1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:01,640 This is unleashed, Are you listening? 2 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:03,360 Can you hear me? This is unleashed. 3 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,040 Are you listening? Can you hear me with your 4 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:06,800 unleashed Are you listening to hear me? 5 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,840 This is unleashed. Can you hear me? 6 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,120 Hear me hear. Me. 7 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:14,920 What's going on, everybody? BT Unleashed on this Monday. 8 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,240 What's up? Wow, what an amazing game. 9 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:19,400 Yay. That was absolutely fantastic. 10 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,440 You know, it's very easy, all right? 11 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,760 It's very easy to be a negative sports fan. 12 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,920 It is and I don't mean just about football, but you think 13 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,200 about like the way we talk about sports these days, right and and 14 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,760 and not all of the conversations, but a lot of the 15 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,480 conversations really focus on things that that bother us right 16 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,360 like when we talk about the NBA and by the way, Knicks looked 17 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:43,800 really good. I'll do a little bit on that 18 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,920 Alvarado good and nice little debut there for the Knicks. 19 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,880 He looked great good win after getting whacked again by the 20 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,440 Pistons. Knicks actually showed some 21 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,080 spunk. So I enjoyed that. 22 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:57,240 But like, the NBA conversation is largely nobody plays any 23 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,800 defense, Everybody takes a million threes. 24 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,840 You've got maintenance days. The players run the league. 25 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,520 Like, you know, we're all tired. I shouldn't say we're all many 26 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,840 of us are kind of fatigued with LeBron, right? 27 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,120 There's a lot of complaints about the NBA. 28 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,680 Now, the NBA is not alone. I think the NBA might have it as 29 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,400 bad as any of the sports out there. 30 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,960 The NBA gets hit a lot. And a lot of it's justified a 31 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:20,600 little. A lot of it is a little bit, you 32 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,160 know, laid it on a little bit thick because people just enjoy 33 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,120 complaining. But even with baseball, right, a 34 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,520 million strikeouts, analytics have taken over. 35 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,240 God forbid you let somebody go, you know, 109 pitches and try to 36 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,040 wiggle out of a jam. You know, like all these 37 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,080 problems with sports, I at least thought that we had the Super 38 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,840 Bowl where we can sit back and we can enjoy it. 39 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,560 And I got to tell you now I understand the circumstances of 40 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:51,920 the game. I mean, Darnell was missing 41 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,760 throws, Drake May was running for his life, sacked 6 times, 42 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,360 shut out in the first half. And I'll get to the Bad Bunny 43 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,880 halftime show as well. But I just, yeah, I mean, I'm 44 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,560 sitting there watching the game and I'm, I'm just bored out of 45 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,280 my mind. And I know that I'm not alone. 46 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,759 I mean, it felt I was talking to Jay Rod about this before the 47 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:13,400 show, everything about the game. And it's gotten more and more 48 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,880 like this as time's gone on or as we've gotten deeper and 49 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,720 deeper and deeper into, you know, the not not only just the 50 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,880 globalization of the Super Bowl, but like, the presentations 51 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:29,000 really, truly change. But yesterday felt so much more 52 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,240 corporate. It really did. 53 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,880 Like you're sitting there and you're watching the game and 54 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,480 outside of the Jennifer Aniston commercial, the Dunkin' Donuts 55 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,080 come out. Listen, Jennifer Aniston could 56 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,920 be in Super Bowl commercials till she's 80. 57 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,360 And I myself will enjoy it, all right? 58 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,640 Because I'm about the same age. So when she's 80, I'll be about 59 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:48,360 80. So my mind still still still, 60 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:50,760 she'll still look good, right? That was actually a good 61 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,240 commercial. But I don't get incredibly 62 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,480 wrapped up in the commercials myself, and I'm not here to 63 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,680 denounce them. But yesterday felt different. 64 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:06,640 Everything AIAIAIAI just shoved down your throat, you know, you 65 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:10,560 got a couple of like Budweiser's was good, Dunkin' Donuts was 66 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,080 good. But the whole night, like I 67 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,120 really, I hate to say this, and we were at a really good 68 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,680 friend's house. So we had great company, great 69 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,720 food, couple of beers, like I had a good time. 70 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,560 I could not wait for the game to end. 71 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:25,000 Like I honestly, I couldn't wait. 72 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,160 Because when you have young kids as we do, and they didn't really 73 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,200 watch the game, which was surprising because you know, my 74 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,680 son plays a lot of sports. His best friend's a big athlete 75 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,720 as well. But they were just running 76 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,520 around the house playing tag and shooting each other with, with 77 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,000 nerf guns and doing Lord knows what they were doing. 78 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,360 Like they weren't even really into the game. 79 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,760 And when you have young kids and you're at somebody else's house, 80 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,600 you know it's going to take a good 15 to 20 minutes to wrangle 81 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,240 them up. All right, get your shoes. 82 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,480 All right, where's your jacket? Let's go. 83 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,560 All right, we got to go school tomorrow. 84 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,600 So we got home. We were right around the corner, 85 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,640 but we got home around, I don't know, around 10:45, you look up, 86 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,480 it's like 1120, kids are still up. 87 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:09,360 So it's one of those nights that to me and, and, and I'm not 88 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,400 getting like grumpy as I'm getting older. 89 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,280 I think I'm pretty fun. I really do. 90 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:15,880 But honestly, I could take or leave the Super Bowl. 91 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,120 I just it just doesn't do anything for me the way that it 92 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,560 used to. Now maybe I'm a prisoner of the 93 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,240 moment and maybe, you know, maybe if that Seattle defense is 94 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,600 going up against Patrick Mahomes or an all time quarterback. 95 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,800 Now, to be fair, I was saying on Friday that I don't necessarily 96 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,560 need that. I think that we're programmed 97 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,800 like zombies. So I don't want to contradict 98 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:36,600 myself. I'm not. 99 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,960 But the game was largely awful outside of a little surge in the 100 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,720 fourth quarter. Got some points and you still 101 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,320 knew that the Patriots were going to come back and win the 102 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,320 game, you know? And, you know, one of the things 103 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,680 I was really talking about on Friday was it, it's amazing how 104 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,920 this, this incessant need to just shove these stories down 105 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,640 our throat, like, and I, and you know, I was, I was in my office 106 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,560 watching ATV show that I will a highly successful one. 107 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,800 And they're talking about the topic was this is Friday, the 108 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,800 day before the Super Bowl. I understand that you've got to 109 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,280 create some content here. Trust me, I, I know. 110 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,640 But the conversation was, if San Darno wins the Super Bowl, is 111 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,520 San Darno the lead? Like, on what planet is Sam 112 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,280 Darnold elite? He's not. 113 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:25,120 He's never going to be elite. He's an amazing story. 114 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,640 And I'm really, genuinely happy for Sam Darnold. 115 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,760 I really am. Like, Sam Darnold had so many 116 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:36,080 chances and so many opportunities to just dump on 117 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,600 The Jets. And I mean, whether it was 118 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,960 during the regular season, during the playoffs, leading up 119 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,320 to the Super Bowl, after the Super Bowl. 120 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:49,040 And the young man just always took the real classy route. 121 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,400 And I'm genuinely happy for him. But good God, Sam. 122 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,600 I mean, he would have had a 70 yard touchdown early in the 123 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,080 game. I, I forget which receiver that 124 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,040 was. He overshot him by 5 yards. 125 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,840 He was wide open. You know, he got very lucky in 126 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:05,640 the sense that some balls he threw, a couple squeezed in and 127 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,080 they, they made receptions on it. 128 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,800 But they had a couple of throws were just like really, really 129 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,520 inaccurate to the point where if the Patriots were just either a 130 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,640 little bit of in a better position or a little bit 131 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,800 luckier, Sam Darnell easily could have had three, 3 or 4 132 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,680 interceptions yesterday. And Drake May was terrified to 133 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,640 run. And when he started to run and 134 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,000 start to get away from Seattle's defense, which, you know, they 135 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 talked about this during the game, there's obviously a 136 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,520 little, you know, there's a window the way they play their 137 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,480 defense, there's a window to run up the gut and make some plays. 138 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,240 And he was just very reluctant to do it. 139 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,080 It was just a rough watch it, I mean, the whole day, you know, 140 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,520 leading up to, I don't watch any of the pregame stuff. 141 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,560 I, I don't care. I, I mean, the five 6-7 hours of 142 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:54,680 the NFL pregame, What am I going to learn in the NFL pregame show 143 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,520 that I don't know? And I listen, I love good 144 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:02,080 stories, you know, that I love human interest stories. 145 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,120 I love stories about families and journeys and stuff. 146 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,640 But even that is overplayed and played out and overkill. 147 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,880 Like, just get me to the game and listen. 148 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:16,080 Here's what's happened. Unfortunately, here's what's 149 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,880 happened more and more year by year. 150 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,240 The the true football fan, which they've got hook, line and 151 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:23,320 sinker. They don't care about us. 152 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:24,880 They haven't cared about us for a long time. 153 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,680 The real football fan has to suffer through the nonsense that 154 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,360 just sucks in the fringe fan and it's become a very arduous 155 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,800 watch. Like it it's become it's it's 156 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,080 almost like work watching the Super Bowl. 157 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,800 I I I don't know, like I don't have any other take away except 158 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,880 that the game was awful and I really couldn't wait for it to 159 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,760 end. I really couldn't. 160 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,880 I really could. You know, I, I will spike from a 161 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,400 technical or from a schematical point of view. 162 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,440 It would have been pretty interesting. 163 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,080 If that's Seattle defense, which is great. 164 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,560 I mean, that really, that's Seattle defense is phenomenal. 165 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:04,680 And Drake May is going to be really is. 166 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,560 He almost won the MVP. He's a young stud. 167 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,440 He's got a slow heartbeat. He's with a hell of an 168 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,880 organization. He's got a great head coach. 169 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,720 But like Marino, who got back, who got to the Super Bowl as a 170 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,080 young pup and never got back, you don't know. 171 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,040 So this thought that, wow, you know, Drake May is going to find 172 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:23,800 his way back there. You don't necessarily know that 173 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,120 to be the case. So I wouldn't take it for 174 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,240 granted, but he just wasn't ready for that. 175 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,799 And if that Seattle defense was going up against again, not that 176 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:37,480 I need a Mahomes or a player like that to like a Lamar or 177 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,360 Josh Allen, but I mean, imagine if you had Josh in the game 178 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,080 yesterday, like it really imagine if Josh Allen's play 179 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,680 like there was just no juice and eat the other thing too, which 180 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:50,360 was, I mean, I guess I can appreciate it because it's they 181 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,360 weren't gloating and they weren't over the top. 182 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:55,200 But you honestly would have thought that Seattle just won a 183 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,160 a preseason game. The celebration even was 184 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,560 incredibly sedate, so absolute snooze fest across the board. 185 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:05,720 I don't really know who to blame on that. 186 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,800 It's not necessarily anybody's fault, but it was just again, I 187 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,080 don't know how else to describe it. 188 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:15,760 It was a very arduous watch. It went on forever. 189 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:18,360 It was boring. The halftime, I'll get into the 190 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,840 actual halftime in a bit, but it just that goes on forever. 191 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,720 You know, the extra week in between the conference, which I 192 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,120 understand logistically, but the extra every week, it just zaps 193 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,360 you of any football energy that we've conjured up. 194 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:36,240 You know, from the draft into the summer into September, into 195 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,040 October when team starts to separate themselves and then 196 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,000 obviously November. Now you really know who's good 197 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,440 and you know who's got a chance and who's going to win the 198 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:46,480 awards and what coaches might get fired. 199 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:51,600 Like all the energy that we put into the football season year by 200 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,560 year by year, I am starting to lament the Super Bowl because 201 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,680 it's the exact opposite of of everything that I've come to 202 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:00,920 love about the NFLI. Know I'm not alone. 203 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,960 I know I'm not. There's nobody unless you're a 204 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,480 Seattle fan. And if you are, Congrats, you're 205 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:08,640 a champion. Awesome. 206 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,760 I mean, I'm jealous and I respected McDonald. 207 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,040 Great young coach, defense, phenomenal. 208 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,880 Darnold. So happy for Sam Darnold, but 209 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,080 the game was an absolute snoozer. 210 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:25,960 Absolute snoozer. All right, Tom Tomadello, 8239. 211 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,200 Pat Stunk shouldn't be there. Super Bowl starts way too late 212 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:30,920 now. Well, I mean, I wouldn't say 213 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:32,760 6:30 is way too late. I don't know about that. 214 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,200 There's just too much pregame fluff. 215 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,680 That's fair. Just play the damn game. 216 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:39,640 Nobody cares about all the stupid topics that they drag on 217 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,320 about. Well, I mean, listen, I 218 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,240 appreciate the text there. The one thing that I will say, 219 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,320 you can do what I did. You don't have to watch the 220 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,880 pregame show. Nobody's forcing you to watch 221 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,480 the pregame show. It drones on and on and on. 222 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,960 I watched some of the Knicks Celtics yesterday. 223 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,640 Like I woke up and we went to church as a family and then I 224 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,680 came back and I watched some of that, did a little bit of work 225 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:07,800 here getting ready for today. Then I watched the Knicks and 226 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,680 the Celtics. Then I did my little baseball 227 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,800 workout in the basement with my son, and I did a little softball 228 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,880 workout in the basement with my daughter. 229 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,280 And then, you know, just kind of wasted a little bit of time. 230 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,320 I was even at that point. I was actually at one point 231 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,400 yesterday waiting to go to our friend's house, right? 232 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:32,040 I was watching some old WWE interviews on YouTube, right, 233 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,640 rather than the pregame show. I just don't care. 234 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,240 There is nothing that really interests me in the pregame 235 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:39,880 show. It's so scripted. 236 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,280 There's nine people at a desk. Everybody gets 10 seconds to 237 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,120 deliver a sound bite like it's just, it's, it's weak. 238 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:51,000 It really is. So I texted as soon as that 239 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:56,640 clock went 000 or I, I tweeted, it's baseball season officially, 240 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,360 which it really is. It's baseball season. 241 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,320 Like it, it's sad because as as the as the years have gone on 242 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,800 again, I'm starting to look at the Super Bowl as just a bridge 243 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:11,120 to get me to what I really like. I love when the season starts 244 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,560 and I love the twists and the turns and I love the good Sunday 245 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:17,200 night games and I love the big 425 games. 246 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,320 You get mad, you get Romo, you know, you get Buck, you get 247 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,600 Troy, you know, you get all like it's you get fantasy. 248 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,560 You throw down some bets. You know, you have some good 249 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:28,320 sandwiches on Sunday. You get the storylines. 250 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:32,200 There's just an energy that is palpable with the NFL that know 251 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,320 of the sport can recreate. We all know that, right? 252 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,960 But then yesterday, like every like, you know, like the last X 253 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,960 amount of Super Bowls, it's less about the die hard. 254 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,280 It's more about the fringe fan and I just, you know, like 255 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:45,960 that's it. I like I tapped out. 256 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,280 I'm going to tap back in when it's time to watch the game. 257 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,920 Otherwise, I don't care. I don't care. 258 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,920 I don't what's the dude's name? The receiver for the Pats. 259 00:12:55,240 --> 00:13:00,000 You see what he wore into the stadium and he was wearing an 260 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:01,920 out like, like he was going to jail. 261 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,840 He had the shackles on his feet. He was handcuffed and he had an 262 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,040 orange jumpsuit on. Like, what the hell are we 263 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,240 doing? What are we doing? 264 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:16,000 Like it's bad enough I got to watch Kyle Kuzma and, and the 265 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,800 dopiness of the NBA and what some of these guys wear. 266 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:24,240 You know, Kuzma, I think it was last year had a, had a sweater 267 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,880 that was 13 sizes too big and he thinks it's stylish. 268 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:31,040 I and I know that I'm getting a little bit older, but I still 269 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,040 think that I'm pretty cool. I do, I still think I've got a 270 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,160 little bit of style. What, what some of these young 271 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,800 men think is stylish and cool is beyond baffling. 272 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:48,880 It's embarrassing. I, I just what, so you know, 273 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:52,720 not, not to be negative here, not to be grumpy, but the game 274 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,520 was absolute shit. It was awful. 275 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,040 I mean, you know, the only intrigue that I had, and I can 276 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,880 make a little case for this honestly, although the way 277 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,480 Walker ran, I I can't really go. And if Sam maybe would have 278 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,080 thrown one more touchdown, Darna would have won the MVP. 279 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,400 But my guy, Jason Myers from Maris Bangs and five field goals 280 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,400 since it's a Super Bowl record. And I'm sitting there, my buddy 281 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,920 Tim, I'm like, what are the odds in in real time on Myers for the 282 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,280 MVP? And I think they started at 283 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,320 2000. So if you throw down 100 bucks 284 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,400 and Myers wins the MVP, you get yourself 2000. 285 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,280 And see, the problem was none of them were they were, they 286 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:34,840 weren't like 56 yarders or, you know, swirling winds, fairly 287 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,560 benign, 9910 miles an hour. Pretty, you know, for the most 288 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,480 part, chippies like I, I and the guy went to my university and I 289 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,560 was rooting for Jason Meyers as much as anybody outside of Jason 290 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,840 Meyers, his family, Like it's the first guy for marriage to 291 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:53,280 get to the Super Bowl. And even I can't overstate dude. 292 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,040 Wow, 28 yard field goal, whatever the number is. 293 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,560 Oh, my God almighty. Yeah. 294 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:00,520 And again, I'm. I'm not coming out here 295 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:02,920 predisposed to being negative or being grumpy. 296 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:04,960 I'm in a good mood. I'm a little tired because it 297 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,280 was a bit of a late night. But man, oh, man, the Super Bowl 298 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,440 has become in a lot of ways, unwatchable. 299 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:16,520 It really has at, at withdrew. All right, Hey, guys, it sucks 300 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,320 to see somebody that once played for you going to win a 301 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,960 championship somewhere else. Now let's see. 302 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,960 Darnold was never a jerk, never arrogant, always humble, always 303 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,080 took the High Road, no question. That's why to me, you know, and 304 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,880 it's funny too, because you talk about the Sam Darnold narrative, 305 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,280 right? And and this is another thing 306 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,760 where so many people been incredibly lazy as they discuss 307 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,800 Sam Darnold. Like if you I listen, I mean, 308 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,520 The Jets write their own jokes. Like, The Jets don't need a 309 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,760 writer if they are the comic, if they're the late night host, 310 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,880 they don't need anybody to write the jokes because they just 311 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,120 write themselves. I mean, year after year after 312 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,880 year, those jokes are written for the New York Jets because 313 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:54,080 they can't get out of their own way. 314 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,480 But if you really wanted to be fair to this situation here and 315 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:02,240 really diagnose it accurately, the the the energy should have 316 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,680 been negative. You know that that negative 317 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:08,080 kickback should have been much more directed at the Minnesota 318 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,880 Vikings, who won 14 games with Sam, decided to move on from Sam 319 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,960 and didn't make the playoffs. Like that's the team that can 320 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,520 get crushed. What people, And I get it. 321 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,040 Nobody really cares about the minutiae, but the minutiae 322 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,440 understood. He was in the building of 323 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,480 Carolina, not good enough. He was in the building of San 324 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,840 Francisco, not good enough. And I get that. 325 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,280 I mean, San Francisco is obviously a first rate 326 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,680 organization, so I'm not going to get on them, but he was in 327 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,680 the building for Minnesota. He performed well, he played 328 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,480 well, he elevated the team. That said, he was amazing. 329 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,880 He didn't throw 47 touchdowns with 9 picks. 330 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,960 But I mean, Gee, Sam Darnold was pretty damn good a year ago like 331 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,200 he was this year. And he didn't turn over the ball 332 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,080 once in the entire playoffs, which is something that plagued 333 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:52,640 him a little bit during the regular season. 334 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,480 But there's just so many other checkpoints that you really 335 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,160 should get on and get to before you just grab the low hanging 336 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,440 fruit and mock The Jets. The Jets are as mockable as 337 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,000 anybody out there in professional national sports. 338 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,400 Again, they write their own jokes, but Sam Darnold's not one 339 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,760 of them. Because, and I was talking about 340 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:12,319 this last night at the Super Bowl party. 341 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,920 Number one, guess I was rooting for Sam. 342 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:16,640 Number two, I've got great respect for Sam. 343 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:20,680 I've got great respect for anybody who gets discarded. 344 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,200 I don't know how else to frame it. 345 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,280 Discarded, right? Basically said, we no longer 346 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:29,240 want you or need you or value you or whatever, or are willing 347 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,560 to invest the time to see if you could ultimately become what we 348 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,160 thought you were when we drafted you third overall or whatever 349 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:40,800 situation it might be, right. And that that that person every 350 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,760 single time it comes up always says the right thing. 351 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,560 Like that's just reflective of somebody who was raised the 352 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,120 right way. And those people that I'm 353 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:52,080 rooting for, whether he played for The Jets or not. 354 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:54,480 I mean, if it if it could have been some other transient 355 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,760 quarterback that was drafted second overall by the Jaguars 356 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:02,440 and bounced around 14, four years, I feel I'd feel good for 357 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,240 that person. Now that's a little bit more 358 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:08,120 personalized because I watched Sam for a couple of years every 359 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:11,760 Sunday and it was painful to just see how The Jets failed to 360 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,880 to properly insulate him, whether it was an online, 361 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,960 whether it was coaching, whether it was weapons, whatever. 362 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,560 But you know, it's not like he was great. 363 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,200 He missed a lot of throws, could have had a 70 yard touchdown the 364 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:23,280 first quarter. I don't know. 365 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,760 I know that there was pressure and I know that he re 366 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,640 established himself and you know, the throne I'm talking 367 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,400 about. But yeah. 368 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:31,440 And you got to connect on that. Like the great quarterback's 369 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:32,800 going to hit that with his eyes shut. 370 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:36,720 But just the way he manipulated the pocket to extend the play it 371 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:40,760 it was it was fairly impressive. And Sam's become a, you know, a 372 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,000 slightly above average NFL quarterback. 373 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,640 But I'm not going to get on the air here today, that's for damn 374 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:47,440 sure. And have a conference is elite. 375 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,520 What does it mean? What it means? 376 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,760 He won a game yesterday because his defense is phenomenal. 377 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:57,320 And if the defense was not good, like if that was a team and 378 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,520 instead of being the team that they were, if Seattle was a team 379 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,480 that was built on offense and the defense was alone for the 380 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,560 ride and the offense played the way they played yesterday, they 381 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:08,200 would have gotten absolutely trounced. 382 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,640 They would have got whacked because Sam didn't play enough, 383 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,400 well enough, you know, to put up. 384 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,480 I don't mean with defensive points, 30 something, you know, 385 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,120 30 something points to win the game. 386 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:20,360 And if the defense wasn't as good as it was, you know, you 387 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,440 would have needed 30 something points to win the game and it 388 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,400 wouldn't have won. So there would be really nothing 389 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,280 to dissect here at Avery Summit. BT what's going on? 390 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,160 Those miserable, jealous Mahomes haters, Wouldn't they rather 391 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:35,000 have seen him in this game? Or, or you or those who are 392 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,160 happy Josh Allen failed again, which I'm not. 393 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:38,320 And I'm. Yeah, listen, they were my 394 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:42,160 division, you know, and the Bills are to. 395 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,480 I mean, I'd like to win a championship, but I'd like to 396 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,600 also have some meaningful, fun seasons and the Bills provide 397 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,600 that to the fans. So there's some jealousy there, 398 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,040 but there's respect. I respect Josh Allen, and if 399 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,560 Josh Allen was playing last night and Josh Allen won a Super 400 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,680 Bowl, you know, I'm not saying I'm standing up cheering here, 401 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,400 but. I would have enjoyed it because 402 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,240 from a big narrative perspective, I do think the NF 403 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,640 LS better when you've got, you know, great quarterbacks with 404 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:12,840 great stats who get their first one Now, it sets up a much more 405 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,480 interesting, meaningful conversation downstream because, 406 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:18,640 you know, no matter what happens the rest of Sam Darnold's 407 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,360 career, he's going to be more Jim Plunkett. 408 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,920 If he wins the second one, you know, Jim, of course, 12 with 409 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,120 the Raiders, but he's never going to be viewed as as some 410 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:31,520 great old time icon just be just because he has a Super Bowl. 411 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,640 So wouldn't he be? Wouldn't he have played better 412 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,080 than main company? He would have. 413 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,480 But but Avery that I I mean, I think he would have, but that 414 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,120 doesn't matter because the Patriots got there. 415 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:45,920 Like that's one thing I didn't devote a lot of time to leading 416 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:50,040 up to the Super Bowl. I referenced it about the the 417 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,320 fairly easy Rd. that the Pats had. 418 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,760 But you could. You're a product of what's 419 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,960 around you and if other teams lose or guys get hurt, you've 420 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,000 got an opportunity to punch through and get there. 421 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:06,640 Now, the Patriots to me are an incredibly stable franchise, but 422 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,440 they just don't have a lot of offensive weapons. 423 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,240 And they've got a second year quarterback who finished second 424 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,600 in the MVP and an outstanding coach who eventually I do 425 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,320 believe is going to win one of Mike Vrabel, who did terrific 426 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,360 things in Tennessee. Like that's obviously a 427 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:22,760 franchise that's going to be around for a long time, just 428 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,840 given the youth of both the quarterback and the coach, you 429 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:27,760 know, but I'm not going to get I'm not going to get here and 430 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:32,320 and penalize the Patriots or now contextualizing their road to 431 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,240 get to the Super Bowl. That is something that I did do. 432 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,040 But I'm not going to sit here today and say, well, if the 433 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,840 Bills got there, it would have been a better game. 434 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,480 Or if the Chiefs, hey, I watched the Chiefs play a lot of 435 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:43,880 football before Mahomes got hurt. 436 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,640 A lot of football this year. They couldn't score a touchdown 437 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,360 if you spotted them six points. I mean, they I mean, really, how 438 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:54,120 many Chiefs games? Let's not recreate history here, 439 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:56,240 guys. I mean recently in history, I 440 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,520 don't mean with Tyree kill and with a young Kelsey and maybe a 441 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,400 a slightly better Mahomes, you know, like the Chiefs were 442 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,520 boring this year. So let's at least be consistent 443 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,160 to this season. The Chiefs weren't good enough 444 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,120 that a very benign offense. Every time you watch them, I 445 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:15,840 feel like they had zero on the board, like it was a struggle to 446 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,040 score that first touchdown and very rarely did they put up a 447 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,240 large amount of points like that show is fizzled out. 448 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,040 It's dissipated. They're they're no longer like a 449 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,600 must watch. Now the second part of Mahomes, 450 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,960 his career will be very interesting. 451 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,080 You know how they how they build around him and like what's next 452 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,360 for Patrick? How's he come back from the ACL, 453 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:39,760 which I, I suspect will be fine like Brady did back in the day. 454 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,560 But they didn't play well this year where they were fun team to 455 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,040 watch. How many times you bet the 456 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:47,960 Chiefs over this year? Not as much as you used to. 457 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,400 How many? There There was a point right 458 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,400 Where like it almost didn't matter what the spread was. 459 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:54,240 All right. What are they laying? 460 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,200 Yeah, the four and a half, six and a half, 7891011 Where? 461 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,040 Where they at? All right, Maybe if we got too 462 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:00,880 high, maybe you tease the number down. 463 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,720 But I mean, many of us were riding that Kansas City Chiefs, 464 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,880 you know, lay the point express for a long time because it was 465 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,000 justified, because they had superstars at every position. 466 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,320 Their superstars got old. Some left. 467 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,560 Mahomes wasn't as good as he was the first couple of years. 468 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,080 So I'm not going to sit here and lament not being able to watch 469 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,840 Patrick Mahomes. And as much as I respect Josh 470 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,880 Allen and really, really like Josh, like everything he 471 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:30,480 represents, old school, accountable, electric player, 472 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,880 winner, tough, durable, successful, just the guy that 473 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,920 like, I mean, I don't know how you don't respect Josh. 474 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,640 Like I love the guy. I really do. 475 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,320 But I'm also not going to get on the on the show today and say I 476 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,400 would have been so much better watching Josh Allen. 477 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,320 Josh Allen had his chance, didn't get the job done, didn't 478 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,240 win, you know, didn't win the game that he was supposed to win 479 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,120 and more importantly, didn't make good decisions. 480 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,240 I know there were some calls in that game. 481 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,320 I know I get it, understood. But there were throws that he 482 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,080 made. We're like, he didn't deserve to 483 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,560 be in the Super Bowl. And the Patriots did. 484 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,960 You know why? Cuz they won every game that 485 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,240 they had to win to get to the Super Bowl. 486 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,640 So it's a mixed bag of everything. 487 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,120 Game was boring, but Seattle's defense is incredible. 488 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:19,040 I mean, it really, really is. It would have been interesting 489 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,080 to me if you had more of a veteran, and I'm going to say 490 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,000 more of a skilled quarterback because I think Drake May is 491 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,600 immensely gifted. He led the NFL in completion 492 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,800 percentage this year. I know he was a little bit 493 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,560 jacked up with the shoulder. I know Seattle's defense is 494 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,680 phenomenal. He's also young. 495 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,280 He's confused. He's got, I mean, things that 496 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,440 like Seattle's that they got some, some of those dudes up 497 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,800 front are forget about the secondary, which is also 498 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,960 phenomenal. But my God, those boys up front 499 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,080 are massive. And how about how that's funny? 500 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,640 We talk a lot about, like, Brian Cashman, right? 501 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,520 And now Stern's trying to, you know, build the Mets into a 502 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,160 championship team and Leon Rose trying to do the same for the 503 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,000 Knicks, right? Well, think about what John 504 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,480 Schneider did in Seattle. I think John Schneider's done. 505 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,240 I think it's the toughest thing to do in sports. 506 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,160 The first toughest thing to do is to build a roster that's not 507 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,080 a championship roster, to build it out and to win a 508 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,200 championship. That's obviously the toughest 509 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,680 because you've got to hit on draft picks, you got to find the 510 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,160 coach, you've got to stay healthy, you've got to get a 511 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,200 little lucky. Like there's fortune involved 512 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,600 and there's a lot of things that need to happen to win a Super 513 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,960 Bowl. I think I really believe this. 514 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,400 I think even more so than like going back-to-back or even like 515 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,640 in the NBA back-to-back to back, like say with Durant and and and 516 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,120 Clay and Stephen, those guys who are some dynasties. 517 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,280 I think the toughest thing to do with all the sports is in the 518 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,640 NFL as an executive to win one way. 519 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,120 And then years ago, years after that, when you hit the reset 520 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:54,560 button with a new head coach, with a new quarterback, with an 521 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,600 entirely different roster to win again, I mean, and that's what 522 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,720 John Schneider did. And that's what we're waiting 523 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,160 for Cashman to do. You know, we're waiting for him 524 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,200 to do that because the Yankees won. 525 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:08,440 He did it in O 9. But the Yankees won a lot with 526 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,040 the same guys. It was always Bernie, always MO, 527 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:15,480 always Jeets, always Pettit, Tino, O'Neill, Posada, you know 528 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,320 the names, right? And then when it was time to to 529 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,080 recreate that, and obviously Jeter was there in O 9 and and 530 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:27,640 so was MO and and some others. But once that slammed shut and 531 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,040 those guys were aged out and attrition set in and they 532 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,120 retired and went to the Hall of Fame, some of them. 533 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,520 And and, you know, this, this this new Yankee model that 534 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,640 needed to be recreated, He's not been able to do that. 535 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,120 John Schneider has. And I really think that's the 536 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:46,680 toughest thing to do in sports. Like, you can talk about the 537 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,520 different levels going from, you know, that's where The Jets are 538 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,000 going from moribund to competitive. 539 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,080 That's a big step just to go from a train wreck, relatively 540 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,120 non competitive unit, OK, especially without a 541 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:03,840 quarterback, too competitive. Just you know, seven wins, you 542 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,000 know, lose a couple of the tight ones, be in the mix, hang 543 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,040 around, you know, Thanksgiving, you're not out of it yet. 544 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,600 December 1st week, you're not out of it yet, even though 545 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,280 everybody knows you're not going to win anything, but you just go 546 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:20,320 from a doormat to a competitive, you know, fairly solid, fairly 547 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,080 buttoned up team. And now the next step from there 548 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,120 is obviously a jump that just many people aren't equipped to 549 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:29,120 make because they're not good enough at their job, right? 550 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,920 And that's a massive jump. But what Schneider did, I'm 551 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,280 serious guys, I think that that's the hardest jump to make. 552 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,280 I really do. And he did it. 553 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,200 It's not like like to say if even if he did it with a 554 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,560 different coach, but it like Russell Wilson was still there 555 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,120 and still winning and still very effective. 556 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,440 You know, and what and you know, we could say what you want about 557 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,920 Russ now, though, corny, not as good as a you know, the Denver 558 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,120 trade was ridiculous. Probably more interested in 559 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:56,920 sitting courtside at the Knick games and he is being a 560 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,360 quarterback at this point. Whatever. 561 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,240 But when Russ was young, Russ was really good and that defense 562 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,880 was all time amazing legion to boom, right. 563 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,520 And then you had a coach who's terrific and all that's changed. 564 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,400 That is the that is a shrewd mind, that is a forward thinking 565 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,840 mind, that is an executive that isn't good at his job, that is 566 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,840 an executive that is great at his job. 567 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,600 And then even though they lost yesterday, you want to flip it, 568 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,080 Look at Robert Kraft. All right, so Belichick's gone, 569 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,640 Brady's gone. They went through the lean era, 570 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,000 couple of win four win seasons back-to-back. 571 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,480 He did that. He's an owner, not an executive. 572 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,920 Obviously, he did what great owners do. 573 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,560 And you can love craft or dislike him. 574 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,960 I'm I'm fairly benign. They think he's really good at 575 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:42,920 his job and some of the other stuff. 576 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,560 Yeah, I mean, whatever. But, you know, it doesn't really 577 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,080 bother me enough. I so he got pinched at a massage 578 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,040 parlor. He's a he's a he's a, he's an 579 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,760 old, he's a horny old man. I mean, you shouldn't do it. 580 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,120 I get it, have have better discretion. 581 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,440 I get it, but like I'm not going to crush the guy. 582 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,000 All right, stupid move. You got pinched dumb. 583 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,200 But he is a really good owner because what he did, unlike The 584 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,560 Jets and I'm like Woody, he realized with Mayo this ain't 585 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,160 working and he was able to pivot quickly behind the scenes. 586 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,800 This is what happened because Rabel was playing The Jets. 587 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,640 He was able to. I all right, listen, if I get 588 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,000 rid of him, are you coming here? That was a done deal. 589 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,760 That wasn't like, oh, let me fire Mayo because he's not that 590 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,960 good. And let me see if I can convince 591 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,440 Rabel to come home. No, talk to Rabel, talk to his 592 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,200 agent. Yes, this is speculation, but 593 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,520 this is common sense. This is the way good teams 594 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,040 operate. And he made the move. 595 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:37,760 He realized Mayo was over his head. 596 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,560 Bang, they're in the Super Bowl. Bang. 597 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,000 They won what, 413 or I think 14 games, 14 And were they 14? 598 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,760 And J Rob, what were they 14 and three or I think they were 13 599 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,480 and 4. Do you know what the Pats were 600 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,680 top you had whatever they were they they jumped up at at least 601 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,440 nine wins, which is absolutely stunning and and almost 602 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,880 impossible to do in the NFL and they're going to be good for a 603 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,080 long time. So. 14 and 3. 604 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:02,040 They were. Thank you. 605 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,280 Very. By the way, you were covered. 606 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,920 You're a big Pats fan. How you doing today, J Rod, you 607 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:06,360 OK? Yeah. 608 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:10,440 Just a a tough game. I mean all I can really say this 609 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,960 morning is like just my one reaction to this game was it 610 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,120 literally felt like the TV was buffering sometimes. 611 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,320 Like this dude was literally just frozen like he was icicles. 612 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,160 It was just 10 seconds. You're just watching. 613 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,920 Might as well have been a spinning wheel on the TV. 614 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,840 But. Yelled the spinning wheel. 615 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:29,320 The old spinning. Wheel. 616 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:30,800 Yeah, I remember that. Oh my God. 617 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:32,800 We're recovering, we're doing good. 618 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,520 Good. And we'll be back. 619 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,280 Yeah, you probably will be. I wish I could refute that. 620 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,440 Look at this young buck. I mean, we'll be back. 621 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,600 Wouldn't it be nice for to be able to operate with that? 622 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,560 And he's not wrong. We'll be back. 623 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:46,480 Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you'll 624 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,960 be back next year, but pretty good bet that you'll be back 625 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,760 soon if. Not next year. 626 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,920 I trust me, I I am well aware of my what what apparently or at 627 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,080 least seems to be my terminal football fate. 628 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,360 So J Rod pumping some more of that text there got a lot of 629 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,200 stuff I'm not going to do this boring Super Bowl all day. 630 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,560 Got a little something on the Yankees, got a little something 631 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,000 on the Knicks. Got a little something here on 632 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,240 Friday night. UConn, Saint John's. 633 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,320 Patino Hurley was insane, so I'm going to be bouncing around. 634 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,400 Let me get this year real fast at Freak Athletic 84. 635 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,720 Nick's smoking them with them. Clover Boys. 636 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,760 Yesterday was the best game of the day. 637 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,560 Yeah, it was too bad they lost by It was 40 the night before in 638 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,800 Detroit, which was disgraceful. Like, I'm doing the St. 639 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,000 John's game, and I was so into that game that I almost forgot. 640 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,400 And I'm, you know how big a Knicks guy I am. 641 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,920 I almost forgot it was Nick's Pistons and Madge who was our 642 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,120 engineer. Chris Majikowski probably heard 643 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,520 that over the years. The Immortal 1, you know, does 644 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:49,800 the Met games been a part of radio lore and history and the 645 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:54,480 fabric of New York sports radio culture forever where, you know, 646 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,240 Mike and Chris are at the Super Bowl. 647 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:57,920 Madge is their engineer. The best. 648 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,800 He's number one. And I've worked with Chris 649 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:04,680 forever and he slips me a note during the either a commercial 650 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,120 break or no, it was during the game, actually. 651 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,440 And he's like, Nick's getting whacked by 38. 652 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,000 I'm like, what? Oh, that's right. 653 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,200 Nick's Piston. I was just so into St. 654 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,920 John's, Yukon. And listen, I know that I know 655 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,560 the cat was banged up here, but that's that's going to be that's 656 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:23,080 going to be a problem because the Pistons just they look at 657 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,880 the Knicks and there's such like an animosity. 658 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,400 You saw it last year when they played each other. 659 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:33,440 Such an animosity and such a a lack of respect like for who the 660 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,600 Knicks are. That is a series that even with 661 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,680 Alvarado, and I'm sure they'll get a buyout at some point, that 662 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,960 is going to be a white knuckle series that I'm not going to 663 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,240 feel good until it's over. And I'm not even sure the Knicks 664 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,640 will win. But yeah, Friday was was an 665 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,640 absolute disaster with that. And then of course, the the St. 666 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,440 John's UConn game, which I'll get into more a little bit. 667 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,560 I got to say one thing here about Bill Belichick. 668 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:06,000 So I, who am I to tell anybody like what, how to, how to, what 669 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,600 kind of relationship you should have or certainly not how to run 670 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,200 a relationship because you don't control another human being. 671 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,000 But I mean, Bill can. And I, I also understand this, 672 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,200 you know, you're 70 and I don't want to be crass here. 673 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,120 I'm not that kind of person. But I mean, I just, I got to 674 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:22,760 speak bluntly here. I have to, right. 675 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,800 So you're 73 years old, You know, you meet somebody who he 676 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,600 believes is, you know, gorgeous Hudson. 677 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,160 I I think she's pretty. I mean, it's not necessarily my 678 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,200 style, but whatever. He's old. 679 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,920 She's young now. He's withered. 680 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,600 She's hot in his eyes. All right. 681 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,640 Fantastic. He's got an old man body. 682 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,520 She's got a 24 year old body. There's a lot of differences. 683 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,520 Understood. And I'm not mad at him. 684 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:51,840 She's legal. They have a consenting 685 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,320 relationship. Have fun. 686 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,200 Well, Bill, you got to you. You've got to have more of a 687 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,160 backbone. And I'm not using the word 688 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,920 control because you don't control women. 689 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,560 I want to be very clear about this, but for you and I don't 690 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,440 even want to use the word allow because she's not property. 691 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,840 She's a human being. But for her to wear the shirt 692 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:16,120 that she wore divert with, with Duke and UNC over the weekend, 693 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,239 Yo, Bill, you, you, you got to get your head out of the sand 694 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,520 and you've got to have a little bit more respect for the 695 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,040 situation than to be seen with that. 696 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,960 And I I don't, I don't know how you tell her like not to not to 697 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:29,639 wear it. I mean, you ask her nicely. 698 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:32,560 I think that's a starting point. Hey, baby, listen, you know, I I 699 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:33,719 know you want to get my back here. 700 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,360 I know that Bill can't stand craft. 701 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:38,120 And the shirt that I'm referencing is it was what was 702 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,360 it? The what was whatever the name 703 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,199 of the massage parlor was something, it was like something 704 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,159 day spa, day spa, whatever the hell it was right? 705 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:53,600 She is wearing the T-shirt at the Duke UNC game linking Robert 706 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:59,200 Kraft's prostitution bust. I mean, Bill, you just you got 707 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,600 to have more class than that dude. 708 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:06,200 You have to again, I I understand, you know, not that I 709 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:11,640 could relate to it and and not that I ever will, but I got a 710 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,520 guy to guy. I do get it. 7324. 711 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,360 All right, man, I got it. I got it. 712 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,360 You know, she's got you wrapped around a little finger, dude. 713 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,120 You've got to have more self respect and you've got to have 714 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:27,800 more class than to sit next to her in public view where you 715 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,840 know what's going to make the rounds on social media with her 716 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,000 wearing a shirt about some prostitution bust. 717 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,480 You just can't do it, dude. It's classless. 718 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:40,280 I, I, I could not believe that. Like, it's one thing. 719 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,920 And it even bothers me that he allows her to be such a central 720 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,720 figure in their relationship. Like, dude, I'm the coach. 721 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:53,680 I'm the coach, OK? And you, you know, just parading 722 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,880 around like you're the story. You're not the story. 723 00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:00,320 I'm the head coach. I'm the head coach, all right? 724 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,320 Even the remember the interview on 60 Minutes where she was off 725 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,240 to the side and she's like, Nope, can't ask that question. 726 00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:09,000 Nope, not a lot. Dude, What? 727 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,920 Where's your backbone, Bill? I mean, where's your gumption? 728 00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:19,480 And again, where is your class? You have to nicely say and and 729 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,160 ask her because you don't tell humans what to do. 730 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,680 But if she's going to wear it, then you guys, well, then I'm 731 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,040 not going to the game. I I can't be seen with, you 732 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,800 know, come on, baby, we're better than that. 733 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,000 I know Roberts this and that. You want to this? 734 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000 I'm sure I know he can't stand Robert Kraft. 735 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,200 You want to say whatever you want to say about Robert Kraft 736 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:36,400 to her. Got it. 737 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,040 A little pillow talk. You want to say whatever you 738 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,040 want to say about Robert Kraft? I got it. 739 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,840 You don't like Robert Kraft with Bill? 740 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,120 You got to you got to rein it in a little bit, dude. 741 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:52,760 It's a pathetic, sad look when you are getting pulled around by 742 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,800 a 24 year old woman and you are almost 75. 743 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,240 Like people are just kind of laughing at you now. 744 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:05,280 You know, everything about North Carolina football was about her. 745 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,760 And then I just, it's just not the classy thing to do. 746 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,200 I'm not going to belabor this, you know, and I don't know her. 747 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:14,680 I've got no problem with her. Again, not my type. 748 00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:16,080 Even if she wasn't, doesn't matter. 749 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,120 I'm happily married. Hey, you can find somebody for 750 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,000 some reason that finds you attractive at 75. 751 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,680 Whatever. Go knock yourself out, bro. 752 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,280 Have fun. As long as it's consenting and 753 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,320 she's of age, go get it. Awesome. 754 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,960 There's got to be lines, dude. There's got to be lines of 755 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:38,160 demarcation where if they're crossed in a public sphere, 756 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,480 you've got to understand it's not a good look. 757 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,360 What are you doing, Billy? Come on. 758 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,320 Let me see. Here at Mike Tam. 759 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,880 Mike Tamberly, 1661. What's up, Mike? 760 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,320 Hey, BT, did you catch the NBC Sunday night baseball ad with 761 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,840 Judge? And did it, did it fire you up 762 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,280 as much as I did? No, I did not see that. 763 00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,400 I'm going to have to go look for that one. 764 00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:05,480 Yeah, I saw over the weekend the maybe even late last week. 765 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,000 Obviously, like the photo op with Judge and the captain and 766 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,400 Team USA is absolutely loaded. I'm going to be excited about 767 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,600 the WBC. You know, a lot of these things 768 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,880 I don't really jump into with too much energy. 769 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:20,360 Like if it's on like I love, like you get a little Dior 770 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:25,520 Puerto Rico, you know, in years. Let's go, you know, Japan with 771 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,960 when, when you know a player's coming over stateside, I get a 772 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,480 chance to see what he's about. Awesome. 773 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,480 Obviously the red, white and blue going after it awesome. 774 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,840 I think that that's great. But I don't know why I I feel 775 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,840 like I don't it. It's because The Jets have 776 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,000 always been bad and the giants have been unwatchable for the 777 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,960 most part. I don't know why I feel like and 778 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,880 I always can't wait for baseball. 779 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,760 I feel like I'm even more excited for baseball this year. 780 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,960 That's why last night I tweeted as soon as literally as soon as 781 00:38:53,960 --> 00:39:00,560 it went 000 bang, officially baseball season and it is OK. 782 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:09,200 The halftime show, this to me, you know it. 783 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,040 To me, it's it's, it's, I understand the polarization of 784 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:14,600 it. Trust me, I'm not an idiot. 785 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,120 I do. I understand for some the 786 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,040 political undertones. I do. 787 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,160 I tell you, I watch politics every night. 788 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,560 I don't bombard you with politics because that's not what 789 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,600 I do even when I go on Fox with you now, but a few times and 790 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,800 they're talking sports. I was on Jimmy failed, which is 791 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,480 great on Friday is a trip. He's going to come on the pot as 792 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,360 well. Talked about the Super Bowl, 793 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,120 talked about the Yankees. When I was on with Brian 794 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,720 Kilmeade, I was talking about youth sports. 795 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,280 Like I just that that's not my thing. 796 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,280 I could very easily sit down and have a glass of wine at dinner 797 00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,840 and talk politics with anybody. Now I'm not saying like the 9 798 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,800 layers of policy. I'm not I'm not saying that I'm 799 00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:00,480 that into it, but I just I don't I operate with the understanding 800 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:04,400 that this is sports. I'm a sports guy who also has a 801 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,880 lot of other interests there. But the majority, if not all of 802 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,800 you follow me, whether it was on the fan back of the day, 1050, 803 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,440 back in the day, certainly BT unleashed. 804 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:18,320 Now you don't follow me for my political spouse, like for me to 805 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,200 espouse politics. I get that, but I also 806 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,480 understand that, you know, with Bad Bunny there was an element 807 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,760 of that, at least the thought that there would be and that of 808 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,200 course with. Turning point that that's that's 809 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:34,640 the the opposite spectrum. I watched both you know, and I 810 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,800 just don't care about halftime concerts. 811 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,840 I just want them to end. I just want them to end. 812 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:46,280 Listen, I've told you a million times I am in my little T. 813 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,240 Well, it's not that little. It's it's a bit hands equated. 814 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,160 But I am in my musical bubble and I don't apologize to anybody 815 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,800 for it. I don't care. 816 00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:59,440 Now it's fairly eclectic, right? If I've got let me give you an 817 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:05,280 example, So say I'm just what's a fairly decent ride where I'm 818 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,840 in the car by myself, a couple of long rides sometimes with my 819 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,320 son for baseball and he likes my music his way. 820 00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,760 He likes some some other music and that I don't really know, 821 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,800 but whatever. Say I'm going up to Providence, 822 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,440 St. John's Providence, right And 823 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:17,800 it's a good four and a half hour drive. 824 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:19,760 I'll listen to sports radio for a little bit. 825 00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,520 Maybe I'll make a couple of phone calls business and then 826 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:28,320 I'll listen to radio like music. I that music. 827 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,720 I love music. I just don't love today's music. 828 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,040 Now there were a couple of songs like Taylor Swift that my 829 00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,200 daughter was like going back a couple of years ago. 830 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,400 Well, that's a pretty good song. Or like maybe my wife, the Katy 831 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:42,160 Perry. I don't go. 832 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,760 I'm just throwing stuff out. It's not a bad beat. 833 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:49,440 You know, I remember when Lady Gaga, Poker Face, Bad Romance, 834 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,040 I'm like, yeah, it's a good video. 835 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,400 It's a good beat. So it's not like I'm just stuck 836 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:59,600 in like 1970s Hard Rock, but I don't need music during 837 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,520 football. I don't want it. 838 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,440 It does nothing for me except annoy me. 839 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,400 It really does. I'm saying to myself, when is it 840 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,520 over? When is it over? 841 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,720 Because it's six hours before the game. 842 00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:15,560 Not that I watch the pregame stuff, but six hours before the 843 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,320 game, you know? And, and I like the commercials, 844 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,520 even though there was a lot of AI, which is amazing, but also 845 00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:25,800 terrifying in the same breath. But there were a couple of good 846 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:27,920 ones that that were that genuinely laughed out loud. 847 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,520 I like the ones that tear, you know, kind of pulled the 848 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:35,640 heartstrings a bit. But I and some people love it. 849 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,440 And I'm not here to tell you what to like. 850 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,200 Like I'm not, I'm not going to force what I like down your 851 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,560 throat. I'm not going to do that. 852 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,120 And I'm not going to tell you what you like is not good. 853 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,320 It it's what you like. It's subjective. 854 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:55,280 But if I was 20 or 23 and I'm at a club, I still don't think I 855 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,720 like Bad Bunny's music. Just wouldn't do anything for 856 00:42:57,720 --> 00:42:59,760 me. Now, I'm not going to shit all 857 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,280 over it. I just don't like it, you know, 858 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,920 because this goes into my, my little radio and, and musical 859 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,120 capsule as I'm driving up to Providence, the just the, the, 860 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,160 the, the Rhode Island Drive. You know, I have a little Billy 861 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,000 Joel. I'm going to drop into some 90s 862 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,720 gangster rap. Drain, Emma. 863 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:18,560 Drain. Obviously Drain Snoop, right? 864 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,680 I'm going to go through little Guns and Roses. 865 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,720 I'm going to do a little Rolling Stones. 866 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:27,200 I'm going to do a little Eminem. I mean, I'm going to be all over 867 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,440 the map. I might do a little Michael 868 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,120 Jackson. I might do, I mean, Def Leppard. 869 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,160 It is varied. I've got a very eclectic musical 870 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,880 taste. But even if my favorite artist 871 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,480 was on the stage last night, I'm just not moved by it. 872 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,600 And I like going to concerts. I've been to some amazing 873 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,840 concerts. I don't and I listen, I know 874 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,760 it's not going away, so I'm not going to go on some riff, like a 875 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,640 5 minute riff job on on why you should do away with music. 876 00:43:55,640 --> 00:44:00,080 And I understand what it's for. It's to suck in the average fan. 877 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:03,080 It's to make money. They don't care about me. 878 00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,640 I've been watching the NFL since the early 80s and I'll watch it 879 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,200 till the day I die. Less and less enjoyment, quite 880 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,440 frankly, because the game's not the same. 881 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:12,760 And for some of the things that bother me. 882 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,320 But they got me and it got you for the most part. 883 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,920 And I, you know, I think that it's, it's a spectacle. 884 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,560 And I think if you can just understand that it's a 885 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:29,280 spectacle, you know, you're not going to get so worked up over 886 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:34,520 what is in front of you that it's going to become divisive. 887 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:38,040 Now, if there and I thought it was fairly, fairly apolitical. 888 00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,520 There were a couple of references that if you get you 889 00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,080 get right. And if you don't, I'm not going 890 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,440 to say what, Like you either get it or you didn't. 891 00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:45,920 Either got it or you didn't, right? 892 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:50,400 And I did. But as long as it's fairly 893 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:54,840 apolitical and like you're not sitting there and you actually 894 00:44:54,840 --> 00:45:00,480 feel either side attacked or ignored or marginalized, I got 895 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,120 no problem with. I just don't like the music. 896 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,440 I don't. I mean, yeah, I mean like any 897 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,880 other blue blooded American, I don't mind seeing 100 girls 898 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,760 dancing in the outfits. It's not bad. 899 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,160 I don't mind. But I don't even need that. 900 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,720 Like I really don't like oh, wow, look how amazing She Oh, 901 00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:19,520 great. Wow. 902 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,640 First time you ever see a woman dancing. 903 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,440 I just did. The whole thing is just so much 904 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,680 and it's been so hot and it takes forever. 905 00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,440 It just take. Let's let's wheel out the stage. 906 00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:35,520 All right, let's do I don't know how long, 13 minutes, whatever. 907 00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,400 What? Let's take the set out and come 908 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,120 on before you know what, you forget what the hell happened in 909 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,640 the first half. And it's just incredibly 910 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,920 uninteresting to me. And that includes if it's my 911 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:47,960 favorite artist. Yeah. 912 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:49,560 I mean, there's been a couple over the like. 913 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,560 I thought Prince was great. Yeah. 914 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,400 I thought a couple years ago when you had Snoop and Drain 915 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,080 Evan, and that was really good. You know, Aerosmith like, but I 916 00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,200 don't need it. I don't even really want it. 917 00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:01,840 But I'm not going to dump all over it. 918 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:03,920 I'm not. I watched both. 919 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:09,440 I just kind of wanted the game to continue because the quicker 920 00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,440 the game continued, the quicker the game would end. 921 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,480 And I was bored out of my mind. I couldn't wait for the game to 922 00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:16,960 end. And I'm just sitting there 923 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:23,000 saying the more this drags out on the field with with some 924 00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,760 monstrosity of a production, which was pretty wild, by the 925 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,120 way. I mean, the the way they do this 926 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:29,640 these these days is pretty impressive. 927 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:35,200 But it's not for me. It's not for me and it's never 928 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,240 going to be for me. And that's fine. 929 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,840 But then you see some of the tweets just, good God, the way 930 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,760 it gets so divisive. Everybody parachutes in. 931 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,560 You know, if you're on the right, you're denouncing it. 932 00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,440 If you're on the left, you're you're, you know, lifting it up 933 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,440 and then shitting on the right. And by it's just, it's just it 934 00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,360 real. There's an element of toxicity, 935 00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:00,880 all right, that I really don't think should be present on Super 936 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,320 Bowl Sunday. I really don't. 937 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:07,440 Now, generally, I was at a small Super Bowl party, very dear 938 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,320 friends, and it was awesome, right? 939 00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:14,480 But if you're at a big Super Bowl party with say 20, and this 940 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,920 is fairly common, I've been to these before, 20-30, forty 941 00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,600 people, right? You're going to get a very split 942 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,600 feel. And invariably, what's going to 943 00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:28,120 happen, just last night, Bad Bunny's going to wrap up and 944 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,160 then somebody's got what are too many drinks in them is going to 945 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,640 say something either pro Bunny or or or pro whatever. 946 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,280 And then somebody else in the room is going to say, well, hold 947 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,400 on now, who also has more of too many drinks in them? 948 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,800 And then it's everything but football. 949 00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,440 That's the point. And that's what bothers me about 950 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,800 the NFL. They don't care about you at 951 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:53,440 all, not one iota. They haven't cared us about 952 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,080 about not just you, us. They have not cared about us for 953 00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:00,960 so long and they never will. Like, you cross that bridge, 954 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,520 you're not going to go backwards. 955 00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:06,040 Like, think about this, right? I saw, I'm not saying I need 956 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:07,200 this either. This is pretty boring. 957 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:11,280 I saw, I think it was this morning when I dropped the kids 958 00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,240 off at school and I came back. I was getting ready for the show 959 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:17,120 and I saw something on social media, like a clip of about 5 or 960 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:22,400 6 halftime shows from the early days, right? 961 00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:30,240 Horrendous girls in hula hoops. I saw some dude in like a what's 962 00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:32,800 that thing called? Like the like a toboggan or some 963 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,480 sort of like, yeah, I guess kind of go up in a circle. 964 00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,120 And somehow we didn't fall and thankfully didn't get hurt. 965 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,320 I saw some dude playing with a lion at midfield. 966 00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,840 Just I, I, I don't, I don't know, man. 967 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,200 I I don't need that stuff. I don't. 968 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,400 So the way I try to live my life, they need to get a stand 969 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,760 up comedian for the halftime show at JK BK 1313. 970 00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,240 That will never happen. But you know, and I wouldn't 971 00:48:58,240 --> 00:49:00,040 even want that That's almost too slow. 972 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,360 Even if even if he's just now you want to get dice up there. 973 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,280 I might be might be down for a little dice. 974 00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:05,800 No, you're never gonna get a comedian. 975 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,960 I I just, I'm not here to denounce it. 976 00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:12,720 I'm not, I'm not going to be that guy who just, you know, 977 00:49:12,720 --> 00:49:16,960 takes a hammer and crushes something that I don't like. 978 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:21,480 So I don't like the the music. It's it's not, I don't know any 979 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,320 of the music. I don't know any of it. 980 00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:27,800 And I think that no, give her the beats fast and like the 981 00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,960 dancing is amazing and I understand the global appeal. 982 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,840 I get it. I do, but I am the kind of 983 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:35,920 person and J Ron, I don't know if you're like this, you 984 00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:37,120 actually have a musical background. 985 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:42,120 I'm the kind of person if I Can't Sing a song, I'm just not 986 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,240 into it. Now there's some songs like like 987 00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,800 again, I mentioned like Taylor Swift, my daughter or maybe 988 00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,600 years ago, Katy Perry, ladder, lady God, I don't know why those 989 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,840 are the three that come to mind, but like, I don't know all the 990 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,440 words there. But if I'm the kind of dude I 991 00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:57,160 got to, I got to be able to sing the song. 992 00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,640 Like that's how I music. No, I mean I don't know any 993 00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:03,240 Bunny songs. Listen, I've heard, I've heard 994 00:50:03,240 --> 00:50:05,400 of a I've heard a couple of his songs at some parties. 995 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,840 But yeah, it's like thought it was AI, thought it was a good 996 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:09,960 halftime show. I thought it was shot pretty 997 00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,760 well. I thought the cinematography was 998 00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:13,360 cool, you know, I thought it was fun. 999 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,920 Gaga moment was good. But yeah, I mean, there is 1000 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,480 certainly that element. I feel like when you're watching 1001 00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,560 or you're like, OK, like this doesn't, you know, necessarily 1002 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,840 relate to me exactly. Yeah. 1003 00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,760 And I'm fine with that. I I get it to an extent I do. 1004 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:33,120 But yeah, I mean, in totality, I think I'm in a pretty strong 1005 00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,240 agreement with you on just we don't need the halftime show in 1006 00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:38,320 general. It's just kind of, it's a bunch 1007 00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:42,240 of hullabaloo that in this case did just turn into kind of like 1008 00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:46,680 a divisive mess which almost probably brought more viewers to 1009 00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,240 it than maybe would have otherwise. 1010 00:50:49,240 --> 00:50:51,000 Like one of the highest. Kind of, yeah. 1011 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,680 One of the highest Watch Out show What are the highest watch 1012 00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,200 Super Bowl shows of all time? Yeah, so probably worked out in 1013 00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:02,000 that sort of, you know, area. But again, like, I think like 1014 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,320 you put it, it's just a show. Doesn't need to be some crazy 1015 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:06,880 thing. It's just kind of trying to just 1016 00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:10,560 get the average viewer to watch. Well, this see this Wi-Fi really 1017 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:12,760 interesting because J Rod is obviously young buck. 1018 00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:15,880 He's up, he's up in comedy or is he's a young, young, young man. 1019 00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,560 And you know, so if they're not appealing to you now, I don't 1020 00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,040 know that that your opinion reflects all. 1021 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,920 I mean, obviously not all, but a vast, a vast majority of the 1022 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,600 people your age, you guys also grow very differently than I 1023 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,080 did. I, I didn't grow up with the 1024 00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:34,080 spectacle at halftime. And your generation for the most 1025 00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:35,920 part has. So there's an expectation that 1026 00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,240 it's going to be there. So I, I know you were at a 1027 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:41,520 smaller party, but you know, people your age, both men and 1028 00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,480 women, young men and women, are they, are they looking for this? 1029 00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,040 Like, are they excited? Maybe they are. 1030 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,360 It's, I mean, I guess obviously it depends on the year. 1031 00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,800 Like I certainly remember, you know, last year, like with 1032 00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,800 Kendrick Lamar, like all of you know, all my friends and I were, 1033 00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,720 you know, pretty excited for it. This year is just kind of people 1034 00:51:59,720 --> 00:52:01,960 were like, hey, I like that. I enjoyed it. 1035 00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,920 And that's the thing. But no one's no one's clamoring 1036 00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:07,000 for the halftime. OK. 1037 00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:08,600 Going Oh my God all. Right. 1038 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,520 Wait. But but did they in years past 1039 00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:12,680 here? Because I I thought a lot of 1040 00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:14,480 people were clambering for Bunny yesterday. 1041 00:52:14,720 --> 00:52:17,360 I mean, people were incredibly fired up. 1042 00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:19,640 Not everybody. A lot of people were. 1043 00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:23,360 I guess in my circles, potentially not, but certainly 1044 00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:27,320 on like a global scale, I think question that's definitely what 1045 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:32,000 this sort of show attracted I think was like a greater global. 1046 00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,320 Audience OK, OK, there you go. I listen. 1047 00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,800 I said thank you, Jay Rod. I said get a couple of texts up 1048 00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,120 there if you can, especially something about the halftime 1049 00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:41,360 show if you find something interesting. 1050 00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,760 I said the other day, and I said this 10 years ago with Tiki and 1051 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,720 they haven't done it yet, like like to this extent. 1052 00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,520 I said, you know, I think if you're going to really do this 1053 00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,920 now, timing would be a massive restraint. 1054 00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:56,040 I understood logistics will be a little bit tricky, but to me, 1055 00:52:56,120 --> 00:53:00,520 why not just have four different acts in like in the basically 1056 00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,320 take the pylon in each end zone and then push it out a little 1057 00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:07,120 bit and you've got one set and you have representing each or as 1058 00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,840 many different genres of music as possible. 1059 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:11,640 You want to have like an old school act. 1060 00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,560 You want to do, you know, an old school rock, rock, a rap you 1061 00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,080 want to do like an R&B you want, you want to do whatever it might 1062 00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,160 be. I, I just, that's fine. 1063 00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,240 I just, I don't know what I would do. 1064 00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:24,920 This is going to be the ultimate barometer because when this 1065 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,880 happens, I'll probably put my head through the screen if and 1066 00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,160 when The Jets ever get to the Super Bowl, if and when. 1067 00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,320 And I've got to say, it's not even about last night's or I'm 1068 00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,640 just in general, I just don't have any interest for it ever. 1069 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,960 I joke around when the halftime show comes on, that's generally 1070 00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,640 when I walk outside or I walk downstairs or I kind of remove 1071 00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,240 myself to start checking, you know, second-half lines, like, 1072 00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:47,680 where's the money going? What am I going to bet? 1073 00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,880 I didn't do that last night? But that's generally what I do 1074 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:54,080 when everybody else or some other people are watching the 1075 00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,200 screen, get ready for the music, I'm going to wander away. 1076 00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,120 I'm going to bring a beer with me and I'm going to say, all 1077 00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:00,960 right, where's the money going? I'm going to lay some points, 1078 00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:02,480 take some points. What's the prop like? 1079 00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,120 That's my go to the bathroom. That's my halftime energy. 1080 00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:06,560 Get a little something else to eat. 1081 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:13,680 I just, I think that I think that it's, it's almost it, it 1082 00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,720 really is disheartening. And I think some of it is very 1083 00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:18,600 misplaced. I think some of it's on point 1084 00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,360 both ways. I just think it's disheartening 1085 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:26,600 to me to to have something that should be such a in, in general, 1086 00:54:27,240 --> 00:54:31,720 a feel good moment create like some sort of divisiveness, 1087 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:36,720 whether that is manufactured misplaced divisiveness, which in 1088 00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:39,320 a lot of cases in our world today it is. 1089 00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,080 So I think that's part of my pushback too. 1090 00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,760 But I I just don't need, I don't need music with football. 1091 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:47,840 You want to call me old? You want to call me whatever you 1092 00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:48,720 want. Don't need it. 1093 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,440 Hey, BT question. They had Eli come out with all 1094 00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,120 those legendary Super Bowl players and he's the only one 1095 00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,160 who's not in the Hall of Fame Straight blasphemy in my 1096 00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,880 opinion. Brett, I didn't I didn't see Eli 1097 00:54:58,880 --> 00:54:59,800 out there. You talked about when they 1098 00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,360 introduced the guys that got into the Hall of Fame, Roger 1099 00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,680 Craig, Drew Brees, those guys. I didn't see it like see like 1100 00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,560 this is the other thing Go. Ahead, I know when they were 1101 00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:11,120 coming out of the trailer in the intro, like it was like Joe, 1102 00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:16,000 Montana, Brady, Peyton came out a few other guys before him. 1103 00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:18,200 What the hell was Eli doing there? 1104 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:20,720 Was Eli really there? That's. 1105 00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,200 What? Yeah, yeah, He was there. 1106 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,320 He came out right before Peyton. It was just like they were 1107 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,320 introducing a bunch of legends. I don't know if it was people 1108 00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:32,280 who won a certain award, but it was like a little trailer and it 1109 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,240 was just a bunch of shots at quarterbacks. 1110 00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:36,600 Joe Montana was the last guy to walk out. 1111 00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:39,600 All right, as he should be, obviously, even though he played 1112 00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,800 a Candlestick this and the stadium is about 40 miles away. 1113 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:44,640 Yeah. I mean, I, I don't know, I 1114 00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:47,120 didn't see that because I would, you know, I was probably loading 1115 00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,160 up my food, my my plate for the third time. 1116 00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,920 Didn't see it. You know, it's he's not a Hall 1117 00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,640 of Famer yet. He shouldn't be a Hall of Famer 1118 00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:56,600 yet. I'm not going to go nuts. 1119 00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,160 If he was part of that, that trailer, part of that package. 1120 00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,480 I mean, I would have thought that it would be would have been 1121 00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,720 reserved for the true, you know, like you want to have Peyton, 1122 00:56:04,720 --> 00:56:07,200 you want to, I mean Brady, you know, you want Peyton Brady, you 1123 00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:11,160 want to have a you know, Marino. I don't I don't know, whatever 1124 00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:15,040 that stuff. I try to remain fairly balanced 1125 00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,760 with that. I'm I'm at the point I'm trying 1126 00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:19,960 not to let little things bother me anymore. 1127 00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:22,480 Just understanding that it's the guys. 1128 00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:25,320 Here's the simple premise. It's there for you if you want 1129 00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:26,680 it. And if you don't want it, 1130 00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:29,360 there's something else for you. Like if you don't want to watch 1131 00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,760 six hours of pregame show, watch the Knicks and the Celtics, read 1132 00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,480 a book, go get the car wash. Something else I did yesterday 1133 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,600 while after the Knick game, I was kind of wasting some time. 1134 00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:41,160 There's other things to do. You don't like Bad Bunny? 1135 00:56:41,240 --> 00:56:43,320 Put on Turning Point. You don't like Turning Point, 1136 00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:45,720 keep on Bad Bunny. You don't like music? 1137 00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:47,360 I don't know, go do something else. 1138 00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:51,800 But like to just rail and rail and rail and rail incessantly. 1139 00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,560 I, I think it kind of misses the mark, but I do think that it 1140 00:56:55,560 --> 00:57:00,000 speaks to a lot of the pent up anger and rage that a lot of 1141 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:04,200 people have and how divided a lot of people have become. 1142 00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:07,000 And it's sad. I mean it, it's sad in general, 1143 00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,880 and it's certainly you don't want that on a day when you have 1144 00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:12,920 20-30 people watching the game together and guess what? 1145 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:15,800 You, I don't know the exact amount, but I can promise you if 1146 00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,160 you have 20-30 people in the same room, I'm sure they're not 1147 00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:23,080 all left or all right or all Turning Point or all Bad Bunny. 1148 00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,760 I could promise you that you're going to have a mix and then you 1149 00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:27,880 get the mix and you get a couple of drinks and you get one 1150 00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:29,760 comment and it could ruin the day. 1151 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:33,480 And I'm certainly not there to talk politics or get into an 1152 00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,640 argument, which I wouldn't do anyway because I just don't care 1153 00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:37,360 enough. If you believe what you believe, 1154 00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,560 I respect that. And hopefully you, you know, you 1155 00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:41,720 share or you share that same feeling. 1156 00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,360 If what I espouse is different from what you do, hopefully you 1157 00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:47,360 can respect that. And if you can't, but I probably 1158 00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:49,520 probably can't be around you because I'm going to show you 1159 00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,880 that respect. If that's not reciprocated, then 1160 00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:53,560 I've got no interest being in your presence. 1161 00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:55,400 That's just the way, right? That's why I operate at this 1162 00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:59,480 point at inside the MLB. I've already forgotten the Super 1163 00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,040 Bowl. It's baseball season, baby. 1164 00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:03,160 It is. I got a little something for 1165 00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:05,280 baseball. Good, good segue here. 1166 00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,120 All right, I'm not going to go nuts on this, but let me at 1167 00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:11,120 least laid out how I think it should be laid out now over the 1168 00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:12,880 weekend. And it's funny because Cashman 1169 00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,400 said, oh, we're not running it back and there is Goldschmidt 1170 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:19,120 back on a one year deal. I do think that this actually, 1171 00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:22,960 this speaks to how a lot of people are wired to just be 1172 00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,840 combative and then just go for the throat and go for the kill 1173 00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,400 and go for the text and go for the tweet and just drop a a 1174 00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:33,640 barrage of disses, right? If you really have a problem 1175 00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:37,680 with Paul Goldschmidt being resigned by the Yankees, I don't 1176 00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,760 know what to tell you what. Well, I do. 1177 00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,360 You don't know baseball because I think you're missing the mark 1178 00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,200 at that point. I'm not saying there aren't 1179 00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,840 other things to complain about. How much do you think Paul 1180 00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:48,160 Goldschmidt is going to actually play? 1181 00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:49,520 I'm going to give you my prediction. 1182 00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:50,920 Of course. I've done the research. 1183 00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:52,520 I've got a I've got an opinion for you. 1184 00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:56,040 I've got to take, but understand this, please. 1185 00:58:56,400 --> 00:59:00,120 Last year he came here and he got one year, $12 million. 1186 00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,040 OK? I thought it was worth it. 1187 00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,880 There were a few other first baseman, you know, are they 1188 00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,200 going to get Flatty before Flatty signed the extension? 1189 00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,680 Couple others as well. I didn't like go nuts. 1190 00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:12,360 Wow, what a move. Because I knew he wasn't the 1191 00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,640 same guy. But the way he finished up the 1192 00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,680 year before in Saint Louis, second-half numbers, there were 1193 00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,440 some evidence that maybe still a little juice in his bad. 1194 00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,520 Good fielder, good pro, good clubhouse guy. 1195 00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,560 One year, $12 million for the Yankees were a big market team. 1196 00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,480 Is nothing all right? And really, we didn't really 1197 00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,880 know exactly what Ben Rice was at that point. 1198 00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:34,080 I don't know that we still fully know, although I, you know what 1199 00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:35,400 I think? I think it's going to be a star. 1200 00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:38,240 But, you know, we still got to become a star becomes before he 1201 00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,800 actually becomes a star. Anyway, why does it bother you 1202 00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:44,320 so much that Goldschmidt back for one year on $4 million? 1203 00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:45,400 How much you think he's going to play? 1204 00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:47,400 Like, what are you expecting from Goldschmidt? 1205 00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:48,960 Well, here's what you should expect. 1206 00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:53,120 All right. So last year, Goldschmidt had 1207 00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,480 489 at bats. Ben Rice had 467. 1208 00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:58,200 I mean, think about that. So you're talking about 1209 00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:01,800 basically 20 apart Goldie 480-9467 for Rice. 1210 01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:05,480 There is no chance that that's going to be quite as close to 1211 01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:09,240 zero, 0.0%. And the strange thing is you 1212 01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,200 dive a little bit deeper into the numbers when you look at the 1213 01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:14,120 splits here. Of the 489 at bats for 1214 01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:18,760 Goldschmidt a year ago, 340 were against right-handed pitchers. 1215 01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:20,840 That's not happening this year, not playing against righties 1216 01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:22,840 because he didn't play last year against righties as the year 1217 01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:26,320 progressed. So any energy, any discontent, 1218 01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,880 any. Agitation of and I'm with you on 1219 01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:32,360 some of the stuff I get it just pounded on Cashman, Cashman 1220 01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:34,800 this, Cashman that. This is not something to get too 1221 01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:36,320 worked up over guys. It's really not. 1222 01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,680 It's making $4 million. Rosario sign for $2,000,000. 1223 01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,120 He's going to play twice a week. It's what Goldschmidt is going 1224 01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:43,840 to do. So the other thing too is let me 1225 01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:46,320 hit you with some actual numbers each month. 1226 01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,960 Last year, literally each month I went back and I looked at it. 1227 01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:54,920 The at bats decreased each month, meaning he became less 1228 01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:58,000 and less viable in the eyes of the Yankees and less and less 1229 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:02,560 relied upon by the Yankees as Ben Rice started to flex and 1230 01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,640 start to distinguish themselves a bit on the Major League level. 1231 01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:10,040 So in April Goldschmidt had 106 at bats pretty decent amount. 1232 01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:12,640 You know cuz if you do that over the course of six months, you 1233 01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:17,280 can have over 600 at bats 636 to be exact and that's a lot of it 1234 01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,520 bats which you won't even sniff this year cuz they didn't sniff 1235 01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:24,800 it last year anyway. April one O 6 May 92, June 84, 1236 01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:31,120 July 75 August 67 September da da 54 All right. 1237 01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:36,040 So he started in April with over 100 and his last month as he 1238 01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:39,800 Yankee in September he had half that and that's what's going to 1239 01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:41,720 happen this year. So why am I going to waste my 1240 01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:45,160 time? Why it's it's I'm fine with that 1241 01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:47,000 guy. He's a great clubhouse guy. 1242 01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:50,640 He's still a terrific fielder. You know, he's reliable. 1243 01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:53,280 He's going to be a pinch hitter. He'll play once or twice a week 1244 01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:57,160 against lefties. You know, God forbid if you know 1245 01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:59,160 they don't have any righty bats. So I think any time you bring a 1246 01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:02,600 righty is is not a bad thing. Now, I wish he had a little more 1247 01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,760 positional versatility. I would like to see the Yankees 1248 01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:07,440 get a righty bat for the outfield. 1249 01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:08,960 There's rumblings that they still might. 1250 01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:13,280 I'm not saying it's perfect, but a guy who was making peanuts in 1251 01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:17,960 2026, you know, relative to Major League first baseman, he's 1252 01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:20,280 not going to play that much. You're not counting on them. 1253 01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:22,360 And everybody loves him and respects him. 1254 01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:24,800 And for me, when you've got some young players, especially 1255 01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,400 somebody who's trying to figure out how to play first base, I 1256 01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:33,240 don't know what the problem is except that many of you like to 1257 01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:36,520 hear yourselves yell. Honestly, many of you were 1258 01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:40,640 predisposed to being miserable because you're so hell bent on 1259 01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:43,920 just banging those opinions out there about Cashman, Cashman 1260 01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,960 this, Cashman that. And I'll do it as loud and as 1261 01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:50,880 often as anybody because I have. This is not a situation where 1262 01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,480 I'm going to waste energy. I am always going to be fair to 1263 01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:55,520 the situation. I'm actually happy Goldschmidt's 1264 01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,040 back. I'm happy that he's back because 1265 01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:00,200 I understand the way he's going to be utilized here. 1266 01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:05,800 That's it, You know? So I think some of you see it at 1267 01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:09,480 D, the way I see it, but not many at the under score, Rod. 1268 01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:11,680 under score Rod Goldie's. Yeah, the late inning 1269 01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:14,560 replacement of first base here. He's going to play once a week. 1270 01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:15,600 For the money, it's fine. Good. 1271 01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:17,600 Better and help for the other players. 1272 01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,240 I totally agree. Absolutely agree with that. 1273 01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:22,640 Why would you not? So let's say the Yankees are up 1274 01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:28,280 3 to 1 and it's the let's say Ben Rice has three at bats, does 1275 01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:31,840 great, does nothing, whatever. And then he's getting ready to 1276 01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:35,760 come up and it's the 8th inning. Bottom 8 Yanks are up two or 1277 01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:38,720 Yanks are up 1, whatever it might be, but they're up high 1278 01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:42,080 leverage and the other team has a lefty and all right, Goldie is 1279 01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:44,720 swing to bat for Rice. Then go play first base where 1280 01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:45,960 you're actually a better defender. 1281 01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:49,840 So what's the problem with that? See, it's just I, I think it's 1282 01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:54,040 been misstated and hijacked. He's not going to steal the bats 1283 01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:57,480 from Ben Rice. Just understand that, please at 1284 01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:03,280 Chris, Chris Christmas, I want to say Christmas, but Chris 1285 01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:08,120 Matos, we'll go with that. Chris Matos one O 2, everybody 1286 01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:11,760 assuming everybody's healthy, what's the Mets one through 9? 1287 01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:16,560 It's not a bad time to do that. I didn't have that plan, but as 1288 01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:19,440 as you can see, there's a few rules here on BT at least we 1289 01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:22,960 could jump around beholding to nothing. 1:00 to 9:00. 1290 01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,400 I'm going to give you 1 to 9 how I would do it. 1291 01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:28,440 All right, I'm not really sure how they're going to do it. 1292 01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:30,040 I'm just jotting this down one to OK. 1293 01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:34,440 So to me, I think this will obviously happen. 1294 01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:40,040 Lindor want it short too. Soto again, what I'm going to 1295 01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,160 do. Soto to right field. 1296 01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:50,240 Bichette three at third base, probably Polanco. 1297 01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:54,920 Probably Polanco will put him four at first base. 1298 01:04:57,400 --> 01:04:58,880 Let's see. Simmons going to beat them. 1299 01:04:58,880 --> 01:04:59,840 I just want to write down the names. 1300 01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:03,040 Simeon at the bottom. I got to find a spot for Beatty 1301 01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,720 Alvarez. Louise Roberts. 1302 01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:07,480 Oh my man, I think I'm missing 1. 1303 01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:13,680 DHI would say probably what I would do. 1304 01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,040 So we got to switch. We got a righty, we got a righty 1305 01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:23,120 Polanco there for It's not going to be Alvarez, not going to be 1306 01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:23,840 Rob. Who am I missing? 1307 01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:25,520 I think I'm missing somebody important. 1308 01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:29,760 First base, second base, shortstop, third Alvarez, DH, 1309 01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,600 Soto, Robert. All right, so I'm just going to 1310 01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:35,480 work for the bottom up, let's say bench. 1311 01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:38,960 Yeah, I'm going to say Benj is just starting left fielder. 1312 01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:41,240 I think that will be optimal for the Mets there. 1313 01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:43,280 You know, he distinguishes himself enough. 1314 01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:46,600 Obviously a center fielder by trade, unlike Dominguez, I'm 1315 01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:48,360 sure he'll be able to catch the ball in left field. 1316 01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:50,120 All right, so and I know they love him. 1317 01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:54,640 Benj 9 in left field. I think 8 at that point, I'm 1318 01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:57,880 going to go Simeon at second base. 1319 01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:00,960 Then I'm going to work to Robert. 1320 01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:01,720 Yeah, I got it. Now. 1321 01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,240 I don't know if this is perfect, but I'm going to put this out 1322 01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:07,120 Robert instead or seven. I can even flip Simeon and 1323 01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:11,600 Robert, but I'll just do it for now. 6 I mean, if it's a righty, 1324 01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:14,880 I'm going to go baby five and I'm going to have him DH, But I 1325 01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:16,720 we all know he's going to be bouncing around a lot. 1326 01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:19,000 And then in the sixth spot, you got to have somewhere for 1327 01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,080 Alvarez. Now, if Louise Robert is 1328 01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,880 banging, you want to put Robert 6 Alvarez 7. 1329 01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:26,040 There's a lot of different variations bottom third, but 1330 01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:27,680 I'll just do it. I'll get it quickly as I work my 1331 01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:32,000 way through it #1 Lindor short #2 Rifiel Batten third, Bichette 1332 01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,840 playing third, Polanco Batten 4th, playing first. 1333 01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,440 Beatty, who I'm a big fan of, you know, I'm giving him every 1334 01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:41,440 chance to to really show early that the second-half was for 1335 01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:42,600 real, which I believe that it is. 1336 01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:46,560 So Betty's going to be my DH on opening day batting 5th. 1337 01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:49,040 I'm going to have Alvarez in the sixth spot behind the plate, 1338 01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:52,080 Roberts center batting 7th. We'll go Simeon 8 second and 1339 01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:55,000 we'll go Benge in left field now batting 9th. 1340 01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:56,800 Let's a couple of variations here. 1341 01:06:56,800 --> 01:07:02,480 Let's say Benge hits O 91 in in in spring training and he's not 1342 01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:06,160 viewed as viable. Then I think you get a situation 1343 01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:12,400 where you would have probably I'm OK giving Beatty a shot in 1344 01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:13,520 left field. I don't know if I really want 1345 01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:17,360 him there opening Day. But I think it really depends if 1346 01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:21,000 if Benj doesn't drown, I think they're going to let him run out 1347 01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,160 there. And let's say if it's Beatty and 1348 01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:27,040 then I'd still put I, then I put Beatty in left field and then 1349 01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:29,160 you'd have to find another DH. And there's, you know, a couple 1350 01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,800 of variations there, whatever. But I think that that's going to 1351 01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:33,200 be the Mets line up one through 9. 1352 01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:34,560 That's what I think it's going to be. 1353 01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:40,120 What is this year All right, you know when BT puts on the 1354 01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:42,400 glasses, breaks out the pen and pad, it's going to be good. 1355 01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:44,760 It is hey, you know, I love doing this stuff. 1356 01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:48,200 I got I have got a mess. I have a legal pad guy now not 1357 01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:49,880 like schmooze. Here's the difference right? 1358 01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:53,800 I I ordered these on Amazon. I got a million legal pads Here 1359 01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:57,360 it is an it's my it's my old school way to do the show. 1360 01:07:57,560 --> 01:08:01,240 I got more over there now, the difference with me and schmooze, 1361 01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:03,800 even though we use the same legal pads. 1362 01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:06,600 He writes out the whole thing. As you know, all these years, he 1363 01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:09,960 writes out the whole monologue. He like, writes a book, which is 1364 01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:12,120 amazing. I, I don't do radio that way. 1365 01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:15,120 I don't do content that way. What I like to do is I like to 1366 01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:16,720 write out. This works for me, doesn't work 1367 01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:20,120 for everybody. I write out a word and I write 1368 01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:21,560 out a word. Now, don't get me wrong, like 1369 01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:24,680 with the Goldschmidt, the at bats per per month, I wanted to 1370 01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:26,920 have that buttoned up. Obviously a few stats that I've 1371 01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:29,279 written down, but when I'm structuring the show, and I 1372 01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:31,840 would do this on the radio as well and we'd have a rundown, 1373 01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:35,520 but myself, I would just write down a word like, you know, and 1374 01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:38,120 it could be somebody's name, you know, like Alvarado. 1375 01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:39,880 Like, I know I want to get to the Knicks a little bit today. 1376 01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:43,880 Alvarado and circle it or Alvarado slash defense, you 1377 01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:48,399 know, circle it or, you know, Knicks slash Piston Celtics and 1378 01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:49,880 that and I know what that's going to trigger. 1379 01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:51,760 Yeah, that that works for me, you know. 1380 01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:54,359 But yeah, when it's when I'm grabbing the pen in the pad and 1381 01:08:54,359 --> 01:08:57,880 the glasses, I'm either jotting down a line up or I'm doing some 1382 01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:00,560 deep dive and, you know, BT's in the laboratory, which I 1383 01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:05,040 absolutely love at OOUOU Sif 92. What's up, man? 1384 01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:08,080 Theoir is a keeper. Yeah, Mohammed Theoir is playing 1385 01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:11,120 really, really well. I I went to get the car washed 1386 01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:15,279 and washed and I heard the first part of the some of the game on 1387 01:09:15,279 --> 01:09:18,120 the radio when he's banging in a bunch of triples. 1388 01:09:18,359 --> 01:09:20,279 He's becoming a really interesting player. 1389 01:09:20,279 --> 01:09:22,200 And that's, you know, that's, that's something else you have 1390 01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:23,840 to put on Leon Rose's hit list here. 1391 01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:26,279 Second round pick, right? He's got some length could shoot 1392 01:09:26,279 --> 01:09:29,080 it played a lot of minutes. I think he played the most 1393 01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:30,520 minutes of any reserve yesterday. 1394 01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:35,399 So that that's very encouraging. Now, listen, I think what's 1395 01:09:35,399 --> 01:09:37,640 going to determine whether or not the Knicks get to and win a 1396 01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:39,800 championship is going to be the buyout market. 1397 01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:43,600 You know, that's why Yabaselli and being able to do what they 1398 01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:47,120 did with with Alvarado was very important there, because they 1399 01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:50,160 still got some wiggle room to get somebody on the buyout 1400 01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:51,920 market. They got to get a big there. 1401 01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:55,000 They got to get a big. They just have to and and I 1402 01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:57,480 don't know who that is. I don't, I don't, I don't know. 1403 01:09:57,880 --> 01:09:59,160 I, you know, you want to tell me? 1404 01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:00,080 Yeah. You could always use another 1405 01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:03,080 shooter. Sure, you know, O GS a little 1406 01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:06,080 injury prone, you know, Cat has had some issues always been 1407 01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:07,360 rebounding the hell out of the ball. 1408 01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:10,480 Brunson's Brunson Bridge is going to, you know, play 37 1409 01:10:10,480 --> 01:10:12,360 minutes a night. Some nights will be really good, 1410 01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:15,480 some nights will be invisible, but the effort will be there, 1411 01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:18,000 you know, but and that's what I mean. 1412 01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:23,480 Now think about the energy that Alvarado brought walked into 1413 01:10:23,480 --> 01:10:26,000 Boston. I know it's not the Celtics, 1414 01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,160 same team without Tatum, but they're a lot better this year 1415 01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:30,320 than I thought they would be. And the Knicks were coming off 1416 01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:33,640 being punked again by the Pistons and Alvarado. 1417 01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:36,680 Alvarado's out there. And it was just a different, it 1418 01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:39,440 was a different energy. It was a different force just 1419 01:10:39,440 --> 01:10:41,960 doing things. Just it just making it 1420 01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:44,280 uncomfortable for other teams to operate. 1421 01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:46,360 And I think that's great. I really do. 1422 01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:50,120 Because Brunson can't do that. You know, you don't want to have 1423 01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:52,760 to have Josh Hart and some of these other guards and wings, 1424 01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:56,280 you know, chasing people around picks and early in the shot 1425 01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:57,960 clock. Not that not that you won't 1426 01:10:58,000 --> 01:10:59,880 ever. But I mean, that's his role. 1427 01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:02,520 He's going to play 12 to 15 minutes a night when he hits a 1428 01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:05,520 couple of threes, When he hits a couple of threes because he's 1429 01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:08,200 not a great shooter, he's OK. But when he hits a couple of 1430 01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:11,400 threes, it does change the ceiling for the Knicks because 1431 01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:14,680 when he's shooting fairly well, obviously you've got to react to 1432 01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:16,720 that. And it creates A spacing option 1433 01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:18,360 for the Knicks, which is basic stuff there. 1434 01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:21,320 But when he's shooting early and he hit, and I don't mean, you 1435 01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:24,440 know, 5 threes, not that kind of player, but just stick one or 1436 01:11:24,440 --> 01:11:27,280 two and and be willing to shoot a couple. 1437 01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:29,600 Well, now it opens things up. But now it's going to keep him 1438 01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:32,280 on the floor and it's going to keep him even more engaged. 1439 01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:35,000 Like, I love him. I'm so happy the Knicks got him. 1440 01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:36,960 I was pumped about this when we talked about it on Friday. 1441 01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:40,640 New York kid, you're just, it's just a phenomenal story. 1442 01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:43,680 And you saw that injection of energy into the Knicks 1443 01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,240 yesterday. And part of my problem with the 1444 01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:48,600 Knicks now, this doesn't solve like when you play the Pistons 1445 01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,080 necessarily. They got some some boys up in 1446 01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:54,200 the front court who are not afraid at all of the Knicks, 1447 01:11:54,200 --> 01:11:56,760 like they they're licking their chops, like they think they're 1448 01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:58,840 going to have their way with the Knicks front court. 1449 01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:02,760 And too often they have right. So I would still like to see a 1450 01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:07,040 high energy four or five with some height and some, you know, 1451 01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,400 resistance. I'm not talking like a, you 1452 01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:11,920 know, a fighter because those days are over, but just somebody 1453 01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:13,840 who's just going to bring a little something physically to 1454 01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,560 the front and around the basket because, you know, Alvarado, 1455 01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:19,200 Alvarado's got that unlocked 25 feet away from the rim. 1456 01:12:19,440 --> 01:12:21,280 He is a pain in the ass to play against. 1457 01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:24,200 What a pest man. He's got a relentless motor. 1458 01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:27,800 He's got great anticipation, you know, just, you know, picking 1459 01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:30,960 pockets and just, you know, even if he doesn't get the steal, 1460 01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:34,280 when you just kind of force somebody off their their dribble 1461 01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:37,480 path or, and you knock it loose and even if the guy gathers it, 1462 01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:40,840 you waste 3, 4 seconds. You only have 24 to begin with. 1463 01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:45,000 They got to reset the offense. It just keeps other teams out of 1464 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,400 rhythm. He's an unpredictable defensive 1465 01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:49,600 force. And he's a great jolt of energy 1466 01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:52,360 that, quite frankly, the Knicks needed because they've got too 1467 01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:54,040 many benign personalities. They do. 1468 01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:55,880 Mikhail Bridge is quiet as a mouse. 1469 01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:58,880 OG doesn't say a word. I mean, we love Bronson Killer, 1470 01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:01,000 but that really saying doesn't say, Yeah, he does that with the 1471 01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,120 fingers, but doesn't say much. Yeah. 1472 01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:05,760 They just have a lot of guys who just really don't project any 1473 01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:09,000 sort of outward energy. So I loved it when they got him. 1474 01:13:09,440 --> 01:13:12,920 I gave Leon Rose a lot of props. And the first real, you know, 1475 01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:14,880 look at Alvarado was a Nick. Pretty damn good. 1476 01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:19,200 Pretty damn good. You know, let me see. 1477 01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:20,520 Here. Let me get this guy up. 1478 01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:22,920 Yeah. BT Mike Brown has his flaws. 1479 01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:25,760 Nick's depth may be the best in the league, and that would have 1480 01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:27,200 would not have happened with Tom Thibodeau. 1481 01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:29,840 Got to give credit to Brown where it's due. 1482 01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:32,240 Yeah, let's be real. No, I've definitely done that. 1483 01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:35,920 And by the way, the other day, that is one of the problems with 1484 01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:39,160 having 9000 legal pads. I don't know. 1485 01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:43,200 I'm not even going to look for it take forever because I did do 1486 01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:46,840 this the other day where I was contrasting the many different 1487 01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:48,760 numbers. I think it was at least nine 1488 01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:54,280 categories of Tom Thibodeau and Mike Brown and some like 3 1489 01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:57,160 threes attempted a game, free throws attempted a game, 1490 01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:01,640 defensive efficiency, offensive rating, rebounding. 1491 01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:06,600 They were basically, and some were minimal and marginal, but 1492 01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:11,160 it was certainly threes taken from the corner was one that 1493 01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:13,600 jumped out, minutes played by the reserves. 1494 01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:16,080 That's obvious. And you know, that's why I was 1495 01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:18,200 open to change here. Now, Mike Brown's never won a 1496 01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:22,560 championship as a head coach and he's got a lot to prove, but I 1497 01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:24,600 thought it was time for the Knicks to change. 1498 01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:27,680 I said that when the Knicks got bounced a year ago. 1499 01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:31,040 I said that the next day and I said it with respect, but I was 1500 01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:33,560 very clear there was nothing to interpret. 1501 01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:35,680 I got on. I got on our show last year, 1502 01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:38,760 said Nick's got to fire Tom Thibodeau, and I made sure that 1503 01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:41,480 I softened it because I really do respect what he did. 1504 01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:44,120 But I made it very clear if they had to move on from Tom 1505 01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:47,440 Thibodeau, he was not evolving. Now, that doesn't mean that man 1506 01:14:47,440 --> 01:14:52,040 that they brought in is the absolute perfect answer to what 1507 01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:55,160 they needed, but he's different and sometimes different. 1508 01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:57,400 Could be good. Now, if they get bumped in the 1509 01:14:57,400 --> 01:14:59,160 first round, it's an absolute disaster. 1510 01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:01,880 You'll probably get fired and all of the Tom Thibodeau 1511 01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:04,560 supporters will come out and want to attack me. 1512 01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:06,440 That's OK. You know, you got to have an 1513 01:15:06,440 --> 01:15:07,680 opinion. I stand by it. 1514 01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:11,720 I think it was time to move on. BTDI think the unifying element 1515 01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:13,480 of the Super Bowl Sunday is the food and the beverage. 1516 01:15:13,480 --> 01:15:15,280 What was the best thing you ate yesterday? 1517 01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:19,560 Mine was homemade sourdough with lump crab dip. 1518 01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:22,960 That sounds good. I would have absolutely 1519 01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:24,200 demolished that. Thank you. 1520 01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:27,480 Andrew from from Bay Ridge. I had some wings, a lot of 1521 01:15:27,480 --> 01:15:30,640 conventional stuff. Had some good wings and I'm not 1522 01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:36,120 AI love wings, but I'm not like a teriyaki wing guy or garlic 1523 01:15:36,120 --> 01:15:39,480 parmesan. I am a conventional wing guy. 1524 01:15:39,480 --> 01:15:43,680 Give me some blue cheese, give me some ranch, give me naked 1525 01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:45,200 wings. Very happy with that. 1526 01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:48,320 So I had some of that, had some chili, a lot of conventional 1527 01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:52,720 stuff. I had a little was it pursuit in 1528 01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:54,760 mozzarella? Was that, was it pursuit? 1529 01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:57,360 Yeah, I think it was definitely some of that. 1530 01:15:57,680 --> 01:15:59,440 And I I went to town on the desserts. 1531 01:15:59,440 --> 01:16:01,800 I I mean, I don't even know what I was eating at one point. 1532 01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:04,840 I was just shoveling in my face. So I feel like an absolute slob 1533 01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:08,160 today. I was driving the kids to 1534 01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:09,840 school. I'm like, uh oh, I feel it 1535 01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:11,200 hitting me. I I better get home. 1536 01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:14,280 You know, I mean, like, you know, all that stuff that I've a 1537 01:16:14,280 --> 01:16:15,680 couple beers, it catches up with you. 1538 01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:20,240 Kevin Looney, let's see, is a big that's probably going to be 1539 01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:22,160 bought out maybe. Yeah, those are options for the 1540 01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:22,800 Knicks. Yeah. 1541 01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:24,000 He's a winner, Chris from America. 1542 01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:25,600 I appreciate that. Been around for a little bit. 1543 01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:26,800 Ludy's fine. Yeah. 1544 01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:28,440 Something like that. I think something like that. 1545 01:16:28,440 --> 01:16:31,320 I I don't think that the Knicks are done, but you know, it's 1546 01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:35,080 funny because the emergence of the aura is fun. 1547 01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:37,200 It's very fun. Interesting. 1548 01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:38,880 The Red Sox got Durbin from the Brewers. 1549 01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:39,440 Yep. Yeah, Yeah. 1550 01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:43,200 So that. Let me see here what else you 1551 01:16:43,240 --> 01:16:50,000 know, what's the timeline that. What else do we have here? 1552 01:16:50,440 --> 01:16:55,240 Usual. As usual, the chat sessions 1553 01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:56,800 never disappoint. Yeah, you guys do it. 1554 01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:58,280 I love the chat. I love. 1555 01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:00,880 And I do this after every show. It's not available right away. 1556 01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:06,280 I've said this a few times, but after the show I will once, once 1557 01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:09,640 it's up and once J Rod and I get together on our what we want out 1558 01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:12,320 there for shorts and other, you know, post production stuff that 1559 01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:13,720 we had it with that we have to do. 1560 01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:16,600 I like to go back. I won't really necessarily watch 1561 01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:17,960 the show. There might be something where 1562 01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:19,240 I'm like, I want to double check something. 1563 01:17:19,240 --> 01:17:21,720 I want to see something. I really enjoy going through the 1564 01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:24,040 through the chats there. You guys do a great job. 1565 01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:27,360 Now I will say a little light on the likes there, like some of 1566 01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:29,440 the likes got to get up there, the tractions got to get up 1567 01:17:29,440 --> 01:17:31,640 there. We've got to get some, some more 1568 01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:35,680 of a, of a digital imprint as we close it on 16,000 Subs. 1569 01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:38,080 I'll have that today. And then I'm again, I'm looking 1570 01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:39,400 at it right now. It's amazing. 1571 01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:42,600 I'm looking at this piece of paper and I'm going to keep 1572 01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:45,680 doing this until I get to 100,000 Subs and I get that nice 1573 01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:47,520 YouTube plaque. And then I'm going to keep going 1574 01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:50,480 until I get half a million. Like that's how I view this. 1575 01:17:50,480 --> 01:17:53,240 Like I view this every single day. 1576 01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:54,920 I know it's corny. I know it's old. 1577 01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:59,560 I know it sounds contrived, but it's my new world and I love it 1578 01:17:59,960 --> 01:18:03,440 and I've got no limitations, which makes me, I think, even 1579 01:18:03,440 --> 01:18:05,480 better. I'm more effective as a 1580 01:18:05,480 --> 01:18:07,520 communicator. And I'm looking at this sheet of 1581 01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:09,960 paper right now and boy, that was fast. 1582 01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:15,240 I've got the number hundred a thousand, 25105 thousand, 10,012 1583 01:18:15,240 --> 01:18:20,400 five, 715 thousand, 17520 thousand, and they've all got XS 1584 01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:23,280 through them except 20. We'll have 16 by the end of 1585 01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:25,040 today, and they just keep growing. 1586 01:18:25,040 --> 01:18:26,280 It's not going to happen overnight. 1587 01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:29,720 I understand that, but I do know, and I'm excited for this, 1588 01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:33,720 that the, and if you've been with the show, I know you've 1589 01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:37,280 heard this a lot, so I won't belabor it, but the BT Unleashed 1590 01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:40,280 logo is made, it has been printed, it is done. 1591 01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:43,160 So they're coming either it's going to take like hours to 1592 01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:46,360 install, so they're coming either Thursday or Friday and I 1593 01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:50,520 got the text over the weekend and I don't think I'll wait. 1594 01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,440 Like part of me is like, all right, just start the new week 1595 01:18:52,440 --> 01:18:54,720 with it like because it's going to be done by the end of this 1596 01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:55,720 week. But if they do a Thursday, I'm 1597 01:18:55,720 --> 01:18:58,160 going to roll it out Friday and if they do a Friday, then I'll 1598 01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:00,160 obviously roll it out Friday. But I just can't wait. 1599 01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:01,480 It's going to it's going to look different. 1600 01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:05,400 You know, it really is. Oh, need a top ten mug segment 1601 01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,320 from BTI noticed you guys do say that a lot. 1602 01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:11,120 I've got a lot of mugs and I noticed, though, one of you 1603 01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:13,280 know, the mug, this is the one I'm teed off. 1604 01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:18,400 I, I have one and you know, there's like it says like hard 1605 01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:20,480 work or there's like all these different. 1606 01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:22,240 I don't even know where I got that from. 1607 01:19:23,040 --> 01:19:27,200 Perseverance, all these positive expressions usually. 1608 01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:31,720 And I'm like, what the hell, like, why is, why is that mug 1609 01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:36,000 leaving a little ring of coffee around either my notes or my 1610 01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:39,400 desk in my office? Well, and I'm an idiot. 1611 01:19:39,400 --> 01:19:42,160 It took me, I, I just thought maybe when I, when I, you know, 1612 01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:45,400 put it down a little bit, kind of fell out of the mug or to 1613 01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:47,840 clean it up like like it happens, you know, there's 1614 01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:50,280 actually a little barely visible. 1615 01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:52,640 I got to get rid of it. So I do have to get another mug 1616 01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:58,360 barely visible little crack where it kind of trickles out. 1617 01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:04,520 And the idiot that I am, it took me two or three weeks to figure 1618 01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:06,320 it out. And I've now I've had the mug 1619 01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:07,600 for probably seven or eight years. 1620 01:20:08,120 --> 01:20:11,040 So I guess maybe, I don't know, you just you clean it too much 1621 01:20:11,040 --> 01:20:13,040 and starts to melt a little ceramic chip. 1622 01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:17,160 I don't know what happened, but I know we're going to get BT 1623 01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:19,280 Unleashed mugs. Somebody asked me about this the 1624 01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:24,200 other day about BT Unleashed merch and that is again, guys, 1625 01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:27,160 there are steps that you have to do here and to be able to sell 1626 01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:28,760 it, you've got to create there. There. 1627 01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:30,320 There's something we had to do on the back end. 1628 01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:32,520 I won't bore you with it. We've created that. 1629 01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:34,560 Now I've just got to find who I like. 1630 01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:37,520 Like I had to find a producer. Like I had to find somebody to 1631 01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,640 design the back wall. Like I've got to find everybody 1632 01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:42,000 and everything starting from scratch. 1633 01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:45,640 I've got to find the somebody that I want to align myself with 1634 01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:48,680 that will make the BT merch and I got and once that happens, 1635 01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:50,280 I've got to decide what do I want to do. 1636 01:20:50,480 --> 01:20:51,680 Jay Ron, let me pull you in for a SEC. 1637 01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:56,000 What do you think 'cause I've got my my idea outside of 'cause 1638 01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:58,520 this is too easy. BT Unleashed mugs, which is a 1639 01:20:58,520 --> 01:20:59,960 game. Got to have some mugs. 1640 01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:05,280 I think the BT Unleashed vibe is more like the Skullcaps myself. 1641 01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:08,840 I think Beanie would be great. I mean great for the Northeast 1642 01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:13,360 cold, cold winters right there. So a couple of audience, a 1643 01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:17,800 couple hoodies, black T-shirts, a must, the black T-shirt that's 1644 01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:22,560 like the number one seller in in merch business, I guess. 1645 01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:24,200 Yeah, I'm a big black T-shirt guy. 1646 01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:28,160 It's funny, I never wore, I don't think I ever wore a black 1647 01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:31,120 T-shirt until about, I mean, in my life, unless like I had a 1648 01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:35,760 uniform that was like dark and I, I, I have probably 10 to 12 1649 01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:38,160 black T-shirts. That's pretty much all I wear. 1650 01:21:38,440 --> 01:21:41,040 But I've got so many of them. So people who see me like dude, 1651 01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:42,240 he's wearing the black T-shirt again. 1652 01:21:42,480 --> 01:21:45,160 I just love the way you find a good teacher. 1653 01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:47,200 Great. You know it's you're not 1654 01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:48,640 getting. Rid never switch up on it. 1655 01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:51,480 Someone also said stickers. That's a great idea. 1656 01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:54,240 Toss it on the laptop I mean. I like. 1657 01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:55,800 Infinite. Possibilities, really. 1658 01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:57,440 Yes, there are. Yes, there are. 1659 01:21:57,440 --> 01:22:00,160 You're right, J Rod, I'm with you on that, guys. 1660 01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:03,360 Friday night was absolutely bonkers at the Garden. 1661 01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:06,520 Oh my God. And I'm very curious where St. 1662 01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:07,640 John's going to be ranked here today. 1663 01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:12,440 So it was electric. I've done Lord knows how many 1664 01:22:12,440 --> 01:22:14,320 games at, at at the Garden there. 1665 01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:20,760 My first one was 2003, 2004 when Mike Jarvis was the coach. 1666 01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:22,960 And that was my first year doing St. 1667 01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:25,800 John's games. And they played Marquette and it 1668 01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:28,120 was at the guard. It was the coaches versus Cancer 1669 01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,280 Classic, like one of those preseason tournaments. 1670 01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:31,480 St. John's lost. 1671 01:22:31,480 --> 01:22:33,560 Of course, they weren't very good. 1672 01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:35,360 And that was the beginning of the swoon. 1673 01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:38,320 Like the beginning of their swoon was when I started. 1674 01:22:38,480 --> 01:22:41,640 So you know how meaningful these these big games are in these 1675 01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:44,040 moments are. And there were points, and I 1676 01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:46,120 remember saying this on the air the other night to to Minko. 1677 01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:51,400 There were points more times than not where I would do games 1678 01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:53,520 at the Garden, St. John's. 1679 01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:57,640 Now, if it was like a Syracuse or obviously a Yukon talking 1680 01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:00,760 about the previous configuration of the conference or like Notre 1681 01:23:00,760 --> 01:23:07,080 Dame, I think some other teams that had some good fan bases 1682 01:23:07,080 --> 01:23:10,080 that would suck up the tickets. Like if if it was against the 1683 01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:13,080 other program that was down like Georgetown, I mean, I remember 1684 01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:16,040 or like a team that doesn't have a base here in the new Big East. 1685 01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:18,840 Like if they're playing Creighton at the Garden now, 1686 01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:21,000 it's going to be sold out. Like tonight, Xavier's going to 1687 01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:23,600 have 1718 thousand people there for Saint John's. 1688 01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:26,600 But there's no Xavier fans coming in because it's not, I 1689 01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:30,320 mean, in terms of a big amount. So it's now dependent upon St. 1690 01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:34,480 John's to inspire people to sell the tickets just to come watch 1691 01:23:34,480 --> 01:23:35,720 St. John's, which they're finally 1692 01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,600 doing with the arrival of Rick. But man, there's been so many 1693 01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:40,600 games I've done where it was depressing. 1694 01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:44,240 And I remember just walking out of that building so many times, 1695 01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:47,120 like especially growing up. And this was the one that hurt 1696 01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:50,640 the most growing up on St. John's, Georgetown, right? 1697 01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:55,920 And doing a game and there being like 5300 people there and it's 1698 01:23:55,920 --> 01:23:59,360 just utterly depressing. Like it's, it's the ambiance. 1699 01:23:59,440 --> 01:24:02,280 It's not even quiet. It's it's just sad. 1700 01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:05,760 And I did a lot of those games. So I don't think this stuff for 1701 01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:08,080 granted. And there's been a lot of 1702 01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:10,560 electric moments, especially even like, listen, even with 1703 01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:13,240 Lavin that a couple of good teams here and there, you know, 1704 01:24:13,240 --> 01:24:15,440 when Mullen first got there, there's a little bit of juice. 1705 01:24:15,440 --> 01:24:18,560 I'm not saying that there was no juice before Pitino, but this is 1706 01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:20,280 different. This is what it was like when I 1707 01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:22,520 was a matter of fact, my son's texted me during the game. 1708 01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:25,880 He couldn't come to, he couldn't, he had a he had a 1709 01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:29,040 pitching lesson. So he was going to, you know, 1710 01:24:29,040 --> 01:24:34,240 he's listening to the game in the car on the radio on 1050 AM. 1711 01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:36,800 And when he got home, he's locked in and, and the whole 1712 01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:38,800 family watched the game. Matter of fact, when I got home 1713 01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:43,240 from the game, which was like 1120 or whatever it was, all 1714 01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:45,640 three of them were knocked out on the couch upstairs. 1715 01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:47,240 She was rare in his St. John's jersey. 1716 01:24:47,440 --> 01:24:49,040 They were all asleep. They were my daughter could 1717 01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:50,600 really care less. She's not too into the game, but 1718 01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:54,360 she was there and and he's texting me. 1719 01:24:54,680 --> 01:24:57,000 And, you know, at one point I said this is what it was like 1720 01:24:57,000 --> 01:24:58,640 when I was young. And I told him that before. 1721 01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:01,520 Like, this is what it was like when I was young. 1722 01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:04,960 It did just the juice, the feeling and what's changed now? 1723 01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:09,640 And this is so amazing because even I didn't even think that 1724 01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:12,000 this was possible. Like the garden really turned 1725 01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:16,840 into, you know, stores. It was, it was Yukon fans just 1726 01:25:16,840 --> 01:25:19,040 basically come in and take the building over. 1727 01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:20,440 And I'm not mad at him for doing it. 1728 01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:22,240 I'm jealous over the years, right? 1729 01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:26,000 Not anymore. I don't know the exact number. 1730 01:25:26,080 --> 01:25:28,720 I, I would have to guess a few people have asked me this. 1731 01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:32,680 I felt like it was 8020, maybe even 8515 Saint John, maybe even 1732 01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:35,960 9010. Like they're the whole, the top. 1733 01:25:35,960 --> 01:25:39,080 You had some Husky fans, the whole first two all red. 1734 01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:43,760 And it was just, man, you know #1 the game was, it was 1735 01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:47,160 physical. And, you know, here's one thing 1736 01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,200 that you really, as much as the college game has changed, right? 1737 01:25:50,440 --> 01:25:53,040 And it's benefited Saint John's because now they can, they can 1738 01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:55,360 buy good players. You know, it's changed their 1739 01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:57,440 trajectory and they're able to pay for Rick. 1740 01:25:57,440 --> 01:25:59,880 You have that money coming in from Mike Ripoli. 1741 01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:01,920 And, and, and it's just a different world for Saint 1742 01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:04,680 John's. While somebody like Syracuse and 1743 01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:08,680 other blue bloods have kind of they've been penalized with the 1744 01:26:08,680 --> 01:26:11,960 NIL and the transfer portal. Ironically, it's really what 1745 01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:18,800 saved Saint John's really has. And as that's happened, you 1746 01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:22,880 you've got a lot of rosters with no continuity because it changes 1747 01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:24,600 every year. And the other thing that's 1748 01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:27,520 happened now as Bay Himes retired, as Jay Wright stepped 1749 01:26:27,520 --> 01:26:30,680 away, now you can still got his oh, Mark Few out there with 1750 01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:35,080 Gonzaga, you know, but a lot of the big coaches are no longer 1751 01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:37,800 around. So I know the Big East is down 1752 01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:39,280 this year. There's really I think it's 1753 01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:41,800 going to be a three team bid, maybe 4. 1754 01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:46,200 Big East is really down. Well, the thing that other 1755 01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:49,880 coach, other conferences don't really get is that that Hurley 1756 01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:53,560 Pitino dynamic is about as old school as it gets. 1757 01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:55,720 And that's one of the things that the conference really had 1758 01:26:55,720 --> 01:26:57,600 when I was coming up, becoming a fan. 1759 01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:04,280 Louis Rolly, Massimino Behime, Jim Calhoun, Oh my God. 1760 01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:06,760 John Thompson, of course, the great John Thompson at 1761 01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:11,400 Georgetown Pitino with Providence, a young Pitino. 1762 01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:15,320 It was just amazing. And they really, there's 1763 01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:17,080 friction there. I told you this on Friday. 1764 01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:20,080 They say the right thing, they respect each other, but boy, do 1765 01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:22,440 they want to beat the shit out of each other. 1766 01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:27,280 And you know, not once, not twice, not three times in a row. 1767 01:27:27,440 --> 01:27:31,920 3 Rick has beaten Hurley and St. John's is more physical now. 1768 01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:34,080 I don't know what's going to happen when they meet up in 1769 01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:36,680 stores and that's on a Wednesday night, which is so weak. 1770 01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:39,520 I mean, it's like it's Wednesday night and I think it's on 1771 01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:42,480 Peacock and I'm not here to disparage Peacock, but can you 1772 01:27:42,480 --> 01:27:45,080 put the game on a little bit more of a high profile moment 1773 01:27:45,960 --> 01:27:48,360 Wednesday night? It's just very that's got to be 1774 01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:51,280 a Saturday game. I don't know how the I know that 1775 01:27:51,280 --> 01:27:52,720 they're beholden to the contracts. 1776 01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:56,600 FS1 Fox, which was on Friday night, which was great. 1777 01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:58,440 Got to go and say hi to Gus. So I haven't seen it in a while. 1778 01:27:58,440 --> 01:28:00,680 Love Gus. He's, he's just a great dude. 1779 01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:02,960 Known him for a long time back to when I was doing stuff with 1780 01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:04,880 the Knicks and I was doing the halftime stuff and he was doing 1781 01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:06,280 the game. So I've really known Gus for a 1782 01:28:06,280 --> 01:28:07,920 while and he's still the same Gus. 1783 01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:11,640 Always a happy smile, always a big, you know, big dab, big hug, 1784 01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:14,040 how the kids doing. Great guy and a great talent. 1785 01:28:14,400 --> 01:28:17,000 So, and it sounded big too. That's the other thing too. 1786 01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:19,480 But how do you have UConn and St. 1787 01:28:19,480 --> 01:28:23,200 John's on a Wednesday night? I think it's at 7UP in stores on 1788 01:28:23,200 --> 01:28:25,680 Peacock like the, the, the biggies. 1789 01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:27,520 I think the biggies needs a new commissioner. 1790 01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:30,480 I've said that I think they, they, they're broadcasting 1791 01:28:30,480 --> 01:28:32,440 rights are, although you don't even know what channel they're 1792 01:28:32,440 --> 01:28:35,320 on. But that's not my problem. 1793 01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:38,680 I'm focused on St. John's and it was really, really 1794 01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:40,000 good. And they beat these, as I say, 1795 01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:41,160 he's beaten them three straight games. 1796 01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:45,400 How about this stat? So I think the biggest, I think 1797 01:28:45,400 --> 01:28:47,600 UConn might have a little more skill in terms of shooters. 1798 01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,080 Like the kid Mullins, the freshman, wow. 1799 01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:53,800 I mean, he came out he I mean, he looked like JJ Redick at 1800 01:28:53,800 --> 01:28:55,600 Duke. I mean, bang, bang. 1801 01:28:55,600 --> 01:28:57,880 I'm like, oh boy. And they got a couple of pros 1802 01:28:57,880 --> 01:29:00,400 there, obviously as the St. John's. 1803 01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:02,720 But the biggest difference is that St. 1804 01:29:02,720 --> 01:29:05,520 John's is bigger and stronger and tougher in the front court. 1805 01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:08,760 And as long as they hit a couple of threes, their massive 1806 01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:10,320 advantage is getting to the free throw line. 1807 01:29:10,320 --> 01:29:11,440 St. John's one of the best teams in 1808 01:29:11,440 --> 01:29:12,680 the country, getting to the strike. 1809 01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:15,120 Listen to this disadvantage for UConn. 1810 01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:17,520 So and Uconn's play one more game. 1811 01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:19,600 They play one more game. St. 1812 01:29:19,600 --> 01:29:23,840 John's has taken 613 free throw attempts so far this year. 1813 01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:30,040 Uconn's taken 440-4613 to 444 and that showed up the other 1814 01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:30,640 night. I think St. 1815 01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:32,720 John's took 31. They didn't, they they missed a 1816 01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:34,600 couple. They got to shoot better than 1817 01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:35,920 they did, but I think they took 31. 1818 01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:37,920 I think UConn was right around 12 or 13. 1819 01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:41,480 Massive disparity in line with those numbers that I just gave 1820 01:29:41,480 --> 01:29:43,040 you. So you know it. 1821 01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:44,120 It's going to be very interesting. 1822 01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:45,560 Yes. And I did see this over the 1823 01:29:45,560 --> 01:29:46,800 weekend. How about Autry? 1824 01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:49,440 Yeah. Locked in his firing. 1825 01:29:49,440 --> 01:29:51,320 No, Syracuse is a disaster right now. 1826 01:29:51,320 --> 01:29:53,960 My God. And Carmelo's son didn't play at 1827 01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:57,360 all. DNP Now I also don't think that 1828 01:29:57,360 --> 01:29:59,960 Carmelo Sun is as good as some people do just because you have 1829 01:29:59,960 --> 01:30:02,680 the I think he's interesting and I think I know he's had some 1830 01:30:02,680 --> 01:30:05,480 good games. I've seen him play, but you 1831 01:30:05,480 --> 01:30:09,400 know, he's an issue on defense and you know, but I don't know 1832 01:30:09,400 --> 01:30:11,440 what the hell is going on on up there at Syracuse. 1833 01:30:11,480 --> 01:30:14,720 I I just don't know. I do think college basketball is 1834 01:30:14,720 --> 01:30:17,200 better when Syracuse is, is viable. 1835 01:30:17,640 --> 01:30:20,240 And I've done a, I've done more than a few games at the Carrier 1836 01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:24,200 Dome, and it's one of the most unique, amazing experiences when 1837 01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:28,280 Syracuse is good, just the way the whole arena's football 1838 01:30:28,280 --> 01:30:31,880 stadiums, you know, cuddle, the Dome is cut in half and all the 1839 01:30:31,880 --> 01:30:34,200 fans and when they're good, they don't sit. 1840 01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:38,080 I mean, they, it's terrible. I mean, it's, I don't know if 1841 01:30:38,080 --> 01:30:39,960 we've talked. I'm a Syracuse guy. 1842 01:30:40,280 --> 01:30:44,320 Literally the only good season we ever had as a student was 1843 01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:48,360 that what was it? 20/20/2020 Buddy Beheim Sweet 1844 01:30:48,360 --> 01:30:49,680 16. Yeah, but yeah, but. 1845 01:30:50,280 --> 01:30:54,240 That was it. I mean, which was great, but and 1846 01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:58,640 Joe Gerrard was fine for like, you know, whatever the rest of 1847 01:30:58,640 --> 01:31:00,640 the two seasons he was there. He was a good player. 1848 01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:06,240 But yeah, it's been, it's been a disappointment of a program at 1849 01:31:06,240 --> 01:31:09,480 least the past, what, 5-6 years? I don't know how they're gonna 1850 01:31:09,480 --> 01:31:11,760 really change this. I mean, the really, you know, 1851 01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:14,520 the only way you change is you gonna have to, it's not like you 1852 01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:16,600 just got to pay. You got to pay players. 1853 01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:18,960 That's the bottom line. I don't know what their budget 1854 01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:21,840 is, but they've got a football budget and they get, you know, 1855 01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:24,440 when even when they stink, they get 20 something thousand at the 1856 01:31:24,440 --> 01:31:26,480 Dome. So how many games did you go to 1857 01:31:26,480 --> 01:31:28,640 the Dome there? Oh, I mean every went to every 1858 01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:31,800 game, yeah, pretty much every basketball 1 I'd say men's 1859 01:31:31,800 --> 01:31:34,240 basketball, decent amount of the football, less. 1860 01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:38,560 I mean, I'd say for other than like that last senior year, 1861 01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:42,360 junior year, our football team was awful. 1862 01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:46,400 It was like what Garrett Schrader for most of my college 1863 01:31:46,400 --> 01:31:49,040 career, Tommy DeVito at the end. So yeah. 1864 01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:54,280 Tommy Boy. Yes, Sir, should have. 1865 01:31:54,280 --> 01:31:58,560 Should have brought him out last night, but yeah, a bunch of 1866 01:31:58,560 --> 01:32:00,480 games at the Dome. I mean love it. 1867 01:32:00,680 --> 01:32:01,920 Love it. Did you have a good time at 1868 01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:03,040 Syracuse? Was it fun? 1869 01:32:03,400 --> 01:32:07,160 Super fun. I mean great, great school. 1870 01:32:07,160 --> 01:32:11,040 I think I think like the party school aspect gets a little like 1871 01:32:11,120 --> 01:32:15,160 overrated overhyped there, however, still a lot of 1872 01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:16,920 partying. It's it's a fun school. 1873 01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:21,120 I mean, super cold, but like great Spirit, like people, 1874 01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:24,360 everyone there, like they really care about the fact that they're 1875 01:32:24,360 --> 01:32:25,760 at Syracuse. I. 1876 01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:28,600 Agree with that. I I always got that. 1877 01:32:28,760 --> 01:32:31,200 I totally agree. I always got that sense like, 1878 01:32:31,200 --> 01:32:34,200 and I think about when, when conference play start, it's not 1879 01:32:34,200 --> 01:32:36,320 like you're playing up from Saint John's point of view. 1880 01:32:36,560 --> 01:32:38,880 You never have gone up there in November because that's the non 1881 01:32:38,880 --> 01:32:40,720 conference. So I would always go up there. 1882 01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:44,760 Probably done if I had to take a guess, I've probably done 8 or 9 1883 01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:46,680 games up at the Dome, Saint John, Syracuse. 1884 01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:48,680 Oh yeah, I've done a lot. Oh yeah, yeah. 1885 01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:53,280 And the with basically all the different coaches, with Jarvis, 1886 01:32:53,480 --> 01:32:56,600 with Lavin, with Mullen, Yeah, I mean, not not with Rick there 1887 01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:57,720 because. And I'd like to see St. 1888 01:32:57,720 --> 01:32:59,360 Johnson's heroes cues play a game at the guard. 1889 01:32:59,360 --> 01:33:00,560 I think that'll be a lot of or the Dome. 1890 01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:03,280 That would be cool. But every time they go up there, 1891 01:33:03,280 --> 01:33:06,840 it's either January or February and it's absolutely frigid. 1892 01:33:07,160 --> 01:33:10,400 And it's because it's so cold. That seems desolate, even though 1893 01:33:10,400 --> 01:33:13,080 it's not right. And it's it's I don't think I've 1894 01:33:13,080 --> 01:33:15,720 ever been there once when it's sunny and it seems almost 1895 01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:17,120 depressing. I know it's not. 1896 01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:21,080 It's an amazing school with a great journalistic history and a 1897 01:33:21,080 --> 01:33:23,520 great basketball history and a lot of culture and a lot of 1898 01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:26,520 pride. But it it, it's, it just always 1899 01:33:26,520 --> 01:33:28,800 seems dank, like it's always Gray. 1900 01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:33,000 You got to go from like May. Oh, it's a short period. 1901 01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:34,840 You got like. May, May to June. 1902 01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:39,280 May to June, May to September, and then it's very nice, but 1903 01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:42,360 other than that, it's the most disgusting place on earth. 1904 01:33:42,600 --> 01:33:43,920 All right, So let me tell you where I think St. 1905 01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:47,000 John's going to finish up here today just because they've got 1906 01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:48,640 the what's that coming out of 1:00 here? 1907 01:33:48,640 --> 01:33:50,880 So about an hour and 20 minutes you get the new AP poll. 1908 01:33:51,120 --> 01:33:53,080 So say not listen the AP, What does it really mean? 1909 01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:54,640 AP poll doesn't mean a whole lot. 1910 01:33:54,920 --> 01:33:57,000 You're better off looking at like bracket matrix. 1911 01:33:57,000 --> 01:33:59,240 Where are they seed wise? Where's Leonardi got them? 1912 01:33:59,240 --> 01:34:01,080 Where's Palm got them. Where's the Ken Palm? 1913 01:34:01,080 --> 01:34:02,840 Where's the where's the net ranking? 1914 01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:06,240 Saint John's moved up only it's it's amazing only one or two 1915 01:34:06,240 --> 01:34:09,240 spots in the net ranking here, which is crazy to me when you 1916 01:34:09,240 --> 01:34:10,480 beat the number three team in the country. 1917 01:34:10,480 --> 01:34:13,560 But you know, when you play this amount of games here, the 1918 01:34:13,560 --> 01:34:16,400 analytics don't move. It's like having 500 at bats 1919 01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:19,320 versus, you know, 120. You know, obviously you have a 1920 01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:22,600 three hit game. If it's the latter 120 average 1921 01:34:22,600 --> 01:34:24,840 going to jump. If it's September, it might jump 1922 01:34:24,840 --> 01:34:27,640 up a point anyway. They were 22 going into the 1923 01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:31,440 game. I believe that they will be, I 1924 01:34:31,440 --> 01:34:34,240 think they'll crack the top 15. I think they're going to be #15 1925 01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:37,800 here maybe 16. And you know, the symbolism of 1926 01:34:37,800 --> 01:34:40,040 being top 15 versus 16, whatever. 1927 01:34:40,800 --> 01:34:42,200 They're just moving in the right direction. 1928 01:34:42,200 --> 01:34:45,800 They won a ton of games in a row, basically every game, maybe 1929 01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:48,640 with the with the exception of going up the stores soon they 1930 01:34:48,640 --> 01:34:51,000 will be favored. They've got Xavier tonight. 1931 01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:54,120 You got to be careful, you know, let down, you know, even playing 1932 01:34:54,120 --> 01:34:57,000 against Rick, Rick versus his son, you want to make sure you 1933 01:34:57,000 --> 01:35:00,160 beat the teams like Marquette. Seton Hall is going to be tough 1934 01:35:00,160 --> 01:35:02,560 there last regular season game at the Rock on. 1935 01:35:02,560 --> 01:35:07,120 I think that's March 6. That will not be easy because 1936 01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:09,320 Shaheen Holloway is going to have his crew ready and they're 1937 01:35:09,320 --> 01:35:11,760 tough and they almost beat St. John's at the Garden. 1938 01:35:11,760 --> 01:35:14,280 So got respect for the whole. But I I mean, St. 1939 01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:16,800 John's going to probably finish up what are they, 18 and five? 1940 01:35:17,400 --> 01:35:22,800 They're going to finish up 20, 2627 wins, maybe 28 maybe 1941 01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:24,760 depending upon what happens to the Big East tournament here. 1942 01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:28,120 So I do think that they will be in that that that that realm of 1943 01:35:28,120 --> 01:35:32,080 15, five top ten teams lost in the last week or so since the 1944 01:35:32,080 --> 01:35:35,160 lost since the last AP poll came out. 1945 01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:36,520 St. John's will have a big jump. 1946 01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:39,120 And listen, I said this going into the game, I thought that 1947 01:35:39,120 --> 01:35:41,440 St. John's was ridiculously over 1948 01:35:41,440 --> 01:35:45,160 ranked at #5 coming in like no really outside of Zubi that 1949 01:35:45,160 --> 01:35:47,480 nobody else did anything. So they, there was real no 1950 01:35:47,800 --> 01:35:52,000 justification in Saint John's being #5 it was Rick and it was 1951 01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:54,960 Zubi, which are two great starting points, don't get me 1952 01:35:54,960 --> 01:35:57,320 wrong. And it was the 31 win season and 1953 01:35:57,320 --> 01:35:59,640 the Big East regular season championship and the Big East 1954 01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:03,080 tournament championship which really elevated them to #5 they 1955 01:36:03,080 --> 01:36:04,400 weren't the 5th best team in the country. 1956 01:36:04,400 --> 01:36:06,480 They showed that because they lost the teams they shouldn't 1957 01:36:06,480 --> 01:36:08,880 have and they didn't beat teams that would have distinguished 1958 01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:11,720 them even further. So they took some lumps early, 1959 01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:14,560 then they dropped out so that they were overranked early. 1960 01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:18,680 And then quite frankly, I thought going into this game, I 1961 01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:19,880 thought they were slightly underrated. 1962 01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:24,040 Not not not by a lot, but I thought maybe one or two, three 1963 01:36:24,040 --> 01:36:27,360 slots, maybe instead of 22, maybe 20, maybe 19. 1964 01:36:27,360 --> 01:36:29,520 Either way, that'll get corrected today that drops. 1965 01:36:29,520 --> 01:36:32,080 So I'm curious and more importantly, where they where, 1966 01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:36,640 where do I think they can wind up as a seed in terms of right 1967 01:36:36,640 --> 01:36:39,120 now, the the momentum is great right now. 1968 01:36:39,120 --> 01:36:41,400 Saint John's and this didn't even move that much. 1969 01:36:41,400 --> 01:36:45,720 I was surprised at this, so I'd like to follow and bracket 1970 01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:48,560 Matrix is really good for this. If you just go to bracket 1971 01:36:48,560 --> 01:36:51,920 Matrix, you'll see all of the different outlets and there's 1972 01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:54,680 like 30 of them. And you'll see all of the teams 1973 01:36:54,680 --> 01:36:57,640 one through whatever, like the seeds, one through 16 obviously, 1974 01:36:58,400 --> 01:37:01,720 and they'll have like 4 ones, 4 twos like it's actually the NCAA 1975 01:37:01,720 --> 01:37:03,520 tournament or Selection Sunday, right? 1976 01:37:03,920 --> 01:37:06,760 And they'll have. So for Saint John's, early on, 1977 01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:09,920 they were generally thought and they'll take like a hybrid, an 1978 01:37:09,920 --> 01:37:13,640 average of everybody like where they have them and it will come 1979 01:37:13,640 --> 01:37:15,320 up with a number. And as I've said, St. 1980 01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:17,400 John's was rightfully in that 8-9 game for a while. 1981 01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:20,160 Then they started creeping up, creeping up, creeping up. 1982 01:37:20,800 --> 01:37:24,240 And then as they got further and further away from that bad loss 1983 01:37:24,240 --> 01:37:27,640 at home to Providence, they started moving into that like 1984 01:37:28,560 --> 01:37:33,280 the 4th best sixth seed. Now they're in some either A5 or 1985 01:37:33,280 --> 01:37:41,880 one of the best 6 I think. I think that Saint John's will 1986 01:37:41,880 --> 01:37:47,520 wind up either a really good 5, meaning a favorable location 1987 01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:50,960 geographically and A and a more favorable matchup of all the 1988 01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:55,000 fives or one of the lower fours. Now, if they beat UConn up in 1989 01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:58,960 stores, I mean, and then you go as a lot of ifs here you go on 1990 01:37:58,960 --> 01:38:01,600 you and then at that point you would in all probability win the 1991 01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:03,880 Big East regular season championship again. 1992 01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:07,760 I mean, hell, I mean if you beat UConn 4 times in a row, I don't 1993 01:38:07,760 --> 01:38:10,160 even know if they went up there, but if they do, you'd have to 1994 01:38:10,160 --> 01:38:13,000 think if you meet him in the tournament Big East, you got a 1995 01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:14,120 chance to beat him there as well. 1996 01:38:14,600 --> 01:38:16,880 I mean, could they make I don't think they're going to make the 1997 01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:18,720 three line. That's that's just that's just 1998 01:38:18,720 --> 01:38:21,040 that's that's that's a jump. I don't see that. 1999 01:38:21,440 --> 01:38:23,280 But I think the momentum is real. 2000 01:38:23,280 --> 01:38:25,080 I think this team has found out who they are. 2001 01:38:25,320 --> 01:38:29,200 I think it all coincides with, really the way Dylan Mitchell's 2002 01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:32,960 played and this renewed commitment to the front court. 2003 01:38:33,240 --> 01:38:36,560 And John's looks really good. And that place was magical. 2004 01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:38,600 I could not wait to get to that game. 2005 01:38:38,600 --> 01:38:40,960 It was an 8:00 game. So I'm sitting there waiting all 2006 01:38:40,960 --> 01:38:42,360 day. I'm like, come on, I want to go. 2007 01:38:42,360 --> 01:38:46,480 Let's go at Omar. under score Yousef 92. 2008 01:38:46,480 --> 01:38:47,880 Omar, what's going on, brother? How you doing? 2009 01:38:48,240 --> 01:38:50,720 Are you surprised by how Dennis Jenkins has looked in the NBA? 2010 01:38:50,720 --> 01:38:53,160 No, I'm actually not. Pistons appeared to have found 2011 01:38:53,160 --> 01:38:54,000 gold there. Yep. 2012 01:38:54,440 --> 01:38:56,640 I don't know why I don't. I don't know why the Knicks 2013 01:38:56,640 --> 01:38:58,600 didn't bring him in. Right under your nose. 2014 01:38:58,920 --> 01:39:03,800 Right under your nose. Dennis Jenkins is is a 2015 01:39:03,840 --> 01:39:08,280 legitimate NBA player, period. And I'm not going to go 3 2016 01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:09,800 minutes, 4 minutes on Dennis Jenkins here. 2017 01:39:09,800 --> 01:39:12,360 But it's a great story. He's a great competitor. 2018 01:39:12,440 --> 01:39:14,440 Got to know him a little bit. Loved interviewing him. 2019 01:39:14,440 --> 01:39:16,400 Terrific young man, awesome person. 2020 01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:18,840 And he was at Iona with Rick, obviously. 2021 01:39:19,280 --> 01:39:21,640 And you know, that's one of the things about player development. 2022 01:39:21,640 --> 01:39:24,400 That's that's what Rick is now bigger also provide money. 2023 01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:26,720 If you're a big time player, you're going to get around 2024 01:39:26,720 --> 01:39:28,400 $1,000,000. You know, St. 2025 01:39:28,400 --> 01:39:31,120 John's has an nil budget. I believe it's right around 2026 01:39:31,120 --> 01:39:34,440 10:10 or $11 million. You got a couple of guys make it 2027 01:39:34,440 --> 01:39:36,040 over a mil for sure. And they should. 2028 01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:37,560 That's, that's the name of the game. 2029 01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:41,400 But you're also going to develop and Jenkins a couple of years 2030 01:39:41,400 --> 01:39:44,720 ago was viewed as a really good player in the Mac. 2031 01:39:44,720 --> 01:39:46,880 And then when he came to Saint John's, you like, wow, this 2032 01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:49,920 guy's incredibly valuable. And then you saw Saint John's in 2033 01:39:49,920 --> 01:39:51,600 points last year before they clicked. 2034 01:39:51,840 --> 01:39:53,120 You like, man, they really miss him. 2035 01:39:53,440 --> 01:39:55,760 And then you saw him early like in the summer league and I 2036 01:39:55,760 --> 01:39:57,840 checked him out in the summer league a little bit with Detroit 2037 01:39:58,080 --> 01:40:00,560 always rooting for him the two way contract. 2038 01:40:00,560 --> 01:40:03,040 And then oh wow, we had 15 points in the NBA now back to 2039 01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:06,120 the G league like and then bang, he is just really asserted 2040 01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:07,520 himself here. Yep. 2041 01:40:07,560 --> 01:40:11,520 I, I think, you know, I'm gonna go nuts here, but I think it's 2042 01:40:11,520 --> 01:40:14,760 fairly realistic to. Think that Danish Jenkins is 2043 01:40:14,760 --> 01:40:17,000 going to wind up making enough money in the NBA to retire? 2044 01:40:17,400 --> 01:40:20,640 You don't retire well with just an ounce of shrewd investment 2045 01:40:20,640 --> 01:40:22,240 and he's not he's going to make 100 mil. 2046 01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:24,600 You tell me. You know, he he can't make like 2047 01:40:24,600 --> 01:40:28,200 a contract at some point like Deuce McBride maid, you know, 2048 01:40:28,200 --> 01:40:31,000 three years, $13 million when Leon Rose signed up to that a 2049 01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:32,840 couple of years ago. Not saying they're the same 2050 01:40:32,840 --> 01:40:36,280 exact type of player, but if you get, you know that anybody can 2051 01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:38,720 get more. You know, you get that that 2052 01:40:38,720 --> 01:40:42,680 three-year 171819 million dollar our taxes whack that out half 2053 01:40:42,680 --> 01:40:44,480 got it. Agent fee. 2054 01:40:44,480 --> 01:40:46,920 Yeah, understood. But if you if you invest that 2055 01:40:46,920 --> 01:40:50,440 properly and you're you're shrewd in how you spend and 2056 01:40:50,440 --> 01:40:52,920 you're smart about it and you just get, you know, a decent 2057 01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:55,320 return. You know, forget about 15%, 2058 01:40:55,320 --> 01:40:57,240 we're trying to get in a restaurant or something wacky, 2059 01:40:57,240 --> 01:40:59,800 which will probably most restaurants don't work out. 2060 01:41:00,080 --> 01:41:03,840 If you get a decent return and you're smart and sensible. 2061 01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:06,560 And I'm when I say decent, just, you know, 78%, you live it off 2062 01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:09,680 the interest and you got to be really, you're really, really 2063 01:41:09,680 --> 01:41:11,440 good. And I think there's a chance he 2064 01:41:11,440 --> 01:41:12,920 might be able to get more than that. 2065 01:41:12,920 --> 01:41:15,160 I actually, I don't think that that is implausible. 2066 01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:18,400 He is a good player. And I just I remember watch, I 2067 01:41:18,400 --> 01:41:19,920 remember saying this before the draft. 2068 01:41:19,920 --> 01:41:22,960 I'm like, next draft them, draft them. 2069 01:41:23,400 --> 01:41:24,760 You know, he's got a mid range game. 2070 01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:27,160 He's a defensive demon. He's a hell of a teammate. 2071 01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:32,720 You know, he's been coached up. So I I never understood why the 2072 01:41:32,720 --> 01:41:36,400 Knicks didn't give him a real look there at B Klein and I was 2073 01:41:36,400 --> 01:41:41,520 at BK and BK leaner. Is that B these I'll tell you, 2074 01:41:41,520 --> 01:41:44,440 dude, you know, here's what we got to start doing at new rule 2075 01:41:44,440 --> 01:41:45,920 on the show. I can't I can't, I can't 2076 01:41:45,920 --> 01:41:47,880 anymore. I can't unless it's like a 2077 01:41:47,880 --> 01:41:50,200 normal name and I'm I'm not taking a shot at anybody. 2078 01:41:50,520 --> 01:41:52,880 These underscores these number. I can't do it anymore. 2079 01:41:53,200 --> 01:41:56,680 As I said, I am used to go to Joe out east and William 2080 01:41:56,680 --> 01:41:59,840 Connecticut and Billy in Brooklyn and Timmy in Manhattan, 2081 01:42:00,280 --> 01:42:03,440 you know, 9000 numbers. And just So what we're going to 2082 01:42:03,440 --> 01:42:07,640 do is J Rod, from now on, if it's a, and that one's not 2083 01:42:07,640 --> 01:42:10,240 terrible, but I'll go with B Kleiner, I'm going to go with 2084 01:42:10,240 --> 01:42:11,520 that. You got it right. 2085 01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:13,640 It's Benji Kleiner. He's OK. 2086 01:42:13,640 --> 01:42:15,440 There you go, Benji Kleiner. Alright, Benj. 2087 01:42:15,760 --> 01:42:18,440 But if it's one of those wacky ones with numbers and 2088 01:42:18,440 --> 01:42:21,080 underscores and bashes, J Rod's going to start reading those. 2089 01:42:21,080 --> 01:42:23,720 OK, deal. Deal. 2090 01:42:23,720 --> 01:42:25,880 We got a deal. That a boy, That a boy. 2091 01:42:27,120 --> 01:42:29,480 So B, what do we got? Nixon won nine of 10 held teams 2092 01:42:29,480 --> 01:42:32,840 under 106 times in the stretch. Alvarado strengthens the overall 2093 01:42:32,840 --> 01:42:33,960 D. We're coming out of the East, 2094 01:42:33,960 --> 01:42:36,840 OK. I mean that that's pretty brazen 2095 01:42:36,840 --> 01:42:39,160 when I mean, the Pistons have kicked the shit out of them 2096 01:42:39,160 --> 01:42:42,000 every time they play them. I understand that Alvarado has 2097 01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:44,800 not been there, you know, and now he is. 2098 01:42:45,160 --> 01:42:48,040 I got it. And I know the Knicks are good 2099 01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:52,120 and I know that they got a chance, but you know, that's I'm 2100 01:42:52,120 --> 01:42:54,960 not going there yet. That's not a good match up, 2101 01:42:55,640 --> 01:42:57,360 Knicks and Pistons. It's not a good match up for the 2102 01:42:57,360 --> 01:42:59,160 Knicks. It was a it was a tricky match 2103 01:42:59,160 --> 01:43:02,120 up a year ago. They are tough, they are big, 2104 01:43:02,280 --> 01:43:05,800 they are well coached. They got a stud guard who can 2105 01:43:05,880 --> 01:43:08,920 take over series and by the way, only going to get better and 2106 01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:11,520 better and better and better in Cunningham. 2107 01:43:11,520 --> 01:43:14,720 So I mean, Knicks would probably be slightly fit, but they won't 2108 01:43:14,720 --> 01:43:17,800 have the homecourt. I don't think so. 2109 01:43:18,840 --> 01:43:22,640 SBT Rod Power 78. What's your favorite Kenny 2110 01:43:22,640 --> 01:43:25,520 Powers quote? Oh my God, I don't really have 2111 01:43:25,520 --> 01:43:26,320 any quotes. I see. 2112 01:43:26,320 --> 01:43:29,800 I'm not a big movie quote guy, but I love that show. 2113 01:43:30,280 --> 01:43:32,120 I mean, that was awesome. I remember. 2114 01:43:32,120 --> 01:43:35,560 So somebody told it was somebody that I used to work with was on 2115 01:43:35,560 --> 01:43:37,680 HBO. Hey, J Rod, do me a favor, 2116 01:43:37,680 --> 01:43:39,960 Eastbound and down. Check out what year that came. 2117 01:43:40,280 --> 01:43:43,200 If I had to take a guess, God, I could be wildly off on this. 2118 01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:45,800 I feel like it came and then there was like, then they went 2119 01:43:45,800 --> 01:43:47,720 to Myrtle Beach in like season 3. 2120 01:43:49,080 --> 01:43:52,200 Got a little weak there. I think the first year ish was 2121 01:43:52,240 --> 01:43:56,920 like around 29, 2010. When did eastbound and down 2122 01:43:56,920 --> 01:44:01,200 surface on HBO do you know? 2009 to 2013. 2123 01:44:01,680 --> 01:44:03,360 Okay, there, there while there was that, yeah. 2124 01:44:03,480 --> 01:44:08,000 And I think either Myrtle Beach was the last season or the 2125 01:44:08,000 --> 01:44:09,920 penultimate season and I still watched it. 2126 01:44:10,280 --> 01:44:14,040 I mean, listen, anytime a season, any any time a show 2127 01:44:14,040 --> 01:44:16,960 jumps the shark and you and you love that show, you still stick 2128 01:44:16,960 --> 01:44:19,560 with it. Now you might be like like even 2129 01:44:19,560 --> 01:44:21,760 friends at the end. Yeah, you know, a little lame 2130 01:44:21,760 --> 01:44:24,400 there. Even Entourage at the end, not 2131 01:44:24,400 --> 01:44:27,760 quite as and I love the show. Not quite as good as it was the 2132 01:44:27,760 --> 01:44:32,960 first bunch. You know, I thought The Sopranos 2133 01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:35,960 never really jumped the shark. Neither did Oz Neither did The 2134 01:44:35,960 --> 01:44:38,280 Wire. Think of HBO shows there. 2135 01:44:38,800 --> 01:44:40,760 Were you? Did you watch Entourage? 2136 01:44:40,760 --> 01:44:44,200 Did you ever get into that after it actually came out or no? 2137 01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:48,280 No, I haven't seen Entourage. I'm big Sopranos. 2138 01:44:48,440 --> 01:44:54,160 I know that's next. I got to see Entourage Wire, but 2139 01:44:54,160 --> 01:44:57,320 I'm big. Sopranos, Breaking Bad. 2140 01:44:57,320 --> 01:45:01,240 I'm on Curb now. Curb some fun with that, yeah. 2141 01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:04,960 That's Curb's a pisser. Curb is so well written it's 2142 01:45:04,960 --> 01:45:07,280 better than Seinfeld I think. Agreed. 2143 01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:11,040 Seinfeld guy or no? I've seen decent amount of 2144 01:45:11,040 --> 01:45:12,800 episodes but definitely seen more. 2145 01:45:12,800 --> 01:45:15,560 Curb. Yeah, I just laugh more with 2146 01:45:15,560 --> 01:45:17,920 Curb. I like how he, yeah. 2147 01:45:17,920 --> 01:45:21,320 I just like how he plays this character of just like he 2148 01:45:21,320 --> 01:45:24,680 listen, he's the guy who represents us all deep down. 2149 01:45:27,480 --> 01:45:30,120 Let's see if anything else jumps out before I start to wrap up. 2150 01:45:30,120 --> 01:45:31,680 What's this guy say? I don't know. 2151 01:45:33,400 --> 01:45:35,960 All right, BT the ultimate question, what's the timeline on 2152 01:45:35,960 --> 01:45:39,160 when we can start calling in to mix it up with you? 2153 01:45:39,240 --> 01:45:41,200 That is, That is going to be next level right there when we 2154 01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:43,080 start taking the calls there. Yeah, no doubt. 2155 01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:46,840 Sauce 961, Entourage, a magical show from a different era. 2156 01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:49,000 I mean, the difference. By the way, I'll answer that 2157 01:45:49,000 --> 01:45:51,320 about the phones, not that I have a definitive answer. 2158 01:45:51,320 --> 01:45:55,920 I can give you a ballpark there. So Entourage was really one of 2159 01:45:55,920 --> 01:45:59,400 the certainly on HBOI know that Friends did it like Bruce 2160 01:45:59,400 --> 01:46:04,200 Willis, Tom Selleck. You know, you had a lot of guest 2161 01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:07,560 spots there on Friends, but they were the they were rolling out 2162 01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:10,560 these cameos which were wild on Entourage. 2163 01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:15,360 I and I could say I got to know that I got into The Sopranos 2164 01:46:15,400 --> 01:46:17,680 like immediately. My dad's like you got to watch 2165 01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:19,480 the show and eventually I got into it kind of quick. 2166 01:46:20,120 --> 01:46:23,800 I watched Entourage from day one, from day one. 2167 01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:25,320 Matter of fact, that's How I Met. 2168 01:46:25,360 --> 01:46:27,240 I got to get Jerry on the show and I definitely will. 2169 01:46:28,880 --> 01:46:32,320 It was, it was magical. And so I became pretty good 2170 01:46:32,320 --> 01:46:34,720 friends with Jerry. And The funny thing, Jerry 2171 01:46:34,720 --> 01:46:37,400 Ferrara, great guy, Brooklyn guy, Benson Hurst, big Knicks 2172 01:46:37,400 --> 01:46:40,000 fan, you know, Jerry, of course. And this is funny. 2173 01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:46,520 So I'm doing I'm doing the Nick pre and post and halftime show 2174 01:46:46,920 --> 01:46:50,200 that was on the radio back in the day. 2175 01:46:50,200 --> 01:46:52,640 There's like Marbury, Larry Brown, like that crew, right? 2176 01:46:53,080 --> 01:46:58,960 And the pre and the postgame show were also simulcast on TV 2177 01:46:59,040 --> 01:47:02,960 on MSG. So I'm doing the postgame show 2178 01:47:02,960 --> 01:47:05,240 from the old restaurant, play by play. 2179 01:47:05,560 --> 01:47:08,440 And if you remember that the old garden, right, Cosby's take the 2180 01:47:08,440 --> 01:47:10,160 escalator up there. Nice. 2181 01:47:10,160 --> 01:47:11,400 They had a little hoop in the back. 2182 01:47:11,400 --> 01:47:13,080 You could, you know, pop a shot, whatever it was. 2183 01:47:13,080 --> 01:47:17,040 And it was very, very, I mean, great memorabilia everywhere. 2184 01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:20,600 The only problem was it just was not set up for TV show. 2185 01:47:20,840 --> 01:47:24,040 There was no security. So like the drunks that were 2186 01:47:24,040 --> 01:47:25,760 trying. Oh God, it was, it was. 2187 01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:29,600 And the Knicks were awful. So there was either nobody there 2188 01:47:29,600 --> 01:47:32,840 or, you know, 9 disgruntled, pissed off Knicks fans who had 2189 01:47:32,840 --> 01:47:35,120 too many drinks, who were trying to infiltrate the show. 2190 01:47:35,480 --> 01:47:37,080 You want to talk about being on your toes? 2191 01:47:37,080 --> 01:47:40,240 Wow. And I remember 1. 2192 01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:42,000 And they would give me some players for sure. 2193 01:47:42,240 --> 01:47:45,080 But then once the season just got away from, none of the 2194 01:47:45,080 --> 01:47:47,280 players wanted to come on and get grilled about how much they 2195 01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:49,400 sucked. So they would say, oh, you know, 2196 01:47:49,520 --> 01:47:51,960 this model is at the game. You want to have Ron? 2197 01:47:51,960 --> 01:47:53,000 Sure. We'll have Ron. 2198 01:47:54,080 --> 01:47:57,000 This this actor is at the game. I'm sure we'll have mod. 2199 01:47:57,000 --> 01:47:59,440 Yeah, I'll have any. I I will take anybody. 2200 01:47:59,440 --> 01:48:04,360 I will take somebody from Section 212, you know, row B, 2201 01:48:04,560 --> 01:48:08,280 seat 17, because I have nothing else to say about the Knicks at 2202 01:48:08,280 --> 01:48:10,080 this point because they are so wretched. 2203 01:48:10,280 --> 01:48:12,840 Please give me somebody. And I remember the producer 2204 01:48:12,840 --> 01:48:17,000 coming up and saying, hey, I don't know if you know about the 2205 01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:19,080 show yet on HBO. Entourage. 2206 01:48:19,120 --> 01:48:20,480 I'm like, yeah, I love Entourage. 2207 01:48:20,480 --> 01:48:22,240 It's awesome. And it was year one. 2208 01:48:22,360 --> 01:48:25,400 It was the first year. So J Rod, some more homework. 2209 01:48:25,400 --> 01:48:26,920 I might be off on the year again here. 2210 01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:30,880 I feel like this was, oh, let me see, 04. 2211 01:48:31,160 --> 01:48:33,000 Can you check the first year of Entourage? 2212 01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:35,480 Please? Do that for me as as I'm then 2213 01:48:35,480 --> 01:48:37,040 just hop in when you have it. I think it was 04. 2214 01:48:37,040 --> 01:48:39,880 Certainly the 0304 whatever. Like, yeah, I love the show. 2215 01:48:40,120 --> 01:48:43,920 How do you not back then in real time, and I was a single, single 2216 01:48:43,920 --> 01:48:46,640 guy. If you're a single PO404, look 2217 01:48:46,640 --> 01:48:48,000 at this 04. Nailed it. 2218 01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:50,240 Thank you. How do you not love Entourage, 2219 01:48:50,480 --> 01:48:53,160 the music? I mean, just these whole 4 dudes 2220 01:48:53,160 --> 01:48:56,560 from Queens going out to LA, going to these parties and doing 2221 01:48:56,560 --> 01:48:58,520 Lord knows what was the best show of all time. 2222 01:48:58,760 --> 01:49:01,000 I loved it. So anyway, the producer, he 2223 01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:04,800 says, you know, this guy, Jerry's a Brooklyn guy, He's a 2224 01:49:04,800 --> 01:49:07,080 massive Nick fan. He's like, I think you guys will 2225 01:49:07,080 --> 01:49:08,120 hit it off. You want to have him on the 2226 01:49:08,120 --> 01:49:09,560 show? I'm like, yeah, again, I'll take 2227 01:49:09,560 --> 01:49:12,280 anybody. I'll take the guy flinging bags 2228 01:49:12,280 --> 01:49:13,960 of peanuts in the in the three hundreds. 2229 01:49:13,960 --> 01:49:16,120 Just give me somebody because there's no Nick coming on, 2230 01:49:16,120 --> 01:49:18,440 that's for sure. So anyway, he comes on and we 2231 01:49:18,440 --> 01:49:21,080 hit it off and we became really good friends. 2232 01:49:21,080 --> 01:49:25,280 And I've had him on my my old national show a few times. 2233 01:49:25,280 --> 01:49:28,120 Like with matter of fact, when Tiki was out, he Co hosted with 2234 01:49:28,120 --> 01:49:31,680 me a few times and you know, big Yankee, big Nick guy. 2235 01:49:31,680 --> 01:49:35,000 And I remember there I always joke with him like whenever he 2236 01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:37,080 texts something out or tweet something about Saint John's, 2237 01:49:37,080 --> 01:49:40,160 which is fairly infrequent, but he will once in a while. 2238 01:49:40,480 --> 01:49:46,640 There was an episode where his cousin was and they actually the 2239 01:49:46,640 --> 01:49:48,720 one of the critiques, they actually wrote it wrong. 2240 01:49:49,080 --> 01:49:52,760 But he I think it was Rocket a Felipe Lopez old school or 2241 01:49:52,760 --> 01:49:55,480 Ronald Ortez jersey, right. And you know here with Turtle 2242 01:49:55,480 --> 01:49:58,400 always have the jerseys. Johnny Damon, Jason John, be 2243 01:49:58,400 --> 01:50:02,240 like that era, all the Knicks stuff Marbury and he had a 2244 01:50:02,240 --> 01:50:05,720 Johnny's jersey on and he comes back and something like I don't 2245 01:50:05,720 --> 01:50:08,600 know where the conversation was, but it was something like, you 2246 01:50:08,600 --> 01:50:12,680 know, my, my, my cousin or my, my, my, my boys an agent for 2247 01:50:12,680 --> 01:50:14,680 Saint John's. He could get you this player. 2248 01:50:14,960 --> 01:50:17,200 Meanwhile, there there are no agents like now there are. 2249 01:50:17,200 --> 01:50:19,800 But it was it was actually one of the few technical mistakes 2250 01:50:19,920 --> 01:50:23,720 that that I found from a writing point of view in entourage. 2251 01:50:23,720 --> 01:50:27,480 So anytime he text or tweets tweets about the Johnnies, I 2252 01:50:27,480 --> 01:50:29,040 might pop in. I'm like, hey, how's your cousin 2253 01:50:29,040 --> 01:50:31,960 doing? Great guy and absolutely great 2254 01:50:31,960 --> 01:50:34,400 show. But that was you want to talk 2255 01:50:34,400 --> 01:50:39,160 about being on an island of misfit toys and just trying to 2256 01:50:39,200 --> 01:50:43,680 not drown as I didn't have any security. 2257 01:50:43,920 --> 01:50:46,520 It was wild. There was it was so bad. 2258 01:50:47,720 --> 01:50:50,480 It was so bad. I'm going to say this story for 2259 01:50:50,480 --> 01:50:51,880 another day because it's a long one. 2260 01:50:52,320 --> 01:50:58,440 It was so bad that they were putting contestant contestants 2261 01:50:58,440 --> 01:51:02,480 on the show like 1/2 time. Like some guy tries to chip, you 2262 01:51:02,480 --> 01:51:04,320 know, he's got, they give him a little wedge and he tries to 2263 01:51:04,320 --> 01:51:07,720 chip a little wiffle ball with a hole, you know, at the foul line 2264 01:51:07,720 --> 01:51:10,120 or midcourt. They're just giving me anything 2265 01:51:10,120 --> 01:51:12,400 just to keep the time moving. And I'm like my, and I was so 2266 01:51:12,400 --> 01:51:14,840 young and I was, so I didn't really know how to do TV yet. 2267 01:51:16,600 --> 01:51:18,240 And I enjoyed it. It was a disaster. 2268 01:51:18,240 --> 01:51:20,920 But then we got to a point and, and I'll, I'll again, I'll save 2269 01:51:20,920 --> 01:51:24,960 this story for another time. This one drunk dude comes on and 2270 01:51:25,080 --> 01:51:27,400 I actually thought we were going to get into a fight on the show. 2271 01:51:27,400 --> 01:51:30,520 It was, it was, it was bad. It was, it was being an ass. 2272 01:51:30,960 --> 01:51:32,720 And I'm like, all right, you got 2 choices here. 2273 01:51:32,720 --> 01:51:35,920 You're going to let this guy play you on MSG or you just 2274 01:51:35,920 --> 01:51:38,080 going to let him know what ain't going down? 2275 01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:40,120 Oh, man, J Ron, I was holding on for dear life. 2276 01:51:40,600 --> 01:51:44,000 I mean, no producer, nobody visible, no security, no fans, 2277 01:51:44,000 --> 01:51:46,600 team was terrible, no players wanted to come on. 2278 01:51:46,600 --> 01:51:48,760 Wow. And The funny thing about hold 2279 01:51:48,760 --> 01:51:52,680 on, The funny thing about that, I'm going to bring up my buddy 2280 01:51:52,680 --> 01:51:55,560 Don Le Greco, who is going to be on the show soon. 2281 01:51:55,680 --> 01:51:59,720 I'll tell you when. And Don, you see, we were both 2282 01:51:59,720 --> 01:52:04,520 at 10:50 at this point, and 10:50 at that point was the home 2283 01:52:04,520 --> 01:52:06,480 of the Knicks and the Rangers, right? 2284 01:52:07,080 --> 01:52:08,880 I guess they still are doing whatever. 2285 01:52:08,880 --> 01:52:14,160 I don't even know who's where. And that's when MSG approached 2286 01:52:14,440 --> 01:52:17,760 my former boss, Tim McCarthy, who's one of the best radio 2287 01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:20,120 executives and best people of all time. 2288 01:52:20,400 --> 01:52:22,280 Like, I've had a chance to work for some great people. 2289 01:52:22,520 --> 01:52:25,600 He's one of them. So is Chris Oliveiro, despite 2290 01:52:25,600 --> 01:52:27,760 what happened. I love Chris Gentleman. 2291 01:52:28,160 --> 01:52:30,960 Good man, great, great radio person. 2292 01:52:31,120 --> 01:52:33,640 So was McCarthy. Anyway, they approached McCarthy 2293 01:52:33,880 --> 01:52:36,400 and they say, hey, we want to do something where we want to 2294 01:52:36,400 --> 01:52:38,000 simulcast. We want to do something with the 2295 01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:39,080 Knicks and something with the Rangers. 2296 01:52:39,080 --> 01:52:42,240 And they identify the Greca obviously, to do the Rangers, 2297 01:52:42,240 --> 01:52:44,120 who's now doing the Devils, which is awesome because he's a 2298 01:52:44,120 --> 01:52:46,400 Devils fan and they wanted me to do the Knicks stuff. 2299 01:52:46,720 --> 01:52:49,760 Anyway, I'm like, yeah, I'm like, oh, it's going to mean a 2300 01:52:49,760 --> 01:52:52,160 few more bucks and more visibility and I'm like, this is 2301 01:52:52,160 --> 01:52:53,720 going to be fantastic. I'm all in. 2302 01:52:54,040 --> 01:52:58,160 The funny thing was the Ranger season starts 1st and it was 2303 01:52:58,160 --> 01:53:00,600 only for home games and I don't even think it was on the 2304 01:53:00,600 --> 01:53:02,120 weekend. I think we just during the week, 2305 01:53:02,120 --> 01:53:07,080 if I if I recollect correctly. So I'm sitting in my apartment 2306 01:53:07,400 --> 01:53:11,320 and it and Le Greg is going on 1st and I'm, I just remember 2307 01:53:11,320 --> 01:53:16,240 saying thank God he's the Guinea pig because that was a shit 2308 01:53:16,240 --> 01:53:18,520 show. You had like there was, it 2309 01:53:18,520 --> 01:53:21,080 wasn't ATV studio. So there's just people want it 2310 01:53:21,080 --> 01:53:23,960 was the bar. So people wandering by, you 2311 01:53:24,160 --> 01:53:26,320 know, paper flying across the room. 2312 01:53:26,720 --> 01:53:29,440 You know, when you do TTV and there's all these cameras and 2313 01:53:29,440 --> 01:53:32,480 these lights on you, you generally want the studio to be 2314 01:53:32,480 --> 01:53:35,920 a little colder. Otherwise you sweat and they 2315 01:53:35,920 --> 01:53:38,360 didn't have that and you just getting banged with these 2316 01:53:38,360 --> 01:53:40,000 lights. Aye, aye, aye. 2317 01:53:40,440 --> 01:53:43,160 And I just remember sitting there on my couch, I'm like, 2318 01:53:43,160 --> 01:53:46,640 thank God it's him, and thank God he's going first and not me 2319 01:53:46,640 --> 01:53:49,600 because he's the he did fine. Yeah, he did well. 2320 01:53:49,600 --> 01:53:51,080 He's a talented guy. He's a great guy. 2321 01:53:51,080 --> 01:53:52,320 Looking forward to having done on. 2322 01:53:52,640 --> 01:53:55,040 But man, oh, man, think about. That's 20. 2323 01:53:55,560 --> 01:53:59,800 Jesus, that's 20/21/2023 years ago, my God. 2324 01:54:01,480 --> 01:54:03,720 So anyway, that'll just about wrap it up. 2325 01:54:03,720 --> 01:54:05,080 J Rod. Did I miss anything today, 2326 01:54:05,080 --> 01:54:06,040 buddy? Anything. 2327 01:54:06,280 --> 01:54:10,240 I'm not seeing anything. I mean, hit, hit Super Bowl, hit 2328 01:54:10,240 --> 01:54:12,000 Nicks, hit St. John's. 2329 01:54:12,080 --> 01:54:14,280 I think we got, I think we got it all. 2330 01:54:14,280 --> 01:54:17,240 Hit the Yanks a little bit, hit the Mets one through 9. 2331 01:54:18,200 --> 01:54:20,120 We're looking good. Hey, we are looking pretty good. 2332 01:54:20,120 --> 01:54:22,200 That little MET thing was fun. I like this is always a fun 2333 01:54:22,240 --> 01:54:23,200 question. Let me hit this up. 2334 01:54:23,200 --> 01:54:25,720 Hey always an answer on oh that was the question. 2335 01:54:25,920 --> 01:54:27,240 Oh well, I didn't think about it much. 2336 01:54:28,640 --> 01:54:31,880 You owe us an answer as to who was your most enjoyable, 2337 01:54:31,880 --> 01:54:34,320 informative athlete that I've ever interviewed. 2338 01:54:34,760 --> 01:54:38,680 Listen, it's a long list and I don't mean that in an arrogant 2339 01:54:38,680 --> 01:54:40,720 way. I've been very lucky to, to 2340 01:54:40,720 --> 01:54:45,360 interview, I mean, just almost everybody that I've ever wanted 2341 01:54:45,360 --> 01:54:48,640 to or you know, many of the luminaries, Super Bowl winning 2342 01:54:48,640 --> 01:54:50,920 quarterbacks. I, I would love to talk to Tiger 2343 01:54:50,920 --> 01:54:52,920 Woods if he's going to really be open. 2344 01:54:53,280 --> 01:54:54,680 I think that would be, which he won't be. 2345 01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:56,120 I think that would be fascinating. 2346 01:54:56,120 --> 01:54:59,800 I love to sit down and like for an hour, kick it with Phil 2347 01:54:59,800 --> 01:55:04,280 Mickelson, who would be open. I don't know if this is my 2348 01:55:04,280 --> 01:55:08,640 answer, but Jack Nicholas was one that jumped out as just when 2349 01:55:08,640 --> 01:55:10,600 I was just really started really get into golf. 2350 01:55:10,600 --> 01:55:14,600 I remember this is probably about I was probably playing 2351 01:55:14,600 --> 01:55:18,080 golf for a couple years, 2000 and two, 2003, something like 2352 01:55:18,080 --> 01:55:20,720 that. The great Jack Nicholas getting 2353 01:55:20,720 --> 01:55:23,320 a chance to have Alex Rodriguez on for a few times that that's 2354 01:55:23,320 --> 01:55:26,520 been really good. Listen to me, I'm not when I 2355 01:55:26,520 --> 01:55:29,680 look at interviews, to me, I don't think the right word is an 2356 01:55:29,680 --> 01:55:31,880 interview. I mean, everybody says it to me. 2357 01:55:31,880 --> 01:55:35,760 It's a conversation because I, I think the art of, and I'll say 2358 01:55:35,760 --> 01:55:38,840 it now of interviewing somebody is getting them to be 2359 01:55:38,840 --> 01:55:42,640 comfortable enough to, to be able to open up and have a 2360 01:55:42,640 --> 01:55:44,600 conversation. Because when you're sitting 2361 01:55:44,600 --> 01:55:46,960 there just conversing with somebody, generally that that's 2362 01:55:46,960 --> 01:55:49,560 when the guard goes down. And generally that's when you 2363 01:55:49,560 --> 01:55:51,120 get your best stuff. And I take a lot of pride in 2364 01:55:51,120 --> 01:55:53,360 that. And you know, I, I remember I 2365 01:55:53,360 --> 01:55:55,800 told you guys the story with Herm Edwards back in the day. 2366 01:55:56,240 --> 01:55:59,720 You know, I've obviously evolved from this, but when you were a 2367 01:55:59,720 --> 01:56:02,080 young broadcaster and you get you get somebody on the show, 2368 01:56:02,360 --> 01:56:04,040 you're like, I, I got to get the answer. 2369 01:56:04,400 --> 01:56:05,800 I got to get, you know, I got to get some juice. 2370 01:56:05,800 --> 01:56:07,400 I got to make some headlines. I got to make it a little 2371 01:56:07,400 --> 01:56:09,440 combative. You know, like, can you go in 2372 01:56:09,440 --> 01:56:12,160 there with this predisposed notion of how to do a show or 2373 01:56:12,160 --> 01:56:15,560 how to or how to do that conversation and you learn from 2374 01:56:15,560 --> 01:56:16,760 it. You make some mistakes along the 2375 01:56:16,760 --> 01:56:20,200 way, which I certainly did. But you know, if you just go 2376 01:56:20,200 --> 01:56:24,760 right bang, like right for that hit piece, the guy or, or the 2377 01:56:24,760 --> 01:56:26,920 gal, the subject that you're interviewing and, and, and 2378 01:56:26,920 --> 01:56:30,880 talking to automatically guard goes up, guard goes up. 2379 01:56:31,000 --> 01:56:33,840 And once the guard goes up, you're not allowing yourself to 2380 01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:36,200 relax. And when you're not relaxed, 2381 01:56:36,200 --> 01:56:39,280 you're, you're generally not, you know, basically the art of 2382 01:56:39,320 --> 01:56:42,600 of the interview is making somebody seem as if feel as if 2383 01:56:42,600 --> 01:56:45,320 they're not getting interviewed, just have a conversation. 2384 01:56:45,720 --> 01:56:49,040 And it's not being, you know, distributed on the radio and all 2385 01:56:49,040 --> 01:56:53,080 the other platforms. Obviously this and a podcast for 2386 01:56:53,080 --> 01:56:55,680 the entire world to disseminate what you just said. 2387 01:56:56,040 --> 01:56:58,880 It's not we're just talking, we're talking shop, we're having 2388 01:56:58,880 --> 01:57:01,840 a conversation. And that is one thing I'm going 2389 01:57:01,840 --> 01:57:04,320 to wrap it up with this. I am really among many things 2390 01:57:04,720 --> 01:57:07,320 really looking forward to doing with this channel. 2391 01:57:07,760 --> 01:57:09,080 I think that's going to be great. 2392 01:57:09,080 --> 01:57:12,640 And my objective here, because I'm just obviously go live every 2393 01:57:12,640 --> 01:57:15,800 day, just do the show and react to what I want to react to react 2394 01:57:15,800 --> 01:57:17,240 to what's pertinent, react to what's hot. 2395 01:57:17,240 --> 01:57:21,000 But I, I very rarely will do an interview in this slot. 2396 01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:23,560 What I'm going to do is I'm probably going to record them. 2397 01:57:23,560 --> 01:57:25,520 So I'm going to have to work around some schedules, right? 2398 01:57:25,920 --> 01:57:28,160 And I'm going to drop it as different content. 2399 01:57:28,200 --> 01:57:30,240 And you know, it's going to be about an hour. 2400 01:57:30,720 --> 01:57:32,920 And I already told you, like I've already reached out. 2401 01:57:32,920 --> 01:57:35,360 I've got a whole list here. One of those, one of the things 2402 01:57:35,360 --> 01:57:38,160 on the, on the legal pad is all these people that I'm targeting, 2403 01:57:38,480 --> 01:57:41,320 you know, many of, of whom have already said yes, like we're 2404 01:57:41,320 --> 01:57:44,280 going to sit down. I'm going to sit down with 2405 01:57:44,280 --> 01:57:46,960 Stephen A and I'm going to, hey, pour yourself a glass of wine, 2406 01:57:46,960 --> 01:57:49,360 dude, I'm doing the same thing. Or I'm pouring a little Scotch 2407 01:57:49,360 --> 01:57:51,040 and we're going to just shoot the breeze. 2408 01:57:51,040 --> 01:57:52,880 Let's go. Michael Kay, same thing. 2409 01:57:52,880 --> 01:57:55,400 Donald Gregg, same thing. Alex, same thing. 2410 01:57:55,560 --> 01:57:58,160 Boonie, same thing. Rick Pitino, same thing. 2411 01:57:58,520 --> 01:58:00,680 So it's that I can't wait for that. 2412 01:58:00,920 --> 01:58:05,040 I had Salon, that was a blast. We had a lot of fun and once the 2413 01:58:05,040 --> 01:58:08,280 studio was done, and I know it seems like a broken record, but 2414 01:58:08,280 --> 01:58:10,960 it's printed and it's going to be set up either Thursday or 2415 01:58:10,960 --> 01:58:13,720 Friday. Now you'll start to see a new 2416 01:58:13,720 --> 01:58:17,880 wave of content that will not be live that I will record so I can 2417 01:58:17,880 --> 01:58:20,480 work around all these schedules. And listen, it might have been 2418 01:58:20,480 --> 01:58:23,680 somebody like, I don't want to just start throwing names out 2419 01:58:23,680 --> 01:58:25,920 without getting them to consent to come on the show here. 2420 01:58:25,920 --> 01:58:28,880 But you know, somebody from MLB Network that I didn't. 2421 01:58:29,000 --> 01:58:31,920 I think I'll throw this name out there like Derosa. 2422 01:58:31,960 --> 01:58:34,480 I just want to get him on a talk hit and talk shop and and go 2423 01:58:34,480 --> 01:58:38,560 through, you know, guys in New York go through Volpee swing, go 2424 01:58:38,560 --> 01:58:41,400 through a Brett Beatty swing, go through some of the younger 2425 01:58:41,400 --> 01:58:44,560 players and go through some of the they can't let him tell us 2426 01:58:44,720 --> 01:58:47,120 what he's seeing and just shoot the breeze. 2427 01:58:47,120 --> 01:58:49,200 And I think it's going to be awesome and you guys are really 2428 01:58:49,200 --> 01:58:52,240 going to enjoy that and that's coming really soon. 2429 01:58:52,240 --> 01:58:55,840 So with that being said, hey, make sure you guys like this, 2430 01:58:55,840 --> 01:58:57,880 make sure you guys subscribe this, make sure you guys get 2431 01:58:57,880 --> 01:58:59,760 that traction going out there digitally. 2432 01:58:59,960 --> 01:59:03,720 The more you do that, the more I can do, the more Subs we get. 2433 01:59:03,720 --> 01:59:06,560 You know the deal, we're knocking on the door, 16,000 may 2434 01:59:06,560 --> 01:59:09,920 may already be there. And my target for the end of 2435 01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:13,480 February, we got to get going on this is 20 and then from 20, 2436 01:59:13,480 --> 01:59:16,800 want to get to 25 and just keep going and keep going and keep 2437 01:59:16,800 --> 01:59:19,600 going. So again, Super Bowl is over, 2438 01:59:19,640 --> 01:59:22,840 baseball season is here, I'm happy for Sam Darnold. 2439 01:59:23,040 --> 01:59:24,600 McDonald's a hell of a young coach. 2440 01:59:24,600 --> 01:59:27,920 So is Rabel, Drake, Mays going to be around for a long time. 2441 01:59:27,920 --> 01:59:29,720 Got to respect the Pats even though they didn't play well 2442 01:59:29,720 --> 01:59:31,960 last night. You know, the commercials, the 2443 01:59:31,960 --> 01:59:35,520 Bunny, the turning point, you know, watch what you want, do 2444 01:59:35,520 --> 01:59:37,720 what you do, and hopefully you enjoyed it. 2445 01:59:37,720 --> 01:59:40,800 But it was an awful game. It really was. 2446 01:59:40,800 --> 01:59:45,080 It just languished on. And now that it's over, we moved 2447 01:59:45,080 --> 01:59:46,760 to the other stuff. And the other stuff is obviously 2448 01:59:46,760 --> 01:59:49,400 the start of the baseball season, the continuation of 2449 01:59:49,400 --> 01:59:51,800 Saint John's eventually March Madness, not just Saint John's 2450 01:59:51,800 --> 01:59:55,880 March Madness. Obviously the NFL draft is going 2451 01:59:55,880 --> 01:59:59,680 to be huge in terms of guests and content on the show. 2452 01:59:59,680 --> 02:00:02,200 So I appreciate you guys. Good luck to Saint John's 2453 02:00:02,200 --> 02:00:04,600 tonight playing against Xavier with the Gardens 630 tip. 2454 02:00:05,320 --> 02:00:06,680 Like the poll, just don't stumble. 2455 02:00:06,680 --> 02:00:08,520 You don't got to beat him by 20. Just beat him. 2456 02:00:08,520 --> 02:00:11,920 Just keep the train moving. And J Rod, hold me to it. 2457 02:00:12,240 --> 02:00:15,520 I'm going to say 15 or 16. That's where St. 2458 02:00:15,520 --> 02:00:18,000 John's will be ranked when it comes out in about an hour. 2459 02:00:18,000 --> 02:00:19,720 That's where the AP polls going to drop. 2460 02:00:19,720 --> 02:00:23,040 So enjoy the rest of your Monday again, like it, subscribe it, 2461 02:00:23,040 --> 02:00:25,560 get it out there, hype it up. All the stuff that you guys do. 2462 02:00:25,800 --> 02:00:28,320 I appreciate you know that. Have an awesome Monday. 2463 02:00:28,320 --> 02:00:31,280 See you tomorrow at 10 right here on Unleashed. 2464 02:00:31,840 --> 02:00:33,320 This is unleashed. Are you listening? 2465 02:00:33,400 --> 02:00:33,960 Can you hear me?