This is on leash Are you listening?
Can you hear me? Hear me?
This is on leash. Are you listening?
Can you hear me? Hear me?
This is on leash Are you listening?
Can you hear me? Hear me?
This is on leash Are you listening?
Can you hear me? What's going on, everybody?
J Rob, we got a little. Was that by design?
J Rod got sparks. Flying.
Wait. Wait, why?
Why do I hear multiple things here?
I got multiple things going on here.
Yeah, hold on. I've got a couple of things
going on here. J Rod, Talk to me, homeboy.
Talk to me, brother. Hello.
I guess we're good there. OK.
We're good. Yeah, yeah, we do have some
sparks flying in those comments already, huh?
People coming after me already? Yes, Sir.
Yeah, dude, I can't believe it, man.
This guy, first thing he does in the morning, gets up, throws
some shots at BT. Why don't you pop that up?
I'm in that kind of mood. Pop it up.
Let's go out. This guy.
All right, so who is this Billy Myers?
Billy Myers, Dash, TD6 TW Yeah. All right, so you got fired for
a show that talked about baseball 365 days a year, and
you thought doing the same show was going to get different
results? Time to get a job, bro, and be a
man. Whoa, whoa, you dumb guy.
Be a man. Hot out the gate.
Oh my God, is somebody really truly laced with that kind of
negativity that they think that that's how they want to start
the day or that they're predisposed to starting the day
that way? You know, that's the kind of guy
that's kind of person maybe back in the day, shall we say.
Maybe a younger and less secure or less controlled BT might
absolutely eviscerate, which by the way, would be entertaining,
don't get me wrong. But I'm going to look at that.
I'm going to laugh and I'm just going to work under the notion
that I could take 2 fucking cans, OK, and a string and stand
on the fucking moon with no oxygen and I would have more
viewers than you if you actually got on a station or on ATV show.
So that's, that's now we can move on.
All right? Now we, we, we, you know, we
can't let it get too out of hand.
Will we absorb these shots? You know, I mean, I'll, I'll
laugh a little bit, have a little bit of fun, but yeah, I
mean, come on, buddy, let's, let's let's get a grip.
Let's get real. Oh, man.
Oh, by the way, J Rod had some had some homework yesterday.
Yes, Sir. And now we told J Rod to watch.
Well, I gave him a couple of different options and he settled
on the Warriors. All right, now we got some great
content today, but a lot of baseballs, so much to the
chagrin of of, of that gentleman with 9 letters, 9 letters in his
YouTube handle at a dash as well to his chagrin.
But I would like to know, what did you know?
It's very, very dated. It's very old.
Yeah. That's it.
So go ahead, give us. No, I mean, it was fun.
It was, it was definitely an entertaining run through.
I mean, certainly different from movies you watch today because
movies you watch today, they've got like, you know, they've
always got a message and there's always like something a little,
little avant-garde with the story.
This movie was just straightforward, just all right,
listen, these guys got framed for this murder.
Let's battle back to Coney Island.
So I thought it was funny and man, like a couple weeks ago,
you're getting on Kuzma. You're like, what's this guy
wearing his sweaters? They're too long.
Yeah, yeah, dude, they're out here in vests and Chieftain
garb. I'm like.
Yeah, I know. Like I know was.
That was that fresh back in the day.
Well, that not, not for me. I mean, listen, I was also never
in a gang. I was never remotely tough
enough or had interest in being or was being recruited by a
gang. I I think that you know you now
that's at the end of the 70s. So that's 79, I believe the
Warriors came out. So that means it starts getting
written and, and goes to production, you know, late 77,
maybe early 78. So you still have some remnants
from the mid 70s stylistically. I yeah, I do think that when you
look at the the gangs of the 70s, it was a lot of leather.
You know, it was a lot of spikes.
It was a lot of vest with the muscles showing, you know, the
bare chest and and stuff like that.
Think about it. Think about what now, I don't
know if this is the best example, but you know, think of
the village people, think of the village people like YMCA, you
know what I mean? So, but did you like it?
Like All in all, you liked it the grittiness you had.
To watch it, yeah. I mean, it's definitely a good
time, definitely entertaining. I mean, I thought the scene
where they meet up with the girls and then they're like,
what are the Lizzies? They bust out the guns on us
like it's fun. It's a movie.
All right. Well, I could tell that you were
a good student because that's a fairly comprehensive report.
Good job, J Rod. I love it.
Oh, my God. The kids are going to school in
about 15 or 20 minutes. Go ahead.
Get out. Get out of here already.
Go to school already. Please get going.
The the shoveling yesterday was just a an immense colossal pain
in the ass. I, I don't I've never seen
anything like this. I, I really haven't in all my I
was trying to tell my son there's now where I like it.
He started to proactively grab a shovel be granted it's a smaller
shovel, but still grabbing a shovel coming out trying to help
daddy, which I and my daughter came out for a little bit as
well and she tried to help, which was fun, right, But I was
it was so daunting, like I couldn't even go out my front on
the porch because it was so like.
Yeah. So I went out the garage.
I'm like, let me, let me just, you know, put the garage door up
and I'm looking at and I felt like I was remembering Empire
Strikes Back. The Huff.
The hop system you. Know when Han Solo slices over
that as like the animal slices open the animal and he sticks
Luke in there to keep him warm. Like it that it it it was it was
just snow everywhere and it was so daunting because generally
when you shovel like say if the if the snow.
I don't know if this would be the best example, right.
Say if the snow was like up to here and like the ground is
about here, like the shovel comes under it and then you just
lift whatever's there and it's gone.
But the difference yesterday was that it was literally 2324
inches where I am. So you would get here and then
by the time you got here it was too Hubble too heavy or the
shovel would break. So you had to almost smash the
top and loosen it up. I felt like I was preparing a
meal just to be able to work hard.
It was hard, bro. It was really hard.
And then the worst part and this I'll tell you and and I I don't
I want to be fair. They're doing their job.
I've got respect for them. I don't mean this they're in the
wrong way, but they look at you and it's almost like they know
that you're screwing you. What am I talking about?
I'm talking about the people who come and plow in my
neighborhood. You know.
You pay decent amount of taxes certain things you know that the
town does for you. So the way it is like my
driveway. You know, decent sized driveway,
right? And then obviously it kind of
funnels out to the street. So I do the whole, I do the
whole thing. I do the, you know, I, I do
everything I had to do. And then just as I'm getting
ready to wrap up, they come by again with the plow.
And now it, it picks up like all the remnants of not only the
snow, but now it's ice. And now I've got to do it again.
Because if I don't the the you're not able to drive the car
out there and they look at you like, I don't know, like they
they don't even like I can't explain.
I know they're doing their job. I can't really explain to J Rod
and I appreciate hard work. I really do, but that part
annoys me. Land you are.
I was out there for literally I was out there for hours, hours
upon hours just trying to make a dent into this damn thing.
Eventually we got to figure it out.
You got to do what you got to do.
You got to man up and you got to be able to operate here.
So it looks like we're back to civilization here and the world
will continue to continue to continue to spin.
But it is just I, I'm, I'm so over this shit, man.
I can't wait for this, for this weather to, to start, you know,
coming in and start melting the ice.
I saw Wednesday it's going to be about 40, 243, so that's a
starting point. But yesterday was an absolute
disaster. What a disaster.
Yeah, no, terrible. I mean similar, similar vibe
like we've kind of got like a little I wanted to check out the
snow. We've got like a roof deck area
and I, I try to open the door, it doesn't open.
I. Couldn't open it up.
It's literally the snow was. Piled past the door frame.
Just stuck brutal, absolutely brutal.
And just, you know, again and you know, and it's driving me
nuts because the whole time, like the last day or two, and I
get it, she's from Dallas. She didn't see a lot of snow
growing up. But the whole time my wife's
like, oh, it's so beautiful. Oh, look at the snow and the
trees. Oh, look at this is gorgeous.
This is great. And in my mind I'm saying, no,
it's not because this just means the baseball season is going to
be complicated here. Like we have a big tournament in
my, in my neighborhood where we invite, I don't know, there's,
there's probably 30 or 40 teams that descend upon our baseball
facility and we do a Saint Patrick's tournament travel club
teams like it's, it's, it's, it's fairly high level and it's
really awesome. Like we bring in these fences
and we make, because we have two, two, we have two big fields
like where the kids play soccer and lacrosse.
Then we have another just a turf baseball field that we built
within the last two years. So what we do is we bring in
these massive fences and the one big field that soccer and
lacrosse, we fence it all for the kids.
It's it's like, I mean, it takes all day to Bill, takes all day
to bill, takes all data to take down this year.
I could probably help with the fences because I'm not in the
city. Usually a lot of the guys in
town do it like, you know, 9 or 1011 in the morning.
I'll do it after the show. I'm going to go out and give a
hand this year, but I I don't even know if we're going to get
if we're able to do that anyway, the snow, it just drove me
fucking nuts. Like really, it put like I
wasn't kidding. It put me in a bad mood.
Like that's the last thing that I wanted to see.
But here's what's going to put me back in a good mood.
Little baseball. Now Daryl Strawberry, who I know
really well and I love, had some really interesting things to say
about former met Pete Alonzo. Let's get this up on the board.
I want to read it, I want to react.
Look at the graphic there. Look at how sad Pete looks
walking away. But again, Pete sitting some
bombs early. Be that sad quote.
I was really shocked that Pete would leave New York for
Baltimore. One day he's going to wake up
and just like I did and regret you didn't stick where you're
at. That's what Darryl Strawberry
said. All right, again, I, I really do
have a lot of affinity for Darryl.
Like I've gotten to know him a little bit.
I remember when I was doing a lot of stuff for S&Y and that's
when he was really turning his life around with the church and
his wife Tracy, who I've met couple of times.
I remember the first time I really met Tracy, you can take
that down was at Michael Kay's wedding.
And I was, I was getting hammered with Coney.
Oh, great wedding, my God. And, and, and you know, they
were there and we were having an awesome time.
And I appreciate Daryl's speaking.
I'm sure he was asked about this.
I don't think he just volunteered this So, but, but I
do think that Darryl is wildly off base here and I, I, I don't
think that you can equate the two at all.
I'm not even saying that he's trying to see.
There were three things that were preventing Darryl
Strawberry from remaining a bet. Number one, there was a massive
disconnect in the money, number one.
Number two, there was a, a high amount of mistrust and that was
all Darryl's fault. And #3 there was just a ton of
turmoil. That was all Darryl's fault.
So when he's, you know, he basically said that he
shouldn't. There was other quotes, but that
was the main one. That was the money 1.
He also went out to say that he should not have opted out of,
you know, with his deal with the Mets here.
You know, I, I think that this is an example.
I do think that some people will take this and I don't want to
say you don't take shots at Daryl because I don't think
anybody's looking to do that. But I do think that they will
miss read this or they'll miss apply this.
This was not Daryl, You know, all to try to stick it to Pete
or I think that this is somebody who's not incredibly informed of
the situation that that's just my honest, sincere opinion.
You think it you like every time I see Daryl for the most part on
social media, it's something to do with his ministry.
Like he's got a bigger calling right now.
And I I totally respect that. I don't think I know he's not
like immersed day-to-day in in in baseball and like the Mets
business. And I know he's down to Port
Saint Lucie, or at least he was. I'm not sure how long he'll be
there. He was asked about this.
He gave a pretty, you know, he gave, gave you his opinion, but
I, I don't really think that it, it matches what happened here.
Get that up once more time. One more time there, Jay.
So, you know, you, you want to try to equate the two, you know,
one was back in the late 80s, one is back in the mid 20
twenties. 2 very different people, two very different
talents, two different personalities.
I was really shocked that Pete will leave New York for
Baltimore. Now keep this up.
I'm going to attack it line by line.
I was really shocked Pete will leave New York for Baltimore.
Well, why the Mets didn't want them.
You see, that's the part that Darrell's missing.
They did not want Pete Alonso. Everything in the negotiations
that, you know, that we're going on this offseason when he opted
out and everything that's transpired last year coming off
a really good season, you know, basically told you that the Mets
no longer valued Pete Alonso, that they were looking for
different things. They were, they were looking for
things that David Stearns valued more than what Pete Alonso was
able to bring to the table. Pete can't run.
Pete can't play defense. Pete's not a good base runner.
You know, Pete's not going to age gracefully, by the way.
These, I don't think these are things that I've said for a
couple of years and many of you resisted and many of you
resented. And I don't take any pleasure in
being right. But the action or or really the
inaction on the part of the Mets pertaining to try to keep Pete
validates everything that I said.
Not to mention that he's no longer here.
So I don't know why why Daryl would be shocked if somebody put
it this way. You know, I know the radio
business is very different. You can get me back up here now.
Thank you very much. If you look at the way it ended,
you can get me back up here, Jay.
We're good. If you look at the way it ended
for the fan, like if there was, and I know it's it's different,
like I'm of course I'm again, you know, Pete's making that 30,
whatever the hell he's making. It's just not like that.
And by the way, I freaking wish that there was free agency in
radio. I I wish that there was free
agency in radio. Like I wish that you come up and
you got to go through the arbitration nonsense.
The pre orb, the pre orb 1, whatever it is, you know,
incrementally get a little bit more.
I promise you, I promise you that if there was radio free
agency, I'd be a fucking stud. I can promise you that.
Like now I'm I'm, I'm thrilled with what we're doing.
I am and I know what this is the new wave of of communication and
content and radio's dying. Radio is dying a very slow
death. All right.
Companies that used to be on the FM signal are no longer on the
FM signal. Companies that used to pay a lot
of money and subscribe to the ratings and you know what I'm
talking about, no disrespect. They no longer do that because
it's no longer cost effective. So the measurement, you know, US
versus them, them versus US, that whole game is over.
Nobody writes about the New York radio wars anymore Like it's,
it's, it's, it's over. I mean, the carousel has stopped
turning, you know what I mean? But that doesn't mean people
don't have jobs and that people don't make decent money.
In a few spots at WFA ended a few of the other spots there and
you have games. The Giants in the home of the
Yankees. There are elements of high
viability. But the days of radio, like what
it used to be are clearly over. I mean, the stamps aren't
getting, you know, enhanced or, or, or deepened.
They're getting whacked every every year.
This is getting sliced off and that's getting sliced off.
But I know I'm going on a tangent here, but I I should
only be so lucky for there to be radio free agency.
All right, Hey, you know, if it was actually based on talent and
it was actually based on merit and not some other bullshit that
some people want to rate rate, you know, whatever they want to
do. I can promise you that if there
was radio free agency agency, I would have massive offers.
You could take that, You could clip that, and you can play that
for perpetuity. It's a fact.
All right, So the difference is, is that Pete, who is, by the
way, a lot better at his job than I am at mine.
I'm not trying to go nuts here, right?
But nobody was knocking down the door of Pete Alonso starting
with the Mets. So you know, when Daryl says
that, I'm like, I know it wasn't malicious.
It wasn't, but I, I know it wasn't.
It's a Daryl. I don't think Daryl has a bad
bone in his body anymore. I think that he has changed to
the point where the person that he's become is real.
And I think that that's incredibly impressive and I'm
happy for him and I'm proud of him.
I, I really am. Because there were points this
before I knew Daryl, like back in the day where that was a dark
figure, that was a dark man and it's well chronicled.
I'm not going to run through all the stuff that happened.
You can look it up, but you you cannot equate the two because
Frank Cashin didn't trust you, Management ownership didn't
trust you. You know, your reliability on
the field as a great five tool player wasn't always
translating. Effort was questioned.
You know, there there was a lot of knocks on on Daryl where he
was hurt and he didn't really return from injury very, very
soon or it just took a little longer than some people thought.
That was never Pete Alonso. I mean, Pete is just a different
athlete and a different type of player in a very different time.
I don't just hey, let's use common sense for a moment, guys,
please apply common sense. Do you think that if the Mets
would have been proactive because everything the other
part of what Darrell saying is, is true?
I do think there's going to be a point in Pete's life where, you
know, not now, maybe when he comes back to Citi Field in
September, maybe when, you know, he retires.
And let's face it, if he gets 500 home runs, he's going to be
he's going to be in Cooperstown. He's going to be a Hall of Famer
at least debatable. I mean, and I would say yes more
than no, there's going to come a point of self reflection for
Pete where he's going to, I don't know, question.
It's going to really depend how it goes in Baltimore too.
If it goes really well, well, then he won't lament leaving the
Mets. But what was the option, Darryl?
Like I'm I'm asking the question, what was the option
not opt out and take 6570 cents on the dollar despite being one
of the preeminent power hitters in the game.
Would you do that, Darryl? Did you do that, Darryl?
The answer is no. And I, I think when like there's
a lot like, you know, I was going to say that there's really
not much that that I personally regret.
I'm not saying there's no regrets, but like if I was, you
know, obviously you I've talked about this a lot.
I, I coach and I played whatever, but I was just never
good enough to make it all right.
I know that I maxed out at the mid age Division One level
injuries, just didn't quite have that talent.
But like if I had the talent and and I just flushed it down the
chute as a as a dad, as a grown man.
Now that would begins to reflect on earlier parts of my life.
Man, I would I would that would be a burden that will be very
hard for me to deal with. Now.
It bothers me that I didn't perform the way that I should
have right. But I can look myself in the
mirror and just stare through my eyes and say, Hey, did you
really give it your best? Did you do everything that you
that if you said that you wanted to be the next Don Mattingly and
you wanted to play Major League Baseball?
And you want to do this. You want to do that.
There's certain limitations that you can't control.
Man Upstairs does OK. What you can control is how much
do you put out? How much do you try to maximize
whatever God gave you? And I'm content in my, you know,
I mean, I wish I was giving more talents, quite frankly.
But in my early 50s, I can look in that mirror, the Bill
Parcells mirror, because the reflection never lies.
The man in the mirror. We know the poem.
And I can look in that mirror. And even though it's painful,
you know, certain parts like not getting the job done or not
performing the way that I thought that I should and my
teammates and my school thought that I should.
I can look in that mirror with a very clear mindset and the prism
that of, of self evaluation. I'm content, you know, like just
because I, I know I, I couldn't go any further.
Can Darryl do that? Can Darryl?
No, and and I'm not, I love Darryl, but Darryl can't do
that. Can Pete Alonzo do that?
Yes, he could. Pete Alonso could do that.
Specific to his Mets tenure, Pete Alonso could do that.
Darryl Strawberry could not. That's a big difference right
there. So I just think it's the kind of
thing, you know, where a guy who's been removed from the game
for a long time, who has more important interest like his
church. And it's great.
It's it's great what Darryl's doing.
I think the wording when you see it, put it up once more there.
Jay, please put up that quote for buddy.
I want to get to some Sodo stuff as well.
I got something on the draft too.
Like when you see that, if you don't take the time to
incorporate, you know, nuance and circumstance and all the
keep keep it up there, please. All the other stuff.
I, I, I think Daryl in the court of public opinion is going to
get a little knocked around today and I'm not here to do
that because I don't think that he meant this with, with an
ounce of, of malice. Quote.
I was really shocked that Pete will leave New York for
Baltimore. Well, you shouldn't be because
the Mets didn't want him. Baltimore did next one day he's
going to wake up like I did and regret that you didn't stick
where you're at. End Quote.
Well, I don't think that you can have any regrets.
This is just whether this is Pete leaving the Mets or Darryl
leaving the Mets or Pete finishing in Baltimore or I
don't know, if Aaron Judge doesn't win a World Series.
Like if you do everything that you can do at your like, at at
your disposal within your power, if you really attack it with
such unrelenting vigor that when you look in that mirror,
whenever that is, if you like the image that's staring back at
you, then I, I don't think that you're going to one day wake up
like I did quote and regret you didn't stick where you're at.
End Quote. Because to do that, you would
have been sacrificing self worth.
And what idiot is going to do that when you're talking about
that kind of money? So again, I'm not here to beg on
Daryl. I am one of Daryl's biggest
fans. I I mean, even when Daryl was a
met, he was one of my favorite players.
I just love Daryl. I love this style.
I love this grace. I love the swing.
I love the way he looked in the uniform.
Just loved everything about Daryl.
Come on, love the more when he was winning World Series with
the Yankees, of course. But Daryl's the man, and Daryl's
a good cat, and Daryl has become a great soul and a great person
and a great ambassador for many more important things in life
here. I think Darryl's wildly off base
because I think he fails to incorporate the circumstances of
Pete, and he makes it seem like it's the same as his.
And they weren't very different. All right.
Juan. Soto.
Yeah.
I'd say I don't mind hearing the whisper when Juan wins 83 games.
Soto 83 All right, so Juan Soto said something interesting too,
and I love this here. I love when players talk like
this. Let's get this up.
I told you to baseball day. I've got something on the NFL
draft as well, which you guys will dig.
So Juan Soto on battling show look at these graphics.
Although wait, do they make Otani a right-handed hitter
there? What's going on with that for
the NLMVP? Quote, I'm going to be there
every year too. And he better keep doing what
he's doing because I'm coming and quote Soto on battling the
great Shohei Otani, the the transcendent all time Shohei
Otani for the NLMVP. All right, now here's the thing.
So I'm looking at this right now.
Of course, I think it's possible.
I think Juan Soto's a terrific, terrific hitter and what he's
good at. You could take that down, Jay,
thanks. What he's good at, like he's all
time great at in terms of being on base and his his acumen, just
ball strike and differentiating and and all that prowess all
time great, right? I'm not even going to get into
fielding running, even though we did steal almost 40 bases.
Whatever. I think if Juan Soto's going to
get there, which I believe that he can, I think Wansoto just
simply has to be better because, and I believe he's got that
extra gear in his chamber here. But going back in the sending
years, right? So in 2025, you had Otani hit
the 55 bombs in 2024, also the 50 steel, 54 home runs, right?
In 2023. These are all previous NLMVP
winners. Acuna hit 337 with 41 home runs,
stole 73 bases. Now the year before that, of
course the Yankees can never get this version because those days
are over. Goldschmidt hit 317 with 115RBI
S MVP in 2021. I'm not even going to count 20
because of the shortened season. But Harper hit three O 9.
In 2019 that was Pete Bellinger 3O5 with 47 home runs.
And then even the year before that going back to 2018, Kristen
Yelich Milwaukee hit 326 with 36 and 110.
Now, what is the one common aside from power and in some
cases some some some some high level base running right.
Well, the other commonality here is that, you know, outside of
Otani, I believe one of the years everybody hit over 300 and
that's something Juan Soto, by the way hasn't done since 2021.
Now this very well might be the year that he that he does it and
there were some circumstances Dell play for two teams in one
year. OK, And that was back in 2022
when he hit a very unsoto like 242, clearly not who he is.
I mean, Juan Soto can go up there and and half try and he's
never going to hit 242 again, except maybe at the back end of
that contract where he's just a diminished figure and he's
chasing benchmarks. I don't know, 600 home runs,
whatever the benchmarks might be for him, depending upon how
healthy he stays and what he does.
But anyway, 20/22, he had 242 in 2023.
He had 275 in 2024 with the great Aaron Judge, hit 288.
So he's ticking there. And then last year took a step
back. Year one with the Mets, not as
clutch, rough start, some hustle issues early, not running down
the line. 2025 hit 263. Now at the end of the year with
the Mets, like if you didn't watch Juan Soto, you'd say
phenomenal. First year with the Mets, 43
bombs, 100, plus ribbies. OPS was I think it was 921.
Yeah, it was 988 the year before, yeah, 921 big time
season. OK.
But obviously watching and being Uber critical, just based on the
contract and the expectations, you knew that it was a bit of an
uneven year for Juan Soto. Especially if you're somebody
like Juan Soto, you know where you going to do damage and
clutch spots. I think that Juan Soto could win
an MVP. Matter of fact, I'd be
disappointed if he doesn't. The Mets have never had that.
And Juan Soto's got the goods to be the first Met to ever win the
World Series. The the MVP, the couple of guys,
just Darryl could have won it back in the day.
Few others came close. David Wright had some big, big
seasons. But if he wants to win the MVP.
Yeah, one more time with that quote board.
See, I love that he's saying this.
This is a guy who is beyond feeling the pressure, quote, I'm
going to be there every year too, so he better keep doing
what he's doing because I'm coming and quote, like that's a
money that like that's like if you're a Mets fan, how good does
that feel? And it's not hollow.
Like sometimes some of these guys will go out there and say,
I'm going to do this and I want to do that.
You're like, all right, sounds good buddy, but you're not
billed for that. That's not who you are.
I mean, one Soto could do anything he wants in the
batter's box. So to me, for one Soto not to
hit 300 is wildly disappointing. It's unacceptable, you know, and
and by the way, you could you could get that off there.
J Rod, thank you. That nice timing right there.
That a boy. So I remember a couple of years
ago the whole Tucker Soto thing where I said Tucker's a better
all around player. I think he is.
I know Soto's a much better hitter, but all the round, even
though Soto stole all the bases, that's more of a a byproduct of
the I mean, listen, you still stole them so that I don't
really need to contextualize that because Aaron Judge didn't
steal 38. But again, it's a timing thing
rather than a speed thing because his Sprint speed and his
runs against, you know, in the outfield defensively are horrid.
All right, so I said. And Tucker's faster and a better
defender. Not a great defender, but
better, but better all around player.
Soto superior hitter. I think most of us know that.
But where I push back and whether it was with Sal, whether
it was with Culver's, whether it was with who, I'll do it right
now if you want to whomever wants to do it.
When people say this goes back to how I feel about the word
great. Like let's not throw it around
there. Oh yeah, great game.
Oh, great player. Are you great or are you good?
And I'm not even talking about Soto.
Now, are you really good or are you great?
Like it's a lazy, lazy people just throw it out there too
much. And to me, great is the is the
pinnacle of achievement. Like there's first you suck,
then there's slightly below average, then there's this is my
scale. Just make it off the top of my
head ass. So we'll go, we'll go ass scrub.
We'll go slightly below average, we'll go average, we'll go
slightly above average, We'll go highly above average, we'll go
highly above average. We'll go elite, we'll go, you
know, great slash superstar. And you know, if you call like
37 players great, that's stretching the boundaries of the
world. There aren't 37 great players
because there's not 37 superstars.
Like let me ask you this, there are people and I've heard it
too. Just a quick comparison.
Oh, cats great. Look at the numbers.
And I know cat, you know, I hit him a lot.
I get it. He started to play a little bit
better. Now yesterday, you know, I
talked a little bit about the Knicks, a little bit encouraged
coming back from that Rockets deficit, beating the Bulls, even
though the Bulls stink back-to-back.
Maybe this is the opening, like the awakening of the Knicks.
We'll see. But a lot of people, because
Cats scores points, can shoot threes, good foul shooter, good
rebounder, all that stuff. Cats great.
No, he's not. He's not great.
Jayson Tatum is great when he's helping.
Jaylen Brown is great. Jaylen Brunson is great.
Luca is great. Giannis when healthy is great.
Cats not great. He's good.
He's really good. He's an All Star.
It's not like there's there's a delineation there.
So I say this because when you would call me up and Sal would
tell me how great Juan Soto is, Yeah, more, more so from a
hitting point of view and certain aspects, I don't I don't
push back on again. I'm not just trying to, you
know, take shots at Soda because what he's again, what he's great
at, he's all time great at. But when I hear generational
talent, transcendent hitter, all time hitter, can you hit 300
once in the last five years? You know, Aaron Judge found a
way to do it, you know what I mean?
And if you're not going to hit 300, bang, 54 bombs like Ohtani.
And that's why I and again, I love that Soto says this.
I like that. Push those chips in the middle
of the table. You got the contract.
You're the you're the top met. It's not Lindoor, it's you.
All right, You didn't make the playoffs last year.
There should be a little pressure.
New team, show them the way. I believe that he will.
I'm much more a believer in Soto than a detractor, but that keep
that up there. I want to read that in a SEC
there, Jay. Thanks bud.
The reason why I run through the last, I don't know, 9 or so 2
for seven or eight MVPS in the National League is because
there's a statistical connection.
You either hit almost sixty home runs or you hit over 300 with
power. I mean, Acuna hit 33740 plus
bombs, stole 70 plus bags. I mean, so is Soto ever going to
Soto's never going to do that because he's never going to
steal 70 bases. I mean, could he hit 337?
He could. I'd like to see it.
I mean even Goldschmidt year three 17115 ribbies, 10 more RB
is than Soto had a year ago at a whole hell of a lot higher
average. Harper going back to the 2021
season hit three O 9. I mean he hasn't hit 300 since
2021. Not saying he can't do it.
I'm just saying that he hasn't done it.
You know, Bellinger three O 547 home runs.
I'm not making this stuff up. Yelich won the MVP back in 2018.
Milwaukee hit three 26326. So to me that that is what needs
to happen because he just told you, and I love that he said
this because the thumb is like not he doesn't run away from
pressure at all. I love it.
I'll tell you who would never say that because I don't think
he believes in himself the way that Juan Soto believes in
himself. I don't think Lindor would ever
say that. And this is not to knock Lindor
either, but they're built different.
Juan Soto's built for everything.
Lindor is built for a lot of stuff, not everything.
This is a difference, All right. So I believe Soto when he says
that, that he believes it, that he thinks he could do it, but
now you got to do it at Virtual Discourse.
You don't have to hit 300 to win or hit 300 to win.
OPS matters for me more. Yeah, Judge and Otani both
consistently over 1000 to win the MVP.
No, I I agree with that. Well, then either way, we can
just juxtapose certain things here if you wanted to.
And I just say the 300 average because literally it's proven
that the 123-4567 the last, you know, well, can't put put Otani
aside. He's just he's a freak show.
But from Ocuna Goldschmidt, Harper Bellinger and Yelich 5,
the five last MVP winners in the NL.
And I'm only talking about this because Juan Soto brought this
up himself, all right, That, you know, he's he's ready to win the
so Otani better be ready to keep up.
I have no doubts Otani is going to do what he's what he's done.
I believe that Soto's going to keep doing what he's done, but
that's not good enough to win the MVP, as evidenced by the
fact that he's got none so far. So this is not a knock on Soto.
Don't hijack that or do whatever you want.
That really doesn't matter, but I don't think that you can be
generational when you hit in succession.
I'm sorry, you want to tell me batting averages antiquated,
that's fine. It's not that antiquated where
it doesn't mean anything. 240-2275, 280-8263, Figure it
out, dude, Figure it out. Because I remember watching a
young Aaron Judge and there's no comparison between the two.
I'm just bringing them up now. I remember watching a young
Aaron Judge, ironically against the Mets.
Max Scherzer. It's about what year was this?
God, 2524. This was at least four years
ago. Was it 2022?
Yeah, I'm going to say 2022 SO22345.
Yeah, problem. We stick with that.
I remember in the Subway series, Scherzer just kept taking Judge
to school outside Slider, wipeout slider, wipeout Slider
and Judge Flailing, flailing, flailing.
Well, guess what? Aaron Judge went from being a
272752828288, whatever it was to all of a sudden he's basically
like, you know, Rod Carew with power.
That's a trans. That's a transformative,
transcendent, generational all time player.
Juan Soto is a cut below that. And I'm sorry if you guys don't
want to identify that. I don't know what to tell you.
I just don't know now if he was hitting 55 home runs like Otani
and his OPS was consistently over 1000, which it really never
is. Even the great year that he had
with the Yankees was South of 1000.
Aaron Judge is 1100 every year with his eyes shut, Aaron Judge.
And and again, there's no comparison.
But if you want to talk about that, that top perch, that top
spot, like what it looks like, here's what it looks like.
You bang 50 plus bombs, you win batting titles, you have an OPS
over 11, you're a plus defender. You're good on the basis you
know that that's where I, we kind of start.
And Oh yeah, by the way, you have a war.
You want to laugh at war, that's fine.
I don't, and I know many of you don't either anymore.
I, I mean, it's, it's a pretty good number.
It's not representative of everything, but it means
something when you have a WAR of 10 or better.
Three of the last Four Seasons, not 7, not 8, not 9 / 10.
Three of the last Four Seasons. And the only reason, the one
season that's below 10, barely, I think it was 8.8, whatever it
was, is because those idiot dopey Dodger moron jerks never
fixed the outfield wall. And he missed two months because
if he didn't miss two months, not instead of hitting 38 home
runs, he'd have 50 something. He'd have another MVP.
Yanks would have been a playoff team.
And Oh yeah, by the way, he would have had a WAR over 10,
which is my point. Like that's, that's
transcendent, that's untouchable stuff.
Juan Soto's really good. And I liked it, Juan saying
this, but this should be the window because Judge is older.
All right. Now I'm going to be fair to Juan
Soto. While he came up a lot younger
than than Aaron Judge, he was 19.
Judge was 24. And that's going to ultimately
impact Aaron Judge's numbers in totality.
When it's all said and done, the like it it took Judge a while to
refine his approach because he wasn't this type of the last two
or three years when he's morphed into a a more patient, higher
average hitter without losing and sacrificing any power like
that is a step now you Babe Ruth and actually you're better
because you're not. You're playing against
minorities and it's a different, you know, I saw a stat.
Oh God, what was it? It was so amazing.
I got to make sure I have this hold on.
Jeez, was it, it was something about Ruth.
I'm going to butcher this and it's going to bother me.
I think it was something along the lines of, yeah, it was MLB.
Let me maybe, maybe step by step, it was MLB networks
running through their top 100 players, which which I always
pop in on each year. I don't watch the whole show,
but I, I chime in, I pop in, I look at the list.
And I caught it the other day by chance when they were running
through the top ten. And Soda was #6 by the way.
So Aaron Judge for some reason was number 2.
They continue to lick Otan on his boots.
I'll take Judge and Otani should be too, but whatever they put
him on, they put Judge too because of the pitching as we
know, and they stay had him to stat that when when Babe Ruth
hit his sixty home runs, he faced 46 pitchers the whole
year. No reliefs.
The obviously no specialist. Oh, let's get the hey, we got
Babe coming up. Let's get the lefty specialist.
There is no such thing. You got some guy who's cutting
down Christmas trees in, you know, in December and laying
brick in January to subsidize his income and who's throwing
397 innings, probably throwing 86 miles an hour, you know,
maybe spitting on a ball, but you know, then no other pitches.
And, you know, he's, he's pitching every other day.
That's the guy that Babe Ruth is facing.
So it was, I think it was 46 for Babe and it was like 160 for
Aaron Judge. Think about.
And by the way, by extension and obviously impacts other hitters
now who face so many more arms, so many more angles, so many
more, you know, matchups that are less favorable driven by the
data. All right, this guy's not great
on the slider. Well, let's get the righty
righty on righty who has a wipeout slider.
All right, the numbers tell us and numbers don't fully lie.
They don't tell you the entire truth, but they're a road map to
something. So it's a whole hell of a lot
harder to be great now than it was back then.
And you know, Aaron Judge wasn't this hitter, this profile at the
age of 262728, which is where Juan Soto is now entering that
what should be his absolute prime.
But because he came up at 19, you can make the case.
And he was amazing in the World Series.
You can make the case that he should already be a little bit
more advanced with the average and with a few.
Well, there's really no other numbers that I mean, he's not
going to be on base more. He's great with that.
I'm just laying it out, you know, and this is something that
that is always been a good spark for any show that I've been on
with, with with any caller or with Sal or with whomever social
media. And listen, I'm, I'm not going
to be so arrogant to say that you're wrong.
I'm just going to say that I'm right.
Let's let's cut the difference that way.
You're not wrong. You're not wrong.
I just happen to be right. J Rod, you notice the difference
there, buddy? No big.
Difference. They're not wrong, Jay.
They're just not right. Yeah, All right, what do we got
here? What is let's see here.
All right, at the under score. Rod, what a Soto done that's so
amazing at his age. What a World Series at 19.
Great other than other others have at a similar age.
Well, Cabrera for the Marlins, where they beat the Yankees back
in 2003. I believe that he was 19 and
he's one of the greatest right-handed hitters, one of the
greatest pure hitters, Miggy of all time.
And you know, and and and maybe 1.
So do me a favor, all right, put up J Rod, I need you to do this
here and again. If I had I I would do it, but I
would lose the feed. So just do it for me.
See, when I when I when I talk about pure hitters, like great
hitters, right, look up Miguel Cabrera, all right, I believe
his first year was O3. I'm pretty sure.
I don't think he came up before that.
I know he played in the World Series.
Will you run down? And then especially as he got to
the Tigers, The only thing that I want is batting average.
I don't need OPS, home runs, ribbies, just run down in
succession when you have it. Miggy's batting average all.
Right, I've got it. The site's just being a little
slow. Just I got you and I want you
guys to listen. And as we're looking this up and
again, Miggy had power as well, drove it a ton of ton of runs.
OPS was always high like Juan Soto.
But think about this, you know, the last four years for Soto
batting average, which I know doesn't mean what it used to for
many of you and even to me to an extent.
But 240-2275, 280-8263 in his prime or what what I believe is
his, you know, now prime with. So what do you have for Mickey
there? Go ahead.
So 2003 was 268-2000. Starting out.
Start down like go. Down.
He's just starting out. He's just starting out by the by
the way, I'm sorry, Jay, you don't even have to give me the
year. We're assuming we're starting at
2003. Just RIP through the averages
and give me a little pause in between each one.
Just the averages go ahead starting from 2003 268.
260-8294. Here we go. 323.
OK. 339. Here we go. 3/20.
I mean, come on. 292. Down here. 3/24.
Back it back up. 3/28. Demand. 344 come.
On 344 come. On 3/30. 3:30. 348. 3-4 Are you
listening to these numbers? 313. 33 What'd you say, 313?
Yeah, Three 13338 dude 3/16. You could stop, you could stop
you. You can stop.
Points been proven and, and I'm not even trying to make this
like a Soto Miguel Cabrera thing, but that to me and we can
RIP through the OP s s and all that, which I'm I'm sure are
incredibly similar and I'm sure favorable to Mickey in in many
of those years because he was also a power guy.
And when you're hitting 3433348338 329, I mean the OP,
the OPS neon base is only going to add up to, to not slugging
that are numbers that are either comparable or far exceeding Soto
in certain spots. That's all I'm saying.
And I could already see where this is going to go.
It's not to denigrate Soto, it's to contextualize where I believe
that he is. He is a terrific player.
He's the guy that you want up there, two on, two out.
He's got the confidence we used to have.
We used to have an expression. I'll read that a minute.
We used to have an expression on the show, me and Sal, the
sackometer. How big is your sack?
I don't know how it wants to say plain English.
We all know what that means. I mean, are you a 10 out of 10
on the sack scale? You know, are they dragging on
the floor? You know, is the is the sack
scraping? Yeah.
Is it because I know when Soto gets up to hit the sack is
scraping. I know that.
All right. But it doesn't mean that he's
equal to some other people. That's all I'm saying.
And he he's a little different, a little better at certain
things, far worse at other things.
And, you know, I, I I have to be the standard bearer for Major
League Baseball because if I don't, if I don't check some of
this stuff, it's going to go unchecked.
And a narrative. Oh, yeah, the, the generational
all time Juan Soto. Dude, you hit 265.
Two. Come on.
What are we talking about here? That's all I'm saying.
All right, let me get this guy up here at C6675.
Soto blows Judge out of the water in playoff stats.
That's fair. Listen, I don't I'm not talking
about clutch. I now now to be fair, I mean
last year to be really fair and I think more more accurate
updated OK, because before last year, I mean I wouldn't even
waste anybody's time. How did Aaron judge do in the
postseason Last year did pretty well right.
It was it was around him that did nothing and even started
showing some some signs in the the World Series with the
Dodgers a little bit last year was they also dropped the pop up
full blown Aaron Judge experience.
All right. And I mean, one of Juan Soto's
greatest traits is his clutch value.
But you won 83 games a year ago. I don't know if this is the year
to tout, you know, October prowess or you know, post season
accolades when year one with the Mets he didn't get there.
And and I know it's a team sport.
I get that. And the Mets pitching was awful
and Mendoza had a bad year, but there were and had some
injuries. But there were many times,
especially early in the year, where Juan Soto could have
delivered. And instead of winning, if he
would have, in typical Juan Soto, and I think he will this
year, But in typical Juan Soto fashion, you know, instead of
winning 83 games, maybe the Mets would have won 87 and maybe or
maybe 88. And that last series against the
Marlins would have mattered a whole hell of a lot more than it
did. And the only one who pitched
well in that series was Clay Holmes, you know what I mean?
So it would have been a different profile of the series.
And you can't tell me otherwise when your best players have
great seasons, All right, Great seasons, not really good seasons
or not good seasons that look great statistically.
But the ebb and flow of of his early and and his inability to
which was confounding because he's always been great at this
hitting the clutch. Like that's a part of his 2025
season. It's a part of his 2025 resume.
If you choose to look at the total home runs and the stolen
bases, that's fine. To me, that's fluff because he's
not Ricky Henderson. He's not Lou Brock.
Lou Brock. Who cares how many bases he
steals when there's two out and it's the 8th inning and they got
their those are in and they're trying to get through this tough
part of the the of the lineup. And if they do, then it gets
easier like let's get through Lindor and so to impede those
guys. And if they do, then the the
opponent's going to win the game.
Well, Juan Soto had chances early in the year, many, and he
failed to come through and he wasn't alone.
He was not alone. I'm not trying to make this all
about him, but I mean, you know, so when he says again, I love
it, I think that he will get an MVP before it's all said and
done. If not wildly disappointing, he
should. And he still finished, you know,
very high a year ago had some other good finishes, but you got
to win one. I mean, if you want to be think
about this, you know, the the old time generational want Soto.
Imagine if he has no MVPS. I mean that, you know, that's
that's something that is going to be held against him, not in
terms of being in the Hall of Fame.
Of course he's going to get in. But let's go at at Bronx NYY at
Bronx NY Yankee fan 23. It's got to be a little Donny
shout out and love it already. I see value batting average
because it does still lead to a high rope.
Yeah, sure. If Ope would just hit two 50s
OPS would probably get to 750. Just saying it's all correlated.
There's no doubt about it. People want to point to I, I
agree with that, you know, now placing what degree of emphasis
just on that, you know, batting average.
Well, think I said this the other day, I think you know how
it came up. But if Luis Arayas was playing
in the 1980s, certainly the 60s or the 70s or the 80s and you
know, once the steroids start to pop and it would be different.
But even into the early 90s when maybe not everybody was taking
roids and mostly everybody the one who impune the integrity of
everybody, mostly everybody allegedly reportedly then I
think that somebody like Luis Arayas would be known as a as an
all time hitter. Like why would he be viewed
differently than Rod Carew? Now Rod's got over 3000 hits and
you know, Araya's is starting to, you know, some of those
numbers are a little bit diminished and the OPS is weak.
And I'm not saying he's Rod Crew, but if you look at Arise's
first couple of years when he won what I think it was three in
a row, I think it was back-to-back to back batting
titles, right, For three different teams.
I know he's got three, maybe 4, whatever was he was hitting 3:40
every year with no strikeouts. Right now he doesn't walk.
He's got no power. But we didn't talk about that
back Rod Crew didn't have power up outside of a year or two.
Wade Boggs didn't have any power.
You know, Wade Boggs turned up the power in was that 80, I
think it was 85 where he had like 25 or 26 home runs.
But Wade Boggs is not a home run hitter.
He just hit 343-5358 with his eyes shut, you know, so it's
totally different at inside the MLB.
You can have your true, that's true.
You can have the sacks great and still not perform.
I, I, I agree with that, especially in a sport that's
rooted in failure. The point is, if you're walking
to home plate and you've got, let's say you get 700 at bats
over the course of a year, and every time you're striding up
the home plate, that sack is scraping up against the dirt and
the grass and the on deck circle, you're going to have
more success than the guy who's sack is not scraping 700 at
bats. That doesn't mean that you're
not going to have a post season where you hit 190, but you're
not failing because the moment's too big for you.
You're failing because there's a randomness and an incredibly
high degree of difficulty unlike any other sport report that we
watch. So but, but, but I hear you.
I, I, I know what you mean. Add Omar under score Yousef.
Oh, what's going on, buddy? The league average, batting
average or the league average BA this decade is around 2:45.
In 2000 it was 270. For context, in 2000 we had 53
guys hit 300. The last couple of years we've
had about 40 guys each year just bat 270.
No, I am well aware. Like I remember, you know,
getting the newspapers back in the day and seeing all the
league leaders, whether it was a Bill Matlock in the NL or a
Boggs or a Carew or a Gwynn, guys like that.
Like those guys would be hitting 343-5358.
You know, Gwynn even hire some situations, but you had a ton of
guys that would yeah, I don't know the number off the top of
my head, but it seemed like there were 30 guys ish that hit,
you know, 300. A lot of guys three O 1 three
and just incrementally work up. No, the whole game has changed
and I'm not here. I'm not here to change the game.
Again, this conversations about what Juan Soto said about the
MVP and you know, kind of a message to Altani, which I
respect. I like that that that's why he's
got a massive sack again, the sack Ometer Soto's 10 out of 10.
We should have had that trademarked man, the sack Ometer
the the ability to do what he does is is is amazing.
But if you're not going to hit 300, which he doesn't anymore,
and he hasn't for half a decade, well then if you want to win an
MVP, you can't hit forty home runs.
You got to hit mid 50s and you got to have an OPS in the
territory of a Judge or a Soto apart me, a Judge or an Otani,
which he never does. That's all I'm saying.
Listen, I understand that once J Rod makes the shorts, I could
already promise you what's coming.
There's going to come the shade for the Mets fan.
There's going to come the shade from the fan who didn't listen
to the entire conversation. If you listen to this entire
conversation, you can not contest the fact that I have
that I have been fair to Soto and why wouldn't I be that I
respect Soto that I think he's terrific at many things, but my
standard might just be a little bit higher than some others.
I mean, if you're happy and I know you're not, so I'd say it
sarcastically. If you're happy with with the
final numbers this year against one, make it hold on with, you
know, a 971 OPS or 921, which is really, really good if you're
happy with that. OK, I'll tell you what.
If Aaron Judge has an OPS at 9:20 this year, I'm saying Aaron
Judge didn't have the same season that I thought he was
going to have because when Aaron Judge is clicking, Aaron Judge
is over 1100 minimum. I mean, bad season.
Aaron Judge, you know, 1050 OPS 920.
Not for that contract. I'm sorry.
All right, J Rod, did I miss anything there?
Hold on. I keep that up there.
You know, hold on. I'm out.
This convo ain't it more Oh, more low key Mets trolling.
You see, let's see if he's actually out.
I don't I don't really know if he said he's out.
So this is a person. I don't know if it's a it's a
man or a woman, but this is a person who simply cannot deal
with the reality of an honest conversation.
All right, let let me let me let everybody in on a little secret
that you should probably know by now.
I'm not a sycophant. I am not you know, I I am AI
don't have even though I've got a man cave, but I I don't have
Don Mattingly posters over my bedroom upstairs.
OK, I don't have little trophies like I used to have in my
bedroom growing up over our bed upstairs.
I don't have that. I'm a grown man who knows the
sport, knows it better than most, trust me, and has I guess
the ability to separate multiple things and give it to you the
way it really is. So if you construe that as
trolling, I think that's a you problem.
That's not a me thing. That's a you thing.
That's you hearing what you want to hear.
That's maybe you being predisposed to some energy that
you thought I was admitting back in the day.
And you're not able to cross the bridge and separate that and
actually hear what I'm saying. Because you know, not not not no
more flex here, but a lot of those things that you didn't
like that I was saying came true now, not the Lendore stuff.
I was dead wrong on that. And I own it and I laugh at
myself and you have to I mean, jeez, but Pete gone, Nimbo gone.
I mean a lot of guys gone, you know, talking about that Mets
core. So what you perceive to be a
troll, it's my reality and it's also the Mets reality.
So if you can't handle that, then I don't need you here.
Goodbye. I mean, I don't want I don't
want people that are that soft and that unable to have big boy
discussions. I don't need that.
This isn't college radio. You know what I'm saying?
This isn't like a message board where everybody, it's it's group
think. I don't want you to think what I
think because that's a boring show.
I would actually like you. I'm going to take something
back. I would like you to hang around
and actually challenge me rather than just duck out and say up
sounds like a troll job. I'm I'm I'm going to leave.
Well, what what's troll? What did I say?
What is troll Some about that nothing.
You just have thin skin again, that's a you thing, not a me
thing at OGOGOG Jake 99, hopefully thank you for that OG
now just with the OG moniker, I would have to think no, keep it
up. I got to read it.
I got to read that Jay. I got to give him some love on
that super chat, man. Here we go.
Give a little longer than usual. I mean, you throw a super chat
up there, you getting some real love.
Soto's got the one stat above judge that really matters.
He's a Fall Classic hero and he's got the West, that's true.
But he doesn't have it as a Met, nor did he get it as a Yankee.
Now, I'm not saying it's it's his fault.
He is a World Series champion. There's no doubt about it.
No doubt Ogi got it. Who's better?
Let me ask you this.
Now, I know it's not an apples to apples thing because Aaron's
getting up there at age. He's what, 34 and Judges?
So do I think it's 26 or is he 26 or 27?
I think he's either way 26 or 27.
So he's got a long way to go before he gets up to Aaron
Judge's age. So I'm not going to sit here and
say for the next 10 years, who would you take?
But I will frame it this way. Next three years, who would you
take? I know I'm taking I'm taking
Aaron Judge and everybody in baseball, unless you are a
childish and I don't mean you OG a childish sycophant who just
cannot separate the met Yankee thing.
Whatever. I I I don't know what to tell
you because I am very able and capable of doing that to the
point where I said and I I said it the next day on WFANI mean
the amount of shit that means Sal, we're talking every day.
I had two choices, all right, when and with the callers.
I mean, it was phenomenal. It was some of the best stuff
that some of the most fun I've ever had in my career and some
of the best stuff that's been on FAN in a long time.
Like that Soto Yankee meth thing.
Like, Oh my God, we were all over it, man.
Every day, me and Sal, we were in a mosh pit of of of the
energy spike, you know, not necessarily fighting, but like,
man, this shit's this is heavy. This is I'm exhausted.
You know, this is real stuff with the fans, me and him and I
had two choices that day. Sunday night, signs with the
signs with the Mets. It breaks.
I'll never forget where I was. I was upstairs.
I'm laying in bed. It's pretty early, but I'm
watching whatever I'm watching. Starting to wind down.
Got to get up early, driving to the city, slept through
Manhattan, the Holland Tunnel, all that nonsense, which
thankfully, I no longer have to do.
And I see a break. I'm like, oh, God, all right, I
know what my day is going to entail.
I come in two choices. Oh, I didn't want him anyway.
He's not worth it. Screw Soto.
What is he? Or you got him.
You won. You won.
You got a man up. You won.
And I was forthright enough and transparent enough with you to
let you know that I wanted Juan Soto to stay.
I didn't want Juan Soto to leave.
Only idiots wanted Juan Soto to leave.
Now, if Juan Soto would have stayed and Juan Soto would have
hit 263 last year, I'd be all over Juan Soto if he did that in
the Bronx. If you elect not to do that
because you're happy that he picked the Mets over the Yankees
that do whatever you want, I'm just telling you what I do and
what I would do and what I did do when I found out that he was
going to be a Met. So guys, it's never and I think
most of you know this most Oh, by the way.
So I dropped that new content. What are the goals here?
At least once a week. All right, at least once a week.
And I already got the first one up there.
My old time Yankees lineup post 80.
That's up there. And J Rod, do you have that
handy? But oh, why is why is this?
Why is my? That's not good, It says.
Technical difficulties. We will be right back.
Hang on, let me put the music.
Let's go. We back.
Let's go, let's go. We're just.
This this thing, dude, I don't understand this.
I mean, I'm. Looking at what was it for you?
Dude, I'm looking at 9 plugs and every plug is plugged in.
Like what? I don't, I don't know what's
going on. I really don't know.
I mean, I understand that there's, there's a lot of shit
going on here. I've got you know, 9 microphones
and cameras and stuff, but it shouldn't happen.
I don't know why it does. As I started to say now it says
that my battery is low. Who knows how long I got here.
So I want to I want to bang through some stuff and then
finish this up just I got to plow through.
There's nothing I can do right now.
All right, so the content I've got the Yankee lot up there that
is up on on the YouTube channel. I was going to ask J Rod if he
still had that anywhere visible if he could actually get that up
on the screen. I didn't tell him this before
the show. So if he doesn't have it ready,
it's not a big deal. J Rod, if you actually can find
it kind of quick so I can let the Mets fan know what I've got
coming to do in. Like 10 seconds.
I got you not all good. 10 seconds, all good.
So what I did was I'm just building out a roster, a lineup
one through 9, yes, and I'm counting some defense post 1980,
which is when I really started watching baseball.
I did it for the Mets. Pardon me.
I did it for the Yankees. I'm in the process of doing it
for the Mets. I've got all the graphics built
out. I'm going to drop it this
weekend coming up as a nice, you know, little kick start to the
season here. I've got something on the Big
East, my old time Big East team as well, encompassing the entire
history which started in 1970 9 for the Big East and this is
content that I will drop on this channel.
You know, in addition to obviously going live every day
at 10. Still, some things I got to work
out clearly. J Rod, if you found it, let me
know. If not, I'll just.
Get to the other. I'm going toss it up.
Yeah, you just load in real. Quick, I got you and again then
then after that I want to make OK, so this so this was the
lineup for the Yankees, right? And a lot of you took issue with
me not having Reggie Jackson on there.
But to me, I'm going greatest little hitter in the history of
baseball. I got Jeter, high average, high
IQ, a lot of contact in the 2 hole.
I got vintage prime Mattingly who not only won the MVP and 85,
but in route to 146 RBI, struck out 41 times.
I mean as good as Aaron Judges and he's as good as I've ever
seen. I mean, imagine if Judge struck
out 41 times this year. My God.
Aaron Judge in the four spot, a rod.
The great Alex Rodriguez batting 5th playing third.
I got the switch hit. And Bernie in center, he's got a
bat. 6 Winnie, the DH7 spot, Jorge switch hit and catcher
with POP5 Silver Sluggers in the 8 hole.
And what do you know? Little Robbie Cano in the 9 hole
playing second base. Thought about Willie for a
second. Did not think about Chuck
Noblock. Obviously no O'Neil.
No Matsui, no Mark to share on, no Tino Tina.
So obviously going to be some omissions.
We could get that down. J Roth, thank you very much, my
man. And now as I build out the
graphics I have built out, I want to tweak.
I want to give one more look. And I'm not going to flash
anything up now because it's going to drop this weekend.
Coming up to the old time Mets lineup, one through 9 post 1980.
And I think you guys will love this.
And then we'll do the Big East one, as I said.
And then again, you know, once a week, whether it's my top ten
sneakers of all time, my top ten albums of all time, my top 10
sitcoms of all time, my top 10 Sopranos characters of all time.
This is just a way shorter hits, more content, connect a little
bit and and do some more things that build out the channel.
All right, let me get this up here now, because I don't know
if this thing's going to die anytime soon.
I don't know. I want to make sure we get it up
a little NFL draft. This is I want to make sure
everybody knows where this is from.
This is from Mel Kiper. All right, who?
All right, you know, take it for what it's worth.
I, I think Mel's very good at his job in terms of monetizing
this more than anybody else in the history of, of, of drafting
or mocks or scouting would. I mean, he's a legend man.
And Mel, Mel's great and he presents himself really well.
You know, he's wrong on a lot of stuff, but we all are.
This is his updated mock draft, the top 10 going into the
combine, which is obviously beginning this week.
OK, no surprise with Mendoza #1 quarterback.
Now, if this were to happen, I think The Jets would get roundly
criticized. I would love this.
I've been telling you guys for a while, I want Caleb Downs.
I don't care that he's a safety. I don't care that the last time
the safety went second overall was back in 1991.
I don't care. That's how much I love downs.
And I'll tell you this right now, if The Jets don't take him
at two, you better believe that Horrible is going to take him at
5:00. So I like that you got the
Cardinals and David Bailey, outside linebacker, Texas Tech.
Some people like him better than Ruben Baines.
We'll get to him as well. Arvel Reese, who has been most
intimately connected to The Jets at #2 And I like him.
I don't love him at #2 I really don't.
So if he goes to the Titans at 4, I'm fine with that.
I do think the Giants if if downs is there.
I think that makes sense. I think the Giants, some of you
want a wide receiver because Malik Neighbors is not fully
healthy yet. Listen, if I'm not going to sit
here and say that I've seen Fano or Fano play a ton as an
offensive tackle for the Utah Utes But if they identify and he
is thought to be for sure the best offensive lineman, and I'm
OK, Just like just from a position, from a philosophy, if
the Giants were to go offensive tackle and they get it right at
#5 I think that's a big win. You know, the Browns and #6
Cornell Tate, wide receiver house.
I mean, and then you look at Sonny Styles and this would be
and if this happens, even if he goes 6 whatever and Tate go 7,
the commanders having Styles here, at least according to Mel
Kuiper. If that were the case, that
would be the first time that four players ever from the Saint
at least as far back as this traces.
The research people have done have gone in the for the 1st 7
picks in the NFL draft. Same school Sony Styles is
terrific. Linebacker, Lemon, wide
receiver, USC, there's a lot. It's a very good wide receiver
draft. He's going to the Saints
according to Mel. I would be OK with this.
Listen, I think that a running back is early here.
Jeremiah love #1 is very different.
He's at Notre Dame. It's a very weak running back
crop. The Chiefs are thought to number
one. They tried to trade for Breeze
Hall. They couldn't get him for a
fourth round pick, smartly moved.
He didn't flinch. I think you're going to get, I
think Breeze is going to stay. I think he's either going to get
that transition tag for $11.7 million.
I don't think he gets the full tag myself at 14 change.
Ideally you slap A tag on him, you work out a deal three years,
30 mil, three years, 31, three years, 32 in the neighborhood of
about $10 million a year. I and I said this the other day,
I really hope that Hall stays with The Jets and I think he
will. But because the chiefs need a
running back. I think love makes some sense
there. And then this would I'll tell
you this would represent a fairly precipitous drop by by
Ruben Bain. You think about the national
championship game, we're sitting there and I remember tweeting as
well. I'm like, hey, I'd be OK with
watching Ruben Bayne, you know, go off the board at #2 for The
Jets. The research I've done since I
really, I like Ruben Bayne. He's obviously going to go top
ten, top 12. I mean, Judy could go top seven.
I don't want him for The Jets. And now you get to it.
It's not only keep this up there, J Rod, please.
It's not up on the board. However, I think there's a
really good chance The Jets go defense defense, and that's
something I've been espousing for a while.
I am totally fine. I know many of you.
You want that wide receiver, you want that splash offensive
position, you want all that stuff.
I get it. But the way you build out a real
team is to have an old line, which The Jets do, especially if
they retain ABT on a on a pretty team friendly deal.
And then the other thing you do is you build out the defense and
The Jets defense was hideous. It was deployed horribly bad, so
I don't know if they're going to go defense defense.
Mel thinks that they will. I hope that they do and I'm open
to it and there you are so Mendoza Caleb Downs, David
Bailey Reese going defense there and then obviously Giants going
some old line some other defensive players in there.
The one running back. It is a weak running back draft.
It is a strong wide receiver draft.
It's a pretty good offensive interior, not not for the guards
for tackles. There's some good old lineman.
It's a really weak quarterback draft outside of Simpson,
there's nobody and I'm you know, you can make the case whether or
not Simpsons worthy of a first round grade.
I believe that he is many of you don't.
But outside of Mendoza, I mean, nobody if if Simpson doesn't go
first round, no other quarterback is going first
round. So, you know, listen, we're
going to start getting those juices going.
Draft is around the corner. I told you guys, we got some
sick. Really, really can't divulge
what yet. Still, you know, wrapping up
some of the details with a contract, blah, blah, blah, But
we are, we are getting ready to do some massive stuff here for
the draft with a massive company and a great ambassador for the
game, which will be huge for our show, which will be awesome.
So with that being said, I keep looking up and I'm seeing a
little sliver of red on my laptop.
That can't be good. That means it's starting to
crash out a little bit. I really enjoyed the Soto stuff.
I really enjoyed the Pete stuff. Just a little taste there.
Wet the whistle, NFL draft, J Rod, anything for me.
Did I miss anything? Is there a text up there that
you want to throw up? Here's a Here's a good text.
Are we doing movie breakdowns by or versus J Rod?
Meaning what? I compile like my top five, and
then you give me your top five and then yeah, I guess it's kind
of like Booms and Sal, dude. I guess they're like drafts.
Yeah, like they do like movie draft.
Or, well, we can't do what they're doing.
Exactly, Exactly. By the way, I saw Sal talking
about the Carl Banks situation. The Oh my.
So what's funny? I watched that clip.
I had never seen the original before.
Jeez. And then I watched it.
Oh my dude, was that nuts or what?
Man, that. Was.
I mean, that was insane. The truth of the matter is, and
and I mean, of course I was in the room when it happened and I
was part of it. So I don't need to watch the
video again. Yeah, but I I, I didn't.
And I wasn't even looking for it.
I, I saw some stuff. I'm like, oh, oh, Sal talking
about Carl Banks. Let me let me flip it on for a
SEC. Give my my partner some love
there. And you know, he said something
that I thought was pretty interesting, right?
And this was similar to me with Paul O'Neill.
Like sometimes you got to defend the show.
And we both agree with that. So we were both in in in
lockstep with that. But what he said that really,
and I didn't think about this in real time, was that we weren't
ready as a show. We weren't elevated.
We didn't have the chemistry amongst each other.
We didn't have the trust in the rapport with the audience, which
we ultimately got toward the end.
I'd say the last year or so, we were just starting out.
So like, you know, the old wrestling term heat, like, I've
got no problem with heat, but you got to be ready to deal with
the heat. And we were not ready as a show
to deal with the heat. Not that we were afraid of it,
but it just, I think it hurt us. And I, so I, I agree with that
assertion. He said that yesterday.
I agree. And I'll never forget, man, I
remember calling him up because it was in the newspaper.
It was everywhere. And I remember wherever Jen was
with the kids, I may be going to get food or I, I don't know.
And I, I said had a long day, really long day, long two days.
But this was the first day actually a really long week with
that. And I remember going outside.
Yeah, I've got my fire pit that I often talk about that's like
the winter fire pit. But on my deck I've got like a,
a propane one, but that that's less for heat and more for
aesthetics. So it's, it's early, it's
obviously early in the season and it's warm out.
And I'm sitting there and I got my foot up on the thing and I'm
sipping a, a Scotch and I got a call.
Sal man, it's getting out of hand, you know, and I and I, I
know him, but I don't really know him too well yet.
And I remember called, but he was at a restaurant.
He was at a restaurant with his wife.
I think his daughter was, I think pretty sure Stanley was
there. And I'm just like, dude, I got
you back, man. Like it's, it's really US
against the world is what it is. It's US against the everybody's
against us. It's a bad look for us.
Like, you know, it's, it's very, I never liked being the source
of stories that were written. I don't mean like, hey, if the
show's doing well or hey, they, they were voted #2 in the
country. I love those stories.
But you know, like when there's a story about me getting thrown
out of a Little League game or BT and Sal having a fight with
Carl or BT saying, hanging up on Paul O'Neill.
Those are stories that I'd rather do without.
But that was, that was freaking wild, man.
And that was in our infancy. God almighty, that was crazy
shit. And one thing that I really
appreciated, you know, who had our back big time was Spike.
Spike absolutely 100% had our back.
Because the only thing that I was a little worried about, not
like the coals or the tax or even the heat or the smoke
online, whatever, that's imaginary world that means
nothing to me. I was worried because I was only
on WFAN at that point for about a year and a half, right?
I was worried. I'm like, man, did we just mess
this up? Because Carl also calls the
Giant games. It's not like it's not like he's
just a former giant. He's also, he's a former giant
who's a world a world champion Super Bowl, but also part of the
giant broadcast and part of WFANS team where we were paying
him to come on the show. Oh my gosh, yeah.
So I'm like, and I don't really know.
Spike in, I mean, he he brought me over.
I know him enough, but it was the first massive flare up and
it was a huge one. I'm like, is this guy going to
have her back? And I just remember him saying I
got your back, but were you good?
And man, I can't tell you how much we how much we appreciated
that it was it was outraged. That's BT and South for you, you
know, Coming correct, coming hard, coming strong, you know.
Yes, Sir. So all good, all right?
Any other texts? Anything else I need to know?
Not seeing anything so far. Let's see.
Let's see by the way. You notice it from.
Here, hold on. You notice there's no light
banging off. The yeah, wait, I saw a comment
about that too, that they're liking it.
They're liking the new light. It's looking.
It's like much less reflective, much less glare going down.
Yeah, but it's not it's it's I'd like to take credit for it now.
First of all, thank you. I didn't do anything.
The difference is, is that the the sun is is reflecting
differently. I don't know why.
Maybe you know what, I'll tell you what it is.
Now that I think about it, I don't know.
Is refracting the right word? I think so.
I think it might be off the snow like it's, it's a different,
it's, it's softening it maybe no.
That makes sense. It's.
Almost like the snow outside is creating this matte MATTE.
This matte like background for the for the logo anyway.
What was that last text? Then I'm going to get bounced.
Blank. Your couch says those are
classics now talking about all the all the videos, all the
clip, the classic clips. They are.
I mean, listen here, here's the way I look at it and it it's not
all going to be great. But you know, how do you make a
mark as a show now? You don't go in there and we
didn't go in there saying, oh, you know, we're going to land
base Carl, you know, but we were ready because Carl was was not
really giving us a lot of stuff. And, you know, both teams
sucked. And we were talking about Kayvon
Thibodeau and that was a real source of, you know, contention
and consternation for us because we're like, alright, we get
dread the 5th overall. Let me see whatever it was.
Let me see what you got and then let me see some plays here.
And we we both felt that. Yeah.
Not to drudge it back up because I love Carl, but you know, that
he was being a little evasive and he kind of can't call, came
in aggressively. I forget what he said something
to me about. I think I'm a Jets fan.
Like, like basically minimizing my ability to spend.
I didn't appreciate. That it was like, I just didn't.
He was like your audience. It was like, you say these
things like to your audience. Audience, that's what.
Yes, it was so interesting. He was getting preachy, like
don't preach to us, man. We're going to show, we're going
to show you respect. And, and, and you know, and, and
I like Sal has a, a fine relationship with, with Carl,
but I'm actually friends with, I've been friends with Carl for
20 years. So I'm sitting, so I'm, you
know, maybe I'm processing it a little bit like if I didn't know
him at all, maybe I would have been like, hang up on him.
Like enough of this shit, you know?
But when he started saying that stuff, I'm like, no, now, now
you can't have this dude. You're not coming on the show.
You can't lecture. You can't tell us what to do.
You can't talk down to us. You're we we all know you're on
the show because you forgot more football than any one of us
combined knows. It's your job to tell us what
you're seeing and instead you kind of coming in and telling us
how to do the show. So it got off the rails there
quick. But I think that any show at any
station, if you can't look back, here's how you know, here's how
you know BT and Sal was money. Here's how you know if you can't
look back. I'm not going to name names, but
there's a lot of them. If you can't look back at a show
and say, dude, remember when so and so did this?
Remember when so and so happened on BT and Sal?
Do do you remember the time on BT and Sal?
I mean, you could say that a million times on BT and Sal.
So to me that's the mark of a success of a successful show.
Anyway, I love Carl, I think Sal's coming on Unleash this
week. Let's go.
Yeah, very fun. Yeah, he and I were texting over
the we were texting over the weekend about a few things and
trying to dot the eyes for the second BT and Sal live show 2.0
looks. It looks like it's going to be
April 2nd. Can't give you the venue yet,
but yeah, matter of fact, I got to get on a call after this,
right. But also about each one of us
going on the others channel like once a week.
Just got to keep that going, keep that energy, keep the juice
going. So maybe tomorrow.
So I got I got to get what's out today.
Sometime this week he'll come on a leash.
And then I was on a show last week and then next week I'll go
back on his. So on and so forth.
Hey, before you know it is going to be baseball season and I
cannot wait. So when I saw Daryl say what he
said about Pete, I didn't think he meant it that way, but I
didn't want to offer. Some also real quick we just
said it in the past minute 16,000 let's go 16 K thank you
to the fans where's. My sharpie, I got it.
I got to get my sharpie here because you guys can't see it.
Let me see maybe you can a little bit on that part.
I've on that piece of paper right there.
Look at look at that trophy. By the way, how about sick?
Is that trophy right on the wall?
There is a list that's my own little motivation there.
And click this guy back on. And every time I hit a little
bit of a benchmark, I walk over little red, you know, old
school, you know, like, you know, trying to get that bench
press up, trying to get the, that forty time that whatever it
might be, that's cool. I love it in real time.
So whoever was #16,000 that, that just looks better than
1598. It does it now, you know,
listen, you know I'm getting greedy.
Yeah, I, I, I know you can't get to, you can't get to 20 before
you get to 17. But you know, where my where my
mind's going? I know, you know, 17181920
baseball season, NFL draft. This is not a hobby.
This is not me. Oh, let me just do this while I
wait for some radio station to call me.
I'm not waiting for anybody to call me.
This is what I'm doing all right, I'm investing money and
I'm I'm investing time and I'm investing resources, right.
So for 16,000 of you to hit that button shows great affinity for
me, great trust and great respect for what I what I have
done, what I continue to do. If you're new, thank you, Like
if you are new to the show, man, I mean, because there's only so
many, you know, BT fans in the world just based on those being
exposed to X amount of people. It's not just a New York thing.
Like when we get into other stuff, it's going to be NFL is
going to be, you know, A to ZNBA playoffs A-Z.
It's going to always slant a little New York with the Yanks
of the Mets and and The Jets and the Giants.
But the other stuff this just going to grow and grow and grow.
So I'm pumped up, man. That little 16 got me extra
fired. Up and you know what I saw that
was it's good too when we announce it on the show we
didn't no one went down to 1599. We only went up to 16 O one.
There we go, another person, here we go.
Maybe. This.
Maybe this is the way to entice people.
You just keep holding that thing up and just click, click, click,
click, click. Click the numbers coming, guys.
All right, Yeah, no, great, great stuff.
Really glad that that could happen live.
And thank you to the fans. That's awesome, man.
Yeah. Hardy salute.
There's no doubt Hardy salute. You know, one thing that I
always say, and if you look at them, if you're one of the first
people in the in the chat on on a weekday beginning at 10, I
always write a little something, a basic description about the
show. And then I always end up let's
eat, let's eat, let's get after it, man.
Let's eat, let's air it out, let's eat.
And you know, it's a lot more fun eating and it's a lot more
productive and it's going to be a lot more successful eating at
a table that is growing in size. So I really do appreciate that
guys. All right, dig out of the snow
if you have to enjoy the rest of your Tuesday.
And I will be back tomorrow with 10 like it, subscribe it get
that traction going. Hit the YouTube channel bounce
around if you want to check out my old time Yankees lineup from
1980 on. And it that's the one thing
like, well, no mantle, no Garrick, dude, do you read?
I mean, what is wrong with some? It clearly says post 1980.
Does anybody think that I would put Posada over Yogi?
You got to read. Anyway, go there and enjoy it.
The Mets ones coming out next weekend.
And then right after that, I've already got my old time Big East
tournament team lined up, which will drop the day before the Big
East tournament at the Garden. So big things coming.
NFL draft around the corner, Baseball underway at least in
the spring. All good.
So have a great Tuesday. Catch you guys tomorrow at 10.
Bye bye.