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Wow. I told you Ben Rice was going to
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J Rod, how you doing today, buddy?
OK. Excellent.
Great. Ready for another?
Yeah. Good weekend.
Solid weekend. All right.
Ready for a great week. I mean, really nothing else.
The callers on Friday, that was electric.
Great talking to y'all, getting to know y'all, and let's run it
back. Let's keep.
Yeah. Yeah, Why don't before we get
into the show here, why don't you tell everybody again very
briefly, you did a great job because it's it's a little
Ricky. Won't you guys figure it out?
It's easy. But Jay, Rod is going to tell
you right now how you guys could call the show.
We'll get calls early, obviously.
Go ahead, Jay. Yeah, absolutely.
So do it same exact way as we did last time.
We'll have the link in both the description.
I also just threw it in the chat so you can see it there as well.
You click that link, you're going to see me in a backstage
in in the App Stream yard. Once you're there, you'll talk
to me, give me your name, where you're from, I'll send you
another link to this studio and we'll toss you up.
Yeah, it sounds, you know, if you're new to it, it sounds like
a little convoluted, but it I was, I was nervous isn't the
right word. You know, I expected a couple of
missteps, but there really weren't any of like it was, it's
actually really seamless. So the calls were great.
What? What do we take about 12 to 15
on Friday? Yeah, it was something around
that. Yeah, definitely went through
them all. And yeah, dude, they were just,
it was very funny. Just, you know, seeing where
everyone's calling in from. Yeah.
But also like just hearing their quotes, hearing their questions.
I thought it was great. Yeah, and listen, it adds juice
to the show. Man, that's the one thing that I
thought was missing. I could provide juice, you know,
as much as anybody, but it's the banter, it's the resistance,
it's the give and take That that that was like one of the last
things that I wanted to add. I told you guys we were going to
do it. So we started on Friday.
If you called it on Friday. Thank you for that and obviously
you have a chance to do it again today.
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So that will be tomorrow at 8. All right, man, there's so much
to do today. It's like I figured I'm going to
be starting with Dexter Lawrence like, but I but I got to push
that to the side a little bit. Wow, the New York Mets.
OK, listen, I I do think that it's get worse.
I guess it could, you can, you can lose a couple of games with
the Twins. So you could just lose 14 in a
row. I mean, I don't know what
boundaries the jet, the the, the the The Jets, the Mets Vadnais
will will take on this year. I don't know.
You know, I'm, I'm stunned that it's this bad.
I mean, 11 losses in a row is pathetic.
It's unacceptable. It's beyond embarrassing.
Like the Mets are it it in one in one swooping basically two
week run. The Mets are back to being the
Mets. The Mets are back to being a
joke. The Mets are a doormat.
The Mets are a disaster. And right now the Mets on every
level appear to be broken. Now, now, listen, guys, there's
so many different ways to attack this.
I'm going to, I'm going to be the adult in the room here, all
right? And, yeah, I mean, they are a
punch line right now. And you've got Met fans fleeing
for the Yankees. You know, ever since the mayor
of New York hugged Mr. and misses Met.
I mean, the Mets haven't won a game.
I mean, they're, they're it's it's it's ridiculous what's
going on with these Mets here. But there are two aspects #1 the
baseball point of view and #2 the emotional point of view.
So do I think the baseball parts going to get better?
I mean, of course I do. It's got to start with Juan Soto
getting healthy and Juan Soto getting back in the slide of #1
now I, I, I, I liked what the Mets did this offseason.
So I'm, I'm going to remain a little bit more married to their
prospects of punching out of this then maybe some.
I thought it was really time for the Mets to blow up their their
core. They weren't winning anything.
They were uninspiring. They just, they weren't very
connected. They, they just weren't good
enough. They had a long runway to prove
that the core was championship worthy.
They battled, they tried, they fought every once in a while.
They messed around. Then they made a move where they
made you think, OK, maybe this group's going to do it.
And then the bottom fell out and then wholesale changes came.
So I actually thought that most of the moves were were pretty
good. Like when they got Louise
Robert, I'm like, OK, I could see that.
Where they got Bichette, I loved it when they got Polanco.
Now Polanco was like, I think I literally think that that was
the first move. And I was like, woof, is this
like, is this the kind of offseason we're going for and
start nickel and diming like the old days?
But when you saw the other stuff that they did, I'm like, OK, I
get it. A little more contact rate.
Former middle infielder, he should be able to play first
baseball now. He's not healthy and Soto's not
healthy and Bichette's a disaster and the door's a mess.
And Simeon looks washed. And Louise Roberts been good,
but you know, not great, but good.
Like there's really one or two Mets who were playing well.
So you'd have to think that that's going to to get better.
I mean, I was looking at some of Bichette's numbers.
This is ridiculous. Like if it stays like this, then
they're going to look like the 62 Mets.
Like then that's never going to rectify itself.
But it's not going to stay like this.
So it's going to get better. The question only is, will it
get better to the point where it's going to satisfy everybody?
And that's where I'm leaning more no than yes, obviously.
I mean, I don't care how long the baseball season is.
I don't care how early it is in a baseball season, you don't
lose 11 straight games unless you have problems everywhere.
You know, whether it's the starters, Sanga, who's I would
ship him out. I mean, Sanga, if it's not like
a test tube, Perfect conditions for Kodai Sanga.
Kodai Sanga just doesn't seem to have the stomach to get it done.
I mean, he's atrocious, you know, and then you finally get a
lead yesterday and, you know, Devin Williams flushes it right
down the chute. You miss play a ball in right
field. You don't walk somebody, you
don't walk Nico Horner. That the explanation by Carlos
Mendoza was ridiculous. All right, So all these issues
that are facing the Mets, don't you think that maybe the worst
one, Bichette, don't you think that this is going to get
better? He's on base percentage is 255.
What is the Anthony Volpe all of a sudden, 255, which is 170th in
baseball. That's an aberration to his
career. Not like he's 24 like the
Anthos, right? Or yeah, he's had one good year.
You don't really know who he is. Beau Bouchet is a killer.
Beau Bouchet is clutch, and Beau Bouchet is a gamer.
So what you seeing right now is not Beau Bouchet.
It's going to get better. His slugging percentage is 280,
three, 159th best in baseball, and his OPS is 538, which is
165, fifth in baseball. He's making $42 million a year.
See, the problem is, it's not just that the Mets are
floundering and that they're languishing and that they looked
either disinterested or disconnected or a little bit of
both. The big problem is, all right,
is that the general manager now I'm, I'm bypassing Mendoza and
I'm going right to Stearns. David Stearns is Public Enemy
number one in New York. David Stearns without question
has jumped to the top of the list as the most hated man in
sports in New York. It's not James Dolan, it's not
Hal. And Yankee fans don't even love
Hal. It's not even Cashman.
And there's more Yankee fans that are against Cashman than
they are against Hal. I mean, you know, it's not Mike
Brown until maybe they lose. Nick's look pretty good over the
weekend. We'll get to that good start.
It's not Brown now because he's just starting the playoff
journey. So we have to see what happens.
You know, the Rangers are non entities and it's not them.
They go nowhere. So there's nobody's mad about
the they were mad about the Rangers months ago, but that
that's dissipated. You know, it's not John Mara who
brought in John Horbaugh. All right, You know, listen, I
mean, obviously The Jets always conjure up negative energy, but
it's almost more like, all right, let's see what this turns
into war almost apathetic or whatever.
Like the rage, the hate, the energy, the pushback right now
with David Stearns's team that he has assembled, it is real and
it is a massive, massive problem now.
Right now, the Mets have an off day, all right, Get a little
gift, even even though they're playing better than I thought
they would be at this point. The Twins, you got three with
the Twins. You've got three with the
Rockies. You've got three with the
Nationals. 2 of the worst three teams in baseball right now.
The Mets are tied for the worst record in baseball.
They're 7 and 15. They've lost eleven straight and
they have a -25 run differential.
If the Mets don't get their act together over the course of the
next 5 days or so, then what? I've been saying for a while,
I've been espousing a little bit of patience.
Like, hey, listen, I'm not a huge Mendoza fan.
I like him as a person, but I don't think he's nearly as good
as some people tell me that he, like I hear all the time.
And those aside, it's not Mendoza's fault.
Well, whose fault is it? I mean, the Bucks got to stop
with somebody. You didn't, you did not, you did
not intentionally walk somebody yesterday that a 12 year old
would have said let's put them on.
And again, it's more about Stearns.
But to give the manager a pass is the height of ludicracy.
Like, there's no way I'm doing that, all right.
And then even last year he mismanaged the the bullpen
terribly, didn't pinch run for guys when very obvious
situations arose. I thought he ran with Vientos
too much at third base late in the season when he was a horrid
defender. So Mendoza to me, and I've said
this many times, which is why we were going to split the
difference this year. Year one, really awesome.
Year 2, awful. Well, year three, let's get a
sense of who he is now. You can only manage what you're
given. All right?
So is this more of a Stearns thing or more of a Mendoza
thing? It almost doesn't matter because
what's going to happen is this. If the Mets lose 3 of their next
4 or 4 or 4, Mendoza's going to be fired.
Like there's no assurances that he makes it to May 1st.
I'm not saying that that's right.
But you can't lose consistently the way the Mets are losing with
this payroll and these expectations forever and have no
recourse. Like somebody's going to get
whacked and Mendoza is going to be the sacrificial lamb.
Well, again, whether it's right, wrong or indifferent.
But then once that happens, if that happens, and I hope it
doesn't, and I do still believe that the Mets will turn this
around more than more than most. I don't know, Maybe I'm just
kind of looking at some of the numbers and maybe I'm, I don't
know, I just think that they're starting pitching.
Sang aside and Peterson as well. But you got Peralta, you got
McClain. You know, Bichette's going to
start hitting. You have to think Lindor's going
to wake up, Soto's going to come back like there's 2.
Are you telling me that the Mets are the worst team in baseball?
Like, is this really who the 2026 New York Mets are going to
be? Is this what's going to happen?
So what will happen, as I just said, if they don't rectify
this? I mean, basically immediately
the manager will be fired, but that will not solve and that
will not that will not like lower the, the, the, the rage
and the anger. It's not really directed at
Mendoza and it really shouldn't be.
It's at the general manager because it's one thing when you
construct A-Team and this go, let me bring Cashman back into
this for a minute, right? So we've myself, you know, it's
not on the right, all that stuff.
Rebuild them the way they need to be rebuilt.
Like there's a lot of energy to work, but it's not necessarily
hate. It's not vitriol.
It's like, dude, I'm tired of this.
Like it's kind of the same thing every year.
Bloated payroll, but then you got to find two or three
position players every deadline or a couple of bullpen arms, or
you got two or three guys playing out of place
defensively, or you're a team that doesn't make enough contact
or whatever it might be, right? The the problems with Cashman
have been repeated and it's just tiresome.
It's like it's exhausting talking about the same things
with the Yankees over and over and over.
The one difference, though, and what makes the Yankees
situation, the more the Yankees are just better and they're
playing better and they almost always play better than the
Mets. But in terms of the energy
toward the general managers here is that the guy in Queens took
people that you love and shipped them out and you've lost eleven
straight. Like, it's one thing when we're
sitting here in February as the Mets go down to Port Saint Lucie
and we dissect, all right, here's what the Mets have done,
here's what their prospects are, here's what we think could
happen. And you're kind of going through
the emotions of losing people that you love watching play
baseball. You know, I mean, like Pete
Alonso and Brandon Nimbo, who was smacking the cover off the
ball. Brandon Nimble's hitting 325.
You know, that's one aspect because it's early and there's a
whole world of baseball possibilities in front of you
that are at least interesting enough where all right, as you
compartmentalize the emotion And then like the logic of being a
Met fan back in February, it unless you're a deranged lunatic
and many of us are with their teams.
I get that it's not a knock. But if you're a fairly sensible
fan, you could and many of you did take a step back and say,
all right, man, haven't won since 86.
It's a long run of ineptitude here.
You know, we got some good pitchers coming up.
We got some interesting players, got Soto Gotlandur.
This core that we've messed around with for a couple of
years is not working. So even though you resisted and
and would call up the station and tweet away and do whatever
you do, many of you, I think deep down understood that the
Mets had to change something. They had to.
I mean, what are you going to roll out a core of Vimo Alonzo
and, and you know, and obviously Francisco Lindor for seven
years, he's going to keep going, keep going.
Hey, hey, it's 2029. Maybe we'll win this year.
No, like there's there's, there's a finality to it.
There's an end point to it. And I thought that the Mets
corps hit that end point and so did the Mets press.
But that doesn't mean that what he did was right.
Hey, it's it's not my job to build the team.
It's my job to react to what I see.
And my reaction to that Mets corps was not good enough based
off of that reaction. My next reaction was you got to
mix it up and you got to do something different based on
what they did. My reaction to those moves were,
I got to be honest, I kind of like what they did, but I'm not
the GM, you know what I mean? I'm just sitting here at home
now doing a show and I'm going to give you my opinions and I'm
going to give you possible solutions and timelines on when
people should be fired or whatever it might be.
I'm not getting paid to build the Mets.
David Stearns, all right, who's a Mets fan, who's a local, local
guy, took the heart of the team and just ripped it apart.
And at the right, it seemed like the right time.
But eleven straight losses. And this is what's unfair about
this. He's not going to get fired mid
season. It's going to be Mendoza who
loses his job. So let's be very clear about
this. You know, there's there's really
nothing to interpret. Thus far, David Stearns has been
an F as the general manager of the New York Mets.
Not AD plus, not AD minus a straight up FF.
And if guys don't wake up and guys don't start performing, the
managers out and then the GM is out in the offseason.
That's all there is to it. That's the reality of it.
And that's the way it should be with those expectations.
Hey, listen, you want to be and, and I know that Mets fans, I've
always aspired to this. I get it.
You know, my Jet fandom is tied into like the Mets.
I I get it. You want to be championship
relevant every year. You want to know because you
called me up and you told me this for years on the fan.
You know you, you want to know when there's a big fish to reel
in from a free agent perspective, that Steve Cohen
sitting at that head of the table with that big checkbook
and you got a real chance to get that player.
Guess what? You've got a lot of them.
And guess what, It's getting worse.
It's getting worse. You got Soto.
You went from a playoff team that almost won, that almost got
to the World Series. I'm not blaming Soto.
I'm just giving you the context of what's happened.
You almost got to the World Series.
You just smashed the Phillies, and then you run into the
Dodgers the next year. All right, the logical step is
maybe we get to the World Series.
No, you win 83 games, no playoffs, and here you are.
You've lost eleven straight games.
It doesn't matter what I thought coming into the season about the
moves. It doesn't matter you thought.
What matters is the Mets suck right now.
They are an unmitigated disgrace right now.
They are unwatchable. See, the Mets right now are a
very frightening combination of several things here.
Like, it's one thing to be bad, right?
That's that's one energy. It's another thing to be boring.
That's another energy. It's like, all right, if my
team's bad and they're boring, like a lot of times with The
Jets right where I'm watching the game, you know, it's like 30
to 6 in the fourth ground. Like, you know what, I'm going,
I'm moving on to another game. I'm not.
I'm not sitting here torturing myself watching A-Team unable to
move the sticks to get a first down.
So you could be bad, you could be boring.
Those are two things that a lot of teams are like the Rockies.
The Rockies are bad, the Rockies are boring.
What makes this different is that now it looks as if the Mets
are dysfunctional and disconnected and basically
broken. And when that happens and you're
in New York, you have as big a problem as you could possibly
have as a sports team. So this home stand is either
going to be. The elixir that the New York
Mets so desperately need. And they start hitting and they
start waking up and they start winning some games and they
stave off the firing squad for at least a little bit.
Or it is going to be as ugly, as ugly as sound and as ugly optic
that you can have for any team in a while in the city.
Like, that's where we're at. So it's your move, Mets.
I mean, the fans can't win games for you.
Oh my God, J Rod, what a disaster, dude.
It is just brutal out there bro. Like God almighty, they Mets
look awful. Also to let you know, we got.
Mets. We got, we got a lot of callers
in the queue already. Let's.
Top them in, man. We got people.
Yeah, I figured that. Let me just read this real
quick. Yeah.
You love you, brother. Only guy who talks sports and
we'll follow you wherever. I appreciate that.
Thank you, Jay. Thank you very much.
Also, I want The Jets to trade up and grab downs.
Don't love any any any water receiver in this draft.
I'm going to do some draft after I'll get to the Dexter Lauren
stuff. I do have to do one thing and I
you could probably see me. I feel like I have to blow my
nose and I'm on camera. I no longer have a partner, so I
can't really hide. So I'm going to actually duck
this way for a. Second, I mean, it's like I
could just toss myself. Up.
Yeah, You throw yourself up there for a SEC.
I have to. It's been my nose is runny
because my you know, and I I can't it just and and let me
take care. Of this, Yeah, exactly.
Just RIP it real quick. Hello and Leaf fam, how are you
doing today? There we go.
Mets, man. Mets are just crazy guys.
Jay. Rod, thank you very much, Jay.
Good job on that, Jay. Look at Jay filling in so
seamlessly. Hey, that's what happens when
you go to Syracuse. That's the kind of that's the
kind of store that you produce. I love Jay.
Rod J Rod. J Rod is the UN unlabeled star
of the show. People love J Rod.
Yeah, and they should. I'm so happy for you man.
You doing great. I appreciate all especially like
the comments from Friday. I appreciate all the just the
well produced on the calls comments like yes, thank you
guys. I'm trying.
Yeah. No, you are.
There was a lot of moving parts that that happened behind the
scenes and we busted out the calls and you know what?
Let's do it now. Let's get to the calls.
We got a lot to get to. Do a little.
Something on Ben Rice. I got a little something on
Three Burning Questions. I want to get to the Dexter
Lawrence trade giants. Well, I saw that.
I'm like, they got what? Wow.
So the as bad as the Mets are right now, that's as good as the
trade was for the G man. All right, let's get to the
Colts here. What do we got, Jay?
We've got a John from Fort Hood. Call him back again.
All right, Johnny is out in Texas.
John, what's going on, buddy? Welcome back to Unleashed.
How are you? Thank you, BT.
I'm doing good. How you doing today?
Awesome man. Salute to you and the boys and
and the women, all the troops out there.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
Yeah, so I don't know if you
remember on Friday we were talking about the decks
potential trade and we both agreed that they weren't going
to get a top 16 pick. Yep.
And now they ended up getting a top ten pick, which blew my
mind, I'm not going to lie. So what do you think they're
going to do in the draft on Thursday with that pick?
Yeah, Well, listen, I was stunned, John.
I was absolutely stunned, though.
We talked about this. If you guys missed the show,
show. I was flat out asked like,
what's going to happen with Dex? I said, I guarantee he's going
to get traded. I guarantee there's no way that
the Giants are going to to acquiesce to his financial
demands. There was too much, too much
there. It's a new regime and he was out
of shape and he was and he's now he's a beast when he's right.
So Cincinnati, if he's ready to play football, they got
themselves one of the two or three best interior live at a
football. So it could be a win win.
But I was flabbergasted, John. And thank you for the call.
John. I appreciate you reaching back
out could work out of you. So we keep the train moving.
Jay, you can get him down. Thank you.
I, I thought it would be like middle part back end of the
draft in terms of the first round.
And I wasn't even fully convinced that they were going
to get a first round there because I remember saying
somebody else brought this up and I'm like, hell, would you be
OK? Would say 2 twos.
And honestly, at that point for me, I'm like, yeah, two twos
pretty good. So the Giants absolutely crushed
that. All right #1 #2 like, what do I
think they're going to do with the draft?
Well, let's say if they stay at 5:00 and 10:00, I think they're
absolutely going defense. And then obviously this opens up
a conversation for the receiver because there was a lot of talk.
Well, not a lot. I don't want to go nuts here,
but there was some talk. Maybe the Giants take receiver
at 5, which I thought was ridiculous.
There's too many good defensive players, whether it's a styles
or downs or maybe you trade down even there go Ruben Bayne, what
what whatever. There's a lot of ways the G men
could go. But now that you have that
number, that number 10 pick overall, I mean you can satisfy
both sides of the ball. So I don't think, I don't think
they're going defense, defense, I don't think they're going
offense, offense. I'm almost I'm I'm convinced
they're going defense then to offense.
But I wouldn't be surprised if they make another trade as well.
That's just a great move by by the Giants, Jay.
Let's get those Met calls. You got some Mets stuff up
there. Let's see calls or comments.
I've got a lot of Mets comments. I've got some more callers.
I'm sure a couple of them are. Doing that.
All right, fire him up. What?
What do you got? Let's go.
Keep it moving. On new callers.
Yeah, let's get a call up, pop it right.
Cool. We got a Benji from Upper East
Side all right. We got a little ues Benji is we
got to get, we got to get the official Chiron.
You see now I actually feel like a broadcast pro.
I see that I'm like Benji, Upper East Side.
I feel like I'm coming. Come on.
Like the old days, You know? Benji, what's going on, man?
What's up BT? Back back in the seats again for
Game 2 tonight, obviously, 1/19, 1:19 and 1:41.
Yeah, you had a good time. You took your wife the other
night, right? That's correct, man.
That now you see what I'm doing out.
There, but yeah, man, I want. To talk more about Cat, we I
know we talked about it, but if you look up and down the if you
look up and down the three-point percentage of all time, you'll
see Cat 61st all time and you'll see that there's no big man
that's even close to him in this spot.
This is a very special player. You saw the gravity that he
commands on the floor, particularly when he got going
in the second-half. My only thing with him, and I
know you're seeing this too, I don't know why it takes so long
for us to get him, to get him involved.
Like the first half obviously had a really poor first half,
but it's like it's I'm seeing it and I'm seeing certain times in
the game where Brunson, as amazing as he is, and he got us
going, obviously with 19 in the first quarter on Saturday.
Why does he go ISO so much and just pound the ball like it
seems obvious. Yeah, well, to me it's a
problem. And listen, if you think think
about this, and when I say a problem, I mean, on the on the
grandest level of problems here, it could keep them from a
championship. And I don't even know that they
have all the other pieces there. Benji.
And, and thank you for the call, Benji.
Appreciate it, buddy. Let's go.
Knicks tonight, of course, game #2 but yeah, I mean, see, to me,
Jalen Brunson can get a shot whatever he wants.
So to me, that's part on Brunson, that's part on and also
on coaching, obviously, like if I'm coaching the Knicks, and I
know this is absolutely an oversimplification, it's never
this easy. I get it, because teams are
counteracting what you're trying to do.
So it's easy for me to say this on BT Unleashed.
It's harder to do with tonight when you hit the court against
the Hawks, right? But like, if I'm Mike Brown and
I'm Jaylen Brunson, like I'm getting together and I'm saying,
hey, let let's let's find a way to let the big goal get
something going early. Like let's get him in the mood.
You know what I mean? Like, to me, and there's a few
things in in basketball, like when the big man runs the court,
you got it. You got a reward of right that
that's an old adage in basketball.
You know, if you got a big who's going to fill the lane and and,
you know, get down the court on a fast break, you better give
him a bounce pass and let him flush it and feel good about
himself. You better.
And and you know, I also think at least with this Knicks team,
like this group, this iteration, this situation, I, I just don't
know why they don't come out and feature him early more.
Because, you know, even if I mean, I would think even if
Jalen Brunson goes the first 6 or 7 minutes of the game, it
takes two shots and the other guys are in the flow.
Well, then you can say I Jalen go get a quick 11 or 12 points
in any given quarter and he's going to do it.
So I I don't, I don't really understand that it's it's a
coaching thing. I think it's partly a
recognition thing. I think it's partly being more
demonstrative. I also think that, you know, I'm
not going to exonerate Carl Anthony Towns here now.
I know he's made some concessions to his game this
year. And I was all over Cat early in
the year and begging on him. And I stand by what I said, but
I'm also somebody when I see somebody trying to change or
embracing a different role. And, you know, I'm, I'm going to
give him credit. And I've taken, I've taken my
foot off the off the gas in terms of just, you know, revving
that engine and pounding on cat. Because I've seen somebody who's
who's tried to kind of fit in to what's going on, even though,
you know, that he can't possibly love the way he's being used
here, You know, but listen, some of the onus is still on him to
be a little bit more forceful than calling for the ball.
When you see that pick and roll, I mean, how about that one pick
and roll right, right at the top of the circle where Brunson
threw a behind the back pass and then you swing it all around
quarter three. I'm like, I mean, I was just
that was just basketball beauty. It was gorgeous, man.
So we'll see. I mean, there's not a whole lot
to criticize from the other night.
Knicks did look good. I'm not worried about the Hawks.
You know, initially I said the Knicks in five and then I kind
of amended that a little later in the week and I said Knicks in
six. I'll stick with Nixon 6.
But if they win tonight, you'd have to think that they find a
way to, you know, get 2 of the next three and and probably do
wrap it up in five. And, you know, listen, the
Pistons lose. That was the really big upset
over the weekend. So obviously basketball is, you
know, is off and running here. We got a lot going on.
It's a big week. You got the tramp.
It's it's a it's a lot of fun here.
But the thing to me is, you know, and I said this on Friday,
when the when the let's see, the Mets had lost at that point,
their losing streak was I guess it was 8, right?
Yeah, they lost three in Chicago.
And like, the one thing about where we are now calendar wise
is that not necessarily in the first round with the Knicks,
because, you know, we all expected like if God, if the
Knicks don't win the first round, forget about it.
They will. But the Mets and the Yankees,
who Yankees are starting to wake up, helps you play the Royals.
But the like, there's nowhere for the like, the Knicks aren't
going to be able to hide for the next month or three weeks or two
months, whatever it might be. And during this energized and
intensified focus on the Knicks, you know, the Yankees and the
Mets, they become a little secondary in the city.
That's just the way it goes. You know, it's middish.
Early latest April and Nick's are just getting going.
And one thing we we know about New York, when the Knicks are
really good and when the Knicks have a a, a chance, you know
what a a real chance to do something.
The Knicks take over. It's the Knicks show, but this
usurps that. Like, it's one thing if you lose
three of seven or you or you go three and seven or you go three
and five. Even if it's teams you're
supposed to be like one thing. That's where the Knicks will
kind of obscure that, you know, that shrapnel.
But when you lose 11 straight and now you come home and you're
playing a couple of teams that you should put in a body bag,
you know, if you're playing decent baseball, the Twins are
the more formidable. The three you got three with
Minnesota, the Rockies and the Nationals.
Like you got 9 games there. Like it it.
I mean, it's I mean, if the Mets go three and six, he's got it.
You got to find. And I don't even want to get rid
of Mendoza until Juan Soto comes back.
Like, I'd really like to give him that chance to kind of
rectify this, but I'm not even listen.
I mean, to sit here and think that Juan Soto is going to fix
everything about the Mets is, is ludicrous.
Is Juan Soto going to pitch on the days that Kodai Sank is
supposed to pitch? Is Juan Soto going to pitch on
the days that David Peterson supposed to pitch?
Is Juan Soto going to come in and close games?
Like I know that Devin Williams hasn't had many opportunities
and obviously gave up the Grand Slam and whatever, but you know,
non save situation, which happens a lot to closers.
I mean, Devin Williams, you you got to you got to slam the door.
Come on, man, you must finish that game yesterday.
And I don't think that there's any more frustrating way to lose
a game when when you are mired in a prolonged losing streak,
right? And then you'll finally get a
lead and then your clothes are flushes it down the shoot.
And then, you know, to make it even a little bit worse, your
manager doesn't walk somebody that we all think that he should
have walked. And there's just there's only so
many levers to pull at this point.
I mean, Polanco's banged up. He's not even playing.
You know, Soto's starting his running.
But, you know, I mean, at that calf, it's just it's tricky, you
know, and even as great as Juan Soto is, I mean, there's just
too many other automatic outs or situations with this Mets team
that right now, if it feels, it feels broken and it looks, and I
know that this is not the case. It looks too often.
And this happens in baseball when you don't hit.
So I want to be fair to the Mets.
I want to be fair to the guys on the team.
Like Mets are trying. I mean, this thought that the
Mets aren't trying, that the Mets just don't give a shit is
ridiculous, right? But I, I, I listen.
I don't want to hear anymore. I'm just tired of it.
I've hit my expiration point. Is anybody else exhausted?
Absolutely beyond exhausted hearing Francisco and Door take
accountability after a game. All right, great job.
All right, Yeah, you're going to.
You're going to put the thumb at your chest.
How about your RIP one in the gap when the game is on the
line? How about you make a play it
short when the game is on the line?
I mean, there's been 1-2. I'm going through my head each
situation. You know, whether it was getting
thrown out of the plate against the Pirates when he got hit in
the head and some people think he's concussed and stop with the
concussion. He's concussed.
I mean, if if, if he has a concussion, then the Mets are
the biggest idiots in the world. I mean, it was basically a month
ago. Like, come on, man.
I mean, modern medicine in the year 2026, I mean, I'm hearing
this all the time. Might have a concussion.
Well, if he's got a concussion, why the hell is he playing?
Would you guys please wake up and just understand that he's in
space for whatever reason, it is not attributable to a concussion
in my opinion. Maybe he's just not really
locked in. You ever think about that?
You know, maybe there's some dynamics in the clubhouse and I
you know that I don't know, I'm not there.
I don't know. Doesn't seem like a healthy
clubhouse, just like last year's didn't.
So I am just I am over after every single game that the Mets
lose, like it's no longer. Wow, what a leader.
Oh my God, Lindoor. What great accountability.
Take that thumb and put it here rather.
No, dude, you're supposed to be the Come on, come on.
You don't get extra points for being accountable.
You get extra points for being productive.
You get points for doing your job.
You get points for hitting. You get points for running.
You get points for fielding. You get more points for winning.
Right now. You're not hitting, you're not
fielding, you're not winning. I'm not saying it's all his
fault, but I just I, I watched these these post game interviews
on S&YI want to hear Mendy's report like I did with the
Yankees with boot as well. I want to get a sense of what's
going on. Wow.
I mean, what amazing Francisco endures owning up to not playing
good Chris baseball. I mean, does anybody really need
that anymore? Does anybody want to hear that
anymore? It's old.
How about you perform? How about that?
How about you play like the star that everybody tells me that you
are? Every year Lindor's a superstar.
Yet every single year with the Mets, there's something with
Lindor. He had a fight in the tunnel.
He's hitting 112 in April, whatever it might be.
Not getting along with this guy, Not getting along with that guy.
I mean enough, enough, enough. J Rod.
Yes, Sir, we've got a we've got a Mets question from Trey in
Long Island. OK, let's get him up there.
Trey from Long Island is on a leash.
Trey, what's happening, buddy? How you doing today?
Great BCBC, big fan, followed you around a lot.
Love everything that you're about basically.
Absolutely. My question is, there's been
three teams to make post season after losing 11 in a row.
I look at this team and I'm just so I'm like distraught because
this is not something that we expect.
It's not something that you really.
I feel like it is very hard to lose 11 games in a row.
It is. And.
So now I'm looking at it and yes, I hate the fact that it's
April and we're talking about who's going to replace Mendy and
and going along this spiel. But honestly, in your mind,
looking at these options, I know that, you know, people are
talking about Kai Correa or Andy Green.
I know he wasn't that good with the Padres.
I don't know why that's the thing.
I get the front office, but I just want to see who do you
think with them going that route they, you know, end up?
Changing if they fire Mendoza, I mean the truth that I'll give
you an answer here, Trey. I think it would be Korea could
be Beltron. I don't I don't know for sure.
But here's the thing, this is not, you know, football where
some incredible scheme can kind of elevate a defense or an
offense, whatever it might be in.
And I don't want to say the manager has obviously no juice
because he does. You know, there's a a
temperament, there's a day-to-day awareness and
cohesion that is obviously paramount in baseball as well.
But if you don't have the requisite horses, if you don't
have the pieces, and I'm not saying that they don't because
Bichette's got to be better and Soto's not even playing right.
So they're going to be better, I think.
But you know, even if they were to bring in, you know, Davy
Johnson, rest in peace, like a great Mets manager, it might not
matter, Trey, if you just don't have the right pieces, dude.
So I'm more concerned about the lineup and the help of the
organization and the moves. And Trey, I'm going to drop you
because you get a little bit little feedback.
Thank you very much. Thanks for the call there, Trey.
I appreciate it, buddy. Thank you for calling in.
You know, there's only so much you could do.
There's only so much you could do.
Like if you're a basketball coach, right?
Say, if you're not that you would necessarily do this in the
NBA. You can't do this at the pro
level. But if you say if you're a high
school coach and you're like, we just don't we don't have a lot
of have a lot of talent, right? So, you know, there's ways like,
you know, if you if you hit the court against a certain team and
you try to play straight up, you're going to get run out of
the gym and you're going to lose 100 to 100 to 39.
All right. So maybe one way to count their
balance, that lack of talent and that disparity.
Let's take the air out of the ball.
Not that anybody would want to play that way in 2026, but you
know, 5 or 6 passes, you know, limit the other team's
possessions, limit our mistakes, kind of negate the advantage in
athleticism. I mean, what are you going to
really do in baseball? I could be a little bit more
aggressive. And by the way, they were
aggressive that they talked about this going into the Pirate
series where, hey, we looked at the Pirates as a team that we
can run on and kind of speed them up and make some mistakes.
And then they send, they send the door of the double in the
left center gap, and everybody cries.
Which is because they're like, oh, it's not the right time to
set, which I understand it probably wasn't the right time
to send them, but I mean, what I I what I'm saying is if you're a
manager and you just have 345 automatic outs, there's really
just nothing you could do. I mean, maybe spread them out a
little bit. He's tried to mix up the lineup.
Ben just hit first. I mean, door in the three spot.
You know, I mean, you look at the way the lineup began at the
beginning of the year. It's a little bit different now.
Alvarez, I think at one point, yeah, maybe even yesterday
batting 5th. I think, you know, he he had a
couple of games where he's in the five hole.
Didn't start there this year. I don't have to tell you, man,
it's just it, it is, it is an ugly, ugly and more importantly,
a very dangerous mix right now of incredibly sloppy, uninspired
play and anger within the Mets fan base.
Angry for like, it's one thing if you ship out a bunch of
hometown heroes and you win. I mean, Mets fans will get over
that because Mets fans are going to root for the, you know, the,
the Mets on the front, even though the names on the back are
really woven into the fabric of, you know, that, that fandom, You
know what I mean? Been a Pete Alonzo fan forever.
You've been a Nimmo fan forever. Diaz less, but whatever.
But those two guys, I get it. Even McNeil, some of you like
McNeil, whatever. But if you're going to alter
that chemistry and that DNA and literally uproot 2 dudes that
you drafted very early, by the way, and you saw in the draft
saw come up through the system and both do some some pretty
damn good things. Even those who love Alonzo and
love love Nimmo. If the Mets right now had won
eleven straight, nobody would care what Pete's doing in
Baltimore or what Brandon Nimmo's doing for Texas.
You wouldn't care. But it's just toxic evaluation
of, you know, what we once had and now what we are and what we
no longer have. It is ugly, man.
It it is ugly for the New York Mets.
Ugly, ugly, ugly. Yes, Sir.
Yes, Sir, we've got a, we've got another Mets question if you're
down to hit it of. Course, I talk baseball all day.
Punch him up there. What do we got, Jay?
We've got. Seth from Concord, NC.
OK, Seth, what's going on, bud? BT Unleashed, how are you?
You know, during the offseason I got ready to blow my stack at
Stearns for his skin flinting, undervaluing and short leashing
players that were that he inherits and shipping them out
to create a team in a grotesque, frugal, cost efficient image.
Like he's done with this team, sabotaging it.
You don't make a team out of dumpster diving pieces.
Well, Seth, Seth, Seth, hold on a SEC.
Seth, I got you. I appreciate the anger.
You should be team's awful, but dumpster diving.
I mean, the Mets. Mets have a top two payroll in
baseball. But why shortchange and skin
Flint the contracts I mean. What?
What do you mean like this? Way undervaluing players, short
putting them on short three term contract year contract leashes.
When guys like Alonzo, for example, they're at least worth
another 4, maybe five years over $100 million at minimum, and
instead he tried to shortchange them for 70 million.
All right, so, so it's about Pete, but less about.
No, it's about really about Pete.
Is Pete is Pete hitting 320 for the Orioles and I'm missing it
here? He's not doing that well.
I'm. Saying this if it if Pete and
Edit stuck around maybe things would be a little better.
Not much but but but my point is both Stearns and Mendoza knew
coming out last season they were going to be under the gun and
owning up to their mistakes they doubled down on them.
Stearns with his short sighted arrogance and Mendoza with his
incompetent in game gambling decisions that drive me up a
wall that have no rhyme or reason to the more than half the
time. Set this pissed.
I mean I. Want Mendoza gone?
I mean, I want a regime change when this season's over.
Oh, jeez, I can't believe we're here already.
All right, well, Seth, interesting.
I don't. You might get your wish, Seth.
And thank you for the call. You want a regime change?
Seth has fired up, huh? Man Seth hitting that high
level. Come on now man.
I mean this is unleashed bro, nothing else.
Can you, are you listening? Can you hear me?
Yeah. Yeah.
No, I, I know I appreciate it, man.
The Mets are a a just a horrendous watch right now.
There's really there's zero to enjoy except watching McClain
pitch. That's fun and he is awesome.
You know, Ah, God, they are just they are terrible, dude.
But you really can't make this up, right?
You can't make this up. You know, I I never jumped into
this. I just don't find it
interesting. Some people do and that's fine.
The whole Yankee met thing, whatever.
You know, you guys got Soto great good for you.
I've moved on great hitter. That's fine, but you know, it's
it's kind of like isn't it really like The Jets getting
Aaron Rodgers right and then jet fans and I was a little bit one
of them here to be honest with you.
Oh, here we go. We got a good defense.
We got this, we got that we finally have a quarterback and
you know what this happens and that happens.
This is The Jets year got, you know, strutting around a little
bit and then 4 plays in, he gets hurt, Jets suck, people fired,
he's gone. Like this is this is just and I
don't even believe it. Like I don't subscribe to like
football fate. I believe that success and
failures or curses like Joe Namath, whatever it might be, I
believe in you are what you accomplished is a by product of
either intelligent decisions or bad ones like James Dolan
finally got rid of Steve. No, this I like Steve still.
I used to see Steve a lot of the games.
Good man Steve Mills, right. Steve Mills had way too much
juice at the garden. Never got it right.
Had a chance to fix it didn't work out gone right.
And then obviously you mess around with Phil Jackson
disaster, but the decision that Dolan made to bring in somebody
who actually knows basketball and more importantly had
connections around the league because that's the way the
league was going. That was a very smart decision
by James Dolan and it remains to be seen if this group can win a
championship, but at least they got a chance.
They haven't lost eleven straight, you know what I mean?
And it's just amazing how you know the The Jets do things and
it doesn't really work out. The Mets do things it doesn't
really work out. It's crazy Yankees and I and I
don't again, I don't really do this much, but you can't ignore
think about this. The Yankees get Soto, they make
the World Series, the Mets get Soto, they win 83 games.
It's just crazy. It really is.
All right, Jay, let's get to 3 burning questions.
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Papain. All right, let's get that first
question up there. Boy, I can't wait to get it
today. Yeah.
Oh, boy, I did. I tell you who told you I did.
Where should Ben Rice regularly hit in the Yankee lineup?
I told you he was going to be phenomenal.
All right, let me give you a little stat here.
First of all, this is just have a little fun.
That'll give you the answer. There are five Yankees all time
ever that have started in their first 21 games with an on base
percentage of at least 475, a slugging percentage of at least
800, and scored twenty runs or more in their team's first 21
games. You ready for some names here?
Babe Ruth in 1921 and 1926, Lou Gehrig in 1922, Mickey Mantle in
1956, A Rod in 2007 and Yep, ball game Ben Rice.
All right, so where should Ben Rice hit?
He should hit lead off every single game and I don't want to
hear a booty. It's a lefty whatever put him up
there number one every single game he is at night now you know
the numbers last year cuz I, I bombard you with the baseball
salmon stuff cuz I like to geek out here and there.
This year, he's doing it again, 97%.
And if you follow those, you know what this means.
And if you don't, well, then, yeah, whatever.
Just trust me, it's good. 97 percent or better.
Eight offensive categories on baseball Savant, meaning he's in
the 98 percentile in terms of all these amazing offensive
categories. Hey, if Voltanic can lead off,
then why the hell can't Ben Rice?
I know he doesn't run like Otani.
He's an on base machine. He's hitting lefties of the 326
clip. He is.
He just destroys righties. And here's the thing too, he is
going to stress opposing pitchers like Grisham is an easy
out, like much easier and relative to other lead off
hitters, you know, on teams that are trying to win a championship
and easy out, Ben Rice is an incredibly arduous at bat to
navigate. He's going to make you throw a
lot of pitches. He's going to foul a few off.
He's not going to chase. He's going to barrel.
And guess what that does? Got it?
Breaking baseball news that makes life a little bit easier
for Aaron Judge, who will be batting second anytime if you
want. Even if Boone wants to put him
like fifth against lefties, I would not do that.
But the Yankees against every freaking righty every single
night that they play. Ben Rice 1, Aaron Judge 2,
Bellinger 3. Conversation over.
That's it. Ben Rice is entering superstar
territory like I told you he would #2 #2 #2 little pea
shooter #2 All right, What was the biggest surprise of the
opening weekend of the NBA playoffs?
There we go. Well, to me, there's only one
option here. Are you kidding me?
First of all, 7 of the 8 home teams higher seeds won except
Detroit Basketball Pistons lost Orlando and they lost kind of
going away. They lost by double figures, 112
one O 1. Listen, I don't know that that's
a stunning result. I mean the magic had a lot of
injuries this year. The magic are a really good
tough ascending team. Like they're legit man.
And and it wasn't when I say legit, like probably a year or
two away from championship your regular conversation.
But the magic are are good and Detroit did not shoot well 10
out of 32 from downtown. And but this was not like an
anomaly. It's not like the, you know, and
what I mean by that is it's not like the Magic came out and they
jumped on them 39 to 14 or 3917 after the first quarter and they
just found a way to hang on. The Magic won three of the four
quarters that they played. So to me, that's representative
of a team that just stepped on a court and just played a whole
lot better on the road. So that is an easy one.
The biggest surprise of the opening weekend is the Magic
hanging an L on the Pistons to start.
All right, let's get it up there.
Number three there, J Rod, good question.
How many of the top 10 picks in the NFL draft will be offensive
players? I'm going to go with the number
5, All right? And I'm going to lay it out for
you #1 well, obviously it's going to be Mendoza, but these
are not in order. Although it looks, I was reading
something this morning. It looks like the Cardinals.
Schecter had about an hour or two right before I got on the
air, I should say. So probably about 950, whatever
it was. He thinks that there's real or
he's hearing you know, he's not going to speculate like, you
know, whatever he's hearing that Cardinals very well might take
Jeremiah Love at three. How about that?
And I've been saying for a week or two now that the draft is
really going to start at 3:00 because they can go a multitude
of ways like they're going to react to what The Jets do with
two. They could go offensive lineman.
You know, there there's a thought that they trade their
second pick and and get into the back end of the first day at
first round maybe takes high Simpson Anyway, how many will be
offensive players? All right, Mendoza's going to be
1. Jeremiah loves definitely going
top ten. I think Cornell Tate's
definitely going top ten. I think Jordan Dyson's going top
ten and I would say, I would say Francis Mallinola, the lineman,
the the monster from Miami offensive lineman.
I think you're going to have five.
I don't think it would be more than that.
And I really think that that's a good number.
I'm comfortable with that. Now, if if I had to make a
revision when I go up to six or would I go down to four, I would
probably go up to 6 just because you think about some other names
here, like whether it's a Bailey, obviously a Reese,
obviously a Styles, obviously a Caleb Downs, Ruben Bain.
There's a lot of mocks, well respected ones that have Ruben
Bain in the in the top 10. So there it is 3 Bernie
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There we go. Dude, I don't even know how
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OK. All right.
How about some more calls here? What do you got?
Yes, Sir, we've got James from Hoboken, NJ.
All right, James and Hoboken. I told you I was just over at
the Dino and Harry's the other night.
What's up, Jimmy? What's going on, buddy?
Hey, BT. How you doing?
I'm good, thank you. What's up?
Yeah, I'm a big Mets fan and it's I don't even know what what
to think right now. It's it's so frustrating.
This team should not be this bad.
I mean, they've been they've scored like 10 runs in the last
seven games. I mean, that is that is
pathetic. And that the other frustrating
thing is their pitching has actually been pretty good.
At least they're starting pitching.
They just can't score, bro. Except Sang.
Well, except Sanga. He's been awful.
He's had a couple bad starts, but I for the most Muslim
Mcclane's awesome. Peralta needs to be a little bit
better, and he's been OK, but he and he will be better.
Holmes has been fine. Yeah.
I mean, they're just not hitting.
They're not hitting at all, dude.
Yeah, I think I'm, I'm really sick of indoor too, to be honest
with you. I mean, I think there's
something with him and the team chemistry.
I mean, if you look at the last couple years, there's something
going on there. I think, like, it's great.
James, think about this. I I I don't know exactly what it
is, OK? I don't profess to know what it
is, but it's something like it. There's just something Askew
about the internal chemistry and connectivity, or lack thereof,
of the Mets. And I'm getting tired of even
having to talk about this every year.
Like, imagine, like I can tell you this, if this was popping up
with Aaron, I don't care how good Aaron Judge is.
If this was an issue every year with Aaron Judge, the chemistry,
the core, this that get him out of here.
Like it's not, it's not worth the headache #1 Lindor is not
good enough. He's very good, but he's not
good enough where you look the other way.
It like, I'm sorry, half the guys are gone.
Most of the guys are new. So what's the one commonality
here? It's Lindor.
Yeah. So what do you do with that?
Stupid. It's it's Lindor.
Yeah. What do you do with them?
What are the options in terms of moving on from them?
Yeah. I mean, I I I don't know.
I mean, I what are the options? You, you're not going to sit
them because there's no real options there.
You just got to, you got to run them out there.
You got to trust them. I I guess.
And, and James, thank you for the call.
I appreciate it. That was actually a pretty,
pretty calm Mets fan there, pretty calm Mets fan.
If I was a Mets fan, I would be absolutely beside myself.
No, I I respect it. He's keeping his chi.
He's finding his. He's centering himself in times
of in times of crisis. OK, Sensei, thank you.
Thank you very much. Yeah, I just, you know, I, I and
listen, guys, I understand that we do overreact with baseball.
We we do. But man, you know, and I would
even submit that the I mean, you think about the way we react
like The Jets and the Giants during down lean years.
It is it's it's kind of easy to not relative.
It's not easy, but relative to this conversation, it's easier,
right? Like as a Jets fan, All right,
The Jets pretty much stink every year.
Hopefully it's going to change. I'm optimistic until I don't,
until I have reason not to be, whatever.
But like, even on all these down years, I put a little bet here,
a little fantasy football there. Oh, Mahomes is playing all
right. You got the Niners and Dallas
playing at $425 and Aikman all right, You know, good
quarterback play with DAC. You know other Packers are
playing Sunday night, Lambeau, awesome.
You know, all the Bears, They have a nice team.
They're fun to watch. You know, I hate the Patriots,
but good Patriots team with a terrific young quarterback and A
and an outstanding coach And Mike Frabel, at least you could
kind of latch onto other stories around the, the NFL.
And it it does dull the pain a little bit, unless you're a, a,
a, a crazy, dyed in the wool baseball fan.
Yeah. Are you really watching other
games? I, I Sunday night baseball,
Otani's pitching, you know, Garrett Crochets on the hills,
school Bulls pitching. Yankees, Red Sox, Giants,
Dodgers, Giants, Padres, Braves, Phillies.
I'm not saying you're not going to watch anything but Cubs,
Brewers, if the Cubs are good, some of those regional, you
know, rivalries over the years, right, Yanks Toronto at this
point. But you don't you don't
gravitate to that like you do football stories or even
basketball. Like all the years that the
Knicks were wretched. I could still and I did, you
know, all right, Hey, is LeBron going to finally win one in
Cleveland or the Warriors dynasty, which was amazing to
watch. There's to me, it's and maybe
I'm wrong, but I think it's very different with baseball.
Like if you're a Mets fan, you know, I, I don't know where you
seek any solace during the baseball season.
Like I, I, except with the Mets, you know, there's, it's just a
different energy watching these other sports.
So I mean, this thing's I, I really, I, I just, I, they have
to play better at home. They have to like predictions
don't mean anything, right, Because I thought I kind of
like, you know, I really like Bichette and I like what the
Mets did this off season. So I mean, so far I'm off on
that. But and it's not going to make
much sense for me to drop a prediction on the Mets now like,
oh, the Mets are going to go 7 and two on this nine game
homestand. So I'm not going to waste
anybody's time because the way they look now, I don't know what
to expect, man. But, you know, I mean, I do
think that they're going to have a good home stand.
And then, yeah, even if it's five and four, like that's not
good. But when you lose 11 straight,
it's phenomenal. So you take what you can get in
increments, right? You'd have to think if you could
win more than you lose over the nine games in Queens against
three teams that are going nowhere.
Minnesota's a little better than I thought.
But big picture, I don't think that they are.
You know, maybe you can start to piece something together.
Soto comes back, you have a little positive momentum.
Soto's back at the top of the order.
You start ripping and maybe you changed a little bit, but I
really don't know. What do you got up next, dear
Jay? We've got Evan from CT.
Evan from Connecticut. What's up?
EV, you're on our list. How you doing today, man?
I'm. Good.
Good morning. How you doing?
Awesome. Thank you.
You got me fired up this morning, I'll tell you that.
It's a great weekend. The Yankees sweep the Royals.
Ben Rice is proving to the media and to, you know, to all the
haters that. You can hit the.
Lefty, so there's no more excuse for the platoon that he can, you
know, Duke could hide behind. He can hit left.
He's got over 300 average. He's absolutely raking right
now. And you called.
It you've been on it since the start.
He's phenomenal. I mean, the guy there's he's
everything that you want in a hitter, you know.
And by the way, and Evan, thank you for the call.
I appreciate you reaching out here.
We've got to amend something here.
Thanks, Ed. We got to amend something here
like think because sometimes when you say things, even if
they are true, it takes a while to kind of recalibrate based on
some new evidence because you've said something for so long.
So I will be the one since I was the first one to tell you that
Ben Rice is going to be an absolute superstar.
You can find the receipts if you want to, but the the the old,
you know, the Yankees can't develop position players, which
I've been saying forever as well, because it's freaking
true. Well, we have to at least now
and serve Ben Rice like it's always like, hey, they're good
with pitching and they're pitching prospects and they're
pitching reclamation project. How about Weathers yesterday?
I know the Royals think, but he's throwing a couple gems,
man. He is.
He's got filthy stuff. And we knew that because we know
he hits 98 as a lefty. So they had to get him healthy
and get him in whatever lab they have and, and, and see where he
goes. But intriguing at least enough
where you see him and and he's he's he's pretty filthy when
he's on. But we can say that about
Cashman usually makes pretty astute trades or, you know, find
certain arms under a rock in the offseason and that he's very
good at that. Like as much as Cashman drives
me nuts. I've I've always given him
credit for that because it's his absolute strength.
And then the next thing we say is Yankees.
Can't you know, they always fail position players, which they do.
I mean, Dominguez is in the minor Spencer Jones to me as a
non entity. Bolpy has been wildly
disappointing. They had Peraza, he did nothing.
They play against Peraza. He looks like, you know, looks
like Jeter, whatever you look like, right?
Except on that pop up. Although you did have the pop up
with Jeter and a Rob, but that was a little different.
You know, now you have to say it's not just Aaron Judge.
In terms of development, like developing a young star, it is
now Ben Rice. Ben Rice listen, what I said
before the season, I said Ben Rice is going to be top ten in
the MVP. Ben Rice is going to be an All
Star and Ben Rice is going to be the three hitter of the future
for the Yankees. All right.
Now what I'm saying today is I would bat him first.
I would bat him first just because you know, when, when you
have a young hitter, it's one thing to see like a patient
hitter, but you want to make sure you don't jump the gun and,
and just kind of take the cheese too early.
Like his ability to manipulate the strike zone and, and very
clearly identify what he can square up versus what he can't.
You know, not lunging, not flailing, not expanding the zone
early. It just, you know, he's going to
have a lot of 678 pitch at bats and if you could get 678 pitch
at bat to start a game and you know, with the pitch clock here,
you know, you're catching your breath, you're laboring a little
bit here. Oh, by the way, here comes the
Jolly Green Giant. You know the the awesome arrow
Judge who's not even really clicking yet.
He still has nine home runs after you just threw 7 or 8-9
pitches to a lead off guy who's either on 2nd with a double,
just went yard or on first base for the walk and now you got to
go through Judge. Well, Bellinger's going to reap
the reward to that. And obviously Aaron Judge will
really reap the rewards. And then you just deal with the
bottom third of the order when you get to it.
You know, but I if if you tell me that the next 30 games and I
wouldn't do this, but I want to at least create a conversation
like, all right, you're facing a tough lefty.
You want to justify dropping Ben Rice down to 5, whatever.
I'm not going to waste much time on that.
OK, I don't. I wouldn't do it, but whatever.
Every time they face a righty, he should be batting first
period. That's it.
I mean, what else do you need to see, you know, And then what you
get from that. Obviously that residual impact I
just described with Judge now having seen several 8 pitches,
the pitcher huffing and puffing, little tired pitch clock, 15
seconds, going, going, going, going.
Now he's got a face, ERA, Judge, guys on base, whatever.
But now you can then put Grisham in like that six or seven hole
and that's where he should be. He is not a lead off hitter.
That's been my biggest source of consternation.
And there's been a bunch with the Yankees there construction
here. But, you know, I mean, how how
are we going to look each other in the eye and say, yeah, the
Yanks going to win the World Series when you got a guy
hitting lead off who none of none of us believe is a lead off
hitter in front of the great Aaron Judge?
Like it's untenable. So Ben Wright should be the lead
off hitter. And I remember I was talking to
Aaron Boone. This was after the live show,
which was January. When was this?
I think he just called to check in, see how things were going
after the fan and everything. So I think he had just gotten
down to Tampa. So it was like middle February,
remember? Actually, yeah, it was it was it
was middle to late February. There was a maybe John Boy, and
if not, my bad. Somebody like kind of read the
red lips, right? Anyway, Boone was in the bullpen
and Cole was throwing and somebody thought that he said 98
miles an hour, right? That's what they thought he
said. And so when I was talking to
Aaron, I'm like, oh, Cody, Cody Boone.
Jeez, Cody Boone, what are we doing?
Cole, he hit 98 on the gun. He's like, no, he's like, I saw
that going around. He's like it wasn't quite 98.
It was a little bit lower. Now I'm like, OK, And then we
start talking. I said Ben Rice is going to have
an OPS over 900 this year. He's like, it's, you know, he's
like he's terrific. He goes that that's a little
high. I'm like, no, it's not.
I'm he's going to have an OPS over 900.
He's like he's he's young. He's still figuring things out.
He's like, I love him. He's awesome.
He can he can rake. But I mean, I've been on this
Ben Rice, you know, train. I've been driving it from day
one. Like, what else do you need to
see? Every freaking ball, the guy
hits hard every ball. And then what's going to happen
is as his reputation grows around the league, now they're
going to nibble a little bit more and he ain't going to
swing. Pitch count goes up.
Aaron Judge eventually gets up with guys on base.
You know his, you know, it's the on base percentage for Ben Rice
soars and they got a guy who's going to be top ten of the MVP.
You can book it. He's going to be that guy.
I got to tell you, I was absolutely stunned.
By the way, if you guys are on the show, watching live, like
it, subscribe it, check it out. If you knew, welcome to beating
Unleashed. Hopefully everybody is doing
great. Going to be an awesome week,
man, between the draft, between the mess of the Mets, you know,
a little spark. I'm not going to go nuts.
It's the Royals. But a little spark with the
Yankees here getting the sticks going Knicks up 1 zip playing
tonight. Fun And all the NFL stuff will
be national. Like it won't just be Jets and
Giants. But but this particular aspect
right here is is obviously local.
Very, very rarely have I been stunned when I saw something
pertaining recently to The Jets and the Giants.
Really, I wasn't stunned that they got horrible because there
was, you know, we were talking about that like go out and get a
different coach and go out and take a bit whether it's Tomlin,
whether it's horrible, Like there was speculation about
that. Really for a while that wasn't
stunned. I was impressed.
Great move by the Giants. But when I saw the other night
that the Giants got the 10th pick in the draft for Dexter
Lawrence, I was legitimately stunned.
And everybody that I came across this weekend, and I was watching
baseball and softball all weekend, my kids, there were a
lot of, you know, a lot of people that came up and said,
dude, they got the the 10th pick for Lawrence.
I'm like, I'm stunned. That's a phenomenal job by the
New York Giants twofold #1 they did the right thing.
He don't want to be here texting.
Lawrence doesn't want to be here.
See, to me, it's sometimes you make a case and it's about
money. And I think some of you thought
that it was always rooted just in more money.
I never thought that he wanted to be here anymore.
And I said that that's why when it came up on the show last
week, I'm like, he's gone. There's no chance.
This was literally documentable. There is no chance the Giants
are giving him an extension. It's not happening.
Not with that size body, not with the, you know, the, the,
the fall off in play and not with the new culture.
Like if you don't want to be here, then we're going to
accommodate you, provided we're not getting $0.50 on the dollar.
Honestly. And I thought that's what I'm
like, hey, as long as they don't get, I think I said 60, long as
they don't get $0.60 on the dollar.
He's an ex Giant. He's going to be Dell.
I think the giants got a hundred $1.15 on the dollar number ten
pick. So what the giants could do now
really does change And like it, it just an it was just awesome.
It was just a great move. And if you're a Giant fan and
you're unhappy about this, I think you're wildly missing the
mark because now the Giants have a chance to they can do one of a
couple things here. So let let me kind of correlate
this to The Jets of two and 16, right?
So for a while I've said for The Jets, obviously defensive 216,
they can do a lot of things. They can trade out then go tight
end from Oregon. They could go corner.
I think that's in play. They can obviously trade up.
There was reports of that last week, Jets moving into the top
10 to take a wide receiver with the Commanders at 7:00.
We discussed that, right? So that to me, there's like 3 or
again, defense, defense. They're not going offense at
2:00. There's only so many things I
could see The Jets doing. They're not taking Ty Simpson,
the Giants now with this move. Think about what this opens up.
They they're to me, I bet almost every penny I have defensive 5,
whether or or trade out at 5:00 to still get a defender.
You want to get. You know, I mean, I wouldn't
trade out because I think the downs and Sonny Styles will both
be there at 5. You know, I don't think I wish
The Jets would pick one of them, but I don't think they will
right now. I think it's been it's been
those are one. I think it's even though it's
we've seen from some fluctuations.
I think it's going to be Reese 2.
I think it's going to be Jeremiah Love 3 at 4, Tennessee
could be could be all lineman, could very well should be all
lineman. And then you got the Giants.
And even if even if Tennessee 4 picks styles, you got downs.
If Tennessee picks downs, you got styles.
So to me, Giants are walking away with somebody.
I want my team to get that. I don't believe that they will
at #5 now the Giants, I don't know how they feel about Ruben
Bayne or some of these other players say if they're if it
barely doesn't go too, I think there's a chance Bailey, you
know, drops, not crazy drop, but maybe if the Giants love him and
I don't know if they do, maybe the Giants could trade out of
five, get some more capital and then maybe take somebody like
Bailey or Ruben Bain. There is.
And then obviously at 10:00, you got to see what's going on with
the wide receiver market opens up all sorts of activity and
possibilities for the Giants. The Giants had that was a great
moment to me, that could be transformative moment.
You know, I I stopped short of saying that because it's not
going to include a quarterback, obviously, because Jackson
Dart's here and I love Dart, but you know, I mean what the Giants
are thinking and what the Giants are doing, you got to be beyond
stoked. If you're a Giants fan, you have
to be. All right, Jay, what do we got
up next? Who's the?
Call. We got Javier from the Bronx.
All right up in the Bronx with the people, the fresh Javier is
on BT Unleashed. Javier, What's going on Javier?
Hey, BT, how's it going? It is going well.
How you doing all? Right, so I have a next
question. So.
I got a question coming down to Jalen Brunson and Kat, you see?
They had amazing games in game one.
Do you think that there will be more games in the playoffs where
the next give more playing time to their backup players?
Well, I mean that that's something you got to watch
there, Javier. And and thank you for the call
very much shout out up there to the Bronx.
Javier checking in. Let me listen.
I I think it depends on the tone of the game.
I mean, if the Knicks are up big, then they they've got a
bench that they that they trust Deuce is going to get minutes no
matter what. Clarkson's going to play.
Mitch is going to play. I I don't think you're going to
see some out of nowhere recalibration of how the Knicks
are going to play there. They've got their big minutes
guys, you know, obviously depends on this Cat have foul
issues at at at some point he's going to I would have met like
real foul issues at some point. We saw that last year.
We saw Brunson battle foul issues last year in the playoffs
too. So I think it's really night
tonight depended upon who you're playing.
Each matchup is a little different.
You know, this matchup with Atlanta, who's not a really good
offensive team, but they've got some some challenging defenders,
good rebounding team. It's going to be different from,
you know, if and when they they say, well, let's let's deal with
round one before we assume there's a round two.
But you know, the Celtics waiting in the weeds, whatever
it might be, that's a different team.
That's a championship team. More two way players tougher,
tougher matchup. That's how I think it's really
matchup specific. But no, we're not going to see
some marked change here. Where guys like, I think
Brunson, as long as everybody's healthy and there's no foul
issues, Brunson's going to go 35 minutes a game and Cat'll be low
30s and Bridges and OG will be mid to high 30s.
And you know, Deuce will be around that 2018 to 22 minute
mark, Mitch, depending upon what's going on with Cat, same
thing. So, yeah, I mean, that's that's
the way I see the, excuse me, the Knicks rotation, Sean, B50D.
Let's see here. We should have kept Marte.
He was the leader, came up with big celebration.
Soto said the same thing. He was the glue.
Him and others gone, proving they got rid of the wrong guys.
All right now, Sean, here's the thing right.
So Starling Marte, come on. I I hear you.
And I know that Marte was the one.
I remember this last year, like when Soto went there and Soto
wasn't really feeling some of the vibes, just wanted, just
wants to hit. I mean, once Soto's not an
actor, he's not a performer. He's not doing a Broadway tap
dance out there with these celebrations.
Juan Soto is in his own laboratory and he is a mad
scientist when it comes to hitting and anything that gets
in his way or alters his routine.
He ain't having like he just and I get it, he's paid to hit.
But Marte's like, come on, man. We this is kind of how we do it,
whether it's the OMG sign or whatever they might do right.
And that was good for the Mets and now not good.
Like Marte was on the team last year and then 183 games.
So, you know, if there was and I I just can't buy that.
You can't have a payroll of whatever the heck the Mets.
I don't need 370. I don't even know where the Mets
are at this point. I'll say 370 and look at
somebody like Sterling Marte, who's been hurt a lot and
outside of a a really good first year with the Mets and I like
Marte go ball, play ball player, could run, good arm, could feel,
could hit when he's healthy, good, solid ball player.
But like you should not be looking at somebody like Marte
as the reason why the Mets are falling apart if that's the
case. I mean, that is just hopeless at
this point. I mean, really just hopeless,
you know, And I don't believe that it's hopeless, but I'm
saying like specific to that. It's dire, it's dark, it's not
hopeless yet, but boy, they better start winning some games,
otherwise Mendy's going to get whacked.
Next up, what do you got Jay? We've got St. from London, UK.
Wow, look at this class and things up here.
St. across the pond in London. What's happening, buddy?
BT can you hear me? I got you.
Yes, I can. Yes, excellent.
Before I get to my question, which is a Jets question, right,
I just want to give a shout out to you and my boys Salakata and
Jay Jay Roth are just working the back end on BT unleash.
So appreciate you guys miss you guys on the fan.
Bring them back because I would love to hear what he's got to
say about the Mets. You know, I appreciate that.
Yeah, He's he's got his content. He's I, I, I don't really.
He seems fairly calm. He seems fairly measured.
Listen, it is April, man, But I mean, 11 straight it is.
It is not a good look. So I appreciate the con words.
And Woody got all those jets. Let's go.
Yeah, man. So look, it's about pretty much
a lock that A.J. Brown is going to the Patriots.
With that being said, we know that Muji's, you know, working
the gears, shifting them and doing good stuff.
Yeah, I'm just thinking, you know, you look back at source,
right? Or you like to call like that
was a good pick at the time, right.
So I'm, I reckon I recognize if we're going to our division is.
Tough, right? Yeah.
Now we got to contain with A.J. Brown, who do you see The Jets
taking in terms of a corner and who would that corner be if you
were like I I like McCoy. I I know he's dropping a little
bit here. I like McCoy see, but here's the
one thing right? So I got to push back a little
bit on the philosophy and I do think The Jets are going to walk
away with the corner. I I really do.
So I think that your instincts are right.
But St. where The Jets are, and I do understand a lot of moves
that a lot of teams make at various points in their growth
and their roster construction are made to be able to
counteract a team that is in their way to a championship.
The Jets are nowhere near there. So like, I'm not looking at and
I do agree, I think A.J. Brown is gonna be on the paths
at some point, probably within the next couple of days before
the draft, whatever draft night. But The Jets are a three win
circus with with with nothing until proven otherwise.
I'm not drafting a corner just because the Patriots are going
to get A.J. Brown.
Like, I'm not going to get even though you need a defensive end,
but I I'm not just going to reach for a defensive end or do
something just because Josh Allen's up in Buffalo.
I've got to build my team and the old line is set.
And no, they need corner help. No doubt you need a wide
receiver #2 no doubt you need a safety.
You need another linebacker like The Jets need so much.
I appreciate your thought. And if you're not wrong, it's
just you're, you're speeding up the timeline.
I'm not there yet, if that makes sense to you.
It does make sense to me. But you know why I was speeding
up the timeline is because let's be honest, if we're at three
wins circles this year, Glenn is gone.
He's he's toast as he should be. And you know that.
So I'm just worried about we're going to start the whole process
all all over again. You know what I mean?
Well, to me St. And thanks for the call, man.
That is awesome. We're taking calls from London.
Look at this, TJ Rod, how phenomenal is this?
Cooking with gas. That's all I can say.
Super super nice dude. Also just a great question.
Like I I really enjoy. Yeah, no, me too.
All right, so. So here's the thing.
Like if you think about the his last point about Aaron Glenn
three wins circle, let's say if they're Jets aren't going to win
three games again, I just can't envision that, but it might not
be enough to justify retaining Glenn.
But let's settle on let's be ambitious.
Let's say The Jets win four or five, right?
Jets go 5:00 and 12:00 and it's an ugly enough 5 and 12 where
Glenn is fired. OK, well, I know this is going
to sound counterintuitive here because it's The Jets, but to
me, think about how many people, I mean real coaches and, and I'm
hoping Aaron's the guy. I know he's a leader of men.
I don't know if he can coach, but like, I'm not just trying to
dump on the guy. I respect Aaron Glenn
tremendously. I really hope it works, but if
it doesn't. Think about how attractive The
Jets job is going to be if and when Aaron Glenn is fired after
his second year. You got three first round picks
next year. You've got you control the
entire 2027 draft. Theoretically, no matter what
the record is, you going to have access to any quarterback that
you want coming out of college. Financially, they're still very
solvent. Their finances are in great
order. All right.
And you have a good offensive line with bookend tackles on
each side. You know what I mean?
So to me that's a pretty attractive job.
It's not like you coming in and you know, you got a, you got a
Swiss cheese old line and you're $37 million over the cap and you
have no first round draft picks because you traded them all away
and none of the trades worked out.
It's, I know it sounds insane to say this, but The Jets would be,
that would be a very attractive NFL job and not just because
it's 1 of 32, which is whatever, 01 of 30.
Of course, a good job. It would be an attractive job
because it would be an attractive job.
All right, Next up, Jay, what do you got there, brother?
We've got a blind beard from 5. Blind beard from where?
He's calling from the financial district.
Oh, the Fi die? Come on, Fi die.
I'm not calling a Fi die, sorry. Sorry.
What the Hell's fi die? And I worked down there at one
point over at when I was in the IRA department.
All right, so blind beard, what up there Blind.
How you doing today? What's going?
On man, you know, I actually had Mr. met at my wedding this past
January and you know, I I thought that would be great and
everything. I thought it would be a good way
to kick off the teeth and feel like exciting, you know, kick
off the marriage, you know, with a win and you know.
These guys stink. That's horrible.
I'm a Jets. Fan I I I can't I I can't even
get a win at at all lately it's. It's now let me ask you this so
so so was missus met at the wedding as well?
No, no, no. Was Mr. Met?
Was Mr. Met maybe hitting on the on the bridal party a little
bit? Was he behaving himself?
What? He was definitely behaving
himself. You know, he he went straight
for my wife as soon as he got off the elevator.
All right, so, yeah, hopefully he has good taste.
I I got you. What what is I'm curious, what's
the going rate like? Not, not to get too personal on
the finance, but what does Mr. Met charge like for Bob Mitts
for a wedding? What?
What's what's he asking for these days?
I was pretty expensive, Yeah. You have to go through the
communications department at through city, through, you know,
the Mets organization. It's, it's so it's, it was a,
it's a whole ideal like truck. It took weeks to to plan that.
And my mom said but. How much?
I'm not. I'm not.
Saying I'm not saying. With a couple thousand for the
night. Had to be a couple 1000.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it wasn't, I wasn't even
for the whole night. I I just paid for.
I just paid for like, you know, 40.
It was like 4545 minutes an hour he was there for.
Yeah, yeah, it. Was like, it was like 2, all
right? It was like 2 grand.
I got you. No, no, it's all good.
It's all. Good.
It wasn't. It wasn't that bad.
I got you. Listen, the pictures are great.
I'm sure eventually the Mets. I don't know if it's going to be
this year eventually. And it went it went viral on you
on did it Instagram and everything was insane.
There you go and you know, 2 blind people dancing with with
dancing with Mr. Mehta at a wedding.
I mean, that's it's, it's got, it's a highlight right there
and. No doubt.
No. Can he move?
Is he athletic or is he? Yeah, man, it was really good.
I mean, it felt like it might have been Juan Soto on there or
something, but you know, I wasn't.
Oh my God. Listen, dude, you got so before
I let you go there. And by the way, when was the
wedding? You said September?
Oh no, it was January. End of January.
So you've only been married for a couple of months?
Yeah, yeah. Congrats man, God bless dude.
We just got back from my honeymoon, which you go it was
awesome, Hawaii, Hawaii and Vegas.
We'd just stay in Vegas. We stayed at the Paris Hotel.
Oh yeah. Yeah, I've been to Paris.
I like to play right in the middle of the strip, right in
the. Middle of all the yeah, exactly.
I mean, I I love listening to you, you and and I missed you.
Miss you on the fan and Sal. You guys are wonderful together
and I'm glad you have this platform now.
You're doing amazing work over here.
I appreciate that dude. Thank you, man.
Listen, you know, hang in there. But my my last question for you
is I get it. You're a little despondent now
the whole Mr. Mets story from the wedding.
Do you I know what you hope for them to do.
Do you actually believe that this Mets team is going to
stabilize something here, or is this just a train wreck all time
band Mets season that we're in the early stages of?
Well, I, I listen to Tyler Ward a lot.
I don't know if you know him, Wardy.
Tyler Ward, I don't know if I know.
I know a couple of the wards but OK his.
His his channel, his channel on YouTube is Wardy Nym.
He's a big, it's a bit, it's a pretty big Mets platform.
OK, shout out to him I got. You so he's he's really good.
So like it's it's kind of a train wreck, but I mean you
know, they can they can still salvage a good season out of it.
I mean we got some pretty good guys here that can play.
So hopefully, you know, it's just I think it's a really just
a really bad skid right now. Hopefully things start things
start clicking soon. I you know.
Yeah, man, I mean, I hope so too.
Good luck to you, blind beard down in the fight eye.
Thank you, brother. Appreciate it.
Thank you very much. There we go.
A little financial district that.
Yeah, a little action down there.
Yeah. I, I worked there when I was
trying to get into the business, Jay.
My first job was, was on Wall Street.
Really. I had no idea what I was doing,
bro. And I have no interest to really
learn what I was doing. That's so funny.
I'm. Like you want to laugh This this
is. Yeah.
How did I mean, how did you get into that?
I'm curious. So after my dad, my dad was a
detective, you know? So after that, he opened up his
own business, right? Yeah.
My dad was a hustler. And God bless him, he was
working. At one point he was working at
an employment agency, you know, a lot in the financial sector
and he had multiple jobs and he's going to college at night
too. I'm like, my dad is is a worker
man. That's where I got it from.
My mom is too, but that's where I got that work ethic.
I'm very proud of that. And so he he had, you know, he
had all these connections and he kept saying, you know, because
he knew I wanted to be on the air.
And he's like, you know, it's going to not that you can't do
it's going to be hard. He's like, you know, just, you
know, just take the police test, you know, go just in case
finance. I'm like, I'm not interested.
I don't want to say that. But finally, you know, I, he got
me a good job as I was waiting to get on the air and I was at
Fidelity, right, The IRA department, right?
No idea what I was doing and what I used to do.
I played in the Wall Street Softball League, which was.
Yeah. Yeah, we had a great team and it
was so much fun. We would, you know, we were, it
was competitive too. We would play and then we'd bang
back beers after the game. Like, Gee, it was just, I was, I
was just a fidelity for the social scene.
I'm not gonna lie. There, right?
And what I would do is, it's funny because as I was trying to
get my, my big break into the business, I have a journalism
degree, as you know, from Marist.
And I would write instead of like actually doing the IRA
work, I would write preview articles right of our softball
game that night. OK, it's.
A true story. And then what I would do is I
would take like pictures of Yankees and Mets from the
newspaper, right? This is what is wrong with me
and and cut them out and then kind of and then put them like
tape them to the article that I wrote and then put the article
that I wrote through a copy machine.
And then so then you wouldn't see tape.
It would kind of blend into the to the paper and then underneath
it I would write like, you know, so and so with a or or a recap,
A recap and a preview. So and so with a maybe if you
still Paul O'Neill right. So when you know, but a guy that
I played with, you know, Joe Joe X, Joe X launches A2 run bomb as
the you know, I mean, the guys loved it, dude.
They they couldn't wait. I would just walk around the
floor. I would I didn't do any work.
I would just basically write write ups for the softball team
and go out, play softball and basically hang out every night.
It's the best it was. Cool.
But you didn't even catch me. If I die, I mean, come on.
That's that's where I'm like, no.
I think that's probably a my generation way of calling it
that area because that's just like what everyone I know,
they're like, oh, we grab food and five die.
Oh, it's so nice and five die. I've.
Got is that what you you say it's all right.
I mean, listen, I'm not going to if that's the verbiage for the
young crew, I'm that's fine. I mean, I'm sure at some point,
you know, Soho, I I grew up saying Soho.
I'm sure at some point Soho to the older generation sounded
like, oh, why are we calling Soho like like to me have.
You heard of like Dimes Square? God, what?
What? What?
Is no, no, it's not like an acronym for anything.
It's like people call that. It's like the area below, like
Valerie in Chinatown. Like South of there?
I don't know, but it's just like now they're just all these like
strange names you kind of got to get a little grasp on.
Oh my God. Oh my God.
Already must end the season. My entire team sucks at PG
seventeens under score 89. I mean it's I would I would have
to think it's going to get a little bit better.
I certainly hope so J rod get another cold or two.
Let's see what's going on with that.
Let's pop them up, Nick. From.
I'm sorry Nick from I didn't hear.
Nick from Let me see, Honestly, I I I don't have in the chat
where he's calling from. That's all.
I just pop up. Oh, good.
I can handle it. That's all.
Good. Nick, where are you calling
from? I believe Nick is up.
Nick, where are you buddy? I'm infied I the.
I actually am by walls. OK.
All right. No.
Nice. What's up, Nick?
I got AI got a question for you that I threw out to my friends.
We're all big Jet fans. Could be, could be stupid, but
wanted to run it by you. So we essentially have 66 top
picks in the next two drafts. We got the, you know, the top of
the second round and the two first and then three first next
year. What?
If so, the consensus is probably Ty Simpson Is the #2 quarterback
in this? There's no, yeah, there's no
probably. Whether you like Simpson, he's
100% number two behind. The and I don't even know I I've
only seen him a handful of times.
Obviously, you know, nobody knows what, what these guys are
going to do. But what if The Jets with one of
those picks, whether they trade I I don't know what they're
going to do. But let's say they take reset to
and then either at 1633, whatever they do, they draft
Simpson. Now you're drafting a kid who's
barely played college football as a start.
I think he only played one year as a starter.
Right. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, he did.
Yeah. Yeah.
At bat. But they're not taking up at 16.
I don't mean to jump on you and cut you off, but let's have a
realistic conversation. There is no chance that Jets
take him at 16. I don't even think that there's
much of a chance that they draft him.
I have at all. I happen to like Simpson a
little bit more than most because I watched him play a lot
and I understood that Alabama couldn't run the football this
year. He was, they were like,
statistically I've gone through this, I don't need to go through
it again. But statistically awful, always
behind the chains. He got hurt, he got sick.
He lost about 12 lbs. So we really withered away a
little bit. Then he got hurt in the
playoffs. I'd like Ty Simpson, he's the
son of a coach, but I don't like him at 16.
You want to tell? I don't even to me, there's
going to be so many good players, whether it's corners or
maybe even like, you know, Denzel Boston from, from
Washington, a receiver that you could get in 33.
I just don't, I think there's really any chance that Jets mess
around, take Ty Simpson at all. I I agree, but considering all
the draft capital they have, if they drafted him, let's say at
33, let's think he's still there.
I know that they need players, they need all the good players
that they can. Can you not draft him?
Red shirt him and use him as leverage for the 2027 draft if
we end up winning six or seven games.
Yeah. But Nick, hold on a SEC.
Nick, they think about what do you mean leverage, like to maybe
trade him somewhere else. Either trade him or if you
really like his development then he's your.
Then you roll with him next year and.
You OK first? Round picks.
I I would not do that. I I don't like that at all.
Now think about this. I don't think even if they did
that at 33, which is a much more amenable to that than at 16 like
that, there's no way that's happening, Nick.
So if it was at 33, I wouldn't go nuts.
But I don't think he's going to play much.
And if he doesn't play much, he's really not leveraged for
another team because he's not going to put much on film this
year. See, I think they'd be better
off not putting him on film this year and taking him at 33 and
saying like, all right, here's your your supposedly.
Like a red shirt year. Yeah, because listen, if they,
if I, I know the fans and like myself will be at games by week
6 saying, you know, put the kid in, but you know, then by week
10 we'll ruin him and it'll be worth nothing.
If you red shirt him and you like his development, you keep
him. If you if you have the number
one pick next year because we suck, then you could you could
potentially trade him and get back a first and four or a
couple of picks in the 2027 draft.
I got it. I like Nick and thanks for the
call there, buddy. Nick's doing a good job
presenting some different scenarios.
It's not a scenario that I'm really looking to subscribe to,
but creative and and realistic. I mean, it's not like it's just
some over the top, you know, preposterous presentation where
you're like, come on, dude, what are you, what are you doing?
Like, I mean, it's it's fairly viable.
Yeah. One thing about The Jets, here
we are a couple of days before the draft, right?
And we're still guessing what they're doing.
You know, for a while it was Reese, then it was Bailey, then
Bailey didn't go for the workout or for the meeting, I should
say. I don't think that's a big deal
at all, but some people did. But we really don't have much
Intel from The Jets. And as much as we want it,
that's such a good thing. So when I say that, like, I
really believe in Darren Moogie and the early signs of of what
he's what he's done as a young general manager coming from a
good winning, stable organization as well.
Don't forget about that. Like he was with the Broncos.
It's like he came to the Cardinals or, you know, the
Browns. It was from a pretty healthy
building and very well respected and young and and willing to
take some big swings and do some stuff inside the margins like he
did early in the year, picking up scraps from other rosters.
Whatever. I I love the fact that there's
just no whispers. All The Jets are doing this.
All The Jets are thinking about doing that.
Like there's a lot of conjecture because that's what you get with
the NFL draft. But the leaks, I mean, The Jets
building seems to be pretty sealed shot pretty quiet, pretty
business. Like what was the last time you
could say that about The Jets? Really of the blind Beard just
called this in. Thanks for having me on, guys.
You're awesome. J Rod BT would love to invite
you guys to one of my comedy shows.
Well, let us know where you're playing.
Thank you for that, Mister Beard.
And yeah, listen, I've been to a comedy show in a while.
Last one I went to. Oh my God, he just eviscerated
every single. I'm not going to do it.
Even though it's YouTube you could you get away with?
I mean, it was it was so vile. I'm like, I remember laughing
and then of course he hit me. He crushed me too.
I remember laughing at something that was really out of bounds,
man. And you know, I, I'm pretty loud
and it like, I think the whole place heard me because it was a
smaller venue and my wife gave me an elbow like, all right,
come on, that was funny. But you know, you don't
everybody need to know that you were laughing at that.
And The funny thing was when, and I love comedy shows.
I really do. I haven't seen the men.
I haven't seen a ton, but I love them and I was at one and this
particular right by Cafe Wah, by the way.
Oh, which spot? Which spot you go to.
Geez. It's like a little cave kind.
Of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What is the small? Venue.
Comedy Cellar. Yes.
OK, yes, yes. Comedy Cellar.
Cellar. I've been once, I think.
Small, like maybe 50 people were there, kind of.
Yep, that's it. I think I saw Mark Norman there.
OK, OK, It was, it was really good.
And and I didn't even mean to do this.
Like, you know, I'm certainly there to let I forget who it
was. Somebody from the the Stern show
was there that night and I guess a long time ago.
So I probably 20-10 something like that.
And the guy, he starts ragging on me, right.
And I actually felt bad. So he's ragging and I'm there.
You could, you know, despite what some people think, I could
laugh at myself and I can take a joke and I'm and I'm laughing.
I'm but I'm waiting for the joke and and he's trying to Zing me
with some stuff and I'm sitting there and he's and he stumbled
and and I I forget what it was. He stumbled and it was like he
just couldn't get it out. And of course my loud booming
voice. I'm like, yeah, why don't you
hit rewind on that, bro? Give it another shot.
Oh man yeah, yeah, yeah. And I and again, I'm I'm one of
these guys. I can't stand people who try to
ruin the night for the comic. Like that's definitely not me.
I'm just there to have a good time.
But he started ragging on me. So if we get a rag on me, I'm
going to I'm going to volley back to you, bro.
It's not my fault that you stumbling all over your lips,
right. So when I said that, he kind of
froze and and and he looked at me and he goes, I got to be
honest, he goes, you got me. I'm never feeling so bad.
I'm like, I didn't hear to I didn't come here to get you
myself. I don't want to doubt.
I won't be that guy. I'm just here to have a drink or
two of my fiance go out, go to have a nice dinner before which
we did laugh a little bit, you know, but he just started trying
to with zingers here. Jay and I had a, I don't know, I
felt, I actually felt bad though.
Yeah, no, I mean, it's tough because it's like you'd want him
to just react in a way where he knows you're just joking with
him. And then it's like I was, I was,
I was totally game for keep hitting me with zings, man.
Keep, you know, But when you zigging me and then you stumble,
you know, now I think, I think that I've earned the latitude to
clap back a little bit. No, I mean, you go to more
comedy shows to me. Am I out of bounds with that?
No. I mean, I think, I think it's, I
think it's totally fine. It's funny.
Like, I'd say that, man. And there are like two or three
kinds of comedy shows. There's like the ones you go to
and it's like, you know, a pretty popular comedic act and
you go, OK, that. Well, that's a good show.
Then there's like another one. It's like the Shane Gillis, the
stadium. But then my favorite is just the
open mic type, just random comedian, like the street who
are so awful. And it's like part of the humor
is kind of just watching these guys just kind of fall out.
Yeah, yeah. Exactly.
It's hard. It's cruel, but I couldn't
imagine something harder than stand up I.
Mean, I don't I you know what's funny?
I agree with you like you think about one of the things that
that I do is motivational speaking right to me, it's a lot
easier to get. I mean it's it's also part of my
natural skill set. I think I'm I'm more
motivational than drop drop like laugh out loud funny.
I think that funny moments come when I'm getting worked up or
whatever. I'm not saying that I don't have
any humor, but I'm not I'm not. I was never the kid walking
around cutting jokes, you know, like I just whatever.
And and to me, like I, I would much rather certainly deliver
like a strong opinion and then kind of goof off or go into a
room and talk to executives at Verizon or cross country
mortgage like motivational aspect.
So but so, but some people actually find that hard, OK,
which I get, and some people find comedy easy, which I don't.
I I'm getting on a stage and being that vulnerable is now
you're doing it on your own volition.
It's not like anybody forcing you to go do it.
So if you're not good at it and you have a shitty set and you
get booed, that that's your problem.
But ain't my problem. But that is not easy to I cannot
imagine that that is easy to do at all.
That's got to be. And then between, you know,
usually those lights are pounding down on you.
So I'd probably start to sweat. And then if I didn't get a
couple of laps early on, I'd start sweating more.
Oh, Get Me Out of here. Just start throwing tomatoes at.
Me, yeah. It's funny because I guess it's
just like your sense of humor is almost like one of the most
vulnerable things a person has. Like what you find funny is so
unique to yourself and so different than other people that
like, you know when you think something's funny but someone
doesn't, it's almost one of the most like.
It brings you like. Yeah, like it the air out of the
moment more than anything. Yeah, it does.
It does. I agree with that.
Let me get this real quick. At PG17 under score 89, Mendoza
should have been fired last season.
You know, we talked about it and some of you did call us up and
say, you know, I don't know what percentage it was.
It wasn't a massive percentage. If I had to estimate, probably
about 20% of you, maybe 25. We're like, yeah, I don't know
about me now. I thought Mendoza had a really,
really bad year and I documented that like on the year during the
year on the Fan I brought up multiple, multiple times.
I'm like, you can't mess that up.
You got to pinch run this dude. You got to you got to hit the
proper bullpen level. There were many situations,
defensive replacements, like even guys not hustling early on,
like Vientos early on, like I'm like, this is not exactly what I
expected coming off the previous season, But because the previous
season was good and because I I do believe that Carlos Mendoza
is a good baseball man, I'm like, no, I'm not going to fire
him now, but go back on the channel and, you know, start the
year one one of the shows I did was I mean this guy, him and
Mike Brown had the the hottest seats in New York.
You know, they were and they do. And Mike Brown, this is where
he's going to earn some stripes or Mike Brown's not going to be
around. And if Mendoza doesn't get this
thing figured out, Mendoza's not going to be around very long.
And that's just the way it goes. It's big business.
This is not the little teeny tiny Mets who are trying to
scrap to be, you know, a 500 team and they're spending $117
million, nineteenth most in baseball, you know, and there's
13,000 people out of the Shea Stadium, you know, in in 1978
when they have a horrendous team or whatever might be, you know,
I mean, obviously you wouldn't have that payroll back in the
80s or 70s, you know what I mean?
Point is, is that this Mets team perceptually, financially has
taken a massive step forward and the owner multiple times has
called on you to go and support his product, which you've done
time and time again. Mets fans flocked to Citi Field
last year. When Cohen said I'm doing my
job, you got to do yours, all right.
He said that you did your job. The team didn't do their job. 83
wins, year one with Soto waste. Here we are, Year 2, you know,
with a massive payroll and massive expectations, and it's
as bleak a situation as there is in sports right now, actually,
you know, because the NBA season's over.
So all the playoff teams are the playoff teams.
Hockey is what it is, you know, and the NFL draft, there's just
positive energy. Even the bad teams, like it's
the Mets and the Mets have what, the second tied for the worst
record in baseball. Nobody cares about the Rockies.
They just don't. No, no, no disrespect.
Colorado in terms of a national talking point, all right, when
you had the big cat Andres Galvarraga and Bichette and you
know, some of those bees back in the day ripping home runs, all
right, that's one thing you know, but you don't have that
anymore. So, and you're in the division
with the Dodgers and the higher high profile Padres, but the
Mets, it is just a sad, bleak, miserable start to their season
and you know, the off days coming at a good time.
We'll see what happens there. Brutal.
But man, oh man, they got to get cooking all.
Right. We got one caller left if you're
down of. Course, I was just going to ask
you for. All right, let me.
Just make sure Andrew unmute, all right?
We're good. Good.
OK. How come working out those
kinks? We're going to laugh at that in
a year or so. Andrew.
Where? Oh, Upper East Side.
Andrew, what's going on? Dude, How are you?
BT how we doing? Good man.
Oh, I love taking phone calls, boy.
J Rod, this is good stuff, bro. What's up, Andrew?
You and I have crossed paths before.
It's St. John's games we've I cover and
you obviously do radio and then I also cover them and I write.
So I appreciate you being a being there.
Nice. Dude, no.
OK. Not what?
What outlet of what? Just so I can make.
The Yeah, so so I write for the center hub.
It's a basketball website and we cover Yep, Yep, a lot of stuff.
And we're also gonna do the draft.
Nice, I, I know the website good.
You know, I, I, I, I actually think I know who I'm talking to.
I got. You OK And we've also interacted
in the MSG elevator, which is the worst elevator ever, but
that's. I definitely remember I that
toward the end of the year, right, yes.
I remember that and I said the only thing worse than the
elevator is The Jets, I said. That yeah, I got you.
I remember that. I'm not just saying that because
I remember that. That that elevator drives me
nuts. I wind up taking the escalator
down, but they shut the escalator.
It's a pain of the ass getting out of the door.
It really is awful. It's awful.
So I don't know if you heard, but Val Ackerman's retiring at
the end of August. The biggies just broke a memo.
I did not see that. Well, yeah, just broke a memo
that Val Ackerman is retiring. They need a new commissioner and
I I like Val. I think she's a smart woman.
I think she's a strong woman. I do not believe she's been a
good commissioner for the conference at all.
I just don't. I agree.
No I totally agree. I I think they need someone more
forward thinking and more revenue.
TV nil base cause the the sport's gonna sports gone crazy.
Oh my God, it's insane dude. It's too much.
My question was about the draft. So obviously both New York teams
have two picks in the first round.
Which team needs to hit on the draft more?
The Giants, because they have, I don't want to say a win now
situation, but they have a coach that feels win now with Hardball
or The Jets, because every time it feels like they have a high
draft pick, it doesn't really pan out sometimes for them and
they can't afford that. And Muji, this is kind of his
first real big pick. I guess we can call.
It Well, well, hold on. Why do you say that?
I mean, you, you just drafted a great right tackle.
That was a pretty big pick. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't. Yeah.
I'll give you that one. Sure, that's fair.
Phenomenal. No, he's very good, very good.
So my question is, who's the draft more important for The
Jets or the Giants? I.
I I would go with the Giants only because they have two top
10 picks. The Jets only have one now.
Not to say The Jets can't get into the top 10 again, but you
have a win now coach in Harbaugh.
They already have the quarterback with Dart, who I
think a lot of people believe is the future.
I love them. Barring injury.
I love them. I love the Lawrence move.
That was a phenomenal move by the Giants.
I have some concerns on the defensive side for sure with the
Giants, no question. It's going to be yes.
And the old line always needs help.
It's needed help for 20 years feels like.
But I feel like the Giants are more in a win now situation than
The Jets and I think they need more.
They're like a game breaker or two away.
I honestly think they could finish second in their division.
That might sound absolutely insane.
I don't think it sounds insane, Commanders.
And listen, obviously Daniels banged up doesn't help.
What what where is Dallas going? Dallas is a mess.
Dallas is it's the Eagles. And then you flip a coin.
Dallas never wins anything. The Commanders kind of like the
Mets, really. You think about like the talk
about the Mets two years ago, like the commanders, great run,
you know, all that stuff. And then boom, they fall flat on
their face for a lot of football reasons.
Now they've got to prove that they are more of the team from
two years ago than last year, and we'll see if they do.
But I don't think that that's a crazy assertion that the Giants
finishes the second best team in the NFC East.
I I think that there's some some validity to that you, you got to
pop on these picks, but I don't think it's crazy to think that
no. Right.
I, I would say the Giants, I just think it's more important
for them because I think there's more of an opportunity for them
to get in. I know the NF CS tough like who
who? Who do you want it?
Who do you want at 5 and who do you want at 10?
Well, I think, I think Jeremiah Love's going to be gone.
The Giants. I agree.
So I think it's a defensive player at 5, whether it's Spikes
or Dyson. And then ten I I think 10 almost
kind of, I don't want to say it's a luxury pick because I
don't want it to sound like that, but I think you need a
high impact guy when you're picking that high.
That's bottom line. So either O line like the big
guy from Miami could make some sense.
I was talking about him before. Yep, Yep.
Yeah, I think O line because I usually when you have two, I
mean this is my own opinion. When you have two picks that
high, I kind of like you want to go on both sides of the ball
there. Yeah.
And by the way, you're talking about Francis Moinowa, right?
Yes, correct. Got you.
Yeah. So, so I would say if you're
going defensive 5, I'd go offense at 10.
And then vice versa if you go offensive 5 if Love does fall
there and let's say they take them, then you go defensive.
Defensive 10. All right, listen, Andrew, good
call. Very well thought out.
I'm with you. I appreciate you reaching.
No, you got it, man. I'll see at the garden soon and
hopefully following the show and keep following us here.
Thank you. OK, so who's it more important
to? It's almost impossible to
answer. I mean, OK, so let's to me, I've
talked about this before. I'm going to use the word
pressure, right? So Seton Hall Pirates.
Well, did I miss something with the Pirates?
It's about Seton Hall Prep baseball, I think it's about.
Sacred Heart University when I see Oh, no, probably Seton Hall.
No, Probably Seton Hall. Sacred Heart, they are red and
red and white. Yeah.
And they're definitely not the pirates.
They are. What's their nickname?
I'm forgetting right now, but they're red and white.
They're red and white. So let's go.
Did I miss something with Seton Hall?
Anyway, thank you for that. Appreciate it, man.
I when when we look at pressure, think about the question I was
just asked there, Right? You know who's got to have a
better draft? Like to me, we really misuse the
word pressure quite a bit because if there's no fallout
from the wrong move or a result that is counter to what you
want, is there really pressure? Like who's got pressure right
now? The pressure right now is on
Carlos Mendoza. Like Carlos Mendoza better start
winning some games or Carlos Mendoza is going to get fired.
Like that is real, palpable, tangible stuff.
So now let's take the question that I was just asked and
applied to football, right? So if if Muji and you don't
necessarily always know right away if you whiff on, you know,
if you whiff on, oh, look at you right, Boy, oh boy, look at
this. Oh now, come on now.
Click by click, brick by brick. If you whiff on say, 2 and 16 or
you make a trade and you whiff on one of them.
But it's a bad whiff. Like, Mooji is still going to be
back because there's evidence to last year that he at least has a
semblance of. And I think it's more than this.
But for his detractors, if he were to whip this year,
Moochie's not getting fired. The head coach will.
So. But this is specific to the
draft. So where's there more pressure?
I would probably say, don't you think you have to save the
Giants? But not for the reason that our
last caller outline. Yeah, I don't really know what I
don't My my guess is not much, but like what kind of juice does
Joe Shane have right now going into the draft here?
I don't know. I mean, is, is Joe Shane the one
that built this, this this draft portfolio, like this draft trade
100% how involved was horrible? How involved were was other
people? I don't, I don't know the answer
to that. But like, say if the Giants with
at 5:00 and 10:00 or if there's an issue like Harbaugh wants one
guy, whatever. I I think the pressure is on
Shane, like Harbaugh could go. You know, listen, the Giants
can't stop the run because they traded Dexter Lawrence with the
10th overall pick, right? Which was a sheer brilliant
move. But say, if they don't replace
it with an interior alignment, which I don't think they will.
And the Giants defense thinks this year, but the player that
they draft, whether it's a receiver or whatever might be
old lineman is a stud. Giant fans won't, not that they
want to sit there for a six and 11 season, but there may be no
pressure on Harbaugh. Like this Giants team has been
trash outside of one year for a decade.
Terrible. So I would think Giant fans who
are obviously tired of watching this, but very sensible and
astute football fans, they know that John Horabaugh's got the
power and the John's going to be here for a long time.
The pressures on the GM, just like for The Jets, I think it's
the opposite. I think the pressure is really
not that Muji has no pressure. I'm not saying that not getting
a free pass, but Glenn's got to win, otherwise he's gone.
Like if the Yankees lose three straight after smacking around
the Royals is, you know, you can say, you know, get rid of Boone.
Like we've heard, you know, we've heard that a lot.
But that that that's not real. It's not going to happen.
But if the Mets lose 3 more, is Mendoza still coach of the Mets
by the end of the week? Like if they lose 3 more
straight, if they get swept by the Twins, is he still the
manager? Probably not.
That's pressure. That's all I'm saying.
All right there, Mr. J Rod, I think this is these calls are
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It dude, I'm just. I'm loving it bro.
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Second day we've taken calls great job with that J rod.
I know that I know there's a lot of moving parts.
It's good, man. Good.
I'm you've always been enthusiastic, but I could see
even more sparks. So J Rods crushing it, you guys,
for the most part crushing it. Just a reminder tomorrow night
episode #5 of The Jets Collective.
It's the pre draft show. Obviously, myself and Rich
Simini and Jake Aspen that's coming up tomorrow.
So I want you guys to check that out, like it, subscribe and get
it out there. All Jet stuff, obviously
possible trades, different scenarios.
Maybe we get some rumblings today.
But episode number 5 is tomorrow.
And hey, by the way, if you missed, we dropped it over the
weekend with, with our buddy Mitch, who is the brother of
Hannah, that Instagram account that that I caught window couple
of weeks ago and we interviewed Mitch over the weekend and we,
we, we aired it on Saturday and it was just amazing.
Like I, I actually, I got choked up a few times.
It was just, it was, it was incredibly, it was just poignant
stuff. I don't, I don't know how else
to say it, man. Like you think about ranting and
raving about Mendoza and what Jets and Giants rant and then
you watch that it's like it it, I think it reinforces that, you
know, there's a lot to be grateful for and thankful for,
that's for sure. I mean, it's just it's, it's
it's a horrific story, but it's a story of the limitless nature
of the human condition. I mean, Mitch is 33 years old
studied broadcasting, he's got amazing pipes.
He calls the game. He's phenomenal and his sister
beautiful Hannah just a gorgeous, gorgeous young lady
was T boned if in an accident and her side and then she went
into another part of the highway or I just it just brain, I mean
brain damage to the point where they the doctor basically said
do you really want to do this? And Mitch's sister Haley, she
was the oldest. So it was Haley, Mitch and
Hannah. Hannah's the youngest and then
jointly the parents aren't really too much in the scene.
I don't want to overstep my bounds, but the responsibility
fell on Mitch and and he accepted it and Haley and then
she passed away due to stomach cancer.
And, you know, Mitch is just this crazy Knick fan who
deserves all the good things in life.
They really Jalen Brunson's sister reached out to him.
So it's it's going to make you sad.
It really is. But one of the reasons why I
want a story like that on on my channel is because once you get
past the sadness, you realize the the good that we have, you
know, that is just unspeakable tragedy.
And you know, if you need a little bit of a reset in terms
of, you know, how you view the world or what you're going
through, watch it because that will reset you fast.
It really will. So shout out to Mitch and and
much love to Hannah. They got us a win there, Mitch
first Knicks win of the playoffs here.
And I saw he popped on the IG account right away call them the
games and had a sitting there smiling wearing her Knicks
stuff. Just incredible stuff, man.
So let me go here J Rod have a great rest of your Monday
awesome job today, brother everybody out there BT unleashed
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Anything that if something where the big happened with the draft,
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