Let's go, baby. This is what we've been waiting
on. What's going on, everybody?
BT Unleashed draft day is finally upon us.
Everybody feeling good, Everybody's got a shot,
Everybody's optimistic. I think it's going to be an
absolutely bonkers kind of a night with trades, massive
trades, a lot of activity. And really what I think is still
interesting about the draft here, guys, is that there's
still a pretty good amount of intrigue.
So in terms of like what, what did The Jets do with two
starting right there? You know, even the Giants at 5,
the Giants at 10 trades, as I mentioned, so ready to roll
Yankees. Yankees were officially hot,
though the Mets streak is over. But that's the good news.
The bad news when doors hurt. I want to react to some comments
that a couple of Mets made Pistons with a big win last
night, Knicks, Hawks tonight. All right, it is time.
I am been been waiting for the show man.
It has been like crawling here J Rod.
We have been dissecting this draft from every conceivable
angle and here we are. So I hope hopefully you're as
fired up as I am. I'm.
Hyped up? No, it's crazy.
I was looking at like some of like the media assets we have.
We've been covering this draft since you did the Big East
tournament video on your old time lineup.
It has months in the making. Yeah, that's true.
We're. Excited.
Yeah, I hadn't thought about it that way, but now that you
mentioned that, that that is a point of reference.
You're right. I remember getting into it
really early, as I usually do. All right, let's start the show.
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So we have known for months what the Raiders will do.
There's been a ton of speculation, a lot of
vacillation, you know, back and forth what The Jets will do with
#2 So let me at least start with that.
You know, listen, I, I mean, it seems I think it'll take Bailey.
I wouldn't take Bailey. I'm not even sure that I would
take Reese. Of the two, I would take Reese.
You know, I've said for a while I want to see The Jets find a
trading partner. But obviously you can't trade
with yourself. The thing that's odd about this,
and I didn't make a big deal about it last week.
Some of you did when when The Jets canceled that top 30 visit
with Bailey from Texas Tech. And, you know, I thought maybe
maybe it's a logistical thing. Maybe they've got their Intel.
They feel secure with the pick. He's the guy.
Or conversely, he's not the guy. Where all right, well, we did
our due diligence and we just love Reese and we met with him
and we're going to we're going to draft him.
So why play the charade? My only critique was, you know,
I thought The Jets should have played the game a little bit
longer. Again, you not not that you can
force somebody to make a trade with you, but the more that
you're sending out signals and signs of wow, we could do this
and that maybe we could do that, but but also maybe we can be
enticed to trade this. Like I I don't know why they I
don't know why they did that right?
And it's really not a big deal. So I don't want to and I didn't
make a big deal out of it. But what I don't get, I saw
David Bailey yesterday, All right, some of his comments and,
you know, obviously asked about the cancellation of the top 30
visit. Again, no big deal.
But there were a couple of things that he said that
absolutely jumped out like there was no facility visit, did not
meet the coaching staff and actually called, you know,
Darren Mooji by the wrong name. So it, it, it does.
And I don't want to even feed into this because he very well
might be a * And I know that he got a very high character rating
from from Frank Reich, who had him when Frank was at Stanford.
I remember last year Frank took over as the as the interim head
coach and then he went to The Jets.
But the year before that, David Bailey was at Stanford.
So there's obviously great familiarity there.
And he is a really checks all the boxes in terms of character.
So I like I, I don't, I'm, I'm, I'm not even like, I'm not
trying to present this confusion.
I think that The Jets have a really good solid plan.
I think that they, you know, I, I would hope that they're, that
their board is very buttoned up, you know, that their GM is
anything but a verse in terms of making trades.
He loves it, He's proactive. So if something presents itself
tonight that makes sense, The Jets will absolutely pull the
trigger and make a trade. But it's, you know, if if and,
and I'm kind of expecting to hear David Bailey's name
tonight. If and when we hear David Bailey
and and it doesn't work if it doesn't work out.
Those comments yesterday, just more fuel to crown The Jets
again. Never in the building, never saw
the facility, never really met the coaching staff and did not
get Darren Moochie's name right. Not exactly.
You know, I can understand if it's like the 129th pick and you
know, you already have your top 30 picks and there's a guy that
you watch film on, but you never really met with him, you know, a
corner or you know, an interior offensive lineman that you
didn't think will necessarily be there when you were drafting.
This is the second overall pick of the draft man, by the way.
I, I, I, I don't know, I don't know.
So hopefully The Jets nail it. Everybody should feel good about
the prospects going into the draft tonight, because if you
don't, then what in the world do you even a sports fan for?
Like, it's one thing once the season starts to get wrapped up
in misery, if you're a fan of a certain team, but the the great
thing about the draft is that, you know, it always represents
hope and possibility and optimism.
And the other thing that this NFL trip, particularly, I think
this one tonight, it's going to represent trades and it's going
to just be, I think it's going to be wild tonight.
I'm looking at this right. And I'm sure I'm, I'm omitting
some teams unintentionally, but in terms of teams that that I
expect to actively engage in trade talk and or pull the
trigger and make a trade, I could see the Giants trading
five. I can see the Giants trade to
get 10. I don't think The Jets will
trade out of two, but I, I almost expect them to trade out
of 16. I think the commanders who have
been linked to The Jets for the receiver and other teams, I
think the commanders at 7 are a team that you obviously have to
keep an eye on their Dallas. You know, the Dallas is looking
to do some business and get some defenders right.
So there were 12 and 20. You know, whether it's Ruben
Bane, you know, whether it's a Sonny Styles, whether it's a
Caleb Downs, I don't think the Downs would fall that far to 12,
but you never know. I think that the Rams at 13, as
they tap into the receiver market, I think the Rams will be
very aggressive. They're always aggressive
anyway. I think the Cardinals.
Is this something else we've talked about here on the show
where there's a thought, you know, whether it's a trade with
the Dolphins at some point back in first round, you know, the
Cardinals, we'll see what they do with three.
They will probably pick whomever The Jets don't pick.
Jets go Bailey, Cards probably go Reese.
Jets go Reese, Cards probably go Bailey.
I think there's an outside shot. They go Jeremiah Love, although
I think that that's more probable for the Tennessee
Titans at four. I think that there's an outside
shot like the Cardinals should be looking at offensive tackle,
but I feel like they're not going to do that.
I don't think you'll see a styles or or downs.
You won't see a receiver three, you know, and then you start
getting into that 456 territory. The Browns are interesting,
maybe online, maybe receiver, maybe defense.
It's just going to be fun And and and I've looked at really to
me, because there's no real intrigue with the quarterbacks.
Obviously Simpson the only one that that that I believe will
squeeze into the back end of the first round, obviously outside
of Mendoza. But like you look at the names
that are going to shape this right?
And part of it is because, you know, they're sexy positions and
they had big workouts and they play at big schools.
But I really think the most juice, the most juice, the most
intrigued tonight for me going into this is who's going to take
Jeremiah Love and where is he going to go?
Who's going to take Sonny Styles off the great workout?
Where is he going to go? Who's going to take Caleb Downs
a safety, which is not a position that's generally sought
after that highly. Who's taking him?
Where is he going? And then obviously the big theme
for the first round is how does the wide receiver market shape
up? And also Sadiq, you know who
take for me to who takes Kenyan Sadiq?
I saw somebody's mock today and they had them going 19.
I don't think there's any chance.
Kenyan Sadiq from Oregon, you know, the 64 tight end who runs
A440A4. Yeah, 4440, you know, 250 runs
like the wind catch radius. So you name it, this guy's got
it. Boy, if he falls to 19, I would
be I would be absolutely stunned.
And if he's still around at that part of the draft, that's when
you're probably going to see even more unexpected trade
activity because there's going to be teams that want to get
their hands on him at that junk through the draft.
So it is finally here. I cannot wait.
You know, I know that they condense the time between picks.
Thank God. And and J Rod, we'll discuss in
a little bit how you and I are going to what going to do for a
little live coverage here tonight.
We're going to be juggling a little bit.
There we go. We're going to fire this thing
up live. A little draft, a Little Mix, a
little watch party. So.
I didn't even know, are you springing this on me?
Well, let's. Go, let's do it.
Wait, I'm excited. That'll be.
Fun mentioned it, Jay. I mentioned it during the show.
You did. I mentioned it.
Well, you know, you've been so busy with all the callers, you
know, working that. There we go.
Well, I'm excited then. Wait, let's go.
Yeah, that'll be super fun. Yeah, yeah, we'll figure it out.
We'll let everybody know on social what what time we're
going to do do that. Well yo, my guy Jake, Jake is
out there in Pittsburgh. Jake, what's going on brother?
Alright, draft day BT Mooji magic Knicks bowl Yankees
looking good as well there. Let's go.
Jake is my guy. I do The Jets collective with
Jake and he is out there. He's doing a a big party tonight
at Mcfaddens. So I think he rolled into the
Steel City yesterday because I saw a lot of good he he put his
producer to work. He was out there, He talked to
Bailey, talked to Reese, He was getting some interviews.
So the Jake show, the Jake Aspen show is out there and boots on
the ground. Great jet content with me and
rich and and obviously Jake. So Jake first one on the show
today and the how about the old school throwback man?
This is an old one right here. I have had this shirt for a long
time. Jay, you like this, you got to
like this. Absolutely Let's go.
I always. It's cool because it's like one
of the, you know, it's like a vintage kind of tea.
You know, it's something someone my age would definitely be.
And it's like really soft. It's not like that cheap, like
stiff cardboard T-shirt that they hand out at games when they
fire them into the crowd. This thing is pliable.
It's almost like silk. I love the shirt.
Man, Oh yeah, I know exactly the.
Kind, you know what I'm saying? I almost rocked the jersey
today. I almost put on a jersey.
I almost put on a Jets jersey, dude.
If I had my Patriots Cam Newton with me, I totally.
Cam Newton, come on. Got it for me for Christmas.
Like, you know, 2021. Yeah, yeah.
But no Jacoby percent, no Jimmy. Jimmy Garoppolo.
Jerseys there. I have a Garoppolo from when I
was a kid. Dude, do you really?
I was like an absolute child. Yeah, him and Wes Welker was.
My I love Wes, no Wes, he was my beast man All right, well, Wes
Wilson, Wes is a little more acceptable at Armand is amazing.
SBT did The Jets trade up or trade back from pick #16 You
know, I'm not trying to be evasive there, but I really,
really have to see what happens with the board in front of them.
Hey, do me a favor there Jay, get up that jets collective mock
draft that we did the other day. Now I am still getting shredded
for my pickets. I made the picket 16 and I got
to admit, the more I think about this, I probably whiffed on
this, but I, I do like conception quite a bit.
Maybe I overthought this. Not that I was not looking for
clicks, I promise, but there is a good chance that I, that I
overthought this or tried to be the smartest guy in the room.
You know, if we were to redo this today, and I'd probably
still take them, but I, I might have to swallow hard.
All right, so look at this, right?
This was from the other night and I had the first pick and
then Rich went to Jake win 3 and then so on and so forth.
So then it was back-to-back to back to me.
Yeah, back to me and then back to Rich and then Jake had six
etcetera. I mean, to me and yeah, I got a
lot of heat. Number one, I understand what
the Giants did with with likely in the offseason.
I don't understand how Giant fans just they, they couldn't
like they look at that pic for for Sadiq at #10 they're like,
what are you doing? What am I doing?
I'm trying to get your young potential future franchise
quarterback another weapon. And I happen to think that Sadiq
is going to be better than these receivers.
That's what I'm doing. Like you could I one thing that
I have to laugh at, you can keep it up, Jay.
One thing that you can keep it up.
Thank you. One thing that I have to laugh
at is the definitive takes. Now, I don't mean like the
definitive takes like hey, I'm going to take this guy.
I don't mean that. I mean when you and I laugh at
it because I've done it in the past as well.
So I'm not immune to this. But why, when you sit there and
you criticize a pic and you were so definitive and so
demonstratively, you know, locked in and just where where
you can't even have the conversation about the direction
of a prospect. How the hell do you know, like
if there was a scoreboard, think about this.
If there was a scoreboard for Mel Kiper and respect, that's
not a knock. I mean, Mel has turned this into
an empire first one, guys like Mel and you know, Jeremiah and
you know, Schrager, who's got a very reputable draft.
I mean, if if you were to go through all of their assertions
over the years, is anybody hitting better than 50%?
And like, I don't mean what what I mean by that is I don't mean
identifying what a team's going to do.
Like everybody knows Mendoza's going first, then we all have a
pretty good sense of at least two names The Jets will take it
to. So it's not that hard.
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about people looking
into a camera. You can get me back on camera,
Jay, looking into a camera, right?
And them espousing so powerfully that this guy's going to be a
superstar. Like you watch the combine, you
watch the corners running and all the swivel hips and look at
the explosion, look at the catch radius.
Look at this, look at the the gauntlet, the gauntlet drill.
And then the guys, you know, 2-3 years into his career, you know,
late first round wide receiver, 24 catches, 1 touchdown, 312
yards. It really is just all a bunch of
nonsense at the end of the day. So I don't pretend to know more
than you know more than everybody.
I certainly know more than some because it's my job.
But I mean, this is all a massive extrapolation of what I
think teams will do, what I think they need to do, and then
what I think a players projection ultimately will be.
And you want talk about throwing darts.
It's not just a projection, but then it's also you're trying to
read the minds of multiple people inside of a building,
which is not easy. So I don't I don't take this
seriously in terms of being right.
Oh, you said this team was going to draft a wide receiver.
Oh, they went offensive line. Oh, you banish the channel.
You know, let's clown him on Twitter.
It is what it is. It's one big, fun game that
really passes time until the NFL season actually starts.
And it is awesome. And I love what they've done.
And listen, I'm a New York guy. I mean, anything that can bring
money to the city I'm all for. But what are the best decisions?
And I crush the NFL because I think they're greedy slobs with
so much stuff. You know, whether it's playing
on Christmas Day or, you know, basically every night there's a
game, you know, Sunday night, Monday, Thursday, you know,
Saturday, December, you know, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day,
the other day, the other night, the night game on Thanksgiving.
Like, there's just no end. They go to Mexico, go to
Germany, go to London. I color rush uniforms, this
that. It's insane what they do to us,
right? And like zombies, we just keep,
you know, clicking that card or or slap and Venmo or whatever.
However you PayPal whatever you doing.
Yep, I'll take the jersey. Yep, I'll pay the PSL.
Yep, I'll pay 100 bucks for parking to go watch The Jets and
the Browns in the rain like I did last year.
Sure, a beer is how much? 18 bucks?
That sounds like a steal. I'm thirsty.
Click, click, swipe, swipe. We're idiots.
We're zombies. We're morons.
We're dopes. We are beholden to the greatness
and the great spectacle that the NFL is, right?
And I love it, but I knock it a lot.
But I love what they've done, taking the draft and bouncing
around and going to different venues.
It's worked out well. Green Bay was rocking, Philly
was rocking, Detroit was rocking.
I know the weather is great today.
It's beautiful here in the Northeast.
So I was watching some of the NFL Network.
I had a ESPN on and they were, you know, already out in the
streets and the weather looks fantastic.
So we've got a really, really fun night here.
And I guarantee there's gonna this one thing I'll guarantee
it's gonna be a ton of trades. I mean, over under trades, not
counting the Dexter Lawrence, if I had to say 4 1/2 or so, I'm
going over, I would say first and second round, first round
trades over 4 1/2. I'll stick with that.
Let me get. That's generous.
Thank you very much. You don't have to do that man JJ
JJ so oh super set. There you go.
BT maybe I have Jets PTSD but this quarterback situation
terrifies me. I'm not saying Simpson.
I hope you're not saying Simpson at 2:00, but who, who are we to
pass on a quarterback so easily at 16?
How do we know where we land in the 27th draft if we missed #1
and 27, then we settle on the number 2 with the number 3
prospect. Keep that up there.
Want to make sure gets a lot of love there.
Thank you for that. A couple things let me unpack
here. All right, the PTSD, I can't
help you with that. I get it, I try to plow through
it. Otherwise I'll just be
inherently miserable, and I try not to be.
You know how I feel about The Jets.
I love them. I bury him as much as anybody
when they've got to be buried. But I try to skew optimistically
because I'm more optimistically wired than pessimistically #1
All right, Obviously not taking Simpson, the 2.
Who are we to pass so easily at 16?
Well, number one, they haven't passed yet #1 #2 how do we know
that? You know, we don't.
We don't know what they're thinking at 16.
They might be playing possum. They a wide receiver, wide
receiver, wide receiver, wide receiver, wide receiver.
Oh, Simpson, you know that there's a game to this guys.
There's a rhythm to this. There's a dance to this that,
you know, separates the great franchises, which is what The
Jets and others, the Browns and the Titans and the Cardinals and
the Giants again are spend many others are the Dolphins are
aspiring to get to the Raiders, right?
And it's not just that you win games.
I mean, to win games, think about what has to happen to win
games regularly, 12/13 games, win divisions, you know, win
multiple playoff games, flirt with a Super Bowl, get to a
Super Bowl, win a Super Bowl #1 you've got to have good
ownership. You've got to have a savvy,
sound GM. You've got to have a winning
coach. You got to have a quarterback.
You got to have it all line. You've got to make shrewd moves
in terms of the salary cap. And you got to hit on middle
round stuff, You know, backup tight ends, backup corners.
You got to know when to let somebody walk like a big money
guy like Dexter. I think the Giants did the right
thing. And that's one of the reasons
why I think the Giants are back on track to eventually becoming
the Giants again. It's it's not to disparage
Dexter Lawrence. You know, even during a down the
year, he's still one of the best interior alignment of football
And what he's absolutely right. He could cook anybody.
He might be 1 and if he's not one, he's 2.
But you know, he's lost a lot. Kind of like Quentin Williams
with The Jets, the Bengals, for whatever reason, well, probably
you pacified Joe Burrow and give him a chance to win, gave you
the number 10 overall pick. You weren't going to pay him,
You know, I mean, there was no more guaranteed money left on
the contract. He was going to be a sour puss
if he was even in the building. So it was a shrewd, aggressive,
bold move for the Giants, but also, I think for Sensei.
So the point is to get to where we want The Jets or those other
teams that are mired in this elongated funk.
What's got to happen is those seven or eight nine things that
I think that you got to be healthy and a little bit lucky.
I mean I could go on and on, but those things have to line up and
the fact that we haven't really heard pro or negative or we
still didn't even know what the hell they're doing it too.
I mean the odds fluctuate Reese up that it's barely up the
markets change. It's even you know, plus 155
barely. I they are just doing a good job
of comporting themselves like an actual you ready an actual NFL
franchise. That's actually what they're
doing. And then you know your point
about, you know what's going to happen in 2027.
I get it. You can get that down.
Thank you again. Awesome that you didn't have to
do that. You didn't have to do that.
Thank you. But like even what what are the
concerns for The Jets is like say we say with Geno Smith,
right. So let's just say, given the old
line for The Jets, which you know, I really love, I mean, the
defense can't be worse. Jesus.
I mean it's it's it's going to be better.
They brought some run stuffers in.
You got Fitzpatrick. You you'll draft somebody
tonight. It's going to be at least be
better. Not say it's going to be good,
but it's going to it's not going to be the worst point disparity.
It like it wasn't December in the history of the National
Football League, not just The Jets history in the entire NFL.
So it's going to be better and then you know you're going to
have Garrett Wilson, hopefully healthy and breeze Hall and
Braylon Allen and a good old line, as I said, and you know, a
more veteran ish Mason Taylor and a much better quarterback.
Not that he's a star, but he ain't Brady cook, that's for
sure. And he's not Justin Fields,
that's for sure. So I, I guess the delicate dance
here for The Jets is like, OK, well, Gino and the other pieces
obviously are not there in place to be good enough to actually
win anything of significance. So is it detrimental to the
franchise? Let's just say The Jets go.
And this might be overly ambitious.
I've got to look at the schedule, which I don't have
yet. None of us do.
You know, let's say The Jets go 7 and 10.
I'm not saying that I'm, I'm predicting that I would probably
go maybe 6:00 and 11:00, whatever.
But let's say they go 7:00 and 10:00.
Well, now, I mean, if you're 7 and 10, you're picking more in
that 8 to 12 territory because those first 3456 picks are all
three, four, two or two 3-4 win teams.
So if that's the case, if you're in the neighborhood of say 8 to
12 or 8 to 13 in the draft, you're not going to get that top
quarterback, which I understand, but that's where the three first
round picks come into play. And it also like, think about
this, like just say the Raiders roll with Mendoza and the
Raiders stink, which they probably will, right?
And the Raiders go 3 and 14 and they have the second pick.
Well, the Raiders aren't taking a quarterback.
So what the Raiders could do at #2 what the Raiders could do is,
you know, make a trade with The Jets, whatever that would take
to get from where The Jets are to where the Raiders are a team
or, or another team that's high in the draft that doesn't need a
quarterback. And now The Jets literally
control every aspect of the 2027 draft with those three first
round picks. So I I understand it.
It's a good point. I wouldn't worry about it too
much myself, But I'm not saying that you're wrong.
All right, J Rod, let's get the chats going.
Let's get the coals fired up. What do we got?
Jay, talk to me what we have. We've got Charlie from Pearl
River, NY. Charlie, Pearl River, what's
going on there? Charlie, how are you?
Hey BT, great show so far. Thanks man.
I just had a quick question about The Jets.
I know it's kind of like what on what same topic of what you're
talking about if well, first of I just want to say, do you think
I know Muji's looking good? You know, he made a lot of good,
good trades and stuff. But I say Glenn, you know, would
those guys kind of maybe lean towards getting maybe jumping
back in the first round with that second pick this year and
maybe maybe next year to get if they want to get if they like
Simpson? Because getting a quarterback
kind of would maybe extend their, you know, you know, if
they're like in survivable mode and they see like even if they
see potential in Simpson. What do you mean to say hold the
Charlie and Joe? Do you mean to say jobs?
Kind of, but they do see, yeah, I mean, like, you know, and
maybe that's maybe not the primary reason, but maybe a
secondary reason kind of that's in their mind.
You know, they do see potential, but, you know, kind of in the
back of the head. I mean, let's be honest, Glenn
is is in survival, should be in survival mode, right?
Now he is. He is.
Yeah, I know Mooji, not as much of course, but but, but maybe
that's in the back of the head, at least in Mooji, I don't know.
Charlie, I hope not. I I really hope that that's not
the case. And thank you for the call.
Appreciate it. Charlie No, if that's the way
The Jets were attacking this draft, then this is this is
hopeless. I mean, I understand the
conversation. There is a conversation to be
and we've had the conversation like how married is the head
coach and the general manager, you know, is the the scrutiny or
the the job security for each isn't exactly the same.
In my opinion is no, because I believe that Darren Mooji has
done a better job than Aaron Glenn so far.
That's my opinion. Now Aaron Glenn played here.
He you know, he's got a deeper relationship with Woody Johnson
then Adam Gase and you know, Chris Johnson was here too.
So that's a little convoluted there, but you know what I mean.
The Johnson family, you know, I mean, if they can squeeze out
six, seven wins and they just look confident, then I think
Aaron Glenn absolutely gets a third year.
And he should at that point, as long as there's incremental
progress. If it's completely stagnant and
you know, he's calling plays, remember that's a superpower.
He told us if he's calling defensive plays and the defense
is getting ravaged every week, then there's no doubt.
I don't even think he makes it to the end of the season.
And I would be fine with that. Listen, there's there's we're
going to have time to discuss all that stuff.
But your primary point about are they intertwined?
Like are The Jets drafting somebody tonight just to stave
off the firing squad? Number one, that would be
ridiculously reckless. And number, more importantly, I
do not believe that that's the case.
I believe philosophically that the GM and the head coach are on
the same page. Like I believe that Glenn and
Mooji are working in concert. I believe they've got a good
working relationship. And I know that Mooji wants to
have this work out because he brought Aaron Glenn in.
So I the other stuff is, is a little more, you know, unclear,
unclear. Now the thing about trading in
and and you're trying to get Simpson, whether it's late 1st,
early 2nd. But if Ty Simpson slides into
round two, if he's not drafted tonight, you know, I mean, yeah.
I mean, I think that there's a really good chance The Jets take
him there. But I would almost even want
more the, you know, somebody that views Simpson even better
than The Jets might. You don't scoot up from say 37
or 30, 9 or 36, you know, 3456 spots.
Jets bounce back. Jets still get some good players
and they just keep throwing into that, that treasure chest of
draft capital. Like that's how I would run it.
But then there's also something to be said for the more swings
you take at quarterback. Eventually you might hit on one,
you know, and one of the things that I was talking to Rich about
Rich and Jacob, what are the what are the may have been the
first Jets collective where we were talking extensively about
Ty Simpson and the dynamic right now that we're hitting with
Mooji and Glenn. And you know, I I get it.
I don't necessarily agree, but I think Rick Rich makes good
points. I just I don't really see it
this way. Like to me, if Ty Simpson is
drafted 28, say if they make a trade right or you know, 33rd or
whatever, or even if it's two slots back 35, whatever it might
be, I think the noise to play him is going to be the same.
If Gino stinks like I don't think that fans will
compartmentalize. Think about being in MetLife and
it's let's just say it's basically Halloween and what a
stunner The Jets are out of it again, you know, which I don't
think it'll be this this dire. I I don't I think it'll be much
more competitive, but you never know.
But let's just say they're one in six, you know, one in seven
getting whacked. And you know, Gino's having a
Raiders like season, not a Seattle season, a Raiders like
season. If he was drafted 16th, 28th,
33rd or 35th, we're still going to be screaming to play Ty
Simpson. So if you draft Ty Simpson, no
matter where you draft him, there will be an urgency to
eventually get him on the field. And even if Gino's not playing
horrendously, you're still going to want to get him some snaps
because you want to see what he could be next year, which would
obviously shape what you do for the 2027 draft.
So a lot there. Good question.
I got you. Let me get Smith Jones 68, 98,
all right. If I am a New York Giant or a
New York Jet, I would put a call to the Falcons if it's true Kyle
Pitts is on the block. Atlanta absolutely misused that
guy. I saw that.
It seems to be true. I thought about that for a
second. You know, the problem with
somebody like him is that and what what is this going to be
year 4? I could be off on that.
How many years has he played? Let me see Kyle Pitts from
Florida. He was AI think he was fourth
overall pick and year one, year 2.
Last year was either. I think last year was year 3,
but it could have been year 4. It's 3 or 4.
But the problem with that, I like him and I love them in
Florida now. He's not this transcendent.
When he was getting drafted, it's like this guy is going to
be kept 115 catches a year. Did they use him properly?
No, I don't think that they did. Is he necessarily as good as
advertised? No, but I like him.
I do like him, but if you trade for him now think about what the
Bengals did with Dexter Lawrence.
The, you know, now the money for tight end versus a defensive
line is a little bit different, but fifth year option picking up
money. Wouldn't you rather just draft
Kenyan Siddique if you if you could?
But no, it looks like the Falcons are pretty motivated to
trade him. Or at least you know, on some
level that's what tonight's going to be.
Oh my God, it's going to be absolutely bonkers.
Let me get to a couple of other things here.
Keep those. Let's get the let's get the the
draft calls up. Let's get the chats up.
J Rod, if you want to pop in again real fast and let
everybody know because I don't assume that everybody is yes,
Sir, you know, has been here from day one, or at least when
we start taking calls here. So for the new fans, the new
audience, let them know how they can actually call the show today
if you can. Yeah, so as you can see here,
and I'll just toss in the chat again, we've got a link to a
stream Yard, Stream Yards, a streaming site that we use for
this. You click that link, you'll see
me in a backstage. I'll ask you your question, your
name and where you're calling from, and then I'll send another
link to this recording where BT and I are speaking here and
we'll get your call in. So there you go. 2 links There's
a link in the chat, it's going to be pinned in the chat and
it's also in the description of the video.
At a boy J look at that money money description.
Perfectly said, succinct, on point.
Let's get the calls up. All right.
Well, the Yankees are officially hot.
I'll get to the Mets in a minute as well.
So think about this. Yesterday I was running through
the last four starts by Yankee pitchers, right?
And you know, last night, we now have another one with Max Freed
was was awesome. And the last five.
So by the way, the Yankees have the best record in the American
League for all the whining and the complaining and the moaning
and the bitching. Yankees can't do this.
And, and I was doing something as well because I do not love
their lineup, as you know. But my main thing has been
Yankee pitching. And it's been the Yankee
pitching that's really fortified the early part of the season
after a good start. Then it went sideways.
And I'm like, oh, boy, this looks bad.
Yankee pitching has come back to roost here.
So you go back, think about this one turn in the rotation.
All right, so going back to the start of the winning streak.
Cam Schlittler, 6 innings, no runs, two walks, 6 KS, Boom.
Will Warren, 7 innings, two runs, no walks, 11 KS, boom.
Ryan Weathers 7 in the third, no runs, one walk, 8 KS Louise Hill
the other night in Boston, 6th and 3rd, no runs, couple of
walks, 2 KS outstanding. And then last night Max Freed,
who didn't even you know, Max Freed's having a little bit of
an issue from the wind up. He he was talking about this
post game, walking some guys whatever, but Max Freed was he's
he's an ace. This is what you pay an ace for
8 innings, no runs, two walks, 9 KS, five straight Dubs for the
Yankees, granny for Rosario. So you know, so it's listen,
they still got some Deadwood there.
McMahon made that one play by McMahon, that line drive that
looked like Nettles. If you've ever seen the
highlights from I'm not saying he's Nettles, but I mean,
defensively he's pretty close. I wish he hit like Nettles
instead of hitting like, you know, Willie Mays Hayes.
But that play that he made to his right up the line, it's a
sure double that looked like some of the plays.
If you've ever seen the old grainy footage from the 7778
World Series against the Dodgers, that was a Greg Nettles
stab. That was absolutely a bull was
rocked. I mean, the reaction time was
basically nothing and he still stabbed it.
So good stuff. And Rosario, the Grand Slam, as
we said, you know, I mean, it's funny too.
So I was in the car. Where was I going?
I don't even know where I was going at this point.
Always driving somewhere, some game, some practice something
I'm home too much. That's I love the show.
Like I sometimes I just I told Jay Rod, sometimes I just get in
the car, go for a ride because I think about this guys.
As a quick aside, my days when I was going into the rate the same
station, you know, 10 years nationally with Tiki on on CBS
Sports Network and CBS Sports Radio and then three years on
the fan. You know, different time slots.
Obviously afternoon drive with Tiki and then middays on the fan
with Tiki and then Sal. So a little bit of a different
schedule there. But you know, the last couple of
years with Sal and and with Tiki the the 1 1/2 years as well.
I would. I'd leave the house around seven
O 5, jump on 280, crawl to the Hammond tunnel, sit my coffee,
navigate the tunnel, navigate the traffic downtown, go to my
garage, get bent over, pay $1000 a month to park my car.
That's what I paid basically for 13 years, $1000 a month.
That's rent. That's like a year.
Like, whoa. Not really, you know.
Well, if you split, no, Jay, if you're splitting an apartment
with a buddy, it's rent. Yeah, I mean, I know people, you
know, not too mad, you know, That's for New York City.
Now, even if you're splitting with some buddies, 1000 a month
is pretty damn good. A couple people.
Yeah, you believe that? So I, I, so to go into
Manhattan, I, I, I was, I was rewarded the great grand prizes
of sitting in traffic and losing my mind, you know, getting bent
over at the pump, 4 bucks a gallon, right, paying at the
Holland Tunnel. And then, you know, take it on
the chin, basically $1000, a little bit less than that.
But I just rounded up every month basically for 13 years
just for the ability to go and work right.
So anyway, the point is, I don't have any.
And then of course, do the show. And then, you know, walk and
it's like the garage was around the corner.
I had to walk 5 blocks, which I don't mind.
I I love to walk, but you know when it's snowing, when it's
raining, it's freaking pain in the ass.
Umm, so then you know that after it got a walk, four or five
blocks, wait for them to get my car.
And I love the guy Guys were I always talk, you know, ganks and
Mets with those got big Nick fans too.
Good dudes, knew him for a long time.
Then I got, you know, and now there's not as much traffic
because I was off the air too. But go through the Holland
Tunnel 280, go deeper out into New Jersey, pull up, you know,
So now I wake up, I'm home, the show's over, I'm home.
So sometimes I will literally just go for a ride, like I'm
right to nowhere, you know? Like a ride.
Crank out some baseball swings. There we go.
Did you see that yesterday of? Course, dude did that video.
I don't know how many views it's at now, I'm not going to check,
but I was like, dude, that's going.
My room is like that's going over 50K.
Are you able to pull that up and put that up?
I mean, I, how do you take me a bit to like pull the video up on
the screen? Yeah, yeah, I can pull it up on
my phone. But yeah, I I could do it.
I could do it if you give me like.
Five, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get it up before we get out.
It's amazing too. I came across this, this
training, this training aid. One of my son's coaches on his
club team has it and it it basically looks like a big
bamboo, like I don't like a big club.
Something that like one of the Flintstones would use right.
And it's actually 34 inches, which is which is, you know, a
big boy bat. I mean, you know, for 11 year
olds, it's, you know, nobody's using 34, that's for sure.
And it's got these it's like aerodynamic.
Oh God, these training hitting tools.
I mean, I mean, you know, instead of watching have what I
spend, you know, given the new situation, J Rod, all I do is
buy shit. But anyway, this was pretty
cheap. It was like 50 bucks and it's
got like these three little, I don't know, plastic things and
you swing it and it's again, it's aerodynamic, the way the
holes in the swing are shaped as you swing, it goes against the
wind and it creates resistance and it creates leg and it
creates bat speed. And listen, if I didn't believe
in it, then I wouldn't have gotten it.
But I was messing around with it at his at his tournament, a
couple I took some swings. I'm like, this is good because I
saw the coaches, you know, the kids swing it before they go in
the batting cage, whatever. And of of course, I'm like, you
know what, I put it on social media yesterday and you know, of
course it's so funny, right? The comments.
I really. 60,000 views. I'm like. 60,000 yeah 60,000
views probably if there's 500 comments, 250 comments are like
yo, you still got it. OG and the other 250 are like
dude, pathetic, awful. You're weak but terrible swing,
which which might be true, although we'll get it up there.
We'll let you guys make the evaluation yourself.
I know it's not a terrible swing.
I can promise you that. I'm not saying it's good, but I
can promise you it's not terrible.
I, I laughed though, like the people who just, you know, who
shit on it. And I, I really do laugh, but I
don't get, I don't get angered. I don't get bothered by that
stuff at all. Because it's just, you know,
miserable people who whatever, they feel a little full, full,
like they have a little void in, in their life.
And for whatever reason, dropping a mean spirited comment
temporarily makes them feel better.
Like if that's your thing, be my guest.
That's not my thing. That's never been my thing.
Have fun, Knock yourself out. It's pathetic, but knock
yourself out. I'd love to see those clowns
take a swing. I'd love to see it.
I really would love to see it. Everybody's so brave take, you
know? Oh, everybody was such a great
ball player. Oh, yeah, Yeah.
Let's see you swing. Go ahead.
So the swings that you saw were coming from a guy who's 52, had
back surgery, had Tommy John surgery, had a ruptured
Achilles, has not played college baseball in 30 years.
And I promise you with my eyes shut that that would be better
than 99.9% of the clowns who weighed in on the messages.
Yes. Or the comments yesterday.
It's the way it goes, Jay, You know, But we'll get, we'll get
that up at some point, all right?
So the other thing too, right? So, you know, the, the Red Sox
are what a what a mess. They didn't realize the Red Sox
had thirteen home runs on the season on the.
So that's the point. I was in the car yesterday and I
heard them say this during the game, listening, of course, on
the radio. And I was like, wow, 13.
Susan said. I'm like, that's I knew it
wasn't a high number. But that is that is insanely low
when you play games at Fenway Park.
So that's dead last in baseball. Wow.
The Red Red Sox have some pitching their lineup stakes.
The Dodgers are #1 stunning. Dodgers have 42 home runs.
Yankees haven't even really gotten going yet, and they're
fourth with 34. So that's at least a good sign
from a Yankee point of view. The Met, the Mets are 27th in
baseball with 17. They've only got four more than
the Red Sox. All right, now, Soto was out and
Pete's gone. But talk about a ghastly number.
And then you have the Red Sox at #30 So bottom line though, is
the Yankees pitching is as advertised.
And it's going to get better and better and better and better.
Because what's going to happen eventually, you will see roles
change and you will see studs come back.
Certainly Cole and Rolled on might not be a stud, but he's
certainly above average. And then you take some of these
guys and I don't know how it's going to shape out.
I'm not sure. I've got some thoughts about who
might adjust better to the bullpen.
You know, I want to keep Ryan Weathers in the starting
rotation, but do you really want 3/5 of your rotation lefty 60%?
I don't know, maybe, maybe not. I think, I think Louis here
would be good at the pen, truly. And I think that when Clark
Schmidt comes back, I think Clark Schmidt is going to be in
the bullpen. So good stuff there for the
Yankees. The other thing that popped up
now, Jay, I know that you're busy with the calls and and
getting that video up there, which will have at some point,
can you pop this up? The Yankees now, all right, are
talking about well, it's already been basically accepted by Major
League Baseball where not not this version.
This is the version that I would want.
So I mean, I saw this on social media.
I honestly don't even know who had it.
I'm not trying to take credit for it, so I apologize for that.
But anyway, you know, Stanthin Judge, they talk about these
alternate jerseys. Keep that up, Jay.
And you know, you think about this, right?
Obviously it's always been pinstripes at home Rd.
Graze, beautiful, understated, you know, in terms of the roads,
classy. Nothing like the pinstripes.
Best uniform in all the sports in my opinion.
And the Yankees are rooted in tradition.
But think about this. They've had, you know, since X
amount of years right now there's the logo on the hat.
Now there's the patches on the jersey.
My friends over at store insurance.
So I do, I do. I know pretty well.
They paid, I think it's 25 or $20 million a year for that
opening days on Netflix. There's and that's not the
Yankees fault. That's just baseball games are
on Apple games are on Prime. You know, last year because of
Devin Williams, they abandoned the, the, the the beard policy,
You know, So are we going to really remain married to what is
becoming more and more antiquated?
I mean, just look at that jersey on Aaron Judge now.
Get it? That's so clean.
Dude it's so clean. How dope is that man?
Now it wouldn't be that. Maybe it becomes that at some
point. That's what I I would want you
get me back up there, Jay. Thank you.
So Major League Baseball approved the Yankees Navy
batting practice jerseys. So they've already gotten the
green light. We don't know yet if the Yankees
organizationally will will acquiesce and you know, not cave
but cater to some of the requests their players.
I don't have an issue with it. I know some of you old timers do
I know some of you are very surprised when you know somebody
my age that's been following the game for this long and and is
more of a an old school principal baseball fan, you
know, as I am for the most part. But I don't know, I mean, am I?
I mean, I don't really go nuts with bat flip celebrations or
all all the bling and like the neon bat and I don't know if I
love neon belts. You know, kind of let's conform
a little bit here. But I get the swag game.
I mean, if I was coming up now, I'd have all that swag.
You kidding me? The I black the three chains.
You know, I might even have the the hat like a 1/8 of an inch, a
little bit crooked. Who knows, Probably have a
tattoo or I don't know what I'd look like on the baseball field,
but I know I would look good. I don't know if I'd be good, but
I would look good, right? First step.
True, true. Although I did look good in
college, but I didn't play well. So it was the first step.
I wish there was a second step. And when I was in high school
there was no swag. I mean you basically I just
black and white boring low cut Nike cleats and startups kind of
the old fashioned way. I did rock the eye black and I
did have a pretty thick gold chain, but there was no swag.
Uniforms are whatever. So if the Yankees do this and
they and they acquiesce to their players, I will not kick and
scream. It's a new generation.
Everybody in baseball's doing it.
It's a clean look. The only thing that I would
oppose is like, if it can never happen to the Bronx, if it's
going to happen, it's got to be on the road.
That's it, You know, and if they start getting too wacky, like,
you know, as Major League base because they have to approve
this stuff, the city connects and all that stuff, but this is
more it's just a batting practice jersey.
So that's already been approved. Say if the Yankees busted out at
some point this year, well, you know, I think that you'll see
people buy more and then the Yankees will sit there and say,
oh, shit, we got another revenue stream here.
The thing Cha Chang. All right, let's maybe come out
with a New Jersey. Or if they start getting too
cute and too too wacky with that and too far away from what are
the cleanest uniforms that that in, in my opinion, in all the
sport, they don't have a problem with it.
But right now, 0 issue with it. But it is interesting because I
know some of you absolutely resist it.
All right, I want to get some Soto stuff, Lindor stuff,
something for the Mets last night.
Let's get back to the Coles, though.
J Rod, who's up? Yes, Sir, we've got Danny B from
Bradenton, FL. All right, Florida checking in.
Danny B, what's going on there? Danny, how are you?
What's up BT? Man, it's a pleasure.
It's a pleasure talking to you. So I'm what you call, I'm good,
but I'm I'm just, I'm just curious.
So I'm a casual football fan, you know, I'm 44, grew up in New
York and for some reason I was always a baseball guy, NBA guy,
but I'm trying to get into the NFL this year and I get excited
about drive time. So I got a great question for
you. Hypothetical, would you be be
open to who whoever The Jets pick a #2 but would you think
about trading into the number 10 spot with the Giants, trade 16
and maybe 33 to 10 and try to get your hands on Caleb down on
top of whoever you pick that number 2?
Yes, yes, Let me just answer that very quickly.
Dana, I got to let you go because as you can tell, there's
a little feedback there. I, I love to chop it up with
you. So thank you for the call.
Next time you call in, maybe it's a little cleaner.
Yeah. Let's take care of that.
Thank you, Jay. I'm sorry about that.
I just, you know, you guys can hear the.
It happens in radio too. And then when that happens, we
gotta let you go. Yeah, so.
But, I mean, I had a couple of questions for Danny.
Likes who? He's a big baseball guy.
He's, you know, and I don't know how old he is.
I know he's a New York transplant.
He's down in Florida. Good for you.
That's great. But it it's interesting.
Like I'm curious if he was born here and I wanted to.
I had some questions because if he was born here and grew up in
Queens and you know, he sounds, I mean, he could be younger, but
he sounds like he's at least in his 30s or 40s, maybe older.
And when he says, you know, I'm trying to get to football, the
hell you waiting for trying to get to football.
So I had a couple of questions for him.
Yes, absolutely, more than willing to trade.
And I got no problem trading with the Giants.
I'm not one of these guys who's like, well, you know, if The
Jets make a trade and the Giants win, it's going to make my life
more complicated. Do what you got to do today and
worry about tomorrow tomorrow. Same thing with the Yankees and
the Mets. Now I'm not talking about free
agency like Soto leaving. I'm talking about like if there
was a big trade to be made, Knicks, Nets, you know, whatever
it might be. I mean, I I do think Rangers,
Isles, Devils, like that's that's different.
That's different, but I'm not going to let the pettiness or
the fear of, you know, fan repercussions downstream if it
doesn't work out, preventing me from doing something that I
believe in the moment is going to make my organization better.
So if The Jets and the Giants could cut a deal, Giants are
satisfied, Jets are satisfied, Let's go, let's go.
And it should be the same way between the Rams and the
Chargers. That's just the way it's
supposed to be. It should be the same way
between the Dodgers and the Angels and the Cubbies and the
White Sox and all these other teams with multiple cities with
multiple teams. I don't know if it will go that
way, but you'd have to think that The Jets and the Giants
just based on based on the move for the Giants to get now to top
10 picks. You know The Jets want a
receiver. Let's face it, the Giants are
now in their way. If and when the Giants go
receiver at 10, if they stick and pick and I don't think
they're gonna receive her at 5, I'd be stunned at that.
Maybe not stunned. I'd be really surprised at that.
But I actually think if the Giants don't move out of those
slots, I would be very surprised that the Giants don't have a
receiver by the end of tonight. And if that receiver, somebody
that The Jets absolutely want. And if there's somebody on The
Jets board, apartment on the Giants board that they feel is
kind of comparable and they believe that the exchange for
the trade and the capital that they get back to move out a
couple of slots to let The Jets get the receiver they covet.
If they think that that's smart and they're getting a player
who's 90 something percent of the guy that they really did
want to draft, go for it. I mean, those things make sense,
but it can't be this massive disparity.
You can't you can't trade out of a slot and abandoned taking
somebody that you think is an A player and then draft the B
minus player. It would have to be like an A
player and then like AB plus plus, but like it's got to be
barely visible the difference between the two, in my opinion.
Let me get what do we have here? Mink life.
I know this is not my guy Mink because there is no way that
Mink could actually. I mean, you know Mink.
Mink has enough time figuring out the radio broadcast.
Kid Mink, I love you buddy. Mink life 3/14.
Thank you for that buddy. Killing at BT Killing at BT Hope
you get a Jets trip going this year.
That would be awesome. Do you think The Jets should
take a quarterback no matter what?
Even if it's in the later rounds?
Keep that up. Now what he's talking about is
little side hustle I got, which was awesome for a couple of
years and then just quite frankly, there just was no
interest last year because Rogers was gone And it's, it's
not cheap. I, I fully understand that the
economy, you know, is what it is.
Not everybody's in the great spot, mortgage rates, etcetera.
So the disposable income has shrunk for a lot of families,
which, which trust me, I get. So we had, let's see, the first
year we went to Green Bay Lambeau and we had about Jets
pack Jets won the game. That was that was I mean, that
may have been an all time outside of where The Jets beat
the Jaguars and I was in the stadium that I know it's the
game where Keyshawn had to pick at the end and then they lost to
Denver the next week in the championship game AFC.
That may have been my best football experience ever.
Number one, it was my first time at Lambeau and The Jets won,
right. So we did that the first year,
and then the next year we did. And it was, it was sold out.
And then the next year we went to Dallas in Week 2.
And if you remember Dallas in, that's right after Aaron Rodgers
got hurt and that trip was sold out.
And part of the trip was, you know, not just that we get to
watch the game together, but I host a big dinner.
If you look on my Instagram, just go find it.
And you're gonna have to go, you know, pretty far back because
there's a lot of posts since then.
Part of the deal is, you know, whatever you pay, I'm not going
to be tacky and tell you the price now.
But what you pay, part of it is that experience.
So we were actually on the field at AT&T Stadium.
I was throwing passes to people. You know, Jake, Jake was on that
trip with Jake. I know Jake was on at least one
trip. And I think it was that trip.
I think Jake was in Dallas, Jake Asman.
And we're throwing the ball on the field.
It was, it was sick tailgate. It was phenomenal, but everybody
thought Rogers was going to play.
And that's the game where Sauce had the pick in the Flats and he
has a Clearview and Zach played awful God, and if Sauce holds on
to that, it's a pick 6 the other way.
Now, who knows what would happen, but so we did that trip.
Then we went to the Raiders game and I believe that was a Sunday
night game and we had a crazy tailgate.
Unbelievable. Marty Lyons rolled through,
Wesley Walker rolled through like it's a big deal.
And like, it's just, we didn't do it last year because
everybody's like, I'm, I'm done for now with The Jets.
Like I need something. I need a spark.
So, and then the year before last, we did a trip and we went
out to Tennessee. So we've been to Green Bay, been
to Dallas, been to Vegas, been to Tennessee.
And each one is distinctly unique where you know, you get,
you get a tour of the city, whatever the landmarks might be.
I host a dinner. A former Jet alum rolls through.
We have a massive tailgate. It is good seats.
It's a lot of fun, man. So, yeah, I would like to think
that we would do something like that.
So I appreciate you checking in. Next call, Jay.
What do you got there, buddy? We've got James from Hoboken.
OK, James. James, why do we have some
kickback here? Let's see if we can get this
going. James, you there if you.
Gonna turn off the YouTube stream.
That would be much appreciated. Something Jake, think about
this. Jake, I'm.
Trying to toss you back up. Yeah, well, he'll take care of
that. Something I never thought that I
would hear. I remember it would happen once
in a while on radio. Hey, turn down the radio because
everybody wants to hear themselves.
I get it. I did it once.
And I learned when I was a kid, like I'm listening to the fan
and I called in and I got the radio up because I'm trying to
record myself, you know, I I get it.
It's cool to hear yourself talk, but perfect.
Yeah, I got you. We can't do it if if you do
that, you could always go back and clip it because now it's
easier than it's ever been. Just go back to the YouTube
feed, obviously, and then clip it.
Send it to you boys. All right, Jimmy and Hoboken.
What's up, Jim? Jim.
Hey BT, what's up? Hey, man, how you doing today?
How you doing today? All right, I called.
I called. Yeah, we can't do that.
We can't do that, James. Yep.
It's all right.
I'll get some more calls lined up.
No problem there. All right, so the streak is
over. Pop the champagne.
The Mets won. They very easily could have
lost. They blew a couple of leads.
The base running was awful. So Soto's back.
Yeah. I thought he went yard.
His first at bat. Just missed it.
And now, of course, after missing what he missed how many
games? 1415 games.
Now Lindore pulls his calf. Calf strain.
So I don't know, man. You know, I know that the Mets
won. Luke Weaver came out, not Devin
Williams. Luke Weaver cut a wrestling
promo after the game. I was watching it at the end.
I'm like, are they going to blow this?
And part of me was like, come on, blow this man.
I want to see how many games in a row the Mets could actually
lose. Like, there's just intrigue.
I got to be honest with you. And Luke Weaver's like, it was
awesome. Like I was feeling it.
He's like, hey, I might not be the biggest guy in the room, but
I don't fear anybody. Like he was literally cutting an
old school WWE promo. Oh, Speaking of wrestling, I
I'll do maybe this, I'll do more this next week.
Tomorrow's going to be a lot of draft.
Obviously. I started watching the Hulk
Hogan documentary on Netflix. It's good as expected.
I watched the first episode last night after the Mets and after
the Yankees and after my son's game and all that stuff.
And then I watched the the first part of the second episode.
I was getting a little tired. I'm like, I don't really watch a
little sports night, fall asleep to this, see what they're saying
about the Mets win. So yeah, it's really good.
I'll give you a nice review. Maybe we'll try to get somebody
on. Maybe Jimmy Hart will come on
for that. Maybe that's somebody we could
target. Jimmy still alive.
I know we were trying to get snake or or hacksaw Duggan for
WrestleMania didn't work out J Rod, but maybe we get Jimmy hard
on there. It was it was it was it was
good. I think it's going to be
awesome. I hear you.
I'm just messing. All right, so now here's the
deal. Lindor's getting the MRI, you
know, and you just start to, you know, think that maybe I know
it's early and they don't look good and they've got a lot of
issues. I do think they're better than
they looked here. But I know I mean, they have to
be better than this. But the more things pile up,
like the timing is uncanny, you know what I mean?
They win the game, Soto's back and then boom, trying to, you
know, scoring from first on a double.
You got Lindor pulled up a little bit lame.
He slides in. It takes a little bit to get up
and then they pulled him from the game.
Bichette goes to shortstop, made a nice play in the hole, but
shed at shortstop and then who know?
I don't know if it's is it a Grade 1 is great.
I don't know the grade. They've got to get the MRI
today, so we'll see what the imaging spits back.
It's not definitely going to be 15 games like Soto.
I mean it could be more, it could be less, but it's like
anytime not that one game is massive momentum, but they did
win, which for them is monumental based on the way
they've looked this year. Like anytime something good
happens, something shitty happens, even to the point where
last night. So I got two things for you all
right, one and I'll and we're not going to play AJ, but I'm
I'm set the the Soto stuff up. Did you guys see the anthos's
comments after the game? Now the Anthos had the
game-winning bloop to write. He also got gunned down at the
plate by, you know, the massive margin and he ran through the
stop sign. Here's the quote.
This is a problem. I think a lot of people are
making a big deal out of the Soto comments, which I get and
I'm I'm with you a little bit. I don't think enough people are
making a big deal out of this, which to me is more symbolic of
a bigger problem with the Mets. All right, quote.
He was asked about getting gunned out of the plate.
I saw the stop sign, but I was following my instincts.
I'm always going to be aggressive.
End Quote. Dude, you're one of the slowest
guys in baseball. You got nailed by 15 feet.
Who the hell are you to ignore any stop sign?
So they're like, I, I understand that when you're mired in a
lengthy losing streak and the world, like Citi Field is
burning figuratively, you know, when everything is just
imploding, which is part of the reason why I think the night
before he tried to gun the guy down to third base on the bump
and, you know, he didn't get them and David Williams spit the
bit. But I think when you make
mistakes like that and you you're trying to do too much, I
can understand why some mistakes are made when they're born out
of aggression because you're desperately trying to change the
tone to a season. I respect that.
I really do. I'm not not getting on them for
that. There's a coach there for a
reason. I mean, think about it.
If if everybody had the mindset that Mark Vientos has, well then
just have a fungal bat at third base and first base in the box.
You can have a little robot. Really.
What is the first base coach do? I mean, I know he's got I'm I'm
saying I actually know what he does.
He's got the timing and the pop time and the pitchers move the
1st and all that shit. But you know, really, if that's
the case, just trot out a little robot.
Honestly, you know, you got Mr. and this is Met, you know, have
a little Star Wars robot made with a Mets hat and just roll
them out to first base. When somebody gets there, he
could take off his elbow pad and all the other stuff.
Get the sliding mate, you know, just stick it in the robot's
mouth. Robot go back in the dug.
You make a little robo pen, you know, because you don't want him
in the dugout because it's going to be tough getting down the
stairs unless it's C3PO. He can walk, but if it's like
R2D2, he would just fall over. You know, like when the Jawas
got him and he fell over. So that's really who needs
coaches at this point. Nobody needs to go.
All the times I see guys, you know, Yankees too.
Not like that. Like, to me, that's a disregard
for authority. Like, if I'm Mendoza, I'm going
to have a talk with with Vientos and it's not going to be a
pleasant one. Who do you think you are?
Who? Honestly, dude, you're barely on
the team at this point. The only reason you're really
playing is because Polanco's hurt.
Like what quote? I saw the stop sign, but I was
following my instincts. Like he's Ricky Henderson,
right? Or like he's Jose Reyes, or like
he's Derek Jeter. He's like some great baserunner.
Dude. You Mark Vientos, you're 18th.
You're in the 18th percentile in Sprint speed in Major League
Baseball, which translated means you're as slow as shit.
That's what that means translated in plain English.
You can't run. So is that not symbolic of a bit
more of an issue with the Mets? I mean, we hear about, well,
there's not a lot of leadership with the Mets.
What we hear a lot about, well, Mendoza might get fired.
And then this dude who's like the the 20th, 21st man on the
roster goes into, tells everybody, yeah, it doesn't
matter. Hold me up.
I'm going to by instincts like he regularly scores from first
on double S or he scores 30 bases a year.
Is this guy kidding me? That to me, that's that's an
egregious statement right there, which to me, if I'm a Mets fan,
that you probably won't have an issue with.
And I'm sure the Mets fans are always making a big deal out of
it. That's fine.
Maybe you just so enamoured with finally winning a baseball game
that you're going to ignore that That is a lack of authority on
the team. He has to be spoken to.
Now who's going to speak to him? Is it going to be Lindor?
Who doesn't really seem to be much of A captain and is now
hurt. Is it going to be Soto, who
apparently doesn't speak to anybody?
All right, let's get to this. So I was going to play it, but
again, I still learn in the YouTube thing.
I don't want to I don't want to risk anything.
So basically it was it it was very, I thought powerful audio.
Now, I think now I'm trying to read body language, Soto was
asked. Obviously activated before the
game last night. Hey, you know, did you speak to
any of your teammates during your absence?
And his reaction was like, Nah, like it might.
And then I think he kind of caught himself because then his
posture changed a little bit. Maybe I'm reading too much into
it or, or I, I sometimes you just say something like, that
didn't come out right. All right.
And and I think that that's what happened to him.
This is not the biggest deal in the world, but again, it's got
to be symbolic of something. Now understand this.
I'm being consistent because when what, when, when Aaron
Judge was asked about Juan Soto before Juan Soto made his
decision. And you know, Aaron Judge said,
you know, listen, I'm going to give him space.
He's got to do what's right for his family.
I love playing with him. I paraphrase, but no, I have not
spoken to him. I'm going to I'm going to give
him room and I was like, I mean, I didn't crush Aaron Judge, but
I'm like, dude, reach out to him, send him a text message,
tell him you want him to stay. Like, I don't understand that.
I know, I know they're grown men with families.
I get it. It's not like just shooting your
buddy a text. Hey, we what time we teeing off
tomorrow? I understand that.
But like these athletes, all they know is digital exchanges.
That's it. So, you know, Juan Soto can go
on Instagram and like things or, or whatever and he and he can't
shoot one or two teammates attacks like and, and, and, and,
and somebody's and I saw this a lot too last night, right?
Well, what is he, what's he going to even do?
I don't know, show a sign of solidarity.
I mean, it's not going to guarantee that you snap the
losing streak, but it does show a little cohesion.
I just, I don't understand this. Like I, I don't, I don't know,
man, like there have been people that I've worked with and on
different shows, whether it's at the fan or, or other other
stations, and I really never even crossed paths with them.
Like, you know, they're on the roster.
Maybe they fill in for you if you're out, if they're a part
timer or, or, or they're doing week, whatever it might be, or
they're a producer, but you don't see them that much.
Totally different hours. And like maybe somebody passes
away or they get a promotion or like, I don't know, I'm, I'm
just the kind of guy. I'm not saying every single
time, but certainly if somebody passes away, I'll reach out on
some level. But yeah, and and I don't even
really see some of those people. This guy bats, travels with
them, you know, goes to the same, same hotel as them, same
bus. You're together 789 hours a day.
Shoot him a freaking text. Yo, boys, hang in there.
That's it. Yo, I'll be back soon.
We're even if it's arrogant, Yo, we're straight.
I'll be I'll be back. You know, I he's not going to
text that, but but anything, and I understand that he's immersed
in his healing. He's immersed in his rehab and
I'm never going to question his preparation.
I mean, that guy's he's a surgeon.
He's all baseball. He's no nuts.
He didn't even want to do the celebrations, which unless it's
the WBC, which is fine. I didn't really get on him for
that. You know, all Soto looks
miserable as a Met. Whatever, he's a Met, deal with
it. After the five years, he can opt
out. And then the Mets could say,
Nope, you going nowhere cuz here's 4 1/2 more, $1,000,000 or
it didn't work out. We suck.
See you later. I mean, we'll see what happens.
He made his bet. He's got to live in it.
But that's just very odd. Like if Aaron Judge was out for
15 games, are you? And it's not a Sodal Judge
thing, but anybody Bellinger, any prominent Yankee, I'd have
to think maybe I'm wrong. I, I don't, maybe I really am
wrong, but let me frame it this way, because I don't know if
they would do it if Judge didn't do it, I'd be saying the same
thing. Dude.
You could be on the trainer's table and somebody, you know,
could be, you have electric stem attached to your calf, you know,
to, to circulate the blood. That's one of the things they
do. Get the massage, get the
manipulation, whatever the rest, ice, compression, elevation, the
old Rice theory, whatever they're doing to your calf, you
know you're not in a batting cage 24 hours a day.
So when somebody's working on your on your calf, stretching it
out, shoot your boys a text. What, do you not have any boys
on the team? Which will be a greater issue?
I don't know. He wasn't gone for a day.
He was gone for three weeks. That struck me as odd.
And it was almost like this isn't the right word.
I'm going to use it and I'm not trying to make it more than it
is. But it was almost like what the
like almost callous. That's why I really wanted to
play it. But I just can't risk trademark
stuff. I got to figure some of that
stuff out when you, I know most of you saw it.
I'm curious what your opinion is of that.
What I understand he's a leader by example.
I get that, but I don't know, man, they won a game.
Let let they they finally won a game.
Leave it at that. At notorious Dole 13.
As long as Juan Soto produces, nobody's going to care.
The guy loves baseball, just wants to play ball.
I wish he was still on the Yankees.
Yeah, listen, I've always said that I wish you would have
stayed with the Yankees. Although that ridiculous
contract, I'm I'm actually at this point, I'm fine that he's
not because there'd be no Max Freed, whatever, but I wanted
him to stay with the Yankees. Of course, watching him and
Judge, it was boxed off. It was Ruth and Garrick, man,
back-to-back. It was.
It's unbelievable. I wanted him to stay, but you
know, it's not. There's other elements that
like, so chemistry means nothing.
I guess what you're saying team connectivity means nothing,
means nothing. So then why do we ever talk
about team chemistry? If that's the case, then I don't
ever want to hear about team chemistry because it can't be
conveniently applied. You either have it and it's good
or you don't and it's not. Well, what are we doing here?
Think about the 86 Mets, right? Obviously, they were terrific
team. I mean, Keith was great, Gary
was great, Darryl was great, Doc was great, They were great,
right? One of the best teams I've ever
seen. 108 wins, all that stuff, right?
But the thing about those Mets, even though they got on each
other's nerves as a team, Tom Needen fewer throws at Darryl,
Yo, what's on? You know, Eric Davis comes
swinging at Ray Knight, slide into third base in Cincinnati.
Gary Carter's coming from behind the plate and tackling people.
And Ray Knight, who was a boxer, is banging chins.
It's on like we're fighting, you know, even Greg, even a couple
years after that, and they couldn't stand Greg Jeffries.
Remember the fight, Was it 80? Was it 87?
I think it was 8787 or 89. One of those years, definitely
not 86, where Jeffries charged the mound.
I think it was against Rodger McDowell when he was with the
Phillies. So maybe it was 89, whatever it
was, and they couldn't stand Greg Jeffries and they still had
his back. Like, I mean, there's got to be
something to be said for chemistry.
Otherwise why do we always talk about all the Knicks?
You know, I know there's been some issues with the chemistry
with Cat this year, but why do we talk about the Villanova
connection? It's not just they.
They literally play basketball on the same floor and live with
each other in the dorms are off campus.
It's that that relationship now has entered A deeper level in
terms of chemistry, which theoretically should make the
Knicks better. We talk about chemistry all the
time. Doesn't matter.
I don't know. I thought that was, I, I, I just
thought it was obtuse. I, I don't, I don't think it was
malicious. I want to be fair about that.
I just think that he's so robotic and just so entrenched
in his own process, which is good because he always produces.
But can you give a little bit of the human side?
You better wait three weeks. Hang in there, boys.
We'll be all right. We'll be good.
Nothing. No.
Why would I text them? Why would I do that?
I don't know. Because you're on the team.
Maybe that's a reason. J Rod, What do you got, Jay?
We've got Ray from Norwalk, CT. Ray.
Ray.
Sugar Ray. What up?
Ray in Connecticut? Yeah, you.
Got me out of a good time. Can you?
Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you.
I got you. Cool, cool.
What's up, buddy? Yeah, I got we actually were one
of your day ones. We are under super gaming chill
Bros Yeah, because we kind of put in a super chat like every
couple weeks or so. So you've seen us.
Our question was that, well, my question was that I I heard
about your thing thing with the with The Jets collective with
with Kenyan Sadiq. Would you want to change around
that receiver for like Omar Cooper?
I mean, yeah, Cooper or. Hold on, you talking about for
the Giants because The Jets, I got a lot of heat for The Jets
taking conception from A&M at 16.
But I also did have Sadiq going to the Giants at 10, which I
don't think would happen. I'm just saying what I would do.
Are you talking about from the Giants to The Jets perspective?
I want. To be clear.
What? I change the conception pick and
go with a different receiver. Is that what you're asking me?
Yes, yes, yes, I'm going to stick.
I really do like him. Maybe I overthought it.
Quite frankly, no, I'm going to stick with it and I will be
subject to intense ridicule, but I'm going to stick with it.
But I'm sure you have an issue with it, Ray.
Right? And most people do.
Nobody likes it. I'm not.
I just want to see what they do. I am not much of that type of
guy that's going to get mad about anything that The Jets
suit. I mean, I'll ride a ride a guy
for them, but it's like. I got you, I got you.
So who do you want? Who?
Do you want, I do want Hoover? I've seen that he has a prompt
to be like Dubo Samuel and I'm like.
I it's physical. Yeah, it's good.
Yep. Indiana.
Yeah. They've been connected to him,
right. Thank you for the call, buddy.
I appreciate it. I appreciate you reaching out.
They've definitely been connected to Cooper from
Indiana. Yeah.
I mean, it's tonight's going to be fun.
I mean, here we are. It is what?
It's 11:15. The draft is tonight.
And can anybody say with great certainty outside of the Raiders
and take pick a Mendoza, what the Hell's going to happen?
I mean, you can tell me it's going to be Bailey all day,
could be Reece. You can tell me it's going to be
Reece, it's going to be Bailey. It could be Bailey.
You can tell me one of those guys and they can make a trade.
And then from there, who the hell knows what's going to
happen. Let's get that up again.
The The Jets collective mock draft we did the other night.
I want to run through this real fast here, Jay.
And then you got a lot. I see a lot of calls.
We'll get right back to him. So this is what we came up with.
And those are one to the Raiders.
Bailey 2, got Reese three, Love 4.
Caleb Downs in the five spot. And I would go with the
offensive lineman. Miami 6, Sunny style 7.
Mansour Delaine, who I love. I think that was a great pick.
He's the best corner by far. LSU 8 to the Saints, Little
little Reuben Bayne going 9, short arms and all.
Kenyan Sadiq. Then you got Spencer Fadu, you
got the Theaman, the safety going 12, receiver off the board
for the Rams at 13. And then Vega, I can't say his
name, Tony, no disrespect at all, obviously, Ravens offensive
lineman Keldrick Faulk, who was an edge Auburn.
And then that picked the last one, which has been absolutely
chastised by everybody, by everybody known to man.
So you can get that off there, Jay.
We'll get back to the calls. Any luck?
I know I've got Jay working hard here.
Any luck with the video? Did you did you play?
The video. Yeah, we, oh, you got it.
Let me just explain this thing that so this is this is how it
happened. And like some of the comments
are like, dude, you got so much time on the hand, get a job,
right. Some of the some of the haters.
All right, fine, whatever. So I, one of my, one of my best
friends now in life and, and certainly one of my, one of my
best friends in town who I coach with, right?
He we were texting about something for the night before
with his son, right, And then hit a home run, which is great.
I love his son, really good player.
Max is awesome. And we were doing some other
stuff as we, we talk a lot and generally I like to catch up on
text when I'm working out, right?
And I'll, I work out twice a week, nothing crazy, but yeah, I
got some decent stuff in the basement, have some weights, you
know, have some stuff I can really battle ropes and
whatever. I've got a couple of the
machines. So kids were at school, wife had
to step out, had about an hour and a half and wanted to get a
good workout in. So as we're texting about
baseball, he was asking me, oh, I said, hey, I got a new toy for
you. Because when he sees something,
he shoots it to me. When I see something that you
always exchange it. And he played college baseball
as well as he pitched, right? So, so he knows the game in
addition to being a great guy. So I said, hey, check this out.
So I did a video and it was just for him actually.
And I was showing him this new toy and it's basically for bat
speed, for leg for building stuff.
And and then I sent it to him like in between reps it was like
30 seconds. And he's like, oh, that's cool.
How much, where do I get it, blah, blah, blah.
So he's going to get one as well.
And I'm like, you know what? I do a lot of youth content for
sports. I only put this up on Instagram.
And then of course, you know, I mean 100 mocks later, is it that
it's at like 60 something K right now?
All right, so so do we. Have the audio for this too.
Yeah, all. Right, don't take the load and
the swing right? So it's a but you go fast, you
go like 1234 and you go like 10, right?
Then you go right so that you're training the other side.
This will look awful 23 4 right? So and then you do this where
it's like, and it's easy at first, but you're you're you're
getting used to leg right. And then the other thing too,
when you're taking these crazy violent swings, it's tiring,
bro. So you you can't rely on your
hands. You have to engage your legs to
be able to like really finish the swing and do it hard.
There we go. There you go.
What was that? What was that little simple the
the little cap cut because I had to edit the video.
Together to make Oh, OK, it's just like the little outro on
the on the editing platform. I forgot to cut it.
I got you. So that's it.
So that's what's getting clowned there.
You believe that just trying to help young kids a lot of
miserable people in the world. It it is amazing.
And like I said, go ahead let's see your swing, not the righty
swings that I took Go ahead 52 years old surgically repaired
back go for it. Let's see your swings all the
great hitters out there. Oh my God.
All right, let me get the let's get a couple more calls here,
Jay. Let's go bro.
Let me try James again real quick.
It was working in the backstage. Let's see, James.
James Hey BT. Can you hear me?
Got you, man. Let's go.
Let's chop that cool. Yeah, I called the other day
about. The Giants and that number.
Five pick and I really want them to get styles, but there is a
chance that they might go for Jeremiah Love if the previous
teams don't pick them and I I can actually wait.
Wait, you think who might go? I'm sorry, but who might go for
Jeremiah? Love Giants.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think there's a chance the
other previous teams don't take. Them, but I think there's a
real. Chance that.
That making sense because. It'll take some pressure off
Dart. And he can be involved in the
passing game as well. So I think he'd be a good asset
to the to the offense. I agree.
And listen, what happened? What what happened with Saquon?
Years ago, that should not impact this decision.
Every situation's different, every player's different.
You know, I I think that there's other things that the Giants
could do rather than that and maybe even should do.
But if the Giants walk away with Jeremiah Love at five and say
just I'm just throwing stuff out here.
Let's say a a downs, you're gonna go defense at 10 at that
point or Styles or Ruben Bayne. I don't know that they would go
edge, but more than maybe the first two guys or even a corner.
Like if danceworm Elaine, if he drops from LSU, maybe.
But yeah, I mean, Jeremiah Love is an amazing talent and I know
the Giants like him. Yeah.
So if if you see them getting defense.
For 10 pick, I like them to target a wide out in the second
round there with the 5th pick. What do you like there and that
kind of slot? Well, that might be more
conception actually, because a lot of people think.
Hold on, let me just grab something.
A lot of people think that I obviously reached on conception
at #16 for The Jets, but you look at some of these receipt.
I mean, so you're talking about a second round receiver for the
Giants, obviously, right? OK, so look, I'm just looking at
a bunch of my notes. Obviously Lemon's going to be
gone, Tate's going to be gone. Cooper's going to.
I would think Cooper's going to be gone.
Tyson's going to be gone. I think Denzel Boston goes in
the first round, but if he doesn't Concepcion or, or Boston
from the University of Washington or a couple of the
names that you can get maybe early, you might have to trade
up to get one of them, a couple of the slots.
But yeah, I think that's possible.
I don't. Chris.
Chris Brazell from Tennessee. Yeah, he's fast as hell, man.
And he's Big 64. Yeah, he can fly.
And yes, he's like, yeah, yeah, I like.
Him I've watched the I I almost hate saying this cause it's
gonna come. I'm not.
Trying to sound like a scout, but I I haven't.
I didn't watch Tennessee play a ton this year, but I really dove
in. It's funny you bring Chris
Brazell up. I dove into a lot of his stuff
and I love him and he's a guy who very well, you know, if he
goes in front of say, Boston, which right now people don't
think that he will, or even Concepcion or maybe one of
those, maybe even Cooper, wouldn't surprise me.
I mean, he's shooting up these boards.
So I like him. And listen, the good thing is
you got 2 premium picks. And thank you for the call,
James. Appreciate it, buddy.
You got two top 10 picks. You have your quarterback in the
future. You know, you got a couple of
guys who can play defense. You got to at least the
semblance of an you know, with Burns and I mean that's pretty
much it. Dexter's gone.
Not a huge came on pivotal fan. You got a couple of intriguing
tight ends you brought in likely you you got a great receiver
when he's healthy neighbors. You have the semblance of an old
line as I started to say you got a chance to really to really do
something big tonight and I don't know overly optimistic
delusional, a little bit of both.
OK, I don't know for sure, but you know when I say that tonight
has a chance to be a a a transformational night for The
Jets and the giants. I I don't think that that's, you
know, I don't think that that's reckless.
I don't think that that's cavalier.
I think now you got to pop on all of them, but you could.
All right, Next up, what do we got there, Jay?
We have got Corey from Edison, NJ Corey what's?
Going on core BT can you hear me?
Yes, Sir, I got you man. First and foremost, show is
great. You're you're a rock.
Star you. Guys are doing a great job, so
keep it up. I just want to talk about like
the whole Juan Soto situation. I I laughed, I put in the the
comments and backstage to say you stole some of my Thunder,
But I just think like I understand Soto might not be a
vocal guy, a vocal leader and someone in the locker room.
But I, I mean, even too, I'm, I was never a professional, but I
think it goes for something of being a good teammate, not even
in professional sports and work and life, you name it.
I agree, but not checking in on your guys not doing.
And then, and I know you said, you know, some people may make a
bigger thing out of it, you know, as it may be.
But like, I take a look at the Dodgers, you can even say the
Yankees, other teams that are successful, they're smiling out
there on the base paths doing things.
And I know when you're on A10 plus game losing streak, there's
not going to be a lot of smiles. But like, where was that
exuberant Juan? Juan Soto like, yeah, you'd
mentioned in the World Baseball. Yeah, WB, you knew that was.
I guarantee he's checking on Fernando.
Tatis on the 10 game win streak the.
Padres are going on, but he can't talk to Francisco Lindor.
Like that's where I like it's just and then it's just a whole
it's just another two, you know, a bad Sunday of Mets debacle
miss I I it rubs me the wrong way.
I get it talented player. I understand that, but like,
where's the culture in the locker room of a guy you?
Know. You mentioned it earlier, like
fellas, like come on, keep your heads, keep moving forward.
We're going to get through this. We're going to, you know, and
the door stream. But three weeks, what are you
doing for three weeks? So Corey, let me ask you this.
So we're on the same page. I don't think it's a good look,
right? But.
Let's also be fair to Juan Soto. I mean, did Lindor text him?
Yo, how's the calf feeling? You good?
Did anybody hit him up? Yeah, good point.
He and and it would have been something that's like, hey, you
know the. Guys checked.
In on me, but again, like that's how you get better as it's you
build those. Friendships and.
You know. If you're not befriending.
I there's something between those two already.
Someone's got to dig into the, you know, the locker room and
figure that out because it it I can already tell they're
related. They can't even handshake
properly and dab each other up. They're oh, on opening day.
Yeah, that was weird. But like to your point, I agree.
And I'm not trying to, you know, Juan.
Soto isn't, is an awesome talent and you know, is one of the best
in baseball. But like for me, when he's at
the plate, one of the best, right?
But be an elite baseball player and recognize as one of one of
the greats. May not you may not see this on
stat reference on baseball, you know, baseball stat reference.
But off the field, how are you as a teammate, a person, you
know, checking on your guys? And some people don't have it
right. You know, the judge got a little
heat when he made the World Baseball Classic, you know,
speech before they started off their their journey.
But and that's my crazy blog. I'll get out of here.
BT but it. It.
Thinking the wrong way and I got you.
The culture is is something for the Mets.
If they don't figure it out soon.
It's going to be like this for the rest of the the rest of the
time. It it's, it's well, not for the
rest of the time, but I, I know what you mean, Corey, thank you
very. Get the guy, get the dog a bone,
will you? Come on, take him out.
He's got to go to the bathroom. That's what he's like.
I got, I got to go for a walk there, Pops, take me for a walk.
Get the leash. Yeah.
It's funny, though, or at least ironic in the sense that, you
know, Juan Soto, when he left the Yankees, one of the things
he said, and listen, we know why he left the Yankees because the
Mets made every concession and they took good care of his
family and they hooked him up and all that stuff.
And that's fine. That's his bra.
Going to be a free agent. Do what you got to do.
That's best, what's best for you.
But he also said, you know, the Mets organization, he thinks
they're better. Really.
I mean, there's not an ounce of culture in the Mets
organization. It's ridiculous.
It's just a fragmented group of guys kind of going in multitude
of different directions. And it was the IT was the same
last year and now they got rid of the core and it seems even
worse this year because it's all new guys and they're not playing
well and some of the new guys are hurt.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Another call there.
J pop them up. But they got about one or two
more and then I'm going to take my daughter for a little a
little breakfast. Let's go.
We've got the go, Seth, but. Pinned.
His leg is the goat. Sorry, are you here?
Well, I can say two things about last night's Met.
Wing. Pyrrhic.
Victory all. Right, man.
I mean set, you know, it was. Yeah, yeah.
What about the enthos? During the process.
For anywhere from one to three weeks to six months.
Yeah, yeah, we're talking about God.
Six months, dude. We mean six months.
Strange as calf. Well, I'm just saying, but I'm
hoping that he doesn't do what Soto did.
And keep himself at too much of a distance.
At least call the team every once in a while.
Yeah, that was weird. So that bothered you as well?
Seth, how about the comments by? By Vientos basically saying
screw the third base coach, I'm doing what I got to do because
of my instincts. How about that Seth?
That was basically panic overtaking reason.
I think it was more insubordination overtaking.
You know, being a buttoned up team, a player, true.
Oh, there you go. You like that.
You didn't expect that volley back there for the draft.
And As for the draft, I'm hoping the Giants go.
Running back with the 5th and get a defensive and replace Dex
at 10. So I got a question for you
Seth. Every time you call right, a lot
of people say, oh, that's. Got to be a plant.
And it's not because we can see, we can see everybody's faces.
So it's not like so. But I wonder what do you do for
a living? Like do you do anything with
your voice? Everybody seems to respond to
the way you sound. Not really.
OK, you. Want to expound on that or no?
I kind of had this voice for a while.
Now it's just. That most of us do.
Yeah. Yeah.
But what do you do for a living, Seth?
Oh. Last two years I've been working
as a customers associate at Lowe's.
Not far. From my house.
OK. All right, all right.
Do you like it? I'm fine.
I'll run. My own.
When I'm not doing that, I'm running my own.
Wrestling podcast with a friend of mine up in the Bronx
Wrestling pod. All right, who's your favorite
all time wrestler? It's more for predictions.
I got you. Who's your all time favorite
wrestler? Tanahashi.
Wow. That's an off the board.
Who's your second? I'd have to say Taker.
OK, let me guess. You are in your 30s.
Late 30s. There you go.
Yep, Undertaker, I got you. All right, Seth.
Thank you buddy. Appreciate you checking in.
There he is. Let's go.
Undertaker. Did you I Speaking of, I saw a
clip yesterday of Ric Flair telling a story.
He was out. I think he was with.
I think he said Undertaker and Kurt Henning roofied him.
Do you hear about this story? No, Yeah, Kurt Hennig roofied
Ric Flair, and Ric Flair wakes up at a hotel with, you know,
you can imagine what around him, and we'll keep it a little bit
clean. And he's got a Rolex stolen.
He said, like he said, he had four Rolexes stolen because he
got so drunk or roofied or whatever that on four separate
occasions somebody took his Rolex.
Ric Flair. Wow, bro.
I mean, dude, that that checks out.
Dude, that guy is. Do you watch Kill Tony at all?
This is I don't know if we ever I don't know what the end of
this. What is it if maybe it's a
little more like? 40s thirties ish.
Range. It's like a comedy show.
A comedian puts it on. It's at like Joe Rogan's comedy
show. Check it out.
I think you'll like it. And I what channel?
Just YouTube. OK.
No, I haven't seen. Tony Yeah, it's a.
Good show. It's a good show and.
It's got some parallels to. What we do and like just live
podcasting in general. So check.
How's the Rogan by the way? How's the Rogan?
Great. Awesome.
Maybe. Maybe he's.
Going to see my swing and. He's like, that's it, That's
the. Impetus to get him on the.
Show Yeah, there we go. He's got to see something.
He's got to see something so. Listen, the more we hammer.
Out these clips the. More we, you know, honestly, the
more we get these calls and maybe we get something
interesting. Hey, we'll get something
cooking, man. We're just starting, just hit
the 20,000. Subs and just, you know, laying
those bricks and laying that foundation.
What else is that? If I don't think I got one more
call, we'll get that in. So yeah, today's today is stay
home from work day and does anybody have it or no, I'm
sorry, take your child to work day.
Does anybody have it easier than than my daughter?
So I mean, stay home from work basically means you sit on the
couch or go to work on the couch.
And and if you want to listen to Daddy, listen to daddy.
But I'm going to take her out to breakfast.
I want to get a little time with her.
Just us. She got a softball game tonight
too. So I'm going to wrap it up in a
couple of minutes here. But NBA playoffs, big win by the
Pistons last night. I told you they were going to
punch back. They smacked them third quarter.
It was pretty close, but the third quarter is where they got
their separation. They outscored them 3816, they
won 9883. So plus 15.
I was looking at the Piston starters.
I mean, we only hope the Knicks get this going tonight.
Plus 14 + 25 + 21 + 16 and plus 24 for those starters plus minus
on the night. And the crazy thing, and this
would make me feel really good if I'm a Pistons fan, they shot
58% from the free throw line, which is horrid.
And they made only 6 out of 26 threes, 6/18/24, so that's less
than 25%. Obviously that's probably not
2119, 2021 percent, 21%, but they were plus 15 on the
backboard. They didn't even shoot well.
Cunningham had 7 turnovers so he coughed it up a lot.
They were abysmal from the free throw line, terrible from the
stripe. But they still won and they had
to. I said yesterday if, and I said
they would win, but I said if they don't, that series is over.
The Magic will win. And I absolutely expect the
Magic to win the game in Orlando and I fully expect that series
to go deep. J Rod, if you had to make a
prediction, make it quick here. So Sixers and let's both do
this. Sixer Celts.
Sixer Celts tied at 1:00. I'm going to say Celtics in six.
What about you? Celtics in five?
I'm taking both. I mean, I guess your next.
Question may be the Knicks series.
I'm taking both the. Celtics.
And the Knicks in five, I think they rattle these next three
off. I don't.
I think that the Celtics will win in six I.
Think the Knicks will win in six?
What about Detroit and Orlando? I'm going to go Pistons in
seven. OK, you think I'm going to go
Pistons in six? I think last night they.
Really came out and they kind of showed all right, this is who we
are. You know, I'm true.
A return to form of sorts for the Pistons last night.
So I like what I'm seeing. I mean, honestly, and I think a
lot of my takes have just been, man, I mean, for the longest
time in the Eastern Conference, like these first round matchups
have been so uncompetitive. So I think I'm just like.
Led to believe like. Oh it's going to be a sweep.
Oh, it's going to be a 5 game series.
I will have my picks for the Celtics next thing but you know
I got you. Anything can happen.
All right, let's get the last call and then we're.
Going to wrap it up out. Of Busy Unleashed.
Here we'll let you know about what what we're going to try to
do for a little live action tonight with the draft and the
next. Go ahead.
We got Benny in DC. Oh, there.
Ha ha. There's Betty.
Are we going to? I didn't mean to throw him up on
the game like that, but is he in a military?
Uniform. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, should I throw him up? No, no, no.
You. Don't have to do that.
Eddie, salute brother, salute to you.
And and all the men and women. So what?
What what branch are you in? Army?
Army. God bless man.
I had a couple of good buddies go to.
Go to West Point, who made. Careers out of it.
So that is fantastic, man. And you're stationed in DC?
Yes. Nice, awesome.
I appreciate you. What's going on, bud?
Hey, So I just want to say, first and foremost, great job
with the podcast. Love listening to you.
I haven't been an hour long commute to work.
Now I've switched jobs, so I'm actually working in Maryland,
but still live down in DC. Every time I drive home, I'm
able to listen to the podcast and it just makes the time blow
by great. It's awesome.
Like when I get in the car, I load it up and the whole drive,
even though I'm sitting in traffic, it's it's great.
And you talk about for 98% of the time, which is, you know,
just amazing and refreshing. But I just want to bring up
quick couple points. Mets finally off to snide, which
is great. I'm really happy to see that
they finally got that win. But honestly?
You know, I think, you know, I haven't been able.
To really listen today because I've been in and out of meetings
and stuff and I'm like, I'm able to watch break.
So I figured I'd call in, but I'm not sure if you hit on this,
but I I really do feel that if they can go six and two through
this on this home stand, I think it's I think they'll be in a
good position going forward. I think get within striking
distance. Again, the Noe is not great.
Now we're I mean, look how look how we outside of the Braves.
But other than that, I think the Mets could be all right.
But really I'm calling about tonight to tonight and I'm
talking about the New York Knicks.
So I'm not sure how. You feeling but I think.
I think the Knicks are going to make a statement tonight.
That's going to be my prediction.
I think they're going to go in and I think they're going to
stop. I think I think this is this is
where, you know, we always have these these villains that come
into the Garden. Now we got CJ McCollum and the
Knicks usually fold throughout these, you know, series as they,
you know, Reggie Miller to Tyrese Halliburton.
And now I think the Knicks finally break that mold and win
the series in five. That's me.
I hope you're right, man. I listen.
If I had to give you a prediction for tonight, I'm.
More inclined to say the Knicks win going away, but then I
actually think the Hawks, you know, come back in game four and
it's like one or two possessions with a minute or two to go win
or lose, flip a coin. Like, I feel pretty good about
tonight. I think that the Knicks will
rectify some things that they had a problem with.
I just don't think Atlanta's offense is great, but they're
going to scrap on D. They had a couple of guys get
hot late. Brunson went to Hero Bowl, which
is never good. But yeah, I'm I'm with you.
And you'll be able to watch the game, obviously.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a going to have the game on.
I'm going to be out when I'm at the game.
Have the draft on, you know, the draft is the draft.
You know, we'll see what happens there.
I am a big Jet fan, so, you know, so we'll see what happens
there. But yeah, I do actually drive up
for Jet games. I have season tickets.
It's Oh, wow. Where, where are you from,
Benny? I'm from Jersey, originally
North. Jersey, I'm not in new.
Brunswick. But you know, I got you same
same Central Jersey people. People like to debate me on
that, but whatever, you know, not far from Rutgers.
Not far from Rutgers, No. Yeah, that's not far from.
Rutgers at all right there and I got, you know, I'm just.
Excited. I'm excited to see what happens.
I just don't want to keep, you know, with the Mets.
I just want to keep having to imitate Joe Beningo.
What a disgrace, a disaster, Joe.
I mean, you know, Joe is Joe's not happy about much these.
Days hopefully he's he's hitting the golf ball pretty straight
because I mean between your you're right.
What's mean your podcast and his?
You know, I, I, I'm, I'm able to fill the gaps when I'm driving.
But now, thanks for taking my call.
Let's go. Let's go.
Mets and Jets. Jets, Jets, Jets.
Hey, salute, man. Stay safe and thanks for
everything. I appreciate you, buddy.
Thank you. Thanks, Ben.
There you go. Yeah.
I mean, if Joe's not round on Boy Wonder or, or The Jets or or
politics, I mean, I don't know, I get hopefully Joe's hitting
them straight. Because if Joe's not hitting
them straight, Joe is, you know, for what I've heard, I've heard
very little of Joe lately. But, you know, I've seen some
clips pop up and nothing's wrong about the Mets and historically
about The Jets. But I got to, I got to get out
and play golf with Joe. I have not played with him in a
long time. I haven't even talked to him in
a long time. Maybe I'll get out at some point
if he wants to. All right, Jay, I got to wrap it
up. I want to take my beautiful
daughter to get something to eat.
Enjoy, enjoy. Show her how we wrap up the
show. You know, all that stuff there.
So I want to I want to thank everybody out there.
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You know if how when we're going to do a little something for the
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Thursday. Enjoy the draft.
I think it's going to be crazy with trades and there are
there's great intrigue. It's not like there's been some
drafts for you like whatever. OK, I mean, still the NFL drafts
on pumped up, but you're almost convincing yourself that it's
going to be a fun night. There is there's a lot of
storylines and we've hit them all and you guys have been great
with it. So I can't wait to see it come
to fruition. Good luck to The Jets and the
Giants and good luck to all the teams out there, all the fans of
the the floundering teams. Hopefully you get a couple of
pops tonight in terms of home run draft picks and let's go
mix. Put me on the board.
Let me go. Knicks 111 Hawks 99.
We'll still let me write that down.
See if we're accurate. 111 to 99.
All right. And that is it.
So make sure you like it, sub it, get it out there.
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I would imagine and definitely tomorrow at 10 here on the show.
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