1 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:11,960 This is unleashed Are you listening? 2 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:12,880 Can you hear me? Hear me. 3 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:14,520 This is unleashed Are you listening? 4 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:15,440 Can you hear me? Hear me. 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,000 This is unleashed Are you listening? 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:17,920 Can you hear me? Hear me. 7 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:19,520 This is unleashed. Are you listening? 8 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:26,720 Can you hear me? I got to tell you, I am 9 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,520 incredibly intrigued to see how much worse this thing is going 10 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:31,640 to get. I mean, is it going to go to 14? 11 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:33,360 I'm the Mets ever going to win again? 12 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,000 Oh my God, absolutely horrific fashion. 13 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,600 Wow, what's going on, everybody? I guess the good news is, from a 14 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,680 Mets perspective, at least you got a little batting practice, a 15 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,720 little test run last year. So Devin Williams will probably 16 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,160 find his game at some point this season. 17 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,480 After an atrocious April in the Bronx last year, he is having an 18 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,560 even worse April in Queens this year. 19 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,200 So at least that's a sliver of good news. 20 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,120 Like, I think Devin Williams probably going to figure things 21 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,880 out. The other real good news that 22 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,800 Juan Soto is going to come back starting today. 23 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,240 Those are good news things, good news pieces, good news items. 24 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:16,360 The bad news is what really plagues the Mets it, it might be 25 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,160 too much for this thing to actually get where you guys want 26 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,280 it to go. I know it's early, but Mike, you 27 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,880 could not write a worse script for the 2026 Mets. 28 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,480 The booze last night. For those of you who actually 29 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,320 went like, there is, there's different types of booze. 30 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:33,760 There's like booze way like, Nah, Boo. 31 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,520 All right, This guy's old for 14, Boo. 32 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,880 And then there's that, that guttural, like just from the 33 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,960 deepest part of your belly and your sporting soul where it just 34 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:47,040 sounds different. It's got venom, it's dripping 35 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,120 with anger. And that was the sound last 36 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,480 night in Queens. So wow, good morning, everybody. 37 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,960 BT Unleashed, what's happened? Apologize for the delay. 38 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:00,080 We had some issues there. J Rod, at least for the start of 39 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:01,440 the show, will not be able to hop in. 40 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,600 He's trying to work on some stuff. 41 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,960 It's all good and unfortunately for today, at least for some of 42 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:09,600 the show, hopefully not all the show, that does include phone 43 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,800 calls. So we're working on that. 44 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,440 Things happen, we plow through, not a big deal. 45 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,880 First up, today's show as we got a big one for you today. 46 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,520 Today's show is brought to you by my friends at Sullivan 47 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:22,600 Propane. Of course, find 48 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,600 sullivanonline@triallaw1.com. That's trial law1.com. 49 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,320 Remember the name Sullivan Propane and of buy Premio 50 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,400 sausage. 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This is more about you guys and 58 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,920 me acknowledging that you have followed me and that you have 59 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:02,600 tried to elevate me and that you have supported me. 60 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,240 So that's that's number I was chasing for a while. 61 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:10,040 Like obviously was cool getting to 5010 thousand and and 1520 62 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,000 seems a little bit more real, but it is it is the first step 63 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,560 of many in this long, hopefully very, very successful journey 64 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,960 with YouTube and you guys have been awesome. 65 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:22,680 So I wanted to let you know about that. 66 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,200 We hit it right after the show yesterday, 20,000 Subs. 67 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,680 So I salute you guys. All right now this this is when 68 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,880 you know things are bad. All right, let's get this up on 69 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,000 the board there, Jay, Rod, how about this tweet? 70 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,840 You want to talk about a ruthless tweet by the Minnesota 71 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,600 Twins? I'm not actually a fan of this. 72 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,000 I'll I'll get into that in a moment. 73 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,720 You start to see this more and more and more with teams where 74 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,800 they're clowning other. I know it's an intern or a young 75 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,760 social media, you know, person. I get it and this is kind of 76 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,160 their world. But how about this tweet from 77 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,200 the Twinsies? Things you can get in a dozen 78 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,600 and get a dozen eggs. You want an omelette? 79 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,040 You want a little mushroom and cheddar? 80 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:01,680 What do you want? You want some roses? 81 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:03,120 You want pink? You want white? 82 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,040 You want yellow? Oh, you want 12 met losses? 83 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,080 You could get that as well. Keep that up, J Rod, because 84 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,840 understand guys, where this tweet dropped from, this didn't 85 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:19,000 come from the LA Dodgers back-to-back champions or the 86 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,519 Yankees. Even Yankees would never do that 87 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,400 who have won four straight and stabilized their season and all 88 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,480 the Champions and A championships and all the great, 89 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,280 you know, all time transcendent names. 90 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:37,120 This came from the Minnesota Twins, who in 2016 had a record 91 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:42,760 of 59 and one O 3. In 2018, they were 78 and 84. 92 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,800 In 20 and 2021, they were 73 and 89. 93 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:52,760 In 2022 they were 78 and 84. And then last year, the same 94 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,400 team that took the social media to kick you while you're down 95 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:03,040 met fans. Seventy wins and a ghastly 92 96 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,360 losses. So that that is the team that is 97 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,240 clouding you. You are officially I. 98 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:10,120 Believe. Oh my gosh. 99 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,120 I think we got. Changed. 100 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,520 Oh my gosh, what just happened? How did I get put on here? 101 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,480 I, I don't know, but hopefully we're still on the air. 102 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:18,280 Jay, what's going on? There, We're still on air. 103 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:20,400 We're still on air. Hold on, Let me hop off this. 104 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:21,600 I told you we had some. We're good. 105 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,680 It's all good. I think Jay Rod figured this 106 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,200 out. He was getting all worked out. 107 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,520 And you see this is where you get calmer BT this is where you 108 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,800 get more mature BT this is where you get more measured. 109 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,280 BTI think back in the day, I would we've gotten all worked 110 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:36,600 up. Oh, what's going on? 111 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,160 Come on, we got to start the show. 112 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,720 Come on, we're 4 minutes late. You know what, you live a lot of 113 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,760 life, you figure things out. I know my guys hustling on the 114 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,040 other end, it's all good. So, you know, I don't know if 115 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,560 we'll see Jared upside down within the next 10 seconds. 116 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,520 He might pop back in at some point, but whatever it takes to 117 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,480 get it right. He was he was really nervous. 118 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,200 He's getting all worked up. I'm like, dude, we're good. 119 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:57,880 Trust me. I got a lot of content. 120 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,440 We got a lot of things to hit. Mets fans are fired up. 121 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:04,000 Yankee fans are pumped up again. I got a mini mock draft for you 122 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,320 one through 16. Some big stuff in the NBA last 123 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,640 night. Wendy with a concussion, the 124 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,640 Sixers with a stunning win, which obviously on sub level, 125 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:14,400 you know, could affect the Knicks here. 126 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,720 So we've got a lot going on. So what is this year at BRAC 227 127 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,160 BT currently sitting in the hospital with my seven-year old 128 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:29,400 son and my newborn baby daughter, 2 hours old, listening 129 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,920 to the show, starting her off, right? 130 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,240 Well, listen, every family's different. 131 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,360 So I don't know when you're gonna give her that first tablet 132 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,040 or that little phone, whatever it might be. 133 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,120 Whenever you give it to her, make sure you have her sub and 134 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,800 they can get that subscription. Doesn't matter if she's two 135 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,480 hours old, that is. I mean, that's, I mean, that's, 136 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:49,640 that's just that just makes me feel awesome. 137 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,520 Here's the dude who's in the hospital, his wife just gave 138 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,880 birth, his seven-year old son, a Big Brother, 7 years older. 139 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,200 So when people start knocking, you know, for for dates or 140 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:02,760 people, you know, start getting a little loud in the schoolyard. 141 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,000 This guy's got 7 years on his sister's peers. 142 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,200 So he's obviously going to protect her. 143 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,280 And he calls two hours after his daughter is born. 144 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:15,560 God bless you, God bless her, God bless your wife. 145 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,600 That is absolutely awesome. It's a make like, you know, I 146 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,800 mean, I think we get the first, first one there, but it's 147 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:25,360 amazing. Like when you go into the 148 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,600 hospital and you know, some it's different. 149 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,360 I mean, obviously there's some, some people are in labor for 150 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,880 some women are in labor forever. Some people have C sections. 151 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:39,080 So it's literally a scheduled procedure, which is pretty easy. 152 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,880 It's like going to McDonald's, you're in and you're out. 153 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,440 It was, it was easy, you know, like, oh, what's up? 154 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,840 We got to be there, doc. All right, let's go, honey, you 155 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,200 know, but I, I remember God, it's just especially the first 156 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,880 one, but then my second, which was a girl, which we really 157 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,080 wanted. We prayed really hard once we 158 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,040 had our boy. We're really praying for a girl. 159 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,080 And, and I remember like being in the my, my wife's obviously, 160 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,640 you know, anesthesia getting she's she's the star of the 161 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:05,520 show. I'm just there along for the 162 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,960 ride. Not much I could do pacing, 163 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,960 nervous, praying, sweating, you name it, texting my buddies. 164 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:13,840 And then the nurse comes in. All right, dad let you know, 165 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,320 let's go. And then you go in there and you 166 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:20,240 you walk out of the room and you just know one way of life. 167 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,400 And it was a pretty great life. You know, it was the two of us 168 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,240 and work was going great and family was great. 169 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,160 And then you walk into another room and you can't, you just 170 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:31,960 can't imagine how much better it gets. 171 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,559 So that's really touching. That is absolutely awesome that 172 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:38,760 that's already made my day. Wow, that's very humbling that 173 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,960 you're even listening to the show two hours after your 174 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:43,760 daughter was born. Man, that's awesome. 175 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:48,440 At PG17 under score 89 Nets, Mets will be lucky to get to 70 176 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,360 and 92. I mean, listen that that's a 177 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,400 bigger picture issue. The problem is, though, is that 178 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,320 now the Mets are officially the worst team in baseball. 179 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,720 They're 7 and 16. They literally had the worst 180 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,880 record, and now they're just losing every kind of way that 181 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,160 you could possibly lose. Now. 182 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,280 They haven't really hit much at all. 183 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,200 Mcclain's had a couple of really good outings and last night was 184 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,760 another one and you know, you, you sitting there you thinking, 185 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,200 all right, we finally have a lead. 186 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,520 Lindor goes yard early. You know, not that there was a a 187 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,280 full house in Queens, but you know, you got to claw your way 188 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,520 back. You know, it was cold out middle 189 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,280 of the week early in the week, whatever it is. 190 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:25,560 So you can't expect the Mets fan to go in there. 191 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,000 You know, like you're getting ready to watch the 86 Mets in 192 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,520 the middle of July and it's 90° out and it's 45,000 a Che. 193 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,640 You got to earn it again. You know, there's a lot of 194 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,080 negative energy with these Mets. So it but but even though the 195 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,080 stadium didn't have a lot of ambiance, you had the lead. 196 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,240 You are you go to the boy, you go to your closer, Devin 197 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,560 Williams and then he can't throw a freaking strike ball ball that 198 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:49,560 walk walk. He fell behind three guys with 199 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:52,640 three ball counts, right. He just didn't have his his 200 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:54,160 change up was nowhere to be found. 201 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,320 He talked about this in the post game and when Devin I really 202 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,800 anybody, I don't care if you throw 101 miles an hour, but 203 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,520 when you're trying to beat big league hitters with just 204 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,680 fastballs, it's not going to work out. 205 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:07,800 You know, they're going to be selective and when you do put it 206 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:09,720 over the heart of the play, they get a barrel things up. 207 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,000 So to me, I don't think that there's a worse way to lose. 208 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,800 Like I almost think it will be easier or better. 209 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,240 Like if you think now it's still a loss so it really doesn't 210 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,600 matter. But wouldn't you kind of rather 211 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,920 have lost like, I don't know, six to two and like, no real 212 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,560 drama at the end that he just, all right, bats didn't do a 213 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:29,040 whole lot, but maybe not six to two because then that probably 214 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,320 means McClain didn't have a really good outing. 215 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,640 The point is, though, I don't know when you're mired in this 216 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,120 lengthy losing streak that is really now at this point, 217 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:43,960 threatening to destroy, absolutely destroy whatever 218 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,920 remains in whatever direction this 2026 Mets season is going 219 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,840 to go. When you have a lead after 220 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,880 losing 11 straight games and you go to your closer and he can't 221 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,520 throw a strike. And then your first baseman, who 222 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,600 we all know is not really a first baseman, throws to third 223 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,960 base on the bunt safe. By the way, Bichette played that 224 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,720 wrong. He had the wrong foot on the 225 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,560 bag. His left foot was on the base. 226 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,480 If it's this, and I criticized Ben Rice for this about two 227 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,800 weeks ago, it was a little subtle criticism. 228 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,880 But as you're trying to learn a position, these things matter at 229 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,200 this level. And I don't know for sure. 230 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,000 All right, Like in real time, you knew he was safe at third 231 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,160 base. But if Bichette's right foot is, 232 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,160 and I know he's learning the position, but if his right foot 233 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,880 is anchored on 2nd, on third base, you get much more of a 234 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,600 stretch and you go when you receive the ball, maybe he's 235 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,360 out. Either way, it's an aggressive 236 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,760 play. They were talking about this on 237 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,400 the game. And I love aggression, but you 238 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,680 better be right like you if if you're going to do that, you 239 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:43,840 have to at least you can't be wrong. 240 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:48,080 So now we have bases loaded and then, you know, I mean, the Mets 241 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,880 could have lost 11 to 3:00 last night if they didn't. 242 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,280 Whatever that dude's name is, comes out and basically strikes 243 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:55,320 every struck everybody out was phenomenal. 244 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,520 And then the Mets go down one 2-3 in the night. 245 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,720 Just a catastrophic start, a horrendous loss. 246 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,040 I mean, the numbers right now on Devon way, we thought last April 247 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,600 was bad for the Yankees. Devon Williams is ERA right now 248 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:14,040 is not true on this 9.95 and his WHIP is almost 3. 249 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:19,560 So there is so much wrong here. And really guys, and Mendy said 250 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,200 this after the game, but he's absolutely right. 251 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,880 Like if you're thinking that Juan Soto fixes everything, 252 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,720 you're going to be waiting a long time for things to get 253 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,240 fixed. Doesn't work that way in 254 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,280 baseball. First of all, now I know he's a 255 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,760 great hitter, but it's not like Juan Soto is guaranteed to come 256 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,120 back and go 3 for four with five ribbies tonight. 257 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,520 Now, he very well might, but he very well could start 2 for 15 258 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,080 because that's baseball, Susan. That's random. 259 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,320 And you know, you think about a great NBA player, like if he 260 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,440 even Jason Tatum coming off the ruptured Achilles, like his 261 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,440 first game back, he didn't have 4 points. 262 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,480 You know, he's pretty much averaging 2324 points right 263 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,360 away. Because it's a different sport 264 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,160 and it's a different level of failure and it's a different, 265 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,560 much higher rate of production in basketball. 266 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,560 So, you know, I, I thought what Mendoza said was right. 267 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,600 I mean, other guys got to start carrying the mail. 268 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:07,440 I mean, these guys just got to wake up. 269 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,600 It is just disgraceful the way the Mets look and that sound. 270 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:13,000 Again, I got to get back to this. 271 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,720 That was the sound of a fan base that hates this team. 272 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:23,240 Not even the sound of a fan base that is incredibly disenchanted 273 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,040 with the performance of this team, which is obvious. 274 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,920 That's a given. But that sound was different. 275 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:33,040 That was an ominous sound. That was a sound that me telling 276 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,800 you would really, by extension, me telling Stearns and me 277 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,120 telling Cohen, I hate what you've done to our team. 278 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,200 I hate what you've done to the roster. 279 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,120 I hate the new guys you brought in. 280 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,320 I hate the way we look. I cannot stand this team. 281 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,840 And if it doesn't change soon, this will be the ugliest season 282 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,240 in the history of the New York Mets. 283 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,080 Listen, they've had bad seasons before when I first started 284 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,880 watching baseball. And I told you guys, Jay, you 285 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,880 can keep that up, buddy. And I told you this before, I'm 286 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,240 a Yankee fan. My, my dad's an old Dodgers fan 287 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:07,520 who wound up becoming a Mets fan, right? 288 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,480 Even though, even though what he called the fan my last show, he 289 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,240 told everybody that he's now a Yankee fan. 290 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,600 So that's actually the kind of fan that I get on. 291 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,280 But since it's my dad, I'll give him a pass. 292 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,120 Kind of fluctuate, Yanks and pick one. 293 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:19,720 Mets, Yanks, Mets, Yanks, Yanks, Mets. 294 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,520 Who do you root for dad? Either way, I think he's more of 295 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,160 a Mets guy cuz I'm looking at a picture right now of my dad in a 296 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,400 Mets uniform. Literally in my office at Mets 297 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,040 dream camp connecting on a double off the left field wall 298 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,120 off of Al Jackson, a former pitcher which he almost took 299 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,360 deep in the Mets Cam in it when he was in his 40s. 300 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,960 He went for like 3 or 4 years. So anyway, he's a Mets fan 301 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,760 right? But when I was growing up, we'd 302 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:45,720 watch the Mets and then I would have to go and, you know, hey, 303 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,240 dad, put the inks on whatever. So we always watch Connor's 304 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,600 Corner. And based on when I was born and 305 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,200 just based on when I was introduced to baseball, like 306 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:54,920 late 70s. Yeah. 307 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:56,880 Like figments, like little snapshots. 308 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,040 I remember like, laying on the couch or laying on on the bed 309 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,120 with my dad watching the game when he got back from softball 310 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,040 or before he went to the precinct on a Sunday or before 311 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,280 we had big Sunday dinner. But really, early 80s. 312 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,040 And I know all the names from the late 70s, those teams were. 313 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,360 I mean, they were just, they were some of the worst teams. 314 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,040 They weren't as bad as the 62 Mets. 315 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,080 They were literally some of the worst teams. 316 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:21,680 New York baseball, including the wretched Yankee teams with 317 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,080 Horace Clark. Were the Giants some bad teams 318 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:25,800 when they were in New York? Awful. 319 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,760 Just unwatchably, unspeakably pathetic. 320 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,000 Just no hope. Like Dave King been hitting 2O2 321 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,280 and you know, I mean, who, who's some of these other guy? 322 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:39,040 Like I remember Ron Hodges was the catcher and Bob Baylor was 323 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,040 an infielder and like Mark Baumbach was a pitcher. 324 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,520 They were just, they were awful. The difference with those teams 325 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,280 is that they were still like lovable, like, you know, they 326 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,760 didn't have a high payroll. There were no expectations. 327 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,440 And more specifically, those Mets, because Lee Mazzilli was 328 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,800 still on those teams and he was from Brooklyn, is from Brooklyn. 329 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,440 Lincoln kid, right? It's not like this group of Mets 330 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,680 where the payroll is through the roof, the expectations through 331 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,120 the roof. Every Mets fan known to man is 332 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,320 walking around, you know, telling everybody how the Mets 333 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,840 are taking over the city and the Mets are doing this and the Mets 334 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,880 are doing that and the Yankees are relegated to this. 335 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,000 Well, and I'm really don't jump into this, you guys know that. 336 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,800 But how's that working out now? Yanks have won four straight. 337 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,320 They've had four gems in a row from their starting pitchers, 338 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,000 and the Mets have lost twelve straight, their longest losing 339 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:31,120 streak since 2002. All right, so this sound is 340 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:35,480 dangerous. It is teetering on the precipice 341 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,720 of implosion. Now, the first obvious thing 342 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,280 that's going to happen is if this doesn't correct itself very 343 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,280 soon, Mendoza is going to be fired. 344 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,920 And that's unfortunate, but it's a big boy business. 345 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,080 He's making good money. He's not going to be on the 346 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,360 streets destitute. He'll get another job in 347 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:52,920 baseball. He'll be fine. 348 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,600 All right, But is it really, truly his fault? 349 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,360 I mean, nobody's doing their job. 350 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,840 They get paid an inordinate amount of money to perform at a 351 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,360 level much higher than what they're doing. 352 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,760 So I'm not saying that those are some great tactician, he's not. 353 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,480 But to to dump this at his doorstep, I think he's missing 354 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,040 the mark now. He will be the sacrificial lamb 355 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,240 if this doesn't change within, you know, I, I would say, you 356 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,720 know, 4-5 games for Juan Soto. If the Mets are one and four, 357 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,720 one and five or two and six, he's gone. 358 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,200 That's it. The Mets have been handed a 359 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,800 gift, at least in theory, from the schedule makers because 360 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:32,200 coming off this horrendous run, you know, Dodgers, cubbies, 361 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,000 Well, now you got three with the Twins, who are all right, better 362 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,720 this year and they do have some good ball players, but certainly 363 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,200 not one of the elite teams in baseball. 364 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:43,320 Then you got the Rockies who stink and you got the Nationals 365 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,400 who stink. I mean, if you can't figure this 366 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,720 out now, it is a wrap. Like really you got so you got 367 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,160 you got eight games left. Like if the Mets were to go one 368 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,600 and seven or two and six, they have zero chance to win the 369 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,040 division. And at that point you're praying 370 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,640 that you can get to the mid 80s and have a push for the last 371 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,480 wild card. Like, I understand that you 372 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:07,000 can't like you can't win a divisional title in April. 373 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,080 I get that. But you really could put 374 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,240 yourself in such a position that you're going to have to play 375 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:15,480 such an incredibly, almost unrealistically high level of 376 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,440 baseball to get past what you what you've done so far. 377 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,800 They got the worst record in baseball. 378 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,600 They're 7 and 16. And how about this All right, No 379 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:30,280 team in the long distinguished great history of baseball been 380 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:35,200 around a long time. No team in baseball history has 381 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:43,080 lost 15 of 22 to start a season and then won 90 or more games. 382 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,200 So there's problems everywhere you look. 383 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,040 No one's hitting no one's fielding pitcher starting 384 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,280 pitchers do a good job. Bullpen implodes. 385 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,480 Bullpen does a decent job start or stink. 386 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,360 You know when when they do hit they they don't when they do 387 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:57,360 hit, they catch the ball. When they don't hit, they drop 388 00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:58,840 the ball. They've been messing on the 389 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,080 bags. This is just as bad. 390 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:07,280 This is an unmitigated disaster. Disaster from every conceivable 391 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:10,720 angle. The Mets are a joke Right now. 392 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,080 They are a joke. All right, let me get Cape. 393 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,520 Cape God. I see what you're doing. 394 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:21,120 Cape God 2558 and that Red Sox lost taste last night up there 395 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:22,200 in Cape Cod. How about that? 396 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,640 Yeah, BT it's going to be a Mets town now, right? 397 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,840 Don't you wish you had Sal by your side right now to torture? 398 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,400 I never got into the torture. Like, whatever, you know, we 399 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:31,960 we'd be having. He'd be losing his mind. 400 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,640 I'm sure he's losing his mind on his channel. 401 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,240 But no, I mean, what? Whatever. 402 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:39,280 Like to me, you know, I, I really do try to separate the 403 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,680 Yankees and the Mets and and, you know, I don't know that I 404 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,880 always did that with Tiki. I do think that I to be fair, I 405 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:51,520 do think that I was a little, what's the word, you know, a 406 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,440 little bit of a shit stirrer with the Mets when when Tiki and 407 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,320 I first went to the mid days on the fam. 408 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,600 But that was really, I don't even know why I did that. 409 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,040 That was really just a deviation from what I usually do. 410 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,080 Like you guys know, I love baseball. 411 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:07,240 I think you, I think, I hope you think that I know baseball and I 412 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,720 always try to put these these teams in separate tiers because 413 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,560 they're separate teams in different leagues. 414 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,040 So yeah, I mean, I, I did see I fell asleep for a minute last 415 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:22,160 night watching Hoops and then. I saw Sal screaming on on sports 416 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,200 night. He's been pretty calm up to this 417 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:25,600 point. But I think last night, I mean 418 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,280 last night doesn't blow a gasket for a Mets fan. 419 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,520 I don't know what the hell people are waiting for, Joe. 420 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:32,080 Can you hear me? Can you hear me? 421 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,240 We can hear you now, brother. Look at camera. 422 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,720 Thank God. You OK, man? 423 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:38,960 Are you OK? Dude? 424 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,320 I called you. It's all good. 425 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:45,560 Man, if you if you guys saw me, dude, I was freaking out. 426 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,280 But I'm glad we could get it working. 427 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,680 Just want to say thank you guys so much for 20 K just had to get 428 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,520 that out. The way that's awesome that a 429 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,160 boy Jay Rudd. So now just to clarify, Jay, are 430 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:59,000 we straight with the WE calls? Will we be able to take the 431 00:20:59,000 --> 00:20:59,720 calls here? You tell? 432 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,960 Yeah, we should. Be good to take the calls. 433 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,280 Only thing, I'm just going to communicate with you in the chat 434 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,280 in the call room, so I won't speak to you face to face, but 435 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,080 I'll talk to you in the chat in the call. 436 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,520 Room meaning, So when we have a call there, I'll just look down 437 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,400 and I'll and I'll see who it is. No, I mean I could still do this 438 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,000 whole thing. I mean to the callers 439 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,800 themselves. OK, got separate room, I'll talk 440 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,160 to you through the chat. When? 441 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:23,680 I do. But you'll be able to say, hey, 442 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,160 we have Joe in Brooklyn, right? Absolutely awesome. 443 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,600 Battle Boy J Rod. Great, Good job. 444 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:31,320 I mean, it really is amazing. Yeah, Guess who's back, back, 445 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,160 back. It is amazing the the symmetry 446 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:35,920 here to the start of Devin Williams this season. 447 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:37,800 Like you just you really can't make it up. 448 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:42,320 You just can't make it up. It's it, it's it's amazing where 449 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,200 they are. And man, oh, man, I don't know 450 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,320 AI don't know a single met fan. And I got my met buddies on the 451 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:52,920 chat like, they hate this team. They they they loathe the David 452 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,560 Stearns, do not believe in him. They hate what he's done. 453 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,560 You know, Nimbo's having a really good year. 454 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,640 Alonzo was not Diaz's hurts. He got at least factor that in a 455 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,200 little bit. And I, I think that, you know, 456 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,360 I, I think could, I think two things could be true, even if it 457 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:11,360 doesn't seem that way right now. The moves that they made could 458 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:15,400 be the right moves even if they feel wrong right now in terms of 459 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,680 getting rid of players and jettison some players. 460 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,160 The players that they brought in could ultimately prove to be the 461 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:22,400 right move. I guess. 462 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,520 Like, I'm not going to fully abandoned hope and say that the 463 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,280 Mets will not be a playoff team. I'm not into hot takes. 464 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,280 I'm not here for that, you know, I'm not here for the clicks and 465 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,280 the repurposes. I'm here to do a show, all 466 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,120 right? I'm here to do a smart show. 467 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:38,040 I'm here to do a show that is based in the reality of what 468 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,560 I've watched already for all these teams, but also a show 469 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,680 based in in projections that just that that based on what I 470 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,800 believe with the sport and the personnel for each team. 471 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,000 Now, do I have great faith that the Mets turn this around? 472 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,520 No, I don't. I I definitely don't. 473 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,360 I'm looking forward to seeing Christian Scott pitch. 474 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,400 I'm looking forward to seeing who's he's going to go on 475 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,520 Thursday. Mcclain's been great. 476 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,480 Peroth is going to be better. Maybe Lindor's starting to find 477 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,040 it. I mean, but there's still a lot 478 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,200 of empty sticks in the order. I mean, you still don't have a 479 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,600 set lineup here. And you know, Juan Soto, as as 480 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,600 great as he is, he's not coming out like Jaylen Brunson dropping 481 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,800 40 immediately, You don't think? And if he does, does he do it 482 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,360 again tomorrow? Like, you know, I got news for 483 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:22,000 everybody. Juan Soto, even if Juan Soto has 484 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,520 his best year ever, Juan Soto is going to hit 330, like, and then 485 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,480 he's not going to. But like that would be his best 486 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,680 year right outside of the the condensed season in 2020. 487 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,880 And even if he does that, yeah, that'll give some other guys 488 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,720 around him better pitches. And yeah, sure, you know, 489 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,240 downstream when you've got to navigate Soto, you're a little 490 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,920 bit more vulnerable the next time somebody gets in the box 491 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,160 because you're kind of tapped out, you're going fast and 492 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,920 you're working hard. And residually that can benefit 493 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,080 all the other guys. Like there's a baseball aspect 494 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,320 to it that very well might be a play. 495 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,280 But like, if is Beatty going to start hitting? 496 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,320 Is Benji going to start hitting? Is Vientos going to start 497 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,240 hitting again? I mean, I I don't know. 498 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,560 I don't know what's what's going to happen with all if Devin 499 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:02,920 Williams going to figure things out. 500 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,280 I think he will. You know, it was Colin. 501 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,120 I'm not here to make excuses. He was awful. 502 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,200 And it's just something about his body language, like, I don't 503 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,240 know, man. I, I, I didn't feel it with the 504 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,040 Yankees, even though we rectified things. 505 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,520 But he lost his job to Bednar, but he still had a pretty good 506 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,800 season after, after this, this awful April. 507 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,760 And when the Mets got him, I said I thought, OK, I get it, 508 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:27,720 boys. Got $10 million, I think one 509 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,400 year, 10 mil, something like that, whatever it is. 510 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,120 No, no more than that, right? That's what the Yankees had. 511 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:34,080 The Yankees had one year, $10 million. 512 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,400 My bad. And I thought that because he 513 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,280 was able to correct it after such an atrocious start in the 514 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,480 Bronx where he was getting lit up and he was getting booed, it 515 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:49,440 showed me some of his, you know, his baseball personality and his 516 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,080 baseball toughness. But you know, nobody wants to 517 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,320 see an ERA that's almost 10 and a WHIP that's almost 3 and it's 518 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,520 back-to-back to back bad games here. 519 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,360 So especially when you have a chance to get 3 outs and end an 520 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:05,000 11 game disgusting losing streak, which he failed to do, 521 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:10,160 which is just beyond frustrating if you're a Mets fan, but Chet 522 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:11,720 looks scared to make a play there. 523 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,520 Interesting. Will the under score Long Beach. 524 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,000 Thank you for that. Will I appreciate it if the Mets 525 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,440 aren't struggling, Vientos just gets the out at 1st and Stearns 526 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,880 needs to address the media today. 527 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,080 Well, I don't know if Stearns will the he he addressed it the 528 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,000 other day. So I wouldn't hold your breath 529 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,240 on that. I'm I'm going to give Vientos 530 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,720 not not a not a full pass here because you're a Major League 531 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,600 player and if you commit to a play like that, you've got to be 532 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,640 right. Listen, just like when the Mets 533 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:40,840 send Lindor home from first on the double by Soto in the gap 534 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,960 against the Pirates. And they talked about playing 535 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,600 aggressively going into the we've talked about this, how the 536 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,040 scouting report was. If you put stress on the Pirates 537 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,200 defense where they're going to you speed them up, they're going 538 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,760 to make some mistakes. And the Mets thought that they 539 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,080 were vulnerable there. So they remain married to their 540 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,000 scouting report, which is why I didn't crush them. 541 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,960 OK, Now that was also really the first gap before Lindor forgot 542 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:03,120 how many outs there were later on, you know, in the season or 543 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:05,840 getting picked off in first base because he's looking at his oven 544 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,280 Mitt and myriad other vientos dropping a pop up a week and a 545 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,080 half ago. Whatever it was in Queens before 546 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,160 he called the next one. Like the message of baby's been 547 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,600 a disaster at the plate in the field. 548 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,360 They have been an absolute sloppy mess. 549 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:23,480 All right. But I, I do think that I prefer 550 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,880 a mistake born out of aggression rather than a mistake being 551 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,880 passive. And, and he's not a, he's not a 552 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,120 true first base, but he's not a third baseman, that's for sure. 553 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:36,120 So I don't know really, it's just the H at this point, but 554 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,880 he's playing first base. Last night he was, he's not a 555 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,880 first baseman by trade. And you know, when things are 556 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:48,880 going wrong and you've lost 5791011 games in a row now 12, 557 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,520 Well, now the onus is on everybody and everybody feels it 558 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,520 differently. Everybody compartmentalizes it 559 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,760 differently. But I can tell you one common 560 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,360 theme in that clubhouse is that everybody's trying. 561 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,400 That sounds counterintuitive, like, well, yeah, you've lost 562 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,560 now 12 straight, you better be trying hard. 563 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,560 But in baseball, that actually has an adverse effect. 564 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,800 You squeeze the bat too tight. And what happens when you 565 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,360 squeeze the bat? Well, you actually lose bat 566 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:14,600 speed. Like when you engage. 567 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,480 You're not, I'm not saying I'm Ted Williams here, but this is 568 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,040 pretty basic stuff. When you squeeze the bat so 569 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,080 hard, you you just lose that elasticity and that, that, that, 570 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,320 that, that whip, right? Because you're now you like 571 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,360 you're, you're, you're tense and your forearm muscles start to 572 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:32,440 RIP and you're just not flowing in that, that whip and that 573 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,360 torque and that explosion through the zone. 574 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:39,000 You actually lose speed on your, on your, on your swing speed. 575 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,440 It's, it's documentable. It's true physics. 576 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,200 And same thing with a baseball. You know, you see a young kid 577 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,840 who's having a rough time throwing a strike, whatever it 578 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,880 might be. The tendency here is the kind of 579 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,600 like grip the baseball, like even though, you know, you want 580 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,960 to get a four scene, but like maybe a little kid just kind of 581 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,080 goes like this and squeezes it where really if you have a nice 582 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,000 loose grip and it's just kind of flex in there. 583 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,960 You know, if you're going to you're like that, if you're 584 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,960 going 4 unite, but you just let boom and then it flies out of 585 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,560 the hand and that's when you get those revolutions and that's 586 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,720 when you cut through the air and that's when you throw the ball 587 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,760 harder. All right, it's funny, like in 588 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,080 basketball, you know, you missed a shot. 589 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,920 You could you can begin defensively and that could be an 590 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,920 asset. You can hit the window with 591 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,480 vigor and you know you can that that can propel you to making a 592 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,920 play in football. You can just try to run through 593 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,400 somebody's chest with your helmet and bang, maybe a pick up 594 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:31,880 for your team. Pick me up for your team. 595 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,080 In baseball, generally when you try to do too much, it almost 596 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,080 never works. So the end I'd much rather see 597 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,600 him like what do I do? Or, or just not even looking at 598 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,200 third base. You know, yes, you should have 599 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,800 gotten the out at first. Obviously you got to know the 600 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,520 speed at second. He had just stolen second. 601 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,600 He runs well, you got to know this stuff there, but the 602 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,040 Bichette did not feel that well to to the other point there. 603 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,800 And he's also learning to play, you know, third base. 604 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,360 I I know nobody wants to hear it, but these see everybody 605 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,360 thinks about when you're specific to Bichette. 606 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:08,560 Think about what we first saw in in spring training. 607 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,120 Now I remember, I don't, I don't mean when he first got down 608 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,000 there and he was taking ground. There was like, I mean, the 609 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,080 first game I I'm pretty sure the first throw that he made was up 610 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,600 the line, like the first ball that was hit to him in the game 611 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,680 in, in, in spring was a bad throw. 612 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,240 And they're all here we go. I'm like, he's going to be fine. 613 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,600 Like relax, Like he's going to catch the ball. 614 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,160 He's going to understand he's got more time because the ball's 615 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,160 on him quicker. You know, he's he's a shortstop, 616 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,440 he's got good hands, He's got the requisite tools. 617 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,880 But navigating a base when a first baseman and Vientos does 618 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,600 have a really good arm is pretty close to you when you got a 619 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,600 runner who's flying, bearing down on you. 620 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:47,440 All right, You're a major leaguer. 621 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,800 You know, you're not 9 or 10. You got to know that, but it's 622 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,200 not instinctual is what I'm saying. 623 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,360 So his the wrong foot was on the bag. 624 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,120 So that's a little thing, but that equals a big thing. 625 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,240 Mistake there. Mistake Vientos mistake, Devin 626 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,480 Williams not throwing a strike, mistake everybody. 627 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,200 I mean, it's just really, really horrendous. 628 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:11,840 Horrendous MKMK. How do you say that then? 629 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,000 MK DOSA He's like a. Classic. 630 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,680 It's been a couple weeks I think, but I always messed that 631 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,400 up. Yeah, you know what if it was 632 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,160 like MKAY, DOSA and thank you that you're right for sure. 633 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,760 It's it's almost like I think it's an acronym, but it's MK 634 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,560 Yeah, MK DOSA. Got it. 635 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,560 Unfortunate about the Mets, but New York City should run the 636 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,440 draft. Should run the NFL Draft 251016. 637 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,960 I'm already ready for the football season. 638 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,840 Oh, I thought you meant in terms of like the New York still 639 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,280 hosting it rather than Pittsburgh. 640 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,560 Oh man, I got some draft stuff in a little bit last night on 641 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,440 The Jets. Come not yet J Rob, we'll get it 642 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,120 up a little bit. We did our mini mock all right, 643 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,880 so we took turn. So I had the first pick and then 644 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,040 rich had the second pick, so he picked for The Jets. 645 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,480 Then Jake picked 3rd that I was 4th and like we did a snake so 646 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,880 on and so forth. So I wound the pick of The Jets 647 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,320 at 16 and the Giants at ten. Yeah. 648 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,520 I mean, tomorrow night is going to be absolutely wild. 649 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,240 I can't wait. I think there's going to be more 650 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,080 trades. Jets and the Giants have premium 651 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,040 picks. I think Dallas at 12 and 20 is 652 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,840 just very motivated to make a trade. 653 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,040 I'm very curious, Like, very curious. 654 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,680 Like where's Caleb Downs going to go? 655 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,480 Where's Sonny Styles going to go? 656 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,320 You know, where's Sadiq going to go? 657 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,160 The tight end from Oregon, who I love. 658 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,280 What about the three or four receivers? 659 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,960 Where are they going to go? Who's going to drop maybe into 660 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,440 second in Denzel Boston and maybe from U Washington. 661 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,960 Maybe he drops it around too. What about Ty Simpson? 662 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,720 There's some really good offensive lineman, Mawagoa from 663 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,720 Miami, Spencer Fano from from Utah. 664 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,640 I know the the lineman are incredibly exciting and The Jets 665 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:49,680 and the Giants aren't taking a while. 666 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,400 The Giants actually could. I shouldn't say the John Jets 667 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:53,720 won't. Giants maybe. 668 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,800 Then you've got the whole Bailey and Reese discussion at #2 669 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,480 Jeremiah Love is a running back. I mean, it's the draft is going 670 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,160 to be awesome. I cannot wait. 671 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:09,640 All right, Ken, C-N7 N Stern set the franchise. 672 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:10,960 Thank you for that, buddy. I appreciate it. 673 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:12,680 Ken Stern set the franchise back years. 674 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,840 No core short contracts. So a whole new roster in two 675 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,600 years, Players out of position all over the place. 676 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,040 Stearns must go. Yeah, Well, listen yesterday and 677 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:22,120 thank you for that. I appreciate it. 678 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,920 If you look at yesterday's thumbnail for the show, it's a 679 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,000 picture of David Stearns with the caption asking the question. 680 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,680 Most hated man in in in New York sports and I don't even know who 681 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,920 a close second is at this point. Like he's got to be. 682 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,520 I mean, I might be Lindor. I mean, if you're, you know, 683 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,160 maybe Cashman. But the Yanks have won four 684 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:41,400 straight. They stabilize thing. 685 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,240 Let me throw a little something out there for the Yankees as 686 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,320 well. We'll get to that mini mock. 687 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,000 We got a little NBA for you, J Rod. 688 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,840 Let me know when we can start taking calls. 689 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,120 Oh, whenever you're ready. Oh. 690 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:51,880 We got stuff I don't know. We were ready for that. 691 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,120 We got Brad. We're ready. 692 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:54,760 My bad. We're OK, Brad. 693 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,600 Is where is Brad at? Let's get him up there. 694 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,640 Here we go, Brad. BT Unleash. 695 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,280 What's going on, dude? Hey BT. 696 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,520 How's everything going? Everything's good. 697 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,960 Brad Smithtown. Okay, Mediola, he's out east. 698 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,520 What's happening, dude? Yeah. 699 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,680 So first. Off to keep it light. 700 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,360 You're right. The moment that my son was born 701 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,520 almost two years ago now. Can't believe he's almost 2. 702 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:22,000 That moment just changes you. You don't understand how much 703 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,640 it's going to. When people ask me what is it 704 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,600 like to be a parent, you don't know it until that moment. 705 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,320 And that moment will sit with me for the rest of my life. 706 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,720 Amen, man. And then I'm sure when, you 707 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,640 know, God willing, we become grandparents down the road. 708 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,720 It's a it's a different level. It's yeah. 709 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,280 I mean, when when the nurse first hands you the baby and you 710 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,440 get to hold it, it's like, wow, this this is ours. 711 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,200 That's is nothing. It's the best thing in life, 712 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:47,480 ma'am. No questions. 713 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,480 So if you know me from the fan, I've, I've, I said I was going 714 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,080 to follow you. I called you on your last day. 715 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,560 Think right before your dad, actually, luckily enough. 716 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,160 But with that being said, I'm usually fiery. 717 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,720 I'm usually the kind of guy that's going to get on here 718 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,560 that's going to scream his head off about his teams. 719 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,199 Yeah, but I am. So. 720 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:15,159 Despondent by this Met team. Wow can't I actually said to my 721 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:17,679 father-in-law this morning when I dropped off my son because 722 00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:21,560 they watch him thank God so me and my wife can both work. 723 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,040 Yep. I said we're not. 724 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,920 Going to win another game and like I said, that tongue in 725 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:29,120 cheek. Yep, obviously. 726 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,840 We're. Not going to go 7 and 155 but. 727 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,239 What can go wrong? Does go wrong with this team? 728 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,719 Yeah, and it's just my numbing. Man. 729 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,199 You. Know it it's it does seem like 730 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,960 it's on brand. It's ridiculous, Brad, like, you 731 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,080 know, for this to happen to the Mets. 732 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,520 It does seem like it's on brand. It really does. 733 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,159 And thanks for the call, Brad. Appreciate you, buddy. 734 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:54,000 Thank you for checking in. Let's get those calls lined up. 735 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,440 J Rod pumping in the first one. Thank you very much. 736 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,640 You know, I mean, think about this. 737 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,800 It's and even if you don't lean into this, like, you know that 738 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,160 I'm a positive jets fan somehow, I mean, again, positive until 739 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,200 presented with evidence to the contrary. 740 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,040 And then I morph into deranged lunatic, unkillable mode and I 741 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,440 am what I am. But at least going into drafts 742 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,240 and going into seasons, I skew optimistically because I want 743 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:18,720 to. I'd rather walk around life a 744 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:21,320 little bit more optimistic than pessimistic and then react to 745 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,080 stuff if I have to. Like, that's at least my natural 746 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,000 setting most of the time with most things, right. 747 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,800 But you got, I mean, only the Mets, only the Mets would get 748 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,440 Juan Soto from the Yankees and pop champagne like they won the 749 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,520 World Series, right? And make, you know, make jokes 750 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,720 everywhere and listen that and then win 83 games and not make 751 00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:49,560 the playoffs like that. That's that's on brand for the 752 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,520 Mets. It is what it is, you know, And 753 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,040 until that changes, you might dislike when I say that, but 754 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,160 it's the reality of who they've been in what's been mostly a 755 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,920 tortured existence for the Mets. And then you follow it up this 756 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,240 year. It's early, all right, But you 757 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:08,280 have a, a, a balloon payment, a balloon, you know, a, a, a 758 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,920 payroll that is balloon. That's what I meant to say. 759 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,160 Thank you. Basically 350. 760 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:14,240 I don't even know what the number is. 761 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:16,280 I keep saying three, it might be more than that, right? 762 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:17,240 350, whatever. Three. 763 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,520 I think it's 372 actually. That's popping into my head now. 764 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,760 Whatever it is, it's exorbitant and you've got the worst, you've 765 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:29,800 got the worst record in baseball, and the optics look as 766 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:35,040 bad as they could look. Dropping balls, a mess on the 767 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:42,960 bases, blown saves, not hitting. It is just beyond gross at this 768 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,320 point. If you guys just tuned in. 769 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,240 Now, listen, here's the good news. 770 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,480 The Mets can change history, OK? Because in the history of the 771 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:53,760 game, no team has lost 15 of 22 to start a season. 772 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,240 Now, I don't know about, you know, once the season starts, 773 00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:59,000 but you know, middle or back in like the I remember the Yankees 774 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000 at matter of fact, the year of the subway series, Yankees, you 775 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,720 know, would have been 2000. Yankees had a horrendous 776 00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:06,760 September and they beat the Mets in the World Series. 777 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,320 Like I remember Joel Tur, they had a series down in Tampa when 778 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,320 Tampa was awful and Joel Tur is like, what is going on? 779 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,080 I, I could, I feel like they were 9 and 18 in September. 780 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,800 Could be off on that couple of games either way, but it was 781 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,080 bad. It was alarming coming off 782 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,000 back-to-back championships and then they won the World Series. 783 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:26,840 So, you know, there's there's always got to be one team that 784 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,120 does something first. I mean, the Yankees rubbed 3 sip 785 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,640 against the Red Sox. Yankees became the first team to 786 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,480 flush that lead down the shoot. Of course, it had to be against 787 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,720 the Red Sox, which was as painful the moment that I've had 788 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:40,440 as a Yankee fan. But maybe the Mets can defy 789 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,000 logic. Maybe the Mets can defy, you 790 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:48,880 know, the the early tone to their season and be the first 791 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,000 team to lose 15 out of 22 to win 90 or more. 792 00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:54,560 Now they don't even have to really do that because think 793 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:59,560 about all the years of baseball. 99% of those seasons or 98% of 794 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,680 those seasons include or do not include the wild card. 795 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,840 So the Mets don't have to win 90 games to be a playoff team. 796 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,160 The Mets could win. I'm just saying 8788, depending 797 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,680 upon how the and it looks like it's a very crowded MLB. 798 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,640 You know, the Yankees right now have the best record in the 799 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,960 American League, but it's not like they're, you know, 17 and 800 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,000 four. I mean, they're 14 and 9, which 801 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,960 is good, better than it was with four straight wins. 802 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,000 And there's just a lot of parody, at least early. 803 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,840 So, you know, we've seen you can win 88 games, get into the wild 804 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,120 card, mess around, make a little noise and then in, you know, 805 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,080 when Peralta starts pitching better, which I think he will in 806 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:39,080 succession, you give the baseball to a Peralta McClain. 807 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,040 You know, we'll see what Christian Scott is. 808 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:43,360 We'll see what some of the other pitchers do. 809 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,720 But the top of the rotation, you've got a chance to really 810 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:49,040 put up a lot of zeros. And then, you know, Soto should 811 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,920 be Soto and we'll see what the rest of the lineup has and what 812 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,920 they are. But you know, I'm not putting 813 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,080 them in the ground here. But you know that that 814 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,400 Tombstone, if this goes on another, another couple of 815 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,960 weeks, then it's then it's then they're dead, then it's over. 816 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,760 Because then you then the character of this Mets team will 817 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,720 be, I mean, it's already being tested, right? 818 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,800 See the what's funny every, we're going from everybody 819 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,600 saying Lindor should be the captain to what I perceived. 820 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,640 And that's kind of stop now #1. Cohen said he'll never have a 821 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,080 captain, which I think is stupid. 822 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,920 I don't know why you'd limit yourself to that. 823 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,560 Not that you can't change your mind, but I don't, I don't know 824 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,000 why he said that. I don't really agree with that. 825 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,000 But whatever, it's his team. It doesn't really matter to me. 826 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,320 So a guy who was positioned by many of you to be the captain, 827 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,520 it's one thing, right? And now obviously the field, the 828 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,400 on field product has disintegrated to the point where 829 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,720 it's it's a AAA circus, right? And there's no leadership 830 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:47,400 either. So the baseball parts got to 831 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,480 stabilize itself and the leadership has to present itself 832 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:55,120 in a way that is real. And, you know, the Mets got rid 833 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,240 of a couple of guys who played hard and played well. 834 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:00,720 And, you know, I'm not saying everybody were boys, you know, 835 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:02,640 based on politics or some other stuff. 836 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,360 But, you know, Brandon Nimmo was loved by those fans. 837 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,280 And when Brandon Nimmo did something, well, you guys felt 838 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,800 it. And it sounded different when 839 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,840 Pete went yard, you know, and it was in Queens, it sounded 840 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,480 different. It just, it brought a different 841 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,400 level of juice because he's one of you now. 842 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,480 You got to hope guys like Polanco when he gets back 843 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,920 healthy and some of these other players they brought in on short 844 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,120 one or two year deals figured things out. 845 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,880 Otherwise, the Mets are going to be stripping down and trading 846 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,920 away assets. And then maybe they will be a 73 847 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,080 or a 74 win team. That's the hole that they dug. 848 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,240 That's the reality of it. All right, J Rod, who do we have 849 00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:36,760 up next? Bud? 850 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,800 Let's get another car. Let's get Allen. 851 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,480 From Dallas up here, all right back to the great state of 852 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,560 Texas. Allen is in Dallas. 853 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,840 What up Al? Hey, what's going on, BT? 854 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,840 First of all, congratulations on your success thus far here on 855 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,160 YouTube and continued you and love your passion. 856 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:52,360 I've always been a big fan of it. 857 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:53,880 I appreciate that man. Just. 858 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:54,840 Getting going. Thank you though. 859 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:56,920 Yesterday was a good day to hit 20,000. 860 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:57,920 Thanks man. Yeah, awesome. 861 00:40:58,200 --> 00:40:59,120 A couple of. Questions. 862 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,960 Couple of comments, one where we're aligned and when we're 863 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:10,360 total polar opposites, OK. 45. Year Atlanta Hawk fan in Dallas 864 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,560 from New York. Wow, is that crazy? 865 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,240 Just give me the quick. Back story why I grew up in New 866 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:19,360 York, I grew up. Four blocks away from St. 867 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,640 John's and Queens boy. I I. 868 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,680 Did. And I was always a big Dominique 869 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,600 fan and a big fan of Willis. Yeah, yeah, Kevin Willis. 870 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:29,040 But. All. 871 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,240 Those teams I love. Dominique. 872 00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:32,520 Was one of my all time favorites. 873 00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,560 I loved them, loved them, excited. 874 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,040 About what happened the other night, even though you basically 875 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:42,320 gave us the game, here's my advice to Nick fans. 876 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,640 Go ahead, you better. Beat us now. 877 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,200 Because. You. 878 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:51,040 Look at the Hawks next year. With a lottery pick and cap face 879 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,000 and an ability to add 27 footers to that lineup. 880 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,520 I'm not worried about the. Hawks cap space. 881 00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:58,400 Are you kidding me? Out? 882 00:41:58,400 --> 00:41:59,480 Who cares? Nobody's good. 883 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,200 Come on. I'm worried about the series, 884 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:06,200 not about that Hawks cap space. This series is going. 6-7 OK, I 885 00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:08,680 always, I have the Nixon 6. I do. 886 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,680 I think the Knicks have one huge advantage in his matchup and 887 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,000 that's Mitchell Robinson, especially with the Landale 888 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,720 injury the Hawks have no size on. 889 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:20,960 I know, I know. And and that's another reason, 890 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,840 by the way, I was so pissed off with the shot discrepancy. 891 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,680 I know you're talking about Mitchell Robinson, but Jaylen 892 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,280 Brunson took 26 shots in in in Game 2. 893 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,800 And Carl Anthony Towns, who is obviously has a very different 894 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,840 game than Mitchell Robinson, but he took twelve shots. 895 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,040 It can't be plus fourteen in favor of Jalen Brunson. 896 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:43,480 Just can't be. I'm excited that Nikhil can come 897 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,000 back to Atlanta, coming off at 9 of 29. 898 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,000 I expect him to play really well Thursday night. 899 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:49,480 Hey, listen, I appreciate it. You're a. 900 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,480 Hawks fan way to represent. That's awesome, man. 901 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,600 I, I, I think that, you know, I know the Hawks rebound. 902 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,000 I know they, you know, I, I, I know that they don't fear the 903 00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,240 Knicks. I don't think anybody does. 904 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:04,240 I know, I know and I listen, I initially said Nixon 5 early 905 00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:08,520 last week or late last week and then I amended that and I tacked 906 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:09,800 on another game. But I'm going to stick with 907 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,040 that. I would say Nixon Knicks will 908 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,560 lose another game. Knicks will win in six. 909 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,280 I think it's the. I think if the Hawks win 910 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,200 Thursday night, I think the series goes dead. 911 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,000 I mean the. Knicks win Thursday night. 912 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,520 I think the. Knicks win in six. 913 00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:25,160 OK, that's logical. What else you got? 914 00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,560 Anything else on The Jets? Yeah. 915 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,880 Can they? Please draft our valor, Reese #2 916 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:32,320 they're not going to, I don't think they. 917 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,880 Are they have to it? Makes no sense really. 918 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:42,480 It really doesn't you. He's an upgrade to Will 919 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,840 McDonald, a guy who can get to the quarterback who plays no run 920 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:47,960 defense. Zero. 921 00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:51,240 I know I. Know it makes no sense it. 922 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:54,440 Really doesn't. And with the excuses that oh, 923 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,520 because Bailey's the guy who can contribute now, Yep, to save 924 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,040 Aaron Glenn's job. It's ridiculous. 925 00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:03,720 It's ridiculous. Well, I by the way. 926 00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:05,360 Alan, I don't know if that's narrative. 927 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,320 That narrative is true. And thanks for the call, buddy. 928 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,200 Appreciate you reaching out. Yeah, thank you, dude. 929 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,280 And I definitely appreciate the kind of words as well. 930 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,240 Just because people say something over and over and over 931 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:17,040 doesn't mean that it's true. I mean, you know, first of all, 932 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,920 they might not draft Bailey. I feel like they're going to. 933 00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,040 And we'll do my mini mock in a little bit with for The Jets 934 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,640 Collective last night with myself and Rich and Jake Asman. 935 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,440 Listen, he had a lot of quiet games. 936 00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:32,320 He seems to be a bit of A1 trick pony talking about Bailey, you 937 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,360 know, he is definitely faster and more explosive than some of 938 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,240 you make him out to be. Like you guys make it seem like 939 00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:39,720 he's running a 472. He was at 40. 940 00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,760 He was clocked at 4-5. So he's got more burst and and 941 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,200 more explosion than that. I think some of you actually 942 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:49,320 give him credit for, but it's easy to say, all right, more 943 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,320 polyp because Reese is only 20 years of age. 944 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,200 I get that. And he's got a lot of studs 945 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,560 around them. Caleb Downs, Sonny Styles, so 946 00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:59,000 whatever. But the thought is, you know, 947 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,120 Reese could be a star and Bailey at least is going to be solid in 948 00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,760 terms of that floor ceiling, which I'm getting so tired of 949 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,240 hearing that. Just take the best player that 950 00:45:06,240 --> 00:45:10,040 you think at when he maximizes his talent with proper coaching 951 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,280 and he gets used to playing in the NFL, give me that guy now. 952 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,080 I think they're going to take Bailey. 953 00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,600 I'm not going to be enamored with that, with that pick. 954 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,800 I really don't want Bailey. We could be dead wrong and come 955 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:24,240 out and get 12 1/2 Saxby, Rookie of the year, the DPO, the 956 00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:25,960 defensive player rookie, you know what I'm saying? 957 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,400 Not the not necessarily the DPO why, but the defensive rookie of 958 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:30,520 the year. That's what I was looking for 959 00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:32,520 maybe. Or you can come out and get 3 960 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,120 1/2 sacks and we're like, why the hell didn't we take Reese? 961 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,560 I would take neither. I'm looking to trade out. 962 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,680 I'm on the record with this. I have not once changed my 963 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,360 opinion. I really. 964 00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,440 Of course, The Jets are in a weird spot at #2 they need a 965 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,240 quarterback. There's only one quarterback, 966 00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:48,680 that's Mendoza. You know they're not going to 967 00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,000 take a running back at #2 they don't need an offensive lineman 968 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:53,600 this early. They can mess around. 969 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:57,680 I think they'll get a guard with their fourth round pick or some 970 00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,240 unforeseen trades. They will. 971 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,840 They will add some interior offensive line help. 972 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:06,360 The Jets certainly will. They could go corner at 16. 973 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,960 Obviously, receiver thoughts about moving up, like there's 974 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,720 myriad things that they could do, and I'm excited about all of 975 00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:13,320 them. Ironically, the one thing that's 976 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,240 exciting me the least, or really not exciting me at all, is the 977 00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:20,480 prospects of drafting Bailey. At least with Reese, I'd be more 978 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,960 excited. I'm just going to have a very 979 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:27,200 benign reaction if and when and I do think it's going to be 980 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,360 Bailey. They draft David Bailey out of 981 00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,720 Texas Tech at Avery summit. Reportedly Williams admitted a 982 00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:37,360 lot as I heard this last night admitted Alonso's home run 983 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,760 mentally messed with him going into 25 season. 984 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:41,520 So we figured that that was the case. 985 00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,440 But interesting to hear him admit it. 986 00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:46,640 Mental aspect of the game is underrated. 987 00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,360 Oh my, no, I don't think it's underrated in baseball. 988 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,320 That you kidding me? I don't think there's any. 989 00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:55,520 The two sports that have to be the most mental are golf and 990 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,600 baseball. I mean it has to be So I, I did 991 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,200 hear that last night on the telecast watching the game. 992 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,680 I would think that it would be a little bit more applicable like 993 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,920 if they would have said that last year and I didn't hear that 994 00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,760 cuz I don't think he had that admission last year like on on 995 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,440 yes, like if Michael Kay said that, like, you know, hey, he 996 00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,080 talked about the home run with Pete and you know, maybe that's 997 00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:19,640 part of the reason he's off to a rough start. 998 00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,120 Maybe that context would have been a little bit more 999 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:26,360 interesting like because I say that Avery, because he obviously 1000 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,080 brought that into last season, which makes total sense, right? 1001 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,760 And then he was able to rectify that. 1002 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,320 And amidst the booze and the discontent rightfully sold from 1003 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,520 Yankee fans, he stabilized things. 1004 00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,480 He figured things out. And for a big chunk of the 1005 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,320 season, he was he was pretty dominant, you know, a couple of 1006 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,240 a couple of a couple of valleys here and there. 1007 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,760 But when he was on, and I would say he was on for about 70 ish 1008 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,960 percent of the season, maybe a little bit more like you kind of 1009 00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,400 look like Devin Williams. So he was able to get past that, 1010 00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:58,840 that mental impediment or that mental obstacle. 1011 00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,280 So why is it still an issue now? I mean, you know, not think 1012 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,600 about this like if last year was just a complete disaster, like 1013 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:11,720 if he never recovered from from a shitty April and it just 1014 00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:15,080 languished all year and it's directly and he talked about it 1015 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:19,040 in the offseason coming into the season and it was attributable 1016 00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,320 to the Alonzo home run and he just never figured things out 1017 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,840 mentally and it worsened as the year went on. 1018 00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,440 Well, that would be more logical. 1019 00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,680 What what's the excuse now? Throw strikes, throw the ball 1020 00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,360 over the plate. I mean, basically every single 1021 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:33,520 bat. Not I don't think he I don't 1022 00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,440 even think it was basically I think every hitter that he faced 1023 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,640 last night had a three ball count. 1024 00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,400 He had he went to three balls. So he had no and I know that the 1025 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,520 change up wasn't there. You got to figure it out. 1026 00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,880 You're one of the best closers in baseball. 1027 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,280 Your team needs you figure it out. 1028 00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,640 It's not my problem that you change up, isn't there? 1029 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,240 See, this is one of the beauties. 1030 00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:55,360 Thank you, sweetheart. Thank you, baby. 1031 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:57,680 This is one of the beautiful things that live in at home. 1032 00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,840 It is piping hot. Thank you, honey. 1033 00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:01,240 You see, this is awesome. It is. 1034 00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:07,160 It's very try to burn me. I texted my wife. 1035 00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,240 I said, you know, can you please bring me in a little coffee? 1036 00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,960 So she's working on some stuff, you know, and here we go. 1037 00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,720 We got a nice little couple different mug. 1038 00:49:14,720 --> 00:49:15,800 Bro, what is this? Smile. 1039 00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,240 Be happy, Jets gonna. That's a good player. 1040 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:19,920 We got a lot of good things here, Jay. 1041 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:21,440 There we go. Oh my. 1042 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:23,080 God, maybe I'll start getting massages. 1043 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:26,800 During the show, you know, you know that turned this. 1044 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,440 Into like the Paul Pierce podcast bro, but I like Paul 1045 00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:31,680 Pierce. But I'm not looking to get to 1046 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,960 that territory now. I'm good with that man I'm good. 1047 00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:36,640 All right, so quickly on the Yankees here, I want to get to 1048 00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,000 that mini, but you can get the Avery tweet off their thank you 1049 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,720 or chat off there. Thank you very much. 1050 00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:42,120 We'll get back to the phones in a minute. 1051 00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:48,080 Now there's the Mets and then there's the Yankees who have won 1052 00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:49,840 four straight. Yankees still have issues with 1053 00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,080 their offense. I'm not going to be the guy who 1054 00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:54,800 just because they won four straight either one dump on the 1055 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,440 Mets. We talked about the Mets. 1056 00:49:56,720 --> 00:49:58,600 If you want to call about the Mets, we'll get back to the 1057 00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,320 Mets. This announced Yankees separate 1058 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,080 entity. Well, the one thing that I've 1059 00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,080 said about the Yankees, and this goes back to the winter, is that 1060 00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:08,840 I absolutely believe that the Yankees will without a doubt 1061 00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,360 have the best pitching rotation in all the baseball when these 1062 00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,840 guys come back. Now, this opens up a real 1063 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:18,080 possibility for big improvements in the bullpen as well. 1064 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,320 Follow me. So the Yankees last four starts, 1065 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,440 all right. Cam Schletler, who has been 1066 00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,800 phenomenal as a second year pitcher going back four wins, 1067 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:30,200 four starts, 6 innings, no runs, two walks, 6 KS Check 1068 00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:33,520 outstanding. Will Warren, 7 innings, two 1069 00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:37,040 runs, no walks, 11 KS. Even better, Will Warren, that 1070 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,520 best game he's ever pitched. He's had a couple of good ones. 1071 00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:42,400 That was phenomenal. Ryan Weathers, who's already had 1072 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,400 a couple of gems, right? One of which was wasted because 1073 00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:46,680 the Yanks offense didn't do anything. 1074 00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:51,120 Seven of the thirds, one at one walk, 8 strikeouts, phenomenal. 1075 00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,000 And then Louise Hill last night was pretty damn good. 1076 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:55,880 Didn't strike out. A lot of guys made the Red Sox, 1077 00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,000 put the ball in play, went deep into the game, got a little 1078 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,720 wild. He wasn't thrilled when Boone 1079 00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:02,520 pulled him. I like that, you know, not that 1080 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,720 he was like, you know, out of pocket, like gripping Boone, but 1081 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,960 you can tell he was pissed off and that's competitive and I 1082 00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:11,120 love that. 6th to the thirds, no runs, couple of walks, couple of 1083 00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,800 the strikeouts. So in succession, Schlittler, 1084 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,480 Warren Weathers, he'll check, check, check, check. 1085 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:22,720 Now think about this downstream and think about as Cole begins 1086 00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:26,640 to ramp up as Rogon, as Rodon begins to ramp up the and I 1087 00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,760 something else that I said, I said what I said about the 1088 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:30,880 Yankee rotation during the winter being the best in 1089 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,320 baseball. That's one aspect of it. 1090 00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:36,400 This Yankees bullpen stinks. I can't stand it, but matter of 1091 00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,080 fact, I said last week, I think it's the worst Yankee bullpen 1092 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,240 that I've seen in 30 years. Like I I would stand by that. 1093 00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,600 I've done research plus I've watched it all. 1094 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:46,240 So I don't, you know, but I just wanted to make sure I didn't 1095 00:51:46,240 --> 00:51:48,440 miss anything. I actually think it's the worst 1096 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,560 in 30 years. But the good news is there's 1097 00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,400 internal solutions right now. I don't know how this is going 1098 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,480 to go, but is there a chance will Warren get shipped to the 1099 00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:58,360 pen? Sure. 1100 00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:02,440 Is there a chance that weathers, you might want to have that? 1101 00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:04,680 Well, you already have freed. So do you want a rotation with 1102 00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,320 three lefties? Because you'd have weathers 1103 00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,200 you'd have rode on, you'd have freed. 1104 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,120 I don't know. That's up for the for them to 1105 00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,920 figure out. But weathers is an option, 1106 00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,280 especially if he's throwing more strikes like he's doing, you 1107 00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:19,080 know, more times out than not as a Yankee, because the last thing 1108 00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,840 you want is a guy who's got filthy stuff throwing 100, but 1109 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,960 you don't know where it's going. Walk a guy, walk a guy, you 1110 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,000 know, got to put one down the down the middle. 1111 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,800 Boom, two run 33, run home or you got to go to the bullpen. 1112 00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,920 So Weathers, as long as he's throwing strikes an option, 1113 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,240 Louis heel, I think Louis heel is the best option for the 1114 00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:39,480 bullpen. I'm not in a rush to get Will 1115 00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:40,920 Warren there. I'm not in a rush to get 1116 00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,640 Weathers there. I think heel would fit that 1117 00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:45,120 well. And then even Clark Schmidt 1118 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:46,760 coming back. I mean, think about these names 1119 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,960 I'm throwing at you. I mean, the Yankees are going to 1120 00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,600 have rotation, you know, knock on wood. 1121 00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,040 Everybody's rehabs come along, everybody's fine. 1122 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:55,920 Everybody's structurally sound. Here we go. 1123 00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:57,720 Give him a month to figure things out. 1124 00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,800 Let's go with Freed. Let's go with Cole. 1125 00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,000 Let's go with Cam. Let's go with Rodan. 1126 00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:08,440 Let's go with Weathers. I'll say Weathers because he is 1127 00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:10,200 just he is dominant when he's on. 1128 00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,560 And now all of a sudden you slide in a Warren and a heel and 1129 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,160 then eventually you have a Clark Schmidt come in. 1130 00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,760 You got a couple of young flame throwers in the minors who will 1131 00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,560 be up soon and you have Bednar who is going to make you sweat. 1132 00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:24,200 He's just not going to be Mariano. 1133 00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,680 He's more like Wetland actually putting guys on base. 1134 00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,760 If you remember John Wetland, John Wetland was like that a 1135 00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:30,920 lot. So good stuff for the Yankees. 1136 00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:35,080 Stamping big bomb, big double couple of RB is, you know, Aaron 1137 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,440 Judge, you know, has what nine home runs hasn't even really 1138 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,640 gotten going yet. Ben Rice has been phenomenal so 1139 00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,680 far, you know, and and they still got to figure things out 1140 00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:47,120 with the lineup. This is not a completed product 1141 00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,200 by by any means here. You know, still too many 1142 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,600 fluctuations with the lineup. I said the other day and I would 1143 00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:55,680 do this every single day when there was a righty on the mound. 1144 00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:57,240 I'm Ben Rice, my lead off hitter. 1145 00:53:57,240 --> 00:53:59,440 I don't care how unconventional it is. 1146 00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:00,680 I don't care what anybody thinks. 1147 00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:04,720 If Shohei Oltani, who went 5050 a couple of years ago, can bat 1148 00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:06,400 first for the Dodgers, don't tell. 1149 00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:08,640 Ben Rice can't bat first for the Yankees, don't tell. 1150 00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,160 I don't want to hear it, you know, And well, well, show, hey, 1151 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:12,680 can run. Ben Rice isn't that fast. 1152 00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:14,760 Wade Boggs batted first forever. He couldn't run at all. 1153 00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:16,280 All right. And then the one year they put 1154 00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,400 him in the three spot, he had like 27 or 28 home runs for the 1155 00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,400 Red Sox. I think that was an 86. 1156 00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,440 But Wade Boggs was a lead off man. 1157 00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,920 Unconventional, but a lead off man for the Yankees. 1158 00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:27,440 OK. And others have done it as well. 1159 00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,960 So you don't have to run. This is not the the Cardinals of 1160 00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:32,960 the 80s. Or you need Ricky Henderson or 1161 00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:37,080 you need Lou Brock. Give me somebody on base when 1162 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,600 when the other pitcher throws a now the ABS changes this and 1163 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:43,520 it's favorable to somebody like Rice who has a very discerning 1164 00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,240 eye. He's going to be on base. 1165 00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,400 He's going to tax you. He's going to make you throw 1166 00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,360 strikes. He's going to happily take a 1167 00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:52,320 walk, keep the train moving. Guess who gets up after the 1168 00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,520 opposing pitcher just threw 7 or 8 pitches to Ben Rice. 1169 00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,480 That's Aaron Judge. And then you go lefty is against 1170 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,600 the righty starter, lefty Rice, righty Judge, lefty. 1171 00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:03,160 I know Bellinger was fifth last night. 1172 00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,600 You go Bellinger 3 against the righty, then you go Stanton. 1173 00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:10,120 So you got left, right, left, right, and then you piece things 1174 00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,280 together. If Jazz gets hot, he moves up. 1175 00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,360 You know, obviously Rosario against the lefty, he's going to 1176 00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,120 factor in. You want to bat him first for 1177 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:20,120 now, maybe a little caballero, see what Volpe does when he 1178 00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,280 comes back. But you know, the Yankee 1179 00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:26,320 pitching is what stabilized the losing streak, and the Yankee 1180 00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:29,960 pitching is what, if they do get to the World Series, is what's 1181 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,840 going to get the Yankees back to a World Series. 1182 00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:34,400 All right, a rod. A Rod. 1183 00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,160 Jay. Rod, Rod, Rod. 1184 00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:39,000 Next call. What do you got? 1185 00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,880 All right, we got our main. Man Seth from North. 1186 00:55:43,720 --> 00:55:46,520 Carolina. Seth, what's going on, buddy? 1187 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,200 How are you? I'm at the point where. 1188 00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,040 I feel like heads need to roll with this met squad. 1189 00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:54,480 Some heads are going to roll. It's an old rock song. 1190 00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,560 Yeah, OK. I don't care, Tommy. 1191 00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:00,200 For curse for when the curse by hugging Mr. and misses met. 1192 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,600 I don't care if it's Stearns, I don't care if it's Mendoza. 1193 00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,640 This fan base is at the point where they want blood. 1194 00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,680 They do. They do Well OK, now let's let's 1195 00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:11,800 have AI love the emotions. I know we can't. 1196 00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:13,800 You get they. Can't get rid of mandami until 1197 00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,560 at least 2029. Yeah, the the. 1198 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,880 The the mayor's, the mayor's there for a couple of more 1199 00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:19,600 years. We get that. 1200 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:23,240 So I mean, first of all, do you believe in the Mandami curse? 1201 00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:24,760 I mean, I know Sid believes in this. 1202 00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:28,240 Many Met fans saying socialism. Destroys everything all. 1203 00:56:30,720 --> 00:56:31,560 Right. So you believe in it. 1204 00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,480 I got you. Well, he's not out all right for 1205 00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,200 a couple of years. So what's the next level of 1206 00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,040 recourse here? What do you want? 1207 00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,160 Blood. Whose blood is dripping first? 1208 00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,400 It's got to be Mendoza. Exactly. 1209 00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,560 But the problem. With that is much like how Fudge 1210 00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:48,960 got replaced by Scringer in the Harry Potter books. 1211 00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:53,880 This looks I'm using it for contacts Harry Potter think of 1212 00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,440 and. Those are like fudge. 1213 00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:59,160 Sweeping shit under the rug instead of confronting the 1214 00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,160 problem. I kind of get it, I kind. 1215 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,280 Of get where he's coming. You like it, Jay? 1216 00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,440 Does it make? Sense basically because. 1217 00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:09,080 Of his incompetence, the NL ES version of Voldemort's back on 1218 00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:13,360 top, and that's Atlanta. Seth, you are an interesting 1219 00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,040 cat. All right, Seth, thank you. 1220 00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:16,440 I would thank you for the call there. 1221 00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:20,000 I would appreciate or I mean, I appreciate the reference even 1222 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:21,040 though it went right over my head. 1223 00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,320 I'd never got into that at all. I would have. 1224 00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:24,800 Can you give me a stormtrooper reference? 1225 00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:26,640 You know, can you give me a Rocky reference? 1226 00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:27,840 Can you give me something that I can? 1227 00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,440 No, I don't. It it's really like a Lord of 1228 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,880 the Rings. No, he's he's got it better than 1229 00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:34,400 me. Like I'm thinking like a Dobby 1230 00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,520 character, like it's kind of like a smaller guy. 1231 00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:38,320 I got you. That kind of gets like 1232 00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,200 overtaken. I I see what he's coming. 1233 00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:41,720 I, I listen. I'm not saying that it. 1234 00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:46,280 Was an illogical comparison. It's just above my intellect, or 1235 00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,320 I should I say above my literature and cinematic 1236 00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:53,280 interest level that you couldn't pay me to watch. 1237 00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:56,440 Although I will say this, like a lot of people, that's, that's 1238 00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,120 pretty much always my response. Like, oh God almighty, I could 1239 00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:00,720 never watch that stuff. And I really haven't. 1240 00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:03,760 But people like some of my buddies who feel the same way, 1241 00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,880 they're like, dude, I, I'm with you because they've known me 1242 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:07,280 forever. They're like, I, I I thought the 1243 00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:08,920 same thing and and I gave it a shot. 1244 00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:10,520 They're like, it's really not that bad. 1245 00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,640 Is, is it, is it worth? I mean, I'd better get into it 1246 00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:14,920 now with the kids. What are we doing? 1247 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:19,200 Yeah, dude, also. Man, I mean, I'm sure not to 1248 00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:20,240 talk. About this stuff. 1249 00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,760 But but did you see the fan? Have like the. 1250 00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:26,480 Hawk to a girl on yesterday. Dude. 1251 00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,400 No, no, I didn't see it. Embarrassing. 1252 00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,880 All right, next, we're not going to say anything else. 1253 00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,400 No, no, we worry about. Our show, I did not see that she 1254 00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:35,600 was on show. I was just like. 1255 00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,800 What the hell is this bro? Are they trying to reverse the 1256 00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:40,960 curse here a little bit? Because she. 1257 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,680 Yeah. Hey, listen, desperate times 1258 00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,080 call for different desperate measures, like, you know, 1259 00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:47,800 everybody tells what they got to do. 1260 00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:51,080 Burning incense. Have it on Haktua, you know, 1261 00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:53,240 Grimace. I mean, you know, the purple is 1262 00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:56,080 the purple seat still out there? By the way, I'm just curious. 1263 00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:59,120 I know, I've I've seen. A couple comments about the 1264 00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:00,960 thing, but man dude, I did not see that. 1265 00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:03,200 I didn't see you. You are my guy, bro. 1266 00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:04,280 Yeah. You like Seth? 1267 00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,000 All right, next call. What do we got there, Jay? 1268 00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,520 Keep pumping in, brother. We've got Nick from Hamel. 1269 00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:12,760 Nick from. Hamilton Nick is on Unleash 1270 00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:14,960 What's up Nick? Hey, what's up, BT? 1271 00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,960 Hey, how you doing? I think I'm. 1272 00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:22,080 Not a fan of Mendoza, I don't understand how he survived last 1273 00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,520 year and I'll never forgive him for that. 1274 00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:28,840 And my biggest gripe with him is like, if you watch the game in 1275 00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:32,480 the later innings especially, they panned him every two or 1276 00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:36,280 three minutes and he is always doing the same thing, hands in 1277 00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:38,640 his pockets, staring into the abyss. 1278 00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:40,840 Like he's never talking to anybody. 1279 00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:42,640 He's never patent guys on the ass. 1280 00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:46,000 He's never instructing defense. He's never doing anything. 1281 00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,080 I mean, he does nothing for 9 innings. 1282 00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:51,440 I mean, his job is on the line. Have some pride, have some 1283 00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,440 dignity. Do something like getting I just 1284 00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,440 I. It drives me crazy when he just 1285 00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:00,680 stands there, hands in pockets, staring into nowhere while Devin 1286 01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:01,920 Williams is walking the ballpark. 1287 01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,080 OK, let me ask. Nick, I got you. 1288 01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:06,280 Listen, I knew the frustration is going to be high. 1289 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,480 I get it. And when you're frustrated, you 1290 01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:11,200 start to look at body language and all that stuff, which is why 1291 01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:14,440 I always find it a little cathartic when Aaron Boone gets 1292 01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:16,080 thrown out of the game. I'm like, yeah, go down. 1293 01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:18,520 You know, now you, yeah, show some pride. 1294 01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:21,040 Have you? I don't have some pride man, but 1295 01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:23,080 but but I'm. Going to ask you like, is it 1296 01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,440 going to solve anything? Like I'm all for both. 1297 01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,280 That's not the point. You, you can't just say like, 1298 01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:29,960 what's it going? To do and throw your hands up 1299 01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:32,000 like I don't, I don't understand that defense either. 1300 01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,920 I hear people saying like, well, oh, Lindor's making mental 1301 01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:36,000 mistakes. What are you going to do? 1302 01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:40,280 Like what I'm going to do Like what I'm saying like if you're 1303 01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:41,720 Mendoza, like, oh, what's it going to do? 1304 01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,200 Do something, Something, something is better than 1305 01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:46,200 nothing. BT yeah, yeah. 1306 01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:47,280 I. Know, but the thing that you 1307 01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,920 have to do too, Nick and again I'm I'm I'm largely with you 1308 01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,200 because I I'm the kind of person you guys know this by now. 1309 01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,920 I react to emotion much more than like that, that passive, 1310 01:00:55,920 --> 01:01:00,160 like no emotion, he just says. Oh, it's, it sucks. 1311 01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:01,720 There's talent in the room. What are we? 1312 01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:03,360 It's like it just it doesn't work, dude. 1313 01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,760 No, no, he, he sounds. He's on repeat, man, it's boring 1314 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,880 and it's inspiring nobody. However, these are the. 1315 01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,280 To be fair to him, you don't know what he's doing behind 1316 01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:16,240 closed doors #1 All right, and but also, I definitely guess 1317 01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:17,000 what? Well. 1318 01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:18,640 Let me finish. Whatever he's doing behind 1319 01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:21,920 closed doors is not working. So, so that's so that's actually 1320 01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:23,480 on him. So if he is a little bit of a 1321 01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:26,520 different person when the cameras aren't there, it's not 1322 01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:28,040 effective. And that's a strike on him 1323 01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:31,640 either way #2 if he's kind of the same way behind closed 1324 01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:33,920 doors. And Nick and Hamilton and many 1325 01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:37,000 of you I'm sure, or or agreeing with Nick, show some fire, get 1326 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,960 thrown out, you know, don't just stand there. 1327 01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:43,840 If he deviates too far from his actual personality, well, now 1328 01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:47,000 that signals desperation. And that could be even more 1329 01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:50,680 detrimental to the team. It's desperate times, BTI mean. 1330 01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:53,000 The signal. Can I ask you one more? 1331 01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:57,400 Thing do you think? Do you think keeping Mendoza on? 1332 01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,560 Because I think he should have been fired a long time ago. 1333 01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:03,360 Do you think keeping him on makes Stearns look better or 1334 01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:06,000 worse? Like keeping him on directs the 1335 01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,920 blame towards Mendoza? Or do you think, like, I'm 1336 01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:11,240 trying to figure out why Stearns is keeping him on so long? 1337 01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,920 If he fires him, is that an admission that we should never 1338 01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,360 should have kept him after last year and that makes Stearns look 1339 01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:18,520 worse? Or is he keeping him on to say, 1340 01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,200 like, this is my guy, this is the core, we're going to stay 1341 01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:22,920 the course and I know better than you. 1342 01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:24,840 Like what do you how do you perceive? 1343 01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:27,920 Good question this. Guy lasting this long in. 1344 01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:31,120 Terms of how it makes Sterns look, I think it makes him look 1345 01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:35,200 worse, but I could see where maybe he's keeping him on to 1346 01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,200 keep the pressure on Mendoza and not directed towards himself. 1347 01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,200 I, I just don't, I don't know what to make of it because it 1348 01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:42,440 makes no sense to me that this guy is surviving this. 1349 01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:43,760 It's a good question. Now I. 1350 01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:45,000 Will say. And Nick, thank you for the 1351 01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:45,800 call. Really good stuff. 1352 01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:48,240 Good stuff, man. It's not like they played 50 1353 01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:50,160 games here. I mean, you know, they're 7 and 1354 01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:53,320 16, which is literally the worst record in baseball. 1355 01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:55,360 I know. I mean, you started getting to 1356 01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:58,200 that 30 game neighborhood, which, you know, after this 1357 01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:01,440 homestand, they'll be there. You know, 30 games is basically 1358 01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:05,080 20% of the season. You know, I mean 3060912150 and 1359 01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:09,480 then you got 12 left. So it's probably 2627% which, 1360 01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:13,080 which, or pardon me, 1718%, which isn't, you know, too much 1361 01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:16,000 to overcome, but it's no longer nine games. 1362 01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:19,400 You know, you start to get into the mid 20s approaching 30, you 1363 01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:21,360 start to get a bit of an identity for team, Although 1364 01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:24,920 we've seen myriad examples, not just with the Mets and not just 1365 01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,440 bad, but also good, where how A-Team looks in April does not 1366 01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:30,320 necessarily look, you know, represent how they're going to 1367 01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:33,000 or foreshadow how they're going to look at the end of the year. 1368 01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:38,840 So I'm just trying to navigate this with not so much with 1369 01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:42,680 patience, but with with with measure. 1370 01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:44,800 All right? Because we've done this so many 1371 01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,920 times, so many different ways, with so many different baseball 1372 01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:51,160 versions of the Mets and to a lesser extent with the Yankees. 1373 01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:53,920 And the answer that you see now isn't always the ultimate 1374 01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:55,960 answer. Now, this might be different, 1375 01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,120 OK. Because this team collectively 1376 01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:00,760 has won nothing together. I'm not a big fan of the 1377 01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,760 manager. I, I said, I, I mean, I was 1378 01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,040 talking going into the office and really before anybody was 1379 01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:09,320 really bringing up Mendoza's job security, I was saying last year 1380 01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:12,120 that he had a bad year. And I talked that I gave a lot 1381 01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:15,960 of reasons where he let certain guys run where I thought there 1382 01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:17,360 was an obvious pinch runner call. 1383 01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:20,240 The manipulation, the bullpen was not very good. 1384 01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:22,880 You know, he kept the enthos at third base too long. 1385 01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:25,840 Who was a butcher over there before he let Beatty play a 1386 01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:27,720 little bit more baseball reasons, right? 1387 01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:31,160 And I do like Mandy as a person. It's not personal at all, but I 1388 01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:35,400 chronicled a lot of the reasons why the pressure is on him now 1389 01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:37,760 to start the year. I did not think that he would 1390 01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:40,920 get fired at the end of the season last year, nor did I 1391 01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:44,160 think that he should get fired at the end of last season. 1392 01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:47,200 But you know, now we're in that territory where if it don't 1393 01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:49,920 change, he's out. Now, to answer you directly, I'm 1394 01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:51,720 going to give you a theory because I don't, I don't know 1395 01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:53,960 the answer. And it was a very good question, 1396 01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:55,680 Nick. Like, why does he still have a 1397 01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:58,160 job? And this pertains to how Stearns 1398 01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:01,280 is proceeding. This entire situation #1 And I 1399 01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:03,240 stored that, you know, it's, it's not 50 games, it's it's 1400 01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:08,120 still fairly early. But just to move past that, it 1401 01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:11,360 could be a couple of things. Number 1, he really believes in 1402 01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:13,000 them. I mean that that could be 1403 01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:16,640 possible that he looks at David Stearns as a good baseball man 1404 01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:19,680 apart me, he looks at Mendoza as a good baseball man. 1405 01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:23,840 And by the way, you know, we don't know exactly. 1406 01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:28,280 I could guess, but I think for the most part that Stearns and 1407 01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:31,760 Mendoza philosophically about the building out of the roster 1408 01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:34,120 and some of the moves that they made and letting some of the, 1409 01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:36,120 you know, players that you love leave. 1410 01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:38,560 I really don't think that Mendoza was kicking and 1411 01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:40,320 screaming, saying, oh, I need Pete. 1412 01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:42,760 Oh, there's no way you could trade them or what do we do? 1413 01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:46,160 All Mcneil's got to stay here. I think that organizationally 1414 01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:48,040 they were on the same page, right? 1415 01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:50,480 And that they pretty much had the same thoughts. 1416 01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:53,120 Now, you might have a little variance with one guy or a 1417 01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:56,040 little bit of a push back here, like in a war room, but I don't 1418 01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:59,440 think they were polar opposite. So I think fundamentally and 1419 01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:02,520 philosophically they subscribe to the same stuff. 1420 01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:06,360 And if you have somebody under you like the manager and you 1421 01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,120 believe in their baseball acumen and you believe in their 1422 01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:11,480 baseball sensibility and you believe in their baseball 1423 01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:16,880 upside, and you're also on the same page, just from a again, a 1424 01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:20,120 a philosophical point of view, why would you fire him without 1425 01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:22,720 giving him more room to figure things out? 1426 01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:25,920 Now, here's the other thing, though, the worst this gets and 1427 01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:30,280 the worst this looks now it now self preservation starts to come 1428 01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:33,000 into the equation. Like if I'm Stearns and you 1429 01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,920 know, obviously David Stearns did what he did, which means he 1430 01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:41,440 really believes what he did. Run prevention, Polanco, Simeon, 1431 01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:49,360 you know, bench making the team, Peralta, Devin Williams, Luke 1432 01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:51,080 Weaver, all the other things that they did. 1433 01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:55,960 So the longer this drags on and and the as the Mets look just 1434 01:06:55,960 --> 01:07:00,680 utterly inept and going nowhere. Now, most of you are, I think, 1435 01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:04,200 rightfully bypassing Mendoza in terms of level of culpability 1436 01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:06,360 and sticking the finger at the right person. 1437 01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:08,520 And that's turns and Stearns feels it. 1438 01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:10,960 Not that he's going to get fired this year, maybe in the 1439 01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:12,720 offseason. He's not going to get fired mid 1440 01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:15,000 season. But what he very well might do 1441 01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:18,760 and probably will do and on some level should do if this doesn't 1442 01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:22,880 rectify itself soon, is get somebody in here that he thinks 1443 01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:24,600 could do a better job with this roster. 1444 01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:27,720 Because it's his roster and he's the one who looks like shit. 1445 01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:33,240 He's the one who looks bad. You know, I mean, it is, it is 1446 01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:37,360 rough sledding, bro. It really, really is rough. 1447 01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:42,000 Rough sledding for the New York Mets. 1448 01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:45,120 Ease. What do we got here at the Dowk 1449 01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:52,080 1986 BT Jonah from Albany here. I chose the May 15th game for my 1450 01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,440 bachelor party. Going to a Mets game for your 1451 01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:56,640 bachelor party? Please talk me off the ledge 1452 01:07:56,640 --> 01:07:59,600 because I'm honestly thinking of not going to my own party. 1453 01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:05,000 LGM Bleep Stearns, I mean, hopefully you have a little 1454 01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,680 something planned after the bachelor party, buddy. 1455 01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:10,880 I mean not the I mean, come on, I mean yo, not not you know, not 1456 01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:15,520 not to sound, you know, crassier, but you got to have a 1457 01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:18,399 little more the up the sleeve than just going to a Mets, 1458 01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:20,479 especially if the Mets look like this. 1459 01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:22,319 You need some misses met up in the. 1460 01:08:22,319 --> 01:08:24,640 Action dog, dude. Come on man. 1461 01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:27,840 Wait, hold on BT. I've got I've got a question 1462 01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:30,520 real quick 'cause I saw this tweet and I'm I'm curious. 1463 01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:34,000 We got I think you may if you had didn't read it wrong, then I 1464 01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:35,880 need to hear your take. Oh, go ahead, the. 1465 01:08:36,279 --> 01:08:38,920 So. Omar Yousef BT just saw your 1466 01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:42,240 Ewing Dwight tweet. Hope you read it backwards. 1467 01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:45,080 And you meant you'd take Ewing over Dwight? 1468 01:08:45,319 --> 01:08:48,040 Of course I would. OK, I read it backwards. 1469 01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:51,800 You said false to. Them saying you're such an 1470 01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:53,240 idiot, Love me. Love me, yeah. 1471 01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:55,520 I was on a little. That is awesome because I was. 1472 01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,680 Going to say yo it's BT about a hop on today and be like. 1473 01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:02,240 No, like the ultimate Dwight Howard fan. 1474 01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:07,840 Oh my God, no, not my bad, true or. 1475 01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:10,279 False. You ranked Patrick Ewing higher 1476 01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:13,160 than Dwight Howard among the greatest players in NBA history, 1477 01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:17,600 and I wrote in caps massive false No, no, that's a let me 1478 01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:19,479 delete that. Not that not that that's not 1479 01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:21,439 going to live out there forever. I'm an idiot. 1480 01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:23,640 Oh God, that's too awesome, man. You're. 1481 01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:25,720 Going to laugh yourself there J. Rod that is. 1482 01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:27,399 That is my bad. Don't be me. 1483 01:09:27,399 --> 01:09:29,600 I read it a little bit too. I was on a tweet and binge this 1484 01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:31,479 morning. I never really tweet in the 1485 01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,120 morning except links to show and stuff. 1486 01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:36,479 What a moronic tweet. My God, I take that back. 1487 01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:38,439 I love the Malo. Me Malo. 1488 01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,720 I got another call up there or no, Let's see. 1489 01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:44,080 Not yet, but everyone hit that link. 1490 01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:46,600 I'll post it again real quick. We already got a bunch. 1491 01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:49,319 Of all good, let me get do me a favor. 1492 01:09:49,319 --> 01:09:51,640 So let me set this up first. I want to get into the mini mock 1493 01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:54,600 here. So last night we had episode #5 1494 01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:58,280 our mini mock, myself and Rich Simini and Jake Asman. 1495 01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:01,640 It is a weekly show. Go like it, go subscribe it. 1496 01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:04,600 Go subscribe to it. I should say and we're having a 1497 01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:06,160 blast. Make great chemistry, great 1498 01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,400 content. Rich as an insider, obviously 1499 01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:10,480 you know me and Jake are going to bring the heat with opinion. 1500 01:10:10,480 --> 01:10:13,160 So we did a mini mock one through 16. 1501 01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,280 We ended at The Jets tray. We didn't make any trades 1502 01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:16,720 otherwise it would have been too convoluted. 1503 01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:20,040 What we did was we basically just went in in sequential 1504 01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:24,120 order. So I had the first pick #1 Rich 1505 01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:28,480 had the, excuse me, second pick #2 and then Jake went three, and 1506 01:10:28,480 --> 01:10:32,760 then it was, you know, me 4, Rich 5, Jake 6, so on and so 1507 01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:35,080 forth. Now let me show you what we did 1508 01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:36,560 here. All right, so this is last 1509 01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:38,600 night. Look at that from The Jets 1510 01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:40,040 Collective. That is sweet. 1511 01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:44,520 All right now number obviously Mendoza #1 quarterback, Indiana, 1512 01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:48,160 The Jets, Rich took David Bailey, which of course none of 1513 01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:50,520 us loved on the show last night, But you know, that's Rich's 1514 01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:55,600 pick, the edge from Texas Tech. The the next pick was the 1515 01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:59,000 Cardinals, Arvel Reese, linebacker, little edge as well. 1516 01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,200 Ohio State. This was back to me. 1517 01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:04,560 I was really thinking, listen to Bailey Fell or Reese Fell. 1518 01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,520 I was thinking about getting Robert Salo some defense, but 1519 01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:10,040 I'm going to go with Jet or I did go with Jeremiah Love, the 1520 01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:13,760 running back from Notre Dame, Caleb Downs, which is somebody I 1521 01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:17,200 want The Jets to get him. Rich took him at #5 he knew I 1522 01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:18,840 would be happy about that. He was right. 1523 01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:24,640 So Caleb goes 5th, the Browns, Francis Mauoga, the Mauioga, I 1524 01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:27,240 would say his name wrong, but the outstanding offensive tackle 1525 01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:29,840 from Miami. Now, obviously we've seen a lot 1526 01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:34,280 of stuff Commanders can make a trade, whatever, but the 1527 01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:36,760 commanders at number said this was actually in my pick. 1528 01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:39,040 You know, maybe a little receiver action, maybe a little 1529 01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:41,560 offensive line. I went Sonny Styles linebacker, 1530 01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:43,400 Ohio State. This was a good pick. 1531 01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:45,840 I think this I I think this could actually really truly 1532 01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,880 happen. Mansoor Delane, quarterback LSU 1533 01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:53,720 8 to the Saints #9 Ruben Bayne, the edge, who was a great short 1534 01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,520 arms, we know, but edge rusher, disruptor, explosive, just a big 1535 01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:00,400 motor going to Kansas City. They could also go receiver. 1536 01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:04,000 They could also go tight end maybe, but I had this talk about 1537 01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:06,040 some heat here. I got a lot of heat from the 1538 01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:07,640 giant fans. Kenyan Sadiq. 1539 01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:09,280 I have them taking a tight end from Oregon. 1540 01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:13,560 I happen to think that Sadiq is a better prospect, like is a 1541 01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:16,760 much better tight end than some of these other wide receivers. 1542 01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:19,120 And I know that there's so many good ones really. 1543 01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:22,320 But to me like and I think there's a there's a real chance 1544 01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:25,160 the giants go receiver 10. I really do. 1545 01:12:25,480 --> 01:12:29,080 But if I think Sadiq, you know, who runs A4 four and destroyed 1546 01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:32,560 the combine and has sick mitts and can block and it's just a 1547 01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:35,800 matchup nightmare, I wouldn't If I think he's that great 1548 01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:37,840 potentially, why wouldn't I take him? 1549 01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:40,000 You already have neighbors and eventually neighbors will be 1550 01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:42,640 back to full speed. So if you have Siddique and 1551 01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:46,760 neighbors as vertical weapons for Jackson Dart, you know some 1552 01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:51,080 people didn't like the pic. I love it anyway #11 this was 1553 01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:52,880 Rich. Spencer Fano, the the 1554 01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:54,440 outstanding old lineman from Utah. 1555 01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:56,400 This was a little bit off the board for me. 1556 01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:59,440 Good pick though, by Jake Dallas #12 they've got 12 and 20. 1557 01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:04,000 Dylan Thiemann, the safety from Oregon, I believe he transferred 1558 01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:07,480 to Oregon. I believe strongly The Jets will 1559 01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:10,560 maybe try to make a trade with the Rams for receiver here, but 1560 01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:13,600 if they don't, the Rams, I would imagine they will definitely go 1561 01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:15,960 receiver. I also think the Rams could go 1562 01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:18,240 online, but based on the way that and we were doing this in 1563 01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:21,520 real time, like it's not like I was like, all right, Rich, who 1564 01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:23,080 you taking? All right, Jacob, like it was 1565 01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:24,880 like all right, who? Oh, we got to adjust here. 1566 01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:30,080 So it had a real war room feel with with some adjustments and 1567 01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,720 some some things on the fly. So if you guys want to watch 1568 01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:35,120 that in real time, go and check it out on The Jets collected. 1569 01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:39,360 Anyway, I think that the Rams could take online, but since 1570 01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:41,240 Carnal Tate is there, I pick them. 1571 01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:45,240 Wide receiver, Buckeyes. Vega Ionone, the old lineman 1572 01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:49,160 from Penn State, no penalties and no sacks allowed. 1573 01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:52,480 He is a real and he just seems to fit that Raven profile. 1574 01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:54,840 The Buccaneers. This was Jake's pick. 1575 01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:58,400 Kendrick Faulk or Keldrick Faulk, Pardon me, the edge 1576 01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:02,680 rusher from Auburn. And I got absolutely crushed on 1577 01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:04,160 this. And I understand why. 1578 01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:07,080 He's a little smaller than some of the other receivers that are 1579 01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:10,120 still available. This was my pick, KC 1580 01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:14,040 Concepcione, Texas A&M. So I addressed the receiver 1581 01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:18,400 spot, but none of you, I mean none of you like the pick there. 1582 01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:22,320 The funny thing, though, is like if the Rams took KC Concepcione, 1583 01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:24,440 he had 90 catches his second year. 1584 01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:27,960 But because these attached to The Jets here, he's small. 1585 01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:30,120 They need this. I love him. 1586 01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:33,240 I know we dropped a few passes last year, watched a lot of tape 1587 01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:34,720 on him. I mean, listen to the other guys 1588 01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:36,320 are obvious. You know who the other receivers 1589 01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:38,120 are. I think conception's a little 1590 01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,680 less obvious, but that's what I went. 1591 01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:44,120 So those are the one through 16, a little mini mock there Jets 1592 01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:47,640 collective and I wanted to get to that here on unleashed. 1593 01:14:47,640 --> 01:14:49,040 What do you think about that J Rod? 1594 01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:51,520 Anything pop up? I'm liking it I think. 1595 01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:53,000 It's good. I think it's interesting, you 1596 01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:56,680 know, I think because you did it without the trades, like I'm not 1597 01:14:56,680 --> 01:15:00,760 sure how, you know, like how do do you foresee, you know, some 1598 01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:02,760 trades going down within that top six? 1599 01:15:02,840 --> 01:15:04,800 Oh my God. OK, so let me tell you who. 1600 01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:06,440 I think very well might make trades here. 1601 01:15:06,440 --> 01:15:08,040 Let me just look at the board again here. 1602 01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:09,840 Can you pop that board up once more, Jay? 1603 01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:11,920 Yeah, of course. I can't believe the draft is. 1604 01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:13,880 I mean, it's it's here, man. All right? 1605 01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:16,560 I think The Jets can make a trade. 1606 01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:19,280 I think the Cardinals can make a trade. 1607 01:15:19,480 --> 01:15:22,080 I think the Titan stamp pat. I think the Giants can make a 1608 01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:24,240 trade. I think the commanders can make 1609 01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:26,560 a trade. I think the Saints stay pat. 1610 01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:28,800 I could see Kansas City make it a trade. 1611 01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:32,600 I could see the Giants trading 5 or 10 up or down. 1612 01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:36,360 I think there's a good chance the dolphins move off that 11 1613 01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:38,600 spot. You know Dallas wants to get off 1614 01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:41,160 the 12 spot. The Rams are always open for 1615 01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:42,400 business, though. I don't know how many first 1616 01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:43,920 round picks they have. You know, like I don't know if 1617 01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:46,480 they can swing it with the what what capital they have 1618 01:15:46,480 --> 01:15:48,120 remaining. They've traded so many picks. 1619 01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:50,920 I could see the Ravens sitting there. 1620 01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:54,080 I could definitely see of the two jets picks. 1621 01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:56,160 I listen, I'd love them to trade too. 1622 01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:58,760 I don't think that they will. I think there's a high rate that 1623 01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:01,160 they they're going to stick and pick it too. 1624 01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:03,320 I think grade 16. And then the other thing you 1625 01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:07,760 have to look out for, and this is a, a quarterback thing maybe 1626 01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:11,360 for Ty Simpson, where the Cardinals, cuz the Dolphins have 1627 01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:14,320 two first round picks as well, where the Cardinals make a move 1628 01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:17,520 back end of the first round and maybe take a swing on Ty 1629 01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:19,360 Simpson. So there's a lot of play. 1630 01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:21,080 Jay, you still there? I'm not sure if Jay is still 1631 01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:22,920 there. May have lost Jay. 1632 01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:24,960 OK, we'll get him back up. All good. 1633 01:16:25,480 --> 01:16:27,000 So hopefully you guys like that mock. 1634 01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:29,640 Yo, last night was a pretty interesting night in the NBA as 1635 01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:31,120 well. Pretty interesting night in the 1636 01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:33,680 NBA. I'll get to that in a minute. 1637 01:16:33,680 --> 01:16:35,120 Let me get some more tweets up here. 1638 01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:36,640 Hopefully you guys get a couple of more calls. 1639 01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:38,560 We'll start wrapping up in a little bit. 1640 01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:42,200 I don't see the Cowboys passing on Keldrick Falk at #12 They 1641 01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:45,320 might not and and listen, but I don't really know it. 1642 01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:49,240 It's easy to to read the tea leaves here and say Dallas wants 1643 01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:51,360 to make a trade. Sonny Styles seems to kind of 1644 01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:53,600 play be the kind of player Dallas would make a move for, 1645 01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:57,320 but somebody might beat them to the punch or Sonny Styles might 1646 01:16:57,320 --> 01:17:00,280 get drafted too early. Where it's just not a real 1647 01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:05,000 feasible in terms of packaging up to move up 7 slots, you know, 1648 01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:08,240 if you want to jump to seven or if you want to move to six and 1649 01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:11,360 make a trade with the Browns. Like, I don't know, can they 1650 01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:13,800 move up 6? I mean, you could, but will they 1651 01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:16,120 have the appetite for that? But no, I, I think Keldrick 1652 01:17:16,120 --> 01:17:18,760 Faulk with that was Jake's pick. That was an interesting one. 1653 01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:21,600 I did like that. What else we got here? 1654 01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:23,640 Wait, we got to talk basketball last night? 1655 01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:28,720 Because my goodness, I mean I can't go on another like 1656 01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:31,320 Vujsovich rant. All I can say is that guy needs 1657 01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:34,000 to be sent to like an Eastern European gulag. 1658 01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,560 Like a medieval torture chamber. Easy buddy. 1659 01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:37,880 Where? He's got like the hand. 1660 01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:41,360 How bad is he? Rusevic? 1661 01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:43,120 Yeah. I mean, he's the worst pick and. 1662 01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:46,360 Roll Defender since Enos Cantor. Oh, that's a good Cantor. 1663 01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:48,440 Was the worst. I mean no the. 1664 01:17:48,480 --> 01:17:50,920 Celtics have easily had the three worst pick and roll 1665 01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:53,400 defenders ever. Enos Cantor won, then we had 1666 01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:56,520 Greg Monroe and now we have Nicola Vucevic. 1667 01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:01,280 I mean if Tyrese Maxi and Edgecombe are in the game. 1668 01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:04,720 Yep, like you literally I just don't understand the thought of 1669 01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:07,120 even having this. He should be on the bike. 1670 01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:09,360 He shouldn't even be sitting on the bench when those dudes are 1671 01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:11,360 in the somebody's getting a little. 1672 01:18:11,360 --> 01:18:12,240 Nervous. Of course. 1673 01:18:12,480 --> 01:18:15,360 Of course. Where's the kids say? 1674 01:18:15,440 --> 01:18:17,800 I hate when my kids say this because, like, somebody's 1675 01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:20,200 getting angry. You ever hear a kid say that 1676 01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:23,200 I've got instead of angry hangry? 1677 01:18:23,440 --> 01:18:24,920 Well, and you know what? They're always. 1678 01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:27,760 Right, they're always right because as soon as I eat, as 1679 01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:29,960 soon as someone does anyone eat something. 1680 01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:31,520 Oh, I'm good. I'm not angry anymore. 1681 01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:35,760 Yeah, man, I am nervous. I'm a little nervous because 1682 01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:38,720 it's. Like now because you know me. 1683 01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:39,840 And my roommate were going out of it. 1684 01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:43,440 I was like Celtics, we've got Mitch Robinson, we'll neutralize 1685 01:18:43,440 --> 01:18:45,880 him with the foul thing. Now it doesn't look like that 1686 01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:49,040 moves working so well anymore and you put you put Mitch 1687 01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:52,080 Robinson in the game with Vucevic, yeah, Vucevic might 1688 01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:55,440 have 0 rebound, have negative rebound and by the way as. 1689 01:18:55,440 --> 01:18:58,480 You as you try to get and now there's a couple of things here. 1690 01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:01,480 As disgusted as I was with the Knicks and the Hawks the other 1691 01:19:01,480 --> 01:19:04,440 night, from a Knick perspective, the fact that the Celtic Sixers 1692 01:19:04,440 --> 01:19:07,720 series appears to be going deeper obviously kind of quells 1693 01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:08,840 some. You feel a little better. 1694 01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:12,640 OK #1 So. But as you talk about Mitch and 1695 01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:15,600 think about a Knick matchup, understand you now have a deep 1696 01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:18,560 series on your hands. And Oh yeah, by the way, if you 1697 01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:21,440 get past the Sixers, which I think that you will, Yeah, same. 1698 01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:23,000 You got to play. A Knicks team that. 1699 01:19:23,240 --> 01:19:27,800 Beat you last year, just just to remind you, Jay Rod, in case you 1700 01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:30,800 forgot about that, which I don't think Tatum got hurt, Jason. 1701 01:19:30,920 --> 01:19:32,200 No, I'm kidding. That's the weak. 1702 01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:35,360 That's the weakest excuse ever. Like when the Celtics fans bust 1703 01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:38,480 that one out and they go, yeah, we were down like 15, dude. 1704 01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:40,240 Multiple 20. Point lead. 1705 01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:43,320 Yeah, all. Right, so last. 1706 01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:44,760 Night was a very interesting night in the NBA. 1707 01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:48,160 So, and I had this written that obviously Sixers win that goes 1708 01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:50,520 back to Philly. You know, I remember seeing 1709 01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:52,520 Edgecomb when he was at Baylor of St. 1710 01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:54,160 John's and St. John's was actually trying to 1711 01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:56,040 get him. He he's going to be he's good. 1712 01:19:56,440 --> 01:20:01,200 And we know about, you know, Matt, I mean, like the Sixers, 1713 01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:05,800 it's hard to respect him. Because you know, everything 1714 01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:07,480 within beat and it always banged up. 1715 01:20:07,480 --> 01:20:09,920 But there are other players. They've got some Tyrese Maxi is 1716 01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:13,240 just he's always been terrific and Edgecomb's a handful. 1717 01:20:13,480 --> 01:20:16,760 The other thing that happened is that the Blazers beat the Spurs 1718 01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:21,000 and Wimpy got a concussion. So that's going to linger into 1719 01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:25,240 that series for a while. And you know, LeBron 28, eight 1720 01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:29,080 and seven and the Lakers beat the the Rockets again. 1721 01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:32,800 And then tonight I listen as as much as I'm going to be dialed 1722 01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:34,800 in, you know, baseball, obviously, that's what we start 1723 01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:37,280 the show with the magic Pistons game. 1724 01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:41,200 That's the biggest game of the the early slate here in the NBA 1725 01:20:41,200 --> 01:20:43,080 playoffs because the Pistons have now lost. 1726 01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:46,720 Let me see couple against the Knicks the other night. 1727 01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,640 The I think the Pistons have lost four straight playoff games 1728 01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:55,600 at Detroit or in Detroit Detroit basketball, they got to win this 1729 01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:57,280 game. I mean the magic or team you'll 1730 01:20:57,280 --> 01:21:00,400 want to mess around with the magic or team last year and even 1731 01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:02,160 this year that just have given the Knicks fit. 1732 01:21:02,160 --> 01:21:05,120 So I've I've I've always respected them and I've known 1733 01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:08,120 that they're coming here and it's just like it's been assumed 1734 01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:12,000 by the Pistons and you know, Celtics and and the Knicks, 1735 01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:15,120 right. If the Orlando now, I don't 1736 01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:19,160 think the magic win tonight. I don't, but if the Magic win 1737 01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:22,360 tonight, they are winning that series, that series will be 1738 01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:24,920 over. And even though there's going 1739 01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:28,160 to, you know, be many chances for the Pistons to come back 1740 01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:31,400 and, you know, get a game and then even things up, it would 1741 01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:34,080 not be a fluke at that point. Like the Orlando Magic are a 1742 01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:37,720 good team who present a lot of matchup issues. 1743 01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:40,880 They really do. So I, I think this is the, for 1744 01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:44,600 all the things that we're going to watch tonight, I'm just happy 1745 01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:46,880 that that the draft isn't tonight. 1746 01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:48,720 I mean, tomorrow night's going to be rough enough between the 1747 01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:51,560 draft and the Knicks and the Hawks and obviously Yanks and 1748 01:21:51,560 --> 01:21:53,240 Mets. Like tonight's a baseball night. 1749 01:21:53,360 --> 01:21:56,600 It's always a baseball night in my home, but it's a little 1750 01:21:56,600 --> 01:22:01,000 secondary to an out of market game Magic Pistons game of the 1751 01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:03,360 night, game of the early slate in the NBA playoffs there. 1752 01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:05,160 J Rod. It's a monster game, bro. 1753 01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:06,680 I can't. I mean, I can't wait for. 1754 01:22:06,680 --> 01:22:09,680 That one because, yeah, like you're saying the implications 1755 01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:12,640 of that, you know, I guess if the Pistons win now you go back 1756 01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:15,120 to the idea of OK, anyone series, you know, either of them 1757 01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:16,400 can do it. But yeah, you're right. 1758 01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:18,880 I mean, if the Magic win, oh, it's looking rough for the 1759 01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:21,640 Pistons, It's looking rough for the Pistons coaching staff. 1760 01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:24,320 It's looking rougher. I mean, obviously, I don't think 1761 01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:28,800 you know, Kate and Jalen Duran are solid in their position on 1762 01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:31,280 the team for the rest of that roster. 1763 01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:33,960 Oh, if you go out on the first round, oh, it could be it could 1764 01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:36,920 be raps for everyone else. By the way, I guess I was. 1765 01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:40,280 Off on this at BB Bart six O 9 Detroit. 1766 01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:42,120 So lost more than that. Jim Rome said the other day it 1767 01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:44,760 was 10 or 11. Oh, many, many years worth. 1768 01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:46,440 There you go. I'm actually just going back to 1769 01:22:46,440 --> 01:22:50,240 the most recent sample. Detroit Piston fans are great. 1770 01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:53,280 They really are. I used to have so much fun, man. 1771 01:22:53,480 --> 01:22:56,480 So this is the early 2000s, Jay. I'm living there. 1772 01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:58,160 I'm working there. I'm doing the Mid East. 1773 01:22:58,240 --> 01:22:59,360 I forgot about that. OK. 1774 01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:01,840 Awesome. I loved it, you know? 1775 01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:04,520 Detroit gets a lot of knocks for a lot of reasons. 1776 01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:06,280 You know, it's crime and some other stuff. 1777 01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:09,360 It's I, I, I always try to elevate Detroit. 1778 01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:12,320 I loved it like that. First of all, it was a great, it 1779 01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:15,280 was the first job that I had where I'm like, OK, I'm, I'm 1780 01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:18,160 kind of like I, I, I'm not saying that I made it because 1781 01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:20,280 when you get that mentality, especially as your own 1782 01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:22,440 broadcaster, it's dangerous. It's like a boxer. 1783 01:23:22,440 --> 01:23:24,400 It's like Rocky, you know, he's like, I made it. 1784 01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:26,960 I got the mansion now and then. And then Mr. T busted him up 1785 01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:28,840 and, you know, we had to figure things out again. 1786 01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:30,440 He got a little content and complacent. 1787 01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:34,040 I'm not implying that at all. But at that point, you know, and 1788 01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:38,800 especially then where content was, it was only radio the the 1789 01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:42,280 desire like the mark was I got to get to a top 10 market. 1790 01:23:42,280 --> 01:23:45,400 Like if it, if you've seen the Howard Stern movie anything, if 1791 01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:47,920 you're old enough to remember the way radio used to really be 1792 01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:51,360 terrestrial like you when you crack a top 10 market, that's an 1793 01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:53,120 achievement. And at that point, I don't think 1794 01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:55,760 there, I don't think Detroit is top ten anymore. 1795 01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:57,360 I think they just slid out of the top 10. 1796 01:23:57,360 --> 01:23:59,760 But when I was working there, they were 8 or 9. 1797 01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:04,040 So it was my first top 10 market and it was just such a vibrant 1798 01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:06,760 sports scene, man. Like first of all, going to 1799 01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:09,600 Michigan games, going to the big house was unbelievable. 1800 01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:11,400 Unbelievable going to the big house. 1801 01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:14,520 Now Michigan fans hate when I say this, but I but I but I 1802 01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:16,720 believe it. I've also been to the horseshoe 1803 01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:18,440 at Ohio State. Ohio states better. 1804 01:24:18,440 --> 01:24:19,880 It's a better game they experience. 1805 01:24:20,240 --> 01:24:23,160 It's it's it's more raucous. It's different to me. 1806 01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:26,240 Advantage the horseshoe, sorry, over the big house, right over 1807 01:24:26,240 --> 01:24:28,520 Michigan Stadium. But going to Michigan Stadium, 1808 01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:31,880 110,000 people was was something that I always saw on TV. 1809 01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:35,080 It was awesome, right. And then that's when Tom Izzo 1810 01:24:35,080 --> 01:24:36,800 was just cranking things up really. 1811 01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:40,480 And so I was going and I was going to the Breslin Center, 1812 01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:42,760 going to watch Michigan State regularly. 1813 01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:46,400 The Pistons were just beginning their renaissance with Ben 1814 01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:49,720 Wallace and and Rick Carlisle. Yeah, man. 1815 01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:52,480 That time, OK, that's where I'm there early 2. 1816 01:24:52,480 --> 01:24:56,720 Thousands so I'm going to literally because I'm I'm 1817 01:24:56,720 --> 01:25:00,280 single, I'm young. I lived in one of the I lived in 1818 01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:03,840 one of the suburbs off I-75. I lived in this town called 1819 01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:07,040 Troy, right, beautiful town. I lived off a little tiny golf 1820 01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:10,560 course, had a little apartment, but really nice spot right And 1821 01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:13,800 right next I was, if you know the area, those of you who do 1822 01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:18,080 like the Somerset Mall, it is a big is, is a big spot there, 1823 01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:20,080 nice restaurants, just really, really nice. 1824 01:25:20,480 --> 01:25:23,280 And I would just, you know, drive from my apartment complex 1825 01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:27,640 and get on 75 and go north and go to the Palace Palace at 1826 01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:30,000 Auburn Hills. And I was credentialed and I 1827 01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:31,880 would sit courtside. I would literally go to every 1828 01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:34,000 single game and then I would hang out after it. 1829 01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:35,520 Like I would go out every single night. 1830 01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:36,760 Right across the street was a club. 1831 01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:39,320 I was in the club. I forget the forget the name of 1832 01:25:39,320 --> 01:25:42,400 it. I would go to the club and like 1833 01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:44,440 the Pistons would walk in. Cliff Robinson. 1834 01:25:44,440 --> 01:25:47,600 Remember Cliff Robinson, a Navy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1835 01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:50,120 A little young. But Cliff, he just he, he died 1836 01:25:50,120 --> 01:25:51,920 too. Great dude. 1837 01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:54,920 We called him Uncle Cliffy. Actually, we called him Uncle 1838 01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:57,440 Spliffy because every time he walked into the into the club, 1839 01:25:57,440 --> 01:25:59,640 he smelled like weed. So we called, we did. 1840 01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:01,080 We called him Uncle Spliffy. Right. 1841 01:26:01,400 --> 01:26:04,040 And just a cool cat, like hanging out with regular people. 1842 01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:05,640 Like I remember this guy. He was. 1843 01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:08,320 On those and. He was on those jail Blazers. 1844 01:26:08,440 --> 01:26:09,520 Yes, Yeah. Yeah. 1845 01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:11,000 Well. No, no, he was. 1846 01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,600 Before that. You played against Jordan in the 1847 01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:18,480 finals. Got it with Clyde Drexler, Terry 1848 01:26:18,480 --> 01:26:20,920 Porter. OK, yeah, white guy. 1849 01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:24,240 That I'm forgetting the big. White guy Sabonis No, no, the 1850 01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:27,200 was after Sabonis was was part of the jail Blazers team. 1851 01:26:27,400 --> 01:26:30,960 He was a Piston. Clifford Robinson was a net may 1852 01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:33,120 have been on the Hawks for a minute play to UConn before 1853 01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:37,360 UConn got really powerful. Great guy and just a good NBA 1854 01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:39,080 player. Just man, I haven't thought 1855 01:26:39,080 --> 01:26:41,800 about him in a while. Good freaking dude, right? 1856 01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:45,000 So we'd go to every game and then he would go out there and 1857 01:26:46,040 --> 01:26:48,640 who else was on that team? Dana Barrows was on that team 1858 01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:50,720 and Stack with Stackhouse was there for you. 1859 01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:53,480 Ben Wallace, Like they were just beginning their ascent. 1860 01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:55,840 So I I love that. Like Detroit was awesome, man. 1861 01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:58,400 It was it was a lot of fun. And then they build Comerica, 1862 01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:02,040 then they build Ford Field. Like it was it was it was just 1863 01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:03,960 it was a lot of fun. It was I don't even know. 1864 01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:05,520 I don't even know why we're talking about Detroit. 1865 01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:07,120 It was something in the chat. What the hell was it? 1866 01:27:07,240 --> 01:27:08,520 Oh, the Pistons. Geez, Pistons. 1867 01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:12,040 Wow. I was looking at the TV because 1868 01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:13,960 Mad Dog is driving me nuts. I'm going to have to die. 1869 01:27:13,960 --> 01:27:17,520 I might have to get on Mad Dog a little bit tomorrow because 1870 01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:19,600 personally he's kicking and screaming about something. 1871 01:27:19,600 --> 01:27:23,160 But I just see the at the volume down and I see Stephen a 1872 01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:24,920 laughing. He's getting on Saint John's for 1873 01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:28,400 going after getting a 23 year old point guard from Europe. 1874 01:27:28,920 --> 01:27:30,080 Oh, the guy we were talking about? 1875 01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:30,960 Ellis. What's his name again? 1876 01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:31,560 Ellis. Yeah. 1877 01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:34,000 It made though that that's the. He's still yelling. 1878 01:27:34,280 --> 01:27:35,520 That's the. Name of the game, buddy. 1879 01:27:35,520 --> 01:27:36,960 But I that's why I got a little district. 1880 01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:39,480 No, Detroit basketball is awesome. 1881 01:27:39,480 --> 01:27:41,800 Their fans are great. And when they were playing at 1882 01:27:41,800 --> 01:27:46,600 the Palace, it was a 21,000 seat venue, one of the bigger I think 1883 01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:50,120 it was that and Philly were the two biggest NBA venues. 1884 01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:53,480 Dude, it was so much fun, man. It was so so. 1885 01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:57,960 I know Piston fans are ready for tonight and revved up. 1886 01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:03,400 I think the Pistons will win. But if the Pistons don't, that's 1887 01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:06,760 that series is a wrap. The Magic will win and Pistons 1888 01:28:06,760 --> 01:28:08,840 will not beat them. Four out of six times will not 1889 01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:09,800 happen. Nope. 1890 01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:12,920 What do we got here? I was going to actually I. 1891 01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:15,560 Thought of this before the show, before everything just like got 1892 01:28:15,560 --> 01:28:17,320 all hectic. I was going to ask you this. 1893 01:28:17,440 --> 01:28:20,280 All right, Omar Youssef, BTI know you don't like. 1894 01:28:20,280 --> 01:28:22,400 Braun, but it's pretty cool what he's doing with this ragtag 1895 01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:24,280 roster without Luke, Luke and Reeves. 1896 01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:25,600 Yep, Le Reeves is going to come back. 1897 01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:29,040 Luca will not though that blow that blow, that blow by on KD 1898 01:28:29,320 --> 01:28:31,920 and double pump reverse jam. He had to look 28 years old. 1899 01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:33,360 There's no that listen, I just gave him love. 1900 01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:37,320 He had 28, eight and seven. Listen, the things I I love 1901 01:28:37,320 --> 01:28:40,640 Lebron's game. I appreciate Lebron's game and I 1902 01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:43,240 appreciate the fact that he's comported himself as a, as a 1903 01:28:43,240 --> 01:28:45,760 good citizen. I mean, really being in the 1904 01:28:45,760 --> 01:28:50,280 spotlight from the time he was 14 years old, playing Catholic 1905 01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:53,000 High School in, in the suburbs, in Ohio, in Akron. 1906 01:28:53,440 --> 01:28:56,520 I mean, the guy's never had one legal misstep, you know, it just 1907 01:28:56,520 --> 01:28:59,080 hasn't. So I think he's a good family 1908 01:28:59,080 --> 01:29:01,160 man. I mean, I, I, you know, I hear 1909 01:29:01,160 --> 01:29:04,760 stuff about parties, but I don't know, I got no beef with LeBron 1910 01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:07,880 except that he's just too much about LeBron. 1911 01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:09,920 He's too much about the ego. He really is. 1912 01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:13,120 And he's not Michael Jordan. Like that's my big like we 1913 01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:16,360 weren't having this go conversation, which comes to me. 1914 01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:19,440 It's it's open and shut. It's MJ and then it's Kareem and 1915 01:29:19,440 --> 01:29:22,400 that it's LeBron. Probably LeBron could even be 1916 01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:26,960 Magic War Bird. But I said, listen, I don't 1917 01:29:26,960 --> 01:29:29,240 think I've got the. Numbers to to really get into 1918 01:29:29,240 --> 01:29:33,840 the Shannon sharp skip right now with you come on you saying 1919 01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:36,880 LeBron could potentially be lower than Magic could be what 1920 01:29:37,200 --> 01:29:39,120 else that. Hurts my heart well. 1921 01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:40,120 I get it. Did. 1922 01:29:40,360 --> 01:29:41,760 Did. LeBron have to bounce around 1923 01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:43,440 from team to team to get a championship. 1924 01:29:43,720 --> 01:29:45,800 Did LeBron? Sure, but it's come on, it's. 1925 01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:48,880 A different era where other players, it's a tougher era. 1926 01:29:48,880 --> 01:29:51,840 It's a harder era right now because you you had to go to 1927 01:29:51,840 --> 01:29:54,120 battle with what you had. You know what I mean? 1928 01:29:54,760 --> 01:29:57,040 Now, he also had Kareem. But Kareem, you know, Kareem 1929 01:29:57,040 --> 01:30:00,080 played a long time in Milwaukee. It's not like he got ABS. 1930 01:30:00,200 --> 01:30:03,240 Well, he got when he was a rookie in 79. 1931 01:30:03,480 --> 01:30:06,120 Kareem was still pretty much in his kind of in his prime. 1932 01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:09,560 Sure, maybe at the back end of the party. 1933 01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:12,600 He didn't have vintage like Oscar Robertson, Milwaukee 1934 01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:15,880 Bucks, Lou Alcindor. I mean, he just didn't, you 1935 01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:18,880 know, we had James Worthy, he had Michael Cooper, had Byron 1936 01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:24,000 Scott had Pat Riley, you know, had had Kurt Rambis. 1937 01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:28,600 But no, I, I do penalize LeBron and I'm probably not going to 1938 01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:31,240 put magic ahead, but I do believe there's a conversation 1939 01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:33,640 to be had. You know, magic and think about 1940 01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:35,080 this for you young bucks out there. 1941 01:30:35,280 --> 01:30:40,960 So in the as a rookie in the 1979 Finals, right, Kareem had 1942 01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:43,920 migraines and he couldn't play, couldn't play the first game. 1943 01:30:44,480 --> 01:30:47,400 Magic Johnson jumped center. Yeah, Center. 1944 01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:48,640 Of course, of course. I mean. 1945 01:30:49,240 --> 01:30:51,640 It's a great story. It's a it's better than a great 1946 01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:52,800 story. It's all time. 1947 01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:54,440 I mean, it's all time, but you're telling me? 1948 01:30:54,440 --> 01:30:58,000 2016 finals is an all time. I'm not saying it's not. 1949 01:30:58,000 --> 01:31:00,120 No, no, I'm not. I'm just saying that there's 1950 01:31:00,360 --> 01:31:01,600 number one. It's subjective. 1951 01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:03,080 I'm not saying that you're wrong. 1952 01:31:03,440 --> 01:31:06,040 You're just not right for me. Sure, I've got another. 1953 01:31:06,040 --> 01:31:09,160 Question My boys and I were debating this the other day. 1954 01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:11,560 If this is a. Big if I don't. 1955 01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:14,680 Even believe this at this point bro if the Celtics. 1956 01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:17,240 Came. Back and Jake not come back, 1957 01:31:17,240 --> 01:31:21,120 obviously they're fine. But if Tatum won Finals MVP this 1958 01:31:21,120 --> 01:31:26,600 season, you think that is a top three NBA Finals story? 1959 01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:32,360 Not moment, not like game comeback story of all time of 1960 01:31:32,440 --> 01:31:33,480 all. Time. 1961 01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:36,240 All time. Oh boy. 1962 01:31:37,120 --> 01:31:39,880 Comes back and wins finals. MVPI know what you're saying. 1963 01:31:39,880 --> 01:31:42,920 I I. Appreciate the the incorporation 1964 01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:47,200 of of of injury and history and the Celtics brand. 1965 01:31:48,280 --> 01:31:52,240 I would my first instinct is no, only because he's he's already 1966 01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:55,040 won one. You know, I think about this 1967 01:31:55,040 --> 01:31:57,360 like it put it this way, if the and they're not, I don't think 1968 01:31:57,360 --> 01:32:00,080 they're going to win, but if the Knicks win the championship this 1969 01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:04,040 year, that would sue. I I think that would supersede 1970 01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:08,080 the Self and Tatum because the Knicks haven't won since 73. 1971 01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:09,800 Yeah, I think that's a fair take. 1972 01:32:09,840 --> 01:32:11,480 No, I, I think that's. Totally fair. 1973 01:32:11,560 --> 01:32:12,880 A good question I wouldn't have thought. 1974 01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:14,440 About it in that context. I like that. 1975 01:32:14,720 --> 01:32:16,760 That's a fun debate. And I I know what you're getting 1976 01:32:16,760 --> 01:32:21,240 after there. Maybe, you know, LeBron winning 1977 01:32:21,240 --> 01:32:24,760 for Cleveland, That's huge. Yeah, that was 1. 1978 01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:28,560 Obviously, you know, any of the Jordan 3 peats, you could give 1979 01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:32,040 it to Bird 86 you could give it to no question. 1980 01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:35,920 Obviously the Magic Johnson moment you just mentioned, Yeah, 1981 01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:39,000 you could even, you know, if you were more of an old headed take 1982 01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:42,160 and you weren't to say this isn't a moment, but you could. 1983 01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:45,720 As a Celtics, you could be like. Oh, the 11 championships in a 1984 01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:49,640 row, there's like a greater story and moment behind it. 1985 01:32:49,640 --> 01:32:50,280 Yeah. So. 1986 01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:51,800 But yeah, it was just a question I have. 1987 01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:54,360 I like hey, listen, that's what. Bring that stuff to the table. 1988 01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:56,280 That's good. I like that thought provoking 1989 01:32:56,280 --> 01:32:57,240 stuff. That a boy Jay. 1990 01:32:58,000 --> 01:32:59,800 Now let's get another tweet or or message up there. 1991 01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:02,320 We'll start wrapping things up. We did the the mini mock there. 1992 01:33:02,320 --> 01:33:05,720 We did a lot of baseball. If you guys just jumping in like 1993 01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:08,520 it guys pound the like button. Will you like it subscribe it. 1994 01:33:08,800 --> 01:33:12,240 We hit 20,000 subscribers yesterday, which was awesome. 1995 01:33:12,240 --> 01:33:15,760 Bless Yep. And now let me see let me see if 1996 01:33:15,760 --> 01:33:16,760 I could do this. Hold on. 1997 01:33:17,200 --> 01:33:21,200 I should be able to remember I've referenced a few times that 1998 01:33:21,200 --> 01:33:25,760 picture that I took of the of the Subs on the wall, right? 1999 01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:28,080 Let me work with the camera. Let me see if you guys will be 2000 01:33:28,080 --> 01:33:29,960 able to see that. Can you see that? 2001 01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:33,720 Look at that. That's actually on my wall as I 2002 01:33:33,720 --> 01:33:38,160 walk out. My old school, old school type 2003 01:33:38,200 --> 01:33:40,360 it up. Wanted to make it ragged, wanted 2004 01:33:40,360 --> 01:33:42,480 to make it gritty, wanted to make it sloppy. 2005 01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:46,320 And you can see the you know, as I delineate between each little 2006 01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:49,040 tiny benchmark there. So I finally got the scratch out 2007 01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:52,440 the 20 GS, which was pretty cool last night yesterday at some 2008 01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:55,320 point. All right, let me get the Maddie 2009 01:33:55,320 --> 01:33:58,160 KB NJ 63. Cliff Robinson was the guy 2010 01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:01,480 guarding MJ yes, during the infamous Jordan shrug. 2011 01:34:01,480 --> 01:34:04,240 Yeah, in the finals. I believe he was in the picture 2012 01:34:04,240 --> 01:34:07,680 when MJ did the shrug 100%. So you know, when MJ is just 2013 01:34:07,680 --> 01:34:09,360 going bonkers from that. And he wasn't really a 2014 01:34:09,360 --> 01:34:12,360 three-point shooter as, you know, mid range, obviously 2015 01:34:12,360 --> 01:34:14,560 attacking the rim, get into the free throw threes here and 2016 01:34:14,560 --> 01:34:16,080 there. But it was just red hot from 2017 01:34:16,080 --> 01:34:17,800 downtown. And we all know the imagery 2018 01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:20,120 where, you know, Jordan's running down the court. 2019 01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:21,680 He's like, yo, what do you want from me, man? 2020 01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:23,760 God made me different. That's basically what he's 2021 01:34:23,760 --> 01:34:25,680 doing. He's like, hey, my problem, 2022 01:34:25,680 --> 01:34:29,120 Nobody's like me. And Cliff Robinson is absolutely 2023 01:34:29,120 --> 01:34:30,880 in that frame. He's got the headband. 2024 01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:33,080 Cliff was a headband guy. Cliff may have. 2025 01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:36,600 Well, no, let me slow down here. I was going to say Cliff was the 2026 01:34:36,600 --> 01:34:39,320 first headband guy. They rocked the headbands in the 2027 01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:43,240 70s like the ABA. Even some in the NBA. 2028 01:34:43,560 --> 01:34:46,160 He is kind of one of these. First dudes though with like the 2029 01:34:46,160 --> 01:34:49,400 bald headband look. I don't know, like I feel like 2030 01:34:49,600 --> 01:34:53,440 this is definitely an early image of that of what's that's 2031 01:34:53,520 --> 01:34:54,880 what else? Did it well, I got. 2032 01:34:54,880 --> 01:34:56,600 I got somebody. For you you, you probably don't 2033 01:34:56,600 --> 01:35:00,200 even remember this, but Christian Laettner wore a 2034 01:35:00,200 --> 01:35:03,280 headband in the NBA when he was drafted by the Minnesota 2035 01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:06,280 Timberwolves. I mean, I wouldn't remember. 2036 01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:09,000 That at the time, but that is wild that he was a dude rocking 2037 01:35:09,040 --> 01:35:09,600 that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2038 01:35:09,600 --> 01:35:12,000 But it wasn't the ball look. Obviously it was like the j.crew 2039 01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:13,840 hair that I wish that I had, that I never had. 2040 01:35:14,640 --> 01:35:16,520 What else we got? I guess Billups did it. 2041 01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:19,160 Chauncey Billups did it a bit, yeah. 2042 01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:22,120 I think a few of those Ben Wallace did it. 2043 01:35:22,400 --> 01:35:24,200 Yeah, Yeah, the. Fro though. 2044 01:35:24,200 --> 01:35:25,960 But yeah, of course he wore the headband. 2045 01:35:26,200 --> 01:35:30,000 Let me tell you something, Ben. Wallace, I saw a picture of him 2046 01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:32,960 the other night sitting next to RIP Hamilton at the Pistons 2047 01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:36,440 game. He looks phenomenal, man. 2048 01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:39,320 I mean, he his suit was, you know, those guys that have like 2049 01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:43,200 just muscle, muscle upon muscle, like kind of like Shannon Sharpe 2050 01:35:44,240 --> 01:35:49,200 and like the suit can't even conceal it where like the biceps 2051 01:35:49,200 --> 01:35:51,680 and the and the thighs are just bulging through a suit. 2052 01:35:52,480 --> 01:35:53,760 Ben Wilder still looks like that. 2053 01:35:54,120 --> 01:35:56,680 And I remember. Oh yeah, dude, what? 2054 01:35:56,840 --> 01:35:58,280 The hell see that? You see that? 2055 01:35:58,280 --> 01:36:01,720 He's like an old dude, but he's like literally Shannon Sharp. 2056 01:36:01,920 --> 01:36:03,880 I loved him man, and let me. Tell you something about Ben 2057 01:36:03,880 --> 01:36:07,520 like so when I was in Detroit before I got the midday job, I 2058 01:36:07,520 --> 01:36:09,480 was, I won't bore you, but it doesn't matter. 2059 01:36:09,480 --> 01:36:12,560 But I was for a couple of months, I was doing like weekend 2060 01:36:12,560 --> 01:36:15,000 shows and I was doing some other stuff around, you know, getting 2061 01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:17,800 sound going to like Red Wings games and and just hustling, 2062 01:36:17,800 --> 01:36:21,560 right. And I would go to the Piston 2063 01:36:21,560 --> 01:36:23,760 games and I would get sound there to the game. 2064 01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:26,960 Rick Carlisle, you know, and when you first and I hadn't 2065 01:36:26,960 --> 01:36:30,560 really done that before. I had done I'd done shows in Las 2066 01:36:30,560 --> 01:36:34,520 Vegas at at a network nationally and in Allentown, PA before 2067 01:36:34,520 --> 01:36:36,360 that. And I'm not saying I was great 2068 01:36:36,360 --> 01:36:38,800 on the air doing shows. I was still in the early stages, 2069 01:36:38,840 --> 01:36:43,320 you know, a little raw for sure, but I felt comfortable doing it. 2070 01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:47,920 I did not feel comfortable going into locker rooms necessarily 2071 01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:49,880 asking questions. Like it wasn't my natural thing. 2072 01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:53,320 I had never done it, you know? So I remember going to the 2073 01:36:53,360 --> 01:36:56,640 Pistons locker room for the first time and like, RIP was 2074 01:36:56,640 --> 01:37:00,240 cool and Stack was cool and Rick Carlisle was really cool. 2075 01:37:00,440 --> 01:37:03,800 I mean, they were all cool. Chucky Atkins, Dana Barrows, 2076 01:37:05,280 --> 01:37:09,080 some of those other guys, Michael Curry. 2077 01:37:09,520 --> 01:37:12,480 And I remember going up to Ben and he really was the most 2078 01:37:12,480 --> 01:37:14,720 intimidating athlete that I ever interviewed in my life. 2079 01:37:15,240 --> 01:37:19,800 Number 16869. He is absolutely yoked, right? 2080 01:37:20,200 --> 01:37:24,800 And whether it was the fro, which was, I mean, the 70s were 2081 01:37:24,800 --> 01:37:27,080 standing back saying that thing is insane. 2082 01:37:27,080 --> 01:37:29,520 The craziest Afro ever. And then when he went to the 2083 01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:31,440 braids. It was a totally different look, 2084 01:37:31,840 --> 01:37:35,720 but then you talk to him and he was the nicest guy in the world. 2085 01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:39,760 He was such a good dude, really. Oh, I love Ben Wilde. 2086 01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:42,720 I loved Ben Wilde. I got a little piston story for 2087 01:37:42,720 --> 01:37:44,840 you very, very quickly. Then we'll wrap it up. 2088 01:37:45,320 --> 01:37:47,320 Give the Piston some love, try to get him a win tonight. 2089 01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:49,400 Give a little Piston mojo. Yes, Sir. 2090 01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:51,000 All right. So. 2091 01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:59,760 I am, oh let me see, 2002 ESPN New York O3. 2092 01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:01,520 I think this is probably O2, right? 2093 01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:03,560 And I'm doing a midday show in Detroit. 2094 01:38:03,560 --> 01:38:07,760 And I know I mentioned this part once where I'm doing the show at 2095 01:38:07,760 --> 01:38:12,120 one of our sister stations in Tampa and I'm driving to Orlando 2096 01:38:12,480 --> 01:38:15,280 in the summer league, right? And they had just reacted, 2097 01:38:15,280 --> 01:38:18,600 Rodney White from UNC Charlotte, 8th or 9th overall pick. 2098 01:38:18,600 --> 01:38:21,280 So I'm there to cover him, but I'm doing my midday show and 2099 01:38:21,640 --> 01:38:23,360 I've become pretty good friends with Rick Carlisle. 2100 01:38:23,360 --> 01:38:24,760 I think I mentioned that at some point. 2101 01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:27,960 And they were recruiting Chauncey Billups. 2102 01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:29,400 They were trying to get him as a free agent. 2103 01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:30,680 So I'm. I'm. 2104 01:38:30,800 --> 01:38:32,640 I'm just sitting there. Larry Bird's bot. 2105 01:38:32,640 --> 01:38:33,560 True story. Larry. 2106 01:38:33,560 --> 01:38:36,080 He's coaching the Pacers. Larry Bird's behind me. 2107 01:38:36,280 --> 01:38:39,240 Paul Silas is behind me. Isaiah Thomas is there. 2108 01:38:39,440 --> 01:38:41,560 It was. It was amazing, man, as a 2109 01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:44,120 basketball fan to be there. Yeah. 2110 01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:47,440 And the Magic did something this before the summer league became 2111 01:38:47,440 --> 01:38:49,200 this massive production in Vegas, right? 2112 01:38:49,600 --> 01:38:52,240 It was like they were like we had different pods. 2113 01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:56,880 But this in Orlando, it was like the Pistons, the Heat, because 2114 01:38:56,880 --> 01:39:00,800 Tony Gonzalez was playing on the Heat summer team, the tight end, 2115 01:39:01,440 --> 01:39:02,840 right? What? 2116 01:39:02,840 --> 01:39:06,000 Yeah. Yeah, it was it was awesome, 2117 01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:06,960 Jay. It was really cool. 2118 01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:09,240 That's sick. My eyes were so. 2119 01:39:09,240 --> 01:39:12,040 Wide I was young broadcaster which is great so I'm sitting on 2120 01:39:12,040 --> 01:39:15,320 the so so there were no fans it was at the Orlando Magic 2121 01:39:15,320 --> 01:39:19,680 practice facility OK and you fans couldn't go and watch see 2122 01:39:19,680 --> 01:39:22,280 what I'm saying told you there you go and and. 2123 01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:24,440 He was good. And so the fans couldn't go and 2124 01:39:24,440 --> 01:39:26,040 watch the game. So it was just NBA people, 2125 01:39:26,040 --> 01:39:29,680 scouts, personnel, Bird coaches, GMs. So I'm sitting in the 2126 01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:32,480 bleachers bullshit with Rick Carlisle, who I'm friendly with 2127 01:39:32,480 --> 01:39:34,360 this at this point, he goes, hey, hold on. 2128 01:39:34,360 --> 01:39:37,080 I got to take this call. This is a true story. 2129 01:39:37,320 --> 01:39:41,920 It's Chauncey Billups, right? So I'm like, yeah, of course. 2130 01:39:41,920 --> 01:39:43,360 Go do what you got to do. It's free agency. 2131 01:39:43,360 --> 01:39:45,920 It was just getting ready to start, or maybe it had just. 2132 01:39:45,960 --> 01:39:47,600 I don't want to get him in for tampering. 2133 01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:49,400 I'm sure it had just started, right? 2134 01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:53,520 It wasn't before it. So he's talking to him and and 2135 01:39:53,640 --> 01:39:56,120 the gym is kind of quiet and he goes, Hey, Chauncey, hang on a 2136 01:39:56,120 --> 01:39:57,200 second. I want I want to put you on the 2137 01:39:57,200 --> 01:39:59,520 phone with somebody. This guy's, you know, one of the 2138 01:39:59,520 --> 01:40:01,440 big radio. You know, he's hyping me up, one 2139 01:40:01,440 --> 01:40:04,840 of the big radio guys in Detroit and he knows basketball as it 2140 01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:06,960 could got, you know, talk to him. 2141 01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:11,520 Rick gives me the phone and I'm talking to Chauncey Billups and 2142 01:40:12,040 --> 01:40:15,440 Hand to Can't to God, and he's a free agent and I'm like, hey, 2143 01:40:15,480 --> 01:40:17,920 and I had read something about him where I knew he was getting 2144 01:40:17,920 --> 01:40:19,720 into golf. And I'm like, hey, you're going 2145 01:40:19,720 --> 01:40:21,840 to love it around here, man. There's a lot of golf courses. 2146 01:40:22,160 --> 01:40:24,440 Suburbs are great, awesome energy. 2147 01:40:24,440 --> 01:40:28,000 Pistons fans are phenomenal. You know, they're all into it 2148 01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:30,880 like sports radio that they're everyday, they're calm, there's 2149 01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:33,480 great energy. This team's like, you're you're 2150 01:40:33,480 --> 01:40:36,560 the missing piece now, you know, listen, I take a little credit 2151 01:40:36,560 --> 01:40:39,120 for Chance and they eventually won a championship. 2152 01:40:39,120 --> 01:40:42,640 That's not why he signed. But how funny is that dude? 2153 01:40:42,680 --> 01:40:45,160 That is too. An NBA coach gives. 2154 01:40:45,160 --> 01:40:48,360 Me the phone to somebody that he that was their number one free 2155 01:40:48,360 --> 01:40:51,360 agent target and I'm bullshit with Chauncey on the phone. 2156 01:40:51,880 --> 01:40:53,040 Hey, you brought. You brought him. 2157 01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:54,720 Over from the cells, man. Let's go. 2158 01:40:54,720 --> 01:40:56,040 That's right, man. Good. 2159 01:40:56,040 --> 01:40:57,160 Convincing. Yeah. 2160 01:40:57,160 --> 01:40:58,240 Drafted out of it. Do you know what? 2161 01:40:58,240 --> 01:41:01,560 School, he went to Chauncey. Remember it was he was what, 3 2162 01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:04,720 or 4? It was Antonio Daniels from 2163 01:41:04,720 --> 01:41:10,240 Bowling Green and Chauncey was from Colorado, two fairly 2164 01:41:10,240 --> 01:41:13,000 obscure basketball that is random because the. 2165 01:41:13,040 --> 01:41:16,040 Only other guys I can think of are Spencer Dinwiddie and Derek 2166 01:41:16,040 --> 01:41:18,680 White as Colorado basketball players. 2167 01:41:18,680 --> 01:41:21,400 Attaboy, I'm sure there's. A couple others though no there. 2168 01:41:21,400 --> 01:41:24,200 Definitely are, but not as many. All right, not a prevalent, you 2169 01:41:24,520 --> 01:41:27,320 know, basketball goal. Hey, good show today man A. 2170 01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:29,320 Lot of Yankees, yeah, A ton of that stuff. 2171 01:41:29,480 --> 01:41:31,960 Lot of calls, a lot of a lot of chats, a lot of say, hey, like 2172 01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:33,600 it, subscribe it. How many viewers we got now? 2173 01:41:33,600 --> 01:41:35,360 We had about 300 at one point. Yeah. 2174 01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:36,760 We got to get yeah, that started. 2175 01:41:36,840 --> 01:41:38,720 We got to get that up, got to get this out there. 2176 01:41:39,320 --> 01:41:41,520 Hopefully you get guys enjoyed the mini mock draft. 2177 01:41:41,520 --> 01:41:43,440 So like it, subscribe and check it out. 2178 01:41:43,440 --> 01:41:46,680 Not just BT unleashed, but The Jets collective as well. 2179 01:41:46,680 --> 01:41:49,360 Tomorrow is going to be phenomenal. 2180 01:41:49,360 --> 01:41:51,240 We're going to figure out, you know when I'm going to go on 2181 01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:52,480 live and how we're going to do this. 2182 01:41:52,480 --> 01:41:54,960 But I'll do a little something live as a draft is happening 2183 01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:57,880 obviously simultaneously at Nick playoff game. 2184 01:41:57,880 --> 01:41:59,320 So we'll be juggling a bunch of stuff. 2185 01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:02,120 You know when be the concussion. We'll keep an eye on that 2186 01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:04,600 Pistons magic tonight going to be massive. 2187 01:42:04,920 --> 01:42:06,920 Celtics take one on the chin last night at home. 2188 01:42:06,920 --> 01:42:11,040 So that's a series as well. And you know, will it become 13? 2189 01:42:11,520 --> 01:42:16,600 Will it become 13 for the Mets? Have an awesome day, everybody. 2190 01:42:16,600 --> 01:42:18,080 Catch you tomorrow. Peace.