly, 1640 01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:47,720 why I would go is because it was a great, it was a great buffet 1641 01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:50,280 and I had no money. And I would get ziti. 1642 01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:51,960 I would get, you know, I get meatballs. 1643 01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:53,440 I'd eat, you know, I'd really eat. 1644 01:21:53,440 --> 01:21:56,360 I was making no money, but I got to know the coach a little bit 1645 01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:59,800 and he wound up becoming, his name is Kevin Higgins, Look it 1646 01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:00,920 up. He wound up becoming a 1647 01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:04,760 quarterbacks coach in the NFL and then you know when he's in 1648 01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:07,400 the NFL, you know somebody that I know in the NFL. 1649 01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:09,640 So that's how it starts all more. 1650 01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:14,800 We did a lot of Sixer stuff. So it was Philly, it was 1651 01:22:14,920 --> 01:22:17,440 Philly's. But you know, I was bringing my 1652 01:22:17,480 --> 01:22:22,480 Yankee stuff to the table. There was Knicks 6 or stuff 1653 01:22:22,480 --> 01:22:25,560 because this was 1999 and the Knicks went to the Finals. 1654 01:22:26,480 --> 01:22:28,520 And I remember this to the cool thing. 1655 01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:30,440 I've got it getting credentialed. 1656 01:22:30,440 --> 01:22:34,200 So I remember I actually this was as a fan, I remember going 1657 01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,120 to the old Veterans Stadium and the Yankees are in town to play 1658 01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:39,440 the Phillies. So Inter League started. 1659 01:22:39,440 --> 01:22:43,960 It was at 97, I think not Inter League began and this was 99. 1660 01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:47,280 And I go, yeah, I'm young and I don't have my credential. 1661 01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:49,680 I get a ticket with my couple of buddies that came in from from 1662 01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:53,440 Brooklyn, right? I'm in right field and I'm, you 1663 01:22:53,440 --> 01:22:56,280 know, banging a few beers back in the parking lot and I'm there 1664 01:22:56,280 --> 01:23:00,400 early for batting practice and Tito Martinez hits a bullet. 1665 01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:02,960 I'm like, I got it, I got it, I got it. 1666 01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:06,920 And I go to catch with my bed. Broke my finger that the, the 1667 01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:11,520 impact on my and I dropped it, the impact on my hand from that 1668 01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:16,160 line drive home run in batting practice was ferocious as 1669 01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:19,520 anything I've ever felt. Broke my finger immediately, you 1670 01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:21,120 know? Yeah, yeah. 1671 01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:23,120 That was when I was working in Allentown, you know. 1672 01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:25,760 So crazy. What else do I have here? 1673 01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:27,480 Maybe a couple more techs going to wrap it up. 1674 01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:30,720 Who is that from? Veteran Stadium had such 1675 01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:31,720 terrible. I'm sorry. 1676 01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:33,240 My, my bad. Yeah. 1677 01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:35,640 Oh, God, The Astro turf was was awful. 1678 01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:38,920 And you know it. The place smelled like urine. 1679 01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:42,280 It was an absolute shit hole. It was it was dangerous. 1680 01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:45,400 You go in there, you know, if you're a fan of the other team, 1681 01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:47,920 get ready to fight for your life because it's going to be some 1682 01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:51,160 drunk knucklehead who's going to push it in the wrong direction. 1683 01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:54,600 And you know, it. It was a that's that's where 1684 01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:57,600 that was the first jail. I don't know if you know this J 1685 01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:00,440 Rod going to educate you here. You can look it up when we're 1686 01:24:00,440 --> 01:24:04,640 off the show today. The first jail ever in a stadium 1687 01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:08,520 was at Veteran stadium. They created a little jail where 1688 01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:10,880 they would detain people that they, you know, I don't mean 1689 01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:13,640 something a little tiny, but you know, like a real violent 1690 01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:15,440 physical fight or something out of bounds. 1691 01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:19,320 They actually had a jail in Veteran Stadium because of oh. 1692 01:24:19,520 --> 01:24:21,840 My gosh. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at the 1693 01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:22,720 pictures. Yeah. 1694 01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:25,160 What year was that late 90s about? 1695 01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:30,280 Let's see Veterans Stadium Jail 1997 there you. 1696 01:24:30,480 --> 01:24:32,640 Go yeah. Nuts. 1697 01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:36,040 So I was there in 99 for that, for that Yankee Philly game. 1698 01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:39,680 Stadium was awful. It really was terrible and the 1699 01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:42,080 turf was dangerous. Like you look at some of the 1700 01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:46,120 quarterbacks I even even like Boomer on in Cincinnati, like 1701 01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:49,320 the the Steelers on that turf back in the day when those 1702 01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:53,600 stadiums were built like those cookie cutter 1970s you had. 1703 01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:55,840 Now the Astrodome wasn't a cookie cutter, but it had that 1704 01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:58,640 same turf, right? Yeah, the Astrodome, you had 1705 01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:02,440 Three Rivers, you had riverfront, you had the vet like 1706 01:25:02,520 --> 01:25:05,440 it was like concrete. And when those quarterbacks 1707 01:25:05,440 --> 01:25:09,080 would get would get grabbed and I mean any player obviously, but 1708 01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:12,800 it just gets slung down and the rest not blowing the whistle. 1709 01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:15,280 Guess where your head's bang? Guess where your head's banging 1710 01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:16,400 off? It's banging off the concrete. 1711 01:25:16,440 --> 01:25:19,280 It's like, it was like, and I walked on the old veteran turf 1712 01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:23,200 from my early days in in radio and it was wow. 1713 01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:26,640 Like now my kids play on turf. We have a really nice baseball 1714 01:25:27,480 --> 01:25:31,080 turf field slash stadium that that we built a couple of years 1715 01:25:31,080 --> 01:25:32,520 ago in town. It's gorgeous, right? 1716 01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:35,240 And the turf is really bouncy and really springy. 1717 01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:39,160 And just remembering what that old turf was like, incredibly 1718 01:25:39,160 --> 01:25:41,960 dangerous, incredibly violent. And thank God that's gone. 1719 01:25:42,280 --> 01:25:43,680 What else? Let me see if I get one more 1720 01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:45,600 here that jumps out. Anything jump out here? 1721 01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:49,160 Anything. Let's see, stadiums like 1722 01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:54,040 veterans had personality brings added elements to rivalries. 1723 01:25:54,040 --> 01:25:55,720 Well, hold on a second. Let me challenge that there, 1724 01:25:55,760 --> 01:25:57,520 Charlie. It had personality. 1725 01:25:57,880 --> 01:26:02,400 I would venture to say that it had no personality because it 1726 01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:05,560 would, it looked the same. Like really try to delineate 1727 01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:08,640 between where the Reds played, where the Pirates played, 1728 01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:11,160 talking about before the new stadiums where the Phillies 1729 01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:12,680 played. Like it looked the same. 1730 01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:16,120 It was one big massive, you know, I think it was 3 tiered 1731 01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:18,000 bowl. Can you look real quick? 1732 01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:22,480 I'm going to take a guess. Can you tell me the capacity of 1733 01:26:22,480 --> 01:26:26,240 veteran stadium 7070 thousand I'm going to put up. 1734 01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:28,720 I'm going to guess. I would venture to guess that 1735 01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:31,080 all of those stadiums were within a couple of thousand 1736 01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:33,760 seats of each other. Yeah, you were close, 65. 1737 01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:35,960 I was gonna actually. Go on 66. 1738 01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:37,960 Yep. Yeah, but they weren't gonna be 1739 01:26:37,960 --> 01:26:40,840 80 or 90. And they were sterile and they 1740 01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:45,080 were very antiseptic. There was no signage, nothing 1741 01:26:45,080 --> 01:26:49,040 that distinguished it as wow, this is the Red Stadium like 1742 01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:52,840 now. Or look at the Pirates where you 1743 01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:54,720 know, in Wright Field, which is a beautiful field. 1744 01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:57,880 I love it in Wright Field. The Wright Field wall literally 1745 01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:01,440 is 21 feet high in honor of the great Roberto Clemente. 1746 01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:06,840 Like you don't have those little tiny homages, if you will, to 1747 01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:10,040 history. It was just it was spawned by 1748 01:27:10,040 --> 01:27:12,160 the 70s and they all look the same. 1749 01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:13,880 They all had about the same amount of seats. 1750 01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:15,440 It was always the same vantage point. 1751 01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:18,080 Foul territory was about the same because they were built for 1752 01:27:18,080 --> 01:27:21,840 football and baseball. They were multi purpose stadium 1753 01:27:21,840 --> 01:27:24,040 so I would disagree significantly. 1754 01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:26,800 I don't think they had any. What was the word he used? 1755 01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:28,360 Identity or aesthetics? What was that? 1756 01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:31,520 He said they gave him energy for rivalries. 1757 01:27:31,600 --> 01:27:34,400 Well, that's different, OK. What do you say that brings an 1758 01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:36,600 added element? They had personality. 1759 01:27:36,640 --> 01:27:39,240 That's what I disagree with. I thought they were personality 1760 01:27:39,280 --> 01:27:41,640 lists now. The astronome was different. 1761 01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:44,760 The astronome was inside it just look different. 1762 01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:47,800 I got a great trivia question for you. 1763 01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:49,760 So now I know you're not going to get this. 1764 01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:52,360 I don't expect you to get this, but next time you're at a bar, 1765 01:27:52,360 --> 01:27:54,480 next time you want to win a few bucks, golf course, whatever it 1766 01:27:54,480 --> 01:27:55,440 might be, then I'm going to wrap it up. 1767 01:27:55,440 --> 01:27:57,960 I, I, I, I might actually start shuffling. 1768 01:27:57,960 --> 01:27:59,360 I can't sit here and do nothing today. 1769 01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:01,520 I got to go out and do this even though I don't want to. 1770 01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:05,200 I got to do something today. So the the question and you can 1771 01:28:05,200 --> 01:28:07,000 look this up and don't give me the answer yet. 1772 01:28:07,200 --> 01:28:09,440 J Rod, just Google. However you're going to get 1773 01:28:09,440 --> 01:28:11,600 there. Who hit the first home run in 1774 01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:15,000 the history of the Astrodome? OK, so and and don't tell us 1775 01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,200 yet. You think Astrodome like Colt 40 1776 01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:22,160 fives before the Astros became the Astros and a great great 1777 01:28:22,160 --> 01:28:24,720 hats, great unis, by the way, great throwback tradition. 1778 01:28:24,720 --> 01:28:28,280 I love I I've got a Colt 45 shirt and you think, well, the 1779 01:28:28,280 --> 01:28:30,160 Colt 40 fives. You think about the AT maybe 1780 01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:32,200 Rusty stab. You think about the Astros, 1781 01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:34,160 right. Nope, it was actually Mickey 1782 01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:37,480 Mantle. It was Mickey Mantle in, I'm 1783 01:28:37,480 --> 01:28:39,440 going to try to guess the year. I might be off on the year, but 1784 01:28:39,440 --> 01:28:42,760 it was an exhibition game where the Yankees went and played 1785 01:28:42,760 --> 01:28:45,240 there and Mickey hit the first home run. 1786 01:28:45,640 --> 01:28:48,680 I'm going to say I think I'm going to be wrong on this 64 1787 01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:51,400 let's. I don't, I don't think the year 1788 01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:55,720 is right. Or I don't You're close 65. 65 1789 01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:59,680 And it was Mickey Mantle right there you go so even if you ask 1790 01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:03,080 an old timer this their their heads going to be spinning with 1791 01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:05,200 Astros or National League players. 1792 01:29:05,200 --> 01:29:08,240 They're not going to be thinking Mickey Mantle exhibition game. 1793 01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:10,400 There's your answer for you something else you get on 1794 01:29:10,400 --> 01:29:11,680 unleashed. You know we let you win some 1795 01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:13,800 board. Yes Sir. 1796 01:29:14,320 --> 01:29:17,280 Make sure I didn't miss anything talked about the NFL combine 1797 01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:19,880 gave you a little Pat Riley stuff there a little something 1798 01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:22,960 on the on the Knicks 3 burning questions brought to you by my 1799 01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:26,120 friends at Sullivan for pain told you about that Yankee light 1800 01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:30,680 up, which is a separate content. It's only about 16 or 17 minutes 1801 01:29:30,880 --> 01:29:33,840 so go jump in there. You'll get my entire rationale 1802 01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:36,240 for constructing the team that I did. 1803 01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:38,920 I think you guys will really enjoy it obviously want some 1804 01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:42,240 likes want some subscriptions there subscribe get that digital 1805 01:29:42,240 --> 01:29:46,480 traction J Rod enjoy. I almost think I have to give 1806 01:29:46,480 --> 01:29:48,640 you some homework today for because. 1807 01:29:48,640 --> 01:29:50,480 It's not. Yeah, I I need something to 1808 01:29:50,480 --> 01:29:52,520 watch. That's what I'm saying. 1809 01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:56,160 Let me give you some, OK? Let me think about this here and 1810 01:29:56,160 --> 01:29:57,400 then we'll we'll get out of here. 1811 01:29:57,400 --> 01:30:01,640 So it's a movie day. It's a it's ATV day. 1812 01:30:03,080 --> 01:30:06,160 I want to go with something I know you haven't seen or, or 1813 01:30:06,160 --> 01:30:08,360 strongly surmise you have. You have not seen. 1814 01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:10,880 I told you about. I told what I told you about 1815 01:30:10,880 --> 01:30:12,640 Beach Street. Beach St. 1816 01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:15,360 Making Zeppelin. Oh yeah, yeah. 1817 01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:18,040 Beach Street's the movies. Zeppelin is the documentary 1818 01:30:18,040 --> 01:30:21,680 which is for not very long but you'll like it as a musician I 1819 01:30:21,680 --> 01:30:24,040 might even give you. Have you ever seen the Warriors 1820 01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:27,400 from the late 70s? OK, I've seen parts of it, never 1821 01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:29,520 the full thing. That's something you're going to 1822 01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:30,720 have to get your eyes on at some point. 1823 01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:32,520 Yeah, that that's I'm going to give you a couple of options. 1824 01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:35,800 So Beach Street is 1 old school origins of hip hop. 1825 01:30:36,040 --> 01:30:37,600 For those of you who are new to the show. 1826 01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:40,640 J Rod, he does he he sings, you know, he raps. 1827 01:30:40,640 --> 01:30:43,200 He's he's got some stuff going. So that's definitely a genre 1828 01:30:43,440 --> 01:30:44,880 that he loves. Same with me. 1829 01:30:45,480 --> 01:30:47,960 So B Street will be 1. The Warriors was about the 1830 01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:52,080 gritty, lawless 1970s. I mean, it was. 1831 01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:54,760 Wow. That's certainly one that that 1832 01:30:54,760 --> 01:30:56,720 that I think you'll really, really enjoy. 1833 01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:00,200 Have you ever seen Raging Bull with De Niro? 1834 01:31:00,440 --> 01:31:02,440 Have not. That's like one of the greats 1835 01:31:02,440 --> 01:31:03,360 haven't seen yet. Oh. 1836 01:31:03,680 --> 01:31:07,040 Boy, I better stop asking you, because the the more I ask, the 1837 01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:09,960 more disappointed I'm going to get you, and the more and the 1838 01:31:09,960 --> 01:31:12,480 more it's going to it's going to alter my perception of you. 1839 01:31:12,480 --> 01:31:14,320 I've got a great perception of J Rod. 1840 01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:19,240 I can't be influenced by his lack of cinematic experience. 1841 01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:22,960 So I gave you a couple. Latch on to one or two. 1842 01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:25,280 Knock yourself out. Have a great Monday, buddy. 1843 01:31:25,280 --> 01:31:27,120 All right there, J Rod. Yeah. 1844 01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:29,680 Let me stop here. Stay warm. 1845 01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:31,560 There you go, J Rod, sign it off there. 1846 01:31:31,560 --> 01:31:33,480 I'm going to do the same here. Hey, like it. 1847 01:31:33,480 --> 01:31:35,080 Subscribe and check out the content. 1848 01:31:35,360 --> 01:31:37,160 I'm going to drop. Let's see. 1849 01:31:37,160 --> 01:31:39,440 So the Yankees want us. I want that to live at least a 1850 01:31:39,440 --> 01:31:42,400 week. I want to work up to the start 1851 01:31:42,400 --> 01:31:46,600 of opening Day here. So we are, you know, February. 1852 01:31:46,600 --> 01:31:49,240 What is the 20? That's the 23rd already. 1853 01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:51,560 My God, I would have to think that. 1854 01:31:51,920 --> 01:31:56,920 Yeah, I'm thinking by March 1 I'll have the all time elite 1855 01:31:56,920 --> 01:31:58,760 post 80 Mets line up up there for you. 1856 01:31:59,200 --> 01:32:01,160 And then the let's see, I know St. 1857 01:32:01,160 --> 01:32:05,240 John's plays Seton Hall March 6. That's a Friday night. 1858 01:32:05,480 --> 01:32:07,280 That's the final regular season game. 1859 01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:10,880 So then 7-8 would be they won't play the first day because 1860 01:32:10,880 --> 01:32:14,240 they're rocking it. So I, but I, I, I will drop my 1861 01:32:14,320 --> 01:32:18,400 old time Big East team right before the Big East tournament 1862 01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:19,920 starts. And then some of the other fun 1863 01:32:19,920 --> 01:32:23,120 stuff like my, my top ten sneakers and top ten albums, top 1864 01:32:23,120 --> 01:32:25,240 10 sitcoms. So other stuff is coming. 1865 01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:27,880 I appreciate you guys. You know that like it, subscribe 1866 01:32:27,880 --> 01:32:30,480 it, get it out there. More views we get, the more that 1867 01:32:30,480 --> 01:32:34,000 we can do. And also, Sam and I were texting 1868 01:32:34,960 --> 01:32:38,280 over the weekend. We are going to do at least once 1869 01:32:38,280 --> 01:32:41,920 a week and we'll alternate. So I was on his show last week, 1870 01:32:42,120 --> 01:32:44,240 remember with the Ashes. I came back from Ash Wednesday. 1871 01:32:44,560 --> 01:32:48,080 He will be on my show this week. We have listened to the demand 1872 01:32:48,320 --> 01:32:50,760 and then the week after that I'll be on his show. 1873 01:32:51,120 --> 01:32:53,920 We'll find a way to collab where both channels get action, but 1874 01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:55,560 that's coming. So I don't know what days I'm 1875 01:32:55,560 --> 01:32:57,400 going to have Sal. I don't know when Sal's to be on 1876 01:32:57,400 --> 01:33:00,240 the show this week, but he will be on so look forward to that as 1877 01:33:00,240 --> 01:33:01,920 well. Have a great Monday. 1878 01:33:01,960 --> 01:33:05,040 Go get the shovel, go start digging out the good news. 1879 01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:08,360 If there is any solvus with this slop, which is one thing, if 1880 01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:10,400 it's December or January, I'm all for it. 1881 01:33:10,640 --> 01:33:13,880 When I want to be on a baseball field with a fungo and coaching 1882 01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:16,920 and watching. I don't want the snow now, but 1883 01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:19,520 the solvus would be by Wednesday. 1884 01:33:19,520 --> 01:33:23,400 I saw cause normal weather's not as I said, high 40s fourty 6, 1885 01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:25,800 fourty 7 going to start to melt obvious. 1886 01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:27,120 Now if you have turf that's good. 1887 01:33:27,320 --> 01:33:31,040 If you don't, that's worse. But it it, it seems pretty 1888 01:33:31,040 --> 01:33:33,360 shitty now. I do think eventually it's going 1889 01:33:33,360 --> 01:33:36,080 to go away maybe certainly quicker than the last time 1890 01:33:36,080 --> 01:33:38,720 because we had some frigid. We had 9 and 10° days. 1891 01:33:38,920 --> 01:33:42,680 That's obviously done. And look at the 10 day forecast 1892 01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:46,560 at least in the Northeast got a lot of 40s and even into early 1893 01:33:46,560 --> 01:33:49,080 March I saw a couple of low 50° days. 1894 01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:52,160 So it's unfortunate. Now most importantly, be safe. 1895 01:33:52,160 --> 01:33:53,760 Don't try to be a hero. If you don't have to get in the 1896 01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:56,880 car, don't go anywhere. Enjoy the rest of your day. 1897 01:33:57,040 --> 01:33:58,360 I will catch you guys tomorrow at 10. 1898 01:33:58,360 --> 01:33:59,160 Have a great day. Bye.