What's going on everybody what's happening Happy new year to you
welcome back to unleashed about the what the 4th of the 5th show
we've done so appreciate you guys hanging out.
I got to tell you I mean I'm I'm just I'm absolutely fired up
about Mendoza. We'll get to some other stuff
how the Yanks and the Mets whiffed on of my obviously the
story with Heyman about the Yankees, maybe be an interest in
Bichette got some hot stove for you.
But you know, listen, I I don't need to see anything else from
Fernando Mendoza. He's got it all.
I mean, he's big, he's good athlete, incredibly accurate.
But most importantly, and This is why The Jets need to do
whatever it takes to get this guy.
And I'll get into the Raiders, the complications there and
obviously the Giants at the giants lose and then the giants
are I'll get into all those different machinations.
But think about this guy the the thing that's been so elusive for
the Jet quarterback, all right? They've had guys that can throw,
I mean, Zach Wilson can throw it, you know, across an ocean on
on the run. Sam Darnell had a pretty good
arm, pretty good athlete as well.
They've had guys that timed well at the combine that threw well
at the combine. You know what The Jets never
have. The Jets never have a sound
decision maker. Oh, yeah.
By the way, also has the requisite physical attributes to
be a stud. Mendoza's the guy.
I mean, that that's it. That's all there was doing.
Yesterday was a phenom day, you know, Nurse the hangover late
night the night before yesterday was a gift from the sporting
college football NFL gods. As much as this year, at least
with The Jets and the Giants, has absolutely sucked.
Pretty much like every other year.
You could just sit down on the couch and you can get in a
little Dante more, see what he's got.
If you haven't watched them yet, which I have, but many of you
kind of just let make more, maybe not many, some of you
jumping into this quarterback evaluation pool now and then
right after that you get to watch Fernando Mendoza
absolutely toy with an Alabama team.
Now, let me at least just get this out of the way because I
know we didn't play well, they didn't score, he got hurt.
I actually think not for The Jets at 3:00 or wherever they
might be. I actually think Ty Simpson is
better than some of you think. If you've watched Alabama this
year. They just, they can't run the
ball. I mean, they're asking this kid
to throw the football 7273% of the time, which is just
untenable. So he is, I actually think if he
comes out and there's somebody in that, you know, 131518 range,
whatever, I wouldn't go nuts if somebody took him.
I wouldn't I wouldn't proclaim that it was a bad pick, put it
that way, just because he didn't do anything yesterday And
Alabama is just a a shove of what they used to be.
But to me, and again, you had to have watched Mendoza for most of
the season, even going back to the game with Oregon early in
the year, rainy, which obviously portends, you know, you would
think good things in the inclement.
Especially I think every jet home game it's raining.
The inclement weather at MetLife, the winds, the
wrongness, the chill like he's played well and it's very tough
conditions, right. So I checked that box a long
time ago. Now we don't even know if Dante
Moore's coming out right. We don't we don't know that.
But yesterday in that game. Am I missing so I am missing
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All right, so the the play early in the game, it's third down,
it's third and two Indiana's pinned at their own 10.
It's now I knew Indiana was going to win, but you know, you
never know. You have an early wacky
occurrence and and they are young athletes and sometimes
young athletes process pressure differently.
They could be a little fragile or they can be emboldened
depending upon what happened. So if if, if, if Indiana punts
early and you know, at that point, Alabama would have had a
short field because they would have been punting basically from
their end zone, probably get around midfield.
You don't really know where the flow of the game is going to go.
And and not so much about that. I care that Indiana won,
although I was absolutely rooting for Indiana because I
love the story and it's just amazing that third down play
third and two. So subtle.
And this is the thing that and I've already been sold on
Mendoza. But when you see stuff like
this, this is what should tell you.
This should be the guy. And by the way, also the guy for
the Giants, which I'll get into in a minute.
But this is what the New York Jets never have.
They never have a guy on 3rd down.
And by the way, Indiana number one in the NCAA in 3rd down
conversion rate. Now, I know they run the ball
well. I know they've got a great
coach, so the schematics are fantastic.
But that is, I can promise you this, when Mendoza goes to the
NFL, they might still be really good on 3rd down.
They're not going to be #1 you could book that they're #1
because Mendoza anyway takes the snap and he does a conventional
drop and he's kind of flown out to the right a little bit.
And you know, somebody on, on Alabama, I, I think it was ADN
kind of cracks through and is coming at him now.
You have two choices. You can either speed things up
and get sloppy and, you know, make a bad throw or maybe try to
run it and maybe get stopped or maybe try to run it and get it.
But what I loved about that play, and you know the play that
I'm talking about, it was the least amazing play that he all
that he made all day, maybe all year if you really like in terms
of his highlights. But it was the play that once
again should tell The Jets that this is the dude that you want
leading your team period. I don't want to hear about
pumping to 2027 and when you've got the three first round picks
and arch, who's looking better and better and better.
I get that this is the guy now. How do you get your hands on
him? I'm not entirely sure I've got a
plan. I'll divulge it in a moment.
But on that roll out, you could see the defender coming out
coming at him and as he's going like in in a, in a, in a
straight line toward the right hash at the last second, he's so
quickly processes that this dude's going to either back down
my pass or get me. You actually see him kind of
just flow backwards, maybe a yard and a half, maybe 2 Max.
It was subtle. And as he does that and creates
that extra space to get the ball off, he jumps off his off 1 foot
like Jeter in the hole and he throws a dime, not a laser, but
the plate 'cause he didn't have to.
The placement was a keyhole. There was one place to put that
football and Mendoza put it and it was amazing.
It was absolutely amazing. And those are the things, you
know, if if I'm Moody and I'm watching this sometimes, I don't
need to see anything else. He's 65, he's 225.
He runs well enough. He's a great kid.
He's never going to get in a lick of trouble.
You never have to worry about that.
He's a phenomenal teammate. And and you know, by the way,
when you you look at his body type and this ties into Dante
board a moment. He went, you know, you could
give him 2-3 years in the weight room.
He's going to be 65235 easy, easy, and he's going to carry
that weight easy. It's not going to be like trying
to stack, you know, 12 lbs on Zach Wilson's tiny frame.
This is a big dude. This is a real man.
And this is the quarterback that I want for the New York Jets
period. All right, Robert, Robert Huares
or Huertas. Thank you, Robert.
Hey, BT Jets fan here. I think we need a new owner.
While I mean, that's a given, I mean, I could do an entire five
hours on how I wish Woody Johnson didn't own The Jets.
He's awful and we and our own stadium, that would be nice as
well. It will always be Giants
Stadium, despite being called MetLife.
That part I disagree with because where I used what was
it, 5B or 5C, wherever I used to tailgate for those couple of
years that I had the tickets with Parcells for The Jets, our
spot like 40D, right? Was staring at that now.
I mean, I've got great respect for the Giants, but from my
perspective, staring at that ugly Giants Stadium neon sign,
that was Giants Stadium, they would just wrap it in green when
The Jets showed up to play football.
So no, no, it's not the Giants Stadium.
It's The Jets and the Giants Stadium.
And it sucks both ways. When the Giants play there, it
sucks. When The Jets play there, it
sucks. Yeah, at night it looks a little
bit better because you got the neon.
Whatever. They're not getting a new
stadium anytime soon. And it's not Giants Stadium,
it's MetLife. Now what's going on here is the
what the hell is that? Why is that popping off?
Oh, now, oh, now we see if you guys can see the amount of
technology that I that I have in this room.
It is. And the problem is, is my son's
going back to school on Monday. You know, usually the kids are
holding me like God, get out, just go back to school.
Mommy and daddy got to get back on routine.
Come on, get out of the house, come back, get, you know, get
back to the practices and the games and the Daily Slate.
And I'm, I'm, you know, I'm lamenting when you know, he's,
you know, and my daughter as well.
But I'm like, that's my producer.
Maybe we just maybe we do home school, get this thing running.
OK, So you ask me. Well, genius.
All right, You you love Fernando Mendoza.
You love them. Well, how are you going to get
them? Because the Raiders are going to
pick first, obviously, in almost all probability.
So let me at least give you this.
I don't want to assume that all of you know this.
I know that some of you do. I get that.
Bottom line, there's an infinitesimal percentage that
The Jets get the first pick. Of course, that's our luck, and
they won't get the first pick. But the way they could do it is
Jets lose to the Bills. There's not a safer bet in the
history of football then that. A freaking chance in hell that
the now the Giants seem to win a couple of games that they
shouldn't and over the years and The Jets did do what the with
the Rams in the Lawrence sweepstakes.
But generally, like when The Jets bleed out, The Jets at
least give us the gift of bleeding out and not messing
things up. So they're not going to mess
this up. Not going to beat the Bills.
Now when they lose to the Bills, the Raiders and the Giants, OK,
obviously if they win, well now The Jets are or and even
potentially the Browns. And then of course, you
incorporate like if things went incredibly favorably for The
Jets, which there's like less than a 1% chance that'll happen,
then you would also have to look at strike the schedule.
I don't want to bog you down with that nonsense.
They're not going to get the first pick.
So it would take an act of God, which will never be bestowed
upon The Jets, I'm sure to get the first pick.
And it would take an act of cruelty for the football gods to
not pick, to pick worst and 4th. So where they are now third, I
think that's where they're picking.
And maybe there's an outside chance they pick 4th.
Listen, I do think that where's the, what's the numbers here?
Yeah. I mean, I think there's actually
a slight chance that the Giants can win.
And I actually think that there's a slight chance that the
Raiders could win. Who knows what these teams are
constructing in terms of trying to, you know, flush these losses
down the shoot as much as they can.
I I don't know the whole Max Crosby thing with the Raiders.
That was pretty interesting. So, you know, the Raiders right
now, they're taking on Kansas City.
Vegas is 5 1/2 point dogs. I would think that the Chiefs
will somehow find a way to win it.
A grotesque bet. The under ugly, you know, low
scoring eyesore of the game. Raiders, obviously.
Pardon me, Dallas, I'll be taking off the G men.
Giants are plus 3 1/2. I would flip a coin.
I think of all the teams, I think the Giants probably have
the best chance to win that game.
Giants, The Jets a shot, 6 1/2. No way.
Tennessee at 42. Touchdown dogs at Jacksonville.
Arizona, They don't need a quarterback anyway.
Well, they might need one down the road.
They won't. They won't draft one this year.
They just drafted Kim Ward. Arizona, they might take a
quarterback at the Rams. They'll lose that game.
And then when you get below 5, you're looking get the Browns at
six. They need a quarterback.
The commanders don't. New Orleans might, Kansas City,
Cincinnati. All right, so that that's the
stuff there. Now, how do you actually get
assuming this plays out, Raiders one, Giants 2, Jets 3.
How do you actually get this where the The Jets can entice
the Raiders enough to actually make a trade with them and maybe
even somebody else behind The Jets.
But this is where all the assets that Muji collected obviously
very, very favorable for The Jets if they want to jump in,
you know, to to to to the top spot.
Well, first of all, you've got to at least hold on to the
notion. And this is a beautiful thing.
There aren't many teams Dumber in the NFL than the New York
Jets. Here's one.
It's the Raiders. I don't care if they're in
Oakland. I don't care if they're in
Vegas. They are dumb and they are bad.
And they are also still because of because of Davis, you know,
they are still beholden to certain things that at least at
from a, a, a player characteristic interpretation
point of view as they scout these players.
I, I don't think it's completely impossible that the Raiders take
Dante more. I, I really know number one, you
think about the proximity the state of Oregon to the state of
Nevada. Now, if it's me, I, I wouldn't
let that factor into the decision because Mendoza is just
better period. But you never know what the
Raiders. Now let's say the Raiders this
morning and there was a report that they might be considering
more. Again, you throw it out there,
you entice teams to make trades. You can't get too wrapped up in
in that nonsense there. Much like with Boris and the
reports and all the baseball stuff floating out there, 90% of
it's a bunch of bullshit. We all know that you got to be
smart to sort through it. However, I do really think that
they could be that they can fall in love with Dante Moore if they
haven't already and they're playing each other next week in
the semifinals. You'll get the Mendoza morphing
more match up. And honestly, it's going to
sound crazy. I actually almost want, even
though I'm really rooting for Indiana.
I just love their story. It's amazing.
Hadn't been to the Rose Bowl since, what, 1968?
I mean, it's always Bobby Knight Hoosiers basketball.
It's great to see that and their coach is phenomenal.
But if Oregon were to win and Dante Moore was to shine, that
might be like the the final impetus #1 for Dante Moore to
declare that he's coming out. Because that still has to
happen. Now, if that doesn't happen,
we're screwed because then they're definitely taking
Mendoza. And if more does come out, you
know, I, I, I don't know what the exact calculus would be for
the Raiders again, Is it geography that could sell some
more tickets? Is it they think he's a slightly
better athlete? Is it that now this this part
could be true? And this is where I think
there's a just enough viability to the possibility the reports,
or at least the industry speculate.
I wouldn't call it a hard report.
I'd call IT industry speculation that the Raiders might take
more. He's young.
He is 20 all right now. He's also pretty light and in
terms of weight, 63, he's 2O42O5.
You know, and, and, and you know, how much functional weight
can you pop on that kind of frame now and not have it
adversely impact his, you know, his measurables as he gets
deeper into his career? I don't have that worry with,
with Mendoza because he's already carrying around 225 S to
me to get, as I said before, 232-230-3235 in 3-4 years.
That's a given. The weight room, nutrition, just
a little change of, of how he trains and how he approaches his
career, his job. I think that that's very
plausible. It's going to happen and I don't
think he's going to lose anything more.
I, I don't know, but what the Raiders could be thinking here
is that because he's so young, that there might be some much
more untapped potential that they might be willing, if they
are enticed enough to maybe say, you know what, we view both of
these prospects kind of the same.
Maybe we like Mendoza a little more for 2026, you know, maybe
we're convinced that more in 2028 and beyond, you know, a
couple of years down the road can be slightly better or
comparable. Well, I mean, you know, if you
start knocking down that door with multiple first round picks,
the Raiders just might be dumb enough to do it.
They really, really might be. And and if that's the case, I
mean, it's I trust Muji completely to be able to do
that. I really do.
Let's see here, guys. Let's see Brad from Miniola at
Brad Kaufman 3582. Appreciate the Super chat there.
Hey, we're figuring this out. Give me money.
Hey, how easy is this?
You know, I'll leave the fan. I set up shop in my office.
People give me money. Brad.
Brad from Miniola. I can't wait for the phone
calls. And I and I could and I could
spit, oh, can spit that fire the way you get that you got this BT
to the moon. No doubt.
That is the goal. That is the objective.
Now we have I, I should tell you this, we have already secured
and I want to be upfront with you guys as I always and it's
not going to happen tomorrow. Well, tomorrow, Saturday.
So it's definitely not going to happen tomorrow.
It's not going to happen Monday. It is going to happen where you
will have an ability to call BT unleash.
That is something I want, that is something I need.
That is something we're doing period.
Nothing like nothing else like, well, maybe, maybe it's going to
happen. I just can't tell you exactly
when. Now we've already secured the
phone number. That's already done.
We already have the number. So there's things behind the
scenes I won't bore you with. You know, you technical people,
you can probably imagine mixers and other laptops and a full
time producer when my son's, you know, not in science class as a
fifth grader. So these are all things we got
to figure out and we will. But yeah, I was pumped.
I came in this morning to get ready for the show.
And listen, I'm, I'm still sitting here watching YouTube
tutorials how to make this better, how to do all the things
we're going to do. And it's it's a product like the
monetization process for YouTube is not easy.
And it's a little overwhelming when you go from, you know, a
conventional terrestrial radio job, which I've had my entire
life to opening up this broad new world, which is amazing, a
little daunting and less daunting by the day, but amazing
to me because I got no limits now.
I could do whatever I want, whenever I want with whomever I
want, to whatever extent I want. Yankees fire somebody, bang,
we're live. God forbid, I don't even want to
say somebody gets hurt for the Knicks.
Knicks make a trade, boom, we're live.
Jets make a trade, bang, we're live.
Shane gets fired, which won't happen, but should boom, we're
live. So I'm loving it, but I'm
figuring things out a little bit still, as as you guys can tell.
But when I signed on today, if finally I finally had that last
level of monetization like you've got to hit.
I hit the I hit the benchmarks immediately thanks to you guys
and I didn't do anything. You guys supported me 1000 Subs
right away, 4000 viewing hours right away.
And then what happens? And I understand it's a process
where then YouTube's got to dive in there.
People have to dive in to make sure it's all legit.
There's no like fake subscribers or fake likes and comments like
I mean, I mean, if I get to that point, then I'm just, I'm just
leaving the business all together because then then
something went really wrong. Then I will become a coach like
I used to think about back in the day, right?
I'll be, I don't know if I might have to move, but I I would
switch careers. I'm, I'm kidding the this is
great. This is great.
I, I, I'm really, really enjoying this.
I'm really, really loving it. But when I came in today, that
last evaluation on, on their end popped and there was like a
little like, I don't know, a little metal.
What am I going to do with that? But a little metal that said,
Hey, you know, you're fully cleared.
Then you got to start checking the million freaking boxes.
You got to start linking bank accounts, which is what my wife
is doing right now. I'll tell you, it's a family
show. It is.
Well, at least it's a family operation there.
There are a couple of curse words.
So I try to keep it. You know kind of clean, but
sometimes things just happen. Let's see here all right, so I'm
figuring out the Super chats. I'm seeing a bunch.
I don't want to ignore you guys Armand.
I mean 20 bucks that's incredibly generous.
Thank you very much wish you all the best.
I really really, really appreciate that at Nate under
score Jets listen to you all on on different platforms growing
up in New York City. So you probably go back to my
days at 10:50. Wow, maybe the wheelhouse, maybe
the Nick pre post game show on MSG God, I was horrible at that.
I had no idea what I was doing. YouTube's the most enjoyable way
to continue and consume things, in my opinion.
You know you're going to kill a BT.
That's the objective, no doubt. All right, Who, man, 4766?
What are these things popping up?
Look at this. I love, love the action.
It's like when I'm playing blackjack in the casino.
I got two hands and all the little side bets.
A lot of things happen, and I like this.
The busier the better. This fits my mind.
All right, BT what's the plan for The Jets if more doesn't
come out and Mendoza goes to the Raiders?
OK, Well, at that point, and that is a very important
question in this equation, Obviously, if Moore plays really
well and he played OK yesterday, he was he was fine.
He was good. If he comes out, then if he
comes out and the Raiders don't take him, I'm not taking Dante
Moore for The Jets myself. I'm not doing it.
I'm I'm just not. So I'm going to pass on that.
And now I'm open for business. Oh, the Browns, you know,
whomever the Cardinals, you want him.
Guess what, I might take him. You know, now I hold you hostage
and I need multiple first round picks and maybe a good useful,
young, cheap, really productive players too as well.
And I'll build out my roster and whatever, I'll just I'll get a
bridge quarterback and I'll go to work in 2027.
Like that's the beautiful thing about this guy's like the The
Jets really do control now, not 2026 as much.
They absolute, and I've said this, 2027, whatever they want
to do, they could do. And I mean anything.
All right, this year, most of what they can do they can
control, except forcing the Raiders not to take Mendoza
because if they are really truly compelled to do it, which I'm a
little less certain that they are, then maybe others.
Well, then there's always an Ave. for dialogue.
There's always a means for conversation and there's always
the ability to present somebody with a deal that they can not
turn down. And that would be that onus is
on The Jets, not me, not you. We can scream and shout all we
want on BT Unleashed, which I will, to do it, but it's up to
them. Jets got to have the appetite to
part with that draft capital. You know, hopefully Woody just
stays out of it and sitting on a beach somewhere in a hammock,
not getting in the way. Woody, just stay out of the way,
right? Just stay at it.
Let let the football people let them work.
You can watch, you know, you can even come into a room and poke
your head in. Don't say a word.
Don't get involved. Cut the checks, as they used to
say, Go make yourself small. That's an old school expression,
a kid. Go make yourself make yourself
small. So I think these developments
are incredibly encouraging like I am.
I am really excited for the future.
You guys know that Now when you look at Mendoza just in terms of
pure stature, 65225 more 632 O 6 but he is young and that Ty
Simpson 622 O 8. He is obviously a couple of
tears down from from where those certainly from where Mendoza is
and to me even where Dante Moore is now this one coming in from
Joe that is a a tricky handle to read.
So Joe, I'm sorry about that at Joe Huby.
I'm going to go with that. My bad buddy.
Why is Gruden not a legit option to replace Aaron Glenn?
We need a real proven next level coach who specifically has
quarterback coaching experience to turn this offense around and
develop these quarterbacks. OK, thank you very much.
I appreciate that, Joe, Listen, I the number one, I want to roll
back with Aaron Glenn because I just don't think there's enough
evidence that he can't coach now if there's not a whole lot of
evidence that he can. To be fair, it's a very nuanced
statement. But and and I've done this on
previous show. So I don't just want to always
reset points and be repetitive. I want to push this thing
forward. But Joe, to answer you
succinctly, but but directly, you know, nobody's if you think
that Mike Vrabel's going out with this Jets team that they
ran out this year, the last, I don't mean the first, you know,
789 weeks of the season. I'm talking about the the
whatever roster you call that the last month or so when their
point differential was the worst in December in NFL history.
Well, I think you're just delusional.
You can only do so much. This is not high school where
you take the air out of the ball and you try to, you know, keep
it in the 40s because you don't have the athletes.
Even that's hard to do. But maybe a great coach can do
that. We're a great high school coach,
whatever. In the pros, you either have
great talent or you don't. And if you have good talent
versus great talent and you have a great coach, will that good
talent can elevate When you have shit talent and they have none,
They have none. I mean, they're too many of
their starters or backups and then too many of their backups
should be taxi players, as I've said.
So I I would not make the move from Aaron Glenn and I don't
believe that they will. I don't care what reports are
out there. I'm not here to, you know, dump
on somebody's reporting. I don't do that unless I hear to
the contrary. And I'm not an NFL reporter and
never pretend to be. You know, if I tell you
something like Jazz getting traded at some point, that's
because I'm hearing that. Or a couple of years ago when I
knew Saint John's was going to go after Rick Pitino, it's
because I heard that. Like if I tell you something
like that, it's because I know it.
Now, that doesn't mean that things can't change in terms of
opinions or whatever. You know, negotiations can't
breakdown. But I but I'm not here to break
news. I'm here to provide content and,
and let it RIP and get loose and have a blast with you guys and
grow this thing out. So I'm not going to refute
reports, but I myself, I, I just, I find it almost
impossible to believe that under any fair measurement, any, under
any fully transparent and on the up evaluation that The Jets
would look at Aaron Glenn and say there is no way we can bring
him back for year 2. I just think that that's unfair.
Now. I also think it's misleading or
misguided or even just overly ambitious to say, Oh yeah,
there's there's a lot of signs here that Glenn is the guy.
I don't really see any signs except that the pen, well,
special teams was great. Penalties did go down about 7 or
8 spots in the NFL. And those are little things that
I wanted to see corrected, which have been corrected.
And Oh yeah, by the way, The Jets have what, number 7, I want
to say the number 7 rushing offense without a threat in the
passing game, without Garrett Wilson for two months with an
undrafted rookie quarterback. I mean, I don't know what you
guys expect, but you got to get back to reality.
And the reality for me is they are not going to move on from
Glenn. They should not.
And even if they did, Gruden would not be my target.
He he just wouldn't be. I like John.
I think he's awesome on TVI love his quarterback stuff when he
does the the film session with the players.
I, I think, I think that Jon Gruden's NFL success, honestly,
is widely overstated. I think it's vastly overrated.
He won with somebody else's roster with the Tampa Bay Bucks,
right? And then he hasn't done a damn
thing since. I mean, really had a lot of
middling seasons. Can you really tell me that not,
you know, all the stuff with the emails and what happened with
him, with the Raiders, Not to defend him there at all, but do
you actually think that he had the Raiders on course, like on
this trajectory to become one of the best teams in the AFC?
The answer is absolutely not. So I know we fall in love with
the name and the presentation and old school gruff guy.
Like it kind of reminds us a little bit of Parcells and the
way it used to be. I'm just not feeling it.
Like if if that's like if they decided to fire Glenn.
And again, I mean, really nothing would surprise you with
this team. But like if they did, then you
got to go out there. You got to make a trade for
whomever loses the Steelers Ravens game or Lafleur, you
know, if that ends really, really poorly for the Packers,
Like that would be my plan. But I don't really dive too
deeply into it in terms of bandwidth and and energy because
I just don't think it's going to happen.
I really don't you know, I I don't believe it's going to
happen. Wow, these super chats.
I love this. How about this at Armand Dash
Dutta, very generous. Thanks, man wish you all the
best. I appreciate that.
The other thing too. Now let's incorporate the giants
here, right, because you're sitting there and you're
listening to me talking about how the The Jets need to go and
make that massive swing for Fernando Mendoza, which I stand
by 1000%. I don't care if he goes 11 for
17 with a pick and a fumble against, you know, against
Oregon and they lose the game. I will not change my opinion on
by far who the best quarterback is and what and who I want The
Jets to get if they could. Again, you can't force teams to
trade. You can only entice them enough
to think about making a trade with you.
So now the Giants are going to get in the way here.
Now, I also think the Giants could win this weekend.
I really do now, what, 3 1/2 point dogs, Dallas at home.
Who knows where Dallas's head is now, Dallas will score.
But I mean, it's not inconceivable that the Giants
make some plays and they win. Now, I like Jackson Dart a lot.
And this was this was probably when I go back to the party that
I was at on New Year's Eve, right.
I think the thing that was brought up to me the most by I
like that like the con might by the fire pit inside when the
wipes were doing their things and we were doing we were doing
basically just getting messed up and hanging out.
I I really think that it was the jet like the Jackson dork
conversation was what we talked about most of the night.
And when there were a lot more giant fans there than jet fans.
I love Jackson dork. I think Jackson dork is is
awesome. I I think Mendoza is bigger,
stronger, sturdier. I think that Mendoza is more
accurate. I think the darts more dynamic.
I think that I think they're both now Mendoza's like the
choirboy and Dart is, which is a good thing.
I mean, you wouldn't mind a little more pizzazz, but
whatever. Dort has that pizzazz, but which
is good. And that that juice and that
that energy, that bounce, that that modern athletic
relatability that I think feeds into the entire locker room,
which I've talked about. And that's important.
You know, the white guys, the black guys, those who were
devoutly religious, those who aren't Republicans, Democrats,
centrist, like the best quarterbacks connect with
everybody. And I think Jackson Darts got
that gift. I really do.
So I'm a huge fan of Jackson Dart.
However, if the Raiders take Dante Moore and I'm the Giants,
I'm taking Mendoza. I'm taking Mendoza.
And, and I, I don't mean I'm going to just present the
illusion that I'm going to take Fernando Mendoza.
I'm flat out taking Fernando Mendoza.
And the only way I pivot at the last conceivable second is if
somebody, and that would probably be The Jets or somebody
else gives me an offer that is like, and even from The Jets,
like there's got to be limits. Like you're not giving up five
first round picks or four of the five that you have and you're
not giving up. Well, you're not giving up four
first round picks in two seconds and Garrett Wilson, like you're
not doing something stupid. But if somebody was compelled to
do that and I'm the Giants, well, then obviously you make
the trade. But if it's not enough equity
that I think is going to completely overhaul my my roster
and just give me this incredible infusion of of, of potentially
because it's a crapshoot, great young players that are
controllable. I'm making the trade, you know,
And again, this is coming from a massive Jackson Dart fan.
I, you know, when I say I'm making the trade, if if I'm just
pushed to a spot where I have to, then I will.
I'm not looking to move on from Dart, but I'm looking to be open
minded. And if somehow Fernando Mendoza
falls to two, I think you have to take him now.
That's what I would do. Do I think that the Giants would
take him? I don't, I don't, I don't.
And I think part of the reason is, I mean, again, did the fact
that Joe Shane's going to be here is is just comical.
But if we all know, going back to Hard Knocks, who was the one
pushing for Jackson Dart? That was Brian Dabel.
Now, that doesn't mean that Shane is not impressed with him
at all. I'm not implying that one bit.
But he's a little less married to the gentleman who stood up on
the desk and said we need this guy, guys, let's stop messing
around. Get this guy, get he wanted to
take him third overall. Dabel did.
And you got to give Joe a little credit here.
He showed some restraint and he got Abdul Carter, who was a
disaster for the 1st 13 weeks of the season.
Don't tell me about the pressures.
Get to the quarterback and make some actual plays when you the
third overall picked and you want and you want Lawrence
Taylor's jersey number. Give me a break.
But now we're starting to do that.
And, and I I always thought Abdul Carter was going to be
phenomenal. A little worried about some of
the stories, maybe some of the the the habits or the, you know,
habitually being late or falling asleep in a meeting.
Those are some flares that, you know, another reason why the
Giants got to bring in a big boy coach, somebody who's done it.
I mean, that that's one thing that they have to do.
So you never really know what the Giants are thinking these
days because the Giants have been a train wreck like The
Jets. But I just I think for the Giant
now that again, they'll present this as as an option.
Yeah, We're open everything. Sure, Sure.
Yeah, Yeah. Do I really think that they.
I don't think that they would take them.
I don't. I'm just telling you what I
would do. I really, really would.
All right, I want to jump into something else here very
quickly. We've got two other things for
you. You know, I got the thing that
bothers me right about the MI contract.
And by the way, keep chiming in on The Jets.
I mean those and the Giants and the coaching stuff and the
quarterbacks. I'll get back to some of the
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986? What's up Rich Rich rocking that
beard huh? Rocking the Yankee cap as well.
That's why you know Rich is a good man.
Congrats on the new channel BT Yankees comment.
I'm going to get to that in a minute but here we go.
What the believes going on with Cashman?
He's willing to give 18 1/2 for a crap starter for three years
but he passes on 330 ERA Solid 3 or 4.
Hashtag sell the team. I listen.
I mean, come on. Maybe I really haven't done it.
Well, I don't think I have. I know I haven't.
I haven't done it on YouTube. Maybe I need to do it on BT at
least once, you know? So I just, you know, tap into
the oath, the old sound bite, the old drop.
Brian Cashman has not earned the right to rebuild the Yankees the
way the Yankees need to be rebuilt.
That said, three years ago, maybe 4.
At this point, who the hell knows?
Anyway, I stand by that Brian Cashman has not done a good
enough job, period. Now, I'm also not going to yell
and scream because Brian Cashman is not going anywhere right now.
And to me, that is one thing I've learned when, when, when
it's clear that something that we want to change is not going
to change. I mean, I'm going to hit a limit
as to how far and how aggressively I can protest it.
You know what I mean? Like if, like, if we're not
sure. And not that I was, let me take
Tom Thibodeau. I wasn't sure what the Knicks
were going to do. I said straight up when they got
bounced, said it to Sal. I wouldn't bring it back.
I would move on. Love, Tom Thibodeau, massive
respect. Got to move on.
Here's why ABC boom, they did. It's working out pretty well.
We'll see where it takes them. But that was different because I
thought that there was a a point of reflection with the Knicks
upstairs that that that was certainly in play because there
was enough smoke throughout the, you know, little snippets here
and there. If you're a big Nick guy, you
know, there were a few points where, hey, if this road trip
early, if this road trip doesn't go well and there's some
rumblings, Nick's might move on from Tom Thibodeau.
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about a man who's
been in the organization since the 90s, since the 90s.
And he's done it. You know, he's a Hall of Famer,
Brian Cashman. He's done a great job or he did
a great job. Now I just think he does, you
know, a good job and I want good with the Yankees.
I want great because that's what the Yankees used to tell us.
That's what their demands were. That's what their expectations
were. Lose the World Series to the
Marlins, failure. Lose the World Series in O1 to
the Diamondbacks failure, get knocked out by the Tigers or you
know whomever else to get knocked at failure all those
years, right, The Astros, Dallas GEICO failure.
All right, man, I'm just doing what you're telling me.
So it is a failure when they don't win.
They haven't won since O 9 either way.
What what is he doing? I, I, I don't, I don't know.
Here's about a damn thing. Now.
I'm also not going to become unhinged yet yet.
That's the operative word yet because there are still a
multitude of things the Yankees could do, as I've chronicled
here on this channel, beating Unleashed, that will enable the
Yankees to be in position to truly be a championship team,
which right now they're not. And when I say truly be a
championship team, you know, be the best team in the America
League. Not going to be easy.
Toronto's really good. Trust me, I know.
And the other teams in the East, the entire East has gotten
better. The entire East has just taken a
massive step forward. Yanks have kind of laid out, but
if the Yankees get Bichette, the Yankees get another arm or if
the Yankees get Bellinger and another arm like I've I've laid
this out and I'll get to the Bichette to to the Bichette
stuff in a second. But you know, to answer that
question, I I don't really I don't know what they're doing.
I don't know what they're thinking.
They're just I can only tell you what I would do.
Like if I own the Yankees, man, I would just go full freaking
bore. I would say enough for this
bullshit. We're winning.
Screw the Dodger. Who do the Dodgers think that
they are doing what we used to do?
No, we're coming for you. Evil Empire, my behind, I mean
they're kind of slinking in the side door.
I want to see the stormtroopers, you know, kick the door down and
I want to see Darth Vader come in with that red sward and start
whacking people left and right to take it over the ship, take
it over the planet. They haven't do it.
They don't do that anymore. You guys know that.
So as I said, I wasn't get get worked up.
I guess I get a little bit worked out because it's it does
bother me, but there are things that they could do and until
they don't do them, I'm going to reserve my final assessment of
the Yankees offseason until that day.
Now, I'll give you a little snippets here, a little dribs
and drabs there, thoughts on what they should do.
You know, analysis on young players.
I mean, I, I love talking baseball.
You guys know that as as much as anybody, as much as anything,
you know, family aside and, and religion, all that stuff,
There's nothing, I don't think there's anything more that I, I,
I enjoy then either being on a baseball field watching a
baseball game or talking baseball and basketball is
pretty damn close to I'll talk baseball everyday.
So it's not that I don't want to, but I've got to at least
maintain a level of not even respect, which I try to do
anyway, but like a level of of understanding that that that
it's it's not over. Like they can still do things
here. And I think that they will.
There's no way the Yankees, even though I talked about this
yesterday, there is no way that the Yankees aren't doing
anything else the rest of the way.
I mean, if that happens, whatever I say is going viral
and I'm not even going to try to go viral.
It's just going to happen. Let's see Aaron from Australia.
How about the the Bubba Gump 1972?
Australia, let's trip on above me.
What's up dude? Australia.
I want to go to Australia that is just so far away.
But a beautiful country. Awesome.
Thank you, Aaron, and glad you have a new home.
Now. We needed Sal and and and get
the talk back in the calls. Let's go Mets.
So I was I reached out to Sal, I mean a couple times, but the
other day I said we got to get you as a guest next week.
So he's going to come. I don't know the day.
I don't know the time. I've got to even figure out how
to get the guest on the show, which we will do the rest of
this weekend. But you know, unless something
changed on his end, which I don't anticipate, we're going to
get Sal up on the show and that'll be next week.
And speaking to Sal, I was checking this morning.
There are there are only a handful of tickets for the BT
and Sal live show with Aaron Boone on January 22nd it at the
Vogel Theater in Red Bank, NJ. It's going to be awesome.
Be up on the stage, food, booze, Frank Sinatra impersonator.
Obviously Boonie, me and Sal smack him around with the card
game as well. No way we're losing that night.
I mean, there's no way. Like it's one thing like we
couldn't lose when when Boone challenged us and came into our
old house at the fan and challenged us in the baseball
card game and I love Boone. Boone went not all for one.
Boonie went over 2. Sal beat him, I beat him.
So that was our turf then. This is our turf that night.
We can't let Aaron come. He's a proud man.
So I wouldn't I wouldn't doubt if he's doing some homework,
there's no way he is coming in and beating us on stage in front
of a live audience. That's going to be streamed by
the way, too. So that that's going to be a lot
of fun. All right, let's see.
OK, getting a lot of that stuff there.
All right, So very quickly the my contract, right?
This is the one thing now I'm going to get on the Yankees for
this and I'm going to get on the Mets for this.
See the Yankees and Mets, they're not they're not cheap,
all right, even though whole house cheap.
That's an idiotic statement because they're not and the
payroll backs that up next statement.
Oh, I don't know, Cohen maybe just bought the Mets just to get
the Metropolitan Park and get those casinos and the the Soto
thing was just a little enticement.
Now he's done spending back to the Wilpons.
Honestly, you're a clown if you think that.
I'm sorry if you think that. I can't help you.
If you think that and that's your opinion, fine.
That is not my opinion. What my opinion is, is that
neither team is dumb, although sometimes they do very dumb
things. Neither team is cheap.
What the problem is with both of these teams is neither one of
them has an ounce of creativity structuring these contracts.
How come the Dodgers find a way to defray money and and defer
money? How come the Astros?
I'm like, I thought we were done with the Astros.
It's one thing, you know, for Altuve to know what pitches come
in and for those idiots to bang trash cans and for them to cheat
their way to titles and rob Baron Judge of another MVP.
Like that's bad enough. Now we got to sit back, you
know, my dinner own business, getting ready to get into the
new year. You know, hot stove's been
quiet. I got to see a my signs.
A three-year deal for peanuts with opt outs after each year.
Why couldn't the Yankees or the Mets do that?
Could somebody tell me? All we heard was not Yankees
really aren't connected to a my. Now, after the initial surge of,
we thought that they were. And then really for the last 2-3
weeks, there was not a shred of evidence that a MY was ever
coming to the Yankees. And if you thought so, you just
weren't paying attention. All right #1 #2 there, he was
never connected to the New York Mets either.
When when you do a contract like that, especially for these two
teams right now, the Yankees have some interesting barriers
in the sense that, all right, Cole's not going to be ready,
he's making big money. Roldan's not going to be ready,
he's making big money. Well, that's the exact reason
why a three-year deal with an opt out would have been
fantastic because if am I would have been OK with that and if it
was presented to him by the Yankees, I would have to think
he would have been OK with it. Well, guess what, if he has a
kick ass year, you know top ten Cy Young, you know three.
I'm going to go on twos. Let's let's he's not Yamamoto,
but three-point O 9 ERA and 186 whiffs and a WHIP barely over 1.
And all the measurables are good.
All the analytics are good and it's justifiable to opt out of
that deal. Guess what, he opts out and
you're not stuck with the money. But what you do have number one,
you're actually doing something right for your star right
fielder who's getting older by the year.
I mean, can you start doing something right for Aaron Judge?
I mean, I was begging on that the other show.
It is it's amazing to me. This guy doesn't say a word.
This guy is is is is an amazing human being and this guy is by
far the best player I've ever seen in my life.
And the Yankees are dragging their feet not being I don't
mean spending money. Understand the difference not
being incredibly proactive and, and like doing things that, I
don't know, maybe gives Aaron Judge a chance to join the likes
of Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra. I mean, could you do that for
the guy? Because he could have taken $400
million and left and got to San Francisco and he decided not to.
And this is how you pay him back.
So whatever that that that bothers me, right, that does
bother me real quick at beater car, a long time fan been
listening to since 10:50 even before the show with Stephen A
Wow, you are you are an OG. You have been around the minute.
Thank you very much. That's phenomenal.
Glad you're doing your own thing.
Didn't have a choice. I had to get it going.
I'm thrilled I did. You are the epitome of New York
sports fandom. Bless you and your family.
Thank you. I really appreciate that.
We appreciate that. And like in terms of being, you
know, as you say, the epitome, you know, I, I don't know.
I mean, I'll, I'll let others say, you know, what I do well
and, and what I don't do well. But I, I do think the one thing
that, that most of you have always felt that have listened
to me is that I love what you love.
Like, I might not love the Mets if you're a Mets fan.
I mean, I love the Giants if you're a Giant fan, but I just,
I just love the New York sports machine.
And I think that you can tell that it's innately in me and
it's not bullshit. It's not like faking it.
It's like this stuff, This is what I wanted to do.
I think you guys know that I'm not going to get into that whole
thing again. Now you know that this is what I
wanted to do. So I think that there is.
I certainly hope and I believe that I'm proud of this, that
there's an element of authenticity and there is
certainly transparency. And if I make a mistake, I'll
raise my hand, take the L like the Lindor stuff, just hitting
from one side all those other day, other things I've been Zach
Wilson messed up my bed. I'll take ownership of it.
I think you guys appreciate that.
I I really do that. This one's about Bichette.
I'll read it. I'll get to it after at Brendan
3297. What's up BT our Yanks are
finally linked to Bo. I've only been saying it for
about a month now. Maybe more Bo's three or
younger, three years younger than belly.
Our infield could use the All Star caliber bat.
Not to mention that he's a righty.
Absolutely. Who knows, maybe Dominguez Jones
pans out in left field this year also.
Thank you for that, Brandon. I appreciate it.
I'm going to actually address the the the Bichette stuff in a
minute here. But think about this too.
All right, this really bothers me back to the of my stuff.
If it was like five years or, you know, ridiculous money.
All right, I can see the Yankees taking a pass.
I can see the Mets taking a pass as well, but when you have a
player who flat out said I don't want to join the Dodgers, I want
to beat them. And you want to talk about
Central casting one O 1, especially from the Yankees
point of view, you know, because the Dodgers beat them in the
World Series and it was a slop fest with the errors.
It was embarrassing. Then the Dodgers were talking
shit about the way the Yankees run the bases and the way the
Yankees play. So to me, that would be my
motivation. Like if I was Hal, I would just
be intensely the moment I wake up.
What can I do today to stick it to the Dodgers?
But that's me now. So the the thing about the my
deal, though, is it it would have kept everything that
they're trying to keep in terms of the integrity of the payroll.
And I know they've got some young pitchers that they really
like. Now, if he had a bad first year
and he doesn't opt out, all right, well, that's the price
you got to pay for business. You're the New York Yankees.
You got the Twins or the Pirates.
Big damn deal. You can't absorb it.
And Oh, yeah, by the way, because he's a Japanese player
now, I don't know, but this is a fairly educated guess.
You're going to be able to monetize that, you know, 3040%
taken right off the if you have a Japanese player making $30
million a year, what do you think you're getting back?
And he's doing even even if he's not doing well, because when he
when he first signs, there's going to be an infusion of
Japanese advertising dollars. So if you pay somebody $30
million from Japan, and even if they're like, say, if they're
more like a Rabu than Yamamoto or a Rabu more than Matsui or
even Tanaka, you're still going to make some of the money back.
So it's not like even paying $30 million, the merchandising, the
globalization of the game, It's just, I don't, I don't get it.
While they weren't in on this one, I just don't.
And let's say everybody says, well, he's not quite like
Yamamoto. What, what if he actually is?
And what if with coal coming back healthy, imagine a
rotation. Now this is fairy tale 'cause
he's not, he's not coming. But this why it bothered me.
Imagine, imagine I'm talking about in like June, July, when
the rust is off and everybody's healthy and now it's full go
right coal freed Yamamoto. Oh, Yamamoto.
Oh, my. Roldan, Schlittler, Schlittler,
Roldan. Go.
Guess what? Oh, Clark Schmidt's coming back
from Tommy Johnson in August. We're going to put you in the
bullpen. Will Warren.
Pretty good rookie year. You know what?
We'll put you in the bullpen for a little bit.
We're going to get another bullpen arm.
And oh, yeah. By the way, we got Bichette and
we did these, you know, these other things that we've done.
We're now in a position to win a championship.
Yeah. I don't know and and like for
the Mets, to me, you can make a case that's almost more than the
Mets were never remotely connected to him.
Almost more appealing from the Mets perspective to have been on
in on on my on this kind of a deal because you got McClain,
who you know, I love right by Mets need pitching.
I mean, you know, news at 11 news flash, breaking news, like
if like they they need pitching in the worst conceivable way.
If their pitching staff is wretched right now.
I mean, the Mets right now are not a good roster, right,
Although I do like what they did and I do understand what they
did. I'm talking about right now for
2026 Mets going nowhere. I think we all know that I could
change. But right now.
So if I'm the Mets, I'm sitting there saying, all right, school
ball hasn't been dealt yet. All right, I'm not giving up
McClain for a rental. Some of you would I wouldn't
he's that special. I love him right.
So by signing a my I don't have to give up Tong or sprout.
So when school bull is available, I I have those in my
like that's still at my disposal, That's still in my
trade arsenal, not to mention Jet Williams and Ben, whatever
else they might want to do trade wise, right.
So you just you buy you buy a potentially really, really good
pitcher. It's not the five years that
Sangha got 3 and it could be one or it could be two because you
can opt out. He could after each year.
So you insert them, you know, in in the rotation.
Yeah. You want to mess with.
Clay Holmes is pretty good. He was the one guy who pitched
fairly well in Miami that last series.
I thought he had a pretty good year converting from reliever to
starter. And I thought that he would.
I like Clay Holmes. He's fine, you know, middle back
of the rotation guy. But you could have had like
McClain and Amai and Peterson and whatever and and and Holmes
and and obviously Manaya like you going to piece something
together. Not that you can't still do it
because you can still get Peralta, but to get Peralta you
got to give stuff up. And I, and that's what I don't
get. You have the chance to get
somebody who can be really, really good, like the
statistical equivalent of a pitcher, maybe slightly less
than Peralta. I mean, Peralta is really,
really good. I'm not going to say he's going
to be quite like Peralta, but 80% of Peralta or 75% of
Peralta. But you just spend the money.
You're not giving up any draft picks or any any, any minor
leagues and any prospects. So you can still do the school
bull stuff. You can still do something big
at the trade deadline. I just both of these teams
missed the mark and both of these teams better find the way
soon to figure out how to begin thinking in a modern way and
constructing deals in a modern way.
Like I still think they're thinking the old way.
Well, the AAV five years, you know, like, come on, man, you
got to get with the you got to get creative.
Teams are beating you to the punch.
Hey, the Red Sox did it with Bregman.
They did it. They did they did it last year.
And it might work out because he very well might go back there.
So I was very disappointed, not surprised because I knew it
wasn't coming here, but very disappointed.
It just, I don't know, I thought it would give the both teams
potential top of the rotation arm while preserving the the
stable of young players. To me, it would have made a ton
of sense. They didn't do it.
And I just, I, I really, I, I don't understand why.
I really, really do not let me see here at Dan M, there's a lot
of letters and whatever they are.
So not trying to just omit that day.
And I don't know what that is. Does anybody ever try to listen
on Spotify? For some reason, it it's never
live. It always uploads the episode 24
hours later. I have a sense whose fault that
might be, but I'm not going to call around.
That could also be a Spotify issue, which we're also new to.
So we are up on Spotify. We will eventually be up on
Apple. So just the visual of, pardon
me, the audio elements are there.
I don't really know how Spotify works in terms of the download
and the upload. And when we when we do what we
do on on our end, which we've done for the 1st every episode
since we did that about not every, I shouldn't say that
three episodes, I believe we're up.
So we just started that after a few of the first shows, you
know, as we try to get out, get out of the out of the batter's
box here. But I don't know if, if Spotify,
even if we do what we're supposed to do and we and we
did, does it take a full day for Spotify to, to download that?
I don't think that it does. I don't think that it should.
And I again, I I surmise whose fault it might be, but we're
going to keep that one in the family and we're going to
hopefully rectify that. Oh my God, you guys are nuts.
Let's see here is gay is Gabe. I don't know what that what that
means. How about you guys really
hitting up the Super chats? That's absolutely fantastic.
Thank you guys. My God, I remember how daunting
it was when I was trying to figure this out and I and I was
laughing and you guys who saw the first couple of the first
show in my basement and my poker in my poker room, which was it
was cool, but the audio wasn't great.
The Wi-Fi wasn't great. I I wanted to get this more my
office, the my son's like, oh, dad, enable this, enable that,
do this super chance this some shit.
Like dude, can I please get on the air?
Can I, I just got to see a green dot at me.
I got to know we're live. I got to have a little lighting
that I'm capable of turning on, which I have the microphone.
That's simple because I've used it for unkillable for the old
stuff on Odyssey with The Jets, which I now do here Ditto I mean
come on, let me figure it out, but we have figured out oh,
while we're doing that. So I want to give you guys a
little look behind the scenes. I just have to find the the
picture. Pardon me, I'm really really
excited for this all right, that's not it all right, let's
see hold on guys all right. So what we're doing is, and it's
going to take number one, we have to make it.
And that I would say is probably about it's, it's only because
one of my good friends runs the business.
It's probably going to get to go to take like two or three days.
So I'm just finishing up on the concepts.
That's really the only hold up here.
But eventually what we're going to do is behind me is going to
look like that. All right, I put this on social
media. You guys have seen that.
That's going to be the backdrop and it's going to go from the
top of the wall. You see the St.
John's Biggies Championship, you see the Emmy up there, Shout out
to me with the Emmy. Kidding, but be above the
bookshelves. It is going to actually look
like that. So it's going to look really,
really nice and I'm really excited about it.
Now I've got to find a way. Am I going to actually drill it
into the top? I won't do this, but drill it in
and be able to pull it down? Is it going to be standing with
some, you know, some pictures that actually supported?
I'm not 100% sure yet, but that is coming.
So I really do like this backdrop and many of you have
comment by the way, let me know what you let me know what you
guys think about this. If you like this, I'm going to
do it anyway, but I am I am curious.
I mean that that was one that I kind of tinkered with a little
bit here coming out of the wall, BT unleashed.
These are all things that we are finalizing as we build this out.
I do like myself. There's a part of me that kind
of likes. Let me see.
I'll just do this for a second. Like you could go up there.
Like you can see that was that. I told the story, throwing out
the A, the pitch of the A's game.
That's an autographed picture underneath it from Bob Feller.
Obviously the Donnie jersey picture, DiMaggio, some other
stuff, whatever, some some St. John's bobbleheads.
Coach Carter, SEC to rest in peace, Coach Rick, all that
stuff. But I do like the
personalization and many of you have said like, and I actually
took a few things down. I've got a box in in on the
other side of my my Home Office where it was almost just too
busy. It was too noisy.
I wanted to clean it up a little bit and I did.
And there's still a lot of things up there that you can
kind of see like that. Nick basketball is signed by
Clyde Frazier, some other stuff. And I know that you guys like
that because I've gotten a lot of comments from you where you
said, you know, wow. As I've gotten as I've kind of
watched these pods here and, and the shows on YouTube and more
familiar with the setup, I find myself bouncing around the
shelves and focusing on certain things and wondering what it is
and where you got it. And there's going to be some
storytelling too. I told you the story about how I
actually got the Hank Aaron baseball, but I didn't get it.
My dad got it years ago when he was playing softball for the
police team and they went to Ohio and they got rained out and
he met Hank Aaron at a steakhouse that night.
You know, a couple of guys for the, for the NYPD softball team
went there to play, went went out to eat and he got the Hank
Aaron ball. And when I was like 9 or 10, I
went down to the basement. I went to his trophy case.
I took it and I was throwing it on the on the on the concrete
doing short hops like I was Bucky Dent or who were probably
more like Greg Metals with my buddy Tommy.
And I basically scuffed up the baseball.
And then all those years later, and amazingly, my dad didn't
flip out. He only got mad at two things,
school or disrespect, like towards an adult or everything
else he was pretty cool with. And he didn't get mad because
he's like, I, you know, I love baseball and I was I was
playing. But what I did all those years
later, my first radio job in 99, I had a chance to meet Pete
Rose. So I got a ball signed by Pete.
And I said, I said, hey, dad, I said, you know, I know you got
the old time home run leader, his home run, his ball.
Now I've got the hit king. Here's it.
This is for me. And ironically, he's got the
Pete Rose and a couple of years ago, he wound up giving me the
Hank Aaron Ball when we moved into our new home.
So those are kind of the stories.
I'll take you behind the scenes and share some of that stuff,
which I really enjoy. The other thing, and I'll give
you something on Bo Bichette. Read some more stuff, read some
more comments. Make sure you guys please like
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We're already kind of getting towards 12,000.
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I hope it does. But I think 20,000 is a good
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You know that. And and that's what we'll do.
And what are the other things too on this channel?
I did it on Instagram a few times, like if I would drop my
son off usually at football practice because I don't I don't
really watch many of the football practices.
I don't want to be up his behind.
Let him let him do his thing. I don't coach football.
Go out there, you know, learn how to, you know, take
instruction, which he does well from other coaches.
And you know, just you don't need daddy up behind every
practice, right. So anyway, I might, I might drop
him off where he goes with his buddy, his best friend.
And sometimes when I would drop him off, I would do a little
video right in the parking lot in my phone and I would put it
on on Instagram. And it was always about, you
know, I mean, once in awhile, like about The Jets or
something. But it was generally, it's
always about something with youth, youth sports.
And those of you who know me know it's a tremendous passion.
You know, I coach, you know, I play Division One, you know, my
background and I just love it, right.
And one of the things that that I've always been very mindful of
because I know when you get into it, I'm not going to spend a lot
of time on this. So if you're not into youth
sports here, I'm not going to belabor this now.
I'm just getting to something else that is on the site.
All right. And then I will do with some
good frequency here. I want to make it easier for you
because I know when I was playing ball it was a totally
different world. Now, when you are a parent and
your son or daughter is just, you know, once you get past that
T-ball stage and it's like, OK, my son or daughter, they could
play a little bit. They're pretty good.
They like the game. Where do I go?
What am I? Am I going to travel?
Am I going to club? What kind of bat do I need?
Is it AU trip? Is it USA?
Is it a drop 10? Is it a drop 11?
Is it a drop Bay? What's the BB core like?
I remember getting slammed with the stuff.
I'm like, what? And you know, again, it's coming
from somebody who played Division One.
I had, we had like one bat in 1st and 2nd grade.
I remember like all the, because my dad was the coach, all the
coaches got this green military sack, which I guarantee was from
Vietnam somewhere along the way, guaranteed two or three.
They weren't even helmets. They were like ear flaps, right?
And I think, I think the first year the bats may have even been
wooden, you know, And then I got like, you know, Black Magic
Easton, if you know, you know, the Easton Green 1, whatever.
But it was just kind of easier to navigate playing youth sports
back then. And, you know, he's 10, my
daughter's nine. I've coached, I've watched
enough, you know, I think I know the game and I think I know the
terrain, certainly in New Jersey and even on the national level a
little bit because we've done some national events.
I want to make your indoctrination into youth sports
as easy and as enjoyable as as it could be because it's
overwhelming. And listen, I'm going to get
into some, some episodes where I'm, I'm going to flat out flat,
flat out tell you about some of the mistakes that I made.
I've done a lot of things right? Live and learn, made a couple of
mistakes and I'm going to be very transparent with that
stuff. So I did a week, I did a, a
show, it's probably about 40 minutes an episode on the
channel and it's about basically, I don't want to give
it away, but the do's and don'ts as you get ready to start the
journey, just having your little 1, and I mean like little, this
is not about all the best club team.
This particular 1 is about your daughter or your son is 545.
You just starting around, you know, messing around in the yard
to just get ready to go to T-ball.
It's really the the earliest indoctrination to that.
So go check it out if you're into it.
And by the way, with that stuff, I'm going to have coaches on,
I'm going to have players on. That's going to be pretty
interview heavy as well. I think that's a really
important aspect of it for sure. What else we got here?
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And guys making no money right now.
Let's get them live. I mean, I just started this
thing, you know, Yeah, I'll figure all that stuff out
another time, but I I just I'm sitting here and I'm yesterday
was very interesting sports day, right?
All the Mendoza stuff. Got to watch Dante Moore, Ty
Simpson. You heard what I said about The
Jets and even the Giants laid it out there, touched on a my.
And now let me wrap it up with Bichette.
All right. Now I think that the Yankees
interest in Bichette is real enough.
Where there's a chance he's a Yankee.
I know many of you. I'm not going to take the bait.
I'm not going to be fooled there.
I get it. Been burned before.
Understood. You know, how many times have we
heard Brian Cashman say doing got to do due diligence?
And I think many of you right now might be thinking that
that's what this is not Yankees just kicking the tires put out
the presentation that they're they're taking a swing so their
fans can't turn on them much like they hey, we gave Soto a
pretty good offer. Mets just came in the game a
little bit more now. Hey, we gave Yamamoto actually
the Yamamoto deal was the highest AAV Yankees and Mets got
played in that negotiation. He was never coming here.
But at least by the Yankees doing that and probably knowing
that he was always going to go to the Dodgers on some level,
the Yankees were able to say, you know, we tried, we gave the
highest AAV just went to the Dodgers, whatever.
I don't necessarily think that this is it or this is the same
thing. I think that there's real
genuine interest from the Yankees part to Bouchette,
because really, it makes too much sense for it not to be.
Guys, if you really think about this, what do the Yankees truly
need #1 they need a righty stick.
They need and they need a righty hitter and preferably a righty,
you know. All right, Stanton, what do you
mean? Let's let's get past the usual
50 or 60 missed games. Stanton comes back, runs into a
bunch of bombs, all right, and whatever.
All right, great. Can't run, can't feel, can't
throw. When he hits a home run, it's
awesome. I mean, it's he's holding them
back, right? I don't mean that kind of righty
bat. I mean the kind of righty bat
that can flirt with 300, you know, and is going to give you
the at bats that, you know, maybe my first second year DJ
Lemahieu, but even more punch like that kind of that kind of
presence. And you know, I, I he's not a
perfect fit at shortstop. He can play shortstop a little
bit this year when Volpe's getting healed and Caballero
stays in that super, super sub kind of a role that will be
fantastic. But I think it fits the Yankees
plan. And I I've said this as early
and as before as any before anybody when McMahon's you can
even trade McMahon because he's only making 16 over the next 232
total. But you so if you don't want to
trade McMahon or, or, or maybe if nobody wants to trade for
McMahon, then what you do is you have Bichette at shortstop now
and then when McMahon's contract is up, boom, he slides over
perfectly to third base, right? If you could play shortstop,
even if you were a little deficient, which he is, you can
handle third base or you could have him.
And then obviously when Lombard is ready and that's that's a
key, that's a key cog in all this.
Like if Lombard's the real deal, it changes so much for the
Yankees. If he's not, if he's, if he's
another in the long line of all right, little over height, here
we go. Not really what we thought he'd
be, which I think he's different, but we'll see.
I've said that before, but not as much as I've said with him.
I do think he's a little different.
We'll see. But if he's the real deal, you
got Lombard, Lombard at short, you got obviously Bouchette at
third base. And then if Volpe can get on
base a little bit more, boom, you kick him over to second
base, you trade Jazz. And I've said that they're going
to trade jazz, and I believe that, and I believe that they
will. And you could trade Jazz for
maybe a starting pitcher. You could trade Jazz for maybe a
left fielder. And a, a relief arm, you know,
and you could also, there's, there's a lot of things Yankees
can still do. You could trade for Kwan.
You could give those young guys some running left field, whether
it's Jones or Dominguez, see what happens.
It just really I, I think Bichette just changes something
about the Yankees like Bellinger.
I want Bellinger back. I, I mean, I, I'm, I'm not going
to jump through hoops to get Bellinger back.
Let's not go nuts here. I do think that the Bellinger
aura has has been a little overstated.
I mean, come on, tap the brakes man.
He never hitting forty, never hitting 35.
You know you're not going to hit 320.
You never going to I don't think he's going to ever have an OPS
in the, you know, mid to highest 900.
He's not that guy. He's a really good baseball
player who fits New York, who judge wants back, who could play
basically 3 or 4 different spots and he's got great value and
he's going to put the bat on the ball.
Pretty good wheels, winning player.
He fits culture guy. I want him back, right?
And I think many of you do as well.
But he doesn't change the Yankees.
He just keeps the Yankees where they were.
I think Bichette changes the Yankees in a way that will be
palpable. I mean, that guy, he is, he's a
dog. And AO Bellinger's a grinder and
really good, but Bichette's a dog.
Like Bichette's the kind of guy that, you know, you run him out
like in that first or second spot, man, oh man, He's just,
you know, you can do so many things lineup wise.
He's he's and I was actually spent a fair amount of time
yesterday on savant looking at his his hit chart.
And now some of you who do this love the deep dives know this
already. Some of you who don't.
He is very efficient going to right field like and by the way,
you don't flirt with 300 and have those kind of years as a
righty if you can't go the other way.
So if you thought the Bichette was a Deadpool hitter, like
some, some, you know, some players, then you just, you
knew, like if you if you thought that, then he wouldn't have the
hitter profile that he does. It's just, it's just not
congruent. You know, you got to go the
other way. You got to hit with two strikes.
You got to go foul pole to foul pole.
And that's one of the reasons why Aaron Judge, you know, it's
gone from it in 270 to winning batting titles because if it's
outside, he's on the laying off of it or he's going to drill it
to the right center gap. The seats are down the line and
that's why Judge's average has gone up.
So let me present this to you. Is there a world, right?
Because I do think that Bichette's in play.
I do. Is there a world where in some
order one, I'm going to jot this down 12345 and I'm just going to
throw the names Bichette. Now, this is fairy tale land,
but I'm going to do it for a minute because this would be a
World Series team. Got him.
Obviously you got a little rice. You got a little stand over
here. Stand whatever.
I mean, it is not inconceivable that the Yankees top three
hitters, if they actually just had the guts to do this could be
Beau Bichette righty, Bellinger lefty, Judge righty, Ben Rice
lefty and then Stanton plugs in five hole, whatever, you know.
And then it does so much number one, you're not as lefty late
and Bichette's just a better pure hitter, blah, blah blah.
All those things I've already discussed.
But then the other thing that you do, and this is like this
has to be done. I want to see Grisham bat first
this year. I I just don't want to see him
bat first. So if you make these moves here,
then you it, it, it puts Grisham in a place that he really should
be at. You know, put him in the put him
in the seven hold against tough lefty.
You know, you won't even put him 5 or 6 against against him.
That's fine. Just can't be batting first,
second or third. It's just that's not how you win
a championship with Trent Grisham, who couldn't even bat
203 of the last five years. Whatever it is, he's your lead
off hitters gonna bat second. No, it's taking the cheap way
out. And you know what's crazy about
this? Like if the Yankees didn't
miscalculate, which they did, if they didn't miscalculate the
Grisham qualifying offer, then what I just presented to you,
the Bichette, Bellinger, Judge Rice, etcetera, so on and so
forth, possibility would be much more plausible because the $22
million that they're giving Grisham, all right, could have
been spread out. And then it's just it, it, it's
how they messed that up is amazing to me.
The levels that they miscalculated that.
And again, I know what Cashman said.
I you know, I don't know. And listen, Aaron Boone's even
told me when I push back to him with Grisham, he's like, dude,
you're wrong. And and I and I listen, he's the
manager. I get it.
And it's not just him blindly defending a player because we've
had very honest conversations. I won't divulge who about
certain players where he's like, yeah, he's just, he's never
going to be good at this or that.
He straight up says, dude, you know, you, you sleeping on
Grisham. And I'm like, dude, he had it's
190 every year, you know, except last year.
You know, the one thing that he did say, which I think is fair,
doesn't change my opinion. I would have brought him back,
but his defensive metrics absolutely dropped pretty
sharply a year ago and he had a hamstring issue and in center
field when you're getting less action than first base catcher,
shortstop third, you know, you, you have a rough month where you
just not getting the balls that usually track you got to take a
little bit of a downturn. So I, I do think we've overdone
that. I'm, I'm with Boone on that
where people now say, oh, he's falling off the, you know, off
the planet defensively. No, he has not.
He did have a year that was identifiably a little bit
different than the previous one defensively and the other ones
where he want to go glove, but he can still get it in center
field. That's not my issue.
My issue is strikes out a ton, can't hit lefties, don't want to
hit in first or second. You know, that's my problem with
him. So but full transparency, boom
pushes back on that one with me. He definitely, definitely does.
What else do I want to let you guys know?
Obviously like and subscribe I told you guys about there was
another suite that was sold yesterday.
So there's really only a couple of BT and South Show tickets to
liveshowmyconcerts.net coming up on January 22nd with me and Sal
live. The aforementioned Aaron Boone
going to be a blast. Touched on the MI contract, the
Yankees and the Mets, their inability to be creative and
just have some forethought. Like it's like, it's like this
shit sneaks up on them. Oh, you know, all these teams
have started to do these, these these these creative contracts.
Well, how about you, you go to school and you actually change
your ways and you start doing it.
And and that's part of the problem with the Yankees.
I mean, I can't, I can't start launching into this because this
will be another hour. But what are the things that
really bothers me about them? Not the spending that it's it's
how they spend, not that they don't spend.
That's obvious. But there's just too many voices
in that building that have been espousing the same thing for too
long. And I know that they brought in
Sabian. I know that they brought in no
Mormon IA couple of years ago. I mean, do they really let those
guys eat? I I don't, I'm not saying that
they mute them that it would that was just hirings to pacify
us and shut us up. But the Yankees, and this is a
compliment in a lot of ways. The Yankees have been incredibly
stable all these years. And the Yankees of all the
because the Knicks have just started this of all the teams
here, they're the one team that you know is showing up and you
have a chance to do something with.
So let's not get a twisted with the Yankees.
They're not what they used to be, but they're certainly not
the way some of you either self loathing Yankee fans or Yankee
haters position them to be. That's just not accurate.
It's wildly inaccurate to be more specific.
But I think that they're too married to their old thoughts,
their old concepts. And you know, I, I think that
that's one of the reasons why I have led the charge for some new
blood in the front office. You know, I think again, Brian
Cashman's a Hall of Famer. It's, it's never personal.
I like the guy. He's he's a Pitbull.
He's scrappy, he's incredibly successful.
But he's also been approaching building a championship team the
same way. And it has not worked.
And it's not just getting sometimes the wrong guys.
Now you're seeing the new wave of these other teams that are
adjusting with how they do the contracts and how they pursue
certain players. The Yanks aren't doing that and
and I don't know why. And the Mets didn't do it either
with am I and as I outlined before, if you missed, you can
go back and rewind it. They're watch it.
I I thought the Yanks and the Mets for him to sign for three
years, $63,000,000 with opt outs after one and two and neither
the Yankees, the Mets to be seriously seated at the table is
the height of irresponsibility. It is just mind numbingly dumb
and lacks vision and it's anything but proactive.
So I wish I had a better answer for you.
I don't. I don't run the Yankees.
I'm not their GM. I don't run the Mets.
I'm not their GM. I'm just telling you what
bothers me. Is there anything that I missed
here? Let's see here.
This was on. It's early.
That's on. Mendoza.
Yeah. JP, girl.
Dad. What up?
JP? And those who look really great
against families look great all year.
Good. Good reads.
True. Good arm, good mobility.
I wasn't impressed with Moore. Yeah, I wouldn't let the Dante
Moore game anyway. Again, he was OK.
He had one good half, one bad half.
Now he's young, he's 20, hasn't played nearly as much football
as Mendoza has. So I would not give up on Dante
Moore. I don't want The Jets to draft
him at three if he comes out and and Mendoza's gone because I I
need a little bit more of a sure thing.
And to me, there's no doubt Mendoza is the sure thing.
Now I'm not saying he comes in and he's Josh Allen right away.
I could promise you from a decision making perspective, he
is absolutely the guy. The processing, the
identification, no doubt at Nick.
LFGM rooting on those Metsies. I don't know what's up Nick.
I don't understand how anybody that has seen Dorp play a full
game could say they should take Mendoza.
He hasn't taken a single snap. One of the most annoying takes
going around as of recently. All right, Nick, I get that.
I appreciate the pushback. I really do.
Now, I prefaced everything that I said about Jackson Dort.
I love the kid. But when there's somebody else
that you see that you might have access to that you love more and
is bigger and stronger and less athletic, but not it's not like
Eli versus Michael Vick disparity.
I mean, Mendoza is a good athlete, ran A-47, change,
whatever. It is pretty good for a
quarterback, man, that's pretty good.
I think Eli ran a 449 and old miss and those 2/10 of a second
that matters. Escape ability, getting out of
the pocket, stepping up, making a play.
Like it doesn't seem like 494 sevens a lot.
Trust me. It is like if you want a 7 O in,
if you know you're going 60 yard dash for baseball, say you run a
7 O, you run a six 679. I mean, that is probably that is
the dead is all the world unless you're a first baseman or a
catcher, maybe even a third baseman, like those two, those
2/10 of a tick. It matters, dude.
And when you're big and he's 63 and he's 240, he's two 25226 now
and he's going to put on that weight and like easily and
naturally and won't prevent him from being the maintaining that
athleticism. I don't there's nothing else I
need to see. I just think he and I again, I
love dart. I I just think that Mendoza
processes better. I think he is physical.
I know he's physically bigger and stronger.
And, you know, I don't get it. You haven't heard me get on dart
too much about playing recklessly because, you know,
you got to let a wild dog eat sometimes.
He's got to go out to the schoolyard.
He's got to figure out what's out there.
And eventually, you know, another Pitbull is going to
who's a little tougher is going to get him and he's going to
say, all right, maybe I maybe I shouldn't do this anymore.
Like to think that Jackson darts not going to learn that he's got
to slide and get out of bounds a little bit more.
I think that that's just irresponsible.
I think that that's unfair to to dark.
He's going to learn that and he's going to do that.
Even with that being said, the things that Mendoza is better at
or the things that win you that keep the drives going.
You know that third and three tiny window perfect read
immediate dissection. It's Mendoza.
That's the guy that I want. I want him for The Jets and if
the giants were to have access to him I would take him and I'm
not into the hot takes. I have no time for that.
It's a waste of time. I can't stand hot takes.
I really now. It's one thing to have a dumb
take. I'll have plenty of those.
It's one thing to have an erroneous tape be proven wrong.
I've already have and I will continue to have plenty of
those. I'm not a hot take guy.
I actually loathe the hot take machine.
It is lazy, it is juvenile, and it is just something I'm not
interested in doing. All right, so this is not a hot
take. This has been well thought out.
Go. And if you don't, I know this
sounds corny, Go check my ex. Go back months, months ago when
everybody's now jumping in. Oh, giant should take Mendoza.
Look what I said months ago about Mendoza months ago, not
weeks, months. So this has been a well crafted,
well calculated well, I've explored, you know, route that
I've taken to to formulate my opinion.
Doesn't mean I'll be right, but that's absolutely my opinion.
Let's see subdivisions. What's going on.
BT Happy New Year, Chris, your Evans friend, I think.
Oh yeah, All right. I know this guy, the Twitter
stats guy. Yes, I remember going to I think
you told this Evan hit like 112 whatever it was O 87 in Twitter
baseball. I think it's pitching stats for
OK hope 26 brings you and the family happiness helping the
best of luck. Love the new podcast.
Great job sometime come on my show.
Thank you man I I appreciate that Chris.
Thank you very much. Yeah, I I think that I
definitely remember you because you called me and Sal and you
gave us the numbers and we were having fun with that.
I don't know if you're the same guy that Evan references from
time to time, like talking sports at the bus stop.
If you are, well, then I definitely know you.
And even if you're not, I know you from when you called us at
the fan and and all the Twitter stuff.
That was funny. Oh, my God.
I mean, yeah, we've all seen the video of of Evan running down
the line. He's hey, give him credit, man.
He's out there. He's playing.
He is at Samuel Lamb. D2 S love listening to you, BT
keep being you doing what you doing.
Yeah, thank you. And the day that the day that
I'm no longer me is the day that honestly, I stopped doing this
really, you know, I, I, I think that it's, I think that it's
very easy. I think it's hard to do a good
show. I think it's hard to, to pump
out meaningful, interesting, thought provoking content.
And that's like, that's my challenge to, to that.
And that's one of the biggest challenges of anybody in the
business. It's not hard for me to be me
because I pretty much what you see here is it's kind of who I
am. And again, yeah, there's a
heightened presentation. I know I'm doing a show.
You know, you're a performer. I mean, literally you're
performing. So yeah, like, I'm, I'm not
walking around the house, you know?
You know, You know, even though I do talk with my hands a lot, I
can't help it and I won't apologize for it, but I, I, I
get, I get on this show and just me and I I think that that's one
of the reasons why it's it's worked for my career so far.
And that's one of the reasons why I know it's going to work on
YouTube, because this is a world with no boundaries.
I mean, you know, and you know, unless you guys know I have love
for the fan, I've always I'll never say otherwise.
I loved it there. It was unfortunate the way it
ended, but it's all good and we have certainly moved on, as you
can tell, and and I'll still do some shows with the fan.
I love Chris and Hurley. I've known forever a lot of
respect for those people. I don't ever wanted to get
twisted, right, But I've moved on because they moved on, right,
in terms of the full time role. But the thing about this is
that, you know, I, when I was on the fan, like if you're at a
certain part like of Connecticut or yeah, I know the apps are
amazing and all that stuff and the Odyssey app really is good.
You can get us anywhere. But there's certain places where
even if you're driving to Manhattan, some of the radio
stations don't sound as crisp here to be able to do this, you
know, and then eventually build out the studio and add some
elements like guest and like holders.
Like, I mean, this is this is, this is a dream job.
Yeah. I just got to make it work
monetarily. And that's what we're doing.
We're grinding, man. There is no, oh, wow, this is
easy, man. I haven't made a freaking penny
yet. I mean, I guess today with,
with, with the Super chats and that stuff.
But literally before today it said 0.00 in terms of
monetization, because until today, I wasn't monetized.
So it is all in. And this is this.
It is my mission. As I said many times, it's not a
hope, it's not a focus, it's not a belief.
It is a mission. It is a mission to make this
amazing and we're going to and we're going to do it together.
I firmly believe that with everything that I have.
How about Tim, Tim Thomas, you know Fugazi, are you Timmy?
Tim Thomas 8544? If you get the reference, you
get the reference. If The Jets don't get Mendoza,
what are your thoughts on getting a quarterback via free
agency or trade and use the draft capital to build around
the quarterback? Yep, I kind of hinted at that
before. Absolutely.
Now, unless The Jets, I don't want them to do this, but if
they fall in love with more and more is coming out and they want
to take him to three, all right, I'd give it a shot.
Not what I would do right now. Still early in the evaluation
process. He's got a big game next week
against Indiana. The combine, the interviews, all
the stuff that they'll go through, the daily dissection
and the hit pieces on all the prospects and the way it works,
it's so unfair to these kids. You've got other GMs like a
character assassinations, hoping that teams will get scared off
and somebody will drop. Like imagine being that
reprehensible of an individual where somebody was worked their
entire life running hills, lifting quarterback coaches, you
know, grinding 7891215 high school at college, and you've
got the audacity to plant the story that's not even true
because you want it to work favorably for you on draft day.
Where's your scruples? You have none the sad part is it
happens all the time. But no, I would be very OK with
that and obviously fields is gone find the stop gap and then
attack it in 2027. Yes, yes, yes, yes, no doubt
about it all that that wasn't you OK subdivision.
All right, so all right. You were oh, you were the
evident the Isles game when Yeah, when he puked it.
Oh my God, yes. And by the way, Evan's an I got
love for Evan. I like Evan.
I got my fat my fat butt on the Backpage of the paper.
You did WF fans. Not the same without you and Sal
Kudos. Listen, I I you know, that's up
for you guys to determine and interpret.
I appreciate you saying that. I've I've, I've always thought
in my mind that BT and Sal was the kind of show that ex like
the exact kind of show that should be on WFAN.
But WF fans going to be great WF NS going to be fine.
I'm doing my thing and they are going to be fine because they're
WFN, the number one sports station in the country.
What else we got here? What else here?
You know, why don't we start how, how long have been going
here? An hour and a half pretty much
what we do well over 4000 live viewers.
So I wonder how many of you are watching on X Obviously look at
the analytics after how many of you are watching on on YouTube.
We are something else. We got to figure out which we're
almost there. We're going to link this to
Instagram as well. I, I honestly don't know if I
get on TikTok. I say that now I've always like
you know, I got to get on TikTok.
I just, I don't know, to me, like TikTok comes across as and
I, I really do speak from a lack of like knowledge on this.
This is my perception. I've never been on it, right?
Some of the shows in the past that I've been on there was
like, you know, hey, kind of let's get the TikTok.
I didn't, I never had an account, maybe a couple of
contributions, maybe a producer uploaded something and never my
thing. When I think it's, and maybe
this is an erroneous read on my part, but when I think of
TikTok, I just think of just like stupid infantile stuff that
I just don't really have any time or desire to jump into.
But I mean, if it's going to help grow the show and I know
that it's incredibly viable in that regard, maybe I'm going to
have to reconsider that. But I know we're going to
definitely do Instagram and, and obviously integrate callers,
integrate guests and, and I'm really looking forward to doing
that. So it is a it is a new year.
It is a new day is a new chapter for me and I am so excited and
I'm so locked in and I am on a mission.
You guys know, you know, the more you like, the more you
subscribe, the more you comment, the more we get, you know,
thrown around that algorithm, which obviously is very
important to get this show going and make it bigger and bigger
and bigger and bigger and bigger.
And you know, I, I should probably tell you guys, it's
like I, I'm not doing this wasting time waiting for the
phone to ring just to jump Mike. And and then I see you this this
is what I'm doing and it's awesome in terms of having fun
and just the new world has been been pretty good to us so far.
So I'm excited here. All right, any other let's let's
get one of these here. All right, this one is a Dan Dan
Heiston. What do we got 2742?
I appreciate that. Now that's a super chat, right?
What maybe my producer could just just type on the screen.
What is the difference between a super chat?
I look like such an idiot asking, but I think that's part
of the appeal of this, right? What's the difference between a
super chat and a super sticker? I know the chat you could read.
Hey, it's great still being able to listen to you BT looking
forward to hearing from you for a long time.
Happy new year. No doubt about it, Dan, happy
new year to you as well and your entire family.
I I do. I'm sure it's a very simple
answer. If we by the way, even if one of
you know what the answer is, what the differentiation is
between a super Chad and a super sticker.
I think the quicker I figure that out the better off we'll
all be. All right.
What is it Friday? We got one more that popping in.
I want to show you guys love here, BT happy new year.
This one's from Brooklyn Blaze son is that I know that handle
from somewhere Happy New Year to you and the family going to kill
it in 2026 and beyond WF fans lost and YouTube gates.
Oh, I know who that I got you. Thank you very much brother
appreciate that. I definitely got you no doubt.
What else did I want to tell you there told you about the couple
of tickets left for the BT and live show BT and Sal live show
like subscribe told you about the youth content.
You don't want to check that out if you and I did it now and, and
it aired yesterday, I did it at this point of the season and end
of the calendar year because I know as many of you, you know,
Santa brought a lot of stuff, you know, a lot of baseball
equipment. And there is definitely there's
no guarantee he's going to be Aaron Judge.
And I think if you try to make your child Aaron Judge, probably
the wrong thing to do. But I, I do think that there's a
path to go on that that I went through and did a lot of things
right, did a couple of things wrong that I really think that
you can learn about. You know, and I look at this
channel, especially the youth content stuff, but I look at
this channel because there's going to be days where there's
issues, not that I'm going to shove politics down your throat,
but there's going to be deeper issues than than sports that I'm
very qualified and very excited to talk about.
Now the difference is I'm going to be open minded and I'm not
going to shut down some people like other people do like it,
which I think is the height of of stupidity.
Like if you're a sports person and you are so outwardly against
one side, think about how dumb a business decision that is.
Even if you disagree, you got to show respect.
You got to welcome that. You've got to invite that
conversation when it's applicable, not shut out of mean
every day. Nobody wants to hear that, but
the appeal of this channel is the ability to do that because
as many of you might not know, I literally watch the news every
single night and I watch multiple networks to get both
sides like I, I am in tune with this world because this world
has a lot of problems. And it's, you know, I don't, I
don't know what I could do, but I'm going to, I'm going to die
trying. Make sure this world's better
for our kids because some of the things that's happening now in
this world, I mean, it's, it's dangerous stuff.
All right. And I, I, I talked to was a guy
who's been on the air for 20 something years doing shows and
guy who's loud and passionate and love sports and know sports
and maybe a guy you want to have a beer with somebody think is
cool. Hopefully all those things are
true. But I and A lot of I would have
come to you as a dad and certainly as a human and and
that's where I really think it's certainly where I hope that this
channel is going to hit a level that is different than it's
certainly any anything that I've done before.
Stanford down. What's up?
Stanford, Arkansas checking in one of the 51 of the one of the
43 states that I have been to. So what's going on Listening
from Arkansas huge Mets fan shows have been awesome hashtag
let's go Mets. Thank you very much.
Yeah, it's funny. I'll, I'll post some some polls
too of other you as you go through the YouTube page, right.
And one of the posts I dropped just to kind of get a sense of
where we are and maybe get away from sports.
As I said before, once in a while.
I ask you how many, how many of the 50 states have you been to?
And I'm at 43 now. Haven't been to Alaska.
And I almost went to Alaska with St.
John's man, the great Alaskan shootout years ago.
I think Jarvis was still the coach and I couldn't swing and I
had I had obviously radio responsibilities, TV
responsibilities and I just couldn't go been to Hawaii, but
like Alaska, somewhere where I want to go like halibut fishing,
salmon fishing, some sort of like you, you go to Alaska, you
got to do an expedition and and that's that's what I've got to
scratch up. That's going to be tough.
But yeah, I've been to Arkansas. I appreciate you really reaching
out. That's great at scooter
Adventures, Florida, BT Unstoppable.
I'm a streamer from Florida. Couple of things I would like to
share to you about You Tube streaming.
You should accept the PayPal as well scooter, like I said one
one one thing at a time brother. I do not pretend to think that I
have figured out this YouTube game yet I have not like I don't
I don't even know I think I know the answer, but I'm not even
sure because I've never done it when I end the live stream,
which I'm going to do in a in a minute or so, I don't know if I
go to my analytics page, am I going to am I going to actually
see the money from the Super chats?
I don't know, I I don't know how it works.
Hopefully my wife was able to link up the bank account
properly. I mean, does it take a day?
Does it take a week? I don't know.
Old new stuff. Vincent M4TA BT Best friends
with Sal. Best friends with Sal.
Here you go Vin. I've known Sal since 7:00.
I loved your show and it was the most authentic show since Mike
and the Mad Dog. Keep it going.
Number one, you deserve a prize for being friends with Sal for
40 years. I'm kidding bad.
You guys know I love Sal. I got a lot of love for Sal.
And you know, I remember it got hijacked one time.
I don't know how, I don't know by whom.
I don't even care. But I was making we were talking
about our show when a caller had said, you know, you.
And by the way, not not just one caller, a lot of people said you
guys and written, you know, you have a sound that was like most
like Mike and Chris. It was a sound that was like
that, that old schoolish WFAN that a lot of you love that
stuff that made it WFAN, you know, and it was never like a
comparison, like, you know, where Mike and Chris, I mean,
Mike and Chris are legends. I'm starting to show on YouTube
here. I I I get it.
Like there's the hierarchy, there's the industry.
Let let legends and the mikes and the Chris's and the I misses
and you know, the WFA and legends who are on their little
schmooze, Little Joe B little Boomer, like different different
spots, different, different people for sure.
Mark churn off. Of course, I'll throw Dove on
there from behind the scenes. My guy Dove.
Shout out to him as as he steps into a different stage of of his
career as well. He's finished up at the fan.
He was there since 87 day one, 1987.
So a real shout out to Dove. I love him.
He's a good man. And it was never about like, Oh
yeah, you know, wait, wait, wait, wait.
We didn't have 10% of the popularity of Mike and Chris,
but it was never about that. It was about the the
unpredictability that I think that our show had and and that's
something that I am really proud of.
Like there's no doubt the show had juice.
Like there was never going to be a situation ever.
And I'm not saying every show was an A+ because every show if
we tried to make it that, but that's just not the reality of
of entertainment and and content producing.
There's going to be some shows that are AB minus and we're like
that. Will that that last hour was OK,
let's go. The gold is an A+ doesn't always
happen right, But there was not once where we mailed in the
show. There was not once.
We just just got on the air. We were like, you know, let's
just fuck around today and let's just, we have nothing to do.
You know, let's just take a couple of calls and let's just,
you know, talk about whatever. You know, if anything, sometimes
we maybe we dug in too deep and went too hard and just created
something that was almost, you know, too combustible.
And maybe we shouldn't have done that for that topic.
I don't know. I don't even know if that
applies. But I would much rather be
guilty of that than just coming in and mailing through and, and
just, you know, gliding through a show.
And I, and I think really, and I know not everybody was a fan of
the show. I get that.
I'm not delusional, understood. But I think those of you who
really love BT and Sal appreciated that energy and that
juice and that like that we looked at as if we had a
responsibility. You know what I mean?
When you get a piece of real estate at that station,
especially two guys who grew up and always aspire to be there
and be on the air there, you get a microphone and you don't bring
it everyday. Shame on you, shame on you.
So you know we couldn't control everything, but what we could
control we absolutely control and we're about very proud of
it. You know all right, let me get
rolling here guys, do me a favor get this out to everybody.
If you're on X appreciate you guys watching there.
I have 4500 eyeballs on this. Not not bad, not bad.
I want to get you eventually more and more and more and more
the gold would love to get and this is the objective and I I
believe that we will at least 20,000 subscriptions by the end
of the month. We're at 11 almost, I don't
know, almost 12 now, whatever it is after 567 show, something
like that. Just rolled it out and we rolled
it out during the holidays. So many of you are away.
So don't assume we're just not kind of in touch with your usual
listening or watching habits. Hey, if you got a buddy who
loved, you know what I do on the fan or love my work or you know,
and they're away and they just got back and they don't know
about this new endeavour, tell them, let them know, share it,
you know, get that out there. And we're going to obviously get
this streamed up on on Instagram as well.
As I said, Yep, I get it. Hey, Tommy Sullivan 2726.
Yep, love the show. Thank you very much, Tommy.
Listen everyday, let's hope the Yanks wake up and do something
soon. I've touched on that extensively
today. I've touched on that before.
And while I am this close to unleashing and unloading on the
New York Yankees, if they don't do anything else the rest of the
winter, I'm not going to do it. And I'm not going to be that guy
just to be that guy because there's still moves to be made
and I think they'll make at least one of that could set
themselves up to be still really, really viable. 90
something wins, puncher's chance, make a mid season trade,
whatever that now that that shouldn't be the goal.
Admittedly, it should be to obliterate everybody and win the
World Series like it used to be the stated goal.
But I mean, we have to adjust off of their adjustments, right?
So again, just to yell at something that has not fully
come to fruition yet, I'm not going to do that.
It is a Friday. No shows over the weekend unless
there's breaking news. I might wait.
Do I even have? I might, you know, I might hop
on Friday after The Jets game, Sunday after The Jets game.
I might, might do that. Obviously, if somebody signs
Yankees, you know, Bellings or Bichette make a trade, whatever.
Same with the Mets firing, big injury, Joe Shane gone, whatever
it is when I'm not in my conventional time slot, which is
10:00 AM almost every single day here on the YouTube, on the
YouTube channel on X and everything, I will just pop in
and I'll let you know. I'll tweet it out.
I'll let everybody know. I'll give you an alert.
We're going live. And that's one of the great
functionalities of being able to do this, to be able to connect
whenever I've got something to say.
So I want you guys to have an awesome weekend.
Thank you for making the roll out of the show rewarding,
helping me kind of grind through some of the glitches,
understanding that there's going to to be some glitches.
It is what it is Every day we get a little further past that.
So hopefully had a great new year celebration.
Can't wait for Monday. We'll put a wrap on The Jets and
the Giants. We'll see if the Yanks and the
Mets do anything. Johnny's tomorrow I'll be at the
Garden 12 noon tip against province.
They look pretty good pretty good against Georgetown.
They did and I like the way they look the 1st 13 or 14 minutes.
But Zubi was more assertive. Zubi was looking for his which
was part of the problem early on and and guys deferring a bit
They they don't look the. The way I thought they would,
but for a good chunk of that Georgetown game, after a sloppy
start, they started to show some signs.
So I would imagine they'll handle Providence fairly easy.
Tomorrow I'll see you at the Garden and I will catch you on
Monday right here, BT Unleashed. Unless something breaks, then
I'll catch you when I catch you guys.
Have a great Friday. Have an awesome weekend.
Really appreciate you guys. Thank you.