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All right, little housekeeping before we jump into the Subway
Series. I saw a chat already.
Mets going to sweep. That's going to sweep nothing,
although you know that there's so many aspects to this series
that are are really interesting teams going a little bit the
opposite direction. The Mets find it a little juicy
with these young guns with, with Benjamin in Soto, you know,
avoiding injury the other night, hit the bomb yesterday, the big
single. I don't know, maybe the tide is
turning a little bit. Maybe these Metsies are getting
ready to make a little bit of a season out of it.
You know, the Yankees offense has been a flat out disaster in
terms of those 5 automatic outs they roll out every single
night. So we'll dive into the Subway
Series in a moment. This is going to be fun.
Now, you know, I'm boys with Jerry.
We had Jerry on the show the other day.
My guy, Jerry Ferrara, awesome dude, known him for about 20
years at this point. And and unbeknownst to me, you
know, I just kind of heard and then I started to investigate
And, you know, we, we know about this, this blossoming beef, this
friction with Jerry and Dave Rothenberg over to ESPN Radio,
who does a great job with DPH Row, great morning show.
And I don't I don't know Dave. Like, I know, I know almost
everybody at, at ESPXI worked with a lot of those guys.
I worked with Kay, I worked with La Greca.
I've I've been, you know, tight with Alan Hahn for a long time.
He's awesome. But I don't know Dave.
I I don't even know if I've ever been in the same room as Dave,
right. So, but I always like this
passion. You know, I would listen to them
coming in once a while after Jerry's update.
Those guys do a good job. And I guess they were talking
about it on the show a little bit yesterday and and the need
the podcast came up. My name came up.
It was obviously about Jerry and they reference they played some
clips from when Jerry was on the show.
So get it up there. Let's go.
Next guest. Here we go.
Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan Little Rothenberg and Jerry Little Roth
and Turtle. We're going to flush through
this on Monday. All right, so I got I got Dave's
number, didn't even have his number, got his phone number
from John Winthrop, who used to be my producer, one of my
producers and is now the PD over to ESPN Radio and he got me his
number. I reached out and he got back to
me and then we were going back and forth a little bit
Yesterday. I said I got to get you on the
show, have a little fun, you know, just to figure out what's
going on with you, you and Jerry, see if we can't resolve
this here. So that'll be that'll be on
Monday. I don't know if it's going to be
1030 or at 11. He's obviously got his show that
that he's got a tend to that's first and foremost.
But this, I think will be like a like, I mean, not different in
the sense of of how I do the interview, though.
Of course, we're going to get, you know, the the Rothenberg and
Ferrara stuff out of the chute here trying to squash it.
Or maybe it hits another level and maybe we're in the middle of
some real radio beef there, some real content beef.
But because I don't know Dave, you know, and all the other
guests that I've had on on the show, you know, K Le Greg,
obviously Stephen A Jerry, these, these are guys I've known
for a very long time, Pitino and Aaron Boone.
I don't know Dave. So I'm looking forward to
getting to know a little bit more about, you know, how we got
into the business And, and just I don't, you know, outside of
his, his crazy fandom, which is what drew me into Dave.
I remember, God, this had to be, I don't know how long he's been
at ESPN Radio, but I left in 2011.
We never crossed paths. Obviously we didn't work at the
at the station at the same time. And I remember hearing him, I
don't know when, maybe 20-15, maybe maybe in the neighborhood
of 2015, something like that. When I was doing the national
show with Tiki when we, when we started that.
And I remember hearing Dave maybe on a weekend because I
don't think he had his own show yet, maybe doing some filling
stuff. And I texted my guy Tim
McCarthy, who, you know, who ran ESPN Radio forever, and Timmy
hired me back in the day. And I'm like, Tim, this guy's
pretty good, man. You got to get him a slot.
And, you know, here, Dave's doing his thing, doing it really
well with Rick. And they got a good thing in the
morning. So that's going to be great.
So you excited about that, J Rod?
That'll be a lot of fun, man. Time, man.
I mean, I'm, I'm really excited to see if, you know, like you
said, if he's really going to get into the weeds and if this
beef is going to be fur, then if the fuel is going to be added to
the flame, it'll be interesting. Yeah.
I listen, I don't know Jerry to ever back down from a battle,
but he's also, I think mature and I and I, I think that I, you
know, I don't, I don't know that I don't know that I don't want
to speak for either one. I, I would imagine that we will
walk away with some, you know, mediation.
I think that we'll get to the bottom of this, you know,
because, you know, unless Geo pulls me into something, I don't
know, I don't get involved in these radio, you know, that I am
a man of peace. I am a man of calm.
Yeah, I may. I am one calm person.
J Rod. But that's going to be Monday,
so either 10:30 or 11. Let you guys know.
Exactly. I told Dave I would hit him up
on Sunday and kind of confirm the time.
So somewhere in that window, I would imagine.
I'll start the show, obviously do a lot of Subway Series and
then, you know, with Dave, who's a great sports guy, you know,
once we figure out what's going on with him and Jerry, we'll do
next, we'll do Subway Series. He's he's probably the biggest
Giants fan that I know and we'll run through the giants schedule,
which is something I'll do a little bit later as well with
The Jets. All right, subways, I'll do jets
and giants today subway series. I've always been a fan.
I've always liked it. You know, now there's some years
where you got to kind of manufacture some of that
enthusiasm where the Mets are down and the Yankees are are are
usually up. Now the up is relative.
I mean, the Yankees haven't won since O 9, as we know, but the
Yankees are are never floundering to a point where
their season is on the brink when they meet the Mets in the
Subway Series. And that is where we are with
the Mets. Although I got to tell you, you
know, and, and maybe it's an early read, the Mets have been
playing a certainly better baseball for a while.
The the Diamondbacks series didn't go great.
But if you go back to the Angels series where they won two out of
three and then right after that they beat the Rockies.
I mean, you better beat the Rocket.
They didn't beat him in Queens, so you better take care of him
out in Colorado. So they won two out of three
against the Angels, two or three against the Rockies.
Diamondbacks could have gone either way, lost some ugly ones.
They lost two out of three. But you know, when you sweep
A-Team and it's still May and listen, the Braves going to run
away with this division. So I'm not talking about the
Mets ever regenerating to the point where they make this
unexpected move and start battling the Braves for NLE
supremacy. I don't expect that at all.
And I also think that there's a really good chance that this
little flicker of hope that the Mets have dropped on their fan
base, which is good for the fans.
I, I don't know how long it it's going to last.
I, I really don't now. I'm not prepared to say that
it's it's that it's his unsalvageable as it was a while
ago. I mean, if you say that, then I
think you're being a little bit unfair to the Mets.
I think the one thing that is absolutely true is that you got
the Yankees kind of inching in the wrong direction and you got
the Mets inching in the right direction, which is what's going
to make this weekend a whole hell of a lot of fun.
You know, if this I don't know, is this the start of Juan Soto
going on a little heater? I don't know.
I mean, a big base hit yesterday, home run straightaway
center. We, we could be think about this
Met fans, we could pee in a very, very different place right
now. Like, even though the Yankees
and I don't like the way they look all the sudden and I'll get
more into the Yankees in a moment.
But like the Mets, if, if that's 1/8 of an inch, maybe lower on
the leg or in the wrong spot. I mean, Juan Soto might be gone
for two months with a, with a fractured fib or a tib or
whatever. Like, you know, that thing was
perilously close to, you know, I, I really compromising Juan
Soto sees him and the fact that he's already missed games with
the calf injury, missed 15 games.
You know, Juan Soto's numbers right now are obviously very low
for Juan Soto. And because he missed, you know,
a couple of weeks of time, you know, he's not going to really
be afforded many months where he doesn't produce otherwise one
Soto's numbers at the end of this year are going to look
pretty freaking poultry. Not that I expect that, but he
just doesn't have a lot of wiggle room at this point.
So, you know, it's crazy too. I don't listen.
I mean, to drop a prediction on this weekend is is really the
the height of of idiocy. I do who the hell knows?
I mean, I don't know. I mean, I do think Cam
Schlettler will pitch really well tonight.
And I am looking forward to watching Cam digging against
Soto or Soto digging against Cam.
I mean, that's going to be good stuff.
And you got a couple of fun pitching matchups here.
But I'm not going to all the Mets will sweep the Yankees.
I don't know. I mean, if I had to put money on
something, one of the two teams is going to win two out of
three. I don't think there's a sweep
either way. But imagine, see, this is the
the fragility of a baseball season.
And I've always told you, right, even though, you know, I, I lead
the charge as much as anybody because I turn into an emotional
mess during the high points and the, and the low points for
these teams. You guys know that about me.
I don't run from that. But like, you know, a week ago,
the Yanks are flying high, almost projected that 1998
energy where they just refused to lose.
And I, you know, I described and I still believe this.
Well, they got to get it going again.
I described this Yankee team as a team that's got a real
aversion, like a real distaste to losing.
They hate losing. And I think that that's a great
characteristic that even some of these Yankee teams that have won
90 plus games over the last X amount of years haven't always
shown. I like the grit with this team.
I do not like, you know, four or five automatic outs trotting out
there every single night and the Yankees got to get their act
together. But contrast where the Yankees
were, you know, a week ago and now bring it back to where the
Mets were a week ago. If the Mets, this is a massive
if. But I just want to paint an
image here. If the Mets were to sweep the
Yankees this weekend, and the Mets have won seven of 10, the
Yankees have lost six of 10. If that were to happen, we're
going to reconvene on Monday and the Mets will be 21 and 25.
And in the grand context, like, not, not incredibly impressive,
but given the nuance of the season, I mean, that would
represent a massive win. So the Mets win three games.
They're 21 and 25. And then the Yankees,
conversely, will be 27 and 20. And all of a sudden, now a bad
week becomes a bad ten days, a bad 1213 days.
And then you got to see what it morphs into.
We got to see what's going on with Max Freed.
We got to see when Garrett Cole's coming back.
We've got to see some of these stiffs who just cannot hit and
are automatic outs wake up. And it it is amazing where and
by the way, the answer is probably somewhere between the
Yankees probably were never quite as good as they looked at
their apex this year, beating some bad teams.
They're definitely not this team that has lost six of 10 and kind
of just stumbling all over themselves.
And you know, I, I don't expect the Mets to go on some 60
something winning percentage clip where they're going to, you
know, defy the odds and find a way to win 90 plus games.
I think best case right now, best case scenario for the best
case, they are a wild card team with, you know, 80, you know,
8788 wins and that's best case, all right.
And then Yankees, best case, Yankees win the division.
I know Tampa's playing very good ball and Yankees are two back
right now. Best case for the Yankees, they
win 9798. Freed's fine rotations on lock
when everybody gets back. Bullpen gets better when some
starters move there. But there's a lot of unresolved
issues right now with both of these teams.
And the one thing, and this is always fun in baseball and you,
you don't really get this. It doesn't feel this way with
football. It doesn't even really always
feel this way in the NBA. But when you've got a team like
the Mets that have looked very stale and are not built the
right way, like we know that, OK, it doesn't mean they can't
make something of their season, but they're not built well.
Stearns has been a disaster. He's the target #1 for every Met
fan right now. But something about baseball,
when you bring up kids, especially when you bring up
kids who can run and you know who got a little athletic juice,
it starts to feel different quick whether or not that's
going to sustain itself. And I told you, you know, I
watching, watching Binge in the spring, I'm like, I like him.
I don't care if he comes out and hits 170 in April and he
scuffles with which he has his points.
I like him. He's a ball player and he's the
kind of guys kind of young player that can impact you
favorably positively, even when he's old for four, you know,
score from first on a double, you know, beat out a double
play, swipe a bag. You know, score on a a hard hit
ball to the outfield from second, you know, beats the
throw slides in safe. That like that youthful energy.
The met #1 the Mets needed it And and I do think that it's
it's re instilled some belief within the Mets fan base, which
is a good, good thing. Now let me do this here, right?
I used to do this with Sal a lot.
Let me just go. I've got a got a database going
to pop this up. I'm curious.
I've not checked this all year because it's it's it's too
early. I just want to see something
here. So provided this pops up, but it
doesn't take all day to get there.
Come on. All right, here we go.
So I want to see right now, and it's early, but it's worth the
read. Subway Series almost Memorial
Day when we start kind of taking stock of where everybody is.
So I go to the standings on this database and they've got some
advanced analytics like, you know, post season probability,
divisional supremacy probability, projected win total
right now. And I'll play the game with you
right now. Start with the Yankees.
The Yankees are projected to win 95.3 games, I would say.
I mean, there was a point where I'm like, I think they might win
100 slightly over, not mine. I think that that's a pretty
good number. 95969495.3 is the number I'm looking at, 62%
chance. And by the way, what they do is
already, they factor in who you've played, strength, the
schedule, and there's a lot of schedule that remains obviously.
But just to let you know what goes into the analytics behind
these projections. All right, so Yankees are a 62%
chance to win the division and the Yankees a very robot.
I mean, the Yankees are playing, making the playoffs no matter
what. They always do 98.5% chance to
make the playoffs. Now, those are numbers.
Like if you ask me blindly, I matter of fact, I'll do the Mets
blindly as well. I'm not looking at it.
I actually stopped the page before I got to the NL.
If you asked me to do this before I actually looked at the
American League and the Yankees, I probably would have been in
that vicinity. I think maybe, I think the win
total probably would have been spot on.
I probably would have said 95. I think I would have got a
little higher for the divisional, maybe, maybe low
70s. And then, you know, in terms of
playoff possibility, basically 100 percent, 9899%.
The Mets. I'm going to give this a blind
read. The Mets.
I'm going to say my projection, see how it marries with theirs.
I'm still not fully buying it. I do like what I've seen the
last week and 1/2 or so, seeing some signs, seeing a little
spunk, seeing a little fight, seeing a little conviction
without Lindor, who eventually will be back.
Alvarez gone. Not that he's really good, but
you got to factor that in a little bit.
I'm going to say the Mets. I'm going to say 81 wins and I'm
almost inclined to go with tick lower.
You know, I almost want I'm going to I'm going to go 80 wins
for the Mets. I'm going to say less than 5%
probability for the division and I'm going to give the Mets about
a wild card 6 pack 35% for the play offs.
All right, let's see. So eighty wins, 5% division, 35%
play offs. The Mets are, jeez, the Mets are
74.2%. They've got literally 0, which
to me makes no sense. I mean, that's something Sal
would always bang onto it and he wasn't wrong.
Like, so I'm looking at this now, 0% chance to win the
division. It's May.
I mean, I, I get it. I'm not saying that they're
going to come anywhere near it, but at least leave the door
slightly ajar. 1%, half, you know, slightly less than 1%
something. I mean, throw a couple of the
zeros in there with a decimal, but zero, no.
And OK, this is that move and a wolf and a 3.7% chance to win
the division. So, you know, listen, all the
Subway Series stuff and it's, you know, largely manufactured.
Some people are a little tired of it.
I still enjoy it. Listen, there's just more energy
when the Yankees and the Mets play then when the Yankees play
the Orioles or the Mets play the Marlins or whatever.
Yeah, outside of Yankees, Red Sox, Mets, Phillies, Mets,
Braves, you know, Yankees, Dodgers, Inter league, whatever
it might be. I, I, I still think that there's
a lot of juice. The fans still like it.
Really, that's all that matters as long as the fans are into it
and they're enjoying this. And the stadium's going to be
sold, sold out this weekend. Obviously, you know, Yankee
Stadium is pretty much always sold out no matter who's coming
in, especially on the weekend. But when the Mets roll in later
in the season, that will be sold out no matter what's happening.
And, you know, I mean it what what felt like it was going to
be an absolute bronze takeover for the next three days when the
Mets were languishing. You know, I mean, there'll be a
little bit more Mets energy in there today and and and over the
weekend and there should be. I don't know if they sustain it,
but at least the the intrigue now is if at at least the Mets
have shown a spark. I mean, God, otherwise they were
showing up with a toe tag already, you know, for this
series. And you know, if you would have
had think about it, really it going back a week or so ago, I
would have thought that it would be the complete antithesis of
what it's actually right now. I thought the Yankees would be
rolling. I thought the Mets would be
dead. And here we are.
The Mets are rolling and the Yankees are tripping all over
themselves because their lineup stinks and their bullpen has
thrown up all over themselves too many times when they've
tried to protect lead. So I'm into it.
I would say somebody's going to win two out of three.
I think it's going to be the Yankees really only because I
really like the pitching matchup tonight, even though I've got a
lot of respect for Clay Holmes. And who knows, you know, maybe
the Yankees bang that sinker into the ground and they hit
into a couple of double plays and the Yankees just don't hit,
which they haven't really been hitting.
Who knows? And it's hard to elevate that
sinker. So I wouldn't expect a ton of
home runs. From the Yankees tonight.
But it does feel different. One, that I thought it would
feel and two, you know, subsequently it it, it's got a
layer of interest and intrigue that that I'm ready for.
I'm excited for tonight. I'm excited for the weekend.
And if the Yankees sweep them now, the Mets go back in their
hole and the Yankee fans, you know, thump the chest and the
Yankee fans feel really good about how there there's been a
little bit of over recalibration after this sloppy play.
If the Mets sweep and even if the Mets win two or three, I
think there's a chance that, you know, but almost I want to say
the entire tone of the Mets season changes.
But like, I don't want to go nuts here.
But I did have conviction in the Mets coming into the season.
So it would be more consistent with what I thought the Mets
would be. You know, I, I didn't think that
they'd be wretched. I liked what they did this
offseason. Crazy thing is Polanco's not
playing tonight, Luis Roberts not playing tonight.
But the one thing that I liked about the Mets, and I obviously
thought Lindor would be healthy and Soda would have better
numbers, whatever, he wouldn't have missed 15 games.
But like the the reason I thought the Mets could be
interesting this year and I had him at 91 wins is because when
you start with a rotation of Peralta and McClain, I mean that
that's giving you a chance to be really good.
And then you throw in somebody like Soda was a great hitter.
And the other pieces that I like, don't love.
But like some of the other pieces, I didn't think the Mets
would look like this to start the year, you know, So it is on
J Rod, I am excited for the Subway Series.
Now this is the game that you've got.
You've got this. You've got to go to one of these
games. You went to the Yankee game.
I know I'm thinking about some definitely thinking about
Sunday. I got my cousin's bat mitzvah
this weekend. So I'm thinking this Sunday.
Oh, yeah, I'm going to try to go to Citi Field now.
What is the theme of the bat mitzvah here?
What do we have going on? Specific theme?
I don't think so. I think it's just kind of like a
daytime function sort of deal. I mean, no, no big theme.
No, I don't. I honestly, I don't think so.
You guys raking the money, don't you, with the bat mitzvahs in
the bar now, don't you? You know, it really like the
Jewish wedding. Here come the envelopes.
Let's go. Come on.
You got that and then you got the Jewish.
You got the bat mitzvah and then you got the Jewish wedding later
on. You got the double whammy.
Yes, you do. But lucky.
But yeah, no, I mean, depending on your part, party size.
But when you're that kid, you never it.
It depends. But I feel like you never see
the dough. Like I've never seen the money I
had for my bar mitzvah. I think maybe I used it on a
couple vacations, like, oh, your parents took it.
Yeah. Yeah, big time.
Put it away. Come on now.
Hold on. They put it away for you or they
put away for you. OK.
That's the right move. That's the way.
I mean, I although I do think I used a good amount of it on like
going to like I went to Europe my junior a year.
So like, I think maybe some of that.
But yeah, for the most part, I feel like most of the time you
just keep that packet away. Yes, you do.
Now when you went to here, did
you hit Amsterdam? I know you, you were on.
Now, of course, I don't know if we've ever spoken that.
Yeah, dude, no, we haven't talked about that.
I mean, London is like my old time.
I love that city. But Amsterdam, great #2 dude,
now they've so they've got the I've heard somebody.
Now listen, I'm at the point now #1 to me, not that I wouldn't do
it, but, and, and maybe I'm off base with this, but if you're
going to Amsterdam, right to me now.
I almost went to Greece for our honeymoon.
We wound up going to Costa Rica instead.
But and I and I want and we're looking at a family trip, either
Scotland or Ireland, play some golf right down.
Not, not this summer, probably next summer.
But I think that like to go to Amsterdam with your wife.
I don't know. Wouldn't you rather go with the
boys? Yeah.
I don't know. Amsterdam with your wife would
be kind of funny. Like, it is a scenic place.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not. But like, you don't want to not
to get too crazy. You don't want to walk around
the red light district with your wife unless she's into it.
Hey, maybe you shouldn't be looking through the glass just
going. Oh, my gosh, I know.
Like, I know it is it is a kind of it's it's it's a very
beautiful city. So I understand that in that
sense where the river is gorgeous, the buildings are
gorgeous. If you leave the city, Oh my,
like the the landscapes and stuff, but it is a very
degenerate place at heart. Like, but it's it's like it's
like Europe's Vegas without the gambling to an extent.
Whatever you want, you go get as you say, like it's the only
place I think I've seen where you could bang back heaters, as
you say, in an indoor space. Like it is just the IT is a wild
city bar. Literally a bar is every spot.
Don't even get me started on the greenery.
The weed bars are just regular everything because the bars will
be both an alcohol bar, but it'll be a bar with weed inside.
Like they just smell terrible, dude.
Well, they like smell terrible, but you're going to have a great
time. Oh yeah, they give you at the
end of the night. You're literally like stumbling
around, like just lying on the streets there.
It's probably good that I never went when I was younger.
But when you go, they give you a menu, right?
And you just get to pick the different.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of like that.
I mean, it's similar to like some of them are more similar to
like a New York based shop, but a lot of them are kind of a
communal space where you're just sitting.
They've got like crazy ventilation.
It's a it's a fun city. It's a fun city.
All right, all right, let me read this here.
Let me see Yanks four and six in their last ten out.
They get swept and Freed's out for weeks and they've got
Toronto and Tampa next. Oh boy, get ready.
That is a that is a very good, that's a good, that's a good
message. Hopefully it's not a prescient,
prescient 1 here. Like I don't want that to happen
because that just imagine that like that's it's not worst case
because you word it weeks with freed and not months.
And I don't think it's going to be months.
I wouldn't like an update. Jeez.
You know, But if the Yankees get swept now #1 instead of losing 6
of 10, now it's, they have lost. Well, whatever.
I don't know why my brains not firing today.
But you know, the math. It's not.
It's worse than losing 6 of 10. God, that's such basic stuff.
But it's not coming to be #1 Right.
And then you got to deal with the nonsense.
And I don't really care about this, but you know, the Mets
fans going to be strutting around then.
And listen, if the Mets fans sweep the Yankees, that you got
to do that. If you don't do that, what
happened? And if the Yank now the Yankee,
I believe if the Mets sweep the Yankees, the Mets fan, like
they've always, they're always going to act a little more giddy
because they don't, they don't know how to win as much.
I mean, you know, no disrespect to the Met fan, I love you.
But, you know, when you haven't won since Run DMC was pumping
out, you know, Peter Piper in 1986, Yeah.
You don't really know how to act sometimes when you win.
Where's the Yankee fan? Yeah.
And of course, some of these younger Yankee fans, they'll be
over the top and they'll be, you know, impossible to be around.
But, you know, I think the Yankee fan kind of expects to
sweep even though they're not playing well.
Where's the Mets fan? I don't think that they expect
to sweep. So you'd have a little different
energy there. But the then you throw in the
freed stuff, even if it is weeks, he's not pitching for a
while if that's the case. So you're not playing well.
You come with all three more losses and then you got freed
out for a couple of more weeks based on that chat.
And then you've got to deal with Toronto and Tampa and Yankees
haven't played a whole lot of good teams yet.
And when they have, they have not played well and we all what
are they 1:00 and 9:00 or 1:00 and 8:00 against good teams?
I mean, they've beaten up on some shitty teams here.
Now, that's also part of being a good team and, you know, pumping
out, you know, 949596 wins the the amount that you need.
So, you know, make sure you secure a division and and
certainly make sure you're a top wild card.
But and the Yankees are always good at that.
They always beat the bad teams. Like, you never have to really
worry about the Yankees not showing up and not obliterating
bad teams. So they're going to get to that
requisite win total no matter what.
I mean, I'm not. I'm not worried about that.
That's why I really do think that the intrigue here lies more
with the Mets. It just lies with the Mets.
You just never know, you know, from humble beginnings where you
know. All right, yeah.
Win a couple of games on the road during that last road trip.
OK, I am. Get a little payback on the
Rockies, man. Didn't play well against the
Diamondbacks, and then, boom, you respond nicely right away.
Win, win, win against the Tigers.
And the Mets fans feel pretty good about themselves right now.
So you got Schlittler Holmes. I think you got Rodan.
I don't think the Mets have announced their starter
tomorrow. Check this morning.
I don't think they have yet. And then weather's Peralta is
going to be a lot of fun on Sunday and I cannot wait till I
got it. You know, I'm not saying he's
Randy Johnson here, but it's a lot of fun watching Weathers
who's got, you know, the ability to bring no hit stuff out of the
pen every time he pitches because he's flat out filthy
man. And he almost threw on the other
night against Baltimore. So it is lined up for the
Yankees to either stifle that momentum, give him the Heisman.
All right, Matt, you had fun for seven 8-9 days.
Get back in your hold. You going nowhere.
You know it's it's going to be a 747576 win season.
Get out of here or the Mets do that.
The Yankees and now the Yankee fears become amplified.
The noise around the Yankees gets louder and louder and
louder. The Mets continue to play good
solid Chris baseball. And you know, you just you, you
just don't know where things are going to go.
You don't know when the like. There's a lot of variables too.
You don't know when the doors coming back.
You don't know when Max Freeze coming back, as much as I've sat
here and I believe it, but it's still got to come to fruition.
You know, until I see Gerard Cole on a Major League mound
looking something like Gerard Cole, you know, you can't say
it's a given, even though I presented it as a given.
I mean, I know he's going to come back, but you know, is he
going to be Gerard Cole? Is he going to be 50% of Gerard
Cole, which to me wouldn't be good enough?
Is he going to be 8085%, which would be good enough in my
opinion. I don't know.
I don't have those answers yet, but it's going to be fun and I
cannot wait. Subway Series weather's going to
be good tonight. Let's go.
All right, we'll get the calls fired up.
We'll get into the chats. I'll get into The Jets and the
Giants schedule. I got a little something on the
Cavs and the Pistons tonight. First up, who do we have today?
J Rod. Let's got our got our buddy
Frankie in Monroe. Frankie, Frankie, Frankie.
What up there, Frank? Good morning, Brandon.
What's happening? Hey, listen, I don't, I don't, I
don't want to get too excited, right?
I'm I'm I'm a 65 year old Yankee fan, but I I've seen many
iterations. Of of this.
Team. Dude, we have four or five guys
in the lineup every night that are at 200 or under 200.
When did that become OK? It's not.
Like what are we? Doing like, are we going to
start making some? Let's package these kids.
Let's get some ball players here.
I don't. I don't.
Care what? We got to win now.
By the way, just Frank, Frank,
hold on. Just for clarity purposes, when
you say win now, you mean win this year.
I know you want to. You don't mean this weekend even
though you want to win this weekend, but.
No, Yeah, forget about that. This year.
We're not going to have, we might not have baseball next
year, right? Judge is running out of time.
Listen, we got four guys in the lineup that are good.
Chisholm is is a little is OK. Yeah, I'm not.
Chisholm Caballero, OH. Oh yeah, yeah, I like Cabbie.
Yeah. Everybody else stinks.
They do. They stink.
Yep. I don't I don't know what the
answer is, but there's got to be 1.
Well, I'm going to give you what the answer is and before I do
that and and thank you for the call there, Frank.
Enjoy the games. Let's go, Yanks from our point
of view, Met fans, let's go where you at?
Come on, let's let's represent a little here Met fan.
I mean Grisham, even though you know, it's just you know, it is
what it is. I've said everything I need to
say about Grisham. You know, I mean, I don't think
he's going to hit 175 this year, which is where he's at now.
Jazz is AT2O3 and Jazz is on my last nerve.
I would either trade him. I would and I asked Boone the
other day straight up. I said, hey, if this thing
doesn't improve with with him, with Jazz, with Jazz Chisholm,
you know, is there a chance he's going to be a platoon player?
And he did not run from that. Like everything's on the table
for the Yankees this year. I really believe that when
Caballero comes back, you know, Lombard, the average is low in
the minors, right? But he's hit the ball hard.
You're not going to call him up, hit 180.
I I get that. And you're not going to hit call
him up. Even if he was hitting 3/30
after a week, you're going to let him marinate down there a
little bit. But I asked Boone about Lombard.
I fully believe George Lombard will be in pinstripes this year.
He will be on the Yankees this year.
And if that's the case, and if Jazz doesn't get his act
together, Caballero comes back. He's healthy.
Gabby and short. You got a little you want to
throw a Lombard at second or probably, you know, more
logically, you put Lombard at short, you put Caballero at
second or Volpe's actually doing something and poor Volpe's just
thrust into that. Hey, welcome back, buddy.
You know every you boot a routine ground to your first
game back, everybody's all over you.
Nobody want and and I'm not saying me, but most of you want
you gone. Nobody really believes in you.
You make an error of your first game back.
You strike out and here we go. Did you thrust right into the
energy of the subway series? Go get them, buddy.
Like that's you know, that's tough.
That's going to testament to resolve.
But if Volpe can actually piece something together, well, you do
have a lot of options. And that's how I address
Frankie's call. Like how does it get better?
Where does it get better? Well, you know, if Ryan McMahon
still hitting, I know he's been a little bit better lately, but
Ryan McMahon's hitting $1.96. For all the progress that Ryan
McMahon had for those three weeks, he's not even hitting
200. So you got Grisham at $1.75,
Jazz AT2O3, McMahon at 196, both beats one game, zero.
But yeah, it's not like he's a 290 hitter.
He's a 220 hitter for his career.
So you have to think he's probably going to be in that
neighborhood again, because I have seen no mechanical fixes in
the small samples swinging the same exact way, which means he's
susceptible to the same exact stuff, which which means he's
going to be an easy out again until proven otherwise.
Low average. And then Austin Wells, who you
know, I mean, I was, I was right and I was wrong on Austin Wells
because I remember saying that two years ago.
Austin Wells going to be a 2025 home run guy.
And he is, I mean, now he's got, he's got 5 harpy eyes and it's
the middle of May, he's got three home runs, five ribbies.
I mean, good God. And that's, that's, that's all
that's almost hard to do when you basically play every day.
How can you play this amount of games and have 5 freaking harpy
eyes, dude? It's just, it's, it's
inconceivable to think that your production could be that bad.
But he's a low average guy. Now he's on base a little bit
more than Volpe. You know, he does draw some
walks. Not that I'm hanging my hat on
that, but there are a lot of automatic outs in this Yankee
lineup. And the only way it changes is
for Lombard to earn a promotion at some point, and whatever that
could be in July, whatever. At some point he's going to be
here. And then you're going to have to
piece together and make some tough decisions, whether you
trade Jazz, whether you send Volpe back down to the minors,
you know, whether it's Lombard short or Caballero at short or,
you know, Cobby, Let's say, let's say, let's say Volpe.
Let's say Volpe's showing something and Lombard gets the
elevation and Caballero. Somebody want to play every day.
I mean, I don't know. Is it completely off the table
that at some point this year, whenever that is, you see, you
know, Caballero with third base or Rosario against the lefties
and then, you know, Lombard at shortstop and were, you know,
Cal again, Cabby at third, Lombard at short and Volpe at
second. I mean, I don't know if the
Yankees are really willing to now have Volpe learn a new
position in the middle of a season when he's trying to
figure out his, you know, how to hit at this level.
That's probably not an easy thing to do that.
So, but but those are some internal options and the
external options, either you make a trade for Mike Trout or
you know, and I don't wish this for my boy Donnie Baseball.
You know, the Phillies who have really played well from
Mattingly, they reverse course and they fall apart and you try
to trade for Bryce Harper or something like you just, you
know, this line up is going to be addressed.
There's no way it's not going to be addressed.
It's got to be addressed. So, you know, just a lot of dead
weight there, man. It is some ugly stuff.
You know, really, some of the advanced numbers on the Yankees
are are painfully bad. I mean, whether it's batting
average with two strikes or, you know, how they play against
teams over 500, some situational stats are not incredibly kind to
them. You listen, you've seen this.
You saw it against Baltimore the other night and you saw it over
the weekend in Milwaukee where the Yankees had a chance to tack
on a run. You know, think about the at bat
judge double. You got a little ground ball
right side textbook baseball belly pulls it, get something he
can pull. Boom, Judge the third Jazz
swinger, like he's a skinny Babe Ruth punch out and you leave a
run on the table and it cost you.
And you know, that's not just an isolated example.
Like it's not like the Yankees are so good at that.
So buttoned up at that where I'm like at, you know, that's a long
season, you know, and you're not going to do it every time they
there's too many issues or too many nights where they do do
that rather than doing it effectively, you know?
I mean, yeah, they're rolling out three good hitters right
now. You got Judge, you got Rice, you
got Bellinger. That's it, that's it.
You know, and I know that everybody's selling me on all
Grisham's. There's Grisham.
That's it 175 like don't waste my time when you're hitting one.
Listen, it's one thing if you're hitting 2/22/26 2:31 and you
lift up the hood and you see, you know, expected on base,
expected slugging, barrel raid walk rate, K Ray, favorable hard
hit rate. Don't even and I love that, but
I don't want to hear it when you're hitting $1.75 not
interested. I'm just not, you know, I know
my guy Boone says it, you know, but he knows I'm not interested
in hearing about Grisham. I don't want to hear about
Booney. What do we got here?
Mets are going to take a couple of games here.
The blonde bear 52 O six. Well, I mean, they might.
I mean, I'm not going to sit here and say the Mets can't win.
They very well might. I would say for the Mets to win,
too, you better win tonight. And I don't think you're beating
Schlittler. And I'm not saying this with
incredible company, even, like, even if Schlittler wins.
Yeah, I can see the Yankees losing, you know, the next two.
I mean, obviously I can see Rodon having a rough outing.
You know, the weather's Peralta would probably be more of a
battle of the bullpen because Peralta's not going to give you
great length. You know, weather has shown the
ability to do that. But if if you don't get that,
you know, Yankees are being and the Mets as well.
But the Yankees going to be called upon to give the baseball
to whether it's a Duval, Duval or Bednar who always makes you
sweat, who's better than Duval, but still.
And he's he's not Mariano. He's not Goose.
You know, it's going to be an interesting weekend of
evaluation of the baseball diamond.
Can't wait for it. I really am ready for it.
I'm ready for it. I'm going to get into The Jets
and the Giants schedule in a bit.
Dominguez, when he comes back, needs to lead off.
Yeah, I would actually like that.
I don't think it'll really happen with any sort of
frequency. I asked Aaron Boone the other
day, like why would you just not even against lefties.
I don't care. I want to hear about splits and
stuff because he's shown enough he can hit lefties.
So like, I would just literally bat Ben Rice 1st every single
game. Every single game.
You know he's he's not going to run.
But what I mean, when the hell does?
When does Grisham steal the base?
Christian, he's at for a center fielder.
I don't think he runs well at all.
I know he tracks most of the balls, but on the bases I don't.
I don't think he does anything on the bases.
He doesn't try to run and, you know, doubling the gap from
first base like he's flying around like Jazz or Volpe or or
Dominguez. Those guys can run.
So yeah, I'm done with him as a lead off man.
You know that, You know, Rice 1 judge 2.
So you got a lefty, then you go judge 2, then you go and and I
just want to write this out. I want to make sure I don't miss
anything because I did bring this up to Aaron and I I
understand his answer and he could only.
Jot down the names, but the Yankees are very lefty laden.
Too much so. It's funny they went years ago
when they had no lefties like Brett Gartner and Gardner.
That was about it. They had all righties, which
makes no sense for a team that plays 81 games at the stadium
with a fence that's 314 feet away.
I mean, listen, there's been basically 2 constants in the
Yankee universe forever #1 you better have some left-handed
pitching to neutralize the opponent's lefty sticks with the
short porch, whether it's a padded, whether it's a guidry,
whether it's Whitey Ford, all those lefties, right?
And the other thing that you always better have is lefty
thumb, right? And they didn't have lefty thumb
and now they've almost got, you know, not maybe not enough
thump, but too many lefties. So they need a little bit more
balance in this lineup. And and obviously, if Dominguez
and I know a smaller sample look better from the right side in
the minors and before he got hurt, but they they don't, I can
promise you Boone's not going to run them out there first ever.
He didn't trust him enough. So with that, I've got to
operate with what I would do and then also weigh in and factor in
what I believe and what I know he's inclined to do and not to
do. So again, this is not a perfect
lineup I'm going to construct here, but let me see 3456789 and
I'm going to work it now with with the current lineup.
And I'm going to put I mean, Caballero is going to be back
real soon. So why the hell you hit him?
I'd rather him first then then Grisham, but I would go rice
one. And I've said that and I said to
Aaron, I'm like, if Otani can hit first, come on, I mean, Ben
Rice could hit first, right? So I would go Rice one lefty,
obviously judge 2 righty. I'm going belly free lefty, you
know, and that's speed too. When he beat out that double
play the other night, like that's that's one of the things
about bell injury. It's just a baseball player.
That's one of the reasons I'm so happy he stayed Rice judge
belly. And I got to start thinking here
like, you know, if Stanton was healthy and Stanton was here and
easy pencil him in righty not healthy and he never is.
So he's not even running yet. So you can't do it with you
can't do that with him. I mean, I guess, I guess you can
do I mean, I can play this game all day, but I I just know that
they're not going to do certain things.
I was going to, you know, try to construct a line up here with
cabbie first or I'm not a good do it.
Like they just they need to make a move at some point.
I think we all know this and the Mets are going to have to make a
move. And it's crazy too, because
talking about the moves that the Yankees are going to need to
make at some point, high leverage bullpen arm or righty
stick at some point. That's why Mike Trout will be
great. I don't care how much is left on
his contract. I don't care.
And I know he's revitalized this year.
You throw Mike Trout in a Pennant race, you know, with
40,000 there every night with Judge, are you?
And they're boys too. Are you kidding me?
I mean that he's a righty. He can run, you know, I mean, it
solves everything. So I've talked about what I
think the Yankees are going to need to do and you know, it's
funny. I mean, up until this this
recent search here, we were beginning to talk about on a
very cursory level, because I wanted to be fair, because it is
early. We were beginning to talk about,
all right, I mean, are the Mets going to trade Peralta?
Are they going to have a fire sale and get rid of Bichette?
I mean, it was looking that way. I mean, really, I mean, Mendy
was hanging by a thread. Everybody can't stand Stearns.
You know, Cohen is getting knocked around a little bit in
the court of public opinion right now.
Soda was hurt. You know, Lindor is hurt and
here we go, you know, but it's it's we have learned here, J
Rod, we have learned, or at least I have learned and many of
you should learn to not be as definitive, not to not to dig in
quite to the point in in May or even in June with a baseball
team like we usually do. Can we at least learn that
lesson Little just a little prudence, a little caution, a
little understanding. It's a long race.
Doesn't mean we can't talk about holes.
Doesn't mean we can't get worked up.
But to have that that finality attached to it, that definitive
take like like, you know, like no way can they make the
playoffs have to sell everybody like the Mets or the Yankees
cannot win with this. Like everybody relax and just
enjoy baseball for what it is. It's a nightly of beauty when
they're playing well and it's a nightly cause source of
consternation when they're not. That's what baseball is in this
town, you know what I mean? No, I mean, and it's interesting
to just to see how quickly the, you know, the fire, Mendoza, all
these, you know, obviously you're still hearing fire.
David Stearns here and there, no doubt about that.
And they can't stand them. But like the Mendoza talks have
really quieted since they've gotten, you know, gotten a
little better and obviously that makes sense.
So now so it's like, you know, and I think for him now that
they've had this little stretch, he's likely safe for the rest of
the season. You don't think so unless you
easy young buck. Let's not go nuts here.
You think if it if it really goes way back down it it could
it gets turbulent. Yes, absolutely.
I do. I mean, David Stearns has
already been asked twice when he does his press conference every
couple of weeks about the managers job security.
And you know, like that's something else I learned.
Like just because it's good now doesn't mean it's going to
remain that way. And I really do.
I hope not because I like Mandy. I don't think he's a great man.
I think he's OK. He's got some flaws and I don't
think this Mets roster is going anywhere the way they're the way
they're built now. But no, I I think that that is
naive. With all due respect to you, to
my Guy J Rod like to think that just because they've kind of
salvage and stabilized things now that if it, if the
turbulence comes back, and I don't mean like if they lose 2
out of three this weekend and then lose 2 more the next
series, that he's going to get fired at me.
I'm not saying that, but there's a lot of baseball to go.
And one thing about baseball, the beauty of baseball, it's
there every night. It's a companion, and that's
good when things are good. When things are bad, that
becomes a massive issue for whomever's job is on the line,
whatever it might be. So I wouldn't agree with that.
I don't know that to be true. I don't.
Maybe Stearns, his arrogance will prevent him from doing
something because he, he brought him in.
He's his guy. And if he, if he fires Stearns,
there's no body to put up. Pardon me, if he fires Mendy,
there's no body literally to put in front of him to take the heat
from the Mets fans. Because once Mendoza's gone, I
mean, it's already towards Stearns.
But if Mendy's gone, you know, now you got nowhere to hide,
nobody to shield them, you know? Good talk there, Jay.
Good talk. What else?
Oh, and by the way, the thing about Mendoza, like I, I listen
there, there are times when things come up that I think are
premature, unfair, unfounded, and we've just got to give
somebody a little time to, to establish themselves.
I, I just think that like that, that happens in New York, It
happens in certain cities nationally, Philly, Boston,
Chicago. Sometimes we know the cities
right that are just a little bit of a different speed or laced
with either negativity or just wrongness, whatever it might be.
What I was saying about Mendoza, To be fair, I was saying this at
the end of last year. I remember saying on the fans
several times, I'm like, hey, he had a really good first year.
He had an awful second year and I documented a lot of things.
He whether it's pinch running or bullpen mismanagement or playing
Vientos at third base too much over Beatty, who can pick it
much better. Like I I, I don't need to again
go through it all, but I gave you tangible reasons why Mendoza
had an awful year last year. Now other people have for
opinions. I don't agree with that.
I mean, I just thought he was bad, all right.
But having said that, to be fair to Carlos Mendoza, who I do
think is a good baseball man, because year 1 was so
unexpectedly good and the vibes were good and the young players
were showing progress, vientos, etcetera.
To me, year 3 would be the ultimate evaluation.
So while, but, but I did clearly establish if it's not good in
year 3, I don't care how early it is, I would fire him.
I, I have said that and I stand by that.
So I do think that that will resurface at some point because
as much as I'm hopeful, because I want to see both teams do
well, not this weekend. You know, it's better for, for
business. It's more enjoyable when both
teams are good and viable. And it also keeps the
possibility of a Subway Series alive, which as a Yankee fan, I
say bring on. A lot of Mets fans don't want
the smoke, which I don't understand.
I remember, Evan, what? When was it?
I guess it would have been a couple of years ago when, let's
say 20 in 24, right when the Yankees made the World Series
and the Mets had this really good run.
And like a lot of Mets fans who were great Met fans, they didn't
want to play the Yankees in the World Series.
Now I of course I hear that. I take that as, oh, what are you
scared, you know, kind of messing around.
Oh, you don't want that that Yankee smoke and you know, all
the Yankees own you. Hey, up, up, up.
Let's go 2000 last time it happened advantage Yankees.
And I just think it would so it would be so off the charts
insane that I'm all for it. Like I think that would be great
for the city revenue, energy, focus, attention.
We would just own it like New York would own MLB.
But if I recollect correctly here, it wasn't so much that
Evan didn't want to play the Yankees because he thought that,
you know, we, we can't beat the Yankees.
Wasn't that it was more about not wanting to share the stage
with the Yankees. And, and I guess I get that to
an extent, but put myself in, in Evan's shoes and, you know, all
the Mets fans, you know, whether it's Loogie Sal, all, all, all
the Mets fans, I would, if, if I'm subscribing to that, like,
hey, I want, I want the Yankees out so that I'm playing, you
know, the Red Sox or whomever in the American League and all the
juice in New York is about the Mets.
I, I do understand that. Like that's a rational thought.
But then why I would still want to face the Yankees in the World
Series if I'm the Mets, if I'm a Met fan, is because now I get
the chance for the ultimate trump card.
Here's my chance. Here's my dagger.
Because I got news for everybody.
All the bullshit about owning the city, and here come the Mets
and little brother and Big Brother my ass.
All that stuff that everybody was throwing out there, which I
never got into, but it's funny. Whatever.
It doesn't mean a damn thing until #1 you win a World Series,
OK #1 you could get one Soto. Hell, you could convince ERA
Judge to demand a trade to go to Queens and you know, Freed, if
he's healthy and Schlittler. And if they go there and don't
win, what does it mean? Which is part of the reason why
some of these Mets takes. I think I've been really
misguided, you know. But with that being said, if I
do get there and now I beat the Yankees, the equity and what I
have and the ability to hold that over your head, honestly,
depending upon how old you are, it really could be for the rest
of your life because you know, 2000s, almost 3 decades ago, you
know what I mean? And just all the different
variables. And before you know, a Judge
won't be Judge and Judge will be retired.
And who knows what the next phase of the Yankees looks like,
if they're even good enough to be penciled in for, you know,
939495 wins every year. I mean, at some point the gravy
trade is going to end and things are going to get lean.
It got lean after Mantle. You know, it got lean after,
obviously it didn't get lean right after the 70s because they
were good in the early 80s. But then and as great as
Mattingly was and as great as Ricky was for the five years and
Winfield, you know, I mean 77 and 78 and then 81 losing to in
the World Series, I mean, they, they didn't get back there till
96. So I don't take things for
granted. But I just for the life of me, I
don't understand if I am a Met fan, why I would not want to
face the Yankees in the World Series.
I mean, now understand, if you are a Met fan and you do want
that, well now, now the potential to, you know, just
shove it down a Yankee fans throat forever.
And let's face it, you guys, some of you say that you're not
motivated by that. That actually drives many Mets
fans. Like, I'm not saying that they
want to beat the Yankees more than they want the Mets to win,
but it's pretty close. Like I can promise you that that
relationship is a whole hell of a lot closer than the Yankee
fans desire to win and the Yankee fans desire to beat the
Mets. I, I mean, I just like it 'cause
it would be fun and, and I think it would be all time insane, but
you know, beating the Mets doesn't do a damn thing for me
outside of 2000 would have really meant something.
So I I don't know, I mean, it's almost like if you don't face
the Yankees again for a championship, you know, you can
still kind of hold on to that possibility where as if you do
and you lose, well, now it's just confirmed you really are a
little brother when and and so you're not little brother, you
are. You got to win something.
So I'm ready for the I'm getting jacked up as the show's going
on. J Ron, I'm ready.
I'm ready for it, man. Yeah, I can't.
I mean, I can't wait for this weekend, but dude, that would
just be bonkers. A Yankees, Mets, World Series
would be absolutely. And here's the thing too.
So in 96, when they won it, I was, I was just out of school
and I told you I was at game 6C Hayes.
I couldn't see him catch it because I was in the upper deck
all the way back behind the plate.
I just had to wait for the crowd reaction.
So I was obviously, you know, living at my parents, just
graduated in 98. I was working on Wall Street and
I was trying to break into the business.
I was tending bar. I was just, you know, just
hustling, trying to break the break into the business and I
was obviously here and I remember when they won, I was in
Bay Ridge and like just celebrated.
Went absolutely bonkers on 3rd Ave. with with all my buddies
right 99. I was still here as well because
and then I, well, I, I was here for most of it.
And then I started my career and I was in Allentown, PA, which is
not far. So I was going to about an hour
and a half away, whatever, an hour, 40 minutes away from from
New York. So I was going back and forth to
games. I went to a couple of World
Series games. So I was able to at least
residually enjoy it, even though I was living in PA in 2000 when
we beat the Mets. I was working in Las Vegas.
I wasn't even in New York for it, man.
I want, you know, Nah. I mean, I wish I was a little
younger. I could really, yeah.
I'd be out there every, you know, not even.
I mean, if they do it this year, if they do it next year, I mean,
it comes to a point. I'm not going to be on 3rd Ave.
and Bay Ridge. Now, I can promise you that I'll
be, you know, Fireplace will be on and I'll be watching the game
with my family, probably go to a game, but it'll be a totally
different viewing experience. I want it.
I absolutely want it. So I think that I'm pretty clear
about that. But it does confuse me.
I have always said that and I am willing see, maybe this is the
difference. I am.
Maybe it's it's not arrogance. I don't think I'm an arrogant
Yankee fan. Some of you might think that I
am, but that's fine. But if you really listen to me,
you know that I'm not. I am willing to take the chance
and run the risk of, of the Mets fan having that last laugh
because I'm, I'm number one, I'm confident that the Yankees would
win. And think about that.
I don't even know who's going to be in the lineups at this point
in this fictitious 2026 Subway series in October.
But you know, to, to maintain that leverage over the Met fan,
you've got to be willing to lose.
And I am I, I, I am so. But it doesn't seem like the
majority of Met fans are. Either way, it's going to be fun
this weekend. I'm excited.
Yankees look awful. Met showing a little pulse
Schlittler tonight against Holmes and I'm looking forward
to it. I want to get into The Jets and
the Giants schedule a little hoops over the weekend as well.
More favorable match up for the Knicks.
Cavs are pissed. I'm going back and forth on
this. I really am.
Let me see and oh, that's right, no rules Friday.
What's my favorite 80s comedy flick?
Wow. Oh man yeah, that's right.
Guys. If you're new to the show and I
appreciate the Super chat Major League.
Appreciate that great movie. Phenomenal.
Certainly one of my favorite 80s movies.
I don't know if it's #1 but it's up there.
God, the 80s were, I mean, listen, I love the 80s.
I, I'm never going to run from that.
Love 80s music. I love 80s sitcoms.
I love 80s movies. I don't know if I love the 80s
style. Like some of the 80s style were
weird, you know, like the jeans and just the way we wore stuff
and some of the hairstyles. I don't know if I love
hindsight. You know, some of the suits they
wore on Wall Street, like in, in Wall Street.
Phenomenal movie in the 80s Comedy Boy.
Dumb and Dumber was the 90s. That's one of my favorites.
I must have watched that 5000 times with my buddies.
Caddyshack was late 70s or early 80s.
I think that that was very 1980. Yeah.
There. I was gonna say very early 80s.
Eight. As early as it gets.
Caddyshack Bueller's 80s. Oh, I used to watch it all the
time. That's a good one.
All the time. Yeah.
Ferris, Ferris, Ferris, Ferris, Ferris, Ferris.
Great movie. Ridgemont High 80s.
Yeah, I like Ridgemont. I mean, that's not my favorite.
I'm a bigger dazed and confused guy.
I could see that. I could see that I liked.
I mean, The Breakfast Club was great classic.
I mean, that's all the time. Yo was was warriors 80s that
must have reloading son of a big mouth know it all a hold jerk
was the warriors 80s lazy and disrespectful.
I know every word in I you know what I think I might say
breakfast club. I really might That's good was
the warriors 1980s sorry, sorry. That's OK.
As I was delivering my lines there Warriors I thought that's
not a comedy, but I thought warriors was 79.
That could have been 80. I don't think it was 81 or I
felt like that was late 70s. That was really like escape from
New York and though there was a lot of gritty the late 70s New
York City movies that that I love, but that's not that's not,
you know, comedy genre to answer his questions.
Anyway, it is a no rules Friday. And if you guys wanted to ask
anything that you might not ordinarily ask.
I mean, I'm not saying I'm going to literally answer every single
thing if it's some crazy question, but I'll I'll answer
almost anything. So get him going.
All right, Jay, can you let let's get the let's get the
Rothenberg Jerry thing up there once more in case anybody's
jumping in now. So we're gonna get this on
Monday. I want to make sure that there's
no that this beef is somewhat resolved.
We'll get Dave on who I think is very talented.
Don't know him, just don't know him at all.
Texting the other texting yesterday.
I've been a fan in a lot of ways.
I think we're similar. Like he's just a nut job on the
air and I relate to that. So I've always liked listening
to him and you know, Jerry's my boy.
So I'm going to try to patch this over and smooth it out.
So we'll get Dave on either 10:30 or 11:00 on Monday and
that'll be a blast because these guys keep going back and forth
about, I don't know, fandom and watching the draft and watching
the Knicks and all this other. I don't know what's going on
with these two guys. So I will try to be the Good
Samaritan. So Dave's going to join me on
Monday. All right?
Can you get the jet schedule up there for me?
17 and O baby, look at those wins, all right?
Now, I mean, obviously you guys have pretty much digested this
if you're a Jets fan by now, but you know, I mean, Jake was
saying last night and he was saying on the show, Jake Aspen,
part of The Jets collected myself and and Rich Simini do it
once a week. We did it last night as soon as
the schedule dropped, even though we had a lot of the
schedule with the leaks, we'll do it twice a week during the
season. Go check it out.
It's on YouTube. It's awesome.
It's just a really fun good show and it's growing.
It's going to be the number one jet show out there.
That is that's my mission. That's our mission.
So Jake was saying it's a must win.
I mean, I, I thought I was the one with those, you know, those
bot drop, you know, drop dead bottom line, you know, non
negotiable declarations. I mean, Jake is doing it as
well. It's not a must win.
I mean, you like to win it. Now I understand why he's saying
that because, and Robert Sala would I, I mean, I really
couldn't care less about that. I, I know what the NFL tries to
do, former coaches, this quarterback's playing his old
team. But whatever.
I mean, Robert Sala stunk as a coach for the New York Jets.
And really, if you asked me to play any team to start the year,
based on the teams I knew The Jets would be playing, I'd have
to say Tennessee. I mean, I wouldn't mind being at
MetLife, although I am going to run another Jets trip in
Tennessee, so that's going to be a blast.
Awesome city. I'll give you guys details as we
get a little bit closer here. I mean, Tennessee stinks, dude.
They're terrible. And I don't think Roberts Hollow
is a good coat. Now the problem is The Jets
stink until further notice. The Jets are terrible and Aaron
Glenn stinks as well. So it's probably like a battle
of like light, light, light, light, light weights here.
But you do have a chance to bag your first win now, and they're
1 1/2 point dogs already. How about that?
Jets aren't even favored in Tennessee.
My goodness. Not a single primetime game.
I don't care about that. See, to me, as The Jets are
trying to build this culture, I'm not going to.
Literally. Well, maybe I'll run through
every game real fast. I'll do the same for the G men.
Real fast, right? But bigger picture, keep that up
JV, like for the first, it's only 5 teams with no primetime
games. Remember they changed the rule
where everybody had to have at least a Thursday game, whatever
it might be. I don't care.
Like basically every games at 1:00.
Don't give me Nance and Romo, you know, no disrespect, but
give me like the D or the the 4th or the 5th string broadcast
team. Let The Jets figure things out
in relative anonymity. I don't need the entire country
popping in. Let's watch the circus Jets.
Let's get a butt fumble. You know, let's see Ghost with
like against the Pats years ago, like just let them build a
culture and go about their work with very few people except Jet
fans watching. So The thing is like, and I do
think The Jets will be better this year.
You know, it's a tough start here.
Like let's say they beat the Titans 5050 and then there's
some good fun energy with the Packers.
All right, home opener. What will I mean Packers are
good, but whatever if they lose that Tennessee game, I mean it
it really just sets a tone for at Detroit.
I know anything can happen, but they're probably not winning
that game at the bears, probably not winning that game.
Patriots probably not winning that game.
See, I really wish like, why could it be at Titans home to
the Dolphins, home to the Raiders to start and then maybe
take the Vikings who are week 17 and throw them somewhere in the
in the first two months of the season, right?
And then the Cardinals as well. Like this is a tough start.
It really is. But one thing I've learned about
these schedules, what you think is going to happen very rarely
does happen. So I'm not going to go nuts.
And, you know, it's just a basic observation.
I don't care that they're not on prime time.
I like that they're at 1:00, although, you know, to watch The
Jets and the Giants will be problematic because the G men
have a lot of 1:00 games as well.
And, you know, I think if you win 10, the Tennessee game, that
sets you up to, you know, at least have a meaningful start to
the season. And even if you're 1 and 4, you
know, it's not inconceivable that you can RIP off
back-to-back wins in Week 7 and Week 8.
You know, whether it's Kirk Cousins or Mendoza, you know,
Dolphins have stripped down entirely new coaches and all
that stuff. Obviously Chiefs, Bill's tough,
Chargers tough. But then the Dolphins again, the
week 13 by is as late as it's ever been for The Jets.
I think that that's it's a real disadvantage if you stink.
I think it's a real good advantage if you're really good.
So it's probably going to be a disadvantage because if you're a
good team, even though it's really late, there would be real
value for getting a chance that late in the season to kind of
all right, let's really ice up. Let's really collect ourselves
here for a long run, you know, but you know, is what it is.
I'm not going to cry too much about that.
And then listen, if The Jets say if they do beat the Titans and
they beat the Dolphins and they beat the Raiders and they steal
one game against one of these teams that nobody thinks they're
going to beat, well, then all of a sudden you're like, all right,
at Arizona, I got a chance there.
That Vikings game. Vikings aren't going to be that
good, I don't think. But yeah, you want to win total
here. I don't know.
Can The Jets go? I remember before I saw the
schedule, I'm like, I think they can win 7 or 8.
I would not bet on 8 Now that seems ridiculous. 7 seems a
little high as well. You want to tell me The Jets are
6:00 and 11:00? You want to tell me The Jets are
7 and 10 in that neighborhood? Anything less than that, Glenn
is gone. So that's my take on The Jets on
The Jets schedule. Let's get the Giants up there,
the G men, the G men. All right, now the Giants out of
the shoot here. And obviously that's what
happens when you have a coach that's got some respect.
You know, you're going to have the the primetime game, the
primetime game, then you get a little, a little bit of a hanger
there with Tennessee day ball, obviously on the staff.
I mean, to me, just contrasting it to The Jets, the Giants have
a very favorable schedule here. I think Mirage put this tweet
out, Sean, where the when when they some of the games or I
think 3 of the games that they play this year, the team that
they're playing is is in London before that, which, you know,
logistically is a disadvantage for their opponent and a little
bit of an advantage for the Giants.
You would think. I mean, listen, you can't can
you beat the commander? Sure.
I mean, should you beat Tennessee?
Yeah, I mean, should you beat the Cardinals?
Why not? I mean, the Saints aren't going
to be that good to get a chance for a little revenge there.
Texans will be tough. But you know, I, I think that
the Giants to me or, or a team where I, I, even if it's a false
belief, I think that going into October, like Halloween, the
Giants will be right in the middle of things here.
You know, 500 maybe a game above.
And I'll tell you what, if they beat Dallas week 1, I think it's
unrealistic to think you're going to beat the Rams
necessarily. But if they beat Dallas, the
Giants will be over 500 going into October.
They're going to win those two games with the Titans and the
Cardinals. They're they're going to win.
And then if you get that, and I know we're really connecting a
lot of dots and who the hell knows?
But now all of a sudden, all right, commanders, Saints, like
it's not inconceivable that the giants are, you know, four and
four and five and two. You know it's not and they've
got a well placed by. So that is the giants schedule
right there. J Rod, have you have you?
I'm going to say you have not done this yet.
But if you looked at the patriots schedule yet, No, I've
not I've not checked it yet. How do you not look at the
schedule? Come out.
It's your team, dude. I'm locked in on The Jets now,
bruh. All right.
Yeah. We're going to run a couple of
the trips here. You don't even know anything
about this. I mean, I saw, I saw the
Instagram post. It looked nice.
I looked. It looked like a nice resort.
Oh, no, no, that's different. That is something.
Yeah. By the way, do you have that up?
Can we? I don't think I sent you that.
I don't have. I don't have an unleashed
graphic. It's OK.
We'll get that up on Monday. So what you're talking about
July 11th at in Atlantic City is a massive jet content.
Basically it's like Comic Con for jet fans, I guess, or you
know, one of those with the superheroes and and and Star
Wars stuff and the Star Trek and all those other cons, right.
It's going to be off the hook. It's just a it's a big pool
party. It's going to be sick and we'll
be out there at The Jets collective.
So me, Rich and Jake and I know Connor Hughes will be out there.
Basically everybody who covers The Jets.
It's going to be really good. No, I'm not talking about that.
What I've done and we, we didn't do it last year, just to be
totally honest with everybody there, there was just no demand.
I mean, Rogers was gone and you know, I'm not going to run a
trip to lose money, but we've done a lot of trips already.
My, my guy Mike Martucci, who runs the Giants, the Big Blue
travel great with that. I know he was hanging out with
Joe Shane last night and Cashman and Booney.
They had dinner over at the rails over there in the in the
up in the Bronx. So anyway, Martucci does that
and we did it a couple of years ago and we went to Lambeau and
we sold it out and it was phenomenal, right?
And then and Jets won that game. Jets were off to a good start.
It was, it really was just Lambo's amazing.
And then the next year we went to Dallas, which was an amazing
trip. We went to Las Vegas, which the
Raiders, which they lost the game on Sunday night.
Yeah. And what we do is like, it's not
like we just get tickets to the game.
It's an entire weekend built around where.
So the games on Sunday, we host a big dinner.
And then we went to Tennessee a couple of years ago, Week 1,
where? And we went somewhere else.
Oh, we went to the Hall of Fame game in Cleveland when Revis and
Kleco got enshrined. We've done 5 or 6 of these
trips. And because he's so hooked up
with, with all the giant stuff and he, he knows everybody #1
the seats are great and his venue selection is off the
charts phenomenal. We were at a rooftop in
Tennessee. We were at a rooftop restaurant
we're overlooking, you know, the main strip in Tennessee.
And it was just it, it was, it was phenomenal.
And I hosted dinner on Saturday night before the game.
And I'll, and then I'll always get a Jet alum, whether it's,
you know, Marty Lyons or Wesley Walker, some of these get they
will roll into the tailgate and hang out with us.
And when I tell you, Jay, no bullshit.
If you guys have you been to any of these trips, by all means
jumping on the chats there because they are, they are five
star. I mean, Jets might not be 5
star, but these trips are, if you've been on the, we're not
just giving you a hot dog and a hamburger.
I mean, it is a tented catered, whether it's lobster and shrimp.
I mean, usually the delicacies will reflect where we are.
So a lot of barbecue in Tennessee, stuff like that.
So this year we're going to go to Tennessee, we're going to go
to Arrowhead and we're going to try to go to Chicago.
We want to go to historic venues to watch the Bears.
Yeah. And what we were doing, we were
trying to do a wrap around. Unfortunately it didn't work out
where if Notre Dame was home that weekend, we were going to
do Notre Dame and then Jets Bears on Sunday.
Yeah, it's so much fun. It really is.
And then you'll get like a tour of the city with like a double
Decker bus. And the other thing that that
touché gets and I and I've got if you go on my Instagram page,
then you're gonna have to Scroll down far 'cause it wasn't last
year was the year before, but you'll find it.
We get, I get you guys, we get you access where you come on the
field, you get a stadium tour. So we got a tour of Lambeau.
And then when we when we did Dallas, I actually had a
football and we were throwing the ball around on the field.
Awesome, man. And you're coming this year.
Let's go. Some of these trips, dude.
Let's go. Hey, I appreciate it.
J Rod there. Get Me Out.
Get Me Out this city. Come on.
No, we will. We will and we'll take care of
that. It's going to be on the arm.
It's not going to cost you dime, not a dime.
There we go. Nice hotels, nice hotels, the
transportation pick you up at the airport.
No take you, you know, to the airport transfers, really nice
buses. It's just phenomenal, dude.
Well run. That's great.
I'm I'm I'm so excited. Yep, it's coming up.
Let me see, girl, what else do we got?
We were wrong the other night. We both had the Pistons get in
that game. Yeah, that was that was tough.
I mean, you know, in my heart of hearts, maybe I want to say I
had the Cavs deep down, but no, I didn't.
I mean, I took the Pistons. I thought they would have gotten
it done at home. And now it it is really, it's
really shaping up to look like the the Cavs might be playing
the Knicks here. And I think that bodes very well
for the New York Knicks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, just keep going here. And what's the spread?
The spread Cavaliers are are laying 3 1/2 tonight.
I was a little surprised they were favored by that much.
They are. They're, I mean, I'm not
surprised they're favored maybe even 4 1/2.
I mean, the Pistons, you know, and, and, and one of the chats I
asked earlier, I never really answered it like, hey, what's
the better match up? Well, number one, I wanted to
get to 7. That's for obvious reasons,
right? Cavaliers, Knicks obviously are
hosting. You get homecourt advantage.
That would be great. Game one or two with the guard.
It'd be phenomenal. If it's the Pistons, it's the
other way around. Whatever, even though they
wanted Detroit last year. So I'm not too worried about
that. But I mean, the Pistons really
are a one man show and and we know that and you know, outside
of Kate Cunningham, you don't really.
And Tobias Harris's I've got and I've got respect for their
players. I'm not taking anything for
granted, but as much as I get on Harden, I mean, Harden could
still have a night where he pops in 30 something.
And and obviously, you know, we've seen Donovan Mitchell did
it on Christmas Day, not let alone the other night when he
dropped 43 in this series. You know, Mobley and some of
these got like, you know, like that's I don't know Mobley
because he's he's a guy who I always thought, I mean, when he
was originally drafted. Now this is an UN.
This is an UN imaginable comparison, but I remember
hearing the Tim Duncan thing with him, you know, flashes of
Tim Duncan in his game. And I just think, you know, I
was watching some stuff on Mobley last night like, and
granted, this doesn't matter in this playoff series, but he's
the kind of guy who hasn't gotten better like really much
over his entire career. He's very similar to he was as a
rookie player. And I don't see him as a dynamic
scorer who's going to take over the Knicks.
Not that he's needed to be that at all.
You got James Harden, Donovan Mitchell, I don't know, and
Jared Allen has always come up very soft in the playoffs.
I know he's very weak for for an All Star caliber player, All
Star caliber center. I just think I and I think Cade
being the most dynamic player out of either of those teams
maybe for in my head makes the Pistons a little tougher of a
match up for the Knicks if it were to go down that way.
OK OK what is this here Woogie Dash Z9Z9Z since the Geo dust up
Sal's been MIL Mia on on unleashed and you and you want
his BT and Sal live mysteriously disintegrated under guise of
logistics the day after. What's the story?
As a matter of fact, Sal just text me yesterday about playing
golf. No.
Yeah, I'd listen. I'll be totally honest with you
here. So trying to stir it up.
No, this is nothing to stir up. Whatever happened with me and
Geo happened, then it's over in my book until it's not.
I mean, I'm not going to keep going back to that.
Well, I said what he said, what he said.
I said what I said, and it's over.
Right. But with Sal, Right.
So Sal didn't want to get involved in it.
And I understand this. He's friends with Greg and he's
friends with me and you know, he, he just so I remember we
were actually, because I was on his, he was on unleashed and
then I was on his show. And I remember, I think the last
time I was, I was on a show was Ash Wednesday because I remember
I, I came home from church, I ran home and I had the ashes.
I if you guys remember that. And we had a great time.
I remember after that stuff with with Geo went down, I texted him
and it wasn't like immediately, but it was like, hey, let's get
you back up. So we were planning the next
show and he's like, listen, I'm and he was honest and I
respected this. Now I made what I have done it
differently. I might have like, if it was him
and Greg or him and somebody, I would have put that, that shit,
I would have put it aside. And if he asked me to come on, I
would have come on. But I'm not looking to put the
guy in the bad spot. He loved he he he lived with
Greg like they lived together when they were at WFAN early in
their careers. So I get the dynamics, you know,
and he's like, I just don't want to get in the middle.
And I said, I get it. I said do your thing, man.
So and listen, the other thing too is he's busy doing his thing
and I'm busy doing my thing. I mean, I fall asleep to sports
night and I love it's great show.
I tell you that. I really I really like sports.
I like sports night better when Sal's not on it.
Not just kidding, I'm getting, but I like the show.
I love JJ and I know a lot of those guys I played golf with
with JJ. He was next to me when Francesa
almost killed me with the golf ball when we played with me and
JJ and Sal and and Mike last year.
And I just think it's the kind of thing.
But listen, when, when this, when it went down at the fan and
I jumped into the show right away and I'm thrilled that I did
that right. And I'm, I'm, I love the growth
and I love what we're doing. I love the calls and I love the
sponsorship and there's more stuff coming.
Really proud of what we're doing.
And it's because of you guys, you guys supporting me and we're
building this thing out, the interviews, the guest,
everything loving where we're at right now.
I, I, I thought, I thought that I would probably have Sal on a
little bit more and, and I, and I, he did as well.
I can promise you if it didn't happen, what happened with, you
know, with me and Gio, I, I do think we'd probably go on once
in a while, you know, but I think that the, and I, we still
will, by the way, But I think that the, the thought of a
collaboration, while it was enticing to each of us on some
level, like a, you know, BT and Sal, let's do something once a
week because the dynamics too good and the chemistry is too
strong and the energy is too palpable.
And the demand, by the way, was, was too strong not to do it.
But then it sounds good and it, and, and it was good like as a
concept. But then when you actually get
into the, the logistics of doing a show, like I'm, I'm literally
working more now than I worked when I was actually doing the
show with the fan. I mean, because everything is
literally my wife is selling and I'm doing the content and J Rod
is producing. And you know when I would end
the show at WFAN, get off the air at 2:00, you know, I'm out
the door. 2O2, I'm in my car. Yeah, of course I'm watching the
games and getting ready for the show.
But I'm not like doing like I am in my office basically all day.
And I love it. Like it's a grind.
It's rolling up the sleeves. And it's, it's a, you know, it's
it's a grit that is new and I welcome with open arms and it
has galvanized me. And there's no doubt in my mind
I've made the right decision. But I, you know, he just didn't
want, he didn't want to get in the middle of it.
And I respected and I wasn't going to pull him in the middle
of it. Like I was going to bring him on
under the pretense of, hey, let's just talk Yankees and Mets
and then be like, dude, you hear what Gio said like that?
That's not my style. I'm not trying to complicate his
life. I like Sal.
I've always liked Sal, you know, and I think he likes me.
I mean, of course, we're very strong personalities.
So to think that that there wasn't a flare up or two over
the two years we worked together is unrealistic.
But I, I, I think he and I both know and have both said many
times in, in all the interviews after we wrapped up at the fan
that once we figured our shit out and once we got past, you
know, that never any big problems, but just understood
each other and trust each other and how to work with each other.
Well, you know, it's, that was the show that was awesome.
Like that was the show that really was, was great, you know,
and that's what we're really proud of there.
So no, he just texted me yesterday about playing golf
because when we were on the Fan, I forget the gentleman's name,
he he invited me and Sal to go play at some beautiful Country
Club in New Jersey. And he texted me literally
yesterday, hey, I forget the guy's name.
So and so from so and so Country Club reached out.
Do you still want to play? I'm like, yeah, of course I want
to play. And I'll go out there and shoot
104. I'll leave divots everywhere.
And you know, but you bring the surf sides and I'll bring, I'll
bring my bag of clubs. And yeah, of course we'll play,
man. No.
And the thing to be totally honest with, with the Carl Bank
stuff, it didn't sell out. I was surprised at that.
I really thought Long Island was going to sell out.
I was disappointed in that. But there was so much going on
and we kind of threw it in there last minute.
You know, Long Island is is more jets country.
So maybe it wasn't as, as I look back and it was my idea to reach
out to Carl and, and get them on, you know, and then we were
able to do it. He he said, yeah, which is
great. I mean, rock solid move by Carl,
who's a stand up dude, despite what happened on our show.
Love Sal, love Sal, love, love Carl.
But it just didn't sell out. And we, you know, we're not in
the business of losing money. We, we obviously sold tickets,
but it was a bigger venue. And we're like, does it really
logistically, does it make sense?
That's the only reason the plug was pulled on that.
Like, I want to be totally, totally sincere with that.
You know, I can lie and say, Oh yeah, it was sold out and
everybody wanted to come watch, but me and Sal didn't want to do
the show. Like that would almost, almost
probably make us look better like that.
We just didn't want to do the show.
But it sold out, didn't sell out, you know, like the Booney
Show sold out and BT and Sal would Boone.
So it's all good, man. I mean, there's, there's really
nothing else to dig or to dive into.
And you know, he's also, he's also working 2 jobs.
So when he's going to S&Y every day, I'm going to the field
every night to either coach my daughter, watch my daughter,
coach my son, or watch my son. And it's, it's the most
beautiful part of my life. So every night, every night.
He's also playing basketball now too.
In the spring, every night is busy and every day is consumed
with getting this show to be an absolute monster.
And I know that Sal's doing the same thing on his end.
So that's it. I cannot be more transparent
than that. So Jay, have you been wondering
about that as well? No, I mean, I, I kind of figured
it was exactly what you said. You know, I, I, I respect you
for, for being a literally 100% honest.
That's the answer. Caps off caps that.
I mean, because that's what I mean, there wasn't, you know, I
haven't been wondering much because that's just kind of I, I
didn't know about Sal's relationship with, with Greg,
but they kind of what I figured was just like, listen, he's got
his own things he's doing, you're doing your own thing.
Listen, there's not always a a time overlap, but it's also like
building out each of your own individual things rather than
trying to, you know, rely on, you know, an an old dynamic sort
of deal. Yeah, yeah.
Well, listen, don't get me wrong.
I I see some of his clips. I'm like, you know, let's get
him on, you know, yeah, dude, absolutely.
I'm sure he's doing his. Oh, dude, if we were in the same
studio together, I'd be all over him.
I'm saying the same thing. I'm not saying it's not going to
happen ever again. I'm definitely not saying that.
More than welcome to go more than open to go on his and and
the invite at some point will be back to come on mine, no doubt
about it. We're going to play golf, play
golf together. He just didn't want to get in
the middle of it and out of respect to his relationship with
him and and our guys, OK, ain't going to push it.
I'm not I'm not going to beg. I'm not going to push it so
good, so good. Speaking of, of, of the fan real
quick, I did reach out to Evan to come on the show.
I did. And you know, obviously the tiki
thing, Tiki's, that's a layup. That's it's just a matter of
what I mean, obviously Tiki's going to come out and take care
of it, right? And we'll, we'll, I want to do
tiki at night where he can pour Scotch because we're both Scotch
guys. He can pour Scotch, I can pour
Scotch. And we could just shoot the shit
for an hour and a half and really do one of those deep
dives about all the stuff that me and tik went through as
partners for over a decade now. Evan, if you remember, Evan is
the one who started this issue. Of course, of course he was the
one. I was getting ready to hang up
the phone. I'm sitting in my hotel in San
Diego and it was, you know, get ready to do the the Johnnies in
the NCAA tournament. And he's got to ask me the
question about about Gio. And I just answered it honestly
and so and but I've I've got a good relationship with Evan.
I've always liked him right, And I texted him the other day and
I'm like, hey, I'm like any interest in coming on unleashed.
I'd love to have me on. He's like absolutely.
He's like, but but he did say I just got to make sure it's OK
after the last his word was kerfuffle.
I can't stand that word. It's such AI don't know.
I just don't like that. It's like the word silly.
Like I think that hits me weird. Yeah.
Like I yeah. Oh, big time.
Like it hits you even. It's a soft word.
Soft word. Kerfuffle.
Who the hell says kerfuffle? I mean, if I would have said
kerfuffle when I was growing up, somebody would have popped me in
the face of like a. It's like a fight that occurs in
Candy Land. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he did write that back. He's like, I love you, man.
He's like, I would absolutely like, he's like, I just want to
make sure it's cool. So if it's cool and after the
little kerfuffle, we'll get Evan on.
So I like his clips a lot. Like he's he's good.
He's the dude who who I like usually find the funniest.
You find that I don't you find Evan the funniest dude.
I don't know something about his clips.
Just like I always see. I go like that was pretty funny.
Like like maybe it's the way he goes off like something about
like the Nets stuff the other day, just thinking absolutely
the Nets. No, exactly.
That was what was kind of funny was they put up a clip.
It's like it's like Brooklyn Nets.
It's got like 10 likes on it. I'm just like, oh, OK, but I
could probably do this. Like if it does work out and and
Evan does come on and he and he even brings up the Nets, he's
off like show's over. At least this point of the show.
Waste of time. I've got a no rules Friday
question. My dad always pushes this to me.
He'll love that. I'm asking you this right now.
Yeah, go ahead. Do you watch WNBA at all?
Slash have any? OK, OK, because he's always
like, yo, J, you got to talk WNBA, man.
You'll get 20,000 Subs in a day. I'm like, I fuck the bank.
I'm not here disrespected. I mean, they're phenomenal, but
no, I'm, I'm not watching the WNBA.
I'll tell you what I tell you, I I did watch Caitlin Clark couple
times when she was in Iowa for sure.
You know, like and and and Reese, obviously.
I mean, I know some of the players.
My favorite part honestly, of the WNBA is Sophie Cunningham's
Instagram. That's the let's let's be
honest, that is by far the best content.
Anything that the WNT is gorgeous, dude, I'm a fan.
They listen, they are amazing players.
I just don't have the, the like the bandwidth, the interest or
the time. I mean, that's fair.
You're locked into so many things.
It's like, and it's, it's the and The thing is, I don't think
it's a discredit to the league itself because like, dude, I
went to a Liberty last game last year.
It was packed. It was much more dynamic than
any Brooklyn Nets game I ever went to.
I believe that it was so much fun.
I just think it's hard when you grow up loving certain teams.
It's hard to add on another thing that you're now supposed
to be locked in on when you've spent your entire life kind of
not not following that. It's tough to add another sport
to that repertoire. Yeah.
Just wondering. I had to, I had to put that out
there. Listen.
And and they deserve. I know that, you know, they've
been battling for the for their CBA.
I mean, they deserve much more money now.
It is it is all supply and demand.
I mean, they want to get paid like NBA players, which is
ridiculous. Well, then you got it.
You got to you could have that thought and you can hire to
that, but you've got to pump out the money the way the NBA does.
But it's grown tremendously. Yeah.
The minimum track now is so much better.
I know it is. I know for sure.
And they were getting hoes for a lot of years and and the the
style of play, like they're just incredibly talented.
It just, I just don't, I'm not going to watch it.
Like I just, I, I don't have any interest in watching it.
I really don't. And it's not, if any really,
hopefully nobody construes that as a sexist statement or I've
got no interest in watching the women play.
I just have no time. And if like I've got to be
emotionally connected to something to care.
And that is why I really do. That is why I just can't get
into hockey. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate
it. Doesn't mean I don't respect it.
And I grew up playing in the street.
I was terrible. God, I was an awful street
hockey player. I mean, I was terrible, but I,
there was a point where I liked hockey a little bit.
You know what? I had the, the Islanders jersey
and we would, you know, we get into fights in the street.
Me and my buddy Tommy. Yeah, we would, we would drop
the gloves and he'd usually wait because he was a year older, a
little bit bigger. But no, we, we would play all
the time with the garbage pails and the roll, the black tape and
we had the cohost sticks. And I just wasn't a good skater
so but even now, so it's not like anti WNBA, it's anti
anything that I don't connect to intensely and intimately.
And that doesn't mean that I can't appreciate the speed and
the dexterity, which is amazing of the NHL and just what these
guys do and how they sacrifice their bodies, you know, dive
into the ice and blocking shots that are coming 95 plus miles an
hour with a hard cold piece of rubber like you are.
They are nuts, man. And, and they are low
maintenance athletes, which I, which I like the team concept,
you know what I mean? Like the, the team concept in
hockey is as strong as as any other sport out there.
So, so many great things to say about the sport.
It's just, it's just not my sport.
And while I love basketball, the WNBA is just not my thing.
But I mean, we're not talking Euro League.
No, I I don't talk. No, I don't watch.
I watch a little, the only time I really watch now the Euro
League. Well, I think I've been watching
a lot of Euro League stuff the last two weeks because the
entire St. John's roster is suddenly from
Europe here, you know, So I'm watching these clips with these
wacky courts and these different ads on the jerseys and five
different colored basketballs. I'm like, all right, he looks
good. He's called the St.
John's. I better figure it out.
Wait, I got a question. Syracuse St.
John's this year. I mean, I'm there.
We're going to beat your ass. Like I know it's it's in the
city, right? It's at the garden.
You coming? Not not Oh, not.
I mean, I'm not to say like this, dude, you got to get me
some kind of seat, some kind of something.
Jay, do me a favor. Listen, you, you are one of the
reasons why I I really do like you is that first of all, you're
good at your job. Number 2, you're nice, very
nice. Just a good young man.
I've said that before, dude. You don't have to just say it.
Just like, dude, get me tickets. We've got that relationship now.
You don't have to dance around. Just say come on, BT get me
ticket done, dude. I'll be there and all.
Dude, that's a game. Like I legit like, dude, I could
take a college alum lady to the game.
Come on now. That's like a real, there's like
a real something there. There's some real, some real
heat behind that game there. Yeah, yeah, there could be.
And it wouldn't be up in the rafters by the retired numbers
either. So maybe I come over and say hi,
introduce myself, you know, get things going a little bit in the
in the right direction for you. But by the way, that it seems
like that department has been very quiet for you lately.
Cricket. Yeah.
Listen, listen, honestly, I've had some, I've had some quiet
weekends recently. Listen, we got to get back out
there. All right, man, whenever you do,
I told you that third date, it's got to be the third date.
I hook you up with a restaurant, the chef comes out, I take care
of the bill. Third date.
Not first and not second. Third, Big Tom.
Big Tom. Also, wait this season real
quick, who it. St.
John's is projected to be much better than Hughes, right?
Yeah. Syracuse is terrible.
Oh, God, no. Right now, we're still projected
to be. I mean, I guess Donnie Freeman
left. He went to St.
John's. Yeah, exactly.
He went to St. John's.
Oh, boy, Why don't you suck on that back-to-back.
I mean, he was the last, you know, And JJ Starling was fine.
And what's his name? Judah Mintz was OK.
Carmelo was pretty fun. Yeah.
I don't. He didn't do much.
Yeah. I don't know.
Cayenne Anthony. He'll be better this season.
Dude, he's AI. Don't want to say, man, don't
get personal. No, no, no.
I was going to say he's a Brownie James, but I don't know.
He might he Cayenne Anthonys projects to be a better player
than Brawny James will be. Yep.
I just think he I don't know if you'll get that NBA chance.
I just I mean, yeah, he might not.
He might not like, you know, listen, I Syracuse to me.
I I miss Syracuse. I missed that dynamic.
I really do now it for most of my I got LED astray.
I got LED astray going to the a basketball school.
And then I went and it wasn't it wasn't a sports school at all.
And I know, I know I got to tell you like the deterioration of of
Syracuse. Now, I do think it's going to be
restored with J Mac in the house and that's going to be is
Stephen Dorf an assistant? That I think so that I imagine
that would bring some juice too. I thought I read that somewhere
that Eric Dievendorf is going to be an assistant.
Either way, J Mac is the coach and that will reignite the
passion. I love doing games there.
Obviously, this would mean that if it's I don't know if it's
quite a home at home, but if it turns into a home at home, I'd
love to go back to the Dome. It's it's that is a special
place to call the game, to watch a game.
But the disintegration of the Syracuse basketball program has
been said and I mean that like sincerely, it's been said to
witness they're they're in the wrong conference.
They've lost their way and they it's just but I do think they'll
start creeping back with J Mac people now.
The money's going to come back. All right.
He wasn't working out with Autry, You know, now you got
Jerry McNamara. Here's the NIL.
Here's the interest pretty soon, you know, you know, 2225
thousand a night again. I I think it's going to come
back, but it's down and and and a lot of it was due to, you
know, blackballing the guy Adam Weitzman, who is tossing a lot
of that and I do you know, are you familiar with him?
I don't know and I don't know that I want to get 2 in the
weedsie on Adam Weissman's NIL the like, give me the short
version. Go ahead.
No, basically, he was the guy who would he would he would
bring Giannis to the Syracuse games.
He brought Jalen Hurts the weekend before the Super Bowl to
the Dome, and he was the one who was primarily funding a lot of
the NIL deals for Syracuse's players, Jim Beheim and even the
chancellor of Syracuse University said.
We will not take any more money from this guy.
I'm not sure I've got to now. I've got to look into how he
earned that, that chunk of change.
You know, maybe there's a reason why they didn't take it.
Does it even matter? Somebody takes it and they can
put 20 points up on the board a night, whatever.
But yeah, I think a lot, you know, not having that funding
for the past couple years also kind of led to a lackluster
roster. 100% I would. No, it's all correlated to the
amount of money that you spend now.
Kentucky spent like $22 million last year and they fell way
short, like spending. And now everybody's over $10
million and there's a lot of teams now.
Really last year was kind of that that barrier, like if you
were 10 and St. John's was 10.
Is that threshold of all right, You're really all in kind of now
it's been bumped up to 15 and others are going to have more.
Like, it's really, it's ridiculous.
That's a deeper conversation for a different day.
But until they change the rules and as long as Mike Rippoli, my
guy, Mikey by the water, you know, doing his thing for St.
John's, all the horses, the Derby, keep cutting those
checks, Mikey, you know. All right, let's get back to the
calls here. Who is up?
Who do I have? Who do I have?
Who do we got? We've got our buddy St. from
London St. What up?
What's up guys? How Are you ready T?
I'm good man, I'm good. How you doing?
Excellent. Happy Friday.
I'm doing good man. Doing real good.
Waiting for waiting for the Subway series, you know, so
that's going to be great. Cam Schlitter's going to be
great. And you know, I wanted to ask
you 2 questions. OK.
When was the last time you've come to London?
I've never been. I know, I know.
You've teed me up nicely, my friend.
OK, and Kim, let me tell you why.
So I had a jet. I was telling you guys about
those Jets trips. We had one on the books.
It was two years ago and it was obviously October and I was at
WFAM and you know, my old boss was kind of and I would have
made a lot of money that weekend, man.
But I got it. I got their perspective.
Like, dude, it's it's football season and it's the Yankees are
in the playoffs and and the Mets and we had, we had a whole
studio set up at BBC where I was going to be able to do my radio
show with Sal and just connect from London.
Like logistically we had it done.
But they, they, they didn't flat out say you can't go.
But what I was feeling, what I was receiving was because I
would have had a then miss a show to get back, given the six
hour time difference, I would have had to have missed either
Tuesday or Wednesday show. And there was too much going on.
And I thought I had to make the now they wound up getting rid of
me. So I sort of freaking went.
It didn't matter. I'm sure like, screw you, I'm
going and I'm making a boatload of cash and I'm going to be in
London anyway. But I made the decision and I'm
proud of it, that I thought that they really kind of wanted me to
make and that I think professionally I knew that I had
to make. So it's all good.
Excellent. Well, thanks for the
explanation. I'll tell you the reason why I'm
asking. Of course, then we've had a lot
of frequent conversations, which I completely and utterly enjoy.
Obviously listen to you for a very long time, even on ESPN
Radio when you had Stephen A and, you know, so yeah, we're
going back. Yeah.
What I wanted to propose, and this is twofold because you
mentioned that, you know, when J Rod asked you about WNBAI,
wanted to say even though you're doing your own thing now, BT
Unleashed, you do it every day. You're hitting the pavement
hard. But if you do give yourself a
holiday, you are I would love to invite you as my guest, My my
Casa SU Casa. You can, you can stay and I
would like to take you to a rugby match.
Oh, rugby, yeah. Or or Test cricket to try to get
you to understand and embrace a new game I've.
Watched a by the way, don't sell me short.
I've watched a little cricket, usually more from India, like
whenever I stumble upon cricket, IPL, yeah, I keep it on and and
and by the way, first of all, very, very generous.
Now that's deeper than you know, my guy inviting me Benji to the
Knick game, which is right here. I'm not saying, I'm not saying.
No, no, no. I got you rugby.
I got you now. It's awesome, dude.
The rugby. So my high school, I didn't play
rugby because it's during baseball season.
I don't think I would have been that good at it anyway because
I'm not very fast at all. But my, my rugby team at Xavier
in Manhattan is really one of the top rugby.
It's a private school that has a rugby program, one of the best
in the entire country. And they every year they either
they've gone to Australia to play, they've gone to London.
So I as a total Rugby, I just never played.
I've never been to an event, that would be awesome.
Yeah. I mean, yeah, it'd be great.
I mean, I don't know your schedule, but how it usually
works is we have our autumn internationals right now, as I
mentioned yesterday when we were talking about the schedule the
Gallagher Premiership is on right now.
So that's more club. Yep.
And then and then in March of every year, which is great, we
have the Six Nations, which is England, Wales, Scotland,
Ireland, oh France. Oh, that's got to be, that's got
to be a death match. Oh, oh, it's oh, it's amazing.
It's and that's Test and that's Test rugby, right?
So yeah, yeah, yeah, it is it is incredible.
And also cricket, you know, I, you know, baseball derives from
it. So for me, I could, I could chew
your ear off about cricket and the rules and everything.
I, and I think a baseball savant as yourself, would find it
absolutely fascinating. I do.
When I watch it, it's I think I would have been good at cricket
too. I think I would have hammered
the ball. I think you would have as well
to be fair. But like, you're watching IPL,
right? Right.
That's T20, The same thing that they're doing in the States that
they've released. So that's 20 overs, right?
But Test cricket, and This is why baseball has series, right?
Because Test cricket is 1 match but played over 5 days.
You understand? I got you.
Yeah. So that's why.
And the reason why it's called Test is because it is a Test
mentally and physically. So imagine you're a batsman,
right? You're there in the hot sun
facing over 100 bowls and like forever, like you're sweating,
you're hot, you're frustrated and you're trying to play shots
and score runs. So it's not like you know, oh,
I, I Shuck out. You only get out once your
stumps go, right. So the fact that is Test cricket
is that you're there and even on even the attack side, which is
the bowling. So you're there.
You can't get these guys out. You're bowling and over is 6
bowls and over, so you're bowling all day like I I'm
getting really excited. Just even talk to you.
I don't want to tell. But but I'm but I just, I swear
to you, man, if you ever, ever like one thing I think is like,
you know, we've lost humanity with all the technology and all
the stuff that's fake and nonsense.
One thing you cannot kill is the human spirit and connectivity,
especially when it comes to men in sports, women and men in
sports, women and women in sports.
So as one human being to another, I do open my doors to
you. What a gentleman would love and
would love to have you for Test cricket, which is in the summer.
Like I said, I'm I'm I'm not Privy to your schedule.
Now I don't even know what it is yet.
I'm I'm terrified. I don't even want to take a day
off from the show because I don't want people to forget
about me. We're not that popular yet and
I'm not Pat McAfee. I got to stick around and I got
to grind. If I go away, I don't know,
people be like that. BTD.
He wasn't there for two live from London.
Geez, no, I hate you, but check this out.
You, you were that close with the BBC?
Yeah. I would imagine that you or some
of your, your, your connections within your network have some
sort of connections to broadcasting over here.
And if you can finagle those in a proper way to kind of get you
out here where they can set you up, we could do BT Unleashed
abroad, you know? What I mean, I mean, yo, I I
listen. I love the vision, man.
I I hear you. All right.
Yeah. Let me think about it, love.
To have you see. Love to have you man and thank
you brother. I wish you, I wish you and your
family a bomb weekend. Always a pleasure.
Awesome, dude. What a gentleman.
Thank you, Este. I appreciate you making that
call. I mean, we're talking cricket,
we're talking rugby, we're talking WNBA.
I mean, I may as well throw in a little PGA Championship over the
weekend, a little G1 of the majors, which by the way, is
such a lame major. They're they're like the, and I
love golf, but I'm not gonna get into it now too much.
But like the PGA Championship, the, the amount of random people
that have won that thing. If you look at the US Open and
you look at obviously the Masters before that to get the
majors going or even TPC, like the fifth major before, and of
course, the Open Championship every year.
It's it's just, I don't know, man.
It just, it never has the IT just doesn't have any juice.
It's weird. I'm going to get will the under
score Long Beach. Hey, my boy Mike Quinn just
texted me yesterday about doing something at Borelli's for a
little Nick's stuff. So we got some good things
coming there. Shout out to those guys.
I was stuck in traffic on the Van Wyck Stunning going to the
Mets game the other day. Kids were playing cricket in the
park like we would play Wiffle ball.
Yeah. I mean, listen, it's funny, I, I
don't know their, their descent because I just, I never, I, I
don't know, I, I think it was, I think it was an Indian league.
I think it could have been Jamaican.
I don't know for sure. But even when I was young, when
I was growing up, playing baseball at Marine Park in the
80s on, if you know, like where Kings Plaza is in Flatbush Ave.
like on the other side, on the side of the park closest to
Kings Plaza, right by the Creek, whatever, like that, that if you
know the Creek, you know the Creek.
They were playing cricket there in the 80s, in the 80s.
J Rod. So yeah, yeah, no doubt.
I the only thing I don't know and I don't well, I mean, I
don't profess to know all the rules at all, but is the is the
ball like heavy like say a lacrosse ball?
That's what I wondered too, right.
I think it's like hard though, because it's snaps, right?
It's definitely hard. It's got yeah, but I think it's
is it rubberized? It's not leather and I know that
I don't think, I don't think they're stitching on it.
I think it's more heavy rubber rather than, you know, a
baseball is about 5 and a quarter oz.
Matter of fact, it's got to be 5.25.
I don't know what it weighs. It looks heavier and it
obviously doesn't go as far as it's got to be heavier.
But the one thing that I don't know, I mean, outside of like
guys pulling hamstrings and ruptured Achilles and torn ACLS,
when you're running, does anybody get hurt in cricket?
Like maybe like pulling shoulder?
Yeah, No, I don't mean like, I don't mean an injury from like
throwing it and how they do like they it's a very violent release
of the ball. But like in baseball, guys get
hit and they they break a handmade bone or they whatever
it might be, they break their wrist or fracture their, you
know, something in their, in their elbow or their forearm.
I don't really see many injuries.
I meant, listen, maybe there are.
I just I'm not Privy to them. I don't know what about this,
though. Getting invites all around the
world here, man, there we go. I mean, come on now, ECF to to
to London people like beats you unleashed.
Come on now. This is maybe a question after
the next call. I've never been to Flatbush in
my life, bro. Like if if I were to go like,
what's something I should check out?
I mean nothing, There's nothing. No, unless I love Flatbush and
the and the Flatbush that I grew up with is nowhere near the
Flatbush. It's just not it's totally
different. I mean, you want to look around?
Yeah, go ahead. No, I'm, I'm just like this is
for the chat too. Like yo, if any of y'all are in
New York, just let me know. Like I just need something new,
bro. Like I feel like I've been
listening. I've been in this area of
Brooklyn, but like I want to check out the cheap cuts of
Brooklyn, the red hooks. OK, OK, OK, so I got a couple
things for you now, when my experience with Red Hook is very
different from what Red Hook is turned into.
Oh, dude, I'm very different. Yeah, there's no doubt.
Like you got to remember when I was in high school and we were
literally right in the middle of the city, W 16th St. off 6th
Ave. we didn't have our old field, so.
So we would have to go to the East River Drive, but also we
practiced at Red Hook. In Red Hook, they had a field
and like, you know, you're walking.
We didn't really care. We had bats and we had 10 guys.
But like, you know, not, not not the safest walk back then.
It's different. But I don't know anything
socially in Red Hook. I never hung in Red Hook.
I lived in downtown Brooklyn, like not far from Montague St.
which is beautiful, like Cobble Hill, brownstones, great
restaurants, But it's been, it's been so long.
If I'm going to tell you and, and you know, I'm, I'm going to
say Flatbush, even though it's more Marine Park would have
like, if you're going to go to Flatbush, I would say, yeah #1
you got to go to Michael's Restaurant, the number one
Italian restaurant for my money anywhere, Michaels.
And you are right there. It's, it is.
Write that down that. And by the way, I know those
guys. So if you go there, maybe that's
the place that you go on the date, the third.
Oh, my parents go all the time. Michael's Avenue.
All right, cool. We spent Mother's Day there a
couple of years ago. It's just, listen, here's how I
judge an Italian restaurant. How's the deal?
And they got great deal. They got great everything and
great people. And they had a great bakery
across the street too, that for a long time that they that they
closed anyway, Michaels the best shout out to Michaels.
I love them, man. Even their their sauce.
I mean, you get them at the supermarket.
It's great if you want. Yeah, it's really good.
You go to any supermarket, you'll see Michaels, right.
So if you want pure seafood, I'm going to send you a little.
This is in Flatbush, literally all Flatbush Ave.
Go to Randazzos, right across from Marine Park Golf Course at
which by the way, is a great golf course that my dad still
plays at. They put a lot of money into it
the last 10/12/15 years. It looks awesome.
And right across the street is Randazzos, clams, oysters,
Kungili, Gallima, whatever you want.
Phenomenal. Obviously lobsters.
What else do we got? I mean, I'm sorry, I just ran
that. I just ran Dazzles in Sheepshead
Bay. Got it.
Jordan's, you got the, you got Jordan's lobster duck.
Maybe that maybe that name even changed.
But my dad's going to tell me right after the show.
It's it's awesome and it's on the water and it's just like
it's no frills. It's not like you're walking in
some. But the food is great.
You're right on like, you know, like the water.
You got the little channel. And then obviously, when you go
to Sheepshead Bay, if you go fishing, which is where I used
to go fishing. Yeah.
I, I haven't gone yet here, but I've really been meaning to.
Like, my roommate went boat fishing last year, but I haven't
gone fishing here yet. Did he go out of Sheepshead Bay?
Yes, he went out of Sheepshead Bay.
Do you like to fish? Yeah.
Yeah, Yeah, Dude, you got to go. All right.
Done. Done.
Now, the problem is you're probably going to catch sea
Robins and you're probably going to catch, you know, those little
doormat, like the little dormy shark.
They look like a little baby shark.
Yeah. Like the nurse shark things like
the little, like brown ones. Yeah.
No, these, these are like more grey.
The sea rods are obviously brown.
But like when I would go, I started going in high school,
you would get weak fish. You would and like, it's just
overfished the waters and the regulations like the fluke and
the flounders get more and more. It's tough to, it's tough to
catch a keeper. But back when I was going, you
know, you get a lot of blue fish, right?
And I don't like blue fish too Bony, Not my, I would never
order blue fish in a restaurant ever.
But I love flounder and I love fluke, right?
You stuff it with crab meat, whatever.
But back then we would catch a lot of it.
Either way, you'll have a great experience.
You go by the Verrazano Bridge and you know, it's, it's very
scenic. It's very nice.
I don't know what they're charging these days, but I used
to go on. I think Captain Jack was the
name of it, or Captain Jack Four, one of those party
vessels. There was a rush.
I think my dad told me that they closed a while ago.
There was an Italian joint more fancy like Ren Dazzos is kind of
like you just get in. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You could be wearing shorts and flip flops.
You get the and you just in and out.
You get a beer and you have some good food.
This Maria's was more of a formal restaurant.
I, I'm, I'm positive it's gone, but it was also really good.
Not as good as Michael's. If you're going to if you want
real Flatbush ish area food and you want Italian food, which is
what you should want, you got to go to Michael's.
Michael's is the best. Boom, I'll check it out.
Dude. I I appreciate it.
Also, like a lot of comments have hooked it up too.
They've given some really good advice.
What are they saying? Let me see what are they?
I've seen bar Mario and Red Hook taste the tropics ice cream and
Flatbush. I don't know you've never tried
that Defanti's in Red Hook. I've heard of that spot before.
Which one Defanti's in Red Hook. It's a it's a it's like one of
those like pretty famous sandwich shops.
Well, I got one for Bamonte's. Bamonte's.
OK, like Williamsburg, like green dude.
I mean, that's right next to me is great.
I'm going then I might go after this done.
So you Oh, you that's yeah. You've never been to Bamonte's.
No, but Williamsburg Greenpoint is literally a 5 minute bike
ride from my place. So it is so good.
I had where we had my grandparents, my mom's parents
on the Italian side. We had their 50th wedding
anniversary at Bamante's. No way.
Like Piazza used to go there all the time when he was with the
Mets. It's one of those joints where
and if you want to go out to Queens, go to Lenny's and and
tell them that I sent you. Like Lenny's is one of my
favorite places of all time. But like when you when you walk
into Bamante's, I love spots like this.
Lenny has it as well, although I think a lot of the pictures got
damaged in a flood. Like you'd walk in, like,
there's a picture of, like, Andre the Giant sign with the
owners and like, you know, all the wrestlers and Reggie Jackson
and like, yeah, yeah, old Sieberg and Mazzilli.
And Bamonte's has that nice little bar scene, but it's more
about the food. The last time I was at
Bamonte's, I took my wife and there I'll never forget, there
were two or three nuns that were there.
We went for lunch and we wound up.
I was talking to the nuns and took a took a picture with them.
It it's been a while, but Monty's is great as well.
I'm still going to put Michael's at the top.
All right, I got that at #1 it's, it's, you know, if we're
talking to horse race, I'll give Michaels a nose, but it's, it's
kind of a photo finish, like Bamante's is not getting.
So it's close. All right, dude, I'm, I'm
definitely going to. And it's a place where you can
like take out a sandwich, like a deli sandwich.
Or is it more of a restaurant? It's a restaurant.
I I believe, I'm sure they have to do take out.
It's a restaurant. You know, you have, you don't
have to wear a suit. But you know what?
Yeah, maybe a collared shirt, Kathy's, whatever, maybe even
jeans with a nice sports jacket. I don't know anybody.
I mean, they they they might. They might.
I mean, they might know my name. From what?
Whatever. But I don't know anybody at
Bamante's. We actually know people at
Michaels. So depending upon what you're
looking for, little personalization, that's up to
you. Awesome.
Thank you, bro. Yeah, man.
All right, buddy, let me get one more call.
Going to get ready to bear. First time caller.
Sweet Lou. Sweet Lou.
Punta Gorda. Wait, is that.
That's right. Punta Gorda, FL.
He's from Florida. Sweet Lou is in the house.
Louie. Boy, what's going on, Lou?
My bald headed brother from another mother BT how's it
going? It's going well man, thanks for
calling. Brother, you, I, I don't know if
you Remember Me from the BT and Sal show, I came up with that
crew from Florida we came for and we saw you and Sal and Boone
on stage. We yeah, yes, Lou.
And you came up on the stage and we were talking up on the stage.
Right. That's right.
If you.
Remember you coming in from? How good?
Was that night. It was a fantastic night.
I was hoping you guys get to do it again.
But you know, my schedule as an airline pilot, it's kind of
tough to, you know, get tickets ahead of time for your event
with Carl Banks. Wait, wait, wait, wait, I would
think. It would be easier.
You're a pilot, you fly whatever you want.
Yeah, it is. But you know, with the airline
schedules and everything, you know, and you just never know
when you're going to get cold. So it's kind of tough to make
plans in advance. But I was glad I was able to go
up there and then spend time with Bartuche later on over at
the bar next door. Is is that guy a trip or what?
Yeah, he's nuts. He's out of his mind.
He's absolutely nuts. I.
Love him nuts he's. Crazy.
He's like an absolute wild. Man, he is.
He absolutely is. BT anyway, the reason I'm
calling, I know you talked about this stylistic change for the
Knicks that's happened that you've noticed over the last
month. I really don't know if I wanted
to see him. Get your thoughts on what you
thought on this. I think it's more like the first
three games of the of the playoffs against the Hawks when
they went down 2 to one. They kind of look similar to the
regular season. And I think, and I don't know
what was said and I wanted to get your thoughts on this, that
interaction between Rick Brunson and Jalen Brunson on the
sideline towards the end of game three.
I think that flipped the switch in this team.
It saw, I think the other players on the team witnessed
that, you know, witnessed, you know, Rick getting in Jalen's,
you know, rear end. And maybe, you know, they're,
you know, they're thinking to themselves.
Maybe there's it, maybe it's not a daddy ball situation.
And I did something, I, I, I don't know what was said, but it
just says something happened with this team from that point
forward where they've ripped off 7 straight games now.
And I just wanted to get your thoughts on that.
I think that's and it hasn't been talked about.
Well, I, if you're talking about, remember there was a
situation too, where Brunson said something, the dad said
something to Jalen and cat wound up taking the the free throw.
Remember that technical member and and cat was really quiet at
that point and we brought that up.
Either way, I didn't know if you meant that in but the other the
other conversation, which I, I know now I know exactly what
you're alluding to. Listen, Daddy bald is a real
thing in Little League. Anything that Jalen Brunson
gets, he's earned. Now I do think that there had to
be a a shift in philosophy and usage rates had to change and
running the offense were funneling through cat.
I think it's obviously opened up so many whether it's backdoor
cuts and OG dunks or bridges dunks or guys in the corner.
I mean, he is just a great passer who could see over
everybody cuz he's 7 feet. So I, I, I think that's a little
convenient myself, Lou. It's not a bad thought.
I'm not shooting it down. I can't prove it and, and I
could be wrong. I think that on some level Mike
Brown kind of always knew that he was going to eventually start
to play that way because they were doing it the last month and
1/2 or so on the in the, in the season.
So they were kind of working toward that.
But bottom line, it says I don't care how the hell they got there
as long as they got there. That's all that matters to me,
Lou. I don't care about what yelling
at each other. Brunson Daddy.
Hey, run it through cat. And now understand that you're a
much more diverse team and a much more dangerous team and a
team that for the first time, you know, all year, I, I now
believe is championship worthy as I've had for the last week or
so, which I, as you all know, I did not think during the season.
Absolutely. And also, even though my Mets
the last three games have been looked pretty, pretty promising,
I don't see them beating the Yankees much and they may take
one out of three this week. And I'm a realistic Mets fan
like you're a realistic Yankees fan.
Yeah, I mean, listen, I'd have to think that you guys will get
a little medicine this weekend, hopefully in your own crib, and
you will have to swallow hard and and not enjoy the taste as
it goes down. Hopefully we're going to serve
you a couple of L's and the Yankees will reverse the way
they've been playing and the Metsis will go back to, you
know, being. Largely non existent, yeah.
I don't see them being Schlitter tonight.
And then we don't even have a Game 2 starter.
So it's probably going to be a bullpen, A bullpen game for game
two. I know.
So I think our best chances maybe Freddy Peralta against
Weathers on Sunday, but other than that it's not looking too
good. Well, I mean, listen, you can
win a low scoring game tonight. I, I don't think that the, why
would I think that the Yankees are dropping six or seven on
Clay Holmes. I mean, the Yankees aren't
dropping six or seven on anybody.
They got 5 automatic outs, basically 5 dudes hitting under
200. So I think if the Yankees win
tonight, and I think that they probably will, I think it's a
low scoring game. And then, you know, you probably
see a little, I would think some Peterson tomorrow is a lefty
kind of piece things together. I I don't know what they're
going. To do tomorrow, but yeah, I mean
it I'm I'm looking forward to seeing Schlittler and Soto like
that's going to be fun that's going to be fun all right, man.
Thanks for the call, Lou have a great weekend, buddy there you
go sweet go sweet Lou. Great guy.
Sweet Lou. Yeah, he sounds like a really
good guy. That's a cool job being a pilot,
man, huh. Dude, that's.
I mean, that must be the most like, like, you know, Yeah,
dude, pressure filled just like. Oh my gosh.
Oh, my gosh. Like, that is terrifying stuff.
Yeah. But it becomes so normal today.
Yeah. And and it is like, and you
know, when you think, when you really break it down, it is the
safest form of transportation. Literally like like like in
terms of, I know least amount of actual accidents have occurred
in like, like planes are the safest for, but it's just like,
dude, something about like the stakes are high, bro.
When you're like when you're when you're behind that, when
you're behind that wheel. Or is it a wheel?
Is it like, no, it's, it's, it's, it's not the steering
wheel. It's what is.
Yeah, I'm forgetting. There must be a word for it.
Circle. I don't know.
I'm forgetting steering mechanism, mechanism behind that
mechanism. But it's all you, you, you know,
it's basically all. You know, it's all like
digitalized, like you just punch in where you're going and like
it's not like you're like, oh, is anybody coming left side?
Like God forbid, you know, like you just you kind of chill and
you kind of once you know what's going on.
Yeah, it's probably pretty. Yeah.
Not that I take it for granted. I appreciate, you know, the
safety aspect and and what the men and women do for us, but it
is it's a good job and you got to live wherever you want to,
you know, like my father, my father-in-law is a retired
pilot. No way Commercial.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
So he's and it's cool because it's like you've probably seen
pretty, you've seen every continent probably pretty much
like yeah, he used to go to. I remember like towards the end.
Well, not not right at the end, but he would go to Germany quite
a bit. He would go to Belgium, he would
go to Japan. They'd go everywhere.
Too cool. Yeah.
Very.
That's that's the one country I've got to make it out to.
Japan is like the one place I really want to see, man.
Yeah. Do you like Japanese food?
Yeah. Oh, love it, bro.
I love it. Love it.
I'm a bigger Vietnamese guy, but I do love Japanese.
I'm not a Vietnamese fan. It's just no, I like, I just
love sushi. I mean, OK, so there was a point
where I thought, I mean, I could still do it, but it's not very
healthy for you. I could eat Italian every single
day. I'm convinced now.
The last 10 years, I could eat sushi every day.
Like we just ordered sushi. My, my 9 and 11 year old kids,
like, they eat sushi. They're into it.
That's good. Oh, yeah, and we we go, we go
more sushi than sashimi. You know, the rice isn't.
Yeah, not that it's bad for kids.
Yeah, I don't, I don't need to just suck down a ton of rice,
you know, empty calories, whatever.
But yeah, the the tuna, salmon, I mean sushi.
Oh yeah. Big staple once a week in the
home. In our home.
We order it. Yeah.
And I and it's so are your kids aren't like picky eaters or
anything like that. They're pain in the ass eaters.
I mean, really they are like, you know, I guess that must be
every literally every kid then. Yeah, most kids, I hear this
from a lot of parents like, you know, like sometimes they just
nibble like they, they like he does this more than her, like
cereal and sometimes obviously eggs in the morning and you
know, piece of fruit. You slip him some milk and all
that stuff. But like he'll, he'll, he'll eat
his cereal in like dribs and drabs, like 2 spoonfuls.
Then he'll go and he'll grab a bat, then two.
Then I'll hear the ball bouncing and the then two spoonfuls and
I'll hear the 3D printer going. He's making something for his
business. I'm like, just keep, just sit
down and eat. Do it after.
Then the cereal gets soggy. No, I think every kid at the end
of the day is I was really bad. I was really bad when I was a
good kid. Not me really.
See, but that's that. I feel like that's, you know,
from your Gen. or my parent generation, your generation,
like they always talk about like they had to eat everything that
was on the plate. So you just didn't have an
option of being a picky eater. Yeah, I mean, I, I guess, I
guess first of all, like, you know #1 my mom is the best cook
in the world. So the best, the best.
So I mean, every Sunday meal, I mean, it's, you know, and she
would make some of that stuff during the week too.
Like even like chicken cacciatore, which is a real old
school Italian dish. Nobody really makes that
anymore. But with the puree, oh, it's
good. I'm like eggs, sausage and
Peppers, eggs and Peppers, you know.
Then obviously some more conventional stuff.
My dad would work the grill, but we, they were never like, no,
you, you eat every, you know, I mean, you know, I ate because I
just had a good appetite and it came naturally.
But I, I, I tell you that I got, I got to get moving.
I'll, I'll read maybe that chat too.
And then I got to bounce. But they during the summer, we'd
always hear the ice cream bells, right?
And a lot of the time they would come with me and my buddies were
still playing like wiffle ball on the street.
But I remember this one time we heard it and and we and Brussels
sprouts are absolutely repulsively gross.
You couldn't pay. I can't stand them right.
And thankfully she didn't make them very often, but I've never
that's like a take. You and I are are so opposite of
you. Like how I love Brussels
sprouts, dude, any day of the week, fried, roasted, salted,
really give it to me. OK, Those are my favorite.
Listen, I like broccoli with mushrooms.
I like, I don't like spinach that much, but cream, cream
spinach at a steak house is good.
I do. I love edamame.
Speaking of Japanese food, right.
Love that. Good salt, good edamame.
But no, I Brussels sprouts. Gross.
And I remember my sister and I actually, because we weren't
getting ice cream until we had some of the Brussels sprouts, we
actually froze our taste buds with ice cubes to eat them.
Eat the Brussels sprouts. So we couldn't.
Yeah, that is funny. All right, let me read this.
And then I absolutely have to go.
What do we got? BT Where did you meet?
And what it's a long? Story man.
Until now it's 12. 12 Do me a favor.
Say that the short version is at a Kentucky Derby party in
Manhattan. That's the short version.
I don't want to leave them short change there cuz you know, nice
and generous little super chat, but it's 12/12 as one of the
longest shows we've done. I got a lot to do today.
I want to let you guys know. So I appreciate that Matt, but
I'll give you guys the a fun story, some of the details at
some point. What else?
All right, Monday, Rothenberg, get it up there for me.
Jay, let's go. I've got Dave coming on.
I'm looking forward to get to know Dave a little bit either
10:30 or 11. Try to try to squash this beef
here, this blossoming issue, this rift, this, you know, I
don't know what's going on with these two guys, but they are
both good guys. I mean, I know Jerry and I just,
I know of Dave. So I'll get to know Dave, but he
strikes me as a good guy. His son's playing college
baseball too. So we definitely have that love
for, you know, youth sports and we'll have a little fun with
that. But I got to make sure there's
no negative Nick energy going into the conference finals.
And these two guys, like I can't let them.
I can't let their little riff sabotage it.
So I'll flush through it. Had Jerry on the other day.
It's Dave's turn on Monday. It's going to be great time,
Yanks and Mets, obviously over the weekend.
Subway Series, we'll get into that a lot.
Obviously keep an eye on the Pistons and the Cavaliers
tonight. Let's hope we get a Game 7 next
week. A ton of Knicks content,
obviously. So that's about it, man.
Jay, have a good weekend, man. Enjoy yourself, be good.
All right, everybody else out there, do you think have a good
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Make sure you jump into the channel and check out some of
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So that's it. So have a great week and I
appreciate you guys. Really good week on the show and
I will catch you Monday. Have an awesome weekend.
Go Yanks.