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- 0:25Speaker 1: Goody and everybody welcome to their distant those sports exchange.
- 0:27Speaker 1: My name is not Morgan, MotorCity MEDMA have more people
- 0:30Speaker 1: coming in later on. We've got Market at nine thirty, Nico,
- 0:35Speaker 1: we'll be on at nine five, and the New York
- 0:37Speaker 1: guys Chris and Robert walso poppin as well. So meanwhile,
- 0:40Speaker 1: you're gonna start off with well you had last week
- 0:43Speaker 1: and that being Cliff, Neil, Ark Katz and Candy. I'm
- 0:47Speaker 1: glad to have this group on again, but that's it.
- 0:50Speaker 1: We're going to begin to show off with the Milwaukee
- 0:53Speaker 1: Brewers all time line up. I'm gonna read them and
- 0:56Speaker 1: then everybody can talk about them. And in that list though,
- 1:00Speaker 1: I have added Hay Aaron and Pat Murphy on there,
- 1:04Speaker 1: but I'm only talking about what was listed from my source,
- 1:08Speaker 1: and then you can make changes. Outfielders include Greg Vaughn,
- 1:14Speaker 1: Ryan Braun, Christian Yelich. Your infielders include Paul Molitor, Robin Yell,
- 1:20Speaker 1: Rickey Weeks, Sheecil Cooper, starting pitchers, Ben Sheets, your relief pitchers,
- 1:25Speaker 1: Josh Hater catcher, Jonathan Lucroi, d H. Prince fielder and
- 1:31Speaker 1: of course they're listening to manager Craig Counsel. All right, Cliff,
- 1:36Speaker 1: what are your thoughts?
- 1:38Speaker 2: Where's Ted Simmons? Well, Ted Simmons a catcher. I was like, Ted.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Simmons, Yeah there now thanks to you.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Ted Simmons. I think it's a glaring Hey,
- 1:52Speaker 2: Troy missing on there. There's other solid guys in there.
- 1:59Speaker 2: I love me some Robin Robin, even though I'm from
- 2:02Speaker 2: New York, absolutely adored robbing you out growing up. Heck,
- 2:07Speaker 2: I even liked him better at short stuff than Cal Ripkin.
- 2:09Speaker 2: And I have nothing but respect for Cal Ripkin. But
- 2:13Speaker 2: you know, Robin Yu, he's mister Brewer to me. Paul
- 2:17Speaker 2: moll Tour of course. Uh, Gorman Thomas, and he thought
- 2:22Speaker 2: of Gorman Thomas in there. Gorman Thomas was uh, you know, yes,
- 2:26Speaker 2: he was a lot when it came down to it.
- 2:27Speaker 2: He was remind me of like Dave Kingman in a
- 2:29Speaker 2: lot of ways. Either home runner, strikeout, but he had
- 2:32Speaker 2: some other solid years there too. Fingers fingers. Another really
- 2:40Speaker 2: relief picture in there that might be someone Hey, and
- 2:44Speaker 2: I know we we we the kids just getting started.
- 2:47Speaker 2: But that guy cann uh the new picture that they got,
- 2:53Speaker 2: he's yeah, he's like, I'm like Oh my gosh, he's
- 2:57Speaker 2: got we got we gotta wait on him. We got
- 2:59Speaker 2: to see.
- 3:00Speaker 1: But you know, I'll say it was about your choice.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Bout hey, Troy Garry, glad him in here. Man. We
- 3:04Speaker 1: gotta get on the phone and see what else we
- 3:06Speaker 1: can do, Troy. But thanks for popping in off Facebook.
- 3:08Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna say one thing about one of
- 3:10Speaker 1: your choices, Eric Candy Ted Simmons. I like, you know what,
- 3:14Speaker 1: because he actually grew up in an area that I
- 3:17Speaker 1: grew up called Southfield, Michigan. So I'm partial. Okay, all right,
- 3:22Speaker 1: I like that one. Great stuff. Look this guy, all right, Eric,
- 3:26Speaker 1: go ahead.
- 3:27Speaker 3: I mean, where's Prince Fielder?
- 3:30Speaker 1: He is on there?
- 3:31Speaker 3: Okay, how about obviously, uh, you gotta first starting picture.
- 3:35Speaker 3: You gotta include Corbett Burns in there. That's that's cy
- 3:38Speaker 3: Burns and the closer. You know, I probably you gotta
- 3:41Speaker 3: include Josh Hater in my opinion, because he was.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Well, he's on that list, Eric, I read the list.
- 3:47Speaker 3: Okay, how about the list again? Yeah, I got it.
- 3:51Speaker 3: How about how about William Thomas consistent as consistent as
- 3:57Speaker 3: they consistent as.
- 3:58Speaker 1: They out him? Yeah, the list has got Josh Hater
- 4:04Speaker 1: on there, Paul Mulcher, Robbie Dell, Ricky Weeks, they put
- 4:07Speaker 1: him in second. Cecil fielder Christian Yellich, Ryan Brown, Greg Vaughan,
- 4:13Speaker 1: Jonathan LUKEROI Prince fielders on there, and I also added
- 4:17Speaker 1: honorable mention Hank Garon and Pat Murphy. The reason why
- 4:20Speaker 1: I put Hank Aaron on there is she got his
- 4:23Speaker 1: final home runs there. But he also played for the
- 4:25Speaker 1: Milwaukee Range, so he meant a lot to the city
- 4:27Speaker 1: of Milwaukee. That's why I put him on that list.
- 4:30Speaker 3: I'd include Brandon. I would probably put Brandon Woodrup on
- 4:32Speaker 3: that list too, okay, because he's been because he's stayed
- 4:36Speaker 3: a lot longer than the average player. You know, yes
- 4:39Speaker 3: he's been hurt, but he stayed a lot longer than
- 4:40Speaker 3: the average player has in Milwaukee in recent years.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Okay, I'll give you that candy.
- 4:50Speaker 4: My favorite topic I would I would add ccil Cooper.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Hm Well in there.
- 5:01Speaker 4: Okay, did you put was Don Money or on there?
- 5:07Speaker 2: Money?
- 5:08Speaker 1: Put Don Money on there? But you're old enough to
- 5:10Speaker 1: know who.
- 5:11Speaker 2: That is that I remember money.
- 5:14Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Don Muney is a pretty steady player.
- 5:16Speaker 4: He had eleven and sixty eight hits. Yeah, Ben Ogilvie
- 5:21Speaker 4: had eleven four, Jeff Jacobs twelve one. Ryan Brown obviously,
- 5:32Speaker 4: uh let's see, yeah, I uh bj Sirhoffkay.
- 5:40Speaker 2: Yeah, he was catcher. It was a catcher for them.
- 5:43Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 5:44Speaker 4: Well see, here's the thing. He played catcher, third base
- 5:47Speaker 4: and left field. Robignell played shortstop and center field. Paul
- 5:54Speaker 4: Maller played third base and second base, so did Don Money.
- 5:57Speaker 4: Ben Ogley played the outfield. Ryan Brown actually played left field,
- 6:03Speaker 4: right field, a very little bit at third base, starting pitcher.
- 6:11Speaker 4: I think i'd kind of I'd put Ben Sheets in there.
- 6:14Speaker 4: Is he he's in there, Brandon. I might even put
- 6:20Speaker 4: Teddy hagera okay. Teddy had an e R A three
- 6:25Speaker 4: point six one with the Brewers ninety four wins and
- 6:30Speaker 4: played for nine nine season, pitched for US nine seasons.
- 6:35Speaker 4: As far as relievers, who did you put in there?
- 6:41Speaker 1: Tash Hater was a top the list. Probably fiers I've added.
- 6:47Speaker 4: And I might even put Dan Pleezak in there. Okay,
- 6:53Speaker 4: he pitched quite quite a while. Let me think, Yukovich,
- 7:02Speaker 4: I don't.
- 7:02Speaker 1: Know a lot of people don't remember Damn pleaxact. Obviously
- 7:07Speaker 1: he's on MLB network, and I.
- 7:10Speaker 4: Know this is gonna sound kind of different, But for
- 7:14Speaker 4: a while he played with the Brewers. Devin Williams had
- 7:17Speaker 4: an a r A at one point eight three. You know,
- 7:20Speaker 4: he might not be doing as well after he left
- 7:22Speaker 4: the Brewers, but he did well as a Brewer.
- 7:26Speaker 2: He's the modern day Ed Witson.
- 7:28Speaker 3: He was, he was, Yeah, he was an Yeah when
- 7:30Speaker 3: Devon was there before Peter Lonzo's home run who he
- 7:33Speaker 3: was an all star caliber closer.
- 7:35Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's he's ed Whitson. He Yeah, he goes
- 7:39Speaker 2: to New York. Edwardson had this good career and then
- 7:41Speaker 2: he went to New York and he just fell apart. Well, yeah,
- 7:44Speaker 2: Devin Williams is the new Edwitson.
- 7:47Speaker 1: Yeah, well William Devin Williams didn't eaten up into Big
- 7:55Speaker 1: Apple G.
- 7:56Speaker 3: I was gonna say at Edwardson also beat Billy Martin.
- 8:01Speaker 1: Yeah I remember that.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:03Speaker 4: John Oxford played for the Brewers for a long time.
- 8:09Speaker 4: He played from behind the twenty twenty one. So that's
- 8:12Speaker 4: a pretty long career.
- 8:14Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 8:17Speaker 2: That nineteen eighty two team, it just had so many
- 8:20Speaker 2: good players on that team. It was such a look
- 8:23Speaker 2: they had that you know, bent me out and Ogilvy
- 8:25Speaker 2: and and money and small there he was just it's
- 8:30Speaker 2: like the old time. A good chunk of the old
- 8:32Speaker 2: time team is from that.
- 8:34Speaker 1: That that team, Harvey King, Harvey's Lall Bangers, as I
- 8:39Speaker 1: remember correctly.
- 8:40Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, the bar still the bar still there it Yeah, yeah,
- 8:45Speaker 3: the bar is still there. I don't know who owns
- 8:47Speaker 3: it now, but the actual bar is still their same location.
- 8:50Speaker 1: And do they have the number of billion all that
- 8:52Speaker 1: in there from there too?
- 8:54Speaker 3: I would, I would probably imagine.
- 8:55Speaker 1: So I'll go ahead and take it right in there
- 8:57Speaker 1: one day and we'll talk about it on a baseball
- 9:00Speaker 1: that's her. That's her assignment for the center.
- 9:02Speaker 3: I know exactly where it is. I just might walk
- 9:06Speaker 3: in forderick.
- 9:08Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm from New York, but I have a lot
- 9:10Speaker 2: of love for the Milwaukee Brewers. I've always loved their
- 9:14Speaker 2: logo with the m B and the boat and the
- 9:17Speaker 2: baseball glove. And then heck myself, myself, my church softball team,
- 9:21Speaker 2: our our jersey was like the light blue instead of
- 9:25Speaker 2: you know, in that same style. And you know, we
- 9:28Speaker 2: even did a little thing with the little because we
- 9:31Speaker 2: were Hemfield United met this, so we kind of like
- 9:34Speaker 2: a little little thing with it, and it was like
- 9:36Speaker 2: just like Milwaukee Brewers. So yeah, here.
- 9:40Speaker 3: Here's a guy you might have forgot. Jeff Sirillo.
- 9:43Speaker 2: Oh yeah he was.
- 9:45Speaker 3: He was up bright light and some pretty dark years
- 9:48Speaker 3: for the Brewers.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Say, I good like the list, like the add on,
- 9:52Speaker 1: Let's continue to move forward. Ex Maryland basketball coach Mark
- 9:56Speaker 1: Turzohn has been hired by the University of Kansas City.
- 10:00Speaker 1: Grew up in Topeka, Kansas, Maryland. He was with Maryland
- 10:03Speaker 1: from two thousand and eleven to twenty one. He had
- 10:06Speaker 1: a two D and twenty six and one sixteen Mark
- 10:08Speaker 1: five NCAA's one fleet sixteenth clus near Neck of the Woods.
- 10:12Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about the job that Mark for
- 10:14Speaker 1: John did and he's headed to the Midwest.
- 10:16Speaker 2: Well, it's it's definitely a smaller program from where he
- 10:20Speaker 2: I mean go from Maryland and a little bit of
- 10:23Speaker 2: time of Whichitah State over there, and he had he
- 10:28Speaker 2: had definitely two different jobs there. He was trying to
- 10:31Speaker 2: bring some credibility back to Whichita State there and he
- 10:34Speaker 2: definitely Maryland was the higher end program. It seems like
- 10:40Speaker 2: it's only going to be a good thing for Kansas
- 10:43Speaker 2: City there. It's not exactly the biggest uh program. But
- 10:48Speaker 2: if they're gonna want to turn it around, I think
- 10:50Speaker 2: he's gonna be a good, uh, a good influence for
- 10:53Speaker 2: that team to have some success in the hopefully not
- 10:58Speaker 2: too distant future.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Mark Sturgeon to me, he's been winter
- 11:03Speaker 1: wherever he's gone.
- 11:03Speaker 3: Go ahead, Eric, I think it's a good hire. I mean,
- 11:06Speaker 3: I mean, I think that. I think COVID is what
- 11:09Speaker 3: really kind of really hurt his momentum at Maryland because
- 11:12Speaker 3: he had that team tie for first in the Big
- 11:15Speaker 3: Ten right right when the pandemic comes struck, and then
- 11:17Speaker 3: he was just never able to recover since. But it's
- 11:22Speaker 3: a good hire. You know, you're bringing a guy in
- 11:24Speaker 3: who's been at bigger schools and who's won everywhere he's gone,
- 11:27Speaker 3: and I think this is a good stepping stone for
- 11:30Speaker 3: him to kind of get back of the big leagues.
- 11:32Speaker 4: Okay, Candy, Yeah, he's he's been a coach for quite
- 11:39Speaker 4: a while. He began his head coaching, or began coaching
- 11:44Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty seven, started at Kansas, went to Oregon.
- 11:49Speaker 4: I mean these are all his assistants Philadelphia seventy six ers.
- 11:52Speaker 4: So he went into the NBA as well. Then he
- 11:55Speaker 4: went to Jacksonville State, Wichita State, Texas, and Maryland and
- 11:58Speaker 4: now he's at Kansas City. His head coaching record overall
- 12:02Speaker 4: is four seventy six two seventy five, so he has
- 12:06Speaker 4: a winning percentage was great. He won championships the MVC
- 12:13Speaker 4: regular season in two thousand and six and Big Ten
- 12:16Speaker 4: Regular season in twenty twenty. He won MVC Coaching the
- 12:20Speaker 4: Year in twenty post six and Big Ten Coach of
- 12:24Speaker 4: the Year in twenty fifteen. So I think it's a
- 12:27Speaker 4: good good hire. I mean he's been out for a
- 12:30Speaker 4: couple of years. He last coached back in twenty twenty one.
- 12:35Speaker 4: I think he now took some time off and now
- 12:38Speaker 4: he wants to get back into coaching and hopefully he
- 12:42Speaker 4: has some good success.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Now. You know, you guys talked about Willia Donnas. I
- 12:48Speaker 1: think this is pretty interesting to talk about and we're
- 12:50Speaker 1: going to add it. Willia DNAs actually last year was
- 12:54Speaker 1: the first Fan Francisco Giants player with thirty home runs
- 12:58Speaker 1: on the season since Harry Bonds in two thousand and four.
- 13:02Speaker 1: So that was pretty interesting. So let's talk about him
- 13:05Speaker 1: a little bit. Cliff, what your talks about Willia.
- 13:06Speaker 2: Domas well, you just brought brought it up because he
- 13:11Speaker 2: was always a good solid player for the team. He
- 13:13Speaker 2: seems to be doing well for San Francisco. Yeah, I
- 13:19Speaker 2: guess I don't know if i'd still put him in
- 13:22Speaker 2: the best Milwaukee Breweries of all time. But I mean, he's, he's,
- 13:27Speaker 2: he's done respectable in this league. He'd make the Mets better.
- 13:31Speaker 2: I know, that's for sure. They couldn't be any worse.
- 13:34Speaker 2: But yeah, he's he's, he's he's uh he contributes, uh
- 13:38Speaker 2: in the way he contributes, and he's a good solid
- 13:41Speaker 2: player to have and uh but I mean he's kind
- 13:43Speaker 2: of stuff. But he might be doing pretty well for
- 13:45Speaker 2: San Francisco, but San Francisco seems to have some other issues.
- 13:50Speaker 1: We'll get to that eventually. With that great point, I
- 13:52Speaker 1: just figured sisterly brown a damas up. Well, Eric, continue on.
- 13:56Speaker 3: I mean Willia Domas I mean, for like, you know,
- 13:58Speaker 3: I always have a saft spot for him because he
- 14:00Speaker 3: was one he was my favorite for when he when
- 14:02Speaker 3: he came. He you know, in just just over three
- 14:05Speaker 3: and a half years, he had over one hundred and
- 14:07Speaker 3: seven home runs for the Crew. He's still very much
- 14:09Speaker 3: liked in Milwaukee. No one blamed No one blames them
- 14:12Speaker 3: at all for for leaving. But they hit thirty home runs.
- 14:14Speaker 3: When you're playing, when you're playing eighty one games a
- 14:17Speaker 3: year in a ballpark that's notoriously pitcher friendly, is is
- 14:22Speaker 3: pretty good, especially when when you're given the dimensions of
- 14:25Speaker 3: that ballmark you really you really have to you know,
- 14:28Speaker 3: in order to hit one out, you really have to
- 14:29Speaker 3: give it a whack. So but you know, good, but good,
- 14:33Speaker 3: but good for Willie, No one blames him here for
- 14:35Speaker 3: leaving and and taking the money. But he's always been
- 14:38Speaker 3: a good player. But I think I think San Francisco
- 14:41Speaker 3: swung a little too high there and paid him all
- 14:43Speaker 3: star caliber money when he's simply a solid player.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Agree Candy.
- 14:49Speaker 4: In twenty twenty four, Adamis tied the major league shortstop
- 14:55Speaker 4: record for hitting a home run in five consecutive games.
- 14:58Speaker 4: Now this is what the Brewers understand. He shares the
- 15:01Speaker 4: record with Eddie Miller, Alex Rodriguez, Cory Singer, Trey Turner,
- 15:07Speaker 4: and Tyler Fitzgerald. In he He also started all but
- 15:14Speaker 4: one of the Brewers regular season games that year, all
- 15:18Speaker 4: but one. Then he was traded obviously or he signed
- 15:22Speaker 4: a seven year, one two million dollar contract with the
- 15:26Speaker 4: San Francisco Giants. Included twenty two million dollars signing bonus,
- 15:31Speaker 4: a full no trade clause, and no deferred money. As
- 15:36Speaker 4: of December twenty twenty four, it was the largest contract
- 15:38Speaker 4: ever given up by the Giants and yes. On September
- 15:44Speaker 4: twenty eighth of twenty twenty five, on the final game
- 15:46Speaker 4: of the series season, Adamas became the first Giants player
- 15:51Speaker 4: since Barry Bonds to hit thirty home runs in a
- 15:54Speaker 4: single season. But can we can we talk about where
- 15:59Speaker 4: he started? Scott he signed He signed with the Detroit
- 16:04Speaker 4: Tigers as an international free agent in July of twenty twelve. Okay,
- 16:10Speaker 4: he was involved in a three team trade back on
- 16:13Speaker 4: July thirty first of twenty fourteen that sent him, Drew
- 16:17Speaker 4: Smiley and Nick Franklin to the Tampa Bay Rays. Austin
- 16:22Speaker 4: Jackson was sent to Seattle and David Price to the
- 16:25Speaker 4: Detroit Tigers.
- 16:28Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, I remember that David Price. And I'll tell
- 16:31Speaker 1: you that was a good short term for Detroit because
- 16:34Speaker 1: David Price was a heck of a player. Eric. If
- 16:36Speaker 1: anybody knows what.
- 16:39Speaker 3: Price, go ahead, I mean yeah, I mean he was
- 16:42Speaker 3: a great, great picture for the Rays, the Rays, the
- 16:45Speaker 3: Red Sox, the Tigers. I mean, just a solid arm
- 16:49Speaker 3: like in there. I know he was a big part
- 16:50Speaker 3: of that twenty eighteen Red Sox team going to the
- 16:53Speaker 3: World Series, and I know he was huge especially early
- 16:55Speaker 3: on for the Rays in there and having in the
- 16:58Speaker 3: success that they had.
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- 19:24Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Well, as we go forward here
- 19:28Speaker 1: in the program, we're looking forward to having Rob Marasta
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- 19:47Speaker 1: had a good job Eric Indy on Saturday edition of
- 19:51Speaker 1: Baseball he did. Yeah, I think this guy's pretty smart.
- 19:56Speaker 1: So Clift. These are a few of your new teammates
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- 20:00Speaker 1: always trying to do what we can to grow this
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- 20:05Speaker 1: to get people from different parts of the country to
- 20:08Speaker 1: go ahead and do that. So with that said, we'll
- 20:12Speaker 1: go ahead and talk a little bit about Donald Driver
- 20:17Speaker 1: or actually, and then as more and more people come in,
- 20:20Speaker 1: we'll incorporate the topic and get more opinion. But legendary
- 20:23Speaker 1: Green Bay Packer wide receiver, Donald Driver once lived out
- 20:27Speaker 1: of a U haul Tek under a bridge. Wow, what
- 20:31Speaker 1: do you think? Clip?
- 20:33Speaker 2: But yeah, I never knew about that. I've always known
- 20:35Speaker 2: about Donald Driver, a great wide receiver for the Packers,
- 20:38Speaker 2: but I was not familiar with that story before growing up.
- 20:45Speaker 2: Apparently that happened. It was a tough upbreaking. Some financial
- 20:49Speaker 2: issues wound up popping up and they were forced to
- 20:52Speaker 2: do that.
- 20:54Speaker 1: You know.
- 20:54Speaker 2: It's that's that just shows you the uh, you know,
- 20:57Speaker 2: the the perseverance and sometimes people go through and can
- 21:02Speaker 2: really drive them and uh actually appreciate when they do
- 21:07Speaker 2: make it, make it and appreciate the path to when
- 21:11Speaker 2: they do finally make it to that position. And uh yeah,
- 21:15Speaker 2: it's that's just a testament to how hard he worked.
- 21:18Speaker 2: He could have just very easily given up and you know,
- 21:22Speaker 2: but didn't, and he got all the way to the
- 21:25Speaker 2: NFL and played very very well for more Green Bay
- 21:27Speaker 2: for a very long time.
- 21:31Speaker 1: Sure, okay, Eric.
- 21:34Speaker 3: I mean yeah, just it just it just shows you
- 21:37Speaker 3: just how just how gritty he really was. I mean
- 21:39Speaker 3: I always knew him, you know obviously as a what.
- 21:44Speaker 4: What go ahead? Eric? Go ahead?
- 21:49Speaker 3: Okay? But Yeah, I always knew. I always knew down
- 21:54Speaker 3: the driver. Oh all right, I always knew Donald drive
- 22:00Speaker 3: as a very gritty wide receiver for the for the
- 22:03Speaker 3: for the Green Bay Packers, and you know, just just
- 22:06Speaker 3: hearing how far he came to being like to being
- 22:09Speaker 3: like one of the better wide receivers for a long
- 22:11Speaker 3: time in the NFL. It's just it's just a testament
- 22:14Speaker 3: just how just how how hard he worked, because I
- 22:16Speaker 3: know at one point he had like six or seven
- 22:19Speaker 3: straight seasons of a thousand or more receiving yards. And
- 22:22Speaker 3: you know, obviously won a Super Bowl with the Packers
- 22:24Speaker 3: in twenty ten, so and was obviously one of Brett
- 22:28Speaker 3: Farr's favorite targets.
- 22:31Speaker 1: Yeah, hitty.
- 22:35Speaker 4: So Donald is very open about this. Donald wrote, uh,
- 22:42Speaker 4: he wrote a book about it, and he said the
- 22:44Speaker 4: reason behind the book was just telling the story for me,
- 22:49Speaker 4: was trying to put everything in perspective and letting people
- 22:52Speaker 4: know that regardless of what obstacles you may face in life,
- 22:55Speaker 4: whatever adversity that you may overcome anything, you just have
- 23:00Speaker 4: to continue to believe that you can be successful. So, yeah,
- 23:03Speaker 4: his family, he's very open about his time as a child. Now,
- 23:10Speaker 4: they confiscated his house and all the possessions, and that's
- 23:13Speaker 4: why they went and lived in the U haul.
- 23:16Speaker 6: He was one of five children, and he talked a
- 23:25Speaker 6: lot of times and.
- 23:27Speaker 4: Gives a lot of credit to his parents. At one point,
- 23:32Speaker 4: him and his older brother when they were teenagers, they
- 23:34Speaker 4: actually began stealing cars and stool drugs during their teenager
- 23:40Speaker 4: years in order to make it from day to day.
- 23:43Speaker 4: At the age of fourteen, he moved in with his grandmother,
- 23:47Speaker 4: Betty Lofton, and his life started to turn around at
- 23:50Speaker 4: that point. And then he shined as an athlete in
- 23:53Speaker 4: high school and everything like that. But yeah, his early
- 23:56Speaker 4: years were rough.
- 23:59Speaker 1: Okay, welcome Market bilsoner of the show Marky, glad to
- 24:02Speaker 1: have you.
- 24:02Speaker 5: Back, by friend, Thank all, thank you.
- 24:05Speaker 1: We're going to bring in with a quick rags of
- 24:07Speaker 1: riches story very quickly. Donald Driver goes from a U
- 24:09Speaker 1: Haul talk truck to the Green Bay Packers. What are
- 24:12Speaker 1: your thoughts about those types of stories?
- 24:14Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean I had heard what you said,
- 24:17Speaker 5: and I mean it was like he was a thousand
- 24:20Speaker 5: yard receiver for some years, one of the best. I always, yeah,
- 24:23Speaker 5: thought that Donald Driver was one of the better receivers
- 24:26Speaker 5: in the NFL. I mean I remember those Green Bay
- 24:29Speaker 5: and Aaron Rodgers Packers teams and such. You know, so
- 24:33Speaker 5: there is there a question about that. I am a
- 24:36Speaker 5: little surprised to learn not. You know, you say rags
- 24:40Speaker 5: are riches.
- 24:41Speaker 3: You know.
- 24:42Speaker 5: I am always disappointed, like what was just said about
- 24:46Speaker 5: oh I needed to deal dope or something like that.
- 24:49Speaker 5: I mean, Jerome Vet has mentioned that in his biography,
- 24:53Speaker 5: and it's such a disappointment because you have you know,
- 24:56Speaker 5: very you know are taking. You think that a Donald Driver,
- 25:00Speaker 5: drum bettet is better than that even in their youth,
- 25:03Speaker 5: you know. I mean that is a big disappointment.
- 25:06Speaker 1: Uh.
- 25:07Speaker 5: But nevertheless, uh and I don't mean to just blow
- 25:10Speaker 5: that off, but you know, uh, if the question was
- 25:15Speaker 5: was Driver one of the better wide receivers? Of course
- 25:17Speaker 5: he was right. So you know I.
- 25:22Speaker 1: Will not We got Marky back, so we're going to
- 25:24Speaker 1: talk to you about the Pittsford fire and how about there.
- 25:26Speaker 1: We're going to trust her all time life. Go lead
- 25:28Speaker 1: up with you, Marky. Okay, here's here's what I have.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Your free to add to this list. Okay, Marky. Your
- 25:34Speaker 1: outfielders include Roberto Clemeny, Andrew McCutcheon, Ralph Kiner, Pie Trainer.
- 25:41Speaker 1: I know you're old enough for that one, right, Maybe
- 25:43Speaker 1: maybe not right? Okay, honest wack?
- 25:49Speaker 5: That was who can American The old time Pittsburghers will
- 25:53Speaker 5: know exactly what I'm talking about. Pie Trainer was a
- 25:57Speaker 5: very popular sportscaster in his post playing career, and he
- 26:01Speaker 5: is sponsored by American Keating Oil. And that was his tagline.
- 26:07Speaker 5: That was, you know, Till Rizuto in the money store.
- 26:11Speaker 5: I'm trying to think if uh, now, let's see you're
- 26:13Speaker 5: talking about Brett Barvin Wrangler jeans or something like that.
- 26:17Speaker 5: You know, that was what he was synonymous with as
- 26:19Speaker 5: a sponsor.
- 26:20Speaker 1: Great stuff. I like this, great stuff. I like her.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Let me continue the less. You got Hannas Wagner shortstop,
- 26:27Speaker 1: second bateman, Bill Mansarowski, first baseman, Willie Stargel. You're starting pitcher,
- 26:32Speaker 1: they said, wilbrid Cooper. Right. The relief pitcher is Roy
- 26:35Speaker 1: Faith Catcher, Jason Kendall, d H. Barry Bonds. And also
- 26:40Speaker 1: they talk about Fred Clark is a manager. I had
- 26:44Speaker 1: a couple of honorable mentions in there. You can add
- 26:47Speaker 1: Jim Leland to the group. You can add Chuck Tanner,
- 26:49Speaker 1: Danny Murtau. All Right, Markue, go for it.
- 26:53Speaker 5: Okay, First of all, you want to mean a pirate
- 26:56Speaker 5: history here. I would not take Kendall as the catcher
- 26:59Speaker 5: because I thought he would have too many defensive liabilities.
- 27:03Speaker 5: I would my own personal pick would be Tony Pania.
- 27:07Speaker 5: A popular pick would be Manny Sanghian, who was the
- 27:11Speaker 5: captor of the great teams of the seventies. Pretty good.
- 27:14Speaker 5: My first game, by the way, was the last game
- 27:16Speaker 5: that Manny san but that I ever attended as little boy,
- 27:19Speaker 5: was the last game Manny Sanghian ever caught in the
- 27:22Speaker 5: big leaguees. He actually played his last season. He never caught,
- 27:26Speaker 5: but as a seventy nine Next and Penultimen Game of
- 27:29Speaker 5: the year. They put into cat late in the game
- 27:32Speaker 5: and all this. But yeah, that was anyway, But I was,
- 27:36Speaker 5: you know, it's a toss up between Sangy, I think,
- 27:38Speaker 5: and Tanya. I would take Paynia, but I know the
- 27:42Speaker 5: popular pick would probably be Sanghian. Manager. I would not
- 27:47Speaker 5: take Fred Clark. I'm going to tell you why. I
- 27:48Speaker 5: give you a little story that very few people know.
- 27:53Speaker 5: But one hundred years ago, the Pirates had a team
- 27:56Speaker 5: that was supposed to be a dynasty. It was supposed
- 27:59Speaker 5: to last for a long time. They won the World
- 28:03Speaker 5: Series in nineteen twenty five, but Barney Dreyfus, who was
- 28:07Speaker 5: the owner of the Pirates and Bill forbesfield and architect
- 28:12Speaker 5: of the World Series and so on, was taking a
- 28:14Speaker 5: trip overseas. Bill mcketney, who I might choose as the
- 28:18Speaker 5: all time Pirate manager, was a very laid back manager.
- 28:22Speaker 5: And there's to be elaborate, but just take this anyway.
- 28:29Speaker 5: Because of that, Clark was taken out of retirement. You're
- 28:34Speaker 5: going to be m keckney's right hand man, You're going
- 28:38Speaker 5: to be his top coach. And basically Clark did every
- 28:42Speaker 5: old school thing. He ran off Max Carey, who was
- 28:46Speaker 5: a Hall of Fame center fielder who I would probably
- 28:48Speaker 5: put in center field because he's in Hall of Fame.
- 28:50Speaker 5: I don't know if Kutch would be. You know, he may,
- 28:54Speaker 5: but I don't know that he will. Ran him off.
- 28:57Speaker 5: Babe Adams, who was maybe the greatest Pirate pitcher ever.
- 29:01Speaker 5: Cooper is the winning East. Adams played on two World
- 29:04Speaker 5: champions and I think his nineteen or nine season might
- 29:07Speaker 5: be the best season a rookie pitcher ever ed. He
- 29:12Speaker 5: he was There was another veteran that he ran off
- 29:16Speaker 5: nobody remembers Carson big b but he was a legitimate
- 29:20Speaker 5: player of his day, and he was so that the
- 29:23Speaker 5: players legitimately started revolting, and mckeckney originally joined in with
- 29:29Speaker 5: them and then kind of got the idea that his
- 29:33Speaker 5: job was on the line, and so he then started
- 29:36Speaker 5: going in with management, and that basically cost him keckney
- 29:40Speaker 5: his job as Pirate manager. Now where I'm going with
- 29:43Speaker 5: this is that the next season they get a new
- 29:46Speaker 5: manager and he basically runs Kai Kai Kyler off the team.
- 29:51Speaker 5: Why did he? Twenty seven Yankees sweep the Pirates in
- 29:53Speaker 5: the World Series, they didn't use Kai Kai Kyler Hall
- 29:57Speaker 5: of Fame outfielder nineteen twenty five set the club record
- 30:01Speaker 5: for total bases. He's sitting on the bench. You think
- 30:05Speaker 5: that that might have had a little bit of an influence.
- 30:08Speaker 5: And I do wonder if the twenty seven Yankees, they
- 30:12Speaker 5: might not be thought of universally as the greatest team
- 30:15Speaker 5: if they didn't sweep the Pirates. I think Kyler could
- 30:18Speaker 5: have made a big difference. So you're looking at this.
- 30:22Speaker 5: Then the Bucks they trade away Kyler the next year
- 30:25Speaker 5: for a couple of guys nobody remembers Sparky Adams and
- 30:27Speaker 5: a player I've forgotten. Kyler goes the Cubs. The next year,
- 30:33Speaker 5: the Arits finish a distant second to the Cubs in
- 30:36Speaker 5: the National Inepennant. In thirty two, they finished four games back.
- 30:40Speaker 5: I think Kyler might have made the difference. So because
- 30:44Speaker 5: of Clark basically being this, you know, it's my team
- 30:49Speaker 5: now when it really wasn't, he essentially destroyed what could
- 30:54Speaker 5: have been a dynasty and sent the Pirates on a
- 30:58Speaker 5: streak of thirty three straight endless seasons. Yes, I mean
- 31:03Speaker 5: he was the manager in the nineteen oughts and won
- 31:06Speaker 5: four pennants, but you know, the second half of his
- 31:11Speaker 5: career did far more harm than good. And as for
- 31:16Speaker 5: mcket name, in twenty eight he led the Cardinals to
- 31:19Speaker 5: the pennant, and in nineteen forty he became the first
- 31:22Speaker 5: manager to win the World Series with two different teams
- 31:24Speaker 5: when he did with the Reds. So that's the guy
- 31:27Speaker 5: that they ran off. He's in the Hall of Fame, right.
- 31:30Speaker 5: Uh you know, So those are some guys that I
- 31:33Speaker 5: probably wouldn't dh. I don't like the rules, so I
- 31:36Speaker 5: just pass on that you could take bonds over Kiner.
- 31:42Speaker 5: I would not just as kind of every year he
- 31:44Speaker 5: ever played with the Pirates led them in home runs.
- 31:48Speaker 5: Bonds might be the best player between Ruth and o'tani,
- 31:52Speaker 5: but you know, he didn't lead the league in home
- 31:55Speaker 5: runs every year he played for the team. I mean,
- 31:57Speaker 5: you know, that's pretty impressive, and not with a lot
- 32:01Speaker 5: not a lot of protection in the lineup. So and
- 32:04Speaker 5: there were in the seven years to play the Foxes
- 32:07Speaker 5: rookie season, he knew he was up in commer, but
- 32:11Speaker 5: he was only eating two twenty three, you know, I mean,
- 32:13Speaker 5: he was getting accustomed to the major leagues, you know,
- 32:16Speaker 5: that sort of thing. Kinner as a rookie led the
- 32:20Speaker 5: Majors and home or the National League and home runs
- 32:23Speaker 5: the whopping twenty three. But nevertheless, so, I mean I
- 32:27Speaker 5: would probably take Kinder just for that reason. But overall,
- 32:32Speaker 5: Bonds may be the best player of anyone that you
- 32:35Speaker 5: just named, right, But yeah, I think that. Other than that,
- 32:39Speaker 5: I've seen some people that did metrics that actually said
- 32:42Speaker 5: Dave Cash was the greatest, the second baseman of the Pirates.
- 32:47Speaker 5: But I'm not about ready to put Dave Cash over
- 32:50Speaker 5: a Hall of Famer. I mean, I understand why Cutch,
- 32:55Speaker 5: you want a modern player in there would be the
- 32:57Speaker 5: center field or I might go Hall of Fame with
- 33:00Speaker 5: Carry or Lloyd Wayner who was a centerfielder. Paul Wayner
- 33:03Speaker 5: was a right fielder, you.
- 33:05Speaker 1: Know all that.
- 33:06Speaker 5: Yeah, but I would Yeah, if you're looking at my
- 33:10Speaker 5: all time list, Cooper is the all time Pirates victory leader,
- 33:16Speaker 5: I might go. I might go Babe Adams, though, I
- 33:20Speaker 5: mean that's a long time ago. But if you look
- 33:22Speaker 5: at his nineteen o nine season, uh, this is a
- 33:26Speaker 5: one thirty era. The rest of his stats are outstanding,
- 33:29Speaker 5: and then he goes and wins three games in the
- 33:30Speaker 5: old Series. That's a pretty good rookie season. Yeah, so
- 33:36Speaker 5: I might do I might do that in terms of
- 33:41Speaker 5: someone who had more modern uh you know, and more
- 33:45Speaker 5: recent the I mean you have dud dre Beck was
- 33:48Speaker 5: a cy Young Award winner and yeah, then he goes
- 33:51Speaker 5: off to the astros such as being a Pirates fan,
- 33:53Speaker 5: you know this sort of thing. So I think the
- 33:57Speaker 5: pictures that you're looking at starting picture, you might have
- 33:59Speaker 5: to go along with Schemes. I mean a lot of
- 34:01Speaker 5: people are saying Schemes is the best picture the Pirates
- 34:04Speaker 5: have had since they can remember. So you know, there
- 34:12Speaker 5: you go I suggest that relief picture. I mean, you know, face,
- 34:16Speaker 5: I think you can choose from face to Colvy, Dave
- 34:19Speaker 5: Gusty and you won't go wrong anyway with me.
- 34:23Speaker 1: Of those guys a great list. So I know you're
- 34:26Speaker 1: on until ten. I want to get one or two
- 34:28Speaker 1: more topics and with Mark.
- 34:29Speaker 5: Ok we've got four championship at the NBA, we got
- 34:33Speaker 5: the NHL, we got the World Cup, we got car
- 34:35Speaker 5: Olling t World Series. We're talking the old time Pirates. Okay,
- 34:37Speaker 5: I can do it.
- 34:38Speaker 1: Yeah, well, why hey, come on, we got it. I
- 34:40Speaker 1: like to I like to give you a Pittford topic once.
- 34:43Speaker 5: Yeah, why not.
- 34:45Speaker 1: Damn listen, you're the Pittsburgh authority. So I'm gonna go
- 34:48Speaker 1: out there and do. Yeah. We have a lot going on,
- 34:50Speaker 1: for sure, so you know whether it would come on
- 34:53Speaker 1: nine nine thirty, We'll make sure we get if you
- 34:55Speaker 1: feel it home with Wilson, Okay, Eric, go ahead, Why
- 34:59Speaker 1: don't you what's your shot box about the Pirates?
- 35:03Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you know, the Pirates have had a
- 35:06Speaker 3: lot of greats go through there. I probably put is
- 35:07Speaker 3: Paul Warner in there, the big poison Paul or Wayner.
- 35:12Speaker 5: Yes, yes, big Poison. Yes, I mean from way back
- 35:15Speaker 5: in the day. Uh. The thing about him is, you know,
- 35:19Speaker 5: they've had a lot of great left fielders with the
- 35:22Speaker 5: Pioneer Arts. I mean, Bonds, Kyner, Stargold began as a
- 35:26Speaker 5: left fielder. We got a lot of great right fielders too,
- 35:29Speaker 5: Parker Clemente and Paul Wayner was a right fielder. So
- 35:34Speaker 5: it's friend Clark for them, mat or it was a
- 35:35Speaker 5: fine player in his day.
- 35:38Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, ye know, and also and also you gotta,
- 35:41Speaker 3: in my opinion, even though he did leave for Houston,
- 35:43Speaker 3: which was in the National League at the time, you
- 35:45Speaker 3: have to include Doug grayback, Ok.
- 35:54Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're looking at all time. I mean, you
- 35:57Speaker 4: had a great list there. You know, I do agree
- 36:02Speaker 4: with Eric that Paul Winter his hits are two and
- 36:08Speaker 4: sixty eight, Roberto Clementees three thousand obviously, and then as
- 36:15Speaker 4: far as pictures, yeah, I think you got a fall.
- 36:18Speaker 4: I think you got to put Paul Skins even though
- 36:20Speaker 4: he's got just a short uh span here. But uh,
- 36:27Speaker 4: I would also put that one's I mean, you've had
- 36:32Speaker 4: you had quite a list there. Kind of think if
- 36:35Speaker 4: there's anybody else did you put kent.
- 36:40Speaker 1: To youah know, I actually like him.
- 36:45Speaker 5: Oh who doesn't, And he is a wonderful storyteller if
- 36:49Speaker 5: you ever should make his acquaintance. I mean, you know,
- 36:52Speaker 5: he's an I used to do the postgame show with
- 36:57Speaker 5: the Pirates on TV and was just so engaging and
- 37:01Speaker 5: asked Teak and you watch the postgame show. I mean
- 37:03Speaker 5: you knew the Bucks were going to lose, but you
- 37:06Speaker 5: just watch the postgame show, you know that sort of thing.
- 37:09Speaker 4: And Sky you had John Candelaria on there, No, I
- 37:13Speaker 4: did not. I would put him on there. I mean
- 37:15Speaker 4: he you know, he pitched from seventy five to ninety
- 37:19Speaker 4: three with an e are of three point one seven.
- 37:21Speaker 3: So here's a back in the day one. You could
- 37:25Speaker 3: probably put Vic Willis in there.
- 37:27Speaker 5: Yes, Hall of Famer the if you want to talk,
- 37:31Speaker 5: you know, be a Saber guy and talk to history
- 37:33Speaker 5: of baseball. Those teams way back one in the nineteen
- 37:37Speaker 5: Thoughts had tremendous you know pitching staff, Deacon Philippe, who
- 37:43Speaker 5: is actually a descendant Ryan Philippe, the actor is a
- 37:47Speaker 5: descended something right there. But you know it was a
- 37:50Speaker 5: wonderful pitcher of that era. U and very dominant Jack
- 37:54Speaker 5: Chesbro who won forty one games. With the New York Island.
- 37:58Speaker 5: Now we're talking about one hundred and twenty years ago.
- 38:00Speaker 5: But he was the last forty game winner in the
- 38:03Speaker 5: big leagues. The year before he was twenty eight and
- 38:05Speaker 5: six with the Bucks. So I mean, you know, they
- 38:08Speaker 5: had a lot of guys, uh, and but that was
- 38:11Speaker 5: the era of the big picture. They you know, uh,
- 38:14Speaker 5: you know three Fringer, Brown, Christy Matthewson and you know,
- 38:17Speaker 5: but yeah, Pick Willis would be a guy that would
- 38:20Speaker 5: be ranked with that, and you know Ed Walsh and
- 38:23Speaker 5: they were the American those guys, you know, I mean
- 38:26Speaker 5: the guys they're in the history book.
- 38:28Speaker 4: Uh.
- 38:29Speaker 5: But yeah, it's difficult a lot of times. I love that,
- 38:32Speaker 5: but a lot of people don't, you know, and all this,
- 38:35Speaker 5: but I love it, you know. So it's wonderful.
- 38:39Speaker 1: Let's continue on, Cliff, you have the vital word on
- 38:41Speaker 1: here that we'll proceed. I have one tarpe that'll be
- 38:44Speaker 1: We're going to talk about NASCAR for Markey. I know
- 38:46Speaker 1: he likes car I got a topic for him. Yeah.
- 38:50Speaker 2: Well, looking at Bill Medlock, Bill Medlock great third basement
- 38:55Speaker 2: at least honorable mention. Uh there definitely, Yeah, he was
- 39:00Speaker 2: for a great, great hit I love Build Madlock. You know,
- 39:04Speaker 2: she brought up John Candelaria. That was someone who was
- 39:09Speaker 2: on the tip of my brain there when I think
- 39:11Speaker 2: about them. But if whatever they're going to be doing, hey,
- 39:14Speaker 2: all those guys really great cases made for some great
- 39:19Speaker 2: Pirates over the years. Yeah, they haven't been great recently,
- 39:21Speaker 2: but there have been some top note maybe a slight
- 39:25Speaker 2: honorable mention for Brian Giles, but I don't know.
- 39:30Speaker 5: I'm sorry to interrupt. Go ahead, please, oh no, no,
- 39:33Speaker 5: go ahead, keep on. Brian Giles was actually the Pirates
- 39:36Speaker 5: all time leader in ops. Okay, yeah, I mean you know,
- 39:40Speaker 5: so there is something there with Madlock. Yes, some things
- 39:44Speaker 5: that I think dogs should be in the Hall of Fame. Unfortunately,
- 39:48Speaker 5: when he went on the ballot, he couldn't get five
- 39:49Speaker 5: percent to stay on, which shows you I think I underrated.
- 39:52Speaker 5: But also he didn't hit massive amounts of home runs.
- 39:57Speaker 5: His career high was nineteen and eighty two. Yes, I
- 39:59Speaker 5: know that, but he was. He is actually the all
- 40:03Speaker 5: time leading hitter in terms of batting average for the
- 40:06Speaker 5: Chicago Cubs. But you didn't know that meats out Riggs
- 40:10Speaker 5: Stevenson by a couple of points. And those four batting titles.
- 40:15Speaker 5: There is no other player in Big League history has
- 40:19Speaker 5: four batting titles, leading the league in batting average and
- 40:23Speaker 5: not in the Hall of Fame. Now think about that
- 40:26Speaker 5: for a second.
- 40:30Speaker 3: Probably you should you should put five Friend in that
- 40:32Speaker 3: pitching staff.
- 40:35Speaker 5: He was Yeah, I mean he uh pitched on a
- 40:39Speaker 5: lot of bad teams. But I know fifty five of
- 40:41Speaker 5: the nationally and earned run average. Uh, I can recite
- 40:46Speaker 5: that anyway. But yeah, he is an all time losing record.
- 40:49Speaker 5: But yes, I think what kills Bob Friend is in
- 40:53Speaker 5: the one World Series, he pitched really didn't pitch that well.
- 40:56Speaker 5: You know, Verne Law was the stopper of that year
- 40:59Speaker 5: and also pitched well in the series. I think, you know,
- 41:02Speaker 5: Friend got bombed when he would pitch those games and
- 41:05Speaker 5: all that. Those are the ones the Yankees are out
- 41:07Speaker 5: of the pirates. So I think that my butt. Overall career, yeah,
- 41:11Speaker 5: I mean he was if you looked at it, he
- 41:14Speaker 5: had some very good career numbers.
- 41:18Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's go ahead and let's move over
- 41:24Speaker 1: to NASCAR. I know I wanted to get to this
- 41:26Speaker 1: one here while I have Markey on to night, We're
- 41:28Speaker 1: going to talk about NASCAR drivers. By the way who
- 41:31Speaker 1: ended up finished there were runner ups. Okay, if anybody
- 41:34Speaker 1: can relate to this topic, yes, So what we're gonna
- 41:37Speaker 1: do is we're going to change gears a little bit
- 41:39Speaker 1: pun intend drivers with the most runner up finishes ever.
- 41:43Speaker 1: I'll go over the list. Marketing will start off with
- 41:45Speaker 1: you and Cliff Candy.
- 41:47Speaker 4: Eric.
- 41:47Speaker 1: Your free to get involved, but this one primarily for Markey. Okay.
- 41:50Speaker 1: Drivers with the most runner up finishes include Richard Petty
- 41:54Speaker 1: get this one hundred and fifty seven runner up finishes
- 41:57Speaker 1: across eleven hundred and eighty four Cup starts, remains the
- 42:00Speaker 1: driver to win his six hundred career start, David Pearson
- 42:04Speaker 1: eighty nine runner up finishes and five hundred and seventy
- 42:08Speaker 1: four NASCAR Cup Series starts. Then you have Bobby Allison
- 42:14Speaker 1: eight and seven runner up finishes during a Cup career
- 42:18Speaker 1: that included seven hundred and eighteen starts from big names.
- 42:22Speaker 1: And you have Jeff Gordon seventy five runner up finishes.
- 42:25Speaker 1: Gordon collected seventy five second place finishes across eight hundred
- 42:29Speaker 1: and five NASCAR Cup starts. You have Dale Earnart seventy
- 42:34Speaker 1: runner up finishes and six hundred and seventy six NASCAR
- 42:39Speaker 1: Serious Cup starts, Kyle Busch, the late Kyle Busch sixty
- 42:43Speaker 1: three runner up finishes and two hundred and fifty four
- 42:48Speaker 1: and he had two hundred fifty four top five results,
- 42:50Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty two starts across twenty four years,
- 42:54Speaker 1: and then Cup Series, and then he had Kevin Harvid
- 42:56Speaker 1: sixty three runner up finishes, Carvick match, which was sixty
- 43:00Speaker 1: three finishes during a career, this Panada Ark top starts.
- 43:06Speaker 1: When you put it all together, these guys here just
- 43:10Speaker 1: might all those second place finishes, Markie, they still built
- 43:13Speaker 1: some of the greatest careers this war. Did ever see
- 43:15Speaker 1: what a you're talking about these drivers?
- 43:17Speaker 5: I Mean, the first thing I think of is I'm
- 43:20Speaker 5: kind of under the victory total of a lot of
- 43:21Speaker 5: those guys that you mentioned, and they have more victories
- 43:23Speaker 5: and second place finishes, which I think you know is
- 43:28Speaker 5: their greatness. Petty had two hundred victories and he said
- 43:30Speaker 5: of one hundred and fifty seven runners up.
- 43:33Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 43:33Speaker 5: And you know David Pearson, who I think is a
- 43:38Speaker 5: very interesting character character in Nascaris Stream because he never
- 43:41Speaker 5: really raced an entire seasons, very selective about what races run.
- 43:47Speaker 5: But he is the second leading uh he is. He
- 43:51Speaker 5: a second all time in victories with one hundred and five,
- 43:55Speaker 5: although he did have more pole positions than that, as
- 43:58Speaker 5: I recall, but you know he had fewer than one
- 44:00Speaker 5: hundred second place finishes. That's that's impressive. But Pearson was
- 44:04Speaker 5: very well known, and I had Jerry Bonkowski once tell
- 44:08Speaker 5: me that was why he was so great, was that
- 44:12Speaker 5: he knew what race to run because he would likely
- 44:14Speaker 5: win it. As you're mentioning, even about twenty percent of
- 44:17Speaker 5: the time, and what is it about almost forty percent
- 44:20Speaker 5: of the time he's finishing either first or second. That's
- 44:23Speaker 5: rather impressive for the silver Fox. But mostly guys you're
- 44:26Speaker 5: talking about runners up, I mean, have more victories, and
- 44:29Speaker 5: I think that that speaks of their greatness.
- 44:33Speaker 1: Well, when you're competing at a high level, first or second,
- 44:37Speaker 1: that's not the worst thing in the world, especially in NASCAR,
- 44:39Speaker 1: which is the individual's sport. You know, you fail first
- 44:42Speaker 1: and second, that's incredible. I mean, you know, whether they've
- 44:46Speaker 1: won Daytona five hundreds and those is another story. But
- 44:49Speaker 1: that's a lot of win a lot of money, and
- 44:51Speaker 1: a lot of spotsors for sure. So that said, I know, Mark,
- 44:55Speaker 1: you have to leave it around ten o'clock. Is that correctly?
- 44:57Speaker 5: Front he had a couple of minutes here.
- 45:00Speaker 1: Why don't you go ahead and let everybody know how
- 45:02Speaker 1: they can get a hold of you.
- 45:02Speaker 5: All right, I'm sorry to be short, like I said,
- 45:06Speaker 5: this is you know all that, but I'm glad to
- 45:07Speaker 5: be invited and included here, especially for some historic discussion.
- 45:12Speaker 5: Let me just say this, if you want to get
- 45:15Speaker 5: more contemporary discussion, just do a Google search Marquee Bilson
- 45:19Speaker 5: or at Marquee Bilson, the fourth ivy being Broman World.
- 45:24Speaker 5: And what I do a lot of is East Tennessee State.
- 45:27Speaker 5: I do every day a one minute podcast on what's
- 45:30Speaker 5: going on with the Buccaneers. Remember I've lived a lot
- 45:33Speaker 5: of places and be graduated from e TSU. And so
- 45:39Speaker 5: even if you're not a Bucks fan, and let's face it,
- 45:42Speaker 5: they're not Kentucky, they're not in order to game, but
- 45:45Speaker 5: it is a good it's just a good rap for
- 45:50Speaker 5: a good analysis of D one sports. Tomorrow, I'm going
- 45:56Speaker 5: to be talking about the FCF playoffs. They lose money.
- 46:00Speaker 5: Has anyone ever considered going back to the bowl game
- 46:03Speaker 5: format with the Fts? It would seem to me that
- 46:07Speaker 5: having you know, four games where you're actually choosing the
- 46:13Speaker 5: opponents for matchups and top matchups, maybe in sunny weather
- 46:18Speaker 5: for the people from the Dakotas in Montana, that could
- 46:21Speaker 5: be very profitable, especially since the playoffs are not making money.
- 46:26Speaker 5: For instance, eighty five percent of ticket revenue is not
- 46:31Speaker 5: collected by the home team. They've got to give it away.
- 46:35Speaker 5: They can only quick fifteen percent.
- 46:37Speaker 1: Mark, you have a quick question for you before you
- 46:39Speaker 1: go off. We're your talks about the fact that Bud
- 46:42Speaker 1: Ceiling is definitely strongly in favor of the salary cap,
- 46:45Speaker 1: knowing what he did in nineteen ninety four when he
- 46:48Speaker 1: you know, he was willing to cancel.
- 46:50Speaker 5: I'm I'm not a Bud Sealing panel. The years ago,
- 46:53Speaker 5: I did interview him and find him very charming or
- 46:56Speaker 5: he did a very likable person, which is one of
- 46:58Speaker 5: the reasons why he's in Hall of Fame and stayed
- 47:00Speaker 5: on as a as commissioner for so long. But I
- 47:06Speaker 5: am in favor of a cap. I mean, I think
- 47:09Speaker 5: that for competitive balance. You know, it's worked for all
- 47:12Speaker 5: the other sports, and here is Major League Baseball where
- 47:15Speaker 5: they always like to say, well the Kansas City Royals
- 47:18Speaker 5: have won the World Series, you know, and but yeah
- 47:21Speaker 5: they did, but within about three years they were losing
- 47:24Speaker 5: one hundred and four games because they couldn't keep anybody. Now,
- 47:27Speaker 5: you know you're gonna have poor management still by some teams,
- 47:32Speaker 5: but you know, it's worked very well for competitive balance
- 47:36Speaker 5: in all the other sports. The Knicks can win the
- 47:39Speaker 5: NBA title the year after Oklahoma City, does you know what?
- 47:46Speaker 5: That isn't quite the case in other sports. So I
- 47:48Speaker 5: mentioning Brooke Caarvin market number seventy can be a great
- 47:51Speaker 5: spokesman for Wrangler. That doesn't happen in baseball.
- 47:56Speaker 1: Well you say that because that's exactly what Sealand said. NBA, NHL,
- 48:00Speaker 1: the NFL have it, and that's exactly why he endorses
- 48:03Speaker 1: it with him.
- 48:04Speaker 5: I don't think it limits a player's ability to make money.
- 48:07Speaker 5: People said, Look, I mean, you know, you're kind of
- 48:11Speaker 5: capped if you work at say a restaurant, you know
- 48:14Speaker 5: you're not going to be able to make a million
- 48:16Speaker 5: bucks as a waiter once you're getting really good tips.
- 48:19Speaker 5: But you know so, but you are able to go
- 48:23Speaker 5: out and then mow lawns or whatever. I mean, you know,
- 48:27Speaker 5: and so there are so many other opportunities for a
- 48:30Speaker 5: baseball player, their own business, uh you know, their their enforcements,
- 48:37Speaker 5: and yes, going out and mowing lawns if they wanted
- 48:39Speaker 5: the extra fifty bucks a day or so. Anyway, we
- 48:43Speaker 5: got some disrection here, I got to let you go.
- 48:46Speaker 1: Well, no problem. Well we'll see you next Wednesday night market.
- 48:48Speaker 1: Thanks for being out for half an hour. All right,
- 48:50Speaker 1: Well that takes care of that. Okay, the New York
- 48:52Speaker 1: Gves we're coming on and we'll be talking about the
- 48:55Speaker 1: salary kap. And meanwhile, i'll tell you what We're going
- 48:57Speaker 1: to continue that topic, and then when they come on,
- 48:59Speaker 1: we'll lead on them. Clip what are talking about? Bud
- 49:02Speaker 1: Sealing obviously saying about his talk about the sellar cap.
- 49:06Speaker 1: It should not be of any surprise at all that he's.
- 49:10Speaker 2: No, not at all, I mean what these Milwaukee roots. Obviously,
- 49:14Speaker 2: Milwaukee has always been identified as a smaller market team.
- 49:19Speaker 2: I'm for it, I'm I'm all. I'm all for the
- 49:22Speaker 2: salary cap. Yes, I'm a Mets fan, but heck, they
- 49:24Speaker 2: don't know how to spend the money even when they
- 49:26Speaker 2: do spend it, so they might as well just have
- 49:28Speaker 2: to have a cap. Anyway, that'll save them from themselves.
- 49:32Speaker 2: You know, at least they will be in the same
- 49:34Speaker 2: boat as everybody else. But with spending the money, it's
- 49:38Speaker 2: just making sure. If you do that, you have a
- 49:40Speaker 2: salary floor, and you have to make sure there's no
- 49:43Speaker 2: shenanigans going on. Well, because there have been another sports,
- 49:48Speaker 2: Oh we're gonna take on this this this guy's contract,
- 49:51Speaker 2: and it's happened a lot in hockey. They a guy
- 49:53Speaker 2: never plays for them, but it counts against the cap.
- 49:57Speaker 2: You have to be very specific with with that. I'm
- 50:01Speaker 2: all for the salary cap, but there should be a
- 50:03Speaker 2: salary floor, and they shouldn't have these exemptions where you
- 50:05Speaker 2: just take some guy who isn't going to be playing
- 50:08Speaker 2: anyway anymore, playing at all anymore, but oh his salary
- 50:13Speaker 2: against the floor, so they can still be bad. Oh
- 50:16Speaker 2: well we hit the floor. Yeah, there has to be
- 50:20Speaker 2: rules for that, Candy.
- 50:23Speaker 4: Yeah. I think if you're going to introduce a salary cap,
- 50:26Speaker 4: you have to have a floor. I think you have
- 50:29Speaker 4: to because they haven't had it that they have to
- 50:32Speaker 4: somehow figure out how to equal the playing field. But
- 50:37Speaker 4: in the same breath that some of these contracts are
- 50:39Speaker 4: already out there and established, so you've got to be
- 50:43Speaker 4: cognizant of that when you put in this salary cap.
- 50:48Speaker 4: I just I want to see how good the Brewers
- 50:51Speaker 4: can be if you're going to put a salary floor
- 50:52Speaker 4: in it, because if they're one of the smallest markets
- 50:55Speaker 4: and spending the least and yet having the success that
- 50:58Speaker 4: they do already, I can't wait.
- 51:03Speaker 3: I mean, no surprise there. He Bud Seeley tried to
- 51:07Speaker 3: do it in ninety four and to to know, to
- 51:10Speaker 3: know avail actually he bled it into the ninety five
- 51:13Speaker 3: season and and hes still and he still didn't get
- 51:15Speaker 3: it done. I'm gonna say no, I'm not in favor
- 51:19Speaker 3: of a cap. And here's why, because it's not going
- 51:22Speaker 3: to guarantee competitive balance. Look at the what the Patriots
- 51:25Speaker 3: did multiple times over in the NFL, the Golden State
- 51:28Speaker 3: Warriors had a little had a run there, and the
- 51:30Speaker 3: Bulls during the nineties, So it doesn't necessarily guarantee competitive
- 51:34Speaker 3: competitive balance. Somehow, teams like the Rays, the Guardians, and
- 51:38Speaker 3: the Milwaukee Brewers have found consistency getting to the postseason.
- 51:42Speaker 3: It wasn't that long ago that the that the Guardians, well,
- 51:45Speaker 3: who were then the who were then the Cleveland Indians
- 51:47Speaker 3: took the Chicago Cubs to the brink of Game seven
- 51:50Speaker 3: and and near and nearly pulled it off. The Royals
- 51:53Speaker 3: won that were of World Series winners not long ago.
- 51:55Speaker 3: The reason why they fell off is because their owner,
- 51:58Speaker 3: if their owner at the time, is not no for
- 52:00Speaker 3: spending money and probably is more of a more of
- 52:02Speaker 3: a penny pincher than than any than anybody else up
- 52:06Speaker 3: to that point. And the owners are the rosters are
- 52:09Speaker 3: way too big, way too many players for you to
- 52:12Speaker 3: do a cap. Yes, there needs to be a floor,
- 52:15Speaker 3: but if but if Baseball wants to do it, they're
- 52:18Speaker 3: gonna have The owners are gonna have to give some
- 52:19Speaker 3: serious concessions, which I don't think. I don't think any
- 52:23Speaker 3: of those octagenarians are are are capable of doing it.
- 52:28Speaker 4: All.
- 52:28Speaker 1: Right, will bring Robin Christen to the program. Glad to
- 52:31Speaker 1: have you guys back on again.
- 52:32Speaker 7: Hi guys, everybody.
- 52:34Speaker 1: Also, the guys are now on the Softworre tribute website
- 52:37Speaker 1: under the about us as well the official Now they
- 52:40Speaker 1: are officially part of our platform. Right, Rob will start
- 52:43Speaker 1: off with you, what are your thoughts about budd sealing
- 52:45Speaker 1: and the salary cap.
- 52:49Speaker 7: I don't know. He you know, Bud Ceiling.
- 52:53Speaker 8: First of all, he you gotta think of the steroids, right,
- 52:57Speaker 8: he messed up that whole, the whole contract and everything,
- 53:02Speaker 8: and when baseball came back, it was a mess. So
- 53:05Speaker 8: what happens they have the home run going on with
- 53:09Speaker 8: McGuire and Sosa. He knew they had to know about
- 53:12Speaker 8: the steroids, right, they had to know about the steroids.
- 53:15Speaker 7: They let it go because the ratings.
- 53:18Speaker 8: That's the only thing I'd say Baseball, that home run contest,
- 53:22Speaker 8: you know, when.
- 53:22Speaker 7: They were going back, but that saved baseball after that strike.
- 53:26Speaker 7: So they let it go. They had a blind eye.
- 53:29Speaker 8: And now you know, these guys who did the steroids
- 53:32Speaker 8: are not going to get in the Hall of Fame
- 53:34Speaker 8: if they were Hall of Fame players.
- 53:36Speaker 7: So you know, I don't think much of Sealand to
- 53:39Speaker 7: tell you the truth enough, okay, Chris.
- 53:43Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm I'm for a cap.
- 53:44Speaker 10: I mean, the other sports have it and it works,
- 53:48Speaker 10: and I think without it it would, you know, the
- 53:51Speaker 10: league just wouldn't be the same, like the NFL. The
- 53:53Speaker 10: only reason why the Packers have any kind of chance
- 53:56Speaker 10: in the NFL.
- 53:57Speaker 9: Is because of a cab.
- 53:59Speaker 10: Without a cab, the Cowboys would just outspend everybody, right
- 54:03Speaker 10: with their owner, we know how he is, Or the
- 54:06Speaker 10: New York teams would just outspend them because they have
- 54:09Speaker 10: the money and the package just don't.
- 54:11Speaker 9: And that's how it kind of is in Major League Baseball, right.
- 54:13Speaker 10: You got the Dodgers, you know, that have a ridiculous
- 54:17Speaker 10: amount of money, tremendous amount, more than any anybody in
- 54:21Speaker 10: the league, especially the smaller market teams. And what a
- 54:25Speaker 10: cap does and what the floor does. The cap will,
- 54:29Speaker 10: you know, prevent these big market teams from just outspending
- 54:33Speaker 10: everybody else, and the floor will force the small market
- 54:38Speaker 10: teams to spend more money on salary, which they just don't.
- 54:43Speaker 10: And I think it's the only way to make things
- 54:45Speaker 10: somewhat fair without it, you know.
- 54:48Speaker 9: Yeah, once in a while, Eric made a good point,
- 54:51Speaker 9: right the Royals.
- 54:52Speaker 10: Will you know, if everything works out perfectly for these
- 54:55Speaker 10: small market teams, if all their young kids, all their
- 54:59Speaker 10: young prospers, all jail and all come together at the
- 55:02Speaker 10: same time, like we're also seeing with Milwaukee, right, that's
- 55:06Speaker 10: happening in Milwaukee now. But everything has to be perfect
- 55:10Speaker 10: for that to work, and you just don't see it enough, right, Tampa.
- 55:15Speaker 9: Tampa's got a very good system.
- 55:16Speaker 8: Right.
- 55:16Speaker 10: Whatever they're doing, they're doing it right because they're not
- 55:19Speaker 10: spending money. But every year they figure it out, they
- 55:22Speaker 10: got a winning team. But other than that, none of
- 55:25Speaker 10: these teams can have a shot against the big market
- 55:29Speaker 10: teams like the Dodgers and the Mets and the Yankees.
- 55:31Speaker 1: Well, not that that's this year, but in general, Well,
- 55:35Speaker 1: chrisy Neil, because of the fact that Bud Seeley already
- 55:38Speaker 1: said that if the NBA, NHL, NFL have it, MLB
- 55:41Speaker 1: should have it as well, I'll tell you what we're
- 55:43Speaker 1: gonna go with it. Off the wall topic with New Yorkers,
- 55:46Speaker 1: and I really love this topic. That's why it's really
- 55:48Speaker 1: an easy one to bring in. Okay, New York City
- 55:50Speaker 1: retires subway trained by seeking them in the ocean off
- 55:54Speaker 1: the Atlantic coast. Get this, I don't think guys ever
- 55:57Speaker 1: heard of this one. That's why I felt, with a
- 55:59Speaker 1: couple of york Is on her it was good to
- 56:01Speaker 1: bring up. So I'll repeat again. New York City retired
- 56:03Speaker 1: someway by seeking them in the ocean off the Atlantic coast.
- 56:07Speaker 1: And the repurpose is our official resear now support marine ecosystems.
- 56:12Speaker 1: All right, Chris, this is in as heavy as I
- 56:14Speaker 1: used to go out there and hitch you. But with
- 56:16Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about New York recycling him by
- 56:19Speaker 1: putting them in the ocean.
- 56:21Speaker 9: I think that's a great idea.
- 56:22Speaker 10: At least they're they're doing something with those things right
- 56:25Speaker 10: that they're able to resign.
- 56:26Speaker 9: I love it.
- 56:27Speaker 10: And you know what, my daughter, she's she's in school
- 56:30Speaker 10: now trying to be a marine biologist, so she would
- 56:33Speaker 10: love to hear that. So I think this is a
- 56:34Speaker 10: great thing.
- 56:35Speaker 1: We'll get her to listen to this show and then
- 56:37Speaker 1: she could go ahead and listen in and give us
- 56:39Speaker 1: another onatch.
- 56:39Speaker 9: All right, without a doubt, go.
- 56:42Speaker 1: Ahead, Rob, and let your daughter know that you're on
- 56:44Speaker 1: our website. So when if Rob hasn't shown the tea already,
- 56:47Speaker 1: then I show it then later, Okay, So yeah, I know,
- 56:51Speaker 1: I just thought it was pretty good, Chris. It's not
- 56:52Speaker 1: as tough as you had to used to deal with
- 56:54Speaker 1: New York City thinking somebody's in the ocean. You know, man,
- 56:57Speaker 1: that's called gen rated, right Chris, yep?
- 57:00Speaker 9: I agree.
- 57:01Speaker 1: I go ahead, run.
- 57:04Speaker 5: You know.
- 57:04Speaker 7: I I like the idea.
- 57:06Speaker 8: I agree with it, But did they check and make
- 57:08Speaker 8: sure there wasn't anyone left on the train sleeping before.
- 57:13Speaker 1: They in the ocean.
- 57:16Speaker 5: But you know they don't do that.
- 57:18Speaker 1: Now, I love that. That was good. Good job.
- 57:24Speaker 3: Truer words, Rob truer words, All right, Eric, I mean
- 57:33Speaker 3: they're they're putting they're putting them to good use. Actually,
- 57:35Speaker 3: you can argue it's probably you can sometimes argue with
- 57:38Speaker 3: the best the best use, given how how slow those
- 57:40Speaker 3: those things run during during any given work week or
- 57:44Speaker 3: the weekend for that matter. But but you know, good
- 57:47Speaker 3: good for good for New York City for finding something
- 57:50Speaker 3: else to do with with something else to do with them,
- 57:53Speaker 3: And some could argue for those who are frequent uh
- 57:57Speaker 3: subway riders, you can you might be able to make
- 58:00Speaker 3: the argument that that's even better than actually getting than
- 58:03Speaker 3: actually waiting and getting on the train at rush hour
- 58:06Speaker 3: at rush hour.
- 58:07Speaker 4: M Yeah, I was kind of shocked when I heard this.
- 58:12Speaker 4: I mean, I guess what else do you do with
- 58:13Speaker 4: these subway cars? Because you just sit them in a landfill?
- 58:18Speaker 4: Then otherwise, like what you got to do something with them?
- 58:22Speaker 4: But interesting way of getting of repurposing them. I guess
- 58:27Speaker 4: that's what I would say.
- 58:28Speaker 1: Well, you kind of guy like me who's dealing with
- 58:31Speaker 1: ways to survive with Alzheimer's. I got to come up
- 58:34Speaker 1: with these off the wall topics that keep my brain
- 58:36Speaker 1: packed in so we can go from there.
- 58:38Speaker 2: Okay, Cliff, I've been on some of those subway trains
- 58:43Speaker 2: when I used to working there. Yeah, it's I guess
- 58:47Speaker 2: they Yeah, went a little did a little bit of
- 58:50Speaker 2: research on that. They clean it all down. They they
- 58:52Speaker 2: make it so it's uh they can do actually make
- 58:55Speaker 2: that the barrier those reefs that they're doing. Hey, if
- 58:59Speaker 2: you can find a way to uh take those subway
- 59:03Speaker 2: trains do something good for the environment, more power to them.
- 59:07Speaker 1: Works for me, very good. Let's power. Let's talk about
- 59:11Speaker 1: Frank Reich. He was hired by the New York Trances
- 59:13Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator or Adam Scheffer. All right, we'll start
- 59:17Speaker 1: up at the top, and are your thoughts about the
- 59:19Speaker 1: hiring Frank Reich.
- 59:23Speaker 2: Aaron Glenn, look out, it's state teeth on borrow time,
- 59:28Speaker 2: just like I said last week with Robbie Thompson and
- 59:32Speaker 2: Don Manningley when Mattingley got hired to be the bench
- 59:34Speaker 2: coaching Like I don't know about that, and uh yeah,
- 59:39Speaker 2: this is it just looks like, Okay, Aaron gled gets
- 59:42Speaker 2: off to a slow start. Throw Reich in there. He's
- 59:45Speaker 2: got coaching experience, He's got head coaching experience. That's what's
- 59:49Speaker 2: basically gonna happen. I don't know if it's gonna really
- 59:51Speaker 2: help the Jets with with Gino Smith there, but they're
- 59:57Speaker 2: gonna we'll see, we'll I think Derek Rereich will if
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: they do well, he might it might actually help them
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: have a better offensive plan, being the offensive coordinat coordinator,
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: will see. But I really just think it's it's just
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: gonna be like, Okay, see you later.
- 1:00:15Speaker 4: Aaron, Katy, Yeah, I mean Aaron Glenn is in in trouble.
- 1:00:23Speaker 4: We we've talked about this before that. Uh, he's in
- 1:00:26Speaker 4: to prove it year, I think. And if he doesn't
- 1:00:30Speaker 4: prove it, he's gonna be out. And here in locks Frank, right,
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: I mean, what what a good succession plan? Possibly?
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, like that, Katy, I told I'll just say
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: great mind sake like and that's all I'm gonna say.
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: I'm partial for Frank anyhow because I work with him
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: with the Detroit Lions, and then I had an opportunity
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: to catch up with him when he was Stanford did
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: a really admirable job for the Cardinal last year, and
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: then I saw him with the pro DA Frank and
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: I go back all the way to the Lions, and
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: it's so you need to Frank, you know. Yeah, I
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: think you're right, easier apparent. Okay, let's have it to
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: the New York guys. Go ahead, Chris.
- 1:01:09Speaker 10: I thought it was a great move for the Jets, right.
- 1:01:12Speaker 10: I don't think it's gonna be a long term answer. Obviously,
- 1:01:15Speaker 10: Frank Reich he was, he's kind of out of football now.
- 1:01:18Speaker 10: I think he came back more as I hate to
- 1:01:21Speaker 10: call it a favor for Aaron Glenn, but they are
- 1:01:23Speaker 10: good friends. So I don't think it's like and I
- 1:01:26Speaker 10: don't think Aaron Glenn's gonna be fired halfway through the
- 1:01:29Speaker 10: season unless it's a total, you know, poop show. It's
- 1:01:33Speaker 10: got to be really bad for him to get fired,
- 1:01:35Speaker 10: like if it looks like it did last year. Yeah,
- 1:01:38Speaker 10: I think you got to make the move. But gotta remember,
- 1:01:41Speaker 10: this guy signed a five year contract, right, so I
- 1:01:43Speaker 10: don't think, you know, Woody Johnson's gonna eat three years
- 1:01:46Speaker 10: of this guy's deal by if he gets fired.
- 1:01:49Speaker 9: This year unless it's really bad.
- 1:01:50Speaker 10: If it's really bad, yeah, I don't think it's gonna
- 1:01:52Speaker 10: be as bad as it was last year, anywhere near
- 1:01:55Speaker 10: what it was last year. Last year, they had no talent,
- 1:01:58Speaker 10: right when you look at that roster last year compared
- 1:02:00Speaker 10: to this year, it's a totally different team. I'm not
- 1:02:03Speaker 10: saying this team is gonna make the playoffs. I don't
- 1:02:05Speaker 10: think it's gonna win eight or nine games, but they're
- 1:02:08Speaker 10: gonna they should be at the very least a competitive
- 1:02:11Speaker 10: team every week. That's that's what I'm seeing. You know,
- 1:02:14Speaker 10: it's almos Gino. Smith is not falling off a cliff
- 1:02:17Speaker 10: like he looked last year with the Raiders. But I
- 1:02:19Speaker 10: think the Raiders were just awful. So I think they're
- 1:02:23Speaker 10: gonna be a pretty, like, I don't wanna say decent team,
- 1:02:25Speaker 10: but they're gonna be a competitive team.
- 1:02:27Speaker 9: And I think they're gonna be just good enough that
- 1:02:30Speaker 9: you're gonna.
- 1:02:30Speaker 10: Say, oh, okay, you know what, they're possibly turning the
- 1:02:33Speaker 10: corner here, and you know with the Jets. So that
- 1:02:35Speaker 10: that's what I see with that team. I don't see
- 1:02:38Speaker 10: it as oh, Aaron Glenn's in trouble or he's on
- 1:02:41Speaker 10: the hot seat unless it's awful. It's got to be
- 1:02:43Speaker 10: awful for him to get fired, because I do not
- 1:02:46Speaker 10: see Woody Johnson eating three years of that contract.
- 1:02:50Speaker 7: Fair.
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: I can appreciate that, Tay, go ahead, Rob.
- 1:02:53Speaker 8: I like the move, but I think it is insurance
- 1:02:57Speaker 8: and insurance move. I think Aaron Glenn is on a
- 1:03:01Speaker 8: shorter leash.
- 1:03:02Speaker 7: Than Chris does. But you know, I sort of agree
- 1:03:05Speaker 7: with Chris too.
- 1:03:06Speaker 8: I don't know if Woody Johnson would want to eat,
- 1:03:09Speaker 8: you know, three years of that contract, but if it's
- 1:03:12Speaker 8: a disaster, and we're used to disasters with the Jets,
- 1:03:16Speaker 8: then you know, I could see him eating it.
- 1:03:18Speaker 7: So I just think.
- 1:03:19Speaker 8: He's you know, he's there, and I think that Aaron
- 1:03:22Speaker 8: Glenn's going to be on a shorter leash than Chris
- 1:03:24Speaker 8: thinks he is.
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: I personally think they made a big mistake letting Robert
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: Salad go. That's my opinion. So, yeah, Robert sala deserved
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: a better fate in New York, that's for sure, all right.
- 1:03:35Speaker 3: Eric, Well, I you know, I personally think that, you know,
- 1:03:40Speaker 3: I was a little surprised that one was right, because
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: right kind of had hinted at his time in the
- 1:03:43Speaker 3: NFL was coming to a close. I'm not a huge
- 1:03:47Speaker 3: fan of the higher because it's, you know, he's coming
- 1:03:49Speaker 3: off a failed head coaching stint with the last time
- 1:03:52Speaker 3: he's in the NFL. He didn't even last a year
- 1:03:53Speaker 3: with the Panthers, and you know, the Colts, he had
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: a very ugly end there, and you know, even and
- 1:03:59Speaker 3: so like he's been very just you know, he's kind
- 1:04:01Speaker 3: of at this point just living off the living off
- 1:04:04Speaker 3: the Philly Special, Philly Special play that ultimately won the
- 1:04:07Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles the Super Bowl. But I don't see the
- 1:04:11Speaker 3: Jets firing Aaron Aaron Glenn. And here's why, because Woody Johnson,
- 1:04:16Speaker 3: prior to last year as Robert Shalla, had never really
- 1:04:18Speaker 3: done that. He kind of let his coaches kind of
- 1:04:21Speaker 3: go toward the bitter end. And he's had some bad
- 1:04:23Speaker 3: coaches during his life, during his lifetime as the owner.
- 1:04:27Speaker 3: But I don't see them doing it because he signed
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: up to a four year and he'd beaten three years
- 1:04:32Speaker 3: and I just don't think Woody Johnson wants to wants
- 1:04:34Speaker 3: to do that. So but you know, overall though, I mean,
- 1:04:38Speaker 3: I think Frank Frank Wright has even said he's it's
- 1:04:40Speaker 3: just whatever coaching job he takes. It depends on it
- 1:04:43Speaker 3: depends on the people. And I think at this point,
- 1:04:46Speaker 3: because he knows Aaron Glenn, he knows that he's going
- 1:04:49Speaker 3: to be relatively secure there unless unless Aaron Glenn gets fired.
- 1:04:53Speaker 3: So you know, I just don't see I just don't
- 1:04:57Speaker 3: see him. I just don't see the season him get
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: and you know, him getting fired in season and Reich
- 1:05:02Speaker 3: ticked over because you know, Reich was has already been
- 1:05:05Speaker 3: a two time failed head coach.
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: Yeah, I like this comment that Cha this is a
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: pretty good I say, it's reminded me of the nineteen
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: that's Mike a good job. I like that, my friend,
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: that was a good time. And I really liked that.
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: When when the Jets played that Giant Stadium. The joke
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: with the joke there was the Jets are so bad
- 1:05:28Speaker 3: they don't even have about home to plan.
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: That's funny. I don't know. I like this comment about
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: the nineteen forty five champions there for I was going
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: to Don Manning and I'm going to talk about it first,
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: the first part of his tenure with the Fields, because
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: he starts out fifteen to four and he do it
- 1:05:45Speaker 1: pretty well. I actually took a failed up from the Marlins,
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: but you know, he had a seven sixty nine winning
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: percentage and won their sixth straight series under Manning league.
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: Those series included the Giants in Marlins, Athletics and Rockies,
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: the Red Sox and the Pirates, and after that, okay,
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: and then they ended up going twenty four to twenty
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: three earlier on. But they but obviously there aren't after
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: that to make the playoffs for sixty five point five
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: percent fourth best in the NL, win the nl E
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: thirteen point seven percent, win the World Series five point
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: four percent, fifth percent MLB. And they began okay in
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: April roll under Rob Thompson nine to nineteen in the
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: playoffs at that time of thirty three percent, winning the
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: NLA six point nine percent, win the World Series at
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: two point one percent. And then furthermore, the story goes
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: on that obviously Don had a family situation, so Dusty
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: Waton filled in for him because he had a family graduation,
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: and he actually ended up getting a win. First, let's
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: start off with Don manningly first of all, and then
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: we'll go over to wathaon and we'll start off with
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: the New York guys first Okay, Chris, go ahead.
- 1:06:56Speaker 10: Well, Don Mattingly, I mean, he's my favorite Yankee of
- 1:06:59Speaker 10: all time, and I love seeing him be as great
- 1:07:03Speaker 10: as he's been so far with the Phillies. He basically said,
- 1:07:07Speaker 10: he's basically saving that season with the Phillies right now.
- 1:07:10Speaker 10: So you can't really say much anything else other than that.
- 1:07:15Speaker 10: I mean, they were looking just as bad as the
- 1:07:18Speaker 10: Mets unfortunately early in the season, right and they've they've
- 1:07:21Speaker 10: turned the season around. That's something that the Mets fans
- 1:07:24Speaker 10: probably wanted, uh, you know, done for them, you know,
- 1:07:28Speaker 10: get rid of their manager and bring somebody in just
- 1:07:30Speaker 10: to shake things up, and maybe it'll work.
- 1:07:32Speaker 9: With the Phillies. It worked, you know, would it worked
- 1:07:35Speaker 9: with the Mets.
- 1:07:36Speaker 10: I doubt it, but at least try it, you know,
- 1:07:39Speaker 10: because you got to do something.
- 1:07:41Speaker 9: The Phillies did it. It's worked, and you know what,
- 1:07:43Speaker 9: the Braves are starting to come back, you know, to
- 1:07:45Speaker 9: earth a little bit here. They're struggling tons of injuries now,
- 1:07:49Speaker 9: So maybe we'll see the Phillies win that division and
- 1:07:51Speaker 9: it's gonna be led by Don Manningglick.
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: Let's go to Larry Jarra. Kay wants you to give
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: m a summary about what we've talked about for and that, Rob,
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: will you can compile your thoughts on Don Mattley. Go ahead,
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: Can you give Larry a little bit of a summary
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: what we've talked about so far?
- 1:08:06Speaker 4: We've talked about a lot of different things. We talked
- 1:08:08Speaker 4: about from anything from the Green Bay packer, Donald Driver,
- 1:08:12Speaker 4: who is a legendary the title of the show. He
- 1:08:15Speaker 4: actually when he was a kid lived out of a
- 1:08:17Speaker 4: U haul truck. We talked about Brewers all Time lineup,
- 1:08:21Speaker 4: we talked about the Pirates all Time lineup. Now we're
- 1:08:25Speaker 4: talking about we talked about the salary cap and floor,
- 1:08:29Speaker 4: and now we're talking about the change in managers for
- 1:08:32Speaker 4: the Phillies this year and how Don Matting entered Don
- 1:08:36Speaker 4: maddingly to the Phillies to save the day or save
- 1:08:41Speaker 4: the season.
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: There you go, Larry got it, And I'll tell you
- 1:08:46Speaker 1: what my friend. If you're subscribed to our YouTube channel,
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: this will be up late. It's already going on there now.
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: Feel free to watch the show again when you get
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: a chance. All right, Rob, and were thoughts about Don Mattley,
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: and then we'll talk about what happened he had his graduation.
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: Let's start off about the incredible turnaround.
- 1:09:04Speaker 8: Hey, it was what a great move. I mean, the
- 1:09:07Speaker 8: Phillies were dead. Madden Lye comes in, boom, he wakes
- 1:09:12Speaker 8: him up, unfortunately for met fans. But what more could
- 1:09:17Speaker 8: you say, Maddically, It's just amazing what happened in Philadelphia.
- 1:09:21Speaker 8: And it's the best situation because Don's like, you know,
- 1:09:26Speaker 8: my son's my boss, but he can't fire me. If
- 1:09:29Speaker 8: he fires me, Thanksgiving is going to be very awkward.
- 1:09:33Speaker 8: So it's a win win situation.
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: To be honest with you, Dave Dombrowski, I hired him,
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: not pressed on that, and yeah, well okay, I mean,
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: but yeah, I know you're right. I talked Hi about
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving situation. By the way, when I actually had
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: a chance to go ahead and talk to him earlier
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: this ring. It was pretty cool. You mentioned that round
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: pretty much some good memories of my time in Clearwater
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: during preaching, all right, Eric, I know you have some
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: comments on it.
- 1:09:57Speaker 3: Well, it's not the first time the Phillies have done
- 1:09:59Speaker 3: it in recent years that the Phillies have done an
- 1:10:01Speaker 3: in season firing up manager. They did it to Girardi
- 1:10:04Speaker 3: and to put in Rob Thompson. Rob Thompson led them
- 1:10:07Speaker 3: to the World Series that season, and they did, and
- 1:10:10Speaker 3: then they did it to Rob Thompson this year and
- 1:10:13Speaker 3: Madingle comes in there, and I guess it was a
- 1:10:16Speaker 3: different voice. I think is helpful for that team. It's
- 1:10:19Speaker 3: a better and laden team, so you knew the talent
- 1:10:21Speaker 3: was there. It was just a matter of it getting going.
- 1:10:22Speaker 3: And Don Magley has got it, has got it going,
- 1:10:25Speaker 3: and now the team looks poised to make to make
- 1:10:27Speaker 3: it to the postseason yet again. And believe it or not,
- 1:10:30Speaker 3: they're only six and a half behind the Atlanta Braves.
- 1:10:32Speaker 3: So the old saying goes, you stay with him seven
- 1:10:35Speaker 3: at the All Star breaker's still in the hunt. So
- 1:10:37Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if Magley pushes them, pushes them that
- 1:10:39Speaker 3: far too. I've always thought of him as, you know,
- 1:10:42Speaker 3: you know, he's good. He's good with players because he's
- 1:10:44Speaker 3: because he's been there and knows how it goes. And
- 1:10:47Speaker 3: I think players players appreciate that, you know, I think,
- 1:10:50Speaker 3: you know, I you know, it helped him in LA
- 1:10:52Speaker 3: when he had the success that he had there, and
- 1:10:55Speaker 3: obviously the Marlins he never lost that clubhouse despite all
- 1:10:57Speaker 3: the losing going on, and you know, out in Philadelphia.
- 1:11:01Speaker 3: You know, he's got a team that's playing, that's playing well,
- 1:11:03Speaker 3: and I think that if things go right, don't be
- 1:11:06Speaker 3: deprived of Madley rallies that team to be on top
- 1:11:08Speaker 3: of the NL East.
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: I'll tell you Tommy Hutton, Arland broadcaster, is actually retiring
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Once if you can't
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: play for Don Manny, you can't play for anyone that
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: So go ahead, Candy.
- 1:11:21Speaker 4: During spring training, we got to go watch Don in action.
- 1:11:27Speaker 4: He was out coaching the first baseman. Uh, it was
- 1:11:31Speaker 4: just cool to see how he was telling him how
- 1:11:33Speaker 4: to position himself, where to where to be, where to
- 1:11:38Speaker 4: where to play, where to catch the throws, And it
- 1:11:42Speaker 4: was really cool to see. And then to listen to
- 1:11:45Speaker 4: Scott interview him, and yeah, he talked about Thanksgiving dinner
- 1:11:49Speaker 4: and I so you got to go check out our
- 1:11:52Speaker 4: YouTube channel and find out find that Don Manningley interviewed.
- 1:11:56Speaker 4: But the historic turnaround. The team went on a historic run,
- 1:12:02Speaker 4: becoming the first in baseball history to win their first
- 1:12:07Speaker 4: seven series immediately after taking over in mid season. So first,
- 1:12:13Speaker 4: I mean, anytime you think about that, the first in
- 1:12:15Speaker 4: baseball history. Baseball has been around for how long and
- 1:12:18Speaker 4: They've changed managers in mid season how many times? But
- 1:12:23Speaker 4: to have a stat like this, it's pretty pretty neat.
- 1:12:27Speaker 4: It was interesting because when you talked to Don Scott
- 1:12:31Speaker 4: he said he didn't know if he had the energy.
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:12:34Speaker 4: I think he's found a newfound energy in this team
- 1:12:37Speaker 4: and went once you see success and you see winning,
- 1:12:41Speaker 4: and I think players are also motivated knowing that if
- 1:12:45Speaker 4: we can get rid of a manager, we're next on
- 1:12:48Speaker 4: the chopping list, so we got to start playing better.
- 1:12:52Speaker 1: Well, think about it. In the last calendar year, I've
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: had two one on one interviews at time man, and
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: I've got all kinds of soundbites the show Good Are Friends.
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: We are every pr person that went to him and said,
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: hey and Don Yeah, I'll talk to him and give
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: me one on one interviews. Chris is not the worst
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: thing in the world with your friends with Don Amy,
- 1:13:09Speaker 1: is it?
- 1:13:10Speaker 9: I don't think so.
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: I would love to.
- 1:13:15Speaker 3: You cannot go wrong with you cannot go wrong. You
- 1:13:18Speaker 3: cannot go wrong with the hit man. I think too,
- 1:13:20Speaker 3: that the reason why he has the I think what
- 1:13:22Speaker 3: happened in Miami, though, is that took a lot out
- 1:13:24Speaker 3: of him because that organization is chaotic and and then
- 1:13:28Speaker 3: he goes he goes to a place and he coached,
- 1:13:30Speaker 3: he helps out in Toronto and does and does well there,
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: helps John Schneider along, and then he goes to Philadelphia
- 1:13:36Speaker 3: where he's going to an organization that has an experienced
- 1:13:39Speaker 3: baseball staffer in Dave Dombrowski who's been around the game
- 1:13:43Speaker 3: for a very long time. And he's got an organization
- 1:13:46Speaker 3: that's had that's had some winning years there. So yeah,
- 1:13:49Speaker 3: I think, apparently Don Magley, you do have the energy
- 1:13:51Speaker 3: for this.
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: Well, all you have to do has Ha Lozardo who
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: played for him in Miami, and now Don knows what
- 1:13:58Speaker 1: to do. I asked him during that interview, how you
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: like reunited with your former places. He loves that. I mean,
- 1:14:03Speaker 1: let's say some Miami. He's on a fixed budget. Fel
- 1:14:05Speaker 1: the healthiest man period. All right, let's continue the other
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: half of because Dustin Watt Watson sold in from Mandadin,
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: who actually had a family graduation. Gotta win now. Actually
- 1:14:16Speaker 1: Dusty said this after the win. It's easy when you
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: have a great group of ballplayers, and the boys got
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: together and got me a nice bottle of bourbon by
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: the whole team. Dusty picked up and first win for
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: Don Manning was that his child's college graduation. Job well done.
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: And again, at that time, the Phillies were fourteen and
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: four under him and hadn't lost a series. And then
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: you continue, I already mentioned all the sixth series that
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: they had won. So let's talk about now that we've
- 1:14:44Speaker 1: talked about Don Manningly, you know, he staked true to
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: his word. I'm going to my family's graduate and the
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: Phillies don't care and gets who gets a win out
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: of it? Mister Dusty Watson. Not the worst thing in
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: the world.
- 1:14:57Speaker 9: Chris, Yeah, no, absolutely, I agree. What was that about.
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Well, what happened was this, Chris, Don had
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: a graduation from one of his kids, and Dusty Watson
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: filled it. He gotta win. But DoD stayed true to
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: whose word family. Family, and that's what he told me, right, Katie,
- 1:15:16Speaker 1: family means everything.
- 1:15:17Speaker 9: Family.
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: Point. He didn't plan to manage. But again I knew
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: him better, but I'm not gonna ask me to. If
- 1:15:23Speaker 1: he's gonna be the manager of the Phillies, they ain't
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: to go there for that, and I know that and
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: everything he tells me. I can read him well because
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: we've known each other dating back to the eighties until
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: he came to Miami. Our friendship picked up again, and
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: if I ever had any advice, I needed them. Like
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: I'm dealing with Alzheimer's, it really sucks, it really does,
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: and I dealt with concussion. Don would when we were
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: privately talking and Marlin had never gotten away. They were
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: always when they saw Donnie and I just talking without interviews.
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: I give them Marlin's their due. I'm don how do
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: you deal with this concussion situation? Don would go on
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: three or four instead of going to the patting cage.
- 1:16:00Speaker 1: Don and I would talk about it a little bit
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: and pat me on the back. I know you'll do Okay,
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: this is what you got to do. Don't put too
- 1:16:05Speaker 1: much pressure on yourself. That's the kind of relationship with
- 1:16:08Speaker 1: I have outside of baseball. He's just a true friend
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: and a brother to me. And I told him I
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: love him many times, and if you see the picture,
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: so many times that we've hugged each other a lot.
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: But getting back to Dusty, he took advantage of an opportunity.
- 1:16:20Speaker 1: He got a bourbon out of it. Love him now
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: and that's the chalt. But I'm happy for Tusty Watson
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: that he got that opportunity one time with Don' was
- 1:16:29Speaker 1: taking care of family business.
- 1:16:30Speaker 10: That's yeah, I have no problem with that, And I
- 1:16:33Speaker 10: think I think most teams would be okay with their
- 1:16:36Speaker 10: manager leaving for a day for graduation or you know,
- 1:16:39Speaker 10: you see obviously players leaving for you know, having children
- 1:16:44Speaker 10: and stuff like that.
- 1:16:44Speaker 9: So I think it's great.
- 1:16:47Speaker 10: It just shows you though, you know, like the words
- 1:16:50Speaker 10: you're saying about Mattingly, you just the guy is just
- 1:16:53Speaker 10: a classy guy.
- 1:16:54Speaker 9: He's just a great person, and it's as simple as that.
- 1:16:58Speaker 10: And I wish he had other opportunity of these to
- 1:17:00Speaker 10: be a manager, and you know, I wish, you know,
- 1:17:04Speaker 10: he could have stayed with the Dodgers because obviously see
- 1:17:06Speaker 10: the Dodgers having all this great success. But but yeah,
- 1:17:10Speaker 10: I love seeing I always root for Mattingley. Last year,
- 1:17:13Speaker 10: it was tough that World Series. Was tough to root
- 1:17:16Speaker 10: for the Toronto Blue Jays or root for the Dodgers,
- 1:17:18Speaker 10: So I just kind of watched it and enjoyed it,
- 1:17:20Speaker 10: and it was heartbreaking to see them not win it.
- 1:17:22Speaker 10: But but yeah, I love Mattingly, So any good stuff
- 1:17:26Speaker 10: about him I love to hear.
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: Yeah, Alex Score turned down that job that Dave Dobrowski
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: went to him, and so it's pretty cool, all right, Chris,
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: you've talked about Watson at least.
- 1:17:37Speaker 9: I think it's great. You know, the guy got it,
- 1:17:39Speaker 9: he got an opportunity, he managed, you know, and he
- 1:17:43Speaker 9: got to win. I mean, good for him.
- 1:17:44Speaker 10: So who knows, maybe that turns into something more, you know,
- 1:17:48Speaker 10: more long term somewhere else. You never know, he might
- 1:17:50Speaker 10: get another opportunity.
- 1:17:51Speaker 8: Rob, Yeah, I agree, I agree with that, but I also,
- 1:17:56Speaker 8: you know, things are different now, and it's it's great
- 1:17:59Speaker 8: that madden Lee went to the graduation because listen, graduations
- 1:18:03Speaker 8: happened in June usually, and that's baseball season. And in
- 1:18:08Speaker 8: the old days, managers didn't always leave the team for
- 1:18:12Speaker 8: a graduation, and many managers missed the birth of their
- 1:18:17Speaker 8: children too, back in you know, back in the day,
- 1:18:20Speaker 8: that's how things were. So I think it's great that
- 1:18:22Speaker 8: madden Lee stayed true to his word went to the graduation.
- 1:18:27Speaker 7: And you know, it's just the whole situation was good
- 1:18:30Speaker 7: and the Phillies just kept winning anyway, so it didn't matter.
- 1:18:34Speaker 3: Eric, Well, I think, well, I think what baseball has
- 1:18:37Speaker 3: done a good job and you probably argue all of
- 1:18:39Speaker 3: sports in general, is they've they've kind of take they've
- 1:18:41Speaker 3: kind of kind of relaxed on the whole graduation, birth
- 1:18:44Speaker 3: of a child thing. I know Craig Counsel here when
- 1:18:47Speaker 3: he was here in Milwaukee, he went to two of
- 1:18:49Speaker 3: his sons graduations, and I know Pat Pat Murphy filled
- 1:18:51Speaker 3: in for a one We're one of those games and
- 1:18:53Speaker 3: helped them and helped the versa win that day. But
- 1:18:56Speaker 3: good for Dusty Watsam. I mean, he's got himself a win,
- 1:18:58Speaker 3: Madly got to go to his son's graduation, and you
- 1:19:02Speaker 3: know it's a win win for everybody. So but yeah,
- 1:19:05Speaker 3: I think baseball though, over the years though, is kind
- 1:19:07Speaker 3: of really taking a step back on it being all
- 1:19:10Speaker 3: about one thousand percent on jobs but also sprinkling and
- 1:19:14Speaker 3: family in there, which which which is good to see
- 1:19:16Speaker 3: what the sport has done, and probably probably other sports
- 1:19:19Speaker 3: as well.
- 1:19:21Speaker 4: Maybe I would think, I would say in general, because
- 1:19:26Speaker 4: remember baseball is a business too, But I think in
- 1:19:29Speaker 4: general that in here in America that we're trying to
- 1:19:34Speaker 4: do better with work life balance, and I think they're
- 1:19:38Speaker 4: realizing that yes, family comes first, and you need to
- 1:19:43Speaker 4: have you need to be there for those moments because
- 1:19:47Speaker 4: they don't come around a lot. I mean, obviously a
- 1:19:51Speaker 4: graduation comes around once in their lifetime, and so it's
- 1:19:54Speaker 4: important as fathers, grandfathers, whatever, to support their kids and
- 1:20:03Speaker 4: to be there for those moments even while they have
- 1:20:05Speaker 4: a job. So I think it's I think it's great.
- 1:20:09Speaker 4: I think it's great that the Phillies allowed him to
- 1:20:11Speaker 4: do that. I hope that more people take note of
- 1:20:18Speaker 4: that and do the same.
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: Philadelphia A Phillies are a class organization on top to bottom.
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: That's all there is to it. I'm just glad Don
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: is managing there because not only knows what it's like
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: to manage real talent where they spend real money. Okay, Cliff, well,
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: I'm not really surprised.
- 1:20:35Speaker 2: Don Mattingly has at least been a class act, and
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: it's good that they decided to allow him. I don't
- 1:20:41Speaker 2: think to me wouldn't have been a hard decision to
- 1:20:44Speaker 2: allow him to do that, but it was good to
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: see that. As for Walt, then okay, great, he got
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: an opportunity. I'm always gonna arn for the Phillies to lose.
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: No no offense to Manningly at all, and I give
- 1:20:55Speaker 2: him his props. You know that he's doing great. But
- 1:21:00Speaker 2: I got to deal with the Philly fans. So I
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: thought it was at least this year. Being in a
- 1:21:04Speaker 2: Mets fan, it's like, all right, at least we've both sucked.
- 1:21:07Speaker 2: And then they turned it around and now I got
- 1:21:09Speaker 2: to deal with them again. That's I've been down here
- 1:21:12Speaker 2: in nineteen years and I was never a big fan
- 1:21:14Speaker 2: of Philly fans, and now I've got friends who are fans.
- 1:21:17Speaker 2: But oh my gosh, there's so much worse when you
- 1:21:19Speaker 2: really get to know. So it's then now I gotta
- 1:21:22Speaker 2: deal with that. At least if they were were well,
- 1:21:24Speaker 2: we were both bad. Okay, so they couldn't talk. But
- 1:21:28Speaker 2: there they're never gonna stop, and they know him, the
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: Mets fans. So but yeah, hey, fans to Don Man
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: because they have nothing but respect for the man. I
- 1:21:35Speaker 2: always have had, and I like seeing him succeed wherever
- 1:21:38Speaker 2: he goes.
- 1:21:40Speaker 3: That question, I'll way, Cliff, here's some advice to help
- 1:21:44Speaker 3: you with the Philly fans. Just think to yourself, here
- 1:21:47Speaker 3: comes all the noise, it will eventually all go away.
- 1:21:50Speaker 2: It never does. It doesn't go It doesn't go away.
- 1:21:54Speaker 9: They Steven when they're bad.
- 1:21:55Speaker 2: They're still delusional.
- 1:21:57Speaker 7: It did go away in twenty twenty four.
- 1:22:00Speaker 9: Though you weren't down here.
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: You aren't down here. They always have something.
- 1:22:06Speaker 3: It's like it's like SpongeBob to both of you.
- 1:22:12Speaker 1: All right, let's continue on. We're gonna We're gonna stay
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: in New York. Now, Keith Hernanda's signed a three year deal.
- 1:22:17Speaker 1: Let's s n why to keep covering the Mets games.
- 1:22:20Speaker 1: He's dropping out from one hundred and ten games so
- 1:22:23Speaker 1: a year to nineties, so it's topping off twenty well
- 1:22:26Speaker 1: started tough for your thoughts clip about Keith Hernandez staying
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: in the game, but subtracting twenty.
- 1:22:33Speaker 2: I mean it's I love him as an announcer. You
- 1:22:36Speaker 2: see you watch him talk and you see him allies,
- 1:22:40Speaker 2: what's going on. I can't tell you how many times
- 1:22:42Speaker 2: I watch and those like, oh he should move over here,
- 1:22:45Speaker 2: and then the next bitch boom, exact thing happened. I mean,
- 1:22:48Speaker 2: he might not be able to physically do it anymore,
- 1:22:50Speaker 2: but he can analyze and see his situation and he's
- 1:22:54Speaker 2: right on top of it. Yeah, he's having some back issues.
- 1:22:57Speaker 2: Now we're all getting older, he's getting old. Play lots
- 1:23:01Speaker 2: of baseball, so you know, it's it's gonna be a
- 1:23:03Speaker 2: little bit tougher for m to do that. It's Keith Hernandez,
- 1:23:08Speaker 2: it's the Mets. You want to take do twenty less
- 1:23:11Speaker 2: games or twenty five less games. That's great. They've been
- 1:23:14Speaker 2: using Todd Zeal. I've noticed they've been using Todd Zeal
- 1:23:17Speaker 2: for some of the announcing too. So I love listening
- 1:23:21Speaker 2: to Keith nanda Is to do his analysis. I give
- 1:23:25Speaker 2: him whatever he wants. He's he's he's Mets Royalty.
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: Danny.
- 1:23:33Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, he actually won two twenty
- 1:23:38Speaker 4: ten New York Emmys. He won an Individual Award for
- 1:23:41Speaker 4: Sports Analysts and as part of the s n Y
- 1:23:45Speaker 4: Mets broadcast team. He's I think someone that wins Emmys
- 1:23:52Speaker 4: while doing what they love. Like, you know, he's like,
- 1:23:58Speaker 4: like Cliff said, he's not getting any younger. I mean,
- 1:24:01Speaker 4: he's seventy two years old. If you know he wants
- 1:24:04Speaker 4: to do less, let him do less. You know, it's
- 1:24:08Speaker 4: kind of reminds me of some of the other great broadcasters.
- 1:24:12Speaker 4: You know, they can't always do all the games and
- 1:24:15Speaker 4: it can be a grueling season. So as long as
- 1:24:19Speaker 4: his employer is good with it. Let him do what
- 1:24:22Speaker 4: he you know, what he can.
- 1:24:24Speaker 1: He's an Actually, yeah, I don't care. It's not on
- 1:24:29Speaker 1: time and for broadcasts their workload, it really really isn't.
- 1:24:33Speaker 1: All he did was chop off twenty. But the Mets
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: fans can still enjoy this guy.
- 1:24:37Speaker 10: Oh hey, Chris, Yeah, I listen anytime you know a
- 1:24:43Speaker 10: team you know can hold on to their guys, you know, longer,
- 1:24:47Speaker 10: the better I think, you know, TV guys, because fans
- 1:24:49Speaker 10: love that. And I think in New York with watching
- 1:24:53Speaker 10: both New York teams have probably the two best TV
- 1:24:56Speaker 10: boots in you know, in the entire for me at least,
- 1:25:01Speaker 10: you know, because the more I listen to any other teams,
- 1:25:04Speaker 10: you know TV guys, they're they're just nowhere near the
- 1:25:08Speaker 10: New York guys, whether it's the Mets or the Yankees.
- 1:25:10Speaker 10: To me, the Yankees and the Mets cut the two
- 1:25:12Speaker 10: best in the entire sport. And Keith and End that's
- 1:25:15Speaker 10: obviously one of the best.
- 1:25:17Speaker 5: You know.
- 1:25:18Speaker 10: I don't think we're ever going to see a guy
- 1:25:19Speaker 10: like Vince Gully doing it till he's ninety seven, ninety
- 1:25:23Speaker 10: eight whatever he was at that age, you know, and
- 1:25:25Speaker 10: he was still amazing, and he was still the greatest.
- 1:25:28Speaker 10: I just don't think we're going to see that. You know,
- 1:25:30Speaker 10: Keith and enn Is, like you mentioned, he's already got
- 1:25:33Speaker 10: a back issue. It's not gonna get any better. We
- 1:25:35Speaker 10: know that, right once the back go starts to go,
- 1:25:38Speaker 10: it's it is what it is. But let's just hope,
- 1:25:41Speaker 10: you know, he stays with the Mets as long as
- 1:25:42Speaker 10: he can. You know, I mean it's he's just a
- 1:25:44Speaker 10: great voice, and fans like to hear the you know,
- 1:25:47Speaker 10: the same voice all the time. You know, it's it
- 1:25:49Speaker 10: feels great to put the game on and you know
- 1:25:52Speaker 10: who's talking, right, you know it's Keith.
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: You know it's Ronnie. You know.
- 1:25:55Speaker 10: So I think in that sense, it's great and it's
- 1:25:58Speaker 10: great to see him, you know, stay with it because he's,
- 1:26:01Speaker 10: like I said, he's one of the best.
- 1:26:02Speaker 1: In the game.
- 1:26:04Speaker 8: Rob Yeah, of course, I mean I love I love Keith.
- 1:26:08Speaker 8: Best booth in baseball. So he so he does twenty
- 1:26:13Speaker 8: something less games, No big deal because when he's in
- 1:26:16Speaker 8: the booth, you know, he makes you laugh because he just,
- 1:26:19Speaker 8: you know, Keith says whatever whatever's on his mind, it
- 1:26:23Speaker 8: just comes out. So that booth with him uh Ron
- 1:26:26Speaker 8: Darling and Gary Cohen is a great booth and when
- 1:26:29Speaker 8: Keith's not there, like Cliff said, uh Zeal's in it
- 1:26:34Speaker 8: sometimes and even Daniel Murphy's done some games.
- 1:26:37Speaker 7: So I'm glad that Keith at least, you know, got
- 1:26:41Speaker 7: re signed. And I don't care if it's twenty something
- 1:26:43Speaker 7: games less. He's Keith Eric.
- 1:26:47Speaker 3: Well, he's seventy two years old. I mean, for me,
- 1:26:50Speaker 3: he's you know, he's he's start you know, he's gotten
- 1:26:52Speaker 3: he's gotten older. I mean for the longest, for the
- 1:26:54Speaker 3: longest time, I'd probably say, up until up until this year,
- 1:26:58Speaker 3: Keith Hernandez looked like he he still looked the same
- 1:27:01Speaker 3: as he was when he played. That was the amazing
- 1:27:02Speaker 3: thing about him, including when he was in Seine film.
- 1:27:06Speaker 3: But he's you know, he's still a terrific broadcaster. I mean,
- 1:27:10Speaker 3: nobody has a better breakdown of the game than him.
- 1:27:13Speaker 3: And you know, I mean, yes, he's yeah, he's cutting
- 1:27:15Speaker 3: back his workload, but it's pretty common for broadcasters when
- 1:27:18Speaker 3: they get older to do that. I mean, Vin Scully
- 1:27:20Speaker 3: wasn't traveling at the end of his career, and he
- 1:27:22Speaker 3: did it until he was ninety five years old. Now
- 1:27:25Speaker 3: nobody I don't think can make them can talk about
- 1:27:27Speaker 3: the history of home plate and make it sound entertaining
- 1:27:30Speaker 3: like SKULLI can, but but he but you know, Hernandez,
- 1:27:34Speaker 3: nobody breaks down the game better. I mean, Mets fans
- 1:27:36Speaker 3: are still going to tune in because it's still good.
- 1:27:40Speaker 3: They're still going to tune in because it's Keith and
- 1:27:43Speaker 3: you know it's it's great because he really just does
- 1:27:46Speaker 3: not have a filter and it's very funny.
- 1:27:50Speaker 1: Points. Okay, let's continue the mess Sea sheby the Big
- 1:27:53Speaker 1: Ball Hall of Fame makes it official. Carl Beltan will
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: have a mess logo on his cap. All right, start
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: off at the top and work our way and New
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: yorkis hey, Cliff, with your thoughts about Carlos belt getting
- 1:28:04Speaker 1: a metslog on his cap.
- 1:28:05Speaker 2: You know it makes sense. I've alreadys said like, he
- 1:28:08Speaker 2: wasn't my favorite Met at the time, but he did
- 1:28:10Speaker 2: do some good things for the team. I mean, you
- 1:28:12Speaker 2: look at the stats that he did during his tenure
- 1:28:16Speaker 2: with the Mets. It was better than his other attendures
- 1:28:19Speaker 2: of the other teams. I still remember that. I'm sorry,
- 1:28:22Speaker 2: I still have a hard time remembering him. Watched Strike
- 1:28:26Speaker 2: three go past at least swing at the ball. But
- 1:28:30Speaker 2: you know what, Hey, we only have two other guys
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: with me with Met caps on there, and he did
- 1:28:35Speaker 2: have the best part of his career with the Mets,
- 1:28:37Speaker 2: So I'll take it. Like I said, not my favorite
- 1:28:41Speaker 2: Met of all time, but anything that gets his more
- 1:28:44Speaker 2: Mets in the Hall of Fame, I'm all for.
- 1:28:47Speaker 1: Let's go to mister Joe and the chat room. Keith
- 1:28:50Speaker 1: is the man with the Golden Glove and Mike great
- 1:28:52Speaker 1: mindstick alike, mister Joe, I like that line, no, but
- 1:28:56Speaker 1: and mister Joel commit to us. So if you don't
- 1:28:58Speaker 1: mind subscribing, are you too, Channel, that'd be great. And
- 1:29:01Speaker 1: also GMTA mister Joe great mindstck like you might want
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: to take that to memory because that's exactly where I'm
- 1:29:07Speaker 1: at with you on that. That's comment the chat remark Candy.
- 1:29:11Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, when you look at his career, the
- 1:29:17Speaker 4: longest he stayed with a team was with the Mets.
- 1:29:22Speaker 4: The Royals he started out with them for six years
- 1:29:24Speaker 4: as well, so close to the same. But I mean
- 1:29:28Speaker 4: he was a nine time All Star World Series Champion,
- 1:29:32Speaker 4: three time Gold Glove Award. He's in the New York
- 1:29:36Speaker 4: Mets Hall of Fame. I mean, yeah, congratulations to him
- 1:29:41Speaker 4: and who else?
- 1:29:43Speaker 1: Good job, Yeah, Carl, I'm happy to se him at
- 1:29:47Speaker 1: Gett in the Hall of Fame. Why not. I mean,
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: he had a great career, you know, I think it
- 1:29:51Speaker 1: wasn't the offer of managerial job. But things got complication.
- 1:29:56Speaker 2: That was a mess at the time.
- 1:30:00Speaker 3: What he did do didn't do with signs stealing. That's
- 1:30:02Speaker 3: why he lost the job.
- 1:30:03Speaker 1: Yeah, but nevertheless he's going in. As a minute, it
- 1:30:05Speaker 1: was I'm glad to see it happening. All right, let's
- 1:30:07Speaker 1: go on to Chris or is there somebody that I forgot?
- 1:30:13Speaker 9: Oh no, Eric said, no, goad, Eric, you could go.
- 1:30:17Speaker 1: I have no problem.
- 1:30:18Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, Well I was gonna say, though, I mean
- 1:30:22Speaker 3: he did. The more I think about it, I think
- 1:30:23Speaker 3: it's fitting that he should have a Mets hat on
- 1:30:25Speaker 3: because he did help that team in their six year
- 1:30:28Speaker 3: playoff drought when they and he even even took the
- 1:30:30Speaker 3: help take the Mets to the nl to the NLCS,
- 1:30:33Speaker 3: which they came within a I believe a Jim Edmund
- 1:30:35Speaker 3: home run away from from from winning it and potentially
- 1:30:39Speaker 3: going back to the World Series. That was actually their
- 1:30:41Speaker 3: deepest playoff run up until they up until they made
- 1:30:44Speaker 3: that run in two thousand and I believe twenty fifteen fifteen, Yeah,
- 1:30:50Speaker 3: when he when the Mets finally made the World Series
- 1:30:53Speaker 3: and against the Kansas City Royals. But you know, the
- 1:30:56Speaker 3: more I think about it, his best years were with
- 1:30:57Speaker 3: the Mets. Yeah, he had some strong years with the Royals,
- 1:30:59Speaker 3: but the Royals for for his entire tenure there were
- 1:31:02Speaker 3: not a very good team. And they but yeah, I
- 1:31:06Speaker 3: mean his best years and were with the Mets.
- 1:31:08Speaker 7: I mean, you know, if there's no denying that. Yeah, listen,
- 1:31:14Speaker 7: I'm glad. I'm happy he's going in as a Met.
- 1:31:16Speaker 8: You know, it was between the Mets and the Royals,
- 1:31:18Speaker 8: and like Cat said, uh, you know, the Royals weren't
- 1:31:21Speaker 8: very good when Beltron was on the Royals. And you
- 1:31:24Speaker 8: can't define a guy's career by one at bat. I
- 1:31:28Speaker 8: was at Shea Stadium for that at bat. Believe me,
- 1:31:31Speaker 8: I saw it live.
- 1:31:32Speaker 5: It was a long drive home.
- 1:31:35Speaker 8: But that pitch by Wainwright, I mean, any hit, almost
- 1:31:40Speaker 8: any hitter would have just you know, it was like
- 1:31:44Speaker 8: a deer in the headlights, right, you had to see it.
- 1:31:48Speaker 7: I was on the I was on the third baseline.
- 1:31:51Speaker 8: I had a pretty good I was in box seats,
- 1:31:53Speaker 8: I had a pretty good view of it, and you know,
- 1:31:56Speaker 8: it was painful to watch. But you can't define his
- 1:32:00Speaker 8: career on that one at bat. The guy was a great.
- 1:32:05Speaker 9: I don't.
- 1:32:05Speaker 2: It's just something that just sticks with me.
- 1:32:07Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:32:08Speaker 7: Yeah, Hey, listen, I drove. I had to drive home
- 1:32:12Speaker 7: an hour thinking about that. It was not fun. But
- 1:32:15Speaker 7: I'm happy, you know my answers. I'm happy he is
- 1:32:18Speaker 7: going is a met of course?
- 1:32:21Speaker 10: Yeah, no, I think it makes sense, right, I mean
- 1:32:23Speaker 10: his best year. We're definitely with the Mets, same year,
- 1:32:26Speaker 10: same amount of years with the Royals, right, seven years each.
- 1:32:29Speaker 10: But yeah, with the Mets he did have some playoffs
- 1:32:32Speaker 10: and stuff like that. Better teams, so yeah, I think so. Yeah,
- 1:32:36Speaker 10: and the strike at the game that he struck out,
- 1:32:39Speaker 10: and yeah, that was that was a It is what
- 1:32:41Speaker 10: it is. You know how many great players, uh you
- 1:32:45Speaker 10: know have those bad moments. It is what it is,
- 1:32:48Speaker 10: Wayne Wright. I think it was a rookie that year,
- 1:32:50Speaker 10: so it's not like a guy that he knew very
- 1:32:52Speaker 10: much of so but you know, great pitch. Uh you know,
- 1:32:59Speaker 10: tip you add off your cap to to Wayne Wright
- 1:33:02Speaker 10: for making that great pitch against Beltrend But yeah, the guy's.
- 1:33:06Speaker 9: A Hall of Famer.
- 1:33:07Speaker 10: Uh one of the greatest center fielders we've we've probably seen,
- 1:33:11Speaker 10: you know, top ten easy. Uh so yeah, pretty cool
- 1:33:15Speaker 10: that he's going in as a Met.
- 1:33:16Speaker 1: I was gonna say up with the met for one
- 1:33:18Speaker 1: more top and wrap up show with a couple of
- 1:33:19Speaker 1: New York Knicks topics. All right. Number one, The Mets
- 1:33:23Speaker 1: signed former Tigers infielder obviously during their wild season, Andy
- 1:33:28Speaker 1: ebonya okay is added, and then last night they pick
- 1:33:32Speaker 1: up Zach Short as well. I will go to the
- 1:33:34Speaker 1: New York guys first for your thoughts about them trying
- 1:33:37Speaker 1: to go a couple of Tigers there. They're trying to
- 1:33:39Speaker 1: clean up that infield.
- 1:33:42Speaker 7: You want me to go first?
- 1:33:44Speaker 1: Yeah, why not?
- 1:33:48Speaker 8: It Starns just playing games where he's trying to catch
- 1:33:51Speaker 8: lightning in a bottle. And today Short made a couple
- 1:33:54Speaker 8: of errors. He looked terrible, you know, and he was
- 1:34:00Speaker 8: and he also he is a former Met too, So
- 1:34:03Speaker 8: I just Stern's has got to do something to clean
- 1:34:07Speaker 8: this up. It's a big mess and something's got to
- 1:34:10Speaker 8: be done. So I'm not happy with every other day
- 1:34:14Speaker 8: the Mets are signing some someone's uh, I don't want
- 1:34:17Speaker 8: to say rejects.
- 1:34:18Speaker 1: They're maybe rejected. Say it, I'm reject and watching.
- 1:34:26Speaker 7: It was he was horrible.
- 1:34:28Speaker 1: Tell me how you really feel.
- 1:34:32Speaker 10: Uh yeah, Listen, they're just trying to piece it together
- 1:34:35Speaker 10: until Lindor returns. Right, He's supposed to returning in a
- 1:34:38Speaker 10: few more days. So I think they're just trying to
- 1:34:42Speaker 10: piece it together. It's it's sad that a team with
- 1:34:46Speaker 10: this kind of a payroll is, you know, taking so
- 1:34:49Speaker 10: many chances even before the season started. You know, Rob
- 1:34:52Speaker 10: and I spoke about it so many times on our show,
- 1:34:54Speaker 10: but you know, you have no first baseman. You signed
- 1:34:58Speaker 10: Polanco to play first base, never played first base in
- 1:35:01Speaker 10: his career. Plus he's an injury prone player. Louise Robert
- 1:35:05Speaker 10: and center injury prone player. Both those guys injured done.
- 1:35:10Speaker 10: So now you've got Lindor hopefully coming back. But I mean,
- 1:35:14Speaker 10: this is a team that shouldn't have the depth that
- 1:35:16Speaker 10: they have. I mean, they got nothing on their bench, right,
- 1:35:20Speaker 10: I mean, they you have to bring it. You have
- 1:35:22Speaker 10: to bring up a couple of rookies from Triple A
- 1:35:24Speaker 10: that maybe you didn't want to bring up this year,
- 1:35:26Speaker 10: but they had to bring them up. So yeah, I
- 1:35:29Speaker 10: mean this is this has just shown you how bad
- 1:35:32Speaker 10: Stearns is done with the Mets. I don't know how
- 1:35:36Speaker 10: he's still surviving. I guess because of his contract, but
- 1:35:40Speaker 10: he's just it's it's just a mess. And hopefully Lindor
- 1:35:43Speaker 10: could come back quick and Zach Short will probably be
- 1:35:46Speaker 10: dfaid once he returns.
- 1:35:48Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a lot of hype of up bringing
- 1:35:50Speaker 1: David Sterns in. Yes, they definitely do. Miss Francisco Lindor.
- 1:35:55Speaker 3: Okay, Eric, Well, I think that uh you know, like
- 1:36:00Speaker 3: like like like the like everyone's saying, it's pretty much
- 1:36:05Speaker 3: just throw David Sterns at this point, just throwing things
- 1:36:07Speaker 3: on the wall and pray that they stick. Right now,
- 1:36:10Speaker 3: the Mets are just keep on digging themselves into an
- 1:36:12Speaker 3: even bigger hole.
- 1:36:13Speaker 7: They lost it.
- 1:36:13Speaker 3: I believe they lost the series to the Cincinnati Reds,
- 1:36:16Speaker 3: and you know, I think the Mets are Yes, there
- 1:36:20Speaker 3: was a lot of hype when he came over from
- 1:36:21Speaker 3: Milwaukee all the way to New York because of everything
- 1:36:24Speaker 3: that he accomplished with the with thes, but they're coming
- 1:36:28Speaker 3: to I think the Mets, like the Cubs, are figuring
- 1:36:32Speaker 3: out that it wasn't just those two guys who made
- 1:36:34Speaker 3: the Brewers go. It was an entire organizational infrastructure, which
- 1:36:38Speaker 3: I'm starting to believe Matt Arnold did the legwork on
- 1:36:41Speaker 3: while Stern's got all the credit but he But you know,
- 1:36:45Speaker 3: it's it's a different animal though, going from a small
- 1:36:48Speaker 3: market team like the Brewers to a big market team
- 1:36:51Speaker 3: like the New York Method, there's the differences couldn't be
- 1:36:54Speaker 3: more stark. But at this point, though, I mean, you know,
- 1:36:58Speaker 3: the reason he has been fired is because Steve Cohen's
- 1:37:00Speaker 3: a head fund gunny. He knows he knows how to
- 1:37:02Speaker 3: play the long game better than anybody. He did it
- 1:37:05Speaker 3: with Billy Eppler, even though Billy Epper made bad signing
- 1:37:08Speaker 3: after bad signing and he kept them. He didn't fire
- 1:37:11Speaker 3: him until he had to fire him. So, but you know,
- 1:37:14Speaker 3: I think I think Colin's going to stick it out
- 1:37:17Speaker 3: with with Stearns a while longer because he knows that
- 1:37:20Speaker 3: he can't just he can't just be George Steinberg and react,
- 1:37:23Speaker 3: fire and react and fire people because of it, it's
- 1:37:26Speaker 3: going to hurt your team in the long run.
- 1:37:29Speaker 4: Ky, Yeah, I mean, it's amazing to see the difference
- 1:37:36Speaker 4: that Sterns did in Milwaukee compared to what he's done
- 1:37:39Speaker 4: with the Mets. I don't know if it's a bigger payroll,
- 1:37:45Speaker 4: if it's the New York market that's got him, not
- 1:37:48Speaker 4: you know, doing as well. But yeah, Banya's was claimed off.
- 1:37:54Speaker 4: Waivers peered in a couple of games, hitless, not having
- 1:37:59Speaker 4: quite any success that they were looking for to help
- 1:38:05Speaker 4: them out of their club. But I think they're just
- 1:38:09Speaker 4: throwing darts and whatever whatever is going to help them.
- 1:38:12Speaker 4: They're hoping something does and sparks them, but so far
- 1:38:15Speaker 4: it's not working.
- 1:38:17Speaker 1: Hey Cliff, Yeah, Zach Shorts, oh my gosh.
- 1:38:22Speaker 2: Yeah, he was with a cup cup of coffee a
- 1:38:24Speaker 2: couple of years ago with the Mets and didn't do anything.
- 1:38:27Speaker 2: He made the ray Or Donias look like a Honus
- 1:38:30Speaker 2: Wagner of the way he hits. It's it was so bad. Yeah,
- 1:38:35Speaker 2: it's there's a reason he got dropped. Okay, he's he's
- 1:38:39Speaker 2: hanging on. He'll probably playing for the Long Island Ducks
- 1:38:42Speaker 2: next week. Okay, it's it's it's a nightmare. It's I
- 1:38:47Speaker 2: I I was. I even said at the beginning of
- 1:38:50Speaker 2: the season, I didn't like what the Mets did this
- 1:38:53Speaker 2: I had, I had, I had omens of ninety three
- 1:38:56Speaker 2: all over again, and it's it's coming to room. We
- 1:39:00Speaker 2: all know. If these guys are from New York, they
- 1:39:03Speaker 2: know we've been through this before. We've seen this. This
- 1:39:06Speaker 2: isn't how the Mets win.
- 1:39:07Speaker 1: We can't just.
- 1:39:07Speaker 9: Bye bye bye bye bye.
- 1:39:09Speaker 2: You know they have. It's got to be a combination.
- 1:39:11Speaker 5: I think.
- 1:39:12Speaker 2: So another long year.
- 1:39:15Speaker 1: Well, you know, I like to win a long year
- 1:39:18Speaker 1: because you know what, it's a great transition over to
- 1:39:21Speaker 1: the New York neck. All right, three, yeah, greatful segway.
- 1:39:25Speaker 1: But all right, well let's talk about the New York next.
- 1:39:28Speaker 1: Twenty nine point come back one for the Ages just
- 1:39:31Speaker 1: forty eight hours after losing Game three, and it was
- 1:39:34Speaker 1: a controversial appearance by Donald Trump. Charles Barkley wolves out
- 1:39:40Speaker 1: on records, say Spurs are the dumbest basketball team and
- 1:39:43Speaker 1: the history of civilization. All right, Chris, charl Barkley is
- 1:39:48Speaker 1: things those Birds are the dumbest team and the history
- 1:39:52Speaker 1: of civilization.
- 1:39:54Speaker 10: Well, I think in that big comeback victory for the
- 1:39:58Speaker 10: for the Knicks in that game, you could say they
- 1:40:00Speaker 10: were the dumbest team in history.
- 1:40:03Speaker 1: Right.
- 1:40:04Speaker 10: I think that kid Fox is gonna you know probably
- 1:40:07Speaker 10: uh be the he was definitely the goat of that game.
- 1:40:12Speaker 10: Not the goat, but he was definitely the reason why
- 1:40:15Speaker 10: they lost. Right if you remember on that loose ball
- 1:40:19Speaker 10: late in the game where he tried to just pick
- 1:40:21Speaker 10: it up and score instead of like they were I
- 1:40:23Speaker 10: think they were up at one, up by one at
- 1:40:25Speaker 10: the time. If he just held on to the ball,
- 1:40:29Speaker 10: the game probably would have been over, right because they
- 1:40:31Speaker 10: probably would have fouled him maybe, And then he hits
- 1:40:34Speaker 10: the two free throws and then you know, then you know,
- 1:40:38Speaker 10: the Knicks would have to hit three just to tie
- 1:40:41Speaker 10: instead of having a chance to win the game on
- 1:40:43Speaker 10: the next play on the tipping but uh, but yeah,
- 1:40:47Speaker 10: they just played awful. I mean, they had a huge
- 1:40:49Speaker 10: lead in every one of the games that they lost.
- 1:40:53Speaker 10: So you could call him stupid, you know, the dumbest team,
- 1:40:57Speaker 10: the biggest choke artist. You know, you could name a
- 1:41:00Speaker 10: lot of these. Plus it's a team that has or
- 1:41:03Speaker 10: at least for the for the most part, most of
- 1:41:05Speaker 10: the team have no class. Because they didn't shake any
- 1:41:08Speaker 10: of the guy's hands after the game, right, Wemby just
- 1:41:11Speaker 10: walked out right, and you've seen what he said on
- 1:41:14Speaker 10: you know, in the press conference after the game, they
- 1:41:17Speaker 10: just had no class.
- 1:41:18Speaker 9: So dumb and choke artists are probably.
- 1:41:24Speaker 10: The least amount of the least words you could call them,
- 1:41:27Speaker 10: at least at least from what I seen in that series.
- 1:41:30Speaker 1: Well, they're young in the experience, but definitely had to
- 1:41:33Speaker 1: learn a lot. Yeah, the next put out of clinic,
- 1:41:36Speaker 1: and the boy did they really put on a clinic,
- 1:41:38Speaker 1: winning three of those four games in San Antonio. And
- 1:41:41Speaker 1: keep in mind, I've been at that stadium before when
- 1:41:43Speaker 1: they took on Toronto as well, so it's a pretty
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: good place. You can get three wins out of that stadium.
- 1:41:48Speaker 1: They're doing all right, rob.
- 1:41:50Speaker 7: Yeah they are. You know, their Spurs are young team dumb.
- 1:41:56Speaker 7: I don't know they did.
- 1:41:58Speaker 8: I would call them choke artists. Yeah, and there were
- 1:42:00Speaker 8: a couple of more than a couple. There were a
- 1:42:03Speaker 8: lot of dumb, dumb plays. But they also thought they
- 1:42:07Speaker 8: were thugs right right the way they were. They were
- 1:42:10Speaker 8: plowing into into the Knicks, and they're not thugs. The
- 1:42:14Speaker 8: Knicks taught them a lesson.
- 1:42:16Speaker 9: I mean, I can't believe.
- 1:42:17Speaker 7: I couldn't believe what I was watching for most of
- 1:42:19Speaker 7: these games.
- 1:42:20Speaker 9: The Knicks, the Knicks.
- 1:42:22Speaker 7: Just you know, the first the first half of the game.
- 1:42:26Speaker 7: They were behind.
- 1:42:28Speaker 8: For mostly every game, and the way they came back,
- 1:42:31Speaker 8: especially uh you know, the twenty nine point comeback, it
- 1:42:35Speaker 8: was just amazing. So I just think that the Knicks
- 1:42:38Speaker 8: outplayed them. It has nothing to really do with being stupid,
- 1:42:42Speaker 8: except like Chris said, with the one play when he
- 1:42:44Speaker 8: just should help hold onto the basketball.
- 1:42:47Speaker 7: But you know, the Knicks deserved this big time.
- 1:42:51Speaker 1: Well, we all know Charles Berkley isn't afraid to speak
- 1:42:53Speaker 1: his mind. And by the way, I have a picture
- 1:42:55Speaker 1: of Charles Barkley in my book. Him and I spent
- 1:42:58Speaker 1: some time together a few years ago back at a convince.
- 1:43:01Speaker 3: A right Err, I mean you know, I just knew
- 1:43:05Speaker 3: that when that when that happened. Though the Knicks had
- 1:43:08Speaker 3: the the Spurs had no chance of winning, of winning
- 1:43:11Speaker 3: that championship at all. I mean, Jalen Brunson brough all
- 1:43:14Speaker 3: his credit despite being plowed into and decked around like
- 1:43:18Speaker 3: a pinball all over the court, though he wasn't backing
- 1:43:20Speaker 3: down and he wasn't complaining to the referees about it,
- 1:43:23Speaker 3: and and then but you know that's that just shows
- 1:43:26Speaker 3: you that he Nicks had the edge all the way.
- 1:43:28Speaker 3: I mean, the Spurs are long have have fallen long
- 1:43:32Speaker 3: away from what they were with Tony Parker and Mono
- 1:43:34Speaker 3: Jennobili and and my favorite guy, Tim Duncan. But you know,
- 1:43:39Speaker 3: you know, when Biana, I think he's I think he
- 1:43:42Speaker 3: might be the most classless player in the NBA today
- 1:43:45Speaker 3: and the NBA and the NBA has a bad people
- 1:43:47Speaker 3: in it, but I don't think any of them are
- 1:43:49Speaker 3: as classless as as Victor Wembiana. I mean, he's you know,
- 1:43:54Speaker 3: he he couldn't handle the fact that his team got
- 1:43:57Speaker 3: his team blew a lead. Yes, they're a young team though,
- 1:44:00Speaker 3: but you better pray, you better pray buddy that buddy
- 1:44:03Speaker 3: that you get that you get back though, because some
- 1:44:05Speaker 3: players never get back. You might want to open a
- 1:44:07Speaker 3: conversation to with Dan Marino about not getting back.
- 1:44:13Speaker 4: Like that. You know, I think about some of these games,
- 1:44:19Speaker 4: and I think about the comebacks, and I think for me,
- 1:44:26Speaker 4: San Antonio was the younger team. But what surprises me
- 1:44:31Speaker 4: is the coaching and leaving when you're up by a
- 1:44:35Speaker 4: little bit at the end of the game and you
- 1:44:37Speaker 4: leave timeouts on the floor, Like I don't understand that
- 1:44:43Speaker 4: here the Knicks were coming back. They had the momentum.
- 1:44:46Speaker 4: You're supposed to do whatever you can to stop that momentum,
- 1:44:50Speaker 4: take a time out, maybe put some other fresh blood
- 1:44:54Speaker 4: in there, because sometimes it seemed like San Antonio was tired,
- 1:45:00Speaker 4: and which surprises me because they were the younger legs,
- 1:45:03Speaker 4: the younger team, but I think they were out coached.
- 1:45:07Speaker 4: I think sometimes it was just right place, right time.
- 1:45:11Speaker 4: And sometimes you have to be lucky to win too.
- 1:45:14Speaker 4: It's not always about yes, you have talent, but both
- 1:45:17Speaker 4: of you got to that point. Sometimes you got to
- 1:45:20Speaker 4: have a little luck too. And they had the ball
- 1:45:22Speaker 4: just bounced the right way. Had the ball not bounced
- 1:45:25Speaker 4: to their player or close enough to that player and
- 1:45:28Speaker 4: bounced further, they wouldn't have gotten the rebound, they wouldn't
- 1:45:30Speaker 4: have gotten the basket, you know. And so sometimes it's
- 1:45:33Speaker 4: about luck as well.
- 1:45:35Speaker 1: And over the next couple of weeks here on the
- 1:45:37Speaker 1: Sports of Chains with Rob and Kris, we're gonna talking
- 1:45:39Speaker 1: more and more about the next so so to make
- 1:45:41Speaker 1: sure that this is just the beginning. Okay, go ahead, Cliff.
- 1:45:45Speaker 2: It was a team, It was a team effort. This
- 1:45:47Speaker 2: was go throughout this whole series. They went sixteen and
- 1:45:51Speaker 2: three in the playoffs. They went all those games in
- 1:45:54Speaker 2: a row, and yes, they came back on all those
- 1:45:57Speaker 2: And this is very reminiscent. And I'm to do another
- 1:46:00Speaker 2: hockey thing here. I always talk about hockey. But when
- 1:46:04Speaker 2: the Islanders won their last Stanley Cup Edmonton, they got swept,
- 1:46:10Speaker 2: they said they learned so much from that, and that
- 1:46:13Speaker 2: that San Antonio team is young and a lot of
- 1:46:15Speaker 2: those guys were picked very, very high. So this could
- 1:46:19Speaker 2: be that this could be that that lesson, well, at
- 1:46:23Speaker 2: least I hope it could be at least for them,
- 1:46:26Speaker 2: that lesson to hey, this is how we have to win.
- 1:46:29Speaker 2: You know, maybe they were just a little too young
- 1:46:31Speaker 2: and they're in San Antonio is going to be forced
- 1:46:34Speaker 2: to reckon with but the the next five years or so,
- 1:46:37Speaker 2: but the Knicks were they dominated. They dominated, like from
- 1:46:41Speaker 2: the standpoint of just playing that whole time. Were they
- 1:46:44Speaker 2: down all those times? Yeah, but they worked like a team. Yeah.
- 1:46:47Speaker 2: The last game Brunson, he totally took over. The rest
- 1:46:51Speaker 2: of the team was actually kind of but Brunson proved
- 1:46:57Speaker 2: himself he was He's been great all all the whole
- 1:46:59Speaker 2: time there. But he was the one that really took over.
- 1:47:02Speaker 2: He even had not such a great game earlier in
- 1:47:04Speaker 2: the in the series, but the rest of the team
- 1:47:07Speaker 2: stood up and played and got them there. And that's
- 1:47:11Speaker 2: what it's supposed to be about, coming together. It's been
- 1:47:13Speaker 2: fifty three years and it's it's it's high time. I'm
- 1:47:18Speaker 2: not a big basketball fan, but I'm happy the next one.
- 1:47:22Speaker 1: Okay, well, i'll tell you what final top of the
- 1:47:24Speaker 1: night goes. Along with what Cliff said, the next championship
- 1:47:27Speaker 1: parade will featured the largest playing police deployment in the
- 1:47:31Speaker 1: history of any New York Police department. At this ten
- 1:47:35Speaker 1: thousand New York Police Department officers are expected to be there. Okay, Cliff,
- 1:47:41Speaker 1: ten thousand, I.
- 1:47:43Speaker 2: Think it's going to be I don't still don't think
- 1:47:45Speaker 2: it's gonna be enough. Plus it's not they're missing a
- 1:47:48Speaker 2: lot of cops.
- 1:47:49Speaker 1: As it is.
- 1:47:50Speaker 2: They lost a lot of cops, and I'm here, maybe
- 1:47:52Speaker 2: like three or four million people might be there.
- 1:47:56Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 1:47:56Speaker 2: They might be exaggerating on that, but it's that's gonna
- 1:48:00Speaker 2: be nuts, because you know, New York City, though it's
- 1:48:04Speaker 2: it's still very crowded and very cramped, and the Canyon
- 1:48:08Speaker 2: of Heroes down there. Oh my gosh, it's just gonna
- 1:48:10Speaker 2: be bed them and what we were seeing after some
- 1:48:13Speaker 2: of those victories. I don't know, Well, I don't think
- 1:48:17Speaker 2: it's gonna be enough. I really don't.
- 1:48:19Speaker 1: Really.
- 1:48:20Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not gonna be enough. They're gonna they're gonna
- 1:48:24Speaker 2: be out there, but I don't think it's gonna be enough.
- 1:48:25Speaker 2: This is this is different because the Knicks are different
- 1:48:28Speaker 2: because every other New York team or a sport, there's
- 1:48:32Speaker 2: another team in town. Yeah, the nets come on, the
- 1:48:34Speaker 2: nets are not It's not like the Yankees, Matt's Islands Rangers,
- 1:48:37Speaker 2: that kind of thing, Jets, Giants, it's everyone.
- 1:48:41Speaker 5: You know.
- 1:48:41Speaker 2: So it's this is This is very, very different, and
- 1:48:44Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be enough. Cops to to
- 1:48:47Speaker 2: take care of what they're gonna gonna do. They're gonna
- 1:48:49Speaker 2: do the best they can. And I tip my cap
- 1:48:51Speaker 2: to them because you know they're there. They are they
- 1:48:54Speaker 2: are police officers. But this is, this is gonna be nuts.
- 1:48:57Speaker 2: It's gonna be absolute.
- 1:49:00Speaker 1: Candy ten mountain tops, right, you know.
- 1:49:05Speaker 4: But if you think about it, if they're going to
- 1:49:06Speaker 4: have how many thousands of people in New York, I
- 1:49:13Speaker 4: can see it I mean, kudos to New York for
- 1:49:18Speaker 4: going out there and hiring, hiring, and employing that many
- 1:49:24Speaker 4: cops to be there. You always hear about disfrontle people
- 1:49:30Speaker 4: here and there. Hopefully they don't need these ten thousand cops.
- 1:49:34Speaker 5: But.
- 1:49:37Speaker 4: I think it's a good move for New York.
- 1:49:40Speaker 10: Chris, Listen, if there's any city that can handle this,
- 1:49:45Speaker 10: it's New York, right, And they've they've done a bunch
- 1:49:50Speaker 10: of these ticket taperaraides already, so they know what they're doing.
- 1:49:55Speaker 10: So if there's a if there's a police force, if
- 1:49:57Speaker 10: there's a city.
- 1:49:58Speaker 9: That you could trust to do this. I don't know
- 1:50:00Speaker 9: if I trust the city to do other things, but
- 1:50:02Speaker 9: I definitely.
- 1:50:05Speaker 10: I definitely trust them to handle a ticket taperarade because
- 1:50:09Speaker 10: they've had tons of practice with this. This one is
- 1:50:12Speaker 10: probably gonna be the biggest one they've ever had, because
- 1:50:16Speaker 10: I remember, like we talked about it too, like the Knicks,
- 1:50:20Speaker 10: everybody in the city loves the Knicks, right, because there's
- 1:50:22Speaker 10: only one real New York team in basketball, and that's
- 1:50:26Speaker 10: the Knicks, right. The Nets are not really a New
- 1:50:28Speaker 10: York team. They're from Jersey, so they don't really have
- 1:50:31Speaker 10: a lot of New York fans. Every other sport, it's
- 1:50:34Speaker 10: split right down the middle or pretty close.
- 1:50:38Speaker 9: To it in New York.
- 1:50:40Speaker 10: So there's gonna be millions of people there. It's gonna
- 1:50:44Speaker 10: be crazy. But if there is a police force and
- 1:50:47Speaker 10: a city that I trust to handle is it's New York.
- 1:50:50Speaker 10: So I think it's gonna be a great day. Hopefully
- 1:50:53Speaker 10: whoever wants to be there is going to get there early,
- 1:50:55Speaker 10: because I don't think everybody's gonna be able to get in.
- 1:51:01Speaker 7: Listen, Chris is right. NYPD could handle things like this.
- 1:51:04Speaker 8: They handle New year Times Square right, New Year's Eve,
- 1:51:08Speaker 8: they handle the Macy Thanksgiving Day parade, They've handled other
- 1:51:12Speaker 8: ticker take parades, even though this is going to be
- 1:51:15Speaker 8: the biggest one. So they're going to take care of that.
- 1:51:19Speaker 8: But with ten thousand cops and the shortage of cops
- 1:51:22Speaker 8: in New York City, what's going to happen during the
- 1:51:25Speaker 8: parade in the other boroughs when most of the cops
- 1:51:28Speaker 8: are at the parade? Right, it may be a free
- 1:51:33Speaker 8: for all, who knows, But NYPD could handle it definitely.
- 1:51:38Speaker 2: Well.
- 1:51:38Speaker 3: I will say, though the Knicks did, you could probably
- 1:51:41Speaker 3: give the next credit for lowering crime in New York City.
- 1:51:43Speaker 3: I think I read some somewhere where the crime had
- 1:51:45Speaker 3: dropped by x percentage. I can't remember the number. But now,
- 1:51:49Speaker 3: this is the best police force in the world. I mean,
- 1:51:51Speaker 3: they have some of the biggest largest gatherings and events
- 1:51:56Speaker 3: that in the entire country and perhaps the entire world.
- 1:51:59Speaker 3: Where these where these where this force has been trained
- 1:52:02Speaker 3: like no tomorrow to handle this. They already deal with
- 1:52:05Speaker 3: millions of people on a on a daily basis, and
- 1:52:09Speaker 3: so but they they will, they will be fine. Yes,
- 1:52:11Speaker 3: it's going to be a very large gathering of people
- 1:52:14Speaker 3: because the Knicks are in New York City, run for
- 1:52:17Speaker 3: run for generations. They go back to your parents' parents,
- 1:52:21Speaker 3: but they But yes, it's going to be a fun
- 1:52:24Speaker 3: day for all of New York. It's going to be
- 1:52:26Speaker 3: great to have a ticket ticker tape parade of that
- 1:52:28Speaker 3: magnitude because the Knicks are just that one team that
- 1:52:32Speaker 3: everybody likes. I mean, the Nets are New York. I
- 1:52:35Speaker 3: like to think of the Nets as New York wannabes.
- 1:52:37Speaker 3: But all they have the show for is a nice arena.
- 1:52:39Speaker 3: That's about it. But but the but you know this
- 1:52:44Speaker 3: is this has been a long time coming for that
- 1:52:46Speaker 3: Team seventy three was the last one, and I'm looking
- 1:52:48Speaker 3: forward to seeing Spike Lee just living his best life
- 1:52:51Speaker 3: on those floats and yell and yelling and yelling at
- 1:52:54Speaker 3: everybody about how happy he is, because I know Spike
- 1:52:57Speaker 3: Lee is going to have a day on have a
- 1:52:59Speaker 3: day in that parade.
- 1:53:02Speaker 1: Well done, love everybody's and put it on the top.
- 1:53:05Speaker 1: We got Times Square out there. I'm glad we brought
- 1:53:07Speaker 1: that up. Yeah, you're right. I think the nets firstly
- 1:53:11Speaker 1: should have stayed New Jersey, but that's just my opinion.
- 1:53:14Speaker 1: So I have a moment for parting shots. Anybody have
- 1:53:17Speaker 1: one that they want to say, Katy, you know, I
- 1:53:25Speaker 1: don't know. I will.
- 1:53:30Speaker 4: They finished the Bob mucher Mural. I talked about this
- 1:53:34Speaker 4: the other day, but it's completely finished now up in Milwaukee.
- 1:53:38Speaker 4: I think it looks really cool on the side of
- 1:53:40Speaker 4: the building. I've seen pictures from above. Uh and anybody
- 1:53:46Speaker 4: that lives in Milwaukee, I think you need to go
- 1:53:48Speaker 4: see it. I had a picture before. I don't think
- 1:53:53Speaker 4: I have the picture of it done. I'll have to
- 1:53:56Speaker 4: get that, but I think that's a really cool tribute
- 1:53:59Speaker 4: to Bobby the late Bob You Yes.
- 1:54:02Speaker 1: Thanks all right, I got it.
- 1:54:04Speaker 8: I got a quick plug, real quick. Friday, Friday night
- 1:54:08Speaker 8: at ten pm, we have former Kansas City Royal Greg
- 1:54:12Speaker 8: Pryor on our show n y MLB Talk. That's Friday night,
- 1:54:17Speaker 8: ten pm. Former Kansas City Royal Greg Pryor will be
- 1:54:21Speaker 8: our guest.
- 1:54:22Speaker 1: Yeah. I look for to get back on there as well.
- 1:54:24Speaker 1: With that said, and we'll work on that. Meanwhile, Katie,
- 1:54:27Speaker 1: go ahead and do a station break that includes our
- 1:54:30Speaker 1: new Travel Channel and Chris, if we get a chance,
- 1:54:32Speaker 1: you might subscribing to the New Travel Channel as well.
- 1:54:37Speaker 1: Oh beautiful, thank you? All right, Katie, go ahead, Well,
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- 1:56:40Speaker 1: Got about two minutes left for plugs, so all right.
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- 1:56:45Speaker 1: New York. Chris and Rob. Everybody know how to get
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- 1:57:04Speaker 1: Rob.
- 1:57:06Speaker 8: Yeah, I already said mine about Greg prior coming on
- 1:57:08Speaker 8: Friday night, So thank you, all right, Eric, real.
- 1:57:11Speaker 3: Quickly, Well, I will say though, I got to say
- 1:57:14Speaker 3: congratulations to the New York Knicks finally bringing a big
- 1:57:18Speaker 3: ticker tape parade back to back to New York, New
- 1:57:21Speaker 3: York City. It's it's you know, it's happy for all
- 1:57:24Speaker 3: Knicks fans who have kind of put up with some
- 1:57:26Speaker 3: very some very low moments in the France with the
- 1:57:29Speaker 3: franchise and you know, he you know, they fin they
- 1:57:33Speaker 3: finally got it done. You know, happy that that generations
- 1:57:36Speaker 3: of Knicks fans will be able to gather on Broadway
- 1:57:39Speaker 3: tomorrow and be able to celebrate the Knicks winning a championship.
- 1:57:42Speaker 3: All I got to say is please please stay safe.
- 1:57:45Speaker 3: And you know, if if you happen to have the
- 1:57:48Speaker 3: courage to go in bounce on a traffic light, I
- 1:57:51Speaker 3: applaud you for it.
- 1:57:53Speaker 1: Great, So Eric, go's ahead right for us as well.
- 1:57:56Speaker 1: All right, Cliff, you're in the final one and we'll
- 1:57:57Speaker 1: wrap it up in about thirty seconds.
- 1:58:00Speaker 2: Look good. Just couldn't see me here every week and
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- 1:58:08Speaker 2: Island native Brendan Bussy for coming in. We're leaving h
- 1:58:14Speaker 2: Frederick Anderson to raise his Stanley Cup.
- 1:58:18Speaker 1: Very good. All right, Well, that that's it, Chandies of
- 1:58:21Speaker 1: the States break for this sports of change. We're going
- 1:58:24Speaker 1: to have Rob, We're going to have Chris on again.
- 1:58:26Speaker 1: I enjoy these two guys immensely. Marky was in the
- 1:58:29Speaker 1: first hour. You know it does a good job. Eric
- 1:58:32Speaker 1: as obviously, and we know what he does. He means
- 1:58:35Speaker 1: lots on the network. Cliff, I love having on Wednesday
- 1:58:37Speaker 1: Night as well, and everybody involved with our platforms that's that.
- 1:58:41Speaker 1: That does include a sedition of the Sports of Change
- 1:58:44Speaker 1: on behalf of Marquee Cliff Candy, Eric, Rob and Chris,
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- 1:58:50Speaker 1: We'll be on next Monday night around nine o'clock am
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- 1:58:56Speaker 1: God blessing, congratulations once again to the New York next
- 1:58:59Speaker 1: and at Caroline I'm a hurricane. Good Night everybody.
- 1:59:02Speaker 8: M m hmm.