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house. So we will have the the news or
we will not have the news about Yanis being dealt today.
It's all the little hoops getting a little something on
Woody Johnson, that meddling, bumbling fool who still sadly
owns The Jets. And of course I got a little
baseball mug for you as well. All right, so I got to speed
through this a little bit, probably a little shorter than
usual. So they got something you want
to say something you want to get off your mind here, get the
comments going. J Rods going to pump them in
when they pop up. I've got to get out to St.
John's even earlier than usual today to tape the TV show.
So I don't want I really don't want to waste a lot of time.
All right, 3:00 today. We know that you know what,
we'll have finality here. And it's been a pretty, pretty
active trade deadline in terms of going on.
You know, now Kristaps Porzingis is now out in Golden State here.
Listen, this guy's this comes down to one thing, and I said
this a month ago and I said this two weeks ago and I said it
earlier this week. The Knicks, at least pertaining
to the Knicks. And then bigger broader picture
on Yanis as to whether or not I think he's going to get dealt.
The the easiest thing would have been, you know, if Yanis would
flex and behind closed doors, let me walk.
You know, I'm not happy. I want out.
Get Me Out of here and get me there.
Because one thing we know about the NBA, unlike any other sport,
if one of your stars has a has power play, they generally
acquiesce. Because if you have an unhappy,
not that Giannis is unhappy, but I'm just saying the general
terms, if you have an unhappy NBA superstar, they can make
life miserable for your team. It's not like football, it's not
like baseball. It's just a different dynamic
where, you know, you got the guy who consumes all the energy in
the room and, you know, in terms of taking the most amount of
shots, that guy, you know, whether it's a Harden, who I
mean, James Harden has this thing on rap when he does not
want to be somewhere, James Harden finds a way to get out
and basically tell his team, if you don't move me, we're going
to have an issue. And that's why I don't think
Giannis is going to get dealt. I, I really don't because I
really thought based on what the Knicks do or, or maybe even more
specifically, do not have to satisfy potential trade with
Milwaukee. It would have been made easier
if Giannis was really pushing behind the scenes.
And he's just not that guy. And you got to respect him for
it. You know, he's not somebody who
is, you know, reaching for that juice card.
It's just not that guy. And and if he was, this will be
a whole help a lot easier for the New York Knicks.
It will be a lot easier for the Golden State Warriors.
It will be a lot easier for the Miami Heat, the Minnesota
Timberwolves, even the Cavaliers who thought to have some
interest before they made the move that they made.
I mean, the bottom line is this here is I'm looking down at the,
you know, something I saw last night before the Warriors
pivoted to, to KP, the Warriors had offered four and I guess
some other, you know, players now, 4 unprotected draft picks
after Steph Curry is done, which obviously is going to represent
a significant downturn in what the Warriors are.
Basically, when Steph Curry's done, the Warriors will be back
to what the Warriors were before Steph Curry, which is not very
relevant, not very good, and they will be finishing in the
top 10 lottery wise a lot. So, you know, I thought they
came with a pretty decent offer. I would still look at and the
Bucks weren't interested. I would still look at Miami and
Minnesota as those main teams, even though I don't think that
Giannis is going to be dealt. I don't.
But those are the teams that I think if anything can give, or
if any team could give the Bucks something to really think about
and motivate them to do something that we all know
Milwaukee doesn't want to do, that I think it's going to be
Miami or Minnesota. I have never really thought, I'm
not saying I didn't hope, but I never really thought with any
sort of true, sensible conviction that the Knicks would
be among the last one or two teams at that table in terms of,
you know, trying to put together a deal to satisfy the Bucks's
needs here and their demands. They just don't have it.
So when you don't, when you don't have a boatload of stuff
to give up to motivate somebody to trade their best player to
you, you better have a very disgruntled, publicly unhappy
superstar who lets it be known that if you don't Get Me Out of
here, your life is going to be made miserable.
And you know, that's that's not Giannis's MO and you got to
really respect that here. So he's not flexing.
I think he's going to stay. And I think that what, what this
does, this will open up much more of an appealing window
during the summer where more teams have more assets and you
can have more of a conversation where it's strung out and you're
not rushed under the the guidelines here of the NBA trade
deadline. So I think that the more
suitors, obviously the better deal you get.
I, I do think if Giannis is dealt today before threes and
which again, I don't think he will, but if he is, I think
you're getting $0.85 on the dollar.
I really, I don't think it's some incredible deal where we
sit back and say, wow, wow, what a really good job by the bucks.
Look what they were able to do. Look how they maximize the
return on their investment in Yanis.
They got this, they got that, they got this, this, this and
they got that. So they got three or four first
round picks and they got 2 meaningful ascending young, very
interesting players. I don't think that that happens
today. I really don't.
I think the only way it happens, again, I won't be overly, overly
repetitive here, but the only way it happens is if Giannis has
a change of heart where there's a he knows it, his agents know,
hey, 3:00 PM Eastern. This is it.
There's nothing else to do. You're here the rest of the way.
And if you're here the rest of the way, you're obviously not
winning because the Bucks just don't have the horses to win
even with a fully healthy, honest.
And he's got to get that calf right.
So I don't think that he's dealt.
And I never really thought that the Knicks would.
I hope again. I hope, but I just really never
thought the Knicks would have the the firepower to get it
done. So, you know, we got a couple of
hours. You never know teams who are
motivated. You got Pat Riley down there in
South Beach. You've got a Minnesota team that
really looks as if they want to make this happen.
I don't think it happens. And I'll be OK with that.
I'll be OK. What does that say?
Holy shit, BT's on time today. What do you mean BT's on?
When is BT ever late besides, like, more than a minute or two?
Huh? What are you talking about?
I mean you you make it seem like I'm waltzing here at ten O 9 and
come on 10 O1, maybe 10 O2. You know you got to make them
wait. You got to make the entrance by
the way, how how much fun was that with Sal yes, that was a
blast. You guys did a great job.
Comments were awesome views were off the charts.
The digital traction was muddy. So that was a lot of fun.
All right, last night's Knick game was awesome.
You know, I I can't I've come to this determination where I've
been all over cat. I'm not going to change my tune,
but I certainly don't want to be that guy who does not adjust or
alter his views when somebody's providing evidence to the
contrary of that view. And currently Anthony Towns is
is playing really well. You know, he really is another
double double. Last night's four straight.
He's got 34 double double S leads the NBA, 12 rebound
tonight, leads the NBA. And yeah, I was talking about
this a little bit with Sal yesterday.
Now some of the defensive numbers, I don't want to go
nuts. Although last night, you know,
Denver's obviously good and that was a great game.
That was a great game. Brunson superstar Bridges was a
complete zero makes a big shot. Just a fun big game field to
Garden in February, which is great.
And the Knicks continue to continue to win and Knicks are
rolling right now. But what the Knicks have done
here and and I don't know the direct correlation to how this
has helped open up Coral Anthony Towns a little bit, but like the
Knicks previous, I'm going to hit you with some numbers in a
minute that you're going to find astounding comparing Tom
Thibodeau to Mike Brown. But what the Knicks were doing
is they were funneling everybody into the middle and it wasn't
really working out as much. They weren't defending the
three. They weren't defending the
paint, they weren't defending the rim.
They were getting sliced up. Their defense wasn't nearly as
good as it was with Tom Thibodeau.
So give credit to Mike Brown and obviously the defensive staff
for coming up with something that at least in a smallish,
it's not 2-3 games. It's 10, but in a smallish
sample has worked out very well against teams that are going
nowhere for the most part. But this new philosophy, now
we're going to push you to the baseline.
And I don't think it's an accident, not last night, the
game before that, that Jalen Brunson got the defensive player
of the game. And I love that the Knicks do
that. That's part of the Knicks
culture, which has not seemed as great this year as it was with
Tom Thibodeau, admittedly. But you know where they where
they got that. They got Timberland boots, they
got the construction hat. And you always see the team
photo after a game. And Jalen Brunson for the first
time all year, again, two games ago, got the defensive player of
the game. It's just a it's just a good
look. It shows you that he's just not
a guy who's looking to drop 30 or hunt shots, you know, chose
that. He's got at least some some
willingness to play defense and I think he tries like there's
some guys who are horrid defenders because they either
lack the intelligence or or they let they lack the requisite
physical attributes, sides, size and speed ratio, or they've got
the willingness to at least try to grind out to be competent
with Jalen Brunson. He's just not a great athlete
and he's just not very big. He's not very strong.
Now he takes charges and had a couple steals the other night,
Couple of charge. He leads the NBA charges, so
there's a willingness there. They say there's a want there.
There's also a recognition there to try to be in the right spot,
to try to do the right thing and not just, you know, play one end
of the floor. He's just not a good defensive
player. But I think it's good for
morale. I think it's good for vibes when
you know a guy who is clearly your best shot maker, your best
by far offensive player, one of the top players in the NBA, when
there's a willingness to, you know, do some gritty stuff, do
some stuff that you know, not all these scorers wanted.
I mean, James Harden doesn't want to do this.
Like, that's a great example. James Harden was just dealt.
He's having a big game, 2525 at night, and what else did we
force his way out of a situation?
But James Harden's always been a guy who he's got a diversion to
defense. Nobody's got no interest, he's
got no aptitude and he's not an incredible athlete even when he
was younger. So it's good to see what this
Knicks team is becoming a little bit my issue.
And I don't think they're going to make a trade.
I don't think they're going to get Yanis.
I would now getting rid of Yabaselli opens up some things
financially. That's good that they found the
taker. That was obviously something
that was plaguing them and they were trying to work around.
It was a bad signing just didn't work out.
Now I will say this when Leon Rose signed him, I like the
signing. I liked him in Philly.
I liked him on the international circuit with with France could
shoot big body. He just he just never gotten rid
of man He he looked out of shape just didn't have any role on
this team. So I listen, if you make a
mistake, but you're able to correct it and pivot without
being penalized by taking back something that's undesirable,
I'm not going to crush you for it.
So Leon Rose has made some mistakes, and I started to
chronicle some of them yesterday.
That was my intention to start the show like the 1st 15 minutes
do that and then The Jets news broke with with Frank Reik is
the OC. So I really had to kind of speed
through it. But when you look at Leon Rose
in totality, restoring the Knicks and getting the brand
back to where it was and you know that I appreciate that.
Thank you, Joe awesome. I'm going to try.
I'm going to certainly try. Keep up, keep up the phenomenal
work. BT thank you.
That's the mission. Like one thing you're going to
get on BT Unleashed, one thing you're going to get wherever I
am, St. John's radio booth, St.
John's TV show popping up as a guest on other pods doing this.
Obviously on the you going, you're going to get my best you
going. Now there's going to be times I
I miss. There's going to be times I
swing and miss where I miss. Read something you are listening
and watching and by extension, certainly supporting somebody
who has too much respect for this business to come and fuck
around. I'm not doing it.
I'm just not wasting anybody's time.
I am in. I think you guys know that that
what you hear and what you see, this is a byproduct of being
invested to my craft. So when you say that and that's
recognized, I truly appreciate that.
Thank you very much. I mean that man.
Thank you sincerely. So, you know, back to Leon Rose
and the pivot from Yabasili. I know they'll take one more
swing. It got us what I would like to
see the Knicks do. And the problem I would feel, I
would feel great, as great as you can feel without having
Jordan or Magic or Bird or Kobe and Shaq or one of those other,
you know, Tim Duncan, one of those great luminaries of the
game, Hakeem at his prime. I would feel great about this
Knicks team if they can find one guy.
Problem is, not many guys like that, that I'll identify the
type in a moment. There's not many guys like this.
And because there's a shortage and a dearth and a paucity of
those types of players, if you have one, you're not getting rid
of them. I would love, love for the
Knicks to find somebody just that I know is going to have
Karl Anthony Towns's back. Like that's the one thing with
the smoke with Draymond recently, nobody came to his
defense when Draymond Green grabbed the shoe and threw him
on the floor. Cat didn't want the smoke.
He's he's not built for that. I know OG kind of walked in
there a little bit. And I do think that I think I
think OG would, you know, stand up for himself for sure.
And he tried to stand up for teammate.
But who else is doing that? All right, you want to tell me?
Josh Hart? Yeah.
Josh Hart's the one guy who's going to do it.
Brunson's not billed for that. Bridges isn't billed for that.
I don't even think Mitchell Robinson, who is big and strong,
I don't think he's billed for it.
Kollek's not billed for it. Deuce is, is is is not what he's
heard. That's a problem.
Deuce, I don't think is really billed for that.
I would feel awesome if I even if it was 1213 minutes a night,
that if the Knicks had somebody like the modern type.
Again, I know this is ridiculous and it's so exhausting.
Always. Oh, remember when the Knicks had
Oakley? But because there's no more
Charles like Draymond Greens, not Charles Oakley like Draymond
Green can think that he's Charles Oakley.
He ain't. And I can promise you if there
was a Charles Oakley on the court and Draymond was trying to
pull that nonsense that he that he's pulled with other guys as
soon as Oakley stepped to him or soon as Oakley sought him out in
the tunnel or at the club, which by the way, is where Oakley
would go and do his business like Charles Oakley.
And not that he ever had an issue throwing down on the
court. We've seen it Alonzo morning.
I mean, many others, right? Xavier McDaniel had no issue
with it. But if you crossed Oakley,
whether it was with a girl or with money or something dirty
during the game, he's either waiting at the tunnel or he
knows where you hang in post game and he's going to walk in.
He's going to handle it like a man.
I mean, imagine a mat now, you know, and I know there's other
guys who were big and tough out there, but a mat like Oakley's
different. He's just built different.
Imagine being in a club with your boys and you know, you got
you got the ropes and you got the honeys and you got
everything. You got the whole night set up.
And Oak walks in, you know, with two or three his hench men and
Oak's got the long fur coat. And Oak is not there to just
wolf and talk like, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm going to talk and
hopefully it gets broken up. I mean, Charles Oakley was when
when he was looking for smoke, he found it and then he turned
it into flames. So those guys don't exist
anymore. I understand that.
But whatever the modern version is, and I I guess the modern
version to an extent is somebody like Draymond and the Knicks.
They're not going to trade him and he's not coming to the
Knicks anyway. But if they just had one guy
that was in the rotation that I knew if somebody took a cheap
shot at Cat, took a liberty with Brunson, you know, screen elbow,
hard foul to the face, you know, even though that stuff doesn't
happen that much. But what had happened with
Draymond, nobody did a damn thing about it.
And that's the problem. Like, I feel like this Knicks
team is not tough enough. And this is not me trying to
recreate the 90s guys. I know that those those days are
over. But the championship teams, they
got a guy that the league knows you don't mess with even Yokich,
like with Denver, like you mess with Yokich, you mess with
Yokich's boys, his brothers too. You know what I mean?
Like, and I'm not trying to turn this into into a street fight,
but I do think that that's missing from the Knicks.
I mean, Mikhail Bridges is a mouse.
Like he doesn't have an ounce of, you know, physical number
one. He's he's he's just physically
not imposing. Now.
He can run all night and he's an Iron Man and he can play 40
something minutes if he has to, like he did last night.
Few guys did. But if something goes down, I
mean, Mikhail Bridges is the first guy who's getting shoved
out of the way. And I don't think he's going to
be very quick to get back into the picture.
So I'd look at this and I look at the trade deadline and I look
at the, yeah, Shamit's playing. Well, I've always been a Shamit
fan. I remember, you know, I guess it
was last year. I'm talking about Shamit.
Sounds like Shamit. Shamit.
But if it if it revolves around Shamit, Nick's got no, Nick's
got no chance. I have always been a Shamit fan.
I think what he brings to the table is really obvious and
really good. And he has been on a heater
since he got back. Big fan.
And he's going to play. So, you know, everybody's
fixated on Giannis. If Leon Rose could find one dude
that's going to be in the rotation 6-7 minutes, 1/2, all
right, and have the back, really, truly have the back of
this of of, of the important guys on this team, the finesse
guys on this team, I would feel great.
I would be telling you right now, I think the Knicks would
win the championship. Like that's really the one thing
holding him back. It's not skill.
Knicks can score $1.30. Knicks defense has gotten
better. Knicks have depth.
Knicks are well coached. Like the Knicks have a lot.
Knicks have experience, Knicks have chemistry, the Knicks have
jail, blah, blah, blah, all those other basketball things,
they've got them. The one thing they don't have is
that just that dude, you know that dude, if you take a shot at
Cat, that guy's waiting. And I think they're missing that
now and I don't think he can really find it.
But if Leon Rose did, I'd be pumped.
So it's interesting, the Knicks, and I don't mean the first
couple of games when Cat was trying to figure out his
identity with the team member who's complaining about that,
said they're in training camp. I don't know what my role is.
And then he had a bit of a quad issue to start and the Knicks
kind of, you know, a little sluggish out of the chute.
Then the Knicks really quickly coalesced and became a really
good team. What we thought they would be a
different team from Tom Thibodeau's team and really a
team that you know, and and still obviously based on the
odds, they have a chance to win the championship.
Clearly, even though I don't think that they will, I don't
think they're built for that seven game run, you know,
conference finals, NBA Finals, that I hope I'm wrong.
But now we can start to really truly look at tangibly rather
than just saying because when they were on the uptick, you had
a lot. And I like the Mike Brown
higher. He wasn't my first choice and he
was like #7 choice for the Knicks.
But once they settled on him, I liked it because it was a
contrast to Tom Thibodeau. He had been in in in winning
organizations, an offensive guy. I thought it was the nice just
again, a nice contrast to Tom. I really, and I said that so I
was open to Mike Brown. So, but I mean, I never went
nuts like even when the Knicks were on their on their best run
earliest, you know, but during the cup and all that stuff, I
wasn't getting on the air. And at that point I was still on
the fan saying, oh, Mike Brown is Pat Riley, you know, with
offense. I mean, you know, he he's a good
coach and Tom Thibodeau is a good coach.
He's not a great coach, neither is Mike Brown.
They're both good. And I think what one of the
reasons I was open to certainly moving on from Tom, whether it
was Brown or somebody else, I just thought that Tom Thibodeau
had exhausted everything that he could possibly squeeze out of
this Knicks team. I don't think there was another
level I and I wanted to find out because the window with this
group with Brunson's contract, blah, blah, blah, things I've
set up before. I don't need to keep going to.
I don't think it's nearly as long as maybe some of you think.
It's not a five year win, though, like the finances of the
Knicks. Eventually Brunson's getting
that massive extension, Max money, rightfully so, and the
team friendly deal he's on now expires and now the finances
change. Do you re sign Mitch?
I mean, there's things at play here that are going to impact
how long the Knicks will be in the meaning for truly, truly in
the meaningful part of the NBA title discussion.
But we are deep. Enough into the season, far, far
enough away from Tom Thibodeau, deep enough into the Mike Brown
run to at least look at some numbers.
And I came across some numbers last night and I took a
screenshot of it. Who the hell had it?
Was it? Was it Tommy B?
How do you say be deer or bear? I'm not trying to be
disrespectful. I honestly, I'm I'm not sure the
name. He may have had it.
So I'm not trying to steal this and make it seem like it came up
with it on my own. Somebody else had it.
I took a screenshot, jotted down some numbers.
Listen to this stuff, guys, right.
So last year at this point, the Knicks had a 62% winning
percentage. Obviously right now to take
higher 64%, all right, not going to go nuts.
Slight advantage Mike Brown Boom.
Offensive rating 117 last year, 119.2 this year.
Advantage Mike Brown defensive rating.
All the Tom Thibodeau truthers all Tom Thibodeau.
He's a great defensive coach. He's this, he's that.
And he was like the Knicks played hard and the Knicks
played with purpose and the defensive numbers backed up at
that stance. Well, the defensive rating for
Tom Thibodeau was 113.3 and for Mike Brown it's 113.2.
It's literally 110th of a, a point worse.
All right. Net rating, +4 for Tom Pibido,
+6 for Mike Brown. Advantage Mike Brown's.
These weren't these are interesting.
This to me is the is most important.
Not that those numbers don't matter, they just kind of
illuminate a little bit of the difference, but This is why
those numbers are better. Here's here's the context to it.
So the starters minutes, we all know Tom Thibodeau drove them
into the ground 35.8 last year. This year, 31.7.
I mean, that's a that's a sizable drop.
The bench minutes last year 12 1/2 this year almost 17.
The bench points last year 22, this year 31.
So so far, and I'm not picking and choosing.
I've got, you know, 246. I get about 12 stats here.
Literally everyone favors Mike Brown except the defensive
rating, which is 110th of a point behind Tom Thibodeau,
right? 3 point attempts, 6 more night
for Mike Brown quarter threes, which is we know and the Knicks
have some good shooters like Bridges and and and OG are among
the best and they have been the best rated corner 3 point
shooters in the NBA with over 40% for their career or at least
last couple years. So the amount of threes in terms
of volume has increased by 6A night that's potentially 18 more
points and the quarter threes, which is a higher percentage,
higher make rate is +3 this year advantage Mike Brown.
Now you get to the rebounds plus 4M brown, the free throw
attempts plus 2M brown. And I love this and I I don't
know when I first really realize that they really track this.
I mean, they track everything. How many miles guys run over the
course of the game. All that's a top speed.
That's basically you see that Madden, you know, 21.2 miles an
hour. You see that in the NFLI think
this is a great stat and I feel like it's really started to be
illuminated in the last year or so passes per game.
I mean, think about that the old way when I was a kid.
I would open up the newspaper and I would look at the next I
would I would read all the box scores, right?
I love doing that. We do it at the breakfast table
at home eating cereal. And I started out reading the
cereal bot like riboflavin, whatever the hell is in cereal.
I don't know why I would I was fixated on the ingredients on
within the on the cereal box, right.
And then as I get older, a little bit older, I just started
grabbing the paper everyday paper, paper, paper, paper and
going outside to get the papers get the papers.
Anybody knows that identified me in the text right there pop you
up going outside to get the papers, get the papers.
So reading the papers, right, like many of you box score kid,
and in the NBA specific to that sport, it was how many points
did Patrick have? How many rebounds did Patrick
have? How many assisted maybe Mark
Jackson have? And that was how many rebounds
did old cab. And that was kind of the extent
of it. You know, it wasn't like there
was never a deep dive. So to me, when I see passes per
game, I just find that to be an incredibly interesting stat.
Yep. Goodfellas.
That a boy. Get him up there, Charlie.
There you go, Charlie. Goodfellas.
Yeah. Where you going there, Joey?
Going outside to get the papers. Get the papers.
I love it because it just speaks to ball movement.
And, you know, you think about some of the some of the players
in the NBA and this would this is not to shade him.
I've got great respect for him. I love him, profound respect.
But one of the issues with Julius Randle when Julius Randle
was here was bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang the ball.
The monopolization of the basketball, which leads to fewer
passes, which leads to fewer open looks, which leads to more
unhappy teammates who aren't getting to eat.
So anyway, last year the Knicks to average 281 passes a game.
Think about what we're actually referencing passes per game this
year, 291 1/2. So basically 10 1/2 more passes
per game. What does it equate to?
I don't know, but I do know it's not a bad thing.
All right, so I am starting to feel better about this Knick
team. I am again, the day that I turn
into the guy who has an opinion, remains married to it, and then
isn't at least open enough to maybe tweak that and and be fair
to people. I'm in the business of being
fair. Like I'm not.
I was never here to just shit on Karl Anthony Towns.
I can promise you that. Like, that was never my
motivation. But watching every game, you
know, knowing the NBA the way I do, the way we do, it's pretty
obvious his deficiencies and and how that's going to manifest
itself against good teams in May and June who scout out advanced
scouting, game to game adjustments with better players
and better coaching. And you know, the early fouls,
whatever, sloppy getting to the rim, all the things I've hit.
But Coral, Anthony, the Towns are starting to play like a big
boy, start to play like a big boy.
And if that can remain the focus and, you know, he's not hunting
shots and he's not off balance and, you know, just again,
sloppy and it's just the word like just sometimes he looks
sloppy, but he's looked less sloppy lately.
And he is augmented his game. And I think in turn the the
Knicks process of of how they play has been augmented a bit.
Certainly defensively, as I chronicle before, no longer
funneling to the middle. Now we're pushing out to the
baseline. And it's worked out now.
They played a lot of bad teams. Last night was not a bad team.
Denver's very good. And last night was fun, as I
said, but it is very interesting where I was very down on this
team and not just because they had lost a couple games in a
row. Like I never got too high when
they won the NBA Cup, although I I enjoyed it and I didn't
denounce it like I did what it was introduced by Adam Silver.
But, you know, as it got deeper, I'm like, all right, you know,
if I'm going to get some competitive games in December
and it's going to maybe kind of replicate to an extent a, a deep
playoff, you know, the playoff run, that kind of intensity.
All right, it's not a bad thing. Now, some of you thought, and I
never really agreed with this. I thought it was a convenient
excuse. Some people thought, well, the
Knicks, they they were exhausted.
You know, they tapped themselves out.
They exerted too much energy trying to capture the NBA Cup.
Like, to me, that was just an erroneous foolish take that I
never once subscribed. I laughed at.
And I'm like, dude, you're a pro athlete.
Like, how much harder did you play 6%?
It was like you played 90% harder.
I mean, come on. I mean, because a lot of the
Knicks really, for the most part, for the most part do go
fairly Max exertion anyway, which is why they're one of the
better teams in the NBA. So there's a lot of play here,
You know, back to the whole Yanis that will they trade Yanis
at the end of the day? I say no.
If he is dealt, is he coming to the Knicks?
I say no. Do I think the Knicks or trying
to bolster, you know, one bigger athletic body that can just as I
said before, just kind of at least know he's got cats back a
little bit. That'd be nice.
Be nice. Not to mention having Jalen
Brunson's back. That would be nice because then
to me it will be a complete team.
They just have too many that you know what it is like.
I do. I do believe sometimes Mikhail
Bridges plays too soft. I do.
I do believe sometimes Karl and Anthony Towns plays too, too
soft, although that's starting to change a little bit, which is
nice. But I just feel like the Knicks
part of its physical, part of its presentation, I think the
Knicks have too many benign personalities.
Like you don't have anybody that's really a loose wire
that's going to color outside the lines, if you will, you
know, just be a bit of an agitator.
And I know for the most part that's been dissolved.
Like the NBA doesn't want that, that, that element and that
brand of physicality. Not going to fly anymore.
Guys are making too much money, 50, sixty, $65 million a year.
You want to keep your best players healthy.
I get it. Whereas back in the day, you
know, when Cora Malone hammers Isaiah and gives them 40
stitches, it's like, well, whatever, you know, you're going
to the land. I I, it's a business decision.
Zeke, Too bad. And that was a nasty gash.
You know, Lane Beer throwing punches at Bird.
Yeah, maybe a guy gets kicked out of the game.
Maybe there's a small suspension, but it was not
frowned upon and policed out of the game like it obviously was
many years ago at the end of Stearns and and and clearly
Silver, which is a very different, softer, but much more
highly skilled NBA. That doesn't mean you can't have
one dude if something goes down, or maybe even more specifically
as a deterrent to prevent somebody from doing something to
your guy that might have something go down.
Like those are two very different things.
A guy who's going to throw hands, which doesn't happen
anymore, who's going to throw hands when something happens,
That's the obvious result. But there's also the dude whose
mere presence on the court or in the vicinity of the court if
he's on the bench. The other teams know.
I mean, dudes know, you know, game recognize game tough
recognize tough and more importantly, weak or softish
recognizes tough and and and they're not trying to get after
that. So I'm hopeful.
I don't expect anything today, but man, I'd be pumped up
because I am feeling better about the Knicks.
I truly am. I really, really am.
To the point. Yeah.
Avery Summit. What up, buddy?
Hey, BT this team needs to Dylan Brooks.
I take him on this team in a heartbeat.
Maybe we can get a poor man's version of him before the
deadline promises. Not many guys like that.
There's not many guys like that in the NBA.
You know what? I know it.
Come on. So I I just, it's it's I have
the discussion because I want to present what I think the Knicks
are missing. And they've got I mean, they got
they got skill coming out at the wazoo.
Like it's not a skill thing. It's that little intangible.
Yeah. Bridges was so pathetic last
night. But he did hit the meaningful
shot. He did play a lot of minutes.
He did persevere. You got to respect it.
Yeah. He's had some rough games, no
doubt. Charlie.
F6675. What up, Charlie?
To your point, the Joker had a hard foul on Brunson Cat.
Nowhere to be found. Now, again, this this is like
the and. And thank you for that, Charlie.
You know, where's Oakley? Where's Mace?
We don't have one. Yeah, but that conversation also
gets old after a while. That's why I don't really want
to spend much time on it. And that's why when I bring it
up, I always preface it with there are no more guys like
that. It's been coached out.
It's been policed out. Everybody's buddies, everybody's
boys, everybody's popping into the Instagram on the other team
liking comments. That's why when you get real
smoke and you get real friction and you get real dislike, it's
it's good. And you kind of had that with
Draymond and Cat. The problem was Cat wasn't up to
the challenge and nobody else around them was, you know,
Draymond is because he knows he's in Cat's head.
And let's I mean, listen, as much as I say, you know, Oak and
Mason Xavier McDaniel, guys like that Billy Beer, like that was a
different level of getting after it.
But it's I don't think Draymond's like that.
I don't think. And you talk to the old heads
who played in the NBA back then. They say the same thing about
Draymond, like he's he's he's a police or he's an enforcer or
he's a tough guy. Now.
He wouldn't be that guy back then.
But if something would really go down with Draymond and Cat, who
you taking? Take a Draymond, you know, and
take him every day of the week. So we shall see, man, what else
we got here. Yeah, I'm going to get to Woody
in a second. Got a little something on Beatty
and Vientos as well. What does he say?
BT's got his pinstripes on today.
Yeah. I don't know what the hell kind
of shirt this is. It's a weird looking shirt.
It's like 1/2. I don't know.
It's like, it's actually a nice. It's kind of like silk.
I don't know. I don't think it really looks
good. I haven't worn it in a while.
It's like a little tiny turtleneck, you know?
I love the turtlenecks. Wife hates them.
Don't care. I wear them.
But this is like a little baby, baby mock.
But yeah, we do have the pinstripes on.
What else? Those are pretty interesting
numbers, though, to compare and contrast the Tom Thibodeau, Mike
Brown stuff. And I gave them to you because,
you know, I, I like to be able to quantify stuff.
You know, when you do this and you have a strong opinion, you
got to be able to back it up. You have to, and you've also got
to, as I said before, you also have to be able to, Yep, I
messed that up. My bad.
I got it wrong. And you have to be that guy.
Otherwise, I think there's just a lack of credibility.
If you're a hot take artist and there's no substance.
And I don't mean, you know, me getting on the air during the
show and hammering you with 9000 Advanced Baseball Analytics.
Again, I like it. I know some of you do.
But it's got to be the right spot.
You got to drop them in where it works and where it's applicable
and you got to move on. Otherwise it becomes a show that
I'm not even sure that I would want to do.
And I love the numbers, let alone you listening to it.
But I, I do think now, you know, this is not, this is no longer
like a small, little teeny, tiny movement, the analytical
movement. I mean, this is pretty much it.
Every general manager in every sport is married to analytics to
an extent. To what degree, I don't know.
I know Booty's pushed back on this a lot.
He's very sensitive to that. And I don't I don't blame him
because he said this with us on the fan.
He said this the other night, BT and Sal or two weeks ago, the BT
and Sal live show. And he said it a few times.
I think he said it the other day on WFNC Mac and and Craig had
him on. And he just, it bothers him like
he pushes back. And I don't blame him this
notion that he's just, you know, pecking away, excuse me, pecking
away the keyboard looking for something to spit itself out and
then just enter into lineup. Because when you think about
this, if he really was married to the numbers like some of you
think that he is, and I'm not saying he's not they, I mean,
everybody is. But you wouldn't be so bold to
come on the show with us. And he flat out said this, that
the Orioles are more analytically like you're not
dropping names. The Rays, Toronto by far.
He said the Red Sox a little bit.
But he basically he did say that in the American League East, the
Yankees are the least analytically driven team in the
division, which is really the exact opposite, really a
contrasting view to what basically a lot of people
espouse. And, and it bothers them because
if I'm Aaron Boone and I'm winning 94 games and I'm winning
99 games and I'm in the playoffs every year and when things go
wrong, people shit on me. When things go right, they're
like, well, he's just punching numbers.
I would have an issue with that too.
I would show that energy. And I actually like that he does
it. I like that he does it because
that's I would be sensitive to that.
But, you know, I say that because at this point, like, the
numbers are no longer like some novel, like, wow, somebody
referencing the analytics, the numbers.
Oh my God, what a forward thinker.
I mean, it really we're kind of getting to the point where if
you don't incorporate the numbers, you're a dinosaur.
Whether you're AGM, whether you're a manager, whether you're
a player. I mean the players, they want to
know, you know, they want to know you'll you'll see Jalen
Brunson with an iPad on the bench, which that I kind of
hate. I do kind of hate that, but I
get it. I don't mind as much like Ara
Judge and and others do this. You have it at bat.
You get in, you sit down, maybe you watch the pitch sequence
there. You look at the the iPad.
It is wild to think that they actually have a device.
I mean, wow. But and I'm waiting for the
first time somebody gets shot looking at something that you
know, there's a screenshot of somebody looking at something
that they shouldn't be looking at.
Like there's going to be a, you know, it's coming.
I mean during the game, like A and it's probably not going to
happen in the NBA. It's probably going to happen in
baseball only because in the NBA, because it's wide open.
These players aren't dumb and they they know what you know,
they know click. Gotcha.
So whereas with baseball, there's just a prevailing
thought because you're shielded by the dugout.
Maybe you can get away with stuff.
It's a matter of time before there's a screenshot somebody
looking at something they shouldn't be looking at.
But it's but it's absolutely wild.
And and you see, I saw this the other day.
You see now where and I watched this show a lot.
It's called the hey, watch the show a lot.
You're forgetting the name. I just want to make sure I get
the name right. But I do watch it's on yes, the
path to pinstripes. I think it is pinstripe path.
I think it's path to pinstripes and it chronicles the Yankees
minor leagues. I love watching it with my son
because you know, there's not 40,000 people in the stands.
It's just it's a lot of grunt work.
It's a lot of on field stuff. It's a lot of guys in the weight
room. I I love it and he loves it.
It's a good watch, right? Really good show and you'll see
when somebody doing a bullpen session like a young kid and the
pitching coach is out there with them.
They've got the cameras, which is, and, and all the, all the
radars, which is picking up, you know, RPM's and all the
revolutions and all the things. And then they'll, they'll throw
a pitch and they'll actually look at the data and they'll
talk about it. And then they'll try to apply it
to make it better or if it's really good, try to stay there.
So it is what it is. So, you know, looking at numbers
at this point is not like some, you know, wow, this dude's 20
years ahead of the curve. It's, it's really the other way
if you're not all right. Woody Johnson.
So listen, I don't know what the hell the story is.
I'm not here to refute Mirash's report.
I, I don't even know what Craig said about Moray.
I saw some stuff online. I don't care where I don't, I'm
not there. If I was there full time, you
know, I still really wouldn't care, quite frankly, because I
never really got involved in, in that stuff at the station.
Just wasn't for me. Never will be, you know, but so
Sean had an interesting take and and I really like Sean and I
like Craig too. That's that sad home.
But I I really like Sean and I've seen I've seen him a lot
over the years. You know, him coming in after my
show. Good dude, hard worker,
talented, you know, nuts, wacky, all that stuff.
But a lovable guy like I really do like Sean and Sean has is
probably probably first known early on for just doing wacky
shit like with DA, like eating Donuts, like just crazy stuff.
I think at the Boomerang Geo live show, he was dressed up as
baby New Year in a diaper. He's out of his mind.
And like, you got to like somebody that can laugh at
themselves that way and doesn't take themselves that seriously.
So again, I'm, I'm, I'm a Sean fan, right?
And I'm happy he's getting this opportunity.
And I told him that as well. Anyway, he comes out basically
like with the report, which he doesn't really do.
I don't really do because we're not reporters.
You know, I told you once in a while that'll come up.
Like I told you a couple of years ago, St.
John's going to hire Rick Pitino.
Now, obviously I'm connected to St.
John's. I'm going to get my Intel.
I'm going to get it from the right person.
I'm going to go with it. And I was right.
Like, I'm not going to mess that up.
And I'm not just going to project something that I think
could happen or I want to happen if I put it out there like a
report. You got to be right.
OK, So for somebody like Sean to do that, it's pretty aggressive
and and I'm certainly not here to refute it and do.
And again, I don't know what Craig said.
I really don't care. But I think it was contrary to
what Sean said. I think right, something about,
you know, Mooji wasn't at the combine, but the people that
know Mooji were saying Woody starting to get meddlesome
again, like that story, you know the story.
If this fucking guy can't stay away, It's it's hopeless, dude.
There's just nothing else to say.
It's it's it's hopeless. If Woody Johnson can't keep his
dirty hands off this team and just let Muji do his job, then I
don't know why we're wasting energy on The Jets anymore,
because then it's you. It's it's not it's not
salvageable. It's not when you have somebody
at the top that's subverts somebody who, if this is true,
and I tend to believe that it is, you know, it's not my
report, but it's certainly not a stunning or breaking news.
Woody Johnson is still acting like a dope trying to run The
Jets, right? So I probably believe it a lot
more than I don't, you know, But jeez, this guy, just when you
think all righty, he hires Muji, who showed some good aptitude
with some low level trades, A willingness to mix it up, you
know, then some big trades with sauce and queue take a different
kind of a a swing The Jets never take right, rather than trying
to piece it together and add to a cord that was never going to
win. He recognized that quickly.
He said, you know what? By the time I get the
quarterback, by the time I figure this thing out, by the
time I fix the rest of the defense.
Well, is sauce the same player? Is Quinn Williams the same
player? So I think that was very smart
move. I really did.
And I know what happened the rest of the season.
The Jets became unwatchable and unspeakably bad.
Like the point differential and disparity in the month of
December was the worst in the history of the NFL.
We're not talking about a bad jet stat.
We're talking about like it's it's it's one thing to have a
stat like, you know, The Jets haven't had a I'm just throwing
something out. I don't know, 30 touchdown
quarterbacks since that Vinny didn't even have 30.
So Fitzpatrick broke the broke the mark, right.
Some ignominious jet stat like that's that's basic stuff.
You know, you go back to the Knicks before this renaissance
here most of the century, Any Knicks stat is going to be a bad
one. But when you hear about stats
that are the worst in the history of the NFL, like The
Jets point differential in December for any month, you know
what's bad, All right, You know what's bad.
So, And I'm OK with that because I'm thinking bigger picture,
there's no quick fix. You're not going to bring in
like they try and I understood why they did this with Devante
Adams and try to make Rodgers comfortable and the thought of
getting Rodgers because they had a good defense.
And the thing you know, you, you had, you were seven and four at
one point with Zach. You know, when I was at the game
in Green Bay when they beat the Packers against Rod, I was at
that game on one of my Jets trips.
It was awesome. Absolutely.
Wow. Lambeau was great, even better
than you think. As much good as you hear about
Lambeau Fable Lambeau, oh, what an experience.
It's a you, you, it's, it's better than you think.
You have to walk in not only the stadium and the people are so
nice and so welcoming and so knowledgeable.
The whole it's, it's just all about the Packers.
It's insane and the money that they spend around the like in
the in the area leading up to the stadium, like bars and
restaurants and fire pits. Oh my God, it is phenomenal.
But I was I was at that game and jets blocked the punt ride.
I think breeze had a big run. Pretty sure that a big pick
there. Like it's not like Zach was
playing crazy, but they but they won and you see stuff like that.
And there were other games like that with Zach.
We're like, I just get a quarterback in here.
We could piece this together. So that was a sound
philosophical move. I actually agree with it.
Hey, Rogers wants out. He wants to come to New York.
Why the hell wouldn't we take him?
Like take a chance. He's brilliant.
So even if there's a bit of a decay with his physical traits,
I'm telling pre Achilles and there there really wasn't, but
before the Achilles. But you know, it's it's worth
the risk because if you've got, you know, C minus quarterback
play with that defense and you're in the hunt.
Imagine if you get B quarterback play or B plus or even
occasionally a minus with Rodgers, which you would have
gotten it would have been healthy.
So anyway that that route fit where The Jets were.
Anything else doesn't fit. So this is a long rebuild.
I trust Muji doesn't look like they hired the right coach.
Nothing you can do about it now. Give him another run.
You know I wanted Rabel first. There's not a second guess, but
I did want Aaron Glenn. He was on my list.
I remember being clearly Rabel one I was interested in Flores,
never had interest in Gruden. Go look it up.
Glenn was always on my list and that list may have been wrong
because it looks like Aaron Glenn's overwhelmed.
Any way you cut it this thing, I don't care how good Muji is at
his job potentially and and the small sample so far man boots a
study drafted him like it doesn't matter if you're
clueless, pathetic power hungry dope of an owner all right
continues to step in the way Woody, would you let the big
boys play. I said this yesterday.
There's like an expression like the old mobsters right, they
would like you know that like think about spider.
You know, Spider getting the guy strings with it before he gets
shot in the foot. Like, hey, go, go, go get me
this. Go make yourself small.
Get lost, Take a hike. Go, go, go make yourself small.
That's like, that's mafiosa verbage for get out of here,
dude. We don't need you.
The men are talking all right, and Woody just can't get this
through his thick head. And the correlation and the
connection of The Jets and their miserable Rd. is very simple.
It's Woody. It's not that they can't find
the quarterback. That's all part of it, but the
number one reason is because their owner is atrocious.
This guy's got to bag it. And The thing is, I don't think
he's going to. I really don't think he's going
to. I think Woody Johnson's
incapable of laying out. I really do.
I mean, any, any think about think about the the sauce run
DMCLL cool J medallion that this dude was walking around with
like he's so desperate to be received the right way that he
can't help himself. And he's a dangerous person in
this regard. He doesn't know what he doesn't
know. And people who don't know what
they don't know, they are a detriment to something good
eventually getting done. They don't know when to lay out.
They don't know what to shut up. They don't know what to get
lost. They don't know when to let the
people that they hire empower them enough to do the job that
you're paying them to do. And this is the irony.
Woody cuts as many checks and that's like one thing you can't
argue. It's like Woody's cheap.
Like it's not like The Jets have this $0.10, you know, nickel
fifth rate practice facility. It's phenomenal like I've been
out there and it's not it wasn't built yesterday or last year.
I remember when it first opened. I was at 10:50 ESPN Radio doing
a couple of shows out there. That's when it opened like it
opened. I'm off the top my J Rod.
Maybe you could double check this.
When did went to the floor 2010. I would whatever it was they
they left tops for a long time ago, like Woody built a first
rate platinum building. It blows the giants building
away. The Giants building is gross
like, and I've done shows from there as well and I try to
disrespect the Giants. It's it looks like it's 1990.
I mean, instead of, you know, Jackson Darne, I think Phil
Simms should be walking out there or Jeff's not Jeff
Hotstettler. It's just antiquate.
He's just got a small feel. Just have the opposite.
The move was 2008. Oh, was earlier, OK, 28 and it's
2026 and it still looks phenomenal.
Thank you for that, J Rod. It's awesome.
So is that a cheap owner? He's just a horrible one because
he can't get out of his own way. So, you know, whether Sean's
right, whether Sean's wrong, whatever Craig said, he's right,
he's wrong. I don't know.
But I'm pretty sure every person with a microphone or TV camera,
no matter what show you doing, no matter what content you put
now, we've all got to go to the same conclusion.
Like we've all got to meet in the middle of one road.
And that's the road that says Woody is a disaster and it ain't
going to change. Sadly, that's the problem.
You know, as much as we have these football discussions and
who should they hire as a coach and you know, all these other
previous years like it's it's just, it's crazy to think that
it just doesn't matter. And I said the other day, like
any success that The Jets have, they're going to stumble upon
it. Do you really think that they're
going to have this amazingly well crafted plan that Muji has
and Woody lays out and A-Z and it actually works and it comes
to fruition and The Jets are elevated.
They go from moribund to elite and they stay there for a bunch
of years. And instead of being a punchline
and a punching bag for every talk show host in the world or
late night comic, if you even watch that stuff, it's not even
funny anymore. But if you do, fine.
But instead of being that right, they actually become the
complete antithesis and they become a franchise that's
respected, that's stable, that's consistent, that's productive,
that's without noise, that's without leaks.
Like it's that. When is that going to happen?
The connection to The Jets? It all goes to Woody.
Because even think about this guy's this entire century, like
I know the last 15 years have been what they've been.
You know, I know we know no playoffs, right?
And out of the playoffs by October.
It's not like they just miss it out as irrelevant and as bad as
you can be. But it didn't start that way for
Woody Johnson, if you remember early on her.
Now, obviously Belichick wanted no part of that Herm Edwards.
And really, if you think about it, all the coaches had an
element of success. Even Mangini had his moments
because that like the culture that was in the building or in
the franchise, there were enough people that were there,
Parcells, you know, good football people, shrewd decision
makers, real football people. And then as Woody's ownership
tenure became deeper and deeper and deeper, then the residue,
the good residue started to evaporate.
And now basically not the everybody in the building is a
Woody guy and Woody's a clown. And Woody has no clue, which
means we basically have no hope, which is what it really means.
Oh my God almighty, let me pop this guy up there.
What do we got? J KB K 1313 Woody aside, what do
you decide The Jets really need to focus their resources on
building an elite defense, an elite old line.
They've got a great offensive line quarterbacks important, but
not as much. See the Eagles there.
All right, well, fair enough. Listen, I think The Jets off it
with time we got I got to bounce in a couple of minutes here.
The Jets old lines phenomenal. Well, let me take that back.
Calm down. The Jets old line is really
good. It's their ultimate strength.
It's really the only thing that they're good at.
If you think about that, like what do The Jets do?
Well, they run the ball pretty well.
How do you run the ball? You have a good old line like
the 80% of The Jets online is phenomenal.
And I'll tell you this and they've got to make a decision
to make on Simpson, who I think will be gone and I'll be OK with
that. And ABT, who if he's amenable to
A1 year or even A2 year, A1 year proven with an option, whatever,
some guaranteed money, whatever. Jets have a lot of money, they
can make it happen. They've got among the top three
or four most money to spend in free agency.
So they can do this if they want.
You just have to trust that for once.
I don't know how you do kind of a leap of faith that ABT would
be physically reliable because if you plug a Nigel Barrett
Tucker where Simpson was right on the left side, now you have
an absolutely elite young offensive line.
Olu membered my like everybody else's tipman.
Everybody's cheap, you know, So it's it's there like that
components. And that's one of the few
differences facing this Jets team this year.
Every other year. It's like, got to get the
online, I got to get the quarterback, got to get the
online, got to find the got to find everything really.
But at least they can bypass that.
There's no way they're taking alignment in the first round
with their pick or Indies pick. I don't even think they're doing
it in the second round. They don't need to.
You got to get another receiver, got to get a linebacker, got to
get a safety, got to find a quarterback.
Eventually, though, I think they do that in free agency.
Probably Bersett. You hearing that?
Whatever, it's fine. You know, he's fine, you know,
transient, but a good pro and good stop gap, you know,
whatever. But at least if you have the
other elements like a defense and like an online, you're going
to have some competitive football and you won't be out of
it by by Halloween. And and that's got to be the
goal. That's how you start a culture,
play meaningful games deeper into the year, then pick it back
up the next year and this and that take the next step.
And if you, if you do it right, which I think Muji will, well,
then you'll win. The problem is to wrap that up,
Woody, and Woody's never going to change.
He's just, he is useless. He is horrible.
He is the worst owner of any team that I have ever rooted for
in my life. That includes George, who was
great ultimately, but George at his absolute worst when he was
suspended. That includes Dolan, who we
couldn't stand. Now we're fairly apathetic.
Hey, Dolan's doing a good job. Maybe Ranger fans are unhappy
with Dolan. How about that trade too?
Maybe Ranger fans are unhappy with Dolan because they're just
they're a disaster. I mean, the Rangers are soft.
I mean, they get punked every night against the Islanders.
They just traded a very interesting player.
The return is awful. They're going nowhere.
Reboot terrible, just terrible. Rangers are a joke.
So I know Ranger fans, although they're more unhappy with Drury,
but Nick fans, I got no problem with James Dolan.
Nicks are good. Nicks, he's cutting the check.
He's keeping his nose out of it. Woody can't help himself.
And it's it's just it's the worst.
It is absolutely the worst. All right, I'm going to get to
that stuff more thoroughly. I'm not going to get to the
draft now. I appreciate that, JK, but I
mean, I will listen. I do like the linebacker, Reese.
I mean, how do you not like the defensive end for Miami Baines?
There's obviously a lot of players, but there's going to be
a lot of content about that. I'm not doing it now.
A final thought here. So this started to float around
yesterday. To me, it's very simple.
So, you know, we talk a lot about the Yankees trading either
Jones or Dominguez and I believe eventually Jones will be dealt.
I just don't know where he's going to play.
I don't even know where Dominguez is going to play, but
at least I know Dominguez. At least you know, floor is a
functional major leaguer Now. Maybe Jones has more upside.
Could play center feel better than for sure, 40% strikeout
rate. I'm just not banking on this
guy. Get it done in the major
leagues. Either way, the a lot of the
trades for the young guys like it's that energy is kind of
toward the Yankees duo right now.
Yesterday, a lot of traction, the pirates, maybe some other
teams Beatty or Vientos and the thought is and substantiated to
what degree I want to be responsible.
You know, I'm not saying it's I think will Salmon had who's very
good did some great work. The athletic Will's been
crushing it. Don't know him.
So that's just a respectful pop to him.
He really did he I mean free agency will Salmon crushed it.
So I trust him, right? And I know he had the report
about the Vientos that Beatty thing and the Pirates, right.
Not that it's going to happen, but there's there's interest.
If I'm the Mets and and I'm looking at trading one of those
two guys, there's no way in hell I'm trading Brett Beatty.
I'm not trading him. You could take Vientos now.
I believe that there's a world where you really don't have to
trade either because I think with, you know, first base where
the Antos will get a little bit of run.
He can't play the outfield, he can't play third.
But between DH and first base against lefties, if he's
hitting, he's an asset. And then obviously with Beatty
as a lefty stick, little second, little third, you want to sit
the shutdown, get him off the speed, DH and whatever, put him
in the left, put him at first. There's going to be, I think a
lot of runway for Brett Beatty to get around 500 at bats.
And I think if he does, I think those who aren't fully sold on
Beatty yet, and I kind of AM and that is a superstore, but is a
highly viable Major League player and a very valuable,
useful tool for the roster in terms of versatility.
I think you'll see it. And I think those last few will
be converted. But Vientos to me just has more
holes in his game, can't run, can't play defense.
So again, I'm not saying that that Brett Beatty is is Jose
Reyes, but he's a better runner. He's a much, much better
defender and you can put him in different spots without worrying
about him embarrassing himself. You just can't play Marc
Deanthos at third base, not on a team that's trying to win.
And I can't even put Deanthos in left field.
You want to experiment with first base a little bit with
Polanco, Fine, go for it. But that report was interesting
and I would I would be up there. So there's three options.
Trey Beatty trade Vientos or trade neither or trade both, I
guess for they're not going to trade both.
So put that out of the three options.
I will list these in order of probability slash preference for
me. All right, Number one, Number
one would be trade. Neither #2 would be trade
Vientos #3 would trade would be trade Beatty.
Like that's the last thing I'm looking to do so all right, hey,
OJ Rod, a little bit of a short 1 today, man, I got to go up.
No, I'm not wearing this on the TV show.
I don't even know why I'm wearing it today, but I just
pulled it out. J Rod, I got to get bouncing
here, buddies. We'll get those, get those clips
out. My man J Rod has been hard at
work. There he is A little shout out
to the unleashed fam. Little shout out.
How we doing Unleash Fam? Great showing out yesterday.
Great showing out today. Yeah.
Hammer in those comments also, I just figured out this thing last
night. Hype points.
I don't know excuse me knows. So I had no idea what I have
right. I basically and I want your full
interpretation before I go. So I've seen that I've gotten
some high points. I'm like, I first I had to
figure out the messages. Now the high points, what, what
am I nine years old? High points, high points.
But anyway, if this is the way it goes, then it's a good thing.
High points basically put you deeper into the algorithm and is
a quicker route to gain more digital traction.
Is that the short version? Yeah, exactly.
Like I think so. It's like once your video
reaches the leaderboards, I think the lowest one on the
leaderboard right now is like 300,000.
It it like gets shown to more people.
It's gets put into the YouTube trending tab.
But then. What the hell are we hyping
everything up? Exactly.
So each person who's viewing has 3000 height points that they can
use per week on a video. And so, yeah, So what you're
able to do is just like, it's kind of a hidden component, but
you just kind of hit the height points and then each person per
week you have like 3000. Free.
So wait a SEC. So if I have basically 10,010
people designate listen to this conversation, 10 people
designate their full allotment of 30,000 hype points, I would
get to the 300,000 which would get me on the leaderboard which
would gain me more. Exactly.
Within like 100, within like 100 or I guess 1000 people have to
do it, 1000 people got to do it and we're there.
OK, where is the hype button? Just so everybody knows, I have.
No idea where give the big. It's a move.
On it top of the description. OK, so when you look at the can
you do it while it's live or after it, afterwards,
afterwards. OK, so when it's posted to BT
Unleashed on YouTube, you see the video, you know, you see the
hitch, you see the thumb button, all that.
Certainly hit the like button as well.
Subscribe all that stuff. And then I guess if you hit the
description like in today's show, BT dumps on Woody, BT
talks about the Knicks, then like right in that vicinity is
where the hype button would be. Yeah, exactly.
Well, what the hell are we waiting for?
That's what I'm saying. Get on it.
It's hype. Hype well have.
You hyped anything? Yesterday I use all 3000 on on
the video. So now we we're hopefully this
show, right? Yeah.
No, last night's show. We're go.
We're broke for today. We gotta wait till Sunday.
We gotta wait till Sunday for the reset.
Hey, listen, I'm not. I'm not averse to hyping it
myself. Can I hype my own video?
How the hell do I? Definitely can.
Yeah, yeah, all. Right Hey, you heard the man you
heard J rods the brains behind the operation.
So he's going to get us going on that.
You know that these little not not not shortcuts, because I'm
never going to take a shortcut doing the show and it if it's
there, it's not a shortcut. I look at it as an option.
So you may as well utilize the option and I do once know I
can't do it today because I got to get rolling.
Really, I do, but sometimes I'll go because as I'm doing the
show, you know, we'll pop messages on the screen.
But what I like to do is sometimes I'll go back when the
full panels available and I can see the entire stream for the
entire show. That's my way connecting to you
guys. Now.
I can't respond on that because it's it's kind of dead
digitally, if you will. I'll respond on the other stuff
on the YouTube like comments and whatever.
But I will look it to get a sense of, you know, what you
thought, what you think it, what I can incorporate what was
popping, what was a little dry, whatever I just researched for
the show. And and if we can do that and I
do that, well, then, you know, you guys can go and do the other
stuff. And I've seen a lot of people,
not a lot. I shouldn't say a lot.
I've seen some people in the comments say, Hey, hype it
certainly like it. Or hey, we've got yesterday 900
and basically almost 1000 people watching live at once, which is
a good number for a channel that's just getting off the
ground. It's really good.
Proud of that. And somebody was like, Hey, you
know, X amount of likes, but X amount of viewers, but X of only
only this amount of likes. So you want the ratio, I'm going
to listen. I'm not begging to do what you
want to do, but that stuff matters.
It really does. So if you can hype it, if you
can like it, if you can sub seriously, I mean sub, That's
the base of that to me to when you subscribe to the channel,
that's like the old school getting in the car, just just
putting the station on. Like that's the at least coming
into the home. Like if you don't subscribe,
then you're really not supporting the show.
And I don't want you to hype something or I don't want you to
like something if it's not hype or like worthy.
If you think it is, do it all right upstairs.
There's got to change, got to shower, got to hit the road, got
to get out to St. John's tomorrow by the Super
Bowl. Obviously we'll see what's going
on with Giannis. 3:00 PM Eastern today.
Obviously, if the Knicks get him, which they won't, if they
did, once I get back from Queens, I'll fire it back up.
I'll be in the car coming home. So I'll just come right to my
office. I'll go live from there.
But I don't anticipate that. But again, spread the word, like
it, sub it, get out there, hype it, do all that stuff.
I appreciate you guys. I know you really enjoyed me and
Sal chopping it up yesterday, as did I.
And and you know, he and I were talking even more yesterday
about being able to collaborate on some stuff.
So I don't know what it is yet. Don't know the frequency, but
I'm certainly open to it and, and I believe he is as well.
So that was that was a blast, man.
You got that chemistry. You got to ride it out a little
bit more. That's my opinion.
But it takes 2 to dance and, and seems like Sal is a little bit
more willing to do that. Not that he was averse to it,
but he wants to get his own thing going, which I fully
understand and fully respect. So have a great Thursday.
I am out tomorrow at 10 or unless Giannis comes to the
Knicks, which I do not think will happen.
See you guys tomorrow. Bye, bye.
This is are you listening? Can you hear me?