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What's up everybody? 

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What's going on? 
Hopefully you are doing well 

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today. 
Today is a day, maybe even at 

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the end of the Hawks series, 
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But today is a day I'm going to 
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begin thinking that the Knicks 
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since 1973. 
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I haven't felt that all year. 
You guys know that. 

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Some of you have been annoyed at
me because I've kept it very 

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honest. 
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do think that as the Knicks 
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was fair to the Knicks. 
I thought they look great when 

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they won the Cup. 
I like what I was saying. 

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I like the new offense for Mike 
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I like that he was using a lot 
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And then all of a sudden they 
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Things went awry. 
And then they, they found, you 

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know, really going back the last
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like a team. 
They've got that look in their 

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eyes. 
They have a look to them right 

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now. 
They're body language, their 

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connectivity, their production. 
You know, you are, you are now 

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officially allowed to think that
the Knicks could get to and win 

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a championship. 
The Knicks have just won three 

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straight playoff games by 25 
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It's never happened before. 
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coming out and just stomping on 
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And all right, so last night, I 
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interesting in the sense that 
Cat picked up a very early foul.

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That was, yeah, I was only a 
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and 38 seconds in the first 
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He got foul #1 and then shortly 
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big spill, I think, going up for
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down for a while. 
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but then he got back up and then
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Then he picked up another foul, 
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So to me, you know, you talk 
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about a willingness to do things
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wouldn't have been willing to do
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we, we could talk and code and 
in very nebulous terms, all this

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guy made adjustments. 
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Well, here's an adjustment that 
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was really important. 
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maybe it really wouldn't have 
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substitution was Mitch, then you
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Clarkson. 
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the hack a Mitch early 256 to go
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grab them. 
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clank worked out well, credit to
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I mean, that is 38% in the 
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That's what he's shooting from 
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If you're going to be that 
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I'm going to try to exploit it. 
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favorably the next trip down the
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ball, what do they do? 
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Robinson yet again, Clank clank 
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down hot 40 in now you know this
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This is not a referendum here on
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I've got great respect for Tom 
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that Tom Thibodeau was doing 
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I I really, really don't. 
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over and see, this is the 
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don't really know how they work 
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Edgecombe. 
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almost went to Saint John's, by 
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massive problem in this league. 
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if the Sixers keep doing this, 
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roll with with Joel Embiid, then
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bang, a little lefty floater and
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advantage and the balance. 
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particular look of the Knicks, 
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So Brunson was the man and 
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Brunson's hand. 
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guys loose everywhere. 
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right now #1 you know, you got 
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defend your own homecourt. 
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prices, or at least like I think
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tickets that were sold for game 
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or New Jersey area. 
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mean, everybody in South Jersey 
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So, you know, I, I thought that 
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I think, I think people trying 
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there is no doubt, especially if
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convincingly in Game 2, when I 
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game one, to think that they're 
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Knicks. 
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game three. 
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series. 
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I know you got to get, you know,
you got to get 2 before you get 

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4, and you had to get one before
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You're an ankle sprain away. 
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that. 
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basketball to know that you 
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And this is not about like, you 
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or being overly bombastic. 
All the Knicks of the Bassett. 

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I'm talking about basketball 
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What did you see last night and 
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series, which last I was a even 
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defensive match up from a you 
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defenders that that could make 
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The the Sixers really don't. 
I mean, and beat is a fire 

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hydrant. 
He can't move. 

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Paul George is not stopping 
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Edgecomb just and again, he's 
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and he's going to have a game or
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The Knick team, this version of 
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absolute best version of the 
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I don't know that they could 
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championship and they run it 
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that they could even look the 
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I'm starting to this is the 
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This is the opportunity. 
All the things going on all 

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right, and beads jacked up. 
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You mopped them in game one. 
Unlike the previous series, it's

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game off day, game off day, game
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Get all the way up until Game 7 
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means Embiid is not going to 
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regenerate. 
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great job. 
He's so good at this, getting to

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the foul line, pump fakes and 
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You know, even though he's big 
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this point and then heavy and 
and little gangly with certain 

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things, his ability to 
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when my cat's up on them and 
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or when he's got a little bit of
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guard jab step and createspace. 
But he wasn't hitting shots 

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early. 
He was making his money at the 

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free for a line. 
That's fine. 

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You can live there all you want.
Last night the Knicks came out 

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and they told you. 
The Knicks told you and the 

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Knicks told the Sixers and the 
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what we did the first series is 
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And what the way we feel about 
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playing right now and the way 
we're coaching right now, who's 

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better than us in the NBA? 
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statement after statement after 
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wins, like even going back to 
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Tom Thibodeau, of course, Pat 
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There would be so many, like 
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Nick playoff wins where things 
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Certainly Riley's teams wouldn't
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Rotation, whatever. 
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response is better than Philly's
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the initial response. 
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Knicks look phenomenal right 
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And the Knicks have the look of 
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And this team is beginning to 
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absolutely forget about getting 
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This is a team that's starting 
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championship. 
All right, So it's obviously a 

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Guys, this all started with an 
acknowledgement and a 

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recognition and a recalibration 
and I I've got to give Jalen 

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Brunson a lot of credit I've got
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credit Mike Brown started to do 
some things differently. 

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Jalen Brunson understood you 
know the the the previous 

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iterations of these Knicks. 
It was always all right, Jalen, 

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go get his 35, go get his 40, go
get his 42 and see if you can 

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will this to a championship. 
All right. 

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It provided some all time Nick 
highlights in terms of the 

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playoffs. 
I mean even Bernard King, I mean

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Brunson did a couple of things 
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And you know, BK was my guy. 
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doing didn't always do. 
But there was a ceiling to that.

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It was so obvious that there was
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Bridges was marginalized and to 
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Then during the regular season, 
too often Karl Anthony Towns was

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marginalized. 
This team is humming. 

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This team looks really, really 
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I mean, think about this guys in
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This is not against like the 
Nets or, you know, a 

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disinterested Grizzlies team or 
a bad Utah Jazz team or, you 

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know, a Pacers team without 
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season. 
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And it started when they were in
the hole, which gave you a sense

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of their, you know, their inner,
you know, their inner confidence

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Like when you lose a whole, even
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round one to a team that you're 
supposed to be fairly handily, a

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young team, not a lot of playoff
experience. 

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I think the pressure gets even 
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were to lose a, an early game in
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because at least you're playing 
a team that's kind of on par 

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with you. 
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the, the reaction to such a loss
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top. 
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were going to lose to the Hawks 
when they lost those two games. 

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I never thought that I told you 
the Knicks would win in five. 

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And then I very quickly amended 
that before the series started 

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and I said Nixon 6. 
This series I said Nixon 6. 

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It might be time for another 
amendment. 

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I might be saying Nixon 5. 
Matter of fact, I'm going to say

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Nixon 5. 
The Knicks are absolutely going 

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to win this series, and this 
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lot of length. 
This is not a mirage. 

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This is not the Knicks on a hot 
streak. 

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This is not the Knicks just 
playing over their heads. 

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This is a roster that has come 
together the right time, the 

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right way, with incredible depth
and shooting and spacing and 

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diverse, eclectic talents. 
This team is real. 

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And I don't want to hear about 
the flip flops. 

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Like, I don't want to hear about
that. 

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Oh, well, what you say about the
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season? 
Yeah, I said what I said about 

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the Knicks during the regular 
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regular season, too often the 
Knicks did not look anything 

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remotely like this. 
Like, that's the one thing at 

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least. 
I get it, guys. 

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I get it. 
You know, I've been wrong with a

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million things. 
The Zach Wilson stuff, I mean, 

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comparing Louise Heal to early 
on to Dwight Gooden in 84, I get

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it. 
Like we've all had these 

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ridiculously erroneous takes. 
I understood, but let's at least

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get a little separation between 
flip flopping and re evaluating.

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Like if you can't understand the
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that's not on me. 
Like I've watched this team prep

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the knit probably of the 82 
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I would say probably 40 or so 
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at least little more than 1/2 
that wasn't there. 

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Certain nights, you know, my, my
kids have a game or I've got a, 

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I've got a, you know, I've got 
something to do with, with my 

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wife, whatever. 
I mean, obviously life's going 

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to get in the way a little bit. 
And then you follow on the 

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phone, you catch the highlights.
I'm locked in like this is not 

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somebody who just parachutes 
into the Knicks now. 

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Oh wow, the Knicks look really 
good. 

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I have given you, I really 
believe this, the most honest 

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evaluation and the most on point
evaluation of the Knicks of 

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anybody in the business because 
what I've done is I've admitted 

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where guys have changed. 
I've got no problem admitting if

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I'm wrong, but being wrong is 
very different than somebody 

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giving me new information that's
going to inspire me to change my

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mind and change my opinion on 
what this team can do. 

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So that's what it's all about. 
And you got to love this and you

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have to feel great about this. 
And it was just another straight

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up, flat out demolition ass 
kicking belt to ass. 

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That's it. 
Like you tell me or, or do you 

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really think, and I know he's 
going to have a good game 

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because he's a great player. 
Do you think that physically 

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Joel Embiid is prepared for the 
next 10 days to put this team on

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his back and go for, you know, 
33 and 1336 and 15? 

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I don't think it's happening 
because I and you know, and last

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night, last night should have 
been the night that it happened 

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because Karl Anthony Towns, you 
know, that was a little bit of I

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don't want to go nuts because 
he's been playing so well, but 

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there was a little regression on
his recognition. 

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You got to know Cat, when you 
have one foul, just give up the 

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bucket. 
Hands got to go up. 

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Hands can't go forward. 
They must go up. 

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You got to know that and beads 
going to try to sucker you into 

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off the up fake going into you. 
And if your hands are here, 

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you're getting called for a 
foul. 

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If your hands are year contact 
good, we're good to go. 

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The rule of verticality. 
He's got to figure that out 

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quick. 
But last night was the 

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opportunity for the Sixers to 
exploit the really only the only

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true weakness of this Knicks 
team. 

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And the only time that they're 
really, really vulnerable all 

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right, when fully healthy is 
when cats on the bench with a 

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couple of early fouls and Mitch 
and and you've got you've got 

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enough guys that aren't in foul 
trouble on your team where you 

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can now deploy the hack a Mitch 
and what you do number one, 

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first of all, it's a lot of 
empty trips clearly because 

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Mitch Mitchell. 
I mean, it's just it's just 

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ridiculous how you can't hit 
free throws. 

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My buddies were they were texted
me last night, right, And they 

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like they were and they're all 
big Knick fans. 

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If they're just clowning Mitch 
and I'm like, they're like, does

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this guy not put any time in? 
Like the crazy thing is he 

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actually does work on this. 
I don't know how you can be so 

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bad at one aspect of your job as
a professional. 

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I I get it. 
Like I understand that there's 

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certain physical limitations, 
like Jalen Brunson's never going

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to just rise up and crank it 
over somebody, you know, like, 

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like Russell Westbrook would 
where Alexander would for the 

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Thunder. 
He's just not that guy. 

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He's vertically challenged. 
He's not an explosive athlete. 

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He can't control that. 
Like that's the gifts that God 

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gave him. 
So what he did was he maximized 

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the mind. 
He, he, he mastered, you know, 

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the manipulation of space and 
spatial awareness. 

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His angle play is as good as 
anybody. 

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I believe in the history of the 
NBA because if it wasn't, he 

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wouldn't be doing what he's 
doing because he's not he's not 

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shooting, he's not rising up 
over anybody and he's not so 

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fast where he's just going by 
you A to B. 

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He doesn't have that speed. 
It's all about hesitation, 

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reading the angle. 
Somebody's dropping, here's the 

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floater, somebody drops, here's 
the pull up, somebody's up. 

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You know, we're going to reroute
the ball. 

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I'm open, I'm sticking 3 after 
three and and and that's 

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somebody like Jalen where, you 
know, even though there's just 

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certain things that he can't do 
defensively deficient, whatever,

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even though it's frustrating and
sometimes and and it's it could 

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be a real issue for the Knicks, 
say if they get to the finals 

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and play Alexander, whatever. 
I don't want to go 2 nuts here. 

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But the thing about Mitch, like 
you can control free throw 

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shooting. 
You can, you know, some people 

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are built like their DNA, their 
genetics, they're just muscular 

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when they come out of the womb. 
And then there's some people who

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can live in the weight room and 
they just never really have a 

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good body, you know what I mean?
But I don't know how an NBA 

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player with the requisite time. 
And I know that Mitch puts time 

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in and I've seen him, you know, 
shooting around on his Instagram

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account. 
You know, he usually does this 

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over the summer, flicking 
threes. 

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It looks pure. 
It's clean. 

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Like the elbows in the hands 
flicking mechanics look good. 

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So I was trying to explain to my
guys last night because they 

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were just clouded them. 
And I really do think part of it

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is that his hands are too big 
and it's just, it kind of spins 

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off the wrong way, OK. 
I mean, you would still think 

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that you can resolve that 
because it's been, I mean, 

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Patrick Ewing was at least, you 
know, 7374% a lajuan was money 

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from the strike. 
Yokich is terrific. 

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He's big. 
I mean, just because you have 

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big hands doesn't mean that you 
can't shoot. 

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But I, I was telling him last 
night, and these were guys that 

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I met in high school and some of
my college buddies, right? 

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So I didn't grow up playing ball
with them. 

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And I'm like, yeah, my dad made 
me shoot free throws underhanded

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in the 3rd and the 4th grade 
because I was like shooting from

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the hip. 
And I was like, Jack and you how

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like a young player, you just 
don't have the, the strength to 

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just flick it right. 
And I hated doing it. 

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Like I really hate, I was 
embarrassed and you know what, I

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was the best, I was the best 
foul shooter on the team and I 

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would shoot underhand every 
single game. 

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And then finally 5th grade, I 
got a little bit bigger, not 

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much, a little bit stronger, not
much, but just enough where it's

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it resembled the pure shot. 
I don't know why, if you're that

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bad, outside of the optics and 
you being embarrassed and not 

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wanting to get clowned on social
media, I don't know why he's not

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shooting underhand. 
I don't know why Shaq didn't 

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shoot him. 
I don't get it. 

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If Rick Barry could shoot 
underhand, Mitchell Robinson 

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could shoot underhand. 
So you know that that's just the

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one thing that that that is, is 
obviously an issue that the 

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Sixers will try to exploit. 
But think about this. 

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They had a window where they 
could exert themselves and 

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really flex on the Knicks Cats 
nailed to the bench. 

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And I know that they brought him
in with about 3 or 4 seconds 

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left in the second quarter for 
that last offensive possession, 

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but he was he didn't get to play
a lot because of the two fouls. 

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And then, hey, Nick Nurse, if 
I'm playing the Knicks, I'm 

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doing that every single time. 
Mitch, I'm not letting Brunson 

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dance. 
I'm not letting Brunson yo-yo. 

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I'm not letting him put anybody 
on skates or I'm not letting OG 

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get to the rim for a baseline 
dunk or I'm not giving Deuce a 

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quarter three or Bridges a 
quarter three or letting the 

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heart get downhill. 
Rebound foul, Mitch 50 feet away

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from the bucket. 
Go hit one, because I know 

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you're not. 
Hit and two. 

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So like, go hit 1. 
And over the course of the game,

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that will obviously be favorable
to Philly, but it will also keep

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Jalen Brunson and the others 
from getting in a rhythm, which 

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will be to their detriment 
because if you don't have the 

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ball and the game becomes like 
constantly stagnated and 

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interrupted with these free 
throws, you know? 

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So Nick Nurse tried it and it 
still didn't work. 

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Like last night was a recipe for
the Sixers to steal game one. 

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It just was. 
And they got their doors blown 

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off. 
So all things are incredibly 

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favorable and optimistic, and 
I'm going to say it again, the 

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Knicks are beginning to look 
like a team that can mess around

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and get to and win a 
championship. 

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They really do. 
They've got depth, they've got a

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star, they've got a second star,
they've got wings. 

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The role allocation was finally 
figured out and embraced by the 

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players, and they got a great 
homecourt advantage. 

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I mean, things are clicking, so 
you got to feel really good now.

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There's going to be probably a 
checkpoint in this series where,

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you know, it flips a little bit.
I've got supreme confidence. 

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That is as long as there's no 
injuries, that the Knicks figure

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this out and win fairly easily. 
I'm going Knicks in five. 

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I mean it. 
Nixon played two series. 

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This is my Second Amendment 
favorably. 

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Well, actually, no, I'm sorry. 
The first one was Nixon 5. 

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Then I said Nixon six. 
I'm going to go the other way 

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here. 
I said Nixon, 6 Philly and 5 SJ 

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Rod. 
Let's get my man J Rod up there.

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What's? 
Up. 

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What's up? 
You good buddy all. 

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Right, I'm great. 
I couldn't be better after last 

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night. 
So you're enjoying it as a 

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Celtics fan, huh? 
I need it anytime I can see the 

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Sixers lose, I just inject it 
into my veins. 

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I love that little. 
Macau Bridges gut check on 

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indeed. 
Give him that little. 

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Check dude now and Bead was 
asked about that. 

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He's like, I don't know if that 
that was. 

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I didn't think so in real time 
and I didn't really know what 

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happened. 
But then they showed the replay.

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I have no doubt in my mind that 
Bridges stuck into him on 

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purpose. 
No doubt in my mind, Not good. 

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Like, to me, to me, that's not 
the thing where it's like, OK, 

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this guy's not viciously trying 
to injure a player, correct? 

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He's making him uncomfortable. 
He's making him uncomfortable 

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where he needs to be. 
I love. 

445
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,400
That Yes, well, it's good for 
the goose, good for the game 

446
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,920
there. 
Hey, Mitch's ankle was jacked up

447
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,640
a couple of years ago, Joel, and
B grabs his ankle. 

448
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,480
You just had the abdominal 
surgery. 

449
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,680
Hey, if you're out there too 
bad, you know I'm I'm not coming

450
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,840
for your teeth or your nose or 
your temple. 

451
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,600
I'm not giving you a nut shot. 
Hey, I'm going to give you a 

452
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,760
little something where I can at 
least disguise it as a 

453
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,160
basketball play. 
And if it hurts, well, it's too 

454
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,760
bad. 
That's your problem. 

455
00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:07,160
Exactly. 
That's why next game I got to 

456
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,560
see Cat, hit him with some more,
post up some more, you know, 

457
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,160
really throw your back into him.
But yeah, great game, fun game. 

458
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,840
Just just awesome. 
Do you agree with me that that 

459
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,440
the Knicks are beginning to 
resemble the team that looks 

460
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,920
like a team that can? 
Yeah, I mean, because roster 

461
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,320
wise, they really remind me of 
the 24 Celtics teams. 

462
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,440
Long, lanky wings, you know, a 
big who can stretch the floor 

463
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,760
and also now kind of play 
defense, a point guard who's 

464
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,520
getting buckets, who's scoring, 
getting assist. 

465
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:42,000
Like it is just such a 
well-rounded roster. 

466
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,200
Not only, you know, pretty much 
play defense on all fronts, but 

467
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,520
someones giving you buckets at 
pretty much every level. 

468
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,120
I love it like OG. 
He's not just a, you know. 

469
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,480
I love that guy. 
He's more of like a, he's more 

470
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,240
of a dunker. 
He's more of a driver. 

471
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,880
Like, I think that's what's so 
important is the Knicks, yes, 

472
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,240
they have the shooting, but they
have the scoring at every single

473
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,800
level. 
I've always loved OG. 

474
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,480
Now Bridges has been a different
story. 

475
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,960
We've been through the gambit of
emotions with Bridges. 

476
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,920
Now if he was brought here and 
it wasn't 5 verse first round 

477
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,880
picks to get him, I think the 
analysis and the criticism would

478
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,520
be a little less vitriolic if 
you will. 

479
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,000
I mean, the only thing about OG 
is that he's been a little 

480
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,120
susceptible to some soft tissue 
injuries. 

481
00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:25,200
Remember against the Pacers he 
basically shredded his 

482
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:29,440
hamstring. 
OG on an OB is just he is a 

483
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:33,320
perfect nick. 
He doesn't say it, he never 

484
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:37,320
complaints, he never hunt shots,
he always plays hard. 

485
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,960
He gets to the rim if he's open 
from the corner. 

486
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,440
He's one of the three best, you 
know, winged in corner shooters,

487
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,240
3 balls in the NBA. 
He could be up really one 

488
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,880
through 5. 
And it's funny, like every time 

489
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,200
they interview Ogi, think they 
had him on last night at the 

490
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,320
half. 
Yeah, when they were going to 

491
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,400
halftime. 
And he's just never high, never 

492
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,680
low. 
He's just emotionally steady, 

493
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,160
physically reliable. 
There's very rarely, unlike 

494
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:07,240
Bridges sometimes, to be fair. 
And Cat before this this recent 

495
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:12,000
reincarnation, there's very 
rarely any fluctuations in his 

496
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,680
performance like you might see 
Bridges go two or three games, 

497
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,040
you know, before things have 
been resolved a little bit here,

498
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,720
you know, 18 points, 17 points 
at 20 points, hit a couple 

499
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,600
threes and then he'll have a 
four. 

500
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,240
And this is documentable. 
He's had a three or four-game 

501
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,720
span, no free throw attempts. 
You know, all these things that 

502
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,880
we've talked about, which has 
been, you know, which has led to

503
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,800
a very interesting Nick 
conversation this year. 

504
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:42,280
Guys, when you get to a point 
where it's pretty obvious that 

505
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,840
if this group or any group, but 
I'm talking about the Knick. 

506
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,760
But really, if this pertains to 
to anybody in sports where, you 

507
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,320
know, you get a couple of years 
to get to the top of the 

508
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:55,680
mountain and there comes a point
where the end of the road 

509
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,760
becomes the end of the road. 
Like if it's not done, the coach

510
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,520
is gone, the managers gone, 
maybe one of the store players 

511
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,800
shipped out. 
And obviously that impacts Mike 

512
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,360
Brown. 
I think it impacts him less than

513
00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:09,520
it did middle of the season. 
But Cat with Giannis like that 

514
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,240
was an unnecessary noise. 
That was all with justification 

515
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,160
and massive credit to the Knick 
players and the Knick 

516
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,680
organization and the Knick 
coaching staff for what was an 

517
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,960
incredibly impressive 
recalibration under great 

518
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,680
scrutiny and great duress. 
It's like, it's like the Knicks 

519
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,040
can do this in anonymity, like 
they got to figure stuff out 

520
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,400
with the entire world weighing 
in on them. 

521
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,160
Reggie Miller popping up, you 
know, Halliburton with the 

522
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,120
tweets, all the old players 
talking about, wow, the Knicks 

523
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:45,560
never win. 
Is that the other thing I love? 

524
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:53,440
I at this I I have not felt this
good about a Knicks team since I

525
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,000
see. 
I was going to say 99 and I know

526
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,480
we got our doors blown off by 
the Spurs bad match up. 

527
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,600
But and and I didn't really 
think that they would win that 

528
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,400
series. 
But I love their toughness and 

529
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,080
starting with the series against
Miami when they were the eight 

530
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,480
seed Houston off the front rim 
and in, you know, Larry Johnson 

531
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,320
4 point plays and then that Nick
team, unlike the 94 team, 

532
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,960
obviously a Houston Spreewell, 
you know, different components. 

533
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:18,760
Child's they were tough, they 
were gritty. 

534
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,600
They can score a little bit 
easier than that 94 team. 

535
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,720
I really really, really I really
like that. 

536
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,080
I love the 94 group for 
different reasons, but I really 

537
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,160
thought the 99 team was more 
skilled. 

538
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,680
This team is exponentially more 
skilled now. 

539
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,560
So too is the rest of the NBA, 
to be fair. 

540
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,640
Like it's not like just the 
Knicks of elevated and everybody

541
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,680
else has remained stagnant were 
married to an antiquated 

542
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,040
philosophy. 
There's a lot of bowlers out 

543
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:44,600
there. 
How about the T Wolves last 

544
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:45,920
night? 
Oh man, that. 

545
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,480
Game was sick. 
Shout out. 

546
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,760
I mean are you a big Julius 
Randle fan still? 

547
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,960
I really like you, still have 
some some love for him. 

548
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,040
I'll always have love for Julius
Randall. 

549
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,920
I thought it was time to move on
because if he's your best player

550
00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,120
or if he's your second best 
player, when Brunson came, 

551
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,160
that's not a championship team. 
But with Edwards, who is the 

552
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,320
best player? 
Gobert, Gobert, Randall and 

553
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,160
Edwards. 
That's a squad. 

554
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,200
Yep, even though Edwards came 
off the bench and he's got that 

555
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,160
knee bruise, whatever. 
Anthony Edwards, one of the best

556
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,080
young play, one of the best 
players as you know in the NBAI 

557
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,680
will always have love and 
respect for Julius Randall. 

558
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:25,080
I will always have love and 
respect for anybody that goes to

559
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,520
a moribund situation and and 
elevates it, even if it's, you 

560
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,320
know, far short of a 
championship To me in a lot of 

561
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,280
ways, that is I I tell me if you
agree with this. 

562
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,560
I've said this for a long time, 
but I don't think I've ever said

563
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,520
it to you. 
So here's a couple of paths in 

564
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,120
sports when you talk about the 
evolution of a franchise going 

565
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,240
from her. 
I'm just writing this down so 

566
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,200
that I can represent horrendous 
to competitive. 

567
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,680
That's a big step. 
That's a very hard step. 

568
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,440
OK, ask all these teams who are 
who are awful. 

569
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,800
Then you want to go from 
competitive to good. 

570
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,240
Then you want to go from good to
championship viable. 

571
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,040
That's my, you know, maybe I can
mix and match a little bit of 

572
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,000
tweak, but that's generally the 
three constants that I look at 

573
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,640
and he brought them from 
horrendous and non competitive 

574
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:20,560
to competitive. 
I think that that step myself is

575
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,200
harder than going from good to 
championship viable. 

576
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,280
You agree with that? 
Yeah, no, I mean, certainly the 

577
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,000
Knicks were. 
People don't agree with that. 

578
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,200
No, I mean the Knicks were dead,
you know, dead in the water. 

579
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,920
And I think even further than 
competitive, I think Julius 

580
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,120
Randall might have brought the 
Knicks to good, you know, a good

581
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,880
team like they they were. 
They certainly were that step 

582
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,000
below championship still. 
But him, Jaylen Brunson, D 

583
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,160
Vincenzo and Mitch Robb, like 
that was a good squad. 

584
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,520
Who did they make it? 
They didn't make a conference 

585
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:52,880
finals. 
Now, they lost to the Heat, 

586
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,880
Remember, they lost to Miami a 
couple of years ago. 

587
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,240
I think that was in six. 
Yeah. 

588
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,480
And then listen, when? 
And then obviously, you know, 

589
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,120
Julius, you know, when, when, 
when, when OG got hurt against 

590
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,000
the Pacers with his hamstring. 
Like, they've been knocking for 

591
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,680
a while. 
And I never really thought even 

592
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,760
though Brunson pumps such life 
into the organization, you 

593
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,760
couldn't help but think, hey, 
maybe this is the guy because I 

594
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,280
remember having conversations. 
I think it started with tiki and

595
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,960
then obviously Sam and I would 
do this where all right, you 

596
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,120
know, can you win a championship
with Jalen Brunson is the best 

597
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,760
player on the team? 
We never had that conversation 

598
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,680
with Julius Randall, but you and
you know, with all due respect 

599
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,160
to Julius, but you are right. 
He actually brought them two 

600
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,120
levels. 
He brought them from non 

601
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,960
competitive to competitive and 
then he brought them from 

602
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,480
competitive to good. 
But that competitive to good did

603
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,760
not happen without Jalen 
Brunson. 

604
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,440
It just did. 
Like they won what, 3830 

605
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,880
something by, I don't know, 40 
games, whatever was maybe more 

606
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,160
than that when they were the 
four seed they lost to Trey 

607
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,920
Young the COVID year. 
Like that was, you know, Nerlens

608
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,160
Noel and and all these other, 
you know, sea listers where that

609
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,200
to me was that was one of the 
more impressive elevations 

610
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,040
because they played so hard and 
Julius Randle was an absolute 

611
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,640
monster. 
So no, I've always got love for 

612
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,640
Julius. 
And quite frankly, like if the 

613
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,560
Knicks couldn't win the 
championship, and I'm stunned 

614
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,280
that Minnesota won last night, 
if the Knicks couldn't win the 

615
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,360
championship, I would love to 
see Julius Randle win the 

616
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:19,840
championship. 
And I would have loved to have 

617
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,200
seen Dante Divincenzo be around 
for that as well if it didn't 

618
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:24,920
rupture his Achilles. 
Those are two guys that are 

619
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,320
always good. 
Those are Knicks, man. 

620
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,800
Those are guys who bought in, 
who dug in, who respected the 

621
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,760
brand, who represented the city,
who who played the way Knick 

622
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,640
fans. 
You know, it's it's one 

623
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,160
everybody wants to win. 
But there's something about the 

624
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,520
Knicks like, even though 
stylistically they're very 

625
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,760
different than they than they 
have been like the other good 

626
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,520
Knick teams. 
It's almost like you want like, 

627
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,640
yeah, well, I mean, think about 
when the Yankees really good. 

628
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,560
The Yankees generally just 
bludgeon you to death 

629
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,160
offensively, right? 
Like the Bronx Bombers, that 

630
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,640
goes back to, you know, back of 
the day, Angel and Marisol, 

631
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,600
those guys. 
Yankees are known for their 

632
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,800
offense when they're really now,
when they're winning all those 

633
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,920
championships, they had MO and 
they had petted and they had 

634
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:06,880
Wells and Clemens and all those 
dudes, right? 

635
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,240
So they had to pitch you as 
well. 

636
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,680
But when the Knicks historically
have been really good, they've 

637
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,120
been great defensively and 
they've been very gritty. 

638
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,200
This team. 
One of the more impressive 

639
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,160
things about the Knicks 
evolution is that they've gone 

640
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,560
up a level and a half 
offensively without really 

641
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,520
sacrificing much of their 
defensive prowess. 

642
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,720
No, I mean, they're still locked
down. 

643
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,880
They're still locked down. 
You know, is this, this next 

644
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,960
team is pretty gritty? 
They're pretty, you know, 

645
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,480
certainly now. 
I mean, they've certainly picked

646
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,240
it up too with, you know, just 
Mitch, Robin, Jose. 

647
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:42,160
Alvarado Yeah, like. 
They're offensively, they're 

648
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,920
very clean team like it just the
buckets look like they're coming

649
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,760
easy. 
Sometimes it doesn't look like 

650
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,240
you got to grind for him like 
Jalen Brunson. 

651
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,880
Boom, cut to the bucket, do the 
Chris Paul thing, get the dude 

652
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,760
on your back. 
Boom, quick jumper. 

653
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,800
Yep, cat. 
You know sometimes he goes for 

654
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,720
the grinding and the post up but
usually it's that pump fake 3 

655
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,800
point drive like it's just it's 
clicking. 

656
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:04,440
Yeah, it is. 
It is rolling. 

657
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,760
It is clicking. 
Nick fans, let let's get those 

658
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,320
calls going. 
I got some other stuff for you 

659
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,720
today as well. 
All right, J Rod, first call of 

660
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:11,920
the day. 
Who do we have here, bud? 

661
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,520
Let's go. 
Our friend Dan from Port 

662
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,520
Jefferson. 
All right, Danny is in the 

663
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,320
house. 
BT unleashed Danny out east. 

664
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,880
What's up, Dan? 
Hey BT, what's up man? 

665
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:21,920
Big fan. 
What's going on? 

666
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,280
Thank you, man. 
I appreciate it. 

667
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,120
Thanks. 
Man, what a amazing game. 

668
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,160
I've, I've suffered for so long 
as a Knicks fan, as we all have,

669
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,320
you know, for so many years. 
And to finally see them play 

670
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,480
like this, especially the last 
four games, I don't think I get 

671
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,520
I've ever seen them play like 
this at this level. 

672
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,600
No, we, the NBA never. 
It's a man. 

673
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,280
Hold on, Dan. 
Forget about us. 

674
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,520
Ever seen the Knicks? 
The NBA never seen this. 

675
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,480
This has not happened. 
We're we're teams won three 

676
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,800
straight playoff games by 25 
points or more, and one of those

677
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,320
50 plus never happened. 
Yeah, that game, that Hawks 

678
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,320
game, my God, I was like, it's 
crazy because I so I have 3 

679
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:02,120
kids. 
I don't watch. 

680
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,360
I don't have to watch the games 
late. 

681
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,800
So I turn my phone off and it's 
so hard. 

682
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,040
I can't talk to anybody while 
these games are going on. 

683
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:09,920
It's it's. 
Very good. 

684
00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:12,000
It's crazy. 
How old are the kids? 

685
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,080
Where? 
How old are the kids? 

686
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,199
They're 54 and 3, three boys. 
Oh wow, are you Irish? 

687
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,880
You got the Irish triple you. 
Got 2 Irish twins, yeah. 

688
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,360
I love it. 
Yeah, we're very similar with 

689
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:24,719
us. 
Not not big difference with the 

690
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,600
kids age do are they into the 
Knicks a little bit? 

691
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,199
I mean, I know they're really 
young, but. 

692
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:34,760
When I put my oldest son to 
sleep, but he had a little like,

693
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,600
dare we call him RJ? 
This is like when RJ was on the 

694
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,199
Knicks and I'd sing. 
He always wanted me to sing 

695
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:45,199
Happy birthday and he'd always 
say certain names and I'd always

696
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:46,840
say like all the players that 
were on the Knicks. 

697
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,520
This is like obviously when 
Barrett and Randall were on the 

698
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,120
team and I always talk about 
Jaylen Bronson, but I always say

699
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,880
Mr. Bronson. 
I'm like, OK, let me, let me 

700
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,360
make sure you know his name is 
Jalen. 

701
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,720
Like his name is Jalen Brunson, 
but he always calls it Mr. 

702
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:01,920
Brunson. 
Hey, he's a respectful young 

703
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:02,600
man. 
There you go. 

704
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,120
I know, I know. 
Exactly. 

705
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,000
Exactly. 
That's great. 

706
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,800
You know what I would do, Dan, 
listen, because my son's 11 and,

707
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,960
and he watched, you know, pretty
much all of it with me last 

708
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,360
night. 
I'll, I'll, you know, I always 

709
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,680
say, you know, listen, you know,
sorry teachers, but you know, I 

710
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,480
think you're going to get more 
out of watching these games with

711
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,320
Daddy than whatever you're going
to learn in the 5th grade. 

712
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,240
I know that's, that's I, I, I 
always hear you talk about that.

713
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,160
And I mean it. 
I've been saying it forever. 

714
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:24,880
I mean it. 
I do it like Jets. 

715
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,400
I. 
Was always like that as a kid. 

716
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,200
Yeah, Jets are playing Monday 
night. 

717
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:29,840
He's staying up. 
Well, I remember. 

718
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,120
Are you on Facebook, Dan? 
Yes. 

719
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,280
OK, So you know when you get a 
Facebook memory and it just kind

720
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:36,600
of pops up? 
So. 

721
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,920
So the other day, I don't know 
if it was the Heat series from a

722
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,200
couple of years ago. 
So he must have been like 8 or 9

723
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,960
and he just, he did fall asleep 
and I remember carrying him up 

724
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,280
and I come down, I watch the 
rest of the game and they they 

725
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,960
happen to win that night. 
And I put out his Jalen Brunson 

726
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,280
jersey on the floor. 
So as soon as his feet hit the 

727
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,000
floor, he would see it with a, 
with a little yellow note. 

728
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,640
And it just said we won. 
So do do stuff like that with 

729
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:02,800
the kids. 
They'll love it, man. 

730
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,640
Oh yeah, definitely. 
I want, I want to mention, I 

731
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,760
don't know if you guys talked 
about, I know you talked about 

732
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,240
Mckell Bridges a little bit, but
I have to say his defense on 

733
00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:11,520
Maxi last. 
Night. 

734
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,520
Like, that's my that was my 
biggest concern going to the 

735
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:16,840
series. 
I know Embiid's going to do his 

736
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,360
thing, flopping around like a 
clown. 

737
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,800
I can't stand him. 
I'm tired of him, man. 

738
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,320
I can't stand it like the first,
the first quarter, it's like all

739
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:24,880
they were doing was shooting 
free throws like. 

740
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:26,400
I know the. 
Only reason the game was 

741
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,320
slightly close. 
I know, yes, because Embiid was 

742
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,840
one for six to start, but at one
point he was 6 for six for the 

743
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:32,560
stripe. 
Yep. 

744
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,440
Yeah, and, and Paul George Hat 
was the only one I think that 

745
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:36,880
had any offense, but I'm not 
scared of him. 

746
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,520
No, no. 
You got to respect him though. 

747
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,400
But I'm not scared of him. 
You got to respect him. 

748
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,120
Yeah, if he's going to be their 
main, their any source of 

749
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,680
offense, OK, I'll live with 
that. 

750
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:46,800
I agree. 
I agree with. 

751
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,920
Miguel Bridges, like he just 
came to life finally. 

752
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,400
Like thank God it was such an 
inconsistent season for him this

753
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,480
year and like to see him come 
back from like that. 

754
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,840
Was it 6 quarters where he 
didn't score in the Hawk series?

755
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:01,720
I know, I know it. 
Was just such a low. 

756
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,400
Did you think that that that 
shot within bead was 

757
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,200
intentional? 
I did when I. 

758
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:08,360
Saw the replay. 
I didn't. 

759
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:09,840
I actually didn't see it while 
it was happening. 

760
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,120
I'm like, I saw him bend over. 
Me too on the. 

761
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,840
Replay, I was like, yeah, I 
think he was sending a message 

762
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,080
there, yeah. 
You go good send. 

763
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,320
You need that, yeah, you need, 
you need that grit. 

764
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,120
You need that toughness, 
especially if you want to like 

765
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,080
if, if let's God forbid they 
don't keep us going. 

766
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,440
But if they have to play the 
Pistons, you know, you need you 

767
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,800
need that toughness. 
You need to play, you know, you 

768
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,520
need to play gritty because that
those four games or three games 

769
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,040
they played against the Pistons 
this year were. 

770
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,760
They got their asses kicked. 
No, that that will be a very 

771
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,600
different tone. 
We'll we'll worry about the 

772
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,720
Pistons when we get there. 
Knicks will win the series, but 

773
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:44,720
let's still keep it at this 
series. 

774
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:45,920
Dan, I appreciate the call, 
buddy. 

775
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,520
Let's go make sure you get back 
to me, OK? 

776
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:48,520
Oh. 
Yeah, no doubt. 

777
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:49,760
Thanks. 
BJ, there he is. 

778
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,240
Danny out East. 
All right, who's up next here? 

779
00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:54,000
Jay, what do we got? 
Not our friend. 

780
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,800
First time caller Shvoy. 
Goodell, Frank in New Haven. 

781
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,560
Frankie Boy checking in from 
Connecticut on Unleash What's Up

782
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,760
Frank? 
Frank. 

783
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,120
Frank. 
Yeah, I don't know. 

784
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:06,360
I don't know if you can hear me.
I got. 

785
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:06,920
You. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

786
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,040
Yeah, I can't hear you, but I 
see you. 

787
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,200
Well anyways, I don't know why 
it must be my end. 

788
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,760
But anyways, BTI just want to 
call say man, I I love you, 

789
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,640
followed you from the fan man 
and you you got balls for what 

790
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,440
what you did and I and I 
appreciate that. 

791
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,120
Thank you. 
Yeah, good looking out. 

792
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,200
Keep it up. 
You know, I was just calling to 

793
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,760
say I'm, I'm so excited about 
the Knicks. 

794
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,200
Like I, I can't believe it, but 
I'm just such a superstitious 

795
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,600
freak. 
Like I can't get excited. 

796
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:33,040
Like I'm so nervous still. 
I'm like I'm, I'm always, it's 

797
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,720
probably from playing baseball 
for years. 

798
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:36,840
Just so superstitious, Like I 
get so nervous. 

799
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,520
Even last night my, my wife was 
like, you're you're a freak. 

800
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,360
I can't watch it with you going 
nuts. 

801
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,120
They're up by like 50, you know,
50. 

802
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,120
But anyways, that's just me. 
I'm superstitious, love what you

803
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:47,560
do. 
I'm gonna I'm gonna hop off and 

804
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,680
then. 
Listen to I I got you. 

805
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:50,640
No, thank you, Frank. 
Yeah. 

806
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,720
Hey, by the way, usually when 
that happens, Jay, can you let 

807
00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:56,040
everybody know why that happens?
Usually it's on their end, 

808
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:57,120
right? 
Just so, everybody. 

809
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,440
You just like Try restarting the
page real quick. 

810
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,120
Just refresh it, you'll usually 
be able to hear us again. 

811
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:03,640
There you go. 
It's not our issue. 

812
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,520
I mean, not, no, not that we 
won't have an issue here or 

813
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,160
there. 
We will, you know, it's 

814
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,880
technology, but that's happened 
a few times and it's always on, 

815
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,520
on your end just to just to be 
here. 

816
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,680
Yeah, just hit clean that up. 
So yeah, just hit the, if that 

817
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,200
ever happened, just hit the 
refresh and maybe just like an 

818
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,080
audio thing on like whatever 
device you're using. 

819
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,880
But yeah, just hit the refresh 
and you're good. 

820
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,560
Thank you for the call man. 
Yep, absolutely appreciate it, 

821
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,600
Frank. 
No, I'm I'm not incredibly 

822
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,640
superstitious. 
I was when I played, but I'm not

823
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,560
like when I'm and I wasn't even 
that superstitious, although I 

824
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,360
have a funny story. 
I'm still pissed at them. 

825
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,080
Like I would I would not step on
the lines when I was playing, 

826
00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:42,840
you know, running out to the 
field, even coaching. 

827
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,920
Now I, I jump over the lines. 
Now, of course, the jump is not 

828
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,840
as high. 
It's not as not as you know, 

829
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,360
bouncy, but I, you know, I could
still jump over a line. 

830
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:56,160
I remember one time my buddy, he
just transferred in from 

831
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,600
Lemoyne. 
I just this came up the other 

832
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,080
day but not this aspect. 
Good ball player. 

833
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,240
Lemoyne used to be really good 
in baseball. 

834
00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:06,400
They'd have kids drafted. 
I think they went to the World 

835
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,120
Series back in the late 70s, 
early 80s. 

836
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,640
Couple of pros like Tom Browning
was on that team pitcher for the

837
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,720
Reds. 
Anyway, they were they were NE 

838
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:18,040
powerhouse, right? 
So my buddy Mickey comes in and 

839
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,400
Jay, do you? 
No, it's different because you, 

840
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,560
you know, I'm so much older than
you, but do you remember chain 

841
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,120
letters? 
Like, did you get get into that 

842
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:26,440
stupid shit? 
Chain letters. 

843
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,120
Oh yo of. 
Course. 

844
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,040
I mean, when I was a not as an 
adult, but when I was like a 

845
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,240
kid, it was still a, it was 
still like a thing where like it

846
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:39,720
would be like keep this letter 
going for 200 people or 

847
00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:41,400
whatever. 
Yeah, stuff like that, right. 

848
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,320
I can't stand that stuff. 
It I don't believe in it, I 

849
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,560
guess I tempted the the baseball
gods and the superstitious gods 

850
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:52,040
because the guy who transferred 
them for Lemoyne, we became 

851
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,520
pretty good buddies right away. 
You know, somebody transfers in,

852
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,320
you know, you want to make him 
feel at home. 

853
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:57,560
So he's like a weightlifting 
buddy. 

854
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,520
We would hit a lot together in 
the old great dude and really 

855
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:01,280
good player. 
Mick. 

856
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:04,400
Mick, if you're watching shout 
out Mick could play power. 

857
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,640
And he gives me one of those 
letters and I remember putting 

858
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,320
it at my lived off campus at 
this point. 

859
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:11,960
Remember putting it in my top 
drawer. 

860
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,560
I'm like, I'm not doing this 
shit. 

861
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,400
It was like it was so long and 
like, send it to like, I don't 

862
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:17,880
know, 20 players. 
You know, I'm like what? 

863
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,160
There's no way I'm doing this 
right. 

864
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:24,120
And I didn't do it. 
And I started the year as the 

865
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,960
three hitter and let's just say 
that I didn't end the year as 

866
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,360
the three hitter. 
And then I was so desperate 

867
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,600
during the middle of the season,
he's like, dude, I told you that

868
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,880
you should have. 
I'm like, I was actually, I'm 

869
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:36,280
like, why would you give me that
letter? 

870
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,480
Got enough problems here, right?
Try to, you know, it curves and 

871
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,600
do all this other stuff. 
And, and I remember he's like, 

872
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,320
listen, the only way you can, 
this is how desperate I was. 

873
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,680
The only way you can get rid of 
it is you got to take a penny 

874
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,400
and you got to put it in your 
jock strap. 

875
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,840
I'm like, dude, I'll put a 
silver dollar in there. 

876
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,360
I'll put, I'll put a bag of 
nickels in there. 

877
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,480
I'll put anything in there just 
to bust me out of the slump. 

878
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:01,920
So I I found the penny and I put
it in like the cloth part of the

879
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,160
jock strap in between where the 
actual protective cup was. 

880
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,360
So there was the penny in 
between the fabric and the 

881
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,320
actual plastic. 
Didn't do anything. 

882
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:10,760
Like I actually may have done 
worse. 

883
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:14,320
I'm like, dude, you basically 
ruined my season and ruined my 

884
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,560
career. 
I mean, I say that kind of 

885
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:18,960
kidding around, but that did 
happen. 

886
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,920
And I was a little superstitious
with baseball. 

887
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:27,120
I'm not superstitious with 
watching my teams at all. 

888
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,840
I've never been that guy. 
Like, all right, I'm sitting in 

889
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,760
this spot. 
The Yankees have, you know, 

890
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,240
just, they just got 3 runners on
base and I can't move. 

891
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,400
No, I, I don't. 
I just don't believe in that. 

892
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,480
I don't because I got enough 
things to consider, got enough 

893
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,640
things to think about, got 
enough things to worry about. 

894
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:45,920
If I'm going to let that control
where I sit, what I eat, what I 

895
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,520
say, who I watch games with, 
I'll just go nuts. 

896
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,520
Yeah, like my I, I think I have 
more like like hindsight, 

897
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:56,640
hindsight superstition where 
it's like, oh man, if I was 

898
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:01,280
wearing this or if if I watched 
it in a different place, would 

899
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,240
the game have had a different 
outcome? 

900
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,040
And then I just go back to Nah, 
probably. 

901
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,680
Now I this is not a 
superstition, this is just more 

902
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,120
of a rule. 
Like there were just certain 

903
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,640
games that I will not watch with
certain people. 

904
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,320
Like, you know, I can't, I can't
Now we, we, you know, I mean, 

905
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,920
obviously my wife knows this and
she likes football. 

906
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,000
My kids, you know, my daughter 
doesn't like it that much. 

907
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,520
She likes watching the Cowboys, 
but you know, obviously my son's

908
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:27,920
into The Jets. 
Like it's not like outside of 

909
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,600
maybe the incredibly rare 
occurrence, will we have people 

910
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,960
over on a Sunday? 
Like everybody knows, like, you 

911
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,240
know, we played games all 
weekend Sunday cheer soccer for 

912
00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:39,360
my daughter, full baseball 
Sundays. 

913
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,520
It's roast beef, roasted red 
Peppers, Mozzedale, thyme and 

914
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,080
you know, and, and jets and, and
obviously giants the rest. 

915
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,200
But like if The Jets were ever 
in a, or when The Jets are the 

916
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,840
big game again. 
I mean, I'm, I'm either watching

917
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,040
the game, just him and I, I 
mean, my wife could watch if she

918
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,800
wants, but definitely him and I 
and you know, like maybe if a 

919
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,000
couple of my buddies from high 
school who have moved away, who 

920
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,080
I used to go to jet games with 
if they were ever in or they're 

921
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,400
like, Hey, I got tickets. 
Let's go to if it's a home game,

922
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,680
that's different. 
But to sit around and watch like

923
00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:13,920
a Yankee World Series game or a 
Knicks playoff game or a Jets 

924
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:17,200
big game with people who aren't,
aren't fans of those teams, I 

925
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,080
would, I just would never do it.
I will not subject myself to 

926
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,000
that. 
I can't do it. 

927
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,160
I never Why would why would 
anybody do that? 

928
00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:29,520
Like it to me, it's no fun 
watching like true, you know, 

929
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,480
playoff and true like meaningful
sports games with people who 

930
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,360
aren't like all in like that's 
what I like. 

931
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,520
I I need to, you know, I need to
be going back and forth with 

932
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:40,880
you. 
Like I watch, you know, this 

933
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:45,400
Saturday, the Celtics game with 
a, you know, a few Sixers fans 

934
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,160
and it was just it was chaos. 
Where? 

935
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,200
At your? 
At your apartment. 

936
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,360
At a bar down the street. 
Oh my. 

937
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,240
Oh my gosh, dude. 
I I will say the bar vibes a 

938
00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:56,360
little different. 
It it definitely. 

939
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:58,880
In in a good way, like I'm not 
going to bars to watch games 

940
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,480
unless I'm doing an appearance. 
Just, you know, just based on, 

941
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,200
you know, where I am as as dad 
and stuff. 

942
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,760
Those days are over. 
No interest in doing that, 

943
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,040
although I love the appearances,
like those are fun, right? 

944
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,400
But if I'm in a bar and I'm 
watching a Knick playoff game 

945
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,560
that happens to be a couple of 
Sixers that that's fine. 

946
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,080
We've all got a common rooting 
in because you just happen to be

947
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,600
rooting for the other team, you 
know? 

948
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,680
No, big time, big time. 
And honestly, it was surprising.

949
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:28,360
Like even for New York, here's a
very split Boston Sixers crowd. 

950
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,000
Was it really? 
I thought it was going to be 

951
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:34,600
overwhelmingly Sixers, but man, 
times are changing. 

952
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:39,440
Like my buddy, my buddy was 
walking around with a Red Sox 

953
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:43,320
hat month ago and he was like, 
dude, like, it's so like, it's 

954
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,120
so horrible that I can just do 
this and no one will attack me. 

955
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,000
And then some dude was like, you
piece of shit. 

956
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,280
And he was like, all right, 
there we go. 

957
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:50,480
Thank you. 
Well, then you got to worry 

958
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,240
about some knuckleheads having 
one too many pops and saying the

959
00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:54,760
wrong thing. 
And when you're young, you're 

960
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,360
generally a little bit, I don't 
mean you, you seem like a, a 

961
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:58,560
pretty easy guy to get along 
with. 

962
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,960
I know you're a pretty easy guy 
to get along with, but you know,

963
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,760
the meathead who's still jacked 
up who's living in the wave room

964
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,760
has got 5 drinks in them, You 
know? 

965
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,200
Like that's the clown you want 
to avoid because that's when 

966
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,440
things go off the rails. 
You know, it's funny as I think 

967
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,040
about this, forget about 
watching a game with people that

968
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:15,520
don't have a common rooting 
interest. 

969
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,200
I don't even really know if I 
have any friends who aren't 

970
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,080
sports fans. 
I really don't know. 

971
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:22,880
I mean, I would. 
Check out that checks out. 

972
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,200
Like I don't need them to be 
maybe as invested as I am. 

973
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,640
It's obviously been my 
profession for 25 years, but 

974
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,960
every one of my good friends 
either played at a pretty high 

975
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:39,120
level or or is a devout or 
coaches or is a devout fan of a 

976
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:40,440
certain team. 
I don't, I don't. 

977
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,800
I'm thinking about I really 
don't have a single friend in 

978
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,480
the world who doesn't like 
sports. 

979
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,160
No, I think I'm honestly in a, 
which is funny enough. 

980
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:51,720
Like I think I'm in a similar 
boat, even though like I think 

981
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,880
my interests have skewed more 
towards like whatever music 

982
00:46:55,880 --> 00:47:00,040
stuff like that movie. 
But I think still all those 

983
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,920
people who I'm still friends 
with within those kind of 

984
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,000
categories, at the end of the 
day, there's still a sports fan.

985
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,080
They're still deeply passionate 
about one team or another. 

986
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:10,800
Pretty much any every single 
one. 

987
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,120
Let me get into this a little 
bit here, so and we'll get back 

988
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,000
to the calls. 
Obviously, J Rod's got that in 

989
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,000
the chat, so it's pretty easy. 
Many of you have learned how to 

990
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,440
do it. 
This is I think Week 2, possibly

991
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,760
week 3, but certainly at least 
Week 2 where we've been taking 

992
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,200
calls. 
I told you we would take calls 

993
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,160
on the show. 
Oh, also forgot to tell you, Joe

994
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,000
Beningo tomorrow, right around 
11:30. 

995
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,680
Let's hope the Mets lose today. 
Not, no disrespect to the Mets, 

996
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,160
but let's hope the Mets lose 9 
to 1 today. 

997
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,040
Because if the Mets get on a 
little winning streak here, they

998
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,760
won yesterday for two, you know,
not that Joe's going to be over 

999
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,800
the moon happy, but we want 
vintage Joe. 

1000
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:50,600
And even if the Mets do win 11 
to 4 today and they look great, 

1001
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,440
but we'll still find a way to 
wind up Joe. 

1002
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:53,920
Well, have a good time. 
And Joe's going to be on the 

1003
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,680
show for a while. 
Obviously talk Knicks and Jets 

1004
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:00,320
and get his thoughts on, you 
know, boy wonder, boy genius 

1005
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,000
Stearns and everything that's 
going on with these Mets so far.

1006
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,760
A little golf story, some other 
some music. 

1007
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,600
I mean, big Led Zepp guy, big 
concert guy back in the day. 

1008
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:10,320
So we'll have fun with Joe 
tomorrow. 

1009
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,000
Now I've told you that I've been
trying to get Aaron Aaron on the

1010
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,640
show and actually Boone called 
me yesterday and I was trying to

1011
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:22,960
get it done today. 
And it's funny, you think about 

1012
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,600
the, you know, the, you're the 
manager of the Yankee right, of 

1013
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,280
the Yankees and you think like, 
like that's, that's your whole 

1014
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:30,920
world. 
And, and I mean, it's a massive 

1015
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,560
part of it, obviously. 
But he's, I'm like, hey, what do

1016
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,600
you think about tomorrow? 
Meaning when when he called me 

1017
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:36,960
yesterday that that's what I 
asked him. 

1018
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,720
He's like, ah, man, he's like 
tomorrow's pretty tough. 

1019
00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:41,480
He's like, I got to go and take 
my car in. 

1020
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,240
I've got to exchange it. 
My lease is up, I got to pick up

1021
00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:45,520
my other one. 
I'm saying to myself, dude, 

1022
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:46,720
don't they just dump it at your 
house? 

1023
00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:48,480
You're the manager of the 
Yankees, right? 

1024
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,240
Then he's like, it's my wife's 
birthday. 

1025
00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:52,240
I got to run and get her a gift.
I'm like, say no more. 

1026
00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:54,680
I totally get it. 
He said it's actually easier 

1027
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,720
when I'm on the road. 
So once the Yankees wrap up this

1028
00:48:57,720 --> 00:48:59,920
series, they'll be on the road 
early. 

1029
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,160
I think they're home maybe one 
more series after. 

1030
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,920
After this series. 
Yeah, I believe so. 

1031
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,800
Wait, hold on. four-game series 
with, I mean, how about a 

1032
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,080
four-game sweep? 
That's not easy to do. 

1033
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:12,680
Yankees just laid it on heavy 
man. 

1034
00:49:12,720 --> 00:49:14,160
Oh God. 
And Schlidler didn't even have 

1035
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:18,000
his great stuff. 
But he said it's easier on the 

1036
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:19,760
road. 
And I I get that because I don't

1037
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:21,440
travel nearly as much as he 
does. 

1038
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:22,600
But when I go on the road with 
St. 

1039
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,000
John's, obviously I'm away from 
the family. 

1040
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,600
So there's no kids, you know, 
sports practices, games, you 

1041
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,400
know, other stuff and other 
responsibilities. 

1042
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,960
So he's like, let's do it when I
when we hit the road. 

1043
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:39,360
So absolutely next week, I don't
know the exact day, the time 

1044
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,840
will be probably right around 
now, but we'll get Boone up next

1045
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,280
week. 
Joe Beningo definitely tomorrow.

1046
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:45,560
Just wanted to get that out 
there now. 

1047
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaking of the Yankees some 
more John Sterling tributes. 

1048
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:54,000
I did not see well, probably 
because he's on the air after 

1049
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,640
after me. 
I did not see Michael Kay's 

1050
00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:01,000
tribute to John not talking 
about during the broadcast. 

1051
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,520
I'm talking about during 
Michael's show on on ESPN Radio 

1052
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:07,880
until until I was off the air. 
And I know the J Rod saw this as

1053
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,040
well. 
It's funny. 

1054
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:13,320
Michael, in a lot of ways is, is
pretty emotional. 

1055
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,200
And I don't, I don't want to 
mischaracterize Michael, but, 

1056
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:18,360
you know, if you've heard 
Michael over the years, he's 

1057
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:20,120
always like, yeah, you know, 
when I die, I die. 

1058
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:22,440
That's it. 
Like, I I wouldn't have thought 

1059
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,080
that it was actually beautiful 
to see. 

1060
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,760
I was surprised that he got as 
choked up as as he did. 

1061
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,560
And it was an amazing tribute. 
It really was. 

1062
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,600
And you know what? 
What really got him? 

1063
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,600
J Rod, I know you saw this when 
he was talking about talking 

1064
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,000
about John's daughters, one of 
one of whom his oldest daughter 

1065
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,600
is getting married this summer. 
And it was John's mission to 

1066
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:47,520
hang on as as long as possible 
to be able to walk her down the 

1067
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:49,640
aisle. 
And and any dad with a daughter 

1068
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,200
who's young or a dad with a 
daughter who you have already 

1069
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:57,360
walked down the aisle or a 
stepdaughter, that's that, you 

1070
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:58,320
know, that's where it really 
came out. 

1071
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,920
It was tough to watch, man. 
It was it was beautiful. 

1072
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:05,400
It was pure, it was unfiltered, 
but Michael was, he was, he was 

1073
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:06,800
hurt yesterday. 
We all were hurting for 

1074
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,440
different, different reasons and
to different degrees. 

1075
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,360
I heard Susan, I saw some of the
snippets. 

1076
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,080
I know she was on the fan. 
I texted Susan, She did get back

1077
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,400
to me during, during during the 
game last night. 

1078
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,880
Can only imagine what her what 
her inbox was like. 

1079
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,600
But it was it was a rough day. 
It was a rough day on so many 

1080
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,160
levels. 
And I thought the tributes that 

1081
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,800
poured in were absolutely 
amazing. 

1082
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:29,280
Now, they didn't go for the 
patch. 

1083
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,160
We didn't know what they would 
do. 

1084
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,280
They put JS on the back of the 
Yankees hat, which I, which I 

1085
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,480
kind of like better, actually, 
I, I do like that embroidered on

1086
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,840
the back of the hat. 
And then how about Michael's 

1087
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,760
call? 
I mean, Judge, it is high. 

1088
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:47,080
It is far, it is gone. 
A judgey and blast. 

1089
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:51,240
I mean, you know, paying homage 
to his, to his friend, then to 

1090
00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:53,200
his former broadcast partner, 
John Sterling. 

1091
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:58,160
I saw something with the White 
Sox, with one of their, I forget

1092
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,160
who was that hit a home run. 
The White Sox broadcaster did 

1093
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:02,880
the same thing. 
It is high. 

1094
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,960
It is far. 
You want to talk about an 

1095
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:10,360
outpouring of emotion and 
appreciation for not only a 

1096
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:15,280
great baseball broadcaster, but 
a really good guy and something 

1097
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,280
that Susan said yesterday, and I
didn't really know this. 

1098
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,160
I, I thought this, but I didn't 
know this because I didn't know 

1099
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,560
John on that level and I never 
pretended to know him on that 

1100
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,240
level. 
I've met him six or seven times.

1101
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:31,800
Absolute gentleman, absolutely 
nuts, amazing and and just a, a 

1102
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:36,480
humble, happy person. 
But you know, when you get hit 

1103
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,960
with that much criticism, as 
John did, certainly in his older

1104
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,080
years, you know, maybe 
sacrificing some of the nuts and

1105
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,320
bolts of the broadcast to launch
into a call. 

1106
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:48,480
And it's not out those things, 
right, When your eyesight goes. 

1107
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,040
I mean, it is what it is when 
you're in your mid 70s and John 

1108
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:52,840
was 87. 
So he was still doing games in 

1109
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:54,880
his early 80s. 
Been away a couple years now. 

1110
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,240
I never, I'm never going to 
criticize somebody for that 

1111
00:52:58,240 --> 00:53:01,320
because I'd rather have that 
kind of voice still with us, 

1112
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,400
even with a few mistakes. 
But the nostalgia and the 

1113
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:09,000
connection and, and the thing 
that Susan said was it's such a,

1114
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,520
a beautiful testament to the 
person that John was. 

1115
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:15,880
All the criticism that he got, 
like he never like it really. 

1116
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:19,200
It really didn't bother him. 
And the way she framed it was 

1117
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,560
interesting. 
She's like, he didn't know how 

1118
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,120
to like fight back because he 
didn't have a bad bone in his 

1119
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,800
body. 
And you know, the way she told 

1120
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,080
it, she said, you know, I would 
ask John, I'd say, hey, John, 

1121
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:31,600
you know, does this, does this 
ever bother you? 

1122
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,160
Everybody getting on you, you 
know, making fun of some of the 

1123
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:36,240
misses or some of the calls, 
whatever it might be? 

1124
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,120
And he's like, no, he's like, it
doesn't bother me. 

1125
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:44,240
And and even if it did, I I'm so
non confrontational that I 

1126
00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:49,720
wouldn't know how to hit back. 
And, and that just speaks to his

1127
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,800
in inner peace in terms of what 
he did, knowing who he was. 

1128
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,520
So I thought Michael was 
outstanding in the tribute on 

1129
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:02,000
his show, although Susan was 
outstanding in her tribute on 

1130
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:06,240
the fan. 
I thought the the White Sox and 

1131
00:54:06,240 --> 00:54:10,680
by the way, massive shout out to
the Mets broadcast team. 

1132
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:12,920
I wish I could play this, but I 
just can't. 

1133
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,360
There's trademarks and there's 
copyrights. 

1134
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:16,840
Like I can't do it. 
I would love to play this 

1135
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,840
because the the class that was 
exuded by the Mets broadcast 

1136
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,360
team yesterday was off the 
charts. 

1137
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,440
So the Mets win a game and the 
Mets have their own issues as we

1138
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:27,680
know. 
And maybe this will get them 

1139
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:28,560
going. 
Hopefully so. 

1140
00:54:29,240 --> 00:54:31,600
And they win the game And and I 
believe it was Keith Rad with 

1141
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,080
the final. 
Well, I definitely definitely 

1142
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,360
wasn't Howie. 
So I think it was Keith and 

1143
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,240
Howie goes, you know that that's
the ball game. 

1144
00:54:37,240 --> 00:54:41,760
Whatever Keith says, that's the 
ball game, the Mets win, the 

1145
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,840
Mets win and then he kind of 
slipped in. 

1146
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,600
That's that's my tribute to John
Case, any Mets fan. 

1147
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:51,040
And I don't I didn't see a 
single Met fan that had an issue

1148
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:53,280
with that. 
And you know, you just never 

1149
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:55,600
know anymore. 
Like we've become so petty as 

1150
00:54:55,600 --> 00:55:00,920
society and so territorial and 
so confrontational, especially 

1151
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,560
on social media where there's no
repercussions, where you don't 

1152
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:04,840
say something to somebody's 
face. 

1153
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,120
You just kind of type away with 
no again, no repercussions. 

1154
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,080
I don't always die. 
I very rarely dive into 

1155
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:15,560
comments, but I did dive into 
some Mets 880 Twitter handle 

1156
00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:19,840
posted that and they actually 
had the audio and I dove into 

1157
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,040
some of the comments and you 
know, Tony Yankee fans jumped in

1158
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:24,840
and they were really 
appreciative and really 

1159
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:28,920
thankful. 
And as was I and every met fan 

1160
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,480
that was within the messages 
there within that Mets post from

1161
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,880
their radio booth said that, you
know, like, hey, this is great, 

1162
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:38,680
proud of my team, great job, 
Keith, awesome. 

1163
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:41,480
And there's some there should be
some things that that do 

1164
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,920
transcend, you know, battle 
lines or, you know, nonsense or,

1165
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:50,040
you know, debates or hot takes 
or the territoriality of the 

1166
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,880
baseball city, the lines of the 
city. 

1167
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,080
I thought it was so awesome. 
I really, I just really, really 

1168
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,840
well done by the Mets and really
well done by my buddy Michael 

1169
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,160
Caine, Susan and everybody 
across baseball. 

1170
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,480
It was awesome. 
Now, here's one thing that 

1171
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:07,880
really bothers me. 
And I know the criteria is a 

1172
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:12,400
little different. 
We we have got to now, even if 

1173
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,280
this changes, it's not going to 
impact John. 

1174
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:19,200
We have got to get to a point 
where when you have accomplished

1175
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:24,160
X amount in a specific sport, we
have got to stop waiting until 

1176
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,200
people die before we put them in
the Hall of Fame. 

1177
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:29,800
John Sterling is not in the Hall
of Fame. 

1178
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:37,440
John Sterling called the 
9698992000 and 2009 World Series

1179
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:41,120
championships. 
The final outs are John's voice,

1180
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,720
right? 
John was on the Mike for seven 

1181
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:48,600
American League pennants. 
John Sterling called the home 

1182
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:50,240
runs. 
Called every one of Derek 

1183
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:53,480
Jeter's games. 
Massive moments by Bernie and 

1184
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,600
Tino and a rod and everybody 
else. 

1185
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,440
Jeter's last hit as a Yankee at 
the Stadium. 

1186
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:03,360
Mariano's final save. 
You know, Joel Torrey's final 

1187
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:09,440
win, I mean, Don Mattingly's 
final game, and this man is not 

1188
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,240
in Cooperstown. 
And again, like, it's called the

1189
00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:14,400
Ford Freak Award for media 
broadcasting. 

1190
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:17,280
I don't, I don't pretend to know
all the criteria. 

1191
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:18,960
And by the way, there really is 
no criteria. 

1192
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,760
Like, it's not like there's 
specific benchmarks because, you

1193
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,560
know, now there's some loose 
benchmarks as a hitter. 

1194
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:31,040
It used to be 3000 hits, you 
know, 300 wins, maybe 3000 plus 

1195
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,120
strikeouts, 500 home runs. 
That's changed because the 

1196
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,720
steroids. 
But now John Sterling will 

1197
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,760
inevitably be elected into the 
Hall of Fame. 

1198
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:45,200
And John Sterling will not be 
around to go to the podium and 

1199
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,840
look out in front of a massive 
of Yankee humanity that will 

1200
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:52,960
take over Cooperstown. 
Or that would and they still 

1201
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:56,280
will, but would have taken over 
Cooperstown like all the teams 

1202
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,320
do when their when their players
get voted in. 

1203
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,680
And it's just a shame. 
It's an it's a senseless 

1204
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:06,080
omission. 
It's unnecessary and it's really

1205
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:09,800
embarrassing. 
You know, it's not like trying 

1206
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:11,960
to talk about the merits of a 
player who was great. 

1207
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,080
Like, think Mattingly. 
All right, You can even take 

1208
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:16,080
David Wright if you want. 
A little bit of a lesser extent,

1209
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:18,440
but very similar trajectory to 
Mattingly. 

1210
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,880
It's not like we're having the 
conversation about even 

1211
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,080
Hernandez. 
But is Mattingly a Hall of Famer

1212
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:25,880
is keyed, Should David Wright 
get in? 

1213
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,000
You know, well, you know, 
certain play, even Albert Bell, 

1214
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:32,320
certain players had really, 
really high end primes. 

1215
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:36,520
And then due to attrition 
injury, they were zapped to 

1216
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,600
their powers and the back end, 
the second-half of their career 

1217
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,760
nowhere near reflected the kind 
of player that they truly were 

1218
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:45,560
at the at the apex of their 
powers. 

1219
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,560
Like Don Mattingly was the best 
player in baseball, you know, 

1220
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:53,120
Keith Hernandez Co won the MVP 
in 79 and was what it and was 

1221
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:55,960
the greatest defensive first 
baseman of all time. 

1222
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,160
And for me to say that you know 
better than Mattingly, you know,

1223
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,640
he truly was the best David 
Wright to me was the Mets 

1224
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:06,680
version of of Don Mattingly and 
I and I will remember when me 

1225
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:09,200
and Sal will talk about this. 
I always thought that David 

1226
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,280
Wright still do. 
I think the David Wright's the 

1227
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:13,800
best position player in the 
history of the Mets, you know, 

1228
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:17,480
and when Pete broke the home run
record that Daryl Strawberry 

1229
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:20,400
once had, and I understood why 
people, you know, brought this 

1230
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:24,200
up and, you know, and, and not 
everybody, you know, saw David 

1231
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:25,400
Wright. 
I mean, most people did. 

1232
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,120
But there's some younger fans 
where Pete was. 

1233
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,560
They didn't, they just, they 
saw, you know, maybe the 

1234
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:32,760
diminished version of Wright or 
they heard their dads talk about

1235
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:34,040
David Wright or whatever it 
might be. 

1236
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:37,200
So for a lot of Met fans, young 
Met fans, Pete was the guy 

1237
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,400
understood. 
But on no planet was beat Alonzo

1238
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:42,360
a better baseball player than 
David Wright. 

1239
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:44,960
David Wright would hit for 
average hit for power, could 

1240
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:46,600
run, could feel, could do 
everything. 

1241
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,240
Literally, I think David Wright 
was one of the best players in 

1242
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:53,560
baseball. 
And to me, you know, that is not

1243
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:56,280
reflected and he shouldn't be in
the Hall of Fame because he 

1244
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,480
wasn't quite quite peaked. 
Donnie didn't win the MVP, 

1245
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:02,520
didn't finish second in in 
another year like like Don 

1246
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:05,840
Mattingly did. 
But I just think that there's so

1247
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:10,000
many cases and so many 
situations and it's such sadness

1248
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:13,520
when we wait and we wait and we,
what are we waiting for? 

1249
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:18,240
The guy's first game was 1989 
when he called the Yankee game 

1250
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:20,720
outside of his his sister 
passing away. 

1251
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:23,600
I believe in his first year 
where he missed two games. 

1252
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:30,600
He didn't miss a game for 30 
seasons, 30 years in a row, 162 

1253
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:34,760
and every playoff game, John 
Sterling called every pitch and 

1254
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:38,400
every inning of every game. 
And he's not in Cooperstown. 

1255
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:43,440
He's not in the Hall of Fame. 
And the way like to me, I mean, 

1256
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,160
we could sit here and crunch 
numbers and and try to get into 

1257
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:49,960
the weeds of how do you really 
get it as a broadcaster like the

1258
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:52,560
Ford Frick Award. 
All right, I mean, I, I don't 

1259
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:54,560
really know. 
It's not the same criteria where

1260
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:57,480
it's a little bit more tangible 
like if you're a former player, 

1261
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:02,040
but just look at the response 
throughout baseball, the entire 

1262
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:07,840
sport stopped to genuflect and 
rightly honor this sporting 

1263
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:14,240
icon, not just the New York 
icon, a a broadcast icon and not

1264
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:18,480
just a New York sporting legend,
a New York legend because he was

1265
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,680
part of the lexicon he was part 
of. 

1266
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:24,600
He was there for so many moments
that the fine New York and he's 

1267
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,800
not in the Hall of Fame. 
They have to check this and 

1268
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,680
they've got to figure this out. 
You see it all the time. 

1269
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,400
Watch. 
I don't know when I don't, but I

1270
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,480
promise you at some point Pete 
Rose will be in the Hall of 

1271
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,520
Fame. 
And once Pete Rose gets in the 

1272
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:40,720
Hall of Fame, you'll have 
Shoeless Joe Jack. 

1273
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:42,880
Now, that was obviously a long 
time ago. 

1274
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,840
So, you know, Shoeless Joe was 
never going to be around to see 

1275
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:47,720
it. 
But like, it's it's just another

1276
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:51,000
example of let's just do right 
by people. 

1277
01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:53,480
We've got a finite window on 
this planet. 

1278
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:58,360
If somebody does something 
extraordinary, extraordinary for

1279
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:04,280
decades, ignore the rules or 
whatever the rules are and lift 

1280
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:08,000
up the velvet rope and let that 
person have that moment. 

1281
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:13,000
And by the way, not only for 
that person I would have loved, 

1282
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,760
I would have loved to have. 
I mean, Can you imagine a John 

1283
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:21,880
Sterling enshrinement speech? 
I remember Phil Rizzuto's where 

1284
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:25,000
he's swatting away the fly. 
It's one of the funniest things 

1285
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,360
I've ever seen. 
Now, Phil was very different 

1286
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:30,640
than John, but they were both 
zany and they were both wacky, 

1287
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,880
and they were both amazing and 
they were both quirky, right? 

1288
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:36,000
Phil was a player as well as we.
John was not. 

1289
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:40,520
But that Hall of Fame speech by 
Phil was incredible. 

1290
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:44,040
I mean, people were crying. 
They were laughing so hard. 

1291
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,440
I don't know what John would 
have done. 

1292
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:49,440
I don't know what John would 
have said, but it would have 

1293
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:52,400
been amazing. 
And you do, you know how much it

1294
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:55,960
would have meant to him and by 
extension, how much it would 

1295
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,880
have meant to his family. 
And now they're deprived of 

1296
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:00,680
that. 
John was deprived of it. 

1297
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:03,240
And they will be deprived of it.
They will. 

1298
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:06,800
Somebody from John's family will
eventually be able to get up 

1299
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:07,680
there. 
You know what? 

1300
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:09,120
Maybe it, maybe it's Michael 
Kay. 

1301
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:11,440
Maybe the family asks Michael to
do it. 

1302
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:14,080
Maybe it's Susan. 
And that would be amazing if 

1303
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,800
it's not a family member. 
But it won't be the same. 

1304
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:20,280
Sitting in a crowd in the 
stifling heat in Cooper, the 

1305
01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:23,600
oppressive heat in Cooperstown, 
NY, in the middle of the summer,

1306
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:27,880
dripping in humidity, watching 
John Sterling up there, you 

1307
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:31,600
know, talk to the baseball world
about what his journey meant to 

1308
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:33,840
him. 
And they missed the boat. 

1309
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:39,560
And I just don't get it. 
Yeah, Jay, I don't know. 

1310
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:41,440
I don't understand that, Jared. 
I really don't. 

1311
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:43,200
No, it's cruel. 
It's cruel. 

1312
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:46,640
I mean, you know, when Michael 
Kay was speaking about it, that 

1313
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:49,080
was one of the things that 
really kind of hit me was just 

1314
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:51,920
like, what are we playing with 
the Hall of Fame for? 

1315
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:56,080
Like just just let these people 
get their flowers while they're 

1316
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:58,800
still here, while they still 
can, because that's what's 

1317
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:00,560
important. 
You know, after they're gone, 

1318
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:03,640
it's nice for the family. 
But really like that's the 

1319
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:05,960
moment a lot of these people are
working towards. 

1320
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:10,840
Is that Hall of not, not that 
people are that glory searching 

1321
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:13,720
or anything like that. 
But you know, I think that Hall 

1322
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,520
of Fame induction while you're 
still alive, it is a very kind 

1323
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:19,000
of gratifying experience. 
It is something that really 

1324
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:21,000
validates what you've done 
inside. 

1325
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:28,480
Yes, yes. 
I mean, he, he's, he was 87. 

1326
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:31,800
It's not like he passed away 
suddenly at the age of 66 due to

1327
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:34,400
a heart attack. 
How much time did you need to 

1328
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:38,280
figure this out? 
Baseball honestly, it really 

1329
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:41,320
isn't bad and it really angers 
me because you can't get this 

1330
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:44,280
back. 
You can't suddenly say, oh man, 

1331
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:45,440
we may have missed the boat on 
this. 

1332
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:48,240
Let's let's let's make this 
right and let's Johnson he was a

1333
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:51,200
finalist last year. 
Whatever idiots didn't vote for 

1334
01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:53,120
it. 
I don't need again the the the 

1335
01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:58,080
journalism that wing to me is 
it's not really defined by the 

1336
01:04:58,080 --> 01:04:59,960
way, neither is the playing 
point at this point. 

1337
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,040
I mean, because everything's now
you've got a lot of younger 

1338
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:04,720
people and this is not shaded 
them. 

1339
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:05,800
It's just the way the world 
goes. 

1340
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:09,440
But like a lot of younger 
journalists that are now kind of

1341
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:12,920
carrying the mail four players 
that they didn't see. 

1342
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:17,240
So it's largely dependent upon 
stats and and listen, I get it. 

1343
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:22,040
You know, if I'm 33 years old or
I'm 35 and I'm covering the game

1344
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:27,120
and I'm credentialed to in terms
of a Hall of Fame vote, right? 

1345
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:31,800
And I didn't see Don Mattingly 
play, you know, and I just go to

1346
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:33,600
baseball reference and I look at
the numbers. 

1347
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:34,760
I'm underwhelmed. 
I get it. 

1348
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:38,440
You know, I, I see a, a three O 
7 lifetime average, but I also 

1349
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:43,920
see about 5 or 6 years in a row 
where 288 soft in terms of home 

1350
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:47,720
runs, 288 again, 256 the year he
hurt his back where he had 

1351
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:51,280
surgery missed some time. 
I'm like, yeah, I, I, I 

1352
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:54,640
understand it, right? 
That's that's a little 

1353
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:56,360
different. 
But the the older players at 

1354
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:59,520
least get in like with or could 
get in with the veteran 

1355
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:01,880
committee, you know, people who 
saw them. 

1356
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:04,960
So that's not even justifiable. 
I don't I don't know what they 

1357
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:05,960
were. 
I'm not going to I'm not going 

1358
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:09,240
to belabor this much more. 
But when John passed away, I 

1359
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:12,080
honestly, I honestly did not 
know. 

1360
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:14,440
I didn't think he was in the 
hall because I remember never 

1361
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:16,920
seeing him do a speech by let me
just double. 

1362
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:19,960
Did I miss this? 
You know, did I, you know, in 

1363
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:22,640
the early throws of fatherhood 
that I did, I miss John 

1364
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:25,400
Sterling's induction. 
I I can't imagine that I did. 

1365
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:30,160
But let me just Nope, not in the
whole fame 87 years of age, you 

1366
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:33,040
know, didn't just step away from
the microphone this year. 

1367
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:39,200
Dave Sims was here last year. 
You know, Yeah, they missed the 

1368
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:40,960
mark. 
And and you can't, you can't 

1369
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:42,320
rectify that. 
You just can't. 

1370
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:44,520
And it sucks. 
Absolutely does. 

1371
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:52,280
What else do I have here? 
OK, it's 1111, 1111 you used to.

1372
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:54,120
You people say 1111, make a 
wish. 

1373
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:56,160
Yep. 
You don't do that, do you? 

1374
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:59,480
No, dude, I'm a man. 
I mean, I'm a man. 

1375
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:04,040
I think my my wife does that 
where it's either 1010 or 11 

1376
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:06,880
where she not only does she make
a wish, I think she makes a wish

1377
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,360
but she stares at the clock 
until it turns. 

1378
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:13,320
Hey, you know what that's like? 
There's there's one of your 

1379
01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:17,080
superstitions right there. 
Not big my generation. 

1380
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:21,800
We're not 1111, we're 444. 
Oh yeah, yeah. 

1381
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:24,440
Yeah, I don't know why, but 
that's like, I get it. 

1382
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:27,840
That's a generation's number. 
They love that one each 

1383
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:29,520
generation. 
'S a little different, yeah. 

1384
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:33,000
By the way, you know, Speaking 
of of the Mets with Beningo 

1385
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:37,160
tomorrow, Soto in the lead off 
spot, which I kind of like. 

1386
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:40,520
I mean, you got to mix stuff up.
And I know it's not ideal to 

1387
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,040
have Juan Soto batten first 
every game, but nobody on base, 

1388
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:45,320
I get it. 
But you know, in terms of the 

1389
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:48,920
bigger picture where you would 
think, you know, the more he 

1390
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:52,240
does this, the more the pitch 
will have to exert from the get 

1391
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:56,240
go, you know, navigate the 
strike zone and be very careful.

1392
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:58,440
And he's not going to swing at 
slop. 

1393
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:00,960
So he's out there going to get 
on base with a walk or, or 

1394
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:04,800
barrel one up. 
So the pitcher is going to be a 

1395
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,040
little tired when he gets to the
second and third hitters. 

1396
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:10,440
And because he's on base all the
time, he's an on base machine. 

1397
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:14,760
Historically, you would think 
that in theory that number 2 #3 

1398
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,439
#4 downstream, residually going 
to get some fastballs because 

1399
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:19,240
guys were on base. 
So I like it. 

1400
01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:21,080
I don't know if it's going to 
solve all their issues. 

1401
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:24,319
Didn't do a whole lot yesterday,
but I like it. 

1402
01:08:24,319 --> 01:08:26,960
I thought it was interesting. 
You got to try stuff. 

1403
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:29,399
He can't just keep, you know, 
taking it on the chin. 

1404
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:31,479
You know, the Mets won the 
series before. 

1405
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:34,439
All right, two out of three. 
The Rockies clowned them when 

1406
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:37,319
they were in Queens. 
Maybe this is the start of, of 

1407
01:08:37,319 --> 01:08:40,240
the Mets regenerating just a 
little bit and starting to 

1408
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:41,720
string together a couple of 
wins. 

1409
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,399
You know, Lindor was at the Met 
Game at the at the Knick game 

1410
01:08:44,399 --> 01:08:47,399
last night, didn't have a boot 
on, but he's not coming back for

1411
01:08:47,399 --> 01:08:48,840
months. 
I would I would think. 

1412
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:51,160
So you won't have him, You know,
we'll see. 

1413
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:55,279
But I I like, I like the change 
there and just to try something 

1414
01:08:55,279 --> 01:08:57,520
different, give the team a 
different look, maybe different 

1415
01:08:57,520 --> 01:09:00,720
jolt and a little bit of a 
different, you know, schematical

1416
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:05,520
approach here. 
So I know that people, it is 

1417
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:07,760
what it is. 
I couldn't care less. 

1418
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:09,279
But I will acknowledge it at the
top. 

1419
01:09:09,279 --> 01:09:13,080
So I've seen it. 
So when I talk about Juan Soto, 

1420
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:19,000
it's never about. 
It's it's never about Juan Soto 

1421
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:21,840
didn't want to be a Yankee. 
I am so far past that. 

1422
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:23,920
I mean, right now, by the way, 
the Yankees, the what the 

1423
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:25,240
Yankees are doing. 
Where is that stat? 

1424
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:26,359
I had something written down 
this morning. 

1425
01:09:26,359 --> 01:09:29,840
Give me one SEC here. 
Yeah, and then I'll, I'll get 

1426
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:32,399
back to the solo stop. 
So last night Yankees obviously 

1427
01:09:32,399 --> 01:09:35,200
won their 24 and 11. 
All right, Seven times in the 

1428
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:38,960
Yankees history, the Yankees 
started 24 and 11:00 and had at 

1429
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:42,319
least a + 76 run differential. 
Yanks been around since the 

1430
01:09:42,319 --> 01:09:45,920
early 1900s. 
It's happened. 7 * 1920 three 

1431
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:53,120
1932193619391951 And those are a
lot of early years. 

1432
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:56,800
And then somewhat recently 2003 
when they got to the World 

1433
01:09:56,800 --> 01:09:59,640
Series and lost to that young 
Marlins pitching staff Giambi's 

1434
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:04,360
first year, right? 
So I, I love the way the Yankees

1435
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:09,720
look and I myself and able I'm 
I'm able to separate Soto talk 

1436
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:12,600
with and and not have it just 
kind of seep into the Yankees 

1437
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:15,920
because Soto moved on and the 
Yankees have moved on in a very 

1438
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:19,160
big and a very good way. 
And I love the way the Yankees 

1439
01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:23,000
look this year, all right. 
And, and I also realized that 

1440
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:25,720
Soda was a free agent. 
He didn't willingly sign with 

1441
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:27,840
the Yankees. 
He, you know, he didn't come 

1442
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:30,320
here on his own volition. 
He was traded here and he 

1443
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:32,000
produced at an incredibly high 
level. 

1444
01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:35,960
And, you know, you play, I mean,
first you play to make the 

1445
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:39,720
majors and, you know, to change 
the get get, you know, just to 

1446
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:42,160
change the dynamics of your 
family and also to satisfy a 

1447
01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:44,720
dream and touch a dream that 
you've worked on forever. 

1448
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:47,960
But once you hit a certain point
when you're a player like Juan 

1449
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:52,800
Soto, you are talking multiple 
generations of of affluence, All

1450
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:54,680
right. 
And I never begrudged him. 

1451
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:56,800
I wanted him to stay. 
He didn't want to stay. 

1452
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:58,880
Mets made some concessions 
because they had to. 

1453
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:01,680
He went to the Mets. 
Year 1, he played pretty well. 

1454
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:04,720
Mets did not. 
Year 2, he's played pretty well.

1455
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:07,280
He's been hurt. 
Year 2 is a disaster so far. 

1456
01:11:07,440 --> 01:11:10,000
We'll see what happens, but I 
couldn't think. 

1457
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:12,480
But when I when I was looking at
Ben Rice and some of these 

1458
01:11:12,480 --> 01:11:15,360
numbers, right? 
Because one of the things that I

1459
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:18,240
loved, I mean, the thing that I 
loved about the 2024 Yankees, 

1460
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,760
aside from getting to the World 
Series, was that, I mean, 

1461
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:24,840
watching Judge and Soto every 
single night, it was out to me, 

1462
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:26,360
it was Ruth and Garrick, you 
know? 

1463
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:28,760
You know, Munson and Reggie 
weren't quite that. 

1464
01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:33,240
Mattingly and Winfield weren't 
quite that a rod and Toshera or 

1465
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:35,880
Canoe weren't quite that as 
great as a rod was. 

1466
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,360
Canoe was, you know, I mean, it 
just wasn't that. 

1467
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:42,560
There was no other duo in my 
lifetime that did what those two

1468
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:44,840
guys did a couple of years ago 
in pinstripes. 

1469
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:46,880
So I was just kind of looking at
some of the numbers. 

1470
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:49,280
I'm like, it's a massive 
projection. 

1471
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:50,520
I want to have a little fun with
this. 

1472
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:52,840
Do I think it'll happen? 
I'll give you the answer in a 

1473
01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:56,880
moment. 
So in 2024, we know Juan Soto 

1474
01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:00,160
hit 288. 
He had a 396 on base percentage,

1475
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:04,400
he had a 989 OPS. 
His WAR was 8 all right, he 

1476
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:08,400
scored 128 runs, he hit 41 home 
runs, a career high, and he had 

1477
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:11,480
109 RB is which I also think was
a career high, may have tied it,

1478
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:14,360
but it was up there. 
It was either one or two judges 

1479
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:18,200
we know had a WAR of almost 
1110.9. 

1480
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:24,440
Wow, 58 home runs, 144 RB is hit
322. 

1481
01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:29,120
Then the next year he won the 
batting title but hit 322458-ON 

1482
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:31,360
base percentage. 
We're talking Bonds territory on

1483
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:35,120
steroids and an OPS of over 
1150. 

1484
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:37,400
Now come, I know I hit you with 
a lot of numbers, so I'll kind 

1485
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:42,480
of condense it here. 
In total, in 2024, Judge and 

1486
01:12:42,480 --> 01:12:49,160
Soto accounted for 99 home runs.
All right, 250 runs scored and 

1487
01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:53,200
253 RBIs, and I'll give you 
those numbers again in a minute.

1488
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:59,840
But 99 homers, 250 runs, 253 
ribbies, those two now it's 

1489
01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:02,720
incredibly early. 
Ben Rice does not have the track

1490
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:04,960
record at all. 
Like, I mean, doesn't really 

1491
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:07,240
have much of A track record at 
all, even though he hit the ball

1492
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:10,480
very hard last year. 
And I pointed that out with some

1493
01:13:10,480 --> 01:13:14,040
advanced analytics. 
But he's 27, you know, was not 

1494
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:15,480
thought to be a massive 
prospect. 

1495
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:18,040
You know, didn't distinguish 
himself immediately. 

1496
01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:21,280
So he's not Soto. 
I'm not saying that, but at 

1497
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:25,000
least now in early May he is 
projected and he didn't play 

1498
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:26,320
last night. 
Hopefully he plays today. 

1499
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:28,440
I'm going to think he gets 
another day off because he 

1500
01:13:28,440 --> 01:13:29,920
wasn't even available to pinch 
hit. 

1501
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:33,520
And I know he told Meredith that
he couldn't even that he didn't 

1502
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:35,200
think he can get his a swing off
yesterday. 

1503
01:13:35,600 --> 01:13:38,880
I think the Yankees are cautious
and I don't think they run him 

1504
01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:43,200
out today, but we'll see. 57 
home runs. 

1505
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:47,720
He's projected to hit 57. 
He's projected to have 129 RBIs,

1506
01:13:48,120 --> 01:13:52,120
score 140, three runs, hit 343. 
He's not going to do that. 

1507
01:13:52,440 --> 01:13:55,120
And an OPS of over 1200, which I
don't think you'll do that 

1508
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:57,560
either. 
And right now was wars almost 2 

1509
01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:02,760
which is top 15 in baseball. 
Judge is on pace to hit 60. 

1510
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:06,200
I mean this freaking guy is 
unreal is on pace to hit 65 home

1511
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:12,240
runs 120 and he won't hit 65. 
I don't think 125 ribbies, 148 

1512
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:17,120
runs and an OPS of over 1050. 
Now now let me give you the 

1513
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:21,080
easier and and his war is 
already 2.3 which leads baseball

1514
01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:25,080
a more digestible snapshot. 
Let me just boil this down for 

1515
01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:30,480
you again. 2024 Judge and Soto, 
99 home runs. 

1516
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:35,800
Right now, Judge and Rice are on
pace for 1/22. 

1517
01:14:37,480 --> 01:14:39,440
I mean, I'm just, I'm just 
giving you the projections. 

1518
01:14:40,120 --> 01:14:44,640
In 2024, Soto and Judge had 253 
RBIs. 

1519
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:48,080
Right now, the current Yankee 
tandem on pace for three more, 

1520
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:52,120
254. 
Back in 2024, they scored two. 

1521
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:56,600
I mean, this really is mind 
boggling stuff. 250 runs this 

1522
01:14:56,600 --> 01:15:01,000
year, They're on pace for 291 
runs now. 

1523
01:15:02,440 --> 01:15:06,360
Do I think you know that? 
That's a lot of stuff I threw at

1524
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:09,320
you, so let me just cherry pick 
and I'll give you some opinions.

1525
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:13,520
Do I think that Ben Rice will 
hit more than 288 what Soto had 

1526
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:14,480
in 20? 
Yes, I do. 

1527
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:16,560
I do. 
I think he's probably going to 

1528
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:21,120
be in that three O 2, three O 
5:00-ish area, something like 

1529
01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:22,480
that, because he does walk a 
lot, right? 

1530
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:24,680
I think he'll have a higher 
average than 280. 

1531
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:25,840
I feel pretty confident about 
that. 

1532
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:28,440
Do I think he's going to hit 
more than 41 home runs if he's 

1533
01:15:28,440 --> 01:15:29,680
healthy? 
Absolutely. 

1534
01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:32,480
So I believe he'll blow by that.
Do I believe he's going to have 

1535
01:15:32,480 --> 01:15:35,440
more than 109 RBI's? 
Absolutely I do. 

1536
01:15:35,760 --> 01:15:37,160
Now, the Judge stuff is 
different. 

1537
01:15:37,160 --> 01:15:39,880
Like I don't think Judge is 
going for 65 bombs and I don't 

1538
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:41,680
think he's going to score almost
150 runs. 

1539
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:45,400
I just don't. 
But it is amazing and I'm end. 

1540
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:49,160
And to push it one step further,
when you look at war, Soda was 

1541
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:54,160
8, he had a war of 8. 
Rice is almost 2 and it's very 

1542
01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:56,880
early. 
You know, I think that Ben Rice 

1543
01:15:56,880 --> 01:16:00,040
is going to be in the 
neighborhood of a very similar 

1544
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:04,400
war, could slightly surpass it, 
slightly below it, because 

1545
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:06,400
neither one's doing a whole hell
of a lot defensively. 

1546
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:09,720
So it's not like you have some 
great defensive player and, you 

1547
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:13,120
know, similar offensive stats 
and the defense or even the base

1548
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:16,680
running is going to push that 
significantly higher in One 

1549
01:16:16,680 --> 01:16:18,720
Direction. 
It's crazy. 

1550
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:21,200
And there's so much baseball to 
go. 

1551
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:23,520
That's baseball, Susan. 
I get it. 

1552
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:25,480
And I'm not trying to be nuts. 
I'm not trying to be 

1553
01:16:25,480 --> 01:16:28,600
irresponsible. 
But to even throw it out there 

1554
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:33,520
as even if it's a remote 
possibility that Ben Rice and 

1555
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:37,880
Aaron Judge can perform at a 
higher statistical level than 

1556
01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:43,720
Juan Soto and Aaron Judge in 
2024 is mind blowing stuff. 

1557
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:48,120
Because I've never seen what 
I've seen before from 2 dudes 

1558
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:51,480
like I did in 2024 with Soto and
Judge. 

1559
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:54,800
And here I am saying I think 
Rice is going to have a higher 

1560
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:56,160
average. 
I think he's going to have more 

1561
01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:57,840
home runs. 
I think he's going to have more 

1562
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:02,160
RB is, you know, and I got, I 
got to be honest with you, I 

1563
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:04,560
look at the OPS here, 98. 
I don't think I have the on base

1564
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:08,840
percentage that that Soto had. 
Do I think that Ben Rice has a 

1565
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:12,520
really good chance to have an O 
an OPS that's higher than Soto's

1566
01:17:12,520 --> 01:17:15,360
989 from 2024? 
I do. 

1567
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:18,840
I absolutely do. 
And I think he's got a real 

1568
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:21,480
chance to exceed the amount of 
runs that Juan Soto scored, 

1569
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:25,000
which was 128. 
He's on pace for 1:43. 

1570
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:30,040
It's crazy, it's crazy to think 
and it's obviously going to be 

1571
01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:34,120
fun to monitor now looks like 
the Yankees avoided some 

1572
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:37,200
disaster with the with the Rice 
injury. 

1573
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:39,800
You know, a little contusion. 
All right, X-rays clean, That's 

1574
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:42,880
good. 
It takes 1 fast bolt to shatter 

1575
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:44,640
3 bones in the wrist for any 
player. 

1576
01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:47,360
I'm not just talking to 
generalities now, so I'm not 

1577
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:53,040
putting money on this, but it is
not, it is not irresponsible to 

1578
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:54,680
at least have the conversation 
now. 

1579
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:56,840
I don't want to throw it out 
there to you See what you guys 

1580
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:58,360
think? 
All right, who's up next here? 

1581
01:17:58,360 --> 01:17:59,840
What do we got there? 
Jay, hit me up. 

1582
01:17:59,840 --> 01:18:03,680
We've got our friend, first time
caller, long time listener Matt 

1583
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:07,640
Cardoza from Peekskill, NY. 
Oh, Maddie, up in Peekskill, Did

1584
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:11,760
you go to Stefanak? 
Nah, did you go to Peekskill? 

1585
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:13,040
Where'd you go? 
To high school, I did Peekskill,

1586
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:14,040
Peekskill, Peekskill High 
School. 

1587
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:15,760
We were good enough in 
basketball. 

1588
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:17,120
We didn't have to go to 
Stefanak. 

1589
01:18:18,440 --> 01:18:21,440
Understood, although I don't 
know man my my buddy from Marist

1590
01:18:21,440 --> 01:18:25,360
who played a Stefanak Trev that 
that step in act team in the 

1591
01:18:25,480 --> 01:18:28,400
early 90s, I don't know how old 
you are, was one of the best. 

1592
01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:31,200
I mean they had 3-4 guys Conlin 
played at Providence. 

1593
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:33,240
I I don't know if you were 
beating that step in act team, 

1594
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:36,120
but maybe the. 
Maybe maybe the Elton brand one,

1595
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:39,960
the one that you know, first 
overall pick in 1999 pretty good

1596
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:40,800
I. 
Understood. 

1597
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:43,280
Nah. 
So I just want to call in Ben 

1598
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:46,320
Rice real quick. 
Yep, he's incredible. 

1599
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:49,160
I never thought we would get a 
first baseman with this kind of 

1600
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:51,280
pop, with this kind of batting 
average. 

1601
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:53,760
He's not Jordan Alvarez, because
he does. 

1602
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:56,240
He still strikes out more than 
him, but he's incredible. 

1603
01:18:56,240 --> 01:19:00,160
But what I really wanted to come
in and talk about, there's no 

1604
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:02,320
reason to think that the Knicks 
aren't winning at all this year.

1605
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:05,200
You can start thinking that man,
I said that it's it's not a hot 

1606
01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:08,120
take. 
It is a, it is a readjustment 

1607
01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:10,280
based on well over a month of 
play. 

1608
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:13,040
I mean, they are just beating 
the shit out of everybody here, 

1609
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:14,440
Matt. 
It's not even competitive right 

1610
01:19:14,440 --> 01:19:16,160
now. 
They look, they look amazing. 

1611
01:19:16,440 --> 01:19:19,720
And watching the rest of the 
NBA, it's really only the 

1612
01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:24,120
Thunder looking, looking at how 
the Spurs kind of capitulated 

1613
01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:26,160
last night. 
I'm not worried about Victor 

1614
01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:29,160
Wimbunyama against Mitch 
Robinson and Karl Anthony Towns 

1615
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:31,680
the way he's playing right now. 
And they don't have the rest of 

1616
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:34,040
the roster that the Knicks have 
right now. 

1617
01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:38,720
When we got Alvarado and Karl 
Anthony Towns bought into the 

1618
01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:42,680
defensive philosophy, something 
about his game clicked. 

1619
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:44,960
It was like the final. 
Everything started to click into

1620
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:47,360
place. 
We started passing the ball, the

1621
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:51,400
high post, being able to to 
isolate, allowing Jaylen Brunson

1622
01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:55,760
to get his shot off and not have
to dominate the ball to the head

1623
01:19:55,760 --> 01:19:57,640
coach. 
Because I don't think Thibodeau 

1624
01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:00,760
would have allowed the team to 
rest as much, play as much of 

1625
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:02,720
the bench to keep everybody 
fresh. 

1626
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:04,680
Agreed. 
The team now looks. 

1627
01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:06,640
Complete. 
They've experimented with 

1628
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:11,200
lineup, so now you get players 7
through 11 coming in looking 

1629
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:14,200
comfortable, running the offense
and defense the way they should,

1630
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:15,960
even if they don't hit the shots
they should. 

1631
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:18,160
They're rotating the ball quick 
enough where they're getting the

1632
01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:22,400
open shots, maintaining the 
level of intensity on defense 

1633
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:25,080
and offense. 
The offense is flowing. 

1634
01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:28,720
Mitch, I'm sorry, Mikkel Bridges
has never looked more 

1635
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:32,960
comfortable in a Knicks uniform.
OG and an Obi is as efficient as

1636
01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:35,480
anybody and he's unguardable 
when he puts his shoulders down.

1637
01:20:35,480 --> 01:20:37,240
He's a dog man, He is a grown 
man. 

1638
01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:40,440
OG is playing out of his mind. 
And with Karl Anthony talents 

1639
01:20:40,440 --> 01:20:43,200
kind of using all of the 
different talents that he has, 

1640
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:45,640
being able to pass, being able 
to dribble, being able to 

1641
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:49,640
defend, not getting out over his
skis and screaming at a referee 

1642
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:51,560
for five seconds while 
somebody's running down the 

1643
01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:54,600
court and getting an open layup.
He's actually getting back while

1644
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:56,120
still looking over her shoulder.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1645
01:20:56,120 --> 01:21:01,160
Give him a little whatever. 
But the the energy and the the 

1646
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:04,000
togetherness of this team. 
I haven't seen a New York team 

1647
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:08,120
like this since the 2009 Yankees
where it they got the comebacks 

1648
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:10,720
time after time. 
And it just felt like everything

1649
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:13,960
that was happening was happening
in the right time at the right 

1650
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:15,680
place. 
It was it was almost 

1651
01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:18,480
serendipitous. 
How everything just came 

1652
01:21:18,480 --> 01:21:21,240
together and seeing the Karl 
Anthony Towns transformation 

1653
01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:24,560
into a legit NBA superstar. 
I don't want to hear anything 

1654
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:27,560
about Giannis ever again because
Giannis can't shoot the way Karl

1655
01:21:27,560 --> 01:21:28,280
Anthony Towns. 
Can. 

1656
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:29,360
No. 
Not even close. 

1657
01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:32,000
Karl Anthony Towns can rebound 
the way he does. 

1658
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:35,160
He now is showing he can defend 
the way he does, he can pass the

1659
01:21:35,160 --> 01:21:38,200
way he does. 
He is a complete superstar 

1660
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,240
player and that's when we talked
about Jalen Brunson can't be the

1661
01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:43,000
best player on the team. 
I think this is what we're 

1662
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:45,680
talking about with Karl Anthony 
Towns, a complete player that 

1663
01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:49,640
can give you 20 points, 10 
rebounds, 5 assists, 2 blocks, a

1664
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:53,440
steal, low turnovers, hit three 
and then you've got the bench 

1665
01:21:53,440 --> 01:21:55,840
and you've got the togetherness 
and you've got a coach who now 

1666
01:21:55,840 --> 01:21:59,320
knows how his rotations working.
The rest of the NBA doesn't have

1667
01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:03,760
the intensity across 48 minutes 
to keep up with us over A7 game 

1668
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:06,760
series. 
So even if we slip up and like 

1669
01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:10,280
get on the road or something, 
we're taking it to game seven no

1670
01:22:10,280 --> 01:22:11,960
matter who it is. 
So I would love to see the 

1671
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:13,560
Thunder. 
I don't care who it is. 

1672
01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:16,840
There's no reason to think that 
this New York Knick team cannot 

1673
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:20,000
win a championship. 
And I think every Knicks fan in 

1674
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:22,000
the tri-state area needs to get 
behind them. 

1675
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:26,080
It's time to really believe they
do, because it's time to go, 

1676
01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:27,880
Maddie. 
It's good time. 

1677
01:22:28,440 --> 01:22:30,320
It's good, Tom, baby. 
Let's go, Matt. 

1678
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,680
Matt, great call, outstanding. 
Energy, it's awesome it. 

1679
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:36,160
It's obvious you really know the
game well. 

1680
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:37,560
Well done. 
Great point. 

1681
01:22:37,560 --> 01:22:41,280
Salient point, some might say. 
Good job there, dude. 

1682
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:42,280
Wow. 
It's a good call here. 

1683
01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:43,280
All right, so a couple of 
things. 

1684
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:45,800
Now. 
See, there's two things in place

1685
01:22:45,800 --> 01:22:48,120
here, and it's about the 
evolution of the Knicks. 

1686
01:22:49,040 --> 01:22:52,040
For them to get to this point, 
there had to be a plan from the 

1687
01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:54,680
coach, OK? 
And you could have different 

1688
01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:57,360
degrees of trust in the coach. 
You could take shots at the 

1689
01:22:57,360 --> 01:23:00,200
code. 
Whatever it is, it is undeniable

1690
01:23:00,440 --> 01:23:04,520
that the Knicks offense has 
gotten much better under Mike 

1691
01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:10,280
Brown and their defense has not 
taken a step back #1 #2 this is 

1692
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:13,160
not where you have to really 
load the players because the 

1693
01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:15,080
coach has to present something 
different. 

1694
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:16,800
And that's the plan that I just 
referenced. 

1695
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:22,240
And then certain players need to
make certain concessions to make

1696
01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:25,800
the plan work. 
And part of that is Jalen 

1697
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:28,000
Brunson. 
You can't just keep hammering 

1698
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:30,000
the ball, dude. 
You got to spin it around. 

1699
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:31,880
We we need motion, we need 
movement. 

1700
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:35,000
We're too predictable. 
When you just hammer the ball 

1701
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:37,960
and you doing it for 8-9 
seconds, we're stagnant. 

1702
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:42,120
Defense easier on the defense. 
There's no subsets because if 

1703
01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:45,160
you do that too often, which he 
would, and I love Jalen, that's 

1704
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,960
my really my only criticism. 
I mean, that is defense, but he 

1705
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:50,080
can't really help his defense 
because he's just smaller and 

1706
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:51,800
slower than a lot of these point
guards. 

1707
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:55,400
But you could control the 
monopolization of the ball and 

1708
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:57,880
he has. 
So you need a plan, then you 

1709
01:23:57,880 --> 01:24:01,320
need guys to buy into it. 
Like pragmatically, like, all 

1710
01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:04,440
right, maybe this could work. 
And then you need egos to be 

1711
01:24:04,440 --> 01:24:07,480
checked at the door. 
And that's where concessions 

1712
01:24:07,480 --> 01:24:09,640
come in. 
And when you have enough of that

1713
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:14,720
stuff and you have the requisite
talent, that should add up to a 

1714
01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:17,160
team that could really win a 
championship. 

1715
01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:21,000
And that's all there is to it. 
I mean, they have changed and 

1716
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:23,960
they have evolved and they have 
gotten better, and it is 

1717
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:27,400
undeniable. 
And the NBA is on the NBA. 

1718
01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:30,000
Pardon me, the NBA is on notice.
They're on notice. 

1719
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:33,080
You know the other thing too, 
and I said this to start the 

1720
01:24:33,080 --> 01:24:34,200
show. 
I really was a good call. 

1721
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:38,360
Think about this right. 
So cat picks up his first foul 

1722
01:24:38,760 --> 01:24:44,120
and all right, it was a foul. 
The second one I no, the third 

1723
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:46,080
one I didn't I didn't think was 
necessarily a foul. 

1724
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:47,600
Second one was definitely a 
foul. 

1725
01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:51,080
That was when he was ISO D on 
like on the in the block kind of

1726
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:53,480
semi block right side and then 
beat had the ball. 

1727
01:24:53,480 --> 01:24:54,840
That was a foul. 
The third one. 

1728
01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:58,360
I don't know if that was really 
a foul, but anyway, Cat gets a 

1729
01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:02,320
found 9 minutes and 38 seconds. 
I mean, a couple of minutes you 

1730
01:25:02,320 --> 01:25:04,080
5 you 5 minutes into the game, 
right? 

1731
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:06,360
You're like, that's not that's 
not great. 

1732
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:09,560
Then he picks up another one 
with 655 to go in the first 

1733
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:11,680
quarter. 
Now you get the first Test here 

1734
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:13,920
because now it's a totally 
different complexion from the 

1735
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:16,280
previous series. 
You're like, OK, let's see how 

1736
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:18,560
they adjust. 
Well, and we talked about this 

1737
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:20,560
and I give Nick Nurse a lot of 
credit because I would do this 

1738
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:22,600
all the time. 
You go to Mitch, obviously he's 

1739
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:25,040
your backup 5, even though they 
play a little bit more together 

1740
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:27,240
and they were on the court again
a little bit together last 

1741
01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:29,720
night, something that they 
weren't doing at points in the 

1742
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:31,720
year that they're a little bit 
more open to doing now. 

1743
01:25:32,120 --> 01:25:35,200
But you know, hey, I mean, the 
Knicks are cooking on offense. 

1744
01:25:35,200 --> 01:25:37,440
We got to try to stifle these 
guys because they do whatever 

1745
01:25:37,440 --> 01:25:39,640
the hell they want. 
Wrap them up, put them on the 

1746
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:42,040
strike, Clank, clank, do it 
again. 

1747
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:46,040
Clank, clank. 
Now, at that point, you got two.

1748
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:50,080
You really have two options if 
you are Mike Brown, you say, all

1749
01:25:50,080 --> 01:25:53,080
right, there's no way I'm 
putting Cat in, you know, with 

1750
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:55,760
with two minutes ago in the 
first quarter and letting him 

1751
01:25:55,760 --> 01:25:57,920
run out there with two fouls. 
So that's not an option. 

1752
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:01,440
So the only two options are you 
just hope that Mitt starts 

1753
01:26:01,440 --> 01:26:04,120
hitting a few, which is going 
against the numbers and hoping 

1754
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,440
against hope because he's the 
worst free throw shooter I've 

1755
01:26:06,440 --> 01:26:08,960
ever seen in my life. 
He's worse than Chris Dudley. 

1756
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:10,600
He's terrible. 
He's horrendous. 

1757
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:13,720
He's 38%. 
I mean, honestly, I we could 

1758
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:18,520
have we could have shot 38% when
we were 1038%. 

1759
01:26:19,240 --> 01:26:22,680
It's just wretchedly bad. 
So that wasn't a viable option. 

1760
01:26:23,080 --> 01:26:25,720
The other option was, all right,
well, maybe there were three 

1761
01:26:25,720 --> 01:26:27,960
options. 
Maybe you throw OG who has 

1762
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:32,320
guarded and beat in the past, or
you just look down the bench and

1763
01:26:32,320 --> 01:26:35,680
you call somebody's number who 
hasn't played much and you throw

1764
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:38,480
hot Porty in there. 
You know, and I'm, I'm not 

1765
01:26:38,480 --> 01:26:41,400
saying he looked like Patrick 
Ewing out there, but it worked 

1766
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:43,720
because the Knicks stumped them.
I mean, the Knicks after the 

1767
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:47,000
first quarter with all the foul 
issues and with Mitch missing 

1768
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:50,080
all four free throws, Knicks 
were up 3325. 

1769
01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:54,520
Bronson had 14 points, they were
+5 and rebounding and Embiid was

1770
01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:57,440
one for six from the field 
despite making six out of six 

1771
01:26:57,440 --> 01:27:00,720
from the free throw line. 
So, you know, and then I like 

1772
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:03,840
the fact that he put Cat right 
back out there to start the 

1773
01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:05,440
second quarter. 
I like that. 

1774
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:09,680
And then Mitch picked up foul #3
with 752 to go in the second 

1775
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:13,000
quarter. 
So like, don't let the lopsided 

1776
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:15,640
score fool you. 
There were some early 

1777
01:27:15,680 --> 01:27:18,920
impediments and some early 
challenges in that game that if 

1778
01:27:18,920 --> 01:27:21,560
Mike Brown didn't navigate those
properly. 

1779
01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:24,080
I mean, I'm not saying the 
Knicks don't win because Bronson

1780
01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:26,520
was cooking, OG was great, 
Bridges was really good. 

1781
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:29,360
You know, things were happening,
but and it be just the is a 

1782
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:32,200
disaster in the drop coverage. 
I mean, he is a detriment 

1783
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:33,960
defensively. 
He's a statue. 

1784
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:36,480
You got to do whatever you want 
against him all series. 

1785
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:39,120
And you know, one of the big 
reasons why I think the Knicks 

1786
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:43,320
have such a big advantage here 
is, I mean, we know the Nick 

1787
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:45,280
reasons. 
But all right, I'm going to, I'm

1788
01:27:45,280 --> 01:27:47,320
not going to ride off and beat. 
He'll have a game or two where 

1789
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:48,880
he's great, at least 
offensively. 

1790
01:27:49,160 --> 01:27:51,520
And I've got great respect for 
Paul George and he was pretty 

1791
01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:54,000
good last night. 
And Max, he's a blur and he's 

1792
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:56,560
going to be a problem, though 
the Knicks do have multiple 

1793
01:27:56,560 --> 01:28:00,080
capable defenders who you can at
least rotate to try to slow him 

1794
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:02,040
down. 
I think one of the real keys 

1795
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:04,760
here because he is a tremendous 
young player. 

1796
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:08,600
Talk about BJ Edgecomb. 
He is a 20 year old pup. 

1797
01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:11,800
He's a 20 year old kid, all 
right. 

1798
01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:15,000
Look at OG Anobie's body. 
Look at him. 

1799
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:17,800
Look at when he drive, Look at 
when he sets a screen. 

1800
01:28:17,960 --> 01:28:19,800
Look at when he moves past 
somebody. 

1801
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:22,840
He goes right through him. 
Edgecomb's not doing that yet. 

1802
01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:26,960
Now, three, 4-5 years down the 
road, I mean, whatever Knick 

1803
01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:29,240
version we have, Edgecomb's 
going to be destroying the 

1804
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:31,920
Knicks because he's going to be 
that kind of player and Maxi 

1805
01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:33,800
will be in his prime and then B 
will be gone. 

1806
01:28:33,800 --> 01:28:36,040
It'll be their show, right? 
And it's going to be tough. 

1807
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:39,160
But right now, a 20 year old, 
not that he won't have a good 

1808
01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:41,400
night because he can't score. 
He's got a good motor and I love

1809
01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:43,560
him. 
I remember watching him when St.

1810
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:45,720
John's played Baylor. 
I think that was in the Bahamas 

1811
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:47,760
a couple of years ago. 
I remember following his 

1812
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:50,160
recruiting because St. 
John's was trying to get him and

1813
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:52,880
I'm like, this kids definitely 
going top five in the draft and 

1814
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:54,960
he deserved that. 
I think he went third. 

1815
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:56,960
He deserved that. 
But he's 20. 

1816
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:59,920
He doesn't have that strength. 
Even Bridges, who's not nearly 

1817
01:28:59,920 --> 01:29:03,680
as stout as OG Anobi. 
When you've been in the league 

1818
01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:07,360
6-7 years, nutrition, weight 
room, just being accustomed to 

1819
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:11,440
banging bodies with grown men, 
Edgecomb is not going to be a 

1820
01:29:11,440 --> 01:29:15,200
consistent night to night, game 
to game factor. 

1821
01:29:15,480 --> 01:29:19,440
There will be ups and there will
be downs because he's 20 and the

1822
01:29:19,440 --> 01:29:23,440
Knicks are trotting out grown 
man after grown man Big 

1823
01:29:23,440 --> 01:29:26,640
advantage Knicks. 
What did I miss there, Jade? 

1824
01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:28,800
Did I miss anything? 
The only thing we've still got 

1825
01:29:28,800 --> 01:29:32,080
the what's the realignment? 
Oh yeah, yeah, I want to get to 

1826
01:29:32,080 --> 01:29:33,160
that in a minute, but go ahead. 
What? 

1827
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:35,400
Was that it? 
No, I mean, that's all I can 

1828
01:29:35,400 --> 01:29:37,600
think of in terms of terms of 
the Knicks. 

1829
01:29:37,600 --> 01:29:39,480
I think. 
I think you've hit everything. 

1830
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:42,040
I I just love that call. 
I mean, dude, if that doesn't 

1831
01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:44,840
get you fired up, I don't know 
what will. 

1832
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:49,160
It's so great that the series is
split one day apart. 

1833
01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:51,640
What is better for basketball? 
Oh, I love it. 

1834
01:29:51,880 --> 01:29:54,920
I love it. 
What I love it, I mean because I

1835
01:29:55,080 --> 01:29:58,320
last series there were multiple 
games and I think pretty much 

1836
01:29:58,360 --> 01:30:02,120
every series where there was a 2
day three day break, something 

1837
01:30:02,120 --> 01:30:04,200
like. 
Can't stand it, can't stand it. 

1838
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:07,760
You lose old flow like the 
storylines get interrupted. 

1839
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:09,440
I was just checking on my photo 
because I hadn't checked. 

1840
01:30:09,440 --> 01:30:12,040
I didn't check this morning. 
The Knicks, I don't know what it

1841
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:14,320
opened up at, but I remember 
saying on yesterday's show the 

1842
01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:16,760
Knicks were 6 1/2 point 
favorites game one. 

1843
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:18,760
What do you think they are going
into Game 2? 

1844
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:21,880
At least 13 point. 
No, you. 

1845
01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:24,520
Think that's too high? 
No, way too high. 

1846
01:30:24,520 --> 01:30:25,720
So I can tell you don't gamble a
ton. 

1847
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:27,640
It's not going to jump. 
Seven, I don't gamble a ton. 

1848
01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:29,080
No, let's that's OK, that's 
good. 

1849
01:30:29,080 --> 01:30:32,080
Tyrese Maxi didn't come through 
for me last night. 

1850
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:33,440
Oh, you had a little prop 
action? 

1851
01:30:33,440 --> 01:30:35,400
Oh dude. 
Because I do like the weird 

1852
01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:38,440
parlays. 
Like like I'm a parlay guy 

1853
01:30:38,440 --> 01:30:39,840
where? 
Fucker bet dude. 

1854
01:30:40,480 --> 01:30:42,280
I know so. 
Give me what? 

1855
01:30:42,280 --> 01:30:43,720
What did you have, by the way, 
last night? 

1856
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:46,120
Or hold on, the Knicks are the 
same. 

1857
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:47,800
They were 6 1/2 point favorites 
game too. 

1858
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:49,520
Now, what was the parlay? 
All right. 

1859
01:30:49,680 --> 01:30:51,680
Right. 
And it it went decently well. 

1860
01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:55,160
Nick's money line, OK Cat 15 
points. 

1861
01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:58,120
That good. 
Jalen Brunson, 25 points. 

1862
01:30:58,160 --> 01:31:00,920
I love it. 
Joel Embiid, 6 rebounds. 

1863
01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:02,800
Oh, that terrible pick. 
Terrible pick. 

1864
01:31:02,800 --> 01:31:03,520
Didn't work. 
Out. 

1865
01:31:03,520 --> 01:31:04,840
And what did he, what did he 
finish with? 

1866
01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:09,000
Four, he's he. 
That's something that I I now 

1867
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:11,920
have begun to realize. 
He's not the best in this 

1868
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:15,520
current state of Joel Embiid. 
He's not the best rebound. 

1869
01:31:15,680 --> 01:31:17,400
But true. 
But I got to be honest with you,

1870
01:31:17,400 --> 01:31:19,400
you're not asking him to get 12 
like Moses Malone. 

1871
01:31:20,840 --> 01:31:22,960
Exactly. 
So was it a four team or A5 

1872
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:23,600
team? 
Was that it? 

1873
01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:28,400
And then one more Tyrese Maxey, 
25 points didn't come close. 

1874
01:31:28,400 --> 01:31:30,720
OK, I got to tell you, would you
put down 10 spot? 

1875
01:31:30,920 --> 01:31:32,520
5. 
Five to win what? 

1876
01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:35,320
A19080. 
Oh, it was Week 38. 

1877
01:31:35,520 --> 01:31:37,880
That's it. 
Yeah, Well, Nick's money line 

1878
01:31:37,880 --> 01:31:40,440
obviously dilutes the odds. 
So all right, let me go through 

1879
01:31:40,440 --> 01:31:43,000
this checkpoint by checkpoint. 
Nick's money line. 

1880
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:46,200
And I like to do that with the 
NFL or even college football. 

1881
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:49,760
And I'm not a big parlay guy 
because to me it's a sucker bet 

1882
01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:51,760
based on experience. 
Trust me. 

1883
01:31:52,160 --> 01:31:55,840
And I'm and I would never do 
like a $5 parlay. 

1884
01:31:56,120 --> 01:31:58,480
Like when I would do it, I 
would, you know, 150, you know, 

1885
01:31:58,480 --> 01:32:00,600
2-3 teamers, you know, come on 
now, come on now. 

1886
01:32:01,520 --> 01:32:04,560
Sometimes more, you know if I 
was up and and. 

1887
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:07,200
Losing it all. 
Well, yeah, I'd, I'd rather, 

1888
01:32:07,200 --> 01:32:08,680
yeah. 
The more you bet, the more you 

1889
01:32:08,680 --> 01:32:09,760
lose. 
So the more teams you 

1890
01:32:09,760 --> 01:32:12,880
incorporate into a parlay, the 
better the odds of you losing. 

1891
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:15,280
Now, I get it. 
Like people don't want to gamble

1892
01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:18,320
a lot of money, which I respect.
I, I don't gamble like that 

1893
01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:20,680
anymore. 
And it's fun and a little juice 

1894
01:32:20,680 --> 01:32:22,080
on the game, a little extra 
action. 

1895
01:32:22,080 --> 01:32:24,160
You throw down A5 spot, you 
might win 38. 

1896
01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:26,200
If you win it, then maybe you go
a little heavier game too. 

1897
01:32:26,440 --> 01:32:28,320
I understand the thought 
process. 

1898
01:32:28,320 --> 01:32:33,440
So to me, I would, if I did do a
parlay, I would always like to 

1899
01:32:33,440 --> 01:32:37,320
incorporate a money line for a 
team like say the Chiefs were 

1900
01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:39,240
-12 1/2. 
And I'm like, I don't know if 

1901
01:32:39,240 --> 01:32:40,920
they're gonna really cover this,
but I know they're gonna win the

1902
01:32:40,920 --> 01:32:43,040
game. 
Let me get a hanger on the board

1903
01:32:43,160 --> 01:32:45,680
even though there's no 
guarantees, but guaranteed when 

1904
01:32:45,680 --> 01:32:48,040
Chiefs just went doesn't matter.
They win, you know, three to 

1905
01:32:48,040 --> 01:32:49,480
two. 
If they give up a safety and 

1906
01:32:49,480 --> 01:32:52,240
they hit a field goal, they win 
like one for one on the poor 

1907
01:32:52,240 --> 01:32:54,040
leg. 
Then you start getting a little 

1908
01:32:54,040 --> 01:32:56,680
more aggressive, right? 
So Nick's money line smart, 

1909
01:32:56,800 --> 01:33:03,680
especially in A5 Teamer cat 15 
smart, Brunson plus 25 smart and

1910
01:33:03,680 --> 01:33:07,720
B6 rebounds smart. 
The maxi. 

1911
01:33:07,720 --> 01:33:12,600
If you ask me this of all the 
five I would have said not that 

1912
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:15,360
maxi can't drop 35. 
I don't think I would have run 

1913
01:33:15,360 --> 01:33:17,680
with that last night. 
Been locking up. 

1914
01:33:17,760 --> 01:33:20,480
That's the only mistake. 
That was what every single 

1915
01:33:20,480 --> 01:33:22,920
person was telling me before was
just like, it looks good 

1916
01:33:23,200 --> 01:33:25,480
otherwise, but like I just. 
Don't they they? 

1917
01:33:25,680 --> 01:33:27,600
You know, my friends are going. 
I just don't think Maxie's 

1918
01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:30,040
coming through with that 
performance tonight. 

1919
01:33:30,280 --> 01:33:32,000
And they were. 
Right, they were right. 

1920
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:34,960
They were right. 
What I'm surprised the return 

1921
01:33:34,960 --> 01:33:39,960
was only. 38 bucks, I mean, 
every single one of those was 

1922
01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:44,480
pretty like the odds were pretty
low, like JB 25 was super low 

1923
01:33:44,480 --> 01:33:47,640
and you know, it was everything 
was still old before the game, 

1924
01:33:47,640 --> 01:33:51,360
but it happens. 
And yeah, as as could my friend 

1925
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:55,400
M Cardoza says 25 points is 
tough every time. 

1926
01:33:55,400 --> 01:33:58,720
I always feel I always feel iffy
about throwing that bet down. 

1927
01:33:58,720 --> 01:34:04,400
I think the only locks for that 
Shay and like Jokic kind of. 

1928
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:06,800
Yeah, yeah. 
And Brunson. 

1929
01:34:06,840 --> 01:34:10,200
Kind, Yeah, yeah, yeah, those 
three, those 3 did. 

1930
01:34:10,240 --> 01:34:12,200
You help the Tatum, you know, 
but no, there's, there's not 

1931
01:34:12,200 --> 01:34:13,840
many. 
I mean, I don't mean Tatum 

1932
01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:18,000
necessarily right now, but. 
No, he's a he's a good 25 lock, 

1933
01:34:18,080 --> 01:34:21,080
but he's also a good like for 
him now. 

1934
01:34:21,080 --> 01:34:24,480
I think the the big bet going 
forward will be like Tatum, 10 

1935
01:34:24,480 --> 01:34:28,360
rebounds, like taking him over 
10 boards because it'll be like 

1936
01:34:28,360 --> 01:34:29,800
it'll give you a good. 
I don't know. 

1937
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:30,920
A little. 
A little return. 

1938
01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:32,800
Unfortunately for you, you're 
gonna have to wait till next 

1939
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:36,200
year to get in there. 
When you can't hit enter yet, it

1940
01:34:36,200 --> 01:34:37,720
can. 
Nobody's going to take the bet 

1941
01:34:37,720 --> 01:34:41,000
because the game's playing. 
I'll take, I'll take Jason Tatum

1942
01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:44,000
10 rebounds in game one. 
October 15th. 

1943
01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:46,640
October 27th. 
Preseason there you go the 

1944
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:50,560
opener game one all right, so I 
don't think we missed anything. 

1945
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:52,880
I'm trying to think if I want to
do that realignment tomorrow. 

1946
01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:56,400
I think I might want to say that
I think I might want to say that

1947
01:34:56,400 --> 01:34:57,640
for tomorrow. 
I think that although wait, we 

1948
01:34:57,640 --> 01:35:02,400
got well, we got we got Joe B 
tomorrow yeah, but I think Joe 

1949
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:03,960
will be separate. 
I don't think we'll do Joe 

1950
01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:06,800
during the live stream. 
I think we'll do the lot. 

1951
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:10,000
I mean, I know we'll do the live
show tomorrow from 10 to 

1952
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:13,120
probably 11:30. 
And then do Joe B after. 

1953
01:35:13,120 --> 01:35:15,080
As a separate like we did with 
Michael Kay. 

1954
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:20,000
Yeah, no, no need to to throw in
some some difficult elements 

1955
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:22,560
again like with the K like I 
thought the live was going to be

1956
01:35:22,560 --> 01:35:25,400
super clean, but you never know.
Yeah, I think the K videos got 

1957
01:35:25,400 --> 01:35:27,520
about 20,000 views, so it's. 
Both of them. 

1958
01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:29,600
Yeah, yeah, true. 
That's true. 

1959
01:35:30,240 --> 01:35:31,880
And hopefully, if you can 
listen, if you guys are new to 

1960
01:35:31,880 --> 01:35:34,600
the show, the of course you want
to like, and you want to 

1961
01:35:34,600 --> 01:35:37,000
subscribe and you want to do all
that stuff that helps me and, 

1962
01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:40,080
and gives me, you know, more of 
a platform to build things out. 

1963
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:43,520
But it's, it's pretty easy, you 
know, in terms of like, if, if 

1964
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:45,680
certain things happen on 
YouTube, then more things can 

1965
01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:47,640
happen. 
It's a pretty basic equation. 

1966
01:35:47,960 --> 01:35:49,600
So you guys got to carry that 
mail. 

1967
01:35:49,600 --> 01:35:52,520
I mean, I have been here 
literally every single day 

1968
01:35:52,800 --> 01:35:57,240
except the day after Easter 
since December 22nd, you know, 

1969
01:35:57,480 --> 01:35:59,040
and, and, and, and Christmas 
morning. 

1970
01:35:59,040 --> 01:36:02,240
But I had something recorded for
you everyday, you know, we're 

1971
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going live. 10:00 We're doing a 
show. 

1972
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I would take, I'll take a little
time off during the summer. 

1973
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:08,160
Certainly not until the Knicks 
are done and all that stuff. 

1974
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But I mean, I'm still going to 
be a human being. 

1975
01:36:10,200 --> 01:36:12,880
But you know, I mean, I'm, I'm 
doing what I got to do. 

1976
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You guys have supported the show
great. 

1977
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I know the, you know, the number
of live streams is, is, is good 

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in terms of live views. 
I want more. 

1979
01:36:21,680 --> 01:36:23,360
It's, it's good. 
It's grown, it's good. 

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The numbers have grown. 
We'll get to 25,000 Subs by the 

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end of the month. 
I think that's a guarantee. 

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And that's been growing fast 
and, and I'm proud of that. 

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And the good thing too, we 
introduced this last week and 

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it's been very good for the 
channel. 

1985
01:36:36,280 --> 01:36:39,360
You know, I get it. 
Those of you watching right now,

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you're a big fan of the show. 
You like the calls, you know, 

1987
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you probably listen to me on 
WFAM, but I also understand that

1988
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not everybody can just sit there
for two hour or an hour and 45 

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minute show. 
I get that. 

1990
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So what we started doing, and 
it's more work for J Rod, but 

1991
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he's been doing a great job with
this and the numbers have shown 

1992
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that it's certainly worth it. 
We've taken two or three 

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segments from each of the lives 
here and we've put it up as 

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separate content. 
And it gives you a chance to 

1995
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really, it's like a menu. 
Like if you don't care about 

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Bolby, if you're a Mets fan and 
you don't care about or if 

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you're a Dodgers fan or if 
you're a Red Sox fan or a 

1998
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Phillies fan, you really don't 
care what the Yanks are going to

1999
01:37:14,440 --> 01:37:16,560
do with Volpee. 
Well, you don't need to sit 

2000
01:37:16,560 --> 01:37:18,600
through the Volpee video. 
Just go and find something else 

2001
01:37:18,600 --> 01:37:21,440
that you like here. 
So that is fairly new and it's 

2002
01:37:21,440 --> 01:37:24,040
worked out really well. 
And shout out to J Rod for for 

2003
01:37:24,040 --> 01:37:27,360
doing that. 
He had the idea and he texted me

2004
01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:30,800
and I sweat hand to Bible. 
I was thinking the same thing 

2005
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:34,000
and was about to text him and he
hit me with the idea. 

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I'm like, that's awesome. 
That's how you know it was meant

2007
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:37,600
to be. 
We're doing this and it's been 

2008
01:37:37,600 --> 01:37:40,120
really good for the show. 
So I'm going to wrap it up. 

2009
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I appreciate everybody. 
I appreciate the calls, 

2010
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appreciate the comments, 
appreciate the chat. 

2011
01:37:44,080 --> 01:37:46,480
Make sure you like this. 
I mean, that's a given. 

2012
01:37:46,480 --> 01:37:49,120
You come and you like the show, 
bounce around the channel. 

2013
01:37:49,120 --> 01:37:51,800
Previous shows, if you missed 
the K conversation, that's their

2014
01:37:52,080 --> 01:37:53,680
hell. 
If you're really new to the show

2015
01:37:53,960 --> 01:37:57,160
and you missed the Stephen A 
conversation about a month or so

2016
01:37:57,160 --> 01:38:02,320
ago or the La Greca conversation
about two months ago or the 

2017
01:38:02,320 --> 01:38:06,000
first Michael Kay conversation, 
which was less about the Yankees

2018
01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:08,240
and more about, you know, the 
industry and his life and 

2019
01:38:08,240 --> 01:38:10,720
growing up and all that stuff. 
Just couple of friends shooting 

2020
01:38:10,720 --> 01:38:12,320
the breeze. 
That's up there as well. 

2021
01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:15,520
So Pitino interviews, you know, 
more and more and more, and 

2022
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:16,760
we'll have Joe B on the show 
tomorrow. 

2023
01:38:16,760 --> 01:38:20,480
So yeah, we can only hope the 
Mets lose 9 to 1 and Joe B is 

2024
01:38:20,480 --> 01:38:22,440
extra riled up. 
Get him going after the boy 

2025
01:38:22,440 --> 01:38:24,680
genius. 
So have a great Tuesday. 

2026
01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:26,920
Oh, wait, is today Tuesday? 
Yeah, Yeah. 

2027
01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:27,800
Yeah, it is. 
Jeez. 

2028
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:30,760
I mean, we don't leave the house
every morning. 

2029
01:38:30,760 --> 01:38:31,800
You kind of forget what day it 
is. 

2030
01:38:31,800 --> 01:38:33,800
It's absolutely ridiculous. 
I told you, I just go on these 

2031
01:38:33,800 --> 01:38:35,320
drives once in a while just to 
get some air. 

2032
01:38:35,600 --> 01:38:38,800
Gotta get out of the house. 
These long commutes, these nine 

2033
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:40,800
second commutes are absolutely 
crushing me, man. 

2034
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:43,160
So have a great rest of your 
Tuesday. 

2035
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:45,360
I will see you tomorrow with 10,
Beningo. 

2036
01:38:45,360 --> 01:38:48,040
Tomorrow right around 11:30 or 
12:00. 

2037
01:38:48,280 --> 01:38:51,560
It's going to be a big day. 
Great job by the Knicks, great 

2038
01:38:51,560 --> 01:38:53,600
job by the Yankees. 
At one point the Knicks were up 

2039
01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:56,040
by 30 and the Yankees were up by
11. 

2040
01:38:56,080 --> 01:38:59,840
I mean that that that is that is
a good, good day and a great job

2041
01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:03,920
with all the tributes that went 
out to to the late great John 

2042
01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:07,800
Sterling yesterday, whether it 
was Susan on the fan or Michael 

2043
01:39:07,800 --> 01:39:10,920
and Susan putting the blue and 
white roses at home plate where 

2044
01:39:10,920 --> 01:39:12,960
Michael taking one of his 
signature calls. 

2045
01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:14,920
It is high. 
It is forward is gone judgy and 

2046
01:39:14,920 --> 01:39:18,960
blast other broadcasters doing 
that around baseball, the Mets 

2047
01:39:18,960 --> 01:39:22,320
broadcast team doing that. 
You know, it's it's a sign that 

2048
01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:25,920
is as twisted as this world 
seems to be some days, there's 

2049
01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:28,120
still a lot of good. 
I believe that and and I thought

2050
01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:31,080
we saw a lot of that yesterday. 
So have a great Tuesday, catch 

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01:39:31,080 --> 01:39:32,600
you tomorrow. 
Peace we out.