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What's up? Wow, what an amazing game.
Yay. That was absolutely fantastic.
You know, it's very easy, all right?
It's very easy to be a negative sports fan.
It is and I don't mean just about football, but you think
about like the way we talk about sports these days, right and and
and not all of the conversations, but a lot of the
conversations really focus on things that that bother us right
like when we talk about the NBA and by the way, Knicks looked
really good. I'll do a little bit on that
Alvarado good and nice little debut there for the Knicks.
He looked great good win after getting whacked again by the
Pistons. Knicks actually showed some
spunk. So I enjoyed that.
But like, the NBA conversation is largely nobody plays any
defense, Everybody takes a million threes.
You've got maintenance days. The players run the league.
Like, you know, we're all tired. I shouldn't say we're all many
of us are kind of fatigued with LeBron, right?
There's a lot of complaints about the NBA.
Now, the NBA is not alone. I think the NBA might have it as
bad as any of the sports out there.
The NBA gets hit a lot. And a lot of it's justified a
little. A lot of it is a little bit, you
know, laid it on a little bit thick because people just enjoy
complaining. But even with baseball, right, a
million strikeouts, analytics have taken over.
God forbid you let somebody go, you know, 109 pitches and try to
wiggle out of a jam. You know, like all these
problems with sports, I at least thought that we had the Super
Bowl where we can sit back and we can enjoy it.
And I got to tell you now I understand the circumstances of
the game. I mean, Darnell was missing
throws, Drake May was running for his life, sacked 6 times,
shut out in the first half. And I'll get to the Bad Bunny
halftime show as well. But I just, yeah, I mean, I'm
sitting there watching the game and I'm, I'm just bored out of
my mind. And I know that I'm not alone.
I mean, it felt I was talking to Jay Rod about this before the
show, everything about the game. And it's gotten more and more
like this as time's gone on or as we've gotten deeper and
deeper and deeper into, you know, the not not only just the
globalization of the Super Bowl, but like, the presentations
really, truly change. But yesterday felt so much more
corporate. It really did.
Like you're sitting there and you're watching the game and
outside of the Jennifer Aniston commercial, the Dunkin' Donuts
come out. Listen, Jennifer Aniston could
be in Super Bowl commercials till she's 80.
And I myself will enjoy it, all right?
Because I'm about the same age. So when she's 80, I'll be about
80. So my mind still still still,
she'll still look good, right? That was actually a good
commercial. But I don't get incredibly
wrapped up in the commercials myself, and I'm not here to
denounce them. But yesterday felt different.
Everything AIAIAIAI just shoved down your throat, you know, you
got a couple of like Budweiser's was good, Dunkin' Donuts was
good. But the whole night, like I
really, I hate to say this, and we were at a really good
friend's house. So we had great company, great
food, couple of beers, like I had a good time.
I could not wait for the game to end.
Like I honestly, I couldn't wait.
Because when you have young kids as we do, and they didn't really
watch the game, which was surprising because you know, my
son plays a lot of sports. His best friend's a big athlete
as well. But they were just running
around the house playing tag and shooting each other with, with
nerf guns and doing Lord knows what they were doing.
Like they weren't even really into the game.
And when you have young kids and you're at somebody else's house,
you know it's going to take a good 15 to 20 minutes to wrangle
them up. All right, get your shoes.
All right, where's your jacket? Let's go.
All right, we got to go school tomorrow.
So we got home. We were right around the corner,
but we got home around, I don't know, around 10:45, you look up,
it's like 1120, kids are still up.
So it's one of those nights that to me and, and, and I'm not
getting like grumpy as I'm getting older.
I think I'm pretty fun. I really do.
But honestly, I could take or leave the Super Bowl.
I just it just doesn't do anything for me the way that it
used to. Now maybe I'm a prisoner of the
moment and maybe, you know, maybe if that Seattle defense is
going up against Patrick Mahomes or an all time quarterback.
Now, to be fair, I was saying on Friday that I don't necessarily
need that. I think that we're programmed
like zombies. So I don't want to contradict
myself. I'm not.
But the game was largely awful outside of a little surge in the
fourth quarter. Got some points and you still
knew that the Patriots were going to come back and win the
game, you know? And, you know, one of the things
I was really talking about on Friday was it, it's amazing how
this, this incessant need to just shove these stories down
our throat, like, and I, and you know, I was, I was in my office
watching ATV show that I will a highly successful one.
And they're talking about the topic was this is Friday, the
day before the Super Bowl. I understand that you've got to
create some content here. Trust me, I, I know.
But the conversation was, if San Darno wins the Super Bowl, is
San Darno the lead? Like, on what planet is Sam
Darnold elite? He's not.
He's never going to be elite. He's an amazing story.
And I'm really, genuinely happy for Sam Darnold.
I really am. Like, Sam Darnold had so many
chances and so many opportunities to just dump on
The Jets. And I mean, whether it was
during the regular season, during the playoffs, leading up
to the Super Bowl, after the Super Bowl.
And the young man just always took the real classy route.
And I'm genuinely happy for him. But good God, Sam.
I mean, he would have had a 70 yard touchdown early in the
game. I, I forget which receiver that
was. He overshot him by 5 yards.
He was wide open. You know, he got very lucky in
the sense that some balls he threw, a couple squeezed in and
they, they made receptions on it.
But they had a couple of throws were just like really, really
inaccurate to the point where if the Patriots were just either a
little bit of in a better position or a little bit
luckier, Sam Darnell easily could have had three, 3 or 4
interceptions yesterday. And Drake May was terrified to
run. And when he started to run and
start to get away from Seattle's defense, which, you know, they
talked about this during the game, there's obviously a
little, you know, there's a window the way they play their
defense, there's a window to run up the gut and make some plays.
And he was just very reluctant to do it.
It was just a rough watch it, I mean, the whole day, you know,
leading up to, I don't watch any of the pregame stuff.
I, I don't care. I, I mean, the five 6-7 hours of
the NFL pregame, What am I going to learn in the NFL pregame show
that I don't know? And I listen, I love good
stories, you know, that I love human interest stories.
I love stories about families and journeys and stuff.
But even that is overplayed and played out and overkill.
Like, just get me to the game and listen.
Here's what's happened. Unfortunately, here's what's
happened more and more year by year.
The the true football fan, which they've got hook, line and
sinker. They don't care about us.
They haven't cared about us for a long time.
The real football fan has to suffer through the nonsense that
just sucks in the fringe fan and it's become a very arduous
watch. Like it it's become it's it's
almost like work watching the Super Bowl.
I I I don't know, like I don't have any other take away except
that the game was awful and I really couldn't wait for it to
end. I really couldn't.
I really could. You know, I, I will spike from a
technical or from a schematical point of view.
It would have been pretty interesting.
If that's Seattle defense, which is great.
I mean, that really, that's Seattle defense is phenomenal.
And Drake May is going to be really is.
He almost won the MVP. He's a young stud.
He's got a slow heartbeat. He's with a hell of an
organization. He's got a great head coach.
But like Marino, who got back, who got to the Super Bowl as a
young pup and never got back, you don't know.
So this thought that, wow, you know, Drake May is going to find
his way back there. You don't necessarily know that
to be the case. So I wouldn't take it for
granted, but he just wasn't ready for that.
And if that Seattle defense was going up against again, not that
I need a Mahomes or a player like that to like a Lamar or
Josh Allen, but I mean, imagine if you had Josh in the game
yesterday, like it really imagine if Josh Allen's play
like there was just no juice and eat the other thing too, which
was, I mean, I guess I can appreciate it because it's they
weren't gloating and they weren't over the top.
But you honestly would have thought that Seattle just won a
a preseason game. The celebration even was
incredibly sedate, so absolute snooze fest across the board.
I don't really know who to blame on that.
It's not necessarily anybody's fault, but it was just again, I
don't know how else to describe it.
It was a very arduous watch. It went on forever.
It was boring. The halftime, I'll get into the
actual halftime in a bit, but it just that goes on forever.
You know, the extra week in between the conference, which I
understand logistically, but the extra every week, it just zaps
you of any football energy that we've conjured up.
You know, from the draft into the summer into September, into
October when team starts to separate themselves and then
obviously November. Now you really know who's good
and you know who's got a chance and who's going to win the
awards and what coaches might get fired.
Like all the energy that we put into the football season year by
year by year, I am starting to lament the Super Bowl because
it's the exact opposite of of everything that I've come to
love about the NFLI. Know I'm not alone.
I know I'm not. There's nobody unless you're a
Seattle fan. And if you are, Congrats, you're
a champion. Awesome.
I mean, I'm jealous and I respected McDonald.
Great young coach, defense, phenomenal.
Darnold. So happy for Sam Darnold, but
the game was an absolute snoozer.
Absolute snoozer. All right, Tom Tomadello, 8239.
Pat Stunk shouldn't be there. Super Bowl starts way too late
now. Well, I mean, I wouldn't say
6:30 is way too late. I don't know about that.
There's just too much pregame fluff.
That's fair. Just play the damn game.
Nobody cares about all the stupid topics that they drag on
about. Well, I mean, listen, I
appreciate the text there. The one thing that I will say,
you can do what I did. You don't have to watch the
pregame show. Nobody's forcing you to watch
the pregame show. It drones on and on and on.
I watched some of the Knicks Celtics yesterday.
Like I woke up and we went to church as a family and then I
came back and I watched some of that, did a little bit of work
here getting ready for today. Then I watched the Knicks and
the Celtics. Then I did my little baseball
workout in the basement with my son, and I did a little softball
workout in the basement with my daughter.
And then, you know, just kind of wasted a little bit of time.
I was even at that point. I was actually at one point
yesterday waiting to go to our friend's house, right?
I was watching some old WWE interviews on YouTube, right,
rather than the pregame show. I just don't care.
There is nothing that really interests me in the pregame
show. It's so scripted.
There's nine people at a desk. Everybody gets 10 seconds to
deliver a sound bite like it's just, it's, it's weak.
It really is. So I texted as soon as that
clock went 000 or I, I tweeted, it's baseball season officially,
which it really is. It's baseball season.
Like it, it's sad because as as the as the years have gone on
again, I'm starting to look at the Super Bowl as just a bridge
to get me to what I really like. I love when the season starts
and I love the twists and the turns and I love the good Sunday
night games and I love the big 425 games.
You get mad, you get Romo, you know, you get Buck, you get
Troy, you know, you get all like it's you get fantasy.
You throw down some bets. You know, you have some good
sandwiches on Sunday. You get the storylines.
There's just an energy that is palpable with the NFL that know
of the sport can recreate. We all know that, right?
But then yesterday, like every like, you know, like the last X
amount of Super Bowls, it's less about the die hard.
It's more about the fringe fan and I just, you know, like
that's it. I like I tapped out.
I'm going to tap back in when it's time to watch the game.
Otherwise, I don't care. I don't care.
I don't what's the dude's name? The receiver for the Pats.
You see what he wore into the stadium and he was wearing an
out like, like he was going to jail.
He had the shackles on his feet. He was handcuffed and he had an
orange jumpsuit on. Like, what the hell are we
doing? What are we doing?
Like it's bad enough I got to watch Kyle Kuzma and, and the
dopiness of the NBA and what some of these guys wear.
You know, Kuzma, I think it was last year had a, had a sweater
that was 13 sizes too big and he thinks it's stylish.
I and I know that I'm getting a little bit older, but I still
think that I'm pretty cool. I do, I still think I've got a
little bit of style. What, what some of these young
men think is stylish and cool is beyond baffling.
It's embarrassing. I, I just what, so you know,
not, not to be negative here, not to be grumpy, but the game
was absolute shit. It was awful.
I mean, you know, the only intrigue that I had, and I can
make a little case for this honestly, although the way
Walker ran, I I can't really go. And if Sam maybe would have
thrown one more touchdown, Darna would have won the MVP.
But my guy, Jason Myers from Maris Bangs and five field goals
since it's a Super Bowl record. And I'm sitting there, my buddy
Tim, I'm like, what are the odds in in real time on Myers for the
MVP? And I think they started at
2000. So if you throw down 100 bucks
and Myers wins the MVP, you get yourself 2000.
And see, the problem was none of them were they were, they
weren't like 56 yarders or, you know, swirling winds, fairly
benign, 9910 miles an hour. Pretty, you know, for the most
part, chippies like I, I and the guy went to my university and I
was rooting for Jason Meyers as much as anybody outside of Jason
Meyers, his family, Like it's the first guy for marriage to
get to the Super Bowl. And even I can't overstate dude.
Wow, 28 yard field goal, whatever the number is.
Oh, my God almighty. Yeah.
And again, I'm. I'm not coming out here
predisposed to being negative or being grumpy.
I'm in a good mood. I'm a little tired because it
was a bit of a late night. But man, oh, man, the Super Bowl
has become in a lot of ways, unwatchable.
It really has at, at withdrew. All right, Hey, guys, it sucks
to see somebody that once played for you going to win a
championship somewhere else. Now let's see.
Darnold was never a jerk, never arrogant, always humble, always
took the High Road, no question. That's why to me, you know, and
it's funny too, because you talk about the Sam Darnold narrative,
right? And and this is another thing
where so many people been incredibly lazy as they discuss
Sam Darnold. Like if you I listen, I mean,
The Jets write their own jokes. Like, The Jets don't need a
writer if they are the comic, if they're the late night host,
they don't need anybody to write the jokes because they just
write themselves. I mean, year after year after
year, those jokes are written for the New York Jets because
they can't get out of their own way.
But if you really wanted to be fair to this situation here and
really diagnose it accurately, the the the energy should have
been negative. You know that that negative
kickback should have been much more directed at the Minnesota
Vikings, who won 14 games with Sam, decided to move on from Sam
and didn't make the playoffs. Like that's the team that can
get crushed. What people, And I get it.
Nobody really cares about the minutiae, but the minutiae
understood. He was in the building of
Carolina, not good enough. He was in the building of San
Francisco, not good enough. And I get that.
I mean, San Francisco is obviously a first rate
organization, so I'm not going to get on them, but he was in
the building for Minnesota. He performed well, he played
well, he elevated the team. That said, he was amazing.
He didn't throw 47 touchdowns with 9 picks.
But I mean, Gee, Sam Darnold was pretty damn good a year ago like
he was this year. And he didn't turn over the ball
once in the entire playoffs, which is something that plagued
him a little bit during the regular season.
But there's just so many other checkpoints that you really
should get on and get to before you just grab the low hanging
fruit and mock The Jets. The Jets are as mockable as
anybody out there in professional national sports.
Again, they write their own jokes, but Sam Darnold's not one
of them. Because, and I was talking about
this last night at the Super Bowl party.
Number one, guess I was rooting for Sam.
Number two, I've got great respect for Sam.
I've got great respect for anybody who gets discarded.
I don't know how else to frame it.
Discarded, right? Basically said, we no longer
want you or need you or value you or whatever, or are willing
to invest the time to see if you could ultimately become what we
thought you were when we drafted you third overall or whatever
situation it might be, right. And that that that person every
single time it comes up always says the right thing.
Like that's just reflective of somebody who was raised the
right way. And those people that I'm
rooting for, whether he played for The Jets or not.
I mean, if it if it could have been some other transient
quarterback that was drafted second overall by the Jaguars
and bounced around 14, four years, I feel I'd feel good for
that person. Now that's a little bit more
personalized because I watched Sam for a couple of years every
Sunday and it was painful to just see how The Jets failed to
to properly insulate him, whether it was an online,
whether it was coaching, whether it was weapons, whatever.
But you know, it's not like he was great.
He missed a lot of throws, could have had a 70 yard touchdown the
first quarter. I don't know.
I know that there was pressure and I know that he re
established himself and you know, the throne I'm talking
about. But yeah.
And you got to connect on that. Like the great quarterback's
going to hit that with his eyes shut.
But just the way he manipulated the pocket to extend the play it
it was it was fairly impressive. And Sam's become a, you know, a
slightly above average NFL quarterback.
But I'm not going to get on the air here today, that's for damn
sure. And have a conference is elite.
What does it mean? What it means?
He won a game yesterday because his defense is phenomenal.
And if the defense was not good, like if that was a team and
instead of being the team that they were, if Seattle was a team
that was built on offense and the defense was alone for the
ride and the offense played the way they played yesterday, they
would have gotten absolutely trounced.
They would have got whacked because Sam didn't play enough,
well enough, you know, to put up.
I don't mean with defensive points, 30 something, you know,
30 something points to win the game.
And if the defense wasn't as good as it was, you know, you
would have needed 30 something points to win the game and it
wouldn't have won. So there would be really nothing
to dissect here at Avery Summit. BT what's going on?
Those miserable, jealous Mahomes haters, Wouldn't they rather
have seen him in this game? Or, or you or those who are
happy Josh Allen failed again, which I'm not.
And I'm. Yeah, listen, they were my
division, you know, and the Bills are to.
I mean, I'd like to win a championship, but I'd like to
also have some meaningful, fun seasons and the Bills provide
that to the fans. So there's some jealousy there,
but there's respect. I respect Josh Allen, and if
Josh Allen was playing last night and Josh Allen won a Super
Bowl, you know, I'm not saying I'm standing up cheering here,
but. I would have enjoyed it because
from a big narrative perspective, I do think the NF
LS better when you've got, you know, great quarterbacks with
great stats who get their first one Now, it sets up a much more
interesting, meaningful conversation downstream because,
you know, no matter what happens the rest of Sam Darnold's
career, he's going to be more Jim Plunkett.
If he wins the second one, you know, Jim, of course, 12 with
the Raiders, but he's never going to be viewed as as some
great old time icon just be just because he has a Super Bowl.
So wouldn't he be? Wouldn't he have played better
than main company? He would have.
But but Avery that I I mean, I think he would have, but that
doesn't matter because the Patriots got there.
Like that's one thing I didn't devote a lot of time to leading
up to the Super Bowl. I referenced it about the the
fairly easy Rd. that the Pats had.
But you could. You're a product of what's
around you and if other teams lose or guys get hurt, you've
got an opportunity to punch through and get there.
Now, the Patriots to me are an incredibly stable franchise, but
they just don't have a lot of offensive weapons.
And they've got a second year quarterback who finished second
in the MVP and an outstanding coach who eventually I do
believe is going to win one of Mike Vrabel, who did terrific
things in Tennessee. Like that's obviously a
franchise that's going to be around for a long time, just
given the youth of both the quarterback and the coach, you
know, but I'm not going to get I'm not going to get here and
and penalize the Patriots or now contextualizing their road to
get to the Super Bowl. That is something that I did do.
But I'm not going to sit here today and say, well, if the
Bills got there, it would have been a better game.
Or if the Chiefs, hey, I watched the Chiefs play a lot of
football before Mahomes got hurt.
A lot of football this year. They couldn't score a touchdown
if you spotted them six points. I mean, they I mean, really, how
many Chiefs games? Let's not recreate history here,
guys. I mean recently in history, I
don't mean with Tyree kill and with a young Kelsey and maybe a
a slightly better Mahomes, you know, like the Chiefs were
boring this year. So let's at least be consistent
to this season. The Chiefs weren't good enough
that a very benign offense. Every time you watch them, I
feel like they had zero on the board, like it was a struggle to
score that first touchdown and very rarely did they put up a
large amount of points like that show is fizzled out.
It's dissipated. They're they're no longer like a
must watch. Now the second part of Mahomes,
his career will be very interesting.
You know how they how they build around him and like what's next
for Patrick? How's he come back from the ACL,
which I, I suspect will be fine like Brady did back in the day.
But they didn't play well this year where they were fun team to
watch. How many times you bet the
Chiefs over this year? Not as much as you used to.
How many? There There was a point right
Where like it almost didn't matter what the spread was.
All right. What are they laying?
Yeah, the four and a half, six and a half, 7891011 Where?
Where they at? All right, Maybe if we got too
high, maybe you tease the number down.
But I mean, many of us were riding that Kansas City Chiefs,
you know, lay the point express for a long time because it was
justified, because they had superstars at every position.
Their superstars got old. Some left.
Mahomes wasn't as good as he was the first couple of years.
So I'm not going to sit here and lament not being able to watch
Patrick Mahomes. And as much as I respect Josh
Allen and really, really like Josh, like everything he
represents, old school, accountable, electric player,
winner, tough, durable, successful, just the guy that
like, I mean, I don't know how you don't respect Josh.
Like I love the guy. I really do.
But I'm also not going to get on the on the show today and say I
would have been so much better watching Josh Allen.
Josh Allen had his chance, didn't get the job done, didn't
win, you know, didn't win the game that he was supposed to win
and more importantly, didn't make good decisions.
I know there were some calls in that game.
I know I get it, understood. But there were throws that he
made. We're like, he didn't deserve to
be in the Super Bowl. And the Patriots did.
You know why? Cuz they won every game that
they had to win to get to the Super Bowl.
So it's a mixed bag of everything.
Game was boring, but Seattle's defense is incredible.
I mean, it really, really is. It would have been interesting
to me if you had more of a veteran, and I'm going to say
more of a skilled quarterback because I think Drake May is
immensely gifted. He led the NFL in completion
percentage this year. I know he was a little bit
jacked up with the shoulder. I know Seattle's defense is
phenomenal. He's also young.
He's confused. He's got, I mean, things that
like Seattle's that they got some, some of those dudes up
front are forget about the secondary, which is also
phenomenal. But my God, those boys up front
are massive. And how about how that's funny?
We talk a lot about, like, Brian Cashman, right?
And now Stern's trying to, you know, build the Mets into a
championship team and Leon Rose trying to do the same for the
Knicks, right? Well, think about what John
Schneider did in Seattle. I think John Schneider's done.
I think it's the toughest thing to do in sports.
The first toughest thing to do is to build a roster that's not
a championship roster, to build it out and to win a
championship. That's obviously the toughest
because you've got to hit on draft picks, you got to find the
coach, you've got to stay healthy, you've got to get a
little lucky. Like there's fortune involved
and there's a lot of things that need to happen to win a Super
Bowl. I think I really believe this.
I think even more so than like going back-to-back or even like
in the NBA back-to-back to back, like say with Durant and and and
Clay and Stephen, those guys who are some dynasties.
I think the toughest thing to do with all the sports is in the
NFL as an executive to win one way.
And then years ago, years after that, when you hit the reset
button with a new head coach, with a new quarterback, with an
entirely different roster to win again, I mean, and that's what
John Schneider did. And that's what we're waiting
for Cashman to do. You know, we're waiting for him
to do that because the Yankees won.
He did it in O 9. But the Yankees won a lot with
the same guys. It was always Bernie, always MO,
always Jeets, always Pettit, Tino, O'Neill, Posada, you know
the names, right? And then when it was time to to
recreate that, and obviously Jeter was there in O 9 and and
so was MO and and some others. But once that slammed shut and
those guys were aged out and attrition set in and they
retired and went to the Hall of Fame, some of them.
And and, you know, this, this this new Yankee model that
needed to be recreated, He's not been able to do that.
John Schneider has. And I really think that's the
toughest thing to do in sports. Like, you can talk about the
different levels going from, you know, that's where The Jets are
going from moribund to competitive.
That's a big step just to go from a train wreck, relatively
non competitive unit, OK, especially without a
quarterback, too competitive. Just you know, seven wins, you
know, lose a couple of the tight ones, be in the mix, hang
around, you know, Thanksgiving, you're not out of it yet.
December 1st week, you're not out of it yet, even though
everybody knows you're not going to win anything, but you just go
from a doormat to a competitive, you know, fairly solid, fairly
buttoned up team. And now the next step from there
is obviously a jump that just many people aren't equipped to
make because they're not good enough at their job, right?
And that's a massive jump. But what Schneider did, I'm
serious guys, I think that that's the hardest jump to make.
I really do. And he did it.
It's not like like to say if even if he did it with a
different coach, but it like Russell Wilson was still there
and still winning and still very effective.
You know, and what and you know, we could say what you want about
Russ now, though, corny, not as good as a you know, the Denver
trade was ridiculous. Probably more interested in
sitting courtside at the Knick games and he is being a
quarterback at this point. Whatever.
But when Russ was young, Russ was really good and that defense
was all time amazing legion to boom, right.
And then you had a coach who's terrific and all that's changed.
That is the that is a shrewd mind, that is a forward thinking
mind, that is an executive that isn't good at his job, that is
an executive that is great at his job.
And then even though they lost yesterday, you want to flip it,
Look at Robert Kraft. All right, so Belichick's gone,
Brady's gone. They went through the lean era,
couple of win four win seasons back-to-back.
He did that. He's an owner, not an executive.
Obviously, he did what great owners do.
And you can love craft or dislike him.
I'm I'm fairly benign. They think he's really good at
his job and some of the other stuff.
Yeah, I mean, whatever. But, you know, it doesn't really
bother me enough. I so he got pinched at a massage
parlor. He's a he's a he's a, he's an
old, he's a horny old man. I mean, you shouldn't do it.
I get it, have have better discretion.
I get it, but like I'm not going to crush the guy.
All right, stupid move. You got pinched dumb.
But he is a really good owner because what he did, unlike The
Jets and I'm like Woody, he realized with Mayo this ain't
working and he was able to pivot quickly behind the scenes.
This is what happened because Rabel was playing The Jets.
He was able to. I all right, listen, if I get
rid of him, are you coming here? That was a done deal.
That wasn't like, oh, let me fire Mayo because he's not that
good. And let me see if I can convince
Rabel to come home. No, talk to Rabel, talk to his
agent. Yes, this is speculation, but
this is common sense. This is the way good teams
operate. And he made the move.
He realized Mayo was over his head.
Bang, they're in the Super Bowl. Bang.
They won what, 413 or I think 14 games, 14 And were they 14?
And J Rob, what were they 14 and three or I think they were 13
and 4. Do you know what the Pats were
top you had whatever they were they they jumped up at at least
nine wins, which is absolutely stunning and and almost
impossible to do in the NFL and they're going to be good for a
long time. So. 14 and 3.
They were. Thank you.
Very. By the way, you were covered.
You're a big Pats fan. How you doing today, J Rod, you
OK? Yeah.
Just a a tough game. I mean all I can really say this
morning is like just my one reaction to this game was it
literally felt like the TV was buffering sometimes.
Like this dude was literally just frozen like he was icicles.
It was just 10 seconds. You're just watching.
Might as well have been a spinning wheel on the TV.
But. Yelled the spinning wheel.
The old spinning. Wheel.
Yeah, I remember that. Oh my God.
We're recovering, we're doing good.
Good. And we'll be back.
Yeah, you probably will be. I wish I could refute that.
Look at this young buck. I mean, we'll be back.
Wouldn't it be nice for to be able to operate with that?
And he's not wrong. We'll be back.
Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you'll
be back next year, but pretty good bet that you'll be back
soon if. Not next year.
I trust me, I I am well aware of my what what apparently or at
least seems to be my terminal football fate.
So J Rod pumping some more of that text there got a lot of
stuff I'm not going to do this boring Super Bowl all day.
Got a little something on the Yankees, got a little something
on the Knicks. Got a little something here on
Friday night. UConn, Saint John's.
Patino Hurley was insane, so I'm going to be bouncing around.
Let me get this year real fast at Freak Athletic 84.
Nick's smoking them with them. Clover Boys.
Yesterday was the best game of the day.
Yeah, it was too bad they lost by It was 40 the night before in
Detroit, which was disgraceful. Like, I'm doing the St.
John's game, and I was so into that game that I almost forgot.
And I'm, you know how big a Knicks guy I am.
I almost forgot it was Nick's Pistons and Madge who was our
engineer. Chris Majikowski probably heard
that over the years. The Immortal 1, you know, does
the Met games been a part of radio lore and history and the
fabric of New York sports radio culture forever where, you know,
Mike and Chris are at the Super Bowl.
Madge is their engineer. The best.
He's number one. And I've worked with Chris
forever and he slips me a note during the either a commercial
break or no, it was during the game, actually.
And he's like, Nick's getting whacked by 38.
I'm like, what? Oh, that's right.
Nick's Piston. I was just so into St.
John's, Yukon. And listen, I know that I know
the cat was banged up here, but that's that's going to be that's
going to be a problem because the Pistons just they look at
the Knicks and there's such like an animosity.
You saw it last year when they played each other.
Such an animosity and such a a lack of respect like for who the
Knicks are. That is a series that even with
Alvarado, and I'm sure they'll get a buyout at some point, that
is going to be a white knuckle series that I'm not going to
feel good until it's over. And I'm not even sure the Knicks
will win. But yeah, Friday was was an
absolute disaster with that. And then of course, the the St.
John's UConn game, which I'll get into more a little bit.
I got to say one thing here about Bill Belichick.
So I, who am I to tell anybody like what, how to, how to, what
kind of relationship you should have or certainly not how to run
a relationship because you don't control another human being.
But I mean, Bill can. And I, I also understand this,
you know, you're 70 and I don't want to be crass here.
I'm not that kind of person. But I mean, I just, I got to
speak bluntly here. I have to, right.
So you're 73 years old, You know, you meet somebody who he
believes is, you know, gorgeous Hudson.
I I think she's pretty. I mean, it's not necessarily my
style, but whatever. He's old.
She's young now. He's withered.
She's hot in his eyes. All right.
Fantastic. He's got an old man body.
She's got a 24 year old body. There's a lot of differences.
Understood. And I'm not mad at him.
She's legal. They have a consenting
relationship. Have fun.
Well, Bill, you got to you. You've got to have more of a
backbone. And I'm not using the word
control because you don't control women.
I want to be very clear about this, but for you and I don't
even want to use the word allow because she's not property.
She's a human being. But for her to wear the shirt
that she wore divert with, with Duke and UNC over the weekend,
Yo, Bill, you, you, you got to get your head out of the sand
and you've got to have a little bit more respect for the
situation than to be seen with that.
And I I don't, I don't know how you tell her like not to not to
wear it. I mean, you ask her nicely.
I think that's a starting point. Hey, baby, listen, you know, I I
know you want to get my back here.
I know that Bill can't stand craft.
And the shirt that I'm referencing is it was what was
it? The what was whatever the name
of the massage parlor was something, it was like something
day spa, day spa, whatever the hell it was right?
She is wearing the T-shirt at the Duke UNC game linking Robert
Kraft's prostitution bust. I mean, Bill, you just you got
to have more class than that dude.
You have to again, I I understand, you know, not that I
could relate to it and and not that I ever will, but I got a
guy to guy. I do get it. 7324.
All right, man, I got it. I got it.
You know, she's got you wrapped around a little finger, dude.
You've got to have more self respect and you've got to have
more class than to sit next to her in public view where you
know what's going to make the rounds on social media with her
wearing a shirt about some prostitution bust.
You just can't do it, dude. It's classless.
I, I, I could not believe that. Like, it's one thing.
And it even bothers me that he allows her to be such a central
figure in their relationship. Like, dude, I'm the coach.
I'm the coach, OK? And you, you know, just parading
around like you're the story. You're not the story.
I'm the head coach. I'm the head coach, all right?
Even the remember the interview on 60 Minutes where she was off
to the side and she's like, Nope, can't ask that question.
Nope, not a lot. Dude, What?
Where's your backbone, Bill? I mean, where's your gumption?
And again, where is your class? You have to nicely say and and
ask her because you don't tell humans what to do.
But if she's going to wear it, then you guys, well, then I'm
not going to the game. I I can't be seen with, you
know, come on, baby, we're better than that.
I know Roberts this and that. You want to this?
I'm sure I know he can't stand Robert Kraft.
You want to say whatever you want to say about Robert Kraft
to her. Got it.
A little pillow talk. You want to say whatever you
want to say about Robert Kraft? I got it.
You don't like Robert Kraft with Bill?
You got to you got to rein it in a little bit, dude.
It's a pathetic, sad look when you are getting pulled around by
a 24 year old woman and you are almost 75.
Like people are just kind of laughing at you now.
You know, everything about North Carolina football was about her.
And then I just, it's just not the classy thing to do.
I'm not going to belabor this, you know, and I don't know her.
I've got no problem with her. Again, not my type.
Even if she wasn't, doesn't matter.
I'm happily married. Hey, you can find somebody for
some reason that finds you attractive at 75.
Whatever. Go knock yourself out, bro.
Have fun. As long as it's consenting and
she's of age, go get it. Awesome.
There's got to be lines, dude. There's got to be lines of
demarcation where if they're crossed in a public sphere,
you've got to understand it's not a good look.
What are you doing, Billy? Come on.
Let me see. Here at Mike Tam.
Mike Tamberly, 1661. What's up, Mike?
Hey, BT, did you catch the NBC Sunday night baseball ad with
Judge? And did it, did it fire you up
as much as I did? No, I did not see that.
I'm going to have to go look for that one.
Yeah, I saw over the weekend the maybe even late last week.
Obviously, like the photo op with Judge and the captain and
Team USA is absolutely loaded. I'm going to be excited about
the WBC. You know, a lot of these things
I don't really jump into with too much energy.
Like if it's on like I love, like you get a little Dior
Puerto Rico, you know, in years. Let's go, you know, Japan with
when, when you know a player's coming over stateside, I get a
chance to see what he's about. Awesome.
Obviously the red, white and blue going after it awesome.
I think that that's great. But I don't know why I I feel
like I don't it. It's because The Jets have
always been bad and the giants have been unwatchable for the
most part. I don't know why I feel like and
I always can't wait for baseball.
I feel like I'm even more excited for baseball this year.
That's why last night I tweeted as soon as literally as soon as
it went 000 bang, officially baseball season and it is OK.
The halftime show, this to me, you know it.
To me, it's it's, it's, I understand the polarization of
it. Trust me, I'm not an idiot.
I do. I understand for some the
political undertones. I do.
I tell you, I watch politics every night.
I don't bombard you with politics because that's not what
I do even when I go on Fox with you now, but a few times and
they're talking sports. I was on Jimmy failed, which is
great on Friday is a trip. He's going to come on the pot as
well. Talked about the Super Bowl,
talked about the Yankees. When I was on with Brian
Kilmeade, I was talking about youth sports.
Like I just that that's not my thing.
I could very easily sit down and have a glass of wine at dinner
and talk politics with anybody. Now I'm not saying like the 9
layers of policy. I'm not I'm not saying that I'm
that into it, but I just I don't I operate with the understanding
that this is sports. I'm a sports guy who also has a
lot of other interests there. But the majority, if not all of
you follow me, whether it was on the fan back of the day, 1050,
back in the day, certainly BT unleashed.
Now you don't follow me for my political spouse, like for me to
espouse politics. I get that, but I also
understand that, you know, with Bad Bunny there was an element
of that, at least the thought that there would be and that of
course with. Turning point that that's that's
the the opposite spectrum. I watched both you know, and I
just don't care about halftime concerts.
I just want them to end. I just want them to end.
Listen, I've told you a million times I am in my little T.
Well, it's not that little. It's it's a bit hands equated.
But I am in my musical bubble and I don't apologize to anybody
for it. I don't care.
Now it's fairly eclectic, right? If I've got let me give you an
example, So say I'm just what's a fairly decent ride where I'm
in the car by myself, a couple of long rides sometimes with my
son for baseball and he likes my music his way.
He likes some some other music and that I don't really know,
but whatever. Say I'm going up to Providence,
St. John's Providence, right And
it's a good four and a half hour drive.
I'll listen to sports radio for a little bit.
Maybe I'll make a couple of phone calls business and then
I'll listen to radio like music. I that music.
I love music. I just don't love today's music.
Now there were a couple of songs like Taylor Swift that my
daughter was like going back a couple of years ago.
Well, that's a pretty good song. Or like maybe my wife, the Katy
Perry. I don't go.
I'm just throwing stuff out. It's not a bad beat.
You know, I remember when Lady Gaga, Poker Face, Bad Romance,
I'm like, yeah, it's a good video.
It's a good beat. So it's not like I'm just stuck
in like 1970s Hard Rock, but I don't need music during
football. I don't want it.
It does nothing for me except annoy me.
It really does. I'm saying to myself, when is it
over? When is it over?
Because it's six hours before the game.
Not that I watch the pregame stuff, but six hours before the
game, you know? And, and I like the commercials,
even though there was a lot of AI, which is amazing, but also
terrifying in the same breath. But there were a couple of good
ones that that were that genuinely laughed out loud.
I like the ones that tear, you know, kind of pulled the
heartstrings a bit. But I and some people love it.
And I'm not here to tell you what to like.
Like I'm not, I'm not going to force what I like down your
throat. I'm not going to do that.
And I'm not going to tell you what you like is not good.
It it's what you like. It's subjective.
But if I was 20 or 23 and I'm at a club, I still don't think I
like Bad Bunny's music. Just wouldn't do anything for
me. Now, I'm not going to shit all
over it. I just don't like it, you know,
because this goes into my, my little radio and, and musical
capsule as I'm driving up to Providence, the just the, the,
the, the Rhode Island Drive. You know, I have a little Billy
Joel. I'm going to drop into some 90s
gangster rap. Drain, Emma.
Drain. Obviously Drain Snoop, right?
I'm going to go through little Guns and Roses.
I'm going to do a little Rolling Stones.
I'm going to do a little Eminem. I mean, I'm going to be all over
the map. I might do a little Michael
Jackson. I might do, I mean, Def Leppard.
It is varied. I've got a very eclectic musical
taste. But even if my favorite artist
was on the stage last night, I'm just not moved by it.
And I like going to concerts. I've been to some amazing
concerts. I don't and I listen, I know
it's not going away, so I'm not going to go on some riff, like a
5 minute riff job on on why you should do away with music.
And I understand what it's for. It's to suck in the average fan.
It's to make money. They don't care about me.
I've been watching the NFL since the early 80s and I'll watch it
till the day I die. Less and less enjoyment, quite
frankly, because the game's not the same.
And for some of the things that bother me.
But they got me and it got you for the most part.
And I, you know, I think that it's, it's a spectacle.
And I think if you can just understand that it's a
spectacle, you know, you're not going to get so worked up over
what is in front of you that it's going to become divisive.
Now, if there and I thought it was fairly, fairly apolitical.
There were a couple of references that if you get you
get right. And if you don't, I'm not going
to say what, Like you either get it or you didn't.
Either got it or you didn't, right?
And I did. But as long as it's fairly
apolitical and like you're not sitting there and you actually
feel either side attacked or ignored or marginalized, I got
no problem with. I just don't like the music.
I don't. I mean, yeah, I mean like any
other blue blooded American, I don't mind seeing 100 girls
dancing in the outfits. It's not bad.
I don't mind. But I don't even need that.
Like I really don't like oh, wow, look how amazing She Oh,
great. Wow.
First time you ever see a woman dancing.
I just did. The whole thing is just so much
and it's been so hot and it takes forever.
It just take. Let's let's wheel out the stage.
All right, let's do I don't know how long, 13 minutes, whatever.
What? Let's take the set out and come
on before you know what, you forget what the hell happened in
the first half. And it's just incredibly
uninteresting to me. And that includes if it's my
favorite artist. Yeah.
I mean, there's been a couple over the like.
I thought Prince was great. Yeah.
I thought a couple years ago when you had Snoop and Drain
Evan, and that was really good. You know, Aerosmith like, but I
don't need it. I don't even really want it.
But I'm not going to dump all over it.
I'm not. I watched both.
I just kind of wanted the game to continue because the quicker
the game continued, the quicker the game would end.
And I was bored out of my mind. I couldn't wait for the game to
end. And I'm just sitting there
saying the more this drags out on the field with with some
monstrosity of a production, which was pretty wild, by the
way. I mean, the the way they do this
these these days is pretty impressive.
But it's not for me. It's not for me and it's never
going to be for me. And that's fine.
But then you see some of the tweets just, good God, the way
it gets so divisive. Everybody parachutes in.
You know, if you're on the right, you're denouncing it.
If you're on the left, you're you're, you know, lifting it up
and then shitting on the right. And by it's just, it's just it
real. There's an element of toxicity,
all right, that I really don't think should be present on Super
Bowl Sunday. I really don't.
Now, generally, I was at a small Super Bowl party, very dear
friends, and it was awesome, right?
But if you're at a big Super Bowl party with say 20, and this
is fairly common, I've been to these before, 20-30, forty
people, right? You're going to get a very split
feel. And invariably, what's going to
happen, just last night, Bad Bunny's going to wrap up and
then somebody's got what are too many drinks in them is going to
say something either pro Bunny or or or pro whatever.
And then somebody else in the room is going to say, well, hold
on now, who also has more of too many drinks in them?
And then it's everything but football.
That's the point. And that's what bothers me about
the NFL. They don't care about you at
all, not one iota. They haven't cared us about
about not just you, us. They have not cared about us for
so long and they never will. Like, you cross that bridge,
you're not going to go backwards.
Like, think about this, right? I saw, I'm not saying I need
this either. This is pretty boring.
I saw, I think it was this morning when I dropped the kids
off at school and I came back. I was getting ready for the show
and I saw something on social media, like a clip of about 5 or
6 halftime shows from the early days, right?
Horrendous girls in hula hoops. I saw some dude in like a what's
that thing called? Like the like a toboggan or some
sort of like, yeah, I guess kind of go up in a circle.
And somehow we didn't fall and thankfully didn't get hurt.
I saw some dude playing with a lion at midfield.
Just I, I, I don't, I don't know, man.
I I don't need that stuff. I don't.
So the way I try to live my life, they need to get a stand
up comedian for the halftime show at JK BK 1313.
That will never happen. But you know, and I wouldn't
even want that That's almost too slow.
Even if even if he's just now you want to get dice up there.
I might be might be down for a little dice.
No, you're never gonna get a comedian.
I I just, I'm not here to denounce it.
I'm not, I'm not going to be that guy who just, you know,
takes a hammer and crushes something that I don't like.
So I don't like the the music. It's it's not, I don't know any
of the music. I don't know any of it.
And I think that no, give her the beats fast and like the
dancing is amazing and I understand the global appeal.
I get it. I do, but I am the kind of
person and J Ron, I don't know if you're like this, you
actually have a musical background.
I'm the kind of person if I Can't Sing a song, I'm just not
into it. Now there's some songs like like
again, I mentioned like Taylor Swift, my daughter or maybe
years ago, Katy Perry, ladder, lady God, I don't know why those
are the three that come to mind, but like, I don't know all the
words there. But if I'm the kind of dude I
got to, I got to be able to sing the song.
Like that's how I music. No, I mean I don't know any
Bunny songs. Listen, I've heard, I've heard
of a I've heard a couple of his songs at some parties.
But yeah, it's like thought it was AI, thought it was a good
halftime show. I thought it was shot pretty
well. I thought the cinematography was
cool, you know, I thought it was fun.
Gaga moment was good. But yeah, I mean, there is
certainly that element. I feel like when you're watching
or you're like, OK, like this doesn't, you know, necessarily
relate to me exactly. Yeah.
And I'm fine with that. I I get it to an extent I do.
But yeah, I mean, in totality, I think I'm in a pretty strong
agreement with you on just we don't need the halftime show in
general. It's just kind of, it's a bunch
of hullabaloo that in this case did just turn into kind of like
a divisive mess which almost probably brought more viewers to
it than maybe would have otherwise.
Like one of the highest. Kind of, yeah.
One of the highest Watch Out show What are the highest watch
Super Bowl shows of all time? Yeah, so probably worked out in
that sort of, you know, area. But again, like, I think like
you put it, it's just a show. Doesn't need to be some crazy
thing. It's just kind of trying to just
get the average viewer to watch. Well, this see this Wi-Fi really
interesting because J Rod is obviously young buck.
He's up, he's up in comedy or is he's a young, young, young man.
And you know, so if they're not appealing to you now, I don't
know that that your opinion reflects all.
I mean, obviously not all, but a vast, a vast majority of the
people your age, you guys also grow very differently than I
did. I, I didn't grow up with the
spectacle at halftime. And your generation for the most
part has. So there's an expectation that
it's going to be there. So I, I know you were at a
smaller party, but you know, people your age, both men and
women, young men and women, are they, are they looking for this?
Like, are they excited? Maybe they are.
It's, I mean, I guess obviously it depends on the year.
Like I certainly remember, you know, last year, like with
Kendrick Lamar, like all of you know, all my friends and I were,
you know, pretty excited for it. This year is just kind of people
were like, hey, I like that. I enjoyed it.
And that's the thing. But no one's no one's clamoring
for the halftime. OK.
Going Oh my God all. Right.
Wait. But but did they in years past
here? Because I I thought a lot of
people were clambering for Bunny yesterday.
I mean, people were incredibly fired up.
Not everybody. A lot of people were.
I guess in my circles, potentially not, but certainly
on like a global scale, I think question that's definitely what
this sort of show attracted I think was like a greater global.
Audience OK, OK, there you go. I listen.
I said thank you, Jay Rod. I said get a couple of texts up
there if you can, especially something about the halftime
show if you find something interesting.
I said the other day, and I said this 10 years ago with Tiki and
they haven't done it yet, like like to this extent.
I said, you know, I think if you're going to really do this
now, timing would be a massive restraint.
I understood logistics will be a little bit tricky, but to me,
why not just have four different acts in like in the basically
take the pylon in each end zone and then push it out a little
bit and you've got one set and you have representing each or as
many different genres of music as possible.
You want to have like an old school act.
You want to do, you know, an old school rock, rock, a rap you
want to do like an R&B you want, you want to do whatever it might
be. I, I just, that's fine.
I just, I don't know what I would do.
This is going to be the ultimate barometer because when this
happens, I'll probably put my head through the screen if and
when The Jets ever get to the Super Bowl, if and when.
And I've got to say, it's not even about last night's or I'm
just in general, I just don't have any interest for it ever.
I joke around when the halftime show comes on, that's generally
when I walk outside or I walk downstairs or I kind of remove
myself to start checking, you know, second-half lines, like,
where's the money going? What am I going to bet?
I didn't do that last night? But that's generally what I do
when everybody else or some other people are watching the
screen, get ready for the music, I'm going to wander away.
I'm going to bring a beer with me and I'm going to say, all
right, where's the money going? I'm going to lay some points,
take some points. What's the prop like?
That's my go to the bathroom. That's my halftime energy.
Get a little something else to eat.
I just, I think that I think that it's, it's almost it, it
really is disheartening. And I think some of it is very
misplaced. I think some of it's on point
both ways. I just think it's disheartening
to me to to have something that should be such a in, in general,
a feel good moment create like some sort of divisiveness,
whether that is manufactured misplaced divisiveness, which in
a lot of cases in our world today it is.
So I think that's part of my pushback too.
But I I just don't need, I don't need music with football.
You want to call me old? You want to call me whatever you
want. Don't need it.
Hey, BT question. They had Eli come out with all
those legendary Super Bowl players and he's the only one
who's not in the Hall of Fame Straight blasphemy in my
opinion. Brett, I didn't I didn't see Eli
out there. You talked about when they
introduced the guys that got into the Hall of Fame, Roger
Craig, Drew Brees, those guys. I didn't see it like see like
this is the other thing Go. Ahead, I know when they were
coming out of the trailer in the intro, like it was like Joe,
Montana, Brady, Peyton came out a few other guys before him.
What the hell was Eli doing there?
Was Eli really there? That's.
What? Yeah, yeah, He was there.
He came out right before Peyton. It was just like they were
introducing a bunch of legends. I don't know if it was people
who won a certain award, but it was like a little trailer and it
was just a bunch of shots at quarterbacks.
Joe Montana was the last guy to walk out.
All right, as he should be, obviously, even though he played
a Candlestick this and the stadium is about 40 miles away.
Yeah. I mean, I, I don't know, I
didn't see that because I would, you know, I was probably loading
up my food, my my plate for the third time.
Didn't see it. You know, it's he's not a Hall
of Famer yet. He shouldn't be a Hall of Famer
yet. I'm not going to go nuts.
If he was part of that, that trailer, part of that package.
I mean, I would have thought that it would be would have been
reserved for the true, you know, like you want to have Peyton,
you want to, I mean Brady, you know, you want Peyton Brady, you
want to have a you know, Marino. I don't I don't know, whatever
that stuff. I try to remain fairly balanced
with that. I'm I'm at the point I'm trying
not to let little things bother me anymore.
Just understanding that it's the guys.
Here's the simple premise. It's there for you if you want
it. And if you don't want it,
there's something else for you. Like if you don't want to watch
six hours of pregame show, watch the Knicks and the Celtics, read
a book, go get the car wash. Something else I did yesterday
while after the Knick game, I was kind of wasting some time.
There's other things to do. You don't like Bad Bunny?
Put on Turning Point. You don't like Turning Point,
keep on Bad Bunny. You don't like music?
I don't know, go do something else.
But like to just rail and rail and rail and rail incessantly.
I, I think it kind of misses the mark, but I do think that it
speaks to a lot of the pent up anger and rage that a lot of
people have and how divided a lot of people have become.
And it's sad. I mean it, it's sad in general,
and it's certainly you don't want that on a day when you have
20-30 people watching the game together and guess what?
You, I don't know the exact amount, but I can promise you if
you have 20-30 people in the same room, I'm sure they're not
all left or all right or all Turning Point or all Bad Bunny.
I could promise you that you're going to have a mix and then you
get the mix and you get a couple of drinks and you get one
comment and it could ruin the day.
And I'm certainly not there to talk politics or get into an
argument, which I wouldn't do anyway because I just don't care
enough. If you believe what you believe,
I respect that. And hopefully you, you know, you
share or you share that same feeling.
If what I espouse is different from what you do, hopefully you
can respect that. And if you can't, but I probably
probably can't be around you because I'm going to show you
that respect. If that's not reciprocated, then
I've got no interest being in your presence.
That's just the way, right? That's why I operate at this
point at inside the MLB. I've already forgotten the Super
Bowl. It's baseball season, baby.
It is. I got a little something for
baseball. Good, good segue here.
All right, I'm not going to go nuts on this, but let me at
least laid out how I think it should be laid out now over the
weekend. And it's funny because Cashman
said, oh, we're not running it back and there is Goldschmidt
back on a one year deal. I do think that this actually,
this speaks to how a lot of people are wired to just be
combative and then just go for the throat and go for the kill
and go for the text and go for the tweet and just drop a a
barrage of disses, right? If you really have a problem
with Paul Goldschmidt being resigned by the Yankees, I don't
know what to tell you what. Well, I do.
You don't know baseball because I think you're missing the mark
at that point. I'm not saying there aren't
other things to complain about. How much do you think Paul
Goldschmidt is going to actually play?
I'm going to give you my prediction.
Of course. I've done the research.
I've got a I've got an opinion for you.
I've got to take, but understand this, please.
Last year he came here and he got one year, $12 million.
OK? I thought it was worth it.
There were a few other first baseman, you know, are they
going to get Flatty before Flatty signed the extension?
Couple others as well. I didn't like go nuts.
Wow, what a move. Because I knew he wasn't the
same guy. But the way he finished up the
year before in Saint Louis, second-half numbers, there were
some evidence that maybe still a little juice in his bad.
Good fielder, good pro, good clubhouse guy.
One year, $12 million for the Yankees were a big market team.
Is nothing all right? And really, we didn't really
know exactly what Ben Rice was at that point.
I don't know that we still fully know, although I, you know what
I think? I think it's going to be a star.
But, you know, we still got to become a star becomes before he
actually becomes a star. Anyway, why does it bother you
so much that Goldschmidt back for one year on $4 million?
How much you think he's going to play?
Like, what are you expecting from Goldschmidt?
Well, here's what you should expect.
All right. So last year, Goldschmidt had
489 at bats. Ben Rice had 467.
I mean, think about that. So you're talking about
basically 20 apart Goldie 480-9467 for Rice.
There is no chance that that's going to be quite as close to
zero, 0.0%. And the strange thing is you
dive a little bit deeper into the numbers when you look at the
splits here. Of the 489 at bats for
Goldschmidt a year ago, 340 were against right-handed pitchers.
That's not happening this year, not playing against righties
because he didn't play last year against righties as the year
progressed. So any energy, any discontent,
any. Agitation of and I'm with you on
some of the stuff I get it just pounded on Cashman, Cashman
this, Cashman that. This is not something to get too
worked up over guys. It's really not.
It's making $4 million. Rosario sign for $2,000,000.
He's going to play twice a week. It's what Goldschmidt is going
to do. So the other thing too is let me
hit you with some actual numbers each month.
Last year, literally each month I went back and I looked at it.
The at bats decreased each month, meaning he became less
and less viable in the eyes of the Yankees and less and less
relied upon by the Yankees as Ben Rice started to flex and
start to distinguish themselves a bit on the Major League level.
So in April Goldschmidt had 106 at bats pretty decent amount.
You know cuz if you do that over the course of six months, you
can have over 600 at bats 636 to be exact and that's a lot of it
bats which you won't even sniff this year cuz they didn't sniff
it last year anyway. April one O 6 May 92, June 84,
July 75 August 67 September da da 54 All right.
So he started in April with over 100 and his last month as he
Yankee in September he had half that and that's what's going to
happen this year. So why am I going to waste my
time? Why it's it's I'm fine with that
guy. He's a great clubhouse guy.
He's still a terrific fielder. You know, he's reliable.
He's going to be a pinch hitter. He'll play once or twice a week
against lefties. You know, God forbid if you know
they don't have any righty bats. So I think any time you bring a
righty is is not a bad thing. Now, I wish he had a little more
positional versatility. I would like to see the Yankees
get a righty bat for the outfield.
There's rumblings that they still might.
I'm not saying it's perfect, but a guy who was making peanuts in
2026, you know, relative to Major League first baseman, he's
not going to play that much. You're not counting on them.
And everybody loves him and respects him.
And for me, when you've got some young players, especially
somebody who's trying to figure out how to play first base, I
don't know what the problem is except that many of you like to
hear yourselves yell. Honestly, many of you were
predisposed to being miserable because you're so hell bent on
just banging those opinions out there about Cashman, Cashman
this, Cashman that. And I'll do it as loud and as
often as anybody because I have. This is not a situation where
I'm going to waste energy. I am always going to be fair to
the situation. I'm actually happy Goldschmidt's
back. I'm happy that he's back because
I understand the way he's going to be utilized here.
That's it, You know? So I think some of you see it at
D, the way I see it, but not many at the under score, Rod.
under score Rod Goldie's. Yeah, the late inning
replacement of first base here. He's going to play once a week.
For the money, it's fine. Good.
Better and help for the other players.
I totally agree. Absolutely agree with that.
Why would you not? So let's say the Yankees are up
3 to 1 and it's the let's say Ben Rice has three at bats, does
great, does nothing, whatever. And then he's getting ready to
come up and it's the 8th inning. Bottom 8 Yanks are up two or
Yanks are up 1, whatever it might be, but they're up high
leverage and the other team has a lefty and all right, Goldie is
swing to bat for Rice. Then go play first base where
you're actually a better defender.
So what's the problem with that? See, it's just I, I think it's
been misstated and hijacked. He's not going to steal the bats
from Ben Rice. Just understand that, please at
Chris, Chris Christmas, I want to say Christmas, but Chris
Matos, we'll go with that. Chris Matos one O 2, everybody
assuming everybody's healthy, what's the Mets one through 9?
It's not a bad time to do that. I didn't have that plan, but as
as you can see, there's a few rules here on BT at least we
could jump around beholding to nothing. 1:00 to 9:00.
I'm going to give you 1 to 9 how I would do it.
All right, I'm not really sure how they're going to do it.
I'm just jotting this down one to OK.
So to me, I think this will obviously happen.
Lindor want it short too. Soto again, what I'm going to
do. Soto to right field.
Bichette three at third base, probably Polanco.
Probably Polanco will put him four at first base.
Let's see. Simmons going to beat them.
I just want to write down the names.
Simeon at the bottom. I got to find a spot for Beatty
Alvarez. Louise Roberts.
Oh my man, I think I'm missing 1.
DHI would say probably what I would do.
So we got to switch. We got a righty, we got a righty
Polanco there for It's not going to be Alvarez, not going to be
Rob. Who am I missing?
I think I'm missing somebody important.
First base, second base, shortstop, third Alvarez, DH,
Soto, Robert. All right, so I'm just going to
work for the bottom up, let's say bench.
Yeah, I'm going to say Benj is just starting left fielder.
I think that will be optimal for the Mets there.
You know, he distinguishes himself enough.
Obviously a center fielder by trade, unlike Dominguez, I'm
sure he'll be able to catch the ball in left field.
All right, so and I know they love him.
Benj 9 in left field. I think 8 at that point, I'm
going to go Simeon at second base.
Then I'm going to work to Robert.
Yeah, I got it. Now.
I don't know if this is perfect, but I'm going to put this out
Robert instead or seven. I can even flip Simeon and
Robert, but I'll just do it for now. 6 I mean, if it's a righty,
I'm going to go baby five and I'm going to have him DH, But I
we all know he's going to be bouncing around a lot.
And then in the sixth spot, you got to have somewhere for
Alvarez. Now, if Louise Robert is
banging, you want to put Robert 6 Alvarez 7.
There's a lot of different variations bottom third, but
I'll just do it. I'll get it quickly as I work my
way through it #1 Lindor short #2 Rifiel Batten third, Bichette
playing third, Polanco Batten 4th, playing first.
Beatty, who I'm a big fan of, you know, I'm giving him every
chance to to really show early that the second-half was for
real, which I believe that it is.
So Betty's going to be my DH on opening day batting 5th.
I'm going to have Alvarez in the sixth spot behind the plate,
Roberts center batting 7th. We'll go Simeon 8 second and
we'll go Benge in left field now batting 9th.
Let's a couple of variations here.
Let's say Benge hits O 91 in in in spring training and he's not
viewed as viable. Then I think you get a situation
where you would have probably I'm OK giving Beatty a shot in
left field. I don't know if I really want
him there opening Day. But I think it really depends if
if Benj doesn't drown, I think they're going to let him run out
there. And let's say if it's Beatty and
then I'd still put I, then I put Beatty in left field and then
you'd have to find another DH. And there's, you know, a couple
of variations there, whatever. But I think that that's going to
be the Mets line up one through 9.
That's what I think it's going to be.
What is this year All right, you know when BT puts on the
glasses, breaks out the pen and pad, it's going to be good.
It is hey, you know, I love doing this stuff.
I got I have got a mess. I have a legal pad guy now not
like schmooze. Here's the difference right?
I I ordered these on Amazon. I got a million legal pads Here
it is an it's my it's my old school way to do the show.
I got more over there now, the difference with me and schmooze,
even though we use the same legal pads.
He writes out the whole thing. As you know, all these years, he
writes out the whole monologue. He like, writes a book, which is
amazing. I, I don't do radio that way.
I don't do content that way. What I like to do is I like to
write out. This works for me, doesn't work
for everybody. I write out a word and I write
out a word. Now, don't get me wrong, like
with the Goldschmidt, the at bats per per month, I wanted to
have that buttoned up. Obviously a few stats that I've
written down, but when I'm structuring the show, and I
would do this on the radio as well and we'd have a rundown,
but myself, I would just write down a word like, you know, and
it could be somebody's name, you know, like Alvarado.
Like, I know I want to get to the Knicks a little bit today.
Alvarado and circle it or Alvarado slash defense, you
know, circle it or, you know, Knicks slash Piston Celtics and
that and I know what that's going to trigger.
Yeah, that that works for me, you know.
But yeah, when it's when I'm grabbing the pen in the pad and
the glasses, I'm either jotting down a line up or I'm doing some
deep dive and, you know, BT's in the laboratory, which I
absolutely love at OOUOU Sif 92. What's up, man?
Theoir is a keeper. Yeah, Mohammed Theoir is playing
really, really well. I I went to get the car washed
and washed and I heard the first part of the some of the game on
the radio when he's banging in a bunch of triples.
He's becoming a really interesting player.
And that's, you know, that's, that's something else you have
to put on Leon Rose's hit list here.
Second round pick, right? He's got some length could shoot
it played a lot of minutes. I think he played the most
minutes of any reserve yesterday.
So that that's very encouraging. Now, listen, I think what's
going to determine whether or not the Knicks get to and win a
championship is going to be the buyout market.
You know, that's why Yabaselli and being able to do what they
did with with Alvarado was very important there, because they
still got some wiggle room to get somebody on the buyout
market. They got to get a big there.
They got to get a big. They just have to and and I
don't know who that is. I don't, I don't, I don't know.
I, you know, you want to tell me?
Yeah. You could always use another
shooter. Sure, you know, O GS a little
injury prone, you know, Cat has had some issues always been
rebounding the hell out of the ball.
Brunson's Brunson Bridge is going to, you know, play 37
minutes a night. Some nights will be really good,
some nights will be invisible, but the effort will be there,
you know, but and that's what I mean.
Now think about the energy that Alvarado brought walked into
Boston. I know it's not the Celtics,
same team without Tatum, but they're a lot better this year
than I thought they would be. And the Knicks were coming off
being punked again by the Pistons and Alvarado.
Alvarado's out there. And it was just a different, it
was a different energy. It was a different force just
doing things. Just it just making it
uncomfortable for other teams to operate.
And I think that's great. I really do.
Because Brunson can't do that. You know, you don't want to have
to have Josh Hart and some of these other guards and wings,
you know, chasing people around picks and early in the shot
clock. Not that not that you won't
ever. But I mean, that's his role.
He's going to play 12 to 15 minutes a night when he hits a
couple of threes, When he hits a couple of threes because he's
not a great shooter, he's OK. But when he hits a couple of
threes, it does change the ceiling for the Knicks because
when he's shooting fairly well, obviously you've got to react to
that. And it creates A spacing option
for the Knicks, which is basic stuff there.
But when he's shooting early and he hit, and I don't mean, you
know, 5 threes, not that kind of player, but just stick one or
two and and be willing to shoot a couple.
Well, now it opens things up. But now it's going to keep him
on the floor and it's going to keep him even more engaged.
Like, I love him. I'm so happy the Knicks got him.
I was pumped about this when we talked about it on Friday.
New York kid, you're just, it's just a phenomenal story.
And you saw that injection of energy into the Knicks
yesterday. And part of my problem with the
Knicks now, this doesn't solve like when you play the Pistons
necessarily. They got some some boys up in
the front court who are not afraid at all of the Knicks,
like they they're licking their chops, like they think they're
going to have their way with the Knicks front court.
And too often they have right. So I would still like to see a
high energy four or five with some height and some, you know,
resistance. I'm not talking like a, you
know, a fighter because those days are over, but just somebody
who's just going to bring a little something physically to
the front and around the basket because, you know, Alvarado,
Alvarado's got that unlocked 25 feet away from the rim.
He is a pain in the ass to play against.
What a pest man. He's got a relentless motor.
He's got great anticipation, you know, just, you know, picking
pockets and just, you know, even if he doesn't get the steal,
when you just kind of force somebody off their their dribble
path or, and you knock it loose and even if the guy gathers it,
you waste 3, 4 seconds. You only have 24 to begin with.
They got to reset the offense. It just keeps other teams out of
rhythm. He's an unpredictable defensive
force. And he's a great jolt of energy
that, quite frankly, the Knicks needed because they've got too
many benign personalities. They do.
Mikhail Bridge is quiet as a mouse.
OG doesn't say a word. I mean, we love Bronson Killer,
but that really saying doesn't say, Yeah, he does that with the
fingers, but doesn't say much. Yeah.
They just have a lot of guys who just really don't project any
sort of outward energy. So I loved it when they got him.
I gave Leon Rose a lot of props. And the first real, you know,
look at Alvarado was a Nick. Pretty damn good.
You know, let me see.
Here. Let me get this guy up.
Yeah. BT Mike Brown has his flaws.
Nick's depth may be the best in the league, and that would have
would not have happened with Tom Thibodeau.
Got to give credit to Brown where it's due.
Yeah, let's be real. No, I've definitely done that.
And by the way, the other day, that is one of the problems with
having 9000 legal pads. I don't know.
I'm not even going to look for it take forever because I did do
this the other day where I was contrasting the many different
numbers. I think it was at least nine
categories of Tom Thibodeau and Mike Brown and some like 3
threes attempted a game, free throws attempted a game,
defensive efficiency, offensive rating, rebounding.
They were basically, and some were minimal and marginal, but
it was certainly threes taken from the corner was one that
jumped out, minutes played by the reserves.
That's obvious. And you know, that's why I was
open to change here. Now, Mike Brown's never won a
championship as a head coach and he's got a lot to prove, but I
thought it was time for the Knicks to change.
I said that when the Knicks got bounced a year ago.
I said that the next day and I said it with respect, but I was
very clear there was nothing to interpret.
I got on. I got on our show last year,
said Nick's got to fire Tom Thibodeau, and I made sure that
I softened it because I really do respect what he did.
But I made it very clear if they had to move on from Tom
Thibodeau, he was not evolving. Now, that doesn't mean that man
that they brought in is the absolute perfect answer to what
they needed, but he's different and sometimes different.
Could be good. Now, if they get bumped in the
first round, it's an absolute disaster.
You'll probably get fired and all of the Tom Thibodeau
supporters will come out and want to attack me.
That's OK. You know, you got to have an
opinion. I stand by it.
I think it was time to move on. BTDI think the unifying element
of the Super Bowl Sunday is the food and the beverage.
What was the best thing you ate yesterday?
Mine was homemade sourdough with lump crab dip.
That sounds good. I would have absolutely
demolished that. Thank you.
Andrew from from Bay Ridge. I had some wings, a lot of
conventional stuff. Had some good wings and I'm not
AI love wings, but I'm not like a teriyaki wing guy or garlic
parmesan. I am a conventional wing guy.
Give me some blue cheese, give me some ranch, give me naked
wings. Very happy with that.
So I had some of that, had some chili, a lot of conventional
stuff. I had a little was it pursuit in
mozzarella? Was that, was it pursuit?
Yeah, I think it was definitely some of that.
And I I went to town on the desserts.
I I mean, I don't even know what I was eating at one point.
I was just shoveling in my face. So I feel like an absolute slob
today. I was driving the kids to
school. I'm like, uh oh, I feel it
hitting me. I I better get home.
You know, I mean, like, you know, all that stuff that I've a
couple beers, it catches up with you.
Kevin Looney, let's see, is a big that's probably going to be
bought out maybe. Yeah, those are options for the
Knicks. Yeah.
He's a winner, Chris from America.
I appreciate that. Been around for a little bit.
Ludy's fine. Yeah.
Something like that. I think something like that.
I I don't think that the Knicks are done, but you know, it's
funny because the emergence of the aura is fun.
It's very fun. Interesting.
The Red Sox got Durbin from the Brewers.
Yep. Yeah, Yeah.
So that. Let me see here what else you
know, what's the timeline that. What else do we have here?
Usual. As usual, the chat sessions
never disappoint. Yeah, you guys do it.
I love the chat. I love.
And I do this after every show. It's not available right away.
I've said this a few times, but after the show I will once, once
it's up and once J Rod and I get together on our what we want out
there for shorts and other, you know, post production stuff that
we had it with that we have to do.
I like to go back. I won't really necessarily watch
the show. There might be something where
I'm like, I want to double check something.
I want to see something. I really enjoy going through the
through the chats there. You guys do a great job.
Now I will say a little light on the likes there, like some of
the likes got to get up there, the tractions got to get up
there. We've got to get some, some more
of a, of a digital imprint as we close it on 16,000 Subs.
I'll have that today. And then I'm again, I'm looking
at it right now. It's amazing.
I'm looking at this piece of paper and I'm going to keep
doing this until I get to 100,000 Subs and I get that nice
YouTube plaque. And then I'm going to keep going
until I get half a million. Like that's how I view this.
Like I view this every single day.
I know it's corny. I know it's old.
I know it sounds contrived, but it's my new world and I love it
and I've got no limitations, which makes me, I think, even
better. I'm more effective as a
communicator. And I'm looking at this sheet of
paper right now and boy, that was fast.
I've got the number hundred a thousand, 25105 thousand, 10,012
five, 715 thousand, 17520 thousand, and they've all got XS
through them except 20. We'll have 16 by the end of
today, and they just keep growing.
It's not going to happen overnight.
I understand that, but I do know, and I'm excited for this,
that the, and if you've been with the show, I know you've
heard this a lot, so I won't belabor it, but the BT Unleashed
logo is made, it has been printed, it is done.
So they're coming either it's going to take like hours to
install, so they're coming either Thursday or Friday and I
got the text over the weekend and I don't think I'll wait.
Like part of me is like, all right, just start the new week
with it like because it's going to be done by the end of this
week. But if they do a Thursday, I'm
going to roll it out Friday and if they do a Friday, then I'll
obviously roll it out Friday. But I just can't wait.
It's going to it's going to look different.
You know, it really is. Oh, need a top ten mug segment
from BTI noticed you guys do say that a lot.
I've got a lot of mugs and I noticed, though, one of you
know, the mug, this is the one I'm teed off.
I, I have one and you know, there's like it says like hard
work or there's like all these different.
I don't even know where I got that from.
Perseverance, all these positive expressions usually.
And I'm like, what the hell, like, why is, why is that mug
leaving a little ring of coffee around either my notes or my
desk in my office? Well, and I'm an idiot.
It took me, I, I just thought maybe when I, when I, you know,
put it down a little bit, kind of fell out of the mug or to
clean it up like like it happens, you know, there's
actually a little barely visible.
I got to get rid of it. So I do have to get another mug
barely visible little crack where it kind of trickles out.
And the idiot that I am, it took me two or three weeks to figure
it out. And I've now I've had the mug
for probably seven or eight years.
So I guess maybe, I don't know, you just you clean it too much
and starts to melt a little ceramic chip.
I don't know what happened, but I know we're going to get BT
Unleashed mugs. Somebody asked me about this the
other day about BT Unleashed merch and that is again, guys,
there are steps that you have to do here and to be able to sell
it, you've got to create there. There.
There's something we had to do on the back end.
I won't bore you with it. We've created that.
Now I've just got to find who I like.
Like I had to find a producer. Like I had to find somebody to
design the back wall. Like I've got to find everybody
and everything starting from scratch.
I've got to find the somebody that I want to align myself with
that will make the BT merch and I got and once that happens,
I've got to decide what do I want to do.
Jay Ron, let me pull you in for a SEC.
What do you think 'cause I've got my my idea outside of 'cause
this is too easy. BT Unleashed mugs, which is a
game. Got to have some mugs.
I think the BT Unleashed vibe is more like the Skullcaps myself.
I think Beanie would be great. I mean great for the Northeast
cold, cold winters right there. So a couple of audience, a
couple hoodies, black T-shirts, a must, the black T-shirt that's
like the number one seller in in merch business, I guess.
Yeah, I'm a big black T-shirt guy.
It's funny, I never wore, I don't think I ever wore a black
T-shirt until about, I mean, in my life, unless like I had a
uniform that was like dark and I, I, I have probably 10 to 12
black T-shirts. That's pretty much all I wear.
But I've got so many of them. So people who see me like dude,
he's wearing the black T-shirt again.
I just love the way you find a good teacher.
Great. You know it's you're not
getting. Rid never switch up on it.
Someone also said stickers. That's a great idea.
Toss it on the laptop I mean. I like.
Infinite. Possibilities, really.
Yes, there are. Yes, there are.
You're right, J Rod, I'm with you on that, guys.
Friday night was absolutely bonkers at the Garden.
Oh my God. And I'm very curious where St.
John's going to be ranked here today.
So it was electric. I've done Lord knows how many
games at, at at the Garden there.
My first one was 2003, 2004 when Mike Jarvis was the coach.
And that was my first year doing St.
John's games. And they played Marquette and it
was at the guard. It was the coaches versus Cancer
Classic, like one of those preseason tournaments.
St. John's lost.
Of course, they weren't very good.
And that was the beginning of the swoon.
Like the beginning of their swoon was when I started.
So you know how meaningful these these big games are in these
moments are. And there were points, and I
remember saying this on the air the other night to to Minko.
There were points more times than not where I would do games
at the Garden, St. John's.
Now, if it was like a Syracuse or obviously a Yukon talking
about the previous configuration of the conference or like Notre
Dame, I think some other teams that had some good fan bases
that would suck up the tickets. Like if if it was against the
other program that was down like Georgetown, I mean, I remember
or like a team that doesn't have a base here in the new Big East.
Like if they're playing Creighton at the Garden now,
it's going to be sold out. Like tonight, Xavier's going to
have 1718 thousand people there for Saint John's.
But there's no Xavier fans coming in because it's not, I
mean, in terms of a big amount. So it's now dependent upon St.
John's to inspire people to sell the tickets just to come watch
St. John's, which they're finally
doing with the arrival of Rick. But man, there's been so many
games I've done where it was depressing.
And I remember just walking out of that building so many times,
like especially growing up. And this was the one that hurt
the most growing up on St. John's, Georgetown, right?
And doing a game and there being like 5300 people there and it's
just utterly depressing. Like it's, it's the ambiance.
It's not even quiet. It's it's just sad.
And I did a lot of those games. So I don't think this stuff for
granted. And there's been a lot of
electric moments, especially even like, listen, even with
Lavin that a couple of good teams here and there, you know,
when Mullen first got there, there's a little bit of juice.
I'm not saying that there was no juice before Pitino, but this is
different. This is what it was like when I
was a matter of fact, my son's texted me during the game.
He couldn't come to, he couldn't, he had a he had a
pitching lesson. So he was going to, you know,
he's listening to the game in the car on the radio on 1050 AM.
And when he got home, he's locked in and, and the whole
family watched the game. Matter of fact, when I got home
from the game, which was like 1120 or whatever it was, all
three of them were knocked out on the couch upstairs.
She was rare in his St. John's jersey.
They were all asleep. They were my daughter could
really care less. She's not too into the game, but
she was there and and he's texting me.
And, you know, at one point I said this is what it was like
when I was young. And I told him that before.
Like, this is what it was like when I was young.
It did just the juice, the feeling and what's changed now?
And this is so amazing because even I didn't even think that
this was possible. Like the garden really turned
into, you know, stores. It was, it was Yukon fans just
basically come in and take the building over.
And I'm not mad at him for doing it.
I'm jealous over the years, right?
Not anymore. I don't know the exact number.
I, I would have to guess a few people have asked me this.
I felt like it was 8020, maybe even 8515 Saint John, maybe even
9010. Like they're the whole, the top.
You had some Husky fans, the whole first two all red.
And it was just, man, you know #1 the game was, it was
physical. And, you know, here's one thing
that you really, as much as the college game has changed, right?
And it's benefited Saint John's because now they can, they can
buy good players. You know, it's changed their
trajectory and they're able to pay for Rick.
You have that money coming in from Mike Ripoli.
And, and, and it's just a different world for Saint
John's. While somebody like Syracuse and
other blue bloods have kind of they've been penalized with the
NIL and the transfer portal. Ironically, it's really what
saved Saint John's really has. And as that's happened, you
you've got a lot of rosters with no continuity because it changes
every year. And the other thing that's
happened now as Bay Himes retired, as Jay Wright stepped
away, now you can still got his oh, Mark Few out there with
Gonzaga, you know, but a lot of the big coaches are no longer
around. So I know the Big East is down
this year. There's really I think it's
going to be a three team bid, maybe 4.
Big East is really down. Well, the thing that other
coach, other conferences don't really get is that that Hurley
Pitino dynamic is about as old school as it gets.
And that's one of the things that the conference really had
when I was coming up, becoming a fan.
Louis Rolly, Massimino Behime, Jim Calhoun, Oh my God.
John Thompson, of course, the great John Thompson at
Georgetown Pitino with Providence, a young Pitino.
It was just amazing. And they really, there's
friction there. I told you this on Friday.
They say the right thing, they respect each other, but boy, do
they want to beat the shit out of each other.
And you know, not once, not twice, not three times in a row.
3 Rick has beaten Hurley and St. John's is more physical now.
I don't know what's going to happen when they meet up in
stores and that's on a Wednesday night, which is so weak.
I mean, it's like it's Wednesday night and I think it's on
Peacock and I'm not here to disparage Peacock, but can you
put the game on a little bit more of a high profile moment
Wednesday night? It's just very that's got to be
a Saturday game. I don't know how the I know that
they're beholden to the contracts.
FS1 Fox, which was on Friday night, which was great.
Got to go and say hi to Gus. So I haven't seen it in a while.
Love Gus. He's, he's just a great dude.
Known him for a long time back to when I was doing stuff with
the Knicks and I was doing the halftime stuff and he was doing
the game. So I've really known Gus for a
while and he's still the same Gus.
Always a happy smile, always a big, you know, big dab, big hug,
how the kids doing. Great guy and a great talent.
So, and it sounded big too. That's the other thing too.
But how do you have UConn and St.
John's on a Wednesday night? I think it's at 7UP in stores on
Peacock like the, the, the biggies.
I think the biggies needs a new commissioner.
I've said that I think they, they, they're broadcasting
rights are, although you don't even know what channel they're
on. But that's not my problem.
I'm focused on St. John's and it was really, really
good. And they beat these, as I say,
he's beaten them three straight games.
How about this stat? So I think the biggest, I think
UConn might have a little more skill in terms of shooters.
Like the kid Mullins, the freshman, wow.
I mean, he came out he I mean, he looked like JJ Redick at
Duke. I mean, bang, bang.
I'm like, oh boy. And they got a couple of pros
there, obviously as the St. John's.
But the biggest difference is that St.
John's is bigger and stronger and tougher in the front court.
And as long as they hit a couple of threes, their massive
advantage is getting to the free throw line.
St. John's one of the best teams in
the country, getting to the strike.
Listen to this disadvantage for UConn.
So and Uconn's play one more game.
They play one more game. St.
John's has taken 613 free throw attempts so far this year.
Uconn's taken 440-4613 to 444 and that showed up the other
night. I think St.
John's took 31. They didn't, they they missed a
couple. They got to shoot better than
they did, but I think they took 31.
I think UConn was right around 12 or 13.
Massive disparity in line with those numbers that I just gave
you. So you know it.
It's going to be very interesting.
Yes. And I did see this over the
weekend. How about Autry?
Yeah. Locked in his firing.
No, Syracuse is a disaster right now.
My God. And Carmelo's son didn't play at
all. DNP Now I also don't think that
Carmelo Sun is as good as some people do just because you have
the I think he's interesting and I think I know he's had some
good games. I've seen him play, but you
know, he's an issue on defense and you know, but I don't know
what the hell is going on on up there at Syracuse.
I I just don't know. I do think college basketball is
better when Syracuse is, is viable.
And I've done a, I've done more than a few games at the Carrier
Dome, and it's one of the most unique, amazing experiences when
Syracuse is good, just the way the whole arena's football
stadiums, you know, cuddle, the Dome is cut in half and all the
fans and when they're good, they don't sit.
I mean, they, it's terrible. I mean, it's, I don't know if
we've talked. I'm a Syracuse guy.
Literally the only good season we ever had as a student was
that what was it? 20/20/2020 Buddy Beheim Sweet
16. Yeah, but yeah, but.
That was it. I mean, which was great, but and
Joe Gerrard was fine for like, you know, whatever the rest of
the two seasons he was there. He was a good player.
But yeah, it's been, it's been a disappointment of a program at
least the past, what, 5-6 years? I don't know how they're gonna
really change this. I mean, the really, you know,
the only way you change is you gonna have to, it's not like you
just got to pay. You got to pay players.
That's the bottom line. I don't know what their budget
is, but they've got a football budget and they get, you know,
when even when they stink, they get 20 something thousand at the
Dome. So how many games did you go to
the Dome there? Oh, I mean every went to every
game, yeah, pretty much every basketball 1 I'd say men's
basketball, decent amount of the football, less.
I mean, I'd say for other than like that last senior year,
junior year, our football team was awful.
It was like what Garrett Schrader for most of my college
career, Tommy DeVito at the end. So yeah.
Tommy Boy. Yes, Sir, should have.
Should have brought him out last night, but yeah, a bunch of
games at the Dome. I mean love it.
Love it. Did you have a good time at
Syracuse? Was it fun?
Super fun. I mean great, great school.
I think I think like the party school aspect gets a little like
overrated overhyped there, however, still a lot of
partying. It's it's a fun school.
I mean, super cold, but like great Spirit, like people,
everyone there, like they really care about the fact that they're
at Syracuse. I.
Agree with that. I I always got that.
I totally agree. I always got that sense like,
and I think about when, when conference play start, it's not
like you're playing up from Saint John's point of view.
You never have gone up there in November because that's the non
conference. So I would always go up there.
Probably done if I had to take a guess, I've probably done 8 or 9
games up at the Dome, Saint John, Syracuse.
Oh yeah, I've done a lot. Oh yeah, yeah.
And the with basically all the different coaches, with Jarvis,
with Lavin, with Mullen, Yeah, I mean, not not with Rick there
because. And I'd like to see St.
Johnson's heroes cues play a game at the guard.
I think that'll be a lot of or the Dome.
That would be cool. But every time they go up there,
it's either January or February and it's absolutely frigid.
And it's because it's so cold. That seems desolate, even though
it's not right. And it's it's I don't think I've
ever been there once when it's sunny and it seems almost
depressing. I know it's not.
It's an amazing school with a great journalistic history and a
great basketball history and a lot of culture and a lot of
pride. But it it, it's, it just always
seems dank, like it's always Gray.
You got to go from like May. Oh, it's a short period.
You got like. May, May to June.
May to June, May to September, and then it's very nice, but
other than that, it's the most disgusting place on earth.
All right, So let me tell you where I think St.
John's going to finish up here today just because they've got
the what's that coming out of 1:00 here?
So about an hour and 20 minutes you get the new AP poll.
So say not listen the AP, What does it really mean?
AP poll doesn't mean a whole lot.
You're better off looking at like bracket matrix.
Where are they seed wise? Where's Leonardi got them?
Where's Palm got them. Where's the Ken Palm?
Where's the where's the net ranking?
Saint John's moved up only it's it's amazing only one or two
spots in the net ranking here, which is crazy to me when you
beat the number three team in the country.
But you know, when you play this amount of games here, the
analytics don't move. It's like having 500 at bats
versus, you know, 120. You know, obviously you have a
three hit game. If it's the latter 120 average
going to jump. If it's September, it might jump
up a point anyway. They were 22 going into the
game. I believe that they will be, I
think they'll crack the top 15. I think they're going to be #15
here maybe 16. And you know, the symbolism of
being top 15 versus 16, whatever.
They're just moving in the right direction.
They won a ton of games in a row, basically every game, maybe
with the with the exception of going up the stores soon they
will be favored. They've got Xavier tonight.
You got to be careful, you know, let down, you know, even playing
against Rick, Rick versus his son, you want to make sure you
beat the teams like Marquette. Seton Hall is going to be tough
there last regular season game at the Rock on.
I think that's March 6. That will not be easy because
Shaheen Holloway is going to have his crew ready and they're
tough and they almost beat St. John's at the Garden.
So got respect for the whole. But I I mean, St.
John's going to probably finish up what are they, 18 and five?
They're going to finish up 20, 2627 wins, maybe 28 maybe
depending upon what happens to the Big East tournament here.
So I do think that they will be in that that that that realm of
15, five top ten teams lost in the last week or so since the
lost since the last AP poll came out.
St. John's will have a big jump.
And listen, I said this going into the game, I thought that
St. John's was ridiculously over
ranked at #5 coming in like no really outside of Zubi that
nobody else did anything. So they, there was real no
justification in Saint John's being #5 it was Rick and it was
Zubi, which are two great starting points, don't get me
wrong. And it was the 31 win season and
the Big East regular season championship and the Big East
tournament championship which really elevated them to #5 they
weren't the 5th best team in the country.
They showed that because they lost the teams they shouldn't
have and they didn't beat teams that would have distinguished
them even further. So they took some lumps early,
then they dropped out so that they were overranked early.
And then quite frankly, I thought going into this game, I
thought they were slightly underrated.
Not not not by a lot, but I thought maybe one or two, three
slots, maybe instead of 22, maybe 20, maybe 19.
Either way, that'll get corrected today that drops.
So I'm curious and more importantly, where they where,
where do I think they can wind up as a seed in terms of right
now, the the momentum is great right now.
Saint John's and this didn't even move that much.
I was surprised at this, so I'd like to follow and bracket
Matrix is really good for this. If you just go to bracket
Matrix, you'll see all of the different outlets and there's
like 30 of them. And you'll see all of the teams
one through whatever, like the seeds, one through 16 obviously,
and they'll have like 4 ones, 4 twos like it's actually the NCAA
tournament or Selection Sunday, right?
And they'll have. So for Saint John's, early on,
they were generally thought and they'll take like a hybrid, an
average of everybody like where they have them and it will come
up with a number. And as I've said, St.
John's was rightfully in that 8-9 game for a while.
Then they started creeping up, creeping up, creeping up.
And then as they got further and further away from that bad loss
at home to Providence, they started moving into that like
the 4th best sixth seed. Now they're in some either A5 or
one of the best 6 I think. I think that Saint John's will
wind up either a really good 5, meaning a favorable location
geographically and A and a more favorable matchup of all the
fives or one of the lower fours. Now, if they beat UConn up in
stores, I mean, and then you go as a lot of ifs here you go on
you and then at that point you would in all probability win the
Big East regular season championship again.
I mean, hell, I mean if you beat UConn 4 times in a row, I don't
even know if they went up there, but if they do, you'd have to
think if you meet him in the tournament Big East, you got a
chance to beat him there as well.
I mean, could they make I don't think they're going to make the
three line. That's that's just that's just
that's that's that's a jump. I don't see that.
But I think the momentum is real.
I think this team has found out who they are.
I think it all coincides with, really the way Dylan Mitchell's
played and this renewed commitment to the front court.
And John's looks really good. And that place was magical.
I could not wait to get to that game.
It was an 8:00 game. So I'm sitting there waiting all
day. I'm like, come on, I want to go.
Let's go at Omar. under score Yousef 92.
Omar, what's going on, brother? How you doing?
Are you surprised by how Dennis Jenkins has looked in the NBA?
No, I'm actually not. Pistons appeared to have found
gold there. Yep.
I don't know why I don't. I don't know why the Knicks
didn't bring him in. Right under your nose.
Dennis Jenkins is is a
legitimate NBA player, period. And I'm not going to go 3
minutes, 4 minutes on Dennis Jenkins here.
But it's a great story. He's a great competitor.
Got to know him a little bit. Loved interviewing him.
Terrific young man, awesome person.
And he was at Iona with Rick, obviously.
And you know, that's one of the things about player development.
That's that's what Rick is now bigger also provide money.
If you're a big time player, you're going to get around
$1,000,000. You know, St.
John's has an nil budget. I believe it's right around
10:10 or $11 million. You got a couple of guys make it
over a mil for sure. And they should.
That's, that's the name of the game.
But you're also going to develop and Jenkins a couple of years
ago was viewed as a really good player in the Mac.
And then when he came to Saint John's, you like, wow, this
guy's incredibly valuable. And then you saw Saint John's in
points last year before they clicked.
You like, man, they really miss him.
And then you saw him early like in the summer league and I
checked him out in the summer league a little bit with Detroit
always rooting for him the two way contract.
And then oh wow, we had 15 points in the NBA now back to
the G league like and then bang, he is just really asserted
himself here. Yep.
I, I think, you know, I'm gonna go nuts here, but I think it's
fairly realistic to. Think that Danish Jenkins is
going to wind up making enough money in the NBA to retire?
You don't retire well with just an ounce of shrewd investment
and he's not he's going to make 100 mil.
You tell me. You know, he he can't make like
a contract at some point like Deuce McBride maid, you know,
three years, $13 million when Leon Rose signed up to that a
couple of years ago. Not saying they're the same
exact type of player, but if you get, you know that anybody can
get more. You know, you get that that
three-year 171819 million dollar our taxes whack that out half
got it. Agent fee.
Yeah, understood. But if you if you invest that
properly and you're you're shrewd in how you spend and
you're smart about it and you just get, you know, a decent
return. You know, forget about 15%,
we're trying to get in a restaurant or something wacky,
which will probably most restaurants don't work out.
If you get a decent return and you're smart and sensible.
And I'm when I say decent, just, you know, 78%, you live it off
the interest and you got to be really, you're really, really
good. And I think there's a chance he
might be able to get more than that.
I actually, I don't think that that is implausible.
He is a good player. And I just I remember watch, I
remember saying this before the draft.
I'm like, next draft them, draft them.
You know, he's got a mid range game.
He's a defensive demon. He's a hell of a teammate.
You know, he's been coached up. So I I never understood why the
Knicks didn't give him a real look there at B Klein and I was
at BK and BK leaner. Is that B these I'll tell you,
dude, you know, here's what we got to start doing at new rule
on the show. I can't I can't, I can't
anymore. I can't unless it's like a
normal name and I'm I'm not taking a shot at anybody.
These underscores these number. I can't do it anymore.
As I said, I am used to go to Joe out east and William
Connecticut and Billy in Brooklyn and Timmy in Manhattan,
you know, 9000 numbers. And just So what we're going to
do is J Rod, from now on, if it's a, and that one's not
terrible, but I'll go with B Kleiner, I'm going to go with
that. You got it right.
It's Benji Kleiner. He's OK.
There you go, Benji Kleiner. Alright, Benj.
But if it's one of those wacky ones with numbers and
underscores and bashes, J Rod's going to start reading those.
OK, deal. Deal.
We got a deal. That a boy, That a boy.
So B, what do we got? Nixon won nine of 10 held teams
under 106 times in the stretch. Alvarado strengthens the overall
D. We're coming out of the East,
OK. I mean that that's pretty brazen
when I mean, the Pistons have kicked the shit out of them
every time they play them. I understand that Alvarado has
not been there, you know, and now he is.
I got it. And I know the Knicks are good
and I know that they got a chance, but you know, that's I'm
not going there yet. That's not a good match up,
Knicks and Pistons. It's not a good match up for the
Knicks. It was a it was a tricky match
up a year ago. They are tough, they are big,
they are well coached. They got a stud guard who can
take over series and by the way, only going to get better and
better and better and better in Cunningham.
So I mean, Knicks would probably be slightly fit, but they won't
have the homecourt. I don't think so.
SBT Rod Power 78. What's your favorite Kenny
Powers quote? Oh my God, I don't really have
any quotes. I see.
I'm not a big movie quote guy, but I love that show.
I mean, that was awesome. I remember.
So somebody told it was somebody that I used to work with was on
HBO. Hey, J Rod, do me a favor,
Eastbound and down. Check out what year that came.
If I had to take a guess, God, I could be wildly off on this.
I feel like it came and then there was like, then they went
to Myrtle Beach in like season 3.
Got a little weak there. I think the first year ish was
like around 29, 2010. When did eastbound and down
surface on HBO do you know? 2009 to 2013.
Okay, there, there while there was that, yeah.
And I think either Myrtle Beach was the last season or the
penultimate season and I still watched it.
I mean, listen, anytime a season, any any time a show
jumps the shark and you and you love that show, you still stick
with it. Now you might be like like even
friends at the end. Yeah, you know, a little lame
there. Even Entourage at the end, not
quite as and I love the show. Not quite as good as it was the
first bunch. You know, I thought The Sopranos
never really jumped the shark. Neither did Oz Neither did The
Wire. Think of HBO shows there.
Were you? Did you watch Entourage?
Did you ever get into that after it actually came out or no?
No, I haven't seen Entourage. I'm big Sopranos.
I know that's next. I got to see Entourage Wire, but
I'm big. Sopranos, Breaking Bad.
I'm on Curb now. Curb some fun with that, yeah.
That's Curb's a pisser. Curb is so well written it's
better than Seinfeld I think. Agreed.
Seinfeld guy or no? I've seen decent amount of
episodes but definitely seen more.
Curb. Yeah, I just laugh more with
Curb. I like how he, yeah.
I just like how he plays this character of just like he
listen, he's the guy who represents us all deep down.
Let's see if anything else jumps out before I start to wrap up.
What's this guy say? I don't know.
All right, BT the ultimate question, what's the timeline on
when we can start calling in to mix it up with you?
That is, That is going to be next level right there when we
start taking the calls there. Yeah, no doubt.
Sauce 961, Entourage, a magical show from a different era.
I mean, the difference. By the way, I'll answer that
about the phones, not that I have a definitive answer.
I can give you a ballpark there. So Entourage was really one of
the certainly on HBOI know that Friends did it like Bruce
Willis, Tom Selleck. You know, you had a lot of guest
spots there on Friends, but they were the they were rolling out
these cameos which were wild on Entourage.
I and I could say I got to know that I got into The Sopranos
like immediately. My dad's like you got to watch
the show and eventually I got into it kind of quick.
I watched Entourage from day one, from day one.
Matter of fact, that's How I Met.
I got to get Jerry on the show and I definitely will.
It was, it was magical. And so I became pretty good
friends with Jerry. And The funny thing, Jerry
Ferrara, great guy, Brooklyn guy, Benson Hurst, big Knicks
fan, you know, Jerry, of course. And this is funny.
So I'm doing I'm doing the Nick pre and post and halftime show
that was on the radio back in the day.
There's like Marbury, Larry Brown, like that crew, right?
And the pre and the postgame show were also simulcast on TV
on MSG. So I'm doing the postgame show
from the old restaurant, play by play.
And if you remember that the old garden, right, Cosby's take the
escalator up there. Nice.
They had a little hoop in the back.
You could, you know, pop a shot, whatever it was.
And it was very, very, I mean, great memorabilia everywhere.
The only problem was it just was not set up for TV show.
There was no security. So like the drunks that were
trying. Oh God, it was, it was.
And the Knicks were awful. So there was either nobody there
or, you know, 9 disgruntled, pissed off Knicks fans who had
too many drinks, who were trying to infiltrate the show.
You want to talk about being on your toes?
Wow. And I remember 1.
And they would give me some players for sure.
But then once the season just got away from, none of the
players wanted to come on and get grilled about how much they
sucked. So they would say, oh, you know,
this model is at the game. You want to have Ron?
Sure. We'll have Ron.
This this actor is at the game. I'm sure we'll have mod.
Yeah, I'll have any. I I will take anybody.
I will take somebody from Section 212, you know, row B,
seat 17, because I have nothing else to say about the Knicks at
this point because they are so wretched.
Please give me somebody. And I remember the producer
coming up and saying, hey, I don't know if you know about the
show yet on HBO. Entourage.
I'm like, yeah, I love Entourage.
It's awesome. And it was year one.
It was the first year. So J Rod, some more homework.
I might be off on the year again here.
I feel like this was, oh, let me see, 04.
Can you check the first year of Entourage?
Please? Do that for me as as I'm then
just hop in when you have it. I think it was 04.
Certainly the 0304 whatever. Like, yeah, I love the show.
How do you not back then in real time, and I was a single, single
guy. If you're a single PO404, look
at this 04. Nailed it.
Thank you. How do you not love Entourage,
the music? I mean, just these whole 4 dudes
from Queens going out to LA, going to these parties and doing
Lord knows what was the best show of all time.
I loved it. So anyway, the producer, he
says, you know, this guy, Jerry's a Brooklyn guy, He's a
massive Nick fan. He's like, I think you guys will
hit it off. You want to have him on the
show? I'm like, yeah, again, I'll take
anybody. I'll take the guy flinging bags
of peanuts in the in the three hundreds.
Just give me somebody because there's no Nick coming on,
that's for sure. So anyway, he comes on and we
hit it off and we became really good friends.
And I've had him on my my old national show a few times.
Like with matter of fact, when Tiki was out, he Co hosted with
me a few times and you know, big Yankee, big Nick guy.
And I remember there I always joke with him like whenever he
texts something out or tweet something about Saint John's,
which is fairly infrequent, but he will once in a while.
There was an episode where his cousin was and they actually the
one of the critiques, they actually wrote it wrong.
But he I think it was Rocket a Felipe Lopez old school or
Ronald Ortez jersey, right. And you know here with Turtle
always have the jerseys. Johnny Damon, Jason John, be
like that era, all the Knicks stuff Marbury and he had a
Johnny's jersey on and he comes back and something like I don't
know where the conversation was, but it was something like, you
know, my, my, my cousin or my, my, my, my boys an agent for
Saint John's. He could get you this player.
Meanwhile, there there are no agents like now there are.
But it was it was actually one of the few technical mistakes
that that I found from a writing point of view in entourage.
So anytime he text or tweets tweets about the Johnnies, I
might pop in. I'm like, hey, how's your cousin
doing? Great guy and absolutely great
show. But that was you want to talk
about being on an island of misfit toys and just trying to
not drown as I didn't have any security.
It was wild. There was it was so bad.
It was so bad. I'm going to say this story for
another day because it's a long one.
It was so bad that they were putting contestant contestants
on the show like 1/2 time. Like some guy tries to chip, you
know, he's got, they give him a little wedge and he tries to
chip a little wiffle ball with a hole, you know, at the foul line
or midcourt. They're just giving me anything
just to keep the time moving. And I'm like my, and I was so
young and I was, so I didn't really know how to do TV yet.
And I enjoyed it. It was a disaster.
But then we got to a point and, and I'll, I'll again, I'll save
this story for another time. This one drunk dude comes on and
I actually thought we were going to get into a fight on the show.
It was, it was, it was bad. It was, it was being an ass.
And I'm like, all right, you got 2 choices here.
You're going to let this guy play you on MSG or you just
going to let him know what ain't going down?
Oh, man, J Ron, I was holding on for dear life.
I mean, no producer, nobody visible, no security, no fans,
team was terrible, no players wanted to come on.
Wow. And The funny thing about hold
on, The funny thing about that, I'm going to bring up my buddy
Don Le Greco, who is going to be on the show soon.
I'll tell you when. And Don, you see, we were both
at 10:50 at this point, and 10:50 at that point was the home
of the Knicks and the Rangers, right?
I guess they still are doing whatever.
I don't even know who's where. And that's when MSG approached
my former boss, Tim McCarthy, who's one of the best radio
executives and best people of all time.
Like, I've had a chance to work for some great people.
He's one of them. So is Chris Oliveiro, despite
what happened. I love Chris Gentleman.
Good man, great, great radio person.
So was McCarthy. Anyway, they approached McCarthy
and they say, hey, we want to do something where we want to
simulcast. We want to do something with the
Knicks and something with the Rangers.
And they identify the Greca obviously, to do the Rangers,
who's now doing the Devils, which is awesome because he's a
Devils fan and they wanted me to do the Knicks stuff.
Anyway, I'm like, yeah, I'm like, oh, it's going to mean a
few more bucks and more visibility and I'm like, this is
going to be fantastic. I'm all in.
The funny thing was the Ranger season starts 1st and it was
only for home games and I don't even think it was on the
weekend. I think we just during the week,
if I if I recollect correctly. So I'm sitting in my apartment
and it and Le Greg is going on 1st and I'm, I just remember
saying thank God he's the Guinea pig because that was a shit
show. You had like there was, it
wasn't ATV studio. So there's just people want it
was the bar. So people wandering by, you
know, paper flying across the room.
You know, when you do TTV and there's all these cameras and
these lights on you, you generally want the studio to be
a little colder. Otherwise you sweat and they
didn't have that and you just getting banged with these
lights. Aye, aye, aye.
And I just remember sitting there on my couch, I'm like,
thank God it's him, and thank God he's going first and not me
because he's the he did fine. Yeah, he did well.
He's a talented guy. He's a great guy.
Looking forward to having done on.
But man, oh, man, think about. That's 20.
Jesus, that's 20/21/2023 years ago, my God.
So anyway, that'll just about wrap it up.
J Rod. Did I miss anything today,
buddy? Anything.
I'm not seeing anything. I mean, hit, hit Super Bowl, hit
Nicks, hit St. John's.
I think we got, I think we got it all.
Hit the Yanks a little bit, hit the Mets one through 9.
We're looking good. Hey, we are looking pretty good.
That little MET thing was fun. I like this is always a fun
question. Let me hit this up.
Hey always an answer on oh that was the question.
Oh well, I didn't think about it much.
You owe us an answer as to who was your most enjoyable,
informative athlete that I've ever interviewed.
Listen, it's a long list and I don't mean that in an arrogant
way. I've been very lucky to, to
interview, I mean, just almost everybody that I've ever wanted
to or you know, many of the luminaries, Super Bowl winning
quarterbacks. I, I would love to talk to Tiger
Woods if he's going to really be open.
I think that would be, which he won't be.
I think that would be fascinating.
I love to sit down and like for an hour, kick it with Phil
Mickelson, who would be open. I don't know if this is my
answer, but Jack Nicholas was one that jumped out as just when
I was just really started really get into golf.
I remember this is probably about I was probably playing
golf for a couple years, 2000 and two, 2003, something like
that. The great Jack Nicholas getting
a chance to have Alex Rodriguez on for a few times that that's
been really good. Listen to me, I'm not when I
look at interviews, to me, I don't think the right word is an
interview. I mean, everybody says it to me.
It's a conversation because I, I think the art of, and I'll say
it now of interviewing somebody is getting them to be
comfortable enough to, to be able to open up and have a
conversation. Because when you're sitting
there just conversing with somebody, generally that that's
when the guard goes down. And generally that's when you
get your best stuff. And I take a lot of pride in
that. And you know, I, I remember I
told you guys the story with Herm Edwards back in the day.
You know, I've obviously evolved from this, but when you were a
young broadcaster and you get you get somebody on the show,
you're like, I, I got to get the answer.
I got to get, you know, I got to get some juice.
I got to make some headlines. I got to make it a little
combative. You know, like, can you go in
there with this predisposed notion of how to do a show or
how to or how to do that conversation and you learn from
it. You make some mistakes along the
way, which I certainly did. But you know, if you just go
right bang, like right for that hit piece, the guy or, or the
gal, the subject that you're interviewing and, and, and
talking to automatically guard goes up, guard goes up.
And once the guard goes up, you're not allowing yourself to
relax. And when you're not relaxed,
you're, you're generally not, you know, basically the art of
of the interview is making somebody seem as if feel as if
they're not getting interviewed, just have a conversation.
And it's not being, you know, distributed on the radio and all
the other platforms. Obviously this and a podcast for
the entire world to disseminate what you just said.
It's not we're just talking, we're talking shop, we're having
a conversation. And that is one thing I'm going
to wrap it up with this. I am really among many things
really looking forward to doing with this channel.
I think that's going to be great.
And my objective here, because I'm just obviously go live every
day, just do the show and react to what I want to react to react
to what's pertinent, react to what's hot.
But I, I very rarely will do an interview in this slot.
What I'm going to do is I'm probably going to record them.
So I'm going to have to work around some schedules, right?
And I'm going to drop it as different content.
And you know, it's going to be about an hour.
And I already told you, like I've already reached out.
I've got a whole list here. One of those, one of the things
on the, on the legal pad is all these people that I'm targeting,
you know, many of, of whom have already said yes, like we're
going to sit down. I'm going to sit down with
Stephen A and I'm going to, hey, pour yourself a glass of wine,
dude, I'm doing the same thing. Or I'm pouring a little Scotch
and we're going to just shoot the breeze.
Let's go. Michael Kay, same thing.
Donald Gregg, same thing. Alex, same thing.
Boonie, same thing. Rick Pitino, same thing.
So it's that I can't wait for that.
I had Salon, that was a blast. We had a lot of fun and once the
studio was done, and I know it seems like a broken record, but
it's printed and it's going to be set up either Thursday or
Friday. Now you'll start to see a new
wave of content that will not be live that I will record so I can
work around all these schedules. And listen, it might have been
somebody like, I don't want to just start throwing names out
without getting them to consent to come on the show here.
But you know, somebody from MLB Network that I didn't.
I think I'll throw this name out there like Derosa.
I just want to get him on a talk hit and talk shop and and go
through, you know, guys in New York go through Volpee swing, go
through a Brett Beatty swing, go through some of the younger
players and go through some of the they can't let him tell us
what he's seeing and just shoot the breeze.
And I think it's going to be awesome and you guys are really
going to enjoy that and that's coming really soon.
So with that being said, hey, make sure you guys like this,
make sure you guys subscribe this, make sure you guys get
that traction going out there digitally.
The more you do that, the more I can do, the more Subs we get.
You know the deal, we're knocking on the door, 16,000 may
may already be there. And my target for the end of
February, we got to get going on this is 20 and then from 20,
want to get to 25 and just keep going and keep going and keep
going. So again, Super Bowl is over,
baseball season is here, I'm happy for Sam Darnold.
McDonald's a hell of a young coach.
So is Rabel, Drake, Mays going to be around for a long time.
Got to respect the Pats even though they didn't play well
last night. You know, the commercials, the
Bunny, the turning point, you know, watch what you want, do
what you do, and hopefully you enjoyed it.
But it was an awful game. It really was.
It just languished on. And now that it's over, we moved
to the other stuff. And the other stuff is obviously
the start of the baseball season, the continuation of
Saint John's eventually March Madness, not just Saint John's
March Madness. Obviously the NFL draft is going
to be huge in terms of guests and content on the show.
So I appreciate you guys. Good luck to Saint John's
tonight playing against Xavier with the Gardens 630 tip.
Like the poll, just don't stumble.
You don't got to beat him by 20. Just beat him.
Just keep the train moving. And J Rod, hold me to it.
I'm going to say 15 or 16. That's where St.
John's will be ranked when it comes out in about an hour.
That's where the AP polls going to drop.
So enjoy the rest of your Monday again, like it, subscribe it,
get it out there, hype it up. All the stuff that you guys do.
I appreciate you know that. Have an awesome Monday.
See you tomorrow at 10 right here on Unleashed.
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