On everybody, BT Unleash back on this, we got a little Thursday
action here. Hopefully everybody's doing
well, but of course, BT Unleash brought to you by my friends at
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I'm J Rod. We we, we there are so many
things that we have to get into. The challenge today was not
structuring the show. The challenge today is making
sure that we hit everything. All right, we got we, we also
have today our first BT Unleashed giveaway and it is a
great one. So let's start the show.
Hopefully everybody's doing well.
A little rainy here in the Northeast.
It's kind of you still get this at this point of the year.
Like yesterday I was wearing shorts on the practice field
with the kids. Today I ran to the store to get
a bottle of water, had a gas up and I basically had on my parka.
So it's a little bit of a shift in the weather, but it is all
good. We'll get to the gangs, get to
the Mets. Got some NFL draft for you as
well now yesterday. All right, how great was Stephen
A Smith? Stephen A Smith, I mean he was.
If you guys missed this, make sure you go and check it out
there. I already saw a national write
up about Stephen A. Just show him that little
preacher outfit there because we got to hook up Pastor Ariel.
Look, look at Easter. Stevie, Stevie, my man Stevie.
He was on Unleashed yesterday for almost 2 hours and really
the only reason why it ended is because I kind of felt bad
taking up the guy's time. I'm like, he's been here for an
hour and 51 minutes. It's not like he was like yo,
BTI got to bounce. He was so good with his time and
even more importantly, he was so introspective.
Like I've known and you know, I don't know if you guys really
believe me. Like as I've said, I haven't
known Stephen A for a long time. I think that was very apparent
in the conversation that we had. But even even having met him in
2004, like I knew some of the stories, like when his brother
was killed in the automobile accident, you know, some of the
dynamics with his dad and just the way he was brought up in
Queens and, and all the other things.
But, I mean, he, I didn't know that he almost died.
I did not. I did not know that during code.
And I knew he was. Yeah, I know we had a little bit
of a rough battle with COVID. I didn't know it was that bad.
He was just awesome. Jay, you were producing this.
Obviously I went back and I watched a little piece of it and
I, I, I think it's the best thing we've done so far on the
channel. I think it was that good.
How about it's? Great.
I mean, it just felt different. It felt I was almost saying it
to you yesterday. Like it felt magical.
Like there was just something mystifying about, you know,
seeing it go down and he got real.
And like, I think The funny thing, it was like, and you
know, for anyone who's going to check it out, you know, get to
the end when you're doing the quick hits, you're like, yo,
let's do them quick. This dude could have gone for an
hour on each of those questions and he would and he would have
been happy to. So I thought that was what was
so great, was like he was invested, he was locked in, yes.
Awesome. Yeah.
He, I'm usually, I'm the one who drags on and drones on.
I'm like, no, Steve. The point of this is we're doing
quick hits, man. I want to get some stuff about
the Knicks. The crazy thing before we get to
some other stuff. The crazy thing about the
conversation with Steve is that you tell me, Jared, if you think
I'm all faced with this. If I had to guess, I would say
that about 90 to 95% of the almost two hours is not really
about sports. No, not at all, right.
I mean, it, it's it's very fresh, you know, I feel like it,
it's a it's a true in not interview, but it's a true
conversation That's that's free flowing.
You know, it doesn't feel like, and I mean, I'm sure this is
obviously how you did it, but it didn't feel like there was any
true plan to it other than, you know, the end.
Get into some quick topics, but you really let the man flow go
on his own thing and just great. He, he really was awesome.
I can't think of enough for his time.
And I've already seen one national article that was
written about it really, really lauding the conversation.
So I certainly appreciate that. Guys, go and check it out.
You know, carve out, you know, I don't know if you're going to
sit there for two hours straight, Maybe you've got to
consume it in chunks here, but go and do whether you love
Steven or you despise Steven, I, I put it this way, if you love
Steven, you're going to love him more.
If you don't like Steven, you know, he's bombastic.
He's this whatever you think he might be these racist, which
I've actually heard from some people over the years, which I
think is so patently offensive and and couldn't be further from
the truth. I think if you kind of subscribe
to that thought of Steven over the years, I think that you will
change that. I think that that will soften
there. And that was that was the goal,
not to get you guys to like Steven if you didn't, but to
just see a different side. Hey, like we did with Michael
Kay, like we did with Don Le Greco, like we did with Pitino,
like we'll do with Boone, who's going to join us in the next
couple of weeks here. So I I was just really, really
thankful. Steven was awesome.
Check it out. Like it's of it.
Get it out there, number one. Number two, this will be quick.
Last night, phenomenal second episode, The Jets Collective.
Yeah, we absolutely crushed it last night, Jake Rich and
myself, and we're doing this once a week and then as we move
toward the season, it will be twice a week.
And of course, we talked about the promised land comments and,
you know, now there's what, 20 or 21 days of the draft?
So we started getting into the possibilities like, you know,
could they trade out of two? Are they definitely going
defensive 2, which I believe that they are.
You know how in plays Ty Simpson coming off the meeting and the
workout, the dinner The Jets brass put him through last week?
So last night, that was awesome. We're already monetized.
We've got about, I think almost 3000 Subs already.
We just started this thing and it is the it's the mission.
And I believe that this will absolutely happen.
This show like that image that you're looking at this and
there's a lot of good jet shows out there.
I'm not trying to discredit any other content.
That's that's not who I am. It's not who what I do.
You know, I'm not just going to diss people.
You know, everybody's trying to make a live and everybody's
trying to do what they do well. But this show, I believe, and
that is the motive to make this the number one jet show of
record. All right, so last night was
great. Let's see, let's get to this now
this is I don't even know by how.
I won't even waste your time telling you how this transpired.
It's a long, twisting, amazing story.
But J Rod, I know that you know your boy me, I am going to be on
a mound on Sunday, on Easter Sunday, 60 feet, 6 inches away.
I'm not sure who's going to receive the first pitch, but I
will be in the middle of a Major League stadium throwing out the
first pitch. Get it up.
That's right. As we expand the Unleashed
brand, BT Unleashed taking over Texas, throwing out the first
pitch on Easter Sunday. So that is an absolute
privilege. That is an incredible honor.
I was just, I mean, I talk about #1 being surprised and then #2
you know, really being humbled and taken back when I was asked
to do that it and, and it's funny, it came up on the show
the other day, you know, BT it's come up a few times.
BT Is this just a local show? No, it's not.
So I will be in Dallas with my entire family on Sunday, as we
usually are for Easter. And I'm going to be throwing out
that first pitch, man. And I'll tell you what, Oh my
God, my boys are already trying to get in my head.
Dog, don't bounce it. Don't Baba booey it.
Don't $0.50 it, you know, don't listen.
I can promise you that's not going to happen if.
Anything mess this up, man. We got we got a lot at stake
here, there we. Go, you're going to already do
this to be man. Let me let me tell you one
thing. So I have yes, I told you I had
the day before I had softball for my daughter yesterday, had
my son's travel team that I coach right So around the field,
beautiful day and I love warming up with the kids even before I
knew I was doing this. Like I throw BP, I love to throw
the ball around and like that's the only part of my body truly
from an athletic point of view that really still feels like
it's kind of young. Like my arm still has juice.
I hold the ball without a doubt. However, I won't say that I
already know that. Now I anticipate a strike.
I'll tell you why I think I'll throw a strike, and I'll give
you an estimate of how hard I think I'll throw it.
But I also understand that when I'm on a practice field with a
bunch of knuckleheads who I've known since they were seven
years old and watching them grow now, and most of them are 12 and
the it's going to be a little different.
You know, going out there, 40,000 people with all eyes on
me, ladies and gentlemen, and they're going to introduce me
and they're going to put the big beat, the big BT Unleashed logo
on the massive. And it's a beautiful stadium.
I've been there before. It's an awesome stadium.
So while I'm confident, not cocky, but I know I can throw a
ball. I'm confident.
I'm not nervous yet, but as that introduction is, is pulsating
and bouncing off the walls. Ladies and gentlemen, please
give a loyal, a loud, raucous Texas ovation.
I know I'm going to be getting a little tight as I'm walking out
there. And I'll tell you what, man, Oh,
my friends are already trying to clown me.
They're like, dude, if you bounce this and you don't throw
because they did a lot of guys I played ball with, they're like,
that's the one thing that you can still do is throw a ball.
You better not mess this up. So I don't think I'm going to
mess it up. I'm looking to throw gas.
I have always mocked people who now sometimes cuz I've thrown
out, I'll tell you that story in a second.
I've done this before. It's been a long time, but most
people go to the slope of the mound.
OK, the slope or some people, I mean, if you're older, it's all
good. They'll go to like the first
little piece of grass before the mound.
Now sometimes you can't control it because I want to stand on, I
want to stand on that slab. I want to, I want to be in the
middle of a major. I mean, I'm going to give you
the whole wind up. I'm going through the whole
spiel. I'm going to have all the
theatrics. I mean, if I wasn't on the
pitch, I might bust out. I black like I'm taking.
It. Seriously.
But I'm kidding about that. But I will go to the rubber if
they let me. Some stadium, some teams don't
let you do it because it's already manicured.
And obviously it's the major leagues.
They don't want anybody getting hurt.
They don't want anybody messing up the mound.
They're they're creatures of habit.
My intention is to go to the mound and throw it 60 feet, 6
inches. And what I've learned is this.
And I've told people, I remember telling Stephen A this when he
threw out the first pitch of the Yankees.
Yeah, it's an OK pitch, not terrible.
I mean, he didn't really look like a baseball player, but it
wasn't bad. It wasn't like Baba Booey.
The one thing that I learned, because again, no matter how
much you think you could throw a ball or how confident you think
that you are, then you're going to get a little tight.
And I I do expect that to some degree, right.
But what's what you have to do? If you aim to throw a strike,
you're going to throw it low. You've got to aim high because
while, you know, we have these, these really nice portable, but
they're like $30,000 to these portable pitching mounds that we
put on the field on the turf for the, for the kids when they
play, they're not quite as high as a Major League mound.
So, and, and we don't play at 60 feet yet because you know, my
son's 11 and, and, and this is a 12 year old team.
So they're still at 50 feet. So it's 10 feet back.
Even though I always throw BP, I'm going to be elevated higher
and then the nerves, but you've got to almost look to hit,
whether it's the catcher, I don't know who's going to
receive it, whomever it is, you've got to almost look to hit
them in the bill of the cap because you're going to be lower
than you think. So if you're looking, you know,
right down the middle, you know, like a National League strike
back in the day, you're bouncing that puppy like you're going to
be sure and it's or it's going to be a ball.
If you go up here, you're probably going to be right here.
So I can't wait. I can't wait to get on that
mound and throw a little pitch here before seam action.
You know, my buddies like you can throw A2 seam a cutter.
I'm like you out of your mind. I'm I'm I'm going.
I don't want anything that's going to because the two seamers
going to move. I'm not throwing a change up.
That would be ridiculous. You need a clean as possible or
listen, hear me out Yeah, listen, you botched this.
We're going big time. I know that's true.
That's true. If you made it into like the
hall of but obviously for your for your for your persona, I
think you I think you ought to hit a clean one.
That's. All I'm going to try now let's
investigate that a little bit more for a moment because now if
I didn't respect baseball the way I do and if I didn't play
baseball the way that I did, I I mean I'd be fully on board.
I would like throw it to the to the second deck if I could like
I could probably you know, I could probably reach just throw
the worst pitch in the history of first pitches.
You want to get 50,000 more Subs overnight.
Oh my God. You know, I mean, you get the
House of highlights, little bump right there.
They they get you. What is he thinking?
I know, I know, but I can't do it.
I got too much pride. I'm not going to do.
There's no way I got My family's going to be watching, you know,
kids and I coach. It's going to be out there like
Coach, what happened, man? You threw one in, you know, your
five hopped it. You threw it against the screen.
It can't be having that now if it happens naturally, OK, now,
which I don't think it will. I mean, I'm not saying it's
going to be right down the middle, perfect strike, but
there's no way I'm going to embarrass myself unless it slips
out of my hand. See, here's the problem, too.
The more I talk about it, the more I think about it, of
course. It builds the snowball.
The snowball builds. There's nothing more powerful
than the mind. And I'll give you a great
example. Was it Arnie or was it, I think
it was Arnie and not Jack. I'm pretty sure already said
this. Like one of the common mistakes
that a lot of, you know, hack golfers make is that they step
up to a ball and they've got the exact wrong mindset.
So rather than saying all right, step in, let's pure it up there.
Say if you have a 5 iron, you know you want to hit this.
Like what? I mean, if you're really good,
you going to think this way? I just want to get it anywhere
near the green. But for the sake of this
conversation, I'll just pretend that I'm good.
Like if you're a decent golfer, you walk up to the ball, say
your second shot 177 yards out, whatever club that might be.
You know, if you're going for a specific quadrant of the green,
which again, I'm not, if I'm anywhere near the green, I'm
thrilled. But you want to say, all right,
hey, listen, it's it undulates here.
Let's go. Let you want to basically within
the mind as you speak to yourself and grip the club and
go through your pre shot routine.
You want to reinforce good stuff.
What you don't say and this happened.
I say this too, and you'll hear this art of green a lot.
You hear, you know, weekend golfers, you know, guys that are
151820 handicaps and worse right, which where I obviously
fall probably in that 18 range 20 whatever it is, depending
upon the thing. Maybe it's worse, but you'll
hear a lot of golfers say don't leave it short, Come on or don't
3 putt No, because by saying that you're opening a part of
your mind, like you're opening up the possibility of three
putting. What you really want to say is
all right, leg it get within 2 three feet, tap it and move on
to the next T box. It's the power of positivity.
It is the power of positive reinforcement.
So these next couple of days I got to make sure my mind is
right. And I'm not going to say to
myself, don't bounce it. Don't throw it against the
screen. I'm sitting there saying let's
flush one man. Let's hammer one right through
the zone and let's get it. Let let, let's try to sniff 70
miles an hour. Let's go.
I mean, that's how I'm feeling. I'm feeling like it's going to
be a, it's going to be a nice one.
It's going to go down in the Hall of Fame.
I'm excited of. I'm excited.
I'm I'm and really it All in all seriousness, I'm I'm extremely
humbled. Like it, it's it's an incredible
thing to the channel. It's going to be an amazing
thing for my family. You know how much I love
baseball, how much I respect it. And we'll get to the baseball
stuff in a minute. It's funny.
So this will be I've thrown out a few with minor league
ballparks, right. And and not to, you know, make
that like I appreciated that as well.
This will be the second Major League stadium I've done this
in. Now the the difference this time
is when I did it the first time. This is when I was working in
San Francisco and I was doing afternoon drive for 95.7 the
game FM station. This was in 2011.
No kids yet. So my arm wasn't in shape, you
know, because I, I wasn't playing ball with my kids yet.
I was just playing golf and my back was a mess.
I wouldn't even play a lot of golf at that point.
Wasn't even in great shape. I put on like 7-8 pounds.
I'm like, jeez, I look at the video, I'm like, dude, what the
hell happened? Why did you let yourself get
like that? So anyway, it was at the
Coliseum and I was talking shit all week.
A stands Ace fans couldn't stand me because you know, when you go
to work in San Francisco, again, no disrespect to the A's, but
like, if you're talking about the A's every day rather than
the Giants, you're just not going to get ratings.
And I got paid decent money to get ratings.
So we have Bruce Bocci on the show.
I had a weekly spot with Buster Posey.
You know, Brandon Belt used to come on the show, all these old
names, right? And I really didn't talk much
about the A's and the A's fans really resented it.
So whatever. I did this bit where I basically
was playing with their emotions. Again, Long story short, when I
go out to the mound, they introduced me.
You hear booze. Oh, wow.
Now, now, thank God it was the Coliseum.
And there was only about 11,000 people there because if if there
was 30,000, they'd still be playing in the Coliseum.
It was a day game. I think they may have been
playing the Rangers, ironically, Rangers or Seattle.
It was another AL West team. And as I go out there, I hear it
wasn't like a raucous Boo, like, you know, vociferous booing, but
they let me know that they weren't feeling me right away.
No, I, I, I was playing with them the whole time.
I had this, I think I told you this, this throwback Catfish
Hunter jersey underneath my button.
So when I got on the mound, I went like WWE.
I'm hearing the booze and I'm kind of go live, bring it on.
And then I like that I have a glove.
No, I put the ball down for a second and then I take off my
button down and I go like this with the catfish.
It was like a 73. And they won the World Series
that year was a sick beautiful throwback T-shirt that I still
have, but a good T-shirt like AT shirt jersey.
So a jersey like one of those things.
And I go like this. Then you hear a couple of
cheers. But the whole week and I will
not make this mistake this time. A little bit more sage, a little
bit more in control BT a little bit more mature BT I'm telling
everybody on the I'm going to throw 85 miles an hour.
I'm going to bust this down. I'm going to bust the catchers
mid. I might get signed to a 10 day
minor league contract after this.
Like I'm obviously kind of kidding.
I knew I wasn't going to hit 85, but I was talking a world of
shit. I'm coming in the side door
here. So the two big differences.
Instead of 11,000, there will be 40,000 people on Sunday.
But I will not get booed. So that will be a good thing.
And I can't wait. So that's great.
All right, let's get that picture up there once more as BT
hits the mound, 60 feet, 6 inches away.
I got to figure out what I'm going to wear.
Like, I like to wear a nice because I'm sure we're going to
church before that. You can get it down.
Thanks, Jay. Yeah, the Easter bunnies come.
We've got a big Sunday, Easter Sunday day.
So I've got a nice pink blazer, a couple of nice like spring
Blazers that I could, but I I'm not throwing the first pitch in
a blazer because that's going to restrict me.
Yeah. No, you get too tight over here.
Yeah. And I got to figure out the
attire. And the other thing I can't do,
I mean, if they asked me to do what I would out of respect, I
don't know, can I wear another team's jersey?
Yeah. Yeah.
Whatever they want, I will do because I'm in their house, you
know, but I would do whatever they want.
Now, let's get to this. This is awesome.
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Yeah. Instagram or so.
Yeah, let us know Xbox or PS-5, Instagram or Twitter.
And then it'll be at a random point in the episode BT will
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So just leave those and then either he or I will reach out
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Sick. I mean, I see, you know, like
it's just it's cool with the sponsorships that, you know,
obviously all of them are are great, but it's awesome to like
see some things that, you know, I I'm relating to.
I understand. I've kind of, I've kind of, you
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They are phenomenal. You know, Nick is a star.
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So so we won't do that now. So whenever we got to make sure
we get enough time, I don't want to do it at the end of the show.
I wanted to give you guys the alert and the heads up.
Now, Jay, if I don't do it within, you know, 10 to 12
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Thank you very much. So the first 25 today, Madden
tomorrow, college. Now, one more thing, Jay.
We've got WrestleMania coming up in.
That is what? April what?
What is April? What?
April 18th and 19. 18th and 19, did you reach out to Jake the
Snake and did you reach out to Hacksaw Jim Duggan?
Yes, Sir, you did. So OK.
Let's see when, when you say like we've made contact, does
that mean that they've reached back to you?
I guess probably. I would have to say, yeah, I
would have to say that you have reached out.
When you say we, you know, we've been in contact.
You're implying that they've responded, which I don't think
that they yet. Have no, they have not yet have
responded, but we don't. Want to try to lie to anybody
here? No, no, no.
We run a certainly up front ship here on BT Unleashed.
But yeah, I mean, hopefully the guys are down.
Reached out to them, you know, just found it through the
Twitter. So yeah, I mean, I really want
to get that going. I think that'd be awesome.
Like I'm, I'm obviously you know, from a different era of
WWE fandom, but like certainly with, with Jake the snake, I
remember playing as him in like the games in like the WWE2K game
romance. Sinister, sinister.
He was an evil dude breaking out this.
He had like the snake out the bag.
Oh God. But Damien, of course, no doubt
the story. Well, first of all, the, the
moment in the ring when, when it actually, you know, clamped down
on the macho man's arm. You know, like the and I, you
know, I love these the K fab K fab stuff and all the shoots.
Like I, I really do jump into on YouTube these old and there's
not many left, but the old, you know, Bobby Heenan was very good
at this before he passed on. Cornett's great as well.
What's his name? Oh, God.
Oh God. The hockey Tonk man does a lot
of stuff. Well, Greg Ballantine out in
Vegas. So there's still a lot of guys
who are doing this. But the story behind the, you
know, Macho Man allowing Jake to do that because I mean, listen,
you know, those Jake, Jake was all hopped up on drugs.
I mean, so was Macho Man, I'm sure.
But, you know, like, if, if I'm Macho Man, I, I want to make
sure that that venom has been taken out.
So the story goes the way it's been told.
Jake told this story that they're in the locker room and
Macho Man's like, you know, we'll make sure you're not
messing around trying to be, you know, do nothing dirty here.
Won't you? Let it take a bite out of you.
And Jake's like, what? Take a bite out of me.
He's like, yeah, let's see, let's see him stick his fangs in
you. And he did it like he Macho Man
would not actually do the would not do it in the ring until Jake
actually, you know, the Damien took a bite out of Jake And then
if Jake didn't die Macho's man like months now venomous,
although we couldn't he probably could have switched bags.
You know, when macho man left the room.
I mean, not exactly a foolproof method.
That was sick. I listen, I would be thrilled if
it's hacksaw. I really would.
But I was such a big Jake the snake fan, and I said this
yesterday because the way like the promos back then, you know,
a whole, you know, just coming in just just diesel and oiled up
and well, you don't mean G like he'd launch into a spiel.
Then he'd do the guns as he would walk off the camera.
And then you had the macho man coming in little, you know, a
little bit of different tone, you know what I mean?
But then this guy Jake would show up and he would just be
like he would just stare at you with that long hair, the wet
hair like and he didn't have a good body.
That was the thing about Jake didn't have a good body.
He used to wear, like, the pants with the Damien snake on the
side and the boots and the and the bag and the way he delivered
his promos. That's why he's one of my top
five promo guys of all time. I'm going to do that before
WrestleMania on the show, by the way.
Yeah. Like he didn't feel the need to
raise his voice. He would just look at you say,
yeah, you know, we got ourselves a little situation here and it
just I love the guy. So I'm happy that he's actually
doing well in life because he was an absolute train wreck for
a long time. All right, did we hit you with
enough stop, Stephen A The Jets collective, the first pitch and
this. Amazing, Amazing.
Thank you. This is really what it is, guys.
It's a thank you for supporting BT, the BT Unleashed, fam.
So good luck. We're not going to do it yet.
Probably about 10 minutes. J Rod, let me know.
Let's do the show here. All right.
Thank you. Oh, yes, Sir.
I like that. Now, if you if you heard me last
year and many of you did because many of you listen to the fan
talking about Mendy. All right, I I thought that
Carlos Mendoza had a really bad year as a manager, really bad.
Now that's it was a perfect team like the Mets didn't have a lot
of starting pitching. We know this.
I don't I don't need to just regurgitate the old stories, but
I want to at least set a little bit of a backdrop as we cross it
into now it's early. I'm not sounding alarms.
Well, maybe I am, but it's not a 5 alarm fire.
It's just maybe a little dinner bell like all right, let let
let's everybody start perking up.
The Mets look like shit right now.
The Mets, Look, the problem with the Mets is that the Mets of
2026 right now are resembling the Mets of 2025 really, aside
for the pitching. Like Sanga was good and McClain
was good and Peralta was good yesterday.
But the problem with last year's Mets, they didn't hit the
clutch, even Soto for most of the year.
That was a massive issue. And I just don't think that they
played with great energy and I don't think they played with
great alertness. And I don't think they had great
connectivity, which is one of the reasons why, you know, and
Sal was saying this. And I totally agreed.
You know, everybody got mad at us for saying this, but the Mets
actually, they actually did it. So we were proven right.
The Mets core it. It had to be busted up.
You know, I saw Pete hit his first home run.
Good for him. I'll see Nimmo over the weekend
when I'm out in Texas. But they just had to change
things up. They had to.
And I like what they did. Like, I'm not going to do 180
and say, oh, the Mets are going to win 80 games.
I think the Mets could be 90 plus wins.
And I think the Mets could be a playoff team, but the Mets
better get their act together. Because the one thing that I
said at the end of last year, remember, there were a few
people, I didn't say this, I didn't say this.
Not that I was afraid to. I didn't necessarily believe it
at that point. But I did say Year 3, which is
now would be really the measurement of Mendoza.
Year 1 was terrific, overachieved a lot of energy,
almost got to the World Series, beat the Phillies, the enthos
did his thing. You know, they, they, they look
good. But I was great.
Those final eighteen starts, we know what happened.
And then last year it was an unmitigated, unexpected
disaster. What a disaster.
I got impersonations too. That's where it ends, though.
That's that's the only one I could do with Joe.
What a disaster. They were a mess.
They were absolute. They were uninspiring.
They were disconnected. They were disjointed.
It didn't look like they liked each other a lot.
That's just the reality of 2025. Now, I'm not here to start
trouble. I'm not going to say, oh, you
know, although Lindor's, but you better get his head out of his
behind. I mean, Francisco Lindor is
asleep at the wheel. And I understand that Lindor,
you know, the part of the Francisco Lindor experience is
that he does nothing in April. He's in a baseball coma.
And then he slowly emerges in May.
And then he has a June or July where he's one of the two or
three best players in baseball. And by the end of the year, the
numbers are there. But there's this madding
inconsistency that the other great players in baseball really
don't have. And listen again, this is not
all Lindor hit from one side of the play.
I'm not this Lindor. I'm giving you the reality of
Francisco Lindor as a Met. Now, the Guardians may be a
little different. His numbers were better there as
well. But like, we're used to the slow
start. What you can't have, I don't
care if it's day one of spring training down to Port Saint
Lucie, a split squad game or game seven of the World Series.
They're a Major League Baseball player.
You got to know how many outs there are.
Like, that's kind of part of the job if you want to store bare
bones minimum, like what is required.
And if you don't know, and I tell my kids this and I coach,
if you don't know, ask the umpire.
You know, with that at the youth level, there's one behind the
plate, there's one behind the pitcher's now depending upon,
you know, guys on base. So hey, you don't ask him if I'm
coaching third, you're on 2nd coach, How many outs?
I'll tell you if I don't hear you, which I will ask the.
So in Major League Baseball, there's this, it's it's a very
interesting modern advancement. It's called the scoreboard.
All right, I don't know if you guys have heard of this.
Very cutting edge. And most of these Major League
scoreboards at this point are the sizes of mansions.
The Yankees have a new scoreboard coming.
The Mets have a monstrosity of a scoreboard.
All right, look behind you if you're on second base as a
runner, if you're playing short, look behind you.
What do we got here? 11 count.
All right, two outs. I'm playing defense.
Same thing to not. I mean, that was absolutely
unacceptable. Unacceptable.
And I was. I know that Lindor and and he,
he does take ownership of his mistakes.
I I respect that about him. He's a guy who when he's not
hitting, he's not playing well, he's a guy who takes the thumb
and puts it in himself. Not everybody does that.
Francisco Lindor truly does, and I truly do respect that.
But I mean, come on, man. So he did say yesterday probably
caused Peralta an inning. Yeah, you did.
I mean, you're lucky Peralta picked you up.
So when like the and and it's it's a bit of a narrative.
Yeah. It's not that they just, you
know, didn't look good in in Saint Louis.
It's not that the offense is fairly impotent when you don't
hit you jet in baseball, you generally look lackluster.
That's just the flow of the game.
Like if you're going, you know, four or five hits, one run,
that's just throwing to the Mets.
Anybody general 7-8 sevens, not that bad, 11 or 12 punch outs,
you know, two walks, like I said, 3, four hits, you score
one or two. Like it's going to look as if
you're a dead team. Like you just kind of drag in.
And that's not always the case. I mean, guys are grinding.
It's hard to hit. And at this point of the season,
I still believe that the pitchers have a little bit of an
advantage that's starting to go away at this point.
And by, you know, another week or two it will be fully gone.
But slight advantage early, a little cold out, whatever
advantage pitchers. But see the the Mets now go back
to what happened over the weekend.
Now, I didn't mind it because it was in line with an aggressive
mindset. And Mendoza talked about this
after the game when they sent Lindor home from first base on
Soto's double against the Pirates, right?
And he gets thrown out, Bang. But not even really.
I mean, he was, I guess, kind of bang, bang.
Maybe if he goes head first, maybe touches the plate with his
hand. But he's got the bad hand.
So I give him a pass on that. They were doing what they said
they were going to do before the series.
There's certain teams you can run on and there's certain teams
that you really want to put stress on from a defensive point
of view because they're not going to handle it well.
And in their estimations, and I agree, their calculations, their
data points, the Pirates are one of those teams.
But you got to be right. So when Lindor gets thrown out
of the plate, all right, and then you lose and then you got
Lovelady out there and the last game he didn't use Devin
Williams like, well, why not? All right, So I didn't love
that. I don't think that Carlos
Mendoza last year was very good with the bullpen.
I've said that I didn't like last year's energy, so it's new
players. I'll give them a chance to get
that straight. I did not like he.
I thought he gave Vientos too much rope at third base as a
horrendous fielder and when it was very clear, very apparent
that Beatty's a superior defensive player.
So I don't think Mendoza had a good year last year and right
now, and again, I know it's early, but we got to react to
something. I mean, you can't just get on
the air and say, I mean, you could, but who wants to hear it?
It's early. They'll be fine.
Now, there's certain situations where I think you could say that
like Aaron Judge, all right, he's got a couple of home runs.
Batting average is low. I think it now, I mean, some
have done this. Knock yourself out.
I'm not doing this because he's Aaron Judge and I know that.
But if you want to say if you want to get on Judge, that's not
what I'm looking to do. You want to get on him in
October that that's different. All right, before he's hitting
two O 7 and it's May 19th. That's different.
I'll join the party. Yo, cap, what's up?
Or if Soto got off to a rough start, which he hasn't.
He's been phenomenal so far. Really one of the only Mets
who's hit who's hitting thus far.
Like all right, you know that there's certain guys 568 games.
They've earned that cachet, that equity, the latitude to figure
things out and others have not. And I got to be honest with you,
you know, think about the name Judge.
Think about the name Soto. And now think about the name
Mendoza. They're not comparable.
Judge and Soto are here and Mendoza's here.
You know, Judge and Soto are two of the best players in the
world. All right?
Nobody's sitting here saying Mendoza is one of the 2345 best
mattresses in baseball. I'm not saying he's one of the
five worst, but the Mets need to get their act together.
They do. I'm not worried about Bichette.
I'm maybe a little worried about Simeon.
I mean, it's been a couple of down years now and he looks
lost. I mean, he's still fast, he
could still defend, but he's not hitting and the Mets aren't
hitting. And again, when you don't hit
you, you're going to look a little disengaged.
And I don't know that that's true.
I don't think that that's the case.
But when you don't know how many outs and you're basically
jogging in you, you just loaf over the second base, step on
the bag, 03 outs. No, there's two.
If you would have thrown the ball, would have been an easy
double play. And Peralta probably gets an
extra inning #1 then Door is on first base, you know, fix it.
Is, is, is a little sliding bit. Oh, we're going to throw over.
You're out. Same thing happened to to Jazz.
Same thing happened to Jazz. Jazz, would you wake up?
Dude, I, I don't understand that.
I don't know how that happens. Then you get gunned down the
plate. I just gave you that scenario
over the weekend. You didn't play well against the
Cardinals, didn't finish the series well against the Pirates,
you know, and oh, yeah, by the way, was this yesterday?
I think it was there. Yeah.
It had to be yesterday. I'm watching the game and there
was. So was there a runner on?
Oh, geez, what was it? I think 1st and 3rd and was a
church and there was a ball in the dirt and and Alvarez, who
who who has worked hard to receive the ball better.
And I think he's been better with that this year.
Looks to be in better shape. We'll see if he hits whatever,
right? But he blocked it well.
And since he's a runner on 3rd, as long as the ball's in front
of you, you're good. He's not coming down secondary
leads going to go back to the big.
So Alvarez very slowly looks at him.
All right, I'm good here. Well, while he's taking the
sweet time getting the baseball, the guy on first base is running
safe now. They got out of it.
Peralta did. But isn't that emblematic of a
team that's not really locked in?
Your catchers in space, your short stops in space, your third
base coach was in space. The Hell's going on with the
Mets? You know, so it it seems to be.
And again, I do think that the Mets will figure this out and I
do think their pitching will be good because it has been pretty
good already. I think the Mets are going to be
a playoff team. But the onus is on them, not on
me to say it. The onus is on them to show it.
And then I will happily say it, that they have rid themselves of
some of those lazy and ineffective characteristics
which basically defined their season last year.
That's just the reality of the of the 25 New York Mets gross
underachievement and an 81 win season.
And you know, I think you were looking up at the Marlins in the
standings, right? I think I think the Marlins had
a did they or than that who what one of those teams finished
above them. Either way, unacceptable for the
payroll and for the expectations.
So it's early, but they got to start figuring some stuff out.
They absolutely need to. I mean, yesterday they were old
for 11 with runners in scoring position.
I know that they're trying to. I know that Bichette's grinding
to have his first, you know, Mets moment, if that's a thing,
whatever to further ingratiate himself, you know, to be
accepted by the fans, even though every Met fan knows he's
probably gonna have the best clutch stats, maybe outside of
Soto, of anybody on the team and maybe in the National League,
because that's what Bob Bichette does.
I'm not worried about Bob Bichette.
But you know, you're old for 11 yesterday and you were one for
29 with runners in scoring position in the series.
So when you factor in Simeon, you know, who knows?
What if you know, if he's cooked, and I'm not saying he
is, but he could be. Who knows what Alvarez is going
to do this year? You know, I do like bench, but
it's a lot. I do I, I, I think he's a ball
player. I like that kid.
But it's a lot to expect of him to come in, you know, get 600
bats and just basically be the everyday right fielder.
I know bet he'll get out there a little bit.
Whatever. But they got wake up.
I do. I do not like the way the New
York Mets look at all twelve runs in five games.
What's going on? Let me get city moons.
What's the plan with Manaya? He either needs to go on the IL
dealt or play. He's only pitched once and he
needs to stay stretched out. I think Manaya is a complete non
factor this year. I don't think he brings anything
to the table this year. I don't now put that up, AJ, put
that up again. Jay, Ron, what were the three
options he either needs to go on the IL.
Well, you're not going on the IL if you're not, right.
I mean, if you're not healthy, if you if you if you are
healthy, there you go. If you're healthy, you're not
going on the IL. So I would scratch that.
Why would anybody trade for it? Trade, trade him for what, $0.20
on the dollar and basically pay 20 million of the 25.
This guy, I mean, he looked that he won't be.
He looks like he could be out of baseball in two years if this
doesn't pick up. He is a complete non entity.
He's throwing batting practice. So right now, here's what Shawn
Manaya is. Shawn Manaya is if the Mets are
up nine to three, if the Mets are down 8 to one, pick a spot
that Shawn Manaya time. That's it.
Yeah. And and I'm not really looking
to stretch him out during games at my expense, meaning if I'm,
you know, running the Mets, if I'm Mendy, you go figure it out,
the bullpen and not my problem you throwing 87 miles an hour,
87, you know, so I know he was hurt a year ago.
But that, you know, that 18 game stretch where he looked like a
Cy Young winner, looked like a a certifiable ace, like he, he was
unhittable and the numbers, well, I mean close to
unhittable. And the numbers bear that out it
they, the numbers were amazing, scintillating.
But that to me #1 is certainly not reflective of where he is
now, that's for damn sure. He looks like a minor leaguer
now. He looks like he's washed up #1
#2 it's not emblematic. It's not representative of
really who Shawn and I has been in his career.
Even going back to his prior spots, like his ERA was pretty
much always over 4. It's not like, you know, he had
three or four tremendous years in in other cities.
He had a, well, one or two good, you know, and then he was OK
with the Mets. Then he figured something out
with the wind up, which by the way, the league is now adjusted
to, you know, when you're coming from here all these years and
now you're coming from here, whatever it might be, and you're
concealing the ball, well, these guys are going to go to school
on that. And when you've got way below
average stuff, way, way below average stuff, it is not hard to
figure out, well, that's an 88 mile per hour fastball or that's
a little bend, whatever it might be.
I'm going to rock this guy because he's just not a Major
League pitcher right now. So I mean, I again, I think he's
a non entity. I don't think he does anything
this year in terms of like sustained contributions to the
bottom line of the Mets. I think he might make a spot,
you know, he might, you know, hopefully everybody stays
healthy. If there's some injuries, you
can throw them in there and hope you get 3 or 4 innings before he
gets smacked around. It could be mop up guy.
Long relief, but high leverage that with that, no way what up.
BT want to ask about the live show.
Not doing it. Not doing the live show.
Unfortunately, there were a couple.
I don't need to really waste a lot of time on this.
It was something that we we really wanted to do with Carl.
Doesn't mean we won't do it in the future.
There were a couple of logistical issues and it just
didn't work out. We tried something like when we
did the one with Boone. Again, when I say logistically
talking about like the venue and okay, he's is a great venue, but
just, you know, the holiday and Passover.
By the way, Jay Rod, how was dinner last night?
Everything good? It was great.
I mean it wasn't.
It was like a friend one. It was like my my went over to
my boys crib. Oh yeah, you didn't go back to
Mom's house. No, that's that's today.
Like my grandparents and my mom and I are going out to lunch.
Nothing serious, you know? No, we're not like that.
I got you. You know, we're like, we're more
like traditional in the, in the sense of just like getting
together, but it's not really like a religious experience.
Understood, but you had a bar mitzvah when you were younger.
Of course, man. Come on now, you.
Got to get the money. You got to collect the apples,
man. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I mean, I I've heard those things are I've never been.
My parents have been to a bunch. I've never been to 1.
Maybe, maybe, maybe somebody could hire me for I could do a
BTLE show. Barb it's.
What was your theme? What, what, what theme did you
do? I didn't not really honestly
like it. I think at least in the kids who
I went to it wasn't as popular to have a theme.
I mean one of my friends had like a movie themed one but mine
was just like party themed. Gotcha.
Just like party. I mean, I know it's all
relative. Obviously how much you have.
I don't mean you, but I've got some Jewish friends who, who I
met later in life that otherwise I, I would have been, you know,
at their bar mitzvahs. Yes, Sir.
Where now some of my buddies who were Jewish, they just didn't
have the bank to do it. But sometimes they, they spend
hundreds and hundreds of thousands on some of the like,
it's, I mean, sometimes. No dude, some of them are
freaking grand. Remember Ari on Entourage, the
bar mitzvah? The bar mitzvah that he for his
daughter like $1,000,000. The whole Hollywood was there
anyway. Well, hopefully you have a good
time and a good meal and is there fasting in with a Is there
supposed to be You don't know I. So I know for Yom Kippur, Yom
Kippur fast, yes, you might, you might have to fast the day
before Passover. That definitely could be a thing
that I'm just like forgetting, Oh, I got a boy's got to eat.
I understood young man's got to get those nutrients in that
body. All right, why don't you take
the time now to let everybody know how to do that and stuff
the codes? EA Sports.
Then I'll get to some Yankee stuff.
Go ahead, brother. What do you got?
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So that's good. All right, Yeah.
So the Mets got to get their act together.
OK, now I, I'm not saying I've never done this.
I mean, of course you do it. Even if I could say this, I've
never done it intentionally. I know sometimes it would sound
like it maybe it was intentional.
I've never been a troll, all right?
And I've never been by design a hot take artist.
That's just, it's not my mantra. You got to remember, I know it's
a little bit more of of the culture and the content now, but
when I got in the business, there were no hot takes.
So you just got on the air and you know, you talked about what
you watched the night before. You mess around, how a little
bit of fun, do a show, you know, pack up shop, do it again the
next day. Obviously you know, where there
is a digital aspect and the more bizarre or the more crazy or the
more hot take ish generally there is a correlation with more
clicks and then obviously you monetize that.
So if there is a a motive for some people to do that, that's
not how I'm going to make my living.
Not going to do it right, not now get sometimes maybe it
sounded like a hot take or whatever.
Never do that intentionally. So when I told you the other day
and I saw some of the comments because I like to read them
because I like to respond to some of you guys.
When I told you the other day that Ben Rice reminds me of not
so much body type or certainly not as defensive first baseman
approach, little bit of a young Mattingly.
That was my way of telling you #1 this kids going to be
phenomenal, which I said last year, by the way, and this
entire offseason and #2 that I think when it's all said and
done, he's going to be the three hitter of the New York Yankees
now, the three hitter for the really the three hitter
anywhere. There was a different level of
prestige. You know, like back in the day,
the best hitter on any team that I ever played on was without a
doubt the number 3, the three hitter, without question.
The one hitter was the guy who could run, get on base.
You know, and you still want the on base guy now, but Grisham's,
you know, a power guy more than a speed, doesn't steal bases at
all. Lindor gives you both, well,
Tony gives you the power and actually he runs too when he
wants to, but you know, it's changed so much.
So you have the speed merchant, you know, got to get some hits,
whatever. Second guy, you know, go the
other way, keep the train moving.
You want him to run, maybe a little sneaky power.
And then the three hitter was the guy where he dug in.
It was like, I could take you deep, I can pull it.
I could bang a gapper off the wall the other way.
I'm going to hit line drives and I'm going to pepper line drives
all over the diamond and along the way I'm going to probably
hit 310 back in the day, three, 3:20 or 3:30 with 25 to 35 home
runs, you know, low end 115 RBI's and and I'm going to be
one of the 456 best hitters in baseball.
Think Mattingly, think George Brett, think guys like that,
right. It's obviously changed because
if that were the case, then Aaron Judge would bat 3rd every
night. He doesn't.
We know that. But to me, Ben, Ben Rice and it
started last year, his profile is just so easy to read.
This is not a mirage. This is not a hot start.
Ben Rice going to be an All Star.
Ben Rice going to be top ten of the MVP.
Ben Rice going to be one of the best hitters in baseball
starting now for the next 678 years.
He's that good. You guys just need to figure
that out. Some of you have, but he is that
guy, you know, last year. Think about this and I can
obviously throw stats at you, but I won't for now.
To me, OK, what what defines a great young hitter?
And even at the lowest, like the young, young level.
But I'm talking about the majors now, right?
To me, what's your approach all about #1 #2 how often do you
hammer the baseball? How often do you barrel the
baseball and really hit it hard? Well, an approach, there's a lot
of layers to the approach, but how good are you at discerning
what truly is a ball versus a strike, right?
And think about those now, I know it's a little different
with the with the ABS now it's a lot, it's a lot different.
But like the young, like the hitters, we're able to like that
first borderline pitch that you know that you can't, you know,
pull or it's not what you're looking for.
Maybe you thinking 4 seam and it's it's cutter or you thinking
2 seam and it's change up. And even though you read it
properly, you're not going to get your A level swing there.
So you spit on it. You hear that all the time, spit
on the slider, right? Spit on the change up and it's a
strike, but it's not what you're looking for or it's close.
It presents itself as a strike, but it's a ball instead of
swinging at that, rolling it over, popping it up, missing it.
Well, now it's one O advantage you now the pitchers got to come
a little bit more into you and now you're better equipped to
deal with the pitch that you can handle because you know not that
he can't go down 2O, but he's not trying to go down 2O.
And the more that you can put the count in your favor,
102-0303 one even 32 because he's going to probably come into
you with guys on base. You know, you are increasing and
all the stats back this up, increasing your ability to get a
hit and hit with purpose and with power.
You know, not a little blue, but really bang one in the gap or
put one in the seats. His approach is tremendous.
I mean, he is so written now he's playing against lefty.
He is so rarely fooled by a pitch.
It's amazing. Even his foul balls, he's right
on them. And if the pitch requires going
the other way like you did the other night in Seattle, that
hard base hit to left field, he can do that.
You know, too many like Ryan McMahon, he's trying to pull
that ball is probably going to swing and miss or he's going to
hit a little 5 hop for the second.
That's a rollover, right? His approach is amazing.
It is beyond the it's, it's beyond his years.
It's beyond this experience. It's elite, Elite approach.
Not good, not real good. Phenomenal approach.
Check #2 all right, how often do you hit the ball hard?
And I remember saying this over the winter, There are 9 stats in
baseball. Go to baseball Savant.
There are 9 offensive categories, prominent ones where
he was in the 90 percentile or better, meaning it's all red,
meaning in 530, I think it was 400.
Well, I had it written down, right?
Yeah, in 467 at bats last year and right around 530 plate
appearances, which obviously includes walks or getting hit by
a pitch. AB is different from PA as you,
as you know, 99 categories, 90% or better 9, and it's 9
categories that matter and it's 9 categories that will
ultimately define whether or not you're going to be a stud in the
batter's box. Ben Rice going to be an All
Star. Ben Rice going to be top ten in
the MVP. Ben Rice going to be the three
hitter, or at least he should be.
I know baseball's different for the Yankees for a long time and
I think based on his IQ and his aptitude and his work ethic, and
I've already seen signs so far, I think at the end of the day, I
think Ben Rice going to be fine at first base.
No, I wish I had Mattingly or Tino or Toshira.
He's never going to be that guy playing first base, but even
Rizzo when he was here, he's not going to be Stone hands.
He's going to figure it out over there.
He is all about baseball. This kid is the real deal, man.
So now you look at the Yankees early season and again, I don't
want to go nuts about this, but Rice and Judge will eventually
bang and you know Bellinger is going to do what he does.
Jazz hopefully wakes up whatever.
I don't like the bottom third. I talked about this Jim McMahon
stinks. I don't care what I love Boone.
I don't care how many times Aaron Boone tells us or tells me
that Ryan McMahon's going to be a really good hitter or there or
there's more there. I don't think that there is.
Respectfully, Skip, I love you don't agree.
I just I he's the exact opposite of Ben Rice.
His approach stinks. His hit the ball hard because
he's always in the whole O2 instead of being up to O2 one
it's, you know, fastball, foul back, slider, swing and miss O2
you dead. That's how you hit 210 at this
level 220 right? And his OPS and all the stats
over the years encompassing a lot of baseball in course field,
by the way, you know, it's just too much evidence to the
contrary that he's going to figure things out.
So the bottom and I don't really know if Austin Wells is ever
going to be better than a 225 hitter.
He's going to hit home runs and he's a good defensive catcher.
So I like him. But you know, you're looking at
789 Caballero or eventually Volpe Wells and McMahon.
That's that's not good. That is the only thing about
this Yankees start to the season that you cannot like.
All right, again, if you're worried about Judge, that's on
you. I don't know what to tell you,
Cam Schlittler. I mean, guys, I'm telling you,
if the Yankees get to the World Series this year and when you
get early in the season, I don't care if you're the worst team in
baseball or the best team in baseball like the Dodgers over
the years or really good teams like the Yankees or Toronto or
the Phillies or, you know, the Padres and the Mets.
Hopefully Mets get this turn around.
Mets have a good team on paper. Those Tigers, I would say
probably Brewers as well. Like you're going to be excited
no matter what because you know, you have a pretty good team.
But I almost don't want to say this because this could be
construed as a hot take. Not that I care, but I really
mean this so far in about a small of a sample as you can
have. The 2026 Yankees look a little
different. They feel a little different.
And when Cam Schlittler takes that baseball I got a couple
stats for. I got to hit you with a few of
these because when you're talking about history, remember
I gave you the stat. The Yankees starters in terms of
giving up runs, the fewest over 5 games since 1943 World War
Two, World War 2. Here's another one for you.
That's crazy. So the Yankees starters now.
All right, we'll just want a little little FaceTime there.
J Rod popping in. Let everybody.
Know I didn't know if it was like a little call to like a
little call and response kind of thing by.
The way how we doing with the with with the EA stuff good I'm.
Just like keeping a notes tab of it.
Atta boy, Atta boy. Good job with that.
Thank you, Jay. I got another Yankee stat for
you. Yankee starters have allowed two
earned. Now, can't you listen?
Somebody's going to get ripped eventually.
It's going to happen. 2 earned runs in their first six games,
which is the fewest of any rotation since 1900.
Now the Yankees have actually started off very well most years
and then they hit the little swoon and then, you know, all
right, make trades, everybody yelling, everybody just negative
Yankee energy. I, I feel like the Yankees this
year are, are going to be a little different.
It doesn't assure a championship.
It doesn't, it doesn't assure a return to the World Series.
But Cam Schlittler and a lot of this, a lot of the hope that I
had for the Yankees coming in was the expectation that Cam
would continue to step forward. And he has.
How about this for you? First Yankee ever not to start a
season in any consecutive starts of any Yankee ever.
I know I'm getting a little statty here, but I mean these
are these are amazing stats. I got to hit you with them,
right? First Yankee pitcher ever.
No runs, no walks, 15 or more strikeouts in any, not in their
two starts to start the season in any two game span in the
history of the New York Yankees. Now, the Yankees history has
always been more than the Bronx Bombers, the Monica, right?
You know, DiMaggio and obviously Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth and
Mickey Mantle and Yogi and of course the 70s Yankees with
Reggie and Thurman and Nettles and you know, Mattingly and
Winfield when he was here And the Yankees, you know, even
though the Yankees pitching from 96 home was outstanding as well.
Bernie was a hitter. Tino was a hitter.
I mean, come on. Posada was a switch hitting
power catcher. Canoe after that to share a rod
with multiple MVPS, Derek. I mean, they like when the
Yankees are at their best. They've got both.
This Yankee lineup is not bad. This Yankee pitching staff might
be the best of my lifetime. It might wind up being the best
of my life. And I've said this, this is the
reason for optimism when I'm just imagine now, there's no
guarantee it it it gets to this point because I don't know what
the future holds for Garrett Cole.
I hope there's no interruptions. But just imagine if he comes
back as Garrett Cole, even if he's 90% of Garrett Cole or 85%
of Garrett Cole. The Saigon.
Garrett Cole. Freed ace.
Schlittler ace. Cole Ace.
Think about that. Freed ace.
I'll say it again without stumbling, in case J Rod wants
to cut this up, make a little YouTube short.
Let's not stumble now. Now the pressure's on.
Freed ace, Cam ace, Cole Ace rolled on eventually your 4th
pitcher, your 5th pitcher. I mean, this staff is going to
be lights out and I think there's I know there's a lot of
power arms that they love as they figure out the roles in the
back of the bullpen. I know Bednar got touched up,
but he's really, really good. Gave up that hit to Rolly,
whatever. And it's a two run single.
I think he's a stud. I trust him.
But what's going to come before him is going to be gas, like
guys who throw 100 regularly. So Ditto now that you mix in a
maturing Ben Rice and eventually the great all time Aaron Judge
doing his thing and Bellinger, who is a very good above average
Major League Baseball player. Yanks are cooking with gas, man.
And you know, listen, as much as I complain about McMahon and who
knows about, you know, shortstop Caballero Volpe, you know, Jazz
is going to have these moments where he looks like the best.
And then he's just madding, which we saw yesterday.
He's not hitting because he's trying to hit fifty home runs,
which I told you would be an issue.
That was my problem with when he's I'm going to hit fifty home
runs. I'm going to hit 50 and 50 won't
be the first. I'm going to be another 5050
guy. Fantastic.
OK, number one, you got to get on base to hit 50 and #2 when
you selling out to hit 50 bombs, what the hell happens to your
batting average and your mechanics there?
So I don't really know about him, but imagine if the Yankees
make. A big, big trade and they owe it
to Aaron Judge. I don't mean tonight or next
week by the deadline. And they somehow find a real
viable hitting third baseman. Now, I don't think they're going
to find a better defensive third baseman.
And if the other components are are like if Wells has a a
developing, like if he develops more than I think he probably
will. And Grisham again, is kind of
Grisham from last year and he's, you know, 30 plus home runs, 800
plus OPS, you know, Judge Rice. And maybe you don't need to make
a trade for stick at 3rd. But if they do with this
pitching, this has the makings of a World Series champion.
I didn't say it last year, didn't feel it.
Obviously when they got sold. I'm like, all right, this could
be different. And they did get to the World
Series. But I'm not one of these dudes
who just says I'm actually going to get to the World Series
because I don't think they've been good enough.
And that's why I've always been on Brian Cashman.
All the Cashman drops in the morning, Brian Cashman has not
earned the right. Brian Cashman is I think Brian
Cashman is has been below average at his job the last X
amount of years. It takes one position player
trade with this staff and the Yankees could and very well
might beat anybody. I'm pumped up about my Yankees
here. J Rod.
I really and you know, I'm pretty measured with that man.
I'm not just some, you know, I'm not some Homer with the Yankees
when I got it, when I got to go deep and then my God, when I got
to criticize them. I do.
I love the way the Yankees look early.
On yeah, I mean, it's a it's certainly a hot and historic
start so far. I mean, like, shit, like even
when I'm watching, I can tell these guys are are are lethal,
are nasty like. And what's Stanton Batten so
far? Well, he got he's, I think he's
like 529. He's got two hits in every game.
Yeah, I know. Yeah, I saw that's he's like the
one of what, how many people to do it in like each of their
first like multiple hits in each.
I think he's the first, I think. He's the first five games.
Yes, I thought that was the. I thought he was the first
player in Major League history to get at least two hits, two or
more in the first five games of the season.
Impressive. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that that
was it. I know that he did that, but I
think he was the only one. Not me.
Listen, come on. Eventually he's going to.
Well, here's the good thing. As he starts to cool down, you
would think the Judge would start to ramp up, which would
mitigate him cooling down. So I really, really like the
look. You know, I know that Yankee
fans are enthused right now. You should be what is Dee saying
here? Seattle gave up half the farm
farm farm for Donovan Price was high.
Say goodbye to Lombard and they're not giving up that kid.
I I don't I don't think that they are now let let me say this
about a trade. Thank you for that D Rod.
I appreciate it, buddy. This is going to sound this will
sound like a hot take, but I want to explain it and I and
I'll stand by this right. If the Detroit Tigers called me
up or if the Pirates called me up right now and said, all
right, ready to make a move, we want Cam Schlittler, We want
Lombard and whatever, you know, whatever 9th best prospect in a
ball, whatever a flame throwing stud pitcher in addition to Cam
out of the bullpen, one of these young arms and whatever
components would make it a viable trade because it's going
to be a hole. I'm not giving up Cam
Schlittler. I wouldn't not only would I not
give up Cam Schlittler in that deal because I think I think a
lot of people agree with that. Oh, well, you got to give up Cam
Schlittler for a rental. Let me push it further.
I wouldn't give up Cam Schlittler in for schemes or
schoolable, even if I knew that an extension was done with
either schemes or schoolable. I'm going to tell you why so
and, and, and not just reacting to the first two games.
And it's hard not to react, but I'm getting separation from that
and not just reacting to the Red Sox playoff dominance a year
ago. It's all the other stuff.
The numbers, the measurables, the data, the analytics.
And my eyes, most importantly tell me this young man is
different. He is built different.
He's 66, so the ball's on you quicker.
He's got an expanding repertoire.
He throws gas. He he commands every part of the
plate. He trusts every pitch he has.
And he's got some stones like he is.
He is. He's a dog man.
You heard what he tweeted from Boston, right?
You heard what he or you saw what he tweeted out last year.
He's the kind of guy that goes into an opposing stadium 40,000
in October all over and boot him and it's his fuel.
He eats it up. It makes him better.
Nothing. Now, I don't know if he's going
to stay healthy. That's the one thing knocking
hard on wood there. You just never know.
My analysis and my belief in Cam Schlittler is 100% he is going
to be an absolute certifiable no doubt ace without question.
So as you know what what Freed's on that seven-year deal, I think
it was set was it 8? It was a lot of years 7 or 8 as
Freed and not this year or next, but as Freed begins to, you
know, go from an A pitcher to like AB plus, right, that
gradual, barely perceptible transition that happens to
everybody, right? When that happens, Cam
Schlittler will be the ace without a doubt, and he'll be
one of the best pitchers in baseball and the reason why I
wouldn't give him up for school ball or schemes even if I knew
that they were coming with a 10 year extension for a gazillion
dollars. Let me hit you with this.
Do you believe that Cam Schlittler will be?
I want to go nuts. I want to be fair because Skeens
is phenomenal and school balls back-to-back insane.
These guys are great. Do you believe that he will be,
let's say 8? I want to be a little
conservative here, 80%, maybe even 85% of those guys as he
gets more reps and figures out the league and continues to
grow. If your answer is no, then you
make the trade. My answer is yes, which is why I
say I appreciate that. Pittsburgh, I'm good Click.
I got you Tigers. You know, he's tremendous.
We're good Click because you got to think about this monetarily
and and obviously projecting Schlittler as a as a stud.
One of the reasons why the Yankees have been handcuffed
over the years is some of the contracts.
And I I do think that Hal's been, you know, unjustly
positioned in the court of public opinion.
Like anybody that says how's cheap.
I, I, I can't even have a conversation with you because
you're an idiot. If you think that how if you
think that how's cheap, you just hate and take hating purposes.
But you got a $325 million payroll and your top three in
baseball every year. You're not cheap.
The criticism should be maybe they're not well now, maybe this
is an element of cheapness, but it just in terms of payroll,
like the Yankees have been too far too reticent to buy
themselves out of mistakes. Like, oh, Gallo was not a lot of
money, but dude, get out of here.
Here's your money. All right, Hicks made a mistake
here, though. Here's your money.
They finally did it, but should have done it a year before that.
Even Rizzo Islands move on. Even Stanton, who, you know,
maybe this is going to be one of those massive renaissance, you
know, even though when he when he plays, he always hits.
But I mean, maybe stance is going to play 130 games this
year. Maybe he's going to hit 38 home
runs and having an OPS in 910. I mean, I don't know, but it
looks great so far. But I I can't be disingenuous.
I've been on the record many years by outstanding the Marlins
are paying some money. I know he's got a no trade
figure it out, whatever. And then that would have enabled
them to get back in the day somebody like a Bryce Harper.
I'm I'm not as big a Machado fan as some of you are, but that did
not allow or that prevented them from doing that with Machado.
So if you want to say that how and obviously cash been more so
some of their investments have been wrong and it's been it's
created this this inability or or lack of willingness or both
to shed themselves of some of these albatross contracts which
have prevented them from building out a better baseball
roster. Oh, hell yeah.
I'm with you 100%. I agree with that assertion, no
doubt. But he's not cheap.
All right, so now I just wanted to say that to get to this, if
you were to trade Schlittler for Skeens or School Bowl and he's
coming here with nine years, 10 years, five, 607, well, I don't
even know what it's going to be. My God.
Well, I know how the Yankees operate, Howe versus George, and
I know that downstream it will prevent them from getting other
position players. Aaron Judge is 34, all right,
Bella, just in his early 30s, going to be here for a couple of
years. But it's not like he's 25.
But he's ascending. He's really good.
He's in his prime, thrilled that he's back.
But this is not a 567 year run. It's not.
We know we can opt out, whatever.
So McMahon's going to be gone. Who knows about Volpe?
You know I love, you know, you know, I love Ben Rice.
Grisham's going to be gone. They don't like Dominguez.
Jones stinks. He's never going to hit.
So Jazz is not going to be here long term.
They're not giving him a deal. There are going to be other
players that they're going to want to pursue to play
positions. And if you trade for school or
schemes and then, you know, even if you trade from without the
guarantee contract. And again, they they, they, they
they're not coming here with a contract.
I just say that to illuminate how much I believe in Camp
Schlittler. But even if you did that without
the contract and then you. I'm like Soto.
Oh, man, I love it here. All right, Hey, I'm going to
play the game on free agency. I'm going to string the Yankees
for more money, get the extra year, get the other $100
million. I want to stay with the Yankees.
It was always my lifelong dream to be a Yankee.
OK, well, now Camp Schlittler's now you got a rotation of Max
Freed making a ton of money and he's worth it.
And then Schooble or Skeens making a ton of money and
they're worth it now. They're worth it now.
So to me, if you're getting, that's why I gave you the
question, like what percentage of of like of production do you
think that Cam Schlitter really is compared to a Schooble or or
or any other great pitcher? Those are the two best in
baseball. I mean, at the at the floor
minimum, he's at least I'm not even going 80, he's at least
85%. Because think about this of both
of those guys, because think about it.
If you get, you know, if you're an ace, right and you're
healthy, do a little math here. You usually get 3233, maybe 34
starts, but let's just say 30. Make it easy math, right, 30
starts, all right, over 30 starts.
If Cam slit there now I know he's young, so they've got to
watch the innings. I'm talking about just
generalizations here, right? Broad, broad parameters.
If you are a top of the rotation superstar with elite top shelf
stuff and you make 30 starts, you're striking out minimally
220 guys minimum, minimum you, if you're really that kind of a
guy you're batting average against is going to be, I don't
know, 1718190 all right, and your WHIP is going to be
slightly below 1. Now, if I'm telling you that I
think the Cam Schlittler is 80 just in terms of stuff is 85% of
school ball and schemes and and you disagree, it's your right to
disagree, obviously. Oh, dude, it's too early.
Nah, I don't see that that's your opinion.
That's fine. I respect that.
But now let's jump into the math because if you say that that's
not true and that's a ridiculous take on my end.
What you're really saying is, is that somebody like Schooble and
somebody like Skeens is going to strike out 120 more batters than
Cam Schlittler over the same amount of space or they're going
to have 90 percentage points on the batting average against
lower. And I got news for you, they're
not or Scuba or Skins is going to have a WHIP of nobody has
this half of 1 so .500 and Cam Schlittler is going to have a
WHIP of, you know, 1.23. Now he might have a 12 week
though, I think that's very high.
But those other guys won't have half of 1.
They'll be slightly below 1, which does not represent a, you
know, a 30 or 40% better effective rate, if you will,
which is all I'm saying. So why the hell would I trade a
guy who's making $800,000 a year, who's basically giving you
the same production? Why would I do that?
I'm not doing that, not doing it, and I will not change my
tune. Even if Kim Schlitter has a
rough and he's going to get knocked around at some point,
even if he has a rough month. I believe so much in his stuff.
I believe so much in his makeup. I believe so much in his desire
to be great, not be good, to be great.
And now you're around every day, a tactician, a surgeon like Max
Freed. And eventually, I know Cole's.
You know, Cole was in the dugout last year.
And as Cole gets back from rehab, you're in the pitching
meetings with Garrett Cole and Max Freed, two of the best
pitchers this this century. You know, think about the path
this young man is on. So I'm not making that trade
now. I mean what I love.
I don't think that the I got to keep it real now.
I mean my my preference would be all right.
Let's just say 2027. Let's say let's say one of the
two guys schemes or school bull gets dealt this year and I think
of the two probably more likely it will be school bull, although
I do think there's a chance because the tigers will be good
and I don't think the pirates are ready to trade him yet.
Even though the pirates won't be very good.
Let's say that they both enter the offseason now, Schemes would
still have a high level of controllability and Schoolbo
would be a full throttle free agent with no ties, right?
I mean, of course. Hey, 2027 Yankees rotation Freed
one. Well, actually, let's just all
right, let's just say Freed for symbolism because he's been
here. Freed 1, Schemes 2 or Schoolable
2. Either or call 3 Cam Schlittler
4 Bro Don 5. Warren 5 Clark Schmidt 5.
Doesn't matter. Who the Hell's five?
Really doesn't matter. I don't think that that will
happen because the Yankees won't pay up that kind of money from
one of those guys. I I don't think that they will.
That's why I'm keeping Cam because by doing it, I think
when it is time to jump back into that, that big pool of free
agency, whomever that player is going to be, you know, Vlady
signed, Soto signed. A lot of these guys have opt
outs too, like Michette could bounce.
And I've got to look at Tucker's deal a little bit more.
So it's a little it's it's a little different, modern, modern
way of doing business. But man, oh man, the Yankees are
set up in a multitude of ways. The reasons I just gave you to
just be an incredibly interesting watch and possibly a
champion this year. Charlie 60s, Charlie F6675,
Chuck, what's up? Mets did it right, getting
paroled and not giving up their best young pitcher, but their
second best is in in Sproat. Yep, Yanks can can.
Yanks can yet give up Schiller. We're not.
Yeah, Yanks can. Yanks can.
I guess you mean not. Yankees cannot give up
Schlittler, Give up that secondary guy.
Well, I mean, yeah, but Charlie, I mean, that's easy to to to
write to me during the show, but that's going to be a little
harder sell when you've got other teams who might be willing
to give up their organization's top guy.
I mean, we're talking about school ball and schemes, you
know what I mean? Now, if you want to tell the one
difference, the leverage point would be schemes because he's
got controlled ability and Schoolville, he can't control
anything. Well, he can control everything
in terms of money and where he goes.
But the little juice here that if Skeens wanted to flex behind
the door, behind the closed doors, he could always say, hey,
say if they come to a mid season, hey, we got a deal on
the table. I don't the Phillies, the
Orioles see, I don't throw the Yankees right.
And the other deals are slightly better than what the Yankees are
offering. Maybe they're like they're not
offering Cam Schlitter to your point.
He can say to them and you can make the trade, but as soon as
I'm free, I'm gone. I want to be a Yankee.
Now, once that's communicated by his agents and the the Pirates,
now those other teams are like, you know, that's he's, he's that
hell bent on going to the Yankees.
Why are we giving up our top three or top or five of our of
our top 9 prospects? Like so there's always a
calculus that is involved there that is a little rough to read
now, but Scubal's going to be about the money like Soda was.
And I think Skeins is going to be about eventually the money.
But really, does he want to be a Yankee?
And I think he does. I don't know that to be true.
You've heard you get the impression that he does.
But what's going on? What else we got here?
What do we got here? What do we got?
What is this? Is J Rod still with us here?
What's up? What's up, brother?
Are they all gone? Do we have them all gone?
No, no, we still got, we still got a decent, we still got 18
left. What?
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RDJ 0414. Any thoughts on Judge hitting
125? Zero.
None. I mean, what do you want me to
say? I mean, you think I'm going to
get on Aaron Judge? It's the height of lunacy now, I
guess, you know, I mean, what I will say is I'm not worried at
all. I mean, if that's the case, he's
got a couple of home runs. You know, I think as the year
goes on, I think obviously based on how he has been and has been
proven, how he has been penalized more than anybody by a
massive margin in Major League Baseball by this extended strike
zone, just given the sheer size that that that he has, you know,
I think that that's going to help him.
And I think once Aaron Judge dials in.
Especially with Ben Rice behind him and if Stanton even he
doesn't need anybody to be hot behind him.
But with more guys hitting well and Ben Rice, you know,
blossoming into blossoming into a star as I know he is, he's
going to be an All Star. He's going to be top 10 MVP.
Aaron Judge is going to absolutely crush it.
Now, I don't know if you just never know about health, but I
mean, if let me jot this down, let's say Aaron Judge plays.
I don't think this is overwhelm. He's going to want to play every
day if he can. Let's say he goes 150, probably
more in the high one 40s. I know Boone's going to get him
off his feet a little bit here, but let's just say, yeah, let me
say 145. Now I'm going to stick with
15150. A couple of DH is a couple of
off days, right? So I would say that Aaron John,
I don't know if he's going to hit 322 or 330.
I don't know if he's that guy necessary, even though he's been
that guy the last two years, winning the batting championship
a year ago and almost a Triple Crown the year before.
I think the judge is going to hit.
I'm going to put him down for three O 5 little dipping
average. I'm going to put judge down for
50 home runs, 47 to 50, which would represent a drop to be
fair. I'm going to put him down for
$1.15 on the on the low side to $1.20 plus RBI's, OPS 11:30.
I mean, something like that. It's going to be a beast going
to win the MVP. Those are my thoughts on Aaron
Judge. He's the best player I've ever
seen. It really is.
You know, thoughts are, did they call him up?
I didn't see that. Did they call him up?
They called up Griffin. OK, thoughts on the Pirates
calling up top prospect Conor Griffin?
There are I I do love and it's a it's an interesting move.
And for those of you who are too young to really remember this,
the then Cleveland Indians, they were really the first team to
call guys up and, and then when they when they got called up,
buy out the years of arbitration, pretty sure they
did it with by Erga and some of the young players I'm talking
about in the 90s, they were ahead of the curve and now it's
pretty common. You know, you see guys signing
eight years, $100 million deals and let you know CUNY was in
that neighborhood a couple of years ago, right?
And others have done that as well.
And you know, it's it's very it's a tough call on not on the
organization's side. It's a little bit of a tricky
call on the player's side. Like if you're one of these guys
and I'm looking forward to seeing a play.
I did not I didn't even see if they call them up.
That's awesome. You get that down, Jay.
Thank you. My thoughts are, I think anytime
there's an Uber prospect who comes up, I can't wait to see
him do his thing. Like when the when the D backs
called up Corbin Carroll years ago, yeah, we were hoping Volpe
was going to be the same thing. He's not, you know, Gunner
Henderson, all these young, the wit couple of years ago.
I love it. It's just awesome.
McClain coming up for the Mets, you know, now, Rice didn't have
that profile, so I can't throw him out there.
He was just, you know, he was a guy they thought that they could
hit what positions he got to play.
So Rice was not part of that. But you know, those younger,
younger players, Anthony, Red Sox, I think it's fantastic.
Now I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of one of those
players. Let's say I'm 21 years old,
maybe even 2020 to 21 and you know, I've got was it 6 years,
whatever that full controllability by the team
service time starts right? Would I, how willing would I be
to bet on myself? Like what I and it's a tough.
I think it depends what your family's situation is.
Now, if you're 20, you're probably not married or 21.
And if you are a little bit too early, then go out there and
enjoy life a little bit, figure things out, get married at 21.
Come on. It's one of my, my, my Guy J
Rod's plotting this out. Well, he actually is.
But. But you are like, you know,
you're not even thinking about how old are you again, 202323.
He's not even thinking about marriage.
He is immersed in his career. I did the same thing.
So that that's on one end of the special.
That's very good. I think you've got the right
approach, the right mindset. But yeah, you also got to have
a. Little more urgency, I mean.
Not, not, not urgency to get married.
It's just urgency to go out there and see what's.
Going on Big Tom. Big Tom.
Early in the show, for those of you who are really new to the
show, I told J Rod, now I'm going to need documented
evidences, not just like, oh hey, BTI did this.
It's going to be like AAI photo, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to need some sort of evidence here.
And maybe not because I do. I think he's a great kid and I
do. I do trust him.
He's not going to bullshit me. So I don't even know what I know
you're not, but I need 1/3 date. I don't need a first date.
You swipe you meet up for a drink, whatever, and then a
second date because I need a third.
We get to 3rd date, third date territory.
I am going to set you up with a a nice dinner and boy, BT is
going to pay for it. Maybe it'll it now if if you
tell me, hey, I really like this one.
I might even pick a spot. Now it might have to be in New
Jersey, but I might pick a spot. You're going to have to Uber in.
I'll pay for the whole meal. You got the Uber right?
Uber in from from Brooklyn and I might even have the chef come
out and talk. To you I can.
Do that in a couple of spots. You've got that pole.
Oh yeah, at a couple, 100%. All right, then we might have
to. All right.
You know what I mean? I'm getting on that.
But to get to to date #3, you got to get to get to.
Long. Every time I ask Jay Rod, so
like, hey, what are you doing this weekend?
What are you doing? It's and and I love that you
love your music. You got the guitar.
We see that. Hey, I'm playing a I'm playing a
show this weekend, so maybe we've got some good rupees.
Yeah, exactly. Maybe we've got some good energy
coming all. Way you're playing the show
we're we're in Brooklyn where. No, this Friday, Lower East
Side. You love the low.
Tomorrow, yeah. I mean, it's so close to
Bushwicks and a lot of my friends live there.
So unleash fam pop out tomorrow, Friday.
That's. Awesome dude.
Now are you? Are you rocking the guitar?
Are you singing? I'm playing bass, my boy
singing. He's another member of the
Unleashed family. Josh GABA.
What up, Josh? Okay.
Yeah. Yeah, got out to Josh.
So you're playing the bass? It's at a bar I assume.
Yeah, bar music venue kind of deal.
How many people are you the opening act or somebody?
Over the middle. So there's three.
We're like #2. Listen, that's good.
Yeah, definitely the number 2 hitter, how many people if it
maxes that, what's the capacity if it Max, probably. 100
hundred, yeah, 100, but my anticipation would be a range of
probably like 70 to 100 people, which is pretty good.
Yeah, I, I, I. Agree with that.
So 70 to 100, maybe a couple of groupies in there.
Oh. Big time.
I mean, listen, listen, my boy, we went to NYU.
So we we got some, we got some fans.
Yeah, yeah. Remember we were talking about
and I, I was going here. Jeez.
Basically before you were born. Cafe Wah That Old Liquor St. and
the Rock'n'roll Cafe. Such a cool.
Spot and the Rock'n'roll Cafe. Wait.
What is that? I think they had.
Changed the name, but check it out.
Look this up. I used to actually go to the
Rock'n'roll Cafe more than I would go to Cafe Wah.
OK Cafe Wah I believe was like kind of more on the corner and
Rock'n'roll Cafe was more in the middle of the street.
But right next, because we'd walk back and forth and
Rock'n'roll Cafe was obviously by the name You Tell music, but.
It's still there. I I'm not there was any Google
map location for it currently, yeah.
Dude, I remember and we kind of just stepped in shit.
We got lucky. We were coming back.
God, this had to be 19. I think it was 98.
We were coming back from a Jets preseason game, right?
That's when I had season tickets. me and I think my buddy
Robbo, my boy, another Rob and Spitz, maybe three or four of
us, I think, and we go to the Jet game.
I think that's the car I was with that night.
That's the car I was usually with for these games.
And we went to like right after the summer game, the first or
second preseason game, and we went to Bleecker after it and we
walked in and there was a Pink Floyd cover band.
We didn't even, it's not that we're on our phones like Go
rock'n'roll cafes. We didn't know.
We were just going to have a couple drinks and hang out,
shoot some pool. And it was a good Pink Floyd
cover band. It was.
That's awesome. I love that.
I haven't done that area in a long time, but man, we had a lot
of fun down there. So good luck man.
Yeah, great spot. Thank you.
Appreciate it. What do I think of Murakami?
Murakami, baseball player? What are?
You talking about here? Yeah.
Muna Taka Murakami for the. Geez, my computer he plays.
I mean, all I'm seeing is Japan. No, I know Japan.
I'm a giant White Sox player. The White Sox.
He was the guy. Yeah.
I haven't seen him play yet this year.
I remember I was surprised when the White Sox got him.
He was thought he played first or DH in I.
I know he's a corner guy. See.
Professional in the field there? What kind of store?
What are his numbers? That's a good question I've not
seen. White Here we go.
I know that the Borlins played the White Sox early.
I haven't seen the White Sox yet.
What's? He's batting 238.
Three home runs, 4 ribbies, five hits.
He's got 3 already. Interesting.
That's pretty impressive, yeah. There, now there were a couple
of Japanese players. I know the Giants obviously have
an outfielder and there's a lot of great Japanese players.
My God. But I remember when the Murakami
maybe sweepstakes a little bit strong, but when the White Sox
got him, I was definitely surprised.
And was it him or the other one where there was a real knock on
his contact rate was not very high and a lot of people there's
a. Comment about that.
Yeah, I think he. Had like a 33 high with rate.
Yank stayed away. Dudes banging bombs in Shy town
early. He's also hitting 2/25, 2:30 and
it's early, but the yeah, I remember that was the knock on
him. I do remember that knock where
they didn't know how he was defensive, although actually he
might be a good defensive. There's like the more and more
there's like, I'm not going to front man.
I mean, I, I hear what you hear about these Japanese players.
I will do like when Yamamoto and obviously Matsui and and others
along the way, like when it's thought to be like the Otani,
like you dig in, you get some YouTube footage, you try to find
some scouting reports. And I remember following
Murakami because I'm like, yeah, maybe the Yankees should make a
fly. I remember for saying that a
little bit. But the like they were saying
that he struck out an inordinate amount of times in Japan and the
pitching is a little obviously less than here.
So I I guess that was a deterrent.
I thought he was a good defensive player, though.
I thought that was part of the rotate of the the the thing
about as well, we just we did this already.
We're not doing it. We.
Already did that. Oh wait, wrong one.
Wrong. Yeah, how many times you gonna
answer logistics? Come on, What are we doing?
Jane? If you're Mendy, what do you say
to Lindor? I say get your head out of your
ass, is what I say. It's what I say to him.
Wake up. What are you doing now?
I can't get on him for getting thrown out at home plate over
the weekend against the Pirates because they sent them now.
Well, maybe you could get on him, because even Lindor did say
that. He took a bit of an extraneous
route. You know, couple of extra steps,
a little wide turn. It's a bang, bang play.
Pretty much. You're out by a step.
You take a better route, more direct, you're probably safe.
So maybe that's from a baseball point of view.
But it wasn't a lack of hustle, it wasn't a lack of engagement.
It was just a lack of execution, which is different than what
happened yesterday. You know, you shouldn't have to
say anything, but I do believe that that what happened
yesterday requires coming to my office.
And I think the way Mendoza handled it in the media was the
right way, But I think you got to be a little bit of a red ass
when nobody's listening. Like even if you kind of joke
around, like, dude, what the fuck you doing?
How do you not know how many outs there are?
Come on, man. You know, we we need more.
We need more. So that is a real problem.
Like he and and we know we always starts off slow.
And I talked about this at the start of the show.
If you guys missed it, obviously hit rewind.
You do what you got to do catch up, but I'm not even getting on
that like he's going to hit provided his hands.
OK, eventually the numbers will be there.
But then he's taking off his oven mitted first base.
He gets picked off and it didn't even didn't even retreat back to
first base. He was out by so much.
He did. He couldn't even retreat back to
the bag. The first baseman had to move to
him and tag him. So one thing in space, they're
not paid attention. And that happened to Jazz as
well. I can't stand that just I mean,
that's the basic process. Come on, you get on the base,
get your MIT ready, wrap it up. You do it all the time.
It's simple. You know, the Velcro's broken in
at this point. What's the problem?
And then not knowing how many outs is just utterly that's even
worse than with the oven MIT because I was saying, you know,
there's this amazing invention. It's called the scoreboard.
And they're pretty modern and the the high resolution like
they're pretty good and they're pretty big.
Look behind you as the umpire. There's a bunch of them.
Find out how many outs there are.
So, you know, I do think, and I started the show really with
Mendoza because I think this is more a Mendi thing.
Like think about this guys. If you're an aggressive team and
you're a buttoned up fundamental, fundamental team,
you know, and you generally do the things the right way.
Like you hit the cut off man, you run the bases hard, you run
the bases with aptitude, you take the extra base.
You know, you have a good two strike approach.
You put the ball in play. You know, I mean, obviously the
Major League level, you're going to back up a base where you're
supposed to back up. But we've seen pictures on
occasion. You know what if there's going
to be a play at third base where they're still standing on the
mound and they're like, and you hear, you know, Keith or Coney
or whomever, whatever game you watching and you got to back up
third, what are you doing? That's a no, no.
Or a pitcher failing like Eric Cole in the World Series,
failing to recognize covering first base.
Like that's a reflection of the manager.
You know, it just is, even if it's unfair.
It's a narrative that grows and grows and grows, and last year
the Mets were not clutch. This year they were.
They're they're horrendous with runners in scoring position.
Nobody's really hitting but Soto for them.
But Beatty looks OK. And who am I?
Who else am I missing? I do like Benj and so other guys
will hit like Michette, but they just look and you know when you
don't hit and you don't know how many outs there are and you get
picked off the bases and you catcher is, you know, loafing
after a ball. Then you got a guy on first base
because you block it to keep the guy at 3rd and 3rd, but you
don't do the other part of your job by keeping the guy 1st at
first. But what are you doing?
You know, to me, it's just too it's too much like last year.
So it's early. This is not a massive 5 alarm
siren. Here comes the bomb.
I'm not saying that, but it's never too early to play the
right way and it's never too early to change the narrative
about your team and a lot of thing about this guy's, the guys
at the Mets, and we'll prove what we'll see if it was there.
I think I think that they did the right thing by doing what
they did, but it's got to prove it and play itself out and I
think it will. But they've gotten rid of
players that they thought either took away from the culture or
maybe didn't enhance the culture.
It's a personality conflict. Some people think it was
politics with Nemo and Alonzo. I don't know, like that's I'm
not going to Co sign that because I can't prove it.
And that is, you know, that's that's a water that I'm not
willing to step into because I think that that's that could be
unfair. And if it's inaccurate, it's
unnecessarily divisive. And I'm not trying to start
trouble here. But the 2025 Mets weren't
buttoned up. We all know that.
Well, now you got rid of a bunch of guys.
You brought new guys in and the 2026 Mets are not buttoned up.
So I know Bichette's not hitting, but I'm looking at the
manager. It's your team.
Figure it out, Figure it out. Because I promise you one thing
that Cohen's not going to tolerate is a bloated payroll
and uninspired, disengaged play. I do think, because I said this
yesterday last year, I do think that if the Mets are really
scuffling, and when I say scuffling, which I do not think
that they will get to this point, I think they've got too
much talent. But if 11 and 1913 and 21, you
know, now you're into the second month and you're not winning,
and especially if you're sloppy, I can promise you that Mendoza
is going to be on the hot seat. And he should be because he's
got to prove it. Because last year he stunk.
I don't care who defends Mendoza.
He did not have a good year last year.
And I said it last year. He's got to change the tone.
He's got to change the way the Mets are viewed.
That's all I'm saying. I hope he does.
So. I like them.
What do we got here? What?
Get the fuck? J Rod.
Can you check? Can you?
It's true.
What?
Wait a second, hold on, They just Kirk Cousins?
Kirk Cousins has agreed to a contract with the Raiders.
I think. I mean, it came out two hours
ago I believe. Wait, wait.
What were the terms though? Because it said five years, 172
what? Right, let's see.
There's no chance in hell that that is right.
That just said five years, 172. If you told me one year at
25,000,000, I'd be like, huh? Wait, let's see, it's.
I don't know why this isn't. Now you'll as you look at this
all good, just just find me the right answer when you can
please. I want to make sure before I
start going off on this and opening up a possible different
discussion that could impact The Jets this this is no way that
that's true on on no planet does that make any sense.
Even if you don't want Mendoza to play right away, five years
and I understand that the money is in the NFL is fungible.
You can do whatever you want. It's teams.
You see this all the time. So and so is $13 million.
Kirk Cousins will sign a five year, $172,000,000 deal with the
Raiders. That in reality is that in
reality is a one year fully guaranteed $20 million deal that
also contains a club option for two years at $80 million.
OK, this is this is one of the only reasons why I absolutely
detest and hate the NFL. So it comes out, hey, five years
172 million, wow, Congrats. What a great contract, but it's
not really five years 172. And that's what I started to say
about the fungibility. How's that for a word?
Fungibility got to work that soft G in there.
The fungibility of of NFL money. So nonsense.
So it's a five year 172. But in reality, it's a it's
disguised, it's disguised as that, but it's a one year, $20
million deal, which is much more sensible then.
And even that. I think 20 is a bit much for
him. I I think he stinks at this
point, But whatever you can get behind it.
You're going to draft and those are fine.
And then, but then there's also a team option Raiders possibly
for year 2. And, and I understand guys, you
don't have to you don't have to chat me up here.
I know why they would do this. They're finding a way to take
the money and stretch it out. Whatever prorated signing
bonuses, the is what the salary cap is crazy.
And what I started to say before J Rod gave me the confirmation
of the terms, confirmation of the terms.
You know, there are teams and we've got two or three from this
year. They entered the offseason 13 or
14 or 12 and some were I think one or two even more.
The Browns like their salary caps a disaster, you know, like
1318, twenty, $25 million over the salary cap.
And then what? Just get out the old magic wand,
boom, boom, boom, make that disappear.
We now can do whatever we want. We have restructured 9 deals.
We have cut this guy. We have done that.
And suddenly we are now $37 million under the salary cap.
It's just, it's a real, you know, man, it's just a real
disservice to fans. Here's here's an idea, NFL, you
idiots. Here's an here's an idea.
So we've got the salary cap, which I know ballooned again,
always does, because the NFL just prints money.
Let's just say, well, J Rod, give me the actual, what is it,
320? Does that sound right?
Now, What's the NFL salary cap projected?
For this year. Let's see NFL salary cap.
I know it goes up every year by 1520.
Three let's see, the NFL salary cap 2026 is set at three O 1.2
million. Thank you.
OK. But it's, you know, set to
increase to 327 and then 352. OK, so I was right.
I said yeah, 25. OK, all right, there you go.
So let's take let's take 330. The NFL salary cap is $330
million. Why can't we just do this?
OK, your quarterback is making 30 million.
I'm just throwing out hard, you know, easy numbers to work with.
30 million dollars. 330 -. 30 is now 300, which means you now
have $300 million to spend on your team.
Like, isn't that a salary cap? All the nonsensical gibberish
like, oh, this guy gets a roster bonus up.
If this guy shows up to work out, he gets a $1.7 million
workout bonus. Yo, it's your job to work out.
You're a football player. I work out, not as much as I
used to trying to hang on, but I work out two or three times a
week. Nobody's giving me shit,
Nobody's paying me anything. And I'm not going to, you know,
I'm not trying to go and tackle somebody who runs a 4340 who
weighs 240 lbs. You bet your ass you better be
working out. I don't.
I don't, I don't, I don't know. I don't, I don't pretend to
know. I think I'm pretty smart with a
lot of things. And I know that there's an easy
answer as to why it's not as literal as $330 million salary
cap. Quarterback one makes 30
million. You've now got $30 million for
everybody else. I know it's not that simple, but
do they need to complicate it the way that they do?
We all know the answer is no. Come on well, I'm going to do
this more tomorrow, but I will read it.
Brad Kaufman, 3582. Who do you got this weekend of
the final four? Who do you got winning at all?
You know what I got? I I've got a lack of desire,
quite frankly, to even watch. I mean, that's what I.
Got I can imagine that's what I oh.
That's what I got. That's what I got because what I
also got was one of these shirts for everybody in the fam.
Nice. You know, I haven't even worn
mine yet, you know, See that right there is it?
Did you see it on the screen, Jake?
Yeah, that's sick. All right, so I got I got one
for my myself, obviously, one for my wife, one for my son, one
for my daughter. And if they made the Elite 8, if
they would have won that Duke game, I was going to get some
more gear. The more they won, the more I
was spending. And yeah, I would be in
Indianapolis right now, so probably be a shoot around, open
shoot around, whatever. I, I know, dude.
Oh, I, I almost, and I really don't subscribe to this too
much. I really think on some level I
would have preferred remember they, I know you watch most
remember when St. John's fell behind 11/4, they
fell behind by 7 points early and then they rallied like Zubi
hit the three and they got their act together and they took the
lead. They were up by 10:15 minutes
ago. I think that having called that
game and having been a St. John's fan my entire life,
right? And having called the games for
20 plus years, being involved with the program, it would have
been easier if they would have been down 17 to 5, never
recovered because then yeah. And I know that that's.
And I really don't think that way with anything because it's
kind of a loser mentality. It's a defeatist attitude.
But just based on the emote, like the emptiness, I know what
I felt like. Imagine what the poor players
felt and. And Coach Pitino and staff and
you know, Father Shanley and everybody, Eddie Cole, the AD
God, I was crushed. They must have been
inconsolable. And they works.
I was in the locker room after it.
But at least as I'm doing the game with Mink, you know, I'm
not working myself up in a frenzy in real time, you know,
calling the game in front of me and, and, and the other part of
my brain thinking, holy shit, St.
John's going through the Elite 18.
We're playing, we're playing UConn or Michigan State in a
couple days. So, oh, man, I've got my picks.
I will divulge them tomorrow. I'm not going to do it now, but
I will regenerate much like I do with the unkillable stuff with
The Jets. I always find a way to want to
to regenerate and I will. I will dig in.
I will also traveling. I'm in the air a little bit on
on Saturday, but but I will hopefully, hopefully my wife got
airlines with with TV's. I think she did never know.
Hopefully we can get out with this TSA nonsense.
Oh yeah dude, good luck. You're gonna have to get to the
airport like 6 hours early. Not legit, not legit, not legit.
No way. No, I can't stand it.
But I've heard, yeah, I've heard some tough stuff.
No. No, I mean, I've seen the the
the news, the video, yeah. Good luck.
Well, now, like think about this.
If we and I, I really do enjoy going to Dallas, we've done it
pretty much every Easter except one or two since the kids were
born. Get out, spend some time good
some good time with Grammy and PP's got a great tradition.
Of course he helps out the Easter Bunny with this where
where Papa writes out clues and like poems and like the kids
literally go through a hunt and like.
One we used to do the same. Thing.
Oh, you did. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's such a great writer. My my father-in-law too
phenomenal where the kids will go to like.
And again, he he's does he does this in concert with the Easter
Bunny. Easter Bunny allows him.
It's like his first Lieutenant. So he like the kids will go to
like 1 can't like one plastic egg and there's like a like a
poem and a clue to go to the next one and then just go into
the yard and run around the house.
And then eventually, provided the Easter Bunny does his job,
there's this one big massive basket waiting for him.
So we love it and he's a great cook and we have a great meal.
But like, if there was a six hour delay, as great as that is,
I'd be going home. As I say, I'm making AU turn.
I ain't going now. I got to go because I'm throwing
out. The first pair.
What this, He said. Listen, Rainer, this guy might
have to take a bus. Oh jeez.
First pitch now do you think can you get the graphic up there in
case you guys missed it? Big news, BT unleashed Gold
National here. I'm throwing out the first pitch
for the Texas Rangers. I've got a is the game
televised? I mean, obviously it's televised
National 1920 and we're. Calling it we've got Brandon
Tierney. Good evening, good afternoon
everybody on this Easter Sunday and welcome as you have your
Sunday best going to church, welcoming the you know, the the
Cincinnati Red stockings here to the Texas, the great state of
Texas as your Rangers take on the the Reds and BT unleashed.
So yeah, like how can I, how can I catch this on Sunday is my
question. Well, here's the thing, if I
throw a bad one, you won't have to look hard because it's going
to be all over social media. There you go.
The good news is I, I, I will never be that bad where it's
going to find you that quick. I could promise you that.
Do I try to throw a little extra gas and get a little oversert?
Because again, when I did this in 2011, my arm wasn't in great
shape. And I've always said like the
one thing that I did have, and I save this humbly as a college
player, like I always had like, and I've been to, you know,
workouts with with pro teams, whatever, run into 60.
Good God, they're like, God, get this guy out of here.
But in terms of throwing the baseball, I grade it out like I
I had a very favorable. I had a Major League arm.
I did. Yeah, I know I'm going to get
clowned for saying that, but I had a rock.
I love it like I'm. Humble with a lot of stuff, but
I'm not going to. I'm not like I have a good arm
and I still do. But when I threw out the ace
pitch, I wasn't throwing because I didn't have kids yet.
So I had stopped playing, you know, in the mid 90s CDs.
Now it's 2011, I'm playing golf. Whatever I'm doing now, I'm on
the field throwing all the time. So the arm is juiced up.
It's just a matter of am IA little too overzealous.
Or to be fair, even though I'm, you know, I'm pretty confident.
I like a crowd and all that stuff.
There's no telling what happens to my body when I got 40,000
people staring at me. I'm walking out to the mount.
I got to be honest with you, Jay.
I mean, it, it's a, it's a lot of eyes, it's a lot of eyes, a
lot of pressure, but I wouldn't say it's a lot of pressure.
No, it is. It's you, don't you don't think?
It's pressure, I think. I think it's pressure only in
the set. Like it's not like you got like
the playoffs riding on you, but there's pressure on similar to
like how to how we describe golf.
There's pressure on you, on you to show up for yourself and and
to satisfy your baseball. You know, whatever it is, I'm
sure this is a dream for many people who have have played
baseball when they're younger. Pretty much anyone, you know, Oh
God, you know, throwing out the first pitch at A at a MLB game.
It's a great stadium, too. Yeah, it's a great.
I had not been to a game there. I, I got a tour of the stadium
with my family. My, my wife and my, my kids have
been to a game. I think it was, you know, it may
have been last Easter, as a matter of fact, where I go out
for a couple days and then I would come back.
And I don't want to miss too many shows when I was on The
Fan. And I will not do a show Monday.
I'll, I'll give you some content, but I'm flying back a
little bit early. So I'll be back on the air doing
this on Tuesday and Wednesday and so on.
And obviously right into the week, they'll lay back a couple
days, spend some time with family.
But the, you know, I, I, I, I think, I think that the only
thing that could get in my way is me is my mind.
Yeah. Is the arms.
The arms in good shape and that's a long walk, though.
I'm sure I'm going to be coming from the dugout and, and, and,
and, but I am looking forward to seeing the games.
I started to say like they've been to games there and it's a
great ballpark. It's right next to where the
Cowboys play. It's beautiful.
And I was at the old Ranger Stadium, the ballpark in
Arlington. I was at that.
My wife and I were dating funny. I got funny.
I got a quick funny story for you.
You want to talk about pressure and I'm going to wrap it up.
This is pressure. So we go to the game, we're
living with No, no, we weren't living with because she, she, we
didn't live together until we were engaged, right?
So she's from Dallas and we're at the game.
And it was so hot. It was 4th of July, 4th of July
at a Texas Rangers game in the Texas, the oppressive Texas heat
in July. Just let that resonate for a
moment. It was as hot as anything I've
ever felt in my life, right? And, you know, I'm sitting there
next to my my wife, but we're just, you know, boyfriend and
girlfriend at this point. And, you know, I wanted to do
the right thing because this is the way I was raised.
And I wanted to, you know, talk to her dad, who I love, who is
just awesome. And her mom's awesome as well.
But it's different man to man. And I wanted to, you know, get a
little time alone with him and ask him permission to ask his
daughter to marry me. And that's what I did, right.
But the whole time at the Rangers game, she's like, did
you ask him yet? Did you talk to him yet?
I'm like, holy shit, this is building up to I like, I hadn't,
you know, I knew what I was going to say to him.
You know, I thought about that in my own mind.
I'm like, this is this getting more and more pressurized by the
minute? I'm like, no, I don't want to do
it in front of 35,000 people. I'll I'll darn it.
And then what was then what happened was I didn't do it.
There's no way I was doing it in the stands.
And that was I think a Saturday. And then the next day I was,
yeah, she was still living in Dallas.
So I was flying back to was when I'm working at 10:50.
And and I remember it and I hadn't done it yet.
And the more she asked me, the more like, I don't know, tight I
became and I hadn't done it yet. And I'm running out of time.
So we went to church, I think we went to brunch at their Country
Club. And my back was really jacked up
so I couldn't play, but. And my father-in-law knew what I
was getting ready to do. And I remember my, we, we got in
a couple of golf carts, went to the range and they, my
mother-in-law now and my, my future mother-in-law and my
future wife are in one cart. They're like, OK, go, go, go
have some fun with, with Fred, you know, meanwhile, I knew that
and I, and then they're taking me right to the airport.
So I don't do it. Then it's not getting done.
And. He's a great golfer.
I mean, he is a great golfer. Pure flush.
At one point he's probably about a four or five.
He's probably about a 7 or 8 now.
He's a really good golfer and I'll never forget this.
He's just, you know, just whack it.
You that pure sound hitting wedges, moving to the seven
iron. And he knows that I want to ask
him something and he's got this shit eating grin on his face.
Yeah, girls are in the car. They come back.
And then I finally asked them and Oh my God.
So I, I, I don't think there will be as much pressure going
out to throw the first pitch because I don't think I'll have
my wife up my behind. Like, did you ask him yet?
Did you throw a strike yet? Yeah, no different.
This is nothing compared to. That I think so.
I think so. But I'm really, I am so thankful
and so grateful Rangers. That is phenomenal, man.
And I'm going to yeah. I mean, if I didn't like, if I
was just a guy who liked baseball and talked about it,
but you know, hadn't played and didn't love it the way that I
do, I don't think I'd have any pressure.
Like if I messed up, I messed up.
It was a goof. Whatever.
I got a hum one man and I and I'm I'm coming.
I'm hoping I can warm up a little bit.
And I told Jay, I'm not messing around with A2 seam.
I don't want any ride. I'm certainly with no circle
change. I'm not throwing a knuckleball.
We're going 4 seam, we're going 4 seam and hopefully I'm going
right from the slab 60 feet, 66 inches.
And hopefully I got a big catcher or a big coach or
whomever is going to catch this and I pump it down the middle.
Either way, I'm really thankful that they're letting me do this.
It's it's an honor. So that was that.
Hey, if you missed the interview yesterday with Stephen A almost
two hours and I proudly say, I don't say this arrogantly.
I proudly say and humbly say that I'm pretty positive that
you have never heard some of the things that he divulged to me as
friends. And, you know, he knows what
this channel means to me. So he didn't just come and, you
know, here to mess around and waste time.
But I think he really knowing how he is, how gracious he is
and how much he knows the business.
I think it was really important to him to come with some stuff
that was that was new and deeply personal, like the relationship
with his dad, how he almost died, how his brother was
killed. And the one story, I don't want
to give it much away, but his brother was killed in a car
accident. And his brother, right before he
passed, Steven, went to go see him.
I think he was in Washington, DC Yeah.
And Steven was coming in from Carolina, So it was like a 5 or
6 hour drive. And he got there and his brother
told him you could be a star like this when he was a writer.
Like, he was just coming up. You're going to be a star and
you're going to make it. You're going to be a superstar.
And then shortly thereafter, his brother was killed in the
automobile accident. And Steven didn't go to his
brother's gravesite for 11 years, 11 years, because when he
went, he wanted to be able to say to his brother that you were
right, I am a superstar. I made it.
And not in an arrogant way, like, yo, I'm a star.
Like you're right. Your belief in me more than
anybody. It was incredible.
I I really I was I was very I was very touched by a lot of
things that he said. So make sure you guys check that
out. All right, The Jets collective
last night, episode 2. We hammered that out.
Myself and Rich Samidi, Jake Asmin.
Yep, Good job with that, Jay. Go like it, go sub it.
Go check it out. Gonna be an awesome, awesome
ride. Will do what a week up until the
start of the season and then we'll start cranking out two
shows a week during the season. And that's it.
J Rod, great job with the EA Sports.
Thank you to them as well. So tomorrow we'll give away 25
free codes for the college football game.
Today was the was Madden 26 PS-5 or the OR the Xbox.
Obviously, as long as you guys took care of that, J Rod's going
to let you know if you won, he'll reach out to you.
So that's it I think. I think we dotted all the IS we
good? Yes, Sir.
Yeah, thank, thank you all to the fans.
I will be in contact with all the the winners, all the
respondees, respondees we've got, we've got a got a good
amount so. There we go.
All right, man, Good luck with those shorts.
Cut those up, guys. Like it.
Subscribe it. Get this out there.
By the way, shout out to Barrett Media, who wrote a real
extensive piece on the conversation that I had with
Steve. So it's it's it's gotten some
national traction there. It's it's it's certainly worth
the read and it's absolutely worth a watch.
And even if you watch part of it or you want to watch it again,
go for it. All right, That obviously helps
us grow the channel out. Like I'm not trying to, you
know, not trying to be a magician here and fool you.
The more we get, the more I can do.
All right, you starting to see Premio came on as a sponsor this
week, which is awesome. So we went from no Subs, no
likes, zero to and no sponsors to 1 sponsor Sullivan.
But pain eternally grateful for them jumping out and believing
in the vision of BT Unleashed. They were there basically from
day one. All right.
And then Premio, which is a product that I have used
forever. It's a, it's the best, it is the
absolute best sausage and meats. It's not your sausage, but
Premio Premio Foods is now the second sponsor of BT Unleashed.
So EA jumped in today, EA jumps in tomorrow.
I will do some stuff around the draft and, and I just don't want
to listen. I'm not going to say this
everyday, but I, I really am thankful for that because it
just reinforces that we're doing something right.
I can feel the growth, I can feel the energy, I can feel the
belief. It's been validated by
companies. It is now palpable.
So let's keep climbing. Let's keep rocking.
See you tomorrow at 10, right here on Unleashed Peace.