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Buck, let's roll a little 
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Let's go. 
Yeah, I'm, I'm ready. 

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I'm going to pull you. 
We got a little Nick Celtics out

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of the chute. 
But tonight, episode 3 of The 

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Jets Collective with 14 days to 
go to the draft. 

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I told you, you know, things are
shifting now a little bit. 

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Who knows if it's posturing? 
Who knows what's real, but we'll

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tell you tonight coming up at 7,
myself and Jake Aspen, Rich 

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Simini episode #3 Jets 
collective, You know, are they 

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going to go to Bailey at 2 or 
they just kind of plain possum 

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trying to incentivize somebody 
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Obviously Reese from Ohio 
State's been that guy pretty 

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much for the last couple of 
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But we shall see. 
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We've got a lot of stuff that's 
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All right, couple things here. 
So this is just a side note. 

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So there's certain things that I
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that my wife does right now when
I was younger and and single. 

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Now you don't have to do this J 
Rod, because it's it's just a 

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totally different world 
digitally here. 

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But I used to actually enjoy, I 
don't know what maybe because I 

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saw my dad doing it. 
I used to enjoy sitting down in 

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my apartment in Manhattan on a 
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before The Sopranos or something
and hammering out all my bills. 

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Got the check book, right. 
You know, I've got What Car 

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payment, garage payment, 
obviously rent or whatever it 

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might be, right? 
Take care of that. 

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Like I, I'd mail the four or 
five checks. 

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I'd feel good. 
All right, see you in a month. 

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Everything's taken care of. 
And then like, and I, I was the 

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kind of person who wanted to 
just even, I'm talking about 

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like early in our marriage, I 
wanted to do all that. 

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I was used to doing all that, 
but my wife's really good at it.

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And I'm like, man, I mean, if 
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that aspect of it, well then by 
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go for it. 
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right? 
So there's certain things, as I 

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said, that as the husband, as 
the man in the house that I do. 

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And there's certain things that 
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Now, you could say that this 
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it's it, it's just not the way 
it's laid out in our home. 

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You know, we have a pretty good 
alarm system, right? 

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And this freaking alarm. 
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I am I am I'm seconds away from 
smashing my head through because

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here's what's going on in my 
house right now. 

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Now they're returning from Texas
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All right, I've had a couple of 
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You know, I was out there for 
Easter throughout the first 

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pitch with the Rangers came back
and obviously I want to do the 

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show today, Tuesday and 
yesterday and here. 

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So anyway, they had a couple of 
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Papa. 
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school, blah, blah, blah. 
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handles is the alarm and the 
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on and off. 
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But I mean dealing with the 
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that I've got no patience for is
calling an alarm company. 

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And I don't mean in an 
emergency, of course they pick 

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it up quickly then you hope. 
But like dealing with being 

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bounced around this dispatcher, 
this, I just can't do it. 

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I, I don't have the bandwidth to
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So she does that, right. 
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to pick up the phone and make a 
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If I had to, I would. 
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guess there's a shortage here, 
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contact the I, I hear it now, 
the alarm company and they'll 

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reset it and all that stuff. 
Now when I texted her last 

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night, she was either out to 
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I don't know what it was, but 
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Not outwardly so you can't hear 
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incessantly. 
It is driving me nuts. 

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Every two minutes I just hear 
think, think, think, think, 

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think, think, think, think, 
think. 

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Think awful man. 
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then think, think, think, think,
think, think, think, think, 

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think, think, think that it 
stops. 

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So I need her and them to get 
home, obviously, because I miss 

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him, but I really need her to 
get home to deal with this 

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because I'm I'm losing my 
fucking mind with this alarm. 

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And, and, and here's the worst 
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It was happening all night when 
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All night. 
Even and and I even like shut it

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off, right, and you know, you 
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off. 
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not going to think, think, 
think, think, think, think, 

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think. 
Now it's also not going to 

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activate. 
God forbid if we if I need it, 

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but I was willing to roll the 
dice last night, you know, And 

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all night, dude. 
Dink dink, dink, dink, dink. 

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That is brutal dude. 
Dinked out. 

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It is driving me freaking 
bananas. 

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I'm going nuts over with this 
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So, so that's one thing, all 
right, number #2 or #3 So I had 

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to do some stuff after the show 
yesterday. 

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That's why we had to start early
and end early. 

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But after that, I had a chance 
to go out and play golf for the 

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first time. 
I told you, right, told you what

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was going on with the boys. 
Right. 

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OK, so first of all, I'm not 
going to bore you with my, my, 

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my follies on the golf course. 
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the quick summation. 
And I usually putt pretty well. 

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I putt it like Phil at Augusta 
when he was winning and and I 

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and I hit the ball outside of 
probably 3 or 4 good drives, I 

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hit the ball so poorly that they
wouldn't even let me sell 

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bottles of water 3 miles from 
Augusta in a broken down van on 

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the side of some highway. 
It was now it's bad. 

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No, I told my friend I'm like 
dude, how long with my buddy 

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Rob? 
I said, how long have we been 

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playing golf? 
Now again, I've been through 

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this thing where I think I told 
you that I'm not going to get 

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into it now, but where I started
playing lefty because I was a 

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lefty hitter in baseball, didn't
start playing golf until after 

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college. 
But so when you're that late, 

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it's an uphill battle anyway. 
And then I hurt my back and I 

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had back surgery. 
So I'm like, well, maybe I could

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try to play righty because it 
alleviates the pain the way the 

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vertebrae's are stacked and the 
nerves and all the other stuff 

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that was going on with the 
compression. 

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So so I tried that and that 
didn't really work. 

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And then I had the surgery and 
then I came back. 

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I didn't play for five years. 
I'm like, well, let me try to 

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play lefty again because that's 
my natural, my my natural 

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default. 
And I suddenly got this, this 

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aversion like at the top of my 
swing. 

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I got the oh man, I got this 
Charles Barkley mental. 

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I don't even know what you call 
it where I I my hands like the 

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take back is good. 
The setup was good. 

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As I get to the top of my golf 
swing, getting ready to descend 

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and go through the ball, my 
hands would like almost go out 

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and then I I couldn't swing. 
So it basically led to I hit a 

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couple of shots backwards. 
No joke. 

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I had a couple of shots sideways
like I dribbled the ball. 

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I'm like, I'm not, I'm either 
not playing or I'm not playing 

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like this because I'm not going 
to torture my now. 

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I'm also at the point where I've
got no expectations. 

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So I no longer get angry. 
I used to be a lunatic. 

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I tell you the story when I 
shoot a club in the lake when I 

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lost it, my brand new pink 
putter, like I've been through 

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the mental gauntlet. 
I don't allow it to bother me 

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anymore because quite frankly, 
I'm just happy that I'm healthy.

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I go out there, you know, 3-4 
times a month, if that, you 

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know, at least a couple hack it 
up, see my buddies, have a 

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little fun, get a little mental 
respite, get back to work and 

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coaching and all the other 
stuff, right? 

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So, So what happened was so now,
because I got that wacky thing 

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lefty, I still putt and chip 
lefty because it when you're 

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chipping, you're not bringing 
you your, your, your club past 

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your belt on a short chip, you 
know what I mean? 

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And putting is obviously easy. 
So I play right-handed, but I 

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chip and putt lefty. 
All right. 

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So number one, it's already as 
certain as that. 

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Like, so I mean, Full 
disclosure, if if you see me, I 

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mean, pray for me because it's 
really pathetic and it's 

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embarrassing, but it is what it 
is. 

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OK. 
So it's bad enough that that's 

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my plate in golf. 
The night before, I went in the 

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backyard for only about an hour,
put a couple of logs of wood on 

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the fire pit, wanted to watch 
the Yankees a little bit, put 

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the TV on outside. 
And then when I was grabbing the

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wood, I got it seems like such a
wuss thing, but I could not get 

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it out. 
I got a splinter right in my SO 

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obviously gripping the club. 
That's not exactly ideal. 

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So whatever. 
I'm like, yeah, what if my kids 

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have splinters? 
You know, it's one of the little

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subtle joys in life as a dad, 
when your child gets a splinter 

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and you actually get it out and 
I don't know it, it just feels 

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so good. 
Dude, So just a quick side. 

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So my dad, when I was younger, I
used to be terrified of like 

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tweezers, like when I got a 
splinter. 

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And so he would put sandpaper on
it and it would always work bro,

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every time. 
Sandpaper like actually like on 

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the skin like. 
Yeah, yeah, he would sand the 

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splinter down and it would work.
Really. 

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Yeah, yeah, I, I mean, I could 
see why. 

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I mean the the skin would get 
lower which means the splinter 

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would get higher and then you 
pop it out. 

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So anyway I couldn't get it now 
I had like 1 drink, I was 

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watching the Yanks. 
I really had water out there was

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just kind of just chilling 
enjoying the night and I wasn't 

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worried about it. 
And then during the show was 

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bothering me yesterday, not 
enough to where I'm going to 

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tell you, but I'm like as things
annoy me or play golf like this,

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I really couldn't grip it 
anyway, so I couldn't because my

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wife's not here. 
I have no idea where that 

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freaking tweezers are. 
I don't know. 

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So I, I finally found I looked 
through every bag, every drawer.

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It wasn't in the medicine 
cabinet for some reason. 

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I so I finally find it. 
It's not working right now and 

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I'm digging and I'm digging and 
I'm bleeding. 

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I'm like, I don't care, like I 
don't need. 

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I don't care if I'm going to 
need a stitch. 

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I'm getting this freaking thing.
This thing is going to be out of

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my finger be when I go to the 
golf course. 

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I'll tape it up, I'll suck it 
up, whatever right So then 

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couldn't get it. 
So then I go we have this board 

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with like push pins like like a 
calendar and and some old, you 

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know, pictures, maybe the kids 
well, just like a family thing, 

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right? 
I go and I get a push pin and I,

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I sterilize it and I'm digging 
and I'm digging and I'm digging 

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and they then I'm doing research
on ChatGPT. 

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I put it in hot water for 10 
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It'll kind of solve for that. 
I do that now it's raw. 

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Now it's bleeding. 
I finally got it out and when I 

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let's tell you that this looks 
like a little tiny paper cut, 

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you have no idea how deep this 
thing is. 

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I performed surgery on myself 
just to go out and shoot a 

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shitty one O 2 it. 
Looks cut like It definitely 

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looks like a a sizable cut right
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Yes, a sizable one indeed. 
I quit my golf. 

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Well, I don't quit, but I do. 
I I, you know, I I come before 

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you humbly golf gods. 
I'm not asking for much. 

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It's hard enough to figure out 
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swing and in the rough and all, 
you know, in the sand. 

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Just let me have healthy fingers
moving forward. 

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It was it was brutal. 
All right, ma'am, let's get to 

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the show. 
So so we'll do Knicks and 

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Celtics tonight. 
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banged up. 
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the game because it's a regular 
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talking more macro with the 
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So going the way the Knicks 
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way the Knicks season going into
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I felt then, you know, October 
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2 completely different feelings.
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Knicks. 
I remember saying on the fan and

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I quickly corrected it. 
I'm like, that's a little bit 

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ambitious. 
Calm down, tap the brakes. 

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But when me and Sal were doing 
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remember saying, Knicks, we're 
going to win 60. 

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And then as soon as there's 
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You can't hear the alarm, by the
way. 

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It's not audible. 
You're good. 

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Yeah. 
I mean, I'm sure it's driving 

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you ballistic, bro. 
I'm. 

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Going to smash it at some point 
if they don't get home soon, 

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which they will, right? 
So anyway. 

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But yeah, not autumn. 
Not OK, good. 

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So I said 60 and I'm like, yeah,
that's, that's a little bit 

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much, right? 
I'm like, and I think I settled 

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on 54 for which they very well 
might. 

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I got three games to go. 
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get 54 cuz they're 51 and 28 
right now. 

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It's not about, it's not about 
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right or I was close, whatever. 
It's just about I felt great 

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about the Knicks going into the 
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the Knicks for two reasons. 
Number one, I really like their 

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team, really like and I knew 
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bit bench pieces, which was an 
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resolved with the additions of 
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And so I I love the team, you 
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Knicks as a singular entity, I 
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And then to boost that even 
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all know what the circumstances 
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Conference. 
You know, obviously Tatum's out 

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ruptured Achilles. 
Tyrese Halliburton always sticks

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the dagger in the Knicks like 
Reggie used to, you know, out 

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for the season, ruptured 
Achilles. 

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Pacers are an absolute doormat. 
They'll be picking early. 

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The Celtics very, very, very 
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together an amazing season and 
obviously Tatum is back. 

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Now, when you think about this, 
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team coming in and the 
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certainly in the East and not 
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championship because you deal 
with the West if and when you 

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get there, but just to represent
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So for me, check on the team, 
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here we are. 
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negative here, but it is. 
It's really the exact opposite. 

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I don't feel really good about 
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worse about the circumstances. 
Let me just give you a couple of

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circumstances, a couple of 
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This is also impacting not just 
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If you guys missed, it did come 
back. 

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So he played the other night and
last night he played, right? 

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And he played 25 minutes, 13 
points, 10 assists. 

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All right, so the punctured 
lung, he's back. 

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They've got a couple that he's 
gonna, he's gonna he's got to 

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get his win to back and all that
other stuff. 

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But what's happened in the 
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Kate Cunningham missed #1 
Detroit didn't stop winning. 

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They're 8:00 and 3:00. 
So that's going to bold in the 

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other guys of the team with like
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And then obviously Kate comes 
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strength. 
They can go back to the previous

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slot. 
But there's got to be much more 

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conviction, much more confidence
within those guys. 

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So that's a win for Detroit and 
that's a loss for the Knicks. 

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And by the way, my guy, and I 
remember saying this a few times

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on the air with the Mink man 
doing St. 

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John's games with Danis Jenkins,
who followed Rick from Iona and 

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Danis Jenkins. 
Now he was on the two way deal 

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and I felt good from about that.
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restructured that or they bought
it out, whatever the term is. 

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Now he's officially an NBA 
player. 

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Dennis Jenkins without Kate 
Cunningham, 19 points a game, 8 

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assists, 4 rebounds in 35 
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And that's over 11 games. 
It's not two or three games. 

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So what they're going to have to
do and what they're going to 

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have to figure out. 
And they've got a good coach and

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they've got a lot of selfless 
players. 

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So I do think it will be easy to
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They've got to determine how 
willing they are to play Kate 

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Cunningham and Danis Jenkins 
together in the back court. 

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Now, I'm not saying you're going
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plus minutes a game, but that is
a different look for the 

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Pistons. 
The Pistons are already a 

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problem for the Knicks and other
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They're tough, they're deep, 
They could shoot it a little 

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bit. 
They got a superstar in Kade and

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their other players have 
blossomed and they've taken 

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ownership of their new role. 
So that's a problem. 

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Now you get to the Celtics here.
Now, again, the Pacers don't 

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factor in because Halliburton's 
out, but you get to to the 

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Boston Celtics. 
Now understand, like what Jayson

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Tatum has done is it's beyond 
impressive as I read something 

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this morning that he returned 
from the Achilles rupture 200 

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days earlier than Kevin Durant 
did. 

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Think about that. 200 days, not 
15 days or a month. 

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I mean, you're talking about 
what, 30609121? 

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I mean, I mean, 7 * 3 is 210. 
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months. 
I mean seven months earlier, 

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just about right. 
So I I'd be lying if I said I 

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checked the box score. 
Sure. 

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I haven't seen Jason Tatum play 
a full game yet. 

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I've seen some of the highlights
since he returned. 

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I did not realize. 
That's why I'm really looking 

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forward to tonight. 
Even though the Celtics are 

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banged up, which I'll get to in 
a moment, I just want to see his

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movement because everything from
a statistical point of view is 

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beyond. 
It's one of the most impressive 

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things that I've seen from a 
player coming back from an 

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injury maybe ever. 
So he played 39 minutes on 

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Tuesday, 39. 
So he came back in early March, 

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I think it was March 6th with 
his first game and the average 

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31 minutes a night. 
And in April it went from 31 to 

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35 S, an increment of of 4 
minutes more, right? 

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And then again, 39 on Tuesday 
and they shoot 43% from 3. 

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So, you know, I, I, I look at 
the Knicks and I'm like, all 

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right, where is the optimism? 
Well, I mean, you can always be 

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optimistic. 
I mean, there there could be 

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blind optimism, there could be 
optimism that is laced with some

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fact. 
And the Knicks are obviously a 

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good team. 
I'm not saying they're not good,

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but this is all about the 
championship. 

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And it's funny, I didn't really 
get I didn't actually, I don't 

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think I got into this on the air
at all. 

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Maybe I was travelling. 
Maybe that's why. 

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But did you see the other day, 
Jay, when Mike Breen on the this

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is probably, let's see, maybe in
the Hawks game. 

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So that would have been the 
Hawks game. 

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I think it might have been 
Nick's won that game, good Rd. 

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win. 
And at some point during the 

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game, Mike was talking to the 
Knick fan, not admonishing them 

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because that's not his style. 
I love Mike's the best, right? 

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But he was basically telling 
Nick fans, hey, don't forget, 

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you know, or basically don't 
have a championship or bust 

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mindset. 
Something I remember. 

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Yeah, I. 
Think I saw, because I saw 

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Stephen A go off on him for it. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

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Yeah, I'm not going to go off on
it, but I actually agree with 

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Stephen A, if you can find the 
quotes, but just pull them up 

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and I want to have you read them
real fast here. 

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Yeah, but I, I know obviously 
the gist and and the meat of the

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message. 
So I could certainly start the 

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my opinion on this. 
And I think that Mike Breen's 

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totally wrong on that. 
Now, if it's an opinion, you 

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know, I'm not going to. 
You can't say an opinion is 

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wrong. 
So maybe that's not the right 

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way to frame it. 
But I vehemently disagree with 

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Mike Breen on that. 
It's all about the championship 

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because everything that the 
Knicks did was to put themselves

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in a position to win the 
championship. 

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All the picks for Bridges, the 
contracts, the extensions, the 

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trades, there's really nowhere 
else to go, man everybody. 

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Else knows this. 
Go ahead, I've got the quote, he

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said. 
Alarm. 

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Oh my God. 
Every two minutes. 

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Every two minutes. 2 minutes 
left. 2 minutes. 

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Oh my God screw these pop up 
ads. 

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There are many Knick fans and 
many in the media and many 

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within the organization who feel
that this season would be 

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considered a disappointing one 
if the Knicks don't make the NBA

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Finals, Breen said. 
Obviously a championship is what

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everyone wants and that's the 
goal, but just remember where 

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the franchise was before Leon 
Rose arrived. 

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Yep, Yep. 
And Leon Rose did not arrive 

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last year or the year before or 
the year before Leon Rose been 

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here a minute. 
So I, I say this with a smile 

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because I think he's one of the 
best ever and I think he's a 

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great guy. 
I, I, I don't really care what 

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my Princess about that. 
I mean, I care enough about it 

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to comment because I totally 
disagree. 

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That's wrong. 
That's wrong for me. 

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And it's obviously, as you said,
wrong for Stephen A, it's wrong 

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for many other Knick fans. 
This is not like, say, when Tom 

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Thibodeau first got here and 
they had that renaissance where 

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like the COVID year and they won
a good amount of games after 

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being in the abyss for most of 
the century. 

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You know that Julius Randle and,
and, and the young RJ Barrett 

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and Nerlens Noel and that team, 
right? 

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And they wildly overachieved. 
And then they wound up losing to

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the Hawks even though they had 
first round homecourt advantage 

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that year. 
Trey Young just absolutely 

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abused the man there. 
Right. 

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And it, it's not like we, we 
took that team and and what 

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happened that year and then with
no other adjustments or 

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personnel upgrades the next 
year, all right, Which would 

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have been 2021, right. 
So the COVID 2020, yeah, you're 

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talking 2021 into early 20. 
Yeah, 2021. 

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It's not like we took that 
iteration of the Knicks and like

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pushed it so forward where we 
were, you know, we, we, we 

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created this championship mantra
or bust. 

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It's that's not the case. 
Like that would have been 

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unrealistic. 
They didn't have Julius Randall 

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was really good and we all had 
massive respect. 

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I love Julius Randall, even 
though he's got some 

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shortcomings, but it was a real 
deep appreciation for the, for 

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what the Knicks gave us. 
And honestly, for a lot of Knick

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fans, even though most of those 
games there weren't fans there, 

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although because of COVID and, 
and the, and the regulations, 

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the ordinances, but if you 
remember when they got to the 

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playoffs, they started letting 
people back in. 

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So the Garden, you got to hear 
what the Garden sounded like. 

441
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,880
And of course I've seen and 
heard and I've been to 1,000,000

442
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,280
Knick games, playoff games. 
But there was a younger 

443
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,360
generation of Knick fans that, 
you know, if you're 15 years old

444
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,280
or you're 13 years old in 2021, 
you don't know what the Garden 

445
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,760
sounds like or you've heard of 
stories from your dad, your 

446
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,680
uncle, you've seen 
documentaries, you've read about

447
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,760
it, whatever. 
It came to life. 

448
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,240
And it was a reminder like, 
yeah, This is why MSG is the 

449
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,240
place to be. 
This is why there's no better 

450
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,000
sound, in my opinion. 
There's no better sound in all 

451
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:21,920
the sports then a late roar deep
in the playoffs at the Garden or

452
00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:25,560
a defense chant where it's full 
throttle. 

453
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,360
You know, deep as deep in the 
stomach and the lungs as you can

454
00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:32,560
conjure up when you know you've 
got a Knicks, a good Knicks team

455
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,280
with a chance to do something 
special. 

456
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,160
And 19,000, you know, it used to
be 19,763. 

457
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,800
They adjusted the attendance a 
bit as they refurbished the 

458
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,000
arena, but still around there. 
So I'll just say 19763 because 

459
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,760
that's what I always that that's
the number I I remember my whole

460
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,800
life. 
We've got 19763 in unison, You 

461
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,640
know, just trying to will the 
Knicks past that next checkpoint

462
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,120
to get to a championship that 
for many of us we've never seen.

463
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,000
You know, I think it's I do 
think it's the best sound in 

464
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,080
sports. 
I don't even really know for me 

465
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,920
what what would be second. 
You know, like you think about 

466
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,800
some of the great teams, it's 
not Dodger Stadium. 

467
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,840
No disrespect. 
The Dodgers are phenomenal. 

468
00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:14,080
The Dodgers are great, but it 
doesn't sound like that. 

469
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,480
Even the new Yankee Stadium #1 
the Yankees are not what they 

470
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,720
used to be. 
But the new Yankee state, just 

471
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,280
the way it's built. 
I mean, think about the old 

472
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,000
overhang at the old Yankee 
Stadium. 

473
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,800
It used to hang like it was a 
threatening, ominous walk on to 

474
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,640
that field. 
It felt like a like a mosh pit 

475
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,280
that I I saw a lot more playoff 
games there that I did and then 

476
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,920
I have at the new stadium. 
I've been in World Series in the

477
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,040
new one as well. 
But I mean, I went to basically 

478
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,200
every game. 
I was there in 96 when they won.

479
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,320
I was there probably that was 
there for Mattingly multiple 

480
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,440
times back in 95. 
There's nowhere I was missing 

481
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,560
Donnie's postseason play anyway,
you know, you want to tell me 

482
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,200
like the old Boston Garden with 
the Celtics or maybe old Chicago

483
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,160
Stadium. 
I, I, it's funny, ironically, I 

484
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,560
think the thing for me and Jay, 
I want you to jump in on this. 

485
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:00,560
I know you're a little bit 
younger. 

486
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,720
Maybe I have a different 
perspective, actually a lot 

487
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,920
younger, different perspective. 
But to me it, it is masters week

488
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,400
here and the Masters is underway
and all those, you know, Scotty 

489
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,200
Scheffler, all those big names. 
I can't wait. 

490
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,200
I'm going to watch it, you know,
until they when the kids get 

491
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,160
home and I'll be watching 
basically every shot, streaming 

492
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,120
it and of course through the 
weekend when I'm not at the 

493
00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:21,960
baseball field, I'll come home, 
I'll record it, I'll watch every

494
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,560
shot. 
I absolutely love the masters. 

495
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,720
It's awesome, right? 
To me, the only thing that's 

496
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,400
comparable, and I'm sure I'm 
missing something obvious. 

497
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,440
So by all means, I want you guys
to hit me up on out as well. 

498
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,280
Jump in again. 
I think the garden late in in in

499
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,440
in May or early June or even a 
little bit deeper is the best 

500
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,960
sound in sports. 
I think the second best sound in

501
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,160
sports for me is, you know, when
you get to those back three 

502
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,880
holes, 16, I believe 16 is the 
par 3 to Gusta with the little 

503
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,360
pond that you got to hit it to 
the right spot that funnels down

504
00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:52,920
to the hole, whatever. 
And then obviously 1718, like 

505
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:58,680
when somebody drills a big putt 
late on Sunday, deep back, 

506
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,400
especially if it's a player like
a Tiger or Phil or like one of 

507
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,200
those dudes, right? 
And it's like a swing on the 

508
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,240
leaderboard. 
To me, that would be my second 

509
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,360
favorite sound. 
Anything jump out to other 

510
00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:11,840
stadiums? 
Anything else? 

511
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,640
OK, this is a poor one just 
because, you know, it's a very 

512
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,640
modern young person take, but I 
feel like in my time watching 

513
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,760
basketball, man, like Oracle 
Arena has seriously popped. 

514
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,960
Like, I mean, and it's a lot of 
bandwagon fans, no doubt. 

515
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,440
No, I got to correct you on 
that, no. 

516
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,400
You don't think so? 
No. 

517
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,080
No, I know, I know. 
No, no, definitely not. 

518
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,040
Now let me just differentiate 
between so you know, they don't 

519
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,280
play at Oracle anymore. 
They obviously went from the Bay

520
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,680
Area where the A's and the red 
OK there because I used to live 

521
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:42,800
there. 
Let me give you a little brief 

522
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,480
map. 
So Oracle was like, say, like, 

523
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,320
right, Just get me on a full 
screen for one SEC. 

524
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:48,920
Thanks, man. 
So say, if if this is Oracle 

525
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,040
right here, you had like 
literally the Coliseum right 

526
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,680
next to it. 
All right, so you can get back 

527
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,720
up there, Jay. 
So you had the the A's, the 

528
00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,200
Raiders and Oracle. 
And the really the truth of the 

529
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,000
matter is now the tickets 
weren't as expensive, but the 

530
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,000
warrior fans at Oracle because 
they were awful for so long as, 

531
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,000
as we all know, before Steph and
Klay and all that started 

532
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,600
happening. 
And it really started with Mark 

533
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,000
Jackson's team when Mark Jackson
was the coaches, you know, so 

534
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,400
that's, I don't know about the 
sound, but they were not front 

535
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,680
runners. 
They were there no matter what. 

536
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,000
Yes, their fans. 
I, I, I must defend the, the 

537
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,560
Warrior fans at that point. 
Now, I will say this, I don't, 

538
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,200
I, I don't live there anymore, 
obviously. 

539
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:35,280
But when they moved from Oracle 
to the Chase Center in San 

540
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,840
Francisco, well, now it's a 
different clientele based on the

541
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,600
prices. 
And when that happens, it could 

542
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,280
obviously negatively impact the 
sound and just the overall vibe.

543
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,480
So I can't speak to that. 
But I can directly speak from 

544
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,680
experience that Oracle was 
phenomenal all in, even when 

545
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,280
they were average or bad. 
So just just, I just wanted to 

546
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,600
get that. 
Out there, No, I mean, I just 

547
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,480
feel like every every game I I 
watch in like that mid twenty 

548
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:06,240
10s, early twenty 20s just yeah,
yeah, it was I I don't want to 

549
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,920
say the loudest, but I'm pretty 
sure like I feel like when I was

550
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,760
watching those games, it was 
just like chaotic. 

551
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,400
It was loud. 
Any time a shot would go down, 

552
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,640
it would just erupt. 
So yeah, there's like my spot. 

553
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,720
Well, I mean, Oakland's gritty. 
I mean, Oakland is, you know, 

554
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,440
it's it's like it's kind of like
the Bronx and Brooklyn and 

555
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,600
Queens old wrapped up into one 
very similar. 

556
00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:30,800
So yeah, those fans were. 
Phenomenal. 

557
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:35,760
Like I wish I could say the 
Carrier Dome, but it honestly 

558
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,960
was not crazy at all in my time 
there. 

559
00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:41,480
We had a couple of buzzer 
beaters, but what Joe Gerard 

560
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,480
putting up 12 points a Joe. 
George. 

561
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,040
And he's my guy. 
Listen till the day I die, he's 

562
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,720
my guy. 
But you know, it was. 

563
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,000
I get it. 
No, it's different. 

564
00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:53,360
You got to remember, I've been 
to the Carrier Dome when 

565
00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:55,440
Syracuse was still Syracuse 
doing St. 

566
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,240
John's games and they had, you 
know, 30 something 1001 of their

567
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,280
traditions. 
I love it, you know, and, and 

568
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,560
other arenas and other venues do
this as well. 

569
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,200
I'm not sure that they invented 
this, but I remember like, wow, 

570
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,800
this is pretty cool. 
They don't sit down to the first

571
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,240
bucket scored like they stand 
up. 

572
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,240
As you know, that's a tradition 
and and that plays it's such a 

573
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,560
unique place. 
Now this is a different, like 

574
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,520
branching out, different part of
the conversation. 

575
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,320
Like there's just that, that 
intensity and that, you know, 

576
00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:27,440
that that rage like the Garden, 
you know, Oracle, you know, an 

577
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,960
old Raiders game. 
I'm, I'm sure the Bills stay. 

578
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,120
I think Bills have an element of
that for sure. 

579
00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:34,920
And I hope, I don't think they 
will, but I hope they don't lose

580
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,800
that with that new stadium, 
which looks absolutely dope. 

581
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,640
But going to a game at the 
carried, I've never been to a 

582
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,800
football game there. 
I've got 0 interest watching 

583
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,000
Syracuse football play anything 
to be honest with you. 

584
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:50,320
But to have been there for, you 
know, of of just the way it's 

585
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,400
configured because it's just a 
mass, it's a massive bubble, as 

586
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,840
you know, and like basically 70%
of the venue is uncharted when 

587
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,560
there's a basketball game and 
then it's blocked off and then 

588
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,560
like some seats you could barely
see no really, really at at in 

589
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,280
its heyday, phenomenal. 
You know, I don't even know if 

590
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,600
if quite, you know, Cameron 
Indoor and I've been to Cameron,

591
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,880
I've done three games there. 
And you know, I'm not saying 

592
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,760
that's not this. 
You know, John Shire is a really

593
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,520
good coach. 
They've got really good players.

594
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,080
Obviously. 
Trust me, I just watched him 

595
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:21,800
beat St. 
John's. 

596
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,120
I know, but I feel like it's 
different. 

597
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,640
Maybe maybe that's a 
misrepresentation. 

598
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,720
But you know, without Coach K, 
without guys who were there for 

599
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,880
2-3 years, I think that's taking
a little bit of a step back, 

600
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,480
quite frankly. 
I just feel like that that 

601
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:41,160
fervent nature for sports in the
actual venues and maybe even the

602
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,640
way people consume sports and 
watch sports, I think it's it's 

603
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,960
been a little dialed down across
the board for sure. 

604
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,720
You're with me on that. 
Yeah, well, I also think now 

605
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:57,040
it's just like there are so many
like because prices are so high,

606
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,800
there's so many fans of 
different teams in different 

607
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,640
cities that it's not necessarily
about like the most die hard 

608
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,320
fans are going to be at the 
games. 

609
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,560
It's more so the ones who have 
the like the most money. 

610
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,760
So it's like you could go to a a
a Celtics game versus the 

611
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,360
Knicks. 
And obviously, there would still

612
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,880
be a lot of Knicks fans in the 
past, but now even more so 

613
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,840
because, you know, some Homer 
Celtics fans who maybe couldn't 

614
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,520
afford the game can't make it. 
Now think about this. 

615
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,280
That's a great point. 
Think about this when the Knicks

616
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,400
beat the Sixers in the playoffs 
a couple of years. 

617
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:29,480
Ago. 
That was awesome. 

618
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,360
Took over the joint. 
Yeah. 

619
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,240
Looking over, it was 
embarrassing the way Sixer fans 

620
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:36,600
got pushed out of their own 
home. 

621
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,000
That wouldn't have been that. 
Listen, that would not have 

622
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,440
happened again. 
The secondary ticket market 

623
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,840
access that that's it's it's a 
different game here. 

624
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,280
Not that you couldn't in the 80s
go and scalp and get something 

625
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:48,600
on the street. 
Of course that's how you'd get 

626
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,800
tickets. 
You know, that was so funny 

627
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,720
going to all those Knick games 
with my dad, man. 

628
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,440
Like just all the all the 
hustlers on the side. 

629
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:55,880
Yo, you take it, take it, take 
it, take it. 

630
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:57,760
It's like, you know, but weed, 
weed, weed. 

631
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,520
Now you don't even see that 
because you go get it wherever 

632
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,080
you want if you want it. 
I mean, but yeah, that that 

633
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,360
elements change. 
But that was not happening. 

634
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:10,240
I would say Doctor J and Andrew,
Tony and Moses back in 83 when 

635
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,440
they won the championship. 
Hell, that wouldn't even happen 

636
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,280
with AI back in the day, you 
know, and those guys when they 

637
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,600
got to the championship and lost
to the Lakers in five games. 

638
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,680
So, yeah, a lot has changed and 
and we just roll with the 

639
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,280
punches and and I think we all 
know that there's been a there's

640
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,360
been yeah, there's been a little
bit of a shift here, but it 

641
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,080
really does go back to what you 
know, not not it's not about 

642
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,920
what Mike Breen said. 
Obviously I started the show 

643
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,760
telling you I just don't feel 
the way I felt about the Knicks 

644
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,320
coming into the season based on 
my expectations, based on what I

645
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,920
thought the team would be and 
then based on what I thought 

646
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,880
would be around the Eastern 
Conference with the stories that

647
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,240
I already that I already ran 
through. 

648
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,040
But I really, really pushed back
vehemently and disagree with 

649
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,280
Mike Breen when he said that. 
I know that Mike went back and 

650
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,760
it again, his intention was not 
to jab. 

651
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,080
That's just not his thing. 
I mean, he's just good of dude 

652
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,840
as there is really, but I don't 
think that that one hit the mark

653
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,720
at all. 
You could be a great broadcaster

654
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,960
and you could be 
well-intentioned and a great guy

655
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,640
and you could say something that
just doesn't resonate. 

656
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,200
And I think a lot of people 
objected to that or push back 

657
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,520
and it didn't feel it. 
You know, Stephen A was 1 and 

658
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,240
I'm I'm another one as well. 
All right, chicks, They're 52 

659
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,840
after last year's run, the 
expectation this year's a 

660
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,600
championship. 
Exactly. 

661
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,840
Of course it's a championship. 
Unfortunately, the teams 

662
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,600
inconsistency this year, it 
doesn't seem likely. 

663
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,080
I listen, I'm not even going to 
put a percentage on it, you 

664
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,280
know, because I don't I don't 
really. 

665
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,920
I could give you updated and NBA
odds, whatever. 

666
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,880
Anybody could do that, but I'm 
not going to say 0 because I 

667
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,280
just think that that's 
irresponsible. 

668
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,640
Anything could happen. 
I thinks aren't winning the 

669
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:47,160
championship this year. 
Tell me how the OR or or give me

670
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,280
the reasons why and I'm going to
do this myself. 

671
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,760
I'm I'm asking rhetorically 
here. 

672
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,280
But before you go, J Rob, before
you get it back on the full 

673
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,880
screen. 
All right, I'm going to write 

674
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,240
that down. 
All right. 

675
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:02,160
So why when you were talking 
about use the word OR, how do 

676
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:07,480
you say this ORGANIZATION? 
How do you say it? 

677
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,640
Organization. 
OK, so you grew up in 

678
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:14,800
Connecticut and you didn't grow 
up in Quebec, you know, or 

679
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,920
Manitoba. 
You you, you grew up in 

680
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,520
Connecticut. 
You went to school in Syracuse, 

681
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:20,880
right? 
Yeah, up in Syracuse. 

682
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,680
Why organization? 
Why? 

683
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,000
Why are we dropping the eye 
like? 

684
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,360
Did I say that it did? 
Organization. 

685
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,880
I. 
Don't know, maybe that's a 

686
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,960
Connecticut. 
Yo, listen, we got the whole BT 

687
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:31,880
on leave. 
They don't miss anything. 

688
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,800
When I make a mistake, they let 
and it's not a mistake. 

689
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,720
If that's how you say it, it's 
all good, but hey fam, let them 

690
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,760
know. 
Organization, organization, 

691
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,960
organization. 
I've never thought of that. 

692
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,440
Yeah. 
I don't understand why anybody 

693
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,000
that's not from Canada would say
organization. 

694
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,400
I caught my ear and I actually 
jotted that down, but then we 

695
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,680
got to some other stuff. 
Wait, I've never thought of this

696
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:54,720
before. 
All right. 

697
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,560
I wonder where I got that. 
I mean, are you're not a big 

698
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:58,960
hockey fan, so I don't think it 
came from. 

699
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,840
There, not at all. 
A big, you know, salmon or 

700
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,440
halibut fishing fan. 
You go on these these these 

701
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,679
Canadian excursions that we 
don't know about. 

702
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,760
No, I don't know. 
I went to Quebec when I was 14. 

703
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:12,920
That's. 
About did you really? 

704
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,639
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Nice man. 

705
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,920
Nice. 
I just had a circle back to 

706
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:17,560
that. 
I'm like, organ. 

707
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,840
Did he slip in an organization? 
Interesting, I've got a I've got

708
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,000
a super, super chat real quick 
and. 

709
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,480
Then yeah. 
Oh, God almighty. 

710
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,280
What are my thoughts on the 
Vrabel Rusini story? 

711
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,080
My God, I have had her on the 
show a few times. 

712
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,239
I like her. 
I don't know her very well, but 

713
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,840
every time she's like, she's a 
big fan of WFAN. 

714
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,440
She's a Bergen County girl. 
I think she's very good at 

715
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,400
reporting. 
I think Vrabel's a great coach. 

716
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,280
And that's the guy that I wanted
for The Jets. 

717
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,480
And go back and find it. 
I was, But he was playing The 

718
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:49,600
Jets. 
You know, he wasn't coming to 

719
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,400
this circus. 
It was just, you know, getting. 

720
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,600
He was basically incentivizing 
the Pats to fire Mayo. 

721
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,280
And once they got rid of him, 
they're like, yeah, he was just 

722
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,720
using The Jets as a pawn 0 
interest coming to The Jets. 

723
00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:03,480
Not that you can blame him, but 
this is not about that this to 

724
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,480
me, honestly, you want my real 
opinion. 

725
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,640
This is between whatever is 
going on and and I I don't I 

726
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:16,360
mean, you can obviously deduce 
what's going on brain surgeon to

727
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:20,280
kind of take a stab at it. 
I I don't know their marital 

728
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,880
situations. 
I, I know because I saw a lot of

729
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,200
clips surface where I had to 
talk about like when she got 

730
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,040
engaged and when she got 
married. 

731
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,720
It's not my business though. 
But if you put it out on air, I,

732
00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:32,240
I at least know that you're 
married. 

733
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,360
I thought Frabel was married. 
I couldn't get 2 shits at the 

734
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,760
isn't if he isn't. 
Here's my honest opinion on all 

735
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,760
this stuff, right? 
I actually think that there's 

736
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,240
just too much probing into other
people's lives. 

737
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,560
If you were a grown man and 
you're a grown woman, all right,

738
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:51,600
and you both consent now, you 
know, if you were religious, 

739
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,560
that's obviously a vow that 
you're breaking. 

740
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:54,720
Not good. 
That's on you. 

741
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:57,440
You know, you're gonna have to 
reconcile that at some point. 

742
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,440
You know, if you, if you're, you
know, Christian like we are, and

743
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,760
you stand up in front of your 
family and you take these vows 

744
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,880
and you cheat. 
And I'm not trying to preach. 

745
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,120
I'm just responding to the 
question. 

746
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,600
But I'm going to respond to in 
my way rather than just rail on 

747
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,840
people and just hammer people. 
I'd rather be more thoughtful if

748
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,840
you take those vows and you 
willingly choose to to break 

749
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,520
them with infidelities or other 
stuff. 

750
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,240
I mean, that's a youth thing. 
All right. 

751
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:26,560
I just think that the ever 
present cameras are are such a 

752
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,960
detriment to society. 
I really, really do. 

753
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,080
You know, they're going to have 
to go back home and if that's 

754
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,200
what it looked like, that's 
going to be a situation that's 

755
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,760
going to be messy. 
I believe they put out a joint 

756
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,360
statement so that they, I think 
they actually acknowledged it. 

757
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,360
Right. 
What do you want me to tell you,

758
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:46,560
man? 
They're not. 

759
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,400
You know, it's not like one of 
them, God forbid, is underage. 

760
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,760
There's nothing illegal. 
They're two adults. 

761
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,840
They're grown people. 
Now, the one aspect here, this 

762
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,320
is this is a delicate balance. 
Yeah. 

763
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,840
You want to tell me that there's
a conflict of interest here in 

764
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,320
terms of getting information and
reporting? 

765
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,480
Well, that's a discussion we 
could have, but I've never 

766
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,920
interviewed Frabel. 
I've interviewed Diana probably 

767
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,440
3 or 4 times. 
I really do like her and I 

768
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,040
really do think she's cool and I
really do think she's good. 

769
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:22,040
But this is her thing, you know,
I just, you know what, it's 

770
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,240
funny, Like there's a lot of 
people, it's just a little bit 

771
00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:27,480
of a commentary on life. 
So, so bear with me. 

772
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,760
There's a lot of people who love
to gossip. 

773
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,240
Now, this isn't necessarily 
gossip. 

774
00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:36,160
This is an actual image, a 
visual that the world, the 

775
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,320
sports world's responding to. 
So it's a little bit different, 

776
00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:42,120
but I've never been a gossiper. 
Like, I don't know, maybe it's 

777
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,280
just where I was raised, you 
know, like when, when, when you 

778
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,200
when somebody tells you 
something, and this goes back to

779
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,600
my childhood in Brooklyn, you 
just keep your mouth shut. 

780
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,840
You don't run around and chirp 
and tell everybody like that's 

781
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,720
I've got no interest in that 
nonsense. 

782
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,960
I've never been that guy. 
You know the old expression, 

783
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,880
what loose lips, right? 
You know, I mean, if you if your

784
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,040
lips are too loose, eventually 
you get popped in the mouth. 

785
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,160
More of an old school 
expression, sure, but you get 

786
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,440
the gist. 
I, I don't understand why people

787
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:15,760
are so interested and consumed 
with other people's lives. 

788
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,520
I've got a theory and here's my 
theory. 

789
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,960
My theory is that those who 
really parachute into that stuff

790
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,680
a lot and are, I mean, really 
consumed with it, the gossip, 

791
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,640
the nonsense, the innuendo, 
who's cheating on whom, who's 

792
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,800
doing this right? 
I actually think that their 

793
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,400
lives suck. 
Because if you have a good life,

794
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,400
if you're fulfilled, if you're 
happy, if you're content, 

795
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,240
whether it's in a relationship, 
whether it's with a, you know, 

796
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,880
with another person, certainly 
as a parent, that goes without 

797
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,400
saying. 
In a work environment, why would

798
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,680
you give two shits what's going 
on somewhere else? 

799
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:55,480
There's enough to worry about in
the world, you know, whether 

800
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,120
it's a ceasefire, whether it's 
economics, whether it's a health

801
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:03,040
issue, it's just a general 
direction of the world, which 

802
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,720
really at the end of the day is 
all I care about because you 

803
00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:08,040
know what? 
I'm not here. 

804
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,960
I'm and you know, as a parent 
and, and we all this is just the

805
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,760
reality of it. 
We're leaving behind something 

806
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:20,400
that, given the direction that 
it's going, is far worse from 

807
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,840
what we grew up in. 
And I really think that the 

808
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:28,040
invasion of privacy and, and the
cameras and the just DJ just 

809
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,440
pulling back the curtain on 
everything, opening up a phone 

810
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,920
and just eviscerating A 
colleague. 

811
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,280
Like, you know, I, I had Stephen
A on, right? 

812
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,800
And you know, I'm not getting in
the middle of his feud with 

813
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,320
Whitlock. 
I don't I don't know Whitlock at

814
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:43,760
all. 
Never met him, never talked to 

815
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:45,360
him. 
Don't judge, right? 

816
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:49,000
His style is not really my 
style, but it's working for him.

817
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,320
He's making some good money and 
he's got a presence, right. 

818
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:52,920
So I'm not here to really judge 
him. 

819
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,160
Stephen A's my boy. 
You know, that's different. 

820
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,680
But I don't know Jason. 
But when I, when I see them 

821
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,360
going back and forth, yeah, it's
good for monetizing brands and 

822
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:02,920
getting those clicks and all 
that other stuff. 

823
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,480
But is it, is it really a 
thoughtful conversation that's 

824
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,640
going to add anything of 
substance and value to life? 

825
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:14,000
It's not. 
It's just not, and I'm not 

826
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,640
trying to get preachy, man, but 
I was asked the question and I, 

827
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,880
I don't care. 
I care about my wife, I care 

828
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,760
about my kids, I care about my 
inner circle. 

829
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,680
I care about my parents, my 
sisters, my nieces, my good, my 

830
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:35,400
good, my good loyal friend base.
But I do care about the world on

831
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:39,800
a on a greater, you know, level 
and the direction is very 

832
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,640
dangerous. 
And it's been like this for a 

833
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,320
very long time. 
So I'm going to wrap it up with 

834
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,440
that. 
But you know, what's my opinion 

835
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,840
on Diana Rusini and Mike Vrabel 
holding hands and playing 

836
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,040
Footsie in the pool gives a 
fuck. 

837
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:57,160
Who cares? 
That's my most honest opinion. 

838
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:02,040
Yeah, Honestly, man, that's it. 
Yeah, it's celebrity drama. 

839
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,960
It's People magazine stuff. 
It's like, what is this guy 

840
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:06,280
supposed to do? 
I don't know. 

841
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:08,520
Yeah, I know. 
Not not variable. 

842
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,360
I mean, you like, Yeah, like, 
yeah, like what are you you. 

843
00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:14,240
Know, I mean, they got to deal 
with it. 

844
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,600
I don't I got enough to deal 
with, you know, between this 

845
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,080
finger and this little cut on my
finger and try to get the show 

846
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,280
off the ground even more. 
No, I mean, you know, but again,

847
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,760
I I guess I do need to circle 
back to this a little bit more. 

848
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,520
You do need to, and her 
employers will have to do this, 

849
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,480
get to a place where they're 
still comfortable with her 

850
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:39,960
reporting on the NFL. 
I mean, it's a real conflict of 

851
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:45,480
interest right there like that. 
It is no, that that is, I'm not 

852
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,440
going to deny that that's not a 
good look. 

853
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,520
It's not a judgement on, you 
know, stepping out of a marriage

854
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,720
or two consenting adults, again,
that stuff, whatever. 

855
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,960
But the other stuff is real. 
Like, think about like if say, 

856
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:02,400
if say, if Diana was instead of 
being a journalist, which she 

857
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:08,600
is, say, if she was just, you 
know, like a content provider 

858
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,560
independent of a journalistic 
path, right? 

859
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,800
It's basically me like doing 
this, right? 

860
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:19,480
And you had a head coach in the 
NFL and you have somebody who's 

861
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:23,360
pumping out content but not not 
reporting news. 

862
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,360
Then then is then there's zero 
issue. 

863
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,480
I mean, I still have no issue 
with their with the with that 

864
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,480
stuff. 
Like that's on them. 

865
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,160
They'll figure that out or they 
won't. 

866
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,280
But yeah, I mean, anytime 
there's now a story or anytime 

867
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:40,080
that she presents information 
about the Patriots, how can it 

868
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,960
not be construed with what? 
Well, how did she get that? 

869
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,800
I mean, that that is the sad 
reality of, of what's. 

870
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:54,200
But the the other reality of 
this is that really it's it, 

871
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,200
it's been going on forever, you 
know? 

872
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,920
I mean, you know, you hear about
the like the the casting couch 

873
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,200
and you hear about all these 
horrible Hollywood tales, you 

874
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,200
know, young actors, I mean, of 
legal age. 

875
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,880
The other stuff is it's a world 
of evil that I, I can't even 

876
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,000
wrap my mind around. 
I'm talking about of, of legal 

877
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,920
consent age, right? 
And you don't have any people 

878
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,160
that that you know, that you 
watch and that you Revere as 

879
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:21,200
actors and entertainers like if 
if, and I don't know the 

880
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:25,040
absolute path, but I know enough
that a lot of them. 

881
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,640
How do you think they got there?
Yeah. 

882
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,240
What? 
What do you, what do you think 

883
00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:32,280
was done to get there? 
Same with a lot of me. 

884
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,520
Not all of them, clearly not a 
broad brush, but it is what it 

885
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,440
is. 
Musicians is the way it goes. 

886
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,000
I mean, if you're a if you're a 
person of incredible power, 

887
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,600
right, and you have literally 
the leverage to hire and fire 

888
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,720
and offer raises. 
I mean, you've got a button that

889
00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:54,760
you can push that can change 
somebody's world in a massive 

890
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,040
economic way. 
And when that's presented, there

891
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,480
are a lot of people who will 
abandoned morals and scruples to

892
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,400
get there. 
That's just the unfortunate 

893
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,520
reality of the world, man, you 
know? 

894
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,800
Big Tom. 
Anyway, that was an interesting 

895
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,640
curveball. 
Yeah, no, I mean that will 

896
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,720
someone also they didn't send a 
super chat, but there were 

897
00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:18,200
definitely a couple comments 
about it yesterday that we're 

898
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:27,240
looking looking for the answer. 
Let me see here this I didn't 

899
00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:29,520
see. 
I must mention Diana was 

900
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,840
recently named the Eagles 
Insider of the Year by 94 WI Do.

901
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,800
You see the typo? 
Do you see the typo in that 

902
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:37,360
that? 
That makes it hilarious. 

903
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,920
Hold on, who's been stirring 
things up with Jalen Hurts and 

904
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,480
AJ Brett? 
What am, what am I missing here?

905
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,120
Recently named. 
Eagles inside of the year. 

906
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:49,520
OK, I don't mind me, all right? 
I don't I don't start going 

907
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,240
there. 
My good God almighty. 

908
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,960
It's a little bit more on brand,
at least for what the the show 

909
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,240
started with Nick's crank it up 
in the postseason. 

910
00:44:56,240 --> 00:45:00,000
We upped this we we upset the 
Celtics a year ago, the favorite

911
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,200
for the title. 
Yeah now, before we got the 

912
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,680
Diana Vraybould comment there or
chat. 

913
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:09,800
I start to go into like what? 
What is the tangible? 

914
00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:12,360
Let's then get me back on that 
one screen there, Jay. 

915
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,320
Thank you. 
What is the tangible evidence 

916
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,880
that the Knicks are ready to win
a championship? 

917
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,320
Like, what is it? 
You know, I can tell you, like 

918
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,120
with the Celtics, they've 
already got championship 

919
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,120
pedigree, All right? 
I can tell you with the Pistons,

920
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,280
they have shown incredible while
they haven't won a championship,

921
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,240
this group, this group, they 
have shown incredible pedigree 

922
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,720
the previous year, how they 
pushed the Knicks, how they 

923
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:37,720
smacked the Knicks all around 
the court this year in the 

924
00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:40,800
regular season, you know, their 
superstars back healthy. 

925
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,680
Their coach seems to be really, 
really good in picker staff. 

926
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,080
Some evidence there. 
Denver Nuggets, they already won

927
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,400
a championship together. 
Jokic is a champion champion. 

928
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,000
So is Jamal Murray. 
All right, different coach now, 

929
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:54,960
but still at least championship 
pedigree. 

930
00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:57,920
So outside of pedigree, which 
the Knicks don't have because 

931
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,520
they've never gotten to the NBA 
Finals as a group, what are the 

932
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,640
tangible basketball things that 
you look at this team and say, 

933
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,280
all right, This is why they're 
going to win the championship? 

934
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:10,160
And usually when you do that, 
there's two or three things that

935
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,600
come to mind, like #1 do they 
have a championship head coach? 

936
00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:15,480
No, that doesn't mean he can't 
win 1. 

937
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,760
You know, obviously there's a 
lot of guys who weren't 

938
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,640
champions before they became 
like Malone before he was fired 

939
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,800
by Denver, who now is taking the
job at UNC. 

940
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,120
That is a weird hire for North 
Carolina. 

941
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,360
I don't understand that 30. 
I don't even care about the 

942
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,560
money, 30 million I thought I 
saw for Malone who I wanted for 

943
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,000
the Knicks. 
I just I don't I don't know that

944
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,880
that was a weird UNC is they're 
all they're kind of losing their

945
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:39,160
way from a basketball point of 
view. 

946
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,240
They need to figure it out. 
I don't love to hire, but OK, 

947
00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:45,360
you've got a championship coach.
So like when the Rockets were 

948
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,720
doing their thing with Rudy, Tom
Jonovich, obviously incredible 

949
00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:53,480
all time iconic names like Pat 
Riley and Phil Jackson, Casey 

950
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,880
Jones, back of the day with the 
Celtics, you know, like Popovich

951
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:02,080
coach is like Curry, I'm Curry, 
Curry, Curry cheese, Steve Kerr.

952
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:04,920
So it's not a head coach. 
So we don't put a check in that 

953
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,080
column. 
So it's not the head coach, is 

954
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:10,000
it the superstar player? 
Not for the Knicks it's not. 

955
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,800
And I love Jalen Brunson. 
I love him, man. 

956
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:17,760
He ain't Colby, all right? 
He ain't MJ, he ain't LeBron, he

957
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,520
ain't KD, he ain't Steph. 
He's just not. 

958
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,840
He's not a Lajuan. 
He's not Timmy Duncan. 

959
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,360
He's not one of those guys. 
He's like that next cut. 

960
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,280
And it's very hard to win a 
championship when your best 

961
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,240
player is that size and a 
deficient defender. 

962
00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:35,160
Even though he puts out Max 
effort on defense, he's still a 

963
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:36,880
subpar defender. 
We know that, right? 

964
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,520
So it's not the coach, it's not 
the superstar player. 

965
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:42,280
All right, well, now we're 
really working uphill. 

966
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,640
What we're grasping at straws. 
What could it possibly be? 

967
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,960
Well, how about the supporting 
cast? 

968
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,240
Not to the point, no. 
I read this this morning. 

969
00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:53,320
Jay, I don't know if you saw 
this. 

970
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,400
You probably didn't. 
I saw a story. 

971
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,520
You might not realize this, but 
the Knicks had the highest paid 

972
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,680
starting lineup. 
Totality. 

973
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,080
Yeah. 
I think this year it's $179 

974
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,320
million. 
I think it is for all 5, right 

975
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,480
For the starter. 
Nobody in the NBA when you go to

976
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,360
the opening tip has five guys 
making more money than the 

977
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,200
Knicks. 
So they've obviously invested, 

978
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,400
you know, the draft picks with 
the britches, but an incredible 

979
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,240
amount and Brunson still on a 
cheap deal of financial 

980
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:27,120
resources to the starting five. 
So that's that's number one. 

981
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,800
But the story was that a couple 
of I don't know if it was a week

982
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,400
or so ago, Stefan Bondi from the
post had this good work. 

983
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:35,640
He does a good job covering them
too. 

984
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:39,360
Where the Knicks medicine 
organization and they were 

985
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,440
kicking around ideas because 
they didn't think about this. 

986
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,080
And Knicks get off to bad starts
a lot. 

987
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,440
And if you're not starting the 
game well, I'm not looking at 

988
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,280
the bench, I'm looking at the 
starters, right? 

989
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,320
That's common sense. 
So they were trying to kick 

990
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,320
around some ideas like, well, 
what can we do to maybe sit one 

991
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:59,160
guy down, insert some other guy 
and maybe go from there to fix 

992
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,360
what ails us? 
And there was a thought, now, 

993
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:02,800
not everybody's I got to sneeze 
here. 

994
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,680
That's the worst. 
That is the worst. 

995
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,000
Excuse me. 
Bless you. 

996
00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:08,560
That's the first sneeze on 
YouTube. 

997
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:09,560
Thank you. 
Really. 

998
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,600
That's the first sneeze on on BT
on Lesion, Yeah. 

999
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,440
So the. 
Allergies are kicking up a 

1000
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:19,720
little bit here anyway. 
So the guy that they thought and

1001
00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:22,280
was eventually shot down, I 
don't know how, I don't know how

1002
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:25,200
much it was, you know, was it 
was it a midfield? 

1003
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,280
Was it inside the 20s? 
Was were they on the goal line? 

1004
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,920
I don't know. 
Excuse me, ultimately how close 

1005
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,480
they were to doing it, but it 
was going to be Landry Shamit. 

1006
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,200
I like Landry. 
I've always liked Landry Shaman.

1007
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,640
I don't like him as a starter 
for a team that's trying to win 

1008
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,560
the NBA championship. 
So the fact that they had to 

1009
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:45,080
even think about doing that and 
got to a point organizationally 

1010
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,520
where they're like, maybe we do 
something pretty radical and it 

1011
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,240
probably would have been Bridges
or bridges are hard. 

1012
00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:52,400
I mean, who you sitting down, 
right? 

1013
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,600
Somebody's making good money at 
least, you know, 20 something 

1014
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,320
25,000,000 bucks a year as both 
of those guys are. 

1015
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,840
So if it's not the head coach 
that you have belief in that's 

1016
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,040
going to get you to a 
championship. 

1017
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,240
If it's not the superstar, but 
you have ultimate belief that 

1018
00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:06,640
he's going to get you to the 
championship. 

1019
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:08,640
If it's not the supporting cat, 
same deal. 

1020
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,480
And it's not the relationship 
between your two best players on

1021
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,560
the court like Brunson and cat, 
although they did do a little 

1022
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:16,520
more pick and roll the other 
night. 

1023
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,080
Oh, what a concept. 
I don't know why the hell you 

1024
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:20,400
wouldn't do that every time 
down. 

1025
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,360
You know, if they say I go 
Brunson, bang jumper in your 

1026
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,640
mug. 
If they if they leave cat open, 

1027
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,480
bang 3 in your face. 
The hell so hard about this. 

1028
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,920
I really don't understand it, 
but they did do that a little 

1029
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:33,960
bit the other night, to be fair.
So if it's not that 

1030
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,800
relationship, what I want you to
answer this because you're a 

1031
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:39,760
Celtics fan, but I know you can 
do this objectively. 

1032
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:45,720
What objectively stated is the 
real reason why a Knick fan 

1033
00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:49,120
could get up today and say I 
believe that we're going to win 

1034
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:50,720
the championship. 
I'm all ears. 

1035
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,200
OK. 
So I think the I think it's I 

1036
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,920
think it's a mixture of things. 
I think it's because this is 

1037
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,600
quote UN quote the best team in 
so many years. 

1038
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,640
And so, you know, you're as a 
Knicks fan, you're kind of 

1039
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,400
you're up in that sense where 
you're like, OK, I'm on the same

1040
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,680
tier with these other 
championship rosters. 

1041
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,280
We're here, we've made it. 
This is. 

1042
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,240
We're here. 
They might get a big zoo shout 

1043
00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:16,120
out. 
We're here, we outside. 

1044
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:20,680
But I also think there's a bit 
of a thought of a possibility 

1045
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,440
of, OK, you know, and this is 
true. 

1046
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,840
Any injuries could occur in the 
playoffs. 

1047
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,240
Any thing like that could 
happen. 

1048
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:29,400
You know, freedom could happen. 
A Thunder could happen. 

1049
00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:34,000
But based on the Knicks roster 
themselves, I don't really know 

1050
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:38,440
what you're looking at here 
because I mean, Bridges and OG 

1051
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,320
at this point to me, their 
names, their names, yes, they're

1052
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,120
not, they're not great. 
They're not great role players. 

1053
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,680
They're people who you heard of 
playing for their other teams 

1054
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,840
three years ago and you went, 
wow, that guy is really great. 

1055
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,240
That guy's and but real quick, 
Jay, that's a great. 

1056
00:51:52,240 --> 00:51:54,000
I want you to finish, but I 
don't want to lose this point, 

1057
00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:57,560
especially given the positions 
that they play 3 and D guys, 

1058
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,640
which is obviously, you know, 
the rage in the NBA. 

1059
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:00,880
Can you D it up? 
Can you shoot? 

1060
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:01,840
Go ahead. 
That's a good point. 

1061
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:02,680
No. 
Can you D up? 

1062
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,600
Can you shoot? 
I mean, they can both D up a 

1063
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,280
pretty, you know, they're both 
pretty good offenders, but in 

1064
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:12,800
terms of true shooting, true 
bucket getters, not who they 

1065
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,480
are, it's not great. 
You know, they're more they're 

1066
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:20,080
more akin to I don't. 
I always bust this guy out as my

1067
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:20,960
well. 
Robert. 

1068
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,640
No, Sam Houser is always like my
comparison. 

1069
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:25,600
They're closer. 
They're better than Sam Houser. 

1070
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,360
No, they're way better than him,
especially on defense. 

1071
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:32,680
But scoring wise, they're closer
to him than they are to a LeBron

1072
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,120
James type. 
True, but hold on a SEC, Jay. 

1073
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:36,800
But they should that that's kind
of the point. 

1074
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:38,320
So I think it gets back to the 
first issue. 

1075
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,760
They shouldn't have to be like a
LeBron James type. 

1076
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,240
You've got Brunson and Cat. 
Yeah, they're supposed to be 

1077
00:52:46,240 --> 00:52:50,000
role players, but the top two 
players don't mesh enough. 

1078
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,800
That's why my conviction is just
not there. 

1079
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:54,720
You know what I'm saying? 
And think about the other thing 

1080
00:52:54,720 --> 00:52:56,400
that you just said. 
And it's a salient point. 

1081
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,960
And it applies to every team 
every season, whether it's 

1082
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,080
baseball than ace. 
If you know, so and so's elbows 

1083
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:03,520
bark and he's going to go for 
imaging. 

1084
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:06,160
Let's hope it's not Tommy John. 
You always have to hold your 

1085
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,040
breath with injuries. 
Football quarterback, you know, 

1086
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,000
obviously Mahomes rips up his 
knee. 

1087
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:13,160
Other quarterbacks, running 
backs get hurt. 

1088
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,840
I I get it. 
Star defensive 10s like Bosa, 

1089
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,560
dudes like that, you get hurt. 
It changes the entire complexion

1090
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,880
of your team. 
But was like, we're Celtics fans

1091
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:25,480
in the 80s now that's one of the
best teams of all times, maybe 

1092
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,640
the best, but that's not a great
example. 

1093
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,920
But we're Celtic fans in the 80s
saying, well, you know, listen, 

1094
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,000
then maybe there's some injuries
that could happen around the 

1095
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,920
residence. 
So maybe that's an Ebony to win.

1096
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,600
Or do you think in Chicago and 
MJ and and Scottie Pippen and 

1097
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,480
and Horace Grant, that first 
iteration before Rodman and all 

1098
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,000
the shooters they had Hodges 
Tucker got curved guys like 

1099
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,480
that. 
You think that they were sitting

1100
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,720
there saying, well, you know, 
listen, maybe if Patrick Ewing 

1101
00:53:48,720 --> 00:53:52,400
pulls A hamstring or Charles 
Barkley, you know, pulls A thigh

1102
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,320
muscle, we can win the 
championship. 

1103
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,960
No, they reacted to what they 
had. 

1104
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,760
And really, when you're that 
good, all right. 

1105
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,360
When you're that good, it 
should. 

1106
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,840
Your main hope shouldn't be 
rooted in somebody else's 

1107
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,360
demise. 
Yeah, no. 

1108
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:13,080
And I think the only team 
honestly in the NBA, maybe the 

1109
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,760
Pistons have this a little, but 
I don't even think so. 

1110
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,560
I think the only team who's kind
of in that position where 

1111
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:22,640
they're kind of looking down is 
the Thunder, where they're where

1112
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:26,160
the Thunder are not going into 
the playoffs with any caveats in

1113
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,600
mind that they're looking 4. 
Whereas like every other team, 

1114
00:54:29,720 --> 00:54:34,560
even the Celtics are are hoping 
for maybe an injury, not hoping,

1115
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:38,320
but like hoping for some 
tribulations to come in the way 

1116
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,840
of the Thunder, the Knicks, the 
Pistons. 

1117
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:45,320
Every Eastern Conference or the 
Eastern Conference team that 

1118
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,320
comes out of the East is going 
to come out of the East. 

1119
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:52,480
Because the other teams that 
that are also in the East, the 

1120
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:56,240
Knicks, the Pistons, the 
Celtics, the other two faced a 

1121
00:54:56,240 --> 00:55:00,640
tough road to the Eastern 
Conference finals or face like a

1122
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,240
lot of injuries or tribulations 
along the way. 

1123
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:06,560
Look at Jay Rod flexing some of 
that NBA rod in the house. 

1124
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:08,920
Look at him. 
Hey, go to Syracuse for nothing,

1125
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:09,560
folks. 
That a boy. 

1126
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:10,440
That was good. 
You're right. 

1127
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:12,680
And you think about this stuff 
about injuries as well. 

1128
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:13,920
And then you mentioned the 
Thunder. 

1129
00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:17,000
Well, the only time that they 
would like their fan base would 

1130
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,320
talk about injuries, it's like, 
as long as we stay healthy. 

1131
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:21,520
Exactly. 
Yeah. 

1132
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,760
You know, not if the Yokich goes
down or Murray, like when he 

1133
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,600
hurt his knee a couple of years 
ago, whatever it might be. 

1134
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:28,920
So no, I mean, I'm going to be 
locked in. 

1135
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:30,760
We'll do some live watches with 
the Knicks. 

1136
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,920
I can't wait. 
Once the playoffs start it looks

1137
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:35,640
like they'll play the Raptors in
the first round. 

1138
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:38,040
I love that match up. 
There was a point where I wasn't

1139
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,680
even sure why I had great 
confidence next based on the 

1140
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:42,520
match up. 
Would be a lot to get through 

1141
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,600
the first round. 
I I would be stunned that they 

1142
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:45,480
lost. 
In the round they will. 

1143
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,000
They will move on. 
And they'll beat the Raptors. 

1144
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,680
But Round 2? 
I don't know, man bar, let's get

1145
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,960
this notorious Doe 113. 
Bridges and OG going to have to 

1146
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:58,080
take it to another level in the 
playoffs here offensively in 

1147
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,200
order for this team to win a 
championship's own reality. 

1148
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,560
They'll be out of the game, out 
of the playoffs by Yeah, round 

1149
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:04,240
two. 
Think about that. 

1150
00:56:04,240 --> 00:56:08,680
So that's the other thing too. 
When many of your opinions or 

1151
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:13,880
hopes or both are based on 
players doing something that 

1152
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:18,680
they have not consistently done,
you're not going to win because 

1153
00:56:18,720 --> 00:56:20,520
that might happen in the first 
round. 

1154
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,960
But to win an NBA championship, 
it's not like football where you

1155
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:26,640
got to win a couple of games 
right now. 

1156
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:28,600
You got to you got to play well 
to win those games. 

1157
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:34,920
But in the NBA, you've got to 
play two months basically from 

1158
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:39,520
tax day until the middle of 
June, great. 

1159
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,680
You could have a bad game. 
You can't have a series where 

1160
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,640
the things that you've kind of 
worked around all year or 

1161
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:49,600
coached around or tried to fix, 
they're going to resurface that 

1162
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,840
This goes back to I said this 
when I was talking about my 

1163
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,040
horrendous golf game as I played
golf yesterday for the first 

1164
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:59,600
time this year. 
I, I like the analogy of, and I 

1165
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,000
use this for St. 
John's lack of shooters as well 

1166
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,440
from the outside, their guards 
going into the tournament and it

1167
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,200
actually wound up hurting them 
where we all have a club in our 

1168
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,800
bag. 
We just don't we we try to avoid

1169
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:14,440
just you clip it, you hustle it,
you line it, you flub it, 

1170
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,480
whatever you do just doesn't 
feel right now. 

1171
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:21,400
Conversely, there's always a 
club in your bag where you're 

1172
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,160
like, alright, I'm playing 
horrendously, but this guy 

1173
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:25,520
usually gets me and it happened 
to me yesterday where I just 

1174
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,040
playing terribly. 
As I said, I take it and I 

1175
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,040
usually my buddy Dan always says
it too. 

1176
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,200
He's like, man, you're 6 iron 
always clicks in and I had a six

1177
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,960
iron from the rough about 190 
something and and it bounced off

1178
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,320
the green and I'm like, alright,
that felt pure, that felt good. 

1179
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:39,680
Didn't do it again the rest of 
the day. 

1180
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,000
But the the point is, is that 
like, that's one thing that I 

1181
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,760
generally feel good about. 
And then there's a couple of 

1182
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:47,360
clubs from a couple of distances
I don't want any part of. 

1183
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:49,880
But eventually if you play 
enough golf, you're going to 

1184
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:51,280
have to use it. 
Otherwise you're not going to be

1185
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,160
a good golfer, right? 
And same with the NBA. 

1186
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:56,440
It's a 2 month marathon, not a 
Sprint. 

1187
00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:00,360
It's a 2 month marathon. 
And for the Knicks to win the 

1188
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,520
championship, they're going to 
eventually have to rely on a 

1189
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:06,040
club that they don't like 
reaching for in their bag 

1190
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,680
because they don't trust it and 
I don't trust it. 

1191
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:11,760
And that club, instead of A5 
Wood, it's going to be Bridges. 

1192
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:16,600
Or instead of a flop shot, it's 
going to be OG or whatever it 

1193
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:18,680
might be. 
You guys know what I mean by 

1194
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:19,960
this. 
It's irrefutable. 

1195
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:24,120
Now, I'm not telling you not to 
be hopeful, not to have faith, 

1196
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,720
not to be pumped up, not to 
know, not to enjoy the game 

1197
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:29,000
tonight against the Celtics. 
I'm really look, even though the

1198
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,320
Celtics are incredibly banged 
up, which I'll get to again in a

1199
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,800
minute, but it's just you know, 
it's three games to go. 

1200
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:35,960
I want to see the rotation. 
I want to see if they do a 

1201
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:39,000
little bit more pick and pop 
with with Brunson and and and 

1202
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,200
Cat. 
You know, I want to see again 

1203
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,320
the minute distribution. 
I'm looking for a few things 

1204
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,920
here, not so much the opponent 
because they're very diminished 

1205
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,600
the Celtics tonight, but more 
from a Knicks point of view. 

1206
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:53,680
Right, right. 
But anything that's rooted in in

1207
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:59,360
like any other than pure 
optimism and and maybe a little 

1208
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:03,120
sprinkle of delusion, to be very
honest with you, I don't I don't

1209
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,640
know how you feel it. 
I don't know how you feel it. 

1210
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:08,440
And you know, I'm a big Knicks 
fan, but I'm also honest here. 

1211
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:13,360
And I have really not felt this 
team felt this team more than 

1212
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:16,160
maybe two or three Spurs for the
season when they won the cup. 

1213
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:18,600
And not just because they won 
the cup, but because how they 

1214
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,400
looked in route to the cup and 
all that stuff. 

1215
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:23,400
And you know, another spurt here
and there. 

1216
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:26,160
But even that wedding streak 
that I talked about a week or so

1217
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:27,480
ago where they won seven 
straight. 

1218
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:30,680
The two games before that out 
West against the Lakers and the 

1219
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:34,520
Clippers didn't play well. 
And then they they won seven 

1220
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,600
against like the Wizards, the 
Nets, some bad teams. 

1221
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:38,400
I don't have the other teams in 
front of me, but I know it was a

1222
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:40,440
few of those teams. 
You're supposed to win those 

1223
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:42,400
games. 
And then the two games after 

1224
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:45,720
that, they lost to the Hornets, 
who were playing very well at 

1225
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,240
home. 
And maybe the Thunder. 

1226
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,120
I think maybe that was the 
second Thunder game as any time 

1227
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,840
myself, I can only tell you how 
I feel gets that real belief 

1228
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,960
like all right, OK, here we go. 
It's starting to click the 

1229
00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:59,440
starting to gel. 
This is what I thought it would 

1230
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:01,240
look like. 
There's evidence to the 

1231
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:02,960
contrary. 
And that's where I've tapped my 

1232
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:06,400
brakes and now I'm just watching
eyes wide open, understanding 

1233
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:09,120
what they're very good at and 
they are very good at certain 

1234
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:11,760
things. 
But really knowing slash, 

1235
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:17,680
fearing their weaknesses, I 
believe will prove to be fatal. 

1236
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:22,880
I mean, listen, anybody can sit 
here, right, and say, take the 

1237
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:26,120
Yankees, for example. 
You know the the alarm is still 

1238
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:30,080
going off, Jay. 
Every time I take pause and just

1239
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:32,960
say stay silent for a second, it
goes off. 

1240
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:34,360
I mean, it's perfect. 
That's when I hear it. 

1241
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:36,720
Oh my God, like the Yankees, 
right. 

1242
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:38,720
You got a couple of guys who 
weren't hitting jazz. 

1243
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:41,440
What is he? 
Buck 67 now Buck 90. 

1244
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,160
Grisham hasn't done a damn 
thing. 

1245
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:45,560
He better get going here, man, 
because Grisham's going to 

1246
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:48,000
become a target. 
I know it's early, but he's 

1247
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:51,200
hitting 167. 
Ryan McMahon is just I'm not 

1248
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:53,360
going to go on. 
He's just an easy target. 

1249
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:55,360
I'm not looking to be 
disrespectful, but he stinks. 

1250
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,840
He's hitting O 77 and my God, 
Boone yesterday. 

1251
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:01,480
I, I just this is I can't defend
this right? 

1252
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:06,120
Cannot and I will not even try. 
Aaron Boone said last night that

1253
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:08,360
and Rod McMahon played 
shortstop, something they kind 

1254
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:09,880
of messed around with in spring 
training. 

1255
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,280
They wanted to get Caballero off
the off the field because he 

1256
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:14,680
hasn't been either. 
And then Rosario, the two home 

1257
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:17,040
runs the other night, including 
a three run game-winning shot 

1258
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:18,720
against Lighter in the 8th 
inning. 

1259
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:21,040
You want to reward Rosario with 
some more times. 

1260
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:24,440
Anyway, Rosario was the 3rd and 
McMahon at short and after the 

1261
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:28,360
game, I mean, Boone's like, I 
know you got to back you guys. 

1262
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:31,320
I get that. 
But yeah, you can't lie to us. 

1263
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:33,160
You know, he's like Ryan 
McMahon's. 

1264
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,520
He's a, he's a good hitter. 
He's not, he's one of the worst 

1265
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:37,960
hitters in baseball. 
You know, just look at his 9 or 

1266
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:41,320
10 year career. 
I mean, it's, it's mostly league

1267
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:45,480
average and some of the OPS and,
and deeper, I mean, that's not 

1268
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:48,360
deep at this point, but some of 
the other deeper analytical 

1269
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:51,160
stuff, he's way below average, 
like strikeout rate, some other 

1270
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:53,960
stuff. 
So I just I don't I don't get, 

1271
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:58,120
but the point is right, I can 
present to you in an incredibly 

1272
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:01,600
optimistic way. 
You know, I love Ben Rice, 

1273
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:04,040
although he did have a really 
rough night playing defense last

1274
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:05,240
night. 
But like, you know, Ben Rice is 

1275
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:06,880
a stud and Jazz is going to get 
going. 

1276
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:10,560
He's going to go 4040 and both 
he's going to come back and he's

1277
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:12,440
going to, you know, be the 
player that everybody thought he

1278
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:14,400
would be when the Yankees took 
him in the first round out of 

1279
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:15,920
high school, Dale Barton in New 
Jersey. 

1280
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:18,560
And McMahon's going to start 
popping bombs with that short 

1281
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:21,400
porch and, you know, remain Greg
Nettles with the leather. 

1282
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:24,760
And Austin Wells is going to 
find a way to become a 250 

1283
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:27,120
hitter with power. 
And Grisham's going to start 

1284
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:29,320
replicating, replicating what he
did a year ago. 

1285
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,120
And Judge is going to to be 
Judge Belly, who's been good is 

1286
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,400
going to remain belly and the 
Cole's going to come back and 

1287
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,520
he's going to be amazing, which 
I do expect and which Schlittler

1288
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:40,240
and the other guys obviously 
freed and this and that a 

1289
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:42,120
bulletin. 
I know Bednar stumble last 

1290
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:44,720
night, but Bednar is going to be
unlocked and then these young 

1291
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:46,880
flamethrower is going to come up
and really make the bullpen 

1292
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,200
untouchable. 
Of course, I can present to you 

1293
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,240
an incredibly overly optimistic 
view of the Yank. 

1294
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,680
Now I'm bullish on the yank. 
I'm more bullish on the Yankees 

1295
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:57,160
chances than I am the next 
chances this year, just to be 

1296
01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:59,120
clear. 
But I, I ran through those 

1297
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:00,560
scenarios. 
Anybody you can sit here and 

1298
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:03,360
say, well, if this happens and 
that happens and this guy does 

1299
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:06,160
this and this guy fixes that, do
the same thing with the Mets. 

1300
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:09,200
You know, if Polanco starts 
hitting, if Simeons not done, 

1301
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:13,160
you know, if Lindor, you know, 
finishes top three in the MVP 

1302
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:14,680
and Bichette's going to be a 
beast. 

1303
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,720
And if this early sign from 
Alvarez is a foreshadow of a big

1304
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:21,240
season And Louise Robert, who 
started very well, is getting a 

1305
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:23,840
little chilly now is going to go
back to what he was the first 

1306
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:25,360
two weeks. 
And bench is going to figure 

1307
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,040
things out despite it in one O 
8. 

1308
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:29,760
And you know, Soto comes back 
and he's going to be he's going 

1309
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,360
to win the MVP and Peralta is 
going to be better. 

1310
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:33,400
He's got to be a little bit 
better. 

1311
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:35,320
He's going to be better than 
he's been so far. 

1312
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:37,720
And Mcclain's going to just kill
it and be a beast. 

1313
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,200
They're going to call up this 
kid and Devin Williams going to 

1314
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:43,360
46 saves with a 1.270. 
All right, he might. 

1315
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:47,160
But like, that's the overly 
optimistic view of of what the 

1316
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,360
Mets could do. 
Anybody could to do that with 

1317
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:53,880
any team, even a bad team. 
So if that, I really do think 

1318
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,320
that that's the only way that 
you can sit here with three 

1319
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:02,640
games to go in the season and 
identify the Knicks as a true 

1320
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:06,120
championship contender. 
You could say they're in the mix

1321
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:07,800
and they are. 
They're one of five or six 

1322
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,360
teams. 
But to me, they're 5 or 6. 

1323
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:12,280
They're not 1-2 or three or 
four. 

1324
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,920
And if you're not one, 2-3 or 
four, unless it's a real outlier

1325
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:18,120
of an NBA season, ain't winning.
So here we go. 

1326
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:19,480
It looks like the drought's 
going to continue. 

1327
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:22,440
We got to hope I'm wrong. 
BT Bridges is one thing, but why

1328
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:25,760
are we suddenly acting like OG 
is some disappointment that is 

1329
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:28,640
from Omar. 
Yeah, I know. 

1330
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:32,560
Listen, I definitely delineate 
between OG and Bridges. 

1331
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:34,880
OG is better. 
He's just better. 

1332
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:39,840
I think the problem with OG out 
of Nobi, and this is also a 

1333
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:43,160
problem a little bit of Brunson 
as the point guard who likes to 

1334
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,320
shoot. 
I just feel like sometimes the 

1335
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:49,920
ball sticks and you know, you're
going to do so much to go get 

1336
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:52,000
you can't run up to Brunson and 
say, give me the ball. 

1337
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,080
It's got to got to run plays for
you. 

1338
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:58,360
And you know, he's not the first
option many times, you know, you

1339
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:00,760
would think that he shouldn't be
the second option. 

1340
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:03,440
That should be Cat. 
But there's been many games as 

1341
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:06,160
we documented where he's had 
single digit shot attempts, 

1342
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:08,520
which is confounding. 
And that's all Mike Brown and 

1343
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:10,680
partially on Cat. 
He's got to be more assertive. 

1344
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:16,800
You would think that OG really 
would be the third, like the 

1345
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,160
third option. 
Like to me, in a perfect world, 

1346
01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:22,560
I would love to see like in 
terms of shot distribution, you 

1347
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:26,040
know, let's go, Brunson. 
Oh, God. 

1348
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:28,040
As soon again, as soon as I I, 
I, I I. 

1349
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:30,240
Can't hear it. 
I can't. 

1350
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:31,280
Hear it. 
I know you can't. 

1351
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:34,920
I can talk about plowing through
some noise here. 

1352
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,520
Let's say Brunson. 
I'd say 15. 

1353
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:40,320
I know he takes more than this, 
but in my perfect world, just 

1354
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:46,080
allocation of shots 15 to 16 for
him, and he should take the most

1355
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:48,000
shots every night. 
We'll get Cat in the 

1356
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,520
neighborhood of, you know, 12 to
13. 

1357
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:54,720
But he can never be below that. 
He just can't like unless it's a

1358
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:59,000
game where Brunson is dropping 
50 or 45 and he's just eaten and

1359
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:00,920
let everybody just get out of 
the way and let Brunson cook, 

1360
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:03,440
which he obviously does and he's
done it in the post season with 

1361
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:06,000
a ton of 40 point games. 
But I'm saying at a conventional

1362
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:11,240
road map here, 1516 shots for 
Brunson, 12 to 13 for Cat. 

1363
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:16,640
I would absolutely want OG 
double figures 10 or 11. 

1364
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:22,320
I would say Bridges would be 
next in line here with 7:00 to 

1365
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:26,160
9:00, you know, and then 
obviously start filling in like 

1366
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:30,440
the hearts and the shammets. 
Deuce who, who I want to shoot 

1367
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:32,400
Deuce. 
To me, Deuce should actually 

1368
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,760
have the same amount of shots 
that Bridges has every night. 

1369
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:36,200
Now, it doesn't always work that
way. 

1370
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,880
He's not shy, but it doesn't 
always work that way. 

1371
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:42,960
And there's a little redundancy 
a little bit with OG and 

1372
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:45,200
Bridges. 
You know, I, I just thought it 

1373
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:49,000
would look better and we're at 
the crossroads now and we'll see

1374
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:51,080
again, you know, where I stand 
on this, I don't know. 

1375
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:53,720
But I started the show. 
If you guys just tuned in like, 

1376
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:56,880
you know, there's, there's two 
reasons why you would really 

1377
01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:58,600
think your team's got a chance 
to win a championship. 

1378
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:00,280
One would be the team that you 
root for. 

1379
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:03,480
I don't care what team it is 
like just that belief and 

1380
01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:06,560
conviction in the team, the way 
they're built, the way they're 

1381
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:09,160
coached or managed, depending 
upon the sport, number one. 

1382
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:12,720
And then #2 circumstances, are 
you in an incredibly difficult 

1383
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:15,880
conference where it's a very 
arduous road to get out of the 

1384
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:18,120
conference to even get to the 
championship, right? 

1385
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:21,120
In this case, the NBA Finals, 
are there a lot of injuries? 

1386
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:22,960
And you know, that's one of the 
things that we really thought 

1387
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:24,400
would benefit the Knicks here. 
It has not. 

1388
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:28,400
So I would say, let me ask you 
this here, Jay, I want you to 

1389
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:32,400
give me a number. 
What's up on a scale of 1 to 10,

1390
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,960
based on everything that you've 
heard me say about the Nixons, 

1391
01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:38,920
you and I started working 
together here, 10 being the most

1392
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:43,760
supremely confident and one 
being completely a non believer.

1393
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:46,920
Give me a number that you think 
I currently reside at in terms 

1394
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:48,800
of my Knick belief to win. 
And I'm going to write. 

1395
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:49,880
Hold on, I'm going to write it 
down. 

1396
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,240
And I'm no wait, wait, wait, 
don't say it yet. 

1397
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:55,040
I got to write it down. 
My Nick believed to win a 

1398
01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:57,440
championship. 
To win a championship win. 

1399
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,600
A championship. 
I got to win championship. 

1400
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:04,640
My first number was too high. 
All right, I'm going to I have 

1401
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:05,920
it written down. 
I'm going to pop it up in a 

1402
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,480
second. 
Come on, Jay, let's be. 

1403
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:12,920
On the 2 1/2 is it at any? 
You can throw in fractions if 

1404
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,480
you. 
Have two and a half 2 1/2. 2 1/2

1405
01:08:16,279 --> 01:08:18,520
there's, you see it there? 
Three. 

1406
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:21,000
All right. 
Look at them and if you you 

1407
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:22,880
could see I actually had a four 
and I'm like no, I. 

1408
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:24,359
Don't have that. 
Yeah. 

1409
01:08:24,399 --> 01:08:26,680
No, you're definitely lower than
a four. 

1410
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:30,760
Yeah, in terms of in terms of 
thinking they're a good team. 

1411
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:32,680
I think you're up there. 
I think you think they're a good

1412
01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:34,000
team. 
No, they're a good team. 

1413
01:08:34,399 --> 01:08:37,359
I just. 
Championship, man, you have not,

1414
01:08:37,359 --> 01:08:39,520
you have not let up in that, in 
that belief. 

1415
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:42,800
No, because they've given me no 
evidence to really change my 

1416
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:45,120
mind. 
I've said this a million times. 

1417
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:48,880
I don't mind being wrong. 
Like I want to be wrong. 

1418
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:51,560
Even though I, you know, I gave 
say, Aaron Glenn a little bit 

1419
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:54,600
more rope than many others did. 
But like I, I don't have great 

1420
01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:55,720
belief in him. 
Why would I? 

1421
01:08:56,000 --> 01:09:00,600
I want to be wrong on that? 
Like, you know, I just I, I 

1422
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:04,720
when, when I benefit from being 
wrong, I don't mind being wrong.

1423
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:06,640
Exactly. 
You know, works out. 

1424
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:10,479
Oh my God, if you think about 
this right, think about the 

1425
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:14,279
essence of of what this is now 
the the formats change, at least

1426
01:09:14,279 --> 01:09:19,359
for me, the medium is evolved 
beyond almost recognition from 

1427
01:09:19,359 --> 01:09:23,399
when WFAN was born back in 87 
with Susan Waldman with the 

1428
01:09:23,399 --> 01:09:25,399
first update. 
But if you really think this is 

1429
01:09:25,399 --> 01:09:28,200
actually an easy question. 
If you think about what is the 

1430
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:34,720
core existence reason or debate 
point, I'm trying to frame it 

1431
01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:36,960
right because if I don't frame 
it right, it's not going to be 

1432
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:39,080
easier for you to answer, but I 
want you to take a stab at it. 

1433
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:45,880
What do you think is the main 
pursuit of every conversation or

1434
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:49,880
call in the history of sports 
radio and obviously now 

1435
01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:52,760
extending to generate? 
Buzz generate buzz. 

1436
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:55,040
No, no, that's actually a 
really, that's actually a really

1437
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:56,440
good get now. 
I think it's more about 

1438
01:09:56,440 --> 01:09:58,920
generating buzz. 
But what back then, I don't 

1439
01:09:58,920 --> 01:10:00,120
think it was about generating 
buzz. 

1440
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:04,520
I think it was about I think the
reason and tell you, I think the

1441
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:08,360
reason why people call and 
espouse what they espouse and 

1442
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:12,080
tweet what they what they tweet 
is because it is the ultimate 

1443
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:14,320
motivation is to win a 
championship. 

1444
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:19,080
All the calls you get about this
general manager, this head 

1445
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:21,320
coach, who should The Jets 
draft? 

1446
01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:23,920
Who should the Giants draft? 
Who should the Ravens draft? 

1447
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:25,960
What should the Steelers do with
quarterback? 

1448
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:27,840
What should this should the 
Titans draft? 

1449
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:30,600
The running back Jeremiah Love 
when running backs generally 

1450
01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:35,200
shouldn't go that high. 
It's all rooted in having your 

1451
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:39,280
team make enough right choices 
to get to a point to win a 

1452
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:42,120
championship. 
That's all that it's about. 

1453
01:10:42,440 --> 01:10:45,600
You know anything like I'm just 
trying to think of for some some

1454
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,680
of the the three years that I 
was on the fan, some of the real

1455
01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:52,480
hot button. 
Obviously Daniel Jones was one. 

1456
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:54,120
I'm going to just jot down some 
stuff here. 

1457
01:10:54,480 --> 01:11:01,760
Daniel Jones, Dabel, Shane. 
Aaron Rodgers was massive. 

1458
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,240
Oh, my God, it was huge, dude. 
Soto. 

1459
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:06,800
Yeah, of course. 
I mean, it's that's probably the

1460
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:09,760
biggest one. 
Yamamoto was a big one, at least

1461
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:11,600
for us. 
Yamamoto, the pursuit of him. 

1462
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:12,840
All right, so I'm going to go 
with those. 

1463
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:14,040
Right? 
Daniel, John. 

1464
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:19,960
And there's so many others. 
Daniel Jones, Dabel Rodgers, 

1465
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:25,680
Soto and Yamamoto. 
Now, every one of those, like 

1466
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:28,880
anytime somebody would call up 
about Daniel Jones, it's never, 

1467
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:31,160
I mean, sometimes it gets 
personal, but it's never rooted 

1468
01:11:31,160 --> 01:11:34,320
in trying to, you know, talk 
about somebody's personality. 

1469
01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:39,520
Or is this guy is at that point,
is Daniel Jones good enough to 

1470
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:43,600
help the Giants win? 
Lombardi #5 nothing else 

1471
01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:45,680
mattered. 
If you thought he was too boring

1472
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:47,960
or too vanilla, it was. 
That's fine. 

1473
01:11:48,280 --> 01:11:51,320
Can you win this way when he's 
running the way he does and 

1474
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:53,040
getting hurt and put himself in 
harm's way? 

1475
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:56,640
Can you win a Lombardi with 
Daniel Jones? 

1476
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:57,880
That's what all the calls were 
about. 

1477
01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:00,920
How much is he worth? 
And even that, if you go to the 

1478
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:03,840
subset of that, how much should 
this player get in free agency 

1479
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:05,960
or whatever? 
But in the NFL with the salary 

1480
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:08,080
cap, it's more pertinent. 
How much, you know? 

1481
01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:11,440
Is he worth the $25 million? 
The Giants gave him whatever, 

1482
01:12:11,440 --> 01:12:12,840
even though they were easy outs,
as we know. 

1483
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:15,440
But I think it's 25 mil. 
Oh, is it too much? 

1484
01:12:15,480 --> 01:12:18,080
Oh, you're paying him how much? 
Well, all right, If he's not 

1485
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:20,680
really that guy, well, is it too
much that's going to prevent you

1486
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:23,800
from doing other stuff in terms 
of building out the roster to 

1487
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:26,120
what? 
Joe in the back of the 

1488
01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:27,080
classroom? 
What's that? 

1489
01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:28,680
Joe what? 
Yes, yes. 

1490
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:32,480
Joe to win a championship, yes. 
Joe Dabel. 

1491
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:35,320
You think about the calls and 
the, you know, all the 

1492
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:38,640
storylines around Brian Dabel, 
you know, quarterback Whisper or

1493
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:41,320
whatever coming from Buffalo, 
Josh Allen, all that stuff. 

1494
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:44,560
His first game as a Giants 
coach, We're going for two, 

1495
01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:47,600
we're going for the win. 
Let's go showing balls. 

1496
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:49,480
You know the exact. 
And I'm not saying that the 

1497
01:12:49,480 --> 01:12:50,760
other Giant coaches didn't have 
stones. 

1498
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:52,400
I don't mean to like, I'm not 
trying to like, you know, be 

1499
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:54,800
that guy. 
But like Dabo projected a 

1500
01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:57,360
different energy, like a 
different culture shift. 

1501
01:12:57,360 --> 01:13:00,440
Like we're going for it. 
And the way he lit up, he 

1502
01:13:00,440 --> 01:13:04,800
eviscerated, eviscerated Jones 
in that Tennessee game. 

1503
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:06,840
And junior Giant fans remember 
that on the sideline. 

1504
01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:09,640
I think it may have been for a 
was it for a bad two point 

1505
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:12,040
conversion pass in the back? 
Whatever it was, he made a 

1506
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:13,360
mistake. 
I think he was trying to connect

1507
01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:16,360
with and he undressed them 
because no other Giants coach 

1508
01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:18,200
had done that. 
And Dabel, so we're sitting 

1509
01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:20,520
there saying, all right, wow, so
they won the first game. 

1510
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:23,240
Jones looked a little different.
He was incredibly aggressive. 

1511
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:25,680
He's obviously demonstrative on 
the sideline. 

1512
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:29,160
So from there, every 
conversation was this guy. 

1513
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:31,680
The early ones. 
Maybe we found our new Parcells.

1514
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:34,360
Maybe we found the modern 
Parcells and then it morphed 

1515
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:36,120
into all right, when are we 
going to fire this guy? 

1516
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:39,840
Can you win anything with Dabel 
and it Yeah, MM back there. 

1517
01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:43,760
Mike, What what was that again? 
What was the the core debate 

1518
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:44,960
with with Dabel? 
What? 

1519
01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:46,880
What's that? 
Yes, yes, yeah. 

1520
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:49,680
Correct. 
Can you win a championship with 

1521
01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:51,720
Dabel? 
You know, Soda was a little 

1522
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:53,400
different. 
I will admit Soda was different 

1523
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:56,720
because you when you have a 
player like Soto, you just know 

1524
01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:58,800
he's obviously going to impact 
the bottom line toward a 

1525
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:00,880
championship. 
Although it didn't work out for 

1526
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:03,400
the Mets last year with 83 wins 
and no playoff appearance, but 

1527
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:05,120
it did work out for the Yankees 
getting there. 

1528
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:07,480
And he is great. 
And eventually when these Mets 

1529
01:14:07,480 --> 01:14:09,800
figure everything out, you would
think that he'll get to at some 

1530
01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:11,840
point, I would think a World 
Series with the Mets. 

1531
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:14,200
It was never about that. 
It was more about it was like 

1532
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:16,680
more, you know, the infighting 
between the Yankee and the Mets 

1533
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:18,480
fan. 
So that was definitely unique. 

1534
01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:22,080
Aaron Rodgers right now, Rodgers
was unique in the sense because 

1535
01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:25,360
it was a lot of politics and a 
lot of those who don't like 

1536
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:28,600
Aaron Rodgers for a lot of 
different reasons, you know, 

1537
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,840
evasive or even lying if you 
want to say lying, which I don't

1538
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:35,080
think he lied. 
I think he was just evasive and,

1539
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:37,840
you know, a little cute with the
with the COVID shot and all that

1540
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:39,400
stuff. 
And I love Rodgers. 

1541
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:41,280
I'm an I'm an Aaron Rodgers. 
I don't care what anybody 

1542
01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:42,720
thinks. 
I like Aaron Rodgers, but many 

1543
01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:46,040
of you don't, right. 
But when Rodgers came, hey, you 

1544
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:47,920
know, listen, oh, you got this 
defense. 

1545
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:50,000
Think about what The Jets 
defense look like with Robert 

1546
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:51,560
Sala. 
Remember they were seven and 

1547
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:54,520
four with Zach Wilson before, 
you know, a little bit of an 

1548
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:56,000
uptick. 
And with Rodgers, you would 

1549
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:57,840
think it would be a lot of an 
uptick, but then he got hurt, of

1550
01:14:57,840 --> 01:14:59,080
course, because they're The 
Jets. 

1551
01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:02,640
But hey, with this uptick in 
offense and you got Breece Hall,

1552
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:05,880
you got Garrett, you got Sauce, 
you got Q, you got DJ Reed as a 

1553
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:08,000
quarterback, you'll cooking. 
Can't. 

1554
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:09,520
Yeah. 
Mary. 

1555
01:15:09,520 --> 01:15:11,520
Mary what? 
What if you really think about 

1556
01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:13,800
it, Mary, what? 
All those conversations about 

1557
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:15,400
The Jets back when they got 
Rodgers, right? 

1558
01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:17,760
Aside from the other stuff that 
people jumped into, the football

1559
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:19,640
stuff, What what was that about?
Mary? 

1560
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:20,520
Yes. 
Yeah. 

1561
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:22,160
Correct. 
Could The Jets win a 

1562
01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:26,800
championship with Aaron Rodgers?
It's all rooted in championship 

1563
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:29,840
pursuit. 
So when Mike and I love Mike 

1564
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:31,960
again, I don't want this to get,
you know, hijacked. 

1565
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:34,080
When Mike Breen says what he 
said the other night on the 

1566
01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:35,960
game. 
Disagree, don't want to hear it.

1567
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:39,040
It is about the championship. 
When I hear from Nick fans, 

1568
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:41,440
well, why can't we win? 
But you, you can. 

1569
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,120
We can. 
I just don't think that we will 

1570
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:45,840
because I don't think that we're
good enough. 

1571
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:48,720
And if you choose not to 
acknowledge that, that's fine. 

1572
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:51,600
Maybe you'll be proven right and
you could bang your chest on the

1573
01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:53,920
top of the mountain. 
And I'm not going to lie, I'll 

1574
01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:56,920
jump in, you know, I'm going to 
jump in on the track because 

1575
01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:59,400
I'll be living and dying with 
every nicked possession for the 

1576
01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:00,800
next couple of months. 
You know that. 

1577
01:16:01,360 --> 01:16:04,040
But you know, I mean, it's just,
it's, it's very, very 

1578
01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:06,000
interesting. 
Same with the Yamamoto. 

1579
01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:08,000
Same with any other Japanese 
player. 

1580
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:10,520
Can we get this guy? 
Oh, what's the scout report? 

1581
01:16:10,520 --> 01:16:12,640
Let me get some video. 
Always got the goals, The 4th 

1582
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:14,960
ball, the ghost ball. 
He throws 99. 

1583
01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:18,080
Yankees offered this 325, three 
AAV. 

1584
01:16:18,080 --> 01:16:19,880
Dodgers this, Mets that. 
Where's he going? 

1585
01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:22,160
Yanks wanted them. 
Mets wanted them. 

1586
01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:25,440
Dodgers wanted them. 
Why Susie? 

1587
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:29,320
Susie is not really participated
much these last couple of weeks 

1588
01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:30,720
here in class. 
Yes, Susie. 

1589
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:32,800
And what was that conversation 
rooted in? 

1590
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:37,240
Yes, winning a championship. 
So that's all this is. 

1591
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:42,240
This isn't hate, this isn't 
shade, but I'm not going to get 

1592
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:46,200
on my show and tell you 
something that I don't believe 

1593
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:49,440
about anything now that 
obviously some of my beliefs are

1594
01:16:49,440 --> 01:16:52,680
just going to be flat out wrong 
and some of my beliefs are going

1595
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:56,160
to be just flat out dumb. 
Like I've been proven with the 

1596
01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:58,360
Zack stuff and, you know, and 
the other, some of the other 

1597
01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:00,400
stuff that's out there that I 
can never get away from as we 

1598
01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:02,840
know because it always lives on 
the on the Internet. 

1599
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:05,880
But that's the bottom line and 
that's the bottom line. 

1600
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:07,800
That's the bottom line there, 
Jared. 

1601
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:10,240
Oh, Speaking of the bottom line,
yeah. 

1602
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,920
What's up? 
Something here with WWE, but 

1603
01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:16,440
where are we if we get a little 
update here as I call on Jay 

1604
01:17:16,480 --> 01:17:18,840
Rod, who is a good student, sits
in the front of the room. 

1605
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:20,320
Thank you for reminding. 
Me. 

1606
01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:21,800
Absolutely. 
Oh, jeez, that's not a good 

1607
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:23,600
sign. 
Can I get an update on the 

1608
01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:25,400
pursuit of 1, Jake? 
Yeah, let's see. 

1609
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:27,920
Let. 
Me let me and hack saw my daily 

1610
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:33,560
check. 
This doesn't sound promising. 

1611
01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:39,400
Oh no. 
That was for Hacksaw Ridge, OH. 

1612
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:42,000
By the way, I do not hear the 
beeping even though there's been

1613
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:43,840
a lull. 
Yeah, no, I'm not hearing 

1614
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:46,480
anything. 
All right, So have not heard 

1615
01:17:46,480 --> 01:17:49,440
back via e-mail. 
Now we take to Twitter. 

1616
01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:52,320
Now we take to Twitter. 
We take to Twitter now. 

1617
01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:54,360
OK. 
OK. 

1618
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:57,040
Now one more question. 
I will say another thing. 

1619
01:17:57,280 --> 01:18:00,080
Go for it of their. 
Podcast seem to have been 

1620
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:03,480
discontinued. 
What if you go on Jake the 

1621
01:18:03,480 --> 01:18:06,800
Snake's YouTube page? 
Their last episode was like 8-9 

1622
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:08,440
months ago. 
Are you serious? 

1623
01:18:08,440 --> 01:18:10,480
I hope everything's all right. 
What about hacksaw? 

1624
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:15,680
I think similar like his last 
podcast was a decent while ago 

1625
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:17,160
as well. 
Really. 

1626
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:18,360
Let me check. 
Yeah. 

1627
01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:23,200
OK, that's that's tough here. 
I'm going to have to maybe come 

1628
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:25,640
up with another other name. 
There's just not many guys 

1629
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:30,040
though who are still alive that 
from from that era, you know 

1630
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:31,960
that, let alone I would want to 
talk to. 

1631
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:35,680
No, I'm big time. 
I mean, let's see the Hacksaw 

1632
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:37,520
Hour. 
Yeah, there's like there hasn't 

1633
01:18:37,520 --> 01:18:43,920
been an episode in a while that.
Was that was a gimmick? 

1634
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:47,560
And and Hacksaw, you know, I I 
love to have him on the show. 

1635
01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:51,240
I was, I just I, I never loved 
this gimmick, man, Sure. 

1636
01:18:51,240 --> 01:18:53,360
I love, I love. 
What was like, what was his 

1637
01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:54,400
thing? 
Because I know he's a New 

1638
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:56,800
Yorker, but I don't know if that
was like, America wasn't. 

1639
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:58,680
Which I love. 
No, his whole thing was was 

1640
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:02,120
patriotism like that was great, 
but like he would come in, he 

1641
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:05,160
was with the four by four. 
No, and he'd had this, his 

1642
01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:08,680
ridiculous goofy look and he'd 
just be in the mid ring. 

1643
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:11,360
God who God know, and he's 
talked about this. 

1644
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:12,280
So I'm not talking that at 
school. 

1645
01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:16,680
God knows what type of drugs 
were when he was in the middle 

1646
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:20,120
of the ring screaming at the top
of his lungs with a 2 by 4 over 

1647
01:19:20,120 --> 01:19:23,800
shoulder and the American flag 
and this big barrel chested 

1648
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:28,800
monster going, Oh, it's just. 
But the gimmick was, you know, I

1649
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:31,560
don't think he was a great 
wrestler. 

1650
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:35,480
He wasn't great on the mic, but 
he didn't represent the flag. 

1651
01:19:35,480 --> 01:19:36,840
So. 
There you go, He always. 

1652
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:38,520
Had that red 1. 
I don't think he ever did a heel

1653
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:42,520
turn like Sergeant Slaughter 
was, You know, remember him, you

1654
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:43,680
know. 
But then he went. 

1655
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:46,720
He was a sympathizer for an 
Iraqi sympathizer. 

1656
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:49,720
That was like his heel. 
Turn yes dude. 

1657
01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:52,840
The WWE just. 
Loves these like little like 

1658
01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:56,880
dude, I'll tell you this is like
the one of the wildest things if

1659
01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:59,920
anyone is like a kind of a 
modern WWE fan. 

1660
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:03,400
Do you remember the wrestler 
Alberto Del Rio? 

1661
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:06,200
No, he's kind of a 20 tens guy. 
I. 

1662
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:08,000
Know Jack Del Rio, the former 
coach. 

1663
01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:11,880
He was like, he was, he was like
the Spanish. 

1664
01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:15,320
And it was kind of, I think it 
was kind of playing into a lot 

1665
01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:18,160
of like at the time, it was kind
of when like a lot of 

1666
01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:21,120
immigration stuff began to be 
like spoken about. 

1667
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:26,440
And he was like John Cena's main
rival, and he was like the evil 

1668
01:20:26,440 --> 01:20:30,680
Spanish dude dude who John Cena 
would come in and just beat the 

1669
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:34,320
shit out of like every week. 
But was he, what was he like 

1670
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:35,760
when you say it was one of his 
main rivals? 

1671
01:20:35,760 --> 01:20:37,680
Did he ever fight for? 
Yeah, yeah. 

1672
01:20:37,680 --> 01:20:39,640
Like, yeah. 
Oh, he definitely had the 

1673
01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:42,560
championship a couple times. 
He was, yeah. 

1674
01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:46,560
He, I mean, I just always found 
it funny how like WWE just 

1675
01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:51,000
always played on like these like
racial battles of like, of like 

1676
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:56,280
there's like the white American 
buzz cut hero guy and then he's 

1677
01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:58,600
fighting off just like all the 
enemies. 

1678
01:20:58,680 --> 01:21:02,000
Yeah, no, they did even Well, 
that's one of the real not that 

1679
01:21:02,080 --> 01:21:04,920
not that they played up to the 
stereotype necessarily, but 

1680
01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:07,760
that's why Bruno Sammartino, if 
you think about you talk about 

1681
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:11,360
immigrants and you know the the 
Italian influence certainly on 

1682
01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:15,720
Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, 
you're going back really post 

1683
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:18,880
World War Two. 
I'm sure before that, yes, 

1684
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:20,400
absolutely before that. 
What am I saying? 

1685
01:21:20,400 --> 01:21:23,960
Before World War 2, but 
definitely thereafter as well. 

1686
01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:27,800
And that's on my maternal side. 
That's I know that well because 

1687
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:29,280
my grandma, you know, I have 
Italian. 

1688
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:33,520
But one of the reasons why Bruno
have the belt as long as he did 

1689
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:36,320
was because all the Italians 
would go to Madison Square 

1690
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:39,640
Garden to do them on. 
And I, like I, I know it was a 

1691
01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:42,080
totally different era and I 
didn't really have as many 

1692
01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:46,640
characters back then, but I look
at the film of Bruno and he was 

1693
01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:48,320
a beat like he could bench and 
squat. 

1694
01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:50,240
He was a strong man, man of 
pride. 

1695
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,440
And he really was. 
He was an American hero for for 

1696
01:21:53,440 --> 01:21:54,120
Italian. 
American. 

1697
01:21:54,200 --> 01:21:56,360
I mean, he's certainly one of 
the names that gets talls. 

1698
01:21:56,440 --> 01:21:59,120
Around, no doubt about it. 
But I look at the footage and 

1699
01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:01,320
I'm like, God, what a boring 
champion man. 

1700
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:05,080
He was horrible on the 
microphone to the point where 

1701
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,840
when Vince brought him in as an 
announcer, he was terrible. 

1702
01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:11,560
It was a very different era. 
That was the start of it. 

1703
01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:14,320
But but that wasn't that wasn't 
a heritage gimmick. 

1704
01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:16,840
That was just like natural, 
like, hey, here's a big, you 

1705
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:20,440
know, hairy like this hairy 
chest, like muscular looks like 

1706
01:22:20,440 --> 01:22:23,200
he can move a car, you know, the
nose and every like 

1707
01:22:23,480 --> 01:22:25,280
stereotypical. 
You know, I'm half Italian. 

1708
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:28,520
I could say this so far. 
He he looked he Italian. 

1709
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:31,600
I mean Bruno, Bruno Sammartino. 
People flocked. 

1710
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:33,640
My grandmother used to go watch 
him at the garden all the time 

1711
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:34,080
with her. 
Twins. 

1712
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:35,560
Wow. 
Rest in peace. 

1713
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:37,520
Yeah, dude, I got a funny story 
for you. 

1714
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:40,400
I don't think I've ever told you
this story on the air. 

1715
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:43,440
I don't think I ever have. 
Did I ever tell you the story 

1716
01:22:43,440 --> 01:22:46,840
about when my grandma and my 
aunt intervened in a wrestling 

1717
01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:48,840
match at at the garden? 
Absolutely. 

1718
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:51,720
All right. 
Now intervened is is a loose 

1719
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:55,440
interpretation of intervening. 
But now back then the the ticket

1720
01:22:55,440 --> 01:22:58,120
prices were cheap and like, 
yeah, everybody's smoking in the

1721
01:22:58,120 --> 01:23:00,000
arena. 
Like the garden like it was just

1722
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:01,680
it was totally different vibe, 
right. 

1723
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:03,880
So they were able to get good 
seats. 

1724
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:08,440
Now they didn't come from money.
My grandfather on my maternal 

1725
01:23:08,440 --> 01:23:12,000
side had four or five jobs at 
one point. 

1726
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:15,960
Yeah, He was a short order cook.
He fixed televisions. 

1727
01:23:16,560 --> 01:23:20,200
I think he did some security. 
I know when he was young, he was

1728
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:22,720
literally shoveling coal to help
his family put food on the 

1729
01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:24,320
table. 
Like that's how that's how my 

1730
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:26,320
family started in America on the
Italian side. 

1731
01:23:26,840 --> 01:23:29,800
And so, so they'd have a lot of 
money is the point. 

1732
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:32,880
So, but they were able because 
it was cheap to get these great 

1733
01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:35,960
seats. 
And my grandmother and her twin,

1734
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:44,320
Oh my God, they filled up a 
water gun with vinegar, right? 

1735
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,080
Yep. 
And if you're old enough and I 

1736
01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:49,520
barely remember watching these 
guys wrestle, but I certainly 

1737
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:55,560
know historically the Moon Dogs,
they would wear tattered jeans, 

1738
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,400
long blonde hair. 
I think they came in, they were 

1739
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:01,480
biting a bone. 
They were supposed to be like 

1740
01:24:01,480 --> 01:24:05,080
subhuman, right? 
And they're pretty good. 

1741
01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:09,360
Like they would fight like Mr. 
Fuji, Mr. Saito, Pedro Morales, 

1742
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:12,080
when he was, he actually held 
all the belts at one point, but 

1743
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:14,040
when he was tag team champion 
anyway. 

1744
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:17,840
So one of them, I don't know if 
it was Spot or Rex, goes flying 

1745
01:24:17,840 --> 01:24:21,920
out of the ring, right? 
And my grandma and my aunt or 

1746
01:24:21,920 --> 01:24:25,520
right on the the barrier, like 
the metal barricade where a lot 

1747
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:27,600
of guys are dropping hammers and
through doing stuff. 

1748
01:24:28,080 --> 01:24:31,720
She takes the water gun and 
fires it right in his eye. 

1749
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:34,840
Vinegar. 
What? 

1750
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:39,720
That's bad ass vinegar, man. 
How do you like that there, Moon

1751
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:42,720
dog, get back in the ring. 
Go get the shit kicked out of 

1752
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:44,440
you. 
That was, that is. 

1753
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:47,120
So cool. 
Yeah, and and I say that because

1754
01:24:47,120 --> 01:24:48,880
back then I've seen so many 
documentaries. 

1755
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:52,680
I could watch this stuff all day
where, you know, guys and I go 

1756
01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:55,480
back to the Sergeant Slaughter 
as an Iraqi sympathizer in the 

1757
01:24:55,480 --> 01:24:59,200
90s, early 90s desert story. 
Like, I mean, you know, history,

1758
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:01,160
you know, that's not a good 
thing as an American to 

1759
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:04,800
sympathize with that, I'm sure. 
And by making that heel turn, 

1760
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:09,200
like when a guy had heat back in
the day, I don't mean now real 

1761
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:12,200
heat fans would like wait 
outside the parking lot with a 

1762
01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:18,240
baseball or a gun. 
I mean, it was it was a lawless 

1763
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:21,280
environment. 
How crazy is that? 

1764
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:23,320
And. 
So it's like, OK, obviously the 

1765
01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:26,840
people still knew it was fake or
acting or some deal, but just 

1766
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:31,240
like their vitriol towards the 
superstars was just greater. 

1767
01:25:31,240 --> 01:25:33,800
Yeah, yeah. 
Well, you know, well, first of 

1768
01:25:33,800 --> 01:25:38,120
all, kayfabe, which is when you 
stay in the like the orientation

1769
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:40,560
of character. 
Now everybody deviates from, but

1770
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:43,120
because everybody knows it's 
it's it's entertainment. 

1771
01:25:43,120 --> 01:25:44,880
It's a totally different 
presentation. 

1772
01:25:45,560 --> 01:25:47,720
My dad hated it. 
He couldn't stay. 

1773
01:25:47,720 --> 01:25:49,520
I told you this. 
He hated when I watched it. 

1774
01:25:49,520 --> 01:25:51,720
I watch it every, I watch it all
the time. 

1775
01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:54,360
He's like, God, these idiots, 
look at these jerks, these guys,

1776
01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:56,600
morons. 
He just, he didn't like it, 

1777
01:25:56,640 --> 01:25:58,640
right? 
And my grandma loved it. 

1778
01:25:58,640 --> 01:26:02,000
She introduced me to it and she 
believed it was real. 

1779
01:26:02,280 --> 01:26:07,760
She believed it was real. 
I remember, God Almighty, it 

1780
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:12,520
wasn't I was it Morocco who was 
a really good heel. 

1781
01:26:12,520 --> 01:26:15,280
I'm going to wrap it up after 
this, but now I'm go and look on

1782
01:26:15,280 --> 01:26:17,960
this. 
Not now, but if you're 

1783
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:21,360
interested, I thought it was 
Jimmy Snuka and Morocco. 

1784
01:26:21,360 --> 01:26:24,840
So before Piper smacked him with
the coconut and before that, 

1785
01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:28,320
right, earlier 80s, eighties, 
8182, something like that. 

1786
01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:31,880
They had a massive rivalry and 
that's when Jimmy went to the 

1787
01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:35,400
top of the cage of the garden 
and did the Superfly from the 

1788
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:38,720
top, from the metal. 
I mean like 10 feet higher than.

1789
01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:40,960
The I've got it pulled up. 
That's crazy. 

1790
01:26:41,680 --> 01:26:44,880
And the the picture, because he 
was all bloodied and Morocco was

1791
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:48,040
just laying there and Jimmy'z 
bloodied everywhere and he just 

1792
01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:51,240
held the pose and you can't see 
it like with like this and just 

1793
01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:53,960
took it all in for a second 
before he splashed him. 

1794
01:26:53,960 --> 01:26:58,440
Yeah, All right. 
So anyway, the I back then, like

1795
01:26:58,440 --> 01:27:00,040
it was totally different with 
mean Gene. 

1796
01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:03,000
Mean Gene would do the 
interviews with the WWF logo 

1797
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:05,520
behind them and like guys would 
roll in. 

1798
01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:07,880
It would be mean Gene in the 
middle and like say Andre and 

1799
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:11,320
Heenan or Hogan and whomever, 
Hogan by himself, Bundy and 

1800
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:14,480
Heenan. 
But back then Jim McMahon would 

1801
01:27:14,480 --> 01:27:17,760
do the interviews by the ring. 
I don't know if you knew that 

1802
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:20,320
like by I'm talking late 70s, 
early 80s, right? 

1803
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:25,920
And I think it was Snuka was 
doing an interview in a suit. 

1804
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:28,960
And I actually think that this 
was the start of their rivalry 

1805
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:30,200
going up to the steel cage 
match. 

1806
01:27:30,440 --> 01:27:33,440
Anyway, Morocco attacks him when
he's doing the interview. 

1807
01:27:33,480 --> 01:27:35,560
And I I think Jimmy was bloody 
there. 

1808
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:38,320
They got after it. 
Obviously, you know, fake, I cut

1809
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:40,080
yourself blood packets, 
whatever. 

1810
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:42,880
But it looked real and they sold
the shit out of it. 

1811
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:46,160
And I remember my grandma, one 
of the things that a lot of 

1812
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:49,080
Italians to the old school 
battalions, when they're mad at 

1813
01:27:49,080 --> 01:27:50,800
somebody, well, first they'll 
they'll curse you and they'll, 

1814
01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:53,480
they'll jinx you and they'll get
you to throw all the curses on 

1815
01:27:53,480 --> 01:27:56,600
you up. 
They'll go like not really spit,

1816
01:27:57,240 --> 01:27:58,840
but they'll pretend that they're
spitting at something. 

1817
01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:03,000
My grandma jumped up. 
I just remember watching this 

1818
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:09,040
with her and started cursing in 
Italian and feigning spitting at

1819
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:12,760
the TV at Don Morocco. 
That's so did they believe? 

1820
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:16,680
Did they believe it was real? 
Yes, yes, they believed it. 

1821
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:20,040
Wow, yeah, man. 
So I mean, if that's the case, I

1822
01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:23,520
mean, you must have a like, you 
must have a different kind of 

1823
01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:25,320
energy watching it where you're 
going. 

1824
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:30,200
This guy's a real life. 
Villain, Oh yes, Oh my God, yes,

1825
01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:34,400
like there were certain 
wrestlers that you just you 

1826
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:37,120
know, and that was maybe I'll do
I love her. 

1827
01:28:37,120 --> 01:28:38,880
I can talk wrestling all day, so
I'll give you another minute or 

1828
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:41,160
two on this if I'm born 
everybody to tears, hopefully 

1829
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:45,680
hopefully I'm not but one of the
things that I loved about piper 

1830
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:48,240
first of all, his work on the 
mic number one all time for me, 

1831
01:28:48,360 --> 01:28:52,680
the best right storytelling 
angles wit like people people 

1832
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:55,520
think that Roddy was a brawler, 
which he was even outside of the

1833
01:28:55,520 --> 01:28:56,520
ring like he could actually hit 
him. 

1834
01:28:56,520 --> 01:29:01,160
He was a boxer, but he was very 
smart and witty and you know, he

1835
01:29:01,160 --> 01:29:04,840
would divulge later on where he 
would like take notes and write 

1836
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:06,600
stuff down to get personal with 
people. 

1837
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:09,720
Like you couldn't find it on 
Google and no idea how we found 

1838
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:12,400
it, but he did. 
But the thing about Piper and as

1839
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:14,960
much as I loved his interviews, 
there was a point where I just 

1840
01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:18,560
wanted to see Hogan just beat 
the shit out of there and and 

1841
01:29:18,560 --> 01:29:23,160
others as well. 
And Piper was he perfected the 

1842
01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:27,480
art of getting the last hit in, 
whether it's smashing out battle

1843
01:29:27,480 --> 01:29:30,040
over the the head with the 
record that the for the manager 

1844
01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:34,600
of the year or and then slipping
out of the ring just as the the 

1845
01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:37,480
hero. 
You know, the babyface was about

1846
01:29:37,480 --> 01:29:40,960
to RIP them to shreds and it 
always left you. 

1847
01:29:41,200 --> 01:29:45,120
My God, why can't they get this 
guy and just RIP him in two? 

1848
01:29:45,360 --> 01:29:47,080
And then of course, well, here 
we go. 

1849
01:29:47,080 --> 01:29:48,280
Now they're going to fight in a 
month. 

1850
01:29:48,280 --> 01:29:51,800
And now all this is sold out. 
Like, I don't know that anybody 

1851
01:29:52,240 --> 01:29:56,200
was as good at that. 
Like, like Hogan didn't project 

1852
01:29:56,200 --> 01:29:58,960
that he was just a hero. 
Andre was different. 

1853
01:29:58,960 --> 01:30:02,440
Morocco was, I couldn't stand 
Morocco, but he was a like, I 

1854
01:30:02,440 --> 01:30:03,600
couldn't stand him in a good 
way. 

1855
01:30:04,160 --> 01:30:07,000
Piper was Orndorff had a little 
bit of that before he became a 

1856
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:08,560
babyface guy. 
I don't know, never heard of 

1857
01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:09,560
him. 
Oh, you didn't? 

1858
01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:12,520
Never heard of Mr. Wonderful? 
He was Mr. Wonderful, Yes. 

1859
01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:14,200
Oh, Mr. Wonderful. 
OK, Yeah. 

1860
01:30:14,440 --> 01:30:17,040
Great body, could fight real 
tough guy too. 

1861
01:30:18,520 --> 01:30:21,440
And and I thought when he turned
good and it was interesting 

1862
01:30:21,440 --> 01:30:23,920
because he paired up with Hogan,
then he turned on him, but the 

1863
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:28,080
he was better as as as a heel, 
because it was it was easy to 

1864
01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:30,080
hate him. 
And I don't I don't know. 

1865
01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:34,120
I don't watch wrestling enough 
now to know if people who do, 

1866
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:38,440
you know, inhale this like I 
used to, If there's a guy or if 

1867
01:30:38,440 --> 01:30:42,000
there's anybody that is similar 
to Piper, I don't mean on the 

1868
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:46,120
mic, but where you just want to 
go and he just slips out of the 

1869
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:48,320
ropes and then he, you know, 
gives you one of these and he 

1870
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:51,160
goes behind the curtain. 
It's just never see him get beat

1871
01:30:51,160 --> 01:30:52,480
up. 
I don't think that exists. 

1872
01:30:52,600 --> 01:30:54,640
Anymore. 
I I mean, he definitely gets 

1873
01:30:54,640 --> 01:30:58,440
beat up, but I guess Seth 
Rollins now would maybe be that 

1874
01:30:58,440 --> 01:30:59,480
kind of guy. 
I bet if you. 

1875
01:30:59,480 --> 01:31:00,840
Don't know. 
I bet it rap. 

1876
01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:01,920
Yeah. 
Great, dude. 

1877
01:31:02,040 --> 01:31:03,560
It was great. 
It was great. 

1878
01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:06,560
Let's see. 
Do you know who do you know? 

1879
01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:09,080
I mean, I'm showing my age here.
Jim Cornett. 

1880
01:31:09,080 --> 01:31:11,120
I got you. 
Jim Cornett, What you say? 

1881
01:31:11,120 --> 01:31:12,360
What you gonna say? 
Jim Cornetti. 

1882
01:31:12,680 --> 01:31:14,800
No, I I knew. 
I knew how to pronounce the 

1883
01:31:14,800 --> 01:31:15,960
name. 
I was just like, I'm not sure 

1884
01:31:15,960 --> 01:31:18,640
who this is. 
He well, he was manager, I 

1885
01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:22,680
believe he was the guy with the 
tennis racket WA wrestling 

1886
01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:25,400
historian. 
That's actually a great name. 

1887
01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:28,920
It's a great name and I think he
would do it OK. 

1888
01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:33,360
And also we Sam and I had 
brother love in studio. 

1889
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:34,680
Why am I forget? 
What's really? 

1890
01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:37,600
Yes, well, because I lost the 
bet and I had to dress up his 

1891
01:31:37,640 --> 01:31:38,960
brother. 
I remember that, yeah, I 

1892
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:40,320
remember looking at those 
pictures. 

1893
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:44,640
Almighty, all right man, any 
other chats that you see 

1894
01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:47,280
interesting worthy of anything 
you want to pop up? 

1895
01:31:47,280 --> 01:31:50,320
There's a lot of there's like a 
lot of the here. 

1896
01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:53,360
I like this one actually, 
because this it, it made me 

1897
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:55,200
think for a second, made me 
ponder. 

1898
01:31:55,480 --> 01:31:57,760
OK, I I can. 
I already see it. 

1899
01:31:57,760 --> 01:32:00,360
It's a good point. 
Christopher. 

1900
01:32:00,720 --> 01:32:04,760
Christopher Marie, right? 
Morley I would have just said 

1901
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:06,960
Christopher St. 
Marie or something. 

1902
01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:07,480
Like that? 
Yeah. 

1903
01:32:07,480 --> 01:32:09,080
There you go. 
That's good. 

1904
01:32:10,160 --> 01:32:13,240
The Knicks had no pedigree, so 
winning playoff series three 

1905
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:16,160
years in a row and making the 
Eastern Conference final counts 

1906
01:32:16,160 --> 01:32:18,560
for nothing. 
Meanwhile, let's just pencil in 

1907
01:32:18,560 --> 01:32:20,160
Detroit, who's won exactly 
nothing. 

1908
01:32:20,360 --> 01:32:24,240
It's a really good point. 
I think the difference, though, 

1909
01:32:24,240 --> 01:32:27,320
is I'm not basing it so much on 
pedigree. 

1910
01:32:27,680 --> 01:32:33,080
I'm basing it on talent, what it
takes to win connectivity 

1911
01:32:33,200 --> 01:32:36,760
coaching, but that is honestly 
that is a very well thought out.

1912
01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:38,920
Yeah, I I like that. 
That's good. 

1913
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:40,640
I like agree with it, but it's 
good. 

1914
01:32:41,120 --> 01:32:43,800
I like the point, and I think I 
disagree with it as well. 

1915
01:32:43,800 --> 01:32:47,000
I mean, yes, you're right. 
Like people are throwing in 

1916
01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:50,960
Detroit into this finals, 
Eastern Conference finals role 

1917
01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:54,520
without, you know, much of A 
playoff track record to back it.

1918
01:32:54,680 --> 01:32:57,360
My thought though is I think 
like you said. 

1919
01:32:57,920 --> 01:33:00,080
I don't think. 
People are honestly really 

1920
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:03,200
basing the Eastern Conference. 
I know even I'm not, I'm not. 

1921
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:05,160
I don't think the Celtics are 
going to make the Finals. 

1922
01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:09,800
I think the Pistons are like, I 
think I'm basing it mostly on 

1923
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:13,280
this season. 
Who have I seen as the best team

1924
01:33:13,280 --> 01:33:16,800
in the Eastern Conference? 
And I'm going to go off of that 

1925
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:19,480
rather than history, because I 
just think the Pistons have 

1926
01:33:19,480 --> 01:33:22,600
shown that they're that much 
better than the rest of the 

1927
01:33:22,600 --> 01:33:24,560
crowd. 
OK, that's a fair take. 

1928
01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:27,000
I mean, we basically played 
seven months of basketball, 

1929
01:33:27,080 --> 01:33:29,520
right? 
You start in October and and 

1930
01:33:29,520 --> 01:33:31,560
middle of April regular season 7
months, right? 

1931
01:33:32,400 --> 01:33:34,680
Are there is an easy question, 
but I'll let you answer it. 

1932
01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:38,160
Have there been more stories 
about the lack of chemistry with

1933
01:33:38,160 --> 01:33:42,920
the Knicks or the concerns about
the Knicks or people who are 

1934
01:33:43,080 --> 01:33:44,880
beating their chests? 
And I don't mean fans, I mean 

1935
01:33:44,880 --> 01:33:47,640
people who cover the game for 
for a living saying the Knicks 

1936
01:33:47,640 --> 01:33:49,360
are the team to be. 
What's the answer? 

1937
01:33:49,880 --> 01:33:53,960
We need some more chemistry. 
I mean, the, the, the Carl 

1938
01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:57,640
Anthony Towns story was the 
story the first day of train, 

1939
01:33:57,640 --> 01:34:00,280
the first week of training camp.
When he said I'm, you know, 

1940
01:34:00,440 --> 01:34:02,120
they, they said, Hey, what's 
your role with Mike Brown, the 

1941
01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:03,240
new offense? 
What's your role? 

1942
01:34:03,520 --> 01:34:05,200
And he's like, I don't know, 
we're still trying to figure 

1943
01:34:05,200 --> 01:34:07,360
things out. 
And I didn't go nuts on that. 

1944
01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:09,680
I knew you had to give it time 
to breathe and it's a new system

1945
01:34:09,680 --> 01:34:10,720
and all that stuff. 
New coach. 

1946
01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:13,680
So I wasn't going to go nuts. 
But then he said the same thing 

1947
01:34:13,760 --> 01:34:16,000
a week and a half ago. 
So he bookended it. 

1948
01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:18,600
Not good. 
Hope I'm wrong. 

1949
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:22,440
I don't know that I will be, but
we're here for it. 

1950
01:34:22,440 --> 01:34:23,440
Last one. 
What do you got? 

1951
01:34:23,440 --> 01:34:25,000
Which special? 
Yeah, go ahead. 

1952
01:34:25,040 --> 01:34:25,880
Why don't you read it? 
Good. 

1953
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:29,640
Rod Power, which specialty match
do you like more in wrestling? 

1954
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:32,000
The chain match or the I quit 
match? 

1955
01:34:32,240 --> 01:34:35,760
Now the chain match is which. 
One well, the chain match is is 

1956
01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:39,520
when you basically it's similar 
like if this would you can keep 

1957
01:34:39,520 --> 01:34:41,560
that up Rod. 
I think what Rod's talking about

1958
01:34:41,560 --> 01:34:45,440
is it's called, it was called 
the dog collar match where? 

1959
01:34:45,480 --> 01:34:48,360
You would put a. 
Dog collar around your neck and 

1960
01:34:48,360 --> 01:34:51,600
you'd be connected by this 
massive chain, I mean thick. 

1961
01:34:52,240 --> 01:34:55,640
And the other guy would have the
dog collar connected to his neck

1962
01:34:55,880 --> 01:34:57,400
so you couldn't run away from 
each other. 

1963
01:34:57,400 --> 01:35:00,360
And it was only like 10, maybe 
10 feet of of give. 

1964
01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:03,080
That is insane. 
And a matter of fact, I 

1965
01:35:03,080 --> 01:35:07,240
mentioned Roddy Piper before 
there was he was in this before 

1966
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:11,600
they came to the WWFI. 
Think it was the N.W.A, but it 

1967
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:15,000
could have been the AWA. 
One of those two for sure down 

1968
01:35:15,000 --> 01:35:17,560
South somewhere and they were in
a dog cobbler match. 

1969
01:35:17,560 --> 01:35:22,560
I think it was like 82 or 83. 
And Greg Valentine hit Roddy 

1970
01:35:22,560 --> 01:35:26,680
Piper so hard in the ear. 
Greg Valentine, his dad was a 

1971
01:35:26,680 --> 01:35:28,560
wrestler. 
What's up, guys? 

1972
01:35:28,600 --> 01:35:29,400
Well. 
Bleeding. 

1973
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:35,200
It busted his eardrum. 
It's like it's like busted his 

1974
01:35:35,280 --> 01:35:38,240
eardrum and you know, Roddy 
obviously died a while ago, but 

1975
01:35:38,240 --> 01:35:41,880
even up until his death, like 
his hearing was always impact. 

1976
01:35:41,880 --> 01:35:44,200
I don't know if he was fully 
deaf, but it like he just 

1977
01:35:44,200 --> 01:35:47,000
obliterated his eardrum. 
So if that if that's what you 

1978
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:49,640
mean, I'm going to go with the 
old school dog. 

1979
01:35:49,640 --> 01:35:51,000
I'm going to give you all the 
ones I remember. 

1980
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,480
All right, steel cage is basic 
at this point, but back in the 

1981
01:35:53,480 --> 01:35:56,120
day it wasn't and it was really,
really cool. 

1982
01:35:56,480 --> 01:36:02,400
All right, battle royal. 
You see that a lot Cage Hell, 

1983
01:36:02,680 --> 01:36:05,200
there was this thing called the 
Lumberjack match, which I. 

1984
01:36:05,760 --> 01:36:10,200
Remember that is that when you 
got thrown out the ring and they

1985
01:36:10,200 --> 01:36:12,920
were like, it was like there 
were the superstars who would be

1986
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:15,000
around the ring. 
No, I thought that was when 

1987
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:16,600
physically you had like a piece 
of wood. 

1988
01:36:16,600 --> 01:36:18,160
I maybe I might be messing that 
up. 

1989
01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:22,520
I I I could be wrong on that? 
Because I thought, I thought 

1990
01:36:22,520 --> 01:36:26,120
lumberjack was like a style of 
match where you you're like a 

1991
01:36:26,120 --> 01:36:29,880
log of wood yourself, where when
you fall out of the ring, the 

1992
01:36:30,040 --> 01:36:33,720
it's like they've got the rest 
of the WWE roster. 

1993
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:36,800
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Inside to push you back in. 

1994
01:36:37,080 --> 01:36:40,080
That's interesting. 
Okay, you know what's funny? 

1995
01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:44,040
I used to There was a gimmick 
match too where Andre would 

1996
01:36:44,040 --> 01:36:48,600
wrestle like 3 vertically 
challenged people. 

1997
01:36:48,840 --> 01:36:50,480
Yep, Yep. 
And it would just be like a 

1998
01:36:50,480 --> 01:36:53,560
certain. 
Modern, something similar. 

1999
01:36:53,560 --> 01:36:55,920
This guy Ryback. 
I mean, he wouldn't. 

2000
01:36:55,920 --> 01:36:59,720
Be I've heard he wouldn't. 
Be wrestling like true 

2001
01:37:00,280 --> 01:37:03,600
vertically challenged folks. 
He would be wrestling just like 

2002
01:37:03,600 --> 01:37:05,320
skinny schmucks. 
Like just like. 

2003
01:37:05,760 --> 01:37:07,240
I don't know. 
Who do look like me? 

2004
01:37:07,400 --> 01:37:08,880
Like he just like put them in a 
bag. 

2005
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:11,520
Backbreaker. 
Oh, the Backbreaker was a good 

2006
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:15,040
one. 
I like the I like the battle 

2007
01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:16,400
Royale. 
I mean the old ones. 

2008
01:37:16,400 --> 01:37:19,040
What I always found interesting 
about the battle Royale is that 

2009
01:37:19,440 --> 01:37:21,440
you know, you say you have 20 
man battle Royale, right? 

2010
01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:25,160
You know Garfinkel, you know, 
with the on the announcer, the 

2011
01:37:25,160 --> 01:37:30,800
announcer and just it was just a
sound that connected like naming

2012
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:31,960
all the wrestlers. 
I loved it. 

2013
01:37:31,960 --> 01:37:34,840
But what I always found 
interesting about that, I always

2014
01:37:34,840 --> 01:37:37,000
had such intrigued because you 
know, 20 guys are going to have 

2015
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:39,960
10 good guys, 10 bad guys, 
right, generally, and you'll 

2016
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:42,680
have like a couple of guys who 
get, you know, have no chance of

2017
01:37:42,680 --> 01:37:45,880
winning first couple of guys 
over the top rope like say the 

2018
01:37:45,880 --> 01:37:50,000
killer bees, like be Brian 
Blair, no disrespect, but got 

2019
01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:54,360
jumping Jim Brunzel or like a 
Tony gorilla or somebody like 

2020
01:37:54,360 --> 01:37:56,160
that. 
One of the food, one of the one 

2021
01:37:56,880 --> 01:37:58,800
of The Fugees and one of the 
Samoans, right. 

2022
01:37:59,400 --> 01:38:03,000
I always found interesting was 
like #1 eventually you had to 

2023
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:06,680
have heal go against heal at 
some point or good go against 

2024
01:38:06,680 --> 01:38:08,520
good. 
And the other thing I loved is 

2025
01:38:08,520 --> 01:38:11,120
you would see see this a lot 
with Andre and Hulk for sure. 

2026
01:38:11,400 --> 01:38:15,160
We'd have like 3 heals conspire 
against Hulk to try to get him 

2027
01:38:15,160 --> 01:38:18,360
out and then like Hulk and flip 
somebody over the rope and he'd 

2028
01:38:18,360 --> 01:38:20,000
be out. 
My God. 

2029
01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:23,480
So I always enjoyed that as 
well, but always good going 

2030
01:38:23,480 --> 01:38:25,040
through memory lane with that. 
So yeah. 

2031
01:38:25,040 --> 01:38:27,400
So Cornett would be a good get. 
Let's try to get him as well. 

2032
01:38:27,680 --> 01:38:31,880
Jim Cornett reach out to him as.
Well, and brother love and don't

2033
01:38:31,880 --> 01:38:35,200
forget. 
I wouldn't tap out on Jake and 

2034
01:38:36,160 --> 01:38:38,400
keep going though, right? 
Keep going. 

2035
01:38:38,400 --> 01:38:41,600
I just, I, yeah, I just don't 
know how active. 

2036
01:38:41,600 --> 01:38:46,480
Like whoever was running their 
social media or some stuff is 

2037
01:38:46,480 --> 01:38:48,760
currently is my. 
That's my only thought. 

2038
01:38:49,200 --> 01:38:50,160
Gotcha. 
Understood. 

2039
01:38:50,160 --> 01:38:52,080
Keep it going. 
Only so much you could do. 

2040
01:38:52,640 --> 01:38:54,080
Good luck to you Celtics 
tonight. 

2041
01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:55,600
I don't really say that 
sincerely. 

2042
01:38:55,640 --> 01:38:58,360
No, by the way, for the five 
starters might not play. 

2043
01:38:58,360 --> 01:39:00,760
You got Kate is probably not 
going to play Derek White, 

2044
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:02,720
Howser, Jaylen Brown all bagged 
up. 

2045
01:39:02,720 --> 01:39:05,800
So this was not about, you know,
Knicks Celtics tonight 

2046
01:39:05,800 --> 01:39:08,720
necessarily more about the 
direction of the East and it's 

2047
01:39:08,720 --> 01:39:10,920
just my lack of belief with 
three games to go for the Knicks

2048
01:39:10,920 --> 01:39:13,320
to win a championship. 
So thanks again to our sponsor 

2049
01:39:13,320 --> 01:39:16,840
Sullivan Propane, of course, and
Premio sausage have a great rest

2050
01:39:16,840 --> 01:39:18,640
of you Thursday. 
Let's get it up tonight, though,

2051
01:39:18,720 --> 01:39:20,560
that little jets collective you 
still have there it is. 

2052
01:39:20,560 --> 01:39:22,600
Look at them right on point J 
Rod. 

2053
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:24,160
Good pass right on the hands 
too. 

2054
01:39:24,160 --> 01:39:26,400
Good job. 
So we've got that tonight. 

2055
01:39:26,400 --> 01:39:30,120
I gotta go figure out this damn 
buzzer sensor, which I'm sure I 

2056
01:39:30,120 --> 01:39:34,040
won't to my wife gets home. 
But 7:00 tonight, episode number

2057
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:38,040
3 of The Jets collected with 
Jake Asman, myself and Rich 

2058
01:39:38,040 --> 01:39:40,360
Samini. 
We're going to talk a lot about 

2059
01:39:40,360 --> 01:39:43,360
the draft of the shifting draft 
wins here pertaining to The Jets

2060
01:39:43,360 --> 01:39:46,760
at the two spot, all the 
different possibilities and 

2061
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:48,880
can't wait to make sure you go 
there, check it out, like it, 

2062
01:39:48,880 --> 01:39:51,600
subscribe it, support it, get 
those comments, get that 

2063
01:39:51,600 --> 01:39:53,520
traction. 
And of course for BT Unleashed, 

2064
01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:55,720
like it, subscribe it all that 
good. 

2065
01:39:55,720 --> 01:39:57,720
You didn't get the subscribe 
button up there today, Jay. 

2066
01:39:57,720 --> 01:39:58,920
It's all good, but you didn't do
it. 

2067
01:39:59,240 --> 01:40:01,720
So you're going to do it after 
yesterday's encouragement? 

2068
01:40:02,360 --> 01:40:05,200
So check that out and the more 
comments and I respond to the 

2069
01:40:05,200 --> 01:40:08,280
comments we get that bouncing 
around the algorithm continue to

2070
01:40:08,280 --> 01:40:10,720
build out. 
Thank you, Jared J Rod in the 

2071
01:40:10,720 --> 01:40:13,680
house build out, build out, 
build out. 

2072
01:40:13,680 --> 01:40:17,400
So have a great Thursday 
tomorrow with 10 for this show 

2073
01:40:17,400 --> 01:40:20,400
for unleashed and tonight at 
7:00 for The Jets collective. 

2074
01:40:20,480 --> 01:40:20,880
See ya.