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Can you hear me? Well, that might be a first.
We're actually early today. I I don't, I I don't know what
to tell some of you people. I don't know what to tell some
people who don't understand or don't really possess the ability
to separate emotion from logic. All right, so obviously, I'm
going to start with the Geno Smith stuff.
Yeah, I know Geno's back. All right, cue the punch lines.
All right, Jets were a national joke.
I understand this. When was the last very simple
question, but maybe the easiest question that I've asked you
ever in the history, the short history thus far BT unleashed
here, who was the last Jets quarterback?
And we're not going to count Aaron Rodgers because Aaron
Rodgers was jacked up. But even if you want to count
Aaron, that's fine. But I'm going to say for the
sake of this, besides Aaron Rodgers not counting him, what
Jet quarterback in the last And I'll tell you the the years
actually in a moment in the X amount of years was actually
better than Geno Smith. Could.
Could somebody please answer that?
Somebody just raise your hand and please give me the answer
that is the the only answer that is applicable here.
And the answer really in the last 10 years is nobody.
Like, that's what I don't understand about this guys.
There's, there's three, well, there's a lot of different types
of people in the world, unfortunately.
But to me in terms of processing like sports debate or just
debates in general, to me, there's basically three types of
people. There's the one person who was
solely driven through emotion. And a lot of times that's,
that's misleading and it's counterproductive.
But there's the person driven through emotion and then the
other person is driven primarily or solely through pragmatism.
Now that that's probably more of a of a better, more effective
road map to get to where you want to get because you're
dealing in objectivity and factual based stuff.
To me, I kind of like the third column.
I like to be emotional and I like to apply logic when it when
it's what it's required here and it is required here.
I don't know who I'm talking to, the Jet fans out there that
don't like the Gino move or anybody that's not a Jets fan
that's shitting all over the move.
Can somebody please identify to me the quarterback just for this
year? All right, I'm not talking about
Ty Simpson. I'm not talking about the three
first round picks for 2027, for the 2026 NFL season.
Can you please identify where the better option was?
I wait. I mean, I, I, I literally wait
all day because there isn't one, but I get it.
Let me get online and let me get the clickety click, clack,
click, click, you know, let me hit the click sphere and let me
just throw the jokes and let me rail on The Jets.
I can't help it if you don't know football, I can't help you
like I honestly can't help you. So all you need to know about
this, honestly, is that The Jets swapped a seventh round pick for
a sixth round pick, all right? And in the process they're
getting a veteran quarterback who who's actually a lot better
than you think. I'll get into that in a minute.
But they are paying him $3.1 million all right, because they
as a result of making the trade, they basically got the Raiders
to pay for most of it. So the Raiders are on the hook.
Oh well, why did you trade for them?
Oh my God, what a dumb move by Darren Mooji.
Why would The Jets make a trade? They were just they were they
are the the the the league calendar starts today.
You could have waited till four O 1.
They would have cut them. Yes, you could have waited for
for that point, but then you would have had three or four
other teams trying to get Geno Smith and there's no guarantee
that you get Smith. Listen, guys, please understand
this. This is not about I promise,
this is not about Gino elevating The Jets to some unrealistic
level. It's it's not about that at all.
But you know what it is about aside from getting much more
competent quarterback play then we've watched in a long time,
you know, outside of snippets of Aaron Rodgers, really the last
time I'll I'll clearly identify for it.
The last time somebody was either as good as Gino or
better, and you know, was Ryan Fitzpatrick in the 2015 season
when The Jets won 10 games and lost that finale up in Buffalo.
There's I mean, I read the names yesterday and it's funny.
I had Donnie Don was great. Hopefully you guys enjoy that
Donnelly Greg was money. If you guys missed it, go find
that library here on the YouTube on the YouTube channel BTLE.
So I was going through all the different jokes of quarterbacks
that The Jets have run out all right for a while here since
Geno left. Basically, he's talking about
Josh McCown. It's what about Bryce Petty?
He's about young Darnold and we know how that worked out.
But he's talking about Luke Falk.
He's talking about Trevor Simeon.
He's talking about washed up and washed out Joe Flacco scrub.
Zach Wilson, Mike White, Timby Boyle.
I know I said he could spin it. He couldn't.
A a hobbled Aaron Rodgers, Justin Fields who can't throw a
lick, Tyrod Taylor, who's a competent backup and Brady Cook,
who probably is the worst quarterback that I've ever seen.
And that's saying something. I'm not saying that the young
man can't, you know, maybe carve out a little bit of a career.
I'm not trying to, you know, shred the kid, but he was woeful
last year. He it is cheap.
It is a short term deal. And by the way, he's incredibly
accurate. I like I, I, I just, I don't
know what you were expecting. You know what I mean?
Like to me, the expectation. I've talked a lot about what
I've talked about a lot of things, right?
But to me, and forget about The Jets, just general sports
commentary, really life, right? You hear a lot of people say,
oh, man, this guy's got a lot of pressure.
And then like if he misses the free throws or if he doesn't
have a good game, you know, nothing really happened.
So I push back on that because to me, pressure is when there is
a tangible bad result if you don't get it done right, if you
don't get it done. And I think like a good example
of that would be, you know, I listen, there's pressure on
Saint John's, their first NCAA tournament game, because if you
don't win, you're out. Like there's a finality to it,
right? So I think that that's kind of
been misapplied over the years. And I also think that anger all
right, and and vitriol in the sporting sense has been
completely hijacked and very much misguided over the years
because to be angry at something, I mean angry.
I don't mean you saying why you don't love Gino.
And by the way, I'm fairly apathetic to it.
I mean, I know he's better than what they've had, but I'm not
popping champagne. But the anger.
What is the anger rooted in again?
I'm waiting for answers, text chats.
J Rod, somebody give me an answer.
Like, the only reason that you should be angry at this, angry,
angered and angry is if you can tangibly point to a better
option. Because then you could say I'm
pissed off with The Jets because this guy was available and they
didn't make a move for him and they didn't get him.
And all right, so you want to tell me, well, maybe you're
angry because The Jets didn't make a real play for Malik
Willis. OK, I'm.
I'm OK. I can hear that for a little
bit. I'm not trying to shred
everything that you're saying. But Malik, Wolves, you got $35
million a year. He's played 10 games.
We don't even know if we can play.
I like him. And I was intrigued by the
notion of The Jets may be pursuing him, but no guarantee
and it's a massive long term commitment.
All right, so you're mad what, that The Jets didn't get Carson
Wentz? They might still get Carson
Wentz. I don't understand the anger.
I just don't, you know, there comes a point, guys, before The
Jets could become like really good, they've actually got to
become somewhat competent. And I am a firm believer, like I
staunchly believe that you, you, you, you've got to raise the
floor. I know that that's a cliche and
it's a tired expression. Oh, the floors here, the
ceiling. But it but it matters here.
Like to take the next step and cross the bridge into the
competitive waters of the NFL. You've got to at least be
functional. You have to be.
And guys like Garrett Wilson and guys like Breece Hall and some
of those big dogs on the offensive line who are really,
really good, like they deserve a chance to have a chance to win.
Mason Taylor's a young receiver. Let me ask you this.
Mason Taylor runs a nine yard stick route.
Who do you feel better throwing the ball?
You know, one of the guys that I just mentioned or Geno Smith.
I can promise you that Gino's going to put it on his hands.
He's going to put it on his hands.
And if you don't believe me, let's get this up.
J Rod, would you please just look, look at these numbers like
if you don't like my tone, if you don't like my opinion, if
you don't like my take. These are irrefutable hardcore
mathematical numbers. Now to be fair, I did omit 2025
because it was an absolute circus.
Chip Kelly was his OC whacked halfway through the year.
Raiders offensive line by almost every respected outlet that
measures offensive line play both in like win rate on the
pants, win rate on the run, all those things that matter dead
last in the NFL and Oh yeah, by the way, like The Jets also a
horrendous dysfunctional franchise.
So I don't, I don't want to say that it doesn't matter at all,
but even his numbers last year, which I'll get to were far
better than than anything that anybody on The Jets did a year
ago. So guys, you're looking at a
quarterback that hasn't not even been average.
Lot of these years he's been above average.
Now he's not coming here and throwing 30 touchdowns, but the
number that you need to focus on is the second one, the
completion percentage and really the 3rd and the 4th if you want
to marry that. And, and, and the touchdown to
pick ratio, 21 touchdowns, 9 picks, 20 touchdowns, 9 picks,
30 touchdowns, 11 picks. And when you're in that 65
percent, you're rounded up in 2023, when you're 69% in 2024,
when you're 70% in 2022. Like this isn't some rookie
coming out and having a good game at the end of the summer
against, you know, third string scrubs who aren't even going to
make the team, excuse me, make the team.
This is a player. Granted, he's had a very
checkered pass, especially with The Jets.
He's bounced around. So he's thought to be this
nomadic, this, you know, this failed transient early second
round pick. And in a lot of ways, he was.
It doesn't mean that you can't revitalize your career or have a
decent second or third act. What quarterback has done that
for The Jets? Again, I'm waiting for answers.
There are none. You're angry at the wrong stuff.
All right, J Rod, thank you, brother.
Get me back up on screen. Thank you.
So what you're angry at and by the way, I I used to do this.
I've learned my lesson. It's more mature BT all right,
what I no longer do because it's tired, it's exhausting, it's
depressing, it's played out, it's weak, I mean you and I'm
just done with it. What I don't do anymore and I
will never do this anymore, all right?
And I haven't. I kind of stopped last year
where you talk about The Jets and invariably at some point it
spins into the fake spike with Aaron Glenn, the butt fumble.
You throw out the name Koh Tide or Bobby Brister or you know,
all the other Mark Sanchez eating a hot dog on the bench
against the Raiders. All these things, all these
things that we kind of lump into one because we cannot escape our
Jets torture. It seems terminable.
It just or terminal. Pardon me, which we could
terminate it and it's kind of a hybrid terminable terminate
terminal it it seems terminal. It's not terminal.
Like there is not a curse of Joe Namath, all right?
There's just not there's there's there's not.
We're not going to be shackled in the chains of football hell
forever. It's going to change at some
point, but I promise you how it's not going to change.
It's not going to change. If you watch a guy, whomever it
is, whether it was, you know, Brady Cook or somebody else,
come out there an unproven, untested kid with no stripes,
throw for 57%, you know, and throw for 2200 yards in the
modern NFL. It's not going to get better.
Eventually Garrett Wilson's going to say Get Me Out of here.
I'm surprised he hasn't already said it.
So everybody's just fine. I mean, you do what you want.
I'm I'm trying to tap the brakes on the lunacy and quite frankly,
the idiocy that I have heard from Jet fans and commentators
about this. I don't get it.
You're paying the dude $3.1 million.
Raiders are eating basically all the money.
You gave up a sixth round pick. What's the problem?
And he what? What is the problem?
I'll tell you. The problem is, is that many of
you are either lazy, so it's easy to shit on The Jets.
Pick me up the little joke on X Wow.
I got 37 hearts. I got 9 retweets.
I got a comment. Somebody thought that my dumb
joke was funny. It's not funny and it's not
applicable. It's not current.
It does not apply to this situation.
So you can do whatever you want. You can remain tortured, or you
could try to bust out of this hell hole of a football
existence like I've done and I'm in the process of doing and
evaluate this. I don't know.
Intellectually, I don't know. Pragmatically, I don't know.
Oriented with numbers. That seems like a pretty decent
way to do this, you know, and again, guys, really, if there
was somebody out there that I really thought was like young
and proven and somebody that I thought The Jets could hit their
wagon to for whatever amount of money it was where there was
enough evidence. That's the key.
And that's the difference with Willis evidence, right?
And I do like him, but he might be very good.
But evidence that he would have come here and he would have been
the man and he would have elevated and you can actually
see yourself winning a Super Bowl or getting deep in a
playoff run with Quarterback X, who, by the way, does not exist.
Then I'd say, you know what, you're right.
And I'd be the one leading the charges, crushing Muji and
dumping all over Woody, not regurgitating all this, all the
stuff from back in the day, but current day, What?
What are you doing? Why did you miss this?
What's going on? What happened?
We had this guy who's 25 years old, who's done XY and Z for the
last couple of years. He's a proven winner.
He's durable, he can elevate. Why don't we get him?
There is nobody like that. So you need to get it through
your thick heads. You just do, man.
All right, let me get this guy. Ben Lembo, 6339 Betty, what's
going on, buddy? I appreciate that.
All right. Yep.
Gino stabilizes the starting quarterback spot.
Now the staff can focus on other elements of the team. 2027
prospects. I like to do what the Giants
did. Reese #2TY sibson #16 if if
available. OK, yes.
Now, do I think there's a chance The Jets take Ty Simpson?
I do. I think there's a chance, Do I
think that there's a a pretty good chance that Carson Wentz is
also here? I do.
Well, if that's the case, and you and you and you have two
veterans, one, you know, MVP type and the other who's had
this really, really good renaissance, last year's side,
it's not the worst quarterback room in football, which The Jets
perennially have. So automatically it's a win to
an extent, might not result in actual real wins, but at least
perceptually, it's a win. It's a step in the right
direction right now. Last year, think about.
So I gave you the stats those three years where Gino was
really playing well and you watch the NFL, he was ninth in
the MVP. You know, he led the league in
completion percentage. He really did some nice things.
Well, I'm going to give you some more numbers without inundating
you with numbers, but this matters, right?
Let's go back to last year. Gino was not very good for the
Raiders. Raiders were awful.
I talked about Chip Kelly getting whacked, talked about
the old line dead last in the NFL.
Well, last year, and we know who played quarterback for The Jets
last year, The Jets quarterbacks threw for basically 2700 yards.
Gino in an awful year threw for over 3100 advantage.
Gino. All right, last year the
horrended, the horrendous, horrid collection of Jet
quarterbacks threw for a minuscule 60.3%.
Like that's 1980 shit right there.
That's when you got guys stuck. 57 percent, 50 Oh, somebody 63%
Wow, he's a star, you know, 60.3 Gino on a bad year. 68 percent,
68%. What Jet quarterback does that
besides Rodgers for a minute, Four more touchdowns.
Yeah, I'm not going to get I'm not going to get too wrapped up
in quarterback rating, whatever. But The Jets collective
quarterback rating a year ago was 75 last year.
Gino again on a bad year for a for a franchise that might even
be worse off than The Jets before they get Mendoza, Ron
Brady. But I'm talking about before
now, like up until now, the Raiders basically are The Jets
of the West Coast. And you know, he was he was 85 S
10 quarterback rating points higher.
Again, it's you're not going to beat the Buffalo Bills for the
for the AFC East of the Pats, but you're not going to be
losing 35 to 9 in the fourth quarter anymore, which is step
one. That's all I'm saying.
That is all I'm saying Now, J Rod, if you could cook up that
other thing about the scouting report, which you know, right.
So I went and I did a little bit of a deep dive here.
And like that's not hyperbolic when you talk about game
breaking accuracy, whether it's Warren Sharp and others.
And I did a deep dive and I came up with this with this hybrid
road map of who Gino is at this point.
Not that Gino got popped in the face by his teammate for 600
bucks. All right, So completion
percentage, top five in the NFL right away.
It's a win because you know, The Jets are going to run the ball.
They're not going to have Gino Smith coming out unless they're
down big coming out, throw the ball 37 times by design.
They're going to do play action. They're going to look to run at
25 times the game. They're going to run the ball,
which sets up again play action, which will be a home run for one
of the more accurate throwers in the in the NFL.
All right, when you look at and and if there was a lot of things
here, but and even the deep ball, but I just started with
exceptional accuracy in the zero to 10 yard range.
So, you know, a little quick stick route, something in the
flats, a little screen pass, What what you know, a little
shallow cross, whatever it might be.
Those throws will be on the numbers.
They will be on the hands of Garrett Wilson and Mason Taylor
and maybe Brian Thomas, who I'll get to in a minute.
They trade for him and they might for the Jaguars or if they
take one of these stud receivers with the 16th overall pick in
the draft. OK, he anticipates well, his
timing is very good. There's numbers deeper diving,
which I'm, I'm not going to get too into now, but deeper diving,
analytical stuff, which actually tells you I I will give, I will
give you one in a moment that when things get, you know,
frenetic around him, Gino actually plays better and he
puts the ball consistently in the right spot.
His velocity is, is above average and his placement is
highly above average. So what else do you need, man?
I mean, unless you are really an idiot, do you then you just
can't understand that The Jets got a better quarterback for
2026. I really, I don't want us to
tell you. And if this is not some cell
job, I don't I don't work for The Jets.
Nobody is dumped on The Jets outside of maybe Beningo because
he's done it longer. With the, with the venom and the
vitriol that I have. I have destroyed The Jets over
the years because they deserve it.
This is not something that they really deserve criticism for.
Now. It's not something you go
bonkers about. Yay, we got yay, we got Gino.
You're not texting your buddies. Yo, we're back.
We got Gino. Nobody's doing that.
Could the answer for once be somewhere in between?
Can we? That's where it is for me, a
matter of fact, to be fair, if this is the middle and that's
good and that's bad and again this is the middle, I'm probably
a little little bit more this way towards good.
How about this? Now, there are circumstances,
maybe he didn't play early, well, early in the game and his
team fell behind, whatever, but I'm just going to read you a
stat, all right? Most go ahead.
Touchdowns in the fourth quarter since 2022, All right, Matthew
Stafford, he's 4th. He's got 8 Josh Allen, the
Stafford Hall of Famer, Josh Allen, you know, I love him.
Hall of Famer, absolute beast. He's got 9 Dak even though the
the Cowboys are a wreck with their defense, Dak's a prolific
throw of the ball. He's got 10 again, the the stat
is most go ahead touchdowns in the fourth quarter of or
overtime. Gino Gino doesn't have 11 or 12
or 13. He's got 14 most in football
1414 Dak 10, Allen 9 and Stafford 8.
So I mean, these these are things he's done.
These aren't things that I'm saying he could do like, and
it's a different energy, obviously, like somebody like Ty
Simpson, who I do, I do like. And I've talked a lot about why
I think he could actually be a pretty good pro and why I do
think The Jets should and others should seriously investigate
taking him in the middle of the first round.
I think there's a chance maybe he goes in the low teens because
when you actually examine what he did at Alabama, I mean really
examine it and not just watch him in the playoffs when he got
hurt and played like ass like most of you do.
Let's face it, most of you just pop in for the big games and you
read the headlines and you know, and I get it.
Because it's not not necessarily your livelihood unless you're a
die hard devout Alabama fan or an SEC fan.
Are you really in the weeds on Ty Simpson?
No, you don't really need to be. I'm not calling out.
I'm just telling you the way it is and the reason why I think Ty
Simpson didn't have a really, really good year last year is
because Alabama could not run the ball at all.
Like they were 170th in, in, in big time college football yards
per rush. They were always behind the
chains always. And they don't have any first
round picks coming out of the wide receiver like they did all
those other years with Judy and the boys, right.
So I just I, I, I think that with somebody like Simpson
there, there could be like more energy because it's a more of a
projection. And even though I, I do like
them, I would certainly understand the push back, right?
I was just giving you some, you know, behind the curtain stuff
as as, as context, right? The Geno stuff.
It's you're, you're arguing against like it's self loathing
is really what it comes down to. It's the psychology of being a
jets fan because take take every jets fan out of the equation
right now. If you were to look at if you
were to somehow aggregate, if you could do this, every single
football opinion that popped up yesterday once the news broke
that Geno Smith was returning to The Jets, all right.
And it was from people who cover the game and you who watch the
game. But again, Jet, Jets don't
exist. Like Jets aren't around.
Not a single Jet fan walking the planet.
Never heard of The Jets, never heard of Joe Namath, never won
the Super Bowl back in in 69. There's no Jets, right?
The the reaction would be totally different to what Jet
fans the weight, like the weight, the shift in weight of
of yesterday. And it's again, it's because
it's fueled through emotion, which I understand because I've
lived the same life that you've lived as a Jets fan.
I get it. But at the end, you do what you
want. I'm just telling you, if you
really, if you're able and some of you are incapable of it to to
play amateur psychologist, I can tell you and I can control.
I could beg you to actually do it.
And you just can't do it because you're so scarred or sit so
deeply embedded and deeply rooted into your football
existence that you are incapable of of grabbing an objective
prism and viewing it and getting a sense of what The Jets just
did. You can't do it, all right?
And it's made even harder when it's a guy that was once here
that got, you know, lit up by a teammate because he owed him 600
bucks and wasn't a very good player here.
I understand, you know, and it was amplified because he sat on
the bench, you know, across town for the Giants for a minute.
And then he's the one that interrupted Eli Streak.
I I mean, I, I know going back, back in the day, there's a lot
of negative energy and, and, and a lot of it is it was earned by
Gino, all right. But I I've talked about this a
million times that there is a second life in the NFL and
there's actually such a thing as a third life.
And again, if you're angry, if you are angered, if you're
angered by this, I want to know why.
Why are you angry? Because if you tell me that The
Jets just got worse at the quarterback spot, you are dumb.
You don't. You just don't know what you're
talking about. You have no idea.
And I cannot help and I won't try like if you don't know that
I'm not going to waste energy on you.
You have to know that that they got better based on what we
watched a year ago. So all right, Gino was brought
in to be a tank commander and that's just the reality of the
situation. Totally disagree, Jay.
No way Now I will say this, Jay, thank you for the for the for
the text there. They are not looking at him to
be the tank commander, the commander and tank the tank at
arms, if you will. No, because number one jobs are
at stake. Now, Mooji's a lot more secure
than Glenn. But when you are early in, let
me explain how it works for an unstable loser franchise with a
petulant, dopey owner like Woody Johnson.
When you're that team and you're hired by that team, given all
the volatility, the hirings and the constant, you know,
revolving door conveyor belt of coaches and GM's and
quarterbacks, you know that some level you're on borrow.
I mean, everybody's on borrow time with every profession, but
especially with the ones that are unstable, like The Jets,
they recycle, they go through them quick.
So while I can sit here and tell you that I think Mooji's
cooking, I love, I absolutely love what Darren Mooji's doing.
He's shown, he's shown real forward thinking, a real modern,
innovative slant to how he goes about his business.
I love it. I'm going to get to Brian Thomas
in a minute. So, but he's not looking at that
way. He's thinking about cell
preservation. We were awful last year.
Our product was unwatchable. So he knows and certainly Aaron
knows that if it's like this again, Aaron's definitely gone.
And I would hope that they wouldn't get rid of Muji.
But with Dolby, Woody Johnson, you never know.
So when you operate under that, that that's pressure, right
under that pressure and not self-imposed pressure, which we
all have with certain things, but the, the things that we
can't control, like Woody, there is now a desperate need to at
least at the bare minimum, make incremental progress.
You know, so when you send me a text where I see tweets, you
know how they're going to tank with Gino that, that, no, that
it's the complete antithesis. They're actually trying to win
games. And again, if you don't know
that, I, I mean, sometimes I really wonder how little you
guys know about sports. Some of you not, not all of you.
It really is ridiculous. Like it's like they've hijacked,
like social media has hijacked the brains of so many of you.
It's turned to mush. There's just no, there's no
logic anymore. No, if you wanted to tank Brady,
Cook would be the starter in Week 1.
How do you not know that? So he's objectively better than
anybody The Jets have had outside of Rodgers since
Fitzpatrick. That's over a decade #1 number
got the snow blower #1 #2 he's better than anybody else at
that's out there. That would have made sense for
The Jets given their rebuild. Again, could Malik Willis have a
better year? Sure.
But that's a that's a big risk at this process, You know, at
this stage of the rebuild. This is a Band-Aid, I admit it,
but at least band aids kind of soak up the bleeding.
And I'll start with that. I, I can't watch 40 to 6
anymore. I can't, I can't watch
quarterbacks missing wide open targets by three yards, which in
the NFL is equivalent to 30 feet when we were playing in the
street you just got to be at. There's got to be, there's got
to be a baseline level of competence, which I believe The
Jets now have. I do you know that All right,
OGOG, what up there OG Jake 99 Appreciate you, buddy.
Gino's a move Mooji and AG make to have a three to have a year 3
New York and keep Garrett happy. All right, well, now we're
getting in the right direction. Listen and thank you for that.
They're not making that move saying, all right, what what can
we do? I'll use the word incrementally
again, like what can we do to just get a little incrementally
better just to shut that dope up owner so he's not going to fire
us here and and keep Garrett from squawking about a trade.
They get winners. Don't think that way like losers
think that way. And you, you guys might think
Aaron Glenn's a loser. Aaron Glenn is more of a winner
than all of us put together. And I consider myself a winner,
all right. But when you're a star in high
school in Texas, when you go to A&M and you're a star in college
and you're a star in the NFL and you you help elevate multiple
franchises, you are a winner. Now, the record might say as a
Jets coach. We are we good?
I think we're good. I think we're good.
I mean I. Swear, so I can't I Jay, Rod,
you got to help me down a little bit 'cause I'm that that that
that gets me so angry. Dude, you have no.
Trust me, I I know, dude, because listen, and this is just
like a little behind the scenes unleashed and like there's like
a recording of you on the stream yard and like something crashes
out during it and you're just like, I'm done, I'm done.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know what it is too,
because we were on the phone. We're we are, we are hardwiring.
We're hard wiring this. Yeah, yeah.
So that'll be a good thing. That'll be a good thing.
No once you get the Ethernet. But it's funny people are saying
Gino crashed the stream. No, God, But I don't know why it
happens. I really don't like it.
Doesn't matter. It's behind the scenes stuff.
It really doesn't matter. So what?
Give me a a collective if you can, Mr. J Rod.
Give me a collective sense of where where we are as you're
looking this up, where we are with the reaction to the Geno
signing. And by the way, as you get that,
get me back up that stat thing. I got to look at something real
quick there. I want to I want to point
something back out, not the scouting report, the actual
stats. All right, And just keep that up
for a SEC. There you go.
OK, So when you're talking about guys, when you are talking about
stuff that is that is debatable and stuff that is that is really
I get fueled by emotion. I I think that that's the fun
part of some of these conversations.
But it really is. And I do this because I don't
know how many people just tuned in, but I do this because I I
think that this is the one thing that you just can't refute.
You know, you could talk Gino this and and and you know, I
can't Polly that and jets tortured quarterback history.
This When was the last time? And again, I'm asking you the
question, when was the last time that you sat back for a Jet
season and you watch the again outside of Rodgers and you watch
somebody do this. When was the last time that that
happened? It's Ryan Fitzpatrick.
So now listen, it may not have made a big difference last year
because The Jets defense was so wretched, all right?
And it really didn't matter. But let's just say, let's take
his best year of the of the what?
Which year did he finish? That would have been 20/22 Was
that comeback play of the year. All right, So let's just say
he's not going for 30 touchdowns.
Let's just say it would take a little bit of a hybrid as I do
the math on the fly here. Let's say Gino goes for 3700
yards, 22 touchdowns and 13 picks.
All right, I mean, isn't you can get that off the screen.
Thank you. Now, Jared, isn't that a much
more desirable watch there? And don't you?
What do you think that that does for the rest of the guys on the
team? Like, you know, we talk about
the word culture, right? And culture to me, like it's,
it's very nebulous, you know, it sounds, it's a buzzword.
Oh, we got to improve the culture.
How many press conferences have you watched where you got some
coach, some manager up there espousing the virtues of
culture? All right.
Well, but then you ask somebody to define culture and
everybody's, you know, Hemming and hawing and stammering
around. Well, I mean, you know, you
know, like when you do, I don't. But to make culture is very
simple. Culture is being emotionally
reliable and physically reliable in terms of doing your job,
right. That's that's my starting
definition. And then as a subset to that, I
would then probably say that there is enough internal
leadership and an expectation and want from within that if
those standards are not met that the team almost policies itself,
OK and gets everybody back on the same page and kind of checks
guys when they need to. Like, you know, there, there's a
reason why these, you know, Tom Brady, even though Belichick's
phenomenal, but you know, Belichick could only do so much.
But when Tom Brady lights up the offensive lineman for missing a,
you know, missing a blitz, whatever it might be, or a
running back from missing a chip lock and Tom Brady gets popped
from behind because his running back didn't do his job clipping
the linebacker or clipping the edge.
Well, guess what? You know, Tom Brady is going to
scream at you and he doesn't care who sees it.
And if you're on the other end of that, you got 2 choices.
You either take it, but you better or you know, or you
respond in a different way and now you feel the wrath of
everybody because everybody's going to have Tommy's back.
So that's what I mean by now. That's the highest end of
culture because it's Tom Brady and Bill Belichick and it's a
dynasty. But I I don't think that The
Jets can really step forward organizationally if you just
don't get semi competent quarterback play because it
undoes everything. It just any the best laid plans
they go up in smoke. You could have this incredible
training camp, you know, awesome OTAs, just full throttle in the
weight room on point watching film, fully engaged and fully
immersed and and together great connectivity as a team.
And then all of a sudden you start the season.
You know, maybe first couple of like the Steelers game last
year, right, Jets could have won very competitive, right.
It was a competitive. The bucks could have won that
game when they when they blocked the punt, brought it back to the
house when Aaron was dancing. By the way, he still moves like
he's 20. I know we got clowned for that,
but I wish I could move like that.
Those gyrations. He was still pretty fluid.
And then what happened? What happened?
Well, Fields got hurt and then obviously a young quarterback
was thrust into the situation, wasn't ready and now it was non
competitive. And now it's 30 to 3:00 at the
half or 44 to 10 when it's all said and done.
And even those who are fully emotionally invested and really
genuinely try to do the right thing, you know that that those
intentions get blown up because you just get beat down
emotionally. And then of course, physically
on a week to week basis, it's very hard to keep that same
energy even if you're trying. So I believe like the, I believe
now this, I can debate, I believe that there's value in
going, let's say 7 and 10 next year.
And maybe that's ambitious, maybe it's 6 and 11, whatever,
but I'll just settle on seven wins.
Maybe you lose two or three tight ones and you're really
competitive, you get blown out one or two.
I mean, even good teams get blown out.
So maybe you get your doors blown off 3 times, whatever,
ugly games, one sided stuff. But the totality of the season
is one that is rooted in competitiveness.
And when you're playing on a weekly basis, right when you're
playing four quarters to the final gun because you've got
something to play for, it elevates.
I know, again, cliche, but it elevates the floor.
It keeps morale high. And now it gives the rookies and
that talking about next year, the second year players like the
Mason Taylor's guys like that, you know, bamboo young players
now they're like, all right, this is what it feels like to
compete. And now the expectation as the
years go on, when the younger draft picks come in, now they're
coming into a more stable, healthier situation.
And then eventually when you do get the quarterback, the other
stuff around it is is right. It's ready.
So that's genuinely how I feel about it Now.
The other thing too, you saw this yet Conor Hughes had it.
Some others had it as well. Looks like Brian Thomas is very
available from the Jacksonville Jaguars now.
He's going to have a lot of competition.
I think Connor said that he didn't think that the Giants
wouldn't necessarily jump in, but obviously for a multitude of
reasons, The Jets would be very interested.
Number one, they've got an abundance of second round picks,
which is what it seems like the Jaguars want.
They've got money, even though he's not really getting paid a
lot of money yet because he's still on his rookie deal.
Either way, to me, this is something that I would
absolutely do and I would absolutely give up a second
round pick for it for him. And you know, I might even go
like a second and something else to further entice the Jaguars
because you're going to have to distinguish yourselves in terms
of the other packages that are presented to the Jaguars because
this cat could play. I don't care what he did last
year, his rookie year, he had 1300 yards, he had 87 catches,
10 touchdowns. He's an absolute monster.
And you know, it went sideways last year.
You know, it didn't really work out.
Now you look at the contract, he's under contract.
So you know, first five year deal under contract 26 for like
3 million or A2 change and then 27 relatively low number about
333233 and then in 2020, so that will be 26 in 2028.
You got the player option with that fifth year.
You've got great controllability.
Now again, you have to love the player and you know, they've got
to watch the film. Like what happened last year.
Was he checking out of plays? I I don't think so, but because
that's not the word around Brian Thomas.
But if they were to deduce that based on the film and they don't
think he's a fit, well then I'd have to respect that.
But I don't think that they'll see that.
So from a football evaluation point of view, it makes a ton of
sense. And from a financial and roster
building point of view, it makes a ton of sense.
Because let's say The Jets don't take Ty Simpson.
They're they're not taking any other quarterback at 16.
We know that, right? And all the moves that they
made, obviously you're going edge at #2 because you brought
it a bunch of run stuff and big boy monsters.
And I like what The Jets did, right?
You know, even even bringing back to Mario Davis some veteran
leadership linebackers, all right, you, you dress the safety
position, you got a corner, so the defense should be better.
I'm not saying it's going to be great, but you clearly know what
they're doing at #2 unless they were to maybe trade attitude,
drop down a couple of the spots and then still take an edge,
which I think could happen. And I'd be open to that as well.
But the the ability now to further reshape your roster with
the acquisition of Brian Thomas. If you trade for Brian Thomas,
you you're not taking a wide receiver at 16.
So you go on defense, defense. Or maybe that's where you say,
all right, maybe now I could justify taking Ty Simpson at 16
or trading out of 16 if somebody else loves Ty Simpson and you
don't. And maybe getting some more,
more draft capital, like there's so many things to do, but or
potentially to do. To me, Brian Thomas is young, is
cheap, is incredibly talented, is big.
He's the opposite of Wilson because you know, Garrett's
thinner, you know more, you know, small space, caught on a
dime and he's great. But I'd like to have some, you
know, a horse on the other end, on the other side.
And he's pretty much that. He's like 6, two and a half, two
O 5. I think he's two O 9.
He's at least 6-2 change and I know he's at least two O 5.
So he's in that window. If I'm just saying, if if you
were to start next season with Breece Hall, you're gonna have
to get a guard now because Simpsons gone, AB TS gone.
That's fine. I expected that.
You have an awesome offensive line or at least a really good
one. Better quarterback play, play
action, Gino, whatever. Mason Taylor, Garrett Wilson,
Brian Thomas. Well, I mean, now you can at
least you could, you could start doing stuff.
And then if you were to get Brian Thomas, the other thing
that you could do is that you can now go defense again at 16.
You know, there's just, they're setting themselves up to do some
interesting stuff. I still think they're going to
get Carson Wentz. I'm OK with that.
You know, it's kind of a model like the Giants a year ago.
You know, you heard yesterday, well, why didn't the Giants, why
didn't The Jets just go get Russell Wilson?
Russell Wilson can't play anymore.
Russell Wilson's finished. Russell Wilson would rather go
to some art gala dressed in a tuxedo, you know, then then I
think play football at this point.
And I don't think he's good. I think he's done all right.
I'd actually rather have Jameis Winston if that was the choice
because he could still throw it. But again, guys did just there
was a dearth of options. So, you know, I came out strong
today. You know where I stand.
I'm not yelling for an hour and a half.
I don't have the energy and I don't need to because I made my
point. I just don't understand, nor
will I ever some of the unfair vitriol and push back at this
move. There was nothing else to do.
And he's he's a slightly better than average quarterback.
What's the problem? What's the problem?
OK, so couple of little show items here.
J Rod. Pop on up there, brother,
Where's my Guy J Rod? Then I got to get to Bam Sham
88. I mean, come on, Bam out at the
NBA. We got to talk about that.
Game I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to get to the WBC as
well with the Rosa with a massive gap.
We got a couple things to do here.
So we just cut out and the reason we cut out right is
because my wires and it's it's a brand new laptop like it's good
equipment. I, I don't know, but I also
don't fully understand all this equipment yet anyway, so like
it's a little like wonky, like if you touch a wire, something
happens. I just got to keep my hands
here, right? Put your hands where you can see
them that you can see them right #1 so that's number one.
Number two, so a little housekeeping.
We hung up with Verizon. I'm actually speaking at Verizon
tomorrow. Can't wait Big, big room, bunch
of executives going to be awesome, some motivational
speaking. So that'll be great tomorrow.
And we call Verizon, not them, but we called the the office
Verizon and there they told us what we needed to do to
hardwired. It's evidently it's pretty
simple and again, I don't need to to get you guys know how to
do that probably better than me, but it will be done certainly by
next week, probably by tomorrow, I would imagine.
So some of those intermittent like little interruptions on the
stream like when I freeze. I know and I told you guys, this
is still building this out. I haven't said this in a while,
but it's not a finished product yet.
It's just not all right. Click by click, brick by brick,
we know that we're over 18,000. What's that?
Ethernet cable by Ethernet cable.
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, Big fat yellow cord by Big
Fat yellow Plug, right and we'll get to 19,000 Subs by the
weekend. We're going to get to 1,000,000
total views probably by the weekend.
Like we are we're deep. We're we're well, not deep.
We're right in the mid 900 thousands already for two months
of doing this. And then obviously we're going
to fly by 20,000 Subs quick. I think this channel is going to
really explode during baseball season.
I really do and NFL draft stuff. But the other thing, the other I
don't want to belabor this, but the other thing I hung up the I
spoke yesterday to my guy Stephen A.
So Stephen A will be on the show probably next week.
I said, I need an hour. He's like, how much you need?
I said, I need at least an hour. I said, preferably you pour
yourself a glass of wine because he's he's busy doing first take
General Hospital. And I mean, the guy's always
busy. So he he got back to me right
away, texted him, got back to me right away.
And I had reached out about a month.
I said, Hey, I need you on the show about a month ago.
But now it's like, all right now we start rolling the guests and
now it's go time. He's like I got you, He said.
He's got a little, he's got to finish his dental procedure this
weekend. He's got some dental work going
on and provided he's OK because I know he missed a little bit of
time on first Take as well because of that about a month or
so ago. Provided he's OK and he could
yap because Stephen A without his ability to be Stephen A and
fully yap and let him go is not the Stephen A version that we
want. I think it's going to happen
next week. Now I've got to navigate where I
am with St. John's on the NCAA tournament.
I'm going to be traveling, you know, could be in Florida, could
be up in Buffalo, could be down in Philly, could be in Portland.
I I don't know yet, but there is a really good chance that
Stephen A will be on next week and a 100% chance he's on within
the next two weeks unlock. Done.
Let's go, Batman. Yeah.
I mean, going to be so exciting, fun talk, hopefully, you know,
get them fired up. But also, like, I think what
would be really cool is like something, you know, similar to
the Don Le Greco yesterday, where, you know, you're really
getting a behind the scenes look into this person, into their
personality, into the work they've done.
So, yeah, I think that's going to be great.
Well, that's really what to strive for.
You know, like when I had Michael on and I had Don, and
Don was great and so was Michael.
Both made news, by the way, that they picked up.
Some stuff on the Barrett Media post.
Yeah, that Don said yesterday about not having his name on on
the Michael Kay show and then like, it's not just so Michael,
what are your how long of the least you think Anthony Volpe
will have? Like, of course I'm going to ask
certain questions about that stuff, but this is a
conversation. I don't look at these as
interviews. I look at these as
conversations. Most of the people I know.
So, so far, everybody we've had on, I know really well, but
they'll get to a point where I'll have some others on big
names that I know a little bit like I was texting, you know,
Gary Vee, you know, Gary, come on.
Yeah, he's like the number one guy that like this show has
reminded me of. OK I was texting Gary yesterday
dropped my my son had a workout like a weight training thing.
Oh, big Jets guy. Yeah, but he wants to buy The
Jets. Gary Vee.
He wants to. Oh, yeah, He's been on the
record with that for a while. So I I'm at the point now, my
son, he just turned 11. I'm not up as behind.
Hey, go work out. You do your thing.
Daddy's in the car. Just go figure out you got your
trainer. Go.
So I'm in the car and I'm I'm doing a lot of work and I'm just
kind of going through the Rolodex.
I'm like, you know, I haven't talked to Gary in a little bit.
I know him, but little, a little, very little.
And I shot him a text. He got back to me right away.
I think his response was fuck yeah.
He's in, he's in, he's in. And these and Jay, these are
conversations like I, I just think it's really interesting.
Like back to the Stephen AI just wanted to give you the Gary Vee
very real possibility. Well, he's going to come on and
just don't know when, but with somebody like Stephen A and if
Steven sees this, don't take this the wrong way, bro.
I don't really care what you think about the Knicks because
I've heard you talk about the Knicks forever.
All right. I'm I'm more curious about like,
you know, when the cameras were off, the dynamic maybe you and
skip you and Max, you know, you ever get tired of, of, of having
to be so wound up every day and the pressures of making 20,
five, $30 million a year here, being the guy at ESPN, some of
the bullshit at ESPN that you might have to deal with the
political stuff that you have now removed yourself from.
But seemingly we're headed to. So that those are the
conversations obviously and little, little Nick stuff.
But that's, that's what I want to do.
That's what I will do. Awesome.
You know what I mean? So going to be, I mean, just
going to be great and like you're going to get, you know, a
whole new side of Stephen AI think that people haven't really
seen before. Yes, well, that that's the goal.
I'm happy you say that I want people to see the Stephen A that
I know like, you know, JU and you know, by association.
The world though, Stephen, A a little snippet or if you're a
real fan of the show, you watch the whole show, the bombastic
approach and the, you know, the beast with certain players and
Whitlock, you know, I'm going to get to the Whitlock stuff too.
Some other stuff. I know Steven #1 when he was
just starting out, you know, he, he, he wasn't, he was definitely
wasn't this yet. And you know, and, and I'm
looking forward to running this by and one of the things and
then I want to move on here. But one of the things that I
really loved and and cherished and valued working with Steven,
you know, when Stephen A and I were in the studio together for
it was about a year and it was about O 6 about a throw a year
out there. I think O six O 7, probably O 6.
And back then people weren't really talking a lot about race.
They really weren't not now. It's unfortunately it's it's too
much. I think, like I think there's
there's people who just inflamed situations just for clicks.
I think there's race baders out there.
I think there's a lot of well-intentioned people as well,
But I think it's been hijacked. My point is, is that me and
Steven or Steven and I would talk about these things off air
and about like real, real things and we know each other and we've
got profound respect for one another.
So it's going to be, I would, I take a lot of pride in doing
interviews and great conversations.
I think it's going to be a Steven that you haven't seen
very often. That's my goal.
Awesome. You know what I'm?
Saying, wait, now I'm saying I do, I do.
I'm picking up what you're putting down.
So excited. And I mean, listen, like Stephen
A's been, you know, that guy in my generation's life, I think
since we were what, 13 or 14 years old watching first take,
you know, I'd say my generation was definitely more first take
with Kellerman was like, yeah, certainly my age range.
But yeah, I mean, he's the guy who got got all of us into like
sports talk, sports debate and stuff like that.
So I love it. I love it.
It's going to be too cool. It's going to be good, by the
way, before we get in. So I'm going to get to the
Johnish report here in a minute and then we'll get to it's a
bam. I'm going to get the WBC
hammering some of these text years.
Can you hold up that microphone? Why are you holding up a
microphone that they used on the Price is Right in 1979 Spelling
Bee? When I was in the spelling bee
in a Good Shepherd school, you know, the 5th watch I was in
there, I was very good speller won it a couple times too.
Why are you holding that microphone?
Honestly, it's just like a little more comfortable than
like having it on the stand. I also think I kind of, I like,
I don't know, listen, you got to tell me, do you like the
aesthetics of it resting on the stand better than someone
holding it? Because I kind of like the
holding it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just. Feel like Alex Trebek, like
something like that. I'm just messing with you.
It is much an old. I mean, you would think that the
old head I would have that, you know, I got the key I got you
might. Have the Sinatra coming down
from the ceiling. I take it easy, dude.
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So here we are guys. I mean this season is flown by
25 and 6 regular season 18 and two and I didn't think they were
going to go 18 and 2 when I was watching them early in the year
or non conference. But I mean a little more magic
from the great Rick Pitino. 18 and two in the Big East regular
season champs, back-to-back times.
First time that's happened since the mid 80s.
Wow. They moved up a couple of slots
now 13th in the AP. They moved up a tick in the net,
which obviously matters proceedings.
So they're 21, you know, right now they're pretty much thought
to be about a five seed. I know Lenardy has had them as a
5. Some others have them as as a
six in terms of that NCAA tournament, where where they
might go and wherever they go, I will go.
So I'll bring you all that NCAA content.
I'm looking forward to really being on the road with them.
Zubi, this was announced. Zubi edge of four big.
This is amazing. He's going to be so missed, man.
So Zubi, Big East Player of the Year, Big East Defensive Player
of the Year and Big East Scholar of the Year.
The Big East was born in 1979. Twice in the vaunted history of
the conference, a player has won all three of those.
Player of the year, defensive and scholar.
The last time it happened, the only time besides Zubi this
year. Yukon's a Mecca Okafor, who's a
great college player, decent pro, but a great college player.
So, you know, just an amazing year by Zubi Housing Capital if
you'd love to see a long run here.
Bryce Hopkins, Dylan Mitchell also honored second and third
team. You got three games today for
the Big East tournament. You got Providence and Butler,
Xavier, Marquette. You got Georgetown, DePaul and
then tomorrow at noon it is the Johnnies against the winner of
the Providence Butler game. And listen, you know, I don't I
don't know how far they're going to go.
I hope it's very far and I hope it's a final four.
But the the thing that's going to either prevent St.
John's from going far or really going far is the back court.
Because I don't have any doubts, even though matchups are are you
never know what you get the front courts going to play the
back courts been the issue. And I don't mean Dylan darling,
Ian Jackson has been confounding, wildly talented,
but a very confounding season. And then you're going to need
something out of out of out of Sonan Sonan.
So if you get that, they've got a chance to make some real
noise. So that's it.
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So we are here. Biggie's tournament is upon us.
I love it. All right, now I was watching
the West and I'll get to the WBC in a moment.
Derosa, I mean, I love Derosa. You you it's hard to mess up as
much as he messed up yesterday. I got a little issue here, Team
USA, not to mention you lost to Italy.
You got deeper issues in that. So I'm watching the WBC and then
I may be even thrown on sports that I fell asleep a little bit
quicker than usual last night, like 11, whatever.
So I didn't even know about bands night until very early
this morning. Damn Autobahn, you scored 83
points bad, 83 points and all right, I mean 83.
It's second most since will. But if you saw the way it went
down, first of all, they actually they were winning at
one point it was 141 to 119 with three minutes and 30 seconds to
go in the fourth quarter, All right?
And they kept going and they kept, they were triple teaming
him, the Wizards. And he kept jacking up shots.
And then they were up by 26 points and they were fouling the
Wizard. The Heat were fouling the
Wizards to stop the clock to give Bam more room to either
break the record or or get past Kobe or get into the 80s and and
all that other stuff. I mean, what, what I mean what,
what an absolute sham. What an absolute farce.
He's not, I don't look at he's not second, it's Will and it's
Kobe, period. And I got to tell you, you know,
the Heat culture is a thing that gets a lot of play.
And, and I I've even though they've been an adversary of the
Knicks, like I've always respected the Heat culture
because in a lot of ways they mirror the Knicks.
But many of the years they they've just been better at
doing what the Knicks try to do, you know, with, with the
championships, obviously with the coaching.
And I think he's one of the great spoelstress, one of the
great coaches of our generation. I think he's really that good.
Pat Riley, great executive. They always make a trade that
you don't see coming. But like culture's got back to
the word culture. Culture's got to be
all-encompassing when you're going out of your way.
And and you're really not only this, not only are you
disrespecting the Wizards, like if I was one of the Wizards and
I know these guys don't think this way, I would have dropped
them. Like I like that.
That's fight worthy. The shit that they were pulling
last night, honestly. I mean, you found the Wizards
with a buck dirty to go stop the clock, get the get it to Bam,
get it to bam. So what kind of culture is that?
I am very surprised. I'm not surprised that the
players did it because the players grow up.
Every player on the court now in the NBA grew up in a, in an grew
up in an in an AAU culture. And I'm not here to denigrate
the AAU in its entirety because there's a lot of
well-intentioned, well principled coaches.
There really are. But if you and I've seen a lot
of clips and we're not playing AAU yet, when we get there, I'll
have more, more with the baseball.
I am, but not with the basketball.
But when we get there, I'll be able to actually tell you more
because I'll be there. But really, most of these AAU
tournaments are money grabs and it's one-on-one and it's
showmanship. And you know, it's it's just
showing up your teammate, crossing them up and then
flexing down the court. I get it.
Kids want to have fun, all right?
And I was defending the players having fun in the WBC.
So I'm, I'm not contradicting myself, but I feel like it's,
it's a little bit much in the lower levels of a basketball
anyway. So the AAU culture is what
you'll do is well, I'm going to take a little side step
backwards actually, because I think you guys will appreciate
this. One of the reasons why European
basketball is soaring past American basketball is because
they do the exact opposite of what we do in the States.
In Europe, they basically practice five days a week and
they play a game one day a week. All right.
So all the court time is devoted to the principles of the game,
properly setting a screen, going under, going above, you know,
and then obviously the bit, but much more complex than that.
That's basic stuff. But they hammer home the
fundamentals. That is what they do.
And when you see a European come in to the NBA, even if he's not
a star like a Luca, I promise you, and he's got a lot of flair
too. But there's a reason why these
Europe European players are more buttoned up than many of our
American players. I know that that's a broad scope
and and like a broad brush there, but it's true.
Now I feel comfortable saying it.
Whereas with the American players, it's all about, you
know, yo-yo win and handle and, you know, doing whatever you
doing. And it's beautiful to watch and
they're amazingly gifted. But those AAU games, you're
there 9:00 in the morning, you might play 456 games, You're
just playing games, you're not practicing.
And again, it's the opposite model.
In Europe, they practice every day, play once a week here that
we basically play every day. And you're lucky if you practice
once a week. And it's funny, even on my son's
club baseball team, which is a really good team, a lot,
including my son, sometimes doesn't go to practice because
he's got like. A district game or he's got a
rec game. And even though you know, rec
is, is not incredibly competitive, most times you have
to play X amount of rec games to be eligible for the district All
Star. So the point is even with with
here with like with baseball, there's a lot of practices
missed, right. So I, I think that last night,
if you're ever looking for something as a real
encapsulation of what's gone awry with American basketball,
Exhibit A last night, Bam out of by.
And I'm not, I'm not even bashing Bam.
The fact that it went on, the fact that the Wizards let it
happen, weak and just embarrassing, dude.
The fact that Spoelstra let it happen, very surprised because
I've got a lot, I've got profound respect.
Not a lot. I've got the highest level of
respect for Spoelstra. That's how good I think he is
right on and off the court. I think he's just been a winner
is great and it was just a sham, but it was a circus.
So you guys can say that Bam scored 83's second most in the
history of the game. I'm not saying that because he
didn't because Kobe did. Now the other thing too, this
might this might be a stretch and and I I want to be fair
because I don't know that you're really thinking about this in
real time. It's easy to think this now and
I did think this this morning too.
Don't you think it's a little disrespectful to Kobe?
I don't know, don't you think? I mean, if you, if you, if you
sore past Kobe's 80 and you do it organically, like literally
within the framework of a fairly competitive game and you're not
manipulating the clock and stopping it with fouls and doing
all these things, hey, tip the cap and I can't tip it
backwards. Tip the cap.
You're second, but for what, Kobe?
And again, maybe I'm overthinking this.
It's maybe it's not a responsibility of Spoelstra or
anybody else within the Heat to be the gatekeeper for history or
for Kobe. But I just feel like Kobe's
different, you know, the the way he was killed and what he meant
to the game and how fierce of a competitor he was.
You ever think Kobe would do that?
There is not a chance in hell that Kobe Bryant would do that.
There is not a chance in hell that Michael Jordan would do
that. I'll tell you who might LeBron,
LeBron, I could see LeBron not maybe not now because I don't
think he could score 83 now, but like LeBron 567 years ago, I
could see LeBron getting hung up in this because that's kind of
what you grow up in. And not even a knock on LeBron,
even though I'm not the biggest LeBron fan as you know, it's
you're a by product of what you're around.
You know what I mean? Just like, you know, when we
were when I was growing up in the 80s, there were a lot of
words that were used that which can't use today and rightfully
so. But the reason why they were a
little bit more socially acceptable, like Archie Bunker,
right? Think about, think about the
show. You ever saw that some of the
words and some of the intimations and just overt
disses of different ethnicities. It, it was more now it's comedy.
So it's different. I'm not trying to get too deep,
but it was more socially acceptable because the older
generation kind of kind of spoke that way.
I mean, I could get into a totally dumb.
I'm not trying to get it doesn't like I'm not trying to go down
that lane even though I could and it would be interesting.
And not that I'm afraid to. It's just it's too much of A of
AU turn. But at that point, I'll, I'll
give you the very quick sketch. At that point, you had a lot of
immigrants who were coming to our country, Italian, Irish,
German, Jewish. I'm I might be missing one or
two, but like my SO and they came and you know, there was
like a lot of battles, you know, like, you know, I could, I could
say this kiddingly, like my grandma on the, on the maternal
side, Napoli Don, right? And, and my uncle Pat, who's the
best, married a Sicilian woman who's phenomenal, right?
And back in the day, like Napoleon Sicilian.
And they're from the same country, you know, so there was
a lot of that going on. I just, I don't want you to
think I was trying to get too serious, But there were there
were like there were things that were said and that were
accepted. And then, you know, we've kind
of say I'm in the street here and there because you didn't
know any better. You were a kid.
So you learn what's right and you learn what's wrong.
And I just say that because you really are a byproduct of what
you're around what what you're taught and what your habitat is
is like. And because more players
celebrate baseball and the swag and stuff, the younger
generation that that's all they know and and it's OK.
It's that's fine. But last night was not fine.
Not that you're going to punish them, but like somebody to me
has to push back. And I know I'm not alone with
this here. Got to push back on on what the
hell happened last night with Bam out of payo 83 points.
I would have loved to have seen Spoelstra.
Now, maybe he did call a timeout And again, I saw the clips, but
I would have liked to somebody from the heat from the PR
department, Sid or the the not the Sid, but the PR say, Hey,
we're we're getting close to breaking Kobe's record.
Is this something we really want to do in a non competitive game
at this point? And then maybe at that point you
communicate that to an assistant coach, He tells Spoelstra.
And then because this is how it happens, by the way, and then
it's communicated to the huddle and then maybe you give Bam a
chance and then Bam, who's a stand up guy.
I think Bam, I think Bam may have been like, you know what,
rest in peace go. But I'm, I'm good.
I had a big night. I don't I don't need to do it
this way. I don't know, Am I overthinking
it? Maybe on some level, you know,
maybe. But it just didn't seem
authentic. And I'm all about records and
I'm all about, you know, trying to climb higher and higher and
higher. But it's got to be within the
you. You can't color outside the
lines to a point where you disrespect the game.
And I thought last night the game was disrespected.
But I also think every night the game is disrespected because
nobody plays defense. Everybody jacks up a three, and
in large part the game stinks. The NBA game.
I'm not saying they're not talented.
Don't, don't, don't hijack that clip.
They are more talented in terms of athletically and shooting
prowess and all those other things, right than the
generation that I had when I was first introduced to the game in
the 80s. But you tell me which game is
better. You tell me which product is
better, which is more buttoned up.
I know my answer and I don't think it's my answer just
because I'm older. I think it's my answer because
it's actually the answer. All right, Avery Summit, I got
to put the let me put this on here.
That's why I can't really wear a hat too much because it doesn't
fit. Now I'm going to start wearing
eye black here. If I start wearing some eye
black, then I can maybe do it. All right.
The Wizards announcers thought supposed to was taking Bam out
when he was at 81 as an ode to Kobe.
Would Kobe have wanted Bam to call them quits to respect him?
Never. That's fair.
But that's but yes, but those are two very different things.
What? You're right.
Kobe would say, go get it, young buck.
I had my moment. You have yours.
I don't doubt that Kobe would have done that.
But I also think, I can't prove this, but I think that if you're
sitting around having a dinner with Kobe and you have a nice
glass of Italian wine, he likes Italian wine.
Lived in Italy as we know. And you having a little bit of
vino and he just talking shop and he actually say if he
watched the entire game and he saw the fouls come on the way
Kobe is with that competitive nature, you don't think it would
have bothered him, Maybe not enough to say it publicly, to
call out Bam and take away from his moment.
He wouldn't have respected. He would have he I think Kobe
would have respected the like the sheer accomplishment.
But then when you find out how it happened, I think anybody
with any basketball integrity or basketball sensibility would
have been like the same what we looking for?
That's not what we're looking for.
That's just my opinion. I don't know, maybe you guys
disagree. You know, I know a lot of the
younger fans don't care about some of that stuff.
No, I mean, what do you think? OK, this is what I think.
I think, wow, I think he did break the record.
But then when you watch back, listen, I mean, you're not
you're not lying about the fact that it was a very unethical
game of basketball, a very unethical way of playing.
I mean, it's just ridiculous. Like the, you know, obviously
the foul shots is crazy, but to me just like.
The. 3 point chucking when you're like triple teamed by
guys is just like you're, it's just like you know that this is
not basketball anymore when you're doing that, like, you
know, this is like some weird other game that is not about
winning or losing. It's not about your teammates.
It's not about any of that. It's about you.
And that's what I don't like about it, is it just, you know,
it puts a sour taste in my mouth when, like you said, when one of
these things happens, but it doesn't happen.
Organically. Organically within the real
realm of a basketball. Game, That's what I'm saying
that that's all I'm saying. I mean, if Bam scored 83 and he
just had one of these magical all time nights, which by the
way, it was magical and it was obviously the whole time behind
Will. I'm not trying to take that
away, but it was within the framework of the game.
It was a little bit more of a natural pursuit of it.
That's OK, but when you manipulate the game the way that
fouling I will guarantee. Anything like it?
At least I've never. Yeah.
No, you listen, you've seen some things like more so with with
the girls, like I've seen more lopsided like high school girls
scores over the like So and so did this team scored a hunt.
They won 119 to 7. And I'm like, man, why do you
how do you let that happen if you're the coach who scored 119
points? Well, sometimes the answer is
that you're just so much better and maybe you played one of the
worst teams in the history of existence.
So it could be the perfect storm for that kind of a route.
But some you got to understand, like I won't begrudge A-Team.
Like when you when you rest your starters and now the Subs come
in and they play hard and they do their thing.
I don't take issue with that because they're practicing hard.
They got they went, what are they?
What are they going to practice all week?
And they get on the court because they're winning by 50.
Just hand the ball to the other team.
No, no, I'm not about that. That's nonsense, man.
So you do see some some weird things on the on the women's or
the young, younger women's side. This is very different at this
level. I would be surprised and I would
be equally disappointed if Spoelstra, I don't know if he
spoke yet today. His next, I don't even I didn't
even hear what he said after the game.
So maybe he did. But he's going to have a night
to reflect on this. He's going to talk to some
people. He's going to think about this.
He some some stuff's going to pop into his head that at least
in his defense, is is is hard to identify in real time.
I'm going to give him that. He might not, I would apologize,
but there's going to be an element of of of contrition, I
think, or at least contextualization or even even
slight remorse that like, hey, you know what?
Bam was great, but in hindsight maybe dot dot dot.
Yeah, like maybe I shouldn't have been telling my own players
to fat. Like, what was it like, they
were like fat, yeah, fouling the Wizards just to get this dude a
shot or yes, there's like another one where the Heat were.
I don't know, I got to look into this some more but.
I got. To for your foul game.
Lucky for you, I did it. That's that's what I do.
So again, they're winning one 41119.
There's 326 to go in the game. At that point, you very easily
could have pulled Bam. All right, you try to chase the
record. I got that.
That's fine. And then Miami's up 26 points.
They're up 26. This is all you need to know.
Yeah. And and if if, if I don't mean
you, I mean what I'm about to tell you guys, if you're still
OK with this, then you're just a different kind of competitor and
a different kind of fan than me. And I'm not going to bash you
for it, which is different. Miami's up 26.
They're fouling the Wizards with a minute and 46 to go to stop
the clock so that they don't bleed it out, so that they can
try to maximize the possessions to get Bam to keep going.
That's exactly what. Happened.
That's not basketball. That's not basket.
No, no, this flat out. But yeah, I mean, good for him.
His name will be in the record books.
But yeah, even even he I'm sure will have some second thoughts
about it in a month or so. Listen.
Today, today he's. On top of the world.
But give it like a month, I'm sure Bam will be thinking
otherwise. I'm just kind of scanning some
of these chats myself here. Anything interesting?
Let's see, Breeze, some stuff there, a lot of basketball
stuff. What's what is this here, Jay
Rod, is there a way to put up a poll for us to vote on the
comments? For example, do you oh, do you
like the Geno movie? Yes or no?
Looking into this. No calls are available.
I feel that that could be great for the show.
Thank you, Mr. Avery. I'd like my producer to come up
with that idea, but he hasn't come up with.
That idea. Hey, Avery Summit, my guy.
Avery Summit. He's a big time fan.
Avery Summit is just me texting under an alias.
Yeah. Can we do something like that?
I know we can do it. I know we can do it.
If you go to the YouTube page, it'll say like home live shorts,
but like posts, I put some stuff there you could do.
You could obviously, like I do on Twitter, sometimes you can
run a poll. I don't know.
Can you do it live? Can you build that in live so I
don't? Know I'd imagine maybe if we
were streaming on a different platform other than YouTube, you
might be able to like I remember I don't know if you're familiar
with like Twitch. Of course.
Yeah, yeah, I've definitely seen it there before.
Based on Stream Yard, you can't do it, but I'm just going to
keep looking into that because I think that would be awesome.
What is this here Jay Cuddy 8697 what up there Jay Love how BT is
using see all the pictures of Gino to try to make people
forget about the Raiders Gino from last year.
Well, honestly I I was just having an AI image created and
they were not creating the helmets that I really.
Wanted man after. A while I'm just like, screw it,
I you know, I can't be here all day.
Just throw something up on the screen.
And no, no, he wasn't he wasn't listen, he wasn't good for the
Raiders last year. But if you think that context
matters, well then you'll probably agree with me because
his OC got fired. And by the way, so.
So not only does OC get fired, but Jeff Kelly hasn't done
anything in the NFL forever. So he wasn't even a good OC and
then he got fired and you have a moribund, awful offensive line
in front of you and a dysfunctional franchise at that
point before Brady got involved and things are changing now you
would think, but so any and it's not like you threw 13 touchdowns
and 21 picks like some of these. You know what I mean?
Even with all that, he didn't have a Goodyear.
I'm not trying to sell you on him having a Goodyear, but even
last year, Gino was still what, 6465% completion percentage and
a quarterback rating of 85 or 86?
Both you know, certainly the rating is 10 points higher than
The Jets cumulative rating from a year ago.
So again, I'm not going to reset all this here.
Just go back and watch the show. I I just I don't I don't I
really don't know why you're angry.
That's AI think that's my most confounding part here, like
angry, you could say. I think there's a lot of
reaction to this, like or I want a Carson Wentz, but the end of
the day is probably a kind of a push.
They're really the same guy, which I don't think they are.
I think Gino's better at this point, you know, but to get
angry about this for a $3.2 million investment and a sixth
round pick, what are you doing? Like you're the kind of person
who I think is just kind of predisposed to negativity or,
you know, you're shell shocked and you've got those scars to be
The Jets fan, which I no longer I've, I've chosen to no longer
carry those around. I am score.
The only scores I got on my body are the ones from having
surgeries and unfortunately, I've got a lot of them.
I got no jet scars anymore. I evaluate every Jet season for
what it is. I go in hopeful.
I go, I go in optimistically. And then of course, you get the
lunatic reacting to the losses. That's always going to happen.
But every time The Jets make a move, I choose to think like,
you know, you not always, but generally skew like, all right,
hopefully this works out. You know, like some of the moves
they made. You guys are going nuts one way
or the other. I like what Muji's doing.
I understand what Muji's doing. And at least to me, Muji is
showing a plan. It's not like scattered.
It's not like, oh, well, you know, let's let's do this.
And this might not fit, but we're not really ready because
we're not ready to win yet. But go out and get this guy and
this you could. It's very clear what they're
trying to do. They are trying to stop the run,
OK, with a lot of big, capable, big bodied veterans who are
monsters who are going to take up a lot of space, who are on
short term team friendly deals. Win, All right.
And then you're going to you're going to accent that, hopefully
nail the number two pick in the draft.
And, you know, maybe you actually get a rookie that gets
10 or 11 sacks. Could The Jets do that at one
point? Maybe, you know, you might be
able to pick defense again at 16 if you acquire Brian Thomas
because I think the conventional thought is, you know, for The
Jets at, you know, defense, defense at 2 and 16 or defense,
wide receiver or defense, Ty Simpson or or trade, you know,
obviously you could trade up or down.
But I think those are the three variables there.
And if you get Brian Thomas, well, there's no guarantee that
whomever you draft, you know, it could be taped.
It could be any one of the three first round grades and he just
might not be that good. You at least you know that you
got a guy who could already showed he could play in the NFL
opposite Garrett Wilson, which then also so you strengthen the
receiving core and you also simultaneously give yourself a
chance to do some other stuff and now really load up on the
defense, you know, So that's where I stand with that.
All right, I know you didn't watch the WBC last night, did
you? No, I got oh, wait, why?
Yeah, you watch a little bit, watch a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not, not a ton.
Couple literally like probably 2-3 at bats 3 or 4 have that.
So like 6 minutes. Yeah, yeah.
Exactly. So when I say a little bit, I
really mean it. Understood.
I appreciate you being honest. Now.
Why even like what compelled you to even watch a little bit?
Because if you did you seek it out or did you stumble on it?
I mean, it was just like because.
It was on FS. One going yeah exactly.
Going through the YouTube TV after Celtic Spurs.
Kind of. I got you.
OK. OK.
Was there a fight in that game? Celtic Spurs Jaylen Brown got
ejected 3 minutes into the second.
What? What was it about though?
I was. It was it was a ref thing.
And like the contention behind it, like I guess or the I guess
the kind of narrative behind the ejection is that he got ejected
by the ref on the other side of the court who?
Oh got you been speaking to? So why, why why is this guy
chiming in from 50 feet away exactly when there's a ref right
next to you who didn't call anything?
Yep. And so he got heated about that,
like took the Twitter afterwards, but.
Yeah, yeah, well, not a good night for Team USA.
Last night? No, not at.
All not a good night and and really an inexcusably
unacceptably bad moment from Mark DeRosa, who I love man, I
am a big Derosa guy. I met him what two or three
times and he's just awesome love talking chop with him.
I met him twice, certainly twice at at MLB Network when when me
and Sal did our show there and it came on the show.
And you know, I love watching him do his hitting
demonstrations. I think he's great on air.
Jersey guy Bergen Catholic stud. I am a fan.
I am AI like him personally, and I'm just a fan.
But what he did yesterday was you just you can't have it
happen. So at the press conference
before the game, you know, he said, you know, I'd, I'd like to
win. We'd like to beat, we'd like to
beat Italy. We'd like to keep this going,
stay undefeated. But, you know, even though we've
already punched our ticket out of pool play, problem is they
didn't punch their ticket out of pool play.
And the other problem is that Nolan McClain, who I think is
going to be phenomenal, got smacked around a little bit.
I mean, they had they were squaring up balls on McClain
left and right. And then, you know, thank God
tomorrow, say thank God it's a little strong.
But thankfully, Team USA scored some runs late.
With Gunnar Henderson, some other guys because if they
didn't the run differential it would have been more of an
issue. So think about this.
They rest Bryce Harper didn't start.
Goldschmidt played first base. Somebody somebody else didn't
start. It was Harper and I know
Schwarber played a soul wit so judge a Bregman.
Bregman didn't play. So Bregman and Harper did not
start. That is your #2 hitter and your,
you know, 4 hitter, like, you know that those two guys in the
1st 5 or 6 spots of the order and wanted to get him off his
feet. I get that they're, they're
veterans all right, fine. But you didn't have anything
wrapped up. So now they lose to Italy, which
is, which is a monumental win. I'm not going to go nuts about
that because it's pool play and I love baseball, but there's a
randomness with baseball. Italy deserved to win last
night. They really did.
But you went into a game and you wrote out a lineup under one
train of thought, which was wrong.
How does that happen? How is there no checkpoint and
you know the these press conferences?
I mean, I can only guess that was probably 2-3 hours maybe
before the game if I had to take a guess.
So you had plenty of time for somebody in PR or somebody on
the Team USA staff to say, hey, Skip, you know, you may have
misspoke a little bit. I know what you said there at
the press conference, but we don't have this thing wrapped up
yet, you know, so you got to do, you know, you're the manager,
you do what you want to do. But if you're going to, if
you're resting guys, because you think that we have this wrapped
up, we don't. Now let's get this up.
Let me tell you what has to happen here for Team USA to get.
And I want them to advance. I want to see the United States
and I want to see Japan and I want to see Dominican Republic
and I I want to see Puerto Rico. I want those are the four best
teams. Now, Mexico's good, but there
are a cut below that. So how, by the way, is that a
sick rantic or what? That's a good.
One, I I like the I like how they did the unleashed on it a
lot. I told them to.
It's very true to the show's logo, I told.
Them to do that, you know, I told them and thank God I
checked because the AI that I used and they had the wrong
thing initially and it looked good, but I'm like, let me just
and I I'm pretty good with my flags and geography, but the
flags were wrong like they had the wrong Italian flag and they
had the wrong I'm like, oh, good thing I didn't use that.
I mean I, I look like a dope enough now I mean with the Wi-Fi
and cutting out and all this other stuff.
I, I got the wrong flags up there.
Oh, thank God, we don't have that.
So we will advance if Italy's got to beat Mexico, I don't
think that's going to happen. All right, Mexico's going to
win. So if that happens no matter
what the score is run differential, we're good, but I
don't think that's going to happen.
What I do think is going to happen then Mexico's going to
win and I do think there's more of a chance that Mexico will win
going away then Mexico will win in a tight one.
I think so if it's a higher scoring game, you know, Italy
scores a bunch, Mexico scores either one of those two four
plus for Italy or Mexico 5 plus and Mexico wins.
We're in all right, but again, you don't control your own your
own destiny here. We are out.
If they win a low scoring game, which is somewhat plausible,
like if Mexico wins 1 nothing 213243 all within the realm of
possible. I wouldn't bet on that to
happen, but it's certainly not implausible.
It's not impossible. So if we get screwed out of
this, I'm going to be really pissed and Mark DeRosa is going
to really look bad here. Like, man, I he's interviewed
for some jobs. There's a thought that, you
know, maybe sometime down the road, the Yankees gig and Mets
gig, whatever local guy. I think his baseball acumen is
phenomenal and I think his relatability, you know, he he's
not young, not old, not young, but he he projects youthfully.
I think he'd be terrific in the clubhouse and can talk the game,
be great with the media. He's fiery Jersey kid, Jersey
temperament bowler. But you just can't make that
mistake. You can get you can get that off
the screen there so everybody knows what's got to happen
there. Thank you, J Rod, look at a
little look at the little banner around the the screen today,
too. What'd you cook up there, man?
Hey, I didn't. Cook it up either we got we got
my AI assistant cooking up a little border here.
No, I mean, I actually I did a little filling in on the corners
there, so. I can see.
Pat on the back there looks good.
No, I mean, I think it looks good.
You know, honestly, like when you first told me the border ID,
I'm not going to lie, like I was a little, I was a little
questioning, but. Little bit, yeah.
Aesthetically, I think it comes together very cleanly.
I think, you know, the red and the black, I think it just
enhances that aesthetic even more so.
That well, that's what I'm saying so when you say you were
a little, you know, worried or hesitant, what you didn't know
how to do it or you didn't think it would look good because I.
Didn't think it would like. I reached, I reached out to J
Rod last night, as we always do, open dialogue.
Hey, we got to do this, We got to do that.
We got this, Johnny's report, this that I said what?
Do me a favor, cook up a little, you know, border around the
frame. I want to see how it looks.
So you didn't think it would look good or you didn't know how
to do it? No, So I guess my thought was
just like, you know, some channels, I really like the
border. Some podcasts, I think, you
know, they really do a good job. It looks clean.
Some I think I'm a little more iffy on.
I think the reason why it really works here is because we're kind
of in these computer cameras where it's like, I'm not always
the hugest fan of the border on the podcast where they shoot it
in studio. Oh.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sitting like
that. But no, I mean, it was, you
know, it's pretty easy to cook up and you know, it looks great,
honestly. It does it does let's get that
full screen again. Let me see there.
You know, we got to do it. We got to I need I need some of
you guys to weigh in here in the comments.
I mean it's it's small, subtle. I think it gives a little bit
more pop. You guys like that.
I mean it does flow with the logo, the black and the red it's
on brand for unleash there. I think it looks pretty good.
I'm digging it, but but then again, that's me and that's J
Rod. Maybe you guys don't like it.
Be honest. By the way, if you think it
looks like shit, tell me or tell him.
Tell J Rod Busy. Show me no, let him go, let him
busy show. The Geno Smith stuff was great
obviously, and then the Bam stuff stiff.
Today, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
I got to work out today. I don't think working out today.
Yeah, I I got to start getting back after.
It what do you do? Do you what do?
You do no so last year I had like a great, I mean, honestly,
it was before it was when I was unemployed as hell and I was
just like I was living at home. I cut together the Al and Jerry
podcast and that was that like like so legit it would just be
like morning time. I get up, go to the gym and I'm
like, I would pretty much just do like, you know, one day I do
arms, one day I do legs, but mainly just machines, not really
bench pressing or. Anything I got you.
I moved to New York, completely fell off.
Let it legit like the only exercise I get.
I walk outside, I ride, I ride a bike pretty often.
I'll do I'll do 100 push ups every now and then but that's
it. That's it.
So, so, OK, so that's interesting.
Now you didn't say like 20 push ups and I I had a shoulder
impingement that I mentioned. I think I said this on the show
a while ago and I thought it was, I thought I tore something.
Thank God it went away and it's good.
I started doing push ups again. Just started doing that.
It didn't hurt like with weights, it just hurt with the
push ups. When somebody says I'll do 100
push ups every now and again, that's not a small amount like I
and I've done push ups for 25 years.
I can't drop down and do 100 straight.
Not straight, not. Straight, not 100.
Straight. So how do you how do you break
them up? I usually do 30, like break it
up into 30 to 35. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you do like three sets of 30 or 35, like 30 rest, 30 rest, 30
rest, yeah. But that's The thing is like I
had a really good streak last year where I was going like, OK,
we do 101 week, then we'll do 200 in a day the next week.
And then and then, you know, everything fell apart.
But I, but I really, I would really like to get back into it.
And you know what, I'm saying it on air right now.
So there we go. I'm getting back into it.
All right, all right. I, I have to do it like I, I
need it from my mind. Then obviously I want to, I want
to look decent. Not that I look great, but I, I
want to stay in good shape. I still have that at that
athletic mindset, even though I'm getting older, whatever.
But I am the kind of person like without structure, I'm useless.
I need structure. I noticed like if I even on the
and this part I wish was, I think a lot of the time it's
good. This particular aspect is not
good. Even on vacation, sometimes I
start getting restless. Like all right, I got to get
back to work. Like maybe it's because, and I'm
talking about more like on the fan and like what I was doing,
you know what I was doing every day for 25 years, 2023 years.
You almost feel like you're missing out like in, in in our
business, if you've gone for too long.
Like you've always got that mentality like somebody's coming
for your job. So you I've always wanted to get
back and protect it so my mind would wander, but like I just
can't lay around and do nothing. I just can't I, I almost like
make myself busy. Very strange.
I. I, I think, you know, I mean
there's obviously a big split in like, you know, people who
obviously like to go out and do stuff and people who just like
kind of are sedentary at the home.
But in my eyes, I don't see how you can't get out the house.
That's the most important. Life is just stepping out that
door. That's.
The best step? For everything.
So you said, and we used to do the unkillable pot together, but
those who don't know, you also did the Al and Jerry pot.
Yeah. You're not still doing it, are
you? Yes, Sir.
You are. I mean bear.
So I, I cut up, I do the thumbnails for them and that's,
that's pretty much been my role the entire way through.
Have you ever met them? Yes.
Dude I don't know if you've ever seen this.
I spoke to Boomer on air for like 10-15 minutes.
What? What?
What did Boomer berate you? What did he?
Berate. My gosh, they were like talking
to me about how like I'm going to how I'll get the social media
views at the fan up or something like that.
And then Gio got me with the Dustin from Stranger Things.
So it was like a little funny thing it was.
It was pretty short. OK, OK.
But so, so you would say that you probably know Al and Jerry
better than those guys, right? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Who?
Who do you you got? You got to answer Who do you
like better? Al or Jerry?
Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh.
This is like a you're putting me in a cruel position.
I'm going. I got to go out Dukes.
I love the guy.
I listen. I just want I'm distant.
Jerry. Oh man, see this is where I get
caught. I love Al because I think he
always comes through with like the humorous idea and like I
love his Twitter personality. I think, you know, I can, I hate
to say it. I can I, I feel like sometimes I
relate to some of his to his role as like a producer in the
sports world who maybe knows like 70% of of things about
sports rather than 100. Like I feel like I kind of I
kind. Of wait, wait, wait, wait.
You think he knows? You think he knows.
What percentage? I'd say like 7070% really more.
Like 20% he isn't watching man. He isn't watching sports.
Oh, at all. No.
Okay, so maybe I'm even a little ahead, but maybe.
The Super Bowl or like a Yankee playoff game.
I could probably he's not watching Nicks exceed on a
Tuesday night. I could probably that.
But yeah, I guess I think the guys.
Are very funny, so I've enjoyed doing that.
Yeah, I and I know, I know Jerry better, but Jerry also did
updates when me and Sal were on the air.
Me and Tiki, I've known Jerry for a long time, so I OK, so you
just do the thumbnails for them? Yeah, thumbnails and then I'll
cut, cut, throw up the title. But yeah, it's it's very simple
to stop. So what?
Let me ask you a question. Why do I get more views than
they do? That's not supposed.
To happen, I mean, do do I need to spell it out?
Do I need to spell it out? But I mean, they've got the WFAN
vehicle. Yeah, but you're.
BT BT without a child BT the WFAN said get out of here, yeah.
But like OK here's my thing. Like like.
I just think, Star. Come on, Jerry.
Jerry, this is called no. My thing is like, dude, like
their show they talk about like, yeah, you're bait and you're
really hard right now. No, like I don't know, their
show they talk about literal dog poop on the New York City
streets. Like legit, they talk about like
I know what's going on with like it's a it's a it's a different
game. It's a different thing.
Yes, they've got the WFAN channel, but it gets buried.
Their stuff gets literally buried within like dozens of
videos. No, I know like you know, and
you're BTI don't know what else to say.
You're BT bro. The content is great, you know,
thank you enough said. You know, like this guy said
he's not just BT, he's B fucking T Oh, here we go Jake.
There you go. There you go.
That is a moment of growth right there for the young buck.
Look at them. Is that first of all, not that I
need you to I I know that's the first F bomb.
Is that the first curse? I I I may have said like.
Shit, I thought you said boy but.
Definitely the first F bomb on air.
Look just a Pamer at home B. Fucking T Yeah.
No, there's no, it's just because you know, my parents
will ask me or like they've asked me like, OK, like what
shows are you most passionate about like doing and stuff like
that? And it it's not, there's not a
question. There's not even.
It's not like it's this and then it's.
That's awesome that thank you, man.
Listen. I made.
I made the right choice. I mean it when I tell you, and I
remember mentioned this once on the air to the point where I
couldn't. I had to stop looking at him.
And I don't mean like the day that the news came or the week.
I mean, well after a month later because I hadn't hired A
producer yet, my DMS on Instagram and like I just had to
stop reading them. And I really appreciate it.
People were really trying to reach out and they wanted to get
involved in the show. And I'm not like I'm not trying
to say, oh, I'm Howard Stern. People were lined up around 7th
day Ave. work with me. Old Howard Stern, not, not Karen
Howard Stern, but I'm not saying that at all, but it was, it was
pretty eye opening. I'm like, wow, a lot of people
want to jump into this and I, I just, I don't know, I, there was
something about you. It, there was a steadiness that
I thought would be good to offset my, you know, my, my
whole thing or whatever, my whole thing, you know, and then
we had work together. You were very good.
You were very diligent, very responsible.
I do like the Syracuse background and up and Comer, so
it was a natural fit. But I I appreciate you saying
that, man. Yeah.
Man, I mean, it's just this has been it like this has been to
me, you know, this is the almost like the launching point for my
career sort of deal. You know, I had my little time
in Odyssey where, you know, I'm getting the reins, learning the
stuff. But for me, like the way I view
this is this is it, you know what I'm saying?
This is where we take off so. I had a boy Jay, right that.
Let's get after it. That is great to hear me.
Did anybody chime in on the on the border?
Anybody. Oh, yeah, yeah, We've got a
We've got a few. All right, so we've got looks.
Good. Here's the first one.
Looks. Good.
It looks good. One now here's here's 1 border.
Not bad, wasn't necessary. Fair, so there's.
It's good. It's good.
Not needed. Here's and then here's the big
one. I think it looks fantastic.
That's what I'm saying. I knew it would look good.
I really did. You know, like I am a pretty.
I don't always know how to do it, but usually I don't know my
guy. I think my I'm a good writer,
like I've said, like that's how I was over.
That's how I really got through school.
Like I would, you know, get bad grades on quizzes and tests.
And then when it was time to write, I would get an A because
I was a good write and I enjoyed it, right.
So I balance it out and pretty much go home with AC or AC plus
or AB minus, right. But I I also have AI think a
fairly creative I I just and I was as I was.
But sometimes you imagine something in your own mind and
then you actually see like that looks awful.
I think it pops. I don't think it's too much like
it doesn't overwhelm the screen. So I think we keep it for a
little bit. I I really do.
I think we roll with. It I say, yeah, yeah.
I say we roll with it. See, you know, see if maybe down
the line we can think of anything a little better.
But for now, yeah, let's keep it.
Let's keep it all. Right.
So we got Geno, I guess, Max. Crosby would be the only other
thing, maybe. Yeah, I, I it's funny, I had
that written down too that that's that's interesting.
The old now. I mean, you guys know what
happened. So I don't need to reset that
where it becomes interesting for all these teams around the NFL.
And if you missed it, Trey Hendrickson got a four year deal
with the Ravens immediate immediate pivot.
So he goes from being on Joe Burrows team to go and try to
crush Joe Burrow. Good move, very quick.
And that's what listen, that's why the Ravens or the Ravens,
that's why the Ravens are always keeping their head above water.
I know they haven't won a championship in a long time.
I get it. I know that they've got a new
coach. I get it.
But like that is a well run forward thinking incredibly
functional winning franchise because they had a plan.
It was aggressive. They gave up two first round
picks to get Max Crosby. They thought they were getting
their all pro. They had them.
They do the physical, their doctors fail them back to the
Raiders. All right.
It's not like what do we do that Bang Hendrickson got him And and
really you can make the case even though obviously Max Crosby
is better than Hendrickson. I mean, Crosby is just
different. But you know, if the production,
if it's about within 75%, like if Hendrickson, even if he could
give you 70%, I'm of the mindset, excuse me, it's
probably better long term growth and an asset retention to sign
somebody like like Hendrickson rather than giving up two first
round picks and paying Crosby, Mike, if you're getting similar.
Now, if Crosby were to come out and get 17 sacks and Hendrickson
gets 5 1/2, well, it's a little different.
I don't think that that there's that quite that big of a
disparity. So that's the Ravens perspective
where it gets interesting though.
And this is where any team can jump in.
The Giants could jump in, The Jets could, I mean, literally
any team in the NFL. Now, the Raiders, because they
thought that Crosby was off their books, they have committed
to other contracts, all right? And at 4:00 PM today, these
contracts become official. So you've got a you can renege,
which obviously the Ravens did based on the medicals and pivot.
But the problem for the Raiders, I mean, not the problem, but
something that they're going to have to, they're going to still
have to trade Max Crosby somewhere because they've
committed a fairly exorbitant amount of money around around
their roster to new players. Now they could, I guess they
could tell the new players like the Ravens, you know, told them
now we're good. So I know we all, we agreed to 3
or 70 million dollars, 36 guaranteed.
I'm just throwing numbers out. But because Crosby is back, you
go somewhere else. I mean, they could do that.
It's probably bad for business, but you could.
I think what happens now, especially since Hendrickson is
off the market, there's there's really just a a shortage of game
changing edge rushers that you could go and get Max Crosby's
one of them. And now because, and really the
only one certainly at that level now because the Raiders are in a
pinch, well, now maybe somebody else could get Max Crosby on
who's a stud on $0.80 on the dollar because the Raiders just
have to find a trading partner who's willing to take Max
Crosby. Now he's going to have a lot of
suitors. But I like if listen, if I am a
general manager, the first thing that listen, cutting deals is
all about being proactive. Like, you know, The Jets with
sauce and doing stuff like that. The Colts were really good and
just before they lost basically every game to finish up.
They're thinking they can mess around and win a Super Bowl.
And Moogie's like, we're not going to win anytime soon.
Let me get rid of him. Let me get rid of Q Let me get
all these round picks. That's being proactive and and
that's reacting to the moment, right very smartly, very
proactively, very aggressively, right, very intelligently.
Well, now if I'm a GM, I'm going to be opportunistic and I'm
going to call up the Raiders and I know I got them by the short
ones. I'm going to say hey dude,
listen, hey, my problem we got they got reneged.
I know you still got to trade them because you brought this
guy in, that guy in this guy and that guy and your books are all
cooked. So I'll give you one first round
pick and a third round pick or a second round pick or whatever it
might be that is short of A2 first round pick package for Max
Crosby. So that's what I think is going
to happen. Now you want to tell me that
there's a chance that the Raiders stand?
Firm and that they restructure and they whatever they do
magically with the numbers, which every NFL team could do,
it's funny you'll see these like predicted cap space and
effective cap space and we did the effective cap space the
other day If you guys want to get into it, it's on the
channel. But there are teams like minus
$11 million in cap space and then they magically rework 7
deals and they're, they've got a surplus of $25 million.
That's why the numbers are so fungible.
I can't stand the math of NFL contracts as as an aside, but
it's going to be very interesting to see who pounces
on this very vulnerable situation for the Raiders.
It really, really does. Now I'm, I tweeted yesterday,
I'm like, you know, get cooking, Mooji, maybe a little prisoner
of the moment. Truth of the matter is it, it
doesn't fit The Jets timeline. Certainly you're not giving up
two first round picks. That makes no sense cuz you got
to get your quarterback at some point.
But like if, if it's a really diminished deal, and I said 70
or $0.80 on the dollar, I don't know what if it gets to $0.60 on
the dollar? Because a lot of these teams
have already done their heavy lifting contractually in terms
of free agency and now they could be made official.
So you might have other teams forget about the Raiders.
You might have other teams that did stuff that might now say,
all right, we're going to get out of this deal because we can
now go get Max Crosby. It's going to be interesting.
I don't know. Usually I have a prediction.
I don't really feel compelled to make one except saying that I
don't think he's going to be back.
I know he's back literally with the Raiders now, like back with
them. I don't think he's going to play
from this year. And it just takes 1 smart
forward thinking GM to jump in while they're vulnerable.
Get yourself a steal, go make yourself a deal.
Why not, you know, maybe the Giants trade.
I mean, I know they don't love Kaymon.
Trade Kaymon, get Max Crosby and do something like, I don't know,
somebody's going to do something.
Watch the Niners will get him like some really well run team.
Buffalo will get him. Yeah.
The teams that are always, you know, the the Ravens try to the
Steelers will get him right. Like, but I could probably tell
you who won't get him. The Cardinals, The Jets, the
Browns, you know, Oh my God. Any text worth reading before I
bounce here? It's been a good help me.
Just about a 2 hour show there, J Rod.
Let's see anything jumping out there, brother?
Not. Seeing, I mean, I'm just seeing
a lot of a lot of people hyped about that BF and T honestly.
Yeah, they loved it. I'm.
I'm seeing J Rod strive to be a producer like Dove.
No, no. Dove.
Oh, my God.
It's OK. It's OK.
I know you know that. Dove I missed.
Yeah, yeah, what a what a sweetheart, man, What a
gentleman. Dove was great like.
I got to get in the temple some more for that too.
Man you. Do I got.
I don't let Dove know that you're skipping out on Temple.
I mean, man, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll light you
up. Dove is one of the most
beautiful human beings I've ever met.
He really is a good man. Now, I'll also say he was very
frustrating at times to work with.
Don't take this the wrong way. If somebody's going to clip this
and it's going to think I'm clowning on Dove, I'm not.
I really love the guy and he's a lifer and he's a great person,
but like sometimes he would like he was so literal with the rate
like me and Sal, we tell him to do something or me Tiki never
told. I would tell him, you know, like
hey, have this ready or I'd open up his mic and I'd like I'd hope
like and then I just thought I'm like, it's not his thing.
Like for a witty response, like, you know, evidentique, he could
say, all right, you know, Morash say something or Tommy say
something back in the day, you know, or even Al or or you know,
schizarry with the morning show, basically every show but ours,
and we had hafu could do that too.
But with dove, like the the show would come through a screeching
halt. His timing, his his comedic
timing was not good, But everything else about that man
is a genuinely phenomenal, fantastic human being.
You know, I was thinking about I don't I don't know, I don't
know, like I know that there's a good amount of hits with La
Greca. Kay did very well terms, you
know, Instagram and and obviously YouTube and all the
other stuff and Stephen A is going to explode and when we get
a rod on and Boone on Pitino was pretty good numbers as well.
I don't know, You think it would be worth having like somebody
like Mink on for a little bit to talk about the history of the
station? Oh, I think that would be
awesome. You think think so I.
Think it'd be super cool, yeah. But he's not a great
storyteller. Sure.
OK. He's not.
See, he's a little. Bit like dove in that.
Regard yeah, I mean that might make it a little tough.
I just I mean, and this just might be me, you know, I I think
I'm a little bit different from, you know, your direct audience.
Like I always find it interesting like these
conversations where they really get into the weeds about like
the industry stuff and they kind of go behind the scenes.
I always find that interesting just because it kind of, you
know, shows the process of like how the shows you watch, you
know, get put together. But I'm, you know, not sure if
other people are so. I, I think people love that.
I think if you, if you look at anything, that's why I like the
rating. Like the radio wars when there
was ratings battles, like anytime Raisman would write
something or anytime Marshan would weigh in with ratings
news, The Michael Kay Show, Mike Francesa, you know, Eddie Show.
I mean, really, if you think about it like for a long time
that that was, that was really, really good content because
people crave that. I actually think that they
really would, yeah, value some of those old stories, especially
the older fans. WhatsApp.
Yeah, he said. Anyone that you can bring on the
show to talk about the history of the fan, I feel the fans of
this channel would certainly appreciate.
I agree with that. Yeah, I I do agree with that.
And I know somebody asked me what about Mike Francesa.
I I was texting with Mike the other day about something.
Yeah. Any interest in having Francesa
on Avery? Absolute interest.
And I'm going to, I'm, it's funny, I, I saw Mike.
What night was that may have been the Villanova game.
He was at the game with the sun, St.
John's at the Garden. I know he's been to a few games
this year, maybe 3 weeks ago, something like that.
Maybe it was right after the UConn beat town, then beat down,
then St. John's won by 30, whatever it
was. And I saw, I saw Mike on the
court before the game. And again, Mike's Mike's a tough
nut to crack on occasion, on occasion, but I've got to not
oversell on this here. We don't talk on the phone, the
occasional text here. But I do have at least a decent
relationship with Mike, even though we had that blow up back
in the day. Anyway, so I I see him and I had
met his son one other time, good young man playing college
football. And we were talking shooting the
shit. And I said, hey, I said Mike, I
said, would you, I see, you know, I know you're not a big
podcast guy. Would you would you come on my
new podcast? And I already knew.
So I beat him to the punch. I said not to talk about the new
shows or carton. I know their relationship, even
though Craig said he would. He would have lunch with him.
I guess I saw that the other day and he would break bread after
that. That, that, that, that, that.
Frosty. Relationship, you see that?
Yeah, I saw. That I just wanted to beat him
to the punch. Like, not about me and Sal
getting bounced. Just about, you know, the
Yankees and the Giants and the draft and early you and dog and
stuff. He's like, yeah, he's like, I
would do that. So Mike actually said he would.
Come on, I'll get him on. I watched a 2 hour, maybe not
that long but it was like an hour compilation of just like
his funniest moments yesterday. You did roll and do.
What was the funniest one to you?
My gosh, there's this one. Well, this one was just wild.
This one dude called and he was like and he was like, is there a
possibility that an MLB team could go 162 and O?
And then Mike? Just starts going he was like,
yeah, kid, don't you remember when the Bulls went 81 and one
back in 96? And then the kid was like, yeah,
I do remember that. I.
Do remember. That and then Mike was like,
yeah, all right, have a good one.
See, that's funny because that is something like I could see
myself doing. Mike usually doesn't present it
that way. Usually when somebody calls with
something dopey Mike, you'll get the hand wave from Mike.
You know, get the What do you? Do for a living?
Hey, what do you do for a living?
Yeah, like he'll just basically he he won't, he won't play along
Like that's something like me and Sal would have done or, or I
would do on my on my own or, you know, I, I most people, Mike
usually just has no time for that, for that stupidity or that
wackiness. He's just going to kind of cut
you off and, as I said, give you the hand wave.
I'm surprised he actually did that, though.
There was a lot, I mean, you know, the time somebody called
up and said, hey, Mike, do you think that the New York Football
Giants and the San Francisco Giants beat up for lunch when
the Giants were in town to play the Yankees or the Mets?
Like, God, I listen, people, there's a lot of stuff out there
about Mike, you know, where you can clown him for a couple
things where, you know, did he, did he nod off?
Did he fall asleep on the air that one time?
Yeah, he fell asleep. His eyes shut for a second.
Or, you know, somebody. Oh, I saw Kay going off.
Oh, my gosh. I saw that.
Clip yesterday too. Yeah, from Michael.
Kay one. That was nuts.
Yep, Yep, Yep. But here's the thing.
When you're on air for that long for 20 something years and then
you've got now you went to the digital world and you're
simulcast on yes, as he was all those years.
You can have a moment or two like where it's like, all right,
meant something went wrong. So you know, whatever.
I mean, Mike's far from perfect, I can promise you that.
But I mean we've all had moments on the air where it's like,
jeez, why did that happen or why did I do that or what the fuck
happened? How did I mess that up?
All right, so I guess, I guess you guys would want to hear a
little bit about that, but I guess you know why I've
hesitated. I'm going to let you go here.
What I don't want this content to be about is me just waxing
about WFAN because quite frankly, I just don't care that
much anymore. I don't, I don't care what, like
why should I care that much about them when they didn't care
enough to keep me? I'm just keeping it real.
Like, why? Like I'm not going to do a
channel on, you know, the history of WFAN over and over.
That's I have no interest in doing that now.
I grew up loving WFAN. And even though I just said what
I said, I, I still respect the company.
You know, they made a decision, as I've said many times, I
absolutely think it was the wrong one.
I think they got rid of the wrong show, whatever.
I don't own the company, so I don't control that.
I can only react to what they did.
And here we are reacting to what they did and we'll become bigger
than we ever were. But I think that for me, it's
not very appealing to always go back to, you know, and I was
only there a couple years, but I mean, just the history, you
know, I got other things to do. But I do think, you know, in
selected spots there it will be, of course, I'm going to get Sal
back up soon. That's different because we were
partners. I'd love to get Mike on for at
least once there. I will maybe the maybe we will
do the Minko. Maybe we will do the Minko angle
because I could tie in with Mink Saint John's, the NCAA
Tournament. Maybe, maybe I'll do something
like that with Mink. But I'm not going to relive the
past. There's a line, Jay, I don't
know if you remember this line. I don't know if it's verbatim,
but there's a line where Tony says in The Sopranos, like the
smallest form of human communication begins missing.
Oh, I remember. Remember.
Yeah, remember when? Oh, OK, there we go.
And what he means by that, it's pretty basic.
But if you don't really know what he means, what, what what
he's saying is if all you do is sit around and say, oh, remember
when, remember when. Like if you always have to rely
on remember when, you're probably not creating very
interesting stuff. Now, now that's my.
No, I mean, that's, that's the truth about life.
That's the truth about obviously not only content creation, but
like, like the man Tony said, just conversation in general.
Like, you know, the reminiscing it doesn't it get, you know,
obviously can get you a little nostalgic, but it doesn't get
you anywhere progressive. Correct, correct. 100%.
Now that's that's going to happen.
Susan will absolutely come on. Love Susan.
She joined Sam and I quite a bit.
We had her on a lot on the fan, so she is awesome.
Yep, she's on my list. I've actually on one of my notes
I've got. I came up with like 67 names.
I was just literally going through my phone, Jay on Sunday,
sitting in here doing some stuff, getting getting ready and
I went from A-Z and I just wrote down every name.
Now some there was already like 15 names already on the list,
but just wrote down that that could be interesting up.
Yep, still have his number up. Got her number.
Like that's good. Oh, the other one I'm gonna have
Nikki Ladarullo. You know, Nikki from SNY.
Nikki Nikki Ladarullo let. Me look up a picture real quick.
Yeah, you'll, you'll know, you'll if you see her, you'll
know her. She does a lot of stuff for S&Y
and she's done a lot of stuff on the St.
John's beat that's basically turned into one of her beats.
So she's been at a lot of St. John's.
Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, always interviews Rick on the, you know, in the bowels of
the Garden. And she did travel up to
Providence last year for the NCAA Tournament and she's going
to travel this year too. So I, I saw, I mean, I see her a
lot, but I said, Hey, would you come on the show?
She's like, absolutely. She's a young she because she's
one of the few like she's young. I think she's my, I don't want
to give out a woman's age, but I know that she's fairly young.
Certainly everybody's young compared to me at this point in
the industry, most people. But she, she's definitely
younger than 30, put it that way.
And she she's one of those young St.
John's fans, like she loves St. John's from the time like she
post pictures of like when she's two years old holding like a St.
John's basketball. So I think it would be pretty.
Plus she's very good at her job and she's younger and she's cool
and she's one of the new broadcasters.
So she's definitely going to come up.
But the point is I've got a full page of everybody that I want.
So as you can tell, the guest becoming more prominent K was
money. The Greca was great.
If you guys just tuned in, communicated with Stephen A
yesterday, he's going to come on in all probability next week.
He's got a little medical procedure.
As long as he's OK, we'll lock it in next week.
I've got to work it around my St.
John's travel. We'll get Mink up for the
tournament. We'll get Sal back on.
We got the BT and Sal show coming up and I checked the
tickets. There's definitely still some
left. Decent amount have been sold.
It's in Wantah. It is at Mulcahy's, which is a
great venue. Francesca used to do his NFL
Sunday show. They were a lot.
It's in Wantaho, Long Island, and it's going to be April 2nd.
It's me. It's Sal, and it's our buddy
Carl Banks. So Carl's going to be up there.
And it's actually, it's a sick venue.
When I used to go there, it was just a cool bar.
Now it's. It's like, yeah.
Oh, look, J Rock, look, look at them.
Didn't even have to tell you didn't even think you were going
to do that. You know what, J Rock?
Keep that up as I. You've earned some stripes here
today. You know why the number one, you
dropped the F bomb. Not that I needed you to do
that, but it showed some heart. It showed some heart.
Show me that you're a foxhole kind of guy.
Yeah. And then as we got into, you
know, the Allen the Jerry stuff and some of the other stuff that
you've done, you were very quick and very clear to communicate
that there is me and there is everybody else.
So I now know. And even though I kind of knew
this and I felt this before today that you commute, you can
get that down now that you communicated this to the world.
I know I now to my. Other host better watch this
episode. Yeah, yeah, you are a foxhole
type. Slap a stripe on the sleeve.
That is a good job out of you brother.
Big time Thank you. Thanks for listening everyone.
Nice job, dude. All right, let me bounce.
I think I might go get a car wash today.
Yeah, I have a maybe. I'm not ready to go yet.
I think one of the great deals. I'm a fanatic with my car.
I really AM. And I, you know, I, I just, it's
like a clean car. There's just something about
getting into an SUV, any car. I've got an SUV that that's just
spotless. It, it just shines and the
leather's nice and it smells good.
It's so hard. Like with all the baseball
equipment. That's not a complaint.
I love it. But that's everywhere, dude.
You know, you, you have a yogurt going to practice, you have a
piece of fruit, bananas half eaten.
You got the peel in the back seat.
You got this bat that you outgrew that's now in the back
seat. That's here.
You, you, you, you, you were going from basketball to
baseball. So now your basketball shorts
are there as you put on your baseball, your cup and your
pants. And it looks like a little like
a little Modell's or a little Dick's Sporting Goods store.
So I've got to clean it up, right.
So I think I'm going to go do that now, but I'll tell you what
one of the best deals Jay pop in for a SEC.
I pay cuz like car washes aren't cheap.
And when I used to go, when I used to go to get car wash, a
car wash my dad would give me. This was in college, 20 bucks a
long time ago. And I was going out to Long
Island and I was going to spend the night right.
And I would guess up at a mobile with my little Honda Civic,
which was brand new, but I had 10 bucks a gas.
I get a tennis skull long cut Wintergreen.
I get a bottle of water and I'd have like 3-4 bucks leftover for
a slice of pizza. Now, I mean, that sounds like
the 1950s, but but it actually you could do that.
Now a car wash, you know, you got to get the lava, you got to
get got 9000 different variations.
You got the presidential suite. Just wash the car, will you?
Right. And and what I can't stand is
when they wash the outside and they don't do anything to these.
I can wash the outside. I need the inside done.
So what I do is, and I don't know if you've seen this, I
don't know if you're a car wash guy.
I'm a car. I'm not snobby about much.
I'm a, I'm a weather snob. I always know what the weather
is going to be. And I'm a car wash now and I'm a
baseball gear and a, and a content snob.
That's about it, right? And I had this deal.
I've done this for a long time where I pay, I think it's like
70 bucks a month and it comes right out of my checking, like
right out of the boom, right out.
I could literally go and get the car washed every single day if I
want. My dad's got the same exact
thing. Your dad's smart, same exact
deal. Go in, go in whenever, any day,
and he'll go. In pretty often, once a week,
whatever, you know, just get it cleaned up, get the whole thing
done and it's like, yeah, what a deal.
Yeah, well, it's fun. I'm like my dad in this regard.
When I was younger now, we didn't have a brand new car when
I was, when I was my kids age now, but my dad was always an
early riser and he'd get up on Saturdays and he would go to
the, and I would go with him and I loved it.
My sister would sleep, right? But it was, you know, dad and
son going around because we, we then we'd go to practice, right?
We'd go to the cleaners, he'd go and get the newspapers and then
we'd go to the diner. Sometimes we go to the diner
after practice and we get the car wash and I just, I don't
know, it's like it's one of these small things in life that
is incredibly gratifying, the special, you know what I mean?
And I like to do that because a lot of times, like not this week
coming up, but the following week I'm going to be down in
Jackson, NJ, which is great adventure if you know the area
for my son for his first club tournament.
And it's about an hour and 15 minute ride, but it's early
enough and it's all good. It's a great facility, great
competition. Awesome, right?
But I'll get up early and, you know, I'll say, all right, Dad
is going to get the car washed. I'll get your Gatorade.
You know, the food's out, the uniform's out.
And I'll sometimes go and get a car wash.
So, you know, if I have a long ride in front of me.
Yeah. It's just a sense of calm when I
things are sparkling. And I got the music and I got.
Yeah, I just. No, I like it that way.
I like that good way to treat yourself.
I feel like a small. Thing it's all about a little
incremental joy there and really it makes economic sense because
now if you don't use it like sometimes, like if we go away,
you know, say if we're away at the beach for a week in the
summer or where Texas with the in laws, whatever it might be,
you know, maybe I only use it twice that month, then maybe you
could say, well, the value's not great.
But you know, generally I would say nine months of the year,
maybe even 10, I will get at least at least three, at least
four, well, at least once a week.
So it's always shiny. So I'm going to go do that.
Now I've got some other stuff to do.
I'm going to speak to Verizon tomorrow.
So I'm going to have to cut short a little tomorrow.
What's up? No, I think we have to leave
around 12. No, it actually probably be
probably be probably be a full show, probably be a full show
tomorrow. So that's all I got.
Anything before we roll. I got nothing.
Keep the likes up, keep hype the video up.
Give us some more hypes. Yeah, Yeah, we don't like on
this on. Yeah, I don't.
I don't like to beg, but sometimes you got to beg.
Yeah, I'm not above begging. I mean, you know, I'm going to
get a little preachy now. You guys got to do a better job
with the likes and the shares. Just got to do a better job.
I mean, I'm giving you my heart and so I'm coming, coming,
correct every day. It's not like I'm on for 9
minutes and then I'm on for I am I'm here at 10:00 every day.
This is the show. Not to mention some other stuff
like, you know, the Mets and the Yankees line up and the biggie
stuff and the guest and stuff. I'm here every day for you.
All right, you guys got to carry the mail a little bit better.
Like the numbers are good. We're going to clip 1,000,000
total views this week, which I can't wait.
That's going to be a real. Honor.
And it's going to be, you know, in years from now, it's going to
be a very humble checkpoint. But right now, that's a big
thing. But you got to, you got, you got
to do more. You got to let people and you
got to like it. You got to subscribe.
You got to share it. J Rod, let's go do your job.
Yeah, as Belichick would say, do your job.
Or as Nike would say, just do it.
Just hit that. Like just hit that.
Like hit. I mean the sub.
The sub is the sub is so easy. That's basic stuff.
If you're not subbing, that's not, you're not behind me.
If you're not subbing, you're not with us.
If you're not subbing, I mean either subbing or you're against
us is really how you know it's what it is.
But yeah, also I'm for next for next show.
I'm definitely gonna over tonight overnight.
I'm gonna look into those polls. I think that'd be like super fun
little thing in the middle of the episode.
So let's look into it and let's have a great episode tomorrow.
I. Love it, dude.
Attaboy. J Rod.
Good work. Today I'm gonna send that stripe
over by FedEx. Put that on the on the arm.
A little stripeage there for my Guy J Rod.
All right guys, I got a roll. Have a fantastic Wednesday
Biggies tournament underway. Johnnys playing tomorrow
obviously whatever. Providence Butler, no bigger
stage than the Garden. I love it, it is awesome.
Selection Sunday coming it wanted to get some St.
John's content. Go find the Patino spot he was
on 2 days ago. Money had him on about 45
minutes had Donny on Don Lagreca yesterday, Kay from last week,
Stephen A next week, like and subscribe.
All that good stuff so you guys know where I'm coming from.
Appreciate you guys. Hopefully you enjoyed the show.
Back tomorrow at 10. See you then.
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