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Me. There's no way that you guys
thought that this was going to be easy.
Did you? I mean, if you want to win a
championship, you're going to go through some some situations
that are going to challenge you, whether it's physically, whether
it's mentally. So mixed win again obviously
dampened by the injury to OG and Anobi.
We'll get to it all. What's going on everybody
welcome to another edition of BT Unleashed.
J Rod is on alert. Obviously there will be some
imaging for yeah, there will be some imaging I would imagine
this morning for for OG and Anobi and whatever we get some
some news there. We'll get it to you Interesting
game last night. Let's jump right into it.
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All right, little housekeeping. First of all, later on today
episode #7 coming up on YouTube, there it is, The Jets Collective
where we're really unpack it. Really, we're going to get to
the Russell Wilson stuff, which looks like it might happen.
And and of course, you know, you know, connecting the dots on on
the draft. We pretty much did that last
episode, but we'll, you know, we'll finish that up.
And, you know, Frank Reich spoke, the new DC spoke.
So there's a lot of stuff going on with The Jets.
Can't wait. That's coming up a little later
today live. And it's going to be, you know,
usually it's it's in at least an hour.
So that will be at 2:30 Eastern on YouTube today, The Jets
Collective with myself and Jake and Rich Simiti.
All right, some other notes real quick.
Next week, I don't know what day yet, we will have tiki on the
show. And I don't know what day yet,
nor do I know what time we will have Aaron Boone on the show.
All right, so things are starting to cook there.
And by the way, you know, yesterday, for those of you who
are familiar with how you know YouTube works, you know what,
when you have a YouTube show, there's you have this, this this
entire analytical page, right? Whether it's monetization, you
know, viewers, obviously all the different trends, what worked,
what didn't, what's up, what's down, what was shared more by
the algorithm. Yesterday for the channel was
our second highest day in the history of BT unleashed #2
almost 60,000 views in one day. Now I know there's going to be a
point where I'm going to look back and say, Gee, 60,000 days
was 60,000 views was a bad day, but not at that point yet.
So it's not, you know, not me taking a bow.
It's me acknowledging that #1 Joe was great and #2 you guys
loved it and you fed into the content.
And I really could tell that you guys are digging these
conversations. I told you that's something that
I really am am focused on doing as I grow this thing out.
What am I really, if I think about it, my two favorite
aspects, J Rod of of doing this, whether it's on the air at the
fan or nationally or at 10:50 back in the day or in Detroit or
in San Francisco, doing at the new drive, the two things that
have always jumped out to me that I've enjoyed the most.
I mean, maybe I could throw a third like the monologues always
fun. They come out and you just go
bonkers. Like that's a given, right?
When there's something to go bonkers about.
I've always loved the interaction, which is why us
taking calls was so important for the which has also led to a
day-to-day growth, which is very easy to document.
I see it all the time. I mean when we first launched
because we don't do anything on Saturdays or Sundays.
I'll be totally honest with you guys, there were, you know, the
first month or two because we weren't going on over the
weekend, 5000 views, 7 on on Saturday and Sunday.
Now, you know, people that just started to jump into the channel
just to check things out and catch up.
You know, we're getting 2225 thousand views on a Saturday and
a Sunday when we're not doing anything.
So there we go. I, I love that, that that really
does speak to, to, to what we're doing here.
So the monologue's the best. I love the callers.
And that has brought a different energy at a different spark.
And I told you we were going to do it and we're doing it.
And you guys have been great. And we'll get to the calls early
about the Knicks. I'm going to get into Rossini
and Vrabel as well. Another twist.
And he, he, he can't get, he can't coach that team anymore.
I'll get to that later on, right?
But the other thing that I've always enjoyed and I've always
taken great pride is, is interviews.
I know, I call them conversations.
You know, back in the day, they were interviews, so to speak,
but in more of a long format with no boundaries and no
barriers. And you can really go wherever
you want as long as you want with your subject.
It is it is really open things up.
And I and I, I think that you guys are starting to see that
side of the channel. And I think you're really, I
just tell by the comments that, you know, when I have Michael
on, when I had Steven on, when I had Joe on, when I Don on, we'll
have Tiki on next week, we'll have Boonie on next week.
It's just it's a different look and and I love it.
And I thought Joe was great. Like if you guys missed the Joe
Beningo Jay, we had him on for about an hour and 45 minutes,
right? Almost two hours.
Almost. Two.
Yeah, he could have kept going. I know like I was almost feeling
badly at the end. I'm like, one more thing, Joe, I
don't want to he's like, Nah, bro, for you.
I got you. I really think he would have
done 3 hours, but I'll leave this before I get into the
Knicks stuff. It was it was a combination of
the expected stuff, Joe shitting all the Mets, Joe very
uncharacteristically enthusiastic about The Jets, Joe
very hopeful about the Knicks. But then, I mean, he weaved in
stories about him tripping on acid in Chicago, lighting up
dubes on the golf course, why his first marriage failed.
I mean, it was just music. We went deep into music, some
concerts, really just outstanding stuff by Joe.
So shout out to Joe. Thank you for time, Joe.
And I don't know if you guys caught the picture last night of
Joe happy Joe with him and Terry in their Knicks gear.
I think Joe was wearing a jersey and I think she may have been
wearing a jersey as well. So I'm pretty sure it was a good
night at the Beningo household. And really it was a good night
in every household if you're a Knicks fan to an extent.
Until the final two minutes of the game here.
Now, I don't know what's going on with OG.
Listen, I obviously think that it's a hamstring and he and he's
had hamstring issues before. And the one thing that's very
problematic with this, number one, he's just been so good and
he's so important to what they do, but he's not a quick healer
and he's had soft tissue injuries before.
So you got to hold your breath and they're going to stuff him
in the MRI tube today. I, I would imagine it's going to
be, you know, it's going to be a hamstring strain.
I, I don't think it's the worst. I don't think it's a grade 3.
I'd be surprised if it's a grade 2.
I think it's probably a grade one.
If I had to guess, and I'm not trying to be irresponsible.
If I had to guess, it's, there's no way it's a complete rupture
of the, of the tendon like that. They just, it didn't look that
way, but it just complicates #1 what the Knicks going to try to
do. Because first of all, he's been
so great. And you know, last night and the
Knicks offense was very different last night.
And the Sixers played hard and the Sixers played with purpose
and they played very differently without Joel and B.
But think about. And even though Cat had the
early fouls, Cat still had 7 assists.
Think about how many of of of Carl Anthony town's assist have
been to, you know, bridges as well, but OG just roaming the
baseline, cutting free for dunks and, you know, or or cat, you
know, driving and kicking to the corner and OG splashing triples.
Like if he's out for a while, it's going to really complicate
with the Knicks to try to do. But guys, this, this was never
going to be. It's just not.
I mean, and it's #1 it just doesn't happen like this for
anybody in the NBA. Maybe the Warriors a little bit
back during their dynastic run when when you had Steph and Clay
and Draymond and Kevin Durant and all those guys.
But this was never going to be the Knicks win every single game
by 25 points. I mean, you're going to get
faced with either physical or emotional or referee adversity,
foul issues with which ties into the referee adversity, you know,
travel adversity, logistical issues, whatever it might be.
There's going to be something that pops up where you've got to
respond to it. And we have now seen a couple of
situations where the Knicks have already done that because they
won game one against the Hawks, then they lost game two, then
they lost Game 3, and then they just went on a run where they
absolutely obliterated them. And they had three straight
playoff wins of 25 points or more, which has never happened
before in the NBA history, right?
And then last time was a totally different game.
I mean, last night, you know, it's funny too, because my son
had a game last night and last night was a real challenge for
me. Like the other night.
I guess it would have been, yeah, game one.
I didn't go to their games, which I never do.
I never miss. But I'm like, I I got to lock
into the Knicks now last night my wife had something.
My daughter was with him. I had to take him to the game.
I had to. I mean, I love watching the
game. It's like, it's like you're
pulling teeth to to maybe go watch a youth baseball game.
But man, I mean, I was really trying to not check my phone and
and I didn't and I don't coach this team.
So I'm at the stands and I'm I'm down the left field line pretty
much by myself, spitting seeds, watching the game.
Say hi to a few people, then just go and, you know, isolate
myself because I don't want anybody telling me about the
Knicks game. And then what am I?
This is a rec game. One of my son's teammates who I
coach the travel team as well. They're on the same rec team.
And his dad's great and the kids awesome.
And his dad's a big Knick fan. So I went over to say hi to him
and he's watching the Knicks all the tube and I'm like, I'm
recording it. How we doing?
He's like, yeah, we're down 7. I'm like down 7 and he's like,
yeah, Cat got a couple of fouls. Like this was the kind of game
to me that showed showed some character, which I love.
Again, I think how you deal with the adversity.
There were a lot of lead changes.
There were a lot of ties. It was nip and tuck.
Knicks had to make big buckets. Knick had Knicks had to make big
stops. Now the Knicks did get a little
lucky watching that game. Now.
I was also watching it later than you because I got back and
I rewound it tip to buzzer. But I mean, the Sixers had at
least four and I think there was a maybe a fifth wide open look
from the middle of the fourth quarter basically to the end.
And they missed. They missed almost every single
one. And I thought the Knicks
rotations were a little bit out of whack there.
And they got, I won't say they got bailed out, but you know,
those are shots that Philly's going to hit.
Now think about how different Philly looks without Joel
Embiid. And and I think it's and I think
most of you probably agree with this.
I want him to play the next game because then you just attack him
defensively and I think the Sixers pace becomes slower.
And then if he's dropping down, which he's got to because he
can't move his feet the way, you know, the way you need to if
you're going to rotate and and you know, slide with the pick
and roll. I mean the Knicks, I think it's
just going to abuse him. Now, that doesn't mean he can't
come out and drop 30 and do some damage offensively Friday night.
You would have to imagine he's playing and with or without OG
at this point, I'm going to think that it's without at least
Friday night. I would.
I would still think that it's a good advantage for the Knicks
and the fact that the Knicks are up to, you know, you know, that
that building is going to be at least I don't know, Jay, Ron,
let me, let me let you take a stab at this.
The building holds 21,000 people.
It's one of the bigger NBA venues.
How many Knicks fans you think are in there Thursday?
54%. You think so?
You think it's going to be right.
A little more than right. 11:00-ish.
Right now 11,000 like 11,500 ish.
I think we're seeing a big Knicks.
Well, I just, I think especially just now that the Sixers have
kind of lost a little juice in the series.
Also, I was looking at the tickets.
They weren't even that bad. I mean, it was like.
It's not like the guard. Nothing.
'S like it was like 250. I was like, really?
Yeah. I was like, listen, I'm not
going to go out there and do it, but I could be convinced.
And and so I think there's going to be a big Knicks conglomerate
at this game. I think they're going to take
over. And yeah, you're right.
If Embiid plays, the Sixers are going to be hobbled.
They're going to be a much slower pace.
I think Cat will be able to, you know, take take care of him
because last night the Sixers looked a lot tougher, a lot
faster, a lot better defensively.
They did, you know. And listen, Cats on a great run,
I'm not going to just, you know, flip immediately and start
crushing him. You know, the fouls we can't
have that resurface here. It's it's an issue in this
series. Now he's played great.
He was had 7 assists last night and I mean he played 20
something minutes. So, and I think he only played
10 minutes in the first quarter and first half And back to the
the thought about Embiid and the Sixers and the pace and how they
look when he's out there versus how they look when he's not.
They had not had back-to-back off day since April 22nd, April
23rd. That's a long run, man.
And I mean, it's obviously adversely impacting him.
You kind of got to feel for them scheduling wise, like they're
kind of the team and they're the team who needed this the least
and kind of gotten hit hard by like the one day in between the
playoffs I. Agree the most, Yeah.
And by the way, you know, I laid out the schedule on on Monday,
the there will be two days off between Game 7 and game six.
If there is a game six, if there is a Game 7, which I don't think
that there will be, but you know, I mean, series can shift
on a dime. It's one thing to be confident
for sure. Knick fan should be confident.
I think it's one thing to be recklessly arrogant like, you
know, it it it's very conceivable that the Knicks lose
game game three very conceivable.
And I'm very curious what the spread is.
Game one, Knicks were laying 6 1/2.
Game 2, I don't know if it went up to 8, but it went up from 6
1/2 to 7 1/2. I would imagine, you know,
again, OG status, Joel Embiid status desperation.
Now you start getting some friendly whistles that you know,
down O2. We all know this.
We've seen this forever. The NBA tries to stretch out the
series to maximize the revenue. The ad like the ad dollar, like
that's a real thing. Anybody who thinks that that's
not real. I, I, you just haven't been
watching the in the NBA for the last 30 years.
It happens all the time. That doesn't mean you can't
overcome it, but I think Philly will have a very friendly
whistle. And you know, if the Knicks are
to lose game three now you've got probably fewer Knick fans in
the building for game four. Sixer fans feeling emboldened,
the Sixer players feeling pretty good.
They got a little juice and depending upon the status of OG,
well, that could, that could obviously ship the, the
narrative here. But right now, awesome win
because it was a different kind of a win.
It was a character win. Don't don't get me wrong.
I mean, when you beat teams by 25 or 51, you're flashing an
immense amount of character because you are snatching their
soul. But when you're down 7 nip and
tuck, what are your stars has a couple of fouls again, your
backup center is out. Like there were some good
adjustments. And then when you saw you know,
and and this is this is an issue and you can't really do this as
much within beat, obviously. But when when they were throwing
the two defenders at Brunson, Nixon handle that well.
So you know, but you know, they eventually adjusted from that.
Brunson made some big shots like he always does.
Bridges was phenomenal. And here we go Nicks up to zip.
All right, let's get the chats going here.
Gangrene David, thank you for that.
I appreciate it, ma'am. I think OG is fine.
I went back at a doctor Green gangrene.
David, please report to surgery. I went back and I watched it and
it looked like his thought yeah, yes.
I thought maybe a little bone bruise or whatever, but I think
it is the hamstring. I had a similar thought like his
thigh banged into Maxi's knee and it flared up when he started
running injury two years ago was definitely worth.
No, I agree with that. You can just tell the optics of
an injury. Sometimes they are misleading.
I mean, shit, we've seen games where Jalen Brunson's left the
court and we're like, oh God, he just rolled his ankle again for
the third 30,000 times since he became a Nick.
And then he's in the he's in a locker room and then he comes
out and he drops 20 points in in a in any given half.
So I don't want to go nuts with that.
But yeah, the optics appear a little bit more favorable than
certainly a couple of years ago when he shredded his hamstring
against the Pacers. But he's not a quick healer.
I will now like when you have soft Mr. is for soft tissue.
If it's a potential bone bruise, you could would that be more of
an X-ray? No, you'd still get the
swelling. Like the you know, if you have
to think about this, if you, if you thought you broke your
finger, you're getting an X-ray. X-rays are for skeletal matters.
And the Mr. is are for soft tissue stuff, ligaments, tendon.
So I think that they think strongly that it's the hamstring
because you know everybody who's reporting.
I saw Wendy this morning on get up.
I think shams had some stuff as well.
You know, I don't I don't think that they stuff you want an MRI
to but unless it's precautionary, if you think it's
a bone bruise, but we we'll see. All right, so you got to have
this guy right and you don't necessarily need him right for
game three, but you need him right to win a championship.
You just I was going to say the Knicks came out.
I've done that already, so I don't even want to do it.
But honestly, my opinion, my gut, you know, if if he's just
if he's not around for a couple of weeks and I don't anticipate
that, but if he's not, I don't know how the Knicks do what we
all want them to do. I mean, think about this guy's
his in the eight games for the playoffs here, OG out and Obi is
averaging 21 points a game shooting 62% overall.
He's shooting 54% from three, eight rebounds, 2 steals and
great defense. I mean, think about this and you
go back to the that would have been 1234.
Yeah. Going back to the Hawks series
in sequence, 29 points, 9 rebounds, 22 points, 10
rebounds, 17 points, 10 rebounds, 18 points, 3 rebounds,
24 points, 5 rebounds. I mean, anybody can spit numbers
in you. I I get that.
But what those numbers mean is that, you know, from a spacing
point of view and the entire league respects OG on Anobi.
They know he's tough. They know he's a good defender.
They know he's one of the most efficient quarter 3 point
shooters in in the NBA and Bridges is pretty good at that
as well. So but when he's really
clicking, when he's really flowing and he's banging threes
and he's getting downhill, he's great in transition, gets a lot
of breakaway dunks, gets a lot of dunks in general.
Well, now you get him on the cut, on the baseline.
The movement's different. You can't attack Brunson the way
you wanted to or the way you'll be able to if OG's not in there.
And listen, if Shabbat's got to play 20 something minutes on
Friday, I think the Knicks can still find a way to win that
game. You've got to attack and beat if
MB plays, which I think he will, But you know you're not going to
win a championship if Shabbat's out there, you know, for the
next month and OG is not. So you got to hold your breath
and you got to hope that he's good.
And I do think last night is the kind of game that's necessary,
though. Like I, I really do, you know,
again, you, you just not going to show up and thump everybody
into oblivion. 25 lead changes, 14 ties, neither team led by
more than 7 points. So it really could have gone
either way. And and the Knicks, what did the
Knicks hold them to 12:00 fourth quarter points?
Like that's where that's where you're going to stamp a season,
All right? You know, our big guys in foul
trouble, our backup centers not playing, you know, Josh Hart who
did hit a big three. Josh Hart's not playing well.
Brunson was not as efficient as he's been recently.
Like the Knicks played fine. They didn't play great.
You know, I, I think they were even out rebounded by a couple.
If I, if I had I think by three or four or whatever it was
couple of turnovers, couple of easy misses.
I thought their rotations were tick off.
That's why Philly had those open looks which they missed.
So when I say this could have gone either way, we all know it
could have gone either way, but it didn't.
And that's what, you know, possible championship teams.
They figure this stuff out. They figure it out when you're
dealt the curveball in the game, you know, fouls an injury,
although the injury was late, clearly, but up to zip.
Eastern Conference semis, obvious homecourt advantage,
Nick fans getting ready to flock down to Philly and take over the
joint, bro winning streak. LFGM.
Yeah, the Metsis. Metsis starting to wake up a
little bit here. A little bit.
You and Joe were awesome. Yes, I appreciate that.
The blind beard. Thank you, man.
Yeah, I mean, listen, when I have these these conversations,
you know, I, I will, I will jot down a couple of things that I
know that I want to get to. And it's really easy with Joe.
I mean, I know I got to get him riled up about Stearns and
Cohen, although I didn't think he was going to be as hard on
Cohen as he was. That surprised me a bit and I
pushed back a little bit. I knew we'd be pumped out,
pumped up about the Knicks. I knew he because I saw some
other stuff. I knew we liked The Jets draft.
But you know, Joe is, is generally a little more
pessimistic with The Jets and we know why that he's that he's
optimistic. Like I generally slant a little
more optimistically. He's usually the other way.
But the other stuff like, you know, I knew I was going to get
into him, you know, lighten one up on the golf course because
I've seen him do it. I played golf with him, you
know, and then the I mean the acid story was just just
absolutely bonkers, man. Can you imagine Joe?
But now we've all listened to Joe our entire life, basically
since I was AI was still in my teens, you know, when when Joe
first cracked through. And I remember when, and I was
younger than that, when I remember hearing Joe from Saddle
River call Mike and Chris right. And to, to have the, the
distinct voice and all the rants and all the hit pieces and all
the Bros and all the, all the loves and all, the, all the, you
know, the, the phrases and the mantras that Joe lives by.
To hear Joe tell the story about dropping acid in Chicago with
his first wife. And then, you know, basically
as, as he put it, handling business, you know, when they
were in the room and then basically losing his mind
because he couldn't sleep. I mean, it's, it's just all time
stuff. I mean, he was phenomenal, man.
He was just absolutely great. So and then, you know, he said
something too. And you guys have to check this
out if you missed it. He said something and I never
really looked at it this way, but I think he's right.
You know, we talk about FAN, we talk about he's talking about
Sid as a partner. Shout out to Sid.
Sid actually texted me yesterday.
He I guess a lot of people checked in with Sid and said BT
and Joe, we're talking about, you know, saying good things on
the show. So Sid hit me up and, and how
different Sid was from Evan as a partner, you know, all that
stuff. And yeah, obviously talking
about Mike and Chris and some of the dynamics of the fan is as
the greatest sports radio station, the history of sports
radio stations. And you know, he said that he
thought that that Russo Mad Dog Saturday show was the best show
in the history of the fan. And I don't know anybody that
really I've never really heard anybody say that.
And when he said it, I'm like, wow.
I'm like, I would have never even thought that because the
dynamic with Mike and Chris was just so all time rare and so
special that you almost kind of gloss over Mad Dog doing those
Saturday shows. But I used to love listening to
Mad Dog because you know, and usually it was in the car going
to play. Well, usually I'd get near early
go 'cause I'd have a lot of early tee times, you know, pre
marriage, way before kids, you know, 20s, early 30s, living in
Manhattan, driving over the GW Bridge, going out to play New
York Country Club, which is where I used to play quite a bit
back then. And I'd get near, but then
coming home or depending upon the tee time, I'd get Mad Dog.
And when he said that, I'm like, man, I'm I, I might actually
agree with you. Like it was it was it was really
good. So hopefully you guys, if you
didn't check it out, hopefully you will.
Mikhail's been big a lot of confidence.
Yes, in that shot right now, 26 of his last 35.
When I sent myself a note, I thought it was 26 out of 38.
You might be not that it really matters.
The point is he's been shooting the shit out of it.
But let's see here. Let's see last night, yes yeah,
I did 26 of 38, not 26 of 35. I just I just like to be listen,
if I'm going to love my stats like I do, you got to be
buttoned up with this stuff. Yeah.
And and he's just his defense has been relentless and the way
he's pull it up and right, like he's always had a good mid range
shot like, but the way he's looking for it and the way he's
beginning to hunt it, not selfishly, but when it's there,
like if there's a sliver of an opening, you know, bridges in
the past for a little bit as a nick.
I don't mean the other teams where he was, you know, he had
the freedom to pretty much do whatever he wanted with this
dynamic with Brunson, with Cat, with OG.
You know, a lot of times he's the fourth option, sometimes the
5th if he's on the court with heart getting downhill and you
would just notice like a trace of hesitation.
Now there's just no, there's none.
It's boom, get to my spot, rise up, pull up and bury him.
And it's just they have a really, really, really, really
good look on this of the way they look right now.
Jay, what do you think? Give me your opinion.
It's a guess. I've given you mine in in case
anybody didn't catch it. We're just tuned in.
I don't think I think OG is going to miss the next two
games. That's my that was my thought.
That was my thought as. Well, I, I think I'm taking it
day-to-day, but I don't think you're going to run them out.
Obviously you're not going to run them out tomorrow game
after. And I think you're going to, you
know, what day is it, you're going to wait Sunday's game as
well. Make sure he's all good.
Especially if the Knicks win game three, they might not run
them out for the rest of the series even if the Sixers win
game four. That's true.
I mean, here's the other thing, too.
I mean, the quicker that the Knicks can handle business here
like they did in the previous series with the with the with
the Celtics had to stretch things out.
You know, it's always good for everybody to get rest.
But when you've got injuries, it's it's almost paramount that
you capitalize now, if it's 11, I mean, if you're O2, yeah, you
just you just live in a fight another day.
If you're O2 and you just like, hey, we get the seven, We'll
we'll get we'll happily get the seven.
If you drop two home game shit, you're not you're probably not
equipped to really go on a long run if you drop the 1st 2 at
home. But to be up to zip and to be
able to, you know, play different styles like that's to
you know, I've talked a lot about adaptability.
That's one of my favorite terms to describe teams.
I've, I've done, you know this, I've done this a lot, right?
I'm not going to get. Into the Pat Riley example,
which I've done a million times, where he was such a different
coach in terms of how the Lakers looked stylistically, how the
Knicks looked stylistically, and even the Heat as a bit of a
hybrid. That's just the short version,
or I'll keep that one real short.
But I'm not saying that they quite have that adaptability
because the Knicks aren't looking to win 89, nobody is
8980, and the Knicks aren't even looking to win 10196.
But you are seeing that the Knicks are able to play a lot of
different ways and they're they're they're able to do that
because they've got very versatile defenders and they've
got a deep bench and they've got a coaching staff that you know,
I know, I know that Mike Brown's the coach, but he's he's giving
them a lot of credit. And I think that that's a a
class move by he did that after the Hawks series.
He's like, Hey, you know, my staff has been phenomenal.
And you don't really hear NBA coaches say that all the time,
but he's illuminated that and I think he does it because it's
true. So when you have a couple of
stars and you have a couple of guys who can really, really,
truly guard one through 5, maybe not for 6-7 minute stretches at
a time, but we've seen OG go go up against Embiid, We've seen
Bridges get up on a point guard, try to stagnate the So you've
got those cut. Josh Hart can pretty much guard
one through 5, maybe one through 4 and you've got some some
bench, some bench pieces that could come off the bench and
fill it up even though the bench wasn't great last night.
You've got you don't have, you're not a two pitch pitcher.
You've got a deeper repertoire is what I'm saying.
Yeah, I mean. And I think what you're what
you're saying about the Knicks, the different play styles, it's
very true. I like how, you know, man, and
he's the guy for it. So it kind of stinks that he's
injured. But I love how how much pressure
the Knicks put on the rim in the modern day.
Like it's great. Like they're A-Team who doesn't
fall into like the Celtics category or the Houston Rockets
category of like, let's just Jack them up and see what
happens. Jack up 50 threes.
Like the Knicks really have this ability.
OG Cat, even Bridges on the you know, on the fast break, Josh
Hart. Josh Hart.
Big time. Like that ability to just take
it to the rim, take it strong, hit him with the two hand flush.
Get the and one get. The foul, like that's what I
really love about the Knicks game is is they have that
ability to yes, they can splash it from three.
They've got the guys for that, but they've really got the
ability to pound it inside. It's a really good.
Observation there, Jay. Honestly, like, listen, if the
Knicks were a horrendous defensive team, but they could
put up 140 a night and that's how they won a championship, I
wouldn't give it back. Like, I wouldn't complain.
But if I had my way, if I had my my ability to kind of build it
aesthetically, because there's a lot wrong with the NBA,
especially during the regular season, 6060 combined threes,
like pretty much an aversion to defense.
Transition defense is optional, You know, maintenance days, all
the shit that bothers us about the modern NBA.
Yeah, I know. Get off my lawn.
I know. OK, fine, I got you.
But most of us, you know, and now.
But I was going to say unk. Did you see in some of the
comments people call me unk yesterday?
Like the? Last week or so.
When the hell did UNK? When did I become an UNK?
Yeah. Dang dude I mean you might have
become unk like 20 years ago but I don't know people do people
now unk starts us the the barrier for unk.
Some people my age go 282928 my age I don't know, I wouldn't
like to me, I wouldn't really consider especially your takes
and your personality is very non unk ish.
Some of them a little bit but but like Joe B, that's unk right
there. That's Grandpa.
He's passed. Unk.
I mean, that's Grandpa Joe Pops. Yeah.
It pops. You could do that.
But so just to be clear, because, you know, the
vernacular is a little different here.
Unk is Unk is not a diss, right? For the most part, Unk's kind of
a compliment. I no, I don't know.
I let me tell you, Let me tell you what I thought.
Like when I see Unk, I'm like, oh, that's, that's all right.
That's that's the older dude at the at the BBQ who's still cool.
Like that guy's still, he's still down.
Exactly. Yes, that is where it originated
from. That is, that is the origin of
the term unk, Uncle Unk. He's your boy at the BBQ.
He's your uncle. He's all right.
Well, I'll take that that that's a good thing.
That's a good thing. I think the way that my
generation has spinned it, and I don't think this is the way that
your commenters would be because it's a little bit of a different
generation. The way my generation would be
would be like bro I just turned 29 years old I'm unk now I'm
lost God. Almighty, get a grip you young,
you whatever the hell you young people are these days. 29 years
old unk shit man 29 years old I could hit a golf ball 300 yards.
I was lifting unk my ass. 29F. Your couch Here we go 40 plus
equals unk so well then I. Guess a monk.
Not even a new wonk at that point.
Yeah, I saw that like 3 weeks ago and I'm like, OK, I'm, I
think that's a good thing. Like I, I think they're saying
I'm the cool older dude at the party, I think.
And then I saw like within the last three or four days, like 5
or 6 hunks on the yo in the house.
Well, make sure I'm not getting pissed here on my own show.
It'll certainly. They'll certainly pop up on like
the shorts where you're giving that kind of take, where you're
giving a take where it's like the Knicks fans are like this
are that's true. Like.
I'm sure they popped up on that, that you know.
What I did see some of that stuff like yes, and and I stand
by it. You know you can call me unk.
You can call me grandpa. I'm calling you asshole is what
I'm calling you If you're one of those people out there that's
ripping the jersey off a sixer fan.
I don't care how old I am, I saw that you're.
The idiot who's doing it. That is ridiculous.
You should get your. Face kicked in is what should
happen honestly, and and I know it only and I'm Knick fans are
awesome and that only represents 1% of the of of the Knick base
of fans. But I said this yesterday, like
after game one, there was some dude who was walking out.
He had a Sixers jersey on all right here call here, here's the
phones, here's the phones, here's the phones.
Phones get a phones right and always got a sixer jersey on and
then like and if this is the problem is a little sideswipe
here. This is the problem with today's
generation. They think that they could go up
to and they get away with it, that they could go up to
somebody and get in their face and grab the jersey and then RIP
the jersey off. So now when there's that many
people there, it's it's, you know, you're not going to win
that battle. But you know, that's why I said
yesterday like, hey, man, I wish that that dude was like a third
tip black belt. I don't care if it's jujitsu.
I don't care if it's Brazilian. I don't care what it is, just
give me 2-3 quick moves. Bang Bang, elbow to the head.
Yeah, don't kill him. Put him on his ass and teach him
a lesson. Because when you do that to
people, you just show him no respect.
And this is an UNC PT talking. This is concerned citizen human
being, decent, good person speaking.
Who the fuck do you think that you are to be able to do that?
I, I, I, I just, I, I can't, I can't understand that.
Like if you saw and I was never listen, I grew up with some real
tough guys, real tough guys, real so.
And I was never a tough guy. I like had a couple scraps, won
a couple, lost a couple, whatever.
I'm 52. That's the last thing I want to
do now with all the surgeries I've had that I'm definitely not
looking for that at all at all. But I have seen people get into
fights at bars over back in the day, some of the most innocuous.
And I don't mean like, you know, trying to Mack on somebody's
girl or you know, being straight up disrespectful or being a
drunk and like bumping into people and then being like y'all
screwed. Like not even apologizing, which
is ridiculous. I'm not talking about that
stuff. Like if, if this if you did that
stuff back now, if you could handle yourself then then good
for you, lucky you. But if you did some of the stuff
that some of the people get away with today, you, you would be
on. I'm not even saying for me, you
would be on the floor in a second.
Your tape would be next to you and you'd be dripping in blood.
Like people didn't put up with that shit.
And it's really, I didn't even lie to you.
I didn't really want to, you know, get too serious about
this. But those videos are ridiculous.
And it's getting increasingly more dangerous.
It really is. No.
I mean. A fully agreed and and you're
right, like if I think about my generation, dude, I'd say.
If I could. Count on three fingers how many
people I know my age have gotten into a legitimate fight.
Exactly. Literally 3.
Fingers maybe and I might not even use all of them.
Like I know one of my and he was my friend was 12 years old, 1315
years old. Like, you rarely meet people my
age within this zone who have had any experience in fighting
or even confrontation. I know.
Like I know you know. We're a very non confrontational
generation but. You're not confrontational in
the physical sense. But you're.
Incredibly aggressive and confrontational in the social
media, which is not the real world, Yeah, I think.
That's the issue is just it's gotten skewed.
So it's like and it and it. It goes.
Into the public setting to where people my age, shoot even me,
listen, we'll say something sometimes to people out of like
like quick impulsive anger or quick like knee jerk reaction
because we're, you saw on social media having that anonymity of
saying whatever. And then, you know, in person,
listen, thank God it ain't happened to me or anyone I know
yet. But you know, you're opening up
that opportunity to oh, if this person is actually fought or if
this person has any sense of like, you know, self
preservation, they can punch me right in the face.
They can knock you out like. So it's so it's a bad look, man.
It's you know, and it makes all of us look bad because now what
does that become? That becomes basically the
national representation, the national scouting report on
Knick fans, you know, and that and that's just simply not the
case. It's just not.
So you know, and I I can promise you this, unfortunately, you
know, there will be situate. You will see it on video over
the weekend, whether it's Friday or Sunday down in Philly, Knick
fans, Philly fans, because if the Knicks win, they will be
coming down the escalator taunting Sixer fans.
And most of the people will be younger.
And because they're not used to physical confrontation, they
think that they could do that. It just takes 1, you know, one
real one to to not accept that. And he's got a very dangerous
situation on your hand. And then you mix in the vapes
and the gummies and the all the drinks and all the other stuff,
you know, it's just, it's not good.
It's just, I don't know, man. Now, listen, you know, things
happen. Things happen.
Like, I remember I got one of the last fights that I got into
was actually in a World Series game at Yankee Stadium.
Yeah, yeah. I didn't start it.
I did not start. No, I really didn't.
I'm not going to give you the details because I'm not trying
to glorify it, but it was in the bathroom.
I've. Seen I've seen that happen at
some Pats games before bro and it when I.
Tell you it was, it started in the bathroom.
There's like 3 or 4 of us. My buddy Spitz, Rob, Kev, Kev
didn't do anything, but Kev was there and I was in the last
urinal. And yeah, I was actually in the
last urinal. Basically the next, the thing
next to me is a concrete wall. And I, I listen, I, I, I'll tell
you a little bit because I'm certainly not trying to glorify
it. I'm not even saying I'm proud of
it, but this is the way it used to be.
And I'm not even saying that that's good.
I evidently a couple drinks of me Yankees, Yankees lost.
I was pissed off, right? And it was with a fellow Yankee
fan. And I, I get my buddy Spitz,
who's a Mack truck. I mean just massive and crazy
and I guess I bumped into a guy by accident and I'm the kind
even when I was younger, I'm the kind of guy, you know, certainly
you know, young women, old, older, but even dudes in bars
like my bad, like I just I'm not looking for trouble If I bump
into yo, I'm sorry, but they keep it moving, right.
Or if you going through a crowd, I'll kind of like tap somebody
to let them know that I'm just. Pardon me.
Yeah, absolutely.
Excuse. Me, I mean, it's just the way I
was raised, right And I evidently I bumped into
somebody. I guess they were on the way out
as I was coming to the way in and you know, pretty big dude,
Six 2 1/2 probably. Then I was probably 2:15.
I was just out of college, so I was in pretty good shape.
And I don't know, I guess then the guy said something to his
buddy, like, yo, that that dude. I don't even know because I
didn't, I didn't. I was just going to the
bathroom. My buddy Spitz heard it, who was
coming in behind me and like these dudes basically quartered
me in the bathroom. And the only way that I was
getting out was to basically fight my way out.
And it was it was bad, dude. It, it was so bad, it spilled on
to the concourse. It's because I eventually I got
out of I got out of the bathroom thankfully.
And like it was just four or five of us rolling around like
really throwing like legitimate punch.
It was. Could have gotten arrested dude.
It was. It was.
Bad but but my point is, and again, that's the last thing I
wanted to do. But like I don't know if if the
young like if you and it was not intentional, but like the
younger back then, you know, if you did something intentional,
even unintentional, you know you you have problems now really
just goes back to what I said about like the scene outside the
garden. We've got to do a better job of
police in this. Have fun, get nuts, enjoy the
Nick wins. But abusing opposing fans is
nothing cool about it. There's nothing fun about it.
There's nothing tough about it. I don't know what you're trying
to do, why you need to mix your fandom and your happiness with
with that. It's just it's just never going
to be good luck and I don't know I.
Don't know if you have seen like the original video of that one,
which I think is kind of cool. It wasn't even a Knicks playoff
game. I think it might have been after
the RJ Barrett game versus the Celtics against.
The Celtics, Yeah, I think. I think that was it.
It was, it was, it was a game where the Knicks beat the
Celtics, where all the fans went out, and it was much more of a
positive scene. It wasn't negative.
It was we're celebrating. Yeah, listen, there's a guy kind
of Spider Man costume with a Hennessy bottle.
Yeah, he's having fun. He's having fun.
There isn't this. Vitriol towards the other team's
fans. There isn't this violence.
It's let's celebrate as a city, Let's celebrate as Knicks fans.
Here we go. Yeah.
I mean, you've got to really be a unique fan, a unique fan to
put on a uniform. I respect this and I've done it
before, couldn't pay me to do it now.
Put on a uniform for your team and go to the opposing venue and
be belligerent. And even if you're not
belligerent, you know, again, alcohol just causes people do a
lot of things that they ordinarily wouldn't do.
Like if you were, if you're a Giants fan and a lot of them do
it and you go down to Philly for Giants Eagles game or even this
weekend, next Phillies or Yankees, Mets a little different
because not not that there's never issues, but it's it's all
New York, whatever. Or like Rangers, Flyers or
Raiders, Niners. Matter of fact, the 1st when I
was working in San Francisco, the first game, because I think
we launched the station August 1st is years ago.
I'm doing afternoon drive and this was the second or third
preseason game. So I'm I'm only there like two
or three weeks in the Bay Area and I'm like, yeah, I can't wait
to go to Candlestick. I've watched it on TV my entire
life. Let's go.
I'm, I'm in the parking lot. 10 minutes.
Somebody got stabbed. Raiders, Raiders, Niner fans.
Oh my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's just, it's, I don't know, man.
I I don't, I don't know. Was it like this in the 50s?
And was it like this I don't think about, you know, and my
dad grew up a great Brooklyn Dodger fan.
And the Brooklyn Dodgers could never, ever, and I mean never
beat the New York Yankees when it mattered, ever.
And the Dodgers were really good.
Duke Snyder, obviously Colfax before he went out West.
You know, Jackie Robinson is going to do it, can beat them.
And they finally beat him in 1955.
And I'm sure that there were some fights in the bar after a
couple of blue collar guys having one or two extra
whiskeys. But it wasn't this antagonistic
that that's what I'm looking for.
It wasn't antagonistic. You know what I mean?
Big time, I mean. I, I think, you know, sports
rivalries were always something. Yes, there was an anger, but
there was something like Ocean View coffee shop says here,
you're supposed to party with the opponent's fans.
Listen, there's vitriol, but at the end of the day, you're
you're fans of the teams, You're not on the teams themselves.
So like, game's finally over. Go have some fun with your
opponent. Go have some fun with the other
teams fans and stuff like that, rather than having this vitriol.
You know what I'm saying? Like, oh, I do know what you're
saying. Like, you know, I watched the
game seven with some Sixers fans this weekend and yes, there was
some vitriol. There was some height intention,
but it was it was fun and games it was.
There was no true antagonistic behavior as you're saying.
It was all fun. Well, Jay, when you.
Say that, you know, fans, you know, they're not playing.
I mean, there were a couple of years I was going to those Jet
games in the in the 90s where I actually thought that I was
playing like I would, I would go in and then I don't want to get
some other stuff here. I would walk in.
God almighty. One of the guys was Spitz, who
was behind me in the bathroom at Yankee Stadium and Spitz and and
rob another guy who was there that night.
Anyway, the I would show up at these Jet games with a do rag.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, man, a green.
I I used to I used to wear you know what?
Not that I thought I was in a gang or I got no, not at all,
but I would wear I wore it during construction because I
did construction during the summer college, you know, and it
was it was kind of a look. Not that I was looking to go
with the Rico Suave look, but I I think he had it in the video.
And trust me, I was not going after that look I promised you.
But I for a minute, I guess it was somewhat popular, the do rag
and got the du rig and I would go in there with a green and
white du rag. And I had this Wayne Corbett
jersey and it had to be a little like like October, October,
yeah, October, November when it get a little gets a little
chilly. And I would wear these black
Nike baseball batting gloves that I still had from either
college or playing softball for a year or two after college.
And the Corbett Jersey I and it was an official, it was like a
couple of 100 bucks. The arms were too long.
I, I, I cut them so that they were kind of up.
Oh my God, you can find a picture.
I don't. I don't know if I have any.
I don't know if I thought they were going to say, Hey, come
play tight end. I don't know what the hell I was
thinking, but I, that's what I that's what I was wearing.
Jesus, what a so, I mean, I get it.
We've all been young and we, we've all been stupid, but we
got to stop crossing the line. We, we've just got to show a
little bit. I'm not trying to get preachy,
man. I don't even know why I got this
much into it, but we've got to have a little bit more apathy
for our fellow fellow man. Mankind here, really.
All right, enough of the preach. Wait, I got to.
Say yesterday I was doing a deep dive for that Yankees home run
animation video. Which one?
The one you were telling. Me about yesterday you swinging
the back. I I haven't been able to find
it, but I, I, I've realized the path you have to go down.
You do. You have to.
Look, you. Have to look for early 2000s,
that's around the time period, right?
I think it was not I think. It was specifically 99.
That's when I was interning a good day New York Channel 5
that. There you go.
That helps me narrow it down even more.
If you look at videos of people recording the TV of 99 home
runs, you can maybe find it. I found some of like it.
These were weird ones, but it would be like people recording
just like the yes networks intro from your phone, like from just
like I guess for historic purposes or an yeah.
Well then yes, didn't come around.
Till I believe it was, Oh yeah, 03.
I think it was 03. Yeah, yeah.
Or maybe, oh, I think it was 03. Whatever.
Either way, the that would be a great way to cat.
Now that's a lot of work for you.
Yeah, by. The way I don't.
Know, I mean, you didn't get me Jake the Snake Roberts, you
didn't get me Hacksaw Duggan, you didn't get me on Rogan's
show I. Mean.
Rogan, Rogan's show that's still listen, that's still up in the
air. That could happen at any time.
I know. Listen.
The bigger the channel gets, maybe he'll stumble across some
unleashed content. All right, I got to get serious
from I mean, not that what we just talked about what the fan
stuff wasn't serious, but there's and we'll get the Nick
Coles here. We'll get the Nick comments up
there as well. Mike Vrabel can't coach the Pats
anymore. He's got to resign, man.
He absolutely has to resign. Another chapter in the Vrabel
Rossini situation. Now I've stayed away from this.
I've referenced it once or twice myself.
I I'm not a big fan of you know, getting into this stuff like
it's never really truly interested me.
You know, I but we're at a point now this is unavoidable and you
cannot ignore this. And if the Patriots don't demand
that he steps down, which they probably won't because he's a
patriot, you know, played there and he's a hell of a good coach,
then Mike Vrabel is going to have to step down himself.
And yesterday's the final. It's the final nail in the
coffin, man. Now, you know, I mean, Diana
received his careers over. There's there's just no coming
back from this. I'm not going to even comment on
our marriage. I'm not him.
I feel horrendously for him. But they'll either resolve that
or they won't. That's their business right now.
When I say her career is over, I mean in the conventional sense
because of where we're at in 2026.
And I saw some stuff on on social media yesterday that
she's thinking about giving her full story to somebody and that
would be massive. And then she'll branch out
independent content and she'll probably crush it because she's
very good at her job. She's got great charisma and I
personally like her. She's a Bergen County girl.
I had her on the fan. I texted with her a few times,
not much, not much, but a couple of times about getting her on
the show or a story that she wrote, she got back to me.
Don't profess to know her very well, but I know her a little
bit and she knows of me and she, certainly her dad was a huge FAN
fan. I can only imagine what her
dad's going through now. My God.
But now yesterday TMZ had this. So they rented a boat.
This was in June of 2021 in Tennessee.
And I mean, this is just this. This is just beyond malicious.
I don't, I don't even know what word to describe this. 9 levels
lower than were higher depending upon how you look at it callous.
It's just, it's just dirty. She was in her third trimester
in terms of her pregnancy. And later on that month, after
the boat rental with Mike Rabel, she had her first child.
Now, I mean, you know, again, this is up to the, to her
current husband DNA test. And I know I've read what you've
read. I've seen what you've said,
what, what you've seen, heard what you've heard about the, the
child's name. Mike.
I, I don't know. All I know is when you have
stuff like this, the residual damage that happens to young
kids, it's, it's just, it's just, it's not supposed to be
that way. As we know, they're adults.
They got to handle their business.
And, and I don't really stick my beak in other people's business,
but from a sporting point of view, he's just got to go.
He's got to go and he's got to have, he's got to have the
fortitude to come to that decision himself.
The Pats should not be pressuring him or it's got to
come from within because Mike Vrabel will be fine when he's
talking about football to the Pats.
They're all young dudes. You know, they all want to, you
know, some, some get married young and some live a straight
laced lifestyle and and that's great, you know, commit to one
woman, commit to one guy if you're gay.
I mean, it is what it is, right? But a lot of those people, lot
of those young dudes, because I was young, they're looking to
have some fun. So they're not looking at Mike
Vrabel the coach, when he's talking about 43 defense or
blitz coverage, whatever it might be.
They're not looking at them sideways, like, I can't listen
to you. What?
Look what you just did. They don't give a shit about
that. When they will care about that
is when one of them gets in trouble.
And trust me, it's the NFL and it's, you know, it's young
athletes. Invariably somebody will step
out of bounds, whether it's with the NFL or a team rule and Mike
Rabel will have to put his foot down and it's a non football
matter and that's where you become compromised.
You hear the term all the time. Leader of men.
You can't be less of a leader of men right now than Mike Rabel
has shown and demonstrated. You just can't be.
You could be 1 great football coach.
That's the guy that I wanted coaching The Jets that can you
go back and find the old stuff for the fan.
I was all over Rabel, Rabel, Rabel, Rabel, Rabel, Rabel.
I wanted Rabel. I mean, thank God now, maybe
last year would have been better before all this stuff hit the
fan. Thank God that The Jets have
avoided this because that I mean, imagine that New York it
like I'm listening to Drake May, who's a young quarterback and a
terrific quarterback. Drake May is like, Nah, he's a
great leader. I mean it.
It doesn't matter. No disrespect to Drake May.
I've got great respect for him. Doesn't matter what Drake May
says. Drake May is a young pup.
He doesn't get the way the world fully works yet.
You know, with the all the other stuff he gets a lot of the way
the world. I'm not trying.
I'm not taking a shot at Drake May be clear about that.
But I don't really care what Drake May says about his head
coach right now. It is just, it is too sloppy.
It's just too scandal ridden. He just can't coach the Pats
anymore. Just can't I, I don't really
know any other thing. I don't know how you see it any
other way. And it's just been a stream.
I mean, every week there's a new story, man, Ferg, you know,
they're right there at the resort in Arizona.
Up Here's a picture of them, you know, making out in 2020 at a
bar. Up here's a picture of them
rolling the dice at a casino. Up here's actual documentation
footage, you know, like a screenshot.
Mike Vrabel's signature, Diana Rossini's signature, rented a
boat in Tennessee. She's in there.
She's 7. She's 8 months pregnant, you
know, I mean, so think about what she has done to her husband
and her children. And, and again, I'm, I'm going
to stop there because that's I don't, I'm just not comfortable.
We, we know what she's done to them.
So there's really no need to pile on.
Like I don't need to be that guy.
Just think about if that was you.
But what I will react to is a head coach now every in the most
popular sport in the country every week, something popping up
that continues to impugn his integrity.
Got to get rid of them. Can't coach the team.
That's it. So I don't know what they'll do.
I don't know what he'll do. And by the way, how about the
bull? This is bullshit.
Like this part actually bothers me how fake and how transparent
was and I didn't even really get into this.
But you know, as I'm as I'm going this part, as I'm going
through this now, you know, I may have referenced it like a
sentence a couple of shows ago. So think about this.
So, and again, I'm not looking to get involved in anybody's
marriage, all right, but he's there for day one of the draft.
Hey, first round man, Can't miss.
I can't miss this. I got to be in the war room.
It's the draft. Rounds 2 and rounds 3.
Hey, can't miss this. I got to oh, oh, day three.
What? Backup tight end, nickel
quarterback from some no name school.
All right, I'll go and I'll go and seek therapy.
What? For a day and then the picture.
Buying pajamas for his wife at the airport.
What are we doing? What are we doing here?
You know, but think about how how, think about how weak that
is weak on his part, weak on the pat, weak on everybody's part.
He's there for the important part of the draft.
And I'm not saying you can't get good players.
I mean, we there's been, I mean, Brock Purdy was the last guy
taken good quarterback. Not saying you're not going to
find any good players late in the you will, but it's always
deemed less important because it's not a premium pick.
That's when he decided to leave. All right, let me go address
this now. Give me a break.
You, you know, you, you.
I just don't think that you have the right.
Mike Rabel has not earned the right.
No, I mean, I don't know how you've got the juice and the
respect to stand up in front of a group of 53 men with the final
roster set and more early in camp.
Look them in the eyes and tell them what you expect when you've
been doing this for Lord knows how many years.
You know, I mean, I I don't know and I understand there's varying
opinions on everything, whether you know, whether it was CAD or
Brunson dribbling too much or Mike Brown or, you know, Bednar
or Soto hitting first, or we could all weigh in on sports
opinions. And all right, I say what I say.
You say what you say. I respect it.
Hopefully you respect where I'm coming from.
I don't know how anybody has a counter opinion to this.
How does anybody not agree with what I'm saying?
Well, he's a football coach. It means nothing.
All right. OK, so if you disagree with my
premise that he should no longer be the coach of the Pats, he
must be out. He must be right.
But if you disagree with that, you're going to say, hey, you
know what personal life, and you'll probably say something
like this. How many if, if, if, if the
league, if all the leagues and all the players were held to
this standard, cheating on your wife, doing drugs, doing stuff
you shouldn't do, there'd be no, no professional sports to watch.
You're right. No, no, you're right.
The difference is some people are a little bit more discreet
in what they do and when they do it and how they do it.
This guy just doesn't give a shit.
Yeah, let's go get a boat, honey.
Let's go get a boat. And I rent.
I love, I love fishing. I love the water.
I've rented boats like that. It's beautiful.
I rented boats when I was shooting the show in in Utah for
Discovery Man versus Barry was out there for like 2 months and
my wife came out and the kids were too young so they couldn't
come out. My in laws watched them, but my
wife came out. We rented a boat.
We got a little bottle of wine for after when we were docked
right driving around, dropping lines, shirt off beautiful Utah
mountains. It's it's invigorate.
I've done that upstate. I've done that I've done that.
I've done that in Nevada at the Hoover Dam with my boys like
it's it's a blast. But this guy, he takes a
picture. Hey, don't make it public.
Oh, OK, we will make it public. He signs his name on a boat
rental. She's 8 months pregnant.
It's just it's unacceptable. Now the league can't do
anything. This is not a league issue.
This should be a Mike Vrabel realization that man, I fucked
up and I, I got to, I got to check out.
And I don't mean checking out for the 5th, 6th and 7th round
draft picks. I got to, I got to, I got to
resign. Got to resign because I'm
telling you all the all this stuff that's every week, there's
dribs and drabs. They're here, they're rolling
the dice, they're getting the boat, they're making out in a
bar. They're doing this.
What's next? They were in Paris by the Eiffel
Tower, you know, making crepes, like, what's next?
And what if that happens during the season when a coach becomes
a distraction? You can't be the coach anymore.
I don't care how good you are. So I would say the same thing
about Aaron Boone. I would say the same thing about
Mike Brown. I would say the same thing about
Mendy. I would say about John Horrible
or Dabel or Aaron Glenn when Dabel was here or Glenn or any
of the hockey coaches, I forget some of their names.
Same thing, same premise, same rule.
You are now a distraction more than you're an asset.
So to me this is very black and white.
All right, Johnny Boyd disagrees here.
That, and I know that some of you will.
I get it. If Rabel stays and keeps
winning, story disappears. I don't know about that.
Number one, that's got to be a risk you're willing to take #1
and as as good as the Pats are, we know that.
But take away from being Super Bowl champs, there's no
guarantee that they're going to win 12 or 13 games this year.
You just don't know. It's not like LeBron or the Cavs
years ago about they're going to win 55 with their eyes shut, you
know, or Curry and Klay Thompson, it seems going to win
5060 games or more obviously, but at least because they're
just that much better. You know, football's different.
One injury, whatever it might be, you know, 19 win season 1
slight underachievement, 1 regression from a young
quarterback, which I don't think will happen.
Drake May is terrific. But my point is you just don't
know. There's a, there's a lot of
randomness in football. There really is.
So which part of the reason why they think The Jets can flip
things this year, why the Giants can flip things this year, why
the Browns can maybe flip things this year?
You know, you don't really say that, hey, next year the Utah
Jazz, they're going to be a 53 win team.
Nobody's saying that because they're not.
So you just don't know. But it it might disappear for a
little bit and the winds will placate some.
But if she speaks and she's going to more stuff's going to
come out, you know, not to mention other pictures.
So that's just my opinion. You know, you don't have to
agree with it. I didn't get into this really at
all outside of a surface reaction.
Like, what are you doing, man? This is this is horrible for the
families because, you know, I really try to avoid that stuff,
but it is past the point of no overturn.
If that's my coach, I don't give a shit how good he is.
You got to leave. You can't coach the team
anymore. You messed up to a point.
You got it. You got to go.
Now, it doesn't mean that you can't rehabilitate your image
and that you're banned forever. But right now, this situation
needs dire attention and the noise has to come down and it's
not. All right, let's get to the
calls. J Rod, what we got here, buddy?
Who's up? Got our buddy Benji.
Talking some Nicks. Benji on the upper.
East Side Nicks up. Use it.
What up, Benji? What's up, man?
That's Benji, not Benny. No, I said bench.
I know, I know. It's just on screen.
Oh. Oh, oh, J Rod, I see what
happened. It switched with a dude
yesterday. Yeah.
There are excuses from Jay. What's up there?
What's up, Benji? What's up, man?
Obviously feeling great. You can hear it in my voice
there. There was a Sixers fan behind me
last night with his wife, presumably that got me so
heated. I would never do this.
And of course, like you said, it's always it's always about
the you know, the the, it's it never goes beyond the line.
But this guy was behind me yelling so obnoxiously, which is
not something you do in when you're going into the to to the
Mecca and in a road jersey in a playoff game.
But he was calling fronts in a fraud, a foul baiter, just
yelling behind me obnoxiously. And it was funny because we were
we were drawing each other all night.
And then at halftime, he looked at me and he said, all right,
man. And we just kind of truced it.
And then there you go. For the second-half of the game,
we move forward. I still told him, said, hey,
man, I waved to him by I said, go back down the Turnpike.
We're sweeping you fools. There you go.
Anyway, as far as the game goes, we obviously didn't play well.
Like you mentioned, we shot 7 to 26 from three.
We were not crisp. So many turnovers, so many
difficulties in bounding the ball and the late in the game,
they need to work on that. Couple.
Things that that caught my eye. Wanted to see more Jordan
Clarkson last night, he was good in his limited minutes.
He only played 8 minutes, 8 minutes, yeah.
Six points 5. Rebounds he was aggressive,
scores at will. I've noticed about Clarkson,
he's great getting into the paint and scoring.
Horrible at making threes in transition.
Always bricks them. I just watch and keep an eye on
that. Another stellar game from Cat
even though he was limited. I mean 7 assists.
I mean, he, this is like a nightly occurrence here, Benji.
I mean, he has just been sublime with his his rerouting of the
bowl and just the way he finds cuts and guys he's been, he's
been great. That's why I said many.
I said he's like a reinvention of Yokich.
Yesterday he did say that. He would have had more.
Assists. He whipped a past a heart in the
corner on one play and hard missed the three.
And anyway, I'm not worried about this injury as much as
everyone else is. Like you said, I think I if the
focus is just going to be on going up three O we can buy
ourselves some time. We can buy ourselves, you know,
like wrap this series up, get five to seven days off.
We'll be in. We'll be in great shape.
So I'm feeling great overall. You can hear it.
I'm just trying to get through the day, get to I know get to
tomorrow night's tip off. I love your stories about, about
trying to avoid, you know, hearing about the game.
If I relate that to my own life, it's funny.
I'll be racing home to, to let's just say in the event I'm
running late or something and I'm missing a part of the game,
I'll I'll race by my doorman because I know that he's going
to say something about the game. So I will deliberately avoid
him. Yeah.
No.
It's a game, Benji. It's like it's a skill, it's an
art, so you know. How you know how?
So the way that I approach that is and everybody that knows me
and is friends and me knows this.
I turn my phone off. I know sometimes you can't do it
because emergency situations and the kids I, I go off the grid
completely Zero Dark 30 and then nobody can read.
There's just too many ways to be with WhatsApp and and face too
many ways to be Twitter. So you just you're just there's
no way to avoid being being updated on the game.
So try that next time if you can.
It's it's something that's worked for me.
And then I basically quick turn quickly turn my phone back on,
check the score, try to avoid all the incoming messages.
I mute all my threads. It's it works like a blessing.
I've dealt with it when I'm when I'm travelling occasionally as
far as the game last night as well, Deuce I thought was pretty
poor. I thought Sham and obviously is
look very tentative out there. He looks like almost like when I
don't want to when I'm feeling less than confident in the game
and I don't want to shoot the ball.
That's kind of how sham it looks right now.
He's afraid to pull the trigger. It's a little bit, little bit
they're. Going to need him.
They're going to need him on Friday.
Yeah, so. So my my last point is, and I'm
curious what your take is and the rest of the callers, if
we're we're obviously going to miss OG in game three, I would
go with the Awara. I know this isn't going to
happen, but I think from a size standpoint, he makes the most
sense because he's he's not timid.
He's looked very comfortable when he gets big, given the
playing time. He can defend, he can shoot the
three. Deuce is good, obviously.
We love him. Hasn't played well in the
playoffs so far with the exception of game six in the
Atlanta series. He had a big three last night
obviously, but didn't play well. He's just too small.
There's too many times we're too small.
So I'd rather go MO D just for the size standpoint.
But love yourself, man Thank you.
Keep rocking. I love it, Betty.
Yeah. Listen, get that voice going,
man. That's one of the challenges
here. All you do is talk, yell, cheer,
yell, talk, cheer. No, listen, it's an art.
You've got to learn how to avoid stuff like this.
And you know, my challenge now, the good thing is, is that when
I'm at these games, you know, everybody, especially, you know,
in in town knows what I do for a living, you know, and they they
know by now. Tell me I don't mean to fight.
The Yankees were playing like last night, like the Yankees.
I did look at my phone for a second, see what the Yankees
were doing. I'm like, well, Warren got
knocked around a little bit early, but they, they, they kind
of know to do that. And, and I'll tell you talk
about what the hell was it? Remember Tebow?
J Rod, Do you remember Tebow? Tim Tebow?
No, no. TiVo.
I don't believe so.
It's before. DVR on demand like you know it's
it's when. Whenever, Yes.
OK, Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, when that came.
Out that changed I mean the iPhone changed the world.
This changed so much because it'll let it just allowed you to
watch things on your own time and and I remember and I don't
know how I pulled this off right and I was looking at the date
that's one of the reasons why I was looking down when Benji was
talking to me even though I was listening.
So January 8th of 2005 I I was in South Bend IN at Notre Dame
St. John's played the Irish right
and that's when I would travel everywhere right.
It's one of the Big East was a a different version.
So there's a lot more travel and The Jets have a playoff game.
Of course I'm like, you got to be kidding me man.
So, you know, the iPhones were were there, but they weren't.
It wasn't. It's 20 years ago.
So it was a little different, little easier to navigate.
Long story short, we get on the plane and well, no, we get on
the St. John's literally loses at the
buzzer. I think Chris Thomas hit it was
a little point guard, pretty good player hit a hit a jump
shot or something like that. I I believe it like one or two
seconds. It was like a basically a buzzer
beater. So it was a horrible loss for
St. and St. John's wasn't good that year at
all, but it was a good game. And now I've got A and
everybody, you know, whether it's guys I'm doing the games
with or the engineers or or the priest that travels or some of
the other coaches, they all know I'm a massive Jets fan.
And I'm like, don't I actually said to the stewardess, I said
please make it when we get on the charter, please make an
announcement. Don't, don't, please don't save
The Jets score, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So she so they did it. She didn't do what I told
everyone. Get on the bus, Jets.
I don't want to know. Literally walked to the back of
the bus. Don't tell me I was able to get
on the bus and the game had already started.
All right, get on the bus, get on the charter.
And it's not around the corner, man.
It's not like you're flying from DC to New York.
You're like, you know, it's a couple an hour and a half, two
hours, Indiana and get back to the airport and and and then
take the team bus back to the university, get in my car and
listen to music and then get to my apartment.
All right, I have no idea what happened.
Zero. I don't know if we're up 35,
nothing down 35 nothing. I don't know what's going on
dude. That's kind of sick that like
listen to it's not I'm not done. How I there was a kick at the
end, right Jets 1, I believe was 1714 and there was a kick and
and back. Oh, you can still do it now.
I when I got to that point, but but because it was on TiVo, now
you can, you know, like you can't slow down live, obviously,
but I wasn't live. I actually went through the kick
frame by frame. I don't know if it's made or
missed. And I'm sitting on my couch in
my apartment like this watching the ball first the snap go like
this Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding.
That's how I watched it. And I want to see how many yards
that field goal was. Hang on.
Yeah, it was definitely January 8th, 2005.
And it was, it was out in San Diego.
That was herm 2005 Jets Chargers playoffs.
Hang on. I I can't, I I can't, I can't, I
can never lose it. I I can't watch a game like that
again. Yeah, it was 2017.
Yep, it was Chad threw for 279 and it was let me see here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Doug Bryant. But I I know it was Doug how it
was the the Chargers. Yes, there was a roughing the
passer by. Was it Barton who we got from
the Raiders somebody Anyway, I'm getting in the weeds of stuff
that doesn't really matter. But it was at Qualcomm Stadium
in in San Diego, Jets 20, Charger 17, and they won by a
field goal by Doug Bryan, who wound up missing some big ones
against Phil, against the Steelers, whatever, after a
after a late rally there. And how about that?
That's how I watched that kick go through.
Literally spin by spin by spin by spin, frame by frame in a
playoff game. That is just ridiculous.
I mean, it was. Ridiculous, that's what I have
to. Say from the story I've gathered
you have great willpower and great self-control.
Like dude, I think I, I could never like have like a Celts
game or something going on and I'm not checking the score every
30 seconds, refreshing the I know.
Like it's just. And I think that's, you know,
it's a generational thing, but it's like it like the fact that
you were able to to literally be in the dark and just get back to
the crib. That says something.
Dude. I I it.
It was really one of the hardest things I've ever done.
I mean, we're talking about The Jets and we're talking about a
Jets playoff game. And again, it's not like I'm
coming back from, you know, it's not like I'm in, in, you know,
down in Philly and St. John's is playing Villanova, you
know, where I could drive back and just put music on and like
how to tune things out for an hour and a half, whatever it
might take maybe 2 hours. I'm in the state of Indiana.
It was freaking torturous, dude. Like, there is no way.
And like, I think if you guys use some of you used to listen
to me on 10:50, it's impossible for me to characterize what I
was like back then. Really.
I just, I can't describe it with them now.
I was obviously a maniacal Yankee and Knick fan, but that
like those Jet games. My goodness.
Wow, that's too. Funny.
Yeah. I mean it's.
Absolutely crazy. You know, I'm just going to ask
the question here. I'm going to throw it out there.
By the way, do you agree with me on Frabel?
Yeah, I mean, I, I think, you know, we chopped it up a little
bit beforehand. I think like you said it as a
leader of man, this cannot and listen for the Pats.
They don't have the best example starting from from the root of
the. Tree.
They don't have the greatest. Examples at all.
So it's like, you know, do you do you believe that they're
going to do anything? But no, in my in my opinion, you
can't have a coach who's personal life is not only a
detractor to what the team's doing with outside noise, but
also someone who, yes, sports wise, obviously he can.
But as a man is not really the best example right now.
I don't think that. I just don't think that's
exactly. Listen, I'm not.
Trying to, you know, banish him from the NFL for the rest of of
of his of his life. I'm just saying for this
particular team, it can't work. You know what, what he's got to
do is he's got to resign because I don't think that they'll force
him to. Although the more the stuff
keeps coming in, it's going to be impossible maybe to do that.
And by the way, the like the Patriot, like the New England
reporters, I mean, I don't know, I, I know we spoke about like
just just, it seemed a little, I don't know, not that you go into
attack mode, but you, I think they let him off the hook.
I just, I didn't think it was I, I, I don't know, it didn't
really resonate with me much there.
But if the Pats don't hit the gas on this, then he's got to
know himself that he's, that he's going to have to step
aside. And, and I, I, I actually think
that that's going to happen. I do I I I believe we're going
to get that alert, you know, when I don't know could be
later. It could be in two weeks, could
be after something else emerges. But once she speaks, it's going
to make it worse, OK, because now she's trying to save
herself, even though they very well might wind up together down
the road. You know, it's just it's crazy.
I mean, if there's adna test here, and I mean lawsuits and oh
God, just the, the, the torment for the families is, is
basically beyond comprehension at this point.
But you know, I mean, if and when he does resign or if and
when they they do it for him, the patriots, you know, go away
for a little bit, be quiet, come back and then start the
rehabilitation tour. You know, and you know, and, and
and be honest and cop to it. And you know, you want to say
you have some sort of, I don't know, addiction, whatever,
whatever, whatever you're going to say, that's a pacify some
people and you could probably come back and coach again.
I would believe, you know what I mean?
I, I think so. I, I think AG gets fired.
Would I want Rabel for The Jets? Bring him in, bring him in.
That's the guy. That I wanted.
I've got to say, I'm shocked. That OG news hasn't come out
yet. No, I'm not.
That surprised. OK, 11:20, no, later in the day.
Yeah, I mean, he might not. Have even gotten the test yet?
Well, I would. Think, you know, let's see, it's
not like they've got to get on. They didn't get on a flight and
to fly out to say, Detroit, All right, No.
So, you know, I don't even know if they'll fly to Philly.
I don't know if they'll take a bus.
I don't know how they do that. I know St.
John's flies to to DC, which surprised me.
Did they fly down to Philly this year?
I don't recall. I remember last year Philly, I
went on my own. Either way, it's not like
logistics are a real issue sometimes that that matters.
Now, if it's an X-ray, you know, they've got the X-ray machine.
You know, like when Ben Rice got hurt the other day on Sunday,
the game that you went to. And you know, hopefully he gets
back in the line up here soon. I don't want to miss these games
here. It's going to get in the way of
of Ben Rice and Aaron Judge surpassing Juan Soto and Aaron.
Come on. I mean, the day I go on this or
if he hasn't played basically since, but they were able to,
they have the X-ray machines and they were able to do that in the
stadium. So you get that answer right
away is a broken no. And then you've got to go deeper
dive with the imaging for the soft tissue stuff, which what
the MRI does, I don't know if they have an MRI machine in the
Garden. I don't think that they do.
So they will probably let me see the games tomorrow night.
I would think the Knicks will practice up in Westchester today
and then obviously right after practice, either bus or fly out,
get in the hotel tonight, do shoot around all that stuff,
watch a little film. I, I would be stunned if we
don't have some news by 2:00 here.
Yeah, I I would be. We'll have something.
Yeah. What are your?
What are your thoughts on the Volpe yesterday?
My thoughts are I got ball sacked.
Here is what my thoughts are. It was, it was, it was a, it was
a fictitious, you know, parody account, I guess.
No, no. The other Volpee just like him,
forgetting the two outs and stuff like that.
Oh, not running on that on that double I.
Don't know what the hell was. Going on, I mean, listen, hey,
Anne, you know, the one thing that one of the things that you
can do is run and you are a good base runner, you know, very odd.
Spencer Jones is hitting the shit out of the ball.
I'm not going to just, you know, I, I don't think he's going to
make enough contact at the big league level.
I just don't. But you know, if Stanton's out
for a while and this guy keeps doing this in the minors, I
mean, I don't know how you don't give him a couple of it bats
just to see where he's at. I mean, I don't know.
I don't know how you don't. It's not like, and I'm happy
Dominguez is up. His speed's a different
dimension. He's hit OK for the right side
over for last night. So the average, you know, drops
because it's not many at bat. So if you have one over for a
night, they're going to go down hard.
So it looks like he hasn't been doing much.
I think he's influenced a couple of games here.
Dominguez, I like what I see, but there's got to be some kind
of reward for that kind of production when you're a a first
round pick. It's not like he's some no name
who's 30 years old who's like drafted in the 18th round.
This guy's got a kind of career model like Crash Davis career
minor league or was hitting bombs.
I, I would think I, I don't, I mean, I don't know.
I don't even know what to think with Spencer Jones, but I would
think that he would get a sniff, even if it's for a week, even if
you try to catch lightning in a bottle that he's Kevin Moss for
a month, you know, give him a little look in center feel.
See, the thing though, is he's a lefty.
Like if he was a righty, he'd be up because then if he was a
righty, I think he he, he profiles, he definitely profiles
defensively better than Dominguez.
And he can play center. And Dominguez I don't think will
ever play Center for the Yankee. Barely play left, right.
He's the agent a lot. But because Grisham's a lefty
and Spencer Jones is a lefty, you're not going to send, you're
not going to sit Grisham against the righty to play Jones.
So, you know, maybe it's a trade.
You know, I, I don't know. It's still, I was just very
unclear as to how Jones has has any sort of pathway here.
Now, if Stanton's out a month, he still hasn't started jogging.
So he's a slow healer. I don't know.
Yeah. And by the way, when that guy
sent in the Super chat there about, you know, Eric Glenn gets
fired, what I take for Abel, you know, being kind of facetious
there, I'm like, yeah, bring him in.
Good coach, bring him in. But no, I mean, just to answer
that, I would, I don't know, be overly moralistic here, man.
I'm looking to win. And if he cleans up his if he
cleans up his stuff and he goes away and you know, I'd I'd be
open to it, you know, not now I wouldn't.
But come on. I want to win BT Nation, BT
nation. Don't get that too much.
Love the YouTube live stream. Go Yankees.
Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
Hopefully you guys checked out the the Joe Beningo stuff, which
was money almost two hours with Joe.
Next week we will get tiki on and we will get Aaron Boone on.
So more and more interviews, conversations.
Pardon me, come to the channel. I'm going to ask you a question.
Are the Mets starting to show a little pulse here?
It's just a little flicker that will eventually turn into a
little flame. I mean, I need to see a whole
health a lot more before I'm giving the Mets anytime on this
show. They don't deserve it, you know,
but at least I'll throw it out there a little bit.
You know, they've won two series in a row, right?
For the first time all year, Soto's leading off and and
that's worked out OK Ben just started to show us some signs.
Melendez. Melendez looks pretty good.
Now if he's your 3 hitter all year, that's probably not going
to be a good thing. But you know, I know Lindor was
at the Knick game the other night.
I don't know what he was wearing, but he was at the Knick
game the other night and I, I don't think he had a boot on.
I, I don't think Lindor is playing for at least at I mean,
and this is this is this I think is an aggressive timeline.
I don't think it's at least a month.
At least I got to, I got to say at least five weeks.
I don't see Lindor. Well, we won't see Lindor
because he's going to have to get a rehab.
And he's obviously really jacked up.
Like the Mets were very honest, like right away.
Mendoza's like this is not the same as Soto.
This is this is different. He's going to be out a long
time. So it's going to be months,
plural. But you know, I, I don't, I
don't want to just ignore it that the Mets have won a couple
of games in a row. Peralta, you know, did his job
putting up zeros. I just like to see him.
He only went 5 though. And I know the weather's been
awful out there through 92 pitches over 5.
I mean, I'd like to see Peralta. I mean, can, can you give the,
can you give the Mets a bullpen a lead, you know, 212 nothing. 1
zip in the in the 7th inning with an out or two.
I mean, can you, can you give a little depth here?
Peralta, he's just, he's got to be better.
He's got to and I don't know if he will be like Peralta was a
guy who didn't go very long in games in Milwaukee.
And I like Peralta. That was a good move.
I really did. But he he's got to he's got to
be more than this, just has to be.
But the Mets did win good stuff. You know, problem is you get an
absolutely boat race by the Braves, who are boat racing
everybody here. I mean, they're burying people,
right? The Mets are 11 out.
And listen, this is the kind of thing, right?
Oh, I can't stand the wild card. No, it's not.
It's not the way it should be. If you can't get in, you know,
by winning the division, you shouldn't.
All right, Got it. And I don't hear many Mets fans
saying that, But I don't really even hear many people saying
that too much anymore. But there was resistance when
the wild card was first dropped. If there was no wild card, there
would be nothing to say about the Mets.
Now. That's like, I'm not even going
to start fixating on wild card races yet.
But I will give you a very brief snapshot as to why.
Trying to be optimistic here. There is a little flicker, a
little speck, a little piece of lint in terms of hope for the
Mets. You just got to keep chipping
away, man. And if you can just, you know,
win a couple of more series and get that winning percentage into
the low 40 percentile, which they're not there yet, you know,
you, you, you could look up. And then maybe in a very
optimistic world, Lindor's back and some of these other kids who
were crushing it, crushing it in the minors, maybe one of them
gets a call and and deliver something you didn't expect, you
know, you know, I love McClain. Peterson's been pretty good in
relief. Benj is starting to show some
signs. And I, I, I like Benj.
I said that from day one, Boy, I hit a home run his first game,
But you know, I was like this this kid's a ball player.
He he's a ball player. He can run, you can throw, he
can field. You know, he's got a nice
day-to-day pitch to pitch presence.
So even when he wasn't hitting, I'm like, I still like him.
He's a baseball player. So that's good.
You know, at least for now, the noise is quieted around Mendoza.
To me, a vote of confidence means nothing.
It's just a a a brief respite from the noise, just a little
stabilizing of the craziness that was taking over the Mets
season. But again, back-to-back series
wins and we'll see where it goes.
And I know they got the Yanks coming up here.
Where were they after that? They've got all right.
So let's say like if you can sweep the Rockies, right and you
play today, I think it's an afternoon game.
I'm pretty sure it is. They've got 3 in Arizona, three
with the Tigers, no school ball. All right.
And then you got next weekend, you got three with the Yankees.
So where will the Mets be by the time the first Subway Series
rolls around? Let's see.
I think that I'm going to give you a guess here.
Let's say they're going to lose today.
So they will take two out of three with the rocks.
They will lose 2 out of three in Arizona.
They will win 2 out of three against the Tigers.
So that'll be, let me see, 123455 and seven in the next
games. Did I have that right, 3-6,
yeah, Five and seven. You know what I'm going to say
6:00 and 6:00, I'm going to do a little bit better than that, a
little bit better than that. Not hemorrhaging in, not
crawling in, certainly not walking through the front door
with your chest puffed out. But I feel for the reasons I've
given you and it's worked out a little bit with Soto as a lead
off now. Like what Soto said, I'll do
whatever it takes. Wherever he needs me, I'm good
for it. Soto could anywhere.
That's the least of your issues, but maybe a little renewed hope
and a little renewed purpose and the direction Keith is back in
the booth, you know, maybe that's a little bit of a good
thing there for you. I'd be happy just to be in the
wild card mix. Well, I mean, you kind of are.
I mean, so I said I'm not going to get much into the wild card,
but I mean, everybody, I mean, the Mets have the second worst
record in baseball. I believe it's second worst.
And you know, the saving grace is that they're they're only
only 5 1/2 out of that last wild card spot.
Now. I did, I think that's a little
reassuring in some sense. Like, all right, a lot of
baseball to go a lot of time to make this up.
Things could also continue to go sideways.
But I'm going to be optimistic today because they won a couple
of the series here. But the problem is you got 9
teams ahead of you, and that's what I wouldn't even look at.
How many games behind are you? How many teams you have to jump?
So the circum, and it's so early, my God.
But the circumstances of evaluating the wild card for me
are a little more complicated than, all right, 5 1/2 up.
Any team could make that up. Conceivably, sure, and the Mets
could. But the Mets have to play a
whole hell of a lot better. And maybe they're starting to,
but then they need a lot of teams in front of them.
The stumble. That's just, you know, I, I I
wouldn't bet on that. You know, I'd probably just lay
out. Wouldn't bet against it.
Wouldn't bet for it. Who's on the horn here?
What do we got there, Jay? Next up, What do we got?
Frankie from Monroe. Frankie.
Frankie is on a leash. Frank, What's going on, dude?
How are you? Hey BT.
What's happening man? I I, I really wanted to talk
about Beningo, but before I I do you know in 1984 the Tigers
started out 35 and 5? Yep.
Awesome team. So I remember that.
I remember that team very well. Yes, there was.
No reason for anybody that was a baseball fan in the rest of the
division to put their TV on at night and I think that is the
best thing about the wild card cuz it keeps people interested
that are not in first place. I agree with you.
So. So you know that that season was
unbelievable, man. That team didn't.
By the way, didn't Willie Hernandez win the Cy Young and
the MVP that year? Yeah, Yeah, he did.
Their pitcher, lefty reliever, Yeah.
Trammell Whitaker down. That was, that was, that was
Morris. That bet.
The best double blade combination I've seen in in my
lifetime. Wow.
Well. Hold on.
And I'm a Yankee. Guy, I'm a How old are you?
How old are you? I'm 65, so you've never seen a
better. Double play come.
I'm not saying that you're wrong than Whitaker and travel ever I
think. That if I, if I, you know,
actually. I I.
I don't know ever, but at that time, certainly they were the
best. Yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to
think out. No, they were.
And Whitaker was the lefty would pop.
Some people think he should be in the Hall of Fame travel with
an MVPI, think in 87. Some people might say, how about
Joe Morgan and Conception with Big Red, but conception.
But conception didn't hit like that and I saw that.
Yeah, but yeah, but back then, BT your shortstop and your
second baseman were were were 240 hitters.
I know. It's not like today, no, I know
where these. Kids are hitting, you know,
thirty home runs at shortstop. Like I know that.
Was you know. That was very rare back then.
Except travel a little bit and a little bit of cow ripped in.
No, I know some guys. Obviously, but but it wasn't the
norm for sure. Nope.
You know, but. Get I, I want to get back to
Beningo, dude, that guy told my story yesterday.
Dude. Like, I, I think if I met
Beningo in a bar in 1983, we'd still be friends today.
Because I'm going to tell you how the conversation when it
went. Hey bro, how you doing?
Yeah. What's up, bro?
You watching the Mets? Yeah, bro.
They're pissing me off. You holding?
Yeah. I'll meet you in the bathroom in
5 minutes. That's how.
The fucking conversation. Would have went and we would.
Have still been friends today and he he went to a small school
out West I went to. AI.
Went to a Division Three school in Nebraska.
Bro why? To play.
Baseball and basketball. Wow.
Right dude? So listen, when I got there to
school, terminated the baseball program because of lack of
funds, but but I played basketball.
I stayed for one year. BT you know why those people
didn't want anything to do with me?
Italian guy from Jersey black hair, dark skin.
Those those corn fed farm boys didn't want me near their women
dude. Well, what about the?
Women. Did they forget about what their
guys? Did the women watch you?
Nope. They dude.
They were afraid. That surprises me.
Yeah, Joe said the same thing. And I'm like, I don't know, I
feel like the accident and the. I know that I.
Was not shy with the girls, bro. I had, I had game.
They did not want any. You know what I did?
I wound up hanging out with the football players from Passaic
and and Milwaukee and the inner city kids, brothers hung out
like all year long. We had our own little parties,
our own little dance parties. Nice, but not with, not with the
big. Not with the big the big
whitey's, not the big farm. Yeah, I.
Got you. They didn't want.
Me near him and he's all right. Well, and then he left.
Beningo told my, like, he basically told my story.
And the other thing that that you, you probably heard from
your father, too. We used to listen to ball games
during the day. Oh, yeah.
I played. I played football in high
school. And during the playoffs, we had
a boom box. Remember when the boom box?
Yeah, yeah. We would put the boom.
Boom box on the bleachers, have football practice and have
Rizzuto blasting out of the boom box.
Did you really? I I.
Couldn't wait to get home so I could see the end of the game.
What high school? Frank I I.
Went to school in Morris County up N Jefferson Township, but I'm
from Patterson originally and and that's kind of where I grew
up. Gotcha.
And play ball. But anyway, yeah, so Beningo, I
I I love that guy. We and I worked in the city.
I work nights. And of course, who did we listen
to while we were working? Beningo.
I know he he was. Great.
And a lot of the guys I worked with were Met fans, so Beningo
was like their guy. Yep, Yep.
Well, listen man, awesome, Good, good call.
Glad you enjoyed it. I I knew everybody would enjoy
Joe being Joe. Thank you for the call there,
Frankie. I mean, listen and I one thing
that came up, I asked Joe, I'm like, and I thought he did a
great job and I thought Evan did a really good job of this as
well. You know, Joe, devout Jet fan,
devout Met fan. Evan, same deal.
Not a Knicks fan like Joe, but you know, Jets, Mets and, and I
thought that those guys really did a good job.
And it's it's easy when you host a show to talk about what you
want to talk about, you know, but it's important to talk about
what needs to be talked about. And you know, there's an old
expression. Play the hits.
One of my old P DS would say that play the hits, man.
And play the hits means, Oh, listen about Michael Jackson
song. Oh, you know, Pearl Jam song.
What whatever generation of music we're hitting, play the
hits. I know people consume music very
differently now, but back in the day, hey, we're going to keep
spinning the same record because everybody wants to hear it and
they don't have devices to download.
So, you know, like an old classic rock station, we're
going to play the music that we know that you want to hang out
to and listen to. So we know that you're going to
listen to us what you're going to drive up the quarter hours,
which is going to get us high ratings, which will get us more
advertising dollars, play the hits.
Now it's easy to say that it's very and it's a very accurate
premise, but I remember there were times like even sometimes
recently, like some people would say, man, why do you guys do the
same show on the fan? Like we guys basically do a four
hour show. This like the same topic for
four hours, which is not actually true.
I thought that that was unfair and and not accurate, but that
that is, you know, a a part of playing the hits because not
everybody's in their car, you know, consuming the radio for
every second of every show. People are people are mobile,
people are banging on the app. OK, let me see what you know, BT
and Sal are up to. Let me see what Evan and Tiki
are up to. Let me see whatever it might be,
Right. So you got to play the hits.
And I thought that Joe and Evan always did a really good job,
even though we knew who they loved and we knew who they died
with and lived with, right? But I thought they always did a
great job with the I think Evan still does a great job with the
Yankees. I just think Evan's fair.
I think he's good. But those guys as a team, that's
so that came up as well. And before Evan was his
partnership with Sid, which was completely different than his
partnership with Evan, but equally and very different and
sounded different. It was different wild times with
them. And and yeah, I like Sid so and
I know Joe likes it too. Crazy shit, man.
Joe Sid was out of his mind. He still is.
Who do we got on the horn here? What do we got there, Jay?
It's still. Frankie.
Well, it's Frankie. Why is Frankie still here?
Hey, he's chilling. He's getting the private look.
What? We got a, we got a, we have the
green room now for, you know, special callers when they get
off the phone now they just hang in the digital green room.
No, he's just. We had another call.
What's going on? No, he ain't let me.
I mean, let me check. I don't think we have anyone
lined up. It's all good.
I pretty much got everything I
needed to get out to today. Did you see?
I'd like, if you haven't seen this yet, I'd like for you to
watch it and Give your opinion yesterday because I know this is
going to get you up. They see Jalen Brown's live
stream after Game 7, no? I, I saw that he said he he
would love to be a Celtic forever, something like that.
Oh man. That was in his apology live
stream yesterday, 2 days ago. He live streamed right after
game seven. Dude.
OK, I'm going to send you some clips from this because this is
this is something that'll get you heated where he's he's
complaining about the refs. He's like complain, he's
complaining about and bead and stuff like that on a twitch live
on this on you and me right here.
He's like on YouTube, on Twitch, complaining about the refs and
then he says something kind of shady.
What he's like, he said. This is my favorite.
This has been my favorite season of my career so far.
Why? Because Tatum was gone for most
of that's what I'm. That and there's, there's what
people are, you know, what people are now reading into.
OK, I'm going to check. It out hit me up.
You don't have to send it. I'll find it myself.
That'll be easy enough the. I'm more so curious, just your
thoughts on the optics of an athlete going on a live stream
after they lose a game seven? I think it's probably.
The dumbest thing you could do, I think it's now you've got the
right to do it, but just be prepared to deal with whatever
might come your way. I just think that emotionally
you're not in the right space. You're just not.
You just there's no way. Remember when Antonio Brown was,
I think it was on Facebook live streaming and and the Steelers
locker, man, Mike Tomlin flipped out.
Like, dude, you can't come on, man.
So party of four, Jaylen Brown's party of four.
Please report to the first tee. You are up.
Yeah, that's where he's at. I've got nasty competitor.
That was funny. I didn't get it at first, hit
you a little bit. Late there, huh?
Throws at Pebble Beach. Yeah, I know a.
Party of four Brown, you're on the tee.
He's not even in. Cancun.
He's in like, Dorchester, MA, wherever.
Wellesley, MA, in his living room doing a live stream.
Well, I'm pretty. Sure.
That Jaylen Brown's going to be somewhere really nice really
soon with somebody that he's really into.
I don't know if he's married, so if he is great, No 0 shade
towards Jaylen Brown. I mean, he's a great competitor.
Great. Guy too, yeah, no, I, I like.
Jaylen I I've got nothing to bad to say nothing bad to say about
Jaylen Brown, but you know, in terms of, you know, fired up the
the live stream after a devastating game seven loss.
Probably not advisable, although he is a smart guy.
Like I, I just have a feeling like, you know, like if say if
this was available when when AI was playing like it found when I
was like that. He'd be John Moran, yeah.
Or Moran to like, I think it's, I think Jalen Brown's probably a
little bit more and he does it. Every single NBA game.
So there, there's the thing Jalen does.
He does it. That's his thing is every game,
every does a live stream. It's crazy.
Holy shit, how? How long does he go for?
Like an hour. Hour or two man like he does
like his he does his thing. He does like a little sports
show. Wow.
After the after the games or before them Usually after
though. OK.
I remember Tink and I had him on the show when he was really just
getting the league. Yeah, yeah.
Can we get a? Yo, we need to figure out a way
to get them here. We used to get.
Everybody on the show, man, when we were doing the national show,
the draft that had Baker Mayfield, Oh.
Man. Yeah, Josh.
Allen, Sam Darnold. Obviously there was like 5 of
them. Jesus Darnold.
Baker Allen, Josh Rosen from UCLA, We had literally every one
of them on the show. Like, like leading up to the
threat. Yeah, we had.
We had Saquon on the show. That's why I'm really looking
forward to having Tiki on the show next week, man.
We had Saquon on once where he had committed to the interview.
He was still at Penn State and he called us and did the
interview from a stairwell in the building where his major
was. That's the kind of young.
Man, Saquon is so we had a mole. We had all the MMA champions
roll through WWE, Shaq. Shaq came out a couple of times.
Yeah, we, no, we had our guest list was Archie Griffin brought
the Heisman Trophy in one year. Oh, man, It was it was odd, man.
So I was with TIK for a decade. We're going to have a lot to
talk about. Yeah, I think.
I need to watch more from that show, like more highlights from
you and Tiki. I haven't seen a ton of videos
of that. Yeah, and.
You know, welcome to the show, my guy.
My, you know, my long time partner, my friend Tiki Barber.
Like, of course, Giants. Great.
Yeah. Tiki.
First question, why are you still at the fan?
And I'm not. I'm totally kidding.
No, I. Cannot I mean that is going to
be listen that Joe B was great man.
I think the tiki is going to be awesome.
It is. It is.
It's going to be totally
different. I don't think Tiki was dropping
acid in Chicago. Wandering the streets.
Hell no. You know I can.
Promise you that didn't happen, but no, no Tiki's.
It's going to be a money conversation.
So we'll get that up next week. Aaron Boone next week as well.
If you can slap on The Jets collective tonight.
We got this combo today. Pardon me today.
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If you're a big Jets fan, obviously it's it's all Jets,
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But it's 95% Jets like it. Subscribe and check it out.
We do once a week once the season it starts, we'll do twice
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games. It's it's really like it's it's
going to be a big show. I love it.
I think it's we're definitely headed in the right direction.
So I want to thank you guys for being with me today.
Awesome job, J Rod, good work out of you.
We'll see what that just sounded like Mad Dog.
Good work out of you, appreciate it.
I didn't. Even try to sound like that.
I, I, I, I don't have any Mad Dog in the impersonations,
that's for sure. I don't have many impersonations
at all. I mean, really Joe's the only
one that I do because it's basically one syllable, bro.
I mean, anybody can say that. I'm not an impersonation guy.
So have a great rest of your Wednesday.
It's not, it's not wet in the Northeast.
Yesterday was a little sloppy. Sun is out.
So see what's going on with that and coach my daughter's team
tonight and rec. Maybe she'll get back on the
mound. We'll see.
We shall see about that. What else?
No Knicks tonight? See what the Mets do?
Yankees. I must see the Yankees bounce
back. They just can't beat Nivaldi.
It's absolutely ridiculous. Anything else that I missed
here? Hit the Rabel Rossini stuff?
Nope, that's it. And you know, listen me, I will
leave open the door slightly ajar if there is very ominous
news about OGI. Might slap on a live at some
point just to give you a quick live reaction to that.
Maybe I would have to think we'll get something by two.
I mean, if it's really grave and and again really ominous, maybe
I'll do that. Otherwise I'll see you guys
tomorrow at 10. Bounce around the channel, check
out the Beningo stuff, check out the Stephen A stuff, check out
the Michael Kay stuff, which was great.
You know, familiarize yourself with a lot of good stuff if
you're new to the channel. So appreciate the calls.
Have an outstanding Wednesday. Catch you tomorrow, hopefully
not later with OG tomorrow at 10.
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