1 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,160 This is on leash. Are you listening? 2 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:14,080 Can you hear me? Hear me. 3 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:15,680 This is on leash. Are you listening? 4 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:16,600 Can you hear me? Hear me. 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,160 This is on leash. Are you listening? 6 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:19,080 Can you hear me? Hear me. 7 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:20,680 This is on leash. Are you listening? 8 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:21,880 Can you hear me? This is on. 9 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:25,200 Leash. Are. 10 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,680 You listening? Well, I know everybody's worked 11 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,760 up over the Yankees. Yankees state. 12 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,960 Well, everybody relax about the Yankees. 13 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,960 Please just relax. What's going on? 14 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,240 Everybody beats unleashed in the house on this Tuesday. 15 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,080 Let's go. J Rod is here. 16 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,960 We got a big show for you little housekeeping before we jump into 17 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,880 it. Lot of Yankees, a little Mets, a 18 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,640 little Pistons, Cavs, a lot of NFL schedule stuff and something 19 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,680 on LeBron as well. Now tomorrow, first up, Yankees 20 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,880 manager Aaron Boone will come by tomorrow. 21 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,080 It's going to be a blast to 10th or why Hope it's a blast. 22 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,960 I know he's coming by. Maybe I shouldn't say it's going 23 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:01,760 to be a blast. I mean, can you get can you bag 24 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,640 a win before Booney comes on the show? 25 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,520 I mean, come on, man. I mean, listen, Boone's going to 26 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,360 answer the questions no matter what, whether they win five 27 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:10,760 straight or they lose five straight. 28 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,560 But can you mix into West? So he's not the ornery Boone 29 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,760 that is tomorrow. Can't wait for that. 30 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,760 So we'll do a little early State of the Yankees, kind of like I 31 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,800 did with Michael K about a week or a week and 1/2 or so ago, 32 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,440 only we'll do this with the Yankees manager. 33 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,520 So that's tomorrow. And then Thursday, obviously the 34 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,320 NFL schedule is going to drop. And we'll do this on the on The 35 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:33,640 Jets collective as soon as it goes live. 36 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,080 We will jump right on YouTube. Of course, myself and Jake and 37 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,280 Rich Samini and we'll break it all down and you know, listen. 38 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,960 Do they open up in Tennessee? I don't know. 39 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:45,000 I I that that's kind of the conventional thought. 40 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,480 But either way, we will get into The Jets schedule. 41 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,160 We're not going to necessarily do the old Mike and Chris thing, 42 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,320 you know, win, loss, win, but we'll just kind of spin you 43 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,440 around and give you our initial reactions to it. 44 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,520 The good matchups, whatever is prime time. 45 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,560 I don't know how many prime time games they will get. 46 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:02,520 My hope is that it's not many because like I've always said, 47 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:04,760 when my team has been, you know, I do think The Jets will be 48 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:06,880 better this year. Jeez, if they're not better this 49 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,720 year, then it's probably hopeless. 50 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,640 But you know, when, when my team is building, when my team trying 51 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:16,240 to rise from the dead, I prefer to do it in anonymity. 52 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,520 Let's just get, you know, But 1:00, we don't need Jim Nance 53 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,640 and Romo. Give us the C team. 54 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:24,640 Give us the D team. Let us just find our way when 55 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:26,480 most of the NFL world is not watching. 56 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,560 So we got a lot of great things coming up on the show. 57 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:30,400 Hopefully everybody's having a great day. 58 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,400 J Rod, What's cooking, brother? How are you today? 59 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,960 Good, good, good. How are you today? 60 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:35,600 You. Know. 61 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,080 I got to say, I know we'll we'll get to it later, but I got to 62 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:43,400 say I was, I was off with my Pistons Cavs prediction 63 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:47,040 yesterday. I was way off, you know, I 64 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,120 called the Harden game, I guess the next game. 65 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,400 But now listen, the rest of my series prediction is absolutely 66 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,120 scrambled. I mean, listen, these 67 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:55,720 predictions are worth a dime a dozen. 68 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:57,280 What do they really mean at the end of the day? 69 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,200 But it does obviously help out the Knicks, so we'll get to that 70 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,760 a little bit later. Rough night for Kate Cunningham. 71 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,360 What the Cavs were doing defensively, trapping them, 72 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:06,920 giving up the butt. He was sloppy. 73 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:08,280 He's had some high turnover games. 74 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,040 Last night was another one. And he didn't shoot the ball 75 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:12,120 well. So we'll get to that. 76 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,680 All right, let's start with the Yankees here. 77 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,400 I mean, listen, guys. So when when you don't hit and 78 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,760 you squander leads like they did over the weekend, certainly last 79 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,640 night with Ryan Weathers and the Gen. that Cam Schlittler threw 80 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:28,600 in Milwaukee, when you squander leads like that and you don't 81 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,160 kid, it really just looks bad. I mean, let's face it, the 82 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,000 Yankees would have lost 65 last night. 83 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,360 You know, not that you'd be thrilled with the loss there, 84 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,840 but when when you're not kidding. 85 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,960 I mean, really, outside of Ben Rice's two were on bomb the 86 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:43,400 other way. Nice to have Benny ball game 87 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,240 back in the house as well. It's it's just going to seem a 88 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,560 little worse than it really is. Listen, I'm not worried about 89 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,200 the Yankees. Yankees have a couple of things 90 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,320 that they obviously need to rectify and things that we need 91 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,520 to get into. But I mean, it's it's a little 92 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,880 bit early. It's a little bit early for 93 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,200 everybody to start striking up the same old Yankees. 94 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,280 Yankees don't have it. Yankees aren't going to get 95 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,360 anything done. I don't believe that. 96 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,200 I believe that this Yankees pitching rotation is going to be 97 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,760 the best in baseball. Now when Cole and rolled down 98 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,960 come back and when when well, I should say when Cole comes back, 99 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,440 I don't know what the bullpens going to look like. 100 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:18,399 They're going to have to obviously mess that mess around 101 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:20,959 with that. If you asked me and this one of 102 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:24,440 the reasons for my optimism here coming into the season, Although 103 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,520 to be fair, once the season started, I got a look at 104 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,200 weathers and I knew the Cam Schlitzler wasn't going to go 105 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,400 through a sophomore slump. I I elevated even you know what 106 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,360 what I thought the Yankees could be and I didn't love the Yankees 107 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,840 lineup. You knew that, right, But see 108 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,240 what you see now is is not what you're going to see in October. 109 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,400 It's just not. I believe what it's all and I'll 110 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,560 ask Boone this tomorrow. I don't know what he'll say, but 111 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,800 I'll ask him. I think we're all said and done. 112 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,960 I think that Bednar is going to be the setup man for this team 113 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,600 and I do I I think that that's going to happen. 114 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,040 I don't like him as the closer. He's fine, but you can't be fine 115 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,280 if you try to win a championship. 116 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:03,240 OK, I'm not saying he's the main issue, but you need you need 117 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,120 more lockdown there on the back end. 118 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,360 And and Bednar just walks that tightrope too much. 119 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,040 You watch him, I watch and we know the deal with Bednar. 120 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,360 He's fine and sometimes he's really good. 121 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,200 I think he'd be great as a setup man. 122 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,440 So listen, I don't know, I actually tweeted something 123 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:21,720 yesterday about Weathers. I'm like, you know, maybe maybe 124 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,480 this guy who has not been a consistent strike throwers. 125 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,440 He had he had injuries in Miami and he didn't know he's pound 126 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,320 the zone now. He's he's pounding the zone now 127 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,120 when he's healthy as well. Knock on wood with the Yankees. 128 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,320 Look at Weathers as a possible closer option. 129 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,720 I, I don't know, Clark Schmidt will be back by the end of the 130 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,840 season. And then obviously, whether it's 131 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:43,440 a will Warren going to the bullpen or whatever it might be, 132 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:49,520 some sort of variation is going to, I think fairly radically 133 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,720 change the the back end of the Yankee bullpen. 134 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,520 And I also think the Yankees will go out and get an electric 135 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,240 high leverage arm. So listen, I understand that 136 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,800 last night was very, I mean, you got a no hitter, you got a no 137 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:01,800 hitter. You sit down, I come back from 138 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,400 my son and my daughter's game. I'm like, wow, then listen to 139 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:05,560 the game on the radio a little bit. 140 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,400 And I, I knew that Rice hit the two run bomb and I'm like, I got 141 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,880 a no, no here. And of course, as soon as I sit 142 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,840 down, basically get the base hit the other way. 143 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:14,920 But that's a game you got to win. 144 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,240 Obviously, Yankees are dragging their feet a little bit here. 145 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,160 But like, it just big picture it. 146 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,040 It really, it's so predictable. You know, you just knew that 147 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,000 this was coming. You kind of sensed it a little 148 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,640 bit over the weekend, you know, from some of the Yankees. 149 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,240 And that's fine. I'm not calling you guys out 150 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,080 because the Yankees have not won since 2009. 151 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,840 Understood. So there's a lot of angst and 152 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:38,680 there's a lot of energy and there's a lot of frustration 153 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,680 that this team's been built the same way. 154 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,400 I don't think it's the same team now. 155 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,960 We still have a lot of baseball people to go and you know, I 156 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,440 don't, I don't know what's going to happen with Volpe. 157 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,840 I don't know what's going to happen with Caballero. 158 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:53,120 I don't know what's going to happen with Lombard, who's 159 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,120 hitting into some very bad luck in the minors. 160 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,880 He's absolutely stinging the ball. 161 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,120 And you know, you lift up the the hood underneath the hood, 162 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,240 the numbers are really good. I'm not talking about batting 163 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,280 averages, but like expected batting average and expected OPS 164 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:08,520 balls in play. Like he's been penalized. 165 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,560 He's hit a lot of rockets at people and I'm fine with that. 166 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,760 And you know that Lombard could come up tonight and handle 167 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,920 second base shortstop or third base defensively. 168 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,200 I don't know if he's going to be on the Yankees this year at some 169 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,400 point. I believe that he will, but I 170 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,040 don't know that for sure. You got to earn it. 171 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,400 You don't want to rush him. But there's options here. 172 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,040 Guys. You have to understand that the 173 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,040 biggest problem with the Yankees right now is the 2nd in baseman 174 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,920 and to a much lesser extent the catcher. 175 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:37,600 Now get to Austin Wells in a minute. 176 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:39,640 How the Yankees don't have a right-handed catcher on the 177 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:41,520 roster. I mean, that's a Cashman thing 178 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,960 here. But let let's get to let's get 179 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,040 to Jazz Chisholm, who is just incredibly frustrating. 180 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,720 And I remember he said it on February 19th. 181 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,560 He starts talking about 50 home runs and 50 steals and a $300 182 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,000 million contract. That was on the 19th. 183 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,520 And J Rod, can you pop that tweet up for me please on that? 184 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,440 Look at him. He's on top of it today, baby, 185 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,400 on the 20th the next day. Here's what I wrote. 186 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,360 Jazz already strikes out too much. 187 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,240 What's that number going to turn into chasing 50 bombs all year? 188 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,280 Well, I'll give you the short answer. 189 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,400 Now, there's a lot of baseball to go, and he's not going to hit 190 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,480 2:04 this year and he's going to run into some home runs. 191 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,680 I understand that. And he's already got a ton of 192 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,080 stolen bases. But the strikeouts, he's on pace 193 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,400 for his career high. He's on pace for about 185 right 194 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,400 now. I mean, yeah, it's just it's 195 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,480 unacceptable. And and the thing about Jazz 196 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,559 Chisholm, which is why I want nothing to do with Jazz 197 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,640 Chisholm, I really don't want him on this team. 198 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,080 I've told you going back over a year when I was still on WFAN 199 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,440 that I was told by the Yankees that there's no way he's going 200 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,760 to get contract extension. There's no way. 201 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,600 I remember we're talking to Alex Rodriguez about Jazz and you 202 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,960 know, a couple of times and he's like, he's incredibly gifted, 203 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,240 but he's just not reliable. And he's not, I mean, he's just 204 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,400 he's in space. He's either in space on the on 205 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,440 defense, he's on space on the bases. 206 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,120 And the problem with, and I, you knew this was going to happen as 207 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,880 soon as he said what he said about 50 home runs. 208 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,200 His entire mindset shifts when you're chasing 50 and you're not 209 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:19,680 a natural, you know, 354040 plus home run guy like a judge, like 210 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:23,280 an Alonzo, guys like an Otani. Well, what do you do now? 211 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,000 You got to kind of get gearing up a little bit and when you 212 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,520 gear up a little bit and try to do something that is not within 213 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,520 your natural skill set, your mechanics just collapse. 214 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,160 When your mechanics collapse, that leads to empty at bats and 215 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,040 looking at fastballs right down the middle and swinging like 216 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,680 you're a skinny Babe Ruth or Reggie Jackson and it's just not 217 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:46,680 going to work out. So, you know, I don't know, I'll 218 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:47,960 give you a couple of options here. 219 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,360 Like if you asked me right now, if you said OK, would you rather 220 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,840 have Caballero with sure, I know he's got the finger now, but 221 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,160 he's going to be fine. Would I rather have Caballero 222 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:00,280 with shortstop and Volpe at second base over Caballero and 223 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,560 Jazz at second base? My answer would be yes. 224 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:05,680 I could see why you would push back on that because Volpez a 225 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:08,600 low on base got we we know Volpe's track record and he's 226 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:10,200 got he's not even hitting in the minors right now. 227 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,840 So that's a little ambitious, but at least I know that Volpe 228 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,880 would be locked in. He's not a space cadet like 229 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:17,840 Jazz. He's he's emotionally 230 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,800 unreliable. All right, So that would be one 231 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,280 option. Another option would be, you 232 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,800 know, if Lombard really these balls start falling and the 233 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,120 numbers get to a point where I think that they might in the 234 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:30,960 minors. Triple AI don't mean in a week, 235 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,520 but maybe in a month or two. Can I envision a situation where 236 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:37,760 Lombard's at shortstop and Caballeros at second base? 237 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,440 Yup, and I would prefer that over having Jazz Chisholm play 238 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,080 every night. Can I envision a situation where 239 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,920 maybe, but make listen back to Volpe for a second? 240 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,000 It's probably not realistic to think that the Yankees would 241 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,920 mess around with a position change during the season when 242 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,640 this guy's trying to figure it out as a hitter. 243 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,440 And I get that that that might be a little bit dangerous, might 244 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,000 be a little bit reckless. So maybe the move would be Volpe 245 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,600 at shortstop and Caballero at 2nd. 246 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:10,440 And you know, maybe, you know, Lombard at at at 3rd or maybe 247 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,520 Volpe at short and Lombard at second was played a little bit 248 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,840 of second in the minors. And you stick with McMahon at 249 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:17,960 third base, maybe except against tough lefties. 250 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,160 Rosario plays McMahon swinging the bat a lot better. 251 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:22,160 I think it's just you. You can't. 252 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,240 You can't have this guy in the middle of what it's supposed to 253 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:27,960 be. I'm not saying it's a 254 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,080 championship lineup. It's a championship rotation and 255 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,280 they've got a couple of superstars in the lineup. 256 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,720 But I'm going to stop sure of saying it's a championship 257 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,520 lineup. But the more that this guy 258 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,760 plays, the more he's exposed and the deeper the season gets and 259 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,320 the average hovers around 200 and he starts to internalize. 260 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:48,080 I'm chasing big money. I got to get the bag. 261 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,200 I said that I was going to hit fifty home runs. 262 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,200 I got to really start selling out even more once you start 263 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:58,880 doing that as a golfer, pardon me, as a as what, as a as a 264 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,040 baseball player, as a golfer, what in the world was that? 265 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,200 As a baseball player, you are cooked. 266 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,240 You are mentally broken. You are physically broken. 267 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,800 And by the way, the reason why I did say the golfers, because 268 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:15,200 it's kind of like somebody who is a golfer who just you know, 269 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,360 you just know like and he knows more importantly, that is 270 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,000 putter. There's just something off and, 271 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,040 you know, doesn't roll balls, not rolling, not lagging it 272 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,200 well, not reading the greens well, not seeing things the way 273 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,320 you need to see things in a major to compete on the back 274 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,240 nine on a Sunday. And when you have that, and I 275 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,160 don't care what great golfer we're talking about, at some 276 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,320 point that's going to infiltrate their mindset because it's a 277 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,120 very, you know, up and down kind of a sport and it's a field 278 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,560 sport. And baseball is very up and down 279 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:46,400 and baseball is very much a field sport as well. 280 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,760 The problem with Jazz, though, is that he shows no inclination 281 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,600 to want to change. And I'll give you a good 282 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:54,640 example. So last night, last night, like 283 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,960 the Yanks are up to zip Ben Rice apple two run bomb weathers 284 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:03,360 looked phenomenal again, right? So Judge has a double, Judge 285 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,880 leads off the double, Bellinger hits a ground ball, the first 286 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,160 base productive out. Judge goes over to third base. 287 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,080 Now, these are the tack on runs that we talked about. 288 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,800 These are the things that define teams that are, you know, really 289 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,800 going to ultimately win championships. 290 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,400 And there's other components, of course. 291 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,560 You need the starting pitching. You need the bullpen. 292 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:22,840 Got to catch the ball, got to run. 293 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,240 I know that. But those extra tack on runs are 294 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,320 paramount to any team that's trying to do something of 295 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,960 significance. And what does Jazz Chisholm do? 296 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:33,600 Well, he does what he always does. 297 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,640 He abandons the situation and he just worries about himself and 298 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,720 he's swinging from the heels and he's letting good pitches go and 299 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,560 he's expanding the zone and he's just his front shoulders flying 300 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:46,480 out because he's trying to Jack one. 301 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:49,680 And it's a big problem. It is a big, big problem. 302 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,360 He's hitting 200. He's got a 600 OPS and he's on 303 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,560 pace for the most strikeouts he's ever had in his career. 304 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,080 So you know, to me, when I tell the Yankee fans you got to relax 305 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,560 a little bit, I mean it. I it's too early. 306 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:06,040 They've looked too good at at most points outside of that when 307 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,480 they lost five straight and the Mets had lost five straight, 308 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,160 that was. And then the Yankees quickly 309 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,080 course corrected. The Mets did not. 310 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,200 And then the Yankees went on this crazy role. 311 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,720 And you know, I did a couple of shows where I, and I stand by 312 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,240 this like, I believe that the Yankees have the DNA to win big. 313 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,440 I believe that this group of players, they they detest 314 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,440 losing, which is a characteristic all great teams 315 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:29,120 have to have. I was not saying they're going 316 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,560 to win the World Series, but I'm just saying relax. 317 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,960 Like, everybody's got to just tap the brakes a little bit. 318 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,000 But what can't be tapped is the unless you're tapping the gas. 319 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,520 To move on from Jazz, the Yankees are going to have to 320 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:42,280 look themselves in the mirror at some point. 321 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,960 But today, not next week, maybe not even month, next month. 322 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,920 How far do they want to run this thing out with Jazz Chisholm 323 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:51,760 being a focal point of this team? 324 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,640 I'll tell you something else. I don't know how long he's here 325 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,480 talking about Spencer Jones. I don't know, you know, when 326 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,080 Stanton's going to start running again. 327 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:01,680 I don't really know what the Ming is. 328 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,000 I know he's on the 10 day IL, but I'm not really sure when 329 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,160 he's going to come back. Whatever. 330 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,360 Nor do I know what the Yankees plans would be for Jack for for 331 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:09,640 Dominguez. What he does come back. 332 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,200 But you it's it's a small sample, but you watch Spencer 333 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:17,000 Jones play center field and you watch Trent Grisham play center 334 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,960 field. Don't tell me that Trent Grisham 335 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:20,760 is a better defensive center fielder. 336 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:22,840 I don't think that he is. Now, I'm not saying that you 337 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,640 just banish him as well. I'm not, you know, getting on 338 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,040 the air today saying get rid of Jazz, get rid of Trent. 339 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,200 Although I did say that during the offseason, so it would be 340 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,960 consistent with my thought process about the Yankees. 341 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,280 So they've lost four straight. They have taken absolute 342 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,080 starting gems and flushed them down the chute. 343 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,720 And not just this is the point, not just because of the bullpen, 344 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,920 because of their inability to tack on with situational 345 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,920 hitting. I mean, I, I know, I know that 346 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,320 it there's no real glory in lofting a little, you know, 347 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,120 moderately shallow fly bolt to center field or left field. 348 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,600 But to do that, you've got to commit to keep as a lefty that 349 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,480 front shoulder in and not selling out because you said 350 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:04,720 you're going to hit fifty home runs. 351 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,440 And that is a byproduct of a couple of things. 352 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:12,400 He put incredible, incredible pressure on himself by saying 353 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:13,880 that. And it's one thing to be 354 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:18,040 confident and, and I do like jazz's confidence and and I do 355 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:22,240 like the the like, let's not get this twisted because one thing, 356 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:24,160 I'm just going to be honest with you guys. 357 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,320 I don't know if it's a race thing. 358 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,200 I don't know what it is, but I feel like a lot of the times 359 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,240 that we talk about jazz, people kind of hear different stuff, 360 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,920 understand what I'm saying. I actually love the the, the, 361 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,760 the, the edge, the swag that he brings to the team. 362 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,200 And I've said for many years, I think the Yankees have been far 363 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,520 too corporate. You know, I mean, when I wear my 364 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,680 hat that way, no, But I'm also not, you know, 26 years old. 365 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,320 So I get it. And CC had the tilt and some 366 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,960 other, you know, Dodge rail. Willis, Hey, swag out. 367 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,040 Do what you got to do. But the production's got to be 368 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,680 there and the night tonight, reliability's got to be there. 369 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,800 And I don't care if you run like Ricky Henderson, if you're not 370 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,960 reliably on bass, you know, and I don't care if you wind up 371 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,920 hitting 30 something home runs and, and blow by 3030, which if 372 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,800 he hits thirty home runs, he absolutely would blow by 30, you 373 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,160 know, steals cuz he's probably gonna have 40 already has about 374 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,720 14, whatever it might be. I don't care about that. 375 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,880 I care about when you were in that when it's time to win, when 376 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,880 it's time to take that that final nail and stick it in the 377 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,200 coffin and hammer them and put another team in the ground. 378 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,600 Whether it's an early ish mid-May or late October against 379 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,400 the Dodgers or whomever else you might be facing if you get to 380 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,560 the World Series or whomever you would face in the postseason, 381 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,880 the American League. You just can't flush those at 382 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,160 bats down the shoot. And you really think that 383 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,200 there's going to be some sudden and I'm going to ask Aaron Boot 384 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,960 about like I am going to really get into Jazz Chisholm tomorrow. 385 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:48,920 Like I think it's going to be really interesting. 386 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:53,280 What is the plan for Volpe? I mean, if, if he hits 240 and 387 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:54,720 for the next month if they going to call him up. 388 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,840 I, I doubt it. I mean, are they waiting for him 389 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,960 to get hot? I I don't know, I, I how willing 390 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:02,960 are they to to and this would be an organizational things. 391 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,040 I don't know how much Aaron would really be able to answer 392 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,440 this. But because it's going to be a 393 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,200 group thing and it should be when you talking about your top 394 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,840 prospect, at what point if he continues to barrel the ball 395 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,400 because we know he could defend and run. 396 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,200 Is Lombard getting a look up here? 397 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:19,000 Like there are variables here that that I think will will 398 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,200 ultimately favorably alter the Yankee trajectory. 399 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,440 But I get it. You know, this is baseball in 400 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:29,040 New York, Susan, and you know, we we want to go nuts. 401 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:30,760 Now. You want to go nuts, go nuts 402 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:34,640 about the Mets, who are 15 and 25 and look like absolute trash. 403 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,560 I mean, that's a team that you can you want to let it RIP. 404 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,160 It's not too early to you know, whether you want to bury the 405 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,320 Mets or crush the Mets that. But let's let's have at least a 406 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,720 little perspective, just a little bit, guys, a little bit 407 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,040 little perspective here where we all know the Yankees will be a 408 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,200 playoff team. And you should know by now that 409 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,760 the team that you see in May is not going to be the team that 410 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,640 you see with certain spots in October. 411 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,000 And if you can compartmentalize that, you could probably deal 412 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,080 with a loss like last night and even what transpired over the 413 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,440 weekend in Milwaukee with a little bit more clarity and a 414 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:11,600 little bit more calmness, right? If you don't see that and you 415 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,000 get, you know that well, then you going to be a little 416 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,080 irrational. And that's fine. 417 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,240 Like Yankee fans up. You know, I I said, I told 418 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,120 everybody to relax. But you do what you want to do. 419 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:22,240 You do you be you. I'm just telling we've seen this 420 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,560 enough. We have seen enough baseball to 421 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:28,400 understand that a three or a four or even A5 game losing 422 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,520 streak in May is not the end of the world. 423 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,720 OK, Ben Rice didn't get in a bat in Milwaukee. 424 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,640 Ben Rice comes back boom two run off O laser. 425 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,280 So you got your stud hitter back along with Judge and Beldy's 426 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,840 been on a heater. Yankees offense will be fine. 427 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,200 They're going to blast home runs. 428 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,120 They're starting pitching is phenomenal and they're going to 429 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,680 make tweaks. Now, do I love the way Boone use 430 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,800 the bullpen over the weekend? Nope, I don't. 431 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,320 I said that yesterday. I'll bring up some questions 432 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,760 tomorrow that I have about about usage here. 433 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,120 But I just don't think Bednar is the closer and some of these 434 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:04,960 studs who were throwing really quality starts, start after 435 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,080 start after start are going to be in the bullpen, which is 436 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,320 going to rearrange and not just like, you know. 437 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,800 So moving a chair on the Titanic, I think it's going to 438 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,800 be effective. So I'm good, Like, I'm fine 439 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,480 where the Yankees are. I don't like losing and I don't 440 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,400 like losing the way they lost last night. 441 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,520 But it's a long season. They're not perfect. 442 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,880 Nobody is relaxed. All right, J Rod, today's show. 443 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,840 As always, let's give a shout out to the sponsors here for BT 444 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,800 Unleashed, of course, brought to you by my friends at Sullivan 445 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:34,600 Propane. Find 446 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,320 sullivanonline@triallaw1.com, Straw law1.com, Remember the 447 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:43,240 name Sullivan Propane and buy premium sausage, sausage the way 448 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,560 it should be. Find them at premiumfoods.com or 449 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,760 in your local grocery store. I mean, but Jazz is the one that 450 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,440 just drives me nuts. He does. 451 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,840 And depending upon when you watch Jazz, right, you've got 452 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,840 you've got conflicting opinions. Nobody doubts the talent. 453 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,560 But one thing that I've said, especially about a baseball 454 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,320 player, right, when you are, you know, X amount of years, and I 455 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,280 mean, two or three. That's why, you know, I'll give 456 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,640 a little glimmer of hope that Volpe can expand this game a 457 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,000 little bit. Same with Dominguez, you know, 458 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,120 ironically, you know, he can't catch a fly ball in the 459 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:20,520 outfield. He makes a great play. 460 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,720 He gets hurt. Like that's why I never buried 461 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,800 Dominguez. I never fully buried Anthony 462 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,800 Volpe. But a guy like Jazz Chisholm is 463 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,960 not going to change. He's just not going to change. 464 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,160 A guy like John Carr and you know, all respect to Big G, but 465 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,520 he's not going to change. Even the great average judge is 466 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,160 not going to change. You are what you are. 467 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,600 Now, Ryan McMahon has changed a little bit, but Ryan McMahon 468 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,640 also had a couple of good early seasons in Colorado. 469 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,600 And you're not, you're not relying on on Ryan McMahon like 470 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,840 you're relying on Jazz Chisholm. Like Jazz going to hit fifth, 471 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,160 Jazz going to hit 6, McMahon's going to hit ninth. 472 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,080 He's going hit 8th or 9th. So it's a different level of 473 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,440 responsibility and I, I just, again, I'm, I'm just a staunch 474 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,480 believer when there's X amount of it bats, when there's enough 475 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,240 evidence as a hitter. Now, I think as a pitcher, I 476 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,920 think it's a little different. You can discover a new pitch. 477 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,000 You can come back with a cutter like you can just, you know, and 478 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,480 if this happens a lot, you could just be throwing during the 479 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,440 offseason. You alter your grip and all of a 480 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,360 sudden you got 789 more inches, vertical break, horizontal 481 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:23,960 break, whatever it might be. And now you incorporate this 482 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,680 into the repertoire and it makes the other stuff which was 483 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,160 getting hit little bit more effective, which could lead to a 484 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:35,040 more effective pitcher. But if you're a hitter and you 485 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:39,280 have a propensity to always swing from the heels, you're not 486 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,480 like Jazz does. You're not going to change your 487 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,840 approach. It's not going to happen. 488 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,280 Yes, you're going to have a hot streak because you're incredibly 489 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,280 talented. But when you need him, you know, 490 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,360 man on 3rd down a run, lift the fly ball of the outfield. 491 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:55,800 Stop selling out to try to be a hero with A2 run Jack to the 492 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,760 moon. Just put the bat on the ball, 493 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,600 roll, you know, roll it over to second base, little ground ball, 494 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,800 get him in, move the like. These are things that you must 495 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,240 do and these are things that he doesn't do. 496 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,040 So the Yankees have a Jazz Chism problem. 497 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:16,040 Austin Wells is he's I mean, it's a little different here. 498 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,400 He too is relied less upon then, you know, somebody like like 499 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,840 Jazz. So if he's at the bottom of the 500 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,400 order and he's got five RBI's, which is ridiculous. 501 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,200 I mean, it's got three home runs, He's got five RBI's, dude, 502 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,920 wow. You know, and he's always been a 503 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,280 lower average hitter. I think he's a a terrific 504 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,760 defensive catcher. He receives the and I know that 505 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,760 some people don't, you know, really care about this, but it 506 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,400 doesn't matter because there's got to be a familiarity and a 507 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,960 comfort level with starting pitch like that matters. 508 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,880 That relationship matters. If there's any position that I'm 509 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,480 willing to sacrifice little offense, it's behind the plate 510 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,840 and it's a shortstop. Now, it's not like it was in the 511 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,920 80s with guys like Ozzy Smith and all those who was great, you 512 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,680 know, catching the ball. But all those 80s and early 90s 513 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,120 shortstops hitting 2:30 with six home runs and just bumping. 514 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,480 I don't I don't you can't really have too many of those guys 515 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,960 because it's the modern game is about offense and it's about 516 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,360 launch angle and it's about home runs and it's about outscoring 517 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:15,560 the opposition. And if you have, you know, two 518 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,280 or three dead spots in the order like too often the Yankees do in 519 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,640 the bottom third, you got some problems there. 520 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:24,920 But I I think if you were to go through, maybe this will make 521 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,000 maybe maybe this will make you feel better. 522 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,840 Maybe you don't need to feel better about the Yankees today, 523 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,800 right? Let me do what you want. 524 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,760 Process it how you will. But you could go through every 525 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,280 single team, including the Dodgers and even including the 526 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,880 Braves, who look terrific and the Rays, who are leading the 527 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,000 American League East right now. And if you would have 528 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,480 microdissect their roster, like just parachute, not that they're 529 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,960 really, you know, no disrespect to Tampa radio. 530 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,400 They've got some good hosts down there, but they're not, they're 531 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,800 not, they're not doing what we do do with not that this is 532 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,240 radio either, but you know what I mean with the Yankees and the 533 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:01,040 Mets, like the level is absurd. Like the, the again, the micro 534 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,480 analysis, it is over the top, but that's the way it's always 535 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,000 going to be because we're a baseball town, right? 536 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,160 And, and I, I really don't think if the Dodgers lose four or five 537 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,800 in a row or the Padres lose four or five in a row, that out West 538 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,960 in, in the beautiful city of San Diego or out in LA that you're 539 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,840 going to have, you know, the phone lines and all the other 540 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,880 content, we're going to have lunatics. 541 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,200 I mean, get fired. This guy, trade that guy. 542 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,360 We can't win this level of fatality that sets in with the 543 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:32,560 Yankees and the Mets. Now the Mets have earned a lot 544 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,040 of that and I'm not pronouncing them dead yet. 545 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:40,560 And I'll get to you in a minute. But you know, I it's just, if I 546 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,520 can impress one thing upon you today, understand that there's 547 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:48,600 one of the first things I said. This version of the Yankees is 548 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,880 not going to be the version that they run out in October. 549 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:55,240 And if it is, they will not win the World Series. 550 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,200 I've got no problem saying that. It's that simple. 551 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,680 And if it is and they wanted to play the team like the Rays, who 552 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,480 were buttoned up and they catch it and they run, you know, I 553 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:04,960 mean, hold on. It's not like the Rays have 554 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,400 never beaten the Yankees in the postseason. 555 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,120 I don't care what I don't care what the payrolls are, what the 556 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,920 disparity might be. Yankees got some work to do. 557 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,640 And that was part of the issue coming into the season. 558 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,160 We knew the Yankees had work to do because you look at the 559 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,240 final, you know, 334 hitters in a lineup, and it's kind of like 560 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,720 automatic out, automatic out, automatic out. 561 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,440 Jazz is not an automatic out, but he's incredibly confounding 562 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,480 and frustrating, and they rely on him to be one of the big 563 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,840 dogs. And it's just not statistically 564 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,200 reliable enough, not let alone emotionally reliable enough. 565 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,520 So, you know, I mean, I just think that and I was, I really, 566 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,680 I was looking at this before the start of the show and it's not a 567 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,000 hot take. It's just me like closing my 568 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,760 eyes and envisioning a Yankee team with Rice hitting and Judge 569 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,080 hitting and Bellinger hitting. Those three guys carrying the 570 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,800 mail for the offense. Obviously Stanton maybe a little 571 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,880 bit against Lefty's when he if and when he comes back, 572 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,920 whatever, you know he's going to hit some big home runs this 573 00:26:58,920 --> 00:26:59,880 year. We know the deal with him. 574 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:04,440 But Caballero and Volpe up the middle, Caballero and Lombard up 575 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,640 the middle or Caballero and Jazz or Volpe and Jazz. 576 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,760 Like to me, the least appealing option ironically right now 577 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,560 would be Volpe at short and Jazz at 2nd. 578 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:24,280 The more Fender and all the numbers backed us up. 579 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,760 I don't care what Volbe did with the Gold Glove back in the day. 580 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,760 Caballeros is the more electric defensive player, better arm, 581 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,320 better range. He's better right. 582 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,920 So Caballero with short and then maybe Lombard at second. 583 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,080 Like there there are things that you can do. 584 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:40,120 You got to find a right-handed hitting catcher just to kind of 585 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:42,320 mix things up. You got to hope that McMahon's 586 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,480 going to, you know what, whatever he's on to now, he's 587 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,040 been swinging the bat real well. Almost went deep last night off 588 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:48,920 the bat. I thought that was run and he's 589 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,160 been on a nice three-week run where you know, and they talk 590 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,960 about this, one of the reasons why he's doing better is because 591 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,680 he's letting the ball travel deeper. 592 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,000 And as a hitter, when you do that, you're not jumpy when 593 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,760 you'd like. Jazz is jumpy all right. 594 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,400 When you are jumpy, you're trying to crank it. 595 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,520 You're trying to just yam 1 as a lefty down the right field line, 596 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,400 right. When you let it travel deep, 597 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,200 you're less susceptible to this. You know, your shoulders not 598 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,000 flaring out. You go the other way and, you 599 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,440 know, whether it's a hard hit ball the other way or making 600 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,800 more contact, which could keep the carousel going on the bases, 601 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:23,840 like that's the way the game works. 602 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,240 And Jazz Chisholm has never gotten the memo. 603 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,680 You know, there's a reason why now I'm not saying it was the 604 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,200 healthiest clubhouse ever when he was in Miami. 605 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,720 You know, I know they gave him a rough time, but I and I do like 606 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,240 Jazz and I think that the Yankees, the players, I think 607 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,720 that they like Jazz, but you know, he's a hot dog and and 608 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,840 that plays if you're Ricky Henderson that don't play when 609 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,520 you're, you know, a little sloppy on in in the field, at 610 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,520 least intermittently sloppy and not really reliable. 611 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,240 You know, sometimes, even though you're electric on the bases, 612 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,760 you fall asleep with with the oven Mitt, whatever it might be 613 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,440 last year at the pop up down in Miami on first base. 614 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,600 I mean, it's just been so many examples with the World Series 615 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,440 blowing bubbles, the balls in the infield. 616 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,640 I don't trust the guy and I really don't know why the 617 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,680 Yankees do. I know they don't trust him 618 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,600 enough to give him that contract. 619 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,000 Like nobody told you that before me. 620 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,680 I was the first one to say he will not get a contract 621 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,600 extension with the Yankees and he will not. 622 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,640 Now, the next question is do the Yankees have the the appetite 623 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,960 and I don't know the answer to this this I don't know. 624 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,960 I I mean I could I could give you a theory and I will I'll 625 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,960 give you a thought. Do the Yankees have the appetite 626 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,040 to roll with this the rest of the year when there seems to be 627 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,240 so much more urgency everywhere you look? 628 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,240 Louis Hill baddest to the minors. 629 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,160 Volpe Nope, you didn't do well in AA. 630 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,120 All right, your your 20 day rehab stint is up. 631 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,080 Not now caballeros playing better. 632 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,480 You could stay in the minors up. You know what, McMahon? 633 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,400 Early you're not hitting. You're not hit against righties. 634 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,520 We'll go against the data, we'll go against the numbers, and 635 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,680 we're going to have Rosario play against a couple of righties 636 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,800 rather than just lefties. Like the things that they've 637 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,120 done have been. I mean, maybe impressive is the 638 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,640 wrong word because that's what you should do. 639 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,080 I mean, that that's what I would do. 640 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,560 I'm not sitting here saying I'm popping champagne for the 641 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,960 Yankees, doing things that I've always wanted them to do. 642 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,720 But there is much more an aversion to like running it back 643 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:20,040 like and and and and being OK and putting up with either with 644 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:26,200 either a substandard performance statistically or an an emotional 645 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,360 unreliable. I know I've used that word too 646 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,200 much like unreliability. And that's the problem. 647 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:33,880 That is the problem with the Yankees. 648 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,240 Jay, Do you hear what I'm selling out there? 649 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:36,240 Jay? You know what? 650 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,160 I'm saying yeah, big time, man. No, the chats are the chats are 651 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,160 popping. I've got, I've got one. 652 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,240 I want to, I want to see you respond to. 653 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,040 Yeah. Let's get it up, man. 654 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:45,200 Let's go. What are we waiting for here? 655 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,160 All right, I act like Jazz Chisholm is a no, I don't act 656 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:50,560 like he's a scrub. I never once said he was a 657 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,720 scrub. See, the difference is they I 658 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,280 appreciate that, But no, I I don't think he's a scrub, But he 659 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:01,080 unfortunately, he's not what you need, you know, if you really 660 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,720 want to be a championship type of team. 661 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,400 All right, if Jazz was playing with Bernie and Tino and Derek 662 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,800 and Posada, you know, and those cats, Ambrosius, sure, I can run 663 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,040 him out. I can hide him in there a little 664 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,480 bit and maybe the other stuff would rub off on him, you know, 665 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,480 but let's let's not get it twisted. 666 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,720 I never once said they see, the problem is, if I didn't think 667 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,600 that Jazz Chisholm had immense talent, I don't think I'd waste 668 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,000 a whole lot of time on Jazz Chisholm. 669 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:32,920 The frustration and, and, and what's up for I think constant 670 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:37,480 dissection and evaluation is that we know he has as much 671 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,320 talent as anybody on the team really out outside of Aaron 672 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:41,920 Judge. You know, he run. 673 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:43,720 He's probably the fastest Yankee. 674 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,440 He's got a good arm, you know, played a little outfield with 675 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,360 the Marlins, played a little third base here. 676 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,480 Obviously he's made some great plays at second. 677 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,080 When he hits him, they go, I mean, it just fly off his bat 678 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,120 like he's playing wiffle ball. And if you watch the Jazz 679 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,960 Chisholm highlight reel, you are utterly impressed. 680 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,320 You're like, Yep, wow, how many All Star teams this guy been on? 681 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,760 I mean, how many top five MVPS has this guy had? 682 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,560 What is he more? He's like a more athletic Robbie 683 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,520 Canoe? No, he's not because Robinson 684 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,440 canoe actually understood how to hit. 685 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,960 He understood getting it a favorable count. 686 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,080 He understood. I just think Robbie, I think 687 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,240 Robbie Cano's now defensively, even though he made great plays, 688 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,640 too, maybe defensively there was a little bit of an indifference 689 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,120 there, or a little flighty, a little Spacey. 690 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:37,560 Robinson Cano's offensive aptitude and IQ runs laps around 691 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,800 Jazz Chisholm. I mean, he can't even figure out 692 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,240 the ABS challenge system. I mean, come on, you're in the 693 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,800 batter's box. It's right down the middle, 694 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,120 tapping your head. What, so he doesn't even know 695 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,320 the strike zone and I don't think he's got much of A plan 696 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,960 because when you see, when you have a plan, right? 697 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,920 And I know, I know it all depends on who you're facing and 698 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:03,000 what's in their repertoire and their pitch dependency like, 699 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,280 and, and I know that they have the scatter report and all that 700 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,280 stuff. So I know it's not always the 701 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,280 same pitcher to pitcher. Obviously some guy might have a 702 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,280 a sinker that's going to bear it on righties, you know, which is, 703 00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:17,440 which is really tough to hit. You know, I've never seen last 704 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,400 series with the Orioles. Pete Alonzo had a real rough 705 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,400 time with that. So it's a nasty pitch to hit. 706 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,320 That thing's running towards your ankles and it it presents 707 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:28,000 itself as a fastball and it's 9790 and it's that hard sinker 708 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,600 with late action. You either have to take it, you 709 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,120 taking a check swing or you're banging one off your ankle or 710 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,960 you're going to tap one in the third base dugout. 711 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,520 So you, you, you understand what everybody has and, and what 712 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,160 their go to pitch is. But I, I feel like every game 713 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,760 Jazz Chisholm goes up there and like he's swinging, you know, 714 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,680 from the heels trying to hit one to outer space on a first pitch 715 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,440 curveball that he misses by a mile. 716 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,920 Like, dude, just sit back and and react to Dead Red early in 717 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,360 the count. I mean, that's basic stuff. 718 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,560 So I am not a Jazz believer. I'm not and I have never been a 719 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,200 jazz Chism believer. Now the irony here, this where 720 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,800 it gets a little interesting. And I'll be fair, there are 721 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,159 times when I am a fan and that's that's kind of split in the 722 00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:15,840 difference. But, and it almost seems like a 723 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,280 contradiction like, well, if you're not a believer, why would 724 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,040 you be a fan? Well, because I am a fan of his 725 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:25,440 talents and I am a fan of his energy, but I am not a believer 726 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,880 in how he presents himself as a buttoned up night tonight 727 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,840 reliable baseball player because he's just not that. 728 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:35,960 And he's never going to be that. He's going to suddenly change 729 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,679 now. You don't think Judge has tried 730 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:40,080 everything in the world to get him to get, you know, more of a 731 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,600 plan, more urgency? No, it's not going to work. 732 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,000 Trade Spencer Jones. Yeah. 733 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000 Well, I don't think the A's are giving him up. 734 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,360 I don't think that's going to happen there. 735 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,600 And Wells, I mean, guys here, first of all, Langoliers is 736 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:52,800 really good. I think they gave him a little 737 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,800 contract, too. He's really good. 738 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,600 Why would they want, you know, I mean, Spencer Jones might be, 739 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,560 might wind up being a career minor leaguer. 740 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,280 He just might be. And Austin Wells is a 210 741 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,120 hitter. I mean, I grant he's got some 742 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:09,520 pop and he does receive the ball well, but it's amazing you guys 743 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,840 present these trades. You know, to get something you 744 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,080 got to give up something. If you want to get Langoliers 745 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,440 from the A's, you got to give up like AI don't know, like a will 746 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,800 Warren and you know, and it's something of value. 747 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,480 I'm not saying Jones and Wells have 0 value, but you know what 748 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,480 I mean. Some of these trades are insane. 749 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:32,360 You know, you just think about a 21 sided So the Yankees boy J 750 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,000 Rod I just I, I really hope that the Yankees get a win tonight, 751 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,320 man. Otherwise, me and my boy Boone 752 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:38,600 are going to be getting after it tomorrow. 753 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,160 It's going to be rough. I mean, you know, maybe listen, 754 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,040 depending on how it goes, I think another loss could be 755 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,800 better for the pop tomorrow. So hang on, hang on, let's see 756 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,360 what's going on. Let me just put a little. 757 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,600 That's how he takes it, really. Yeah, let me just put a little 758 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,680 order into the next room. I'm I'm in the mood for. 759 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,400 I'm going to have a second cup of coffee today. 760 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,520 Let me just put the text in here. 761 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:03,600 Can you please make me a cup of coffee and bring it in? 762 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,440 Thank you. Let's see how long that takes. 763 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,960 If there's a long line there to here at over at Tierney Bucks. 764 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,000 Are you a Starbucks guy or no? No, I'm not a coffee guy. 765 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,280 I've got like a dude. I've got like a rough stomach. 766 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,080 So OK, OK. And it's not really like it's 767 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,200 not old dairy things, but like caffeine just really messes me 768 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,560 up. Yeah, yeah. 769 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,840 I'm not a big, I'm not a big caffeine guy. 770 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,480 Like I very rarely drink soda. We very rarely have soda in the 771 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:35,320 house, honestly even more than we should. 772 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,200 And, and we don't have it much. But if it was up to me, I have 773 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,320 none, you know, 0. But you know, sometimes it is 774 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:41,640 good. Like if you know late game, you 775 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:45,560 have a little McDonald's, I bet it's good or a little BK or you 776 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,240 know, I will have a ginger ale as I've told you on football 777 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,160 Sundays. You know, a little roast beef, 778 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,280 you know, a little roast beef, extra mutts, all that stuff. 779 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,680 Roasted red Peppers pizza it you know it, there's a time and a 780 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,040 place for a little bit of soda kids birthday parties. 781 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:03,480 But you know, even if I'm drinking decaf and like I once 782 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,480 the show's over, I won't have a sip of coffee even if the fan, 783 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,080 even if the fan my entire career, right. 784 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:13,480 But I'm most recently WFAN doing the 10:00 show with tiki and 785 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,440 then Sal. I would sip a cup of coffee on 786 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,000 the way in. So I would drive in right And 787 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,120 then I would make one more during the show and I would 788 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,280 never finish it. It's more like it's more like a 789 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:26,200 companion. It's there. 790 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,200 I take a little sip right, But even if it's decaf, like I find 791 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,200 it therapeutic. It's just part of the process. 792 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,280 Like if I've got a lot of work to do, like I've got AI had a 793 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,440 lot of notes here today. Not that I mean, listen, it's my 794 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,000 job. I'm not looking for bonus points 795 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,000 is what I do, but had a lot of notes today because I want to 796 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,560 get to a lot of stuff. Wait till I get to the NFL 797 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,320 international schedule. I'm going to destroy the NFL 798 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,800 today. But the there's something to be 799 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,120 said. It's part of my process. 800 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,960 Like I just enjoy knowing it's there, a little sip there, even 801 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,680 if it's decap, as I said. And I never drank coffee until, 802 00:37:56,720 --> 00:37:59,160 matter of fact, the first time I ever had coffee. 803 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,560 I'll never forget my buddy Andy Monfried, who's the best. 804 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,920 I love Andy. So I graduated from college 805 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:05,960 trying to get into it. Yeah. 806 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,080 Oh, yeah. No, not once until after 807 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,600 college. And I was working. 808 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,520 I had a sales job in, in New York City and I was trying to 809 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,240 break into the industry, right? So I was doing a little bit on 810 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:19,240 Wall Street over at, at Fidelity. 811 00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:22,400 I was doing at, at this other company before that construction 812 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,960 like just, you know, mixing and matching before I could get a 813 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,240 break. It's not easy, you know, And I 814 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,480 remember we went out one night and and I think I was still 815 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,560 living at home because I was just out, yeah, I was just out 816 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,600 of school and man, I got rocked, man. 817 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,400 I went out with a bunch of the older sale and like I could 818 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,480 handle myself, you know, because I had fun in college. 819 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,720 But I went, went a little bit too deep, right? 820 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,840 And I show up for the sales meeting the next day and my 821 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,360 buddy Andy's like, dude, he and I was, I was out with him for a 822 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:48,360 while. I was like, let's go get a cup 823 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:49,680 of coffee. Maybe I'm like, I don't he's 824 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,880 like, you need some. That was the first time I had it 825 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,080 and it gave me a little jolt. I'm like, oh, OK. 826 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,760 So even now, like driving to play golf or even coaching, if 827 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,600 if I'm coaching an early morning game, I'll have a cup of coffee 828 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,160 in the dugout. I'll kind of sip it after we go 829 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,760 through Winfield outfield. But yeah, I, I, I where's my 830 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,440 coffee? I'm starting to certainly not 831 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,800 going to get a tip here. We got to respond. 832 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,640 You will have it in five. There we go. 833 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,920 OK, I appreciate that. Yes, very much. 834 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,560 All right, so we'll get to something. 835 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:20,760 What does that say about the Yankees there? 836 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,200 Hold on, put the shades on. Let me put the shades on. 837 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,920 J Rod Warren or Weathers to stay in the rotation. 838 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,080 Now, this is something that I really can't wait to talk to 839 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:30,960 Aaron Boone about like this again. 840 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,320 It's going to be a big organizational decision. 841 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,320 I don't know the answer. I don't know his answer. 842 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,960 I'll give you mine. Now, I did tweet last night, 843 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:41,720 maybe Weathers to the bullpen. And I said this, you know, 1520 844 00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:43,760 minutes ago. He's more of a reliable. 845 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,160 I mean, he's thrown some gems where he's he's untouchable. 846 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,680 And the Yankees really did have a good read on him. 847 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,880 He's controllable, he's cheap, but he was a little bit injury 848 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,160 prone in the wrong situation and they had to refine his his 849 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,480 stuff. And the Yankees are really good 850 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,480 at that organizationally, some of these pitching reclamation 851 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,400 projects, they're actually outstanding at it, right? 852 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:02,840 And I want to give him credit there. 853 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,480 So to me, the only way that I can possibly let me get a little 854 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,320 get blank piece of paper, the only way that I can answer this 855 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,960 right, I've got to assume full health. 856 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,840 And like, if it's up to me, let's push this thing forward. 857 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:19,240 Let's go to like August, right? All right, let's go to August 858 00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:22,520 Here you got freed one. And again, the order is somewhat 859 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,680 insignificant. You can always manipulate the 860 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,840 rotations off days, whatever, but just to kind of push it 861 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,480 forward and keep it moving. Freed 1. 862 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:33,360 Garrett Cole 2. I mean, Cam schlittner #1 Cam 863 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,120 Schlittner is one of the best pitchers in baseball, period. 864 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,520 If Cam is your two, he's absolutely the best 2. 865 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,560 And if Cam Schlittner is your three, he might actually be the 866 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,240 best three of all time. I mean, maybe a little bit of a 867 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:47,040 prisoner of the moment, but I, I don't know. 868 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,200 Anyway, Freed 1, Colt 2, Schlittler 3. 869 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,600 They're going to keep Rodan 4I. I can be coaxed into maybe Rodan 870 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,360 5, whatever. But and and I I think Rodan 871 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,120 deserves more respect than he's gotten. 872 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,080 The first year was a mess and then he really started to right 873 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,280 the ship and he was really good last year, playoffs aside, and 874 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:08,720 he was awful as well against Toronto. 875 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:14,360 Either way, Rodan 4 see the thing with with the Weathers 876 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:19,040 right weather, I'm going to say Weathers 5. 877 00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:23,440 So if that's the case, see, but here's the problem, and this is 878 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:24,440 what I want to talk to with Boone. 879 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,840 Maybe they don't care about this right At that .60% of your 880 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,840 rotations lefties. Freed's a lefty, obviously 881 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,960 Rodana's a lefty and Weathers is a lefty. 882 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:38,080 If you have Warren as your 5 and Weathers to the pen, well, now 883 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:43,200 it's, you know, lefty, righty, righty left and again, you can 884 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,960 manipulate that. If Warren's that number 5 and if 885 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,040 Warren's the number 5, well, now you get a bullpen where you've 886 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,120 got weathers where you I still like Cruz. 887 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,400 I still with that splitter. I I love his energy. 888 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:55,840 He's got to be used in the right spot. 889 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,160 I'm a Cruz fan. I mean, Duvall get lost by 890 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,400 Bednar is going to be the the 8th inning man, in my opinion. 891 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:06,720 Weathers Clark Schmidt. They're going to make a trade 892 00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:09,280 and I think it's going to be a big one for an electric arm who 893 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:14,400 will wind up being the closer and then Bednar and like, I'm 894 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,880 not really banking on heel, but then LeBron Hey, and you know, 895 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,880 Elmo Rodriguez looked a little bit overwhelmed, but he too has 896 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,240 great stuff. And maybe maybe like a Ramiro 897 00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:25,400 Mendoza role, if you're old enough to remember that, like, 898 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,400 you know, 5th inning, 6th inning, I could I could see him 899 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,120 being before the high leverage point. 900 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:33,280 So that's that's my answer. I don't know what their answer 901 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:34,320 is. I don't even know if they know 902 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,320 their answer right now. I don't know. 903 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,600 I mean, it's all depending upon those Weathers. 904 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,960 Keep this up. What does will Warren look like? 905 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,280 You know, I'd have to. I'd have to investigate further. 906 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,720 Not that it really matters because Clay Holmes was a 907 00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:50,400 starter with the Pirates, then a reliever, now a starter again. 908 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,120 Did Warren get any, you know, relief? 909 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:54,600 Look in the I don't think he did. 910 00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:58,720 Weathers did. So there's a lot of factors at 911 00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:01,440 play, but the good news is they've got a lot of options, 912 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,040 which gives me comfort. I think Dominguez is done, Wells 913 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,720 is done. Just like Alvarez, Vientos and 914 00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:10,040 Beatty. We know what they are and 915 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,000 they're supplemental role players at best. 916 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:15,960 I'm definitely not trying to make this a Yankee meth and keep 917 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,200 that up there. I, I, I'm just not a big Alvarez 918 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:19,560 fan. I'm just not, I know he's got a 919 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:20,800 little bit of pop. Not a fan. 920 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,520 I'm just now, I don't think I ever will be. 921 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,720 I probably overrated Beatty a little bit coming into the 922 00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:30,920 season, you know, like defensive versatility, hit some home runs 923 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,880 last year, basically took him a month to get a walk there. 924 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,720 That was surprising. But I'm not giving up on Beatty. 925 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,520 You know, Beatty batting 7th or 8th on a good team is fine. 926 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,240 What else we got there. I'm not going to give up on 927 00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:45,160 Dominguez and I'm not going to give up. 928 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,240 I guess the only one. I guess I'm not giving instead 929 00:43:47,240 --> 00:43:49,600 of Vientos guy. You know that because of his 930 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,880 limited role, all they can do is there's the coffee. 931 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,440 Thank you very much. To any tip. 932 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:55,840 Do I owe you anything? Is that good? 933 00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:58,720 It's free. Yeah. 934 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:02,400 You hear what you just said? I can't tell you. 935 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:08,280 So I think that. Look at the. 936 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:09,600 What does the. What does the mug say? 937 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:11,120 Hope. There you go. 938 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,720 I think that there's a lot of players up on the board there. 939 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:17,600 I don't think any of them will be stars. 940 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,520 And I think that, you know, obviously, you know, a year from 941 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,440 now and certainly 2, you know, you might have 4060, maybe 80% 942 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,840 of those guys gone. But I'm not going to give up on 943 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,960 Dominguez because of the speed ratio and he's got a little pop. 944 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,680 Wells does enough defensively where I'm not going to give up 945 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,080 on him. I don't love him and he's just 946 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,000 not becoming the player that I thought he could. 947 00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,880 But you know, I mean, how many, how many teams have catchers 948 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:44,360 that are going to hit 20 something home runs? 949 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,000 He's got to get going a little bit, but he's already done it. 950 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,640 So I already know he's a 20 plus home run guy. 951 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,600 He's cheap and he's a good receiver of the ball. 952 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,000 So there's a lot there. It's a good chat or good 953 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,240 message. I appreciate that. 954 00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,200 Now very quickly here on on what the Mets are doing. 955 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,680 Listen, the Mets are a bad week. And you know, maybe the Yankees 956 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,880 can complicate things for the Mets coming up at the Subway 957 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,320 Series, the first Subway Series here. 958 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,480 I don't know what they're going to do during the six game 959 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,520 homestand and playing a couple of good teams. 960 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,400 You know, I feel like they're going to be two and four. 961 00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,320 Who knows? I mean, baseball's wacky. 962 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:19,840 Maybe split the difference three and three. 963 00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,720 Maybe they shocked the world. They go 5 and one. 964 00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:22,760 Things change. I don't know. 965 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,680 I obviously don't know. Nobody knows here. 966 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,480 But I am not seeing any evidence that the Mets are ready to go on 967 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,800 some sort of role. So I'm certainly not going to 968 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,240 say that I like the call up of Ewing and I like the call up, 969 00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:35,160 but I'm looking forward to watching him play. 970 00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,440 See, it's one thing like when the Yankees called up Spencer 971 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,480 Jones, even though he can run and he I think he's going to be 972 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,840 maybe not here, but I think you could be certainly competent and 973 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:47,880 maybe slightly closer to a plus defensive center fielder, unlike 974 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,600 Dominguez. But a guy like Ewing is is going 975 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,120 to baby. And and I thought this way a 976 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,600 bench as well coming into the season, a guy like Ewing is 977 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,560 going to be able to impact the game, even if he's OO for four 978 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,800 or one for four, the blue base head, because when he's on base, 979 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,480 he runs like the wind. He's going to have the green 980 00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:07,080 light. He's a high energy guy. 981 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,160 And I think I think AJ is going to bring a little juicier, some 982 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,320 much needed juice. So I'm looking forward to 983 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,040 watching him play. You know, and obviously this 984 00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:16,520 year he's hitting the he's hitting the heck out of he's 985 00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,600 hitting 339. And then last year at 3 levels 986 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,720 of the minors, he had 365 apt 315. 987 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:27,360 So you know, he's a huge on base guy, almost 400 for his minor 988 00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,640 league career. I believe it's 395 and he's 989 00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:33,800 already got 17 steals. He had 70, 71 last year. 990 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,480 So, you know, he he's probably running a 6460. 991 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,960 He absolutely flies. And he's the kind of energy and 992 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:45,160 infusion of of youthful exuberance and juice and, you 993 00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,640 know, scoring from first on a double that not everybody is or, 994 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,160 you know, make it a play in the gap defensively that not 995 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,520 everybody could. And I think, you know, we're not 996 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,440 there yet because it's still fairly early. 997 00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:59,280 But if you're a Mets fan right now, I know you still holding 998 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,480 out hope that the Mets will get, you know, hot and they'll 999 00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,840 rectify this a bit. I think that there's a better 1000 00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,480 chance that the Mets sell people off. 1001 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,160 I think there's a good chance that that's going to happen 1002 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:11,600 rather than getting back into any sort of legitimate, like 1003 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,320 high level playoff baseball conversation. 1004 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,280 Like if the Mets make the playoffs, they're going to be 1005 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,320 the last team in. And it's not they're not going 1006 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,120 to suddenly jump over the Braves and, you know, find a way to win 1007 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,400 93 games. The Mets will be in the 80s if 1008 00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:27,200 they're lucky, the high 80s, most probably more like the high 1009 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,040 70s, and if they're not careful, lower than that. 1010 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,720 Like there's just not a lot about the doors, nowhere near 1011 00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:34,480 coming back. And they've just got a lot of 1012 00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:36,160 issues. I mean, Menai is a disaster. 1013 00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,880 They got problems, right? Peralta's not quite been what 1014 00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,800 he's been fine, but you need more if you know you're looking 1015 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,560 for that kind of money. Peralta, you got to be a little 1016 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,760 bit better, got to go a little deeper in games, which he just 1017 00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:48,880 doesn't. And he didn't do that with 1018 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,920 Milwaukee either. So maybe that was an unrealistic 1019 00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:54,000 expectation. The point is, you know, if the 1020 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,000 Mets start to sell off some pieces, right? 1021 00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:01,560 And even if they don't yet, I, I think you're beginning to see 1022 00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,240 the future of the Mets now. I don't know if that future is 1023 00:48:04,240 --> 00:48:07,640 going to actually work because, you know, a couple of years ago 1024 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,640 all we heard about was Alvarez #1 prospect in baseball stinks. 1025 00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:15,240 You know, the Beaties, the Mauricio's, the Vientos's, the 1026 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:18,320 great Mets farm system. Cohen bought a minor league 1027 00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,600 system by you know what he did what he did with Scherzer and 1028 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,280 the, the aging veteran pitchers eating the which by the way, was 1029 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,360 a good move by Cohen. I applauded him for that. 1030 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:28,520 But you still got to get some players who actually come up 1031 00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,880 here and play before you say, wow, it was an amazing move. 1032 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,080 Like there's 2 levels of grading that out. 1033 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,520 I gave him a world of credit. I'm like, now that's a guy who 1034 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:43,120 is willing to to push his money. Mets had a bad form system and 1035 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,320 based on the willingness to eat money, Mets went from one of the 1036 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,520 worst form systems, at least on paper, to one of the better 1037 00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,280 ones. They've got some pitching, 1038 00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,640 they've got some young, fast position players, but they got 1039 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,480 to play well and, and hopefully somebody like Ewing will. 1040 00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:58,160 And I like Bench. I do. 1041 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,560 He's a kid, man. And it's, it's hard. 1042 00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,760 It's hard. Baseball's tough, dude. 1043 00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:06,920 You know, it's not like you're a rookie in the NBA and you're, 1044 00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:08,880 you know, if you get drafted to a bad team, you're going to have 1045 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,080 a low efficiency rate because there's nothing around you, 1046 00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:13,840 whatever. But like, think about somebody 1047 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,440 like Deuce McBride when he was drafted, second round pick. 1048 00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:20,840 You know, he can get some time on the court and he can just 1049 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,640 kind of ease his way in because you had some veterans, you had 1050 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,480 some good players, you had a stable situation, you had a good 1051 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,840 coach in Tom Thibodeau. And the runway to contribute and 1052 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,720 not be overwhelmed by being asked to do too much is simply 1053 00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:36,400 not there. And it's just a much better way 1054 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,800 for a young player to enter the any situation. 1055 00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:41,920 These poor Mets players are getting called up. 1056 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,680 And they're kind of thought to like, come save us, you know, 1057 00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:46,600 come save us. Just like when they brought up 1058 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:50,160 Alvarez for the Miners a couple of years ago in that Atlanta 1059 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:54,680 series in 2022. And I mean, oh, bases loaded 1060 00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,800 with pretty, pretty big game. Go pinch hit, buddy. 1061 00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,800 I mean, could you ease the kid in? 1062 00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,480 Could he get in that bat against the Marlins, you know, or the 1063 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:02,560 Nationals? Yeah. 1064 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,560 Geez. So I don't know what Ewing's 1065 00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:09,360 going to do, but I'm looking forward to watching him play. 1066 00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,200 And, you know, when I close my eyes and I think about the Mets 1067 00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:16,000 outfield, if everything goes well in, you know, maybe this 1068 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,200 year, next year, certainly the year after, you start to 1069 00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,320 envision, all right, you got Soto, you got bench and you got 1070 00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:23,440 Ewing. Like that would be your 1071 00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,480 outfield. And I want to see Ryan Clifford 1072 00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,120 get a look this year, too, at first base. 1073 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:30,040 Want to see him play. Now, I know he's a higher 1074 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,440 strikeout guy, but he's got easy power. 1075 00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,720 He's a first baseman. He's the highest rated first 1076 00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,200 basement in the system. You know, he's been, you know, 1077 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,400 he's he's got some seasoning like this where the Mets are the 1078 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:44,040 Mets are another week or two away from really, if they're not 1079 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:48,680 already crafting a possible shifting in philosophy here. 1080 00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:50,200 We're going to be trading guys off. 1081 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,120 I mean that that's that's where all the that's all there is to 1082 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:53,440 it. You're just not going to run 1083 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,160 this thing out there all year. You're going to have to make 1084 00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,680 some changes here. It's going to have to be a a 1085 00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:01,960 massive course correction, a massive recalibration. 1086 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,960 And if that happens, right, and they start selling off some of 1087 00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:09,160 these pieces, like say if they get rid of Peralta and they get 1088 00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,800 rid of not that you would really miss Peterson, but I mean, and 1089 00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,080 nobody wants Banaya for that money. 1090 00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:14,440 So the Mets would have to eat the money. 1091 00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:19,600 But if like Peralta's gone and if they trade a Bichette, you 1092 00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,360 know, like stuff like that, I'm not I'd have to even see if 1093 00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:23,960 Bichette has a no try. I don't even know if he does. 1094 00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,520 But if they get rid of some of the few names, veteran names, 1095 00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:29,920 yeah. I mean, I, I know we all enjoy 1096 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,080 watching young kids play. It's it's pretty exciting. 1097 00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,600 It's galvanizing as a fan. But that place is going to be 1098 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,200 empty soon. So like, it's it's goal time for 1099 00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:38,240 the Mets. I mean, you can't just keep 1100 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:40,800 pushing the bats early. And Met fans aren't saying that 1101 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:42,520 to their credit. To your credit, if you're a Met 1102 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,600 fan, I think you guys have had a real, real fair read on the 1103 00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,680 year. You know, maybe coming into the 1104 00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:50,360 year, you were ready to bite you. 1105 00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,080 You, you your fists were cleansed. 1106 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,160 Your teeth were like, because you, you lost Pete, you lost 1107 00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:56,960 Nimmo. The Mets messed up. 1108 00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:58,800 Yeah, I know he's heard, so maybe it wouldn't matter. 1109 00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:02,160 But the Mets messed up the Diaz situation just by a couple of 1110 00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:03,600 $1,000,000. They messed that up. 1111 00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,520 Now, they did not want Nimmo. They did not want Pete. 1112 00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,800 They want the Diaz. They just messed that up. 1113 00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,520 That's on Sterns, right? But I thought they had a pretty 1114 00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,640 viable Plan B trying to get Tucker. 1115 00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,080 Tucker goes to LA. All right, boom, we get Bichette 1116 00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,240 basically like the next day kind of. 1117 00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:22,040 And you know, you got you got Juan Soto, you got Bichette, you 1118 00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,040 got Lindor, you know you got Peralta. 1119 00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:27,360 And everybody's thinking, including me, that the Mets 1120 00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:28,800 would be pretty competitive this year. 1121 00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,080 And instead, I mean, everybody's hurt and it's an absolute 1122 00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:36,200 lifeless sad sack situation. So that's where the Mets are. 1123 00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:41,800 All right, let me get a couple of No, well, no, I'm not, I'm 1124 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:43,800 not insulting Cano. I was pointing out the 1125 00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,960 differences. Jazz Chisholm can't shine his 1126 00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,440 shoes. I mean, listen, somebody, it's 1127 00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,320 funny because Robinson Cano, I mean, I almost wish I'd labor 1128 00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,080 Torres at this point. I feel I know that that's nuts. 1129 00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,600 I think Labor Torres was at least more a little bit more 1130 00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:01,280 reliable in some of these situational spots. 1131 00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:06,240 Robinson Cano, right? Man, I know this. the PE DS and 1132 00:53:06,240 --> 00:53:08,360 all that stuff, and he left and went to Seattle. 1133 00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,280 But Robinson Cano, I mean, talk about, I don't know if we ever 1134 00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,760 took a player for granted more than we did Robinson Cano. 1135 00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,800 And I know that like the true devout Yankee fans were in all 1136 00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:19,640 of his hitting and did appreciate him. 1137 00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,880 But you know, there was a little bit of laziness where the game 1138 00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,480 came easy. You remember the points of 1139 00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,200 frustration and the points of contention. 1140 00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:32,400 But Robinson Cano, I mean, I'm just looking at this 3 jeez hit 1141 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:35,000 342 his first full year in the bigs. 1142 00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:42,600 I really a second full year 342 Then he hit 306-323-1930 two 1143 00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:50,240 313314314I mean big RB is big home runs 48 double S, 41 double 1144 00:53:50,240 --> 00:53:55,640 S, 46 double S, 48 double S, 41 double S absolutely astounding. 1145 00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,080 I mean what Cano did, but see the difference with Cano. 1146 00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,760 I think Robinson Cano was penalized by what was around 1147 00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:05,680 him. Like we were so used to the 1148 00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,200 Yankee royalty and the Yankees winning that when they didn't 1149 00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,400 win is that of course he won an O 9 and think about that Yankee 1150 00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:15,360 infield in O9 Mark to share a Cano Jeter a rod What you know, 1151 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,160 just come on. I mean one of the best ever, 1152 00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,560 right. But because the Yankees won so 1153 00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:25,280 much before Cano got there and there was a trace of from him, 1154 00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,600 body language not always busted out-of-the-box. 1155 00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:29,200 And those were real things and I would get on them. 1156 00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:33,280 I remember I was on 1050 ESPN Radio at that point and I loved, 1157 00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,520 I was a big Keno fan, but I just, I have no patience for 1158 00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,640 somebody that doesn't play the game hard all the time. 1159 00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,280 I, and I understand that it's 162. 1160 00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:46,240 I'm not asking you to, to Sprint after a walk like Pete Rose or 1161 00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:49,400 Nimmo. You know, I'm not I'm not asking 1162 00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:54,040 you even on a on a, you know, hard hit 90 plus exit Velo 2 1163 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:57,400 hopper to second base to haul ass and Sprint down the first 1164 00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,400 baseline, But you got to at least present it in a way that 1165 00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,840 is, are they doing right by the game? 1166 00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,320 You know, and and listen, the thing I'll just personalize it 1167 00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,560 for very briefly for a moment. The reason why that's part of 1168 00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,320 the reason why I've gotten on cat not recently, but you know, 1169 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,560 when cat would would lay back at the other end and bark at the 1170 00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:20,880 refs and just jog up the court. What players who who show that 1171 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:25,920 to me, it is just inherently unacceptable to me because I was 1172 00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:27,920 not I just was not a great athlete. 1173 00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:31,680 I just wasn't I was a good baseball player, but I I I 1174 00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:35,040 wasn't I wasn't fast, you know, couldn't jump when I played 1175 00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:39,920 basketball, you know, defensively, come right at me, 1176 00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:41,440 you know, on the basketball court. 1177 00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:43,960 All right, go with him. You know, that's a problem kind 1178 00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,120 of like to go with Brunson. Not that I was playing point 1179 00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,840 guard, but the point is and not to equate myself to somebody 1180 00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,680 like Brunson. It's ridiculous, but because, 1181 00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:56,200 you know, I, I worked so hard to almost become an average 1182 00:55:56,200 --> 00:56:00,920 athlete, jumping rope, sprints, running up the hills, all the 1183 00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:02,800 stuff I would do when I was younger and still playing 1184 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,880 competitively. When I see guys like Jazz or 1185 00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,200 like Cano, it's just, I, I can't take it. 1186 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:13,920 It drives me insane because you've been given so much and 1187 00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:18,680 like the, you know, it's hard enough to hit, but it's not hard 1188 00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:22,800 to run like I would. And I've told told my son this 1189 00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,440 who's faster than me, Thank God. I mean, it's hard not to be, but 1190 00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,520 you know, when we were running sprints at the end of practice 1191 00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:31,840 in college, like I remember in the gym before we would go and 1192 00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:35,760 start our season 20 something guys on the team 2324. 1193 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,120 And like, I would have to give it literally everything that I 1194 00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:45,520 had run as hard as I could to finish like 11th, 12th, you 1195 00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,560 know, you know, and that that was always my mindset. 1196 00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:52,640 It was just always you, you got, you got to run hard because if 1197 00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,440 you don't, you basically look like you're running backwards. 1198 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,200 And if you followed my career, any problem that I've had, 1199 00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:02,680 usually the first issue is born out of a lack of effort. 1200 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,240 You know, receivers half assed across the middle pulling their 1201 00:57:06,240 --> 00:57:08,880 arms back. You know, just I can't take it. 1202 00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:10,120 I just I'm never going to take it. 1203 00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:14,840 And I watched Jazz back to that for a minute and I'm like, man, 1204 00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:19,560 oh man, God has given you every physical trait, every athletic 1205 00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:22,800 trait in the book. Like I've, I've said this before 1206 00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,160 and I've used tiki as an example, right. 1207 00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,920 So, I mean, I, I, I don't really quite look at it this way, but 1208 00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,920 the imagery, I think you'll appreciate J Rod to me when 1209 00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,000 you're born, right? When an athlete's born, yeah. 1210 00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,360 And you go through the assembly line like the conveyor belt, and 1211 00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,120 you get stamped with the different athletic 1212 00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:43,440 characteristics, strength, speed, dexterity, size, you 1213 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,960 know, all those different things right now, Tiki wasn't tall, but 1214 00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,360 somebody like Tiki was literally given, you know, stamp, stamp, 1215 00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:54,040 stamp, stamp, stamp. And then he comes out and he had 1216 00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,960 to work his behind off to, you know, to maximize what he was 1217 00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:02,160 given athletically by God. But to me, I mean, they bypassed 1218 00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,640 me 3 or 4 different. They gave me good size six, 2 1219 00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:06,720 1/2. They gave me decent strength, 1220 00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,440 was given good hand eye coordination, could really catch 1221 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,480 and shoot, couldn't run a leg. So I didn't I didn't get that. 1222 00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,280 Or the other way to look at it is when, when, when, when a 1223 00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,440 young athletic baby is born, those who have everything you're 1224 00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,720 touched by 10 fingers of God. You know, I probably got 6 in 1225 00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:28,920 terms of like the professional scale and Jazz was given 10 and 1226 00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,720 you know, Robinson Cano was basically given, you know, Jazz 1227 00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:35,960 is a little bit faster, but 9 1/2 and guys like that, that dog 1228 00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,840 it or that don't always give you that full bore burst. 1229 00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:41,880 I just I will never accept that and I don't want a lot of guys 1230 00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:44,200 like that on my team. I just don't, you know? 1231 00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,800 Yeah, no big time. All right, so I like this little 1232 00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:52,160 like 10 fingers of God thing. So in your in your kind of 1233 00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:56,080 theory here, is every person at least touched by 1? 1234 00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,400 Oh my God. Because like, I'm thinking about 1235 00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,160 myself. Here, that's a good question. 1236 00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:06,120 Too, not to diminish my athletic prowess and my rec basketball 1237 00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:07,160 prowess here. Yep. 1238 00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:10,280 Yep. But listen, I'm 58, you know my 1239 00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,240 game. I'm not, I'm not the fastest 1240 00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,440 dude. I had asthma growing up. 1241 00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:18,240 My, you know, so my athletic ability was a little stunted. 1242 00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,480 But you know, there may have been one finger. 1243 00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:22,560 He was like you. Know here's here's the big 1244 00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:27,440 range, here's the finger that you got to be a good shooter, 1245 00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:31,960 you need good depth perception to me, like, and, and that's 1246 00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,080 something that that I always had, like I went out, we were 1247 00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:37,240 shooting in the yard the other day and you know, I don't think 1248 00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:40,200 some of these kids today I made 3-4 shots in a row. 1249 00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,240 I'm like, and I'm like, when you make a shake, get the ball back, 1250 00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,400 dude, my hands are up. My son's dribble. 1251 00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,640 I'm like, dude, I make, let's go make it. 1252 00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,880 You make it, you get it again. And I drill like 13 in a row 1253 00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:51,120 now. It's a soft rim and it's 1254 00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:52,520 legitimately 10 feet high. Yeah. 1255 00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:56,000 Then I was just splashing and not even jumping, just flicking, 1256 00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:59,200 flicking, flicking, flicking. Like that's a depth perception 1257 00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,400 thing. You know, that's a connectivity 1258 01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:04,560 like the hands, the maybe the feet when you're actually 1259 01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:05,840 playing and jumping and shooting. 1260 01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,880 I would say that you got if you're as good a mid range 1261 01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,160 shooter as you profess to. Be I don't, I don't think I'm 1262 01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:15,840 Shaun Livingston or anything here, but but you know, I'm 1263 01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:20,640 pretty in terms of in terms of a a person who never played any 1264 01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:24,040 sort of school basketball whatsoever, I'm pretty decent. 1265 01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:25,680 OK. I would say you got at least a 1266 01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:27,760 couple now. Also, listen, there's a lot of 1267 01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:32,680 kids who are really fast. Oh no, whose parents just didn't 1268 01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,840 really, because maybe they, they didn't play and they didn't 1269 01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,960 emphasize sports weren't introduced to whatever game it 1270 01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:41,000 might be. And that speed and maybe 1271 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,120 potentially strength ratio as they, as they hit puberty and as 1272 01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:48,280 they as they become more physically built and 1273 01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,320 well-rounded, it never really had a chance to shine. 1274 01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:52,880 So you might look at a kid who plays no sports. 1275 01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,680 He may have been he may have been touched by 5 or 6 fingers, 1276 01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:56,760 but. You just never know. 1277 01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,440 Never got a chance to tap into the well, all right, let me get 1278 01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:01,120 into this here, let me get into this. 1279 01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:06,600 So every time I do this, and I'm going to preface it with I 1280 01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,480 understand how I sound and I'm also going to say I don't care 1281 01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:12,440 how I sound when it comes to this, right? 1282 01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:17,560 The NFL international schedule is an absolute joke. 1283 01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:23,600 And listen, the reason it's a joke is because each year, and 1284 01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:25,720 I'm going to document all this in a minute, but just the 1285 01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:31,520 initial premise, each year they just screw you more and more and 1286 01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:34,600 more. So we are getting ready with the 1287 01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:36,800 schedule release. By the way, Jay, just get that 1288 01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,400 Jets collected thing back. No, I'm sorry, that's my jets 1289 01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:40,040 collect. There you go. 1290 01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:40,960 Look quick. Nice. 1291 01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:43,800 So that's the schedule drop for The Jets coming up Thursday. 1292 01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:46,480 We're right around eight O 5 myself, Jake and Rich. 1293 01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:50,360 We'll we'll hit The Jets stuff. But big picture, all right, we 1294 01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:54,760 are getting ready for a record setting 9 games on the 1295 01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:57,080 international circuit with the NFL this year. 1296 01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:00,360 Seven countries and four continents. 1297 01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:03,440 Seven countries and four continents. 1298 01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:08,440 Football is becoming soccer and that's not good See, the problem 1299 01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:11,120 is nobody says it. People just accept it. 1300 01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:13,120 Oh wow, that's cool. There's a game in Australia. 1301 01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:16,040 How is that cool? And I love Australia. 1302 01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:18,440 I love it. Like this is not a knock on the 1303 01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:20,680 different countries. Please understand that. 1304 01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,840 But why in the world is this good? 1305 01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,200 And don't tell me it's about making money. 1306 01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:29,640 Don't you think that I know that I understand that's part of the 1307 01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:33,480 reason why this draws my ire because it's become all about 1308 01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:35,760 money. So this year, J Rod, they're 1309 01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:38,440 playing get this up on the map. Can you on the on the screen, 1310 01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:40,160 the map here. Look at this guys. 1311 01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:43,480 Now cool graphic by the way, look at the international games. 1312 01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:45,520 We're going to Melbourne, Australia. 1313 01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:48,040 We're going to Paris, France. We're going to Rio de Janeiro. 1314 01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:49,240 Great. If you want to hit the beach. 1315 01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:51,440 I don't know if you really want to watch football in Brazil, 1316 01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:53,920 I've got I'd like the London Games. 1317 01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:55,720 Actually, I thought that was good. 1318 01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:58,760 So that's not a knock on my man SD out there. 1319 01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,840 No, I I think that that works out very well. 1320 01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:05,240 Going to Munich, Germany, going to Madrid, Spain, going to keep 1321 01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:08,640 this up, going to Mexico City. Now understand this. 1322 01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:13,080 The NFL is becoming more and more and more brazen and 1323 01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:17,360 comfortable with doing whatever they want to you, whether it's 1324 01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:20,000 up Thursday night, Hey, we got a big match up on Thursday. 1325 01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,160 You want to watch the game, got to stream it up. 1326 01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:25,760 We got a big match up Christmas Day to bed, you know, you better 1327 01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,080 wrap up Christmas morning with Santa or Christmas brunch. 1328 01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:32,480 We got football to watch up here comes late in the season. 1329 01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:34,320 We got some Saturday games for you as well. 1330 01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:36,200 All the kids have basketball games. 1331 01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,680 All the kids have a dance. Kid has a recital. 1332 01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,080 Too bad your team's playing on Saturday. 1333 01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:43,800 We got Sunday night, we got Monday night. 1334 01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:46,920 We got Thursday night. We got all day Saturday late in 1335 01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:48,360 the year. We got all Sunday, which is 1336 01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,200 awesome. And then of course Sunday night, 1337 01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:53,360 which is equally awesome. But the way this is, go just 1338 01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,640 look at that map. What are we talking about here? 1339 01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,480 We're talking about soccer. Or is this the NFL? 1340 01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:04,560 And think about what we you, you, you, you don't know it, but 1341 01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:08,520 I'm telling you are the experimental lab rat when it 1342 01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,360 comes to the NFL. So the international games were 1343 01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:14,440 born back in 2005. All right, let's stick our toe 1344 01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,720 in the pool, throw a little line out there, see if we get a 1345 01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:18,840 little nibble. And it worked out pretty well. 1346 01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:21,600 They had one back in O5 and for I don't even remember the 1347 01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:23,800 reason, but in 2006 they had none. 1348 01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,880 OK, then they went back. 2 and 2007 they had one. 1349 01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:31,560 Then IN200089101112 there were two. 1350 01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:34,640 So they went from one to two. Oh, we can make money. 1351 01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:36,840 Oh, people aren't really resisting it. 1352 01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:41,160 Oh, look at this. Then in 2013, fourteen and 15 1353 01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:43,640 they went to three, so there's more. 1354 01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:47,040 And then 2016 there were four international games. 1355 01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:51,400 And then guess what? In 2017 they stuck 5 down your 1356 01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:53,280 throat. And then for I don't even know 1357 01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:55,000 the reasons, then they went back to three and three. 1358 01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,240 And then of course, 2020 was COVID. 1359 01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:02,000 And then in 2021, you know, the slow crawl out of COVID, there 1360 01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:04,400 was only two. And then they jumped right back 1361 01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:06,880 into it. In 2022, they were four. 1362 01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:11,800 In 2023 they were five. In 2024, they were five. 1363 01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:14,600 In 2025 last year they were seven. 1364 01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:20,320 And now there are 9, there are 99. 1365 01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:25,240 So who is this helping? It's not helping you if you're 1366 01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:28,280 an American football fan, just not matter of fact, it's hurting 1367 01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:29,160 you. And I'll tell you why. 1368 01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:32,320 And when I use the word brazen, and this is what's really 1369 01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:37,360 bothering me. Like I understand part part of 1370 01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:40,840 the motivation to send the Jaguars to London is and all 1371 01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:44,000 respect to Duval Duvalle, right? You guys going to be good this 1372 01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:45,280 year. I'm not knocking the Jaguars, 1373 01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:51,040 but the the London Jaguars experiment was based on #1 the 1374 01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:54,600 situation of the Jacksonville Jaguars, which was fairly dire 1375 01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:58,920 #2 the international business interests of their owner, but 1376 01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:04,280 also the intense motivation to globalize the sport and what do 1377 01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:06,000 you know, make more money, All right? 1378 01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:08,160 We all know that, right? But it worked out. 1379 01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:11,440 It worked out and I did. I do like the London Games 1380 01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:14,720 because it's there for you. You know, you get up early. 1381 01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:16,640 The game was 9:00. Nine. 1382 01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:20,960 Yeah, we'll be at, or is it 10? I think it's nine either way. 1383 01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,560 You know, if you want to get up and watch it, I don't mean if 1384 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,240 your team's playing, you want to watch it, get a little scratch 1385 01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:27,800 on the game. You got a couple of guys going 1386 01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:29,040 fantasy. It's cool. 1387 01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:31,040 It's there if you want it. You know, the kids are running 1388 01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:32,720 around, you got stuff to do, you go to church. 1389 01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:34,920 Whatever it is, it's there if you want it. 1390 01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:38,280 And I like that cup of coffee. Watch the game if it's a decent 1391 01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:40,360 game. But we're where they're going 1392 01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:43,920 now is just an embarrassment. And it's further evidence that 1393 01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:46,720 they just couldn't care less about you And like zombies 1394 01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:49,120 walking off the plank with our arms out. 1395 01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:52,560 We just keep, you know, the expression boot to ask when you 1396 01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:56,160 beat somebody in basketball mix dropped a lot of a lot of belts 1397 01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:58,400 to ask right. A lot of BT as the last couple 1398 01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,000 of weeks here. This is BT as a football fan, 1399 01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:04,360 because the more they do now, what's it going to look like in 1400 01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:06,280 10 years? There's nine international 1401 01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:08,120 games. Do you suddenly think that 1402 01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:10,680 they're going to recalibrate and say, you know what? 1403 01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,400 I think we have enough despite the fact that we've made, you 1404 01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:17,200 know, 1.9 trillion more dollars as we expand the game. 1405 01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:18,880 Let's pull back. Nope. 1406 01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:22,760 There's going to be 18 or 20. the Super Bowl, at some point, 1407 01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:27,160 book, book it, mark my words, going to be an international 1408 01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:29,720 affair. Now, it's one thing when the 1409 01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:33,000 entire world watches the game, but it's on our soil. 1410 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,960 It's another when it's not, you know, and that's coming. 1411 01:07:36,160 --> 01:07:38,880 That is just a matter of time. You can take that to the bank. 1412 01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:43,400 I promise you the Super Bowl will be played on non domestic 1413 01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:45,520 soil a lot sooner than you think. 1414 01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:47,320 And here's what's happening too, right? 1415 01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:52,640 So in 2024, the Packers, the Packers, Eagles were in Brazil. 1416 01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:56,200 Last year, the Chargers and the Chiefs were in Brazil. 1417 01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:59,880 This year, week one in Australia, you've got the Rams 1418 01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:01,920 and the Niners. Now think of it's one thing to 1419 01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:05,080 have games, you know, internationally, which which I'm 1420 01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:09,880 OK with in a limited dose. What they're doing now is taking 1421 01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:12,280 rivalries and putting them there. 1422 01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:15,600 Dude, it doesn't matter who plays in Australia. 1423 01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:19,600 You can send The Jets who are awful and the Browns who are 1424 01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:21,760 equally awful. They're going to sell out. 1425 01:08:22,040 --> 01:08:25,279 Do you have to take going back the last couple of years, the 1426 01:08:25,279 --> 01:08:28,760 Packers who lost the home game, Think about what the NFL did. 1427 01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:32,840 They willingly took a home game from fabled Lamb. 1428 01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:36,600 And I've been Lambeau and it is amazing from fable. 1429 01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:39,560 Lambeau Field and gave it to Brazil. 1430 01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:43,520 Why why? And they took AI. 1431 01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:45,880 Think it was a chiefs game. I could be wrong so if so. 1432 01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:48,840 I mean I don't want to be unfair but I thought it was a chiefs 1433 01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:50,640 home game. I thought they took one from 1434 01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:53,479 Arrowhead last year when the Chiefs and the Chargers may have 1435 01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:55,720 been LA. Either way it's a rivalry. 1436 01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:59,479 It's a divisional matchup, meaning you only get X amount of 1437 01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:03,560 you get 6. So you, I mean, if you want to 1438 01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:07,000 do this, don't do so many. If you want to do this, don't 1439 01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:11,160 deprive some of the fans of some of the best venues and and 1440 01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:14,120 traditions in the NFL. And if you're going to do this, 1441 01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:17,279 certainly don't take it a rivalry game and throw it on 1442 01:09:17,279 --> 01:09:20,120 foreign soil where you got it. You got to deal with different. 1443 01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:23,040 I mean, Australia, think about the different time zone, think 1444 01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:25,600 about the logistics to go play in Australia. 1445 01:09:26,319 --> 01:09:29,600 You know, think about that this week. 1446 01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:33,680 We Rams Niners that game. Now this might seem a little 1447 01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:36,560 hyperbolic, but it's not big picture. 1448 01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:40,080 That game very well could determine, you know, home field 1449 01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:43,840 advantage or who wins the division in the NFC West. 1450 01:09:44,359 --> 01:09:47,520 And it's going to Australia. Why? 1451 01:09:48,279 --> 01:09:52,479 Somebody explained, well, the answer is money, which goes back 1452 01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:56,440 to what I've always said, greed. What is the limit? 1453 01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:59,360 How long are we going to be suckers? 1454 01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:01,720 You know, where's the game tonight? 1455 01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:04,640 I I don't know. Is it on even with the NBA? 1456 01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:11,160 Is it on Yankees opening day? Netflix, Yankees Giants, welcome 1457 01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:14,040 to opening day on Netflix. And I love Netflix. 1458 01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:17,600 Not a knock on Netflix. It's just, it's just a 1459 01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:23,800 commentary on the stripping away of fundamental traditions that 1460 01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:26,280 are happening more and more and more. 1461 01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:30,400 Let me just say that again, the Rams and the Niners, not the 1462 01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:36,400 Rams and the the Rams and the Raiders or The Jets and the 1463 01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:40,040 Niners or, you know, take some other team that is, you know, 1464 01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:42,640 not very good late. You know, we all know the bad, 1465 01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:46,080 the the Cardinals, not the Cardinals and the Browns in 1466 01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:47,960 Australia. If you're going to give them 1467 01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:51,360 something, give them something bad or give them our best stuff. 1468 01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:54,440 And then you talk about a competitive disadvantage where 1469 01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:58,120 you literally lose a home game. You lose a home game. 1470 01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:02,520 So logistically it's an issue. And, you know, residually 1471 01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:06,600 downstream, it could really alter and impact the pecking 1472 01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:08,400 order of the NFL. And don't tell me that I'm 1473 01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:11,400 overreacting. Like, if you want to be just 1474 01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:15,080 some sort of zombie who accepts all this, well, that's on you. 1475 01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:18,600 That's never been me. Like, somebody's got to stand up 1476 01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:21,240 for the fan. Somebody's got to stand up for 1477 01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:25,080 the the the consumer who built the NFL. 1478 01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:28,760 We did. Maybe I didn't, but my ancestors 1479 01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:32,280 did and so did yours. You know, and I understand 1480 01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:37,720 things change, but just the limits of what they are willing 1481 01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:43,880 to do to you and us, it's off the charts unacceptable. 9 1482 01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:48,520 International games 9 and then you don't even know if the and I 1483 01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:51,480 promise you, because we've heard this before, all the conditions 1484 01:11:51,480 --> 01:11:53,840 aren't great. The feel was slippery all I 1485 01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:55,920 wonder why? Because they're not used to 1486 01:11:55,920 --> 01:12:02,200 doing this and they don't care. They don't care not at all. 1487 01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:06,480 They are just giving you, you know, which finger bang, they're 1488 01:12:06,480 --> 01:12:07,880 shoving it right down your throat. 1489 01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:09,720 Here, here's more. Here. 1490 01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:11,040 How much you going to take? Here's more. 1491 01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:15,400 Oh yeah, more up, sucker. Keep swiping that card. 1492 01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:18,920 Get the New Jersey. Get the new, the 4th jersey, the 1493 01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:21,840 alternate jersey. Pay 100 bucks for parking. 1494 01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:25,040 Spend $7000 to go to. Now, some of these countries are 1495 01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:27,240 beautiful. And again, it's not a knock on 1496 01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:28,560 the countries. It's really not. 1497 01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:32,640 But I don't know why the NFL is so fixated on turning their 1498 01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:36,200 sport into soccer. Somebody explain this to me. 1499 01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:48,080 Why, it is patently offensive at this point, at least for me or 1500 01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:52,560 kids even playing American football in Europe, it's grown a 1501 01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:54,960 little bit. You know, I mean, even listen, 1502 01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:59,440 even when the Yankees and the Red Sox went to London and the 1503 01:12:59,440 --> 01:13:04,160 Mets and the Phillies and I, I do think personally that Japan's 1504 01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:07,240 different because baseball thrives in Japan. 1505 01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:11,560 And when the, when, when Major League Baseball goes to Japan, 1506 01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:16,400 they're usually sending somebody like a Hideki Matsui or Shohei 1507 01:13:16,440 --> 01:13:18,400 Otani. You know, you're connecting the 1508 01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:22,560 thread of, of cultures and the game, even though the languages 1509 01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:25,200 and they play a little bit differently, you know, in terms 1510 01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:27,280 of style and, you know, put the bat on the ball. 1511 01:13:28,480 --> 01:13:31,280 You know, definitely a broad brush statement, but more 1512 01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:34,040 fundamentally buttoned up in Japan than here. 1513 01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:35,640 Everybody's swinging for the moon. 1514 01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:38,880 Like back in Japan still, you strike out, you walk back to the 1515 01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:42,440 dugout in shame like we used to. I just struck out. 1516 01:13:42,440 --> 01:13:44,320 Wow. I remember when I would strike 1517 01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:48,400 out, which was a lot in college, Like I felt like I wanted to 1518 01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:51,600 crawl in a hole. Now these guys strike out, take 1519 01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:55,040 off the elbow guard, flip the helmet, take off the gloves, let 1520 01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:57,920 the bat boy come get it. First base coach, flip the bat, 1521 01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:01,400 No big deal. I struck out 193 times this 1522 01:14:01,440 --> 01:14:04,480 year, struck out 177 times this year. 1523 01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:08,080 My K rates 33. You know, and not to get into 1524 01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:10,080 baseball again because this is about football, but it's really 1525 01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:14,200 a great commentary about sport. The NBA does it now. 1526 01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:19,040 I really don't care. I don't care when the NBA does 1527 01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:20,360 it as much. I don't know why. 1528 01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,640 Maybe because homecourt advantage is, is less important. 1529 01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:27,440 Although NFL home field advantage, it's a little 1530 01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:31,880 misstated how beneficial it is. You know, over the year, like 1531 01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:34,560 the stats have dropped a little bit favoring the home team. 1532 01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:37,080 It's, it's a, it's, it's a little bit more even a little 1533 01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:39,240 bit. But I'm talking about traditions 1534 01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:43,040 like so you get with a 17 game season, you either get 9 home 1535 01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:47,640 games or you get 8. Now, why in the world should the 1536 01:14:47,640 --> 01:14:50,840 Packer fans or the Chief fans? I'm thinking about some of the 1537 01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:55,400 great fan bases, the Bills fans, the Niner fans, Giant fans, 1538 01:14:55,640 --> 01:15:00,920 Eagle fans, Cowboy fans. Why should they be deprived of 1539 01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:05,080 their normal routine, getting in their car, going to the stadium, 1540 01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:08,320 tailgating for three hours, wearing their gear and walking 1541 01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:11,800 into their stadium. They got to get on a plane and 1542 01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:13,400 they got to go to, to, to Brazil. 1543 01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:16,960 You got to go to Australia. What in the world is going on 1544 01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,000 with this? I don't know. 1545 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:23,240 I got to ask Jay Rod's opinion on this here, because Jay, you 1546 01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:26,800 have grown up in a world where this is kind of all, you know, 1547 01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:30,440 international game. So I I highly doubt that you've 1548 01:15:30,440 --> 01:15:33,640 got as much of it of an issue as as I do with this because I've 1549 01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:36,000 got a massive issue. But I'm curious what your take 1550 01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:37,600 is with. This well, I I think you're 1551 01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:40,840 right and I think, you know, the reason it doesn't matter as much 1552 01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:43,600 for basketball as well is obviously because the season is 1553 01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:46,760 just so much longer, you know, or not so much longer, but 1554 01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,600 there's so many games played. So, you know, you play one game 1555 01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:53,520 versus the 76ers in London and it doesn't really impact, you 1556 01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:55,960 know, your team's record or anything like that. 1557 01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:59,480 Meanwhile, with the NFL, NFL obviously much shorter season. 1558 01:15:59,480 --> 01:16:01,920 So it really does matter. And I think that's where my 1559 01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:04,920 thought lies is is very similar to yours where it's like, you 1560 01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,640 know, for the NFL, maybe they shouldn't be doing these things 1561 01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:11,880 because, you know, it really impacts the the home fan base. 1562 01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,840 And yeah, while there are obviously international fans, I 1563 01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:17,640 mean, you can see from our boy St., like people do love it. 1564 01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:19,520 Absolutely. Overseas. 1565 01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:23,520 And I, I like the, I do like the London experience, I do, but 1566 01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:25,640 it's just too much. I mean, we're just dotting the 1567 01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:27,120 entire world now with the with NFL. 1568 01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:30,480 I saw a good comment from our boy F your couch. 1569 01:16:30,480 --> 01:16:34,640 He said, like, what if they did like an international week, you 1570 01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:37,760 know, so where they kind of consolidate it into one week 1571 01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:40,360 where it's not real, you know, where it doesn't nominate a 1572 01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:43,760 spread of the season, but maybe you have a bunch of games in 1573 01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:46,920 different countries still, but it's over one week rather than 1574 01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:49,680 that's actually dispersed. So I thought that was a smart 1575 01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,160 idea. I agree because yeah, I mean, I 1576 01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:55,320 think, you know, and I think for baseball, you know. 1577 01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:56,120 Do they? Do they? 1578 01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:58,720 Not to ask a silly question here, yeah. 1579 01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:01,480 Do they play international MLB games? 1580 01:17:01,480 --> 01:17:03,240 Or yeah, yeah, I know you were looking something up. 1581 01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:07,840 So obviously they go to Japan, they go to London, they've done 1582 01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:09,600 Australia. I remember when they went to 1583 01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:12,400 Australia. That is the plane flight where 1584 01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:14,240 Clayton Kershaw really where his back. 1585 01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:16,480 This Dodger fans will remember this giant. 1586 01:17:16,480 --> 01:17:18,560 I mean every baseball fan, if you're a big baseball fan, you 1587 01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:21,040 remember it where they may have been playing the D backs. 1588 01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:24,800 But the flight to Australia, that's when he started to really 1589 01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:28,320 complain about his back issue. And the back issue was a real, I 1590 01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,920 mean, Clayton Kershaw still one of the best lefties of all time. 1591 01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:33,400 He probably left fifty wins on the table because he missed so 1592 01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:35,480 much time. And a lot of people look at that 1593 01:17:35,480 --> 01:17:38,600 flight to Australia. So yeah, the, the MLB's messed 1594 01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:42,280 around with it. But when you play 162 or 82 in 1595 01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:46,240 the NBA or the NHL, and I'm not averse to like an exhibition 1596 01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:49,040 contest, I know that you want to plant roots and grow the game. 1597 01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:51,560 I I get it. And then when they do this, they 1598 01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:54,960 do do a lot of good things around it where they'll have NFL 1599 01:17:54,960 --> 01:18:00,640 alums go and do like, clinics and showcases. 1600 01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:04,600 And then, you know, when down down the road, you know, kids 1601 01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:06,560 start playing a little bit, they start watching. 1602 01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:08,440 The world has become smaller by the year. 1603 01:18:08,440 --> 01:18:11,880 I understand all this. I'm not resistant to, you know, 1604 01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:14,760 expanding a little bit. But I got to have my limits here 1605 01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:18,200 because, you know, this is also preemptively trying to at least 1606 01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:19,760 address because I can't prevent it. 1607 01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:22,680 I could just tell you what I think about what is going to 1608 01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:24,840 happen down the road. Just look at the trends. 1609 01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:28,160 This started in 2005. There was one, and then it went 1610 01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:32,480 up to five in 2017. Then it went up to seven last 1611 01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:33,400 year. Now it's 9. 1612 01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:35,800 I mean, does anybody, I mean, if you think that it's going to 1613 01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:37,600 remain at 9 for the for perpetuity, you're. 1614 01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:40,360 I feel it more than that it's. Going to be 15 before you look 1615 01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:42,000 up. I mean, every, there's going to 1616 01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:45,680 be a certain point where every team has one easy, yeah, 1617 01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:48,520 something like that. But in the Super Bowl take, the 1618 01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:50,520 Super Bowl take, I mean, you're so right. 1619 01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:51,640 Like it's definitely going to happen. 1620 01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:55,160 It's coming within maybe the next 10 years. 1621 01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:58,280 I, I mean, I don't know if that's too ridiculous to state, 1622 01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:02,000 but I think a Mexico City one, I think a lot. 1623 01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:05,080 London's rough. I don't know that's rough. 1624 01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:09,080 I, I think they could do it, but I don't know if it, if it has 1625 01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:13,240 that much European boom as much as like, you know, I think 1626 01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:18,120 Mexico City is South America, there's still little America's 1627 01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:21,160 kind of familiarity with the sport. 1628 01:19:21,880 --> 01:19:24,960 So I think maybe in one of those countries would be better. 1629 01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:27,680 But here's here's my luck. Watch this, this, this. 1630 01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:30,560 What's going to happen, right, is what's going to happen to me, 1631 01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:32,840 Jets going to make the Super Bowl and going to be in fucking 1632 01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:36,520 Australia and I can't even go. Jets will finally make the Super 1633 01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:40,120 Bowl and instead of playing like an Indianapolis or out in 1634 01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:44,320 Scottsdale, AZ, or, you know, the the rest of the rotation, 1635 01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:46,840 I'm going to have to go to Australia, which means I 1636 01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:50,440 probably won't go. That would be horrible. 1637 01:19:51,480 --> 01:19:52,520 I mean, that's what's going to happen. 1638 01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:55,520 You think Joe B is going to get on a plane to go to to go to 1639 01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:57,440 Brazil? No, no shot. 1640 01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:01,520 No, no shot. Give me a break with this man. 1641 01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:08,520 And really, I, I, I need to re re reinforce one thing here, 1642 01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:12,040 like there's a couple of issues at play #1 is just the sheer 1643 01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:15,960 amount, the mass volume. Of international games, problem 1644 01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:20,640 number one problem #2 and to me this is beginning to usurp 1645 01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:25,440 problem #1 is now they are taking rivalry games and putting 1646 01:20:25,440 --> 01:20:27,800 them there. Think about this now, all right, 1647 01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:30,000 You want to tell me that the Packers and the Eagles are on a 1648 01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:33,040 rivalry, not in the same debates like the Giants and the Cowboys 1649 01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:35,520 or the Cowboys and the Eagles, All right, the Commanders in 1650 01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:38,960 Dallas, I understand that. But the Packers and the Eagles 1651 01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:41,800 have as rich tradition as anybody in the NFL, right? 1652 01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:44,240 You put them in Brazil to open the season. 1653 01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:48,120 So Eagle fans, Packer fans, going through the draft and 1654 01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:51,320 going through OTAs and all the other stuff and following free 1655 01:20:51,320 --> 01:20:53,840 agency and going through training camp. 1656 01:20:53,960 --> 01:20:55,680 Hey, Week 1, let's get you sit down. 1657 01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:58,640 The game's in fucking Brazil. The game's in Brazil, right? 1658 01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:02,000 And then the next year you got the Chargers and the Chiefs. 1659 01:21:02,200 --> 01:21:05,640 Now, maybe the Chiefs and the Chiefs and the Raiders has a 1660 01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:07,520 little bit more static, you know, a little bit more 1661 01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:10,360 whatever, a little more friction, little more historical 1662 01:21:10,360 --> 01:21:12,440 context there. Well, I mean, the Chargers been 1663 01:21:12,440 --> 01:21:14,880 around forever in the AFL, so maybe not. 1664 01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:18,240 But the point is last year it's the Chargers and the Chiefs. 1665 01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:21,760 It's not even the Chargers and the Browns or the Chargers and 1666 01:21:21,760 --> 01:21:24,440 the Arizona Cardinals. It's the Cardinals and the 1667 01:21:24,440 --> 01:21:27,160 Chiefs. Now this year it's the Rams in 1668 01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:30,120 the 49ers, the two best teams in the NFC. 1669 01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:33,040 Oh, I mean Seattle actually won the won the Super Bowl, but you 1670 01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:35,280 know what I mean? I mean, two of the best teams in 1671 01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:39,080 football and two teams that deserve this to be played on 1672 01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:41,560 American soil. You take in one of those two 1673 01:21:41,560 --> 01:21:43,880 games, you play twice, you play twice. 1674 01:21:44,080 --> 01:21:46,520 It's like the old days in baseball where you play 1675 01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:49,440 everybody 19 times. You know, Yanks play the Orioles 1676 01:21:49,440 --> 01:21:51,800 19 times, Yankees, Red Sox 19 times. 1677 01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:55,000 Like they've kind of mixed up with schedule now, but you get 2 1678 01:21:55,000 --> 01:22:00,640 match ups. 1 is in Australia. This is ridiculous. 1679 01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:05,360 It is absolutely ridiculous. I really guys, I got to be 1680 01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:08,280 honest with you here. I don't understand why more of 1681 01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:12,320 you aren't bothered by this. How big of a sucker are you? 1682 01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:15,480 And I say that coming from a friendly place. 1683 01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:20,440 I'm not trying to antagonize you and I'm certainly not trying to 1684 01:22:20,440 --> 01:22:23,840 diss our international friends. I'm really not. 1685 01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:27,080 And I, I know that I said that at the top of this, but like, 1686 01:22:27,080 --> 01:22:29,840 that's important. Or I'd love to go to Australia 1687 01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:32,720 on a safari. Like on the Outback trip, you 1688 01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:37,440 know, I'd love to go to Rio de Janeiro, you know, and walk 1689 01:22:37,440 --> 01:22:38,640 around. Well, I'm not going to walk 1690 01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:40,360 around in a banana in a banana hammock. 1691 01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:43,480 But like those those bikinis that are like the width of a 1692 01:22:43,480 --> 01:22:46,880 Bento floss, sure, I'd go to Rio named Nana. 1693 01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:48,880 Now I'm married, man. But you know, back in. 1694 01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:50,320 Yeah. Love to go to Rio de Janeiro. 1695 01:22:50,320 --> 01:22:51,960 Where do we go? And bachelor's party. 1696 01:22:51,960 --> 01:22:54,520 Let's go, boys, trip. Let's go to Brazil. 1697 01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:57,320 Love to do that. Love to go to Munich, Germany, 1698 01:22:57,320 --> 01:22:59,560 Right. I love one of my favorite 1699 01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:03,240 countries in Epcot. I love Epcot. 1700 01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:05,520 I love Disney that much, but I love Epcot. 1701 01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:09,160 And is Germany like get to Stein a beer. 1702 01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:12,160 You take the little boat ride. Love to go to Munich, Germany a 1703 01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:14,080 little Oktoberfest. Be great. 1704 01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:17,160 Knock back some good beer, be awesome. 1705 01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:20,160 You know I've been to Mexico many times. 1706 01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:22,960 Beautiful. Stayed at some amazing resorts, 1707 01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:26,800 spent New Year's Eve there. Rang of the new year at in in 1708 01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:28,440 Mexico once, right? Awesome. 1709 01:23:28,440 --> 01:23:29,960 Been there 2-3 times. Great. 1710 01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:35,720 Almost went this funny story Madrid now I always Jay, I 1711 01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:39,520 always talk about my very unimpressive scholastic record. 1712 01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:44,000 For whatever reason, I was really good in Spanish. 1713 01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:48,560 I was like, it rolled off the tongue and it, it just made 1714 01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:51,440 sense to my brain. And, you know, obviously once 1715 01:23:51,440 --> 01:23:53,880 you learn how to conjugate all the, all, the, all the verbs and 1716 01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:56,040 you just know the words, I mean, it's, but then you've got to be 1717 01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:59,720 able to do it somewhat fluently. And I mean, I was, you know, my, 1718 01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:01,360 my grades, they were what they were. 1719 01:24:01,640 --> 01:24:05,120 But my junior year in high school, I was actually asked to 1720 01:24:05,120 --> 01:24:08,960 go abroad to Madrid. Holy, did you go? 1721 01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:10,800 No, it's during baseball season. I couldn't. 1722 01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:15,320 There's no way I was gonna, you know, but I'd love to go. 1723 01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:17,520 Like if I wasn't an athlete, I would have loved to have gone to 1724 01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:19,560 Madrid all those years ago. I'd love to go to Madrid now. 1725 01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:26,080 My mom's got probably it's called the yadro LLADRO. 1726 01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:28,560 You got to make the L sound like the Y, you know how it is. 1727 01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:31,280 Got to accent the the proper yadro, right? 1728 01:24:31,280 --> 01:24:36,080 Got to roll the R and like the it's yadro is it's like a is it 1729 01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:39,240 like a ceramic? It's like a collectible company. 1730 01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:40,920 It's Oh yeah, my mom's got a ton. 1731 01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:44,320 Very valuable, beautiful. I love to go to Madrid, bring a 1732 01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:45,960 couple of yadros back for my mom. 1733 01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:48,320 I don't want to go to Madrid to watch a football game. 1734 01:24:50,440 --> 01:24:52,120 No, no way. Running with the bulls. 1735 01:24:52,120 --> 01:24:55,160 Get the sword, get it out. Let's see who's going to win. 1736 01:24:55,600 --> 01:24:57,480 Is the bull going to win? Or is the other guy the, the 1737 01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:00,440 whatever you call that guy the, the the matador, right? 1738 01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:02,920 Who's going to win? Is he going to get spiked? 1739 01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:05,440 And is the bull going to win or is he just going to keep shoving 1740 01:25:05,440 --> 01:25:09,080 that sword in his side until he dies a slow death, which by the 1741 01:25:09,080 --> 01:25:12,480 way, is really my sister did the running of the bulls. 1742 01:25:12,480 --> 01:25:15,160 No way. Like you're insane. 1743 01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:18,200 So this is where I stand on this stuff, man. 1744 01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:21,920 And I'm not trying to come across as the the narrow minded, 1745 01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:25,320 like the American lout who just doesn't see the big picture. 1746 01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:28,920 I think that I'm fairly sophisticated, fairly, not 1747 01:25:28,920 --> 01:25:31,720 overly, but fairly just enough to pass to get by. 1748 01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,680 And I certainly think that I understand business and I know I 1749 01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:40,080 understand how the fans think because I am 1 and I I just 1750 01:25:40,480 --> 01:25:43,360 there was the the lack of resistance to this is just 1751 01:25:43,480 --> 01:25:50,160 incredibly disappointing. I I don't get it getting worked 1752 01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:51,720 up here. I dropped my glasses all right, 1753 01:25:52,880 --> 01:25:56,320 don't want to best don't want to burst this this date and time 1754 01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:58,560 2379 don't want to burst The Jets bubbles. 1755 01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:01,960 But dude, you can't, you can't, no matter what you say, the 1756 01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:05,040 bubbles been burst. All right, The Jets will move to 1757 01:26:05,200 --> 01:26:07,760 get the hell out of here long term bed. 1758 01:26:08,160 --> 01:26:09,840 All right, I mean, I wonder what the odds are. 1759 01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:11,760 I mean, you say you throw it a little future. 1760 01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:15,480 I mean, listen, if it's plus 7000, I might throw 100 bucks on 1761 01:26:15,480 --> 01:26:16,840 that. I mean, listen, if they're not 1762 01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:18,880 winning by then, I won't give a shit where they go. 1763 01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:20,920 Not really. I don't think I'll care. 1764 01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:23,760 So maybe you're not crazy. And there has been a little bit 1765 01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:26,960 of thought of that. Woody, you know, obviously under 1766 01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:29,240 the the first Trump administration was out there. 1767 01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:31,920 I who the hell knows what his other business. 1768 01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:33,640 I just hope Woody doesn't own the team by then. 1769 01:26:33,640 --> 01:26:37,080 So hopefully the whomever, maybe Cohen owns it and Cohen just 1770 01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:39,760 wants to build some more casinos around MetLife and The Jets are 1771 01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:42,040 here to stay. Or maybe they actually move The 1772 01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:44,080 Jets back to Queens around EI. Don't know. 1773 01:26:44,080 --> 01:26:46,400 I can't start getting wrapped up and that Jet's going to move to 1774 01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:49,800 London, but somebody is, I mean, or just going to be an expansion 1775 01:26:49,800 --> 01:26:52,600 team, you know? Oh man, old man. 1776 01:26:53,720 --> 01:26:56,240 Man, Yeah, man, that would just stink. 1777 01:26:56,240 --> 01:26:58,400 You're a player. And it's like, no, not that. 1778 01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:01,480 You know, I studied for London abroad for like a month, dude. 1779 01:27:01,480 --> 01:27:04,360 It's like, I think that's the best city, the best city on 1780 01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:06,560 earth. But I dude, it is incredible out 1781 01:27:06,560 --> 01:27:07,440 there. I know, I know. 1782 01:27:07,440 --> 01:27:11,080 But to be an NFL player, like if all your families like in 1783 01:27:11,080 --> 01:27:14,560 America and all of a sudden you got traded to London, you would 1784 01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:17,000 just be like. Well, think about this now. 1785 01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:19,320 This is down the road. I don't want to get too wrapped 1786 01:27:19,320 --> 01:27:22,240 up with this now, but yeah, I mean, the residual impact of 1787 01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:24,680 that when it does happen, because it will happen, whether 1788 01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:26,880 it's The Jets or the Jags or expansion team, it's going to 1789 01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:30,360 happen. Think about, think about, I 1790 01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:34,080 would say a competitive disadvantage for those teams 1791 01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:37,960 when it comes to free agency. Oh my gosh, I mean you. 1792 01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:42,200 Almost have to have a built in concession or maybe those 1793 01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:46,480 international teams get a different salary cap to adhere 1794 01:27:46,480 --> 01:27:48,680 to based on the depending upon where you are and the 1795 01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:50,560 translation of the dollar. There's so much shit to get 1796 01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:51,960 into. I don't want to get into it now, 1797 01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:55,200 but it's just, yeah, man. It bothers me to my core. 1798 01:27:55,360 --> 01:28:00,000 It's happening more and more and more and more and more and like 1799 01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:03,320 suckers and like zombies. Too many of you take it. 1800 01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:07,800 Too many of you take it. So I'm done with my spiel on 1801 01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:10,800 that. I knew I was going to air the 1802 01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:12,360 tank, empty the tank on that a little bit. 1803 01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:15,160 How to empty the chamber Every time this comes up, I don't care 1804 01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:16,520 what. Even when I was doing this now, 1805 01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:19,480 Tiki didn't care as much, right? Tiki was thinking about it from 1806 01:28:19,480 --> 01:28:22,440 business and I'm like I I get the business point. 1807 01:28:22,440 --> 01:28:27,240 Tiki, I got an idiot I. Get it, I get the business, but 1808 01:28:27,400 --> 01:28:30,680 whenever this comes up and I started digging my heels in on 1809 01:28:30,680 --> 01:28:33,160 this, you can go find some stuff doing the, doing the national 1810 01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:37,000 stuff with T probably about a decade or not, not quite with 1811 01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:42,280 this, this fervent pushback, but I was always a little resistant 1812 01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:45,400 to it, whether it was a logistical disadvantage or 1813 01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:48,520 whatever it might be. It's just too much the gluttony 1814 01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:49,880 in sports. I don't need to keep going. 1815 01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:51,760 You guys know where I stand. You know what I said. 1816 01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:55,360 And by the way, if you disagree, I, I, I'm open to a little 1817 01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:57,400 dialogue here. I mean, I, I, I'm not saying 1818 01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:00,120 that my way's got to be right for everybody, but I'm telling 1819 01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:02,360 you unequivocally my way is right for me. 1820 01:29:02,520 --> 01:29:05,360 That is for damn sure, especially with this, you know, 1821 01:29:05,360 --> 01:29:06,720 Jay and. Your big Tom all. 1822 01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:10,200 Right, So what else we got? Thank you to the Cavaliers last 1823 01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:12,840 night as they can. Yeah, let's go. 1824 01:29:12,840 --> 01:29:14,640 Stretch it out, baby, Stretch it. 1825 01:29:16,640 --> 01:29:18,800 Out yeah, it's nice. It is nice. 1826 01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:23,320 I mean especially, you know, now it you know now it really opens 1827 01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:26,920 up the the impossibility for it to really go 7. 1828 01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:30,520 You know, not the, the probability, the likelihood of 1829 01:29:30,520 --> 01:29:35,040 this series going 7. And I, I mean, what are, I guess 1830 01:29:35,120 --> 01:29:39,080 you said it kind of yesterday if OG was fully healthy, maybe you 1831 01:29:39,080 --> 01:29:42,280 don't like it as much, but the fact that he's a little banged 1832 01:29:42,280 --> 01:29:44,440 up, you'll like the extra rest that they're getting. 1833 01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:48,240 I do I I love it. I mean, first of all, OG, you 1834 01:29:48,240 --> 01:29:54,080 know, listen, if St. the Knicks would have lost Game 4, I think 1835 01:29:54,120 --> 01:29:56,240 I'm not saying I would have. I think there was a chance that 1836 01:29:56,240 --> 01:29:57,680 we're going to run them out there in game five. 1837 01:29:57,680 --> 01:29:59,640 Hopefully prudence would have won out. 1838 01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:01,720 So I don't I don't know what we'll never know because they 1839 01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:04,360 just broomed them and we never got a chance to know, which is a 1840 01:30:04,360 --> 01:30:06,600 good thing. There wasn't dude. 1841 01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:09,400 But I listen, OG should be fine. I mean, he's had a lot of say. 1842 01:30:09,400 --> 01:30:12,760 It was not a severe, it was not the IT was like the so the 1843 01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:16,080 lowest grade spread the grade. I always get confused. 1844 01:30:16,240 --> 01:30:18,400 Grade 1. I know there's three grades. 1845 01:30:18,400 --> 01:30:21,200 Three is a complete tear. Three's the worst or one's the 1846 01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:22,480 worst. I think 3's the worst. 1847 01:30:23,440 --> 01:30:27,000 So you had a Grade 1, the level of severity goes up 1 basically 1848 01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:29,320 not a big deal too. You know, you're going to be out 1849 01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:31,240 maybe a month or so, maybe a couple of weeks. 1850 01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:34,120 And then week grade three you, you got massive problems where 1851 01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:36,600 you're out for multiple months because it's basically a full 1852 01:30:36,600 --> 01:30:39,640 rupture or a full disconnect with the where the hamstring 1853 01:30:39,760 --> 01:30:42,520 becomes disconnected there. So then that didn't happen, 1854 01:30:43,320 --> 01:30:46,000 thank God. But it pretty much did happen to 1855 01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:47,680 him a couple of years ago against the Pacers. 1856 01:30:48,120 --> 01:30:50,000 You know, even though we came back and he played that Game 7 1857 01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:53,040 and stuck at 3:00 to start the game from the corner, this now 1858 01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:57,120 to me, the way it sets up a series obviously tied up at 2. 1859 01:30:57,280 --> 01:31:00,000 Game 5 is on Wednesday. That's going to be in Detroit. 1860 01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:01,640 I think the Pistons win that game. 1861 01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:04,840 Game six Friday at the Cavs. I think the Cavaliers win that 1862 01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:07,160 game. I believe there's going to be 7 1863 01:31:07,160 --> 01:31:10,720 games if necessary Sunday in Detroit either way. 1864 01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:14,040 Now, I believe and and it's a little convoluted here because 1865 01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:15,560 there's still so many possibilities. 1866 01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:19,600 I don't know if it was updated today, but if let's just say, 1867 01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:24,360 let's say it's over Friday, let's say either one of the two 1868 01:31:24,360 --> 01:31:25,680 teams. It's amazing that we're giving 1869 01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:27,480 the Cavs now a chance to actually win the series. 1870 01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:29,840 I know, I know, right? So say if the Cavs or the 1871 01:31:29,840 --> 01:31:33,120 Pistons, I still think it'll be the Pistons, but the Pistons win 1872 01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:37,080 two of the next two games. Well, the next game, that would 1873 01:31:37,080 --> 01:31:39,760 be Friday night. Would they play Monday? 1874 01:31:39,760 --> 01:31:42,200 Obviously not playing Saturday. I don't think you're playing 1875 01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:44,840 Sunday. And I think it would be Monday. 1876 01:31:44,840 --> 01:31:47,520 Like I had one version, but I've I've got to update it because 1877 01:31:47,520 --> 01:31:50,080 this is now a little wrinkle, which is great. 1878 01:31:50,080 --> 01:31:52,240 Either way, massive advantage for the Knicks. 1879 01:31:53,240 --> 01:31:56,640 And you know, I thought, listen, just to stick to this series for 1880 01:31:56,640 --> 01:31:58,480 a minute here. Really rough night again, 1881 01:31:58,480 --> 01:32:01,040 related to start Tuesday no matter what. 1882 01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:03,360 Yeah, no matter what. No matter what. 1883 01:32:03,360 --> 01:32:08,200 So if game seven, No, no even. No. 1884 01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:11,240 OK, even if there's a game seven I. 1885 01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:13,040 Believe so, because that would end Sunday, right? 1886 01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:15,240 That would end Sunday. Oh man, that would be. 1887 01:32:15,240 --> 01:32:18,680 That's kind of like what? That would be disastrous for 1888 01:32:18,720 --> 01:32:20,760 whoever wins. Oh my God, for me. 1889 01:32:21,160 --> 01:32:22,840 It wouldn't be it. Would be it would be incredible 1890 01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:23,560 for the Knicks. Well. 1891 01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:26,800 That that would Jay that would basically be be what happened to 1892 01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:30,200 the Sixers in the Celtic series where you almost have to flush 1893 01:32:30,200 --> 01:32:32,320 game now game one down the chute. 1894 01:32:32,320 --> 01:32:33,960 I think the Pistons are better than the Sixers. 1895 01:32:33,960 --> 01:32:35,320 I think the Cavs are better than the Sixers. 1896 01:32:35,320 --> 01:32:37,720 Whatever they don't have the injury issue like Embiid and 1897 01:32:37,720 --> 01:32:41,000 then he's obviously a different physical situation. 1898 01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:44,080 But man, if that's if you're positive that even if there's a 1899 01:32:44,080 --> 01:32:48,160 Game 7, which would be Sunday in Detroit, that game two, no 1900 01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:52,680 matter what starts on, pardon me, game one starts in for the 1901 01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:55,600 Eastern Conference finals on Tuesday with one off day slash 1902 01:32:55,600 --> 01:32:56,800 travel. Yeah. 1903 01:32:56,800 --> 01:33:03,240 I mean it says May 19th is the day, but if it ended earlier 1904 01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:05,040 there would be the expedited day. 1905 01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:07,200 That's what I thought. Look what, like it's going to 1906 01:33:07,200 --> 01:33:10,000 happen on May 17th. OK, you know, that's definitely 1907 01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:12,040 not going to happen there. So there you go. 1908 01:33:12,360 --> 01:33:15,320 And, you know, now Justin J just going to be back up on the one 1909 01:33:15,320 --> 01:33:18,440 shot real quick, buddy there if now you got to start looking 1910 01:33:18,440 --> 01:33:21,320 here at, you know, can the Cavaliers actually win the 1911 01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:23,720 series? And you know, I love Kate 1912 01:33:23,720 --> 01:33:25,680 Cunningham. He's one of the next absolute 1913 01:33:25,680 --> 01:33:28,760 true superstars in the NBA. But you know, he's not there 1914 01:33:28,760 --> 01:33:29,680 yet. We know that. 1915 01:33:30,640 --> 01:33:32,560 I don't think the Pistons were there yet in terms of being the 1916 01:33:32,560 --> 01:33:35,200 championship team, neither of the Cavs, but the way they 1917 01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:38,480 defended Kate Cunningham last night made him very, very 1918 01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:41,000 uncomfortable. Firstly, didn't shoot well, I 1919 01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:43,080 think he was like 7 for 19 low percentage. 1920 01:33:43,080 --> 01:33:45,680 But when they kept rolling the double and they were trapped and 1921 01:33:45,680 --> 01:33:49,160 where they were trapping him, you know, along like near the 1922 01:33:49,160 --> 01:33:51,480 opponent's bench where their bench where he just had nowhere 1923 01:33:51,480 --> 01:33:53,880 to go. It wasn't necessarily in the 1924 01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:55,920 middle of the court. It really limited what they 1925 01:33:55,920 --> 01:33:57,480 could do. Like once he crosses midcourt 1926 01:33:58,040 --> 01:34:01,920 inside the half court set, they were very opportunistic and very 1927 01:34:01,920 --> 01:34:03,920 on point running that second defender at him. 1928 01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:05,720 AI don't think he recognized it quickly enough. 1929 01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:11,320 This is something Brunson deals with and but at 6566 Cunningham 1930 01:34:11,320 --> 01:34:13,320 could grow, throw over the top on like Jalen. 1931 01:34:13,320 --> 01:34:15,800 So you know, he had five more turnovers. 1932 01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:17,960 Mitchell was great. I mean Mitchell 40 plus points, 1933 01:34:17,960 --> 01:34:20,440 whatever it was. And I thought Mobley was really, 1934 01:34:20,440 --> 01:34:21,960 really good. Five block shots. 1935 01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:24,440 You don't see that too much outside of Wembe and you know, 1936 01:34:24,440 --> 01:34:28,320 maybe and that's pretty much it. I mean, five block shots, even 1937 01:34:28,320 --> 01:34:31,040 Mitch doesn't really swat five. That is a massive number. 1938 01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:33,560 That's like Hakeem Olajuwon. That's like young Patrick Ewing. 1939 01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:36,360 That's like Shaq. So I'm not saying Mobley's like 1940 01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:39,320 that, but they are an interesting team and they've 1941 01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:41,760 always been an interesting team. Now to me at this point, any 1942 01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:44,800 team with James Harden on that team is going nowhere. 1943 01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:47,920 I'm not a James Harden believer. I'm not a James Harden fan. 1944 01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:51,320 He has been incredibly low efficient. 1945 01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:53,040 His efficiency has been very low. 1946 01:34:53,040 --> 01:34:56,160 I should say this series and the other day, I don't understand 1947 01:34:56,160 --> 01:35:00,280 why they were talking about, you know, and and listen, I love, I 1948 01:35:00,280 --> 01:35:01,560 love their coach, Long Island guy. 1949 01:35:01,560 --> 01:35:04,040 I absolutely love them. They got hosed by the Nets too. 1950 01:35:04,400 --> 01:35:07,000 But and I know why he was doing it, taking the bullet that would 1951 01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:10,920 have been after. Is that after game one? 1952 01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:12,360 Maybe it was game one. Let me see. 1953 01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:16,880 Or maybe it was game three. Maybe it was game three. 1954 01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:19,840 Either way, he was taking the bullets for Harden saying, you 1955 01:35:19,840 --> 01:35:21,760 know, he only took three shots in the second-half. 1956 01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:23,840 We got to do a better job. Hey, Harden's got to do a better 1957 01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:25,120 job. I understand what you're doing, 1958 01:35:25,120 --> 01:35:26,240 coach. I respect that. 1959 01:35:26,520 --> 01:35:29,680 And that's the mark of, you know, a man trying to shield one 1960 01:35:29,680 --> 01:35:32,600 of the star players. But does anybody trust James 1961 01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:34,200 Harden? I mean, certainly at this age. 1962 01:35:34,440 --> 01:35:36,400 I mean, just go back to when he was still in his prime. 1963 01:35:36,720 --> 01:35:39,280 I mean, the guy was was terrified to take shots against 1964 01:35:39,280 --> 01:35:42,120 the Warriors if you watch those series, but he was just passing 1965 01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:44,800 up open looks. I'm just not a hardened guy, Not 1966 01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:49,240 not great skill, great pure score, great pure three level 1967 01:35:49,240 --> 01:35:52,440 score, can shoot from, you know, from range, can get to the rim. 1968 01:35:52,720 --> 01:35:55,800 And obviously, you know, you got some mid range work as well. 1969 01:35:56,280 --> 01:35:59,160 But you know, I mean, if it's the Cavaliers, I I prefer to 1970 01:35:59,160 --> 01:36:03,000 play the Cavaliers myself. And I just think that the Knicks 1971 01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:05,120 bigs would would push around their bigs. 1972 01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:07,600 We're still a little bit young. Certainly Mobley Allen's been 1973 01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:09,360 around a while. Yeah. 1974 01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:12,320 Great respect for Donovan Mitchell and Mitchell in the 1975 01:36:12,320 --> 01:36:15,560 Garden and we saw it on Christmas is a little bit 1976 01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:20,080 worrisome, you know, New York kid coming home and, OK, like, 1977 01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:22,040 you know, you really want to mess around with that potential 1978 01:36:22,040 --> 01:36:24,240 magic from him. But I'd rather play the 1979 01:36:24,240 --> 01:36:27,000 Cavaliers. I I think every Knick fan would 1980 01:36:27,000 --> 01:36:29,720 and should, but I don't know. I mean, you flip a coin if you 1981 01:36:29,720 --> 01:36:31,480 tell me at this point the Cavaliers going to win. 1982 01:36:32,040 --> 01:36:33,360 I don't even know what the odds are. 1983 01:36:33,360 --> 01:36:35,520 Jay, do me a favor. You know, I could do this. 1984 01:36:35,840 --> 01:36:37,040 I'll do probably get this quicker. 1985 01:36:37,080 --> 01:36:40,120 I would say I have not looked at the odds for the rest of the 1986 01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:43,080 series. I would say that the Pistons are 1987 01:36:43,560 --> 01:36:49,520 -170 if I had to take a guess, Pistons, cabs, remaining odds. 1988 01:36:49,640 --> 01:36:52,800 I'm going to say about 170. -125. 1989 01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:54,280 Oh, that's it. Wow. 1990 01:36:55,360 --> 01:36:59,040 No, I'm see, all right -160 I'm seeing different books, 1991 01:36:59,040 --> 01:37:02,800 different numbers. Yeah, bad on mine. 1992 01:37:03,040 --> 01:37:04,680 And I'm usually good with those numbers there. 1993 01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:07,840 Wow. And now what are the by? 1994 01:37:07,840 --> 01:37:11,160 By contrast, what would the Cavaliers be on the plus side? 1995 01:37:11,360 --> 01:37:12,960 Well, they. Said one O 5. 1996 01:37:13,840 --> 01:37:16,720 Cavaliers are plus one O 5. That's what it says. 1997 01:37:16,720 --> 01:37:18,840 From Win the series. Easy central. 1998 01:37:19,080 --> 01:37:20,120 Really. Yeah. 1999 01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:22,720 All right, all right. Interesting. 2000 01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:24,960 Nobody really knows what's going on with that series. 2001 01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:27,600 So you got to protect the vig. You got to keep it kind of 2002 01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:29,680 close. Yeah, BAE. 2003 01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:33,560 I mean what? Else we got here. 2004 01:37:34,680 --> 01:37:36,320 We may have watched Lebron's last game. 2005 01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:37,520 Not that I watched it last night. 2006 01:37:38,120 --> 01:37:40,960 Maybe I didn't want. Do you, what do you think on 2007 01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:44,560 that? Like, it's tough because, you 2008 01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:46,920 know, and I've heard it from Lakers fans and I've heard it 2009 01:37:46,920 --> 01:37:50,040 from Warriors fans a little bit with, you know, Stephen Draymond 2010 01:37:50,040 --> 01:37:54,040 now where it's just like it's tough because you keep LeBron. 2011 01:37:54,040 --> 01:37:57,200 And obviously, even if you're not giving him supermax 2012 01:37:57,200 --> 01:38:02,000 $67,000,000 a season, whatever, you know you still got to give 2013 01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:05,920 him a a sizable chunk of change to keep him on your team. 2014 01:38:05,920 --> 01:38:07,480 No you don't. He could take the mid level. 2015 01:38:07,480 --> 01:38:09,320 Why not? Do you think he would? 2016 01:38:09,320 --> 01:38:10,680 I, I, I don't know, but he could. 2017 01:38:10,760 --> 01:38:12,600 I mean, if he really wants to keep playing, really wants to 2018 01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:16,880 win, he certainly could see to, to me, I I don't know if he 2019 01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:18,840 will, but he could. I mean he could take the mid 2020 01:38:18,840 --> 01:38:20,720 level exception can absolutely do that. 2021 01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:23,960 I don't, you know, and I listen, I this guy's like my favorite 2022 01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:29,240 player ever, but like I, I, I'm from, I'm from 2002. 2023 01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:30,880 I know, I know I'm just teasing dude. 2024 01:38:30,920 --> 01:38:37,040 I get it, I get it, I get you, but I just don't see him as the 2025 01:38:37,040 --> 01:38:41,240 kind of guy that take less money than like $30 million like that. 2026 01:38:41,240 --> 01:38:43,320 Never. That just doesn't hit me as a 2027 01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:46,960 LeBron move. And I don't, I don't necessarily 2028 01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:49,400 think it's because he's full of himself or something like that. 2029 01:38:49,400 --> 01:38:53,400 I just, it doesn't, he doesn't hit me as the guy currently 2030 01:38:53,480 --> 01:38:56,840 who's going to compromise money in hopes of winning. 2031 01:38:56,960 --> 01:39:00,560 I think he's past winning. I I don't think he cares at all 2032 01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:02,880 about winning. I don't you to make me defend 2033 01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:04,400 LeBron. I think that that's unfair. 2034 01:39:04,920 --> 01:39:08,360 Really listen, I know he's still pad in the stats and I think 2035 01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:12,400 that in his mind, every time he, you know, establishes a new 2036 01:39:12,400 --> 01:39:15,840 record and the more he plays, the more records he's busting in 2037 01:39:15,840 --> 01:39:17,760 his mind. That's the way he justifies the 2038 01:39:17,760 --> 01:39:20,280 go conversation because now that you know what I mean, there's 2039 01:39:20,280 --> 01:39:23,880 tangible numbers and you know, you grew up, you're a LeBron 2040 01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:26,120 guy. I grew up, I'm an MJ guy, right? 2041 01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:31,040 And I think that the next generation and certainly the 2042 01:39:31,040 --> 01:39:33,760 generation after that where they will and they'll, there's always 2043 01:39:33,760 --> 01:39:35,480 somebody else that's going to come along the way that's going 2044 01:39:35,480 --> 01:39:37,240 to at least insert themselves into the conversation. 2045 01:39:37,240 --> 01:39:39,920 We all know that no matter what the sport is, but down the road, 2046 01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:42,800 multiple generations down the road, there's going to be 2047 01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:46,920 tangible evidence if to easily support that. 2048 01:39:46,920 --> 01:39:48,320 Lebron's the greatest of all time. 2049 01:39:48,320 --> 01:39:50,880 Now, I don't think he is. I don't think I've said that 2050 01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:53,680 many times. I think it's mji think Kareem's 2051 01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:56,320 better. Lebron's in my top five. 2052 01:39:56,400 --> 01:39:58,240 You know, I would look at Magic and Bird as well. 2053 01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:00,720 You want to look at a Russell. You want to look at a will. 2054 01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:02,480 Whatever. I'm not to even get to that list 2055 01:40:02,480 --> 01:40:07,520 right now, but the The thing is when you open up the NBA record 2056 01:40:07,520 --> 01:40:10,120 books digitally. If you could do it now, but 2057 01:40:10,120 --> 01:40:13,160 especially down the road, I mean, if you never saw LeBron 2058 01:40:13,160 --> 01:40:15,120 play where you're young now and you saw him at the end of his 2059 01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:18,720 career, like I saw the end of Kareem and the end of the end of 2060 01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:23,400 Doctor J, very end of Doctor J, you know, Well, now you're going 2061 01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:26,520 to lean on some numbers to support your case because you 2062 01:40:26,520 --> 01:40:29,080 never saw Jordan. And if you didn't see Jordan, 2063 01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:31,560 Jordan's not the all time leading scorer. 2064 01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:35,000 Jordan doesn't have the playoff Marks and records and 2065 01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:37,720 accumulation of minutes and stats and triple, double S and 2066 01:40:37,720 --> 01:40:41,240 all the things Lebron's done. Now, that's been a product of a 2067 01:40:41,240 --> 01:40:43,960 few things. Number one, Lebron's great #2 2068 01:40:43,960 --> 01:40:47,320 LeBron has been incredibly durable and #3 he's played. 2069 01:40:47,560 --> 01:40:50,640 He's played more than anybody. I mean, what, 23 years, 2223 2070 01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:53,040 years? He's 40 he's got the body of a 2071 01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:55,560 of a 29 year old that's absolutely amazing and he could 2072 01:40:55,560 --> 01:40:59,720 still play and here Jay, here's why here's why I think that 2073 01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:03,760 there's a chance that he does take the mid level. 2074 01:41:03,760 --> 01:41:05,000 Actually, let me let me roll through this here. 2075 01:41:05,000 --> 01:41:05,960 I want to get into this right now. 2076 01:41:06,320 --> 01:41:10,320 So to me, I look at this, that just get me up on the sing. 2077 01:41:10,320 --> 01:41:12,600 I want, I want to be able to, you get to say, yeah, thank you, 2078 01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:14,760 buddy, Not to get rid of Jay, but I want to, you know, got to 2079 01:41:14,760 --> 01:41:16,880 pump out the content later on, you know, you know what I'm 2080 01:41:16,880 --> 01:41:18,480 saying, Jay, you know, I love you, buddy. 2081 01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:20,480 I got you. I, I think, yeah. 2082 01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:22,400 I think there's a couple of ways to look at it. 2083 01:41:22,440 --> 01:41:25,080 There's three basic questions and I'll try to, I'll try to 2084 01:41:25,080 --> 01:41:28,280 walk through this. Number one, will he play #2 can 2085 01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:31,000 he still play #3 where should he play? 2086 01:41:31,240 --> 01:41:34,920 Will he play? Now, I did watch his press 2087 01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:37,280 conference this morning after last night's game. 2088 01:41:37,280 --> 01:41:39,880 I didn't watch the game. I wasn't even on my radar, quite 2089 01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:41,280 frankly. I was watching the Yankees fall 2090 01:41:41,280 --> 01:41:43,960 apart in a bullpen. Both of my kids had games. 2091 01:41:43,960 --> 01:41:45,480 So I really didn't care about LeBron. 2092 01:41:45,480 --> 01:41:47,720 I knew they were they get a little series over. 2093 01:41:48,160 --> 01:41:52,280 So but I wanted to hear what he said after the game and he 2094 01:41:52,280 --> 01:41:55,320 talked and this this I get. He talked about the process. 2095 01:41:55,320 --> 01:41:59,000 He talked about the commitment. See, I think that, you know, 2096 01:41:59,080 --> 01:42:02,760 some of you probably think that LeBron, you know, works out in 2097 01:42:02,760 --> 01:42:05,800 the offseason that does a little stretching, you know, comes to 2098 01:42:05,800 --> 01:42:08,520 the arena, plays ball, and he's just a superhero. 2099 01:42:08,920 --> 01:42:11,400 It's not the case. You know, LeBron, now maybe this 2100 01:42:11,400 --> 01:42:13,280 is a bit of an embellishment, but he said, hey, we have an 2101 01:42:13,280 --> 01:42:16,560 11:00 practice. I'm at the building at 8:00 in 2102 01:42:16,560 --> 01:42:18,440 the morning, basically getting my body ready. 2103 01:42:18,880 --> 01:42:21,400 You know, it's, it's like the old Camaro in the the garage. 2104 01:42:21,400 --> 01:42:23,080 Like it needs a lot of tune ups, man. 2105 01:42:23,440 --> 01:42:25,680 It might look good, but you got to make sure that that thing's 2106 01:42:25,680 --> 01:42:28,240 got everything. I'm not a big car guy, so I'm 2107 01:42:28,240 --> 01:42:29,760 not sure. Proper oil, whatever. 2108 01:42:29,760 --> 01:42:31,960 Even though it's much deeper than that, you know, the fan 2109 01:42:31,960 --> 01:42:35,800 belts still work, you know, and to get those fan belts working, 2110 01:42:35,840 --> 01:42:38,560 you know, you got to get those wrenches out earlier. 2111 01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:42,240 And it's a deep, it's a, it's an intense stretching routine. 2112 01:42:42,240 --> 01:42:47,480 It's an it's an intense workout routine and I'm beginning to see 2113 01:42:47,480 --> 01:42:49,000 signs. So the first question, will he 2114 01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:50,840 play? I think, I'm sorry, I could be 2115 01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:52,240 wrong. I think I'm starting to see 2116 01:42:52,240 --> 01:42:55,840 signs that I think LeBron right now is leaning more toward not 2117 01:42:55,840 --> 01:42:58,120 playing. And, and I get it, like you're 2118 01:42:58,120 --> 01:43:02,320 starting to see LeBron play a lot of golf and you just got to 2119 01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:04,240 wonder like it didn't you know, he got to play with his son. 2120 01:43:04,240 --> 01:43:07,000 Didn't really work out, not to take a shot of Bronny, but that 2121 01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:07,760 happened. Check. 2122 01:43:08,040 --> 01:43:09,960 He's got all his championships checked, he's got all the 2123 01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:12,320 records checked. So, you know, legacy secured. 2124 01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:14,680 No matter what he does, no matter where he goes, he's never 2125 01:43:14,680 --> 01:43:16,960 going to be the GOAT in the eyes of many, including me. 2126 01:43:17,160 --> 01:43:20,600 So he doesn't need to chase that I, I don't think, although I'm 2127 01:43:20,600 --> 01:43:22,440 going to throw down 1 little asterisk here. 2128 01:43:22,440 --> 01:43:26,320 And, and where he could be goaded by some who could be 2129 01:43:26,320 --> 01:43:27,920 converted. Not me, not me. 2130 01:43:28,200 --> 01:43:30,600 I'll get to that in a minute. So will he play? 2131 01:43:32,000 --> 01:43:35,080 Man, the physical investment that it takes to prepare for a 2132 01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:38,080 season and the maintenance throughout a season, I think 2133 01:43:38,080 --> 01:43:42,040 he's probably on the other side. I think he's getting to a point 2134 01:43:42,040 --> 01:43:44,120 where he's ready to check out of that. 2135 01:43:44,120 --> 01:43:48,240 I'm not mad at you, man. He has been his body's been a 2136 01:43:48,240 --> 01:43:51,560 temple and to keep it looking like that and humming like that 2137 01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:55,240 and producing like that, you're doing stuff that it's just not 2138 01:43:55,240 --> 01:43:59,240 many people at this age do anymore, especially in the sport 2139 01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:01,360 like basketball. I mean, it's one thing to be, 2140 01:44:01,760 --> 01:44:04,480 you know, like in your late 40s, you're a golfer. 2141 01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:06,840 You can still crank it off the team, even like Freddie Couple 2142 01:44:06,840 --> 01:44:08,240 showing up at the Masters day one. 2143 01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:10,960 I know he, yeah, I think he took an 8 on one of the holes this 2144 01:44:10,960 --> 01:44:12,880 year. But even in the 60s, I mean, 2145 01:44:12,880 --> 01:44:15,920 over the last 10 years, Freddie Couple shows up, Boom, boom's on 2146 01:44:15,920 --> 01:44:18,200 the first page of the leaderboard dropping to 65. 2147 01:44:18,480 --> 01:44:21,640 And that is the weekend goes on. You know, he stalls out, he 2148 01:44:21,640 --> 01:44:23,760 fades out because he's older, you know, and he just, his body 2149 01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:25,560 can't quite do it. You could do it in golf. 2150 01:44:25,800 --> 01:44:28,520 You could even be a quarterback, you know, and the way the rules 2151 01:44:28,520 --> 01:44:32,400 are set up and you know, if you're a pocket guy, you know 2152 01:44:32,400 --> 01:44:34,240 you're not going to get hit. If you've got the right 2153 01:44:34,240 --> 01:44:36,640 coaching, you got a good old line, you're going to run the 2154 01:44:36,640 --> 01:44:38,440 ball a little bit. You know, you have some windows 2155 01:44:38,440 --> 01:44:40,800 to throw. You could still do that, like 2156 01:44:40,800 --> 01:44:43,400 Brady and Peyton and many others as well. 2157 01:44:43,640 --> 01:44:45,280 And Drew Brees played for a long time. 2158 01:44:45,880 --> 01:44:48,280 Tough to do that in the NBAI think even in hockey you can 2159 01:44:48,280 --> 01:44:50,760 probably get away with it. Like Ray Bourke played forever. 2160 01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:52,800 How about that? Impressed with the hockey 2161 01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:55,080 knowledge there, Jay, in hockey, you could do it. 2162 01:44:55,080 --> 01:44:58,560 I think in baseball, if you were a Leaf pitcher like Mariano or 2163 01:44:58,560 --> 01:45:00,920 even a starter like Clement, although Clemens was, you know, 2164 01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:04,840 doing some other stuff. But Nolan Ryan, you know, if 2165 01:45:04,840 --> 01:45:09,640 you're a if you're a baseball position player and you know, 2166 01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:12,120 you're a middle of the diamond, shortstop, center field kind of 2167 01:45:12,120 --> 01:45:16,000 guy, maybe move to a corner, maybe move to third, maybe move 2168 01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:19,520 to first, maybe you just ADH. It is hard to hide in the NBA 2169 01:45:19,520 --> 01:45:21,320 now. Now he's not playing defense 2170 01:45:21,320 --> 01:45:22,840 with any sort of purpose at this point. 2171 01:45:22,840 --> 01:45:25,320 You know, he's just not. But he's still running, you 2172 01:45:25,320 --> 01:45:27,280 know, a ton of miles a night. They track this stuff. 2173 01:45:27,560 --> 01:45:29,600 And his top rate of speed is still really good. 2174 01:45:29,600 --> 01:45:32,440 And he could still finish at the rim, man, He still could. 2175 01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:36,280 And to be able to do that, what you're asking your body to do, 2176 01:45:36,440 --> 01:45:38,480 how realistic is it? How much? 2177 01:45:38,520 --> 01:45:43,080 And it's realistic if he does what he always does in 2178 01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:45,080 preparation and the maintenance throughout. 2179 01:45:45,440 --> 01:45:48,000 But back to the first question, will he play? 2180 01:45:48,560 --> 01:45:51,960 I'm kind of leaning toward no. All right, but let's suspend 2181 01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:53,960 that for a moment. Let's have the conversation. 2182 01:45:54,160 --> 01:45:57,160 What if my answer was yes? Well, now the question is number 2183 01:45:57,160 --> 01:45:59,880 2, can he still play? And the answer is absolutely, 2184 01:45:59,880 --> 01:46:02,240 undeniably yes. And he talked about this last 2185 01:46:02,240 --> 01:46:03,880 night where he's turned into the third option. 2186 01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:07,600 And you know, I always thought there was a a second and a third 2187 01:46:07,600 --> 01:46:11,320 act for LeBron where the offense isn't running through him. 2188 01:46:11,320 --> 01:46:14,080 It's going to run through Luca, going to run through Reeves. 2189 01:46:14,480 --> 01:46:16,560 So he's had a lot even though Lucas banged up, but he's had 2190 01:46:16,560 --> 01:46:18,200 time this year. He's been the third option. 2191 01:46:18,480 --> 01:46:20,200 And he said it was, he welcomed it. 2192 01:46:20,200 --> 01:46:22,080 It was a nice change and I respect that, right? 2193 01:46:22,080 --> 01:46:24,200 I don't think LeBron needs to take 30 shots. 2194 01:46:24,200 --> 01:46:26,160 I don't think he needs to be the man. 2195 01:46:26,600 --> 01:46:27,920 I'm going to defend him a little bit here. 2196 01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:30,960 I think his IQ and his commitment to the sport has 2197 01:46:30,960 --> 01:46:33,320 always been great and I think he's a great team player. 2198 01:46:33,320 --> 01:46:34,240 I don't know what I'm going to say. 2199 01:46:34,240 --> 01:46:36,480 He's a great teammate because I think he's got a lot of guys run 2200 01:46:36,480 --> 01:46:38,840 out of town. He's got a lot of coaches fired. 2201 01:46:39,000 --> 01:46:41,200 There's been a lot of manipulation behind the scenes. 2202 01:46:41,200 --> 01:46:44,480 But I think if you're good in Lebron's book, I think he's a 2203 01:46:44,480 --> 01:46:46,040 great teammate. That's what I would say. 2204 01:46:46,040 --> 01:46:48,320 All right, so can he still plays? 2205 01:46:48,320 --> 01:46:50,160 Obviously, yes, you can put him, he can play. 2206 01:46:50,280 --> 01:46:53,040 He can play the four, you know, if you want to be small and and 2207 01:46:53,160 --> 01:46:55,920 with the right situation, he can play the five against certain 2208 01:46:55,920 --> 01:46:57,920 teams. So yes, he could still play. 2209 01:46:58,400 --> 01:47:01,760 Now if I think he's going to play, which I don't, but for now 2210 01:47:01,760 --> 01:47:04,320 I'm going to say that he is and I already told you that he 2211 01:47:04,320 --> 01:47:06,120 absolutely could play if he wants to. 2212 01:47:06,720 --> 01:47:10,000 Where should he play is the third and final question. 2213 01:47:10,600 --> 01:47:12,520 You know, I jotted down a couple of teams for you. 2214 01:47:12,760 --> 01:47:14,680 Cavaliers to me would be a great story. 2215 01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:18,160 I think that would be awesome. I really do go back home, finish 2216 01:47:18,160 --> 01:47:20,640 up at home, you know, the hometown kid, the kid from 2217 01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:23,880 Akron, be phenomenal story. You already won the championship 2218 01:47:23,880 --> 01:47:25,920 there. So the pressure, it's just not 2219 01:47:25,920 --> 01:47:29,240 quite as intense. Go out at the adulation and the 2220 01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:31,280 like. The symmetry in the full circle 2221 01:47:31,280 --> 01:47:33,680 moment would be. I mean, it would be it would be 2222 01:47:33,680 --> 01:47:35,760 all time and I'm not even a big LeBron fan. 2223 01:47:35,760 --> 01:47:38,480 It would be great. Like if LeBron comes back and is 2224 01:47:38,480 --> 01:47:41,880 on the Cavs next year when he's introduced, you would imagine he 2225 01:47:41,880 --> 01:47:44,080 played home next year, like the home opener. 2226 01:47:44,080 --> 01:47:46,480 Oh my God. And then like the retirement 2227 01:47:46,480 --> 01:47:49,200 tour is when he checks out of the game, his last game. 2228 01:47:49,200 --> 01:47:51,800 And like, it would be it would just be all time stuff. 2229 01:47:51,920 --> 01:47:54,880 So I would be up for that. Maybe mess around and go to 2230 01:47:54,880 --> 01:47:57,760 Golden State. They're past, you know, that 2231 01:47:57,760 --> 01:48:01,160 that that's kind of shut now. Does he open their window? 2232 01:48:01,440 --> 01:48:03,240 Yeah, he does. Certainly opens it more. 2233 01:48:04,200 --> 01:48:05,960 Maybe there's another power move that they can make. 2234 01:48:05,960 --> 01:48:07,560 I don't know, maybe Giannis, who the hell knows? 2235 01:48:07,560 --> 01:48:10,360 I mean, if Giannis and LeBron go to Golden State, that would be 2236 01:48:10,360 --> 01:48:12,400 interesting, right? I'm going to get to the Knicks 2237 01:48:12,400 --> 01:48:14,240 in a moment. I think he's gone from the 2238 01:48:14,240 --> 01:48:15,840 Lakers. I think that that ship has 2239 01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:16,680 sailed. I think he's done. 2240 01:48:16,680 --> 01:48:19,520 I think they're done with him. And you know, I heard some 2241 01:48:19,520 --> 01:48:21,600 people say yesterday, I don't see this as much. 2242 01:48:21,840 --> 01:48:25,120 It would be interesting. Denver, you know, you pair him 2243 01:48:25,120 --> 01:48:27,800 with Yokich, who's a great passer, great big, you know, 2244 01:48:27,800 --> 01:48:31,040 that two game in a two man game, the way that they could play off 2245 01:48:31,040 --> 01:48:34,320 of each other would be in the basketball sense, really 2246 01:48:34,320 --> 01:48:37,400 appealing. Now, does he want to play 41 2247 01:48:37,400 --> 01:48:39,360 games in the altitude, which is a real thing? 2248 01:48:39,560 --> 01:48:43,400 Probably not. Does you know, and Colorado's a 2249 01:48:43,440 --> 01:48:47,080 beautiful state and Denver's a great city, great sports city. 2250 01:48:47,360 --> 01:48:49,480 Does he want to go to Denver? I don't know. 2251 01:48:49,880 --> 01:48:52,720 All right, so that that brings us to the Knicks here. 2252 01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:55,640 And he's always wax poetic about the Knicks. 2253 01:48:55,640 --> 01:48:58,480 We know this, right? But also, like many, didn't have 2254 01:48:58,480 --> 01:49:00,560 the guts to come to the Knicks when the Knicks needed help. 2255 01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:02,880 So I got no interest in LeBron coming to the Knicks. 2256 01:49:02,880 --> 01:49:04,040 I'm not even going to dance around this. 2257 01:49:04,040 --> 01:49:06,520 I've said this before, I don't want them on the Knicks, right? 2258 01:49:06,800 --> 01:49:08,560 Don't want them. The only way that I would be 2259 01:49:08,560 --> 01:49:13,040 even remotely open to it is if the Knicks win the championship 2260 01:49:13,040 --> 01:49:15,840 this year and then LeBron wants to join the party. 2261 01:49:15,840 --> 01:49:17,840 Oh, now you are. Now you want to take the mid 2262 01:49:17,840 --> 01:49:19,360 level exception. You want to take a little bit 2263 01:49:19,360 --> 01:49:21,320 more nap, That's fine, we'll figure it out. 2264 01:49:21,440 --> 01:49:24,280 You can come in. But if the Knicks don't win the 2265 01:49:24,280 --> 01:49:27,400 championship, let's say they win the Eastern Conference finals 2266 01:49:27,400 --> 01:49:30,120 against whomever they play, and let's say they lose in five or 2267 01:49:30,120 --> 01:49:33,000 six to the Thunder, right with T. 2268 01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:35,480 Well, whatever. Yeah, but they don't win. 2269 01:49:35,640 --> 01:49:37,840 I don't need LeBron coming at the side door. 2270 01:49:38,120 --> 01:49:41,120 You know, the glory hound. And then somehow the Knicks win 2271 01:49:41,120 --> 01:49:44,480 the championship with LeBron. And then I am beholden to LeBron 2272 01:49:44,480 --> 01:49:46,560 James for the rest of my basketball existence. 2273 01:49:46,840 --> 01:49:49,280 I want no part of that. I would rather lose. 2274 01:49:49,480 --> 01:49:51,400 You will not believe me when I tell you this. 2275 01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:55,080 I promise you I would rather lose with my dignity. 2276 01:49:55,280 --> 01:49:56,880 And. And I've been all over Cat this 2277 01:49:56,880 --> 01:49:58,880 year, this year, not the last month or two, but this year and 2278 01:49:58,880 --> 01:50:02,000 last year been all over. I'd rather go now firing with 2279 01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:05,680 Cat and obviously Brunson and even Bridges and obviously OG 2280 01:50:05,680 --> 01:50:08,040 and all those dudes. Next year, maybe a slight 2281 01:50:08,040 --> 01:50:11,720 alteration to the bench right? Then have LeBron James come to 2282 01:50:11,720 --> 01:50:15,840 the Knicks and they win their first championship since 1973. 2283 01:50:16,120 --> 01:50:19,120 I got to see the powder. I got to see LeBron, everybody 2284 01:50:19,120 --> 01:50:23,280 kissing his ass. Not interested, do not want it. 2285 01:50:23,280 --> 01:50:27,480 I would rather be championship list than have LeBron come and 2286 01:50:27,480 --> 01:50:29,560 save the Knicks. And if you don't believe me, 2287 01:50:29,720 --> 01:50:32,880 then you don't know me. I promise you that is how I 2288 01:50:32,880 --> 01:50:35,160 feel. Because, you know, I went 2289 01:50:35,160 --> 01:50:38,760 through this song and dance not once, twice maybe. 2290 01:50:38,760 --> 01:50:41,320 LeBron coming to the Knicks. The antennas are up. 2291 01:50:41,560 --> 01:50:43,920 I'm all excited. Knicks suck, let's go. 2292 01:50:43,920 --> 01:50:45,840 LeBron. And I was a huge LeBron James 2293 01:50:45,840 --> 01:50:47,200 fan. He turned me off. 2294 01:50:47,400 --> 01:50:49,840 He turned me off with some certain stuff the last decade or 2295 01:50:49,840 --> 01:50:51,400 so. I'm not going to get into it and 2296 01:50:51,400 --> 01:50:52,640 I do respect him. I do. 2297 01:50:52,640 --> 01:50:56,480 I don't hate LeBron, but I don't want him coming in to be the 2298 01:50:56,480 --> 01:50:57,600 savior. If we're going to win, we're 2299 01:50:57,600 --> 01:51:00,000 going to win with Brunson. We're going to win with Jalen, 2300 01:51:00,160 --> 01:51:02,800 and he's going to be on that float and the rest of the dudes 2301 01:51:02,800 --> 01:51:05,760 lining up behind them, right? That's what I want to happen. 2302 01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:09,840 And if listen, I really, really, really, really don't think that 2303 01:51:09,840 --> 01:51:12,800 you believe me when I say that I would rather lose with dignity 2304 01:51:12,800 --> 01:51:14,680 than win with him. I'm not saying he has no 2305 01:51:14,680 --> 01:51:17,920 dignity, but I just don't want him swooping in as the last 2306 01:51:17,920 --> 01:51:24,040 second hero and forever, forever having to say, oh thank God the 2307 01:51:24,040 --> 01:51:28,320 almighty basketball king LeBron James has come to the Garden. 2308 01:51:28,480 --> 01:51:32,000 He has saved us. I'd rather lose in Round 2. 2309 01:51:32,480 --> 01:51:35,880 I would rather lose around too. I'm think I'm in the minority on 2310 01:51:35,880 --> 01:51:38,040 that. I know Nick fans are desperate. 2311 01:51:38,200 --> 01:51:41,840 Beningo saw 69 and 73. I would love to know what he 2312 01:51:41,840 --> 01:51:44,360 thought about like what, what his opinion on this would be. 2313 01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:46,320 I don't know. I'm not that I really care in 2314 01:51:46,320 --> 01:51:49,640 terms of changing my opinion, but I am curious how the Nick 2315 01:51:49,640 --> 01:51:52,280 fans, and I don't mean the front runners or you know, the guy, 2316 01:51:52,280 --> 01:51:54,600 just get parachuted. I mean, those of us who were in 2317 01:51:54,600 --> 01:51:58,080 the trenches with the Nicks, even when they're shit like I've 2318 01:51:58,080 --> 01:52:01,600 been OK, that's what I want. That's what I feel. 2319 01:52:01,760 --> 01:52:06,120 So number one, will he play? I'm leaning no. 2320 01:52:06,120 --> 01:52:09,400 I'm going to say give you a little percentage here, J Rod, 2321 01:52:09,760 --> 01:52:13,880 I'm going to say right now I would say 6535% no. 2322 01:52:14,200 --> 01:52:16,240 Can he play 100%? No doubt. 2323 01:52:16,240 --> 01:52:17,240 Respect there. Of course. 2324 01:52:17,480 --> 01:52:20,280 Where should he play? Go back to the Cavs. 2325 01:52:20,520 --> 01:52:24,160 Second best situation, Golden State. 2326 01:52:25,480 --> 01:52:28,480 You know, I'll tell you like I can. 2327 01:52:29,040 --> 01:52:30,480 I can throw other teams on the board too. 2328 01:52:30,480 --> 01:52:32,800 Like, not that I really want this because, well. 2329 01:52:32,800 --> 01:52:35,160 I don't. Golden State would be horrific. 2330 01:52:35,280 --> 01:52:36,680 Well, think about this, think about this. 2331 01:52:36,680 --> 01:52:38,200 We were talking about this yesterday. 2332 01:52:38,200 --> 01:52:40,040 Like, you know, what do the Sixers do? 2333 01:52:40,080 --> 01:52:43,720 And beat is on the books for big money next year, the year after 2334 01:52:43,720 --> 01:52:46,600 and the year after that for $64.5 million. 2335 01:52:46,800 --> 01:52:48,200 So there's only and you got Maxi. 2336 01:52:48,200 --> 01:52:49,560 Obviously, you know, he's very you got edge. 2337 01:52:49,560 --> 01:52:52,040 Comb was a young buck, love him. George is getting old. 2338 01:52:52,040 --> 01:52:53,400 We know their team right? No bench. 2339 01:52:53,720 --> 01:52:56,080 I mean, imagine if Lebron's like, I'll go there for the 2340 01:52:56,080 --> 01:52:58,560 middle level exception. Now that would be a problem like 2341 01:52:58,560 --> 01:53:01,520 that would be, but I'd rather deal with that problem than have 2342 01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:05,400 him swoop in and win and forever have to bow down and kiss the 2343 01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:06,360 night. Yeah, big time. 2344 01:53:06,400 --> 01:53:08,480 James Wears not interested in doing that. 2345 01:53:08,640 --> 01:53:11,520 And even if you went to the Golden State Warriors, I, I 2346 01:53:11,520 --> 01:53:14,040 don't foresee anything. I think that franchise is 2347 01:53:14,040 --> 01:53:16,680 cooked. I, I, you know, I even, I guess 2348 01:53:16,680 --> 01:53:19,080 I understand why you bring Steve Kerr back. 2349 01:53:19,080 --> 01:53:23,560 And I think that two year contract extension really 2350 01:53:23,560 --> 01:53:27,080 signifies a lot for that franchise because it shows Steph 2351 01:53:27,080 --> 01:53:28,960 Kerr, he's likely got two years left. 2352 01:53:29,160 --> 01:53:31,480 Draymond Green's likely got two years left. 2353 01:53:31,680 --> 01:53:34,120 Obviously Steve Kerr's got two years left. 2354 01:53:34,240 --> 01:53:36,560 And then it's likely raps. Oh yeah, for sure. 2355 01:53:36,560 --> 01:53:37,880 Draymond's just about on the way out. 2356 01:53:38,200 --> 01:53:40,720 Did you see? Draymond at the interesting one, 2357 01:53:40,720 --> 01:53:42,600 but the team's just not good enough. 2358 01:53:42,720 --> 01:53:43,960 Dallas. Nah. 2359 01:53:44,560 --> 01:53:49,320 City wise, it would maybe work out, but great city, yeah, team 2360 01:53:49,320 --> 01:53:52,080 wise, I mean, LeBron and Cooper flag, that's not getting you 2361 01:53:52,080 --> 01:53:53,720 anything. No, no, no, you. 2362 01:53:55,040 --> 01:54:00,000 Know the did you see the mention Draymond, you see Draymond and 2363 01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:01,480 and the Rose to Kevin Hart the other day. 2364 01:54:01,680 --> 01:54:03,520 Yeah, that was. Did you watch the whole thing? 2365 01:54:03,800 --> 01:54:07,080 I didn't watch the whole thing. I've seen bits and pieces, man. 2366 01:54:07,080 --> 01:54:09,320 They go, they go hard at those things. 2367 01:54:09,400 --> 01:54:12,400 I mean, obviously I watch it, but like some of the jokes, I 2368 01:54:12,400 --> 01:54:14,920 mean, I've, I've, I've, you know, the crazier you get, the 2369 01:54:14,920 --> 01:54:18,720 funnier I think it is. But some of it is actually like, 2370 01:54:19,000 --> 01:54:21,600 whoa, like you could joke about that and people are alright with 2371 01:54:21,600 --> 01:54:24,160 it. Yeah, no, I I, I don't know. 2372 01:54:24,680 --> 01:54:26,080 I mean, I've got thick skin, Really. 2373 01:54:26,080 --> 01:54:27,840 At the end of the day, I really just don't give a shit what 2374 01:54:27,840 --> 01:54:30,120 people say about me. I think I did at one point. 2375 01:54:30,120 --> 01:54:31,960 I've said that before. I haven't for a long time. 2376 01:54:32,120 --> 01:54:35,080 Except the people that I really care about and people who really 2377 01:54:35,080 --> 01:54:36,000 know my character. Right. 2378 01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:38,440 Everybody else from a dime a dozen, Your opinion, whatever. 2379 01:54:38,800 --> 01:54:42,800 But to me, I don't know if I would be able to sit there and 2380 01:54:42,800 --> 01:54:44,680 be the subject of a roast. I I don't I. 2381 01:54:45,320 --> 01:54:47,080 Don't know if I can do that easy. 2382 01:54:48,200 --> 01:54:51,200 Oh man, I don't know, I think. I'd be a good roaster. 2383 01:54:51,200 --> 01:54:52,960 Oh man, I think I'd be able to roast. 2384 01:54:52,960 --> 01:54:53,960 People couldn't take it. That's. 2385 01:54:54,120 --> 01:54:57,400 What the kids say they go roasted, whatever like that. 2386 01:54:57,400 --> 01:54:58,480 That's what the young kids say now. 2387 01:54:58,480 --> 01:55:00,160 And they do this with their hand roasted. 2388 01:55:00,600 --> 01:55:02,880 No, I mean, I'm just staying there for two hours and get shit 2389 01:55:02,880 --> 01:55:07,000 on. I don't know if I'm sure if I'm 2390 01:55:07,160 --> 01:55:08,280 not. I would love it. 2391 01:55:08,280 --> 01:55:09,920 I would love it. If I do. 2392 01:55:10,880 --> 01:55:13,800 I would love it if I knew people were going to go that hard. 2393 01:55:13,960 --> 01:55:16,720 Don't give me some whack jab weak jabs like that. 2394 01:55:16,920 --> 01:55:18,520 No, I would rather I want the weak. 2395 01:55:18,640 --> 01:55:21,400 Jabs. No, I want to be eviscerated. 2396 01:55:21,400 --> 01:55:25,320 Like when I get roasted. Tear me, tear me to bits bro. 2397 01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:27,480 Really. Maybe that's a little sadistic 2398 01:55:27,480 --> 01:55:29,440 of a thing, but like. I respect. 2399 01:55:29,440 --> 01:55:32,440 It I always, I, I guess that and that's kind of maybe part of the 2400 01:55:32,440 --> 01:55:36,320 humor of our generation, but I feel like I always like like 2401 01:55:36,920 --> 01:55:39,800 maybe this is bad, but like at camp when I was a kid, like I 2402 01:55:39,800 --> 01:55:42,440 always like the visceral creating someone and then having 2403 01:55:42,440 --> 01:55:46,240 them, you know, come back at. You as really, really big time. 2404 01:55:46,440 --> 01:55:48,040 Nah, man. I mean, back then it was the 2405 01:55:48,040 --> 01:55:50,840 Mama jokes and we had a million mother jokes in our back pocket. 2406 01:55:51,360 --> 01:55:53,640 Also led to a lot of fights. Oh my God, no. 2407 01:55:53,640 --> 01:55:55,440 I don't think I could sit there. I don't know if I've got thick 2408 01:55:55,440 --> 01:55:56,320 skin. I don't know if I've got 2409 01:55:56,320 --> 01:56:00,840 thinking up to get eviscerated. No, man, you know, and listen, 2410 01:56:00,840 --> 01:56:02,760 these rose like I watched the Brady rose. 2411 01:56:02,760 --> 01:56:04,520 I've seen clips of the heart rose I've got to watch. 2412 01:56:04,800 --> 01:56:06,800 And Draymond's line about Chelsea Handler was good. 2413 01:56:07,480 --> 01:56:08,800 She was laughing. There was a good one. 2414 01:56:09,120 --> 01:56:11,920 I've got to I do want to watch the whole thing, but I got to 2415 01:56:11,920 --> 01:56:13,400 make sure the kids asleep and it's filthy. 2416 01:56:13,400 --> 01:56:14,600 I got to put it on at the right time. 2417 01:56:14,840 --> 01:56:17,400 I got to find the time. But like some of the stuff like 2418 01:56:17,400 --> 01:56:20,040 when you get into this is just where I get really 2419 01:56:20,040 --> 01:56:23,040 uncomfortable. I don't find any humor in like 2420 01:56:23,040 --> 01:56:27,920 anything that is Epstein laden. I just I can't I can't hear it. 2421 01:56:27,960 --> 01:56:29,800 I, you know, and I could never deliver anything like that. 2422 01:56:29,800 --> 01:56:32,000 Anything like Charlie Kirk. There was something that was 2423 01:56:32,000 --> 01:56:35,400 just reprehensible, man. It just whether or not you agree 2424 01:56:35,400 --> 01:56:37,920 with this politics or not, or what he would say. 2425 01:56:37,920 --> 01:56:42,320 I just, I can't like when human life is is demeaned to the 2426 01:56:42,320 --> 01:56:44,480 degree sometimes these roasts go. 2427 01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:48,120 It's it's not a roast, it's just it's uncomfortable and I'm not 2428 01:56:48,120 --> 01:56:50,560 even trying to get married, but I've got my I love a good roast 2429 01:56:50,560 --> 01:56:52,320 man. Like if you've been married five 2430 01:56:52,320 --> 01:56:55,040 times, you want to fuck around and talk about it like that or, 2431 01:56:55,320 --> 01:57:00,200 you know, you got whatever. But like, I don't know. 2432 01:57:01,560 --> 01:57:03,040 I mean, you and I definitely differ here. 2433 01:57:03,040 --> 01:57:07,480 The one, the joke line that I thought was maybe too crazy. 2434 01:57:07,480 --> 01:57:09,920 I mean, we don't even have the like, did you hear the jokes 2435 01:57:09,920 --> 01:57:15,400 about the comedian's husband? Who tragically passed away 2436 01:57:15,400 --> 01:57:17,160 quote. On quote. 2437 01:57:17,280 --> 01:57:19,400 They were like roasting a comedian's husband. 2438 01:57:19,400 --> 01:57:21,120 Who? A female comedian a. 2439 01:57:21,160 --> 01:57:25,360 Female comedian whose husband took his own life like 3 years 2440 01:57:25,360 --> 01:57:30,600 prior and they were going at her and I was like this is a wild it 2441 01:57:30,680 --> 01:57:33,760 was and she was. I mean granted she was cracking 2442 01:57:33,760 --> 01:57:37,800 up, she was rolling, but it was just insane dude. 2443 01:57:37,800 --> 01:57:39,600 No, that's not. That's definitely not for me. 2444 01:57:39,600 --> 01:57:41,400 That's that's humor. And then? 2445 01:57:41,400 --> 01:57:44,880 That was the thing that for me, I was like, that's, that's like 2446 01:57:44,880 --> 01:57:47,400 a little too far 'cause it's like the lady's there. 2447 01:57:47,480 --> 01:57:50,200 I mean, I was like, like, to me, I was like, the lady's literally 2448 01:57:50,280 --> 01:57:52,960 right there like this is. Like, I mean, here, listen, 2449 01:57:53,000 --> 01:57:56,760 we're also not comedians. Yeah, and, and, and I think the 2450 01:57:56,760 --> 01:57:59,440 Hollywood aspect of it changes everything. 2451 01:57:59,440 --> 01:58:02,960 I think the fact that it's on camera changes your reactions 2452 01:58:02,960 --> 01:58:05,840 and the perception to everything where it's like, oh, this is the 2453 01:58:05,840 --> 01:58:08,520 big blow out. It's not like I'm going to take 2454 01:58:08,520 --> 01:58:09,480 deep offense. You know what? 2455 01:58:09,480 --> 01:58:10,200 I know. Yeah. 2456 01:58:10,200 --> 01:58:12,000 No, that's true. You're going in with a different 2457 01:58:12,000 --> 01:58:14,000 mindset. I just I don't think I think I'm 2458 01:58:14,000 --> 01:58:16,560 I'm not built for that that level of of degrading. 2459 01:58:16,560 --> 01:58:19,760 I I think I go, man. Now that's I don't want any part 2460 01:58:19,760 --> 01:58:22,360 of that Jay. I don't so roasted. 2461 01:58:22,400 --> 01:58:24,960 All right, man, let me get let me get bouncing out of here so 2462 01:58:25,240 --> 01:58:27,920 real quick. Aaron Boone, let's pop that up. 2463 01:58:27,920 --> 01:58:30,520 If you can't get that up once more there J Rod for tomorrow, 2464 01:58:30,760 --> 01:58:31,920 Yankees skip. Come on, Boone. 2465 01:58:31,920 --> 01:58:33,800 You get a win tonight, buddy. I don't want to have to talk to 2466 01:58:33,800 --> 01:58:35,240 you when you lose 5 or 6 in a row. 2467 01:58:35,240 --> 01:58:38,120 Let's go. Hopefully the Yankees win today. 2468 01:58:38,160 --> 01:58:42,880 Either way, Boone and the early state of the Yankees tomorrow on 2469 01:58:42,880 --> 01:58:44,600 the show. It's going to be great at 10:30 2470 01:58:44,880 --> 01:58:47,240 and then give you guys a little heads up the day after that. 2471 01:58:47,240 --> 01:58:50,400 The Jets collective as the NFL schedules will drop. 2472 01:58:50,400 --> 01:58:52,040 That'll be right around eight O 5. 2473 01:58:52,040 --> 01:58:55,920 I know, I know we'll have the schedules by 8, but Rich has to 2474 01:58:56,920 --> 01:58:58,960 file something for ESPN. He's got to finish writing 2475 01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:01,400 something. So maybe Jake and I will start 2476 01:59:01,400 --> 01:59:03,320 early and then Rich will come in and then we'll go through all 2477 01:59:03,320 --> 01:59:06,000 the games and you know, the prime time games and what we 2478 01:59:06,000 --> 01:59:07,920 expected. I was reading something 2479 01:59:07,920 --> 01:59:09,440 yesterday. The Jets are expected to have 2480 01:59:09,440 --> 01:59:12,800 the 5th easiest schedule just based on strength of schedule. 2481 01:59:12,800 --> 01:59:14,760 So I mean, hey, that, that helps. 2482 01:59:14,760 --> 01:59:17,560 So at least on paper, we're getting an easy schedule. 2483 01:59:18,200 --> 01:59:20,880 But you know, when, when you're 5 miles behind the Pats and the 2484 01:59:20,880 --> 01:59:23,720 Bills in your own division, it's it's really not easy. 2485 01:59:23,760 --> 01:59:25,680 No matter who you play. You can only play the Cardinals 2486 01:59:25,680 --> 01:59:27,640 and the Browns and the Raiders so many times. 2487 01:59:27,880 --> 01:59:29,640 I mean, eventually you're going to have to get better and I 2488 01:59:29,640 --> 01:59:32,280 think The Jets will be better this year, which is part of the 2489 01:59:32,280 --> 01:59:35,840 reason why I am actually excited about the schedule drop. 2490 01:59:35,840 --> 01:59:38,240 So that's coming up on Thursday. All right, Jay, have an 2491 01:59:38,240 --> 01:59:41,720 absolutely outstanding rest of your Tuesday. 2492 01:59:42,040 --> 01:59:44,880 I want everybody to check out the rest of the channel, by the 2493 01:59:44,880 --> 01:59:48,120 way, like it, subscribe it. We've got a lot of stuff up 2494 01:59:48,120 --> 01:59:50,360 there, whether it's old interviews, if you're new to the 2495 01:59:50,360 --> 01:59:52,000 show. Appreciate you guys hopping in 2496 01:59:52,360 --> 01:59:56,360 and we'll get the 25,000 Subs within certainly by the end of 2497 01:59:56,360 --> 01:59:57,760 the month. So we continue to grow. 2498 01:59:58,360 --> 02:00:01,440 I've got a conference call today about some potential new 2499 02:00:01,440 --> 02:00:04,840 business endeavors for the show. We didn't take any calls today, 2500 02:00:04,840 --> 02:00:06,400 but we do. So that's just something. 2501 02:00:06,400 --> 02:00:09,240 I just had a lot of things I had to get to and I didn't. 2502 02:00:09,760 --> 02:00:12,400 And I love the calls. I've always said that to me that 2503 02:00:12,400 --> 02:00:16,120 the show wasn't complete until I was able to interact with you 2504 02:00:16,120 --> 02:00:18,440 guys and you've been great on the phones. 2505 02:00:18,440 --> 02:00:20,160 It was just a day. I had a lot of things out of 2506 02:00:20,160 --> 02:00:22,120 roll through. So we'll get back to the calls 2507 02:00:22,120 --> 02:00:25,440 tomorrow, although it'll be. That'll be a little condensed as 2508 02:00:25,440 --> 02:00:27,520 well because we'll have Boone. So what we'll do is I'll start 2509 02:00:27,520 --> 02:00:31,800 the show, go from 10:00 to 10:30 and then probably react to the 2510 02:00:31,800 --> 02:00:33,600 Yankees, react to the Mets a little bit there. 2511 02:00:33,880 --> 02:00:36,960 And then I'll have Boonie on hopefully, hopefully for a good, 2512 02:00:36,960 --> 02:00:38,840 you know, 45 minutes, maybe a little bit more. 2513 02:00:38,840 --> 02:00:41,640 I've got to see a schedule. And then after that, we can 2514 02:00:41,640 --> 02:00:44,120 obviously react to the calls and some of the stuff that he said. 2515 02:00:44,120 --> 02:00:48,000 So that's coming up tomorrow. Check it out, Instagram, Twitter 2516 02:00:48,000 --> 02:00:51,160 and all that stuff. 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