1 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,200 This is unleashed Are you listening? 2 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:13,120 Can you hear me? Hear me. 3 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:14,760 This is unleashed Are you listening? 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:15,680 Can you hear me? Hear me. 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:17,240 This is unleashed Are you listening? 6 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:18,160 Can you hear me? Hear me. 7 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:19,760 This is unleashed. Are you listening? 8 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:27,400 Can you hear me? What's going on everybody BT 9 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,360 unleashed back with the here on this Tuesday. 10 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,000 Hopefully everybody had a great Easter weekend. 11 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,200 We got a big show got we've really got really at least four 12 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,400 or five things college hoops championship game, the economics 13 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,920 of college basketball. Jay Billis was dropping bombs 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,040 over the weekend. He and Calipari. 15 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,080 We're getting after it in in a good way, but I want to get to 16 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,040 that as well. Dexter Lawrence trade request, 17 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,400 the Soto injury. A little something on Jazz 18 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,680 Chisholm as well. Hopefully everybody is ready to 19 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,520 jump into it, as am I Let's go. Today's show, as you know, 20 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,800 brought to you by Sullivan Pipane, one of New York's best 21 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,760 personal injury law firms, according to U.S. 22 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,600 News and World Report finds Sullivan online. 23 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,640 Try law1.com@trylaw1.com. 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Speaking of content, Speaking of 36 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,680 content, I didn't mention this in the rundown there. 37 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,040 So obviously a lot of college hoops and and some of the 38 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,840 baseball items, you know, you know, Peter Schrager from ESPN 39 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,560 was with good morning, Good Morning Football NFL Network for 40 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,600 a long time. He, like basically everybody 41 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,760 else in the industry, puts out a mock draft and and most of like 42 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,440 Mel puts one out. I think every week he puts out 43 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,840 two. And there is I saw something 44 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,480 last night when I got back from the airport. 45 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,800 There's something now that that actually is beginning to suggest 46 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,560 The Jets might go in a different direction, which is something 47 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,080 that I've kind of hinted at a little bit. 48 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,720 We'll get to that as well. But let's at least start with 49 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:17,920 the first pitch here. J Rod Let let let's. 50 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:19,960 Start with the first. I'm curious. 51 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,600 Wow. So First off, yes, one to 10. 52 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,320 Just give me that off the bat one to 10. 53 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:29,120 One to 10 my scale, or one to 10 on the scale of, you know, 54 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,280 convent, you know, first pitches in general because you got Baba 55 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:33,600 Booey. You got $0.50. 56 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,120 Yeah, I mean, you've got some wild ones. 57 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:36,880 All right, let's start with in. General. 58 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:40,240 Let's go in general in. General, solid, solid, OK. 59 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,960 In general, I'd say it was probably about. 60 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,680 I'd say it's probably about an 8 in general. 61 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,800 Now, that's also including to some people who short hop it and 62 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:51,680 you know, simply can't throw a baseball. 63 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,680 My score. However, for me, I'm a tough 64 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:56,880 grader on myself. I was not happy with my first 65 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:58,400 pitch. I got to come clean. 66 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,600 I got to come correct. We'll get you the video. 67 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,320 We'll get you the video at some point this week. 68 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,680 I know that the Rangers social media teams put it together. 69 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:07,800 First of all, it was it really was an amazing experience. 70 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,360 So massive shout out to the Texas Rangers organization who 71 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,400 treated me and my family incredible. 72 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,440 They gave us a suite. So we watched and there was, I 73 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:18,720 mean, there was a bunch of us there. 74 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,640 We probably were about 20 deep in the suite. 75 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:23,560 So the suite was phenomenal. The food was great. 76 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,480 The stadium's absolutely magnificent. 77 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,360 Good game as well. Tight game. 78 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,560 I think it was 3/2. They lost by a run for the Reds. 79 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,640 It was a good baseball game. Good way to spend Easter Sunday. 80 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:35,640 But see here, here's what happened with the what had 81 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:39,440 happened was all right, a few things to play here. 82 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,680 Number one, so you saw the video that I posted on Friday night 83 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,960 before my son's game. I was throwing all the OK, you 84 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,120 saw that right saw that one and and the and the arm felt great. 85 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,520 The arms always in shape like it's the legs at this point that 86 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,200 really are are lagging woefully beyond of course, all the 87 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:58,840 comments. Oh, chicken legs. 88 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:00,600 Oh, you know, you got pencils. That's true. 89 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,040 I do How do you hold yourself up? 90 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,640 I don't know, it's actually a modern miracle with my chest and 91 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,480 like, like I'm not exactly the most proportionate person out 92 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,840 there, you know, kind of bigger shoulders and these little 93 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,360 little teeny tiny pencil legs which I own, which I definitely 94 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,839 have. So I felt great because I throw 95 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,560 the baseball 3 or 4 times a week. 96 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,360 I always throw PBP for my team and I play catch a lot with my 97 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,040 son and and now my daughter as well. 98 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,320 I was not worried about the arm feeling good. 99 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,640 I felt, I felt, I felt pretty confident going into this. 100 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,960 I felt good. But listen, Full disclosure, 101 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,920 what happened was I'm going to, I'm going to throw this on them 102 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:40,560 a little bit. They made it. 103 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,200 They made me anything to take the spotlight off my. 104 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,200 Yeah, there you go. I, I waited an inordinate amount 105 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:49,600 of time before I threw the first pitch. 106 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,080 Now, the way this goes, right? So they take me and and my wife 107 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,240 and my two children, everybody else had to stay in the suite, 108 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,280 right? And we go down and there's this 109 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:01,080 little out Cove, this little whatever right next to the 110 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,360 visiting dugout. And I was next to the they have 111 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,640 cheerleaders, right. So the the cheer came out, did 112 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,960 their thing before the game, the national anthem. 113 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,240 She was great as well. And I was talking to her and 114 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,840 country music singer, beautiful voice and she crushed it. 115 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:19,600 But she was even she's like you nervous. 116 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,480 I'm glad a little bit I'm right. I'm going to have some fun. 117 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:23,520 Why you nervous? Like I always find it 118 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,040 interesting to ask people who do certain things with great 119 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,800 frequency, whether or not they get nervous and listen, I've 120 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,600 even talked about this like before I do motivational 121 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,120 speaking or even before a show. Like there's that, that it's not 122 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,880 nervous. It's, it's an energy that you 123 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,400 feel pulsating through your body and the, and Stephen A talked 124 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,240 about this as well. It's the expectation to deliver 125 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,800 what people are expecting you to deliver. 126 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,000 So it's not like a fear of public speaking. 127 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:51,840 Obviously it's what I do for a living. 128 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,080 It's compartmentalizing all the things that you know, you want 129 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,600 to say and getting off to a good start and in terms of a first 130 00:05:58,600 --> 00:05:59,880 pitch, not embarrassing yourself. 131 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,520 Let's face it, if I go out there and I'm speaking to a room of 132 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,880 150 executives at Verizon, which I did last month, big room, I 133 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,080 mean, a highly successful people. 134 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,120 I'm Titans of industry, monster company. 135 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,520 Even if I got off to a slug, you start, which thankfully I didn't 136 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,000 then. But you know, if I say it the 137 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,920 first minute or so, it's not really popping. 138 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,160 I'm not really flowing. I can you know that that I have 139 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,760 an hour and a half about to very quickly change that and then 140 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,280 finish up very high note. OK, when you're throwing out a 141 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:33,320 first pitch, you get one shot. I bounce it or you sell it or 142 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:37,080 whatever you now here, here's where here's where I start to 143 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,040 get nervous. Like I admittedly actually 144 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,560 nervous. They give me the baseball. 145 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,320 And because we had to get down there, like there's a big 146 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,240 logistical thing. Like you wouldn't think it. 147 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,120 You think you walk on the field first pitch. 148 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,080 No, it's a whole process because get the national anthem. 149 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,800 She was going before me. So everything was laid out. 150 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,200 It's all Cory Grant. It's all literally to the 151 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,840 second. So I've got some some woman just 152 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:02,560 very sweet. All the headsets. 153 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:03,640 All right, here's what's gonna happen. 154 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,080 This is like 20 minutes before I go. 155 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:07,760 Here's what's gonna happen ABCDE. 156 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,840 I'm the way I operate. I had I even do this with my 157 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,320 wife. I have listen, I know when it's 158 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,800 time to listen and I know when it's time not to listen. 159 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,080 And Full disclosure, when she was running down the logistics 160 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,320 of what was going to happen, I was not listening. 161 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,840 I even at the end, I even said, hey, do me a favor with about 162 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,120 two minutes before I go, just give me the bullet points again. 163 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,080 And I, and I promise that I'll, I'll, I, I hate a description. 164 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,320 Well, but with 20 minutes to go, my mind's all over the place. 165 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,200 Just come back. I got you, I got you right. 166 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,640 So she gives me the baseball and this is the first time I got 167 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,080 nervous. I feel the ball. 168 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,160 I'm like, holy cow, this thing is really slick. 169 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,600 Oh, Jay, if you take a baseball like, you know, like, you know, 170 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,680 you snap your thumbs. If you try to, like, snap a 171 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,440 baseball, it really, it shouldn't slip. 172 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,000 It shouldn't glide out. Yeah. 173 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,640 But when you see a pitcher get a new ball from the umpire, what 174 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:01,680 do they do? They take off their glove and 175 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,400 they and they go like this because it is I I guess I forgot 176 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,240 how slick it is. I mean, even with the kids, you 177 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,680 know, obviously playing with new balls to start games, but it's 178 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,360 not that slick. It was it was like it was like 179 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,360 glass, only not a jagged edge and my butter on my hands. 180 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:23,360 It was so slippery. So in my mind I'm like, oh God, 181 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,320 Oh boy, I could already. I'm like, you know, you throwing 182 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,200 A4 seamer. So you got the threads a little 183 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,160 bit of resistance here. Just just have fun. 184 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:37,159 But again, I'm there 20 minutes, 17 minutes, 14 minutes, 11 185 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:40,120 minutes and I'm looking around the state and now I start to 186 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,840 wonder what could go wrong. Now I'm processing everything. 187 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,080 Am I going to trip when I go out there now I'm like, all right, 188 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,160 so but I but I pretty much had that under control. 189 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,440 And then and then here's and and and I'm not I'm trust me, I'm 190 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,640 not calling them out. They were phenomenal. 191 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,040 As hospitable as you could be. I mean, red carpet for me and my 192 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,960 entire family. But as I'm going out, but I made 193 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:03,720 it a point do not step on the white line. 194 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:05,520 So I kind of jumped over that a little bit, right. 195 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,200 Like I even I even did that when I played as they announce me, 196 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:13,520 they go, ladies and gentlemen, you know, give it up for and 197 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,200 they and their start, they run down the resume. 198 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,760 You know, just so you know, I think they said I really wasn't 199 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:20,120 even listening because I was nervous. 200 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:24,960 Emmy Award, Emmy award-winning New York broadcaster, but now at 201 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,840 national presence with BT Unleashed on YouTube. 202 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:34,640 A big howdy for Brandon Turney. And as I'm walking my name. 203 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:39,120 So now I'm all messed up as I'll never forget. 204 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,640 As I'm walking out and I jump over the line is when I hear my 205 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:45,080 name. I'm like, oh man, they got my 206 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,600 name wrong. So instantaneously. 207 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,080 Handsome Bible. Forget about. 208 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,680 I'm not even thinking about the first pitch now. 209 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,800 I'm thinking about, I don't know if I can use the video because 210 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,880 they said my name wrong and I'm going to look like a clown, but 211 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,040 I'm going to have fun with it. It's all good. 212 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,360 I'm not even worried about that. So I'm already not focused on 213 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,680 the task at hand. I'm thinking about anything but 214 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:08,920 throwing, throwing a strike. Now I asked the woman I because 215 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,320 I have over the years, I have mocked people who don't throw 216 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,840 from the rubber. I have like if you could go out 217 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,920 there and throw a first pitch throw from 60 feet 6 inches. 218 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,160 So the only question that I asked at the beginning was can I 219 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,760 go to the top of the rubber? She's like, no, you can't stand 220 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,440 on the rubber. What you can do? 221 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:29,880 You can stand on the down slope. All right, because they don't 222 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,440 want to get. Now, obviously guys have to 223 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:32,520 pitch. It's the major leagues. 224 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:34,920 Not that I was wearing spikes, but I get it. 225 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:36,800 I respected. They already did the matic 226 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:38,160 curing. So it was ready for the first 227 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:39,760 pitch, for the real first pitch the game. 228 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,520 So she she said what you could do, you could go from the 229 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,400 downslope, but we've seen people slip and fall. 230 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,040 I'm like, Oh shit, there's no way I'm doing that. 231 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,440 I don't have cleats on. I've got brand new, you know, 232 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,120 Mikey Jordans, you know, and they're there's they're they're 233 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:56,880 literally brand new. So they're slippery. 234 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,440 I got no, I'm like, I'm not going from the slope. 235 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:03,520 So all right, I will take my friends clouding me going to the 236 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,720 basically the edge of the circle where the dirt meets the grass. 237 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,680 So instead of 60, 56 inches, it's probably more like 5455, 238 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:12,440 something like that. So I'm saying, oh, that'll be 239 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:13,360 easier. All right. 240 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,760 When I stood there and I've thrown out a first pitch before, 241 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,520 when I stood there and I walked and I looked around and I and I 242 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,720 made sure I gave the crowd a nice wave and I was trying to 243 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:24,880 take in the moment. And she even said she's like, 244 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,400 listen, a lot of people rush this. 245 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,280 Just get out there, do like don't take the moment in. 246 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:34,440 But I was so worried about the ball slipping out of my hand 247 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:37,280 that I could not really enjoy the moment. 248 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,360 Like I tried. I really tried. 249 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,280 So anyway, I'm like, it's go, it's go time, Jared, it's go 250 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:42,720 time. Let's. 251 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:45,160 Do. It I get my 4 seamer and I rare 252 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,800 back and I freaking fired it man. 253 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:52,560 Now there was no mile per hour. As soon as it left my hand, I'm 254 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:55,040 like that's that might that I don't know if he's going to 255 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,560 catch the ball now. Travis Jankowski. 256 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,480 Thank God it wasn't like an old coach. 257 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,560 He's now the first base coach for the Rangers, right? 258 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:04,200 Got it. And he played for the Mets for a 259 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,720 year back in 2022. What are these like scrappy, you 260 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,480 know 4th outfielders who can run, you know did not a great 261 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:15,240 player but but a good athlete. Thank God he just retired 262 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:19,080 because if I had an old coach back there that no bull, no 263 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,200 bull. I threw it so hard that thing 264 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,200 would have hit the screening on a fly. 265 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,120 He jumped out of his Crouch and he snagged it in the 266 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,240 right-handed part of the batter's box. 267 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:36,800 It was like 4 feet high. It was like not not close to a 268 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:42,800 strike two feet, 2 feet inside. It was really not a good throw 269 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,920 Me, I I because this is just how I'm wired. 270 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,320 I allowed that to bother me for the next hour, like I all I did 271 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:55,880 was think about how all like I can think I can throw a baseball 272 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,160 without even thinking. And then I get on a mound in 273 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:03,320 front of about 30,000 people on Easter Sunday, talking smack on 274 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,560 YouTube, talking snap smack on Twitter and Instagram. 275 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:08,560 I'm going to fire it. And what do I do? 276 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,600 It sells. And as soon as I threw the ball, 277 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,720 I actually felt it like I and I had the grip. 278 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:16,680 But what, what, what are the things like when you throw a 279 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:19,800 baseball and you teach the young kids this as well? 280 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:21,480 You almost want to hold it like an egg. 281 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:24,320 It's almost like a Golf Club. When you grip a Golf Club too 282 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,680 tight, that like the, the tendons and everything in your 283 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:30,760 arms get to and you just, you lose that elasticity and you 284 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,240 lose like speed, like swing speed or, or, or arm speed. 285 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:35,840 So I'm like, don't grip it too tight. 286 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,360 But then I'm like, but you have to because it's real slippery. 287 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,960 So anyway, I was kind of in between all the grip and I, I 288 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,440 just, I didn't throw a good one and I was very disappointed. 289 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,280 And I, I can't, I can't get it back. 290 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:50,000 That's the problem. I can't get it back. 291 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,920 And, and I remember my, as I'm walking out there, my dad, my 292 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,280 son goes, come on, dad, let's go wizard throw a strike like 293 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,920 something like that. And I'm like, I can't disappoint 294 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:01,600 him. I can't disappoint my daughter. 295 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,240 I don't know that I disappointed them, but I disappointed myself. 296 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,800 It was definitely not a strike. Now that what the reason I give 297 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,600 it an 8 is because the wind up and the the like the aesthetics 298 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,720 of the throw were on point because I did play and it had 299 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,920 some juice. But if Travis Jankowski does not 300 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,040 jump out of his Crouch, no, it's not going to short hop the 301 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,040 backstop. It's going to hit it on a line. 302 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,200 It's going to hit so that that's the long and short of it. 303 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,880 A short story made long by BT What else is new? 304 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,280 But the Rangers were great. It was a complete honor. 305 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,960 It really was a little more nerve racking that I thought 306 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,040 like when I threw out the pitch at the A's, you got to 307 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,040 understand it was AI was in a very different place because we 308 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,320 hadn't had children yet. And this was in 2011. 309 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:53,120 So I was done with college baseball for a long time, but I 310 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,400 wasn't coaching, so I wasn't really throwing the ball like I, 311 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,160 I can't remember maybe throwing a football in a parking lot like 312 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:00,880 tailgating at Stanford or something. 313 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,920 So my arm, I, I didn't have this expectation, but because my arm 314 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,440 is about the only part of my body that still feels very 315 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:11,600 lively and I know has some juice, I set the expected like 316 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,920 in my mind, I was going to throw a 70 mile per hour dot and, and 317 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,560 whomever was back there wasn't going to have to move, was going 318 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,280 to pound the zone and it was going to be perfect. 319 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,000 And it wasn't, but it was a good time and it and and that's what 320 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,080 happened. Man, there we go. 321 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,600 That's all that matters. Yeah, well, I, I guess that's 322 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:30,280 all that matters, but I was expecting more. 323 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:31,840 I go from an outsider perspective. 324 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,760 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get you the video. 325 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:35,440 We will. Definitely. 326 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,920 They got me a nice Rangers jersey with my name on it. 327 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:39,640 They really went above and beyond. 328 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:40,840 So it was an incredible experience. 329 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:42,560 Again, thank you to the Rangers family. 330 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,360 Really, really cool. Really, really above and beyond. 331 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,360 So I want to hear about your your little set that you played 332 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,280 over the weekend as well. We'll get to that at some point 333 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:51,240 today. I want to hear about it. 334 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,480 I want to hear how my how my Guy J Rod was banging the bass. 335 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,120 See if there's any groupies out there for J Rod as well. 336 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,560 We got to get the groupie. Yeah, maybe some like 70 year 337 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,800 old ones were out there. Hey, listen yo, they're people 338 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,000 too. Hey, true, true. 339 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,880 You know what? Oh, J Rod got to try everything 340 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:08,600 once. All right, so I want to hear 341 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:09,760 about that. I promise I'm going to give you 342 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,720 a chance to you that up now college basketball season's over 343 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,760 portal is open. It's amazing that that that's 344 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:21,680 the first Big 10 championship since 19 since 2000, which was 345 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:23,760 Michigan State, like the height of the Izzo run. 346 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,040 Tom Izzo still the man. But you know, that's when they 347 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,320 were just popping pros left and right and you know, they were at 348 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:31,200 a higher level than they are. And it's still a very good 349 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,480 program now. But that Michigan State, you 350 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,160 know, that that that iteration, the late 90s, early 2000s, my 351 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,280 God, they were so good. So Big 10. 352 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,560 Congrats to the Big 10, Congrats to Michigan. 353 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,760 I thoroughly enjoyed the game. Now, aesthetically, it wasn't 354 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:50,040 very pretty, you know, but but for U Conn to have a chance in 355 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,000 this game, they had to muck it up and they had to make it like 356 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,280 a Big East game and they were very successful doing that. 357 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:59,120 You guys got to understand when you look at the dominance now, I 358 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,640 did not think that Michigan was going to beat Arizona, nor did I 359 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,200 think that UConn was going to beat Illinois. 360 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:07,079 So I I gave you the predictions on with the on Friday. 361 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:10,200 I thought it was going to be Arizona and Illinois in the 362 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,040 Champions. You see, I can own my mistakes. 363 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,880 If I'm wrong, I'm wrong and I you know, O for two in terms of 364 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,839 picking the the championship game. 365 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,800 But the thing and I didn't overlook this with Michigan. 366 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,760 I just thought that Arizona was slightly better. 367 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,240 But Michigan absolutely last night aside, roll through this 368 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,440 tournament. You look at some of the the 369 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,280 points that they put up. They scored 101 against Howard. 370 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,000 They scored 95 against Saint Louis. 371 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,200 They scored 90 against a very good Alabama team, 95 against a 372 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,440 really good Tennessee team, 91 against Arizona over the weekend 373 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:45,360 and then 69 against UConn. It shows a great adaptability. 374 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:47,640 It shows great coaching. It shows great grit. 375 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,800 Obviously they play defense. They really made life tough for 376 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,320 UConn shooters, whether it's Caravan or or Braylon Mullins, 377 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,000 who was three for 17. But this is amazing. 378 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,360 They were plus 1/14 in the in the tournament, which is the 379 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:04,160 seventh highest in the history of the tournament. 380 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:07,000 They scored 541 total points, second most ever. 381 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,920 And the team that had more than them was the 1990 UNLV running 382 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,960 Rebels. Grandma Ma, Larry Johnson, Stacy 383 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,200 Alban, Anderson Hunt, Greg Anthony, you know, a, a team 384 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,920 that eventually lost to Duke after they obliterated Duke and 385 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:25,160 poor Poppy Hurley ran to the bathroom to to get diarrhea. 386 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:26,600 I don't know, I, I think that's what happened. 387 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,840 He had a real stomach issue. I think I would as well. 388 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:34,120 By the way, if I'm a, a young, skinny, 155 LB Bobby Hurley on 389 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:37,640 the layup line and I look over and I see those monsters getting 390 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:40,480 ready to full court, press me. I may have thrown up on the 391 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:45,920 court, but listen, it really was, you know, I, it depends. 392 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,000 It depends aesthetically what you're looking for. 393 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:55,120 I don't need, you know, 13 to 16 three pointers made or 85 to 90 394 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:58,040 points. I can find the beauty in a 395 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:02,320 grinded out kind of a game. And it was a grinded out kind of 396 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:06,120 a game. I remember one point maybe maybe 397 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:09,480 midway through the first half, so about 10 minutes or so right 398 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:13,880 around there, you know, Raph is like they got 6, Michigan has 16 399 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,520 points and then he ran through, you know, some of the numbers I 400 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,480 just ran through, you know, just to get everybody up to speed, 401 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,560 not assuming that everybody knows exactly what Michigan's 402 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:24,680 done this year in terms of being a high octane team. 403 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,960 So the Big 10 gets their championship. 404 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,920 Michigan gets their first since 1989. 405 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,760 It really is amazing. Now, Michigan, Michigan's been 406 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:37,040 very good the last couple of years here and Big 10, the Big 407 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,520 10's, one of those conferences where throughout the year now 408 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,840 talk about this century, you know, really since their last 409 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,320 championship. That's why I referenced that 410 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,320 back in 2000 with the Spartans. But all those ensuing years, 411 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:53,400 think about all the good Wisconsin teams and Purdue's 412 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,560 been good. Iowa's had some really good 413 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:57,400 teams. Michigan State's obviously very 414 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:02,080 good Illinois going back to the, you know, through OO4O5 in that 415 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,520 window with Billy Self and some of those terrific players. 416 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,680 So the cobbles. Season is over. 417 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,960 Congrats to Michigan. Now the portal is going to be 418 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:14,680 absolutely insane, which leads us to one more thing about about 419 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,120 the tournament, which kind of leads me into my my next topic 420 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:19,840 here. And and I know it's I know it's 421 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,120 a talking point and I wanted to make sure I talked about the 422 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:24,560 game a little bit first. If you want to pop in about the 423 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,720 game, some of the stuff within the game, I'm all for it, right? 424 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,040 But you know it the way I do this and the way most people do 425 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,360 that do this at this point, it's more about topics and kind of 426 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:38,040 pushing things forward. Like this is not 1990 where you 427 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,440 get on the air, you know, 13 minutes. 428 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:41,720 This guy picked up his third foul. 429 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:45,480 Although Bemery and and some others for UConn had some foul 430 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,040 issues. Even Michigan was plagued by 431 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,520 that, which you don't love to see. 432 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,160 And I I thought some of the fouls were a little ticky tack. 433 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,360 You want the best players to be out there. 434 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:57,080 That's a little gripe that I would have and that I did have 435 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:01,200 from the game. But you think about like March 436 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,720 Madness, right? Just the, the entity of March 437 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,360 Madness. And one of the great things is 438 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,320 that first of all, it's a Thursday, it's a Friday. 439 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,320 And you know, starting with Selection Sunday and of course 440 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,120 the first four, if you're into that, they're good for you. 441 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,680 I'm really not, but I'm not here to disparage it. 442 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,320 You start to see the Cinderella's develop, right? 443 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,840 This year's, I mean, I the Cinderella was probably Texas 444 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:29,480 and Texas I believe had about a 16 or $17 million NIL, you know, 445 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,960 Bass. So is that really a Cinderella, 446 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,080 which which just tells you how much things have changed. 447 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:35,680 Listen, I'm looking at it this way. 448 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,840 You're going to hear the word sustainability quite a bit and 449 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,440 we all know it's not sustainable. 450 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,760 And I don't want to be a Debbie Downer because we did have a 451 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,440 champion crown last night. Now I will, I'm I'm much more 452 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,200 intimately aware of some of St. John's economic factors, but 453 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,120 they're not that. The only difference between St. 454 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,680 John's and some of these other schools is that they've got 455 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,160 football revenue, which obviously they can, you know, 456 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,400 spread around, you know, if you're a Michigan or, you know, 457 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:06,160 what are those mad LSU you got 100,000, Penn State 110,000 458 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,480 people watching the game. So the ability to make money and 459 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,720 then, you know, kind of disperse throughout the rest of the 460 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,120 athletic department is is obviously there on a much higher 461 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:17,000 level. I mean, just look at the fact 462 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,400 that a team like Alabama or some of the other schools I 463 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,680 mentioned, they will pay early in the season, some middling mid 464 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,320 major Division One team, maybe from the Mac or another 465 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:32,480 conference like that to come to their stadium to lose by 40. 466 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,840 And sometimes those buy games actually do go awry. 467 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,760 But the team that comes in, that's the inferior team, 468 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,200 they're getting about two 2 1/2, sometimes $3,000,000 at that. 469 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:46,000 That's what a buy game is. And the teams that's really 470 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,920 important. I don't know why this team's 471 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,320 popping to take a team like Toledo, like a team like that, 472 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,160 right? Say they go and play Bama. 473 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,440 Here's a check for 2.5. They could take the 2 1/2 or 3 474 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,560 million dollars and then disperse it somewhat throughout 475 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,040 the rest of the athletic for the for the budget there swimming 476 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:07,720 and diving, golf, softball, some other stuff right non revenue 477 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,680 producing sports. So I think that we've got a 478 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,960 massive issue here. Jay Billis was phenomenal on 479 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,240 Saturday going back and forth with Calipari. 480 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,160 And Jay Billis has a legal background, not to mention he is 481 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,840 a whiz when it comes to basketball. 482 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,560 The guy's brilliant, right? And and I thought he made a lot 483 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,280 of sense. Nobody really wants to hear it. 484 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,040 But look, look at look at Saint John's for a second, right? 485 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:37,320 So Saint John's operating costs is around $40 million for their 486 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,560 entire athletic department right now. 487 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,520 What what does that include? All the coaches salaries, all 488 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,200 the charters. And I don't mean NCAA issued. 489 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,880 Like when you go to the tournament, the NCAA pays for 490 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,720 it. But like Saint John's flies out 491 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,240 to Creighton or Saint John's flies out to Butler or, you 492 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,280 know, one of those school DePaul in Chicago. 493 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,000 Saint John's is, is, is, is cutting that check, right. 494 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,040 So $40 million operating budget, you know, Pitino's making, you 495 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,080 know, 6-7 hours. He's got the new contract, but 496 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,400 closer to 10. All of his staff, the entire 497 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,480 support staff, all the other sports, all the charters, all 498 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,440 the hotels, all the other things that you got to pay. 499 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:18,840 Now, the total revenue for Saint John's is around. 500 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,680 Not that these aren't perfect numbers, but they're in the 501 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,760 neighborhood of $40 million. So let me get this straight, If 502 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,640 a school like Saint John's has an operating budget of just to 503 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:35,000 exist of $40 million and they generate $40 million, how 504 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,400 sustainable is that? Because it's still a business. 505 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,320 Yes, it looks good for the universe. 506 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,040 And you can make the case that while it looks good for the 507 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,360 university, certainly there is some downstream uptick like for 508 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,000 Saint. I would, I would imagine 509 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,440 actually, I know this, that St. John's enrollment has gone up 510 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,200 the last couple of years. It's viewed differently by 511 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,040 prospective students in high school because there's now a 512 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,520 buzz around the program. So that's another ability to 513 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,640 make money for the school, for the university, but that's 514 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,160 that's separate from the athletic department. 515 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,560 So I I just I don't know where we're going with this. 516 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,360 I don't pretend to have the answer. 517 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,040 Again, I don't want to just take a dump on the entire college 518 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:19,440 system, But it is broken. It is beyond broken. 519 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,520 And anything that we do now is just a Band-Aid. 520 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,360 It's going to come to roost. I don't know how much more money 521 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:28,320 you can spend on NIL Take Saint John's again. 522 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:33,400 Mike Ropoli. I got to meet Mike in in in San 523 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,680 Diego. No, I need have been San Diego 524 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,760 or in DCI met him in San Diego right I've seen him a couple 525 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,120 times never really had a a conversation with my just a 526 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,320 quick DAP as I'm going to the broadcast booth with that 527 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,680 whatever I saw him at breakfast in the team hotel in San Diego 528 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,960 and Eddie Cole. The AD was there and a few other 529 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,320 boosters and and they were at the table Anyway we started 530 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,240 talking right great guy, incredible energy ridiculous 531 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:00,840 what he's doing for the school. That's amazing. 532 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,440 So if Mike Ripoli and every but every school's got a micropoli, 533 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,640 the difference schools like say the University of Texas, they've 534 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,120 got maybe 10 to 20 micropolis because it's all oil money, 535 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,560 football budget, etcetera, like Seton Hall and some of these 536 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,440 other Big E schools without football budgets. 537 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,680 Well, yes, somebody steps forward, somebody cuts a check, 538 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,640 but at what point is the return not worth the investment? 539 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,360 And I'm not saying that that's the case for St. 540 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:30,440 John's at all because their profile and the amount of 541 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,280 students now who who applied to go to St. 542 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,760 John's to profile, all the other things that that you can benefit 543 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,240 residually from having a powerhouse of a program with 544 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,080 back-to-back Big East tournament and regular season 545 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,320 championships. That is quantifiable. 546 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,760 You can obviously, you know, literally detail how much money 547 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,800 you make off of that, but I'm not sure what the end game is. 548 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,880 I don't know how much more this could go on. 549 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,920 And I don't even, I'm not even talking about, I'm talking about 550 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,480 everybody, man. I mean, but the money is 551 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,760 absolutely insane. And this is not about me saying 552 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,440 they shouldn't get paid. I've always said that they 553 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,200 should get paid. And I've always thought that it 554 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,240 was too 1 sided and disingenuous. 555 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,800 That was that. Some of these people in the NCAA 556 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,400 who I don't really respect at all because I don't think they 557 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,800 know what they're doing. And they were dragging their 558 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,280 feet, forever reticent to pay these players because they knew 559 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,000 once the door opened, hit, the tsunami was going to hit them 560 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,480 and they were being greedy. It's not like they were trying 561 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,960 to protect the integrity of the NCAA. 562 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,800 They wanted to count and keep as much money as possible. 563 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,560 So some of these schools of Michigan and Arkansas, a Texas, 564 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,280 a St. John's at Duke and Indiana, well 565 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,200 north of $10 million in the NIL. And when you start to weigh in 566 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,200 and it's different, an operating budget at Texas or Michigan or 567 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,600 Bama is very different than an operating budget at St. 568 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,960 John's or Butler or DePaul or Seat Hall. 569 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,480 Understood. It's all relative. 570 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,520 But what's happening here, what's happening here is that 571 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:00,960 you're beginning to see now like the fundamental essence of what 572 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,760 the, of what a couple of weeks of March Madness used to 573 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:10,840 represent symbolically, whether it was a Butler or VCU or George 574 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:16,360 Mason back in the day or even teeny tiny Villanova back in 85. 575 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:18,800 You know what St. went when the biggie sent three biggie schools 576 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,880 to the Final Four. You know, I, I just, I don't, I 577 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,480 don't know how we get there again. 578 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,640 And if we are there to an extent, I don't know how we stay 579 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,240 there. I, I just don't because what's 580 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,200 listen, the bottom line is this guy's schools in mid majors, 581 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,920 they are now a minor league feeding ground, a sporting 582 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,360 ground for great talent. And it sucks. 583 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,280 Like you take a school like like Maris, where I went where we 584 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:44,120 barely have any NIL money. It's a great academic school. 585 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,640 They, they consistently yield, you know, all academic teams and 586 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,640 it's a great university and it's well run. 587 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,800 And I've got great friends up there and I'm very proud, very 588 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,560 proud to have attended Marist, right. 589 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,120 But Marist, let's say they get like, like back in the day, you 590 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,640 could get, you know, maybe a kid in New York City. 591 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,400 I'll just throw a school's name out there, St. 592 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,080 Ray's or all Hollows or one of those schools who's not the best 593 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,640 player on the team. Maybe that best player goes to 594 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,640 the Big East, but the second or third best player on that team 595 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:21,000 goes to a Marist or goes to a Sienna or goes to a Fairfield or 596 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,280 an Iota or one of those schools. And then he wins, you know, Mac, 597 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,040 Rookie of the year. And you're like, OK, you know, 598 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,920 hey, we we've got our our foundational piece. 599 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,280 Let's build around him with a couple of shooters, get a big 600 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,760 blah, blah, blah. And then let's have a chance to 601 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,560 not only make the NCAA tournament next year, but also 602 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,720 maybe make a run, like win a game or two, you know, like Iota 603 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,320 did years ago. So those days are over. 604 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:51,840 Because once that Mac or NEC Rookie of the year or a lesser 605 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,200 conference shows this incredible talent, he's gone. 606 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,680 Because you got a big school, say, hey, here's $1,000,000, 607 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,080 check, come play for us. So there are no answers right 608 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,240 now. One thing that I would like to 609 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,280 see is more of a commitment to the school. 610 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,840 I know for a fact that St. John's has done some multi year 611 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,720 NIL deals, which I think is a good thing. 612 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,520 And listen, let's get separation. 613 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:21,120 If you commit to go and play at Michigan State, let's say you 614 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,160 get $2,000,000 to go play for the Spartans and then out of 615 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:29,040 nowhere and and you've just signed right or well, you can't 616 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,000 sign yet with the portal. You signed out of high school. 617 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,680 Or more specifically to the issue that I'm talking about, 618 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,760 you are at a previous school. You go to Michigan State for big 619 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,600 money. And then Tom Izzo out of nowhere 620 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,440 in a month says, you know what, I'm done. 621 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,400 I don't, which wouldn't stun me at some point soon. 622 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,600 I'm done with the direction of the NCAA. 623 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,120 This is not the game that I love. 624 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,280 I just I don't feel it anymore. It's not what it's not why I got 625 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,040 into coaching. And I'm checking out like a lot 626 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,600 of like a lot of coaches have already done, OK, like Jay 627 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,920 Wright, it's a good example, who's a lot younger than Tom 628 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,280 Izzo. Well, if you sign, I don't care 629 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,760 if they give you a dollar or a gazillion dollars, if you sign 630 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,600 to go play for a for a coach, you you absolutely need to be 631 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,800 able to leave without penalty. That's not the problem. 632 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,280 All right? The problem is, I think that 633 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:18,320 there should be some sort of economic return, like a buyout 634 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:23,000 almost, where if you sign for two years with a school at a 635 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,680 million each, and then after one year you don't like it and you 636 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,680 leave, that's fine. You've got the latitude to do 637 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,840 that based on the rules, but then you have to pay back. 638 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,800 I'm just throwing numbers out a half, $1,000,000 to the school 639 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,480 that you lose or that you left, that you leave, I should say, 640 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,040 because then what's happening now? 641 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,760 The school that you committed to, now at least they've got 642 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,000 some more money to make a very quick pivot to adjust to you 643 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,160 leaving. Whereas right now they don't 644 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,480 really have that. So I don't pretend to have the 645 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,240 answer. I love college basketball. 646 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,160 It's a big part of my world. But it has changed the point 647 00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:00,560 where it's barely recognizable and everybody with a brain cell 648 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,320 knows it's a big issue and they've got to find a way to 649 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,040 resolve this. The problem is you can have, you 650 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:13,160 could take Jay Bilvis, you could take a Pitino, a Calipari, a Tom 651 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,280 Izzo, you could take a couple of former legends of NC, the Grant 652 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:23,000 Hill Hurley, whoever else you luau Cinder could Kareem could 653 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,920 come in if he wants anybody, right? 654 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,880 And they could sit down and they can craft this amazing new 655 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,080 vision for the for the college game where kids get paid. 656 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:35,840 But it's healthier, all right? And there's more, there's more 657 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,000 plates for the smaller teams to eat from. 658 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,440 The problem is it's got to go to courts. 659 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,000 And once it go, and I don't pretend to understand all the 660 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,640 stuff that when it gets to that level, but once it gets to that 661 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,200 level, it's just never going to get pushed through. 662 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,760 What effect in an effective matter that's going to save 663 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,320 college basketball and the same with college football. 664 00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:01,560 So I've, I have been able myself to because really, I mean, I'd, 665 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,800 I'd be disingenuous. I mean, let's face it, the 666 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,720 reason why St. John's is back and watch what 667 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,080 they do with the next couple of weeks. 668 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,360 If you think, if you think the last couple of years were were 669 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,000 strong, I think they're going even more aggressively like, 670 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,240 because all right, sweet 16's good. 671 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:18,320 They want to get to a final four. 672 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,640 They want to win a championship and they've got a guy with a 673 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,120 checkbook to help them get there. 674 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,480 And they definitely have the right coach to help them get 675 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:25,400 there. So St. 676 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,000 John's not about to stop. So this has made my world much 677 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,120 more enjoyable instead of going 17 and 15. 678 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,240 Sometimes That's that's a good thing based on some of the years 679 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:40,520 I've had with Saint John's and beating a bunch of mid major 680 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,480 teams in in the early season that do nothing for your net 681 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,720 ranking or the other analytics that actually get you in a spot 682 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,560 to have a good seating or make the NCAA tournament on Selection 683 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,080 Sunday with the committee like that world versus the world that 684 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,320 I'm currently watching and calling games with Mink. 685 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,320 I mean, I'll take this world any day of the week. 686 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,800 I mean, I just did a Sweet 16 game. 687 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:02,800 Saint John. Should it be Duke? 688 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,640 They're up by 10 in the second-half. 689 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,320 I'm thinking Elite 8. I couldn't even dream about the 690 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,480 Elite 8 a couple of years ago before Rick got here. 691 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,639 So my world has changed. Favorably, selfishly, but I'm 692 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:16,320 also a macro guy. I'm a big picture guy. 693 00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:21,000 And the day that Pitino retires or the day that Mike Repoli 694 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000 says, all right, I'm, I'm, I've done enough and I'm going to 695 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,679 take a step back. Well, if nobody else steps up 696 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,639 and St. John's, let's, let's not be 697 00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:29,960 blind here. St. 698 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,960 John's will just kind of sit back to the middle of the pack 699 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,560 here because that's what's happened to a school like Seton 700 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,920 Hall and some other proud basket Butler, some other Creighton, 701 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,960 some other proud basketball traditions that don't have the 702 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,080 finance to back it up. So we got a lot of problems 703 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:47,920 here. And you can either choose to 704 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,760 address it or, you know, just throw your head in the sand and 705 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,520 ignore it. I'm kind of doing both. 706 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,679 I do it. I do enjoy it because it's 707 00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:57,000 relevant games. I mean, St. 708 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,080 John's has turned, you know, New York City back into a a college 709 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,880 basketball town. But I also understand greater 710 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,960 good. It's it's not for the greater 711 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,840 good. I'm gonna get James 555K. 712 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,240 Move on from move from an NIL system to an incentive only 713 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:13,240 system. You'll get better competition 714 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,720 and better players. Well, again, sounds good. 715 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,120 All right. Is that going to fly in the 716 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,800 courts? Is that going to fly in the 717 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,480 courts? So if you're talking about well 718 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:25,400 hey, here's 500, here's $350,000 to sign with school X or 719 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,080 university Y. If you do this from an 720 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,720 individual perspective, it triggers up to 750 or 1,000,000 721 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:34,560 or 1/2 or 1/5. If we do this from a team 722 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,520 perspective, it triggers up accordingly. 723 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,440 Sounds good. Sounds good in a boardroom. 724 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,400 Sounds good in a tweet, you know, sounds good in an on air 725 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,520 conversation. But is it practical? 726 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,280 My answer is no because of the court system. 727 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,080 I don't know how that's going to fly legally. 728 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,040 So that's where we're at with college basketball. 729 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,800 But I did enjoy the game. And, you know, it's crazy to 730 00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:56,040 like what? You know what? 731 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,240 And this is one of our burning questions, so I'm not going to 732 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:00,960 do it yet. But I mean, Danny Hurley is just 733 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,760 my goodness, he's a phenomenal coach. 734 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:07,040 He is just tremendous. I don't care, you know, the 735 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,520 antics that over shadow his greatness for some, not me. 736 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,720 I had no problem with it. I mean, Bobby Knight was the 737 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:16,280 same way Bobby Knight is is, you know, for the, I mean, vilified 738 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,760 by some but revered by most. OK, so let's not be selective in 739 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,480 how we remember people. There were a lot of tyrants back 740 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,720 in the day. I mean, actually Bayheim was he 741 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:27,680 wasn't, you know, as visibly A tyrant as I mean, very few 742 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,440 people are like Danny Hurley. But all the Rolly Louis, I mean, 743 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,640 these guys were on the refs, you know, they come on. 744 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,600 It was just different. Not every single exchange was 745 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,400 captured and Danny is excessive and Danny is over the top. 746 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,160 But my goodness, man, you give him. 747 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,160 I'll tell you what, if you gave him this, how much I believe in 748 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,080 him and Pitino's in the same category. 749 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,960 If you gave every, what are their 300 and something Division 750 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,280 One teams? If you gave every single 751 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:59,760 Division One coach the same exact roster and the same summer 752 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,360 period to improve and the same, you know, month and a half ramp 753 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,760 up before the start of the season when practice officially 754 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,240 starts. You get back to school in 755 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:09,160 September, late August, whatever it might be. 756 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,320 And then you play a, you know, thirtyish game, the tournaments 757 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,080 and then the big dance, and they all have the same amount of 758 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,000 talent. Nobody has an advantage. 759 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,680 Does anybody think that Danny Hurley is not going to be among 760 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,840 the final coaches standing? They just is. 761 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,760 I mean, he is just what he does, you know, and, and the way he 762 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,920 pushes players and Rick does this as well to push a player 763 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,360 that hard and that aggressively almost to the point where you 764 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,360 where if you have the wrong player, they're going to break. 765 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,320 And what I mean break is they're going to shut down then then 766 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:41,920 they're going to eventually transfer. 767 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,000 But those who don't will like a Zoobie goes from a young man who 768 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,600 was playing 5 minutes a game at Kansas as a freshman to a player 769 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,880 of the year in the conference and the DPOY as well. 770 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,640 Now the whole game is the whole draft game is all whacked out. 771 00:37:57,720 --> 00:37:59,800 You know, it's all about upside and stuff. 772 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,240 So you'll see almost everybody drafted early. 773 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:04,480 He's going to be 19 years old. That's just the way it is. 774 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:08,840 And I'm fine with it. But Zubi Ejafor has put himself 775 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,680 in a position to eventually, like Champenny in Saint John's 776 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,000 to make, you know, borderline or eventual generational wealth 777 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,560 because he didn't wilt and he and he stuck through it. 778 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,360 And he was able to take that pushing and that prodding and 779 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,120 that controlling. And Danny Hurley is a magician 780 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,720 man. But to be able to do that, that 781 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,800 players got to know, yeah, you might get eviscerated on 782 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,400 national TV. You might get lit up in film 783 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,160 study in front of your boys. You might get lit up up in front 784 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,800 of practice, in front of everybody, but at the end of the 785 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,960 day, forget about as a player, as a person. 786 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,920 And that young man's family knows the same thing, that there 787 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,800 is a deep connection and a deep love that is non negotiable. 788 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:55,480 And as crazy as Hurley is, and he is freaking nuts, his players 789 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,120 know it because they stay, they develop and they win. 790 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:03,480 So he really, really, I mean he's 6-7 minutes away from 791 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,120 better basketball from having 3 championships, three of them 792 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,280 absolutely insane. Insane. 793 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,360 I mean, the guys, he was at Wagner for a couple of years. 794 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,720 It's crazy. My God, he's so good and he's so 795 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,840 much. Yeah, I've been I've been going 796 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:22,320 deep into like the Dan Hurley, I guess, like video archive, the 797 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,880 Dan Hurley experience. Yeah, like I've just been 798 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:29,480 watching so many of like did they do a 30 for 30 on him and 799 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:30,560 his brother? I don't know if I. 800 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,840 Saw that, I saw it. But I've seen obviously a lot of 801 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,560 the clips and just going deep like they're just, they're such 802 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,360 an inspirational, you know, group of guy or couple of guys, 803 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:41,520 you know. Just. 804 00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:45,880 Truly all about the game. Lunatics, as you're saying. 805 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,880 Yep. Umm yeah Dude, what a great 806 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,360 coach. Good game, good game. 807 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,280 Not, I guess, a great game. Not a great. 808 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:57,120 Game go as like down to the true wire if you wanted to, you know, 809 00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,760 it got to like that four point kind of thing at the end and you 810 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,560 go, yeah, maybe, but no, it didn't really look good. 811 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,880 No, you know what? Just back to Hurley for a SEC. 812 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,520 Then we'll get into the three burning questions. 813 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,440 We'll get to Dexter, Lawrence, Soto, Jazz, a little something 814 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,560 on the NFL draft as well, and we'll get those texts coming. 815 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,840 And yeah, I see on the hook and hold that that's got to be gone 816 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,800 if you get rid of it. It just stagnates things. 817 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,560 I'm with you. I don't disagree the the thing 818 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:23,960 about Hurley right and like to understand what drives him and 819 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:24,960 you're too young for this. I know. 820 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,760 I know you saw the 30 for 30, so you understand what he went 821 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,680 through. But when when your brother is 822 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:33,360 Bobby Hurley, who was arguably the greatest college point guard 823 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,480 of all time, all right, and certainly among the game's 824 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,000 greatest winners. And his dad was ferocious at 825 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,640 Saint Anthony's just to keep the school open, how hard he was on 826 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,880 his boys. I mean, Yeah, I mean, that 827 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,000 that's that's where Danny gets it from, obviously, right. 828 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,240 But Bobby is an intense coach that just fired at Arizona 829 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:53,200 State. Bobby's intense as well because 830 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,000 he grew up in an intense, demanding home. 831 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,360 That's obvious, right? But Danny is intense because of 832 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,120 the same reason, but also because of his very public 833 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,600 failures, right? And, you know, when he quit, 834 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:08,400 when he took a leave of absence from Seton Hall And, and really, 835 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,880 in hindsight, his biggest mistake may have been staying in 836 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,240 the state of New Jersey and going to play there. 837 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:17,240 Like if Danny Hurley would have gone to, I don't know, Virginia 838 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:23,960 or Michigan State or an Illinois or USC or an Arizona State, it's 839 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,280 a different level of scrutiny. And like, you could, he talks 840 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:33,040 about it and like the hurt, the hurt that he feels and on some 841 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,920 level the embarrassment. He shouldn't be embarrassed 842 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,200 because he was a Division One college basketball player and a 843 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,160 high school old American at Saint Anthony's. 844 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,840 But the embarrassment that he feels, how he internalizes his 845 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,720 college career, that is his driving motivation. 846 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,640 It just is. And it's really one of those 847 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,000 most powerful things that you can relate to that that you can 848 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,200 have. Now, excuse me, it's not even 849 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,000 close. I don't want to equate the two, 850 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,520 but I can relate to that to an extent. 851 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:05,480 I've talked about this how to this day it kills me still, but 852 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,360 that's maybe why throwing out the first pitch, if you think 853 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,560 about this, why I internalized it on such a deep level and you 854 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,120 got to throw it hard. You got to throw a strike. 855 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:18,200 In my mind, I just know that my college baseball career didn't 856 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,520 go the way I thought it wouldn't, the way I wanted it 857 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,960 to. And you know, as important as my 858 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,560 coach who recruited me needed it to go eventually was fired. 859 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,120 And trust me, it's not fun to say that I was probably a part 860 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,160 of the reason why. Because when you're hitting in 861 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,920 the middle of the order and you don't produce and your coach 862 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,200 event eventually gets fired and you get dropped in the order, 863 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,560 how could you unless your, your head's in space and you're like, 864 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,000 oh, I was terrific. Like, no, I'm a realist man. 865 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:47,160 Like I am I, I am a pragmatist. I'm also very emotional and I'm 866 00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:48,760 also a dreamer. So it's an interesting 867 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,840 combination. But like, I, it's, it's maybe 868 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,880 one of the reasons why I take coaching now. 869 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,320 I'm not a tyrant with the kids. I'm not even a tyrant with my 870 00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:01,520 own son, But I do take it seriously in certain things are 871 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,720 non negotiable, running off the field, you know, having a catch 872 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:08,160 with purpose, just doing certain things that are ingrained in me. 873 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:12,680 So I, I look at Danny and it's a very complex evaluation because 874 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:17,640 his greatness is undeniable. You just have to wonder if 875 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,080 eventually it's, it's going to destroy him. 876 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,000 I, I hope not. I, I don't know the answer to 877 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,240 that. It could, you know, Pitino was 878 00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:29,440 never quite like that. But Rick has told me often he's 879 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,800 used the word humble, like he's like, listen, I've been humbled, 880 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,000 man. And I think it's been a little 881 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,120 bit of a softer, more congenial presentation from Rick. 882 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,480 You know, he's talked about, he's even said it publicly about 883 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,360 how he's been humbled. So Danny's 20 years younger than 884 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,120 Rick. And the one thing that you can't 885 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,120 buy, the one thing you can't study for, the one thing that 886 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,600 you really can't accelerate is life experience. 887 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,320 You just can't. You can't. 888 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,680 You got to go through certain peaks and valleys to eventually 889 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,640 get to where you're going to get to as a person or as a 890 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,480 professional coach, whatever your line of business might be. 891 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,760 So maybe Danny does find that perfect middle of the road. 892 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:09,520 I don't know, but we'll see. And with that, let's get to 3 893 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,400 burning questions. Got a lot to do here, Of course. 894 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,640 Yeah, man, Let's go. 3 burning questions here brought to you by 895 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,480 Sullivan Propane, one of New York's best personal injury law 896 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,480 firms, according to U.S. news and World Report. 897 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,520 As general counsel to the New York City Firefighters Union for 898 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,920 more than 4 decades and the proud law firm partner of St. 899 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,800 John's Athletics, Sullivan Propane is New York's team 900 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,720 fighting for New Yorkers for more than 100 years. 901 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:33,960 Fine. Sullivan Papayne online trial 902 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,960 law1.com. That's trial law1.com. 903 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,400 Remember the name Sullivan Papayne. 904 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,600 All right, question number one. There you go. 905 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:44,280 That's why I wanted to lead into it here. 906 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,600 How long do you envision Danny Hurley coach at UConn? 907 00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,720 Man, I don't know the answer. I'm going to give you some 908 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:54,080 thoughts. All right, so you think about 909 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:55,600 the coaches with three championships. 910 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,000 Bobby's got Bobby Knights has he has three. 911 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,160 Roy Williams has three. Jim Calhoun's got three as well. 912 00:45:02,240 --> 00:45:04,760 Adolf Rupp has four. Coach K's got 5. 913 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,320 John Wooden's got 10. See here. 914 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:12,160 Here's the thing. His, you know, I don't think 915 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,960 Bobby, pardon me, I don't think that Danny is one of these 916 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,960 coaches. Now, some of these coaches are 917 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:20,920 are programmed to bounce around. All right. 918 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,240 I think that for a long time that was that was Rick Pitino 919 00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:26,120 who loved the new challenge. You know. 920 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:28,280 Yeah. And I'm not talking about 921 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,880 starting at Hawaii and then going to be you and just working 922 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,720 your way up to Providence. But you know, from Providence to 923 00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:38,200 the Knicks, from the Knicks to Kentucky, you know, the Celtics 924 00:45:38,240 --> 00:45:40,440 and you know, all the other thing, Louisville, St. 925 00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:44,080 John's reclamation, Rick, I think is different, inherently 926 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,160 different in that regard from from Danny. 927 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:50,960 Now even Bobby Hurley was that he was at Arizona State for a 928 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:55,280 long time and their dad never left Saint Anthony's and he had 929 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,600 many opportunities to go and coach, whether it was college, 930 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,840 you know, definitely college and he never left. 931 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,560 So I don't think that Danny Hurley is going to have some 932 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:07,600 nomadic collegiate resume. He was at Wagner for two years. 933 00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:09,600 Well, firstly he was coaching in high school, right? 934 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,960 And then he went to Wagner for two and then he got a better 935 00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,440 job, you know, more money, higher profile at Uri when they 936 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,960 were really down. Six years there, built it up. 937 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,680 Then he took a great job at UConn, and that is a great job. 938 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,280 It's been there eight years. He's got 2 championships, almost 939 00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:29,280 got #3 I think that with three to five, within three to five 940 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,920 years, I think something is going to change for Danny. 941 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:36,200 He's either going to go to the NBA and scratch that itch. 942 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,760 All right. Remember, he was kind of close 943 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,240 to the Lakers job where they were deep in negotiations. 944 00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:45,080 And, you know, I think his wife really weighed in and it's like, 945 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:46,200 is this something you really want? 946 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:47,240 I don't know. I don't I don't want to 947 00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:50,520 misrepresent what she said, but I don't know that she was loving 948 00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,400 that that new road. And, you know, listen, as a 949 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,360 husband, as a as a dad, you got to incorporate that. 950 00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,480 But there was a deep flirtation with the NBA and the Lakers. 951 00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:02,600 Maybe that happens. I also think that there might be 952 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:07,240 with him a little bit of a burnout period and and listen, 953 00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:11,720 if he doesn't fix stuff, maybe there's a situation where he has 954 00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:14,960 to leave and it's not of his own volition for a year or so and 955 00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:18,480 kind of rehabilitate his image. So that is a long answer to a 956 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,000 very tough question. How long do I envision Dandy 957 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,760 coaching at UConn? I'm going to say within the next 958 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,960 three to five years, and I would say on the shorter side more 959 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,160 than the longer side, something changes. 960 00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,200 A little respite, a little TV because he is very good on TV. 961 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,520 Like, you know, you get Danny away from a referee or, you 962 00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,840 know, from a huddle or from barking at a player. 963 00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,520 Yeah, he's cool, he's funny, he's loose, he's honest, He's 964 00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:42,680 he's pretty. He's pretty good. 965 00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,560 I don't know. But my answer is at some point 966 00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,520 there's going to be a change and it's going to be fairly soon. 967 00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,320 But I don't see Danny jumping around. 968 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,160 Oh, the Kentucky job is open. Let me do this because it's 969 00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,320 better than UConn and they keep. UConn is phenomenal. 970 00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,880 Why you jumping around for, what, an extra 2 or $3,000,000? 971 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:03,080 How much more money do you need? It's the highest paid coach in 972 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:07,200 the conference, as he should be. And he's got a legacy that if he 973 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,520 wins one more and then maybe one more after that, it's going to 974 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,920 exceed Jim Calhoun, who is the greatest winner in the history 975 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,960 of the Big East. So that is #1 all right #2 976 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,080 little baseball here. Yeah, this sucks. 977 00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:22,080 Which Mets going to have to step up the most in Juan Soto's 978 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,560 absence? Now the camp injury, he's on the 979 00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,640 10 day IL as you know, but it's going to be more than 10 days. 980 00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,280 You look at the two to three weeks and if it is 2 weeks, I 981 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,080 don't think there'll be a minor league ramp up. 982 00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,800 If it is 3 weeks or a little bit more, maybe there will be. 983 00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:39,960 I don't think Juan Soto needs a lot to get ready to hit. 984 00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:41,760 He's Juan Soto, so I'm not worried about that. 985 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,680 Listen, to answer the question, you could easily say, oh, Lindor 986 00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,440 Bichette, those are easy answers, but they're supposed to 987 00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,960 hit, so I don't incorporate them. 988 00:48:51,240 --> 00:48:53,520 You know, you can always say somebody like a Simeon who's 989 00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,960 showing signs or and those who didn't play much early, who's 990 00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:00,480 Poppin or Beatty, sure that OK, it works out a little bit. 991 00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,400 My answer though, is actually Francisco Alvarez. 992 00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,680 So very quietly, Francisco Alvarez leads the team in home 993 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,360 runs, leads the team in total bases and his OPS is almost 994 00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,600 1100. Now at the end of the year, he's 995 00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,520 not going to have an 1100 OPS nor will he be, I don't think 996 00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,640 even close to leading the team in home runs or total bases. 997 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,640 However, he is a guy that can change the complexion of this 998 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,440 batting order, and we've always thought that he just kind of 999 00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:30,520 fell from his perch as the number one prospect in baseball. 1000 00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:33,240 I thought they called him up too early in 2022. 1001 00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,480 They put him in an unwinnable spot in that series down in 1002 00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:37,720 Atlanta. Talk about pressure. 1003 00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:39,320 Geez. Then he got hurt a lot. 1004 00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,680 Then he wasn't performing, then he was overweight. 1005 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,360 He's worked on his defense. He's in better shape and he's 1006 00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,440 hitting. So to me, I think now without 1007 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:51,520 Soto, you're going to need him to, you know, stay on a heater 1008 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,560 for at least, you know, a couple of weeks here. 1009 00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:57,760 But then when Soda returns, I think if he can play well. 1010 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,360 And I I'm, I'm kind of still a little bullish on it. 1011 00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,480 Not fully, not fully. I never fully wrote him off, 1012 00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,880 though. If this is a version that we've 1013 00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,000 never seen of Alvarez this year, and listen again, it's going to 1014 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,680 be diminished #1 he's not going to do this for the whole year. 1015 00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,120 He's not that kind of hitter, I don't think. 1016 00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,120 But if he can have a good, if, he could have his best year, put 1017 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,440 it that way. Now, when Soto does return, now 1018 00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,360 the lower third of the batting order is much more of an issue, 1019 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,600 harder to navigate, and it's going to make pitchers really, 1020 00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:33,000 really regret having to face in sequence Lindor and then Soto 1021 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,280 and then Bichette eventually went all three are hitting, 1022 00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:36,920 which eventually, at some point, they will. 1023 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,480 All right, So my answer is Alvarez #3 it is Masters week. 1024 00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:41,480 Did you know that? J Rod? 1025 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,600 Yep. Little golf down at Augusta. 1026 00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,320 I love the Masters. I watch it. 1027 00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,800 I mean, I pretty much watch every shot even and you know, 1028 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,480 I'll be on a baseball field all weekend this weekend, which is 1029 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,080 the only place I I really want to be or I should say no place 1030 00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,320 I'd rather be at this stage in my life watching my kids 1031 00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:58,960 baseball and softball, as you know. 1032 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:02,400 But I will record Augusta. I will come back and I will 1033 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,920 watch it. I will watch every shot. 1034 00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,240 I don't need a Tiger Woods. I don't need a Phil Mickelson. 1035 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,680 Now, this is the one tournament where you really don't need 1036 00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:13,120 them. Some of you need them for 1037 00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,680 everything. I don't because I I love golf 1038 00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,200 and I love watching golf. Now I'm going to give you a dark 1039 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,960 horse here. He's 10,000 to 1 to win the 1040 00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,840 Masters. Also, I'm going real dark horse. 1041 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,200 That's Harris English. All right, if you follow the PGA 1042 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,560 Tour and you follow golf here, number one, all right. 1043 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,360 He played pretty well with Augusta last year. 1044 00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:33,160 He just finished outside the top ten. 1045 00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:38,640 He was number 12/20/25. He's been, he was a runner up in 1046 00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,880 at the PGA Championship and the Open Championship overseas. 1047 00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:45,120 So he's got some chops in terms of showing up and not being 1048 00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:49,320 overwhelmed by the big stage. And he's had a very interesting 1049 00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,880 start to his 2026 season. Now he hasn't made every cut. 1050 00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:54,360 He's made most. I think he's made seven. 1051 00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,400 But of the seven cuts that he's made, he hasn't. 1052 00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:01,000 He hasn't had a top 20 finish yet, but he has not finished out 1053 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,720 of the top 30. So he's consistently been in 1054 00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:06,520 those seven, those seven cuts there, those 7 tournaments. 1055 00:52:06,720 --> 00:52:09,680 It's between 20 and 30. So when you're between 20 and 1056 00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,000 30, you know something's just a little off. 1057 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:13,480 Maybe you're not driving the ball great. 1058 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,040 Maybe you get some unlucky bounces. 1059 00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,320 Maybe you're not putting well. You know you're not rolling it 1060 00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:18,360 well. You're not, you're not, you know 1061 00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,720 you're not, you're not banging the irons the way you usually 1062 00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:23,000 do. I think that he is a good 1063 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,320 putter. I know he's a good ball striker. 1064 00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,080 His eye seems to fit the layout of Augusta. 1065 00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:32,960 There you go. That is my 2026 dark horse 1066 00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,400 candidate Harris English. So if you want to put down 100 1067 00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,040 bucks, maybe this changes by the time they get off on Thursday. 1068 00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:41,160 Right now it's about 10,000 to one. 1069 00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:43,040 He's with a bunch of other people. 1070 00:52:43,240 --> 00:52:46,280 So if you bet 100 bucks and he wins it, you win 10,000. 1071 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,160 There it is. All right, 3 burning questions 1072 00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,000 once a week here brought to you by my good friends at Sullivan. 1073 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,400 But Payne find sullivanonline@trialo1.com. 1074 00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:59,120 That is trial O one.com. Remember the name Sullivan 1075 00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:03,480 Pennsylvan pain J Rod. By the way, how was the set and 1076 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:04,920 let me hear about. This it was great. 1077 00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,040 Wait First off shout out Harris English. 1078 00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,520 I spoke to him a few weeks ago on this other pod. 1079 00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,520 I did not like me, not like me no. 1080 00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:15,800 I just said what's up to him? But very nice guy so. 1081 00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:17,920 Wait, what do you, what do you mean another pod? 1082 00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:20,560 So you're making all the money here, buddy? 1083 00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:22,840 What you got going on? Got some side hustle? 1084 00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,160 No, I mean, I do a show with these two dudes. 1085 00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:26,920 I don't know if you you might know one of them. 1086 00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,280 I do a show with these guys, Drew Butler and. 1087 00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,840 Jake from Jake from former quarterback, Yep. 1088 00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:34,800 From UGA. Yep, George. 1089 00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:39,800 He's the boy and so they talk to like a bunch of former former 1090 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,320 UGA athletes and his English is a former UGA. 1091 00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:44,600 He's a bulldog, yeah. Athlete. 1092 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,640 So there you go. Good dudes, so easy to root for, 1093 00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:47,200 right? Pretty good. 1094 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:48,760 Yeah. Yeah, time. 1095 00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,240 Nice man. Very nice, but yeah, the set was 1096 00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:53,880 awesome. Tell me about it. 1097 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,200 Let's. See, that was so it was super 1098 00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,600 fun. I mean, you know, I said last 1099 00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,800 week I was like, I don't get nervous before shows. 1100 00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,480 I get, you know, I get a little tense, but I don't get nervous. 1101 00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:04,040 Oh, I was nervous. You were. 1102 00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,600 Not sweat and bricks. But I got you. 1103 00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:10,200 You know, I hadn't played a show in probably a year or something 1104 00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,520 like that. OK, a year, maybe like 10 months 1105 00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:18,440 and so little nerves there, but super fun went great. 1106 00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,360 You know, fans showed up. We probably have like 50 1107 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,040 something people there. So super great show. 1108 00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:26,960 All right, man, all right. Now when when you're playing, I 1109 00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,160 noticed the same with speaking. You start to show those those 1110 00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,920 little butterflies just that anticipation as soon as you 1111 00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,000 start strumming, that bass all gone or. 1112 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,960 Oh yeah, By the way, for me, I guess playing bass it's easy. 1113 00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,600 You know, sometimes people can hear you, sometimes they can't. 1114 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:43,640 So it's not too bad. You know, for my boy, maybe it's 1115 00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,000 different, you know what he's got to sing and stuff like that. 1116 00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,960 Maybe it takes a little more time to get the nerves off. 1117 00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,160 But no, for me, literally the second, the second the music 1118 00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,240 stops, I'm just my mind's elsewhere. 1119 00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:57,440 And if I recall correctly there, Jay, so there were three and 1120 00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,280 three acts. You were not the opener, you 1121 00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:00,280 were not the close. You were. 1122 00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,520 You were in between. Yeah, we were in between and it 1123 00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:06,080 was, it was interesting. I mean, the show, like the fans 1124 00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,520 were very, very divided show by show. 1125 00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:12,120 It would be like the first band would go, OK, there, people 1126 00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:13,440 would come and then they'd leave. 1127 00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,440 Then we went up, they left, yeah. 1128 00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,520 Then we went up, our people came, then they left. 1129 00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,000 Then the third band came. So I don't know. 1130 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:26,160 It wasn't as I guess it wasn't as congealed of a show as maybe 1131 00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:27,960 you would think. Got it, Got it. 1132 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,120 You guys have access to a little green room beforehand? 1133 00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,000 Dude, this place was it was funny. 1134 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:35,960 It was like it wasn't even a green room. 1135 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:39,440 It was like a green closet. It was like it was literally 1136 00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:44,000 just a hallway that led from the main room to the stage. 1137 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,760 Yeah, yeah. So not no chairs or anything. 1138 00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:50,840 So no, no, no post concert partying back there Like no. 1139 00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,600 See, usually there's a little, you know, pregame, postgame, 1140 00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:57,560 like kind of fun in the green room. 1141 00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:00,640 But no, not this year. We, I remember we did that at 1142 00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,320 the BT and Sal live show with Aaron Boone. 1143 00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:05,040 We had, I was at the Vogel Theater in Redbank, sold it out. 1144 00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,600 It was awesome. And we had our own green room 1145 00:56:07,720 --> 00:56:11,320 and a couple of sponsors came by to the celebratory shot 1146 00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:14,040 beforehand. And I can only imagine. 1147 00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:15,440 Yeah. But I, I know it's different. 1148 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:18,560 I mean, you know, you look at bands like Mötley Crüe. 1149 00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:19,280 Good God. What? 1150 00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:20,680 What? What were they doing behind? 1151 00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,000 Them what we're doing, no. No, what we're doing. 1152 00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,720 We might, you know, it's probably not do a little 1153 00:56:25,720 --> 00:56:28,160 something, but not not Mötley Crüe. 1154 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,480 Little something. You're not Nikki Sixx. 1155 00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,560 God forbid you know who who actually said on his on his 1156 00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:35,880 answering machine that he was dead. 1157 00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,600 You know that story, right? No, you don't know that story. 1158 00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,000 Wait, did you see? Hold on. 1159 00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,760 Did you not see the? I haven't seen, no, I'm not a 1160 00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:47,400 huge Mötley Crüe guy. The 80s have kind of missed. 1161 00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:52,240 I go sixties, 70s. All right, you kind of missed me 1162 00:56:52,240 --> 00:56:53,520 there. Missed you the 80s. 1163 00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:54,200 Yeah, yeah. OK. 1164 00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,920 So let me take you. So the 60s, you talking 1165 00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:01,360 Woodstock, you talking, you know, Janis Joplin, you talking 1166 00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:02,920 The Who? I'm not a big Who fan, but 1167 00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:07,520 talking, okay, Jimi Hendrix, of course, groups like The Beatles, 1168 00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,440 The Beatles of yes, The Beatles 100%. 1169 00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,120 And then you get into the 70s, you got LED zip popping. 1170 00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:18,800 Now you've got, I mean, also Black Sabbath, Oh yes, with 1171 00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,400 Ozzy, but you've also got like The Commodores Earth, Wind and 1172 00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,680 Fire. Like you've got this confluence 1173 00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,160 of all these different types of genres in the 70s. 1174 00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:29,280 That's more the line. That's more the line that I 1175 00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,680 start going down is like Marvin Gaye. 1176 00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:36,360 The sort of sort of line is like really my wheelhouse. 1177 00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:38,880 But yeah, yeah, we. Got so talented, Michael 1178 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:40,960 Jackson, of course I got you all right. 1179 00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:44,160 And now the 80s. I love the 80s, but I understand 1180 00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:46,320 why it's not for everybody. Like, you know, the, the head 1181 00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:49,680 banging, you know, the, the Motley Crues and Def Leppard who 1182 00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:51,640 I mean, I love, you know, I could talk 80s music all day. 1183 00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:53,720 I love that stuff. And then the 90s, you get into 1184 00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,240 the grunge, you you get Nirvana, obviously you start getting that 1185 00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,920 grunge impact, right? So and and so that that's what 1186 00:57:59,920 --> 00:58:02,000 pulled you into the 90s, right, J Rod? 1187 00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:06,440 Yeah, yeah, big time. Nirvana, Like Nirvana, Beastie 1188 00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:10,800 Boys was my introduction. And then as time went on, Tribe 1189 00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:15,200 Called Quest, OK, N.W.A was kind of like where I really suck. 1190 00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,560 My teeth in OK. And then of course you get, you 1191 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,440 know, West Coast rap, you get you get Dre, you get Snoop and 1192 00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,440 then M and AM and M comes in late 90s. 1193 00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,640 You got Jay-Z. OK, I got it. 1194 00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,880 I got it. So the the thing of it, you have 1195 00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:31,360 to even if you don't like Mötley Crüe that much, just because you 1196 00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:33,200 love music, you got to chat. I think it was on apples. 1197 00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:35,880 The dirt, What was it called? The dirt right or something? 1198 00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:37,280 Like that? Yeah, it was about the. 1199 00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:39,360 Yes, I got to see it. You got to see it. 1200 00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,320 It's really, really good. And there was this one scene and 1201 00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,880 trust me, I'm not glorifying this is this is this is brutal. 1202 00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:50,080 But there was a scene where Nikki 6 was was so hooked on on 1203 00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:55,360 heroin that he record, I guess, I guess he did a batch. 1204 00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:57,400 I guess that's the terminology for heroin. 1205 00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:02,160 Did a batch of heroin, got a bad batch and recorded on pre cell 1206 00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:06,040 phones, recorded on his home or his apartment answering machine. 1207 00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,000 Something along the lines of, like, I actually, I think this 1208 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,800 is kind of verbatim, like, Hey, you've reached Nikki 6. 1209 00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:14,360 I can't get to the phone right now because I'm dead. 1210 00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:15,840 He actually thought that he died. 1211 00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:16,840 Wow. Yeah. 1212 00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,360 Dude, really, really rough stuff. 1213 00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:24,400 But in terms of the music, like Mötley Crüe starting a song, 1214 00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,520 I'll take Mötley Crüe starting a song pretty much over just about 1215 00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:28,760 anybody. So good. 1216 00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:30,920 I'm happy you did well. I'm happy you had fun. 1217 00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:32,160 Your parents went to go and watch. 1218 00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:36,200 Yeah, no, my mom had some Passover business to tend to, so 1219 00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:37,960 my dad pulled up. It was. 1220 00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:39,840 It was very fun. Pops pulled up. 1221 00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,120 I love it. That's great man. 1222 00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:42,600 I gotta make a show at some point. 1223 00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:45,680 It's gonna be hard, dude. Come at some point, anytime you 1224 00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:47,760 can listen. I'll keep you posted. 1225 00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:52,400 Maybe we'll try to make it out. To Jersey expand those horizons. 1226 00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,280 Ego man. Let me get this one from 1227 00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:56,480 Charlie. F66, 75. 1228 00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:58,640 Now, if you look at Alvarez's numbers after the Mets sent them 1229 00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:00,880 down last July, he's done really well. 1230 01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:02,120 True. He did come back and hit. 1231 01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:04,200 I think that really helped him get back on track. 1232 01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:05,440 Something teams are afraid to do. 1233 01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,640 Some something teams are afraid to do sometimes. 1234 01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:09,320 Yeah. I mean, the Yankees wouldn't do 1235 01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:11,560 it with Volpe. Now, that was a big thing on our 1236 01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:13,400 show back in the day. Send Volpe down. 1237 01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:15,240 I didn't think that they should send Volpe down. 1238 01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:18,000 Who knows, maybe in hindsight it would have triggered something 1239 01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:19,320 and it would have helped elevate him. 1240 01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,840 One thing I do know, I know that this about Alvarez, but one 1241 01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:25,000 thing I know Caballero's doing nothing to prevent Volpe from 1242 01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:27,600 coming back and just. Taking the shortstop job. 1243 01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:30,440 So he has not been good at all that shortstop. 1244 01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,320 So I think that, yeah, there are certain players where it really 1245 01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:37,360 works for Roy Holiday back in the day with Toronto was sent to 1246 01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,600 the minors and they sent him to a ball which I believe is 1247 01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:42,360 Dunedin. I believe that's their A ball. 1248 01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,160 Certainly was. And I think it still is out 1249 01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:47,960 there in Florida and and it really worked for him. 1250 01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:50,960 It's worked for others. Jason Dominguez right now is 1251 01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:53,400 hitting the tar out of it, but still isn't playing a really 1252 01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,240 solid outfield. I don't know what the Yankees do 1253 01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:57,720 with him, but yeah, yeah, sometimes it could reset. 1254 01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:59,680 And even some of the other Mets think about this. 1255 01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:03,480 Like I feel like every time, I don't know if it's the ballpark, 1256 01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:05,840 I don't know if it's the league that they play in, but I feel 1257 01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:11,120 like every time a Met is sent down to Syracuse, AAA Syracuse, 1258 01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,720 right when I watch S&Y, all I see is up. 1259 01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:16,320 There's a home run for Mauricio. He's back by the way up. 1260 01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:18,840 There's a couple of home runs for Brett Beatty up good night 1261 01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:20,840 for Alvarez, couple of home runs and a double. 1262 01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:22,920 You know, I, I don't know what's in the air out there. 1263 01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:25,280 I, I don't think it's, that's not an altitude thing. 1264 01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,760 I don't know the dimensions of the ballpark, but I feel like 1265 01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:31,760 every Met prospect, the Antos, whomever get sent down, they 1266 01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:33,480 come up, they go down and they hit. 1267 01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:35,280 They could be hitting 112 in the bigs. 1268 01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,720 As soon as they go to AAA, they just RIP. 1269 01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:41,480 And it's not just like, yeah, it's not like every Major League 1270 01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:44,560 goes down and hits right away in the minors, but it does seem to 1271 01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:46,960 happen a lot with the Mets now and their prospects. 1272 01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:50,760 If this is a foreshadow of things to come with him, 1273 01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:51,680 fantastic. Yeah. 1274 01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:54,040 I mean, that that is that would be a real boost to their 1275 01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:57,080 offense, certainly without Soto. And then when Soto comes back 1276 01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:59,880 and Soto does what Soto does and the other guys around them, 1277 01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:02,720 Lendur and Bichette, start hitting with great consistency, 1278 01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:04,840 well, now you got 123. Massive issue. 1279 01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:06,840 Oh, you know, and there's other questions, too. 1280 01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:11,160 Polanco #1 with the with the Achilles tendonitis and you 1281 01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,200 know, are they going to have enough power without Pete? 1282 01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:15,880 These are stories that are going to follow the Mets team all 1283 01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:17,480 year. But you know, you get to that 1284 01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:20,320 bottom 3rd. It's unfair to expect a lot from 1285 01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:24,160 Benjor Young playing the outfield now, but if Alvarez 1286 01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:26,080 could be a staple, yeah, it's a big win for the Mets. 1287 01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:28,160 All right, let's get to this over the weekend. 1288 01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:30,440 Dexter Lawrence, right, trade request. 1289 01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,600 All right, now it is a it's a big thing because he's he's a 1290 01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:35,840 terrific player. Didn't have a good year, but is 1291 01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:39,040 a terrific interior defensive lineman, certainly one of the 1292 01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:40,520 best in football Numbers bear that out. 1293 01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:42,160 So let me just cut to the chase here. 1294 01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,760 Number one. Do I think they'll trade him? 1295 01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:49,880 No, I don't #1 no #2 would I? I'm bite. 1296 01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:53,360 I, I actually would probably say more yes than no, but it doesn't 1297 01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:55,320 matter what I think now we get to the third part. 1298 01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,200 It's what Jim, it's what it's what John Harbaugh thinks. 1299 01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:03,160 If John Harbaugh basically goes to ownership and says, hey, 1300 01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:05,280 listen, and then of course, GM, but it's, we know it's 1301 01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,760 Harbaugh's show. And then Shane yell, what is 1302 01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:10,400 Shane going to say? Whatever Harbaugh says, that's 1303 01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:13,480 what Shane's going to do. We all know that by now, no 1304 01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:15,880 matter what change Joe Shane tells us, it's it's Harbaugh's 1305 01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,560 show. So to me, there's a couple ways 1306 01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:20,800 to look at this. Number one, I do believe he's 1307 01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:22,280 underpaid based on what he signs. 1308 01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:25,000 Make it $20 million a year. He's going to be looking for mid 1309 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,680 30s. OK, not the best timing to 1310 01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:30,120 actually go and put your flag in the ground when you had a shit 1311 01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:33,200 season, which he did. But understood there was also 1312 01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:37,440 the injury from 2024 in November and it was great in 2024 that I 1313 01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:41,000 do think lingered into 2025. Sacked numbers were down across 1314 01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:42,240 the board. Not a good year. 1315 01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:45,400 Didn't look engaged, didn't look to be in great shape. 1316 01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:49,760 And and Carl Banks, my buddy Carl, who is generally much more 1317 01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:53,600 positive than not, he basically said, I think the quote was 1318 01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:55,600 nobody respects you, nobody's throwing double S at you 1319 01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:58,280 anymore. Last year for Carl Banks to say 1320 01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,200 that you know, that you had a down season. 1321 01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,600 Now again, do I think they'll trade him? 1322 01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:05,720 I don't, at the end of the day, because of the timing and 1323 01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:07,080 because of what he means to the team. 1324 01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:08,200 What I do it. I might. 1325 01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:11,320 I'll tell you why in a minute. But it is. 1326 01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,880 It's still not nothing. It's not nothing because. 1327 01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:16,920 And I'm not worried about the offseason workouts, dude. 1328 01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:18,880 They're voluntary. Whatever. 1329 01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:20,440 Yeah. You want camaraderie? 1330 01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,280 Yeah, it sounds good. You want everybody in the weight 1331 01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:23,080 room? Come on, buddy. 1332 01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:24,280 You know, it's not high school, dude. 1333 01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:27,000 You get ready for your job, You get ready in the offseason. 1334 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:29,880 I would have to think Dexter Lawrence will be a pro and he'll 1335 01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,120 get his work in no matter where he is, even if he's not the 1336 01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:35,040 facility lift in. I'm not worried about that, but 1337 01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:38,120 it is interesting. Like I to me, this would feel 1338 01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:45,840 more In Sync with if they, if like Brian Dabel was still the 1339 01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:48,080 coach and he's just kind of like, you know what, number one, 1340 01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:51,920 I'm underpaid and which he is and #2 I'm tired of losing. 1341 01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:55,640 Like I, I don't love. And I'm, and I'm, I'm really, 1342 01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:58,160 I'm, I'm straddling the line, not because I'm afraid to, but 1343 01:04:58,160 --> 01:04:59,920 because there's a lot of things at play here. 1344 01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:01,720 And I want to be fair to Dex, right? 1345 01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:03,880 Because both things could be true. 1346 01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:07,000 You can have a shit season, but you could still be a stud and 1347 01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:09,960 he's still young enough. But the part about him that 1348 01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:13,200 worries me, you would think that he would be galvanized with the 1349 01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:16,440 arrival of John Harbaugh. You would think a guy who won a 1350 01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:20,320 championship and a guy who every year wins 1213 games and has the 1351 01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:22,240 Ravens is one of the best teams in football. 1352 01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:25,440 You know, you would think that you would want to kind of maybe 1353 01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:26,960 be a little more quiet about that what? 1354 01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:29,680 Whatever. Although maybe this is the 1355 01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:31,880 leverage, that the only leverage he has him. 1356 01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:33,040 You got to do what you got to do. 1357 01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:34,480 And I don't begrudge players for doing that. 1358 01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:38,160 I'm not getting on them the reason why I might be inclined 1359 01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:40,400 to trade him. You got to look at. 1360 01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:43,360 You got to look at the trajectory of the New York 1361 01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:47,080 Giants. Jackson Dart is really young and 1362 01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:51,480 Jackson Dart is really good. All right, Malik Neighbors is a 1363 01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:54,360 superstar. And I saw the the amended report 1364 01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:56,880 over the weekend, slight amendment there where, you know, 1365 01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:58,960 rather than being ready for training camp, which by the way, 1366 01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:00,840 is something the Giants should never put out there. 1367 01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:03,880 I don't know why they did that. I'm not going to crush him for 1368 01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:05,000 doing that. But I thought it was a little 1369 01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,680 irresponsible and I thought it was very unnecessary. 1370 01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:11,560 Just say you you hope, which is now what they're saying. 1371 01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:14,600 Little adjustment, as I said, you know, you hope that Malik 1372 01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:17,680 Neighbors or the anticipation, whatever word you want to use is 1373 01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:21,720 the focus is on a week 1 return for Malik Neighbors. 1374 01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:23,760 That's it. If he doesn't have to be out 1375 01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:27,800 there July 26th, you know, running gassers, whatever it is, 1376 01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:33,560 or in shells on August 1st like that, that's inconsequential to 1377 01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:38,560 the Giants season. Now the Giants to me and I think 1378 01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:41,760 on on with with their 5th pick this year, I think they're going 1379 01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:43,960 to do one or two things. I think they're going to go 1380 01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:47,640 offensive line, which I am absolutely OK with or I think 1381 01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:50,360 they need to go somebody like Sonny Styles or Caleb Downs, 1382 01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,560 which I'm absolutely OK with. They're not going to receive 1383 01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:54,680 route 5. They're not. 1384 01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:56,280 Could they trade out? They could. 1385 01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:58,360 And then maybe that opens up a door for them to do something 1386 01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:01,720 else with the acquired and the additional draft equity here. 1387 01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:05,600 But just saying that they stick at 5 online and there's 22 two 1388 01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:09,320 prospects worthy of top 10 picks online or one of the two 1389 01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:12,320 gentlemen that young players that I just mentioned in styles 1390 01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:16,440 or downs. Now I I bring up Jackson Dart 1391 01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:22,080 because Jackson Dart is at I mean, he's at his own 13 yard 1392 01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:25,920 line, if that as he begins his quest to become a great NFL 1393 01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:28,040 quarterback. And I really think the Jackson 1394 01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:32,560 Dart has a chance to be a great NFL quarterback, not just a good 1395 01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:35,760 quarterback for the Giants, but I think if the Giants build this 1396 01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:39,000 thing out properly and he can stay healthy, which is a caveat 1397 01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:40,920 you always have to include, especially for a running 1398 01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:43,760 quarterback who has had concussion injuries, right? 1399 01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,640 You, you, everything that I see about Jackson Dart screams 1400 01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:50,920 franchise quarterback. And everything that I see about 1401 01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:54,240 Jackson Dart gives me confidence to think he's the kind of player 1402 01:07:54,480 --> 01:08:00,160 that rolls into Philly or Dallas or Chicago or Green Bay or 1403 01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:05,800 Detroit or San Francisco or Seattle, any other good team in, 1404 01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,040 you know, in two years or so, when he when he's more 1405 01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,680 experienced, he's got better players around them and wins the 1406 01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:12,840 road playoff game. I'm not even saying just, I'm 1407 01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,840 not even saying just MetLife. I think he's that kind of 1408 01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:18,000 player. I think guys will follow him. 1409 01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:22,399 I think he's got the perfect combination of talent and 1410 01:08:22,399 --> 01:08:25,279 charisma and belief like what he exudes. 1411 01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:29,359 That's the guy that you want to run out of a tunnel for Jackson 1412 01:08:29,359 --> 01:08:30,800 Dart. That's the guy. 1413 01:08:31,319 --> 01:08:35,640 Now, there's a lot of things that he can't control, who's 1414 01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:37,640 drafted, what the roster looks like around him. 1415 01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:40,439 I get all that. So the things he can control, 1416 01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:42,640 getting out of bounds and not absorbing the hit from the 1417 01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:46,040 linebacker who's trying to break you in two into two, you know, 1418 01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:50,000 slide when you have to. I respect the aggression. 1419 01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,359 I respect the wand. But it's you're playing the long 1420 01:08:52,359 --> 01:08:54,479 game here. Giants aren't winning anything 1421 01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:57,640 this year. And this all ties back to Dexter 1422 01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:00,760 Lawrence, at least for me, on some level, maybe not a primary 1423 01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:03,240 level. But if this was Year 6 for 1424 01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:06,080 Jackson Dart and the Giants were, you know, had already 1425 01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:09,120 played a couple of playoff games here and they were much further 1426 01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:12,000 along where they currently are. And the defense was better. 1427 01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,080 And the old line, which has gotten a little bit better over 1428 01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:16,000 the last, I mean, it couldn't be worse, my God. 1429 01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:17,600 But it has at least gotten better. 1430 01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:21,080 You know, that would be different at that point, I would 1431 01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:23,720 say. All right, man, you got to bite 1432 01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:26,560 #1 Lawrence deserves more money, even off a bad year. 1433 01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:30,920 But I think that the consequences of not doing right 1434 01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:34,640 by Dexter Lawrence and trading him for draft picks, you know, 1435 01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:37,080 who are not yet ready to contribute on that level, 1436 01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:40,439 theoretically, that would be a disservice to the direction of 1437 01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:42,600 the Giants. But because of Dart, because 1438 01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:45,600 Dart's just starting and because Neighbors, you know, hopefully 1439 01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:47,160 plays week one, I'm not sure if he does. 1440 01:09:47,399 --> 01:09:49,800 And even if he does, is he going to really be Malik Neighbors 1441 01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:51,439 week 1? I think that that's unrealistic. 1442 01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:52,920 I don't think that that's a fair ask. 1443 01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:55,800 I don't, I don't I don't think it's a responsible ask, at least 1444 01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:59,320 perceptually to think that he's going to be, you know, week 1 1445 01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:01,720 going for 9 for $1.31 for two touchdowns. 1446 01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:05,200 Now, if he does, maybe that just reinforces the fact that he's an 1447 01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,720 absolute freak. And he might be he might be that 1448 01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,920 kind of freaky healer because he is that kind of freaky athlete. 1449 01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:13,080 And I love the neighbors pick when they took him. 1450 01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:15,360 I'm on the record with that. You can't, you can't. 1451 01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:20,640 Injuries happen, right? But if somebody is going to give 1452 01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:25,840 me what the Raiders were going to get from Max Crosby or what 1453 01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:30,200 The Jets got for Q or what Dallas got for Parsons, then why 1454 01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:31,560 the hell am I not making that trade? 1455 01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:36,040 See, there is a part of me, while I know Dexter Lawrence is 1456 01:10:36,440 --> 01:10:39,400 Gotti's, I almost want to use the word great. 1457 01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:43,040 Like if it wasn't for last year, I would use the word great. 1458 01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:47,040 I would. He's a preeminent run stopper 1459 01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:51,280 and he gets to the quarterback, except last year, you know, he's 1460 01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:54,320 a bull. He commands a double team, which 1461 01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:55,880 makes everybody else around you better. 1462 01:10:56,320 --> 01:11:00,720 Except last year, the Giants defense, even with him, was 1463 01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:02,960 what, 31 against the run? Horrendous. 1464 01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:06,120 So there's a lot of things at play here. 1465 01:11:06,480 --> 01:11:10,160 I'm going to keep an open mind if I am now, I don't know what 1466 01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:12,600 Harbaugh's thinking. Here's what I would be thinking. 1467 01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:16,000 I'd call him and he may be has already reached out. 1468 01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:19,720 And this is where your experience as a Super Bowl 1469 01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:23,160 champion and a guy with cachet around the league, this is where 1470 01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:25,520 it would carry more weight. No disrespect to Brian Dabel, 1471 01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:28,760 who I do like. Like if Dabel made this call or 1472 01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:33,400 you know, some of these other Pat Shermer McAdoo, right? 1473 01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:35,440 You call him up, you talk to him. 1474 01:11:36,440 --> 01:11:37,800 Hey, listen, I get it. It's business. 1475 01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:39,840 Do what you got to do. You are a fan. 1476 01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:43,160 You are a foundational piece. We want you stay in shape. 1477 01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:44,960 I've already talked to ownership. 1478 01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:47,560 We want to keep you. The numbers will take care of 1479 01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:50,040 itself at some point, but we want you. 1480 01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,840 But then I've got to ask him and I've got to be satisfied with 1481 01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:55,200 his response. Do you want to be a New York 1482 01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:57,840 football giant? Do you want to be a part of 1483 01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:01,080 something that's going to be hard early and then possibly 1484 01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:04,200 amazing, which you've never experienced so far as a pro 1485 01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:07,040 late? And if I get a satisfactory 1486 01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,440 answer and you've got to be able to read people and sometimes 1487 01:12:09,440 --> 01:12:12,120 they can lie to your face and it seems authentic and they could 1488 01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:14,320 fool you. It happens in these draft 1489 01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:17,240 interviews all the time. You know, you talk to a you talk 1490 01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:20,160 to a young player and you think he's all about football and he 1491 01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:25,200 projects this amazing, you know, attitude and just all in and 1492 01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:26,560 team guy. And then he gets in the 1493 01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:29,280 building. He's lazy, sloppy, he's late, 1494 01:12:29,480 --> 01:12:32,880 he's weak, you know, inconsistent in the weight room. 1495 01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:34,920 Doesn't know. I'm not saying I want to say he 1496 01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,000 doesn't know the plays. I mean, you're going to know the 1497 01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:40,440 plays, but doesn't know the playbook on that next level. 1498 01:12:40,440 --> 01:12:43,600 You know what I mean? Like that anticipatory gene that 1499 01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:46,480 generally separates the great ones from the good ones, or the 1500 01:12:46,480 --> 01:12:49,120 good ones from the average ones, or the average ones from the 1501 01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:54,440 subpar busts. So whatever John Harbaugh wants 1502 01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:57,080 is what's going to happen, and that's what should happen. 1503 01:12:57,680 --> 01:13:00,440 But I do think that it's a little more complex than just 1504 01:13:00,440 --> 01:13:05,040 saying Dexter's a great player. Pay him or he was awful last 1505 01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:06,520 year. This is the beginning of the 1506 01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:07,480 end. Trade him. 1507 01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:11,360 Because if you trade him right now, you get to trade him for 1508 01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:13,680 $0.65 on the dollar. And here's the other thing, too. 1509 01:13:14,480 --> 01:13:17,320 Maybe this is not his responsibility to do this, but 1510 01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:20,920 his camp should have calculated this, all right, Like Dexter 1511 01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:22,600 Lawrence has to worry about Dexter Lawrence. 1512 01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:26,880 But Dexter Lawrence's people who handle his this stuff, his camp, 1513 01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:30,000 his agents, his reps, they should have factored this in. 1514 01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:32,120 He didn't just wake up yesterday and say I want out. 1515 01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:34,000 They won't. They obviously know he's unhappy 1516 01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:36,440 making $20 million a year. I think he's, what, the ninth 1517 01:13:36,440 --> 01:13:39,160 highest or tenth highest paid interior, the D lineman And 1518 01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:40,320 these numbers are going through the roof. 1519 01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:43,240 So he's behind the curve. He deserves more and he's going 1520 01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:45,080 to get it whether it's here or somewhere else. 1521 01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,960 But what they should have done if they wanted to really 1522 01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:51,880 maximize leverage and give every team a chance to jump in here 1523 01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:54,720 and give the Giants something to think about from a trade 1524 01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:56,400 perspective. This should have been done 1525 01:13:56,400 --> 01:13:59,640 before free agency because then the Giants could have pivoted. 1526 01:13:59,920 --> 01:14:03,840 Like right now, who are you going to sign if Dexter's gone? 1527 01:14:04,440 --> 01:14:06,280 You're not drafting an interior, but you're not drafting an 1528 01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:09,720 interior defensive lineman at 5 #1 There's nobody that's gonna, 1529 01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:11,800 you know, you got Bailey, you got some of these edge rushers, 1530 01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:14,440 you got Styles, you got Caleb Downs, you got a bunch of 1531 01:14:14,440 --> 01:14:17,160 receivers, you got Mendoza, you got a running back. 1532 01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:20,760 Jeremiah Love. You know, there's not an 1533 01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:23,360 abundance at all of of interior line. 1534 01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:25,920 Ruben Bayne looks like he's moving back in the top 10, even 1535 01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,560 though he's got short arms. Like, I don't know, I just, I 1536 01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:30,600 don't think it was played out well by his camp. 1537 01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:32,160 I don't begrudge him for doing it. 1538 01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,560 It's his right. You get X amount of years to 1539 01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:38,160 maximize your earning power. Go do what you got to do, secure 1540 01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:39,760 every penny. Because one thing that we know 1541 01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:43,440 about the NFL, when you can't play anymore or a team's 1542 01:14:43,440 --> 01:14:46,240 finances are all out of whack because they're irresponsible 1543 01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,840 and they're poorly run, they don't care about you and they 1544 01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:50,360 don't care about that. Your family. 1545 01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:52,520 It doesn't matter what they project publicly. 1546 01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:54,800 It's a bottom line, blunt business. 1547 01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:57,280 And they will make you restructure or they will cut 1548 01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:59,640 you. Whatever happens, go get yours, 1549 01:14:59,920 --> 01:15:02,280 especially in the NFL, go get it. 1550 01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:04,280 But I thought his timing was off. 1551 01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:07,840 But the bottom line is whatever John Horborn wants, that's what 1552 01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:10,120 John's going to get. Make no mistake about it. 1553 01:15:11,480 --> 01:15:13,640 Let me see here. I think this was strictly 1554 01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:15,880 business by Lawrence. I think they'll I think there'll 1555 01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:18,160 be no issue at all. Garrett did the same as an 1556 01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:19,640 example, one of many really true. 1557 01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:22,280 You know, I get that. I mean a little different. 1558 01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:23,960 I mean, you talk about if you talk about Garrett Wilson, 1559 01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:27,600 Garrett's younger, there's a lot more upside to Garrett will. 1560 01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:30,560 I mean, Garrett Wilson's been it's AI know he was hurt last 1561 01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:32,920 year, but Garrett Wilson's had a terrific start to his career 1562 01:15:33,080 --> 01:15:35,360 with some of the worst quarterback play this century. 1563 01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:37,480 You know, I mean, with nobody opposite him. 1564 01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:41,040 So I mean, and The Jets basically down by multiple 1565 01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:42,720 touchdowns every week. And you know that if you're 1566 01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:44,880 going to throw the ball, you're going to throw to him because up 1567 01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:47,680 until last year, then you have a viable tight end like they did a 1568 01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,760 Mason Taylor and he got hurt. So anyway, I don't know if it's 1569 01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:54,920 apples to apples there, but I, I mean, I, I get the business of 1570 01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:57,040 football. I don't know if it's quite the 1571 01:15:57,040 --> 01:16:00,640 same because one thing nobody ever said about Garrett Wilson 1572 01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:04,400 was does he love football? Has he reached his apex as a 1573 01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:05,600 player? They are. 1574 01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:06,520 I don't know if they're saying that. 1575 01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:07,920 I don't want to be unfair. I won't get nuts here. 1576 01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,840 I don't know people are saying or asking the question, does 1577 01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:14,840 Dexter Lawrence love football? But based on his massive drop in 1578 01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:17,720 production, based on the optics, you know, a little bit out of 1579 01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:19,920 shape. Well, Carl Banks said others who 1580 01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:22,840 know the game, what they've weighed in with, you know, 1581 01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:27,720 there's A at least some noise around him that maybe, you know, 1582 01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:30,600 if there's ever a time to part with him, this would be the 1583 01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:32,720 time. And I do think on some level 1584 01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:34,360 that they won't say this, nor should they. 1585 01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:38,960 But it's it's got a it's got to connect somehow with Jackson 1586 01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:42,880 Jackson Doors trajectory. Again, if this is an aging Tom 1587 01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:45,720 Brady or I know Mahomes got hurt, but Mahomes coming back 1588 01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:49,360 now or you know, even a Joe Burrow's been around a couple 1589 01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:52,080 years, guys like that. You do whatever you need, 1590 01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:54,920 whatever you need to do, and you bite the financial bullet and 1591 01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:57,880 you take it on the chin down the road and you go through that 345 1592 01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:00,760 win season, which is misery and treacherous for any 1593 01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:03,600 organization. But you do it because you've got 1594 01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:06,680 a little finite window to win with the quarterback that you 1595 01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:09,280 have. Jackson Dart, is he just he just 1596 01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:11,080 stepped into the baby part of the pool. 1597 01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:14,080 Now eventually, I think he's doing flips off the diving board 1598 01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:17,160 and he's he's one of the studs in the deep end of the pool, but 1599 01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:19,680 not yet. So it's a different calculus for 1600 01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:21,360 the Giants. At least that's how I say it. 1601 01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:25,640 You know, let me get D Rod 123. Why can't Lawrence honor his 1602 01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:27,720 contract? It's not the team's fault that 1603 01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:29,960 he signed it. That's on the agent, Yeah. 1604 01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:31,920 I mean, listen, D Rod, I, I hear you. 1605 01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:35,840 I, I hear you. But it's the way the NFLI mean 1606 01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:37,400 you. I could also ask you, and I've 1607 01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:41,520 asked this out loud, written, you know, many times, like, why 1608 01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:44,200 can't the NF LS finances be a little bit more fair to the 1609 01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:46,400 players #1 it's incredibly nebulous. 1610 01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:48,120 So none of the fans even understand. 1611 01:17:48,440 --> 01:17:50,840 Think about, we were talking about this last week, how many 1612 01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,400 teams? I remember looking at the list. 1613 01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:55,280 And I'm not talking about affected cap space, just sheer 1614 01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:58,360 cap space. And the the difference effective 1615 01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:00,600 is obviously the guys you draft and all the other free agent 1616 01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:02,280 move. So effective is different. 1617 01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:04,640 But I'm talking about just pure bottom line cap space. 1618 01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:09,120 You see it in seasons over. Oh, this teams got $139 million 1619 01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:11,200 in cap space. OK, they could spend like 1620 01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:14,360 drunken sailors or conversely, oh, man, this team like the 1621 01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:16,560 Browns or who else is in financial? 1622 01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:19,240 The Cardinals, I think, right? Couple of teams are in the 1623 01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:21,320 negative. Oh, my God, this team's minus 1624 01:18:21,320 --> 01:18:23,960 $12 million in the salary cap. Are they going to be able to 1625 01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:27,320 field the team next year? Yeah, it's called stupid NFL 1626 01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:29,760 money. So all you do is restructure or 1627 01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:33,240 cut and do all these other things and voila, here's the 1628 01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:36,600 magic wand. We go from -12 million to an 1629 01:18:36,600 --> 01:18:41,720 abundance, a surplus of $37 million or $42 million. 1630 01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:46,600 So the money thanks in the NFL, all right, It's confusing as 1631 01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:48,600 hell. It's a real disservice to the 1632 01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:51,080 fans and it's really it's a disservice to the players 1633 01:18:51,480 --> 01:18:57,400 because when you sign contracts, right, they are, they are they 1634 01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:00,840 become antiquated very fast. Now you're literally not wrong. 1635 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,520 You did sign the contract. You did sign the contract. 1636 01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:06,200 Now I'll give you an example and it's totally different. 1637 01:19:06,440 --> 01:19:10,760 But take a contract I signed a few over the years with with 13 1638 01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:13,880 years with CBS Sports radio and WFAN. 1639 01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:17,800 So when I signed those contracts, right, and they were 1640 01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:21,160 always, you know, depending on the on on when I signed them, 1641 01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:25,080 variance in length. All right, but when I signed 1642 01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:28,200 them, it's not like I signed it and then all of a sudden the 1643 01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:32,800 radio business, it exploded and you know, it went in this 1644 01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:36,200 different direction where I'm like, wow, I'm woefully 1645 01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:39,320 underpaid here. I signed that XYZ and then eight 1646 01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:42,640 months later, you know, the midday guy in Detroit signed for 1647 01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:45,160 this much, you know, 17% more what? 1648 01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:47,720 I'm just throwing stuff out. It's not even really remotely 1649 01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:51,360 comparable. It it's, but you get the point. 1650 01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:55,200 I I do understand the core push back. 1651 01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:57,920 Yo, you signed the contract. You should have negotiated a 1652 01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:00,320 better one. But the contracts changed so 1653 01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:01,320 fast. Think about it. 1654 01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:04,720 At one point, Eli Manning was the highest paid quarterback in 1655 01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:07,360 the NFL was eating. I'm not going down the Eli 1656 01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:09,960 rabbit hole of Hall of Fame. Now I get into that. 1657 01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:14,240 Now we'll start trouble. But was Eli ever remotely the 1658 01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:17,200 best quarterback in the NFL? The answer is with all the 1659 01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:20,880 respect, and I love him. A resounding, not even close. 1660 01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:24,800 We we know that because we watch football, all right, It's timing 1661 01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:28,440 and the timing changes fast. And and also the other thing 1662 01:20:28,440 --> 01:20:32,640 too, is as the salary caps escalate in the manner in which 1663 01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:35,280 they are like the percentage uptick is just through the roof 1664 01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:39,120 here every year, you know, you getting an extra 30, forty, $50 1665 01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:41,080 million. So is that thing a boom, boom, 1666 01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:43,960 boom spreads out more. Well, now it reflects 1667 01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,520 differently. What you did sign, even though 1668 01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:49,880 you willingly put your name on the contract, nobody stuck a a 1669 01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:52,600 weapon, a bat to your head and said, if you don't sign it, you 1670 01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:54,480 know, I'm going to take you outside the bottom Bing and take 1671 01:20:54,480 --> 01:20:57,400 out your kneecaps like you. You don't you don't have to sign 1672 01:20:57,400 --> 01:20:59,160 it. You could have fought for more. 1673 01:20:59,360 --> 01:21:02,320 You elected not to, but you've got to be fair to the NFL 1674 01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:05,520 players, which I always am, because I think these contracts 1675 01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:07,880 are ridiculous. So it's a lot of everything with 1676 01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:12,080 Dexter Lawrence, You know, I just don't think that the 1677 01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:15,680 ability for this, this is really why while I would entertain 1678 01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:19,880 moving on from him, why I think he eventually does stay is that 1679 01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:24,760 I think the window shut unless he's amazing this year for the 1680 01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:29,280 Giants to get back what The Jets got back and the Cowboys got 1681 01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:32,640 back and what the Raiders were about to get back before that 1682 01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:37,880 was obviously rescinded with the with the Raiders with Max 1683 01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:40,000 Crosby. So there's some stuff on that. 1684 01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:41,920 All right, One other thing I saw about the draft here. 1685 01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:44,560 How many days away are we from the draft? 1686 01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:47,240 I think we're in the teens, 18. How many days? 1687 01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:49,360 17, Let me see. I think there was 20 days on 1688 01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:51,160 Friday. How many days, Jay, can you help 1689 01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:53,800 me out with that? 17 days to the NFL Draft. 1690 01:21:54,080 --> 01:21:58,800 We are 23rd. Yep, 16 days. 1691 01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,400 Even better, let's go. 16 days. Yeah. 1692 01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:05,680 And I think that they condensed the amount of time in between 1693 01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:10,160 each pick, you know, before we had to look that big Jingle. 1694 01:22:10,480 --> 01:22:13,480 That's the worst sitting there and just listen to guys Babble. 1695 01:22:13,480 --> 01:22:16,280 I know they're, they're good at their job, but all, all the 1696 01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:18,480 catch phrases, you know, I've, I've kind of had fun with this 1697 01:22:18,480 --> 01:22:20,400 over the years. Oh, this guy's got quick hips. 1698 01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:23,480 And look at how he swivels his hips and look at how he goes up 1699 01:22:23,480 --> 01:22:25,280 for the ball. The look at the, look at the 1700 01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:28,440 catch radius. It's just, it's paralyzing 1701 01:22:28,440 --> 01:22:30,240 mentally. So the quicker we get to the 1702 01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:32,600 picks, the better. Anyway, there's 16 days to the 1703 01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:35,160 draft now. Peter Schrager, who I think is 1704 01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:38,720 great, he was on good day or good morning football for a long 1705 01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:41,640 time. New York guy, don't know him. 1706 01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:45,240 I think I met him once or twice. Good dude, good at his job, 1707 01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:47,040 right? I like, I, I think he's very 1708 01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:48,640 well connected and he's very good at his job. 1709 01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:51,560 So he puts out two mocks, like Hyper's putting mocks out. 1710 01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:54,320 You know, I think he's got a mock out maybe for next year. 1711 01:22:54,320 --> 01:22:55,960 I mean, or like maybe a skeleton draft. 1712 01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:58,560 Maybe he's already identified the best quarterbacks, that's 1713 01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:00,480 for sure. So Kuiper's different than than 1714 01:23:00,480 --> 01:23:02,160 Schrager. Schrager's reporting on the 1715 01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:04,760 day-to-day business of the NFL doing what he does from a 1716 01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:09,120 content point of view, but he also does do a mock now and 1717 01:23:09,120 --> 01:23:10,840 then. I believe he does one either the 1718 01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:14,120 day before or the week before the week of the NFL draft. 1719 01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:18,240 Only two and his last his and I think it dropped yesterday. 1720 01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:20,560 I'm pretty sure I was traveling. So, you know, that's it. 1721 01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:24,000 I can't stand travel. Although TSA was amazing over 1722 01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:27,720 the weekend, like we got to to Newark on Saturday. 1723 01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:30,080 Now I, we have the clear as well. 1724 01:23:30,080 --> 01:23:32,080 It was quick, dude. It was a mate. 1725 01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:37,200 Like we right through the clear, you know, mate, look, I, we, we 1726 01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:39,360 were first people that clear like we walked right up to 1727 01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:41,040 clear. Do you have that stuff? 1728 01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:42,760 You have the TSA pre-check or the clear? 1729 01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:45,520 It's life changing. I I mean, I remember I got it 1730 01:23:45,520 --> 01:23:47,640 last time I flew. It's been a while since like 1731 01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:50,760 I've I've actually flown or like done any serious. 1732 01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:53,400 Travel, it's a massive it's a massive difference. 1733 01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:56,480 So we speed through the clear as you always do, and then, you 1734 01:23:56,480 --> 01:23:58,280 know, when you do the clear, they come and take you and they 1735 01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:01,480 you cut everybody like suck is, you know, you cut, you cut a 1736 01:24:01,480 --> 01:24:04,240 long line and then you go through the security didn't have 1737 01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:05,800 to take the shoes off Boom, boom, boom. 1738 01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:08,480 Very fast there maybe 10 minutes Max. 1739 01:24:08,760 --> 01:24:11,840 All all four of us with that, with that whole process and then 1740 01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:14,280 even getting to the gate. I mean, we got on immediately. 1741 01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:18,280 So it was, it was awesome. Now now coming back was a little 1742 01:24:18,280 --> 01:24:21,400 different. Daddy usually comes back solo 1743 01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:23,360 because I'm, yeah, I got to get back to work. 1744 01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:25,160 Whatever. Kids have spring breaks, so they 1745 01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:27,480 get a chance to spend some more time with your grandparents out 1746 01:24:27,480 --> 01:24:31,360 in Texas, which is great. I got now I originally had, I 1747 01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:33,200 don't book the flights. I let my wife book them. 1748 01:24:34,440 --> 01:24:37,720 She booked me A and she didn't know I and this you know what, I 1749 01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:39,200 got to take the L on this a little bit. 1750 01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:42,880 This is kind of my fault. This falls under the file of me 1751 01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:46,040 really just not listening sometimes, like I, I admit it. 1752 01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:50,680 She's like, she comes to me and she says, hey, you know, what 1753 01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:52,560 about flying out at this time? Because there's always got to 1754 01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:56,560 work around a game before we go out there for Easter as we do 1755 01:24:56,560 --> 01:24:58,200 every year. And then coming back. 1756 01:24:58,200 --> 01:24:59,480 She knows I'm going to come back early. 1757 01:24:59,480 --> 01:25:02,240 Kids will come back early or later and then obviously they've 1758 01:25:02,240 --> 01:25:04,440 got to make sure that they're back for the games the next week 1759 01:25:04,520 --> 01:25:05,480 either way. And she's great with that, 1760 01:25:05,480 --> 01:25:08,360 right? So evidently she asked me, you 1761 01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:10,600 know, at this time. And I think it was like a couple 1762 01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:12,120 100 bucks cheaper. I'm like, yeah, that's fine, 1763 01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:14,440 that's fine. So, but again, I wasn't really 1764 01:25:14,440 --> 01:25:17,120 listening. I'll get to the Peter Schrager 1765 01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:21,320 thing in a minute. And so I wake up on maybe even 1766 01:25:21,320 --> 01:25:23,320 Sunday night. I'm like, hey, babe, what time 1767 01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:24,600 is, what time is my flight tomorrow? 1768 01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:29,640 She's like 5:13 PM. I'm like 5:13 PM, I'm like, why 1769 01:25:29,640 --> 01:25:33,000 so late? And she said, well, you said 1770 01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:35,920 that was fine. I'm like 515. 1771 01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:38,360 So now that mean it's an hour difference. 1772 01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:46,920 So 5:15 if you're on time, 615715815835IN terms of actual 1773 01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:50,640 airtime, tack on the hour when you get back to New York, 935 by 1774 01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:53,800 the time I get my bag, by the time I get in the Uber or the 1775 01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:56,480 car service, like it's 1020. Who won the national 1776 01:25:56,480 --> 01:25:57,760 championship game? I don't know. 1777 01:25:57,760 --> 01:25:59,080 It's probably going to be a good chance. 1778 01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:02,520 I don't get to watch any of it. Not not not to mention I got to 1779 01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:04,840 get ready for the show. So I'll take the L on that. 1780 01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,200 I I will take the L, but how about that? 1781 01:26:07,480 --> 01:26:11,080 So, so so she did call. I'm like, can you do see if you 1782 01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:14,160 could change anything? Yeah, because she called and she 1783 01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:16,320 was able to change it. I had to pay a little bit of 1784 01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:18,920 money. Whatever, dude, I got nestled in 1785 01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:22,720 between, let's just say, and I'm she never gets me middle seats 1786 01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:24,360 because she knows I can't stand the middle seat. 1787 01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:27,560 But this, to change the flight, you got to do what you got to do 1788 01:26:27,560 --> 01:26:29,160 instead. I got on at 1:30 and I got home 1789 01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:32,560 at like 6 and it was perfect. I was, I don't want to be 1790 01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:35,120 disrespectful to anybody, just I would do it. 1791 01:26:35,120 --> 01:26:36,800 I was like this on both sides, bro. 1792 01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:40,200 I was the last row right near the bathroom, right? 1793 01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:43,640 And so which meant my seat didn't go all the way back and I 1794 01:26:43,640 --> 01:26:46,120 was like this. I felt like I was setting a pic 1795 01:26:46,480 --> 01:26:49,360 literally I was I was trying to free somebody coming off the 1796 01:26:49,360 --> 01:26:51,800 screen for a three-point shot like this. 1797 01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:54,760 I'm not going to leave it at. That dude was like Ernie 1798 01:26:54,760 --> 01:26:56,840 Johnson. He was in between Chuck and. 1799 01:26:57,160 --> 01:26:59,200 Chuck and Chuck, yeah, a little bit. 1800 01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:01,560 I was pinched in there. At least those guys having fun 1801 01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:03,080 on the show. I mean, I definitely was not 1802 01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:05,760 having fun with that nonsense. What do we got here? 1803 01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:06,840 James? Back to Jimmy here. 1804 01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:08,200 BT just want to say appreciate you. 1805 01:27:08,200 --> 01:27:10,800 Your show's a great escape. Looks like some dark shit's 1806 01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:13,800 about to pop off tonight. Just wanted to say thanks. 1807 01:27:13,840 --> 01:27:16,720 Yeah, we are definitely keeping an eye on that, obviously. 1808 01:27:16,960 --> 01:27:19,640 And James is talking about Iran and we'll see what happens 1809 01:27:19,640 --> 01:27:22,040 there. We'll see if, you know, if the 1810 01:27:22,400 --> 01:27:26,040 if there's an extension of, of, of terms from President Trump, 1811 01:27:26,040 --> 01:27:28,440 We'll see. But that's what this stuff is. 1812 01:27:28,440 --> 01:27:31,520 It's an escape, you know, I try not to take myself very 1813 01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:32,640 seriously. I try to take the show 1814 01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:34,560 seriously. I do because this is my 1815 01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:36,040 livelihood. This is my business. 1816 01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:37,560 This is my profession profession. 1817 01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:39,680 This is my new platform. This is my outlet. 1818 01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:44,040 But listen, I, I, I've talked many times about, you know, how 1819 01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:46,000 I view this. And this is to let it RIP and to 1820 01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:50,280 be authentic and to be me and to have fun and and to talk talk 1821 01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:55,720 sports and to really be as much of A deviation from a lot of the 1822 01:27:55,720 --> 01:27:59,120 real world issues that are much more important than, let's face 1823 01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:01,400 it, whether or not Dexter Lawrence is traded from the 1824 01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:03,040 giants. At the end of the day, I get it. 1825 01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:06,200 And I'm not obtuse to this. I I watch the news every night. 1826 01:28:07,320 --> 01:28:10,200 You know, hopefully you guys watch the, the the two hour 1827 01:28:10,200 --> 01:28:14,400 conversation with Stephen A, which did fantastic on on. 1828 01:28:14,680 --> 01:28:17,320 We had him last. I think we had him on Wednesday, 1829 01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:18,320 right? Was that Wednesday, Thursday, 1830 01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:19,920 Wednesday? It was awesome. 1831 01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:21,240 We got into some of that stuff there. 1832 01:28:21,240 --> 01:28:25,080 Not so much politics, but his political aspirations a little 1833 01:28:25,080 --> 01:28:26,360 bit. But it was just a real 1834 01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:29,560 wide-ranging conversation. And I really don't get into, not 1835 01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:34,200 because I can't I, I could. I just know that you guys don't 1836 01:28:34,200 --> 01:28:35,920 want to. It's not why you listen to me, 1837 01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:37,840 you know. And it's funny too. 1838 01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:41,840 I've been on Fox a few times. I went on with Brian Kilmeade. 1839 01:28:43,640 --> 01:28:46,680 I guess it was about a month and 1/2 or so ago. 1840 01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:49,800 He was doing this big piece on youth sports, all right. 1841 01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:52,800 And I don't know Brian, I don't know, I've never met him. 1842 01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:55,240 Maybe I met him, maybe I did meet him once, but I don't have 1843 01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:57,520 a relationship with him. They reached out and they were 1844 01:28:57,520 --> 01:29:01,200 doing a thing on, you know, how economics and how the pressures 1845 01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:04,320 and the shifting of youth sports is really ruining youth sports. 1846 01:29:04,320 --> 01:29:06,680 And you know, they knew, they know I do a lot of coaching. 1847 01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:08,680 They know I played and they know I do this for a living. 1848 01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:10,840 So anyway, they invited me on the show, right? 1849 01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:14,560 And I was on with a University of Florida professor who was 1850 01:29:14,560 --> 01:29:16,600 talking about the shifting economics and some other stuff. 1851 01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:17,720 And I brought a different perspective. 1852 01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:21,200 And when I posted that on this YouTube channel, don't you think 1853 01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:23,040 I got a lot of, dude, you going on Fox? 1854 01:29:23,040 --> 01:29:24,120 What are you doing? You know what? 1855 01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:25,560 Yeah. You got a lot of that. 1856 01:29:25,560 --> 01:29:26,880 Sure. And then I've been on with my 1857 01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:29,040 buddy Jimmy Faylor, who I have become friends with, who is 1858 01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:31,720 funny. He uses comedy to, to take jabs 1859 01:29:31,720 --> 01:29:33,520 at, at, at everybody in politics, right? 1860 01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:36,000 And he's on Fox. So obviously there's a political 1861 01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:38,560 leaning his way and a slant there, although I think he's 1862 01:29:38,560 --> 01:29:40,760 fair. And, and when I posted that 1863 01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:43,320 stuff, you get the same. So, oh, Jimmy Faley's on Fox 1864 01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:45,000 Radio, Fox News, What are you doing? 1865 01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:47,840 Hey, listen, you know, if I'm going to get a platform. 1866 01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:49,840 And by the way, when I was on with Jimmy was for the Super 1867 01:29:49,840 --> 01:29:53,960 Bowl and I basically nailed the final score and won everybody 1868 01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:55,520 money. I mean, I missed the final score 1869 01:29:55,520 --> 01:30:00,440 by two points and I nailed the spread #1 #2 the second time I 1870 01:30:00,440 --> 01:30:02,640 went on was about St. John's in the going to the Sweet 1871 01:30:02,640 --> 01:30:05,480 16 game. And you know, I, I do read a lot 1872 01:30:05,480 --> 01:30:08,880 of comments here and I do respond to a bunch 'cause I want 1873 01:30:08,880 --> 01:30:11,040 you guys to know I'm connected. I'm invested in this. 1874 01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:13,480 It's personal. It's not just me for my little 1875 01:30:13,480 --> 01:30:16,240 ivory tower making millions. That's sure shit's not 1876 01:30:16,240 --> 01:30:18,360 happening, not even close, not even close. 1877 01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:23,080 But it's, it's my way of, of letting you know that I'm deeply 1878 01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:25,760 invested and connected to you as a viewer. 1879 01:30:25,760 --> 01:30:28,200 I can personalize this, but it's like I did at the fan. 1880 01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:31,200 I responded to a lot of a lot of text and a lot of tweets and 1881 01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:32,120 stuff. This is different though. 1882 01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:35,040 I respond to a lot more here. But one thing that I saw a lot 1883 01:30:35,040 --> 01:30:37,680 when I would post those videos, oh, you're going to offend half 1884 01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:39,360 your audience. Oh, you're going to go on that 1885 01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:41,640 Fox leans this way. But do you not think that I know 1886 01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:44,200 which way Fox leans? Do you not think I know which 1887 01:30:44,200 --> 01:30:48,160 way the view leans or which way CNN or Cuomo in his previous 1888 01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:50,240 outlet or now? Like, do you think I don't know 1889 01:30:50,240 --> 01:30:52,720 this? I mean, I am very much in tune 1890 01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:54,240 with everything going on in the world. 1891 01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:57,840 The difference is when somebody you might despise, you might 1892 01:30:57,840 --> 01:31:01,680 abhor Fox, you might abhor CNN, depending upon which which way 1893 01:31:01,720 --> 01:31:04,720 you go. If I've got a platform to share 1894 01:31:04,720 --> 01:31:07,840 something about youth sports that I think is going to make, 1895 01:31:07,840 --> 01:31:11,360 even if it helps one kid or one family, you think that I'm not 1896 01:31:11,360 --> 01:31:14,640 going to take that opportunity that that platform to utilize 1897 01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:16,400 that. Why would I not do that? 1898 01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:19,680 You know, So, you know, I know when you talk about this stuff, 1899 01:31:19,680 --> 01:31:22,400 it's polarizing, which is why I stay away from it for the most 1900 01:31:22,400 --> 01:31:25,800 part on the air. But understand, you know, if 1901 01:31:25,800 --> 01:31:27,960 somebody asked me to come out and talk about something, I'm 1902 01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:31,080 not talking about economic policy or ICE or any any things 1903 01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:33,680 that I'm probably not really, even though I know a little bit 1904 01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:37,200 not really truly qualified to speak on, if I have that window 1905 01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:39,720 to do it, I'm going to do it. So if you guys have a problem 1906 01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:41,000 with that, you need to get over yourself. 1907 01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:44,360 Because if you actually watch and listen to what I say and 1908 01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:47,280 actually look at the content that's being talked about, then 1909 01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:49,560 I would think that you would have a different opinion #1 and 1910 01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:53,560 #2 Like I also said, hey, if CNN would have invited me to go on, 1911 01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:56,440 absolutely would have accepted 100%. 1912 01:31:56,800 --> 01:31:59,200 And if they invite me to come out and talk about youth sports 1913 01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:04,560 or so or the NCAA, you know how it's, I don't think as I started 1914 01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:07,320 the show after I talked about the championship game, I don't 1915 01:32:07,320 --> 01:32:10,120 think it's economically feasible to keep this, this sort of 1916 01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:13,440 model, business model. Then I'll go on CNN 100%. 1917 01:32:14,200 --> 01:32:16,000 So people just need to understand that, Jay. 1918 01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:19,480 But people don't. People sadly are so triggered, 1919 01:32:19,480 --> 01:32:24,360 which I understand to an extent, but are so triggered by a logo 1920 01:32:24,360 --> 01:32:27,800 for a network that you know they they almost can't grasp the 1921 01:32:27,800 --> 01:32:30,280 content that's being talked about because they don't even 1922 01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:32,160 care. Their mind is shut off to. 1923 01:32:32,160 --> 01:32:35,000 Them, yeah, no, I mean, 'cause they, that's The thing is like 1924 01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,600 they don't even like, you know, I watch the conversations you 1925 01:32:37,600 --> 01:32:40,040 have like, they're not even really political at all. 1926 01:32:40,040 --> 01:32:42,360 Like really, they don't feel like that at all. 1927 01:32:42,360 --> 01:32:45,800 They're, you know, so it's just like you said, like you see an 1928 01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:49,400 image and you just immediately go for your quick assumption 1929 01:32:49,400 --> 01:32:53,000 when like it's probably just not true in terms of like the actual 1930 01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:56,360 content. Correct 100%. 1931 01:32:56,720 --> 01:32:58,280 All right, let me pay off that Peter Schrager thing. 1932 01:32:58,280 --> 01:32:59,400 I'm going to get to that in a minute there. 1933 01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:00,600 Let me, I'll read that in a moment. 1934 01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:03,720 So anyway, Schrager put out his second or his first draft here 1935 01:33:03,960 --> 01:33:07,400 and for the first time, I mean, all you see is Reese from Ohio 1936 01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:09,440 State. It's I don't care what mock you 1937 01:33:09,440 --> 01:33:12,080 look at Reese too. It's Mendoza 1 Reese too, man, 1938 01:33:12,080 --> 01:33:13,960 those are 10. Here's a here's a mantra. 1939 01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:16,080 Oh, Mendoza 1 Reese too. Oh, we got another mantra. 1940 01:33:16,320 --> 01:33:19,560 Mendoza 1 Reese 2, Reese 2. Reese 2, Reese 2. 1941 01:33:19,600 --> 01:33:22,600 Now, I like Reese. I think he's an incredible 1942 01:33:22,600 --> 01:33:26,320 athlete with incredible upside. I'm not married to The Jets. 1943 01:33:26,320 --> 01:33:28,840 Taking him at #2 Now, I also don't think that there's going 1944 01:33:28,840 --> 01:33:31,880 to be a lot of movement or possible traction for a team to 1945 01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:34,640 jump up and trade with The Jets, which is something that I 1946 01:33:34,640 --> 01:33:36,920 espoused early last week that I would be open to. 1947 01:33:37,200 --> 01:33:40,720 Because while I like Reese and I'm intrigued by Reese, he's not 1948 01:33:40,720 --> 01:33:43,760 enough of a sure thing for me. Watching wind up being like 1949 01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:45,640 Lawrence Standard or Micah Parsons. 1950 01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:47,800 And of course, I'll be wrong with this. 1951 01:33:47,800 --> 01:33:51,320 But right now, my opinion is I really do like him, and if The 1952 01:33:51,320 --> 01:33:53,240 Jets take him to #2 I'll be fine with it. 1953 01:33:53,480 --> 01:33:55,280 But I'm just trying to incorporate another thought that 1954 01:33:55,280 --> 01:33:59,160 I think is logical. And Schrager had Bailey going at 1955 01:33:59,160 --> 01:34:02,000 #2 to The Jets. Now, Bailey, you don't need 1956 01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:04,280 Schrager to tell you this because everybody knows this. 1957 01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:07,400 If you watch college football, Bailey is the more polished 1958 01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:10,040 prospect right now. He's been an edge rusher for 1959 01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:12,160 years. He had 14 1/2 sacks. 1960 01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:14,760 He's been on the edge with his hand on the ground for years 1961 01:34:14,920 --> 01:34:17,680 facing double teams, getting his numbers now. 1962 01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:22,480 People also think that there's some ridiculously alarming drop 1963 01:34:22,480 --> 01:34:26,200 in athleticism. Like like Bailey ran a 4860 man 1964 01:34:27,040 --> 01:34:30,120 ran a 4-5 dude. Bailey from Texas Tech ran a 1965 01:34:30,120 --> 01:34:32,440 4-5. So the different now Reese was 1966 01:34:32,440 --> 01:34:35,600 quicker as word, you know, Styles and some others too. 1967 01:34:35,960 --> 01:34:38,920 But it's not this massive drop in athleticism. 1968 01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:43,000 It's it's slightly discernible. It is a real thing in terms of a 1969 01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:45,160 slight drop off. But it's not enough for me not 1970 01:34:45,160 --> 01:34:47,080 to take him. I don't love Bailey too either. 1971 01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:50,800 I you know, when I saw Schrager, I'm like, would that excite me? 1972 01:34:51,080 --> 01:34:52,520 I almost think I'd rather have Reese. 1973 01:34:52,520 --> 01:35:00,520 I don't, I don't, I don't. My gut now is that my gut now is 1974 01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:05,320 that Bailey's one-dimensional and he'll be good at that one 1975 01:35:05,320 --> 01:35:08,800 dimension, but I don't know that he'll be transcendent at that 1976 01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:10,640 one dimension. And if you're A1 dimensional 1977 01:35:10,640 --> 01:35:14,880 player and good at your job, is that enough to justify a second 1978 01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:16,920 overall pick? Like if you're if you're getting 1979 01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:19,480 taken, you know, 9th or 12th or 15th, that's fine. 1980 01:35:20,360 --> 01:35:23,320 You do greater one thing like you're a you're a corner and 1981 01:35:23,320 --> 01:35:25,840 you're OK in coverage, but you're a lights out tackler. 1982 01:35:25,840 --> 01:35:27,280 You can help out in the box a little bit. 1983 01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:30,120 All right, I mean, not ideal if I'm taking a corner at number, 1984 01:35:30,120 --> 01:35:32,000 you know, 23456 something like that. 1985 01:35:32,360 --> 01:35:36,320 Or, you know, you're a you're a linebacker, outside linebacker 1986 01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:39,360 and you're a sure handed short tacklers we've ever seen. 1987 01:35:39,360 --> 01:35:41,440 But you know, when you're dropping back in coverage, 1988 01:35:41,440 --> 01:35:44,360 trying to hang with a tight end who's got a 1/10 of a second or 1989 01:35:44,360 --> 01:35:47,600 two quicker than you because you didn't run to grade 40 either at 1990 01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:50,480 the combine or at your pro date, your school all right now, not 1991 01:35:50,480 --> 01:35:53,480 optimal. I, I like, I'd like Bailey. 1992 01:35:53,480 --> 01:35:57,400 I do and I like Reese. I really believe I love the 1993 01:35:57,400 --> 01:35:59,640 prospects of The Jets being open for business. 1994 01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:03,840 So this is not really an in depth commentary on Bailey, the 1995 01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:05,560 player or even Reese at this point. 1996 01:36:06,040 --> 01:36:09,480 It's about this to me, gives a little oxygen to The Jets 1997 01:36:09,480 --> 01:36:15,240 possibly being open to trading #2 because maybe another team 1998 01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:18,800 loves Bailey or maybe another team loves Reese. 1999 01:36:18,800 --> 01:36:20,960 I don't know. I know you need 2 to dance. 2000 01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:23,000 That goes without saying. Jets could be help. 2001 01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:25,840 Muji could be hell bent on making a trade. 2002 01:36:26,120 --> 01:36:28,080 If you don't have a willing trading partner, you're not 2003 01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:29,840 making a trade. It sounds good. 2004 01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:32,680 Trade up, trade back. You need somebody to satisfy 2005 01:36:32,680 --> 01:36:35,680 your demands, like you got with Sauce and like you got with Qi. 2006 01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:37,600 Don't know that that's going to happen here. 2007 01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:41,400 I just hope and I think, I think, I don't know, I think, 2008 01:36:41,400 --> 01:36:45,160 but I definitely hope that he is more than amenable to being open 2009 01:36:45,160 --> 01:36:48,080 for business at #2 as well. Because to me, there's not much 2010 01:36:48,080 --> 01:36:50,440 of a difference. Matter of fact, I would almost 2011 01:36:50,440 --> 01:36:52,720 rather have. I know Caleb Downs has slipped a 2012 01:36:52,720 --> 01:36:56,360 little bit in the boards for some reason, but I would now. 2013 01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:58,320 They don't need an offensive lineman and there's 2 old 2014 01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:00,400 lineman. Actually, I think Schrager had 2015 01:37:00,400 --> 01:37:01,840 the Giants taking an old lineman. 2016 01:37:01,840 --> 01:37:05,400 There's 2 who are going to go in the top 10, but you can't tell 2017 01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:07,120 me now. You can tell me in three years 2018 01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:09,440 when we've got some evidence, NFL tape to look at and say, 2019 01:37:09,520 --> 01:37:12,400 yeah, we were right, we were wrong, kind of right, Kind of 2020 01:37:12,400 --> 01:37:14,640 roll a little bit in between, kind of hit it kind of didn't. 2021 01:37:14,640 --> 01:37:16,920 Whatever went to the wrong team got hurt. 2022 01:37:16,920 --> 01:37:18,360 Now it doesn't. Love football. 2023 01:37:18,360 --> 01:37:21,400 Sloppy, lazy, but you know, didn't get strong enough, didn't 2024 01:37:21,400 --> 01:37:23,440 get a second move pushed around. Predictable. 2025 01:37:23,720 --> 01:37:27,400 There's a lot of analysis coming once they play in the NFL. 2026 01:37:27,840 --> 01:37:32,080 But like, right now, to me, if it's Bailey, if it's Reese, all 2027 01:37:32,080 --> 01:37:35,080 right, I mean, I'm not doing somersaults and flips with the 2028 01:37:35,080 --> 01:37:37,720 pic and I'm not going to pound the table and say they messed it 2029 01:37:37,720 --> 01:37:40,440 up. But really, I am still married 2030 01:37:40,440 --> 01:37:43,800 to the notion of The Jets trading out, at least trying to. 2031 01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:45,560 That's where I am with that. But I thought it was 2032 01:37:45,560 --> 01:37:47,040 interesting. Schrager's real good with that 2033 01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:51,040 stuff historically does well with this mocks and for him to 2034 01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:54,480 have somebody other than Reese and he doesn't do it just to 2035 01:37:54,480 --> 01:37:57,360 differentiate himself. Like he believes that because 2036 01:37:57,360 --> 01:38:01,840 he's he's an information person. So we'll see super game children 2037 01:38:01,840 --> 01:38:04,520 Bros 6643 what's happening? Thank you for that. 2038 01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:06,960 Appreciate it, buddy. On a lighter note, the jet strap 2039 01:38:06,960 --> 01:38:10,720 party is being moved from Jersey to the seaport in the city. 2040 01:38:11,080 --> 01:38:13,960 I didn't even know that. Do you think you'll show up 2041 01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:15,680 there and have some fun with us? Who are going to go? 2042 01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:17,680 Let me know. The boys and I are going to be 2043 01:38:17,680 --> 01:38:19,920 there. I, I do not think I'll be at The 2044 01:38:19,920 --> 01:38:22,080 Jets draft party #1 there's a really good chance of doing 2045 01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:24,600 stuff that night either at a draft party. 2046 01:38:24,640 --> 01:38:27,840 And again, not, not all the dyes are are, are not all the I's are 2047 01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:29,760 dotted, not all the T's across. It's business. 2048 01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:33,680 This thing trickles in. There's a few opportunities to 2049 01:38:33,680 --> 01:38:38,160 either do content here with a live watch or to be at a place 2050 01:38:38,160 --> 01:38:41,760 that I can't divulge to do a live watch party myself. 2051 01:38:41,840 --> 01:38:46,240 And at this point, you know, I'm, I'm looking at all 2052 01:38:46,240 --> 01:38:48,400 opportunities. Number one, it's obviously fun, 2053 01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:52,240 but doing business here. So, you know, I've, I've been to 2054 01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:55,600 a lot of drafts, I've been to a lot of draft parties, but I, I 2055 01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:58,160 think there's a real opportunity where we'll be able to monetize 2056 01:38:58,160 --> 01:39:00,160 that. So that would be a real good 2057 01:39:00,160 --> 01:39:01,760 thing. J Rod, have you been to? 2058 01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:03,640 Have you ever been to a draft party? 2059 01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:05,160 Never. Never. 2060 01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:08,920 No, I mean I listen to the NFL draft, to an NFL draft. 2061 01:39:08,920 --> 01:39:10,840 Party I know you went to the NBA Draft 1. 2062 01:39:10,960 --> 01:39:15,240 Yeah, I mean, just watching it at home with the TV really. 2063 01:39:16,280 --> 01:39:18,760 I don't think I've, I, I honestly don't even think I've 2064 01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:22,560 ever gotten together with anybody to watch a draft. 2065 01:39:22,680 --> 01:39:24,600 Really. Yeah, no, OK. 2066 01:39:25,320 --> 01:39:28,200 Yeah, it's funny, those things I I really don't know as I say 2067 01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:30,560 that like really like, like I do it all the time. 2068 01:39:30,840 --> 01:39:33,960 I usually like to watch the draft and seclusion myself. 2069 01:39:34,360 --> 01:39:36,800 I I, I'm with you, just a lot going on, man. 2070 01:39:37,120 --> 01:39:39,960 I remember funny thing, you won't even remember. 2071 01:39:39,960 --> 01:39:42,880 This was when I was with ESPN. It was like the coolest thing at 2072 01:39:42,880 --> 01:39:45,840 that point. ESPN, if you Google this at some 2073 01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:47,120 point you you guys will see this. 2074 01:39:47,120 --> 01:39:53,640 ESPN 2005. If I had to throw a year on it, 2075 01:39:54,560 --> 01:39:57,080 it came out with an ESPN phone. You don't even know about that, 2076 01:39:57,080 --> 01:39:57,920 do you? No. 2077 01:39:57,920 --> 01:39:59,200 What? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2078 01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:01,560 It was like a flip phone, right? But it was cool. 2079 01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:04,800 I mean, the flip phones were, you know, you could text on it, 2080 01:40:04,800 --> 01:40:06,760 but it wasn't like that or Samsung, whatever. 2081 01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:08,440 Oh my God, you. See it? 2082 01:40:08,720 --> 01:40:11,560 This is so cool. Yes, there it is man. 2083 01:40:11,600 --> 01:40:13,000 What year was it? Was I right 2? 2084 01:40:13,000 --> 01:40:16,880 1006, yeah. 06 OK And never forget I was playing golf right 2085 01:40:17,680 --> 01:40:20,800 up at New York Country Club with my buddy Dan and and Rob and 2086 01:40:20,800 --> 01:40:23,960 Maddie. I'll play golf tomorrow, by the 2087 01:40:23,960 --> 01:40:25,080 way. Let's go. 2088 01:40:25,680 --> 01:40:28,280 That'll be a nice. Day now I try watch what I try 2089 01:40:28,280 --> 01:40:30,960 to do today like this is this is how I I try to squeeze it all in 2090 01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:32,880 today. Now I'll be in the basement. 2091 01:40:32,880 --> 01:40:35,640 I'll be hitting these little wiffle balls, you know, gripping 2092 01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:38,920 the club, getting in my own head, probably hit 16 feet off 2093 01:40:38,920 --> 01:40:39,880 the tee. Well, it's going to be a 2094 01:40:39,880 --> 01:40:41,600 disaster. But yeah, I'm playing my buddy 2095 01:40:41,600 --> 01:40:43,280 Rob. Oh, I have not seen in a while, 2096 01:40:43,920 --> 01:40:46,320 so I can't wait to see him. My buddy Frank, who I play with 2097 01:40:46,320 --> 01:40:48,360 quite a bit, that's why I am getting out tomorrow. 2098 01:40:48,360 --> 01:40:50,040 It's gonna be a little chilly, but it's gonna be sunny, so I'm 2099 01:40:50,040 --> 01:40:52,320 playing the ball. So anyway, so they, ESPN, never 2100 01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:54,520 forget. We each got like me, Kayla, 2101 01:40:54,520 --> 01:40:58,560 Greca, Stephen A, I'm sure Mike and Mike were up in Bristol. 2102 01:40:58,560 --> 01:41:01,040 They obviously, they probably got 10 each, you know, based on 2103 01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:03,000 how much they got back then, and rightfully so. 2104 01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:05,040 It was a really good show. We each got the phone. 2105 01:41:05,040 --> 01:41:07,080 I never came in the package, Have my name on it. 2106 01:41:07,080 --> 01:41:09,320 I'm like, all right, here we go. Starting to get some free shit 2107 01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:10,920 now. Yeah, it was big boys. 2108 01:41:11,400 --> 01:41:13,800 You got a ESPN phone? Yeah, they gave us one. 2109 01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:14,640 They gave each one. So cool. 2110 01:41:14,840 --> 01:41:17,160 And. It was like free service for a 2111 01:41:17,160 --> 01:41:20,360 year and I had my old phone and I used it a little bit. 2112 01:41:20,360 --> 01:41:22,800 I'd like to say it was like a burner phone or but no, I didn't 2113 01:41:22,880 --> 01:41:26,280 really need one. But I do remember playing golf 2114 01:41:26,760 --> 01:41:30,600 at New York Country and the coolest feature on the phone, 2115 01:41:31,520 --> 01:41:33,480 this was during the NFL draft. To my point, this is like the 2116 01:41:33,480 --> 01:41:35,040 only time I didn't watch the draft by myself. 2117 01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:38,040 I was playing golf and every time a pick was made, you know, 2118 01:41:38,040 --> 01:41:39,680 it would be on the green. You'd hear from the card. 2119 01:41:39,720 --> 01:41:42,480 No way. And it would it would it would 2120 01:41:42,480 --> 01:41:43,960 alert you. All right, the pick is in and 2121 01:41:43,960 --> 01:41:46,320 then you'd open up the phone and and it was actually really 2122 01:41:46,400 --> 01:41:48,600 awesome. You know, I obviously knew every 2123 01:41:48,600 --> 01:41:50,720 player. My boys were even then little 2124 01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:52,080 bit more into it than they are now. 2125 01:41:52,760 --> 01:41:55,800 That did not last well or that did not last long. 2126 01:41:55,800 --> 01:41:57,240 It was cool. It's good idea. 2127 01:41:58,320 --> 01:42:01,520 You know, do like a little like I'm just like they should do a 2128 01:42:01,520 --> 01:42:04,600 little like ode to it, like a little AD spot where they, I 2129 01:42:04,880 --> 01:42:07,920 don't know, poke fun at it. That is so funny, man. 2130 01:42:08,920 --> 01:42:13,320 Listen, you got to understand when you see stuff with the, 2131 01:42:15,120 --> 01:42:19,640 when you see stuff 1520 years later and it guys, it's it's, I 2132 01:42:19,640 --> 01:42:21,120 mean, I get it. I do it too. 2133 01:42:21,480 --> 01:42:24,680 Like, it's hard to do. It's hard to look at stuff and 2134 01:42:24,680 --> 01:42:26,600 say, wow, this thing is sick, right? 2135 01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:30,440 I'll give you a good example. So my buddy Tommy, who got 2136 01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:35,360 married and had a child when he was young, like 20s, early 20s, 2137 01:42:36,240 --> 01:42:38,120 kids are grown. Awesome guy. 2138 01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:41,000 Really my first best friend. Couple of homes down the street. 2139 01:42:41,320 --> 01:42:44,200 Great dude. Play in the street everyday. 2140 01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:46,800 Great families. Dad played golf with my dad. 2141 01:42:47,240 --> 01:42:49,560 I don't know how many times, but his dad passed away. 2142 01:42:49,800 --> 01:42:52,080 Love his mom, love his brother K rat. 2143 01:42:52,080 --> 01:42:57,400 Just a great family. And you know, like I remember. 2144 01:42:57,400 --> 01:42:59,120 Hold on one SEC. I remember. 2145 01:42:59,240 --> 01:43:00,040 Yep. Hang on. 2146 01:43:01,080 --> 01:43:02,920 No, that's not true. What? 2147 01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:06,400 No, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 2148 01:43:06,400 --> 01:43:08,960 No, OK, No. My buddy just texted me 2149 01:43:08,960 --> 01:43:11,600 something about the ESPN phone. There's no way. 2150 01:43:12,160 --> 01:43:13,000 There's no way. All right. 2151 01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:16,800 So anyway, so since he had, you know, children early and his 2152 01:43:16,800 --> 01:43:20,720 first son was a boy, when I had a son, he sent me all of these 2153 01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:23,240 bats that his son used along the way. 2154 01:43:23,480 --> 01:43:25,600 And he played JUCO baseball. He was a very good player in New 2155 01:43:25,600 --> 01:43:30,000 Jersey. His son Timmy, and one of the 2156 01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:33,720 bats he sent me was what was a bat that we used and if you're 2157 01:43:33,720 --> 01:43:35,680 old enough, the black magic Easton. 2158 01:43:35,720 --> 01:43:37,760 Yeah. The Easton black magic too. 2159 01:43:37,760 --> 01:43:40,680 You're way too young. That was like, you know, 2160 01:43:40,680 --> 01:43:43,120 whatever, 500 bats. I'm not just going to get free 2161 01:43:43,120 --> 01:43:45,600 plugs everywhere here, but there's a couple of really good 2162 01:43:45,600 --> 01:43:48,680 ones out there now that every player has that plays club ball, 2163 01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:51,680 whatever, and they're ridiculously overpriced, but 2164 01:43:51,680 --> 01:43:53,360 they got a lot of juice. I'm talking about the Utrip 2165 01:43:53,360 --> 01:43:56,440 bats, USSSA, not the USA bats that you have to use in travel 2166 01:43:56,440 --> 01:43:58,640 and rec. So anyway, he sends me like sent 2167 01:43:58,640 --> 01:44:02,080 me a fungal bat that he used to coat that I used for my teams 2168 01:44:02,080 --> 01:44:04,160 early. Then it broke and a bunch of 2169 01:44:04,160 --> 01:44:08,200 bats, my son to train with and, you know, but they, they were so 2170 01:44:08,200 --> 01:44:10,440 out of, you know, like you couldn't use it. 2171 01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:12,760 They didn't conform to the regulations, is my point. 2172 01:44:13,120 --> 01:44:17,280 And the other day I was working out my son, I hear him hitting 2173 01:44:17,280 --> 01:44:18,480 off the tee or something. Yeah. 2174 01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:20,400 No, he was, Yeah. He was hitting on doing 2175 01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:22,640 something in the basement. And he went, he found the black 2176 01:44:22,640 --> 01:44:24,600 magic that was kind of tucked away because there's no need to 2177 01:44:24,600 --> 01:44:26,040 use it. And he's like, Dad, he's like, 2178 01:44:26,040 --> 01:44:27,600 was this yours? I'm like, no, it was my buddy 2179 01:44:27,600 --> 01:44:30,880 Tommy, who I grew up with, who sent to me a bunch of bats when 2180 01:44:30,880 --> 01:44:33,120 you were born. He's like, look at this thing. 2181 01:44:33,200 --> 01:44:34,640 I'm like, dude, you have no idea. 2182 01:44:34,640 --> 01:44:37,520 That was like the Air Jordans when we were playing when we 2183 01:44:37,520 --> 01:44:40,400 were young. So it's so like when that ESPN 2184 01:44:40,400 --> 01:44:43,360 phone dropped, it was like sick, man. 2185 01:44:43,760 --> 01:44:45,520 Even think about snow. Seriously, think about some of 2186 01:44:45,520 --> 01:44:48,880 the video games that that you love playing back in the day, 2187 01:44:49,160 --> 01:44:52,120 like even Mike Tysons punch out. Like it seems so awesome. 2188 01:44:52,320 --> 01:44:54,880 All the different characters, all the different styles, like 2189 01:44:54,880 --> 01:44:58,280 the, you know, the guy with the shorts falling down, the, the, 2190 01:44:58,320 --> 01:45:02,680 the Swami, whatever he was, you know, the Don Flamenco with the 2191 01:45:02,680 --> 01:45:04,800 Rose, like they were all different characteristics. 2192 01:45:05,240 --> 01:45:07,200 Now you see that game, even though it's great, it's got a 2193 01:45:07,200 --> 01:45:11,280 great place in American lore, an American gaming lore, and it's 2194 01:45:11,280 --> 01:45:14,160 renowned that it's, it's it's more or less it's like an icon. 2195 01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:16,600 But look at the graphics now you're like, man, you guys love 2196 01:45:16,600 --> 01:45:17,960 playing that. Yeah, we did, because we didn't 2197 01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:20,800 know anything else. So before iPhones, you know, the 2198 01:45:20,800 --> 01:45:22,520 ESPN phone wasn't that bad of. A deal. 2199 01:45:22,520 --> 01:45:28,040 So my question is, was this the only phone that offered like 2200 01:45:28,040 --> 01:45:32,200 this kind of ability to watch these video highlights and 2201 01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:33,840 stuff? Like I don't remember the answer 2202 01:45:33,840 --> 01:45:35,720 to I don't know. I took that my question. 2203 01:45:36,080 --> 01:45:37,720 I don't know. You know, the truth of the 2204 01:45:37,720 --> 01:45:40,880 matter is I don't even really remember them having video 2205 01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:44,000 capability, but I but it says it did, right? 2206 01:45:44,080 --> 01:45:47,600 Yeah, like, I don't, I believe it said it could play videos. 2207 01:45:47,680 --> 01:45:50,400 I don't know if it had like the camera, like the old, like the 2208 01:45:50,400 --> 01:45:53,160 Blackberries kind of started doing down the line. 2209 01:45:53,160 --> 01:45:56,400 True, it did have a camera. No, it did have it had a camera. 2210 01:45:56,800 --> 01:45:58,240 I remember taking pictures on the golf course. 2211 01:45:58,240 --> 01:46:01,560 Yeah, Yeah, I do. We can't find any of the I mean, 2212 01:46:01,560 --> 01:46:02,840 I'm sure you don't have the phone any. 2213 01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:05,240 Of the man I'm. Sure, those pics would be 2214 01:46:05,280 --> 01:46:07,560 awesome. Yeah, or incriminating. 2215 01:46:08,680 --> 01:46:10,040 Get a picture on the golf course, boys. 2216 01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:13,240 Yeah, Hey, I'd be happy with either Downs or Styles for the 2217 01:46:13,240 --> 01:46:14,560 Giants. Leaning towards Styles. 2218 01:46:14,760 --> 01:46:16,040 Listen, I've talked about this a lot. 2219 01:46:16,040 --> 01:46:19,240 We'll do more and more and more draft stuff as we get closer. 16 2220 01:46:19,240 --> 01:46:22,920 days away. I always was open to the idea of 2221 01:46:22,920 --> 01:46:26,720 giants going online at 5 now I I know horrible loves his 2222 01:46:26,720 --> 01:46:28,560 safeties. So Caleb Downs, you know, 2223 01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:30,600 certainly something I've been saying for a couple of months 2224 01:46:30,600 --> 01:46:33,960 now, really since he was hired and and and Harbaugh said it 2225 01:46:33,960 --> 01:46:36,040 with Mike Francesa. He was on Mike's podcast and he 2226 01:46:36,040 --> 01:46:38,880 was talking about Caleb down. So that's not exactly breaking 2227 01:46:38,880 --> 01:46:41,640 news Schrager had online. I think it makes sense. 2228 01:46:41,640 --> 01:46:43,040 There's certain ways you have to build. 2229 01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:46,240 If your future is is your quarterback, and we all think 2230 01:46:46,240 --> 01:46:48,880 most of us think that it is Jackson Dort, you better make 2231 01:46:48,880 --> 01:46:50,480 sure you've got a kick asshole line around them. 2232 01:46:50,480 --> 01:46:52,160 It's better. It's becoming a little 2233 01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:54,560 serviceable, but it's still not an ultimate strength. 2234 01:46:54,880 --> 01:46:57,840 You know, like Jackson Dort with The Jets online will be a lot 2235 01:46:57,840 --> 01:47:00,000 better than the Jackson Dort with the giants online. 2236 01:47:00,000 --> 01:47:02,360 Now The Jets, you know, I mean, obviously other things can go 2237 01:47:02,360 --> 01:47:04,960 wrong, like coaching, but you guys know what I mean. 2238 01:47:04,960 --> 01:47:09,160 So I think the Giants go in one of three directions there, and I 2239 01:47:09,160 --> 01:47:12,160 think it's going to be a blast. I think that outside of Mendoza, 2240 01:47:12,720 --> 01:47:14,920 you know, I don't know what the Hell's going to happen, but the 2241 01:47:14,920 --> 01:47:16,720 Ohio State's going to be well represented. 2242 01:47:16,720 --> 01:47:20,720 I think the wide receiver market is a little bit overstated. 2243 01:47:21,120 --> 01:47:23,520 Everyone's like, oh, it's an amazing wide receiver crop. 2244 01:47:25,320 --> 01:47:27,280 Just because there's four or five guys that, you know, that 2245 01:47:27,280 --> 01:47:29,600 played at big schools and that probably will go in the first 2246 01:47:29,600 --> 01:47:32,400 round ish, doesn't mean that they're absolutely no doubters. 2247 01:47:32,400 --> 01:47:34,920 Like, you know, one guy's a little small, one guy's had a 2248 01:47:34,920 --> 01:47:36,680 hamstring issue. Like there's a little bit of 2249 01:47:36,680 --> 01:47:39,440 baggage, almost baggage is the wrong word, but there's a little 2250 01:47:39,440 --> 01:47:42,080 bit of an impediment in the evaluation, I think of each 2251 01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:47,000 player to an extent where you're like, is he really worthy of 2252 01:47:47,000 --> 01:47:49,440 being number 9 or whatever it might be? 2253 01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:51,600 So these are all things we'll flush through. 2254 01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:54,640 We're getting there. You know, the Soto hamstring, we 2255 01:47:54,640 --> 01:47:58,280 did that in three, burning the the calf, we did that in three. 2256 01:47:58,280 --> 01:48:02,320 Burning questions to me really opens up a window for Jazz for 2257 01:48:02,920 --> 01:48:05,000 I'm jumping all over the place. I want to get the Jazz before I 2258 01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:08,880 get out of here real quick. For Francisco Alvarez to assert 2259 01:48:08,880 --> 01:48:10,640 himself. He's looked very good this year. 2260 01:48:10,880 --> 01:48:12,880 The Mets are going to need them. Lindor has been hurt. 2261 01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:16,360 Lindor's been quiet, but she has been quiet. 2262 01:48:16,480 --> 01:48:17,760 You have to think that's going to change. 2263 01:48:17,760 --> 01:48:19,680 It should. And then, you know, those guys 2264 01:48:19,760 --> 01:48:22,920 are going to have to hit for the Mets to maximize their offense 2265 01:48:22,920 --> 01:48:25,520 and become whatever version of their best version they're going 2266 01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:27,520 to become when Soto eventually returns. 2267 01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:29,760 But that bottom third, you have to talk about the Yankees bottom 2268 01:48:29,760 --> 01:48:31,000 third, which I don't like at all. 2269 01:48:31,200 --> 01:48:33,520 The Mets bottom third is better than the Yankees. 2270 01:48:33,520 --> 01:48:39,480 But a return to form based on what we thought Alvarez could be 2271 01:48:39,720 --> 01:48:42,520 and the early signs are there, be a great thing for Alvarez. 2272 01:48:42,520 --> 01:48:43,960 So I want to see how he keeps going. 2273 01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:48,360 And then listen, just the final thing on Jazz, you know, if I'm 2274 01:48:48,440 --> 01:48:51,120 and I know Boone doesn't operate this way, I would have benched 2275 01:48:51,120 --> 01:48:52,200 him. I would have benched him over 2276 01:48:52,200 --> 01:48:53,160 the weekend. That nonsense. 2277 01:48:53,160 --> 01:48:55,720 He pulled at second base, not knowing, not even not knowing 2278 01:48:55,720 --> 01:48:58,320 how many outs there were, just not knowing the speed or of the 2279 01:48:58,320 --> 01:49:00,080 runner or or showing any urgency. 2280 01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:02,920 How the hell do you let that you're going to see on one hand, 2281 01:49:03,160 --> 01:49:05,760 I think on one hand. And by the way, Jazz might be on 2282 01:49:05,960 --> 01:49:09,480 one of the fingers again. How many times this year do you 2283 01:49:09,480 --> 01:49:12,800 think we'll see a Major League second baseman loaf after a 2284 01:49:12,800 --> 01:49:15,080 ball, right? Have plenty of time to. 2285 01:49:15,080 --> 01:49:16,800 I don't mean where he died and has to get up. 2286 01:49:16,800 --> 01:49:19,640 And because that's not loafing fairly, root a little bit to 2287 01:49:19,640 --> 01:49:20,720 your right, little bit up the middle. 2288 01:49:20,720 --> 01:49:21,880 But he was already pinched up the middle. 2289 01:49:21,880 --> 01:49:24,160 It's not like you had to move that much where you make the 2290 01:49:24,160 --> 01:49:27,080 play and he just lackadaisically take your time. 2291 01:49:27,080 --> 01:49:28,880 And the guy's busted ass down the line. 2292 01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:31,440 And by the time you understand it's a close play and there's a 2293 01:49:31,440 --> 01:49:33,560 speck of urgency, he beats it out. 2294 01:49:33,600 --> 01:49:34,800 I would have benched him for that. 2295 01:49:34,920 --> 01:49:37,720 I would have benched him and and I think that that's one of the 2296 01:49:37,720 --> 01:49:40,760 real issues with Jazz Chisholm. I mean, last week he gets 2297 01:49:40,760 --> 01:49:43,520 thrown, he gets picked off first base because he's he's in space 2298 01:49:43,520 --> 01:49:46,240 with his, with his oven Mitt, you know, and this is the 2299 01:49:46,240 --> 01:49:48,520 reason. And now he's not even hitting. 2300 01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:51,560 Now he's going to hit. But that's why I didn't like him 2301 01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:55,120 talking about 5050 because what what are you doing trying to hit 2302 01:49:55,120 --> 01:49:57,840 fifty home runs? What are you, what are you 2303 01:49:57,880 --> 01:50:00,400 selling out from a mechanical point of view? 2304 01:50:00,680 --> 01:50:02,640 That's going to lead to additional breakdowns, that's 2305 01:50:02,640 --> 01:50:05,560 going to lead to more strikeouts and fewer quality at bats. 2306 01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:08,880 He looks awful this year. Now a lot of great and he's not 2307 01:50:08,880 --> 01:50:11,200 great, but a lot of really good. He is really good. 2308 01:50:11,520 --> 01:50:14,040 A lot of really good players look awful because pitcher still 2309 01:50:14,040 --> 01:50:15,600 have the advantage at this point of the year. 2310 01:50:16,320 --> 01:50:19,240 And it's April and it's a sport rooted in failure and it's an 2311 01:50:19,240 --> 01:50:21,880 incredibly small sample, but he's striking out a ton. 2312 01:50:21,880 --> 01:50:25,160 And once again, there's been multiple times where his head is 2313 01:50:25,160 --> 01:50:28,400 in space. And this is the Jazz experience 2314 01:50:28,400 --> 01:50:30,440 that I want no part of long term. 2315 01:50:30,680 --> 01:50:32,640 That's why I'm not giving him an extension. 2316 01:50:32,880 --> 01:50:35,560 That's why I've told you that at some point the Yankees will move 2317 01:50:35,560 --> 01:50:37,360 on from him. They're not going to give him 2318 01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:39,720 that big deal. I still think depending upon 2319 01:50:39,720 --> 01:50:43,240 what happens with some other player movement, they could 2320 01:50:43,240 --> 01:50:45,680 trade him, although now you're probably more inclined to, you 2321 01:50:45,720 --> 01:50:47,600 know, go to go through the process. 2322 01:50:47,600 --> 01:50:50,880 Maybe Aqo, I don't know if he matches or if he doesn't, you 2323 01:50:50,880 --> 01:50:52,520 get some draft comp. I don't know what they're going 2324 01:50:52,520 --> 01:50:55,560 to do here, but I just it just comes down to not trusting 2325 01:50:55,560 --> 01:50:58,720 somebody to be locked in when you have to be locked in. 2326 01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:01,320 I mean that's job number one. I mean, because if you're on a 2327 01:51:01,320 --> 01:51:04,440 Major League diamond, everybody's got the requisite 2328 01:51:04,440 --> 01:51:08,880 amount of speed and arm strength and hands and the ability to 2329 01:51:08,880 --> 01:51:11,840 hit, you know, higher level pitching because that you 2330 01:51:11,840 --> 01:51:13,480 wouldn't be in the major leagues if you couldn't. 2331 01:51:13,480 --> 01:51:17,400 All right, understood. If Jazz Chisholm, imagine if 2332 01:51:17,400 --> 01:51:21,520 Jazz Chisholm had the approach of, you know, I'm not even 2333 01:51:21,520 --> 01:51:24,800 saying like a great player, but just like the mindset, just the 2334 01:51:24,800 --> 01:51:27,920 data of like a Caballero right now, Caballero is not nearly as 2335 01:51:27,920 --> 01:51:30,000 good, but at least he's a grinder. 2336 01:51:30,240 --> 01:51:32,680 You know, like Jazz, he just floats mentally. 2337 01:51:32,680 --> 01:51:36,720 It's it's not always, it's just not always a given that he's 2338 01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:38,000 going to be ready to play baseball. 2339 01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:41,080 I'm sorry. And, you know, that is just 2340 01:51:41,080 --> 01:51:43,480 unacceptable. I know what happened to Lindor 2341 01:51:43,480 --> 01:51:45,440 as well when he got picked off with his oven Mitt. 2342 01:51:45,440 --> 01:51:47,360 These damn oven mitts. They're the size of a catcher's 2343 01:51:47,360 --> 01:51:48,520 Mitt at this point. My God. 2344 01:51:48,880 --> 01:51:51,400 You know, Ricky Henderson didn't bust up fingers, but everybody 2345 01:51:51,400 --> 01:51:53,840 else needs an oven Mitt, you know, and now all the kids have 2346 01:51:53,840 --> 01:51:54,840 them too. So I get it. 2347 01:51:55,200 --> 01:51:57,920 So another racket. Baseball bats are 500 bucks. 2348 01:51:57,920 --> 01:52:00,520 Everybody needs an oven Mitt. Oh my God. 2349 01:52:00,520 --> 01:52:06,560 But that is another example why I'm just never going to be ever 2350 01:52:06,640 --> 01:52:10,400 all in on Jazz Chisholm, because that could very easily happen in 2351 01:52:10,400 --> 01:52:14,200 September against Toronto in a higher leverage moment because 2352 01:52:14,200 --> 01:52:17,200 it and and, and if you say to me, well, not too early in the 2353 01:52:17,200 --> 01:52:18,560 year, he's going to be more locked in. 2354 01:52:18,560 --> 01:52:20,960 Well, yeah, why wasn't he locked in against the Dodgers in the 2355 01:52:20,960 --> 01:52:23,720 World Series when he's looking around, staring in space from 2356 01:52:23,720 --> 01:52:27,200 the Bulls trickling past him and runners are running around like 2357 01:52:27,280 --> 01:52:29,600 a, you know, like a merry go round one that was the World 2358 01:52:29,600 --> 01:52:31,480 Series. So that's an invalid. 2359 01:52:31,480 --> 01:52:36,680 That is not a good take on Jazz Chisholm, and I want to be clear 2360 01:52:36,680 --> 01:52:39,400 about this as well. I love his style and I love his 2361 01:52:39,440 --> 01:52:41,720 energy. I don't want this to ever get 2362 01:52:41,720 --> 01:52:45,680 twisted. My only knock about Jazz is that 2363 01:52:45,680 --> 01:52:48,760 he's just simply not emotionally reliable. 2364 01:52:49,080 --> 01:52:50,560 That's it. That's it. 2365 01:52:50,840 --> 01:52:53,280 You know, the way, the way he wears his hat, All right, That's 2366 01:52:53,280 --> 01:52:54,600 not the way that I would wear my hat. 2367 01:52:54,600 --> 01:52:57,680 But I actually like the fact that, you know, he's got that 2368 01:52:57,680 --> 01:53:00,800 swag because for too many years the Yankees had no swag. 2369 01:53:01,080 --> 01:53:03,800 It was incredibly corporate. It was incredibly mundane. 2370 01:53:04,120 --> 01:53:09,040 It was incredibly predictable. Like, you know, like I, I like 2371 01:53:09,040 --> 01:53:11,840 individuality. You know, I don't, who knows 2372 01:53:11,840 --> 01:53:14,480 what the hell I would look like if I was coming up and I was 22 2373 01:53:14,480 --> 01:53:16,520 years old and I'm in the majors right now. 2374 01:53:16,520 --> 01:53:19,880 I know I'd have the arm bands and the eye black and, you know, 2375 01:53:19,920 --> 01:53:22,080 the chains and, yeah, all the other stuff. 2376 01:53:22,080 --> 01:53:24,120 I don't know if I'd, if I'd be rocking and earring at this 2377 01:53:24,120 --> 01:53:26,360 point, but a lot of players do. Cool. 2378 01:53:26,800 --> 01:53:29,200 Looks good, man. You're a stylish cat. 2379 01:53:29,200 --> 01:53:31,560 You've got a world. The talent, like if you weren't 2380 01:53:31,560 --> 01:53:34,480 so talented, I don't think I'd hold them to any other level of, 2381 01:53:34,640 --> 01:53:38,160 you know, responsibility except just be reliable. 2382 01:53:38,720 --> 01:53:41,920 You know, if you hit 240 with 20 home runs and 20 something 2383 01:53:41,920 --> 01:53:44,800 steals or 30 steals, I'd say, all right, that's your, that's 2384 01:53:44,800 --> 01:53:46,480 your ceiling. That's the kind of player you 2385 01:53:46,480 --> 01:53:48,880 are. I believe there's more or I I 2386 01:53:48,880 --> 01:53:51,480 think I used to believe there's more because you do get to a 2387 01:53:51,480 --> 01:53:54,200 point in your career where you know, you got to probably stop 2388 01:53:54,200 --> 01:53:58,080 saying that, you know, and he just demonstrates. 2389 01:53:58,080 --> 01:53:59,920 I don't need to just say this over and over. 2390 01:53:59,920 --> 01:54:03,280 He demonstrates too often when the guys around him now, they 2391 01:54:03,280 --> 01:54:06,160 might be a little deficient in terms of foot speed or whatever 2392 01:54:06,160 --> 01:54:07,800 else. He's got a good arm as well. 2393 01:54:07,800 --> 01:54:09,680 Could play third, play the outfield with the Marlins, like 2394 01:54:09,680 --> 01:54:11,200 he's versatile, runs like the wind. 2395 01:54:11,480 --> 01:54:15,320 I mean, the guy's got easy, easy for a skinny, wiry, strong dude. 2396 01:54:15,560 --> 01:54:18,400 He's got ridiculous easy power when he connects from the left 2397 01:54:18,400 --> 01:54:22,960 side, but that doesn't justify not being ready to do your job. 2398 01:54:23,200 --> 01:54:26,000 So every Yankee fan that's tripping over themselves 2399 01:54:26,240 --> 01:54:29,880 defending Jazz, Always so talented, always so electric, 2400 01:54:29,880 --> 01:54:32,560 always going to hit thirty home runs, always the second best 2401 01:54:32,680 --> 01:54:36,440 second baseman in baseball. All those things are true, but 2402 01:54:36,440 --> 01:54:39,640 it still makes him an unreliable player. 2403 01:54:39,800 --> 01:54:41,520 That's it. It really does. 2404 01:54:42,200 --> 01:54:44,720 All right, Jay, anything else that I missed here? 2405 01:54:44,720 --> 01:54:47,000 I believe that we're good. Almost two hours. 2406 01:54:47,240 --> 01:54:50,040 Gotta go a little longer today. I think we hit it. 2407 01:54:50,160 --> 01:54:52,720 I mean certainly hit everything you wanna see. 2408 01:54:52,720 --> 01:54:56,440 I mean got some content content comments if you want to see 2409 01:54:56,440 --> 01:54:57,360 them. Yeah, let's get a couple of 2410 01:54:57,360 --> 01:54:59,360 comments. I think this is a new follower 2411 01:54:59,360 --> 01:55:01,120 of the show, by the way. Of course, like subscribe, what 2412 01:55:01,120 --> 01:55:03,080 happened to that like subscribe button that you were popping in 2413 01:55:03,080 --> 01:55:05,240 there once in a while, Jay? Ryan, here's the thing. 2414 01:55:05,240 --> 01:55:08,760 Did it? Did it keep making your screen 2415 01:55:09,280 --> 01:55:11,000 turn black? It did. 2416 01:55:11,000 --> 01:55:13,320 Now it's actually OK though now. But now when? 2417 01:55:13,320 --> 01:55:15,120 Maybe when we get rid, you know what it did. 2418 01:55:15,120 --> 01:55:18,400 But when there's a comment up there, so watch, keep it now. 2419 01:55:18,720 --> 01:55:22,840 Oh, here we go there. We go. 2420 01:55:22,920 --> 01:55:27,120 We we run from the expense on this show, all right, We've got 2421 01:55:27,120 --> 01:55:31,400 an unlimited budget. Yeah, on ET Unleashed as we grow 2422 01:55:31,400 --> 01:55:33,640 it out. I like that thing. 2423 01:55:33,640 --> 01:55:34,440 I do. I like that. 2424 01:55:34,440 --> 01:55:35,880 Can you give me that comment up there? 2425 01:55:35,880 --> 01:55:37,240 Again, I don't want to talk about Jazz. 2426 01:55:37,240 --> 01:55:39,080 Let's get a couple of comments and I'm going to bounce here. 2427 01:55:39,600 --> 01:55:41,320 All right. We had it on Jazz, that virtual 2428 01:55:41,320 --> 01:55:43,720 discourse, I believe. I believe a new follower of the 2429 01:55:43,720 --> 01:55:45,800 show. So if you follow it and you 2430 01:55:45,800 --> 01:55:47,720 haven't subbed and you haven't liked and you haven't hit the 2431 01:55:47,720 --> 01:55:50,000 comments, by all means, do that. Welcome to the show. 2432 01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:53,880 If you knew Mr. Virtual or misses or miss, if Jazz was more 2433 01:55:53,880 --> 01:55:55,840 mentally locked in, he could be one of the best players in the 2434 01:55:55,840 --> 01:55:56,560 game. It's a shame. 2435 01:55:56,560 --> 01:55:57,680 Very athletic. I agree. 2436 01:55:58,200 --> 01:55:59,160 I mean, so we're on the same page. 2437 01:55:59,160 --> 01:56:02,680 He absolutely he was on the cover of of the show for a 2438 01:56:02,680 --> 01:56:06,240 reason a couple of years back. He's got out of this world 2439 01:56:06,240 --> 01:56:08,480 electric talent. Like there's nothing he can't 2440 01:56:08,480 --> 01:56:10,200 do. He does things where you're 2441 01:56:10,200 --> 01:56:11,600 like, man, that's just not natural. 2442 01:56:11,600 --> 01:56:13,840 That's not normal. That is at his next level. 2443 01:56:13,840 --> 01:56:17,400 Quick twitch. But again, at what point, you 2444 01:56:17,400 --> 01:56:21,520 know, whether it's even the playlet and people got mad at me 2445 01:56:21,520 --> 01:56:22,440 for this. They're like, oh, you're 2446 01:56:22,440 --> 01:56:26,600 nitpicking on Jazz. Even the play last year when he 2447 01:56:26,600 --> 01:56:31,320 scored from first in the playoffs, right there was 2448 01:56:31,680 --> 01:56:35,440 actually a little bit of a hesitation and you know it. 2449 01:56:36,200 --> 01:56:38,000 You know, I'm not whatever. I'm not going to, you know, 2450 01:56:38,280 --> 01:56:40,120 profess to be some next level baseball guy. 2451 01:56:40,120 --> 01:56:42,640 But but I you know, I do consume the game, consume the game a 2452 01:56:42,640 --> 01:56:43,840 little bit differently than some. 2453 01:56:44,240 --> 01:56:45,560 And I'm like, it's not a good jump. 2454 01:56:45,920 --> 01:56:49,680 He didn't actually get top speed until he was halfway or 2455 01:56:49,680 --> 01:56:52,360 approaching second base. Now he beat the I believe he's 2456 01:56:52,360 --> 01:56:55,240 slid head first, slid head first and he beat it. 2457 01:56:55,480 --> 01:56:57,640 But that's not the point. It should not have been that 2458 01:56:57,640 --> 01:57:00,160 close. And when you rely on top level 2459 01:57:00,160 --> 01:57:04,000 speed to make up for a lethargic, lackadaisical start, 2460 01:57:04,040 --> 01:57:05,480 eventually that's going to catch up to you. 2461 01:57:05,840 --> 01:57:08,840 And I'm not saying that I think that Ben Rice is somebody who 2462 01:57:08,840 --> 01:57:11,840 does maximize his talent because he's not that fast and he's 2463 01:57:11,840 --> 01:57:14,000 learning to play first base, but he's a great young hitter. 2464 01:57:14,280 --> 01:57:17,440 Even I'm I was critical. This would have been on Thursday 2465 01:57:17,440 --> 01:57:22,840 or Friday, whatever day it was. There was a play, a little 2466 01:57:22,840 --> 01:57:24,960 Tapper. I think Will Warren was pitching 2467 01:57:24,960 --> 01:57:27,840 this game, a little Tapper up the third base side that Warren 2468 01:57:27,840 --> 01:57:29,800 got. And there was a play at first 2469 01:57:29,800 --> 01:57:34,800 base and Rice didn't stretch. Now, if you're a first baseman, 2470 01:57:35,040 --> 01:57:37,440 I also understand ball up the line, third base. 2471 01:57:37,440 --> 01:57:39,560 You want to keep your left foot. You want to give an inside and 2472 01:57:39,560 --> 01:57:42,080 you generally yell inside catchers, yell that first 2473 01:57:42,080 --> 01:57:44,920 baseman yell that inside or outside if it's in foul 2474 01:57:44,920 --> 01:57:47,120 territory with the catcher coming up with that throw. 2475 01:57:47,440 --> 01:57:49,720 So I get it. Your left foot is anchored on 2476 01:57:49,720 --> 01:57:52,880 the bag, but he did not receive the ball properly. 2477 01:57:52,880 --> 01:57:55,080 Now he was still out. If you look at that, he was out 2478 01:57:55,080 --> 01:57:57,000 by this much. But if he would have very 2479 01:57:57,000 --> 01:57:59,080 quickly and this is all process of learning. 2480 01:57:59,080 --> 01:58:01,720 It's not me getting on the young man figuring out first base 2481 01:58:01,920 --> 01:58:03,480 because it's not as easy as some people think. 2482 01:58:03,480 --> 01:58:06,000 But if he would have quickly shifted from his left foot to 2483 01:58:06,000 --> 01:58:09,200 his right foot and went out and received the ball and go and get 2484 01:58:09,200 --> 01:58:12,240 the ball with a real stretch. And it's on my Twitter account 2485 01:58:12,240 --> 01:58:13,160 if you guys want to check it out. 2486 01:58:13,160 --> 01:58:14,720 If you want to actually see what I'm talking about. 2487 01:58:14,720 --> 01:58:17,280 And if you saw the play, you should remember that just a 2488 01:58:17,280 --> 01:58:20,400 little finer point that that I like to bring to the table that 2489 01:58:20,480 --> 01:58:22,760 I don't think everybody agrees with because I saw some of the 2490 01:58:22,760 --> 01:58:25,960 comments and some of the comments are like, dude, he hit 2491 01:58:25,960 --> 01:58:29,080 a home run and he's hitting 400. This what you nitpick on and 2492 01:58:29,160 --> 01:58:31,560 where the Yankees are. They've lost one game so far. 2493 01:58:31,560 --> 01:58:34,040 This what you're pointing out? Yes, I am. 2494 01:58:34,120 --> 01:58:36,320 I'm thrilled with the start, although Sunday bothered me. 2495 01:58:36,560 --> 01:58:39,160 I'm thrilled with the start. I love the way Rice looks. 2496 01:58:39,160 --> 01:58:40,240 I think he's going to be an All Star. 2497 01:58:40,240 --> 01:58:41,360 I think he's going to be top ten. 2498 01:58:41,360 --> 01:58:43,800 The American League MVP voting, which I've already said, I said 2499 01:58:43,800 --> 01:58:47,320 before the season started, but it doesn't mean that I can't 2500 01:58:47,320 --> 01:58:49,720 point out something that could hurt you in October. 2501 01:58:49,720 --> 01:58:53,600 I don't understand how people and people the, the, the small 2502 01:58:53,600 --> 01:58:56,680 minded people who can't compute both. 2503 01:58:57,120 --> 01:59:00,920 I, I just those people frustrate me because they, they're so 2504 01:59:00,920 --> 01:59:03,400 black and white. No, this is a little bit of a 2505 01:59:03,400 --> 01:59:06,440 next, next level, next level. Take a little bit of a next 2506 01:59:06,440 --> 01:59:09,320 level pointing something out, something small, because I love 2507 01:59:09,320 --> 01:59:10,920 the game. And Oh yeah, by the way, it's 2508 01:59:10,920 --> 01:59:13,520 100% right. If you ever played first base 2509 01:59:13,520 --> 01:59:16,640 where you coached, you know, you got to, you got to maximize that 2510 01:59:16,640 --> 01:59:20,040 strike, go and get the ball. How do you if if you're safe by 2511 01:59:20,040 --> 01:59:22,960 this much And he was, he was out by this much, but if you're safe 2512 01:59:22,960 --> 01:59:26,240 by this much and your stretch is here, but you can really stretch 2513 01:59:26,240 --> 01:59:28,480 to here. You tell me how many inches are 2514 01:59:28,480 --> 01:59:31,120 you leaving on the table? Half a foot, maybe more, maybe 2515 01:59:31,120 --> 01:59:35,360 10, maybe 10 inches, 6-7, maybe 10 inches, right. 2516 01:59:35,360 --> 01:59:36,720 That thing is ridiculous at this point. 2517 01:59:36,920 --> 01:59:38,960 Maybe 10 inches. And then you know what, it's not 2518 01:59:38,960 --> 01:59:41,320 as Bang Bang as you've as as it was. 2519 01:59:41,320 --> 01:59:44,520 Anyway, it's more about Jazz, but I wanted to point that out 2520 01:59:44,520 --> 01:59:48,160 about Ben Rice and there's just something in his game that I 2521 01:59:48,160 --> 01:59:52,640 will never, ever trust and deep down I know the Yankees feel the 2522 01:59:52,640 --> 01:59:54,640 same way. We'll see how it plays out. 2523 01:59:54,640 --> 01:59:56,800 I promise you. This one you could take to the 2524 01:59:56,800 --> 01:59:59,040 bank and it's probably going to be within the next month. 2525 01:59:59,280 --> 02:00:02,760 There is something aside from the home runs that will come and 2526 02:00:02,760 --> 02:00:06,040 the great plays that will come and probably 40 to 50 steals 2527 02:00:06,040 --> 02:00:08,520 that will come. He will do something over the 2528 02:00:08,520 --> 02:00:11,240 next however many you know weeks will be like. 2529 02:00:11,800 --> 02:00:14,320 What are you doing? Confounding head scratcher. 2530 02:00:14,320 --> 02:00:17,320 So that's the jazz experience. Wildly talented. 2531 02:00:17,600 --> 02:00:20,640 Also equally confounding. All right, J Rod, good job with 2532 02:00:20,640 --> 02:00:22,600 the concert, with the set on over the weekend. 2533 02:00:22,600 --> 02:00:26,560 I'm happy you had fun again. Thank you to the Texas Rangers 2534 02:00:26,840 --> 02:00:30,400 throwing out the first pitch. I threw it with some zip, man. 2535 02:00:30,400 --> 02:00:32,200 I went out there, but the ball was slick. 2536 02:00:32,200 --> 02:00:33,400 But I got to own it. You know what? 2537 02:00:33,680 --> 02:00:34,800 Oh, I didn't tell you this either. 2538 02:00:34,960 --> 02:00:37,440 I was so in my head as I was documenting the first pitch 2539 02:00:37,440 --> 02:00:39,160 because I was waiting for 20 minutes basically. 2540 02:00:39,160 --> 02:00:41,440 I got people went out there when they gave me the ball, I told 2541 02:00:41,440 --> 02:00:43,240 you that it was very slippery that I told you. 2542 02:00:43,560 --> 02:00:47,200 What I didn't tell you is that I spent all the 20 minutes 2543 02:00:47,720 --> 02:00:49,920 spitting on the ball, which I know sounds gross, and even 2544 02:00:49,920 --> 02:00:52,400 trying to pick up some of the remnants of the on deck circle 2545 02:00:52,680 --> 02:00:56,040 to where the guy to. Try to dry it off a little. 2546 02:00:56,440 --> 02:00:58,600 Yeah, but then I then I was like, well, you don't want to 2547 02:00:58,600 --> 02:01:00,960 get too much dirt on it because you want to, you know, they 2548 02:01:00,960 --> 02:01:04,000 wrote something nice and I want to put it in my, you know, in my 2549 02:01:04,000 --> 02:01:06,480 office and I want to like some of the other things that I have 2550 02:01:06,480 --> 02:01:08,520 on display. So but I I was so in my head 2551 02:01:08,520 --> 02:01:11,200 because it was so slick, but I did not throw a strike. 2552 02:01:11,440 --> 02:01:13,920 The wind up was good. Had some good V low. 2553 02:01:14,200 --> 02:01:18,000 But man, if, if, if, if Travis Jatakowski doesn't save me that 2554 02:01:18,000 --> 02:01:21,080 thing, that thing, that thing's dead. 2555 02:01:22,040 --> 02:01:24,120 That thing is hitting the the screen on a fly. 2556 02:01:24,120 --> 02:01:26,640 All right, man, let's bounce. I'm back tomorrow with 10 J Rod 2557 02:01:26,640 --> 02:01:29,440 have have a great Tuesday. We'll get all the shorts up. 2558 02:01:29,440 --> 02:01:32,960 Have a an awesome time today. Masters week. 2559 02:01:33,080 --> 02:01:36,120 Congrats to Michigan more and more and more and more on the 2560 02:01:36,120 --> 02:01:38,920 NFL draft. We get closer now 16 days away 2561 02:01:39,160 --> 02:01:41,600 from the aforementioned draft. We'll get a guest in. 2562 02:01:42,080 --> 02:01:43,800 I was able to get in a guest this week. 2563 02:01:43,800 --> 02:01:47,360 I'm working on a few things, so I don't want to say who yet in 2564 02:01:47,360 --> 02:01:49,320 case it doesn't come to fruition, but it will be a big 2565 02:01:49,320 --> 02:01:51,120 one. If you missed the Stephen A chat 2566 02:01:51,120 --> 02:01:54,480 or the Michael Kay chat or the Le Greco chat or the Pitino 2567 02:01:54,480 --> 02:01:57,040 chat, go and check out the channel, jump into some other 2568 02:01:57,040 --> 02:02:00,520 content like it, subscribe it. Appreciate the BT Unleashed fan, 2569 02:02:00,520 --> 02:02:02,120 you guys know that. See you tomorrow at 10. 2570 02:02:02,240 --> 02:02:02,720 Peace.