1 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,360 on leash Are you listening? Can you hear me? 2 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:13,600 Hear me? This is on leash. 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:14,920 Are you listening? Can you hear me? 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:16,360 Hear me? This is on leash Are you 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:17,360 listening? Can you hear me? 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:18,880 Hear me? This is on leash Are you 7 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:19,880 listening? Can you hear me? 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,040 I'm not going to lie to you guys. 9 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,080 It's getting pretty tough now to stay balanced here. 10 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,760 It's getting pretty tough to stay measured and to stay 11 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,160 grounded in the reality that the Knicks are not yet in the NBA 12 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:38,920 Finals and that the Knicks have not yet won anything. 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,960 But God, I mean, the mind is starting to wander. 14 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,120 It it's it's starting to wander. It is impossible. 15 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,880 I'm just going to come out and tell you it's impossible to for 16 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,800 me not to start thinking of a championship. 17 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:52,200 It's just that that's where I'm at. 18 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,600 The Knicks look absolutely awesome right now. 19 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,440 We got to know rules Friday. What's happening? 20 00:00:58,440 --> 00:00:59,560 Everybody? BT unleash. 21 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,320 Come on in. J Rod is in the house, as 22 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,320 always. J Rod, what's cooking there? 23 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:04,560 Young buck? How you feeling today? 24 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:05,519 What's up? What's up? 25 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,240 I'm feeling feeling great today. I mean. 26 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:09,120 What a. What a. 27 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:11,280 Yeah, definitely not as good as you. 28 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,040 No, no shot. But man, what a sorry 29 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,160 performance. I mean, they just look lifeless. 30 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,200 The Cavs look like, and and you knew it was going to happen. 31 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,200 You knew game one their souls got snatched. 32 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,760 But man, like that second-half, the effort was just abysmal. 33 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,400 Yeah, it was rough. I mean, too, Harden just Harden 34 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,280 just can't defend. I mean, if James Harden is on 35 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,280 the court, then the Knicks just going to do whatever they want 36 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,280 to do. Listen, I I still think that the 37 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,720 Cavs are going to win a game over the weekend in Cleveland. 38 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:45,040 I just do, but man, oh man, the Knicks look right now and I've 39 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,560 got a couple of things I want to connect something to 94, which I 40 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,720 think you guys will enjoy. Gary Cold is back tonight. 41 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,480 Caballeros back tonight. Got a little something on the 42 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,720 NFL. Obviously, as I said, no rules 43 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,880 Friday and if you know, again, there's never any rules on the 44 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:00,880 show. We we go as long as we want. 45 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,880 We say whatever we want, but no rules Friday, at least 46 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,360 pertaining to this show gives you the chance to ask me 47 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,039 anything that you want anything about the business anything like 48 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:12,920 it doesn't have to be to the topic. 49 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:14,440 It doesn't have to be topic oriented. 50 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:15,800 So we get to bounce around a lot. 51 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,440 We'll get the calls going. Knicks fans are obviously 52 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,560 feeling great. Can't watch the I can't wait to 53 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,800 watch Wenby and that series tonight. 54 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,480 All right, so let's go. As always, today's show brought 55 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:31,120 to you by my friends at sullivanpropanesullivanyoucanfindthemonline@triallaw1.com. 56 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,440 That's trial law1.com member the name Sullivan propane and buy 57 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,720 premio sausage. Remember premio sausage the way 58 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,960 remember to buy premio. Of course. 59 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,080 Yeah, the way sausage should be fine. 60 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:47,280 But premiumfoods.com or in your local grocery store and the 61 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,840 Knicks have looked like a team that is getting ready to win a 62 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,000 championship for a while. This is not just A1 or A2 game 63 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,480 reaction. The Knicks have won nine 64 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,360 straight playoff games and their point differential is plus 212. 65 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,840 I mean, right now there's there's really nothing about 66 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,360 this team that you sit there. Really the only thing that you 67 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,640 can say is, well, how would they match up with the Thunder? 68 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:11,840 And that's fair. Or how would they match up with 69 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,600 Wimby and the Spurs? And that's fair. 70 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,080 But specific to what we have watched so far, this, this the, 71 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:21,280 you know, since they got midway through the Hawks series, they 72 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,560 are just obliterating people and the Knicks are doing literally 73 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,120 whatever they want. You go back to and I remember 74 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,520 talking about this as we got ready for the Eastern Conference 75 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,840 semifinals before the Sixers series, where of course we all 76 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,920 know they dropped the two games against the against the I'm just 77 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,760 looking at the highlights now and I'm just seeing it again. 78 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,800 I, I, I'm sorry for the distraction there. 79 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,880 But when, when Josh Hart was so reluctant to shoot and then 80 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,720 Brunson's like shoot the ball already and there was like an 81 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,120 inch of hesitation on the one that he made and Brunson's 82 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:54,880 running down the court. I'm just laughing at it again 83 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,520 because I've got the ESPN on. He's like, there you go. 84 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,400 And then Josh Hart went absolutely bonkers. 85 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,440 My God. But anyway, so when they when 86 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,920 they stabilized against the Hawks, right, and they win by 16 87 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,080 on the road, then they win by 29, then they win by 51. 88 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,920 It's like, OK, OK, you know, we're supposed to beat the Hawks 89 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,960 here, maybe not in that fashion. But then you get to the Sixers 90 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,399 series and we know what, how you know, and beads the shovel of 91 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:18,920 what he, you know, was physically. 92 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,560 Obviously some very good young players didn't take that series 93 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,440 for granted. You know, I thought the Knicks 94 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,240 would win, but you know, plus 39 + 14 + 6. 95 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,600 That was the tight game in Game 2 + 30. 96 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:35,400 And then you now you start to, you know, button this thing up 97 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,360 with in game one, the most improbable and historic NBA 98 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,240 playoff game that I've ever seen. 99 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,640 And then last night, despite a very close first half, the 100 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,440 Knicks eventually stepping back on the gas. 101 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,520 I know the Cavs cut it to 8 in the fourth quarter, missed a 102 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,680 bunch of free throws, missed a bunch of open looks. 103 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,440 But when it was time to bury them, the Knicks bury them and 104 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,720 they won by 16 points. So, you know, amazing thing too, 105 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:00,560 right? And I could hit you with some 106 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,320 stats and all that other stuff, whatever. 107 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:08,160 I, I, I find it interesting, like if you're a longer or older 108 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,200 Knick fan, you know, for whatever reason, maybe just 109 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,200 because we love that team more and Pat Riley was coaching and 110 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,600 Patrick was obviously still in his prime. 111 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:22,160 Like we don't really reference 99 like anything, any default 112 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,680 reference from a Knick fan always goes back to the earliest 113 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,200 to mid 90s when they were building in the early 90s. 114 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,000 And then obviously when when they punctuated that, you know, 115 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,480 the Pat Riley, you're a guy got to the Houston Rockets, got to 116 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,200 that series, lost in seven in heartbreaking fashion. 99 is 117 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,240 only a point of reference. Like the last time the Knicks 118 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,160 were in the Finals was 99. And of course, now you know, the 119 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,160 crazy shot by Alvin Houston against the Heat off the front 120 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,960 rim and then you know, all that stuff. 121 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:52,320 But 94 is always that that sweet spot, that really magical point 122 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:53,600 of reference. Even though the Knicks didn't 123 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,800 win. And, you know, it's been so long 124 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,720 and the NBA so different. We know that so different. 125 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:05,920 Like blowouts were just far less common back then because the 126 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,400 ability to shoot the three and the game was so different, 127 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,960 whatever it was, especially with those Knicks teams and those 128 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:12,480 Heat teams and those Pacer teams. 129 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,160 You know, points were at a premium. 130 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,400 I mean, you had a scratch and claw and fight and bite and kick 131 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,880 and gouge just to get to 90 points. 132 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:22,160 Like the Knicks scored 90 points. 133 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,800 I'm like they going to win. But I went back just out of just 134 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,440 out of curiosity, right? Because I didn't remember the 135 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,320 exact numbers, but even the first round against the Nets in 136 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,480 in 94. So they beat the Nets in four 137 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,520 and they win by 11. They win by one in overtime and 138 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,520 they win by 10. OK, fairly handily. 139 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,640 But they did drop a game and one game was in overtime, as I said. 140 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,360 So it may be a little bit more competitive than our our minds, 141 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,400 I might recall. Then you get to the Bulls series 142 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,040 and of course now Jordan's, Jordan's not there. 143 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:57,080 The whole thing with Tony Kukoc, the fight with Derek Harper. 144 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,280 Knicks win by 4, by 5, by 1 and by 10. 145 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,840 Then you get to the Pacers series and that's when Patrick 146 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:08,720 has the tip, dunk off, the Starks miss and they win by 11. 147 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,560 They win by 11, they win by 7, they win by 4:00. 148 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,400 And then the Rocket series, the games that they won, the three 149 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,720 games, it would have been nice to get the 4th, but they didn't. 150 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,480 They win by 8, they win by 9, they win by 7. 151 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:26,040 Now it again, you have to parse to an extent the enthusiasm 152 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,240 because it's such a different league, it's such a different 153 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,680 game. But I mean, you, you watch this 154 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:38,440 team last night and there's just so many things and and not just 155 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,280 last night, but so many things that are transpiring where it's 156 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:47,280 it's impossible not to start to wander and think about that. 157 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,040 I really hate saying it, but to start thinking about the candy, 158 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,920 the heroes, it's it's impossible not to now I'm able to do both. 159 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,680 I'm still able to remain rooted in the reality of you still got 160 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,480 to win two more games. Now you go on the road and as we 161 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,760 all know, and I know it's in, you know, it's a it's an old 162 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,240 cliche. It's a it's a mantra that is 163 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,600 regurgitated over and over. Playoffs don't start till the 164 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,400 road team, you know, to to to the home team loses the game. 165 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,560 All right, well, you know, that didn't happen here in the first. 166 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,520 It did happen in the Hawks series, which is why it had a 167 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,400 bit of a different profile. But everybody is doing their 168 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:22,600 job. Everybody. 169 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,440 I mean, Josh Hart reluctant to shoot and then he bangs in a 170 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:28,880 career high 26. I told you Kat was going to play 171 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,280 well last night. And Kat gives you, what did he 172 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:32,760 give you? You know, I think it was 13 or 173 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:37,080 14 rebounds, 18 points. Bridget, Mikhail Bridges has 174 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,799 been phenomenal. I mean, he doesn't miss 9 for 175 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:46,640 12/19 points. I mean, Brunson with 14 assists. 176 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,720 Like every night it's a little different. 177 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,040 And that's the beautiful thing about this Knicks team. 178 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,320 J Rod you, you know that when it's time to go get the bucket, 179 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,520 all right, if we've got to go ISO, got to play two man game. 180 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,760 Brunson Cat, you know that that's there. 181 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,280 Now, it doesn't mean Brunson's going to hit every single clutch 182 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,160 shot that he takes. He's human. 183 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,120 But you know that you have that kind of like Mariano coming out 184 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:09,880 in the ninth inning back in the day for the Yankees. 185 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:14,040 You know that if the Knicks are in a tight spot late, you feel 186 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,640 really good out their chances to to deliver the win because 187 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,280 Brunson is, you know, and, and this is this is actually true, 188 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,640 the most clutch player in the NBAI know everybody is and still 189 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:29,040 believe it, but he is. And now you, you, you mix in 190 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:33,120 this, this renaissance here by Mikhail Bridges and, and I think 191 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,520 the toughest thing to do, like it's one thing to to come here 192 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,560 and play well. That's hard enough. 193 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:41,760 Like New York and and other big, not just New York, LA as well, 194 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:44,960 you know, the Red Sox, the Celtics, some of the hockey 195 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,560 teams that have great history as well. 196 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,120 Like there's just a different level of expectation. 197 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:54,200 And when you have the the expectation, and it's also laced 198 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,440 with the hunger of not winning a championship since 1973. 199 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,360 And Oh yeah. By the way, you know, the the 200 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,760 big trade that they made to get bridges here. 201 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,760 So they don't really have a lot of ability to do anything in the 202 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:08,280 future. I mean, there's always ways to 203 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:09,360 work around stuff. I get that. 204 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,840 But just in terms of like very, you know, common basic stuff, 205 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,120 they basically gave up all their draft equity. 206 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,760 And the guy that they gave it up for was, you know, we had this 207 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:21,560 one version in in our head, this one vision of what Bridges would 208 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:23,960 be. And too often during the regular 209 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,240 season, he hasn't been that guy. And that leads to frustrations. 210 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,880 But he is one of these players that has this, this amazing, 211 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:36,200 almost impeccable ability to elevate, whether it's the 212 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,440 Celtics last year on offense and defense many times this year, 213 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:45,440 like this guy is on a roll that quite frankly, I just thought 214 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,520 based on, you know, the narratives and the energy and 215 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,440 bridges and the five first round picks, I never thought that he 216 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,320 would be able to get to this place. 217 00:10:55,680 --> 00:11:01,640 It is a testament to his will, to his professionalism, to his 218 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:04,200 heart, to his basketball character. 219 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,800 You know, I could do an hour on Josh Hart. 220 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:11,400 I could do five hours on Cat. I could do 10 hours on Brunson. 221 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:15,680 But to gloss over what Bridges is doing is flat out wrong. 222 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,480 He has been phenomenal Mikhail Bridges. 223 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:22,960 Phenomenal, J Rod. I mean, obviously, you know, 224 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,760 he's been known to be a lockdown defender now you know, he's 225 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:29,400 truly showing that. But man, like to me, because, 226 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,760 you know, even when Bridges was really struggling, he'd still 227 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:36,680 give you like those one or two first quarter baskets where 228 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,560 you'd be going, OK, he's got to go and he's got to go in. 229 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,040 And then like, you know, for the rest of the game, he kind of 230 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,880 teed her off. But now, you know, he's really 231 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,080 coming through and hitting some big time buckets for the Knicks, 232 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,080 hitting some clutch shots. And I think that is really a 233 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,080 testament to the confidence that he has regained throughout the 234 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:56,920 season. And listen, I don't know, like 235 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,600 we talked about the Villanova connection and it's a great 236 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,480 thing and it's a real thing because the chemistry is 237 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,760 undeniable. We can quantify a lot of things 238 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,040 in sports. The one thing that I can't like, 239 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:09,560 and I don't know if this is true. 240 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,880 I mean, I, I could, I just can't prove this, but I can theorize 241 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,480 here. I do believe this more than I 242 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:20,320 don't like if if Brunson and Hart weren't around and say they 243 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,320 had other good players, right? And they made the move for 244 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,880 Bridges and that narrative still was what it was. 245 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:31,520 I don't know if he's in the proper mental space and, and, 246 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,720 and has the belief of, of the teammates that that he obviously 247 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,680 does with Brunson and, and, and I mean everybody, but really the 248 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:42,520 Nova dudes to to be able to fight out of the perception that 249 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,840 he's not built for New York. Like there, there were two 250 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,760 things that play with bridges #1 all right, I mean, is, is, is he 251 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:49,680 good enough? Like is he? 252 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:52,640 Did we overrate him now? I think that in a lot of ways, 253 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:54,480 and, and I was a little bit guilty of this as well. 254 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,680 When you're on a bad team, as he was with the Nets, you know, 255 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,360 somebody's got to score, somebody's got to put up shots. 256 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,040 It's not like being on a bad baseball team where you know, it 257 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:04,920 doesn't mean you're going to hit 40 home runs because you're on a 258 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:06,400 bad team. Like they could pitch around 259 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:07,680 you. It actually has an adverse 260 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:11,880 impact. But when, when you are, you 261 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:16,200 know, when you are chastised and, and questioned as often 262 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,880 and, and, and again, a lot of it had merit and, and some of it 263 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:20,680 didn't. Obviously in the court of 264 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:25,680 basketball public opinion in New York City for a fan base that is 265 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:28,360 starving. I, I just, I don't know. 266 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,920 I I'd have to think that that that level of comfort, whether 267 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,760 it's on the team bus, on the team, playing at the facility, 268 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,880 on the bench, pregame layup line, halftime locker room 269 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,840 speech. The fact that Brunson and Hart, 270 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,760 you know, the the two undeniable leaders on the basketball team, 271 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:51,080 that they always have his back. That that has to galvanized him 272 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,760 even in in in his weakest moments to a point where, you 273 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,240 know, if Brunson still in Dallas and Josh Hart's wherever. 274 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,480 I I don't know that we get this kind of play from bridges 275 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,920 because people were questioning his toughness. 276 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,560 It's like the the production. There's a lot of people who come 277 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:09,760 here and don't produce right, But there's there's not that 278 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,200 many people who come here who are expected to contribute to a 279 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,640 championship run. And you know, it's one thing not 280 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:20,520 to shoot well, but then everybody's piling on the soft, 281 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,720 which he's not because he plays 40 minutes a night. 282 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,680 He's an Iron Man. He's a good defender. 283 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,760 He's obviously a very good player, but when things go a 284 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,440 little bit Askew, you know, we get all out of whack and we we 285 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,800 start to say things that aren't necessarily true or fair or 286 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:40,240 necessarily accurate and reflective of the situation. 287 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:44,560 So massive props to I know that Josh Hart was the star last 288 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,320 night. But again, bridges, the level of 289 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,440 efficiency is off the charts. And it's really it's really the 290 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,440 converse to what the Hawks are to apartment. 291 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:54,880 It's what the Cavs are doing right now. 292 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,280 Now one thing why I do think the Cavs are eventually going to win 293 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,560 a game and you know, if and when they do win a game now, if they 294 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:03,320 win game three, I think that that's different. 295 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,880 If they win Game 2, pardon me, if they win game 4, all right, 296 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,040 you come back home, you just put them in a body bag. 297 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,880 You you probably end it in five and I still think that they went 298 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,560 in five. But if they were to win game 299 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,120 three Saturday tomorrow, what you, you just you just don't 300 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,120 know. I mean, Mitchell is capable of 301 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,520 dropping 40 plus, and while Harden's a fire hydrant on 302 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:26,000 defense, he's capable of going for 30 and just having one of 303 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,720 those throwback nights. The thing that really scares me, 304 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,520 you know, is that whether it's Meryl and some others that 305 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,840 they've missed a lot of threes, that they generally make some 306 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,880 open looks here. And I'd have to think at some 307 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:40,760 point, just based on the numbers and the history of their 308 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,480 players, that they're going to have a night where, you know, 309 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,680 they don't miss 789 wide open threes when everybody's 310 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,680 scattered trying to make up ground and the rotations a 311 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,080 little bit off. Like the Knicks haven't been 312 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,280 perfect. I know it kind of feels that way 313 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,040 because the last nine games they've won. 314 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,120 And again, the the the think about that. 315 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,960 J Rod nine straight playoff wins. 316 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,440 How many on that? I don't know the answer. 317 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,560 I'm sure it's it's, it's probably a bit more. 318 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,480 Than 20, I think it's probably I don't know. 319 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,400 These are no, no, no, I'm about to just RIP some guesses that 320 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:17,320 I'm that I'm no that I'm 99% sure right. 20/16/2017 Warriors 321 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:23,360 and the 20/17/2018 Cleveland Cavaliers probably did a similar 322 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,320 thing. I'm going to, I'm going to take 323 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:29,160 a look, but I'm pretty sure they both pretty much swept the 324 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:30,960 entire conference. Yep, Yep. 325 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,480 Now I listen, the first thing that I think about here is I'm 326 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,200 always going to go back to like magics, Lakers, Birds, Celtics. 327 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,080 But they played each other so often in the finals. 328 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:43,320 So if those nine straight wins or more didn't come early, you 329 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,240 know, like the Celtics never swept the Lakers and the Lakers 330 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:48,000 never swept the Celtics in the 80s. 331 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,800 It was always, you know, deep, hard fought battles back and 332 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,920 forth, whatever. So I'm not even sure if one of 333 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,320 those great old time all time teams did it. 334 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,120 And again, you know, did both, did Jordan's Bulls ever do it? 335 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,480 Well, I mean, I, I don't know because they always lost a 336 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:01,720 couple. They always lost a couple of 337 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,680 games to the Knicks in the conference, you know, at some 338 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,640 point in the semis or the conference finals. 339 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:08,680 I, I don't know the absolute answer. 340 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,040 I know it's a short list, but it's one thing to win nine 341 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,720 straight, but to win and have over a 200 point plus 342 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,960 differential is nothing short of amazing. 343 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,800 And every there's fingerprints everywhere. 344 00:17:24,079 --> 00:17:25,319 Everybody's pulling their weight now. 345 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:28,640 Last night was one of those rare nights where the bench didn't do 346 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,200 a whole lot. They didn't really have to. 347 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,640 You really just got a great balance game and you know, with 348 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:36,880 Cat with the rebounds, didn't take a ton of shots. 349 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:40,640 Efficient Heart was the star, Brunson was dealing, Bridges was 350 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,600 the second star. You know, OG was a little quiet, 351 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,280 but as long as he's healthy, I'm fine with that. 352 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,120 There's just it, it's it's the perfect storm right now. 353 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:52,000 And you know, listen, this is the reality of sports. 354 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,800 God forbid knocking on wood. You're always, you know, an 355 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,160 ankle tweak or whatever OG's hamstring a couple of years ago 356 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,360 against the Pacers. You just don't know. 357 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:04,640 So do not, you know, go to the ATM and store taking out money 358 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,000 yet with the Knicks as a champion. 359 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,440 But I have never and it's crazy and and I've owned it. 360 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,520 I I've not run from this. I did not expect this. 361 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:17,240 I did not see this. You go back, I'd say let's see 362 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,200 playoffs going on for about a month now. 363 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,080 The last month of the season is when the Knicks really started, 364 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:23,360 you know, running that pick and roll. 365 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:24,920 The offense started looking different. 366 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:30,160 I'd say, you know, for the last two months, I've started to feel 367 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,880 OK, this this could be their year. 368 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,440 But really, it was always parsed with and then get squashed by 369 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,160 the Thunder in the in the in the West, in the NBA Finals. 370 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,360 I don't even feel that. And you know, now we're going to 371 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:43,600 start getting a little greedy here. 372 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,600 As much as I think the Cavaliers going to win a game. 373 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,920 I saw this morning, the Cavs are wait, I looked at that quick. 374 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:50,840 I want to make sure I have this right. 375 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,000 Were they 2 1/2 point? They the Knicks were 7 1/2 point 376 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 favorites in game one. They were 6 1/2 point favorites 377 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,480 in game two. I thought I saw the Cavs -2 but 378 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,720 I looked at that very quick because I got some Yankee stuff, 379 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,400 Gary Cole, some NFL stuff as well. 380 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,160 I thought that the Cavs, it wouldn't surprise me if they're 381 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,000 slightly favored here. The Cavaliers, that's the Spurs 382 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,400 tomorrow. Yeah, the Cavs are favorite as I 383 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:15,680 thought they're. So they're 2 1/2 point 384 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,360 favorites, right, Nick? Slight Rd. 385 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:20,240 Dogs. But now with with the Thunder 386 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,360 losing that first game to the Spurs, hey, let's, let's get 387 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:26,680 greedy here and let's start saying, well, why not? 388 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,680 Just like the Cavaliers had a 7 game series before the Knicks 389 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,840 played them, just like Embiid in the Sixers didn't have any rest 390 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,400 before the Knicks played them. Let's start thinking big 391 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:37,920 picture. I mean, you could do that a 392 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:39,840 little bit. You could do that dance. 393 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,960 You could do that juggle when you're up to zip and you've won 394 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,280 nine straight and you look like a team that could win a 395 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:49,160 championship if it's won one, You know, now you tap the brakes 396 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,360 like relax, we got a the mission and it's not done. 397 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:55,640 Hear me, it's not not done. I know that things can flip on a 398 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,000 dime in the NBA, in pro sports in general. 399 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,200 But if that series out West goes as deep as it looks like it's 400 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,960 going to go, well, I mean, if the Knicks handle business 401 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,200 tomorrow and then they do, you know, rock the sweep or even win 402 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,760 in five, they're going to have extra time to regenerate and get 403 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,520 ready and some advanced scouting. 404 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,320 It's like. You, you, you, you got to think 405 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,480 the Knicks can win the championship this year. 406 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,440 You have to think that. I didn't think it during the 407 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,640 season. I didn't even think it when they 408 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,040 were playing better the last month. 409 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,520 I'm like, OK, you know, certainly get to the conference 410 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,400 finals and then let's see who you're playing, what's what. 411 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,680 And then, you know, as I just said before, hopefully get to 412 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,880 the finals and probably get rolled by the Thunder. 413 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:41,840 I didn't really think much about the Spurs, even though I know 414 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,480 they're really good, but everything's changing and it's 415 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,480 changing in a big way and a good way. 416 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,560 So this is awesome. Like this is if you can't enjoy 417 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,120 this, just check out of sports. I really don't know what to tell 418 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:55,520 you. Which team's better Knicks, the 419 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,760 the current Knicks or 99? All right, there's a couple of 420 00:20:58,760 --> 00:20:59,560 questions here. Hold on. 421 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,320 All right. I mean, it got the the end. 422 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,560 Which celebrity row would you like? 423 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:08,680 Would you most like to hang with LA Jack? 424 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,240 You know, Rihanna, Knicks with Spike and Stiller, Anne 425 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,640 Hathaway? I mean the Knicks. 426 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:16,520 I mean, that's the dumbest question I've ever gotten. 427 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,040 Because if I'm hanging with the Knicks celebrity roll, that 428 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:23,760 means I'm at a Knicks game now. I'm always, I'm always down to 429 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,240 have a couple of minutes with Anne Hathaway. 430 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,680 I'll talk to Anne. I know Spike a little bit, so 431 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,240 I'm sure that would be cool. Yeah. 432 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,600 Listen, I know I've gotten on Ben still a little bit here, but 433 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,760 only be and and and I know he's a great Knick fan. 434 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,200 I've never doubted his Knick fandom. 435 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,920 I know some people have, like he's been in, he's been in the 436 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,040 trenches. Like Ben's always there, his 437 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,400 wife's always there. He's a great Knick fan. 438 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,000 My only, I'm not even going to say beef, because it's 439 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,320 definitely not a beef. My only issue with Ben Stiller 440 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:53,480 is that the guy just all, he's just incredibly optimistic and 441 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,080 and I like to be more optimistic than pessimistic, But like I, I 442 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,200 feel like at times, no disrespect, Ben, if you see this 443 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,920 and by the way, love to have you on the show, but he even when 444 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,640 things are like when the Knicks are drowning, it's always we're 445 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,240 fine, we're good. Like there's not an ounce of of 446 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,160 criticism. And that's just I, I, I can't, 447 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,560 I'm, I'm not like that, you know, now, I don't want to be 448 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,480 over the top critical when things are good. 449 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,320 I don't want to look for things to pick on when things are good. 450 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,240 I don't want to micro dissect things when they're good. 451 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,520 But, you know, Ben's a little too, you know, pie in the sky. 452 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,040 Yeah. But no, he he is, he is a real 453 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,000 fan. Which team do I think is better? 454 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,160 Which version, the current Knicks or the 99 Knicks? 455 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,800 I mean, the one thing that that I think is very different now, 456 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,080 of course, this could change. They could get to the Finals and 457 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,680 they could lose in five, whatever, whatever. 458 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,800 Right now, I don't feel as if the gap is nearly as big. 459 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,080 Thanks for that. I appreciate it, man. 460 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:51,800 You can get it down, Jay. Let's get some more cold. 461 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:52,960 We'll get the cold. Get the chats. 462 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,520 Let's go. No rules Friday. 463 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,000 Anything you want to ask me? Let's go. 464 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,640 I think that and I remember like it was yesterday going into the 465 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,120 99 finals, I just thought the Knicks had no chance to win 466 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:06,240 that. I knew the Spurs were better. 467 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,160 That was a really fun team. I mean L JS 4 point play. 468 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,040 It was just wild man. And the transition had been made 469 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,640 from from Patrick. It was fairly seamless. 470 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:20,080 You know, it was now Houston's team and and Latrell's team and 471 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:24,480 Larry Johnson and Camby. Obviously Patrick was on his 472 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,840 last legs there, you know, very, very injured was hobbling around 473 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,840 with with the like the calf, the Achilles, whatever it was. 474 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,880 I I thought they had no chance to win that series. 475 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:36,280 I would, you know, I was rooting for them. 476 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,920 But I, I think now is it circumstantial because I do 477 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,280 think that this Knicks team has a much better chance to win the 478 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,080 championship. Is it circumstance or is it that 479 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,080 I think that this Knicks team is better? 480 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,600 Well, I actually do think that this Knicks team is better 481 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,080 because you start. I mean, let's store for the 482 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,600 highest common denominator, the best Knick in 99. 483 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:03,520 Brunson's better than period. Next, Marcus Candy was so 484 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,920 different than cat, you know, above the rim, amazing shot 485 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,320 blocker spree. Well, you know, the Knicks don't 486 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:15,240 really have a spree. Well, type like that slippery, 487 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,600 you know, downhill. You know, I know OG has a lot of 488 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,840 dunks and among the most in the NBA. 489 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:27,480 But I mean, for Sprewell was a ferocious open court dunker, you 490 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,200 know, do things in the half court slipping inside. 491 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:33,360 I think this Knicks team definitely has more depth. 492 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:34,680 I think this Knicks team is better. 493 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,960 I absolutely do. Now, it doesn't guarantee 494 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,160 anything, but I think that this Knicks team is better. 495 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,960 All right, let's start rocking the calls. 496 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,000 Who's first up on this? No rules Friday. 497 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,240 Knicks are looking good. I'm feeling good. 498 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:46,800 What do you got there, J Rod hit me. 499 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,440 We've got our friend Dan from Port Jeff. 500 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:50,160 OK. All right. 501 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:51,520 So we're going to start out East. 502 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,680 Danny is up first on this Friday on BT Unleash. 503 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,840 What's up, Dan? What's up BT How are we doing 504 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,040 today? Fantastic. 505 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,320 What's happening, buddy? Nah, I'm feeling good, man. 506 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,480 I mean, you know, that game last night, I didn't really feel, I 507 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,440 mean, maybe a little bit in the first half, but I mean, I feel 508 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:07,800 like it wasn't really sweating during that game. 509 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,920 I feel like the Knicks had generally control of that game 510 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,200 for the most part. I mean the first 2 plays too if 511 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,000 you remember runs in it's that that little floater and then 512 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:19,920 bridges slips in and gets the steal. 513 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:20,640 And then? Three. 514 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,280 And there are five. Oh, I'm like, oh, here we go. 515 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,560 Here we go. Yep, then the cast. 516 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,080 Went a little bit of a run but. Well, you know what it is? 517 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:30,800 It's I think and I, I felt the same thing too, Like even 518 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,120 certainly when they cut it to 8 with 7 or 8 minutes ago, I, I 519 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:35,960 was, I don't want to sound arrogant. 520 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,000 I I like, I just wasn't worried. Even though it was close to the 521 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,600 half, I, I wasn't worried. And so I shared that, that 522 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,800 comfort level. I shared that belief and 523 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,000 confidence, but it it's just because the more you watch them, 524 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,760 the more they've earned that like they've shown the ability 525 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,280 to plow through adversity. And there was really nothing 526 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,680 adverse about last night like game one where you down by 20 527 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,080 plus points. I'm with you. 528 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,160 I I felt I felt very good about the way things were going. 529 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,160 No real foul issues, nothing. I'm like, all right, they're 530 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,640 going to find a way now. I did I think that Josh Hart 531 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,280 would drop 26? No Did I think that bridges 532 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,240 would basically not miss a shot? No, but I did think that. 533 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:16,760 I did think. I did think. 534 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,560 I did think that Cat would play very well. 535 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,640 I said that on the show yesterday, so I'm with you. 536 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,680 I was not nervous, no. Yeah, I know. 537 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,480 I I go. I love the way Bridges is 538 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:25,760 playing. I feel like this is the most 539 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,680 impressive I've seen him play. Yep. 540 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,280 Maybe as a Nick. I mean, he's he's going to the 541 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,640 basket, he's attacking, he's hitting everything. 542 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,360 I mean, he's, he's playing on another level that I've I 543 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,040 haven't seen in a long time from him as a Knick. 544 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,200 Yeah, yeah, I'm now we've seen more and more of that lately. 545 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,120 But like big picture, the whole, you know, Mikhail Bridges 546 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:46,440 discussion. That's fair. 547 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,040 I got you. Yeah, he's been awesome. 548 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,800 And like I don't know if you saw the post game with Chuck, like 549 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,120 they mentioned a Mobley, he didn't take a shot in the 550 00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:55,600 second. Half like it's amazing. 551 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,440 Like, what are you doing? Like he was, he was giving the 552 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:00,960 Knicks some problems in the first half. 553 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,280 He was giving, you know, giving Cats some problems and 5 or 8, 554 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,800 and he didn't take another shot in the second-half. 555 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:06,760 I don't know what that was about. 556 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:08,480 That's not our problem. They got. 557 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,000 It's not our problem. I'm fine. 558 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,200 Like, yeah, whatever. Very surprised by that. 559 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:14,240 That's your strategy? Yeah, yeah, I know. 560 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,240 I mean the one thing and thanks for the call to get it going. 561 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,120 Appreciate it, man. The thing that, and I said this 562 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:21,760 before, you know, they they have dodged a full a few bullets here 563 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,200 like the Cavaliers has. They've missed an inordinate 564 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,720 amount of open threes. You know, I think at some point, 565 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,440 probably tomorrow, that's going to change. 566 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,160 You know, role players generally tend to shoot better at home. 567 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,200 You know how it works in the NBA playoffs. 568 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,520 But you know, it's even even if and when they do start doing 569 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,320 that, they just don't have enough horses to win the series. 570 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,720 I mean, really, because James Harden plays so many minutes and 571 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,600 he's such a problem defensively for them, it, it gets them all 572 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,520 out of whack. So I expect a better version of 573 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,600 the Cavaliers. I, I definitely do. 574 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,760 I think they're going to win a game in Cleveland, but I, I do 575 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,160 not think this will be a long series. 576 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,600 Who's up next year, Jay? What do we have, Jay? 577 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:02,680 Who do we have up next? Jay Yeah. 578 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,600 Sorry my my mic was like muted for a SEC. 579 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,720 We've got our friend Ty from East Haven, CT. 580 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,560 OK, it's been a couple days. What's going on? 581 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,880 Ty How you feeling bud? BT what's up man? 582 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,120 We're good. Memorial Day weekend, guys. 583 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,920 Yes, you too, Absolutely. I mean, the weather's going to 584 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,360 be, the weather's going to be terrible. 585 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:21,320 I know it. We just have that heat wave and 586 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,000 now this weekend, no good, but it's. 587 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,960 Ridiculous, man. But yeah, I'm I'm fired up about 588 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,200 this team down to when it gets the Hawks. 589 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,720 I was ready to sell everybody get get ready, get rid of Leon 590 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,320 Rose and Mikkel Bridges. But I'm I'm bought in now. 591 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,640 I'm all in. You got to be, I mean, you know, 592 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,000 listen, I've said this too and I'm just jotting down some 593 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,080 names. Then then that OK, so I said 594 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,560 this, I said this is very at various points during the 595 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,200 season, but even going into the playoffs, right? 596 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,320 Ty where and it's funny that you say Leon Rose like because of 597 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,400 the bridges move and because of the other moves, like there's 598 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,040 just not a whole lot that they can do flexibility wise. 599 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,600 They don't have the assets, whether it's money or cap space 600 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,880 or or draft capital. So when when I talked about how 601 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,960 important this playoff run was for this team and it still is 602 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,800 like it's it's obviously not over. 603 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,600 But Leon Rose criticism is the wrong, wrong word. 604 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,560 But he's not immune to evaluation or even reevaluation. 605 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,320 So I had Leon Rose. Now, granted, he was not the 606 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,200 primary target. That was more Bridges and Cat, 607 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,720 but even Leon Rose entered the chat in terms of all right, 608 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,560 maybe we're going to have to have a discussion. 609 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,400 Is he the guy to get them over the hump? 610 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,360 And I know that that sounds odd now, but you go back to Barry's 611 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,720 points this year and it was not out of place. 612 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,080 Even Brunson, not that we we would move on from Jalen 613 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:45,640 Brunson, but you know what that style, the monopolization of the 614 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:50,440 ball, the pounding, the ISO, you know it at points this year it 615 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:51,920 it got a little bit out of whack. 616 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:57,800 So right now Leon has been exonerated, Cat has exonerated 617 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,640 himself. Brunson didn't really need 618 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,720 exoneration, but he's just whatever we said back then, even 619 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,800 in how low we said it, that's dispelled. 620 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,920 Bridges has been exonerated, OG is healthy. 621 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,800 I mean, everything right now is lined up and clicking period. 622 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:12,880 That's all there is to it. I. 623 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,200 It's one of those runs, you know, just everything. 624 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,160 The stars are aligning for us right now and I'm happy to be 625 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,080 along for the ride. The last time I was this excited 626 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,880 is when we traded for Carmelo Anthony. 627 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,400 We see how that worked out for us. 628 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,920 I'm Carmelo. So that 99 mixed team, I was 629 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,880 like 9 years old, so I couldn't really appreciate it like I do 630 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,240 now. But I'm I'm on the run of a 631 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,240 lifetime here with this team. It's amazing. 632 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,360 It it really is fun. It's amazing. 633 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:38,680 Enjoy it. Have a great weekend. 634 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,360 So I appreciate you checking in. The third, Thank you guys. 635 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,120 You got it, buddy. Thank you very much. 636 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:48,360 You know, I will admit, you know, you mentioned Carmelo, 637 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,440 This is less about him because obviously he was a great score 638 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:52,640 here. I mean, I've got my issues with 639 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,480 some other things with Carmelo, like wasn't always in shape, 640 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,160 whatever, but I don't need to go down there now. 641 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,760 Didn't win a lot, obviously a little selfish. 642 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,280 I guess I will get into it for a second build insanity stuff. 643 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,120 All right, I was hurt. I played the All Star game and 644 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:08,760 then checked out on the rest of the season. 645 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:13,400 And let's face it, in the NBA, when your star player is around 646 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:18,200 for some like 18 or 23 win seasons, that guy's just got to 647 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,440 take a knock period. All right, Never personal, great 648 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,080 scorer, good guy. But I've always said that about 649 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,960 Carmelo, right? But to branch it out, there was 650 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:31,480 a point, you know, you see some of these Knicks celebrating and 651 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:36,320 the older Knicks, and I don't mean Pat or LJ or Spree or 652 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,400 Houston, who's part of the organization or Starks, You 653 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,800 know, like the I, I'm, I'm past it. 654 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:47,600 It took me a little bit to get past it, but like Marbury, and 655 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:52,080 only because I I watched every game and like the Marbury run 656 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,640 was painful. It was broken. 657 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,520 It was it was a circus. And listen, the one thing about 658 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,960 Steph is from Brooklyn, big Knick guy, like a real Knick 659 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:04,400 fan. He grew up in Coney Island 660 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,120 wanting to be a Knick. So I'm like, you know what? 661 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,360 I guess I got to stop being petty. 662 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,320 I got to stop being petty about this. 663 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,480 So I don't, it doesn't bother me anymore. 664 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,960 But when they do show the old Knicks, and again, not not the 665 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,160 studs, some of the older guys who didn't do anything, I'm 666 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,480 like, you know, do we really need this? 667 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,200 But I'm not, I'm not going to be that guy. 668 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,240 I'm passed out. I was that guy for a minute. 669 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,760 No more. All right, who's up next there? 670 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:29,520 Jay? What do we got? 671 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,520 We've got our friend Benny from DC. 672 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,360 Benny from DC unmute the mic. Here we go. 673 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,720 Benny's having some technical issues. 674 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,440 Benny is in the house. What's going on, Benny? 675 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,600 Oh, I, I, I once, I once you got me on. 676 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:44,960 I can't. I got you audio. 677 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,640 I got you. I can see you talking, but I 678 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:47,720 can't hear you. All right. 679 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,600 Let him let him say what he's got to say and we'll just bounce 680 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:51,440 him quick. Go ahead, Ben. 681 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,280 Oh, no, he can't hear you, so he wouldn't even know. 682 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,920 Can't hear me. Yeah, yeah. 683 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:57,000 That's. The I can't hear you. 684 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,760 I see you talking, but I. Refresh we'll probably hear. 685 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,160 Me, yeah, but let's, yeah, let's let's, let's figure this out. 686 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,600 Let's let's get things in order here. 687 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,680 With the refresh. Let's see if we yeah, hit it up 688 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,600 with the refresh. Anybody else lined up or we have 689 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:09,760 to wait for Benny to get rolling here? 690 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:10,320 What do we got? Wait. 691 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:14,440 For Benny to get back I, I did some research though on the, 692 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:20,440 the, the other teams who have won nine straight playoff games. 693 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:25,320 So I hit on both my guesses. Obviously it was the IT was the 694 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,760 Warriors 20/16/2017 and the Cavs. 695 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,640 The Cavs did it twice, 20/16/2017 and 20/15/2016 and. 696 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,360 The. Warriors in 20/16/2017 rattled 697 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,560 off 15 straight wins. I got to see so I don't think 698 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,520 that this team is one of them, but I've got to just scratch my 699 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,280 my my itch of of of question here. 700 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,120 What about Larry Brown's Pistons Let. 701 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,480 Me see they. I'm I'm looking it up too. 702 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:54,960 I'm just curious. I don't see it. 703 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,240 Wallace playoff run. I I'm saying I don't I don't 704 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,560 know that they were the team there. 705 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:06,360 Let's see here 20. No, that's that's yeah, 2004 706 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,400 playoff summary. All right, Eastern Conference 707 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,639 first round Pistons. All right, Pistons over the 708 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:15,840 Bucks. They beat him in five then. 709 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,920 Oh, that's right. That net series was 7. 710 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:19,719 How do I forget about? That's right, No, no. 711 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,520 OK. And then I know they beat the 712 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,840 Pacers in six and then they beat the Lakers and said not even 713 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,120 close. All right, just double checking. 714 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,800 So we will. Yeah, go ahead. 715 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,000 Looking at this list, though, the Knicks are in incredible 716 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,960 territory. Like every pretty much every 717 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,320 single one of these teams went on to win. 718 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:42,159 Yep, and they all at least made the Finals, so there's that. 719 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,480 Yep. And by the way, just to clarify, 720 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,840 sorry, meant to ask Celebro to hang out with outside of the 721 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,960 game. That's a different story. 722 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,760 That's a different story. I mean, so it was Stiller, It 723 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,360 was Anne Hathaway and it was Spike Spike and it was Jack and. 724 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,680 Leo and Leo and Rihanna. I got there, I go, I got to go 725 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,320 with the Lakers trio got to. Yeah, I mean. 726 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,520 Especially if I'm, especially if I'm young and I'm single. 727 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,160 I mean, what kind of hard to be walking into with Leo and and 728 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,080 Rihanna and then Jack is just the old G in that, you know, in 729 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,400 the corner of the room, everybody coming up and kissing 730 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,000 the ring. Yeah, like there's got to be 731 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,880 Lakers. The Knicks crew seems more like 732 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,880 a nice dinner. That Lakers crew seems like a 733 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,920 party of. Your lifetime, Yes, that's true. 734 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,520 That is very, very well said. You've got to have Benny back 735 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,360 whenever you're ready. I'm, I'm, I'm going to get to 736 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,880 him here in a SEC. Let me see. 737 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,440 Truly amazing. The Knicks are doing this with a 738 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:39,960 less talented roster than Detroit. 739 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:46,160 Are you insane, Chris? No, he's, he's, he's baiting 740 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,400 you. Basically. 741 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:52,000 He he this guy gets on you every episode for your early season 742 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,680 takes about the Knicks worse than the Pistons. 743 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,240 All right, I got it. That's a little different. 744 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,160 touché. I've got to own it. 745 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,800 Which, by the way, I have. One of these days, somebody's 746 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,560 going to have to call out this damn celebrity these days who 747 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,720 can't make it back to their seat before halftime. 748 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,320 We're going to name names here. You know, I'm. 749 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,000 I'm pretty sure Ben's back in the seat. 750 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:16,680 Pretty sure Jack's back in the seat. 751 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,960 I don't know, like, I don't really notice what time I do see 752 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,560 some empty seats. But I mean, that doesn't take 753 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,080 away from my enjoyment, nor is it really enough to criticize 754 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,560 them. I will tell you, when you sit 755 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,240 there, you've got access to a pretty amazing suite. 756 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:36,040 So yeah, you want to go to the bathroom, go and have that extra 757 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,080 drink. Want to do a little mingling? 758 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,800 You want to get a phone number? Like, you know, I come on, let's 759 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,360 not be that petty, you know, you know, I mean, is that is that 760 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,160 reason to be petty here, J Rod. I don't know. 761 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,040 I mean, I guess maybe if your thought is like, hey, you're 762 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,960 stealing seats from like the average person, but the average 763 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,960 person still ain't sitting courtside. 764 00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,560 So Yep, Melo showed who he really is during that fight. 765 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,080 At least Jr. Smith stood his ground and threw 766 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,680 down. Now, you talking about the are 767 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,880 you talking about the Denver Nuggets when when he was with 768 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,040 Denver Knicks? Probably I dude, I was, I was 769 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,200 doing that game. No way. 770 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,680 I was. I was doing that game. 771 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,800 That was with Nate Robinson. Oh my. 772 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,240 Gosh, that was with Did you remember that fight? 773 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,440 I mean, I remember seeing videos. 774 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,120 I wasn't watching basketball. I think at the time it's like a 775 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,280 little mid 2000s but. You have you have you little 776 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,160 Papa? No. 777 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,280 Literally, I probably had a big Dora stuffed animal that I was 778 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,120 walking around with. Yeah, yeah, you'll blankie. 779 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,280 Yep. But no, I do remember watching 780 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,160 videos from that fight. Also quick aside, have you seen 781 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,920 Jeremy Lin and Carmelo are do are going to do a podcast 782 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,800 episode together to clear the air? 783 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,160 I saw that now. Now I saw that Melo invited him. 784 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,720 I did not see that Linsanity that Jeremy Lin. 785 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,040 Accepted. I didn't see that, he accepted. 786 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,520 I don't know. The way the way Carmelo 787 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,680 described it, it sounded like the kind of thing where Jeremy 788 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,800 Lin did accept and he they're just waiting for the date. 789 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,400 Kind of like he, it sounded like he said, you know, we've got his 790 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,280 like, I've got his number, obviously. 791 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,680 And he was like, you know, and he was like, we're cool. 792 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,640 Like he sounded like he was saying they're cool. 793 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,920 We'll see. That'll be a big piece of Knicks 794 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,960 media when it drops. Yeah, that'll be very 795 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,560 interesting. I mean, hopefully Mello, you 796 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:27,520 know, I got to be honest here. I don't really want Carmelo to 797 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,120 do it during the playoff run. No, no, no, no. 798 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,160 You got to let's let's not, let's not get away from the 799 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:33,080 playoffs. Who cares? 800 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,480 I mean, on the scale of important matters, that is a 0 801 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,280 right now. I'm not saying won't be 802 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,520 interesting when they do it. Yeah, you got to do that 803 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,200 offseason post Knicks win. Don't. 804 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:44,920 If they lose, don't even drop it. 805 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,680 Give me the month after the parade before The Jets and the 806 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,640 Giants really hit camp and and everybody else with with with 807 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,920 Ernest here now you, you got to be honest. 808 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:55,960 I mean, if we're going to have A and I, I would think that they 809 00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,720 would be my take is that Carmelo was wrong that I mean, my, my 810 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:02,760 take was that Carmelo was, was selfish. 811 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:07,640 And my take has always been that Carmelo resented some of the 812 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,920 shine that Jeremy Lin was getting. 813 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,120 I'm sorry, I've always believed that. 814 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,240 I really have. And I, I think the deep down, I 815 00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:18,720 think that just based on some of the comments from, you know, 816 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:20,680 previous times, it's been addressed somewhat. 817 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,560 I believe that Jeremy Lin most importantly believes that. 818 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,320 So hey, listen, we've all done things. 819 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:31,040 We've all had moments where, you know, gets off the rails a 820 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,240 little bit, you mature, you look back on, you're like, man, what 821 00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:36,600 was I thinking? Why did that happen? 822 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:39,720 Why did I add fuel to it? Why did I start it? 823 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,320 You know, whatever it might be. And I'd love to see them at this 824 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,440 stage, sit down and go through it. 825 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,280 I just need honesty. I need Melo hooked up to a lie 826 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,280 detector. I need him because honestly, I 827 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,880 mean, not that Lynn would have gotten like a bag from whatever 828 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,760 7:00 PM in New York or whatever Melo's podcast is. 829 00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,560 For him to just be like, yeah, it was all good. 830 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,880 But I will say there's like a comment here. 831 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:03,480 You can keep that comment up there. 832 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:07,000 I got you. But but yeah, like what I was 833 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,160 saying last night about Jeremy Lin, all right, Like he did have 834 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,240 that run and Carmelo might have snubbed him out. 835 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,320 But when you, if you remember it too, dude, Kobe despised the guy 836 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,600 as well when he when he played with the Lakers, like because 837 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,120 Jeremy Lin would do similar things. 838 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,200 He'd take the shot from Kobe and the 4th. 839 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:28,360 So when he had a career like that, pissing off of the the big 840 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,080 time scorer. I get it. 841 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,120 You know, I was at that game. God, how many did Lynn drop? 842 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,320 If you could check this out, it was a Friday night against the 843 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:37,920 Lakers. Against the Lakers, I thought it 844 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,640 was. 38, I thought it was 38. I could be wrong on that. 845 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,520 How many did he have that night? I think it was 38. 846 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:49,080 Yep, right, 38 and 7. Yeah, man, I mean, that was 847 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,200 wild. I was, I was doing it. 848 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:52,040 I was as, as per the chat up there. 849 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:53,600 I was doing the pre and the post stuff. 850 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,520 It was amazing. I was there Carmelo's and 851 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,760 listen, I was all about like I wanted the Knicks to get 852 00:40:58,760 --> 00:40:59,720 Carmelo. I did. 853 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,200 But then for the reasons I've given you many times, I was 854 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:07,600 ready for that to be over that that the Carmelo run for sure. 855 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:13,200 I was at his first game as as a Nick and they come in home, come 856 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,840 in home, tell the world and the place was. 857 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,840 I mean, it had a special feel to it, dude, there's no doubt about 858 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:20,720 it. That's pretty cool. 859 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,040 Yep, although, you know, and, and I, I, I feel like every time 860 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,960 Carmelo comes up, I, I say more negative things and positive 861 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,800 things and I'm not honestly, I, I really do think he's a good 862 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,680 dude and a great all time scorer. 863 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,960 So it's no, it's no, it's definitely no hate and it's 864 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,720 definitely not shade just to throw shade's purpose, but even 865 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:43,920 like the coming home, like, I don't know, like, all right, so 866 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,480 I know we spent time in Red Hook. 867 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,160 I get it. He's a Maryland guy. 868 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,280 He's a Maryland guy. Thank you, man. 869 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:53,400 Stephane Mulberry, Brooklyn. Mark Jackson, NY. 870 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:56,200 Dwayne Pearl, Washington, New York, My guy. 871 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,960 Mulley Flatbush. You know, Lenny Wilkins, New 872 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:03,280 York. Kareem Lou Alcindor, New York. 873 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,760 I don't think New York at all. No. 874 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:12,520 And I, I honestly, I only found out which, listen, this is bad 875 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,000 on my part, especially as a Syracuse guy. 876 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:20,160 I only found out he he was born in New York this year like I. 877 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:21,880 Oh, you just found out this year? 878 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:26,760 Yes, I've always considered him a Baltimore, MD, DMV basketball 879 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,760 because that's when, you know, that's his icon, like Hill 880 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,520 Academy, what, You know, those kind of years go in there like, 881 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,600 oh, yeah, That's what you really remember Carmelo's upbringings 882 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,200 as? Not, not New York. 883 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,120 Yeah. Yep, that's true. 884 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,400 Yeah. Lynn would just break plays, do 885 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:42,840 his own thing a little bit. I get it. 886 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,640 I get it. What does this say here? 887 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:47,040 Oh, read that. That's a good one. 888 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,120 Read that, Jay. STAT punches a fire extinguisher 889 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,160 and broke his hand during the Heat series, but let's blame 890 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,600 Melo for everything. I remember that. 891 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,720 Man, that was rough. Yeah. 892 00:42:57,720 --> 00:42:59,440 But the difference with Amari, right? 893 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,640 And why I've always got, I've got a different, I got, I got 894 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:06,120 love for Melo on, on, on on some level, but I've got real love 895 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,200 for Amari. I mean, it's as stupid as that 896 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,360 was, at least it shows passion, as misguided as it was. 897 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,800 I I get it. But Amari came here when 898 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,680 everybody else was afraid of the stage because the Knicks were so 899 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,520 down. So you know, when they when they 900 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,840 show those Knicks, you know, Bernard King, obviously Bernards 901 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:28,200 Brock in that 1970s, like that hat, you know, I mean, 902 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,320 interesting BK come on, bud, that that doesn't look bad. 903 00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:34,920 But Amori was God. I remember when the when he was 904 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,680 brought here, he was walking out of the Garden after his press 905 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,520 conference and he said, and there were cameras and he's 906 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,720 like, the Knicks are back. Like. 907 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,160 And it was such a it, yeah, it was such an energizing 908 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,800 statement. I'm like, yeah, that's right. 909 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,440 We're back, man, Let's go, Let's go, stat. 910 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:52,960 And his first year, if you, I don't know if you really 911 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,480 remember, his first year was phenomenal, but he was messing 912 00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,280 around, flirting with the MVP for a minute. 913 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,440 I mean, Amori Stoudemire's first year as a Nick was special. 914 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,600 He he was great. And you know, I don't use the 915 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,840 word great that often. And he was all in. 916 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,200 He was physically invested. He was emotionally invested. 917 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,960 He was, he was mentally and physically reliable, always 918 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:18,000 spoke after a game with, not just when things were good, you 919 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,200 know, when things were bad. I thought he was a great leader. 920 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:22,160 I, I, I've got so much love for Maury. 921 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,440 Amari was awesome. Awesome. 922 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,920 Like if Amari Stoudemire did what he did with Phoenix or did 923 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,840 what he did his first year with the Knicks for like 5 or 6, his 924 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,520 numbers hanging up in the rafters, how good he was his 925 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,800 first year. I wish I see that. 926 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,800 I hate that I was too young, not too young. 927 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,480 Like I could have caught it at a pretty young age those games, 928 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,120 but it wouldn't have had the same impact. 929 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,920 Like, I wish I was around for that era of like, of hoops. 930 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,640 Like, Oh my gosh. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. 931 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,320 This is an interesting 1. Linda Melo should sit next to 932 00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,440 each other during Nick. Playoff game great great thought 933 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:05,000 that would the pop the on screen pop would be absurd that. 934 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,920 Would be good. Oh my gosh. 935 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,920 And by the way, just to, you know, add some more context to 936 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,840 the mellow stuff. I, I do want people to 937 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,720 understand. I'm like, I do get this aspect 938 00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:16,800 of it. Like for me and you know, my 939 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,360 favorite old time athlete is not Mattingly. 940 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,280 Everybody knows that. But anybody that knows me has 941 00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:21,760 followed me. Everybody knows that it's, it's 942 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:26,400 it's not even close, right. And then, you know, I've got 943 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,600 this, this deep level of admiration and affection. 944 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,360 Number one, I was young, I was incredibly impressionable. 945 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,160 Baseball was always my first love. 946 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,080 I played first base. I was a lefty hitter. 947 00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,120 I mean, Donnie just checked every single box. 948 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,280 See, And then, you know, what really humanized him as I, as I 949 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,160 got older and, and you know, through high school and college, 950 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,800 when Donnie was still playing, you know, the, the, the injuries 951 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,840 zapped him of his greatness. But the way he comported himself 952 00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,560 and as I learned, especially somebody was still playing at 953 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,040 that point, what he had to do just to get ready for a game, 954 00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,720 just incredible levels of respect for him. 955 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,440 And, and even though he never won, I just always thought that 956 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,920 he really represented himself and the team and, and like the 957 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,560 virtues of, of being a competitor and the Yankees and 958 00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:11,520 the brand just incredibly well. And, and I do understand, like 959 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,680 Melo is a hero to so many younger Knick fans because you 960 00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,320 know, when you're a fan of a team and they're awful and they 961 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,120 were really pretty much awful his and almost his entire 962 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,960 stretch, you know, it's almost like the one guy who is special 963 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:29,120 takes on an even deeper meaning because he's he's really the 964 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,800 only reason you're watching. You know, most of I don't mean 965 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,520 when they won 54 games with Woodson. 966 00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,000 I don't mean that year. Of course, I'm not with 967 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,040 Chandler, you know, and and and Jason Kidd and Rashid. 968 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:42,040 I don't mean that crew, but most of the years he was the only 969 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,760 reason of like, you're a devout. I'm watching the Knicks every 970 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,880 night and I'm living and dying with the Knicks like I did as a 971 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:48,520 kid. And I still do to an extent. 972 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,040 You know, that's that's your magnet, that's your pulse. 973 00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,360 I get it. I understand that I'll never 974 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,960 view Carmelo Anthony the way a lot of young Knicks fans do it 975 00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,280 because I just process it very differently. 976 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,240 Whatever. But I I, I want people to know I 977 00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:04,360 get that part and I do actually respect that part. 978 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,960 So it's not shade. It's just a different level of 979 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,240 of whatever. Yeah, I mean, whatever, Rob. 980 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:10,720 I couldn't care less, Rob, for the. 981 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,040 I just, I threw that up just because that's a take that I 982 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,880 very commonly will bust out all my boys and people will get 983 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:19,440 heated. Well, who wanted that year? 984 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,280 And forget LeBron? Oh, that's right. 985 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:26,200 LeBron, LeBron. But I I always argue Carmelo, he 986 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,040 averaged more points. I believe he averaged more 987 00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,600 rebounds and his team made it to the Western Conference finals, 988 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,440 which doesn't come into account. It did. 989 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:33,640 That's right. But they run. 990 00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:35,400 But they made it. To the playoffs. 991 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,240 I know the Cavaliers didn't even come close. 992 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,520 That's why I always give the mellow take that. 993 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:42,760 I'm curious that, listen, I respect that too. 994 00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,520 I'm curious like, I mean, you don't have to look this up if 995 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:47,880 you happen to know. It seems like you've done a 996 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,680 deeper dive on this, so you might like how close was the 997 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,000 voting because Jason Kidd in Grant Hill shared it. 998 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,320 I like, you know, now that I think back and, you know, now 999 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,320 that we know what we know about LeBron, He's one of the, you 1000 00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:58,920 know, top, you know, for some he's the best. 1001 00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,760 For me, he's top four, top five, obviously one of the greatest of 1002 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,520 all time where Carmela was not. He's just a great scorer, 1003 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:05,960 whatever. There's a big difference there. 1004 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,680 But at that point, we didn't know that. 1005 00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,840 We didn't we didn't know that. So I'm curious, you know, if he 1006 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,160 had more points and and they had more team success. 1007 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:15,600 And I know that they did because they did make that deep Western 1008 00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:19,280 Conference run, you know, was it at least close in the no, excuse 1009 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:20,880 me, in the voting. Not super. 1010 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:25,920 LeBron had 80 or 78 first place votes and Carmelo had 40. 1011 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,200 So a a little close, but not, you know, Carmelo still got some 1012 00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,720 love, but LeBron still definitely, you know, and 1013 00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:36,160 granted, looking back, I mean, listen, they were certainly 1014 00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:40,560 right. But yeah, wish he got that love. 1015 00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:43,840 I don't I don't want to just turn this into Chrome. 1016 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:45,560 Now people like retire the number, whatever. 1017 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:46,600 I don't want to get too much into that. 1018 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:50,160 But I mean, bottom line is this man, like the Knicks back to the 1019 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:51,280 team. Oh, yeah. 1020 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,400 Like the Knicks are just showing a variety of ways to win. 1021 00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,760 I mean, and that's what's really impressive. 1022 00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,800 Like, one thing, I'll do the Yankees in a minute. 1023 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,960 One thing that really worries me about the Yankees, and it's been 1024 00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,760 like this for a long time, is if, you know, if Judge is not 1025 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,640 Superman and the Yankees don't hit a couple of home runs. 1026 00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:08,800 And I don't just mean during the regular season. 1027 00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,160 I mean, over the last X amount of years, the Yankees just don't 1028 00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,000 win at the level that we need and want them to win. 1029 00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:19,240 It's been a very predictable script where there's a diversity 1030 00:49:19,240 --> 00:49:24,680 to this Knicks team that really has to give you a a ton of 1031 00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,680 belief that that they could win the championship because it's 1032 00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,320 not like, you know, even with even listen, Scottie Pippen was 1033 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,160 great and the first couple of the championships, Horace Grant 1034 00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,960 was a very good role player and they always had a couple of 1035 00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,200 shooters, you know, whether it's Hodges or or Steve Kerr, 1036 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,560 obviously. And then the second version with 1037 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,520 Rodman was very different. And Rodman's the greatest 1038 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,040 rebounder of all time and Pippen's one of the best two way 1039 00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:51,080 players of all time for sure. But usually they won because MJ 1040 00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,840 was MJ, you know, and he was almost always MJ. 1041 00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:57,840 Like very rarely was he not the great, you know, unapproachably 1042 00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:01,880 all time amazing superstar GOAT Michael Jordan. 1043 00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:06,600 Whereas the Knicks have shown you, like you, you don't need 39 1044 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,520 or 43 or hero ball from Brunson to win. 1045 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:13,000 Last night it would barely shooting boom, 14 Dimes. 1046 00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,280 You know, we've seen nights where you know, cat gets hot 1047 00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,320 from downtown goes for 2528 thirty, you know, 1213 rebounds, 1048 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,600 but we've seen this this new iteration of cat. 1049 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,280 He last night was last night was kind of a hybrid where he got 1050 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:30,680 some more looks, rebounded very well, but the assists were down. 1051 00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:34,000 But the hybrid version is you can you can you know, you can 1052 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,520 have Cat go for 20 plus and go for double double. 1053 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,040 But you can also have Cat, you know, run the offense through 1054 00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:43,320 Carl Anthony Towns and have 6710 assists as he's had with the 1055 00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:47,240 triple double in the playoffs. We've had nights where OG before 1056 00:50:47,240 --> 00:50:50,360 he hurt the hamstring. OG was for a while the best nick 1057 00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:51,720 player. He really was. 1058 00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:55,000 If you go back, he was, he was the most efficient. 1059 00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:57,800 He was, he was not missing any threes. 1060 00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,880 Terrific 2 way player. And then there's nights where 1061 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,320 Bridge is going to cook a little bit. 1062 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,720 And then there's nights and we saw this in the close out 1063 00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:06,720 against the Sixers. I think that was a close out 1064 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,560 where Deuce had what, five threes where Deuce could come 1065 00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:13,000 off the bench and give you 151819 points and, and, and, and 1066 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,080 there's nights where Alvarado could do it. 1067 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:18,160 Like it's just there's so many different ways to win now. 1068 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:22,720 Ultimately, the commonality in terms of any Nick championship 1069 00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:27,400 is going to run through Brunson's greatness, offensive 1070 00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:31,760 diversity and efficiency and really good help smart team 1071 00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,920 defense kind of cleaning up with what Brunson can't do 1072 00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,400 defensively and also Coral Anthony Towns. 1073 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,480 But you know, when I when I think about championship for any 1074 00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,960 team championship possibilities like could team X win the win 1075 00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,920 the World Series? Could team X win the NBA Finals? 1076 00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,520 Could team X, you know, win the Stanley Cup. 1077 00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,160 I don't care if you got Gretzky. I mean, if you if you know, if 1078 00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,680 you don't have a goalie who can stop, you know, 2530 shots a 1079 00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:59,120 night and lock down like like like fewer. 1080 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,320 Look at this. We're talking hockey grand. 1081 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:06,000 Fewer could at times, you know, I mean, Gretzky could average 1082 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,600 two goals a night, but is that going to be enough? 1083 00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:13,320 Probably not. And they just look so polished 1084 00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,920 right now and so focused. And it's funny, you know, I've 1085 00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,280 talked about him a lot, you know, in the in the a lot of 1086 00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,320 times I was worried about him. But I haven't even really 1087 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,760 mentioned Mike Brown today. I've mentioned him a lot during 1088 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,320 this great run. I mean, Mike Brown deserves an 1089 00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:31,640 immense amount of credit. And I was thinking about this 1090 00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:33,800 and I, you know, I hesitate to say it. 1091 00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,560 I was thinking about this this morning. 1092 00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:39,040 I'll say it, you know, we can, I'm not going to go deep on 1093 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:44,440 this, but I will say it like at I'm at the point now you get 2 1094 00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,200 more wins against the Cavaliers in no matter how many games it 1095 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,600 takes to get them. You get to the finals and this 1096 00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,320 teams earn the right to run it back. 1097 00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:55,520 They've earned the right to run it back. 1098 00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:59,040 Now there's always going to be a little bench tweak here, but you 1099 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:01,560 know, I am you need these two more wins. 1100 00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:05,600 You get the two more and we're going to run this thing back and 1101 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,960 either have a chance to repeat or maybe with one little bench 1102 00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:10,400 addition. Obviously they'll they'll be a 1103 00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,680 little tweak just based on, you know, Clarkson's deal is up and 1104 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,160 you can figure out what's up with Mitch. 1105 00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,440 Whatever they'll they'll, they'll be a a prominent role 1106 00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,760 player brought in even the great teams or even the Champions do 1107 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:25,840 that over the years. But there's really no reason 1108 00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,800 that includes the coach. They've adjusted and they've 1109 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,840 adapted to what he was asking them to do. 1110 00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:32,880 And it took him a long time to do it. 1111 00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,800 I admit, took him a long time to do it. 1112 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,680 But they're doing it and they're doing at A at a level that is 1113 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,280 incredibly, incredibly impressive and incredibly high 1114 00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,200 and incredibly consistent. Let's see here. 1115 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,760 Yeah, I did see that Mike Brown almost destroyed his ankle on 1116 00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:51,400 Tuesday and he got tackled. He's all in. 1117 00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,880 He said in the post game that he thought for a second that he may 1118 00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,720 have ruptured. Maybe he was just joking around. 1119 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:58,760 He thought maybe he ruptured his Achilles. 1120 00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:00,640 Jay, do you remember? And he didn't. 1121 00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:01,640 Thank God, because that's brutal. 1122 00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,720 What's the guy's name? It wasn't Webber. 1123 00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,880 Was it Georgia State? I think that it was Georgia 1124 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,080 State the the coach and his son was on the team. 1125 00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:17,800 I'm just forgetting his name 10 years ago, 8-9 years ago, who 1126 00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,840 actually did rupture his Achilles celebrating or doing 1127 00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,360 something during the game. And I remember him coaching the 1128 00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,600 next NCAA Tournament game in a chair. 1129 00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:29,000 Was it Ron? Georgia State men's basketball 1130 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,560 coach Ron Hunter. Hunter, there you go. 1131 00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:33,040 And his son was really, really good. 1132 00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:36,800 Yeah, it was Georgia State. Oh, his son was RJ Hunter. 1133 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:37,800 Yeah. Yeah, yes. 1134 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:39,760 Celtic legends. Yes. 1135 00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:41,560 My gosh. I just couldn't remember the 1136 00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,240 name Hunter, but I knew it was Georgia State. 1137 00:54:43,240 --> 00:54:44,320 There you go. All right. 1138 00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,680 Oh my gosh, so. Apparently, Mike Brown has 1139 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,560 avoided that disaster. That is not a fun injury, that's 1140 00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:51,760 for sure. Let's see here. 1141 00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:53,720 What is this? If you had to hold, if you hold 1142 00:54:53,720 --> 00:54:56,440 your opponents to less than 100 points, you've got an 85% chance 1143 00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,560 of winning. In the nine wins, the Knicks are 1144 00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:03,040 averaging 98 points allowed. I mean, in the modern NBA, that 1145 00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:07,520 is beyond impressive. It's I mean, it's just really 1146 00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:12,000 hard to do because you've got to be so committed on so many 1147 00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:16,120 possessions and you've got to have the IQ, You've got to have 1148 00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:20,880 the requisite speed and ability to recognize and help and you 1149 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,560 know, know when to hedge. And I just there's so much that 1150 00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,720 goes into it that we simplify, you know, because we're not 1151 00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:31,040 coaches, but man, the the first of all, understanding what the 1152 00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:32,720 other team's going to do to you Now. 1153 00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,840 I mean, that's kind of basic, especially at this level of the 1154 00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:39,040 season or this point in the season where the event you, you 1155 00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:41,880 already know you, you know everything about Harden, you 1156 00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,440 know everything about Mitchell. You know what Mobley is going to 1157 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,640 try to you just know everything. You just know everybody's game. 1158 00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:52,920 All right, but the, the intense, the way these guys lock in on 1159 00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,200 the scouting, Yeah, the great teams do that. 1160 00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,840 It's not just, hey, you know, we got 7-8 really good players. 1161 00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:00,280 Let's roll out the balls and get to work and just beat you 1162 00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:03,680 because we're we're good. I mean, there there's just the 1163 00:56:03,720 --> 00:56:07,040 the level of again, the level of preparation and recognition and 1164 00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,520 being all in and not just when you're on the court and you 1165 00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:12,360 dapping each other up for the opening tip. 1166 00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:16,320 I mean the checkpoints before and so much of that's devoted to 1167 00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:19,960 film and Novak and and really more so Wally, while these 1168 00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:21,800 Erbiak was talking about that the other night. 1169 00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:23,920 It's it's a it's an absolute real thing. 1170 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,000 All right, let me just give you a little bit of Garrett Cole 1171 00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:29,360 here who is back tonight. I'm going to Yankees offense. 1172 00:56:29,720 --> 00:56:32,000 I just I don't have the energy. I don't have the time. 1173 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,240 You know, it's not even more Memorial Day. 1174 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:37,200 I'm not going to go bonkers on this, but I mean, jeez, every 1175 00:56:37,240 --> 00:56:39,480 night it's 345. Five hits enough for this. 1176 00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:41,920 My God, can you square some balls up? 1177 00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,280 Three hits? Look, looked impotent again. 1178 00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:50,040 I got 2-3 good hitters and one of them is in a very, very deep 1179 00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:54,240 funk that is to me, a little worrisome, as I talked about 1180 00:56:54,240 --> 00:56:57,360 yesterday with Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge was one for 15 in 1181 00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,280 this Series 4 game set. And, you know, listen, it's a 1182 00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,440 buzzkill and Toronto doesn't have a good record. 1183 00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:04,160 But you never know. You know what winning two 1184 00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,840 straight against the Yankees in the Bronx could do? 1185 00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:10,280 I, I listen, I it, it's looking more and more like the Rays are 1186 00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,360 the real deal. And it's a lot of time to go. 1187 00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,880 But the Yanks are 4 1/2 out and they're playing the Rays now 1188 00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,200 like this this weekend. If this doesn't go right, yeah, 1189 00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:21,640 it's going to be looking at a deficit that is obviously 1190 00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,720 something that you could overcome, but far from ideal. 1191 00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:30,080 And Aaron, one for 15, no ribbies and eight strikeouts in 1192 00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:34,560 this series here, You know, and it is ridiculous, the the 1193 00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,280 shallowness. And like, if this doesn't apply 1194 00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:40,080 to you, then then they certainly don't take this the wrong way. 1195 00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,240 But some of you it does apply to. 1196 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:48,000 And it really is just ridiculous how how low the IQ is or the OR 1197 00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,240 how low the ability to critically think and juggle 1198 00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:54,840 fandom and possible reality or at least current circumstances. 1199 00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:57,000 Some of you are just incapable of doing it. 1200 00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,760 I find it fascinating. Like I look at some of the 1201 00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:03,640 comments because I'm very responsive on on this channel. 1202 00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,920 Obviously, if you guys what I'll do, I'll do it at least twice a 1203 00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:10,680 week where I will go back, go to the comments section and I will 1204 00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:12,920 I won't just like things. I'll actually respond. 1205 00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:16,800 And generally I respond to to questions, not just like all the 1206 00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:18,480 show's great, which which I appreciate. 1207 00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:20,720 Trust me, keep that coming and keep the likes coming. 1208 00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,640 By the way, I'm not saying I don't appreciate that stuff, but 1209 00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:27,400 I always find a more interesting when somebody pops in with hate 1210 00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:31,600 or criticism because that gives me a chance to have a dialogue 1211 00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:35,600 which can either convert somebody who's not a fan or even 1212 00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:40,360 if we have a good intelligent exchange, then give me reasons 1213 00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:42,240 to maybe I'm missing something here. 1214 00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:43,920 Whatever. I I just, I've always enjoyed 1215 00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:45,920 that right? Like that critical analysis, 1216 00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:49,480 even when somebody comes at me. But the amount of people who 1217 00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:53,800 can't, you know, separate the potential. 1218 00:58:54,240 --> 00:59:00,320 It's the keyword, the potential fear that you know, we we may 1219 00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:06,440 another important word may be entering the early stages. 1220 00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:11,400 Another important phrase of the slight underline that word as 1221 00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:15,080 well. Slight decline of the great 1222 00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:17,720 Aaron Judge is absolutely confounding. 1223 00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:21,200 Like what is wrong with you? Like, you know, some of the 1224 00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:22,800 comms are like, you know, he's the captain. 1225 00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:24,520 He's beyond criticism. No, he's not. 1226 00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,760 Derek Jeter got booed. Now Mattingly got booed. 1227 00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,120 Alex Rodriguez absolutely got booed. 1228 00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:33,480 Mariano got booed. So did Reggie. 1229 00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,200 So did Guidry. I don't know if Munson never got 1230 00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:37,280 booed. I wasn't around for that. 1231 00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:41,080 But everybody gets booed. Ewing's gotten booed. 1232 00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:44,400 I don't care who you are, you're getting booed, all right? 1233 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,640 I got great. You are or have accomplished, 1234 00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:50,640 you are in New York, you're going to get booed at some 1235 00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:53,080 point. And Yankee fans are a booing 1236 00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:54,040 judge. And I'm not saying that they 1237 00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:58,040 should, but the like it like he's above criticism or and it's 1238 00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:01,360 not even the criticism. It's an acknowledgement that the 1239 01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:05,920 bat looks a little slow and it is a statistical which it which 1240 01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:09,640 is irrefutable in terms of a projection that you know right 1241 01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,000 now he's on pace for. I've got to, I've got to 1242 01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,400 increase the number. Yesterday it was 211. 1243 01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:20,000 Probably goes up to 212 or 213. He's on pace for 213 strikeouts 1244 01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:24,720 and he's on pace for 95 or 96. RB is and, and, and a lot of 1245 01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,920 people that's great. I'd sign up now who wouldn't 1246 01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:32,720 sign up for 9:50 or 940 OPS with 43 home runs and 99 RB is I 1247 01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:34,880 understand that. But when you talk about Aaron 1248 01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:39,840 Judge who delivers 140 RB is and has an OPS like Babe Ruth or Lou 1249 01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:44,960 Gehrig of 1100 plus every year and 50 plus bombs for a team 1250 01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,560 that has a lot of soft spots in it. 1251 01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:51,120 That was the point. It wasn't to get on Aaron Judge. 1252 01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,720 It's to point out the reality of, number one, this offense 1253 01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,080 flat out sucks and he's not doing much. 1254 01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,640 And that that's OK because baseball's cyclical. 1255 01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:01,440 But it's more about pushing it forward. 1256 01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:07,080 Like, what if this is the start of a slight underlying slight 1257 01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:11,120 diminishment in stats for Aaron Judge? 1258 01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:16,040 Like we just all assumed, all right, Spring training, Aaron 1259 01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:23,360 Judge put him down. Yeah. 54 home runs, OPS1150A, 1260 01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:32,360 WAR of 10 or 9.743 RBI's. You know, that's that doesn't 1261 01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:35,840 seem as if that's going to happen this year, Not at that 1262 01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:37,680 level. Now, the home runs, I can see 1263 01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,760 them going on tear and and the RBI's are also a byproduct of 1264 01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:42,200 what's in front of you. I get that. 1265 01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,120 Understood. Understood. 1266 01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:48,640 But you know, outside of 24 when Soto was here, Aaron Judge has 1267 01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:54,120 put up a lot of big numbers with a lot of average to subpar stuff 1268 01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:58,480 in front of him before. So I love him, man. 1269 01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:00,040 I love everything that he's about. 1270 01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:03,240 I love his character. His production is undeniable, 1271 01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:06,600 but you're not bulletproof and it's more about big picture for 1272 01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:10,320 the Yankees. But I'm using him because sadly, 1273 01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:13,960 like, and it's unfair to the guy, to be clear, it's unfair 1274 01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:18,280 what they asked him to do. It's unrealistic what he has to 1275 01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:22,720 be for this offense to be what it's always been since he's been 1276 01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,720 here, which again, comes into my criticism of Cash. 1277 01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:26,920 But I'm not getting back into that. 1278 01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,840 You know what they are. But that's the reality of the 1279 01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:34,960 situation. Like if Aaron Judge doesn't, you 1280 01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:41,040 know, go on an Aaron Judge run for a a long chunk of the 1281 01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:45,040 season, you can have a lot of nights like last night and you 1282 01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:46,880 can have some nights in Milwaukee, like the camp 1283 01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,680 Schlittler game where the the weathers game, we almost threw 1284 01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:52,400 no hitter down to Baltimore where the Yankees flush. 1285 01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:55,400 You saw it again last night and you saw it the day before with 1286 01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:58,760 Schlittler where they just waste not good. 1287 01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:02,240 They waste outstanding pitching performances. 1288 01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:04,200 So like that's just the reality of it, man. 1289 01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:07,600 I'm like, if you can't see that, I I'm sorry, Mike, you just, you 1290 01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:12,120 just, it's not that smart. I mean, take off the fanboy hat 1291 01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:15,560 for a minute. You know what I mean there, Jay 1292 01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,120 dude. Fired. 1293 01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:24,040 Fired. No, you know you're not lying 1294 01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:25,240 there. Certainly. 1295 01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:29,600 You know, certainly a slight. What's the word? 1296 01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:31,440 Diminishment. Diminishment. 1297 01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:35,400 Slight diminishments. Yeah. 1298 01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:36,360 Now I got you. Yeah. 1299 01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:38,720 And listen, by the way, it's not like he always started. 1300 01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:40,920 Soto's first year was Soto's only year. 1301 01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:44,360 He didn't start well at all. If you remember, Volpe had a 1302 01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:47,600 great April. Soto was phenomenal out of the 1303 01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,200 shoot. And, you know, Judge was 1304 01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,560 languishing a little bit early on, you know, struggling to get 1305 01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:54,200 out of the shoot. It's not like we've never seen 1306 01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,720 this before. And as a human being, you're 1307 01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:58,160 allowed to have a rough couple to gain. 1308 01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:02,240 I get that. But Memorial Day has always been 1309 01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:06,440 the checkpoint, the symbolic checkpoint of let's take stock 1310 01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,400 of what whatever team you root for, where are we? 1311 01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,760 What do we need and what do we have a chance to become if we do 1312 01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:14,600 certain things or certain guys wake up. 1313 01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:17,840 And there's always a point, I don't care how great you are, 1314 01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,880 you know, it happened to Jack Nicholas is a golfer. 1315 01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:24,040 It happened to Tiger, it happened on Muhammad Ali. 1316 01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:27,280 It happened to Mike Tyson, it happened to Gretzky. 1317 01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,120 I mean, it happens to a little less, but even Jordan was 1318 01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:31,520 actually still pretty good with the Wizards. 1319 01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:35,440 It happens to Clemens and you know, even Pedro at the end with 1320 01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:36,840 the Mets bouncing around a little bit. 1321 01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:39,240 Like it just happens. I don't care who you are. 1322 01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:44,440 And when you are 6-7 and there's no evidence of somebody that 1323 01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:47,880 size, I said this yesterday. When you're 6-7, you've got a 1324 01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:51,560 lot more buttons to push and a lot of levers to crank back and 1325 01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:54,960 forth, which is good. When that bat speed I'm, I'm, 1326 01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:57,400 I'm forget about Judge for a moment because I do think the 1327 01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:00,360 bat speed's still there. But like, really what what 1328 01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:04,000 starts to go on a hitter before the bat speed is a slight, like 1329 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,640 barely perceptible to the average, you know, non superstar 1330 01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:14,040 athlete, a slight, you know, drop in vision, which then leads 1331 01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:15,640 a little bit. Not Yeah, I'm not I'm not even 1332 01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:18,480 told about Judge. Now, a slight drop in vision is 1333 01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:22,480 why you see great hitters start to, you know, go South. 1334 01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:26,200 Excuse me, go South when they do, because when the vision goes 1335 01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:30,080 just a little bit, now you got to start to guess a little bit 1336 01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,760 more, just a little bit more because now you can't quite see 1337 01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:35,560 that dot the way you did immediately. 1338 01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:38,160 Why do I have this marker is all over my hands here, take them in 1339 01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:39,800 the first grade like my pen exploded. 1340 01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:43,480 So what do you do if you don't see it the way that you used to 1341 01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:46,200 see it? You got to you got to guess, you 1342 01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:48,480 got to cheat a little bit. And when you start to cheat a 1343 01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:52,480 little bit and you cheat or you guess wrong, now you're really 1344 01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:57,400 vulnerable and now you're more prone to longer slumps and, you 1345 01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:00,000 know, maybe just missing a pitch, fouling it back or 1346 01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:03,200 hitting a foul, not quite barreling it up the way you used 1347 01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:05,160 to. And when that happens over the 1348 01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:08,920 course of 162, that's where you start to see an ultimate drop in 1349 01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:10,640 numbers. I mean, eventually we're going 1350 01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:12,960 to be sitting here and Aaron Judge is going to be hitting 260 1351 01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:15,160 and it's good. And with, you know, with 33 home 1352 01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:18,320 runs and it's September like I not this year, but it's going to 1353 01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,200 happen. It's going to happen. 1354 01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:23,640 Let me just see the updated projections real fast on this 1355 01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,080 year. All right, Judge. 1356 01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:29,960 Yeah. And it's really not even the 1357 01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:32,200 home runs that I mean, I have no concern with the home runs. 1358 01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,280 I am concerned with the RBI's and I am concerned with the 1359 01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:38,920 strikeouts. So right now Aaron Judge is on. 1360 01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:41,560 Where's the Hell's the projected is on pace for? 1361 01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:48,120 Yeah, 95 RBI's and 210 strikeouts. 1362 01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:51,800 He's never struck out more than I think it's 180 early. 1363 01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:53,520 And the last couple of years when he's been hitting 1364 01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:58,320 331-320-2310 like that, numbers drop significantly here. 1365 01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,960 And he might go out of tear, like kind of expect him to, but 1366 01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:04,120 he has to like that's the ultimate point. 1367 01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:06,360 Like he better, otherwise we're screwed. 1368 01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,440 And even if he does, we might still be screwed, you know what 1369 01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:10,760 I mean? All right, who's up next? 1370 01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:14,560 Jay, what do we got? Let's try Benny in DC. 1371 01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:16,640 Benny, are you here with? The Benny, don't mess this up, 1372 01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:18,400 buddy. Come on, Benny, try to attempt 1373 01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:21,160 #2 Benny, what do you got, Ben? I got you loud and clear. 1374 01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:22,720 Now you got me. I got you, brother. 1375 01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:26,240 What's cooking? First thing I want to say is go 1376 01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:27,760 New York. Go New York. 1377 01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,240 Oh, man. Unbelievable. 1378 01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:32,120 What a game. What a game. 1379 01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:34,000 What a time it is to be a Nick fan. 1380 01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:38,880 Oh, man. Oh, geez, you sound like you 1381 01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:40,920 spent. I mean, that's the real quick 1382 01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:42,480 Betty, I'll let you. Of course, I'll let you talk. 1383 01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:45,840 That's one of the crazy things about doing what I do. 1384 01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:47,280 And obviously he's a fan as well. 1385 01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:51,040 And I've said this before, like it's almost easier to get on the 1386 01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,840 air right when things are are shitty. 1387 01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:56,360 Oh, this guy's got to step up. Fire this guy. 1388 01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:58,120 This team's not good enough. What are we doing? 1389 01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:01,680 Like when things are good, I mean, how many times can you say 1390 01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:05,080 they played amazing last night? There's only so many platitudes, 1391 01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:06,520 even though they've earned them all. 1392 01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:09,360 Like there's so many, so many compliments and so many. 1393 01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:12,360 What a game. Phenomenal, amazing, awesome, 1394 01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:15,360 terrific. Like, that's all you can say 1395 01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:16,640 right now with the Knicks. That's it. 1396 01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:19,120 It it truly, you're absolutely right. 1397 01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:20,840 You nailed the head. You nailed around the head 1398 01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:22,240 there. BT But no, last night was a 1399 01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,479 great night. You know, I was with the DC Nick 1400 01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:27,120 crew and we went out, we were out till like 2:00 AM. 1401 01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:31,080 So didn't have to work today. So I'm feeling, you know, I'm 1402 01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:33,040 not feeling too good. You know, I'm older now, so I 1403 01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:34,479 can't, I can't hang with these young kids. 1404 01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:36,600 But, you know, but it was awesome. 1405 01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,880 Well, 2:00 is pretty late, man. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. 1406 01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:42,240 Like, you know, I was a little later than I expected. 1407 01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:45,600 Yeah, yeah, yeah. What the time to be a what the 1408 01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:47,600 time to be a Nick fan. But you know, you you mentioned 1409 01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:49,439 all this stuff when I was when I was listening about the 1410 01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:52,640 celebrities back on that. I mean, ex Nick players, me Tim 1411 01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:56,040 Thomas is on the yeah, I know, like like that. 1412 01:08:56,040 --> 01:08:58,319 But you know, I love seeing LJ and those guys and all that 1413 01:08:58,319 --> 01:09:01,600 stuff. But I mean, I just, I want to 1414 01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:02,840 see, I want them to play tonight. 1415 01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:04,640 I'm so pumped. I want to see the Knicks play 1416 01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:06,040 every night now. That's how I'm feeling. 1417 01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:09,120 It's so it's like, I don't want to be, you know, I'm obviously 1418 01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:11,800 optimistic, but you know, as Knick fans, you always have that 1419 01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:15,439 little cost optimism. But yeah, Saturday, let's go. 1420 01:09:15,439 --> 01:09:17,319 They got to, they got to just just keep this rolling. 1421 01:09:17,319 --> 01:09:19,800 BT hit me with the song. Y'all hit me with the song once 1422 01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:22,120 more. Let's go, come on, let's go, go, 1423 01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:23,800 go New York. Go New York. 1424 01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:26,160 Go Adam boy, that boy Betty, thank you. 1425 01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:27,760 Hey, have a great weekend, mate. God bless you. 1426 01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:30,439 Have a good time with your wife. Salute everybody out there in in 1427 01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:32,000 DC and and I'll talk to you on Monday. 1428 01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:33,880 OK, Thank you, BT Let's go ahead, Sir. 1429 01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:37,720 Get a little Alka seltzer. That's the key. 1430 01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:40,560 You got to pound some water. Like if you if you have a bunch 1431 01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:43,160 of drinks, you got to pound water and you've got to take an 1432 01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:45,040 Advil or something or a Motrin. You got to take something, 1433 01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:45,880 otherwise you're going to wake up. 1434 01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:47,279 You're going to be dead, God forbid. 1435 01:09:47,279 --> 01:09:50,120 I mean, not really dead, but. I know. 1436 01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:52,600 I'm trying to think of what day it was last week. 1437 01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:57,040 I think it was last last Sunday. Oh my God. 1438 01:09:57,080 --> 01:09:59,640 Oh, you got tuned up I. Was so hungover bro it was 1439 01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:01,840 crazy. What were you drinking beers or 1440 01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:05,960 what it? Was no, no, it was Sunday night. 1441 01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:09,080 I was ridiculously hungover because in the in the morning we 1442 01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:12,520 went fishing and just like hammered a pitcher of IPA and I 1443 01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:14,160 ate nothing. Nice. 1444 01:10:14,440 --> 01:10:16,680 And I yeah, it was bad, yeah. You told me you didn't get 1445 01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:17,880 anything. You went on the pier, right? 1446 01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:21,240 Yeah, went on the pier, caught nothing but hammered a pitcher 1447 01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:23,440 of IPA. You caught a buzz, no? 1448 01:10:23,440 --> 01:10:25,680 Food boom exactly. You caught a buzz and. 1449 01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:28,920 That's why not, you know, not, not you know, but but that's why 1450 01:10:29,480 --> 01:10:32,080 if you really think about it, if you're going to, you know, and 1451 01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:35,760 everybody's got their own style. But if you're going to really 1452 01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,520 have a night, that's why I like a gummy and like one or two 1453 01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:40,400 drinks is is the better. You're going to feel good the 1454 01:10:40,440 --> 01:10:44,360 next day. I'm, I'm fully, fully with you 1455 01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:46,080 there. Especially after that. 1456 01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:49,800 No, it's just like you, you can reach a certain level of 1457 01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:56,160 relaxation and joy without fully delving yourself into just like 1458 01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:59,320 a full alcoholic unconsciousness. 1459 01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:02,560 Like agreed, agreed. I've now now that I'm getting 1460 01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:05,200 older, I'm kind of starting to realize there is a good middle 1461 01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:07,520 ground you don't have. You don't have to go. 1462 01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:10,440 So like in fact, going so hard is actually worse. 1463 01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:13,360 You actually have a worse time even in the moment you have a 1464 01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:15,800 worse time. You gotta find that balance. 1465 01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:17,680 And listen. And it's like batting practice, 1466 01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:19,080 man. You got to get your reps and you 1467 01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:21,240 got to learn the hard way. You know, we all eventually 1468 01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:22,120 learn. Nobody feels. 1469 01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:24,000 Nobody likes waking up that way. I don't. 1470 01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:27,000 I very rarely wake up that way. Like, I just. 1471 01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:28,320 Yeah. I mean, come on. 1472 01:11:28,480 --> 01:11:29,880 I mean, I've got a lot of responsibility here. 1473 01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:31,080 Like the world. I'm going to be sitting in the 1474 01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:34,480 dugout like the dude in Bad News Bears, you know, Walter Matthau, 1475 01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:37,520 you know, like, banging back Budweiser just to get rid of the 1476 01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,240 hangover. That can't happen, you know? 1477 01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:40,880 And by the way, I'm noticing this again. 1478 01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,840 I am now convinced. I don't know if you believe this 1479 01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:47,200 like the government's watching everything we do whatever. 1480 01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:49,160 I mean, I'm doing anything so wrong. 1481 01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:53,040 So if they are whatever I mean, you know, I do find it amazingly 1482 01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:56,600 the interesting where you know, you certainly you see this like 1483 01:11:56,600 --> 01:12:00,600 you, you you look something up on like Google or on Amazon. 1484 01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:02,800 Then all of a sudden you jump on Facebook, you see an ad for what 1485 01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:05,240 you looked up or something from that neighborhood. 1486 01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:06,960 The algorithm like that's all real, right? 1487 01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:11,840 I am now convinced and this now. Now I I got to text Steven later 1488 01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:15,840 second day in a row. What they do today, I'm going 1489 01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:16,880 to. Read you the I'm going to read 1490 01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:18,960 you the headline you ready they're doing it again on first 1491 01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:22,840 date I mean if you're going to steal my stuff at least have the 1492 01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:27,400 courtesy to throw a little invite they and I said this is a 1493 01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:32,000 Knicks final appearance enough to keep the roster intact you. 1494 01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:34,960 Literally just said this 10. Minutes ago and it just popped 1495 01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:38,960 up on the screen. They've got, they've got, 1496 01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:42,520 they've got someone just tapped into this like a graphics guy 1497 01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:46,320 tapped into the stream, right? Now watching the show yeah, what 1498 01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,120 do we got going on unleashed all right let's go. 1499 01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:50,840 Let's feed it to Stephen AI mean I'm kind of kidding, obviously, 1500 01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:54,920 but too many coincidences makes you think a little bit here No 1501 01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:56,560 I. Mean, come on, back-to-back 1502 01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:58,640 days. Also, it's just like, you know, 1503 01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:00,520 they got to get you on there talking this stuff. 1504 01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:01,960 I mean, come on, There's no better guy. 1505 01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,440 There's no better guy for this. Come on, man, what are we doing? 1506 01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:07,720 I mean, listen, you got 9000 producers, you got a massive 1507 01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:11,200 studio, you got a billion dollar budget. 1508 01:13:11,480 --> 01:13:14,720 I mean, come on, you know, let us, let us little guys have our 1509 01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:16,480 own stuff here. You know what I mean? 1510 01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:20,480 Did you speak of ESPN? Did you see the footage? 1511 01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:24,040 There's only, I really think there's only one person in our 1512 01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:25,360 business who can get away with this. 1513 01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:30,080 Did you see the footage of Mad Dog on First Take yesterday? 1514 01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:33,600 Dude, I was rolling. I was rolling. 1515 01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:36,880 I was like, you can like, not that he said anything totally 1516 01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:38,520 out of baseball. I was like, you can like, bring 1517 01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,160 this up and talk about it on like, television. 1518 01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:43,840 He can say whatever he wants. Yes, Yeah, Yeah. 1519 01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:47,320 Well, that's why I say I really think he's one of one in terms 1520 01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:51,000 of being able to say that and then still have the respect and 1521 01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:52,920 like the audience that he does. And for those who missed it, 1522 01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:56,080 Right, everybody, it's Chris from F from FAN, obviously, but 1523 01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:57,400 he's been doing series for a long time. 1524 01:13:57,400 --> 01:14:00,000 He's been on first Take now for I think 2 years maybe. 1525 01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,000 And it's good. And they got a segment, I think 1526 01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:04,000 it's called, you know what makes Mad Dog mad? 1527 01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,440 Something like that. And basically everybody just, 1528 01:14:06,440 --> 01:14:10,160 and it's smart, everybody stands to the side and it's like, it's 1529 01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:12,440 just Mad Dog looking at the camera and yelling about 1530 01:14:12,440 --> 01:14:14,480 something. And he's, I guess he hurt his 1531 01:14:14,480 --> 01:14:17,720 shoulder playing tennis and he's a really good tennis player. 1532 01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:20,360 He loves his tennis, did you know that? 1533 01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:22,880 No, I didn't know that. Loves his tennis, you know. 1534 01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:26,720 He's his wife's a Custer of my mom's store. 1535 01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:30,240 He's like he's from, he's, he's a Connecticut guy and so like. 1536 01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:32,040 He's not from. He's not from. 1537 01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:32,960 Connecticut No. No. 1538 01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:35,200 No, yeah, he's been up there. For a while I believe my he's 1539 01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:37,320 he's, he's met my mom a few times. 1540 01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:39,320 Nice. Yeah, yeah, man, though he's a 1541 01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:42,720 good dude and he so he hurt his shoulder. 1542 01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:44,760 I don't know if he heard it playing tennis, but they had 1543 01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:46,120 because I was on the air when they were doing this. 1544 01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:47,640 And then I went back and I watched the segment. 1545 01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:51,200 They had footage of him playing tennis and he's got a nice Sir. 1546 01:14:51,200 --> 01:14:53,960 He's not a young guy anymore, but he's still thin and he still 1547 01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:57,360 can move a little bit. He is a good tennis player and 1548 01:14:57,360 --> 01:14:58,880 again, I've heard he's a pretty good golfer as well. 1549 01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:02,680 Maybe not great, but good. And I guess he jacked up his 1550 01:15:02,680 --> 01:15:05,760 shoulder, so he had his son drive him to go and get an MRI. 1551 01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:07,840 And that's how much it was jacked up. 1552 01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:10,960 And I've had a bunch of Mr. is and the, the MRI that I had 1553 01:15:11,160 --> 01:15:13,200 before, I knew that I needed Tommy John surgery. 1554 01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:16,480 Have you ever had an MRI? First of all, OK, those of you 1555 01:15:16,480 --> 01:15:19,000 who have know where I'm going. Those of you have not, hopefully 1556 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,360 you never need one. They stuff you in this tube. 1557 01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:25,520 And if you were just a, a, a tick claustrophobic, you got a 1558 01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:29,080 rough day in front of you. And the worst part is that if 1559 01:15:29,080 --> 01:15:33,160 you move at all, the results are inconclusive and you got to go 1560 01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:35,800 again. And it's a, it's a series. 1561 01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:38,920 It's like a battery. And you hear the like the the 1562 01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:42,000 noise is unsettling. I hate it, right? 1563 01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:48,080 And I had to do 1 for my back, but for whatever reason, it was 1564 01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:51,040 it, I mean, I, I, I, I'll never forget this. 1565 01:15:51,040 --> 01:15:54,160 It was worse for my elbow because my elbow could not bend 1566 01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:57,080 because that, that just needs the imaging confirmation. 1567 01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:01,160 Torn ACLA, torn UCL on the collateral ligament. 1568 01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:05,040 But for them to straighten it out, OK, they, they attached 1569 01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:08,480 weights to my wrist to make it go straight right. 1570 01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:11,680 And then they had it in some contraption and I was face 1571 01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:13,440 first. So the, and I'm not that 1572 01:16:13,440 --> 01:16:16,680 claustrophobic, but it was scaring the shit out of me and 1573 01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:19,680 it hurt. I remember I had tears and I 1574 01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:22,280 listen, I, you know, I, I was, I was AI was a gamer. 1575 01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:25,960 Like I, I battled, you know, I, I, I was definitely a guy who 1576 01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:30,240 played hard and was not a wuss, not a great player, but just 1577 01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:34,280 kept going. I had tears, not of like wussy 1578 01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:35,440 tears. I don't know how else to say it, 1579 01:16:35,440 --> 01:16:43,040 but tears of pain, yes, because I knew that I could not move and 1580 01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:45,360 I, I finally got through it. Whatever. 1581 01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:49,960 So I'm, I'm hearing Mad Dog talk about his MRI story and he took 1582 01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:51,840 a Valium. I fight because he was a little 1583 01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:53,120 bit nervous going in there as well. 1584 01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:56,040 And he took the Valium and and his son drove him and then he 1585 01:16:56,040 --> 01:17:00,280 took another one and I guess he got home and he just zonked. 1586 01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:02,200 I've never taken Valium once. I'm like, I'm not a pill. 1587 01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:03,680 Guy at all? Neither. 1588 01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:05,200 Am I, I mess around, have a little fun with like the 1589 01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:06,440 gummies, talk to you guys about that. 1590 01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:09,200 I'm not a pill guy, Never has been, never, never will be. 1591 01:17:09,200 --> 01:17:12,400 And it's a serious problem in our world, really, our country 1592 01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:16,040 too, for sure. And he, he took two Valiums. 1593 01:17:16,440 --> 01:17:18,360 And I don't mean if you need it. I'm not talking about people who 1594 01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:20,920 I don't mean that. Yeah, yeah, he took the second 1595 01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:22,640 one. Like, I may be in the car ride. 1596 01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:25,720 He gets home, he's zonked out, he wakes. 1597 01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:28,080 Didn't watch one second of the Knicks game. 1598 01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:35,400 OK, Now could you imagine just imagine like me or Rothenberg, 1599 01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:37,120 who was on the show the other day was a great spot. 1600 01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:38,520 If you guys missed it, go check it out of that. 1601 01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:41,920 You know, go to the to the library here on the channel or 1602 01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:46,040 Alan Hahn, who does Nick's stuff or like even Michael Kay, who 1603 01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:48,280 does the Yankees but obviously talks about the Knicks or La 1604 01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:51,440 Greca. Anybody that does with Evan Sao 1605 01:17:51,440 --> 01:17:53,600 on the show. Imagine one of us getting on the 1606 01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:57,040 air and saying they're watching Nick game last night and like 1607 01:17:57,560 --> 01:18:00,400 all the way up in the camera. Like I took a second value. 1608 01:18:00,480 --> 01:18:04,640 Like only Chris Russo could get away with that. 1609 01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:09,200 It is amazing the way he relayed the story and having listened to 1610 01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:12,640 him forever and just knowing how he is, I'm like, there's one 1611 01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:14,400 dude who could get away with that and it's him. 1612 01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:17,800 It's true because. Like, I think about it like, 1613 01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:21,000 even if Stephen A tried to do something like that, you'd be 1614 01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,560 like, no, that's not him. That's not this guy's character 1615 01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:25,720 at all. Like Chris, he never touched 1616 01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:28,760 that story. Chris Russo weed, remember? 1617 01:18:29,440 --> 01:18:31,240 What he said. Of course, that's like his big 1618 01:18:31,240 --> 01:18:32,040 catch phrase. Oh my. 1619 01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:35,880 God. Like Chris Russo, he just got 1620 01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:37,880 that. I mean, listen, he's got he like 1621 01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:42,360 he's got that unhinged kind of just like anything he says goes 1622 01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:45,280 and it's understandable. You'd be like, yeah, that's him. 1623 01:18:45,440 --> 01:18:46,560 I know. Yeah, for sure. 1624 01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:49,480 He gets a pass on that. Nobody else gets a pass on that. 1625 01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,320 What's that here? What is this? 1626 01:18:52,440 --> 01:18:54,880 We have a little Mets reference. I have not mentioned the Mets 1627 01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:55,640 much. I'm sorry. 1628 01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:58,480 I listen, I mean, you know, I know they came back. 1629 01:18:58,480 --> 01:19:00,440 They split the series. Mets got to do a little bit more 1630 01:19:00,440 --> 01:19:01,640 before we're still talking about the Mets. 1631 01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:02,640 They don't they don't deserve it. 1632 01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:05,720 But don't mention wasted starts with to a Mets fan. 1633 01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:07,600 True. We all know about waste and 1634 01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:08,880 starting pitch. Yeah, the other night with 1635 01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:12,000 McClain, with the defense, the inside the park ran slam. 1636 01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:13,880 I get it. There's been a lot of those 1637 01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:16,000 games for the Mets seas as well, but shuts starting to hit a 1638 01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:17,840 little bit Soto's on a nice roll. 1639 01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,080 You know, I I do like Benj. I do like Ewing. 1640 01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:24,320 I do like the juice that they brought, but without Holmes and 1641 01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:28,120 you know, it's just not a Vientos guy. 1642 01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:31,160 Polanco's nowhere near being ready, same with Louise Robert. 1643 01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:33,480 Like I just don't know where this team is going, you know. 1644 01:19:33,480 --> 01:19:36,040 So we'll talk about the Mets. Like, listen, if the Mets get 1645 01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:38,280 hot, I'm I'll certainly give them respect and I'll talk about 1646 01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:42,240 them or they're very well might. And this is probably the script 1647 01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:44,400 that I see happening more than the other script. 1648 01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:48,640 I I see the Mets bleeding out at some point this year and just 1649 01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:50,600 start shipping out some assets and making some. 1650 01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:54,440 It's obviously very apparent that Stearns wants to bring in 1651 01:19:54,440 --> 01:19:56,600 the young guys. I mean, it's apparent, you know, 1652 01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:59,560 And if you would have brought in, if you would have, you know, 1653 01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:03,200 think about if you would have retained Nimmo, not free agency, 1654 01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:06,200 But if you didn't trade Nimmo and if you didn't trade McNeil, 1655 01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:08,720 even though Mcneil's contract was short, that's a little bit 1656 01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:10,680 different than Nimmo. Or if you would have re signed 1657 01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:12,320 Pete. I know that's very debatable. 1658 01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:14,160 I get it. Mets need some power. 1659 01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:15,880 Pete's a power guy. He's gone. 1660 01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:17,440 First base has been a train wreck. 1661 01:20:17,440 --> 01:20:22,320 Polanco has been a 0 so. If those guys were still here, 1662 01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:24,920 you know, you're going to play Nimmo every day in the outfield, 1663 01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:26,960 that's for sure. I mean, is does Benj make the 1664 01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:28,520 team on opening day? Probably not. 1665 01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:32,280 Does does Ewing get the call up? Probably not unless there was an 1666 01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:34,160 injury to to Nimmo or one of those guys. 1667 01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:39,520 So it's very, very apparent that Sterns, you know, and I don't 1668 01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:41,480 necessarily think that this is going to wind up being a good 1669 01:20:41,480 --> 01:20:44,280 thing, but he is. You're starting to see what his 1670 01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:48,280 vision is for the Mets and it's bringing up the young guys and 1671 01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:51,000 that's great. If you bring up Daryl, you know, 1672 01:20:51,400 --> 01:20:56,240 and you bring up Ron Darling now obviously Dwight Gooden and Sid 1673 01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:59,600 Fernandez and some of these other dudes, you know, Lenny 1674 01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:03,360 Dykstra, Lenny Dykstra. I, I did this somewhat recently. 1675 01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:05,000 This is amazing. I just got to, I got to get a 1676 01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,040 point of reference. I think one, it was like 360. 1677 01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:09,480 So there is, you know, I love my baseball Savant. 1678 01:21:09,480 --> 01:21:11,800 You know, I love that for the advanced analytics. 1679 01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:14,600 If you're an old and I've done this with like Ricky Henderson, 1680 01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:17,160 I just find it fascinating. Mattingly, which I kind of knew 1681 01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:22,000 by heart anyway, There is a website and it's called the 1682 01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:25,480 baseball cube, right? If you ever, I believe they 1683 01:21:25,480 --> 01:21:28,360 would have guys like Willie Mays and I think it goes back that 1684 01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:31,640 far. If you go to the baseball Cube 1685 01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:35,040 and I'm doing it now with Lenny, you will see your favorite 1686 01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:36,840 player, especially if it's somewhat recent. 1687 01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:38,040 I mean, Ricky was in the mid 70s. 1688 01:21:38,040 --> 01:21:41,680 So you got a long runway here. And you will see exactly what 1689 01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:45,560 they did in the minor leagues, which to me is so fascinating. 1690 01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:50,200 Right. So Lenny Dykstra, let's see. 1691 01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:58,560 Lenny Dykstra hit three. Yeah, it was 358 at high A in, 1692 01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:03,960 in 136 games, 358. I just love that it's it's not 1693 01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:05,720 always a perfect indication. Of course. 1694 01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:08,640 He wound up taking steroids and wound up going to the Phillies 1695 01:22:08,640 --> 01:22:10,680 and had a totally different profile, even though he was very 1696 01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:13,480 good with the Mets, but very clutch, very tough, great on the 1697 01:22:13,480 --> 01:22:16,440 bases, good in the outfield. I just think that that's 1698 01:22:16,440 --> 01:22:17,880 interesting. Like imagine there was a 1699 01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:21,320 database like if there was a real minor leagues for like the 1700 01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:25,560 NBAI don't know they've got it in hockey, but or even the NFL. 1701 01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:28,640 Like man, what did Mahomes do it low way or you know what, what 1702 01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:31,760 was John Elway like? If they actually have John Elway 1703 01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:35,640 baseball because he played for the Yankees high in Oneonta and 1704 01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:37,400 actually stole like 20 or 30 paces. 1705 01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:40,000 John Elway did when he threatened to to play baseball 1706 01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:43,800 and and not sign. I just think that that's all. 1707 01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:45,440 It's awesome. Doesn't always connect the dots, 1708 01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:48,120 but generally, and I know batting average is now an 1709 01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:51,240 antiquated stat, obviously for many of you, but it's not that 1710 01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:53,200 antiquated for me. Because I'm sorry, if you're a 1711 01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:57,440 222 hitter, even if you have an OPS of 850 and you got another 1712 01:22:57,440 --> 01:23:02,320 guy who is a 297 hitter or like Arayas who's even higher but has 1713 01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:06,200 a low Opsi, don't know who's going to put the bat on the ball 1714 01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:08,920 in the 8th inning with two on and nobody out down the run. 1715 01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:10,920 You tell me. Now I know who's going to have 1716 01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:12,960 more of a chance to go deep. I get it. 1717 01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:15,280 And three run home runs are never a bad thing. 1718 01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:19,120 But over the course of A7 game series, you know, putting the 1719 01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:21,440 ball in play, it's not a bad thing. 1720 01:23:21,520 --> 01:23:23,400 So that's why I always kind of defend the batting average. 1721 01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:25,160 I wanted to give you this real quick. 1722 01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:27,960 Get that down. The where is it? 1723 01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:29,440 Get that down there. Boom. 1724 01:23:29,440 --> 01:23:30,720 All right, wanted to mention this quick. 1725 01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:33,720 So remember when I went nuts on the International games here J 1726 01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:36,000 Rod the other day? Yeah, of course. 1727 01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:38,400 Of course, when they release the schedule and all the stuff and 1728 01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:39,880 again, I, I like them to an extent. 1729 01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:41,200 I just think there's way too many. 1730 01:23:41,200 --> 01:23:43,040 I think it's out of it's out of hand, whatever, for all the 1731 01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:44,320 reasons I've already given you guys. 1732 01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:46,080 So I, I've got a little something for you. 1733 01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:49,200 The NFL has a new travel record that they've already 1734 01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:52,520 established, right? And not only for the reasons 1735 01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:54,280 that I've chronicled. I think it's unfair to take 1736 01:23:54,280 --> 01:23:57,120 games away from great fan bases. I'm not going to reset that, but 1737 01:23:57,120 --> 01:24:00,160 that was mainly the basis of my, of my problem, right? 1738 01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:09,600 But collectively, all 32 NFL teams will travel 628,823 miles 1739 01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:11,400 this year. Now, OK, well, well, what does 1740 01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:13,320 that mean in the grand context? I'm going to give you a little 1741 01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:16,200 bit more. So that, by the way, equates to 1742 01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:19,880 25 trips around the Earth's circumference. 1743 01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:20,880 Yes. Why? 1744 01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:23,720 Right. If you love, you know, space and 1745 01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:25,400 orbits and all that stuff, whatever. 1746 01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:31,560 So the round trip to Australia alone is 16,000 miles. 1747 01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:34,120 Now think about how unfair this is. 1748 01:24:34,400 --> 01:24:39,720 So the 49ers and the Rams this year, 2 teams that are going to 1749 01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:45,320 be swinging for that divisional supremacy are going to cross 54 1750 01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:50,200 time zones over the course of their season, back and forth, 1751 01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:50,600 back and. Forth. 1752 01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:52,800 How is that healthy? It's probably not. 1753 01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:55,520 It's probably not. It's not, but that's just more 1754 01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:57,480 evidence the NFL doesn't give a shit about anybody but 1755 01:24:57,480 --> 01:24:59,240 themselves. They don't care about the 1756 01:24:59,240 --> 01:25:00,080 players. They don't. 1757 01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:01,560 We know they don't care about us. 1758 01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:05,880 And when there's an 18th game, but eventually a 20th game, that 1759 01:25:05,880 --> 01:25:08,840 will be even more evidence that they don't even care about the 1760 01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:10,600 players. They care about the scratch. 1761 01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:11,760 That's got all. That's it. 1762 01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:14,880 So the Rams and now you contrast this. 1763 01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:18,040 Now, I don't know how it's going to manifest itself in terms of 1764 01:25:18,040 --> 01:25:22,320 wins and losses, but the 49ers are going to travel 38,000 miles 1765 01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:23,880 this year. These are the top five teams in 1766 01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:26,200 terms of travel, right? 38, I'll just round it off. 1767 01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:29,520 Otherwise, going to get whatever 38,000 for the Niners #1 the 1768 01:25:29,520 --> 01:25:36,200 Rams 230-4000 the Texans 3rd 28,000 Dallas at 28,000 and the 1769 01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:40,480 Pats AT275 thousand 27,500, right? 1770 01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:43,360 So those teams are going to be jumping all over the place now 1771 01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:46,680 contrasted to the bottom five teams in terms of less arduous 1772 01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:52,120 travel itineraries. Green Bay 28th, 12,000 Tampa 1773 01:25:52,400 --> 01:26:00,360 12,000 the Bears 10,600 the Browns 9000 the Panthers 8700. 1774 01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:04,960 So think about this. The 49ers are traveling 30,000 1775 01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:08,800 more miles than the Panthers are, who are traveling right 1776 01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:12,440 around 8700 miles. From a competitive advantage or 1777 01:26:12,440 --> 01:26:15,240 disadvantage. You tell me what you extrapolate 1778 01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:18,160 from that. Now, it doesn't mean Thomas and 1779 01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:20,520 the Browns, like The Jets, the Browns, some other bad teams and 1780 01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:23,920 things could change and I hope they do, But I I don't think 1781 01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:26,080 that's going to get in the way of the Browns winning the AFC 1782 01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:28,120 North. I have to think that the Ravens 1783 01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:30,840 we got to see what they do with the new coach whatever, but and 1784 01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:34,600 the Steelers with McCarthy and 42 year old Aaron Rodgers, you 1785 01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:38,160 know, and the the Bengals with with with a bit of a tightened 1786 01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:40,320 up defense. So I'm not saying that it's 1787 01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,400 going to be enough of an advantage to, you know, just 1788 01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:45,480 blow by the other teams and win because you're not travelling 1789 01:26:45,480 --> 01:26:47,880 that much. But all things considered, even 1790 01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:52,560 the Niners 38,000 miles, the Panthers 8. 1791 01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:56,640 I mean, what in the world is the NFL thinking? 1792 01:26:56,960 --> 01:27:01,200 What come? On I mean, you're like actively 1793 01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:06,240 ruining people's sleep energy, like recovery. 1794 01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:09,600 Yeah, like everything. Like, I know, I know. 1795 01:27:10,040 --> 01:27:11,440 Messing the money up. Come on. 1796 01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:15,200 Hold on one SEC. Yeah, it's absolutely crazy. 1797 01:27:15,200 --> 01:27:17,920 I I just I saw that I'm like I got to weave this into the show 1798 01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:19,920 just to kind of follow up what I was hitting the other day. 1799 01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:23,720 Absolute lunacy. It's unfair and it it's just 1800 01:27:23,760 --> 01:27:28,080 really it's unhealthy. I I listen, I had I messed up a 1801 01:27:28,080 --> 01:27:29,720 lot today. I got to be honest with you guys 1802 01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:34,600 here, so I forgot if I give you a little look here, can I? 1803 01:27:34,600 --> 01:27:38,400 I don't want to really move the camera, but I've obviously got a 1804 01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:40,960 bunch of wires connected to the laptop that makes this thing 1805 01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:42,480 operable. The camera in front of me, 1806 01:27:42,480 --> 01:27:44,640 whatever, blah blah blah. My phone. 1807 01:27:45,160 --> 01:27:49,400 I forgot to charge my laptop last night, so it does not have 1808 01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:51,680 a whole lot more. Is there is there any plug you 1809 01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:53,880 can plug it into during or no there's? 1810 01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:59,000 Not see the problem with that is no, because the old the and I 1811 01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:00,440 just now it just went low battery. 1812 01:28:00,440 --> 01:28:02,800 Now it's officially on red. Now we officially got problems. 1813 01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:04,880 No, there's not. Otherwise, don't you think I 1814 01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:06,280 would have plugged it into it if I had? 1815 01:28:06,360 --> 01:28:09,080 That listen I don't cause what what I would suggest getting 1816 01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:13,760 them Navy is I've got a hub port yeah I've got a hub that acts as 1817 01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:18,480 a charger USB for the microphone and some other stuff I. 1818 01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:21,800 Know I I have that too. OK. 1819 01:28:22,040 --> 01:28:24,800 But they're just not compatible with this, with this little guy. 1820 01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:28,240 No, the answer is no. So I've got now if I was to 1821 01:28:28,240 --> 01:28:32,160 unplug from my laptop to get the juice to the laptop, you 1822 01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:33,440 wouldn't be able to see me or hear me. 1823 01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:36,720 Dude, I feel like we're like Indiana Jones running from the 1824 01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:38,480 boulder. Running from that big boulder 1825 01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:40,760 we're running on empty a little Jackson Browne. 1826 01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:42,640 You like Jackson Browne running on? 1827 01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:44,200 Empty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1828 01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:46,920 You fan or no? Jackson Browne, is he? 1829 01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:50,040 Is he Doctor My eyes? Is that one of his? 1830 01:28:50,040 --> 01:28:53,360 Songs or no, I think. I think so. 1831 01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:55,400 Double check that. Yep, Yep. 1832 01:28:55,600 --> 01:28:56,680 Jackson Browne. Yes. 1833 01:28:56,720 --> 01:28:58,800 OK, there we go. Yeah, I really, I really love 1834 01:28:58,800 --> 01:28:59,920 that song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1835 01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:01,880 Got a couple of bangers, songs. I would. 1836 01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:03,720 You know what I was on yesterday? 1837 01:29:04,040 --> 01:29:06,560 I was on a Bob Seger kick. I was. 1838 01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:08,840 Oh, really? OK, I dude, I, I don't know any 1839 01:29:08,840 --> 01:29:10,480 song. So maybe that's today's 1840 01:29:10,480 --> 01:29:13,000 homework. Well you would be proud of this 1841 01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:14,440 I guess. It was like 2 nights ago where I 1842 01:29:14,440 --> 01:29:17,800 was driving my son to his game and I told you I'm in the car. 1843 01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:19,200 I'm not listening to sports radio. 1844 01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:21,640 I'm listening to music or, or like if it's my daughter, we're 1845 01:29:21,640 --> 01:29:25,520 talking, but she does ask to put on some, some, some music And I, 1846 01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:28,880 I do it with her so I can kind of learn what she likes because 1847 01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:31,360 I like, you know, it's all different, you know, like Taylor 1848 01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:34,000 Swift a couple of years ago, just so I understand, you know, 1849 01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:36,880 what the girls are listening to. We could bond, but with my son, 1850 01:29:36,880 --> 01:29:38,840 you know, and of course, I talk to my daughter, my son. 1851 01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:41,080 It's music, right? And and we shoot the breeze as 1852 01:29:41,080 --> 01:29:43,280 well. And the other day, what I'll do 1853 01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:45,960 is I'll quiz him. You know, this goes back to when 1854 01:29:45,960 --> 01:29:48,920 he was really young and he's known since he was about 3 1855 01:29:48,920 --> 01:29:51,200 Daddy's favorite artist of all time is Billy Joel, right? 1856 01:29:51,600 --> 01:29:54,600 And, you know, being a little trickster that he is, we'd be in 1857 01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:56,160 the car, I'd say, all right, who is this? 1858 01:29:56,160 --> 01:29:58,840 Who's singing this song? And he'd say Billy Joel, like, 1859 01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:00,160 you would just throw out Billy Joel, right? 1860 01:30:00,280 --> 01:30:01,880 But then he expanded a little bit. 1861 01:30:02,120 --> 01:30:06,200 And then he was able to identify like the Beastie Boys, the 1862 01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:07,880 stones. He gets the stones here and 1863 01:30:07,880 --> 01:30:09,200 there. Bob Seger. 1864 01:30:09,400 --> 01:30:12,040 He knows I love Seger. We were driving yet A2 nights 1865 01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:14,520 ago and Def Leppard was on on the radio. 1866 01:30:14,520 --> 01:30:16,400 I'll you know I love Def Leppard, one of my all time 1867 01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:18,080 favorites. Saw them in concert with 1868 01:30:18,080 --> 01:30:19,120 Journey. Great. 1869 01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:20,560 Concert. That's a sick concert. 1870 01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:24,760 Great concert at the garden and and you know something now he's 1871 01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:26,640 11 years. He's getting a little slick now, 1872 01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:30,520 like he'll if he doesn't know, he'll sometimes get up on my on 1873 01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:32,680 my car. It's got the read up like, you 1874 01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:35,800 know, it'll say like, I don't know, whatever, step up 1875 01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:38,320 pyromania. Def Leppard, right? 1876 01:30:39,440 --> 01:30:43,680 But it didn't say it. And it it just had, for whatever 1877 01:30:43,680 --> 01:30:45,320 reason, the station I was listening to, right? 1878 01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:47,200 I said, hey, I said, you know who this is? 1879 01:30:47,680 --> 01:30:49,640 And he's listening and he's listening. 1880 01:30:49,880 --> 01:30:52,200 And there was no, there was no way he could have cheated. 1881 01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:54,160 And I'm like, this is a this is a good one. 1882 01:30:54,160 --> 01:30:56,480 I'm like, listen to the drums, listen to the beat. 1883 01:30:57,200 --> 01:30:58,480 And I'm like, you know, just think. 1884 01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:00,760 And he nailed it. And I was like, I was so 1885 01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:03,960 praised, like Def Leppard. I'm like, yeah, dude, that's all 1886 01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:06,880 right there. Very good proud moment. 1887 01:31:07,560 --> 01:31:11,360 My daughter is now angling, I forget the name of the group to 1888 01:31:11,360 --> 01:31:14,880 go to a concert with my wife, which of course I'm going to. 1889 01:31:14,960 --> 01:31:17,000 I'm going to. I don't not let them do it, but 1890 01:31:18,080 --> 01:31:19,760 subsidized and it's not. Cheap. 1891 01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:24,560 And the tickets are like $1000. I'm like, I don't know if you 1892 01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:26,080 need to sit there. Who is this? 1893 01:31:26,080 --> 01:31:27,920 I don't forget. Who was she told me. 1894 01:31:28,200 --> 01:31:29,240 Oh, my God. Yeah. 1895 01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:32,160 You know, there's. I never went to a concert until 1896 01:31:32,200 --> 01:31:33,920 college. Yep same. 1897 01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:36,040 No dude I was a late bloomer too with it. 1898 01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:39,320 Like Yep, it took me a while. We talked about that and it just 1899 01:31:39,320 --> 01:31:41,880 wasn't anything that that my parents did my they always had 1900 01:31:41,880 --> 01:31:45,000 my mom always had music on little disco lot of Kenny 1901 01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:47,920 Rogers. My dad always had the Doo wop 1902 01:31:47,920 --> 01:31:49,600 stuff on in the car, which I couldn't stand. 1903 01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:52,080 But I but I I've grown to love, you know, for a long time. 1904 01:31:52,520 --> 01:31:54,360 I've got both. I I want to go to a concert. 1905 01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:55,560 I don't. I don't know what the perfect 1906 01:31:55,560 --> 01:31:59,480 concert is, you know, for the four of us, Yeah. 1907 01:31:59,480 --> 01:32:00,760 There's so many things to consider. 1908 01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:02,960 You know what? What you smell, you know. 1909 01:32:03,400 --> 01:32:07,600 No, of course it it's tough in certain arenas like I mean. 1910 01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:09,400 I guess I would do outdoors. Yeah, yeah. 1911 01:32:09,640 --> 01:32:12,000 Outdoors is good. I mean, those are also always 1912 01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:14,840 fun, like, I don't know, like the James Taylor ones up in like 1913 01:32:14,840 --> 01:32:16,640 Massachusetts. Or James Taylor. 1914 01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:18,400 Those are awesome. He does like a. 1915 01:32:18,480 --> 01:32:21,480 Free show and I see rain. He's, yeah, he's one of the 1916 01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:23,520 best. He always, he does a show in 1917 01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:25,800 Bridgeport, CT every year, I'm pretty sure. 1918 01:32:25,800 --> 01:32:28,000 New York too. It's a good family one. 1919 01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:31,000 Did not know this, Does he do that at the minor league? 1920 01:32:31,880 --> 01:32:35,320 Baseball team yes, exactly. He does it right there Yep, Yep, 1921 01:32:35,560 --> 01:32:38,920 yeah, yeah, yeah, right there. And like you get a chance to 1922 01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:41,040 meet him, like he does an intermission where he like 1923 01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:44,000 shakes and says hi to every fan if you go up to him. 1924 01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:45,480 So he's like. It's a good. 1925 01:32:45,480 --> 01:32:47,160 Time it's a great it's a great app. 1926 01:32:47,840 --> 01:32:49,000 As I sound like I'm 70. Yeah. 1927 01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:51,360 Let's go see James Taylor. No, I love James Taylor. 1928 01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:53,240 I do. That's a sad song. 1929 01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:54,840 Oh, my God. The fire and rain. 1930 01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:56,440 My good God. All right, man. 1931 01:32:56,520 --> 01:32:58,240 I do. I I got 1% left. 1932 01:32:58,240 --> 01:33:00,560 I got to say goodbye. We didn't want to, but I have. 1933 01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:03,480 To. So I want to wish everybody an 1934 01:33:03,480 --> 01:33:05,080 outstanding Friday J Rod real fast. 1935 01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:06,880 Any good plans? Anything on the docket? 1936 01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:09,800 What do I got? This weekend I've got something 1937 01:33:09,840 --> 01:33:11,280 fun. This weekend I'm just like, 1938 01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:13,200 it's, it's not hitting me right now. 1939 01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:16,720 Oh, Memorial Day, everyone out of town fun you. 1940 01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:18,600 Don't get lit. Yeah, I don't know. 1941 01:33:18,600 --> 01:33:20,480 I'm getting lit. We're getting lit this weekend. 1942 01:33:20,480 --> 01:33:23,840 We'll have fun. I mean, it'll be interesting, I 1943 01:33:23,840 --> 01:33:24,440 guess. Kind of. 1944 01:33:24,640 --> 01:33:26,240 No. They've got me working Monday 1945 01:33:26,240 --> 01:33:27,640 too, so that's crazy. Who's? 1946 01:33:27,840 --> 01:33:32,480 Got OH at the guitar store. Yeah, I know I can't, which I 1947 01:33:32,480 --> 01:33:35,240 think Monday will be big because people will be home from work. 1948 01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:37,160 Memorial Day. We'll have a good time. 1949 01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:40,520 Knicks recap. You know I'm not going to be. 1950 01:33:40,520 --> 01:33:43,040 Yes, a lot I've learned. Let me work on my semantics 1951 01:33:43,040 --> 01:33:44,560 here. Let me not say, let's get this 1952 01:33:44,560 --> 01:33:46,640 win. Hey, you guys go and get that 1953 01:33:46,640 --> 01:33:49,960 win this weekend. That a boy admonished by his dad 1954 01:33:49,960 --> 01:33:53,400 and he has learned his lesson that a boy like every good young 1955 01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:55,800 son should do. All right, Jay, you have a great 1956 01:33:55,800 --> 01:33:57,760 weekend. Obviously, I appreciate you guys 1957 01:33:57,760 --> 01:33:59,600 watching, listening. Great job by the Knicks. 1958 01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:02,000 Let's keep it moving. I can't wait to watch the Spurs 1959 01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:04,320 and the Thunder tonight. Obviously, keep an eye on the 1960 01:34:04,320 --> 01:34:05,880 baseball. Have a great Memorial Day 1961 01:34:05,880 --> 01:34:07,320 weekend. Have a safe weekend. 1962 01:34:08,520 --> 01:34:10,480 Our kids get out of sale. A lot of kids are off today. 1963 01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:13,240 Our kids get a half a day and then obviously off Monday. 1964 01:34:13,240 --> 01:34:15,560 So enjoy the time with the family and everything that 1965 01:34:15,560 --> 01:34:18,840 that's going to bring you guys have an awesome, awesome rest of 1966 01:34:18,840 --> 01:34:20,560 your day. Like it, subscribe it, get it 1967 01:34:20,560 --> 01:34:23,600 out there, push it out there. Let everybody know that you are 1968 01:34:23,600 --> 01:34:25,640 proudly part of the BT Unleashed fam. 1969 01:34:25,840 --> 01:34:27,560 Oh, and I got to say this, I really got to go. 1970 01:34:27,560 --> 01:34:29,400 It's going to go. And I'm trying to say it's like 1971 01:34:29,400 --> 01:34:32,240 2530 seconds. My wife had a meeting, actually 1972 01:34:32,240 --> 01:34:35,520 felt the material for the digital store, which I'm not 1973 01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:38,160 really talked about a lot, but some, some some merch is coming 1974 01:34:38,160 --> 01:34:40,320 here. And I told her I said, listen, 1975 01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:43,440 if it's that cheap stuff ain't happening, like I can't have one 1976 01:34:43,440 --> 01:34:45,880 of these cardboard inflexible T-shirts. 1977 01:34:45,880 --> 01:34:49,200 It's got to be the good quality, the hoodies, the beanies, the 1978 01:34:49,200 --> 01:34:51,680 T-shirts, some mugs, some other stuff. 1979 01:34:51,840 --> 01:34:53,840 So that's coming. That is step. 1980 01:34:53,840 --> 01:34:57,040 I would say we're already because we had the person and 1981 01:34:57,040 --> 01:34:59,840 they set up the entire store and you know, it's going to take a 1982 01:34:59,840 --> 01:35:02,520 minute to actually set it up and get it up and running, but it's 1983 01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:04,240 going to be made to order, which is great. 1984 01:35:04,240 --> 01:35:06,880 So it's not like I've got to make 1000 hoodies and you know, 1985 01:35:06,880 --> 01:35:09,200 have a couple of 100. Just sit there when you want 1986 01:35:09,200 --> 01:35:12,200 something, you order it get shipped, you get it right away. 1987 01:35:12,480 --> 01:35:15,440 So I will have an update on that next week. 1988 01:35:15,440 --> 01:35:17,600 OK, that's good stuff and I'm I'm proud of that. 1989 01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:20,000 You guys going to dig it. So I have a great weekend. 1990 01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:22,720 I will talk to you soon. Go Knicks peace. 1991 01:35:47,400 --> 01:35:47,680 listening?