They don't have it. They just don't have it.
And and let's face it, guys, our fears, or at least my fears have
been confirmed. Knicks will win nothing this
year. And I don't want to hear.
And I I'm sure you're already getting ready to text this like,
oh, remember what happened last year against the Celtics?
It's a different matchup. It's a different energy.
It is different than last night was disgraceful what the Knicks
pulled. I mean, and by the way, I'm not
doing the whole show on the Knicks because they don't
deserve it. I got a little something for you
on Jazz. I got a little something for you
about a potential A.J. Brown trade and not just
pertaining to the locals, but it's all the football as well.
So hopefully everybody's having a Good Friday.
It is a no rules Friday, which I mean, there's really never any
rules. If you listen to the show.
We do what we want, but it's really no rules today.
Honestly, just a gutless performance by the Knicks.
Atrocious. Soft, unacceptable.
Does anybody know what the Knicks identity is?
You know, raise your hand if you know.
And you know, back in the room a little.
Joey, what is the Knicks identity?
I don't know, Mr. Tierney. I'm not sure.
Mike, what is the what is the Knicks identity?
I don't know. I'm not really sure.
Mr. Tierney. How about little Susie back
there? You have a sense of what the
Knicks identity might be? I don't know, Mr. Tierney.
I don't know either. Well, I I here's what I do know.
They don't have one. That's what I know.
All right. Last night was, I was so excited
for this game. You know it.
I mean, I did basically the entire show on last night's game
because I thought it was that important.
And there's just only a couple of games in the regular season
that you got to get revved up for and at from a fan's
perspective and from a team's perspective, you got to send a
little message. All right, The Knicks had played
the Pistons twice in Detroit. They lost by 38.
They lost by 31. Their head coach the day before,
which I appreciate it. Mike Brown saying he he like he
embraced the gravity of the moment.
Like he said, hey, this this does mean a little bit more than
some other games. We do need to show that we can
punch back a bit. The Knicks were well rested.
And don't tell me the Knicks were rusty because the Pistons
had the same amount of time off as well.
Now I, you know, I mean, they can't shoot worse.
So I understand that the Knicks will, let's say they play the
Pistons in the conference finals or Round 2, whatever it might
be. I know the Knicks will have
games where they absolutely shoot the basketball better, but
I there's just there's something off with this team.
Outside of a couple of spurts this year, they really haven't
looked looked incredibly connected.
And I want to get to this right away, Jay Rod, get this up on
the screen. Listen to what Karl Anthony
Towns said after the game. Going to read this for you.
Look at that graphic. My God, look at how fancy that
is. My God, who came up with that?
Jay Rod production money. Listen, now this seems all
right, fairly benign, but it's not and I'm going to read it.
I'm going to tell you why this is a big problem.
All right, quote, our offense is our offense and it's been the
whole year. We have our system and
regardless of who's in the game or not, we're going to run the
system that we have. It's Carl Anthony Towns that's
telling you that one of the store players has no respect for
the head coach. That's what loosely translated,
that's what that means. Because Karl Anthony Towns looks
like he'd be, he'd rather be anywhere else.
But in the middle of, you know, this, this, this energy and the
pressure and the expectations that the Knicks provide.
I'm so tired of watching. He hits a foul shot.
He does that little stupid thing with his hands like he should.
I, I'm done. I am.
I am beyond done with Karl Anthony Towns and I'm going to
listen. This is what I've said for years
now and I'm going to say it again because it's more and more
apparent that it's not going to change.
He is slow, he is sloppy and he is soft and that will not
change. He will not come back a
different person. He will not come back with a
better motor. He will not come back more
assertive like this guy. And he's not the only one that's
culpable here. I want to be fair.
I mean, there's a lot of things and a lot of problems with this
team. And just a quick little snapshot
before we focus more on Towns, right?
Because there is more to when you say what he said after the
game, that's a bigger, that's more of a macro issue.
And that's incredibly problematic for the Knicks
moving forward. But Jalen Brunson, we all love
Jalen, right? To ISO Dom, he's to ISO
oriented. You don't win that way #1 #2 the
wings, who everybody says when they're the knit, you know, 3
and D guys, you got OG, you got bridges.
Phenomenal defenders, phenomenal defenders my ass.
There's a stat. I know we just coming back with
the foot injury, but there was a stat after game, next generation
stats, right where when OG was guarding Kate Cunningham, who by
the way, is going to prevent the Knicks from winning a
championship for the next 10 years.
Like he's the next Jordan. I'm not saying he's going to be
as good as Jordan. He's the next thorn in the side
like Jordan was for the Knicks. He's only going to get better
and better and better. And the Knicks aren't beating
him because he was by far the best player on the court.
And he's just better than Jaylen Brunson.
Call for what it is. You know, we can have a
conversation. Is Jaylen a superstar?
Is Jaylen just a star? Is he somewhere in between?
And I love him. I you know I like this is not to
just airing air out grievances and become irresponsible.
I love what Jalen Brunson represents, but his limitations
are a problem and that that 6 foot 5 beast who is getting
better and more confident game by game, year by year is going
to be in the next way to get to the NBA Finals forever.
So this team's not winning anything.
Next year's team's not winning anything.
I hate to be so negative, but they got problems everywhere you
look. And the stat on OG right,
guarding Kate Cunningham last night, Kate Cunningham shot
almost 60% on shots attempted where he was exclusively guarded
by OG Anobi, right? So, I mean, I, I don't really
know what to tell you. I mean, why in the world should
I get all worked up? And I am a little bit worked up,
but like, I'm not going to, I'm going to do some other stuff
today. Like, because why?
Why should I be the one seemingly to care more about the
Knicks than the Knicks care about themselves?
What, Like, why would I do that? That's the height of idiocy to
sit in a in a studio, granted, with the reflection still
banging off the walls and the lights.
I know, I know. We'll get it fixed, right?
Why should I care more about the Knicks plight than the Knicks
now? I don't want to hear while he
babysat him when he was your. Hey Mike Brown, once again you
got your freaking face kicked in by the Detroit Pistons.
What does Mike Brown do after the game?
Yeah, good job man. Laughing, hugging.
I understand that you guys have a, a relationship, which I, I
love this, this is, this is the real human stuff of life.
But push that into the tunnel, just like you didn't do with
Draymond Green. I don't think there's a single
Nick fan alive that wants to see Mike Brown yucking it up And and
did you see how fast the MSG cameras cut away from that?
I want to see his reaction and he goes to shake Pickerstaff's
hand. Who who's a great coach, but
well, really good. He got to win a little bit,
maybe greats a bit a bit much, but a really, really, really
good coach and they don't mess around.
I mean, hey, he's got that team locked in laser focused tough.
I mean, connected this Pistons team in a lot of ways, this
Pistons teams feels like more like the old 90s next team then
then this team does because they play with that kind of edge and
that and they didn't have two of their best players last night.
They were like the whole front court was in shambles.
And you got Karl Anthony Towns prancing around the perimeter,
flicking up breeze, hitting the foul shot, doing whatever that
stupid thing that he does with his wow, You hit a foul shot
that when you are 15 feet away from the basket and you're
basically 7 feet and your hand is the size of a tie.
It's like me going into the playroom on this floor in our
home and be shooting Nerf hoops with my son.
A big damn deal. You hit a free throw.
I just I can't take it anymore. And and I really thought that
that visual last night was a rough one, man.
Do you think that I don't care if Pat Riley's son was on the
other team? Pat Riley would have given him a
stern handshake, a nod, hit him on the shoulder, keep it moving,
go into the tunnel and absolutely once he gets into
locker room, eviscerate his team for playing that soft and that
week from jump from jump, right. So that's Pat Riley.
Same with Jeff Van Gundy and to be fair, same with Tom Pibineau.
But this guy, you know, I you know, I should wait.
I will, I will say when Sal said Mike clown early on, I was like,
wow. And I've been, yeah, I called
him. I'm like, dude, we're going
there early that like already. And and I thought, you know, and
I, I know, I know how Sal is. So I, yeah, I know what he
meant. But I'm like, dude, that's
that's an early, early label. Come on, get the guy a week or
so to figure things out, see what he's got.
Sal may have been right, because only a clown is that accepting
of an ass kicking of that magnitude again by the same
basketball team. So you lose by almost 40, you
lose by 31. You have a couple of days to
regenerate, get your act together.
The head coach the day before says, Yep, this game means
something. You're at home.
Everybody's talking about this. It's a national.
I watch the the local feed, as I said, but it's a national game.
You got Blake Griffin and the Amazon crew talking about this
and that's what you come out and do and I'm supposed to take you
seriously? I'm not taking can you
seriously. Knicks are going nowhere.
Season's over. It's done and it's a wrap.
They are soft, they are weak. They are mentally weak.
Their coach is mentally weak. Their second star player is soft
as tissue paper. And it's a wrap for the Knicks.
Now. Now listen, the way that I am,
that doesn't mean that I'm not going to watch the next game and
then follow the store. I do.
I I will, I, I will never abandoned the Knicks and part of
my love for the Knicks and part of my expectation for this crew
and hope for this crew. Well, it's coming out now just
like it came in or came out yesterday in an in an, in an
anticipatory way, like, hey, this is a big game.
You got to show us something. Let's go.
What do you guys made out of here?
It's second-half of the season is a team that's in your way.
This is a team that you're six games behind in the Eastern
Conference. You got to do something, you
know, And by the way, even if the Knicks would have lost the
game and they came out and they were energetic and they were
protecting the rim and they were playing with force and playing
with integrity, and they lost by 3456 even 89 points, right?
And they just shot as poorly as they shot.
I don't think that I would have this reaction.
Like, it's not just that they lost, it's how they lost again,
again. So, hey, if you are wired in a
way that you are prepared to tell me, oh, it's in.
It's the regular season. I'll get to these texts in a
SEC. Keep it up there, Jay.
It doesn't really mean that much.
Look what happened against Boston last year.
Detroit is different than Boston.
Boston's more finesse. All right?
You know, Tatum's a hell of a player.
Jaylen Brown help a player. They got guys that could shoot
their championship team. I've got great respect for the
Celtics. I always have.
Right? And Tatum might even make it
back this year. And even without them, they
still have a better record than the Knicks.
Like, that alone should tell you something.
But the way the Celtics are built, it's different.
It's different like, like that what they always say, right?
One of the old adages in sports is that speed never takes a day
off. So if you're a baseball player,
I'm just going to use baseball for a moment and I'm looking
forward to getting to the Jazz stuff, he said.
Some wild Jazz is a trip, man. I'm going to dissect what he
said about going 5050. So if you're a baseball player
and you go, oh, for four and you can't run and you're an average
to a slightly below average defender, right, well, you're
really going to have no impact on the game 0.
But if you go over 4 and you can run OK and you're a plus
defender, you could still bring something to the table when your
skills are shut down by somebody 60 feet, 6 inches away who's
also very good at their job. Like the failure rate in
baseball obviously is much higher in basketball.
So it's not an apples to apples comparison.
But the point is I'm going to take speed in baseball and I'm
going to use toughness and, you know, like the the the proper
principles, like rooted in the the defensive principles and all
those other things that those old Knicks used to have, right?
And even under Tom Thibodeau did have as well.
When you have those and you don't shoot well, you still have
a chance to win because there's other ways to impose your will
on the game. When the Knicks don't shoot
well, when the Knicks aren't lights out from three, the
Knicks are a pushover. They're a bunch of softies.
They're doing nothing. And it's high time that you know
this. Like, if you don't see it by
now, I don't know what to tell you.
And hey, that's your opinion. I respect it.
I think it's pretty clear what mine is.
Teams going nowhere. Last night was the final fork
for me. I'm still going to be rooting.
I expect nothing at this point. I'm not even expecting the
Eastern Conference finals appearance.
That's how down I am on the Knicks.
And I said a long time ago, I said, man, I love the Knicks.
I root for the Knicks. I don't trust the Knicks.
I don't trust this crew. Have I been proven wrong?
If anything, it's been strengthened.
They're getting worse, if you could believe that.
Yeah. Brown 100% leaving stuff in his
pocket against the Pistons. What?
All right, so the first text is an excuse.
So you think that he's that good?
All right, let me get this straight, Omar.
I know you text a lot. Love you, man, but I think
you're wildly off base here. So you're telling me that Mike
Brown is purposely not showing all of his cards so that when he
does play the Pistons, he'll have an advantage?
If you believe that, you're out of your mind because that's
giving Mike Brown way too much credit.
Now, again, I know he wasn't their first choice.
He wasn't my first choice. I did think it was time to move
on from Tom Thibodeau. I I did.
I thought Sal was nuts when he called him a clown.
Like, I've certainly believe he's better than that.
But to think that he's that next level.
No, no, no, no. Stop, dude.
Now you're fooling yourself. And now you just making stuff up
because that's not even remotely applicable.
Yeah. He doesn't want to show too much
that that's that's what it is. Come on.
Are you serious? It's not.
I'm not even talking about schematics.
I'm not even talking about substitution patterns.
I'm not talking about an allocation of rolls right now.
I'm talking about the dudes on the court getting punked again
and again accepting it, and then their head coach laughing and
smiling one second after the buzzer sounded and the booze
rightfully rained down on the Knicks.
This is a team that's going to click in.
Get lost. I don't mean I don't.
I don't mean you all more, but get lost like with that
philosophy not happening. The East is not as easy as it
looked a couple of weeks ago. Tatum's back.
I don't know why. Yeah, I don't know if he's going
to be back in a week. I don't know sure he's going to
be back. I know he's practicing with the
G League team. There's a thought he's
definitely not coming back in a week.
That's even close to be right. There's a thought he might make
it back to the playoffs there. Boston will not be easy.
I agree. Cavs look better with Harden.
I agree. Detroit and Indy get the Knicks
fits all right. And he's not a playoff team, but
I get it. Not easy at all.
True. True.
But you know what, if the Knicks were built differently or their
best players were a little bit better or wired differently, it
would be an easier Rd. Because you had 40 something
games where the Cavs didn't have Harden, they've had 40 whatever,
50 whatever than 50 games, something like that. 50 plus
games where the Celtics haven't had one of the six or seven best
players in the NBA and Jayson Tatum, you know what I mean?
So even before last next I went through the stand.
I said yesterday that I think that there is a better chance
that the Knicks of the four seed then they are the two seed.
Forget about the 1C. That's a wrap.
Now they're back seven. They were game, they were half a
game behind the Celtics going into last night's game.
Obviously the Knicks were third, Cavaliers were four and the Cavs
were game behind the Knicks. And the Cavs are coming and the
Knicks are bleeding out a little bit here and I don't see this.
Listen, I know Sohan's going to get more of a role and he'll
he'll bring some energy. And I'm not going to bail on
Alvarado. I love the kid.
I'm not talking about those ancillary pieces.
The primary problem with the Knicks is that their superstar,
who we all love, we cherish Jalen Brunson.
He is ISO ball dominant. His defensive prowess is a 0, so
every team goes right at him, which makes everybody else
vulnerable because you're always scurrying out of position or
scurrying to get in position and ultimately caught out of
position trying to make up for what Brunson doesn't bring to
the table defensively. And then when that happens, you
get the seven foot slug, Karl Anthony Towns, the snail trying
to retreat and move and he can't.
And I say snail because last night, I'll tell you, my son
can't stand Karl Anthony Towns. And it's it's not personal, but
he's he just can't stand watching them.
And I know he hears daddy, you know, And then when he doesn't
rotate over, you know, weak side, whatever, when he doesn't
finish at the rim, when he double palms, when he you know,
when he skips up and down the court, like he just he just
doesn't. He doesn't project any like he's
just not a legitimate star. She's not and I know the numbers
are there and I go. I know back-to-back conference
finals appearance appearances. That's what everybody's hitting
me, hitting me up with last night.
Oh, why do you always beg on Cat?
You know he was in the finals last year.
Nick's want to beat the Pistons without him.
I agree with that. I'm giving credit.
Words do hit some big threes, no doubt.
The problem is it's not. It's not consistent enough.
See, to be a superstar, you've got to be physically and
emotionally reliable, meaning your game can't fluctuate, where
you take six shots one night and then he gets 20 the next.
You got to demand the ball. Does Carl Anthony Towns look
like he post his big ass up and says give me the like old school
once in a while? I know the days of Patrick and
Moses and Hakeem, you know, planting their ass into
somebody's, you know, stomach and give me the ball and the
point guard stocked in, you know, I know that that's over.
I get it. But there's still the way to be
demonstrative on the court and let your guys know.
Give me the fucking basketball. Give me the ball.
And he just doesn't do it and he's never going to do it.
So come on, guys, come on. I wish it was different.
And I could promise you there's going to be a point this year
where it's going to look different and the regeneration
will kick in. And those of you who and most of
you are down and rightfully so, you know where I stand.
Jesus, that's not clear. I want to tell you, but I think
many more of you are with me than not.
I'd say 80% ish 75 agree with me.
And I don't even need that. I'm just kind of reacting to the
to your reaction last night, so far today.
And I do think of that 70s percent that are with me right
now. What I think is going to happen
once they win three or four in a row, you know, Cat hits a couple
threes, Brunson drops in a 40 spot, which he will.
Here come the Knicks, great until they play the Pistons.
And then the Pistons will walk on the court.
They will look them in the eye and they will know that they own
the New York Knicks. They own them.
The Pistons know it. And I think even more
frightening, the Knicks know it and the Knicks aren't even
trying to do anything about it. They are accepting of that
ownership. So you tell me.
You tell me it's going to change.
Really. No, it's not.
Seen Dog Channel cat getting the Lindor treatment from BTI Mean,
listen, you know, it's oh man, it's it's a little different in
the sense that I've never once questioned Lindor's effort.
You know, I questioned I maybe hit from one side of the plate.
Certainly I've questioned his defense a little, certainly last
year, never before that. I've questioned his leadership,
which I stand by. So I I know what that's funny.
That's that's a good, a good text here, but it's not quite
the same. I'm not trying to equivocate the
two. I never look at Francisco Lindor
ever played baseball and say, man, you know, he, he, I need
more energy. Like, you know, no, I need a
better start in April. I'd like to be a little more
consistent so that that there's this up and down, you know,
April ice cold, May kind of cold.
June hit 330 player of the month.
Like, can we get a little consistency though?
Cats different cats motor is different.
And I have learned a long time ago, this applies to young kids
that I coach. This applies to dudes I played
with back in the day. You either have a motor or you
don't. Period.
You get let go from a radio station, right?
And you say, let's go, I'm ready for the next challenge.
Or you sulk. I got screwed.
What do I do? Woe is me.
No, no, no. You're either a winner or you're
not, all right. And Cat is not the ultimate
winner. And I don't care who hears this
and I don't care what you think. There's too much evidence to the
contrary. I would love to be wrong.
I would love love. I would sign.
I would if I had a little pin while I had the thumbtacks in
here from when I was trying to fix the lighting old school, but
I had to put them away. If I had a tack in here and I
had the ability to just prick my finger and sign a contract in
blood right now that said that basically that would say BT you
were dead wrong. I would sign it happily.
I would sign it with great pleasure.
I really would. It's not happening because even
if he shows up in round one against whomever, is it going to
be there the way it needs to be in Round 2?
Is it going to be there in the conference finals?
Is it going to be there in the NBA?
But the answer is no. And listen when you like.
There's a randomness in baseball and and I think that the Yankees
at times get unfairly criticized and you know, I've got issues
with the way Cashman builds the team and all that stuff, but
there is truly a randomness to baseball.
There's no randomness in the NBA.
You get A7 game series, you get basically 2 weeks, 10 days to
prove that you're the better team.
That's it. You know, and you can have one
dud. Ewing had duds, even Jordan had
a couple of bad games. Every great player, Magic,
Kareem Byrd, McHale, Isaiah, anybody from Matty, Carl Malone,
Stockton, Gary Bayton, and you can have a bad game.
You can't have you could have a bad moment for sure.
You can't have a bad week. You can't have multiple games in
succession where you're just not doing your job because the
Knicks are way too dependent. They're depending on them too
much. And I'm not saying it's even all
Karl Anthony Towns's fault, but to me he is the biggest problem
with the team. And I've said this for a while,
he's soft. He is.
J Rod, what's going on, brother? How you feeling today, Jay?
Good. Good morning bro.
Good. Well, you got to lower yourself.
I don't like the appearance of you being the king and me being
man. You got to get out the high
chair, bro. You got to you got to get a
higher seat. I got I got to do a little Phil
Jackson here. J Rod.
I got to get the Yeah, I'm trying to.
Think of like what I can. It's all good, I'm just messing
with you. I got to figure out my.
I can. I can crush myself.
That's the man. How?
How tall are you, by the way? I'm 58.
Yeah, I'm 62. He's 58.
He's looking like Andre the Giant and I'm looking like one
of the British Bulldogs. Come on.
Oh my God. This morning, I mean.
Good morning. Absolute brutal.
Yeah, disgraceful. And yeah, I mean, I was
questioning, I don't know if someone, you know in the
comments, if anyone's got an answer for this, but is, is Shay
still eligible for MVP or how close is he to ineligibility?
Because if so, and I know Jokic is already out of the running
and I don't know. I don't.
I've heard a case made for Luca just because of the numbers, but
I don't think a player playing for this Lakers team should win.
And. I agree.
Whatsoever. I agree with you on that.
Because it's just like, I don't know, it's a sorry team.
So I would say Cade Cunningham, if Shay is, if Shay is out the
race, Cade must be the front runner for MVP right now.
I mean it's. He's Scott.
He's phenomenal, man. He's so good.
I don't disagree with that assertion, by the way.
We were talking about this a little bit before the show.
I don't know exactly if he's eligible.
I would surmise that he's going to to get to the 65.
I I think. Yeah, I think he will.
But we we can crunch the numbers in a minute.
What? Here's all you need to know
about Kate Cunningham, right? The day before he came out, he
was talking about the Olympic team.
I don't know if you caught this quote, right.
He was talking about the Olympic team and he said I'm the best
American player. I mean, when you and and I love
that he said that. The fact that he said that the
day before he was playing Jalen Brunson, who's also a pretty
damn good American player in Jalen Brunson's crib tells you
that he looks at Jalen Brunson and the Knicks and by the way,
by extension everybody else. But specific to last night as
AJV unit, he's not even he's not even remotely concerned with it.
And then he goes out and he flushes 42 down and he he has
his guard moment. I mean, he's going to be the
impediment and the obstacle and the roadblock to the Knicks in
their championship pursuit. No matter what the next
iteration is of the Knicks, even if it's Giannis over the summer,
whatever might be, Kate Cunningham is going to be in
their way for a minute. It's just starting.
Yeah. I mean, as long as my thing is,
as long as the Pistons can kind of keep it consistent, keep
building around this young core, Yeah, you're absolutely.
Right. Yeah, which is wrong man.
Shout out. Omar SJ has only missed seven
games, so he has 10 more he can miss.
Okay, so based off that, Shay is probably gonna take it home
again. He's gonna remain in the
conversation, but I'd say honestly, Kate can definitely
make it interesting towards the towards the end of the season.
OK, let me let you guys know what's coming up here.
Obviously go a little bit more with the Knicks here.
Knicks are a theme throughout the show.
If you guys want to chime in with the with the with the text,
I'm going to get to the jazz stuff in a moment.
I've got something on a potential A.J.
Brown trade as well. So we'll just we're not always
going to do local stuff. We're going to obviously when
there's national stories out there.
And I saw something pretty interesting with A.J.
Brown. I will get to that as well.
Now it is a it is a no rules Friday, all right.
And we obviously read a lot of texts throughout the show.
There's one rule here when it comes to a no rules Friday at
the end of the show and I'm going to have J Rod collect
them, But it's got to be super chat and you can ask me anything
you want like there's no there literally a no rules, no rules
Friday. SBT #SBT, all right, we'll do
that the last 15 or so minutes of today's show every Friday, so
get them in collect them. J Rod's going to be on top of
that. J Rod, before you start doing
that, do me a favor, just throw that that quote board up once
more for cat, because I want to just finish with that point and
give you why this is a really, really big issue guys all right,
so our offense is our offense. It's been the whole year.
We have our system and regardless of who's in the game
or not, we're going to run the system that we have.
Keep that up for a SEC. We're going to run the system
that we have. Has this once this year.
Sounded like a man who either knows what his role is or
embraces his role or likes his role.
Think about what he said in training camp.
He flat out said literally, I don't know what my role in the
offense is. Well, now what he's saying last
night, he knows what his role is, he just doesn't agree with
it. Bang, shots fired at the head
coach, Choo Ching Choo Ching Choo Choo shots fired.
So that is there is a real disconnected Karl Anthony Towns
will not be on the Knicks next season.
You could book it. And if he is, Mike Brown will
not be coaching the Knicks next year because and I'm going to
actually have cat side here for a minute.
You can get it down there, Jake. Good stuff, man.
So love the American flag there too.
That looks great. So the the great thing or the
thing about great and nobody sitting here saying Mike Brown's
a great coach. Obviously he's not a horrible
coach. And I think he's he's good, he's
good. And I found him interesting
given the contrast and style, presentation, demeanor, the way,
you know, just the way he runs A-Team offensively.
I thought it was a good time to get something opposite of Tom
Thibodeau. I may be wrong.
Knicks get bumped in the first round.
Dead wrong. Knicks get bumped in round two.
I'm wrong. All right, and I'll loan it, but
what word do want Jay? I don't want to put Jay around
the spot. We haven't been together long
enough for him to really know this.
But next time I asked me better get this right and he will.
So to me, what is the best, the best characteristic of a coach?
I've said this for years, all right?
And it's not like schematics or it's not dealing with the press
if you're a New York coach, because that's, and these are
all important things here, what the word is adaptability.
Are you adaptable to your roster or are you so fixated on the
system that you run that you got to shove it down everybody's
throat? Now, I want to use an example
here, and I'm not equivocating the two by any stretch, Pat
Riley and and Brown. But think about Pat Riley with
the Lakers back in the day, very different NBA as we know.
You know, you had, I think the most underrated, overlooked
superstar in the history of the game in Kareem.
And I really think Kareem's the second best player of all time.
I think it's MJ and then I think it's Kareem.
So you have Kareem in the post, right?
You got magic, obviously 69 prototype.
You got Byron Scott, James worthy flying down the wing.
Michael Cooper defensive player could run like you've got that
crew right and they're running a Showtime now.
Of course you get the you get the ball into the captain here
and there. He was a little bit older at
that point, but you need a late bucket skyhook, favorable
matchup, dump it down to 33, go to work right, bang it in or get
fouled or then pass on the cut and get a layup right.
But they really look to run and Pat Riley, that was one style.
All right. He looked at his team when he
came in for West Head. He's like, all right, we got
this, We got that. He ran a system that was very
counter to West Head, his predecessor.
So he looked there. I said, we all right, I've got I
got guys that can run up and down, but we're moving and they
look to score 130 points every night.
Showtime was born, layup line dunks, alley oops, fun multi
time champion. Then he so that was one style.
Then he comes to the Knicks and he looks at the roster and it's
a bunch of grinders and a couple of plotters.
Even though Patrick was still young where packets still run.
But you know, OAK wasn't fast. And then eventually Mason, who
was a great athlete, rest in peace.
Mace got out there, strong, thick pass, can handle.
And you had a little bit of everything.
Like Derek Harper was 33, so not as quick as he used to be.
So he adapted to the roster, which was completely different
than the 1 he had with the Lakers.
And instead of trying to score $1.30 and win that way, Pat
Riley tried to win 8981 837990 on a good night, 92 O shoot out
at the Garden, Knicks drop 9292 to 87.
And then he went to the Miami Heat and he had kind of a hybrid
as I describe it. Definitely didn't have Showtime.
Definitely had some guys who weren't afraid to bang for sure,
so etcetera. But he also had a kind of a
hybrid, like a kind of a mix and he incorporated style that was
kind of a mix that when they played the Knicks, it was very
reflective of because it was just a kind of a mirror image.
Similar philosophies about toughness with Riley and Van
Gundy. But that Heat team was able to
score not against the Knicks, against other teams more easily
than the Knicks were for the most part, even with the great
Patrick Ewing adaptability, right?
Lakers Showtime, Knicks half court beat the shit out of you,
Heat little bit of everything. Well, what Coral Anthony Towns
just said with that quote is that his coach has no
adaptability and that's a massive problem.
So that is that is very alarming.
And there are, I believe there are.
I don't I'm not going to say I won't get back into this Mets
thing. All this locker room issues.
There's internal combustibility. No, no, but I think that there's
a disconnect philosophically. Like, I think the Knicks players
like each other, You know, the Villanova crew gets along.
Alvarado's going to fit in, Sohan's going to fit in.
Those guys will accept their role.
Kolek is going to do whatever the coach tells him to do.
He's going to bust his ass in practice.
Like I don't think there's any problems, but it's not as good
as it should be because when you have your star, one of them
basically now he didn't say he did.
That's why I'm translating it for you.
He didn't and he's he's too good of a guy, even though I bang on
him a lot. He is a good person and he is a
good pro. He's not going to say something
that is so out of bounds where it's wildly like it's the main
story. Like he's not going to throw it
up in flames. He's a smart dude.
And I remember meeting Karl and Anthony Towns right after he
left Kentucky, and Tiki and I had him on our national show.
I think he may have been in for the draft, actually, when he
went first over. That was a while ago, obviously.
And we had him on the show and we met him.
Great guy, great, terrific young man.
And he was telling us how he wanted to be a doctor after he,
you know, was done with basketball.
A surgeon. Like he's an incredibly
intellectual person And, and I know that I get on him from a
basketball point of view, but it's never personal.
Understand that. Like his basketball stuff drives
me nuts. Never personal.
I think he's a fantastic human being.
So I I say that because he's not going to be the guy who colors
outside the lines and says something so inflammatory that
it's now a three day story And the Knicks have problems
internally. But he is smart enough to
manipulate his words and tell us what he's feeling without taking
a sledgehammer to the situation. And that's what he did.
J Rod get that up once more, my man.
That's what he did post game. It was measured.
It was calculated, but it was clear, regardless of who's in
the game or not, we're going to run the system that we have bang
shots fired problem towns brown problem next.
All right, Crazy, crazy, disappointing lose again, didn't
even wouldn't even competitive chase.
All right, so let me get a little baseball here for you.
By the way, it is a as I said, a what a no rules Friday.
Get those hashtag SBTS going, whatever you want.
You know, I mean, obviously there's like a slight limit here
as to what I would divulge, but it's it's generally pretty free
free, pretty free flowing anyway, So get him in Jazz.
Chisholm Jazz is an interesting dude.
I I mean, he is electric. He is incredibly gifted.
I also don't think he's going to be on the Yankees very long, and
that's based on conversations I've had.
I'm not saying that that can't change whatever.
I know the Judge has been working with him and, and he
even said that he's learned a lot from Aaron, the quiet
captain of the Yankees. Jazz said something yesterday
that I love and I hate. Let's get it up on the board
there, J Rock. You get that Jazz cut up there.
There we go. I mean, aside from the Marlins
helmet, it's a pretty sick looking graphic.
Well, I mean, look at this. I think we're like we're doing a
real show again. I mean, listen, every day a
little more right? A little click by click, a
little brick by brick. Yeah, boy.
J Rod quote real life. Let's just be realistic.
I got all the tools for talking about a 5050 season.
I got the speed, I got the power, I've got the eye at the
plate all right. I've got the defense, I've got
everything to accumulate A10 war season.
All right, goes on to say you're looking at the second one.
And that was a direct response to, you know, him going after
and being the second. I guess he didn't know that
show. Hey was the only one.
So when he was asked about it, I I guess the reporter then said,
Hey, you know, there's only one person to do with that show show
Hey, Otani a couple of years ago.
And it's like, well, I'm going to be the second one.
You're looking at the second one.
I mean, we should only all be that confident.
I mean, real life. Let's be realistic.
I mean, this guy, he, he just oozes confidence and style and
talent and skill. He is, he's a wildly talented
person. The speed, the power of the eye,
all that stuff. We're good.
Jay Rudd and keep it off. So all right, now I love it
because I love confident athletes.
And I also love it because when was the last time you've heard a
Yankee, let alone a Major League Baseball player, be like that,
brazen like that, predictive. They're that bold.
I love it. It's kind of like Reggie.
It's kind of like Ricky. Problem is, he's not Reggie and
he ate Ricky. Now, can he morph into something
in between, man? So I again, I do what I saw them
like that a boy, lean into it, accept it.
But there's such a gap from from what he's done thus far to
getting to 5050. I have to wonder if it changes
his approach at the plate. And that's the one part that I
don't like because if he's so wrapped up in the numbers and he
said something else and, you know, this is part of the Jazz
experience, equal parts everything.
But he said, you know, and I, I paraphrase, but it was a law.
It was he was talking about the MVP.
This was a couple days before. I think it was a separate
conversation. He said, you know, he said, if I
don't win the MVP, like, you know, I'm not going to be
complete or, you know, my career won't mean as much.
I mean, I would prefer to hear somebody say if I don't win the
championship, it will be incomplete.
I won't feel quite the same way. And he inserted MVP for, you
know, World Series champion, which gives you a little look
into, you know, it does. It gives you a look into Jazz.
I mean, I think he's more about Jazz than he is the team.
And that's one of my issues with Jazz.
So he's a free agent after this year, unless the Yankees were to
strike a deal with him, but which they're not, he's not
going to get an extension like a that.
I know, like if I'm off based on the Yankees trading him at the
deadline, which I think there's a good chance that they will if
things aren't going right where there's a over, there's a better
trade to make. They're not giving him an
extension. So eventually he's going to be
an extra Yankee, right? So he's got a career high 31
home runs. He's a lifetime 248 hitter.
He's a lifetime 316 on base percentage guy, which which
stinks, and he's got an OPS lifetime of 770.
Now, Yankee Stadium, you got Aaron Judge, you got a better
lineup around you, maybe better coaching, whatever different
philosophy with the Yankees and you have with the Marlins.
I know a lot of the veterans didn't treat them.
I wonder why. I mean, when you're walking
around as a 21 year old kid, like, you know, your Hollywood,
whomever, yeah, I could see some eyebrows being raised in that
locker room. You got to comport yourself with
an ounce of humility. You know, that's one thing when
you hit the level and you want to be that guy like Reggie, OK.
But before you hit the level, if you're walking around and you're
projecting that, that aura and you haven't quite gotten there
yet. I, I, I don't know.
All right. So the, the thing about like,
he's tempting history and he's tempting fate.
And I do like having target goals and I do appreciate him
being so specific. I, I really do understand
though, how forget about 5050. There's only one person to do
that. How infrequent 4040 is.
Now, if he doesn't get hurt again, or if he doesn't get hurt
last year, he probably does hit 4040.
He probably does hit that benchmark.
So you've had Canseco in 98. He had Barry Bonds in 96.
You had a rod back in 98. You had Alfonso Soriano for the
nationals in O6. Those are the four forty 40s.
And then of course, Acuna and Otani and Otani, the lone 5050.
Now think about this guy. He's talking about what is this
whatever I want. And then we yeah, I'm waiting
for the Super chat there. I mean, again, if it's if it's
if it's two nuts, I'm not going to hit it.
But you know, roll the dice and see what you got when your
highest war is 4.2 and you're talking about A10 war.
I mean that, I mean, that strikes me as incredibly
ambitious. I mean, again, I, I don't mind
it because like one thing that we can't do is, and a lot of us
do it and, and I've done it and I just think it's really
inconsistent. I think it's kind of unfair.
Like what we can't do in one breath is talk about the, the
homogenization of athletes, right?
And, you know, there's the personality homogenization, but
now there's also the like the the style, the hitting style,
which is also been homogenized because there's just, you know,
two or three basic core principles that are that are
taught from the younger levels. And, you know, think about all
the wacky batting stances. You had back Ricky with the
crowds. Donnie would, you know, would do
this and he'd get really low. You had Darryl who was up high
and very erected 66. And, you know, that bat was more
straight up in the air and the waggle and he had a little bit
of a hitch. Dave Winfield absolutely had a
massive hitch from the right side.
Yeah, just crazy. Rod Carew was kind of, it was
kind of like the bat was really limp and he would just kind of
flick it. Oh, I got all the batting
styles, boxy. So many different unique batting
styles. You really don't see that today
because so many principles are rooted in.
You ready? Hit the bell.
Launch angle. Yay, yay, let's try to get the
ball in the air. Hit a 420 foot home run.
And if we don't hit a home run organization, and I'm not just
talking about the Yanks, I'm talking about everybody.
Organizationally, we are OK if you strike out because our
nerds, our mathematical geniuses who couldn't differentiate
between A4 seamer or two seamer, if you put a gun to their head,
these are the geeks who are basically ruining baseball and
you've got front offices listening to them.
Now I listen. I love the numbers.
I mean, I'm having fun with the geek.
I mean, they are geeks, but I mean, I'm having fun, so don't
take it that seriously, but I would love a middle of the road
embrace of old school core philosophy and the infusion of
the numbers. Like the numbers matter.
If you're talking about revolutions or PMS on a baseball
from a pitcher's point of view, and if you're chasing, you know,
whether it's 22 or 2300 spin rate and all that stuff, well,
that stuff matters because the revolutions, you know, there,
there's a correlation to drop and all those and, and those
things are provable. I'm not talking about that
stuff, right. But somebody like like a Jazz
Chisholm. I really think like if Jazz was
say, if Jazz was drafted in the 70s or the 80s, maybe even in
the early 90s, I think it'd be such a different player now.
I think he'd be a, he'd probably be a 285 if not better 290 plus
hitter with a much better on base percentage.
He'd be like Vince Coleman, not quite Ricky, but like, you know,
Vince Coleman, one of those dudes stealing 607080 bases a
year and you know, instead of hitting 31 home runs or 35 or 40
or 50 like this year, whatever he's going to try to do, he'd
probably hit 17 to 20, which means there'd be more contact,
which means the on base will be higher, which means there'd be
more steals. So it's not even Jazz's hole,
the holes in his game. It's it's because he's been
allowed to play this way. And I would say in a lot of ways
he's been guided to play this way.
And and I also don't begrudge players for chasing the numbers
because what's going to get you paid?
Look at Luis Arayas. I mean, a guy hits, yeah, it's
tailed off a bit. 3233340 with his eyes shut.
Nobody wants them. Why?
Because he doesn't run, he doesn't have a position, doesn't
have any power OPS below 800, so there's no value for him.
If Arayas was coming up with Gwynn and Carew and Boggs, he'd
be a nine time All Star because he'd be hitting three 35340
every year and he wouldn't be penalized contractually and
perceptually for having nominal power and being a low OPS guy.
Anyway, just a little Side Story.
The point is what we can't do, what we really have to guard
against is there, there's been, I don't know, I don't know when
it started. I think that an easy point of,
of inflection, and this is not necessarily mine, so don't get
all worked up. I think a lot of the
polarization of societal takes within sport started with Colin
Kaepernick, right? And then there was a certainly a
demand for players speaking out. And now there's a bit of a
pushback and and whatever. But what's happened over time is
we have become so critical of players that everybody's afraid
to open their mouth. They're afraid to say anything
because you know, my boy Stephen A and before him skip, they're
going to pound them and they're going to crush him and he going
to see the quote, you know, on, on TV and gazillion clicks and
tweets and retweets and likes on social media.
And that player probably doesn't want to deal with it.
So I appreciate the originality and the personality of Jazz
Chisholm. I'm not trying to dial him in.
I'm not trying to reel him in. I'm not trying to homogenize
him. I'm not trying to dumb him down.
I'm not. I love it.
My fear is that's why when I presented this to you, part of
me loves it. Part of me hates it when you say
you're going to go 5050 at what expense?
Like at what expense? Because to to hit fifty home
runs and you know, that's 19 more than the most he's ever
hit. And before last year it was 24.
I know different ballpark, I get that.
But now to get from 31 to 50, what are you doing to change
your swing? You're already very rarely on
base. You already strike out a ton.
So what are you willing to sacrifice to make those words
seem prophetic? That's what I worry about.
It's also a contract year. So, you know, he's going to be
airing things out and I, you know, Jazz Chisholm can go,
let's say, let's say, and he won't.
I don't think you and I'm rooting for it.
I don't think he will. 4040 wouldn't wouldn't stun me.
You know, high 40 steals, low 50 steals, low 40 home runs.
I think that that's somewhat plausible, but I still don't
want Jazz Chisholm up in the 9th inning down a run with a man on
base and two out or one out against an elite closer in a
playoff game. Do you?
I don't want him up there. I want a different approach up
there. I want a different philosophy up
there. So that's my issue with that.
But I really do like, I do like, I think Jazz's bounce, lack of a
better word is really good not only for the game, but it's good
for the Yankees. Yankees are very corporate and
they always have a little less so now certainly with Jazz.
But, you know, think about there, it's it's like the
Yankees too often they've been a conveyor belt of very bland
personalities. Jeter was bland, you know, even
the Champions. Mariano was bland.
And it's OK when you're winning, but when you're not winning,
even Aaron Judge, and I don't mean to the way he looks and he
he moves with a certain style and grace and Judges is the
best, but he's not that outgoing type.
He's not going to hit a ball 460 feet and flip his back.
And I'm fine with that. I like that actually.
Just, you know, do what you do, flip the bat and stare and, you
know, hit his chest and bounce around the unless somebody
throws at him, maybe he'll stare at you like you did up in
Boston. But that he's a very, it's very
simple performer in that regard. And I think you need that edge,
especially over the course of a a long baseball season where it
gets a little boring and, you know, repeat, rinse every night,
162. So every team needs a guy like
Jazz. But what he's chasing to me is a
little bit beyond the skill set. And I think it might be
counterproductive. Love Jazz, but got to pick the
average up, become a situational hitter, just get on base.
Not going to happen, Dave. So think about what we just
talked about and what get the get the quote board back up
there. I love it.
Let's go quote board time. Y'all look at that look at that.
So you want this guy to turn into a situational hitter Yeah
Levy made on second base. I just said I'm going for 5050.
I'm going to contract here. I'm looking to get paid here.
I'm playing for the Yankees and I've already got as much style
as Willie Mays Hayes and you say this and you think he's going to
just look for a pitch to hit A2 hopper to 2nd to get the guy
over to third base or to with the little fly ball, the center
with a man on 3rd less than two outs.
Real life. Let's be realistic.
I got all the tools for it. I got all the tools for it.
I got the power. I got the speed.
A little premature with that J Rod, come on, J Rod's having I
will J Rod's having a little bit of a bottle booms date today,
you know, a little bit. There you go.
The plate discipline, the eye at the plate, the defense.
Well, I mean the plate discipline that's a bit
overstated because you wouldn't strike out 150 times and have a
316 on base percentage if you have better plate discipline, to
be fair. But yes, I do have everything to
accumulate that 10 war season. You're looking at the second one
pertaining to the 5050. All right, I mean, bold words,
bold player, electric talents, not exactly what what I would do
what I would say, but we have gotten away from those those
personalities. So I'm not trying to police the
sport of it. I like it.
I do. But it's got to be within the
context of, you know, operating within a from a team
perspective. You don't think about this.
Imagine if what's the difference?
You tell me. J Rodham, let me get you in here
for a SEC. You're a big basketball fan.
What's the difference? Is there a difference?
Let me take I could go with Kobe or I could go with Alvin
Iverson. Pick one.
Let's go with AII think it's I think it's better if Alvin
Iverson said back in the day, I'm going to average 50 this
year, I'm going to average 50. Well, OK, I mean go for it.
And you would think that on some level if he does average 50 it
would give. Oh hold on, your mic just got
muted. Well, what I would say to that
though, is listen, if Allen Iverson were to say he was going
to drop 50 in a season, or at least per game for a season, I
don't think I'd really believe it.
Hold on BT fam, give us one second.
We shall be back momentarily. Hello.
Yeah, do test 1/2.
Bang, bang, we're good. All right, we back.
We're back. We're back.
Absolute painted. I cannot.
I cannot tell you how much that pisses me off, that pit.
No, it's crazy. I didn't even do anything.
No, I mean, I don't know what the I don't know what the
service is doing, just just jacking your mic from you mid AI
Kobe discussion, but come on. They should know better.
All right, we're back up. I got you, AI.
Kobe, 50 point. I got it.
Thanks, Jay.
I mean, I guess that stuff's going to happen once in a while.
Whatever. All right, so AI says I'm going
to go for 50 before the start of the season.
We'll try to average 50. Don't you think more so than a
positive impact that that would be detrimental on the rest of
his teammates and really ultimately, yeah.
So when you're hunting 50 points, how many shots you
taking, how many bad shots you taking?
What's your percentage? How many open looks are you
bypassing? And I get, I know it's not
apples to apples, but when Jazz says, hey, 5050, I don't know.
I'm not worried about stolen bases because that that's
different. But when you are chasing 50 and
you're not a natural 35 or 40 like Pete Alonzo or obviously
Judge, more so like that kind of guy now to me, you try to do
some something that's a little unnatural and, and, and not at
least thus far, your career, seven or eight years in whatever
it is, you know, a part of your natural skill set.
So I think it would be more detrimental to Jazz's ultimate
numbers, which I think would be more detrimental to the Yankees
in totality in terms of situational stuff.
So I don't know, I, again, I like it.
I like the personality. I am a Jazz fan.
I know it doesn't always seem like I'm a big, a big Jazz
Chisholm fan, but I'm just telling you what what I've heard
from the Yankees, they like them.
They don't really trust them. And I've talked to Alex about
this Alex Rodriguez, like he, he's got the same opinion.
He and I remember him saying like, can you really trust Jazz?
Can you really trust him at a big moment?
And there were a couple of times during the playoffs where I'm
watching the Yankees and he, he has a bonehead play there,
whether it's on the bases or in the field.
And I swear to hand to Bible, I'm going to do my right hand to
Bible. You know, 5 seconds later, Alex
text me. He's like, you see what I mean?
And that, that's, that's part of the problem with Jazz Chisholm.
So anyway, that's that. We got the Knicks stuff.
Let me get a little football here, All right, All right.
Hey, by the way, Jay, I do have a question here.
When that happens right, And the stream gets interrupted, does
that, will that now be like 2 live streams or does it all?
Is it all one continuous? No, it's still.
One. No, it's still one, but I can
also just cut that little section out too if we want to.
Yeah. Yeah, maybe cut out some of
those other mistakes that you made while you're at it, too.
Jay Rod, Jay, Rod, no rules Friday here on Unleashed.
Did you have something else that said to me to jump on?
Your head? No, no, nothing.
OK, well, Jazz pulling the plug on the feed.
There you go. Hey, let me tell you something.
If Karl Anthony Towns didn't pull the plug on the feed now, I
don't know why Jazz would be inspired to do that.
I mean, if anybody would want to get this show off today in
particular, you'd have to think it was Cat who, you know, I
don't want to say I buried him. Like, I'm not trying to talk
tough. I'm just talking honestly, I'm
talking real. If you missed the Knicks stop at
the beginning. You want to make sure you come
back, you check it out and and you get into that.
All right, so NFL and then we'll get to those S BTS hashtag SBTS
get them up now. Those are the Super chats on a
Friday. That is a no rules Friday.
Hit me with whatever you want. Now the NFL season.
See, this is what I don't understand like this, so many
things about the NFL are are confusing.
It's less frustrating, you know, like the language in the
contract guaranteed money, workout money like why the hell
am I going to give you a 500 or $1,000,000 workout?
I mean I know the reason, but why did it get to this point
where I got to give you half $1,000,000 just to show up and
lift weights twice a week at the facility to freaking job?
You know, I don't, there's so many things about the NFL
contracts that are even for me, and I do this for a living, are
incredibly fabulous and confusing and to me, I think
unnecessary. But that's just a little side
spin there. But I think this is also
unnecessary. So the new March 11th is when
the new league year begins. And I mean, it couldn't be the
day after the Super Bowl is what, March 11th?
What an arbitrary day. Like, what the hell does that
signify? All right, turn the calendars,
you know, get the champagne, get the poppers out there.
Happy New year, NFL March 11th. Anyway, that is the new year for
the for the league there now no trades or anything of that
matter can happen until March 11th.
But here's the other kicker, and this is frustrating as well.
You can actually negotiate and as we know, because it happens
in free agency all the time, you can negotiate and you can
execute and exercise moves. You could agree to trade some
principle and all that stuff. You just can't do it until March
11th like I've always found it. Remember when Rex Ryan was at
Bart Scott's doorstep? We're in his driveway at like 12
or 12 O one when the clock turned to the free agency when
he was officially court. And then, you know, like free
agency starts. Oh, so and so agrees to a A4
year deal, $37 million guaranteed.
Well, wow. I mean, that's a speed
negotiation. You did that in, in, in 3
minutes. That's pretty serious stuff.
You must have some great, so great legal team.
So, so many things about the NFL are unnecessary.
But it's the NFL. And we love it, even with some
of the warts and we consume it. And I can't wait.
I cannot wait for this NFL offseason.
I just can't. I think the draft is incredibly
intriguing. I'm not just talking about The
Jets and the Giants. Like when we do this stuff,
we're talking everybody. So you do not have to be a local
fan to watch this show. It's going to be A-Z,
all-encompassing, got a lot of draft show items and coverage,
things I can't divulge yet, contracts aren't signed, but
things that will be coming to Unleash that you are going to
absolutely flip over and it's, it's going to be great content,
right? I love the draft.
I've been to the draft a couple times.
I've covered the draft a lot. And you know, if you're new to
Unleash and I, I grant, I know many of you follow me from
previous stops, whatever. But if you're new to this, maybe
you saw a short on Instagram or you just stumbled upon this on
YouTube. First of all, welcome to the
show. And even though I'm a New York
guy, you know, based and that's where I'm from in terms of the
NFL draft. I mean, I start looking at mock
drafts before, before the NFL season starts because I like to
be able to connect to thread in my mind because it's so fluid.
You know, I love to see like what quarterbacks or, or ranked
where, what the anticipated first round like I've already
looked at mocks for next year, just like on a very cursory
level because it changes so much.
But it gives me a bit of a database that I could build up
on and what I really like. Of course, the quarterbacks set
the market there. That's the sexy stuff.
But I also like to get a sense of is it a wide receiver draft?
Are there 345 defensive edge rushers that are that are going
to shape this to be a defensive draft that you know the way
it's? I love it.
I absolutely love it, right? So I say that because I want to
get to A.J. Brown here Now, again, if this
is if this and I don't know if they're going to deal him.
Howie Roseman said last month they're not Howie Roseman
smartly. Is it the business of accruing
really good players, not getting rid of them?
That's one of the reason why Philly is really good.
And Howie Roseman's one of the best executives that I've ever
seen. He's phenomenal.
I mean, what he does is it's tremendous.
I mean, I wish The Jets had Howie Roseman, even though I do
like Mooji. Anyway.
So March 11, things are going to start getting wacky.
Do I think that A.J. Brown is going to get traded?
I think more no than yes, but anytime you talk about this
stuff, as we know, it only takes one interesting trade to get
somebody to really think, blink and eventually say, you know
what, all right, I wasn't necessarily compelled early to
move so and so, but this team really gave me something to
think like like with maybe The Jets, with the Colts there, I
don't know that they really wanted proactively to move on
from Sauce or even Q with Dallas.
But once the phone starts ringing and somebody hits you up
with something that's just really just too much to pass,
pass on, you make trades that that's how it happens.
So I think that the enticement for A.J.
Brown could be there. Now teams that I think could be
in the market form. I think the Browns, I think the
Bills, I think the Ravens, I think the Pats.
And I did see something. I want to be fair.
I'm never in the business of taking something from somebody
and pretending it's mine, all right?
I do a lot of research, a lot. I watch a lot of stuff.
Half the stuff out there is idiocy at this point.
It's a complete waste of time. But there's also a lot of good
stuff out there. And I saw something.
I didn't see it on TV, but I saw an article on ESPN.com and it
was basically a collection of several former GMs and personnel
people. What?
And they put together a list of, of, of teams they thought that
could go after AJ and more specifically what they thought
it would take to get A.J. Brown.
So and then I want to at least tie it in a moment to The Jets
and some other teams. Now, their list actually is
largely like my list. I've got a few other teams, but
they had the Browns, they had the Bills, they had the Pats,
they had the Ravens. Now for the and it's pretty
basic stuff. So they think the Browns 24th
overall pick, first round, straight up AJ boom, boom, first
round pick. Browns could do that.
The Bills have the 26th overall pick.
They could do that. The Ravens, it was this was more
interesting is where I think maybe The Jets could could,
could maybe enter the conversation.
So they had as a consensus the Ravens would give up their 2027
second round pick, a 2027 fourth round pick and then wide wide
receiver Rashad Bateman. All right, So you add a player
who's good and then obviously some draft equity and then the
Pats were thrown in there as well. 2026 first rounder, 31st
pick overall, 2026 third rounder and then a sixth rounder this
draft coming up as well. Now, obviously you're not going
to give up Garrett Wilson and there's other teams out there
that I, I now I, I would love. Now if the Giants were in the
AFC or the Eagles were, to me, that would be a pretty decent
fit because there's a lot of talk about the Giants may be
drafting a receiver. I don't love that myself.
I don't love that. I think the Giants should
absolutely go defense. I know the neighbors.
Is it going to be neighbors out of the chute?
I get that, but I'm not drafting.
Especially with the 5th. Now you want to trade down and
you want to get some more assets.
I'm a little bit more amenable to that.
I am not. And I know there's good
receivers. There's a few out there, very
good. Arizona State, Ohio State, I get
it, Washington. I'm not taking a receiver at
5:00 because when I hear people talk about the Giants taking a
receiver at 5:00, I understand it's to help out Jackson Dork,
clearly. But some of the reasoning behind
it just doesn't make sense to me.
I've heard people actually say, well, go out there, draft the
receiver at #5 because Malik Neighbors won't be ready or if
he is ready, won't be fully back to being Malik neighbors.
Well, that's not why I'm drafting somebody 5 picks in
because the guy that you took a couple of years ago who was
amazing, I think Malik Neighbors has a chance to be top three,
top four, certainly top five wide receiver in the NFL for
sure. You know, with better
quarterback play, better coaching, he's on his way to
being that if he heals properly, which he should, but I'm not
doing that at #5 just because he might be 80% in September.
What are we talking about? What?
I think that that's ridiculous. So I do think the Giants should
go defense. As I've said, you even want to
mess around, maybe go one more old lineman, which is better,
but it's still not an ultimate strength.
I'm open to that. They're not going edge.
I I love Caleb Downs, could go linebacker, couple of kids,
Reese, Ohio State, some others fit that bill.
Jets might take Reese at #2 I don't love that at #2 for The
Jets. The point is, is that if there
is a window now, I'm going to just bring this to The Jets for
a moment to entice Roseman to trade A.J.
Brown. Well, one of the reasons why I
love it. And let me be clear, this is not
like, well, let's get Aaron Rodgers right, and then let's
get Devante Adams and let's try to microwave the Super Bowl
team. Nope.
I am remaining consistent with my philosophy here.
Build it from the ground up. Excuse me, Build it the right
way. Use all that draft equity that
you have to plug all the holes that you have to fill.
However, because you have so many draft picks and such draft
capital here, I I think that I really want to see The Jets go
defense at #2 and at #16. And if you could tap into, I'm
not saying one of those first round picks in 2027, but if you
can creatively construct something here where there's a
third that becomes a 2 along with A2 in what whatever year
you want and you bring it. A.J.
Brown now, well, now you don't have to draft the wide receiver
at 16 because they're obviously not going to do that at #2.
And if The Jets were able to enter next season with say
either Reuben Baines or or even Reese, who I I don't know if I
love him, I don't know about that or Caleb Downs, who I do.
And The Jets go defense, defense 2 and 16 and then maybe, maybe a
little more defense later in the rounds.
But now they bring in A.J. Brown.
Well, now you got Garrett Wilson, A.J.
Brown, Mason Taylor, outstanding offensive line.
As I said the other day, if you missed it, I gave you a lot of
lot of juice and a lot of stuff on why The Jets need to retain
Priests hole. It's out there.
Go find it. It's on this channel right now.
You got a pretty interesting off who's playing quarterback?
Well, I mean, that's the big question.
But online, Garrett Wilson, A.J. Brown, Mason Taylor, record as a
blocking tight end, phenomenal run game, run scheme with Frank
Reich and obviously Breece Hall and you've got some running
backs coming back from injury. So you've got some some depth
there. Obviously with Alan.
I I think it's a team that is going to be pretty interesting,
but not with the thought guys, I'm not trying to speed this up
and I'm not trying to take shortcuts.
And by the way, if you tell me Jets are nowhere near ready to
even think about Brigade and A.J.
Brown or well, if you thought he had problems with, you know,
with his quarterback Jalen Hurts in Philly, what the hell do you
think is going to happen with The Jets quarterback situation?
I got you. I think that that's fair.
I really do. So I'm not going to push this
down anybody's throat, but I would like to at least see
Darren Mooji be Oh, and he he appears to, he strikes me as
somebody who's going to be open minded here about the
possibility of doing this. Now, I think there's other teams
we mentioned the Browns, but you got like the Bills are at a
point now you got to just they got to microwave it.
They got to do everything that they could possibly do to give
Josh Allen a real chance to win a Super Bowl.
Now, Josh Allen's got to play a whole hell of a lot better in
his next playoff games than he did this year.
He was awful, awful. I'm a massive Josh Allen fan.
You might be he actually might be my favorite player in the
NFL. He really might be.
That's how much I I I, I I just respect everything about him.
He's a gamer low maintenance, puts his pads down great, you
know, great stats, never complaints points to thumb like
that's what you want big, strong, fast, durable rocket for
norm, who doesn't want that guy? I really think he's my favorite
NFL player. I really ironically, he's in the
same division as my team, but the bills need to the Ravens
need to start doing stuff to give Lamar a chance to win.
I think that's certainly the chiefs.
Now there's a thought about maybe reuniting Tyree kill.
This goes into the question Tim Thomas O58-O Yeah, Tim, but the
fugazi Every time I see Tim I'm I just can't help but thinking
Tim Thomas the Fugazi like the whole Fugazi thing with the
Knicks. Anyway, what are your thoughts
on The Jets? Look at the Tyree kept pass not
interested. No thank you.
Nope, I mean, I would amend that slightly and say he wants to
come in on, you know, a one year prove it.
The but why would he when he's not going to put up explosive
stat? The only way you do that is if
you haven't won a championship yet.
He has or if you you have something to prove and it's a
perfect situation where you know those stats are going to pop.
You come to The Jets. There's a good chance Tyree Kill
finishes with 59 catches, 726 yards and and three touchdowns.
And if he signs that one year, make a deal.
He did nothing to bolster his earning power down the road
where he's got maybe one more payday.
I think he's going back to Kansas City.
And there's other there's other contender contenders for sure.
I mean, you want to tell me? I mean, really anybody.
I mean, if you think about any good team that has a stable
infrastructure, yeah, you look at somebody like Tyree Kill, not
interested in him for The Jets. See, to me, A.J.
Brown, like Tyree kills A1 trick pony.
Let's run a go route. Just take the top off and beat
everybody. A.J.
Brown does a whole lot more better blocker better and, you
know, tight little quarters, grind it out, move the sticks,
you know, just different than Tyree kill.
That's why I'd I'd be much more, you know, open to that for The
Jets. But I mean, what contender
couldn't use A.J. Brown or or Tyree kill?
You'd have to think the list is through the roof.
And while I don't think as of this moment, I really don't
think that Howie Roseman and the and the Eagles are predisposed
to trade him. Like I believe when he said last
January, Nope, we're not looking to get rid of him.
He's an Eagle. We want him.
Bah, Bah, Bah. I believe that.
But again, something tempting comes across your desk there,
something enticing. And it's just, I mean, reckless
because I don't want The Jets or anybody else to do that either.
You, you have to consider it. And so I wouldn't rule it out.
I really wouldn't, but it's almost draft time here.
Jay, Rod, you do you like the NFL draft?
Let's talk to the Unleashed fan here.
You know you're a big NBA guy. Always fun.
Let me see.
I remember a couple years ago what they bust out the boats.
They brought the boats out for the NFL draft.
The dude hopped off the boat, went on to the stage.
Yeah. Always fun.
Interesting. See who's gonna see who's gonna,
you know, make the teams change it around for them.
See for The Jets, who could potentially be, what are they?
They're doing a quarterback. I mean, they must, right?
I don't think they're doing a quarterback in the first round.
They're definitely not doing it too because you know, Mendoza is
going to be gone. Maybe a chance they mess around
with Simpson somewhere. No, I, I, I want to go defense,
defense or defense, wide receiver.
Jets aren't taking the quarterback.
Or like right now I'm putting money on The Jets, not taking
the quarterback in round one. You know, maybe later you mess
around, you make a trade, you're one of those projects.
Sure, the more projects you try, I mean, maybe eventually hit on
something. But no, I I don't think The Jets
a matter of fact, I'm almost positive they're not going.
Defense. That's what I would like them to
do. Yeah.
I mean, their defense was deplorable, dude.
Now, now listen, J Rod, if there was quarterbacks, if there was,
if there was another quarterback that I really thought.
Because yeah, Mendoza's going first.
Easy. Yeah, and you know, obviously
nobody else out there satisfies for me or for anybody.
The consensus is that there's no way.
I don't care if Ty Simpson and he's not going to.
I don't care if Ty Simpson shows up and runs A45140 and benches
whatever and jumps to the moon and that little thing, the
afflict for the vertical and has the most amazing interviews and,
you know, hits the grease board and kills it like Peyton Manning
or some ninja, some Jedi like Tom Brady and or Bill Walsh.
So I I'm not taking him 6th no matter what.
I'm not taking them now. I do think and and this is less
about The Jets and more about a just a commentary on on Ty on Ty
Simpson. I actually like him.
I know it didn't sound it. I like him a lot more than most
of the other pundits. There's a lot of people and I
watched him a lot of Alabama this year, not just in the
playoffs there, right. And the thing that you have to
know, and this matters not. I wish you had more experience.
Let me at least be upfront with that because there is a stat,
whether it's Sanchez, you know, Zach Wilson, there's a lot of
quarterbacks, like there's a connection when you play XML,
like you get 303540 collegiate starts.
It's just easier to weed out the real ones and the fakes, right?
Because it's still there's an element of guessing and
projection with those guys who haven't played a lot.
So Ty Simpson hasn't played a lot.
But where I'm going to defend Ty Simpson and I'm very, I do think
somebody's taking him late first round, maybe the Steelers, maybe
something like that. Somebody's going to take them
And I would be. I think it's justifiable because
Alabama amazing ran the ball awfully this year.
Do you know the Ty Simpson? What was the number?
Ty Simpson threw the ball 70. I said this from a couple of
months ago. I went 73 or 74% of the time
this year, which is like first and 2nd in terms of big time
college football. They relied on him so much.
They're running into Alabama with the running backs and the
access to the five star offensive lineman in the NIL
budget. Their running game was awful and
real foot now as football fans know that I'm right.
So So what happens there Jay? Let me explain it to you there,
young buck, when you can't run the ball well right.
That's why I don't think it's very it's very fair to criticize
Simpson and say he can't be a good pro because I think he
could. It needs to be the right
situation all right, so first down right going to run the
ball. They averaged like 3.4 yards of
pop, which was like 139th and praying college, but just awful.
Trust me, the stats, every stat running was bad, right?
So all right, first and ten yeah, Alabama 25 up off tackle,
1 yard second and nine. And and that was a consistent
right away, consistent theme. You're behind the sticks, you
chasing first down, you chasing down in distance.
And I don't care who you are, you know, even like vintage
Peyton or whatever Vince Young attacks, whatever great college
quarterback, you're still not going to really be in a position
to to be set up to be very successful.
And I think Ty Simpson was statistically and from a team,
you know, team perspective, still was very successful.
And I think he's got enough confidence and enough
athleticism where if you want to tell me now, I know a lot of Jet
fans saved the three first round picks for next year and I'm down
with that, whatever. But if you want to tell me that
you want to somehow take one of them and and maybe trade into
the the back end of the first round this year or do something
in the 2nd and the third round this year and move into the back
of the first or take the 16th pick, drop down somehow a crew,
another late first round pick and then go defense, defense
quarterback or defense wide receiver quarterback.
That's a little what Simpson? That's a little.
I just can't take him at 16. Can't just but I do like him.
I like him more than most people, not only just for The
Jets. I I think he's gotten a bit of a
raw deal. I think Simpson can play.
It was the circumstances oddly, amazingly at Alabama, this
factory that just didn't really put him in a position to secede.
It's the truth you got, you know, it's it's it's it's the
reality of what happened. So that's where I'm at with
that. Here, we got one from Omar
Yousef. J Rod, are you from Northern CT?
Why are you a Celtics fan? My entire family's from Boston,
but I'm a southwestern Connecticut guy.
Southwestern Connecticut guy. So how far is that from Mohegan
Sun or some of the? Casinos pretty deep.
So I mean, I've been to Mohegan Sun once.
I actually my my pops and I went to Caitlin Clark's first
playoff. Game did you really?
Was it a year or two ago? Yeah, yeah.
Nice dude. Yeah, it was.
Fun. I've been to that venue with the
the arena inside the Mohegan Sun.
I went to see, I went to see Maris play there years ago.
Yeah. Yeah.
As I mean, much more the crowd than Caitlin had, I'm sure.
And one of my one of my best friends who I roomed with and
played ball with it, Maris, Maddie, he's from up there, like
in that, that part of Connecticut.
So he met me and his sister came and we watched.
We gambled. You know, we had a good night.
No, I had. So you went to the game.
Did you actually gamble? Gambled a little bit, I guess.
Yeah, at the time I was probably 20.
So we, I know we were going, we were playing some let it ride,
probably ride. Yeah, dude, he he loves that.
I like let it ride Now. Do you know how to play?
Do you remember how to play? Now no.
Apparently no. Let me give you a little tip.
And first of all, anything that you.
And that doesn't mean that I win with regularity because you
don't. Yeah, I'm one of these truthers
here. Here, let me tell you a couple
of little secrets here. Number one, anybody that you
know that brags about how much they want, oh, I won $10,000
this weekend on the NFL or college football or I won 17,000
playing blackjack or playing craps and so and so casino.
Let me tell you about that person that persons losing a lot
more than they're winning because number one, you only
tout the wins. You don't go walking around
saying I got my ass handed to me later.
I mean, you might tell your buddies, but you're not really
making it public, right? Oh, I got bent over.
I lost 13,000 playing blackjack. They pulled the six card 21 and
I got screwed. No, you, just you, you, you brag
about the wins, number one. And if you win that much money,
even if it's once or twice a year or whatever, that means
that you are willing to gamble. That much to have the threshold
to win that much, which means invariably you lose 20-30 fifty
and obviously a lot more for some people.
So if you know anybody that's bragging about how well they're
doing in the NFL, they're losing.
That's number one. That's number one.
I know all about this stuff, dude.
I lived in Vegas, man, I don't, I don't gamble the way that I
used to, but I, I had a lot of fun.
The other thing too is let it ride.
It's a fun game. And I remember the first time I
played it was in Las Vegas. I told the story here on
unleash. I'm not going to tell the whole
story again, but I was drawn into the, to the music, the
song, because I'm playing blackjack, playing blackjack,
trying, trying to learn how to play and, you know, figuring
things out a little bit. My buddy had no idea, almost got
into a fight with somebody because he messed up the car.
Oh God almighty. There was like 2 in the morning.
It was a disaster. And I'm like, come on, dude,
let's go. Let's just leave the table.
And as we're walking around around the casino, I hear Rob,
Rob, Rob. I'm like, where is that coming
from? That sounds like a fun game.
And it is fun. And it's actually very
misleading unless there's another game like a Pie Gal war
game that I really haven't played.
The lowest rated odds in terms of favoring the house and not
favorable to us the idiot consumers is let it ride.
But the you so you have the greater greater chance to lose.
But the, but here's why it's misleading.
You place your bets and if you remember and if you see dad says
he likes this game, tell him what I said.
He's got to know this, right? So you place three bets up
there, you get dealt 2 cards. Each house varies like sometimes
it starts with pairs, it's got to be 8 or higher.
Some are like on a casino ship or on a cruise ship at the
casino, it's got to be face cards or higher.
What it it does vary, but generally it starts in eights,
right? So say if you get dealt pocket
aces, but what you know, 88 and you have the three bets up.
Let's say you have 1/4 up 252525.
So what you do is oh, I'm good. I got a chance to get three.
I get you know what a full how all these possible options.
You keep the first bet up there. If you get say a three and a
nine that are unsuited, you pull back your first bet.
You haven't lost any money. There we go.
So people think that they're in control of their money.
Let it ride. Here's where they screw you.
Now the next card comes up, that shit, still nothing damn ass cuz
hand sucks. Let me pull back the second
hand. OK, this is easy.
I'm not going to lose. I'm going to get it.
You can't pull back the third hand and you have to remain in
and you're not, you're not playing the dealer.
You're you're you're playing the cards that are flipped.
So people think because they're in like you can't pull back
cards in blackjack. You know, you could, you could,
you could say I'm, I'm, you know, I don't want to take a
hit, but you can't literally say I'm taking my money back.
You can. Accept last time.
And last time? All right, good to know.
Good tips. I got them all dude.
You want a laugh? You want a laugh?
I gotta laugh. So when I am in, I'm living in
Las Vegas and it's my second radio job and I'm young, I'm in
my not even quite yet mid 20s, right, Making no money, figuring
out the industry, you know, hustling weekend shows, night
shows, updates, all that stuff, just really grinding.
And I think I was 24, whatever was So we, it's funny,
everyone's like you lived in Vegas.
I lived off the strip. I lived in Henderson, which is
about the fact, if I recollect very nice.
And I wish I had money. I would have bought property.
I'd be, I'd have, I'd have a lot more money than I have now.
See, I didn't have any money because it exploded, dude.
Anyway, so we lived in Henderson and we rented this house and it
was like me and four of my buddies that I worked with at
the old sports fan radio network and one guy wrote for the
newspaper, great crew. And we had like 5 bedrooms
still. We just, we went, yeah, leave it
at that for, for the sake of this pod.
We went absolutely batshit crazy, right.
So my dad comes in, they visit me and my mom and like my mom
and, and, but, well, they, they go, they go shopping.
Like they hit the, the stores at Caesar's with all the nice
pocketbooks and my, me and my dad play golf.
We go out to a couple of nice dinners and my mom was going to
do something by her side, maybe pull the slots.
She doesn't want to play cards. And my dad's like, all right,
come on, let's go play cards. And my dad likes to go to AC and
he gives me, I think he gave me 300 bucks, right?
He's like, and this is 20 something years ago, man.
So 300 bucks plus you're an idiot.
You can play for a while. He doesn't know that.
I'm basically playing every night now.
I'm not playing for a lot of money because I don't have any
money, but I'm playing and I'm playing locally in Henderson,
not always going to the strip, you know, local pubs, you know,
having drinks, playing darts, just a blast.
And I'm playing my dad's next to me and I'm playing two hands.
And he's like, wow. He's like, you're playing pretty
aggressively. Yeah.
And you know, he he he gets
pretty nervous, but he not anymore.
But, you know, he's like, jeez, what's going on out here?
See you living in Vegas. I'm playing every side bet.
I'm playing two hands. And finally he looks at me.
And I'll never forget this. He looks at me.
He goes be careful out here. He could just tell the way I was
playing. Yeah, I know, I know.
I lost a 300 like that, but I never really lost a lot of money
because I never had money, you know, and basically we would go,
we would find these places off the strip.
I'm not just going to name drop and give them a free pop there,
but there's a lot of them off the strip.
We would only go to the strip on the weekends when everybody
would come in, all the girls would come in for wherever
they're coming in from. You know, we're young, we're
single, they come in and now we'll go to the strip.
But we would stay local and again, like, you know, dollar
beers and play darts and just shoot the shit and have a good
time. But the locals and and what you
would do really, we would play because we get free meals too.
Oh. OK, you.
Get comp meals nothing fancy but if I can get a free pizza and
like a a rubber steak for for free and a potato.
No. Who's complaining?
No, I mean, imagine being your age and living in Vegas and, you
know, making the money that you make now, I, you know, you're
hustling, you're stringing. I get it.
I've been there, man. I imagine you have a chance to
get a free meal. You do whatever it takes.
Anything dude, right? Oh my gosh, I might just take
the trip down to Atlantic City right now get try to get a comp.
Yeah, I've been AC in a while. I yeah, I just, I've talked
about this. So I don't want to be
repetitive. I just don't have the time, you
see #1 like back in the day. And I won't disclose the number
because that's tacky. I don't want to be that guy, but
whatever was relative to me, you know, I was doing well.
I was single, no kids. Like, so if I went and lost X
amount of money, I'm like, whatever, not a big deal.
I had a free room waiting for me and, you know, a, a real steak
dinner waiting for me. And they'd even hook up my
buddies with a free room and it was fun.
But I mean, the way you feel the next day, God, you know, 'cause
you're sitting there all night, you smoking a cigar, you bang it
back, drink after drink after drink.
You wake up dead. You just wake up, you know, you
get older, you can't do it. Yeah, 'cause you're going up to
the room at 4:00 in the morning. Yeah, if that.
Sometimes later. What do you got going on this
weekend, man? What do I got going on this
weekend? I'm going to figure it out this
Friday night. I mean, I got I'm working today
and tomorrow. Other than that, I mean, we'll
see what's good, see what we can get after in New York.
Wait, wait, wait. What do you mean working today,
tomorrow you exclusive to BT Unleashed?
We got the contract buddy. We're not working.
Guitar Center? Come on now.
I'm teasing. Come on now.
These people need their instruments.
I know. How old were you when you first
started playing instruments? All right, so I started doing
mute like just like random music and stuff in general, like just
production, not really musics but like making little beats
when I was probably 1314. Making beats how?
Just like on my computer, just like.
So I was like, no, no. No, but with your hands.
What was it, 1950? Yeah, Yeah.
Go ahead. And then when I was a freshman
in college is when I picked up bass and guitar and stuff like
that and started playing live. So I've been doing that for
almost like 6 years now. So let me ask you something
here. I've often said, you know, when
you think about like, and everybody's different, like, I
don't know, I, I'd love to know the answer to this.
Like, or take somebody like Einstein or any, any brilliant
person. Are they born brilliant?
No, I mean, I, I don't think so. Why, though?
I've got, I think, I think certain, and I don't mean like
physical, like, oh, my dad's 63. I'm not talking about physical
stuff of the intellectual nature.
I think that there's, there's certainly something to be said
for that. And of course, what you're
around, if you're exposed to classic music and math and words
and what you watch and what you read or, and how you know just
how you're brought up, what school you go to, the
environment that you're in, Obviously that facilitates and,
and, and accelerates intelligence.
Sure, but I always wonder because with me, like words made
sense and I I felt like I was looking at honestly Latin.
No, I'm saying, you know, OK, I'm.
I'm very poor with math. But I just, I can't get it.
But when you started with music, did did it make sense to you?
Like almost like in a way that was easier than most.
Yes, I would say, I would say it came very quickly.
But I also think that comes from just putting a lot of hard work
when I initially first started doing music, you know, into it.
So it's like in those early periods where your mind is very
moldable to, you know, learning a very new thing.
I think I was, you know, really getting after it two hours, you
know, almost 3 hours a day just practicing.
And I think when you do that, you know results are going to
come no matter if you're predisposed to something or not,
like the hard work's going to pay off.
You know what, Jay? It just hit me.
I'm going to. I'm not talking to you, J Rod.
I'm talking to the BT Unleashed family here.
Just hit me. J Rod's going to be one of those
cats that that lands an absolute smoke show.
You're going to. No, I could.
I could. No, No, no, no, no.
No. Yeah, I could tell.
I could tell the, the, the very, you know, humble presentation.
You look like Dustin, but you got the music, you know?
You, you know, obviously. You see the game.
I I I I see how like. I just remember how I used to
try to get after it. Completely different than you.
I, I think, like I think I've seen movies like this.
The guy who I'm not saying you're not good looking, don't
take it the wrong way. You're good looking, young man.
I don't, I don't mean it as a knock, but you know, you're not
Brad Pitt and neither am I. Like you're not going to walk
into a bar, have every woman or every young lady in the bar that
unless they think you're Dustin, then they will, which will
happen. You are going to in a very
unexpected, very smooth way. You are going to you're going to
land the smoke show, dude. See, now you see, like, not what
obviously there's no holding out here, but like, you see.
It's almost like a genie. There's like a genie in my mind
that's telling me, oh man, the smoke show's coming.
Soon. Yeah, we've been through some.
We've been through some tribulations, you know, we've
had to. We've had to slay some demons.
But yeah, we bought the boss. Battles coming.
Do you have a, do you have a certain preference, not like a
certain hair type or skin type or honestly?
I think all women are beautiful, very like.
Let's stop. Cut the bullshit.
I mean that. I mean, yes, they are all
beautiful. Every person is a beautiful
creature in God's name. We all know that.
Cut the nonsense to what? What kind of what?
Do you like brunette girls? I like fake girls, OK?
I like girls who are did. You say thick girl.
You like thick girls? No fit.
Oh, I think you said. That would be what yo Jay, when
I get gone wild on BT No, I mean someone, I guess shorter than
myself usually. That's probably a, a pretty, you
know, a a better look in terms of the what's the, the American
Gothic? Image the aesthetics Yep.
So, OK, let me ask you this though, a little side swipe.
So what if you, you said you're 5/8, right?
OK, So what if you meet somebody and she's, she's, she's the one
Like you know you, you write a song for you, strumming the
guitar. You know you.
You're real. Going Ed Sheeran.
You're real in the smoke show, but when she puts heels on,
she's 3 inches taller than you. That's life, that's life.
That's what all the people say. You're.
Riding high in April, shut down in May.
It doesn't matter. What does it matter?
Look at this guy opening up, you give him an inch, he takes a
yard. I like it just.
That's awesome, dude. OK, wait, here's a good
question. Yeah, we got.
Ask Jay. This is just for the music fans.
Who's my favorite bassist all time?
Right? So Flea from Red Hot Chili
Peppers. I love Red Hot Chili Peppers.
That's. Really what got me into it.
But I'm gonna give it away. Give it away.
Sir, I'm gonna go the person who's influenced me the most,
John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin or Paul McCartney from
The Beatles. Dude, Led Zeppelin have you?
Did you? I know you saw making making
Zeppelin. What's the name of the
documentary? Making Zeppelin.
I've seen, I've seen parts. Not the full.
I know, I know. I'm bad.
Are you? Kidding me?
Homework. Yeah, no, that beat.
Street beat St. and making Zeppelin.
Zeppelin first, just based on what we're talking about Yeah,
Beat St. talking about that yeah, I love Beach St.
Beach St. the king of the beat because we rocking that beat
from across the street. But you have to see making.
I will admit, I will admit, first of all, I think it's about
3 hours. It's it's a little long for me,
but it's such an in depth look at their their musical genius
that I think that you would appreciate more than me.
Like I'll give listen, I like, you know, well, give me a couple
of Led Zeppelin songs, like their most popular.
Whole lot of love. Whole lot of love.
All right, what else do you got? Keep going.
What's another ones like the real popular ones?
Communication breakdown. It's the one that.
Kind. Of goes like, that's a good one.
What's a heartbreaker? Obviously, Stairway to Heaven.
Well, that's phenomenal. That's that's that's what's that
7 minutes long? All right, we'll go with the
names here. I say that because I like Led
Zeppelin. I don't love Led Zeppelin,
right? OK, you know, I, I really, I, I
think that they, they very well might be the number one band of
all time Beatles. I know this is subjective
clearly, but I understand and and I rank them based on the
great appreciation for their their musical accomplishments.
Like they're they're not. I get it.
I get it, But I they didn't resonate with me the way they
they do. Like if you're you're a Led
Zeppelin fan or you're you're a Led Zeppelin fan, like I hear a
couple of bangers. I'm like, oh, I love this song,
crank it up, but I don't, I don't have many down.
I have a couple downloaded. I don't know a ton about the
anyway, I say that because it was not boring, but it was so
long and I always associated like Led Zeppelin when I was
younger with just some drug fueled, which they were
everybody was in the 70s, this 70s, you know, tripping on acid
and and and I and I think I underrated their their musical
exploits, right. But if you're a purist in the
musical sense, like I am in baseball, you're going to love.
And I thought this was a tick boring, even though I learned a
lot. It's a little slow going back to
England like that. Their entrance into the You
would appreciate it more, is what I'm saying.
You have to watch that almost. Wait, so now I got a question
for you. So like, what are your, what are
your kind of bands that you were a huge fan of growing up,
whether it's like 90s, eighties, 70s, Yeah.
No, I love it. I love it.
I love these kind of questions. I want to do this more.
I want to obviously do the sports content.
To be honest, Jay, Ron, I had to make sure that you can handle
this like I I can't just be pulling you in if I don't know
that you can handle the you know the gravity what we're doing
here. No, no, no smoke here, but at
least understand it and and you've earned that.
You've earned a little more rope.
All right, I always use the word eclectic.
I mean, I have a very eclectic taste.
Now. I will go back.
This is very interesting because my dad loves like the Doo wop
stuff, Four Seasons and I do too.
I got used to hate it when I was a kid.
I've really grown to appreciate it right as I've gotten older,
but he really only had one, you know, an Elvis and that was
pretty much it, right. And then so we'd always hear
that in the car when I was a kid.
He forces to listen to it that put on, you know, put on Michael
Jackson, that put on def left. Nope, Nope.
So I remember I had a like the first record player that I got.
He came home with two albums and one of them I totally get and
he's become my all time favorite.
That's Billy Joel, Billy Joel's number one forever.
You know, it's all like, I just, I love his words.
I just love, I love the way he recreated himself.
I just, I love him. Love, love Billy.
Right. And the other one was Rush
Moving Pictures. Wow.
Great album. Yeah.
Great album, great album cover, great band.
But my dad had zero connection to Rush.
I have no idea how we brought them in.
So then he brought home another one.
I think it was a 45. Steve Miller.
You know, Steve Miller's greatest now.
We used to listen to Steve Miller and, you know, maybe take
some bong hits, do whatever. We're doing a call, you know,
and I love Steve Miller, right? But the Steve Miller song that
he brought in was Abracadabra, which was.
Wow. Yeah, it's a different kind of
cut. Totally more commercialized Abra
and like that one right and pat well, white whites, white
panties with the satin lace or something one of the lines
there. So anyway, I was introduced to
to a very again, eclectic now like if I'm working out or in
the car, I do have some staples man, I want to hear fast stuff.
Now, I will incorporate some slow stuff to think, and I am
pretty sensitive and pretty emotional.
So if I hear a certain song, I can get you.
Yeah, I can drive by myself. I think about my kids, my family
happens all the time, right? So I would, you know, I love
Mötley Crüe. You know, I love the Beastie
Boys. You know, I love Def Leppard, I
love the Stones, love old Michael Jackson.
I would say from Michael Jackson, once you got to bed,
yeah, I thought that was kind of lost and get me off the wall,
give me a little Jackson 5, give me obviously beat it.
Give me, give me prime. Thriller.
Give me Thriller that was like that.
I remember the video came out on on MTV was like a 13, maybe
more. It was like a mini movie and
like you couldn't see it anywhere else.
But MTV I like. Then there's some other ones
I'll give you. It really does depend on my
mood. So when I was in college, again,
never good in math and what I would do is here was my shortcut
and I didn't really love studying either, to be totally
honest with you. So what I would do is I would
basically push everything off to the side.
And then what is when it was crunch time?
Like, I hate to admit this, but like I wouldn't really study for
quizzes. I wouldn't take it that
seriously. I just keeping it real.
But when it was time to make sure that I I got decent enough
grades and was definitely eligible to play baseball, the
writing, I would get A's and it would offset any bad grade,
right? And but I would usually have to
write, you know, you know, like pump out a towards the end
because I was late and all that shit.
And when I would do that, I would be in my writing bunker
for hours upon hours, right. And I would listen to Creedence
Clearwater. Let's go.
Yeah. I would listen to obviously
Billy and I would listen to Cat Stevens like these.
Yeah, these thought provoking. It just worked for me.
And a little Pink Floyd, the wall as well.
It put it, put it put me in a I don't know, at a calming, sedate
mood where the words just kind of connected to the the thoughts
connected to the fingertips. And I was able to pump out some
good writing content. So that's a long way of
answering. Who do I who do I like?
The answer is a lot of, you know, the the police, the Red
Hot Chili Peppers, I mean, Metallica.
Yeah, I think I said Mötley Crüe for sure, if not Guns and Roses.
I mean, I've seen the Eagles. I've seen all these in concert.
But then I want to hear 90s, you know, 90s gangsta rap.
I I I just told to. Very broad cross section,
definitely you know what I. Mean.
Very cool. Very.
I got a question for it. Before we start wrapping things
up, I, I think it's always a fun question.
I think I asked Sal this too. I'm trying to remember what his
answer was. I forget his answer, but if you
had the ability to, I'm going to put you on the spot.
But I think you can handle this to transport because there's no
right or wrong. Transport yourself back to any
time period. OK, and put yourself in any
venue. What venue and what group or
what if it's an individual singer, would you want to be in
the audience? All right, I've got a couple.
So it's. Jimi Jimi Hendrix is the easy
answer. Jimi.
My two. Yeah.
I mean, he's just. He's my favorite.
He's my favorite in terms of like band, songwriter,
everything. It's all Hendrix.
Nice. I'm going to say either he did a
concert in Hawaii, but I think my answer I don't know if you
ever heard of this spot Cafe Wah in the.
I used to go to Cafe Wah. Yeah, right by Bleecker St.
there. Yep, right there.
I got some stories from there. Oh, man.
Of course I used to go there. Yeah.
And the the The Rock'n'roll Cafe, I, I don't think it's
still there, but I used to go there all the time.
Dude, that's awesome. All the time.
I, I did a show there, like I played there twice.
So a year ago, two years ago. Really.
I know, I know Hendrix used to, he used to do shows at Cafe Wah.
So yeah, like those early, you know.
Wait a second, Cafe Wah? So number one, it's still open.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's different, different acts play
there now. It's kind of smaller.
They do a lot of like cover bands there, smaller kind of
singer-songwriter. OK.
And you're telling me that Jimi Hendrix.
So it was open in the late 60s, early 70s?
Yeah, him and Bob Dylan used to play Cafe Wall.
Yeah, yeah. Holy shit, I didn't know that.
That's good. Look at look at J Rod.
All right, keep going. I want to hear the list.
Don't short it. Don't short all.
Right. So let's go.
All right, I'll, I'll toss Jimi Hendrix up there and then I
guess the only. All right, this is going to be a
weird one. We'll see it.
We'll see if the fans like it. Hold on, if you're thinking
about that at at telly lot lot 77 BT don't sleep by Michael
Jackson's later catalog. You have slow songs that make
you think listen to heaven can wait.
You'll thank me later. Interesting.
All right, man, listen, I am a man that is a has an open mind
telly. I appreciate that and and
understanding that it's obviously subjective.
I just, you know what it was when Michael went to, you know,
he's bad. I I I just didn't like to get up
them. Like you wearing a leather
jacket, like you're tough. You weigh 102 lbs.
I don't know. What are we doing?
Like we're having fights in the subway.
Michael Jackson. Who is Michael Jackson beating
up? And then what's his name?
What's the dude that used to make the, the parody songs?
Jeez, what's his name? Come on.
Oh, Weird Al Yankovic. Thank you.
Then Weird al that I'm fat and I can't get that out of my eyes
and I'm fat so good. Good text right there.
Michael's one of my all time favorites.
I'm just saying you like you get off the wall.
You get late 70s, early 80s Michael bats.
But I'm going to, I'm going to get that song A.
Test No, he really he really did just to continue that.
He really did delve into that because, like I think his what
his AF album after that was dangerous Michael Jackson
dangerous. All right, I've got another, you
know, take, I guess pretty similar.
I mean, I would don't forget the venue, don't forget the venue,
the venue. All right, I'm going to throw.
All right, yo, this would be crazy.
Go ahead. Like OGNWA like.
Out West, out West Oakland Forum, the rocks got to be
something like that. It's got to be.
It's got to be outdoors. It's got to be hard.
Got to be outdoors and let me just let me, This is why I like
talking about this stuff, because you say something and
then this might spur another thought.
So when I was working in San Francisco, right, I was there
for almost 2 years doing an afternoon drive before I came
back to work for CBS Sports Radio with Tiki right, just to
give you the quick chronology there.
And The Jets were coming as Rex's Rex part and all those
guys. And I remember Darren McFadden
like caught a screen pass or ran one like 80 yards through The
Jets defense. I'm like, now I know The Jets
defense isn't what what it. And that was the beginning of
the end. Anyway, I went to the Raider jet
game and Amy Trasko I did a lot of TV with and is the first
female executive in the history of the NFL.
Wonderful woman. I love her if she I still check
Jason once in awhile. Love her just a great person,
brilliant, awesome. And we did TV for seven years
together and sat she sat right next to me.
Anyway, she got me tickets to the jet rate.
She knows I'm a Jets fan and I just moved out there and I'm
like, I'm not going to wear my Jets jersey in the place and and
be disrespectful when the head of the Raiders is giving me 50
yards, You know, so I wore it in the parking lot, whatever.
And I remember there was this dilapidated stadium.
And like, it's one of those things that you saw from the
70s, not really me in the 70s, but certainly the 80s.
And you know the what does this visual, same with Candlestick,
what it used to look like in this vision that you conjure up
seeing the Yankees play there. And you know, the Giants in San
Fran. And I remember they, their,
their system, right? Their, their PA system was
antiquated, right? Like everything else.
You're lucky if you take a piss and it doesn't roll all over the
floor. I mean, it was just a disaster,
that place, right? And I remember as they're
getting ready to start the game and the system must have been 20
years old at that point. You just hear.
Wait, I think you just clipped your mic.
I think you just clipped your mic.
I remember just the way it pulsated old school.
Oh, that's so if you're going to see N.W.A, that's why the ice T
and the way it sounded, it's got to be the Coliseum.
You can't see that indoors, man. You can't see that in LA.
You can't see it though. You can't see it.
I guess you can, but you can't see it indoors.
You got to see that one outdoors, in my opinion.
No, yeah. I mean, now it my main thing
with this question is just like it's got to be an artist or
artists who it's impossible to see now.
Well, that's the whole point of the question.
So like, it's a time machine, that's why.
Who's? Who's your take?
OK, now I, I've got, I'm going
to give you a couple and I won't run down too much of detail.
And some of these bands, ironically, one of them came up
yesterday and I don't, I don't even really like them.
Imagine. But just to be there and feel
it, imagine seeing Queen at at at Wembley Stadium, at Wembley
Stadium. Yeah, I mean that that would
just, that would be impactful. That would That's like the best
concert ever. Well, that's that.
That's what I'm about. I'm an impactful kind of guy.
I asked profound questions because I want profound answers.
That's but this is about BT on these.
Alright, so that's one, I think The Beatles seeing The Beatles,
you know, certainly stateside when they first came, but even
even over there would be amazing.
I would have to say seeing now, it kind of give you more like
more my, my wheelhouse, something that I would want to
see because I've seen most of them.
Like I, you know, I, I didn't, I never saw the Beastie Boys,
unfortunately. And you know that that would be
pretty wild, man. And I'm going to see ACDC this
summer. But I've seen almost every, I've
been to about 2530 concerts. I've seen almost every other
one. So I'm trying to think of like
historical stuff like the Queen at Wembley.
And again, I only like 4 or five of their songs.
That would be sick. I like.
This one right here. Johnny Cash in Folsom prison
withdrew. Great, great answer right there.
That's a good one. See that?
I like that. That's creative there, I think.
See, it's got to be outdoors to me and there's only so many
outdoors. Like I didn't see Pink Floyd,
but I saw Rodger Waters, right? And I saw Rodger Waters it when
we were out in San Francisco right around 2011.
It was like the The Wall tour, but it wasn't all the Pink
Floyd. And those of you who are huge
Pink Floyd fans, you know what I mean?
And it was phenomenal. It was all the songs and it was
at the Giants baseball. I whatever they call that, I
still forget what they call it, the John with the Giants play.
I still call it PAC Bell, Monster dot or I know what they
call it. And just the scenery.
You could see Alcatraz, you can see the Bay Bridge, you can see
the Golden Gate Bridge. And.
And I, I remember, yeah, maybe, you know, maybe taking a little,
you know, taking have a little fun that night, right?
And I, I remember and my wife is not even a big, big fan.
And we came home from work. She was selling TV ads for the,
the Warriors and the, and the giant station.
I was, I was doing radio. So we come home and I've got
like a bottle of Scotch for me on the table, maybe something
else, a bottle of wine for her. And she didn't even really, I
mean, she wanted to go because it was a concert, but she wasn't
overly excited. And I was playing Pink Floyd
music as we were getting ready. Then we just walked in the
stadium. We lived right there, right?
And we had, we got another glass of wine on the, along the
Embarcadero and where we were sitting.
You know the way the wall starts as like the missile or the
begins to come down. Yeah.
And then and it starts the musical.
We were sitting behind home plate, a little bit high by
design. I wanted to be up high and all
of a sudden this like fake, not bomb or missile, I don't know,
whatever it was. And again, I'm feeling pretty
good, if you know what I mean. Comes right in front of us.
Holy. Loud just permeates the entire
stadium, let alone the entire area.
And then like it kind of goes toward the and as soon as it
hits the ground now they start getting into the instruments and
the concert starts. And I don't know if you're going
to get crazy, dude, it was wild. I don't know if you're going to
get that if you're at the garden or if you're at the Staples or
forum. The old, the old Forum in LA,
the old Boston Garden. I don't know, Like that's why to
me to incorporate outdoor venue, which is why even though I don't
love Queen, like Wembley Stadium, to me is is pretty
interesting. Yeah, definitely.
So you saw Pink Floyd when they were still Pink Floyd?
No, I didn't. That I was.
That's why I said I just Rodger Waters.
Oh, it was just Rodger Waters. OK, OK, but.
It was all the songs. It was all from the from the
wall. Yeah.
No Dark side of the moon. It was, it was, it was.
It wasn't dark side of the moon. It was literally the wall.
Like they did top to bottom. Oh, yeah, yeah.
And then it ended. I don't even know how they did
this. Like the he was in front of the.
I think he was in center field. Yeah, he was in center field.
And somehow the like, it wasn't the outfield wall, but I think
right in front of it was this digital wall that they put up.
So when the concert ended, like the wall Pink Floyd, the wall
crumbled and it was set to the. Music.
Oh Dang it. Was really good.
It was good. Anything else before we start
wrapping things up? Here buddy, I listen, I've got
nothing BT fam. Thanks for another great week
Listen excited to get after it next week.
I know what's happening. Yankees spring training 105
today. Is that is that what's going
down? Yeah, people are hype about
that. I mean.
I mean really very. I think Jazz is playing so he
can get his start on 5050 today. Not no judge.
Many of the regulars are not playing.
I look at the roster. It's a travel day, so no.
Yeah, but it's baseball. We'll flip it on and see what's
going on. I did see there.
Woodstock, the recreation of Woodstock in 94.
There you go. That's the 94.
Woodstock. My buddy actually worked it
right. The guy that I used to go to
Cafe Wild with my one of my best.
Friends. OK, cool.
Who's that blast, Right. And, and he did that.
I remember he was, we're still in college and he was doing that
like security, whatever you could.
One thing I will say, you couldn't pay me even though, and
I think Hendrix was there and you know, Jefferson Starship and
I just the names that were at the original Woodstock.
You could not pay me to go to Woodstock in the 60s or whatever
it was, whatever year it was, I could not live like that.
And I know it was a different time.
I cannot walk around and interact with people who smell
and like you have no privacy to go to the bathroom.
It's nice. I don't care how good the drugs
were. I don't care how good the music
was. I got no interest in that.
I cannot function like that. You know, I, I've camped twice
even and and it's fun. I don't know that I'll ever even
do it again. But even one night in the tense
enough, I'm good. I'm an outdoorsman to an extent.
But walking around, no deodorant, like just smelling
and not not having any privacy, not being able to shower a mud
mosh pit. No, I I've been, I don't care if
Janis Joplin and and she was there and Jimmy and Starship and
the doors. The doors is another.
That's another good one, right? I know I can't.
I honestly like I I would have thrown them like up there in my
answer too. Here's a Here's a good.
One you pop it up there, you know I got it.
We were we were thinking the same thing.
All good. How do you say that?
All right, say that name for me. Shvoy.
Goodell, the guy, he's back. That's right, Shvoy Goodell.
No one going to say Sinatra? How about the main event MSG in
74? Good answer.
Yeah, I mean, Sinatra doesn't really do it for me.
I, I hate to say that I got to be honest, it's.
Fun. Like, I like his music.
It's good. It's good.
They're good songs, but it's not like I'm going to be amped up
going to the Sinatra concert. It's going to be a nice evening
like. Yeah, I know, I know.
I go to the Copacabana, you know.
Yeah, it wouldn't be the Mickey Mantle.
It wouldn't be, like one of the best nights of your life.
You'd be like, yeah, I went out to see Sinatra.
We got some wine. I took the lady out.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah. Like you go to you, to me, you
go to Sinatra. And then the the objective, if
we're going to keep it real, is to get the hell out of there as
quickly as possible to get home. You know what I mean?
Exactly. With these concerts, I'm looking
to hang out all night pretty much.
Big time. Yeah, I But then again, let's be
fair. So.
So I don't even know what Frank's prime was.
What if he said 74? I mean, I know roughly, but
let's say Frank Sinatra's prime. I don't know.
I mean, maybe it was like when Eminem performed in his prime.
You got no, no, hold on, You got to think about the time frame.
So I mean, Frank Sinatra's, even though I don't love his, I don't
want to talk about New Yorker. I love that one.
The other songs, yeah, whatever. And there's a couple.
I get it. But when he was performing in
real time, the energy there and his grip on society was not
dissimilar to, you know, Eminem going, Oh my God, you know, so
maybe it would be more fun than we're thinking about.
Yeah, I mean, certainly at the time it you would literally
pretty much be seeing one of. I mean, I don't know if Elvis
was even, you know, granted, my timelines might be a little.
I got you. I got you a little bit of that.
Well, Elvis, I think Elvis died in 77, I want to say.
I want to say it was 77. Pretty sure.
So they so they shared the limelight for some time then
then yeah. I mean, if you were to have been
seeing Frank Sinatra at that time, yeah, it would be like
seeing Eminem in 1999 or 2004, 2002, Yeah.
In the peak of everything. This is this is the guy.
But hey, Rod. Yeah.
But that's the whole premise. Build us on it.
So OK. OK, OK.
Because originally we both shot it down, but I'm again
transporting ourselves. Yeah, if if I was back there
with the bowler hat, I got my suit going.
Yeah, Franks, And it'd be the night of your life.
Little cufflink action maybe? A little A.
Little, little, little little bar, little gold bar, you know,
ironically, my, my grandfather, I collect and I haven't, I don't
really wear them anymore, but there was for more than a minute
when, when I was wearing cufflinks all the time and a lot
of tie bars, right. I've probably got about, I'd say
40 to 50 pairs of cufflinks good like some vintage, like some
really good, some solid ones, all different varieties, really,
really cool. And I've got probably 7 or 8
cufflinks. Pardon me, 7 or 8 tie bars.
You know what the tie bar is, right?
You know what I'm talking. About, yeah, yeah, OK.
And one of them, my mom, when my grandfather passed away, she
saved it. And it's really small and it's
gold. And my grandmother had gotten it
from my grandfather either for an anniversary or something.
And it's like 70 years old and I still have and I've worn.
It yeah, that's nice. Yeah, and it's gold and it's
held up and so I would wear that to to Frank's concert fit right
in. All right, let me get it.
One more text here. See if any jump anything jumps.
Here's. A good one.
Which one? You got some guy?
Yeah. All right, go.
Ahead, after meeting you at our sales conference, CCM, I've been
addicted to watching your show. Wish you and Sal were back on
TV, but I did watch your joint podcast on the plane home from
Florida. Made it fly by.
Yeah, that's awesome, Kev. I appreciate it.
So that was the motivational speaking that I did was I guess
it would have been LED today's Friday.
Yeah. So last week up at Pearl River,
NY, Great, great crew. Really good moment for Cross
country mortgage as well. They won the $1.5 billion
mortgage Cup. So it was a massive celebration
and I was the keynote speaker and I was honored to do it and
it was it was awesome. So I met Kev, I met the entire
crew. My buddy Mike Paris works there,
got to meet, excuse me, some of the executives and now have a
relationship with them. And that was that was a lot of
fun. Boy that that's a room Kev.
I could have hung out there all night.
I could have like it was I could have, I could have hung out
there all night, but we get out the the bar was open, but I
wound up leaving it like out of seven or so.
My wife and I had to get back babysitter.
I think my daughter or or my son had a basketball game.
We had something going on, but awesome room, great people,
great opportunity. I got some pictures if you guys
want to check it out on on the YouTube page here.
And if you go to the post there, I've got a picture, Kev.
I don't even know if you've seen it, Kev.
I got the entire crew, you know, where we had all 80 or 90 of us
there. So thank you for checking in.
And that's that's a strong word. Not like, Hey, BTI loved it.
I I enjoy it. Addicted to the to the show on
There you go. That's what it's some magic
right there. That's Yeah, as you guys could
tell, it's not just about sports.
I'm gonna hit some of this stuff.
You know, I had to figure out J Rod if he can handle this, like
I can't have some mumble and stumble and dope taking up my
air time here. I'm trying to pay for the
vulgage. Exactly, exactly.
Gotta come on, get a good back and forth, get a good report.
And honestly, that's what I'm loving is like, you know, we're
getting to know each other on air.
It's I think it's cool. I think it's a great thing.
And, you know, obviously just excited to keep it going.
Atta boy will you keep it going have a good weekend this weekend
let me say goodbye to everybody. J Rod do you thing.
All right, so J Rod is out. Let's see Yeah, I'll flip on the
Yanks at some point today just listen.
Even though maybe one or two guys that will actually be
playing when it matters will be playing today to me.
And this is even with the NFL, the preseason games be nothing.
You see the uniform, you see the field, you know, the crack of
the bats, especially with the baseball.
I'm all for it. I can't wait.
And most of the snow is washed away now.
I I think we're going to get a little, I think it's going to be
more sleety freezing rain, I believe on Sunday.
But yeah, I'm a weather snob and I always look at the weather and
looking ahead 10 days here, the Northeast, New Jersey, New York,
there's a bunch of 4849° days coming up here.
So you know what, what remains of the snow will be gone.
And then, you know, travel, baseball club baseball,
softball, high school baseball, college baseball, Yankees, Mets,
golf, getting out there and playing golf.
Bad golf at that, but getting out and playing golf.
Before you know it, guys, spring is getting ready to pop.
But it's going to be awesome, which leads us into certainly
the NFL draft, which will be amazing here on BT Unleashed.
Amazing things that we have, can't announce them yet that are
beginning to percolate that you guys will absolutely love.
The BT and Sal live show is absolutely April 2nd.
I can't, I can't. The date changed April 2nd.
Can't tell you the guest yet that we're targeting.
It's going to blow your mind if it happens.
Decent chance it does. Either way, me and Sal be out
there out east. We'll tell you the venue when we
can. We're locking that in with the
paperwork and then you know, the masters and all the good things
that that the spring yields. And I believe what is it?
March 8th is when we spring ahead.
So you know, days will get longer, things will open up, get
out of the house and start living again.
So have an awesome weekend everybody.
Appreciate you guys. You know that.
Thank you for the text. Thank you for all that stuff
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What does Belichick say? Do your job.
He didn't say anything anymore. He lets his girlfriend do
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Peace.