Welcome back to sports Extra presented by your local Toyota
dealers. So you know him for two, maybe 3
decades across New York sports radio, first at ESPN New York
nationally on CBS Sports radio, most recently on WFAN.
Now his departure was well documented, so why keep talking
about old news here we are going to talk New York sports and his
new sports media venture. Joining us here on Sports Extra,
Brandon Tierney, welcome BT you're.
The best I I am happy to be here.
Tina, how you thank you for having me by.
The way and great to see you in person.
All right, so we're not going to beat a, you know, a dead horse.
But in your last two weeks on the air at WFAN after they had
made the move and the announcements and all the
things. What did you learn most about
either yourself or you within your career during that time and
your last interactions with, you know, the callers and and as you
and Sal Ikata closed out your show?
It's a good question. I think the first thing I
learned is that more people like me than I thought.
I mean, when you do what we do and you have the opinions on the
Yankees and the Mets and you have these crazy debates and we
got fiery, there's no doubt sounds like it after it, you're
going to make some enemies. And and that's generally what
tends to resonate more in social media.
So you kind of feel that maybe more than some of the adulation
that you might and, and as the announcement came out and as the
final show started to come in, it was a reversal.
We were, we were embraced and, and it and it really felt also,
but I certainly thanked New York for that.
I felt that. I know Sal felt that as well.
So that's what I learned in terms of that, in, in terms of
what maybe I learned about myself, that I'm as resilient as
I probably had hoped to be, because this was a bit of a
curveball. And you have two choices.
You know, you can keep the bat on your shoulder or you could
adjust to the break your ball and give it a whack and let
something happen. I'm going to miss it.
I've got love for the station. There's no doubt.
But I'm I'm excited. I'm really excited about what's
coming next, which is obviously let's.
Go BT Unleashed podcast. Yeah.
So tell us where it is, how we could watch it, is it officially
launched all the things? Oh yeah, it's officially
launched. We're live.
I'm doing a Daily Show, I'm doing a live show.
Obviously it gives me the chance Tina to react to stuff live.
And it's on YouTube. Oh, it's on YouTube at BT
Unleashed and it's, there's no barriers, no restraints.
I mean, I, I, I think some people who, who saw the Jet
podcast that I was doing unfiltered after all.
Those that's. The point?
Yeah, after all those miserable Jet games, I think they got a
chance to see Unfiltered where you don't have to necessarily
comply with the FCC. You'll see a little bit more of
a looser, maybe a little bit more of a nuttier, but still the
same passionate me every day. And we're just getting off the
ground. It's very exciting.
It's a little overwhelming, but good things are coming and and
and it's it's galvanizing in a way.
Really. You too.
Oh yeah, And when did you come up with a concept like, well,
kind of. Playing off the unkillable
speech that that I launched into the day after Aaron Rodgers
ruptures the kill these four place in against like The Jets
broke me that night they. Broke a lot of people.
I still still have PTSD from that.
Oh my God, Tina and I get on the air and I'm like, Sal, just give
me a couple of minutes to get. I don't know where I'm going.
I don't I don't even I have nothing written down.
I told Dove who was our engineer.
I said have the dump button ready.
I really don't know what's about to happen.
And I just launched into this two or three minutes irate where
basically the essence was if you didn't kill us last night, we
are unkillable. And if I couldn't take that and
then transferred from, you know, from being a sports fan into now
a new line of work and adjusting to something that that just
changed very radically a couple of weeks ago, then then maybe
that was that was a farce, that speech, which I know it wasn't.
And it wasn't. And what time does it start your
life? Yeah, I'm going live at 10.
You know, there'll be some days where I have to make some
adjustments. It's it's only been a week or
so, the subscriptions. And yeah, I mean, I'm still
learning this. You, you, you want to talk about
something? I'm not kidding.
I got my 10 year old son who's helping me produce that.
We're going to stream yard. We're hitting buttons.
I'm like, dude, let me just make sure I can get on the air.
And then once we got on the air, it's, you know, it, it feels
natural. It's me.
It's me doing what I love. And and that certainly doesn't
change. The format changes, the backdrop
changes, but the mission doesn't change.
Love it. And that's what I was going to
say. What is your mission?
And there it is. Let's talk New York sports.
I love how it's live reactive. So I also love how you you show
your fandom. So let's I do so let's begin
there. And you just mentioned it, how
the unkillable, The Jets, I mean, and especially after
today's performance against the Patriots, what, what do they do
next? You know, is it time to do you
look at Aaron Glenn now? Is it the talent?
What do you see, especially after today?
It's amazing, Tina. I'm sitting there again today
watching the game like almost every other.
I'm literally watching the like this, but I can't be more
disengaged. My son even said he's like that.
I don't even want to watch. I'm like, I'm barely watching
and it's on. I get it.
All right, So here's the thing. I think it's very lazy.
Now I understand Jeff fans are are predisposed to just, you
know, unleash and and rant and the worst and you know, and my
boy Beningo, who I love, this is not a knock, but you know, the
Joe Beningo school of the thought everything's going to go
wrong and there's no hope. I don't subscribe to that.
I think that's nonsense. OK, because there's too many
examples of teams coming from the ashes to eventually get it
right. But but to get it right, you've
got to have the right people in place.
Now, I don't know if Eric lends the right coach for this team,
but I don't know. But I know that I can't even
remotely judge him based on the dearth of talent that they have.
They're starting an undrafted quarterback.
Their defense is atrocious. First of all, once they traded Q
and Sauce, which I loved, I thought it was small.
For the future. They got a lot back and I do
believe in Mooji, which is a big part of the equation.
I think he's going to. He made that move, yeah.
And I think he's going to really do a lot with him.
I I think he's going to maximize him, but to expect Aaron Glenn
to win or to even compete with third stringers, it's
unrealistic. So what they have to do is
obviously find a quarterback and, and, and listen, unless
they were to make a bold trade for a coach who's currently
coaching somewhere, that's one thing.
Like if you can do that, then you bring him in.
There's no question. I don't think that they'll do
that. I think they want to give him
another chance. So do I, but you have to get
players. Their talent base is wretched.
It's it's, it's not NFL level. Do you think they would actually
do business with the Giants with this draft situation, which is
still in the balance, but you think they would?
Well, I think they might have to.
If The Jets present the Giants the best deal, maybe say better
than the Browns or the Titans or whomever else Titans have a
quarterback. The Raiders, well, then you
shouldn't not do the trade because it's The Jets.
You do what's best for you. Your team and your team could
build on that. Are you concerned about the
Yankees and their situation right now, this whole season?
I'm not concerned yet fully because they're still people on
the board that I know that they want and I think that they will
get. Now if we wake up tomorrow when
Bellingers in Toronto or Bellingers in Queens, well, you
could have a different reaction on BT Unleashed like a problem.
You know. At 10:00 by the way, I I also
think Tina, that there's a couple of different ways to
build a team like in the minds of of of the conventional
thought for the Yankee fan. Get 9 sluggers, have 6 All Stars
and bludgeon teams to death like the championships team.
Even going back to Reggie like they used to do.
Well, I actually think the Yankees can build it differently
where maybe you trade for Peralta with the Brewers.
Maybe you sign a my and it doesn't look like they will, but
I think the Yankees have a chance when Cole comes back.
Witch littler Wittfried, who's. We keep forgetting Cole's.
Coming back and build the best staff in all the baseball by
far. Now without Bellinger, there's
that's a bigger issue if they're going to if they don't want to
give him that big money and I could kind of understand it to
an extent then they should. Although I don't think how will
I'm telling you what I would do if I, if I own the Yankees.
Actually, if I own the Yankees, I would get Bellinger Peralta
and I would get and I would get because.
You do have that money, they're just not spending it.
Yeah. But I do think that, do you have
to factor in Lombard here? Not for this year, but anything
that the Yankees do is they're they're building out one 2-3
years down the road. So if you get Bichette to play
shortstop this year, you can punt Volpe to second when he's
healthy. I would trade Jazz.
Listen, I've talked to people in the Yankees.
I can promise you there's no way Jazz is getting an extension.
He's going to get traded. I can promise you that.
So then when Lombard's ready, maybe next year or the next year
or the year after that, McMahon's contract is up,
Bichette goes to third base, you got Bichette goes to 3rd, you
got Lombard. It's short, you got Volpe
second, You have that. You can do it differently.
Right here. I mean, you know, I've, I've
been on, I got nothing personally against.
I like Brian Cashman. I've been on him for a while.
And let's face and it's your team and you're on him.
But but also what I'm saying it is my team, but it's also what
I'm saying is, is true not to be unfair to Cashman, 2009 for the
Yankees without a championship is just utterly unacceptable.
It's crazy that we're even still talking about that.
We're running out of time. I would love to talk.
To Nick with you. 22 minutes of content, but Saint John's real
quick. What's your scope on them for
this year? Of course you're still doing
play by play for them. Yeah, well, I'm doing it with
me. So it's it's a blast to have a
lot of fun doing that. My read on Saint John's is that
is a little worrisome. They don't have an identity yet.
There's my guy though. But how do you not trust this
guy that was? My question, of course, it's
Rick Pitino's hands. He's one of the three best
college coaches of all time, in my opinion.
He will get it much more right than it looks now.
Now, will he get it right to the point where Saint John's fans
thought, you know, Final Four may be cutting down?
That's, I don't know about that. There's a better version to
come, but there's no guarantee that it comes.
I've got faith, but I thought they'd look a little bit better
than they look so far to. Be honest with you, they
struggled against those top 10A. Little bit Kentucky, you got to
beat. You got to.
Beat all till December. We've got a big January and
February ahead BT and it's at BT Unleashed on YouTube 10 AM
Congratulations. You're the best.
You're the absolute best. I love you and.
We we go back to I was on your show in San Francisco when I was
traveling with the Knicks. They were, yeah, always there to
play Oakland and all that Jazz. Thanks for having me.
Thank you so much for joining us on SPORTS EXTRA.
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