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What's going on everybody? 
How we doing episode #2 

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Unleashed. 
I got a little studio for you 

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today. 
Still have some tweaking to do. 

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I'll be. 
I got a microphone as well. 

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So let me just make sure that 
we're good to go. 

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I'm obviously figuring some of 
this stuff out. 

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Make sure it's all good. 
Just somebody give me a thumbs 

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up. 
Audio good. 

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Don't even have a producer yet. 
This is just me. 

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My son is in school. 
Let me know if you guys can hear

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me. 
I believe that you can. 

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OK, all good. 
Yes, yes, yes. 

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So yes, it was phenomenal guys. 
I want to really thank you as I 

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did to start the show. 
I had an absolute blast. 

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I'm still trying to figure out 
some of these mechanics and 

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tweaks, as I said, but it's 
really about the content. 

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And as I also told you guys 
yesterday, I really had a choice

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where I could just kind of lay 
back and I can enjoy the 

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holidays. 
Like it kind of basically sit on

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my ass and and just wait. 
Or I could just jump in here not

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having everything fully polished
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content. 
So that's what I did. 

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But I do have the microphone. 
I brought this into my home 

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studio at my my Home Office. 
I was watching some of the some 

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of the show from yesterday. 
I wanted to see it and just kind

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of get a sense of, of what it 
looked like and even dive into 

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some of the comments that I 
wasn't able to necessarily do 

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during the show. 
And I'm like, OK, I like it. 

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It's sleek, it's cool, but it's 
a little bland. 

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So I said let me see what I 
could do and here we are. 

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By the way, before I forget, 
I'll tell you this probably 

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again before we get out of here.
The live BT and South show is 

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basically sold out. 
There's literally like 2025 

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tickets. 
That's coming up on January 

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22nd. 
It's going to be absolutely 

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awesome. 
I cannot wait. 

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It's basically the two of us 
unplugged at the Vogel Theatre 

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in Red Bank, which is a 
tremendous venue. 

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Aaron Boone's going to be there 
with us for the night, so I know

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there's a couple of VIP packages
out there if you want to meet us

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and you want to meet Boone, 
There's a few regular seats set 

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up. 
It really is an amazing venue. 

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I think if any of you who are 
watching right now have actually

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been to the Vogel Theater, by 
all means, feel free to drop a 

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comment out there. 
Let everybody know what it's 

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like, what they could could 
expect, but we're going to have 

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an absolute blast. 
All right, so I also told you 

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guys about the oh, and the 
tickets there, myconcerts.net, 

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my concerts.net. 
You'll have a splash page. 

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BT and Sal click that, write the
Ticketmaster again, whatever 

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remains. 
And there's not much remains. 

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So jump and I would love to see 
you guys out there. 

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Sal and I were talking about it 
on the way in the Uber, which 

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took basically 2 hours to get to
Alex's party on Saturday night. 

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And then obviously on the way 
back we were started conceptual 

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conceptualized a little further.
So it's going to really, really,

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really be a lot of fun and I 
can't wait to meet you guys. 

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Some of you I've already met. 
Can't wait to see you in person 

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and get this thing going all 
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Something on the Mets, something
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Giannis and the New York Knicks.
Now, first of all, with McNeil 

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gone, all right, I want to start
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It's a big day and it's been 
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here for the Mets as they 
disband, let's face it, a team 

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that wasn't good enough to do 
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I know they gave you a couple of
fleeting moments. 

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Fantastic. 
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you're a sensible baseball fan 
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aside just for a minute, I think
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not entirely maybe I shouldn't 
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do think that many of you 
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are trying to do. 
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back here. 
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world to do is say, well, you 
know, Pete was a, you know, they

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don't want to give him the five 
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And McNeil and Lindor, they 
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And obviously it's easy to get 
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then then Lindor and he got 
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little Sodo and Lindor friction.
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You know, there was rumblings, I
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podcast that Nimmo and Lindor 
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apparently was rooted in Nimos 
Nimmo's a devotion or or support

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for Trump, President Trump. 
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people were saying was was the 
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Obviously a very polarizing 
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So you will have it split and 
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into the day-to-day operations 
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So you know, the the one thing 
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don't need you, right? 
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sport that's obviously dressed 
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And what I mean by that is, you 
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box 4 * a night, maybe 5 if 
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me versus the pitcher 60 feet, 6
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I do what I got to do. 
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If there's guys on base, you 
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see fastballs. 
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me has a ten pitch at bat rather
than a two pitch at bat and, and

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that sequence is laborious for 
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I'm going to benefit from that. 
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clock. 
Maybe he's tired, maybe I get 

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something better to hit. 
Maybe I do a little bit more 

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damage. 
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getting in there, identifying 
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and then doing what I have to do
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going into the game against the 
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tendency and stuff wise. 
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of it. 
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balls hit to me. 
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know, it's got to be a little 
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Certainly up the middle terms of
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was, you know, obviously a 
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and and McNeil. 
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though. 
Anybody can regurgitate that. 

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What I don't think many of you 
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Ball that Stearns has rightfully
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you are either overlooking or 
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You know, while it's a sequence 
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game, the time spent for a 
baseball team is by far more 

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than any other any other sport 
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Like you think about a football 
team now, Jeez, they go to 

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training camp and you know, back
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whether it Hofstra or with the 
Giants up in Albany, not see 

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your family for a month, dorm 
with somebody on this little 

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teeny tiny bed and, you know, 
practice your ass off and sweat 

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your ass off for hours, double 
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back to the dorm room, maybe 
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whatever might be. 
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into the season, it's it's, it's
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having, having jobs. 
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home, you go back to your 
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Whereas in baseball, I mean, 
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the season is, is insane. 
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on a specific day at a ballpark 
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it's it's unlike any other 
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And if you're not getting along 
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like overt disconnect, but you 
just you just not close if you 

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don't have the requisite talent,
which news flash, the Mets have 

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not had. 
That's why they're doing this in

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part the talent, but also the 
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disconnect with some of the 
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You get to the ballpark around 
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you know, you're in meetings. 
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with the hitting coach and 
you're going over, you know, 

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digitally, you're seeing the 
sequence, you know the opposing 

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pitcher, what he's got, you know
what, what he, what he, what his

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tendencies are. 
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with, with the hitters and then 
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like 3:00 or so. 
And then, you know, you stretch,

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you warm up, you throw your long
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Maybe you get a lift in, 
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a game and that is basically 4 
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proximity to 24 other guys 
before you even start your 

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actual job. 
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timeless. 
It's it's shorter than it used 

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to be based on the pitch clock, 
but you're still there minimum 2

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1/2 hours once the game starts. 
And then what happens after the 

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game? 
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you got to meet the media, maybe
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and there's just a lot of time. 
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rooms are amazing. 
It's not like the locker rooms. 

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Hell, I mean, the locker room 
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mean, in hindsight, it was like 
something from the 1970s, right?

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They obviously have a ton of 
space and they could play video 

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games and they've got their lift
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they're, you know, healthy shake
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But you know, you are bumping 
into guys left and right and you

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are just, you are together. 
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other guy, but if you're not 
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around each other, unless you've
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Mets don't, then you're just 
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And that's not to mention now 
you rinse and repeat, you do it 

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the next day and then after A8 
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guess what? 
You get on a plane, you fly 

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wherever you're flying, you 
check into the hotel with two 

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and then you do the same thing, 
only now you're away from your 

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family. 
So I get it. 

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Like I understand how 
personalities, they grind. 

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I mean, even in radio and you 
know, you're not best friends 

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with everybody that you work 
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Now the objective is to be 
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get the job done, even if there 
is a little bit of a different 

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personality. 
And and there is because that's 

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the world. 
But this is just the way that it

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had to be. 
I mean, you got a 17 year old 

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pitcher and you basically paid 
the A's money to get him off 

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your hands. 
What does that tell you? 

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I mean, that's how little they 
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And and don't disrespect, but 
that's that's that's absolutely 

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the right thought. 
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The Alonzo stuff's a little 
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that's less rooted in 
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that's far more rooted in their 
their projection of Pete as a 

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player. 30, you know, early 30s,
righty stick, righty first 

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baseman, defensive, defensively 
deficient, a negative on the 

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bases. 
Like these are all things that I

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think that was largely driven by
baseball because Pete's a fan 

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favorite. 
I think Pete is is fairly 

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affable, a little goofy. 
Like I think I don't think Pete 

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really rubs anybody the wrong 
way, but you know that Jeff 

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McNeil did. 
And by the way, I get it, Jeff 

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McNeil in a lot of ways is if 
you're old enough, you'll get 

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the reference a little bit like 
Greg Jeffries when Greg Jeffries

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first came up. 
Now Greg was on the wrong Mets 

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team. 
Like those guys abused him. 

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And it really, it really ruined 
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It really stagnated his growth 
as a player. 

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Because if you look at Jeff's 
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see that he had some good years 
with Saint Louis under Tory. 

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I think he stole 50 bases. 
Kansas City, like the guy could 

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hit. 
But what he had to learn was, 

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you know, spike in the helmet 
every time and being a lunatic 

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and smashing a bat rack is not 
going to fly when you're a 

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rookie with all those 
high-priced veterans. 

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So that was a bad clubhouse. 
And really, I appreciate 

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Mcneil's grit and his desire to 
be to do well and to be a great 

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hitter. 
But that act gets old. 

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I mean, how many? 
I mean, I could just I'm I'm 

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rewinding in my mind like how 
many times he he grounds into a 

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double play or, you know, 
strikes out or pops up with a 

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couple of guys on base and what 
do you see invariably bang. 

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There goes the helmet. 
There goes the sour puss. 

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And this is not the pile on 
Jeff. 

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This is just to show you it was 
absolutely the right move. 

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Now, I don't think many of you, 
at least my read, I think many 

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of you have the McNeil stuff 
processed properly. 

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You know, he's got a year to go 
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He's not the batting, he's not a
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batting title. 
He's not that guy. 

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He's not an above average second
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Now you have one defensively in 
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So he's expendable. 
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and you know, you're a little 
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little, I don't know, can I talk
to Jeff now? 

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He looks pretty pissed off. 
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expendable. 
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handled that move the right way.
The Pete stuff was so much more 

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sentimental and driven through 
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Pete, tremendous productivity 
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Now, the DS thing is different 
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as anybody in the game at his 
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And that's confounding. 
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starting to, as you start to see
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think you realize, all right, 
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So why would you pay a closer 
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years when you're not even close
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You, you wouldn't do it. 
That's stupid business. 

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Despite the fact that he's great
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was the first domino. 
It was a bad contract when he 

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signed it and, and the Mets 
lamented that. 

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And that was that was not 
Stearns. 

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I don't you know, the value for 
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He signed that as a center 
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center fielder and he's not even
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So again, let's step back from 
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from just to a a pure baseball 
prism, slightly overpaid on base

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percentage going in the wrong 
direction, not a good arm, not a

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good left fielder. 
Why wouldn't you move them? 

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You, you, you do and and you 
should. 

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So I think that all these things
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it's a it's a it's a tsunami of 
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But I promise you this core and 
this is something that we talked

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about on WFAN forever. 
I mean, Sal was the first one to

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bring it up. 
He took key Fort. 

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He was right. 
And then I jumped in and I was 

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right. 
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kind of see it that way, which I
get because you were still 

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operating on emotion. 
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step back this year, I think the
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year. 
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be good at all, although there 
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can make it. 
I'll lay it out for you in a 

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minute. 
I think that the very real 

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understanding should be this 
group or that group, you know, 

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past tense was never going to 
win a championship and strip 

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away. 
I love Pete and I miss Nemo and 

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they screwed us. 
And what are you doing? 

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And Cohen just wanted to build 
a, you know, casinos and 

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Stearns, you know, boy wonder, 
whatever Joe calls them. 

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It's just ruining the team 
crunching numbers. 

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No, that is the wrong incorrect 
read the right one briefly 

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stated, is that the last team 
one good one going to win. 

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And now let's see if there's a 
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path where you're more 
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you're actually a better team in
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athletic and fewer strikeouts. 
That's what you're doing here. 

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So I still think I don't know if
they'll do this. 

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I really don't know. 
Five, what we got 500 live. 

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We got to get that up. 
Let's go. 

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Got to get that up. 
So with Pete gone, Diaz, Nemo 

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and McNeil now gone, what should
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Well, you know, this was being 
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yesterday and and not that it's 
a new angle because we've talked

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about Marte as a possible fit 
for the Mets. 

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Now, I don't know what the Mets 
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Would it be a Sproat? 
Would it be a Tom? 

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Would it be a Williams? 
Would it be somebody like that? 

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It could be all right if the 
Mets open the 2026 season, first

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quick lineup hit and then 
obviously something on the 

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rotation, which is horrendous at
the moment. 

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The Mets rotation is a joke, all
right? 

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Can you possibly open the season
with Lindor 1, Marte 2, Soto 3? 

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And now you start to piece it 
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Polanco, a simian of Vientos 
against the lefties and certain 

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matchups that are favorable. 
A Beatty who, you know, I like 

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much better defensively at third
than Vientos, Can't play third 

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base. 
Like if Vientos has a glove next

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year, it's got to be 
experimentally at first base. 

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He stinks at third base. 
Beatty is so much better because

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he's a former shortstop. 
He moves better, He's got better

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instincts. 
You saw it like. 

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And that's where I think Mendoza
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Where where he he played Vientos
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stretch and then when he 
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bit too late. 
Beatty's the third baseman, 

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Vientos is not. 
And then you get into Alvarez 

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and again, there's a lot of 
unknowns here. 

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And then you get into center 
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combination. 
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that, you know, Lindor Marte 
Soto, although 123 that's about 

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as good as you can get that 
that's tremendous. 

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But now Polanco, who can rake 
and and Simon, who's got some 

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pop who I think could bounce 
back. 

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And it's only a couple of years.
So it's it's all good. 

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And then again, the V Anthos 
Beatty, the names I ran down. 

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There's at least a a a lane to 
borrow the my buddy, you have 

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Boone's term there. 
There's a lane where at least 

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the Mets can trot out a solid 
offense night tonight. 

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You know, and as you're doing 
this, you're resetting the 

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finances, OK? 
You're getting more athletic, as

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I said, and you're also creating
a window, whether it's a 

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Williams, whether it's a bench, 
one of those guys to eventually 

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come up and play and and not be 
blocked by these burdensome 

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contracts. 
It's just it's the wrong way to 

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do business. 
Listen, I don't give a shit how 

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much money you have. 
You can have, you know, $19 

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billion, which I think Cohen 
actually has more at this point.

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Is, is ultimate self, is a is 
valuation there. 

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You can have all the money in 
the world. 

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It's not a license to spend it 
irresponsibly. 

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So really what this is, this is 
a market correction of a lot of 

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mistakes that were made early in
Cohen's tenure. 

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Now I don't even get on. 
I don't even get on Cohen for 

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this because it was made out of 
a passion to give you what you 

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want and that is a sustainable 
winner. 

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That's what you guys want, 
right? 

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So we went out and he spent the 
money and now it's like, OK, 

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it's not working. 
Do we double down? 

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Do we triple down though? 
That's idiotic. 

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That gets you nowhere. 
That just digs the hole deeper 

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and makes the Mets less 
championship relevant. 

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Now, like if you say to me right
now without an addition to the 

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staff, which I'll get to in a 
minute like somebody wins, do I 

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think the the overrun there's 
going to be set at in Vegas for 

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the Mets. 
To me, I mean, you're talking 

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right now, I don't know 7576 and
shit, they won 83 last year and 

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they had Pete and his forty home
runs and the other pieces that 

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they will not have any more. 
But again, you've got to almost 

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rewire and reprogram yourself 
and you're capable of it. 

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I've had to do it with certain 
teams. 

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I had to do it with Julius 
Randle and the Knicks. 

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Now get to a little Giannis 
Knicks situation in at the end 

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of the at the end of the show 
here. 

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So I think while these moves are
not going to elicit joy, what it

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should do is provide you with 
some clarity what the mission 

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is. 
And the mission simply stated, 

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is to obviously get better, to 
avoid these these crazy downward

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spirals where the Mets go. 
Two months of playing hard 

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baseball. 
And I believe back to what I 

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said at the top. 
The reason why I believe aside 

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from being deficient baseball 
wise, skill wise in a few areas,

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the main reason why the Mets 
collapse too often is because 

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they did not gel. 
And when times get tough, you 

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got to pick each other up. 
I know that that sounds corny 

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and that sounds contrived and 
cliche, but it matters When 

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you're doing something every 
single day, you better love your

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job and you better at least like
the guys next to you, and you 

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better at least respect them and
you better at least trust them. 

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And it seems like too many 
people either didn't like each 

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other or didn't respect each 
other. 

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Now listen, you know, I don't 
get into politics too much. 

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Maybe I'll delve into some more 
stuff here a little bit. 

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That's not why. 
I mean, not today necessarily, 

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but at some point during the 
show, if something hits me, it's

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going to be a real podcast. 
You know, being a dad, being a 

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human, trying a new endeavor, 
you know, getting knocked down 

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and getting back up. 
That's what this is about. 

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All right, So I'm not going to 
shove politics down your throat 

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like some people do. 
But let's call for what it is. 

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If you are a Trump supporter, 
like a massive ardent President 

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Trump supporter like Nimmo 
apparently is OK. 

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And you are a massive detractor 
of President Trump like Lindor 

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apparently is. 
And you, you just you're just 

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not going to have any 
commonality if if that's it. 

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Now if you choose to ignore it 
and not get into it, which? 

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Probably is the smart thing, but
these are human beings. 

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These are human beings with 
families and those things are 

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discussed in their home. 
These are human beings with from

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all different walks of life and 
different ethnicities and 

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different needs and different 
wants and different 

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perspectives. 
So if that's not respected on on

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like the most core benign level,
like, hey, I know you support 

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him or I know you don't, but 
we're teammates. 

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Let's agree to disagree. 
Let's go ball. 

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Let's start kicking the shit out
of teams. 

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Well, it it's not only is it not
going to work, it's going to 

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become toxic. 
And I've always believed that 

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there's been an element. 
I could never prove it because 

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I'm not in the Mets clubhouse. 
But you can watch body language 

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and you can just deduce certain 
things if you watch closely 

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enough, right? 
And it was always my thought 

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that the Mets clubhouse, not 
only was it not really solid, 

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but it was a detriment. 
It was a problem. 

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It was an issue, not that how do
you get rid of an issue? 

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You, you just, you delete it 
from the situation. 

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And that's what the Mets are 
doing now. 

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And I applaud them for that. 
I really do. 

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And by the way, if somebody 
wants Francisco Lindor and they 

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want to take all that money and 
the Mets will be willing to eat 

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whatever percentage my I, I 
trade Lindor. 

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It's not that I don't respect 
Lindor. 

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He's a hell of a baseball 
player, but he to his 

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fluctuations up and down, up and
down. 

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Now think you've got to be old 
enough to well, actually, you've

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got to be definitely old enough 
for one reference. 

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All of you should get this. 
Think about the 86 Mets right 

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now. 
I'm I well, I know that like 

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Daryl had a bad month and Gary 
had a bad month where the power 

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dropped and the back then the 
OPS didn't nobody referenced it,

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but the average dropped and you 
know the the power numbers just 

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dropped. 
That's baseball. 

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It's cyclical. 
But like the Mets did this, this

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former iteration. 
I mean, it was a common 

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occurrence. 
It was a common theme either a 

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quick start, you know, red hot, 
wow, we're amazing and then two 

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months disappearance where they 
lost myriad ways, whether it's 

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the starting pitching, they're 
not scoring runs, bullpens, 

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shitting on leads like when you 
lose that creatively and when 

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you lose that frequently, 
something is awry. 

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All right. 
So again, good job by the Mets 

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taking a Wrecking Ball to this 
mess because they weren't going 

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to win anything. 
You know it and I know it. 

442
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,280
I may have known it before you, 
but you know, whatever. 

443
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,280
Now, what do you do with the 
with the on the mound here? 

444
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:35,680
I mean, there's still a couple 
of things to do. 

445
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,160
I'm not trading McClain for 
anybody now, if they want, if 

446
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:43,200
it's a school ball thing, oh 
man, that's that's the real 

447
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,400
temptation. 
At the end of the day, I would 

448
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,480
still say no because one of the 
ultimate advantages of Cohen is 

449
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,480
that he can buy anybody. 
Look at Soto. 

450
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,480
So school is not going to get 
dealt somewhere and then 

451
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,760
immediately signed an extension.
That's just not what Boris does.

452
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,160
He doesn't operate that way. 
That's not going to change here.

453
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,840
Now you pick the Yankees and the
Mets and the Dodgers and all the

454
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,480
other big spenders. 
You drive that price up. 

455
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,160
It's business one-on-one. 
So I'm not giving up McClain for

456
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,120
school. 
I'm not doing it. 

457
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,240
Obviously a Sproat, obviously a 
Tom. 

458
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,200
Of course, those are Peterson. 
I don't know if the Tigers would

459
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,120
want Sanga, but those are all 
things on the table. 

460
00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:20,880
The Jet Williams of Benji, of 
course, although I know the the 

461
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,680
Mets love bench and he appears 
to be their number one. 

462
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:25,680
But these are things you got to 
do now. 

463
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,280
Could you trade for a Peralta? 
Can you sign a Valdez? 

464
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,880
Can you sign a Suarez? 
Can you sign a Zach Allen? 

465
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,040
Now, Gallon is not going to 
excite me, but it's going to 

466
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,960
give them a chance to compete, 
you know, and then you piece 

467
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,920
together what I would imagine 
would be a bit of a a bounce 

468
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,520
back from Anaya Holmes was fine.
And then as I said, you see what

469
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:49,160
you do with with with Sanga, you
see the the Mets. 

470
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,720
And of course the other 
reference will be David Wright's

471
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,880
Mets. 
I mean, David Wright didn't have

472
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,720
an MB MVP type season every 
year, but David Wright just 

473
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,840
didn't go to fucking hole for 
two months and and hit 112 and 

474
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,840
the Mets lose 13 out of 16. 
I mean, I'm not saying they 

475
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,880
didn't have one bad skid, but 
David Wright was a consistent 

476
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,440
star. 
You know you knew what you got 

477
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:16,120
power before the back went down,
power average great defensive 

478
00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:20,440
prowess, steady leadership, 
consistent personality, speed on

479
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,080
the bags winner every check, 
check, check, check, check every

480
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:25,800
night. 
You knew which guy was showing 

481
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,120
up to the yard. 
And this is not a knock on 

482
00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,360
Lindor, but it's the it's let me
see if I can just get that 

483
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,920
borderline start messing with 
stuff. 

484
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:37,320
The the problem with Lindor for 
me has been that he he he has 

485
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,880
not brought that consistency. 
So if somebody wants him, go for

486
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,920
it. 
I'm not saying you proactively 

487
00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:46,480
try to give him away. 
But with all these discussions 

488
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,640
and all these deep thoughts and 
new plan the Mets have, there is

489
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,880
nobody that could convince me 
that if the right deal crosses 

490
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,880
the Mets table that they won't 
trade Lindor because they would.

491
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,440
Now you think about great teams,
right? 

492
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,080
And how chemistry matters in 
baseball. 

493
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,600
And back to what I said at the 
start of the show, you know, 

494
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,040
it's largely individual. 
And then obviously it's a 

495
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,520
sequence and series of, of team 
related things, relays, double 

496
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,480
plays, whatever it might be, hit
runs. 

497
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,160
But now the great teams can 
overcome some friction. 

498
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,960
You know, the 86 Mets, I mean, 
they're, they're throwing 

499
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,320
punches on picture day. 
They're actually, they're 

500
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,440
throwing fists. 
They fought, you know, then you 

501
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,720
had, you had Gary Carter, who 
was a devout Christian, which is

502
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,000
amazing. 
You had, you know, Keith and 

503
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,440
Daryl who were doing drugs and, 
you know, booze, banging back 

504
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,760
lines, the Lord knows what time,
you know, just really not being 

505
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,640
professional toward their job. 
But they were so amazingly 

506
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,960
gifted that they could still be 
studs, they could still be 

507
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,640
stars. 
You know, at that point, 

508
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,880
Hernandez was kind of past his 
off the field issues. 

509
00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:54,880
So there was more of a 
steadiness there. 

510
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,160
But, you know, like Wally 
Bachman and Lenny Dykstra, I 

511
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,640
mean, these guys were were 
grading personalities. 

512
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:02,920
Yeah. 
Nice talking about. 

513
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,640
I've just left because I'm 
thinking of the video with Wally

514
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,320
Bachman. 
God, it's got to be about 10 

515
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,680
years and 10 years ago, maybe 
more. 

516
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,200
He's coaching independent team. 
If you guys haven't seen this 

517
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,200
many of you have just search 
Wally Backman explodes. 

518
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,440
I mean I would think that that 
would get you there and he 

519
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,240
judged. 
You want about a profanity laced

520
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,320
unbelievable. 
You know Rick job on his team. 

521
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,280
He's like you guys ain't fucking
good enough not to take batting 

522
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,360
practice. 
You going to come here, get your

523
00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:34,560
fucking teeth kicked in? 
Oh my God, I love it. 

524
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,920
So I just say that not to just 
drop F bombs, but that was 

525
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,200
Wally's personality. 
And then you had maybe Kevin 

526
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,480
Mitchell, who was from the inner
city, who grew up totally 

527
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,320
different. 
It it you know, you had a lot of

528
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,880
different personalities going in
a lot of different directions. 

529
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,560
But what was 1 commonality with 
that team? 

530
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,480
Whether you hit Keith, whether 
you hit Daryl, whether you did 

531
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,920
whatever. 
Hell, Ray Knight and Eric Davis 

532
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,320
throwing down fist at third 
base. 

533
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,520
Look at Gary Carter, the 
choirboy, choirboy coming and 

534
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,640
flying, grabbing whoever he 
grabbed. 

535
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,000
Throw them to like you just 
you're fighting for your boys. 

536
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,440
What happened with this crew, 
Pete Alonzo got drilled, 

537
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,640
drilled, drilled, drilled, 
drilled. 

538
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,160
Nobody did shit and nobody said 
shit. 

539
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,200
Think about that contrast, OK? 
Tells you all you need to know. 

540
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,080
They didn't fight for each other
because they didn't love each 

541
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,600
other. 
And I don't even think that they

542
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,080
respected each other enough. 
Because if you do, you know, you

543
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,320
step up and you have your boys 
back. 

544
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,080
Now, this is obviously an older 
reference. 

545
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,600
I didn't even see this team 
play. 

546
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,240
But you know, when Reggie first 
came to, the Yankees couldn't 

547
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,440
stand each other, You know, 
Reggie and Thurman, Reggie and 

548
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,800
Nettles, Reggie. 
Reggie was involved in all this.

549
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:48,120
Reggie and Goose, you know, 
Billy and Reggie say Reggie, Can

550
00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:51,440
you imagine Reggie Jackson? 
I mean, he I don't know that you

551
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,960
could ever be this that way now,
but if he was, let's just take 

552
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,600
him. 
Let's take 1977 Reggie and dump 

553
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,520
him into 2025 Digital World. 
Are you kidding me? 

554
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,000
Like, wow. 
But that team couldn't stand 

555
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,240
each other and what happened, 
you know, play it to plate. 

556
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,280
Lou Pinella, Carlton Fisk, 
Everybody comes out swinging 

557
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,360
playoff game. 
And amazingly, this on YouTube 

558
00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:19,120
as well. 
Shout out to YouTube. 

559
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:20,800
Yeah, I got a shout out to 
YouTube. 

560
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,600
Got a shout out the tube. 
There's a play at third base and

561
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,440
Nettles and George Brett. 
I mean, they literally start 

562
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,480
throwing. 
I mean, and they're connecting, 

563
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,160
not even throwing out from the 
game. 

564
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:37,880
Everybody jumps in, you know, 
and this is not too say go out 

565
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,280
there and fight. 
Trust me, I'm, I'm not saying 

566
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,040
that. 
But there are times where you 

567
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,600
can get a read on a on the 
closeness of a team or, or the 

568
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,520
lack thereof. 
And I think it was painfully 

569
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:48,960
obvious that the Mets didn't 
have it. 

570
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,560
And that Yankee crew that I just
mentioned, I mean, they still 

571
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,640
won back-to-back in 7778. 
And that same crew got to the 

572
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,000
World Series in 81. 
They just lost to the Dodge. 

573
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:04,600
Even then, the I can't stand the
Dodgers, the the Yankees of the 

574
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,960
dynastic Yankees. 
You know, somebody throws it. 

575
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,280
Paul O'Neill. 
Armando Benitez wants to drill 

576
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,000
Tino in the shoulder after a 
home run. 

577
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,320
I believe that was Tim Raines, 
right? 

578
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,320
I think it was Tim Raines. 
And was it Bernie or Tim? 

579
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:17,760
I thought it was Tim. 
I could be off on that. 

580
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,520
And boom, I mean, that was one 
of the scariest fights you'll 

581
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,040
ever see. 
It's spilled into the dugout. 

582
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:27,280
You got Scott Brosius. 
I mean, if if I went, you know 

583
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,440
what, when I went to do this 
years ago, like to get life 

584
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,120
insurance or a mortgage, and 
Scott Brosius was sitting at the

585
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,360
desk with a tie and his hair, 
you know, parted. 

586
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,360
I'd be like, yeah, this is a guy
that I trust and say this is the

587
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,760
kind of guy that I want to do 
business with. 

588
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,400
He's not going to screw me. 
Look at what? 

589
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,280
Look at what Scott Brosius did 
that night. 

590
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,520
I mean, he's in the dunk out. 
So again, not to put a spotlight

591
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,440
on just being raving lunatics 
and being Cavemen and just 

592
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,480
fighting for no reason, but you,
you do you. 

593
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,000
You need that. 
You need that together. 

594
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,400
This Mets didn't have it. 
You know, I'm not even sure if 

595
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,680
the Yankees have it now. 
I don't know if the Yankees have

596
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,080
it. 
I mean, you know, I mean, Judge 

597
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,120
has been hit a few times. 
When I look around at the just a

598
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,040
quick glance, you know, who 
would who would do something? 

599
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,120
I can see Rodon getting in 
there. 

600
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,160
I can see maybe Austin Wells 
doing a little something trying 

601
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,240
to. 
But you know, it's even, I don't

602
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,840
even know if the Yankees are 
incredibly tight, but it's 

603
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,320
certainly not a detriment. 
Like their day-to-day working 

604
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,280
relationship with each other is 
one out of respect and 

605
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,960
continuity. 
Like everybody's respects 

606
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,320
Stanton. 
Everybody respects the almighty 

607
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,920
Aaron Judge. 
Genuflect at the author of Aaron

608
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,800
Judge. 
Could you please get him some 

609
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,000
players? 
My God. 

610
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,040
So that's where I am with the 
Mets now, the Yankees, right? 

611
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,640
You know, let me hit a couple of
comments before I get into the 

612
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,200
Yankees here. 
Maddie Lee Hernandez Hall. 

613
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,880
Yeah, I've hit that. 
I've hit that a little bit for 

614
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,240
sure. 
Let's see what a great analysis 

615
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:58,360
of the meds. 
Appreciate that. 

616
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,800
I mean, I've now it's obviously 
a little more unfiltered given 

617
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,560
this new platform, which I love,
which fits me well. 

618
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,600
But I mean, I've been, I've been
saying on the radio for a long 

619
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,000
time, just a little bit of a 
different delivery. 

620
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,120
But the message, the core 
message never changed. 

621
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,280
It's something we identified a 
long time ago. 

622
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,720
Let's see here. 
So refreshing compared to Joe 

623
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,720
Beningo's Mets. 
And now I love Joe, You know, I 

624
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:22,920
don't. 
I don't really. 

625
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,760
I don't really know Joe's Mets 
analysis, to be honest with you.

626
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,160
I'm not really sure. 
But I've got a lot of love for 

627
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,560
Joe. 
Joe's awesome good guy baseball 

628
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:33,400
players. 
Soft now. 

629
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,360
Yeah, They they are, because 
they grow up differently, you 

630
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:36,600
know, and there's a reason for 
that. 

631
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:41,560
Like they played with each other
from the time they're 910 years 

632
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:42,600
old. 
I'll give you the example. 

633
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,280
Like so when I was growing up, 
all right, again, a million 

634
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,440
years ago when the dinosaurs 
were roaming the earth, that's 

635
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,160
actually a Joe Penang line to an
extent. 

636
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,160
I modified it a bit, but it was 
just all right, who's good in 

637
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,840
the neighborhood? 
And then, all right, what's 

638
00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:00,040
what's that one CYO team that 
that I got to watch out for? 

639
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,080
All right, You know, whether 
it's, you know, in Bay Ridge or 

640
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,480
in Rockaway or whatever it might
be. 

641
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:04,960
Who's that? 
Who's that really good team? 

642
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,160
So you and then eventually you 
go to high school with some of 

643
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,360
those players and you got to 
know them a little bit from 

644
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,600
playing against them, but you 
didn't play together. 

645
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,080
You played, you played together 
with guys in the neighborhood. 

646
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,040
Now, as I got a little bit 
older, that changed a little 

647
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,240
bit. 
And then certainly when I'm into

648
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,240
deeper into high school and 
obviously in college now it's 

649
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,840
it's totally different. 
But I know even even my son now 

650
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,800
he plays with kids from on his 
club baseball team over 100 

651
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,240
miles away, you know, with 
certain tornado. 

652
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:37,760
So it's it's a familiarity and 
when you have a familiarity at a

653
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,640
young age, you develop a bond, 
which is a great thing. 

654
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,520
But it's you know, and then kids
jumping team to team, not to go 

655
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:49,920
into that tangent now, but it 
there's just more more exposure.

656
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,320
All right, whereas I think when,
you know, back in the day, when 

657
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,640
you're coming up, it's, it's 
your team and that's it. 

658
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,440
I mean, think about this now. 
I'm, I'm still learning the the 

659
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,720
dynamics of of New Jersey high 
schools. 

660
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,240
My kids are still young. 
So, but obviously thinking about

661
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,320
would it be, you know, private 
for sports, which is what I'm a 

662
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,000
product of, which I strongly 
believe in, but I also live by a

663
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,360
great high school, the good 
sports team. 

664
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,880
So I don't I don't know. 
The point is back in the day, 

665
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,200
you just, you grew up, you went 
to the high school near you and 

666
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,400
you played with the same, you 
know, 1012 kids that you grew up

667
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:24,920
with. 
And it's just not like that 

668
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,760
anymore. 
So I, I, I think it's good, but 

669
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,640
I also think it's almost like 
it's almost like 10 or 12 if 

670
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,520
it's a basketball team or 15 or 
18 or 20 if it's a baseball 

671
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,400
team, or 40 or 50 if it's a 
football team. 

672
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,200
Almost like that amount of 
number of different entities, 

673
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,760
you know, because young players 
today are so programmed to, you 

674
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,480
know, immerse themselves in 
their brand, which I actually 

675
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:49,480
can't. 
I loathe it. 

676
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,360
I actually hate that. 
And I'll do some youth pods down

677
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,480
the road and and some some 
content on that for sure. 

678
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,000
You know, it's a real passion of
mine, but it's more about all 

679
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,120
right, Hey, I played well on 
this team and now this team 

680
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,920
wants to pick me up and I could 
fly here, which if you're good 

681
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:08,360
enough, hey, Nope, not mad at 
you, but it just almost creates 

682
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,880
a jump here and dominate, jump 
here and dominate, jump here and

683
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,199
dominate. 
And the roots are are less 

684
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,159
embedded in the soil, which I 
happen to be a big proponent of.

685
00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:19,639
But you know, you got to roll 
with the modernization of sports

686
00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:21,120
anyway. 
I didn't think the Mets were a 

687
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,159
very tight team. 
That's where all that went. 

688
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:28,000
Now, something that I said about
the Yankees yesterday 

689
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,760
personally, preface this by 
saying I don't think there's any

690
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,600
way that Hal's got the appetite 
to do this. 

691
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,120
He just, he's just not going to 
do this. 

692
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:41,199
But until it's not done or until
another team beats him to some 

693
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:44,120
of the players I'm about to 
mention, it could at least be 

694
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:50,320
presented as a real possibility.
And what the Yankees should do 

695
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,760
is really just get him. 
I obviously have to bring back 

696
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,600
Bellinger. 
And as I said yesterday, go out 

697
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,000
there and get the shit. 
See, I don't think enough of 

698
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,240
you. 
And this is not a knock because 

699
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,840
I don't know that I always 
process it this way, to be very 

700
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,080
honest with you, very blunt, 
like for a while. 

701
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:09,920
And I evolved out of how long 
ago? 

702
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,400
But there was a point, 
especially with the Yankees, I'm

703
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:14,960
just like, oh, this guy's a bit.
Get him. 

704
00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,200
He's not a perfect fit. 
Fuck it, we'll figure it out. 

705
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,520
Get him, sign him, bring him in.
Seven years, 8, it doesn't 

706
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:20,200
matter. 
We'll figure it out. 

707
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,040
End of the contracts. 
Not worth it. 

708
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,640
Problem. 
Whatever their problem, they'll 

709
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,240
figure it out. 
Well, the economics of the game 

710
00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:29,320
have changed. 
Clearly there's going to be a 

711
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,480
massive stoppage of play in 
2027. 

712
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,320
And I promise you that that's a 
a real factor in how these teams

713
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,200
are are building their their 
teams, how the organizations are

714
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,000
moving forward. 
So anything that the Yankees, 

715
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,960
because they're in a very unique
and I think the Yankees might be

716
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,840
when I really think about this, 
the Yankees might be in like 

717
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,880
they might be one of one in 
this, this is not necessarily a 

718
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,720
compliment, but they might be 
one of one where they've got a 

719
00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:01,160
massive payroll, but they have 
obvious restraints based on, you

720
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,720
know, the taxes and all that 
stuff that Hal continues to Hal.

721
00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:05,080
Nobody gives a shit about the 
taxes. 

722
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,760
I don't want to hear about how 
much you owe the city every 

723
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,800
February 1st. 
Nobody cares right? 

724
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,880
You built the stadium. 
We go there 40,000 every game. 

725
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,200
We buy the overpriced 
merchandise. 

726
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,080
The Yankees are a global entity 
and a brand without peer. 

727
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,400
So we don't want to hear it. 
I I think that that really 

728
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,960
misses the mark and that bothers
me when Hal talks about that, 

729
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,240
that almost bothers me more than
not going out and getting 

730
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:29,760
players because that's a 
different aspect of business. 

731
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,320
I that that actually drives me 
nuts. 

732
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,240
But why I think the Yankees are 
are one of one because how many 

733
00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:39,240
teams have massive payrolls? 
Well, five maybe, and the 

734
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:42,480
Yankees are in that category of 
the five, including the Mets, 

735
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,600
although they're stripping down 
a little bit, stripping down to 

736
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,360
build back forward. 
As I said earlier, the Mets are 

737
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,000
not a contender, the Yankees 
are. 

738
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,600
The Dodgers spend champions 
back-to-back. 

739
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,680
Toronto spends almost a 
champion. 

740
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,160
They've done more. 
They'll continue to do. 

741
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,080
They might get Tucker. 
They've already gotten C, so 

742
00:36:58,080 --> 00:36:59,640
they're not done. 
They already got a relief 

743
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:00,880
pitcher as well, took him for 
the Mets. 

744
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:05,640
So there's just not many teams 
that are straddling that line of

745
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,400
being somewhat fiscally 
responsible, still winning 90 

746
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,120
something games, still being a 
lot for the playoffs, and 

747
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,320
theoretically having a puncher's
chance at the World Series. 

748
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:15,640
The Yankees really might be one 
of one. 

749
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:20,240
But what the Yankees are now 
computing, and I, and I get this

750
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:27,880
to an extent, is juggling the 
prime of Aaron Judge, which I 

751
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,400
think they are woefully failing 
at myself. 

752
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,240
Bringing in talent to elevate 
them to a real championship team

753
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:40,040
and then try to thread the 
needle of being responsible as 

754
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,480
as as much as they can 
financially, but also making 

755
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,040
sure, and I agree with this part
to an extent, not making the 

756
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,680
same mistakes that have gotten 
us to the spot right now. 

757
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,680
And that's a DJ contract that 
they took forever to get rid of.

758
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,680
And that's Donaldson is old 
stuff, but I'll just reset it 

759
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,920
quickly. 
Donaldson, you know, languishing

760
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,760
on the roster longer than he 
should. 

761
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,760
Aaron Hicks languishing longer 
than he should. 

762
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,280
Like all these things were like 
muddy. 

763
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,360
If I own the Yankees, just cut 
the check and just get lost. 

764
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,200
Leave. 
You're not you're of no value to

765
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,480
our team right now. 
And I've got to win. 

766
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,280
Like we all say that I believe 
if I own the Yankees, I would do

767
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,360
that. 
But it's also easier to say that

768
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,480
now without having to deal with 
managing partners and all that 

769
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,240
business stuff that you don't 
care about right now. 

770
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:31,640
So the main mission is to avoid 
doing something that's going to 

771
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,880
block, I believe Lombard. 
That's that's one of them. 

772
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,440
All right. 
And that's why Bichette really 

773
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,240
satisfies everything because 
with Volping on the shelf for 

774
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:43,480
the 1st, I'm going to say two 
months Caballero, who I love, 

775
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,560
but certainly much more suited 
to be a super sub. 

776
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,240
That's what they got them for. 
Little short, little third, 

777
00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:51,280
little right. 
And and some of the other things

778
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,360
that they're juggling roster 
wise, if you signed Bichette, 

779
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,480
who I know is it is it is a 
deficient defensive shortstop. 

780
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,360
I know that. 
Again, I know the numbers. 

781
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,480
I dive into the numbers. 
You don't have to tell me it's 

782
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,480
not a good shortstop, all right.
But for a year or at least until

783
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,560
Volpe comes back, he can play 
shortstop. 

784
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,200
And then when Volpe comes back, 
well, if McMahon's not hitting, 

785
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,840
McMahon sits or maybe you trade 
McMahon and he's got two years 

786
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,640
and 16,000,000 dollars, $32 
million in total to go. 

787
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,680
If you were to eat of the 32789 
million dollars, you're telling 

788
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,640
me and you throw an 8 ball 
pitcher in there, you can't. 

789
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,160
I mean, there's always a way to 
do a deal. 

790
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,200
And that's where I think the 
Yankees lack that creativity a 

791
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,000
little bit. 
We've seen the Mets do some of 

792
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,840
this, like McNeil and some 
others, and when they traded 

793
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,280
their veteran pitchers years ago
and basically bought themselves 

794
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,240
a farm system, I would like to 
see that forward fought by the 

795
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,320
Yankees, which I just don't see 
enough of. 

796
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:47,120
Anyway, if you get Pichette and 
then Volpe comes back and he 

797
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,400
earns the job and he earns the 
trust and he's healthy and he's 

798
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,480
hitting and he's and he's 
playing good shortstop. 

799
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:56,040
Volpe at short, Pichette at 3rd 
or trade Jazz McMahon at third, 

800
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,720
which, and I would trade Jazz. 
And I think they're going to and

801
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,600
put Bichette at second base. 
And then obviously if you have 

802
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,600
Bellinger, which they have to 
retain, I mean, he's such an 

803
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,720
important piece of the puzzle. 
This gives you flexibility for 

804
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:11,320
this year. 
All right, you got to get past 

805
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,920
the stamp and stuff because he's
still clogging up the designated

806
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,040
hitter spot, which is important.
Actually, it's paramount for 

807
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,560
Judge moving forward. 
But if Rice can't handle first 

808
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,200
base defensively, I'm not 
worried about him hitting. 

809
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,560
But if he can't handle first 
base, boom, Bellinger plays 

810
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,800
first base. 
And at that point, if you have a

811
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,760
Bellinger at first, who's going 
to hit a judge, who's going to 

812
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,880
hit a Bichette, who's going to 
hit, I mean, Grisham's going to 

813
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,800
hit home runs. 
Then you can you can roll the 

814
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:40,120
dice maybe more aggressively and
give either Dominguez or Jones 

815
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,520
some runway in left field and 
see if they could cut it. 

816
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,040
And then if they can't, well, 
guess what? 

817
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,240
Bellinger, the left and all the 
things we know. 

818
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,960
And if Rice is adequate at first
base, you could play him there. 

819
00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:54,760
Like, there's a lot of things to
do and it just doesn't seem like

820
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,640
the Yankees are really ready to 
do any of that. 

821
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,040
And I don't know why. 
I wish I had the answer for you.

822
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:05,520
I really, I mean, 2009 without a
championship is incomprehensible

823
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,520
for the amount of money that 
they've spent. 

824
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:12,280
I really, I can't even grasp it.
So I basically stopped trying. 

825
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,960
But are you telling me now? 
I know baseball's unpredictable 

826
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,280
and it's as random as it gets 
understood right? 

827
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,120
But if you've got a somewhere 
and I won't even go through the 

828
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:29,840
batting order, if you're rolling
out a Bouchette, a Bellinger, a 

829
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:34,640
Judge, you know, Rice, Stanton, 
when he's healthy, certainly 

830
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:39,120
against lefties. 
Wells, who's going to hit 20 

831
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,680
something home runs, bottom of 
the order. 

832
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,960
Caballero, you know, when he's 
in there stealing 3540 bags, 

833
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,240
like, you know, Grisham banging 
some home runs like that is a a 

834
00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:50,360
lineup, at least on paper, 
that's going to put you in a 

835
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,800
position to represent the 
American League if you've got 

836
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,440
the pitching, which news flash, 
they do. 

837
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,040
And I was saying this yesterday.
And I do think that the Yankees 

838
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,480
are going to get a my and if 
they don't like to me, that's 

839
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,560
unacceptable. 
He's already on the record. 

840
00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:08,120
He wants to beat the Dodgers. 
He's already on the record that 

841
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,240
with all the smoke around him 
wanting to be a Yankee, just 

842
00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:14,480
fucking make it happen. 
Like what? 

843
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,600
What's the problem? 
Fly them in, sit down, figure it

844
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:18,960
out. 
Here's the deal. 

845
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:24,120
Boom, help us get through April 
and May along with Freed along 

846
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,320
with Schlittler as the other two
guys get healthy. 

847
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,120
And then when they are healthy, 
we've got the best rotation of 

848
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,160
baseball, which I said 
yesterday. 

849
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:36,840
And to take it a step further, I
think the Yankees with a I'll, 

850
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,920
I'll put Cole one out of 
respect. 

851
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,520
Like the symbolism of the ace. 
It doesn't really matter because

852
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,640
you everybody gets wrapped up. 
But who's the ace who's pitching

853
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,880
opening day? 
Yeah, I mean, I get it. 

854
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,080
Opening Day. 
It's an honor it Although Cortez

855
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,960
pitched, you know, opening day 
two years ago in in Houston when

856
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:54,800
soda was here. 
So it doesn't really matter. 

857
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,520
Then he gave up that bomb to 
Freeman. 

858
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,480
So not how you start, it's how 
you finish. 

859
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:03,120
But if if everything works out 
that and and Cole, you know, 

860
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,200
reverts back to his form and I 
think he's going to you know, 

861
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:13,360
you've got a Cole freed 
Schlittler, a my Rodon 5. 

862
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,080
Now they probably wouldn't have 
Rodon 5 and respect. 

863
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,520
Maybe he's three. 
Maybe you bump Schlittler from 

864
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:23,000
three to four, put Rodon 3. 
If a my is insane, Well, you 

865
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,840
know, maybe he's 3, But it's 
it's that maneuverability and 

866
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:30,760
that versatility with plus plus 
arms coupled with the sticks 

867
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,760
that I just gave you. 
I mean, how how could you not 

868
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,240
win a World Series? 
How could you not get there? 

869
00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:41,240
How are you not able to go into 
Toronto and look the Blue Jays 

870
00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:44,440
eye to eye and say, all right, 
hey, you pumped this bad last 

871
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,120
year. 
This year we're coming back a 

872
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:46,960
little different. 
Let's go. 

873
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,480
Let's see how it goes this year.
Like that's a team that I would 

874
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:56,040
think on paper would be favored 
to win 95 games and would be one

875
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,960
of the top 234 if it's certainly
top three favorites to win the 

876
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:01,640
championship, get to the World 
Series. 

877
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,360
So there's the plan. 
I mean, I you get I, you know, 

878
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:08,880
easy sitting here in my new 
studio, but and not fully done 

879
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,160
yet. 
Let's see. 

880
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,200
Let's see if I can point 
anything out to you as you watch

881
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:14,440
this. 
I'll try to take inside my 

882
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,240
office a little bit. 
All right. 

883
00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:19,640
So by the way, it didn't take 
long to get that microphone set 

884
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,080
up, did it that can you see? 
I'll tell you a funny story. 

885
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:28,480
OK, so that picture right there 
is me throwing out the first 

886
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:33,640
pitch at the Oakland Coliseum. 
That was 2011 at my old station,

887
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,640
95.7 the game. 
I was out there for two years 

888
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:38,120
doing afternoon drive. 
It was fun, I really enjoyed it 

889
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:45,520
and we were the home of the A's.
Now I start, I start the show 

890
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:47,320
and I'm like, I'm not talking to
you. 

891
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:48,560
Why the hell would I talk about 
the A's? 

892
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,880
I'm not going to get ratings 
talking about the A's, talking 

893
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,880
about the Giants who are winning
championships. 

894
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,040
I'm not going to talk about the 
I'm not going to talk about the 

895
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,080
Raiders now I'm going to talk 
about the Niners who just 

896
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,520
brought in Jim Horvaugh and 
became really good. 

897
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,240
I got to I'm going to talk about
the Warriors. 

898
00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:03,440
We just got Steph Curry. 
I got to talk about stuff. 

899
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:09,360
Anyway, I'm on the air and 
callers and texts and we had 

900
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,920
like a hotline. 
Everybody's bagging on me. 

901
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,240
You know, you're from New York, 
you dissing the Asian, not even 

902
00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:17,720
talking about the A's. 
So I'm like, you know, I'm going

903
00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:19,600
to have a little fun. 
I bought a bell, right? 

904
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,240
And every time I said the word 
A's, I would just hit the bell, 

905
00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:27,040
Ding, Ding, Ding. 
Like when the updates are going 

906
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,560
down there and, and the A's 
playing the rent Ding. 

907
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,640
You know, a tough one last night
for the A's Ding. 

908
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,160
And you know, people were 
getting pissed off because they 

909
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,800
thought I was mocking them. 
But I was kind of having fun 

910
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:41,360
anyway. 
I had a shirt, made a yellow 

911
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,680
shirt and it just said Ding on 
it. 

912
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,680
Now nobody even knows what I 
look like out there. 

913
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,720
I haven't done TV yet. 
I wound up doing extensively 

914
00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:51,760
some TV, but not yet. 
Nobody really knew what I looked

915
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,120
like. 
So I'm walking around the 

916
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:57,760
Coliseum with, with my with my 
old producer, Jeremiah Crowe. 

917
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,680
Great guy, awesome dude. 
And like if you ever been to the

918
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,640
Coliseum, it's rough. 
Like it's a rough area right by 

919
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:08,320
Bart, not much around it, like 
East Bay Oakland. 

920
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:13,040
Tough, tough, respect, tough. 
And I'm just walking around the 

921
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,920
stadium randomly and I'm like, 
I'm not even saying a word. 

922
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,600
And all of a sudden I see some 
people, not many because it was 

923
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:23,560
like 7000 people at the game. 
Is that the is that the guy from

924
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,280
the radio? 
One guy comes up to me. 

925
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:35,360
He had to be 65240. 
Absolutely yoked. 

926
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:40,480
Like I, I, I and like to me like
he looked like he was, he was in

927
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,680
a gang. 
Like I'm like this, this is not 

928
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:44,320
good. 
And I'm not small. 

929
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,320
I'm like 62220. 
I'm like oh man, this I don't 

930
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,960
know if this is the right idea. 
So he's like, yo man, are you 

931
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,560
that fucking guy on the radio 
that's been digging that shit? 

932
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,760
I'm like, alright man, you got 2
choices here. 

933
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,840
You either own it or, you know, 
you act like a complete wuss and

934
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:03,440
you know, you're probably going 
to get your head kicked in 

935
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,080
anyway. 
So I'm, I'm like, yeah, yeah. 

936
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:06,520
I'm like, that's me. 
I'm like, but it's all good, 

937
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,000
man. 
I'm just, I'm just having some 

938
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,200
fun. 
He's like, yeah. 

939
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,200
He's like, I, I, I hear you. 
And thank God he daps me up, 

940
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,840
calls over a few of his friends.
And now I'm like, now I'm 

941
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:17,320
feeling a little bit emboldened 
here. 

942
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:18,680
I'm walking around the stadium 
up. 

943
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:23,280
Yeah, these people love me. 
So I did something where I 

944
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,080
forget which Texas Ranger it 
was. 

945
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,200
He was just talking smack. 
He's like, and he wasn't wrong. 

946
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,280
He's like the stadiums A 
cesspool. 

947
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,680
That's a disgrace. 
It's dirty, there's sewage, it's

948
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,880
awful, it's substandard. 
And I get on the air. 

949
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:37,920
I'm like, you going to let this 
guy talk about you this way? 

950
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,440
I'm like, would you please show 
up and you know, just sticking 

951
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,880
up his ass and just at least 
she's like nobody's there. 

952
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,120
And somehow in conjunction with 
the A's and I appreciated them 

953
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,360
doing this. 
And A's fans, there's not many 

954
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,320
though they are awesome. 
So shout out to any A's fans out

955
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,440
there. 
Good, great fans, right? 

956
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,680
Kind of like Jet fans, just 
smaller in numbers. 

957
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,240
And I in conjunction with the, 
with the A's, they, they did 

958
00:48:00,240 --> 00:48:03,120
something like, I don't know, 
$2.00 tickets just to get in. 

959
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:04,960
They had like 20 something 
thousand people. 

960
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:06,960
So it worked. 
And then off of that they're 

961
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,520
like, Hey, why don't you come 
and throw out the first pitch? 

962
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,360
So I'm like, I'd love to. 
And all week on the air, I'm 

963
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:17,040
like, I'm going to crank 185. 
I got a rocket, I got a hose. 

964
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:18,320
I can fling it. 
I'm phenomenal. 

965
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:19,880
I got I got it. 
Still got a good arm. 

966
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:21,840
I didn't say it was phenomenal. 
I don't know why I said that, 

967
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:23,880
but I got it. 
And I do have a good arm. 

968
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,840
But this before my son was born 
and I wasn't coaching every day.

969
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,400
So I hadn't really thrown in a 
while. 

970
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:31,520
So I'm like, oh man, you digging
this grave pretty deep. 

971
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:35,240
You better watch it. 
So anyway, go out there and 

972
00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:39,080
during a day game and I and I 
hear booze and it's somewhere on

973
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:40,800
YouTube. 
You could actually see this. 

974
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,160
And I go out there with a dress 
shirt on. 

975
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,000
I don't know why I was wearing a
dress shirt like an idiot. 

976
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,120
And I've got that Raleigh 
fingers. 

977
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:53,000
I bought a retro Raleigh finger.
Here you go Raleigh fingers 1973

978
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,040
when they beat the Mets, 
ironically, no Met shade. 

979
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:00,800
And I go out there with some 
dress shirt and I'll be like, 

980
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:05,400
ladies and gentlemen, please 
welcome from the afternoon drive

981
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,280
homes from 95.7 the game, 
Brandon Tierney and and I walked

982
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,480
out like there's basically no 
real, it's a couple of boos. 

983
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,160
I think my wife was clapping, 
you know, maybe the ball boy was

984
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:16,840
clapping. 
It was, it was a rough scene. 

985
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:23,520
And I'm just thinking this and I
go out to the rubber and again 

986
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,120
all week I'm saying I'm throwing
a strike. 

987
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,080
There's no doubt. 
I'm like, I'm going from the 

988
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:28,840
slab. 
I'm not going from the slope. 

989
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:33,320
I'm a real ball player and I go 
out there and I can hear some 

990
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:34,680
audible boos. 
I'm like, all right. 

991
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,560
And I, I was like a heel turn. 
It was like a turn. 

992
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,840
And I, I go on the rubber. 
I'm like, hang on, hang on. 

993
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,520
I think I can put the ball down.
I think I unbuttoned my shirt 

994
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,360
and now I have the the Raleigh 
Fingers throwback jersey and I 

995
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,520
kind of go like this. 
And not that people went nuts, 

996
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,440
but I do think the booing 
stopped a little bit through it.

997
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,000
Borderline strike, maybe the old
National League on the corner, 

998
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,880
little low from the slab. 
I think it was 68. 

999
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,360
I didn't try to throw it as hard
as I could. 

1000
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,120
And, and, and that's what that's
what that is from. 

1001
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,520
So I figured as I as I launched 
this in my office, I may as well

1002
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:12,040
show you what is around here. 
I got some old Mike flags over 

1003
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,280
there. 
You can see 10:50. 

1004
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,560
You could see sports fan, which 
was an old national network. 

1005
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,480
You can see the St. 
John's Big East Championship 

1006
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,080
banner. 
This one's pretty cool. 

1007
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,200
So where is it? 
I got to get used to that. 

1008
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,280
Jeez, right there. 
You see that little American 

1009
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:33,000
flag, that little trophy? 
So that was from my my son's rec

1010
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,160
team that I coached this year. 
Rec Baseball's a trip. 

1011
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,960
Oh my God, you know, rec. 
And I love it. 

1012
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:39,920
I love the purity. 
But it's, you know, it's, it's, 

1013
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:41,520
it's, if you know, rec, you know
what I mean? 

1014
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:46,280
It's, it's, it's an interesting 
ride and I would just try to 

1015
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,840
make it, you know, you have 
like, maybe you know, 2-3 kids 

1016
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,800
who could play a little bit. 
And I try to make it where the 

1017
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,240
kids who have clearly never 
played, they have a good 

1018
00:50:54,240 --> 00:50:56,960
experience, you know, try to 
pump them up. 

1019
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,200
You know, the, the, the 
probability of turning them into

1020
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,600
actual baseball players in that 
little window is incredibly 

1021
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,520
small. 
But I, you know, I want them to 

1022
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:07,800
go. 
I want them to score a run. 

1023
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:09,000
I want them to get their first 
hit. 

1024
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,040
I want them to feel that, that 
adulation. 

1025
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,320
I make sure the good players on 
the team pump them up and lift 

1026
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,120
them up. 
And some of these kids are still

1027
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:17,320
scared. 
Last year were third and 4th 

1028
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,240
grade. 
Anyway, we, we wind up winning 

1029
00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:20,800
it somehow. 
We went 12 and zero. 

1030
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:26,480
I have no idea how we went none.
And one of the guys that I 

1031
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,440
coached with, great guy Rosie, 
when we were the Padres, we all,

1032
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,240
we all cut up a jersey at the 
end. 

1033
00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:35,200
And when we won the 
championship, we each got a 

1034
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,280
little piece of the jersey. 
And I made sure to take the 

1035
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,520
American flags. 
I put that one proudly in here. 

1036
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,040
That's what that is. 
I got a little Patino 

1037
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,080
bobblehead. 
What else can you say? 

1038
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:47,360
I got a little picture back 
there, right beneath the Big 

1039
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:51,000
East banner is, is a picture of 
Tiki, something nice. 

1040
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,160
He really wrote, you know what 
I've got. 

1041
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:56,560
Maybe I'll show you guys this 
tomorrow at some point when I 

1042
00:51:56,560 --> 00:52:01,120
got the job at WFAN with Tiki 
not in this before Sal, Mike, 

1043
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,080
Frances and I really, this 
really meant a lot. 

1044
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:06,760
Mike wrote me and mailed to me a
handwritten note. 

1045
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,240
I I wouldn't I wouldn't read 
what it says, but it's up there.

1046
00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:14,920
I don't know if I need it 
anymore, but I appreciate. 

1047
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,680
I appreciate Mike doing that. 
So this is the this is the 

1048
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:21,320
office for now. 
Do you guys like this better 

1049
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,920
than yesterday? 
I looked at it was, you know, 

1050
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:26,280
just a little boring. 
Awesome background. 

1051
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:27,680
Yeah. 
I really want to know what you 

1052
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:32,320
guys think about this Nice touch
Foundation. 

1053
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:33,200
OK, it's not. 
Yeah. 

1054
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:38,880
Mattingly, let's see, BT when 
you start taking calls, you got 

1055
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:40,200
to take over the time slot in 
New York. 

1056
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:41,600
But listen, one thing, let me 
say this. 

1057
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,400
I'm I'm not looking. 
I know I'm on at my old time 

1058
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,360
slot. 
Like my objective is not to, you

1059
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,640
know, lure you away from from 
the family. 

1060
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,160
I'm gonna still do some shows on
the fan. 

1061
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:53,880
I told you guys I got love for 
WFAN. 

1062
00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:59,200
It was a decision that was way 
above me, clearly that I don't 

1063
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:03,840
agree with because what talent 
would, but I get it from a 

1064
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,080
business perspective. 
Bringing back Craig, you know, 

1065
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:07,720
I've said that before and I'm 
not going to say that all the 

1066
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:12,160
time, but this is not this isn't
that. 

1067
00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:15,680
I don't look at it as I let me 
let me take people away from 

1068
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,280
them. 
What I I look at this, this 

1069
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:21,240
platform that I'm starting. 
I am turning this. 

1070
00:53:21,240 --> 00:53:26,960
It's my mission to turn not into
a just a local show, to turn 

1071
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:30,680
this into one of the biggest 
sports pods in the country. 

1072
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,960
Like that's, that's my focus. 
That is my mission. 

1073
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:40,000
And luckily, although I think my
wife might push back on this a 

1074
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,480
little bit, thankfully I've 
become a little bit more patient

1075
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,040
as I've gotten older. 
Because if this was years ago, 

1076
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:49,720
I'm not sure if I would have had
the bandwidth #1 to figure this 

1077
00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:53,600
shit out. 
But more importantly to, to, you

1078
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,160
know, grind brick by brick. 
Not that I don't want to do the 

1079
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:59,520
work, but when you're used to 
conventional terrestrial radio, 

1080
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,560
you know, having a producer, 
somebody answering the phones 

1081
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:06,400
for you, this big studio, you 
know, massive, massive signal, 

1082
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:09,560
especially the fan, the biggest 
sports station in the country. 

1083
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:12,240
Like you still got to do the job
and you still got to generate 

1084
00:54:12,240 --> 00:54:14,960
revenue and get ratings. 
But it's, it's a little bit 

1085
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,720
easier to walk into that and, 
and be you and do you than this.

1086
00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:20,320
When I'm just starting from 
scratch. 

1087
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,480
That's the mission that that's 
really what I'm trying to do. 

1088
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:25,480
And the way I'm going to do 
that. 

1089
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,920
And I'm now I'm in the early 
stages of doing it now is to 

1090
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,720
procure sponsorship. 
I've had a lot of people reach 

1091
00:54:31,720 --> 00:54:34,000
out to me who want to be a piece
of this endeavor. 

1092
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,560
And I think part of it is, is 
that they really love the show. 

1093
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,640
All right. 
And they, and obviously they, 

1094
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:42,640
they like my work, which I 
greatly appreciate. 

1095
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:48,760
But I also think that the way I,
the way I, I went out, I think 

1096
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:52,760
was, I think earned me a lot of 
respect and I didn't do it for 

1097
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,280
that reason. 
Maybe that's a byproduct. 

1098
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:57,920
I did it because I, I really 
just didn't want to stop doing 

1099
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,920
shows on the fan. 
To be totally transparent. 

1100
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:01,880
I'm like, I still have more 
things to say. 

1101
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,200
And, you know, as I said, 
kiddingly, I mean, what the fuck

1102
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:06,640
else am I going to do? 
Come home and stare at the 

1103
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,800
Christmas tree? 
You know, it's December, I'm not

1104
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:09,920
playing golf. 
What am I doing? 

1105
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:15,120
You know, only lift 2 * a week. 
Maybe, you know, well, kids are 

1106
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:16,520
in school. 
I can't go to a field. 

1107
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,240
Yeah, You know, so I, that's why
I wanted to finish up. 

1108
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:24,320
But in doing so, I, I think I 
found out a little bit more 

1109
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:28,280
about myself and how to handle 
adversity. 

1110
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:30,960
You know, I've always, my dad's 
always said adversity builds 

1111
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:32,480
character. 
Shout out to Pops. 

1112
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:34,200
I don't even, you don't even 
know how to watch this yet. 

1113
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,000
But we have to figure out a way 
to get my dad on the show, which

1114
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,960
I will, because he was awesome 
and you guys love and he is 

1115
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:44,080
awesome and you guys love him 
and he felt it. 

1116
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:47,280
He really I'm like, yeah, that 
this is kind of the new world. 

1117
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,000
He's like, wow, he's like 300 
and something thousand people 

1118
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:54,040
saw that I'm like more actually.
And I think by finishing the 

1119
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:59,480
race the way that I did, I I 
think it it showed. 

1120
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:03,200
I think certainly my personal 
evolution, you know, I'm sure I 

1121
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:04,840
made some mistakes early in my 
career. 

1122
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:08,360
I think I had to learn to the 
process failure better. 

1123
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:12,720
I think I had to learn to maybe 
even work with people a little 

1124
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:16,680
bit better. 
You know, I, I'll tell you, I'll

1125
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,120
tell you this another fully. 
You're just going to get 

1126
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,840
complete transparency on this. 
If you haven't figured that out 

1127
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:23,440
by now, then I don't know if you
ever will. 

1128
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:30,680
When I first started, I didn't 
understand the value of a 

1129
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:34,040
producer. 
Like in my mind, it was always 

1130
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,160
just get on the air, do your 
thing and let's go. 

1131
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,200
And it was never a lack of 
respect for the producer at all.

1132
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,200
It was a lack of understanding 
how that producer can make me 

1133
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,000
better. 
And if I tap into their skills, 

1134
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,160
which are different than mine, 
and I'm able to utilize that and

1135
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:52,120
blend that together with 
whatever I have and whatever I 

1136
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:56,680
do now, it's more powerful. 
And I just, I didn't understand 

1137
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:59,360
that, you know, I would want to 
set the whole show up my 

1138
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,240
primarily when I was like at 
10:50. 

1139
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,920
Not, not at the fan. 
I learned that a while ago, but 

1140
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,640
early, Hey, just go get the 
phones, get the phones up. 

1141
00:57:07,720 --> 00:57:10,320
Like they had a producer so much
more than that. 

1142
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:14,200
A producer's part psychologist, 
I think, especially when you 

1143
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:18,240
work with two personalities like
me and Sal, part psychologist, 

1144
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:24,360
you know, creator, you know, 
sounding board like, you know, 

1145
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:28,360
you just come in and not every 
day is easy where you know, now 

1146
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:32,480
you don't know this, but there's
just certain days where you 

1147
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:34,600
know, human beings, we're not 
feeling well or there was an 

1148
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:38,320
argument or somebody's really 
sick or there's something that 

1149
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,440
affects our kids. 
And when our kids aren't happy, 

1150
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:44,720
it's impossible to be happy and 
to be grounded and to be locked 

1151
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:46,920
in mentally when there's 
something going on in your 

1152
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,600
child's world. 
And I don't care how old you are

1153
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,480
or how good you are at sports or
how smart you are or whatever, 

1154
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:56,880
there's real life things you got
to deal with and to come in and 

1155
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,400
to do a show and, and click in 
that doesn't, I mean, yeah, that

1156
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:04,480
happens with sheer will and 
sheer Rep, repetition, but it 

1157
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,040
also happens by collaborating 
with the people with you. 

1158
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,440
And that's why, you know, 
whether it was Hof with his 

1159
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:11,920
style or Dovo has a completely 
different style. 

1160
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,000
You know, there were days like, 
man, we just can't figure out 

1161
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,160
this topic or man, this just 
doesn't, you know, how, where do

1162
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,360
we got to get here? 
We got 9 minutes before the show

1163
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:21,160
starts. 
What the fuck are we doing? 

1164
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:22,680
Like we're not there yet. 
Let's go. 

1165
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:27,960
And, and I, I appreciate that, 
you know, so I'm figuring this 

1166
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:31,080
all out and I'm going to have a 
producer for this show, you 

1167
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:37,880
know, but no, this is not about 
anything other than a single 

1168
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:44,520
focus on taking this and 
reaching a level that I, I, I, I

1169
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:47,120
plan to reach. 
But I never even thought that I 

1170
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:51,640
would have to or really 
necessarily want to, But man, I 

1171
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:53,720
love this. 
This is good. 

1172
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:59,120
This is fun and this is real and
this is raw and this is without 

1173
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:03,600
boundaries and and that's what 
BT Unleashed is all about. 

1174
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,360
That's that's a core staple to 
the mission statement. 

1175
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,480
Let's see here. 
Yeah, without a producer, the on

1176
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,960
air talents, nothing that that's
who is that they just, they just

1177
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:14,440
speed past. 
You're right. 

1178
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:17,240
You're absolutely right. 
And I I didn't know that when I 

1179
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:19,920
first started the business. 
I just didn't know a lot of you 

1180
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:24,240
were talking about the the the 
ability to integrate other 

1181
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,080
things here, which which I've 
which I've told you I'm and not 

1182
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:30,280
just the the look, which I think
this is a much better look, I 

1183
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,600
think than yesterday. 
Hopefully you guys will comment 

1184
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:35,000
on that. 
I'll dive into it after more 

1185
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,760
thoroughly, but but also to be 
able to be interactive with you 

1186
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:42,840
because that is I'll tell you 
that is the one thing there is 

1187
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,800
nothing. 
I mean nothing. 

1188
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:49,360
The two things that gripped me 
with radio right away was, you 

1189
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,080
know, obviously hearing Mike and
Chris and others early when 

1190
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:54,480
you're in the car, you're in 
traffic, you're in the driveway 

1191
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,960
and either they're going back 
and forth at each other, all 

1192
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:58,280
right. 
And that's a dynamic that that 

1193
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:00,680
Sam and I both had or with a 
caller. 

1194
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:04,840
And that is a dynamic that I 
need to integrate it. 

1195
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,960
It's not going to be simple. 
It's absolutely doable. 

1196
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,640
There is no question that I'm 
going to take calls on this. 

1197
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,320
I just have to get there. 
OK. 

1198
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:15,080
Want to give you something on 
Giannis as well. 

1199
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:18,840
He can't wait for the calls. 
You're you're excellent at this,

1200
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,960
my guy. 
So glad to have you keep me 

1201
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:23,720
company in the office when I 
work. 

1202
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:25,680
I appreciate that. 
You know, I love it because at 

1203
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:29,720
the end of the day, you know, 
and this is just a very, very 

1204
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,400
true statement. 
I didn't get into this. 

1205
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,720
And I said this in some of the 
articles that were written about

1206
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,360
me and and my final days at the 
fan full time again, full time. 

1207
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:41,160
I'll do some shows, but full 
time and, and, you know, even 

1208
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:44,360
when I got promoted to WFAN 
articles that are written, the 

1209
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:47,080
one of the common things that 
I've always said that I've it's,

1210
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:49,920
it's a bit of a regurgitated 
line, but I, I do it because 

1211
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:51,800
it's, I really mean it. 
It's within me. 

1212
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:55,480
Is that like, I didn't get into 
this business to get rich. 

1213
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:59,320
That was never my mission. 
I got into this because I 

1214
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,600
thought without it, I would be 
unfulfilled. 

1215
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,000
I mean, that's that You can say 
that that's corny, but that's 

1216
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,920
the way it is. 
That's the reason why I got 

1217
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:12,160
married late, because I knew I 
would be of no value as a family

1218
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:17,080
and eventually as a dad if if 
I'm not, at least if I'm not 

1219
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:21,040
happy and if I'm not motivated 
and engaged and entrenched in 

1220
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:23,040
this profession. 
And when you want to be on it 

1221
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:25,760
now, it's a little different 
now, obviously, but when you 

1222
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:29,720
wanted to be on the radio back 
then, you know, you generally 

1223
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:33,000
started unless your dad was 
somebody, which, and my dad's 

1224
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,760
definitely somebody, but he 
definitely wasn't somebody in 

1225
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:37,640
the business. 
So I had nothing handed to me. 

1226
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:39,240
And I take immense pride in 
that. 

1227
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:42,400
Immense. 
And I had to get in my car. 

1228
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:45,640
I had to go to Allentown, PA, 
and then I had to shoot up to 

1229
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,040
Las Vegas. 
Well, I didn't have to. 

1230
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:51,760
I decide I did willingly and 
proactively and happily shoot up

1231
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:55,000
to Vegas and then go to Detroit 
and then come back to New York 

1232
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,640
and go to 10:50. 
And then, you know, that ended 

1233
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:00,840
and be faced with a decision. 
All right, well, San Francisco 

1234
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:02,840
wants me just married. 
What do you think, babe? 

1235
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:04,920
Let's go. 
Boom, San Francisco. 

1236
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,160
Then I get the call from Chris. 
Hey, we're launching a network, 

1237
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:10,000
all right, Just start to put 
some roots down in San 

1238
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:12,320
Francisco. 
You want me to be a key cog in 

1239
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:15,480
this new network that you're 
launching nationally in the same

1240
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:19,040
building as The Fan? 
Let's go boom, back to New York,

1241
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:24,120
You know, 10 years nationally 
with Tiki, 8 of the 10 years on 

1242
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:26,840
TV simulcast, right? 
All right, that dissolves. 

1243
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,240
Hey, want to bring you over to 
The Fan because Spike Eskin 

1244
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:32,960
brought me over and brought Tiki
over and then we did a year 

1245
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:34,480
there. 
All right, Craig's, you know, 

1246
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:36,400
Craig's gone. 
We're going to do this. 

1247
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:37,800
All right, we're going to bring 
Sal in. 

1248
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:42,880
Like all these different things 
or you can't plan them out. 

1249
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:45,640
You just have to be prepared 
when you get your number call 

1250
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:48,200
then and and that applies to any
facet of life. 

1251
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:50,800
So, you know, if there's 
anything, and going back to what

1252
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,760
I said earlier about the final 
two weeks and certainly the 

1253
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:57,680
final day in the last show and 
absolutely the last segment, my 

1254
01:02:57,680 --> 01:03:01,280
pops calling in. 
I, I think that that resonated 

1255
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:03,840
with a lot of you because I 
think you saw a vulnerability 

1256
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:05,880
that maybe you didn't know 
existed. 

1257
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,600
When you hear me talking with 
authority on whatever topic, I 

1258
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:13,120
may talk, I I may be talking 
about, but that's the real me. 

1259
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:16,800
Like, you know, I mean, shit, I 
could be in the car, you know, I

1260
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:18,960
love my music. 
I could be in the car and I can 

1261
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:21,760
hear a certain song, tears in my
eyes. 

1262
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,520
I'm like, what the Hell's going 
on? 

1263
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,800
You know, because I think about 
I think about real life stuff, I

1264
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:29,840
think about my kids, I think 
about my wife, I think about my 

1265
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,280
parents, I think about my 
journey. 

1266
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:34,000
I'm not sitting there saying I'm
bowling like a wuss. 

1267
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:38,640
But yeah, a lot of things touch 
me and I have truly been touched

1268
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:42,080
by how you guys have embraced me
here. 

1269
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:45,720
Because if nobody's watching 
right now and you guys aren't 

1270
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:48,920
hammering out the the comments 
and you know, eventually we'll 

1271
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,840
get shorts up there on a regular
basis and subscribing. 

1272
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,760
And by all means, obviously, you
know, subscribe if you haven't 

1273
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:56,760
already. 
You know, I appreciate that. 

1274
01:03:57,040 --> 01:03:59,720
And then once I hit that next 
step and we could do some other 

1275
01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:02,560
things, just the Super chats and
the other things my son was 

1276
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:06,040
telling me about, like without 
you, I would just be staring 

1277
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:09,680
into a camera talking. 
And really, I don't, I don't 

1278
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:14,760
know, I wouldn't be able to live
off that, that's for damn sure. 

1279
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:18,040
So again, thank you. 
And again, I'm not going to turn

1280
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:23,800
this into a referendum on, on my
life, on my career, you know, 

1281
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:25,640
and, and go through every step 
of the way. 

1282
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:27,600
But when it's pertinent, when I 
feel it's applicable to 

1283
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:30,320
something I'm talking about, 
when I think it's relatable, 

1284
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:31,840
because that's what I want this 
to be. 

1285
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:36,200
It's what I want this to be. 
I want this to be relatable. 

1286
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:41,320
All the, the fairy tales and, 
you know, the fake presentation 

1287
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:43,320
on social media by so many 
people. 

1288
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:47,480
I've never been about that. 
You know, I just love 

1289
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:49,360
communicating. 
I love the spoken word. 

1290
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,720
I generally enjoy connecting 
with people, love coaching. 

1291
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:54,360
It's one of the reasons why I 
love coaching. 

1292
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:56,840
You guys know that. 
All right, so let me give you 

1293
01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:58,520
something on the on the Knicks 
here. 

1294
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,600
Hit the Mets thing, hit the 
Yankees item. 

1295
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:10,880
Now, don't get me wrong, right? 
Giannis is tempting, Giannis is 

1296
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:12,560
appealing. 
There's no question about that. 

1297
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:15,600
Number one, I'm less convinced 
he's going to actually get dealt

1298
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:18,520
this year. 
I I don't know for a minute it 

1299
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:19,880
seemed like it was fairly 
imminent. 

1300
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:23,840
Obviously over the summer, very 
deeply connected to the Knicks. 

1301
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:29,280
But right now the Knicks are the
best team in the in the Eastern 

1302
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:30,120
guy. 
I know they don't have the best 

1303
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:31,600
record, but the Knicks are the 
best team in the Eastern 

1304
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,760
Conference. 
And the beautiful thing about 

1305
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,400
these Knicks and similar to a 
year ago, though, it didn't go 

1306
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:41,240
as far as we wanted. 
Like this Knicks team doesn't 

1307
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:44,080
need to get the one seed, even 
though they I think they very 

1308
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:46,040
well what they they will. 
I mean, I think eventually 

1309
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:49,080
they'll jump past the Pistons 
unless, you know, Brown doesn't 

1310
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,680
keep his foot to the to the gas,
which he won't like like Tom 

1311
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:53,600
Thibodeau did. 
So maybe there's no guarantee 

1312
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:55,840
they get the one seed, but I 
don't think that they need it 

1313
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:58,320
because I think that this 
version and last year's crew, 

1314
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:02,720
there's a mentality, there's an 
aptitude, there's a depth now 

1315
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:05,440
with certain players getting 
more and more role and I think 

1316
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:07,920
they're further emboldened and 
and where they are on this 

1317
01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:10,240
roster, somebody like Tyler 
Kolek, which is great. 

1318
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:14,320
Don't do it when you want to 
play them, you know, but I think

1319
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:17,680
that this Knicks team could go 
on the road and beat anybody in 

1320
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:19,920
the East in the Eastern 
Conference, even if it's not 

1321
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:21,800
homecourt. 
So so that's obviously 

1322
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:24,360
advantageous. 
You don't have to just hammer 

1323
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,240
the gas pedal, try to win. 
I don't know whatever it's going

1324
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:31,680
to whatever the number is 
57585960 to win the East and get

1325
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:34,080
top seed. 
So that's good number one 

1326
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:35,280
offense in the Eastern 
Conference. 

1327
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:39,080
That's statistically irrefutable
and that's not going to change. 

1328
01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:41,520
The year goes on. 
It's going to remain the best, 

1329
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,840
all right, and, and the deepest 
and the most explosive. 

1330
01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:51,200
So I guess the question really 
does come down to this, is it 

1331
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:55,200
worth blowing up whatever it's 
going to take to blow up to 

1332
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:59,080
bring Giannis in here to really 
beat one team? 

1333
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:01,920
That's what it comes down to, to
beat one team. 

1334
01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:05,040
Because you don't need Giannis 
to beat the Pistons or the Heat 

1335
01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:08,680
or the Celtics or Miami. 
Now, if Miami gets Giannis, 

1336
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:10,680
that's a little bit of a 
different discussion. 

1337
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:13,640
And you always got to worry 
about that slippery Pat Riley 

1338
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:15,640
down there. 
He's he's amazing. 

1339
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:16,720
Just what do you think? 
It's over. 

1340
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:19,440
They do something right. 
So I never, I never put them to 

1341
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:22,160
sleep ever. 
And they've got a great coach 

1342
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:24,920
and I've got a great culture. 
But you don't need Giannis to 

1343
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:27,400
beat those teams. 
The Bulls don't even have the 

1344
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:29,160
standards in front of me. 
You know, all the teams, right? 

1345
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:31,840
Pace is a shot this year, that 
next year they'll be better. 

1346
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:33,240
You don't need anybody that you 
don't. 

1347
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:36,640
The Bucks are going nowhere. 
The only team that you would 

1348
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:39,080
need Giannis to beat would be 
Oklahoma City. 

1349
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:42,520
Now, I'm not going to overreact 
to the Knicks beating the Spurs.

1350
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:44,240
Wendy was a little bit jacked 
up. 

1351
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:46,640
It was fun. 
I mean, the Cup was cool. 

1352
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:49,240
I'm not here to denounce it. 
But I don't know if that's 

1353
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:52,680
necessarily transferable to A7 
game series. 

1354
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:56,400
It may be, it may not be, but 
you don't need Giannis to beat 

1355
01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:58,280
them. 
I don't think that you need 

1356
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:01,040
Giannis to beat Denver. 
I don't think that you need 

1357
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:05,080
Giannis to beat the Lakers. 
I think that you need Giannis to

1358
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:07,680
beat Oklahoma City because 
nobody's beating the Thunder. 

1359
01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:10,760
If everybody stays healthy and 
everybody stays the same and 

1360
01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:13,280
nothing else changes radically, 
that's the team. 

1361
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:15,120
Anybody that follows the NBA 
knows it. 

1362
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:16,640
It's them and it's everybody 
else. 

1363
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:20,840
Now, the good news for us is the
Knicks are at the top of 

1364
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:23,080
everybody else. 
They're right there with two or 

1365
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:24,760
three of the other other teams I
mentioned. 

1366
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:30,520
So it really comes down to is it
worth blowing it up for Giannis 

1367
01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:34,600
mid season without the benefit 
of a training camp if they even 

1368
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:38,080
trade him giving up whatever you
have to give up now. 

1369
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:39,399
The Bucks aren't going to want 
Cat. 

1370
01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:40,160
Why would you? 
I don't. 

1371
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:43,359
I wouldn't have found the Bucks.
I would want Kolek and I mean, 

1372
01:08:43,359 --> 01:08:46,680
obviously a lot more, but the 
appeal with Tyler Kolek is that 

1373
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:49,000
he was a collegiate star at 
Marquette. 

1374
01:08:49,279 --> 01:08:52,319
They play in the same arena, the
Bucks and and Marquette. 

1375
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:53,920
So that will be good for their 
fans. 

1376
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:55,680
He's cheap. 
I think with more minutes, I 

1377
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:56,920
think he'll get better, not 
worse. 

1378
01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:58,600
I think that's starting to show 
itself out now. 

1379
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:03,840
And I also think that you know, 
the the other players, multiple 

1380
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:08,240
wings, whether it's OG and 
Bridges, whether it's, you know,

1381
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:11,279
a three team, a third team 
involved, which probably will 

1382
01:09:11,279 --> 01:09:14,640
have to happen. 
I just don't know if it's worth 

1383
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:22,880
it really to do it for one team.
I think that if that one team, 

1384
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:25,720
let's go back to the 90s, like 
if that one team was Jordan's 

1385
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,800
Bulls and there was a power move
that you thought that you can 

1386
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:31,080
do, that would change the 
dynamic. 

1387
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:34,319
So all right, I don't know if 
you get rid of all these guys, 

1388
01:09:34,319 --> 01:09:41,080
but so Mace is gone or Mace or 
Oak is gone, Starks is gone, you

1389
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:42,520
know, Hubert Davis shoot or 
whatever. 

1390
01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:44,560
Just throw names out, make the 
money, match up, whatever. 

1391
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:49,160
And then bring in that piece 
that you think would be able to 

1392
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:52,640
elevate you past somebody in 
your conference that year after 

1393
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:55,320
year is in your way. 
Now that's a different calculus.

1394
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:58,640
That's different. 
But to me, like if I'm Leon Rose

1395
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:03,440
right now, if he's truly 
available and if he's not yet 

1396
01:10:03,440 --> 01:10:07,720
available, if he goes into beast
mode and forces the Bucks to be 

1397
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,960
so uncomfortable that they've 
got to trade him, which then 

1398
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:12,520
obviously would give the Knicks 
leverage. 

1399
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,520
Because if he says I'm not 
playing or get me the hell out 

1400
01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:18,200
of here and you know, every time
he says that, every time he 

1401
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:21,240
flexes publicly, then some of 
the leverage dissipates. 

1402
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:25,800
If that happens, that's a little
bit different, but the the 

1403
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:29,640
two-month race to a championship
starting in April, ending at the

1404
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:34,720
middle or end this of June, you 
only need Giannis to get to that

1405
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:37,280
last stage because you don't 
need Giannis to beat. 

1406
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:38,960
And I didn't mention the Sixers 
before. 

1407
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:40,600
They've gotten things together a
little bit. 

1408
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:43,160
They'll beat all those teams, in
my opinion, in the seven game 

1409
01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:47,080
series if OG is healthy. 
Obviously Brunson, if Cat can 

1410
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:50,280
clean some stuff up and he's 
obviously I say that that's not 

1411
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:51,320
a disc, but you know what I 
mean? 

1412
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:54,760
Like I never it's not I think 
some of you take my my 

1413
01:10:54,800 --> 01:11:00,160
evaluation of Cat as a disc and 
it's not the thing that worries 

1414
01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:03,960
me about Karl Anthony Towns is 
what he's not good at is going 

1415
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:08,520
to kill you against a great team
in a, in a swing Game 5 

1416
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:12,360
conference finals, NBA Finals, 
because he is just a little too 

1417
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:15,240
reckless with the ball. 
He's a little bit too sloppy 

1418
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:19,920
getting to the rim and his 
fouls, his IQ, he's a brilliant 

1419
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:22,000
young man. 
Actually, I remember meeting him

1420
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:24,280
when he was drafted, told me he 
wanted to be a surgeon. 

1421
01:11:24,400 --> 01:11:27,680
Brilliant, really good person 
and good player. 

1422
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:32,000
But the the IQ, the aptitude to 
avoid those dumb fouls. 

1423
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:34,440
I mean, he's been around 8-9 
years. 

1424
01:11:34,440 --> 01:11:36,320
I mean, if it hasn't changed 
now, what's it going to change? 

1425
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:39,200
It's not like if you're still 
deficient at certain things by 

1426
01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:42,840
now, it's never going to change.
It's just not. 

1427
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:46,200
That's why, and I mean, I'll 
leave the door a little bit open

1428
01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:49,280
because it's a different 
philosophy, but when Aaron Boone

1429
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:53,360
was talking the other day about 
how he believes that they can 

1430
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:57,240
really change some things with 
Ryan McMahon, I'm like, I don't 

1431
01:11:57,240 --> 01:11:59,000
know, man. 
He's been around a long time. 

1432
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:01,240
He's got a lot of it bats. 
He's a low average guy. 

1433
01:12:01,440 --> 01:12:03,320
He's a high volume strikeout 
guy. 

1434
01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:04,960
Like what are we going to really
change here? 

1435
01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:06,640
I'm not saying you can't tweak a
little approach. 

1436
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:10,680
Same with Volpe, low on bass, 
high strikeout. 

1437
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:12,760
Like is it going to really 
change? 

1438
01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:15,520
I don't know. 
I where is with somebody like 

1439
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:19,200
Dominguez who you know, 
obviously didn't play a lot last

1440
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:22,360
year, had his issues in the 
outfield at least he hit 260 and

1441
01:12:22,360 --> 01:12:26,320
stole 20 bases and I think his 
OPS was 722 off the top my head,

1442
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,960
I have it in front of me. 
I think it was 722 at least 

1443
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:34,000
numbers where there's a baseline
like OK, OK, now if we 

1444
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:39,280
incorporate the little tweak, 
maybe 260 becomes 270-3274. 

1445
01:12:39,440 --> 01:12:42,480
Maybe the on base goes from, I 
don't mean in a year, but I mean

1446
01:12:42,480 --> 01:12:47,640
when he matures 722 to 8 O 9. 
Maybe with the increased on 

1447
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:51,560
base, the stolen bases go from 
22 to 32. 

1448
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:55,800
All highly plausible things. 
But back to Carl Anthony Towns. 

1449
01:12:56,480 --> 01:13:00,480
Those are more philosophies. 
Those are more like baseball 

1450
01:13:00,480 --> 01:13:03,360
tweaks, incorporating something 
different in your swing, pitch 

1451
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:04,840
recognition, whatever it might 
be. 

1452
01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:08,320
So I I just don't think that's 
going to happen with an NBA 

1453
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:11,720
player who's too loose with the 
ball again, great value Helva 

1454
01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:14,080
score. 
You know, top 15 ish player in 

1455
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:18,520
the game all NBA year ago All 
Star happy to have him, but that

1456
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:21,560
doesn't mean that the ceiling is
championship level if he's a 

1457
01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:23,560
focal point of view team, 
because I don't think it is all 

1458
01:13:24,480 --> 01:13:25,960
right, let me get a couple of 
comments here. 

1459
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:30,960
Let's see, Cats can't have Cats 
a liability. 

1460
01:13:30,960 --> 01:13:33,960
I'm not blowing a season here. 
Cats excellent game to game. 

1461
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:37,360
But in a long series, those 
silly plays and fouls can can 

1462
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:40,640
really, can really tank you. 
That's Devin Patrick, 16. 

1463
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:42,680
Yeah. 
Nick's need a small forward. 

1464
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:45,000
Get Drummond for rebounding 
toughness off the bench. 

1465
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:45,960
Yeah. 
I mean, you could always get one

1466
01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:47,400
of those ancillary pieces. 
Sure. 

1467
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:50,760
Clarkson's full, full sender 
bust. 

1468
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:52,520
True. 
You know, that's why you got to 

1469
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:55,280
manage the minutes there. 
Cats fouls concerning. 

1470
01:13:55,720 --> 01:14:03,840
Yeah, it's the Back to the 
Yankees about exit Velo and 

1471
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:05,720
launch angle. 
You know what? 

1472
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:07,960
You guys should go check out my 
interview with Alex. 

1473
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:12,080
My last show on The Fan talked 
about hitting philosophy and all

1474
01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:15,520
those different things, right? 
And he basically said that the 

1475
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:17,600
Yankees, in his opinion, they're
organizational. 

1476
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:20,080
I guess I can fix that. 
Organizational hitting 

1477
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:23,240
philosophy is broken. 
It's busted and it's evident to 

1478
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:27,400
somebody like Anthony Volpe, you
know, and and he's right. 

1479
01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:31,400
But to hear Alex expand on that,
you know, certainly reinforces 

1480
01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:34,200
what I've said for a long time 
because it's just the the 

1481
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:39,520
results are are too common and 
getting to those results. 

1482
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:45,600
It's the same predictable story 
like Volpe as an example, how 

1483
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:48,000
many I think every at bat. 
Now that's obviously hyperbolic,

1484
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:52,640
but I feel like it he gets in 
fastball upstairs swing, 

1485
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,720
articulate, can't get on, can't 
get on top of it. 

1486
01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:58,480
It's tough to get on that that 
high fastballs we know fouls it 

1487
01:14:58,480 --> 01:15:03,960
back, good aggressive swing, 
tick off and now it's O1 and now

1488
01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:08,720
soft and away. 
He either reaches for it, fouls 

1489
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:12,160
it off, rolls it over. 
And then I think it's just too 

1490
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:15,720
often O2. 
And that is a philosophical 

1491
01:15:15,760 --> 01:15:20,440
approach that is, you know, 
being taught to not look to to 

1492
01:15:20,440 --> 01:15:23,120
elevate the high pitch, which is
almost impossible. 

1493
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:25,640
So those those are things that 
Alex was talking about. 

1494
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:30,720
And I think pertaining to a cat 
where it's more just, I think 

1495
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:32,280
ingrained in his. 
But it's not so much a 

1496
01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:34,680
philosophy. 
It's not like the Knicks teach 

1497
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:38,400
one thing on how to attack the 
rim and the Thunder say, no, we 

1498
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:40,840
attacked the, the the footwork 
is at this angle. 

1499
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:43,720
No, it's just, you know, it's 
years of bowling, years of 

1500
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,720
feeling, years of flowing and 
years of going out and doing 

1501
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:48,400
your thing. 
And you've either you've either 

1502
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:51,000
got great hand eye coordination,
you've either got great 

1503
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:55,480
dexterity, great hand foot 
coordination, great aptitude, 

1504
01:15:55,480 --> 01:15:58,760
great anticipation, or you have 
some of those things and are 

1505
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:01,240
highly deficient in others. 
So, and I think that that 

1506
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:03,920
applies to Cat. 
And with that being the case 

1507
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:07,200
against certain teams, he'll 
look amazing against other 

1508
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,480
teams. 
That can really illuminate those

1509
01:16:09,480 --> 01:16:12,440
deficiencies. 
Well, I think you get the uneven

1510
01:16:12,440 --> 01:16:16,080
results, the cheap fouls to the 
bench, the turnovers, whatever 

1511
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:18,320
it might be. 
All right, So hopefully you guys

1512
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:19,360
enjoyed this. 
What do you think? 

1513
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:21,320
What do you think? 
What do you think? 

1514
01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:23,200
A lot of comments. 
You guys are rocking this, man, 

1515
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:27,160
Absolutely rocking this. 
Hey, listen, guys, I will do one

1516
01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:30,000
tomorrow. 
Have a little fun, maybe some 

1517
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:33,320
Christmas stuff. 
Obviously, when things break and

1518
01:16:33,320 --> 01:16:37,000
as I said yesterday, unless I'm 
coaching literally on a bench or

1519
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:40,760
on a field, the ability to fire 
up and react and get with you 

1520
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:42,960
guys is something that's going 
to be amazing that I'm going to 

1521
01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:45,000
utilize. 
Obviously that's part of the 

1522
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:50,720
deal, the calls, the ability to 
do some other things. 

1523
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:52,800
You don't get a clean, a cleaner
look. 

1524
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:55,560
I I know some of you have 
suggested stream yard, which I 

1525
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:58,680
used to use with the unkillable 
pod that I would do on Sundays 

1526
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:00,960
after jets games. 
My producer did all that. 

1527
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:03,520
I am in the early stages of 
tweaking that figuring that out.

1528
01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:05,120
So even this will look a little 
different. 

1529
01:17:06,160 --> 01:17:09,520
I know there's the ability to 
leave voice messages is the new 

1530
01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:12,560
world. 
I'm not as overwhelmed with 

1531
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:15,760
this, with the digital stuff 
and, and the new stuff as I was 

1532
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:17,040
yet. 
Certainly the day before 

1533
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:19,080
yesterday, I was like, Oh my 
God, well, my son was telling me

1534
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:21,320
about super chats. 
I'm like, but I just got to 

1535
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:22,960
figure out a way to just get 
this thing going. 

1536
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:25,440
Just give me a green light, give
me a give me a camera, you know,

1537
01:17:25,440 --> 01:17:27,520
just give me an Ave. to start 
talking. 

1538
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,840
And, you know, each year, each 
day, pardon me, it's, it's, it's

1539
01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:33,240
kind of lessened a little bit 
where you know, I'm like, all 

1540
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:34,640
right, I know how to get this 
thing going. 

1541
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:36,400
All right, You know what? 
I didn't like the way the studio

1542
01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:38,480
looked yesterday. 
Let me get it up to my Home 

1543
01:17:38,480 --> 01:17:40,200
Office. 
Let me get the microphone. 

1544
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:41,360
Let me give you a different 
look. 

1545
01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:45,360
I really, really appreciate it. 
Hopefully you can be with me 

1546
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:46,880
tomorrow. 
If you can't be, well then 

1547
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:48,560
that's your fault and you got to
change that. 

1548
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:52,120
Happy holidays. 
Merry Christmas to those of you 

1549
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:54,720
who just celebrated Hanukkah. 
Hope it was awesome. 

1550
01:17:55,120 --> 01:17:57,800
And I've got a couple of good 
Christmas stories from when I 

1551
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:01,080
was a kid pertaining to sports. 
I'll give you a couple of those.

1552
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:04,120
Continue to follow me on 
Twitter, obviously Instagram, 

1553
01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:06,520
leave the comments. 
I'll get a short up for you at 

1554
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:09,920
some point encapsulating 
probably do something on the 

1555
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:11,880
Mets there with the McNeil 
stuff. 

1556
01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:14,040
That was that was something I 
really wanted to get out there 

1557
01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:16,280
and and let's just keep 
grinding, man. 

1558
01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:20,000
Again, I recognize without you 
guys following me, there is 

1559
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:23,320
nothing sponsorships. 
Those are all things all bells 

1560
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:26,000
and whistles we're looking for. 
And one more thing. 

1561
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,240
Let me actually let me check it 
and see if my guy got back to me

1562
01:18:28,240 --> 01:18:30,600
on the exact amount Did he he 
did. 

1563
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:31,760
I had a boy. 
Let's see two. 

1564
01:18:31,760 --> 01:18:35,720
What do you got here? 
OK, so there are, I'm looking at

1565
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:41,040
right now, a schematic of this 
awesome Vogel Theatre, and it 

1566
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:49,320
looks to be all right, 7912. 
There's about 25 or 26 seats 

1567
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:52,120
left. 
My concerts.net, BT and Sal 

1568
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:56,440
live, January 22nd, special 
guest Aaron Boone on stage, 

1569
01:18:56,440 --> 01:18:59,440
little music, food, drinks. 
There's regular seats. 

1570
01:18:59,440 --> 01:19:02,240
There's AVIP package to hang out
with me and Sal and Boone. 

1571
01:19:02,520 --> 01:19:04,360
It's going to be a real awesome 
night. 

1572
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:07,320
I get Bogle, Bogle Theatre 
Reckless talk very highly about 

1573
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:09,800
it and I know people who are 
performed there. 

1574
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:11,440
That's the reason why we we 
picked it. 

1575
01:19:11,440 --> 01:19:14,080
We know it's it's first rate. 
So if you want to get the 

1576
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:18,520
tickets, myconcerts.net, I'll 
even type it in case you guys 

1577
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:22,000
forget it. 
Put 2223 seats left. 

1578
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:24,360
It's a wrap sold out. 
You guys have even represented 

1579
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:27,680
us there, which is phenomenal. 
All right, I'm going to go get a

1580
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:29,680
workout in. 
I've got St. 

1581
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:32,960
John's tonight in Queens. 
I don't love the way St. 

1582
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:35,960
John's is looking not worried 
about tonight obviously but man 

1583
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:39,880
to go from 5th preseason ranking
to not ranked that is a wake up 

1584
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:40,400
call. 
St. 

1585
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:43,080
John's has a lot to fix. 
Talked about that yesterday. 

1586
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:45,800
If you want to go and dig into 
the end of of yesterday's live 

1587
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:50,520
show and have an have an awesome
rest of your day, let me bounce.

1588
01:19:50,560 --> 01:19:54,760
I will check you guys tomorrow 
10:00 same time and I promise 

1589
01:19:54,760 --> 01:19:58,120
once this stuff is fixed. 
I know I'm repetitive now but I 

1590
01:19:58,120 --> 01:20:01,400
want you guys to know I'm not 
ignoring this like super chats 

1591
01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:03,600
and things that I just. 
Can't do yet because you've got 

1592
01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:05,600
to hit the certain levels and if
you're with YouTube, you know 

1593
01:20:05,600 --> 01:20:07,960
what I mean. 
Subscribers and then watched 

1594
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:10,160
hours and all that. 
Then we start pumping out the 

1595
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:11,880
other stuff. 
So appreciate it. 

1596
01:20:11,880 --> 01:20:15,080
Catch you guys tomorrow, go 
Johnny's and have an awesome 

1597
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:16,200
rest of your day.