1 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,280 This is on leash Are you listening? 2 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:13,200 Can you hear me? Hear me? 3 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,840 This is on leash. Are you listening? 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:15,760 Can you hear me? Hear me? 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:17,320 This is on leash Are you listening? 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:18,240 Can you hear me? Hear me? 7 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:19,840 This is on leash Are you listening? 8 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:28,120 Can you hear me? What's up everybody, BT 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,120 unleashed with you on a Tuesday. Everybody's doing all right. 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,480 I hope certainly ready to have a little fun today here as we got 11 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:37,440 the WBC championship. I'm fired up about that tonight. 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,800 John Fanta. I love this guy. 13 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,600 This guy is a is a rising made not even a rising star. 14 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,560 He's a rising mega star. We'll do some college hoops. 15 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,680 John's going to join me today at 10:30. 16 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,200 Obviously tomorrow. I got to be honest, where the J 17 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,760 rod my mind is mushed here in the sense that I'm trying to 18 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,720 figure out how I'm going to how I'm going to do these shows here 19 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,920 in San Diego. And I'm like, it's, it's, it's a 20 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,440 little overwhelming. So what I think I might just do 21 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:10,760 is just, I don't know, just maybe sit on a beach bench and 22 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,000 just open up my phone and go live from. 23 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:17,040 Kicking I think that'd be great that I think that'd be awesome I 24 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,440 mean you're able to kind of go to the stream yard from your 25 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:21,520 phone. So there you go. 26 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,080 I have to wait do. I have to do the stream yard or 27 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,920 can I just go right to YouTube? Oh yeah, wait, you're right. 28 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,240 You probably could just go straight to YouTube and do it 29 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,200 easy. I got to figure that out, man. 30 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,320 So I'm looking forward to that. So John's going to join me in a 31 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:36,160 little bit tomorrow. I know you guys know her from 32 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,760 S&Y and the great another rising star, Nikki Ladarullo is going 33 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,840 to join us here, by the way, Get this picture up. 34 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,760 So she covers. Look at this. 35 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,760 Is that amazing or what? Nikki's going to join us 36 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:53,240 tomorrow at 10, right around 10. And Nikki is on the, the St. 37 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,800 John's Big East beat. She's obviously one of the, one 38 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,920 of the talents at SNY and local, local girl who is, who is 39 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,880 starting to climb fast. She's from Bergen County. 40 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,240 So I just, you know, I saw that picture on social media and I'm 41 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,880 like, I, I got a, and I got to know her a little bit, see her 42 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,600 at the garden quite a bit. She's, she's absolutely awesome. 43 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,200 You know, all that, all that energy and that youthful 44 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,080 exuberance. It's great to see the next wave 45 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,120 of broadcaster. So we're going to have her on 46 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,280 tomorrow. Looking forward to that and 47 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:22,400 we'll hit it all. We'll we'll hit it. 48 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,480 We'll have a lot of fun with Nicky. 49 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:25,600 That'll be at least an hour. I would say so. 50 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,880 All right, let's get the now. Yesterday, J Rod, you remember 51 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,600 right? So it came up and I was informed 52 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,240 about, I think somebody had it in the text. 53 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,640 Yeah, my my boy sent the text at the end. 54 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,120 Yeah, yeah, yeah. About what Aaron Judge said 55 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,960 about the WBC in the World Series. 56 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:42,760 That's all right. I got to make sure that I'm fair 57 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,280 to my guy here. So let me and it was kind of 58 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,120 toward the end of the show. So I'm like, well, if I think 59 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,000 it's a big story or if I've got anything to say about it, which 60 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,320 I obviously do, I'll just jump into it today. 61 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,120 I said that yesterday, so let's get there. 62 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,280 I got something on soda as well. Let's get this up here. 63 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,960 So it is exactly all right. So there's no misinterpretation, 64 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,400 no hijacking this what Aaron Judge said, quote all the West. 65 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:08,160 Now keep in mind guys, this is not about what's your 66 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:12,680 preference, a WBC championship or a World Series ring like that 67 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,280 is kind of important. You know, it's a little bit of a 68 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:20,040 detail anyway, judging on the WBC atmosphere, quote, I'll say 69 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:21,360 it. It's been bigger. 70 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,320 The World Series I was in versus the crowd here and the one we 71 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,320 had against Mexico, it's bigger and better than the World 72 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,400 Series. OK, He's just being honest. 73 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,000 So let me get this straight. When somebody's honest, we're 74 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,640 going to take issue with it. He's saying the atmosphere is 75 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:35,920 better and he's not wrong, but I'll get back to that. 76 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,560 The passion that these fans have representing their country, 77 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:41,880 representing some of their favorite players is nothing like 78 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:43,480 it. That's what you dream of As a 79 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,960 kid, I was batting in my backyard playing wiffle ball. 80 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:47,480 These are the moments you dream of. 81 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,320 All right, that's, that's a little bit of a stretch #1 when 82 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:55,000 Aaron Judge was a little monster in his backyard, there was no 83 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,520 WBC and it, well, was there? No, no, no, there was none. 84 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,120 So you know, you're not thinking about the WBC. 85 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,200 But I get the point. He's talking about like the big 86 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,600 spot, the big situation. Gives me chills right now 87 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,560 thinking about how special that is. 88 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,960 Quote, I try to take the moment, every game that moment, look 89 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,160 around, appreciate the crowd and appreciate the moment. 90 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,560 So who the hell has a problem with that? 91 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,399 I mean, I honestly I don't understand who has an issue with 92 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:23,400 that. See the issue that people should 93 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:28,600 have really is the way sports is gone where the the average, you 94 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,760 know, truly the fan who helped elevate all these sports, who 95 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,400 who's reached into his or her pocket forever. 96 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,840 You know, going to the stadiums when the stadiums were like the 97 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:40,400 cookie cutters in the 70s and the 80s. 98 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,120 And you can walk up and get a ticket for 9 or 10 bucks and all 99 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,200 the games are on local TV pre streaming services. 100 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,920 You want to get a jersey, you know, 1920 bucks, 2530 bucks. 101 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,040 It's not going to it's not going to knock you for a loop 102 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,200 financially. Like everything's changed so 103 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,880 much so that I don't think that I don't think that Aaron's wrong 104 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:58,800 at all. I don't think that he's off 105 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,360 base. But Aaron Judd says that this 106 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,880 atmosphere is better than the World Series. 107 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,560 I absolutely agree with him. It it is, it's not a knock on 108 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,200 the Yankee crowd. It's not a it's not an elevation 109 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,600 of the importance of the WBC compared to what, you know, what 110 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,360 he would feel if and when he ever wins a World Series ring. 111 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,480 But he's just talking about being on the field and playing 112 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,640 against Dominican Republic and Mexico and having that that pad 113 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,080 that that pent. And of course, tonight 114 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,880 Venezuela, that palpable like electricity that is just 115 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,440 constant that just it never dissipates. 116 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,680 It never really goes away. It's really, it's like a soccer 117 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,680 match or, you know, it's like a big, it's like a big wrestling 118 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,680 match, like a big, you know, one of those big like WrestleMania 119 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,640 where it's just a supercharge that's going through the crowd 120 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,160 from the moment, you know, whomever comes out and from 121 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,520 behind the curtain hits the ring. 122 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,920 And it's really one of those great matches where every, 123 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,200 there's always an oh and an ah, somebody hits the rope, somebody 124 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,040 does a flip, somebody's outside, somebody does whatever. 125 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:01,960 They go to some of these crazy moves they do today. 126 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,320 It's insane, but it's just, it's awesome. 127 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,720 And I, I, I think that he's absolutely right. 128 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,880 I was at the World Series game when Anthony Volpe hit the Grand 129 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,760 Slam against the Dodgers. It was amazing like that, like 130 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:20,880 that, the peak moment, you know, when, when that happened or, you 131 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:25,240 know, I'm sure in LA when Cortez gave up that that bomb to 132 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,280 Freddie Friedman, like what it sounded in the moment at Dodger 133 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:32,440 Stadium and, you know, a couple of moments at Yankee Stadium. 134 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,640 Yeah, that's that. That's very hard to replicate. 135 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,160 But you're not going to have that constant buzz because it 136 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,760 just doesn't. I don't want to say it doesn't 137 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:40,520 mean as much. It does. 138 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,080 It's a World Series, but it's a different clientele in the 139 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,280 building. It's just this so people can 140 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:47,040 take an issue with that. I don't, I don't really know 141 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,240 what the problem is. And by the way, I saw some 142 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:50,720 numbers yesterday. This is pretty good. 143 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:55,760 So, you know, the WBCI don't have the TV ratings there. 144 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,280 I didn't get too wrapped up into that, but when it was first 145 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:02,360 introduced, right. So you go back to 2006 and the 146 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,960 attendance in in total. So about the growth here of this 147 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,440 event, which to me is getting better and better and better. 148 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,520 And it's like, it's becoming like a signature event. 149 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,640 And I admit I've gone from tepid interest to all right, like 150 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,080 almost like curiosity, like, all right, what do we have here? 151 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,800 You know, you see the USA uniforms, you see teammates who 152 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,120 are on Major League teams and then they're on opposite teams 153 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,800 facing each other. Like I'm like, I, I, oh, I never 154 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,000 thought it was awful, but I'm, I'm all in. 155 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,520 I think the WBC has transformed itself into a phenomenal event. 156 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:36,280 And I just don't understand all the hate. 157 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,200 I really don't, I don't know the, listen, I've said this a 158 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,200 lot. Like one thing I don't get, I 159 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,200 know we've got to fill their time and all that stuff, but 160 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,520 the, the amount of energy that people now spend on stuff that 161 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:50,840 they don't like, it's amazing to me. 162 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,680 Like if you don't like it, don't talk about it. 163 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,560 Like that's, that's the other day. 164 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,840 I don't know if you guys might. We spent a lot on on Joe B's 165 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,760 comments yesterday. As expected, that got a lot of 166 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,040 traction what he said about WF and if you guys missed it, go go 167 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,240 check it out on the channel. But you know, like how, how 168 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,280 things have changed a lot. And one of the things that I 169 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,880 said was I don't think that we should do 4 hour radio shows 170 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,800 anymore. And I don't, you know, I know 171 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,720 yesterday I was pretty long and went about two 2 1/2 hours, 172 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,320 which was the long, I think was 2 1/2 hours, which is the 173 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,320 longest one I've done since I launched the YouTube show. 174 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,000 What do you think? 4 hours is too long because you 175 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,120 get repetitive and you start looking for things to, to kind 176 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,360 of prop up and, and, and, and, and, you know, tee off on 177 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,159 because that's exciting radio. There's energy and there's like 178 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:39,559 that, that good emotion that, that anger, that reaction, that 179 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,520 fire, you know, but, and when, if you got 4 hours, you've 180 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:44,480 almost got to do that. And I'm not calling anybody out. 181 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,480 I'm just saying the way it is. I, I don't, I don't know why so 182 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,480 many people who oppose the WBC have to go on these tirades and 183 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,040 these rants about the WBC. Don't watch it, don't watch it. 184 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,880 I I don't get it anyway. So the attendance growth here J 185 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,040 Rod, check this out. So in 2006 nominal growth to 186 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:06,680 start, but curious where this goes moving forward. 737,000 187 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:13,080 people watching the game 730 I rounded it up 737,000 then the 188 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:18,120 next one which was O 9 you went up to 801,000 so got a 60,000 189 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:19,600 uptick. OK, nominal game. 190 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,080 There you go. Now in 2013, I don't know why, 191 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,400 maybe different venues smaller, I don't know why, but in 2013 it 192 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,440 went down a little bit to 781, which was still 50,000 more than 193 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:31,240 the first one. But check this out. 194 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:37,000 So you go from 781,000 in 2013 up to 973. 195 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,720 So we're ticking towards a million in 2017 and then in 2023 196 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,040 it was 1.12. And then this year, you know, so 197 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,320 far it's been 1.37 million. So there you go. 198 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:49,760 Yeah. So that that that's growth here. 199 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,360 I don't know about the TV ratings. 200 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,240 I'm watching tonight. I can't wait to see McClain 201 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,160 pitch. I know McClain got knocked 202 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:00,160 around a little bit by, by some who when they talked about his 203 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:01,800 last game, I thought he threw the ball very well. 204 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,120 We just gave up a couple of home runs. 205 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,400 But I've got full faith in McLean tonight. 206 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,680 I think that the United States wins and I'm excited about this. 207 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:11,120 So I don't know. I, I understand that you'll not 208 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,240 everybody is, is up to their necks in March Madness. 209 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,200 Not everybody knows all the teams and all the conferences. 210 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,880 And you're not going to get overly wrapped up in the Yankees 211 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:22,680 spring training and the Mets spring training. 212 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:26,040 And, you know, if the NFL draft is kind of quieted down just a 213 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:30,160 little bit post combine, you know, there's, you know, are you 214 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,760 going to really go nuts at this point with 15 or 16 games to go 215 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,040 in the NBA regular season? We're not yet at the Masters, 216 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,320 you know what I mean? So it's kind of a a bit of a 217 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,080 treadmill of sports talk. There's not a ton to do, but so 218 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,160 and I, I, I, I think I've always found this, that when people 219 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:52,200 don't have a lot to say, the easy default is to just lamp a, 220 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,000 something like it. It's natural. 221 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,320 You know what I mean? It's a natural reaction. 222 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,320 I love it. I've I've really come to enjoy 223 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,360 it myself. Yeah, no, I mean WBCS fun 224 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,200 getting people into it. I I just don't see. 225 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,840 So the controversy is like what? Like people don't like it 226 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,080 because it, oh, it's not that serious. 227 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,480 So it's kind of fun. It's almost like they look at it 228 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,760 like a Pro Bowl type thing or like I don't. 229 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,080 No, no, no, it's not that. If anything, I think it's the 230 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,440 opposite. I think, listen, I think there's 231 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,520 two schools of thought here. I think some people and this 232 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,280 part I certainly understand. Like I was reading this morning 233 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,840 before I, before I came on the air, Mendoza was talking about 234 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:31,760 McClain starting tonight. Great. 235 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,320 And, you know, I'm excited for him. 236 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,520 It's a different, you know, it's a totally different monster. 237 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,960 It's like it's it's like unlike anything you've seen in the in 238 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,840 the major leagues. But you know, we're sitting here 239 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,880 holding our breath and praying that he's OK and we know what 240 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,000 happened that that I think some of it is certainly derived from 241 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,400 that. And we all know what happened 242 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,560 with Edwin Diaz a couple of years ago with the celebration 243 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:52,280 with the knee, with the knee injury Patella. 244 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:54,720 I get it. Like, you know, I see Aaron 245 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,680 Judge on Corker throw from right field to gun down. 246 00:11:57,680 --> 00:11:59,120 Was that Tatis? I think it may have been Tatis, 247 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,320 whomever it was. Yeah. 1/3 from a fairly short 248 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:03,840 right. I'm like, all right, you know, 249 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:08,080 do you really need to unleash 90 mph going before Saint Patty's 250 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:09,800 Day? Which by the way, happy Saint 251 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,800 Patty's Day, everybody, you know, do you really need to do 252 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,960 that? But he came out unscathed and 253 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:16,320 and that's the price of business. 254 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,560 And no, like, I think that some of the criticisms, like for the 255 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:24,920 NBA All Star game, whatever the hell the NFL does, the NHL All 256 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,240 Star game, it's because it really doesn't replicate the 257 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,400 competitive tone that these sports have during the regular 258 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,600 season. This is the complete antithesis 259 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:35,120 of anything. It's it's jacked up. 260 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,600 There's so much patriotism and so much, you know, love for 261 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,440 everybody's country and the different countries, you know, 262 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,320 the different ethnicities really approach this differently. 263 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:47,200 Some people celebrate differently. 264 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,640 There's just a different vibe depending on the country. 265 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,520 And nobody's complaining about that. 266 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,760 It's like benign and boring and nobody's playing hard. 267 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,280 I I I I don't know. I I just think that some people, 268 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,080 number one, Jared, and as you get older, you're going to learn 269 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:02,320 this, man. Unfortunately, it's a way of 270 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,280 life. As you get older, you are, if 271 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:05,440 you haven't already learned this. 272 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,000 There are far too many people in this world who are predisposed 273 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,000 to be negative to be angry. Yeah, I mean, right. 274 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,840 What what what's the fucking problem? 275 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,960 It's incredibly, it's incredibly competitive baseball. 276 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,600 All the stars in the Galaxy of Major League Baseball, basically 277 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,960 all of them. You had Judge, you got Tatish, 278 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,120 you had Soto, you got Guerrero, you got you got Otani. 279 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,520 What's the problem? You got schemes, you got you had 280 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,040 school ball for a minute. You got McClain tonight. 281 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:34,960 And people are complaining about this. 282 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,000 I think it's a gift from the baseball gods. 283 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 It's phenomenal. I don't really, I don't want it 284 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,280 to end. I want to keep going. 285 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:42,560 Let's go. Yes, Sir. 286 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:44,320 Yes, Sir, I'm fired. Up today, J Rod. 287 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,240 Yeah, no, going to be a going to be a great game tonight. 288 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,280 I'm excited, excited to TuneIn. This was interesting though. 289 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,080 Now, now, now, now before we get to the Soto comments, I think 290 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,120 back to judge's comments for a second. 291 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:02,960 I think that, and this is just this is really just either being 292 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,160 some people might believe this and if they really do, then then 293 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,200 I respect that. But I think a lot of the 294 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,040 negativity it can back on judge's comments. 295 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:11,640 I have no problem with what he said at all. 296 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,720 I matter of fact, I agree with him because there is a 297 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:17,480 difference. Yet remember, man, I was in the 298 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,560 building in 1996 when the Yankees won their first 299 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,240 championship since 1978. I was in the upper deck, as high 300 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,520 as you could go behind home plate with one of my best 301 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,720 friends who I grew up with, who I played high, a little bit of 302 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,360 college ball. He wound up transferring, right? 303 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,080 And we got, there were two in the afternoon and we hit all the 304 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:36,600 bars. The game didn't start till late. 305 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:38,320 You can imagine what kind of shape we were, right? 306 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,440 It was it we were in. It was ridiculous, right? 307 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,520 And the clientele, the energy, it was did. 308 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:47,080 Now the stadium was built different, the overhanging right 309 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,760 feel like you had that intimidating overhang. 310 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,720 The acoustics rule different. The tunnels, like the tunnels 311 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,000 were really tight, like it's like you were walking into a 312 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,800 mosh pit if you were the opposition. 313 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,840 It really was intimidating. And back then the price points, 314 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:06,720 while they were certainly getting high for 1996 in, in 315 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,720 retrospect, like the percentage of increase was not commensurate 316 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,680 with what we have now. It's just not, it's not even 317 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:15,880 close. So you basically had more blue 318 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:17,960 collar fans. You just did it. 319 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,360 So Judge is right. What I think some people took 320 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,760 and then hijacked is that they are trying to equate what he 321 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,960 said, which is not true at all, by the way. 322 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,080 He didn't say that where they're they're they're hijacking. 323 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,080 They're putting words in his mouth saying, wow, Aaron Judge 324 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,920 basically believes that winning the WBC championship would be 325 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,440 the same as winning a World Series for the Yankees. 326 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,840 Does anybody really think that that's what Aaron Judge means? 327 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,440 I mean, if you think that, then you just you lost. 328 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,560 I don't know what to tell you. How do you possibly extrapolate 329 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,320 that? Let's get that back up on the 330 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:52,280 board there. Jay, please. 331 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:56,360 How do you take away that message from this? 332 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:01,160 He's asked, he was directly asked about the atmosphere, 333 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,440 which is phenomenal at the WBC asked about it. 334 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,960 Hey, Aaron, what is it like? You know, can you can you tell 335 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:12,320 us what it's like being on the field with this WBC atmosphere 336 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,720 and you know, how it may be compares to Major League 337 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,040 Baseball and maybe the World Series and some other stuff? 338 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,120 Quote, I'll say it's been bigger. 339 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,600 The World Series I was in versus the crowd here in the one we had 340 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,160 against Mexico, it's bigger and better than the World Series. 341 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:31,440 He's talking about the crowd, not necessarily the prestige or 342 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:35,200 the honor or the ultimate achievement of winning the WBC 343 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,440 versus maybe someday winning a World Series. 344 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,080 By no means is even remotely implying that. 345 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,520 And if that's what you deduce from these words, I don't know 346 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,680 what to tell you. Quote, the passion that these 347 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:47,200 fans have representing their country. 348 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,400 This is undeniable representing some of their favorite players. 349 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,440 There's nothing like it. That's what you dream that he 350 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,320 gets a little mushy here and again I bat in the backyard. 351 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,160 You know, wiffle ball thinking about this moment. 352 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,440 No, but I know what he means. He's basically saying because we 353 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,280 all did this, whether and I would pretend that I was in the 354 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,280 World Series. I, I, I obviously would. 355 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,280 We all did that, you know, try to smack a tennis ball over the, 356 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,359 you know, over the little fence and the wiffle ball. 357 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,760 You take your buddy deep, you trotting around the bases, you 358 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,400 pretend you're Mattingly in the World Series. 359 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,240 Not the WBC. Big spot, though. 360 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,800 That's the point. Big spot, big situation. 361 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,319 It gives me chills right now thinking about how special that 362 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:26,000 was. And I try to take that moment 363 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,800 every game, look around, appreciate the crowd and 364 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,240 appreciate the moment. The Hell's wrong with that? 365 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,920 That is just one of the high characters, greatest players of 366 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,880 all time giving you an honest assessment about a pretty cool 367 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:39,480 event. Enjoy it. 368 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:44,320 Oh, J Rod, Listen, quick, Long story short with BT time, you're 369 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:45,800 right. We got a little bit of graphic 370 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,080 for that. Then we got to get a graphic for 371 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,680 that. You know, maybe like a little 372 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,440 violin. A little short. 373 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,520 Stretch. Nobody stretches out a short 374 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,320 story like your boy. At least I own it, you know? 375 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,840 I know that. So this is funny. 376 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,720 It's funny what triggers my triggers my mind and some of 377 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:06,440 these vivid memories from when I was a kid. 378 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,480 You know, I was talking about like hitting the ball over the 379 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:10,360 fence. And obviously now as I got a 380 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:14,120 little bit older, we would play on the street and we had like, 381 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,480 you know, the streets in Brooklyn are fairly narrow and 382 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,680 it's like car, car, car, car, car, car, car, fairly modest 383 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,280 house, house, not not much driveway. 384 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:22,680 House, house, house, house, house, right? 385 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,320 So we would play long ways, which was, which was great 386 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,160 because then you had like the telephone pole and that was only 387 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,920 like 2 kids on the street, me and Tommy who would hit it over. 388 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,480 It was like self hitting and it was, it was a shot dude. 389 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,640 You had to get high and far and like, but it was a bigger field 390 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:39,440 right? Then there was a little tiny 391 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:44,840 field where we would just kind of almost manipulate the space. 392 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,360 And now we were going, it's hard to describe, but we basically 393 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:50,840 had two fields right on the same St. 394 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,920 That's as we got older, when I was really young before, you 395 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:55,760 know, I had a lot of friends on the street and I didn't really 396 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,880 know anybody yet, you know, like 5 years old, whatever 6 I 397 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,440 remember. And my parents still have it, 398 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,760 this massive walnut tree in the backyard, massive walnut tree. 399 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:08,400 I mean, it's got to be over 100 years old really. 400 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:13,120 It's, it's awesome. And I would take once, well, I 401 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,240 started out by taking the walnuts and then like trying to 402 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,720 throw them like I was Greg Meadows or Ozzie Smith at the 403 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,640 tree, right? And then I'm like, I think that 404 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,120 I can hit these things. So I started hitting them at 405 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:29,520 like some of the houses behind me. 406 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:30,680 I don't know what I was thinking. 407 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,960 And then I, I discovered, let's see. 408 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:38,640 So we had 1-2, three, wait, 1234 houses down in, in. 409 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,440 So I'm in my backyard 4 houses down there was this family, 410 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,200 really, really nice, no kids my age. 411 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:45,200 I didn't really know them that well. 412 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,480 And they had this old school, you know, if you're like an 413 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,200 Italian, you know, Brooklyn, you can totally see this is like a 414 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:57,120 metal overhang shed just so you can have like BBQ whatever. 415 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,040 All right. And I would take these walnuts 416 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:03,600 dude and I would fire them up in the air because I could easily 417 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,200 reach 44 houses down. I would fire them up in the air 418 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,000 and like. And I would wait for that dude. 419 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,600 The noise that it made don't. Want to hit the shed? 420 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,720 God, it sounded like World War Three. 421 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:22,360 It was my boom and they never knew where it was coming from. 422 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,680 And then of course I would run and I would hide anyway. 423 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,040 That's so funny. Dude, I just thought about that 424 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,520 like I think about now, right? It is funny because a lot of 425 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:34,040 people complain like kids today, they don't mix it up in the 426 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,640 streets and they don't play like they used to. 427 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,360 And everything's organized and there's an element that's that's 428 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:41,920 certainly true. And you got the horseshit phones 429 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,800 and the stupid digital stuff. And luckily we have a pretty 430 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,800 good balance in our house and in our home. 431 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,280 Both of our kids play a lot of sports. 432 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,120 And my son got a phone for his 11th birthday, but he's not nuts 433 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:51,880 with it. He's really not. 434 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:53,280 We monitor it, well, all that stuff. 435 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,680 But it, it, it is kind of true where there's a lot of like you 436 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,160 got to drop off and when they were young, oh, let's have a 437 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,880 play date. I remember my wife saying so and 438 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,720 so's coming over for a play date or he's got invited to a pop 439 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,400 like play date that just sounds play date. 440 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,160 He says he's going over to his friend's house to hang out. 441 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:14,440 Yeah, like, I don't know. I would, but I I wonder how I 442 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,800 would react if I had a walnut tree in our yard now. 443 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:22,280 And someone was just bombing them onto a shed and you're at 444 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:23,680 your place. No, no, no. 445 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,800 Well, that's one. I was thinking the other, if my 446 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,200 son was taking the walnut and he located a house, you know, 3 or 447 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:31,680 4 homes. And now the homes are bigger 448 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,640 here and there's more space, whatever, more trees you can 449 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,000 hide. It's easier to get away with 450 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,880 stuff, I guess. But I wonder how I would react 451 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,040 to that. I'd probably laugh, yeah. 452 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,280 It's the kind of thing you get them in trouble for but you're 453 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,240 secretly proud of, I think. I would agree with that. 454 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:46,480 I would absolutely agree with that. 455 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,480 Hey, we can't be doing that. Meanwhile, you give him a wink, 456 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:50,560 give him a little hat on the ass. 457 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,640 Hat a boy. All right, let's get this up. 458 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:54,720 This. Let me actually, Yeah. 459 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,800 What is? Why would he say this? 460 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,520 Why would Juan Soto say this? I'm not really sure why Juan 461 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,240 Soto would say this. Quote, we show the world who's 462 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,360 the best team in baseball. That's all I got to say. 463 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:15,320 And quote, you lost. You lost the game. 464 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:18,680 I understand there were some bad calls. 465 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,600 There's no doubt that the Dr. got hosed. 466 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,480 I mean that that last one was 2 1/2 inches out of the zone. 467 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,720 I get it. And you know, for the next WBC, 468 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,640 there should be the ABS automated ball strike system, 469 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,880 which will be good and provided. And there was some other calls 470 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,200 too. I get it that if the Dominican 471 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,560 had their challenges, they could have utilized them at that point 472 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:39,840 and things would have been reversed. 473 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,760 And maybe it's a different outcome, but nobody wants to 474 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,840 hear that. I mean, you, you didn't win the 475 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,320 game. You lost. 476 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,720 Now, I will say I've never seen a line up like that in my life. 477 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:53,560 I mean, trotting out that murder's row of, of, of killers, 478 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,600 I don't know how the hell any pitcher, I mean, Skeens did it. 479 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:01,560 How any pitcher navigates that and and just doesn't give up 480 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,960 bomb after bomb. I mean, it tells you how how 481 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:08,120 special Skeens is really. And they set the WBC record for 482 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:09,280 home runs. I get it. 483 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:14,080 It's I love watching them play. They're phenomenal that for Juan 484 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,040 Soto that that's just I don't I don't want to hear it like it's 485 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:19,320 not. Again, I'm not equating the two 486 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,040 here. But if Aaron and I have to go 487 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,600 back and really look at what Aaron Judge said, like if Aaron 488 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,400 Judge said put that up there again, please. 489 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,400 Can you do that, Jay? So no, no, not the judge. 490 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,040 I'm sorry. My bad. 491 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,760 Yeah. Thank you on point. 492 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:34,840 Look at the hitting those buttons fast. 493 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:39,760 So imagine after now the Dominican Republic wasn't 494 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,720 dropping pop ups like the Yankees did in the World Series 495 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,440 or failing to cover first base with Garrett Cole, blah blah 496 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,920 blah. But imagine after the World 497 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,120 Series, Aaron Judge is at his locker and they lost. 498 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,440 They lost. So the Dodgers were crowned 499 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,440 champions as they were, and Aaron Judge said we showed the 500 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,480 world who's the best team in baseball. 501 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,280 That's all I got to say. And quote, I'm I'm not saying 502 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,840 it's apples to apples because there really were no calls in 503 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,040 that Yankees Dodgers series where as a Yankee fan, I look 504 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,640 back and and lament and say Yankees got hosed. 505 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,880 Yankees lost to a better team. Dodgers were better. 506 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:16,800 Now you can make the case and I was old. 507 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,200 I love boom. But I crushed them the next day 508 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,880 that no go to Cortez was was was ridiculous in that spot. 509 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,240 You know, giving up that moon shot granny to Freeman. 510 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,760 What are we doing? But the Yankees were not better 511 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,680 than the Dodgers, and the Dodgers won. 512 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,000 Now you do I think that top to bottom that the Dominican team 513 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,600 is better than the United States team? 514 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,280 I mean, you could very easily make that case. 515 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,600 But it it just seems petty when you actually say that when you 516 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,560 lost. I think there's a better way to 517 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,000 say it. And I also read that the 518 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,480 Dominican team walked out without doing any interviews. 519 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,440 Come on, you know, I don't know. I it's maybe it's different 520 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,320 because if there's not like you're not playing for the 521 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:00,560 Dodgers and the LA Times isn't waiting at your locker or the 522 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,000 Yankees and the New York Post and those guys, right? 523 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Or, you know, the Detroit Free Press or whatever it might be, 524 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,760 you know, school bull pitches a playoff game for the Tigers and 525 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,760 you got the Free Press waiting for you. 526 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,720 I know that's why I say it's not apples to apples, but there's 527 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,680 still probably a bit of a responsibility to express 528 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,920 yourself to the media. I mean, I'm, I'm of the, you 529 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,680 know, what happened, You know, even if you complain about the 530 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,840 calls, that's fine. You definitely had the right to 531 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,480 do that because there were some shitty calls that went against 532 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,680 the DRI. Don't blame him, you pissed. 533 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,120 But again I I don't I don't. I didn't see this myself. 534 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,960 All I did, I read this part was that to a man, the Dominican 535 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,840 team walked out and did not communicate with the media. 536 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,440 And to me, that's a little small. 537 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,520 You know, if you want to feel the adulation when you're 538 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,600 smacking 15 bombs or I think even 16, they finished with and 539 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:50,560 establish a new WBC record for, you know, home run prowess. 540 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,000 Don't you think you got to kind of stick around then take it on 541 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,440 the other end that things don't go your way? 542 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,000 Just thought it was a little bit petty. 543 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,680 It didn't really like that. And you know, I'm not even 544 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,960 looking at crush Soto. If anybody said that, if an 545 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,960 American said that, and let's say, you know, Team USA lost 54 546 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,320 and they're out there saying, you know, we proved to the world 547 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,040 we're the best team. Well, no, you didn't. 548 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,120 You lost. Now, what I'm sure Soto's 549 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:15,280 talking about is the, the overwhelming amount of run 550 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,720 production. I mean, it was clear like their 551 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,440 offense was second to none. I we, everybody knows that. 552 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,240 But just, you know, not not the best look there, not the best 553 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,040 look there. J Rod, you think that I'm I'm 554 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,360 not. I don't think I'm being unfair. 555 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:29,760 Do you think it's a big? No, I mean it's. 556 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,320 I actually have more of an issue with what Soto said than what 557 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,800 what what Judge said. Yeah, of course you, yeah, yeah. 558 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,680 Because how can you lose? How can you say how can you lose 559 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,040 and then say you're the best team? 560 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,440 I mean, that just doesn't compute in any sort of, I don't 561 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,520 know, kind of thing like. To me it just. 562 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,800 Some sore losers. Like it's a petty, you know, if 563 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,960 you get a flex and you get a dance and you get a just, you 564 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,280 know, do your thing and trust me, their thing is is impressive 565 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,400 as hell. Well, there's another part of 566 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,600 being a pro or, you know, comporting yourself the right 567 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,720 way. And that's a responsibility, 568 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,240 even if it's just to the Dominican Republic, you know, to 569 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,440 do your own people about what happened, you know, bad coal or 570 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,000 hey, tip the cap and listen, I'm sure you know, when they see 571 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,720 each other batting practice, the season starts like they bump it. 572 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,000 Hey, that was a hell of a game. And I'm sure some of the 573 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,680 American players because I even see or I even saw that that 574 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,480 Armstrong said, yeah, I could see that was a couple of inches 575 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:23,920 off. And we got away with caught. 576 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,840 And I think even said I'm happy there was there's no ABS to go 577 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,920 and challenge that because it probably would have been a would 578 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,560 have been a ball. Like, again, it's not the 579 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,560 biggest deal in the world, but I don't know what is it. 580 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,400 Is it is it emblematic? All right, maybe this is a 581 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,120 bigger issue down the road because let's face it, as great 582 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:42,920 as he is and a lot of this, actually all of it really 583 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,880 predated Juan Soto's arrival with the Mets. 584 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,080 There was a lot of whispers. Then it got louder and louder 585 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,640 and louder that, you know, the leadership and the chemistry was 586 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,840 not not great with the Mets. And that's why Stearns decided 587 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,640 to blow it up and, you know, not give Pete five years and get rid 588 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,520 of Nimmo and change things. Or I think Diaz was different. 589 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,920 As I said, that was just a miscalculation on the Mets part. 590 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:06,320 I think they wanted them. I don't think they wanted Nimmo 591 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,120 because they traded them and I don't think they want to Pete 592 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:09,480 for those terms. And I agree with that. 593 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,240 They knew they had to change things up. 594 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,160 But you know, I'm, I'm just trying to think like, how's 595 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,040 that, that that's going to kind of get hidden a little bit 596 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:21,040 because it's the WBC and the Mets fans, even the great 597 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,560 Dominican Mets fans, and there's a ton of them. 598 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,440 Like I don't think the Dominican Mets fans, they're not going to 599 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,520 use that against Soto as like from a Mets point of view. 600 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,760 But like, if Juan Soto and the Mets say they lose to the 601 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,200 Phillies or they lose to the Braves or they lose the World 602 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,520 Series to whomever, and Juan Soto drops that quote, you know, 603 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,040 a very, it's not going to be a pleasant reaction. 604 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,880 You know you lose. I mean, and you say that because 605 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,720 you didn't prove anything. We know how great you are. 606 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,440 We know how great your lineup is. 607 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,080 We also know you lost. So take it on the chin, absorb 608 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,240 the L and keep it moving. There we go. 609 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:55,960 You know what I'm saying? You just got it. 610 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,000 Come on. As I said before, you just got a 611 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,600 Derek Jeter it tip the cap, hit him with a little respect, a 612 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,960 little RE2I. Love that guy at opening day 613 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,040 breaks here. Is that the game? 614 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,080 Not sure if they showed it on TV, but they show the average 615 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,800 fastball speed of pitchers versus Dr. compared to Skeens. 616 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:16,040 Skeens was was throwing 98 and they faced a lot of guys 617 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,480 throwing under 90. Yeah. 618 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,160 I mean, yeah, they have it up on the TV screen. 619 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,000 I got you. I mean, well, I can tell you who 620 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,800 wasn't throwing 90. That was the guy who started the 621 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,600 game. That was Severino, who was 622 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,320 hitting 99. He was touching 99. 623 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,960 And they even made the observation. 624 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,240 They're like because they gave you the numbers like what his 625 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,640 average four team fastball was during the like last year and it 626 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:42,240 was 3 mph faster during the WBC. So you know, I mean, I I don't I 627 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,080 don't know if that's accurate. I mean, I know he wasn't 628 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,120 throwing 90. Some of the other guys sure, you 629 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,080 know, and I think there's an advantage with the pitching. 630 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,400 I think I think the Dominican lineup is second to none. 631 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,120 I don't I don't know that they've got the best pitching 632 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,800 staff. Yeah, Bednar definitely 633 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,680 impressed there. He's listen, Bednar is a guy who 634 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,640 you look at him and you're like, God, you do you fully trust this 635 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,680 guy And I do, you know, he's proven that he can acclimate 636 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,440 himself to New York and he's one of these dudes. 637 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,640 He's got to get used to it. He's going to be a tightrope 638 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,560 kind of a guy. Like he's not going to come out 639 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,600 and mow you down here. Strike one, strike two, I'm 640 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:15,880 eating. You're not touching it. 641 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,000 It's over. It is going to dance. 642 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,640 And even though he throws hard, he's going to walk a guy, he's 643 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,680 going to give up a bloop. He's going to come back, strike 644 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,800 somebody out. He's going to, he's got, but I 645 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,240 but I like his bulldog presence. Bednor to me was a guy who 646 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:29,720 assimilated very well to New York. 647 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,080 And you could tell, even though Devin Williams did respond 648 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,680 nicely after an awful April. And I think he'll be fine for 649 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,320 the Mets. Not as good as Diaz, but he'll 650 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,400 be fine for the Mets. You know, there's just certain 651 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:47,960 guys going back to like Whitson and even Carl Pavano, just some 652 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,480 some a couple of Japanese pitchers certainly that didn't 653 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,200 that you could tell right away they were a little bit 654 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:53,920 overwhelmed by that New York stage. 655 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:55,480 Now you don't get that from bed nor. 656 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,000 So if he's out there tonight with A1 run lead, do I think 657 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,360 it's a twelve pitch, you know, strike three, strike three, 658 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,000 little broken bat and number back. 659 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,360 No, I think it's probably going to be a little dicey, but but 660 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,680 that's that's who he is and that's generally how he gets the 661 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,000 gets the job done. All right, This guy gets the job 662 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:12,720 done. This guy. 663 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,000 There are, as I, and I take great pleasure in saying this 664 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,680 because I've been doing this for a long time. 665 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,040 There are certain people that you watch. 666 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,720 There are certain people that you see and they speak and they 667 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,560 cover what they cover with such great joy and such great depth 668 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,400 and, and precision. And it's a very unique 669 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,360 combination. And then when you really meet 670 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,240 them to get to know him a little bit, you sense how humble they 671 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,920 are and what they appreciate and how they appreciate what was 672 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,360 before them. And I'm talking about my guest 673 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,560 here, the great John Fanther, who was on our lease. 674 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,960 We welcome big Johnny Boy in and he is that awesome combination 675 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,800 of love for the game and he's a humble young man and he's earned 676 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,480 everything he's gotten and some people saying he's the next 677 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,000 Dickie V. I'm saying he's the he's the 678 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,720 first John Fanta John, welcome to unleash brother. 679 00:31:58,720 --> 00:31:59,800 How you doing, man? What's cooking? 680 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,440 Brandon, it is great to be with you. 681 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,680 Happy madness to you and and everybody that's watching, 682 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,200 listening out there and best of luck as you fill out that 683 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,040 bracket. I don't I don't know about you. 684 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,520 I I'm assuming you're of this faint to you. 685 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,800 Do you just fill out one? I do. 686 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,000 I think this goes bad. Remember. 687 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,600 Do you remember the mic and the mics that Mike and Mike and Mike 688 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,120 on ESPN, the sheets of integrity? 689 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,040 Do you remember that? Yeah. 690 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,120 Where I think Goldwick would always try to do more than one. 691 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,840 I'd like to do 1 because if I start doing more than one, I 692 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,800 start contradicting everything that I think I know. 693 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,520 John. Correct, correct. 694 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,320 You just got to do 1 sheet, but that means a lot from you and 695 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,160 and you're doing a fantastic job over this show. 696 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,240 I I enjoy listening. People don't know I'm a like I'm 697 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,240 a huge baseball guy. So I'm I'm excited for the 698 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,520 season and this this has been pumped for tonight. 699 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:52,720 But and and can't wait to hear you you know this week. 700 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,480 I think you would you can attest to this. 701 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,440 You know better than anybody in the moment is that there's 702 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,280 really nothing like, you know, the, the Big East tournament is 703 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,400 special. The roar of the crowd, the the 704 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,480 feeling that you also get when you sit down, when you sit down 705 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,640 in San Diego and the NCAA, they've got a signature theme. 706 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,720 They have a signature song that they play right before it's been 707 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,120 around for a long. Time. 708 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,800 Right before the tournament game and they show images of people 709 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,720 winning tournament games and championships. 710 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,360 And when you sit down, you put that headset on to call the 711 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,840 game. Just think like anytime you sit 712 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,600 down and you're like, OK, here we go. 713 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,000 Knowing that the next two hours determines whether you stay 714 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,840 alive or whether you're flying home. 715 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,200 It's it's really wild. It's the best, John. 716 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,280 Yeah, You know, it's wild, too. You know, obviously I'm older 717 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:48,840 than you. You just bursting on the scene. 718 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,520 Seton Hall grad. By the way, shout out to the 719 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,680 pirates there. A lot of respect for Shaheen 720 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,400 Holloway, what they're doing. I got a couple of questions 721 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,320 about them after, but the first year that I ever did St. 722 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,440 John's was 2003, 2004. My first year was when Mike 723 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,400 Jarvis got fired during the season, which really never 724 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,520 happened in the Big East. Coaches never got fired during 725 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:07,960 the season ever. Right. 726 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,440 So I remember we went to Duke and and Mike was still coaching 727 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,239 and I think he got fired maybe a week or so. 728 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,440 But they got destroyed. And that first year they went 6 729 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,840 and 21. And that was my first year. 730 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,239 Now, you know, I was, I was watching Mullen in that Final 731 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,639 four team. So I don't take it for granted. 732 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:29,679 Like all I wanted was to call an NCAA tournament game, but I 733 00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:31,280 finally got that. What was that? 734 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:32,880 In 2015? I guess it would have been 735 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,880 against San Diego State down in Charlotte and they lost. 736 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,679 So it's, it's been a great ride. It's, it's been a lot of fun. 737 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,719 And you know, I, I, I don't understand. 738 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,080 I need you here. And I'm not going to whine about 739 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,440 it because, hey, integrity and toughness and defense, get on 740 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,280 the plane, go to go to San Diego and shut up everybody who said 741 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:51,880 that you got hosed with a bad seed. 742 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,719 But why are they going out to San Diego? 743 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,040 Why is it happening, John? What happened here, John? 744 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,320 Well, it's interesting. There's a couple of things to 745 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:05,880 unpack. And, and so #1 is when you 746 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,240 looked at the at the bracket and you looked at the the potential 747 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:14,160 of movement, there wasn't a lot of great chances for Saint 748 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,120 John's to move up in the bracket, despite the fact that 749 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,520 they were winning and that they've won 19 of 20. 750 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,200 We'll we'll get to that in a second. 751 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,960 But like when I looked at last week, when the week began, I'm 752 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,440 like, all right, Kansas is probably on the four line. 753 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,920 So is Nebraska. The committee's not going to 754 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,560 move Nebraska at this point, regardless of what happens. 755 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,160 Just based on their body of work and the start of the season, 756 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,320 They got off to Arkansas. Arkansas could move, they could 757 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,200 move up, they could move down. Of course, John Calipari had, 758 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,800 you know, indirectly wasn't trying to, but indirectly it 759 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,520 impacts Rick Pitino in Saint John's that Arkansas wins the 760 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,000 SEC tournament and that they are the four seat. 761 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,160 For a second I thought we'd get an Arkansas St. 762 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:59,520 John's in the second round and then Alabama and Alabama. 763 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,800 To me, that's probably the one that that I would say Saint 764 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,320 John's had a had an opportunity to get over Alabama. 765 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:12,480 Why? OK, Alabama is below St. 766 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,000 John's in the metric that the, that the selection committee 767 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,200 said mattered more. Now the WAB, the WAB, and if you 768 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:24,080 go folks, the WAB is wins above bubble mean, meaning your total 769 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,440 wins above what the average bubble is. 770 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:28,920 St. John's is ahead of Alabama in 771 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,280 that, oh, wait a minute, St. John's is ahead of Kansas in 772 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,720 that metric. So committee, this team's won 19 773 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:38,360 of 20. They're ahead of those teams. 774 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,600 I'm not giving opinion here. We're stating facts. 775 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,440 I agree. And and you did not put them in 776 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:48,080 or above them on the four line. OK, well, let's let's keep 777 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,240 looking. OK, Kempom, St. 778 00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:52,600 John's is ahead of both Alabama and Kansas. 779 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:54,440 They're even ahead of Texas Tech. 780 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,000 So I think that when when you look at the different items, 781 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,200 there are legitimate numbers, Brandon, that say St. 782 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,960 John's is ahead of these teams in them. 783 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,120 But committee, you didn't put them there because why? 784 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,600 Because you were watching marquee games in November and 785 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:12,360 December. And I'm not blaming you for it, 786 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:18,560 but you, you then, I think sometimes let certain narratives 787 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:20,480 carry how you think about a team. 788 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,640 And the fact is this St. John's team would beat Auburn. 789 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,280 They would beat Kentucky right now. 790 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,520 They didn't, though. I credit them for scheduling. 791 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,000 If they hadn't scheduled, they're probably a six. 792 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,000 Oh yeah. Oh, absolutely, 100%. 793 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,040 But this is This is why you schedule. 794 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:36,960 I just think there should be more reward. 795 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,640 We often say there's no harm when you lose to a big dog in 796 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,920 November and December. And I feel like the committee 797 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,320 did harm them with where they put them. 798 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,480 That's interesting. Now we both know the Big East 799 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:48,680 was better. You would have had more 800 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,000 opportunities to get more quad ones, blah, blah, blah. 801 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,720 We don't need to, you know, bore everybody with that. 802 00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:54,680 We know that the Big East is down. 803 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,880 There's been some people, John, I can't prove this, but 804 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,440 obviously there's history. You think it's personal with 805 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,560 Rick where they're like, you know what, we're going to ship 806 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,440 them out even though they got the two seat last year. 807 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,000 So it wasn't personal there. We're going to ship them out to 808 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,080 San Diego. So no Saint John's fans could 809 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:10,440 go. We're going to give him a tough 810 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,520 matchup with Kansas and Duke and and you know, like and U Conn, 811 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,360 like that's a brutal region. You think they've got a personal 812 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,720 agenda against Rick? Look, I'm sure that some people 813 00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:23,480 do. We, we know for a fact that some 814 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,960 people probably do. I mean that that that's just, 815 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,680 that's not. Well, then they shouldn't be in 816 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:30,680 the committee room, John, and that's horrible. 817 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,480 Yeah, and the words of Ed Cooley, Stevie Wonder could see 818 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,960 that, you know, like, like there's there's got to be some 819 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,320 some people who who just are not for Rick Pitino. 820 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,200 But it shouldn't impact like this impacts players. 821 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,560 This impacts of school. I I thought, I thought it was a 822 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:53,160 really difficult straw, but if there's anybody who can get his 823 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:58,640 dudes playing hard and showing people why they're wrong, it's 824 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,160 Ricky P. I'm with you. 825 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,080 He's he's got this group saying they don't think anything of 826 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,680 you. They think you're going to lose. 827 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,720 They gave this to Kansas so that Kansas has the advantage. 828 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:13,920 And Brandon, I will say this, OK, San Diego may stink, but you 829 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,960 know what would not stink? Being in Washington DC in the 830 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,120 second weekend and having St. John's fans had the opportunity 831 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,200 to travel down and let and let me tell you, I'm going to tell 832 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:25,960 you a very, very quick story here. 833 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,720 I went to Chicago for Providence, Kansas in the Sweet 834 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:32,280 16. This is now 4 years ago, 835 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,080 Brandon, I got into Chicago. I thought Kansas fans would have 836 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:40,360 70% of the building. Providence fans made-up at least 837 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,840 50%. And there were Kansas fans 838 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,800 training me saying we don't battle with fan bases like this. 839 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,280 In other words, if it's Duke and St. 840 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,000 John's, I think I think a lot of people are going to be like 841 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,280 Duke. They'll have the advantage. 842 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,320 But St. John's fans have the hunger 843 00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,760 factor. They're they're going to fill up 844 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,200 Capital One. You know, and, and, and could 845 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,360 have, could have them. New York City will be in 846 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,560 Washington, DC, and I think that's where Saint John's will 847 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,640 be because I got them beating Kansas in the second round of 848 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,840 Boy Northern Iowa. Attaboy Fanta, I know you do 849 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,560 because and now you can branch this out with without going like 850 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,120 nuts with every game. Just more of a I'm curious how 851 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,720 you do this because I was watching some video and you 852 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:23,200 filled out the entire bracket in 13 minutes. 853 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,080 All right. And you know, listen, you know 854 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,480 this stuff like the back of your hand, but there's certain 855 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,400 schools like, you know, you probably have to do a little 856 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,680 research, but in 13 minutes, you, you don't. 857 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,120 So as you as you're clicking and pecking away and advancing teams 858 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,320 and bouncing teams, is it just the first thing you think of? 859 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,240 Like is it all gut? Is, is, is it all knowledge? 860 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:44,840 Is it part gut? 13 minutes is kind of quick for, 861 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,920 for, you know, I do this, but I also do general sports talk. 862 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,800 You are known as one of the college basketball guys. 863 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,520 So you want to get this right. 13 minutes is quick bro. 864 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,720 More about delivery, like I like, I like to break things 865 00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:58,640 down a little bit more in depth. You just have to go. 866 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:03,080 And you know, what I didn't realize is that was off the 867 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:04,520 cuff. I, I said to one of our 868 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,040 producers, I said, why don't we try this? 869 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,960 I saw someone do this in like 10:00-ish minutes and it did 870 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,320 really, really well. And you know, you don't always, 871 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,960 you know, like we speak our minds, we say what we think. 872 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,240 But like for that, like, I wasn't able to speak my mind a 873 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:18,720 whole lot. We just filled out a bracket. 874 00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:21,320 And it just goes to show you why this tournament is the best. 875 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,280 People don't know everything about Santa Clara. 876 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,840 They don't know everything about South Florida. 877 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,880 They don't know everything about high point They and you know 878 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,840 they they certainly don't know everything about Northern Iowa. 879 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,960 But what they do know is that those types of schools have come 880 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,640 up big and that there that there is to the people out there who 881 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,920 say an upset will never happen again or those days are over. 882 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,680 Is it harder? Yes, yes, it is the the 883 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,600 difference in between the top and the mid major is large and 884 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:56,520 money has a lot to do with that. But BT it's basketball, you 885 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,320 know, it's similar like football. 886 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,040 College football can't have this. 887 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,840 The games in the trenches, they're decided an offensive 888 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,320 lineman is £100 bigger than a defensive lineman for a or even. 889 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:08,960 A Tulane, I know what you're saying. 890 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,200 In basketball, it's make or miss. 891 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:15,880 So how did I do it? You you look at consistencies of 892 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,960 some teams, Kentucky's been inconsistent all year. 893 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,920 Santa Clara knows we're going to slow down or take away. 894 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,560 We're going to make other people beat us. 895 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,760 And Kentucky's a little bit soft down low. 896 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,000 So guess what? Santa Clara's got a garden 897 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,960 Christian Ham News playing at a very high level. 898 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,280 Elijah Mahi is a senior who does a lot of different things for 899 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,240 them. And I said, I think the Broncos 900 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:37,720 can do it with Coach Sendak. I think he's an excellent coach. 901 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,800 USF Louisville's had a roller coaster ride. 902 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,680 Mikel Brown, I don't know what they're going to get from them. 903 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:46,720 I don't know. And that's the other side. 904 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:50,960 You know why upsets will happen? Because some of these teams got 905 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,240 some players who either one, even on good teams, are 906 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:56,360 auditioning for other teams. For next year. 907 00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:00,160 Or Saint John's fans know a thing or two about about about 908 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,480 last year at the end, OK, there, there were some issues there. 909 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,600 We all have them with RJ Lewis or they got locker room issues. 910 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,520 We can't forecast that. I don't know what's going on in 911 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,560 all those. Louisville's had a roller 912 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,120 coaster ride of a season. You know who's not having a 913 00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,280 roller coaster ride? The South Florida Bulls. 914 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,400 They score, they run, they're going to beat Louisville. 915 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,960 OK, First, that's a good prediction right there. 916 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,200 Where are you going? Are you traveling? 917 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:25,320 What are you? Going to be doing I'm going to 918 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,760 watch, you know, I've done it all different ways I've flown to 919 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,960 I've flown to the site. It's been fun to do it. 920 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,640 I love doing it brand. What I do find is when you just, 921 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,000 when you're, when you're observing the sport nationally 922 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,840 and you go to one site, you can't, it's very, you can't 923 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:43,480 accurately talk about other teams that are playing. 924 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:45,840 If you do, you're looking at a box score. 925 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,160 I agree with that, yeah. I'm just being real. 926 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:52,040 So what I will do is what I've in, in my world, you know, NBC 927 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,600 does not have the rights to the tournament. 928 00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:58,760 Obviously it's CBS and Turner. So I'm going to watch from afar, 929 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,920 get some family time to the to the to. 930 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,720 It's funny because like a lot of the CBS Turner guys, Turner had 931 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:08,440 more Big East games this year, but but set a couple of them. 932 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,040 They don't have the regular season weeknights that some of 933 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,560 some of like the ESPN, FS1, NBC Peacock people do. 934 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,360 So for us, the term is actually a chance to like the first week 935 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,640 is a chance to catch our breath because we just got done with 936 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,880 the championship. And I don't I, I never really 937 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:28,720 want to, but I will watch from afar and check things out and 938 00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:31,280 then next week TBD. And then I I always go to 939 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:32,760 Indianapolis Zombie at the Final Four. 940 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,240 This is one of the things that that that I love about you. 941 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:37,680 So and I have a question how you do it? 942 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,480 I think it's very interesting. So those of you who watch John 943 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:47,360 follow John and and and many of you do the the way you wrap it's 944 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,720 it's pretty cool. Like you see a blank court and 945 00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:53,920 then oversee you see, you see John Mosey on into the court and 946 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,680 you don't just give about a 30 minute take on what went down. 947 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,400 You do about a three minute essay and, and I'm curious cause 948 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,880 I've got my method like I'm somebody just give me one or two 949 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,160 words, I'll write them down. That transforms the thought, 950 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,720 which becomes a paragraph, which becomes a segment. 951 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,320 How do you do that? I think it's a lot harder than 952 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,240 people think you. You very rarely stumble and it's 953 00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:16,440 very cohesive and it's very organized. 954 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,360 How do you do that? That's pretty good, dude. 955 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,760 God-given talent. I truly believe in my faith and 956 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,560 it is a God-given talent. And you've got to prepare, 957 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,640 you've got to watch. And I think there's a humility 958 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,640 aspect, Brandon. Like, look, somebody once told 959 00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,880 me, you know, you can't. There's one eye and eagle. 960 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,480 All right, There's one eye and eagle. 961 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,600 He has a he is, he does a fantastic job. 962 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,360 He is a he is a legend. One of my really good friends is 963 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,600 no eagle. You know who's who's at NBC? 964 00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,960 There's one no eagle. And Noah's outstanding at his 965 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,200 craft. There's one Mike Tirico. 966 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,080 There was one Marv Albert. You know, there's you. 967 00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:00,200 You have to be comfortable in your own skin. 968 00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:05,760 And so for me, in that moment, it's it starts from, I could 969 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,200 think of the age of 5 or 6. And you struck A chord with me 970 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,480 because I can. I can remember sitting, you 971 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,200 know, at Saint Patrick's Day parties in Cleveland. 972 00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,040 It's a huge deal in Cleveland. Oh, yeah, pound shuts down. 973 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:23,040 There's a rich Irish Catholic. And I can remember sitting at 974 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,200 family parties while everybody's drinking Guinness and I'm like 6 975 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,440 or 7 and the tournament and the tournament's on. 976 00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:34,400 I remember Saint Patrick's Day. I don't know, 07 or so or Mike 977 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:38,520 Conley and Ron Lewis. Lewis has been awesome. 978 00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,880 Let's it go. Hates it home, our buddy Gus. 979 00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:45,760 And it was it was Ohio State. Xavier, do you remember that 980 00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,640 tournament game in Lexington? Ohio State was terrific for all 981 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,080 the for many years at that point, yeah. 982 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,400 Which shout out to that model. We wish him the best in 983 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,240 retirement. You know, it's it's he's had a 984 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:56,200 great career. And you know, for Butler, it's 985 00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,760 good for but like I can, I can remember growing up and and and 986 00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:04,240 watching digesting when you say you appreciate the history, like 987 00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:07,640 that's my childhood. So you harken back to that now 988 00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,840 at your age, like how do I deliver it? 989 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,440 I, I take a step back and I say, don't just analyze the game, 990 00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,280 provide perspective of what it means. 991 00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,840 And so the other night, what I thought of was it impressed me 992 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:26,560 to this day that when we were walking into Rick Pitino's 993 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,960 opening press conference that a guy that had accomplished the 994 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,200 the degree that Luke hard a second accomplished was by 995 00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:37,680 himself in the front row. The first person that was in the 996 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:41,200 room for that guy to get introduced fully knowing that 997 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,040 the marks that he had accomplished we're about to be 998 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:48,040 matched with what Rick would accomplish and he he you know 999 00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,880 that says you love the place Lou loves Saint John's. 1000 00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:55,480 So I want to make sure that people knew like this is this 1001 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,960 was written in the stars and now it's reality. 1002 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,000 There you go, there you go. And I heard you talk about that, 1003 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,040 where what you just said about when you walked in, you did see 1004 00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,160 Lou and you incorporated that to the is it an essay? 1005 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:08,040 Do we call it? Is that? 1006 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:08,720 Is that a? Is that an? 1007 00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:10,760 Essay. Yeah, it's an essay and there's 1008 00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:12,640 no prompter. I don't use a teleprompter. 1009 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,280 I rarely use it when I'm in. I helped out NBC with some 1010 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,520 college football over the fall. I rarely use it when I'm in the 1011 00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,280 studio. You know, I'll use a shot sheet 1012 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:21,800 just to be able to follow different shots. 1013 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,440 But that is the growing up in Cleveland, you'll appreciate 1014 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:29,160 this. Look, I've got it right here. 1015 00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:33,080 The voice of the Cavaliers is a guy by the name of Joe Tate who 1016 00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,320 would say Wham with the right hand with LeBron James. 1017 00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:37,240 Tom Hamilton's the voice of the Guardians. 1018 00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:40,720 You as a Yankee fan know a little bit like Hammy is a if 1019 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:43,400 you're ever folks, if you're ever driving a car, just listen 1020 00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,320 to a Guardians game, a Tribe game. 1021 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,280 Always be the, you know, the, the, the, the tribe. 1022 00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,560 You need listen to a game on the radio on Sirius and and you'll 1023 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,240 hear Tom Hamilton and then Jim Donovan, who we lost a few years 1024 00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:57,160 back. Jimmy is the voice of the 1025 00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,240 Browns. Those guys, they didn't use 1026 00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:00,440 prompters, they didn't use scripts. 1027 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,560 They used passion. That's people want passion. 1028 00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,360 Yeah, yes, they do. I almost feel though, John. 1029 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,840 And you graduated Seton Hall in what, 2017? 1030 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,640 17, right? OK. 1717, yeah. 1031 00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,200 OK, so you've obviously been doing this for a little bit. 1032 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,040 You're you're not just starting, you're you're definitely, you 1033 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,000 know, you're more on the younger side for sure. 1034 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:23,760 And that's a great thing because you need the tarmac. 1035 00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,560 There's there's a lot of miles for you to cover. 1036 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,160 Man, I'm really excited to see where you go. 1037 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:31,360 Any pressure though to you know, you know, whatever you say, 1038 00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:35,400 whatever call a great punctuation or a stumble, it's 1039 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,200 going to be all over social media. 1040 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,720 And those guys he just mentioned and not to mention the Marv's 1041 00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:43,160 and the other ones, even even Ian when he was coming up, they 1042 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,640 didn't have to worry about that like it was they weren't going 1043 00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,800 to get mocked. Even though a lot of people 1044 00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:49,600 really do like you and try to elevate you. 1045 00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,720 If you had a really bad moment, you know the people are going to 1046 00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:55,120 clown you. Is is that part of you Ever 1047 00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:59,680 think about that? Well, you do because it's, it's, 1048 00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:01,960 it's reality. You'd be lying if you said that 1049 00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:06,040 you didn't. But you got to listen to your 1050 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,520 bosses and you got and you got to listen. 1051 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:10,080 And you got to listen to your audience too. 1052 00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,400 You know, I often talk to my friends and family. 1053 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,480 I'm like, how'd that come off? What do you think? 1054 00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:16,320 What do you think? And you know, Brandon, they'll 1055 00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,080 be honest with you. You're real friends. 1056 00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:19,760 You're real friends of people close to you. 1057 00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,960 They'll be honest with you on things we live in. 1058 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,840 I've been very fortunate to have some people who have who have 1059 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,440 given me real time feedback that that hired me. 1060 00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,480 You know, it helps when you're younger and you're just getting 1061 00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,600 your start and you got to be receptive to it. 1062 00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:35,320 You know, I, I still am to this day. 1063 00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:41,160 And, you know, recently called called an NBA game for the first 1064 00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,080 time. And that was a privilege and 1065 00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:44,520 something I was very humbled to do. 1066 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,360 And I have no problem saying it's you on on your show before 1067 00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,280 the game. There's some coaching happening. 1068 00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,800 Hey, you have not called an NBA regular season game. 1069 00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,360 You know, here. This is what we would like. 1070 00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,800 This is what we're looking for. Brandon, That's a very that's 1071 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,880 OK. Like I want to get, I want to 1072 00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,920 get told I work for and I want to give NBC Sports credit 1073 00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,200 because not every place is willing to tell their people 1074 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:12,440 like this is what we're looking for. 1075 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,280 If they don't say anything, what is it? 1076 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,760 They don't care. That means they don't care or 1077 00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,920 they're not they're and they do I, I love working for them 1078 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,480 because they, they, they are awesome with the feedback and 1079 00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,280 the, the thought process and it's helped make me better. 1080 00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,880 It helps make me better. But in terms of the noise, 1081 00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:35,800 nobody's perfect, you know, and we you try your best, but you're 1082 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,880 never going to have like you keep doing shows you keep doing 1083 00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,440 different things because you can always strive to raise raise the 1084 00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,520 bar of what we're doing. That's kind of the fun of doing 1085 00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,960 this as a job is you never you really feel like you pitched the 1086 00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:50,640 perfect game. You look at different ways that 1087 00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:55,720 you can continue to get better. So I've been in the couple weeks 1088 00:51:55,720 --> 00:51:58,200 ago, you might have seen it, you might not have. 1089 00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:00,360 I'm not going to, not going to get it, get into it. 1090 00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,080 Oh wait, wait, it's just the Saint John's thing where you 1091 00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,200 exploded on the guy. Is that the thing when you had? 1092 00:52:04,240 --> 00:52:06,280 That happen that no, I was actually going to bring 1093 00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:07,800 something else up so. Good, good, good. 1094 00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:08,480 We'll. Get that done. 1095 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,000 That did happen a couple weeks ago. 1096 00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:16,200 I made an announcement, you know, on, on a, on a, a, a 1097 00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:18,520 partnership that I'm doing and I'm very proud to be and I'm 1098 00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:19,920 very proud to be doing that partnership. 1099 00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:23,160 OK. And you know, people instantly, 1100 00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,720 people that don't agree with it, what what happens? 1101 00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:27,640 They go crazy. You know you've gotten the 1102 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,600 negative tweets when you announce something or do 1103 00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:33,000 something and or you or you say something about a team and then 1104 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:37,400 the 1st 60 replies are hater. You know you stink. 1105 00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,440 Whatever it is, sometimes it's a lot more vulgar. 1106 00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:41,160 Than that I wish it was that basic. 1107 00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,800 It was that benign. It's not, it's not, but you 1108 00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:49,200 can't, you can't let that you, you got to, you got to just do 1109 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,920 your you got to live your life and you got to understand like 1110 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,440 what what you're doing is for your family. 1111 00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:56,760 It's it's also, you know, the better, the better yourself. 1112 00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,240 And so it's it's a long answer to your question because it's a 1113 00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:02,920 great question. I try to get better every single 1114 00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:04,280 day. You have to have the humility 1115 00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:07,160 that says I'm not Bob Costas, I'm not Marv Albert, I'm not Al 1116 00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,240 Michaels. I just got to be, I just got to 1117 00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:10,720 get on. I just got to be on this this 1118 00:53:10,720 --> 00:53:13,320 fan to train and just keep the stops going. 1119 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,120 That a boy. How do you How do you juggle 1120 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:20,520 fatherhood? With an unbelievable wife. 1121 00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:24,280 First time. So my wife Vicki is, I mean, 1122 00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,160 she's downstairs with the baby as we speak. 1123 00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:31,160 And you know, we're juggling it as best we can. 1124 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:36,040 I try to shut down when I'm when I'm not with him. 1125 00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,160 One of the things that I did and my first career opportunities 1126 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,960 with Fox and I love working for them. 1127 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:48,480 They were great people, you know from, from Steve Shearer, who 1128 00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:52,000 who you know, and Barty Shaw Reyes and and Jordy Wimmer and 1129 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:55,240 Brad Sager and Jordan Bazon. That whole group was great to 1130 00:53:55,240 --> 00:53:59,960 work with. But but I, I was writing as well 1131 00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:01,960 for them. I enjoyed it, Brandon. 1132 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,640 I couldn't keep doing it. I couldn't keep doing the on 1133 00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:06,040 air. And if I was writing right now, 1134 00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:07,800 there just wouldn't be enough hours in the day. 1135 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:09,480 I respect writers the hell out of them. 1136 00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,440 I really do. They work tirelessly to deliver 1137 00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:16,080 engaging stories and getting anecdotes from coaches and 1138 00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:19,080 players on things. Saint John's has a terrific beat 1139 00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,880 of people who do that, that's for sure. 1140 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,400 But I couldn't keep. I couldn't juggle it all. 1141 00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:27,800 So I took a step back. NBC now Sam Flood and and Rick 1142 00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:31,000 Cordella and company, they were so good about like, OK, this we 1143 00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:35,160 want to bring in for this. And I didn't have to I didn't 1144 00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,240 have to continue the writing. So you know, when I get done 1145 00:54:38,240 --> 00:54:41,680 with a couple of these on air things, I'm going to spend some 1146 00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:45,480 some time with my kid because I've been gone for the last two 1147 00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,160 or three weeks from championship week and went on. 1148 00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,480 So for us, as you know, sometimes there is a weekday 1149 00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,960 during the spring or summer time when that's like our weekend 1150 00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,400 because there's so many sporting events on the weekends that 1151 00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:59,480 we're consumed with. So you juggle it to your best of 1152 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:00,800 your abilities. But you have to have an 1153 00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:02,560 understanding wife. But I love my son. 1154 00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:04,040 He came to the Big East tournament. 1155 00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:09,200 My son's name is Andrew. And you know, he, he just is, 1156 00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,880 he's, he's the absolute best. And it changes perspective on 1157 00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:14,440 life there. There's nothing better than 1158 00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,960 being a dad. That's that's that's the truth. 1159 00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,320 How old is Andrew? Is he 2 or not even yet? 1160 00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,760 Andrew is Andrew is 10 months old. 1161 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,120 Oh my God, man, I missed that age, bro. 1162 00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,080 You know what's crazy about that age, too? 1163 00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,440 And it goes fast. My son's 11, my daughter's nine, 1164 00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,440 Right? And I actually think that that's 1165 00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:32,920 why I asked you how you juggle in fatherhood. 1166 00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,960 At this point. It's easy for you because 1167 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:40,800 there's only so much a dad, even the most proactive dad can do 1168 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,480 when a baby's that little, you can get up in the middle of the 1169 00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,640 night and support your wife and change the diapers. 1170 00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:47,560 I don't, you know, I don't know if she breastfeeds it. 1171 00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:48,960 I don't need to know. But like, there's just certain 1172 00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,800 things we can't do, you know, where the real juggle comes And 1173 00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,600 I, I, and it gets tough is when they start playing games. 1174 00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,720 That's where you're like, all right, I want to be a practice 1175 00:55:58,720 --> 00:56:00,480 and I, I've had a schedule that's afforded to me. 1176 00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,240 I coach, you know, not every team they're on, but I coach a 1177 00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:06,200 lot of them. That's to me, that's the, that's 1178 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:09,200 the like you have to be a magician to hit that perfect 1179 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:12,600 balance of being there sitting in the chair watching that first 1180 00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:15,240 T-ball game or coaching on third base or sitting in the stands 1181 00:56:15,240 --> 00:56:18,480 for that first bow shot. And also being as immersed as I 1182 00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:22,200 know you want to and will be as you continue to grow in this 1183 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:23,480 business. That's going to be the tough 1184 00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:25,800 part, and not now. It's coming, though. 1185 00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:28,200 Oh, it's coming. And how you encounter that 1186 00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:30,560 challenge, you know, you rely on the people closest to you. 1187 00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,960 And I'll ask those people for different forms of advice and 1188 00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:37,880 what would you do? You know, I mean, I'll give you 1189 00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:40,400 the very real story. When I got hired by NBC, they're 1190 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,000 like, hey, we want to bring in for college football. 1191 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:46,160 You're going to be doing game breaks and Brandon, I, I had, I 1192 00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:49,560 had not done college football. I, I'm a college football fan. 1193 00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,880 You're, we're sports fans. We could dive into. 1194 00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:55,080 You're, you're you, you, I know you enough to say that if 1195 00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:57,440 someone called you and said, hey, we need you on the Olympics 1196 00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:01,120 and you're going to be doing downhill skiing, the two of us 1197 00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:02,360 would say, all right, we'll figure it out. 1198 00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,320 It's the best of our. Ability to figure it out, man. 1199 00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:05,520 We'll. Figure it out. 1200 00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,000 But we'll we'll figure it out. Yeah, we'll find a way. 1201 00:57:08,240 --> 00:57:10,440 So, you know, I knew college. I knew enough about college 1202 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,920 football, obviously. But like, my point is one of the 1203 00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,080 first things I said back to them is, hey, I can work every 1204 00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:19,240 Saturday. We booked my son's baptism for 1205 00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,280 this Saturday, though. And I feel bad. 1206 00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:24,920 I just side with you. And they're like, are you 1207 00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:26,760 kidding? They they said you're you're 1208 00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,160 being serious, right? I go, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1209 00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,160 They go. Your son comes first. 1210 00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,320 That that's There you go. There you go. 1211 00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:36,080 Your family comes first. That's you hope you know you 1212 00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,240 have to pick, but as you know, you got to pick your spots. 1213 00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:42,120 You have to, you have to be as judicious as as possible and 1214 00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,280 pick your spots. There's holidays when you wish 1215 00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,720 you could be there. You know something and I'm not 1216 00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,680 talking about Christmas even I'm talking about Mother's Day. 1217 00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,080 I'm talking about, you know, different things that come up. 1218 00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:56,320 So you bet that's the work life balance of our industry and 1219 00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:59,240 hopefully it comes with enough reward that your kids can come 1220 00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,320 to a big game or can see the garden here or there so. 1221 00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:06,800 Exactly the things that we miss and I, I, I, thankfully I did 1222 00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,360 really, I, I don't miss anything, especially now because 1223 00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:10,480 I'm sitting in my home doing this. 1224 00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,880 But even all the years, the national stuff with Tiki, the, 1225 00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,160 the WFAN, living in San Francisco, like everything I've 1226 00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:20,840 done, I've been very lucky where, you know, for some 1227 00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:25,320 Amazing Grace of God, I'm done by like 3 o'clock 3:30 kids are 1228 00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:27,360 off the bus, kids are home. All right, get the practice. 1229 00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:28,760 Let's go, let's go coach and all that. 1230 00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:32,280 So I haven't missed anything. And, and, and there's, there's 1231 00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:35,320 nothing, John, there's there's nothing like it. 1232 00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:38,840 Like when you see their first basket, dude, or their first 1233 00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:41,960 hit, I remember, you know, my son's probably more. 1234 00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:44,720 I mean, he's very serious. You know, sometimes he's too 1235 00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:45,880 serious. I'm like, dude, calm down. 1236 00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:48,000 You just turned 11. It's not game seven of the World 1237 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:48,800 Series. Relax. 1238 00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:50,720 That's how I was though. Me too. 1239 00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:53,440 I get it. Whereas with my daughter, you 1240 00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:57,400 know, she's she's she's 9 and she stopped doing it this year. 1241 00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,040 But last year she scored basket with doing, you know, cartwheels 1242 00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:01,920 down the court. It's totally different. 1243 00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,920 Those those things are amazing. But if you do miss something, 1244 00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:08,240 the ability to say, hey, you know, Andrew, I'd like you to be 1245 00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,520 Coach Pitino or whomever it is, you know, 567 years from now 1246 00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,520 when he's old enough to really know what's going on, You get to 1247 00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,080 give them things that the average dad can't give them, 1248 00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,000 even if you have to miss a couple things along the way. 1249 00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,400 So that's the trade off, man. That's life. 1250 00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:26,080 And you know, I, I, I had the reality of and, and your show is 1251 00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:28,640 real. You know, I got a phone call on 1252 00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:32,600 a Tuesday or on a Monday morning two years ago and my my dad had 1253 00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,000 passed away at the age of 56. Wow. 1254 00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:38,520 And. You know that? 1255 00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:39,760 Sorry. No, no, no. 1256 00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,280 I didn't know that Like that. OK. 1257 00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:43,200 No, no. And you know, it was 6. 1258 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:45,800 You know, God has a way of doing things because Brandon, I 1259 00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:50,080 ironically, you know, it's just I didn't have any games that 1260 00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:51,520 week. It was so weird because when I 1261 00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:53,920 was looking at my schedule, I'm like, this is to begin with, 1262 00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:55,840 this is odd. Normally, you know, Wednesday or 1263 00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:57,840 there's at least a game. It could be a women's game, It 1264 00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:59,040 could be something. Sure. 1265 00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:02,400 It wasn't anything that week. And so you know. 1266 01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:06,280 But relation but so but I learned so much from my dad. 1267 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,760 My dad was a business owner in Northeast Ohio. 1268 01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,880 You know, I love the stuff when with you and your dad, you know, 1269 01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:15,200 as on your on your last show at FAN. 1270 01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:18,960 That's what matters more than any show, any game and I had no 1271 01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,360 regrets. My father was a was a great man. 1272 01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:25,680 He taught me how to work hard and taught me how to be kind to 1273 01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:27,400 people, no matter who you encountered. 1274 01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,520 He was the same way with the janitor as he was with the 1275 01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:32,280 executive. And and so then when the gift of 1276 01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:36,400 my son comes last May, I just thought this is the full circle 1277 01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,040 of life. In a year and a half, I've 1278 01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:42,320 experienced one ending. And you can dwell on it or you 1279 01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:45,200 can do what your dad would want. And he would want me to live and 1280 01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,720 be the best father to my son. And he's looking down. 1281 01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:51,160 He, there's no question he's looking down, but that's, that 1282 01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:55,320 then puts perspective into how you are as a parent because you 1283 01:00:55,320 --> 01:01:00,120 know, you know, nothing is nothing is promised, nothing is 1284 01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:02,880 given. And, and we have to live each 1285 01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:08,360 day, you know, with, with, with the utmost just just got to got 1286 01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,840 to live each day like it's your last in terms of how you, how 1287 01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:12,920 you go about it. So I never try to go to bed 1288 01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:14,840 angry. But that was a that's something 1289 01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:18,040 that's part of my journey too. Of like, I look, I look at that. 1290 01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:20,880 I look at how life changed in one phone call. 1291 01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:24,280 Got to fly home to Cleveland. No other game mattered. 1292 01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:25,640 No other thing mattered than that. 1293 01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,040 That's where your family means everything. 1294 01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:30,480 Did he have a heart attack? Had was. 1295 01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:31,320 It was. Yeah, he had a heart. 1296 01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:33,280 He had a heart attack. He, he, he owned his own 1297 01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:34,040 business. Yep. 1298 01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,440 And you know, I, I mean, yeah, he, he had a heart attack and 1299 01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:40,160 gone at 56. He owned his own. 1300 01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:43,920 He had his own business and he worked himself very hard. 1301 01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:46,600 I could not do what he was doing, metal plating and 1302 01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,160 finishing. And you know, he was, it's a 1303 01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:51,600 great example too. And I say this to people, you 1304 01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:55,040 know, get yourself checked out and, and, and look at things 1305 01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,080 and, you know, take care of yourself because it's, it's 1306 01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:02,280 important folks, especially in, in, in, in these times when life 1307 01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:06,160 is chaotic and whatnot. And you know, if you, you always 1308 01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,200 say, like if you had gotten checked out maybe a week prior, 1309 01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:10,720 maybe they fixed some of the issues. 1310 01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:14,440 But you know, he, I saw a lot through my dad. 1311 01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:16,720 I saw a hard he worked. I saw the kind of person he was. 1312 01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,240 He was a recovered alcoholic. He did recover. 1313 01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:21,880 He did recover. Now, did that, did that hurt his 1314 01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:23,080 health? Of course it did. 1315 01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,560 It's a terrible thing. But I saw him make it through 1316 01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,640 that battle. And that taught me a lot too, of 1317 01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:31,200 how you of how you have to fight. 1318 01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:34,760 None of us are perfect. And who of us is if somebody 1319 01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:38,040 comes with me and says Hey, I went through this, I will say BT 1320 01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:43,040 like I've seen a lot in the 1st 30 years to say hey, you know 1321 01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:44,560 this happens and guess. What? 1322 01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:49,000 Maybe I haven't lived your exact scenario, but I get it. 1323 01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,160 I get where you're coming from that I think that builds 1324 01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:54,800 humility of like you just life. Everybody's got a different 1325 01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:58,320 cross, a different burden that they deal with, that they deal 1326 01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:00,000 with in life. And whether or not you relate to 1327 01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,360 it, but at least you can, you can understand that people deal 1328 01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:05,040 with that. So that that was something that 1329 01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,480 I dealt with, but it I think it I live my life for my dad every 1330 01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:10,960 day. I can tell that you're 1331 01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:12,320 religious. They could tell. 1332 01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,400 I could just tell, right? You have to have faith. 1333 01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:16,720 No. Question about it. 1334 01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:19,000 And if you don't, that's OK. I'm not here to be like, you 1335 01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:20,960 know, I'm not sure to come out and be a preacher. 1336 01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:23,680 I'm just saying it's if you don't have your faith, and then 1337 01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,080 it's kind of why the Big East has been a match for me too, 1338 01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:27,440 because of all these Catholic school. 1339 01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:30,400 I'm with you by the way. Catholic school myself 1st 1340 01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:33,720 through 8th grade Catholic school back then there's a while 1341 01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,640 ago had nuns then I went to a Jesuit high school so I get it 1342 01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:38,680 man. Jesuit high school here too. 1343 01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:42,000 I not St. Ignatius in Cleveland, yeah. 1344 01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,360 Saint Ignatius. First MET game I ever went to, 1345 01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,240 you know, first MET game I ever went to, there's a guy down the 1346 01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:47,680 third baseline holding the rosary. 1347 01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:52,200 I'm just like, OK, I can, you know, being a Clevelander, I can 1348 01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:54,680 relate with these people a little bit. 1349 01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:58,640 I came into, I came into the metropolitan area for College in 1350 01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:01,440 13. Yeah, I haven't seen anybody win 1351 01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:02,760 a title yet. I'm just waiting. 1352 01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,160 For I haven't seen anybody hold the rosary bead since my 1353 01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:07,040 grandma. I mean, that's been a minute, 1354 01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:09,240 John. Usually the old Italians would 1355 01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,840 hold the rosary beads. You said a guy was holding it in 1356 01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:13,200 the state. Hey, do what you got to do. 1357 01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:15,640 It's going to be Knick fans, Knick fans with rosaries this 1358 01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,240 spring. Knicks aren't winning anything 1359 01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:19,200 this year. They're not winning the 1360 01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:21,080 championship. They just, but I, I have one, I 1361 01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:24,800 have one serious question for you on on the heels of what we 1362 01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:28,560 were just discussing. Do you feel not a 1363 01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,760 responsibility? Are you comfortable talking 1364 01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:34,920 about religion outwardly? Because a lot of people aren't 1365 01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:37,920 and they suppress it. And when they do try to speak, I 1366 01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,360 don't mean shove it down people's throat. 1367 01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:40,280 I know you're not that kind of guy. 1368 01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:42,520 Neither am I, but I believe what I believe. 1369 01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:45,120 I, I espouse it more as I've gotten older, it's become more 1370 01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:47,120 even though I, it's been a part of my whole life. 1371 01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:50,760 I got away from it a little bit. My wife back in she's a Dallas, 1372 01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:53,040 TX girl. Christianity strong. 1373 01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:56,000 It means a lot to me. I pray more than I used to do. 1374 01:04:56,400 --> 01:05:00,080 I love going to church. Probably not, I'll be honest 1375 01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:01,800 with you. I mean, you know, I'd rather 1376 01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,040 probably sit on the couch on a Sunday if I have an hour. 1377 01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:06,240 But we go a little bit more than we used to. 1378 01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:09,280 Or are you comfortable projecting that knowing that you 1379 01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,920 have prominent role and voice in sports? 1380 01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:15,440 Do you do that a little bit? I probably don't do it enough 1381 01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:16,840 and I, I don't get asked about it. 1382 01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:20,440 But yeah, I, I, I believe in my faith and, and I don't believe 1383 01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:22,920 that just because you go to church on Sunday that makes you 1384 01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:25,040 a great or not great human being. 1385 01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:29,680 I, I do get to church, but some of the people who will go and I, 1386 01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:33,160 we all know somebody, I mean, I do, you know, I'm not, and I'm 1387 01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:34,720 not throwing stones at glass houses. 1388 01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,880 But you, you know, somebody who goes and then they during the 1389 01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:40,720 week from Monday to Saturday, they're, they're not a positive 1390 01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:43,280 person towards other people. And you say, wait a minute, but 1391 01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:45,000 then you go, so does that justify? 1392 01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:48,680 Like is your way of justify for that that you go to into church 1393 01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:50,880 on Sunday? I don't, you know, I think 1394 01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:52,600 religion is different for everybody. 1395 01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:56,680 But I believe in a higher power and I believe in things. 1396 01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:59,920 There are things that have happened on this journey that 1397 01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:04,160 coincidence doesn't explain how and why and where and what 1398 01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:08,200 happened. You know, when my dad passed 1399 01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:14,600 away, we were at the church. The outpouring of flowers, see, 1400 01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:17,120 because it was in the middle of the season of college basketball 1401 01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:21,320 season, Brandon, you know, coaches and administrators and 1402 01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:23,440 people who are very good friends of mine could not make it 1403 01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:25,040 because they had game days. St. 1404 01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:25,760 John's. St. 1405 01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:29,040 John's was playing Connecticut this Saturday, that Saturday, 1406 01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:30,720 and I was supposed to be at the Garden for that game. 1407 01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:33,720 And it just didn't happen. And it was a noon game, huge 1408 01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:35,440 game at the Garden. Yeah, I did it, Yeah. 1409 01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:40,320 You did it. And a couple years back, I 1410 01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:44,920 remember being in the back of the church ahead of the Mass and 1411 01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:47,880 the Funeral Home director came out and now we're in Cleveland. 1412 01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:50,520 Funeral Home director came out to me and said, hey, we just had 1413 01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:52,640 one more flower, set of flowers get delivered. 1414 01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:54,560 Are you OK with us putting them on the altar? 1415 01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:59,440 And I said, of course, absolutely. 1416 01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,880 And you know, he, I said, well, where are they from? 1417 01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:07,120 And this was at, you know, 1010 o'clock funeral Mass and Yukon 1418 01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:09,600 St. John's was at noon and funeral 1419 01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:12,160 director looked back at me and Saint Johns had sent prior that 1420 01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:13,720 week. Funeral director looked back at 1421 01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:17,360 me and said the card says here Coach Hurley and UConn men's 1422 01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:22,680 basketball. And I'm like the in that moment, 1423 01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:27,840 it was like life will be a life. Life will never be the same when 1424 01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:31,080 you lose your parent, but you know that you've got your, you 1425 01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:33,840 know that there's people out there who are supportive and who 1426 01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:37,360 understand and, and, and the only thing they could do there 1427 01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:40,600 was that, but that that resonated with me of like that's 1428 01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,520 dad's way of saying remember, keep doing what you're doing 1429 01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:47,120 because people, people unders they, they enjoy that and you've 1430 01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:49,320 got to keep going here. You do have to get. 1431 01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:51,000 I call the game that following week. 1432 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:52,280 I didn't know how it was going to go. 1433 01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:55,240 I didn't make it the story. I just kind of did the job and 1434 01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:58,040 it it was, it was good for me to get back into the rotation of 1435 01:07:58,040 --> 01:08:02,360 things. But I don't talk outwardly a ton 1436 01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:06,040 about faith because I it, it feels like people have all 1437 01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:09,080 different feelings about it. But if asked about, I will say 1438 01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:10,720 this. Yes, I believe in God. 1439 01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:15,360 I rely on my faith to help me through ups and downs of life. 1440 01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:21,319 And I understand that man, I am not perfect. 1441 01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,920 And guess what? I can get fired up, you know, 1442 01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:28,600 or, or, or have a tough day at home too, or I'm like, hey, you 1443 01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:31,000 know, where are we going? We got I got work, I got life. 1444 01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:33,000 Yeah, man, you're a human being. We're. 1445 01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:36,880 Human, we're human beings. And so I I say to myself, if if 1446 01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:41,439 I don't have God look to look up to and say, please help me, you 1447 01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:46,640 know, beat, please help me in this time, then who am I going 1448 01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,720 to go? To yeah, I do know. 1449 01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:50,240 I do know to me. I don't know where I'd be. 1450 01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:54,840 It's it's you know, and it's hard to do that like where you 1451 01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:58,800 know, as the provider, especially when I lost my job, 1452 01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:03,120 right and for some reason at the fan was very natural and easy 1453 01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:05,200 for me to make this transition. I don't mean like doing I'm not 1454 01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:08,279 saying the show's great. I mean to just move on with my 1455 01:09:08,279 --> 01:09:11,120 life and and and and just plow ahead. 1456 01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:16,040 It was like a calm, right, But I think when I was younger it was 1457 01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:17,399 hard. Like I think I had to control 1458 01:09:17,399 --> 01:09:19,800 everything. Like you don't control anything. 1459 01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:22,160 Like you can control your work ethic and how you treat people 1460 01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:25,640 and how engaged you are and how you know immersed you are in the 1461 01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:29,600 job and what following up with emails and calls and being ready 1462 01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:32,120 for A-Z. Call it a game and doing a show 1463 01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:34,840 and having notes and being buttoned up and but there's just 1464 01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:36,120 certain things you can't control. 1465 01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:39,600 And it's crazy, John, But when I think when you learn that, I 1466 01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:42,040 think there's a piece and it seems like you learned it at an 1467 01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:45,160 earlier age than I did. Good for you figuring this out 1468 01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:47,680 quicker than me, man. I'm I'm almost envious of you. 1469 01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,000 Good job dude. Well, you know what a mentor by 1470 01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,720 the name of Rick Genteel, who produced the Olympics for a 1471 01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:57,280 number of years for CBS Sports. Rick said to me, John, you got 1472 01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:59,560 to remember something. I was, I was picked over some 1473 01:09:59,960 --> 01:10:03,240 someone for a for an FS1 assignment that I was hoping 1474 01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:05,160 for. I didn't get it. 1475 01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:10,000 And and he said you got to remember something. 1476 01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:14,240 Only one person is the TV play by play announcer on a game. 1477 01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:17,520 The same way that only one person is the head coach of that 1478 01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:20,200 basketball team for a game, the same way that that one person is 1479 01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:23,880 the only one that is producing the game, the the color analyst 1480 01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:26,080 on the game. Yes, there are other people who 1481 01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:30,280 would love to have that job. And and he said someday you'll 1482 01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:32,280 probably hear your name called for that job. 1483 01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:39,560 But how you handle the quote defeat is is what is what people 1484 01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:43,560 will really appreciate. And so I had AI mean Brandon, 1485 01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:48,680 like there's there's times where, you know, I was calling 1486 01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:52,800 something that probably, you know, 1000 people were watching 1487 01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:55,280 on television as opposed to 400,000. 1488 01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:57,400 You don't treat the job any differently. 1489 01:10:57,400 --> 01:11:00,320 You do your job the way that you've been taught to do your 1490 01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:01,720 job. You don't look at viewership. 1491 01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:05,080 Of course we all want to call. Everybody wants to call the 1492 01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:07,160 Super Bowl. If we talked to 50 high school 1493 01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:08,920 kids right now and I said how many of you would want to call 1494 01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:10,360 the Super Bowl one day? I would assume. 1495 01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:11,840 Yeah, and raise their hand, everybody. 1496 01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:15,560 But, but you have to realize there's only one Mike Tirico, 1497 01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:19,160 you know, And oh, by the way, there was a time when Mike was 1498 01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:24,000 like 6th or 7th on the roster and you got to someone said to 1499 01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:27,200 me once a guy by the name of Bardia Shaw Reyes at Fox said 1500 01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:29,440 you have to know where you are on the ladder. 1501 01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:32,520 Understand that you're you're, you're just not. 1502 01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:34,920 You're just not going to get the assignment that a Gus Johnson 1503 01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:35,960 gets. You're not there yet. 1504 01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:38,120 You're not there yet At that point, sure, But you? 1505 01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:40,920 Deliver the because if you don't deliver the best at where you 1506 01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,920 are on the ladder, you can easily get removed from that 1507 01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:46,040 ladder because there's a bunch of other people who who would 1508 01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:48,040 like it. So I think that that and the 1509 01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:50,440 journey knowing there's only one guy who gets that call and if 1510 01:11:50,440 --> 01:11:51,720 you ever do get that call, that's a. 1511 01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:53,360 Privilege. There you go. 1512 01:11:53,440 --> 01:11:56,840 To get that call at the end of the day, you know, Yeah, you and 1513 01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:01,000 Mink, I I look at it from my bench, why I say it is a 1514 01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:02,600 privilege to call an NCAA Tournament. 1515 01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:04,880 Game I agree with that I. Don't care who you're calling. 1516 01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:07,120 It I agree it's an honor. I can't wait. 1517 01:12:07,440 --> 01:12:08,680 I really. It means the world to me. 1518 01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:12,920 Let me ask you this. So, but nine year old, 10 year 1519 01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:16,640 old John Fanto, Ohio, I mean, I know you played sport. 1520 01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:19,040 Were you a decent athlete or were you always like call them 1521 01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:20,640 the games? Like, could you play anything? 1522 01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:24,080 Anything. OK, so I once had a 28 point 1523 01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:27,480 game in Gradesville, Yeah. What CYO? 1524 01:12:27,480 --> 01:12:28,560 Like what grade are we talking about? 1525 01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,160 8th grade, last game. It's Saint Bernadette's gym. 1526 01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:35,320 Yeah, So hopefully there's some college classmate in your chat 1527 01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:37,480 that can attest this. And if not, I'm going to make 1528 01:12:37,480 --> 01:12:40,120 them get in. But I could, I could shoot the 1529 01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:42,000 ball. You know, I could play some 1530 01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:44,400 hoops. Not when when I was. 1531 01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:44,920 Yeah. Not. 1532 01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:48,080 I mean, I'm, we're not talking about like intramurals and all 1533 01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:51,040 that. Like Co and I played high school 1534 01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:52,440 football. I played it for two years. 1535 01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:54,600 I was a left guard. I was a turnstile as a left 1536 01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:57,240 guard. You know, think of your worst 1537 01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:00,280 Who's the Giants offensive lineman I was? 1538 01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:03,320 Going to say actually The Jets old line's actually pretty good. 1539 01:13:03,480 --> 01:13:05,800 Who was the old lineman that got like 3 penalties? 1540 01:13:05,800 --> 01:13:09,000 How about Evan Neal? Yeah, back-to-back to back to 1541 01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:10,840 start the game that first I think I was in, but that may 1542 01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:13,240 have been against the Saints, I think when it was like 3 in a 1543 01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:14,920 row to start the game back. Yeah, I. 1544 01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:17,880 Need to my quarterbacks needed Saints to help protect them when 1545 01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:19,680 I was in the game. Because the fact of the matter 1546 01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:22,480 is this when I was in the game, I got called for back-to-back 1547 01:13:22,480 --> 01:13:25,080 holding penalties and I said to my offensive line coach, do you 1548 01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:28,000 want me to come out? And he goes, no, I want to see 1549 01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:33,160 how long survive. It's good, but did you take it 1550 01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:34,120 seriously? Like, were you in the way? 1551 01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:36,160 You were? You were, you know, killed. 1552 01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:39,080 The champion, No, locked in. I mean, look, I just wasn't very 1553 01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:40,920 good. Yeah, yeah. 1554 01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:43,320 And then baseball, I pitched. I pitched till about 8th grade. 1555 01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:46,560 I pitched during a time like when I was in 4th, 5th, 6th 1556 01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:49,120 grade when pitching is starting to become a thing when the coach 1557 01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:50,400 pitch goes away. Yeah. 1558 01:13:50,480 --> 01:13:53,960 Oh yeah. I was very valuable to my team 1559 01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:57,680 because Brandon, because you and I are watching baseball growing 1560 01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:00,120 up, I realized it's not about velocity. 1561 01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:02,800 Just find the strike zone. You got throw strikes, man, Got 1562 01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:06,520 it. So I did and so at that age I 1563 01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:09,600 was and then when things started to get serious and I wasn't able 1564 01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:13,880 to like get it to that, get into that number started to tee off 1565 01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:15,440 and that was that was the end of that. 1566 01:14:15,440 --> 01:14:17,920 But but yeah, I did play a little bit of sports and then 1567 01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:19,600 after my sophomore year a football. 1568 01:14:20,440 --> 01:14:23,080 I said, you know what, I'm going to go for this play by play job 1569 01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:25,920 at Ignatius. Saint Ignatius has a great 1570 01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:29,040 broadcasting network. You know, it's dozens and dozens 1571 01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:30,920 of kids. I felt like I was in a 1572 01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:34,440 quarterback competition. I felt like I was in a 1573 01:14:34,440 --> 01:14:36,960 quarterback competition trying to get the play by play job for 1574 01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:40,320 football. And with three other guys, three 1575 01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:42,560 other students in my high school, we were at Fawcett 1576 01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:44,480 Stadium, the home of the Pro Football Hall. 1577 01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:47,120 Ignatius was scrimmaging a school called Ken McKinley. 1578 01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:51,120 And each of us, each of the candidates got a quarter. 1579 01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:53,120 You get 1/4 to show off your skills. 1580 01:14:53,480 --> 01:14:55,000 Wow. Got the call that Monday. 1581 01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:57,200 You, you won the job. I called the state championship 1582 01:14:57,200 --> 01:15:00,080 game. I went from the bench to the 1583 01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:02,760 broadcast booth and call got to call the state championship 1584 01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:04,040 game. That's sick, dude. 1585 01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:06,200 That's that's and you won the game too. 1586 01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:08,440 That's wait, wait, so you but you didn't get a ring? 1587 01:15:08,440 --> 01:15:10,400 If you were still on the team, even if you were horrendous, you 1588 01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:12,120 would have got a ring. They gave me a ring. 1589 01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:15,640 They gave you one. So that's kind of like since a 1590 01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:19,040 little like when Tony Romo transition, he still knew the 1591 01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:21,600 league so well because he had just played. 1592 01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:24,240 You had a you had a you had all the Intel on the team. 1593 01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:25,840 So probably gave you an advantage because you were 1594 01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:27,000 playing. Big advantage. 1595 01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:28,680 No question. You're absolutely right. 1596 01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:30,680 And that that kind of helped me get started. 1597 01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:33,520 You know, it was like by being the end of bench, kid was able 1598 01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:35,160 to just take that and try for football. 1599 01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:39,200 So, so let's say Johnny Fantas in the car, kisses the wife, 1600 01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:41,320 kisses the little boy Andrew on the cheek. 1601 01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:43,760 All right, Daddy's got to go to work and you're not flying, 1602 01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:46,440 you're driving. You got a 5 hour drive and 1603 01:15:46,440 --> 01:15:48,920 rather than fly, you're driving. What kind of music is John 1604 01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:50,240 listening to? What are you pumping? 1605 01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:53,200 Billy Joel. My favorite, I love it. 1606 01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:57,400 I love like there's different Joel songs. 1607 01:15:57,400 --> 01:16:02,400 I love Matter of Trust. Phenomenal Stiletto. 1608 01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:05,400 I like stiletto. Not one of my favorites, but I 1609 01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:07,640 mean Billy's my all time. Favorite, but then all of, but 1610 01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:10,320 then all of the hits. I mean state of mind. 1611 01:16:10,440 --> 01:16:14,720 Of course, yeah. And moving out and my life. 1612 01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:15,880 There you go. Big shot. 1613 01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:17,920 I've seen Joel four or five times. 1614 01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:19,840 I me too. I hope he comes back. 1615 01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:22,800 Yeah, I think it was. I thought, I thought he's read 1616 01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:25,200 something from his daughter, a quote from his daughter the 1617 01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:28,520 other day that he had some sort of procedure and she was like, 1618 01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:29,480 she was saying he was doing well. 1619 01:16:29,480 --> 01:16:32,360 I hope he's OK. I'll tell you a really, you 1620 01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:35,080 know, all the stuff with Billy, like in the 70s way before your 1621 01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:37,240 time, even though you you just mentioned a bunch of the songs. 1622 01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:41,920 I think that to me, when he got to River of Dreams, I'm like, 1623 01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:43,320 yeah, I'm not really feeling that stuff. 1624 01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:45,520 You know, I like River of Dreams as a song, but not the whole 1625 01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:46,760 thing. Yeah, no, I don't even really 1626 01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:48,600 love this song. It's just to me, it's a little 1627 01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:51,760 duopy, which Billy obviously has that That's that's that was his 1628 01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:54,640 inspiration. But to me, down East or Alexa, 1629 01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:56,960 you're talking Stormfront, like you're talking some of that 1630 01:16:56,960 --> 01:17:00,000 stuff after, you know, glass houses. 1631 01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:01,360 I think that's some of his best work. 1632 01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:03,920 And the crazy thing, did you see the Billy Joel? 1633 01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:06,200 Was it on Netflix or Apple? OK, you saw you. 1634 01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:09,320 So by the way. Don't ask me why another one. 1635 01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:13,240 Don't ask me why. So the crazy thing about that, 1636 01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:15,760 he was broke. You know, his manager stole $30 1637 01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:18,320 million from him. It's one thing to try to pump 1638 01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:20,920 out a great song when he just tried to be a great musician. 1639 01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:24,000 It's another thing when you've got to construct songs because 1640 01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:27,480 you're piss poor, broke, and you got to get back on even footing. 1641 01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:32,600 I mean, imagine the pressure of being Billy Joel and knowing the 1642 01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:35,920 expectation of what people think you're going to put out there. 1643 01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:39,360 You got nothing in the bank. You just got $30 million taken 1644 01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:42,280 from you and you've got to write music and you've got to hit a 1645 01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:43,920 home run. That's pressure. 1646 01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:46,600 Pressure. And he did pressure and hit. 1647 01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:50,760 A Grand Slam love pressure I'm I got my playlist on my Spotify 1648 01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:54,600 playlist so other other bands that I've got on here Fleetwood 1649 01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:56,160 Mac. I love Fleetwood Mac. 1650 01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:58,600 Steely Dan. I like Steely Dan. 1651 01:17:58,840 --> 01:17:59,920 Eagles. Loved. 1652 01:17:59,920 --> 01:18:01,360 I saw him in concert. Love him. 1653 01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,720 Jackson Browne. Loved a couple of good songs. 1654 01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:06,920 I like Jackson. Browne, Bachman. 1655 01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:08,440 Turner OverDrive. Yeah, yeah. 1656 01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:09,960 Yeah, Dan, Dan, Dan. Yeah, yeah. 1657 01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:13,080 Doobie Brothers, One of my favorites. 1658 01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:16,520 I I really do like doobies. Little Phil Collins. 1659 01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:20,720 OK, I like Phil. Elton John, Dave Matthews, Band 1660 01:18:20,720 --> 01:18:22,960 Boss, Skag, Stevie Wonder, Lionel. 1661 01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:25,400 Boss Skaggs. That that's under the radar one 1662 01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:27,360 Boss Skaggs. One of my dad's favorites was 1663 01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:28,920 Bob Seger. I. 1664 01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:33,080 So I got a funny story for you about Bob Seger, by the way. 1665 01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,560 Very you are. You're an old soul. 1666 01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:38,080 Very much so. Yeah, that's a good thing, man. 1667 01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:40,040 Given you said what are you, 30? How old are you now, 30? 1668 01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:42,720 30 But that's why I grew up with Hey City of Cleveland 1669 01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:44,520 Rock'n'roll. I know, I know. 1670 01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:46,000 I get it. I am. 1671 01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:48,600 This was my second or third job and I'm working. 1672 01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:52,040 I'm doing sports radio in Detroit and I live in Troy, 1673 01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:56,760 which is about, it's about, it's actually 16 miles from where the 1674 01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:59,480 Lions and and everybody plays downtown right on 75. 1675 01:18:59,960 --> 01:19:01,800 I'm in a nice suburb. I'm not like in the heart of 1676 01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:03,200 this. I'm not below 8 mile, put it 1677 01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:06,640 that way. And I'm, I'm going there was an 1678 01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:10,840 indoor bubble toward Pontiac and it's so cold up there as you 1679 01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:12,840 know where you can go and hit golf balls, right? 1680 01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:15,080 And you know, I'm hitting golf balls. 1681 01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:17,880 It's like a, it's like a just a massive monstrosity of a golf 1682 01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,760 bubble. I'm ripping away trying to RIP 1683 01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:22,040 and RIP and I see this guy next to him. 1684 01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:25,000 I'm like he's got such a pure swing and and John, all I hear 1685 01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:28,840 is Flack, Flack, Flack, like pure and five iron, right. 1686 01:19:29,040 --> 01:19:32,360 It's Bob Seger. Come on, it's Bob Seger. 1687 01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:37,320 I love Bob Seger and and I said and I didn't want to bother him. 1688 01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:40,040 I'm like and finally I'm like Mr. Seger how I don't he doesn't 1689 01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:42,240 know I'm I'm nobody now. He certainly doesn't know me. 1690 01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:44,440 Then I'm like Mr. Seger. I just wanted to say hi. 1691 01:19:44,440 --> 01:19:45,960 I'm a huge fan. Yeah. 1692 01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:48,280 I said, you know, hey. And I was out of college a 1693 01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:51,120 couple of years before that. I said I think the highest 1694 01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:54,240 compliment that I could pay you as a musician is that we used to 1695 01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:56,400 listen to music in college. And even though a lot of your 1696 01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:57,920 stuff is older, I said we, we love you. 1697 01:19:58,280 --> 01:20:03,240 He was so genuinely taken back and receptive of hearing that 1698 01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:05,840 from a younger fan of his at that point, younger fan of his 1699 01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:08,320 music. What a great guy. 1700 01:20:08,320 --> 01:20:09,760 Very affable. Very. 1701 01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:12,480 And then he wound up being a great conversationalist. 1702 01:20:12,480 --> 01:20:14,400 I felt like I was intruding on his time. 1703 01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:17,040 He talked to me for like 15 minutes, kept bullshit and I'm 1704 01:20:17,040 --> 01:20:18,440 like, this guy's the best. Did he? 1705 01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:19,640 Yeah. Oh, God. 1706 01:20:20,400 --> 01:20:23,040 And he's really good. I mean, yes, he is. 1707 01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:26,280 You, you think? You know we've got tonight comes 1708 01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:29,640 to mind. Oh yeah, we got tonight, Yeah. 1709 01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:32,120 Night moves. Oh, that's a great. 1710 01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:34,440 Hollywood Nights. Hollywood Nights a little bit 1711 01:20:34,440 --> 01:20:36,640 later, Sure. Yeah, that's what I'm. 1712 01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:39,120 That's what I'm talking about. Like what? 1713 01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:41,840 Give me a group that you haven't seen in concert that you'd want 1714 01:20:41,840 --> 01:20:46,040 to. Who? 1715 01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:49,360 I've seen Hall and Oates. Did you really hold an oats? 1716 01:20:49,440 --> 01:20:51,000 Man, yeah, you. Are an old soul. 1717 01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:53,760 PNC, Yeah. Man either. 1718 01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:58,760 Yeah, right. Man either. 1719 01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:04,440 Yeah, she's gone. Yeah, Yeah, that's a good 1720 01:21:04,440 --> 01:21:07,000 question. I mean, look, you know, doobies, 1721 01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:09,880 I have appreciation for earth, wind and fire I've never seen. 1722 01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:12,480 And I I think it would be I would just like to see them 1723 01:21:12,480 --> 01:21:16,600 before I got to saw see Lionel Richie at the Final Four last 1724 01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:17,800 year. I thought he was still 1725 01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:19,440 excellent. So he's a legend, man. 1726 01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:22,400 Lionel Richie had some banging dancing on the ceiling. 1727 01:21:22,440 --> 01:21:22,920 I. Mean. 1728 01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:25,360 Not to mention The Commodores before that, Lionel. 1729 01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:29,320 Richie was dancing on the ceiling. 1730 01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:33,320 Hopefully the Johnnies are this weekend. 1731 01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:35,920 Man, I'm going to let you. I'm going to get you out of here 1732 01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,160 in a minute or so. I want to make sure I I didn't 1733 01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:42,040 miss anything. Let's see. 1734 01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:44,600 Hit the soldier. Are you going to hit anywhere in 1735 01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:46,800 San Diego? I don't know what here's the 1736 01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:50,240 problem, John. So I don't have anxieties about 1737 01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:53,560 anything like, you know, I don't, I thank you know, 1738 01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:55,080 nothing. I mean, I got enough things 1739 01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:56,800 going around this, this brain of mine, right? 1740 01:21:57,080 --> 01:21:59,400 But I'm really not that anxious about much in life. 1741 01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:03,280 I'm not, but I'm a little bit anxious about this because #1. 1742 01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:06,120 So we were going to leave today. Initially the university said 1743 01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:08,120 they're going to leave Tuesday, but it's, you know, dependent 1744 01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:10,160 upon the NCAA with the charters. Blah. 1745 01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:12,760 Get out there, get used to the time difference, get some shots 1746 01:22:12,760 --> 01:22:14,840 up, whatever. So if that's the case, I would 1747 01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:15,880 have gone. They're going tomorrow. 1748 01:22:15,880 --> 01:22:18,240 We're leaving tomorrow chartering and I think 10:00 AM. 1749 01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:20,000 So we'll be out out there whenever we get out there. 1750 01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:22,760 But the problem is it's still kind of cold here. 1751 01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:24,400 I don't know where my shorts are. 1752 01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:26,120 I don't know where my golf shirts are. 1753 01:22:26,640 --> 01:22:28,880 It's like, and I'm not like I don't get overwhelmed by 1754 01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:30,360 packing. I don't, you know, I don't need 1755 01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:32,360 to pack like 9 pairs of shoes like my wife. 1756 01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:34,840 But I'm a little like, what do I bring? 1757 01:22:34,840 --> 01:22:36,840 Where do I go? And I'm going to be there 1758 01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:39,680 Wednesday, Thursday, provided they win Friday, Friday, 1759 01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:42,360 Saturday, Sunday, even if they win or lose against Kansas, 1760 01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:43,840 whatever, probably come back Monday. 1761 01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:45,320 Like I'm going to be gone a while. 1762 01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:48,400 So I don't really know what the hell I'm going to do because now 1763 01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:51,240 I got to figure out about how I'm going to do this show and 1764 01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:54,200 I'm going to figure it out without my microphone, which is 1765 01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:56,040 drilled into my desk and my camera. 1766 01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:59,040 I, I, I got to figure. You got any advice here, Dude? 1767 01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:01,960 I got to figure this out, John. Well, you got some radio guys 1768 01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:03,720 there, so you got. It's not like you don't. 1769 01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:07,480 You can't, you know, maybe get creative a little bit, but but 1770 01:23:07,480 --> 01:23:12,400 you've got yeah, I mean, I've I've tried the Amazon and you 1771 01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:15,200 could always get into the hotel like a like a little portable 1772 01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:17,560 that then you could put either through your laptop or with your 1773 01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:19,440 phone. I've got that equipment and it's 1774 01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:22,280 pretty easy to use. And then you've got that to to 1775 01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:24,560 number one, number one, have through your computer. 1776 01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:27,480 But I've had the there's a microphone you could get it off 1777 01:23:27,480 --> 01:23:32,200 Amazon where you can use and it USB sees right into your phone. 1778 01:23:32,440 --> 01:23:33,760 OK. Is it the? 1779 01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:36,720 Is it a clip on clip on type? Pretty easy. 1780 01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:38,640 And then St. John's beats, you know, Northern 1781 01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:41,280 Iowa and you're in the back and maybe you get the quick combo 1782 01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:44,440 with coach or or a player or whoever, like, yeah, it's it's 1783 01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:46,640 now technology's never been better. 1784 01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:47,960 But you're right. Like when you don't have your 1785 01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:50,240 full studio set up, yes, it might be a hotel. 1786 01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:52,200 Maybe it's a San Diego park or something. 1787 01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:54,440 You have to have a little bit of fun out in the mouth. 1788 01:23:54,440 --> 01:23:55,480 I'll. Figure it. 1789 01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:58,760 Out I think you'll have a nice if as long as they win Friday, 1790 01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:02,280 you might have a nice weekend weekend diary of what's of 1791 01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:05,440 what's going on out there. The the the curious thing is, I 1792 01:24:05,440 --> 01:24:07,440 mean, or not curious, but the crazy thing is, you know, you 1793 01:24:07,440 --> 01:24:10,280 get back from San Diego and then it's like, OK, if they're in DC, 1794 01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:12,440 here we go. I know the tournaments 1795 01:24:12,440 --> 01:24:15,920 exhausting and I I'm not AI am not. 1796 01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:19,600 I hate when people complain. I I don't like it, but I will 1797 01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:23,400 say the tournament turn around, it's something that it, it does 1798 01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:24,800 not stop. It's a lot. 1799 01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:26,920 It's a lot. So all the work you do, you come 1800 01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:30,040 back then and little Andrew's sleeping tucked away, 10 months 1801 01:24:30,040 --> 01:24:33,120 old, God bless him. You sit down with your wife and 1802 01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:34,920 you want to have a drink. Do you have a or or do you not 1803 01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:37,040 drink because of your dad? No, no, no, I do drink. 1804 01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:38,120 Yeah, well. What are we doing? 1805 01:24:38,160 --> 01:24:39,360 Beer. Glass of wine? 1806 01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:41,360 What is Fanta sitting down to kick back and have a? 1807 01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:45,400 Perfect drink for me would be a glass of cab OK, if I have a 1808 01:24:45,400 --> 01:24:48,440 beer, it's a Miller Lite. You know, there's my there's or 1809 01:24:48,440 --> 01:24:51,440 Great Lakes, you know, like love Great Lakes brewing. 1810 01:24:51,440 --> 01:24:55,600 They do sell it in in different liquor stores across New York, 1811 01:24:55,600 --> 01:24:57,200 New Jersey. If you've never had Great Lakes 1812 01:24:57,200 --> 01:24:58,960 Christmas sale folks, your life will be. 1813 01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:00,080 Changed. I love it. 1814 01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:05,000 It is fantastic. Browns, Tribe, Cavs, One team 1815 01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:06,920 can win a championship in the next 5 years. 1816 01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:11,800 What would make you feel better? Oh man, I mean, I'll cry if the 1817 01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:15,200 Browns if they freaking win a home playoff game, because 1818 01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:17,760 that's why we haven't even hosted a playoff game in my time 1819 01:25:17,760 --> 01:25:21,120 is in my in my 30 years of life, we've never had a home playoff 1820 01:25:21,120 --> 01:25:21,840 game. So. 1821 01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:24,880 It's I get it. When Jet fans complain, I get 1822 01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:27,240 it. I'll be emotional with the 1823 01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:31,040 Guardians. And I do think I, I pray to the 1824 01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:33,280 heavens, I do think someday we will do it. 1825 01:25:33,280 --> 01:25:37,080 We came so close in 2016. I think they're so Brandon. 1826 01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:38,880 They are so well run. Yes, they are. 1827 01:25:39,560 --> 01:25:42,360 Antonetti and churn off what they've built. 1828 01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:44,960 Yep, Stephen Vogt was an ace higher. 1829 01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:48,120 You know, if you if you put together teams that were like, 1830 01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:51,720 OK, they're cheaper, but they'd be on the list of teams that 1831 01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:55,000 like, man, they just you know, those play that playoff series 1832 01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,680 with the Yankees now the year before last. 1833 01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:00,560 It was still a great series. The Yankees, they took it, but 1834 01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:03,760 every game went down to the wire and John Carlos Stanton said. 1835 01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:05,400 I'm not losing. I know. 1836 01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:08,240 Oh, and Judge hit one too as well, but Stanton hit that bomb. 1837 01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:10,320 So what was your dad's favorite team? 1838 01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:11,920 Which team was his favorite? Like the one. 1839 01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:13,720 That brown guy, it's a football town. 1840 01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:15,960 It's a football town. It's a piece of brown sky. 1841 01:26:15,960 --> 01:26:20,560 But the, the Tribe, that place is rocking and rolling all 1842 01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:23,680 throughout the summer. It's a fun weekend vibe. 1843 01:26:23,680 --> 01:26:25,760 They've done a great job with that ballpark. 1844 01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:28,800 You know, look, I was 7 when LeBron got drafted. 1845 01:26:29,640 --> 01:26:31,920 The Cavaliers have a lot of interest and when they went to 1846 01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:34,400 the Finals in O7, I can remember people out in the streets when 1847 01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:36,520 they won the championship. That was unbelievable. 1848 01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:39,760 Brandon, make no mistake about if the Cleveland Browns ever get 1849 01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:43,800 good, it will be the wildest scene, as wildest scene as 1850 01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:45,400 you've seen in football. I believe it. 1851 01:26:45,560 --> 01:26:47,120 I didn't. They do something years. 1852 01:26:47,360 --> 01:26:49,240 Didn't they do something? I think it was actually when 1853 01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:51,680 they beat The Jets on that Thursday night this year. 1854 01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:54,280 Didn't they have like beers that they unlocked fridge? 1855 01:26:54,320 --> 01:26:55,080 Unlocked. Fridges. 1856 01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:57,120 Something like that, right? Unlocked fridges. 1857 01:26:57,120 --> 01:26:59,000 It was unbelievable. The Jets should have won that 1858 01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:02,280 game. No, Todd Bowles, you know. 1859 01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:04,200 John, John. Wait, is that the game where 1860 01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:05,840 Baker came in? Baker's debut. 1861 01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:08,920 It was, it was, it was the week two of the season, I believe. 1862 01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:11,440 That was Baker's debut, and then it all linked downhill from 1863 01:27:11,440 --> 01:27:12,520 there. I thought so. 1864 01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:14,960 Well, listen, man, you've been generous with your time. 1865 01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:17,520 I'm really happy for you. I'm proud of you. 1866 01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:20,640 I think your messages are great. I think your talent speaks for 1867 01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:23,440 itself. I think your commitment to your 1868 01:27:23,440 --> 01:27:26,880 your craft is, is undeniable and I'm looking forward to seeing 1869 01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:28,800 where this takes you, man. I think it's it's going to be, 1870 01:27:28,920 --> 01:27:30,360 it's already been an amazing journey. 1871 01:27:30,720 --> 01:27:32,840 Enjoy the early stage of the fatherhood. 1872 01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:34,240 It goes fast. Dude. 1873 01:27:34,520 --> 01:27:37,520 You seem like you have a great work life balance and really 1874 01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:39,640 good to have you on the show. I appreciate it today, John. 1875 01:27:40,440 --> 01:27:43,760 Well, Brandon, anytime I I respect your work, love your 1876 01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:48,880 work you you do a a phenomenal job and you've got a fan it with 1877 01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:51,320 BT unleashed and and it's certainly listening to you on 1878 01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:55,200 the radio this week and anytime well love talking it up with 1879 01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:56,560 you. Can't wait to do it again. 1880 01:27:56,560 --> 01:27:57,800 Thank. You, you got it. 1881 01:27:57,800 --> 01:27:59,800 Enjoy the hoops, baby. I'll see you soon, dude. 1882 01:28:00,440 --> 01:28:09,200 There he is all right so Jay Rod oh man he is he is AI wouldn't 1883 01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:13,920 say a rising star he's past that point he and you see how humble 1884 01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:16,600 he is that him too yeah get that you see how humble he is he's 1885 01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:19,480 just a good guy I. Mean this is what I'll say it's 1886 01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:22,760 rare when you see interviews that really like sit with you, 1887 01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:26,600 like, you know, and really kind of give you a change your 1888 01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:29,920 perspective on things like that really touched me right there. 1889 01:28:29,920 --> 01:28:32,640 Obviously the stuff with his father's faith, but also just 1890 01:28:32,640 --> 01:28:37,680 like he's a he's a young man who's wise behind it beyond his 1891 01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:39,960 years. I think that's what's insane to 1892 01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:43,880 me is he's a you know, he's a young dude, but he carries such 1893 01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:48,000 wisdom when he speaks and such, you know, fortitude and I just I 1894 01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:52,960 thought that was easily the best interview we've had thus far on 1895 01:28:52,960 --> 01:28:55,480 this show. I thought they just keep 1896 01:28:55,480 --> 01:28:58,000 getting. I thought that was incredible. 1897 01:28:58,000 --> 01:28:59,320 That's awesome, man. I love him. 1898 01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:01,400 I knew it was going to be good. And listen, it's, it's different 1899 01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:02,880 than different. Nikki is good. 1900 01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:04,680 Nikki Lauderulo is going to join me tomorrow. 1901 01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:06,160 That's going to be different than John. 1902 01:29:06,520 --> 01:29:11,400 Yeah, he does have a a sageness. He's got a perspective like I 1903 01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:14,880 just, I had a very different style and a very different 1904 01:29:14,880 --> 01:29:17,920 delivery and I still do. I didn't have that. 1905 01:29:18,360 --> 01:29:20,560 I don't think I had that clarity at the age of 30. 1906 01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:22,480 I was, you know what I mean? I just, I didn't have that. 1907 01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:25,680 I didn't have that clarity. He's, he's a really grounded 1908 01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:28,760 young man. And, and that's I'm, I'm just, 1909 01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:30,320 I'm a big fan there. I'm a big fan. 1910 01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:31,560 What's this from? What do we got? 1911 01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:34,360 Telly lot 77. What's up telly? 1912 01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:37,000 John Fanton, Kim Adams are quickly becoming one of the best 1913 01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:39,600 duos in the business. I enjoyed their coverage of the 1914 01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:43,160 women's Big East tournament. UConn is an avalanche. 1915 01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:44,960 Yeah. He's got some wild calls, man. 1916 01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:46,240 Lol. Thank you. 1917 01:29:46,240 --> 01:29:48,480 Very UConn #13 very, very generous. 1918 01:29:48,480 --> 01:29:49,480 Dude. Thank you for weighing in with 1919 01:29:49,480 --> 01:29:51,000 that awesome stuff. Yeah. 1920 01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,200 I, you know, listen, what are the things about this show? 1921 01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:55,880 Listen, there's going to be days during the season like, I don't 1922 01:29:55,880 --> 01:29:59,560 know, just throw out a name. Like, you know, I'll get I'm 1923 01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:01,040 sure she'll do it. I don't want to speak for her, 1924 01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:03,760 but like I'll get Susan Waldman on, maybe get like and ask her 1925 01:30:03,760 --> 01:30:07,600 like actual Yankee questions. You know, one of the things that 1926 01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:10,280 I really enjoy about being able to do this, it's a free flowing 1927 01:30:10,280 --> 01:30:12,480 conversation and I've obviously got some notes. 1928 01:30:12,480 --> 01:30:14,760 So I got a couple things I know I want to tap into. 1929 01:30:15,280 --> 01:30:19,880 But to me, you know, the best conversations are the one where 1930 01:30:19,880 --> 01:30:21,800 you're just not married to a lot of questions. 1931 01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:24,760 Like he says something I'm like, that was interesting about his 1932 01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:28,680 dad or about his dad with alcoholism or how his dad passed 1933 01:30:28,680 --> 01:30:31,160 away so suddenly or his fatherhood, like just down, 1934 01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:32,840 like, we're going to go with this man. 1935 01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:34,400 Yeah. Hopefully everybody enjoyed 1936 01:30:34,400 --> 01:30:35,240 that. That was good. 1937 01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:39,400 I, I, I think what really at least not to get too mad or 1938 01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:41,400 behind the scenes. I think just what really set 1939 01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:44,080 that one apart, you know, from the other ones is it, it really 1940 01:30:44,080 --> 01:30:47,400 felt like a deep dive into the man himself, you know? 1941 01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:51,360 Yeah, really got a new perspective on who he he he is 1942 01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:52,720 as a person. Amen. 1943 01:30:52,840 --> 01:30:55,240 No doubt. Just awesome that a boy. 1944 01:30:55,240 --> 01:30:56,440 Jay Ron. I love how. 1945 01:30:56,480 --> 01:30:59,200 Fired up you are man at. Gerndog, try not to be so. 1946 01:30:59,200 --> 01:31:00,880 Fired up when Nikki comes on tomorrow. 1947 01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:05,360 Take it easy buddy. Gerndog nine O 1 fantas 1948 01:31:05,360 --> 01:31:07,320 personality is great. You can tell he's a genuinely 1949 01:31:07,320 --> 01:31:09,760 great guy. Wishing him the best. 1950 01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:13,960 I, I, I agree, you know, and listen, there's a lot of really 1951 01:31:13,960 --> 01:31:17,080 good people in our business, John, but there's also a lot of 1952 01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:19,000 assholes in our business. They just are, I mean, I'm not 1953 01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:21,400 going to start naming them, but trust me, there are a lot of 1954 01:31:21,400 --> 01:31:27,040 jerks in this business. And I get the sense that I, I 1955 01:31:27,040 --> 01:31:30,520 get the sense that, you know, he's, he's not going to change 1956 01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:32,000 much. Like, and he's going to only 1957 01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:36,040 climb higher and higher and higher and make more money and 1958 01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:38,960 become more successful and become the face of ultimately of 1959 01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:42,160 a network. Maybe call the Super Bowl, NBA 1960 01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:43,520 Finals. Who knows what's in John's 1961 01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:44,800 future. I mean I'm not going to put a 1962 01:31:44,800 --> 01:31:48,200 limit on it, but I I feel like you know, his his he's going to 1963 01:31:48,200 --> 01:31:53,560 be rooted in that blue collar Ohio, you know, background that 1964 01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:55,720 his dad passed on. Just a good dude, man. 1965 01:31:55,720 --> 01:31:56,960 So I saw him at the biggies tortoise. 1966 01:31:56,960 --> 01:31:58,480 I'm like, dude, I got to get John. 1967 01:31:58,480 --> 01:32:01,000 He's like absolutely. And I thought that he I thought 1968 01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:02,440 that I had his number. He's like, you still got my 1969 01:32:02,440 --> 01:32:04,080 number, right. So I opened up my phone. 1970 01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:05,440 I'm like, I guess I don't have it at all. 1971 01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:06,960 So I'm like, here, shoot me a number. 1972 01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:08,240 And I wasn't going to do it right away. 1973 01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:09,480 I'm like, I'll do it at some point. 1974 01:32:09,800 --> 01:32:11,920 Then I'm like, you know, why wouldn't I get him on, you know, 1975 01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:13,320 and perfect time. Say John. 1976 01:32:13,400 --> 01:32:15,160 Yeah. I mean, honestly, we could have 1977 01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:17,520 talked more basketball, now that you think about it. 1978 01:32:17,560 --> 01:32:19,840 Oh, definitely. You know, most definitely. 1979 01:32:20,480 --> 01:32:23,120 But I also just. Yeah, just that was too good. 1980 01:32:23,280 --> 01:32:23,960 That was, too. Good. 1981 01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:26,640 Any other comments before we I got to go pack here? 1982 01:32:26,640 --> 01:32:27,320 Good. Let's see. 1983 01:32:27,360 --> 01:32:30,760 I mean, everyone's kind of. Let's see, I mean, you can tell 1984 01:32:30,760 --> 01:32:33,960 me how breaking this. Is all right and trade Jalen 1985 01:32:33,960 --> 01:32:37,200 Waddle to Broncos. Broncos get Waddle and Dolphins 1986 01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:39,640 fourth round pick. Fins get Broncos first round 1987 01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:41,320 pick third. Wow, they're all along with 1988 01:32:41,320 --> 01:32:42,920 their late 3rd and fourth round picks. 1989 01:32:42,920 --> 01:32:44,120 Hold on, keep this up there. Hold on. 1990 01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:47,160 Is this is this real? Is this real all right? 1991 01:32:47,680 --> 01:32:49,760 The So the Fins trade waddle and. 1992 01:32:49,760 --> 01:32:54,000 But I'm not surprised to. Denver Denver gets Waddle and 1993 01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:56,720 the fourth round pick, so they get that coming from Miami. 1994 01:32:56,960 --> 01:33:00,240 Miami gets from Denver a first round, their first round pick, 1995 01:33:00,240 --> 01:33:04,840 30th overall, along with their late 3rd and fourth round picks, 1996 01:33:04,840 --> 01:33:07,800 30th in each round. That's a very interesting, 1997 01:33:07,800 --> 01:33:10,440 that's not like a little, you know, nickel and dime NFL trade 1998 01:33:10,440 --> 01:33:12,480 right now. That's interesting #1 Jalen 1999 01:33:12,480 --> 01:33:17,000 Waddles good #2 you got first round capital #2 or #3 you got a 2000 01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:18,640 third round pick and a fourth round pick. 2001 01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:21,680 Certainly 3rd is a very premium pick even though it's at the 2002 01:33:21,680 --> 01:33:25,840 back end of the third round. Wow, You have Waddell's numbers 2003 01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:29,760 from last year and yeah, just just just pop them up there. 2004 01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:31,800 Give me, what is it? What have you been around now? 2005 01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:33,240 I don't know 4. Years, whatever it's been 2006 01:33:33,240 --> 01:33:35,240 something like that. I'm, I'm throwing it out there, 2007 01:33:35,560 --> 01:33:38,280 you know, some quarterback issues to I'm, I'm not a huge 2008 01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:40,040 fan. Obviously Kyla Murray's there 2009 01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:42,320 now. I think Jalen Waddell's really, 2010 01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:44,560 really good. Last season he had 64 2011 01:33:44,560 --> 01:33:47,560 receptions, 910 yards, 6 touchdowns. 2012 01:33:47,560 --> 01:33:48,080 How many? Games. 2013 01:33:48,080 --> 01:33:49,680 Did he play all the games? I thought he missed a little bit 2014 01:33:49,680 --> 01:33:51,120 with the Amy or something. Played. 2015 01:33:52,120 --> 01:33:54,400 Thought he missed a little time. How many games was ESPN annoying 2016 01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:55,760 me? Oh I'm stuck. 2017 01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:01,440 Reason why dude. This is so annoying. 2018 01:34:01,440 --> 01:34:03,920 OK, it's not it it. Doesn't show games played for 2019 01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:05,520 some reason at the top of the let me. 2020 01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:08,040 Come on, we we we got to get J Rod a little bit better on these 2021 01:34:08,040 --> 01:34:09,560 stats here. I notice every time he's looking 2022 01:34:09,560 --> 01:34:12,680 at they need to, they need they. Need to design a website where 2023 01:34:12,680 --> 01:34:16,440 it goes full stats game. Played percentage boom. 2024 01:34:16,600 --> 01:34:21,240 Not this fucking sorry, not this BS where I'm scrolling through 9 2025 01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:25,840 million different things sweating going oh man was BT 2026 01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:28,000 about was BT? About to get on me. 2027 01:34:29,720 --> 01:34:31,120 Hey, have I really gotten on? You. 2028 01:34:31,400 --> 01:34:32,800 I have a guy with you I'm messing with. 2029 01:34:33,520 --> 01:34:36,280 You so but dude, here's what you got to do He played 15 games he 2030 01:34:36,280 --> 01:34:38,040 played 15 so he. Missed 2 All right, so we. 2031 01:34:38,040 --> 01:34:40,080 Had 60 something catches. Not so if he would have played. 2032 01:34:40,080 --> 01:34:42,400 17 It would have been over 1000. Yards, 6 touchdowns. 2033 01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:45,320 I'm I'm. I'm a little hesitant to ask, 2034 01:34:45,320 --> 01:34:49,920 what did he do the year before? Oh man, no, we're going back. 2035 01:34:50,320 --> 01:34:52,480 I got you. As you're looking this up, what 2036 01:34:52,480 --> 01:34:54,080 is your process to look up a stat? 2037 01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:56,360 Cuz I just. If I want to look it up, I would 2038 01:34:56,360 --> 01:34:58,760 just type in. I'd go to Google Jalen Waddle 2039 01:34:58,760 --> 01:35:00,120 stats. That's what I do. 2040 01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:03,680 I did Jalen waddle the hell popped up stats and then but 2041 01:35:03,680 --> 01:35:06,480 then I go into ESPN itself like the app. 2042 01:35:07,200 --> 01:35:08,720 All right, this is a little easier now. 2043 01:35:08,720 --> 01:35:11,120 I got a better kind of lineup. What do you want? 2044 01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:14,000 Football Reference. Yeah, Football Reference. 2045 01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:16,440 Let's see. Last season, he had 58 2046 01:35:16,440 --> 01:35:21,200 receptions. He had 744 yards, 2 touchdowns. 2047 01:35:22,320 --> 01:35:24,360 Was his really He played 15 games. 2048 01:35:24,360 --> 01:35:27,200 What was his really big year? He had over 90 catches 1. 2049 01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:28,280 Year what? What year was that? 2050 01:35:28,280 --> 01:35:30,320 Let me. Go back to 23. 2051 01:35:32,120 --> 01:35:34,120 Yeah, 23. He had 104. 2052 01:35:34,320 --> 01:35:36,080 Yeah, I thought so. All right, it's a good move 2053 01:35:36,080 --> 01:35:38,200 there. That's a good move that J Rod 2054 01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:39,360 used Pro Football. Reference. 2055 01:35:39,360 --> 01:35:42,320 Yeah, That's from Avery Summit. Everybody's giving you advice. 2056 01:35:42,800 --> 01:35:44,320 Oh, my God, that's funny. Yeah. 2057 01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:46,840 Listen, thank you, boys. I got Rod. 2058 01:35:46,840 --> 01:35:51,120 Yeah, J Rod used that. BT and fans of both guys. 2059 01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:53,360 You want to grab a beer with to watch some sports with that. 2060 01:35:53,440 --> 01:35:55,160 That's what makes both of you guys so special. 2061 01:35:55,360 --> 01:35:57,800 That's a great compliment. You know, that's funny. 2062 01:35:57,800 --> 01:36:01,160 We would always talk about that. Like when I remember when I was 2063 01:36:01,160 --> 01:36:05,400 at ESPN back in the days of obviously 2003 was when I 2064 01:36:05,400 --> 01:36:07,000 started there, radio did some TV too. 2065 01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:09,920 But I'm talking about the radio component where, you know, a lot 2066 01:36:09,920 --> 01:36:11,760 of the things that they would preach about radio I didn't 2067 01:36:11,760 --> 01:36:14,120 necessarily agree with because it was people, no disrespect, 2068 01:36:14,120 --> 01:36:15,960 but people coming in from Bristol trying to tell. 2069 01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:19,360 And we talked about this when I had Greca on people try to come 2070 01:36:19,360 --> 01:36:22,160 in from Connecticut from a national point of view, and they 2071 01:36:22,160 --> 01:36:23,840 were very good nationally at their job. 2072 01:36:24,280 --> 01:36:26,240 But we're like, it doesn't fly in New York, man. 2073 01:36:26,320 --> 01:36:28,040 You know, it's got to it's got to have energy, it's got to 2074 01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:29,320 bite. It's got to have flavor. 2075 01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:31,040 It's got to be cold. It's got to be passion. 2076 01:36:31,040 --> 01:36:33,120 We got to get after it, you know, and they're with the 2077 01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:35,240 teases coming up next. I'll tell you why. 2078 01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:37,560 Like do some of those things I didn't fundamentally agree with, 2079 01:36:37,560 --> 01:36:39,960 even though they were good people and they were good at 2080 01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:43,080 their job. But like I, I remember one thing 2081 01:36:43,080 --> 01:36:46,000 that they did say, and this always resonated with guys. 2082 01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:48,800 At the end of the day, when you doing a show, you want to come 2083 01:36:48,800 --> 01:36:50,560 across as somebody that's in their car. 2084 01:36:50,560 --> 01:36:52,640 This is obviously, you know, in the car, you know, it's a little 2085 01:36:52,640 --> 01:36:55,120 different now. You just want to be one of those 2086 01:36:55,120 --> 01:36:57,520 people where people listen and saying, I want to have a beer 2087 01:36:57,520 --> 01:36:59,280 with that dude. I want to sit back and watch a 2088 01:36:59,280 --> 01:37:02,400 game with that guy, shoot the shit, play around the golf with 2089 01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:06,000 that guy, have a beer, you know, have a little pizza and a pizza, 2090 01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:08,440 have a dinner, sit down, have dinner with wings, whatever, 2091 01:37:08,680 --> 01:37:11,600 watch a game. So I've always kind of #1 I 2092 01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:13,520 think I've just, I've just always been that person. 2093 01:37:13,520 --> 01:37:15,480 Like, I've just always enjoyed doing that stuff. 2094 01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:18,000 And John seems like the same kind of guy. 2095 01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:19,440 So that to me, that's a great compliment. 2096 01:37:19,440 --> 01:37:21,560 Thank you very much. Thank you very much. 2097 01:37:21,560 --> 01:37:23,520 How about his musical taste? Wait. 2098 01:37:23,520 --> 01:37:25,720 Yeah. I, I I I can't believe it had, 2099 01:37:25,720 --> 01:37:27,520 like, lapsed in my mind. It was awesome. 2100 01:37:27,880 --> 01:37:31,600 One you got Billy Joel game, you're breaking out albums. 2101 01:37:31,600 --> 01:37:34,400 I've never. Even conceived of Billy's my 2102 01:37:34,400 --> 01:37:36,880 favorite. Of all time, he's my favorite 2103 01:37:36,880 --> 01:37:38,360 artist of all time. Billy Joel. 2104 01:37:38,920 --> 01:37:41,000 Come on. When I don't do a lot of karaoke 2105 01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:43,280 when I do, I mean, it's been a little bit of minute. 2106 01:37:43,560 --> 01:37:46,080 Big Shot, you know, Big Shot is my song. 2107 01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:48,760 You know, that's, you know, with your fine Paul. 2108 01:37:48,760 --> 01:37:51,600 Kevin, you Chloe woes. Oh, man. 2109 01:37:52,040 --> 01:37:53,160 Yeah. Give it that mic. 2110 01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:59,080 He had serious game. Yeah, I mean, definitely like 2111 01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:01,440 interesting. Like, you know, all his taste 2112 01:38:01,440 --> 01:38:04,520 was very much like for a dude who's closer to, you know, my 2113 01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:08,400 age for sure, you know, he's got, he's got a very, a very 2114 01:38:08,400 --> 01:38:10,200 refined. Taste so to. 2115 01:38:10,200 --> 01:38:12,080 Speak, he said he got it from his pops. 2116 01:38:12,080 --> 01:38:13,280 Hold on. I'm trying to pop up something 2117 01:38:13,280 --> 01:38:14,880 for me here where is my music? Hold on. 2118 01:38:14,880 --> 01:38:17,320 Also if. He if he's still, if he's still 2119 01:38:17,320 --> 01:38:19,440 listening, or if he checks out, the end. 2120 01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:21,680 Yeah, he's got to see Earth, Wind and Fire. 2121 01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:24,360 Best concert I've ever seen. Where did you when? 2122 01:38:24,360 --> 01:38:26,640 Where'd you see them? My mom, my friend, and my 2123 01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:29,600 brother and I. We saw him in Bridgeport, CT. 2124 01:38:29,600 --> 01:38:33,840 Two years ago in the summer, it was incredible. 2125 01:38:33,840 --> 01:38:35,720 It was really sick. It was sick. 2126 01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:38,440 I think their lead singers passed on. 2127 01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:41,680 But I was going to say, every other member of the band is 2128 01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:45,360 still there, still rocking. It was just sick. 2129 01:38:45,360 --> 01:38:47,160 It was such a good time. I love it, dude. 2130 01:38:47,480 --> 01:38:49,680 All right, so look. So now I don't know why it took 2131 01:38:49,680 --> 01:38:53,400 so freaking long to figure. This out, but I've got I'll give 2132 01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:55,080 you guys a little treat. I can't play the music with 2133 01:38:55,080 --> 01:38:58,320 talking like copyright stuff, so I can't I've got I'm looking at 2134 01:38:58,320 --> 01:38:59,880 my phone. I got my music here. 2135 01:38:59,880 --> 01:39:03,040 I'm going to give you I'll give you the 1st 15. 2136 01:39:03,040 --> 01:39:06,760 I want you to count. All right, It's in alphabetical 2137 01:39:06,760 --> 01:39:08,400 order. I'm going to give you the 1st 15 2138 01:39:08,400 --> 01:39:11,080 groups or individual artists in my in my phone, by the way, 2139 01:39:11,080 --> 01:39:12,280 check that out. You got to love that. 2140 01:39:12,280 --> 01:39:14,720 I know I showed you the ready ACDC. 2141 01:39:14,720 --> 01:39:18,240 When I say it, just give me the number ACDC one Aerosmith 2. 2142 01:39:18,360 --> 01:39:21,480 Bad Company 3. Beastie Boys 4. 2143 01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:24,200 Billy Joel 5. Bon Jovi 6. 2144 01:39:24,360 --> 01:39:29,200 Boss Skaggs 7. He said that Bruce 8 Bryan Adams 2145 01:39:29,200 --> 01:39:33,520 9. Busta Rhymes 10 Cat Stevens 11, 2146 01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:37,000 The The Charlie Daniels Band. Haven't heard of them, I'll 2147 01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:37,960 check them. Out all right. 2148 01:39:38,280 --> 01:39:40,960 County Crows. Yep. 13 Creed. 2149 01:39:42,400 --> 01:39:45,840 Cypress Hill. Oh my gosh. 2150 01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:48,160 Hits from the. Bong Yeah, yeah. 2151 01:39:48,200 --> 01:39:49,280 Yep. Doctor Dre. 2152 01:39:49,880 --> 01:39:51,920 And then I got a little Digital Underground, do you know? 2153 01:39:51,920 --> 01:39:53,920 Anything about Yeah, that's pop, right? 2154 01:39:54,040 --> 01:39:55,320 That's Pop. The second package. 2155 01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:56,160 Yeah. Yep, Yep, Yep. 2156 01:39:56,520 --> 01:39:58,280 That was some. We used to bump that in college, 2157 01:39:58,280 --> 01:40:00,240 man, That was good, dude. I mean you. 2158 01:40:00,440 --> 01:40:01,680 You got some real. Heaters, right? 2159 01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:03,720 And not just the Humpty dance, which is like the the. 2160 01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:05,520 Mainstream. Yeah, I remember that track 2161 01:40:05,520 --> 01:40:07,120 Well, no. Definitely there were some beats 2162 01:40:07,120 --> 01:40:08,840 on the back end. I knew every single word. 2163 01:40:08,840 --> 01:40:11,800 Oh my God, that was that was a great album. 2164 01:40:11,880 --> 01:40:15,040 The Digital Underground, my God, you're something interesting for 2165 01:40:15,080 --> 01:40:16,800 me. For Selman, maybe this is like a 2166 01:40:16,800 --> 01:40:19,240 little psychoanalysis. He might be right, though. 2167 01:40:19,440 --> 01:40:22,360 He's an an old soul, which is increasingly rare this these 2168 01:40:22,360 --> 01:40:25,840 days, which is why J Rod appreciates him so much. 2169 01:40:25,840 --> 01:40:28,480 He's not used to seeing one. You're probably right. 2170 01:40:28,680 --> 01:40:32,760 Like I think this is something I've I've certainly grown to 2171 01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:37,160 learn since becoming a podcast producer is that I think a lot 2172 01:40:37,160 --> 01:40:40,120 of the people I do really respect aren't these kind of 2173 01:40:40,120 --> 01:40:44,040 older soul kind of dudes who come at it from, you know, a 2174 01:40:44,040 --> 01:40:46,920 blunt, maybe just because of my father kind of deal, like a 2175 01:40:46,920 --> 01:40:49,600 blood blue collar perspective sort of deal. 2176 01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:52,680 I just like, I think, you know, obviously growing up as a young 2177 01:40:52,680 --> 01:40:55,640 dude, like you're kind of you're molding yourself, but you're in 2178 01:40:55,640 --> 01:40:58,520 a lot of different things. But now that like my career has 2179 01:40:58,520 --> 01:41:02,680 been me interacting with a lot of these former athletes, guys 2180 01:41:02,680 --> 01:41:05,400 like this dudes in the sports industry, like, yeah, it has 2181 01:41:05,400 --> 01:41:09,920 really shown me a kind of kind of man that I do really enjoy 2182 01:41:10,080 --> 01:41:13,200 listening to speak, listening to interviews from and just like 2183 01:41:13,240 --> 01:41:16,680 really respect, like nice dude. Yeah, Like I, I feel like, like, 2184 01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:19,000 yeah, like Fanta, I mean, all these. 2185 01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:22,040 Guys, you get. Pitino K Greco like I love these 2186 01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:24,840 just raw dudes. What about me? 2187 01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:27,680 I mean, come on you that, but that's blanket. 2188 01:41:27,680 --> 01:41:30,360 That's obvious. I'm working like, that's 2189 01:41:30,360 --> 01:41:32,040 obvious. That's awesome, yeah. 2190 01:41:32,080 --> 01:41:33,680 I mean to me, there's no other way to be. 2191 01:41:33,680 --> 01:41:37,760 I mean to me, and it's a tough. Balance, but to be like you can 2192 01:41:37,760 --> 01:41:40,080 be blunt and you can be aggressive and you can be 2193 01:41:40,080 --> 01:41:42,360 assertive and you can take no prisoners and you can be 2194 01:41:42,360 --> 01:41:45,240 unapologetic, but you could also show respect. 2195 01:41:45,520 --> 01:41:48,480 Like it's not hard to do all those things which, which, which 2196 01:41:48,480 --> 01:41:50,960 I think that I do, I'm not saying I'm perfect by any 2197 01:41:50,960 --> 01:41:53,680 stretch, but I always really do try to show respect. 2198 01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:58,360 And that to me is definitely an older, an older generation 2199 01:41:58,480 --> 01:41:59,960 rollback. And I'm not saying that the 2200 01:41:59,960 --> 01:42:01,280 young generation doesn't show respect. 2201 01:42:01,280 --> 01:42:05,720 I don't mean that at all, but I, I just think that there there's 2202 01:42:05,720 --> 01:42:09,320 such a freedom by a lot of people. 2203 01:42:10,200 --> 01:42:13,720 Generally those who are younger. I, I hate to paint with such a 2204 01:42:13,720 --> 01:42:17,720 broad brush, but generally because the younger generation 2205 01:42:17,720 --> 01:42:21,160 can can say whatever they want and for the most part, they're 2206 01:42:21,160 --> 01:42:23,680 not getting their fucking face beat in by somebody's fist. 2207 01:42:24,160 --> 01:42:26,480 Whereas if you would have said something like that back in 2208 01:42:26,480 --> 01:42:28,560 there, like if some of the things that I wasn't, I mean, I 2209 01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:31,360 was no, I was not. I'm not saying I was Johnny 2210 01:42:31,360 --> 01:42:32,840 tough guy at all. I had a couple scraps. 2211 01:42:32,840 --> 01:42:34,880 I probably lost one more than I won. 2212 01:42:34,880 --> 01:42:36,360 Maybe. I mean, you know, I was 2213 01:42:36,360 --> 01:42:39,360 basically a tomato can't fit, you know, and the last real one 2214 01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:41,800 that I had was in college. But you know, and and I won that 2215 01:42:41,800 --> 01:42:43,160 one. Thank you against a football 2216 01:42:43,160 --> 01:42:46,400 player. But but as a long time ago, but 2217 01:42:46,440 --> 01:42:49,720 I I knew that if I popped off and I said the wrong thing to 2218 01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:51,680 somebody in my neighborhood, I was I was getting drilled. 2219 01:42:51,680 --> 01:42:53,200 I'll tell you. I'll actually tell you that this 2220 01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:58,720 was this true? Oh no, they tweet and how they. 2221 01:42:58,720 --> 01:43:00,720 Talk to people, there's no repercussions. 2222 01:43:00,720 --> 01:43:01,960 It's all faceless. It's all. 2223 01:43:02,120 --> 01:43:04,480 Anonymous and let me Peck away and let me. 2224 01:43:04,640 --> 01:43:07,720 That's why I don't get involved and I never have and I never 2225 01:43:07,720 --> 01:43:10,040 will. I don't get involved in like 2226 01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:13,440 radio wars and radio beeps and talking shit online. 2227 01:43:13,440 --> 01:43:17,480 I don't do that. But I remember, remember I told 2228 01:43:17,480 --> 01:43:20,440 you we had the backyard hoop in my in my backyard, like the 2229 01:43:20,440 --> 01:43:22,680 little death by little concrete slab. 2230 01:43:23,000 --> 01:43:25,080 You couldn't take jump shots. You had a dunk. 2231 01:43:25,080 --> 01:43:28,600 It was all God anyway, we're playing back there one day and 2232 01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:34,720 my best friend Brian at at this point was tough like karate and 2233 01:43:34,720 --> 01:43:36,680 and play football, but not a basketball player, right, and 2234 01:43:36,680 --> 01:43:40,240 not even a good baseball player, not a like just not a good ball 2235 01:43:40,240 --> 01:43:44,720 player, but a good athlete. So anyway, his brother, right, 2236 01:43:44,720 --> 01:43:48,840 who I knew because my dad coached him, they, they were 2237 01:43:48,840 --> 01:43:52,560 like, there's like 7 of them big Irish family, tough, right? 2238 01:43:52,560 --> 01:43:55,600 I was there every day. I saw this guy, his name is Pat, 2239 01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:58,160 saw him every day. This is my best friend's older 2240 01:43:58,160 --> 01:43:59,840 brother who I play baseball with. 2241 01:43:59,920 --> 01:44:03,320 OK. And I, I, I guess I, I actually 2242 01:44:03,360 --> 01:44:06,920 do remember saying this. I was in probably the 5th grade 2243 01:44:07,040 --> 01:44:10,480 and his girlfriend, I was walking on the other side of the 2244 01:44:10,520 --> 01:44:13,880 street and we were, you know, we're young, not even, I hadn't 2245 01:44:13,880 --> 01:44:16,480 even hit puberty yet. But like, you know, I'm like, I 2246 01:44:16,480 --> 01:44:18,480 said something like, yeah, crass. 2247 01:44:18,480 --> 01:44:20,480 I think I said something like nice ass. 2248 01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:22,160 It's just stupid. I did. 2249 01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:24,760 That's exactly what I yelled at. I'm like, hey, nice ass, right? 2250 01:44:25,160 --> 01:44:26,600 And then we went back and we were playing. 2251 01:44:26,600 --> 01:44:27,840 I thought I was cool and everything. 2252 01:44:28,280 --> 01:44:31,120 And like 30 minutes later, Pat, who really never was in my 2253 01:44:31,120 --> 01:44:32,560 backyard, he wasn't a basketball player. 2254 01:44:32,560 --> 01:44:35,160 He was a football player and a fighter and a little baseball. 2255 01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:38,800 Pat was tough as nails. And I, I see him walking into my 2256 01:44:38,800 --> 01:44:40,520 backyard, I'm like, hey, what's going on, Pat? 2257 01:44:40,600 --> 01:44:42,760 You know, he didn't even say hello. 2258 01:44:42,760 --> 01:44:46,240 He wound up and he clocked me right in the fucking nose as 2259 01:44:46,240 --> 01:44:48,360 hard as he could and he walked out of my yard. 2260 01:44:48,880 --> 01:44:51,280 That's crazy. Yep, at 10:10. 2261 01:44:51,880 --> 01:44:57,040 No, I was in the 5th grade. So I was, I was 11, he was. 12 2262 01:44:57,040 --> 01:44:59,480 he was, he was definitely a year older and he was a tough kid 2263 01:44:59,840 --> 01:45:02,280 And, and I, I was, I did not go down. 2264 01:45:02,280 --> 01:45:03,520 Somehow. I don't know how it didn't go 2265 01:45:03,520 --> 01:45:04,360 down. There we go. 2266 01:45:04,400 --> 01:45:07,200 But I didn't throw a punch back. I was actually scared. 2267 01:45:07,280 --> 01:45:11,440 Like it was like literally my best friend by a mile. 2268 01:45:11,800 --> 01:45:14,040 And I was at their house all the time. 2269 01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:17,200 I think that's why I was so stunned because I'm like, even 2270 01:45:17,200 --> 01:45:18,640 though he was never in my backyard, I'm like, hey, what's 2271 01:45:18,640 --> 01:45:21,440 going Pat? And it wasn't like, hey, what's 2272 01:45:21,440 --> 01:45:23,280 up? It was just walk straight to me 2273 01:45:23,280 --> 01:45:25,520 and I should have probably detected that he would get a 2274 01:45:25,520 --> 01:45:29,040 different look in his eyes. Bang right right here, dude, 2275 01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:32,560 right in the face. His brother didn't help me out 2276 01:45:32,640 --> 01:45:34,640 either. His brother knows his brother 2277 01:45:34,640 --> 01:45:36,840 was gay to him too. Everybody was kind of scared of 2278 01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:40,600 him and he just made AU turn. He walked out of my didn't care 2279 01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:43,240 if my mom was home, my dad was home, anybody was out. 2280 01:45:43,240 --> 01:45:45,600 So didn't care. Came in message delivered. 2281 01:45:45,600 --> 01:45:47,400 Don't ever say that I'm in the 5th grade. 2282 01:45:47,680 --> 01:45:49,240 Don't ever say that to my girlfriend friend again. 2283 01:45:49,240 --> 01:45:52,440 So when that happens to you, you learn. 2284 01:45:52,720 --> 01:45:55,440 You learn and that's why you don't feel like you've got the 2285 01:45:55,440 --> 01:45:59,800 latitude and the license to just anonymously diss people and say 2286 01:45:59,800 --> 01:46:03,280 whatever you want. And, and I do, I do think again, 2287 01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:06,200 I know it's a broad brush, but I do think that that is a virtue 2288 01:46:07,040 --> 01:46:11,040 and a characteristic of the older generation that is kind of 2289 01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:14,760 so I'm still, I'm still waiting on the first dude to punch me in 2290 01:46:14,760 --> 01:46:16,480 the face and, and teach me not to. 2291 01:46:16,480 --> 01:46:20,400 Talk shit. It was different back then. 2292 01:46:20,440 --> 01:46:22,800 It was different. We got super. 2293 01:46:22,800 --> 01:46:26,360 Game and chill bro 6643 So how does. 2294 01:46:26,360 --> 01:46:30,720 That Jalen Waddle trade affect the AFC East and now Miami feels 2295 01:46:30,720 --> 01:46:32,520 like they are in tear down mode too. 2296 01:46:32,720 --> 01:46:35,240 How do you feel about that crazy free agency? 2297 01:46:35,240 --> 01:46:39,160 So it it has been pretty crazy and the Super, super gay man 2298 01:46:39,160 --> 01:46:41,240 chill Bros. Appreciate that and good job 2299 01:46:41,240 --> 01:46:43,640 reading that handle 6640, you keep it up a little bit for the 2300 01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:45,800 Super chat, give a little bit of love there with the handle. 2301 01:46:45,800 --> 01:46:47,000 Appreciate. Yeah, when we get the Super 2302 01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:48,120 chats, keep them up a little bit more. 2303 01:46:49,560 --> 01:46:53,720 Yeah, I mean, it's listen, I I think it's, you know, I think 2304 01:46:53,720 --> 01:46:56,480 it's, it's interesting. And in terms of the AFC East, 2305 01:46:56,800 --> 01:47:00,640 it's it's the it's the Bills and the Patriots and everybody else. 2306 01:47:00,640 --> 01:47:03,240 I mean, so I don't think it changes energy. 2307 01:47:03,240 --> 01:47:05,160 I don't know that Miami stripping down. 2308 01:47:05,160 --> 01:47:06,880 I mean, they got to get their finances straight. 2309 01:47:06,880 --> 01:47:09,480 Obviously 2 is gone. You have a new quarterback. 2310 01:47:09,480 --> 01:47:11,720 I think he's going to play pretty well, you know. 2311 01:47:11,720 --> 01:47:14,160 But you know, they're they're they're not going to go up to 2312 01:47:14,280 --> 01:47:15,320 up. They're not the kind of team 2313 01:47:15,320 --> 01:47:19,520 that, in my opinion, that's going to go up to Buffalo in 2314 01:47:19,520 --> 01:47:22,440 December or the playoff game, like if they're a wild card or 2315 01:47:22,440 --> 01:47:26,560 go up to Gillette, Foxboro beat Drake, may beat Vrabel, beat 2316 01:47:26,560 --> 01:47:28,360 that running attack. It's just that they're not built 2317 01:47:28,360 --> 01:47:30,400 for that yet. And The Jets are nowhere near 2318 01:47:30,400 --> 01:47:33,720 that either. I think that, you know, I, I 2319 01:47:33,720 --> 01:47:36,120 think there's a clear pecking order of supremacy in the AF. 2320 01:47:36,120 --> 01:47:37,320 CS has no. Doubt about that. 2321 01:47:37,760 --> 01:47:41,760 I I, I think that there's a chance that The Jets could be 2322 01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:45,320 slightly better than Miami within all line and, you know, 2323 01:47:45,320 --> 01:47:46,920 better quarterback play with Gino. 2324 01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:48,800 Certainly not that he's a star, but he's better than what 2325 01:47:48,800 --> 01:47:51,000 they've had. You know, and you know, maybe 2326 01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:53,000 you draft the receiver at 16. You brought in a lot of 2327 01:47:53,000 --> 01:47:55,080 defenders, which they needed to you probably you're definitely 2328 01:47:55,080 --> 01:47:58,520 going edge at #2 whether it's Reese from Ohio State, whether 2329 01:47:58,520 --> 01:48:00,280 it's a kid from Texas Tech, I think it's going to be more 2330 01:48:00,280 --> 01:48:02,680 Reese could be styles. They could trade down. 2331 01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:04,560 You can take Caleb down to the the safety. 2332 01:48:04,800 --> 01:48:07,320 I can't wait for the draft talk. Like I've kind of suspended that 2333 01:48:07,320 --> 01:48:09,600 a little bit, but and not just for The Jets and the giants. 2334 01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:12,760 Let let me address this here. Some of you have said, Hey, I 2335 01:48:12,760 --> 01:48:14,520 love what you do. You know, it's, it's a little 2336 01:48:14,520 --> 01:48:16,560 local heavy. It's it's always going to slant 2337 01:48:16,560 --> 01:48:20,160 a little bit more local. But I promise you guys like NFL 2338 01:48:20,160 --> 01:48:24,320 draft, NFL season, NBA playoffs. It's going to have much more of 2339 01:48:24,320 --> 01:48:26,200 a national feel. It's going to be a lot more for 2340 01:48:26,200 --> 01:48:28,600 everybody. Just understand that and know 2341 01:48:28,600 --> 01:48:32,960 that I'm not trying to replicate exactly what I did on WFAN. 2342 01:48:32,960 --> 01:48:36,040 I'm evolving and I'm changing. And I did national stuff for 10 2343 01:48:36,040 --> 01:48:38,560 years with Tiki and I, I really enjoyed it. 2344 01:48:38,960 --> 01:48:40,920 And I did drive time in San Francisco. 2345 01:48:40,920 --> 01:48:43,920 I was at a different market. I worked in Detroit, you know, I 2346 01:48:43,920 --> 01:48:46,080 worked in Pennsylvania. So I'm, I'm going to, I'm going 2347 01:48:46,080 --> 01:48:48,760 to bring other stuff to you. It's not just going to be me 2348 01:48:48,760 --> 01:48:52,880 shove and judge and Soto and Schlittler and McClain down your 2349 01:48:52,880 --> 01:48:55,120 throat. And, you know, Jackson Thornton 2350 01:48:55,120 --> 01:48:57,880 and Gino, we're going to do more and more as we, as we build this 2351 01:48:57,880 --> 01:48:58,760 thing out. You know what I'm saying? 2352 01:48:58,760 --> 01:49:00,760 Get ready for some, get ready for some cricket. 2353 01:49:00,840 --> 01:49:03,480 Yeah, get ready for some some world cricket talk. 2354 01:49:04,440 --> 01:49:06,640 I don't know about that. Have you ever played? 2355 01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:08,600 I got a couple of a couple of quick. 2356 01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:11,640 Ones for you talking about sports off the off the just give 2357 01:49:11,640 --> 01:49:13,920 me a quick yes or no. Have you ever played tennis? 2358 01:49:14,160 --> 01:49:15,640 Yeah. Do you like it? 2359 01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:17,360 Yes. OK me too. 2360 01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:20,400 I ever play racquetball? No. 2361 01:49:20,880 --> 01:49:22,600 Oh, I got a funny I'm going to tell you a funny racquetball 2362 01:49:22,600 --> 01:49:24,640 story in a second Racquetball story. 2363 01:49:25,120 --> 01:49:31,520 Las Vegas. OK have you ever played ping 2364 01:49:31,520 --> 01:49:32,840 pong? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2365 01:49:33,960 --> 01:49:35,840 I mean, I don't know, We we started playing ping pong 2366 01:49:35,840 --> 01:49:37,640 competitively in our. Home like we love it. 2367 01:49:37,920 --> 01:49:40,040 We got a net that we set up on the dining room table. 2368 01:49:40,040 --> 01:49:42,000 It's great. I've had like a couple games 2369 01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:45,120 over the past year where I've tried to get into it a little. 2370 01:49:45,120 --> 01:49:47,640 More, it's great. You know what I can't do? 2371 01:49:47,840 --> 01:49:49,680 I admit. Like of course I can serve if 2372 01:49:49,680 --> 01:49:50,520 I'm serving. Easy. 2373 01:49:50,920 --> 01:49:53,640 I'm a very good volleyer, but I don't have spin on the serve 2374 01:49:53,640 --> 01:49:56,400 like I can't. Yeah, it's tough and keep it in, 2375 01:49:56,440 --> 01:49:59,440 you know, if I could get that down, when I get that down, I'm 2376 01:49:59,440 --> 01:50:01,040 going to be tough to beat. All right, the racquetball 2377 01:50:01,040 --> 01:50:05,560 story, so I remember we used to I'm living in Vegas. 2378 01:50:05,560 --> 01:50:08,520 This is early, you know, again, 2000 whatever, just starting out 2379 01:50:08,880 --> 01:50:11,440 and I I live with a bunch of dudes and we had we rented a 2380 01:50:11,440 --> 01:50:16,720 house in Henderson, NV and I'm sorry, this before we went into 2381 01:50:16,720 --> 01:50:19,920 the house I was at AI was in an apartment like I I got the job 2382 01:50:19,920 --> 01:50:23,160 and there was a guy Steve Cofield, who, if anybody knows 2383 01:50:23,160 --> 01:50:27,040 Steve, he's he's a big wig out in in Las Vegas doing radio UNLV 2384 01:50:27,040 --> 01:50:29,320 stuff, Raider stuff. Great guy, awesome dude. 2385 01:50:29,640 --> 01:50:31,320 Steve's got I got to get Steve on the show. 2386 01:50:31,320 --> 01:50:34,800 Steve's got some stories from Vegas that I mean, I have to 2387 01:50:34,800 --> 01:50:36,880 tell him a couple things he can't tell, but there are some 2388 01:50:36,880 --> 01:50:39,200 things he could tell. We were at we went nuts 2389 01:50:39,200 --> 01:50:41,240 together. All right, so before we went 2390 01:50:41,240 --> 01:50:43,800 into the moved into the house and basically turned it into 2391 01:50:43,800 --> 01:50:46,000 entourage without the money. That's how I might describe it. 2392 01:50:46,160 --> 01:50:51,040 We were entourage, but we were piss poor, he and I, he he had 2393 01:50:51,040 --> 01:50:54,880 an extra bedroom and because I got the job and he was higher up 2394 01:50:54,880 --> 01:50:56,840 at the network, like I was just starting out, He's like, dude, 2395 01:50:56,840 --> 01:50:59,560 just, you know, my boss is like, hey, there's a Jersey guy, you 2396 01:50:59,560 --> 01:51:01,520 might connect him and went to Rutgers and we know you're from 2397 01:51:01,520 --> 01:51:03,280 New York. So anyway, I started living with 2398 01:51:03,280 --> 01:51:06,000 him and we had a blast, right? And we will play racquetball. 2399 01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:09,600 So we were in like when you live in like Arizona or Nevada or out 2400 01:51:09,600 --> 01:51:12,560 there, dude, you got the community pool that you got the 2401 01:51:12,560 --> 01:51:15,960 racquetball, you got the workout room, you got the palm trees. 2402 01:51:15,960 --> 01:51:19,560 It's just phenomenal little BBQ. So I'm living like, I'm living 2403 01:51:19,560 --> 01:51:22,360 like Melrose Place lifestyle. I mean, I'm having a good time, 2404 01:51:22,360 --> 01:51:25,080 man. And me and Steve every and he 2405 01:51:25,080 --> 01:51:30,640 was good every day we would play racquetball, death matches, I 2406 01:51:30,680 --> 01:51:34,280 mean death matches. And to the point where not only 2407 01:51:34,280 --> 01:51:37,760 did you just talk shit when somebody was vulnerable, like 2408 01:51:37,760 --> 01:51:41,080 maybe like if they're up on the wall and you're coming in, you 2409 01:51:41,080 --> 01:51:43,600 basically would take your fucking eye out like you would 2410 01:51:43,600 --> 01:51:47,800 just, you would smash it. And we were young, like we were 2411 01:51:47,800 --> 01:51:50,480 aggressive. And I remember we kept playing 2412 01:51:50,480 --> 01:51:54,640 and I think we played best of three and it was the third game. 2413 01:51:54,640 --> 01:51:57,480 I won the first, he won the 2nd. And now it's like point match, 2414 01:51:57,480 --> 01:51:59,760 point match, point match, point, match, point match. 2415 01:52:00,320 --> 01:52:04,360 And we just kept going. I remember diving for it and I, 2416 01:52:04,360 --> 01:52:06,880 I flicked it, but and I saved it from hitting it twice. 2417 01:52:06,880 --> 01:52:09,720 I died full extension parallel to the ground. 2418 01:52:09,920 --> 01:52:14,440 But now I'm facing the wall and he just smashes at me and I 2419 01:52:14,440 --> 01:52:17,120 lose, right. I'd say it was a good friend of 2420 01:52:17,120 --> 01:52:18,760 mine. I really great guy, man. 2421 01:52:18,760 --> 01:52:20,480 I lived with him and I hung out with him every day. 2422 01:52:21,040 --> 01:52:23,600 I got so pissed I didn't say anything. 2423 01:52:24,520 --> 01:52:26,920 I walk. It was a it was a glass. 2424 01:52:26,920 --> 01:52:28,760 So imagine we're playing racquetball and you have to 2425 01:52:28,760 --> 01:52:32,840 enter through a glass door and the entire, so if you, if 2426 01:52:32,880 --> 01:52:35,800 anybody who plays racquetball, generally that whole wall is 2427 01:52:35,800 --> 01:52:37,640 glass, you can kind of see people playing. 2428 01:52:37,800 --> 01:52:40,440 You know what I mean? Can you get that visual? 2429 01:52:40,440 --> 01:52:41,640 Yeah, Yeah, of course, of course. 2430 01:52:41,840 --> 01:52:44,440 So I'm. So I'm fucking heated and I walk 2431 01:52:44,440 --> 01:52:46,480 out. And. 2432 01:52:46,480 --> 01:52:49,040 I, I didn't mean to do this and I. 2433 01:52:49,600 --> 01:52:52,120 Like I slammed the. Door open, right? 2434 01:52:52,360 --> 01:52:56,560 And as the door opened, this is all glass. 2435 01:52:56,560 --> 01:53:00,080 Keep in mind, it cracks the hinge cracks. 2436 01:53:00,080 --> 01:53:05,440 Whatever the hell happened, the entire wall of the wall from, 2437 01:53:05,520 --> 01:53:09,640 yes, from ceiling to floor falls on me. 2438 01:53:10,000 --> 01:53:12,960 Right on me. Yeah, Yep. 2439 01:53:13,480 --> 01:53:17,120 Falls on me. And I've got glass all over me. 2440 01:53:17,640 --> 01:53:20,960 What an idiot. And I go and he, he, he looks at 2441 01:53:20,960 --> 01:53:23,320 me and I go, dude, you got to take me to the hospital. 2442 01:53:23,320 --> 01:53:25,840 He's like, all right, let's go, let's, let's, let's go. 2443 01:53:26,280 --> 01:53:28,560 And I remember I probably shouldn't tell this bar, but 2444 01:53:28,560 --> 01:53:32,520 whatever bit I remember there was like a camera and I'm like, 2445 01:53:32,680 --> 01:53:34,280 oh shit, I'm going to get in trouble because I didn't, I 2446 01:53:34,280 --> 01:53:37,120 didn't mean to break it. So I remember like this is like 2447 01:53:37,120 --> 01:53:39,400 my Brooklyn mind like trying to do limitations. 2448 01:53:39,520 --> 01:53:41,320 You're good. I know this is like my Brooklyn 2449 01:53:41,320 --> 01:53:43,080 mind trying to cover my tracks. I take the. 2450 01:53:43,080 --> 01:53:44,520 Towel that I would wipe my head off with. 2451 01:53:44,840 --> 01:53:48,520 And I just, I remember placing it over the camera and walking 2452 01:53:48,520 --> 01:53:50,520 out to go to the hospital. I wasn't really sick, but I had 2453 01:53:50,520 --> 01:53:52,960 to get some stitches in my arm. I had to get some glass out, 2454 01:53:52,960 --> 01:53:54,400 whatever. Actually, not in my eyes. 2455 01:53:54,800 --> 01:53:57,040 I'm like, imagine like committing a crime, which it 2456 01:53:57,040 --> 01:53:59,880 wasn't a crime, it was just an act of idiocy and immaturity. 30 2457 01:54:00,200 --> 01:54:03,640 and I would never do that again. It was just 25, four years old 2458 01:54:04,520 --> 01:54:06,440 and a raving lunatic who hated losing. 2459 01:54:06,560 --> 01:54:10,360 Imagine at the age of of at that age, like doing something a 2460 01:54:10,360 --> 01:54:12,240 crime, right, because it wasn't cheap. 2461 01:54:12,240 --> 01:54:14,440 Like if they actually found out that would have been thousands 2462 01:54:14,440 --> 01:54:17,080 of it was thick glass, thousands upon thousands. 2463 01:54:17,480 --> 01:54:22,160 I was making $3000. I was pissed poor and then 2464 01:54:22,160 --> 01:54:25,000 committing a crime again quote and putting a towel over the 2465 01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:27,720 camera and thinking that that's going to prevent you from 2466 01:54:27,720 --> 01:54:30,920 coming. And I remember Jared, I remember 2467 01:54:30,960 --> 01:54:32,880 because it was this. It really was like Melrose 2468 01:54:32,880 --> 01:54:35,600 Place. It was like this gorgeous again, 2469 01:54:35,600 --> 01:54:38,960 palm trees, pool, Jacuzzi, a clubhouse, the whole spiel. 2470 01:54:39,720 --> 01:54:43,600 And I, I like every time the bell would ring, I'm like, is 2471 01:54:43,600 --> 01:54:45,760 that the cops? I thought that they were going 2472 01:54:45,760 --> 01:54:49,000 to find out that I broke the window the the wall by accident. 2473 01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:52,120 Too funny. Oh my gosh, I'm scared shitless. 2474 01:54:52,360 --> 01:54:55,720 And then we're like we. Actually, as we were looking for 2475 01:54:55,720 --> 01:54:57,400 the. House because we then had two 2476 01:54:57,400 --> 01:54:59,360 other guys that we hung out at the station with all the time 2477 01:54:59,360 --> 01:55:02,200 that we knew we wanted to find a bigger house with a backyard, 2478 01:55:02,200 --> 01:55:04,680 which we did. That kind of accelerated the 2479 01:55:04,680 --> 01:55:05,760 move. We're like, let's get out of 2480 01:55:05,760 --> 01:55:08,680 here, man. Let's let's find the home and 2481 01:55:08,680 --> 01:55:10,440 let's get out of here. Let's get out of the complex, 2482 01:55:10,640 --> 01:55:12,880 dude. Oh, man, yeah, that was wild. 2483 01:55:12,880 --> 01:55:14,640 Living in Las Vegas was absolutely crazy. 2484 01:55:15,200 --> 01:55:17,720 So at the time you. Lived with people who you were 2485 01:55:17,720 --> 01:55:21,360 also doing radio with, yes. Yes, yes, that's interesting 2486 01:55:21,360 --> 01:55:24,640 because that's like that almost ties into like the content 2487 01:55:24,640 --> 01:55:27,560 creators of today. We're like, you'll be in like a 2488 01:55:27,800 --> 01:55:30,400 YouTube video house with the people you're making like 2489 01:55:30,400 --> 01:55:32,400 YouTube vids with and stuff like that. 2490 01:55:32,400 --> 01:55:35,320 Dude thank God there was no they got there was no YouTube or 2491 01:55:35,320 --> 01:55:36,320 cameras back then. I. 2492 01:55:36,400 --> 01:55:38,480 Mean, it's funny. I remember because, you know, 2493 01:55:38,480 --> 01:55:41,360 talking about Billy Joel myself, John Fanta, I may have told the 2494 01:55:41,360 --> 01:55:43,040 story. So this one will be a short 2495 01:55:43,040 --> 01:55:45,280 story short, I promise. Like this particular night, I 2496 01:55:45,280 --> 01:55:47,080 just didn't want to go out. Like we're going out every 2497 01:55:47,080 --> 01:55:49,120 night. I'm like, I'm exhausted and I 2498 01:55:49,120 --> 01:55:51,960 had I had a girlfriend at the time, so I had the downstairs 2499 01:55:51,960 --> 01:55:55,680 bedroom and those because it had like a shower and privacy for 2500 01:55:55,920 --> 01:55:57,720 her. And those three guys had their 2501 01:55:57,720 --> 01:56:00,800 bedrooms upstairs, right. So I don't know, maybe we went 2502 01:56:00,800 --> 01:56:02,200 to the movies, whatever we heard I did. 2503 01:56:02,200 --> 01:56:05,240 And I wake up the next morning and I just see on the on the 2504 01:56:05,240 --> 01:56:06,880 grease board. You missed an epic night. 2505 01:56:07,040 --> 01:56:11,760 Like because like we'd write stuff about Joel at the casino. 2506 01:56:11,760 --> 01:56:14,720 New York, NY, right? It's on the strip. 2507 01:56:14,760 --> 01:56:18,160 New York, NY is right near the the Excalibur. 2508 01:56:18,160 --> 01:56:21,680 It's near it's across the street from The MGM Grand. 2509 01:56:21,680 --> 01:56:23,720 If you guys know Vegas, you can you can see what I'm saying 2510 01:56:23,720 --> 01:56:25,840 here. It's near the Luxor right? 2511 01:56:25,840 --> 01:56:29,840 The Pyramid 1. New York, NY just got the big 2512 01:56:29,840 --> 01:56:31,360 roller coaster. They're like. 2513 01:56:31,440 --> 01:56:35,360 Billy Joel showed up. At New York, NY Casino and 2514 01:56:35,360 --> 01:56:39,400 jumped on a piano and I was not there the one night I didn't go 2515 01:56:39,400 --> 01:56:41,360 out. I'm tired, guys. 2516 01:56:41,360 --> 01:56:43,600 I'm tired. I missed Billy Joel. 2517 01:56:43,720 --> 01:56:45,240 That's just hammering out the piano. 2518 01:56:45,440 --> 01:56:47,400 Yeah. Like that's like just your luck. 2519 01:56:47,400 --> 01:56:49,760 Like that's just the kind of stuff that happens, like. 2520 01:56:50,080 --> 01:56:52,720 You skip out on a night and then Oh my God. 2521 01:56:52,880 --> 01:56:54,760 And then Billy Joel sits out of piano. 2522 01:56:54,800 --> 01:56:56,160 Yep. And he's my favorite all time. 2523 01:56:56,160 --> 01:56:57,400 I mean, I've seen. Him many times I saw. 2524 01:56:57,760 --> 01:56:59,280 I saw his final play at Shay when? 2525 01:56:59,280 --> 01:57:02,920 When Tony Bennett came out, I saw Oh my God. 2526 01:57:02,920 --> 01:57:04,000 I mean, I've seen him at the garden. 2527 01:57:04,000 --> 01:57:06,080 I mean, I've seen him. I actually saw Billy. 2528 01:57:06,720 --> 01:57:08,400 I wasn't a big Elton John fan growing up. 2529 01:57:10,000 --> 01:57:12,840 I just, I don't know, I just wasn't a big fan, but Elton 2530 01:57:12,840 --> 01:57:14,520 John's. Amazing and I. 2531 01:57:14,520 --> 01:57:19,200 Saw Elton John and at the time I saw him in 1996 at the old 2532 01:57:19,200 --> 01:57:22,400 Meadowlands, it was John and Billy Joy. 2533 01:57:22,720 --> 01:57:26,280 I have AI have a T-shirt. I think I may have sold it. 2534 01:57:26,280 --> 01:57:27,840 I'll try to pull up. A picture of it. 2535 01:57:27,960 --> 01:57:31,800 I have a T-shirt from that tour or I had for a while. 2536 01:57:31,800 --> 01:57:34,760 It got a little small on me. Where'd you get that? 2537 01:57:34,760 --> 01:57:36,000 Like some vintage? Yeah. 2538 01:57:36,120 --> 01:57:37,080 Yeah. Online. 2539 01:57:37,080 --> 01:57:40,320 Like eBay? But it was cool, and it was from 2540 01:57:40,320 --> 01:57:42,480 and it was. One of the concerts they did in 2541 01:57:42,480 --> 01:57:44,000 Syracuse. Hold on, I found OH up in 2542 01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:45,320 Syracuse. OK at the carrier. 2543 01:57:45,520 --> 01:57:47,560 Oh, look at this Elton and Belly. 2544 01:57:47,560 --> 01:57:49,240 Face to face. That's awesome. 2545 01:57:49,320 --> 01:57:51,120 Now what year is that from about? 2546 01:57:51,320 --> 01:57:55,880 This one was 2000. 2 so actually different tour if yours was 96. 2547 01:57:56,320 --> 01:57:59,720 Later and how they did multiple times together though I guess 2548 01:57:59,760 --> 01:58:02,120 they did. I remember, you know Billy. 2549 01:58:02,120 --> 01:58:03,640 Playing some of Elton's stuff and Elton. 2550 01:58:03,640 --> 01:58:06,040 Playing a couple of Billy saw it was it was great. 2551 01:58:06,040 --> 01:58:08,080 It was, it was it was a really good concert. 2552 01:58:08,680 --> 01:58:10,160 Yeah, yeah. But I missed him. 2553 01:58:11,000 --> 01:58:12,400 I miss him at the casino that night. 2554 01:58:12,400 --> 01:58:14,600 All right, let me get another, maybe another tweet here or 2555 01:58:14,600 --> 01:58:16,520 another read here. Anything else that pops out 2556 01:58:16,520 --> 01:58:18,560 before we get rolling here? Yeah, I'd definitely say this 2557 01:58:18,560 --> 01:58:22,000 one if Judge Captain's USA to a championship tonight. 2558 01:58:22,120 --> 01:58:25,320 What does that do for his legacy and anything at all? 2559 01:58:25,400 --> 01:58:27,080 To me, nothing. That this is where I'm going to 2560 01:58:27,080 --> 01:58:29,960 keep it 100% real nothing. I want Team USA to win. 2561 01:58:29,960 --> 01:58:31,960 I wanted to win the other night. I want to win every game. 2562 01:58:31,960 --> 01:58:35,920 I want to be Venezuela. You know, I am not wrestling 2563 01:58:35,920 --> 01:58:37,320 with all. I just don't know. 2564 01:58:37,360 --> 01:58:40,400 I don't think this way myself. Like, well, Mcclain's pitching 2565 01:58:40,400 --> 01:58:42,760 and he's a Met. I'm about the United States. 2566 01:58:42,760 --> 01:58:46,320 Let's go. So I think that I think we will 2567 01:58:46,320 --> 01:58:49,960 win now. I'd love to see Judge pop a home 2568 01:58:49,960 --> 01:58:51,840 run instead of, you know, striking out with a couple of 2569 01:58:51,840 --> 01:58:53,360 guys on base like he did the other night. 2570 01:58:53,640 --> 01:58:55,520 Even though he's got a couple of home runs, he's played good 2571 01:58:55,520 --> 01:58:56,840 defense. I'd love to see. 2572 01:58:57,000 --> 01:58:59,960 I'd like for Aaron Judge, I would like to see him have a 2573 01:58:59,960 --> 01:59:03,880 clutch moment because there's still some people who don't 2574 01:59:03,880 --> 01:59:06,880 think he's clutch and you listen up until last year in the play 2575 01:59:06,880 --> 01:59:08,720 offs, he he wasn't incredibly clutch. 2576 01:59:08,720 --> 01:59:12,800 I that's not a manufacturer of it's not manufacturing lies. 2577 01:59:13,120 --> 01:59:14,800 He hasn't been incredibly clutch over the years. 2578 01:59:14,800 --> 01:59:16,320 Leo. It's changing now. 2579 01:59:16,560 --> 01:59:19,600 So maybe if he goes deep, it'll be some people get off his back 2580 01:59:19,600 --> 01:59:21,960 a little bit. But you will never, let's put it 2581 01:59:21,960 --> 01:59:25,080 this way, say 10 years, whatever, and Judge retires Hall 2582 01:59:25,080 --> 01:59:29,360 of Fame, obviously first ballot, probably every vote, 596 home 2583 01:59:29,360 --> 01:59:32,520 runs because he started late. And whatever he has the five 2584 01:59:32,520 --> 01:59:34,480 MVPS. You're not getting it. 2585 01:59:34,480 --> 01:59:37,040 If he's without a World Series championship as a Yankee, 2586 01:59:37,400 --> 01:59:41,360 you'll, I promise you, you will not hear me say yeah, that WBC, 2587 01:59:42,640 --> 01:59:44,920 It won't even I won't. I will not even be a point of 2588 01:59:44,920 --> 01:59:47,040 reference. I clearly and distinctly 2589 01:59:47,080 --> 01:59:49,080 separate the two. It's fun. 2590 01:59:49,280 --> 01:59:52,280 It's incredibly competitive. It's a great look for baseball. 2591 01:59:52,520 --> 01:59:55,760 It's energized me even more for the start of the real baseball 2592 01:59:55,760 --> 01:59:58,080 season. I've leaned into it more and 2593 01:59:58,080 --> 02:00:00,760 more and more from its infancy. I gave you guys the attendance 2594 02:00:00,760 --> 02:00:03,280 numbers before. I'll give you this before I 2595 02:00:03,280 --> 02:00:05,520 bounce. So I'm going to just read it 2596 02:00:05,520 --> 02:00:10,320 kind of quick in succession O9. Let's see here I'm going to go 2597 02:00:10,640 --> 02:00:16,200 2013 2017 20232026 total attendance, not viewership 2598 02:00:17,120 --> 02:00:24,680 781,973 thousand 1.1 million 1.4 million so nice little 2599 02:00:24,680 --> 02:00:28,160 incremental bump each year and the coverage seems to be getting 2600 02:00:28,160 --> 02:00:30,600 better and the energy is real and palpable. 2601 02:00:30,840 --> 02:00:33,880 So it's been terrific. But no if if even if Aaron judge 2602 02:00:33,920 --> 02:00:36,800 hits a walk off Grand Slam down 3. 2603 02:00:37,280 --> 02:00:40,840 All I will say tomorrow is, you know, is he's. 2604 02:00:41,040 --> 02:00:43,200 Still the best. Player I've ever seen but legacy 2605 02:00:43,240 --> 02:00:47,200 now that I that will not no same with like like Brunson wins the 2606 02:00:47,200 --> 02:00:51,240 MVP and the All Star game or the shootout with Kat and Alan 2607 02:00:51,240 --> 02:00:53,480 Houston or an Olympic gold medal. 2608 02:00:53,480 --> 02:00:58,080 That's I I can't end on that. That's one thing that used to 2609 02:00:58,080 --> 02:01:00,760 drive me nuts about Carmelo Anthony's resume. 2610 02:01:01,320 --> 02:01:03,360 What did they say? He's a gold medalist. 2611 02:01:03,360 --> 02:01:05,240 He's a gold medalist. He's a great. 2612 02:01:05,640 --> 02:01:09,040 He's a I know. I know, and I'm a Syracuse guy, 2613 02:01:09,040 --> 02:01:11,680 but I will admit that. That is the biggest farce of an 2614 02:01:11,720 --> 02:01:12,800 argument. Ever. 2615 02:01:12,960 --> 02:01:14,720 I couldn't take it. I couldn't take it anymore. 2616 02:01:15,040 --> 02:01:17,400 It was like almost in lieu of an. 2617 02:01:17,400 --> 02:01:20,360 NBA championship. I'm like, no, you can win 6 2618 02:01:20,360 --> 02:01:23,760 Olympic gold medals and if you have no championships, you're 2619 02:01:23,760 --> 02:01:27,640 in, you're not an NBA champion. And in that sport, as well as if 2620 02:01:27,640 --> 02:01:30,760 you're a quarterback in the NFL, there's a price and a penalty 2621 02:01:30,760 --> 02:01:33,560 that comes with that, whether it's right or wrong, justified 2622 02:01:33,560 --> 02:01:35,000 or not. And I know that there's a lot of 2623 02:01:35,000 --> 02:01:38,200 circumstances that get ignored over time. 2624 02:01:38,440 --> 02:01:40,120 Like you'll hear, oh, Barkley never won. 2625 02:01:40,120 --> 02:01:42,160 Oh, Ewing never won. Oh, Stockton never won. 2626 02:01:42,160 --> 02:01:43,680 Oh, Karl Malone never won. Yeah. 2627 02:01:44,000 --> 02:01:45,840 But like, they were on the Dream team. 2628 02:01:45,960 --> 02:01:48,160 No, I know, I know. But I feel like some of the 2629 02:01:48,160 --> 02:01:50,480 details that that I. Know that maybe some other. 2630 02:01:50,560 --> 02:01:54,200 NBA fans don't know like you know like Kobe had Shaq and 2631 02:01:54,200 --> 02:01:56,760 Magic had Kareem and Larry Bird had Kevin McHale. 2632 02:01:57,040 --> 02:01:59,080 No bits. Patrick Ewing had John Starks 2633 02:01:59,080 --> 02:02:02,400 who was ABAB minus BB type of player. 2634 02:02:02,400 --> 02:02:05,240 He just was was it made what, 1 All Star team? 2635 02:02:05,480 --> 02:02:08,000 You know, I love OAK tough. They weren't stars. 2636 02:02:08,000 --> 02:02:09,560 He never had that secondary star. 2637 02:02:09,800 --> 02:02:12,560 So people say Pat wasn't a champion and they're right. 2638 02:02:12,560 --> 02:02:15,600 He was not an NBA champion, but it really wasn't his fault. 2639 02:02:15,640 --> 02:02:17,960 All right. And you know, there, there's 2640 02:02:17,960 --> 02:02:22,000 some of that that would also support Carmelo, but Carmelo 2641 02:02:22,000 --> 02:02:25,840 Anthony was on way too many Knick teams that were 2325, 2642 02:02:25,840 --> 02:02:29,960 thirty wins going nowhere and just wretched and doormats and 2643 02:02:29,960 --> 02:02:32,680 just dumpster fires that I don't care. 2644 02:02:32,960 --> 02:02:35,840 You know, if he likes the Olympic flame every single time, 2645 02:02:35,840 --> 02:02:40,280 every single Olympic moving forward and he coaches Team USA 2646 02:02:40,280 --> 02:02:43,200 to five more gold medals, it doesn't matter to me. 2647 02:02:43,200 --> 02:02:45,480 Like I separate the two. I'm not trying to diss him. 2648 02:02:45,520 --> 02:02:47,920 I just separate the two. I love for Carmelo. 2649 02:02:47,960 --> 02:02:50,760 Great score, good guy. They're vastly different. 2650 02:02:51,160 --> 02:02:54,200 Similar thing, although much less because I think a lot. 2651 02:02:54,200 --> 02:02:57,360 Of his other career stats speak more, but like Chris Paul a 2652 02:02:57,360 --> 02:03:00,640 little bit as well with this, but definitely not as much. 2653 02:03:01,160 --> 02:03:02,480 All right, homie, let me get out. 2654 02:03:03,360 --> 02:03:05,000 Let me get out here. So tomorrow. 2655 02:03:05,000 --> 02:03:06,560 Good show today. By the way, John was great. 2656 02:03:06,560 --> 02:03:09,240 We're going to get that up, chop that up separately obviously 2657 02:03:09,240 --> 02:03:11,120 from the other stuff that we do here is going to get the ports 2658 02:03:11,120 --> 02:03:14,520 out, do a great job with that. The shorts took off the shorts 2659 02:03:14,520 --> 02:03:17,240 yesterday and some of the stuff with Beningo, I mean one of our 2660 02:03:17,240 --> 02:03:20,360 higher short number. So you guys are doing a good job 2661 02:03:20,360 --> 02:03:22,880 with the likes and, and, and the sharing and the subscriptions. 2662 02:03:22,880 --> 02:03:25,160 We got to get all that up tomorrow. 2663 02:03:25,160 --> 02:03:27,920 Now we're flying out at 10 AM St. 2664 02:03:27,920 --> 02:03:30,320 John's and this is when I go on the air at 10. 2665 02:03:30,320 --> 02:03:34,280 So I'm going to have Nikki on. I'm, I'm just going to tell I 2666 02:03:34,280 --> 02:03:35,720 recorded it. I'm not going to try to lie to 2667 02:03:35,720 --> 02:03:37,200 anybody. You know, some people try to, 2668 02:03:37,240 --> 02:03:40,240 oh, present this live. I recorded it last night. 2669 02:03:40,320 --> 02:03:43,840 She's phenomenal. I mean, it's really good, right? 2670 02:03:45,400 --> 02:03:47,400 I mean, it's right up there with the Fanta. 2671 02:03:47,400 --> 02:03:50,560 Right here, like that one very different, great, super 2672 02:03:50,560 --> 02:03:53,600 different from the Fanta. Really gives you a unique 2673 02:03:53,600 --> 02:03:56,200 perspective from a young person in the industry. 2674 02:03:56,200 --> 02:03:59,040 I had a young woman, young. Yeah, especially young woman. 2675 02:03:59,280 --> 02:04:02,280 I thought, yeah, like you get a super fresh perspective. 2676 02:04:02,440 --> 02:04:03,800 Nice. I thought that was cool. 2677 02:04:03,800 --> 02:04:05,840 And it's over an hour, so that'll be on tomorrow. 2678 02:04:05,840 --> 02:04:07,360 And then what I'll do is and I'll. 2679 02:04:07,360 --> 02:04:10,360 Let you guys know about this on X on Instagram and and obviously 2680 02:04:10,640 --> 02:04:14,080 on the YouTube channel, there's a post tab where I'll let you 2681 02:04:14,080 --> 02:04:15,400 guys know. I don't know, some of you know 2682 02:04:15,400 --> 02:04:18,000 this because some of you chime in like I'll alert you with a 2683 02:04:18,000 --> 02:04:19,360 guest or whatever might be going on. 2684 02:04:19,360 --> 02:04:21,880 I will also use that to let you know. 2685 02:04:22,120 --> 02:04:24,680 I'm sure I'll go live a few times in San Diego. 2686 02:04:25,080 --> 02:04:27,240 Obviously I'll be doing the game, but make what I'd love to 2687 02:04:27,240 --> 02:04:29,160 really do. I just got to figure out when 2688 02:04:29,160 --> 02:04:31,200 we'll do it. I know Mink will do it. him and 2689 02:04:31,200 --> 02:04:35,400 I will go and, you know, sit somewhere and and have a drink 2690 02:04:35,400 --> 02:04:38,320 and just put the phone up, honestly, and just go live. 2691 02:04:38,800 --> 02:04:40,640 Really just like put the phone like that. 2692 02:04:40,920 --> 02:04:42,720 But we're gone. Just have a, that'd be great. 2693 02:04:43,040 --> 02:04:45,320 That'd be great. I'll do such and. 2694 02:04:45,320 --> 02:04:48,120 I'll bring you obviously the NCAA tournament to you, 2695 02:04:49,160 --> 02:04:51,480 obviously focusing on St. John's, but some other cool 2696 02:04:51,480 --> 02:04:53,720 stuff. Tomorrow I'll find some time to 2697 02:04:53,720 --> 02:04:56,440 at least hit up what happens tonight, the WBC. 2698 02:04:57,000 --> 02:04:59,040 So it's going to be a little different, but they'll be plenty 2699 02:04:59,040 --> 02:05:01,080 of content, I promise. Nikki tomorrow, if you guys 2700 02:05:01,080 --> 02:05:04,120 missed anything, go check it out, like it, subscribe, share 2701 02:05:04,120 --> 02:05:06,800 it, get it all out there. J Rod, you and I will be doing 2702 02:05:06,800 --> 02:05:09,320 our thing connecting, so I'll talk to you down line and I'll 2703 02:05:09,320 --> 02:05:10,960 text and all that stuff. Yeah. 2704 02:05:10,960 --> 02:05:13,440 Have a safe trip. Thank you, man. 2705 02:05:13,440 --> 02:05:14,520 Thank you. I appreciate it, Jay. 2706 02:05:14,520 --> 02:05:16,280 Thanks brother and everybody else man, I'll. 2707 02:05:16,280 --> 02:05:19,520 Check you guys from the. Road and Nikki tomorrow, Nikki 2708 02:05:19,520 --> 02:05:22,840 Ladarullo, 10 AM from SNY, covers St. 2709 02:05:22,840 --> 02:05:24,160 John's. We'll have a little fun with her 2710 02:05:24,360 --> 02:05:27,760 and we'll do the rest of the stuff from San Diego, hopefully 2711 02:05:27,760 --> 02:05:29,000 for two wins. Hopefully St. 2712 02:05:29,000 --> 02:05:32,440 John's gets to the Sweet 16 and takes another step compared to a 2713 02:05:32,440 --> 02:05:34,040 year ago. So I got to go. 2714 02:05:34,040 --> 02:05:36,640 I'll see you guys tomorrow. Have an awesome, awesome rest of 2715 02:05:36,640 --> 02:05:38,160 you Tuesday. Peace.