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Good morning, everybody. So we've got a Little Mix, we've
got a little hot stove today. And I do want to get back to the
Giants out of the chute here. So man, this is absolutely
amazing. What's what, what what could
happen for the Giants? See, what I find really
interesting is the like the way we talk about the Giants all
these years because they forced us to talk about them this way
because they've been a train wreck.
They basically morphed into the New York Jets.
And what we're going to find out is how other people perceive the
Giants organization, which to me is really all that matters.
I mean, you, you look, and I know that we've lived this.
But when you actually listen to this, right?
And and this is stuff that as Giant fans, you've gone through
and we've gone through. But when you actually just start
to look at what they've actually done with two playoff
appearances and in 14 years, you had the one wild card win it.
And then even going back to the litany of coaches, Coughlin,
McAdoo, Shermer, Judge Gable, obviously Spags and Kafka as
interims. You've had multiple general
managers, you've had some ugly trades and maybe some PR
situations which were a bit, you know, less than optimal, if you
will. And it's it's really bit like
the perception of the Giants has just dropped to, I don't want to
say an all time low because, you know, we all know historically
the 70s were really unkind to the Giants.
But like, it was such a different world.
Yeah, you got to get beat up in the papers and get buried in the
newspapers. But, you know, you can kind of,
I don't know if the right word is Hyde here, but you can kind
of get away with, you know, some, some rough lean years and
and still be and still blend in, you know, if you're a
dysfunctional franchise, as the Giants have been for a while.
So and not only dysfunctional, like it's one thing to be a bad
franchise and simply not win, but there's not there's not a
lot of noise, there's just a lot of losses.
And then there's a lot of coaches and then there's a lot
of GMs. And then obviously when you're bad for a long time,
you're getting top picks. And if you remain bad for a long
time, those top picks obviously aren't aren't coming to
fruition. Like that's one aspect of it.
And there's a lot of teams in sports that that have to deal
with that. But like the giant situations
been coupled and made messier by the fact that I think that
they've complicated their own world.
So they, they've got a lifeline here.
Some they are, they are getting thrown a bone where like the,
the timing couldn't be more serendipitous.
They, they made the decision and rightfully so, to move on from
Dabel and they had to do that and they did.
And then they made the decision to for some reason none of us
really understand this. We don't know why they're doing
this, but to keep Joe Shane in the building.
Now I, I do think that you can work around that.
Like if, and, and again, I'm obviously talking about horrible
and to a lesser extent Stefanski and then, you know, McCarthy
and, and like if Tomlin shakes free.
But the perception of the Giants right now is horrendous.
So when you have that perception, you're going to have
to overpay to convince somebody to come and save you.
And that's the contract. And the Giants have the money.
Their most recent valuation is through the roof.
They sell what they sold, what 10% of the team, which equates
to a a ton of, you know, disposable cash here.
So the Giants really, they've got the financial means.
I think every NFL team really, if you think away the if you
think away, if you think the way about the way the NFL is run
versus baseball. Like if there's, I don't care if
you're in a small market like Jacksonville, wherever you are,
if you want to be bold and you want to do something and, and
hire, you know, just like when they lured Urban Meyer away from
college and give him a lot of money, you could do that.
Whereas like, you know, the Twins or the Pirates or the Rays
or some teams like that, the A's before they get really, you
know, profitable out there in Las Vegas, there are just
financial limitations that you that you just have to work
around where that's not the case in the NFL.
So the Giants have a license to spend.
The Giants have the means to spend.
The problem won't be the money. Like, there's no doubt what
whatever it is, 13 a year, I don't know, 14 a year, maybe 15,
whatever somebody like John Horbaugh is going to command,
the Giants will very freely and willingly write that check and
they've got the resources to do it.
The issue is if the Giants that this is the one thing that
cannot happen. I understand you get to talk to
everybody. Do you due diligence, talk to
the assistants, talk to the, you know, you just had dinner with
Stefanski. Do all these things that you're
doing, which is smart, all right, You know, flip over every
rock, go through every single every possible combination of of
and and and and just ride the process out which which they're
doing. But there's going to come a
point and this is what should worry the giant fans.
It's going to come a point where Harbaugh at some point is going
to say, all right, I believe in dart.
Hey, you know what? I, I Revere the Giants.
I, I've always Revere the franchise.
I want to be the guy to get him back on solid footing, elevate
the brand, restore, not even elevate, really restore the
brand, because with the Giants, there's got to be a restoration.
And that that's, that's really what it comes down to.
And that is a a big, big job made easier by the fact that
you've got the presence of a quarterback that I think we all
like and most of us really, really believe in in terms of
top, top level upside here. But I am still worried about the
giants like getting in their own way here.
If and when horrible or lesser extent the other guy say, hey,
listen, I want to come contracts done.
We're good on the money. We're we're we're in line with
the parameters. I can't work with Joe Shane like
I I have no interest in doing that.
I don't know him. I've got no connection to him.
I want to bring in my guy. And it's like if the Giants, I
don't think that they'll do this, but we've got at least
flushed through the possibility if the Giants allow that to
happen and there's a moment of inflection where Horrible or one
of the top candidates doesn't feel as if the Giants are on the
same page with him in terms of what he's demanding.
Well, now the giants have a massive issue because as we
talked about yesterday, hey, we can run through it and I'm not
going to do it again because I've already done it twice, but
we can run through we have and, and it's on other podcasts if
you guys want to check it out, previous shows on YouTube, It's
all up there, the content BT unleashed.
But we we've gone through, you know, what's available, what
teams have salary cap, what teams have desirable situations
in terms of ownership and ones you want to you want to run away
from. Everybody knows that.
Like that's already been established, everything he's
been laid out in that regard. We know who they're looking at,
we know who they like, we know who's available.
Right? Although the extra layer of
complication because there's six openings right now.
I'm not counting the Ravens for Harbaugh.
And there are three situations where there's really 7, but 3-3
that are, I think, centrally paramount to what how how
Harbaugh is going to really view the Giants here.
If the Bills lose to Jacksonville, if Philly doesn't
play well against San Francisco. And if somehow you know, the
Steelers, I shouldn't even say somehow I think the Texans going
to win that game. But if optically it looks off
and it looks sloppy and it's just like, OK, like the Ravens
made the determination with Harbaugh, the Steelers, who are
more patient historically in terms of letting people go.
Then if they are forced into a situation where they've got them
like they feel they've got to move on from Tomlin, you've got
three very appealing situations. Who wouldn't want to coach Josh
Hamlin? Who wouldn't want to go to
Philly with Howie Roseman, especially somebody like
Horbaugh who was there and who wouldn't want to be a part of
the Steelers fabric? Who wouldn't want to be a part
of of that brand? So there is no way, no, under no
circumstance can the Giants remain beholden to Joe Shane.
And, and I don't even mean to the extent where there's a
marginalization that's very clearly communicated to John
Horbaugh where it's like, hey, listen, we got it.
You know, we're going to bring him back, but it's your show.
And we're going to even work that in the contract and, and do
that. What, however they'll do that,
the agents will do that. If John Horbaugh doesn't want
Joe Shane around, then the Giants absolutely have to tell
Joe Shane, I'm sorry, you're out.
That's it. And I, that is the one thing
that I am, I don't know if I'd use the word worry, but that's
the one thing that I'm very aware of.
And I think it's the one possible real impediment that
might get in the way of hiring somebody like John Horrible, who
as I've chronicled is, is tremendous.
I do think he is. I think he's slightly overrated.
I think there's an elevation. Maybe it's the horrible name.
Maybe it's the stability of the Ravens.
Maybe it's the fact that he's been in one place for 18 years.
Maybe it's the fact that he does have the one Lombardi trophy.
Maybe it's the fact that he's worked well up until recently
with a young quarterback, two time MVPII.
You know, I don't know. To me, the other side of the
coin is there's also a little not not enough hesitation not to
hire him. I mean, I love horrible and but
but I do think that when you you juxtapose what he's done and you
line it up as I have already, yes, on yesterday's show with
Mike McCarthy, I don't think it's as much of A layup as many
of you do now. That's just an opinion thing.
What's not an opinion is that they're basically the same age.
Harbaugh 63, Mike is 62. They both they both coach
literally 18 years in the NFL. They both have a 61 win percent
rate in the regular season. They both got a Super Bowl.
And Oh yeah, by the way, and this seems to be omitted a
little bit, and this is just a football thing independent of
the the Shane Giants connection. Just for a moment.
I actually think with both men, to be fair, because I don't
think that McCarthy's better than horrible.
I just think he's, for whatever reason, not perceived to be on
the same level as horribaugh, which to me is just factually
untrue based on what I just told you.
Now you want to tell me you think horribaugh projects as
more of a leader of men? All right, we could have that
conversation. I don't really know how you
quantify that. I don't know how you
substantiate that with any sort of fact because you know, the
the things that I think you can look at Mike McCarthy with and
say, well, you know, he had Aaron Rodgers, who was amazing,
a top quarterback of all time. And while Lamar Jackson clearly
is not Aaron Rodgers in the pantheon of of NFL quarterbacks,
historically, I mean, he's in his 20s, late 20s, but he's in
his prime and he's got multiple MVPS.
And too many times we saw the Ravens walk off the field on the
wrong side of the scoreboard in a big game, a game that maybe a
a slightly better coach than Horrible would have punched
through. I think Coughlin finds a way to
win there. I think that certainly guys like
Belichick and Parcells and you know, the best of the best, I
think they find a way to get to a Super Bowl, Lamar.
So those are things that, that I look at and, and I do in the
full honest, you know, A-Z as transparent as you could
possibly have evaluation of potential Giant coaches.
I, I think it's a great option. And again, I'll use the word
that I used before. I think it's serendipitous where
like the Giants, they finally have a quarterback that's
appealing, which makes their job incredibly appealing.
But I am still very surprised even after yesterday's show and
some of the reactions that a lot of you had, you know, cuz I've
been posted it on Instagram and obviously it's on YouTube and
all the comments and some of you agree with me and I don't need
you to agree with me. That's fine.
I'm just telling you what I see and what I feel, what I don't
get. And it's frustrating because at
some point, guys, at some point you've got to deal in a, in with
a, with a factual basis. And when I ask you, it's a very
direct question, you know, what separates for you.
Like why is John Horbaugh thought to be the savior for the
Giants? And I'm not saying he can't be,
but he's positioned as as that guy right now.
And Mike McCarthy his positions got him while Mike McCarthy
Adams not feeling Mike McCarthy. And again, I don't know why I'd
love to have the answer. Haven't gotten one intelligent
answer based, you know, backed up by fact.
I've got a lot of opinions. He looks more like a coach, you
know, he he doesn't run a Country Club.
Well, you know, OK, maybe there's something to be said and
and maybe that could be backed up by some people around the
NFL. But I believe that when you it's
appealing to me when you work at multiple stops and you have
multiple levels of success, OK, Meaning you won in Green Bay
with and you should have won another one with Rodgers.
I'm not here to dispute that you got when you have Aaron Rodgers
and you know you are regularly the one seed or the two seed
with with 1213 wins as he even more than he like he had in
Green Bay 1 is not good enough. Now for The Jets, we'll take
one. For the Giants, where it's been
a minute, we'll take one. But when you're rolling out
Rodgers for more than a decade in his absolute prime, I got no
problem saying there's an element of underachievement with
McCarthy. But I also say the same thing
with John Horbaugh and I also and myself.
Now some of you don't do this and that's fine.
I play value in being able to do your thing in more than one
spot. So he's with Green Bay, wins a
ton of games, wins the Super Bowl, then he goes to Dallas.
All right now Dallas is a Dallas is like the Yankees.
It's a totally different monster.
I don't care if you win 12 games.
I don't care if you elevate your quarterback to, you know, top
two, top three in the MVP, which he did for Dak Prescott, by the
way. Don't forget about that.
I don't care that like that level of success means nothing
to the fans and really to the national media because Dallas is
always a main story. And as I said yesterday, much
like the Yankees, Yankees could win 94 games, you know, tie with
Toronto or previous years, win 100 games or 99 with Boone and
not get to or win the World Series.
And, and it's less than and it's positioned differently than
other teams who get to that level.
And that's part of the game. I understand.
Like that standard was set by the Yankees.
That standard was set by the Dallas Cowboys based on years.
Now, the Yankees standard is a lot higher than the Dallas
standard, but in terms of the historical context, they're on
the same plane. You know, their brands are are
platinum. And it doesn't matter if you win
11 or 12 or 13 games, if you don't get to the Super Bowl, you
fail. But I do place value.
I always have and I always will because it shows it a a
transferable skill set. And those are two very
different. Not that I don't think that John
would go to the Giants and transfer what he does well to
them. I absolutely believe that he
would. But there's evidence that
McCarthy's already done that in two spots.
And this is not to get on the Mike McCarthy soapbox with the
pulpit and shove Mike McCarthy down your throat.
I just remain confused based on the interactions that we've had
on the on the show, on social media, there just seems to be a
completely different energy for a guy who literally has done the
same thing as the guy that many of you are denigrating.
I don't know why. Like think of let's let's go to
Pat Riley for a SEC right. I've used the word and neither
one of these gentlemen is Pat Riley.
We'll do a little Nixon in a little bit.
Good job by the Knicks needed to see that Knicks You know, good
job last night looked like a a little bit of a a pride check
for the New York Knicks, which I'll hit in a bit.
But Pat Riley to think about the way Pat Riley won and and I I
think this is a great way to look it up.
Baseball's a little different because the manager has less
influence, right, because it's not necessarily a style in
baseball. You know, in the NBA you could
Jack up 40 threes, you could slow the pace, you can have a
deep end, you can run out seven or eight guys a night like Tom
Thibodeau did. There's many different ways to
attack an NBA game, much like there's many different ways to
attack an NFL game or your run heavy or your pass heavy.
Do you have more of a balance? Do you, you know, hire ADC who's
blitzing all day? Do you laid back?
Are you opportunistic with the blitz?
So that's basic stuff. But but back to Riley for a
minute. Pat Riley to me is the greatest.
More so than Phil Jackson, more so than any Brett Holtzman. 2
championships with the Knicks in 69 and 73.
More so than Casey Jones who won a couple of the Birds crew in
the South with the Celtics in the 80s.
You can't find an NBA coach, even Kerr with all those
championships. Popovich one spot.
The thing to me that always separates Pat Riley, and by
extension always separates from me.
Bill Parcells. More than Belichick, more than
Lombardi, more than Landry, more than Chuck Knoll is the ability
to win not only in different places, but stylistically have
something completely different from your previous spot and
think Now, many of you didn't really see Pat Riley coaching.
And I was fairly young myself, but I was obviously all in the
NBA even then. So I'm watching it.
I don't know that I was processing it this way, but Pat
Riley won with the Lakers with, you know, a prototype as a point
guard 69 magic run of the show up and down the court worthy
Byron Scott fast break trying to run you out of the gym.
But they also had the half court option tight game late.
All right, let's get it to the big boy down low.
Let's get that sky hook. Go get his big fella lead his
Kareem. So that was one way that he won.
And then when he came to the Knicks, they were, it was such a
rebranding, like it was really that you you couldn't have a
more different approach. It was a complete antithesis
because the Lakers who tried to score 130 and the Knicks with
Riley and Ewing and Mason Oak and all our guys, he would try
to and did win more times than not, 90 to 868781, no high
scoring game. Hubert Davis had a couple of
threes, 9489 like so he did that and it was a totally different
style and it was seamless for him.
It was an immediate transition and immediately immediate
recognition. Here's what I'm inheriting,
here's how we're playing and here's how we're winning.
There was no conversations. There was no deviations.
Now, the Knicks didn't win the championship they should have.
Ewing, we love them. Got out played by Lajuan, no
crime. One of the best players of all
time. I think Lajuan's 9 or 10 or 11
in the NBAI think he's that good.
I think he's the most underrated player in the history of the
NBA. But Riley did what he did there.
And then when he went to Miami, he showed further adaptability,
anyone kind of little bit of a hybrid, even though those early
Heat teams, you know, going back to Hardaway.
And so Vashawn Leonard was one of their shooters, Morley, they
very, very much were a mirror image of, of, of how the Knicks
tried to play. That's why those games were so.
I mean, they were rock fights, they were street fights because
everybody knew what the other guy was doing.
They were all locked in defensively.
Neither team had a ton of great shooters as pre, pre modern NBA.
So there was really one template that both teams are subscribing
to. So you got a lot of low scoring
and a lot of knock down street fights, right, which was great.
You know, it wasn't appealing to everybody.
But again, the point is it showed the adaptability of Pat
Riley. Now that leads me back to
McCarthy. McCarthy, I'm not saying that he
won differently in Dallas, even though he didn't win the
championship, but he won 12 games three times in a row for a
franchise that was scuffling, that was all over the map, up,
down, up, down, Jerry's presence, the fans expectations,
the national media presence, right?
And he won a lot of games. And to me, I, I just think that
there's additional value, like there's, there's additional
bonus points. I know that that sounds crazy,
but there's bonus points when you win in one spot and then you
pack up shop, take your, you know, whatever your mantra is in
your, your MO, you go to a new spot that's totally different.
Like the glitz of Dallas and, and the blue collar, you know,
bitter cold, scrappy mentality of Green Bay.
Anything but fancy, right? And he won.
Now, I'm not saying I, if John Harbaugh is the coach of the
Giants, I fully expect the Giants to get up and running.
Let's say he's coaching them next year.
Giants will win 9 games because the Giants probably should have
won 7-8 games this year. You know, you should have closed
out the Bears game, maybe even with, if Dart was playing early,
could have beat the Commanders early on.
Not to mention Denver, all the other collapses that we
chronicled chapter and verse that I'm not going to get back
into now. So he will win and he will win
right away. But I just, I look at John
Horbaugh and like he's not an A+ candidate.
And and that's fine. Now he's an A+ of this crop.
But I'm, I'm, I'm still worried that the giants are going to
show as they can and they haven't even talked to him yet
as they communicate with him and they meet with him and they get
in the weeds on what he wants to do and what they're willing to
let him do all that stuff. I just fear that there's going
to be a reluctance on their part to let him do whatever he wants
to do. And I go back to Joe Shane.
I really do. I go back to Joe Shane.
You know, The funny thing too is like with Joe, it, it seems like
a bit of a contradiction, but it's not right.
So the coach's job is to win and that's why that first year with
the Giants won nine games and beat the Vikings in the wild
card to me And and, and Sam and I talked about this and we were
in agreement on this. That was more Dabel because
Brian Dabel, you know, the, the, the ability to influence the
roster when you first become the GM is almost impossible.
I mean, you inherit the quarterback, you inherit the old
line, which was which was not good that year.
You, you inherit Saquon. All right, So maybe moves within
the margins pick up this guy off the wave or whatever, but your
fingerprints are not really fully yet on the roster.
So to me that was a direct correlation.
Dabel coaching up Jones. You know, very few turnovers
protect the ball had Daniel Jones run Giants wanted it was a
fun year. Now as you get deeper into the
Dabel Shane regime, well, now the influence becomes more and
more and more and more for the GM and you hope that the
coaching influence not only remains the same, but based on
an increase of talent and now a greater familiarity of the
roster that even that would get better.
All right, so I, I want to be fair to Joe in this regard, even
though I don't fully buy it. We're all saying Joe should be
gone. And I stand by that.
I've said that for a year. I wouldn't have brought back
Dabel or Shane going into this year.
I've said that, right? But now, like now it's it to me,
it's it's it's borderline untenable.
Like there's no reason that he should still be the general
manager of the Giants. But if we say, and it's true
because we lived it, that the Giants should have won at least
three or four, maybe one more game than that, Well, if we're
saying that that and it's largely true, shouldn't that be
more of a positive reflection on Joe Shane?
Because really what you're saying is you lost by
circumstances, not because you didn't have the horses to
compete to be in games, to build leads before you flush them away
in the fourth quarter like they routinely did.
And I, and I think that that's kind of gotten away as we
diagnose the Joe Shane era. Now on more of the micro level,
it's Joe Shane's fault. The kicker was always a mess.
Like that's him. You're the general manager
figured out you didn't too often.
You went to a game where, you know, with my groin, my knee,
can I kick? Can I not?
Do you have a second kicker? Like those are the clerical
things that Joe Shane bombed on, right?
He also Neil, who is just 0 Thibodeau, who is OK.
I would trade him. I, I would not invest big money
in him moving forward. You guys know that, you know, he
popped a little bit here and there.
Is he really the guy that you thought you were getting in the
draft in the top ten? The answer is no.
And if you think that that's suddenly going to happen, I
would I would challenge you and say that I would respectfully
disagree. However, hold on.
My in laws are going guys. Safe travels, Grammy.
See ya. Love you.
Tell Popeyes. Say goodbye.
Love you guys. They're leaving.
I could see the the door to the garage open.
I want to say goodbye. They were in from Dallas for a
few days for my son's birthday. So, you know, there's a lot here
and it could be a little complicated it, but it doesn't
have to be, which is the ultimate point.
As long as the Giants understand that to get somebody like
horribaugh, there's going to have to be a concession, a
stripping of power from Joe Shane or if one of these
gentlemen, and I mean more so horrible than anybody else
because I don't think you'd bestow that ultimate power on
somebody like Stefanski yet at this age with the experience.
No Super Bowls, but somebody like horrible, somebody like
McCarthy would would have. They've earned that latitude to
to do that, to express themselves.
And hey, you want me and I want you.
But you know, I don't want to work with this guy.
If that's communicated, it's got to be gone.
And that that is the only potential speed bump that I
fear. Because, you know, one of the
great things about really good franchises is stability right
now. Again, I've been all over Brian
Cashman for years, Ryan Cash, But it's not earned the right to
rebuild the Yankees the way the Yankees need to be rebuilt.
I mean, how many times did you hear that on the morning show?
You heard me all the time when I was when it first happened.
That was four years ago. I've been saying this, right?
So Cashman has presented me with some, you know, things I don't
agree with and I voiced that. But I've always been very quick
to then say, yeah, but I mean, he's doing a whole hell of a lot
more. And so is how it at least giving
the Yankees a chance to, you know, be on that that that top
line, if you will, and and have a chance to win a World Series.
Now, we all. I'm not getting into the weeds
of the Yankees now, though I do have a thought on the Cabrera
trade after the Knicks stop in a minute.
So I'll get to that, by the way, fire the questions and I'll
start reading a bunch in a bit and then attack that.
But at least, you know, you know that like, the Yankees are going
to have a chance to win. But the thing that's frustrating
is that there's such a reluctance to make change.
And and I think that that reluctance has LED has LED them
from being less than a World Series team.
All right, That's just my opinion.
I mean, it's also backed up, in fact, since they haven't won in
2009. But I readily admit Cashman's
done a good job. He just no longer does a great
job. But the Yankees never morph into
the Giants. They just don't do it.
Giants had what, 2-3 win seasons, 24 win seasons in the
last X14 years, whatever it's been where they've had two
playoff appearances like the Yankees.
Just they don't let that happen because of the Yankees.
Now I appreciate the stability, but at the end there's still
frustration because it's a little less than the Giants have
try to become more stable like they were.
And that was one of the great things about the New York
Giants. Like, and I don't mean listen,
every great franchise is going to have a Hanley, you know, or a
Judge or Shermer, even a table. Like the problem is it's it's
been going back-to-back to back-to-back.
And I just feel like too many times the Giants where the
results don't back this up. They are they are almost trying
to force feed consistency down our throat that there's now a
reluctance to just get somebody out of the building who very
well might have to leave the building if the guy that you
really want. We all we all know Horbaugh is
the giant's number one choice. If he wants him out, are they
going to show that same lack of willingness?
And if they do, then shame on the New York Giants.
You can't you, you. I mean, let's just call for what
it let's be as blunt as you can humanly be.
If the giants, and I'm not even saying that I think that they
will and it's not me straddle on the fence, I honestly don't
know. But if the giants allow the
presence of Joe Shane to get in the way of hiring John Horbaugh,
then the giants are idiots. Period, end of statement, end of
story. Nothing else to say.
Like that's all you need to see if that were to happen.
You want to talk about APR nightmare and then could you
imagine now this will be worst case situation and I don't think
that this will happen because then I think they can pivot to a
Stefanski. Why do you like he's young.
He's won twice with with a wretched franchise, the
basically The Jets of Ohio and there's there's appeal there
because I think there's a lot of upside and he's one without that
real quarterback, unlike, you know, a horrible who's got Lamar
McCarthy was that Rogers, Dak whatever.
But you know, I just I am a little at least aware, even if I
don't use the word fearful, a little aware of the remote
possibility that they flinch with the Shane stuff turns
horribaugh off or Brady does a sales pitch and and and
horribaugh loves Mendoza. Like I went through this
yesterday. To think that it's a layup with
horribaugh to the G men. I think is is asinine.
The desire's there. But now you got to get it done
and there's other appealing options.
And let's say he goes somewhere else and let's say, you know,
the Giants like McCarthy, but they don't love him.
And let's say Stefanski, who you know, is all about the Giants at
this point and who they wind and dine 2 nights ago and met with
yesterday extensively, well, maybe he gets a little turned
off by not feeling the love. I mean, if the Giants project
all this adulation and shower all of their attention and their
love for John Horbaugh, Kevin Stefanski, I mean, I don't know
what he's thinking, but it's human nature.
The possibility of him sitting there saying no, I mean, do
these guys want me or not? Screw you.
I got this situation in wherever I'll go to the Raiders or I'll
go to the Falcons, who have a stud tight end, a stud wide
receiver, a stud running back, some money to play with, a
pretty good old line, pretty good place to live down South.
Like there's other options. And if they don't play and it's
the easiest thing to do, all they got to say is Mr. Mara,
everybody else. But it's really.
It's really him. Tish.
You know what? All right.
You don't want him here. I got you.
We want you that much. He's out.
Would they be that bold? I don't know.
And yeah, you can kind of cut the difference and reposition
him a little bit. And then maybe Joe Shane would
say, no, I'm good, I don't know. But like, marginalized him for
another year and let horrible have the power have it written
into the contract. I'm not saying that there's not
a way to get this done where Joe Shane is still in the building.
All I'm saying is if it's presented to them and they
flinch, then they're dopes because Joe Shane has not been
good enough at his job to get in the way of somebody who's really
good at his job coming in to save your morbid, pathetic
franchise, which is what has to happen.
That's it. It's really that simple.
Yeah. Two playoff appearances in 14
years, The one car one, the one wild card win.
My God. And it was.
Yeah. 2-3 win seasons, 3-4 win seasons, 5 of the 14 years.
So almost, almost 33% of the run this 14 year of ineptitude,
right? Five times in 14 years.
So more than 33% they have won three games or less.
Like it's not like the Giants kind of lost their way.
It's like, wow, the Giants suck. They suck.
And when you are that bad, you better make sure that somebody
like Shane doesn't get in the way.
And I'm not trying to rail on Joe Shane.
I'm not trying to be that guy. Hey, you don't think that I'm
sensitive to job security. If anybody sensitive to job
security, it's me. The one difference is, you know,
Joe, Joe Shane gets sent the door.
Joe Shane's got millions upon millions upon millions sitting
in the bank. I got to start a show on YouTube
and on Twitter, which by the way, is doing well.
So I, I'm always sensitive to that stuff And, and I always,
and even even on the fan, what like Tom Thibodeau, you know,
even even Buck at the end with it, when, when I think the Mets
rightly decided to move on from Buck, I thought that was getting
stale. I am the type of person who
just, and it's probably old, like you don't always want to
have to preface as you're saying something.
If you always preface it, it's annoying, but that's important
to me. So anytime there's a there's an
issue of job security or potential issue of job security,
I try to preface it with the human element because, you know,
I'm here now and, and, and others have been there and many
of you watching this have been there, if not all of you on some
level at some point in your life.
So it's not about just taking a, a Wrecking Ball to Joe Shane's
reputation or just be that guy who was just unnecessarily mean.
Guy hasn't done a good job. That's the most honest
evaluation. Yeah, it really is.
So, all right, let me get some of these questions.
I believe that this I believe that this should work here.
OK, so now, is this true? So McDaniel was just fired.
Is that true? Yep.
He's gone. OK, so let me see here.
Hey, look at that. We fave little bells and
whistles. Here we go.
I told you, and I did that without my son who was in
school. All right, here we go.
Thank you for this is great sweet potato, sweet potato
instead of Mike in Jersey on the fan, it's sweet potato on on
Twitter and YouTube. It's all good.
And he says Nick Daniel fired in Miami.
John John Horribaugh will be the new coach.
Well, this is what I'm talking about here and that is why when
I ran through the six openings, but also the potential for an
opening in Miami. And thank you for the for the
text there, sweet potato. When I talked about Miami, maybe
Dallas, lesser extent Dallas, but certainly Miami was always
prominently on my on my mind that I said that as one of the
other spots. Yeah, Miami, the Bills, of
course, if they don't win and they'll play well, that will be
appealing. Yeah.
I mean, jeez, if you're John Horbaugh now, the difference
there is you don't have a quarterback, you got better
weather, the taxes are better, you know, the lifestyle better
You're not sitting on. Well, not that he'd be on the
Bell Parkway, but, you know, you're not going to be on the
Garden State or the Turnpike, you know, bumper to bumper at
the wrong time. Is that more appealing?
It very well might be. And this is one of the many
complicated aspects of the Giants trying to hire the right
guy. So as now the flirtation with
Miami comes on John Harbaugh. Well, now the giants, they they
got to play this deck properly. Where All right, that's our
focus. But hey, Stefanski, you still
feel the love. McCarthy, you're still engaged
and these coordinators were talking to you.
This is a big, big undertaking and it's a very tricky dance.
So you know, I I don't know how easily it's going to be.
You know how easy it's going to be to get him here.
Let's see here. Papa Serpico, isn't it as simple
as if Horrible wants the job, it's his.
This sure seems to be the perception around football from
what I've seen. Yeah, I would think so, Sir.
But go. Sure.
But now, something like Miami and some of these other
appealing openings, those are two different things.
If Horrible wants the job, it's it's going to be his, provided
the Giants don't mess it up. Which again, I don't think that
they will with Shane. And by the way, I'm not even a
hunt. I mean, I would think it's
common, common sense, human nature.
You want to work with people that you know, there's a
familiarity. You know, the horrible's not
coming in and say, you know, Joe, I really think that we
should draft this guy in the first round.
The Joe Shane saying, I don't know, coach, I like this guy.
Our scouts have graded them out for the last four months and the
combines coming up and we were that's not happening.
Nobody thinks that the end of that's happening.
Just close up shop, then the Giants may roll.
I mean, then there there are two levels below The Jets, which is
basically physically and physically impossible.
So I don't think it's about thank you about him having the
issue or like them wanting him. I think it's the other things
that they're going to have to sort through other very
interesting openings here. And, you know, I I I just, I
hope they don't mess this up. Let's get this guy up.
Tony Terzi, what's going on? Tony, how you doing, buddy?
Appreciate you checking in. I agree with Art Stapleton.
Arts Good Does good work here. That if Philly loses their wild
card game, Siriani very well might be out and Horbaugh ends
up there. I've said that.
I said that yesterday. I said that the day before.
Yeah. I mean, the way Philly looked at
points this year where their offense couldn't do a damn
thing. Thanks for the text there, Tony.
Appreciate it, man. The the issue and the issues
that were present for a big chunk of the season for Philly,
Well, I mean, there's a level of tolerance down there as well.
And unlike the Giants and The Jets, their bar is actually one
of a championship level, which is nice.
And it'd be nice to get there, which hopefully both of these
teams at some point will. And I think the Giants are
closer based on the quarterback and all the other stuff and
probably could have a a real head coach here.
At least I don't, I don't mean Aaron's not a real coach, but I
mean a coach who's actually 1 and was a real asset rather than
somebody who's figuring things out and was was a disaster as a
head coach this past season. Yeah, he also worked there for 9
years. And talk about familiarity.
Absolutely. I mean, that is something that
could absolutely be in play. All right, this.
I made The Martian. What the hell is going on with
YouTube? I bet I can't keep addressing
this. Basically, I made an unknowing.
In fact, it was an infraction. And there's all these, you know,
rules with YouTube, which I get and I'm certainly not here to
not adhere to them. I want to I just didn't know
about this one thing. And it was nothing egregious.
Like it was nothing where I said the wrong thing or a copyright
or infringement or trademark, none of that stuff.
It was something that was an innocent mistake on on our end.
And now they've got to go through the process of reviewing
it and you know, eventually this thing is going to be rectified.
I didn't even get a strike or a warning.
So it's below that and and it's going to be rectified.
I just I and I listen, man, I appreciate the question.
I just can't control it, but I wish I could.
Trust me. I really wish I could.
What else we got here? All right, there.
You. Oh, yeah.
I I don't know why it wasn't up for the first minute or so.
So a lot of people saying there you are.
All right, Shows on their way the go the Stapleton thing.
I want to give you something on the Knicks.
I want to get a few more of these.
All right, Yeah, This one's interesting.
This connect. This is more about horrible and
but this is interesting. So Steven Ross is a Michigan
man, as we know. Plus Jim Harbaugh was the
quarterback in Michigan and obviously we know what he did in
Michigan. John Harbaugh is his brother.
So is there an opening there? Yeah.
I mean, I I I don't know. I mean, John Harbaugh is not a
Michigan man. Jim is so, but again,
familiarity, trust, family name, sure.
Put it this way, there's a very easy dialogue that can occur and
a very easy conversation in terms of level of comfort based
on Jim's history with Ross and with Michigan and all that
stuff. So I I would think that Jim will
give John the most honest evaluation of Ross as an owner
and all that stuff. And you know, here's the
dialogue. Yeah, that's going to be an
issue there. There really is.
Another one or something. By the way, throw some jets up
there as well. Let's go here.
Let's go here.
Yeah. Mazzilli 13.
Ain't ain't no more lisp in this mug.
Hey, I figured it out. Thank God, man.
And I told you what happened. It was a very basic mistake.
Of course. Whose mistake?
It was mine. I wonder how I can make such a
mistake, you know, jumping onto this new platform and trying to
figure this out on the fly on a tightrope with no net.
I don't know. I wonder how could that happen?
Well, the the technical answer is, is that this microphone,
while the green button obviously tells you that I'm on, I
unknowingly on the laptop that's in front of me here right there,
I unknowingly had the my, my, my laptop microphone on.
So it was catching for a lack of a better audio technical
description. It was it was catching strays.
So like, it made it seem like I had a lisp and it was not clear.
It was not good. It was.
Yeah. What are you gonna do?
I mean, come on. All right, So as, as these other
ones are popping in here, let me give you a little something on
our New York Knicks. Last night was about some pride
for the Knicks. I had to see something here.
And I tweeted before the game, I said we're not going to learn a
ton necessarily about the Knicks last night, but we're going to
learn a little something here. Like to get nutty, to get to go
crazy over a couple of regular season losses in a row when you
don't have your glue guy, Josh Hart.
Although, I mean, come on. Yeah, you got Bronson, you got
Cat, you got Bridges, you got OG, you got Deuce back, win some
games, like. And I love Josh Hart.
I love him. I'm one of his biggest fans and
every Knick fan loves him. But the inability to win games,
you can't just say, well, it's because of Josh Hart.
It's not like Patrick Ewings gone, you know, or, you know,
the one or two good teams that the Knicks had with Carmelo.
Carmelo's out, you know, I mean, or Amari, no, I mean, you should
be able to plow through, but it's the NBA and I don't.
Last night was a good example because think about the
Clippers, where they got a lot of talent.
They started the season 6 and 14, and then before last night
they had won seven of eight. So they were playing a good
team. It's the Clippers only only game
at the Garden and you know how it goes.
You know, now Jordan and those guys would get more than one.
But magic comes in from the West Coast or you know, whomever and
any Great Western confidence player over the years comes in,
they want to put on a show. Even LeBron playing there a
couple of a couple of times a year as a Cav or as a Heat, as a
member of the Heat. You know, you Dwyane Wade, you
just you want to go Kobe coming in as once a year you going from
50 or 60, you try to put on a show.
So while the Clippers don't have a Kobe or something like that,
they got a lot of talent and and I just wanted to see like, all
right, like how serious did the Knicks take in this losing
streak? It's one thing to lose 4 games
and and not go nuts here. But hey, you lose if you lose at
home again. What's it look like optically?
So a lot of good things last night.
Now I just want to reference something here because I heard.
So I think Wally said this last night while the Serbiak was
great. Yeah.
So not only with the Clippers winning and demonstrating that
they will become the team that I think some people thought they
would be at the start of the year, but like their defense was
really good in. So they won seven of eight in
six of the seven wins. They allowed one O 5 or fewer,
which is going to be a good test for the Knicks defense, which
obviously is very, very good. So I loved what I saw.
And listen, anybody could look down at a piece of paper and I'm
going to do it for a second, but and just give you a couple of
numbers. But there's one that I want to
elaborate on more in a little bit.
So they shot it well, 50% overall.
That's good, 4243% from downtown, +8 on the backboard.
But what what I was really impressed with, I got a geek out
for. It's not quite baseball savant,
but I'm going to geek out for a second here because I don't even
think that I've referenced this stat in the NBA.
And the Knicks had 31 assists last night, which just speaks to
optimal ball movement. And then obviously guys make a
shot. But doing the right thing and
sharing the ball, right? Well, the Knicks is amazing
where we are as sports fans, right?
The Knicks, The Knicks averaged 2 Hunts is ridiculous. 290
passes per game. So midcourt, balls up, opening
tip, final buzzer, they averaged 290 passes.
Could be a full court pass, could be 1/2 court pass that
goes 3 feet, 290 passes. The previous game they had 240.
All right, well, that obviously speaks to a lack of ball
movement. And that's the game where Karl
Anthony Towns only took four shots, right?
He had six turnovers, didn't play well.
So I needed to see the Knicks get back to #1 playing with
purpose and playing with pride. But doing what if it's going to
separate them from anybody, Certainly in the Eastern
Conference, being the best, being the best offense in the
Eastern Conference. And last night was a good step
in that direction. You know, I heard my I was in
the car and I was listening to Mike Brown's pregame show on the
radio and, and look, Mike Brown, he's got great perspective now.
No, when you're the coach of the Knicks, nobody really wants to
hear about life lessons like did we win?
Did we lose? Did we get back on defense?
Are we healthy? Like where we at?
But Mike Brown was talking about adversity and even started to go
into, and I agree with this. Like if, if you don't have any
adversity in your life that hopefully, you know, it's, it's
it's not irreversible adversity, you know, but adversity builds
character. And I think this is a prime
example of what I'm trying to plow through here, you know, and
not I'm not trying to put myself up on a pedestal, but to think
that I haven't dealt with adversity even before, you know,
the last month or so when things change to the fan.
What are you kidding me? Of course, you know, I mean, I
could without even thinking, you know, my senior in college, I
had Tommy John surgery, you know, I mean, that you think
that's a fun way to try to go through your senior year.
Now, I knew I wasn't going to make it on the highest level,
but it was my senior year and I had already medically redshirted
because I got in a car accident, a really bad one on the Bell
Parkway about two days before I went to school, which is not a
good way to start. And I had a red shirt my first
year cuz I, I mean, I couldn't walk.
I mean, I couldn't even start college right away.
And, and that, that was tough and I had to plow through it,
right. And then when I got hurt, I, I
hurt my elbow in fall practice and I knew something was wrong.
I'm like, what is this man? It just like I knew something
was really wrong. So finally I go to the trainer
and get the Mris, blah, blah, blah, go to HSS, have surgery
November 1st. All right, that was Doctor
Olchek passed away. Doctor Olchek, the former Mets
doctor, Giants, he's the one who did my my Tommy John surgery at
HSS and I had it on the I'll never forget this.
I had it on November 1st, Right. And the issue here is adversity.
It's not a baseball story because it's not like the season
went great. That's like I'm going to say, Oh
yeah, by the way, I made first team ball conference, hit nine
home runs and hit 390. No, that didn't happen.
But what I did do was come back and play on Saint Patty's Day.
So I had surgery November 1st, right?
December is one month, January, February, March, 4 months and
basically 17 days. I played in the Division One
college baseball game and my first at bat I struck out.
And my second at bat I struck out.
And my third at bat, I'll never forget 3rd at bat, struck out,
4th at bat struck out. Now we we're playing Hofstra,
we're playing somebody down South.
It was like a big tournament. Whatever.
And of course I get up bases loaded.
True story. 2 outs and it's ties.
Score over the home team. I'm like, you got to be kidding
me man. Four punch outs.
I'm terrified to swing. I haven't even taken a live
batting practice in the game yet.
First pitch strike, second pitch strike.
I'm like, I'm looking at 5 strikeouts, man.
I, I should not be playing here. Guy throws a little righty, you
know, 8182 mile per hour slider on the black.
I kind of flick it. Foul down the third baseline,
left the hitter right, wind up grinding out a walk, which felt
like, you know, Mazeroski's home run against the Yankees, like a
walk. Like you want to talk about
feeling a sense of accomplishment.
And that was an adversity, obviously.
And I played that year and I didn't play great, but I got
through the whole year. And my elbow to this day still
hurts because I came back too early like an idiot.
But it taught me to deal with adversity.
So when things went down to the fan or other things in my life,
I have, I have, I guess I've I've calloused myself to deal
with it. And that's why I know that's
like a deeper, probably not even know if that was a very
interesting story, whatever. But just this is what we're
going to do. I mean, hopefully it'll be
interesting, but if I got something to kind of weave in on
a human level, I'm definitely going to do it.
And I think you baseball players and former athletes will will
appreciate that. Did you want to talk about being
vulnerable, being at a home plate with the bases loaded and
it's O2 and you struck out your first four times and you got
this monstrosity of a brace on your elbow?
Oh my God almighty. So Mike was back to Mike Brown.
Mike was talking about adversity and going through it, and he
kind of branched into the life adversity.
But adversity is a team and I think that it was on point and
he stopped himself short and I think rightfully so of talking
about real life. If it wasn't like a free flowing
format where it's a 30 minute conversation.
It's like 3-4 minutes meeting the media before the game.
But I thought his messaging was really good.
And when I heard that, I'm like, all right, they're ready to go
tonight. They're ready to play now.
The second-half obviously was a lot better than the first half
there. But I thought that that was one
of those nights in the NBA for for a good team, not a perfect
team, but certainly one of the better teams in the NBA.
Like the Knicks are all right, despite the four-game skid and
being a couple of games behind the Pistons and now being in the
third seed. Maybe Todd, I got to double
check they were behind Boston last night.
Maybe they're tied with. Either way, I thought it showed
a little bit their resolve and a little bit of a look into the
window of their soul. Like, OK, all right, you guys do
care the way we thought you cared.
You guys do have the pride that many of us thought that you had.
And maybe more importantly, you know, you've got a coach who's
who's able to identify this eloquently, speak to it, and
then your team go out and back him up and and and and play well
and get a win there. So to think that last night was
just one of 82 for the Knicks. I don't I don't agree with that
at all. There's no way.
Yeah, I remember saying it was a Christmas Day.
Well, I mean, I know the game was Christmas.
Did I do a pod? I think I did it, yeah.
So December 26th, I did one of the first pods on the YouTube
page. And by the way, all the content
is there from even today's show will be, even though I can't
live stream right now on YouTube, all the shows after
this one bang uploaded right to YouTube at BT Unleashed.
It's all there. Dive in, like, comment,
subscribe, all that good stuff, right.
I was taught about the Knicks and that was when Kolak really
did well on Christmas Day and they came back and and they had
that, the big deficit. It was a really fun, I thought,
galvanizing win. And then it just kind of
disappeared. And I'm like, well, I don't
know. I'm not going to attribute that
necessarily to the Cup, but I remember saying shortly
thereafter, like, all right, guys, there's only a couple of
games out of 82. It's not the NFL where we
measure every week like it's literally a season rather than a
singular game like every NFL Sunday.
You know, especially, you know, for The Jets, like in September
when they're still in it and the Giants, you know, when they're
still in it. It it it takes on this, this,
this heaviness that leads to just a different energy and a
different dissection of the performance.
And rightfully so, because if you start out O and four in the
NFL, there's a couple teams that have plowed through.
The Jets did that once with her maybe O and four, O and five,
maybe even before they beat the Chargers years ago and got going
a little bit. But if you're if you have a
doughnut next to your name in September, you're done.
Think about the Clippers. They started 6 and 14.
I just said that before and they had won seven of eight going
into last night. So I don't go nuts about a rough
regular season game or a rough regular season stretch.
But I've always thought that there's a couple of measurement
games where you can circle, whether it's the team that you
think you're going to play in the Finals in your conference to
get to the NBA Finals, or the team at the other conference
that everybody, mainly you, perceive to be your chief threat
to a title back in the day. All right, Ewing's playing the
Bulls. Let's go.
Let's see where we're at. Obviously, you know, you have a
match up now against the Denver or the Spurs with Wembley or
obviously. OK, see, all right, let's see
where we're at. Now.
What bothered me about the Pistons game is that the Pistons
took that as a measurement game and the Knicks did not.
And that was utterly unacceptable.
So that's why when I say last night was a let's lift up the
hood and see what kind of guts these guys have.
Let's see where the level of pride is at.
I I thought the Knicks looked really good last night.
Got back to doing what they do and it it seemed, well, I mean,
and the stats bear this out based on the 31 assists and
getting back to great ball movement where they averaged 290
passes a game and they got back to that last night despite
having 50 fewer the previous game.
It showed me that there's a little in season tweaking
adjustment. Like Jalen Brunson was not as
bold nominant last night as he's been now.
That's part of the brilliance of Bronson.
Hey, go get us a bucket, man. Let's go.
We're double team. Whatever, get out of it, get the
ball back, sublime footwork, fall away 3 get to the rim
floater. Like we need to jail the
Brunson's the guy to go get it. But I also thought that, and I
think that the I really believe this, like his greatest Brunson
is the the onus is on him. Sure, Mike Brown to divide stuff
and whatever he's got to make sure that Carl Anthony Towns
doesn't get four shots in 22 minutes.
Now the onus is also on Karl Anthony Towns to stop flailing
away with the stupid fouls. And he looked good last night to
be assertive in the post, demand the ball, you know, get to the
rim, get to the stripe. But he can't do it without the
ball. So there's got to be that that,
that, that interplay there. And I thought last night we had
it was pretty good. And let me get a couple of
comments here. Let's see what we got this year.
I think McCarthy would be better for DART Agent 00.
Yeah, I mean, I'd like to know the reasoning.
I mean, I'm. I'm sure I could guess what it
is. Thank you for that, buddy.
I would think that it's because he's done it with multiple
quarterbacks there. Whereas, you know, Harbaugh
inherited an amazing defense, one of the best of all time and
in a young quarterback. To be fair to Harbaugh, a lot of
people didn't even believe should be a quarterback, which I
thought honestly, if you watched Lamar Jackson in college, you
know that some of the pre draft evaluation and noise, it was
reprehensible. And I don't use that word too
much because that's like I think that's over sensationalizing
sometimes. It was reprehensible the way he
was perceived. I mean, God barely got drafted
in the first round. Now, I'm not saying Lamar
Jackson's not perfect, but if you watched Louisville, they ran
a pro offense. You just had to watch
Louisville. And if you didn't, you know,
maybe you had some preconceived notions about quarterbacks in
the NFL. You know, Antoine Randall L back
in the day. We, we know that, you know, we,
we know that there's been problems there.
Now we're past that. But Lamar might not be perfect,
but neither is Dak Prescott. He's not perfect.
He's not. He's not 50% the athlete.
I mean, really nobody is that Lamar Jackson is.
But what did Mike McCarthy do? He coached him up to finish
second in the MVP. Right now, let me ask you a
question. Is Dak Prescott one of the five
or six best quarterbacks in the NFLI mean?
I don't think he is. You know, and even guys on bad
teams that had rough years, I mean, just think about what I
mean. Yeah, so, so obviously Burroughs
Bengals of the defense thinks and he was hurt.
Burroughs better. Obviously Allen's better.
Yeah, Mahomes numbers have really dropped.
But yeah, and now he's hurt. But you got to still say Mahomes
is better, Stafford's better. You know, there's there's at
least I don't even have all the teams in front of you.
I probably know I'm missing one or two and it's easy, but I
think Dax probably more 8, something like that, and he made
him look like one or two, you know.
So I get it. I get when you say that.
Would I rather have McCarthy with Dart?
Yes, more so than Harbaugh with dart.
But you can't just do it for the quarterback.
That's got to be a big part of the calculus there.
But you know, let's see. Mario Prosperino.
What up, Mario? No way.
Joe Shane hiring an alpha like Horbaugh, he'd rather have a yes
guy. Hence, Stefanski will be the
next head coach. Well, all right #1 where is the
evidence that that's the case now I'm, I'm in the business of
being fair, I think that that's an unfair assertion.
I respect your opinion, Mario. I do.
I just don't think there's any evidence I don't, you know?
Now, he also shouldn't have the juice to make that decision,
which is an entirely different point of discussion here.
But you're saying a couple of things and it's a real leap of
faith on your end. Not that you can't be right, but
you can't prove that you are because number one, you're
saying that he will not allow somebody in the building that is
more alpha than I'm not even sure if Joe was out, whatever.
But so you can't prove that. Number two, you say that
Stefanski, which by the way would be a good hire by the
Johns. I think Stefanski is very good,
as I've said. And you're also saying that's
Stefanski does not have an alpha type of personality.
And you could be wrong on that as well.
You know, I don't really know the answer to that.
Yeah, more stuff on the YouTube stuff, guys.
Like, I can't keep addressing that.
Trust me. I'm trying to plow through it.
If I get wrapped up in that, I'm going to be really, really
frustrated here. So I am still at the point now,
guys. I'm still at the point, and
maybe if you're new, I'm going to say this very quickly.
I'm not going to belabor it. I am still at the point where
the thing that matters most to me is content is getting on the
air and firing out what I'm thinking, you know, structuring
a show and then all the other stuff.
You know, I think we got the audio on the control.
I figured out how to drop the other messages right off to the
onto the screen here. I figured out how to link it to
X so that once you know, you can now simultaneously go there.
It's going to be on Instagram. The studio redesign is, you
know, already past phase one. I've got the concept now we've
got to build it out, make that whole back wall of the logo,
which we're in the process of doing, got to hire a producer,
which would allow me to do guests and eventually
incorporate calls. I get it, man, there's a lot
that I have to do here, but I'm pretty happy where we're at
right now, except a little issue with YouTube.
Ian Grossman. All right, BT you're The Jets
GM. How does the offseason go in
your perfect world? Let me, I know I'm going to
sound like a pompous ass right now and I really don't.
I mean, I mean it a little bit, but I don't fully mean it
because I don't understand the contracts and like the CBA stuff
and some of it like, so it's a very broad statement, but don't
you think that you could do I like Boji, so forget about him.
Don't you think that we could have done a better job with The
Jets all these years? Honestly, if Joe from Queens, if
Mike from Brooklyn, if, if Willie from Cedar Grove, if Paul
from Parsippany was the general manager of The Jets, can you
tell me that the results would not be better?
Can you tell me that definitively?
You can't tell me that you can't.
And by the way, how much worse could they be?
First and foremost? So I got, I know that that's
really glossing over a lot of things that I don't know about
being AGM, that I will never know and that I really don't
care to know. But I mean, same thing.
All those years the Knicks were in the in the toilet and even
some of the baseball moves with the Yanks and the Mets.
Like, I mean, I think we all think that we could do it on
some level. Now, to think that we can do
what Cashman has done is probably ridiculous because they
win a lot. But like when the Knicks were in
the toilet all those years going through Fizdale and Horta,
second, Fisher, I couldn't do that.
I promise you I could have done that.
So anyway, let me ask answer Ian's question, All right,
You're The Jets GM. How does the offseason go in
your perfect world? That is a quiet.
I'm going to have to take a little sip of coffee here,
there, Joe. And really, Ian, pardon me,
really contemplate this. OK, contemplation complete.
Thank you for the text, Ian. The first level of perfection
will be a sequence of events that put The Jets in a position
to do whatever they want. Now what does that mean?
That's a very nebulous description.
Well, here it is number 1. I almost want Mendoza to play
poorly in the national semi final game.
I've already seen enough. He's the man.
He's going to be phenomenal. I I see a lot of Matt Ryan with
him and I love Matt Ryan. I think Matt Ryan's a Hall of
Famer. I love Matt Matt Ryan who's
great wanted MVP. Like if you're Matt Ryan, we we
good. We're we're in pretty good
shape. If you're Matt Ryan and he's
better athlete than Matt Ryan, a little quicker and about the
same size. And I think we'll project to be
even a little thicker, you know, because he's 65220 five, I think
he gets up to 235. I don't think Matt ever played a
tube. Right now, Matt looks like a
look at, he's a cross country runner.
He's really thinned out through with the TV.
He's good on TV. So the first thing is I would
like to see Mendoza play poorly. And then subsequently I would
like to see Dante Moore play really well because that could
be the enticement. And let's face it, as much as we
whine and cry about The Jets, one team that's Dumber is the
Raiders. Now they got Tom Brady, who very
well might make the right decision and make the next 20
years health for us. Again, like that's very
possible. Matter of fact, part of me
thinks that that's going to happen.
But I've been those are stumbles more.
And even if Moore doesn't win, but if Moore just looks the part
and there's a real decision inside that Raiders building,
right? And now maybe one of these
coaches is like, I love Dante Moore, man.
I want to coach that kid. I know he's only 20, you know, I
know he's only £206.00. We got to get him in the weight
room. He hasn't played a lot because
he backed up last year behind Gabriel.
He was a starter most of the year, first, first year at UCLA,
got knocked around, took his lumps.
Like he doesn't have a ton of experience like Mendoza has.
It's almost more like, well, Ty Simpson's more like Sanchez when
The Jets took him. Obviously Moore's played a lot
more than that, but there's still the wrongness with him.
So the projectability of somebody like Dante Moore is
there in terms of, OK, you know, so there could be appeal there.
And if that happens, to answer your question more directly, if
that happens, well, now, now the Raiders have a decision and then
The Jets have no decision. If they take Dante Moore, well,
you take Mendoza. If they take Mendoza.
And Dante Moore looks even better than I and I like them.
I wouldn't take him to number 2 for The Jets right now.
That's my opinion. That could change.
I don't think it will unless he plays really well.
He's just too raw. I don't think he's ready for The
Jets and not even to to tap into the mindset that The Jets will
ruin any everybody like they usually do.
I'm not even beholden to that. I just don't think he's ready
for this. I, I even though the old line's
a lot better, I'd be very reluctant to do that.
But if Muji thinks he's the man, then take him either way by more
playing great. And it opens up an amazing world
of possibilities for The Jets because now they don't have to
maybe trade up to get their quarterback or maybe if they
like more or, or use those assets in 2027, three of which
are in the first round to do something this year or next
year. If more is the real deal and
they love them. You got your quarterback, you
start there. And then really the other thing
that you would have to do, you would probably use that if you
use the second pick on a quarterback, and I don't know
that they absolutely will. Cause Dante Moore could flop and
he stays at Oregon or he says I'm not going to The Jets.
Well, then The Jets could trade out of two.
That's an option. He goes back to Oregon, gets $11
million in NIL money. Jets have to do something
different, get a bridge in here and they could then they could
then maybe draft, trade out of two, get more assets and then
get the get the big receiver opposite Garrett Wilson list.
You need a corner, you need a safety.
I think you one more offense, it's a lineman away from having
a top three top 4 online in football.
I said that yesterday. The Jets online is, you know, is
between old fashion new and membered on the right side.
They love Titman got the extension.
Simpson could walk whatever, you know, Meyer, Meyers, I I think
that it's really good. And then you throw in like if
The Jets start next season with one more old lineman and I got
to see what they do with breeze hall as well.
But it let's assume he's back for a second.
The cop Alvin's healthy as a Davis good running game.
Garrett Wilson 63210 guy on the outside, 5050 ball, red zone
threat like like Keyshawn. Think about Keyshawn, but maybe
a little bit faster. Mason Taylor Rucker, it's a good
blocker, good old line. Now you start using these assets
on defense and I do think there's a chance in a way for
The Jets to have not a good offseason, but a great
offseason. And then you factor in that
they've got $75 million in free age of money.
There is a way for The Jets to get very competitive very fast.
I, I don't want to see shortcuts though.
That's why I'm not interested in that.
Hey, you waited this long, do it the right way.
Let's go. And I and I think that I think
that Muji is is really like the early signs for me with MUJI are
are really positive. I really think The Jets I know
sounds nuts. I really think that the The Jets
nailed it with MUJI. I really do.
I already I already heard I already hit Serpico there.
So let's see. I want to give you a little
something on the Yankees as well.
Let's see, how about this? All right, we can pop this
around here. Mystro card.
Mystro cards ABT at the Packers lose on Saturday.
Do you see Lafleur being fired and Horbaugh maybe being an
option? Or do you think he would go
someplace else? Listen, I don't think that the
Green Bay situation myself is as tenuous.
Like, I know there's talk about that.
I get it. We've heard it, no doubt.
I'm not saying it's completely off the table unless they look
awful, right? I think Lafleur maybe gets one
more year. I'd probably say more more yes
than no. I think there is a even before
the Ravens fired Harbaugh, like think about the last five weeks
or so, the conversations even going back to last year.
But more recently Harbaugh to me seemed if it didn't finish well,
he was gone. Tomlin won that game.
So he's in the playoffs. But if they play poorly against
the Texans, as I've said, I think that there's a really good
chance, thank you for the text there, that they're going to
move on from him. And and I would think that the
floor would get one more. I just feel like it's a little
bit of a different timeline. I don't even really know if I
can substantiate that. Maybe because the noise is not
quite as loud and the signals are not quite as as evident.
I don't know. What's this here off?
The video of my son ripping it into the net in the basement was
legit. Yeah, there's a lot of good
players out there. He's having fun, he's working
hard. And that's the other thing too,
that on this channel, I'm not going to do it now, but on this
channel, you're going to get a lot of youth sports content, You
know, you guys know I coach. I'd say the jokes.
I know I got ejected. Relax, you know, unfairly
ejected. But I got ejected.
The appeal was denied. No, you know how I feel about
youth sports and I'm up to my neck and it with both kids and
I've seen it. It changed so much from when I
was young. The cost, the pressure, the
responsibility, the options, club travel, you know, you trip
bats, USA bats, this that go do you go play a national
Tournaments like these are things I've already gone through
and am in the process of going through now.
And there's already one up there on my channel.
I think I did it. Yeah, I did it the night, I
think I did it December 31st, like in the afternoon at some
point. And I just I scheduled it to air
on New Year's Day. So I wasn't going live on New
Year's Day. And it was about how to prepare
your child for T-ball like their first venture into Little
League. And it it it's not about going
out there and, you know, having a three hitter and a shortstop
for the get go. No, it's more about just
avoiding some of the pitfalls that as a first time parent,
let's face it, man, it's not like when we were young.
All right, sign them up for the church team.
All right, You know, you, you're on this travel team that's right
across the a good one, but it's right across the street from our
home in Marine Park playing for the cadets.
That's the best team around. Like it is such a different
landscape that it's overwhelming.
And I do put a lot of that stuff up there and hopefully you guys
enjoy it. I know it's not for everybody
because not everybody's has is a parent yet.
Whatever, you know, So let's see here.
Bozak Sacramento. I think I said that right.
That is a jacked up now is that are you that jacked up?
Jeez, that is a jacked up looking dude.
It's a good avatar, bro. This is why the show's great
sports life, politics. Would love to hear about your
baseball stats throughout your career.
No, you don't. You you don't you don't want to
hear No, I don't think anybody wants to hear about that.
Here's the short version. High school was excellent,
college disappointing. Always hurt, didn't get it done.
That's the shortest version that I could give you.
You know, I'm not going to start ripping through my my high
school, although if I was to do one of the two, I could probably
pick on the high school stats more so than college.
But now I was hurt a lot. And and that's something I've
talked a lot about. Like it still bothers me, you
know, it still bothers me. A very prideful person put the
work in, just didn't happen, you know, and I think it goes into
sometimes wanting something too much where you could almost
squeeze too hard. And I think you complicate it.
I don't know if I did that in college, maybe trying to
overcome the injuries. I unknowingly did it.
But yeah, I mean, it's trust me, you know, if I ever make the
Hall of Fame at Maris, it's not it's not for being a player.
It's for whatever I've done post leaving the campus.
You know what I mean? Let me get this more on the
YouTube stuff here, blah, blah, blah.
All right, something on The Jets here.
OK, let me let me just give you something.
Where was it? On the Yankees?
Really quick. I I can't go too much longer.
I got to take a shower. I got to shave.
I got to get out to Queens and I've got to sit down.
I've got to tape the first interview with the Red Storm
Report today with my guy Pitino, who I will absolutely get on
this show very, very soon once I'm able to.
So maybe I shouldn't say soon. This is dragging on more than I
thought. All right, so the Cabrera deal,
right? What?
What I don't get now, they gave up in that trade.
The Cubs gave up their number 1 prospect who their overall #1
who is a top 50 prospect in all the baseball.
I'm not going to inundate you with that stuff.
Like all this damn ranking is a different outlets, 47 here, 52
here. They're just top 50 prospect.
They're #1 prospect, short version and somebody else who I
think was number 11 and another player who I don't know was even
ranked. They gave up.
They gave up a lot is what I'm saying for Cabrera.
So there's some history there, some inconsistencies, some
issues with the with the injuries as well.
I was interested in Cabrera. I was never on the Cabrera train
at any cost. I think that's idiotic.
Now the Yankees are going to have a very interesting 2 month
start to the season here because they're going to be rolling out
Yarborough, they're going to be rolling out Will Warren, they're
going to be rolling out Cams Beast.
But still Year 2 guys will make adjustments off him and then
he's got to do the same. But his stuff is top shelf, so
he'll be great. I'm not worried about him, but
he's still got to show it as a sophomore that that he's that
guy that we think he is, that he was against the Red Sox in the
playoffs and many other starts before that.
But you're rolling out a lot of of course, Freed, you got Louise
Hill. But while Cole and Roldan and
then eventually Schmidt deeper in the summer as they're working
their way back to health and if there's no setbacks, they're
both going to miss two months ish ish.
Like that's that's a lot of turns through the rotation where
you are beginning to define who you are in the division and the
divisions not soft. It's it's probably the best
division in baseball. I know the NL E is really good
as well. I know the the the NL West has a
lot of time. I get that.
But I think top to bottom, I think the most competitive right
now division of baseball is the American League East.
So, you know, that does not necessarily entitle the Yankees
to just waltzing through the start in a snooze in a slumber
as guys get healthy, and especially now without any
upgrades. And we'll see about Bellinger
and whatever else they might do, but shit, whatever.
And when I can't wait for that stuff to break, like I'm waiting
on that. Like I'm waiting for the Yanks
to do something. I'm waiting for the Mets to do
something. Those shows going to be
phenomenal. But the Cabrera stuff, This is
why I'm bothered by the MI stuff.
Well, what does MI have to do with Cabrera?
I'm going to tell you the Yankees had a chat.
I don't know how good a Mai is. Everybody says he's not
Yamamoto. All right, he's probably not.
Very few are. We read the scouting reports.
He throws this hard. Here's his K rate here.
We all know the numbers if you dive into the advanced stuff,
right, But we don't know how he's going to be at the at the
Major League level. We don't know that.
But don't you think that that's a risk worth taking?
Like they need another starter if they don't get and and I
think that they will Perolta, whatever.
But if they don't get another starter, you can't tell me that
it's not on the table where the Yankees are.
Well, it's 12 and 15. You know, they get off to a
middling start and you're playing uphill the rest of the
season. And then when the when the guys
come back, you better hope that there's not a #1A set back, as I
said, but also a, you know, a period where where they're
transitioning back to what their baseball cards say.
More so Cole than than Rodan. And as that's happening, the
Yankees had a chance to bring somebody in that was very valued
around baseball, that was gotten at a very team friendly deal.
And all it would have cost was money.
So if the reluctance is and I'm I wouldn't give up Lombard for
Cabrera, There's no way I'm doing that.
You want Spencer Jones? All right, maybe I'll have that.
Yeah. You know, I I think Dominguez is
probably more viable than Ben Jones.
He just strikes out a ton. I don't know how that's going to
change and and rectify itself against better pitching when you
strike out twice a game of the Miners like that's that's
problematic. I know he's got the size.
I know he's got the speed. I know he's a good center
fielder, much better than Dominguez, a better outfielder.
You know, I know he's light tower power bombs, missiles, 450
feet, you know, beautiful Yankee Stadium swing.
He's going to strike out 237 times if he plays a whole year.
Damn it. I I would have to ask why
wouldn't we think that he would when everything that he's put on
film and statistically he's a minor leaguer says that he is an
incredibly high volume north of 30% strikeout guy.
Like that's a troll. Like I think of the majors, it's
going to be closer to 40% without a real real overhaul to
approach or tweaking mechanics, whatever it might be.
So I would be more willing to give him up, even though he's a
better fielder than than Dominguez, because at least
Dominguez has shown hit 260 last year, 20 steals, 910 home runs.
I, I, I think there's something there with Dominguez, but they
could have bought a my plugged him in.
And like, this is one thing that's driving me nuts.
And I got to wrap it up after this guy really do have to
shower and get out to Queens. I, I don't understand why the
Yankees and the Mets, by the way, are both so behind the
curve of structuring these modern contracts.
Like, what the hell is so hard about deferring money?
Like how do the Astros get a my for what they got him for with
opt outs? Like that would have been so
appealing more for the Yankees, I think, but even for the Mets,
really appealing for the Yankees in this regard.
OK, am I you know, what did he get 60?
Whatever, I don't know whatever the total number was.
I forget the number, but I know it was three years with opt
outs, right? So and it's his opt outs, opt
out after one opt out after 2. So let me get this straight.
Yankees give am I the same deal? And maybe he wasn't amenable to
that with the Yankees. I I don't know.
Maybe they want to come to the Yankees.
I don't know. But I also don't believe that
that kind of contract was presented to am I at all like I
feel pretty good saying that. So if it was presented and he
did bite and he comes here with the ability to opt out after
one, well, guess what? If he has a great season, guess
who wins? You win because then he's going
to opt out. He's going to give you and I'm
going to I mean, I'll just throw, I'll throw numbers at
you. Let's say he would have gone or
goes. I mean, I'm going to go crazy
here, You know, 15 and 9 with a 3.180 RA whip is good.
Walk rates fairly low, K rates good, durable, make like a
Goodyear like a really good season.
He's opting out and then he opts out and you're free.
Now you can re engage him if you want, but you have solved the
absence for the first two months on a larger level without giving
out a prospect. Like that's what I didn't get.
And those are the little things about the way the lack of modern
approach with some of these things is incredibly
frustrating. I don't get it like I I do
understand not wanting to give up a top prospect.
That is a bit of a wild card. All right, the Cubs roll the
dice. They gave up their top guy top
50 in baseball. That's the Cubs.
I mean, Cubs don't win anything. Let I'm not saying the Cubs are
well run, you know, in, in in terms of the Cabrera trade, but
man, they could have had a my not give up a prospect and then
the incentive on a my Zen to have an amazing season is there
because he wants to stop down get 30-40 fifty 60-70 more
$1,000,000 after he opts out. I, you know, I I I I just I did
not understand that. So one of the things that
bothers me, one of the things that's got to be addressed here
and one of the things that will continue follow on the show BT
unleashed here. All right, let me start right.
Maybe I got one more comment. One more comment.
Yeah, they did get a hold for for the Clippers for Cabrera.
I totally agree. You know, let me hit this one
up, Kyle. My son isn't into sports as I
wish he'd be. Trying not to force it.
Yeah, I mean, that's tricky. As I spoke on the the Pot about,
you know, getting your little one ready for Little League,
T-ball or softball. You know, my kids are totally
different, you know, and you know, I'm working on.
He's still young, like, and it's a good thing, but it's also
something that he has had to work on.
Like they treats every game like it's game seven of the World
Series, even less two nights ago, playing a basketball game,
like the ref missed a call and, and the ref definitely missed
the call, but he was fired up. Now I, I will take that
intensity and that passion for playing hard and, and the
aptitude because if you don't have that like you, you can't
give that to somebody. I believe it's easier to, you
know, smooth somebody out and, and that's one of the, you know,
one of the things that my wife and I are doing rather than
trying to coerce it out of some. Like if you're not naturally
funny or naturally engaging or naturally conversational, you're
a little bit more withdrawn. I'm just talking to general now.
You're not going to suddenly be the guy who, you know, in the
middle of the party is like he's up on stage cracking 1 liners
the life of the party. That's just not you.
You're going to be, you know, more to yourself and maybe
engaged in a little group. But we all know that guy.
And a lot of times I was that guy, you know, that guy in high
school, that guy in college, that girl in high school, that
girl in College, in the middle of everything, right?
So if you're not predisposed to be that way from a personality
trait, you're not going to be that way the the sport.
And my daughter's very different than that.
Like she plays hard. But hey, you want to go down,
hit some balls. I don't know, you want to go
down. She let him let's dribble, you
know, and I and I don't force it, right?
She just says I love the games. All right, She's 9.
So I'm not going to I'm not going to go nuts here.
But if you want to, I'm saying it myself, if you want to keep
playing in games as you get older, you know, games of
relevance, eventually this model is going to have to shift a
little bit where you might not love practicing, but you
understand the importance right now.
She's not there yet. Whatever.
But I would say for that, Kyle, man, I, I, that's a tricky one.
I would say that I think the hardest thing or the worst route
to take, right, would be to, you know, just throw the bat in
their hands or go to the park and shoot hoops and and drill
them. Like that's, that is not if they
don't have a if, like there's not a a natural interest of them
wanting to play and having fun, then I don't, I mean, I'm not a
psychologist. I'm going to tell you what I'm
going through and what I went through myself and and whatever
and some of the kids I coach. I don't, I don't know if there's
a perfect answer for that. I think the easy thing would be
to say keep it fun, right? But I, I think the way you get
into that to maybe spark that interest.
I don't know the age. I really do wish I knew the age.
Like if the child's six or seven, that's different.
If the child's 11 or 12, that's really different.
Because there is, as much as I hate this, there is an
expiration point earlier than it's ever been with young
athletes getting out there and immersing themselves in their
sport. And now they're specialization
and all, which I don't really agree with.
And all those other things I'll talk about on the pod.
I would say whatever your favorite team is, let's say
you're a big Yankees fan or big Nick guy, sit down and make it
fun and watch the game and talk about the game a little bit.
You know, maybe have him pretend he's the play by play announcer.
I, I don't know, there is one thing and I'll definitely leave
you with this. This is definitely in the other
pod. But since a few of you have
popped up some of this these questions, I'll give you this
here. So I was right there in COVID.
So he was like 4 year right before he was like 4.
I would go in the yard, right? Like to me that the greatest
urgency is to create urgency within a young athlete.
And I don't mean, Oh God, I got to be the I'm not talking about
I got to be the best. I mean the urgency to run with
vigor, to chase a ball, to run hard.
Like those are the that's the first entry into being a young
athlete. And I think 1 fun and I did this
and it was fun. Man, I miss these days.
God, I would go in the yard and and I didn't even like have this
name of a game or necessarily even this intention, but it just
hit me and it morphed into something fun and something
good. It's helped them.
I developed this game called the seven second game and we would
be on one end of my yard and I'd have a wiffle ball bat and I'd
have a wiffle ball like a bunch of wiffle balls, right, Because
we're hitting out there. Whatever, I must play a game.
Come on. And I would, and I would hit the
ball and he'd have his glove on and I would hit it to the other
side of the yard, sometimes try to wrap it around the house.
And I would literally countdown 12 three.
And I would give him a 7 second, maybe even start a 10 second
game. And then I'd cut it down to
seven. Of course, you got to keep
pushing it. Eventually we got to the 55
second game and within my count, which is obviously I have a loud
voice, the whole neighbor could probably hear it.
He's running after the ball with an urgency because now he knows
all right, I'm, I'm running after the ball and I'm, I'm
running after it within a required amount of time and I'm
having fun doing it. And early.
And I, he got most he got, he got most of them very early, you
know, from the get go. But there was some like if Rick,
if it ricocheted off a fence or a house or or whatever, a tree,
I would then say if I was getting to 7 or 10 and he hadn't
gotten the ball yet and I didn't think he would, I would say 566
and 1/2. 6 is like I would, I would make it fun and then he
would get the ball in the run back.
I don't know if that's perfect. But what I do know is that when
Tebow and I was obviously doing some other stuff as a former
player with him, but as as he got to the T-ball field, guess
who is ready to run after every ball, even if it was on the
other side of the diamond, He was.
So I think if you start with just having fun and, and making
it a game and tapping into their competitiveness without going
over the top, you know, and, and by the way, that in itself is a
is a tough struggle. You know, you know, I've had
moments where I'm like, that's too much.
I've seen other friends and other young players that
specifically my son plays with that, you know, their parents
have made mistakes that I've made.
You know, it, it is what it is. There's no road map to doing it
the right way and so nobody's perfect.
I don't know if that's the perfect answer only because I
don't think that there is one. But short version, start with
fun, get the urgency going and, and, and just start there.
All right, I got to run. I got to shower, I got to get
out the Queens. I will upload the the Red Storm
report on the YouTube page as well.
It airs every Friday and Saturday on MSG.
So I don't know if you guys are going to be able to see it If
you don't have MSG or you don't have the app, whatever it might
be, I will upload them to YouTube.
Hopefully. I'm not going to I'm not going
to front. I don't know.
I'm not going to sit here and say, Oh yeah, the YouTube stream
will be fixed by tomorrow. I honestly don't know the answer
to that. I hope that it will be In the
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Good job by the Knicks last night punching, punching back
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ending that four-game skit against a team that was hot and
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more so more about am I than the Cabrera situation with the
Yankees. They reluctance to just spend
money and circumvent giving up prospects, which they did not do
and I don't know why. So have a great rest of your
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You'll know. You know, there'll be something
else with the Giants at some point here.
Maybe something breaks with the Yanks and the Mets.
And in the meantime, have a great day.
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I really appreciate you and I will see you tomorrow live at
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