There we go. I don't know what the heck that
was. All right, guys, I really
apologize for that. Obviously working through some
stuff here and a Christmas edition of unleash got a couple
things obviously that I want to get to a lot of Knicks today,
like colic today, a little NBA versus the NFL today.
Got a couple of NFL picks for you.
Obviously drop the comments, keep them coming.
Hey, the the first week I was looking at this right the first
week we are already so we started the first show on Monday
did not do 1 yesterday and we already have 8200 Subs already
hit and I want to explain this to you so you guys understand it
because I spent about 25 minutes Jesse on this tutorial video,
not to mention YouTube support, which actually did help me out
quite a bit. So in my inner workings of this,
right, basically the the digital studio, so to speak, I can see
obviously the subject, I mean, you guys can see those as well,
but how many hours have been logged and all that different
stuff. And you've got to reach a
certain requirement before I can begin monetization, which
obviously is a big vehicle for the show as we get this up and
get sponsorships and start to really, really increase this
platform and do more and more stuff, right?
So I was getting frustrated because I'm looking at this and
I'm saying we've got all these, all these views already.
I think the first video had 17 or 18,000 views, which is great.
And then a lot of comments, a lot of likes, a lot of traction,
a lot of interaction. And on my digital studio stuff,
it said it, it, it showed me that I hit all the criteria to,
to be able to launch into the Super chats and the
subscriptions and all that other stuff.
Long story short, not that you guys necessarily need to know
this, but I, I just wanted you to understand why I can't do
some of the things that you guys are asking me to do, like the
chats, the supers and and and the other stuff, the
subscriptions, because I guess it takes about a month lag or so
for YouTube to, you know, make sure this is legit, make sure
this is on the up and up. So it obviously is, you know,
and, and once they are able to figure that out, which I will
believe it, hopefully it's going to be pretty soon, then we'll be
able to take the next step there, and I look forward to
doing that. I really do.
But again, I just wanted to thank you guys.
It's been, you know, it's been equal parts amazing and a little
confusing as I navigate this new, which by the way, suddenly
feels fairly old to me. Ability to communicate and, and
I love it. I already know it's something
I'm going to do daily. I'm going to dig into this.
You've also asked about calls and, and other aspects and
guests all coming. No question about it.
So that's just some stuff that I want to at least get you set up
with in, in terms of maybe behind the curtain of the show.
Now, a few other things I checked last night on the
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the BT and Sal live show with Aaron Boone, January 22nd.
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And that's why we wound up picking that venue.
So Aaron will be there and of course Sal and I will do our
thing on stage. And there's there were other
seating options. They're all gone now and really
most of the VIP seats are gone as well.
The difference with the VIPII know it's obviously priced a
little bit higher, but after it you get to to meet and I'm
honestly, I'm going to interact with you guys no matter what,
but you'll get it and so will Sal, but you guys will get a
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really make it a little bit more intimate.
So that's the value of the VIP. That's number one.
Number two, make sure you guys set your DVRS here because
Sunday at 10:30 on FOX 5 Sports Extra.
I will be on with my friend who I've known forever.
I love her. I love her personality, I love
her talent, I love her heart. She's just a good person in this
industry. Tina Servacio reached out to me,
as many people did when things went down with the fan.
And she's like, you know, hang in there.
I can't wait to see what you do, what's going to be exciting and,
and, and I genuinely appreciate that.
And then she said, Hey, you know, let's figure something out
where you can come in and come on the show, talk some Nicks,
talk, some Johnny's, talk, some hot stove, plug the show.
And I'm like, absolutely. And I, I, I mean, honestly, I,
I, I thought she meant it clearly, but I, I really thought
that maybe it was like, you know, hey, let me, let me just
get this out there. And when we get around, if we
get around to doing it, we'll do it.
Well, as soon as I said sure, I'd love to come in, she
basically got right back to me. So I'll be on this Sunday locked
in. I know the weather's going to be
a little rough, but it's all good.
All right, so let's get to the content here and keep subbing,
keep spreading the word, keep liking, keep commenting, keep
getting that digital imprint, that traction, the algorithm.
I'm learning how all this hits. The more this spreads out and
shoots all over the world, then the more stuff that I can do and
the bigger this will become. As I said the other day before I
get into the content, obviously many of you, many of you still
have questions about that, what happened at the fan and you know
my thoughts on that. And I'm not just going to always
get into this and regurgitate it.
There's no need to because I'm moving forward.
Just like they're moving forward.
I'm moving forward and I have a great relationship with the fan.
I do, I'll still do some shows when, when, when they've got a
need. And if, if I can do it, I enjoy
it. It's you know, it's, it's a
different it's it's the communication that I'm used to,
Although I love the no boundaries aspect of this, but
there's no bad blood. It's but it's it's something
that I've also said, you know, if I was running the show and I
was making the best decision for the station, you know, I would
get B teen sound on the show, on the air.
That's how much I believed in the show.
But I am an employee. I don't own the business.
So there's, there's, there's nothing there.
This in, in terms of, you know, me saying anything, it's never
going to happen. Not how I was raised, not how I
was wired. You know what I thought about
the show. You know how much I loved it.
You know how much I believed in it.
This is business. And my first job was in 1999.
Many of you know in Allentown, PA, $16,000 a year doing a
morning show had no idea how to do a show.
And I even had less of an idea how to be the promotions
director of the station, which they also made me do because
they thought that $16,000 was a little bit too much of A of a of
a salary to justify just doing the morning show.
So here I am at the show, I'm in there and I'm cutting up promos
and trying to get them on the air, hitting buttons.
I have no idea what I'm doing. The the point is this has been a
long journey and outside of basically one month before when
I left 1050 ESPN Radio and before I went out to San
Francisco to do afternoon drive, I have been on the air
continuously for basically not for 25 years.
I'm proud of it. But with everything comes
changes and adjustments and new things in the world and I I
could just I know that this is going to be a good fit for me
because I feel it from you All right, so good start.
Hopefully the food was awesome. Hopefully the presents were
great and plentiful and what the what the real spirit of
Christmas is, as we all know. Hopefully that was not lost and
you guys had a great time with your family so far.
I know I did and Christmas Eve was great.
My wife to learn from my mom made a phenomenal meal.
All the fishes. I gave you the menu the other
day and then yes, we did the, you know, the Italian, the fish
on Christmas Eve and then the more traditional meats and
lasagna. So we had spare ribs in the in
the sauce. We had meatballs, we had
lasagna, we had some red wine, we had some bread.
Oh my God, I can't I really cannot eat a whole hell of a lot
more. So I got to get back to the
grind and we start now. All right, little bit on Tyler
Kolek. What a game.
What an what an awesome win by the New York Knicks.
Now I can and I I want to reference a couple of numbers
because I do think that they're important here for Tyler Kolek.
Just to substantiate some thoughts that I have that I
think many of you have to let you know that statistically, if
you believe Kolek should play more and they shouldn't trade
them and the, the Yanis angle and all the other stuff that's
out there. The I, I do think it's important
to validate those thoughts and those claims with numbers.
Not that I want to bombard you with numbers, but I'm, I'll be a
little numbers oriented in a minute.
But before I even hit the numbers, think about this guys,
use your eyes. I mean use your eyes.
You can tell when somebody is incredibly comfortable with an
increased role. And one thing that I noticed
with Tyler Kolek is that number one he's got, he's got massive
stones. Like he's just not afraid at all
#2 you can tell. And it's very clear to me that
he's got the ability. And this is very well, you can't
really quantify this, but if you watch sports enough, you know
when somebody has it. And I think more specifically,
when somebody does not with some young players, right When the
situation gets more intense, whether it's 7th or 8th or 9th
inning in a big spot in a baseball game or fourth quarter
for a young quarterback or kicker, whatever it might be,
right last couple of minutes in an NBA game national profile,
you can tell when somebody's heart heart rate speeds up and
when somebody's heart rate is able to remain stable.
And and I don't even know if this is medically provable or
viable, but seemingly slows down.
OK. And the way that manifests
itself is, you know, a lot of the mistakes that the young
players make, they make the mistakes because they're speed
up unnaturally and the opponents, because they've been
there before, they've seen different things.
They are forcing that young player to do things unnaturally.
They really are. And I think the example of a
young hitter is, is expanding the strikes on an Anthony Volpe
does this way too much. And I've talked about that with
Anthony Volpe. And if that does not change,
Anthony Volpe is not going to be a shorting starting shortstop,
forget about for the Yankees. He's not going to be a a
starting shortstop for anybody in in May.
And I'm rooting for him. But he's got to change that.
And I think that those are that's a good example of of a
young player that just has not been able to resist veterans
making him do what they're trying to get him to do.
Now to bring it back to Kolek, Well, think about this guy's.
He was on the court twice. Yeah.
I'll hit you with the numbers now twice during 15 point
deficit comebacks. And to me, I think about that
when you're down 15, even though the modern NBA, you stick a
couple of threes, the other team goes a little cold, boom, you're
right back in the game. Like really no lead is safe in
the NBA. But it wasn't once, it was
twice. And the margin for error,
whether it's turnovers or missed shots or, you know, getting
sliced up on defense where another bucket or two and now
it's not really believable that you can come back from whatever
deficit it might be. He was in the middle of all the
action and at heart rate was slow and he was pumping threes.
And more importantly, you can see him feeling himself now, you
know, playing to the crowd. You could see how his teammates
responding to him. And it's a beautiful thing.
So the the thing about big picture for a minute for the
Knicks right coming out party aside from for Kolek, the big
picture for the Knicks was all right.
Should they blow it up, make that aggressive move for
Giannis. That's one aspect.
And at this point, I said this the other day, my answer is no.
I'm going to give this Group One chance one to try to win a
championship together with everybody hurt in the Eastern
Conference and really only one team in the West.
And I don't think the Knicks could beat.
And although now, as you start to incorporate all the stuff
here, suddenly the Thunder can't beat the Spurs and they've lost,
what, 3 or 4 and four of six, including a game to the
Timberwolves and three to the Spurs, who the Knicks beat in
the cup. Obviously, that's a small
sample, but I I think you can extrapolate a little something
from that. Let me give you this.
I just got to find it on my phone.
This is wild, man. So this speaks to the depth.
This speaks to the way the Knicks have built the team.
Leon Rose. All right, so the Knicks this
year, I'm going to in in just 30 games this entire season,
they've already had ten different players scored 20
points or more in a game. Now, I don't think any other
team can say that. I'm pretty sure you can't.
But so let me give you the high point number for each of the
players and I'm going to buzz through this fast and get back
to colic. Big picture Brunson 47, Towns 40
Shabbat. Remember the big night when
Shaman had 36 a couple of weeks ago?
Bridges 35 OG 28 Clarkson 25 another guy guy who Brown is
letting stay on the court when he's showing that he should be
there. That will get me the tibs in a
moment. Deuce who's been hurt a lot this
year, but I love him 25 for him. Josh Hart 22 Mitch with 21 and
now Colic with 20. So their, their ability to play
a lot of different ways and, and really do things that I don't
think a lot of other teams can do in terms of setting matchups,
playing at different speeds, different sizes, different,
different rotations. I, I, I, I'm very intrigued by
this to the point where you know, and I can't prove this,
but there comes a point where, you know, you've got to take the
information you've been presented with, but you also
have to just kind of trust you got whatever it might be.
And really me trusting my gut was launching something like
this. And the early dividends have
proven to me that it's the right move.
You guys feel this, I feel it. I know I can grow it.
And we're going to, we're going to do all that stuff, right?
So you got to understand when it's time to pivot, when it's
time to jump, when it's time to go, whatever it might be.
And the thing about Tom Thibodeau, I can't prove this,
that it wouldn't have changed this year, but I don't believe
it would have. That's just my opinion.
The thing about Tom Thibodeau was that he already showed us
who he was. Now, good thing for for us for a
couple of years is that, yeah, he showed us who he was and that
was a hell of a basketball coach who held you accountable, made
you play hard and really treated the regular season in a way that
very few people value anymore. Now, the converse to that is
that that there's a residual impact downstream in terms of
heavy minutes and injuries, whatever.
But if you watch Tom Thibodeau and you're devout Nick fan or
even a Bulls fan go or or T Wolves, wherever he was prior to
coming here, you didn't see a lot of growth that was
transferable to the modern NBA. Now, I don't want to be unfair
to Tom Thibodeau because I do think that, you know, he took
his foot off the gas a little bit overtime.
Certainly embrace the three-point shot more.
There was a little bit of a lean into the the modern NBA.
But the thing that drove me the most nuts about not even that he
didn't go deeper into the bench and give young players a chance
to show that they could do something.
The thing that that really I thought was detrimental to the
team's growth in their ceiling was that you'd be in the middle
of a game and you'd have. I'm just trying to whether it's
Deuce and Mitch and I don't know, sham it, whatever.
I'm going back to last year and that team is flowing and they
either get the Knicks back into a game or they build the lead.
And what does he do? Like clockwork and just all
right, let me hit the button. Let me go back to the guys that
I know, the guys that I trust, the rotations that I set.
Mike Brown's the exact opposite. And that is what this team
needed. Like if you're rolling like Karl
Anthony Towns, his ass was on the bench for a lot of that
comeback. I think he came back for the
final three minutes and I want to say 343 something like that.
Like, there's no predisposed, all right, this is my guy and
this guy's making 40 or $50 million, and he's an all and not
just cat, whomever it might be. Your bridge is a bridge is an
OG. He's making X amount of money,
which must mean it's got to be commensurate with the minutes
that you get. No, you do what's best for the
team. And Mike Brown's willingness to
do that is so apparent and so refreshing.
So I am at the point now, and I was here the other day,
emboldened even more based on Kovic's performance and Clarkson
USA. I'm not making a trade for
Giannis. I'm giving this Group One shot
unless there was a devastating injury.
From now on to the trade deadline, I'm not touching
anything and I'm definitely not going out and getting a backup
point guard. You don't need to see Tyler
Kolek. Where was it?
Yeah, So Kolik last year, I can't find it.
That's the other thing about it, because like in my studio, I've
actually, I had a little bit of a different set up.
Now I've I've one thing that I've got take it behind the
curtain, I've got to get a little bit more used to where I
place things and even the microphone and everything just
set up a little bit differently. So we'll get there.
But I just remember from doing the notes before the show, he
averaged 7 minutes a game last year. 7.
Now, this was not somebody who came from Europe, who was
untested and, you know, didn't really deserve a look.
He never got a look despite leading the Big East in assists,
not one, not 2-3 years in a row and playing 121 games in
college. Do you understand the value of
that, guys? You know, the way the NBA is
gone is that really you get think about the two kids from
Rutgers, think about any young player.
You get drafted based on what you're going to be, not what you
already are. And I understand it and I
because I understand it and I understand the direction of the
modern NBAI don't really push back too much because it is what
it is. Otherwise you're going to sound
like the old man on the lawn. No, I get it.
That's fine, because the, the contract structure, particularly
that second contract is so exorbitant that, you know, you,
you want that second contract to come, not when the players, you
know, 29, which never happens anymore, unless it's like a
unique outlier kind of a situation.
But you know, you get drafted, you're 19/19/2021 qualifying
offers, blah, blah, blah. By the time you're 232425 bank,
there's the second contract and it's more palatable for the team
to grow things out and and and be not even financially solvent,
but just to just to be able to structure the roster better
money aside just from a a sheer, you know, player and team, team
building perspective, right, talent, talent evaluation.
So I don't understand why Kolich didn't play at all.
Now I also get it. He put some more time in the
weight room this offseason that you could tell his body's
changed just a little bit from a year ago, even from Marquette.
And and that's what happens. I mean, now it's your job, but
to play 7 minutes and now you see him out there.
You don't go like this to the crowd and and banging threes and
people's faces and being in the middle of an epic Christmas
national game comeback. I mean, that's not happening.
If Tom Thibodeau is the coach. It's not.
So I here's what I believe. And again, I won't use the word
no, I won't be that arrogant. I strongly believe, which is why
I got on the air on WFAN and it hurt me to do this, but I had to
do what I had to do. I got on the air the day the
Knicks go find it. It's out there.
Maybe I don't know if they deleted all my stuff.
No, they didn't. I'm just kidding.
It's out there and I said, God, I hate to be the guy to do this
because I love him because man, he brought us back and he re
instilled Nick pride and I'm going to love him forever for
that and I'm going to always respect him no matter what.
You got to move on from Tom Thibodeau.
You're not going to win a champion.
I've seen the ceiling. See, I've know the limitations.
He's in his 60s. He's not going to radically
change. He's he's he's he's no change
incrementally a little bit over the years, but what he needs to
change, he never will. And if Tom Thibodeau is coaching
this team? Colic's not playing, Clarkson's
not on the floor. He's going to yank those guys
and go back to the names that he knows and that he trusts.
You think Dor is getting that run by the way the kids?
Good. He's 20.
He's showing a little ability to shoot.
He can guard one through 5. Tom Thibodau wasn't giving him
that latitude, that trust, that stage, that rope, you know?
And you know what, if you lose a few extra regular season games
because of it, which they might, the greater good.
May, June is what I'm about. I've seen the Knicks, you know,
win 50 something games, be a top seed, win the first round, win
the second round, get to the conference championship and
lose. I want to win a championship.
And I don't believe that Tom Thibodeau was that guy.
I'm sorry. When you're around for when
you're coaching for 20 years and your championship lists and
you've had some really, really great players and in certain
spots the team's gotten better when you've moved on, like
Minnesota, there's a lot of evidence and ammunition for me
to say what I just said. And it's born out of respect.
But I've got to be transparent. So I don't believe he would ever
win. Now, I'm not going to be so, so
forward to say that I think that Mike Brown's going to win the
championship. But what I will say is I believe
Mike Brown will put this Knicks team in a better position to win
a championship then Tom Thibodeau.
And right now that's all I can ask for.
Like what else can I really say? Now it's December 26th, play 30
something games, top seed. We know they're really good.
We know they're a little vulnerable in certain spots, but
I think we're past the the exploratory stage of this team.
I think where things are happening in a in a good way, in
a very defined way, role allocation is still evolving,
admittedly, but that's something that wouldn't have happened with
Tom Thibodeau, with all due respect.
So that's why I'm where I am with that.
I love Tom, but Mike Brown was a really good hire.
And listen, sometimes you have to get lucky.
Mike Brown was not the New York Knicks first choice.
You know that. I mean, they went through a
couple of different people, got turned down, got ridged, not not
interested, not the one to interview.
And, you know, sometimes, I don't know, Joe Torry, Joe
Torry's brought in by the Yankees after Buck couldn't get
him over the hump at 95. And Buck was the perfect coach.
Pardon me, Joe was the perfect manager at the perfect time for
that group. That remains to be seen.
But I think there's a chance, chance.
And go on that Mike Brown's the perfect coach at the perfect
time for this crew. All right, let me check some of
the comments here. Yeah.
And no doubt Ormond Duffield will always be grateful for what
Tom did, Tibbs did versus no down.
How are there no sports on this afternoon?
I what's up, Ira? How you doing, buddy?
I were from Staten Island. I was a big Jets fan.
I got to tell you the story and I will this week, Monday, next
week, if I should say, days are all wacky after the holidays.
I got to tell you the actual story, how I became a Jets fan.
And seeing Ira from Staten Island's name up there, that
just sparked something. All right, how about Tyler
Wellmore? Let's go.
Knicks love the steps Kolik has taken.
He showed him summarly true, but Dibs has never gave him the
chance to shine. Happy New year, BT Happy new
year to you as well. Merry Christmas.
All that great stuff. Happy holidays.
Yeah, at John 202834. Knicks only chance for for a
chip. Well, I don't know if it's their
only chance because with Brunson and all the other guys in their
prime and contractually, you know, I know you got to see what
you can do with Cat with the extension.
But like, there's urgency, but it's not a one year window,
which is why I'm willing to give them the runway to see if this
group could win. Like if Brunson's contract was
up or, or whatever. I'm just throwing out a
situation that would make it very different from now.
I would be very willing. I'd say, you know what, we've
seen this crew for a couple of years.
Not it blow it up, whatever you have to get get Giannis in here.
Take one big swing. If that doesn't work, it's time
to rebuild. We're not there yet.
And I think many of you smart Knick fans, not those who are
just like, oh, let me get Giannis who don't really watch
the NBA. Yeah, by the way, you know, very
basic premise of doing what I do.
You'd be surprised how many people don't actually watch this
stuff that pretend that they do. It's actually embarrassing.
Go and check my last week or one of my last tweets.
And it's recapturing what I wrote about Tyler Kolak the
night that the Knicks drafted him June maybe 27 in 2024.
Go check it out. Go check it out because you you
have to watch games. You have to understand this
stuff. You have to dig in and dive in
and not just parachute in and then gloss over headlines and
and forge an opinion that way. Let me let me take a little,
just a very little quick side turn that that I think is going
to be synonymous with this show. You know one thing that I do, I
will take side turns. I will always get back to where
I was. So we'll get back to the Knicks.
I want to do a little something on the NFL, which bothered me
yesterday playing games on Christmas.
They they're so greedy, the NFL. I'll get to that in a minute,
but I will take some side turns When when, when, when something
pops into my head and and this just popped in my head talking
about, you know, watching games and structuring a show.
The beautiful thing about this format and it's nobody's fault
really. This this is I'm I'm not
throwing shade at anybody. I'm just giving you the real on
how terrestrial radio there. There's a little bit of a
limitation and I've I've got love for it.
I'm still going to do some of it.
I, I, I said that, but when you do a show for four hours right
when Mike and Chris started and they were and they are legends
and icons and the face of FAN along with a few others and the
face of talk radio, sports radio, not just the fan.
But when you do that back then you don't have to come out like
right away, right away and, you know, make an aggressive point
and making A and, and present that a compelling debate.
Listen, it's my belief. Now this might not be good for
everybody, for every PD or whatever, but I believe it's
good for you, which to me is what really matters.
I think one of the mistakes and I, and I was guilty of it a
little bit and, and Sam and I talked about this like we had a,
we had to work through it. There were times we were getting
on the air, and not that we ever said anything.
We didn't believe neither one of us would ever do that.
No, there's no chance that was ever happening.
But there were early on, special when Spike, who I've got massive
love for because he brought me to WFAM, spiked him.
But one of the Spikes, they just like a managerial style.
So imagine a coach playing a certain style of basketball or a
manager utilizing the bullpen a certain way.
This was Spike's style, all right, Spike wanted within 10 to
fit. And he's he's so good at this.
He's so good at this business. But I did not fully
fundamentally agree with this. It was very foreign to me and I
struggled with it with with myself.
And I think also our show early on, Sam and I where within the
1st 1015 seconds. He he wants the audience to
know, here's what we're hitting here.
Here's here's like the strong statement and here's the debate
and let's go. And I get it.
I get it. Because if you don't do that,
yeah, you're bullshit for, you know, 5 what's going on?
Here's the phone number. What are you doing?
Ah, traffic was heavy today. Oh my God, it was raining.
Oh, I forgot my umbrella. I ate this for.
I mean, that's boring and people are going to tune out.
And as I started to say before, unlike Mike and Chris, who are
the best, you could do that back then because there was nowhere
else to go, You know, now, if you don't like what we were
saying, you know, you go to the other radio station.
If you don't like what either one of us are saying, you go to
your favorite podcast, you go to first take with my guy Stephen A
well, I'm going to get on as a guest, no doubt.
You, you can just bounce around and you go to Sirius, listen to
music, go to Mad Dog, listen to shine.
Like there's a there's so many ways to consume.
So I understood fundamentally for sure what Spike's mission
was. I think where it hurt us a
little bit is that as a new show with two very strong
personalities, alpha personalities on the air and
you, you we weren't able to present ourselves in a very
human way. And and you know, I think what
are the strengths of of our show?
What when we got going and certainly I think one of my
individual strengths, I'll speak for myself with this now, is
that, yeah, I am relatable. I do come across hopefully is
likable and somebody you want to hang out with, certainly
somebody you want to support. That's evidence what you guys
are doing for me and I'm eternally grateful and thankful
for it. Thank you.
But if you're not given that window to do it, it's it's it
maybe you get off a little bit on the wrong foot.
How do you think about the early days, the Carl bank situation,
you know, which we own. Then we you know, we resolved.
I've got love for Carl. I talked to him and so did
Salvador. Listen, it's all good.
This is not again to re litigate my days there.
But this format allows me to just go with a more I think it
more of a speed. Trust me, when there's something
to hit, no one's going to hit it like me.
I'd like to think that you guys know that by now.
When there is something to hammer and there's something to
be a lunatic about, you're going to get it.
You're going to get unfiltered, unleashed, obviously unkillable.
BT that's the essence of this, a rawness and a transparency.
But you can't, you can't force it.
All right? That's one of the things I'm
really enjoying about this. I just wanted to get that out of
the way, All right, like and subscribe it.
Let me get a couple of comments. I want to give you something on
the NFL. Let's see here it is the it's
the hook. I'm not sure what that means.
Can we we can't trade Kolek. That's woh man 4766.
We finally have a point guard off the bench that we can't let
go. I wouldn't even trade him for
for Devo. Yeah, I got to be honest with
you, I'm not so sure that I would trade him for Dante di
Vincenzo either. Nobody loves Dante di Vincenzo
like me. You know, I love Dante di
Vincenzo, love him. See, here's what had to happen
#1 Kolak had to prove that he can play in the NBA, did it #2
He had to prove that he can kind of, you know, run an NBA offense
and, and slightly elevate, stabilize where it needed to be
stabilized. And, and he's done that check.
And then the other thing that he had to prove, and he started to
prove this now that you can't do this every night.
It's going to be dictated by matchups for sure.
But he had to prove that he can coexist and, and, and then
eventually flourish with Jalen Brunson together on the court.
And you're seeing an inch and very interesting dynamic between
those two guys, which I love. So I want more of it.
I think that Mike Brown trusts it.
And you're starting to see, you're starting to see the, the
dog that Tyler Kolak has in him. You know, I was messing around
the other day where I guess this was maybe maybe Christmas Eve or
maybe the the show before that. And I remember saying, you know,
about my son and, and the basketball team.
I'm like, Hey, you know, when, when, when it's when it's all
white kids on the court. You're playing basketball.
But you're not really playing the basketball that if you're
good enough and you work hard enough that you're eventually
going to play like there's suburb basketball, then there's
basketball, right? And and I say that respectfully,
you know, that that's, that's just the way it is.
The numbers back that up. But I also think that the some
of the stereotypes that that still exist, it's either a
laziness or just a lack of awareness.
There are so many. Like you see a you see a white
guy who could shoot Larry Bird. I remember when Van Horn was
coming up. Oh, player comp, you go to a
website, Larry Bird. Why?
Cuz he's 69 and white. I mean, Van Horn was soft as
whatever Bird was a killer. There was no comparisons at all.
Tip skin color, right? And I think when you look at
somebody like Tyler Kolick, you know, he's got he's got the hair
part. It looks like he's going to be a
choirboy, like he's going to be up there singing Christmas Eve,
Christmas carols, you know, the first OL.
And I think what's been lost with Tyler Kolick is if you're
an NBA player today, right? And I don't mean European
players, If you're if you're a white American player, I can
promise you that you grew up AAU, which is the best of the
best, which means I can promise you that you were one of two if
that many white players on the team like you might be saying to
yourself, wow, how is Tyler Kolek doing this?
Because he's an absolute boulder.
That's how he's doing it. And because he's been doing it
from the time he was 10 or 11 years old.
This is natural. Anything else that you might
think? Not not many of you, but some of
you might think or might say, you know, stereotypes on the
white point guard. This is his world.
This is all he knows. So I really think that he is
that guy. He is that guy to play 18 to 22
minutes a night. He is that guy.
God forbid Brunson tweaks an ankle.
Brunson picks up a couple of fouls early like he did in the
playoffs, Pistons and some other games.
All right, Tyler, let's go. Can't miss a beat.
I mean, it's it's not like, you
know, Jaylen Brunson's Derek Harper or some great defender
back in the day locking you down.
I mean, you're not really losing much on defense because Jaylen
Brunson is not a good defensive player anyway.
So I just think this is the evolution of these Knicks, and I
love it. And I love that Mike Brown is
here and I love that he is just letting them evolve organically.
And when something good is going, he's not messing with it.
He's not forcing things. He's not stuck in his old ways.
He's been a good fit so far. Leon Rose has done a lot right
for these Knicks. It's amazing.
I had another number on SO, and I want to get something on the
NFL. Yeah, yeah, I already gave you
this. So to me it wasn't about like
the 16 points or the 9 assists or a + 24 team high plus minus.
It's about the presence I talked about.
It's about the clutch, it's about the heartbeat.
Those are things that jump out. Those are the first things I
look for. The numbers, you know, if you
are 5-6 years in, are kind of what you are.
I know we had a little success there, but you know, Mitchell
Robinson, free throw shooter is what he is like.
That's that's not what I'm talking about.
Like I think that there's, there's a lot of young guards
that come in the NBA that coming in from college, like the
closeout speed is just different.
The length is different, the speed is different.
So you might have that extra tick to gather yourself and and
go in college, but in the NBA you're rushed, which means your
mechanics are compromised, which means your efficiency is going
to drop And you need a laboratory to figure that out.
And I believe the colic and I believe the others really are.
Yeah, what else here? I talked about Tibs.
The bottom line, guys, I think Tom Thibodeau's biggest issue,
his core deficiency is the thing that was going to always keep
them back. And if you just tuned in, I
touched on that earlier. And obviously you guys want to
jump in, hit the comments, like it, subscribe it, go from there,
spread the word. I'm going to miss you and Sal
together. Hope you guys do a podcast here
and there. Absolutely.
Listen, of course I want to get Sal on the show.
I love Sal. We're doing the live show, BT
and Sal January 22nd, myconcerts.net is where you get
the tickets. There's only about 11 or 12 VIP
tickets. Love great seeds, great venue.
Aaron Boone's going to be there. Of course, I plan on getting Sal
on as a guest. But you know, listen, we've got
families and we've got things and he's doing some stuff and
and I'm doing some stuff. The goal is to, I never want to
speak for him because he's his own person, obviously, but I, I
think it would be a shame not to do something once in a while
just to capture that BT and Sapphire and, and, and just give
that to you because you want that.
So I, I think would be foolish not to try to tap into that.
How, where, when not sure, logistics have to work them out.
But of course, I mean, the door is open.
I just got to set up some things behind the scenes to get any
guest on, whether it's Sal or Stephen A or Boone or whomever.
That'll be next week. We're going to roll some stuff
out next week here, get a couple of guests up for you.
Now we're tweaking some stuff. But of course, I mean, I, you
know, an unfiltered conversation with him would be absolutely off
the charts phenomenal. There's no doubt about it.
I let me get this off my chest. This is bothering me.
So the NBA started playing Christmas games in 1947, since
2008 is when they started, and I love when they did this.
They started to showcase five games.
Whether it's a rivalry thing or just the best players in the
game, it's a great thing, right? Let me that's the track record
of the NBA pertaining to Christmas.
Christmas stuff, football, very different.
Football was basically incredibly infrequent until
2020. Now it's a regular occurrence.
As we know now, they went out of their way from 72 to 1988 to
avoid playing anything on Christmas Day.
When they got from 19 from 1989 to 2019, right before COVID,
they they had the occasional game.
And listen, if it was, if it was a regular Sunday Christmas game,
clearly you're going to roll that out there.
To me, though, I think it's such a disservice to families.
I, I, I absolutely loathe, I detest the fact that the NFL has
forced their way onto the Christmas schedule.
You know why? Number one, it's all rooted in
greed. That's the obvious answer.
But to me, like, and I remember as a kid, Bernard King scored
60, although that was at night. Bernard King scored sixty
against the Nets in 84. And then, and I referenced this
the other day in 85 Patrick Ewing's rookie season where they
came back from 25 points down against the Boston Celtics at
Madison Square Garden. And yeah, that was Byrd, McHale,
Parrish, you know, Dennis Johnson, older Danny Ainge, Bill
Walton coming off the bench, Jerry, Sheesh, Sting, Casey
Jones, one of the best teams in the history of basketball, the
mid 80s Celtics. And I remember watching that
game in my basement and the Knicks were awful.
I I think they won 23 or 24 games that year.
Patrick won the rookie of the year.
And then he he hyperextended his knee, something with his knee
and he missed the final 18 to 20 games, still won the rookie of
the year. But the point is they had this
epic comeback game and it was so unexpected and so amazing.
And it was such an amazing, for me, entry into the Knicks on
Christmas Day because now, you know, 85, obviously Pat's a
rookie, 86, They still were horrible.
Then 87, Pitino came in, my guy Rick came in, got him to the
playoffs for the first time since Hubie Brown.
All right, couple years before that.
And then the Ascent was on. And then, you know, they started
shooting threes and you had Mark Jackson.
And then, you know, the late 80s became the early 90s.
And now obviously, way before that, you have the Oakley trade
for Cartwright. So the whole DNA, they changed
and now all of a sudden the Knicks were championship viable.
So as a young kid, I guess I was 11 or 12 in, in 85, watching,
watching that game. That was just cool because the
Knicks were on Christmas Day. But then it became appointment
TV where, you know, I would just go up and come down, see what
Santa brought. And, you know, then, yeah, my
mom would make a Big Breakfast and then I I'd run downstairs at
like 6:00 AM on Christmas. So we'd be done with everything,
presents and stocking and. Mom and dad would have coffee,
which now I do. I sit there and have coffee
watching the kids do their stuff.
And then, you know, by the time the Knicks were on, my dad and I
were like, all right, time to break away, time to watch our
Knicks. But the reason why I'm OK
because I don't want to be unfair to the NFL.
I don't want to contradict myself.
I want to tell you exactly why I'm more OK with the NBA on
Christmas and not the NFL number one.
It's root and greed. That's first and foremost.
But when you watch the NBA, don't you watch the NBA with a
different energy? Like a different urgency more
leisurely. Now, I'm not saying during the
comeback yesterday we weren't hooting and hollering down the
basement. We were I mean Kolex banging
threes Mitchell. I mean Mitchell with that sick
Donna. First of all, that Donovan
Mitchell dunk was wow, that three pointer.
I don't think that that was a travel.
I thought he held his pipitfoot. I thought they got it right.
Hits that crazy 3 and then Cat misses the free throw and
obviously he throws one which was online about 70 feet.
Whatever was, if that's higher, that's going to hit the front
rim or that may have actually gone in.
That was online. So crazy finish point being, of
course, we're into it, so we're not sitting there leisurely as
the comeback is mounting. But when you watch football, if
your team is playing now, my team never plays important games
because we suck. And at this point in the season,
it's a wrap who we draft in, who we fire in, who we hire in
whatever. How much free agent money do we
have? Who's available for free agency?
Like that's our Super Bowl. And you know, last night,
Cowboy, yesterday, Cowboys, Commanders means nothing because
the Cowboys are out of it, Commanders out of it.
You know, obviously Broncos fans had a lot going on last night.
The the intensity that you watch football with, to me it is so
different and I just think it's unfair to families to wedge that
in because I got news for you. Like if The Jets were playing
yesterday, my whole attitude it's and it was a big game and
it mattered. I'm on edge and there's a chance
even if I don't want it, which of course I don't want to do it,
even if I unknowingly do it. I think there's a little bit of
disengagement from Christmas morning because you're getting
ready to watch your football team, which is a different
emotion than basketball and much different than baseball.
And, you know, again, you're a little bit on edge.
And, you know, I myself, and this is a little bit of a fault
of mine, but it is what it is. I can't watch big games with a
lot, with a lot. I just can't with people and
stuff going on around me. And I'm like, you got to know
the deal. You got to know when to shut up.
You got to know when to cheer. You got to know when to ask a
question. You know, I, I, it's just,
that's how I am. I'm not going to apologize for
it, Mike. I got a big game.
My team's playing and it's football.
And when you're watching football and it's a big game,
you feel like running through a brick wall.
And you should not have to feel that way on Christmas Day.
You really shouldn't, like, think about this.
Think about if the Cowboys are playing yesterday.
America's team, millions of Cowboys fans, if not millions,
certainly hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of of
in in the United States. Dallas Cowboy fans, think about
all the people going to grandma's house, going to their
aunt's house, going to their brother's house, going to their
sister's house. And think about how many times
the doorbell is ringing, how many conversations with people
that you haven't maybe seen in them since Thanksgiving, maybe.
Is that the way you want to watch a football game?
That matters because it's not the way that I want to watch a
football game that matters. I just think it's unfair and
it's all because of money. And listen, there's things that
the NBA does that drives me nuts.
I think Adam Silver, though, I do give him credit for some
level nuts here. I think the Cup was a kind of a
lame concept to start. I'm getting behind it a little
bit. And I think for the younger
generation, as that becomes more and more ingrained in their
viewing habits of the season, it's going to have a little more
prestige. So I think that that's a good
thing. And that too raises money,
etcetera, but it also raises the competitive value of the sport.
So that's a check in the good column for Adam Silver.
Adam Silver's problem to me is that he's a number 2, not a
number one. I've never thought he was an
authoritative enough figure to be the commissioner of the NBA.
I I just think that he lets, I think he's soft.
I think he lets the players run the show and I think the product
has suffered. Even though they're incredibly
talented and I still love the NBAI think a lot of people have
been turned off by it. It's a 3 point Chuck fest, which
isn't necessarily his fault. That's more stylistic.
Defense is optional maintenance days.
You know, I don't think he was at the front of it when maybe he
could have been more assertive and more creative and more
aggressive. Like you'll never be Sterns, you
know what I mean? That's that's the best
commissioner in the history of sports, in my opinion, The old
NBA commissioner. Rest in peace.
So while I've been critical of him, at least the Cup is good.
And he's carried on the tradition since, oh, you know,
08 when there's five of these games on, you know, staggered.
Next. Here's Lebow, here's Kobe,
here's Shaq, here's Carmelo Nick's against the Heat, here's
Paul Pierce and Garnetti Celtics against whomever.
Like that's great. But again, you could watch it
and the doorbell can ring and it doesn't necessarily interrupt
your inner motor. And if you know what I mean, you
know what I mean? Football does.
You can't watch a big game that way.
And I really don't like the fact that they did it again for all
those years they went out of their way to avoid it from 80,
from 72 to 88, they pretty much did anything they could not to
put it on to avoid it, like proactively avoid it.
Now they're doing the exact opposite.
They're doing anything they can to proactively shove it down
your throat, which I think is inherently weak.
Bothers me. Really, really does.
Let's see. This one's from Mackenzie
Joseph, 35 O 5. Glad a man I don't know what,
Glad a man who knows BT talk about the textbook.
How to break a full court press. I don't really know if I
understand that. I agree with your take.
Different energy watching the NFL.
Yeah, Come on, guys. Love the Knicks on Channel 9.
Love Bernard King. I got a frame Bernard King
jersey downstairs in the basement autographed.
It's awesome. What I what I might do as I get
this thing going, build it out further.
I might actually have to incorporate and take a little
work on my part, but it's all good.
This is what I want to do for the channel.
I might actually just start swapping jerseys out and putting
things. So you got to Yeah.
Listen, if I'm launching something, you know, I got to
launch with my guy Donnie Baseball, my all time favorite
athlete. But I've got a framed Ewing.
I've got a frame Nameth. I've got a framed, I've got a
framed Stoudemire that's autographed that I love.
Amari. That's that's that doesn't quite
make the rotation. My wife wanted part of a sales
thing. I don't know if that would make
it yet, but I've got some cool things I can throw behind me
that that I that I will certainly do for you.
What else here? NBA has been exciting has been.
Yeah, no doubt. Let's see.
I miss the old days when players always played and didn't, Yeah,
didn't do the load management nonsense.
Understood. I get it.
That's that's just something that, you know, I, I it is what
it is. We're kind of too, too deep into
it, which I think is an issue. And when you're not at the
forefront of something early, well, then I, you know, I think
it's almost too tough to, to undo it.
You know, you're not. Once you let the gates down and
people are, you know, the money's coming in and they
become a little bit accustomed to it just to, you know,
abruptly stop it. I think it's very, very hard to
do. And I don't think that they're
going to be able to do that. Let me ask you a question for
those of you who That's a good question.
You know, hold on, I'm going to jot that down.
Do I still speak to anybody from ESPN New York anymore?
I assume you mean 1050 ESPN Radio?
Yeah, absolutely. I've got a couple of friends in
the building and I've got respect for him.
Listen, the business is what it is.
You compete against each other, but at the end of the day, it's
a very small fraternity. There's only so many
microphones. So I was with Michael K last
Saturday at Alex's Christmas party.
Spent a lot of time with Michael and his wife Jody, who I love.
Haven't seen Mike in a while. Before that.
We were at his wedding. It was a while ago.
Jeez. We, we we do text a lot, share
stuff on our kids. Matter of fact.
When? So my son, I think he was five.
I think this was during yeah, this was during COVID because
he's 10 now. I sent him a text, right?
And it wasn't out of nowhere. Like we were communicating a
little bit and I was in the backyard and we were working on
baseball and doing some stuff and, and I shot him a text.
I'm I don't, I don't know why this popped in my head.
I'm like, he'll, I think he'll do it for me.
Maybe it's a little forward, but I've known Mike forever.
I love Mike and he's got love for me.
I'm going to ask him as a favor, right?
Said, hey, if you get a chance and they're probably going crazy
at home during COVID, if you get a chance, is there any way that
you can record a, you know, you doing, you doing with my son's
name, a Yankee home run call. Because he was so young.
And like, when he'd hit a tennis ball over the fence, he would
run around the bases and then I would, I would pitch it and then
I'd run to like where third base would be and I'd give him a high
5 and, you know, celebrate or be at home play, wait for him.
So we were, you know, really sparking that baseball love and
the celebration and, and trying to, you know, ingrain that in
him and, and teach him baseball. And I thought that he would find
it so cool because I've got speakers in the yard where I
play music where if I could pump in a call from Michael K and
with his name in it, how sick would that actually have him
emulate As he's running around the bases, the ball's going over
the fence. And I'm thinking that maybe
you'll get, you know, get around to it.
If I tell you in in 2 minutes, I had it back and it was Chris
Sale pitching for the Reds. He's like, here's the pitch from
Sail at the stretch. Here's the pitch to Tierney.
It is high. He went to his whole Michael Kay
home run shtick. It was absolutely awesome.
Mike's a great guy. I really.
I love Michael. I do.
I love Don. I've known Don.
I was at Don's wedding. I have loved Don forever.
I'm so happy I let him know this.
So happy. Got the devil's job and it's one
of his dream jobs. I got a funny story is how long
Don and I go back. I don't know if any of you will
remember this, but around I would say 2005.
Yeah. This is a minute 2O5O6 and on
MSG they came up with this new concept, right?
So this one I'm a 1050 and at that point home of the Knicks,
home of the Rangers, right, and they asked Don to do like a wrap
around hockey show and they asked me to do a wrap around NBA
show. This is this is funny.
You guys, you guys appreciate the story, right?
Hockey season starts before basketball.
And I remember sitting in my apartment in in the city
watching MSG, watching Don. Now, they basically just threw
them out there and they threw them out at the play by play.
Remember the play by play right from right next to Cosby's up
the escalator at the old garden, right?
You do, if you do, you do. And I'm, I'm like nervous for
Don. And I had, I had done TV at that
point, but never really as a host, always as a guest or a
contributor. And pretty much same with him.
So I'm watching Don, I'm sitting there and like, it's hot as
hell. I think he's sweating a little
bit with something I could relate to.
The lights are on him. There's like it's not even a
Purdue show. So he's just talking whatever
he's talking about. I'm like, man, this is you want
to talk about starting a new endeavor with with no no
tightrope, but no net. Like it was bare bones.
So now that was done their plan for me because you know, then
them thinking the Knicks are more pot, not because they
thought I was better than Don, but just because the Knicks are,
you know, Knicks, even though the Rangers have great fans,
Knicks have more fans. It's basketball, right?
So I forget who it was opening night, say November 4th,
whatever it was, they're like, no, no, you're not going to do
it from the restaurant. You're going to do it from we're
going to build a big studio desk and you're going to be in front
of about 3000 people and we're going to do a live show and
you're going to host it and Junkyard JJYD, junkyard Jerome
Williams from Georgetown, from the Knicks, Raptors, etcetera.
He's going to do the show with you.
I'm like, all right, great. I'm like, so this is like a
month before I go and then after it they're like you go do the
post game show where Don did it at the play by play restaurant
and it'll be great. I'm like, awesome.
Yeah, I'm nervous, I'm excited. You name it, I'm it.
And I'm like, well, we got a month to prepare.
One week passes, two week past the three-week nothing.
Finally like 2 days before the the game and the show.
I I think I didn't text him. I don't even know how I got in
touch with somebody at MSG. I'm like you guys, what you
know, what's the plan here? What are what are we doing?
I have no idea what we're doing. Help me out a little bit.
You know, whatever you need, I got you.
But I really don't know what we're doing.
So the Oh yeah, come on, we'll have a little meeting.
So I go to MSGI, sit in a in a little boardroom with them and
we're kind of plotting out the show.
Now keep in mind I have no literally 0 I'm a radio guy and
for TV just a guest guy. 0 awareness of the verbiage of TV,
let alone the actual usage of TV equipment.
So I am sitting on a massive MSG desk on the steps of the old
garden and there's got to be 3000 people in front of me at
least. And it is mayhem, right?
And I got the earpiece, man, I'm nervous.
I I was absolutely thank God it was cold out, otherwise I would
have been dripping from sweat, right?
And they go, all right, you know, we're live in 60.
I'm like, oh God, 60 seconds till I end my career here.
This should be an absolute shit show.
This is going to be horrendous. I just, oh, yeah, hey, by the
way, we're going to start the show.
Just follow the jib camera on 7th Ave. and just start talking
and you'll be, you'll be great. The show's going to start.
I have no idea what a jib camera is.
I've never heard that expression in my life at that point.
Now the jib is like the thing that like kind of moves like
this. It's got this big arm and it
kind of gives you more of an overhead shot.
So I guess they had a jib camera on 7th Ave.
They're like 5. I'm like, all right, They said
something about a jib camera on 7th Ave.
All right. Oh, it had to be Old forks.
It was Larry Brown's first and only year.
They're like, you're live now. I all I see is 7th Ave. and I
don't see myself yet. God, if I saw this tape, I think
I would I think I would die from embarrassment.
But I actually and I think other components of the show because
of me were horrible. But I actually was able to
execute the first part of what they told me to execute 60
seconds before they told me to execute it.
And I just remember sitting there next to JYD and all this
throng of people nervous out of my mind, all my friends
watching. I'm like, this is going to be
and Joe Beningo, what a disaster is going to be a disaster,
right? And when I see the, the sirens
and they, the police and the FDNY and then the taxis and the
people, I'm like, oh, there it is a live shot.
And I somehow I just, I just went into like, I don't know,
whatever. I went into a live 7th Ave. and
everybody's pumped up there. A new era.
Nick's something like the new era.
Nick's basketball. Larry Brown here to help get the
Knicks back on track. And then I can actually see now
they're pointing to the jib because I didn't even know where
it was because I evidently once they went from 7th Ave., the jib
was going to come to me and then I had to find the so I'm not
looking at the wrong like the jib's here and I'm looking
there. You look like an idiot.
Trust me, I was going to look like an idiot anyway that night.
So I'm like, they're pointing frantically and those guys were
awesome. They once I got like the crew
was great, great crew, awesome people.
And they knew I needed some help, but I don't think they
knew before I started the show that I needed some help.
Once they figured it out, they were awesome and they were
really helpful. So they're pointing at the
camera and I somehow with an element of grace, somehow look
at the camera. And now I'm like, now I'm like
welcoming everybody and I'm like, holy shit, this thing's
going, we're doing ATV show. I have no idea what.
I don't know what I've got to go to commercial break.
I don't know how long the first segment is.
I'm not even really sure how to introduce everybody figured my
way through it. And that that just triggered the
the question about am I still friendly with anybody from, you
know, from ESPN and Don and, and Michael obviously at the
forefront of that. And you know, Tim McCarthy, who
is an icon in the business, hired me.
I own a guy love Timmy. He actually called me as soon as
the news broke with with WFAM. And Timmy is just a great
person, you know, a lot of good people there.
Pete Doherty, who was, you know, running up the sales forever.
I was worked with Pete for about 10 years.
So, yeah, the answer to that question is, is absolutely yes.
But that little Side Story that I just gave you, I think that's
one of the things you're going to get a lot of with it.
And I hope you appreciate that, You know, full transparency.
You know, my wife's like, hi, come on.
It takes forever to tell the story.
Hey, that's what my dad, that's that's the way my dad tells the
story. And when you grow up with
somebody telling the story that way, right?
I think that that's how you going to tell this.
I think I tell good stories. I mean, sometimes I get a little
long winded, but I think I tell good stories.
I really do. I think I keep your interest.
Remember the year Nick said, Chris?
Oh, well, I was talking about that Ewing game back in 1985 and
I remember, I don't know if it was the post of the news, but
like one of the one of the headlines was Jolly Saint Nick
Knick or Mary Nick Miss. It was just so awesome.
So I love the Christmas games. I just don't like that the NFL
is is doing that as well. ASBT going to have tiki on?
Yeah, I would have. I would have tiki on.
Yeah, I think I would do that at some point.
Yep. Let's see.
Get the NFL off. Yeah, Get the.
I think many of you are with me here.
It just takes away from what we're trying to do as a family.
I get it. It's a business.
And I also understand that it's our right not to put it on.
But if your team's playing, you're now putting a very
unfair, specific, you know, specific situation that there's
really only one of two options. You either don't watch it and
you penalize yourself to celebrate Christmas, or you do
watch it and you don't really enjoy watching the game and
you're certainly not enjoying Christmas, you know?
And that bothers me. Me.
What else? Well, a lot of you guys want
Tiki as a guest. Yeah, I got you.
Let's see. Remember, not everybody
celebrates Christmas. That's true. 100% says so.
Having something to watch on TV or go to see is great for us.
Understood. But, you know, Christmas is the
is the biggest Christian holiday, you know, that's what
we celebrate. I understand.
Clearly not everybody celebrates Christmas.
Of course not. I get it.
I just think there's such a thing as overkill, you know, and
I think that we've gotten further and further and further
away from what really matters. And it it bothers me, you know,
not that my one or two-minute statement on this is going to
change the world, but I'm going to let you know how I feel.
I don't like it. I watched the NFL all yesterday
here. I've watched a little bit of
Denver. Otherwise, no interest.
That's it, although I will give you a couple of picks after.
Can I say one more thing about this?
Right? Is anybody else tired of LeBron
James? I, I, I probably shouldn't even
start this now because I'm going to rap soon, fairly soon.
You know, his comments the other day really bothered me.
LeBron sitting there saying, yeah, you know, I'd really
rather not be playing on Christmas Day.
And I'd rather be on the couch. And do us a favor, dude, don't
go. Go sit on the couch.
See, the LeBron fatigue for me is a real thing.
And like the I do think that the GOAT conversation.
Number one, it's a little frustrating because there's no
right or wrong answer. Yeah, it's it's metrically
driven to an extent and optically driven, but it's
really opinion based. I believe it's MJI believe it's
LeBron. I think it's I think it's Kobe.
I think it's Bill Russell. Nobody won more than Bill.
All right, well, how am I going to refute that?
I'm not All I'm going to tell you is it is my opinion that
it's definite. Excuse me, definitely Michael
Jordan. There's no doubt.
And like, LeBron James too often acts like he's doing us a favor.
Dude, you don't want to play, don't fucking play.
Don't play. Don't care.
Like the NBA world's going to stop spinning if LeBron James
doesn't show up and play. Like, if you're that
uninterested in playing on Christmas, just retire already.
The way people kiss his ass is insane.
I get it. I think LeBron is amazing.
That's, I mean, jeez, if you can't give him that, you're,
you're just being unfair. And the other thing, excuse me,
the other thing that I think that really does need to be said
about LeBron James, and I mean, this LeBron James has been in
the the global spotlight. Now, part of it is because he
puts himself out there a lot. That's cool.
His brand and all that stuff. I get it.
Won't begrudge him for that, but when he was coming out of high
school in Ohio and then obviously early in the NBA in in
the early mid 2000s with the Cavs and the social media world
was just starting to pop. And there's no guide.
There's no like Cliff notes version on how to navigate that
without making mistakes. And I've got profound respect
for LeBron James. I do amazing all time player and
for a guy who has been in the spotlight as long as he's been,
you know, never got a Dee Wee, never got pinched with drugs,
never had a domestic violence situation.
Like he's he's an obviously very present dad.
I think he's I think he's a he's a great person.
But like, you know, you got to read the room a little bit here.
Like if you don't if if you're that over plan on Christmas,
then just do us a favor and retire because the NBA doesn't
really need LeBron. A matter of fact, I I can always
speak for myself. I don't really think that many
of you enjoy. I could be totally off on this,
really. I don't think many of you enjoy
watching LeBron James play the way you used to enjoy watching
LeBron James play. I don't.
It's boring, you know, like I never made him play as long.
I never, ever got tired watching Kobe Bryant play.
I never got to and I still haven't get tired watching Steph
Curry do his thing. Never.
Obviously going back in the day, you know, the Jordans, the
birds, the magics, never I just I don't know.
And he has played a lot longer understood and that is part of
the fatigue, I'm sure. But some of the things that he
says about how like disinterested he is in you can't
competing on certain things. You can't miss the mark more
like I get it why I don't cuz I can't relate to it.
But when you've got that net worth, you live in a world that
is nowhere, you're on a different planet, you're not
even in the same stratosphere solar system that we're
necessarily in. We can't relate to you and the
thing you can't really relate to us anymore.
And that's fine. Happens to a lot of people, but
you can't lose the core of what got you here.
And that's just I, I, I think playing both now, he's kept
himself in amazing shape, which is an incredible testament to
his competitive being. I just really, I was bothered by
that statement. I really was.
I thought it was weak. I thought it was unnecessary.
Just this would have hurt you to say, hey, it's a real honor to
play on the NBA and on Christmas for the NBA and represent the
brand. And, you know, you just just
regurgitate something from the past and keep it moving.
Didn't like that too much. I was never a LeBron guy anyway.
I'm not even looking to turn this into slander, LeBron, but
that bothered me. What do we got here, James?
Wrestle talk at Giants talk steps the best player since
Michael Jordan and he thinks athlete is going to be the next
head coach for the Giants. If the Giants hire him, they're
idiots. I said the other day when I was
giving out gifts for the New York local teams, what I said
Santa needed to bring the New York Football Giants was a big
heaping pile of bold because the Giants need to be bold and who
they hire as their head coach. And I know athlete is very
respected. There's other coordinators.
I get that. Giants can't mess up around.
You cannot roll the dice and hire somebody that you hope will
grow into the coach that you need to pull out of the abyss.
You go out and you get that person by being bold.
By the way, if you guys missed it, go check out the the other
shows. Only a few of them are up there
here. Let's see.
Unless you were gambling yesterday, there was really no
reason to watch the NFL. Yeah, that's fair.
I'd see that a little bit. I don't know if I'd agree on
that Curry thing about he's the second best player behind
Jordan, maybe the second most influential maybe you can terms
of shooting. And you know globally how that
has now changed the game. It's amazing when I was a kid,
you know, we'd walk in the rent, we'd walk in in the gym and you
know, maybe put one through your legs if you could and shoot a
layup. Now, for the most part, the
first thing every kid does when he walks in the gym is fire up a
20 footer, whether it's from their their their waist, if
they're a little guy or if they're, you know, obviously
physically more mature and they could reach they do that.
It's crazy, you know, so that's something I'll that might be a
different pod at some point there.
But like the influences of the NBA incorporating, you know, the
size and the evolution of the athletes, you'd have to get a
little rough. You have to actually go back to
George Miken, who truly was the first big in the NBA with the
Minneapolis Lakers. And then how that position
evolved. And, you know, Magic is a big
point guard and the shooting prowess, which Steph Curry is
absolutely responsible for. So that's, that's something
we'll do at some .1000% agree about the LeBron stuff.
Love you, BT This podcast is going places.
Yeah, I, I believe I, you know, it's, it's not about some of you
said, well, you know why at 10:00 you're going right up
against WFAN. No, that's not the mission.
I'm just kind of, I'm routine oriented person.
My, my goal is not to go against WFAN.
My goal is to go against the world.
That's, that's my mission. I, I have been, I am as
motivated now as I've ever been. You know when when you do a show
and you have energy and I'm definitely an energy based host,
right? You can't fake it.
You can't because there's going to be days where invariably it's
not there. You don't feel well, somebody's
sick and something wrong with the kids, something up with the
wife like this. That's real life stuff that I've
talked about. But you've got to be able, if
being highly energetic and passionate is who you truly are,
it's easy for a cup. Maybe not easy, but it's doable
for a couple of hours to kind of just almost block that out and
do your job and just fire right. And I'll, I'll, you know, again,
totally honest, there's most days I leave the station when I
would leave the station, especially with Sal who would
match that intensity and in certain places even go higher in
certain things that I would. So, you know, we volley back and
forth depending upon the topic, whatever might be great energy
from Sal. One of the many things I love
about him, one of the many things I love about working with
him. But when you do that, it's, it's
exhausting, It's mentally taxing.
So I don't want to present the, the, the wrong illusion that I
ever took my job for granted. The moment that microphone went
open, I was, I was like, I had the same passion that I did in
99 when I first started, I had no idea what I was doing.
Getting ready for a show. Same passion, same focus.
But when you're in a routine, this is my point, you know, and
it's 13 years, 10 down the hole doing national with Tiki, same
building before. If you're not aware, we were
here on the national side, 345 Hudson, where WFA is right by
the Hudson, by the Holland Holland Tunnel and then
literally you, I would come out, make a right.
And then within 10 feet is the studio that I was using for
three years, boutique and Mattel, when you do that, it's
the same route. All right, let me leave the
house at the same time. Let me know when I have to guess
up like you wrotely do things. OK, here's the here's the
traffic flow. OK, here's where I parked my
car. Here's where I want to be at my
I would like to be in the studio and pretty much was every day
for all those years, an hour and a half before the show.
I'd like to get in there. And that's where I get some,
some private time before we meet as a show, kind of get my ideas
going, do my reading, connect some dots for me.
And then obviously do it as a, as a joint team.
So that was never taken for granted.
But you, you do, you get in a routine and it's kind of like,
all right, you know, the same thing every day.
Now, this abrupt change for me has, has inspired me in a way
that I haven't felt in a while. I, I like, like that, you know,
like that the unknown. And when I use the word mission,
that's why I, I very carefully select that word.
It is my mission. I can't do it alone.
You, you got to follow me. You got to like it.
You got to subscribe. If you, if you just jump in,
trust me, I've got the requisite hits.
I've got the, the, the followers and I've got the, the hours
viewed, but they're not letting me monetize it yet.
So the Super chats and the, and the and the and the what not the
subscriptions, whatever the hell, the other, the, I don't
know, whatever the word is, all the other things you can do from
a monetary point of view. We will, we will do right.
But that also includes building out my studio like I've got a
concept. Let me see if I can show you
this year. This is something that I'm
toying with. You know what I want your
opinion on this. All right, I just got to find it
on my phone, so look at all these Christmas pictures.
Oh my God, it was so awesome. The one of the things that I'm
seriously contemplating would be so I I do like this.
This is a clean look. Some days I might put my name of
the jersey behind it. Some days I might put up my
Bernard King jersey or, you know, maybe my Guns and roses
signpost away. I might rotate that.
But what I'm also thinking about doing is from the entire length
of the wall and and and height of the wall, creating something
like that. OK, where you will see that I've
already taken the steps to get prices, how long it would take
to build in where basically, you know, I would it would be
installed and I would pull it down and you have a very, very
different studio look. So that's something that I'm
thinking about like every single day, every every moment I get a
chance to come in here. I am plotting out how to make
this the best, you know, and a lot of you have said like, you
know, take Joe Rogan as as a template here.
I mean, I mean Joe's, that's amazing.
I mean, so, but you know, to put a limit on whatever we can
accomplish, I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to be realistic, which is why when I say 10,000 Subs by
January 1st, 2026, to me that's realistic.
Although now that I see, you know, we're already 85, maybe
it's going to be 12,500. Maybe I've got to up that.
But it is a mission to do this. And doing this will be couple of
the topics I want to hit each day, couple of the stories woven
in, a couple of personal things. I'm going to get my dad on as a
guest. He was talking about the flip
phone again today. My God almighty, the flip phone.
Can't believe it. I don't know how that even came
up. But oh, he's talking about the
flip phone. Oh man, he's such a creature of
habit. What else I got for you?
Let me give you a couple pics for the weekend.
You know, right, That's the one thing too.
We were doing the as we did all the years here.
The the perfect parlay, BT and Sal perfect parlay with Hoff, he
would do it our own producer and that was fun because the stakes
were pretty high and you could if you if you didn't see that,
Google it and it's coming up right.
So basically we would do it each week and then if you got like A2
teamer, that's one denomination of points.
If you hit a three, that's more if you had, you know, 4 and I
think 4 was 100 points, I believe.
I think it's 150 thirty something like that.
Then we would do The Jets and the Giants no point straight win
and that was 5 each way. So we would add it up right.
So it was a good way to get some some picks in there.
We took a lot of pride in it too.
And the winner OK, got to pick and Hoff won the first year he
hit a four or five teamer late, same 1.
He got to pick what Sam and I dressed up as in terms of WWE
characters. Oh my God, Sal was was Doink and
I was gold dust, right? Just absolutely insane.
And the the only saving grace was that now if you finish
first, you picked it and they you had to do it like it wasn't
like, Oh, I don't know if Nope, this is what I picked.
You got it, but you got to do it.
That was the rules of the of the game.
Now, at least if you finish second, which I did two years in
a row, I got this. Whoever finishes second gets to
pick the least of the of the options.
Now I give half credit. He put us in a pretty good
corner. Do I want to be a clown or do I
want to be a gold dust? Neither.
I'm gonna be either one of them, but I I pick one of them.
I'm like the means that I think are going to come my way.
If I'm a clown, I'm like, I'm going to pass on the clown.
And that would that would sound, which led me to what are the
it's out there. They're one of the funniest, the
funnest. And I I actually had tears in my
eyes looking at him as he's doing this and I'm three feet
from him in the studio. So he's dressed as Doink and we
went all out like we did the make up ourselves like it was
on. I'm looking on Amazon black and
gold paint and like gold dust jewelry and whatever the hell he
was was wearing and other stuff. And he did the same with Doink.
So we're in the in the in the state in the station's bathroom,
really getting ready for the show.
And I'm like, God, look at us, man.
And then at one point we were having a debate or I think he
was getting into it with a cold or maybe and he he actually
goes, he goes, you know, I am not in fact a clown.
You know, he was mad at something.
I may have been probably like a met Yankee thing.
And I'm sitting there saying, Oh my God, it's out there on
YouTube and it's everywhere. Like, dude, I wish you didn't
just say that because literally sitting there dressed as a clown
saying I'm not a clown. It was awesome.
And that that, you know, that was about, you know, that was
about being, I think, a little vulnerable.
That's something that when I started my career, I don't know
if I would have wanted to to do that, you know, And then I think
being around Hoff, being around Sal, I think that that opened
that up a little bit where when I lost the next year, I'm like,
all right, big damn deal. I got to get dressed up.
So I think it loosened up. I think it loosened me up.
I think it loosened up the show. But God, that was absolutely
insane. I got to get BT a sick coffee
mug. Yeah, I've got to make some
shirts. I got to do some stuff.
So you do like the also the logo.
All right, So the logo is awesome.
Keep it up, BT. You're welcome.
What about some BT swag? Yup, that's gonna come with
time, I think. Different segments on different
stuff. This one's from Fab 5 Suns, Fab
5, Fred with the booming system. I think segments on different
stuff like wrestling, movies, Mount Rushmore.
Yeah, we're gonna weave all that and I'm just just getting this
thing going here. BT Yeah, BT tried to cut his
commute down to 30 seconds by having a home studio.
You're right. If I told you what I paid each
month for a garage, which I wouldn't because that's tacky,
your head would spin because I couldn't get AI, couldn't get a
spot on the street. I couldn't.
And I couldn't risk trying to get one driving around because
it's not like, you know, if you're a lawyer, you know,
unless you're in the court. But if you're a lawyer and you
walk into the law firm, you know, 4 minutes late, all right?
I mean, there's no real consequences.
Go and do your job. But if you're a host and you
walk in the studio 4 minutes late, it's ten O 4, the show
started, you're in trouble by your boss, and rightfully so.
So I couldn't run that risk. So the amount of money that I
burned on that garage and not to mention the tolls and the gas,
Yeah, 32nd commute, no doubt about it.
Can I consider more than an hour?
Show 2 would be perfect. And that's at pity, right?
Fair. I've thought about that.
Now, right now, I don't when I fire this up and right now,
what, a minute, a minute, an hour and 17 minutes.
I don't start a show saying, all right, I've got an X amount of
time that I want to do and then I'm going to bounce there.
I just, what I don't want to do is get boring, get repetitive
and just search for content and have this drone on and on and
on. That's not what I want to do.
Some of you maybe said that I already did this today.
Hopefully it didn't, but that's not that's not the mission like
the mission is to cut it off once there's nothing fresh.
Goodbye, see you tomorrow. Now, I do think that I would be
more than amenable to do it a two hours.
Matter of fact that is the target.
But I think to do the two hours, I won't do that until and this
is something I think we're going to roll out Monday, a little bit
of a different presentation. Many of you, many of you have
talked about Stream Yard. That's something I think we'll
do Monday. That's the guest.
That's different look, a different feel.
I mean, same me, but I think this will look different guests
and all that stuff. I think to do 2 hours, I think
I'd have to be able to punch up some calls.
I mean, not nothing, I'd have to because I can obviously just go
on for two hours. I mean, talking is, you know,
whether it's entertaining, it's a different story.
But I can clearly just yap for two hours.
I, I think if I when we get the calls and that that's going to
be a little arduous there got to get a got to get a phone number,
got to, you know, have a producer to answer the phones.
I can't feel like, hold on, guys, let me it's more than you
think and it's in the works. And it's something that I
absolutely aspire to do that I know will take this show to the
next level. I mean, us pumping in calls
here. I'll I mean, that's that.
I love the calls. I missed the calls.
I really do BT and Sal is my morning show here in Socal.
Glad you guys are going to be doing something.
Well that I'm doing something daily.
No doubt I am 2 hours thumbs up BT Mike, we ever see you and
Francesa do a show together since you're both on YouTube
now. I I mean, I wouldn't, I wouldn't
think so. I mean, if Mike invited me to be
a guest, which I doubt he ever will, then of course I would go
on. I mean, I've got great respect
for Mike. We played golf this summer.
He almost killed me when he hit me with a ball, golf ball that
was right in my chest standing next to JJ.
And if that's in the face, I'm literally getting airlifted from
the green. And I really think I'm
undergoing cosmetic surgery. Major it was.
It was that scary or God forbid, dead.
If I get hit, if it's if it hits me in the throat or the temple.
Now he tells a little bit of a different version.
I'll tell you the real version sometime in depth.
I got love for Mike. He's a good guy, and he's been
good to me. You know, I know Mike's a little
quirky with certain people. Mike has been good to me.
And I only judge people how they treat me or how they treat my
family. All right?
And Mike has treated me well. Would he come on here?
I doubt that he would want to. I would love him to.
I'm not just gonna lie and say, oh, yeah, I'll get Mike on.
I mean, I've got Mike's phone number.
Don't text him very often. Text him before golf.
Text him after to thank him, you know, once or twice or three
times along the way. Very, very infrequent, but I
could and and and I would ask him to come on.
I don't think that he will though.
That's just my guess. He really didn't like coming on
FAN. He did when he wanted to set his
version of the story straight when he hit me with the shoe
with the golf ball. But I think Mike is of the
mindset that's in the past. Let the new guys do their thing
and and and I respect that. So I don't think he would come
on here and I really don't think he would ask me.
I think of the two which is a better chance?
I think it's. Me having him and I would
probably put that at, you know, from an odd perspective, Mike
coming on my show, I'd say about plus 390, me going on Mike's
show plus 600 or maybe even off the board.
So you like the logo? All right, I'm seeing a lot of
this year call Dove to run the board.
Love Dove. Great guy, just a good human
being, really, really good guy. Quick thoughts on The Jets road
map this season? I see that that's Ricardo BN 5
kW. Thank you for that.
I'm not going to do it now, Ricardo, because I've already
done it. And just go to some of the old
videos I've touched on that. I gave you the whole plan.
I'll do it again. Obviously this one from at Jacob
under score Ball. Find the sponsor you believe in.
No doubt. I'm only going to associate
myself with sponsors that I believe in.
I believe in their product. I believe in their mission.
I believe in the way they treat people.
That's not going to happen overnight.
I mean, obviously I do have people who have reached out to
me that I believe in. But to get that happening, it's
it's it's a deeper business model, which were I'd say
slightly past the exploratory stage.
There will be sponsors on the show.
I just, I'm not gonna try to even give you a timeline as to
when I'm gonna roll them out. I honestly don't know the answer
to that. But we will have some for sure.
Gotta get JJ on as well. Yeah, JJ actually text me the
other day and and he could tell the story.
But when when Mike hit me, he actually asked me to go on his
pod I believe this weekend at some point.
So JJ will definitely come on here.
I'm definitely going on JJ show. He's a good guy.
And not only is he a good guy, I think JJ is incredibly talented.
I really do. JJ to me, while he's younger
than me is more along the line, like how I grew up in the
business. He, he is incredibly, and this
is not to prop myself up. I, I don't, it's more for him.
But I, I see this and I respect this.
This is what I think. You know, I try to subscribe to,
he's locked in #1 he's locked in.
He's locked into what's going on.
I think he's relatable, you know, mess around with the
gambling, have a little fun, little zany, a little wacky
personality, incredible passion for what he talks about.
That is really good stuff. I'm AJJ fan, I'm AJJ believer,
and we'll definitely get him up at some point and I will either
tweet or put something up here about when I'm going to be on
his pod because he just asked me to go on, which I would happily
do, There's no doubt. Let's see.
Keep it organic like you have been.
Love that you take the time to actually think and it's not
scripted. This channel's phenomenal
already. That's an incredible compliment.
Thank you very much. I'll let you say that and I will
humbly accept that, you know, mission again, the word mission
is to make this as good as it gets.
One of the biggest sports podcast in the world.
Really. That's that's my mission.
I got no boundaries. I got no barriers knowing
whenever I want somebody gets hurt crazy finish fire GM hired
coach. I walked yeah, 32nd commute
bang, let's go. That is the beauty of being able
to do this. But I also, I also think it's
really important to do to have a daily connect you guys, because
I that's that's in my blood, like just doing one or two a
week, even if even if I was, you know, a multi multi, multi
millionaire and just raking in money hand over fist doing this,
which I'm not, I haven't made a penny doing this yet, but I
would not enjoy going on once a week.
Like I'm still a trench guy. I'm still, I am still I, I love
that daily flow. So I'm going to be doing this
daily. You know, most will probably be
a 10. My son said, Hey, why'd you
schedule for noon to, you know, tomorrow, you know, usually go
on a 10. I said, well, you know, and in
my mind, I said, well, what up? My parents were here.
They slept over for a couple of nights.
And I wasn't just going to get up and say, all right, guys,
see, I'm done. No, no, I'm going to enjoy
Christmas. They're on their way to Atlantic
City, the two of them. And my dad's going to roll the
dice for a little bit. He's like, I have no idea what
to do with the craps table. I mean, you want to talk about
being lost? I, I am lost on the craps table.
I like going to AC. It's been a while because, you
know, I've got more responsibilities now.
Dad, husband, coaching obviously work first and foremost with
that. But man, I used to go a lot with
my boys before I got married. Used to go to Harrah's a lot.
They'd hook me up with rooms and I and I'd play but craps, I play
blackjack. Craps is just and and I do I
like let it ride even though it's the worst odds in the house
here, but craps I just I don't know.
There's a million things happening and if I like, I know
dealer could have any combination.
I could have any combination. I know what I'm splitting, what
I'm doubling down on. I'm I'm trying to track all
right, picture cards versus low cards of kind of I can't count
cards. I don't know how to do that, but
I, I know how to play the game. You know, if there's a side bet
to be had, I'm doing it. If there's enough space at the
table, I'm playing two hands. Like when I play blackjack, I
play to win. So, and that's really how I try
to do everything in life. I try to do well.
And when I'm at the grabs table, which has been maybe 3 or 4
times in my life, like I'm just throwing my, I don't even know
what I'm betting. Like I if they either take the
chips or they put chips in front of me, that's how I know if I
won. Honestly, I don't even really
know if I won until, until they tell me I can't even celebrate.
It's absolutely ridiculous. What's here, what's here.
I know you, you're planning to make, you have to make video
shorts to help gain traction on YouTube.
Yep, already did one the other day.
And actually I think we did 2 shorts out there learning, you
know, to, to put the words out there and find the content that
we want to put out there. I understand that that's part of
the algorithm. There's no question.
I know the titles matter. I understand all that.
Starting to incorporate it, no doubt about it.
BT and chat Modell's or Sports Authority?
Modell's absolutely. Modell's kid.
That Sports Authority was pretty sick too.
I remember there's one that I used to go to in Long Island a
lot, but Modell's we kidding me? Like when the Yankees won
something or the Knicks won something to have AT shirt for
Modell's. Oh my God, love walking in
there, no doubt about it. Let me see, maybe I get a couple
of more comments. Get ready to wrap up.
I do have the three football picks that I told you about.
Let's see here, he's going to be sponsored by gambling and
gummies. Can I get Susan on?
Yeah, that's a really good idea. I would love to had a chance to
spend a lot of time with Susan. I mean, well, what I say a lot
at a party, some real valuable individual time with Susan at
Alex's party. And she sent me and Sal the very
heartfelt text about, you know, what was going down at the
station. And I introduced it to my wife
and she's just awesome, man. Spent the, I'd say a good 1520
minutes just away from everybody, the three of us just
just getting to know each other a little bit, a little bit more.
I mean, I've, I've known her a little bit, but the Wiz are Sam
Goody. Oh, man.
I mean, to me, the Wiz is synonymous with the Knicks and
on the boards at the Garden and Boomer and who else?
Joe Namath doing the commercials.
That's a tough one. I'd probably have to say.
I'd probably have to say the Wiz.
I probably, yeah. Ron darling.
Yeah, I remember Ronnie. I know Ronnie a little from a
little bit from my days at SNYI mean, guys, these are all things
I'm thinking about. I mean, I've only done a couple
of the shows here. I'm not going to have 9 guests
in. First of all, I don't know how
to do the guest yet. We're working on that.
But I'm going to have a lot of guests.
I think that that's part of the conversation.
You know, the other thing, too, and maybe I'll do this.
Maybe I'll do this some point over the weekend.
You know, I love coaching. You know, I love youth sports.
You know, I believe in that. You know, I also believe
fundamentally it's broken on a lot of levels.
I've gone through this already. My son's 10, my daughter's nine.
He plays football, basketball, baseball.
He even had soccer for a couple of years while doing all that.
It was. Yeah.
And a little jiu jitsu. It was just too much.
My daughter plays soccer, basketball, softball, dance.
So I'm, I'm very immersed in in the youth culture from a rec
level to the absolute highest level that you can play for club
baseball, right? And then basketball somewhere in
between, more on the, you know, lower side than the highest
level, but competitive enough, right?
The there is so much wrong and not to sit here and pontificate
and just you know from the pulpit, just you know bestow
upon you my almighty, you know thoughts on the failures of
youth sports cause a lot of good things right.
But I do think that once because Santa just came.
I promise many of you watching Santa just brought your child
and I mean 678 ish years old, their first glove or maybe their
first real glove, not the little plastic one from, you know, one
of the stores, Amazon, whatever it might be a real glove, you
know, not the little blue baby. What was that?
Bam bam from the Flintstones bat
like a real bat that getting ready to use.
I'm going to do a pod on. There's a couple of things as
you're getting ready because winter training is starting
already. We start up January 13th at
first baseball practice as a team and he's already been
doing, you know, like a lot of players hitting and and and
pitching lessons, you know, really since the season ended so
that there's really no real stoppage there.
But I've got a lot of thoughts and and I think I think that
you're going to want to hear this on how to actually launch
into playing baseball, what to look for and and what to really
avoid. And then the other dilemma.
I'm not going to do this now. It's just too much.
It's a separate show. Maybe I don't even know if it'll
be live. The juggling of multiple sports
because man, it's so different. The pressures of doing 1 and
focusing. What's a money grab, how to
detect it, what's right, what's wrong.
I have a few of those little reels on my Instagram page
because I kind of always knew that this was going to be a
format that I was going to tap into.
So it's kind of experimenting. I've got so much to say about
that and there's so many good people that that weigh in on
this. Like Mark DeRosa, I know is very
outspoken about this and Sean Casey's talked about this, guys
who I see on MLB Network, guys I respect, guys who played, guys
who I watched. So that's going to be in
addition to just a Daily Show and obviously jumping on after
games, big moments, hammering out some content.
That's going to be, it's going to live here, but it's going to
be a little bit more specific. And I can't wait to do that.
All right, let me give you the three picks here.
Couple of comments and then I will absolutely bounce let's see
here all right so I got 3 for you you know what if I can find
it let me see I should be able to hold on You know I can't do
this I I can't I can't do this without without music.
I almost feel that I need some music, like I'm doing it back in
the in the studio. Give me a second here, guys.
I'm gonna pop something up here that you know, you probably know
what song. I'm going to go to him.
All right, let's go with this guy here.
There you go again. Not the highest level of
production value. Literally from my phone.
No money talks. There's Pink Floyd money.
There's ACDC. Money talks.
I can't wait to see ACDC in August at MetLife.
It's going to be awesome. One of the bands I really want
to see that I have not had a chance to see.
All right, let me just drop that down.
Make that a little bit lower. All right, pick #1 Cardinals at
Cincy now at this point of the season, you've got to be very
selective, all right, because half these teams are checking
out. They don't give a shit what's
going on. They're already done.
So you, you got to be sure about that.
But there's also something to glean from that.
When you look at over unders, first pick Cardinals 3:00 and
12:00. That's Cincy 5 and 10.
It's a fairly big #53 1/2 over under right now.
Check the weather. All right, that's one thing you
got to do. Looks like I checked earlier.
It looks like it's going to be OK.
I don't think it's going to be a massive issue, but to me,
Cardinals have no interest in playing football and the Bengals
at this point have no interest in playing football.
So, you know, I don't know if the Bengals will cover the
number, what I do feel. So I'm not touching that.
I feel fairly confident saying both of these defenses are #1
they're not good. And #2 I don't know how Battle
did. I'm really, are you really
locked into film the week of Christmas, Christmas Eve with
kids and Danielle, all the family responsibilities?
I think you show up. I think there's a lot of sloppy
plays. I think there's a lot of broken
plays. And when you have that, when you
have those broken plays, guess what?
Shore field, pick sixes, punt return, kickoff return generally
put you in a position to tilt it toward the over.
So pick #1 cards at Cincy over 53 1/2 #2.
Come on, come on. Saints 5 and 10 at the Titans 3
and 12. Now the Saints are laying 2 1/2
on the road. Tennessee, you know, has played
a little bit better lately. The Saints have won three
straight games. They're still playing hard.
Now that's a team that I think is if they're at home, they're
probably, you know, 455 and a half, six point favorites here.
I think it would be a lot more because they're on the road.
The three points built in for the home team.
That's why they're only laying 2 1/2, which to me is a very
nominal lay. I mean, just win the game, just
kick a field goal late, which I think they'll kind of win.
About to take a guess at 2713, you know, 241424, maybe 20 if
they get, I don't know if Tennessee scoring 20, but
somewhere in that neighborhood I feel pretty good.
Saints modest, 2 1/2 at Tennessee.
And finally, I'm going to take the giants -1 1/2.
All right, I think that the Giants are are better slightly.
I think that the Giants are going to unleash dart a little
bit more this week as they've got.
I think they're kind of sensitive to all the, you know,
the way they the the 33 yards they ran 15 straight times last
game. I think there's a little bit of
a market correction recalibration there.
And I think when you let Dart be Dart, I think Dart's better than
anything that the Raiders are throwing out there.
So give me the Giants lay the point and a half.
G men win, G men cover. So in summation and summation,
give me the over 53 1/2 cards at cincy #1 #2 Saints -2 1/2 at the
Titans #3 give me the team men -1 1/2 to beat and to cover
against the Raiders. All right, so there you go.
I have no idea how that music sounded there.
May have drowned me out. Maybe he couldn't hear it all.
Hopefully it worked out. All right.
Yanks are killing me. BT I'm here for the journey.
Let's go. Yeah, I appreciate that.
Again, That's Ricardo. B KB NBN 5 kW let's see here SBT
or as Susan, I'll I'll handle a few more of these and then I'm
going to get on my day at James wrestle talk giants talk.
That's quite the handle, James. That is hopefully you copy and
paste that. That is a lengthy Twitter.
I will just and I'm sure it's your Twitter handle as well.
General YouTube handle. This pods going to be the best
sports podcast out there. Love it.
BTI hope so. That's the goal.
That's the mission. All right, what else we got
here? Yeah, the Joe Shane fired
reaction going to hit hard. We'll do everything we got to do
when we got to do it. My thoughts on Shane getting
fired. He should be.
I think he will be. I've already hit that.
Yeah. Couple more here.
Little money talks. That's right.
God, I love him. You know, I love my.
I'm a very eclectic music lover. Like I can't get the get the
snow blower, get the snow blowing the shovel ready
tonight. Be.
I know. Poor little Scotcher.
I got this for you. Poor little something, maybe
maybe do some other stuff when I'm when I'm shoveling, I think
that the well, a couple of things from that.
I think that the I can't I can't say that hold on certain things.
I don't want to just curse just just to curse here.
Hang on, where was it? Why that?
Well, I know about the music. There was something else.
See, that's the other thing too. Sometimes I see something I want
to address it and it just and I love that you guys are hammered
in the the comments. That's awesome, awesome,
awesome, awesome. But I got to figure out a way
maybe slow that down a bit. But I mentioned about my my
eclectical music tastes, man, if you heard some of the stuff that
I listen to in the car, it is some of it's just weird, Like it
could be a disco song. It could obviously be something
like ACDC. It could be a little Beastie
Boys. It could be the role.
I mean, that's not weird. That's mainstream stuff.
But there are some songs that I'm like, I'm, you know, Céline
Dion, you know, from, from the movie.
Like, I'm sitting there, I'm driving, it comes on.
I'm like, you know what? Make this a little louder.
Keep the windows up there. But I'm going to, I don't know
that I'm going to sing it, but I'm going to keep it on and I'm
going to feel it. I've got a very vast A-Z musical
taste there. So I mentioned ACDC coming to
MetLife. Yeah, I think it's August 25.
That's really one of the only concerts that I want to go.
They running out of time. I mean, how many more options
are there to see these guys? God bless them.
Hope they make it to August. I really do.
So that's on tap. I'll do a couple of things on
music here, primarily driven through sports, real life stuff,
being a dad, all the things that we do.
But again, keep a lookout, keep you going to want to see this.
Really keep an eye out for the content about what I think will
really help you guys as you get ready.
Not I don't mean if you give your kids like 131415, you're
obviously entrenched in sports. You you know what you're doing
at that point. They're beginning to gravitate
to one or you know, to Max sports.
Talking about those those parents who have young kids,
Santa dropped off a boatload of baseball stuff or softball
stuff. I got you.
I'm going to help you. I didn't make a ton of mistakes
with that. There was one that I made that
I'll tell you when I get into it, but there's definitely some
things to avoid and and I will I will let you know what they are.
So I gave you the pics, a lot of Knicks stuff, a lot of Vogel
stuff. I appreciate the comments coming
in. You guys are doing a money job.
I want to get to this will be a given.
I can't I can't imagine any circumstance we don't get to
10,000 Subs by by January 1st. But now that I think about it, I
want to I want to blow by it. I don't know, it was 12,000 too
much is 12,500 too ambitious? I don't know with with with with
the BT army behind me. I feel like I don't know.
I don't think there's any boundaries with you guys.
You have really lifted me up and I have felt it.
And that's why, even though it's still a holiday, that's why I'm
like, Nope, I'm getting on. We're doing something big win
for the Knicks. Kolek, I got things to say.
You know, I got a rant and rave a little bit on the NFL kind of
jumping into football to watching viewing viewing habits
on Christmas. So that's why I did it.
Like and subscribe follow me on all the social, obviously
Twitter, of course, Instagram. Really appreciate you guys and
the the next show will be Monday at 10 AM All right, promise you,
but there might be another content drop, as I said about
some of the youth stuff and then reminder Sunday night 1030
sports extra fox 5 myself going to join my girl Tina, who's
great Tina Servasio. I'm going to jump on J JS pod at
some point this weekend. He asked me.
Hopefully it doesn't conflict with with with with going to do
Tina show. If it does, I'll make good on JJ
will do that working on the guests and hopefully trot
something out next week that is even a step more enhanced in
this. So enjoy the rest of your
Friday. Have a fantastic weekend and be
safe out there. The snow is coming hard.
Go out there, shovel. I suggest you do the two shifts.
Don't be lazy. Don't let 9 inches come down and
hammer you. And then you got to come out
tomorrow when they plow the streets, and now it's like cold
and wet and they can't even lift that up and it's harder.
Do it I I think I'm doing shifts go out 3-4 inches, clean it up,
throw a little salt down, come back in all right, couple of
more go back out and finish it and and hopefully you guys do
the same. So catch you Monday or at some
point on on the weekend with the with the other stuff.
Have a great day. I love you guys.
I appreciate it. I feel it and it's awesome and
the mission is is well underway. Have an awesome weekend guys.
I'll see you.