What's going on, everybody big Monday, All right, Football,
obviously center, center stage, front setter today.
Hopefully everybody had a good weekend.
What's going on? BT Unleashed, fam, We got a lot
to do. Don't want to.
I don't want to waste a lot of time doing some housekeeping
stuff very quickly. There's some separate content
coming today. That will be St.
John's head coach Rick Pitino. All right, so that's going to
air at 2:00 PM today. Really excited to have Rick up
on the show and, and obviously the Big East week is, is massive
at the garden this week. I can't wait.
We've got 3 burning questions as well.
And, and tomorrow, so tomorrow this will be so again, we'll do
the live show today about an hour and a half.
Obviously a lot of footballs and WBC, some other stuff.
And then tomorrow will be, you know, we'll see what tomorrow
brings. But tomorrow during the live
show, kind of like I did with Michael Kay last week, Donald
Greco will join me at right around 10:30.
So we got things humming. If you're looking for extra
content. I dropped this over the weekend,
my old time Big East team. If you guys want to get ready
for that, that's up there. Just check the library, bounce
around and and hit me up with some comments.
Obviously there's going to be a couple of disagreements there.
It's all good. It's all fun and and I love it.
I mean, I went outside today to throw the garbage out.
It's like it's already like 60° out.
The sun is bright, the snow has gone to the Northeast, the
Midwest. It is officially time to start
enjoying life again. And this is a great time of the
year. And oh, yeah, by the way, J Rod,
let me get J Rod up. Jay, what's going on, buddy?
What's up? What's up?
Yo, so I know that you know this, but we, we flew past
18,000 Subs over the weekend, which is great.
And of course the next target would be 19.
And I fully anticipate by the end of this week we're going to
hit 20,000. And it's just, you know, keep
going, keep going. I've said a few times, you know,
listen, I think big I, I shoot for big things, but I also
understand there's certain things I can't really control.
I'm shooting for 25 by the first pitch of opening day for Major
League Baseball. So that's where we're at buddy.
But 18,000 Subs clicked up. We appreciate you guys.
Thank you very much not. Bad fans?
Yeah, no, not bad. And listen, I think we've got a
couple great, great interviews and conversations lined up today
and tomorrow. So, you know, we pump those out
there. Anything is possible.
That is right. That is right.
So let's jump into the show here, get those comments going,
get the text chain going again. Hopefully everybody had a great
weekend. There was already a trade.
Let me get this real quick here. Jay Owen.
What up there? Jay Owen, How you doing, buddy?
What up BT? What up?
Jay Owen? I know free agencies just
starting out in the drafts a month away.
How many games are the Giants winning in 20?
I mean, can you construct the roster?
Can we at least get a roster? Listen, I don't know.
I've got to look at the Giants schedule.
I've got to see what they do. I mean to, to throw a number at
you at this point is fairly meaningless.
If I wanted to give you a neighborhood, you know, 9, you
know, maybe I could see the giants going 9 if things go go
right. And if Jackson Dart really is
the guy that I think that he is, you know, maybe you mess around,
you get 10. I listen, I know that the giant
fan, like all the teams, all the fans of the teams that have
really struggled for a while, you know, you look at the the
total win number and you, you think big things and and I get
it, you know, it's, it's being a fan, but I I would just try to
impress upon you right now. This might not satisfy your
question, even though I said probably 9:00-ish in that
neighborhood, give or take one, the other, you know what either
direction from a Giants perspective, which is very
different than The Jets because nobody knows what what Aaron
Glenn is and some of the other tenuous coaching spots in the
NFL where guys were on thin ice, they were brought back.
I don't, I don't know. But what I do know is that the
Giants brought in the champion and he's making all the calls
and he know what's he, he know. He knows what he wants.
And the Giants are going to be a Major League operation again
instead of being a little bit of a sideshow circus like they've
been for most of the past 10 years.
So you got you got the guy, you get, you got the head coach.
Giants are moving in the right direction.
And now other teams are starting to make moves.
And, you know, there's a reason why.
Yeah, Mooji, I was just kind of getting, I was going to get to
that. Thank you very much.
There's a reason why I've said anytime I talk about The Jets or
anytime I talk about a team that's bad, that you're trying
to gleam any sort of Intel that is, you know, I guess fuel for
you to think that maybe your team's head in the right
direction. Yeah, you, you want to look at
the head coach of the quarterback.
But one of the things, really one of the only things that I,
that I love about The Jets right now is your general manager.
Everything that Darren Moogie's done, it's been you know, it's
been on point, it's been proactive, it's been forward
thinking it's been very modern. I'm I'm out of love with The
Jets did here today, so I'll get to the Fitzpatrick thing in a
second. Just just broad snapshot.
I I don't know really why they do this.
It's it's it's kind of weird the NFL, you know, like the league
season starts in two days and but it's but it's March.
I don't know why they'd some of the numbers with the salary cap
is is paralyzing mentally. I don't understand all of it,
but the legal tampering obviously starts today at noon
and you're already getting stuff with trades, whatever.
And then of course, the new league starts Wednesday 4 when,
when, when the moves can officially be announced.
But you talking about $300 million in excess is I think
it's three O 1.2 as the, the new salary cap number, which is the
highest in the history of the NFL.
And there's some big names out there.
You know, Kenneth Walker talking about the Giants before.
I don't think the Giants actually swim in those waters.
There was a thought that they might.
I, I think that his number is going to be too rich.
And I don't even think the Giants need to.
I think Tyrone Tracy's fine, hopefully scat scataboo
physically should be back fine. I don't know.
I don't know that you need to devote those kind of resources
here for a running back, but Trey Hendrickson is an edge.
You've got Alec Pierce is a wide receiver, the quarterback mark
and I'm looking up at the screen now.
We know this was a little bit ago.
The Packers trading Rashawn Gary to the Cowboys.
Dallas been making a lot of trades lately.
Wow. All right, so let me first start
with a general thought on free agency, OK?
It's obviously fun. And if you're a bad team with a
lot of money, you know, like The Jets and like, like the Raiders,
especially the Raiders with the first overall pick with Mendoza
there, there's a lot of juices, a lot of energy, But there are
like, I don't think that this really applies to baseball or or
really even the NBA, But there's just something about NFL free
agency that that that's exciting but really misleading.
Because what happens with NFL free agency?
I'm not saying there's no good deals.
There's a lot of good deals that happen over the course of time,
But generally you you, you wind up overpaying.
You overpay to fill voids, right, where you know, a certain
player did XY and Z with a certain team and he was in his
prime and, and that was kind of on the back end of his prime.
But you got a lot of money, you got a lot of holes.
So you kind of overpay a little bit.
And it's, it's exciting for those fans today and, and
Wednesday when they're announced and all that stuff, when the
deals can come to fruition. But largely it's misleading.
And, and a lot of times I think it's fool's gold.
I think the way you build a team in the NFL, and you could say
this about the NB as well to an extent, but not really because
think about all the bad teams that, that sign a prominent free
agent and it, and it changes things on a dime.
Whereas in the NFL, how many times have you signed a free
agent and then within a year or two, you're either grossly
disappointed from a statistical output point of view.
And then also the teams restructuring that contract or
the teams look at a he's he's getting caught, you know, and
then the dead money and all that other stuff, all the economics
of the NFL. So I'm not trying to stifle
anybody's enthusiasm. I'm not.
But really to me, the NFL free agent period is more about
accenting the roster and filling a position of need and doing
some, you know, doing certain things, whether you're a really
good team trying to become a championship team or a bad team
that's trying to get a couple of veterans in there.
Which, by the way, which is why I love what The Jets just did
with makeup. Fitzpatrick So I started to say
before, I don't know about Glenn.
I don't know who's playing their, who's going to be the
quarterback. I've got thoughts, but I don't
want to do that right now. Darren Muji, to me is like one
of the few things about The Jets that gives me a lot of
confidence. So I'm in my office and all of a
sudden, bam bam, getting ready for the show, boom, boom, boom,
boom. And you start getting some of
the breaking news. And I just told you about
Rashon, Gary and obviously Minka.
This is a very good move by The Jets.
I'm not saying he's a superstar, he's not, but he's still a good
player. He's 29.
And you know, just to geek out a little bit, I was digging into
some of his PFF numbers and they're still very good.
I know we didn't have a lot of picks last year.
I think it was only one, which by the way would have been one
more than the entire Jets team, which is unfathomably pathetic.
So you get a guy, if you're into the PFF grading stuff.
I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's a pretty good compass as to
where a player is. His grade was basically 82.
It was 81.8, which is really good.
And his coverage grades were in the top ten in the NFL.
So you getting a guy who obviously knows Duker, who was
the new DC, he's going to fit, he's going to be a veteran.
Like those are the kind of moves to me that are really smart
where now you start to all right, The Jets have two first
round picks this year. They've got 3 next year.
They got a boatload of money. But you can't, you can't address
everything in the draft, obviously.
So you have to be selective and you've got to be very tactical
and smart and how you address some of these gaping holes.
Now, a moribund team like The Jets who just has this massive
dearth of talent, but also a painful lack of leadership.
That's one of the things that you're getting with somebody
like Fitzpatrick. So I I really like it.
It's a big upgrade. He's going to help you in pass
coverage. He's going to help you to run
support. He's a guy who's going to know
like he's going to be able to take and this matters, right?
What what Duker is showing in the in the meetings and up on
the chalkboard, he's going to be able to communicate to his
fellow players. And that to me, that is value
that I can't really put a price tag on.
So it it doesn't really elevate The Jets to anything beyond
where they were last year until they prove otherwise.
But it that is to me how you should attack, even though it's
not free agency. It was a trade, but and then you
quickly have a three-year as per his agent 3 or $40 million
contract, which to me is very smart.
Now, some of the other stuff like Malik Willis and Kyler
Murray, I mean, that's the sexy stuff, That's the quarterback
stuff here. But to me, you, you, you would
dress in need with a good black, great, good player, solid
veteran, emotionally reliable production still there.
It's not incredibly long. I mean, I know it's 3:40, as I
just said, three years, 40 mil. I'm sure on the back end it's
probably less punitive for The Jets, I would hope, but this is
a good move. Now, Jay Rod, what I need.
All right, Jay Rod, as things are coming in today, because
we're going to start, things are going to start happening.
Do you have the siren ready? Do you have?
Come on, now what? Do we got?
Let me let me pull it up. I got to Scroll down there.
So it's not ready, not there we go.
There we go. Such a weird like rolodex of
just random media things you got to get through to get to
anything. But yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I get it.
Listen, I like the Minka thing. You just got to let me know.
Just hit the siren. Something happens.
You know, I'm going to even stretch the parameters of the
usage of the siren today. So we know that the Cardinals
have released Kyler Murray, right?
We know Malik Willis as a target for a couple of teams.
And there's a thought, and I went through this last week if
you guys want to find it. I did some good NFL content, you
know, expected free agent deals. Even if there's something as
like a rumor, I don't mean on Twitter by some schmo, I mean
somebody that's in the business where it's not done, but he's
hearing or there's a thought or signs pointing to this.
Pop the siren, pop on in. Let me know what's cooking.
All right, Let me know what's cooking.
Everybody fired up today, the BT Unleashed fam, everybody, it
seems like everybody's ready to go now.
What is this year? I think this is the Minka stuff.
Right? All right, all right.
Yeah. The Moochie's now.
Biggest. Yep.
Harrison Phillips, which was a good pick up.
Briggs was good. Bradley was actually good.
Earl, that was from Tennessee, I believe.
Brownlee. That was pretty good.
What the hell is that? What is that?
Why is? What just happened?
I don't know my phone. Oh, it played on your phone?
Why is that? Stream opened up I.
Don't know. I don't know why that's
happening. So when you look at those
players that he that that Mooji brought in and to me, this is a
good blueprint to go from, you know, dysfunctional to, to
functional. You don't give up a lot.
Like there's a reason why he was accruing all these sixth round
picks and 7th round picks. Again, I'm not saying that make
it Fitzpatrick's a * or even a superstar, but he's a reliable
veteran who could still play. And think about this.
When you've got all that money and The Jets have, you know, top
two, top three money in terms of free agency and effective cap
space available, these are the kind of moves that you can make.
And I, I am surprised the Dolphins and The Jets settled on
a deal. You don't see that interdivision
trade too much, but we're off and running here.
But I really do think that today and tomorrow and certainly on on
Wednesday when these can be announced here.
I I I think if you were to go back J Rod and look at previous
years and somehow able to gauge the reaction by a lot of
different fan bases with some of these free agent signings, you
know, there's an overreaction because we crave, we crave
action. We want, you know, we want news,
we want, we want players imported.
We want certain guys cut. But in large part, if you're
trying, whether it's The Jets or anybody, if you're trying to
build your team and free agency in the NFL, it's a recipe for
disaster. These guys are free for the most
part. These guys are free for a
reason. They really are.
Yeah, no, I mean, there's a reason they're not locked down.
And you know, now it's it's it gets exciting where it's like,
OK, what sort of, you know, storylines are going to arise
today? Like we got one here from Jay
Owen after the draft. I want to hear BT say I'm not
saying Super Bowl but I am saying play offs with Jax.
Yeah, yeah, you go. Yeah.
I mean, I, I appreciate that I'm not just a little wind up robot
in the in the storefront window, you know, oh, do this, do that.
I've got to do it. It's got to come from the heart.
That, of course, was the absolutely asinine.
I I could admit in hindsight, the insane, crazy viral and
viral rant that I did the day at the Rogers got hurt and
somewhere along the way, I I don't know why I draw your
playoffs with Zach. I, I think I think the exact
terminology was I'm not saying Super Bowl, but I am saying
playoffs with Zach. Hey, I think that that's one
thing that I've learned here, right?
And it's different in the it's different in the NBA where, you
know, one player like a Brunson can make you know, enough of a
difference. We can go from here to here,
even if it's not a championship team, whatever.
But I have learned my lesson. You will not hear me.
I I don't think that. Then again, when I'm wrapped up
in emotion, I guess I can't really guarantee anything.
I am now a more measured with with certain things.
I know that that sounds hard to believe a little bit more, you
know, a different level of process for I think, I think
anything pertaining to The Jets because as many of you know, as
all of you know, that was my breaking point and that was my
reset. So when I'm going to when it's
time to get excited, I'm going to get excited.
I'll probably get a little bit too excited with certain things.
That's me and I'll probably overreact negatively to certain
things because that that's me to an extent.
But I, I think I, you know, as I think about this out loud, who
am I kidding? That's nonsense.
You're not going to get a more measured me with the jet.
What am I saying here? Why am I even trying to sell
that? That's not going to.
Happen. The expectations will never be
tempered. It's always going to be a
full-fledged reaction. Well, here's the thing, and this
is what makes me unique. And I've talked about this a
lot. And I think many of you know
this when you think about the psychology of me as a fan, and
I'll use some of my some of my friends and former colleagues as
an example, right. So you got Joe B negative with
everything. I know he wants The Jets to win
in the Mets, but because Joe is a Met and a Jet fan, you you
know what Joe brings you Evans a little bit more grounded and a
little bit more reality based. And I think I think Evan Evans
different than Joe, but for me as a Yankee jet fan, even though
the Yankees haven't won forever and the Yankees are no longer
what they used to be. And that is a source of my
consternation with Brian Cashman, as everybody knows the
my Yankee fandom and my Yankee what they've given me.
I think it it seeps into my my my jet mindset.
So and J Rod, you and I are going through this for the first
time now. We did the unkillable shows back
in the day when you took over mid season and it was great.
But my mindset as a Jet fan is not the usual one.
The usual Jet mindset is we're going to suck.
If we can fail, we will. It will be in colossal fashion.
We're never going to get it wrong.
I don't think that way. To me, that is an inherent
loser. I'm not calling Joe.
I don't mean like which. I'm just saying for me now, I
cannot subscribe to that because if I was to subscribe to that,
then why am I doing this? I mean like that just strips
away all the fun. So it would.
Be called tellable. The podcast would be tellable.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. True, true.
DOA, that coat tag, coat tag will be taken it it would be it,
it would be it would be unenjoyable.
And to me, I don't really think anybody wants that now not not
that I'm going to do what people want.
I'm going to do what works for me and I'm going to remain true
to me. But what you will say, I know
this like if The Jets are some, which is why part of the reason
I was so I was so optimistic, even though Rogers went down
because they actually won that game against the Buffalo Bills.
So I think if they would have lost thirty to seven, I don't
think I'm getting I I still would have lost my mind, but I'm
not getting on on the air saying playoffs with Zach and this and
figure it out. I would have been a a a
different type of rage and negativity.
Like I promise you, I don't know who The Jets are playing Week 1
schedules are now. If The Jets win Week 1, watch
the optimism that what Watch. Oh man, it's gonna be it's.
Gonna be great because what would we say?
What did you say last season? I remember it was like first I
was three wins. Was it three wins?
Four wins. I forget.
I forget the. Prediction.
I think I babysit 7 or 8. Oh my gosh, you thought about
before the start of the season? I just remember it was like
after that first episode, maybe one of the first couple games we
did. Oh man, who knows?
I mean, there were so many wild fluctuations with the emotions.
But again, just now. Now back to the, the entire
thing here at the NFL cautionary tale to everybody out there,
just understand that the news that trickles in today and what
you get excited about, there is a better chance than not that
within a year or two, you will be lamenting a, a, a certain
player or you will be pining for that player to get caught, or he
will get caught or there will be a restructure.
This really is fool's gold #1 there's, and I described this
Jay the other day like there's a massive difference between cap
space and excuse me, and an effective cap space.
And that's just not the way you build because the, you're
overvaluing players. Like, guys, I'm not saying that
there's no free agent values to be had or, or, or moves to be
made that will bolster you, but to me, they've got to be more
second line moves. They've just got to be, you
know, maybe a team has one highly paid wide receiver and
they can't really justify paying somebody else that they really
want to keep. That's different.
I'm not talking about those guys.
Or, you know, maybe take Linderbaum.
Linderbaum from the Ravens center, right, Because they
don't really differentiate between a tackle to center.
You know, that's somebody like like that player who's terrific
and still very young. That is somebody that you've got
to really think about if you want to retain because now if
you're playing your cent, if you're paying a center like a
left tackle. That is very, it's not very
plausible in terms of economic solvency moving forward.
So I'm not saying that there aren't any loopholes or anything
that slip, anything that slips through the crack.
But again, I've already told you, I have sent the word of
caution as you tweet away and you Peck away and you hit your
boys on your WhatsApp chain and everything that you're doing as
you're structuring and and plotting out your offseason,
understand more moves than not that come into your teams
purview or on the radar, you will lament and you will
actually regret. You won't regret him today and
you won't regret him Wednesday when they're actually announced.
But down the line, you will regret and you will absolutely
lament there. All right, so let me get back up
with a full thank you. Look at that good time being
there. J Rod told you about Pitino at
2:00 PM today, told you about Donnie tomorrow at 10:30.
Now listen, I don't know Peter Rosenberg very well.
Matter of fact, I've, I think I've only met him once.
We are on the same stage doing a panel.
My good buddy Jason Barrett, Barrett Media, phenomenal media
outlet. It's just awesome to see what he
has built that machine into and now they've expanded beyond
sports. He is a great, he was a great
program director and he's just a great shrewd mind in the
business and he's got the BSM summit and I, I, I was asked to
come and speak a couple of years ago.
I think it was the COVID year. So I was up on stage with Peter
and I was up on, I think it was myself, Rosenberg, Bomani Jones
and I think Feinstein. No, no, no, no, Jared.
What's the dude's name again? Why am I forgetting his name?
The hold on. I don't mean to describe him.
I'm I'm not trying to take a knock, but the bald, the bald
guy with the on ESPN college football, he's a monster.
Anyway, it was the four of us up on the not SVP Finebaum.
Gotcha. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course,
of course, Paul. Finebaum, yeah, I know Scott is
a great guy and Finebaum was up there, right.
So it was the four of us. So I don't, I don't really
pretend to know. Peter.
He did reach a text to me, which I appreciate it for sure.
When things went down at the fan and he asked me to go on their
show, talk about stuff and and Saint John's and I I couldn't
legally, I and I still can't do it because I've still got some
contractual things I'm sorting for either way.
I don't know him very well, but I mean that that what went and I
know that they made amends, but wow, I mean that meltdown
between those two guys. That was whatever.
I guess it was Friday between Donnie and and Rosenberg was
nuts. I mean it that, listen, I, I
haven't been involved in too many take you a little behind
the behind the curtain a little bit.
Like there's an element, obviously of showmanship.
It's always a heightened presentation.
Like I can promise you, because I know him so I could this is
true. Like when Stephen A's walking in
to get a Starbucks, he's like, he's not like Yo Fenty, you
know, give, give me the soy milk like that.
You know, you don't, you don't operate that way when you're on
the air. You know, it's, it's, it's
entertainment, it's theater. And when you do that, sometimes
it's hard to differentiate between what's what's real and
what's not. You know, I'm not trying to
start any trouble here, man. Dottie could set me straight if
I'm off base. But having done this for a long
time and having been involved in a couple of those where it
crosses over from sports debate and then it starts getting a
little personal, that that struck me as real.
You know, they've worked together for a long time.
So I'm sure they're going to be good about it and they're going
to move past it. Whatever things happen, big
boys, you know, you man up, you apologize, you own it if you
made a mistake in any. I'm not even talking about them
in any situation. But that was crazy.
That was crazy. So I'll have Donnie on tomorrow,
talk about all that stuff. Early days, 1050, you know,
radio wars when they beat Francesa for the one and only
time, his devil's gig football, free agency, Jets and Giants
stuff. So that's coming up tomorrow.
Now it is also a Monday, which means it is time for I love
doing this right? You know it.
Little burning question action there Jay Rod, you ready to
rock'n'roll? Little burning questions.
Yes, Sir. Yes, Sir.
Should I toss that up? I mean, come on, dude, did you
did not, did you not sense that that was a toss?
Like, isn't that kind of like it's it's all right, Jay Rod,
hold on, Jay, Rod's a little. What did you do this weekend,
Jay All? Right, this weekend.
What was this weekend? Well, I ask you that and I ask
you that because you you seem not not very behind it, but you
seem a tick behind it. Did you have a rough weekend,
muddy? Were you out both nights?
What happened? Let's.
See I honestly it might be like the hours.
Getting shifted like. All right, Saturday was 4 AM,
5:00 AM bedtime, last three AM, 4:00 AM So.
Both day, both nights. Yeah, it was.
And I think it was more so just like rough sleeping than
anything. Like, I think I mean Saturday
what I think I maybe went out for a little bit, but it was me,
it's like. If I had Jay, if I had and
there's no I'm doing this, although when I go on my boys
golf trip, there's a couple of the back-to-back nighters which
you know, which is rough. But if I ever went out or stayed
up and and partied at this point in my life two nights in a row
until 3 or 4, the ambulance would have to come up to our
room and and scrape me out of bed with a medical spatular and
somehow get me in this office to do the show.
I can't do it although, and we'll do the burning questions
in a minute. I did do something yesterday and
had a great time that I have not done in a long time.
That's a little day drinking. I did do a little day yesterday.
What was the I mean, it was the nicest day of all time, so.
Yeah, it was gorgeous. Yeah, it was gorgeous.
I had a had an appearance with my good friends over at
Borrelli's in Long Beach, NY, which which which is a great
spot. Massive St.
John's Bar, Big Nick Bar. We're going to do some Yanks and
Mets stuff there as well. Maybe a little Yankees, Red Sox.
Anyway, one of the owners there, Mike Quinn was a great guy and
he reached out to me. I think it was last year.
He's like, hey, you know, I know, I know you're not going to
travel for this particular St. John's game.
We're a big St. John's bar.
Long Beach is awesome. I used to hang out there a lot
back in the day. Long Beach, NY, not Long Beach,
NJ. Awesome spot, dude.
He's a what do you think about coming out doing a St.
John's watch party? I'm like 100%, man.
So I came out and Johnny's one at the buzzer.
Zoobie hit a jump shot or a little tipping, whatever it was.
Place went bonkers. It was packed.
And then because it went so well, he invited me be back this
year and we did another watch party, St.
John's one. And he's like, what do you think
about extending the two maybe to a Nick watch party?
So I had a Nick Laker watch party yesterday, which was
awesome. And, and I, you know, the surf
sides were flowing, spikes was flowing a little day drinking.
I wasn't driving. They sent the car, but that was
yesterday. You know, I didn't I didn't go
nuts, man. I wasn't irresponsible.
I'm in public, whatever. But it, it was, you know, I put
it this way, two more, you know, and that needle's tilted in the
other direction where it's a little bit past the point you
go. From T to D where you go from
exactly the needle push. No, that's true.
That's a good way to put it, man.
All right, so that was my day yesterday, and I'm going to be
I'm going to be out there. We don't know when, but I think
it's going to be one of those Yankee Red Sox games up in
Fenway, up in Boston. All right, so baseball's around
the corner, football's here. Big East Week, weather is
awesome, A great week. Let's get it. 3 burning
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and I try, what I try to do here is do things that is a little
off the actual content. So I'm not going to do NFL free
agents. I'm going to try to find some
other stuff. Question #1 All right, here we
go with Selection Sunday less than a week away.
Who are the four number one seeds right now?
Good question there. All right, this is pretty easy.
The top three are absolute lots here.
You got Duke one, I've got Michigan two, I've got Arizona
3. Florida right now would be the
other four seed now of of those of those 4, and I think the only
one that could possibly change maybe would be Florida,
depending upon if they were to get bounced thoroughly whatever
SEC tournament. But but listen, if you want to
know, I mean, obviously net ranking and all that stuff,
here's what you need to know. First of all, Duke beat
Michigan. So you know, even if Michigan
wins the big 10 and I would say even say if AC say say if Duke
lost the ACC championship and I don't, I think Duke's going to
steamroll everybody. They're going to win this
tournament, right if Saint John's doesn't.
But Duke is just I, I think they are beyond reproach, but they
did beat Michigan in a neutral side game.
So they've got a 15 and 2 quad 1.
And that's what you're looking for.
Like what's the quad 1 record? So Duke is 1, Michigan 28 and
two on the year, 13 and 2IN quad ones.
How about Arizona 29 and two? They're undefeated for a long
time, 15 and two in a quad one. And then again, I don't think
that this will change, but maybe Florida the less or or the least
firm grip, if you will, on those potential one seeds 25 and 6,
but a very solid 11 and five in the quad ones.
All right, that is question #1 here on three burning #2 what do
we got there? J Rod question #2 All right,
which conference will earn the most overall tournament bids?
Well, I'll answer that, but let me start with what's nearest and
dearest to me. Big East is only getting three.
That is absolutely crazy. Now, I think Yukon's really,
really good and I St. I think Saint John's is good.
I do worry about Saint John's back court a bit, like if they
get the wrong matchup, if they're not hitting threes or if
the back courts a little shaky. Even though the Johnny's front
court is incredible with Zooby, with Mitchell and with Bryce
Hopkins, the the portal transfer from Providence, but to me, the
Big East having only three, this is just a little side three Big
East teams is utterly unacceptable.
Like I, I, I like Val Ackerman. I, I do.
I've met her a few times, but they've got to get their act
together. Some of the things that the Big
East is doing right now, it's hurting them.
You know, you got big games on Peacock and that's not a knock
at Peacock, but that's got to be a better out a more, a more
visible outlet. So the Big East is only going to
have three. So now as I answer the question,
well, to me, it's the SEC, all right?
Now also understand that I'm going to RIP through the teams
in a minute. Understand this, I'm not saying
that the SE CS better than the Big 10 or the Big 12, those
conferences outside of maybe Florida and maybe, you know,
Alabama's pretty good, whatever. Tennessee's pretty good.
I think what it's all said and done, I think the Big 10 and the
Big 12 makes more of an impact on the actual tournament itself.
But I think the SEC is going to get 10.
And I've read some things, I don't really agree with this,
but there's a thought they might get 11.
I mean, you're talking about obviously Florida, Alabama,
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Dickie V was ripping Kentucky over the
weekend all the broadcast. And I don't blame them.
Kentucky spent $22 million on NIL money.
I mean, they're good. They ain't special.
Talk about a lot of wasted money.
Arkansas with Cal, you got Texas, you've got A&M, you've
got Missouri, and you've got Georgia.
So to me, the SEC is going to get 10.
That'll be the most. All right.
Finally, quite a little, little different.
Sprinkle in here. So many of you, I'm sure, get
ready for your fantasy baseball drafts.
Some may have already had them. I like to do it later and closer
to the start of the season in case there's an injury,
whatever. But excluding Judge and Otani,
based on ADP, who should be the next player off the board of
fantasy draft? Now it really depends.
Like some of you will say school.
If you're looking for a pitcher, I'm always going for that
position. Player who can run and who's got
power. And to me, this is the easiest
question of the day. It's Bobby Witt from Kansas City
#1 he's going to hit thirty home runs #2 he's going to smack 40
double S again. He's going to steal 30 to 40
bases with his eyes shut. And I don't know if you guys
realize this, but, and even if they didn't do this, I would
still say that wit would be the answer.
They move the fences in. It's always been a a pitcher
friendly or at the very least a hitter neutral, but more pitcher
friendly hitter neutral field. They move the fences and I think
10/12/15 feet. So whatever wits done thus far,
it's going to be even heightened because it's it's just it's
going to be easier to hit home run.
So that is the answer for me. It's going to be wit awesome
player. I've been watching the WBCI love
it and I'm going to get to the WBC in a moment.
We'll get more of these texts as well.
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Papain. All right, can I ask you guys a
question? Let.
Well, let me first ask Jay Rod. Jay, what's up?
I know basketball is your favorite sport.
You really do know, you know NBA.
Well, I'll give you credit. Thank you.
Also, Speaking of, check the
show. Yeah.
I I got it yesterday. I figured you'd like it.
I do like that. Where did you get that from?
Was that like a thrift? Store.
It was kind of expensive though, I'm not going to lie.
Let me guess, kind of expensive now first because the older
shirts. It's an older one.
I know it is. I could tell.
So it's a little vintage, right. The older T-shirts back in the
day were not made with that nice fabric, like that soft, pliable
fabric that we get now. Exactly.
It's like a thick, it's a rougher thing.
I kind of like these shirts, but it's not as soft.
Yeah. OK.
So so it's a different quality. Is it 20 years old?
Is it more? About, I'd guess probably 20.
I'd guess 90s. 55 bucks. Less, Less, less. 35.
Less I. Mean.
So what are you complaining about?
No, it's not. It's not bad.
I mean, listen, I'm just saying for a thrift store, man, thrift,
it was like 30. It was like 30.
Dude, you're walking around pulled out of stand up.
I need you to stand up. I got to see the whole thing.
Here. Yeah, here.
Larry Legend in the house. Oh, that's money.
Look at the form. That's a that's a great shirt.
Yeah, no, it's a good one. I mean I understand every.
Penny. Yeah, yeah, I understand.
You're not, you know, you're not raking in the money yet.
Yet. But I mean, $30 a T-shirt.
Let's stop complaining, bro. Let me get T-shirts from
certain. I'm not going to start throwing
out free pops, but some of these T-shirts from, you know, some of
these other stores are, you know, 1520 bucks for a shit
T-shirt. That's Larry Bird.
Yeah, NASA pulled off with a steal.
Also, we got a chat you're going to love.
Go ahead, hit me up, man. What do you got?
Hey BT, what do you think? Had a coffee date planned
yesterday with a girl from the gym.
She said she couldn't make it 45 minutes prior.
Texted her back and said all good no worries.
Should I follow up? OK, see, I love these kind of
questions. I am here for the advice, all
right? I live vicariously through many
of you at this point with that stuff, as Jay Rodwell knows,
although he's not really doing a whole lot on that end.
So I guess I got to follow through on the unleashed Pam.
Now I would have to know #1 I mean, how attracted to her are
you? If she's a six, whatever, let it
go. Yeah, they'll waste your time
with that if she's a nine. If she's a 10, you bet your ass
you follow up that. So that's the first thing.
So if you can follow up, who sent that again?
What was his name? J Owen, 5636.
Oh, J OK, J Owen, if you could give me some more details so I
could give you a better road map as to how I would have handled
them. First of all, I don't know if
I'm. I don't know if I would have
been going for coffee back in the day, you know?
Hey, you want to grab a drink, but that whatever that was more
me. All right.
Number one, it is do you really like her?
I mean, how well do you know her?
Is the kind of thing where you saw her like two or three times
at the gym and you had the gumption, which is impressive.
You go up and you ask her out. Is it, you know, have you known
her for months? And there's been a lot of talk
and then this was the first foray and so maybe let's get
together. So I'm going to need some more
detailed analysis there. The other thing I'd like to know
what was the description in like?
Was there any sort of, hey, I'm like, I'd like to know what the
text read, not verbatim, but hey, you know, I can't make it.
Or was it Hey, I really apologize, but this popped up
and I unexpectedly didn't think I was going to have to do this
that and the other thing. And all of a sudden it's a more
justifiable because if you're inside of an hour, I mean,
that's, you know, that that's somebody who's a little bit
unreliable. Let's call for what it is.
You know what I mean? But I don't know, I want to be
fair to her. I, I don't know what was going
on in her. Something could.
Have popped up, something could have popped up but you know,
based on what you're saying, I think I think he should should
probably wait till the next till the next in person interaction
to follow up would be my guess. Because you both know you still
go to the same gym. You know that interaction is
likely going to happen again. It's true.
You can I you maybe you can go
up and be like, hey, you know, still wondering if you would be
down for a future thing. But I think the fact that if she
cancelled and then did not then make a plan to follow up here we
go future plan. I think that makes things a
little iffy if she. I'm proud of you.
She texted and said, you know, I can't make it today, but hey,
next week or Wednesday or Thursday, I would love to get
together then. Your prospects are looking
higher if she cancelled flat out 45 minutes before.
Yeah, you got to wait for her to make the next.
But it doesn't sound, Jay, I think that's very smart, good
job by you. But I don't think it sounds,
from the way it was initially presented that she planted the
seeds for a possible future coffee outing.
It kind of seems like it was like it was abrupt, right?
That would be my. Oh, that.
Listen, if it. Yeah, I don't need to sound
shallow here. He he, he, he updated us.
What do we got? OK. 77.5 to 8.
All right, so you're dealing with some decent numbers.
You're dealing with a a pretty solid role player here.
She approached me a couple times, making it obvious she
wanted me to approach her. Hey, I can't make it today.
I'm so sorry. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
I'm not liking that. Yeah, and I don't like, I don't
like enjoy the rest. The word the rest is not good.
Because there's no, there's no effort to be made to maybe
bridge or work you into the rest of the weekend.
Nah, get rid of Nah, Yeah. You're too good, you're too
good, Jo. And you know, there's plenty of
plenty of fish in the gym. Yep, that's right.
That that's true. Good job popping in.
OK, All right, so let, let me just get into this here.
So unless I'm not saying it's, it's the most amazing thing
ever, Although the WBC is starting to really get that
energy that it started to take off a little bit.
You know, when you when you introduce something new, not I'm
going to take the NBA Cup. Not that I think it's amazing,
though. I did enjoy watching the Knicks
this year, you know, and it was fun.
But I I think it takes a while for things to really root in
terms of tradition. And you're even seeing
Schoolville re evaluating whether or not he's going to
bounce and go back to the Tigers.
Like he's even saying, you know, hey, this is this is I'm
tormented here. I don't want to leave here.
So hopefully he sticks around, which would be great.
And you know, I'm watching the game over the week Saturday
night against Great Britain. My son's like, Oh, we're losing.
Well, I'm like, they're going to destroy him.
Dude. You know, once you get you get
into the bullpen, they're going to just tattoo whatever other
pitching Great Britain has. And they did, you know, Judge
put out a panel, actually broke a panel left field Schwar.
They hit a 421 foot moon shot. And when Kyle Schwarber hits
him, it's gorgeous. When Sir, it's funny.
He's got a his swing is very it's weird.
It's almost like a trunk cated swing.
Like it's not. Remember, if you guys are old,
like Ken Griffey had this very long, very, I mean one of the
sweetest, most beautiful swings of all time and one of the
greatest players of all time. Griffey was like here to kind of
wag a little that bad, right? And then he would finish high
and finish long. Schwarber's the opposite.
Just like boom, like he almost stops.
Slightly past the, the halfway point and it's, it's almost like
a, an aggressive check swing. It's insane.
The bat speed that he generates and how hard he barrels balls
with that kind of swing massive. So though I, I, I do feel and
I've never been in like an incredibly like ardent supporter
of the WBC. I've never denounced it.
Like that's one thing that bothers me.
You know, you hear it with the Olympics, you hear it with the
NBA Cup, you hear it with the WBC.
You know you hear it when when golf went to the Olympics, you
hear about it. Maybe the FedEx cutback of the
day. I don't understand.
Well, I do, but I'll, I'll tell you why in a minute, But I'm
going to start up by saying I don't understand.
I don't understand why so many people felt compelled to shit on
stuff that they don't like, like to do segments and content on
things that they don't like. If you don't like it, don't
watch it. I mean, it's really that simple.
Now I'm going to tell you why there are many people who expand
on and unlike the WBC or certain things that they don't like
while they rail on it because there is such a need for content
to fill so many hours of radio and TV.
You know, more, more conventional, older, certainly
in terrestrial radio, different than TV, where you got to fill
so many, so many hours in the show.
And, you know, you've got producers and who are making
pretty good money and you got to have an opinion.
It's not like you just say, hey, what do you think about the WBC?
Yeah, it's cool. It's all right.
You know, I really love it. But if you wanted, it's there.
Like you almost have to transform it into like a
negative, right. And, you know, all guys could
get hurt, which by the way, it's true.
And we've seen guys get hurt. Guys could get hurt.
I don't like guys leaving training camp.
It's not good for chemistry. It's, it's, it's a contrived
event that doesn't really mean anything.
I don't know, man. I, I love watching the WBC and
it's grown on me. And 1st, I love the uniform I
got to get. I have not bought a jersey.
I said this to my family. We were watching like I was
watching with my son. And then even my daughter and my
wife came in and they, they wanted to see judge hit.
And I said, I'm like, I got to get that jersey, man.
I, I got to get and I think I'd go with the away 1.
I think I'd go with the darker one, but the white or the blue
USA jersey, sick. I can't remember the last jersey
that I bought. Somebody made a BT in South Jets
jersey for us. Somebody gave me a Ewing jersey
somewhat recently. Jay, Ron, can you remember the
actual last jersey, not a retro vintage T-shirt that you bought?
The the last jersey jersey that you bought?
I really think I'm getting one of these USAWP.
That I bought or that I got from Santa.
That you bought, Yeah, yeah. That you bought.
That you actually bought, I can't remember.
OK, it's going to be a random one, dude.
It's a weird one. It's like yo who played #55 for
the Ravens back in the day, and he got into some trouble.
You. You really?
You got who was it? Who was it not?
It wasn't was it Ray? It was another dude it.
Wasn't. Oh, that's right, Ray wasn't.
5555 Ravens player you sure you're?
Not talking about Ray Lewis. Corel Suggs.
T Suggs. T Suggs, it was, it was similar
to the bird. It was just in my local
Goodwill. It was just like, it was like
that nice purple color. That's a bright 1.
Ravens had nice uniforms. So I just like, I just like, it
was like $10. I got it just for fun.
Now it wasn't, well it wasn't it had to be like ironed on patches
it. Wasn't.
Yeah, exactly. Definitely.
I think the last jersey let me see.
I remember getting a Wayne Corbett jersey, the professional
one with the numbers stitched on when he first came up in the mid
90s. I got a Curtis jersey.
I don't, I don't know. But I, I really think I'm making
the purchase. I think I'm making the WPC
purchase. But anyway, back to what I was
saying. I just, I don't, I don't
understand. Well, I do because I told you
why, but like it to me it's very simple.
If you want to watch something and it's there, watch it.
If you don't want to watch it, don't watch it.
I, I do think, and, and I know, you know, I, I think I'm not
talking about necessarily like, say the halftime show, which was
divisive for some. And there was a lot of, you
know, a lot of talk around that. Obviously, you know, I'm not
talking about that, even though that even though that was out of
control, hijacked and annoying and almost infantile and
pathetic and pathetic. After all, don't watch it.
What do you want me to tell you? Don't watch it.
But I mean, that was hijacked. I think anything, especially for
baseball that attracts eyeballs and gets the newer younger
generation into it is awesome. And the other thing, and this is
just a generational thing. I am tired.
All due respect and and listen, I'm more with the people that
I'm about to address than not. I'm done with the younger
generation apart me with the older generation, you know,
complaining about these players having fun, celebrate.
Who the hell do you think you are?
Honestly part of the reason why baseball has not grown the way
it's and I almost I know that they've got good TV deals and
it's it's globally in terms of Japan and like the the expansion
of the game. I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about maybe the popularity within the United
States, where it used to be America's pastime and now it's
not. It's obviously been been
football for a long time, but the incessant need to shit on
these young players who are out there vibing and having fun and
celebrating and letting it flow. Dude, get over yourself.
You really do sound like the old man on the lawn.
Get off my lawn. I just, I just cut my grass.
Get off my lawn. I just planted the seeds.
Get off my lawn. There's flowers that are trying
to bloom. Dude, get a grip.
It is so fun and so explosive and so fast and so fresh.
Like what baseball's turned into.
It's amazing. You know, the athletes are
better Now. I'm not going to say that all
parts of the game are better. That's a different part of the
discussion. You know, growing up, you know,
I don't need to see buns, but they were like, there were more
triples and there were more hit and runs and there was more
contact. And when there's more contact,
you get a chance to see these great defenders do their thing.
Baseball, this is a critique of the game, but I'm not this is
separate from the celebration. Like there's, there's too much
in action. You either walk or you hit a
home run or you strike out. And to me that that is bad.
And you, you, you know, there's many ways to fix it.
I'm not going to get into it now.
And they're trying to, but that is a little bit of that's going
to the wrong direction where, you know, you're looking for
trajectory and, you know, swinging up and trying to get
the ball in the air and hit home runs.
I think that's been a detriment to the game.
But you look around the game and you watch the WBC, you know, and
I mean the the Latinos, have they they got the right idea.
Enjoy the freaking game already. I mean, what are you supposed to
do? You're supposed to I love when
these guys do it. You RIP a double, you RIP A2 run
double places going nuts, 3540 thousand people wherever you are
right and you're on second base. So you're supposed to just like
RIP off your batting gloves and put them in your pocket and just
look for the sign for the third base coach, get loose, man,
celebrate, you know, do this point to your chest, let you
know flex to the dugout, talk some smack.
And and the other thing too is like, well, it's disrespectful
and you know, I'm just I'm over it, dude.
I maybe there needs to be somebody who knows baseball like
I do, loves baseball like I do, but is also old enough to kind
of put some of these old heads in check.
It's just over the stop again. Get over yourself.
It's not 1968 with Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale and Sandy
Koufax. It's not the 70s with the Big
Red Machine, Johnny Bench and Pete Rose.
It's not the 80s with Ozzie Smith dropping down bunts, you
know, and and pitchers, you know, sacrificing 30 * a year.
It's a different game, man. And the players today, they
don't want to hear you. They don't care what you think.
They really don't. And at this point, neither do I.
Like, I get it. You know, generally there are
certain things that I like more from when I was younger, like
the way in the I'll take in the NBA, the way they protected the
paint. There was more, I think
defensive integrity. I think for all sports, there
was less familiarity. You know, guys jumping around
team to team hugging each other after a game like that.
I can't stand. That's why I got all over Mike
Brown when the Warriors, you know, knock the shit out of Carl
Anthony Towns. And you know, anytime, anytime
Green's on a podcast, he's always eviscerating Karl Anthony
Towns. And he got the Knicks head coach
after a game. I know he's got a relationship
with him hugging up Draymond Green in full view of Karl
Anthony Towns. You lost the game and they
dumped all over you. One of your stars get it right?
Like, that stuff's different. I'm not talking about that,
right? But I just don't understand like
the resistance, two young players bringing energy and
bringing the freshness to the game.
I just don't get it. I'm sorry, You know, things
weren't always better back in the day.
You know, silent movies to me seem pretty boring.
You know what I'm saying? Like some of the mute now music
is I'm not going to I'm not going to about to tarnish music
because. We're about to go, Pete.
We're about to go Pete Rosenberg, Dom and Greca if we
get into a music debate. Well, yeah, yes, good bull right
there. Good bull.
It's funny. There you go.
Like if you get interrupt, that's a good time to throw.
That was very well done. Yeah, that's what it was over.
And we're going to have Donnie on the show tomorrow.
Can't wait. Rick Pitino, by the way, 2:00 PM
today. Separate content, but I don't
know, man. Now, obviously Dominican
Republic and Puerto Rico, even at the last WBCI, remember Otani
hitting. Was it a walk off?
Whatever he whatever he did, even Otani was going bonkers.
And you know the celebration and you know the flex and I think he
threw his helmet. Whatever.
He went nuts, which for the Japanese culture is very counter
to how they usually, you know, react to athletics.
It's, it's very much about respect and, you know, not, not,
not making it about you and keeping it to the team.
And, and listen, I, I, I, I, I don't, I don't know, I don't
know, I don't know why watching young players have fun bothers
people so much. But you, the reaction, you think
it's the worst thing in the world.
You would think that somebody ran in the stands and confronted
a fan or fired a baseball in the stands or flipped off a young
kid. Dude, you're playing sports.
You really are. So that's my little rant on the
old heads and I love you, but but you got to grow, man.
You got to evolve. You have to.
It sounds old, it sounds tired and nobody wants to hear it.
You really don't. And one of the things that you
get, and it's still some of it is rooted in being, what's the
word I'm looking for being a little bit too like the self
glorification, you know, look at me, look at me.
All right, that's one aspect of it.
All right, whatever. I know if I was playing college
baseball today rather than in the mid 90s, anything that I
could get my hands on swag wise, I would have it all.
I'd have the arm sleeves. Instead of wearing one chain,
I'd probably have two. I'd have the wristband, you
know, here I'd had the six spikes.
I'd have the pants probably past my knee like some of these guys
do. I'd have the shades, the eye
black, the sick helmets, the sick gloves with three different
colors, probably pink somewhere in there.
Like that's I, I would have that because you know that that's the
style today. I, I, I just, I think a lot of
you, you know, a lot of you who complain about this or probably
still some of the boy, I'm really going in on the old
generation today or some of you who probably still want to see
golfers wearing khakis with bellies and, you know, boring
white Izod shirts tucked in. Come on, I don't know, man, I I
get it. You know, you can remain to
married to certain things that were great when we were kids.
So there's the celebratory aspect and then there's the
other thing. And and this I get to an extent,
right, like I I do like I don't like I don't when any and my
kids don't do it. My children don't do it and kids
like coach, don't coach, don't do it.
Now, I would interact with them differently than I would my
kids. But if one of the kids that I
coach, not my child, you know, if they did something that I
thought was below board in terms of being really disrespectful,
certainly to an umpire, but certainly to an opposing player,
I, I would, I would have a talk with that player.
I, I really would, right. But many of you that have an
issue with this, you know, you say, well, it's it's it's the
unwritten rules. And that's not how you can port
yourself. Dude, if you're a home run,
you're if you're a if you're a hitter and you smash your home
run, that's what it's hard to hit.
All right, So if you crank 1420, do whatever you want, flip the
bat to the moon, take 25 seconds to go around the bases, tug at
you. I really don't care.
Now, if you're winning ten one, that's different.
Now that's a license for the next guy to take one in the
ribs. There is a responsibility with
with with some of these things. I'm not saying it's a no rules
game, like certain things should still apply and you should still
respect certain things, you know, within the parameters of
sportsmanship and and being competitive and doing it the
right way. But how many times does a
pitcher strike out and stare somebody down so he could do it
and we can't do it or vice versa?
Get out of here, get out of here.
That's it. I'm over it.
All right, Charlie F 6675. Charlie, what's going on, buddy?
My issue except the pitch clock, which I like are the new rules,
the larger base pads the man on base X raying.
So am I reading that right, Jay right, he's got an issue with
those or no, he's got he likes, I think he's.
Into the rule changes would be my guess.
My SO his issue except for the. Except for the Oh, that's what
I'm saying so. Lights the pitch clock.
Dislikes the other new rules, the larger base pads, the man on
base, extra innings. That's what I thought.
All right, now there's no, you know, ghost runner in the
postseason. So let's not waste a whole lot
of time on that. I love baseball.
I don't want to watch a 17 inning game that goes for four.
I'm not watching it. I don't honestly, I don't care
if it's the Yankees, Red Sox, I'm probably gonna fall asleep.
Like there's just a limit. I mean, I'm not talking about
playoffs. I'm talking about regular season
game, you know, you got to get him out there, you got to
preserve the arms. That's that's really what that
was born out of, just to kind of keep it moving.
The pitch clock is great. You could make the case and some
have that because you don't get a chance to fully regenerate
physically because it's now more condensed.
You just got to get back on the bump and throw a pitch that
maybe and, and we need more data before I can say this
definitively. But there's some people who wait
into these medical waters where they think that there's some
more injuries because pitchers are back on the rubber.
Get in the sign. They got a guy, got to beat the
pitch clock, let's go. And they're not able to really
generate and regenerate their body to to hit Max exertion.
You know, all those limbs and all that, all that torque and
all the stuff they're creating at that level.
All right, you know, but let's see in, in five more years, give
me some more data to either shoot that down or cosign that.
I like the bigger bases #1 it's a safety issue #1 #2 you know,
there's an art to sliding and the swim move like 10 years old.
You got to be able to do it. If you're playing at a fairly
high level, you got to be able to go hand.
You know this for the, I know most of you know this, but the
swim move basically is when you go and head first and you're
never going to want to do that. Don't you know, break it up too?
It's like on a steel whatever. And I don't, I listen, there's
pluses and minuses like I don't want kids going in head first at
the plate. There's too many shoulder
separations. You can do that at their base.
Jeter did that years ago in Toronto when he separated his
shoulder going head first. You know, you hit somebody's
knee. But anyway, the swim move is
when you go head first and then you basically just lift up your
arm, you go around and you get the quarter of the base.
So to me that's a tactical thing that rewards athleticism and all
those other things that basically every young baseball
player can do, you know, just unless you're just a monster of
a man, like a big power hitting DH or, or first baseman, all
these kids can do it. So I, I don't, I don't know why
that's really bothersome. It's it's a slight advantage now
because a number of the bases are, are literally bigger.
So you got an extra, you know, one, one thousandth of a second
to get there. So it's going to be more safe
than outs without. I'm not going to waste some time
on this, but I don't know. I don't I don't think it's that
big of a deal. I mean, again, I think that
that's a fair take. It's it's not an overreaction,
but I think you got to evolve, You know, the the rules need to
evolve. How we process this stuff needs
to evolve. Thoughts on.
Yeah, the I did see this. Did you see this, Jay?
DNY says thoughts on the Aussie catcher did not.
OK, I saw it. Full disclosure.
Didn't jump into it too deeply. Didn't really care.
I was a little taken back by it and I did think it was
disrespectful. But I what, what I heard later
on was that it was because obviously as a battery, have a
lot of pine tar on your hands and you don't want to shake
hands and then have the the remnants of the pine tar on
your, on your finger as you try to grip a baseball, throw it
back to a pitcher or throw it around the infield, right.
So if that was the reasoning, cool what I would have and I
didn't see him do this. And if he did, you know, I
apologize that I didn't see this.
The guy comes up, tries to shake your hand.
You're not having it because of the sticky stuff.
You know, DAP him up with the fist.
I mean, you don't it it seemed like he completely ignored him,
but it also looked like he said something.
And if he said it's about the pine tar, fine, that your
prerogative. I I get it.
It could be a tactical disadvantage.
Not that I thought that the hitter, I mean, listen, if we're
at a point now where you got hitters trying to shake hands
just to get whatever advantage because the catcher, you know,
grips the ball too much and it spins out of his hand the wrong
way on A4 seam for, I mean, stop.
And that's not it. I think it was just trying to be
nice, you know, a show of, of, of sportsmanship, right.
But you, you could adapt them up.
So that's what it was based on. Yeah.
Maybe a little bit petty. I did say it didn't really dive
too deeply into it. Didn't really care enough to do
that but yeah, J Rod let me ask you, I got to pop you back in.
Do you think that you got to answer me honestly here All
right For your generation. I know that you can't speak for
everybody but but broad cross section you know rough estimate.
Do you think that a lot of the younger sports fans look at the
older sports fans and like, man, that's tired or that's
antiquated? Honestly, give me the honest.
Opinion yeah, I mean, I also think it depends on the sport.
You know, I think some sports have like a greater respect for
deeper traditions, but if you look at most things, I think
most people look at older sports fans and go Dang, these old
heads are just complaining for no reason like type deal.
Like especially I think when it comes to NBA, you know,
obviously I think there's valid complaints about the product
that they're putting out on the core, you know, whatever, 3
point shooting, foul shots, foul dating, the whole deal.
But like from a person from the younger generation who's only
had one style of hoops or one style of sport to pretty much
watch, it feels like it would be just as entertaining as it was
to the older generation in those previous.
Times interesting. OK, that's interesting at D
under score Rod, what's going on D when players celebrate
everything that's fair and and and lose the game.
It looks too, but it's the adult version of a participation
trophy. Well, yeah, I mean, you'll see
this in the NBA, lot of guy will stick A3, right?
And there's 8 seconds to go, which is really like 30 seconds
with fouls. I mean, not really, but you know
what I mean. The 8 seconds in the NBA is an
eternity. So yeah, that that early
celebration that could come back to burn you.
But here's the other thing. And This is why I think it's
disingenuous and really inauthentic by a lot of the
older sports fans. So if you're a fan, I mentioned
the Big Red Machine of the 70s like, all right, so I was born
in the 70s, right? And I don't remember really
watching anything in the 70s. But historically, of course, I
know it went down. I'm going to go to the early
70s, right? So you had the A's.
That was a dynasty in baseball, 3 championships in row,
back-to-back to back. They had Reggie and they had
Catfish. They had got Sal Bando, you
know, Charlie Finley, the cheap owner and things went sideways
there. Just a great, great team.
Gene Tennis was the catcher, I think.
Did I say Joe Rudy? Joe Rudy made that great catch
in the World Series in the outfield.
Anyway, that was that team, right?
Then you get to the mid 70s, you got the big Red machine with
with Rose and Bench and and and and Tony Perez and that's sick.
George Foster. And then you get to the Yankee
version of 7778, Reggie Medals, Munson champions, etcetera.
And then the 79 Pirates who beat the Orioles?
Willie Stargell. We are family great vibes disco
awesome. So that that's that's the short
version in the of the of baseball history in the 70s.
I say that not to prove Oh, wow, look what he knows.
That's not why I'm doing it. I'm I'm I'm talking to the older
fans who are having an issue with the way these young players
celebrate. I'm going to point out specific
examples for you. OK, if you're squawking about
the celebrations or the modern athlete and he complaining about
everything. There was no bigger showboat in
the history of sports than Reggie Jackson.
I mean, think about that. He was really the first one to
me, you know, in, in, in baseball, there were a few
eccentric figures, but the 50s and 60s like Duke and, you know,
Mickey and and and and Willie, of course, Willie had a great
flash, but I don't know if it was a show off Hank Aaron
understated, like they presented themselves very different,
right? Bob Gibson, no messing around
before that, guys like Bob Feller, Reggie Jackson would hit
a home run and literally fire his bat and you know, like sling
it on the ground. He didn't flip it in the air.
He had a different one. Like he would almost like sling
it with two hands like that. You would throw in like a like,
almost like a Frisbee. You know what?
Yeah. And as Reggie and, and, and Jay,
as Reggie was running around the bases, you'd see Reggie doing
this and tugging at his glasses. So let me ask you this.
If you have an issue with kind of one of these young players
doing it now, did you have an issue with Reggie doing it when
the Yankees were winning the 2 championships?
Did you have an issue with that? Probably didn't have an issue
with that. So that's to me.
And and then you even hear about all the NBA socks now.
And there's things about the NBA that I that I can't stand.
It's 50 threes a night defense, all the things I've said before.
But you're telling me like if you are an older, you know,
506070 beyond basketball fan, ABA and or NB.
Now the ABA was very different. It was about being eccentric and
showing off. But you're telling me that
watching the 80s like Magic Johnson, it was amazing coming
down doing an old look and some of the celebrations and and the
fun that he admitted having the game of playing the game and
like the that was kind of counter to back then.
But everybody loves magic. That was amazing prototype.
So just be consistent with your complaints.
That's all I'm saying. Otherwise you sound like an old,
you know, jealous, worn out, tired sports fan and nobody.
See, I'm not here for I don't want to hear it.
No, no, no Scrooges. No Scrooges.
Allowed. There you go.
Yep.
All right, wait, here's an interesting one dealing with the
heaters. What do you think about the
Atlanta Hawks having a Magic City night?
I think it's saying what are your, I'd be curious as to like
hear your thoughts. I mean, I don't have a ton of
thoughts on it. All right, so, OK, so let me
just get Magic City's the the strip joint down there.
Great wings. OK.
Those who don't know they are, I think Kennard, somebody spoke
out and actually recently we said.
Cornett. Cornett and then.
Horford reposted it or something?
OK so I just before I answer this, do they are going to like
dancers? Like what exactly is going down?
I know it's going to be an area. It's.
Pretty. I mean, to me it's pretty.
What's the word? It's pretty innocent.
Like, yeah. Like it was literally they were
making merch that said Magic City Hawks on it.
That was it. That was it.
And I think maybe it was a jersey night where they were
like, they were like the players were wearing a Magic City Hawks
jersey. But I, I really, I honestly
don't. I think it was like a
merchandise item that was on their website City Hawks, and
they were going to do a night promoting the the club.
If, if that's what you need to do now, it doesn't offend me at
all, obviously, but if that's what you need to do, you
probably have a pretty shitty business model.
Like if, if that's what the Atlanta Hawks need to do, then
they're probably going to want to re envision and, and and
rethink how they're going about their business here.
And let me give you an example. And like when I hear this stuff,
the first, my first reaction is through the prism of an adult.
All right, now I'm always going to be clinging.
I'm always going to let you know, like I'm not going to hide
stuff here on the show 1 of the great.
And I'd say this on the fan too, but one of the especially here,
I could say whatever I want. I have not been to one of those
places in it's probably been about 15 years, right.
And, and straight up, you know, when I'd go on my, my guys
Myrtle Beach golf trips, which I went on forever, Of course, we'd
go, we'd go right. And then I, I, yeah.
And then I remember getting to a point when I got married, right.
And then certainly when I had children, and I'm not trying to
sound holier than thou because I've been to those places a ton,
right? And I enjoyed them like we had
to. Lie to you, it was awesome.
Right, There was one, there was this one place in, in Myrtle
Beach. Bring your BYOB.
Oh my gosh, let me, let me be careful with that.
But we would come in with, you know, case of beer or jug of
vodka, just you know, me and like 7-8 guys and they they just
give you a cup and they give you a cooler full of ice and have
yourself a good night, right. Anyway, I remember towards, I
guess it was right before COVID and obviously maybe a year or
two before COVID. I think it was the last time we
went to Myrtle and now we've kind of done some other trips.
Long story short, I remember I was going and I was doing the
national show with Tiki, all right.
And one of my affiliates, we had about 200 affiliates around the
country and one of our affiliates was in Myrtle Beach
and they used to call a lot. It was like a strong affiliate.
So shout out, I love Myrtle, Grand Strand, great time brought
away on the beach, 1,000,000 golf courses.
I, I, I played them all and I've sucked on all of them.
Left a million balls in, in the state of South Carolina, but I
got a lot of love for Myrtle Beach, Coastal Carolina, love
Myrtle Beach, right. And, and I remember we were
sitting on the like, we have always like rent a nice house.
We were sitting out there smoking a cigar and having some
drinks, get ready and my boys were getting ready to go.
And I'm like, you know what? I'm not gonna go.
And they were like, why not? And I'm like, and two of my
buddies hung back and we just sat on the deck and had some
more drinks until they got home. And I remember saying, I'm like,
I don't know, I'm getting older. And again, I'm not preaching
here. You guys do whatever you want.
I'm not judging. But for me as a married man at
that point, especially with a daughter, like I'm not looking
to project, you know, oh, look at the look at the look at the
guy who's in his at that point, you know, early mid 50s,
whatever, early mid 40s. Look at this dude who's still
going to a strip joint and he's married.
He's got like, that's, that's not what I'm about.
And I'll never step foot in one again.
And again. I'm not again.
I really, we used to have a lot of fun going.
That's when I was single and what I didn't want to happen was
going to one of these places and a listener just, again, it was
being there. Yep, Yep.
Yeah. I mean.
You're a bit of a bit of a figure to be going to those
kinds of places because like you especially given not to say like
this, but the audience of those places being, you know.
You think that's a demo man? Being guys, being dudes.
It's it, yeah, it's the perfect demo.
It's the, it's the demo wheelhouse.
So yeah, I, I didn't go. I didn't, I didn't regret it.
I wound up hanging on the porch. It was me and my buddy.
Actually, I think that first night only Maddie stayed back
in. Maddie was our catcher in
college and one of my roommates in college and we just hammered
back beers and, you know, talked about the old days and we'll
think about the old days. It's funny.
Like you get better by the year. So like, you know, and as a
player, you get better. As a team, you get better.
Everything gets embellished. And I had it.
And he lives in Connecticut, so I don't see him that much.
So I didn't miss out. And you couldn't pay me to go
one of those to one of those places now.
But again, I've been to him a million times, just no more.
But I think let, let me now at least specifically more more
address what's going on with the Hawks there, right?
Again, it doesn't offend me, obviously doesn't offend me at
all. But so let's take your nine year
old son or 10 year old son and he says daddy or your daughter.
But I'm thinking, I'm thinking more of this.
I, I guess I shouldn't even son or daughter.
Oh, daddy, that's a cool jersey. They're giving out Magic City.
Was that a team that like that is, is that an old team that's
no longer around? No, no, it's just it's, you
know, it's a restaurant and I, you know, at 10 years old, I
don't think the kid know that they live in Atlanta, right?
No, it's, it's a it's a, it's a restaurant that, you know,
closed its doors 20 years ago. I don't know.
And then the kid goes and he looks on his phone, all right,
and he types it in and he sees what it is.
And now comes another question for dad or for mommy.
Hey, dad, what what is what is it?
So you know, I'm not naive. Kids have phones.
Kids have devices. There's a quicker way,
unfortunately, to get access to things that young minds
shouldn't have access to, but like why are we speeding this
thing up? I I don't understand why they're
doing this like are they going to get 10,000 more fans at the
game because so stupid. No you're not like.
Nothing, you're going to get nothing.
You're going to get a stupid promotional night, a couple
shirts that'll sell for like 30 bucks more on eBay is my
thought. And like, that's that, you know.
And Even so, it's like, that's why I'm almost, you know, I
teeter on it because it does feel relatively inconsequential.
Like, you know, if you're 13 or 14 year old kid, you already
know you already. For the most part, you already
know at least of the concept of a Magic City.
Can't wait to go when he's 13 years old and then like how do I
get in there? And then, you know, you're a
little younger than that and it's like, like you, you've got
no concept. Almost like if you're 9 to 8
you've got no concepts. You're not even going to.
Yeah, but for the one kid who might who might Google it could.
It could speed things up a little, so you know.
What that is, you know. It's.
Unnecessary. That's what I'm saying.
Yeah, we're on the same page. Not that.
Let me take that back, I said. You know who should do that?
Not even should I think I don't have a massive issue.
I just think it it kind of speaks to the Hawks more than
some great commentary on life. I'm not trying to be holdier
than thou, but if it was, say, an independent baseball team
that generally has 119 people in the stands and yeah, they're
trying to make a few bucks to pay for the electricity and the
grounds crew and you want to do something wacky like that again,
I'm still not loving it. Whatever.
But to me that that's that's even the.
Hawks G League team. It would make more sense.
Like a little, a little. I don't know.
I guess this one from Avery Summit.
Avery, what's going on, buddy? Big listener of the of the show.
Watch for the show. Teams have had supplement ads in
stadiums and on their networks for years.
If we're worried about the kids, technically, what's the
difference now? What do you mean supplement ads
talking about what's supplement like?
Supplements I'm guessing maybe not like steroids but like
obviously protein. Like I don't see that like
protein's fine. Yeah, I don't see a ton of, I
mean. I don't agree.
I don't see. It please, please clarify.
Yeah. What kind of ads?
I'd be curious. I mean, just to hear what you're
talking about. Well, me too, if he's trying to
tell us that and this, I'm aware of this and I'd like to see this
change. But if you're telling me that
you watch a game and you get bombarded by gambling website.
Yeah, to me that'd be. A better argument.
That's the argument. I don't think I've ever seen AI
mean a protein add. I don't know.
I don't I really don't think that I've seen that.
And and if I have or if there are and I just haven't realized
it, I don't have an issue with it.
I don't think it's a big deal. So I'm not gonna really.
React that there I guess OK people are saying like Ed
commercials and stuff like that like red for men, yeah, but I
don't know to me that doesn't have any.
It doesn't that doesn't bring any like moral question I.
Agree it's a medical thing yeah. Listen, here's what happens man.
You know and I will say there are I don't want to completely
shut down what Avery is saying because there are certain
commercials that are run forget about the gambling stuff where
I'm like, I wonder if they're understanding this fully yet.
Not even I'm not talking about like the Ed stuff, but that this
certain things, you know, messaging and I'm like probably
over their head still. All I know is, and if you watch
a game like you get heart, you get hit with like heart medicine
and all that different stuff, you'll see that invariably over
the course of any national game, right.
I just remember and it's more and more pronounced now, but I
remember when I was a kid, like I that didn't register.
I would just look at that stuff with a like it was a blank
screen. Like, all right, when is the
game coming back on? I don't think kids are
processing that. And even if they are, I mean,
I'm, I'm just trying to think how I how I would handle that.
Like if my son said Dad, what is Ed?
You just kind of let like because that's the thing, I
guess you kind of just let. Him.
I'd probably answered a very broad term.
Yeah. You know, I wouldn't say that it
was specific to something pertaining to, you know, adults
in terms of that activity. I would say, well, you know,
listen, as you get a little bit older, you got to stay on on top
of things, you know, heart medicine or blood pressure.
I would kind of generalize it and lump it in there.
That's not a big deal. I don't have an issue with that.
All right. I do have an issue with the
Knicks getting absolutely rolled yesterday.
Again, this is my problem with the Knicks here.
So they they hang 142 on Denver, you see, and I'm not going to go
into this too deeply because really the Knicks season's going
to be written, even though I think they've got about 18 or 19
games to go. We'll see where they finish up
with the seed. Yesterday was gross.
Yesterday was absolutely repulsive the way they played
against the Lakers Now, all right, they're out West, they're
in hotels. But no LeBron, you know,
national profile game of the week.
Can you can you play a little bit better than that, man?
I mean, Luca Doncic absolutely torched them.
There's not, you know, Reeves did as well.
But my problem with with the Knicks now, and it's kind of got
a little bit away because Katz playing better and better and
better. And I've got to be fair to him
now as he's playing better and better.
And I acknowledge that I've seen some things from Jalen Brunson
that have not been as desirable. And he's got to start getting
his act together and shooting has not been the way it was.
He only had what, 9 points against Denver and they still
scored a lot, which is both interesting and, and whatever
because he could score that much without Brunson doing a whole
lot of it's kind of a good sign for the Knicks.
But I'm going to tell you exactly what the problem is with
the Knicks, all right, when they don't hit threes.
And I know that you could say this about a lot of teams in the
NBA and there's a correlation statistically to when you shoot
the three, well, the chances of winning goes up.
I understand the math, but specific to the way the Knicks
are built, right, when the Knicks don't hit threes, the
Knicks never grind out a win. Like they never tough one out
and find a way like resourcefully.
And I know that their defensive numbers have been very good
lately. So those are but those those are
two separate things. Generally during most of those
wins and their top 10 efficiency wise in the in defense in the
NBA. And they've had a lot of games
where they've given up few with 100 points.
But some of those were bad teams.
And I get it, you know, I'm not taking points away.
You beat who's in front of you. But does anybody that is a Knick
observer, a Knick fan, or an observer of the NBA trust and I,
this is my, this is probably my most inherent issue and fear and
concern which I believe will prevent the Knicks from winning
a championship and hope I'm wrong, is when they're not
knocking them down from three, they don't really have another
way to beat you. They just really don't like the
Pistons can push you around, you know, they can shoot like shit
and still beat you. The Celtics, you know, they've
won what, 7 playoffs? I saw stat last.
I was watching sports night in on S&Y last night and I think it
was playoff since Jaylen Brunson signed with the Knicks and
they're ceiling elevated, right? Since then, the Celtics have won
seven playoff series. The Knicks have won four.
Celtics have a championship, obviously finals appearance.
Knicks have neither. You know, the Celtics, even if
they're not stroking it from downtown, they can still find a
way to get it done because they've got that that DNA,
they've got that winning DNA. And that that's really what
worries me about the Knicks. And like, their shooting's good.
You know, Brunson's going to have big nights and OG's going
to have nights where he gets hot.
And you know, Bridges, who had, I mean, he did 0 points
yesterday, dude, literally none. And he didn't take a lot of
shots, but good God, I mean, oh, for six on national TV, it's
disgraceful. I mean, come on.
So you know that that was bothersome.
They just didn't look ready. You know, Mike Brown didn't seem
that there was one point where they were getting smacked or not
single substitution like nothing to try to stifle the run that
the Lakers run like that the Lakers were on.
So that's problematic. It's concerning and you know, I
did, you know, that's listen, I'm giving you a specific Ave.
here about the lack of three-point shooting kind of
equates to the Knicks looking average and vulnerable.
But I've said for a while and more of a broad term, Knicks
don't have enough dogs. They just don't they don't have
enough dogs. You think Bridges is a dog, do
you? He's not, you know, and he's
playing 30 something minutes a night and he's making pretty
good money and you empty the the draft capital chest form.
So ain't a dog. Or at least another kind of dog.
Maybe a little lap dog. He's a Pomeranian.
Yeah, he's a little Shih Tzu. What else?
Give me another small dog here. I don't know whatever he is,
Little, little Chihuahua whose bite, you know, whose bark is
going to be stifling, but they ain't biting you.
I mean, I want a couple of pit bulls.
I want a couple of, I want a couple of Dobermans, man.
I want a couple of German Shepherds out there.
I want a couple of Rottweilers. I mean, they just don't have
enough of those guys. So, you know, I could throw the
basketball stuff at you, which I have many times, but I go, I
could also throw what I just threw at you.
And at the end of the day, push comes to shove, I just don't
think that the Knicks have enough dogs.
And man, I wish that they did at Clr 8810.
What's going on? Appreciate that.
Thank you very much, man. Man, I remember those nights
with the boys ripping cigs, beers and hitting AC, capping
off the night by visiting the women of the night.
Well, you know. Wildest GTM least comment thus
far that I just had to throw it up.
Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, you know what's sad? Like if you don't outgrow that
stuff? Yeah, no.
I mean, that's why I was very, I feel like in your, in your
little anecdote about the club, it was very good to hear you go.
You took the mature route out and you when we stayed back.
Yeah, man. Well, I didn't.
I didn't. We like most of my guys still
go, you know, And I can promise you when we're on our trip this
year, if there's something down the street that they, they'll go
and and I won't. And I'm not judging them.
I just again, I don't, you know, it started in Myrtle Beach
because I had an affiliate out there, you know, and I had, I
had young children. I just like, you know, and
again, I'm trust me, I had a blast, man.
I mean, I can write a book on the things I've done that did.
Somehow I survived, trust me. But that's not what I'm looking
to project. Yeah, no, most definitely.
And adapt Derek Jeter little video of the kid.
Yeah, it is crap. That's all I can say.
I love that. Meanwhile, that little guy, how
old is that little guy now? Now he's probably like 7/16/17
probably is that kid was adorable.
I love that. That's a good that's a good GIF
right there. No, the saddest thing too, you
know, and I, I guess, I mean, who am I to judge people for
companionship? But like, I remember, you know,
then you'd see somebody like you'd see the the older got on
me like in his 80s. But like the older dude, he's
just, you know, firing singles and like, he thinks that the the
girls in love with him, like just stringing them along,
taking his money. Dude, you got no chance.
You got no shots. We're just self respect, buddy,
wake up. Come on.
You can just tell it's been a long a long sad path for for
those kind. Of what a long, strange trip is
being mailed. What else?
We got anything else today? Jay, Rob.
Looking forward to talking to Patino today.
Yeah, I mean, dude, I can't wait for this conversation.
Little just like side note, Patino is the only celebrity
I've ever said hello to in my time in New York City.
Really. The last year in Central Park, I
saw him walking his dog and it was the day after St.
John's got eliminated from the tournament and I had the NCAA
Tournament. NCAA.
Tournament and I I know he's. Got a place there.
Yeah, He was. He was walking a dog.
Central Park. And I'd just go up and I'd just
go. Great season coach.
You did. Yes.
And that was that. That was it.
He goes. Thank you.
It was just a small little interaction, but yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. He's the new.
We'd be here. He is the best.
He's the best. You know, I can't believe that
UConn lost over the weekend to Marquette.
I can't believe. That that's an.
Upset, I mean, I don't I don't I don't really know what to expect
from UConn of the tournament. I mean, I'll say the the Saint
John stuff for with with Rick, but you know, Villanova is
coming and and Willard was a great hire.
Willard belongs to the Big East. He was a little bit out of place
with Maryland. He is to me, he is a Big East
non football revenue Catholic school kind of a guy did a great
job at had seen a really good job at Seton Hall.
And you know, he's going to get I, I think Villanova back to
where maybe not. I'm not saying he's going to win
2 championships like Jay Wright, but he will get it passed where
what Kyle Neptune couldn't do. I love Willard.
They're coming probably a year away, but a threat and they'll
make the tournament and I'm listen, they can mess around and
they can win the biggies tournament like they're a
legitimate threat. But one thing I don't understand
about you com, because they got a couple of pros on the team,
but I think every time they lose, like they're never
penalized. Like there's been a couple of
games this year where Saint John's has lost and they've
dropped further in in net or further in the AP rankings or
whatever it might be. Or their seeding has been maybe
more adversely in their projected seeding, more
adversely impacted than I thought.
Yeah, you kind of lose, Nothing happens.
I know they're not a one seed. They were a one seed for a while
that that's off the table. Even if they win the Big East
tournament and beat Saint John's in the process, they're not
going to be a one seed, nor should they.
But I just feel like, I don't know, maybe it's a little bit of
reputation, maybe that comes with it and I'm fine with it,
but I don't there there's still like 8 or 9 in the net ranking.
I mean, how many games could you lose before you drop a little
bit more? I don't know, weird.
Maybe it's just like the pedigree.
Pedigree of the name that keeps him in it.
Hurley. Little Hurley.
Anyone else sick of watching Hurley lose his shit?
Is that what it says here? Lily 185 Yeah, I don't know.
I saw a video of him yesterday and he was like, shoot.
Well, I forget what the conversation was, but it was
something around, Yeah, it was something around this of like
every year I'll do this and I'll keep doing it or like something
around that, something around like how people challenge his
emotions, but he's going to keep doing it kind of deal.
See, I love it. Listen, now you can't.
You can't make contact with the ref.
And yeah, there there was contact, even though everybody's
denying it. You see the video they didn't
punch him, thank God, but it was you can't touch a Rep.
So I think you got a $25,000 fine.
You honestly, you could make the case that he should be suspended
for a game because again, making the contact contact.
I I really like Danny. I think he's great for the game.
I know some you either love him or you hate him like you're not
neutral to Danny Hurley. You know, I don't know anybody
that doesn't have a reaction to Danny Hurley.
The thing about Danny, I just don't think he can control
himself. I think he's more like Bobby
Knight. I, I think he's got that
temperament where he becomes, he's like so singularly fixed
and fixated. I, I mean to say, and so locked
in on what's in front of him that he's unable on some level
to process what's the, what's the point of no return.
Like he, I, you know, they're very like there's a lot of guys
who get nuts and overreact and stuff, but you know, they they
know when it's time to walk back and Rick is always on the refs.
But maybe he's also, you know, 20 something years older Rick
with the experience, maybe down the road, Danny, you know, reels
it in a bit. But to me, he's he's the modern
Bobby Knight. Like it it would not surprise me
if it's some point Danny Hurley flings a chair across the court.
I just wouldn't surprise me. I think he's capable of
anything. I, I really do.
I do. He's got to be careful, man.
And I think Danny is such a great coach, amazing man.
And I know his players love him, but you know why I defend Danny
much more than I don't. Now, I'm not saying he's perfect
again. That was over the top over even
though he was right. There was a foul when I thought
his team got hosed at the end. He can't make contact.
I've said that a lot. But to me, what are the you can
get me on the full screen there. J Rod.
What are the issues? This we want to we might want to
make this a short buddy. You got to get a sense of, you
know, get me on the full screen. We don't want J Rod on the short
there. To me, the one of the issues
with college sports and and I think sports in general is that,
you know, the older guard that gets so many guys like did I
want no part of this man Jay Wright, who's not old, but older
Jay writes, I'm like, I'm done, you know, Roy Williams, I'm
done. I don't think Billy selves going
to be around. I think Billy selves soon.
I'm done. You know, I'm surprised Izzo
still coaching. I'm done.
I think Beyhan would have coached forever if they if they
would have let him. But to me there's no personality
anymore because all of these coaches, most of them are
younger. That's why Pitino's so amazing,
because Rick could say whatever he wants and he doesn't really
give a shit what anybody thinks. He doesn't care what St.
John's thinks. He doesn't care what the Big
East thinks, doesn't care what his players think, doesn't care
what Pumpkins think. He's going to tell you what what
he's thinking right now. He's going to lay it out
differently than Danny. The presentations different on
the court and in the press conference.
But I, I think one of the main changes in college, but that was
college football too. But certainly with college
basketball is that that personality has been stripped
away from the game for a lot of reasons.
Some I just said. And most of the coaches are
largely homogenized. Like it's kind of antiseptic,
very sterile, very benign. You know, there was a point
where, and I know that this was a million years ago, but think
about some of the characters in this ties into some of the
content I dropped over the weekend.
My old time Big East team starting five reserves honorable
mention. Go check it out.
Like it, subscribe, subscribe more, subscribe to the channel,
like it share it. If you know somebody who loves
the Big East. I dropped it yesterday.
I think that when I was growing up, certainly Louis, I mean,
Louis would, yeah, Louis would curse at his players, but Louis
would never curse publicly. But he was a maniac behind
closed doors and begin in the huddle, you know, Rolly, Rolly
Massimino was this larger than life lunatic amazing.
Like the grandfather presentation, you know,
publicly. Hey, look at little Rolly,
little pasta Rolly like this little almost like a almost like
a cartoon character, but but an assassin in the in the in the
huddle, right. You had big John Thompson, a
legend, you know, this 610 former player played with Bill
Russell, unapologetic to speak about societal issues for for
the young black players. You know, that rubbed a lot of
people the wrong ways. But back then for sure.
But John was outspoken and was was a Titan of his industry.
You know, Beheim was ornery and was always agitated, always had
the sour puss. I like Jimmy, I'm just not a
knock. I've interviewed him a lot, been
great for the game, but always had the sour puss on his face.
Jimmy Calhoun a little bit after that, you know, F bombs and go
nuts. Like coaches don't really do
that anymore. And I think a lot of it is
because they don't want to the the clips to go viral.
So they're already kind of thinking about that before.
Like back in the day, Bobby Knight could fire a chair across
the floor, across the floor. And the only thing that Bobby
had to deal with was, all right, what's the Big 10 going to say?
And he didn't care. And what's the Backpage of the,
I don't know, Bloomington Gazette, but I'm not even sure
the newspaper, the Indiana Current, I know The Indianapolis
Star. I'm talking about more local the
Bloomington. What is that going to say?
And like, what's the one TV guy going to say?
You know what question and whatever it is, Bobby Knight's
going to eviscerate him as well and just shut him up.
Like there's no repercussions. Bobby Knight did whatever he
wanted. And, you know, now the coach is
not quite as large an entity on the campus like they used to be.
They were larger than life and they had the latitude and the
licensed really to do and and say whatever they wanted.
I'm not saying that that's a perfect dynamic on campus.
You know, it probably kind of should be in a, in a better
world, you know, the professors, you know, probably make a little
bit more money, whatever, and the, and the presidents, you
know, but that's the reality of it.
If you were to basketball school or football school, do you even
know who the president is? Do you care?
Do you really care about the AD outside of a few visible ones?
Who's the coach? You know, who's he banging in in
the portal? What kind of NIL loot do we
have? So I like Danny and I'm going to
always back up Danny, you know, although again, you can't touch
a ref. I said that, but you know, I, I
just think like, all right, if Danny ever says, you know what,
I need a respite here, I'm going to stop coaching.
Who's the guy? Like, where's that unpredictable
loose wire? And and that's one of the things
that makes sports great. You need personalities, which
goes into what I said about the WBC and how I am trying to, you
know, connect with somebody old G's here and implore you to stop
crying and whining about these guys celebrating during the WBC.
You sound like an old, miserable person.
You know, we get it. The world's changing.
You got to evolve with it, man. You got to.
So that's a lot about a lot there.
J Rod. Any housekeeping before before
we bounce? Let's see, I mean, other than
listen, whoever's on the live and whoever's tuning in just a
little bit after, stay tuned for the Rick Pitino in just a couple
hours. Stay locked in for all the
comment obviously Don Don Lagreca tomorrow and for anyone
looking for for BT to break down the Minka signing the beginning
of the episode. Oh yeah, timestamp for that.
Well, OK, there you go. Time stamps for everything,
right? Not just American stuff.
No, we already. I already got them.
They're already up. They're up.
Because I did see a comment. Now I don't know if it was
something that like a little technical thing.
I saw a comment over the weekend.
I saw that one too. Somebody was getting after the
book. The market, I didn't see what I
was saying. Listen, I I went to the time
stamps. I mean, they did line up.
Maybe there just like weren't enough division, but hey, well,
you know what? Today?
Today we split it up into many more sections so it'll be a
little easier. For you.
Alright man. Alright, so that's it.
That is all the all the news that's fit to print.
Hey Rod, good today to a good job today buddy.
Appreciate you. Good work on that.
He's going to pump out the shorts there.
This is going to be live stream. It will live here on the site,
of course. Separate content today at 2:00
PM. Johnny said coach Rick Pitino
will join me. Can't wait for that.
As J Rod also told you tomorrow, Donna Greca last week we had
Michael K pretty good numbers there.
Made some national news as well, which was great.
Some of the outlets picked it up which which was which was
awesome, which is good for the brand like it.
You got it. You got to pound the like button
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You got to subscribe, you got to share it.
You got to get all this stuff out there.
Big East week this week. I cannot wait.
It is my favorite week of the year.
The weather is phenomenal. So awesome Monday, and I really
do like what The Jets did with Minka and then obviously the
quarterback stuff there, Malik Willis, Tyler Murray.
The announcement's obvious. The legal pant tampering, which
is whatever. Geez, come on, dude.
What do you mean legal tampering outside?
So you made a deal with 9 seconds.
Wow, legal tampering. And then first it's just, it's
so stupid. Buzzard beef.
What do we got? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I like to guess, I like to guess.
It's got to be football. Yep, all.
Right. It's got to be Malik Willis.
No, and it's more of a, it's more of an intense rumor.
Than a true signing. Oh, remember that song?
Rumors. Remember that one back in the
day? Think so?
Bang it out. Bang it out.
All right, It's a rumor.
Is it a rumor around a quarterback?
Yes. Is it a rumor from somebody of
substance without naming names? If you want.
If you can't, you can't. If you want to.
That we can at least believe is legitimate.
Or is it some nonsense rumor? I'd say it's it's slightly
legitimate. Let's hear it.
All right, All right, We've got a rumor that Tua Tua to the
Falcons, per Shafter. Thoughts.
I think Tua stinks. That's my honest thoughts.
I don't think he's very good now.
I think it's better he's going indoors.
They've got weapons, they've got a tight end, they got a running
attack. They're all like, they've
actually got some real weapons. If it was for The Jets and I
knew we, I knew The Jets would have no interest there.
I, I would, I would dump all over it.
If you went to another team outdoors, dump all over it.
I just don't think he's got an arm.
I don't think you could throw. I'm worried about the
concussions. I've obviously touched on this a
lot going back to like the Malik Willis and Kirk Cousins and
Kyler Murray and and and Tana McKee and some of the other
things that could happen for the quarter quarterback market
around the NFL, Carson Wentz, blah, blah, blah.
I mean, somebody who's going to pick him up and he's on the
cheap and you know, is he going to be like one of the five worst
quarterbacks in football? No, but he's never going to be
one of the top ten. And it's kind of proven over at
this point, in my opinion. And at this point, if you don't
have a top ten, you don't really have a chance to win a
championship one through 10, just given their personnel and
their situation. And they also have a quarterback
that they also like who's young but who's been banged up in
Pedex. It's going to be cheap.
Do you have do you have numbers? Because now you got to give them
some money. No, so all all it is is Falcons
are expected to pursue to a Tagavilioa.
Yeah, yeah. That butcher's last name?
Yeah, Tagaviloa. Tagaviloa.
I mean, it took me. Two years to say Giannis name
right back in the day when he burst on the scene, me and Tiki
would mess that up every day. I mean, listen, doesn't move me
incredibly. If Schechter's got it, it's
obviously on. Good word there.
You know, whatever. I I don't really think it
changes much in the NFC. That division is a little weak
there, so maybe. There you go.
Yeah, I mean, that's true too. Clr 8810, which Mike Brown had
some of that Danny Hurley fire. I listen, I I get it.
Me too once in a while. You can't be something you're
not. That would not be his authentic
self, so it's never going to happen.
I got guys got 1 technical the entire season.
It's basically Saint Patrick's Day.
He's got one the the one other thing too, just to kind of tie
it up. No, no more text there.
We're good on that. J Rod, thank you.
But I want to wrap it up. Want to get ready for Pitino
coming up at 2:00 on the show. Is that I, I think, you know,
Danny was flirting with the Lakers.
You guys remember this was it not this.
I think it was the year before, right?
Either way, within the last year or so, I just don't know how
Danny's temperament is going to play in the NBA.
That's the problem. You know, part of his greatness
is his ability to inspire and almost instill fear and control
over a young roster. And unlike Pitino, he still goes
out and gets freshman. You know, Mullins is a freshman
who he got he's the Caravan years ago freshman.
So it's it's, it's, it's different for him.
And, and I think that that works the younger the player and
obviously he's won twice. So it's it's obviously worked,
but I think he's going to have to just, he's probably more of a
college guy now. He's going to want to scratch
the itch. He's going to want to get, you
know, $20 million a year and, and full power in terms of the
roster construction, which a desperate bad team will
ultimately grant him. I would think at some point,
although that usually doesn't work out when you give the head
coach all the power in in in the building.
But yeah, I mean, at least he's being true to who he is.
You know, he's been like that when he when he was at Wagner,
you know, when he was with Rhode Island.
This is who he is. And I like Curly, so I will
always support Hurley. But to think that Mike Brown's
going to bust out like that or not stop.
Not going to happen. All right, let me roll again,
like and subscribe. Appreciate you guys on a Monday.
Going to be an awesome week here with the Big East tournament.
A lot of different content. Pitino it too.
La Greca tomorrow, the shorts, the likes, the Subs, the shares.
Go do it over 18,000 Subs. I'd love to hit over 19 by
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So enjoy the rest of your day. Appreciate you guys, and I'm
going to bounce you guys back at 2 for Rick.
Bye.