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What's up, everybody? 
All right, first of all, it is 

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amazing to me the amount of 
misplaced anger today from 

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Yankees and Met fans. 
You guys sound utterly pathetic.

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You tripping all over yourself, 
and you're not even really 

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hitting the mark there. 
What you guys are complaining 

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about really sounds so small. 
I get it. 

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All right. 
Yeah. 

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The Dodgers got more. 
Dodgers got another toy. 

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Fantastic for the Dodgers. 
Did the Dodgers won 103 games 

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last year? 
I know they won the World 

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Series. 
They did not. 

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So to me, the anchors misplaced.
The mark is missed. 

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What you should really be mad 
at, really, if you think about 

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this, is the Yankees and the 
Mets inability to actually build

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a team the right way. 
Because if they were able to do 

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that, they wouldn't have to go 
into every single offseason try 

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to save themselves, which is 
what the Yankees or the Mets do 

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every single offseason. 
All Mets, we got to get 

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something. 
Let's give 800 gazillion dollars

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to Juan Soto, beg him to come, 
give him a suite, give his mom a

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clothing line, get the family 
and everything, whatever they 

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want. 
Come on in, Juan. 

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We'll do whatever you need. 
And then the Yankees, you know, 

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and it worked out, at least Soda
was very good. 

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But of course, Max Freed, hey, 
here's $200 million because we 

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haven't developed enough 
starting pitching. 

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And Jared Cole, somebody else, 
by the way, that we bought, 

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who's also awesome. 
But we think that he's hurt 

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because of the previous year. 
Let's get this reinforcement 

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just in case. 
Hey, here's a concept for 

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everybody. 
Honestly, if you really want the

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Yanks and the Mets to be able to
swim with the Dodgers, how about

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you develop some players that 
are actually good? 

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And instead of having a 
shortstop in the Bronx who hits 

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two O 9 that gets on base 28% of
the time that boots the ball 

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suddenly all over the field. 
How about you actually develop, 

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hopefully develop Lombard the 
right way and he's actually more

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like wit than like Volpe. 
And if he was, and if he is, you

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think the complaints will be as 
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The answer's no. 
We know the answer. 

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The reason the volume's so loud 
is because number one, a lot of 

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you guys are jealous, which I, I
mean, I get that to an extent. 

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We all enjoy a hot stove and 
right now there's not even a 

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little tiny charcoal. 
That's all the BBQ. 

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Forget about some beautiful 
flame, you know, I know it's 

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quiet and I understand both of 
these teams got a lot of work to

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do when both of these teams 
right now we're going nowhere. 

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Yankees, I mean, if the Yankees 
get Bellinger, they'll probably 

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be a playoff team if they're 
starting pitching is really 

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good. 
And right now the Mets look like

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a 75 win team, right. 
But maybe just to keep this 

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going here because that that's 
really the central theme. 

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You guys are complaining about 
the wrong stuff. 

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How's not cheap, Cohen's not 
cheap. 

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The problem is the Yanks and the
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some of these other teams that 
actually draft develop. 

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And then all the hype that you 
hear about when they get to the 

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major leagues, they're actually 
what they were supposed to be. 

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You want some more examples? 
I don't know. 

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Is this the year that Alvarez is
going to actually do something? 

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Is it going to get hurt three 
more times? 

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Is it going to hit 220? 
Or is it going to be the stuff 

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that everybody told me about who
was at one point the number one 

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prospect, not just in the Mets 
organization, the number one 

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prospect in all the baseball? 
Would it stun you now? 

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I I hope it doesn't go this way,
but would it stun you if in two 

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years Alvarez is gone? 
Like you're like if I had to put

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money right now, It is a tough 
read. 

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I'm not saying it's an easy 
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seen, I probably put money on on
on him flaming out rather than 

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actually meet meeting and 
capturing the you know, the the 

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accolades that somebody thought 
would follow him. 

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You know what I mean? 
Hey Mets instead of having to 

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give montage $16,000,000 a year 
like a bunch of idiots or you 

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know trying to re spark or get 
certain guys in the lab like 

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Manaya. 
And I know it worked out the 

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first year but how about these 
young kids and and maybe they 

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are in the early stages of doing
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You know, I love the claim, but 
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they're even here, maybe they're
Dell for Peralta, whatever, 

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which which I would be OK with 
on some level. 

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And you want to save one for 
school but as well. 

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But like if they're not Dell and
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they each make 20222528 starts, 
let's see if they're the real 

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deal. 
You know, instead of giving 

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Nimmo some idiotic 7 year deal 
who was a flawed player, instead

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of having no center fielder, I 
don't know, maybe Bench becomes 

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that guy. 
We'll see. 

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Instead of having the Antos who 
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OK, You know, I mean, how about 
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players that are actually ready 
to do damage at the Major League

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level? 
Hey, Yanks, you know, how about 

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you give Dominguez a chance to 
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All right? 
Maybe he can. 

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All right. 
And that's another problem 

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because he was the overhyped 
Yankee prospect, like a long 

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list of those before him. 
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Spencer Jones is going to be, 
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now when you look at everything 
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it really is irresponsible from 
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And Kyle Tucker $60 million is a
freaking joke, man. 

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It really is. 
But like the petty, the 

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pettiness and the jealousy, you 
guys got a I think that you need

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to reach channel the, the 
energy, the anger, the 

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confusion, the disappointment 
and actually hit the target that

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deserves it. 
How about you start getting on 

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your own or a little bit more 
Mets fans instead of tweeting 

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out stupid stuff. 
Oh, wow, what a witty tweet. 

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Oh, let's make a reference with 
the Pope in the smoke. 

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Now that that's that's cute, 
right? 

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That's funny. 
And that works if you know that 

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he's coming to the Mets. 
But when you put that out there 

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and then three hours later he's 
a Dodger, you look like an ass 

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is really what it comes down to 
right. 

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So guys, what's happened here, 
right? 

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I'm fired up today. 
I really am cuz I'm in the car 

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last night covered up. 
My son sprains his ankle at his 

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at his basketball game. 
So I go when I get like an ace 

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bandage, whatever. 
So I'm in the car and, and I pop

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on the fan, I hear loogie. 
It's funny. 

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It just transitioned to talking 
about Tucker and then they broke

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in and then the news broke. 
So the timing was really good. 

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I, I don't think that that I 
was, I was kind of home by the 

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time like I didn't stay with a 
very long because by the time 

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they said it, I was basically in
my driveway. 

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I don't think that I, I heard 
them say the number. 

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I wasn't surprised that he's 
going to the Dodgers. 

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Why would you be? 
Everybody's going to the Dodgers

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right now. 
But when I actually saw $60 

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million, you know, $240 / 4 
years with opt outs and $30 

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million in deferral. 
I mean, listen, you guys are 

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really just pissed off at the 
wrong stuff. 

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Dodgers have a ton of money. 
They spend it, they reinvest it,

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they win and everybody's out 
there crying like babies. 

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I, I, I just, I, I really don't 
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It sounds weak. 
It sounds pathetic. 

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You got to pick yourself up. 
I mean to, to quote the great 

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unkillable speech, stop walking 
around work like a loser. 

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I mean, get your act together, 
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Let's go. 
You guys sound like a bunch of I

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don't know what you sound like, 
not all of you, but jeez, guys, 

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what's happened? 
Long ago, there was a point 

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right where where New York was 
the epicenter of like that star 

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power. 
And it probably started, if I 

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had to take a guess, Clyde 
Frazier, Joe Namath, right? 

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They just transcended the city. 
They transcended the country. 

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They transcended the domestic 
sports world, right? 

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And there was a point where if 
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right? 
That's lesser extent, obviously.

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You know, that 86 team had a lot
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I remember Daryl doing milk 
commercials and Darling doing 

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deodorant. 
Then like the Mets were 

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everywhere, subways and buses 
and they were making money off 

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the field. 
So they they they captured that 

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profile because the Mets were an
amazing team in 86 6 right? 

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But it's usually a Yankee thing.
And and then from those guys 

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that I mentioned, whether Clyde 
or or Joe, I think really the 

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next great one was Reggie. 
And at that point when Reggie 

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came here in 76 and for even 
Catfish. 

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But when the free agent started 
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that point in time, Madison Ave.
And if this changed 1012 years 

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ago, maybe more was not Mobile. 
Like if you wanted to maximize 

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your earning power off the field
or off the court or off the ice,

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whatever it might be, you know, 
it really behooved you to be in 

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New York because you're just 
going to make more money. 

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You're going to be plastered all
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You're going to make the extra 
money. 

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You're going to be pimping out 
the watches, pimping out the 

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suits, pimping out the 
restaurants, pimping out the 

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cars, all the all the spoils 
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athlete. 
Nobody needs New York anymore. 

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When are you guys going to 
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So much has changed, not just 
economically. 

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Let me ask you this right now. 
I love, I love New York. 

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Well, I love what New York used 
to be and I love really, at its 

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core with many of us still, what
New York represents. 

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All right, I was born in 
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I went to Manhattan for high 
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And then obviously early in my 
career, I bounced around. 

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But you know what pumps through 
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It's New York blood, right? 
But even I, and I was able to 

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identify this a long time. 
New York's become an absolute 

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shit hole. 
It's an absolute shit hole. 

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So like, why? 
If you're a pro athlete, I'm not

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saying there's no issues in LA 
or some of these other markets, 

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but New York has become a dump. 
It is dirty, it is crowded, it 

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is expensive, and it smells. 
It smells like piss and it 

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smells like weed. 
All right. 

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So I don't know if somebody was 
offering me, I think nobody's 

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going to give me $30 million to 
do anything, but whatever. 

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That number would be 
commensurate with an incredible 

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content set. 
Although now with content, I can

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obviously do this in my home, 
whatever, But you get the point.

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Like conventional radio, the way
radio used to be, right? 

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If somebody was going to give me
some massive amount of money to 

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go to and I had the option, 
right, stay here or go there. 

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I mean, how do you not calculate
the pluses of going out West 

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every day you wake up instead of
putting on a parka jacket. 

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And you know, I actually, I, I 
dropped my kids off at school. 

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I was wearing shorts today. 
But so I do that in the winter, 

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but most of you don't. 
But you can just throw on flip 

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flops and golf shorts. 
And as you're driving the kids 

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to school out West, you pass a 
bunch of palm trees instead of 

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the remnants of snow or ice or 
salt that discolors your 

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driveway. 
I mean, or sand. 

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I mean, come on, guys. 
Like it's, it's really, it's, 

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it's nowhere near what it used 
to be. 

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So if it's, if we can admit that
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territorial. 
We are. 

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We're, of course, we're proud 
where we're from. 

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We always want to elevate New 
York. 

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And I want New York to get its 
act together more than anybody 

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on every level, right? 
I want the crime to go down. 

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I want the nonsense to end. 
I want the streets to be clean. 

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I want New York and New Jersey 
to be what it was when I was 

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growing up for my kids, if they 
elect to stay here. 

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But if given the adult choice, 
let me see, let, let me see, I 

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could go. 
And I know that the, you know, 

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Metropolitan Park is eventually 
coming. 

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It's going to look good. 
Let me see. 

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I can get in my car and leave my
10/12/15 eighteen, $20 million 

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mansion in Long Island, whatever
it might be, and it's beautiful.

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Or my 1012 fifteen, $18 million 
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Jersey, which is where CC lived 
when it was with the Yankees and

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other prominent Yankees live 
there or go Connecticut and I 

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can and I'm driving the Yankee 
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appealing driving and I love the
Bronx. 

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It's not a knock. 
This is just the reality of the 

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of the way of, of what we have 
all right, the logistics and the

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optics of our area. 
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And now traffic in LA sucks as 
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So that's not a great example. 
But driving to the Bronx, right,

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all right, where you know, where
there's just, it's, it's hard to

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get around and it's cold and in 
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it's the 7th inning. 
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September, same in October. 
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would you rather go to LA? 
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decision, guys. 
And the same thing, not to knock

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the Yankees. 
I love the Yankees, but the same

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thing. 
Would you rather, you know, come

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in from Long Island in your 
$500,000 car in your 15 

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thousand, $15 million mansion 
and drive through chop shops in 

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Queens? 
I mean, what would you rather 

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do? 
Oh, yeah. 

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By the way, you're going to have
the best chance to win. 

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All right, So stop feeling sorry
for yourself. 

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It really the pity party. 
It's just I don't want to hear 

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it anymore. 
You know, if the Yankees or the 

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Mets did a better job of doing 
what they're supposed to do, 

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draft the right guys, develop 
the right guys and then guys. 

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And this is the point to to then
accent the roster with that big 

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free agent edition, let's say in
three years, like, you know, the

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Mets, let's say Benj is really 
good and I hope he is. 

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And Beatty keeps taking that 
step. 

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And Soto's obviously a beast. 
And and I don't know, Jeff 

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Williams, if he's not traded, 
like these guys come up and they

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pop like and sprouts good. 
And Tom is still here. 

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And then Mcclain's a beast. 
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whether it's a catcher, whatever
position that like the Mets 

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needed Gary Carter right when 
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the Expos. 
Keith was the first piece to get

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it going. 
Gary was the final punctuation. 

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We're ready to win, even though 
they didn't win his first year. 

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Then what if the next year, 86, 
right? 

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And if there was a wild card 
back in 85, they probably would 

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have wanted that as well. 
The point is you don't build the

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team through free agency. 
You just don't. 

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It's not the way to do it. 
You want to do that in the NBA, 

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go out there. 
You want to bring Durant here, 

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you want to get LeBron and Wade 
and Bosh, be my guest. 

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Go for it. 
Because the NBA, when you've got

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one or two guys who represent 
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and probably 55 to 60% usage 
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well, guess what? 
You're going to have more 

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success. 
No guarantee the Dodgers win 

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anything this year, so I'm not 
going to get wrapped up in this.

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It really it's just over the 
top. 

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Oh my God, it's so bad for suck 
it up. 

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Why hear about it so bad for 
baseball? 

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You know, now there have been a 
few things that I do think that 

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have been a little 
misrepresented, to be fair, like

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you hear a lot of, well, this is
what the Yankees used to do. 

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I know it's really not what the 
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if that's what you think. 
What the Yankees used to do is 

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the Yankees used to draft, used 
to develop. 

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And that's why they had a guy 
who should probably be in the 

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Hall of Fame ish in in center 
field, a guy who is in the Hall 

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of Fame at shortstop, a guy who 
came out and was three times 

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better than Goose, who is in the
Hall of Fame in MO. 

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And then you accent it with an A
rod 1/3 or Teixeira or Tina with

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a trade at first base. 
Oh, yeah, By the way, the guy 

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who was behind the dish, a 
switch hit and catcher with 

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power who should get a lot more 
Hall of Fame love. 

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And he doesn't. 
And it's sad with Posada, they 

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were all drafted, dude. 
Andy Pettit, big game. 

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Oh, who's taking the ball 
tonight? 

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Oh, that's the guy that we 
drafted in the 19th round. 

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So like, it's just it's really 
high. 

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It's not true, It's not 
accurate, it's not applicable. 

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It's a distortion of the 
reality. 

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Now, I will I will say because 
I'm always in the business of 

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being fair and being objective 
here, like the 2009 championship

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was, was much more of the 
variety of what the Dodgers are 

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doing. 
Like let's spend the quarter of 

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a billion dollars and let's go 
out there and get an ace and get

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a switch hit and beats first 
baseman and let's get another 

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guy in Burnett who we can plug 
in and and be very good as as he

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was. 
But all the other stuff like, 

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man, oh man, I, I just don't get
it. 

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And, and I'll tell you what, 
Cohen's got to stop with the 

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stupid tweets that I said that 
before. 

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That was an asinine tweet. 
It's a money tweet if you know 

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that he's coming. 
It's an asinine tweet if you 

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don't. 
And then he doesn't. 

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Like, you just look like a clown
owner at that point, you really 

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do. 
So one guy's looking like a 

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clown and one guy's probably 
still in Italy. 

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Drink whatever he's doing. 
He's not paying attention to 

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what the Yankees are doing. 
I don't think in terms of how 

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like enough, there's other 
things to get angry at. 

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Not the Dodgers. 
You know, the Dodgers guys are 

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operating now. 
Of course this will lead to a 

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prolonged work stoppage which 
will ruin all of our lives in 

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terms of watching baseball. 
So the Dodgers are saying fuck 

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it, like the rules are going to 
change and until they do, we're 

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going for it and we're going for
it and we're getting this guy 

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and that guy and this guy and 
that guy. 

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And while the doesn't guarantee 
a World Series because as I said

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before, the Dodgers won 93 games
and during that had a lot of 

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injuries. 
I get that. 

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But during the regular season, 
the Yankees won more, Toronto 

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won more, they both won 94. 
The the the Phillies won more. 

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The Brewers won 97 or 98. 
They won four or five more 

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games. 
So like, I understand big 

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picture, it obviously slants and
distorts the competitive 

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balance. 
Not a good look, But they're not

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doing anything wrong and you 
guys are acting like they are. 

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That's what I don't understand. 
Like it's OK to be pissed. 

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I mean, there's and I'm I'm 
pissed at the Knicks. 

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I'll get to that in a little 
bit. 

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They got a mess last night was 
utterly embarrassing and the 

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final straw for me with the 
Knicks. 

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I'll get to that final straw, 
soft final straw. 

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So I mean, guys, you look at the
finances, all right, Otani 10 

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years 700 mil bets 12 years 365 
Yamamoto, Yamamoto 12 years 325 

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member that would sell Yamamoto 
12 years 325 Tucker four years 

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240. 
That is insane. 

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You got Freeman on a steal, six 
years, $1.60. 

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Snell's making 182 / 5. 
You got Will Smith, the catcher,

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10 years, 140. 
Glass now is making five years, 

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five years, 136. 
Like, I mean, come on, man. 

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It's, it's, it's only a problem 
if the Yankees and the Mets 

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don't take care of their home. 
Like if there's something wrong 

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with your backyard fence, don't 
critique your neighbors for for 

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theirs looking sloppy if they 
got a sloppy driveway like the 

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brick and like, oh man, she 
probably looks kind of looks 

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kind of ugly, but you got a 
broken window. 

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What the hell are you 
complaining about? 

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And right now the Yankees and 
the Mets have a lot of broken 

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windows. 
It's not my fault. 

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It's not your fault. 
It's their fault. 

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It's not the Dodgers fault and 
it's not even Major League 

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Baseball's fault. 
So I just had it, man, I, I 

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really had it. 
I I can't stand energy that is 

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channeled improperly and that's 
what's happening right now. 

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The energy is being improperly 
channeled. 

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So it is my mission to re 
channel improperly. 

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Now I'll tell you something that
I think that you really should 

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be pissed about and there's 
nothing you can do about it 

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unfortunately. 
But this would be with merit. 

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I believe that I still think the
Yankees will get Bellinger, 

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although if if Boris thinks that
just because of what the Dodgers

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did with Tucker for 60 million 
died making 20 more $1,000,000 

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than average. 
Judge you out of your mic 60. 

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Yeah, he's 20. 
He's going to hit 273. 

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He's going to miss 32 games with
a with a wrist injury or a a 

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quadriceps pole, right. 
He's going to have an 840 OPS 

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and Tucker's good, but and it 
would have been good for the 

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Mets, right? 
That's that's why I said, you 

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know, and and I give the Mets 
credit for going out and 

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aggressively trying to get him, 
but he ain't Judge, he ain't 

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Soto. 
I mean, let's not get this 

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twisted. 
Not Otani. 

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He's not Mike Trout from a 
couple of years ago. 

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My God almighty. 
It is really distorted there. 

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But they are playing within the 
rules. 

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They are breaking no rules. 
They are pushing boundaries. 

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They're also incredibly more 
creative than the Yankees and 

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the Mets. 
All the deferrals they were 

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really, you know, the first, I 
mean, I know that they were 

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deferral. 
I mean, Bonilla, there were 

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other deferrals in the past, but
that was the most aggressive one

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with Otani, which allowed them 
to do anything, everything that 

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they that they want. 
But if I'm a Mets fan today, 

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like if I'm a Yankee fan, which 
I am, I'm not, I'm not really 

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pissed because I still think 
that they get Bellinger. 

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But again, if Boris comes, oh 
man, look what Tucker got. 

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All right there, Hal. 
All right, cash instead of the 

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5150 with a couple of 155 with a
few opt outs that we've been 

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talking about. 
Well, now I'm going to need 7 to

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210 get that click. 
I'm not even continuing the 

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discussion. 
Goodbye. 

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Go wherever you want to go. 
You're not that good, Bellinger,

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and neither is Tucker. 
But that's not. 

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That's our issue. 
He's gone. 

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But here's what I would be mad. 
I'd be too. 

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I'd be angry right now with two 
things. 

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First the Mets and then the 
Yankees. 

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The Mets, This is a legitimate, 
this is a real gripe, guys, 

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really real gripe. 
By the way, I see that. 

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I see the text coming in here. 
We're going to fire those up in 

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a bit. 
I'll get to the next disaster. 

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Thank you guys for hanging out. 
BT Unleashed. 

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I'm just Red Bell, but I have 
time to say hello. 

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I had to jump right into this. 
So I like, if I am a Mets fan 

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and I see this happen, I'm 
sitting there saying, wait, 

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whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second.
Let me get this straight. 

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You initially offered $50 
million, which was creative, 

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better, you know, shorter terms,
more on the AAV, which I think 

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is smart. 
I've always subscribed to that. 

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You initially came at 50, and 
then you very willingly went to 

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55, which is astronomical. 
That's crazy, right? 

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So I can't say the Mets were 
being cheap. 

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I can't say that at all. 
You were willing to give him him

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Tucker, that kind of money, and 
you wouldn't give Pete Alonso 

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16170? 
Are you crazy? 

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I'm not even a huge Pete Alonso 
fan, but I can promise you this.

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Pete's going to play more games 
this year than Tucker. 

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He's going to hit more home runs
this year than Tucker. 

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He'll probably have more RB is 
than Tucker. 

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All right, Tucker's a better, a 
better fielder. 

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He's not great, but he's better 
than Pete is. 

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You know, even though it's not 
the same position. 

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He's better on the bases. 
He'll probably steal 1718 bases.

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Pete won't. 
The OPS fairly negligible, maybe

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one guy, 851-848-7839 in the 
ballpark. 

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I think Pete's going to have 
more RB is, you know, even 

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though more guys will be on base
in front of Tucker if he's 

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batting 4th, which it looks like
he will. 

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So that would drive me crazy. 
Like even me who was for two 

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years have been saying I would 
not invest long term. 

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00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,080
And Pete, for all the reasons 
I'm not going to reset them, you

443
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,440
know what they are. 
But that was always my position.

444
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,040
I never wavered from that once I
was ultimately proven right, at 

445
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,160
least in terms of the Mets 
mindset, because they allowed 

446
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,040
him to go. 
They would have let him go last 

447
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,640
year if you guys didn't start 
clamoring an amazing day, which 

448
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,080
I give you credit for doing. 
You basically pressured Cohen 

449
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,200
and Sterns bringing it back, 
right? 

450
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,960
So that would drive like that 
would hurt me. 

451
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,600
It would bother me from a 
baseball point of view for the 

452
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,320
reasons that just chronicled, 
but it would bother me from a 

453
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,880
sentimental point of view. 
Like you just so flippantly 

454
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,440
said. 
I wish the checkbook. 

455
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,600
Here's 50. 
Here's 55 for a guy who wasn't 

456
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,520
done a damn thing for your 
organization and you couldn't 

457
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:45,160
muster up the 160 or 170, let 
alone the 150, something that he

458
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,200
got from the Orioles. 
You couldn't do that for a guy 

459
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,400
that you drafted and broke your,
your, your, your. 

460
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,360
I mean, not that the Mets have 
some great home run record, but 

461
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,200
he is the all time Met home run 
leader. 

462
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,840
Got me a little something 
little. 

463
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,280
You know what? 
He's still going to hit a bunch 

464
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,200
more. 
He's going to hit 500 when he's 

465
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,240
all said and done. 
That would drive me. 

466
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:07,400
I don't, I don't think that that
I would be able to reconcile now

467
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,120
if they didn't go aggressively 
after Tucker at all. 

468
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,160
And they just kind of laid out 
and and they that that it's 

469
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,760
different. 
It's a different processing 

470
00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:17,200
because now there's nothing for 
me to say. 

471
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,800
Whoa, whoa, you, you did this, 
but you weren't willing to do 

472
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,800
that. 
So that would drive me nuts from

473
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,080
a Mets perspective. 
Let me tell you what's bothering

474
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,520
me from a Yankee perspective 
aside from that. 

475
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,920
The fact that they haven't done 
a damn thing yet. 

476
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:36,520
Aside from that little thing. 
See, everybody's talking about 

477
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:43,400
the Dodger brand, right? 
And it is as powerful a brand as

478
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,520
there is in sport. 
It's the most powerful brand. 

479
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,120
It's more powerful than any NFL 
team and the NFL is a monster, 

480
00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:54,600
especially with Mahomes hurt 
now, the Chiefs out of it, Brady

481
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,800
gone, the Dodgers, and I'm not 
even talking about valuation, 

482
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,360
final money, even though they're
up there as well. 

483
00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:03,480
The Dodgers are the number one 
sporting brand in our country. 

484
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:04,960
Now, I'm not going to say the 
world. 

485
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,160
There's some massive soccer 
teams clearly in our country. 

486
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:14,360
Dodgers won no one close, right?
Just branding, imaging and why 

487
00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:17,000
I'm mad at the Yankees. 
And what bothers me about the 

488
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,920
Yankees is that the Yankees used
to be the Dodgers in terms of 

489
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,160
branding. 
And I'm not even saying the 

490
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,680
money. 
I'm talking about for a long 

491
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,480
time, multiple decades, right? 
Certainly before I was born. 

492
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,800
Then of course, you know, when 
I'm old enough to really become 

493
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,760
a big time Yankee fan, they 
basically suck. 

494
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,600
And then obviously we know what 
they did. 9698992000, get back 

495
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,160
in O1, get back in O3, win it in
O9. 

496
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:45,400
Like we know what the Yanks have
done, right? 

497
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:51,080
Their branding was platinum. 
It was pristine, It was 

498
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,640
flawless. 
It's one thing if you lose a 

499
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,680
game, like, all right, broken, 
bad base, hit Mariano, 

500
00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,960
Diamondbacks, shit happens. 
It's baseball. 

501
00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:03,200
Hey, they're getting paid too. 
They got Randy Johnson, they got

502
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,760
Curt Schilling, they got a good 
manager, they got some good 

503
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,400
players. 
It sucks, but it's baseball I 

504
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,280
can live with on the field, on 
the court results when something

505
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,360
like that happens that that 
there's a little bit of 

506
00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:18,640
randomness there. 
Mariano never gave that up, you 

507
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,520
know. 
Well, I mean, Sandy Allenmore 

508
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,000
back in 97, but who's really 
counting one or two to big 

509
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,200
Poppy, But you know what I mean?
And it you got clipped by a team

510
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,600
that was a little bit better 
than you and maybe wanted a 

511
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,040
little bit more. 
Pettit got rocked. 

512
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:32,200
It happens, right? 
It's baseball. 

513
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,160
Not talking about that. 
The Yankees allowed somebody to 

514
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:41,160
come into what was their home 
and make themselves incredibly 

515
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,360
comfortable and then each year 
take over a room. 

516
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:45,720
First they come in the living 
room. 

517
00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:48,600
This looks good. 
I hang out here for a while. 

518
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,000
Fireplace on massive screen. 
Beautiful island. 

519
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,120
Couple of good bottles of wine. 
I think I'll hang out here for a

520
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:56,480
little bit. 
I like this. 

521
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,120
Then they start wandering 
around. 

522
00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:00,920
Oh, look at the master bedroom. 
Make myself at home as well. 

523
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,160
Oh, look at the man cave. 
It's beautiful. 

524
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,160
They got a couple of play rooms 
for the kids. 

525
00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:07,640
Look at his backyard. 
Look at all this property. 

526
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,480
Yeah, I think I'll take the 
house over. 

527
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,200
And you will let them. 
You let them. 

528
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,160
So that's what the Yankee fan 
should be pissed off. 

529
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,000
Not that all the nickel and 
diamond with Bellinger or they 

530
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,520
came 40 or $50 million short on 
Soto. 

531
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,680
No, that's the little teeny 
stuff. 

532
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,680
I mean, not that Soto's tiny, 
but you know what I mean? 

533
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,840
Like that's evaluating micro 
baseball things. 

534
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,640
I'm talking about the biggest 
macro evaluation that you can 

535
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,600
have. 
The Yankees were the number one 

536
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,280
brand and they allowed somebody 
to take that from them. 

537
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,200
That's what they allowed under 
their watch. 

538
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,640
So congratulations on that. 
How's that feel? 

539
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,440
That's quite the accomplishment,
huh? 

540
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:58,960
I do think that I do think that 
having a villain is good. 

541
00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:02,960
I've always thought that like 
when the warriors got Durant 

542
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,800
right, I mean, obviously Knicks 
were nowhere near a 

543
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,640
championship, but and I'll watch
every NBA Finals no matter who's

544
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,040
playing. 
But like you, even though I like

545
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,600
Curry, like you, you there were 
so many people that were rooting

546
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,160
for them to lose because odds 
too easy and they got this guy. 

547
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,200
They got that guy and now you 
got Durant, one of the best 

548
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,120
scorers of all time. 
You know, same thing. 

549
00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:26,480
How easy was it to root against 
LeBron in the bubble when he 

550
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,200
pairs up with Anthony Davis, 
right? 

551
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,280
Or even before that when he 
pairs up with Bosh and Wade? 

552
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,200
Not one, not 2, not 3, not 4. 
Get over yourself, buddy. 

553
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,280
The decision, you know, like, 
but I think that that's good for

554
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,520
the product. 
I think that that, you know, the

555
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,200
clicks go through the roof, the 
eyeballs start to really focus 

556
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:45,880
in. 
And even if you don't have a 

557
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,720
vested interest, like I'll be 
honest with you when you know, 

558
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,640
you know how much I love 
baseball, but I'm not sitting 

559
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,600
like once the Yankees are 
knocked out now the Dodgers and 

560
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,760
the Blue Jays was happened to be
a great World Series. 

561
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,840
And there's been so many World 
Series that I've enjoyed just as

562
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,040
a baseball fan without the 
Yankees involved and even the 

563
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,040
Mets, you know, 1586, etcetera. 
Yeah, that's it. 

564
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,160
And and I usually watch the 
majority of the World Series. 

565
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,200
But as I've gotten older, you 
know, a lot of things with the 

566
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,360
kids, a lot of things going on 
with work, just, you know, 

567
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,480
you've got to kind of 
prioritize. 

568
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:25,320
And because of what the Dodgers 
were let this before Tucker like

569
00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:27,680
and got, you know, Toronto just 
knocked out the Yankees. 

570
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,080
So who the hell am I rooting 
for? 

571
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,920
I'm like, man, do I want to 
really see the Yankees rival who

572
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,320
just clipped us and made us look
like AJB team, what a World 

573
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,680
Series? 
Or do I want to see the big bad 

574
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,360
ass Dodgers win or lose, 
depending upon how you look at 

575
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,480
it. 
And and that does create great 

576
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,720
theater. 
It creates tension, it creates 

577
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:46,840
debate and all those things add 
up. 

578
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,320
It's good for business. 
It really is. 

579
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,320
So when you have a villain list 
sport, generally you've got a 

580
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:57,240
sport that really doesn't have a
ton of juice and listen, I'll 

581
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,760
make my NFL picks later on the 
show, give you the picks against

582
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,040
the spread. 
All right, start looking at some

583
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,560
of these comments as well. 
I do listen, do what you want. 

584
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,040
I know the Super chat stand out 
more. 

585
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,200
It doesn't really matter if you 
do that. 

586
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,160
I really don't care. 
But they do stand out more. 

587
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,040
But like even like, does the NFL
really have a villain right now?

588
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,760
Like do you hate the Broncos? 
Do you hate the bills? 

589
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,160
And I don't mean like all The 
Jets fan. 

590
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,960
I'm I'm jealous of the bills. 
How the hell do you hate Josh 

591
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,280
Allen? 
I love the guy. 

592
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,120
I wish he was mine. 
Like, how do you hate the maybe 

593
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,400
you don't like Sean Payton going
back to the, you know, a little 

594
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:27,800
arrogant little, you know, 
whatever. 

595
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,200
Some of the cheating, getting 
suspended. 

596
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,560
All right, I forgot about that. 
Basically the minute he came 

597
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:33,600
back. 
I don't hold it against him. 

598
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,280
He's a great coach and I think 
he's good for the game. 

599
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,840
But are the Denver Broncos some 
universal villain? 

600
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,640
No, I mean, do you hate Seattle?
I mean, all right, it's going to

601
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,040
be fun watching Darnold and he's
got the oblique injury, by the 

602
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,560
way, which could be an issue. 
That's a big spread. 

603
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,920
Seattle -7 But do you hate 
Seattle? 

604
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,720
Like to me, they're like, I'm 
almost apathetic towards 

605
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:52,920
Seattle. 
Seattle means nothing in my 

606
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,280
world. 
Zero, right? 

607
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,320
Do you hate the Niners? 
They no, I don't hate the 

608
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,320
Niners. 
Do you hate the Texans? 

609
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,080
But that's a really good story. 
You know, coach has been there a

610
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,200
couple of years, a young 
quarterback who played awful 

611
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,600
against Pittsburgh. 
But I mean, they're on the come.

612
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,120
That's a classy coach. 
That's a well run organization. 

613
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,600
It's the best defense in 
football. 

614
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,360
It's a great fan base. 
I don't know. 

615
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,480
I can't conjure up any any false
hate towards the Texans. 

616
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,560
Now the Pats, the Pats a little 
different, but I don't I don't 

617
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,840
hate Drake May and I don't hate 
Rabel. 

618
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,800
I mean, I'd I'd like to grow to 
hate them because that probably 

619
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,800
means The Jets do something and 
they play some meaningful games 

620
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,080
at some point. 
But I don't go into that game 

621
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,120
watching that on. 
That's on Sunday. 

622
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,560
Yeah, that's the first game on 
Sunday. 

623
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,000
I don't go and I hope the 
Patriots lose. 

624
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000
Let me be clear about that. 
But it's not like I don't 

625
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,040
despise them. 
So I don't go in that game 

626
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,440
disposed to hating them like I 
did Brady or some other teams 

627
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,080
along the way. 
And do you hate the Rams or do 

628
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:50,600
you hate the Bears? 
How do you hate the Bears? 

629
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,320
I mean, they're a tortured fan 
base, kind of like The Jets. 

630
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,640
I mean, really, if you think 
about it, think about how few 

631
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,080
good quarterbacks they've had in
their in their existence. 

632
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,160
McMahon's one of the best they 
ever had. 

633
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,880
He wasn't even that good. 
Without that defense, that Bears

634
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,800
team would have won six games. 
McMahon, like McMahon's legacy 

635
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,920
is incredibly heightened. 
Like I know with the headbands 

636
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,880
and the earrings and the right 
in the commissioner's name on 

637
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,640
it, throw like 18 touchdowns a 
year. 

638
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,680
He was like people talk about 
he's Joe Montana or Jim Kelly 

639
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,040
from that era. 
Get the hell out of here. 

640
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,360
Boomer was twice as good. 
I mean, Boomer was good. 

641
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,200
Boomer was twice as good as him,
right? 

642
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,600
So you can't hate the Bears. 
And again, you don't hate the 

643
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,840
Rams, so when there's that lack 
of, and again, I'm using the 

644
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:34,840
term hate pertaining to sport, 
obviously there's just a little 

645
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:40,440
bit less juice and it's not 
beholding all of the Dodgers to 

646
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,320
acquiesce and hold up the velvet
ropes. 

647
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:44,800
Yeah, you guys can come to the 
club. 

648
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,520
Nah, man, this is club one of 
one. 

649
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,160
You ain't allowed in here. 
It's your it's your job to find 

650
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,080
a way to grease the bouncer to 
get in. 

651
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,800
I'm not letting you in. 
Like, if you find your way in 

652
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,400
here, we'll have a good time. 
We'll party, drink some flow, do

653
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,920
a little dancing. 
But this is our club. 

654
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,080
The other, the other bar down 
the street. 

655
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,600
That's where the Yankees could 
go. 

656
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,240
That, that, that little Irish 
pub, that that's where the Mets 

657
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,800
could go, you know, All right, 
that's it. 

658
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,880
Phillies. 
You, you find that little, you 

659
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,680
know, you find that bar slash 
restaurant. 

660
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,240
Same with the Braves. 
You know, maybe Toronto's a 

661
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,720
little different, but same with 
the Red Sox, same with the San 

662
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,800
Francisco Giants. 
We got the club all right and we

663
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,640
have everything that we want in 
the club, and it's up to you to 

664
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,400
get in. 
That's it. 

665
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,400
So I am just really, really 
confused. 

666
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,240
Really. 
First I was bothered, but now 

667
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,040
I'm still confused like why so 
many of you seem not all of you,

668
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,760
but so many of you seem to be 
missing the boat, whining, 

669
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,920
complaining, you know, again 
walking around work like a 

670
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,280
loser. 
Somebody once said, I don't know

671
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,800
man, I I really just don't get 
it. 

672
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,200
Let's get some of these all 
right, let's go at Timmy Thomas 

673
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,600
Fugazi, Timmy. 
Hopefully Timmy's not a Fugazi 

674
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:03,880
at Tim Thomas O 580 competitive 
competitive bouncing is is 

675
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,600
broken in baseball. 
Dodgers making an All Star team 

676
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,960
reminds me of the 20/17/2018 
warriors. 

677
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,080
All right, well, that's great. 
Do something about it. 

678
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,120
Like I said draft better players
develop better players would if 

679
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,440
you're a Yankee fan, we'll stick
with them for a SEC If you're a 

680
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:24,760
Yankee fan and let's say they 
retain Bellinger and again, I do

681
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,360
think they will unless Boris 
gets ridiculous then I just then

682
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:28,960
I'm done. 
I'm not even going to engage him

683
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,760
any further if he believes last 
night really radical. 

684
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,040
I don't mean by a few mil here, 
a little, you know, extra 

685
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,120
signing bonus here, one more opt
out, whatever. 

686
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,040
But if he thinks that that's 
going to really change the tone 

687
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,040
of our negotiations, you're 
sorely mistaken. 

688
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,680
Again, he's not that good. 
All right, so, but I do think 

689
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,720
you'll be here and I'll be happy
because the the things he does 

690
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,560
well, they need all right, you 
need another Ralph fielder. 

691
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,200
You know, if Rice isn't hitting 
lefties, you need a first 

692
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,120
baseman anyway, let's assume 
Bellinger's back. 

693
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,040
Imagine Bellinger with 
Dominguez. 

694
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:06,760
What he was supposed to be a 
switch hitting speed power 

695
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,120
demon. 
Instead he sucks in left field. 

696
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,000
They never let him hit righty 
now. 

697
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:16,560
Now, I do think that he's better
than many of you think, like hit

698
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:21,080
260, stole 20 bases, hit 9 or 10
home runs, limited play, you 

699
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,840
know, had a couple of really 
good months and still figuring 

700
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,239
things out. 
But he's certainly not what we 

701
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,320
thought he would be. 
But imagine if he was so you'd 

702
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,040
have Judge, you'd have 
Bellinger, you'd have this beast

703
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,520
in left field, right? 
Imagine if Volpe was actually 

704
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,080
like his play reflected that of 
a first round pick and instead 

705
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:43,120
of hitting 212 at a strikeout 
machine and swinging for the 

706
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,600
fences and then suddenly 
becoming a poor defensive 

707
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,639
shortstop, which he did 
stabilize as the year went on. 

708
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,239
Not trying to go nuts, I'm going
to remain accurate here even 

709
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:52,520
when I'm in the middle of a 
tirade. 

710
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,679
But the guys on base, 28% of the
time that's untenable. 

711
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,120
That's as bad as it gets. 
I mean, so imagine if the 

712
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,880
shortstop that you drafted, 
imagine if he was he's not never

713
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,920
going to be wit. 
But you know, let's say 1718 

714
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,440
bombs, which he gives you and 
let's say 35 double S. 

715
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,720
Let's say 280 something hitter. 
Let's say 35 steals. 

716
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,440
You know what I mean? 
Let's say he was that kind of 

717
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,080
player, which, I mean, at this 
point, you'd probably have to 

718
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,360
say he's not going to be, 
unfortunately, you know? 

719
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:24,280
And then how would you feel 
about this team? 

720
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,760
A little bit better, right? 
But because the Yankees haven't 

721
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,120
done a good job of drafting and 
developing, you sit here and you

722
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:31,360
say, how the hell are we going 
to win? 

723
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,480
You're not. 
Yanks aren't going to win, Not 

724
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,360
going to win, and the same with 
the Mets and Mets have no 

725
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,080
chance. 
I mean, unless they unless we 

726
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,960
wake up in the next week and 
they pivot and they get 

727
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,600
Bichette, which is not going to 
happen. 

728
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,160
And they trade for school ball, 
which could happen, although I 

729
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,080
don't know if it, I don't know 
if it happens before the season,

730
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,240
you know, and many other things 
happen. 

731
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,920
Vientos remembers how to hit. 
Beatty's the real deal at 3rd. 

732
00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:00,200
Polanco gets it done at first. 
Simeon's not finished, you know,

733
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,720
you find the center fielder, 
Soto, Soto, all the young 

734
00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:06,600
pitchers of like, there's so 
many checkpoints that the Mets 

735
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,600
have to favorably hit for them 
to be relevant. 

736
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,720
I would, I would, in terms of 
being viable to actually win 

737
00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:16,040
something this year. 
Right now, the Mets are, I mean,

738
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,480
the Mets are, are nothing right 
now and the Yankees are better, 

739
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,480
but still not good enough to 
win, you know? 

740
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:27,000
Oh my God almighty. 
Let me see if there's anything I

741
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,800
missed here. 
Got a lot of notes today. 

742
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,280
Wait till I get in on the 
Knicks. 

743
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,960
Let's see. 
That's the Next up. 

744
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,600
I'm going to put that aside as I
look for this. 

745
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,520
This is where it's easy when I 
have the producer. 

746
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,920
Yeah, he just popped these up 
for me. 

747
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,880
Oh, man. 
You know, there was a couple of 

748
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,120
ways to hit this as well, where 
you could have just been like, 

749
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,720
I'm going for it. 
And then we'll figure out what 

750
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:55,400
happens when we get to the 
lockout, which is going to be a 

751
00:36:55,480 --> 00:37:01,080
long, protracted, frustrating, 
maybe death blow to the sport. 

752
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:05,200
Eventually, you know, it's going
to crush baseball. 2027 is going

753
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,960
to suck, but you could have gone
for it and say, all right, 

754
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,280
whatever. 
We'll figure out 2027 when we 

755
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:11,920
get there, like the Dodgers are 
doing. 

756
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,880
Or you just got to toe the line 
and, you know, be good but not 

757
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,320
good enough to win it, like the 
Yankees or be average to 

758
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,160
slightly below average like the 
Mets. 

759
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,160
Those are the choices right at 
city moons. 

760
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,280
I believe that's a new new 
watcher here. 

761
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,240
What's going on, buddy? 
Tucker is the 15 twentieth best 

762
00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:31,440
player in the game. 
I agree. 

763
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,320
I I agree. 
I remember Sam and I discussing 

764
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,760
2 years ago. 
Now keep in mind this before you

765
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:43,360
had the injuries this year, two 
years ago, and and I still stand

766
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:48,960
by this where I position Tucker 
as the better all around player 

767
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,160
than Soto. 
All right. 

768
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,120
And he is, he's faster, he's 
better fielder, all those 

769
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:54,320
things. 
But in terms of being a better 

770
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,720
hitter, he can't shine Sodo's 
shoes. 

771
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:02,200
I mean, it's not even close. 
So I mean, there are there are a

772
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,280
lot, there are a lot of players 
better than Tucker. 

773
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,800
Now, if you want to lean on like
WAR and many of you do and some 

774
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,280
of you don't, whatever. 
But there are numbers like over 

775
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,760
the last five years between 
Judge Ohtani, Soto, Mookie Betts

776
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,440
and I think Tucker's, I know 
he's on the list. 

777
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,880
I think there's there might be 
one other name there. 

778
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,720
I think those are the five 
they've got like the highest WAR

779
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:25,840
or the highest combined OPS over
those five years. 

780
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,600
So Tucker's distinguished 
himself in a pretty good way. 

781
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,720
Problem is he's missed a lot of 
games and it without 

782
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:36,000
availability, you know, you are 
you're not as valuable. 

783
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,720
Now, that's OK for the Dodgers 
because if he misses his 

784
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:41,640
customary 20 or 30 games, are 
they going to really miss him? 

785
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:43,880
Like, did they really miss their
pitchers last year when they 

786
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:45,200
were hurt during the regular 
season? 

787
00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:47,240
No, The timing was 
serendipitous. 

788
00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:49,600
Everybody got healthy, Dodgers 
win another championship. 

789
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,760
So like, if Tucker's out for a 
month, their offense is going to

790
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,880
be fine because they got a bunch
of studs everywhere. 

791
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,040
You know, let me get this guy 
up. 

792
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,640
How about Gerndog nine O 1 Yanks
complain they're broke, but 

793
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,320
they're doing new fashion 
collabs every week. 

794
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,760
Where does the money go? 
I don't really know what you 

795
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,240
mean by the fact. 
I mean, I know what a fashion 

796
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:10,120
collab is. 
I don't really know what that is

797
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,040
pertaining to the Yankees. 
I guess that's not the ultimate 

798
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:14,200
point. 
You know, you're not wrong. 

799
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,680
Yankees have a ton of money. 
Their evaluation is through the 

800
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:21,320
through the roof. 
The Yankees just see again that 

801
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,200
this is this is where I think we
get A twist a little bit. 

802
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,840
The Yankees spend a ton of 
money, but it's easy to say the 

803
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,640
Yankees either don't spend it 
wisely, which they haven't too 

804
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,920
many times. 
Stanton takes all the other 

805
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,000
stuff with DJ. 
But I think the real thing is 

806
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,240
they leave themselves open to 
criticism, some of which is a 

807
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:41,080
little bit unjustified and over 
the top. 

808
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,720
And you hijack the narrative and
everybody did that. 

809
00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:46,560
If you're a Yankee hater, it's 
easy to pounce on the Yankees. 

810
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,280
The Mets had a higher, higher 
payroll. 

811
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,440
Gangs haven't won since O 9. 
All those things, right? 

812
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,480
I'm more concerned about them 
allowing their brand to be 

813
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,400
diminished to the point where 
they're clearly are not the 

814
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,960
number one brand in baseball 
anymore when that was never the 

815
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,280
case. 
I mean, so that that's that 

816
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,480
really. 
And that because to get to that 

817
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,120
point, there's so many things at
the surface that have to go 

818
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,120
wrong, right the wrong 
contracts. 

819
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,360
AD player development, all those
things I've I've outlined a 

820
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,520
million freaking times every 
time I talk about the Yankees 

821
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:17,880
right. 
But I think that if they had the

822
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,360
same payroll that they had, you 
know, last year and you know, 

823
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,200
whether it's Dominguez, whether 
it's a Volpe, you know those 

824
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,960
those things that I also talked 
about quite a bit. 

825
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:28,600
If they were the players that 
they thought that they were, 

826
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:30,760
well, nobody would be 
complaining because the Yankees 

827
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,280
would have won 100 games like a 
Dominguez was a stud and Volpe 

828
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,360
was a stud. 
Yankees don't tie Toronto at 

829
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,720
four wins and lose out on the 
tiebreaker. 

830
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,000
Yankees win 100. 
They probably beat Toronto in 

831
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,080
the playoffs and they very well 
might win the World Series. 

832
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,200
Like so you know that that's the
real problem with the Yankees. 

833
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,800
The Mets are kind of caught in 
between and it's it's a 

834
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,680
different evaluation for me. 
Again, I give him credit for 

835
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,920
coming up and being creative and
looking for the shorter term, 

836
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,560
higher. 
AAVI think that that was smart. 

837
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,840
But now when you contrast what 
they were willing to do for 

838
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,800
Tucker versus what they were so 
unwilling to do for Pete for 

839
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,960
$100 million less roughly. 
Well, that's problematic that 

840
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,520
that to me just from a baseball.
And I'm again, I'm not even a 

841
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,800
huge Pete Alonso fan in terms of
his deficiencies. 

842
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,560
I like the guy a lot and he's a 
great power hitter, but Tucker's

843
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,720
a better all around player. 
Is he that much better? 

844
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,560
The answer is no. 
I mean the OPS and the WAR. 

845
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:28,240
Every, every measurable, every 
tangible stat dictates and 

846
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:30,000
reinforces what I just said is 
right. 

847
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,040
I can be critical. 
Pete's base running, Pete's 

848
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,640
leadership, whatever. 
Pete's defense, Pete can't 

849
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,320
throw. 
But none of the numbers, even 

850
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,880
batting average at this point 
because he had 273 year ago. 

851
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,560
Tucker and Pete bounced back, 
which was important for Pete. 

852
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,840
I think it's part of the reason 
why he got a good deal from from

853
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,840
the O's where if he would hit 
like 2/12, 2:15 again, 220, I 

854
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:50,920
don't know if he would have 
gotten that. 

855
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,280
But now that the average for 
Tucker's come down a little bit,

856
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,520
what this what distinguishes him
outside of being a little bit 

857
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:03,240
younger, a little bit of a much 
better athlete, nothing really 

858
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:05,440
in terms of the offensive 
prowess, you know. 

859
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:09,760
So let me see what we got here, 
see if I'm missing any super 

860
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,960
chats, still figuring those 
things out. 

861
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:15,680
I got a little notation 
yesterday. 

862
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,400
It said like, you've got to know
what are the videos? 

863
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:23,200
You got 14,000 high points. 
And that's like #97 on the list 

864
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,040
of YouTube. 
I'm like, I guess that's good. 

865
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,880
Although I don't, I don't want 
to be 97th in anything, but I 

866
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,480
think we're just starting up. 
I think if you could crack the 

867
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,720
I, I guess if it did, if, if I 
read it right, if you could 

868
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:37,920
crack the 100 hype list, you 
know, everybody's got a list 

869
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,800
these days, then I think that 
that would be a good thing. 

870
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:44,320
All right, so I hit all that 
stuff. 

871
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,360
It's not baseball's fault. 
I was just saying it's not the 

872
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:53,200
Dodgers fault. 
Creative New York's a mess now. 

873
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:54,640
Nobody wants to come here 
anymore. 

874
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,520
Misplaced anger. 
Get over it. 

875
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,720
You know, the 11. 
One thing too, before I get to 

876
00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:01,640
the Knicks, I got to, I'm going 
to have to regenerate a little 

877
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,680
bit here because I came out a 
lot of energy, which is fine. 

878
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,280
I'm usually energetic. 
But these Knicks, that's it. 

879
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,160
It's over. 
All right, Do them in a minute. 

880
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:17,000
You got to wonder. 
And you got to worry about the 

881
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:23,640
Mets possibly won't be fair 
wasting Juan Soto's prime. 

882
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,560
It's about Judges prime and Gary
Cole's prime. 

883
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,120
Well, the difference is that 
Judge is never going to opt out.

884
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,680
Soto can. 
And of course, the Mets can keep

885
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,360
him here by throwing four or 
five more 1,000,000 bucks on on 

886
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,440
the years. 
But year one not even said it's 

887
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,400
Soto's fault. 
Year 11, think about how you 

888
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:46,360
felt the night, the moments. 
I remember how I felt the moment

889
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:51,880
that you found out Juan Soto 
chose the Mets right over the 

890
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,720
Yankees and by extension 
everybody else. 

891
00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:56,800
But he left the Yankees, went to
the Mets. 

892
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:01,040
Think about how you felt. 
Well, you won six fewer games. 

893
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:05,720
You didn't make the playoffs. 
Juan Soto, season number 10, for

894
00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:08,960
one. 
Oh, for one, you can talk about 

895
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,440
Cohen spending. 
Oh, for one period. 

896
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,800
Year 2 coming up. 
There's a good chance the Mets 

897
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,880
suck this year. 
And if I'm putting money now, 

898
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,920
that's on a playoff team and I 
don't think that they're done, 

899
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,680
but I think that there is a 
massive percent, the 

900
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:34,360
overwhelming percentage. 
Juan Soto, year 2O for two, oh, 

901
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,440
for two in terms of the playoffs
right now, if you want Soto and 

902
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:42,200
then 2027 is going to be I, I 
don't know. 

903
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,800
So I won't even really waste 
time because I just don't even 

904
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,920
have a basis of how much 
baseball we will miss in 2027. 

905
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,600
But we will miss base. 
And I don't care what Manfred 

906
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,400
told Cardin, we're missing 
baseball. 

907
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,360
We're going to miss baseball, 
right? 

908
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:05,960
So 20250 for one, no playoffs 
2026 I believe over 22027. 

909
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,200
Even if the young players pop 
and you get school bullet when 

910
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,600
all these things that could 
happen, there's a good chance 

911
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:16,040
there's either no baseball or 
limited baseball. 

912
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,360
And then based on that and it's 
it wouldn't be Soto's fault. 

913
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:25,320
Over 3 and now you got to wonder
how happy is Juan Soto? 

914
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,080
Lindor's getting a little bit 
older at that point. 

915
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,840
Let's see where the young, like 
if the young pitchers are not 

916
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,680
all legit, or at least most of 
them. 

917
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,640
And again, I know McClain is. 
I'm talking about the other 

918
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,200
ones. 
Like, I mean, Mets could be 

919
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:41,600
hurting for a while. 
And in that point, I mean, we as

920
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,840
much as I know based on the way 
the contract structured, the 

921
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:49,080
Mets could obviously retain him 
if and when he opts out. 

922
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:54,400
But who knows if they want to, 
not because Juan Soto not doing 

923
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,880
his job as a hitter, but based 
on where they're where they are,

924
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,480
whether it's economically, which
I don't worry about with Cohen, 

925
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:02,440
but where they are is team 
building. 

926
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,760
And and you know, because once 
you start, once he opts out and 

927
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,360
you bring him back, now he's 
here forever. 

928
00:46:08,720 --> 00:46:12,280
And that those final 3-4 years 
are going to be horrendous. 

929
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,640
And at the first couple of 
years, that's already, oh, for 

930
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,560
one, don't yield any real 
results. 

931
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,080
You know, if I'm running the 
Mets, yeah, I would have given 

932
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,240
Juan Soto all that money for 
sure. 

933
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:27,880
I don't know if I would have 
given him the suite, but, and I 

934
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,800
guess you would have had to, but
I maybe I would have said now 

935
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:30,600
we're good. 
I don't know. 

936
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:35,760
I don't know, maybe who knows? 
But at that point, the 

937
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,200
evaluation downstream for the 
Mets, but Soto is going to be a 

938
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,480
little different, least the 
feelings and the energy quite 

939
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,480
possibly around the Mets 
compared to how it was the 

940
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,680
moment you found out Soto signed
with you guys. 

941
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,160
So there is a lot of play, all 
right. 

942
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,200
And the Dodgers are punking 
everybody. 

943
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,920
They are the villain. 
The Yankees have allowed them to

944
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,520
take that prestigious branding. 
They just took it. 

945
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,720
They came into the Yankees home.
Now it's they got the deed. 

946
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,520
They own it right. 
And the Mets never had that 

947
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,360
branding and they're trying to 
get that. 

948
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,960
And that has proven to be, I 
think, more elusive than many of

949
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,200
you thought when they when Cohen
first came. 

950
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:17,600
And Cohen didn't get here last 
year. 

951
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,200
You know what I mean? 
Like, Cohen's been here 

952
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:20,920
basically half a decade at this 
point. 

953
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,600
And it is, is it really going 
forward? 

954
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:28,160
I don't I don't know. 
I do believe that Stearns is 

955
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:32,480
going to build this out 
properly, but until he does, 

956
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,120
yeah, it's still an unknown. 
So it's just a very interesting 

957
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,120
time with baseball, especially 
for our teams here. 

958
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,160
My God, it's it's all over the 
map here. 

959
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:45,440
All right, let me get who's this
MM rotundo 6264 list of the 

960
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,600
Yanks of the greatest sports 
franchise in North America. 

961
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:48,920
They need to act like it. 
I know. 

962
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,680
All right now, Mike, that sounds
good. 

963
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,960
All right, And that used to be 
applicable, but I'm I'm looking 

964
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,000
at it now and I'm reading it 
literally in the tense that 

965
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,360
you're using the words right. 
Yankees are the greatest sports 

966
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,600
franchise. 
Incorrect. 

967
00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:07,360
No, they're not. 
The Dodgers are. 

968
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,920
So that's not correct. 
And the Yankees allowed them to.

969
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:17,560
And that's the problem, you 
know, at Matthew W Pia or Pila, 

970
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:22,160
if it's Spanish, I'm going to 
make those 2L's the Y Pia 4323. 

971
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,840
Matt, thanks for checking in. 
No problem with the Dodgers. 

972
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,360
I have problems with the way 
they circumvent the salary cap. 

973
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,920
Well, blame the loser 
commissioner on that. 

974
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:31,720
Ain't the Dodgers fault, you 
know what I mean? 

975
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,760
How was that the Dodgers fault? 
Now, you might not like it, but 

976
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,120
let me ask you this. 
Be honest. 

977
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,240
If I don't even know if you're a
Mets or a Yankee fan or even a 

978
00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:44,680
fan of one of the New York 
teams, if you if the Mets were 

979
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:48,320
doing that and you're a Mets 
fan, would you really have an 

980
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:49,840
issue with it? 
Come on. 

981
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:51,880
I mean, let's be forthright 
here. 

982
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,280
Let's not lie. 
Let's not overtly lie to each 

983
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,320
other here. 
You know, it's one thing. 

984
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,560
Yeah, You worked up. 
Maybe you say the wrong thing. 

985
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,000
Let's come on, guys, look in the
mirror. 

986
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,480
Let's not lie. 
Of course. 

987
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,160
I wish the Yankees were doing 
this, man. 

988
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,600
Yeah, Hell yeah. 
I wish they were doing this. 

989
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,400
It's fun. 
But they didn't do it. 

990
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,480
I just get. 
I push back and I get angered by

991
00:49:13,720 --> 00:49:16,520
the misrepresentation of the 
dynasty because that's not what 

992
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,400
and it's so lazy and it's so 
easy to lump in that era with 

993
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,720
what the Dodgers are doing. 
But that's not what the Yankees 

994
00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:24,920
did. 
The Yankees drafted exceedingly 

995
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,160
well. 
They developed incredibly. 

996
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:31,720
They hit on everybody. 
And because the base of the base

997
00:49:31,720 --> 00:49:34,800
of the team was so good, you had
a lot of players that want to 

998
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,720
come and join them. 
And then I'll be listen, it 

999
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:38,680
didn't work out with Sheffield 
in terms of the championship, 

1000
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,560
but I'm talking about even guys 
like that. 

1001
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,040
Hey, I want to I won't go there,
man. 

1002
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,560
I won't go play for the Yanks 
for a little bit, you know, you 

1003
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,320
know, not to mention Clemens 
loving it here and and all the 

1004
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:48,280
other people that you brought 
in. 

1005
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:53,120
So I I don't think that they're 
like when you circumvent 

1006
00:49:53,120 --> 00:50:00,840
something to me like that 
implies a strong element of an 

1007
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,720
illegality, something that's 
just illegal. 

1008
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,520
Like, right. 
Hey, man, I'm going to 

1009
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,320
circumvent the speed trap here 
by I don't know, wiring 

1010
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,920
something I don't know on my 
car. 

1011
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:15,040
I don't even have one on my car 
radar that disables that. 

1012
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:18,120
Now I'm going to circumvent 
getting a ticket or I know 

1013
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,760
something you do this like with 
the license plate, you know, 

1014
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,840
have you seen a lot of those 
stories where you going through 

1015
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:23,680
tunnels? 
Whatever. 

1016
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,000
I'm going to circumvent paying 
for the Holland Tunnel, which I 

1017
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:30,800
did for 13 years like an idiot 
by manipulating my license 

1018
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:32,280
plate. 
Hey, if you don't know what the 

1019
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,880
license plate is, you can't pay 
me out for a ticket, sucker. 

1020
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,800
I win, you lose. 
Well, that is circumvention. 

1021
00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:42,960
Just merely going out, offering 
somebody a contract and working 

1022
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,160
within the parameters of the 
game. 

1023
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:50,800
You might not like it. 
Your owner, Cohen or Hal, might 

1024
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,760
not be either smart enough or 
willing enough or parts of both 

1025
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,280
to do it like the Dodgers are 
doing it. 

1026
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:04,720
What are they circumventing 
that's wrong and that's a weak 

1027
00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:06,440
mindset. 
I don't mean that in a 

1028
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,320
disrespectful way, but like 
that's a loser mindset. 

1029
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:11,320
Got the dodge. 
Look at the Dodgers are doing 

1030
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,240
Dodgers are circumventing. 
How dare come on, man, We got to

1031
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,680
now baseball needs a lot of 
changes. 

1032
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:21,320
I do subscribe to that. 
It's just it's economically 

1033
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:25,120
imbalanced now. 
The one thing if that last text 

1034
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:26,880
would have gone a little deeper.
I was reading something last 

1035
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,600
night where the Dodgers based on
something with the McCourt and 

1036
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,960
the lawsuit the Dodgers have the
they're one of 30. 

1037
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:38,480
The Dodgers have the only TV 
revenue stream where they really

1038
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,360
don't have to share with the 
rest of baseball. 

1039
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:42,680
And if you want again, I'm not 
even sure that that's a 

1040
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:45,240
circumvention. 
It's like, all right, well, I 

1041
00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:48,320
mean it, it was in a court of 
law and this is what went down. 

1042
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,760
So that's the ruling and abide 
by the ruling. 

1043
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:55,160
What do you want me to do? 
So even that's, I think a little

1044
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:57,360
bit of a stretch on the, on the 
use of the word circumvent or 

1045
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,840
circumvention or circumventing 
something. 

1046
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:04,000
You got a little lucky little 2 
of this serendipitous for them 

1047
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,480
doing this. 
I don't think it's circumventing

1048
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:10,600
anything, you know, because let 
me ask you a question. 

1049
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:15,120
I mean now I'm not talking about
the next CBA and let's see if 

1050
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,160
Manfred can even handle this 
right, which I don't think he 

1051
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,160
can or with that word, I don't 
think he can. 

1052
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:22,400
I hope he will, but I don't 
think he will all right, based 

1053
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,800
on some other things he hasn't 
handled well, the Astros 

1054
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:26,360
cheating scandal, a bunch of 
things right? 

1055
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:36,280
But if if Manfred today said 
Nope, you know what not 

1056
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,200
acceptable. 
We we can't have this that guys,

1057
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,640
you, you push the limits here. 
What do you want to use the word

1058
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,040
circumvent or not? 
We pushed the limits. 

1059
00:52:43,240 --> 00:52:46,120
Can't do this anymore. 
Not good for baseball. 

1060
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:49,160
Tucker, you are now back in the 
free agent pool. 

1061
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,200
I rule that contract. 
You know, it's it's ineligible 

1062
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:53,600
or whatever word you want to 
use, right? 

1063
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:56,000
It's non binding. 
We can't have it. 

1064
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,800
You're you're not a Dodger. 
You got to go somewhere else or 

1065
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,360
the Dodgers have to agree to a 
more conventional contract, 

1066
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,560
meaning instead of $30 million 
deferred money, no deferred 

1067
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:06,960
money. 
Now we all know that you can't 

1068
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,720
do that because other teams of 
the Mets deferred money with 

1069
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:11,680
Bobby Venea. 
And the only reason you don't 

1070
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,000
like it is because Bobby Venea 
is still getting paid and 

1071
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,280
because Bobby Venea wasn't that 
good for you guys. 

1072
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:20,280
If Bobby Venea, you know, played
like Keith Hernandez, nobody 

1073
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,120
would complain. 
It would be a celebratory 

1074
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:28,000
instead of like the LOL Mets. 
What's today, Bobby Benia day is

1075
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:31,640
1,000,000 bucks Bobby for doing 
nothing like it's thought to be 

1076
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,960
a point of inflection, further 
inflection when the Mets were 

1077
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,440
largely a joke and and they're 
busting out of that. 

1078
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,440
They're trying to. 
I respect that. 

1079
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:41,200
I don't just take shots at the 
Mets. 

1080
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,040
Like I don't do that. 
Like I I look at this all 

1081
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:48,080
objectively, but objectively 
stated the Mets have largely 

1082
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,160
been a joke for most of my life.
And when the Bonilla thing went 

1083
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:55,400
down and obviously now when 
you're Bobby Benia dance, see 

1084
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,960
the tweet happy Bobby Benia day.
Well, imagine saying, imagine 

1085
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,840
seeing the tweet and it said 
happy Keith Hernandez day. 

1086
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,760
Think about the tone happy Bobby
Benia day. 

1087
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,320
This guy, Jeez, want to fight 
people and reply. 

1088
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,240
It's just a mess, right. 
And if they didn't win and they 

1089
00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:13,320
just but they bought the wrong 
players every if you're old 

1090
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,040
enough to have watched that 
team, everything associated with

1091
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:20,240
that team right was wrong. 
Like it just wasn't it wasn't 

1092
00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:22,240
right. 
It was improperly built. 

1093
00:54:22,240 --> 00:54:25,440
It was hastily built and the 
results bear that out right. 

1094
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:31,000
But when you got Keith Hernandez
an 83 and then I don't know, I'd

1095
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,800
have to really. 
I know he was under contract 

1096
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,280
when you got him, obviously, but
I don't know what the extension 

1097
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:37,080
was a three years. 
I could be off on that. 

1098
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:41,760
But imagine if the Mets had an 
extension and Mets ownership 

1099
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,360
back then had the thought, hey, 
you know what? 

1100
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:46,600
We, we want to go out there. 
We want to get Mike Schmidt, 

1101
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:48,400
right? 
Even though we've got Ray Knight

1102
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,320
and and, and Hojo, we have a 
chance to get Mike Schmidt. 

1103
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,240
And but, but to do this, you 
know, we got to defer some money

1104
00:54:54,240 --> 00:54:57,480
for Keith, Happy Keith Hernandez
Day because you won the World 

1105
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,120
Series. 
It would be a celebratory tweet.

1106
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:02,920
All right, Get that $1,000,000 
check. 

1107
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,120
Keith Attaboy, see the 
difference? 

1108
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:10,080
So the results are only based on
the results for your team. 

1109
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,880
And the negative energy for the 
Yankee fan is a disgust and a 

1110
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:18,240
distaste for losing that top 
perch in all of sport in terms 

1111
00:55:18,240 --> 00:55:20,640
of branding, right? 
And that bothers you? 

1112
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,520
And it should, all right. 
Don't be mad at the Dodgers. 

1113
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,160
It's misplaced. 
That's what I said to start the 

1114
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:28,840
show. 
You're not channeling it 

1115
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,720
properly, Mets. 
Mets are pissed off, you know. 

1116
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:33,760
Come on. 
We offered him $55 million. 

1117
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,720
What the hell? 
How come he didn't come to us? 

1118
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:37,480
Don't be mad at him. 
Don't be mad at him. 

1119
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,200
Don't be mad at the Dodgers. 
Be mad at I. 

1120
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,240
Honestly, in that situation, you
can't even be mad at Cohen. 

1121
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:49,440
We went out. 
Let's see here. 

1122
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,680
What do we got here, guys? 
All right, let's see. 

1123
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,000
How do I get this guy on the 
screen? 

1124
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:00,080
I don't know how to do this. 
It's a super chat from a while 

1125
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:01,800
ago. 
If I scroll up, I may have just 

1126
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:02,960
seen it. 
Let's see if I can figure this 

1127
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:04,280
out. 
Where's my producer? 

1128
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:07,920
When you need them, there he is.
Brad Kaufman, 3582. 

1129
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:09,920
What's going on, Brad? 
I appreciate it, buddy. 

1130
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:13,320
As a die hard Mets fan, I'm sick
of teams using us to raise the 

1131
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,600
price on players. 
Pivot to Valdez on play on 

1132
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:18,400
players. 
Yeah, there's no period there. 

1133
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:19,720
All right. 
On players, period. 

1134
00:56:19,720 --> 00:56:23,720
Pivot to Valdez or Belly now or 
nothing and let the young guys 

1135
00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:25,320
cook. 
That's very fair. 

1136
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,080
The Yankees have been used as 
leverage for years. 

1137
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,960
There was a point when the 
Knicks were awful where the 

1138
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:33,600
Knicks were used for leverage, 
right? 

1139
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,480
All this guy's going to come 
here and this guy's going to 

1140
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,840
come save them leverage. 
They were never coming. 

1141
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:43,440
So, Brad, I I got you on that. 
What I wouldn't do, All right, I

1142
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:47,600
would have gotten Suarez myself.
Now, if it's nothing or Valdez, 

1143
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:49,040
yeah, I'm going to get Valdez 
again. 

1144
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:49,960
Thank you. 
Thank for that, Brad. 

1145
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:53,640
I'm going to get Valdez, right? 
I don't love Valdez myself. 

1146
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:55,600
His second-half numbers are a 
little worrisome. 

1147
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,480
I also think he's an ass. 
I mean, when you went like, when

1148
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,520
you cross up your catcher like 
you, you can't tell me that 

1149
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:03,160
that's a bad day at the office, 
right? 

1150
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:06,440
As a baseball player, right? 
There are bad days, like even 

1151
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,440
like the McNeil and Lindor 
thing, whatever the hell went 

1152
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:10,720
down in the tunnel when they 
when he grabbed his throat, 

1153
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,360
right? 
Like that. 

1154
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,640
You don't want to see that 
happen necessarily. 

1155
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,520
But you know, big boys, you're 
with each other every day. 

1156
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:21,440
You travel, you play 162 games, 
you're frustrated. 

1157
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,720
That's fine, all right? 
The 7778 Yanks used to hate each

1158
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:26,760
other. 
Reggie Thurman, you know, fights

1159
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,200
in the shower. 
We know the stories, right? 

1160
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:34,120
But when you're a pitcher and 
you willingly cross up your 

1161
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,960
catcher, you just you're not the
kind of guy that I want on my 

1162
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,400
baseball team there. 
There's a difference. 

1163
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:44,160
Like there's a difference saying
something, say, if you have a 

1164
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:47,800
rough start and you say 
something to the media and 

1165
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,240
unintentionally like your heads 
in the wrong space and you're 

1166
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:52,320
pissed at yourself, you got from
a pitcher's performance 

1167
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,720
perspective, you had a rough 
performance, right? 

1168
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:58,560
And as you're talking to the 
media, maybe somebody muffs a 

1169
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,520
double play ball, maybe somebody
doesn't get to a bowl in the 

1170
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:03,000
outfield that you think that 
they should have been. 

1171
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:04,280
Maybe you show them up a little 
bit. 

1172
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,400
And we've seen this happen. 
I don't like that either, but at

1173
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:08,520
least it's a little more 
acceptable in the moment little 

1174
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,280
bit and you kind of get one of 
these or like you like one of 

1175
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:12,480
like, how do you not make that 
play? 

1176
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,920
And that should be addressed in 
a Lockerbie can't show your 

1177
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,000
teammates up. 
But if you do say the wrong 

1178
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:20,920
thing and the guy that you kind 
of bring into the conversation 

1179
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:23,960
comes up to you, you know, 
whether it's in the shower or at

1180
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:27,360
the stall or on the bus or next 
day at batting practice, Dude, 

1181
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:28,680
what are you, you know, what are
you doing, man? 

1182
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:30,880
Like if there's a little 
friction, that's fine. 

1183
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:32,440
Diffuse it, own it. 
My bad. 

1184
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:33,880
I didn't mean it like that came 
out wrong. 

1185
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,760
We're good. 
DAP it up, beat teammates. 

1186
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,640
That is so different than 
pitcher putting, catcher putting

1187
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:43,880
down to thinking he's got 
something soft coming with maybe

1188
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,920
a 12 third, definitely at least 
12, but maybe a 13 to 15 mile 

1189
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:51,320
per hour disparity and all of a 
sudden the heater comes at you. 

1190
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,240
Do you know how unnerving that 
is? 

1191
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,760
Like that's happened to me. 
I didn't really catch much as an

1192
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,880
as an actual player, but that's 
happened to me coaching kids. 

1193
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:06,120
So now thank God they're young 
and they're not throwing 95. 

1194
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:08,880
And now I got to start taking 
these things out when I warm 

1195
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:10,160
these kids up. 
It's getting to that point. 

1196
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,000
I think I might have to do that 
a little bit this year, right? 

1197
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:15,640
But I'm woman, I'm warming kids 
up in there, you know, certainly

1198
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:19,320
when they're at 46 feet. 
Now my son just moved to 50. 

1199
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:21,880
So, you know, him and his 
teammates like the kids start to

1200
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:22,880
throw the ball a little bit 
here. 

1201
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,400
And you know, if I see a kid go 
like this and I think a change 

1202
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:28,440
ups coming or if I say, hey, 
Jake, give me, you know, give me

1203
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,760
something soft as I'm warming 
them up in between innings are 

1204
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:32,880
in the bullpen and he unleashes 
a heater. 

1205
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:35,440
All right, again, it's not going
to be a 50 Vol per hour 

1206
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:40,000
disparity and it's going to be 
58 or 62 versus 95 or 96. 

1207
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,720
That is a that's an awful look. 
And that that's not a guy that I

1208
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:45,800
want to go to back. 
I can't trust you if you're if 

1209
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,360
you do that, that's a character 
flaw. 

1210
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,200
That's not a bad moment. 
That's you being an ass. 

1211
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:52,520
Actually, that's you being a 
Dick. 

1212
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,200
There's a difference. 
There's a big difference between

1213
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,000
the two and that's you being the
latter. 

1214
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,680
I can't respect that. 
So number one, I think Suarez is

1215
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,920
better. 
He's a dog. 

1216
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,200
And I would have thought that 
would have been better for the 

1217
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:08,160
New York Mets. 
Now, a little desperation. 

1218
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,480
We didn't get anybody yet. 
Maybe the Tigers aren't going to

1219
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,560
trade school, but maybe we can't
get Peralta. 

1220
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:14,720
You know, let's give a bag to to
that guy. 

1221
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,480
But Valdez, I, I, I, I don't 
really like that. 

1222
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:20,120
I don't, I don't like that. 
You know, that's number one. 

1223
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:21,960
Number two, you know, we also 
brought up Bellinger. 

1224
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:23,920
The other thing I wouldn't do is
I wouldn't overpay for 

1225
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:25,360
Bellinger. 
I wouldn't do it for the 

1226
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:26,720
Yankees. 
I wouldn't do it for the Mets. 

1227
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:29,880
Why would you? 
I mean, he's gonna have an 818 

1228
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:34,320
OPS 820, you know, especially 
from a Mets point of view, where

1229
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:38,200
the dimensions of the field 
simply just don't present 

1230
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:41,000
themselves in an advantageous 
way like they do with the Bronx,

1231
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,440
where, you know, he's going to 
curl the few around the pole. 

1232
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,600
And instead of hitting, you 
know, 21 home runs, he's going 

1233
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:51,280
to flirt with 30 low 30s. 
You know, and and obviously, 

1234
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:52,360
listen, he's a very good 
fielder. 

1235
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:54,520
So he could play first for the 
Mets and Polanco doesn't work 

1236
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:55,600
out. 
He could play Center for a 

1237
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,000
little bit while you get bench 
ready, whatever it might be. 

1238
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:02,840
But I, I just, I can't do that. 
I just don't think that that's 

1239
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:04,920
really way to I don't think that
that's the way to go. 

1240
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:07,280
I don't I don't like that. 
And I don't think that the Mets 

1241
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:09,760
will do that. 
I mean, now you want to tell me 

1242
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,840
that maybe the Mets should pivot
aggressively to Bichette. 

1243
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:16,320
That's that's a little different
to find a place to plug him in. 

1244
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:18,160
Maybe maybe you can put him at 
third. 

1245
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:19,920
Maybe you could put Beatty at 
first. 

1246
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:23,280
Listen, I think Beatty's a good 
going to be a, a competent. 

1247
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:25,320
He's already a competent third 
base, but I think Beatty's got a

1248
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:28,440
chance to be a slightly above 
average, if not even a little 

1249
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:31,600
more than that defensively 
defensive third baseman. 

1250
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:35,320
And I think he's going to hit. 
So I like Brett Beatty and if 

1251
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:37,200
you can handle third, you can 
handle first. 

1252
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,560
Like you, you can't run Vientos 
out there playing first base. 

1253
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:42,280
So you just can't, he's DH, 
can't play the outfield, can't 

1254
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,160
run, not a first baseman, 
doesn't have the hands, doesn't 

1255
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:47,560
have the the defensive skill set
that Beatty has. 

1256
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,880
So if you want to tell me, you 
know, rather than like the last 

1257
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:52,880
text there was, you know, go out
there and get bailed. 

1258
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:57,360
Your overpaid for him. 
No, I would consider strongly 

1259
01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:00,920
overpaying for Bichette and it 
cuz then what you could do is 

1260
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:04,480
when Simeon's, Simeon's got two 
years to go and he's getting 

1261
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:07,160
older, when Simeon's up, you 
could obviously put Bichette at 

1262
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:10,920
second base and you can always 
finagle around the inhorn around

1263
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:14,640
the horn, right and the infield.
So the other thing that it does 

1264
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,360
is it also weakens the feelings.
I mean, I know Maddie and Lisa's

1265
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:21,320
boy God, Bichette in that 
ballpark is going to do damage, 

1266
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:23,080
man. 
Hitting the right field, hit the

1267
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:25,360
right center, obviously pulling 
when it's inside to get 

1268
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:27,160
something to handle like his 
spray jar. 

1269
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:31,040
His profile is that it's perfect
for Yankee Stadium too, because 

1270
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:34,080
it's 314 down the line. 
That's why I want Bichette more 

1271
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:35,800
than Bellinger. 
I'm just reading the tea leaves.

1272
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,240
It doesn't seem like the Yankees
really have any interest in 

1273
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,760
Belcher. 
It seems like the interest that 

1274
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:43,520
was floated out there. 
Oh, the Yankees, they're they're

1275
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:48,160
engaged with Bichette. 
I always took that as their 

1276
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:52,800
signal to Bellinger and keep 
messing around and we'll go get 

1277
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:55,840
this guy. 
So the Mets would get better and

1278
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:57,680
they would weaken the Phillies. 
So rather than going to 

1279
01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:00,440
Bellinger, I would actually 
pivot to Bichette. 

1280
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:02,720
But I don't even know if they're
inclined to do that myself. 

1281
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,760
I really don't know. 
Let's see here. 

1282
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:09,000
What do we got? 
Let's see. 

1283
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:12,360
Let's see. 
Lot of lot of stuff on Tucker. 

1284
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:15,120
Boy, it's an hour and 6 minutes 
already. 

1285
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:16,800
My goodness, we're flying here, 
man. 

1286
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:20,960
We are absolutely flying. 
All right, How about this one, 

1287
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:25,880
Mickey for Motto 150, BTDA point
to the Yankee fans feel 

1288
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:31,120
skeptical, skeptical, skeptical,
skeptical because Volpe and even

1289
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:33,440
Dominguez haven't stepped up as 
we all thought. 

1290
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:37,000
Yep, that's a big part of it. 
And I obviously went into that. 

1291
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:38,040
I don't need to just belabor 
that. 

1292
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:39,120
But I think it's a good point, 
Nikki. 

1293
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,600
I think that I think it does two
things #1 and weakens your team,

1294
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,280
clearly, and it would have been 
so advantageous. 

1295
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,920
Like Volpe may I know, I know we
just, you know, went through 

1296
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,200
arbitration, got a couple of 
$1,000,000 and and that's the 

1297
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:50,960
process. 
And it's still peanuts for 

1298
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:54,120
starting shortstop when he comes
back and regains the starting 

1299
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:55,560
spot, which he will when he's 
healthy. 

1300
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:58,040
If he keeps it past this year, I
don't know, but he'll be the 

1301
01:03:58,040 --> 01:03:59,640
starter at some point. 
Not Caballero. 

1302
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:02,800
And I don't think they'll get 
the shed, but if he was making 

1303
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:06,560
3,000,000 like he will this year
and Dominguez is making 900,001 

1304
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:10,440
one, whatever he's making, it's 
so much more justifiable. 

1305
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:13,640
I haven't got a bad contract 
like Stanton or hey, we, you 

1306
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:19,320
know, we we can go out there and
sign Bichette and really go for 

1307
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:21,160
it. 
But when you have those young it

1308
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:23,360
young guys are appealing because
they're cheap and there's 

1309
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,440
upside. 
But when the upside doesn't 

1310
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:28,640
represent what you thought it 
might be, it makes the money, 

1311
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,240
the cheap money, the cheap 
contract less appealing because 

1312
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:33,160
at the end of the day, it's all 
about performance. 

1313
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:35,960
Like when you get performance on
a play on a team friendly 

1314
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:38,920
contract, it's a home run. 
When you got a team friendly 

1315
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:42,080
contract and the performance 
isn't that good, you just have 

1316
01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:46,080
an average player or in certain 
spots, a subpar player, who is 

1317
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,680
it going to really impact 
winning to the degree you wanted

1318
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:52,520
to and your fans needed to? 
I I think what it does do. 

1319
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:55,320
So that's the monetary aspect. 
The other thing too, I think it 

1320
01:04:55,320 --> 01:05:00,040
just strips away further. 
And I, I agree with this at the 

1321
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,840
belief that the Yankees are 
running themselves the right 

1322
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:05,720
way. 
I mean, I can't get into this 

1323
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:09,280
now, but I I think that the 
Yankees have a fundamental flaw 

1324
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:12,760
in the way in what they espouse 
and what they teach of their 

1325
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:14,560
young hitters when they get them
in the system, starting at 

1326
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,800
rookie ball or if you're, if 
you're a college kid, high A low

1327
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:20,840
a if you skip rookie ball, like 
some of the, you know, higher 

1328
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:23,600
draft picks will. 
And I talked to Alex about this 

1329
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:26,360
and a rod had him on my last 
show on the fan. 

1330
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:29,480
He talked about that. 
He talked about that very, very 

1331
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:33,400
extensively pertaining to Volpe 
and what he does and, you know, 

1332
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:35,800
swinging up, trying to generate 
power. 

1333
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:39,080
And, you know, one of the things
and and and Alex was nobody 

1334
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:41,600
talks baseball like Alex. 
He's the best with he's the best

1335
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:44,120
with that, and he was great with
that. 

1336
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:46,560
But I also heard a couple of 
years ago, which kind of 

1337
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:48,960
reinforced what I always thought
just based on what my eyes were 

1338
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:50,560
telling me. 
Now, I don't know if they've 

1339
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:53,360
gotten away from this a little 
bit, but at the lower levels of 

1340
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:55,920
the minor leagues, the Yankee 
young hitters were basically 

1341
01:05:55,920 --> 01:06:00,280
taught to get something early in
the count that you can elevate. 

1342
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:04,080
OK, well, that sounds number 
one. 

1343
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:07,360
I don't like that, but OK, it 
sounds like it could work if you

1344
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:11,200
actually do get something early 
in the count to elevate, because

1345
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,480
then you can go to town. 
Now you can get that little arc 

1346
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:16,320
on the swing boom and hit a lot 
of bombs like the Yankees always

1347
01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:17,960
do. 
But as we know, hitting home 

1348
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:19,840
runs not enough to just, you 
know, to win a World Series, you

1349
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:24,600
got to do more and think about 
how flawed and how I I'm going 

1350
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:26,320
to use the word stupid. 
That is right. 

1351
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:31,280
Imagine being in the battles box
and the first pitch. 

1352
01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:34,880
I, I mean, I, I don't, I know 
the games change, but as a lefty

1353
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:38,840
hitter, and I was, ironically, I
was actually a highball hitter 

1354
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:42,480
and a lot of my certainly double
s and, and even opposite field 

1355
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:45,160
powers, a lefty, a lot of it was
left center. 

1356
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:46,800
And then I started lifting 
weights like an idiot. 

1357
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:49,120
I got too, too big and I lost my
swing, whatever. 

1358
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:52,600
But when I was young, certainly 
in high school and early in 

1359
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:55,880
college, that ball up and out 
over the plate, I loved it. 

1360
01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:58,960
I could extend my arms and I 
could bang it to the left center

1361
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:00,640
gap. 
And then if you threw me 

1362
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:05,400
something and most lefties are 
like this low and inside now, I 

1363
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:07,760
could just drop the barrel and 
you could bang it to right 

1364
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:11,040
field. 
So it's completely counter to 

1365
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:14,320
what multiple generations were 
taught and what they did. 

1366
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:17,760
And a lot of those players hit, 
not me, but a lot of those 

1367
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:19,840
players hit high, high averages,
right? 

1368
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:21,600
So they're telling where they 
were. 

1369
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:23,960
They were, and I think that they
still are, I think, but they 

1370
01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,160
were teaching. 
Look for something that you can 

1371
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:28,160
help, that's elevated, that you 
can then elevate. 

1372
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:30,920
Well, what happens if you get a 
fastball right down the middle 

1373
01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:34,680
of the plate that's maybe a tick
toward the lower third of the of

1374
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:38,600
the of the hitting zone, but 
it's not here. 

1375
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:43,960
You can't elevate it and you 
don't swing like one, OK? 

1376
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:47,040
I mean, you just let a pitch go 
by you that you can put in the 

1377
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:51,680
seats or rifle down the line. 
And then from there, who's got 

1378
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:52,880
the advantage? 
Because think about this. 

1379
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:54,680
When does the hitter have the 
advantage? 

1380
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,480
Well, I really think you know, I
always felt like, you know, I'm 

1381
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:01,040
I'm in the backs battles box. 
Oh, oh, I always felt like I had

1382
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:03,920
an advantage there unless the 
guy was just overpowering and 

1383
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,160
just simply better. 
And I definitely encounter that.

1384
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:08,200
Then it's like no matter what 
the count is going to be tough 

1385
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:10,280
at that. 
But I always like 00 and then 

1386
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:13,880
obviously more conventionally 
10203031. 

1387
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:17,160
Now it's depending upon what 
anything it is guys on base. 

1388
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:19,359
What's the situation? 
Lefty, lefty, righty, lefty 

1389
01:08:19,359 --> 01:08:21,960
righty, righty. 
Like then you've got to refine 

1390
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:23,399
your approach a little bit. 
I'm not going to get in the 

1391
01:08:23,399 --> 01:08:25,760
weeds on that. 
You just have to, but those are 

1392
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:29,680
the pitches you're looking to 
crush. 102-0303 One, if you have

1393
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:32,359
a green light on three O like a 
judge or so or stamping somebody

1394
01:08:32,359 --> 01:08:34,439
like that or Pete when he's hot 
or Soto. 

1395
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:38,600
And when you let that first 
pitch, that is not what you're 

1396
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:41,200
looking for up here, but it's a 
strike. 

1397
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:44,840
And Oh, yeah, by the way, it's 
easier to hit than the high 

1398
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:47,840
fastball that's now almost 98 or
99. 

1399
01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:51,120
Well, now it's all one. 
And now what does that do? 

1400
01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:54,560
It sways the power. 
The pendulum goes right to the 

1401
01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:56,000
pitcher. 
He goes now. 

1402
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:59,319
All right, I got him all one. 
Now I can go soft and away. 

1403
01:08:59,359 --> 01:09:02,080
I could go up and in, then I 
could go soft and away. 

1404
01:09:02,560 --> 01:09:05,399
It just changed the entire 
complexity at bat, which is why 

1405
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:06,840
if you. 
I know I'm going to a little 

1406
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:08,439
hitting tangent here, and I'm 
not a hitting coach. 

1407
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:13,720
I'm not professing to be 1. 
But think about how many quick, 

1408
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:16,760
empty at bats the Yankee hitters
have. 

1409
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:19,439
And I mean, they're young 
hitters and specific. 

1410
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:20,960
Not you haven't. 
I haven't seen enough of 

1411
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:22,080
Dominguez. 
And he's actually got good 

1412
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:24,359
patience. 
He seems to be counter to Volpe 

1413
01:09:24,399 --> 01:09:27,040
and Wells. 
But think about Volpe and think 

1414
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:31,359
about Wells and just think about
all the at bats that you watch. 

1415
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,200
Spring training, regular season,
playoffs. 

1416
01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:39,040
How many times have you seen 
both of those players swinging 

1417
01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:42,800
something up here on the first 
pitch and foul it right back and

1418
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:44,920
it looks like a good swing. 
Oh, he was on that. 

1419
01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:47,319
Yeah. 
But now it's O1 and now the 

1420
01:09:47,319 --> 01:09:50,680
advantage is the guy who's 60 
feet, 6 inches away, who's got 

1421
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:58,400
three other pitches right. 
And there's a reason why Anthony

1422
01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:03,080
Volpe and Austin Wells have very
quick at bats. 

1423
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:06,360
Now, if you lay off that, and I 
know it's tempting and I know 

1424
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,080
what they're teaching, trust me,
as things coming at your eyes, 

1425
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:10,760
your eyes get like you, like I 
got that. 

1426
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:13,040
But it's that extra inch where 
you can't barrel it. 

1427
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:15,880
Instead you foul, you foul it 
back and now it's all one. 

1428
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:18,880
And now you're like, oh God, I 
missed some, I missed the pitch 

1429
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:21,160
I should have hit. 
And certainly in Volpe's case 

1430
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:24,880
less with Wells. 
But slider outside, let me swing

1431
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:28,320
and look and miss it by a mile. 
And now it's O2 and now you're 

1432
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:30,560
dead. 
And that's how you hit 210 and 

1433
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,440
that's how you're on base 28% of
the time. 

1434
01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,560
I just broke it down for you. 
Like that's that's it, right? 

1435
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:39,400
So right. 
Let me get to these Knicks here.

1436
01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:53,960
The I think the easy thing would
be to say that the Knicks aren't

1437
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,640
going to win the championship. 
I think we all know that if 

1438
01:10:56,640 --> 01:11:00,440
you're a smart basketball fan 
and you can kind of leave just 

1439
01:11:00,440 --> 01:11:03,840
emotion at the door, not be a 
little sycophant little fanboy, 

1440
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:06,120
Knicks aren't winning the damn 
thing this year. 

1441
01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:14,160
That's that's that's a fact. 
The other problem and why one of

1442
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:17,200
the not the only reason because 
they can't guard anybody. 

1443
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:21,280
Why? 
And it was reinforced again last

1444
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:25,240
night. 
Last night was one of the most 

1445
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:30,440
embarrassing sequences that I've
seen from a recent Knicks team. 

1446
01:11:30,440 --> 01:11:32,520
I'm not going back, you know, 
forget about the horn of sex and

1447
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:37,160
Fizz Dales and those those crews
since the Knicks became good and

1448
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:40,200
viable. 
One of the things that I loved 

1449
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:42,600
about the Knick team and this 
was with Randall and it started 

1450
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:46,280
with obviously Bronson and Hart,
but Randall and D Vincenzo. 

1451
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:48,360
Now, they wouldn't have won a 
championship with those guys 

1452
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:50,160
either. 
So I understand that they had to

1453
01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:55,320
make a trade. 
But that team had heart. 

1454
01:11:56,160 --> 01:12:03,160
That team played with purpose 
and that team respected the 

1455
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:08,240
competitive nature and what was 
required to win their compete 

1456
01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:10,840
level was through the roof, 
right? 

1457
01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:15,440
What do you have now? 
Go back to the Kings game the 

1458
01:12:15,440 --> 01:12:17,960
other night. 
This is one of the most pathetic

1459
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:19,280
sequences that I've there were 
two. 

1460
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:22,160
It's back-to-back, right? 
The Kings game and last night. 

1461
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:25,760
I get to last night in a minute.
The other night, Karl Anthony 

1462
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:31,240
Town flops on his ass and is on 
the other end of the court while

1463
01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:34,160
the game is going on. 
And I actually counted it, you 

1464
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:36,320
know how long it was before he 
got back in the play? 

1465
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:39,240
Not 3 seconds. 
And I know he's big, so I'd give

1466
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:41,520
him a little a little free to 
pick himself up. 

1467
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:44,040
It's like you're, you know, 
Alvin Iverson jumping off the, 

1468
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,800
you know, former quarterback and
a quick twitch athlete. 

1469
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:50,680
I mean, cats slow as shit. 
So it's going to I get that big,

1470
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:56,120
man. 
Not 5 seconds, not 8 seconds, 

1471
01:12:56,440 --> 01:13:02,000
not ten seconds, 1314 seconds. 
Finally got himself back in the 

1472
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,680
frame, right? 
Got himself in the play. 

1473
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:11,280
That was just, it's just 
unacceptable. 

1474
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:15,920
That was just unacceptable. 
Especially think about this now.

1475
01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:19,320
The Knicks haven't won since 73.
But one of the things like the 

1476
01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:23,200
good Knick teams, it always 
seems like they've got that that

1477
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:26,360
characteristic of what we loved 
about the 90s Knicks who never 

1478
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:29,320
won, but boy, they were knocking
on that door every year. 

1479
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:30,560
They just didn't have the 
talent. 

1480
01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:34,360
They had the heart that the 
coach that the superstar, that 

1481
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:36,320
was really it. 
And a lot of years they didn't 

1482
01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:38,920
really have the depth either. 
They had too many guys who were 

1483
01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:41,680
kind of like Kiki and black men 
and guys who were just at the 

1484
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:44,280
end, no, the really good 
players, no disrespect. 

1485
01:13:44,480 --> 01:13:50,080
They just got them too late. 
This Knick team is so soft. 

1486
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:56,440
It is disgraceful. 
So last night, Draymond Green, 

1487
01:13:57,280 --> 01:13:59,880
who for some reason, I know he 
said some nice things about cat 

1488
01:13:59,880 --> 01:14:05,840
after the game, but for some 
reason always, always carves out

1489
01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:09,320
some space whenever his name 
comes up on on Draymond's pod. 

1490
01:14:09,440 --> 01:14:13,400
And it's it's it's a pretty 
compelling podcast, right to 

1491
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,240
shit all over Karl Anthony 
Towns. 

1492
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,280
So that's why what he said what 
he said last night postgame. 

1493
01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:21,560
I'm like, wow, that is the exact
opposite of what he always says 

1494
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:25,160
about cat calls him out every 
time he every chance he gets 

1495
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:27,720
calls him out. 
So last night there's a sequence

1496
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:32,880
cat, you know, initiates contact
and then Draymond, who was on 

1497
01:14:32,880 --> 01:14:36,600
the floor and now cats trying to
re recollect himself here, 

1498
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:40,280
compose himself physically and 
then barrel to the rim. 

1499
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:43,000
Draymond Green decides to grab a
sneaker. 

1500
01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:45,800
All right? 
Grabs A sneaker. 

1501
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:47,560
All right. 
There's like, there's like a 

1502
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:49,680
little bit of smoke. 
Cat wants no smoke with 

1503
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:51,280
Draymond. 
Draymond would just destroy him,

1504
01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:52,680
all right. 
And Cat knows that. 

1505
01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:57,080
So Cat, of course, doesn't do 
anything. 

1506
01:14:57,080 --> 01:14:59,240
I don't know what. 
Like, it was almost like he was 

1507
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:00,680
laughing. 
He was weird. 

1508
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:05,040
Did you see a single nick enter 
the frame with any sort of 

1509
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:08,080
purpose? 
Did you see anybody come to Karl

1510
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:11,080
Anthony Towns's defense? 
Did you see anybody? 

1511
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:12,440
It's like that just got up 
there. 

1512
01:15:12,440 --> 01:15:15,200
Not I mean, listen, I mean, 
Draymond with one finger could 

1513
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:16,960
put me down. 
So I'm not trying to be totally 

1514
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,440
tough guy here. 
But if you're a pro athlete, 

1515
01:15:19,440 --> 01:15:25,160
right, and you are 65210, 
chiseled, fast, young, how the 

1516
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:28,880
hell do you let that happen to 
one of your best players, Deuce.

1517
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:33,880
And but Deuce was laughing. 
Where was the support for Karl 

1518
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:36,320
Anthony Towns? 
There was none. 

1519
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:44,000
And then to make it worse, make 
it worse after the game, and I 

1520
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:45,720
know that they're buddies. 
I get that. 

1521
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:50,680
You do that in the tunnel, you 
got Mike Brown hugging Draymond 

1522
01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:52,840
laughing. 
Now, everybody that knows Mike 

1523
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:55,480
Brown says he is truly one of 
the best people in the world. 

1524
01:15:55,680 --> 01:15:57,880
And that's important to me. 
I I, I love that, right? 

1525
01:15:57,880 --> 01:15:59,640
I think Mike, they lost seven of
eight. 

1526
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:01,080
They look like they look 
terrible now. 

1527
01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:03,760
You better get this going here. 
Otherwise he's done. 

1528
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:06,680
Like think about what he think 
about the day that he was when 

1529
01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:09,600
Tim was a fuck was fired and 
Mike Brown was introduced. 

1530
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:14,160
It was NBA Finals or you fail. 
I mean, you name. 

1531
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:16,560
I'm not saying there's none. 
There might be an outlier. 

1532
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:19,040
I would love somebody to do 
somebody. 

1533
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:23,040
Do the research, Find me a team 
that's won an NBA championship 

1534
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:26,640
that has lost seven of eight or 
seven of nine, pardon me, at any

1535
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:30,120
point in their season. 
That doesn't happen in the NBA. 

1536
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:34,680
If you're a champion like 
Jordan's team Steps, team 

1537
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:39,640
Magic's team Birds team Duncan's
team, anything with Kobe and 

1538
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:43,760
Shaq, seven of nine. 
When you lose seven of nine, you

1539
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:47,800
are disconnected as a team. 
You've got flaws. 

1540
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:51,800
Because to lose that much to 
some bad teams, and we know the 

1541
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:54,680
flaw, their defense is 
deplorably bad. 

1542
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:58,000
The Knicks defense is 
disgusting, right? 

1543
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:02,040
They can't defend the 
three-point line and when 

1544
01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:03,560
they're held, I know no Brunson 
last night. 

1545
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:06,320
I get that. 
But without Jalen, with Jalen, 

1546
01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:09,360
you got two of the worst 
offenders in the NBA and the 

1547
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:11,080
metrics back it up. 
They stink. 

1548
01:17:11,440 --> 01:17:14,320
Brunson and Cat on defense 
awful. 

1549
01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:17,480
You know, Bridges is like a 
mouse. 

1550
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:20,480
I mean, does that guy have an 
ounce of fire in him? 

1551
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:22,320
That would have been nice, 
right? 

1552
01:17:22,480 --> 01:17:25,600
Would have been nice to see 
Bridges get involved, you know, 

1553
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,560
after the game chirping. 
I'm not even sure if he was on 

1554
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:30,360
the court when that happens. 
I want to be fair to Bridges, 

1555
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:33,000
but anybody around, I know OG 
was there. 

1556
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:35,360
And and to be fair, OG looked 
like he was down for a little 

1557
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:38,280
bit of smoke for a second. 
But OG is a strong duty. 

1558
01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:41,440
So he's a fierce competitor. 
The Knicks don't have any dogs. 

1559
01:17:41,440 --> 01:17:45,960
I mean really, outside of Josh 
Hart and OG now Brunson's a dog 

1560
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:48,280
in in terms of going to get 
buckets and playing hard, 

1561
01:17:48,480 --> 01:17:51,040
playing through pain. 
Love Jaylen Brunson, but he's 

1562
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:53,240
not a physical. 
Nobody's afraid of of of Jaylen 

1563
01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:54,480
Brunson. 
I don't even mean in the 

1564
01:17:54,480 --> 01:17:58,000
fighting sense, I just mean like
if being able to impose his 

1565
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:03,040
physicality, he's a 6th 2 guard 
who can't jump, who can't really

1566
01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:06,760
run, who can't defend, who is an
amazing player because he's got 

1567
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:09,360
sublime footwork and he's a 
great shooter and he's an 

1568
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:11,480
incredibly intelligent player 
and I love the guy. 

1569
01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:14,600
Nobody's afraid of Brunson. 
Can you imagine? 

1570
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:18,440
Can you imagine if somebody punk
Ewing? 

1571
01:18:18,440 --> 01:18:19,720
Because that's the comparison, 
right? 

1572
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:24,440
Imagine if somebody tripped 
Grant Patrick Ewing sneaker and 

1573
01:18:24,440 --> 01:18:27,840
he fell to the ground and nobody
did a damn thing about it. 

1574
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:31,440
I take your pick. 
Is that Starks coming in face to

1575
01:18:31,440 --> 01:18:33,400
face? 
Is that oak coming in face to 

1576
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:35,320
face? 
Is that Mace coming in face to 

1577
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:37,200
face? 
Is that Derek Harper coming in 

1578
01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:38,960
face to face? 
I don't think Huber Davis, you 

1579
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:41,640
know, Huber didn't want that. 
He wasn't really built for that 

1580
01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:43,280
stuff. 
But Derek Harper's coming in 

1581
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:46,720
face to face when when Doc 
Rivers was on the team, Doc 

1582
01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:49,200
would have been face to face. 
Xavier McDaniel when he was 

1583
01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:51,640
there for one year face to face.
Come on, man. 

1584
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:58,000
Like what do you expect from the
these Knicks now I said this one

1585
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,680
of the early shows and if you 
want to go on the BT Unleashed 

1586
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:04,000
YouTube page, it was about 
Kovacs great moments on 

1587
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:08,480
Christmas Day as that's it. 
I am going to give this team a 

1588
01:19:08,480 --> 01:19:11,600
chance one year to win the 
championship. 

1589
01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:13,160
I don't want to trade for 
Giannis. 

1590
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:15,080
I don't want to trade for a 
point guard. 

1591
01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:18,880
I want cold this before McBride 
came back and I love Deuce, but 

1592
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:21,960
it's before he came back. 
I'm going to give Kolik 1213 

1593
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:23,360
minutes a night. 
He's earning it. 

1594
01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:24,920
He's showing some chops. 
He could shoot. 

1595
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:27,040
He's not afraid. 
He's a competitor. 

1596
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:31,040
He can pass, you know. 
So I was, I was very bullish on 

1597
01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:32,440
the Knicks coming into the 
season. 

1598
01:19:32,520 --> 01:19:35,200
I was bullish on the Mike Brown 
higher coming into the season. 

1599
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:38,040
I was certainly bullish on the 
Knicks as recently as Christmas 

1600
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:40,640
Day. 
You know, I am no longer bullish

1601
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:43,400
on the Knicks. 
This team doesn't have it. 

1602
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:46,400
They will never have it. 
So whether it's a trade, 

1603
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:48,840
whatever the hell is going to 
happen, something's got to 

1604
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:51,360
happen. 
Because what you can't do, you 

1605
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:55,040
cannot waste whatever remains of
Jalen Brunson's prime. 

1606
01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:57,360
I mean, eventually Jalen Brunson
is going to sign. 

1607
01:19:57,360 --> 01:20:01,120
He's got the team friendly deal.
He's going to eventually sign a 

1608
01:20:01,120 --> 01:20:03,560
very big contract, which will 
then be. 

1609
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:06,560
You know, somewhat cumbersome in
terms of what the Knicks could 

1610
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:08,280
do with the rest of their roster
there. 

1611
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:11,120
You know, OG is making good 
money, Bridges making good 

1612
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:13,280
money. 
If there's not a chance in hell 

1613
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:16,680
that the Knicks are extending 
Karl Anthony Towns is 0 now, the

1614
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:19,800
problem is, you know, there's no
way Milwaukee wants Karl Anthony

1615
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:20,720
Towns. 
Why would they? 

1616
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:24,320
I'm not saying that there's not 
a team out there somewhere that 

1617
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:25,640
wouldn't want Karl Anthony 
Towns. 

1618
01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:27,920
And I'm not just here to take 
gratuitous shots at Karl Anthony

1619
01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:31,560
Towns, who is an incredibly 
skilled player and 

1620
01:20:32,440 --> 01:20:34,840
unfortunately, a really nice 
guy. 

1621
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:39,640
Like, I wish he wasn't so nice. 
Nobody's afraid of that guy now.

1622
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:42,320
They know that he could drop 35 
on him if he's bagging in some 

1623
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:45,280
triples and getting to the 
stripe and avoiding the stupid 

1624
01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:47,560
fouls, which, of course, he 
couldn't do again last night. 

1625
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:50,040
And what's another reason why 
the Knicks got blown out? 

1626
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:52,280
I mean, some of these teams 
they're losing to. 

1627
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:57,400
I don't know how anybody has any
faith in the Knicks right now. 

1628
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:00,800
I really don't. 
And I can promise you this 

1629
01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:06,440
because one thing that I've 
always said, I've never fully 

1630
01:21:06,440 --> 01:21:08,480
believed in Karl Anthony Towns 
ever. 

1631
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:10,720
Go and get as many receipts as 
you want. 

1632
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:12,560
Go. 
And do you know what does Evan 

1633
01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:14,200
do? 
Roasted and posted, toasted and 

1634
01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:15,400
wrote. 
Whatever he does, you know, go 

1635
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:17,480
and find go find an old tweet, 
right? 

1636
01:21:18,480 --> 01:21:20,720
Go find the old tweet EV. 
You'll find none. 

1637
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:24,360
Where I'm like Karl Anthony 
Towns is the man. 

1638
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:28,080
Like I wasn't when they got him.
Like, OK, I didn't think they 

1639
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:29,760
necessarily. 
I thought it was time to move on

1640
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:31,240
from Randall. 
I loved the Vincenzo. 

1641
01:21:31,240 --> 01:21:32,400
It's the price of business, 
whatever. 

1642
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:34,520
So I knew that they had to do 
something else to try to win a 

1643
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:37,720
championship. 
But not like coming into this 

1644
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:40,840
year, last year, I was all over 
them, all over Carl Anthony 

1645
01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:42,320
Towns, and many of you got on 
me. 

1646
01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:44,800
They're like, this guy's the 
best big and the best shooter in

1647
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:47,680
the NBA in terms of a big. 
He's the best we've had since 

1648
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:50,120
Patrick Ewing. 
All right, fantastic. 

1649
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:52,320
That doesn't mean that he's good
enough to win a championship and

1650
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:55,080
he's not. 
If he is your 4th best player, 

1651
01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:57,760
great. 
And the problem too is, is that 

1652
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:03,360
so not only does he still commit
the same foolish dumb fouls, 

1653
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:07,040
he's never going to change that.
If you haven't rectified it by 

1654
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:10,240
now when you're around for a 
decade, it's not changing. 

1655
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:13,160
All right, number one. 
Number two, he will only get 

1656
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:17,120
worse as a defender as he gets 
older, slower and heavier. 

1657
01:22:17,440 --> 01:22:22,880
And #3 and I didn't and this was
not the case a year ago. 

1658
01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:24,400
I'll defend him at least with 
this. 

1659
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:27,000
But now it's here. 
Now you're looking at a guy. 

1660
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:29,280
Let me tell you what's going on.
He don't want to be here. 

1661
01:22:30,440 --> 01:22:32,440
Carl Anthony Towns does not want
to be here. 

1662
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:36,560
He is now disengaged. 
And that goes back to, you know,

1663
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:39,520
the just sitting on the like the
flop on the floor the other 

1664
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:42,640
night with Sacramento last 
night, you know, not not bring 

1665
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:43,840
him back. 
I'm not saying you throw a punch

1666
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:46,080
and get suspended for 10 games, 
but I mean, can you show a 

1667
01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:48,720
little more backbone than that? 
You know that this guy always 

1668
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:52,320
talk shit about you any podcast,
he's always in your face and 

1669
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:56,240
that's what you do. 
I it's just it's not emblematic 

1670
01:22:56,240 --> 01:22:59,320
of a championship team. 
And if Karl Anthony Town and not

1671
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:00,800
everybody's built that way, I 
get that right. 

1672
01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:04,720
But if he's not built that way, 
then somebody around him needs 

1673
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:06,360
to be built that way. 
Nothing. 

1674
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:09,640
You can hear a pin drop. 
Oh, what's that? 

1675
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:11,920
Draymond? 
Draymond just disrespecting cat.

1676
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:14,280
What else is new? 
It's great. 

1677
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:16,000
The showers, we're good. 
We're lost again. 

1678
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:19,200
It's over for this Knicks team. 
It'll have nothing. 

1679
01:23:19,480 --> 01:23:23,840
So I don't know if it's Giannis,
I don't know what you could do. 

1680
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:28,280
I would absolutely without 
question trade Karl Anthony 

1681
01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:30,560
Towns before the deadline. 
I don't. 

1682
01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:33,480
You don't have a lot of picks to
entice somebody to make that 

1683
01:23:33,480 --> 01:23:35,320
trade. 
You can have some problems 

1684
01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:38,160
there. 
You know, you you fired your 

1685
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:40,920
main, main bullets with the 
Bridges stuff with the Nets and 

1686
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:43,360
all the picks there. 
Bridges ain't that guy. 

1687
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:47,640
Never going to be that guy. 
He's too, he's too, you know, 

1688
01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:50,000
he's too disengaged as well. 
He's got too many guys who are 

1689
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,840
like robots out there, dude. 
They're just there's no passion,

1690
01:23:52,840 --> 01:23:55,280
there's no emotion. 
Now, you can't have five guys 

1691
01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:56,720
like that. 
Otherwise it's going to be, you 

1692
01:23:56,720 --> 01:23:59,680
know, you kind of eaten each 
other up, but you need, you 

1693
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:01,720
just, you just need a few more 
pit bulls right now. 

1694
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:04,720
You watch the Knicks and they 
are a bunch of Chihuahuas. 

1695
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:08,040
They're a bunch of lap dogs. 
You know, where if they're not, 

1696
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:11,120
if they're not getting fed milk 
by mommy and a little, you know,

1697
01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:14,560
fancy collar and a little 
blanket by the fireplace, God 

1698
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:17,320
forbid if they stumble out to 
the street, they ain't going to 

1699
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:19,800
make it very long. 
That's the kind of dogs that the

1700
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:21,520
Knicks have. 
I said before, they have no 

1701
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:22,360
dogs. 
No, they got dogs. 

1702
01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:24,680
They got the wrong kind. 
They got passive dogs who want 

1703
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:26,920
to stay inside and not mix it up
outside. 

1704
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:30,400
And you don't win that way. 
Then if, like, if the talent is 

1705
01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:36,800
so amazingly over the top, like 
irrefutably the best, well, OK, 

1706
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:39,560
maybe that's a recipe to win. 
It ain't. 

1707
01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:43,920
It's not, it's really not so 
disappointed in the Knicks, and 

1708
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:47,400
I'm really disappointed, too in 
Mike Brown. 

1709
01:24:47,400 --> 01:24:49,600
Like, again, the optics of 
hugging him. 

1710
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:51,720
You know what's going on. 
You know what transpired during 

1711
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:54,800
the game. 
You know, the cat I'm sure in 

1712
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:57,440
the huddle is, is still kind of,
you know, angered by what 

1713
01:24:57,440 --> 01:24:59,480
happened or however he processes
his emotion. 

1714
01:24:59,480 --> 01:25:01,400
I'm sure it's communicated in 
the huddle. 

1715
01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:03,360
I mean, if if not, then that's 
an even bigger issue. 

1716
01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:06,600
So I'm sure it's communicated. 
And and I know that you've got 

1717
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:09,520
profound respect for Draymond. 
You won with Draymond. 

1718
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:11,000
I get that. 
I'm not saying you abandoned a 

1719
01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:15,120
friendship, but the optics of 
the Knicks head coach so 

1720
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:19,360
joyfully and so aggressively 
hugging and interacting and 

1721
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:22,120
yucking it up with the guy who 
was just dogging one of your 

1722
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:25,320
players again, do that in the 
tunnel. 

1723
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:28,680
Don't let the fancy that. 
Don't even let cats see that. 

1724
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:31,480
Like if I'm Coral Anthony Towns,
I'm already confused by the way 

1725
01:25:31,720 --> 01:25:33,800
I will defend them here. 
They're not using them properly 

1726
01:25:33,800 --> 01:25:35,920
offensively. 
So I'm already bothered by that.

1727
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,040
They're not using me right. 
There's some might take it four 

1728
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:40,360
shots, some might. 
Now he's got to just demand the 

1729
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:42,080
ball more and stop with the 
fouls and whatever. 

1730
01:25:42,320 --> 01:25:46,000
So he's not he's he's not fully.
I can't exonerate him fully, but

1731
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:50,880
but the the thought of playing 
for a guy who I don't think is 

1732
01:25:50,880 --> 01:25:54,080
really utilizing my skills to 
the best of whatever ability you

1733
01:25:54,080 --> 01:25:56,880
can utilize them to. 
And now I got to look over and 

1734
01:25:56,880 --> 01:25:58,600
he's hugging Draymond Green 
laughing. 

1735
01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:02,640
No, I want I want out. 
And as a Knicks fan, I want him 

1736
01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:04,200
out. 
I guess you got to trade him. 

1737
01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:08,240
You got to trade him because 
this team is going nowhere. 

1738
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:12,280
They are not winning anything. 
You know, we get top seed. 

1739
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:14,440
Pistons are going to keep their 
foot on the gas whole year. 

1740
01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:18,720
Oh, yeah. 
You know, And like, I wasn't 

1741
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:22,600
even overly consumed with the 
top seed because I thought at 

1742
01:26:22,600 --> 01:26:26,280
one point like that the Knicks 
had enough where they, like they

1743
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:27,440
did last year winning in 
Detroit. 

1744
01:26:27,440 --> 01:26:31,120
You go to Detroit or, you know, 
Boston or whomever you have to 

1745
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:33,720
play in the playoffs here. 
And I did like with Brunson 

1746
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:36,640
being Brunson and Cats scoring 
some points and Hart doing his 

1747
01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:39,640
thing and the two wings and 
Deuce coming off the bench in a 

1748
01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:41,240
deeper bench and some more 
scores. 

1749
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:44,440
I'm like, all right, that's the 
kind of team that doesn't need 

1750
01:26:44,440 --> 01:26:46,840
to play swing game at the Garden
to advance. 

1751
01:26:47,160 --> 01:26:50,800
But now like I am, I'm just 
questioning the overall 

1752
01:26:50,800 --> 01:26:52,960
character of the New York 
Knicks. 

1753
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:55,200
I'm questioning the heart of the
New York Knicks. 

1754
01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:57,240
I'm questioning the want of the 
Knicks. 

1755
01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:01,000
They just don't seem incredibly 
bothered by what's going on. 

1756
01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:04,440
Like even if the Knicks were on 
A5 game win streak, all right, 

1757
01:27:04,440 --> 01:27:06,640
they're on a which they're not. 
They've lost seven of nine, but 

1758
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:09,800
say, if they'd won five straight
and that situation happened with

1759
01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:13,600
Cat last night and nobody came 
to his defense and Mike Brown 

1760
01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:17,760
hugging them, I'd still say, 
like, even if somebody tried to 

1761
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:20,440
present it, like, come on, man, 
they're playing great, They're 

1762
01:27:20,440 --> 01:27:22,800
doing this, They're fine. 
I think you're overreacting. 

1763
01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:26,160
I'd say no, I still think that 
that probably portends bad 

1764
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:28,040
things down the road because 
that's a sign that they're not 

1765
01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:30,880
really united. 
But yeah, they they are playing 

1766
01:27:30,880 --> 01:27:32,280
really well. 
So I'm not going to make a huge 

1767
01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:34,800
deal out of it. 
When you lose seven of nine, 

1768
01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:38,400
seven of nine and you don't play
every day in baseball. 

1769
01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:41,080
Yeah, like, like you do in 
baseball, you know, So I don't 

1770
01:27:41,080 --> 01:27:44,080
know how to take a guess. 
The nine games have encompassed 

1771
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:49,760
20 something days. 
That's a lot of that's almost a 

1772
01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:53,240
full month, really, to be 
carrying around, you know, 

1773
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:56,160
subpar play as baggage when you 
get on a plane or when you come 

1774
01:27:56,160 --> 01:27:59,640
out on the garden floor and you 
would think of nothing else that

1775
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:01,440
that would be the impetus. 
Oh, whoa, whoa. 

1776
01:28:01,440 --> 01:28:03,840
Draymond's talking smack again. 
All right, let's go. 

1777
01:28:03,880 --> 01:28:06,680
I'm, I'm tired of losing. 
He's picking on Cat again. 

1778
01:28:06,840 --> 01:28:10,120
Let's just has to end. 
That's what teams would pry do. 

1779
01:28:10,560 --> 01:28:13,880
That's what championship teams 
do right now. 

1780
01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:17,560
You asked me next second round 
gone and if it's the wrong match

1781
01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:20,480
up. 
First round not off the table. 

1782
01:28:20,760 --> 01:28:25,040
They are closer in my opinion 
right now to being bounced in 

1783
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:28,200
round one than they are getting 
to the NBA Finals. 

1784
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:32,280
They are wildly disappointing 
here. 

1785
01:28:32,280 --> 01:28:34,080
Let me see if we got some stuff 
here on the Knicks. 

1786
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:35,440
I got it. 
Just got a lot of lot of 

1787
01:28:35,440 --> 01:28:37,320
messages here, guys. 
Let's see what we got. 

1788
01:28:37,480 --> 01:28:44,000
There's a ton here, man. 
OK, how about this here what 

1789
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:45,840
Michael Baker says, you know, 
listen, obviously you want to 

1790
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:46,880
hit some of that met stuff as 
well. 

1791
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:48,400
What's up? 
MM Baker 73. 

1792
01:28:48,400 --> 01:28:49,880
Oh, wait, maybe we should wait 
till spring. 

1793
01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:53,640
Every met fan loved the Stearns 
hire didn't win a thing with 

1794
01:28:53,640 --> 01:28:55,480
Pete. 
No, no, I I I agree. 

1795
01:28:55,840 --> 01:28:57,480
I'm not really all over Stearns 
today. 

1796
01:28:57,480 --> 01:29:00,240
My only thing is, and I think 
it's part of the conversation. 

1797
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:02,080
Michael and I appreciate the the
chat there. 

1798
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:06,120
Thanks, buddy. 
Like when you look at somebody 

1799
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:10,080
getting $60 million and 2:40 and
the Mets were willing to go to 

1800
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:13,720
55 and they weren't willing to 
stretch the boundaries of what 

1801
01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:16,160
they would do for Pete. 
And I know Pete's a flawed 

1802
01:29:16,160 --> 01:29:17,160
player. 
I've said that before. 

1803
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:20,680
Anybody but it it it's it's 
questionable. 

1804
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:22,760
Now, is that a Stearns thing? 
Is that a Cohen thing is that 

1805
01:29:22,760 --> 01:29:25,160
it'll split down the middle? 
I think it's more Stearns. 

1806
01:29:25,160 --> 01:29:28,120
I think that I think if Stearns,
I can't prove this, but I think 

1807
01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:30,560
if Stearns went to Cohen and 
said a matter of fact, I'm 

1808
01:29:30,560 --> 01:29:32,000
almost positive this will be the
case. 

1809
01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:35,920
Like if Stearns is like, hey, 
Stevie, we Pete 40 bombs 

1810
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:38,720
irreplaceable part of the team, 
whatever, however he positioned 

1811
01:29:38,720 --> 01:29:41,800
it, we you know, Orioles are 
coming to five. 

1812
01:29:41,800 --> 01:29:43,800
We got to get up at six with 
there's no way we can let him 

1813
01:29:43,800 --> 01:29:45,600
leave. 
He is we cannot win without him.

1814
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:48,160
Well, they haven't won with him 
all right, So that's why it's 

1815
01:29:48,160 --> 01:29:51,120
easy to let him go. 
But processing it under the you 

1816
01:29:51,360 --> 01:29:53,560
know, the the prism of of what 
Tucker just got. 

1817
01:29:53,920 --> 01:29:57,640
I, I understand that, but still,
I'm going to let Sterns finish 

1818
01:29:57,640 --> 01:30:00,760
the, the offseason here. 
There's a lot of, you know, I 

1819
01:30:00,760 --> 01:30:02,600
don't want Valdez. 
You didn't get Suarez. 

1820
01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:05,360
Maybe you trade for Peralta. 
Maybe you get schoolable, maybe 

1821
01:30:05,360 --> 01:30:07,200
you pivot to Pichette. 
Maybe you get Bellinger. 

1822
01:30:07,480 --> 01:30:10,040
Like I, I am as I've got, I said
this the other day, I've gotten 

1823
01:30:10,040 --> 01:30:12,200
older. 
I don't just react to stuff 

1824
01:30:12,200 --> 01:30:14,120
before. 
I mean, sometimes you have to 

1825
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:16,120
cause you're doing a show. 
You can't always have a 

1826
01:30:16,120 --> 01:30:18,120
conclusion. 
You know, sometimes you have to 

1827
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:20,560
react as things are going on. 
And I love doing that. 

1828
01:30:20,800 --> 01:30:23,320
But I'm not going to give a 
final grade to Stearns, his 

1829
01:30:23,320 --> 01:30:26,040
offseason when there's those 
names out there that I just 

1830
01:30:26,040 --> 01:30:28,720
mentioned and an appetite for 
the Mets owner to spend the 

1831
01:30:28,720 --> 01:30:30,880
money as evidenced by what they 
just offered Kyle Tucker. 

1832
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:33,720
So that's how, that's how I view
that, you know, really. 

1833
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:36,360
But it's, it's just 
disheartening. 

1834
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:38,640
It's, it's absolutely crazy when
you really think about it, how 

1835
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:42,520
little our teams have done. 
I mean, it's absolutely nothing 

1836
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:43,400
here. 
What's this year? 

1837
01:30:44,520 --> 01:30:46,320
B Kleiner. 
I can't wait to get back in the 

1838
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:48,760
gym tomorrow night. 
People are wildly overreacting 

1839
01:30:48,760 --> 01:30:51,880
to the Knicks will win five of 
the next 6. 

1840
01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:54,360
No, they won't. 
I mean, number was Brunson 

1841
01:30:54,360 --> 01:30:57,800
coming back? 
Hey, BKII, appreciate certainly 

1842
01:30:57,800 --> 01:30:59,200
the chat. 
I appreciate the sentiment. 

1843
01:30:59,200 --> 01:31:01,720
And I'm not trying to tell you 
not to be optimistic as a 

1844
01:31:01,720 --> 01:31:02,800
Knicksman. 
I'm not telling you what to 

1845
01:31:02,800 --> 01:31:04,840
think at all. 
I'm just telling you I disagree 

1846
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:07,280
with that assertion. 
I'm not saying that they'll be 

1847
01:31:07,280 --> 01:31:09,080
without a winning streak the 
rest of the way. 

1848
01:31:09,680 --> 01:31:11,800
Nixon, does anybody really think
the Knicks going to win the 

1849
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:15,080
championship? 
Does anybody think that? 

1850
01:31:16,480 --> 01:31:21,920
Now contrast that to the mindset
when we started to, and I don't 

1851
01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:26,040
mean like the first week or so 
when Cat was banged up and Brown

1852
01:31:26,040 --> 01:31:28,720
was figuring out maybe 10 days, 
figuring out his rotation. 

1853
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:30,480
I mean, right after that when 
the Knicks were playing real 

1854
01:31:30,480 --> 01:31:33,120
well and everybody who's 
loading, including me, Mike 

1855
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:36,080
Brown, for playing like, look at
Clarkson getting run. 

1856
01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:38,480
Oh, wow, look, he took the 
shackles off of colic. 

1857
01:31:38,480 --> 01:31:39,640
Tibbs would have never done 
that. 

1858
01:31:40,120 --> 01:31:41,600
Now, I don't think they'd be a 
whole lot better with Tom 

1859
01:31:41,600 --> 01:31:44,040
Thibodeau. 
But I can promise you one thing,

1860
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:47,240
like if if that went down last 
night, I think Tom Thibodeau 

1861
01:31:47,600 --> 01:31:49,280
eviscerates them in the locker 
room. 

1862
01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:52,160
And I know for a fact, even 
though he's not tight with 

1863
01:31:52,160 --> 01:31:55,080
Raymond, So but like, say if it 
was a player that he coached 

1864
01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:57,080
somewhere else and he had a 
great relationship. 

1865
01:31:57,080 --> 01:31:59,640
Do you think Tom Thibodeau is 
doing that on the court after 

1866
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:02,440
the Knicks lose again? 
And if your best player gets 

1867
01:32:02,440 --> 01:32:04,920
basically just sneaker and 
thrown to the ground and nobody 

1868
01:32:04,920 --> 01:32:09,440
does anything, I mean, that's 
that's a seasonal point of like,

1869
01:32:09,440 --> 01:32:14,760
that's the season right there. 
You come in and you slam the 

1870
01:32:14,760 --> 01:32:18,600
door and you light that team up 
as much as you can light them 

1871
01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:20,840
up. 
And yes, modern athletes can be 

1872
01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:24,600
lit up because I promise you, if
it was done, like, say, if Brown

1873
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:28,440
didn't hug them all right, which
is just a bad look and go out to

1874
01:32:28,440 --> 01:32:31,640
dinner after I I just don't do 
it where we can see it and say 

1875
01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:34,680
if Brown would have come in 
slammed and if he did slam the 

1876
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:37,560
door and he was pissed, well, 
then it's totally disingenuous 

1877
01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:39,280
because you were just yuking it 
up with Draymond. 

1878
01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:42,000
So I'm pretty sure he didn't 
come in and and present that 

1879
01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:45,360
that energy, that anger, that 
that resentment, that distaste 

1880
01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:49,320
for the way his team's playing. 
But say if he did boom, the door

1881
01:32:49,320 --> 01:32:51,600
slams. 
What the fuck was that? 

1882
01:32:51,600 --> 01:32:55,640
And you let it go like Pat Riley
or Tom Thibodeau would do right?

1883
01:32:55,760 --> 01:32:58,880
Or Joel Torrey, who would let it
that Joe was Joe Joe would do 

1884
01:32:58,880 --> 01:33:00,840
that. 
A lot of you think, Oh, Grandpa 

1885
01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:03,840
Joe, Joe was a beast with that 
stuff, right, Right. 

1886
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:06,360
So is Buck. 
So you slam the door, you drop 

1887
01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:07,800
the F bombs, you do whatever you
do. 

1888
01:33:08,240 --> 01:33:12,200
And I promise you somebody like 
Josh Hart would have stood like 

1889
01:33:12,200 --> 01:33:13,480
that's right. 
What are we don't like? 

1890
01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:16,440
And then that's how you become 
galvanized instead. 

1891
01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:18,640
That didn't happen. 
Nobody. 

1892
01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:20,560
And I'm not saying a player 
couldn't stand up and do 

1893
01:33:20,560 --> 01:33:22,640
something but or say something 
themselves. 

1894
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:27,280
But the potency is minimized 
when the coach is setting that 

1895
01:33:27,280 --> 01:33:29,680
tone post game. 
So it would have been a little 

1896
01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:31,280
bit hollow to me. 
So I don't think it would have 

1897
01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:35,360
been I, I, I, I don't, I don't 
really think that it would have 

1898
01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:42,680
really been enough to change the
overall demeanor and disposition

1899
01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:45,520
of this team. 
You kind of are who you are, 

1900
01:33:45,520 --> 01:33:46,840
aren't you? 
I mean, I think that you are. 

1901
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:48,840
What up, Rob? 
Robert Huertis. 

1902
01:33:49,200 --> 01:33:50,880
Hey, BT the Dodgers own the 
home. 

1903
01:33:50,880 --> 01:33:52,600
Own the house. 
We're now the squatters. 

1904
01:33:52,640 --> 01:33:55,760
Yeah, well, the good news is, I 
guess if you're a squatter, you 

1905
01:33:55,760 --> 01:33:57,440
could eventually you just take 
the house over. 

1906
01:33:57,560 --> 01:34:02,440
So the Dodgers think about that.
The Dodgers own the home and and

1907
01:34:02,440 --> 01:34:04,120
the Yanks and the Mets are now 
squatters. 

1908
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:08,360
So now they come in and they 
reside in the home and then the 

1909
01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:10,520
people who own the home come 
back to their home. 

1910
01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:16,040
But based on the idiot legal 
whatever, the squatters can 

1911
01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:18,600
actually own the home. 
So that that's a it's a little 

1912
01:34:18,600 --> 01:34:21,560
bit of a confusing statement 
there, Robert, because if I, if 

1913
01:34:21,800 --> 01:34:24,640
I, if I read it literally 
basically what you say it is 

1914
01:34:24,640 --> 01:34:26,520
that the Yanks and the Mets 
basically have a chance to own 

1915
01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:28,000
the home again, because they're 
squatters. 

1916
01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:29,920
If I read that right. 
And I think I did. 

1917
01:34:29,920 --> 01:34:34,280
Oh, my God. 
See here. 

1918
01:34:35,160 --> 01:34:37,160
All right, What do we got here? 
Maddie Pillar. 

1919
01:34:37,160 --> 01:34:40,560
Maddie Pillar, 4323 BT. 
You know, players today don't 

1920
01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:44,080
care anymore. 
Hopefully until the playoffs. 

1921
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:45,920
Yeah. 
And I guess you're getting on me

1922
01:34:45,920 --> 01:34:47,440
for saying it was a hug. 
No, I know. 

1923
01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:51,000
I don't listen. 
If the Knicks would have even if

1924
01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:54,280
they would have lost, but there 
wasn't that little flare up 

1925
01:34:54,280 --> 01:34:57,000
there. 
And the way they're playing. 

1926
01:34:57,240 --> 01:35:00,680
I mean, again, I know it's an 
overused word, but optics do 

1927
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:06,720
matter and I understand like I'm
never going to get on the air. 

1928
01:35:07,560 --> 01:35:11,000
I really never have. 
And unless it's like a 

1929
01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:13,440
measurement game like that 
Pistons game when when cat take 

1930
01:35:13,440 --> 01:35:16,080
took a few shots like that was a
problem like that's going to 

1931
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:17,720
bother me. 
I'm not going to get on the air 

1932
01:35:17,720 --> 01:35:19,440
1 of 82. 
All right, Knicks didn't have 

1933
01:35:19,440 --> 01:35:23,000
it, didn't get back transition 
defense got in late night before

1934
01:35:23,480 --> 01:35:28,280
been on a road trip heavy legs. 
I I understand, I understand the

1935
01:35:28,920 --> 01:35:31,960
intensity in the playoffs is 
always going to be significantly

1936
01:35:31,960 --> 01:35:34,600
more than the regular season. 
So I'm not going to bark at the 

1937
01:35:34,600 --> 01:35:38,880
moon and scream for change when 
I long ago unfortunately 

1938
01:35:38,880 --> 01:35:40,640
understood that that's what it's
morphed into. 

1939
01:35:40,880 --> 01:35:42,920
No, it's not that. 
It's so so that's really not 

1940
01:35:42,920 --> 01:35:46,200
what I'm reacting to guys, not 
at all, at all. 

1941
01:35:46,240 --> 01:35:49,920
I what is this year? 
We got the land, the Landy 

1942
01:35:49,920 --> 01:35:50,680
Lodge. 
What's going? 

1943
01:35:50,680 --> 01:35:53,840
That's a new one subpar 
attendance. 

1944
01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:57,360
I was about the Mets all right 
offseason sign 2025 

1945
01:35:57,360 --> 01:35:59,800
record-breaking attendance. 
I like the way you structure 

1946
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:05,680
that Here you go offseason 0. 
Cohen better hope fans don't 

1947
01:36:05,680 --> 01:36:09,800
have pattern recognition. 
That's a very intelligent text 

1948
01:36:09,800 --> 01:36:10,720
right there Appreciate it, 
buddy. 

1949
01:36:10,720 --> 01:36:13,760
Thank or or or ma'am whomever. 
Thanks for riding in there. 

1950
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:17,000
Oh before I really respond to 
that do me a favor guys, whether

1951
01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:19,720
it's a super chat whether it's 
regular I said this yesterday 

1952
01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:21,720
nobody's really doing it. 
Let me know where you are coming

1953
01:36:21,720 --> 01:36:22,840
in from. 
I want to know where you guys 

1954
01:36:22,840 --> 01:36:25,400
are coming in from all right, 
because that gives me a chance. 

1955
01:36:25,400 --> 01:36:28,400
Sometimes if I see, you know, 
you're in a certain town or a 

1956
01:36:28,400 --> 01:36:31,560
certain state, maybe it 
generates a story that I can 

1957
01:36:31,560 --> 01:36:34,160
kind of break away from the from
the sports stuff and kind of get

1958
01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:36,200
into something else. 
I also want to get a sense of 

1959
01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:37,600
where you guys are checking in 
from. 

1960
01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:40,120
So when you hit me up on the 
supers and all the other stuff, 

1961
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:43,000
even if it's comments on the 
videos later on in the day, let 

1962
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:45,480
me know where you guys are. 
I really, really, really want to

1963
01:36:45,480 --> 01:36:46,720
know that. 
So make sure you guys do that. 

1964
01:36:46,720 --> 01:36:48,520
All right, now the attendance 
thing. 

1965
01:36:50,480 --> 01:36:52,760
Yeah. 
Let's face it, Steve Cohen 

1966
01:36:52,760 --> 01:36:55,200
called you guys out last year. 
Hey, I'm spent. 

1967
01:36:55,200 --> 01:36:57,600
I'm doing my job, basically, 
Where are you guys? 

1968
01:36:57,640 --> 01:37:00,440
You got to start doing your job,
and you do your job by showing 

1969
01:37:00,440 --> 01:37:02,640
up. 
I I agreed with Steve Cohen. 

1970
01:37:03,480 --> 01:37:05,320
I thought that Steve was well 
within his rights. 

1971
01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:08,640
I thought he was more 
importantly absolutely right in 

1972
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:14,760
how he approach the situation. 
If I just got you one, Soto, I'm

1973
01:37:14,760 --> 01:37:17,880
going to need more than 16,000 
people here on a Tuesday night 

1974
01:37:17,880 --> 01:37:19,480
against the Marlins during the 
Pennant race. 

1975
01:37:19,760 --> 01:37:23,360
Like you can say whatever you 
want to say about the Yankees 

1976
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:24,920
not doing things the way they 
used to. 

1977
01:37:24,920 --> 01:37:27,600
And that is absolutely true. 
They want to win. 

1978
01:37:27,720 --> 01:37:31,000
They don't need to win like 
oxygen the way that they once 

1979
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:32,720
used to. 
And that's a separate issue, but

1980
01:37:32,720 --> 01:37:34,840
it's a true one. 
But the one thing that you can 

1981
01:37:34,840 --> 01:37:37,040
never say about the Yankee fan 
is Yankee fan shows up on a 

1982
01:37:37,040 --> 01:37:38,200
Tuesday night. 
No matter who you're playing, 

1983
01:37:38,440 --> 01:37:40,840
you be playing the A's. 
Yanks are showing 35,000 on 

1984
01:37:40,840 --> 01:37:42,640
Tuesday night when the kids are 
back in school. 

1985
01:37:42,800 --> 01:37:46,240
Mets don't have that now. 
They had it last year and now 

1986
01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:48,520
and the Mets were and I 
respected the Mets fan for 

1987
01:37:48,520 --> 01:37:50,440
responding. 
I said that on the fan a lot 

1988
01:37:50,760 --> 01:37:54,200
like to me, you know, Stearns 
was doing his job because he had

1989
01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:57,080
a good year One Cohen was doing 
his job, cutting the check, 

1990
01:37:57,080 --> 01:37:58,560
staying out of the way for the 
most part. 

1991
01:37:58,880 --> 01:38:02,000
And then he called you out and 
implored you guys to support the

1992
01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:05,520
product the way the product. 
I I, I thought and he did 

1993
01:38:06,080 --> 01:38:08,640
deserved because when I'm going 
to put this into the product 

1994
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:10,680
that you need to put that into 
it as well. 

1995
01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:13,320
So we could all join forces and 
eventually be what we're trying 

1996
01:38:13,320 --> 01:38:15,360
to be here. 
Which one of the top brands in 

1997
01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:18,040
sports. 
All right, and you guys did that

1998
01:38:18,040 --> 01:38:21,360
for a year and then I gave you 
guys credit for doing that and 

1999
01:38:21,360 --> 01:38:23,440
the season didn't go well. 
Then make the playoffs. 

2000
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:26,320
Now where are we? 
I know opening day will be 

2001
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:31,160
packed sell out Subway series 
packed Dodgers come in I'm sure 

2002
01:38:32,200 --> 01:38:34,840
Braves Phillies if the Mets are 
competitive yeah be good crowds 

2003
01:38:34,840 --> 01:38:37,440
there. 
Are you telling me that like if 

2004
01:38:37,440 --> 01:38:42,360
the Mets don't do much more. 
It's inconceivable to think that

2005
01:38:42,360 --> 01:38:44,360
the Mets are done. 
They can't be done because if 

2006
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:45,800
they're done there was 75 win 
team. 

2007
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:49,960
But if they are done like 
Seattle rolls in on AI don't 

2008
01:38:50,080 --> 01:38:53,440
even have the schedule May 9th 
you know Wednesday night could 

2009
01:38:53,440 --> 01:38:56,480
have 17,000 people there. 
So I get it. 

2010
01:38:56,840 --> 01:39:00,240
And at that point, while I 
thought Cohen was right, when 

2011
01:39:00,240 --> 01:39:04,280
he, you know, challenge you guys
to step up and show up, I would 

2012
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:06,480
absolutely have your back here 
moving forward. 

2013
01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:08,600
Why you why you reach any money 
for that? 

2014
01:39:09,360 --> 01:39:11,280
I wouldn't do it and I wouldn't 
do it with any sort of 

2015
01:39:11,280 --> 01:39:15,200
frequency, that's for sure. 
Ocean City, MD, there you go. 

2016
01:39:15,560 --> 01:39:20,640
Ocean City, NJ, there you go. 
Little Alabama, a little Ty 

2017
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:21,720
Simpson. 
I was talking about him the 

2018
01:39:21,720 --> 01:39:25,200
other day, Fort Myers, FL, 
originally from the Bronx. 

2019
01:39:25,200 --> 01:39:27,080
What's up, Vince? 
Appreciate that, buddy. 

2020
01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:32,480
All right, let me give you boy. 
It's been one of the longer ones

2021
01:39:32,480 --> 01:39:33,560
here. 
I got to start wrapping up. 

2022
01:39:33,560 --> 01:39:36,680
This is the other thing. 
My, my son, my son calls me. 

2023
01:39:36,680 --> 01:39:40,720
I dropped him off from school at
school today, calls me because 

2024
01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:42,000
he knows he can't use the phone 
at school. 

2025
01:39:42,000 --> 01:39:45,640
So he calls me like 843 from I 
guess before assembly, whatever 

2026
01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:48,200
the hell. 
And he says, dad, he's like, do 

2027
01:39:48,200 --> 01:39:49,640
me a favor. 
He's like, can you come and 

2028
01:39:49,920 --> 01:39:52,040
bring Skittles to school? 
Then Starburst? 

2029
01:39:52,080 --> 01:39:57,480
I'm like, why? 
He's like, oh, we're having a 

2030
01:39:57,480 --> 01:40:00,480
party and I forgot to tell mom. 
You know, mom does that stuff 

2031
01:40:00,480 --> 01:40:01,680
great. 
She's always on top of that. 

2032
01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:03,520
The cupcakes, the parties, this,
that. 

2033
01:40:04,440 --> 01:40:09,400
And I'm like, party for what? 
As is it somebody's birthday? 

2034
01:40:09,680 --> 01:40:11,760
No, not that I'm averse to it, 
but I just need a little bit 

2035
01:40:11,760 --> 01:40:14,320
more of an explanation. 
You know, for all I know, I'm 

2036
01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:16,320
going to bring him Skittles and 
Starbursts and he's going to 

2037
01:40:16,320 --> 01:40:18,640
sell them for, you know, a 
dollar a piece during recess. 

2038
01:40:18,640 --> 01:40:21,320
Like what do you need candy for?
You have enough candy, right? 

2039
01:40:21,760 --> 01:40:24,200
So. 
He's like, there's some sort of 

2040
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:27,040
party, my homeroom or whatever 
it is, I still don't even really

2041
01:40:27,040 --> 01:40:30,640
know what it is. 
And I'm like, yeah, Daddy's 

2042
01:40:30,640 --> 01:40:32,840
busy. 
What time do you, what time do 

2043
01:40:32,840 --> 01:40:34,360
you need to buy? 
He's like, why? 

2044
01:40:34,360 --> 01:40:37,040
I definitely need to buy 130's 
and I got to run to the store, 

2045
01:40:37,040 --> 01:40:38,560
get some Starbursts, get some 
Skittles. 

2046
01:40:38,560 --> 01:40:41,240
I didn't have any parties in 
school when I was young. 

2047
01:40:41,680 --> 01:40:43,040
Never in high school, that's for
sure. 

2048
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:47,880
In grammar school we would like 
early, like first and second. 

2049
01:40:47,920 --> 01:40:50,920
I went to Catholic grammar 
school, so it was certain like 

2050
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:52,920
Wednesdays we'd had a hat. 
We would have half a days on 

2051
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:55,640
Wednesdays because the public 
school kids would come and they 

2052
01:40:55,640 --> 01:40:58,160
would get their religious 
education on Wednesdays, which 

2053
01:40:58,200 --> 01:41:00,840
meant we would get out of 12/30,
which meant we can run wild in 

2054
01:41:00,840 --> 01:41:04,120
the park, which was they talk 
about having freedom and it was 

2055
01:41:04,120 --> 01:41:06,520
no phones and parents like go do
whatever you want. 

2056
01:41:07,200 --> 01:41:11,080
And I, we would have cupcakes in
like first and 2nd grade for 

2057
01:41:11,080 --> 01:41:13,000
sure. 
But I think every day there's a 

2058
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:16,080
celebration, there's a party for
this day, there's a party for 

2059
01:41:16,080 --> 01:41:17,880
that day, there's a party for 
this holiday. 

2060
01:41:18,280 --> 01:41:20,040
I love holidays as much as 
anybody. 

2061
01:41:20,480 --> 01:41:23,280
Like Christmas, phenomenal, off 
on Monday, Martin Luther King 

2062
01:41:23,280 --> 01:41:26,400
Day, phenomenal, you know. 
Oh, great. 

2063
01:41:26,600 --> 01:41:28,600
All, all day, short Thanksgiving
week. 

2064
01:41:28,600 --> 01:41:29,760
Absolutely. 
Yeah. 

2065
01:41:30,760 --> 01:41:33,160
But they just make up holidays. 
Does anybody else go through 

2066
01:41:33,160 --> 01:41:35,400
that? 
It really is amazing. 

2067
01:41:36,200 --> 01:41:38,680
Bensonhurst in the house. 
Bensonhurst. 

2068
01:41:38,680 --> 01:41:40,560
Was that Saint Dominic's parish 
right there? 

2069
01:41:41,240 --> 01:41:43,880
My aunt and uncle used to live 
in in Bensonhurst. 

2070
01:41:43,880 --> 01:41:47,320
I spent a lot of Sundays in 
Bensonhurst going there for a 

2071
01:41:47,720 --> 01:41:49,720
Sunday meal. 
We'd rotate, my mom would make 

2072
01:41:49,720 --> 01:41:51,960
it, my Aunt Angie would make it,
and then my grandma would make 

2073
01:41:51,960 --> 01:41:53,800
it in Greenpoint. 
So it would be in Flatbush, 

2074
01:41:53,800 --> 01:41:56,520
Greenpoint, and Bensonhurst. 
It's always tough getting a 

2075
01:41:56,520 --> 01:41:58,920
parking spot in Bensonhurst, but
I remember my dad would always 

2076
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:01,640
drop us off and have to circle 
around anyway. 

2077
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:04,440
All right, so I got to get 
bouncing because I got to go get

2078
01:42:04,440 --> 01:42:07,360
the candy. 
So 2 little quick hitters here 

2079
01:42:07,440 --> 01:42:11,480
number one, I'll probably I'll 
probably read a couple of more 

2080
01:42:11,480 --> 01:42:13,720
texts before I bounce. 
But last I already hit the 

2081
01:42:13,720 --> 01:42:15,680
Knicks, I hit the baseball 
stuff. 

2082
01:42:16,120 --> 01:42:19,480
By the way, Twitter, Instagram, 
follow me there like subscribe 

2083
01:42:19,480 --> 01:42:20,640
hype it. 
If you want to do that, if you 

2084
01:42:20,640 --> 01:42:23,280
know what that is, spread the 
word, get it around, get those 

2085
01:42:23,280 --> 01:42:25,160
things going. 
The more we do, the more we get,

2086
01:42:25,160 --> 01:42:27,560
the more we can do. 
All right now these will be 

2087
01:42:27,560 --> 01:42:29,880
quick hits. 
As I said, big game for normal 

2088
01:42:29,880 --> 01:42:30,920
tomorrow night for St. 
John's. 

2089
01:42:31,120 --> 01:42:33,840
Tomorrow night's a big game. 
Now St. 

2090
01:42:33,840 --> 01:42:38,640
John's has back-to-back quad one
Rd. wins, and I know that some 

2091
01:42:38,640 --> 01:42:41,600
of you don't care about the 
numbers don't know the numbers 

2092
01:42:41,600 --> 01:42:42,800
or a little bit of both that's 
fine. 

2093
01:42:42,800 --> 01:42:44,280
I'm. 
So I'm not going to get ultra 

2094
01:42:44,280 --> 01:42:46,960
nerdy and geek out on this, but 
it's a really big game for St. 

2095
01:42:46,960 --> 01:42:49,680
John's because four they've got 
5 losses right? 

2096
01:42:50,200 --> 01:42:52,360
Basically every one of them was 
to a really good team except 

2097
01:42:52,360 --> 01:42:54,640
Providence that was that was a 
bad loss there, but they've 

2098
01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:58,000
recovered nicely and they've 
lost the teams with really good 

2099
01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:00,960
resumes like top resumes right? 
So it's not going to hurt them 

2100
01:43:01,320 --> 01:43:03,720
as long as they can continue to 
win on selection Sunday. 

2101
01:43:04,400 --> 01:43:07,480
But of the five losses, 4 have 
been 2 quad ones, all right? 

2102
01:43:07,480 --> 01:43:10,360
So if there's such a thing as a 
good loss, they've had a few of 

2103
01:43:10,360 --> 01:43:13,800
those. 
Now, to me, you look at 

2104
01:43:13,800 --> 01:43:15,840
Villanova and that's what 
they're playing tomorrow night. 

2105
01:43:15,840 --> 01:43:17,760
I really the Willard's a good 
coach, I think. 

2106
01:43:17,760 --> 01:43:19,480
I think he's the kind of coach 
myself. 

2107
01:43:19,760 --> 01:43:21,480
I was talking to Pitino about 
this yesterday. 

2108
01:43:21,800 --> 01:43:24,800
He's the kind of coach that I 
think should be in a basketball.

2109
01:43:24,800 --> 01:43:27,160
I know well, I know Villanova 
has football, but you know what 

2110
01:43:27,160 --> 01:43:29,320
I mean? 
Like high level, big money 

2111
01:43:29,320 --> 01:43:31,840
football, like Maryland. 
I think he's more like that 

2112
01:43:31,840 --> 01:43:34,840
Seton Hall, Villanova. 
I, I, I think Willard's that 

2113
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:36,560
kind of coach. 
I, I like that for him. 

2114
01:43:36,560 --> 01:43:39,440
I like that for the conference. 
So I like that he's down there 

2115
01:43:39,440 --> 01:43:42,280
in, in Philly at this point. 
Last couple of games and I've 

2116
01:43:42,280 --> 01:43:44,520
done them, they played at the 
Fitterdon Center, which is 

2117
01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:46,840
really nice on campus. 
This one is where the Sixers 

2118
01:43:46,840 --> 01:43:48,000
play. 
I, I forget what, what it's 

2119
01:43:48,000 --> 01:43:49,760
called now. 
The name of the arena used to be

2120
01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:52,840
like Wells Fargo, the old, like 
next to the old Spectrum back in

2121
01:43:52,840 --> 01:43:54,920
the day. 
And it's going to be 20,000 

2122
01:43:54,920 --> 01:43:55,800
people. 
I know some St. 

2123
01:43:55,800 --> 01:43:58,800
John's fans are making the trip.
Villanova fans are phenomenal. 

2124
01:43:59,040 --> 01:44:00,840
So this is a really big game of 
the sense that St. 

2125
01:44:00,840 --> 01:44:03,160
John's right now is number 25 in
NET ranking. 

2126
01:44:03,400 --> 01:44:07,480
It's really, really good number.
And with the back-to-back quad 

2127
01:44:07,480 --> 01:44:11,000
one Rd. wins, they've got 
another chance for a quad one 

2128
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:13,800
Rd. win tomorrow. 
And if they get that now, 

2129
01:44:13,800 --> 01:44:16,120
Milvanova's tough and they got 
some guards that can give St. 

2130
01:44:16,120 --> 01:44:17,400
John's some. 
I'm not going to get too into 

2131
01:44:17,400 --> 01:44:20,240
the weeds on this, but they got 
some guards who can really give 

2132
01:44:20,240 --> 01:44:22,880
them issues. 
But if St. it's an 8:00 PM tip 

2133
01:44:22,880 --> 01:44:24,880
to national profile. 
It's going to be a lot of fun. 

2134
01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:26,720
I think it's on Peacock. 
If St. 

2135
01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:30,080
John's wins this game, the 
resume becomes starts to become 

2136
01:44:30,080 --> 01:44:31,840
really, really, really 
impressive. 

2137
01:44:31,840 --> 01:44:34,720
They haven't played UConn yet 
and Uconn's a beast. 

2138
01:44:34,720 --> 01:44:36,320
And Seton Hall is going to be 
tough. 

2139
01:44:36,360 --> 01:44:38,560
They are. 
Holloway is a tremendous coach. 

2140
01:44:38,760 --> 01:44:41,120
He's got some players. 
They got some NIL money, money. 

2141
01:44:41,320 --> 01:44:43,200
So I'm not just going to say, 
oh, Seton Hall win. 

2142
01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:45,400
I'm not saying that at all. 
You play what's in front of you 

2143
01:44:45,400 --> 01:44:47,440
and Saint John's not good enough
to look at anybody and say we're

2144
01:44:47,440 --> 01:44:50,200
going to just show up and except
maybe like a a Marquette like 

2145
01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:52,240
they did the other night, win by
20 St. 

2146
01:44:52,240 --> 01:44:54,440
Johnson's beginning to get back 
on track, which is good. 

2147
01:44:54,880 --> 01:44:56,760
Zubi's been great. 
They started to figure out who 

2148
01:44:56,760 --> 01:44:59,200
they are identity wise. 
More minutes for Dylan Mitchell.

2149
01:44:59,200 --> 01:45:01,440
The lineup is bigger. 
I think Rick's made a good 

2150
01:45:01,440 --> 01:45:04,000
adjustment there. 
Sellers has been their best 

2151
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:06,360
perimeter player. 
Hopkins kind of figuring things 

2152
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:09,360
out, his knees healthy again. 
And and I think 2 of the keys 

2153
01:45:09,360 --> 01:45:11,440
will be Jackson and Sadden 
moving forward. 

2154
01:45:11,680 --> 01:45:14,920
Jackson's been much better than 
Sadden, who's been basically 

2155
01:45:14,920 --> 01:45:17,600
invisible so, but I haven't 
given up on him. 

2156
01:45:17,600 --> 01:45:19,880
I think Saint John still has a 
pretty good ceiling. 

2157
01:45:20,240 --> 01:45:22,840
I think for them, they're going 
to have to get the right match 

2158
01:45:22,840 --> 01:45:24,720
up in the NCAA Tournament. 
They're going to be in the 

2159
01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:26,480
tournament. 
I think it was a point like when

2160
01:45:26,480 --> 01:45:28,320
they lost the Providence game, 
people were like, Oh my God, are

2161
01:45:28,320 --> 01:45:29,800
they not going to make them? 
Of course they're going to be in

2162
01:45:29,800 --> 01:45:31,120
the tournament. 
They're going to have 20 

2163
01:45:31,120 --> 01:45:33,920
something wins and they're going
to have a good net ranking and 

2164
01:45:33,920 --> 01:45:35,760
everything that you need 
analytically is going to light 

2165
01:45:35,760 --> 01:45:38,000
itself up. 
But I think it really gets even 

2166
01:45:38,280 --> 01:45:40,720
further strengthened and 
bolstered tomorrow night. 

2167
01:45:40,720 --> 01:45:42,440
And I'm not saying they're going
to definitely win. 

2168
01:45:42,440 --> 01:45:44,320
I'm I don't really make 
predictions for games. 

2169
01:45:44,320 --> 01:45:45,400
I do for St. 
John's. 

2170
01:45:45,760 --> 01:45:49,800
You know, I, I looked for the 
spread just to see there wasn't 

2171
01:45:49,800 --> 01:45:51,320
out yet. 
St. 

2172
01:45:51,320 --> 01:45:53,880
John's has won the last couple 
of games on camp, like they 

2173
01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:56,320
played pretty well against, 
although they lost him once last

2174
01:45:56,320 --> 01:45:59,200
year, but they played like they 
couldn't beat him for a decade 

2175
01:45:59,200 --> 01:46:00,640
with Jay Wright Moore. 
St. 

2176
01:46:00,640 --> 01:46:04,480
John's has kind of take a little
bit control of that rivalry now.

2177
01:46:04,840 --> 01:46:07,880
But Villanova is going to be a 
handful tomorrow if you ask me. 

2178
01:46:08,280 --> 01:46:12,080
I mean, maybe St. 
John's -1 1/2, maybe Nova -1 

2179
01:46:12,080 --> 01:46:14,160
maybe you pick them. 
Maybe it starts as the pick 

2180
01:46:14,160 --> 01:46:15,840
them, gets better. 
Certain way, certain way. 

2181
01:46:15,840 --> 01:46:17,320
I think that it's going to be 
within two points. 

2182
01:46:17,320 --> 01:46:19,120
Either way, going to be a fun 
game. 

2183
01:46:19,640 --> 01:46:22,520
That's going to be a big game. 
So let's see how St. 

2184
01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:25,720
John's looks tomorrow. 
By the way, Got a little North 

2185
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:29,080
Carolina, Asheville, NC, Apex, 
NC. 

2186
01:46:29,080 --> 01:46:31,560
Lyndhurst, NJ. 
Look at the shout outs. 

2187
01:46:31,560 --> 01:46:32,600
I love it. 
I love it. 

2188
01:46:32,720 --> 01:46:36,200
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

2189
01:46:36,200 --> 01:46:37,840
More, more. 
Bensonhurst. 

2190
01:46:37,840 --> 01:46:38,760
There you go. 
OK. 

2191
01:46:38,800 --> 01:46:39,960
All right. 
Elbow. 

2192
01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:41,320
It was restaurant. 
Have been there yet? 

2193
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:43,880
Allentown, PA. 
My first radio job. 

2194
01:46:43,880 --> 01:46:45,680
What up, Steve? 
Cape Cod. 

2195
01:46:46,360 --> 01:46:51,920
Guessing it's a Boston fan 
relocated S Bronx Riverview, FL 

2196
01:46:52,240 --> 01:46:56,400
hoping The Jets take Carson back
and not really, I mean certainly

2197
01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:57,720
not in the first round, maybe in
the second. 

2198
01:46:57,720 --> 01:46:59,480
What up Staten Island? 
Mike's out there. 

2199
01:46:59,480 --> 01:47:01,320
Loving the setup. 
Appreciate that Mike, thank you 

2200
01:47:01,320 --> 01:47:02,240
very much. 
Buddy. 

2201
01:47:02,440 --> 01:47:06,000
We got a little Mississippi. 
My God, joking. 

2202
01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:07,240
I've actually been to 
Mississippi. 

2203
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:11,080
I've been to 43 to 50 states. 
I've been to to Mississippi and 

2204
01:47:11,080 --> 01:47:13,880
the time that I went to 
Mississippi, I did a college 

2205
01:47:13,880 --> 01:47:16,040
baseball game. 
Southern Mississippi. 

2206
01:47:17,320 --> 01:47:20,040
I think they played Houston in 
the was it Houston? 

2207
01:47:20,040 --> 01:47:22,840
It was definitely at Southern 
Mississippi and it was the 

2208
01:47:24,200 --> 01:47:28,960
Conference USA baseball 
championship game that was 

2209
01:47:28,960 --> 01:47:32,160
televised on CBS Sports Network.
And man, it was not easy to get 

2210
01:47:32,160 --> 01:47:34,760
to Mississippi. 
Boy, I forget where I I had to 

2211
01:47:34,760 --> 01:47:37,480
take a connector and top. 
I had a good time. 

2212
01:47:37,800 --> 01:47:39,640
People were barbecuing good 
crowd out there. 

2213
01:47:39,640 --> 01:47:42,000
Like do they had the tailgates, 
like all the pickup trucks in 

2214
01:47:42,000 --> 01:47:44,760
the outfield, the barbecues, 
everybody getting buzzed. 

2215
01:47:44,760 --> 01:47:46,320
It was good. 
Yo, what up? 

2216
01:47:46,320 --> 01:47:50,000
Heck, Hector's in the house. 
Heck, it's my boy. 

2217
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:53,080
Heck, heck used to call me and 
Sal all the time. 

2218
01:47:53,480 --> 01:47:55,440
Hector is in the house. 
Let me give him a little pop 

2219
01:47:55,440 --> 01:47:57,040
here. 
It's a good dude, Hector. 

2220
01:47:57,040 --> 01:47:59,400
Oh, look at him trying to get a 
pop, trying to get a little 

2221
01:47:59,400 --> 01:48:00,720
YouTube. 
I'll give it to your blunt 

2222
01:48:00,720 --> 01:48:03,680
thoughts that he actually light 
up and do the show. 

2223
01:48:04,360 --> 01:48:07,840
Do you? 
Blunt thoughts 13 Hector from 

2224
01:48:07,840 --> 01:48:10,120
Washington Heights. 
Washington Heights. 

2225
01:48:10,120 --> 01:48:12,320
But he's a big Mets fan. 
I met Hector, met him in a Mets 

2226
01:48:12,320 --> 01:48:14,640
game, me and Sal and I forget 
who else was there. 

2227
01:48:15,280 --> 01:48:17,280
I mean, do you, I mean, I'm 
guessing if the name of your 

2228
01:48:17,280 --> 01:48:19,840
YouTube show is blunt thoughts 
kind of like up and spoke with 

2229
01:48:19,840 --> 01:48:21,840
those guys. 
Steven Jackson, like you got to 

2230
01:48:21,840 --> 01:48:23,360
light something up before you go
on the air. 

2231
01:48:23,560 --> 01:48:26,120
I can never do that. 
There's no way I can smoke 

2232
01:48:26,120 --> 01:48:27,840
something and actually be 
coherent. 

2233
01:48:27,840 --> 01:48:30,280
I couldn't do it. 
I think I'd be so paranoid. 

2234
01:48:30,280 --> 01:48:32,720
I I I would be the end of me. 
I just no way. 

2235
01:48:33,520 --> 01:48:37,560
I remember once they went small,
but it was still pretty, pretty 

2236
01:48:37,560 --> 01:48:39,600
funny. 
Evan and Hoff did one of the 

2237
01:48:39,600 --> 01:48:42,920
Rico's on a gummy. 
Now you know Hoff. 

2238
01:48:43,080 --> 01:48:44,960
I've worked with Hoff forever. 
Hoff likes to have a little bit 

2239
01:48:44,960 --> 01:48:47,480
of fun. 
I mean, Evan, Evan doesn't party

2240
01:48:47,480 --> 01:48:49,640
at all. 
And I remember him saying it was

2241
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:52,560
I just I popped in one of the 
few times I he does good work. 

2242
01:48:52,560 --> 01:48:55,640
I just, I'm just, you know, not 
actively searching out the Rico 

2243
01:48:55,640 --> 01:48:57,280
Brodia podcast, even though it's
good. 

2244
01:48:58,560 --> 01:49:00,560
I mean, I had to pop in that I'm
like, is he looking like a 

2245
01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:02,000
goofball? 
Is he bugging out? 

2246
01:49:02,800 --> 01:49:05,360
There's no way. 
There is no way. 

2247
01:49:05,440 --> 01:49:09,040
Ever tried those seltzers? 
Those guys hit you fast too. 

2248
01:49:10,200 --> 01:49:12,600
What else here I will make my 
football picks in a minute. 

2249
01:49:12,600 --> 01:49:15,560
Hey, Indiana, I just watched I 
watched Hoosiers the other 

2250
01:49:15,560 --> 01:49:16,480
night. 
See is what I mean. 

2251
01:49:16,800 --> 01:49:21,120
I see that we got this guy where
we got or gal drink buzz cola 

2252
01:49:21,120 --> 01:49:25,360
out in Indiana and I couldn't I 
couldn't remember if I watched 

2253
01:49:25,360 --> 01:49:27,880
Hoosiers with my son at some 
point when he was really young. 

2254
01:49:28,360 --> 01:49:30,800
I'm like, as it called, Did we? 
Did you ever watch Hoosiers? 

2255
01:49:31,080 --> 01:49:33,640
Like we watched a lot of those 
old movies like love the game, 

2256
01:49:33,640 --> 01:49:37,480
feel the dreams. 
One of my buddies was actually 

2257
01:49:37,480 --> 01:49:40,640
in for the IT was in the movie 
for the love for the love of the

2258
01:49:40,640 --> 01:49:43,880
game. 
The third baseman up more a 

2259
01:49:43,880 --> 01:49:45,760
buddy of a buddy. 
I don't want to overstate it. 

2260
01:49:45,760 --> 01:49:49,400
My college roommate who I played
baseball with and was in my 

2261
01:49:49,400 --> 01:49:51,920
wedding, one of my best friends 
to this day, Dan played golf for

2262
01:49:51,920 --> 01:49:52,840
them. 
I was just with him last 

2263
01:49:52,840 --> 01:49:54,240
weekend. 
Great dude. 

2264
01:49:54,560 --> 01:50:00,200
His buddy Rock, Rocklin County, 
the play when Kevin Costner is 

2265
01:50:00,200 --> 01:50:02,600
trying to preserve the no 
hitter, the third baseman who 

2266
01:50:02,600 --> 01:50:05,440
makes the play up the line at 
Yankee Stadium. 

2267
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:08,160
His name is Lemonis. 
Chris Lemonis, who played 

2268
01:50:08,160 --> 01:50:09,840
baseball at St. 
John's, hung out with him a few 

2269
01:50:09,840 --> 01:50:12,360
times. 
Really good college player, 

2270
01:50:12,360 --> 01:50:15,440
better than me for sure. 
He was a stud and he played a 

2271
01:50:15,440 --> 01:50:17,560
bunch of years in the minors. 
I don't know if he got up to 

2272
01:50:17,560 --> 01:50:20,560
AAA, definitely up to AA, Was 
with the Tigers, part of the 

2273
01:50:20,560 --> 01:50:24,320
reason why he was in the movie. 
And now I think he's an agent. 

2274
01:50:24,400 --> 01:50:26,040
Chris Lemonis. 
Chris, if you're out there, 

2275
01:50:26,040 --> 01:50:27,560
shout out bro, what up man? 
It's been a while. 

2276
01:50:27,920 --> 01:50:30,480
He was a good ball player and he
made that great play up the 

2277
01:50:30,480 --> 01:50:31,880
line. 
Like it looks like a short 

2278
01:50:31,880 --> 01:50:33,400
double. 
He, you know, jumps to his feet,

2279
01:50:33,400 --> 01:50:36,760
throws a dime, you know, shows 
off the hose across the field. 

2280
01:50:36,960 --> 01:50:40,640
And he was. 
So anyway, so I, I have watched 

2281
01:50:40,640 --> 01:50:43,600
all those old movies with, with 
my son Kelly Preston was 

2282
01:50:43,600 --> 01:50:45,320
phenomenal in that movie. 
My God. 

2283
01:50:45,880 --> 01:50:48,960
And I rest in peace. 
She's one of my favorites. 

2284
01:50:48,960 --> 01:50:51,000
So what I see in the end, I'm 
like, I remember saying to my 

2285
01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:53,240
son, like during Christmas, I'm 
like, have you watched Hoosiers?

2286
01:50:53,600 --> 01:50:57,160
He's like no, and we watch it 
and like with movies like that, 

2287
01:50:57,240 --> 01:50:59,400
you know, because he plays on 2 
basketball teams, everybody's 

2288
01:50:59,400 --> 01:51:01,920
got the new sneakers and all the
gear and the swag, right? 

2289
01:51:02,440 --> 01:51:04,440
Like these young athletes are 
just they're pimped out. 

2290
01:51:04,440 --> 01:51:07,160
They got it all. 
And I wonder, I'm like, how was 

2291
01:51:07,160 --> 01:51:09,880
he going to like, you know, with
the nut hugger shorts, you know,

2292
01:51:09,880 --> 01:51:13,160
basically like little diapers or
like Andre the Giant tighty 

2293
01:51:13,160 --> 01:51:16,520
whitys, you know that they're at
the like the Chuck Taylor 

2294
01:51:16,520 --> 01:51:19,880
Converse sneakers. 
And I got to pass the ball 7 

2295
01:51:19,880 --> 01:51:23,240
times before we take a shot, you
know, shut 9 screens, No 3 point

2296
01:51:23,240 --> 01:51:24,760
shot. 
And he loved it. 

2297
01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:26,320
Actually, I didn't know if he 
was going to enjoy it. 

2298
01:51:26,320 --> 01:51:28,960
He actually really, really loved
it and I loved watching it 

2299
01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:31,880
again. 
It was so cool, absolutely cool.

2300
01:51:31,880 --> 01:51:34,880
What do we got here? 
We're getting a lot of these 

2301
01:51:34,880 --> 01:51:38,040
chats, a lot of these guys. 
I'm going to give you my picks. 

2302
01:51:38,040 --> 01:51:39,160
I'm going to wrap it up in a 
SEC. 

2303
01:51:39,160 --> 01:51:41,920
What up what up sack Caldwell, 
NJ here. 

2304
01:51:41,920 --> 01:51:45,720
All right, what up Caldwell? 
He is a Chiefs fan, which is 

2305
01:51:45,760 --> 01:51:48,360
which means he is a wrong fan 
and he knows what I mean by 

2306
01:51:48,360 --> 01:51:49,600
that. 
Do something cash. 

2307
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:52,160
I mean they're trying they're 
trying sack. 

2308
01:51:52,160 --> 01:51:55,240
I think they get Bellinger. 
I'd be very, very surprised if 

2309
01:51:55,240 --> 01:51:59,600
they don't get Bellinger. 
But you know, I mean, if they 

2310
01:51:59,600 --> 01:52:02,080
don't, then the Yankees. 
And like if the Yankees, I talk 

2311
01:52:02,080 --> 01:52:03,800
about what like the Mets would 
be if they don't get them. 

2312
01:52:04,080 --> 01:52:06,080
If the Mets don't do something, 
they missed out on Tucker, The 

2313
01:52:06,080 --> 01:52:08,320
Mets don't do anything. 
Like what are the Yankees going 

2314
01:52:08,320 --> 01:52:10,480
to be if they don't get 
Bellinger? 

2315
01:52:10,480 --> 01:52:11,800
And I don't think that they'll 
whip on them. 

2316
01:52:11,800 --> 01:52:15,080
I'm just saying if they don't 
get Belly and they're not going 

2317
01:52:15,080 --> 01:52:16,960
to get Bichette, he's not coming
here. 

2318
01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:19,600
I mean, they're going to try to 
trade for Peralta and there's a 

2319
01:52:19,600 --> 01:52:21,280
chance they might get him, but I
think he's going to wind up with

2320
01:52:21,280 --> 01:52:22,880
the Mets. 
Like what if the Yankees don't 

2321
01:52:22,880 --> 01:52:24,920
do anything? 
What if the Yankees opening day 

2322
01:52:24,920 --> 01:52:29,760
lineup is Rice, Jazz, Caballero,
McMahon, Wells, Dominguez or 

2323
01:52:29,760 --> 01:52:31,560
Jones? 
Probably Dominguez and then 

2324
01:52:31,560 --> 01:52:33,560
obviously Grisham and Judge and 
Stanton. 

2325
01:52:35,640 --> 01:52:38,240
That is that is not a team, but 
a lot of upside. 

2326
01:52:38,240 --> 01:52:40,720
I mean, your your pitch, your 
pitching staff better be 

2327
01:52:40,720 --> 01:52:42,040
phenomenal. 
Otherwise, you're not going to 

2328
01:52:42,040 --> 01:52:43,880
win anything. 
This is the longest show 

2329
01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:45,760
officially almost two hours. 
All right, let me give you my 

2330
01:52:45,760 --> 01:52:50,000
picks here. 
So Saturday, tomorrow, 4:30 

2331
01:52:50,000 --> 01:52:53,760
Bills at the Broncos. 
Denver -1 1/2 The Bills are 

2332
01:52:53,760 --> 01:52:56,280
really banged up. 
My heart. 

2333
01:52:56,280 --> 01:52:58,120
I know. 
I'm so conflicted here as a Jet 

2334
01:52:58,120 --> 01:53:01,120
fan because I really do love 
Josh Allen and I really would 

2335
01:53:01,120 --> 01:53:04,120
love to see Josh Allen. 
I'd much rather watch Josh Allen

2336
01:53:04,120 --> 01:53:05,640
playing the Super Bowl than 
Bonex. 

2337
01:53:05,640 --> 01:53:08,480
Like when we get to the Super 
Bowl, I want to see all time 

2338
01:53:08,480 --> 01:53:10,920
quarterbacks or yeah, 
quarterbacks who have a chance 

2339
01:53:10,920 --> 01:53:12,800
to be all time. 
And obviously if you win the 

2340
01:53:12,800 --> 01:53:15,480
Super Bowl or you get to the 
Super Bowl, that elevates the 

2341
01:53:15,480 --> 01:53:18,120
profile. 
I just, you know, even if Bonex 

2342
01:53:18,120 --> 01:53:20,360
gets there and wins, like I 
think he's going to be right. 

2343
01:53:20,520 --> 01:53:21,680
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm 
wrong. 

2344
01:53:21,680 --> 01:53:25,200
I think he's going to be more 
like the Flacco type than, you 

2345
01:53:25,200 --> 01:53:27,240
know, the Super four-star 
quarterback who is now going to 

2346
01:53:27,240 --> 01:53:28,840
win a couple and go down as one 
of the best. 

2347
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:30,920
He's not that guy where Josh 
Hamlin is. 

2348
01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:33,360
But the Bills are really banged 
up. 

2349
01:53:33,520 --> 01:53:38,240
Broncos defense is great. 
It's at home in the altitude. 

2350
01:53:38,240 --> 01:53:42,160
They're well rested. 
Oh, man, my heart says go Bills.

2351
01:53:42,160 --> 01:53:44,080
My money says Broncos cover the 
number. 

2352
01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:46,920
Give me Denver -1 1/2. 
All right, that's Saturday, 4/30

2353
01:53:48,040 --> 01:53:53,040
at 8:00 PM, Niners at Seattle. 
Now, Darnold's got the oblique 

2354
01:53:53,040 --> 01:53:55,800
issue, which is going to be 
interesting. 

2355
01:53:56,080 --> 01:53:59,400
That's a massive number. 
I mean, me and Sal would always 

2356
01:53:59,400 --> 01:54:01,240
do the picks. 
That was fun. 

2357
01:54:01,240 --> 01:54:04,080
We didn't get to finish it this 
year, so we got spared dressing 

2358
01:54:04,080 --> 01:54:07,520
up like Doink or like Gold Dust 
or whatever the hell else we got

2359
01:54:07,520 --> 01:54:10,760
dressed up as. 
But I was brother of love. 

2360
01:54:11,280 --> 01:54:14,040
I think that one of the things 
that we always tried to stay 

2361
01:54:14,040 --> 01:54:16,200
away from doing the pic. 
Not always, but most of the time

2362
01:54:16,200 --> 01:54:18,640
it's certainly something I 
calculate like if there's a big 

2363
01:54:18,640 --> 01:54:21,720
spread a even if there's a 
fairly nominal spread, but if 

2364
01:54:21,720 --> 01:54:24,280
there's a big spread, I'm not 
necessarily running to that 

2365
01:54:24,280 --> 01:54:26,320
game. 
If it's a divisional game now 

2366
01:54:26,320 --> 01:54:28,320
it's a playoff game, but it's 
still divisional game. 

2367
01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:35,400
But darno, like that oblique. 
I remember God, I tore. 

2368
01:54:35,400 --> 01:54:38,960
I was playing golf and I and he 
doesn't have it this bad, but I,

2369
01:54:39,240 --> 01:54:41,600
I remember like I actually, I 
don't know, I don't know how it 

2370
01:54:41,600 --> 01:54:42,560
happened. 
It doesn't even matter. 

2371
01:54:42,720 --> 01:54:44,680
But I heard it's called the 
intercostal. 

2372
01:54:44,680 --> 01:54:48,680
INTERCOSTAL. 
Never even heard of it. 

2373
01:54:49,040 --> 01:54:51,640
And I even studied kinesiology 
like I and I've had a lot of 

2374
01:54:51,640 --> 01:54:54,320
injuries, as you guys know, the 
Achilles, the back surgery, 

2375
01:54:54,320 --> 01:54:56,000
Tommy John. 
You've never heard about the 

2376
01:54:56,000 --> 01:54:57,400
intercostal. 
I'm not going to bore you with a

2377
01:54:57,400 --> 01:54:59,000
long story, but it hurts like 
hell. 

2378
01:54:59,360 --> 01:55:02,120
It feels like somebody. 
Those are the oblique strains 

2379
01:55:02,120 --> 01:55:04,800
that intercostal. 
Just a more tricked up, churched

2380
01:55:04,800 --> 01:55:06,960
up word for it. 
And he heard his oblique right. 

2381
01:55:07,360 --> 01:55:10,800
And I remember when I heard it, 
the problem with that is why it 

2382
01:55:10,800 --> 01:55:13,800
doesn't really heal that quick. 
Is like you could be in a dead 

2383
01:55:13,800 --> 01:55:16,560
sleep in the middle of the night
and like stretch and then it 

2384
01:55:16,560 --> 01:55:19,520
just pierces and it kind of goes
backwards and whatever healing 

2385
01:55:19,520 --> 01:55:23,560
you may have had up until that 
point it it's undone and it's a 

2386
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:26,680
problem now. 
I mean, me trying to get around 

2387
01:55:26,680 --> 01:55:29,960
and shoot 103 on the golf course
and act like a knucklehead with 

2388
01:55:29,960 --> 01:55:32,160
that injury, which of course I 
played through, it is a little 

2389
01:55:32,160 --> 01:55:35,800
different than a professional 
quarterback being compromised 

2390
01:55:35,800 --> 01:55:38,200
and on the run and getting hit 
and all that stuff. 

2391
01:55:38,200 --> 01:55:42,280
So that is pause enough. 
And the respect I've got for the

2392
01:55:42,280 --> 01:55:44,640
Niners, although without Kittle,
they're really banged up. 

2393
01:55:44,640 --> 01:55:49,160
You know what, if I'm not going 
to bet this game, but if I was, 

2394
01:55:49,200 --> 01:55:51,480
I would take the seven and I 
would go small. 

2395
01:55:51,480 --> 01:55:54,160
I, I really would go small. 
Just give me a little more 

2396
01:55:54,160 --> 01:55:55,400
interest. 
It's going to be a good game 

2397
01:55:55,400 --> 01:55:57,320
anyway you hope. 
And they played a couple of 

2398
01:55:57,320 --> 01:55:58,680
weeks ago. 
I watched that game with my 

2399
01:55:58,680 --> 01:55:59,760
buddies. 
It was a good game. 

2400
01:55:59,760 --> 01:56:03,440
That's why Seattle got the bye. 
But the Niners are so jacked up 

2401
01:56:03,440 --> 01:56:06,080
with the injuries, I I'd be 
stunned if they win. 

2402
01:56:06,840 --> 01:56:09,640
But they are the kind of 
organization I'll give enough 

2403
01:56:09,640 --> 01:56:13,520
respect to a touchdown, like 
even if they score 3 early or 

2404
01:56:13,560 --> 01:56:16,120
Darnold's hurt and field goal or
touchdown. 

2405
01:56:16,120 --> 01:56:19,760
And now listen, this, this works
sometimes it worked with 

2406
01:56:19,760 --> 01:56:23,800
Carolina, like when you're a big
dog and I was 10 1/2 that 

2407
01:56:23,800 --> 01:56:25,640
number. 
If you score early, let's say, 

2408
01:56:25,760 --> 01:56:27,840
let's say the Niners, they score
a touchdown early. 

2409
01:56:27,840 --> 01:56:30,200
Your seven point dogs. 
Well, now all of a sudden from a

2410
01:56:30,200 --> 01:56:32,280
betting perspective, you're 
playing with 14 points. 

2411
01:56:32,600 --> 01:56:35,760
And you know, once the game 
begins to take an identity, no 

2412
01:56:35,760 --> 01:56:38,240
matter how much better a certain
team might be, it's just it's 

2413
01:56:38,240 --> 01:56:40,360
hard to make up those points 
together, even though it seems 

2414
01:56:40,360 --> 01:56:42,320
easy. 
Win by a touchdown down, Shave 

2415
01:56:42,320 --> 01:56:44,440
it down 6 1/2. 
Win by a touchdown, cover the 

2416
01:56:44,440 --> 01:56:46,560
number. 
How infrequently does that 

2417
01:56:46,560 --> 01:56:48,520
happen? 
Think about how much you bet and

2418
01:56:48,520 --> 01:56:49,640
how much you lose. 
Right? 

2419
01:56:49,640 --> 01:56:51,760
So I'm not touching it, but I'm 
going to. 

2420
01:56:51,760 --> 01:56:54,400
I would take the Niners +7. 
And I will for the sake of let 

2421
01:56:54,400 --> 01:56:56,240
you know what I think is going 
to happen Sunday. 

2422
01:56:56,480 --> 01:57:01,680
Texans at the Pats, Man, oh, 
man, that defense is awesome. 

2423
01:57:02,480 --> 01:57:04,760
I'm going to take the Texans to 
cover. 

2424
01:57:05,080 --> 01:57:08,040
Even though CJ Stroud was awful 
against the Steelers, that game 

2425
01:57:08,040 --> 01:57:11,560
was terrible. 
And I mean, Vrabel's a hell of a

2426
01:57:11,560 --> 01:57:13,760
coach. 
Texans very well coached Texans 

2427
01:57:13,760 --> 01:57:17,200
defense better up in Gillette. 
May May is better than Stroud, 

2428
01:57:17,200 --> 01:57:20,680
but Stroud is capable of putting
up a big game as well. 

2429
01:57:21,280 --> 01:57:24,960
Small spread. 
I can see like 2120 Pats, you 

2430
01:57:24,960 --> 01:57:27,560
know, hell, depending upon the 
weather, I could even see like 

2431
01:57:27,760 --> 01:57:29,120
13. 
Oh, that's that's a little bit 

2432
01:57:29,120 --> 01:57:34,920
low 1714 you you probably wind 
up getting a push here, but I 

2433
01:57:34,920 --> 01:57:37,680
would take the three from a 
Houston betting perspective and 

2434
01:57:37,680 --> 01:57:41,120
then the Rams at the Bears. 
I'm taking the bears getting 3 

2435
01:57:41,120 --> 01:57:42,920
1/2 at home. 
I'm going to ride the home dog. 

2436
01:57:42,920 --> 01:57:47,120
So as I like to say in 
summation, I just got to start 

2437
01:57:47,120 --> 01:57:49,600
playing the music and then when 
I start tricking out these, you 

2438
01:57:49,600 --> 01:57:51,960
know, the show with the music 
and the the graphics and the 

2439
01:57:51,960 --> 01:57:54,360
bells and the whistles, the 
betting segments going to be 

2440
01:57:54,360 --> 01:57:56,000
phenomenal. 
I mean, I love doing this stuff.

2441
01:57:56,320 --> 01:57:59,800
All right, so I'm hoping the 
Bills win. 

2442
01:57:59,920 --> 01:58:02,080
Don't think they will. 
Broncos -1 1/2. 

2443
01:58:02,080 --> 01:58:06,400
Give me the Niners +7, give me 
the Texans plus 3 narrow paths 

2444
01:58:06,400 --> 01:58:09,440
win and give me the Bears +3. 
And you know, give me the Bears 

2445
01:58:09,440 --> 01:58:11,720
on the money line. 
I'm going to sprinkle some of 

2446
01:58:11,720 --> 01:58:13,800
that on as well. 
I feel really good about the 

2447
01:58:13,800 --> 01:58:16,600
cover, less about the win, but 
hell, if you're in the 

2448
01:58:16,600 --> 01:58:19,520
neighborhood of covering the 3 
1/2, why not throw a little C 

2449
01:58:19,520 --> 01:58:23,080
note or whatever you think? 
And we're 50 on the on the plus 

2450
01:58:23,080 --> 01:58:25,840
side there, try to try to win 
with the and and just have a 

2451
01:58:25,840 --> 01:58:28,000
really big night. 
So those are the pics. 

2452
01:58:28,800 --> 01:58:30,680
Awesome stuff today, guys, Great
comments. 

2453
01:58:30,680 --> 01:58:33,000
Really good job by you Get out 
there, spread the word. 

2454
01:58:33,000 --> 01:58:36,640
BT unleashed each day we grow, 
we grow, we grow, we grow little

2455
01:58:36,640 --> 01:58:40,520
bit more. 
Contract is just about dotted 

2456
01:58:40,520 --> 01:58:41,920
for my producer. 
Not yet. 

2457
01:58:42,320 --> 01:58:43,880
You know, he's got to have his 
guy look at it, which I 

2458
01:58:43,880 --> 01:58:46,200
obviously respect. 
I would, I don't want to speak 

2459
01:58:46,200 --> 01:58:49,360
for him. 
I would fully expect that we are

2460
01:58:49,360 --> 01:58:53,040
up and operational Monday with a
producer, which will then enable

2461
01:58:53,040 --> 01:58:56,440
me to really have the guests and
do all the things I want to do 

2462
01:58:56,800 --> 01:58:59,560
and, you know, pop in, just make
it easier on on me. 

2463
01:58:59,560 --> 01:59:02,120
And then obviously the bells and
the whistles make the graphics 

2464
01:59:02,120 --> 01:59:04,440
look better. 
Obviously what's coming behind 

2465
01:59:04,440 --> 01:59:06,480
me as I build out the studios. 
I've told you guys a million 

2466
01:59:06,480 --> 01:59:13,160
times as wait a second, no way, 
no, no, no way. 

2467
01:59:13,160 --> 01:59:17,680
Did the Mets just sign Bichette?
There is no freaking way. 

2468
01:59:18,200 --> 01:59:19,960
That's the other thing. 
If I had a producer, somebody 

2469
01:59:19,960 --> 01:59:21,480
could tell me that they just 
signed Bichette. 

2470
01:59:22,720 --> 01:59:27,400
You got to be kidding me. 
Where the hell is it? 

2471
01:59:27,400 --> 01:59:29,000
Why is it not popping up? 
The intrigue? 

2472
01:59:29,480 --> 01:59:32,960
I mean, everybody's saying it. 
Three years. 

2473
01:59:34,040 --> 01:59:37,960
Holy shit. 
Wow. 

2474
01:59:41,560 --> 01:59:46,200
Why is this not updating? 
Lyle Tucker? 

2475
01:59:46,200 --> 01:59:48,960
Let me just go to Heyman instead
of searching this like a crazy 

2476
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:49,800
person. 
Jeez. 

2477
01:59:49,800 --> 01:59:56,000
All right, that's two hours ago.
No, I don't see it. 

2478
01:59:56,240 --> 01:59:58,760
All right, I don't see it. 
Rosenthal. 

2479
01:59:59,120 --> 02:00:02,040
All right, now I'm getting. 
Let me let me jump through hoops

2480
02:00:02,040 --> 02:00:04,160
here. 
This is this is riveting, 

2481
02:00:04,360 --> 02:00:06,440
riveting stuff. 
Kenny Rosenthal, Let's make sure

2482
02:00:06,440 --> 02:00:08,000
we're not getting ball sacked 
here. 

2483
02:00:09,560 --> 02:00:12,080
But Will Salmon now? 
Will Salmon's been really good 

2484
02:00:12,080 --> 02:00:17,240
with this stuff? 
Raking 2 minutes ago the Mets 

2485
02:00:17,240 --> 02:00:21,360
and boba shit. 
There's no fucking way that this

2486
02:00:21,360 --> 02:00:26,720
is real or in agreement on a 
three-year deal according to the

2487
02:00:26,760 --> 02:00:28,200
Athletic. 
Good job by them. 

2488
02:00:28,600 --> 02:00:31,920
Wow, I can't handle the show 
now. 

2489
02:00:32,680 --> 02:00:37,880
Whoa, all right, you know what? 
We got a little juice. 

2490
02:00:37,880 --> 02:00:41,040
Ladies and gentlemen. 
I wish she was going to the 

2491
02:00:41,040 --> 02:00:47,400
Bronx, but I can do the dance. 
Not about the Yankees now That's

2492
02:00:47,400 --> 02:00:49,200
phenomenal. 
Let me tell you something right 

2493
02:00:49,200 --> 02:00:52,080
now, now I don't know exactly 
what the terms are. 

2494
02:00:52,080 --> 02:00:54,400
It looks like it's three years. 
I got to learn about the opt 

2495
02:00:54,400 --> 02:00:55,400
outs. 
I got to see how much money it 

2496
02:00:55,400 --> 02:00:58,520
is. 
I would rather have boba shit 

2497
02:00:59,160 --> 02:01:03,480
for the Mets than Kyle Tucker. 
I really would, and I was just 

2498
02:01:03,480 --> 02:01:06,840
talking about this earlier now. 
All right, let's let's go 

2499
02:01:06,880 --> 02:01:08,440
through this here. 
All right. 

2500
02:01:08,440 --> 02:01:11,160
Oh man, do I love this stuff. 
I live for this stuff for a 

2501
02:01:11,160 --> 02:01:12,880
second, short third. 
Let me get here. 

2502
02:01:13,320 --> 02:01:15,760
All right, so we got Polanco 
first base. 

2503
02:01:17,240 --> 02:01:23,280
We have Simeon at second base. 
You got Lindoort short. 

2504
02:01:24,640 --> 02:01:27,240
I, I, I'm I'm going to put I'm 
going to walk through this. 

2505
02:01:27,240 --> 02:01:29,000
I'm going to put Bouchette at 
third base right now. 

2506
02:01:29,000 --> 02:01:32,320
My goodness, wow, good for them.
Take it a swing. 

2507
02:01:32,560 --> 02:01:33,880
But the Yankees couldn't do 
that. 

2508
02:01:35,960 --> 02:01:41,560
All right, so now, I mean, this 
opens up a million 

2509
02:01:41,560 --> 02:01:45,320
possibilities, all right, if 
you're going to put Michette at 

2510
02:01:45,320 --> 02:01:49,080
third base, well, now obviously,
you have to either think about 

2511
02:01:49,080 --> 02:01:51,800
trading Beatty. 
Who would get you something 

2512
02:01:52,120 --> 02:01:55,160
Beatty with one of these? 
Not McClain, one of those young 

2513
02:01:55,160 --> 02:01:57,160
pitchers going to get you 
something big. 

2514
02:01:57,160 --> 02:02:00,360
It's going to. 
Now, you can also put Beatty in 

2515
02:02:00,360 --> 02:02:01,680
first base. 
You can trade Vientos. 

2516
02:02:01,680 --> 02:02:03,800
I don't think Vientos has the 
appeal of Beatty, so that's not 

2517
02:02:03,800 --> 02:02:06,000
as appealing to me. 
Whatever, that's a possibility. 

2518
02:02:06,920 --> 02:02:11,200
All right, so they got Bichette.
You're going to have a Lindor, 

2519
02:02:11,200 --> 02:02:14,760
you're going to have Bichette, 
you're going to have Soda 123. 

2520
02:02:14,880 --> 02:02:17,160
That is really good. 
And you're going to have a 

2521
02:02:17,160 --> 02:02:19,240
switch hitter, A righty, A 
lefty. 

2522
02:02:19,640 --> 02:02:26,320
Wow, 3 for one 2642 AAV. 
Look at you guys helping me out.

2523
02:02:26,320 --> 02:02:27,480
Bow to the Mets. 
Yeah. 

2524
02:02:27,960 --> 02:02:29,920
Oh my God. 
By the way, now you want to 

2525
02:02:29,920 --> 02:02:32,320
throw in some real comments, 
I'll pop a few up now I got to I

2526
02:02:32,320 --> 02:02:33,880
got to stay a little bit here. 
I got to dig in. 

2527
02:02:34,520 --> 02:02:42,600
Now the other thing it does is, 
I mean, is there a chance that 

2528
02:02:42,600 --> 02:02:45,160
that that the Mets just say, you
know what? 

2529
02:02:45,760 --> 02:02:48,960
Fuck it, Bellinger. 
Let's go. 

2530
02:02:49,680 --> 02:02:52,840
We're going to sign Bellinger 
and then we're going to we're 

2531
02:02:52,840 --> 02:02:55,920
going to trade for Peralta, 
right? 

2532
02:02:56,240 --> 02:02:58,960
Is there a chance that that 
could happen? 

2533
02:02:59,560 --> 02:03:01,560
Why not? 
Bellinger hasn't signed with 

2534
02:03:01,560 --> 02:03:03,640
anybody. 
Mets could use the center 

2535
02:03:03,640 --> 02:03:05,160
fielder. 
Mets could use the first 

2536
02:03:05,160 --> 02:03:09,840
baseman. 
So I don't want to go nuts here,

2537
02:03:09,840 --> 02:03:15,560
but 1/3 of that equation, 
Bichette, Bellinger, Peralta, 

2538
02:03:15,760 --> 02:03:20,440
one third 1:33 to third percent 
check and the other two are 

2539
02:03:20,440 --> 02:03:25,440
still attainable. 1 requires 
money and then one's going to 

2540
02:03:25,440 --> 02:03:27,840
require the appetite to give up 
whatever you got to give up to 

2541
02:03:27,840 --> 02:03:29,680
Peralta. 
And you have to think that 

2542
02:03:29,680 --> 02:03:33,440
Stearns, you know, give it his 
familiar familiarity with the 

2543
02:03:33,440 --> 02:03:36,360
Brewers, will be able to make 
this happen, even though I know 

2544
02:03:36,360 --> 02:03:38,280
the Yanks are making a big push 
for Peralta as well. 

2545
02:03:38,760 --> 02:03:41,200
All right, let's just operate in
fantasyland for second year. 

2546
02:03:41,480 --> 02:03:53,800
So see, Yankees get Bellinger, I
mean Belly and center, Soto and 

2547
02:03:53,800 --> 02:03:56,480
Wright. 
And at that point, see, here's 

2548
02:03:56,480 --> 02:03:58,160
the other thing. 
This is those two, the more 

2549
02:03:58,160 --> 02:04:01,160
sticks that you bring in, the 
more you can give Benj a real 

2550
02:04:01,160 --> 02:04:03,800
chance to win the job. 
And even if you don't, he's 

2551
02:04:03,800 --> 02:04:05,120
still going to get a chance to 
win the job. 

2552
02:04:05,120 --> 02:04:07,760
But you can, you can if you 
really believe in him as a 

2553
02:04:07,760 --> 02:04:09,240
player. 
I know Taylor's a very good 

2554
02:04:09,240 --> 02:04:09,920
defender. 
I get that. 

2555
02:04:09,920 --> 02:04:11,600
But he can't have Taylor play it
every day. 

2556
02:04:11,600 --> 02:04:15,960
He's just you can't hit. 
So with the protection around 

2557
02:04:15,960 --> 02:04:20,080
Benj and a top heavy lineup, 
well, if he proves himself in 

2558
02:04:20,080 --> 02:04:23,960
the spring, you could give him a
2 month runway to figure things 

2559
02:04:23,960 --> 02:04:26,960
out a little bit. 
And I'm like, listen, there's no

2560
02:04:26,960 --> 02:04:28,640
guarantee that he's going to be 
the real deal. 

2561
02:04:28,640 --> 02:04:31,800
But but why can't he be like 
think of how what we were just 

2562
02:04:31,800 --> 02:04:33,520
think about what you were 
thinking about the Mets last 

2563
02:04:33,520 --> 02:04:34,600
night. 
Even though the Mets were 

2564
02:04:34,600 --> 02:04:37,640
aggressive and I think you had 
to get on on, like you couldn't 

2565
02:04:37,640 --> 02:04:39,440
crush the Mets for the offer. 
Like they tried. 

2566
02:04:39,880 --> 02:04:42,920
The Yankees didn't even try that
with with Tucker, right? 

2567
02:04:43,160 --> 02:04:46,720
But imagine if like Benge is 
really, really that guy. 

2568
02:04:46,720 --> 02:04:50,000
Like if he's a really ready and 
capable young minor league 

2569
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:53,440
player who comes here and 
seamlessly transitions and they 

2570
02:04:53,440 --> 02:04:55,400
tell me he can play well, they 
tell us he can play center 

2571
02:04:55,400 --> 02:04:57,360
field. 
And now you got Bellinger in 

2572
02:04:57,360 --> 02:04:59,720
left where he's terrific. 
Then Bellinger in center is 

2573
02:04:59,720 --> 02:05:03,920
fine, but Bellinger in center, 
Benge in Bellinger left, 

2574
02:05:03,920 --> 02:05:08,800
Benjamin Sanro, Soto in right, 
Bouchet at third, Beatty at 

2575
02:05:08,800 --> 02:05:12,960
first, Lindor, Simeon and then 
Polanco was the DH. 

2576
02:05:13,080 --> 02:05:18,400
Alvarez, I mean, now, now you 
got a chance to mess around. 

2577
02:05:18,600 --> 02:05:20,520
What that he's not going to 
still not going to beat the 

2578
02:05:20,520 --> 02:05:22,200
Dodgers. 
I mean, you know a guy you enjoy

2579
02:05:22,200 --> 02:05:25,160
the moment signing Bichette. 
It would still take a miracle to

2580
02:05:25,160 --> 02:05:27,520
beat the Dodgers, but I'm not 
even going to get wrapped up in 

2581
02:05:27,520 --> 02:05:28,840
that from first win the 
division. 

2582
02:05:28,840 --> 02:05:32,120
All right, because again, as I 
said, to start the show, you 

2583
02:05:32,120 --> 02:05:34,320
know, there were four or five 
teams in baseball that one more 

2584
02:05:34,320 --> 02:05:36,400
regular season games than the 
Dodgers did last year. 

2585
02:05:36,560 --> 02:05:38,640
Yankees were one of them. 
Same with Toronto, same with 

2586
02:05:38,640 --> 02:05:41,200
Philly, same with the Brewers. 
So now the Dodgers won the World

2587
02:05:41,200 --> 02:05:43,800
Series and they got healthy at 
the right time and they're 

2588
02:05:43,800 --> 02:05:47,960
adding Kyle Tucker and you know 
they're going to be an absolute 

2589
02:05:47,960 --> 02:05:50,280
juggernaut this year. 
But it's not basketball. 

2590
02:05:50,840 --> 02:05:53,120
It's not basketball. 
We're the best teams going to 

2591
02:05:53,120 --> 02:05:55,120
win. 
Like there's randomness in 

2592
02:05:55,120 --> 02:05:56,800
baseball as we've talked about 
forever. 

2593
02:05:57,000 --> 02:06:02,680
And right now the New York Mets,
who when I started the show 

2594
02:06:02,680 --> 02:06:08,640
today, I thought was a 75 win 
team and a non playoff team 

2595
02:06:08,960 --> 02:06:11,120
right now. 
All right, I'm not saying there 

2596
02:06:11,120 --> 02:06:12,880
were a 90 win team. 
Like one player is not going to 

2597
02:06:12,880 --> 02:06:15,840
give you 10 wins like that. 
But now all of a sudden it's a 

2598
02:06:15,840 --> 02:06:18,920
lot more respectful. 
And now all of a sudden the door

2599
02:06:18,920 --> 02:06:25,360
is open to go bonkers and to be 
that 90 something win team and 

2600
02:06:25,360 --> 02:06:28,080
really have a chance if you get 
a little lucky and guys do their

2601
02:06:28,080 --> 02:06:30,920
job and all that other stuff 
that has to happen for the Mets 

2602
02:06:30,920 --> 02:06:35,480
to have a massive season. 
It's a good job by the Mets. 

2603
02:06:35,960 --> 02:06:38,280
I love Bichette. 
I mean, Bichette's everything 

2604
02:06:38,280 --> 02:06:40,240
that you, I know he's not a 
great fielder, but Lindor's 

2605
02:06:40,240 --> 02:06:42,960
playing short and Lindor didn't 
have a great defensive year. 

2606
02:06:42,960 --> 02:06:45,760
I get that. 
But I mean, this guy's clutch. 

2607
02:06:46,000 --> 02:06:47,880
This guy's a Get Met fit. 
You're going to love him. 

2608
02:06:48,240 --> 02:06:50,120
His uniform is going to be 
filthy. 

2609
02:06:50,280 --> 02:06:53,560
He's going to hit Klaus clutch. 
He's tough. 

2610
02:06:53,880 --> 02:06:55,960
You know what was the stat about
Bichette? 

2611
02:06:56,400 --> 02:06:59,320
He's basically a 300 hitter, By 
the way, I saw stat a couple of 

2612
02:06:59,320 --> 02:07:03,440
days ago where he was the only 
player in baseball. 

2613
02:07:03,760 --> 02:07:06,400
Judge didn't have this, Soto 
didn't have this, Otani didn't 

2614
02:07:06,400 --> 02:07:10,320
like nobody had this. 
The only player in baseball that

2615
02:07:12,280 --> 02:07:15,960
what was the number that had a 
300 batting average on fastballs

2616
02:07:16,160 --> 02:07:21,800
and either curves or sliders. 
Like it was a really nice stat 

2617
02:07:21,800 --> 02:07:23,880
that separated himself from 
everybody else in baseball. 

2618
02:07:24,240 --> 02:07:27,760
And when you hit I think 297 
career, when you're basically a 

2619
02:07:27,760 --> 02:07:30,640
300 hitter, you're going foul 
pole to foul pole. 

2620
02:07:31,120 --> 02:07:32,760
All right. 
Now, I think Bichette's opposite

2621
02:07:32,760 --> 02:07:34,840
way prowess would have played 
better in the short portion 

2622
02:07:34,840 --> 02:07:37,320
Yankee Stadium. 
But he'll be more double s, more

2623
02:07:37,320 --> 02:07:38,800
hot, you know, get hit for 
higher average. 

2624
02:07:38,800 --> 02:07:42,600
This is really, really good. 
No, I mean, I don't know, start 

2625
02:07:42,600 --> 02:07:44,080
thinking about things off the 
top here. 

2626
02:07:45,000 --> 02:07:46,720
You know, I know he's not a good
fielder. 

2627
02:07:46,760 --> 02:07:50,640
I mean, listen, maybe the Mets, 
and it would be cheap, go out 

2628
02:07:50,640 --> 02:07:54,680
and sign Louis Arayas. 
I mean, let him get his 190 hits

2629
02:07:54,680 --> 02:07:57,320
and let him hit seventh. 
You know, it's not leading off. 

2630
02:07:57,760 --> 02:08:02,120
There's other things to do here.
Wow, The Mets, that is a swift 

2631
02:08:02,120 --> 02:08:04,000
pivot, man. 
I got to salute him. 

2632
02:08:05,200 --> 02:08:09,040
I got to salute him. 
Brady getting Betty, getting 

2633
02:08:09,040 --> 02:08:12,400
traded to the Brewers. 
I, I, This is why I need come 

2634
02:08:12,400 --> 02:08:15,440
on, I, I need a producer. 
I'm just, I could just read this

2635
02:08:15,440 --> 02:08:16,880
and just get lost for the next 
hour. 

2636
02:08:16,920 --> 02:08:19,520
That is really, really good. 
I honestly, I think Bichette's 

2637
02:08:19,520 --> 02:08:20,800
better than Tucker. 
I really do. 

2638
02:08:21,240 --> 02:08:23,000
It's one year less. 
I don't know if there's opt 

2639
02:08:23,000 --> 02:08:24,240
outs. 
It's less money. 

2640
02:08:24,560 --> 02:08:28,840
It's it's a great aggressive 
pivot to a better player. 

2641
02:08:29,840 --> 02:08:32,720
Tucker and listen, the knock, 
the knock, the knock on Tucker 

2642
02:08:32,720 --> 02:08:35,560
was can he handle New York? 
Does he want to be in New York? 

2643
02:08:35,560 --> 02:08:37,120
I I don't, I don't know the 
answer to that. 

2644
02:08:37,520 --> 02:08:42,800
But I also think that if there's
that question, that's reason 

2645
02:08:42,800 --> 02:08:45,480
enough for concern. 
You know, whereas with Bichette,

2646
02:08:45,520 --> 02:08:49,120
all you hear around baseball 
gamer stud throwback dirtbag in 

2647
02:08:49,120 --> 02:08:50,880
a good way. 
That is phenomenal. 

2648
02:08:50,880 --> 02:08:52,440
Met fans. 
You got to be pumped up, man. 

2649
02:08:52,720 --> 02:08:55,960
You got to be absolutely pumped 
up. 

2650
02:08:55,960 --> 02:08:58,400
All right, let me just make sure
I'm not missing anything. 

2651
02:09:00,040 --> 02:09:03,320
How the hell do I get great Mets
breaking news on the show here 

2652
02:09:03,720 --> 02:09:07,480
on the yeah, because I I I don't
talk about one team. 

2653
02:09:07,520 --> 02:09:11,320
I focus on everything and I'm 
objective about everything and 

2654
02:09:11,320 --> 02:09:13,840
I'm able to generate excitement 
for the Mets even though I'm not

2655
02:09:13,840 --> 02:09:16,680
a met fan like because I love 
watching good baseball. 

2656
02:09:16,880 --> 02:09:18,920
This is great. 
And then the other thing, the 

2657
02:09:18,920 --> 02:09:21,120
other thing that I now you can 
light one up off that heck to 

2658
02:09:21,120 --> 02:09:26,200
knock yourself out, let up a go 
and get that 20% THCII mean. 

2659
02:09:26,200 --> 02:09:29,720
Now it's like, you know, maybe 
this doesn't happen, but the 

2660
02:09:29,720 --> 02:09:33,480
prospects of being really 
incredibly aggressive and 

2661
02:09:33,480 --> 02:09:38,520
incredibly relevant it is at the
very least there because and now

2662
02:09:38,520 --> 02:09:40,600
you prevent them from going to 
the Phillies too. 

2663
02:09:40,800 --> 02:09:43,960
So not only do the Mets get a 
really good player that I love, 

2664
02:09:44,400 --> 02:09:45,720
but now the Phillies don't get 
them. 

2665
02:09:46,360 --> 02:09:48,800
That's a win. 
Boy, that is an absolute win to 

2666
02:09:48,800 --> 02:09:52,240
master class pivot right there. 
Master class pivot. 

2667
02:09:52,560 --> 02:09:55,120
And now, you know, maybe I got 
to be fair because Cohen had the

2668
02:09:55,120 --> 02:09:58,360
tweet out there last night, 
something about the smoke. 

2669
02:09:58,360 --> 02:10:01,200
And then as soon as Tucker 
signed with the Dodgers when 

2670
02:10:01,200 --> 02:10:03,480
that broke, I I jumped in. 
I quote tweet. 

2671
02:10:03,480 --> 02:10:06,800
I said, is that enough smoke? 
Well, then, and this morning on 

2672
02:10:06,800 --> 02:10:08,480
the show, I said, when I start, 
I'm like, listen, you got to 

2673
02:10:08,480 --> 02:10:10,560
drop a tweet like that. 
You better know that he's 

2674
02:10:10,560 --> 02:10:13,360
coming. 
Like have a little fun, play the

2675
02:10:13,360 --> 02:10:14,800
game a little bit, do a little 
troll. 

2676
02:10:14,800 --> 02:10:18,080
And then two hours later, hey, 
look, buddy a Tucker, a met then

2677
02:10:18,080 --> 02:10:23,680
that that would have made sense.
Maybe he knew or strongly 

2678
02:10:23,680 --> 02:10:25,280
surmise that. 
All right. 

2679
02:10:25,320 --> 02:10:28,760
Hey, Tucker, you don't want us. 
We got this lined up and nobody 

2680
02:10:28,760 --> 02:10:31,960
knows that we got it lined up. 
See, the best things are done 

2681
02:10:31,960 --> 02:10:33,720
stealthily. 
I love it. 

2682
02:10:33,920 --> 02:10:35,560
That's why it's almost like too 
good to think. 

2683
02:10:35,680 --> 02:10:38,120
Because we've heard ganks are 
Mets with Peralta forever. 

2684
02:10:38,320 --> 02:10:40,400
And we just assume, yeah, the 
ganks and the Mets are going to 

2685
02:10:40,400 --> 02:10:41,480
get Peralta and it's going to 
happen. 

2686
02:10:41,480 --> 02:10:44,600
One of those two, you know, hey,
Tigers are going to trade the 

2687
02:10:44,880 --> 02:10:46,240
scuba. 
Well, they haven't traded them 

2688
02:10:46,240 --> 02:10:47,640
yet and Peralta is not dealt 
yet. 

2689
02:10:47,640 --> 02:10:51,360
So a lot of times the things 
that come out of nowhere are the

2690
02:10:51,360 --> 02:10:54,480
things that are certainly most 
exciting and sometimes the 

2691
02:10:54,480 --> 02:10:57,440
things that best set you up to 
to be phenomenal. 

2692
02:10:57,480 --> 02:10:59,440
Man, oh man, oh man, good for 
you guys. 

2693
02:10:59,440 --> 02:11:01,440
All right, I do have to go get 
the Skittles. 

2694
02:11:01,440 --> 02:11:02,600
I do have to go get the 
Starburst. 

2695
02:11:02,600 --> 02:11:07,160
I do have to go and do this. 
Look, man, I do hope that this 

2696
02:11:07,160 --> 02:11:10,080
incentivizes my team to get off 
their ass and do a little 

2697
02:11:10,080 --> 02:11:13,280
something here. 
I mean, come on, come on. 

2698
02:11:14,520 --> 02:11:16,320
I mean, imagine a starting 
rotation. 

2699
02:11:16,320 --> 02:11:20,080
I have a little fun for 10. 
I really, I have to go, but I 

2700
02:11:20,080 --> 02:11:21,720
really don't want to because I'm
talking about baseball. 

2701
02:11:21,960 --> 02:11:29,720
Let's say Peralta, McClain 1-2 
and a top five. 

2702
02:11:29,720 --> 02:11:31,520
Now we're going to get really, 
we're going to really hit Goofy 

2703
02:11:31,520 --> 02:11:35,400
Ville 1234. 
We'll go on Lindor one. 

2704
02:11:36,160 --> 02:11:39,280
We'll go Bashet 2. 
You could go belly, but you 

2705
02:11:39,280 --> 02:11:43,520
don't want to have lefty leg. 
Bichette 2, Soto 3. 

2706
02:11:43,760 --> 02:11:46,480
Bellinger, 4I mean if he was 
protection for Judge, and 

2707
02:11:46,480 --> 02:11:49,560
that'll work for Soto. 
And then five, you get into that

2708
02:11:49,560 --> 02:11:51,920
like Polanco territory, who I 
like. 

2709
02:11:51,920 --> 02:11:53,240
I like that move for the Mets 
there. 

2710
02:11:53,640 --> 02:11:57,240
And then if Beatty's still here 
or Alvarez, am I missing 

2711
02:11:57,240 --> 02:11:58,680
anybody? 
Hold on, Simeon. 

2712
02:11:59,840 --> 02:12:02,200
Yeah, that's OK. 
Hey, bet fans celebrate, man. 

2713
02:12:02,560 --> 02:12:05,200
Be excited about this. 
You have every single reason to 

2714
02:12:05,200 --> 02:12:07,440
be absolutely excited. 
All right, I got to go. 

2715
02:12:07,440 --> 02:12:09,200
Like it. 
Subscribe it, get the word out 

2716
02:12:09,200 --> 02:12:10,120
there. 
BT Unleashed. 

2717
02:12:10,120 --> 02:12:12,600
I'm back on Monday unless 
something else breaks over the 

2718
02:12:12,600 --> 02:12:14,320
weekend. 
Good luck to Saint John's 

2719
02:12:14,320 --> 02:12:15,600
tomorrow night. 
Enjoy the football. 

2720
02:12:15,600 --> 02:12:17,800
I gave you the picks. 
If you guys just tuned in, make 

2721
02:12:17,800 --> 02:12:20,720
sure you go when this is posted,
which will be immediate to the 

2722
02:12:20,720 --> 02:12:23,640
BT Unleashed YouTube page. 
Go there, rewind about, I don't 

2723
02:12:23,640 --> 02:12:25,880
know, 20 minutes or so ago. 
I gave you all my picks against 

2724
02:12:25,880 --> 02:12:29,040
the spread and Monday is going 
to be a massive show. 

2725
02:12:29,240 --> 02:12:31,880
You just get the sense now, you 
know, whether it's Bellinger to 

2726
02:12:31,960 --> 02:12:35,560
the Yanks or Bellinger to the 
Mets or a trade like we're 

2727
02:12:35,560 --> 02:12:37,360
getting more. 
I told you this week was going 

2728
02:12:37,360 --> 02:12:39,520
to be big. 
I told you the Giants would have

2729
02:12:39,520 --> 02:12:43,360
their coach and I told you that 
we would have real free agent 

2730
02:12:43,360 --> 02:12:45,600
stuff like that. 
I knew this was going to be an 

2731
02:12:45,600 --> 02:12:48,720
awesome week and it has been a 
fun, eventful week. 

2732
02:12:48,720 --> 02:12:51,800
Giant fans are pumped up. 
Mets fans are energized right 

2733
02:12:51,800 --> 02:12:53,760
now. 
Yankee fans kind of sit and 

2734
02:12:53,760 --> 02:12:57,120
watch and saying let's go and I 
do think they will go at some 

2735
02:12:57,120 --> 02:12:59,160
point, but until they go they 
have not gone. 

2736
02:12:59,160 --> 02:13:01,680
So have an awesome Friday, have 
a great weekend. 

2737
02:13:01,680 --> 02:13:05,120
Back Monday, unless something 
breaks and I will, I will hit 

2738
02:13:05,120 --> 02:13:07,200
you guys up then. 
Have an awesome, awesome 

2739
02:13:07,200 --> 02:13:08,720
weekend. 
Bye bye guys, see ya.