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Should the Knicks be concerned about Karl-Anthony Towns? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see the one doing that.
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A game where you got to go for four.
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I told you Giant fans and Saquon Barkley this.
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. So here's the situation, ladies
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and gentlemen. Tomorrow I have to fast for 30.
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So I started to fast last night at 12 midnight.
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I got to fast from 12:00 now to 2:00 in the afternoon tomorrow.
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So think about this. That's over 38 hours of fasting,
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no food, only liquids. Now, I know there's a lot of
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people that have dealt, dealt with this and done this.
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I mean, in the Indiana Indian culture, they do it once, I
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think it's once a year, once a week, where they only drink
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liquids. They don't eat.
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So they got a drink. They only can drink liquids for
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a week. I don't know what it's called,
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but whatever. So I, I feel for those people.
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I do, I feel for them. But the fact here is, yeah, why
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do you have to do that Fish? You got to make me look at food.
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I get sick just really realizing that I'm never going to be able
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to eat. I feel like I'm never going to
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eat again. But that's.
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Not food, Errol, that's what you had to paint do finger painting
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with. I gave you a paintbrush though.
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OK, well thank you. Well look like food so it made
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me a little bit hungry so. Sorry to get you hungry.
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Yeah, well, I told you you're going to do this one one way or
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another tonight. But I, the whole problem here is
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I got to wait 363036 to 38 hours to, to do this to, to get this
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procedure. By the time I eat, it'll be
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probably 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon.
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So I am, you know, it's funny because I was talking to fish
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early this morning and he was telling me.
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I could only imagine how angry you're going to be on the show
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because you're probably going to be craving food.
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And I, and I will tell you guys that there is a possibility at
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some point tonight, I'm going to probably RIP this mic off this
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stand because I am extremely hungry right now.
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And it's not like I've never fasted before.
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It's just when you're being told that you can't eat, it makes you
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even want to eat more. It's it's not that I've never
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done this before, It's just the fact that I know I can't eat.
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It pisses me off. That's all I'm going to say.
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So expect a little craziness on the show tonight like it always
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is. I I've always been crazy on the
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show, so I don't kick back on any of the crazy stuff that I do
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anyways. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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we got a new segment. We call this concrete jungle.
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Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games.
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You know where you are, jungle baby.
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Welcome. I'm trying to put Tiger Bomb on
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this jungle's nuts to the concrete jungle carousel.
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We got the concrete jungle carousel.
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We're going to go around all of the sports in the biz right now,
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starting off with the only well, actually, we're going to start
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off with basketball. We will get the hockey a little
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bit later, but here we go. Nixon Nets starting it off the
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Knicks stumble out of the All Star break.
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You just mentioned in some of it, so we'll start there.
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They got blown out by the Pistons at home 1/26 1:11 their
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first game out of the break. Kate Cunningham monster game.
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You know, there's a mini story out there, Errol, that it could
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be Luca. Luca.
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Well, Luca too actually, but Jokic and Shay might not be able
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to play enough games to be eligible for the MVP.
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And there's a lot of people putting money on Kade right now
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while he's still around to 1 to get the MVP because he would be
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the next guy if they're ineligible.
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Cade's killing it right now. He's killed the Knicks every
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time. The Knicks have gotten swept by
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the Pistons this season. 3 O in the regular season.
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They had a huge comeback against the Rockets After that, they
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were down 18, down as much as 25 at one point in that game.
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Storm back. I showed some of the highlights
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of it while you in the last segment.
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Jaylen Brunson had a clutch just doing Jaylen Brunson things.
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Clutch win. But then they didn't show up
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against Cleveland. Looks like James Harden broke
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his hand in that game. But it looks, I think he's
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day-to-day. He's actually not.
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It's just a fracture. Squeeze the T He's going.
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To be out. But the Knicks did not shoot
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well. Everyone had a bad shooting day,
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Brunson included. And Cat is just not putting the
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ball in the whole arrow. I disagree with you.
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Cat, before the Cavaliers game was playing good basketball.
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He was averaged 20, almost 20 and 10.
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So I disagree with you. I think Cat has played better
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since he came back from the All Star break.
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Here's the problem right now with the Knicks.
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These guys are being a lot of the players are inconsistent.
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Mikhail Bridges is inconsistent. He had 19 shots against
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Cleveland. Cavaliers only hit five of them.
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If you're inconsistent, you're not going to find ways to win
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against teams that are just as good as you, especially with the
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Cavaliers in their bench. You need to play up to your
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team's competitive nature. And the Knicks haven't against
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the talented teams that they, no, they played well against
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Houston, but they, they're, they're the really, Detroit has
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dogged them. And now you, you can tell that
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some of their competition is playing higher and better than
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the New York Knicks are. The Knicks have to play, I think
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more, more. They have to be more defensively
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sound. They got to be better on the
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boards offensively, and they got to do more on the defensive side
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of the ball in the most important parts of the game.
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At the tail end of the game, especially in the fourth quarter
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with 5 minutes left, the, the Knicks are giving too many easy
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buckets, too many easy threes. This team has been one of the
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best 3 point shooter teams at 3 point teams in in all of the
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NBA. Offensively they're probably the
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best offensive team in the NBA and even in defense they're
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ranked I think 8th or 9th right now in all of the NBA.
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But here's the thing, how many points do they give up in the
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tail end of games when it comes down to the Minnie and the
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gritty? That's the problem with the
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Knicks. It has nothing to do with Carl
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Anthony. He needs to show up in the big
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game. I disagree with you.
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I think Carl has played better since the All Star break since
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the Detroit game, so I disagree. The last two years the Knicks
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have been one of the few teams in the NBA that have been both
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top ten and offensive and defensive efficiency and it just
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needs to be a little more consistent with the three-point
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shooting especially. That was a big thing that hurt
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them against the Cavs. OG Ananobi's been mostly
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efficient this year but has had his lows.
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But British, like you said, is the main one.
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I think that has to really get going.
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Towns, yeah, he'll have his lows, but I agree with you
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mostly. Still good after the All Star
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break. Just got to fix that defense and
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the Knicks have to just get this depth to sync up.
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Again, he's never going to fix his defense because he's not a
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defensive player and I don't want to hear it from Knick fans
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crying about it. If you want a defensive player,
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you trade him in the offseason, you're bringing Giannis.
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That's the only way you're going to fix the problem they have.
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If you want him as a starter or make Mitchell Robertson the
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starter and and make Karl Anthony Towns the four make call
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4, make Mitch 5. That's the way I go.
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I mean, that's the only way I would go if that's the case.
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But they're worried about time. They're worried about see what
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they do. They actually played the the
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Bulls in that span 2 and murdered them.
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But the Bulls have given up in general on this traded away
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Vujovic recently. You're right, he's he's done
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better. But you know, in the two games
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that they lost to the number one and I guess their other
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competition besides the Celtics and the east 13 pointer in both
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games. This guy needs to be putting up
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the three for them if they're going to be good offensively.
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It's just, you know, he's really important.
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Here's like they they undersell how important he is.
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Here's the thing, I think they need to play more to Karl
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Anthony Towns and less to Jaylen Brunson in certain games.
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If you get Karl Anthony Towns more involved in the game.
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And I want to give a shout out to Koran because that's what we
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were talking about on his show, The Blue and Orange Brunch.
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I, we went back and forth and and we believe and I, I agree
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with Koran cold heartedly that they have to run their offense
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Drew Carl Anthony Towns if they want to be a championship team.
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They cannot play that isolation basketball all game long with
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Jaylen Bronson. They have to every time they
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bring Carl Anthony Towns and make him the pin of the offense,
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you can see that they're a different team.
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That's all I'm saying. More Carl Anthony Towns, less of
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Jaylen Bronson. All right, let's move on to
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baseball offseason news. Starting to get into the
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pitchers and catchers we've got, that is long gone.
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We are now up to a whole bunch of preseason games before we get
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into the Yankees and Mets. This number 1 prospect the
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Pirates have, I don't know if you saw the home runs, he had
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two bombs. This kids crazy Connor Griffin.
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Connor with AK, pay attention to that name.
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But starting off Yankees, Mets guys, the Yankees have this DH
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that they traded for Derek Jeter gave them to us.
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His name is Giancarlo Stanton Errol.
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He can't open a bag of chips without pain.
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He has really, really bad bilateral elbow weakness.
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Still 2 years into this apparently debilitating
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condition that he thinks, and apparently is because he swings
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the bat too damn hard, he says he's going to tough it out.
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He's still eyeing 162 games season.
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He's never played more than 150 with the Yankees.
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It was his first season with them.
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It's obvious he decided not to have surgery to clean out the
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tendons in his elbows. Probably wouldn't have been
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great coming back from that. I guess he's playing out the
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string and that's going to call it a day.
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Well, the string needs to be cut, ladies and gentlemen, I
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honestly don't believe Giancarlo Stanton is going to play more
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than 100 games this year. His elbows are really, really
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bad all season long. Back and forth on the ILII just
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can't see it. I know he wants to believe that
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he's the same player and same young player.
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But even even when the Yankees went to the World Series a
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couple of years ago, when he took off his hat, when they they
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got in the AL East and and they won the AL East against the
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Cleveland Guardians. He looks older now.
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He's got the body, body of all like a, I don't even know, like
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some supermodel, but he his, his body's breaking down.
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When you're playing 162 games and you're as big as him and as
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strong as him and he swings the bat as fast and as hard as him.
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Eventually stuff start to go on your body and his elbows are
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going. It just he, the way he works
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out. I don't know if anybody's
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watched Giancarlo Stanton's workouts.
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This guy used to bench 300 lbs like it was nothing.
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I'm telling you, this guy is, he's built like a, you know,
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like a Hercules. That's what he is.
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But he's, he doesn't play like it anymore.
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I'd be surprised if he plays more than 100 games this year.
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I'll be surprised. I I'd say this, if he does it,
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he's worth every penny the Yankees give him because they're
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going to need him in the playoffs.
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But it's not going to happen. I think he's on drugs and
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whatever he believes he thinks he's going to do, he must be
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drinking or smoking something because it's not going to
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happen. And there's no reason for the
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Yankees to have to push that, either.
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They have enough guys that can slide the DH area.
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You have to make sure he's healthy for the playoffs.
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We all said all the time he's the Yankees second best playoff
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player consistently and sometimes their number one
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playoff player. I I think he's been their best
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playoff, him and Gleber Torres, he's no longer with the
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organization And and, and finally Aaron Judge showed up in
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a big playoff run but fell short because they couldn't get out of
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semis the divisional game. So.
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Especially like with the other key players that the Yankees had
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dipping at at points last year. Bellinger was pretty bad in that
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Blue Jays series. Your boy Jazz jism really
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disappeared in that Blue Jays series outside of the one game
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game. They have to be able to trust
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the kids and make it work. And if you want to make it work,
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have them get have a guy like Stanton around you to take a lot
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of pictures. I have always liked Giancarlo
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Stan ever since he came here. The Yankees got him for nothing.
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Nothing. Derek Jeter wrapped him up with
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a nice little bow and said here you can have them, OK.
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He gave the Yankees one of the best power hitters in baseball
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at the time, and the year before he was the National League MVP,
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but he has not been the same player in five years in a
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regular season. You want to set him up for the
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playoffs, set him up right. Don't play him more than 80
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games. Make sure he's 100% healthy for
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the playoffs. For him to come out and say that
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he wants to play or he thinks he believes with his bad elbows,
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he's going to play 162 games. He's only selling you a bag of
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balls, and I mean goodies. Bag of balls.
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That's about it. That's it, ladies and gentlemen,
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because that is not selling to me.
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It's offset to anybody's belief that he is going to play next
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year more than 100 games. A goodies bag of balls packed in
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with Pokémon balls and aliens and.
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Whatever it is, whatever kids like to play with.
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I mean, not those kind of balls, but you know what?
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The Yankees are going to retire CC Sabathia's number on
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September 26th. It's going to be the first guy
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since Paul O'Neill had #21 retired in 2022 with the
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Yankees, in 11 seasons, he had a 381 ERA, 127 WHIP, but also in
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the playoffs, 34297 strikeouts. He had 1700 strikeouts with the
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Yankees. Obviously Hall of Famer,
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left-hander, just incredible pitcher for the Yankees,
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obviously World Series champion. Yankee, that's all I'm going to
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say. He was a he was a monster.
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And he, he came from Milwaukee. He had all those perfect games.
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And I mean, CC stood for a lot for the New York Yankees.
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And yes, he took two big contracts from the Yankees, got
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paid a lot of money. But even with all the drinking
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problems and all the problems that he's had in the past and,
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and even weight problems, he stood for everything.
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And, and then when he had to redefine his pitching motion and
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and become a more finesse pitcher, not a power pitcher, he
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still accomplish a lot doing and playing that way.
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So I, I mean, CC really stood for a lot for the Yankees and I,
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I think it's well deserved. I think it's long overdue and I
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think the the man's going to be placed there and and remembered
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as one of the greatest Yankee pitchers of all time.
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Yeah, definitely one of the best ones when you look at starting
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consistency in this area. Yeah, he had a couple of years,
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like you were saying, when he had those drinking issues, but
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recreated himself in that 2015 season.
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I think especially when the Yankees were supposed to be one
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of the worst teams on paper in that tough division and they
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still made the playoffs. A lot of that had to do with
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him. And again, real first four
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years, peak years for the Yankees when they've had trouble
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signing these other starting pitchers in the past.
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He definitely will deserve it. Yes Mikey C he's a Hall of Famer
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easily. Not like what you.
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Were thinking years ago Mariano Rivera helped him with the cut
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fastball and even Andy Pettitte was teaching him some pitches
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that helping him with his change up.
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I mean, CC really redefined the way he pitched at the tail end
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of his career. Not many pitchers could do that.
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CC did. You're a power pitcher and
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you're throwing over 100 mph and then change everything because
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you can't throw over 9293 and, and completely change your
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motion and, and, and over one season and learn how to pitch.
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It says a lot about who he is as a player.
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Very well deserved. Congratulations to CC Sabathia.
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He tried everything. Remember the year he lost like
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75 lbs out of nowhere it seemed like and then he it thought that
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was going to make him better. He didn't have the fastball
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anymore when he lost the he was like thrown in the 80s and he
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couldn't do anything. Like his numbers.
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I just read them. They don't sound that great
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outside of the strikeouts with the Yankees because, you know,
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he got lit up for a couple of years there.
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It was real tough. But you know, there's only a
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handful of shoulder problems that figure out that well,
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shoulder problem, you know, the personal problems.
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But you know, the guy fought through it, came back absolute
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Hall of Famer. Congrats to him again, September
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26th if you're trying to go to that game.
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And let's talk about the Mets. There's a real interesting
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prospect that the Mets have who might end up with the team
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breaking out of camp. It's their top prospect, Carson
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Benge. He's the 16th overall prospect
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in baseball. He had a 282 average, 24
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Steelers, 15 homers last year at three different levels of the
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minors. He's trying to get right field
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job competing with a who's who of maybe who's not.
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We got Mike Tauchman, Brett Beatty, who I guess is a right
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fielder now. Tyrone Taylor and MJ Melendez
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are all competing for that spot on the roster.
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But this kid had a three hit game the other day.
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I just seems to be ready, which is pretty wild.
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And it could be someone that the Mets could get a real shot in
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the arm from this year. All right.
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First of all, if you know anything about Stearns and David
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Stearns, what he likes to do, he's not going to call a guy up
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in the beginning of the season. They want full control of his
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arbitrations. So that is not going to happen.
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That is not going to happen. They're going to have,
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obviously, if he has a good spring training, they'll
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probably send him back down for a couple of weeks until they
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they they have a chance to bring him up and it doesn't affect
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their arbitration and he could come up.
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This is the same thing what what Spencer Jones was doing for the
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Yankees in spring training. He looked unbelievable last year
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in spring training. Did the Yankees call him up?
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No. And and by the way, for all
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those Spencer Jones haters or whatever Brian Cashman said
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about him, Spencer Jones hit 277 last year.
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He had 35 home runs and eighty RB is by the way, is better than
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bench. Maybe not it's batting average,
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but power numbers were better than bench.
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And I know bench is, is like a top 15 prospect and Spencer
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Jones is not even a top 100. That doesn't matter to me.
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I, I'm just looking at the the, the facts.
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And the facts is if the, if the Mets want to bring them up
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early, that is not something that David Sterns likes to do.
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It will throw you off and and realize is that David Stearns is
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on the hot seat and he has to do this because it's going to do it
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in his way or his performance will probably save his job.
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That's the only reason why he would bring him up, because
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these moves that he made in the offseason may just shake your
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head. Yeah, Beatty is the one I think
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I think deserves the best shot first, even though Fish, like
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you're saying, it's not his natural position in his corner
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round field spot, but his offense is going to bring a lot
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more. You don't need the defense in
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center field like you did last year with Tyrone Taylor that
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couldn't hit. He hit in the clutch, which was
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good, but he really disappeared offensively the second-half of
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the year. Mike Tauchman, like, yeah, those
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two good years with the Yankees and like one good year somewhere
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else. Yeah, that's not really good to
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trust. Melendez is interesting because
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he had that good year two years ago at Kansas City but really
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fell off offensively. But I agree with you, Errol.
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I wouldn't rush him up right now.
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Don't. Put extra.
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Pressure on the kid Right now they'd have to try to do a.
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Lot Did Stearns ever do that in Milwaukee?
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He never did. Ever did.
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He is not going to change his ways because he the only way he
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does if he's really on the hot seat and he needs to rush his
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kid up because they got to pull lightning in a bottle and maybe
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this guy turns into a star and he looks like, oh, look, it's
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David Stearns. The man's a genius, an absolute
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genius. Yeah, it's not going to be
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because of him necessarily that they do it.
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I think it's also it would just be all right if April and maybe
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early May they have a really rough month of offensive
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outfield production from those right fields guys.
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Okay, yeah, give him a shot at that point.
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He's supposed to be this a dynamic defensive outfielder
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too, in addition to stolen bases.
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But again, you don't want to rush these guys up.
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The Mets, I know Nelson Figueroa, when we had them on
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last year, was praising the way they were developing my indoors.
21:25
It's still been still raw in some areas.
21:28
I think it's been mostly good, but not as good as it should be.
21:31
Thumb up my ass. All right, all right, let's talk
21:36
some football. There was a huge trade today.
21:38
The Jets have made a big deal. The Jets traded edge rusher
21:43
Jermaine Johnson to Titans for nose tackle to Vondre Sweat.
21:48
Sweat's got two more years left on his rookie contract to a
21:51
second round pick. It'll cost The Jets 1.7 million
21:54
against their cap. It saves them 13.4 million
21:58
against the cap. By trading Johnson in his fifth
22:01
year option on his first round contract.
22:03
He gets reunited with Bambi, Sala, Errol back in Tennessee.
22:11
How do you like that steal for the?
22:14
Well, I think it was a steal for The Jets.
22:17
They get a nose tackle. They they've had problems
22:19
stopping the run. This guy is going to be a big
22:21
part of their run stopping game in the future.
22:24
He's still a young player, has a lot to give to an Aaron Glenn
22:28
defense or a future of another defense if Aaron Glenn doesn't
22:32
work out over there because they have control of him.
22:35
And Jermaine Johnson was going to get traded at the trade
22:37
deadline last year if they were going to get the pieces or get
22:40
what they were asking for. So they were looking to move
22:42
Jermaine Johnson anyways. They didn't think that he was
22:45
going to be a part of the future of this organization, at least
22:48
with Aaron Glenn. I like Jermaine, I like what he
22:50
said. Go check out on his Twitter
22:52
page. He thanked all the Jet fans and
22:54
and New York fans for everything that they did for him.
22:57
He class act very well deserved. But Sweat, I think he's going to
23:00
fit very, very well in this defense.
23:03
I think they're going to rebuild this defense and free agency
23:06
this offseason. And now they save $13 million
23:09
and they don't have to overpay a nose tackle, which they've had
23:13
problems doing and finding over the last couple of years.
23:15
This guy is under control for the next two years.
23:18
Slam dunk. And by the way, Moji still, I
23:20
mean, everybody's questioning if Moji is going to be the guy, the
23:23
right guy. He's looked like a genius in the
23:25
last three moves he's made. Yeah, this is a second round
23:27
pick that a lot of people thought have a first round pick
23:30
obviously had the the DUI or whatever was that made him
23:33
follow the second round. But he's big.
23:34
He's six, 366 lbs. This is the guy that still has
23:37
two years left on his rookie deal.
23:39
Young enough where The Jets are still going to get some level of
23:41
upside. They cannot be a rotational
23:44
defensive tackle type thing with somebody that isn't as good as
23:46
Quentin Williams there. Now I see Quentin Williams
23:48
probably not, but he still has enough upside to make that kind
23:51
of thing work. On the Titans side, they
23:52
definitely need some edge pressure too.
23:54
I do like the move for them trying to get bring in a guy
23:55
that's solid, familiar with Fish.
23:57
You want to know who their leading SAC guy outside of
23:58
Jeffrey Simmons was for an edge rusher last year?
24:01
It was Giants legend Jihad Ward. Like that.
24:03
That's how raw they are. You also know that Jermaine
24:05
Johnson just came back from an Achilles tear and the only guy
24:09
that came back from an Achilles tear playing the same position
24:12
he had was that was successful. It sucks.
24:15
I do not believe that this was a good move for Tennessee and I'm
24:19
not taking shots at The Jets and I'm not taking shots at Jermaine
24:23
Johnson. I love him.
24:24
I hope nothing but the best for him.
24:26
This is going to fail, and it's going to fail quickly because
24:28
Robert, AKA Bambi Sala is going to fail as a head coach over
24:32
there, just like he did with the New York Jets.
24:34
Yes, Fisher. And it's 8 kids, by the way.
24:36
Eight kids. Fisher is true.
24:39
Jeffrey Simmons led the team with 11 sacks.
24:41
He was next with five. It's crazy.
24:43
Look, you need a nose tackle to stop the run.
24:45
It's something that they struggled with last year.
24:47
I think it's a smart move. It's a thing they needed for an
24:50
expiring contract that saves money.
24:51
But Errol, they're sitting at #2 in the draft.
24:55
You get a choice now of Bane or Bailey because it's not really,
25:01
you know, it's really going to be the, you want to play that
25:04
3-4 kind of like that heavier guy.
25:07
You know, it's not going to be so much like an outside rusher.
25:09
You know, they like to play Johnson doing both.
25:11
I think you need to have that versatility in today's game.
25:15
Bain certainly could be the guy. What do you think?
25:20
After hearing about the combine today and what Reese did, I
25:23
don't know now. I mean, he just read he just ran
25:26
a 4.46 as a pass rusher. He put on some weight in the
25:31
offseason and he believes he's an edge rusher.
25:34
A lot of people now I'm reading that people think the way you
25:37
look today, you look like Michael Parsons.
25:39
So I don't know. Now I, I, I, I, I think Reese is
25:43
definitely involved in the conversation.
25:45
Does do The Jets make Reese, you know, a defensive end or an edge
25:50
rusher if he has that kind of speed in that kind of torque?
25:53
Maybe they go that way. But I I like Bane too.
25:56
I love them. Bailey.
25:57
I love any one of these guys would be a great fit for The
25:59
Jets. I would rather Bane.
26:02
I would. But what Reese is doing today at
26:05
the combine and and really just looking like a super superstar,
26:11
it's going to be hard to pass up on a guy that can change your
26:14
defense for the better. Super versatile defense too,
26:16
which is what I think Aaron Glenn tried to do in Detroit and
26:20
try to do with a lot of rotational defensive lineman
26:22
outside of Hutchins. Remember when Hutchinson was
26:24
hurt and he had that gruesome injury two years ago?
26:26
We thought the Lions defense would fall off a Cliff.
26:28
Speedy A 446. That is what wide receivers run.
26:36
Wide receivers run and he's 2. Lead wide receivers run that
26:40
kind. Of a speed and he ran that and
26:42
he's he's a guy that's 230 something pounds I mean come on
26:45
guys yeah you're you're that's. Ridiculous.
26:49
So the issue with Reese, you know, do you take a guy at 2 and
26:52
change his position? That's kind of wild.
26:54
You know he's going to have to put.
26:55
Up the real matter. You know, if he's going to play.
26:57
That I don't know he's at. 2:30. 446. 30 I know, but if he's at
27:01
2:30 you get if, if one of those 300 something pound tackles gets
27:05
their hands on you, you're going down.
27:07
Dude, Michael Parsons got it. Michael Parsons, when he came,
27:09
when he came to the the Cowboys, he was like 2. 15 lbs.
27:13
He was 233. He got 1015 lbs.
27:15
You need to get heavier, you know.
27:17
But again, if you're going to play off ball, that's one thing.
27:19
You know, I don't know what they'll do now.
27:20
When he was in Ohio State, an interview Reese gave, he said
27:24
that he was coached by Matt Patricia to be like Jamie
27:27
Collins for the Patriots, who was an All pro for a few years
27:30
back in that where he played inside linebacker.
27:33
He rushed off the edge to play so versatile that you don't know
27:36
where he's coming from. This guy would be like a Jamie
27:39
Collins on steroids if he's running a 446 scheme.
27:43
Versatility might excite some defensive coordinators, but
27:46
speedy, you tell me. It reminds me of a linebacker
27:49
named Isaiah Simmons also. Who I was a big chance at the
27:52
time. Who I was a big fan of because
27:54
he ran like a 446 or something at the combine and then he
27:57
couldn't play because he didn't have a real position.
28:00
I don't think Reese is like that.
28:01
But at the same time, when you know Bane is probably going to
28:05
be a freaking great player by the way, I wonder what choice
28:08
you. Make.
28:08
By the way, at the combine, he weighed in at 2:43.
28:11
So I take back. That's pretty good.
28:13
Yeah, he's 64, 243. That's what he weighed into
28:17
today. So just so everybody knows, so.
28:20
He might be going to. He's going to.
28:22
Yeah, again, you can't be going to 6 foot 4 already with enough
28:25
strength. And again, that kind of burst
28:27
off the line of scrimmage is already going to be a big thing.
28:29
That's what they're saying right now, I think.
28:31
You weighed in. The versatility is still going
28:33
to be an added bonus, too, because that was the same thing
28:34
last year with Abdul Carter and he went in the top three.
28:36
And Reese is probably a better, like more explosive raw pass
28:40
rusher than Carter is. I don't know, maybe more
28:43
explosive. I think the Carter's got the
28:45
speed, but let's talk about the other.
28:47
Pass. You're going to tell me?
28:48
The Carter answer going to get. Hold on, hold on, You think
28:50
Carter? Carter has the fastest guy,
28:52
yeah. He's not faster.
28:54
He did not run. The league he led the league in,
28:57
he didn't think he ran. He led the league in quick
28:59
pressures. I'm just.
29:00
First off, 446, the 40 yard dash is not the measure.
29:04
I'm just saying lineman. I'm just saying when you're
29:06
looking at what he just did at the Combine, it's not.
29:10
I'm sure the numbers for the thing he did is great too.
29:13
I'm just saying like the the quick pressure thing with
29:17
beating able to beat your man, Like they look at that as like
29:20
the new like elite stat you want to see for a pass rusher is a
29:23
rookie and not even playing like pass rusher for the whole
29:26
season. Carter led the league.
29:28
So there's there's like a lot. Giant fan.
29:31
People excited. Giant fan, ladies and gentlemen,
29:34
giant fan. But you know, but you know who
29:36
they're not excited about Errol. They're not excited about Kayvon
29:39
Thibodeau because Kayvon Thibodeau, everyone's saying, is
29:42
all but out the door from New York right now.
29:46
Connor Hughes, SNY Giants are listening to trade offers for
29:50
Thibodeau. He's almost guaranteed to be
29:52
gone. They're going to restructure
29:54
Dexter Lawrence's contract. Like I said, probably.
29:57
They said it came out today that Dexter Lawrence fought an elbow
30:01
injury last season that they kind of hushed up that he played
30:04
through. But the Ravens, Jaguars,
30:07
Packers, Lions and Bears are teams that have expressed a lot
30:10
of interest in trading for Thibodeau.
30:12
The ranges are a third round pick for Thibodeau would
30:17
probably get the job done right off the bat.
30:20
And some people are talking, you know, similarly, they should do
30:23
a player for player deal just like The Jets just did for
30:26
Jermaine Johnson and get a guy at a position maybe like middle
30:29
linebacker that the Giants need. Maybe it's not as valuable as an
30:32
edge rusher that they can kind of swing a similar deal.
30:34
I'd never liked Kevon Thibodeau. I never liked him.
30:38
I I I remember when he was drafted.
30:40
He was Shane's first draft draft here wasn't wasn't even a first
30:44
draft here for Joe Shane, him and Neil.
30:46
Evan Neil is not going to be a part of this organization moving
30:49
forward and either is Kayvon Thibodeau.
30:52
You got two guys that were drafted in the top ten.
30:54
Look across look what he's doing right now.
30:56
He just won a Super Bowl with Seattle, which by the way, the
30:59
Giants could have drafted, but they decided to go with Evan
31:03
Neil from Alabama. How did that work out?
31:05
Kayvon Thibodeau, he's, he's been up and down as a New York
31:08
Giant. He didn't fit there.
31:10
He didn't fit the at any point with any of the defenses that he
31:13
ran. The Giants are going to get a
31:15
third round draft pick for me. I don't think for the New York
31:18
Giants, Kayvon Thibodeau was ever going to be a part of this
31:22
organization after his fourth year.
31:24
I think that the Giants will move them.
31:26
They'll get 1/3 or 1/4 for him. I don't think they get it any
31:28
more than that. Maybe goes to another team.
31:31
There are players that have gone.
31:33
I mean, remember Ferrier, he left the New York Jets, he went
31:37
to see, he went to Pittsburgh and became an All All pro
31:41
defensive lineman, a linebacker maybe.
31:45
Maybe that is what happened to Kayvon Thibodeau.
31:47
He goes somewhere else. How about there's a guy that
31:50
played for The Jets and the Giants, went to Seattle and
31:53
became an All pro Π type of player in Williams.
31:56
Maybe that happens with him. He goes somewhere else and
31:59
really develops his skill. I just don't think it's going or
32:02
ever was going to work with New York.
32:04
Too much pressure and too many bright lights and and really the
32:08
fans being at him when he doesn't do anything in games and
32:11
man, he disappears in games. Yeah, I always thought he had
32:14
the raw talent to do that. But Fish I was talking to you
32:16
earlier about it like he never really developed that move set
32:19
you would want for a guy that with his the level of
32:20
athleticism. Now his problem at the beginning
32:22
of his career, he was his power rushing game was not as strong
32:25
and his run defense was struggle.
32:26
Now run defense got good, but I think he still has issues with
32:29
the move. Said he still has issues with
32:30
the awareness. And now with Giants having like
32:32
you said, Abdul Carter developing in the second-half of
32:34
the year and obviously still having Brian Burns, it seems
32:36
like cap space wise, he's definitely out the door.
32:39
The other one I know you mentioned to me, Fish was
32:41
Tremaine Edmonds A1 for one swap as a possibility.
32:44
What about for the Packers? Quay Walker as an option of
32:46
that, too, because he's got an expiring contract.
32:48
They can't afford him. You, you giant fans, don't get
32:52
it in your heads. If they bring in this guy or
32:54
they bring in another guy, Walker's going to want money.
32:57
That's one. And Dexter Loris, even if he
32:59
takes somewhat of a pay cut, how much money do you think he's
33:02
going to take? He's not.
33:03
Maybe. Drops.
33:04
It's not going to be a pay cut. They're going to give him a
33:06
raise. They're going to give him an
33:07
extension and lower the cap number this year and do the void
33:11
year. They're not.
33:11
They're not. That's what they're going to do.
33:13
They're not going to lower his. They're not going to have a lot
33:15
of money to work with, so I don't know where you think
33:17
they're going to get Walker. He's going to want big bucks,
33:20
so. Well, Thibodeau has a big
33:22
contract, so if you move Thibodeau, then like it kind of
33:25
matches up a little bit. What's his big contract?
33:27
What's he making? It's the.
33:29
Same 5th year option as what's his face Jermaine Johnson.
33:33
I think he's a little higher because he was a top five pick,
33:35
but he's 14. Yeah, slightly higher.
33:37
So it's like 1516, you know what I mean?
33:41
So it's like one of those that you can kind of fit a better
33:45
guy. But Speedy I, I don't think
33:46
they're going to do, I think more with what Errol's saying
33:48
where they're going to try to save salary at this position,
33:51
whether they draft somebody. I mean the Texas Tech kid,
33:54
Rodriguez, as they say, it's like a second, third round pick.
33:56
I'd be very interested in that kid to be honest with.
33:59
You, by the way, by the way, Dom says 1414.7 according to spot
34:05
track. So thank you, Dom.
34:07
Yeah. So yeah, around 15,000,000 and
34:10
it's a, it's a guy that I, I was excited about and he just,
34:14
you're right, he just was more flash than anything.
34:17
Else remember when the. Defensive ends were better.
34:19
Remember when he got, he had those special made headsets when
34:22
he, when he was coming into the league, it was just about when
34:24
he was going to get drafted and he had these like I, I think it
34:28
was Doctor Dre Beats, you know, headsets that he had made for
34:31
him and his colors. I had just, I, I'm sorry, I
34:35
never ever liked Thibodeau, never ever did coming from
34:39
Oregon and we've how many Oregon guys that we've had on the show
34:42
and they loved him and I, I told him straight out I'd like, I
34:45
don't like him. I don't like, oh, you don't know
34:47
how nice of a guy he is. I don't know.
34:48
Nice guys finish last. As we all know.
34:52
I've been a nice guy and I've, I wouldn't say finish last, but I
34:55
sometimes think that I have. So there you go.
34:58
A little bit of hockey. So the Sabres played the devil's
35:02
last night, or is it 2 night things last night and it was a
35:06
real like coming out party for Jack Hughes back home as the
35:11
Olympic hero gave a speech to the crowd.
35:14
So proud and so happy. The men's and women's USA Hockey
35:17
teams brought gold back to the United States.
35:19
He brought H Thompson off of the Buffalo bench.
35:22
USA chance. It was really beautiful.
35:25
Quinn was there too. Quinn Hughes in the stands with
35:29
the family, you know, it's and she won a silver medal, as you
35:32
know, when she was on the women's team back in 1992, was
35:36
one of the most phenomenal female hockey players in the
35:40
late 80s, early 90s. So that's really the only thing
35:43
I got for the for hockey for that side of it.
35:46
Braden Schneider might be traded by the Rangers, probably because
35:50
Drury doesn't want to re sign them because it wasn't his
35:52
original pick. He's he's not having a great
35:55
year, but no one is on that team.
35:57
And the Islanders have some trade targets.
36:00
Errol, it's you know, second-half of the season they
36:02
got 69 points. They're third in the metro, one
36:05
point behind the Penguins, 2 ahead of the capitals on the
36:08
fringe right now of getting that seed.
36:12
And then many reports are linking them to get in some
36:14
scoring on the wing. The Blues have a couple of
36:17
wingers, Thomas and Kairu. Predators have Bunting and
36:22
Forsberg might be available, especially with Barry Trotz over
36:26
there. There might be a connection
36:28
between the the old Islanders coach and the Canucks have a
36:32
couple of wingers as well, Bowser, Garland and a center.
36:37
Peterson's probably available. Who was going to have the
36:39
biggest contract of anyone the Islanders would try to add.
36:43
First of all, congratulations to Jack Hughes and, and, and
36:46
celebrating and what he said about the New Jersey fans and
36:49
how he's happy to be there and playing for such great fans.
36:52
And I I've been to New Jersey, I've been to a devil game, even
36:56
though sometimes you think that it's a dead place to go.
36:59
New Jersey has great devil fans. They they pack out those
37:03
stadiums, they back out those games, especially when you have
37:05
a young superstar like a Jack Hughes, they're just not going
37:09
to do anything this year. Jack has been out for a
37:11
significant amount of time this year, but it was fun to watch
37:13
Tage Thompson, his family was there, the crowd going wild,
37:17
everybody screaming USAUSA. It's a great feeling.
37:19
I had goosebumps watching it. So I love Jack Hughes.
37:22
I think he's a young stud. He's going to be the face of
37:25
United States hockey for the next two, maybe even 3 Olympics.
37:30
So it was fun to watch. It was really, really great to
37:33
watch it. And, and shout out to Tage
37:35
Thompson too. Love the kid.
37:37
As far as the Rangers, I don't think they trade Schneider.
37:41
It's more Vincent Trochik. That's what everybody keeps
37:44
talking about. Trochik is the guy that
37:46
everybody's going to be looking at and he's the, he's going to
37:49
be a guy that the Rangers can cash in on.
37:52
They can get a lot back for a guy like Vincent Trochik, Braden
37:56
Schneider. I I think they hold on to him at
37:58
least until the offseason and maybe they move him and maybe
38:02
Chris Jury screws it up even more And, and trades a lot, a
38:05
lot of other pieces in the offseason.
38:07
It makes the Rangers look like a an AHL team.
38:10
I mean, he's been absolutely putrid as far as the Islanders
38:14
are concerned. Remember this name and I think
38:16
it's going to happen. It's Vancouver and it's Peterson
38:19
and I think Peterson makes a lot of sense.
38:22
Him and Bo Horvat play together, play together over there with
38:25
Vancouver. They played on the same line.
38:27
I Peterson has not been the same goal scorer since Bo Horvat has
38:31
left and this guy at one point of his career was a 4040 goal
38:35
scorer. I think Peterson is a slam dunk
38:38
for the Islanders if you're willing to give up a first round
38:41
draft pick for a guy that's under control.
38:43
He's 27 years old and is he's still a young stud in this
38:47
league that could be a star and an offensive option for the
38:50
Islanders. It's Peterson.
38:51
Stay away from the other. I like the Saint Louis blue kids
38:54
I but I think Peterson's the guy.
38:56
It's the home run. Yeah, I worry about with two
38:59
guys on that list is Forsberg and Robert Thomas.
39:01
With the Blues, both injury prone.
39:03
I know you might get a discount with Barry Trots, view trade
39:05
with Nashville, maybe go for Bunting.
39:06
In that case, maybe the combination is Peterson, you get
39:09
a center and then Bunting, you get a winger who's had some good
39:11
scoring flashes in Toronto, did pretty well last year with
39:13
Carolina, but not enough where they're able to keep him on the
39:15
contract that he wanted and now Nashville.
39:17
Disappointing. But yeah, I think he, Patterson,
39:20
someone's kind of disinterested in Vancouver research.
39:22
We talked about that last year with JT Miller.
39:24
We talked about it last year with a lot of other players.
39:25
They just really falling off to rock bottom.
39:27
I think he gets a nice fresh start with the Islanders and the
39:29
Islands with the money. Make it.
39:30
Work. One last thing to talk about,
39:32
and that is the rematch between UConn and St.
39:36
John's. That went very differently.
39:38
Now, if you remember, St. John's upset UConn by about 8-8
39:41
or nine points. Not the same today.
39:44
That game was at MSG. This game was embarrassing 72 to
39:50
40. Rick Pitino's largest defeat
39:52
since becoming St. John's head coach.
39:54
They missed 12 straight shots in the first half and their last 24
39:59
shots of the game, shooting 20% from the field.
40:04
Tyrus Reed Junior 20 points for UConn with eight boards and six
40:07
blocks. Caravan 14 points, four boards,
40:10
2 assists for the Huskies. Hoop happens.
40:14
I'm not going to say it I I want to say it, but it is absolute.
40:19
Hold on. I'm trying to find a nithin take
40:21
on here. There it is, Ludu.
40:23
That's it, there it is. Ludu.
40:25
Here. Here's the facts.
40:27
I I I know it's a game that you want to you want to get back.
40:30
I know Pitino after the game said his piece.
40:33
My team didn't play well. I didn't coach well.
40:36
We got to play better. That's every coach.
40:38
Every great coach is going to say that.
40:39
It's going to give you a take. This is a team that won 13 games
40:42
in a row. It's one game.
40:45
Yeah, Yukon made him look like a, you know, a peewee basketball
40:49
team. They did.
40:51
And Danny Hurley won back-to-back national
40:54
championships. And this guys one of the best
40:56
coaches in all of college basketball and he's got a great
41:00
recruiting class. This UConn team is one of the
41:02
best in the nation. If they meet in at any point in
41:07
the tournament, any point and they might win in the the
41:09
championship game, they might meet meet in the Big East
41:13
tournament, the Big East tournament.
41:15
So they might see each other again.
41:17
Best believe this won't happen again.
41:19
Rick Pitino does not see games like this over and over and over
41:24
again. This is a guy that's one of the
41:25
best coaches in college basketball history.
41:28
This is a born winner. He is going to make sure that
41:31
his team feels it. I've seen what he did his first
41:34
year. They had a camera.
41:35
They had a St. John's, had a documentary for
41:39
Paramount, had him following Pitino all last season.
41:43
I think it was last season, the season before I think it was
41:45
last season. And Pitino was very hard on his
41:48
players last year, very, very hard on his players.
41:51
This is a guy that knows how to push the right buttons.
41:54
I believe St. John's will be fine.
41:56
This is a wake up call for some of their players, veteran
41:59
players, older players to play harder, play better and don't
42:03
miss shots which they were missing a lot of them.
42:06
Yeah, we talked about it a few weeks ago, weeks ago with Dan
42:08
Hurley getting his wake up call on the defensive side where
42:10
their defense was the stronger unit for the team.
42:12
And now you look at Saint John's of this perspective, their
42:15
defense has always been strong. Now they have 72 points to a
42:18
team playing with a sense of urge with UConn.
42:20
UConn had some Dodds recently. Even some of the games they won,
42:22
they weren't playing as well as they should have.
42:24
And all streaks for our mental coming on you.
42:26
It's very hard in college basketball or really in any
42:28
sport to just have an ongoing streak and have it sustainable
42:31
into the Big East tournament and into the NCAA tournament, which
42:33
obviously the bigger ceiling for a program like Saint John's.
42:36
UConn has a championship pedigree.
42:37
They showed it there. 40 points is alarming.
42:39
A lot of it's one game. Like they they're not going to
42:43
let it drag on them. Pitino's too good of a coach.
42:45
Jesus, I mean, could you fill the the lines as fast as you
42:49
did? I mean a little bit slower.
42:51
I, I didn't even understand what you were saying.
42:54
Jesus, throw me off. All right, that's it for the
43:00
carousel. We'll take a spin again next
43:02
week. Well, we took a spin on that
43:04
one, and I definitely spin backwards with Speedy's notion
43:08
of words and presentation of just spitting it out and making
43:13
me sick to my stomach. I was like, it was like one of
43:15
those, like, what do they call those?
43:18
The horse things? What are the carousel?
43:20
Yeah, the carousel. There it is.
43:22
That's a normal. Point.
43:25
Could you speak a little slower so I can understand?
43:27
You Oh, we have another segment and a guest coming up.
43:28
Well, oh, so that's what it is. So every time you speak, it's
43:35
every time I hear you, I'm like, woof, woof, woof, woof.
43:38
It's like, it's like a fastball coming at me and I'm not even
43:40
seeing it. You know, that's all I'm going
43:43
to say. Anyways, we call this all
43:44
righty, then all righty, then all righty, all righty.
43:54
All righty then, that's my face. Right there.
43:56
That's my face. Every time I hear Speedy just to
44:00
talk. I'm like, I'm like, what?
44:02
What the hell? What the hell you know.
44:05
Jesus. Well, all righty then.
44:07
Tonight we're just going to go into an article Errol wrote.
44:10
This one is about the USA gold medal win in the Olympics.
44:16
US snowed in. In Canada snowed out.
44:20
Let's remove this and put up the article.
44:23
USA wins gold while New York was getting turned into a Slurpee.
44:26
Yes, if you're not living in New York, pay attention.
44:29
Sunday morning, 8:10 AM on the East Coast, the last day of the
44:32
Winter Olympics. Outside New York, the worst
44:34
Blizzard of the year was actively trying to relink my
44:38
house to Connecticut and inside history, Team USA just defeated
44:43
Canada to win its first Olympic gold medal since 1980.
44:46
Yes, the first one since the legendary Miracle on Ice.
44:50
Now listen, I wasn't allowed to see Mike Eruzione in the the
44:53
boys shocked Soviets, Soviet Union men national ice hockey
44:56
team. But like every red blooded
44:58
American hockey fan, I've studied that team the way people
45:01
study the subruder film and this team that Bill Garen put
45:04
together. Youth speed, hard and just
45:08
enough swagger to walk into a gold medal game against Canada
45:11
and say, respectfully, we got this.
45:15
No Crosby, no overtime trauma. And look, with all do love and
45:19
do love and respect to Canadian royalty, no Sidney Crosby in the
45:23
gold medal game, then no overtime flashbacks, no national
45:27
PTSD, no Golden Bowl sequel. Just vibes, speedy.
45:34
All right, we'll start. We got a mixed bag of comments
45:36
here. We'll start with one that was
45:38
kind of salty. This is Darth Devastator.
45:41
US got very lucky in that game. Thank you Darth Devastator for
45:45
devastating my thoughts of this gold medal.
45:49
Lucky luck doesn't have anything to do with it.
45:52
They had great gold ending and a guy stood on his head.
45:55
Over the years. Canada got Lucky Against USI
45:58
remember when Sidney Crosby won an overtime against Team USA in
46:02
a goal that honestly was lucky? I mean, you're going to sit here
46:06
and you're going to tell me that Canada hasn't been lucky over
46:08
the years against Team USA? Luck has nothing to do with it.
46:12
It's all about getting that goal, getting that opening pass
46:15
and putting the ball, putting the puck right in the net.
46:17
Luck had nothing to do with it all.
46:19
Right, one of the more positive comments.
46:20
Math nerd 61. Can we give a shout out to Jack
46:23
Greenski for his game? Winning assists, body control
46:25
and sheer will to get to the puck to Jack Hughes should be
46:27
getting more praise than it's been getting.
46:29
Thank you. What is it?
46:30
Math. Math.
46:31
Nerd 61. Math nerd, thank you for giving
46:33
us your take. I agree where where in Ski was
46:36
really really good throughout the tournament.
46:38
He was the second best defenseman offensively on this
46:41
roster, right behind Mr. Quinn Hughes, who was absolutely
46:46
unbelievable. His brother gets the
46:48
game-winning goal, scoring, you know, tribute.
46:51
But Warinsky was a part of that. He he was the one that made that
46:54
pass. He was the one that put his head
46:56
up and got the pass right through the wickets of the
46:59
defensive player and got it to Jack Hughes and pinned it right
47:04
behind Mr. Pennington. Pinnington.
47:07
I called him Pennington because he pinned it right behind him.
47:10
I can't stand him. I couldn't stand him when I was
47:12
over there at the Stanley Cup finals trying to interview him
47:14
when they won the Stanley Cup with Saint Louis Blues.
47:16
And I love the fact that he put the puck right behind him to win
47:20
the gold. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the
47:23
amazing USA glory gold. I call it the glory hole goal.
47:28
That's what I call. It I'm sure you do all right.
47:31
This one this one sounded like a Toronto Maple Leafs fan that's
47:34
still living on 13 Stanley Cups that are all in the original 6
47:36
era. This is a lab tech. 7 gold
47:38
medals to actually beat can. What was that again?
47:41
7 gold medals to actually be Canada.
47:44
Yeah, 7 gold. Oh, so thank you, a lab for
47:46
making me even more sicker. First of all, I, I don't want to
47:50
sit here and say that Canada hasn't been the most dominant
47:54
hockey program in professional in in the hockey world.
47:58
We all know they are. Since the Soviet Union, it's
48:01
been all Canada. All the greatest and the best
48:03
hockey players come from Canada. And I'm sure Neil Smith would
48:06
agree with me on that when he comes in, there's no question.
48:10
But here's the facts. It doesn't matter how many
48:12
they've won. It matters what they have lost.
48:16
And yes, ladies and gentlemen, 2026, the gold medal winners of
48:22
the men's Olympic hockey is not Canada.
48:25
It's not Connor McDavid who hasn't won a gold medal and
48:29
hasn't won a championship. Ladies and gentlemen, it goes to
48:33
the one, It goes to the only the one we call us.
48:38
All right, next one from a peanut brittle latte.
48:40
An interesting 1. Connor Hollebeck is not just a
48:42
goalie, he's the Secretary of Defense.
48:45
And Peanut, thank you for giving us your shout out.
48:48
We love the take. Secretary of Defense, I don't
48:51
know about that, but I there's no doubt about it that what he
48:56
did was amazing. I, I that save against Tames of
49:00
the Devon Tames to what really makes me sick.
49:02
This guy made the Canadian team and by the way, he was drafted
49:06
by the Islanders and the Islanders let him go to Colorado
49:08
for nothing. They got nothing for Devon
49:10
Dames. Makes me sick.
49:13
All right, last one, this was an interesting 1.
49:14
So Connor McDavid, who was the tournament MVP, he this guy
49:19
Pirates say R said McDavid cost Canada that game.
49:23
The back check was very weak. Pirate.
49:27
Stop being a pirate. All right?
49:28
I I mean, what are you on drugs? I mean, this guy pretty much was
49:33
the best player on ice every time he was out there.
49:36
I mean he was doing minute and 1/2 shifts and he was coming out
49:40
after the 2nd shift, but the guy was playing practically the
49:44
whole game. I don't know about you pirate.
49:46
How many times have you skated on the ice?
49:48
Do you think you could do a 32nd shift?
49:50
Then again do a minute and 32nd shift as much as he did
49:53
throughout that game. This guy is the best player in
49:55
the world and to take shots at him and say that he's the reason
49:58
why because I'm back checking. You can back check my foot in
50:01
your ass, sorry. Maybe we should have a Karak
50:05
David skate on a peg like Versus.
50:06
You on a skate? What kind of take is that?
50:09
Connor McDavid is the reason why Team Canada didn't win the gold
50:13
medal. What are they nuts?
50:15
I it had nothing to do with Connor McDavid, ladies and
50:19
gentlemen, nothing to do with Connor McDavid.
50:22
He played his ass off in the game.
50:24
And I'll tell you this right now, on any given day, Canada
50:27
probably wins that game. But Team USA, three on three,
50:30
they, they made the moves, they made the plays that they needed
50:34
to do to win that game. And congratulations to Team USA,
50:37
very well deserved. And, and by the way, maybe the
50:40
only championship Sullivan will win in the next 5 or 6 years
50:44
because it's not going to be with the Rangers.
50:49
I know Neil's going to love that one.
50:53
And now, ladies and gentlemen, my deuce of the day.
50:56
The deuce of the day, you log. Not a log, I don't have a log.
51:01
But well ladies and gentlemen, as you want to well hold on I'm
51:12
trying to get this smell my ass there it is You want to smell my
51:15
ass. This is something that really
51:17
stinks and if I had the button to press when it comes to the
51:20
fart sounds, this is just as bad as this one.
51:23
Jonte Porter is banned from the NBA, so you know what he decides
51:27
to sign with who? The USB LS Super Hawks Who?
51:33
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Jonte Porter, who was banned, which
51:38
if, if he's banned, everybody in the NBA should be banned because
51:41
I'm sure they bet on basketball one way or another.
51:44
He was obviously gambling in 2024 and currently awaiting
51:48
sentencing and pleading guilty for related federal charges, is
51:51
planning to play in an upstart pro basketball league, the
51:56
Seattle Super Hawks. Well, it's not called the
51:59
Seattle SuperSonics, so why don't we call them the Super
52:02
Hawks? This is horrible and I feel bad
52:05
for Jonte Porter. I, I, I understand, understand
52:08
that he got caught. He did cheat.
52:10
He did do something at the NBA does not allow and professional
52:12
sports does not allow betting on their sports game.
52:15
But to go and play outside of the NBA because you, you're
52:20
obviously scraping for pennies or scraping for money or trying
52:23
to believe that you're going to be something in a league that
52:26
nobody's even heard of only says that you're reaching.
52:29
This is a horrible move for Jonte Porter and it just shows
52:32
you that he's never going to be back in the NBA.
52:35
So my deuce of the day goes to Jonte Porter.
52:38
What are you drinking or what are you eating?
52:41
I farted. Well, that's all I'm going to
52:43
say about that. Thank you to all the fans, all
52:46
the people that listen to us and download us on Spotify and Apple
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on the video and audio, all the fans on TikTok and Instagram,
52:53
which is pretty booming right now.
52:56
And TikTok, Instagram and X hopefully, you know, the X
53:02
starts moving. We need to get that thing
53:03
moving. I mean, it's not easy.
53:05
These these platforms are not easy to go, especially when
53:08
you're you're not you're not on a big major platform, but we're
53:11
we're getting there. And when when it moves in the
53:15
right direction, we'll kick everybody on the way out,
53:17
including the people that we can't stand.
53:19
Yeah. And our YouTube channel, now our
53:21
YouTube channel is, you know, moving and, but not moving fast
53:25
enough. And we're not a niche.
53:27
And I know people are going to say, well, if you talked about
53:30
NBA, if you're talking about the Knicks or you're talking about
53:33
just the Yankees, your, your, your platform on YouTube would
53:37
really be booming. But well, that's not who we are.
53:40
And, and we're not going to change that.
53:42
Unfortunately, it might hurt our niche and, and where YouTube
53:46
puts us as far as algorithm, but you know, we, we wish, you know,
53:53
and we hope that the fans really start to tune in more.
53:55
That's why we, we go live on on YouTube for you guys.
53:58
We want you to come and watch us live and instead of listening to
54:02
our record. I know I'm not saying
54:03
everybody's got families. They got lives and they, they,
54:06
they want to drive or they want to watch us in a repeat.
54:09
That's fine. That's why podcasting is
54:11
podcasting. But we, we hope that more fans
54:15
would be tuned into what we're doing.
54:17
We put a great show on for you guys.
54:19
We put a lot of work into it, and we want you guys to enjoy
54:22
all the benefits of watching us live because you don't know
54:25
what's going to happen. So just saying anyways, that's
54:28
it for a show. Who do we have on Mondays?
54:31
Nothing yet. Nothing yet.
54:32
So Speedy's going to Boston to enjoy his, you know, Celtic
54:37
pride. And I don't know what he is, but
54:40
he's going to Boston to hang out with his family and hang out
54:43
with mom, you know, our favorite woman, you know.
54:51
Being a timid with any of you midwits.
54:53
Oh well, yeah, well, or one of these.
54:56
You know this is a good one for you.
54:58
No human is a beluga whale scientifically proven.
55:04
Or this one. I like this one.
55:06
I'm not yanking on a dead man's Dick.
55:08
But I'm also never. Going to happen ever.
55:12
Yeah, there we go. Anyways, that's Speedy, ladies
55:15
and gentlemen. Anyways, Well, we'll, we'll talk
55:16
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55:19
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55:48
We're ready to roll and ready to scare the hell out of you,
55:50
including Speedy, as he always reminds us, as human waste.
55:55
Human waste. All right, good night, Fair.
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