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Is the World Baseball Classic a hazard for MLB players? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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I think I could too. I think it'd be pretty.
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I could do some push ups. I could stretch a little bit.
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you. Nathan tried to challenge you
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Nathan thinks he can out push up me.
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That's true. My rear end is burning.
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Well, there's a lot of things burning when it comes to
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Nathan's takes. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to
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get into the World Baseball Classic, the WBC, which starts
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on Wednesday. The World Baseball Classic
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begins this Wednesday, and the current betting lines have Team
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USA as betting favorites to win this year's event.
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The US is favored at a minus yes a -, 110, with Japan second at a
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+ 350 and the Dominican Republic at a + 425 and Valenzuela,
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Venezuela, I'm sorry, at +900. Puerto Rico will still
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participate, but some of their best players including Carlos
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Correa, Jose Barrios, and Francisco Lindor will not
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participate due to ongoing insurance issues with the MLB.
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The Dominican Republic had a few players with similar issues that
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won't participate but none of their star players so they are
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are still favored highly. All the Dodger Japanese stars
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along with Cubs outfielder say y'all right, Am I right Say
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y'all. Suzuki and recently signed Blue
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Jays infielder Akamoto will make up a stardom of Japanese roster,
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but reports say that the NLNVP Shay Otani will only hit, not
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pitch. The Dominican Republic has a lot
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of star power in their lineup with guys like Vladimir Guerrero
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Junior, Fernando Tatis Junior and Cattle Barte Manny Machado
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and who well wants. So I almost I almost went off
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time off target on that, but not as much not as much in their
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rotation after Phillies breakout pitcher last season Christopher
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for Sanchez. Team USA on the other hand, will
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have a ton of star power in their rotation led by saw young
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winner Tarek Skubal and Paul Skins to go with Joe Ryan, Logan
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Webb and Mets rising star Nolan McClain.
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Offensive Team USA lineup features American League
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champion and captain Aaron Judge and American League MVP runner
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up Cal Raleigh paired with other young stars like Bobby Witt,
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Junior Roman, Anthony, Gunner, Henderson with the Phillies
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vets, Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber bringing some presents
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and power for the red, white and blue.
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Team USA has just an unbelievable, unbelievable
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roster. This pitching staff is as good
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of a pitching staff is any pitching staff Team USA has had
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in the WBAC. But you know, what scares me
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about all these players is is you're putting your bodies on
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the line. You have a lot of money invested
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in these players. If I was running an
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organization, if I was the Yankees and I was the Mets or I
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was the Phillies or I, especially with the older
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players that they have on this team, Bryce Harper, Kyle
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Schwarber, you have a lot of a lot of money invested in these
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guys. And then Cal Riley, who's
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playing catching position, you're, you play 162 games
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practically all season. Last year you were the runner up
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in MVP and you're going to be a starting catcher for Team USA.
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And there's a lot of pressure on your knees when you have an MLB
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season right around the corner. That would worry me if I was the
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Seattle, Seattle Mariners. But you want to play for the I
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guess your red, white and blue take on that one.
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Thank you fish the USA and and again, this is not the Olympics.
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This is not now people are going to take this and maybe be hurt
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by what I'm going to say about this.
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I think this competition is great.
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I do. I think I think this competition
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is great. I love seeing the best players
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play for their their teams, their their countries, their
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flags. It it's great.
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But this, this tournament means nothing.
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It really means nothing if United States wins this
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tournament, Japan's won it for how many times?
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I mean, this has been going on for what, over 20 years?
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I. Was going to say I think Japan
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is the only multi time winner. I mean they've won it like 3
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times. I think Cuba won it once. the
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United States don't win these tournaments because nobody wants
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to play in it. Now finally we got Taric School
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and Paul Skins. They want to compete.
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Joe Ryan, Logan Webb and and obviously Nolan McLean.
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This is a great pitching staff, probably the best pitching
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staff. It would be the best pitching
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staff in baseball. I mean, it's a ridiculous
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pitching staff. And you got guys like Aaron
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George and Bobby Witt, who's one of the best defensive shortstops
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in all the baseball. And Cal Raleigh, who was just
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putting up the numbers that he had last year, switch hitting
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power hitter. It's great.
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It's great for Team USA baseball.
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You want to see the best players and you can't wait to see what
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this roster can bring to this tournament.
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I feel bad for these organizations, season teams.
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We saw what happened to Edwin Diaz.
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Does anybody remember what happened to Edwin Diaz?
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Right after he got a big contract.
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He plays for team Puerto Rico, they win a game, he jumps up in
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the air and he lands on his knee and tears his ACL Season ending
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injury that quick. All it takes is 1 bad move, one
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bad jerk. I don't know.
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You can have a hurt flasik or whatever the hell it is when it
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comes to your finger. I mean, I mean, you can break
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your thumb in baseball. You break your thumb.
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Good luck. You're probably going to be out
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three months. This isn't basketball.
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Baseball, you put a lot of talk on your fingers, you know,
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you're swinging at a ball that's going 100 mph.
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You're not going to be able to play with a broken finger.
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You're not going to be be able to do anything with a fractured
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finger. So, and, and The thing is, is
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with Japan, Japan's going to play the best place because
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Japan loves these tournaments. They love whipping the hell out
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of the Dominican Republic and Team USA because they want to
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stand as the world power. They want to stand as we are the
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best in the world when it comes to baseball.
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We have dominated. Look at all our great players.
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Look at Okamoto and look, look at the Suzuki's of the world.
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And, and obviously the pitching staff, yes, the pitching staff
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are the Dodgers. I, I just, to me, when you're
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looking at tournaments like this, you want to see them play
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for something like a gold medal, like something that stands for
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something. And, and being that the
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Olympics, the Summer Olympics go on during the summer when
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baseball's going on, we're never going to see these players.
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They play amateurs. So it doesn't really matter.
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It has no really, it doesn't really matter to anybody now.
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It's right now basketball is the only thing going on with
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obviously hockey. I mean, I can't say that
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hockey's not back. But, and if you're an Islander,
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well, I hope not. You're not a Ranger fan right
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now. There's really that bad and the
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Devil's are up and down. I mean, I love that Jack Hughes
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is back. So I think you have something to
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watch with the Devil's. But when you watch baseball and
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you're getting ready for this tournament, I mean, you're
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looking at Team USA and, and, and the opportunity they have to
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win this tournament for the first time in over 20 years.
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And you have Aaron Judge, who's 34 years old.
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As a Yankee fan, I'm worried. I'm worried because this guy's
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had a toll problem over the last three years.
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He already said he came out, he had toe surgery after he ran
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into the wall in Dodger Stadium. He grew up, I don't know if
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anybody knows this, he grew up a San Francisco Giants fan.
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He's from San Francisco area, but he also rooted for the
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Dodgers. So his family was at, his whole
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family was at that Dodger game. So he wanted show off and he ran
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into the wall and he hurt his talk.
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All it takes for a guy that 6 foot eight 280 lbs of muscle is
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torque his knee and he could be out a significant amount of
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time. Could you imagine season ending
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injury for Aaron Judge for this WBC tournament and he's out for
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the rest of the baseball season. The Yankees have nothing to look
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forward to. I don't care if Garricko comes
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back. I don't care if this pitching
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staff is elite without Aaron Judge.
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They don't stay at a chance in the in the American League.
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The Red Sox are better, the Blue Jays are better, even the
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Orioles are a better because they had a Pete Alonso.
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It worries me. I don't know what I I don't know
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what you Yankee fans are looking forward to.
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You get to see Aaron Judge wear the USA, you know, logo on his
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chest. Maybe you should go on fanatic
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and buy the jersey right now it's $400.00.
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Go waste your money on that. It's just it, it, it worries me.
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It should worry all of you guys and who cares what Vegas is
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giving you the betting odds that don't mean crap.
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The Dominican Republic, they got a a great, great, great line up.
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Look at the names. Guerrero junior Tatis junior.
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Marte Machado, Soto, Who cares? Who cares?
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Fernando Tatis is an injury prone player.
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Machado is an injury prone player.
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Guerrero has been up and down with injury over the years.
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Juan Soto, I mean, he stayed healthy for most of his career,
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but you worry about him. Soto came out and came and he
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pretty much challenged the league, the National League,
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that he's going to win the MVP, the National League MVP over
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Atani going into this season. Could you imagine if he goes
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down for the New York Mets? That's what I'm worried about
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here. And when you have Cody Bellinger
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coming out, because I don't know if anybody knows, the United
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States asked Cody Bellinger to play for this team.
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And Cody said after he signed his big contract with the
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Yankees, he says my allegiance is to the New York Yankees and
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winning a World Series. I am not playing in the World
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Baseball Classic. I'm not doing it.
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I'm getting ready for the end of the MLB season and I'm going to
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be ready to go for 162 games. And when you hear your own
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teammate and Aaron Judge, I'm sure heard that take, you kind
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of wonder now if you're a baseball fan, if you're a Yankee
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fan or even a Mets fan here in New York, could you, would you
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be scared if Nolan McLean throws his shoulder out in a in a WBC
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game and he's out for the rest of the season, out for next year
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too because he needs shoulder surgery or elbow surgery?
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Your young rookie, well, as she was a rookie second year player
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who looked like a phenom and you're going into the year with
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Peralta and him and you're going into a strike year next year.
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And that would probably matter if he's out for the season next
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year. If there's not going to be a
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season, maybe that's why these players are playing in the WBC
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because there might not be a baseball season the next year.
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So they might as well use their body and and use their season to
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their advantage. But to me, what are they winning
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here? They're paying for their own
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insurances and the MLB is not paying.
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Teams are not paying for this. Aaron Judge is paying out of
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pocket. Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber,
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every one of these players. Tarek Scuba, who's expecting a
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$500 million contract next year. Paul Schemes, who wants to be
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traded to the Yankees. These are all things that you
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have to worry about if you're a baseball fan, and I'm sorry, I'm
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looking forward to the baseball season.
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I'm not looking forward to this. I'm really not.
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I'm going to tell you this right now.
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If Team USA wins the gold or wins the WBC, am I going to be
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proud of the red, white and blue?
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Yes, of course. I'm going to be more worried
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about who's going to go down, who's going to get hurt and if
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one of these players that are so important to their organizations
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and their teams don't get the contracts they want the next
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year when they become free agents.
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So get ready guys, cuz I'm going to bet you they're just going to
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be a major injury in this tournament.
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And I don't know who it's going to be.
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But don't be surprised if one of your superstars on your team and
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your roster is going to go down on a terrible injury, a weird
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injury, and could be at a significant amount of time or
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maybe the whole baseball season. And that's why you see Japan
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generally have a lot of these advantages in this types of
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tournament because a lot of their guys we talk about with
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some of our guests all the time too, that we're saying that they
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don't pitch as often. Their pitchers go longer in
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between starts. And obviously they, some of
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them, I mean, some of them throw hard, but a lot of them don't
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throw as hard in general. And a lot of their pro seasons,
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the way it's stretched out, I know obviously Yamamoto and
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Sasaki and guys like that are MLB players, but they're not all
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MLB players. So they're playing in that
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Japanese league that is stretched out a lot more where
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you can actually, you could actually stretch your pitchers
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out more. And I think they're more used to
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it where a lot of these pitchers are going to be pitching hard
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right away. School said he probably only old
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pitch one start and how hard is he going to go in that star?
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You wonder if you showed the highlight before he's throwing
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103 towards the end of the game. We always capable of it, but
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that doesn't mean that it's going to work all the time.
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And it's not going to keep him healthy either.
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Remember School, he's been healthier now, but he had a lot
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of injury problems at the beginning of his career.
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That's why he didn't develop as quickly when he was a draft pick
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in 2020 and now he's obviously turning the best picture in
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baseball. But you worry about that kind of
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thing. I'm definitely worried about
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with McLean. You got to be and schemes.
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The Pirates are probably not going to keep him anyway, but
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anyone would be worried about training for that if he has any.
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You're going to trade away your whole practically your whole
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future for Paul schemes. And this guy is, is, is a
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phenom. I mean, this guy is the best
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young pitcher in baseball. He's 2223 years old.
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He's dating one of the, the gymnasts of, of the year.
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She's all over the place. She's social media queen and,
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and she, he's all over the place because of her and, and, and
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you, you're going to see this guy go and pitch for Team USA
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and golf a bit. He throws out his shoulder,
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throws out his elbow, throws out his knee on the mound.
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Are the Yankees going to really throw away all their prospects
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or all their future to go after a pool of Skeens?
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I don't know. I, I mean, it worries me.
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This is a worrisome situation. Yeah, and it also worries some
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when you look at the way that they handle this insurance, too,
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because you're right, MLB, you would think, would do more.
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They're promoting it on their own website, MLB.com, but
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they're not promoting it. They're not helping these
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players out by giving. Those insurance.
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Yeah, and again, they're doing it for their own.
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Their the Yankee. They did it for Garrett Cole
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when he was hurt in the MLB season.
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No, he's not going to do it for the WBC.
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And again, it's going to make, it's going to water down the
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event because I'm not saying Puerto Rico.
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You're not You're not worried about Gunner Henderson, who
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can't stay healthy over there with the Orioles.
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Yeah, Yeah, we could go. You talk about the Phillies like
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we go on the laundry list of all these guys that have been injury
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prone, Tatis, etcetera and Kyle. Schwarber.
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Yeah, they're not. You're not dealing with, you're
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dealing with a lot of cases of. Yeah, maybe USA still is a
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strong team because because. Obviously they have the best
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roster. I know, I know.
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Talent wise they're able to accumulate a lot of it, which is
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which they should do because it's their sport.
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Clayton Kershaw. Playing on his team too, but
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he's retiring. That's why he's on this roster.
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He's probably going to be a bullpen pitcher.
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He he's a part of this roster just because he's the great
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Clayton Kershaw and he wants to play one more game and one more
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experience for Team USA baseball.
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But I mean, this is so worrisome.
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I, I don't know I anybody would think this is a great
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tournament. Yeah.
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Because you're going to get a chance to see some of the great
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players play for their colors. Yeah, I I'm worried.
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It's a very top heavy tournament also because of that too,
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because I think even like we were talking about the Dominican
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Republic, I think they even have like Wandy Peralta's like the
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third option who has a pitch. He pitched with the Yankees like
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3 years ago. I think that was his last time
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in Major League Baseball. Like that's how desperate they
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are because of this insurance, this insurance issue.
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And that's why I get in Japan bringing their pro players
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essentially there seems like even though they may have US raw
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talent as the US, they still might be favored in the
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tournament just because of that. I also think that you look at
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the Dominican Republic and I think the Dominican Republic,
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but the roster they have is still capable of winning the
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whole thing. I mean, if two of these hitters
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go get hot, Vladimir Guerrero to tease, these are great here,
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Sodo, these guys are some of the best hitters in baseball.
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Now, they don't have their whole roster and they're not going to
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be able to match up against Japan or even Team USA, but
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they're still going to be up there.
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And all it takes is 2 guys to get hot in this tournament.
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What do they play? Each team is going to play
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about. Five games, they play four games
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in the group I believe, and then they'll play the knockout round.
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And if and if Dominic or Republic can get either like
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Luis Severino or Brian Bello like one of the other second
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tier pitchers to get hot, then yeah, they have definitely have
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a shot with that offense. Yeah, and, and again, I'm, I'm
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also worried about the fact that is, is this going to sell to the
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baseball fan? Sure.
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Is this really going to sell if you're a baseball fan?
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I know Zach's a baseball fan. I know Zoot's a baseball fan.
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Dom I'd like to hear it from the younger fans because these guys,
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the youth, they can't wait for this tournament.
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I've it's so funny because I was speaking to a kid off air.
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I'm not going to mention his name, but he he's a big baseball
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fan. He's in his 20s.
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And he was telling me how I can't wait until the WBC.
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This is going to be great for Team USA.
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They got a chance to win it. And I said, OK, they're going to
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win it. Maybe, maybe they do win it.
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What's it going to do? What's it going to do?
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Team USA won it one time. I think, if I'm not mistaken.
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Who is the pitcher? Who's the closing pitcher?
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I think it was. Yeah, Patrick Medford,
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representative. You know what I'm talking about.
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Stroman That's right. Yeah, Marcus Stroman, I remember
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he finished and he and he pitched the final game for Team
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USA and he won. They won the WBCI, remember.
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That was the only time they won. The Yankees and Mets legend
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Marcus Stroman. Yeah, a Long Island native.
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I know Patrick Medford. I went to school there, so I
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know Marcus Stroman, but I, I just, you know, I speak to these
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kids and they're, they're like excited about this.
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What's so exciting about this? I, I, I, I mean, I'm a Yankee
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fan and I'm worried. I'm definitely worry about Aaron
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Judge. He's 34 years old.
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I'm worried about McClain in the same way.
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Well, McClain is like in his early. 20s, I know that, but
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still, you don't want to. The Mets have had problems
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keeping their young pitchers healthy.
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Juan Soto is 27 years old. Aaron Judge is 34 years old.
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He's the best player in baseball and he's going in this
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tournament because he's never played for Team USA baseball.
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He's never experienced this opportunity to be the captain of
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this team. I mean, are you excited as a
21:24
Yankee fan because Aaron Judge is the captain of Team USA
21:27
Baseball? It's they're not winning
21:30
anything. They're not getting anything out
21:32
of this. Are they even making money on
21:33
this? I think some, but not not enough
21:36
where you would expect for like a global tournament.
21:39
That's, that's problem with a lot of these global tournaments
21:41
probably outside of the World Cup.
21:42
Like you have a lot of these tournaments that don't make as
21:44
much as they should and or international organizations we
21:48
talked about with the Olympics a few weeks ago that have been
21:50
corrupt in terms of like not paying their athletes enough as
21:52
much as they should for amount of the amount of training, the
21:54
amount of wear and tear that puts it, especially with
21:56
baseball, that is a long season. I think when I look at the game
21:59
of baseball and it's all about the youth, you want to bring in
22:02
some new fans if they're all driving to pass basketball
22:05
because of all the stars and football because it's the
22:08
biggest sport here in America and they're making it world
22:11
renown. I mean, think about it.
22:13
You have them in Europe, you have it in Germany, you have it
22:16
in Australia. They can have games in all
22:17
different places for, for the next, you know, next 20 years.
22:21
I I mean, the NFL just signed a big contract to have games all
22:26
over the world. Baseball is world renowned,
22:31
world renowned. As far as world sports,
22:34
baseball's the biggest. Think about it, it's the biggest
22:38
besides soccer, besides soccer, but that's not out of the the
22:43
four major sports here. The four major sports is
22:45
basketball, which is becoming world renowned, football that's
22:48
getting there. Hockey that's, you know, it's
22:50
world renowned, but not as big. Certain markets, yeah.
22:53
And baseball, baseball's the biggest.
22:56
It's the biggest in the whole world.
23:00
If you go to country to country, every one of them are playing
23:02
baseball. Every one of them soccer,
23:06
baseball, hockey's too expensive.
23:08
Basketball, if you you know they they do play basketball, but
23:12
it's not it's getting up there. I mean it.
23:14
There are basketball players all over the world now but and
23:18
football is is starting to grow world but.
23:21
It's in football is never going to catch.
23:23
Up with the others No, this is this is a sport that is trying
23:28
to to catch back up with basketball and football and I
23:32
don't think this is the tournament that's going to do
23:34
it. I I would worry fans, I would
23:38
worry. I wrote a story on the on the
23:40
worldwide sports radio network. Go check it out.
23:42
I I I gave you my take into it. I know everybody's excited and
23:46
I'm excited to see Aaron Judge, but USA colors.
23:50
And then what happens when he fouls a ball off the back of his
23:53
knee and creates A contusion that makes him sit out for five
23:57
weeks of the MLB season? What are the Yankees going to
24:00
do? What happens if he fouls a ball
24:04
off his finger or his toe and he breaks his toe and he could be
24:08
out two months? How does that help the Yankees?
24:14
That's why Bellinger and I, I agree with Bellinger.
24:17
I agree with some of these players that said, you know
24:19
what? I don't want to play in this
24:20
tournament. I don't want to put my body on
24:21
the line. I'm I'm about, you know, the
24:23
team. I'm about my, my, my family.
24:25
I'm about my contract. So.
24:29
Imagine imagine if they like had the insurance like you still
24:33
have to worry about even with like somebody like Lindor
24:35
dropped out. See, when Team USA Hockey, I
24:38
understand. That's the Olympics.
24:40
That's the Olympics, to win a gold medal, something that a
24:43
team has not done in 46 years and Team Cantor's dominance.
24:47
And that's why all the Canadian players want to play in that
24:49
tournament. That's why everybody was looking
24:51
forward to it, you know, because they're, they're playing for
24:55
something, they're playing for a gold.
24:56
Medal. That's the first time NHL
24:57
players were back in the Olympics.
25:00
They're playing for something. This is this is not good.
25:06
So that's my take on the WBC preview.
25:09
I, I, I know everybody was expecting me to be excited about
25:12
this, but, and I know Fish put it together, but I think Fish
25:14
know, knew where I was going with this.
25:17
It doesn't make me happy as a, as a baseball fan.
25:20
I'm a huge baseball fan and to me, if I'm a Yankee fan, a Mets
25:25
fan or any fan, I would not want to see my favorite or my best
25:29
player playing this tournament knowing that they can get hurt
25:32
and could be out a significant amount of time.
25:34
So that's my take on it. I hope everything is OK.
25:38
I hope nobody gets hurt. Something tells me somebody
25:41
major is going to get hurt in this tournament, could be out a
25:43
significant amount of time. I'm not betting on it.
25:46
I don't want to. I hope it doesn't happen.
25:48
I just have a feeling it's going to happen.
25:50
All right, ladies and gentlemen, our final segment of the night,
25:53
as we call this Dial it up. We interrupt this regularly
25:56
scheduled hot mix to bring you important news.
25:58
We got a big broadcast to do here.
26:01
We're about to dial it all it. Up.
26:05
OK, everybody, welcome back. You made me The Ultimate
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Warrior. Now to dial it up.
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Everyone's favorite segment. You actually were always
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supposed to be The Ultimate Warrior.
26:18
Now it looks better. We got a great Mets story.
26:22
Again, if you don't know this segment, we have 5 different
26:25
stories. Errol doesn't know what we're
26:27
about to talk about. He's going to dial up a take.
26:30
And here's the first one tonight.
26:32
Brandon Nimmo is reportedly numb from the Mets trade way back a
26:39
few months ago. Again, we have heard all sorts
26:42
of reasons why Nimmo was traded, converging from political
26:47
possible reasons to not getting along with Francisco Lindor,
26:52
which Lindor has denied. Texas seems to be pretty happy
26:57
they have a new leadoff hitter and probably left fielder slash
27:01
center fielder. Errol, what do you make?
27:06
Squeeze the tree. Stearns treated someone who felt
27:12
a family relationship with Steve Cohen as well as the only
27:16
franchise he ever knew. When you dial it.
27:20
Off Well, we saw what Chris Drury did to Goudreau.
27:25
We saw what he did. He told Goudreau at the trade
27:29
deadline, before the trade deadline that he wasn't going to
27:31
trade him, that he wanted to make sure.
27:33
Goudreau wanted to make sure that him and his family were
27:35
going to stay with in New York for at least the rest of the
27:37
season and then in the offseason if he wanted to move him.
27:40
And what did Chris Drury do? He screwed him and the same
27:43
thing. David Stearns doesn't care about
27:45
being faithful to players and players that were drafted from
27:48
the organization. He don't care.
27:50
All he cares about is building his team and his championship
27:53
organization. It didn't work in Milwaukee.
27:56
He's trying to do it in New York.
27:58
I feel bad for Brennan IMO. I think Brandon IMO would have
28:00
been their best outfielder on this roster no question.
28:03
They traded him for honestly a bag of bones.
28:06
I I'm sorry you're bringing a guy is a veteran.
28:09
Simians is is an older guy. He's 3637 years and I say a bag
28:13
of bones because all it takes is 1 broken bone and he's done and
28:17
he could be out for the rest of his career and the rest of the
28:19
season. I'm not trusting a 36 year old
28:21
to a guy that's what 30 years old and still in the prime of
28:25
his career. I, I understand the the back end
28:28
of it. Maybe he didn't get along with
28:29
Lindor or Soto or any of the Spanish players or politically
28:33
behind maybe Donald Trump. I, I don't know it to me it
28:38
shouldn't matter. It should matter about the
28:40
talent of the player and this guy by would be the best
28:43
outfield you have on this roster.
28:45
It sickens me. If I'm a Mets fan, I shouldn't
28:47
and I wouldn't be happy about. It no, you never want to
28:50
mistreat your longest tenured player in Brandon Nemo, who
28:53
debuted in 2016. And obviously we talk about like
28:55
they don't have a lot of like home drafted players.
28:58
Not a guy. Yeah and home drafted players in
29:00
the lineup anymore. Now again, I like Semi and I
29:02
like him as a player, but I I don't like the way that they
29:04
treat these players. And I always said that with the
29:06
Mets team culture like they're still trying to establish that
29:08
they're a money pit right now. They pay guys, but they still
29:11
operate a very conventionally and this is another example of
29:14
that too. Whatever the reason may be,
29:15
whether or political, whether I. See the last Manaya guy?
29:19
I think he is. I think Alonso was technically
29:22
drafted by them, but he didn't come up until 19.
29:24
So it is Nimmo is the last Manaya.
29:26
Guy so yeah, a lot of those guys remaining, yeah, because they're
29:29
all from these other trays. So yeah, it just again, a guy
29:32
that was a fan favorite. Yeah, he did he have an amazing
29:34
year every year, No, but he was pretty steadily.
29:36
Good hustle guy, good defensive guy at his peak yeah, he had a
29:39
big contract. Maybe it was going to be moved
29:41
on later, but again, doing it, that's surprising.
29:43
When fashion, I agree with you. It was a lot the same way.
29:44
And you saw when Wilbur Flores was crying on the field because
29:47
he got traded or almost traded by the Mets in 2015.
29:50
Like, you have a loyalty to this organization, and Nimmo had that
29:53
for almost a decade. All right, we're going to go
29:56
over to college basketball with this next.
29:59
Story. College basketball.
30:02
I don't know if you caught this, but the leading scorer of USC is
30:08
Chad Baker Mazzara. He has been kicked off of the
30:12
team, effectively ending his college career.
30:16
Errol, he's 26 years old. If you remember, he was one of
30:22
the guys on that Auburn team last year that went to the Final
30:25
Four. Almost won it all.
30:28
He's played for five different teams in six years.
30:32
He was thrown off of I believe San Diego State for academic
30:36
issues. He's been out of trouble.
30:37
Well, the story is they've lost. They're in the middle of losing
30:40
their fifth in a row, USC and he just he got hurt.
30:46
He came back from being hurt instead of joining the team on
30:49
the bench, sat under the base the the hoop in the baseline
30:53
with the fans. Apparently there's a lot more
30:56
going on behind the scenes. He is gone.
30:59
What a catastrophe for a Southern Cal.
31:05
Dial it up. Well, here's what I'm going to
31:09
say. USC has not been a good
31:12
basketball program for a while. They really haven't.
31:16
I remember somebody that was drafted as the number one picks,
31:19
but you know what I'm talking about.
31:20
Mobley. No, there's a guy.
31:22
I'm not talking about Mobley. This was actually that was LSU.
31:27
I'm I'm going to go off that USC, it was Mobley.
31:29
Mobley was the last guy that was good coming out of USA.
31:32
So you're right. And he plays for the Cavaliers.
31:34
I, I here's the thing. USC basketball has not been
31:38
very, very good. Now, I haven't heard this story,
31:40
but I'm not surprised that something is going on behind the
31:43
scenes. And maybe it has something to do
31:45
with the coaching staff. Maybe it didn't like the coach
31:48
or maybe there's something going on or he he doesn't like the way
31:51
they're coaching certain players.
31:53
I'm not surprised this is going on.
31:55
This is, listen, you're a player, you're getting a
31:58
scholarship. You decided to go to USC.
31:59
You decided to go into the portal and pick USC.
32:05
You don't like something, act like a man.
32:07
Go and talk to the coaching staff.
32:08
Go talk to the director of of the sports or the education and
32:12
of it. Why are you going out there and
32:14
throwing yourself under the bus where you're going to get
32:15
yourself thrown off the team? This is absolutely a joke.
32:18
It just shows you that the leadership over there at USC has
32:22
not been good since Pete Carroll.
32:25
A different sport? I'm just saying national
32:29
champion Pete Carroll twice, back-to-back years.
32:32
Well, hang on, USC has had something recently though.
32:36
I mean, they had Ronnie James recently, the great Ronnie James
32:40
on USC. Four points of them.
32:44
But not really. That's what it comes down.
32:46
To this. Program, this program has been a
32:48
really bit of a stink bomb recently.
32:49
And to be honest with you, it's not looking any better.
32:52
I mean, really, I don't know the whole situation with this kid or
32:55
whatnot, but I mean, there's definitely a way to handle it
32:57
and to not handle it. I mean, it's not even that it's
32:59
it's it looks necessarily terrible to the team.
33:02
It's terrible to the team. It is terrible to the team that
33:04
you got got yourself kicked off on and who just to know whatever
33:07
is going to happen following whatever team you do transfer to
33:10
or whatever team. He's going to be like that guy
33:12
that just finished ten years in Miami.
33:14
What is that guy's name? The tight end?
33:16
I don't know his name, but it's not even from a memorable name.
33:19
But anyways, it's it's going to be a mess.
33:21
Listen, listen to the the names that have been on USC
33:25
basketball. DeMar DeRozan.
33:27
All right, Paul Westfall, Gus Williams.
33:31
Hold on. Taj Gibson, Harold Meyer, Nick
33:34
Young, OJ Mayo, OJ Cliff Robertson.
33:40
He would probably be, in my eyes, be the best one.
33:43
I mean, I don't know if anybody remembers Clifford Robertson.
33:45
He played, if I'm not mistaken, he played for the Portland Trail
33:48
Blazers. I love the way he played at the
33:51
time that he was at, I think it was.
33:53
I think he was on the Trail Blazers.
33:54
Yeah, I think the 70s Trail Blazers seem the only one that
33:57
won a title, I believe in the late 70s.
34:00
I just want to mention. DeMar Derozan's probably.
34:02
Yes, yeah, I would say Derozan's probably the best, but let me
34:04
just like sub in a little before we move on.
34:06
I was going to mention like they got rid of their their coach
34:09
left in Andy Enfield, that USC had their best season in a
34:13
while. That was with Mobley.
34:14
They went to the elite as a six year.
34:15
They got smoked by Gonzaga. Remember how good they were with
34:18
OJ Mayo and everybody was thinking that they were going to
34:20
win a national championship. Right.
34:21
And that's why you would think like you were talking about what
34:23
Pete Carroll, you would think that they would like rise their
34:25
whole athletic program into something like that.
34:27
Didn't OJ Mayo had a problem over there in USC and that's why
34:30
he fell in the draft? A little before my time, I
34:32
think. He had a problems, I think he
34:34
definitely. Definitely is possible.
34:35
And if it does step up from the athletic department, you wonder
34:39
if there's issues behind that too.
34:40
Because Baker Mazzara, like you were saying, Fish, he went to a
34:43
final four with San Diego State. He went to a Final four with
34:45
Auburn. Like this is an experienced guy.
34:47
This is a good player and it's something you would want with
34:50
leadership there with a new coach And Eric Musselpin, the
34:52
very well respected, a good coach in Arkansas for a while.
34:55
And now you're just dragging the program around.
34:56
You have the whole Brian James Robelo for that too.
34:59
And going to the Big 10, that's a gauntlet.
35:01
Good luck trying to recreate your image as a program.
35:04
I mean, I haven't been around a ton of like high end, like high
35:08
school basketball talent, but the best 16 year old I ever saw
35:11
play live was OJ. Yeah, it was good.
35:13
I was at the ABCD basketball camp one year and he was there
35:17
doing like the underclassmen game.
35:18
He was by far the best one there.
35:20
Underclassmen and and including the guys older than him.
35:23
It was like the year after LeBron was there, I got there
35:26
and it wasn't like the same level of talent, unfortunately.
35:29
But let's move on to the next story.
35:32
This one we're going to bring in our intern for because we're
35:35
going to get back to the track. Yes, Tyler Reddick, MJ 2311
35:45
Racing. He makes NASCAR history by
35:49
becoming the first person ever to win the first three races of
35:54
the NASCAR season. This was after a long drought.
35:57
Obviously. We talked about it when the
35:59
Daytona 500 happened. He wins the Daytona, which is
36:02
the opening race of the year. He then followed it up with the
36:05
Auto Trader 400 in Atlanta. He overcame a bunch of crash
36:10
damage to become the victor and that one kind of, I believe just
36:14
like the Daytona race. And in this third race, he
36:18
started from the pole and LED over half of the race.
36:22
Errol. There were pictures of MJ
36:25
holding up the three after his three peat alongside Tyler
36:29
Reddick in his three peat side by side all over the Internet.
36:34
How do you feel about the championship drive and compet in
36:38
the competitive nature of MJ never going away and finding
36:42
this way all the way to NASCAR? Dial it up now listen, who the
36:47
hell is Tyler Renick? Who the hell is this guy?
36:52
This guy wins 3 back-to-back raises.
36:54
I'm like, this is like days of Thunder.
36:56
He comes out of nowhere and you got coal.
36:59
And maybe maybe they're making a new days of Thunder movie.
37:02
I think they are days of Thunder too.
37:03
I mean, Tom Cruise is going to be in and I I saw it coming
37:06
attraction. So maybe they have Tyler Reddick
37:09
the starring, you know, the the second bad guy on the show.
37:12
He doesn't look like a bad guy. I mean, it looks like a sweet,
37:14
kind guy. And and Michael Jordan comes out
37:17
and I saw, I saw a couple of videos, Michael Jordan talking
37:20
to all the the top racers and he's like, he's like, I'm trying
37:24
to catch you guys. I'm trying to catch you guys.
37:27
They're talking about me, but who the hell am I?
37:29
I'm I'm just a basketball player.
37:32
It's great to see Michael Jordan and has his hands dipped in
37:34
everything. It really is.
37:36
It's great and Michael Jordan seems like everything he touches
37:39
turns to gold except a Charlotte Hornets.
37:42
He didn't turn the goal over there and and eventually he sold
37:45
the organization. But this guy is a multi
37:48
billionaire. The guy understands what it
37:51
takes to build organizations and maybe he found a diamond in a
37:55
rough and Tyler Reddick. I mean, I don't know how tall he
37:59
is. He looks like he's like 5 foot 8
38:00
and 5 foot. He's a small guy.
38:03
It looks like he's a small guy, but he he he looks you know, he
38:07
looks like you know, ginger gingerbread, you know,
38:10
gingerbread kid. I guess I I don't know good for
38:12
him. I I'm I'm happy for him.
38:14
Hopefully he consistently plays. What does he have like 180?
38:18
I think it's like I'm looking at 186 points right now in three
38:21
races. He's 3 and OII mean he's been
38:24
racing. He think he's, he's polling at
38:26
#1 so good for him, good for him.
38:30
Yeah, so it was, it was super impressive.
38:32
It was a really impressive drive.
38:34
I think probably the only thing more impressive than winning the
38:40
Daytona 500, which is insanely difficult to win.
38:43
I mean, you really need more than skill.
38:45
It took the what is arguably the the greatest race car driver of
38:49
all time, Dale Earnhardt, 20 years just to win the Daytona
38:52
500. And and Reddick's pretty young.
38:55
I mean, he's only been in the sport just a few years.
38:59
And then winning the the Auto Trader race in Atlanta with with
39:05
damage. I mean, after getting caught up
39:06
in the big one, that is pretty much unheard of.
39:09
And then what I would say was super impressive from
39:13
yesterday's race was beating Shane van Gisbergen who is a
39:17
multi time champion in the Australian V8 Supercar series.
39:21
He's a New Zealander so he's he's been down there, he's
39:24
whooped everybody's ass in that series.
39:26
And so he decided he wanted to come to the States and come and
39:29
whoop our guys's ass on the road.
39:31
And he's got 5 consecutive race wins on road courses.
39:37
He won his first start which was on a road course.
39:43
And Denny Hamlin, the co-owner of 2311 Racing, said himself
39:48
that Reddick is a more complete driver than him.
39:50
And what I think he means by that is he can win on these
39:53
superspeedway races. He can win on these really
39:56
dynamic kind of pseudo superspeedway races that Echo
40:01
Park Speedway has become. And then these intermediate
40:05
cookie cutters and then kind of this this big terror inducing.
40:10
What was that? I think it's interesting.
40:13
I'm listening to you. I'm like, I haven't.
40:15
I haven't really been a race car fan since Dale Earnhardt.
40:18
He was my favorite race car drive.
40:19
I watched every big race he was in.
40:22
But I don't know anything about this kid.
40:24
All I know is Michael Jordan finds a diamond in the rough.
40:27
He brings this guy in and this guy is just unstoppable.
40:31
Unstoppable right now. It's unbelievable.
40:33
I think I didn't. I'm not so shocked that it
40:36
happened. You know, I think it was a
40:38
matter of time, which I'm kind of shocked it hasn't happened
40:40
before. The 1st 3 races in a season has
40:43
been, you know, won by the same driver.
40:45
I'm not shocked that it happened.
40:47
I think I'm shocked that it's this group, you know, 2311, they
40:51
started in 2021 after, you know, they got a charter that had been
40:56
sold to Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin.
40:59
They, I mean, it's 2026 like this, their fifth season on the
41:04
track. You don't get this kind of
41:07
outstanding performance from these new teams usually.
41:13
And so it's it's really impressive that it is this team
41:16
and it's this driver. I mean, Tyler Reddick has wins
41:19
and he's consistent like he's won a regular season
41:23
championship before with this organization.
41:26
But it's pretty insane that it's this driver because he just
41:29
never really had those those big kind of sexy wins.
41:33
You know that you get like these and when they turned back to the
41:39
case format for the championship this year, this is the best
41:43
opportunity that Tyler Reddick has ever had to win a
41:46
championship. And I mean, he's already 3 races
41:51
in, has three wins. And you really see in a
41:54
championship, you get a driver with about 5 or 6 or more wins.
41:59
Is has been good for a championship in the old format
42:03
to this extent is, is insane. I mean, it is really a testament
42:07
to the team. It's a testament to how Reddick
42:11
has been doing in the offseason, especially for a road course.
42:16
I mean you don't just you don't just get good at a road course
42:18
overnight, which he has had this skill before, but being able to
42:22
beat SVG in a road course alone is is outstanding work.
42:27
Wow. Listen to you, Zach.
42:29
You. You really know your race car
42:30
drivers. I like it.
42:32
It is about all I know. Real.
42:34
I mean, you can see my little flag up here.
42:36
I got my. I got my steering wheel.
42:38
That's good, man. I like it.
42:40
I like. It I feel like I need a a
42:42
backdrop like y'all have. It's like Daytona.
42:44
I like it. Y'all have, y'all have.
42:46
He's definitely solid. I'll get you something.
42:49
I'll get, I'll get everybody something.
42:51
Yeah, we'll get it figured out in the next couple of weeks.
42:52
Y'all have I like. That was that was great.
42:55
Let's. Move on.
42:56
On to the next story, Errol. You're going to really, really
43:00
crack. What is it tennis now?
43:01
Are we going to get into tennis? No former Rick Pitino assistant
43:08
calls him a cranky old bitch. I thought you might appreciate
43:12
this. This is Kevin Willard, the head
43:15
coach of the Villanova Wild. We know Kevin.
43:20
Kevin Willard is hilarious but he got himself in trouble
43:24
because people didn't understand his sense of humor.
43:28
So this is after they got destroyed by Pitino and St.
43:33
John's. I'm not BS ING you.
43:35
I don't have hair because of this guy.
43:39
It's the most miserable experience in life.
43:43
You fear your life. And as he's gotten older, he's
43:46
probably become more of a cranky old bitch.
43:51
He kept going. I'm having a little trouble
43:53
loading it on here, but he then had to clarify his statement
43:57
saying he loves Pitino. He was his guy that brought him
44:01
along. Coach Pitino gave me my first
44:03
opportunity as a coach. I fact I'm forever grateful for.
44:07
Is it possible to calculate how much I learned in every aspect
44:10
of the game in my 10 years working for him?
44:12
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
44:14
Kiss. Ass Errol I I've worked with a
44:17
lot of guys I've coach. We talk to each other in ways
44:21
that are not maybe this but similar in a way.
44:25
I think you would be surprised how like a lot not you, but I
44:30
was wondering if you have any stories of just how ridiculous
44:34
some of the coaches spoke to each other and some of the ways
44:37
that people have been around you in sports when you dial it.
44:41
Up first of all, I know Kevin. I think we we all know who Kevin
44:45
is. He's a great personality.
44:47
He's great for college basketball and I love Rick
44:50
Pitino. But the best championship
44:54
coaches are the biggest Dicks. That's a fact.
44:57
Guys, you go back, look at Bill Belichick, you think he's
45:00
likable. He's not.
45:01
He's a first ballot Hall of Famer.
45:03
He's not in the Hall of Fame. I mean, John Wooden, you talk
45:06
about him, look at all the guys that we have seen, all the
45:09
greats. How about, I don't know, we
45:13
could go back in time, the Green Bay Packers, you know where I'm
45:15
going with sweetie. You know what I'm talking about
45:18
Lombardi. Lombardi was a crazy maniac.
45:21
If you go back to all the championship great coaches,
45:25
they're all asses. They all are just a it's a fact.
45:30
And for Rick Pitino, for anybody to think Rick Pitino's a nice
45:33
guy, Nice guys finish last. And that's what I like about
45:37
Rick Pitino. That's why I knew he was going
45:39
to bring back St. John's basketball because the
45:42
Red Storm hasn't had that guy in office.
45:44
They brought Chris Mullins. He's too nice of guy.
45:47
It never worked. So if you ask me, ask Neil
45:50
Smith, Mike Keenan, I mean, they didn't get along and you'll, you
45:56
see what happened. Mike Keenan was the nice guy.
45:59
I mean, I'm sorry, Mike Keenan was the bad guy and Neil Smith
46:02
was the nice guy. It did it work.
46:04
It worked. It worked for one year and then
46:06
they they had to, they had to split up.
46:09
It just sometimes you just got to deal with that personality,
46:14
that bad personality and sometimes it doesn't work and
46:17
sometimes that bad personality doesn't work.
46:19
It didn't. It hasn't worked for The Jets.
46:21
I mean, nice guys, you have all these nice guys, Rex Ryan, nice
46:25
guy Robert Solid, nice guy. Todd Bowles, everybody says he's
46:28
a nice guy. Eric Glenn looks like he's an
46:31
ass, but we'll see how that works next year.
46:33
But I mean, nice guys finish last.
46:36
It's coaching. You need a leader that's going
46:39
to stick it. And I think this is great.
46:41
I I like Rick Pitino just because of that.
46:43
Look at Danny Hurley. You think Danny Hurley is a nice
46:45
guy? He's a two time national
46:47
champion. He's a Dick.
46:49
He's screaming across the across the court against Purdue and
46:53
Edie. Remember that he was calling
46:55
them names and, and, and people were watching it and people were
46:59
attacking him after the game. And you know what?
47:01
You know what he said? He says who won the
47:03
championship. That's right, I did.
47:06
So it doesn't matter. It's all about championship.
47:09
It's all about winning. And I like it.
47:11
So Kevin can complain. And Kevin at the end of
47:14
everything was kissing his ass as well as he should because
47:17
Rick Pitino gave you an opportunity to be an assistant
47:20
coach on his roster and now gave you an opportunity to move up
47:24
and and coach other teams and make more money and an open up
47:27
opportunity for your family. So kiss his ass, get on his, get
47:32
on your knees. And just because that's what I'd
47:35
be doing if Rick Pitino, if I was his assistant coach and he
47:38
was yelling at me and calling me names, I'd be like, Rick, love
47:41
you, but you know, you are Rick Pitino.
47:45
So that's, that's all I'm going to say.
47:46
Get me another coaching job. I don't know.
47:49
I, I, I think this is great for basketball.
47:52
Rick Pitino's an ass. He always was.
47:55
And, and that's why he is where he is.
47:56
That's all I'm going to say about that.
47:58
I totally agree. The best college, just College
48:01
in general, not just basketball, but the best college coaches are
48:04
Dicks. Think about Nick Saban.
48:06
You said Danny Hurley, like these guys aren't nice people.
48:10
They you got to do what you got to do to to motivate your guys
48:14
to get them ready week in and week out.
48:16
And this doesn't surprise me at all.
48:18
I mean, Rick Pitino's not. He doesn't look like a nice guy.
48:22
He's not. I met Rick Pitino years ago,
48:25
Zoot, I met Rick Pitino years ago.
48:27
When he speaks to you, he's very nice.
48:29
To the fans and people, media, he's good.
48:32
He's a good person if you're nice to him.
48:34
If he remembers you and he don't like you, stay the hell away
48:38
from him. He will bite your freaking head
48:40
off. He's one of those guys that he
48:43
just. He could be nasty, but that's
48:45
what winnings all about. You can.
48:47
You have the right to be nasty if you're a winner.
48:50
Phil Jackson, Everybody says Phil Jackson was a nice guy.
48:53
Oh, he's the Zen master. He's the Zen master.
48:56
How many coaches said that he was a complete Dick?
48:59
How many Nick executives said Phil Jackson was a complete,
49:03
complete Dick? So I mean, nice guys finish last
49:08
period. Or Bill Belichick.
49:11
Bill Belichick, anybody? No Parcells.
49:14
Patriots were a fun team to play for.
49:16
They were the the Darth Vader, the Empire of the league.
49:19
Everybody hated the Patriots, hated Belichick.
49:22
And yet they won every year, over and over again.
49:25
That's what it takes to win. I guess so.
49:29
There, there are there are managers that are, you know,
49:32
nice like Joe Torre holds the bat, fiddles around with the
49:35
bat. Yeah, I mean, he was one of the
49:37
lucky ones. But the great championship
49:41
teams, if you go back and look at the greatest coaches of all
49:44
time, and we've done this before on in like Flynn, I will tell
49:49
you, out of my top 10, even Coach K Coach K is a player's
49:53
coach. But if you ever seen him
49:55
practice, you see how mad he gets.
49:58
He is a Dick that's say whatever you want.
50:01
That's what he is. He expects perfection.
50:05
That's why he is a great coach. He expects greatness.
50:08
How about Bobby Knight? Remember him throwing his chairs
50:12
on the court, going crazy, yelling at the referees?
50:15
He's he's one of the greatest college coaches of all time.
50:19
You think he was a nice guy? He almost had a heart attack
50:21
every time he was on a basketball court.
50:23
So you have to, you have to have some kind of personality.
50:27
Bobby Knight certainly did, that's for sure.
50:30
We got one story left, and this is something I think we're going
50:33
to see a lot of this baseball season coming up.
50:35
Errol, this was something that I got a video for.
50:39
And this is a Red Sox outfielder who speedy, I think was rumored
50:43
to be traded to the Mets last year.
50:45
This is Willier Abreu. Willier Abreu, he shows up an
50:51
umph in a way. I have not seen anyone do this
50:54
yet because this year we're going to have the ABS challenge
50:58
system. So let me put this up here for
51:01
you guys to watch. And he's going to take this as a
51:05
called third strike, but he's just going to go look, take his
51:08
shoes off. He puts his hands up and just
51:10
taps his head and keeps walking to first base even though he was
51:16
called out. Doesn't turn around and just
51:19
stands on first base. It turns out he was right by .6
51:25
inches, which is not exactly that.
51:29
It's a pretty close call. He just kind of like tough
51:33
stared him on a challenge. I mean I've I've seen a lot of
51:37
ways to show up umpires. This is certainly a new one.
51:42
Dial it up. What is going on with the MLB?
51:47
Guy takes off his cleats and walks to first base.
51:52
How does he not get thrown out? By that I mean, I throw him out
51:55
of the game, I throw him out of the game.
51:58
You're calling me out, I'm your umpire and you're taking off
52:01
your cleats and walking to first base and looking like a Jackass.
52:06
I'm sorry. This is just so disrespectful.
52:08
And and this is the problem right now in professional
52:11
sports. They're changing rules.
52:12
They're adding rules. It doesn't benefit anybody when
52:15
you see players like this. And and I I, I don't even know
52:18
who this guy is. I mean, if I was the opera, I'm
52:21
like, you're not OK. You're not Pete Alonzo, you're
52:23
not Juan Soto, you're not Aaron Judge, you're not any of these
52:27
guys. And you're you're going to call
52:29
me out, you're going to play me. I was like, get out of here, get
52:32
out. You're out of here, get out of
52:33
here. It just embarrassing.
52:36
I, I, I hope this doesn't happen in a regular regular main Major
52:39
League game. Is this is, this is really,
52:41
really embarrassing. I think baseball needs to make a
52:43
statement on this, that this cannot be going on moving
52:47
forward. When the season starts, there's
52:49
162 games. I know everybody likes these new
52:52
rules and they like the new robotic crap, these boxes and
52:57
stuff like that. It might be better.
52:59
It might be good for the playoffs.
53:01
This is not good for the regular season and you're trying to
53:03
speed up the game. This is what they're doing.
53:05
They're trying to speed up the game.
53:06
How is this speeding up the game A baseball when you you can
53:09
challenge a call like this? Oh, you can count.
53:12
You can now challenge a strike and you can watch the strike in
53:16
the in the box. Give me a break.
53:18
Baseball needs to clean this up. Rob Manfred, you're an idiot.
53:21
You're a Jackass. This is stupid dumb and stupid
53:24
ABS crap. I mean, give me a break.
53:27
Automatic balls and strikes. It's the new way of.
53:31
Sure it's not automatic breaks. Look, there's been millions of
53:35
ways to show up umpires over the years.
53:37
That's pathetic. There's magic words that can't
53:41
be said. That's different.
53:43
Take it off your cleats. I would, you know what I would
53:46
have done? If I'm going to really just call
53:48
him out, I would have just pulled my pants down.
53:49
I would open up my belt, pull my pants down a walk to first base
53:53
in my boxer. Shorts didn't shirt.
53:55
Didn't Scherzer do that? That one time dropped.
53:58
The first year of the of the sticky substance challenge, he
54:01
went to a whole another extreme. Like obviously the situation,
54:05
the way they handle it was bad, and the Mets got screwed in a
54:07
couple other instances, but I couldn't even defend.
54:09
That's why I love church, I think.
54:11
You're going to see a lot more of this.
54:14
I'm curious to see where it goes.
54:16
He was right. He should have been walked.
54:18
If you can get it right. Isn't that what's important?
54:21
I don't know. I think, I think we have some
54:23
takes from maybe our other intern at this one.
54:26
It's disrespectful. I don't know why you don't.
54:27
You just challenge it and if you're right then you go to
54:31
first. You don't got to do all that,
54:33
get the call right and then be at first.
54:35
No dude, just challenge it. It's right.
54:38
Then go, we're going to be doing this throughout the EBS system.
54:40
I mean, you guys can do this now, so that's good.
54:43
I like it, but you don't going to show up in an empire like
54:46
that. You know what I want to say?
54:47
Also I want to say. So I'm sorry to cut you off.
54:51
Also, Alex Korra, did you see his face?
54:54
Alex Korra thought it was funny. I mean, this is the same Alex
54:58
Korra that was part of that cheating scandal, was he not?
55:01
Did he think that was funny too, how he robbed the Yankees for
55:03
another World Series? Because I'm sorry, that was not
55:07
funny. And Alex, if, if you know how to
55:09
reprimand your players, I would have reprimanded him after the
55:12
game. Don't do that.
55:13
Don't show up anything. This is loyalty of the game.
55:17
And you don't do that that that's embarrassing.
55:20
Alex Gore was laughing. He was smirking.
55:22
I know it's a preseason game. You don't do that in baseball
55:25
games. I'm sorry.
55:27
Sorry, Dom. Dom, you got anything else?
55:29
Because I, I thought it was pretty wild that, you know, I
55:33
don't know if you've done any umpiring like Little League or
55:36
anything like that. I, I've been a referee, I've
55:38
done things like that. There's nothing worse than when
55:41
someone like, shows you up and like, you feel like you have to
55:44
do something and cause a scene because you don't want to do
55:46
that. You just want to get through it.
55:47
You want to get paid, you want to get out of there.
55:49
I can't imagine just like the amount of like hate people are
55:54
going to get. So for for both the sides of
55:56
this thing. So you could shut the music off.
55:59
I will say this, I want to tell you guys a funny story.
56:01
I have a very, very funny story. So I was I was an umpire for ASA
56:07
and I I before the game, it was a very, very hot summer game,
56:13
Speedy, You know where I'm going with this.
56:15
And it was a double header. It was a girls softball game and
56:19
we were out of school and I was rushing.
56:22
So I stopped to 711. I got myself a Coca-Cola Slurpee
56:25
and a buttered roll. All right, I ate it before the
56:28
game because I was rushing. I didn't eat anything the whole
56:30
day. So I go to the game and I
56:33
started getting stomach aches. I got bad, bad stomach aches.
56:36
I really, really had to go to the bathroom.
56:38
So I called, I put a hold on the game and I ran up to the coach
56:42
as I said I need to go to the bathroom.
56:44
I got to I got to go up to the school and go to the bathroom.
56:47
They said don't worry about it, just try to get back as soon as
56:49
you can. So I run up to the school.
56:52
Funny story is I go up in the school and all the school, all
56:57
the doors are locked and I'm like oh God, what am I going to
57:00
do? So I'm knocking on the windows,
57:03
nobody open. So I go from every single window
57:05
until I find a window that's open.
57:07
I crawl through the window ass, you know, face first ass out.
57:12
It was it was pretty funny. People were watching me do this
57:15
and it's dark. The whole building is dark so
57:18
you can't see nothing dark. I was in a classroom.
57:22
I get through the classroom door and I'm looking for the
57:24
bathroom. Finally find the bathroom guys.
57:26
There's no way open up the the guys bathroom lights.
57:29
It was all off. I'm trying to find the toilet
57:32
bowl with my phone. OK, I go to the toilet and I
57:37
just, you know, I do my work. OK, So I after I'm done, I
57:42
realize there's a lock on the toilet paper.
57:45
All right? There's there's no toilet paper.
57:47
There's nothing. So I had to make a decision on
57:52
how I was going to wipe my ass. True story is I took my
57:56
underwear off and I started wiping my ass with my underwear.
58:01
I, I finally everybody asked me what did I do in my underwear.
58:04
I couldn't find the garbage. I threw it to the side.
58:08
I, I pull up my pants. I, I pull up my pants.
58:12
I, I, I dude, I played. I was calling two women 2 girls
58:17
softball games bare ass. OK, no, no underwear, no
58:22
underwear, no nothing. As a matter of fact, one of the
58:25
coaches came up to me and he said, where'd you go to the
58:29
bathroom? I have to go to the bathroom,
58:30
you know, after, before the second game.
58:33
And I said, you don't want to know how I got into the, the
58:36
bathroom. And he he started laughing.
58:39
I was like, what, what do I have to do?
58:40
I was like, you don't have to do anything because if I told you
58:42
what I do, it'd probably make you sick.
58:44
So the funny story is, is that every time I see that school
58:50
here in Long Island, it makes me laugh.
58:52
Every time I pass that school, I remember what I did.
58:55
True story on that as an umpire, Asai did it for two years.
59:00
It was fun. It was great.
59:01
Got a got a chance to see angry parents, people yelling at me,
59:06
telling me they're going to kill me, wait for me after the game
59:08
and threaten that I'm going to get murdered.
59:10
And and some of the father's getting in my face kicking dirt
59:14
at me and I'm looking at him. I'm like, this is a girls
59:16
softball game or and then I played.
59:19
I would do the men's softball games and they're even more
59:22
crazier. They get drunk wasted before the
59:25
game. And if I make a terrible strike
59:27
call because it's like slow pitch, you know, softball.
59:32
And I'm saying I'm like, dude, a little girl can hit this ball
59:35
and they're striking out and I call a strike because it's not
59:38
falling behind the plate. It's falling in front of the
59:41
plate and it looks like a strike to me.
59:42
They're going crazy. They want to kill me.
59:44
I, I told the guy, so a guy stole second base and I called
59:49
him safe when he was really out. I, I knew he was, I knew he was
59:53
out, but I called him safe because I couldn't stand the the
59:55
captain of the other team. He comes out in the middle of
59:59
the middle of the field. And he could, he looks at me,
1:00:03
grabs a bat while he's walking out and I and before he got, he
1:00:07
got to the pitching mound, the pitcher steps off and I walk
1:00:10
right there. I say drop the F in bat or I'm
1:00:13
going to throw you and your team out of here and you're not going
1:00:15
to be playing this league. He took the bat and he threw it
1:00:18
out in the outfield and he walked out to the dugout.
1:00:21
I threw him and three of the other players out of the game.
1:00:24
I told them they have to leave or I'm canceling the game.
1:00:27
They all left. I'll never forget it.
1:00:29
After the game, they waited for me out in the in the parking lot
1:00:32
and before I walked in the parking lot because I was ready
1:00:35
to fight, I took off my shirt. I was ready to fight.
1:00:38
I, the other umpire tells me, he says you are staying right here
1:00:42
until I settle or try to calm this down before it becomes, you
1:00:46
know, cops and everything like that.
1:00:47
I'll never forget it. Dude, these people are nuts.
1:00:50
They're nuts. They they take things too
1:00:53
seriously and and it's a it's a softball game and it's a beer
1:00:58
league, you know, so crazy, crazy.
1:01:00
But it's fun. It's fun.
1:01:02
There are times that I could say I had a good time.
1:01:05
I love watching Nick Goody coach's son.
1:01:07
I will say that Nick is great to watch because he gets really
1:01:10
into the game and he's fantastic.
1:01:13
And I want to give a shout out to Nick.
1:01:14
You know, I know Nick is, you know, dealing with what he's
1:01:18
dealing with and hopefully he gets into where he wants to get
1:01:20
into. I love there he is.
1:01:22
We love you, Nick and we miss you dude.
1:01:23
And hopefully we get him on soon.
1:01:25
And I want to give a shout out to the all the, all the great
1:01:28
interns that we've had over the years.
1:01:30
But these three guys have been great, sensational, happy to
1:01:33
have him on board and continue working with them.
1:01:36
I, I give them all the, I give all the guys the credit because
1:01:40
that's a good one. I do miss Nick.
1:01:46
I miss his craziness. I do, I, it's funny, I text him
1:01:52
all the time and he's telling me I got a ball game and he's
1:01:55
telling me all about the game. And he tells me it's freezing
1:01:57
out here. And I'm like, what's the weather
1:02:00
out here? It's like it's 50°.
1:02:01
I said that's freezing. Jesus.
1:02:03
I'm like, give me a break. Stop being a bitch.
1:02:06
You know, I'm like, you're such a girl.
1:02:10
But and he's, he's a great person And I, I enjoy people
1:02:15
that I get to meet over the years and, and everybody, all
1:02:18
the guys that I've worked with, even the guys that I can't stand
1:02:20
now that are in the industry and I can tell them to go after
1:02:23
themselves over and over and over again.
1:02:25
I respect all their work and their efforts in, in, in, in all
1:02:30
their growth, their growth in this industry.
1:02:32
So, and, and I really appreciate everybody for all the work that
1:02:37
they put in on the back end of the show.
1:02:39
So thank you. Thank you to all the fans, all
1:02:42
the people tuning in and following us on Spotify and
1:02:45
Apple. We had a very big weekend when
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it came to views and unique listeners.
1:02:52
I I don't get what's going on as far as the Apple and Spotify
1:02:56
credit doesn't make any sense to me.
1:02:59
There were people jumping 100 spots.
1:03:00
It makes no sense. There's somebody tampering over
1:03:04
there at Apple, so it doesn't make any sense.
1:03:06
But whatever, I'm not going to say anything.
1:03:09
All I know is we really appreciate everybody on Apple
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and Spotify and audio and video for tuning in and checking us
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and gals checking it out and tuning in.
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We really guys, we know we're not, we don't have a niche and
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that that could be the reason why people aren't driving to the
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YouTube channel all the time because we're not a Nick show.
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We're not a Nick show or a Yankee show or a Mets show or an
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Islanders or Rangers show or whatever.
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We're we're an all show. We like to talk all sports and I
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I I know that's something that affects the algorithm.
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So we were getting we understand what's going on, but we put it
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out there. We put our YouTube channel up
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for all the the people that want to watch the show live and check
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us out and, and TuneIn and interact with us.
1:04:11
So that's why we do it. If it was up to me, we wouldn't
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even have a live YouTube channel.
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I really don't care, you know, So, but we appreciate all the
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fans that TuneIn on TikTok, Instagram X Jabba in the mouth
1:04:26
like all the guys, girls that are tuning in on Facebook,
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worldwide sports radio network. It's great.
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We, we, we, we believe and I, I'm stuttering because I'm
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trying to get out the the magic words.
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It's not even we believe. The fact here is there is nobody
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in this industry putting up the numbers that we're putting up on
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every single platform that is not signed by a network.
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Now we are under blue wire and that is a network, but I'm
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talking about one of the major big networks.
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So what we're doing is unique and different.
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We work our asses off to entertain you guys and perform
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the best possible product that we have.
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We put it out there 110% and even the interns on the back
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end, they work on the videos, they cut, they chop, they put it
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out there. So for all the fans out there on
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Spotify and Apple listening to the steak right now, when when
1:05:19
you get a chance to listen to it, listen to me and hear me
1:05:22
out. You guys are the reason why we
1:05:24
do this. You guys are the reason why we
1:05:27
do this. So we appreciate all you guys
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that TuneIn and love what we do. It means the world to me.
1:05:34
I want to thank everybody and we'll be back on Thursday with
1:05:39
Chris Childs. Yes, Chris Childs will be here
1:05:42
on Jabba in the Mouth. I want to give a shout out to
1:05:45
Jabba Chamberlain. Today is the year anniversary of
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his father's passing. We, we love you Jabba.
1:05:51
I hope everything's going well with you and your family.
1:05:54
Take care, take care of yourself.
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And shout out to Quinton Couples and all the guys.
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We, we love you. And we'll talk to you on
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Thursday. Good night, it's the worldwide
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sports radio network. Radio Network.