What's up everybody? How you doing?
What's going on? Everybody welcome.
BT Unleashed. Let's go.
Let's get it, man. Wow, what a couple of days.
Holy shit, what a couple of days.
First of all, we're going to obviously hit a bunch of topics,
have a little bit of fun if you've watched, I got to get
some things stabilized here. There's going to be a couple of
bumps, I'm sure, as we get there, as we get used to this.
But you know, if you've seen the unkillable episodes after Jet
games, you'll you'll know that unfiltered BT is a pretty
interesting version of the of the BT that you heard on on the
fan, obviously for a couple of years and many, many years
before that. So first of all, I would really,
truly like to thank you guys. I really mean it, man.
I felt the love. I have felt the love and it's
been absolutely awesome. You know, I've talked about
social media and how much I hate it, at least aspects of it.
But I got to tell you, it was, it was really, really, it was
really awesome. It was really awesome.
I'm in a great spot today. Friday was tough.
I'm not going to lie to you, by the way, Daddy, are you going to
run down the whole fucking resume here?
I mean, you want to tell everybody how many points I
averaged the CYO? Oh my God, how awesome was my
dad? How awesome was my dad?
My dad was absolutely phenomenal.
So obviously, this is what I'm going to do.
All right, I think maybe some of you are waiting to hear me bash
WFAN. It's not going to happen.
That's not what I'm about. I love WFNI, got a lot of love
for WFN. Do I think the WFN made a
mistake? Yeah, I absolutely do.
I have no problem saying that. But it doesn't matter.
I don't own WFENI don't FANI don't get to make those
decisions. You know, so I watched, I
watched the the final episode, the final segment right from
Friday. And you know, I I knew going
into that that it was going to be brutal because as all of you
know by now, my mission was to get the WF fan.
That's it. That was my mission and not that
that's where I would get and then I would just chill.
I, I think you guys know that, that I'm all about energy and
being locked in and being passionate and being up to
speed. And, and that's, that's not
going to change. If anything, I'm on more of a
mission now. I am on more of a mission now to
build this thing out, to build this thing out with you and to
really do it in, in a way that quite frankly, I, I really
didn't know that that I would, that I would ever do.
I was always curious about doing a YouTube show.
I'm like, I don't think now is the time and just before I get
back to Friday and then I'm going to jump into a bunch of
stuff and yes, this will be daily right around 10 and I'll
let you know, you know, each day 10/10/15 Last night, I'm sitting
down here with my son who's 10 years old, right?
And he's like, he's like, you go to the YouTube studio, then you
click content. I got these freaking notes here
to make sure I can even get on the air.
And then and then he made me nervous.
He's like, he's like dad, there's this thing called super
chats. I'm like, what I, I let me just
get on the freaking air, please, buddy.
And he's like, well, you know, if people want to support you,
I, I, I, they've already supported me by showing me the
love, right. So that was funny as I lift up
the curtain to get this thing going.
My, my main objective on Friday. And you know, it's, it was hard
to get certain things out, but I, I am very proud of the way,
the way I finished my run at WFANI.
Think the easy thing would have been to tap out.
You know what they're, they're making, which is their right,
That's obviously their right and they're moving on and you know,
off Screw that. And that's, that's not the way
that I'm wired. That's not the way that I'm
built. I'm built to finish the race.
This is the new race and I can't wait.
But when I watched that last segment, I, I, I got to tell you
the total, total transparency here.
I have never in my life felt so like so vulnerable, which I'm
fine with, but like, I felt like time was moving 1000 times
slower than it usually moves because you got to try to put
yourself in my shoes here, you know, you know that you have all
right, 2, two final weeks and then you have another.
And obviously with Sal. Now I'll say a little bit about
the a Rod party on Friday. On Saturday, it was Sal's suit
looked good by the way, I was clowning, but it looked pretty
good. It looked good.
So I do the final week with Sal. Then I got a week by my and you
know, each day you, you kind of know all right, closer to the
end and, and there's a lot of emotions that obviously come
with that. And the last segment, Gosh,
shit, this is going to be, this is going to be really hard.
So as I, as I ran through a lot of the things that I've done,
and it was by no means to brag. Oh, look at my resume.
I think you guys, I hope you guys know that I'm not about
that. But as I was, as I was running
through certain things, you know, calling a couple of the
Yankee games, which I never thought my wildest dreams, I'm
going to get to the Yankees in a minute.
I ever thought I would be able to do, you know, called me knit
games, which I certainly never thought that I would do.
You know, all the all the St. John's games at the Garden
Biggies tournaments, you know, shooting a show for Discovery,
being in a movie, working with Stephen, A national show.
I wasn't listening that to brag. Clearly that was my bridge to
get to what I wanted to say is I was signing off and I did.
I don't know how, you know, didn't really come out as as
clean as I want because I was choked up.
I was choked up. And now I'm going to tell you
one thing about this channel that is absolutely going to be,
you know, it woven into the DNA of this show and this channel is
that you're going to get that that real stuff.
Now, if I'm if I'm if I'm tearing up every show, then
something went seriously wrong and it's probably thought to
pull the plug. That's not going to happen.
But I needed to communicate, not even really to me, I needed to
communicate because, you know, that was so I that was, it was a
respect and an affirmation that I was definitely chasing.
There's no doubt. Like when I conjured up this
broadcasting dream after I knew I wasn't good enough to be a
baseball player. I'm like, I, I got to get the WF
fan. I absolutely have to.
That's a mission. And I did and it was awesome and
I really truly enjoyed it. I've got a lot of respect for
everybody in that building. Even though, again, if I ran it,
I wouldn't have made that BT and Sal would still be on the air.
It's for damn sure. Show was phenomenal, but it had
juice, you know, But that's that's not really the point.
I just kind of want to get the FAN stuff out of the way.
And now I start doing my own thing and like, out I was even
when I left the studio, I was, I was choked up.
There were a couple of people. Yeah, Loogie came over, a few of
my bosses, couple of salespeople.
And I was just like, I was almost at a trance, man.
And I didn't really, to be honest, I didn't really want to
leave the building at that moment.
I wanted to soak it in because, and I'll still do some shows on
the fan. I've got a great relationship
with them. But I knew that that part of my
life, that chapter was shut. That was it.
The book was closed. And I remember taking like a bit
of a lap around the floor, just fucking wandering around
aimlessly basically. And I'm like, all right, check,
you did it. Let's go.
And when I walked out of 345, you know, I probably had no job
34500 texts and and I was just like, all right, it's let's get
in the car and let's get home. Let's go get home to the family.
And now let's start plotting out out what's next here.
So just to reiterate once more, I really, really felt that love
and it meant the absolute world to me, man.
So with that being said, I am in my basement right now.
If you told me that I'd be in my early 50s working in my
basement, which by the way, this is my poker room, which I
haven't played in a while. This is my so it's, it's and I
say it's the basement, so I could be nice to the rest of the
family. It's it's the man cave.
It's my spot. And, and I've got my poker
alcove here, which is where I'm and then basically out there is
I'll show you at some point, you know, Tees and bats and balls
and weights and heavy balls and all sorts of training stuff that
that I use primarily primarily with my son, a little bit with
my daughter. All right, so that's where I am,
but if you told me that I'd be here at this age with, you know,
no definable income coming in, I think I'd be scared shit
shitless. But but I'm but I'm not.
I am. I am ready.
So I'm ready for this new chapter.
What I will do then we'll jump into a couple topics here.
What I will do is I'm going to have to build the space out all
right now I really had two choices when I knew that I was
going to jump into this full throttle all in not like well,
I'll do a show here and then now we're we're working.
We're here to work because I know you guys want to hear what
I have to say and I and I appreciate that that means the
world to me. Back to the affirmation thing
that I said before, but I really had two choices.
Like, all right, you can, you know, redesign this poker space
and and make it look sleek and make it look modern.
By the way, how about the I'm TD off.
I'm actually I'm I'm really not pissed off.
Actually, I'm actually really excited and galvanized.
So to either build this out or to just jump on the air, you
know, open up my laptop, this new world, which is not really
quite that new and a little bit new for me, this aspect, but not
new. Fire it up, go live and, and
just start doing what I do and start talking.
And to me, that was the route that I was always going to take.
Like part of me is like, man, how are you going to launch this
show and not really have a cool set and, and, and, and really
things that match my standard, my standard, my personal
standard of expectation that'll come, that'll come.
I'm not worried about that right now.
OK, What I am worried about and what I'm focused on is us and
you. And now here's the other thing
too. This is this is going to be
yeah, I know you got to invest in a better here come here come
all the producers. I know understood better camera.
I get it guys. That's why I just said what I
said. Obviously there's no doubt about
that. It's not going to happen
overnight. It's not going to and I don't
need it to happen overnight. I just got to I just got to bang
around some stuff with you. So I have laid the foundation
unleashed now that I won't do. I'm not just going to, you know,
drop F bombs grotubitously. Like to me, that's, that lacks
intelligence. You know, I that's part of my
vernacular, you know, from where I am from, like you just kind of
grow up cursing in the streets, whatever.
But if it fits the mood, you're going to hear some stuff that
you could hear on the radio. But I'm not just going to try to
insert it. I'm going to be me.
And when it's natural and it fits, you'll hear it.
All right, now, first of all, let's get to the Yankees.
I want to start with the New York Yankees here and I'll read
some of the questions. Fireman, Trust me, I'm learning
to juggle this stuff. Don't worry about that.
So everybody's ranting and raving about the Yankees, which
which I understand, you know, Hal's telling you all the money
and and I know Boone was was interviewed the other day.
He's like, I really haven't spoken to Bellinger yet.
And I'll talk to him hopefully by the holidays.
Boone pick up the phone. Like that's the one thing I
don't understand. And I know that you want to give
people space, but like, if, if I'm Aaron Boone, I'd be like,
yo, belly, we need you. Yo belly coming back, Belly,
what's the deal? Hey, you know, we love you, man.
Go do your thing. Go go talk to who you have to
talk to. But make sure at the end of the
day, you come back and you give us a chance to, to make sure you
remain a Yankee. And I guess you'll do that
before Christmas myself. I wouldn't wait.
Like I wouldn't fuck around. Like I really wouldn't.
It takes one rogue office 11 rogue golfer to come in and say,
all right, hey, we're going to give you 7 years or eight years,
which for Bellinger is insane, but you guys know what I mean,
Like Baltimore with Pete, Hey, five years bets foreign doing
that. All right, five years, 155.
See ya, I'm out. So, but the one thing that I
don't understand from Yankee fans, I mean, I do, but I, I
guess I would just object to it. Can you just relax for a second?
Can you honestly the last couple of years of of New York Yankee
talk is it's it's like it's kind of lost its way.
It's the same regurgitated stuff.
Cashman sucks fire boon nobody around Judge, which is
absolutely true. That part guys, can I present to
you the very real possibility of a flex that would would really
send shockwaves throughout baseball, which by the way, the
Yankees can still do understand this.
If the Yankees signed Bellinger, if they resigned him back and
they get am I the Japanese stud pitcher?
Which, you know, I did see a story over the weekend, which is
a little disconcerting that they there's no plans to meet with
them. Well, well, that I that I don't
understand like you, you and I know the Yankees are going to be
buttoned up with this, but how is he not on that?
He's got to sign by January 2nd. Like that's got to be done.
So let's have the meeting. Let's have the dinner, give him
the jersey. Tanaka Matsui, let's go make
this man feel the love. And then the other move.
I was talking about this on the fan the other day.
The other move. That is a massive power move
right now. This is going to take how
getting out of his comfort zone, busting out of his little
financial cocoon, which I hope you'll do.
Sign Bichette. Can somebody just do it?
So if the Yankees get Bellinger, if they get a MY and they get
Bichette, let me tell you what happens #1 when it's all said
and done and the guys come back healthy, Cole Roldan, etcetera,
the Yankees pitching staff will be not the best in baseball.
It will be by far the best in baseball.
And I would submit to you, I think it's got a chance to be
the best this century in all the baseball if you try now again,
I'm not talking April May guys. I'm talking when everybody's
back and their reps are are there and they're healthy and
they're feeling themselves. The the very real potential for
the New York Yankees to trot out a rotation of fried Cole
Schlittler, Amai Rodon is right in front of us.
So I understand while the Dodgers are doing this and the
Orioles are doing this and the Red Sox are doing this and every
even the Rays are doing some stuff tweaking, right.
The Yankees are bringing back Rosario, bringing back some who
I didn't really want back. You know that.
And they're really not doing much about.
So it looks like they're going to get ready to roll the same
thing out. But it wouldn't be the same
thing if you do what I just proposed.
And the see, to me it was, it's not about Kyle Tucker being and
they're not, there's no chance they're going to get him, not
about Tucker. And for me, it really maybe a
year ago it was, but it hasn't been for months.
If you've listened to me, the power move from an offensive
perspective is bichette #1 he just smokes the ball.
He he, he just he is a hitter and and the Yankees are very
aware of what of what their, you know, 234 year plan downstream
would be, which I understand because they're trying to avoid
repeats of like the Hicks contract where DJ Lemahieu and
obviously Stanton, where you've got these deals that are just,
you know, players languishing no longer the same guy and you got
to pay them and obviously now creates a log jam at certain
positions. Well, if you sign Bichette,
first of all, you don't have and I know he's not a very good
defensive shortstop. Trust me, I know the numbers.
You know, I love my I love the baseball Samad stuff, I love the
analytics, but you'll get a little bit more of here, by the
way, for the intelligent baseball fan, I'm not going to
smash you over the head with it, but you know, I had to pick and
choose on the fan. You know, you don't want to
bombard people with numbers, but I could do that a little bit
more here and when it's pertinent, I will.
So if you have Bichette at shortstyle as a starter, well,
guess what? You don't have to start
Caballero, all right, who I love coming off the bench as a super
sub. And now when you start to look
more macro and envision the Yankees, you know, blueprint for
a couple of years down the road, while he's still got to prove
that he's really the real deal, talking about Lombard.
Because what could happen if the Yankees were to be so bold to do
this and get him in here? Opening Day shortstop, you got
the shit. And then when Ryan McMahon's
contract is up in two years at $16,000,000 per year, well,
guess what? Now you can kick Michette to
third base. And then you could have Lombard
play shortstop. And then obviously by now,
Yankees should and will move on from Jazz.
Chisholm will not be here long term.
You could book that. They're not giving him that
contract. And then if Volpe earns it now,
Volpe, who based on a weak arm, is better equipped to play
second base. Think about that infield you got
now. All right.
I mean, ideally you have a great fielding first baseman like they
did with Tashara and with Tino, who could pick it.
Obviously Mattingly, who was the best before that, but they
didn't win with Donnie in terms of the championship.
Like that to me is something that is incredibly doable.
He's just got to have the guts and he got to have the financial
appetite to do it. Just do it.
Because right now what we're looking at, you're looking at
Rice at first, Jazz at 2nd, Caballero Volpe Short when he's
right, McMahon at third, obviously a platoon with
Dominguez and Jones and Grisham and center and Aaron Judge and
right. And you're going to have Austin
Wells behind the plate and you can have Giancarlo Stanton DH.
And like right now the rotation would be Fried Schlittler
Warren, I'm saying to start the year Yarborough like you've got
some work to do as Gerard Cole and Rodon heel.
So I I understand the trepidation and the reluctance
to buy into what the Yankees are trying to do because quite
frankly, they haven't done a damn thing.
I understand that right. But I'm going to use the word
lane. But the lane is there.
The ability to do that is right in front of you.
And now all of a sudden, and and you know, on this, on this
coldish, that's not that bad, but December day, Christmas
coming up the holidays, it's it's a little difficult to an
extent to put your mind into forget about April to May, June,
July, August Pennant stretch, October.
But I just presented you a blueprint where the Yankees
would have a banger at shortstop, they'd have a sick
lockdown staff. And if they bring back
Bellinger, I mean, now, I mean, now you can even do more stuff
and trade either Dominguez or Jones, get some bullpen help,
get another starter, whatever it might be.
So, you know, I, I, I do, I think that this is going to
happen or no, Now it's the reality.
The now it's the reality part of the conversation.
I don't, but I'm telling you what I would do if I was the
Yankees. Obviously, bring back Bellinger,
go get Bichette, stop messing around with a my.
He wants to be here. Get him here.
All right? And the other thing with a my
and it's not going to be cheap, but when you sign a Japanese
player, you know, not all of it, but the ability to monetize him
differently than American players.
I mean, the branding opportunities is there.
So that's going to offset some of the some of the some of the,
you know, contract that you give him.
It just really is. So all these comments are moving
fast. Wow.
All right, So I guess that's what my son was talking about.
What you're saying. Maybe don't have it on 30
seconds. Maybe get it on a minute.
That's that's some Yankee stuff here.
You know, Lombard down the Pike, Bichette little stop gap and
shortstop. McMahon's contract is up.
Boom, Bichette the third, Volpe the second, and now you got
yourself you got yourself a collection of of mashers and a
rotation that now I know there's some variables with with Garrett
Cole. Is he going to be Garrett Cole?
Let me ask you a question. Why wouldn't he be Garrett Cole?
Like I don't understand that. Why not?
You know, you know, he, he Tommy John surgery, big deal.
I mean, how many pitchers have Tommy John surgery and come
back? See, if anything, I think at
this point in somebody like Garrett Cole's career, with all
the miles, all the reps, all the taxing on his body, not just the
shoulder, but all the joints, the torque, the, the legs, the
hips. I mean, to deliver a baseball
consistently 9798, I mean, you're putting your body through
a meat grinder. So as long as the elbow.
Is fully healed, which clearly it will be.
I mean, I had Tommy John surgery.
I throw batting practice basically every day.
I'm a broken down never was baseball player.
He'll be fine. So I, I, I think that the the
freed coal and then you throw in the wild card, not even really a
wild card, but I guess I'd stick with wild card that that that
that Schlittner variable. You know, let's see what he
comes out and who he is to start now.
He's not going to give you 32 starts like he gave you against
the Red Sox in the playoffs. Otherwise he'd be freaking.
He'd be Roger Clemens, Pedro, you know, Warren Spahn, Tom
Sieve or any other great you want to mention wrapped up in
one, you know. So let's temper the expectations
a bit. But you can then slot him with
the with the with the two horses up top.
You can slot him in a spot whether it's three, you know, or
4 if you get a my or you want to keep rode on three put splitter
4 or a my 4:00 and then slither 5, whatever the machination
might be. You then will have him going
against other teams back of the rotation.
And if the Yankees do you know what I said they should do with
these bats here, know you're going to score 6-7 runs on most
nights against shitty teams, but you're going to have locked down
arms. You're going to it's going to be
really, really interesting. Now that's the that's the good
possibilities. Let me give you the alternate
universe where the Yankees do nothing.
Now, that simply can't happen, you know, under my watch, if I'm
running the Yankees for, for if that happens, that is beyond
embarrassment. It's beyond unacceptable.
Like you, you, you got to you got to try something different,
guys, you have to. But let's just say that the
Bellinger contract offers get toward the irresponsible side
and they don't want to acquiesce to that, which honestly, for a
lot of baseball reasons, I would understand and I would cosign if
it was like 7 and then irresponsible AAV or 8.
If it's eight, just keep them. You're not getting that.
But I'm just saying, and he's not here, let's say that.
Well, now you got a situation where you are once again relying
and you do Bichette, which I don't think that they will.
I mean, now you're trotting out a lineup with some strikeouts
and McMahon and guys starting the season who are really good
bench players, but not, you know, the more utility types of
super Subs like Caballero. You know, Austin Wells has to
show growth, which I think he can, but until he does, he, you
know, he hasn't shown it. You know what, I've been on
Grisham banging 34 home runs again.
I probably would not, you know, and here's the scariest aspect
of it all. I mean, you know, last year,
Aaron, I know, I know the the elbow issue, but Aaron Judge the
last couple years, knock on wood, has gotten a lot of it.
Bats, man. God forbid, you know, wherever
with with without him for a month or so, or, God forbid,
worse. Well, you know, and there's no
Bellinger and there's no Bouchette.
Then the Yankees are cooked. Then that's not a playoff team.
I don't give a shit how good the rotation is.
They're just not going to be a playoff team.
And that just can't happen. Not with seven wall, not with
seven playoff teams. The additional wild card, it's
embarrassing. So you can't have it.
All right, That's some of the Yankee stuff.
The the Mets stuff. It's it's different.
Oh, before I get there, one of the things that I'm working on
and it's not going to happen overnight again, is to be able
to take calls here. That is something that I am.
We're obviously beyond the exploratory phase when, when is
it going to be trotted out? I'm not sure there's going to be
some, you know, behind the scenes technical stuff that that
I'm going to have to really focus on that I'm already
locking in on that. A lot of you have asked me, are
we going to be able to take calls?
And that's absolutely one of the main objectives here because
that's one of my favorite things.
You know, what are what are you got when getting into it with a
caller is absolutely phenomenal and being able to have that,
that back and forth. And I've always said, you know,
just just have something to say, back it up.
Let's go. I'll listen to you.
You know, we'll exchange some points.
We'll get loud. We'll yell at the end of the
day, we'll DAP it up. We'll keep it moving.
I mean, that's it's not the essence of sports radio.
So I'm working on that. All right.
Now the Mets, the Mets is it's a different energy here.
It it really is a different energy, which it which I get the
Mets fan right now is sitting there saying, what the fuck is
going on with us? Like, what are we doing?
All right, well, I'm telling you, I'm going to tell you.
You just don't want to accept it.
Maybe by now you have but the initial Nimmo Diaz Pete wave of
hurt, which I understand that. I've always said that.
I've always got that from a sentimental point of view.
Not to mention they're they're really good players.
Certainly Pete and and Diaz Nimmo's fine, but I think you'll
miss him the least of the three anyway.
The the energy for the Mets is more 1 of confusion, where when
I try to parallel that to the Yankees, it's more it's more
like not I don't want certainly some anger, but almost a bit of
apathy in the sense that I don't think that Yankee fans in large
part expect a massive offseason. And why would you?
There's no real sign now. I just gave you what I would do.
Where is the Mets fan going back to when Cohen bought the team
and getting away from Wilpon and their cheap ways?
You know, new day, new Dawn, you know, the Mets fans thinking,
hi, we got Soto. This is just the start.
And then it's a complete flip. It's a complete reversal, but I
don't think it's like sleight of hand like suckers.
You know, you guys, can you set a city attendance record, City
field attendance record last year?
And I made some bank and I got me, I'm talking from Cohen's
perspective, and I got Metropolitan Park and I'm good.
Screw you. Whatever.
Hey, I gave you soda there, $750 million, whatever.
Now, now go away, you know, fly away.
No, no, I think this is a part of a greater plan, which by the
way is one that you should be embracing because I think it's
the only plan that's going to give the Mets.
Here's the operative word, a chance to win a World Series.
See what happened with the Mets fan is that there was this
massive transformation from, you know, the almost the jet
mentality, which I understand because you haven't won since
1986 to almost like, oh, we're the big bad ass Mets and we're
going to get whatever we want. Well, I mean, no, it doesn't
work that way because the man that you brought in and the man
that Cohen brought in to fix this train wreck of a franchise
once and for all and give it multiple year, basically a
decade of health. Not the fleeting year, not the
occasional wow, yay. That was So what a fun year for
the Mets. Oh my God.
And then you go right back to, you know, being a middling non
entity. Nobody really wants that.
You know, don't you want this something that Sal always said?
You want sustained success. You want to know that every year
you've got a chance when you go down to Port Saint Lucie.
You want to be least on paper, barring injury, whatever.
What are the 5-6 best teams in all the baseball?
You don't have to be built like the Dodgers, but you know, the
Dodgers and the Yankees and the Phillies, you know, and the
Brave, now that they're healthy, maybe one or two other teams in
the American League if they get their act together.
That's the list that you got to be on.
And right now you're on the exact opposite list.
You're on the list really right now with the roster.
You're on the list with the Pirates.
I mean, I can't even say the Reds, because the Reds are
better than you guys. You're on the list with.
You're not quite the Rockies, Jeez.
But you're on a different list that you don't want to be on.
But to be on that list is is fine for now.
Because I think it's going to take you to the list that you
crave, that you covet, that you just desperately have called us
about and ranted and raved and hoped for that this is this is
the step to get there. It just happens to be a very
painful 1. So Pete, your boy now, it's
funny. I'm looking at this.
You can't see it because it's to my left.
So let me see, he's 10. I guess when he was 5, Santa
brought this. It's like cardboard, but it kind
of looks like pseudo wood, fake wood, right?
So it looks like a locker and, and I remember, you know, I had
to, I had to help Santa put it together.
Obviously things Santa's very busy on Christmas Eve.
So I said I got you Santa, I'll help you.
I'll help build it and I'll, you know, I'll leave it, you know,
we'll connect and then you can put it under the tree when you
come and do what you got to do. Anyway, it's a locker, right?
And it's a New York Yankee locker with like, this metal
bar. And when he was when he was five
and six and not, not, not, not not really 7, but those first
two years, like, he would hang his T-ball jersey on it, his
hats and his little glove and his wristbands and all that
stuff, right? And then eventually just morphed
into, you know, collecting other workout equipment.
And now it's broken because balls have smashed against it.
Actually, it's honestly, I look at it, actually get sad.
It's probably got to get rid of it pretty soon anyway.
I say that about Pete because I understand what it's like to
have a child. And I was one of these myself.
When you, when one of your kids loves a player so much, like so
many of you and your kids love Pete, Diaz is different.
Diaz is better at his job than Pete is at his.
But Diaz has been here a couple of years, not threatened by the
net Mets. It's different when that
player's no longer here it is. That is a tough talk to have
with your child. Like when you break the news to
your 6789 year old son or daughter that's a devout Mets
fan who loves the polar bear and you like, hey, you know, Pete's
gone. Pete went to the Orioles.
Who the hell wants to have that conversation?
So I get it, you know that I get it because you, you've heard me,
you know, you know how I value that, those childhood memories.
And that's a big part of, of who I am.
Like that's a, a very meaningful part of, of how I'm built.
So I'm always respectful of that.
But what do you think would be more enjoyable for that 789 year
old son or daughter? You know, going to Citi Field
and watching the Mets win 8889 games, you know, maybe being a
playoff team, getting bounced, you know, maybe winning a series
and then getting bounced, whatever it might be, and never
winning the World Series. But hey, they got Pete.
Or eventually that remorse and that sadness and that, that,
that tinge in the in the baseball soul dissipates.
And you're at a parade with your 789 year old son or daughter and
you're watching cars go by like older Met fans did with Gary and
Keith and Doc and those boys. You tell me, you know, now
there's no guarantee. There's also, I guess the
trapdoor would be, well, Pete's gone and you never get the World
Series parade. And it's just that it's equal
part suckiness, which I get. But this team was not going to
win anything. They just weren't going to win
anything, man. I think deep down, many of you
know, you know, when you know something, you just know
something deep down. But like, you almost don't want
to. Like, I'll get to that.
Whatever, I'll get to that tomorrow.
Like whatever it might be, something that you might wrestle
with, it doesn't even have to be like a really bad thing, but
just something that you know, needs to be inwardly addressed
and just kind of kick it down the road.
Well, I think the Mets have kicked it down the road long
enough and I, and I've given them credit.
I applaud them. Hell, I think they did an
absolutely great, great job of pivoting because they knew that
you would hate this and that you would, you know, you would
revolt. I mean, you, you, you would just
pushed back with an energy that was felt, that was palpable.
And you have for now. And that's you're right.
That's what you do as a fan. But where was this team going
with Nemo in left field? Can somebody please tell me?
I mean, how could you be a World Series team?
And I'm going to throw out a few specific situations, but but
this matters. This is how you become a
champion, all right? You know, man on first base
going with the pitch, you know, rocket down the left field line,
Nimbo gets it, throws a lollipop to Lindor with a cut.
Or if it's third baseman Beatty, whomever better not be the
Anthos at third base. He's awful there.
And it's play to play. Here's the relay safe and he's
safe by a tick. Whereas if you had somebody out
there who could actually throw the ball on a dime on a rope,
guess what? He's out.
That's what Nuggets specific, but champions have those
elements. You know, teams that
consistently buy for championships have those
elements. Same thing.
You know, let's say man on 3rd, 8th inning, you know, 7th
inning, 8th inning, 9th inning, either high leverage spot, less
than two out. It's contact play.
You know, you're playing the Dodgers, playing the Phillies,
playing the Braves, playing one of those teams, Padres maybe
whatever it might be and there's a bullet at Pete.
Now Pete might catch it, but it's and it's a contact play.
So you going on on contact, obviously a third base, you
really trust Pete to throw a bullet to the catcher on A tag
plate, not a force. So it's got to be in the right
spot. Caught bang, tag out.
I don't because I've seen it, I've seen it hit the backstop.
I've seen him throw, you know, almost like he's throwing darts
instead of, you know, flipping it.
Confident confidently to a pitcher covering first base or,
you know, first and second one out, same spot late in the game,
big game, good opponent, meaningful spot.
And, you know, bullet to him. 363 double play.
And he pulls Lindor off the bag. And Lindor, who's, you know, a
great enough athlete to and he's got the dexterity to catch it,
you know, still dot the bag with his foot.
But because it takes a 10th of a second to, you know, gather
himself because it's a bad throw, guess what?
Throw to first base, safe, buy a tick.
Those things matter. They matter.
Not to mention that Pete's not really scoring from first base
on a big on one of those double s in the gap.
For the most part. He's a smart baserunner.
I'm not trying to, you know, cut down Pete here.
But see, these are the things you got to look at.
And I and, and, and I, I don't think many of you have because
you've been wrapped up in the emotions, which I understand.
But it's time to get off the emotional train.
And now it's let's get on the pragmatic train.
And Stearns was brought here for a reason.
If the Mets organization was healthy, you think Stearns will
be here? Honestly, if you think he'd be
here, the answer is no. He's here because the Mets
needed a fundamental, fundamental organizational
overhaul. Because for too many years they
were shoddily built. Either the farm system was
ravaged, or they overpaid for players who weren't worth what
they gave them. Or, you know, the guys who came
up and were expected, You know, from their system to, you know,
fill the role and be that guy. They just weren't, you know,
even go back to generation Ki mean you want to go back to
those guys, those pictures, right, even with Harvey and
those boys like boom flame out fast for a multitude of reasons.
Like the way you become a stable, consistent winner is to
have everything kind of gel like everything's on the same path
here. And that's why when Poland
basically bought himself a minor league system, I, I, I thought
that was very admirable because it was smart, it was ahead of
the AI got money to burn. Our system sucks.
Hey, you all right? You want these bitches?
I'm going to eat some of the money.
I need some prospects back. Let's go.
And then that, that inches it forward a bit, you know, and now
you've got a little bit of a different philosophy because
you've got a new general manager with I'm going back a couple of
years ago with an emphasis on catching the ball and stuff like
that, speed on the bases. So where the Mets are now, I
mean, what have they, what have they really done?
Well, they haven't done anything, I mean, except lose
players. All right.
Simeon's good at second. He'll catch it.
Devin Williams. We'll see.
I think it's OK. I like Polanco was a stick and
he's got good hands. I just don't know if it's going
to, you know, translate to first base.
I think it probably will. And you got Luke Weaver.
But #1 like going back to the Yankee conversation, It's not
over yet. I mean, you could trade
Peterson, you could trade Sanga. You know, you can do a lot.
You could trade Vientos. You should trade McNeil.
You could go get school ball Alcantara.
Like there's so many ways to go. The only thing that I wouldn't
do, and I think many of you know, this is just don't want to
give up McClain. You're not giving up McClain for
rental. You know, you can't do that.
And by the way, if you guys are just tuning in, I appreciate it.
I got to get used to all. I mean, this is a very one.
I'm sitting in my radio studio. It just got it's less busy kind
of like this here. Let's go all right, let's see
here 1000 watching on day one. I don't know is that good?
I mean, I honestly don't know. I'm I'm learning the metrics
like you. I am learning about oh, you got
to get to 1000 subscribers to do this and 4000 billion, you know,
viewing hours to do that and whatever it might be.
And boy, you know, I, I remember when I put the link out, Oh my
God, I'd love to have 1000 by Monday.
Get, get a new world for me here.
And you know, we started today right around 4500.
Like it went from, you know, because I hadn't posted
anything, a couple of 100 to, to 1000 to 15 to 2 to 25 to 3 to 35
to 4 to 45 and, and probably more now.
And, and I just, I really, really do appreciate that man.
And the other thing too, I want to tell you guys just tuned in.
I'm not going to reset this long because I don't want those of
you who heard this to be bored. But I would say, yeah, I don't
even want to put a time frame on it.
I want to hold myself to this because I don't really know the
work it's going to entail. But I've got a vision for what
this space is going to look like, OK?
And yeah, obviously I'm going to upgrade cameras.
And obviously I've got my microphone upstairs that I've
got to have somebody come and connect.
And I want to make this like, yeah, I've got to get some
soundproof walling. This is going to be my studio.
This is where we're going to rock.
And yes, I will have guests and yes, I am working on being able
to take phone calls. That's going to be a little bit.
Again, different hurdles, different obstacles, and that's
that. OK, let me get to let me get to
the Giants a little bit. Well, yeah.
Well, let me just get the jet thing out of the way for a
second. So there was a report on
Saturday and I'm in the car and I hear this.
And this is not to disparage the report.
Diana Rusini had this who I love, we've had on the show, was
a big fan of our show, grew up on the fan like all of us love.
This is not about her at all. I promise.
And I hear, you know, I'm going back and forth between both
stations, kind of listen to what's going on.
And I hear, I forget who it was talking about.
Basically just regurgitating her report that The Jets will not,
you know, the Arie Glenn will not be 1 and done.
And I'm and I'm sitting there, I'm saying no fucking shit.
He's not going to get fired after one year.
I mean, isn't that the problem with The Jets all these years
fired after We need a report to confirm that Eric Glenn is going
to get a chance to come back for year 2 with one of the worst
defensive rosters in all the football.
I mean they weren't even good when they had QN sauce.
You take them off, which I love that trade and I loved it then
and we got receipts on that with the old social stuff.
I loved it. I absolutely loved it because
Gardner was getting soft. I felt like he was getting a
little bit too comfortable. And now obviously, The Jets with
a tremendous, tremendous amount of draft capital, the three
first round versus next year or the two this year or boatload of
twos, like The Jets not only control what they can do in this
really basically well, next year, they definitely run the
draft. And this year, depending upon
who gets that first spot, like if it's the Raiders or the
Browns, I mean, they're going to need quarterbacks.
That's why I was kind of hoping that that the Giants would
continue to lose. And it's funny, I was seen
yesterday like rooting people rooting for the Giants to win.
So then that The Jets could jump.
No, no, you want the Giants to have the 1st overall pick
because the Giants aren't going to draft the quarterback.
I mean, to me, that was common sense and I thought a lot of
people were missing that. But anyway, the, the thought
that Aaron Glenn will not get a chance to finish this is is
really, it's laughable. And well, it's really a
commentary of where we are in this microwavable, nonsensical,
stupid sports world for some, for some where if you don't win
right away, you know he's only 7.
Fire him. Holy God.
I mean, can you give the guy a chance to root some culture?
See, I I think. I think.
That the toughest thing to do in sports.
This applied to the Knicks when they brought in Leon Rose and
got Julius Randle and they went from a doormat to respectable.
See, to me, there's a couple of different paths here, right?
You can and I'm I'm just off the top of my head.
Let's go with moribund, which is where both of our football teams
reside, unfortunately, moribund to competitive.
I'll go with that word there and then moribund competitive to
playoff worthy. I'll use a phrase and then the
next phase will be title contender.
All right, think about those four steps, guys.
And really, you can take this with any sport and apply this
moribund, competitive, playoff worthy title contender.
To me, the hardest thing to do is to go from moribund to
competitive. It's not to go from competitive
to playoff ready. And to me, it's not even
necessarily going from playoff ready to championship viable.
The hardest thing to do is to walk into a building and look
around at 15 years of absolute shit, absolute wreckage, failed
draft picks, you know, despondent players who are
mentally beaten up. And, you know, and and I, I
think that some of you think, well, you're pro athletes, you
get paid a lot of money. Suck it up, go DJ, Obviously
play hard. Suck it up.
Yeah. But they are not immune to being
affected by years and years and years of losses.
I mean, their, their families see the tweet, their families
see over the debates and the calls and, you know, their,
their, their husbands or brothers or sons getting land
based on social media. It's not a fun world when when
everybody's throwing darts at you, they feel that they're
humans. You know, they got to rise above
it. That's part of your job, you
know, But Aaron Glenn, he really, I think he made two
mistakes this year. 1 is mostly his because I can't delineate
how much Muji like what was Muji's influence with Justin
Fields like that decision, which to be fair, I was OK with, you
know, I knew they'd be a run heavy team.
I thought he would try to run 8-9 times a game designs and
roll outs. And then with the three running
backs before Allen got hurt and a good old line, obviously
Garrett Wilson. I thought that that would be the
recipe to kind of just make him competitive, you know, not not
really win a ton, but go basically go for more bun to
competitive didn't work out. So he's got to obviously take a
take a dart for that. The other thing that he's got to
take a dent for would be hiring. I mean, is Wilkes was the day
that he was hired. We're all like, what are you
doing that that we saw that coming a mile away.
That was a bad football decision.
Now rectified quickly by firing somebody that he respects,
firing somebody that he's friends with.
Wow, that can't be very easy. But those were a few mistakes
that, you know, a guy who's in charge for the first time is
going to make the other one. And I understood it and he's
gotten better at this for sure, which I think is a great thing.
I love this is that he came out almost and and tried to set like
a combative tone early on with the media.
And I thought it was unnecessary.
Like when when you're picking on poor Rich Simini.
I love Rich. I mean, how that guy has
anything, I mean, obviously much more important things than
covering football, but like family and health and stuff.
But imagine being on The Jets beat for as long as he's been on
the Jet beat. I mean, can you get the guy 234
years in a row where they're good?
Oh my God, it's always it's chaos with the New York Jets,
but hasn't really been chaos necessarily this year, which I
like. That's a good sign that I think
that that that Glenn stabilized it a bit.
But early on, like you have reporters asking the most
innocuous question, like, Hey, Aaron, who's who's going to
start this week? I'll tell you what I'm going to
tell you. Like she wants to fight him.
And and I remember talking about this a lot with Sal and with you
first. I'm like, dude, you got chill,
man. You got to relax.
You're coming across with a pompous ass.
You dunk shit. Nobody wants to hear it.
Dial it back, relax. But then as I thought about it
and I let me just put myself in, that was my first reaction.
Let me put myself in his shoes. What is he?
What is he real there? There's obviously an end game
here with this man because he's smart and he's a football lifer.
What is the end game? Let me examine that.
What is it? It's not just to be a Dick.
I mean, I, I hope that that's not it.
And I know that I know that that's not it.
The end game was for him to create control and mute the
noise. Now let me give you an example.
It I mean a, a coach, you know who's going to start out of
Dallas game Tyrod or Justin Fields, who who's going to be
the quarterback. And he got kind of goes and he
launches into what he launches into.
Well, that might not mean much this year because The Jets are
are awful. Like good God, they're atrocious
on the wow, they're bad. But what it does do is it
creates a template. All right, It creates a template
so that when they are good, all those questions, hey, you
already know you're not getting anything.
Don't waste my time. And he's creating a tone, excuse
me, a almost like an insulation around his building like a
foxhole. Hey, we're not going to get he's
not saying this, but this is his mindset.
This is the psychology behind what Aaron Glenn was doing.
I'm going to build walls around that are impenetrable.
You're not getting in, you know, too many years for The Jets.
There were leagues I had somebody in The Jets building
texting me while I'm on the air for the last couple of years.
Hey, this guy's here getting a workout or, hey, they're looking
at this guy. You know, like, that's good for
me because I was able to, you know, take a few things and
present it on air. And, you know, it was good
because I had some inside stuff. And I'm not a reporter, but, you
know, I had some access that I think helped the show and
provided some context. But that's not good for them,
you know what I mean? Like, you got to protect that,
You know, what's the old Under Armour commercial?
I haven't seen it. Well, our hosts, you know, got
to protect your house. You have to protect the house.
And you know when this window slightly open and this door is
slightly ajar and there's a little crack over here in the
like the the garage door is not shut and this window is open as
well. People start flying in and they
start to poison the building. So now what he's done is sealed,
sealed, sealed, sealed, locked shut.
And it was an unpopular way to go about it.
It was a bit of an unconventional approach for a
guy who has what a damn thing here.
But I really do think at the end it's going to pay off because
now the expectation is, hey, guys, you can ask me all you
want. You can waste.
And it's already softened, which which which is good.
And you know why it's softened because by being combative.
Early message was sent, received.
And now the, the interaction between the media and Aaron has
gotten to like a little bit of a different direction.
And that was by design. I think Aaron Glenn is an
incredibly decent human being. I know he's a family man.
I, I, I believe he's an inherent winner.
I believe he's smart. I know he's tough.
He's got enough old school in him.
Like, there's so much there that's appealing and, and I was
worried for a second, I'm like, man, is this guy going to derail
and just basically get himself run out of town?
Because what happens, this is just the way it goes.
When people feel attacked in the media or fans feel ostracized,
pushed back at arm's length, right?
They begin to, what happens is they begin to resent that.
And the the only recourse for them really is to now push back
negatively toward the source that's giving them that emotion,
that feeling. And now that that's dissipated a
bit, now it's on to the business of just trying to build up a
roster that is absolutely shit. It's horrible.
The one thing The Jets have going for him is that as they
try to build this thing out, you know, the offensive line for the
first time that it sucked yesterday.
Now that was also Brady Cook kind of holding on to the ball
too much. But the old line pass protection
was not good yesterday. Very, very.
That bothered me. Not much bothered me from
yesterday because you watch it almost emotionlessly, but that
bothered me because that's supposed to be a strength.
But some of those run cook as well.
And they can now attack this offseason and build it the right
way because the inner guts of the team are for the most part,
built up. So.
So that's definitely a good thing.
All right, before I get to the Giants, I got a little something
on the Knicks, got a little something on Saint John, A
little worried about St. John's.
All right, let's see here. Yeah.
I mean, that's no no news, no drama coming out of One Jets
drive. That's refreshing.
Absolutely. Is.
How about Brunson? I'll get to the Knicks.
Is Sal just kind of going back and we're Sal going to jump on
one day? I hope so, yeah.
Oh, by the way, Speaking of Sal, so the A Rod party was awesome.
I'll tell you about that in a minute.
We've got I checked this morning.
I believe there's only 31 seats left.
This thing's going to be sold out.
I mean, it's going to it's obviously going to be sold out
very soon. So that is January 22nd at the
Vogel Theatre in Red Bank. It's myself, it's BT and Sal
live. Aaron Boone is going to be
there. We're going to have an awesome
night. There's some VIP stuff where you
get to meet Boone and I'm sure he'll sign stuff for you.
Meet Sal, meet myself. And then there's and those are
obviously a little price here. If you can't, if you can't do
it, trust me, I get it. But the other seeds just to get
you in the house and we're going to do, you know, basically do a
a show on stage, you know, bang around a few topics.
We're definitely going to do a baseball card game with Boone.
I've got the absolute best Frank Sinatra impersonator in the
world. Opening things up with New York,
NY. It's going to be an absolute
blast. So that's coming up January
22nd. myconcerts.net. OK, if you guys want to check
that out. Let's see.
Yeah, but more about taking calls that I'm working on that
for sure. Will the show be live?
Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm going to
always. I'm going to go live here.
I'm going to do this basically 10:00 every morning.
I'll take a few days off for Christmas, obviously.
All right, we got Thomas. Thomas Rossi.
What's up? BT got you in Red Bank.
He's coming. Listener for life.
I love it. You know, can I tell you this?
You know when when you. I'll give you a little something
on dart as well. And and start the route probably
about do about an hour now. Listen, I got to flush through
this and see how I'm going to actually push forward with this.
But yeah, it's going to be daily and it's going to be live.
They might be some things that are recorded, but you know, and
like, listen, if Bellinger signs and I'm not, you know, and
coaching a game literally on the bench or on the field or
whatever it might be, and I'm going to fire this up.
This is going to be more access live reaction, big games,
jumping on half the big Knick games, Yanks, Mets, stuff like
that. So it'll be a dual purpose, like
my Daily Show, like you heard on the fan for years.
And then obviously the ability to jump in, fire this up and
connect whenever I want to connect, which which is which is
exciting. But when you do, I'm going to
try to take you behind the curtain that it's hard to do
this right because being a broadcaster, not to put it on on
this mountain of, of you know what, it is an amazing job.
I don't want to say the wrong thing.
It's an amazing profession, incredibly rewarding, sometimes
unfair, but that's all right. But it's also very
unconventional, all right. So basically what you have to do
is you have to learn how to be comfortable being uncomfortable.
And it's kind of unnatural at the end of the day to speak into
a microphone and and real and, and really have a conversation
and in your mind, not feel as if you're talking to hundreds of
thousands of people. All right, You just kind of
conversing. And I think that's one of the
things you guys really loved about the show and certainly,
you know, about how I present my work over the years is that, you
know, I've gotten this as a common theme with, with a lot of
the feedback. And it means the world to me
that, you know, I just a lot of you say you kind of, you know, I
sound like somebody that you grew up with where, you know,
whether you're sitting at a game, having a beer, sitting at
a bar, having a beer, just sitting around shooting the shit
that it's relatable, you know, and having said that, it's
still, it's I think it's almost impossible to to not be detached
to an extent of, of how many people you impact because you
just don't see them. You know, I come in, I drive
into the city, used to park my car.
Thank God I don't have to waste money on that nonsense.
Good. I will not miss driving to the
city at all at all. God, what a pain in the ass that
was. But when you do this, like you
just you have your routine, like you guys have your routine.
Get up, you know, drive from Jersey, park the car, walk a
couple blocks, go to 345 Hudson, go up to the 10th floor, walk in
the studio, see who I see, get ready for the show and do the
show. Walk out, walk couple of blocks,
get my car at the garage, come home and go back to being dad
and husband and coach and all that stuff.
And when you do that every day, and obviously the ten years
before that would take you when I was doing the national stuff
and really the 2526 years I've been doing this for a living.
You don't always touch people. That's why I love seeing you at
the garden for St. John's or at a restaurant when
somebody comes up. I, I value that.
But I, but I say that because what I was able to feel from you
guys on Friday and, and really the weeks leading up since the
announcement, since then, since Marshawn broke the news and then
the station made the official announcement.
Like it was an emotional whirlwind for me, this for my
family. There's no question like I'm not
going to front on that. That was there was a lot going
on, man. And when you see these tweets
come in, when you see this interaction, when you see the
support and I, I read the comments now, I'm not one of
these people who gets like self worth from having people prop me
up. Because if I did do that, then
the converse would be I'm going to lose some self worth when
people invariably try to tear me down, which is part of the game.
You don't think I get that? Of course, man, I know not
everybody likes my style or they might even like me, but they
hate something I said about Pete two years ago.
They're like, fuck that guy, He sucks.
You know, I can't stand that. I got loudmouth.
That's fine, you know, But you guys, I really felt it.
I really felt the love and it was as meaningful a moment for
me on the radio was I signed off, especially when my dad
called and I almost now my wife set that up.
I didn't know he was calling in. I did not know he was.
I thought about having him on myself, didn't say anything.
I'm like, I don't know the audience want to really hear
that. I think I didn't have him.
I didn't plan on him going through the whole resume, you
know, down he went into high school baseball.
Dad, let's go. You know, I got 3 minutes to say
goodbye. Hurry up.
But he's a talker like me. It's where I get it from.
I told you my first radio partner.
So I wasn't really sure how I was going to do it.
And then when I did it, I I, I, I know that I did it right,
because I could tell like man, you guys, you guys connected to
you, really, you connected to my heart.
And listen, not every single this is it in terms unless it
comes up and a question down the road, like I'm not going to re
litigate. You know how it ended.
A WFAN. I'm I'm already I'm on, I am
forward. You know what I mean?
The easiest thing would have been I'm taking a week or two of
I'll see you after the new year when all the other shows start
up. No way.
No, we're in the trenches. We're building this and you guys
are here for day one and that that is absolutely awesome.
All right, let me give you something on Jackson dart.
You're an easy listening. You know your stuff on sports.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
All right, this is what I mean. I, I, I, I don't all right, yo,
I want to give you a super chat. We love you.
Is that disabled? I, I, I don't know.
That's why I said that at the top of the show.
I'm writing all this shit down. Like, like, you know myself.
Thank God he knows about this, right?
You know, YouTube studio, click content, go live, blah, blah,
blah, content click. Oh my God.
So I had to make sure I had this right.
We were doing a couple of test runs last night.
And then he's like, and he's like, well, that we could do
this and we could do borders. And I'm like, let me just get on
the air. Please, please.
You're 10, 10 years old. All you know is YouTube, you
know, all you know is this way of life.
You know me, I, I grew up with channel 2457911.
That's it and 13 and I I and, and channel 4747 to get some
lucha. If you're old enough, you know
this little lucha libre, a little little wrestling back in
the day. That's it that's all I had.
So he's telling me about super chats.
He's like, you know, people might want to support you.
I'm like, hey, the support is just coming to support me man
that that's enough. If there's other stuff, which I
I guess I'll figure out even better.
Yeah. No, I need a better studio,
guys, I understand. I need a better studio.
Do you what What what's the better option?
Like if you were me, right? What went down?
What you know what went down? Everything that happened.
And you know how much I love connecting with people.
You know how much I love cranking out content and and the
spoken word, right. If you were me and you do a show
on on the fan on Friday and you know that you're going to launch
this new endeavor, right? And you have two choices.
You know, I, I wait and I make it look perfect and you know,
all the bells and all the whistles and this and that, or
you just jump right in. You roll your sleeves up,
literally they are rolled up and you just, you start cranking out
content. Now to me, it's an easy choice.
So I get it. I know that I've got to get
this. You don't think that this thing
is going to look sick. Trust me, when this thing is
built up, it's going to look sick.
It's just not sat there yet. Let's see.
Yeah. It's always better to start now.
I agree with that. Yeah.
Some Nick jerseys. Yeah.
I mean, I've got, I'm looking around and and there's a million
things I could grab. I've got my Mattingly jersey.
I've got my name of jersey framed.
I've got my Bernard King jersey. I've got my signed Guns and
Roses. I got to get that in the
picture. You know, I love my music.
I've got my signed Guns and Roses poster from the Not in
This Lifetime tour that I saw at the Garden.
I guess that was about, I don't know, five years, but more than
that, maybe 18. I think it may have been, that
was a sick concert. You know, I've got my Ewing
frame jersey. I've got my college jersey
framed. Of course, I've got a lot of
stuff that I want to that I want to to incorporate and I
certainly will. What else we got?
All right, let me get you a little something on Jackson
Dart. So see, here's what I don't get.
There's two schools of thought of thought here, right?
Either let Jackson Dart play or sit well.
See, the problem that I have with what the Giants did
yesterday is that they didn't either.
They didn't sit them and the thought and I think I don't
believe in that. I don't subscribe in that you're
a football player. I mean, sit them.
Sit them for what? Like I like that actually drives
me nuts when I the more I think, oh, let's sit them and just punt
for next year. I mean, what the why?
It's a football player, you know what I mean.
The reps that he can get the rest of the way to me are very
meaningful. Now, maybe you limit some of the
design runs. Maybe there's a way to strike
some middle bounds here, which I think that they done well, they
did up until yesterday to an extent.
But the choice was you play them or you don't.
Well, yesterday the Giants did. The one thing that I that I
think is really even Dumber than not playing him.
They did neither because he didn't play football yesterday.
He didn't play football. He was on the field.
I mean he looks tight in his uniform.
He does he looks he looks like doesn't he just look like a
stud, though, in the uniform, Like there's and that's what I
want my eventual jets quarterback, like give me some
swag, you know, give me like the one eye black thing.
Give me the chain, you know, give me the give me the wrap
around things around the cleats. Give me an arm band.
Let's go be a little tatted up. Just give me somebody who's got
a little presents. Jackson Dart looks like he's he
looks he looks awesome in uniform.
But yesterday he was on the field.
He was actually saying Hut, but he wasn't playing football, so
they didn't do anything and Giants didn't do anything right
yesterday. If he's going to be on the
field, let him play football. And there's not a soul around
that can tell me that that's what he did when the 1st 15
freaking plays of the game were runs.
Hey, come on, 15 runs in a row. It's embarrassing, you know?
So Jax, here's what Jax has done the last I saw these on.
So I like to give proper attribution.
I don't know if it was next year.
I don't even know who had it. I'm not trying to lift.
This is my own. I just shouted some stuff down,
right. But in the three games before
Brian Dabel was fired, he had almost 650 passing yards.
He ran for $1.47 total touchdowns, no picks,
quarterback rating, 99, playing good football.
Dabel, Dabel's gone and I understand you how to move on
from them. But since the firing of the
three games, instead of 640 passing yards, it's down to a
little bit more than 400. Massive drop or precipitous.
We got to drop a good vocab word there.
You know that we love doing that precipitous drop, right?
And then he went from 140 rushing yards to 75.
He went from no picks to two. He went from 7 total touchdowns
to three. And his quarterback rating went
from 99 to 70. So, like, what the hell are we
doing? I mean, he had 33 passing yards
yesterday. You'd think that the Giants
played in nine inches of snow or that it was raining sideways or
like it was an electrical storm that and there was a 2 hour
delay and then the rains came. The fight.
I don't know what that was. That was that was very odd,
very, very odd. So I'm just not of the mindset
to sit him. I think that that is a loser
mentality and I wouldn't do it. And by the way, if you play
Jameis Winston, you probably have a better chance to win
right now. So you've got to reconcile from
within what you want to do, you know, as a fan.
I mean, if they're going to have their vision of what they want
to do, do you want to, you know, I mean, it's a couple ways to
go. You can have Jameis play and get
the kid out of harm's way, which again, I wouldn't do.
Try to crank out a win. You know, if you Kafka, not that
it's going to save his job. There's no way he's coaching
this team next year. But like, that's one Ave. the
other thing that you could do is you could start dart and I don't
know, you could actually play football and you could let him
throw a little bit. And I don't mean 9 designed RP
OS into the teeth of the defense, some roll outs and
misdirections. You know, creative stuff,
football stuff. You can do that as well.
I I, I don't know what their plans going to be, but I know
what the giants did yesterday was real, was borderline
disgraceful. Like my son plays football.
He's 10. You know, it's, you know,
offensive line, it's hard and you know, you throw picks.
I mean, it's you 10. They've never started 15 game
with with 15 runs in a row to start a game, any game.
That was just I thought that was incredibly weak.
I thought the messaging was weak.
It reflects very poorly on Kappa.
He's atrocious. I really just don't like it.
I really don't have P TS out here giving stats and English
lessons. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, listen, The funny thing about the GO, he used to clown
me on this, you know, using the words that like I it's not like
I'd sit here and like, let me insert a smart word so people
think that I'm smart. No, I just, you know, I've got a
good vocabulary, I guess fairly extensive.
I'm not going to apologize for that, nor am I going to, nor am
I going to run from it. Let me just let me use one
syllable words, you know? No, not going to happen.
No commercials. Hey, listen, I'm just busting
out getting this thing going. Of course, one of the big things
that I'm already in the process of doing is selling, you know,
trying to get some big advertisers on the show.
There's no doubt about it. There's no doubt.
Yep. Let's keep the train moving.
No question. A rod should pay for the studio.
Stop the Jesuit education. That is absolutely true.
The so Alex's party, right? Let me tell you, we myself, my
wife and Sal took an Uber from from our home.
Sal doesn't live too far. So he came here and then we took
an Uber. The three of us now the party
said like 7 to 10. And really it wasn't even like
there was no forethought like whoa, let's get there at 7:20 so
we don't look like we're the first ones there.
No, he was just we're going to have to navigate a mess of
traffic. And I remember typing in his his
apartment address in my ways on my phone, I think the earlier
that day and it said like an hour and 30 minutes.
I'm like, oh God, an hour and 30.
I'm going to have to pour a drink for this override maybe.
And it took about an hour and 30 minutes.
So we walk in there and I mean, it was, it was just absolutely
awesome, man. It was really, really, really
cool. And you know, it's funny.
It wasn't a rod. It was Alex.
He's just a good dude, man.
Incredibly hospitable. His girlfriend Jack is awesome.
My wife and her, they were like 2 peas in a pod.
They were catching up for a while.
She's great. So warm.
She was telling me too. She's like, Oh yeah, I'm getting
up at 4:30 when we talk about workouts, right?
She's in incredible shape. Like that's, she's a fitness
basically her background. And I'm like, let's see the gun.
I'm like, you know, put these little pipe cleaners to shame.
I was absolutely yoked. Anyway, we're talking about I'm
like, what is your routine A little bit, You know, I'm like,
I'm going to have a little more time on my hands and maybe I can
stuff on on the legs, you know, instead of just doing doing the
chest, whatever. And so, yeah, you know, I get up
at 4:30 every day and I do this, I'm like, that's amazing. 4:30
I'm getting if I'm up at 4:30, it's to go to the bathroom and
go right back to bed, right? I'm not getting up at 4:30 for
any. I mean, there might be a night I
might go to bed at 4:30 on New Year's Eve, getting up at 4:30
even like when my son's got an early game for baseball for like
perfect, like a perfect game tournament over the over the
summer, the spring. I'm not getting up at 4:30.
I'm never getting up at 4:30 ever.
She gets up at 4:30 every day to go work out.
And I remember saying, oh, that's cool.
I'm like, so you know, you're sleeping a little, just, you
know, having some drinks, obviously sleeping a little bit
tomorrow. Got to pick it back up on
Sunday. She's like, no way.
She's like, I'm getting up on at 4:30 tomorrow.
I'm like, it's it's 11:00 now. You sit there holding a drink.
She's like, yeah, it's what I do.
I'm like, wow, that is absolute beast mode.
So she is a sweetheart. Susan Waltman was there and God,
we talked a lot, talked a lot about the station, talked a lot
about WFAN. Michael K was there.
Love Mike. I know Michael.
I went to Michael's wedding. Love Michael Loader for years,
said a lot of great things. Sal got to meet him and it was
just great. You know, it's funny, when Sal
was telling us about the corduroy suit, I'm like, oh boy,
when he first dropped that on the on the air a couple of weeks
ago, my corduroy suit and it's, it's definitely fashion forward.
It wasn't a knock on that. I'm like, is it a little too
dressy? It looked awesome.
Like as soon as he rolled into my home to, to get, you know, to
go and get in the Uber to go to to Alex's place, I'm like, dude,
you look sharp, man. Money move.
Matter of fact, there was a picture and I thought I'd look
pretty good too. And there was a picture of
myself. It's on my Instagram.
Yeah, it's on my Instagram of myself and Alex and Sal.
And I'm like, wait, am I the third best dressed person in
this picture? It was great.
Who else did I see that was there?
Not the name drop, but Joel Sherman was there.
I'm like, hey, man, you're one of those last hard hitting
reporters. Keep it up.
Who we getting like Yanks gonna fucking do anything.
Who we getting here? What's going on?
So it was really, really an awesome night and I oh, I'm I'll
tell you who I did meet. This was great.
Like I'm always curious about, you know, when you're that great
at something as, as he so clearly was in baseball, such a
passion for the game, right? Like, wow.
And I know everybody's different because everybody develops at
different stages. It's not always linear.
You know, you hear stories about basketball players who are 610
who were guards up until they were 13.
They shot up 77 inches. So they're now 69610 with
handles. I mean, that's, that's a
different, that's a different basketball player.
Anyway, I, I was told for a while with his, one of his
cousins, right? And what a great dude.
And he went to all hollows, CHS, AA shout out to them.
And I went to Xavier. So we used to play all hollows.
I'm like, man, we used to crush you guys.
He goes now he's younger than me.
He was not not when I was playing.
I'm like, hey, listen, that's fine.
But but when I was playing all hollow, we'd have to worry about
all hollows. That was not the threat.
But it was so much awesome and it was so awesome talking about
the old school baseball and you know what it's like now.
And I got to meet the Sun Rocco, great, great, great young man.
And then he was tell me stories about Alex because he would hang
out. Alex, Alex's cousin was was
obviously very good friends with Alex's brother and who's a very
good basketball player. And Alex was like a little guy.
He's like, man, I was ringing the up in Washington Heights.
I was ringing the bell and Alice is like 3-4 years old.
He's got a full uniform on. I'm like, that's, that's
amazing. That's why I've always said I
don't. That's why I was important.
I want to have Alex. And I had Rick on the last show
on The Fan. I wanted to have somebody.
I don't think there's anybody who loves baseball or knows
baseball more than Alex Rodriguez even.
No, please. This is not a transition.
This is an abrupt end to a new point.
Not me lumping myself in with Alex at all.
But I mean, I, I love baseball as much as anybody.
I mean, I'm holding. I have I have a ball right here.
I love it. I love it.
But like, I'm at the point in my life you can't pay me to, you
know, on a Saturday night and Yanks Mets done whatever might
be nothing going on. And unless it's like Altani
pitching what to like watch the Red Sox and the Tiger.
Well, I guess if school bulls pitch and I'll put it on or
crochet. But like I'm not watching a game
if it's not the Yanks or the Mets and it's not a big game.
Like I'm going to Netflix. I'm going to catch up on some
new shows I'm going to I'm going to do whatever I'm going to do.
He does like he watches every game.
He's an absolute baseball junkie.
So we had a great night. You know, it sucked.
I don't want to leave because I would say that the party started
at 7:00. We probably got there about
maybe 7:40-ish. And then we left with, you know,
the babysitter. We had to get back for that.
And you know, traffic not as bad going home.
But obviously, you know, we got to get from, you know, the Upper
West Side to, to where we are in Jersey.
I'm like, this sucks. I want to stay because now
people are starting to dwindle and now, you know, there's
probably like maybe 15 people or so when we left So we had an
absolute blast. And yes, many of you have asked
how was Sal's suit was really good.
Look look, money. He look good.
Yeah. 4:30 is early, no doubt. Glad to have you back.
Let's do it. You don't think Dart's the
answer. Somebody just says that what's
the handle there? Add Greg 2036.
You know I was I was thinking about this and this would be an
incredibly unconventional move and I would not necessarily.
I'm not here yet. I'm not.
But the one thing about dart, because I just talked a lot
about darts, I can wrap it up with that here.
If you're not going to let Jackson Dart run around and be
Jackson Dart, well, then you don't have a good quarterback.
Not that he's not that he has no pocket awareness, he does not
that he has no accuracy or or true passing instincts.
He does, but it's not elite like he's not going to drop back, you
know, 3035 times a game against a really good defense down the
road. I don't I don't think when the
Giants further build out their team and be, you know, one of
the he's not going to be Joe Burrow.
He's not going to be, you know, Mahomes necessarily when he's
healthy. You know, Patrick, a couple of
years ago more when he was putting up these sick numbers.
I don't, I don't think he's going to be that guy's going to
be more of a hybrid. I think he's going to be.
I think he's got a chance to be great.
But if they're not going to let him play that way out of fear of
him getting hurt again, which is a real thing with the
concussion, I get it, I do. But if he's not going to be that
dual threat snap to snap, you know, is it worth considering
the Giants taking a quarterback at #1 if they finish number one
or taking a quarterback at number two or three?
I don't know. I don't know yet.
Now, if this was year 2 of Jackson Dart, you'd have so much
more Intel. I think it will be an easier
answer, but I don't know if, if you can make that determination
now. There's just not enough on film,
which is why why I'm saying, you know, I'm playing them.
I mean, you got a couple more games to go, you know, if I
could get, you know, 40-50 more past attempts with, with knowing
them the way they ran it the other day.
I mean, that number is incredibly ambitious.
You won't see that. But if I could get some more on
film and really look at him, get a sense of what he might be when
we're not doing some of the running, maybe that gives me a
better answer, some more context to to maybe it would be
unconventional. I think a lot of people would
hate it. Some would understand it, some
would like it. But I don't know, maybe The
Jets, maybe the Giants are pondering the the possibility of
drafting the quarterback. Number one, you know, especially
if Joe Shane is not the general manager.
I mean, let's face it, I mean, is he?
I mean, how how is he possibly going to be the general manager?
There is no way in hell that Joe Shane could be the general
manager of this football team next year.
It just doesn't matter. I mean, there's really nothing
to discuss. I don't care if they win the
next two games by the scores 60 to 3 combined.
You know that it is what it is. The resumes there.
You got to move on. And if you move on, see, this is
one thing that worries me, I'll say when they move on, are the
Giants predisposed to, no matter what as they interview other GM
candidates, that they've already got their plan for Dart and the
future already mapped out? They don't want to hear anything
to the contrary. And somebody who could be the
general manager that gets the Giants back to being the Giants
presents them with a plan. Hey, I like Dart, but never
going to stay healthy. Little deficient here, whatever
it might be. I want to take a quarterback.
Dante Moore's coming out more. I want him or Mendoza or
whatever Tyson, whatever it might be.
You know the names, right? I got to see who's coming out.
But those are the main the big three so far.
And if they hear that and they don't like that, well, they're
not going to hire that person. Like the last thing you want is
an echo chamber. You want independent thought.
You want unique perspectives. So I I don't know.
And, and this I say with, with complete softness and
understanding of the situation, but you know, where the giants
are, where Mr. Mara is with his health situation.
And I wish him the absolute best and, and God bless him and
perform and absolutely rooting for him.
And then God, I hope he's, I hope he's going to be good.
But when you have a situation like that, maybe the easier
thing would be just to kind of kick it down the road and, and
then worry about the general manager and, you know, in a year
or so when, when Mr. Mayor is healthy and, and better state of
mind, you know, whatever it might be.
I, I don't, I don't, I just don't know what they're
thinking. That's what I'm thinking.
I think at this point, everything should be on the
table. You know, you know, if the
giants finish one or two or three, like what they could get
by trading out is, is absolutely organizational.
It's transformative. It could be a transformative
day. And if they don't, they could
get a quarterback who could be better than Jackson Dart.
And then listen, I'm not saying you don't have Jackson Dart
start next year. You would have him start.
And if you went this unconventional path and draft
somebody else, well, you know, we you can now have a 2
quarterbacks that the league loves and you could either trade
the newly drafted one at some point or you can trade Jackson
Dart. Like there's a lot of different
ways to do modern business in the NFL, and that's just one of
them. All right, let me see a couple
of more here. Glad that I can still listen to
you. Appreciate that, guys.
There's no doubt. I need a theme song.
Yeah, somebody made an awesome theme song.
Unbelievable theme song. But I, you know, just it's it's
a great rap song will be phenomenal.
But I I'm not going to bust up because they take some shots at
the fan and and I'm I'm not here to do that.
That's not what I'm doing. You know, again, if you just
tuned in, Yeah. I mean, I think certainly I I am
the type of person who should be on the fan.
Isn't that kind of what WF fans built on?
Passion sports? They went a different direction.
That's OK. You know, it's not my company.
I don't own it. I own this.
And now I get to do whatever I want to do whenever I want to do
it with you. And it's been been an
interesting couple of days trying to get this thing set up.
Yeah, the Super chats and all these other things I got to
figure out and, and, and I will BT today Rod give Sal shit for
the suit He did because I told him when I, when I told him on
the air the other day, I'm like you just you just got to give a
little thing. Come on, you got to play the
game. And, and he he did.
He was in the middle of a conversation that he came over
and greeted us at the door. I wanted to obviously introduce
him to my wife. Sal had never met him.
So we get that out of the way and then they were bullshitting
for about a minute. We all were and then he's like,
hey, he's like by the way, BT said I got a mock you for your
suit. He's like it actually looks
pretty good. So he brought it up, but he he
didn't he didn't go too too bad there all right, guys, and he
didn't have to because he looked tight.
All right now the other thing too, as we wrap it up, episode 1
here we go. I mean, this is the one in the
books already, right? So one thing on, and I mean real
quick on the Knicks, I'm not going to get, you know, I love
my Knicks, but today's not necessarily the day for it.
So the Knicks scored what They scored 130.
How many points? They scored like 132, whatever
the hell it was. The Knicks scored 132 points
last night. Carl Anthony Towns had two
points. I mean, good God, the way they
are able to get up and down the court and score whatever they
want, it's amazing. It's absolutely amazing and I
like the Mike Brown hiring. I'm not sitting there saying
it's Pat Riley, but when he was brought in and I knew he was not
their first choice. All right, I liked it because I
I, I liked what he did. You know, certainly around some
big situations, some some marquee franchise, the Lakers
and assistant with the with the Warriors, being around those
great players, rebuilding the Kings and then obviously getting
the raw end of the stick, being around LeBron, getting to a
conference finals with him pretty extensive resume.
And I had no doubt that the offense will look better.
And I had no doubt that the rotation would be tweaked here.
I knew it. You just knew what happened.
So, you know, the fact that Kolek's been let out of the, you
know, let out of the room a little bit and see what he can
do, There's just no way he's playing.
Tyler Kolek is not getting minutes here.
He's not getting any sort of run.
If Tom Pibodo's still the coach, and this is, I'm not going to
turn this into let's take shots of Tom Pibodo.
There's no need to. Tom Pibodo is a basketball lifer
and somebody I have immense profound respect for.
But that was kind of the end of the road.
Like, I think he they, they, they maxed out who they were,
you know, rotations different. And and this one thing that Tom
Thibodeau did always, he would do this and it drove me nuts,
like many of you, when he did tap into the deeper part of the
bench. When they were flowing, he would
just take them out and he would go back to the starters.
He was two pre programmed where Mike Brown's like Clarkson,
you're eating now, you stay out there.
Call it. Go get him in.
I'm going to give you 25 minutes tonight.
Go. Do you think, you know, I'm not
just going to go, you know, like rotely OK, Brunson, Hart, OG,
Bridges, Cat, Like if I've got a group on the court that's doing
some damage, even if it's an unconventional group, I'm going
to let him go. And that is massive.
I love it. So I'm very excited about the
Knicks. They're the best team in the
Eastern Conference. I don't even think it's close.
I don't know what they're going to do with the trade deadline.
I don't think they're going to get Giannis.
I don't even know if right now is the time to do it.
If they trade Kolek, that's going to piss me off.
Like if they trade Kolek throughout the point guard, that
is. That would be an Old Nick move.
There's no way you trade him. He's good and he's cheap and he
fits in seamlessly. So I think he's carving out that
role. I think he's here to stay.
Last thing, Saint John's. I'm worried I am.
Saint John's does not look the way that I thought that they
would. They started the season #5 now
again, listen, pre season rankings, what does that mean?
Nothing. Johnny's win 31 and five a year
ago. Awesome season, ended a bit too
early in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
They just beat a longer, faster, more athletic Arkansas team,
which is why Rich scheduled a lot of SEC teams in a in a
harder schedule here. Saint John's going to win a lot
of games. Big East is down.
I never thought that they would go 31 and five again.
So I thought that the record would not would, would be, would
just be different. But to go from ranked #5
preseason to what time is it? No, it hasn't dropped out.
It hasn't dropped yet. Ticket drops around 1.
They're not going to be ranked. They went from like 5 to 12 to
18 to 22. They have just plummeted from
the rankings. And right now they don't deserve
to be ranked. They don't.
My biggest concerns with Saint John's and Rick talked about
this the other day, They don't have a pure point guard and
that's a problem like last year's team.
They got easy buckets. They did like, I feel like you
watch Zooby, who is not having the season yet, that I thought
that he would. But I also think he's trying to,
you know, get Cop Hopkins involved and some other guys,
let them get in the flow, which is what leaders do.
But there's still a time to go get yours.
And he hasn't really been able to do that yet.
And the guy that I'm most disappointed with his Bryce
Hopkins, he has not played well at all.
Like the St. John's front court is getting
pushed around. I did not expect that, No.
So the bad news is they got a long way to go.
And well, I think Ian Jackson's an incredible talent and I think
he's going to, you know, he's going to show more and more as
the year goes on. They don't have a pure point
guard. So the ability to get easy
baskets is not going to be there the way it was a year ago.
And that's that's an issue. And then the front court not
flexing like the ferocity, just the the ability to, I thought
they were going to manhandle people.
I thought like, you know, +1213 on the boards, you know, just
destroy people in the paint. You watch them Against Kentucky.
I mean, it was hard to get shots up at certain points against
their length and having the ball knocked away and getting pushed
off the post. So, you know, really the team to
beat in the Big East clearly as U Conn, there's no doubt about
that right now. Seton Hall is a good story.
I see you Pirates. You know, a lot of a lot of my
buddies in town who my son plays ball with their sons.
Big Pirates fans like, oh, pretty good.
I'm like, I know, I know. And I'll admit I wasn't really
taking them for real. They've had some good wins.
So, you know, respect to them. Villanova may be a little more
interesting than we thought, but St.
John's needs to recalibrate and St.
John's needs to get better. So I hope they do.
I I know they're going to be a tournament team, but like that,
a two seed, I mean, that's off the table.
I don't think their resume is just not going to be impressive
enough to do that. You know, the net, the RP is the
measurables, the analytics, all those things matter.
So they played a tough schedule. They've lost too many of the
games that that they should have won or had a chance to win, or
if they did win, would have sent a bit of a message to the
committee to the country. Right now, Saint John's is
absolutely behind where they were a year ago, clearly.
And for me, they were behind where I thought they would be
with this unit. They definitely have to get
something straight. That's the bad news again.
Good news is they got Rick Pitino and they really do have 9
or 10 talented players. You just, you just got to figure
it out. Otherwise, this season's going
to be a disappointment. All right, maybe a couple of
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