1 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,360 is on leash Are you listening? Can you hear me? 2 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:14,640 Hear me? This is on leash. 3 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:15,920 Are you listening? Can you hear me? 4 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:17,400 Hear me? This is on leash Are you 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:18,400 listening? Can you hear me? 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:19,920 Hear me? This is on leash Are you 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:20,920 listening? Can you hear me? 8 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:25,840 This is on leash. Are you listening? 9 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,200 Happened everybody come on in BT unleash with you here. 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:35,400 Opening day. Oh man, this is absolutely one 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,560 of my favorite days of the year. It actually might be like aside 12 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,640 from Christmas, it really might be my favorite day of the year. 13 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:42,720 Opening day. And this is just a great week. 14 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,880 This has been a great week. This will continue to be a great 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,080 week, God willing. We've got Yankee baseball 16 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,880 tonight. We've got the rest of baseball 17 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,680 tomorrow. We've got Duke and Saint John's 18 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,840 and all the other match ups coming up over the weekend. 19 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:58,920 It will will really Thursday and then Friday and of course into 20 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,160 the weekend. Let's go now we have a few items 21 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:03,960 to clean up before we get into the show here. 22 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,560 First of all, you're not going to see a lot of Jared on screen 23 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,440 today. Our guys playing her. 24 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,240 That's what we do here on on unleash when we're when we're 25 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,880 hurting, when we're sick, when we're that hamstring is pulled. 26 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,960 We tape it up, we go, we play poor J Rod was was throwing up 27 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,240 and I'm I'm imagining some of the other stuff as well. 28 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,520 Little little food poisoning brother you're going to make. 29 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,680 This yes, Sir. I'm feel, I'm feeling like Mike 30 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,520 this morning. I don't know what happened, 31 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,280 maybe food poisoning, maybe something else, but it was 32 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,440 definitely food poisoning. Oh my God. 33 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,880 Unleash fam. We're going to push through it. 34 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:37,880 We're going to get a great episode out for you. 35 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:39,760 But yeah, I'm fighting over. Here. 36 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,320 OK, All right. So I'm not going to pull you in 37 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:42,920 too much today, man. You've got everything under 38 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,120 control. You know what we want to do so 39 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,720 before we get to the actual show, we'll do we'll do Yanks 40 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,680 and we'll do the Johnny's report. 41 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:51,640 I got a couple things I think you really like today. 42 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,400 First of all, next week cannot wait. 43 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,640 Guess who's joining the show next week, My guy, where is he? 44 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,680 He is look at that lunatic Stephen A in the house that is 45 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,880 that is a teammate who likes me, a former teammate. 46 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,440 There you go. Steve is going to join me either 47 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,160 Monday or Tuesday. So I didn't want to put the 48 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,960 exact day up there yet, but Stevens coming on and those of 49 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,760 you who go back to the day, you know that Stephen A and I are 50 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:18,120 boys. So it's not going to be like. 51 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,960 So Steve, you know, what do you think about the next chances to 52 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,640 win the championship this year? And we're going to flush out and 53 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:27,160 we're going to have a real conversation with 0 boundaries. 54 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:31,000 I cannot wait to roll out the red carpet for my boy. 55 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,040 I mean, that is my that's my guy right there. 56 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,320 That is the guy in the entire business that is this 57 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,720 generations Howard Cosell. That's how good he is. 58 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,520 He's had a couple of couple of beefs as well. 59 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,400 Been an interesting week for both of us here. 60 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:45,640 He was getting it into Whitlock, right? 61 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:47,880 Well, I guess they've had a feud for a while. 62 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,280 And then of course, you know, some things have seeped into 63 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,640 this show, obviously, as I was pulled into some stuff, which 64 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:56,240 I'll circle back to just in a moment. 65 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,520 Not much, not much today. I pretty much said everything I 66 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,640 have to say. OK, so that's Steven A coming up 67 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:03,360 next week going to be awesome, going to be absolutely 68 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,360 phenomenal. Now the other thing this will be 69 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,240 quick last night. I know some of you guys check 70 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,400 this out. Appreciate you tuning in. 71 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,960 Last night we debuted the first episode of The Jets Collective 72 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:17,520 with Jake Asman, who is a a great young passionate, you 73 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,720 know, not not just The Jets broadcaster does a lot of shows 74 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:21,760 as well, but he is a great Jets guy. 75 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,480 Some people think he's too negative. 76 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,760 I think he's awesome. I'm also pretty sure he and I 77 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,920 will clash at some point during the season and Rich is just, you 78 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:34,240 know, he's the OG of the group man, and I'm I'm the second OG, 79 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,560 but Rich is the real OG. So Rich was there last night, 80 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,560 myself and and Jake really strong numbers, really good 81 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,640 debut. So what we did was you can get 82 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:44,440 that down there. J Rod. 83 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,840 Thanks, buddy. So obviously like and subscribe 84 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,200 it comment if you want to those of you who get that. 85 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,360 You know what I just meant there. 86 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,040 The the thing too is that it's it's going to be a full ride 87 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,920 like during the entire process of leading up to the season. 88 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,240 So as we get toward the draft and obviously, you know, free 89 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,440 agencies pretty much over here, but you know, OTA's in the draft 90 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,200 and then the the summer and training camp in the regular 91 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,240 season. The three of us will do that 92 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,680 show Jets collective every single Tuesday at 7:00 and it's 93 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,320 going to be awesome. So what I did though, at the 94 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,399 bottom of my channel, if you go there after this show I was able 95 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:20,519 to do, I mean, it's pretty simple. 96 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:23,400 You just hit a button, bang, it happens where now the entire 97 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,600 episode lives on my YouTube page as well. 98 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,920 But definitely need you guys to go and check that out, jump in 99 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:33,040 on that and and of course, like and subscribe and support it and 100 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,600 comment. All right, so we're going to get 101 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,680 into a lot of baseball here. You know, it's funny. 102 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:42,120 So. So Greg was making fun of the 103 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,000 glare this morning, huh? He's not wrong. 104 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,560 I've been saying we got to fix this damn glare forever. 105 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,200 I pretty soon I'm going to be wearing eye black here so I can 106 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,480 see the camera here. Yeah, it's funny too, I guess. 107 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,080 You know, I got my people out there who let me know what's 108 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,040 going on And. And somebody, somebody shot me a 109 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,320 tablet. A lot of people did. 110 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,320 Oh, he took another jab at you. Hey, listen, guys, I I said what 111 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,440 I said. You know, I I am about the High 112 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,600 Road until I get dragged into the low road and then I just 113 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,920 won't stop. But, you know, I every I I 114 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,480 emptied the tank and I I said what I said. 115 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:14,640 But it was interesting. Colder. 116 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:15,840 It was funny. Colder. 117 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,360 He goes, Hey, Geo, I'm just curious what you think about the 118 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,920 dip in Sean Menai's velocity. Well played. 119 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,600 It was actually really good on the colder's part, you know, and 120 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,320 and Greg, you know, Greg and and and and Boomer lab Boomer was 121 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,600 like, alright, can we just move on from the shout out to Boomer? 122 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,160 Love Boomer. And he's like, yeah, yeah, come 123 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:33,120 on. Enough of this nonsense 124 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,960 basically is what he was saying. So when the caller said that, 125 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,000 you know, Greg laughed, but of course he had to get another Jeb 126 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,320 in there. And, you know, he started making 127 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,600 fun of the the background and you know the how I guess he said 128 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,040 I'm a minor league and all that stuff. 129 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,560 That's fine, Greg, that's good. You know, and, and I'm done. 130 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,200 I I've said everything that I have to say. 131 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,680 It's out there, you know, people wrote articles about it. 132 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,640 It's out there, all the videos and all that stuff. 133 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,480 So and I know that you saw it because I know that you went 134 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,600 looking for it because I know that you know what I said. 135 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:02,640 But yeah, just just to clarify, you did say that, you know, you 136 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,120 referenced the but he did the caller and then you did as well 137 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,160 about the Sean. But I think that of course you 138 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:12,760 went into a little fairly unfunny mini soft rant about oh, 139 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,240 wow, you know, baseball analytics. 140 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,080 That's a really fun way to do a show. 141 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,240 That's that's a really good, successful road map for a show 142 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,520 in 2026. No, you're right. 143 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,320 Yeah, absolutely right. It's like one of the few things 144 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:25,920 that you and I can agree on this week here. 145 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,680 You're absolutely right. That's why I don't do it that 146 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,280 much. But just to clarify, no, I did. 147 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:33,760 I did say that nobody would care about your opinions on the Sean, 148 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,120 but I have velocity. But what I also said was that, 149 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,800 you know, maybe at some point you can go and fix that hideous 150 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,200 golf swing and maybe at some point you could stop riding 151 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,120 boomers coattails and, you know, maybe at some point you could 152 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,920 stop doing impersonations or come up with a few new ones. 153 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,200 And what else did I say? Oh, yeah. 154 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,200 I also said that at some point maybe you want to stop 155 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,160 belittling people to try to make yourself feel better, because 156 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,760 obviously there's some issues that you have in terms of 157 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:59,640 security. Because anybody who puts people 158 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,000 down the way that you do, that's that's generally not a good 159 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,200 look. And that's something I don't get 160 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:05,520 into. But that, but that is what I, 161 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,400 that, that's what I said. In case you missed that part, 162 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:09,640 because the caller only brought up the Manaya stuff. 163 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,280 I, I just want to make sure you had the whole thing. 164 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,400 And if you missed it, if you think I may be misquoting 165 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,360 myself, by all means, go and find it. 166 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,400 All right? That's the end of it for me, you 167 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,760 know, for now, you know, I'm not going to keep doing this. 168 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,560 You know what I mean, Jay, Ron. So I I've got to rule, Jay. 169 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:26,640 I don't even put yourself up on camera, man. 170 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,520 I don't want you to, you know, show the world. 171 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,160 I don't want you to throw up on camera, by the way. 172 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,600 And if you have to, just go and no trust. 173 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,000 Me, dude. It's about to be like Nikki's 174 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,560 biggest fear, if you remember from the interview. 175 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,480 Oh, yes, Nick, Yeah, you guys missed it. 176 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,280 I think I'm going to have her on Thursday, by the way. 177 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,000 I think we're going to have her on the show Thursday. 178 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,240 All Saint John stuff. Yeah, we had Nikki on last week. 179 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,360 She was absolutely phenomen, phenomenal, and she revealed 180 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,760 that one of her this is this is crazy. 181 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,280 And we all have our fears and all the things that we deal 182 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,720 with, right? And I'll actually, I'll tell you 183 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,760 what, I'll tell you what mine, I'll tell you what mine actually 184 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,480 is in a moment, right? It's you know, you got to laugh 185 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:04,640 at yourself. It's a real thing. 186 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,280 So she told me she's like every time she goes on camera, like 187 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,960 right before she goes on camera, she's afraid that up or you know 188 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,640 what, like throw up or faint. That was what she said. 189 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,760 She's so she's actually standing up there, whether it's S&Y or 190 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,960 you know, some of the other stuff she does, she's worried 191 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:22,920 that she's going to fall to the ground that just throw up. 192 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:24,920 I'm like, man, that that is a tough cross to bear. 193 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,080 My funny thing, right, If this is and now it's funny, you know, 194 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,800 if you're my friends and you laugh at me, but it's not really 195 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,320 funny if you're me, but I but I own it. 196 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,240 And again, we, we all have these things that we, you know, try to 197 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,640 tuck away and plow through and, and, and, and think about or, or 198 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,320 fixate on to a, to a certain extent. 199 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,800 And I never used to do this. Not once did this ever enter my 200 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,920 mind until. And it really wasn't even my 201 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:50,360 fault. Like it's not like I was born 202 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,600 with this or I had this phobia, you know, develop at the age of 203 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,040 7 or 8. Long story short, I think, or a 204 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:02,160 short story long, Oh God, this had to be about this had to be 205 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,240 about 15 years ago, maybe more at this point. 206 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,880 I'm doing AI think it was MSNBC. It's like a financial show and 207 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,560 they asked me to come. I was like when I mean, I was 208 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:14,440 doing fantasy sports way before that, but they asked me to come 209 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,800 on and talk about the blossoming business of fantasy sports, 210 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,240 right? And I said absolutely. 211 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,760 So I go in there, I got my suit on and I got my tie and I'm 212 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,480 like, they they put me. I was like, I wasn't actually in 213 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,000 their studio. That was the second time they 214 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,680 made me back, but I was in one of these remote studios that 215 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:34,600 ESPN, who I used to work for, kind of set me up with like a 216 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,360 remote studio. So it's just this little tiny 217 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,880 closet and a camera. And when you're watching, if 218 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,280 you're watching MSNBC that day, you can see me and it looks like 219 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:43,880 I'm, I'm in like this grand studio. 220 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:48,360 I'm in a little tiny closet. So it is so hot in there, like 221 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,960 ridiculously hot, right? When I say hot, I mean I'm 222 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,520 talking like 90° hot. It was because it was August and 223 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:57,960 it was anticipation of people getting ready for their fantasy 224 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,400 drafts, right? So I'm sitting there and I'm 225 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,600 doing the segment and all of a sudden I'm saying to myself, I'm 226 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,040 like, man, it's hot. And then I feel like a little 227 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,040 bead of sweat starts to drip down, like just a little bit. 228 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,560 I'm like, Oh my God. And I'm like, and I'm trying to 229 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,600 like, I'm not, I'm not even really worried about it. 230 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,280 I'm just like annoyed with my, I'm like, I'm hot. 231 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:20,360 I can't really focus on the content because I'm hot, right? 232 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,440 And now I'm sweating. So I, I, you know, I think it 233 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,160 was a pretty good segment. I don't know if it was great. 234 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:26,760 You know, whatever I did what I had to do. 235 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,040 I was, I was younger and you know, I'm probably not quite as 236 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,320 polished now. Anyway, I'm done with it. 237 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,040 And all my boys start blowing because like I hadn't been on 238 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,120 TVA ton yet at that point. So my boys start blowing up the 239 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:38,640 phone. They're like, dude, what the 240 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,120 hell happened to you yet? Why were you, what happened to 241 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,600 you before? Why were you sweating, man? 242 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,400 Were you nervous? I'm like, no, it was 96° and 243 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:49,800 there, you idiots, right? So in my mind, and I remember 244 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,360 talking to my parents and my parents like, you know, that it 245 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:53,280 looked that bad. It looked awful. 246 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,320 Like of course your mom's like, no, no, it really wasn't that 247 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,480 bad. And now I'm like, and now my 248 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,800 friends keep bringing it up and bring it up and bring it up and 249 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,280 bring it up. And now like the next time I did 250 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:07,360 a little bit of ATV, it was for Outside the Lines with Bob Levy, 251 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:13,080 a long time incredibly popular journalistic staple on ESPN that 252 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,920 I would jump on a fair amount of time. 253 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,600 That's I think maybe like Willie Randolph getting fired or about 254 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,040 to be fired. And again, because that was in 255 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:29,000 Bristol and I am in a Manhattan remote studio that ESPN Radio 256 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,760 hooked me up with. And now I've been there. 257 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,240 I'm like and and before we go on the air, they're like, hey, yo, 258 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,800 BT talking down the line, like the in my ear, Hey, BT it's Joe 259 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:38,840 up in Bristol. Bob's looking forward to having 260 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:40,680 you back on the show. We'll talk Mets, we'll do this 261 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,600 like running things out. I'm like, I can't wait. 262 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,360 Thank you for having me on. I really appreciate it. 263 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:45,840 The show's great. Bob's awesome. 264 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,280 You know, I've, I've watched this basically my entire life. 265 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,240 Like I think it may have been the first time I was on. 266 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,520 Really excited to go on. And then all of a sudden he's 267 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:54,880 like everything good, The condition's good. 268 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,000 I'm like, you know, everything's great. 269 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 I can hear you. And you know, the visual, I 270 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,280 could see Bob, I could see the set. 271 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,120 We're good. I'll see him like he's like, 272 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:02,560 we'll start in 2 minutes. I'm like awesome. 273 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,520 So now as I'm sitting there, I got 2 minutes and I'm like, it's 274 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,320 hot in here. It's hot. 275 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,160 This is like, it's almost like a, a Curb episode. 276 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,160 Now I'm getting in my own head, right? 277 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,040 And I'm like, Oh my God, don't tell me that this is going to 278 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,920 happen again. So like I'm going like this and 279 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,680 I'm not really sweating yet, but it's just really freaking hot. 280 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,600 And I'm like wiping my head. I'm like, I'm like, should I 281 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,200 take the tie off? Loosen my tie? 282 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,040 Just again, not nervous about the content at all. 283 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,720 Not nervous about going on national TV and talking to one 284 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,080 of the most esteemed, you know, broadcasters of our generation 285 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,680 in terms of like true hard hitting journalism, like no 286 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:45,320 sensationalism, just these he's an icon leaf. 287 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,800 He was great show. I'm not nervous about that. 288 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,640 I'm not nervous about impressing the bosses in Bristol for more 289 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:51,960 looks. I'm worried that I'm going to 290 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,560 sweat and my boys are going to clown me again. 291 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,760 So what happens? We start, I thought maybe this 292 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,240 is a Long story short story long. 293 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,360 So we start doing the segment and all of a sudden I can feel 294 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,080 that little bead starting to drip down. 295 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:04,560 I'm like, Oh no, here we go again. 296 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,680 So now I'm in my own head. And then and then the way the 297 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:11,040 way it works, because I have the camera and I have ATV screen in 298 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,240 front of me. I can see when I'm not on 299 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,400 camera. So in my mind, I'm trying to 300 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,760 this is this. Imagine doing what you what I do 301 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:19,280 for a living and dealing with this. 302 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:23,080 I'm trying to construct coherent thoughts and impress and, you 303 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,760 know, come across as, you know, talent, young talent, like 304 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,200 everything that you know, you want to come across as. 305 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,480 And I'm just in my own mind, I'm saying, oh God, just please show 306 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,360 like a picture of Willie Randolph or the Mets dugout, 307 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:36,880 because that's what they'll show video. 308 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:38,840 And then sometimes people will talk over it. 309 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,480 Very basic TV stuff. So I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm 310 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:42,960 waiting. And then as soon as they as soon 311 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,640 as I see like Willie on the top step of the dugout, I go like 312 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:47,040 that real quick. So I don't know if they're going 313 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:48,960 to come back to me. Then I go like that again. 314 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,000 It just wouldn't end. And then, you know, from there 315 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,080 on a couple of episodes, again, not because I was nervous about 316 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,840 the content, but because I I don't know the truth. 317 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:01,560 Ironic. This is actually funny. 318 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:06,360 So I guess Gio was out one day. And I think I was still, yeah, I 319 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:07,800 was still doing the network with Tiki. 320 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:12,880 And maybe they maybe they hadn't named Gio yet as a replacement. 321 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,320 Maybe maybe that was it. And I'm not a morning guy like 322 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,560 I'm, I'm more suited for later on in the day, you know, And but 323 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:21,800 they said, hey, you want to do a show with Boomer? 324 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:22,680 We think it would be interesting. 325 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,520 I'm like, absolutely. I definitely hop in. 326 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,280 So we go into the studio, I look at the thermostat, it's like 70° 327 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,520 in my studio now. I'm becoming neurotic about 328 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:32,520 this, man. Every studio I walk in, I'm 329 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,480 like, all right, what's the temperature like the first thing 330 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,080 I look at, not what am I talking about because that's unlocked. 331 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:38,760 I'm ready to go. Who am I with? 332 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:40,000 It doesn't matter. I'll adjust. 333 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,640 Well, it doesn't matter what's the temperature? 334 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,560 And I look, it was like 70. I'm like, I think I may have 335 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:50,240 said like Al or not Jerry, but maybe Eddie's Kazari guys, you 336 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:51,280 know, he's getting a little hot here. 337 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,280 And the other thing that I'll move on. 338 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,760 The crazy thing though is because I shave my head when you 339 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:01,120 don't have any hair, like 1 little teeny bead of sweat, just 340 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,080 it becomes very visible and it's torch dropping down your face. 341 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,200 And then once you start thinking about it and you're in your own 342 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,960 head, well now one bead becomes 1010 becomes 30 and then 30 343 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,160 becomes 100 and now you got a problem. 344 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,440 And I remember one point, we just started the show and I 345 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,440 swear I wasn't nervous at all at one point. 346 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,200 Boomers. Like, dude, fuck it. 347 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,280 He goes, why the hell are you sweating, sweating so much? 348 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,040 I go, that's a long story, man. I don't know. 349 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:31,280 Can we let's just talk about whatever we're talking about. 350 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,680 So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God. 351 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:39,080 All right. So it's out of my mind sometimes 352 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,240 with this stuff. So that just goes to show you 353 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,760 that everybody does have a a little bit of a fear or a little 354 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,200 bit of a hang up. So I've got a rule here to start 355 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:49,720 the baseball season. I don't know if you guys are 356 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:51,080 going to like it. I don't know if you guys are 357 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,240 going to subscribe to it like you subscribe to the channel. 358 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:55,600 I was a little corny, but you know what I mean. 359 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,000 Like I don't know if everybody's going to well, let me let me 360 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,040 take a step back. I think that you will agree with 361 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,560 it in principle today. What I don't think you'll be 362 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:06,440 able to do is actually stick with this mandate rule, wish, 363 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,520 hope, however you want to frame it, then I'm about to bestow on 364 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,760 everybody. And it's a very simple thought 365 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,720 in, you know, as I communicated to you, it's going to be 366 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,600 impossible for you and and probably me to me to Full 367 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,440 disclosure to adhere to it. Here's the simple rule, all 368 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:27,760 right, How about starting tonight with the Yankees, All 369 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,200 right. And then it's the Mets fans get 370 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,320 into it, right? And they start their season and 371 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,400 every baseball fan out there and listen, not every, I mean, only 372 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,800 a few base, only a few fan bases react like the Yankees and the 373 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,680 Mets. Of course, the Phillies are 374 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,040 there, you know, maybe one or two others. 375 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,120 But like, Dodger fans are amazing and the Dodgers are 376 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,280 tremendous. But Dodger fans don't flood, I 377 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,600 don't think. Sports radio out in LA and are 378 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,720 neurotic about every little teeny tiny thing. 379 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,960 They're just not it's it's a different micro level analysis. 380 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:01,000 New York baseball and Philly and and Boston because we're all 381 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,840 kind of cut from that same NE wacky cloth. 382 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:08,720 So the, the, the, the object for me, all right, that I try to 383 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:14,520 impress upon to you is to not treat every single baseball game 384 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:17,319 like we treat a football game. Think about that. 385 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:20,880 Guys like The Jets, the Ravens, the Steelers, the Broncos, the 386 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:24,040 Patriots, the Bills, the Seattle Seahawks, the Niners, whoever 387 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,000 you root for right now, that's different. 388 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,240 I don't care what market you're in. 389 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,120 And I've worked in San Francisco and I've worked in Detroit. 390 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:32,480 So I've dealt with Niner fans and Raider fans and they're 391 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,080 awesome. And I worked in Detroit, so I, I 392 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,640 dealt with line fans and they're awesome, right? 393 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,200 Very similar to the Jet fans in a lot of way. 394 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,800 So like, I, I want, I'd actually want to see the Lions with a 395 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,200 Super Bowl. Like if The Jets can't, I'd love 396 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,720 to see them win it. But anyway, football is 397 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,040 different. It's a different monster. 398 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:51,040 It's a different channeling of energy, you know, and even 399 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,400 though it's been diluted now, and we talked about this on one 400 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,080 of the previous shows where, you know, now they want to play, you 401 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:58,480 know, Christmas Day and Christmas Eve, and you got 402 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:00,440 Monday, you got Thursday, you got Saturday. 403 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,560 Once you get late in the season, you got Sunday at 1:00, you got 404 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,840 Sunday at 4:00, you got Sunday at 4:25, you got Sunday night, 405 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,320 you got London, you got Mexico, you got Brazil, you got Germany. 406 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,880 Oh my God. Like the NFL is just, can we 407 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:14,920 breathe, man? Like one of the reasons why the 408 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:19,400 NFL has become so incredibly popular #1 you could gamble on 409 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:20,920 it and you can gamble on baseball too. 410 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:22,960 But gambling on baseball is fairly boring. 411 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,200 Gambling on football is awesome until you get your face kicked 412 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,280 in and you're chasing the Sunday night game and you look at your 413 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,600 account, you're like, damn, I'm down. 414 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,560 How many G's? That was a rough, that was a 415 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,000 rough couple of days there, right? 416 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,840 Or a rough couple of games, depending upon relative to what 417 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,920 you bet. So it's a different energy, we 418 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:40,840 understand that. But really at least specific to 419 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,440 your team, unless your team plays like on a, a Sunday night 420 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,600 and then a Thursday or Sunday and a Thursday. 421 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,600 Like there's a couple of quick turnarounds, obviously, but it's 422 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,440 a play your game and then unpack it immediately after and then 423 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,200 the next day and then the next day flood whatever station you 424 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,240 listen to, whatever show you watch, whatever you subscribe 425 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,280 to, whatever you download, just pound the way incessantly about 426 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,440 the things that bother you or celebrate, obviously. 427 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,840 But usually it's more driven in anger, right? 428 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,800 And complaints, right? And and and and and and kind of 429 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,160 attack it that way. And then when you get to the 430 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:16,760 middle of the week, you now begin to, all right, regenerate 431 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:18,600 a little bit. Now it's like eyes on the next 432 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,760 prize here. And you put that loss, that bad 433 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,520 performance coaching gaffe, 2 minutes, no timeouts, penalties, 434 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,880 whatever might be complaining about the referees, which 435 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:28,520 obviously is a real thing in the NFL. 436 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,320 That is now in the rearview mirror and now it's windshield. 437 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:32,720 Then you look at the next opponent, right? 438 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:35,080 So football's always going to be different. 439 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,720 But with baseball, have we not learned by now, guys, honestly, 440 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,520 and I'm, I'm talking to myself as well, have we not learned now 441 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:47,200 not to overreact to a game or a weekend series against whomever 442 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,000 you know, even if it's your chief rival. 443 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,160 So if it's like Yankees, Red Sox or Yankees Toronto or Mets and 444 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,320 the Phillies or Mets and the Braves or Dodgers and the Giants 445 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:01,120 or Dodgers and the Padres or you know who, whatever rivalry it 446 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:04,080 might be. The Brewers and the Reds, right? 447 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,680 Like stuff like that, you know, you, we, we just have to get to 448 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:13,440 a point where the length of the season eventually things are 449 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,920 going statistically. Just think about 1 soda a year 450 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,680 ago, everybody was bagging on him the first month and he had a 451 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,400 rough first month and he didn't look very happy and he certainly 452 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,160 wasn't very clutch most of the season. 453 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,920 But at the end of the year, let's face it, 1 soda was the 454 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,520 least of the Mets issues. So while everybody's called them 455 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,040 means Sal banging on, well, not everybody, but a lot of people 456 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,360 banging on soda and wondering, oh, does he lament leaving the 457 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:37,080 Yankees and what's going on? And you know, the only reason he 458 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,800 had that massive year of the year, which I think is 459 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,840 ridiculous the year before is because of Aaron Judge. 460 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,000 Like every little teeny tiny complaint that was being filed. 461 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:47,920 Again, it's fun, it's good fodder, it's good energy, it's 462 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,560 good content. But I do think it's overdone. 463 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,480 Step back a little bit. Now, if there's a big injury 464 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,160 that God forbid on any team, that's different. 465 00:20:55,560 --> 00:21:01,320 But think about the how the Yankee fans were were flooding 466 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,760 all the all the shows last year banging on Devin Williams, 467 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,080 right? Oh my God, this guy's got an ERA 468 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,400 of over 6 in April. What are we doing? 469 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:10,800 We haven't. We have no bullpen. 470 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,600 We're done. He wasn't even the closer in the 471 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,360 playoffs. Bednar was. 472 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,760 So I say this, it's really twofold. 473 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,360 Guys like the energy that we show toward baseball and nobody 474 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:23,760 loves baseball as much as me. Like I absolutely love baseball. 475 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,800 I can't wait, can't wait to watch tonight. 476 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,480 I can't wait to talk baseball. All the teams, all the angles 477 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,360 everyday on unleashed here. It's going to be awesome. 478 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:34,200 I I've always pointed to this. You can leave that up, Chad. 479 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,480 I'll get to in a minute. I've always pointed to the start 480 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,320 of the baseball season as really what I think will be that the 481 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,040 next level growth for this channel. 482 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,440 That's my belief, that's my anticipation, that's my hope. 483 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:47,560 That's where a lot of the resources and energies that you 484 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,960 don't know yet about or being devoted to this channel that are 485 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,880 going to be coming soon. So I I could wait for baseball 486 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,360 season. But even even me, as I've kind 487 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:00,760 of reassessed things here, I'm like, yeah, I I feel like it's 488 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,600 gotten a little skewed, which by the way, is also very reflective 489 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,040 of society. And I'm not going to go on some 490 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,800 societal rant here. You know, that I think that in 491 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,800 large part society has become incredibly soft. 492 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,000 Everybody knows. I think that. 493 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:15,520 And I also think unfortunately, that societies become very 494 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,080 callous. Like, I just don't think that 495 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,880 there's a lot of, I'm not going to say there's not a lot of good 496 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,720 because there are a lot of great people in this world. 497 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,240 But I just think that the sensitivity to other people, 498 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,240 it's really optional at this point and respected. 499 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,800 A lot of it is social media where you can post things 500 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,880 anonymously and just spew hate with no repercussions. 501 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,600 Things you wouldn't say in the street back in the day, things 502 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,520 you would never say for fear of, you know, whether it's 503 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,640 retribution physically from somebody or just because it's 504 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,560 not the right thing to say in the workplace, whatever it might 505 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,240 be. So it it's just a cesspool of 506 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,920 anonymity and with anonymity becomes, you know, keyboard 507 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,800 muscles and, and it really leads to, I think a partially deranged 508 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,240 and unhinged society. So maybe I did give you a little 509 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:01,200 societal right there, whatever, But I think that that really 510 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:06,280 feeds into the the unnecessary guys, the micro analysis here of 511 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,440 baseball. It is a long season. 512 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:13,400 I can promise you if Aaron Judge hits, you know, 2O2 and April 513 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,560 with four home runs, which you won't, But if he's healthy, he's 514 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,120 still gonna hit fifty home runs and he's still probably gonna 515 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:22,280 win the MVP. And he'll probably go on a two 516 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,080 or three month Bender where he hits 390 over the course of a 517 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,400 couple of 100 at bats because that's what he does. 518 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,200 Same with Otani, same with Juan Soto, you know, same with Wit, 519 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,600 same with, you know, any, any, any superstar around the game of 520 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:36,880 baseball. That's just the way it is. 521 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,320 So that is my, I don't know. I'm, I'm just, you know, listen, 522 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:41,920 maybe this is going to fall on deaf ears. 523 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:46,320 I am trying to impress upon you that, yeah, well, it's fun and 524 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:48,600 yeah, there's urgency and yeah, baseball's awesome. 525 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,360 So much of the of the energies really misguided because at the 526 00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:55,160 end of the day, there's a lot of things that you can do to fix 527 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,600 where you are. Like if you're an NBA team, 528 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:02,120 right, and you simply just don't have certain things and it's at 529 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:06,000 this point of the season, you're screwed because in the NBA, the 530 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,920 better team always wins unless the better team, you know, has 531 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,440 an ankle sprain and the best players out for the remainder of 532 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,760 the series or something else happens. 533 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,040 There's a fight like the Knicks in the Heat years ago when their 534 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,760 suspensions, like you play seven games. 535 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,440 If everybody's healthy and there's there's nothing, you 536 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,800 know, wacky that transpires. And it's just normal basketball, 537 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,440 you know, through just pure physical attrition, the more 538 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,440 talented teams going to win. That's not the case in baseball. 539 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,920 And I know that we forget that. I know that we always want to 540 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,240 load up on. And it's fun. 541 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,160 And I love doing a guy, I really do. 542 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,800 It's fun. The hot stove, you know, 543 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:44,240 complaining about all Grisham with the $22 million qualifying. 544 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,240 Now, we can't do this. We can't do that. 545 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,000 And Dominguez isn't going to make the team and Jones has no 546 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,800 chance to make the team. And the Mets got Bichette and 547 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,560 that would have been great for the Yankees, which is true, by 548 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,040 the way, especially he's a righty stick. 549 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,200 But all these things we complained about, so many of the 550 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:04,600 things that we fixate on now, OK, are, are are not going to be 551 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,560 nearly as viable or, or as much of the story as we make it out 552 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,920 to be now. So that's pretty much the thing. 553 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,000 All right. Then the Mets open on five a 554 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,680 couple of years ago and everybody bash them. 555 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,240 What's going on there? Mike Keano. 556 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,360 Mike Keano. Hey, Mike. 557 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,360 Thank you for that. Yeah, absolutely. 558 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:20,880 Said the season was absolutely over. 559 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,320 It was already over. Then they made it to the NLCS. 560 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:24,560 Yeah. And that was a really fun 561 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:25,360 season. Thanks for that. 562 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:29,080 But I appreciate it. So they they, you know, they 563 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:30,960 they lost to the Dodgers. They beat the Phillies. 564 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,240 They had a very surprising run. Vientos was a beast down the 565 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,520 stretch, and Menaya was really good pitching when he figured 566 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,400 out his wind up. Yeah, that was a really good, 567 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,920 fun, unexpected good season for the New York Mets there. 568 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:43,800 I'll give you one that's probably a better example. 569 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,480 When the Nationals won the World Series with Juan Soto, was that 570 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,520 2019? I think that was 2019 19 yeah, 571 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,040 20 was COVID season. I think it was 19 because the 572 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,760 Dodgers were COVID anyway, they was 19, but they started that 573 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,600 year 19 and 31 and they they won the World Series. 574 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,880 So imagine now I, I'm and I'm not taking a shot. 575 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:09,800 I again, I, I don't think that the DC region is like, I know 576 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,160 they've got some really good radio shows. 577 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,000 I know that some of those guys are really successful. 578 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,320 I think the sports junkies are out there still. 579 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,080 Like they've been killing it in the, in the business for a long 580 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,160 time, long, long time talented guys, good show, very successful 581 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,480 revenue ratings, all that stuff. And, and, and if I'm all based 582 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,000 on this, I don't mean it to be disrespectful at all, But I, I 583 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,120 don't think that the national fans were calling up with the, 584 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,360 the anger and the rage and the vitriol that they, that they 585 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:39,040 will be calling and reacting on this show and all the other 586 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,880 stuff that we have here. If the Yankees are 19 and 31, I 587 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,600 mean, my God, that'll be the end of the world, be it be the end 588 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,960 of the earth. You know, I mean, here's the 589 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,720 thing about this too, right? And I promise you one thing I'm 590 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,920 not just going to do, I'm not just going to focus on, and I've 591 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,200 said this, I'm not just going to focus on the Yanks and the Mets. 592 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,440 Most of the show, at least in terms of topic orientation, like 593 00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,760 just to kind of get jump started. 594 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:02,760 And by the way, when there's a massive national story, that'll 595 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,960 be the lead. Like that will be the lead. 596 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,320 Could be an NFL story, NBA Finals, whatever it might be. 597 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,680 Most of the shows, as you guys know, will be rooted in, you 598 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,520 know, regional stuff here. But I follow everything and I'm 599 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,680 going to weave more and more and more into it. 600 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,560 Like, let's say St. John's loses. 601 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,720 Oh, God, which I don't think that they will. 602 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,240 But like, I'm not just going to say, but OK, season's over, you 603 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,240 know, have fun. I'll still I'll still give you 604 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,120 thoughts and I'll still watch the games and give you thoughts 605 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:31,680 on the Elite 8 in the Final four national championship game. 606 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:35,760 But specific to the Yankees and the Mets, Think about last. 607 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,640 Think about now last year, right? 608 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,320 Did anybody have an inkling? And I don't mean like the guy 609 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:45,520 who it's so immersed in like the minor league numbers and like 610 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,080 the prospects. I mean, I like that stuff. 611 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,600 I mean, I don't think that I'm over the top with it. 612 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,680 I'm more than familiar with it, but I wouldn't call myself like 613 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,720 a minor league savant like I even I Gio, even I draw the line 614 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,520 there, right? So there. 615 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,160 But there are people who who love that stuff. 616 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:01,680 Even if you're one of those people. 617 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,120 There's no way that you thought that Cam Schlittler at this 618 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:07,520 point last year would be on the mound against the Red Sox in the 619 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,480 playoffs and basically look like a combination. 620 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:15,040 Even though he was a lefty of Ron Guidry, Rodger Clemens, Andy 621 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,520 Pettitte, David Wells, El Duque, Whitey Ford, whatever other 622 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,200 Yankee pitching names you want to throw out there, right? 623 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,600 You know, Moose Garrett Cole, like and that's what he looked 624 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,440 like. He looked like a superhuman 625 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,400 pitcher. We didn't even talk about Camp 626 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,560 Schlittler. Matter of fact, when Camp 627 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:37,280 Schlittler really came on the on the radar, like for us locally, 628 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,840 I can't tell you how many times I did it. 629 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,560 Tiki did it. I think Evan did it. 630 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,360 I don't remember it. Ironically, I don't remember if 631 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,640 South did it, who was right next to me. 632 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,320 You know, I'm sure the morning show did it. 633 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,160 How many times did we say Camp Schettler? 634 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,080 I mean, Camp Schlittler, like we said, camp Shitler or some 635 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,240 variation of the word shit, trying to say Schlittler more 636 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,560 before we can finally have it rolled off the tongue. 637 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,160 You know, until it was actually a part of our day-to-day 638 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,040 vernacular talking about the Yankees, right. 639 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,760 So that's one example. Now from a Mets point of view, 640 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,720 did anybody really think that Nolan McClain, now I know he was 641 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,320 highly touted. I know that Mets fans were 642 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,600 excited about him. I get that. 643 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,000 You know, we also heard a lot about Jed Williams and some of 644 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,800 the other prospects because, you know, some people really are 645 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,800 into that. And, and I think it's fun and I 646 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,680 respect it. But there's no way, even if you 647 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,240 like traveled the Miters and you watch Nolan McClain pitch, 648 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,720 there's no way that you could have thought that he would have 649 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,880 looked like that. Like for the most part, he 650 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,680 basically looked like a modern young Dwight Gooden. 651 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,560 And I expect him to look the same this year, if not better. 652 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,520 Like if it's same with Cam Schlindler. 653 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:44,960 Like to me, if you tell me that McClain has an ERA of 2.41 now, 654 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,960 you got to see the innings and all that stuff because he's 655 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,320 still young. You want to protect them. 656 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,520 And that's one of the things you have to weave into these 657 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,560 projections. You know, whether it's a betting 658 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,920 perspective or more importantly, just talking about these teams 659 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,840 here, if you're a young pitcher, you know, you got to get to that 660 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,640 threshold. And let's skip a start here. 661 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,360 Let's keep him for the post season. 662 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,280 You know, we can't have them jump, you know, 70 innings from, 663 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,360 you know, AA to the bigs or AA to triple or triple to the bigs 664 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:09,800 or year one of the bigs to year 2. 665 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,840 Like even with Clay Holmes, who's a veteran and who had some 666 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,800 starts back in the day with the Pirates like you, you still have 667 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,440 to even monitor him. So that's all baked into the 668 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,360 calculations. But just assuming just for this, 669 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,720 just to show you how good I think McClain is and Schlittler, 670 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,880 like if you told me those guys were in the 2 1/2 ERA and like 671 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,160 they struck that like their their their case per 9 was 672 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,880 easily double figures 1011 and their WHIP was minuscule. 673 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,680 And they're batting average against was, you know, 2O3 and 674 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,480 every other extended analytic right deeper dive that you want 675 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,760 to that you want to look at is incredibly awesome that I'd say, 676 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,800 yeah, but that's what I expect. But these are two guys. 677 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,640 And maybe that's unfair to expect that. 678 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,320 But what my eyes showed me a year ago in small samples. 679 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,200 I do, but I won't be unfair to them if they get off to a rough 680 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:00,880 start. The point though, is we didn't 681 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,440 even really talk about them last year, last year at this time. 682 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:06,920 Let's go to cherry pick some stuff, right? 683 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,520 Last year at this time, Brett Beatty and I always, I always 684 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,200 like Brett Beatty. Now I, I, I, I, I admit I, I do. 685 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,120 I also have a thing for young lefty hitters because I was a 686 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,240 lefty hitter and I just think the lefty swing is prettier. 687 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,920 I just do like you. You say, if if I was to tell you 688 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,160 and I'm, I guess I'm going to. And that's the thing like when 689 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,960 you when you put you by yourself, I guess you can't 690 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,440 almost ask yourself a question if if I was to tell you my 5 or 691 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,680 6 or seven favorite swings of all time, every one of them is a 692 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,640 lefty. I mean, Don Natty Lee swing, 693 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,840 George Brett swing, Wade Boggs's swing, Tony Gwynn swing and 694 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,760 Griffey Junior swing. Like there's really not. 695 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,280 If I was if I was to throw it a righty. 696 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,320 And I'm not saying that that the guys I mentioned, we're better 697 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,720 than all these righties, but like Miggy, like Miggy Cabrera 698 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,360 swing was just gorgeous from the right side, man, foul line to 699 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,480 foul line, power everywhere. St. 700 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,680 Mike Piazza wasn't as pretty, but it was a thing of beauty 701 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,600 wrapped up and just being a pure beast, right? 702 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,400 Manny Ramirez, beautiful righties. 703 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,760 I like watching Mookie swing. I think he's got a beauty. 704 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,400 Mookie bets. So those are some things you 705 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,520 think about last year. You know, we're sitting here 706 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,240 saying, yeah, I mean, all right, what's Ben Rice's role on this 707 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:20,480 team? You know, what is Ben going to 708 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,680 really do now? I think that Ben Rice will be 709 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,080 the five hitter and I think at some point, you know, he's going 710 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,600 to wind up being the three hitter for the Yankees. 711 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,480 And I think he's going to have an OPSII think. 712 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,360 I think he's got a chance to be over 900. 713 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,720 That's how good, you know, how good I think he's going to be. 714 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,680 And even what I started to say before about Brett Beatty right, 715 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,800 like and and again, I've always I I get probably hanging on to 716 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,600 the factories that left and he looks like a ballplayer, 717 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,560 whatever. And that's one I I may be proven 718 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,160 right on. He is a ball player and he is 719 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,680 going to hit and he is versatile. 720 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,400 You know, pretty good third baseman, better than Vientos, 721 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,520 even though Bichette's there, you know, could stick a bit 722 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:53,880 second to pinch. He could play left. 723 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,720 He could play first play right if he had to, like he could DH 724 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,000 against righties. He's going to get a lot more 725 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,720 bats this year, whereas last year were like baby, baby. 726 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,960 It was it was all about Vientos. Based on what Dientos did the 727 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,160 prior season in the postseason and like the way he finished up, 728 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,720 you know, just some crazy numbers against elite pitching 729 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,360 in the postseason. Like that's that's a dude you 730 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,600 like we all thought the Entos going to go absolutely nuts. 731 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,960 Instead he was pretty much a non factor and is now we had an 732 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,200 awful spring and has regressed the point where he's an 733 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,520 afterthought until maybe he reinserts himself into the 734 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,400 equation. Like I'm just cherry picking 735 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,920 storylines here, you know, even go back a couple of years, 736 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,080 Francisco Alvarez was the number one prospect, not just for the 737 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,320 Mets in all the baseball. And now suddenly year 4 738 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,560 Francisco is one of my keys to the Mets season. 739 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,160 Yesterday that I did. If you guys missed it, just 740 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,120 check out yesterday's episode. To me, one of one of the real 741 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,800 stories for for them and obviously for his young career 742 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,560 is all right, man, we're at that, we're at that. 743 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,960 We're at that point. We had a little fork in the road 744 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,440 and you either, you know, go to the right side and become a 745 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,680 viable day-to-day, you know, thumper and and and contributor 746 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,040 to the Mets, or you get hurt again and you struggle and you 747 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,720 come up and you come down and you play. 748 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:08,320 You know, you miss sixty 7080 games and you know it's then 749 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:09,440 it's probably over at that point. 750 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,960 Then you got to move on it. It's, you know, it's it's crazy, 751 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,440 Same with Volpe. I mean, not that anybody thought 752 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,280 Volpe would be great, but this year's starting shortstop is not 753 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:21,800 Anthony Volpe based on the injury. 754 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,239 And while I don't think he's going to be the long term long 755 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,120 term shortstop, you know, the Yankees now have a guy who if he 756 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,760 plays every day and it's just decent, he's going to steal 60 757 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,480 bases. You know, last year Grisham was 758 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,120 a platoon player and I'm not a huge Grisham fan, you know that. 759 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:40,000 But you know, three years in a row, 19189 one 94 bit player 760 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,440 with the Yankees. Then all of a sudden last year 761 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:46,040 he starts playing 34 home runs, 811 OP yes, So you know, it's 762 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,520 that's how baseball is like. You don't get that in the other 763 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:51,480 sports. You just don't. 764 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,639 I'm not saying that there are the occasional stories that 765 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:56,960 arise like a Jeremy Lin, you know, a little shooting comet. 766 00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,080 All respect to Lynn. I was that was fun. 767 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,280 It was amazing, you know, or even like when Tyler Kolek was 768 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,400 playing well earlier this year. You know, I'm not saying there 769 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,320 aren't good stories, but generally like there's not a lot 770 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,000 of depth to those stories where in baseball afterthoughts can 771 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,920 become, you know, October heroes. 772 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,000 You just don't have that in the other sports. 773 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,440 So I don't know if you guys even will attempt to do that. 774 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:21,840 And by the way, if you don't want to, that's fine. 775 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,400 I'm just telling you most of the things that you going to 776 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,240 complain about for the first month of the season will not 777 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:31,000 really be rooted in the reality of what whatever team you root 778 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,400 for, whatever your team season becomes. 779 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,440 That's just a fact. I laid it out for you. 780 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,600 Let me see at Bronx NYY fan 23 give it up. 781 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,040 That's got to be a little little homage to my man Donnie 782 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,440 Mattingly. Donnie Baseball. 783 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:46,480 Hey BT just he wants to commented on the Yankee hype 784 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,320 video saying rent free. No, no, did he? 785 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,320 I didn't just because there was a clip of freed striking him 786 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,680 out. I think the Yankees are rent 787 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,840 free in his head. I did not see that. 788 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,640 I, I, I am hesitant to put J Rod to work today #1 because it 789 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,920 takes him 6 minutes to figure something, find something out. 790 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:07,720 Although I think he's pretty good on. 791 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,880 I'll just tease him, man. Look at, look at, he puts it. 792 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,000 Not even the face. I love it. 793 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,320 That's funny, dude. No, you're good buddy. 794 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,840 He, he feels terrible today. He's throwing up and everything. 795 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,560 So we're not going to, we're not going to really put him to work 796 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,720 today. We'll pay him for today, but 797 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:19,880 we're not going to make him do much. 798 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,520 I did not see that. If he did that's that was that. 799 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,280 If you could clarify there not you J Rod. 800 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,840 The the text was that the official Yankee. 801 00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:33,160 It sounds like I don't think it was just like some rando on 802 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,200 Instagram who likes the Yankees. If that was from the Yankee 803 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,560 account that he chime in on that, that'll be pretty funny at 804 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,800 snouty man, snouty man or Snooty. 805 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,840 No Snooty would be an oh, we'll go with snouty man. 806 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,240 Biantos is 25 years old. Here's he's a year removed from 807 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:50,520 27 home runs in an 850 OPS. They are going to have to get 808 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,120 him at bats. He's got major power, but he's a 809 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:53,520 chaser. His defense is bad. 810 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,440 All right, so I want to I want to write one thing down here. 811 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,840 So I want to get back to that rent free thing in a moment. 812 00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,360 And now with the Vientos stuff here, keep these baseball 813 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,040 questions coming. Man, where it's at. 814 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,240 I, I, I don't really I don't have much faith in Vientos as a 815 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:10,520 baseball player. I just don't. 816 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,040 I don't and the reason is because there's only one tool in 817 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,000 the bag and that's hitting and he is a chaser. 818 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,400 You're right, if you were to do like his, his I just want to 819 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,680 make his is OK. Geo, if I bring up a stat, I 820 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:28,280 just want to make sure it's OK, you know, like chase rate and 821 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,160 all those other things with freight and all those other 822 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,280 numbers and that give you a pretty good indication by the 823 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,040 way of of whether somebody expands the zone or whatever. 824 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,360 Do they hit the ball hard? Do they barrel things up? 825 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:39,720 What's their K rate? What's their like? 826 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:42,480 I, I think that that actually matters in baseball, a sport 827 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,200 that's driven by numbers. But that's just me. 828 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:46,720 That's just a comment. That's just me. 829 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,040 I listen. He can't do anything else. 830 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:54,160 He can't run and cannot feel. He will never be a good left 831 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,280 fielder. He will never be a good third 832 00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:58,840 baseman. Brett Beatty, Now, I know 833 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,720 Bichette's there. Brett Beatty is 10 times the 834 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,760 third baseman that Vientos is. Vientos is about as bad 1/3 835 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,680 baseman as you can be at the Major League level. 836 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:14,240 He's awful and I don't think that he will ever even get to 837 00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:18,320 the point where he will become average that that's I think 838 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:22,680 he'll always be a subpar defender, even if he and I don't 839 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,200 doubt that he's working hard. I'm not trying to, you know, not 840 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,000 trying to shave the guy. I think he's got a decent work 841 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000 ethic, but some guys just don't have the attitude to improve in 842 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,680 certain things. Like there's just certain guys. 843 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,080 Spencer Jones probably going to be one of those hitters who's 844 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,000 got amazing power and tantalizing gifts, but for a 845 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,040 multitude of reasons. He's a strikeout machine and 846 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:44,320 he's going to always be 1. You know, So I, I think that 847 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,200 Vientos is on a very short leash. 848 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,520 I mean, I'm not going out of my way to get him in games here. 849 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,240 Where is he going to? I'm not saying he's going to, 850 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,160 you know, hit 120 and and have 79 at bats this year. 851 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,880 But if you tell me that Vientos at some point is shipped down to 852 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,440 the minors, I'd say, yeah. I mean, I'd have to check how 853 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:00,680 many options they have left with him. 854 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,000 Whatever, like the clerical roster stuff. 855 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,680 I I believe he's got at least another option. 856 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,000 I think. I know we've been sent to 857 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,200 Syracuse a few times, I think, but if I'm wrong on that, my 858 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,680 bad. He he's just you're going to 859 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,240 have you're going to wedge him in against lefty pitching here 860 00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:19,480 and there for sure. And if he if he hits well, then 861 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:20,640 you'll keep running him out there. 862 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,840 But he he he had an awful spring that that's not indicative of a 863 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,520 of a bad start of the season. It's not. 864 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,960 But if that continues, they're just not going to run them out. 865 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,200 They don't trust him, I don't think. 866 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,920 And if he's on base late, you're going to pinch run for him if 867 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,200 he's in the game at third base, like even if Michette's getting 868 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,000 a blow or in left field, whatever, you want to sit 869 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,680 somebody or Sotos and left, But and Benj isn't right. 870 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:41,760 I can't wait to watch bench play. 871 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,280 I'm excited to watch him play. So I don't think he's going to 872 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:45,480 get many defensive opportunities. 873 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,640 But if he is there, maybe a look at first base here and there. 874 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,160 Polanco baby's going to play some first, you know, maybe 875 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,760 plays 10 games at first base. But if he's on the field and 876 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,720 like the Mets have a lead, he's coming out of the game. 877 00:39:57,720 --> 00:39:59,600 So now you're going to burn a roster spot because all they 878 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,880 could do was hit. And when you don't hit, you 879 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,520 don't play. If you can't run or can't field. 880 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,160 I mean, if you're a center fielder, like, like, all right, 881 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,800 Taylor, right. I know the Mets didn't want to 882 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,480 keep running about there, but and then eventually experimented 883 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,760 with with McNeil and some some other variations in the 884 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:19,240 outfield. And I think Taylor's a great 885 00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:22,720 teammate, good clubhouse guy, could run, phenomenal defensive 886 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:24,600 center fielder. Now, so so is Louise Robert. 887 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,600 But you know, somebody at least like Taylor, you could justify 888 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,200 more than somebody like Vientos because at least Taylor could 889 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,040 run a little bit and he's a plus defender in center field. 890 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,720 You know, same like with so many of those short stops back in the 891 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,280 day, like the Aussie Smith here. I don't even mean Aussie, but 892 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,680 like that ERA guys that would hit 23240 that just couldn't hit 893 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,720 it all or some second baseman back in the day or catchers like 894 00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:47,960 if you're a really good like Austin Wells. 895 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:49,520 I mean, by the way, he does have power. 896 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,840 He's gonna hit probably 25 home runs again in that neighborhood. 897 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,680 He's a great framer. And the analytic, like I 898 00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:59,680 reference the analytics here, the framing and all that stuff 899 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,520 is, is actually very favorable to him. 900 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,320 So you can justify the pitchers love throwing to him as well. 901 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,760 Big strong target frames, very well calls a good game In Sync 902 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,920 with the pitchers. And that is an easy sell. 903 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,480 Even if he's taking the collar and he whips two or three times 904 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:15,640 and doesn't put the ball in play. 905 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:19,160 You know, now you don't want me catching to be everyday catcher, 906 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:20,920 to be somebody like that, you know, everyday. 907 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:26,880 But the point is Vientos, I just I don't view him the way I 908 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,280 certainly don't view him the way I used to. 909 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,040 That's number one. And at this point I, I just, you 910 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,720 know, if you tell me he's he's traded at the trade deadline or 911 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,040 he's not on the team next year, I I wouldn't be surprised at 912 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,520 all, But he does have some power. 913 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:39,880 He does. But you know, if he's not 914 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:41,720 hitting, he that's that's the only tool. 915 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,480 James 555K. What's up there? 916 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,160 Jimmy? What do you think of Benj? 917 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,400 If he struggles, you think he has a short leash and will they 918 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,120 send him down? I I just said before, thank you 919 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:52,800 for that James. I'm really excited to watch him 920 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,160 play. I love young baseball players, 921 00:41:55,240 --> 00:42:02,080 right, who who's who have a throwback feel and unlike 922 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,480 somebody like Vientos, that young man, because we've already 923 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,560 seen some of the highlights in the spring, throwing guys out 924 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,040 at, you know, at the plate on the bases, making plays in right 925 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,160 field, running the bases properly. 926 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,200 Like, I, I know that if he takes the collar on Opening Day, 927 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,240 there's a chance that he will still influence the bottom line 928 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:23,840 for the Mets based on his other talents where somebody like the 929 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,080 Vientos. And by the way, there's other 930 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,080 Vientos. I mean, you can say the same 931 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,400 thing about Giancarlo Stanton, who's 10 times as good as 932 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,640 Vientos. But like, if Stanton doesn't run 933 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,360 into a home run, Stanton brings absolutely nothing to the table. 934 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,520 I guess the only thing that you could say to be fair is that his 935 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:42,280 mere presence forces the opposing pitchers to to work 936 00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,160 harder and to empty the chamber to try to get him out. 937 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,440 Because if you miss, he's going to embarrass your 470 feet later 938 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,880 with an exit below 118. Oh, exit below. 939 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,160 Sorry, you know, like so that's different like you don't have 940 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,360 that fear with Vientos and and then obviously strategy like all 941 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,760 right, going to the bullpen, thinking ahead 7th inning. 942 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,920 Stanton's coming up. We got this and a little righty 943 00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,200 balance, which the Yankees need. It's probably a deeper answer 944 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:07,880 than I. So I want to show Stanton more 945 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,480 respect than maybe it came across early because he could 946 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,400 still his influence is is at least there. 947 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,960 It's an intangible that Vientos doesn't have, which is my point. 948 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,600 I think the Mets will give Benj a lot of time. 949 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,840 I don't think they'll give him three or four months to figure 950 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,840 things out. But you know, if Vientos, let's 951 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:29,520 say Vientos goes, let's say he goes one for 9 with two walks 952 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,080 and three or four punch outs, I still think they're running them 953 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,200 out there because he's just he's going to be a plus in the 954 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,480 outfield. And there's energy that that's 955 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,200 one of the other things too, that I really like about this 956 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,960 Mets team, at least on paper. Like there's been a dramatic 957 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,880 uptick in their in their energy, like the presence. 958 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,120 And it's like this is palpable love for the game of baseball. 959 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,360 And, you know, Bichette, basically everybody that they 960 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:56,000 brought in exudes that, whether it's whether it's a swag or 961 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,040 whether it's a grittiness or whether it's both, which, you 962 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,000 know, certainly Bichette has. And I don't know if Robert's 963 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,760 gritty, but he is talented and he does have swag. 964 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,960 I think Polanco is a gritty guy who's not gonna hit as many home 965 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,240 runs as Pete. But you know, I, I probably, you 966 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,880 know, situational stuff. I, I think he's a better pure 967 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:18,000 hitter. So I, I do like the, the, the, 968 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:22,960 the reversal in, in energy or the disposition in terms of 969 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,200 character on this Mets team. So I think that that that's an 970 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:27,360 interesting part of their season. 971 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,120 Oh, before I forget. So the other thing too, and this 972 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:34,840 goes back to the the comment about the the, the the I always 973 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,120 say, I always want to say the tweet, the text, the chat, 974 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:42,760 right, that somebody said about Soto liking and then did he did 975 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:44,120 he like it? Did he write rent free? 976 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,320 Whatever it was? I think he wrote rent free, if I 977 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,320 read that right. All right, let's assume that 978 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,240 that's true. To me. 979 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:55,840 That is such a lazy, lazy thing and people it's like a go to 980 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,520 line rent free in your head. Like people think that that's a 981 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,720 diss, you know, like when you reference something that 982 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:05,240 somebody else says or does, people automatically associate 983 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:08,440 it with you thinking about that person all the time, you know 984 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,200 what I mean? And that's just a fallacy. 985 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,280 Like I, you know, truth of the truth of the matter is I'd never 986 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,560 like, I'm, I mean, I scroll Instagram, obviously, but like, 987 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,680 you know, if I'm just banging through stuff, you know, if I 988 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:24,320 see something good, I'm gonna, if it's something with youth 989 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,720 sports or some of the leagues that my son's, my son plays in 990 00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:30,400 or my son's team, you know, like they won a tournament this 991 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,040 weekend, right? So boom, liked it. 992 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,360 You know, why am I even coming? Good job, boys. 993 00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:39,000 You know, and stuff about the Big East or St. 994 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,160 John's or baseball in general or, you know, people that I know 995 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:43,680 and like and respect in the business. 996 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,280 I might give it a might give it a like. 997 00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:48,080 But when I see them listen, it's funny because it has been an 998 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,520 interesting week. This really goes into my mindset 999 00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:55,480 of really, you know, never being this radio beef guy, never had 1000 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,640 any interest in it, never had any time for it, have no desire 1001 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,000 in it. You know, there just comes a 1002 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,640 point where you got to defend yourself and that's what's 1003 00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,920 happened this week, obviously. But the like, I'm just not a guy 1004 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,000 who's going to parachute in and just like really make fun of 1005 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,560 somebody. I, I, I think that's the low 1006 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,440 hanging fruit And, and it's just not interesting to me. 1007 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,880 I don't know how else to say it, but like, if I did right, OK, 1008 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:20,080 I'll give you an example. So I did do this the other day. 1009 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:21,400 I just want to pull this up like this. 1010 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:25,160 I did do right. So I don't know him and I'm not 1011 00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,720 going to diss him. I don't love his style like I 1012 00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,280 myself. I think it's, I think it's kind 1013 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,040 of changed maybe a little bit for the worse some of the way 1014 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,760 people talk about sports these days. 1015 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,120 I've never met him. So again, this is not a diss. 1016 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,680 Incredibly successful, right? Where was it? 1017 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:46,600 And, and he had something. And I know he's just not 1018 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,880 watching these games very often because I believe he lives on 1019 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,000 the West Coast and all that stuff. 1020 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:51,240 I'd love to find this here real quick. 1021 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,080 And it was something that Skip Bayless had, right? 1022 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:56,320 Yeah, here it is. Right. 1023 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,320 So Skip, and again, I've never met Skip. 1024 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,240 Obviously partners and and friends with I think they're 1025 00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:01,520 still friends, but definitely partners. 1026 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,640 I think they're cool with Stephen A who's coming on the 1027 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,280 show next week. By the way, J Roddy, if you're 1028 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,720 if you're not throwing up half dead there, can you slap that up 1029 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:11,280 real quick for us, brother? Let's get a little look at him. 1030 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,120 Look at look at look. So he's look his face, babe. 1031 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,000 You'll BT my right hand man, Brandon Tanny. 1032 00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:19,760 I have a blast with you, brother. 1033 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:21,400 I cannot wait to have you on next week. 1034 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,320 Right, But obviously skip of the, you know, great, great show 1035 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,040 with Stephen A. They did change the business in 1036 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:29,000 a lot of ways for sure. So skip skip tweets out. 1037 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,600 Dylan Darling is in an awful shooting slump, right object of 1038 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,840 Rick Pitino's ire, but had and had no choice but to drive as 1039 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,440 the clock blink towards 0. Made a wild, awkward looking 1040 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,720 shot to beat Kansas at the buzzer. 1041 00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:43,360 Madness. So he wasn't, he wasn't dissing 1042 00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,600 Dylan Darling at all. But you know, and he was right. 1043 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,720 Dylan's missed his last 15 three-point shots there, so I 1044 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:50,800 don't know why. Like, and it wasn't a shot, I 1045 00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:55,040 just wrote wrong and I subtweeted what Skip wrote 1046 00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,360 wrong. It's not that he had no choice 1047 00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,800 but to drive complete opposite. Excuse me, complete opposite. 1048 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,680 He told Pitino to quote run the play. 1049 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,920 For me. It wasn't last resort. 1050 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,120 It's brass balls wanting to smoke head on right. 1051 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:14,200 So I never think about Skip Bayless. 1052 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,160 I don't, I don't think anything good about Skip except respect 1053 00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,160 for an amazing career. And I don't think anything bad 1054 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,880 about Skip except, you know, like all of us, the business, 1055 00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,480 he's had some horrendous takes, like me and like everybody else, 1056 00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:28,640 right. So just because I comment on 1057 00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,640 that and John did a little bit just, you know, be my 1058 00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,760 association with Saint John's. I knew it was actually said in 1059 00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,560 the tunnel or in the huddle. I wanted people to because I 1060 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,080 wanted Dylan. I wanted people to know that 1061 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,800 Dylan Darling was the one who said basically, hey, I know I've 1062 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:43,680 been awful today. I've missed every shot I've 1063 00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:45,400 taken. Basically this tournament, let's 1064 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:46,640 go. I want the shot. 1065 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,000 And then he nails it at the horn. 1066 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:52,160 I just wanted I wanted the right story to be told and Skip had 1067 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:55,720 the wrong story. But it's like skip rent free in 1068 00:48:55,720 --> 00:48:57,760 my head. I really the only time I think 1069 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,480 of Skip is when I actually see him on the TV and I haven't 1070 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,560 really seen him on the TV very often or, you know, like 1071 00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:05,960 something on social media. My I just, I don't care. 1072 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:07,600 So I just kind of keep scrolling there, you know? 1073 00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:12,960 But rent free is a lazy it's a lazy. 1074 00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:15,760 It's almost like a lazy dis Oh, rent free in your head. 1075 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,880 And like people say that and they think that they're actually 1076 00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:19,960 like they got you. Like there's a little diss 1077 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,480 there. What I I don't know is that a 1078 00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,040 younger thing? That's got to be a younger 1079 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:25,440 thing. Jay. 1080 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,760 I don't should I want put Jay Rod in here is. 1081 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,200 It a younger thing that the. Whole rent free thing is it? 1082 00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:30,640 It is. Right. 1083 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,320 I feel like the Wizard of Oz. I feel like the man behind like 1084 00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,400 the curtain right now with this. This is. 1085 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,040 Eric Oh, man, no, yeah, rent free is certainly like 1086 00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:42,640 definitely an idea that popped up over the last like 2 years or 1087 00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:46,600 so. OK, by the way, this was from 1088 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:47,720 last night. Nice Nick. 1089 00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:50,480 I appreciate you checking this out at Nick Nificent. 1090 00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:51,680 That's a good handle right there. 1091 00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,800 I like that Nick Nificent. Yo, Jets collective was fire. 1092 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,400 BT really enjoyed the first show. 1093 00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,400 Thank you. We had a blast. 1094 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,040 I mean, listen, the one thing that you never know, not that I 1095 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,320 thought it would be an issue at all, but when I when I'm not 1096 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:05,800 Tooting my own horn, I don't mean it like that. 1097 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,320 I'm just saying from what I felt from my seat doing the show. 1098 00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,960 So The Jets collective is the new show, the new weekly show on 1099 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,240 YouTube myself, Rich Simini, Jake Aspen right now. 1100 00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:18,400 I was on Jake's podcast about a month or so ago. 1101 00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,120 I'm going to have him on this. Obviously I've known Rich 1102 00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,080 forever. I haven't seen Rich in a long 1103 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,720 time, but I always used to see him and Rich used to come on 1104 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:31,760 weekly on my old, old radio show on 1050 back in like, you know, 1105 00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:36,760 O 4 O 506-0708, like up until I left in 2011, whatever it was. 1106 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,960 And that's, that's so I've known Rich for a long time. 1107 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,760 So I knew it would be easy with Rich and I had good rapport with 1108 00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:44,440 Jake. But the one thing in the one 1109 00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,920 time that I really talked to him and the one thing that you don't 1110 00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,240 know, though, it's not like there's two guys, There's three 1111 00:50:49,240 --> 00:50:51,760 guys in the split screen. And I thought Jake did a great 1112 00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,680 job, you know, running point and passing and feeding everybody, 1113 00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,920 you know. And Full disclosure, you know, I 1114 00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,720 probably had a tendency back in the day to probably try to 1115 00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:04,440 dominate conversations and probably speak too much. 1116 00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:06,920 And I think that that's something that I've learned. 1117 00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,000 I think it's, it's just, it's probably a better presentation 1118 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,720 when you get more rather than just it's like I was even trying 1119 00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:14,120 to hog it. I think I was trying to prove 1120 00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,960 myself to be totally honest and probably came across as a little 1121 00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:19,360 bit much of times back in the day. 1122 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:23,360 But it was good because it was just bang, bang, pass, shoot, 1123 00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,680 pass, shoot, shoot, shoot, pass, boom. 1124 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,520 It was a great flow. That is a good foreshadow of 1125 00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,600 what I know is going to be a really successful show. 1126 00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,280 It's going to be it's going to be the best jet show out there. 1127 00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,000 It's going to be the jet show a record. 1128 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,400 That's what's going to happen. So please like it, please 1129 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:43,880 subscribe to it and the the actual episode is on my YouTube 1130 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:45,640 page at the bottom with the collapse. 1131 00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:50,640 All right. So I think that you guys are 1132 00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,640 very smart, obviously, so I know that you understood what I said 1133 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:55,160 I'm going to get to Aaron judge in a minute here. 1134 00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,960 I know that you understood what I said about not really 1135 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:03,320 approaching baseball every single night like it's, you 1136 00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,840 know, November in football and you try to get a wild card spot. 1137 00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,840 So I know you understand it like pragmatically, you guys are able 1138 00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:15,080 to digest that emotionally. And I'm going to include myself 1139 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:19,000 in this here. I don't know that we will be 1140 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:24,600 able to actually adhere to that new rule or mandate or offering 1141 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,800 or suggestion or road map. I actually the more I think 1142 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:28,880 about this, I think it's impossible. 1143 00:52:29,240 --> 00:52:31,640 I just do. But I pointed out all those 1144 00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,560 examples like Ben nor was not even on the team last year. 1145 00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:38,040 He was a closer in the playoffs. Schlittler was in the minors. 1146 00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:41,120 He honestly his stuff and Max Freed was great. 1147 00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,640 His stuff actually looks better than Max Freed. 1148 00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:48,560 Like, you know, you know, all the Ben Rice emergence and yeah, 1149 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,400 it just it's it's it's. And then all the Mets stories I 1150 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,520 gave you as well. So you guys do what you want. 1151 00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:56,920 It's baseball season. And I know that we railed on it. 1152 00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,320 It's on Netflix. I get it. 1153 00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:00,320 Which stinks for my guy Michael Caine. 1154 00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:04,360 Unfair, Unfair to the Yankee broadcast team. 1155 00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,560 I know it's all about money. Nobody has to tell me why 1156 00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,800 they're doing it. I know everything's driven by 1157 00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,200 revenue, which is why the dopes in the NFL keep going further 1158 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,160 and further away from the United States to play football, because 1159 00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,960 people are paying them to do it. And you globalize the sport, 1160 00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,920 which means more merch, more jerseys, better advertising 1161 00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,800 rates for the Super Bowl, and then obviously better rates for 1162 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,200 ads and streaming and all those other things, which equates to 1163 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,000 hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of 1164 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:32,000 millions of dollars. And then obviously billions in 1165 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:35,360 terms of evaluations and all that stuff, but I'm going to at 1166 00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:37,520 least try. I'm going to at least try to do 1167 00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,400 that. I'm going to try to do it. 1168 00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:41,360 I really am. All right. 1169 00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,200 The other thing I'm going to try to do as we get to the Johnny's 1170 00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:45,600 report, then I'll get to Aaron Judge. 1171 00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,040 It's a Wednesday, of course, on the show here. 1172 00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,640 BT Unleashed. It is time for the Johnny's 1173 00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:53,000 report. I am going to try to hopefully 1174 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,360 Jay is awake back there. I need Jay. 1175 00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:55,920 Jay, it's the Johnny's report. Thank you, Sir. 1176 00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:57,480 He, he's, he's feeling terrible today. 1177 00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,120 It's all good, buddy. I am going to try to pace 1178 00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,280 myself. To me, this is almost like New 1179 00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:03,800 Year's Eve. And remember when you were 1180 00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:08,080 young, you know, like I I remember God, like you just you 1181 00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:09,760 couldn't, you couldn't pace yourself. 1182 00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,560 You would just go. And before, you know, it's like 1183 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,640 1150, you're out of it. You know, the ball drop. 1184 00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,960 Yeah. No, no, this is I'm going to try 1185 00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:23,440 to pace myself, but it is going to be hard because I cannot wait 1186 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:28,040 to sit in my seat courtside down in the nation's capital, 1187 00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:33,440 Washington, DC, home to the absolutely awful Washington 1188 00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:37,360 Wizards and right now the non entity Georgetown Hoyas. 1189 00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,600 Johnny's got to always take a little dig at the way of there. 1190 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,760 But that place will be packed and it will be Saint John's and 1191 00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:47,640 it will be Duke for the right to go to the Elite 8. 1192 00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,160 And I will be sitting next to my guy Mink calling it. 1193 00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,720 But I got to pace myself. Not going to be easy. 1194 00:54:52,720 --> 00:54:54,640 Anyway, talk to the Johnny's reporters, they said. 1195 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,360 Brought you by my friends at Sullivan for pain. 1196 00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,120 One of New York's best personal injury law firms, according to 1197 00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,840 the US News and World Report. As general counsel to the New 1198 00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,240 York City Firefighters Union for more than 4 decades and the 1199 00:55:06,240 --> 00:55:09,600 proud law firm partner of St. John's Athletic, Sullivan 1200 00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,440 Propane is New York's team fighting for New Yorkers for 1201 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,000 more than 100 years. Find 1202 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:19,120 sullivanpropaneonline@triallaw1.com. That's trial law1.com. 1203 00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:22,440 Remember the name Sullivan Propane. 1204 00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:26,120 All right, Sweet 16, Johnny's Duke 710 CBS. 1205 00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:30,120 Right now, the Blue Devils are favored by 6 1/2, which I think 1206 00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,200 is a slap in the face to Saint John's, but that's just my 1207 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,560 opinion. They get in price just to get, I 1208 00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:37,800 told you guys this yesterday, it's gone up a little bit just 1209 00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,040 to get in price, basically like the last row in the venue, it's 1210 00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:46,160 a 20,000 C venue is now over $500, which is double some of 1211 00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:50,120 the other regions just to get in all right, the Johnny's 30 and 1212 00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:54,280 6, Duke 34 and two. Now Saint John's, we all know it 1213 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,000 by now. Won the Big East regular season 1214 00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,160 championship, won the Big East tournament, all those things. 1215 00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:01,320 OK, well, they beat Northern Iowa round one. 1216 00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:04,440 They beat Kansas in round two. I have got one of the most 1217 00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,440 amazing stats that it is. It is. 1218 00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,720 If I if I didn't live this, I would not believe it. 1219 00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:12,920 There's been 200 minutes of post season basketball for St. 1220 00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:14,720 John's. Three games of the Big East 1221 00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:18,240 tournament and then two games in the Big Dance, Providence, Seton 1222 00:56:18,240 --> 00:56:21,320 Hall, UConn, Northern Iowa, Kansas. 1223 00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:25,960 All right, of the 200 minutes of post season basketball, St. 1224 00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:34,640 John's has LED for 194 minutes and 25 seconds, 5 plus minutes. 1225 00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:39,360 They've trailed out of 200. They've won 21 out of 22. 1226 00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:43,000 And how's this for you? The last time St. 1227 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,800 John's all about defense? Like, yeah, they can score 1228 00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:46,520 inside. And yeah, they got some guys 1229 00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,800 that can mix you up on the perimeter and are shooting 1230 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,680 better, like Bryce Hopkins and Ian Jackson's starting to wake 1231 00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:53,480 up and Saturn can shoot. So, you know, he's a little 1232 00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,680 inconsistent, but he's a shooter by trade. 1233 00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:57,280 But the St. John's is here because of their 1234 00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:59,320 defense, right? And their rebound, they can have 1235 00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:01,240 a stifle you. This is amazing. 1236 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,640 The last time an opponent scored 75 points, let's talk about 80 1237 00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:11,120 or 9075, was February 9th against Xavier. 1238 00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,120 I did that game. It was in Cincinnati, OH. 1239 00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:17,840 And The funny thing about this stat is Xavier needed overtime, 1240 00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:19,480 which they eventually lost. It was a good game. 1241 00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,640 Xavier could have won. To be fair, it was overtime. 1242 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:28,000 That's the only reason they scored over 75 February 9th. 1243 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,920 So I'm going to give you a quick key here. 1244 00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,240 All right, St. John's, all right, rebounding, 1245 00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:35,240 tenacity, defense, depth, the great Rick Pitino, all those 1246 00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,520 things we know. The other thing though, and this 1247 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,800 is just going to be a factor until either either isn't or or 1248 00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:41,600 it is. St. 1249 00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:44,640 John's is 200 and 18th nationally in three-point 1250 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,000 shooting percentage. All right, 218th. 1251 00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:49,720 They don't shoot well and they're and they're not a really 1252 00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,000 good free throw shooting team either. 1253 00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:53,880 In game one, they made 10 threes. 1254 00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,920 That's a lot. If you don't know, in college, 1255 00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:59,160 that's a pretty good amount in Game 2, they made 10. 1256 00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:04,080 Now, if they keep getting that or a reasonable proximity of 1257 00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:05,880 that, St. John's is going to the final 1258 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:07,720 four. And if that's the case, St. 1259 00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:09,120 St. John's can truly win the 1260 00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:11,080 championship. Duke is good. 1261 00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:14,360 We, you know that Duke beat Sienna, they very easily could 1262 00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:17,160 have lost that game. They beat TCU, alright. 1263 00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,440 TCU was that the 8-9 matchup got a lot of respect for Jamie 1264 00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,040 Dixon, former coach at Pittsburgh. 1265 00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,960 You know the the TCU Horn Frogs. Shout out to Ladainian 1266 00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:29,000 Tomlinson, shout out to the state of Texas, where my wife is 1267 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:30,000 from. Love Texas. 1268 00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,280 But St. John's Rd. has been harder and 1269 00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:34,680 St. John's is ready to play. 1270 00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:38,000 I have no doubt about that. I cannot wait. 1271 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,040 And again, that's John's report every Wednesday on the show, 1272 00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:47,080 brought to you by my friends at sullivanpropanefinesullivanpropaneonline@triallaw1.com. 1273 00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:50,360 That's trial law1.com. Remember the name Sullivan 1274 00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,200 Propane. Let's also get something 1275 00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:54,360 straight here, too. Now, I don't think that this is 1276 00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,800 a real national narrative, but I do think that there's some 1277 00:58:56,800 --> 00:59:00,000 people that are kind of jumping in and think that St. 1278 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:04,040 John's is a bit of a mirage or a bit of an overachiever. 1279 00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:05,720 Well, and if you think that, that's fine. 1280 00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:07,680 Like I'm, I'm, you know, if that's your opinion, OK, I would 1281 00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:11,880 disagree, but that's fine. But if they were seated properly 1282 00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:13,640 right now, if they were seated properly, they wouldn't be 1283 00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:15,880 playing Duke here, But, and they wouldn't have been out in San 1284 00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:17,880 Diego and worked out well, they won twice. 1285 00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:19,680 And here we go now they're back in the East and they're, you 1286 00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:21,320 know, a couple of 100 miles away from Queens. 1287 00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,640 And I can promise you, because I know a lot of my buddies are 1288 00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:25,720 going, there would be a lot of red and white out there with 1289 00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:27,280 Saint John's. Like they're coming. 1290 00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,760 They're coming in. The Red Storm throng is coming 1291 00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,320 in ready to roll. So I think some of the the 1292 00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:35,640 notions about St. John's, what they've achieved so 1293 00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:38,680 far, I think some are true and I think some are patently 1294 00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:42,960 offensive at this point. Like to think that Saint John's 1295 00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:46,720 that it would be some massive upset if they beat Duke is 1296 00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:48,600 preposterous. It it really is. 1297 00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,240 Guys, this is not now I was going to say it's not it's not 1298 00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:54,240 Carlos Boozer. No, but it's it's his two sons, 1299 00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:55,800 which is an amazing story, right? 1300 00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,400 This is not Jay Williams. This is not, you know, Johnny 1301 00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:02,840 Dawkins if you're a real old timer from the 80s or of course, 1302 01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:06,000 Christian Leighton or Bobby Hurley or Grant Hill or it's not 1303 01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,480 Coach K Shire's good. He ain't Coach K like the 1304 01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,880 mythical. And and, and imagine I take that 1305 01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:12,720 back. It's not mythical. 1306 01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:16,240 Like they have a brand like the Yankees, you've got Yankees and 1307 01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:20,560 Duke and Michigan, the Celtics, the Lakers, the Dodgers, some of 1308 01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:22,280 those platinum, you know, profiles, right? 1309 01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:24,440 And they've earned it. And I've got great respect for 1310 01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:28,480 Duke because under Coach K, when there was no NIL, like, you 1311 01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:31,680 know, some people don't, don't, don't really believe this. 1312 01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,120 I truly believe that Coach K did it the right way. 1313 01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:36,480 I really do. I do. 1314 01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:39,400 You cannot tell me. You could try. 1315 01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:41,080 I'm just not going to hear it. And again, if that's your 1316 01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,320 opinion, that's an opinion I'm not even going to really get 1317 01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:46,000 into the conversation with. I just don't agree. 1318 01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,120 If you tell me, wow, come on, man. 1319 01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:49,760 I'm sure Coach K was cheating too. 1320 01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:52,200 I don't think so, because I think that what you're doing at 1321 01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,880 that point is you are you are taking away, you are 1322 01:00:55,880 --> 01:01:00,320 marginalizing the integrity of a man who went to West Point. 1323 01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,280 Like, I'm not saying that there there aren't people who go to 1324 01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:05,880 West Point that, you know, lose their way in life, that I'm sure 1325 01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,760 somebody went to West Point that committed a crime and went to I 1326 01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,560 don't mean a war crime. I mean like a real crime, a 1327 01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,160 civilian crime and went to jail. And I'm not saying everybody 1328 01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:17,000 that goes to West Point to St. and you know, without human 1329 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:21,160 flaw, right? But when you go to West Knight, 1330 01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:23,280 to West Knight, when you go to West Point, you play for Bobby 1331 01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:27,280 Knight, who's a lunatic, but you play for him and you are a 1332 01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:31,600 product of West Point. You are rooted in all things 1333 01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,720 good. You are rooted in education and 1334 01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:39,880 respect and competition and and all those great values that we 1335 01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,360 espouse as parents and motivational speakers and all 1336 01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,120 the things that we do. There's nobody that's gonna 1337 01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:47,360 convince me that Coach K did it sideways. 1338 01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:48,800 Yeah, man, they, they were, they were doing it. 1339 01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:50,160 You know, Coach K had his money guy. 1340 01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:51,320 Yeah. Coach, that was a sham. 1341 01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,360 I don't believe it. I think it was on the up and up. 1342 01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,840 And I think Coach K and Rick Pitino is the greatest coach of 1343 01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:57,920 all time for the reasons I've said. 1344 01:01:57,920 --> 01:01:59,120 But I'm not gonna get into it now. 1345 01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:02,400 But I do believe that. I mean, Coach K is an absolute 1346 01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:05,360 Titan of industry. I mean, new breaking news. 1347 01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:06,640 Wow. The Coach K was good. 1348 01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:08,160 I'm talking more about his character. 1349 01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:12,040 This is not that Duke program. They're really good, but it's 1350 01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:14,920 just like Saint John's is really good, but is the ace ACC what it 1351 01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,200 used to be? Is any conference what it used 1352 01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:18,920 to be? I know the Big East isn't, and 1353 01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:21,000 that's one of the criticism, criticisms of St. 1354 01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:24,480 John's. Like the Big East is down, It's 1355 01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,880 down. You know, UConn is is really 1356 01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,200 good, but they're not amazing. I'm just still playing. 1357 01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:32,000 It's great for the Big East, but Villanova's on the way back. 1358 01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:33,360 And keep that up, Jay. I'll get to it in a minute. 1359 01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:36,720 Villanova is on the way back with Willard and, and I, I think 1360 01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:38,280 and I've got a lot of respect for Nova as well. 1361 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,560 Love Jay Wright and I like Willard too. 1362 01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:43,240 I think he's a Big East coach. I think he was out of place with 1363 01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:45,400 Maryland. He's more of a Catholic school, 1364 01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:48,120 non football. Even though Villanova has a 1365 01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:49,880 small program, but small dish program. 1366 01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:52,280 He belongs back in the Big East. I like him, but Seton Hall, I 1367 01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:53,760 like him back in a bit with Nova. 1368 01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:57,040 So building over had a bit of a renaissance season. 1369 01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:58,040 I know they lost their first game. 1370 01:02:58,040 --> 01:02:59,360 They were out in San Diego as well. 1371 01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:01,640 And then after that, you know, Seton Hall was competitive. 1372 01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:04,520 Shaheen Holloway, the coach of the year, respect Shaheen, love 1373 01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:06,640 him actually, dog man, absolute dog. 1374 01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:08,080 And Seton Hall plays their asses off. 1375 01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,320 And if they get a little more NIL money, which they are, 1376 01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,040 they're going to be a handful, right? 1377 01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:15,360 But once you get past them, the drop was precipitous. 1378 01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,480 I mean, it was like 5 layers down. 1379 01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,520 Like Georgetown is wretched. Providence is a mess, although I 1380 01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:23,600 do like the Providence higher. They got a good one in Hutchin. 1381 01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,480 They that's a good hire. He and he's got the right 1382 01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:29,080 temperament for those lunatics up there in Rhode Island. 1383 01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,080 Providence. Providence is small fan base is 1384 01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:34,120 kind of small, but Providence's fan base is awesome. 1385 01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,680 But they're down now. English was a mess. 1386 01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:39,400 Their their program's awful right now with you know, 1387 01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:42,360 Butler's not good. Xavier's going to be better with 1388 01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:44,920 Pitino, but not yet. Even though they're competitive 1389 01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,760 like just a down lead man. Marquette was awful this year. 1390 01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:49,680 Creighton was a shell of what it's been. 1391 01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:52,360 So if you want to levy that criticism, that's fine. 1392 01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:56,040 But they did just beat Kansas. And while they didn't really, 1393 01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,160 they didn't win against some of the better teams they played 1394 01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:04,920 earlier in the year like Alabama, like Kentucky, Iowa 1395 01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:06,760 State. You know, they did. 1396 01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:08,240 They did beat Baylor. St. 1397 01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:11,560 John's is a legitimate basketball team that has every 1398 01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:13,320 claim right now. They won't say because they're 1399 01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:16,280 just locked in on their job. But it is not, you know, me 1400 01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:19,720 being a Homer or New York arrogance or entitlement, 1401 01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:22,400 sitting here saying, I really think Saint John's is going to 1402 01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:24,240 win this game. I'll get more into the game 1403 01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:26,880 tomorrow. I'm actually heading down to DC 1404 01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:29,360 tomorrow after the show. I'll be doing the show live, you 1405 01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:32,840 know, from here, from my home for my studio. 1406 01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:34,600 Hey, how was the commute today, buddy? 1407 01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:37,520 Fantastic. I woke up, made a cup of coffee, 1408 01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:40,280 you know, took a little shower, got ready. 1409 01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:42,600 I kissed the kids goodbye to school, came in the office. 1410 01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:44,280 It took me 10 seconds, pretty easy. 1411 01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:48,600 Not a lot of traffic today. I can't wait to get down there, 1412 01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,040 though. And I just think that, Duke, I 1413 01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:54,320 will give you this one of the real, one of the real reasons 1414 01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:58,280 why I feel emboldened enough to #1 by Pitino and the defense. 1415 01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:01,120 But St. John's, and this is part of the 1416 01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:02,960 reason why they're, they're really good, Like St. 1417 01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:06,240 John's is trotting out grown men in the front court. 1418 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,280 I mean, Zubi is a man, all right? 1419 01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:14,240 Bryce Hopkins is a man. Dylan Mitchell is a man. 1420 01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:18,280 They are just strong. They are now when they go to the 1421 01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:21,560 pros, right? And I I certainly think Zubi's 1422 01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:23,400 going to be in the NBAI don't know about Bryce. 1423 01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:24,880 I'm not sure. I hope so. 1424 01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,080 He's going to get a chance. And I think Dylan Mitchell was 1425 01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:29,200 going to be in the NBA. So when I said I was, I was 1426 01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:32,160 about to say that like, their bodies are done changing. 1427 01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:34,400 What I mean, they'll get stronger as they hit the weights 1428 01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:36,680 more in the pros. But in terms of like 1429 01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:39,320 development, just as you get older, like when you enter 1430 01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:40,960 puberty and then obviously start to grow. 1431 01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:43,560 And then it hits a point where it's kind of it those guys are 1432 01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:45,400 done growing. Like they might pack on some 1433 01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:48,560 pounds from, you know, change in nutrition at a different workout 1434 01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:50,560 regimen. But some of the players, 1435 01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:53,680 including the boozers that they're going against Friday 1436 01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:56,720 night in DC, they don't have that grown man strength yet. 1437 01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,240 Now they got NBA skill, certainly can does, right? 1438 01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:03,960 But I think when it comes down to it, like St. 1439 01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,080 John's is going to just go through their chest. 1440 01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:07,840 They're going to go, they're going to they're going to 1441 01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:11,240 physically run through them. I don't think that there's 1442 01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:16,520 anybody on Duke that is going to be able to handle Dylan Mitchell 1443 01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:19,600 checking him 94 feet. There's just no. 1444 01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:21,840 And they got good players. They really do. 1445 01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:25,800 They do, you know, but I think Saint John's will be able to 1446 01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:29,560 establish their tempo, how they, they'll get the the kind of and 1447 01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:32,240 listen, they don't have to muck it up people, you know, St. 1448 01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:34,400 John's defense, which is abundantly true. 1449 01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:38,200 They're like #9 and, and it's OK to reference the stat here, like 1450 01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:41,800 9th in, in defensive efficiency in all of college basketball top 1451 01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:46,280 10, you know, incorporating and like every aspect of stats 1452 01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:49,000 there. So plus the eye test, plus 1453 01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:53,640 Patino, but they also can score. Like it's like they've got to 1454 01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:57,360 win 53 to 50 or 60 to 59. St. 1455 01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,200 John's. Now one of the things I was 1456 01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:02,720 worried about Kansas is that some guys in their front court, 1457 01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:05,640 not not to mention Peterson was going to be a pro and St. 1458 01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:09,320 John's was not St. John's did not allow Peterson to 1459 01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,800 play efficiently. You know, he wound up making 1460 01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:13,640 some buckets and he's going to be a great pro. 1461 01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:16,960 I think if his head straight, like there's some other stuff 1462 01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:20,920 with him if you follow Kansas this year, you know, but St. 1463 01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:22,240 John's got in on him. Why? 1464 01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:25,720 Because he's he's young and he's thin and you know, he's not that 1465 01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:28,240 grown man strength yet and he couldn't get to his spots 1466 01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:30,440 because St. John's pushes you off your spot 1467 01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:35,400 and Kansas's front court, it was able to kind of match that 1468 01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,160 resistance. Like I I remember the first 1469 01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:39,040 couple of possessions, I remember saying to Mink during 1470 01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:42,480 the game, I'm like, yeah, this is this doesn't I don't love the 1471 01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:43,840 way this looks here. Number one, I thought St. 1472 01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:45,280 John's was shooting too many threes, right. 1473 01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:47,920 But also as Zubi would get the ball in the post. 1474 01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:51,840 Yeah, he's very he's strong, but his footwork is very nimble, 1475 01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:54,000 great dexterity, great explosion, right. 1476 01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:57,480 But he's able to get to where he wants to get against anybody in 1477 01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:00,480 the Big East, anybody. But you can see early on like he 1478 01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,120 you know, he makes his move and that it's kind of like a little 1479 01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:05,800 bit of an awkward baby hook where it's not that fluid drop 1480 01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:09,000 or like a little up and little pump fake to avoid somebody 1481 01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:11,800 blocking the shot or just getting pushed off the spot. 1482 01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:15,440 And he just can't go into the early stages of his move right 1483 01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,800 away because physically he doesn't He does that. 1484 01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:20,479 He hasn't yet gotten the advantage that he gets against 1485 01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:23,720 everybody else. So I do think that he'll get 1486 01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,319 that advantage against Duke. And then for the other reasons 1487 01:08:26,319 --> 01:08:28,640 that I said, you know, the defense and just that grown man 1488 01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:30,439 strength, I think St. John's is going to win. 1489 01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:33,439 And if they don't, it's going to be incredibly disappointing. 1490 01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:35,800 You don't know how many chances you get to do this. 1491 01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:39,319 You know, Rick is not 50 or 60. He's in his early 70s. 1492 01:08:39,319 --> 01:08:40,960 You know he's going to sign that new new contract. 1493 01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:43,240 Trust me, he's going to stay and he's going to stay for more time 1494 01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:45,040 than that that is out there right now. 1495 01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:49,840 That's going to happen, but it's going to be amazing man. 1496 01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:54,720 Now Duke skill got a couple of NBA players for sure All right, 1497 01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,640 what is this year Was that mink mink mink life. 1498 01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:00,920 Hey, mink, mink life. What's up there? 1499 01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:02,399 Mink man. Is this the mink man? 1500 01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:05,040 It's not mink man. First of all, if if you paid the 1501 01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:08,600 Mink man like I would, I would love to have Mink on the show. 1502 01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:10,439 I really would. I don't think he can figure out 1503 01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:12,160 how to get into the link to get on the show. 1504 01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:15,520 So that's why when I had him on where we did the the thing over 1505 01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:17,600 the weekend in San Diego, I had to make sure that the Mink Man 1506 01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:19,439 was sitting right next to me. God, I love him. 1507 01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:23,080 I mean, he told me the story when we went out for ribs and a 1508 01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:27,040 couple of beers on Thursday night, Wednesday night, whatever 1509 01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:30,600 it was him, myself and Madge. I found out he doesn't have an 1510 01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:32,479 ATM card, doesn't know how to use it. 1511 01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:36,040 Literally went to the bank in where he lives in New Jersey and 1512 01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:39,399 took out X amount of money that he thought would be suitable to 1513 01:09:39,399 --> 01:09:43,479 get him through the trip. And I'm like, well, I don't 1514 01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:44,279 know. What if you see like a 1515 01:09:44,279 --> 01:09:46,840 sweatshirt that you want or I don't know, what if we go out to 1516 01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:48,520 another dinner more? He said, well, I could charge 1517 01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:51,399 it. I'm like, all right, I got you. 1518 01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:56,320 Anyway, that's me BT or the epitome of class of a class act. 1519 01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:59,160 No more energy. I'm not even going to call him 1520 01:09:59,160 --> 01:09:59,960 that. I know what Jay will mean. 1521 01:09:59,960 --> 01:10:02,800 But if the Mets stay healthy and the pitching plays out like it 1522 01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:04,600 should, I really think the pitching will carry them more 1523 01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:07,080 than it has in recent years. Your thoughts I appreciate. 1524 01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:08,520 Very generous. By the way, that's a man. 1525 01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:09,800 That's a nice super chat right there. 1526 01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:10,720 Very nice. Thank you. 1527 01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:13,960 Maybe this make, although now again, he doesn't know how to do 1528 01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:16,240 that. I appreciate the first thing 1529 01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:18,440 that you said here. Listen, I didn't I didn't enjoy 1530 01:10:18,440 --> 01:10:20,120 it. I was going to run from it and 1531 01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:21,840 I'm certainly not about to get back into it now. 1532 01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:25,520 I said what I said and you know, now, now I'm back on the High 1533 01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:26,920 Road. All right, I'm back on the High 1534 01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:29,200 Road. I got pulled into something and 1535 01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,040 I thought it was really unfair. I thought it was really wrong 1536 01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:35,440 and I thought it was a real a real character assassination 1537 01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:39,880 that I knew I had to re establish A narrative about me 1538 01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:43,680 that is inaccurate, unfair and potentially damaging. 1539 01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,960 So I could take, you know, now maybe I didn't always take 1540 01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:48,520 jokes. He was actually right about 1541 01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:50,160 that. I I gave credit with that, you 1542 01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:51,880 know, didn't always know how to laugh at myself. 1543 01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:54,080 I've learned to do that. The one thing I'll never do is 1544 01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:56,480 take that line down ever. I don't care who you are. 1545 01:10:56,480 --> 01:10:59,320 So I hit back. I think I hit back hard enough. 1546 01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:01,080 I'm happy with what happened. I'm good. 1547 01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:03,680 But I appreciate you saying that now. 1548 01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:05,760 I appreciate a lot of the comments, a lot of support. 1549 01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:07,320 I'm not I'm not going to keep belaboring it. 1550 01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:10,480 You know, I'm not going to make it a bit on the show, you know, 1551 01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:14,320 moving forward unless, unless he unless he keeps going, you know, 1552 01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:16,800 and he did say something today, which is why I came out. 1553 01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:18,320 I said a little something. How much? 1554 01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:20,240 Just a little batting practice fastball. 1555 01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,680 Didn't have to really rear back and go too hard. 1556 01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:24,640 Just put it over the plate, Make the point. 1557 01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:27,880 I think the Mets pitching, that was one of the keys. 1558 01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:30,000 Yeah, keep that up as well, Jay. One of the keys to me. 1559 01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:32,520 Obviously. I want to see how Benj doesn't 1560 01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:34,480 write. What version of Louise Roberts 1561 01:11:34,480 --> 01:11:36,200 do you get? You know, Soto's going to be 1562 01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:38,560 fine and left. Obviously, I love Bichette, as 1563 01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:40,600 long as Lindor's OK with the thumb and I know he's going to 1564 01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:41,920 play. No worries with him. 1565 01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:46,160 I do like Polanco sitting in massive upgrade defensively. 1566 01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:49,040 I do think that he's going to be better offensively. 1567 01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:51,920 The great clubhouse guy. Don't know about the catcher, 1568 01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:53,600 don't know about the closer fully. 1569 01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:56,720 I do think the Mets pitching has a real chance to be a staple 1570 01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:57,600 this year. I really do. 1571 01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:00,480 Number one, you're starting with an ace all right now. 1572 01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:02,720 Is he school ball? Is he schemes? 1573 01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:06,080 Is he a healthy Garrett Cole? No, I don't think that Freddie 1574 01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:09,200 Peralta is quite that, but I think he's like that razor thin 1575 01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,920 right below next here. I really do believe he's that. 1576 01:12:12,160 --> 01:12:14,520 So if those other guys and we've got to see if Cole is still part 1577 01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:17,320 of that. I mean, might not be, but it was 1578 01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:20,240 only certainly scribbled and skeens like if they're a pluses, 1579 01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:25,320 you know, Peralta's an A minus trending depending upon some 1580 01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:28,640 years. an A like he's a legit top of the rotation guy for a 1581 01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:30,760 team that could win the World Series if the other stuff is 1582 01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:32,120 straight, if the other stuff is right. 1583 01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:34,480 And then you go from him to McClain. 1584 01:12:34,480 --> 01:12:37,920 And you know, I love this kid. And then that's why one of the 1585 01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:40,600 keys on the show yesterday was I think it's Kodai Sanga. 1586 01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:42,800 I really do. Many of you have written him off 1587 01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:45,080 and I know he's very temperamental, not in terms of 1588 01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:47,920 what he says, but like, it's got to have the perfect conditions. 1589 01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:51,560 I can't come back yet. Oh, I need 6 days rest this and 1590 01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,400 that. You know, I don't feel right. 1591 01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,920 My bullpen session, I don't know, mechanically my RPMS 1592 01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:58,080 aren't right. Let me get right. 1593 01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:01,040 Like there's a lot of that going on with him and it frustrates a 1594 01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:03,760 lot of you, but I think he's going to have a good season. 1595 01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:05,760 I think Kodai Sang is going to be very good this year and I 1596 01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:07,720 think he's going to be very good from the outset. 1597 01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:14,320 So if I'm right, you talking about an ace, a blossoming ace, 1598 01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:18,960 and then a guy in the third spot who has ace kind of like a 1599 01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:21,480 stuff. I mean, that's freaking good. 1600 01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:24,480 And now you get to a point where you don't need Sean Manaya. 1601 01:13:24,480 --> 01:13:27,440 Sure, you'd like to see Sean Manaya bounce back, but remember 1602 01:13:27,440 --> 01:13:31,040 the dip in velocity. You know that I think that's a 1603 01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:32,560 real thing. And I I don't think Shawn and I 1604 01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:34,160 is going to be very good this year at all. 1605 01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:37,280 I just don't. But you don't need them. 1606 01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:39,280 You know, at least you get to that back of the rotation. 1607 01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:42,600 At least you've got, you know, a Holmes who was fine and a 1608 01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:45,200 Peterson who's fine. Like Peterson is your second 1609 01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:46,560 starter. That's not good. 1610 01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:51,320 Peterson is your #4 or #5 that's pretty good, pretty good. 1611 01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:56,520 So I do think the Mets pitching is going to be very good. 1612 01:13:56,920 --> 01:14:00,560 You know, now the one thing that you hope doesn't happen is that 1613 01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:04,680 the defense doesn't betray that pitching and become a real 1614 01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:06,640 issue. I think Michette's going to be 1615 01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:07,920 fine. I know he's going to hit and Met 1616 01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:10,440 fans going to love him. It's just a dirtbag, which is a 1617 01:14:10,440 --> 01:14:11,880 compliment for a baseball player. 1618 01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:14,960 Clutch, the most clutch hitter in baseball by the stats. 1619 01:14:15,440 --> 01:14:17,440 Just a gamer, dude. Just a presence, man. 1620 01:14:17,440 --> 01:14:19,320 He's going to, you're going to love a Met fan. 1621 01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:22,640 I wish he was on the Yankees. You're going to love him, you 1622 01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:25,000 know, but he's going to airmail a few over from third. 1623 01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:26,440 You know, he'll catch most of the balls. 1624 01:14:26,440 --> 01:14:29,320 Adam, you'll see a couple of throws that pull Polanco off 1625 01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:31,880 and, and we saw in the spring, first place, I think the first 1626 01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:34,760 ground ball hit to him. And then because Polanco is not 1627 01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:37,240 a natural first baseman, you know, you'll see some 1628 01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:41,400 awkwardness there. You know, Simeon's great. 1629 01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:45,040 Lindor's find it short. Roberts is studying in in centre 1630 01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:46,480 benches. I think it's going to be a plus 1631 01:14:46,480 --> 01:14:49,360 defender and right. Soto's slightly below average 1632 01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:50,800 and left, but he won't kill you yet. 1633 01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:52,240 In a couple of years he will, but he'll be with him. 1634 01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:54,840 Whatever. But as long as the Mets defense 1635 01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:59,920 is above average, not to be all time, just above average, then, 1636 01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,480 then I think the Mets pitching staff is going to be a massive, 1637 01:15:02,480 --> 01:15:04,160 massive plus. I really do. 1638 01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:06,960 What do we got here? Yo, my buddy Jake. 1639 01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:08,280 Jake in the house. Yeah. 1640 01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:10,400 What's up, Jake? BT's the man. 1641 01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:11,760 All right. Thank you very much, man. 1642 01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:14,720 Let's let's hit the sub button for him. 1643 01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:17,080 See, that is good. See, Jake, here's one of the 1644 01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:20,000 things I love about Jake. I've always got passion, a lot 1645 01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:22,160 of passion. Knows the stuff. 1646 01:15:22,480 --> 01:15:26,040 And he is one of these guys like I when I woke up this morning, 1647 01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:28,760 even last night before I was going to bed, he's already 1648 01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,040 cranking out. He's already turning around all 1649 01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:32,720 the stuff that we did on The Jets collective. 1650 01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:36,080 I go to my e-mail this morning and I got an e-mail from J KB T 1651 01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,440 here's I don't know if you know this, which I didn't really know 1652 01:15:38,440 --> 01:15:39,800 how to do it. So I'm happy that he gave me the 1653 01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,320 e-mail, although I'm sure J Rod could help me figure it out. 1654 01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:45,080 But you know that I didn't have to go to J Rod because Jake beat 1655 01:15:45,080 --> 01:15:46,840 him too, which was good. Hey, I don't know if you know 1656 01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:50,760 how to do this, but here, you know, hit this link and to then 1657 01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,040 take what we did last night and now put this on the collab, you 1658 01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:56,560 know, on the collab tab, if you will, at the bottom of your 1659 01:15:56,560 --> 01:16:00,000 YouTube page for BT Unleashed. And now the show from last night 1660 01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:03,320 will be on your channel, which obviously gets more views and 1661 01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:06,960 more awareness for Jet Collected with myself, Jake and Rich 1662 01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:07,840 Samini. There you go. 1663 01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:10,400 I told Jake I'm going to get him on the show, you know, once St. 1664 01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:12,960 John's run is over and you know, once we get a little bit past 1665 01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:14,920 this, right. Certainly for the draft, No 1666 01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:18,240 doubt We talked a lot about Ty Simpson last night of the two of 1667 01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:21,640 the three, but I was really the one who, not that I'm all in on 1668 01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:24,720 Ty Simpson at all, but I'm certainly more than amenable, 1669 01:16:24,720 --> 01:16:26,920 more than intrigued with taking him at 16. 1670 01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:29,400 The other guys like no way to to to the to an extent. 1671 01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:33,360 So disagree on that. It was really, really good. 1672 01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:35,800 I appreciate that Jake, man. It's it's going to be the jet 1673 01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,640 show on record and of record. It's going to be phenomenal. 1674 01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:41,000 Can you imagine that show, Jake after a jet game? 1675 01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:44,040 Because I know what it was like when I was doing unkillable when 1676 01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:47,800 I was still at the fan. And I mean it was just anarchy. 1677 01:16:48,440 --> 01:16:50,720 Talk about a liberating experience. 1678 01:16:50,720 --> 01:16:52,800 I could just get on the air and flip open this thing. 1679 01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:55,640 That's How I Met J Rod. J Rod was producing that. 1680 01:16:56,040 --> 01:16:58,120 And that's where I'm like I said, my guy, you know, this new 1681 01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:01,040 endeavor, this new, this new future, this new platform, I got 1682 01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:02,280 to have somebody I could trust here. 1683 01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:04,760 And as you know, based on yesterday and the day before, J 1684 01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:06,840 Rod's been a warrior. He has been a soldier. 1685 01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:10,200 He has been a foxhole teammate. He has been awesome and he is 1686 01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:14,200 awesome. So the that that that the 1687 01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:17,520 unkillable show, man, you know, all these years, like I get on 1688 01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:21,400 Monday on on the fan or on national radio and I would vent 1689 01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:24,600 about The Jets, but I I couldn't really really truly say what I 1690 01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:27,960 really truly wanted to say. Guess what now I could. 1691 01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:31,840 What a beautiful thing. That's a beautiful name. 1692 01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:35,880 Robert Huertas. What's up there, Robbie boy. 1693 01:17:36,280 --> 01:17:39,680 All right, Oh, oh, oh, yes, Oh, good call. 1694 01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:41,760 I see the boom boom. Awesome. 1695 01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:44,000 First of all, thanks for the chat, man, super chat. 1696 01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:47,240 Hey, BT is for the let these Will Clark had a great swing 1697 01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:50,400 also, no doubt. Also shout out to our Guy J Rod. 1698 01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:52,800 Hope you feel better. Must have been your first beer 1699 01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:57,800 man J rod probably J Rod. The J Rod strikes me as the 1700 01:17:57,800 --> 01:17:59,000 kind. There's nothing wrong with this. 1701 01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:02,560 J Rod strikes me as the kind of man maybe not I I'd love to pull 1702 01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:04,360 him in on this, but I'm I'm not because he doesn't feel well. 1703 01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:09,120 J Rod strikes me as the kind of young man whose first drink 1704 01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:11,680 wasn't until he literally turned 21, which, by the way, is the 1705 01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:14,200 way it's supposed to be. He's also of a very different. 1706 01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:16,840 Generation than 15. Yo, why you really? 1707 01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:21,640 Of course, man, what? All right, this is like I think 1708 01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:24,440 this is a skit, man. Like of course, man, what? 1709 01:18:24,440 --> 01:18:25,840 And we just see that little icon there. 1710 01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:28,400 My bad. I undersold you now. 1711 01:18:28,480 --> 01:18:33,000 Basically the same as me. I got true story, story time. 1712 01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:38,200 BT So I've told you guys about the backyard hoop, the death 1713 01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:40,760 pit, and it was brutal for me because of the four guys that 1714 01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:43,160 would regularly play, I was the worst. 1715 01:18:43,440 --> 01:18:46,480 Like 1 was the best athlete around that I've ever seen. 1716 01:18:47,440 --> 01:18:50,960 Every sport candle, Danny Kelly shout out to my boy Danny. 1717 01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:55,360 And then Chad, who was also really good and he was there. 1718 01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:57,440 He wasn't always there, but when he was there he was really good. 1719 01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:00,800 Got drafted twice, you know, made AAA, played at Seton Hall 1720 01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:03,920 phenomenal. My buddy Pat, who was fireman, 1721 01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:07,800 who played collegiately and was, yeah, alone, my buddy Timmy, 1722 01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:10,760 who's from Bay Ridge was 2 best players at Xavier High School 1723 01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:13,560 playing basketball. Pat didn't pass at all, man. 1724 01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:16,120 Pat was a chucker man. You know, he loved to shoot 1725 01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:19,320 Patty. And Timmy, who was, was pretty 1726 01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:20,600 good. You know, Timmy also liked the 1727 01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:22,000 party. And Timmy, you know, kind of 1728 01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:24,520 lost a little seriousness with basketball. 1729 01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:26,680 Otherwise, you know, Timmy could have played four years at Bishop 1730 01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,360 Ford as well, which was really good. 1731 01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:33,560 An old CHS AA power Ray Nash. The Nash was the was the AD 1732 01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:35,640 there anyway, so we were playing the backyard. 1733 01:19:36,680 --> 01:19:38,680 Oh my God, Oh my. And it was just it was it was it 1734 01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:42,120 was absolutely. It was a death pitch and death 1735 01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:44,480 match. And one day we I remember it had 1736 01:19:44,480 --> 01:19:49,680 to be it was the 6th grade, my God, And we had a summer 1737 01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:54,400 basketball game that day at Saint Brendan's, which was 1738 01:19:54,480 --> 01:19:56,880 outdoor summer league and a lot of good play. 1739 01:19:56,880 --> 01:20:00,120 You got to remember, guys, you know when I was growing up, this 1740 01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:03,320 is right after like Mullen, which is. 1741 01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:06,240 Part of the reason for my affinity for St. 1742 01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,520 John's. Like every one of us, and I know 1743 01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:12,240 it sounds crazy, we all wanted to be Chris Mullen because, you 1744 01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:16,320 know, we were, we were all white guys from Flatbush and you know, 1745 01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:18,960 I'm half Italian, but tyranny's very Irish. 1746 01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:21,280 And most of those guys that just mentioned are Irish, right? 1747 01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:24,400 And we all thought that, well, why not, you know, to to varying 1748 01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:25,880 degrees. Clearly I was better at 1749 01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,600 baseball, but there was so many good basketball players. 1750 01:20:28,600 --> 01:20:30,880 So this summer league was, I mean, it was the Jet man. 1751 01:20:31,440 --> 01:20:36,240 And I remember my dad coached that team and Timmy was on my 1752 01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:38,880 team. I don't know if Chad may have 1753 01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:41,080 been on my team too that year. Danny was older. 1754 01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:44,600 He wasn't on my team and we're playing. 1755 01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:47,360 And my dad was never a big drinker and neither like I never 1756 01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:48,600 drink during the week. I have fun. 1757 01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:50,400 It probably seems like I drink more than I do. 1758 01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:53,840 I never drink during the week, not even really a glass of wine 1759 01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,080 once in a while, a glass of wine once in a while. 1760 01:20:57,360 --> 01:20:58,680 Haven't even hit the fire pit in a while. 1761 01:20:58,680 --> 01:21:01,440 I've been so busy. My thing is when I do it, I like 1762 01:21:01,440 --> 01:21:04,240 to do it and I'm going to have myself a good night, but I'm not 1763 01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:06,280 one of these guys who comes home and cracks a beer. 1764 01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:09,480 Ever go to a restaurant, have dinner with my kids, get a beer 1765 01:21:09,480 --> 01:21:11,080 and my wife? No, I, I don't, I don't roll 1766 01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:13,160 that way, but for whatever. And my dad wasn't that way 1767 01:21:13,160 --> 01:21:14,200 either. That's the point, right? 1768 01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:18,760 My dad more wine as well. And I guess one of my, one of my 1769 01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:20,720 buddies said, you know, let's, you know, let's get something to 1770 01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:22,000 eat. And then my, and my kitchen was 1771 01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:24,440 right next to the stairs that led into the, the backyard. 1772 01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:27,520 And there was like a little tiny, it must have been from 1773 01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:31,920 Sunday dinner, you know, of like these little tiny, they cope 1774 01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:35,360 like the little tiny beers, whatever they were Budweiser and 1775 01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:37,760 I like we opened one or two and we, we drank them. 1776 01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:43,000 And then it was 6th grade. We, we go, we go to coach, we go 1777 01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:44,640 to the game. Now, we weren't drunk, but he 1778 01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:48,200 could smell it. And surprisingly, he was pretty 1779 01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:50,200 cool, actually, now that I think about it. 1780 01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:53,080 Like, you know, it was actually kind of cool about that. 1781 01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:55,040 But yeah, 15. So J Rod, I don't know if you 1782 01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:56,200 had. I didn't know you had it in you, 1783 01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:57,440 man. That's amazing right there. 1784 01:21:58,080 --> 01:21:59,960 That's actually not amazing. I mean, you shouldn't be doing 1785 01:21:59,960 --> 01:22:00,720 that, you know. Come on. 1786 01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:03,880 What else we got here? I'm going to get a judge in a 1787 01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:05,000 little bit. In a little bit. 1788 01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:07,400 It's 11:30 already. Oh, my God. 1789 01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:09,600 What? Wow. 1790 01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:14,920 Rod Power, 78, BT Has Evan ever tried to get you into scoring 1791 01:22:14,920 --> 01:22:16,840 games? He's the type of guy who scores 1792 01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:20,000 baseball A-Team ball games. No, Evan knows. 1793 01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:21,280 I like Evan. I really do. 1794 01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:24,160 By the way, this all started when Evan asked me the question. 1795 01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:27,440 But you didn't have to. I mean, Oh my God, poor Evan got 1796 01:22:27,440 --> 01:22:29,320 dragged into this. I mean, not, not really, but. 1797 01:22:30,080 --> 01:22:32,120 And the interview was over. All I wanted to do was talk 1798 01:22:32,120 --> 01:22:34,680 Saint John's with with my boy TQ I worked with for 10 years. 1799 01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:36,560 That's it. I didn't come with any agenda. 1800 01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:38,040 I wasn't coming with a hit piece. 1801 01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:40,960 Come talk about the Chinese. That's all I wanted to do, you 1802 01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:43,720 know, and yeah, that's all we did for the 10 minutes that I 1803 01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:45,840 was on the air. And then as we get ready to hang 1804 01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:50,720 up, Evan goes So, so BT you know, did you I have to ask he's 1805 01:22:50,880 --> 01:22:53,560 and I knew he was going to like once I, I'm like once he set it 1806 01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:54,720 up, I'm like, I know he's going to ask me. 1807 01:22:55,240 --> 01:22:56,560 You know, I was not going to say it. 1808 01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:59,240 And you guys know that. Well, I'm going to bring it up. 1809 01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:02,800 And he goes, you know, did you know? 1810 01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:05,120 Yeah, blah, blah, blah. I'm not going to get the whole 1811 01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:07,200 thing again. And then but then I said what I 1812 01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:08,680 said and then he said what he said. 1813 01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:10,600 And then I said what I said. And then I said what I said. 1814 01:23:10,600 --> 01:23:11,880 And then I said what I said. And then again. 1815 01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:13,560 And here we are. And I guess he said a little 1816 01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:16,240 something today, right? So, so I like Evan. 1817 01:23:17,360 --> 01:23:19,200 I feel bad that that kind of happened on the show, though. 1818 01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:22,080 But it was never intentional. No, Evan knows better than to 1819 01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:26,200 ever waste time trying to get me to score a game, you know? 1820 01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:30,280 But listen, I don't like, you know, like some people do. 1821 01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:33,920 I, I don't just mock people for doing that, you know, like it's 1822 01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:35,840 not my thing. You could, you actually couldn't 1823 01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:39,400 pay me to, to sit there and score a game. 1824 01:23:39,400 --> 01:23:41,880 You couldn't pay. Matter of fact, those of you who 1825 01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:46,160 have children, you know, I'm sure you know about and there's 1826 01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:49,000 other apps too. You have to know about the team. 1827 01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:51,880 Well, team snap is an older 1 and that's fine, but game 1828 01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:54,680 changer is awesome. Like game changer is actually, 1829 01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:57,040 it's an it's an app. So it's got your schedule and 1830 01:23:57,040 --> 01:24:00,040 you can let everybody know like, you know, practice 7:00 who's 1831 01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:01,800 going, who's not? There was a health check from 1832 01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:03,760 back of the day for COVID that you don't have to do anymore. 1833 01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:05,920 You know where you're playing, who you're playing, what 1834 01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:09,120 uniforms you have to wear, what time BP starts like it's it's 1835 01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:12,080 awesome, right? And every all the guys that I 1836 01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:13,600 coach with, they knew this right away. 1837 01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:16,000 I fucking touching that thing, man. 1838 01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:19,240 Give me give me the fungo. You know, I'll run infield 1839 01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:21,600 outfield, I'll go warm up the pitcher. 1840 01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:24,280 I'll coach third base. I'll flash the signs. 1841 01:24:24,320 --> 01:24:27,320 I'll hit pop ups. I'll whatever baseball. 1842 01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:32,000 I'm here to coach baseball, but to score a Yankee game or a met 1843 01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:35,280 game at at Yankee Stadium or city field with a scorebook, I'm 1844 01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:38,640 not even scoring my kids games. Number one, that the it's like 1845 01:24:38,640 --> 01:24:41,480 it's it's an app and it's on the phone and I don't think busting 1846 01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:44,040 out my glasses to make sure I'm I would be inputting the right 1847 01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:46,560 thing and like that's a special skill. 1848 01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:51,480 If you are here is a shout out to any game changer mom or dad 1849 01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:53,800 who's got the patience to actually do that. 1850 01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:58,400 You are a St. to be able to do that, and especially if you're a 1851 01:24:58,400 --> 01:25:02,800 parent who does it and it's not a knock, but like who's kid 1852 01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:06,320 isn't like, I hate to say this, but like doesn't play that much 1853 01:25:06,320 --> 01:25:09,960 or, you know, isn't one of the better players in bottom of the 1854 01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:12,520 order, like just, you know, doesn't do a whole lot and you 1855 01:25:12,520 --> 01:25:14,480 still do it. I mean, you are just a good 1856 01:25:14,480 --> 01:25:16,320 person. You are a warrior. 1857 01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:18,880 I mean, you got to see you want some about next level advanced 1858 01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:20,560 analytics. You if I would, I would never do 1859 01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:24,800 it now, but like if I was to show you the the pages like they 1860 01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:26,960 we don't do that for softball, for my daughter, for my son. 1861 01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:30,360 Like it's got a spray chart. Every ball that you hit based on 1862 01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:35,160 what's input, you know, is it shows you like it's, it's got 1863 01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:38,440 this whole graphic and it's it's wild. 1864 01:25:38,440 --> 01:25:42,360 And the one thing about game changer, though, there are some 1865 01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:45,640 parents and, you know, watching out for this year who when 1866 01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:48,360 they're doing it, they're a little too lenient on the 1867 01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:51,640 scoring. Like I saw that, listen, we 1868 01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:53,640 would do this when the kids were 7-8 years old as well. 1869 01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:56,160 And then amongst ourselves with the staff were like, that's it, 1870 01:25:56,160 --> 01:25:58,320 You know, enough of this, but let's, you know, let's really 1871 01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:00,360 get a say and we kind of know who's good, but let's get a 1872 01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:02,800 sense of who's earning what. Like, you know, if you hit a 1873 01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,120 ground ball to the shortstop and it goes through his land, this 1874 01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:08,120 happens when the young and, you know, it goes to the left center 1875 01:26:08,120 --> 01:26:09,640 field fence and the kid runs to third base. 1876 01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:11,360 It's not a triple. Yeah, it's an error. 1877 01:26:11,360 --> 01:26:13,840 Like, you know, and then obviously you see fewer errors 1878 01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:16,400 like that because even if it does go, you know, past the 1879 01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:19,200 shortstop through his legs, whatever the left fielder will 1880 01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:21,120 probably the center fielder with better speed is going to at 1881 01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:22,200 least keep it from going to the fence. 1882 01:26:22,200 --> 01:26:23,360 So you're not getting a triple anyway. 1883 01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:27,800 But oh, my God, the amount of, you know, fudging of some of the 1884 01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:29,200 game changer stuff is hysterical. 1885 01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:30,880 And there's actually some parents. 1886 01:26:31,320 --> 01:26:33,560 I don't care. Like, you know, the coaches, the 1887 01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:36,560 teams that I don't coach, I never chime in. 1888 01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:39,200 The only thing I will say is, hey, he pitched the other day. 1889 01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:43,280 Don't use him today or you can go 25 pitches because he's going 1890 01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:45,480 to pitch this weekend. That that's the only time you 1891 01:26:45,480 --> 01:26:48,240 know, outside of just like friendly stuff about the show or 1892 01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:50,240 you know, about a Yankee game or about St. 1893 01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:52,120 John's. I never chimed in on that. 1894 01:26:52,120 --> 01:26:54,840 But there are some parents, thankfully none that I none that 1895 01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:57,600 I coach with, thank God, and, and none of the none of the 1896 01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:00,440 parents that I know the teams that my kids play for. 1897 01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:03,520 But I, I, I've heard stories. I mean, I'm not just like, like 1898 01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:07,120 I, I have not come across that. I have heard horror stories, 1899 01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:11,160 though, about parents who complain about the official 1900 01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:14,440 scoring that's inputted onto the game changer because it affects 1901 01:27:14,440 --> 01:27:17,640 their kids batting average. Oh my God, if you're a part of 1902 01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:20,920 the world, you know, and if you're not, well, you're missing 1903 01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:24,240 out on so many amazing levels. But on that, you're not missing 1904 01:27:24,240 --> 01:27:25,800 out. That's probably stuff that's fun 1905 01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:28,960 not to be a part of. All right, Michael Mara, what up 1906 01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:30,560 there Mike? I appreciate that Michael. 1907 01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:33,400 Thank you very much, dude. Love and direct from North Fort 1908 01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:34,120 Hood. Wow. 1909 01:27:34,440 --> 01:27:36,560 How many wins for Cam Schlittler? 1910 01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:39,400 10 plus for me. Off topic, will the jet 1911 01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:42,400 collected do post game show? OK, couple things there. 1912 01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:44,840 Number one, I appreciate the shout out and shout out to Fort 1913 01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:45,920 Hood. No doubt about that. 1914 01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:48,160 I I think Cam's going to win more than 10 games. 1915 01:27:48,160 --> 01:27:51,520 Like the one thing I will say winning is or the wins. 1916 01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:54,360 That is such an antiquated measurement of somebody's 1917 01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:57,480 effectiveness. So I I'd almost rather say like, 1918 01:27:57,480 --> 01:27:59,800 you know, he's going to have a batting average against of this 1919 01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:04,880 or a whip of this or a strikeout per nine this, you know, or an 1920 01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:08,920 ERA of this or top ten Cy Young. Like those are better 1921 01:28:08,920 --> 01:28:10,640 measurements. Like, you know, come on, man, 1922 01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:13,680 there's thing about Freddie, you know, Freddie Garcia. 1923 01:28:13,680 --> 01:28:16,440 What what did he? I can't not Freddie King Felix, 1924 01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:19,760 who won the Cy Young and he years ago stud. 1925 01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:22,760 What do you win 11 games? I mean, it was some real low 1926 01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:25,240 total, but because that was not reflective of how dominant he 1927 01:28:25,240 --> 01:28:28,080 really was. So I I mean, if you want me to 1928 01:28:28,080 --> 01:28:30,720 give you a win total projecting health. 1929 01:28:31,120 --> 01:28:34,960 I mean, I would think that he's probably going to win, you know, 1930 01:28:35,040 --> 01:28:40,560 1314 games, possibly more if the bullpens not good, possibly 1931 01:28:40,560 --> 01:28:43,000 less, you know, if they shut them down a little bit to 1932 01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:45,560 preserve them at some point for the postseason with the innings, 1933 01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:48,960 possibly less. But the, the my favorite, 1934 01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:52,520 listen, I know I just hit you with five stats, 5 measurements 1935 01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:54,760 there. My favorite statistic to, to 1936 01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:59,520 really measure a pitcher's dominance or lack thereof is 1937 01:28:59,520 --> 01:29:02,520 batting average against. And it's funny because I, I 1938 01:29:02,520 --> 01:29:04,840 admit too, that that batting average is a bit antiquated. 1939 01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:06,880 I mean, I'd rather look at, I'm going to look at somebody's OPS 1940 01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:09,640 or OPS plus before I'm going to look at their batting average. 1941 01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:12,440 But I, I still will never break away from it because if you're 1942 01:29:12,440 --> 01:29:15,400 hitting 230, you're not as good as the guy was hitting three O 1943 01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:17,280 1. And I just come on, even if the 1944 01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:19,320 guy was hitting 230, he's got a few more home runs. 1945 01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:21,760 I'd rather have the guy who's hitting three O 1 up at the 1946 01:29:21,760 --> 01:29:23,960 plate. You know, two on two out, late 1947 01:29:23,960 --> 01:29:26,480 inning high leverage spot. You're up a run down a run man 1948 01:29:26,480 --> 01:29:28,400 on third, one out, less than two, no out. 1949 01:29:28,400 --> 01:29:31,480 You need to SAC fly ground ball to the right side contact. 1950 01:29:31,680 --> 01:29:34,880 Because if you're a three O 1 hitter or you're a 290 hitter or 1951 01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:38,120 you're a 287 hitter, I don't know, just a rudimentary thought 1952 01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:41,200 probably apply to the fact that you make more contact, you know, 1953 01:29:41,200 --> 01:29:44,640 because if you if you're hitting 227, you're probably hitting 227 1954 01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:45,920 because you strike out all the time. 1955 01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:49,760 You're probably A170590, you know, plus per year strikeout 1956 01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:53,000 guy, you know, and that's justifiable in the modern game 1957 01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:55,520 when you hit a lot of home runs. But you know, in terms of a 1958 01:29:55,520 --> 01:29:59,080 clutch situation, I'll still take the guy who who's got fewer 1959 01:29:59,080 --> 01:30:00,720 home runs. Now, if I'm down by like 3 or 1960 01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:03,280 four runs and then you you need a grandy or a three run bomb, 1961 01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:06,040 that's maybe a little different, but I'll take the profile of the 1962 01:30:06,040 --> 01:30:08,120 higher average hitter any day of the week. 1963 01:30:08,440 --> 01:30:12,440 And and I would also say that so batting average still means 1964 01:30:12,440 --> 01:30:15,880 something to me. But a a pitcher with a batting 1965 01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:18,880 average against of like, you know, two O 9, which is I I 1966 01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:20,560 wouldn't be surprised. I think that's kind of where Kim 1967 01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:22,640 Schlitter is going to be right, right, right in that 1968 01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:25,720 neighborhood. And that just tells me that the 1969 01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:29,480 hitters, they have an uncomfortable approach against 1970 01:30:29,480 --> 01:30:31,840 you. It's not a comfortable at bat 1971 01:30:32,360 --> 01:30:34,760 either. You're throwing incredibly hard 1972 01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:37,080 and you offset that with an incredible change up. 1973 01:30:37,080 --> 01:30:38,240 So they can never get comfortable. 1974 01:30:38,240 --> 01:30:40,760 Like they're never they're always off balance either late 1975 01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:44,880 or they're early, number one. Number two, you're a little 1976 01:30:45,520 --> 01:30:48,040 effectively wild. You know, you can command that 1977 01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:51,320 inner half of home plate, which by the way, is I think of all 1978 01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:54,240 the pitching things for young kids, it's probably the, the, 1979 01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:56,680 the most lost art, if that makes sense. 1980 01:30:56,680 --> 01:30:59,280 I don't know if that sounds grammatically most lost art. 1981 01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:02,360 It probably does, you know, like pitchers are just scared to work 1982 01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:03,760 inside. You know, they are. 1983 01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:06,600 And if anybody, I'm talking about young kids, like if you 1984 01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:09,240 could, I don't care if you throw an 80 and you're in high school. 1985 01:31:09,240 --> 01:31:12,880 I mean, an 80 in high school is, is, is not, not fast at all, but 1986 01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:15,480 a varsity, like if you're throwing 80, you just, you know, 1987 01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:17,240 you're a high school player. That's that there's, there's 1988 01:31:17,240 --> 01:31:19,040 nothing beyond that. If you're an 80 mile per hour 1989 01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:21,440 pitcher, that's not a knock. That's just the reality of the 1990 01:31:21,440 --> 01:31:25,200 numbers at this point. But if you throw 80 and you 1991 01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:29,160 throw that 80, you know, couple of times an inning and, and you 1992 01:31:29,160 --> 01:31:32,000 literally you bang it inside, even if it's not under the chin. 1993 01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:35,840 And that's that's next level brass balls and comfort level. 1994 01:31:36,440 --> 01:31:39,760 But if you work inside and you've got a devastating change 1995 01:31:39,760 --> 01:31:42,800 up and there's enough differential, you know, but so 1996 01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:47,600 if you if you pop 80 and then you go 67 or 66 and now all of a 1997 01:31:47,600 --> 01:31:49,440 sudden, because you pipe something inside, even though 1998 01:31:49,440 --> 01:31:52,360 it's not fast, they might back up an inch where they might be 1999 01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:54,400 thinking inside. And then all of a sudden, that 2000 01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:57,720 little soft, you know, lollipop that floats past the outside 2001 01:31:57,720 --> 01:31:58,880 black. Good luck. 2002 01:31:59,200 --> 01:32:02,080 You might not strike him out barrel and that thing, he's 2003 01:32:02,080 --> 01:32:04,080 probably going to either roll that thing over to shortstop if 2004 01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:07,320 he's a righty or pop it up. You know what I mean? 2005 01:32:07,960 --> 01:32:10,560 So anyway, batting average against, I absolutely love, 2006 01:32:10,760 --> 01:32:14,160 absolutely love. And let me just give you the 2007 01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:16,920 Wellness check on my boy Jay. Rod Jay, are you still alive? 2008 01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:19,640 Yes, Sir. All right, buddy, there he is. 2009 01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:22,520 There he is. He is still live. 2010 01:32:22,600 --> 01:32:26,040 Avery Summit, Ben Rice going to finish top 10 MVP, Jones and 2011 01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:28,600 Bellinger with both starred more center field games and Grisham. 2012 01:32:29,320 --> 01:32:32,680 No, that's ridiculous. By the August 2 trade deadline, 2013 01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:35,160 Weathers will be the number 3 starter and McMahon, Jazz and 2014 01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:37,480 Dominguez and he'll will be gone. 2015 01:32:37,480 --> 01:32:39,520 Keep that up. Wow, that's a lot to digest. 2016 01:32:39,800 --> 01:32:44,200 Let me hit this point by point #1 Rice will finish top 10 MVP. 2017 01:32:44,240 --> 01:32:46,600 Won't surprise me. That is a fair take. 2018 01:32:46,840 --> 01:32:48,800 I think he's going to be a monster this season. 2019 01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:50,920 I can't. Ben Rice is the real deal, 2020 01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:56,200 period #2 Jones and Bellinger will both start more games in 2021 01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:59,080 center field and Grisham Jones will not be in the majors this 2022 01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:03,000 year, And if he does, and if he is, he will not do enough to 2023 01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:07,400 justify playing enough for that next statement that you just 2024 01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:10,560 said to be true. Bellinger maybe or maybe, but 2025 01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:14,320 no, not happening. Because if if Grisham, let's say 2026 01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:17,000 Grisham really just reverts back to what he was before last year 2027 01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:19,400 and the Yankees feel all right, we got to we got to change 2028 01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:21,280 something up here. Well, then Bellinger goes to 2029 01:33:21,280 --> 01:33:23,600 center field and Jason Dominguez goes to left field. 2030 01:33:23,600 --> 01:33:26,200 You're not going to have a situation where you know, 2031 01:33:26,560 --> 01:33:29,680 Bellinger goes to center and Bellinger stays in left and 2032 01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:32,440 Jones goes to center and Dominguez stays in the minors. 2033 01:33:32,440 --> 01:33:34,680 And you're not going to have a situation where Dominguez plays 2034 01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:36,480 center because I know Boone just doesn't. 2035 01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:40,840 They don't trust him there. And so Dominguez is not going to 2036 01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:43,760 center and you got to put Bellinger back in center as a 2037 01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:45,360 Band-Aid and he's he's a good center fielder. 2038 01:33:45,680 --> 01:33:49,080 No disagree with that. By the deadline, Weathers will 2039 01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:52,560 be the number 3 starter. That's not crazy. 2040 01:33:54,320 --> 01:33:59,080 He's got really good stuff, but it is crazy based on who the 2041 01:33:59,080 --> 01:34:01,600 Yankees are going to be rolling out there when it's all said and 2042 01:34:01,600 --> 01:34:04,480 done because you're going to have freed, you're going to have 2043 01:34:04,480 --> 01:34:06,920 Garrett Cole and you're going to have Cam Schlittler. 2044 01:34:07,200 --> 01:34:08,800 So again, I have to work under the pretense. 2045 01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:11,280 No injuries. Like all this has to be attacked 2046 01:34:11,280 --> 01:34:13,160 from the mindset of they're healthy, that's it. 2047 01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:18,400 So right away is at least #4 and then you got rolled on who is at 2048 01:34:18,400 --> 01:34:20,080 that point might be the best number 4IN baseball. 2049 01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:24,240 Matter of fact, he will be. And then I do think the weathers 2050 01:34:24,240 --> 01:34:26,160 would be 5. You know, we have to see about 2051 01:34:26,160 --> 01:34:27,480 Will Warren, Clark, Schmidt, whatever. 2052 01:34:28,040 --> 01:34:31,080 That's an interesting take. I do like Weathers, his upside 2053 01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:33,520 injuries, his stuff plays really well. 2054 01:34:33,840 --> 01:34:38,000 Lefty, you know, throws gas. Yankees are usually pretty good 2055 01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:40,560 with rehabilitating pitchers. So I feel good about him. 2056 01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:42,720 I didn't have a great spring, but I feel good about him. 2057 01:34:43,520 --> 01:34:48,000 But no, that was #3 McMahon, Jazz and Dominguez, and he'll 2058 01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:50,640 all gone. Oh God. 2059 01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:54,800 I mean, I don't. They're not going to extend 2060 01:34:54,800 --> 01:34:56,600 Dominguez. They're not going to extend Jazz 2061 01:34:56,600 --> 01:35:00,040 with the contract. I and I, I've said I'm on the 2062 01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:01,520 record where I think they're going to trade him. 2063 01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:04,120 But if he's playing well, and I do think he'll play well this 2064 01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:07,040 year, just not enough to justify ridiculous contract, I don't 2065 01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:08,280 trust him. Yeah, I just don't think he's 2066 01:35:08,280 --> 01:35:09,600 locked in as a ballplayer enough. 2067 01:35:09,600 --> 01:35:12,000 I don't think he's a gamer. I think he's incredibly 2068 01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:14,520 talented, but he's a little bit too flighty for me. 2069 01:35:14,520 --> 01:35:16,840 He's just not locked in. I don't know how to say it, man. 2070 01:35:17,080 --> 01:35:19,120 So I'm not investing 5 or 6 years with the kind of money 2071 01:35:19,120 --> 01:35:21,600 that he's probably going to get somewhere else or wants that he, 2072 01:35:21,640 --> 01:35:23,600 you know, he had to throw out some numbers early in the sea. 2073 01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:26,520 I'm like, OK, buddy, I don't think they'll trade him. 2074 01:35:27,440 --> 01:35:30,040 McMahon's got this year and next year 16 to pop. 2075 01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:33,640 So let's say midway through that would be 8 million remaining. 2076 01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:37,440 And then obviously 1624, I mean, the Yankees could throw in four, 2077 01:35:37,440 --> 01:35:40,680 $5,000,000 and trade him. Like, OK, but what under what's 2078 01:35:40,680 --> 01:35:43,920 then who's playing third base? I mean, could it be Lombard? 2079 01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:50,320 Like if Lombard crushes it in the minors, middish season call 2080 01:35:50,320 --> 01:35:52,240 up? I still think it's early. 2081 01:35:52,240 --> 01:35:54,840 I love to see it, but I don't think it's going to happen. 2082 01:35:55,760 --> 01:35:57,240 I wouldn't be surprised if Louis Hill is gone. 2083 01:35:57,240 --> 01:35:58,320 That wouldn't surprise me at all. 2084 01:35:58,320 --> 01:35:59,560 I think the bloom is off the Rose. 2085 01:35:59,560 --> 01:36:02,280 I don't trust him. He's already in the minors, not 2086 01:36:02,280 --> 01:36:04,200 in the rotation. Nah, not buying it. 2087 01:36:04,240 --> 01:36:06,720 Just not buying it there. So good stuff. 2088 01:36:06,720 --> 01:36:08,880 I mean, good, good, good thoughts there, for sure. 2089 01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:12,880 But no, I don't think that's going to be the case here. 2090 01:36:12,880 --> 01:36:18,320 Anything else? What do we got here? 2091 01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:22,760 What? Oh, Jack, that's interesting. 2092 01:36:24,120 --> 01:36:26,640 There's something to that. I don't want to just beg on 2093 01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:28,040 Carmelo. I say I don't want to just throw 2094 01:36:28,320 --> 01:36:32,320 people catching strays here at MKA Dosa. 2095 01:36:33,040 --> 01:36:36,160 It used to do Carmelo for you and those of you who have heard 2096 01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:39,160 my Carmelo takes over the years nor you can get that down, Jay. 2097 01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:41,520 Thank you, buddy. Know where that's coming from. 2098 01:36:43,400 --> 01:36:46,040 No, because one of the things that's always bothered me about 2099 01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:50,280 Carmelo is I never thought he was in great shape, had a 2100 01:36:50,280 --> 01:36:53,360 diversion of playing defense. I think Jazz plays hard. 2101 01:36:53,560 --> 01:36:56,720 I think Jazz is in great shape. I think Jazz plays with great 2102 01:36:56,720 --> 01:36:59,240 energy. I just think he's Spacey. 2103 01:36:59,840 --> 01:37:02,880 I think he's his mind wanders. I don't think that was the 2104 01:37:02,880 --> 01:37:05,360 problem with Carmelo. I think Carmelo was locked in to 2105 01:37:05,360 --> 01:37:08,040 the things that Carmelo wanted to be locked into, like scoring. 2106 01:37:08,080 --> 01:37:10,200 That was it. Like if even though, even if he 2107 01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:12,480 didn't, even if it wasn't a plus defender, which he never would 2108 01:37:12,480 --> 01:37:14,440 have been. Like if he cared about the 2109 01:37:14,440 --> 01:37:17,560 offense or if he cared about being in shape the way I wanted 2110 01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:21,080 him to in real time, and then I wouldn't have this opinion of 2111 01:37:21,080 --> 01:37:22,800 Carmelo Anthony. Like, I'm not making this up. 2112 01:37:23,160 --> 01:37:24,600 You know, I don't get me going on. 2113 01:37:24,600 --> 01:37:25,880 Carmelo, what are you doing, man? 2114 01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:33,240 Come on. All right, one more thing here 2115 01:37:34,360 --> 01:37:40,520 about Aaron Judge. So Aaron Judge has three MVPS, 2116 01:37:40,720 --> 01:37:41,600 all right? It's got three. 2117 01:37:41,600 --> 01:37:42,760 I didn't need the glasses for that. 2118 01:37:42,800 --> 01:37:45,480 It's got 3. He would have his fourth if it 2119 01:37:45,480 --> 01:37:47,920 wasn't hosed by the cheaters out there in Houston. 2120 01:37:47,920 --> 01:37:52,560 Altuve buzzers, benches, garbage cans, those guys. 2121 01:37:53,120 --> 01:37:54,520 So he should have won it in 2017. 2122 01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:56,720 We all know that. So he's got 3, should have 4. 2123 01:37:57,120 --> 01:37:58,640 He's going to get at least one or two more here. 2124 01:37:58,680 --> 01:38:02,680 But it's all said and done. We have watched and you know, 2125 01:38:03,120 --> 01:38:07,440 not in succession, but we have seen him go 52 and 1/14/62 and 2126 01:38:07,440 --> 01:38:12,640 1/31/58 and 14453 and 114, All right? 2127 01:38:13,280 --> 01:38:18,560 We have watched him lead the league in WAR by a mile 3 of the 2128 01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:20,840 past Four Seasons. We've watched him lead the 2129 01:38:20,840 --> 01:38:23,920 league in OPS plus three of the four last seasons. 2130 01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:26,640 And Oh yeah, by the way, good measure, just so everybody 2131 01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:28,960 knows, he's not a power hitter exclusively and he's a 2132 01:38:28,960 --> 01:38:32,680 well-rounded player. Suddenly he has evolved into a 2133 01:38:32,680 --> 01:38:37,280 batting champion 322 and 2025. And then of course, well, yo, 2134 01:38:37,320 --> 01:38:38,600 yeah, yeah, yeah. He had one. 2135 01:38:38,600 --> 01:38:41,160 So around them, yeah. Maybe that's why he hit 322. 2136 01:38:41,160 --> 01:38:44,440 No, and he goes he doesn't have much behind him now and or last 2137 01:38:44,440 --> 01:38:48,320 year and he hit 331. He was better without Juan Soto. 2138 01:38:48,520 --> 01:38:51,200 All right, and that's not to pull Soto into this, but some 2139 01:38:51,200 --> 01:38:53,880 people think and some people think that Soto had the big year 2140 01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:55,720 that he had because of judge, which by the fair, I think is 2141 01:38:55,720 --> 01:38:58,600 actually more applicable than saying that that so that that 2142 01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:00,800 judges numbers were better because of Soto. 2143 01:39:00,800 --> 01:39:02,480 If anything, I think it's the other way around, but not to the 2144 01:39:02,480 --> 01:39:05,200 point where I, I, you know, I'm going to start shading Soto, 2145 01:39:05,200 --> 01:39:09,200 great hitter, right? So I said 322 and 331. 2146 01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:10,440 All the other things that I've said here. 2147 01:39:10,720 --> 01:39:12,960 He's going to have more than 400 home runs at the end of the 2148 01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:17,240 season and is special in terms of character, emotional 2149 01:39:17,240 --> 01:39:20,840 reliability and everything that you want in a young athlete 2150 01:39:20,840 --> 01:39:23,120 representing or, or an athlete young or old. 2151 01:39:23,440 --> 01:39:25,920 An apple, an athlete representing a brand like the 2152 01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:30,400 Yankees in a city like New York where there is drama everywhere 2153 01:39:30,400 --> 01:39:32,360 you turn. If you misspeak or you 2154 01:39:32,360 --> 01:39:35,720 misrepresent something once or somebody takes one picture or 2155 01:39:35,720 --> 01:39:38,880 there's one bad tweet or one guys like or whatever you might 2156 01:39:38,880 --> 01:39:43,160 do in your social media life, all of the avenues, all the 2157 01:39:43,160 --> 01:39:47,280 trapdoors, all the trappings of be the superstar in New York, 2158 01:39:47,640 --> 01:39:53,520 Aaron Judge comports himself like an absolute grade A first 2159 01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:58,560 rate, beyond reproach, human being, teammate, family man, 2160 01:39:58,600 --> 01:40:02,000 person, period. And there's still this notion 2161 01:40:02,000 --> 01:40:04,920 out there, and I, I, it, it drives me nuts. 2162 01:40:05,480 --> 01:40:08,800 That Aaron Judge is never going to be viewed as the ultimate 2163 01:40:08,800 --> 01:40:13,520 Yankee, an old time Yankee if he doesn't win a World Series. 2164 01:40:13,520 --> 01:40:15,720 And it is the most and I know why people say it. 2165 01:40:15,720 --> 01:40:18,640 I get it because with the Yankees, the association is is 2166 01:40:18,640 --> 01:40:21,000 always got to be about winning. If you're an all time if you're 2167 01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:26,280 a legacy Yankee, you won Mickey Berra, you know, Whitey Ford, 2168 01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:31,960 DiMaggio, Reggie, obviously Jeter a rod one and O 9. 2169 01:40:32,120 --> 01:40:36,520 You know, Guidry Nettles, Goose Thurman before he passed away in 2170 01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:40,920 79 before he was killed in 1979. You know, he go back Don Larson 2171 01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:44,240 perfect game in the 50s, right. Like all these amazing. 2172 01:40:44,240 --> 01:40:45,400 Yeah. I don't know if I said DiMaggio. 2173 01:40:45,400 --> 01:40:48,800 If I didn't, that's my bad. All these great Lou Gehrig. 2174 01:40:49,040 --> 01:40:51,000 Look at Lou Gehrig's stats some days. 2175 01:40:51,440 --> 01:40:53,880 So I I get it. I understand that to an extent 2176 01:40:53,880 --> 01:40:57,520 statistically, all right. And you know how where he 2177 01:40:57,520 --> 01:41:01,000 measures up people who do say he needs to win a championship to 2178 01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:03,880 be an old time Yankee, they at least most of them parse it 2179 01:41:03,880 --> 01:41:06,040 with, but man, his numbers are insane. 2180 01:41:06,040 --> 01:41:07,200 All right, So at least you give them that. 2181 01:41:07,360 --> 01:41:09,480 But what you don't give them, for those of you who believe you 2182 01:41:09,480 --> 01:41:12,960 can't be an old time great without the ring validation, 2183 01:41:12,960 --> 01:41:15,760 which to me is ridiculous and petty and shallow and at this 2184 01:41:15,760 --> 01:41:18,640 point for me, incredibly baseless, right. 2185 01:41:20,280 --> 01:41:25,240 What you fail to incorporate is that the components within a 2186 01:41:25,240 --> 01:41:30,280 baseball team, there's nothing that Aaron Judge can control 2187 01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:34,960 beyond what he does and what you do in a baseball game. 2188 01:41:35,280 --> 01:41:38,320 Getting 4 at bats and maybe getting whether you're now the 2189 01:41:38,320 --> 01:41:42,880 pop up in center fields, that's tough One overlooked in the 2190 01:41:42,880 --> 01:41:46,320 World Series, I get it. But playing center, playing 2191 01:41:46,320 --> 01:41:49,480 right, you might have 3 or 4 balls hit to you, right. 2192 01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:54,920 So think about this, if you play A7 game series and you lose Game 2193 01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:58,480 7 and let's just say you're going to get some walks, 2194 01:41:58,480 --> 01:42:03,800 obviously 7 * 4 is 28. Let's say you get 28 at bats, 28 2195 01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:06,480 official at bats. Let's say you get seven walks. 2196 01:42:06,480 --> 01:42:09,480 So that's 35 plate appearances in seven games, all right, 2197 01:42:09,800 --> 01:42:14,280 independent of what you hit, 390 or 126 home runs or none, OPA 2198 01:42:15,240 --> 01:42:17,960 100 or an OPS of 312, independent of that. 2199 01:42:17,960 --> 01:42:20,560 Talking about sheer ability, the amount of times that you 2200 01:42:20,560 --> 01:42:24,600 actually touch a bat or touch a ball, that impacts winning 35 2201 01:42:24,600 --> 01:42:27,240 plate appearances. And let's say the seven games 2202 01:42:27,240 --> 01:42:30,560 you're in right field, let's say you get 3 balls a night, that's 2203 01:42:30,560 --> 01:42:33,200 21. All right, so now we'll get you 2204 01:42:33,200 --> 01:42:38,640 to about 5656 chances to help your team literally between 2205 01:42:38,640 --> 01:42:41,080 batting and fielding and throwing. 2206 01:42:43,040 --> 01:42:46,000 Think about how many shots let's say the Knicks get Knicks, by 2207 01:42:46,000 --> 01:42:47,560 the way, start to look better. I know they're playing some bad 2208 01:42:47,560 --> 01:42:50,040 teams, but good to see. And I love what Mike Brown said 2209 01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:51,880 last night. I you know, I'm not going to get 2210 01:42:51,880 --> 01:42:55,000 into the Knicks now big, but I love what Mike Brown said about 2211 01:42:55,000 --> 01:42:59,040 how he has learned to utilize Carl Anthony Towns better and 2212 01:42:59,360 --> 01:43:01,920 Carl's accepted that and like the numbers bear it out. 2213 01:43:01,920 --> 01:43:04,080 Like the Knicks numbers are really, really impressive. 2214 01:43:04,080 --> 01:43:05,680 All besides still don't think they're going to win the 2215 01:43:05,680 --> 01:43:08,720 championship. I hope they do and I feel better 2216 01:43:08,720 --> 01:43:10,120 about them than I have been a long time. 2217 01:43:10,120 --> 01:43:12,240 But I want to at least shout that out, but not so much to 2218 01:43:12,240 --> 01:43:13,280 win. You played the Pelican against 2219 01:43:13,280 --> 01:43:14,520 man and you didn't even beat them by 20. 2220 01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:17,240 Pelicans are awful, but I love what Mike said. 2221 01:43:17,240 --> 01:43:19,880 That shows growth from him. That shows a little more 2222 01:43:19,880 --> 01:43:21,400 connectivity with one of your star players. 2223 01:43:21,400 --> 01:43:22,880 That's good. But the reason I bring the 2224 01:43:22,880 --> 01:43:27,360 Knicks up, So again, 35 at bats, 21 pop up, space hits to right 2225 01:43:27,360 --> 01:43:30,640 field, whatever it might be. So now you're talking about 35 2226 01:43:30,640 --> 01:43:37,800 and 21 to about 86, right? No, I'm sorry, 35 and 2156 total 2227 01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:39,920 chances. If Jalen Bronson gets to the NBA 2228 01:43:39,920 --> 01:43:42,200 Finals and they play seven games, right? 2229 01:43:42,600 --> 01:43:47,000 That is minimally 20 * 7 is 140 right away. 2230 01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:50,560 That's 140 shots. Not to mention the if there's 2231 01:43:50,560 --> 01:43:54,040 100 possessions in the game, there's 100 possessions for you 2232 01:43:54,040 --> 01:43:57,120 to try to do something defensively that will impact 2233 01:43:57,120 --> 01:43:59,840 winning. So when the Yankees lose a game 2234 01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:03,720 and they lose 2 to 1, you know, and you know, Grisham pops up 2235 01:44:03,720 --> 01:44:09,040 with a man on 3rd or Jazz, Jazz strikes out or McMahon whiffs or 2236 01:44:09,040 --> 01:44:11,920 Volpee boots a ball, the shortstop or somebody comes out 2237 01:44:11,920 --> 01:44:15,240 of the pen and does it and gives up an untimely home run or an 2238 01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:18,120 I'll timed home run or Bellinger, you know, goes one 2239 01:44:18,120 --> 01:44:20,440 for 19. Like when all that's going on, 2240 01:44:20,440 --> 01:44:22,120 that a damn thing you can do. I'm sorry. 2241 01:44:22,240 --> 01:44:24,120 Here's what you can do. Let's go belly. 2242 01:44:24,600 --> 01:44:25,640 Let's go belly. We say butt. 2243 01:44:25,640 --> 01:44:27,280 Come on now. Got to get that little baseball 2244 01:44:27,560 --> 01:44:29,720 dugout chat, you know? Hey, we say butt. 2245 01:44:30,280 --> 01:44:31,680 Yeah. Hey, come on, Vote. 2246 01:44:32,240 --> 01:44:34,280 That's it. That's the only contribution 2247 01:44:34,280 --> 01:44:36,480 that you can make to the moment. Cheer them on. 2248 01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:39,160 Somebody makes a play. Hey, you know, could come, hit 2249 01:44:39,160 --> 01:44:40,600 home, run, beat them without a boy. 2250 01:44:40,600 --> 01:44:42,560 Do your little dance. You know, all the things they 2251 01:44:42,560 --> 01:44:45,520 do, boy. And then you sit and you watch 2252 01:44:45,600 --> 01:44:48,320 until it's your chance to bat or something comes your way in the 2253 01:44:48,320 --> 01:44:50,040 outfield. So that's why I think it's 2254 01:44:50,040 --> 01:44:55,760 patently idiotic and absolutely offensive to the legacy of 2255 01:44:55,760 --> 01:44:59,920 somebody like Aaron Judge. Not all of you, but too many of 2256 01:44:59,920 --> 01:45:04,120 you. This just ironclad, inflexible 2257 01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:08,160 connection to the championship and the pursuit and the 2258 01:45:08,160 --> 01:45:11,800 accomplishment, which is the Ultimate Team accomplishment. 2259 01:45:12,240 --> 01:45:15,440 And just based on how I laid it out, I could do this with every 2260 01:45:15,440 --> 01:45:17,960 sport. By the way, quarterback who 2261 01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:20,920 doesn't win, you know, you know, let's you still throw the ball 2262 01:45:20,920 --> 01:45:24,080 30 something times, right? You got to take 70 snaps. 2263 01:45:24,080 --> 01:45:26,760 You know, I mean, you might get sacked if you saw somebody, if 2264 01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:28,760 you were able to get rid of the ball, maybe he didn't get 2265 01:45:28,760 --> 01:45:30,320 sacked. And maybe instead of being able 2266 01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:32,560 to take a field goal or attempt, you don't have to punt. 2267 01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:37,120 Like there's so many ways woven within every other game hockey. 2268 01:45:37,120 --> 01:45:38,920 All right, You turn the bucket over in the zone. 2269 01:45:39,480 --> 01:45:40,320 Does that make sense? Yeah. 2270 01:45:40,800 --> 01:45:43,840 You turn the puck over the zone, make a play, you know, you know, 2271 01:45:43,880 --> 01:45:46,320 block a shot in front of the net, even if you're not a great 2272 01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:48,680 defense, but even if that's not your thing, you know, make a 2273 01:45:48,680 --> 01:45:52,040 great steal, finish two on one, make up the great pass, go top 2274 01:45:52,040 --> 01:45:56,040 shelf, you know, draw a penalty. Aaron Judge and every other 2275 01:45:56,040 --> 01:45:58,600 great baseball player, by the way, that doesn't have a 2276 01:45:58,600 --> 01:46:00,880 championship. They are idle. 2277 01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:05,320 They are there's zero impact the rest of the game. 2278 01:46:05,320 --> 01:46:09,360 Like there's more inaction and there's there's more inaction 2279 01:46:09,640 --> 01:46:12,400 and less influence on the outcome of a game for a store 2280 01:46:12,400 --> 01:46:16,040 baseball player than any other star in any other sport. 2281 01:46:16,240 --> 01:46:18,240 But yet so many of you still don't get this. 2282 01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:24,480 Come on, what's wrong with you? Now, I do think that I think a 2283 01:46:24,480 --> 01:46:28,280 lot of the criticisms toward the Yankees, whether it's Cashman, 2284 01:46:29,840 --> 01:46:35,760 Cashman, Brian Cashman on the right, Cashman or Hal, and I 2285 01:46:35,760 --> 01:46:38,720 think some of that's misguided and unfounded With Hal. 2286 01:46:38,960 --> 01:46:41,120 Cashman, to me, he's always been the main target because he's 2287 01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:42,640 been the GM, He builds the roster. 2288 01:46:43,000 --> 01:46:44,040 I don't think the team's good enough. 2289 01:46:44,040 --> 01:46:46,360 I don't think they're good enough this year unless the 2290 01:46:46,360 --> 01:46:49,240 pitching becomes what I think it maybe could, then I think the 2291 01:46:49,240 --> 01:46:50,400 Yankees could win the World Series. 2292 01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:53,920 But if like if Cole's not right and take a step forward, like 2293 01:46:53,960 --> 01:46:55,640 there's too many other components that just aren't good 2294 01:46:55,640 --> 01:46:58,200 enough unless they make crazy trades like not, I don't mean on 2295 01:46:58,200 --> 01:47:00,400 the margins. I mean real transformative 2296 01:47:00,400 --> 01:47:02,280 trades, right? And we'll see if they do. 2297 01:47:02,600 --> 01:47:05,160 But to make Cashman is the main impediment championship. 2298 01:47:05,400 --> 01:47:07,960 That's why you say, oh, your boys with Boone, you always left 2299 01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:10,160 Boone off the hook. I crushed him when he put an 2300 01:47:10,160 --> 01:47:11,440 Ester Cortez in the World Series. 2301 01:47:11,600 --> 01:47:14,760 Literally crushed him on the air the next day with Sal crushed 2302 01:47:14,760 --> 01:47:16,640 him. Awful move, right? 2303 01:47:17,080 --> 01:47:20,680 And you know, he still gets on me and he gets on Sal for the, 2304 01:47:21,160 --> 01:47:24,120 you know, for the Grisham stuff. Oh, you guys, I think called Sal 2305 01:47:24,840 --> 01:47:28,600 the night before we did the BT and Sal live show and and always 2306 01:47:28,600 --> 01:47:31,600 getting on me about that too. I get too hard on Grishamma 34 2307 01:47:31,600 --> 01:47:32,440 home. Right, all right, great. 2308 01:47:32,440 --> 01:47:33,960 I don't want to bat lead off skip. 2309 01:47:33,960 --> 01:47:35,520 I know, I know how many home runs he hit. 2310 01:47:35,520 --> 01:47:36,640 I trust me. I watch every game. 2311 01:47:36,640 --> 01:47:38,160 I get it. I don't like him as a lead off 2312 01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:39,360 hitter. So I I respect you. 2313 01:47:39,560 --> 01:47:43,480 You forgot more baseball than my entire family knows, But I don't 2314 01:47:43,480 --> 01:47:45,160 want to hear it, man. Is that a lead off hitter on a 2315 01:47:45,160 --> 01:47:46,600 team that I think is going to win the World Series? 2316 01:47:46,800 --> 01:47:50,120 So the point is, is that there's so many other points of 2317 01:47:50,120 --> 01:47:53,920 inflection and so many other pivotal points within a game and 2318 01:47:53,920 --> 01:47:57,440 so many, you know, other opportunities that other players 2319 01:47:57,440 --> 01:48:01,400 in other sports get to really impact the championship bottom 2320 01:48:01,400 --> 01:48:05,400 line than Aaron Judge or even Barry Bonds or anybody else that 2321 01:48:05,400 --> 01:48:08,000 doesn't have her. Ernie Banks back in the day with 2322 01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:10,840 the Chicago Cubs. Any great baseball player that 2323 01:48:10,840 --> 01:48:14,480 is ringless, I just think it's really, really unfair. 2324 01:48:14,600 --> 01:48:18,160 You know, Don Mattingly, David Wright, they both had back 2325 01:48:18,160 --> 01:48:19,720 injuries. They were Mattingly was better 2326 01:48:19,720 --> 01:48:21,440 than David Wright. But you know, I love David 2327 01:48:21,440 --> 01:48:23,240 Wright. Like David Wright is to me one 2328 01:48:23,240 --> 01:48:24,760 of the absolute. I think it's the greatest met of 2329 01:48:24,760 --> 01:48:25,600 all time. Not one of them. 2330 01:48:25,600 --> 01:48:27,960 I think he's better, better than Straw, better than Piazza, 2331 01:48:27,960 --> 01:48:30,240 better than Lindor, better than everybody, better than Ray is 2332 01:48:30,240 --> 01:48:31,560 better than Keith, better than Gary. 2333 01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:34,760 I think that he truly is the best met of all time because he 2334 01:48:34,760 --> 01:48:36,680 can hit, he can run, he can feel, he can do it all. 2335 01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:38,800 And then he hurt his back and they didn't hurt his back. 2336 01:48:38,800 --> 01:48:41,080 It would have been in the Hall of Fame, but he has no 2337 01:48:41,080 --> 01:48:44,520 championships. And is it his fault that too 2338 01:48:44,520 --> 01:48:46,680 often the Mets were poorly constructed, that the Mets were 2339 01:48:46,680 --> 01:48:49,200 either cheap or just ineffectively built back with 2340 01:48:49,200 --> 01:48:52,240 the Wilpons? You know, no, not his fault. 2341 01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:56,480 So I, I, I think it's emblematic of a, of a larger issue here, 2342 01:48:56,480 --> 01:48:59,760 guys, and that's so many of you. I don't maybe not the BT 2343 01:48:59,760 --> 01:49:03,040 unleashed fam, Hopefully we're kind of above this, but so many 2344 01:49:03,040 --> 01:49:05,400 people, maybe I shouldn't personalize it. 2345 01:49:05,680 --> 01:49:09,640 So many people are just so shallow in their evaluations of 2346 01:49:09,640 --> 01:49:13,280 sports because let's just face it, I'm just going to call it 2347 01:49:13,280 --> 01:49:17,240 for what it is. At the end of the day, a lot of 2348 01:49:17,240 --> 01:49:22,480 people that you listen to like with great frequency really just 2349 01:49:22,480 --> 01:49:26,000 don't know shit about sports. They really just don't. 2350 01:49:26,480 --> 01:49:30,880 They don't you know, so when you don't know a lot about sports, 2351 01:49:31,920 --> 01:49:35,320 you got to like kind of get in. Let me get that volatile topic, 2352 01:49:35,680 --> 01:49:38,400 get the phones ringing, let me get the clicks happening. 2353 01:49:38,600 --> 01:49:41,880 You know, let me give you a broad based angle here that 2354 01:49:41,880 --> 01:49:44,600 everybody's going to react to. I don't know, man, I just that's 2355 01:49:44,600 --> 01:49:48,120 just not me, you know, so I that's where I'm at on Aaron 2356 01:49:48,120 --> 01:49:49,640 judge. He's the greatest player that 2357 01:49:49,640 --> 01:49:51,760 I've ever seen. He really just is. 2358 01:49:52,280 --> 01:49:55,840 And you know, in terms of being a human being, like one thing 2359 01:49:55,840 --> 01:49:57,800 that I, I, I know, I don't know him. 2360 01:49:58,560 --> 01:50:01,000 And I know if you don't really truly know somebody, like 2361 01:50:01,760 --> 01:50:03,800 there's got to be a limit as to how much you trust their 2362 01:50:03,800 --> 01:50:05,040 character. Like it shouldn't always be 2363 01:50:05,040 --> 01:50:07,120 100%. Like, if you just don't know, 2364 01:50:07,440 --> 01:50:10,360 there have been things that have happened, public figures and 2365 01:50:10,360 --> 01:50:13,000 people in your own lives where you're like, wow, jeez, I just I 2366 01:50:13,000 --> 01:50:16,040 didn't see that man. So I guess you leave the door 2367 01:50:16,040 --> 01:50:19,240 slightly ajar. But like that door is about as 2368 01:50:19,240 --> 01:50:23,880 tightly sealed in terms of like on on the meter of being stunned 2369 01:50:23,880 --> 01:50:28,520 and floored. Anything ever like unkind or 2370 01:50:28,840 --> 01:50:31,600 salacious coming about? How about Aaron Judge? 2371 01:50:32,400 --> 01:50:34,880 There is nobody else in the sporting sphere. 2372 01:50:35,560 --> 01:50:39,680 It would stun me more than him. So he is a grade A human. 2373 01:50:39,840 --> 01:50:44,120 And by the way, even if he was a shit head and just a bad dude, 2374 01:50:44,720 --> 01:50:46,600 I'd be saying the same thing that I just said. 2375 01:50:47,160 --> 01:50:49,560 It's it's you know, not about his character, but it's a 2376 01:50:49,560 --> 01:50:52,040 everything that I just said is still applicable to the guy 2377 01:50:52,040 --> 01:50:54,080 who's a jerk. And I don't even know who that 2378 01:50:54,080 --> 01:50:55,840 is. I mean, maybe Barry Bonds back 2379 01:50:55,840 --> 01:50:58,600 in the day, you know, seems like he's lightened up a little. 2380 01:50:59,960 --> 01:51:09,840 Judge has the talent of a rod. Wow, the persona of Clemente and 2381 01:51:09,840 --> 01:51:15,400 the team luck of Mattingly, that is a strong one right there. 2382 01:51:15,920 --> 01:51:21,960 He's got the talent of a rod. The persona of Clemente, the I'm 2383 01:51:21,960 --> 01:51:23,480 really thinking about the Clemente thing. 2384 01:51:24,120 --> 01:51:26,000 Yeah. I mean, I mean, think about the 2385 01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:28,120 way he did pass. You know, he's going to to 2386 01:51:28,120 --> 01:51:33,560 Nicaragua on on a humanitarian mission in I think it was 1970, 2387 01:51:33,560 --> 01:51:35,600 New Year's Eve and and died in the plane crash. 2388 01:51:35,600 --> 01:51:38,960 Many of you know that. So his character, I mean, they 2389 01:51:38,960 --> 01:51:42,280 have the Roberto Clemente award, maybe as high a character of 2390 01:51:42,280 --> 01:51:44,640 person ever. So if if that's what you're 2391 01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:45,600 going for, sure. Yeah. 2392 01:51:45,640 --> 01:51:46,280 Yeah. OK. 2393 01:51:46,320 --> 01:51:49,360 I got you there. And the team luck of Mattingly, 2394 01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:53,200 Yeah, I'm not even sure that he's got the team luck of 2395 01:51:53,200 --> 01:51:56,240 Mattingly because if you think about, you know, Mattingly, I 2396 01:51:56,240 --> 01:52:00,120 know from a pitching perspective, Aaron's had more, 2397 01:52:00,120 --> 01:52:03,240 but at least Don Mattingly had Ricky Henderson batten first for 2398 01:52:03,240 --> 01:52:05,040 a couple of years. Literally the greatest lead off 2399 01:52:05,040 --> 01:52:08,120 hitter of all time. I mean you what Mattingly Now 2400 01:52:08,120 --> 01:52:12,520 Mattingly's luck was George was at his most volatile worst at 2401 01:52:12,520 --> 01:52:17,440 the too often during his run. The minor leagues were barren, 2402 01:52:17,440 --> 01:52:21,480 the pitching was wretched. You know, Oh my God, Scott 2403 01:52:21,480 --> 01:52:25,920 Sanderson and Dave Hyland and Sam Militello and Chuck Carey 2404 01:52:25,920 --> 01:52:30,040 and all these guys that were supposed to Andy Hawkins 2405 01:52:30,040 --> 01:52:32,080 throwing a no hitter and losing Jace. 2406 01:52:32,480 --> 01:52:37,040 You know, that part's true, but you know, you had Ricky and then 2407 01:52:37,040 --> 01:52:40,080 you had Willie in the two spot, then you had Donnie and then you 2408 01:52:40,080 --> 01:52:43,960 had you had Dave Winfield over 3000 hits power guy hold the 2409 01:52:43,960 --> 01:52:47,560 Famer behind you. You know, so interesting, though 2410 01:52:47,560 --> 01:52:49,320 I I loosely translate. I know what you mean. 2411 01:52:49,320 --> 01:52:50,560 It's a good one. You get that down, Jay. 2412 01:52:50,560 --> 01:52:53,560 Wow, anymore that we want to bounce in here before we get a 2413 01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:56,600 little skedaddle time here. Are we under selling the 2414 01:52:56,600 --> 01:53:00,240 Orioles, though? I'm getting latest I'm getting 2415 01:53:00,880 --> 01:53:02,480 What's it? What does that mean? 2416 01:53:03,200 --> 01:53:05,520 Latest. Latest. 2417 01:53:05,760 --> 01:53:08,680 I don't even know. Latest Blue Jay vibes. 2418 01:53:09,080 --> 01:53:10,760 Feel like the East is going to be a dog fight. 2419 01:53:10,760 --> 01:53:18,800 Last runaway maybe, Yeah, I mean, maybe I I listen, I think 2420 01:53:18,800 --> 01:53:22,760 that the winner of the American League East is going to be South 2421 01:53:22,760 --> 01:53:24,600 of 95 wins. I don't think anybody's going to 2422 01:53:24,600 --> 01:53:26,400 win 100. I don't think anybody's gonna 2423 01:53:26,400 --> 01:53:28,240 touch 9899. I really don't. 2424 01:53:28,240 --> 01:53:29,720 I think it's probably gonna be 95. 2425 01:53:29,720 --> 01:53:33,520 I think gonna have the winners gonna have around 95, maybe 96. 2426 01:53:34,080 --> 01:53:35,480 I'm not even sure if it's gonna be the Yankees. 2427 01:53:35,480 --> 01:53:37,000 Like I'm, I'm not even really picking them to win the 2428 01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:38,720 division. They got to prove they're better 2429 01:53:38,720 --> 01:53:40,680 than Toronto. But because Toronto is going to 2430 01:53:40,680 --> 01:53:43,480 be really good and Baltimore is going to be better. 2431 01:53:43,480 --> 01:53:45,480 Agreed. And because the Rays are always 2432 01:53:45,480 --> 01:53:48,600 scrappy and feisty and tough and because the Red Sox have great 2433 01:53:48,600 --> 01:53:51,680 pitching and, or, or get in. I mean, Roman Anthony, I got 2434 01:53:51,680 --> 01:53:55,680 some players. I think that the, the win total 2435 01:53:55,680 --> 01:53:58,240 for the ultimate winner of the division is going to be lower 2436 01:53:58,240 --> 01:54:01,800 than normal and the last place finisher is going to have a 2437 01:54:01,800 --> 01:54:05,360 higher win total than usual. So when you have that, you're 2438 01:54:05,360 --> 01:54:10,960 going to have more, you know, 90 twos, 93 wins, maybe 94 in terms 2439 01:54:10,960 --> 01:54:13,600 of a division winner. And then I, I think there's a 2440 01:54:13,600 --> 01:54:16,520 chance everybody's 500 or better. 2441 01:54:16,800 --> 01:54:19,240 And if I had to really put money down, like there's always like 2442 01:54:19,240 --> 01:54:22,440 an anomaly, injuries and outlier, I would bet that for 2443 01:54:22,440 --> 01:54:25,800 the five teams are over 500. You know, from a value point of 2444 01:54:25,800 --> 01:54:28,000 view, it's just too risky to say all 5. 2445 01:54:28,000 --> 01:54:30,520 Like, again, I, I think it's very, very possible. 2446 01:54:30,840 --> 01:54:33,720 But if I was, if I had to throw my own money on it, I wouldn't 2447 01:54:33,720 --> 01:54:37,120 do that just based on the odds of a long season and injuries 2448 01:54:37,120 --> 01:54:40,880 and pitching is so subtle, you know, one injury changes 2449 01:54:40,880 --> 01:54:43,680 everything, you know, So I wouldn't bet on every team being 2450 01:54:43,680 --> 01:54:46,320 over 500, but I would bet on every on four of the five being 2451 01:54:46,320 --> 01:54:48,120 over 500. That I absolutely would. 2452 01:54:48,120 --> 01:54:51,280 What else you got there, J Rod? Anything else you tell me buddy? 2453 01:54:51,880 --> 01:54:56,560 See, I'm not seeing much else. Everything with Yankees of 2454 01:54:56,560 --> 01:55:00,040 process. I mean, couple Geo things, but 2455 01:55:00,040 --> 01:55:02,800 no, I mean, I think we got all of it, got through all the Super 2456 01:55:02,800 --> 01:55:09,040 chats certainly. Oh, man, yeah, yeah, yeah. 2457 01:55:09,040 --> 01:55:11,880 It's got a couple of interesting texts there. 2458 01:55:12,760 --> 01:55:15,200 Oh, yeah, yeah. No, no, this just, you know, 2459 01:55:15,200 --> 01:55:17,440 this funny stuff. People who for some reason don't 2460 01:55:17,440 --> 01:55:19,560 think that I know that he said something again this morning. 2461 01:55:19,880 --> 01:55:21,600 Oh, no, buddy. Yeah. 2462 01:55:21,800 --> 01:55:23,120 Keep knocking yourself out, Greg. 2463 01:55:23,240 --> 01:55:24,600 Have fun, buddy. Have fun. 2464 01:55:24,840 --> 01:55:29,000 Have fun with that man. You got my number. 2465 01:55:30,080 --> 01:55:31,120 It's funny, though. He laughed. 2466 01:55:31,120 --> 01:55:33,320 He's like, oh, why would I want him on the show? 2467 01:55:34,520 --> 01:55:38,880 I said I'd come in. I said I'd call in, but you 2468 01:55:38,960 --> 01:55:41,880 know, invitation evidently not accepted. 2469 01:55:42,760 --> 01:55:46,840 It's fine. It's OK J Rod, what you need to 2470 01:55:46,840 --> 01:55:48,080 do today? I'm sure your mom's already 2471 01:55:48,080 --> 01:55:52,440 telling you this. Bang back Gatorade bottle after 2472 01:55:52,440 --> 01:55:56,880 bottle or even Pedialyte, which you know about Pedialyte. 2473 01:55:56,880 --> 01:56:00,320 You give the kids. OK, OK, Good for hangovers too, 2474 01:56:00,320 --> 01:56:02,680 actually, Pedialyte. But you know, Bang Bang, bang. 2475 01:56:02,680 --> 01:56:04,560 A few of those have a banana. I don't know. 2476 01:56:04,760 --> 01:56:06,400 Are you at your parents? Where you at the apartment? 2477 01:56:06,520 --> 01:56:09,400 No, I'm at my place in New York, in my apartment. 2478 01:56:09,800 --> 01:56:12,560 All right, so you probably don't have any bananas, you know, if 2479 01:56:12,560 --> 01:56:14,480 you're, you know, 20 something year old guy like I was. 2480 01:56:14,480 --> 01:56:16,480 Well, though I always had a little fruit laying around. 2481 01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:19,680 I doubt that you have bananas. So that's good for the stomach. 2482 01:56:20,280 --> 01:56:21,840 Just layout, bro. You know, I know you got to. 2483 01:56:21,840 --> 01:56:23,840 I know you got to do some of the work with the shorts, but, you 2484 01:56:23,840 --> 01:56:26,320 know, just don't go nuts today. Stay in bed. 2485 01:56:26,440 --> 01:56:28,880 Yeah, relax. You can, you could, you could. 2486 01:56:28,960 --> 01:56:29,960 I'm not going to pull you in anymore. 2487 01:56:29,960 --> 01:56:31,960 I have good work today, man. I really appreciate you planning 2488 01:56:31,960 --> 01:56:33,960 through. I know you feel like like ass 2489 01:56:33,960 --> 01:56:36,400 today, so let's give it up for my Guy J Rod just plowing 2490 01:56:36,400 --> 01:56:38,880 through like the champion soldier that he obviously is. 2491 01:56:38,880 --> 01:56:42,400 So let's go Yanks enjoy tonight. Yeah, I know it's Netflix, but 2492 01:56:42,400 --> 01:56:44,960 it's still baseball. Baseball's back tomorrow. 2493 01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:46,120 I'll give you a little bit more on the Mets. 2494 01:56:46,120 --> 01:56:48,120 I gave you a little Mets today here, but you know, hopefully 2495 01:56:48,120 --> 01:56:50,440 you guys enjoyed the jug stuff. Like it, subscribe it. 2496 01:56:50,440 --> 01:56:53,320 Go check out The Jets collective like like it, subscribe it. 2497 01:56:53,560 --> 01:56:55,760 The first episode was phenomenal last night. 2498 01:56:55,760 --> 01:56:58,240 It's on my page there if you guys want to check that out. 2499 01:57:00,280 --> 01:57:03,560 I am going down to DC tomorrow. Ton of Saint John. 2500 01:57:03,560 --> 01:57:05,400 If I mean, if you thought I was bringing you behind the scenes 2501 01:57:05,400 --> 01:57:09,720 in San Diego, wait till I get to DCI mean the the the team hotel 2502 01:57:10,120 --> 01:57:14,280 is like it's you know, it's it's going to be it's going to be on 2503 01:57:14,280 --> 01:57:18,840 like it is red and white and it is going to be taken over by the 2504 01:57:18,840 --> 01:57:20,440 St. John's Red storm community. 2505 01:57:20,440 --> 01:57:22,240 So there's going to be a lot of great stuff there. 2506 01:57:22,480 --> 01:57:24,960 Can't wait to get on the call with Minko St. 2507 01:57:24,960 --> 01:57:26,480 Johnson Duke, the Johnnies report. 2508 01:57:26,480 --> 01:57:28,120 If you guys missed that. We did that today. 2509 01:57:28,440 --> 01:57:32,120 Appreciate my friends over at of course, Sullivan the pain and I 2510 01:57:32,120 --> 01:57:34,160 think that that's about it hit every day. 2511 01:57:34,160 --> 01:57:35,480 I needed a hit. Appreciate you guys. 2512 01:57:35,480 --> 01:57:36,760 You know that. Thanks for the support. 2513 01:57:36,760 --> 01:57:39,600 Thank you for watching the show again like it subscribe it 2514 01:57:39,600 --> 01:57:42,480 comment all that stuff. By now, you know, you know more 2515 01:57:42,480 --> 01:57:45,040 traction, more algorithm, more we could do for the show. 2516 01:57:45,040 --> 01:57:48,480 Stephen A confirm next week. I'll give you details either 2517 01:57:48,480 --> 01:57:51,320 Monday or Tuesday, what day it's going to be, but lock it in. 2518 01:57:51,320 --> 01:57:52,920 My guy Stephen A is going to join me. 2519 01:57:53,280 --> 01:57:57,120 My old teammate. He likes me and the good thing 2520 01:57:57,120 --> 01:58:00,280 too, and I said this at the start of the show, is that it's 2521 01:58:00,280 --> 01:58:01,640 not going to be like. Well, we're joined now by 2522 01:58:01,640 --> 01:58:03,520 Stephen A. So Stephen A welcome to the show 2523 01:58:03,520 --> 01:58:05,040 here. You know, what do you think 2524 01:58:05,040 --> 01:58:06,600 about this little search here about the Knicks? 2525 01:58:06,600 --> 01:58:09,480 It is going to be AI mean. We'll talk a little Knicks, but 2526 01:58:09,480 --> 01:58:11,680 it's going to be a conversation. That's my guide, man. 2527 01:58:11,680 --> 01:58:15,040 And we spent basically two years together in the studio talking 2528 01:58:15,040 --> 01:58:20,040 about a lot of stuff off the air that back then you really didn't 2529 01:58:20,040 --> 01:58:22,440 talk too much about on the air. You know, like a lot, lot of 2530 01:58:23,160 --> 01:58:26,840 things pertaining to race, some deep conversations like, you 2531 01:58:26,840 --> 01:58:29,720 know, pre COVID and and pre everybody having, you know, take 2532 01:58:29,720 --> 01:58:33,160 and shoving politics down your throat like we went deep, man. 2533 01:58:33,160 --> 01:58:35,600 That is that is a good as a good man right there. 2534 01:58:35,600 --> 01:58:37,560 It's a it's my brother. He always he's the first to say 2535 01:58:37,560 --> 01:58:39,960 he's like that's my brother. It's my boy, It's my brother BT 2536 01:58:39,960 --> 01:58:42,480 Brandon Tanny. That's how he says it. 2537 01:58:42,680 --> 01:58:45,040 I'm not I don't listen. I don't do impersonations very 2538 01:58:45,040 --> 01:58:47,280 well. I don't do them very well, but 2539 01:58:47,280 --> 01:58:50,800 that one ain't bad. My boy Brandon Tanny, so I'll 2540 01:58:50,800 --> 01:58:52,600 tell you about that whether it's going to be Monday or Tuesday. 2541 01:58:52,600 --> 01:58:55,320 But Stephen A next week, obviously a ton of Saint John 2542 01:58:55,320 --> 01:58:57,280 stuff have an outstanding Wednesday. 2543 01:58:57,560 --> 01:59:00,480 Let's go Yanks start the right way. 2544 01:59:00,760 --> 01:59:03,560 Let's go judgey. Let's get another MVP. 2545 01:59:03,560 --> 01:59:05,320 Let's go booty and I'm rooting for you. 2546 01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:12,120 Let's get this one of a 162 game race and then tomorrow, of 2547 01:59:12,120 --> 01:59:13,640 course, get more into the Mets stuff. 2548 01:59:13,640 --> 01:59:15,920 So have a great Wednesday. I will check you guys tomorrow. 2549 01:59:15,920 --> 01:59:17,640 J Rod Hang in, buddy Peace.