1 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,480 is on leash Are you listening? Can you hear me? 2 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:13,720 Hear me? This is on leash. 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:15,000 Are you listening? Can you hear me? 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:16,480 Hear me? This is on leash Are you 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:17,480 listening? Can you hear me? 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,000 Hear me? This is on leash Are you 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,000 listening? Can you hear me? 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,480 Oh, what's going on, everybody? BT unleashed out of no rules 9 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:30,400 Friday. Hope everybody is doing well and 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,560 today is an historic day on the show. 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:34,960 We're going to take some calls here. 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,040 J Rod is in the house. We're ready to go. 13 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,200 We've got some great, great topics for you. 14 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,600 A lot of Knicks stuff, a lot of NBA stuff, little Mike Trout 15 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,000 stuff, little Yankee stuff, some NFL draft rumblings. 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,760 J Rod, Are you ready to do this? Are you ready to? 17 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:50,880 Nobody. I couldn't be more excited. 18 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,360 I mean, here we are, you know, bringing a new element brick by 19 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,640 brick, click by click, as you always say. 20 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,120 But. Yeah, I mean, so excited. 21 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,720 For this, can't wait till you know, obviously here's some 22 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,360 takes, here's some fun takes, but also just interact with the 23 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,840 unleashed community, you know, really build this up. 24 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,080 It's going to be fun. We can't take it. 25 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,200 I can't wait. We'll get to them early. 26 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,320 You guys. Now just explain very briefly. 27 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:15,840 I know you did this. Yes, I know. 28 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,520 What's up with the chat there? Let everybody know as succinctly 29 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,880 as you can how we get the process going. 30 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:21,680 Take it away, Jack. So. 31 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,480 Yeah. The way we're going to do it, so 32 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,480 as you can see in the chat and in the description, I've got a 33 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,720 link to a Stream Yard kind of side studio. 34 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,680 In that side studio, I'll talk to you, give me your name, where 35 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,960 you're calling from and your question, and then I'm going to 36 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:41,680 private chat you in Stream Yard, the link to this studio. 37 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:45,960 From there, we'll add you, you'll talk to BT and there we 38 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:46,720 go. And there we go. 39 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,800 And it's going to. Be a bit like, we'll have the 40 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,480 name up on this, like an official, you know, Joe in Long 41 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,160 Island, Willie in Brooklyn, Tindy in New Jersey. 42 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,320 We'll have all the whole spiel ready to roll, right? 43 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,080 Yes, Sir, Yes, Sir. And so we've, I mean, we've 44 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,400 already got a couple people in the queue, so. 45 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:03,680 Of course we do. They're ready to roll. 46 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,120 They're ready to roll. This is this is going to be 47 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,000 equal parts amazing and equal parts interesting. 48 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,840 So let's get into it. Man, I'm I'm really ready for 49 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:13,960 this. I'm so excited. 50 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,480 This is something you know, Jay Rod talk about click by click, 51 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,320 brick by brick, which really is the monster of the show. 52 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,760 You know, when I'm staring at a, a yellow piece of paper that I 53 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:28,080 have taped on my wall and it's, it's the sub count, you know, a 54 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:34,080 hundred 1025 hundred 5010 thousand 12515 and then 17 and 55 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,520 the 17/8 so on and so forth. We're we're on the doorstep of 56 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,400 20,000, which obviously is a nice benchmark ways to go, but a 57 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,640 really nice benchmark. And you know, really, when I, 58 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:47,360 when I say click by click by click and brick by brick, I 59 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,440 mean, if you've been here from the beginning and many of you 60 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,640 have, which is is so awesome, man, it's you just think about 61 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:56,240 the evolution of the show and we we're still not there yet, but 62 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:57,960 the first show was in the basement. 63 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,120 The Wi-Fi was awful. Then I moved into my office and 64 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,480 I had, you know, the Mattingly jersey and I had some other 65 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:05,080 stuff and then I kind of change that up. 66 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,400 Then for about two months or so, we had that ridiculous glare 67 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,400 bouncing off the BT unleashed logo. 68 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,640 We took care of that. Obviously huge step in this kind 69 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:16,760 of an endeavor is sponsorship. And we have we, you know, we've 70 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,040 secured to had a great dinner last night. 71 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:23,520 Phenomenal, phenomenal over Dino and Harry's in in Hoboken. 72 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,800 It was one of the best meals I've had in a long time and and 73 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,960 I believe first of all, it was with friends, but I also believe 74 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,800 that more and more good stuff is really going to be coming here. 75 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,880 So let's jump into a man today show obviously brought to you by 76 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,000 Sullivan for pain. There J Rod Sullivan is I know 77 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,640 he's busy, so can he can he get the sponsor up there? 78 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,120 I can already see all the calls coming in while people are ready 79 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,320 to roll. 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All right, before we get to some 91 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:20,560 of the calls here, but this is what it's nick time, man. 92 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,600 It is, it is nick time. It is go time. 93 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,400 It is final evaluation time. There will be nothing left to 94 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,960 interpret, you know, whether it's, I mean, hopefully it's a 95 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:31,320 lot more than a couple of weeks here. 96 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,440 But if it's a month, if it's two months, like we're going to get 97 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,320 the answers that we've all been chasing. 98 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,760 Any Knick discussion this year outside of the the cup, you know 99 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,320 the mid season cup like the Christmas Day game when Tyler 100 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,920 Kolak went bonkers. You know, the most recent 101 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,960 change, which I really like and which makes me feel a lot better 102 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,240 about this Nick team the last two weeks or so, is this new 103 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,200 found pick and roll relationship chemistry. 104 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,400 What a concept. I mean between Brunson and Cat, 105 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,320 you got a guy who's basically 7 feet who could shoot and he got 106 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,760 a point guard who can handle and could also shoot. 107 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,040 I don't know why they weren't doing that a whole lot more 108 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,600 earlier in the season. But most of the Nick 109 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:16,680 conversations were really about the the direction of the team 110 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,440 and, you know, what would they be? 111 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,800 And you know, the points of contention, whether it was the 112 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,880 way Leon Rose set up the roster, the way Mike Brown was changing 113 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,200 coaching styles compared to Tom Thibodeau. 114 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,520 Obviously, Cat has been a lightning rod. 115 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,920 Even Jaylen Brunson caught a little shrapnel this year. 116 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,480 So we're going to get the answers. 117 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:35,760 Jay, is everything OK? You jump. 118 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:37,160 Everything's good. Everything's good. 119 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,360 I mean, we've I'm ready whenever you are. 120 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,080 We've got Jerry from Hackettstown, NJ. 121 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,920 He's ready, I mean. All right, I mean, he's. 122 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,760 Got some Yankees talk ready all. Right look at about it. 123 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,440 I love that listen, look at the energy from Jay. 124 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,200 Let me just set a couple of things pop that up in a minute 125 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,320 Not yet just to finish that thought. 126 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,280 We'll do some Yankees obviously as well. 127 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,320 And listen, there's probably going to be a couple of hiccups 128 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,200 with the calls. And if they are, we'll adjust. 129 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:03,480 We'll plow through what's all good. 130 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,640 So you know, when I when I say that there's going to be nothing 131 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,800 left to interpret for the Knicks, I mean, I, I really 132 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,680 don't know how else to frame it because we're going to learn 133 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,000 either. We're going to learn about four 134 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,600 people. And, and I think that there's 135 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,440 different degrees of pressure. I think ultimately different 136 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,040 levels of culpability. If the note, if the Knicks don't 137 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,040 go certainly as far as they went last year and hopefully beyond 138 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,560 getting to the NBA Finals, I think it's a little bit unfair 139 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:31,440 to expect the Knicks to win a championship. 140 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,440 I've been think based on the odds as well and the optics of 141 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,120 the season, I think it's even a little unfair to just pencil the 142 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,760 Knicks in to get back to where they were a year ago in the 143 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,280 Eastern Conference finals. But you know, if they don't go 144 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:46,640 far or at least match what they did a year ago, will now 145 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,120 obviously going to have to change up the the core of the 146 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,880 team. And that would most likely 147 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,400 involve Cat depending upon how he plays. 148 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,400 But then that also opens up and an avenue of of criticism and 149 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,040 further dialogue on the construction of the team by Leon 150 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,240 Rose. So, you know, we've talked about 151 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,800 the coach and the two star players a lot more than we have 152 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,160 Leon Rose. But you can't lose sight of what 153 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,000 Leon Rose did. He basically fired that one big 154 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,760 bullet. And we know he brought in 155 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,720 Mikhail Bridges, gave up a boatload of equity to the Nets. 156 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,000 And I liked it at the time. But it's got to ultimately prove 157 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,240 to be the right move and we're going to get the answers really 158 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:23,960 soon, You know, and it's crazy too. 159 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:25,320 I was looking at some of the odds here. 160 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,160 Well, it doesn't necessarily, you know, mean a ton. 161 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,480 I mean, do what you want with the odds here, but the Knicks 162 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,200 are the smallest first round. They have the smallest first 163 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,760 round odds to win. Terms of being a favorite. 164 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,960 They're -275 so that tells you, you know, Vegas, and I get it. 165 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,560 I'm not sold on the Knicks. I don't think many of you are 166 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,920 sold on the Knicks. Matter of fact, you know, as we 167 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,840 sit down tomorrow night to watch the first game, it's on, it's on 168 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,400 prime. I'll give you the full schedule 169 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,160 a bit, but 6:00 PM tomorrow night. 170 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,280 You know, I mean, part of me expects the Knicks to fall 171 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,360 behind by 13 points in the first quarter because they almost 172 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,320 always do, and then have the spirited comeback and wind up 173 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,360 winning going away. I do think they're better than 174 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,760 the Hawks here. But that is something that, you 175 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,520 know, the deeper that you get and the more that you mess 176 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,480 around with those inconsistent first quarters, it sets a tone. 177 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,360 And then the other team becomes confident, especially an 178 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:15,880 underdog. They become a little bit more 179 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,240 emboldened. And you know, a team, I know the 180 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,760 Hawks think that they can win, but the more that that they 181 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,480 have, the more that they that they show early in games and 182 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,280 certainly early in the series that they're ready to match The 183 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:30,760 Knicks like you, you just you can't mess around with that. 184 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,120 Like they absolutely must advance. 185 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,360 The Knicks must win this series. Like if the Knicks were to lose 186 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:40,200 in the first round, it would be. I mean, really, if you think 187 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:44,760 about the recent flame outs and playoff situations, like The 188 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,520 Jets haven't been there for 15 years. 189 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,520 So Jets, go back in the corner of the room where you belong 190 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,560 with the losers until proven otherwise. 191 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:53,960 You know, the Giants, couple of years ago, they won a road 192 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,920 playoff game with a team that really, you know, that was an 193 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:59,480 overachievement. Then they got whacked by the 194 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:00,880 Eagles. And then, of course, since then 195 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,600 they've regressed and they fought on hard times. 196 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,920 That's why John Horbaugh is here and Jackson Dart and and Daniel 197 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:07,960 Jones is gone. But you even need to put the 198 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,360 Giants in the side of the room. You know, last year's, I think 199 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,560 the the thing that would come closest to this would be last 200 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:17,840 year's Mets, who won 83 games. And obviously the year before 201 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,320 without Juan Soto, you know, they were on the precipice of 202 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,240 the World Series. Now they lost to the Dodgers, 203 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,360 who ultimately beat the Yankees in the world, who won the World 204 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,720 Series, the Dodgers couple of years ago, but they won it two 205 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,600 years in a row. But and then like, think about 206 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,240 how the dynamics of the Mets have changed. 207 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,440 Like Vientos was an October hero. 208 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,560 He crushed the Philadelphia Phillies pitching. 209 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:38,920 Mets had this energy. Mets had this vibe. 210 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,440 Bets get Juan Soto. You're expecting the next 211 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,520 logical step forward. And it just I mean, in fantastic 212 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,040 fashion. It just imploded. 213 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:52,800 I mean, where fan favorites and stabilizing talented players 214 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,680 were shipped out. So I I would think and then of 215 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:57,920 course, you know, the Yankees got knocked out, obviously did 216 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,440 not win the World Series, did not get back there last year 217 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,360 without Juan Soto. But you know, even that as you 218 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,160 unpack the Yankees season, it was more about all right, you 219 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,480 know, kind of the same old song and dance, same line at the same 220 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,560 line up the running back Yankees Cashman. 221 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:15,280 This Cashman hasn't earned the right to rebuild the Yankees the 222 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:17,240 way the Yankees need to be rebuilt. 223 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,680 I said that three years ago. I got to put it on T-shirts 224 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:21,520 because, you know, I still believe it. 225 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,040 And then I'll be in the Yankees bullpen is horrendous, man. 226 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:26,760 So we'll get to that in a little bit as well. 227 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,200 But and then, you know, the constant criticisms of boom I 228 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,200 get and and early this year, like sitting rice, like that's 229 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:34,880 justified. Some of the other stuff with 230 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:36,720 Boone. I think it's unfair and I think 231 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,400 you guys pile on because I do think that the meat of the issue 232 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:42,400 with the Yankees is the way that they're built, the way that 233 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,280 they're constructed. That's the GM's job, not the 234 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,480 coach and not the manager's job. So as you look at this all goes 235 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,960 back to the Knicks, as you and then the Rangers were horrendous 236 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,240 this year, obviously pretty good before that the last couple of 237 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,600 years Devils are rebuilding. Isles had some flickers of 238 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,320 enthusiasm this year before it went sideways. 239 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,400 Like the that's our our young and rebuilding and a complete 240 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,000 non entity at this point. Like this is Nick. 241 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,160 This is the next time. As much as we get wrapped up and 242 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:09,760 nobody loves baseball more than me. 243 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,800 I watch it every night. You watch it every night. 244 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:14,960 We talk it up to some degree every day here on the show, on 245 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,480 BT Unleashed on the channel. But you know, now. 246 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,360 Oh, yeah, we'll still watch the Yankees and the Mets, of course. 247 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,920 And Mets had a day off. Hopefully they find a way to 248 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:24,800 regenerate, get their heads out of their behinds. 249 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,720 They have looked awful. I mean, as bad as the Yankees 250 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,160 bullpen is like that's kind of the feel with the entire Mets 251 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,640 team. It's it's absolutely disgraceful 252 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,160 the way the Mets are playing baseball. 253 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,080 But the baseball teams will be shielded to an extent, typing to 254 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,640 a large extent by the New York Knicks. 255 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,680 You don't get in the modern NB, maybe back in the day, like when 256 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:49,200 you had a core like Bird, McHale, Pack, even the Knicks 257 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,480 core, you know, with Ewing and Oaken Starks, you knew you were 258 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,520 going to eventually have to run into Jordan and beat him, which 259 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,120 they never did. But you knew that that team 260 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,320 because Patrick was a superstar and you know he was still in his 261 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,600 absolute prime. You knew the Knicks would be 262 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,440 together some variation of it for a long time and have a 263 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,080 couple of swings at winning the championship. 264 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:11,320 This is the last swing for this Knicks group. 265 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,200 This is it. This is the end of the road. 266 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,960 I mean, the gas tank is it's either all right, get to the 267 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:21,720 next destination or pull over, get in the shop and really, you 268 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,960 know, lift up the hood and start changing the engine and all the 269 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,760 other stuff with the car. So it is a great time at the 270 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,600 sports calendar. I can't wait again, I if the 271 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,880 Knicks are down by 13 in the first quarter tomorrow night, 272 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,800 wouldn't surprise me. If the Knicks are up 27, nine 273 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,800 and they look phenomenal and the gardens popping and they wind up 274 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,680 winning by 16 or 17, wouldn't surprise me. 275 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,880 I do believe very confidently the Knicks will win. 276 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,120 I don't think it's going to be that easy. 277 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,840 I said this week in five, I'm actually more inclined. 278 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,320 I'm kind of leaning more towards 6 the more I look and and you 279 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,160 know how to look at some of the things that the Hawks do. 280 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,560 Very good rebounding team. They've got a lot of bigs. 281 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:02,760 They got a 6-7 defender who's going to start on Jaylen 282 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,800 Brunson, who's going to really challenge Jaylen Brunson and 283 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,600 make his life tough. Kate Cunningham's a tall 284 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,720 defender. I mean, their dude is 2 inches 285 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,680 taller than Kate. So you know, I, I can't wait, 286 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:17,200 but I'm, I'm equal parts pumped and I am absolutely equal parts 287 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,080 intrigued and I'm equal parts nervous because I don't have 288 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,000 great confidence in this Knicks team. 289 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,840 I'm not going to tell you guys something I don't believe. 290 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,320 Like I, I don't think the Knicks going to win the championship. 291 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:30,320 I don't even believe the Knicks get to the conference finals. 292 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:34,160 So I am much more a believer in a complete retooling, which 293 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:36,720 obviously opens up a summer dialogue. 294 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,480 Yanis and the head coach, depending upon if and when they 295 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,960 get bounced here, like if if they lose to the Hawks, it is 296 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,520 catastrophic. It is unacceptably catastrophic. 297 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,240 At that point, everybody's got to go, you know, head coach 298 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:55,000 gone, Cats gone. I think even some of the other 299 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,600 ancillary pieces, you know, whether it's a bridges, whether 300 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,120 it's an OG, you're going to have to really reshape this thing and 301 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:05,440 get ultra creative and find a way for Giannis to force his way 302 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,760 here because it's and I don't even want to get into this too 303 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,000 much, too weedsy. But as we all know, you know, 304 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,040 the assets that the Knicks have in terms of enticing the Bucks 305 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,600 to ultimately trade him here, if it comes to that, it's going to 306 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,440 be less than what other teams can offer. 307 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,240 So the only just because they basically gave everything up for 308 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,800 Bridges. So the only way that goddess 309 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,360 gets here twofold, Nick's got to collapse #1 it's possible. 310 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:32,120 And #2 he's got to be very heavy-handed behind closed 311 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,560 doors. It's not his personality to do 312 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,280 it where everybody can. He's not going to be tweeting. 313 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,120 He's not going to go on some podcast and eviscerate the 314 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,080 bucks. He's going to be classy. 315 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,440 He's going to be measured publicly. 316 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:45,760 But I do believe that this summer he's dealt. 317 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,560 And I think that there's a good chance if things go sideways 318 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,040 that he's going to be a Nick. All right, J Rod, ready for 319 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:53,840 first call of the show, man, You ready to go? 320 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,240 Yes. Sir, yes, Sir. 321 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,920 We got Jerry from Hackettstown, NJ, so let's. 322 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:00,600 Get the name up there. Let's get the name. 323 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,680 Make it official. Jerry in Hackettstown, NJ, Jerry 324 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:08,760 is first up, the historical first call, BT Unleashed. 325 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:10,720 Hopefully it's a good one. Jerry, what's going on, buddy? 326 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,320 Welcome to the show. How you doing man What's up BT 327 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,800 long time listener to you. That is awesome dude. 328 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,160 Thank you for making that first call. 329 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:22,040 What's happening, buddy? Die hard Yankee fan Paul O'Neill 330 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,640 Frank love Paul O'Neill look how he played the game. 331 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,880 But I'm watching the Yankees now and the the line of the throne 332 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,600 out there is horrible. I don't understand how he $300 333 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,840 million payroll and he's people under 200. 334 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,080 It's like 5 people under 200. That's disgraceful. 335 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,440 I mean, and listen, but Jerry, you know this Jerry, it's, it's 336 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,600 early. The problem though, some of the 337 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,600 things that plagued the Yankees like they're going to some of 338 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,720 them will resolve themselves a little bit here, like Grisham 339 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,000 sitting $1.55. Jazz is hitting 179. 340 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,360 The catchers really can't hit. That might not change. 341 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,600 And now the bullpen is a complete this might be the worst 342 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,920 Yankee bullpen in 30 years. But I do think Chair, All right, 343 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,600 you sound, you know, you sound pissed. 344 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,280 You sound fairly despondent like it does. 345 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,240 Do you don't let me ask you this. 346 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,280 Do you think? And I can't even believe I'm 347 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,320 going to ask this question, but the way the American League is 348 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,240 very jumbled, the very obvious deficiencies of the Yankees. 349 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,080 Do you think there's a chance the Yankees are on a playoff 350 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:19,960 team this year? Like, are you there? 351 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,960 I'm there, but I think you're thinking it got bounced in the 352 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,240 first round again. Well, I mean, you know, and, and 353 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,200 thanks for the call there, Jer. First one, thank you. 354 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,000 Salute to Jerry in Hackettstown. Thank you very much. 355 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,560 All right, J Rod, let's keep it moving. 356 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,720 There you go. So J Rod's got a lot more 357 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,040 responsibility today. He's got to produce the show. 358 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,280 Good job with that. He's got to, you know, type in 359 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,120 the name. He's got to handle all the like. 360 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,680 We've got a, a digital, a digital green room for BT 361 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,560 Unleash, which I would have to imagine would be a pretty fun 362 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,000 place. I've been in a couple of green 363 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,360 rooms in my day. You know what I mean? 364 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,000 A little early to get nuts here, you know, but that was awesome. 365 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,680 That was awesome. That was great, 'cause you got 366 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:57,600 hearing it. My my heart's be on like, oh 367 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:01,400 man, oh man, that was great. Thank you, Jerry. 368 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:03,960 Nice. I love the enthus, Jared. 369 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,560 I love the enthusiasm, man. That's that's that's why you're 370 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:08,800 you're my guy. That's why you're my foxhole guy 371 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,079 and that's why you're producing the show. 372 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,599 But he does have a lot more responsibility back there. 373 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:14,960 So if there's a bug, it's all good. 374 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,599 This Hey, there, there were bugs on the fan, you know, hey, we 375 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:19,520 got we got Willie in Long Island. 376 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:25,680 Willie, Willie, are you there? Willie, Willie, can you hear me? 377 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,560 Willie? You know, like it happens on 378 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:31,960 normal radio. So it is all good. 379 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,400 The problem with the Yankees now Jazz is going to start hitting 380 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,320 Grisham's. I, I don't know if he's going to 381 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:41,280 hit like last year, but he's not going to hit 170 is that it's 382 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,240 just such a distorted payroll man. 383 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,960 And you, you look at the way they spend their their money and 384 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:51,800 the way they devote their assets to the, to the overall salary 385 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:53,800 structure of the team. It's just not congruent with 386 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,720 what what it should be. And it got it so easy just to go 387 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,760 back to Cashman. It's exhausting, but it's 388 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,760 accurate because he's the one who's built the team. 389 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,680 I don't know how you have a $330 million payroll. 390 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,560 Really think about this 330. You have no lead off hitter. 391 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 You haven't. And don't tell me, Stanton, you 392 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:18,120 have no real real true night to night, physically reliable 393 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,840 production behind the great Aaron Judge. 394 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:23,040 You know, you have guys playing out of position. 395 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,680 Yeah. Backup starting. 396 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,240 You have a bullpen. You brought in four or five guys 397 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,160 last year. One guy's already in the minors. 398 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:30,800 Go. Val's going to be on his way 399 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:31,560 out. He stinks. 400 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:34,120 So far, I like Bednar. I'm not worried about Bednar. 401 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:37,040 He's going to be. Bednar is the kind of guy that's 402 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,560 going to make you sweat a little bit, but I trust him. 403 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,240 He's got that bulldog in them. It's early, so I'm not going to 404 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,440 overreact to his numbers. And they're not pretty. 405 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,880 You know, he's the arrays in the four high in in the high fours. 406 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:51,400 But you know, I, I, I just think that a lot of these issues with 407 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:56,120 the Yankees so far are going to be problematic throughout the 408 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:59,440 entire season. I mean, think about what just 409 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,680 transpired in this four-game series with the with the Angels. 410 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,200 Number one is an amazing stat. The Yankees gave up thirteen 411 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,040 home runs in this series. And by the way, the relief 412 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:10,800 pitchers weren't the only ones culpable. 413 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,320 The starters tried in here as well. 414 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,760 So as the Yankees started the season and they had like a + 22 415 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:17,960 run differential. Now the giants aren't very good. 416 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,800 Giants can't hit. They got fat on some teams that 417 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,360 really don't have many sticks there. 418 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:24,320 But the Yankees were. I actually thought it was going 419 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,400 to be the opposite because what I was saying going into the 420 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,640 season is I really thought that the Yankee bats and I, I didn't 421 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:33,800 love the lineup based on the things that we've talked about 422 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,920 for a while. But I really did think for the 423 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:40,760 Yankees to not have a very rough April, possibly under 500 April, 424 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,440 like the offense would have to carry the starters without 425 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,760 obviously Garrett Cole and Carlos Rodan. 426 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:50,120 Did you guys see like I'm like, I'm not in the habit of a body 427 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:53,080 shaming anybody. Who the hell am I to body shame 428 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:54,960 anybody? I mean, I got pencil legs. 429 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,240 I got, you know, I got a little love handle here. 430 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,880 I don't think I look bad for 52. But I'm not some Greek God Zeus, 431 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,840 that's for damn sure. So I'm never going to body shame 432 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,120 a woman and I don't even like doing it for for men. 433 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:08,800 You know, it's just not really my thing. 434 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,280 But you're a pro athlete. So your job is to be in shape 435 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,640 and your job is to to perform. I am still trying to determine 436 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:21,160 if the photo that I saw the other day of Carlos Rodan and 437 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,640 Gerrit Cole side by side throwing in the I guess in the 438 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,480 outfield there I saw some cones. They were doing some running, 439 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,520 whatever they would do long toss flat ground. 440 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:36,480 I mean they Carlos Rodan looks like a guy who's lifting 3 kegs 441 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:40,120 into the into the frat party. He looked 35 lbs overweight. 442 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:45,640 I don't mean like 7 or 8. He looked noticeably heavy. 443 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:48,840 I mean, now, All right, You want to tell me there was a picture 444 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,560 years ago where? Oh, God, what was the headline? 445 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:56,480 God, what was the headline? There was a picture of Derek 446 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:01,160 Jeter, right? Something, oh God, I wish I 447 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,680 could remember it. It was a long time ago and he 448 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,520 was, I think he was coming back from the ankle injury and he was 449 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,440 holding a cup of coffee out. He was walking somewhere in 450 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,880 Manhattan, maybe even walking into the stadium or from his 451 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,880 car. And he looked, he looked heavy, 452 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:15,520 like he had a two or three chins. 453 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,640 And then you see him in the uniform and he looks, you know, 454 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:22,360 63 streamlined one 85190, you know, looks like a gazelle, you 455 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:25,800 know, looks like an athlete. So sometimes pictures can really 456 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,120 be unflattering. Honestly, the wind blows at the 457 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:32,240 wrong time, but it just shows every little contour of the of 458 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,800 the belly. But that was not a good look. 459 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,480 Now I don't need him. He's not playing center field. 460 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,080 I don't need him to run the bases. 461 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,480 But I mean, you know, that, that, that that was alarming. 462 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:46,520 Hopefully it's AI or hopefully it's doctored because I, I, I 463 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,560 mean, Carlo Rodan is a big, strong, sturdy dude anyway. 464 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,880 But to me, like that looked like a guy who was coming off, he's 465 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:56,400 coming up on arm injury, obvious. 466 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,120 And then he hurt his hamstring a week or so ago. 467 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,840 But he looked like a guy who had a lower extremity injury who 468 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,480 couldn't do cardio and couldn't get on a bike or treadmill, let 469 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,400 alone jog or Sprint or do poles in the outfield for a year. 470 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,320 I mean, he really, I mean, I don't really know what to expect 471 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,600 from Rodon. What's up, Jay? 472 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:17,560 No, I mean, we've, we've got a call. 473 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,400 We've got James from Hoboken. So whenever you're ready. 474 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,480 Let's get him up. Let's get him up there, brother. 475 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:25,600 I'd like to see the name. It makes it very. 476 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,360 There you go. We'll figure all that stuff out. 477 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:28,840 James is in Hoboken. Jimmy. 478 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:30,520 BT unleashed. What's going on, buddy? 479 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,600 How are you AT? How you doing, man? 480 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:33,800 Huge fan. I'm good. 481 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,440 Thank you, James. I appreciate that and thanks for 482 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:36,360 making the call. What's going on? 483 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:38,920 Yeah, absolutely. Real quick on the on the on the 484 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,400 draft with The Jets. I know they're targeting 485 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,200 possibly a wide receiver with that second pick. 486 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,600 How about moving up and maybe looking at this kid, Mansour, 487 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,520 Delaney from LS, quarterback, LS, yeah, 'cause they have a lot 488 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,480 of needs, but obviously quarterback's one of them. 489 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,760 You know, they do their corners think their safety, The Jets 490 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,720 think. I mean, I mean, really, James, 491 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,440 if you think about this outside of most of the offensive line, 492 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,120 which is a good thing, that's the one thing about The Jets 493 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:07,480 now, all these years, they're like they're looking for their 494 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,200 quarterback and they're looking for this and looking for an 495 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,040 hedge rusher and looking for a linebacker. 496 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,080 At least this draft. James, The Jets don't have to. 497 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,520 I think that there's a chance they take a guard like an 498 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,720 interior lineman maybe in Round 4, but they don't have to devote 499 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,120 an early resource to that because their own line is of the 500 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:25,240 top ten in football. So. 501 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,280 So that's at least encouraging. I do like D'alene. 502 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,840 I was talking about him the other night on The Jets 503 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,360 Collector with myself and Rich Simini and Jake Asman. 504 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,920 I don't know if they would do that at 16. 505 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:36,440 So that. Yeah. 506 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,680 Do you let me ask you this. So 216, obviously second round 507 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,200 pick as well. When when you look at The Jets 508 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,040 second pick here, number one, are you married to a name? 509 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,120 We all know it's Bailey or Reese, or at least that's the 510 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:49,520 belief. Are you married to a certain 511 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:50,200 guy, too? What? 512 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,520 What do you want them to do? Yeah, definitely one of those 513 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,840 two guys that was wavering back and forth. 514 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,640 Which one? Because obviously Reese has more 515 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,760 upside, you know, and Bailey has, you know, he has more 516 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,240 college production. He does. 517 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,120 So it depends on what you want, what you want. 518 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:08,600 I think. I think I'd probably edge toward 519 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:09,800 Reese. OK. 520 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:11,120 Yeah. Yeah. 521 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:13,960 Because of the potential. I vacillate on this. 522 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,120 And James, thanks for the call, man. 523 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:17,200 Thank you very much. You got him. 524 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,720 I was in Hoboken last night, and I told you, Dino and Harry's the 525 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,160 best spot around. What a meal I was in hobo. 526 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,480 We used to live in Hoboken. I used to see Eli when he lived 527 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:26,360 in the. Was that the mat? 528 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:27,400 You can get the. Thank you, Jay. 529 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,560 I think he was. I think Eli was in the Maxwell 530 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,480 building. And we were up in the shipyards. 531 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,600 We had just gotten engaged, and we used to see Eli and his wife 532 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,080 pushing the stroller all the time. 533 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,800 We used to go to the Hudson Tavern. 534 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,480 My at that point, my fiance and I, I sit outside and Eli would, 535 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,960 we probably saw him 7-8 times pushing the stroller. 536 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:46,680 What is such a good guy? I, I don't want to bother him, 537 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,080 but you know, I said hi a few times, but just a sweetheart of 538 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,040 a dude. Love. 539 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,640 I absolutely love hope and Hoboken. 540 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:57,760 We had a great time there. Listen, I, I, I think that 541 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,320 there's, this is probably going to sound weird because I'm 542 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,760 probably going to hit you with five scenarios here, but I 543 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,080 really do think there's so many different things that Jets can 544 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:09,120 do as I prioritize now, I do think that there's a really good 545 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:11,960 chance they trade off of 16, whether it's up or back, I don't 546 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,480 know. I think Dallas at 12 and 20 is a 547 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,560 player. I think the Arizona Cardinals 548 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,720 can make a trade. You know, I saw some, you know, 549 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,640 fairly, you know, reputable people put some mocks out where 550 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,080 they've got the Cardinals make it a trade. 551 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,440 I don't know if it was their third pick, but another trade 552 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,760 with Miami back into the first round, maybe move in, get Ty 553 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,200 Simpson, maybe get their quarterback. 554 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,720 Jets aren't touching Ty Simpson. Not going to happen. 555 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,440 Not that I would go crazy if if it did, but there is nothing 556 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,720 unless they are just the most suddenly the most covert 557 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,720 operation and there's no leagues and there aren't any leagues, 558 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,840 which actually is a good sign that The Jets building is 559 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,360 getting a little healthy finally, Jets aren't taking Ty 560 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:53,480 Simpson. So I would like to see them 561 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,960 trade off of 2 and scoot down a couple of spots. 562 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,360 But we all know you got to have somebody to dance with. 563 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:00,840 I'm I could I've been saying for three weeks, trade down, trade 564 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,040 down, trade down, trade out of two and get Sonny Styles trade 565 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,720 out of two and get Caleb Downs trade out of two. 566 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,480 And you know, maybe get Bailey or or Ruben Bain if you want 567 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,120 that edge rusher from Miami, short arms and all. 568 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,240 I as much as I want them to trade out of two, I don't think 569 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,600 it's really as plausible as I make it just because the way 570 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,040 that I think the draft is going to go. 571 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:24,760 I think the draft really starts at 3 now. 572 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,200 Obviously we'll see who The Jets take. 573 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,080 And it does seem like it's going to be Bailey or Reece. 574 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,040 They canceled the meeting with Bailey, one of the 30 visits. 575 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:34,680 And you listen, this is basic stuff. 576 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,320 Everybody's saying this, but it means they either love them and 577 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,400 they're taking them or they're sold on Reece and they're not 578 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,280 taking Bailey. Why waste time? 579 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,320 But I would I would throw this in, and I said this on The Jets 580 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,120 collective show the other night, like at least play the game a 581 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:50,800 little bit longer. Now, if it was a logistical 582 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,200 thing and like Bailey couldn't make it or The Jets had to do 583 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,240 some other stuff, All right, do what you got to do. 584 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,080 You know how you have to run your war room. 585 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:03,000 But to me, the more you play the game and the more you present a 586 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:07,240 lack of commitment to a certain player that that could that 587 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,760 could inspire a team that we're not even thinking about right 588 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,520 now. Maybe the Saints or the Chiefs 589 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,800 at 9 or whatever it might be. The Commanders have been linked 590 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,280 to The Jets. Maybe they swap 16 and seven. 591 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,000 And then obviously Washington, we get more Jets scoot in. 592 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,360 They take one of the receivers. I mean, listen, guys, and I 593 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:29,560 think most people have a Tyson. If that's the case, if they do 594 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,960 do, if they do that at #7 if The Jets walk away with, with Bailey 595 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,960 or Reese and who they perceive to be the top receiver, I mean, 596 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,480 it, it's going to be hard to criticize it at least on draft 597 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,200 night. Now, it's ultimately got to come 598 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,720 to fruition and it's got to work itself out. 599 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:51,320 But I, I really think, I think, and it started to change a 600 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,280 little bit, but I thought for a long time that the first 601 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,560 scenario would be at 2 again, just for the sake of this 602 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:58,680 conference. No trades, right? 603 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,200 2 defense, 16 defense. Then the other situation would 604 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,640 be absolutely, there's no way they're not taking defense at 2. 605 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,640 So defensive 2 and then receiver at 16. 606 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:15,240 The other thing that you can do, I would love to see now Samini 607 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,000 said the other night that he thinks it would take maybe 3 or 608 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,800 4 spots if The Jets get whomever they covered, covered more 609 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,320 defensive numbers on defensive #2 and they make a move a few 610 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,360 slots up to get Sadiq, the tight end from Oregon. 611 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,760 I mean, now you start to cook because you know eventually The 612 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,640 Jets will find their their quarterback, whenever that is. 613 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:40,600 And to me, if you go into, you know, next year and Sadiq is 614 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,200 what everybody thinks he's going to be, and you've got, you know, 615 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,480 basically a wide receiver playing tight end who's a 616 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:51,000 matchup nightmare for anybody. Well, suddenly The Jets offense 617 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,200 with a really good offensive line with Breeze Hall, Brandon 618 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:59,000 Allen back, Garrett Wilson and Mason Taylor as a tight end 2 at 619 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,720 that point and Rucker can come in and block. 620 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,240 Obviously they gave him an extension, a small one, but I 621 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,040 like Ruckerd and then a tight end like Sadiq. 622 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,840 Well, now you got to pick some poisons and now Garrett Wilson's 623 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,400 going to be open a lot. And if he and not to mention, 624 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,920 you know, Wilson, you know, AD like they there was the receiver 625 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:20,720 room is thin, but their vertical game can change fast if they 626 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,280 wind up getting somebody like Sadiq. 627 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,680 The other thing that you could do and you you absolutely could 628 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,200 go corner at #16 if you stayed there. 629 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,960 So I'm pumped up and and I'm excited and I'm always hopeful 630 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,920 for The Jets. You guys know that the whole 631 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,640 unkillable thing on the fan, you're not going to kill us. 632 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,120 Aaron Rodgers went down. He didn't kill us last night. 633 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,000 We were unkillable. Let's say it's the mantra. 634 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:47,400 It's the mantra that I that I adopted a long time ago because 635 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,000 I I just can't walk around like a loser. 636 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:51,960 Just stop walking around work like a loser. 637 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,400 What a nut job. That that wasn't, that was 638 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,320 insanity. That that whatever you want to 639 00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:02,040 call that 2 minute explosion out of body, not even really knowing 640 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,520 what I said. Crazy nut job delivery. 641 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,960 But you know, I finally watched it because we played it. 642 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,320 I had never listened to the whole thing in its entirety. 643 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,600 I saw a lot of clips and I was like, God, jeez, the hood, you 644 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,120 standing there, you're punching the desk. 645 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,280 What are you doing, man? I mean, look at what this team 646 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,160 is doing to you. I mean, you're at that .51 year 647 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,480 old out of your mind, crazy person because The Jets. 648 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,360 So I am. If you're new to the show. 649 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,600 I think I'm a unique Jet fan. I think my Jet fandom is unique 650 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,040 because I'm a Yankee fan. And while I'm a very, I think 651 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,440 I'm a very realistic Yankee fan. Like right now this team ain't 652 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,160 winning anything and I didn't think that they were going to 653 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,520 win last year either. But the Yankee winning 654 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,480 throughout my lifetime has made me less miserable as I attack my 655 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,840 football team. So I'm always hopeful and I 656 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,880 always go with the seasons optimistically. 657 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,600 I try, I skew that. I don't even try to. 658 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,880 I just, it's like my default. I naturally skew that way. 659 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,440 And then once they give me evidence to the contrary, I 660 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,720 become an unhinged, deranged lunatic. 661 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,960 And I'll bash and bury The Jets as aggressively as anybody. 662 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,600 But I really do believe that my hope for this franchise is 663 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,880 finally rooted in a little bit of reality. 664 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,120 Because I think The Jets have their general manager. 665 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:21,040 I really, really believe in Muji now, like, like Douglas, like 666 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,320 Joe, who drafted a lot of good players, many of whom are God at 667 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,160 this point. But I mean, that man brought in 668 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,640 boatloads of talent. He just never found this 669 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,440 quarterback. Ultimately, Mooji is going to 670 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,640 have to find this quarterback. But whether it's, you know, 671 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,400 inside the margins, those little back of the roster transactions 672 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,240 during the season, you know, other team scraps, taxi players, 673 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,760 finding guys who can kick you, who can return kicks and in the 674 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,000 punt game. Jets had the best special teams 675 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,040 unit a year ago. Like it was really the only good 676 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,120 thing truly that they did. And they did cut the penalties 677 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,240 back a little bit. But Aaron Glenn to me is a very 678 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,760 separate entity. I don't believe he's tied to 679 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,720 Mooji. I do believe that they are 680 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,600 principled in the same things. There's been a lot of talk like, 681 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,920 and this really goes to Bailey or The Jets going to do 682 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,440 something in the draft to help there and they like increase the 683 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,280 chances to win now because the pressure's on. 684 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,400 They got to win. Glenn's coming off an awful 685 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,400 season and if they're one in six, he might get fired and 686 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,480 probably will get fired during the season and certainly at the 687 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,080 end of the season. I think Muji is several, you 688 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,760 know, floors not in the penthouse, but, you know, right 689 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,040 now you got Aaron Glenn in the outhouse, and at least Muji's in 690 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,880 a pretty decent apartment. Yeah, it's furnished. 691 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,320 He's got running water. Like, I think it's different, 692 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,560 but I think Muji is really good. I do. 693 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,200 What's up there, Jay? We got John from Fort Hood. 694 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:47,280 Texas with a oh, I'm Texas in the house about a little G men 695 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:48,800 stuff. I believe John used to call the 696 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,440 fan quite a bit. Can we get the name up there and 697 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:54,880 make it official as we deal? Yeah, you go look at J Rod all 698 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,800 over Johnny's in Fort Hood, TX. I was just in Texas throwing out 699 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,720 the first pitch for the Rangers on Easter Sunday. 700 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,520 It was not a strike, but the Velo is good. 701 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,520 John, what's happening, buddy? Welcome to UNLEASH. 702 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,000 How you doing? Thanks for making the call. 703 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,160 Hey, what's going on, BT? Big fan over. 704 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,120 Here. Thank you buddy. 705 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,120 What's you used to call the fan a lot, didn't you? 706 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,960 Is this that? No, I think you got me mistaken 707 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,000 for somebody else. My bad, I'm all good. 708 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,360 We got a new fan here. What's up dude? 709 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,320 Not much. I did listen to you and Sal 710 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,080 every day on The Fan and you know, sad to see you guys go, 711 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:24,720 but I'd love to see what you're doing here on YouTube. 712 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,200 I appreciate that, man. Thank you. 713 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,080 What's happening? No problem, no problem. 714 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,600 So my question is, so if you're the Giants, right, they got 715 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,400 decks, they got decks under contract for another two years. 716 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,160 Yep. You don't want to give them away 717 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,160 for peanuts, but you also don't want him moping around and 718 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,760 bringing negativity to the locker room. 719 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,040 Yep. So what do you do? 720 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,160 I'm trading him. He's out. 721 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,920 I said that, yes, I don't know if you called the show yet and I 722 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,520 want, I want your opinion as well, but that's my honest 723 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,880 answer. That's what I would do and 724 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:53,200 that's what I believe is going to happen. 725 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,720 And and I said this during the show yesterday. 726 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,680 If you guys missed it, go check out the channel. 727 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,920 And then after the show, some more news came out where 728 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,680 basically seems like it's a done deal as long as the Giants could 729 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,680 get what they're asking. Like you're not going to give 730 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,160 him away for $0.60 on the dollar. 731 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,520 He's too good. Even though he's coming off a 732 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,280 bum year, out of shape, not a lot of production, he's still 733 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,400 when he's right, he's one of the three best interior or 4 best 734 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,080 interior defensive line of the football. 735 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,560 And when he's really right, he's one or two. 736 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,840 Like we all know that Dexter Lawrence is that guy. 737 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,560 He is not getting a new contract for the Giants. 738 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:25,880 You can take that one to the bank. 739 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,520 Now it seems like he doesn't even want one, which tells me he 740 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,159 is. He is mentally checked out. 741 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,800 And because he seemed physically checked out last year, now 742 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,520 you've got the mental aspect. He's going to be an ex Giant. 743 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,600 That's what's going to happen. What do you think, John? 744 00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:44,679 I hear you, BT but I just, I can't see them giving them away 745 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:47,239 for peanuts. I feel like unless they can get 746 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:50,639 a deep, you know, at least a first round draft pick in there, 747 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,040 maybe a third or something like that. 748 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:55,320 I'm, I'm not, I'm not doing the trade. 749 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,360 And if we can't get a deal like that, he's got two years left on 750 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,040 his deal. He's going to suck it up and and 751 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,880 play because he's not going to sit out for two years. 752 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,520 No, he's definitely not. I mean, now we get into the the 753 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,040 age 30 and when you're a big man like that being even though of 754 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,640 course he could train, but being inactive and not being in a 755 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,800 team's building for two years, he might come back 400 lbs. 756 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,640 I mean, so all right, so John I that the problem is there's a 757 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,560 couple things here. Number one, does he let let's, 758 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,760 let's go checkpoint by checkpoint #1 do you believe 759 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,520 that he truly wants out? Yes or no? 760 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,440 I think he wants to get paid more than anything. 761 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:30,960 I think that's his number one priority. 762 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,800 OK, I I bet that's I would agree with that. 763 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,000 But because I think he he knows he's not, he's not feeling that 764 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,840 love from the giants. I think the the first pursuit, 765 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,240 which is always monetary legion, we got to we got to got to put 766 00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:45,360 food on the table, man. I get it's all about the money. 767 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,320 But now that he feels that the giants are not going to do what 768 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,200 he wants now I believe he wants no part of them now. 769 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,000 I believe he's angry. I think the first declaration, 770 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,800 the first trade request was him playing the business game. 771 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,680 I think what we saw yesterday was him saying I'm done with 772 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,720 being a New York Giants. So that that's my opinion. 773 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:06,840 I got yours. Number one, that's the Dexter 774 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:12,200 angle #2 Do you believe that the Giants are now actively either 775 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,200 looking to or will be willing to trade him, Yes or no? 776 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,240 I believe so. Yes, me too. 777 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,960 That is easy to interpret. We're on the same page there, 778 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:24,480 number 3, and this is really what's going to either determine 779 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,440 if he's gone or not. What's the lowest amount of 780 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,720 draft capital that you would take in return? 781 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,120 There has to be a first in there somewhere. 782 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:34,720 No matter, no matter how you slice it. 783 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:37,400 I can't. I can't trade them for 1/3 and 784 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,320 1/5 and something. I can't do it. 785 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:40,560 Yeah. No, I'm with you on that. 786 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,720 Low first. There has to be a first in there 787 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:43,560 somewhere. OK. 788 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,760 Well, I think there, I think there's 5050 that you get a 789 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,440 first round. Now he's on back into the you're 790 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,480 not getting inside the top 16 or like, OK, so let's at least get 791 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,080 some separation first part of the first round back half. 792 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,880 I think there's a good chance or at least maybe not good. 793 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,240 I think there's a chance that somebody what it's all said and 794 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:05,520 done would acquiesce. And whether it's 182023 795 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,200 somewhere in that vicinity, I believe that that would happen. 796 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,680 But if that doesn't happen, would you take two twos? 797 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,800 Because I would. Two tubes? 798 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,080 Yep. Yeah, I might have to take that 799 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:17,240 deal. Yeah, All right, man. 800 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,320 We're on the same page. By the way, you are you in the 801 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,000 military, John. I am. 802 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,880 God bless you brother. Awesome, I. 803 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,920 Appreciate that. I we appreciate your service. 804 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,120 Thanks for making the call. Salute to John Fort Hood salute 805 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:29,480 to everybody out there in Fort Hood. 806 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,040 So look what do we have 3 or 4 calls we already? 807 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:33,800 We got another great state of Texas. 808 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:35,840 Is already John. Then we got Bob. 809 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,360 Who do you got? From Bob this we got Bobby. 810 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,600 From Oh yeah, Bobby. Yeah, a little in New York. 811 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,040 I live in New Jersey. Little Texas. 812 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:48,120 Bobby is up next on on leash. Bobby, what's going on on up in 813 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,080 Vermont? What's up dude? 814 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,920 I get excited when I call it to you. 815 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,000 You're the best, I think. And you remember. 816 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,080 That WN didn't think so, but I I appreciate that you. 817 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:03,160 Did oh I know one person that did not like me from WFRN, the 818 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:10,720 guy who was bald in the morning with the Geo and boomer. 819 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,400 You know him he did not like. Of course. 820 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,080 Yeah. Boomer's the best Jerry. 821 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,840 That's about Jerry's. I love Jerry. 822 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:21,040 Now who is the guy in the back, Al Dukes, who puts you on? 823 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,800 Oh, oh, Al, the producer. Oh, my God. 824 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,040 No, no, yeah, I don't think he doesn't. 825 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,000 He doesn't like phone calls, so he doesn't like what's going on, 826 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,800 man, that's what. He's doing his job, He's got to 827 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,160 do his job. He's a good producer. 828 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,400 I I got you, I got you. He just doesn't like bobbing for 829 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,160 a month, but I do. So that's good news for Bobby 830 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,560 and Vermont. What's on your mind, buddy? 831 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:43,600 Let's get to it. What do you got? 832 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,360 Do you think the Giants could get love as a running back? 833 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,440 Get a get a, I'm sorry, a running back. 834 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:53,680 Love, Jeremiah. Love. 835 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,760 Yeah. Love. 836 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:56,880 Yeah. Love. 837 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,960 Yeah. I got you As what? 838 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,360 I just want to make sure I heard you properly. 839 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,200 Thank you for the call, Bobby. Thank you very much. 840 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,320 That's that's a confounding one right there. 841 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,800 That is, I don't think the giants have taken him. 842 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,840 I know they're I know they're attached to him a little bit. 843 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:16,600 I think the giants, the initial thought and it's still pretty 844 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,200 strong for me. I've always thought Caleb Downs 845 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,240 for the giants. You know, horribaugh was raving 846 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:25,320 about him on Mike Frances podcast, right? 847 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,960 And he said it somewhere else. You know, he loves those 848 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,400 safeties that could flip fields. He's always had one that can 849 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,080 make plays there. He knows the importance there. 850 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,440 I also do think that there's a chance the Giants go offensive 851 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,120 line, you know, and I talked about The Jets. 852 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,440 I don't think they're taking a receiver. 853 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,560 One thing like you look at a couple of early thoughts about 854 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,520 like what the Giants could do with the draft here. 855 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,680 And I'm going back like a month or two ago and it really started 856 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,280 with downs and then Sonny Styles worked out and and his tape is 857 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,760 really good as well. But Sonny Styles crushed the 858 00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,200 combine. So you started hearing some 859 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,560 Sonny Styles from Ohio State. You heard a few people say, and 860 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,320 this I just vehemently disagree. This to me makes no sense. 861 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,920 I've heard some people say, well, Malik neighbors, you know, 862 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,160 it's not going to be Malik neighbors early in the season. 863 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,200 So draft a wide receiver. No, you, you got to you got to 864 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:16,760 think and there's some really good ones. 865 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,000 You got to think big picture. You're not taking a you're not 866 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,840 taking a receiver because Malik neighbors will be rusty and not 867 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,720 fully back to being Malik neighbors for the first month of 868 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:31,000 the season. Giants got to think big picture. 869 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,400 There's no pressure on the Giants. 870 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,120 You know, Babel's gone chains pretty much a yes man at this 871 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,800 point. No, no disrespect, but does 872 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,720 anybody really think Joe Shane's got any sort of say on what the 873 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:44,680 Giants do on draft night? I mean, let's just go, let's 874 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:48,240 transport ourselves into the Giants draft room. 875 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:53,120 All right, Six days from now and John Horribaugh wants Caleb 876 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,520 Downs or Fanu, say the offensive lineman from Utah just throwing 877 00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,880 names out or, you know, he thinks they could trade down and 878 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,160 still get maybe a styles, maybe a Downs, maybe another old 879 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,160 lineman, maybe even a corner, though I don't think that 880 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,320 they'll go corner. I don't think. 881 00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:09,840 I think The Jets are more inclined to go corner early than 882 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,840 the Giants, to be fair. But any disagreement? 883 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,560 Now, I'm not saying they're going to be yelling at each 884 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,360 other here, but Joe Shane's not going to get his way. 885 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:23,320 He's not, you know, and the first little personal flare up 886 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,240 or real true disagreement, whether it's about decks, 887 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:29,080 whether it's about somebody to draft, It seems like it was 888 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,920 pretty smooth and free agency so far. 889 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,200 You know, then eventually Joe Shane's going to be gone and 890 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,520 John Horbaugh is going to bring in one of his own John Horbaugh 891 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,480 show. He got a boatload of cash. 892 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,040 He's got a million years behind it. 893 00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:45,160 He's a Super Bowl winning coach. The Giants are a disaster. 894 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,440 He's got world, you know, worldwide, sure, but league wide 895 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,240 respect, it's whatever he wants, he's going to get because Mara 896 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:55,160 is going to give him because John Mara is smart enough, 897 00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:57,640 unlike Woody, who was an awful owner. 898 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,520 And not that John Mara has been a very good owner to the last 899 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,920 couple of years, starting with Coughlin walking off the stage 900 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,400 and that icy relationship and some other stuff. 901 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,560 I don't need to, you know, re litigate the entire, you know, 902 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,800 mess the Giants have been. We all know what it's been. 903 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,880 But John Mara's history is 1. And and of course, his dad, the 904 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,640 great Mara family, Wellington is one of, you know, rich, steep 905 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,480 winning, you know, not only winning, but consistency and 906 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:26,160 stability and like, without drama, you know, the Odell 907 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,680 Beckham stuff at the end with Coughlin and, you know, just 908 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,960 recycling coaches. And are Gino's going to start 909 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,880 for Eli? He's just wow. 910 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:38,600 So I do think that John Mara is smart enough to, even though he 911 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,120 knows football, he's a football man. 912 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,080 You know, he's smart enough to know. 913 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,320 All right, I got the guy in here that I just gave all those terms 914 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,200 to. He's got the hammer. 915 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,080 It's his show. And I'm laying out, you know, 916 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,400 like, the only thing that you will have to run by me is how 917 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:54,920 much money we're willing to spend. 918 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:56,600 And the Giants have never been cheap. 919 00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:00,200 So I think the Giants are in a very healthy situation, number 920 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,880 one at 5. I think they could trade back 921 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,440 because I think they'll be enticement from teams behind. 922 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,560 Like, listen, I think the Saints are going defense. 923 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,160 I don't really know what the I think the commanders are almost 924 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,480 a lock to make a trade at 7:00. But I think the Saints are going 925 00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:19,360 D and I think the chiefs based on, you know, some of their 926 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,400 older stars and you know, Mahomes, not that he's old, but 927 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,360 he's coming off a big injury. There's only a finite window to 928 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,520 win so many champions. Andy Reid's not young. 929 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:31,280 I, I, I could see some of those teams like in that seven through 930 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:37,240 10 ish window, if they love downs and the giants love downs 931 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:41,080 or styles or, or somebody else, I could see the giants scooting 932 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,840 back a few slots, getting some more capital and still, you 933 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,040 know, getting a massive pick. So I, I think the giants are a 934 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,320 good book. The giants feel healthy. 935 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,680 You know, I think they're getting back to their stable 936 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,480 ways, which is, which is a great thing, which is a really good 937 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,280 thing. J Rod now J Rod, did you see 938 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,120 what's up? Sorry, we're dealing with some 939 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:06,240 with some stuff in the backstage. 940 00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:08,240 Trying to just figure out some kinks. 941 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,440 Oh. Yeah, no, we're good. 942 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:12,920 We're good. It's just like a, it's just like 943 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,200 a mic thing. Oh, OK, yeah, but it's still 944 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:17,440 working, right? We're still showing we're no. 945 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:19,480 We're good. We're good. 946 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,040 All right. We're about to have Brian up in 947 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,520 just a second. OK, you. 948 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,720 Yep, you just put it up on the screen when he's ready to roll. 949 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,720 Boy, how good is it this now, not from a Yankee perspective, 950 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,600 but if you love baseball and you just love greatness, how could 951 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,760 you not be so happy for Mike Trout? 952 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,360 I'm of this Mike Trout kick because my son played in 953 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,120 Melville. I told you last weekend, 954 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,360 Melville, New Jersey on Mike Trout's, you know little at the 955 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,720 Little League facility that Mike Trout must have hit 900 956 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:50,800 gazillion home runs and broke 37,000 windshields in the 957 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,120 parking lot. My goodness. 958 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,880 So, I mean, I've always loved Mike Trout, man. 959 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:59,920 He's such a low maintenance superstar who just has been 960 00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:03,000 decimated with injuries and you know it. 961 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,880 It is easy. It is easy to forget how, 962 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:12,160 depending upon how old you are, just how transcendently great he 963 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,200 really was. Like, let me just hit you with a 964 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,600 couple of we all know he's got the three MVPS, right? 965 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,880 So he burst on the scene as a young kid with a football body 966 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,360 and a football mentality, thick thighs, thick neck. 967 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,160 Like he looks like a linebacker. You remember when they would 968 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,840 show like in the 8, Like I remember when I first started 969 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,680 watching college football in the 80s and the 90s, they would have 970 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,280 like that And they, well, they still do it, but I just, I think 971 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,040 it just looked different back then because it did with the 972 00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,520 graphics and and the, you know, evolution of TV. 973 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,920 But they would have like, say the linebackers, right, 974 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,160 Depending upon if you go with three or four and they're like 975 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,000 Oklahoma, right, you'd see like 3 linebackers, 4 linebackers and 976 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,000 like Bosworth would have that neck thing, you know, like that 977 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,200 little white neck thing. Now they have other stuff like 978 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,360 they've got the almost like a roll up, but that old school 979 00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:57,840 neck thing. I don't know really what the 980 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:02,120 neck collar if you played football like to me like that's, 981 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,280 I look at my Trout, I see old school football linebacker neck 982 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,840 collar. And probably also a dude who had 983 00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,280 27 touchdowns and ran for 1900 yards in high school as a 984 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:16,160 running back that nobody wanted to or could tackle or catch 985 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:20,080 because he's got blinding speed. So he he just always projected 986 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,920 this quiet football intensity. He's got a football body, but 987 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,760 man, he has been sidetracked with the injuries. 988 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,560 But when he started out rookie of the year, that's obviously a 989 00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:32,600 lot. 3 Mbps, right? 9 Silver Sluggers and he hasn't 990 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,240 really had one in a while. 11 All Stars. 991 00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,600 But the most amazing thing about Mike Trout, you know, and, and 992 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,720 Judge has a couple of 2nd place finishes as well. 993 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:46,160 Mike Trout has four second place MVP finishes. 4 right? 994 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,360 And he's got, he also has a fourth and a fifth place finish. 995 00:46:49,720 --> 00:46:52,000 And then I was just, you know, and I knew most of the numbers. 996 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,520 But because he was playing the Yankees and because he had five 997 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,880 home runs and because he went nuts and because he looks like 998 00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:01,840 he's 27 all of a sudden instead of 34 or 33, he had a five year 999 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:06,200 run consecutively where he, he led Major League Baseball in OPS 1000 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:10,400 plus and he had five other years where he led Major League 1001 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:15,320 Baseball in WAR. Now I don't, I kind of wish the 1002 00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,760 Angels were awful #1 the Yankees would have gotten a few more 1003 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,720 wins here. But like, if they mess around 1004 00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:22,440 and they're competitive, they're not going to trade Mike Trout. 1005 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,760 But man, I mean, if you could just take Mike Trout and dump 1006 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,840 him in the middle of the Bronx, right? 1007 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,120 And then really what you could do is you could keep Mike in 1008 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:37,720 center and kick Grisham to left and put Bellinger at first base 1009 00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:40,160 and have Ben Rice DH and catch a little bit with wells. 1010 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,800 I mean, now you now you're talking when Gerrit Cole and 1011 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,160 Rodan come back and Schlittler and Max free Max free labored. 1012 00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:50,360 Yesterday I was watching the game and I heard Kay say Michael 1013 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,520 say that at at this point, the game 9 of of the only hit 9 of 1014 00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,640 22 or 9 of 23 first pitch strike. 1015 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,320 So and and O'Neill was saying he didn't really have a feel for 1016 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,320 any pitch. So he kept them in the game. 1017 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,440 I mean, obviously, because that's what great pitchers do 1018 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,680 when you don't have your race stuff, even if you're going out 1019 00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:10,040 there B minus, you'll find a way to figure stuff out, get some 1020 00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,160 outs and give yourself A-Team, give your team a chance to kick 1021 00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,520 their way to a win. So you got to respect that. 1022 00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,440 But you know, watching the Angels, I'm like, all right, 1023 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,480 they got a couple of players and all right, they're not going to 1024 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,120 be terrible. But if they do morph back into 1025 00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,760 being terrible like they've been for years now, I mean, you have, 1026 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,240 and not just the Yankees, but you have to approach the Angels 1027 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:32,480 about trading for Mike Trout. Now he's got a lot of a lot of 1028 00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:36,520 years to go and a lot of money, $37,000,000 a year. 1029 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:40,880 So he's got all this year obviously, and he's got 272829 1030 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:45,760 and 30 at $37,000,000 a year. Now, is that palatable for the 1031 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,760 Yankees financially? I mean, it should be. 1032 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,600 Would it be? Probably not. 1033 00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,040 But think about all that plagues the Yankees offense right now. 1034 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,600 Think about that. And then think about how much it 1035 00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:01,160 changes if you've got #1 he's a righty, which the Yankees 1036 00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,480 desperately need for balance, OK? 1037 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,160 And he is a stud, which the Yankees desperately need to 1038 00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,240 eventually, you know, maybe be able to match the Dodgers, who 1039 00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:13,000 are on their own planet so far. Like, the Dodgers are the only 1040 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,160 team that's distinguished themselves as an awesome team so 1041 00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,760 far. Everybody else is, you know, 11 1042 00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:23,320 and 912 and 10, you know, into outside of the Rockies and like, 1043 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:27,600 and the Mets and one other team, like the winning percentage of 1044 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,960 like 3335% is a lot of 500 teams. 1045 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,920 So it's early. I don't know that the Angels 1046 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,680 will be hanging around for a wild card in two or three 1047 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,560 months. But if they're not, I mean, you 1048 00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,200 got to kick that door down and and you've got to entice them 1049 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,080 with, you know, even if it's one of these young flamethrowers 1050 00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:45,880 that you don't want to give up, you're not going to give up 1051 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,120 Lombard at this point. But who looks awesome? 1052 00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,560 Take whatever else you want because as I've said and many 1053 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:55,600 have said, they owe Aaron Judge. They owe Aaron Judge a massive 1054 00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,080 swing. And just think about the the 1055 00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:02,240 lineup and the defensive alignment, Judge and right grout 1056 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:05,920 and center, Grisham and left. Or you can even go you go 1057 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,120 Bellinger, Trout, Judge and then you keep Rice at first. 1058 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,680 Or if you want to have a great defensive first baseman instead 1059 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,480 of somebody who's learning the game, who I think will be he's 1060 00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,480 been competent so far. It's been OK. 1061 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,880 And he's a hell of a hitter. But you go belly at first base, 1062 00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:25,120 Judge, Trout, Grisham, you know, And then if it's just man, I 1063 00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:26,480 mean, that's probably wishful thinking. 1064 00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,880 I know probably one of these delusional thoughts. 1065 00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:32,480 Find a way to get Mike Trout. Anybody can say that, but very 1066 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:37,120 rare that singularly one person would change so much about the 1067 00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,160 way we perceive A-Team. Think about that lineup and 1068 00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,920 think about that fear factor. You got to navigate a healthy 1069 00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:49,000 Judge and a healthy Trout and then those other, obviously Rice 1070 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,680 and obviously Bellinger. It's different. 1071 00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,720 Look, all right, Jay, what do you got coal wise buddy? 1072 00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:54,480 Get them up. All right. 1073 00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,360 So I think this guy's experiencing difficulty, so 1074 00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,960 we're probably just going to shift to the next caller. 1075 00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:03,480 So give me just a second. OK, OK. 1076 00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,800 All good. By the way, I see the chats are 1077 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,320 still flowing here. That's really nice. 1078 00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:09,320 You know what? You're right. 1079 00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,920 Virtual discourse put that up. The Padres are also hot. 1080 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,640 Yeah, and the Padres started very, very poorly. 1081 00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:16,280 You can get that up there, Jay. It's all good. 1082 00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,040 Which? One's the virtual. 1083 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,800 Discourse. One I just read it. 1084 00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,800 I yeah, that's OK. Yeah, they're red hot. 1085 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:24,480 I thought you had a super chat up there. 1086 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:31,480 There you go at Christa, Chris Christmasis. 1087 00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,920 That's a tough one to say, Chris. 1088 00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,800 Mitt, sis one O 2. Thank you, Chris. 1089 00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,360 Take a look at the Mets lineup. Big changes. 1090 00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:40,720 Really big. What? 1091 00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:42,520 What is the Mets? So it's out already. 1092 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:43,240 Hold on. Wait. 1093 00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:45,760 Yeah, they're playing the Cubbies here. 1094 00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:49,160 Let me get a look at this Mets lineup and do this here. 1095 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:51,240 Oh, man. What do we got? 1096 00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:52,800 What do we got? Yeah, I mean, the Mets better 1097 00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:54,920 start changing things up. I mean, they've been rolling out 1098 00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,080 that the Mets. Wow. 1099 00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,000 It is. It is going to be a thin, thin 1100 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,480 rope that is fraying here for Mendoza. 1101 00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,440 If they don't get this thing fixed because you're not going 1102 00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,360 to get rid of Stearns in the middle of the season like that 1103 00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:10,440 might be, you know, something that they do, obviously in the 1104 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,560 offseason, which I don't even think that they would do. 1105 00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:14,480 Here it is, 7 minutes ago. Wow. 1106 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:15,880 OK. Very different. 1107 00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,400 You got Benj leading off. Wow. 1108 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,400 Yeah. There's a different one, Benj, 1109 00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,240 one. Bouchette, 2. 1110 00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:26,600 Lindoor, Louise Robert 4 Alvarez up to the five spot. 1111 00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:31,680 Melendez just called up Simeon 7 Beatty eight, who does not have 1112 00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,280 a walk yet. Brett Beatty is the only player 1113 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,760 and I like Brett Beatty, but I don't like what he's doing. 1114 00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:38,360 So far. Brett Beatty is the only player 1115 00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,880 in Major League Baseball with the, like, the requisite amount 1116 00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,080 of A bats who has not drawn a walk. 1117 00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,200 I mean, that's not 400 bats, but, you know, you've got about 1118 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,920 7065 no walk. So you got Benj Bichette Lindor, 1119 00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:56,600 Robert Alvarez, Melendez, Simeon Beatty, Taylor Sanga on the 1120 00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,400 mound, You know, Kodai Sanga, not exactly the dude you want up 1121 00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,080 there to stop the bleeding. Now, he does have high end 1122 00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,600 stuff, as we know. So maybe this is one of those 1123 00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,840 days where, you know, that that ghost pitch is just dropping to 1124 00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,200 the dirt and killing worms and guys are banging it into the 1125 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:14,040 ground and he's got 9 strikeouts and he manages a pitch count. 1126 00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,960 But yeah, also that guy who's nibbling a lot of three, two 1127 00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,320 counts, pitch count up high. You know, I don't know which way 1128 00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,280 the wind is blowing out at the rig today, but that's always a 1129 00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:28,360 variable out there in Chicago. Like they need, they need a well 1130 00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,280 pitched game. And they've had a few and 1131 00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,040 they've lost too with McClain and and even Clay Holmes. 1132 00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,440 But he's got to put up some zeros early. 1133 00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:38,560 And this, this Mets offense has like the Mets offense, 1134 00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,880 eventually they're going to have some nights where they they 1135 00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,320 start hitting. Even bad teams do. 1136 00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:45,920 And I don't think the Mets are a bad team, big picture. 1137 00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:47,640 They're just a wretched team now. 1138 00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,880 And you, you want to see what they look like when Soto's back 1139 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,640 and probably still a couple of weeks away here. 1140 00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:56,040 But the worst thing that you can do as a pitcher when your 1141 00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,960 offense is scuffling, give up two or three runs in the first 1142 00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,280 inning. Now that pressure is even more 1143 00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,440 amplified. Man, we're in the hole now. 1144 00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:05,680 You try to you're already trying to break out of your own 1145 00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,880 personal and team funk, you know, so that's like the big 1146 00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:10,600 picture. But then the story within the 1147 00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:15,920 game is that now we're down a couple here and you know, that 1148 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,080 chains getting a little tighter, that jersey feels a little 1149 00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:19,360 tighter. I don't know. 1150 00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,920 I don't, I don't really don't know what to expect from the 1151 00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,400 Mets much like I really don't know what to expect from the 1152 00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,960 Yankees right now. I think I've got more of a feel 1153 00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,560 for who the Yankees are. And I do think the Yankees are 1154 00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:31,120 better. I mean, the record says that. 1155 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,000 But in terms of talent, I I still think the Yankees are 1156 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,000 better and I'm going to eventually love their staff. 1157 00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,640 And I still think the Mets get their act together, but they 1158 00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,120 better start going here like it's it has been. 1159 00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:47,120 It's one thing when you lose and it's early, but when you lose 1160 00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:50,440 the manner in which they have now, it looks like you're not 1161 00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:53,080 dialed into the fundamentals, which obviously speaks to 1162 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,320 coaching. Now, to be fair to Carlos 1163 00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,440 Mendoza, but this is just the reality of being a coach or 1164 00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,920 manager. If you are like Mike Brown can 1165 00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,880 scream, not that he ever will, but at practice and you know, be 1166 00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,480 diligent with the grace board and watching film and his 1167 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,960 concepts are buttoned up. Say try to do something on 1168 00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:12,840 defense and the Knicks just don't do it. 1169 00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:16,320 Well, they don't do it because couple of guys out there are 1170 00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,160 fairly deficient defenders like Bronson, like Cat, whatever. 1171 00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:23,080 So you know, you you can be dialed in as a coach and your 1172 00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:26,400 guys still not do their job and eventually the buck is stopping 1173 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,840 with you. I don't think that Mendoza is 1174 00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:30,880 ignoring fundamentals. I know he's not. 1175 00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:34,240 I think he's a good baseball man who right now has a very 1176 00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:37,760 different roster. That is GM gave him that I liked 1177 00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,040 going into the offseason. I liked what the Mets did. 1178 00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,000 But that doesn't mean that I'm going to be right. 1179 00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,480 And it's really not my job to be right. 1180 00:55:44,720 --> 00:55:46,520 It's my job to react to what I'm seeing. 1181 00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,680 It's my job to react to what they do like I did during the 1182 00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,520 offseason. Yeah, I kind of like this new, 1183 00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,640 you know, love Bouchette, Polanco's interesting run 1184 00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:56,080 prevention, which is not happening. 1185 00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,080 They're only preventing themselves from scoring so far. 1186 00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,880 But I like what they did conceptually, and I reacted to 1187 00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:03,440 it. Now I'm reacting to the slop. 1188 00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,080 But they feed us nightly. They got to start playing 1189 00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:09,000 better. Let me get Rob under score. 1190 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:10,600 Huertas. What's up there, Robbie? 1191 00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:14,520 All right, BTI gave up on The Jets being at 500 for this year 1192 00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,120 already. You don't even know the 1193 00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:17,680 schedule. Come on. 1194 00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,680 I have a little optimism after all these years that we can get 1195 00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,880 one belief in interception. Yeah, I mean it. 1196 00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:25,760 It's what was the stat last year? 1197 00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:27,960 Well, we all know The Jets didn't have an interception. 1198 00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:29,600 Thank you for that, Robert. I appreciate that, man. 1199 00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,680 Generous. Jets had no interceptions. 1200 00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:36,040 Like, imagine sitting there in July, you know, whether you're 1201 00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:38,640 at a preseason game or you're on your text chain with your 1202 00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:44,200 buddies and somebody says, hey, who wants to bet 500 bucks The 1203 00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:46,640 Jets won't have a single interception the entire season? 1204 00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:49,520 I'd be like, can we make it 5000? 1205 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,960 Can we make it 50,000? Yes, I will take that bet and I 1206 00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:56,000 would have lost. So we all know about that. 1207 00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,880 But the other thing too is because Garrett Wilson got hurt, 1208 00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,520 they did not even have a wide receiver over 400 yards 1209 00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,840 receiving. Like when you talk about the 1210 00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:12,000 sad, pathetic, ghastly state of the New York Jets franchise, 1211 00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:14,960 last year really may have been the worst one yet. 1212 00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,120 It may have been because December was completely 1213 00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:22,200 unwatchable, even like the the pivot points like the the Blair 1214 00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:26,320 Thomas fumble on Monday night in Chicago or the fake spike 1215 00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:30,080 Boomers team against Miami when they lost five games in December 1216 00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:35,360 and even the one in 15 team with go tight and before that the 1217 00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:37,760 three win team. They were a little bit more 1218 00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,960 exciting to watch. At least you had like and I love 1219 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:43,440 Garrett Wilson, but you had you had Keyshawn, you had Corbett, 1220 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:45,920 you had Adrian Morrell. Then of course you had Curtis 1221 00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:47,920 and things change. But you know, you had Jumbo 1222 00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,640 Elliott, you had MO Lewis, you had Marvin Jones, you had Aaron 1223 00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,880 Glenn, who was a terrific corner, Ray Mickens really good 1224 00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:56,880 in the slot. I mean, it was AI. 1225 00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:58,720 Don't know that she well, I don't even want to tempt the 1226 00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:00,960 football gods and say what I was about to say, but you know what 1227 00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:02,400 I mean. It was bad. 1228 00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:03,800 All right, You got another call there, Jay. 1229 00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,720 What do you got there, pal? Sure, we got Vince from Florida 1230 00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,960 calling in. All right, let's get him up 1231 00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,720 there. Vinny is down to the great state 1232 00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:14,240 of Florida. Vince, what part of Florida? 1233 00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:15,840 Buddy, welcome to the show. What's happening? 1234 00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,880 Yeah, hey, I'm in Fort Myers. There you go. 1235 00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:20,680 Fort Myers. OK, what's going on? 1236 00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:23,120 What do you? Got OK first you 2 guys are like 1237 00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:25,800 the dynamic duo. You guys are fantastic. 1238 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,320 I love J. Rod, he is awesome. 1239 00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,680 He's awesome. I feel like I hit the trifecta. 1240 00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:37,760 I got you and Tiki, then I got you and Sal and I got you on 1241 00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:39,520 Unleashed. I hit the trifecta. 1242 00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:39,680 Hey. Hey. 1243 00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:42,800 Listen, by the way, here's the one common you got me. 1244 00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:44,840 Like that's the common denominator I. 1245 00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:46,800 Heard me and. Sal, me and Tiki, but as long as 1246 00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,080 you got me, that's. What? 1247 00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:51,840 Matters to me. There you go, There you go. 1248 00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:55,640 Well, you were in each of them. So hey, I just have a kind of 1249 00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:59,040 question for you. What was your most memorable 1250 00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,120 game that you're physically out like? 1251 00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,680 Knick game. Jet game, Giant Game. 1252 00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:07,480 God, can you give me? Can you give me? 1253 00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,720 I love those questions. Can can you give me yours first? 1254 00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:10,800 What was? Yours OK? 1255 00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:15,080 It would probably have to be game for 69 World Series. 1256 00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:20,960 Tom Seaver on the mound, you know, and I, I got to put 1B to 1257 00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,880 that. Got to be the first game, Yankee 1258 00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:24,680 game. I went to it. 1259 00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:28,720 My dad lifts left field bleachers behind Yogi Berra. 1260 00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:33,200 And the funny part is Mickey comes up first time they walk 1261 00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,280 them intentional and the fans are booing. 1262 00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,800 So I go to my dad. Why are they booing Mickey? 1263 00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:39,880 He goes no, no, no. They don't want to pitch to him. 1264 00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:44,440 So they did it three more times. So about the 8th inning, Mickey 1265 00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,760 comes up, runner on base, the other team's winning. 1266 00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:49,680 I forgot. So they pitched him. 1267 00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,800 Boom, he hits A2, run, home run into the right field seats. 1268 00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:55,760 There you go. My dad turns to me and says 1269 00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:57,840 that's why they walk him. Yeah. 1270 00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,000 And I'm sure. And how old were you? 1271 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,440 I'm sure a little Vince had a pretzel, maybe a little hot dog, 1272 01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:04,040 a little Coke. Enjoying. 1273 01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:08,000 The Mikoni must have been 7. Something like that, yeah. 1274 01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:09,960 Oh my God. But hold on, Vince. 1275 01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:11,160 Now, first of all, where are you from? 1276 01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:13,520 Where'd you grow? Up originally from the Bronx. 1277 01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:16,280 You go to high school. I went to high school, St. 1278 01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:17,880 Raymond's. Oh, you went to Saint Ray? 1279 01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:19,600 St. Ray's, man, can I tell you? 1280 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:22,760 Can I tell you a quick aside, I'll give you my answer. 1281 01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,280 So I went to Xavier, right? So we played against St. 1282 01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:29,560 Ray's and we played Regis and LaSalle Talentine when they were 1283 01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:30,880 still open. St. 1284 01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,680 Ray's, all Hollows, Iota Prep, all those schools that you know, 1285 01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,800 a Silesian, a couple of the Spellman, Cardinal Spellman and 1286 01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:39,920 I remember. So I'm a freshman and we're 1287 01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:41,280 playing St. Ray's. 1288 01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:43,320 Baseball is my sport, but this is my freshman year in 1289 01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,760 basketball and, and I'm not a starter and I'm on the bench, 1290 01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:47,520 right? And St. 1291 01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:51,720 Ray's was really good in basketball and I remember I 1292 01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:54,720 would they were pressing us and trapping US 94 feet. 1293 01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,880 One of the kids on the team actually wound up going to 1294 01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:01,760 Maris, Danny Basil, who was a great shooter, led the NCAA in 1295 01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,320 free throws one year in college and he was a great player at 1296 01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,760 Saint Rays. And I actually roomed with Danny 1297 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,440 my last year, meet a couple of baseball players, my boys, Trev 1298 01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:11,680 and Maddie. Anyway, I remember being on the 1299 01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,680 bench, Vince and I remember saying to myself, just looking 1300 01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:16,520 at them for Mike, because I all I could do is shoot. 1301 01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:19,080 I was slow as shit. And I'm sitting there saying I 1302 01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,400 don't want to go in this game. Like I just I can't. 1303 01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:22,920 What am I going to? Do with this. 1304 01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:24,760 And guess what? I didn't. 1305 01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:27,880 He didn't look down my way. I didn't say I didn't. 1306 01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,640 I would never say coach, I don't want to play. 1307 01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:31,840 I would never do that. I'm not a loser. 1308 01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,800 But I'm like, this is going to be ugly, man. 1309 01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:39,560 I tell you, when I was, you know, I'm an oldie here. 1310 01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:45,240 I graduated the same race in 66. Big thing with Saint Helena's, 1311 01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:48,160 playing Saint Helena's and we even played. 1312 01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:52,800 I remember playing Tower and Rice and we played Power when 1313 01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:57,840 Lou Alcindor was there. Oh my God, We couldn't beat the 1314 01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:00,960 high school or the PS1. O six across the street, one 1315 01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,000 backwards there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1316 01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:05,080 I mean, I mean, we could talk all day about Lou. 1317 01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:06,880 I mean, I just. I just don't know why. 1318 01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:08,800 Probably because money. Because John Wooden had a money 1319 01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:10,440 man. I don't know why. 1320 01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:12,040 Imagine if Lou would have gone to St. 1321 01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:12,760 John's. My God. 1322 01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:13,800 All right, so let. Me ask you this. 1323 01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,400 He should have. Let me ask you this, Vince. 1324 01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,480 The I do have a question before I give you my answer. 1325 01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:21,400 So your first memory was Tom Seaver. 1326 01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:24,160 Game 469 World Series, miracle Mets. 1327 01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:25,520 They win it. OK, OK. 1328 01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:28,720 Your second memory was Yankee Stadium. 1329 01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:31,120 Mickey Mantle. Like we're crossing wires. 1330 01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:33,400 Are you Yankees and Mets? Please tell me. 1331 01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,280 No. No win. 1332 01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:39,200 What? Well, I was a Yankee fan 1333 01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:42,040 obviously, back in the 50s and 60s. 1334 01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,960 Then when the Mets came and KC and it was fun, I kind of 1335 01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:47,600 started room for the Mets, you know all. 1336 01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:50,360 Right. You know, not my cup of tea does 1337 01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:52,120 something. I usually shoot down, Vince, but 1338 01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,480 you seem like a great guy, so I'm not going to tie. 1339 01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:57,240 Usually I'll attack, but I'm going to let you go. 1340 01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:58,520 Hey, have a great weekend, Vince. 1341 01:02:58,520 --> 01:02:59,640 Thank you for the call. Appreciate it. 1342 01:02:59,960 --> 01:03:02,040 What was your moment I'm. Going, I'm going to give you 1343 01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:03,680 what you you don't hang with me, I'll give it to you. 1344 01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:05,160 Keep them on the line. I had a job down. 1345 01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,560 I was going to give it to you now, but I want you hung up. 1346 01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:09,440 So I'll take you through the process. 1347 01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:12,760 There's a couple to jump out right away now. 1348 01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:14,720 I used to go to the Knick playoff games all the time. 1349 01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,280 And that's like that's that's so meaningful because I was with my 1350 01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:19,720 dad and amazing. And I was at the game when 1351 01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:23,320 Hubert Davis really didn't get fouled, but Hugh Hollins bailed 1352 01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:26,840 him out and he hit a couple of free throws to I think Pippen 1353 01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:29,720 found them, but he didn't really found them and he bailed out 1354 01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:31,640 Ewing, who had missed a couple of free throws late. 1355 01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:36,040 So I'll never forget that one. The two that really do jump out 1356 01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:39,600 to me pushing St. John's aside, having done the 1357 01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:42,480 Sweet 16 like that was very meaningful to me. 1358 01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:47,120 It's got to be the 96 clincher against the Braves, 96, Yankees 1359 01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:49,600 game six. I was there and that was the 1360 01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:51,920 first World Series from the Yankees that I was. 1361 01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,480 You know, I was born in 77 and 70, but I just, I was too young. 1362 01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:56,600 I've said that a million times. I didn't. 1363 01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,040 I don't really remember watching that at all. 1364 01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:02,880 So 96 game, one Yanks win finally and then the other one 1365 01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:08,520 was the 98 playoff game for The Jets before they lost in Denver 1366 01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:10,520 when they beat Tom Coughlin's Jaguars. 1367 01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:12,440 I was also at the game. I had season tickets at this 1368 01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:16,360 point and you know, that was Mark Brunel and Keenan Allen and 1369 01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:18,360 and Jimmy Smith and Freddie Taylor. 1370 01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:20,760 Tony Boselli left tackle. Awesome. 1371 01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:24,360 I was worried about that game. Great coach in Coughlin and the 1372 01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:27,320 thing that I remember most about outside of being euphoric 1373 01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:30,240 leaving that stadium, Keyshawn Johnson. 1374 01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:33,040 Johnson had an interception at the end of the game. 1375 01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:35,560 Yeah, Parcells put them in. You've seen that before. 1376 01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:38,880 You know, he's 6364. Keyshawn puts he's on the third 1377 01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:40,600 level. You know, Brunel throws a Hail 1378 01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:44,880 Mary, Keyshawn picks it off. Keyshawn also had AI believe 1379 01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:47,120 that Why? I know he ran one in Keyshawn 1380 01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,200 had a reverse on the left side from like 20 or 30 yards out. 1381 01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:54,720 So that game Keyshawn ran one in caught a touchdown and had an 1382 01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:58,840 interception in a game The Jets to the AFC championship and I 1383 01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:02,400 real I really thought Vince and thank you for the call Vince. 1384 01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,360 It's been a pleasure chatting with you man great stuff. 1385 01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:07,720 Thank you man. I thought that that was the year 1386 01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,400 that The Jets were going to win the Super Bowl like everything 1387 01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:15,000 about it The Jets before there's a million years ago glory days 1388 01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:19,440 98 I guess 2026. I'm I'm grasping for 1998. 1389 01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:25,080 Good God, help me with The Jets. But I remember going into that, 1390 01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:29,000 that that parking lot at like 8:00 in the morning and 1391 01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:32,040 tailgating with like the 3540 dudes, a lot of firemen's and 1392 01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:34,600 cops and a couple of my good buddies who were on Wall Street, 1393 01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:37,320 whatever. But we had an awesome mix and we 1394 01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:39,400 would get there. I mean, the sun was barely up 1395 01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:42,880 and we're tailgating like animals and we go into the 1396 01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,600 stadium and you know, I'm back in the day, you know, before 1397 01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,920 911, you know, we stick some beers in your pocket because 1398 01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:53,720 they had that big, that big like garbage, that big plastic 1399 01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:55,120 garbage thing, which they still have. 1400 01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:57,960 So you like, you'd hammer one and then because you can't walk 1401 01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:01,040 in with a beer, you'd hammer it. Then you throw it in the trash 1402 01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:03,680 bin, that big bin. But then you'd have like two or 1403 01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:05,520 three tucked in your belt and they wouldn't check it because 1404 01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:08,880 it was pre 911. And I just remember going into 1405 01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,280 that game and waking up that morning and that whole year, 1406 01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:14,600 like this is our year. Because The Jets had never even 1407 01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:18,760 won a division until 1998. That was their first divisional 1408 01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:21,480 title ever. And you know, think about the 1409 01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:25,600 trajectory here. The the 90 set, the 9016 was 1410 01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:27,280 obviously 1 and 15 with Co tight. 1411 01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:31,160 Then 97 Parcells comes and they still had Adrian Morel. 1412 01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:34,040 They got Curtis Martin with that poison pill contract the next 1413 01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:36,200 year. But in 97, The Jets went nine 1414 01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,960 and seven. And that's Bill's first year and 1415 01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:40,800 training camp that I remember the energy. 1416 01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,840 I used to go to Hofstra's training camp to watch him and 1417 01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:47,920 it was just magical man. And and eventually 98 Binny took 1418 01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:52,080 over And the crazy thing is they went 12 and four and I believe 1419 01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:54,000 they started over 2. I know they lost the first game 1420 01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:55,600 in San Fran. I was in Myrtle Beach playing 1421 01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:58,840 golf with my buddies on on our annual trip and I'm like, I 1422 01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:00,520 ain't playing golf today. I'm watching The Jets. 1423 01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:02,880 Like they went and played and a couple of guys hung back with me 1424 01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:04,800 and we were we were going to play 36. 1425 01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:06,760 I'm like, I'm going to I'm going to get wings and I'm watching 1426 01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:08,200 The Jets. There's no way I'm playing golf 1427 01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:09,960 again. I played this morning, didn't 1428 01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:13,800 play well, I't watch Parcells Jets and it was an awesome game 1429 01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:17,520 and Glenn Foley threw a couple of touchdowns, Keyshawn had one, 1430 01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:21,080 Corbett had one and then Garrison Hurst in overtime 1431 01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:23,200 ripped off. I think it was a 96 yard 1432 01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:26,760 touchdown run that I believe MO Lewis was the one who had the 1433 01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:29,360 best chance to get him and he kind of whipped like he got him 1434 01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,600 from the side as Garrison was going up the flats. 1435 01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:35,560 And from there, then I think they lost to either the Ravens 1436 01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:41,080 or the Rams with Tony Banks. And then the first win was at 1437 01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:42,600 home. Did they start the first two 1438 01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,880 years on the road that year? I guess they did because I went 1439 01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:47,720 to the home opener, obviously, and they played the Colts and 1440 01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:49,880 they won like they scored like 40 something points. 1441 01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:53,000 And I remember Leon Johnson, who they drafted out of North 1442 01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:54,080 Carolina. They used to call him the 1443 01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:57,200 natural Leon Johnson running back, special teams guy, Luke 1444 01:07:57,200 --> 01:08:00,240 Gadget guy, and he caught us. And now Vinny's starting. 1445 01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,680 He's like, I think Glenn Foley got hurt and Parcells put in 1446 01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:07,000 Vinny and the offense just went to a different level and Vinny 1447 01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:11,320 had an amazing season and Leon Johnson had like a 50 or 60 yard 1448 01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:13,920 catch and run screen pass and it was on. 1449 01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:16,960 And then every game just got more and more believable and 1450 01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:21,000 exciting in 98. And this was after a fun 97. 1451 01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:22,479 And I really thought that that was the year. 1452 01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:24,359 And of course it wasn't breaking news. 1453 01:08:24,359 --> 01:08:26,240 Spoiler was not the year. J Rod. 1454 01:08:26,359 --> 01:08:29,720 Heartbreaker we got. We got our main man. 1455 01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:33,720 I'm excited about this on Avery Summit calling in. 1456 01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:36,479 We got Avery Summit calling in, bro. 1457 01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:38,439 I'm so excited. I love it. 1458 01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:41,040 All right, man. Now he always, yeah, he always 1459 01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:43,120 chats us up. He's he's one of the first 1460 01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:46,760 people to to ever really, you know what? 1461 01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:48,840 Not jumped in early with BT and Lee. 1462 01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:51,399 She's there from day one. And even more important, he's a 1463 01:08:51,399 --> 01:08:53,479 Marine park guy, which is where I'm from. 1464 01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:55,840 So Avery from BK. What up, Avery? 1465 01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,800 How you doing buddy? Hey BT, an honor to be on your 1466 01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:02,200 first live call day. Pleasure interacting with you 1467 01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:06,080 guys all along. Actually, you've been awesome. 1468 01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:07,840 Thank you, ma'am. My pleasure, I really enjoy the 1469 01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:11,640 give and take with you guys. I go back to the 1050 days with 1470 01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:15,040 Stephen A and something that stuck out about you as opposed 1471 01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:18,800 to some others, let's say on sports talk, is that yes, you 1472 01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:20,920 definitely could, you know, make fun of yourself. 1473 01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:23,000 Don't take yourself too seriously, but at the same time 1474 01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:26,600 your sports obsessed, your sports obsessed and like as the 1475 01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:29,960 industry has gone more towards gimmicky, more entertainment, 1476 01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:31,800 non sports related on the sports stations. 1477 01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:34,520 I told my friends, I said you want your doctor to not be 1478 01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:36,840 obsessed with medicine. You don't want your accountant 1479 01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:39,319 to be obsessed with numbers. You want your sports got to be 1480 01:09:39,319 --> 01:09:43,200 obsessed with sports and that's what's out with me all the way 1481 01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:48,560 from the 1050 days and I just. Thought wow the 1050 days Avery 1482 01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:52,200 I well I I appreciate they'll I got a point to make a possible 1483 01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:55,560 no, absolutely I'm not going to hang up buddy, but I got got you 1484 01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,680 man those there's no commercials. 1485 01:09:57,680 --> 01:09:59,120 I go as long as I want. It's different. 1486 01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:01,760 I mean there's there's sponsors, but it's like I had to break by 1487 01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:04,400 a certain that there was no especially on no rules Friday. 1488 01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:07,040 Yeah, maybe I'll let you host the show with me at some point. 1489 01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:11,600 The, the early 1050 days were wild, man like that. 1490 01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:14,480 And I, I loved all those guys. And maybe you remember I was 1491 01:10:14,480 --> 01:10:16,680 with Wally in the key doing the updates to start. 1492 01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:20,160 You probably remember those guys, 2 great guys. 1493 01:10:20,440 --> 01:10:22,840 And then obviously doing the stuff with Stephen A and doing 1494 01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:24,600 my night show and working with Jody Mack. 1495 01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:27,760 I mean, I was, I was there 10 or 11 years and I remember it was 1496 01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:31,240 so you know, I talked about this with, with Donnie and Michael 1497 01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:32,400 when I had both of them on the show. 1498 01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:35,320 If you guys missed it going through the channel library and 1499 01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:39,400 you'll find both and Stephen A as well where the, we had such a 1500 01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:44,760 strong lineup, but our signal was so bad nobody can hear us. 1501 01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,280 Like you got certain parts of Long Island, Manhattan. 1502 01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,840 I mean, we were doing tinfoil and and a hanger, but you think 1503 01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:53,760 about some of the names and I'm going to take myself out of it. 1504 01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:58,680 Michael K, Stephen A, Donnie, Donnie Lagreca, Max later on. 1505 01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:00,680 I mean, we had some hitters in that lot of men. 1506 01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,520 That was a good time. I love 1050. 1507 01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:05,480 Yeah, that was loaded. So just quick point if possible. 1508 01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:09,720 There's some interesting similarities between the McMahon 1509 01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:11,600 situation with the Yankees and Cat with the Knicks. 1510 01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:14,040 Just hear me out on this one. If you remember leading up to 1511 01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:17,800 the Yankees getting McMahon the names that they had at third 1512 01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:21,920 base since a rod was gone, you got Kevin, you Kelly Johnson, 1513 01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:25,600 Headley, Brandon Jury and do our and or Shella gave a little bit 1514 01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:29,040 of a you know, a break. Then you had Donaldson washed up 1515 01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:29,880 D. Donaldson. 1516 01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:33,440 Oswaldo Cabrera So the Yankees were in a position where, like 1517 01:11:33,440 --> 01:11:35,440 you always say, you got to give Judge the pieces. 1518 01:11:35,440 --> 01:11:38,800 And when they things came to the head, the only one available to 1519 01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:41,760 be a a you know, a body at third base was McMahon. 1520 01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:44,880 His flaws were his flaws. And like you always say, that's 1521 01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:46,680 not going to change once you're in the league for so many years. 1522 01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:49,880 And in the same way with Cat, what they do they the Knicks, 1523 01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:52,240 they traded away, they traded for OG, right? 1524 01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:53,880 That set the team on a better path, right? 1525 01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:56,280 That was a great move. And Brunson was really coming to 1526 01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:58,640 his own and he was taking the team and they needed that, that 1527 01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:01,600 that that last piece, that one A to Brunson even. 1528 01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:05,680 And the only one available in that moment was Cat. 1529 01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:07,400 We knew his flaws. He's been in the league for a 1530 01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:10,600 decade, but that was the best move in the moment and you can't 1531 01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:12,720 blame the player for who they are and who they're not. 1532 01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:15,160 That's what the front office moves both the Yankees made with 1533 01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:18,000 McMahon and the Knicks made with Cat, and that's what we're stuck 1534 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:19,520 with it both. But the Knicks, it's obviously a 1535 01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:21,480 bigger piece and we'll see where that goes with the playoffs. 1536 01:12:21,480 --> 01:12:26,360 But McMahon is who he is. Yep, you know, Stephen A brought 1537 01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:29,360 that up too, because when I had Stephen on Stephen, I was Steven 1538 01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:30,960 was on for about two hours. Avery right. 1539 01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:34,920 And you know, I didn't if you if you've watched the interviews 1540 01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:36,960 that I'm, I'm sure that you have because you you're absolutely 1541 01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:38,280 you've been locked in from day one. 1542 01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:43,040 You know, whether it's Donnie or or Michael or I had Nikki 1543 01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:46,800 Ladarullo on some other people in the media, like I don't want 1544 01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:49,040 to do an interview. So Steven, especially when I'm 1545 01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:50,000 boys with somebody. Steven. 1546 01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:51,680 Well, what do you think of the Knicks chances of winning the 1547 01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:53,560 championship? Like that's boring. 1548 01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:56,000 I want I want to talk. I want to I want to have a long, 1549 01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:58,120 deep conversation. And we really did. 1550 01:12:58,240 --> 01:13:00,280 We actually didn't even really talk that much. 1551 01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:01,800 Knicks, if you if you watched it. 1552 01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:04,520 But the one thing that he did say about the Knicks and I 1553 01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:07,080 straight up asked him, I said, Hey, I said, you think cat soft. 1554 01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:09,720 Do you think cat soft? And his answer was very 1555 01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:11,120 interesting. No, he's not soft. 1556 01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:14,600 He's just playing the way that he's always played like a guy 1557 01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:19,040 who's now you know what I mean? And and and that's that is on 1558 01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,240 the Knicks if it doesn't work out because you can't acquire 1559 01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:24,520 somebody and expect them to change who they are. 1560 01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:27,320 Like you didn't get Ryan McMahon even even though we thought he'd 1561 01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:28,800 be better than this, because he's awful. 1562 01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:30,080 He's not going to be Greg Metals. 1563 01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,560 He's not going to be Wade Boggs. You know, he'd be Charlie Hayes. 1564 01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:34,320 You're not going to be a Rod, that's for damn sure. 1565 01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:37,560 So he's going to catch the ball. You hope he runs into some home 1566 01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:39,680 runs and you hope he hits two 35240. 1567 01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:42,120 If they thought he was going to be more than that, and at this 1568 01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:45,960 point you you do cartwheels over two 35240, then you're wrong. 1569 01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:48,480 If you thought the cat was going to be Charles Oakley or or 1570 01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:51,360 Patrick Ewing in the paint, you didn't watch cat of Kentucky, 1571 01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:53,320 didn't want cat. You don't watch cat and at at at 1572 01:13:53,480 --> 01:13:55,120 at the with the Minnesota Timberwolves. 1573 01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:58,480 So I think it's a salient point and I, I think a lot of us, a 1574 01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:02,080 lot of people lose sight of, you know, especially when you are 1575 01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:04,200 beyond two or three years in a league. 1576 01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:06,320 Like you can make adjustments as you're a young player, 1577 01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,520 especially as a hitter or as a young pitcher. 1578 01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:11,160 And in the NBA, you can get stronger, expand your game, 1579 01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:13,600 become a better shooter. You can always increase and add 1580 01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:18,160 like things to your repertoire. But fundamentally, who you are, 1581 01:14:18,440 --> 01:14:20,720 that's not going to change. Do we expect Mikhail Bridges 1582 01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:22,720 next year to begin no matter what he does? 1583 01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,000 He could pump weight. He can do the jailhouse workout, 1584 01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:28,600 1000 push ups every day, bench press every day. 1585 01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,440 He could go to UFC and Street Fight every day if he wants. 1586 01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:34,200 He's never gonna take 7 free throws a game because he doesn't 1587 01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:35,960 attack the win that. Way in a similar way. 1588 01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:38,640 He gotta know. Is the same because he is who he 1589 01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:40,400 was, what was his, what were his pros. 1590 01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:43,360 He was always available. He was a good two way place good 1591 01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:46,000 and the reason why he was more valuable to the Knicks is 1592 01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:48,840 because he had that Nova connection and he was available 1593 01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:50,720 at the time and that's what he got. 1594 01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:53,400 But he is who he is. He's not anything less than we 1595 01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:55,960 really thought he would be. He was scoring 20 on the Nets 1596 01:14:55,960 --> 01:14:58,880 because the Nets were terrible, so someone had to score the ball 1597 01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:00,760 on the Nets. So it's the same way. 1598 01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:02,200 He is who he is. That's all we got. 1599 01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:06,160 Hey, where'd you are now? I know you're in Marine Park 1600 01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:07,320 now. Is that where you grew up, man 1601 01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:09,360 or no? No, no, I'm guilty as charged. 1602 01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:10,800 I knew I would. If I wrote Marine Park, I'd 1603 01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:16,440 catch your eye, but I'm a. Queen, you're but, but you're in 1604 01:15:16,440 --> 01:15:19,400 Marine Park now. Yeah, up by Quinton Rd. 1605 01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:22,080 So not like closer to the Midwood. 1606 01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:26,400 Section by Madison Mad Oh, but so for not by Madison by Midwood 1607 01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:30,520 High School. By like Quinton and the 1608 01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:33,840 Nostrand. These are easy questions, Avery. 1609 01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:35,880 We already got past the heart stuff that's coming very on just 1610 01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:36,920 to. Give you a little bit of a 1611 01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:38,920 little bit of background. I wasn't on your scene. 1612 01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:41,920 I'm from the same tribe as Dove, so I'm from a different. 1613 01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:43,320 Gotcha. Oh my man, Dove. 1614 01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:44,760 Gotcha. So. 1615 01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:48,160 I'm not in that world. I got you. 1616 01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:49,520 Hopefully you had a good Passover, man. 1617 01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:50,680 I got you. All good, dude. 1618 01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:52,760 Nice. I'll talk to you soon. 1619 01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:54,120 Thanks for the call. I appreciate you. 1620 01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:57,320 There you go. I mean, J Rod. 1621 01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:00,280 We're cooking with gas, bro. This is sick. 1622 01:16:00,440 --> 01:16:02,480 We got, we got another dude coming up in a second. 1623 01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:05,040 I love it, man. I mean, I feel it. 1624 01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:07,720 I feel it. Can you feel that? 1625 01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:10,640 Can you feel the the the elevation of the of the show 1626 01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:15,440 just a little with the gaming? Yeah, dude, it's sick. 1627 01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:19,800 I mean, listen, you know, because I there's something 1628 01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:20,640 else. We added this. 1629 01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:23,680 Well, not only I guess the backdrop's looking killer now. 1630 01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:25,920 I mean, it's looking great, your background. 1631 01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:27,240 Yeah, we're there. We're getting there. 1632 01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:32,640 I feel like the production value this week, like at least went up 1633 01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:39,440 at least almost double, like I'd say like 95 percent, 99%, 1634 01:16:39,480 --> 01:16:42,920 something about just the value. I think we just took a jump. 1635 01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:46,560 OK, so I love it, man. All right, I had a boy. 1636 01:16:46,560 --> 01:16:49,040 I I don't disagree. All right, keep the calls coming 1637 01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:49,800 in. What do we got? 1638 01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,640 Who's up next on Unleashed? BT On BT Unleashed. 1639 01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:53,880 Talk to me. I almost called you BT. 1640 01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:57,960 Up next, I got to pull them in still, but we've got Robert, so 1641 01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:00,160 that's going to be like another. Man, all right, Just pop them up 1642 01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:01,760 when you're ready. It's all good. 1643 01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:04,600 It's all good, all good. We'll get Robert up a little bit 1644 01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:07,440 there at Rod Power 78. Have you ever done a workout 1645 01:17:07,440 --> 01:17:09,360 with Tiki and how exhausting was it? 1646 01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:12,560 No, I cannot do a Tiki workout. I want to get Tiki on the show. 1647 01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:14,880 I'd I'd like to get him next week at some point before the 1648 01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:17,720 Giants pick. The one thing about Tiki, I 1649 01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:22,280 mean, Tiki looks like Zeus. Tiki looks amazing, man. 1650 01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:26,600 There was a point when we were working together nationally 1651 01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:29,560 where he dropped out of like 180 something. 1652 01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:31,000 But he's running a lot of marathons. 1653 01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:34,160 Remember he ran a marathon in Israel. 1654 01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:37,960 I, I think he, he made some international trips to run 1655 01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:40,160 marathons, maybe London. I'm, I'm pretty sure it was 1656 01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:43,240 Israel, not Australia. Was it, was it Australia? 1657 01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:47,040 And he just really thinned out. And then Tig, he's like, all 1658 01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:49,040 right, man, I got to get, I got to get those arms pop in his 1659 01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:51,640 chest. He's, he just looks like he's, I 1660 01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:54,840 mean, he looks like he's 30. And the thing about Tig, I mean, 1661 01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:57,120 listen, I mean, I've known him long enough and I could play 1662 01:17:57,120 --> 01:17:59,360 with him. Can you wear a tighter shirt, 1663 01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:00,600 though? I understand you want to show 1664 01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:02,440 things off and I understand that. 1665 01:18:02,440 --> 01:18:05,880 Like I'll wear, you know, tight teeth, not tight, tight, not 1666 01:18:05,880 --> 01:18:08,720 like him because I don't look anything like him, but I'll wear 1667 01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:12,280 AT shirt that's got a little little grab to it, because I'm I 1668 01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:14,440 like the chest and you know, it's it's the love handles you 1669 01:18:14,440 --> 01:18:17,000 got to cover up and the little pencil legs that I have here. 1670 01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:19,920 But you know, you had nice little tight T-shirt and show 1671 01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:22,880 off the 110th of a gun that I have. 1672 01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:27,560 But that guy, I mean he he now he doesn't dress like he's going 1673 01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:29,720 clubbing all right, because he's not that kind of guy. 1674 01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:33,680 He's a real family man, but I mean, he could wear he could go 1675 01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:36,040 to it looks like he's going to the limelight back in the day. 1676 01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:38,800 So or or the tunnel. Some of those shirts he wears 1677 01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:40,680 men. There is no shirt that is too 1678 01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:43,400 tight for that guy. So no, I never did a workout 1679 01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:46,360 with Tiki. But what we would do and it was 1680 01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:50,040 so funny, man. And we did this for the 10 years 1681 01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:51,680 that we worked. Yet he will he will tell you 1682 01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:57,080 this, right. And there was a point for I 1683 01:18:57,080 --> 01:19:00,520 think it stopped a little bit at the fan because I, I had an, an 1684 01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:02,960 arm issue. What else is new Always hurt. 1685 01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:07,240 I would do push ups every single break the moment. 1686 01:19:07,240 --> 01:19:09,760 So we start the show at 10 and we go to break. 1687 01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:11,240 You know, I was usually late with the break. 1688 01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:13,920 Well, we go to break. It was supposed to be 1020. 1689 01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:19,080 It's 1022 drop down to 30 or 40. So then come back, you know, 1690 01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:22,280 break it 10:40 if I remember 1040 something, whatever might 1691 01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:25,240 be, I don't know, do 30 or 40 more the whole show. 1692 01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:29,720 And when I'm doing that, he's doing like planks, he's doing 1693 01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:31,600 different shit, he's stretching out. 1694 01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:34,400 He's doing like this, not not jiu jitsu, but he's doing this 1695 01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:38,480 crazy yoga stuff like the flexibility that that man still 1696 01:19:38,480 --> 01:19:41,800 has at the age his birthday was the other day as a happy 1697 01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,400 birthday to tik. I think he just turned 51. 1698 01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:46,960 It's crazy. I mean, but that see, that's the 1699 01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:50,040 difference. Like that dude was born an 1700 01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:53,160 athlete and he had to work for tiki wrestle when he was in high 1701 01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:54,080 school. So did Ronde. 1702 01:19:54,720 --> 01:19:58,680 But I've always said, you know, certain guys, certain athletes, 1703 01:19:58,680 --> 01:20:02,840 right, are touched with 1010 fingers by God in terms of 1704 01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:07,520 athleticism, where they've just got a certain elasticity to 1705 01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:09,880 their tendons. So they don't pull things 1706 01:20:10,960 --> 01:20:13,240 they've got, you know, they're proportional. 1707 01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:17,040 They they, if they can run, if they've got natural muscle tone, 1708 01:20:17,040 --> 01:20:19,000 I had none of that. I was tight as a drum. 1709 01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:21,680 I had to work for any muscle that I ever got. 1710 01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:25,880 And they're not very flexible. So so he was touched with 10 1711 01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,880 fingers. You know, got like Mike Trout, 1712 01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:32,760 Aaron Judge, 10 fingers, Jeter, 10 fingers, a rod, 10 fingers 1713 01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:39,600 me. I probably had maybe 6, maybe 1714 01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:41,640 something like that. Jay, that's one. 1715 01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:43,360 How many did you have? How many fingers did you get? 1716 01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:47,240 It what in terms of my athletic prowess from God? 1717 01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:52,160 Yeah, 2345 what? Do you like the shaving off his 1718 01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:53,920 pinky nail? No. 1719 01:20:53,920 --> 01:20:56,080 All right, let's see. In terms of like my mid range 1720 01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:57,640 jumper, right? That's pretty good. 1721 01:20:57,640 --> 01:20:59,400 That's what we've got. I've got a mid range. 1722 01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:00,840 Jumper. That's it. 1723 01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:06,760 That's my athletic. You're one of those guys where 1724 01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:08,640 you know, you're drawn up sides, you're you play well. 1725 01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:10,600 I don't know that I don't know that your generation played in 1726 01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:12,640 the schoolyard like or the park like we did. 1727 01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:15,440 You know, probably more nice, nice gyms and stuff for for the 1728 01:21:15,440 --> 01:21:17,080 most part. Or somebody's backyard, right? 1729 01:21:17,320 --> 01:21:19,960 Probably. Open gym like yeah like rec 1730 01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:23,920 center type vibes. So you had a good place to go. 1731 01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:27,200 OK Jay, Rod's the kind of guy if you don't know him, you're not 1732 01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:29,800 picking him first cuz you know, he's not, he's not that 1733 01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:32,520 lightning quick point guard or that big center who's gonna die. 1734 01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:34,560 But then you get him on your team, you're like, oh, he could, 1735 01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:36,080 he could bury that. He could hit that 15. 1736 01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:37,720 I could see you being a good shooter. 1737 01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:40,000 No, it would be like no, you always talk about the mid range. 1738 01:21:40,080 --> 01:21:42,800 Pick me kind of 2nd to last, last, but then you'd be like all 1739 01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:45,720 right, like he scored like 6 points off of a couple, you 1740 01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:47,600 know, mid range jumpers. He did his thing. 1741 01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:49,440 Listen, there we go. All right. 1742 01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:51,400 We've got, we've got a couple. What are? 1743 01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:54,800 We guys in the, in the, in the, what's it called in the dugout 1744 01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:56,080 right here. In the queue. 1745 01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:57,240 In the queue. In the queue. 1746 01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:59,400 Yep, in the queue we got all right, let's get them up, man. 1747 01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:01,320 Let's let's hammer through some calls pop them up there. 1748 01:22:01,320 --> 01:22:02,680 Jay, this is great. I love we could. 1749 01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:03,960 I told you guys we were going to do this. 1750 01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:06,520 I told you I told you we were going to do this. 1751 01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:10,800 Rob is the What's that, Jay? That was him that wasn't. 1752 01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:12,120 I got you. I got you. 1753 01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:13,120 I'm sorry. That's all right. 1754 01:22:13,120 --> 01:22:13,560 Thank you. Good. 1755 01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:17,200 Robertson, Stratford, CT. Rob, welcome to BT Unleash, man. 1756 01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:20,800 What's going on? So I just got 2 main questions 1757 01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:23,320 for you, honestly concerning the Yankees. 1758 01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:27,680 One was I think Boone has to take a harder line on these guys 1759 01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:32,080 taking the challenges I did not like in that game that early, 1760 01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:34,200 losing both our challenges like that. 1761 01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,120 Yeah, I saw that too. They yeah, Jazz has been awful. 1762 01:22:37,560 --> 01:22:39,960 I think he's challenged 6 and he's missed 5 like he's 1763 01:22:39,960 --> 01:22:42,360 basically missed everyone. That's an interesting point. 1764 01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:44,120 I I think, and I'll let you get to your next point. 1765 01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:46,880 Obviously, Rob, listen, it's a new thing and there's certain 1766 01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:50,360 hitters you get to trust more. It's not it, you know, it's not 1767 01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:54,600 like high school or even college where like you're 3 or 4 hitter 1768 01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:57,320 all right, green light 3 O you get something you like something 1769 01:22:57,320 --> 01:22:59,400 you can drive. Go for it where you 8 hitter, 1770 01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:00,640 you give them the take sign, right. 1771 01:23:00,640 --> 01:23:03,400 You know, they take 1. So it, it it's they're they're 1772 01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:05,480 major leaguers. They're going to have that that 1773 01:23:05,480 --> 01:23:08,880 latitude until they prove that they really don't deserve it. 1774 01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:13,040 So it's a work in progress and it's fairly inexact because none 1775 01:23:13,040 --> 01:23:15,720 of these guys came up with it in the minors, you know, exposed to 1776 01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:18,440 it during spring training. You know, from a managerial 1777 01:23:18,440 --> 01:23:21,440 perspective, from a player perspective, I think at the end 1778 01:23:21,440 --> 01:23:24,440 of the day, I think that the Yankees, I think most teams will 1779 01:23:24,440 --> 01:23:26,240 figure it out. And I think when you get to 1780 01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,560 higher leverage games and certainly higher leverage 1781 01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:32,080 moments like September, October, you want to make sure I would 1782 01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:33,840 imagine that it would be communicated. 1783 01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:36,680 Yo, don't burn what in the first inning on a one O pitch. 1784 01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:39,600 You know, let's, let's keep a few of the bags. 7th, 8th, 9th 1785 01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:41,320 inning. And I think that Boom will do 1786 01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:42,880 that yes. And I think most will. 1787 01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:46,440 And the second point I just want to say was what do you think 1788 01:23:46,440 --> 01:23:49,520 about the Yankees could do to fix the bullpen because we are 1789 01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:52,120 lost at sea out there. You got to get new guys. 1790 01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:55,440 It's it's that simple. Thanks for the call there, Rob. 1791 01:23:55,440 --> 01:23:56,960 I appreciate you checking in Connecticut. 1792 01:23:56,960 --> 01:23:58,200 You got it, man. Thank you. 1793 01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:00,880 They're bullpens. It's horrendous. 1794 01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:04,520 I mean, you know, I mean, listen here, I've said for a couple 1795 01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:07,000 days now, I'm like, you know, I, I like bet nor I trust better 1796 01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:09,520 and I do. But like, that's the guy that 1797 01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:11,560 you trust. And I, and I like Fernando Cruz. 1798 01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:13,320 I've always liked him. I like his energy. 1799 01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:16,280 He was good from last year. He's got that nasty splitter 1800 01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:19,640 when it's on, no one's touching it, but they battled against 1801 01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:22,520 them this this Angel series. But I, I do trust him. 1802 01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:25,000 I don't know if I trust him in the 8th inning, you know, 21 up 1803 01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:28,280 a run and up in Toronto in the playoffs, but I do trust him. 1804 01:24:28,280 --> 01:24:30,840 Duvall just ain't working. Birds sent to the minors. 1805 01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:34,000 You've got a lot of guys who throw gas in the miners who will 1806 01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:36,120 be up here. So I do believe that there. 1807 01:24:36,120 --> 01:24:39,800 And when I say gas, I mean one O 1 gas, not 98 gas, one O 1. 1808 01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:42,800 I mean, just hitting triple digits with filthy stuff. 1809 01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:45,280 So I think there's some internal solutions. 1810 01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:48,720 And then, and I was talking about this on the show Monday or 1811 01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:51,280 Tuesday, it came up. The other thing that's going to 1812 01:24:51,280 --> 01:24:53,320 change is, you know, when Garrett Cole comes back, when 1813 01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:57,440 Carlos Rodon comes back, you're going to have not me. 1814 01:24:57,440 --> 01:24:59,320 You can mess around with the order, however, but you know, 1815 01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:03,480 Freed 1, Colt 2, Schlitzler 3, Rodon 4. 1816 01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:07,120 And then, you know, I think Louis Giel is much more equipped 1817 01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:10,920 to go to the bullpen myself. I even think that will Warren 1818 01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:13,040 eventually is going to lose his spot. 1819 01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:17,000 And I think I believe he will be a really good like 6th and 7th 1820 01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:19,960 inning guy or or an option. Because the problem with what 1821 01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:22,880 Will Warren's got good stuff. He's got some good swinging 1822 01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:24,720 missed stuff. And I know Boone likes, but I 1823 01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:26,600 like him. But he always has that one 1824 01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:29,920 inning where it's like like they're up and then he has a 27 1825 01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:32,400 pitch inning and it just he laborers a little bit and he 1826 01:25:32,440 --> 01:25:36,200 kind of nibbles and they foul a few like can't put guys away. 1827 01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:39,680 The pitch count goes up. I think ultimately he is in the 1828 01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:42,360 bullpen. And I think that ultimately 1829 01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:46,120 Clark Schmidt, who was way behind Colin Rodon coming back, 1830 01:25:46,440 --> 01:25:49,600 I believe ultimately Clark Schmidt will be the 5th pitcher 1831 01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:51,120 for the Yankees or maybe they make a trade. 1832 01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:54,600 But I, I think, listen, you're going to have provided the 1833 01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:57,360 Yankees make the playoffs And, and I believe that they will. 1834 01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:00,400 I had them as a 95 win team coming in. 1835 01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:03,480 I don't know if I feel 95 right now, but I'll stick with it. 1836 01:26:03,480 --> 01:26:04,360 We'll see. It's early. 1837 01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:09,440 I think you'll have three new arms, 3 new bullpen arms. 1838 01:26:09,440 --> 01:26:12,680 And I believe one will be acquired and I believe 2 will 1839 01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:18,080 be, you know, this, this Yankee staff iteration will you'll see 1840 01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:21,440 some moving parts and some shifting of roles. 1841 01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:23,200 And and I do think it will get better. 1842 01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:25,160 I do. Yeah, I do for sure. 1843 01:26:25,320 --> 01:26:30,160 You know, and we got here, pop this up at JT Bombers. 1844 01:26:30,160 --> 01:26:32,640 What's going on, JT? All right, BT St. 1845 01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:33,120 John's. I don't. 1846 01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:34,520 I don't, I don't. I know. 1847 01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:36,560 OK, I know. Don't worry. 1848 01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:39,400 It's Rick Pitino. We've got four players on the 1849 01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:41,440 roster. Rumor has it we paid 4 million 1850 01:26:41,440 --> 01:26:45,560 for a euro point guard. 575 to seven players have visited. 1851 01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:49,640 No signings. I am worried this will be the 1852 01:26:49,640 --> 01:26:51,800 easiest thing for me to say today. 1853 01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,840 You know, even the Yankee bullpen description. 1854 01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:56,440 What else? The Mets talking about the 1855 01:26:56,440 --> 01:26:57,720 Knicks getting ready for the Hawks? 1856 01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:01,840 That right there is the easiest thing I will face all weekend. 1857 01:27:02,040 --> 01:27:05,720 Have zero fear about what St. John's is going to do in the 1858 01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:08,600 portal. Have no reservations about Rick 1859 01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:11,720 Pitino's ability to build another superpower. 1860 01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:14,320 And I believe it's going to be better, even though Zoobie's 1861 01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:17,400 going to be sorely missed, man, few of those guys going to be 1862 01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:19,200 missed. Like, I was kind of hoping Santa 1863 01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:21,040 would come back, but he just didn't play well. 1864 01:27:21,200 --> 01:27:24,280 I'm sorry. And you know, every I was saying 1865 01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:26,960 to Mink, like, you know, I remember saying the first 1866 01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:29,320 broadcast, I'm like, I believe Mink at the end of the year, 1867 01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:31,120 Santa is going to be the best shooter on the team. 1868 01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:34,200 Like that's what he was, you know, described as. 1869 01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:36,960 And I saw him a little bit at Arizona State for Bobby Hurley. 1870 01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:40,720 I saw a lot of film, you know, a lot, I read a lot of draft 1871 01:27:40,720 --> 01:27:44,040 reports on Sadden, who was, you know, 65, good strong body. 1872 01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:46,920 A lot of people thought that and, and I, I guess still do 1873 01:27:47,120 --> 01:27:48,560 that he's going to be an NBA player. 1874 01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:51,160 I just, I don't see it. I thought that was wildly 1875 01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:53,120 overstated. What he can't get to the rim, 1876 01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:55,520 like he never comfortably gets to the rim. 1877 01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:57,480 I don't think he's got a good handle at all. 1878 01:27:57,480 --> 01:28:00,280 And I'm not trying to disparage him, but he just was not good 1879 01:28:00,280 --> 01:28:02,720 enough. The fact that Ian Jackson's 1880 01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:07,440 coming back, who I love as a 2 guard and you get the Euro kid 1881 01:28:07,440 --> 01:28:12,040 Quinn, who is 6 foot 5 and has played against grown men 1882 01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:14,760 professionally for seven years. Saint John's back. 1883 01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:16,800 Court's going to be insane. Now the other thing you got to 1884 01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:19,200 understand too, I know other teams have brought players in 1885 01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:22,440 and other like the Big East is the the actually Providence is 1886 01:28:22,440 --> 01:28:24,240 at a really good run in the portal. 1887 01:28:25,080 --> 01:28:29,040 So they popped a little bit. Rick's son's done some good 1888 01:28:29,040 --> 01:28:31,640 things to Xavier. You know, Seton Hall's lost a 1889 01:28:31,640 --> 01:28:34,040 little bit, gained a little bit, but they're in a tough spot 1890 01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:37,480 without a ton of NIL. It looks like Marquette's going 1891 01:28:37,480 --> 01:28:39,120 to be a little bit more active this year. 1892 01:28:39,480 --> 01:28:45,040 But I think that, well, I know that it's all mapped out, man. 1893 01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:48,400 They know who they want. They've got in this case, I 1894 01:28:48,400 --> 01:28:50,960 don't, I don't know how many years this goes on, but as long 1895 01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:53,920 as Rick Pitino's coaching, they've got a limitless 1896 01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:56,080 checkbook. Like Mike Ripoli is going to 1897 01:28:56,080 --> 01:28:59,160 write whatever check Rick wants. If Rick and Mike Ripoli said it, 1898 01:28:59,480 --> 01:29:03,000 he did the one of those, one of those Q&A's with Steve Serbi in 1899 01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:05,960 the post, a couple of the, well, I guess it was about a month or 1900 01:29:05,960 --> 01:29:07,760 so ago going into the tournament. 1901 01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:11,760 And he's like, if Rick asks for money, I will wake up in the 1902 01:29:11,760 --> 01:29:13,720 middle of the night and I will wire the money. 1903 01:29:13,960 --> 01:29:16,200 So last year they were at about $10 million. 1904 01:29:16,200 --> 01:29:19,000 This year I'm here and they're going to go up to about 12 or 1905 01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:20,840 so. Could be thirteen, could be 15. 1906 01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:23,320 I mean, Kentucky, Kentucky. Now that a different argument is 1907 01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:24,800 that's good for college basketball. 1908 01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:27,280 It's horrendous for college but stinks. 1909 01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:31,520 I mean, there's no consistency. It's got to be exhausting. 1910 01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:36,520 I mean, Rick is 7273 now. He looks great and he's always 1911 01:29:36,520 --> 01:29:38,800 like, I'm like a lot of times I'm getting ready to interview 1912 01:29:38,800 --> 01:29:41,520 him to do the TV show and he's coming off the bike. 1913 01:29:41,720 --> 01:29:44,200 Like Rick is he he projects youthfully. 1914 01:29:44,520 --> 01:29:46,040 Thank God. He's he's healthy. 1915 01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:48,320 You know, he's keeps himself in shape. 1916 01:29:48,320 --> 01:29:50,280 He's thin, like cardiovascularly. 1917 01:29:50,280 --> 01:29:52,600 He's he, he's very energetic and all that stuff. 1918 01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:55,600 He's got great energy just in terms of how he talks. 1919 01:29:56,120 --> 01:29:58,480 But you're still 7273. It's not going to be doing this 1920 01:29:58,480 --> 01:30:02,400 for 10 years. And I'll tell you, man, to be a 1921 01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:04,840 college coach, I don't care how much money you're getting. 1922 01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:07,480 It's a different job. And I know money does change a 1923 01:30:07,480 --> 01:30:10,640 lot, but it does strip away at the enjoyment, in the enjoyment, 1924 01:30:10,640 --> 01:30:12,840 especially somebody. And Rick is renowned for this, 1925 01:30:12,840 --> 01:30:15,320 but there's others too. Maybe not quite to Rick's level, 1926 01:30:15,320 --> 01:30:19,520 but if you're a guy who's known for player development, you know 1927 01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:21,640 your best work is going to be all right. 1928 01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:24,800 You bring in the freshman, play 789 minutes the game, but you 1929 01:30:24,800 --> 01:30:27,120 really like them. You know, toughen them up, get 1930 01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:29,880 him in the weight room, teach him the system, come back as a 1931 01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:31,800 SOB more like Donovan Mitchell at Louisville. 1932 01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:34,280 That's the story that everybody points to in terms of his. 1933 01:30:34,440 --> 01:30:35,560 But there's many others. Silva. 1934 01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:38,240 There's many others with Rick. Billy Donovan back in the day 1935 01:30:38,240 --> 01:30:40,240 with Providence, he was chubby. He was slow. 1936 01:30:40,480 --> 01:30:43,200 Rick slimmed them out, got him to the final four and 87. 1937 01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:46,560 Bill Billy a great back then saying something Big East 1938 01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:50,240 player, but now it's like you don't really get that at all 1939 01:30:50,240 --> 01:30:53,360 because outside of Zubi who played 5 minutes at Kansas and 1940 01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:55,920 then he did what he did is eventually the next three years 1941 01:30:55,920 --> 01:30:58,360 at Saint John's player of the year in the conference, Kareem 1942 01:30:58,360 --> 01:31:02,640 Abdul Jabbar award winner, best big man in the in the in the in 1943 01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:04,880 the country. So the point is that like Rick's 1944 01:31:04,880 --> 01:31:07,360 greatest strength is marginalized because he just 1945 01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:09,680 doesn't get the time and he loves that. 1946 01:31:09,680 --> 01:31:11,480 Like he actually works out with them. 1947 01:31:11,480 --> 01:31:14,240 I don't know if you guys know this, but I can tell you maybe 1948 01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:16,360 some other teams do this. Most don't. 1949 01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:18,240 St. John's, they had their team 1950 01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:23,320 practice, say at 3:30 and in the morning they've got, I think 1951 01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:25,800 it's 45 or 50 minute individual workouts. 1952 01:31:26,000 --> 01:31:29,240 The guards come in, then the forwards come in, then the other 1953 01:31:29,240 --> 01:31:31,920 bigs come in. And it's literally attention to 1954 01:31:31,920 --> 01:31:36,520 detail specific to the position and it's advanced stuff and Rick 1955 01:31:36,520 --> 01:31:39,920 is in the middle of it all. So as long as Rick's got the 1956 01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:44,440 energy and as long as Rick's got the bank, do not worry about St. 1957 01:31:44,440 --> 01:31:44,880 John's. St. 1958 01:31:44,880 --> 01:31:45,880 John's. I think St. 1959 01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:49,720 John's because their backcourt's going to be so much better. 1960 01:31:50,080 --> 01:31:52,840 I think St. John's will be better next year, 1961 01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:54,440 even though Zoobie's going to be gone with. 1962 01:31:54,440 --> 01:31:56,440 States There we go. Yeah, no, I mean, they'll be 1963 01:31:56,440 --> 01:31:59,600 able to bring some guys in. All right, We've got a we've got 1964 01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:01,800 a line. Yeah, we've got a line of 1965 01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:05,000 callers right here. All right, man, how many we got 1966 01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:06,640 here? Let's bang out, I'd say about 1967 01:32:06,640 --> 01:32:09,920 the. 5. So I mean, keep those up. 1968 01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:12,440 No more, no more new ones. So. 1969 01:32:12,440 --> 01:32:14,960 No more new. Ones no we'll hit these we'll 1970 01:32:14,960 --> 01:32:17,000 we'll hit these all right get them up let me see what we got 1971 01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:18,880 there Jay. I got to be honest, this has 1972 01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:22,320 worked out very smoothly here. I I wasn't sure, but it's been 1973 01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:25,280 well, as I say that way I get to see the egg, the whatever avatar 1974 01:32:25,280 --> 01:32:30,480 that was Tommy is in Apex NC. I I've been to Carolina bunch. 1975 01:32:30,480 --> 01:32:33,520 Where in the world is Apex? Give me what major city is it 1976 01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:35,000 next to? I don't know the answer to that. 1977 01:32:35,320 --> 01:32:37,560 It's about 20 miles South of Raleigh. 1978 01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:41,000 Got it. All right, that's good country 1979 01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:42,080 out there. What's happening, buddy? 1980 01:32:42,080 --> 01:32:43,440 Welcome to Unleash. What do you got? 1981 01:32:43,840 --> 01:32:45,600 Thank you, buddy. Yeah, big, big fan of yours. 1982 01:32:45,600 --> 01:32:47,120 Just want to bring it back to the draft. 1983 01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:52,000 I'm a big Giants fan, so talking before about the Giants trading 1984 01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:54,480 Dexter Lawrence, I'm I'm fully for that. 1985 01:32:54,480 --> 01:32:57,920 I, I, I think though, probably going to have to get a 27 first 1986 01:32:57,920 --> 01:32:59,840 round draft pick as opposed to a 26. 1987 01:32:59,840 --> 01:33:03,000 I'm thinking. So I'm just wondering if back 1988 01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:08,640 even the first pick at #5 you know, to build up 27 capital and 1989 01:33:08,640 --> 01:33:12,800 then just trying to make a Big X offseason, you know, with the 1990 01:33:12,800 --> 01:33:15,280 with, with the draft. Yeah, how this team plays out. 1991 01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:18,040 Well, let me let me throw this at your top. 1992 01:33:18,160 --> 01:33:19,240 I don't mean to interrupt you there. 1993 01:33:19,320 --> 01:33:20,760 I want to, I don't want to lose this thought here. 1994 01:33:20,760 --> 01:33:25,280 To me, it really depends on how patient you and you sound fairly 1995 01:33:25,280 --> 01:33:26,880 patient. You want to punch the 27 with 1996 01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:28,600 the picks, which I think is a good philosophy. 1997 01:33:29,040 --> 01:33:31,040 Like there are some Giant fans who are like, I want to win. 1998 01:33:31,040 --> 01:33:32,520 And I get it. We all want to win now. 1999 01:33:32,520 --> 01:33:36,080 But like, I'm thinking bigger pitch with horribaugh and with 2000 01:33:36,080 --> 01:33:38,680 dart and neighbors and a better old line and some, you know, 2001 01:33:38,840 --> 01:33:40,920 sprinkled in some player like the Giants will be a little bit 2002 01:33:40,920 --> 01:33:42,880 better this year just because they're gonna have much better 2003 01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:45,160 coaching. But it seems like you're OK with 2004 01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:50,800 a more gradual, like more effective plotted out rebuild 2005 01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:52,320 rather than going for everything this year. 2006 01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:53,800 Is. Is that an accurate depiction of 2007 01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:56,000 what you're thinking #1? It is, yes. 2008 01:33:57,400 --> 01:34:00,640 OK, I think that that's smart. I don't know why though. 2009 01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:03,160 You couldn't get a number one and it's going to be, you know, 2010 01:34:03,160 --> 01:34:06,040 middle, first round late. You're not getting I don't think 2011 01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:08,560 inside the top 17 or so. So probably in the 20s if you 2012 01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:10,440 could find somebody. But why wouldn't you want the 2013 01:34:10,440 --> 01:34:11,640 pick now? Why don't you think they could 2014 01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:13,520 do it now? You got six days to the draft. 2015 01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:16,360 He wants out. Giants want a certain a certain 2016 01:34:16,360 --> 01:34:19,400 price point so they're willing to trade him and he wants out. 2017 01:34:19,520 --> 01:34:21,440 So why can't you get a? Why can't you make a trade 2018 01:34:21,440 --> 01:34:24,560 before next Thursday? Yeah, like I said, I think, I 2019 01:34:24,560 --> 01:34:28,080 think the thought is just build for a long term rather than just 2020 01:34:28,080 --> 01:34:32,360 immediate and with what everyone projecting that the 27 draft 2021 01:34:32,520 --> 01:34:35,080 will be so much deeper at all the positions. 2022 01:34:35,640 --> 01:34:38,400 You know, I know you never know, but you know that that's. 2023 01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:41,120 Exactly. That's the biggest draft, a 2024 01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:44,040 bigger draft than this one. Then kind of build your assets. 2025 01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:46,800 You'll still get somebody if you, especially if you move back 2026 01:34:46,800 --> 01:34:50,320 off the first pick that they have in this one, you know, get 2027 01:34:50,320 --> 01:34:54,480 somebody maybe 5 to 10 and still pick up like that, that corner 2028 01:34:54,560 --> 01:34:57,920 or pick or or if downs drops to 10, you know, kind of pick 2029 01:34:57,920 --> 01:35:01,840 somebody up, feel good and then build up your assets. 2030 01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:05,040 Give Harbaugh another season to kind of go through what he has. 2031 01:35:05,040 --> 01:35:08,800 And then this way when we see how much a team changes for next 2032 01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:10,640 season, you know, build from there. 2033 01:35:10,680 --> 01:35:12,560 Yep. I like it. 2034 01:35:12,600 --> 01:35:13,880 I think that's a good philosophy. 2035 01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:15,360 There you go, Tommy. Appreciate the call. 2036 01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:17,600 Have a good weekend, Tommy, out in North Carolina. 2037 01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:19,520 Thank you. Yeah, I mean, think about this. 2038 01:35:19,520 --> 01:35:23,720 Like, to me, there's a few elements at play here anytime 2039 01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:28,600 that you enter a, a either disjointed or moribund losing 2040 01:35:28,600 --> 01:35:31,400 situation, like, like the Giants have been. 2041 01:35:31,400 --> 01:35:32,880 And that's what John Horrible's inheriting. 2042 01:35:32,880 --> 01:35:37,160 The difference is he's coming in with 1/4, unlike Aaron Glenn and 2043 01:35:37,160 --> 01:35:40,320 some others, he's coming up with a quarterback that we all think 2044 01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:42,480 if he stays healthy is going to be phenomenal. 2045 01:35:42,480 --> 01:35:45,160 I, I mean, I can't tell you how much I love Jackson Thorne. 2046 01:35:45,440 --> 01:35:48,920 I love him, right? But even with that and, and 2047 01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:50,880 neighbors and some other things that we all like it, but you 2048 01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:52,240 know, scatterball, hopefully it's going to be OK. 2049 01:35:52,240 --> 01:35:56,320 He should be. But the the first year is 2050 01:35:56,320 --> 01:35:59,640 generally generally like an evaluation of like, all right, 2051 01:36:00,720 --> 01:36:06,200 there's six to eight guys that we like, but I don't know if we 2052 01:36:06,200 --> 01:36:09,040 want to really marry him. Let's see him play for a year. 2053 01:36:09,040 --> 01:36:10,840 Let's see what their practice habits are. 2054 01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:13,600 Let's see how they are in film. Let's see, are they a good 2055 01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:15,240 teammate? Are they buying into what John 2056 01:36:15,240 --> 01:36:18,680 Harbaugh is doing? And if they do, then they stay. 2057 01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:20,080 And if they don't, then they're gone. 2058 01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:22,760 So the first year is going to be a little bit of a balance of 2059 01:36:22,760 --> 01:36:25,880 that, but but also trying to collect some assets and and also 2060 01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:28,600 put out a more formidable team, which I think they'll be able to 2061 01:36:28,600 --> 01:36:31,320 do. Yeah, yeah, I mean that that's, 2062 01:36:31,320 --> 01:36:33,400 that's a pretty good thought. Guy J pop up the next one. 2063 01:36:33,400 --> 01:36:37,600 What do you got? You've got Benji from the Upper 2064 01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:40,080 East. Upper East Side. 2065 01:36:40,080 --> 01:36:41,680 Benji in the house, a little Manhattan. 2066 01:36:41,680 --> 01:36:43,600 Benji. Welcome to unleash. 2067 01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:46,640 What's up, Benji? Thanks BT I appreciate it man. 2068 01:36:46,920 --> 01:36:49,240 First off, JJ has become a buddy of mine. 2069 01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:52,000 I was on his pod in July. Anthony Donnie, he's been my 2070 01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:57,280 buddy since 2009 when we we linked up at a Knicks Wizards 2071 01:36:57,280 --> 01:37:01,480 game at the disgraceful Verizon Center back when Al Harrington 2072 01:37:01,480 --> 01:37:02,680 was sitting out injured that game. 2073 01:37:02,720 --> 01:37:04,760 So he he we go way back. Anyway, I. 2074 01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:05,360 I see. Wait. 2075 01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:06,040 Hey, now. Hold on. 2076 01:37:06,040 --> 01:37:07,000 Hold on. Now. 2077 01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:08,880 Now, Rice Bowl. I've known Donahue. 2078 01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:13,000 I love him. Just just just got down on his 2079 01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:15,320 knee the other day. I saw that he's became a dad. 2080 01:37:15,600 --> 01:37:17,560 I love him. He's a great person. 2081 01:37:18,760 --> 01:37:20,760 I I I knew his sister Gianna pretty well. 2082 01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:22,520 Like, I would see her a lot when she was little. 2083 01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:25,080 I love everything about rice balls. 2084 01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:27,960 He's just a great person and a great, great nick guy. 2085 01:37:28,440 --> 01:37:30,040 And Jji got to get JJ on the show. 2086 01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:32,560 JJ is a dude, man. So JJ was next to me. 2087 01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:34,120 Did you hear that? You heard the story when 2088 01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:36,440 Francesa almost killed me with the golf ball when I was. 2089 01:37:36,480 --> 01:37:38,880 Playing when? I was playing OK, me, Sal and 2090 01:37:38,880 --> 01:37:43,440 and JJ JJ was a foot away from me and and JJ is a trip man. 2091 01:37:43,440 --> 01:37:47,480 I love his energy, love sports, great guy, good guy to play golf 2092 01:37:47,480 --> 01:37:49,880 with fun. So those are two good name drops 2093 01:37:49,880 --> 01:37:51,080 now what do you got there, Bench? 2094 01:37:51,680 --> 01:37:52,920 I appreciate it, man. Yeah. 2095 01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:55,880 Well, I also want to say I've been following basically since 2096 01:37:55,880 --> 01:37:58,200 you've been doing shows in December and it's been awesome 2097 01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:00,600 to see the the ascension of everything that you've done to 2098 01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:02,440 get to this point. Thank you. 2099 01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:05,680 The the Knicks in my life in addition to my to my friends and 2100 01:38:05,680 --> 01:38:06,560 my family. My. 2101 01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:10,440 Friends, I've been a 117 in the last 139, not including pre 2102 01:38:10,440 --> 01:38:12,800 season. I think it's really refreshing 2103 01:38:13,160 --> 01:38:16,400 to go into these series like this series. 2104 01:38:16,400 --> 01:38:18,880 We go into the series with a clear advantage and a clear 2105 01:38:18,880 --> 01:38:22,360 weapon and cat now you know, I'm like the biggest cat fan there 2106 01:38:22,360 --> 01:38:24,440 is. I wear #32 on my back at every 2107 01:38:24,440 --> 01:38:26,720 game. And I, and I know you've had, 2108 01:38:26,720 --> 01:38:30,880 you've taken issue with him a couple months ago, but I do want 2109 01:38:30,880 --> 01:38:35,920 to say that I do think, I mean, I want to see, I'm so wrapped up 2110 01:38:35,920 --> 01:38:37,960 for tomorrow, but I want obviously we'll be there. 2111 01:38:38,080 --> 01:38:40,400 I want to see him get the ball. I know this isn't going to 2112 01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:41,960 happen, but he's got to get the ball. 2113 01:38:41,960 --> 01:38:44,360 The 1st four or five possessions. 2114 01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:47,360 We got to make Atlanta work. We got to make them scramble. 2115 01:38:48,360 --> 01:38:53,200 There's there's no possible way Okong who can guard him at 6:10 2116 01:38:53,200 --> 01:38:57,640 and even from the backup standpoint, because Landale's 2117 01:38:57,640 --> 01:39:00,920 injured, they have Tony Bradley, who I probably have better 2118 01:39:01,160 --> 01:39:04,080 players on my on my Urban League team than Tony Bradley. 2119 01:39:04,080 --> 01:39:07,160 So I'm not scared at all about anything that I think Cats can 2120 01:39:07,160 --> 01:39:10,360 absolutely dominate and I think Mitch is going to have an 2121 01:39:10,360 --> 01:39:14,040 incredible series as well. So I'm super excited and and I 2122 01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:15,400 wanted to get your thoughts on this as well. 2123 01:39:15,400 --> 01:39:19,800 Have you ever I in my experience, I was born in 81. 2124 01:39:19,800 --> 01:39:23,120 I'm not sure I've ever seen a New York sports team have this 2125 01:39:23,120 --> 01:39:26,560 much pressure on them going into a playoff run than this current 2126 01:39:26,560 --> 01:39:32,400 team has given what's at stake with the coach, Foster just 2127 01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:35,200 knowing, just knowing where the various players are, like 2128 01:39:35,760 --> 01:39:39,640 Bridges is 29, Cats 30, Hearts 31, Brunson is 29. 2129 01:39:39,640 --> 01:39:42,920 All these guys are at like the end of their prime or like just 2130 01:39:42,920 --> 01:39:46,160 getting to the point where you got to look at like early 30s 2131 01:39:46,160 --> 01:39:48,600 and you know what that means. So just want to get your take on 2132 01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:50,280 that. But super revved up, man. 2133 01:39:50,280 --> 01:39:52,240 Let's wrap this series up and let's keep moving, man. 2134 01:39:52,240 --> 01:39:53,960 We got to get this title. Let's go. 2135 01:39:54,040 --> 01:39:55,200 Hi, Benji. Great call. 2136 01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:56,800 Checking in from Manhattan. Thank you very much. 2137 01:39:56,840 --> 01:39:58,040 Benji. I appreciate you making that 2138 01:39:58,040 --> 01:39:58,880 call, dude. Thank you. 2139 01:40:00,280 --> 01:40:02,680 I also wanted to say I think I threw this out here. 2140 01:40:02,680 --> 01:40:05,400 One of the things that I do is I take a different person sits 2141 01:40:05,400 --> 01:40:07,040 with me every game. OK. 2142 01:40:07,440 --> 01:40:11,200 So JJ went to a game with me against Orlando early in, yeah, 2143 01:40:11,200 --> 01:40:12,680 November. We lost, actually. 2144 01:40:12,920 --> 01:40:14,400 So I don't know if JJ is invited back. 2145 01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:17,040 I'm just kidding, but. I'm a good luck charm. 2146 01:40:17,040 --> 01:40:19,440 I bring some wins. Well, let me let me know if 2147 01:40:19,440 --> 01:40:23,200 you're down to down to come and to one of these games I'll send 2148 01:40:23,200 --> 01:40:26,360 I'll shoot you a note. We take it day by day but I'm 2149 01:40:26,360 --> 01:40:30,320 obviously going with my wife tomorrow but as this is going to 2150 01:40:30,320 --> 01:40:33,520 be a long run and going to take us into June so just let me know 2151 01:40:33,520 --> 01:40:35,680 and we'll get it locked in bro no. 2152 01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:37,360 Question. That's really generous, man. 2153 01:40:37,360 --> 01:40:38,720 I might take you up on that, Benji. 2154 01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:40,920 We, we, we, we might have to link up on this dude. 2155 01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:42,880 Thank you for the call. Let's go mix. 2156 01:40:42,880 --> 01:40:44,440 No doubt about that. Appreciate it. 2157 01:40:44,440 --> 01:40:48,280 Yeah, Benji checking in. So, you know his last. 2158 01:40:48,280 --> 01:40:50,320 Now, the cat stuff I don't fully agree with. 2159 01:40:50,320 --> 01:40:54,680 Obviously, he's a massive cat fan, a massive cat supporter 2160 01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:57,280 believer. I mean, I'm rooting for him and 2161 01:40:57,280 --> 01:40:59,360 I know he's talented. I don't believe in him nearly as 2162 01:40:59,360 --> 01:41:01,400 much as Benji does, but but that's what makes the world 2163 01:41:01,400 --> 01:41:03,640 spin. I do agree with the point about 2164 01:41:03,800 --> 01:41:06,440 getting them engaged early. I think that that's important. 2165 01:41:06,440 --> 01:41:08,240 I think the one thing that worries me from a defensive 2166 01:41:08,240 --> 01:41:11,040 point of view, and I mentioned this earlier in the show, Dyson 2167 01:41:11,040 --> 01:41:14,480 Daniels is 6/7 and 1/2 and he's going to really run at Bronson 2168 01:41:14,480 --> 01:41:17,240 quite a bit, which is going to give him a different look and 2169 01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:19,840 could frustrate him. Are you talking, you know, 3-4 2170 01:41:19,840 --> 01:41:23,240 inches taller and, and a good defender and they were good 2171 01:41:23,240 --> 01:41:25,280 rebounding team. Their offense isn't great. 2172 01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:27,720 They're pretty good defensive team, Although I I do think 2173 01:41:27,720 --> 01:41:31,120 there's an advantageous matchup and and Benji reference this in 2174 01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:35,120 the middle for cat now. I'd like to see him get the ball 2175 01:41:35,120 --> 01:41:37,280 early. Not that you force it, but I'm 2176 01:41:37,280 --> 01:41:40,360 I'm a believer that, especially when there's somebody who's so 2177 01:41:40,360 --> 01:41:44,840 important, but tends to fluctuate in terms of usage 2178 01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:47,240 rate. Get him engaged early, man. 2179 01:41:47,240 --> 01:41:48,920 Get him an easy open look for three. 2180 01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:51,240 Get him something at the rim. Nothing's going to post up like 2181 01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:54,440 Patrick, but get him in a favorable matchup baseline, a 2182 01:41:54,440 --> 01:41:57,200 little jump shot, foul line, extended work that pick and 2183 01:41:57,200 --> 01:41:59,320 roll, which has been more and more evident as the years gone 2184 01:41:59,320 --> 01:42:02,320 on, which gives me some confidence that Knicks could go 2185 01:42:02,320 --> 01:42:05,440 on a deep run here. But his main point that I agree 2186 01:42:05,440 --> 01:42:07,760 with is that there's going to be no one between. 2187 01:42:07,760 --> 01:42:10,200 That's how I started the show. It's either going to be 2188 01:42:10,200 --> 01:42:12,400 euphoric. You know, Knicks get to the NBA 2189 01:42:12,400 --> 01:42:15,800 Finals and and win. And even if they don't, it would 2190 01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:19,560 still be unpacked as as a terrific year took another step. 2191 01:42:19,800 --> 01:42:22,120 You know, probably lost to a better Thunder team, whatever it 2192 01:42:22,120 --> 01:42:24,240 might because they match up well with Denver if it's Denver. 2193 01:42:25,120 --> 01:42:27,200 But I don't want to get put the cart too far in front of the 2194 01:42:27,200 --> 01:42:30,000 horse here. But euphoria or it's going to be 2195 01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:32,200 a Wrecking Ball because Mike Brown's going to be gone. 2196 01:42:32,200 --> 01:42:34,440 Cat's going to be gone. Maybe Bridges is gone. 2197 01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:38,200 So, yeah, this and his point about, and I don't think it's 2198 01:42:38,200 --> 01:42:39,880 hyperbolic. I think he's on to something 2199 01:42:40,160 --> 01:42:42,840 like when he talks about this being like the most pressure 2200 01:42:43,160 --> 01:42:46,760 that a New York sports team has faced going into a playoff. 2201 01:42:46,760 --> 01:42:49,640 He said he was born in 81. Yeah. 2202 01:42:49,640 --> 01:42:52,120 I mean, really think about this like the Yankees didn't have a 2203 01:42:52,120 --> 01:42:53,960 ton of press, not many championships. 2204 01:42:53,960 --> 01:42:55,600 So you could start with a short list. 2205 01:42:55,600 --> 01:43:00,000 But like the 96 championship for the Yankees that that Braves, 2206 01:43:00,000 --> 01:43:04,880 they had an all time pitching staff, Maddox, Smoltz, the 2207 01:43:04,880 --> 01:43:08,240 Avery, even Glavin, of course, Bobby Cox, Hall of Fame manager. 2208 01:43:08,640 --> 01:43:10,800 Jeez, you have players everywhere and the Yankees beat 2209 01:43:10,800 --> 01:43:13,640 them, but there wasn't pressure. You know, maybe when they fell 2210 01:43:13,640 --> 01:43:16,960 behind O2 and George went into Dory's office like what's going 2211 01:43:17,040 --> 01:43:17,840 on? He's like, hey, we're going to 2212 01:43:17,840 --> 01:43:19,440 win the next three. We're going to we'll probably 2213 01:43:19,440 --> 01:43:21,440 lose tonight as well. He's did that after game one. 2214 01:43:21,680 --> 01:43:23,560 Joe, what's going on? Yeah, I hear you, George. 2215 01:43:23,560 --> 01:43:25,240 We're probably going to lose tonight as well. 2216 01:43:25,400 --> 01:43:27,680 I'm going to go down to Atlanta, win three straight, come back 2217 01:43:27,680 --> 01:43:29,320 and win it in Game 6, which is what happened. 2218 01:43:29,480 --> 01:43:32,960 But there wasn't palpable pressure because the Yankees the 2219 01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:36,240 the year before had made the wild card and that was exciting 2220 01:43:36,240 --> 01:43:38,480 and they hadn't been in the playoffs in a while. 94, there 2221 01:43:38,480 --> 01:43:40,680 was no World Series. So and then, but they had a 2222 01:43:40,680 --> 01:43:43,440 really good team. And then just by getting to the 2223 01:43:43,440 --> 01:43:48,520 World Series in 96, the the pressure was kind of off because 2224 01:43:48,520 --> 01:43:51,600 it was Joe's first year. I the only other thing that 2225 01:43:51,600 --> 01:43:54,840 really jumps out, I mean, yeah, even Carmelo's 54 win season 2226 01:43:54,840 --> 01:43:56,920 with Woodson and those guys. No, I don't know. 2227 01:43:56,920 --> 01:44:00,120 I'm not really. Maybe don't you have to look at 2228 01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:03,440 the 2000 Subway Series? I mean, Derek Jeter always says 2229 01:44:03,440 --> 01:44:05,200 he's like it, it really wasn't enjoyable. 2230 01:44:05,200 --> 01:44:08,320 Like we had to win. Like there's no way, especially 2231 01:44:08,320 --> 01:44:12,640 then when you were so far or I'm so much closer to the dynasty. 2232 01:44:12,640 --> 01:44:16,160 969899. If the Yankees would have lost 2233 01:44:16,160 --> 01:44:18,600 to the Mets, who had different ownership, didn't have the 2234 01:44:18,600 --> 01:44:20,680 profile, even though they stink so far this year. 2235 01:44:20,680 --> 01:44:23,600 But you know, the the Mets have a different perception about 2236 01:44:23,600 --> 01:44:26,880 them since Cohen bought them back then. 2237 01:44:26,880 --> 01:44:29,440 You know, even though they had good players, Piazza was great, 2238 01:44:29,440 --> 01:44:30,800 couple of really, really good players. 2239 01:44:30,800 --> 01:44:33,560 But it's just that like they just couldn't shine the Yankees 2240 01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:35,080 shoes. Like the Yankees were beast and 2241 01:44:35,080 --> 01:44:38,040 the Mets were scrappy and had some talented players. 2242 01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:39,920 I'm not trying to disparage you, but it was a different 2243 01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:42,360 evaluation. And if they would have lost that 2244 01:44:42,360 --> 01:44:45,400 to the Mets, not that I don't think there was as much pressure 2245 01:44:45,400 --> 01:44:46,680 on the Mets. I mean, if the Mets beat the 2246 01:44:46,680 --> 01:44:49,120 Yankees, forget about it. Like that would have been the 2247 01:44:49,120 --> 01:44:52,360 culmination and take over the city like they did in 86 and 2248 01:44:52,360 --> 01:44:55,160 Mets fans would be thumping their chest and you know it. 2249 01:44:55,160 --> 01:44:58,360 It would be think about it this way, like the Mets lose, all 2250 01:44:58,360 --> 01:44:59,680 right, whatever happened happened. 2251 01:44:59,680 --> 01:45:03,000 If the Yankees would have lost that, George would have lost his 2252 01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:05,040 mind. And Jeter even spoke to that. 2253 01:45:05,040 --> 01:45:07,680 He's like, it really wasn't fun. The pressure. 2254 01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:10,120 He's like, we would have lost to the Mets, but we couldn't show 2255 01:45:10,120 --> 01:45:13,040 our face. So outside of that, like even 2256 01:45:13,040 --> 01:45:17,000 the Rangers with, you know, with with Henrik Lundquist, I mean, 2257 01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:19,960 there was pressure to get him a championship, but they never had 2258 01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:22,240 the offense around them. Too many times he had to just 2259 01:45:22,240 --> 01:45:25,760 stand on his head and you know, 3538 saves. 2260 01:45:25,760 --> 01:45:28,920 I mean, win 1, nothing, lose 1, nothing, win 2, nothing. 2261 01:45:28,920 --> 01:45:31,840 You get an empty net gold. I mean, but every game was nip 2262 01:45:31,840 --> 01:45:33,920 and tuck. So it wouldn't be the Rangers, 2263 01:45:33,920 --> 01:45:35,960 not the Islanders. You know, since the early 80s 2264 01:45:35,960 --> 01:45:39,040 with the four, you know, Devils have a couple of the 2265 01:45:39,040 --> 01:45:40,840 championships, obviously, but not that pretty. 2266 01:45:40,840 --> 01:45:44,200 No, you might be right. You, I think you frame that 2267 01:45:44,240 --> 01:45:46,560 really, really well. I would agree. 2268 01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:48,720 All right, last call or. Two more. 2269 01:45:48,720 --> 01:45:52,640 Yeah, Last call, it's Evan at the Pinstripe Bugle calling in 2270 01:45:52,640 --> 01:45:54,880 from C. Oh, good, good. 2271 01:45:55,320 --> 01:45:58,960 Yeah, I know Evan follows be on Instagram and he pops in a lot 2272 01:45:58,960 --> 01:46:01,160 and he follows the show and he's got his own content. 2273 01:46:01,440 --> 01:46:03,880 Evan, welcome to Unleash buddy. What's going on, man? 2274 01:46:04,240 --> 01:46:06,640 How we doing BT Thank you so much for having me. 2275 01:46:06,760 --> 01:46:08,240 My pleasure. I like your work. 2276 01:46:08,240 --> 01:46:10,680 You guys are doing good stuff. Yeah, I appreciate you very 2277 01:46:10,680 --> 01:46:11,840 much. I'm a huge fan. 2278 01:46:11,840 --> 01:46:15,040 I love seeing Unleashed everyday, You know, you know, 2279 01:46:15,120 --> 01:46:18,360 then take that next step, 2 quick points. 2280 01:46:18,360 --> 01:46:22,360 That'll be really quick for you. When you were talking about how 2281 01:46:22,360 --> 01:46:25,360 you know the Yankees should make a move for, you know, that kind 2282 01:46:25,360 --> 01:46:29,320 of impact player like Mike Trout, I totally agree with you, 2283 01:46:29,600 --> 01:46:32,040 but I don't think it's a player like Trout you. 2284 01:46:32,040 --> 01:46:34,840 Know his. Age and his injury history in 2285 01:46:34,840 --> 01:46:38,160 that contract is something that could cripple the whole team. 2286 01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:39,720 You know if there is a salary cap. 2287 01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:43,280 OK, OK, now, now, now, I would almost guess that the name 2288 01:46:43,280 --> 01:46:44,640 you're going to give me is Tatis. 2289 01:46:46,240 --> 01:46:48,120 To be honest with you, I don't know if there is a name out 2290 01:46:48,120 --> 01:46:49,640 there right now that a team would give up. 2291 01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:52,440 And I think that's why my next kind of point was we're kind of 2292 01:46:52,440 --> 01:46:55,200 stuck, you know, the landscape of the league. 2293 01:46:55,360 --> 01:46:59,360 Not I don't see many teams making moves of that caliber 2294 01:46:59,640 --> 01:47:02,440 with the unwillingness to know what's going into next season. 2295 01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:05,200 And that's what scares me about, you know, this year. 2296 01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:11,320 Yeah, man, I mean, it's yeah, I mean, there's a lot of fiscal 2297 01:47:11,320 --> 01:47:14,200 uncertainty for next year. Listen, Evan, if I own the 2298 01:47:14,240 --> 01:47:16,080 Yankees, I would just say screw it, man. 2299 01:47:16,080 --> 01:47:19,400 You know, I'll deal with the the work stoppage, the new CB. 2300 01:47:19,400 --> 01:47:21,440 I'll deal with that when I got a deal with it. 2301 01:47:21,760 --> 01:47:24,400 I'm going out there and I'm getting my man, somebody who who 2302 01:47:24,480 --> 01:47:27,880 I know could bat in front of them or really behind them. 2303 01:47:28,240 --> 01:47:32,240 And, and, and it is, is an elite superstar, whatever it takes, 2304 01:47:32,240 --> 01:47:34,560 whoever you got to give up outside of Lombard and 2305 01:47:34,560 --> 01:47:36,480 Schlittler, take anybody else in the system. 2306 01:47:36,480 --> 01:47:39,560 And there's some good young arms as you know, take them like I, 2307 01:47:39,560 --> 01:47:42,640 I, I, I know you had Soto for a year and you got to the World 2308 01:47:42,640 --> 01:47:46,160 Series and Judge had some moments that we're not good, but 2309 01:47:46,160 --> 01:47:48,760 you just like, you can't keep half stepping it. 2310 01:47:48,760 --> 01:47:52,760 They've got to go all in and, and but they're not going to 2311 01:47:52,760 --> 01:47:54,120 like we've screamed about this forever. 2312 01:47:54,120 --> 01:47:56,560 I'm just telling you what I would do now. 2313 01:47:57,520 --> 01:48:00,000 The way the Padres looked early in the year, I'm like, maybe 2314 01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:02,200 Tatis could be an option here because they looked awful. 2315 01:48:02,400 --> 01:48:03,880 They're as hot as anybody. They're on. 2316 01:48:04,440 --> 01:48:05,120 A Eater. Oh, man. 2317 01:48:05,360 --> 01:48:07,320 They're playing really, really crisp. 2318 01:48:07,320 --> 01:48:09,440 Good, fun, exciting. And they've got a lot of good 2319 01:48:09,440 --> 01:48:12,560 players, so it's not a surprise. Younger electric players. 2320 01:48:12,840 --> 01:48:15,640 But like, you know, if like if they were languishing, I'd be 2321 01:48:15,640 --> 01:48:17,760 like, OK, that that's definitely a target. 2322 01:48:18,040 --> 01:48:19,960 But they're playing well and they're going to be a playoff 2323 01:48:19,960 --> 01:48:23,000 team, you know, so they might win 95 to 100 games. 2324 01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:26,640 So it's not going to be Tatis. The Angels aren't going to be as 2325 01:48:26,640 --> 01:48:29,160 bad as they've been, I don't think the last couple of years. 2326 01:48:29,160 --> 01:48:32,480 And Trout is obviously the hero out there in in Anaheim. 2327 01:48:32,480 --> 01:48:34,680 So they're probably reluctant to get rid of them the one year 2328 01:48:34,680 --> 01:48:36,920 that they're competitive. But you got to hope that that 2329 01:48:36,920 --> 01:48:39,000 turns. And if it doesn't, I don't 2330 01:48:39,000 --> 01:48:42,520 really know who that player is. But this team right now, it's 2331 01:48:42,520 --> 01:48:44,640 not a World Series team. I mean, it's just not, you know, 2332 01:48:44,640 --> 01:48:46,160 that's not. No, it's not it. 2333 01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:47,160 It's. Not they've got a lot of. 2334 01:48:47,160 --> 01:48:51,920 Flaws and it just stinks. I think their organization 2335 01:48:51,920 --> 01:48:55,200 philosophy, you could see it change over the last five years. 2336 01:48:55,520 --> 01:48:59,000 You know, they made the move for Soto, but they were kind of 2337 01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:01,160 pigeonholed into that move. You know, coming off a year 2338 01:49:01,160 --> 01:49:04,040 where they missed the playoffs, they kind of had to make that 2339 01:49:04,040 --> 01:49:06,560 move to get their fan base back where they wanted them to fill, 2340 01:49:06,880 --> 01:49:10,520 you know, to fill the seats. But I just don't see them making 2341 01:49:10,520 --> 01:49:14,840 that, you know, that crazy move that will get fans roaring, you 2342 01:49:14,840 --> 01:49:16,160 know, for the World Series again. 2343 01:49:16,160 --> 01:49:19,160 But I mean it, you know, they've been really working on the 2344 01:49:19,160 --> 01:49:20,800 margins. And that was kind of to my next 2345 01:49:20,800 --> 01:49:23,080 point. If you're going to operate on 2346 01:49:23,080 --> 01:49:24,960 the margins. And, you know, in the past, they 2347 01:49:24,960 --> 01:49:28,720 have put together really good bullpens and they and they find, 2348 01:49:28,840 --> 01:49:30,840 you know, something out of nothing. 2349 01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:34,440 But they fired a lot of their back end bullpen coaches this 2350 01:49:34,440 --> 01:49:36,440 offseason and they brought in a lot of new guys. 2351 01:49:36,920 --> 01:49:38,920 So it makes me wonder if they're going to be able to kind of 2352 01:49:38,920 --> 01:49:42,600 capture, you know, that lightning from someone who's had 2353 01:49:42,640 --> 01:49:44,960 a rough career. So far, they haven't been able 2354 01:49:44,960 --> 01:49:46,640 to do it. Jake Burton sent down should be 2355 01:49:46,640 --> 01:49:49,080 he, you know, yesterday didn't look good again. 2356 01:49:49,320 --> 01:49:51,560 Gary De Los Santos they sent back down to the minors. 2357 01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:54,240 He stinks. That that bullpen, you know, has 2358 01:49:54,240 --> 01:49:55,480 always been a strong suit for them. 2359 01:49:55,560 --> 01:49:58,040 And if it's not a strong suit, then it's going to be a really 2360 01:49:58,080 --> 01:50:01,240 long season for this team. It's one of the things Evan and 2361 01:50:01,240 --> 01:50:03,320 thanks for the call man. Thank you for the for the call. 2362 01:50:03,320 --> 01:50:05,040 Thanks for the support. Appreciate you have a good 2363 01:50:05,040 --> 01:50:07,200 weekend. Thank you for making that call. 2364 01:50:07,320 --> 01:50:11,120 The one of the it's crazy because bullpens really the most 2365 01:50:11,120 --> 01:50:15,880 by far volatile position in all of baseball. 2366 01:50:15,920 --> 01:50:18,360 I mean it really is. I'm not saying that there aren't 2367 01:50:18,360 --> 01:50:21,080 starting pitchers who get, you know, big contract and they fall 2368 01:50:21,080 --> 01:50:24,280 apart or whatever. But year to year, like, you 2369 01:50:24,280 --> 01:50:26,560 know, one guy's like look at Luke Weaver. 2370 01:50:26,560 --> 01:50:27,960 I don't I don't count Devin Williams. 2371 01:50:27,960 --> 01:50:30,320 It's too early and he he was too great for too long. 2372 01:50:30,600 --> 01:50:34,480 So I got to see more evidence that, you know, he's he should 2373 01:50:34,480 --> 01:50:37,800 be fine for the Mets this year. We've run know about Weaver, but 2374 01:50:38,120 --> 01:50:41,640 think about Luke Weaver. He went from he became the 2375 01:50:41,640 --> 01:50:46,080 closer when Holmes lost the job and pitched in the World Series 2376 01:50:46,080 --> 01:50:48,840 and had a great year, Not a great World Series, but had a 2377 01:50:48,840 --> 01:50:51,720 great year. And now, you know, I mean, if 2378 01:50:51,720 --> 01:50:53,560 this keeps up, he's going to be an afterthought. 2379 01:50:53,560 --> 01:50:56,880 And I mean, if he keep this keeps up, he's going to be DF 8, 2380 01:50:57,880 --> 01:51:00,000 you know, at some point. So you did just a lot of 2381 01:51:00,000 --> 01:51:02,960 volatility in the relief market. And it's crazy because as much 2382 01:51:02,960 --> 01:51:05,720 as we complain about the Yankees, whether it's developing 2383 01:51:05,720 --> 01:51:09,280 position players or not, going the extra mile and getting Judge 2384 01:51:09,280 --> 01:51:13,320 a couple of real, real true sticks and stars to give him a 2385 01:51:13,320 --> 01:51:16,840 real chance, like Reggie had with Thurman and that cast of 2386 01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:20,040 characters and Derek and Bernie and those guys had together with 2387 01:51:20,040 --> 01:51:23,680 that cast of characters and obviously 09 with Jeets and a 2388 01:51:23,680 --> 01:51:27,920 rod and Swish and those bats and Toshira in his prime switch 2389 01:51:27,920 --> 01:51:29,640 hitting first baseman goal Glover. 2390 01:51:29,920 --> 01:51:32,400 Like, you know, it's just not the same barometer for Aaron 2391 01:51:32,400 --> 01:51:33,920 Judge. Aaron Judge is better than all 2392 01:51:33,920 --> 01:51:36,240 those players I just mentioned every one of them. 2393 01:51:36,280 --> 01:51:37,480 He's better than every one of them. 2394 01:51:37,760 --> 01:51:39,480 And he's had the worst circumstances. 2395 01:51:39,480 --> 01:51:43,240 So it's unfair, but it is what it is. 2396 01:51:43,280 --> 01:51:45,960 And until it changes, it's not going to change. 2397 01:51:46,200 --> 01:51:51,080 You know, J Rod, I got to tell you, my friend, I woke up and 2398 01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:53,200 I'm like, let let let's see how this is going to go. 2399 01:51:53,200 --> 01:51:58,520 Let's roll this out, you know, and Yeah, well, I yeah, I I get 2400 01:51:58,520 --> 01:51:59,400 it. Because you have a lot more 2401 01:51:59,400 --> 01:52:02,280 responsibility than me in terms of getting all this stuff 2402 01:52:02,280 --> 01:52:04,160 functioning. First of all, awesome job, dude. 2403 01:52:04,200 --> 01:52:05,440 Way to nail it. Thank you. 2404 01:52:05,480 --> 01:52:09,040 Yeah. No, Yeah, dude, I feel like, 2405 01:52:09,320 --> 01:52:12,000 well, First off, I felt like I was like an octopus right there. 2406 01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:14,720 I was like just doing everything. 2407 01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:17,200 But dude, that went so much better. 2408 01:52:17,200 --> 01:52:19,880 Like I thought we were about to get, Oh my God, I thought we 2409 01:52:19,880 --> 01:52:22,960 were about to get someone coming on saying something wild. 2410 01:52:22,960 --> 01:52:25,160 I like. Oh, no, that's going to happen 2411 01:52:25,160 --> 01:52:26,680 at some point. Here's what's. 2412 01:52:27,680 --> 01:52:30,000 Yeah, no, it worked for today. There's some, there's of course 2413 01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:32,000 somebody's going to try to troll or a clown. 2414 01:52:32,320 --> 01:52:34,600 And that's where we just clip them and we just keep moving 2415 01:52:34,600 --> 01:52:37,960 like whatever, you know. Yeah, you, you seem like you've 2416 01:52:37,960 --> 01:52:41,800 got the amount of stress. Since it is a Friday, maybe you 2417 01:52:41,800 --> 01:52:44,360 start early, go out, take a little vape, do a little walk 2418 01:52:44,360 --> 01:52:46,920 and get the mind nice and clear right there, right, Right. 2419 01:52:46,920 --> 01:52:48,400 All. Right, see, it's funny that you 2420 01:52:48,440 --> 01:52:50,680 said that because I was literally all I could think to 2421 01:52:50,680 --> 01:52:54,080 myself was Oh my God. It was like yo, this episode 2422 01:52:54,080 --> 01:52:56,240 makes a dude need to crack a beer. 2423 01:52:56,720 --> 01:53:00,560 Something adjacent. There we go, there we go. 2424 01:53:00,800 --> 01:53:02,800 Well, I thought it was a resounding success. 2425 01:53:02,800 --> 01:53:06,320 It's something I've had my eye and our eye on for a while. 2426 01:53:07,120 --> 01:53:10,080 I thought that we would maybe get it implemented a little bit 2427 01:53:10,080 --> 01:53:13,080 earlier, but didn't want to rush it, wanted to do it the right 2428 01:53:13,080 --> 01:53:15,280 way. And here we are, the first show 2429 01:53:15,280 --> 01:53:17,480 where we took calls and we probably took about 10 or 12 of 2430 01:53:17,480 --> 01:53:19,400 them. And the calls were thoughtful. 2431 01:53:19,600 --> 01:53:21,200 I can give you a little more time to talk. 2432 01:53:21,200 --> 01:53:25,280 Obviously, you know, less, no restraints really, but certainly 2433 01:53:25,280 --> 01:53:26,920 a little different from terrestrial radio. 2434 01:53:26,920 --> 01:53:29,640 So I think this will be great for the channel. 2435 01:53:29,680 --> 01:53:32,760 I'm I'm so pumped up, proud of you, you know, juggling all that 2436 01:53:32,760 --> 01:53:34,240 stuff. No, nobody could see what you 2437 01:53:34,240 --> 01:53:36,360 were doing, but I know that it was a lot. 2438 01:53:36,360 --> 01:53:38,400 So let me know real quick. So we got to be you and I have 2439 01:53:38,400 --> 01:53:41,520 to record something after you, as you know, for next week. 2440 01:53:41,520 --> 01:53:42,680 We got to do some more work here. 2441 01:53:42,840 --> 01:53:44,120 What do you got cooking on the weekend? 2442 01:53:44,120 --> 01:53:45,840 Any dates, any music? What do we? 2443 01:53:45,840 --> 01:53:49,320 What do we got, Jay? Honestly, it's an open book, The 2444 01:53:49,320 --> 01:53:51,760 red, you know, as Natasha Benningfield said, Listen, the 2445 01:53:51,760 --> 01:53:55,240 rest is unwritten, but I vow to make it a good weekend. 2446 01:53:55,240 --> 01:53:57,320 That's it. Like after this, I got to get 2447 01:53:57,320 --> 01:53:59,040 lit tonight. We got to have a good weekend. 2448 01:53:59,440 --> 01:54:00,680 We got to have. Some fun. 2449 01:54:01,000 --> 01:54:02,280 That's it. That's my vow. 2450 01:54:02,280 --> 01:54:04,680 Literally is just have a good weekend. 2451 01:54:05,640 --> 01:54:07,560 I love it. That's a good mantra. 2452 01:54:07,880 --> 01:54:10,080 I might have to do the same thing now tonight. 2453 01:54:11,080 --> 01:54:13,560 I mean, jeez, last week at this time, I thought I was going out 2454 01:54:13,560 --> 01:54:16,680 to Melville and you know, it was 2 1/2 hours away. 2455 01:54:16,680 --> 01:54:18,760 And then, you know, played a game at 2:00 and then they 2456 01:54:18,760 --> 01:54:21,040 didn't play again till 6:00 and then we got home at midnight 2457 01:54:21,040 --> 01:54:23,280 basically. Then he had to play 10:00 the 2458 01:54:23,280 --> 01:54:25,480 next morning and they won that. Then they had to, then they had 2459 01:54:25,480 --> 01:54:28,120 to wait for another game to finish, then another game, then 2460 01:54:28,120 --> 01:54:29,280 they played again. Then they won. 2461 01:54:29,280 --> 01:54:31,080 Then they played the championship, which they lost, 2462 01:54:31,080 --> 01:54:32,920 which was a great baseball weekend. 2463 01:54:33,240 --> 01:54:35,760 Little different for me. All right, so this weekend, 2464 01:54:35,760 --> 01:54:41,400 tonight, he's got a game for travel, and I don't coach this 2465 01:54:41,400 --> 01:54:44,280 team, so I never drink at these games. 2466 01:54:44,280 --> 01:54:47,200 I might pour a little Yeti, you know, a little soda, maybe a 2467 01:54:47,200 --> 01:54:48,920 little splash or something. Nothing crazy. 2468 01:54:48,920 --> 01:54:50,560 Just sit out there, spit some seeds. 2469 01:54:50,920 --> 01:54:53,120 Beautiful night, right field. Got my nice chair. 2470 01:54:53,120 --> 01:54:55,480 One of those really, you know, you, if you watch games, you 2471 01:54:55,480 --> 01:54:58,240 know, the kind of chair like it's, it's awesome, right? 2472 01:54:58,240 --> 01:55:00,800 That kind of chair. And then tomorrow his game's 2473 01:55:00,800 --> 01:55:02,360 not. My daughter played last night. 2474 01:55:02,360 --> 01:55:04,120 She doesn't have any games. She pitched. 2475 01:55:04,120 --> 01:55:06,560 She actually pitched. And she'd been begging me to get 2476 01:55:06,560 --> 01:55:09,320 out there and pitch and pitch and, you know, pitching 2477 01:55:09,320 --> 01:55:11,920 underhand, you know, I mean, learning how to pitch is, is 2478 01:55:11,920 --> 01:55:14,640 hard for anybody. Boy, girl, baseball, softball, 2479 01:55:15,000 --> 01:55:19,120 you know, she's 9 and she's been showing this, this real desire 2480 01:55:19,120 --> 01:55:21,280 to pitch. And she got out there last 2481 01:55:21,280 --> 01:55:24,120 night, walked a couple girls cuz struck a couple girls out. 2482 01:55:24,120 --> 01:55:26,720 They won. She didn't start because we have 2483 01:55:26,720 --> 01:55:29,840 a stud who's a year older, but she got out on the mound. 2484 01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:33,840 I was so proud of her because that is like, you know, when you 2485 01:55:33,840 --> 01:55:36,880 when you and she was begging to do it, like when you volunteer 2486 01:55:36,880 --> 01:55:38,720 that I want to pitch, I want to pitch, I want to pitch. 2487 01:55:39,240 --> 01:55:40,960 All right, now we're going to feed that now we're going to 2488 01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:43,240 work a little bit more. You can pitch to daddy. 2489 01:55:43,240 --> 01:55:45,280 We'll get you a pitching coach, get some lessons. 2490 01:55:45,280 --> 01:55:47,160 Let's go. She got that little perfect wind 2491 01:55:47,160 --> 01:55:49,920 up that she sees the older girls do it does she doesn't throw it 2492 01:55:49,920 --> 01:55:53,600 like they do yet at all. But so she played last night and 2493 01:55:53,600 --> 01:55:57,600 then tomorrow his first game is at 2:00 and it's basically it's 2494 01:55:57,600 --> 01:55:59,320 in Newark. It's at a beautiful turf 2495 01:55:59,320 --> 01:56:02,040 facility. So yeah, I think tonight, I 2496 01:56:02,080 --> 01:56:04,920 think tonight might be a little a little celebratory mode. 2497 01:56:04,920 --> 01:56:06,560 Chill out a little bit myself as well. 2498 01:56:06,840 --> 01:56:08,040 Next week. We got the draft. 2499 01:56:08,040 --> 01:56:12,200 Can't wait six days for that. Hey, listen, ma'am, you guys 2500 01:56:12,200 --> 01:56:14,680 know I appreciate you. This was something that I 2501 01:56:14,680 --> 01:56:17,440 couldn't wait to do because it was the thing that I felt that 2502 01:56:17,440 --> 01:56:20,160 was missing, you know, and there listen, there's going to be days 2503 01:56:20,160 --> 01:56:22,760 where you call up and we're getting after each other like 2504 01:56:22,760 --> 01:56:26,080 today was cordial and today with exchanging thoughts and ideas. 2505 01:56:26,080 --> 01:56:27,720 And I'm not going to berate you. I'm not going to be, you know, 2506 01:56:27,720 --> 01:56:30,760 rude to you unnecessarily, but there's going to be days where 2507 01:56:30,800 --> 01:56:34,200 you call, they try to get on my ass and and I bite back and 2508 01:56:34,200 --> 01:56:38,160 that's that's content. That's sports debate, and I 2509 01:56:38,160 --> 01:56:40,400 can't wait for that. So that's coming. 2510 01:56:40,680 --> 01:56:44,920 But today, in terms of day one as a success, J Rod absolutely 2511 01:56:44,920 --> 01:56:46,320 crushed it. Salute to him. 2512 01:56:46,560 --> 01:56:49,040 Salute to you guys. I want to wish everybody a happy 2513 01:56:49,240 --> 01:56:50,840 weekend. Have a great happy weekend. 2514 01:56:51,040 --> 01:56:52,120 A great weekend. Yeah. 2515 01:56:52,120 --> 01:56:54,400 Happy holidays, Happy weekend. It's probably some holiday this 2516 01:56:54,400 --> 01:56:57,200 weekend that I don't know about and if there is, enjoy it. 2517 01:56:57,680 --> 01:57:00,080 Thanks to our sponsors, of course, Sullivan Papain, 2518 01:57:00,080 --> 01:57:03,920 remember the name Sullivan Papain and buy Premio foods. 2519 01:57:04,160 --> 01:57:06,840 So we have a lot of great things coming as we add the sponsors, 2520 01:57:06,880 --> 01:57:10,880 added the calls, draft stuff. Next week on Tuesday at 8:00 PM, 2521 01:57:10,880 --> 01:57:15,560 myself and Rick Simini and Jake Asmin as the draft descends upon 2522 01:57:15,560 --> 01:57:19,320 Pittsburgh, we will do episode #5 of The Jets Collective. 2523 01:57:19,320 --> 01:57:21,560 So jump on that YouTube page as well. 2524 01:57:21,560 --> 01:57:25,000 Like it, sub it, hook it up and hey, get this out there. 2525 01:57:25,000 --> 01:57:27,760 Let your friends know, hey, you could call BT now, you could 2526 01:57:27,760 --> 01:57:30,920 call Unleashed and all the comments and all the likes and 2527 01:57:30,920 --> 01:57:33,760 all the shares. Trust me, that helps and enables 2528 01:57:33,760 --> 01:57:37,280 me to do more and more and more. So I really want to thank you 2529 01:57:37,280 --> 01:57:39,480 guys for that. It was a great experience, 2530 01:57:39,480 --> 01:57:40,480 really. It was awesome, man. 2531 01:57:40,480 --> 01:57:43,120 Have an awesome weekend, Jay. I will talk to you in a little 2532 01:57:43,120 --> 01:57:44,600 bit. Everybody else out there, be 2533 01:57:44,600 --> 01:57:48,480 safe and we'll catch you Monday. Yanks, Mets, let's get our act 2534 01:57:48,480 --> 01:57:49,600 together here. Let's get going. 2535 01:57:49,800 --> 01:57:50,800 All right, have a good weekend, guys. 2536 01:57:50,800 --> 01:57:51,160 I'll see you.