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Yeah, yeah. I'm not even going to waste much
time to start the show on, on how aggravated I was yesterday
over the smallest thing. Had a great day, right?
Went to medieval times, which somehow I've never done before.
And we had a blast, right? So anyway, I ordered these and
then I'm going to get into the show.
But it's got to give you a little, a little behind the
curtain because man, I was, I was so pissed yesterday.
So I ordered these things for the light because as you can
tell, it's still reflecting everywhere.
And I and the research that I did to get the right ones, I, I
can't even tell you how deeply I dove into finding these.
Right. Finally found them, order them.
It was supposed to come Sunday. I thought I'd have them for
Monday show. Not a big deal.
Roll with the punches, click by click, brick by brick.
It's all good. So when I get back from medieval
times, not there. I'm like, I'm kind of, I'm
waiting for like a kid on Christmas.
Finally around 738 o'clock at night, they show up and I tear
into the package. I'm like, let's go get the
ladder. Could not wait to go to work
because they're these kind of like these self affixing things
that you put over recessed lighting and it basically it
obscures the light coming this way, which is you can tell it's
still there anyway, what absolute garbage, what junk
these things were. I hang the first one.
There's four of them in my office, 4 recessed lights,
right? Hang the first one.
Such pride. I'm like, oh nice, I've got the
lights on. I could see that it's not
banging off the back anymore. I'm like here we go.
This is what I needed. Put up the second one.
As I'm putting up the second one, think the first one drops.
I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
All right then I go back, I put the ladder, I re reattach it, go
back to finishing the second one go to the third one.
Think think I almost put my fist through the wall and I but I but
I held it together. I inwardly I was about to
explode like a volcano because I can't stand getting
misrepresented like I didn't really know what the rules are
with with this. I'm going to stop short of
burying a company on YouTube because I don't want the channel
to get any. You know, I don't want to have
any issues with the show on the stream, but when I find out that
there are no issues in terms of saying what you want about a
product, this product is going to and this company is going to
I'm going to dismantle this company.
J Rod. It drove me.
Bonkers trying to no this is wild.
I, I I can't even tell you. And by the way, it would
actually be a lot worse. So then what do I do?
I run through a hardware store. I'm like trying to like, and I'm
not listen, I'm not the handiest guy around the house.
I, I did some construction back in college, but that was demo
like I would come in with the sledgehammer and just smash
walls and, you know, grunt work and clean it up.
I got no problem working hard, but in terms of like building
and creating stuff, I'm not exactly that guy.
So I'm like, all right, we, we, we've got a, we've got a piece,
some plan together. I go to the hardware store.
I'm looking for some sort of blackout, some sort of nothing,
nothing. You know, I, I knew they
wouldn't actually have recessed lighting covers that would be
too easy to black it out. So I wind up getting black,
black construction paper and I'm thumbtacking and black
sandpaper. So I'm thumbtacking back to the
top of the ceiling. So it drove me nuts.
But now that that's out of the way.
But when I find out what I can really do in terms of land
basting a company, a specific company without getting in
trouble, This company's getting no more business the rest of
their existence. I'm going to destroy you.
Get on them. I am going to eviscerate them.
I can't tell you how mad I was. So with that being said, hey,
rods back all good. Let's start the show.
All right, very interesting baseball day yesterday.
Listen, I know you guys love when we talk baseball.
So this is going to be a big baseball show.
I got a little something with NFL free agency as well.
But yesterday was a very, very interesting day for both the
Yankees and the Mets. Now, you know, you kind of go
through the the early phases of spring training couple of grand
it you know what's funny about spring training?
I do find this very interesting. Anytime you see any footage of
anybody at spring training, they're never working hard.
Like they're always jogging every ground ball like you doing
a little. I, I saw the Yankees doing some
plays yesterday, infield up play to play.
I mean, my son could have caught those balls when he was five.
I mean, the, the exit below may have been 30 miles an hour.
Can we ramp it up a little bit? I mean, it's not like you got
Ozzy Smith and Don Mattingly out there.
Let's get these guys some work. I'm like, good God.
Anyway, I'm watching the the footage and like every Sprint is
like a jog. Every throw is just like a
little lazy. Yeah, let me.
And I know they're stretching out the labrums.
Trust me, I get that. I'm kind of being facetious.
I know they're put in the work, but every time you see any sort
of outside of when they're hitting, did you see the bomb
that Judge hit yesterday off 103 mile per hour fastball?
My judge is ready, Judge. Judge is ready to hit and Judge
is ready to speak, which is what we start.
J Rod, get this up for me, please.
Wow. Now the Yankees are very
interesting. They are very, very lucky.
Little slow on that J Rod there, but that's OK.
The graphic. Look at that sick graphic.
Look at J Rod put in the time. Now this was Arrow Judge
yesterday. Quote.
I'm seeing other teams around the league get better.
They're making trades, they're signing big prospects or big
players. And we kind of what we're
sitting there for a while kind of making smaller moves.
And here's the muddy part. And you can tell when this came
out of his mouth, he was kind of that like that reflexive.
All right, let me drop in an impish grin.
So everybody knows I'm not really crushing the Yankees.
But boy, oh boy, did this resonate because we've been
saying this forever. I was like, quote, we're the New
York Yankees. Let's go out there and get the
right people, get the right pieces and finish this thing
off. That was of course, the great
almighty, you know, incomparable, awesome, all time
legend Aaron Judge. Now I can get that off there
that that that really does look good.
I like that J Rod, well done. So see, first of all, the
Yankees are lucky that Aaron Judge is not a troublemaker like
they are lucky that their best player and the best player that
I've ever seen, you know, that I've ever seen with all the
respect to Griffey and maybe a young Mike Trout and a few
others. But it's it's Aaron Judge for me
and I think it's Aaron Judge for many.
It's debatable. It's fine, but just to keep it
moving for me, you know what's Judge?
But they are lucky that Ara Judge is wired in a way that
there's great sensitivity and great appreciation for what a
story can bring in terms of heat.
Because if you watch that, if you watch that, you could tell,
you know, because he gave it away a few times, like where he
incorporates that that big granite, He kind of goes like
this. He's like, and you know, right
there what's banging around his head, he is processing very
quickly. All right, I got to walk the
line of I'm not going too deep here, but I got to keep it a
little real. You know, I got to keep it a
buck. I got to.
And that's about as buck as Aaron Judge is going to get
because he's not combative. He's not emotionally
combustible. He is as steady and as good a
citizen as you could possibly employ.
I mean, he's just the best. So if it was me, and I'd like to
think I'm a good citizen as well, but I've got, I've got a
limit as to how far. Like if I'm him, I'm going to
sit there and keep my mouth shut and watch these other teams go
out there and do what they're doing.
And we're just pretty much running it back now.
I don't want to get back into the hole.
Oh, we're running it back. Oh, we're not running it back.
Conversation. We've had that a million ways
sideways. Gerrit Cole, more stars with
Schlittler. They're not exactly running it
back. But I mean, it's pretty freaking
close. I mean, if you really think
about it, maybe I will have to expand on this for a second.
Who's playing first base opening day?
Ben Rice, I love him. Who's playing second?
Jazz, He's back. Who's playing short Caballero,
then Bolby back, back. Who's playing third?
McMahon, Who's behind the plate? Austin Wells, who's in center,
Grisham, Who's in right Judge, Who's in left?
Bellinger, Who's the DH Stanton? I mean, if that's not the
ultimate definition of running it back, at least in terms of
the line up, I don't know what to tell.
You see the thing that's very interesting about this and I, I
do wish at times Aaron was a little more assertive.
Like I respect the way he handled this.
I, I respect the way he kind of, you know, mid delivery pivoted
to make sure it was all right. Let's, let's not have this thing
go off the rails here. He's a smart guy that is very
good person. So we're not looking to stir
things up, you know, unnecessarily.
But I would have loved to have heard that a month and a half
ago. That's where it really would
have hit the mark. Could you imagine if Aaron Judge
would have said that 30 days ago, like before Bellinger
signed and, you know, we didn't know what was going on here.
Could you imagine the the lightning that like the storm,
the tsunami of a of, of coverage and everybody chiming in.
Wow, Now you getting it a little bit today because he still said
it and it's and J Rod throw that back up once more if you can,
please. I just aesthetically it's very
look at that, like I see that I'm like, alright, I'm doing a
real show. Like now we're starting to
incorporate graphics. Oh, it's on.
I mean J Rod is it's one thing to do the show in the basement
with no real Wi-Fi and no microphone.
But look at that. I know the lighting sucks.
I get that, but man I got feel like I'm.
On real here, it's getting real. It's getting real, bro.
We are. It is getting real.
Like, I could feel this. This is great, but how about
like those 112 lines? Really three.
I was like, we're the New York Yankees.
Let's go out and get the right people and finish this thing
off. I mean, now I do think thank you
for that, Jay. Ron, I do think that, you know,
when we get into these conversations, I do think it's a
little misleading of the sense. Not that I just blindly defend
the Yankees. I crushed the Yankees as much as
anybody, at least Brian Cashman, right.
But and how how to a lesser extent, but really Cashman from
a baseball point of view has been the source of my
consternation more than anybody. You know that well, chronicled
for years. Don't need to reset it right,
but the the like that that's what people reach for where the
Yankees act like the Yankees remember who you are.
Remember, you know, do what George used to do, which is
never going to happen be the Yankees.
Remember you're the Yankees. Like that is a mantra that is a
common refrain that I must have heard a million times on WFAN
with Sal and even with Tiki before that, like I've just
heard that forever. Now, I do think it gets a little
hijacked because then you hear people saying, well, the Yankees
are cheap, though they're not. They got top three, top four
payroll. Shut up.
You sound like an idiot when you see you sound misinformed.
You sound uninformed. You sound unnecessarily angry
like like let's create in a space where we can always keep
it real, which I always will, but also incorporate.
I don't know if this little thing that they call facts
somewhere along the way. The Yankees will be good this
year. The Yankees will make the
playoffs this year if Judge is healthy.
Knock on wood, Judge will win the MVP this year.
I think what it's all said and done, the Yankees will have the
best rotation in the American League, possibly in all the
baseball. And I do think the Yankees, if
for once they could get a little lucky and I don't know, maybe by
the trade deadline, find an actual lead off hitter, which
would change the the entire complexion of their team.
I think that the Yankees maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe could mess
around, get back to and maybe win a World Series for the first
time in a gazillion years. Maybe.
Like I'm not betting on that. I don't think that that's going
to happen. But to say that it's it's, it's,
it's completely without possibility now.
You just being unfair, right. And and when I heard that, like
I was actually in my office, right?
There was some stuff for the show today.
And I heard that and like, you know, most of it was fairly
benign at the star, like, hey, I was kind of sitting here.
But when I heard that line, you should have seen my face.
I wish it was on camera. I was like this.
I was like, what did he say? What?
All right, Cap, here you go. Now just imagine if that was
said a month ago. Now I also think that and I
really do believe this like and it's listen, it's happened to me
on occasion on the radio. Not often because I say what I
what I feel and you know, I say what I believe.
But there are times, you know, when you are going down the road
and your thoughts are getting a little convoluted on a very
important topic, maybe something not that I really throw politics
out there a lot. You guys know that.
But like I make make sure that you don't just sloppily finish
your sentence so that it could get misconstrued and hijacked.
Like you've got to finish the thought and make sure it's
coherent and people know where you stand, right?
And it, it's a very hard thing to explain.
And Aaron Judge is not a professional communicator.
He's a he's a professional baseball player.
But when you're a professional baseball player and when you're
Aaron Judge and you play for the Yankees, in essence, you become
a pseudo professional communicator, whether it's body
language or of the verbal sense. And it's a real interesting art
how you thread the needle of thinking and speaking at the
same time. Like the one thing that that is
not even a challenge, but it it is what it is like it's become
already very natural. But the biggest difference for
me doing this show versus being on terrestrial, more
conventional radio is that number one, I've I've had a
partner most of most of my not not not all of it most of my
career. And there's this, this like
diversion, self reflective tactic that you use as a, as a,
not as a weapon, but it's a tool to construct thoughts.
Like you could just throw out a phone number and like, say, if
you don't have something to say, you throw out the number.
And as you're throwing out the number, you're also
simultaneously constructing your next thought.
So you're you learn very quickly.
And I don't know that I did that as effectively when I first
started. It becomes again, it becomes a
tool, a very useful prop, if you will, to just kind of keep the
train moving and continue that the conversation.
Now, I think that Aaron Judge yesterday in his mind very
quickly understood, especially that point about where the
Yankees let's act like it, you know, let what are we doing
here? I think that he knew right, Like
that was a point of inflection, like that was a that was a speed
bump in his mind where he's like where he's like, oof.
All right, let me quickly correct this because then and we
don't know, we don't need to throw it back up on the board
because we don't have this part that's not as important to me.
But when he says, yeah, we got Grinch, we got Belly, we got
this with the bullpen, we went, you know, we're ready.
I like what we had. Then he went into, I don't want
to say damage control because it wasn't very damaging what he
said. But, you know, I let me just if
there's a little flickering flame, let me just douse that
out with some water and end with some positivity.
And, you know, project to the entire baseball world and the
the baseball community that I think that we have what it takes
to win a championship. I don't think that they have
what it takes to win a championship.
And deep down, I don't think he does either.
I really don't. Now, I know it's different when
you play with somebody. Let me give you an example.
Like, I can sit here and until I'm blue in the face, which I've
always done. And going back to, you know
what, when the Yankees were debating on whether or not they
should extend the $22 million qualifying offer to Trent
Grisham, you know my take on that, I would not have done it.
Now, I don't actually think that the Yankees got fooled.
Some people think that they did, that they misread it or that
they offered it and they knew he wasn't going to take it.
And then they were, oh, wow, we took it.
Or what are we going to do? Like because if you really think
about now I got to be fair, if you think about the production
that he brought to the table a year ago, 34 bombs whatever 240
is 250 average less concerned with the average on base decent
OP has very good over 800 and I know that his defensive metrics
took a little bit of a step back.
I still think he's a pretty good center fielder.
If he hits thirty home runs and has an 8 O3 OPS for 22,000,000
bucks, that's a steal. That's a steal in modern
baseball in the year 2026. My problem is we're hits in the
order, so it's easy for me to say, well, that's not what I'm
looking for. Struggles against good lefties.
Do I really trust him against the lead pitching?
Do I want him at the the the battle before Aaron Judge in a
high leverage spot? No, I don't.
I I want somebody like Steven Quan.
I want somebody like Derek Jeter.
I'm not to put Quan and Jeter in the same sentence, but certainly
not equivocating the two. I want somebody like Chuck
Knobloch. I would even take somebody like
Wade Boggs. Who is it on base machine?
I mean, obviously vintage Boggs. I mean more so bogs with the
Yankees guys like that, yes, I want a more conventional lead
off hitter. I don't know the judge looks at
it that way cuz it's his teammate, it's his boy and his
boy hit 34 home runs and he did some good things on the field.
So I, I don't think that it's, it's apples to apples how we
view what the Yankees are and the players that they either
retained or have brought in. I think it's a little different
in his mind cuz it's just a, a different synergy because when
you play with somebody and the guy in front of you hits 34 home
runs, I mean, it's tough to shit on him.
It, it just is. But we, what we do is because,
you know, he wasn't around in 2010 and 2011 and 2012 and 2013
and all those empty years without the championship.
What we do is we package up all of our energy and all of our
anger and all of our distaste for what Brian Cashman has done,
or maybe more specifically has not done the last X amount of
years. And we presented as now like is
1 big ball of discontent and all those years before Aaron Judge
got there. It doesn't register on his
emotional meter because it doesn't affect him.
It just doesn't. So, but really interesting,
really interesting and absolutely on point, absolutely
inbounds. I wish you would have actually
gone even further and I wish you would have said it a month ago.
I wish you would have said it right after the season ended.
All right, you get bounced by Toronto.
Toronto clearly the superior team.
I'm let's not, let's not fool anybody here.
Toronto beat the crap out of him during the regular season and
they punk them in the playoffs. They absolutely smack the
Yankees, right. So to me, if anybody had a
license or the latitude to show frustration, and I mean
legitimate without parsing it, it's our boy number 99.
Because I think at that point, even though, you know, I, I
think I played the the corporate game well, I think I've always
been a good employee. I show up, I work hard, I
produce, get ratings, get revenue, good soldier, no
problems. Like that's how I was raised.
But like there's a point where if something's awry and you've
earned the right to say, I'm not saying I'm married, judge,
that's ridiculous. But you know, when you earn the
right based on how you comport yourself over years and how you
produce, he would have been well within bounds.
And I wish he would have actually done that.
I really do. Because now, like what?
What does it really mean now? Don't mean much now because
there's nothing else to do, you know.
So that was Aaron Judge. That was Aaron.
I'll get to code in a little bit at Avery Summit BT this week.
Offseason mindsets been there since Jeter and company have
gone. Passing on Harper, Machado,
Seeger, etcetera became regularities, not outliers.
Killer mindsets gone. Hashtag be real.
Yeah, I I, I think that that's a very fair assessment and, and
assertions that are on point. Listen, here's what I say about
the Yankees. Right.
This is where, again gets hijacked.
Do I think the Yankees want to win?
Of course. I think that the Yankees want to
win. And if you don't think that the
Yankees want to win, you're an idiot.
I got to know what else to tell you.
You're misreading the situation. You're off base and you're
unfair. The difference?
All right, let's cut them up this way.
Winning used to be the oxygen for the Yankees.
If they didn't win, they couldn't breathe.
Well, they're not winning. They're still finding a way to
get some, you know, some, some oxygen pumping through those
lungs. That's the difference.
They want to win. They try to win.
They are not fixated on winning. It's a massive difference.
That's that's true. Like that's a very fair scouting
report on the Yankees. I think a lot of the other stuff
is a little bit off base and I've said many times, but I just
think that the and by the way, I get it, like when fans are
frustrated, things are going to come out.
You know, they just watch what happens.
Watch what happens with the Knicks this year.
Like if the Knicks don't win it and I don't like, let's say if
the Knicks get like if the Knicks got bumped in the first
round, good God. I mean, it's going to be it's
going to be anarchy. If the and the Knicks play the
Pistons on Thursday at the Garden, you better show up for
that, Kate Nicks, Like you better have gotten the memo when
they kicked your face in last Friday by 38 points.
All right, Brunson and Cat Love that they won whatever that
stupid competition was. Alvin Houston, good for them.
Get a couple of days off your feet.
Come back and show the Pistons and show us that you mean
business. But like, if the Knicks ever
lost in the first round and even if they lose in the second
round, it is going to be off the chart emotion and that will be
fair. Like there are points where even
those who are in the trenches and the most convicted believers
in a player or management team or or a roster, like if they
lose in round two and and you still believe that they can win
with Cat, he could be the second best player on the championship
team, which, you know, clearly. I I don't think at all.
I'm hoping, but I don't think that one bit, Although I do
love, you know, Alvarado, the other pick up from the Spurs.
I like what they did there. I just don't think they're going
to win, right? But even if you're the most
ardent cat supporter, watch what happens if they get bounced
early and he doesn't play well. Because if he doesn't play well,
they will get bounced early. So there'll be a direct
correlation there. So it's OK to react with Venom
and, you know, with transparency, like I think that
you should. I I do think that the Yankees
are a little different because the Knicks standard has never
been the Yankees standard. The Mets standard has never been
the Yankees standard. The Ranger or Islander Islanders
with the four straight back of the day, sure, but after that or
the devils standard has never been the Yankees standard.
The Jets, certainly The Jets have never been the Yankees
standard. Like the one that's closest here
would be the Giants. You know, and when you have that
kind of a standard, you're going to react probably a little bit
early and a little bit more emotionally that if it's a
different team that you expect less from.
So this is all, you know, in a long roundabout way.
This is all about the model that the Yankees created themselves
by always winning and when they didn't win, doing whatever it
took to try to ensure that they would win.
That's got away. We all know that they want to be
good and they are going to be good.
We, we, we're used to them and not even used to it because
that's it's been a while. We used to be used to them.
The expectation used to be championship or every time.
Now the Yankees get bounced from the playoffs here.
Does anybody seem agitated? Does Hal ever come out and say,
all right, hey, here's the mandate if we don't get to the
World Series next year, Cashman's gone, managers gone,
this guy's gone. That's it.
I've spent 350 and I know he's talked about the money, but I've
spent 350. I believe this is a World Series
team, even though I don't. But if he said that it would be,
it would be cathartic because it will be a reminder what they
used to be. And the fact that Judge gave us
a little just a little sprinkle of of truth yesterday.
I appreciate it. On point.
And he didn't even have to go back and parse it with a smile
and then prop up the Grisham's and all the other stuff that you
know. And certainly Bellinger I'm
happy is back. But he didn't even have to do
that well within his rights to do that even more aggressively.
It's just not his style at Armand is amazing.
Thoughts on Tony Clark resigning as the MLBPA executive director
whatever. I mean you know Tony Clark class
act good ball player played for the Yankees for a minute.
You know I listen he he's paid his job is to represent the
players. And when you are test with that
you're going to alienate some people because some people will
perceive it to be greedy. Whatever I I I don't care figure
it out. That's it.
Remember the the unkillable ran you know.
Hey you know you might Yeah. Yeah.
Maybe one of the best receivers in the game.
This was a couple of years ago. And Garrett, what are the best
corners in the game in sauce? What are the best running backs
in the game? In brief, figure it out.
Figure it out, man. Figure it out.
Sit down, hit. Well, now, not him.
Now figure out who's going to be in charge.
I don't even know who it is, right?
And whomever it is, figure it out, figure it out.
So I can't, I can't. I can't derail the Show with
MLBPA. Boring, you know, legal
discussion. Who the hell wants the I don't
even want to talk about that now there will be a time and a place
for that that today is not that time nor is it that place.
All right, so here's the other thing.
And then I'm going to tell you a couple of things about I've got
to check my message in a moment. Got some news on the next BT and
Sal live show. Got some news and I'll get to
the Cohen stuff, Breeze Hall as well.
So in 15 or 20 years, right, is anybody going to, I mean, if
there's even conventional sports radio at that point, who knows?
But the content that will be out there and the people dissecting
the sports world, do you really think in like 15 or 20 years
anybody's going to be really worked up over a Brian Cashman
Hall of Fame debate? Does anybody really think that
Brian Cashman will generate such a visceral reaction comparing
him to other general managers that it's like it's going to be
an entire show or an entire? The answer is no.
It's going to be a point of reference and that's it, right?
Same with Aaron Boone. I mean, as much we love Joe
Torry with all those championships, we don't sit
around and, and, and debate Joe Torre's merits.
You know, is he better than Casey Stengel?
Is he better than Miller Huggins?
Is he better than Tommy Lasorda? You know, is he better than Tony
Larussa? We just don't do that.
Is he better than Sparky Anderson?
Big Red Machine? You don't do it because it's
it's number one, it's boring and it it's just, it's not really
interesting, which is also boring.
And it's very hard to definitively, you know, not that
you can't qualify wins and championships, but it's not the
same as stats. Let me tell you who is going to
be in the middle of these conversations, and that's number
99, Aaron Judge. And Aaron Judge does what he can
do. And the one who's going to be
most adversely affected from a legacy point of view is Aaron
Judge. So Aaron Judge is well within
his right to go out there and say whatever the hell he wants
to say. There is nothing pertaining to
baseball, the construction of the Yankees, the direction of
the Yankees, anything about a teammate, nothing that Aaron
Judge can ever say that will force me or prompt me to get on
Aaron Judge. Nothing.
So I wanted more, but it's a baby step, you know?
I mean, guys, Yankees, Yankees lose the World Series to the
Dodgers. Dodgers shit all over the
Yankees. Ah, they can't run.
They can't feel. We knew the scout report.
Anybody really, you know, fire back like fuck you LA, you know
anybody say that anybody just come out and really be
demonstrative in their defense of the Yankees?
The answer is no. I know, I know the boom resisted
a little bit. Any players really come out?
I mean really come out, The answer is no.
So there's, it almost seems like, and I know that this isn't
the right word because I know that they want to win.
Trust me, I do, I do. But there's almost like there's
this acceptance that will the Yankees bow out?
Like we're so tired of the ones always screaming.
You know, it's like if you're in a bad relationship and you're
the one, and I'm not saying the Yankees were a bad, it's not a
great comparison. But if you're in a bad
relationship and you try to change somebody or you're the
one who's putting the work in to change yourself and the other
person, boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse, what whatever it is best
friend and and they're not doing anything about it or they're not
doing nearly as much as you are. Are you going to want to keep
having that conversation because it's going to be a regurgitation
of the same thing. And the Yankee energy has
largely been Jabra. I keep that up, but a
regurgitation of the same stuff over and over and over.
So I think that I really, quite frankly, I think I'm one of the
few has this the right, as has this position properly where,
you know, I understand the Yanks are good.
I'm appreciative of that. But I also know what they used
to be and my targets, Cashman, like I, I don't think there's
any, anything nebulous about where I stand, where I sit,
nothing to interpret. You know how I feel about the
Yankees. And I have gotten frustrated
talking about the same things over and over and over.
It's a waste of energy. Hey, things don't change until
they change. I know that that's a Courtney
mantra, but it's true. Oh, I'm going to do this and
I'm, you know, New Year's Day. That's it.
I'm going to get in shape. I'm going to go to the gym all
the time. I'm going to eat healthy.
What are you doing on January 2nd?
You sucking down pizza? Did you did you join the gym?
Did you hit the cardio machine? Are you doing push ups?
Are you walking? Are you doing anything or is it
empty energy? It's empty energy.
Do something about it. You know, fired up today, J Rod.
God, I love talking baseball. All right, it's Matt.
Matt, Joe Kotner. Joe.
Matt. Matt.
Joe. What up, Matt?
Fans get fried by. Yeah, By I think that it's what.
All right, Fans get fried by media these days for reacting
with venom when the Yankees get bounced. 1 broadcaster says he's
sick of Yankee fans complaining. I I I think you're talking about
Michael, my buddy Michael Ki. Don't know.
I, I, I I don't think Paul O'Neill says that.
I don't think David Cone says that.
I don't think Dave Sims or Susan Waltman said that.
I mean, maybe they have. You're probably talking about
Michael. I'm going to get Michael on the
show. He's already committed.
Can't wait. Good friends with Michael.
Love him. Got a lot of respect for
Michael. Doesn't mean I agree with
everything he says. So if, if I'm sure you're
attributing that to Michael, and if that's the case, I'll bring
it up on the show. Michael's very vocal.
You know, Michael, Michael is not one of these.
I'll tell you what. Like you think I remember going
through this, I'll tell you a little story here, all right?
And that's a BT and Sal live. Cohen, Bree.
So we got a big show. Keep those comments coming in.
I remember I do forget the year Bobby Gonzalez was coaching
Seton Hall, right? And maybe maybe it was 2006
because I referenced this the other day when the when Saint
John snapped A-25 game road losing streak.
This had to be intertwined during that miserable era.
And I'm doing all the games at that point.
I'm travelling everywhere. I'm doing every game with
Crispino and Tariq Turner, right?
And I think it was the first conference game of the year, I'm
pretty sure. And another stat embedded within
that 25 game Rd. losing streak was St.
John's had lost X amount of Big East Road games.
I mean, it was all it was awful. And they're winning by like, I
forget the exact specifics. Seven or eight points, couple of
minutes to go. I'll never forget this.
I used to have Bobby Gonzalez on my show a lot.
So back in the day when I was on 1050 and the Big East tournament
was right downstairs, the old, the old station, the old studio,
pardon me, was it 2 Penn Plaza? And then I would just go down
and I would do the St. John's games and obviously watch
all Syracuse, UConn, all the all the good games after St.
John's DePaul or after St. John's, whomever, right?
So anyway, I, I remember the, I want to try the, the year right
though. OK, yeah, I'm going to say, I'm
going to say 6. And I would always have the
coaches on, you know, like Gonzalez would come on when
Louis Orr was at Seton Hall, he would come on.
Obviously Norm or any St. John's coach would come on.
Behime would come on, had Jay write a few times.
So I remember having Bobby on the show and he was a fiery
dude. Bobby Gonzalez.
Wow. And St.
John's was up like 7 or 8 points and they flushed to lead that
and I just like, I lost it like I basically went into, this is
during the St. John's game.
I went into talk show mode like this program's a disaster.
I I crushed them. Like I really went hard.
Honestly, looking back out of bounds, you know, you're doing a
game. Yeah, it's probably, it's one
thing to be honest, if you're losing by 20.
I laid it on. I just couldn't take it anymore.
It was lost, lost, lost. And I love the program and I, I
personalized it, right? And I was younger, little, maybe
a little less refined. And it came out with two things
from that. And it ties into Michael and how
he handles his job, right. I remember after the set, Hall
comes back and wins and I'm just, I have all sorts of
distraught and pissed and I'm just letting it go.
And Bobby Gonzalez wraps up his, I think it was with Gary Cohen,
wraps up his TV interview with with whomever and then maybe
ESPN and then does the radio interview with, with Gary.
And as he's walking, man, I know him a little bit because I've
had him on the show as he's walking by to get to the locker
room. He was, I fucking told you we'd
win. Like he just went.
Now I'm on the air talking like he wasn't really mad at me.
He was very fired up. And I just, I remember just
going like this. I know you won because I was, I
was at the middle of my own emotions there just pissed,
right. So I say that because when you
are part of a broadcast team for an and you do a talk show now on
even now with St. John's being amazing, with
Pitino making money, relevance, national relevance, it has been
as joyous a ride. And I mean, I'm very
appreciative. I'm having a blast, dude.
I have an absolute blast. But St.
John's profile, even with Rick compared to the Yankees is night
and day. So, you know, if I was to say
something on a St. John's game that it it would be
received differently than if Michael crushes the Yankees, you
know, but I think Michael does a pretty good job of of straddling
the line of being pretty transparent and and pretty real.
I really believe that now I know he's got a relationship with Hal
and the Steinbrenner family. You're not going to bite the
hand that feed you be an idiot. I mean to just take a Wrecking
Ball to the Yankees again, you've got to straddle that line
and it's not easy. So I think I don't agree with
everything he says. Again, I want to be clear about
that, but I think that Michael really does do an an Admiral
job, an admirable job of of being real and and be the talk
show host and juggling these topics with with the with the of
venom that you guys, you know, I don't I don't hear a show that
much, but I've heard it over the years many times.
I see the articles written about, you know, you know,
Michael with the Mets fans or Bill Michael or something with
the Yankees. I know that you think it's easy
and I know he's incredibly well compensated as he should be, but
it's not as easy as you think. So if you talking about Kay, I
respect it. That's your opinion and I'll
look for some some specific stuff as I get ready to bring
Michael on the show. All right now let me tell you,
let me see if I got this one text.
I've got to make sure that that I can do this year.
All right, hold on. That's that's actually from Sal.
Did he get back to me? OK, so April 10th, I do not have
the venue. I do, but he hasn't written that
back yet, so I know it, but I don't want to put it out there.
April 10th, Long Island next, BT and Sal Live show, Bang, put it
in the calendars. BT and Sal Live.
I believe it's about a four or A500 seat venue, which is
basically exactly what we did at the the Vogel Theatre in Red
Bank, NJ. So what we're going to try to do
is obviously get together every couple of months for something
formal like that. I'm going to jump on Sal's
YouTube show tomorrow night. I'll get it back on mine maybe
in a week or so. And really pick and choose
where, you know, you get the BT and Sal dynamic here with this
kind of content, but also on a stage with, you know, just a, a,
a, a bigger, more grand presentation.
If you, I mean, we're still going to be bigger, going to be
up there with tuxedos. You still going to get BT and
Sal. It's going to be as raw as you
can get. It's, it's basically, we can say
whatever we want. F bombs are flying.
I, I had a drink in my hand and the entire time we were up on
stage with, with, with Sal and Boonie.
So that is coming April 10, Long Island.
And then from there I'm going to have to find something in
Brooklyn. For me, Long Island makes a lot
of sense. Start of the baseball season and
put that in the calendar April 10 BT Sal 2O live show Audis
what if I I'll probably get the text of the venue today and just
look at at least another hour show so to go here on the show
I'm pumped J rod you better come to this man get you up on stage
what about a we're. There, we're there we could do,
we could honestly like think of something fun like a little
game. We could do some kind of
contest, something like that. I'm excited, excited to meet the
fans, excited to be like a public facing figure on a stage.
So yeah, it'll be great. Love it.
No, we listen, you don't just when you do something like this,
you got to plan it out. It's not like, oh, even though,
even though we probably could because we have that kind of
chemistry, but it's not like all right, man, let's just go on
stage for an hour and a half and fuck around.
Then hopefully something sticks like we do map it out.
We do have it structured much like we would have our radio
show structure. Then it just deviate and bounce
around whatever we want. You've got at least have the
skeleton, as I would call it, like a a general map of where
you want the show to go. But how about this?
Now you, you can think about it. How about you, you want to get
on stage, do a low performance? I mean, I know.
You that would be so fun. You want to do it?
Yeah, I feel that would be great.
I feel like if we we started off we did like the unleashed intro
kind of deal. I think that'd be fun and like,
I can see I can try to get some people to like, play music with
me, but we'll figure it out. I mean that.
That Remember though, it's not but, but it's not just an
unleashed thing. It's BT and Sal.
Now. Exactly.
So maybe, maybe you come up with something for BT and Sal, throw
something, start spitting a little BT and sound rhymes out.
That'd be tight. You know what I mean?
I'm giving you a lot of work. First you got first.
You got to finish the Unleashed song.
Then we got the BT, we got we we're going to have an album by
the end of the year. I love the old, the old album
covers. That's the thing.
Like, you know, I'm not going to sit here and say, oh, today's
music is horrible. I mean, I like my older music,
whether it's 90s rap, whether it's, you know, Billy Joel, Hard
Rock, classic rock, you know, my, my, it's pretty eclectic.
I mean, even Taylor Swift, some songs, my daughter.
I mean, it's, it's pretty varied, but I think most people
kind of gravitate to music when they were a little bit younger.
But most people, most people. So you're too young when you
only bought CDs you never bought?
Albums, I didn't even buy CDs. I'm from the streaming era.
I mean, my childhood was iPod on, you know, like I think the
iPod probably got invented when I was four or five years old,
four or five years old. So that's been my entire life,
has been music literally at your fingertips.
You guys growing up downloading whatever he's downloading,
right. And I'm growing up and I'm I'm
tying little pieces of thread around Luke Skywalker's ankle
and hanging him from my fan and having Hans soldiers going to
scoop him up with the Millennium Falcon, you know, with Jabba the
Hutt and all the other TIE fighters coming after him.
Wow. All right, so that's coming up.
I just got text here. Oh, that's coming up.
I cannot wait. We've been plot this out for a
little bit. I mean, listen, understanding
you and I can do one every three weeks.
It's a production. The venues aren't cheap.
We've got to secure them, which we have done.
Let me see here. Oh, here we go.
Here we go. The Krosnoff Theater.
It's at the Tile Center. Li use campus out east there.
There it is. Am I saying that right?
The the Krasnoff Theatre, it's definitely on the campus of Liu.
It's got about 500 seats and we've got the date.
Boom, April 10th it is. And the way my guy Touch, who is
by far the best in the business. He runs all the jet trips that
I've gone on over the years. He runs Big Blue Travel.
He is a Sinatra impersonator and he performs, by the way, he
comes out there with his tuxedo. That's how we open BT and Sal
Live. He starts banging out Sinatra
tunes to get the crowd going. And then me and Sal Linter, we
hit the stage and it's, you know, it's just it's anarchy
from there. But you'll get a little bit of
that. And he is the master when I
would venture to guarantee that possibly by the end of the show,
but definitely by the end of the day.
I will have a website for you with direct links for tickets.
You will absolutely be able to start buying them today and
start sucking them up. Let your buddies know.
April 10, BT and Sal live. That's going to be great.
Wow, I can't wait for that. That's going to be a lot of fun,
you know, especially so let's see here.
Yeah, I know the Yankees start in San Francisco, so you talk a
late March. Boy, wouldn't it be glorious?
Now, I don't really expect this because I don't love the Yankees
starting pitching to start the season.
But man, just hey, if if the if the content gods are are shining
on me that day, the Mets will be 3 and seven, you know, and and
and and the Yankees will be like 9:00 and 1:00 because the last
time we did the show, what do you think Sal did?
Comes out with the King Cohen garb, the robe, the scepter, the
music. So that's going to be an
absolute blast. We'll have some wild stuff
planned for you. Cannot wait.
Really excited about that. All right, what do we got here?
I want to get into Cohen in a minute.
Got something on Breeze hold as well, Jay at Mr. Paul, Paula Ink
there or Paulie Ink J Rod versus bada Bing.
No, it's bada booms I believe. I don't know if it's plural.
I think it's bada booms. I think it's.
Booms. I think it's booms.
So it is plural. OK, so it's not bada boom, but
it's definitely not bada Bing. I mean, where we maybe we can
have it at the Bing. That would be freaking awesome
get. Tony, get Chris.
Paulie Man yeah, everybody. Yeah.
You got that little backroom. We got that.
That'll be the green room. You know, Adriana's office.
That's what do you. Hit him with with a chain in
that. In that episode he hits like a
bouncer with a chain or something.
Like, because of the ice, right? That was the yeah, whatever that
stooge his name was. I forget his name.
J Rod versus Bada Bing cage match.
No holds. But we're not looking to make
this into a fight. I mean, what are you talking
about? A cage match?
No, I want, I want my Guy J Rod and I want Bada Booms.
I want these guys to unite at some point.
I've said that the Yeah, the object here, I mean, the main
mission is to have this explode. But you know, secondarily, as a
subset of the unleashed family growing and growing and growing
and just taking over the world is that I want J Rod and and
Bada booms to be able to do their own thing.
And then for them to become stars on YouTube.
That's what I want. Appreciate it.
I mean, listen, we got to get to work.
We got to start, you know, building out that social
presence. But yeah, you know, I think, you
know, I I personally, him and I have kind of gone back and forth
on messages, kind of just nice niceties, just being like, hey,
loving what you're doing. There you go kind of that kind
of stuff. You know, excited to keep
building this kind of unleashed universe.
Seeing seeing what other characters come up.
Yes. And a question for you.
Who reached out to whom first? Did you reached out booty?
He did. So so he reached out me.
So I guess it started off. We both kind of followed each
other on Twitter at a similar time.
Who followed? Who followed whom first?
He followed me first a lot. Of boom tonight, he's proactive.
I gotta like that big time. How come you're not following
people first? Hey I'm a little slow and hit as
when his popped up hit him with the follow.
There we go. Yeah.
He liked the tweet I had about Brian Scalabrini.
So that's so that's how I saw him.
And then Instagram after our show with Sal, he was just like,
hey, loving what you guys are doing.
Keep up the great work. And you know, I hit him with the
same thing back. So he seems like a good guy,
although sometimes he seems like a good dude.
Sometimes I worry about his health.
I mean, early on, I even when we, when we had Sal on
unleashed, I'm like, you can't help yourself, dude.
You got to go after your you always got to get those jabs in,
you know, but it seems like bada booms has a tough exterior, so
we will find out. Hold on.
I am. I know it's not the best way to
do this year, but Yep. All right, let me work on this
today. By the end of the day, I'll have
it all figured out. I have to see what the Bah, Bah,
Bah, Bah. All right, So yeah, very
confident tickets will be. I might have to amend that
slightly because I left a few things out there that you don't
need to know logistically. I guarantee tickets will be on
sale today. I'm going to push that to
tomorrow. I'm going to amend that
slightly. But we got the venue, we got
today. All right, Stevie Cohen, keep
those judge comments coming in there, right?
Steve Cohen. So there were a couple of things
that Steve Cohen said. One really confused me and what
I'm just not sure if I believe this is not a crush Steve Cohen
segment. I like Steve Cohen.
And now, I mean, eventually Steve Cohen's going to have to
win a championship for him to really be as regal as some
people think that he is. But I mean, let's face it,
compared to previous Mets ownership, I mean, this guy's a
rock star. I mean, at least you at least
you know that you're rooting for the Mets and not the Brooklyn
Dodgers anymore, You know what I mean?
Or, or, you know, $0.50 on the Dollar baseball team.
He has elevated the profile. He's done a lot of cool things,
retired numbers. He's re restored the pride.
He's a Mets fan. I've got a lot of good.
I don't really have anything bad to say about Steve Cohen really.
I think I think he's a good owner who's got a chance to be
great. He's shown pivot points.
It's like when he bought a minor league system couple of years
back when he got rid of the the veteran pitchers.
All right, hey, you can have them, but I need some prospects.
You know, I'll eat the money. I'll eat some of it.
I need our prospects stink. Our minor league system is
awful. It's barren.
It's devoid of any real desirable talent.
That's got to change. Bang, that changed.
Mets now have one of the top two or three, depending upon the
outlet. You know, there's varying ones,
whatever, kind of like the college polls, maybe a slot
here. Up, slot down.
Mets have a very good system that will well, number one, that
enabled them to get Peralta, which was great.
That will put them at the front of the table with school ball
when he's dealt, not if when he's dealt.
So I think he's doing a lot. Stadium looks great.
You know, again, change the the the entrance there is very
Brooklyn Dodgers oriented. You can't have it, dude.
You're not the Brooklyn Dodgers, you're the Mets.
You know, So I like what he's doing here, but let me first get
the point up about the about not the captain stuff.
J Rod, the other one about the playoffs.
This just confused me and I'm I'm, but I like the first part
of it. Yeah, that's the mandate.
Got to make the playoffs, right? Sure.
I mean, I missed the playoffs the last two years.
Steve Cohen, Keep it up there. Dude, where were you in 2024?
Dang, you were step away for the World Series.
So again, I'm not going to crush him on that, but he had him.
He had to misspeak. He had to got to make the
playoffs, right? Yeah, you're damn right with
this payroll, that is your right to say that.
That is your right to expect that.
And if the Mets don't get over to a good start with this new
roster and this reconfiguration, I've said it before, is one of
my 10 burning questions going into the New York baseball
season. Hey, if they don't, if they
don't, if it doesn't look right, I'm getting rid of Mendy because
year 1 was really good. Year 2 was awful.
Now we're going to kind of start splitting that difference here.
And and I do think the Mets will be good this year, not great,
but good. I do think the Mets will be a
playoff team this year. And and I do think that the Mets
upside, especially, you know, if they were to get a scoop or
something like that, I mean, then maybe you can mess around
to win something here. But I don't know how you say
that. Like, put that up again, Jay
Rod. It's so simple.
And he's a very coherent, very intelligent man, not to mention
successful. Got to make the playoffs, right?
Yep, that part's right. I mean, I missed the playoffs
the last two years. No, you didn't, dude.
You see, you played great against the Phillies.
Vientos was a stud. The place was rocking.
What what are you talking about? Sorry.
So that thing again, I I can't really go anywhere else than
than what I just said. Like I'm not going to call him
stupid. I'm not going to say the guy
probably misspoke. That's a weird thing to misspeak
about. You know, it's not like it was
seven years ago, like if there was a seven-year drought because
you can get off their J Rod boy, that looks good.
Look at how fresh that looks, looks better than the light
that's reflected here. You know, if he was like, if
he's, you know, say, if he said, you know, if there was a
seven-year drought and and he said eight or six, like if he
was all that's a little more understandable.
When you get past half a decade, you just you were just there.
But we're going to move on this part.
I'm not so sure if I'm willing to move on from because I don't
know if I believe him. Let's slap it up there, Mr. J
Rod, let's see it. That was good timing that a boy.
As long as I'm owning the team, there will never be a team
captain. That was my decision.
My view is the locker room's unique and let the locker room
sorted out year in and year out. Keep that up there for a minute.
As long as I'm owning the team, there will never be a team
captain. Well, first of all, I wouldn't
even say this about Cohen. I would say this about any owner
that comes out and states this like, why be so definitive?
Like what if I'm I'm just throwing this out there.
What if Carson binge is the real deal and you know, has this
David Wright trajectory in terms of providing no different
position, obviously, but like that kind of an impact, like
that statistical trajectory, that leadership steadiness
trajectory resonates that way with the fans trajectory.
I don't I don't know why you would like cap this out.
It's I don't I don't get that. There's never going to be a team
captain. Why not?
So that that's the first thing that again, I'm not I'm not
really understand. It's his team.
I mean, do whatever you want. And he can also amend that.
Like I amended the timeline for the second BT and Sal live show.
He can always come back in the air and say, you know what?
Or three years if it's Benji or somebody else, like, hey, you
know what? I I didn't really think that
this was something I wanted to do.
But so and so has exemplified everything we're about blah,
blah, blah. You can take it down.
J Roth. Thank buddy, like, and then he
can, he can, he can pivot from that because it's his team, but
it's certainly well within his right.
So again, not going to go nuts there.
I just don't know why you need to be so definitive and cap it
so hard #1 #2 which to me is really number one.
And this I will question. I don't know if I believe him.
Not that he'll never name the
captain, but I believe like my and I could be wildly off base
with this, so let me at least submit that as a real
possibility. Like, OK, we're all going to
make, you know, oh, I think The Jets are going to win twenty.
Well, I think The Jets are going to lose 30 to 10.
You know, the Giants are going to lose whatever, 30 to 17
against the against the Eagles. Like, like that's a a prediction
that you're going to get wrong half the time.
I'm not talking about that. And there's no need to apologize
for that, right? I want to be fair here.
So this is a different interpretation.
This is a different processing of what he's saying and this is
a different opinion that I am formulating based off of what he
said. I believe that he wanted to make
Francisco Lindor the captain. I believe the longer Francisco
Lindor has been with the Mets, the less convicted he is in his
leadership qualities. That's what I believe.
Now, I know that everybody's going to dump on that.
And met. Oh, Lindor.
Oh, she'd only hit right-handed. Say whatever you want.
I couldn't give two shits less. I'm talking about this.
You got you got to look at this pragmatically, all right?
The Mets LED a lot of good play. Granted, they were flawed in
certain aspects, for sure. Pete Alonso, good player, gone.
Brandon Nimmo, good player gone. McNeil, I mean, purposeful
player gone. Like there's nowhere else to
turn. And then you look at and you I
could only react to the stories here.
And, you know, whether it was Tommy Pham a couple of years
ago, whether it was Mendoza the other day saying it's it's been
a little bit too corporate. Maybe that's code for something
else. He didn't want to, you know,
smash his, his, his, the former dynamics of his team.
So use the word corporate it it's less, it's less biting,
it's less critical. All right, But if you're saying
it's too corporate, you're saying something's wrong.
All right, whether it's how Lindor and Soto kind of talked
about each other the other day, complimentary for sure.
I'm not trying to start trouble or there's no trouble to be
started. But I believe, I mean, everybody
was. Now, it doesn't mean that they
have to do this, but everybody and their mother was saying
Lindor's going to be the captain, Lindor's going to be
the captain, Lindor's the captain, Lindor's the pseudo
captain. All right.
All right, fine. Well, if that's the case, why
did it reportedly anger Nimmo? And I think that's part of the
reason why Nimmo's gone now. He's also a bit of a diminished
player. I don't know.
I don't think Nimmo's as good as Met fans think.
He's not on bases much, a little injury prone.
I think that that's a smart move.
Getting rid of him and what they turned it into was a good
baseball move for me by David Stearns.
But I just think there's a little something if you lift up
the hood of the Mets, and I don't mean like the windshield
wiper stuff that we could all do.
I mean, I even, I do that right when you got to fill it up, but
some intricacies within the engine that we aren't equipped
to really chronicle or fix, if you will.
So it's just my theory. It's just my belief now based on
a lot of circumstances and a lot of noise that's been around the
Mets. Let me get this straight.
You know, everybody believes because me and Sal, we're
talking about this and Sal brought up his credit first and
he was right. It got hijacked like a lot of
stuff does. But we're talking about like,
you know, I forget the exact word he used.
I don't want to misrepresent him, but something was off or
whatever it was. I think, I think the there was
an element of toxicity. I think toxic was one of the
words that was used. Either way, that was years ago
and nothing's improved. So you tell me common sense,
Let's apply a little bit of it. Let's just be rational.
This is unemotional. This is me just looking at the
situation. The Mets had an unexpectedly
horrendous year last year, and I know a lot of it was
attributable to the pitching. I get that.
I'm not leaving this home on the door's doorstep.
He's a really good player. But you know, there were a lot
of meaningful pieces that were deleted.
He's still here and he should be because he's better than all
those guys, better than Pete, better than McNeil for sure,
better than Demo for sure. No doubt he should still be
here. But we're we're kind of running
out of runway here. Like eventually you got to get
this thing up in the air. And if if you're the captain, if
you're the leader that everybody professes you to be, then why
are there always these problems? And I'm not even talking about
the literal C on the jersey. Like you don't need a captain in
baseball. This is not hockey where, you
know, it's generation The, the, the C, the A on the sweater.
Like that's, that's real stuff. And I couldn't stay.
I thought it was corny when Keith Hernandez wore the C on
his jersey. I don't like that on a baseball
jersey. I don't care what jersey it is.
I don't care what player it is. If Aaron Judge came out and did
that, I'd crush him. I just never liked it.
It's unnecessary. Gary Carter was a captain LED
differently. Wasn't you know what what didn't
have to seen this sort of. But like I I don't think that
you need that outward visible acknowledgement that somebody is
the captain. But there's just a lot here
because I've never heard Steve Cohen talk about that like that
before. I've never once heard Steve
Cohen shut down the noise because the captain talk has
been percolating for years and Steve Cohen never once felt
compelled to come out and say what we almost defiantly with
such conviction. As long as I own the team,
there's never going to be a captain.
And I can't help but the deuce that part of it is to alleviate
any possible resentment from Soto if you named Lindor the
captain or vice versa. Like, that's my read on the
situation, that's my read, and I know a lot of people going to
think that's wildly off base. That's fine.
That's just my opinion. And that has been watching and
weighing in on this situation on a day-to-day basis for years,
following the Mets and obviously the Yankees, as I do and as I
have and as I will continue to do here on Unleashed.
So I'm not buying it. It's not crush worthy.
I just think it's a little bit disingenuous.
I find the timing odd. I find the the lack of wiggle
room odd. But again, that's what I think.
Let's see here. Yeah.
I mean, whatever big bod zone George Steinbrenner's ghost is
working for the Dodgers. Fantastic.
Well, Speaking of the Dodgers to this, this is the other thing.
Now, this is more of a of a baseball thing here, but I'm
watching Cohen, right? And I like the line when he
said, hey, I I could spend 2. I mean, that's, yeah, that's
galvanizing. If you're a Mets fan, no doubt.
You know, and you pivoted with Bechette, tried to get Tucker,
you know, he's spending. Nobody's doubting that now until
you win. It's a little hollow.
But that criticism is gone. That is dried up years ago for
the Mets fan. Now it's about Stearns
delivering what he was brought here to deliver, and that's a
championship. And we'll see.
You know, we're not going to flush through it today.
Who knows? Last year, not good.
Year before was good. We'll see.
But Steve Cohen sitting there in the dugout yesterday down to
Port Saint Lucie talking about the Mets and and the Dodgers,
like the Dodgers or a thorn in his side.
Hey, Steve, I got news for you. You had nine teams in baseball
who had a better record than you, man.
I mean, you're sitting there like you lost in Game 7 to the
Dodgers and the Mets won 99 regular season games.
It's a little delusional, man. You won 83 games.
You just dismantled the entire team.
Don't worry about the Dodgers. Worry about the Phillies, who
won 13 more games than you did. Well, they have 96 wins.
I just thought it was a little presumptuous.
Dodgers, Dodgers. And I, I like, I get it big
picture, like the discussion point with the Dodgers
pertaining to Major League Baseball and how they operate,
what they do and how they are just so motivated to win.
And they take the revenue that they make and they reinvest it
and they go on. They they've got the Japanese
market covered. You got Otani, you got bets, you
got Freeman, you got all these guys who brought it as pitchers.
You got you got a sick, sick lineup. back-to-back
championships, dynasty. I understand that.
How about you worry about winning the division?
Can you start with that? Because even, I mean, even when
they had and it was a really good run and it was fun and it
was unexpected. But even when they beat the
Phillies and lost to the Dodgers in 2024 in the NLCS, you won 89
games. I mean, you're sitting here
like, you know, you're on top of the mountain and you're just
trying to crack through and you just can't quite figure out the
Dodgers. The Dodgers scored.
The Dodgers scored, what, 10 runs almost every game.
It seemed like J Rod, do me a favor just and this, yeah, do me
a favor, go to the 2024 NLCS, right?
And just read me the scores. Almost everyone except like the
aggregate score, I could be off. It was like 30 to 7.
I maybe it's not exactly that, but I mean, it was like the
varsity versus the JV. And that's that's, I mean,
that's OK because the Yankees look like AJV in the World
Series against the Dodgers. The Dodgers do that to people.
What were the scores? Go game one.
Go ahead. Yeah, let's see.
It was 9 Nothing. Game one Dodgers, 7 three.
Game 2, Mets. 16 OK Yep Yep. 772 game. 38 Nothing 8.
Nothing. Dodgers.
Yep. Game 410.
Two Dodgers. I mean, come on, man.
Game 512 six Mets and then Game 610 five Dodgers.
Yeah, I mean, the Mets start to get their hitting shoes on a
little bit there, but and the Dodgers clearly better.
It's not a knock at that. The Mets didn't didn't beat the
Dodgers in the NLCS in 2024. It's just a very interesting
perspective to take. Now, by the way, I would also
worry about the Braves who were banged up beyond comprehension a
year ago, how hurt they were, how many players there like the
core of their team miss basically the entire season.
Austin Riley missed a couple of months of Cunha played 80
something games. Everybody was hurt, everybody.
So I do think that the Mets have a real, this is not the shit on
the Mets. I think the Mets have a chance.
I actually think the Mets will be a playoff team.
I think they'll be a wild card team.
I don't think they're going to win the division.
Now, if they were to get school ball changes everything.
And if they were to get school ball with school ball and
Peralta and McClain 123, I mean, now you're talking about a team
as long as the offense is just, you know, fairly productive and
the defense is better, like they envision it, it will be.
And and I agree with that based on the up.
I'm not worried about Polanco at first or I'm not even really
that worried about Beau Bruschet at third base.
You got four shots shortstops, you got 4 shortstops in the
infield. You get to catch the baseball.
You know, Louise Roberts going to be a hell of a center
fielder. I think bench is going to be a
really good defensive right fielder.
And then Soto will be slightly below average and left like it
wasn't right. But I think that that will be
solved for the most part. And but I just it was almost
like arrogance or just a little again, presumptuous.
I'm going to use the word presumptuous.
Dodgers this, Dodgers that. Dude, you won 83 games.
You got one Soto. All right, you won that.
You won the battle. You took them from the you
didn't steal them. You took him from the Yankees.
Soto had the choice. Stay in the Bronx, go to Queens,
pick Queens, live with it. Deal with it.
Yankee fans, stop crying and stop whining.
He's a Met and his first year with the Mets didn't even win 85
games. So I didn't I didn't love the
tone there. I'm not even trying to crush
Cohen because if you just tuned it in, I hope you heard the
beginning of it. I really like Steve Cohen and I
think he's a good owner and I wish Hal had some of his
tendencies, you know, I wish he was predisposed to go for it the
way that Cohen is going for it. That doesn't mean I'm going to
buy everything he says anyway. So I think it's been an
adjustment in the in the clubhouse, like in the in the
mines Mets. And the other thing too.
One more thing about the captaincy, right?
So imagine if they named Lindor captain and then they trade him.
Like I think eventually Lindor is going to be not this year.
Eventually Francisco Lindor is going to be an X-Men.
I do not, I do not believe that he fulfills the life of his
contract. J Rod, look it up.
I know he's got about 5 more years to go, I'm pretty sure.
Can you look up, go to, well, whatever database you want.
I usually go to baseball-reference.com.
Just type in Lindor. Let me know what he's got on the
length of his deal. Buddy, can you do that for me at
City Moons? Zacuna is due for a due for a
monster season. Yeah, I mean, company steal 90
bases a couple of years. Whatever he did, I don't even
know what he did. Insane.
Like, I think the Braves have more talent than the Mets, but I
thought the Braves had more talent than the Mets last year.
And the Mets finished ahead of them in the standings.
So I also think the Marlins are getting a little competitive
with some of their young players.
Listen, this is not to make some wild baseless predictions or
crush somebody unnecessarily. I just don't really believe.
I don't believe it. I don't believe the
repositioning here by Cohen of the captaincy.
It seemed like it was such a central thing for the Mets
organization, and now devoutly stating that's it.
Nope. As long as I own the team, never
going to have a captain. Not going to happen.
Well, I'm not buying it. All right, so what's Lindor's
contract again? Go ahead.
So it is 10 years 341,000,000 and it ends in 2031.
Yeah, All right, 2031. So think about this guy's.
I mean that's crazy. What is HE27A year?
Do you have the the actual AAV breakdown?
Or no or a year is the. Average, that's right, 34, what
am I saying? All right.
So 2031 is there not that is there a team option on that last
year or no going to be some sort of option?
I'd imagine there's an option. It does got to be on sport rack.
That's the site I'm on right now.
It doesn't say. All it says is 2032 on the
restricted free agent. OK, so then I OK, So what either
way, so think about this guys. You've got the 2026 season, got
the 2027 season, 2829 thirty. And then obviously 31 is fully
vested 6 years guaranteed. Now when the Mets got him, I I
thought it was a great move. Mets needed that infusion of of
a big name, middle of the diamond star charisma, post
season player, post season performer energy, you know,
bounce against style like that stuff.
I mean, if you can't play, it doesn't matter.
But if you can like he can, it matters.
And I thought it was the right move there.
Now it didn't get off on the right foot with Baez with that
nonsense, but they got rid of Baez fast.
I also think that, you know, like talking about a runway here
for Stearns and all right, you know, this is year three now.
I'm a David Stearns believer. I'm a David Stearns fan.
I like that Cohen's let them construct the team the way he
wants to. That's why you hire somebody to
hire somebody and then not let them do what they used to do
that inspired you to hide that hire them in the first place is
the hide of idiocy. I just don't get that layout and
that happens a lot. Had this person so good at his
job. I'm going to bring him in.
I'm going to give him a boatload of cash.
I'm going to give him all the juice and the power of the
world. Yeah, but then I'm not going to
let him really do what he used to do.
So you should have hired him. And I'm not just talking about
Stearns, I'm talking about any, any workplace, Right.
You get, sometimes you'll get people in my business get hired
for big money and then there's complaints or they try to dial
them down or they try to, you know, like reposition.
But then why the hell did you give him a couple $1,000,000 a
year to do the job that they were doing somewhere else?
Why'd you do that? That's stupid.
That's bad business. So I just say that because we
talk about Stearns and the pressure and I know that he's
the GM, so he's responsible for everything.
And Lindor is, you know, one of nine players that hit every
night. Granted, behind Soto, he's their
best, but there's an expiration point with him as well.
I mean, the my girl and all that, It's great, great energy.
Is it going to sound the same when if not, not when, if in two
years the Mets haven't cut through and you know, there's a
little I don't know. They just don't seem to be on
the World Series trajectory. There could still be 40,000
people in Queens singing my girl when he comes up to bat.
Probably not because you're going to be exhausted by it
because we've already had a lot of Lindoor discussions Now, to
be fair, some were dumb, including some by me.
What I said they should only hit from one side of the plate and I
owned it. I manned up.
I was also looking at at numbers in terms of bat speed and, and,
and, and, and performance from that side of the plate that that
helped me come to that conclusion, as erroneous as it
was. But you know, you, you, you
can't be that you can't have that profile with, with that
kind of energy and not win and have people accept it year in
and year out. No, it's not quite the same like
with the NBA, Like if you have one superstar that he just can't
quite cut through, it's going to be more demonstrative because,
you know, one player on the NBA and on the court is going to
obviously impact one guy who gets 6700 bats a year versus
somebody who's taking twenty shots a night and their usage
rate is through the roof. I, I, I, I get it.
It's not the same comparison, but it's not that far off.
Like there's, there's a limit as to how much you guys will
continue to buy. So I just think that that
position by Cohen yesterday is partly fueled by I'm, I'm not
saying that there's beef between Lindor and Soto.
I'm not saying that at all, not one bit.
But you know, maybe a less than optimal relationship.
Like you could have no beef but still not be as tight as you
wish that they were. That's as you wish that they
were. You know what I mean?
Like, I think it's pretty apparent.
And I, I, I hesitate to do this because I always try to separate
Yanks and Mets, But when, when, when something fits, I'm going
to bring it in. I do think that you look at the
energy in the relationship of somebody like Judge and
Bellinger who just got there. I think it's very apparent.
I think it's a very easy day-to-day work relationship.
I think they flow, I think they vibe.
I think they complement each other really well.
Can you say that about Soto and Lindor?
I can't, I can't say that, you know, so we'll see, we'll see.
I'm going to get a couple of texts here.
I want to get to something on Breece Hold as well.
Today's very big day in the NFL. You can start tagging people,
etcetera. Let's see.
How about this year? Yep.
Captain's born later. Others gravitate to.
Not somebody who's looking to be captain.
Before Judge became captain, there wasn't a whisper that he
wanted it. Too many rumblings.
Lindor wants it. Yeah.
I mean, again, I want to be fair to the situation.
I mean, why wouldn't you want it?
Like, Yeah. I mean, we've had captains, you
know, I've on teams that I've been on and sometimes I've been
a captain, sometimes I haven't. I always aspired to, you know,
when a coach named the captain, to be in a position to be the
captain through work ethic and through performance and stuff.
But you know that it was never the main motivation.
It was to just have a good season, you know, I don't, I
don't know if he's really trying to be that guy and and if he is,
he's doing a really shitty job of being a captain.
It just is, you know, you can't tell me that there's that.
There's not at that. That the reason that Pete and
Nimmo and McNeil are gone is all derived from baseball
sensibility. You can't tell me that you can.
I just, I won't believe it. I choose not to buy it.
I don't think that that's accurate.
Now, I'm not saying it's, you know, 10% baseball.
I, I, they did what I've been saying that they should do, but
saying trade McNeil, she stinks. I've been banging on Nimmo, you
know, in terms of his defensive prowess and rag arm and, you
know, depreciating on base percentage or decreasing on base
percentage. And obviously Pete was a much
more complex conversation because he's a he's a great
prodigious power hitter. But his weaknesses I would point
out, because I don't think that you win championships with guys
at first base, you know, who can't run, who do strike out a
lot and aren't reliable defensively.
I know he scoops the ball. I know, But I always thought
that there was a little bit more to it than that.
And it goes to, you know, several players like a fam or
other innuendo, other industry speculation.
There's just a lot of smoke around the Mets chemistry, like,
come on. And the one guy who's still
here, again, he should be here because he's the better of of
all those players. But now there's nowhere else to
point. Like Soto's going to bang 40
bombs and hit 280, whatever. He's going to maybe more and
have an OPS over 1000. Like Soto's going to be Soto.
He'll butcher a few balls in the left, he'll come in on a few
liners that he shouldn't over his head.
He'll make a gap or two on the bases, but he's going to bang,
he's going to mash, and it's going to be consistently
reliable. I don't think you have any
issues with Soto at all. And it made a couple issues last
year. We were dogging him because he
wasn't hustling and that was justified.
And he wasn't clutch, which is more of a baseball thing.
But like, there's nowhere else to point, you know what I mean?
You're not going to get on Louise Robert if things go awry
or Brett Beatty or Simeon, you know, I mean, Bichette might
feel some heat if he's kicking balls and he's not hitting,
which he will hit, but that's the main target.
There's just nowhere else to turn.
So in a long way, I, I like Steve Cohen.
I really do. I think he's a good owner.
I was confused by the two years playoffs.
That was just I'm misspoke. I'm going to give him that we
all do it on occasion. I'm not buying the other stuff
about the captaincy. I don't believe it all right,
let me get the breeze hall a little bit here.
So today's a very interesting day.
Let me see if I got any more texts on the B team.
Sal live 2 point O OK, no. So what do we do with Breeze
Hole here? Breeze Hole is a very
interesting figure. Jets have so many holes.
Jets have a lot of money. Now I've been saying $77 million
and these are all projections, but just so you guys know, I saw
something last night when I was getting ready for the show today
between 79 and 83,000,000. So it, it varies in terms of
available or anticipated available cap space.
And there's a couple of things they could do to fudge the
numbers. Whatever, rework, restructure
all that boring minutia with NFL contracts.
They got a shit load of money to spend and they got a lot of
problems to face. That's the short version.
Now Breeze Hall starting today and running up, I believe it's
March 3rd. I just want to double check
that. Let's see here, yes, through
March 3rd. So now you can start tagging
players. What do you do with Breeze Hall?
Well, first of all, some numbers and some parameters.
The expected cost for Breeze Hall or for for a running back
on the franchise take. And there's going to be a couple
of good running backs for including Kenneth Walker, who's
not going to be tagged by Seattle.
Interesting. So his market might be a little
suppressed like if Walker was and there's a couple other ones
too like if it was just Breece Hall, he might get a little bit
more money than then maybe he will.
Either way, 14 and a half million dollars the expected
cost for running back via the franchise tag.
Now they can they can obviously tag him and then work on a long
term deal. That's obvious.
They can also do the transition tag which is couple of
$1,000,000 less than $11.7 million, which I know would be a
lot more palatable for The Jets. Like listen, Priest Hall is
really good and I've kind of changed my tune.
I want Priest Hall to remain here.
I was actually open to trading him last year, like when they
were trading Sauce and Q. I'm like, dude, just finish the
job, get whatever you could. You know, Kansas City came with
a fourth round pick and once I found out what it was, I didn't
love that. Like I needed at least 1/3.
So I thought Muji showed good restraint and was willing to
engage. And if it was a better deal,
they may have moved on from Priest Hall.
But see, the, the, the 11.7 via the transition tag is
interesting because you know you're committing, but if
somebody comes with a higher offer, you've got the ability to
match it. So it, it gives you all sorts of
leverage where he's not out the door.
And if there's something that you deem irresponsible, 131415
I'm just throwing numbers out per year.
Too much guaranteed length, too much, whatever it might be.
Well, then you can say, you know what, a little bit too expensive
for us. We have too many things to fix.
We're not ready to win yet for a position like that.
It's not justifiable cutting that kind of check, which which
I do understand here. I mean, I obviously do.
He's also shown no durability and that was the issue with
Presol. He's had three straight years
where he's played at least 16 games, one of which he played
seventeen first year, obviously over 1000 yards.
And, you know, outside of Garrett Wilson and you can even
make the case based on the inability for the quarterbacks
to do anything, you can make the case that Bree Sol's actually
the The Jets best offensive weapon, even though I think,
yeah, I think Garrett Wilson's a better wide receiver.
If this makes sense, then Bree Sol, there's a running back like
I think there's I, I just do I even that's close.
Actually, you know, it's it's listen, it's really hard to
judge Garrett because he just never has a reliable air attack.
I mean, really. I mean, he's had some big years
with band aids. So he's a stud, banged up last
year, missed a lot of time. What should The Jets do?
Well, listen, if you listen to yesterday's show, I want The
Jets to go defense at #2 and I would really like The Jets to go
defense at #16 They don't need an offensive lineman, you know,
could they take a receiver at 16 to compliment Garrett Shore at?
And I'd be open to that as well. But for me, looking at the mock
drafts and looking what's whether it's Reese from Ohio
State, whether it's Caleb Downs, and I would take Caleb Downs
too. I mean, people talking about
John Horrible, you know, was salivating over Caleb Downs and
rightfully so when he joined Francis's podcast the other day.
I got no problem taking, but #5 I got no problem taking.
But #2 like, if you think somebody's going to be a
superstar transcendent now, you better be right.
Transcendent player. And that's truly your football
conviction. Take him.
You know, I'd be I would I would alter that for a running back.
We went through this with Saquon.
That's like the one position I'd probably say, but obviously
corner it 2. We see it a lot.
Tackle it 2 left tackle, D tackle, edge rush, you know,
boom, haven't really seen a tight ended 2.
That's that's a bit early. It's a couple of spots.
I'd say we sure about this, but I think if The Jets go defense 2
and 16, if you retain Breece Hall, I think it really enables
you to do that because if you lose Breece Hall, you're not
going to draft the running back with two or 16 nobody.
I don't think it's worth it and I don't think they would do it.
So you've got at least have the semblance of an offense and he
receives the ball very well and he's a hell of a runner and the
the zone, you know, run scheme, not to get 2X's and O's on you,
but that that Frank Reich is going to run.
I think he's going to sue pre so incredibly well.
So I'm not looking to get rid of him.
I'm looking to keep him. Now, I think what you do is,
first of all, I'd be stunned if The Jets don't tag him.
Like if The Jets don't tag him on any level and he just walks
out the building, they're idiots.
Like you could tell me, we could have a discussion.
Do you go full tag or do you go the transition tag, which is
obviously 11.7 versus 14 versus 14 six.
That's debatable. But I at least need to know that
I control the the like the the ability to retain him if I deem
something irresponsible and more more directly, it gives me a
runway to come up with a number that's going to satisfy Breece
and, you know, retain him for a couple that he's going to be 25.
He's not even 25 yet. He turns 25 at the end of May
24. You know, and because he missed
some time with his knee, he hasn't taken those hits that a
lot of young running backs do. Now, if he hadn't retained his
burst, I'd say, well, it's not, but he has.
So he was shielded for about a year and a half, not getting the
carries that he would have if he didn't get hurt in Denver all
those years ago when he ripped up his ACL.
So you'd have to think he's fresher than most running backs
in terms of wear and tear. He's obviously a proven
performer. I think he wants to be a Jet.
And I, I think you find a way to, to negotiate a number to
keep them, but also to keep that number down from whether it's
14-6. I mean, he's going to get, I
would think he's going to get 11.
I'd have to think that's a starting point.
So the transition tag would just be basically see what's out
there. I think you slap him with the
with the franchise tag. Matter of fact, I'm almost
positive that they will. I don't know when, but you have
until March 3rd. You slap it down and then you
negotiate and you come up with something that's more palatable
financially for you. So you're not giving them, you
know, 1314 a year. You stretch things out.
You stretch things out over the course of the three-year deal.
And maybe that fourth year is window dressing and that's how
you attack debris hall situation.
That's what they should do. That's what I believe that they
will do. I just can't imagine a situation
where Breece Hall is in Kansas City and The Jets have nothing
to show for it. Like they didn't have a chance
to, you know, to retain him. I mean, that would be idiotic,
and there's no way Mooji's doing that.
So I feel pretty good about that.
And I wasn't sure about Breece Hall because my mentality for a
while was, well, you're not a good team.
You know, running backs were a dime a dozen, but that's kind of
shit. Think about the Super Bowl
that's kind of shifted a little bit.
Think about Saquon the year before, right with the Philly
winning the championship, being a beast, doing what he did.
I think that the the the appreciation for running backs
is is kind of not quite to where it was like when Tiki and those
guys played Sean Alexander, Marshall Faulk and those dudes.
I'm not saying it's going to ever be get back to that point.
I don't think it will games change too much.
It's too vertical. But my old mindset was let him
go because why are you going to invest that kind of money in
somebody who's not going to change the bottom line?
But you still need to have a competitive team, man.
And you'd have to think that like The Jets are going to at
some point, you know, maybe it's Ty Simpson.
I don't know what they're going to do.
But like, at some point, there's going to be an experiment with a
younger quarterback. I don't mean in around 5 or 6, I
would think somewhat earlier. And if that young man's on the
field, you've got to have a proven commodity in the
backfield to at least throw some swing passes, too, and avoid get
your brains beat in. So I do think that Reese's is
going to stay here. The only thing that I can't
really calculate, I don't know if he's just so rubbed off by
the losing that he would take $0.90 on the dollar somewhere
else to win. I don't know that.
And if that's the case, God bless him because that tells me
he wants to win. And I would respect that.
You know what I mean? The Jets should call up the
Colts and try to trade for wide receiver Michael Pittman.
There's a report he might be a cap casualty.
I mean, listen, yeah, but if you're the Indianapolis Colts,
you want to do business with Muji.
He just bent you over and played you.
I mean, think about that now. They didn't know that Jones was
going to get hurt and all that stuff.
But think about where that draft pick was.
I think it was like 28 or 29 when The Jets actually made that
move. And think about where it
finished up. Every week.
It was like better, better, better, better.
So they're probably pissed off now.
That should not preclude them, if you're a smart organization,
from doing another deal, if you believe it's a favorable deal.
Like I always say that you know, there's a thought like, like,
you know, the Yankees, the Mets or The Jets and the Giants.
Or even like saying out of The Jets and the Bills or the Giants
and the Eagles or the Niners in Seattle or the Raiders and the
Chiefs or whatever, the Dodgers and the Giants in baseball like
rivalries, Knicks, Pacers, the old rivalries, Knicks, Bulls,
Knicks, Heat, like that. A lot of people like, oh, I
can't do a trade with them. They're the enemy.
They're the rival. Yeah, but if it's a trade that's
going to enrich your organization and you believe in
your process and your decision making, why would you take less
from somebody else? Why would you do that just to
avoid the possible PR hit that you got played by your rival?
That's stupid. That's shallow.
Thought I wouldn't do it. I'll take the best outcome.
Who it's with James 555K What up James SPT What do you think of
Sonny Styles for the Giants in the draft?
It seems they never have good linebackers.
You know, I don't think that the Giant, The Giants are
interesting to me because Horrible's never had a pick this
high, which is really appealing. And plus the rosters got some
really good players and he got the quarterback and it's the
giants. So and they paid you and you've
got all the power. So as a no doubter for Harbaugh
to take this shot, but I think he's going to get it fixed very
soon. I think they're going to make a
move possibly for a Linda bound the the former Center for the
Ravens. Like I'd like to see The Jets
being on that market. But I mean, think about that.
If he's got a great rapport, if and I think he might if he's got
a great relationship with Harbaugh, why wouldn't Harbaugh
want him? He's he's terrific.
He's in his mid 20s. He's a massive upgrade.
And if there's familiarity there, I, I read something this
morning, I think his win rate was like 97.9% on pass blocking.
Now part of that's also, well, I mean, it's not just derive from
Lamar getting out of the pocket. Win rate is keeping them away as
well. So that's a good stat.
I don't, I don't know about linebacker.
I think the Giants, I think they really will.
If Caleb Downs is there at 5, I think they will take him.
And I think that they should because you have that third
level infusion of, of what what I think will ultimately be
greatness. I think he will be phenomenal.
Like, I hate the Hall of Famer cheese, but I really do think
that he's got that that kind of that kind of talent.
And it's only going to make the guys up front better.
Yeah. They've been thin at linebacker
for a while. Then I, I mean, listen, if Reese
falls, I think The Jets probably wind up taking Reese.
That's my guess now. I, I like him.
I don't know if I'd be fully enamored with that pick.
I would prefer Caleb Downs myself.
I've said that or trade out and maybe get somebody else, maybe
the kid from Texas Tech, Ruben Baines, Florida, Other ways.
It's it's early. There's other ways Jets could
go. But I feel great confidence
saying if Downs is there at 5, they're taking them.
And even if Reese is there at 5, I think that they would bypass
Reese. I would think they would take
Downs. And that's what I would do.
You know, I don't think The Jets going to mess this up.
You know, I don't I don't know where this offseason goes, but
like one of the things that that is keeping me afloat here as a
Jets fan, I think they've got a good general manager.
I really do small sample. Muji is proven to be aggressive,
smart. He's a forward thinker.
Think he's got a modern approach to business.
Like, I mean, those were big trades, man.
That's like a basketball trade in the middle of the season.
You get rid of sauce and cue and get what you got.
Phenomenal. Like that took a willingness to
take it on the chin because he knew they didn't have much with
those guys. He knew that they were going to
get crushed on the scoreboard, maybe not so much in the court
of public opinion. I think I think more people were
out on sauce than they were in I think the year before.
It was totally different. But I, I think the more you
watch sauce, you know, unless you just, you know, fanboy.
I I guy didn't tackle light is getting hurt a little bit never
made picks. So what the hell we paying him
for? If you can't tackle, you got at
least flip the field once in a while and he just didn't do it
And with Quentin, who's a hell of a player and played a lot
better in Dallas with a stunner when he got there more
competitive situation. I I mean, I would have preferred
to keep Q if I could, but he's been here long enough.
All right, let's try something else.
So it was the big moves that he showed a willingness and an
aptitude to make, but also some of those ancillary moves early,
like he brought in some players that I didn't even really know
about him like that, that that's that's interesting.
Even Brownlee early from the Titans.
It worked out for a minute and then he kind of fizzled out.
But you know, special teams players cutting guys on the on
the return game, bringing guys in who actually did really,
really well. You know, I, I, I think The Jets
have a good GM. I don't know about the coach.
Yeah, I don't care if you have the, the, the best general
manager you could have, like Jerry West.
You know, if Jerry West was as good at football as he was in
basketball, if you don't have a quarterback, it doesn't matter.
We all know that. So interesting, exciting time.
I'm really looking forward to the draft.
You know, Jets have a lot of equity.
Giants only have two picks in the 1st 100.
So that it's more important. I mean, Jets have to nail it as
well. But like the urgency for that
5th pick for the Giants, They can't get a guy like put it this
way, We've talked a lot about Kayvon Fibodo on the fan, me and
Sal, right? And he's OK, he's fine.
Did he really deliver what you thought he was going to deliver?
Is Kayvon Thibodeau a game wrecker?
The answer is no. You know that and I know that
now. I just happen to know that.
And we happen to know that before you wanted to admit it,
which is why everybody was getting on us.
I'll never forget you. I'll never forget the horrendous
Jets Giants game a couple of years ago in the rain, right
where the Giants didn't let the veto throw the ball.
They're going backwards. Wow.
I mean, that's one of the all time worst games ever.
And what was it a strip sack or something?
Then of course, you know, The Jets got lucky and somehow
figured a way to win. But I remember the announcers,
they were saying like they were even clowning us.
I think it was Catalan, who I know and I've worked with and I
like a lot. And I don't know whoever was
doing the game is the what was it Tiki?
I don't think it was Tik whomever it was like the oh,
it's been a theme on social. Oh, cave on Thibodau can play
like, you know, the little Zing there.
Yeah. You want cave on Thibodau, you
know, extended for four years. You still want that all that
smack that you guys were talking to me and Sal.
Oh, you guys are so wrong on cave on Thibodau.
Even if you think about the genesis of the beef and I say
beef, he's he's my guy. I love them.
We smoothed it out. Sal and Carl are are fine, but
that's what happened with Carl. That was The Cave on Thibodau
stuff. Now I know he flashed more last
year, but you know you shouldn't be flashing at this point.
You should be wrecking games when you're a top ten pick and
your job is to get to the quarterback like it.
I don't want to hear about getting around the quarterback,
which is why finally, when Abdul Carter started playing better
last year instead of always got, he leads rookies and pressures.
Wow, fantastic. How about you put your helmet in
his chest and actually get him on the turf instead of being in
the neighborhood? That's what you were drafted to
do. And he started to do it.
And I never once once weighed from Abdul Carter.
That young man is going to be a superstar.
Kayvon Thibodeau will not be. Doesn't mean it can't be a
useful player. But when you think about this,
you ask Giant fans, you know, all you think about was pick up
the option should they extend him?
I mean, you're getting a massive split.
And I think at this point, most of you believe that Giants
eventually and ultimately will be better served by not paying
him big money. I don't think they're going to
die. I wouldn't do it.
I wouldn't pay him that money. So it's funny, you know, it's
funny how the stuff comes back up.
A lot of the things that BT and Sal used to say, a lot of things
have come to roost, you know, pretty prescient on our part,
you know, hey, don't get mad at me.
Don't get mad at us just because we had the butt that the the
balls to say things that you guys didn't want here or the
aptitude to read something that was in the early stage and
ultimately be right. Like, I'm not trying to be
arrogant here, but you guys were.
You guys were coming at us and we loved it.
We didn't get like the more energy the better.
You know, we were built for that.
But my goodness, I mean, did we get anything wrong?
No, but I got the I got the Lindor stuff wrong.
I got the Lindor stuff wrong. All right.
Speaking of BT and Sal, we have the date April 10th.
It's a Friday night, BT and Sal live 2 point O.
It is going to be absolute money.
All right, so the tickets let me read this is a better way to
read it so I'm not looking down. All right, work on the date
Papa. All right, ticket price.
It's at the Kresnoff Theater. It is at the the Tile Center on
the Liu campus. I know that my guy Tooch has
done shows there. It's a, I've already looked at
the place because when he was getting ready to book it, I
wanted to make sure, you know, I liked it.
You know, of course I trust him, but I wanted to weigh in.
Did my research. Phenomenal venue, awesome spot.
About 500 seats ish. About the same capacity for the
first BT and Sal live show. So tickets will be on sale I
would imagine tomorrow morning. And now we're going to start
promoting the hell out of this. And now we're going to start
structuring the show. And I can't wait.
And a good thing is that me and Sal get to talk about it
tomorrow night. I told you I'll be on Sal's
show. All right, J Rod, did I miss
anything today? Anything jump out?
Any opinions you want to weigh in on?
Let's see. Can't think of much.
All I can say. Super hype for BT and Sal live.
You know, let's get some promo out for those tickets.
Let's cut some videos, let's cut some clips and let's get after
it. Yeah, that's going to be fun.
There you go. There you go.
Let me see here. I want to get a couple of more
texts before we bounce here. Oh, I mentioned yesterday that
we went to Medieval Times. Have you ever done that?
I've never been. I've heard like funny things.
I think I saw like a skit about it a while ago, but no.
How was that experience? Phenomenal.
I loved it. I know it's you know like I
don't know corny one O 1. You know medieval times, you
know, but it was great man. I loved it.
The venue was awesome and I think we got hosed because, you
know what happens is you get a sign to color, right?
You get a sign to color. And I, the one that we went to,
I think it seats about 1000 people.
Like it's a big venue. Yeah.
I was thinking there might be 80
people. I don't know.
We went to the 4:00 PM showing yesterday, my family and my
son's best friend's family out really good friends of ours.
Awesome. So it was like, I think it was
nine of us, right. And you walk in it's medieval
times, the armor this the sword. I didn't say swords, swords.
I started to say swords. And if you guys know that, you
know what, it's swords. So I I stay corrected on that
swords, not swords, swords. Anyway, you walk in, you get a
color and then they come out the night on the horse and so and so
peasants or, you know, meet them, the Sir, whomever, right.
They told me that real theatrical, you know, I'm sure
everybody's an aspiring actor that's doing it.
And they come out and each section has a color that they're
assigned to. So we were blue.
And, you know, while this is going on, they're doing like
jousting at all sorts of competitions.
And then and then they finish it up.
And like I was trying to figure out and I know that the swords
aren't sharp. I know that, but they're heavy
as they have to be heavy. And I originally thought like
when they clank swords. Now, some of it is, you know,
like you get a bad wrestling move in the ring, like, that was
not real, all right? Some of the falls are like that
and jumping off horses, which was wild.
That was really well done, sis. Yo.
Yeah. No, Absolutely.
Yeah. I got to check this out dude,
some fun. J Rod and the horses.
So they do one of the things where you've got one horse going
this way, one horse going that way and they've got these big
wooden nuts, like big wooden sticks and they got to smash
each other. And I think whoever stick breaks
loses. And when I tell you the wood,
they actually pulled down a net because the wood gets shattered,
goes everywhere like it is, it's explosive.
That's kind of sick. It was really good.
It was it was combative. It was good energy.
And what I was trying to figure out, I'm like, they have to be
piping in the sounds because every time those metal now when
they were like, then they got off the horse.
Then they get on their feet and they're like hitting each other
and whacking each other. And every time the swords would
meet, if you would hear this massive.
Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, that sounds.
But then as I really started to watch it through like, you know,
content or production mind, you know, I'm like, that's either
impeccable timing or it's real. And then you saw like, sparks
flash. I mean, I guess maybe that could
be part of the theater as well. But I think that they were
really hitting each other and I think we got hoes because we
absolutely had the best athlete. Like if this guy could play
linebacker for the Giants, Jack fast, jumping around, good
energy. It was really, really, really
cool. Not cheap, but I'll tell you
this too, that the thing that you do and they serve you like
in a in a very medieval way. So you get this big heavy like
metal or or I guess it's metal cup of, of soup, right?
And you have no spoon. You got to you got to drink it,
right. Then they bring you a massive
slab chicken. And honestly, the chicken was a
tick dry in the middle. Not that bad though, right?
The chicken was good and it was a massive chicken breast, right?
And you get a little side of corn on the cob and you get a
potato and they don't give you utensils.
You have to eat with your hands. That's hilarious.
It was cool. I was going to ask like how how
was the food? I mean it sounds pretty decent
and you know what, if you got rub down old school style, I
feel like it's a good immersive. Experience it was it was the
listen, the food was like a diner.
Like when I go to a diner, I get, you know, a couple of eggs
over easy or, you know, mozzarella sticks or a hamburger
with mushrooms. Like I kind of stick to the
basic, you know, maybe toasted, bake with butter, whatever to
the menu is a very short menu for me at the diner.
Like I would not go to a diner and we go to diner all the time
and order like chicken breast. Like I, I wouldn't do that at
the diner. I would imagine if I did it
would it would be passable And that's how I would grade
yesterday's chicken. Again, you got to the middle of
it. It was a tick dry.
But dude, it was good and it was really, it was immersive.
It was really fun. The kids loved it.
Now all the different tchotchkes that they're running around
like, oh, by the sword, by the sword, by the sword that lights
up and by the the flag of, of the, of your team, so to speak.
I'm not doing that like, you know, because they didn't even
play with the stuff. At least my son, I got him a
sword from the Pirates of the Caribbean in Disney.
He never played with it. He was always just, you know, a
sports kid or building stuff, like he didn't play with toys
that way. So I'm not going to buy it now.
If he would have just turned 11, OK, My door went.
Through a hilarious comment. Wow, what is it?
Say Rod versus Bada booms fight to the death in medieval times.
All right, well, listen, I don't.
I can you handle yourself, man? I mean I don't Bada Booms might
be able to throw hands. That's what I mean.
He might be able to joust me off a horse in a stat so.
I don't know about that. I mean, why are you saying that?
Don't, don't, don't, don't acquiesce there.
Come on. You got to project confidence on
Unleashed here. You can't you now you want to be
respectful and say alright, I'll leave the door open, maybe
bottom booms could take me down. But you don't.
You don't defer to Bobby. It'd be a great.
Joust. It'd be a great joust between me
and Mr. Booms. That's all we say.
Then me and Sal will get after it.
I'll put Sal down that I can. Say.
I'll put him down gently, but I'll put him down it.
It was cool. And then today, have you seen
the trailers? I know you'd have kids, so it's
a little different. There's a movie out there called
Goat. Have you heard about this?
I've seen the trailers for it, I think, I mean, when I saw Marty
Supreme, I think a couple weeks ago, it was in the theater.
So yeah, saw it. Looks cool.
How's how's your son feeling for it?
Is he? Excited.
Yeah, my, my daughter. I was going to I take my I love
going to the movies. Yeah, he's excited.
I'm going to take him with his buddy Brody.
So we're going to go later in the day.
I was going to of course, take my daughter too, but one of her
friends reached out to my wife last night, ironically and said,
Hey, I'm taking I'm taking Stevie to to the movies to does
he goat? Can I take kins?
I'm like and and this was a great was this made me feel
really good Kins. Initially, my daughter told Jen
no because daddy's taking me out of her daddy's feelings, right?
That's so sweet. And then mom rightly, because
listen, you know, you want to hang out with your friends as
much as you can rightly say, you know what?
No, no, daddy would loved you would really love for you to go
with Stevie. You know, it's cool.
And then she's like you sure. And Jen's like, Yep.
So she's she's actually I think she's there now.
I think that they went to the early show.
I love going to the movies. I don't know what it is.
I mean, I do know what it is, but I just love going and
getting the popcorn and, you know, not going nuts like a
Gavone with the candy, but a massive bucket of popcorn with a
ton of syrup, butter, I mean, and and a nice Sprite and just
sitting there and now that the seats vibrate, you got the
little wooden thing that flips over for your table.
It's not like going to the movies when I was going.
No, nothing. I love it.
I do love it. So we're going later for GOAT
and Medieval times last night. Wait, I got a little corny, but
it's first time I've done it and was awesome.
And I didn't think it was corny like I thought it was corny
before I went. I'm like medieval times, but I,
I never got all these years. I I never, there was none of
that growing up in Brooklyn. And you know, I guess there's a
couple in Jersey. We hit that and then the kiddos
go back to school tomorrow because they were off for a
couple days. Presidents Day and, I don't
know, Energy Day, whatever the hell it is.
Interesting. Yeah, I had no idea school was
off today too. Huh.
Yeah, yeah, they're off to, not every school, I know that like
the high schools are in session, but at least our school district
for the younger grades, they're off today.
So we got a lot to hit today, man.
Hopefully you guys react to this and continue pumping in those
texts. You guys have done a really good
job. The likes, you know, all the
stuff, the retweets on, on, on, on all the other platforms, the
hypes. I've seen some hypes coming in a
little bit here. Yeah, pay attention to the hype
leaderboard now. We're getting up.
I mean, I'm seeing some vids and they're getting like 40K50K
pretty soon after we drop them. So appreciate the likes,
appreciate the hypes. You know, drop your drop your
height budget on this video if you've got it.
And I mean it's funny that they kind of keep you at just like
you have 3000 height points per week that you can use and it
resets. It's like you got your.
Little is that what it is? It's 3000 for the whole week.
Yes, and then you dole them out in increments of 1000.
Oh, now could you do this though?
Can somebody give me 2000 and some gamer that they love 1000?
Like can you? Can you split it exactly
exactly? So you could toss 2 to one
person one to another, but I think on YouTube's base like no
premium it's 3000 per week. Yeah, and listen, those gamers
with a million Subs don't need it.
We do so. So screw those.
They've already got it. They got it.
They got enough hype man we're we're we're getting off the
tracks here. All right, J Rod, let me wrap it
up buddy. Good job out of you today.
Just pop that. I just want to get one more look
at it because boy, it really does validate what we're doing.
Get up at I mean just look at that man.
I got hold on, keep it up. I got to take a picture of that.
I I have to take. I am, I am.
I feel like I feel legitimate seeing that, like I think I'm
watching ATV show. How great is that and how great
is that? We're the New York Yankees.
What are we doing here? I can get it off J Rod.
So we obviously hit that. We hit Steve Cohen said a couple
of things that that I reacted to the breeze hole stuff as well.
Anytime you want to jump in anything pertaining to the
draft, by all means hit it. Get the videos out there, get
the likes up, get the Subs up, spread the word.
BT unleashed in the house. I will be back tomorrow at 10
AMI am contemplating. It's probably a good night to
experiment with it because I'm actually not assigned to the
Saint John's game Tomorrow. I might do a soft launch Saint
John's watch part. It's kind of late, starts at 9.
I don't know, maybe poor little Scotch maybe sitting here watch
the game. I know I can't run the game on
here, obviously, but I haven't done a watch party yet.
And I know I'm definitely going to do a few for the Yankees of
the Mets, of the Knick playoffs. And I'm sure I'll do a couple
with The Jets during the season, which will be wild.
Wow. But I think I might do that
tomorrow at 9:00 because I'm going to be on with Sal at 8.
All right, so I'll be on Sal's channel tomorrow.
Make sure you guys hook him up, show them a little love.
Make sure you watch us there. And if I do the watch party with
Saint John's, I will let you guys know ahead of time.
I'll tweet it out. I'll put it up here on the
YouTube page. What else?
BT and Sal live 2 point O on April 10th in Long Island at Li
U's campus at their theater, about 500 seats.
Tickets should be on sale tomorrow.
You'll have the link here. You'll have the link on X,
you'll have the link on Instagram, you'll have the link.
And we can't wait to see you guys cuz the first one was a
rousing success. Sold it out.
Absolutely. And it was fun that it was
interactive like it was, listen, here's the thing too, If any of
you, anybody and real quick, anybody that is watching right
now and that is texting, have any, were any of you guys at the
actual show? Because I'd love for you guys to
give me a brief little scout report.
Like it's not just like, oh, BT and Sal are on stage.
They're nowhere near the crowd. We walked through the crowd.
I'm sitting up there with a drink.
I mean, booty sitting up there hammering back a vodka.
We did a couple of shots in the in the green room before we went
out there, you know, flipping baseball cards to the fan,
throwing signed baseballs to the fans.
Like we really got out there and mingled and interacted because
that's that's the kind of event we treated as like if you guys
are carving out your time and and spending a few bucks to come
and hang out with me and Sal and we're going to we're going to
over deliver. We're going to under promise and
we're going to over deliver and the sponsorship was great and
the traction was great. So I fully expect this guy to
sell out as well. Yeah, I'm going to see here.
Yeah, maybe I don't really have time.
I don't know. I don't know if anybody that
that's watching now was actually there.
If not, it's all good. Trust me.
It was a great night. So have a a really good rest of
your Tuesday. Looking forward to seeing Goat
the movie. I'll take the boys to see that
tomorrow will be on the air. Busy day, the show at 10,
hooking up with salad 8, maybe a Johnny's watch party at 9.
Anything breaks of course. Big trades out of whatever it
might be. God forbid an injury for you
know anybody. Yanks Mets spring training.
Hopefully not. I will bust in.
I'll hook it up. Live there, but let me run here.
Have a great rest of your day. I will catch you tomorrow at 10
right here on on leash. Peace out guys, I'll see you.
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