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  that. We're now talking to former 18
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  year NBA forward Metta World Peace Metta.
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  What's up, buddy? Everything is great guys,
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  everything is great. Nice to be here.
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  I can run across you guys over the last couple years and then
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  be connected on one on your post and you guys got me on the on
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  the podcast, man. Yes, Sir.
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  Thank you for having me. Absolutely.
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  Thank you for coming man. You look good, man.
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  You look good. You you could probably play in
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  the NBA still, but there's a lot of stuff to get into with your
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  career and we'll talk about what you're doing outside of your
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  career. We know you're coaching now, so
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  we'll get into that in just a few moments.
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  Yeah, but there's a lot of things that have happened over
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  the last couple of years. And I got a chance to watch the
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  Netflix Lamar Jack, Lamar Odom story, and you were in it.
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  And you know, Lamar, because you both grew up in New York, you
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  grew up in Queens Bridge. Tell us a little bit about your
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  connection and and your respect for Lamar Odom and all the
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  things that he's gone through. I love Lamar.
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  The first time I met Lamar was at DS Park in Ravenswood and
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  Lamar was playing with a guy named Raheem Johnson and Raheem
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  Johnson was the best in our class in New York City.
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  Talk about 199593. Raheem was playing in, you know,
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  he was playing with, you know, the 12th grade, the 10th
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  graders. He was in 8th grade.
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  So Lamar was like 6. When he come back the next year
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  he was 66. I know Lamar, you know me, Elton
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  Lamar. We also played on Riverside
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  Church, so we got a lot of history together.
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  Even from playing in IS8. We had a battle in there, you
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  know, and, and, and I didn't know a lot of the things about
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  Lamar's history, you know, until I seen like this duck.
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  And keep in mind we got drafted the same year, play the AAU and
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  won a championship together. Meta, now it's in the Palace.
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  Everybody remembers that. Everybody remembers the fight.
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  I thought you did the right thing.
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  You stuck up for your players, you stuck up for you yourself.
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  Tell us a little bit about that. I mean, it's, it's been a story
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  for many, many years in the NBA. Yeah, You know, the mouse of the
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  Palace is very interesting. I mean, the way they edited the
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  content, because when people saw it, they saw me leaving the,
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  the, the, the the bench where I was laying on the, on the
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  scorer's table. And then they tried to make the
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  scorer's table look like, why would you lay on a scorer's
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  table to get out of trouble, right.
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  So, you know, when people typically get in trouble in our
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  hoods, in our neighborhoods where we're from, you know, the
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  neighborhoods that set the culture, the neighborhood that
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  set the trends, you know, they say, hey, don't get into
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  trouble, stay out of trouble. But I literally got in trouble
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  for trying to stay out of trouble.
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  And they also now they couldn't quite make the edit.
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  They wasn't that good. They're pretty bad editors.
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  They couldn't make the edit where you couldn't see the
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  splash. So you so you saw the splash,
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  right? But they didn't show until the
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  Netflix documentary came out. That's when they showed the guy
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  throw the bear and it hit me in my face.
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  So people often ask, right, why would you do that?
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  That's the narrative. So media has the capability of
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  changing someone's mind frame. So then everybody's asking, why
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  would you protect yourself? And it was it was I was really
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  impressed, which inspired me to this day.
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  I was really impressed with how media can make people think a
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  certain way, right? Like, yeah, that's like saying
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  somebody come to your office with that number seven behind
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  you and smack you in your face, right?
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  And we say, hey, why did you protect yourself?
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  Why did you not just take that smack like a?
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  Bitch. Anyway, But you know what?
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  That's water under the bridge. You know, I lost a lot of money
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  and took it on the chair like a man.
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  So I want to shift gears a little bit to a more physical
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  college era in the Big East. You played at Saint John's for a
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  while. It was considered the heyday of
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  the Big East going into the late 90s and early 2000s.
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  Like, what were some of those rivalries like?
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  Do you have any iconic moments of any of those matchups?
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  I love the Big East, I love Saint John's.
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  I went to La Salle Academy, Christian Brothers School, St.
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  John's Catholic School. I love Saint John's.
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  I love my Catholic University. I love New York City.
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  CYO. You know, I went to Saint John's
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  because of, you know, being from New York City, I could've went
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  to Miami. I was going to go to Miami.
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  That was with that the hat I had on MSGI also had a letter from
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  Princeton. I just made Princeton all I
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  could've went. And I also was going to go to
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  Notre Dame for architecture. That's my major.
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  And so, you know, St. John's is something about New
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  York City, something about New York City that I love.
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  And I, you know, so I sacrificed all that and then, you know,
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  UDC, the Police Athletic League, menacing, all the stuff.
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  That's what I love. And then playing in the Big
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  East, St. John's, Chris Muller, Luke on
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  the second, you know, I had a chance to be a part of history
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  and and, you know, and I did, you know, he was in a drought
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  since the Luke on the second days.
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  And I got us out there and I helped us, you know, get out
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  that drought. You know, Tyrone Grant didn't
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  break his wrist that year. He broke his wrist.
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  He was like the best team in the in the college, I think, or top
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  five. Tyrone Grant breaks his wrist
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  against UConn. And it kind of set us back a
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  little bit. Tyrone Grant didn't break his
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  wrist, you know, and we still went to the elite and lost by
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  two even though he came back, but he wasn't the same like
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  before he broke his wrist. Yeah, Matt, thanks for coming
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  on, man. As a former Pro Football player,
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  man, I just want to let you know I'm a big fan first and
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  foremost. But then second, you know, from
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  a football perspective, we love to see what you did out there in
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  Madison in the past and we would root for you.
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  We understand what it is. You know, sometimes fans get
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  carried away and, and and discipline has happened.
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  You know me. You know that guy, He bet
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  $50.00. So I know John Green, the
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  gentleman who hit me. I call everybody gentleman, but
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  gentle hit me and I'm so we're kind of friends now, which is
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  ironic, right? It was a $50 bet.
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  The guy who raised his hand, he lost $50.00 to John.
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  He raised his hand not because he won.
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  He raised his hand because he was like, yo, you hit him, I owe
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  you $50. This is crazy.
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  I was up there like Superman in five seconds.
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  I want to talk about another moment that you had was a backup
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  for James Harden. I thought it was a celebration.
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  I think that you have took the villain road and mastered, you
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  know, I know people gave you him in regards to when it happened,
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  but I think you you know, and you lost a lot of money on the
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  front end. But I think you have mastered
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  how to be that villain role and still be, you know, positively
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  impacted the world. So I want to give you credit
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  that, but take me through that play.
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  Was it but you just celebrated and it happened?
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  Or was you more so? Nah, what happened?
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  It was a poem. So the thing about that game, I
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  had 16 the first half and I, you know, so he talked about that.
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  I was I was I was getting in the ass and then So what happened
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  was I got I got, I think I got a steal.
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  I was on a fast rate. I got a dunk.
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  The first thing I did was go to the crowd and you know, shout
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  out to James. He's that's my guy.
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  I love James. He he he rode tight with my son.
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  So so I I get the dunk with the left hand.
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  I go to the crowd and I'm making almost I hit like Ali go to the
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  baseline. I make AL towards the sideline
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  and James makes AL, you know, and comes up and on my back and
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  then shove me in the back. I didn't think it was James.
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  Honestly, I thought it was Ibaka when I thought it was Ibaka
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  because I'm like typically guys my size and my strength would
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  mess with me. Not like, you know what I mean?
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  Guys that don't really have a chance, right.
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  So I thought it was Ibaka. So when I, you know, when I when
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  I threw the elbow, like, you know, get up off me, get up off
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  me low, you know what I mean? Get up off me.
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  And then there was somebody my height, you know, and I'm like,
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  you know, and I didn't know who it was.
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  I also thought it could have been Perkins.
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  You know, Perkins is a dog. Perkins is a dog.
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  So it's like, maybe it's Perkins and we can get a little drama
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  real quick. I didn't, I didn't even know,
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  honestly, I, I did not think it was James Harden at all, you
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  know, because it's just like, you know, like anyway, it was a,
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  it was a celebration. But then after the celebration,
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  it was like whoever's up on me, I don't really know who it is,
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  but you're about to get up off me, right?
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  And and it was a little bit too, as you know, excessive.
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  I think that's probably one of the one things I regret in my
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  career. Like that one, you know, I could
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  have maybe not did that. That's one of the one plays, but
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  I'm like the ones one of the ones I regret even more than
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  like the the malice and the palace.
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  Does that make? Sense, right, Right.
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  Yeah. We are talking to former 18 year
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  NBA forward Metal World Peace, formerly known as Ron Artest.
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  Played in the NBA from 99 to 2017, won a championship with
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  the Lakers in 2010 when they beat the Celtics.
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  Now I want to get into so many great players you played with,
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  but one great player may rest in peace, Kobe Bryant.
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  Tell us a little bit about who Kobe was on and off the court.
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  Kobe was great. So I mean, at the end of Kobe's
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  career, he was guard down. We we saw way more smiles.
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  We wasn't we weren't winning, but we saw way more smiles.
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  That was cool at the beginning of Kobe's career, you know, the
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  Black Mamba's 5:00 AM practices in the summertime, that whole
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  thing, which is pretty, which, which, which is really
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  incredible, man. You know, you know Kobe, I seen
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  him work on a jab step like 100 times, like jab shot, jab shot,
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  jab shot Often when I would play with him, Keep in mind the year
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  before that I was averaging 25 against some of the playoffs.
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  So I was pretty good job. When I go to his team.
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  Now I'm a role player, right? And since I become a role player
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  and watching him on the court was like watching Superman, some
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  of the things he did was incredible.
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  The amount of game winners, the amount of shots to send into
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  overtime, the amount of big shots is virtually impossible,
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  you know, to be that clutch, you know, and game five in Boston
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  Garden, 25 straight points, all of him going from the 3rd to the
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  4th at one point in time. I'm like, this guy is
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  incredible. Like, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm
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  just, I'm just Cody on the wing. But I'm in awe, you know, but he
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  he's an incredible guy. RIP Kobe.
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  We miss him. Now we we've watched so much
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  basketball, but you have done some amazing things on and off
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  the basketball court. Tell us a little bit about the
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  foundations you work with. Yeah, you know, so I started my
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  foundation back in 2007. It was called Excel University
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  because when I first made it, I got a scholarship.
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  Thanks. Riverside Church, Earnest Lunch.
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  I got a scholarship to LaSalle Academy.
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  So when I made, I said, you know what, I'm gonna get people
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  scholarships. Now keep in mind I was coming
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  cash out of pocket paying somebody tuition.
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  So that's not a tax write off, right?
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  I didn't know about 5 O 1C threes in 1999 when I was 19.
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  So, so keep that all in perspective, you know, So when
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  you get to 2007, I start putting things to A5O1C3I named the
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  Excel University because I was sending people to school and I
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  always wanted to build my own university.
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  So I had these aspirations. I want to be an architect to
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  build, to build community centers, right?
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  So when you when you Fast forward and in my career, I'm
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  doing so much philanthropy, but I'm also going through a lot of
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  stuff. So it's like opposite.
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  I'm really positive off the court.
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  On the court I'm getting in a lot of trouble.
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  So I decided to just, you know, weather the storm and we changed
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  Excel university to art test university.
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  My dad has the art test foundation in New York City.
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  I got art test university in Los Angeles.
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  Initially he was focused on mental health initially with
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  scholarships and they went to mental health.
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  Now we're focusing on different forms of literacy for athletes.
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  You know, a lot of athletes make it and then when they so when
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  collectively, if we lose it, I always say collectively can be
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  all athletes, we all won. People be be almost ashamed
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  shaming them. But the thing was this one, they
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  helped other people's children. Think about the amount of money
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  that athletes was just given to people.
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  That's somebody else's child that just got 50 grand that they
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  dad and mom come get them to 50 grand.
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  So it's a lot of social impact that people don't really
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  discover when it comes to that. Then 2, you know, when an
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  athlete retires, if the athlete doesn't have anything to fall
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  back on, you see a lot of athletes get overweight, a lot
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  of depression, right? You see a lot of athletes, they
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  can't pull up in that Rolls Royce no more, right identity
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  crisis. You know what I'm saying?
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  So right now we just trying to attack those issues all the
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  time. I went through my own thing
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  also, you know, I was able to luckily I, I embrace therapy.
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  You know, there's, there's a lot of things where even the money,
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  the more money you get tapped into you into your emotions,
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  right. So it's not that you're a bad
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  person, it's just that you never had a chance to address issues.
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  So now you might be spending too much, you might be doing too
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  many drugs. Maybe I won't on sex.
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  You know, you might need a sex therapy, sex addiction.
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  You know, you, you put a Band-Aid over 1 and but
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  something else pops up. And this is what athletes is
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  going through, entertainers and even founders that are not
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  athletes. They just not in the public eye,
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  you know. So anyway, that's what I'm doing
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  from a philanthropic perspective also pushing World Peace.
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  World Peace. You know, I named myself World
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  Peace 2011 in America, you know what I mean?
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  So that's ballsy. That's ballsy.
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  You know, I'm always, you know what I mean?
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  In America, we want, we want peace.
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  That's what he's saying. And I'm the longest reigning
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  market at World Peace. There's nobody that's been
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  marketing World Peace longer than me.
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  What does that merit that merits the Nobel Prize right in
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  Queensbury? All they got to do is come to
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  Queensbury, give me my prize. I'm waiting, I'm waiting for it.
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  I'm ready. Let's reach out.
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  Let's reach out to Nas. Maybe we'll have him write a
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  song for you. I would love for Nas to write my
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  album. Write my album.
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  So, so the guy that's coaching the New York Knicks now is a guy
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  that I coached you with the Lakers, you had a little bit of
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  a beef with in 2011, obviously taking over Phil Jackson, a
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  legend that he is, after you guys won the title in 2009 to
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  2010, beating Q's Boston Celtics.
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  Talk about the transition to Mike Brown and what went wrong
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  with that whole debacle. I didn't have a beat for Mike
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  Brown. Our O and five record.
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  That was the beat. That wasn't, you know, we just
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  started O and five, but that's an incredible job.
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  Imagine go O and five, you get 40 million and you get you get
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  paid. I'm like, damn, I want to go
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  over and five and get paid 40 million.
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  That was incredible. But I think like that year there
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  was no mix. It wasn't Mike Brown fault.
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  It was, it was a, it was a Little Mix of everything.
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  But also, you know, we didn't really have, I mean, Dwight
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  Howard just had a back surgery. Steve Nash wasn't even ready to
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  play, you know, and, and, and those two are two of our main
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  guys was coming off injury. So, and, and they're a major
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  part of the offense. And I don't think Mike Brown
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  wanted to feature those guys not 'cause they're not good enough
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  because they were injured. So Mike Brown had to do what he
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  had to do. And it started out bad and, you
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  know, started out bad and, you know, they got, they got rid of
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  them. You know, I play for Mike in
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  Indiana too. You know, for me, I was just,
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  you know what kind of just a role play you're on a team with,
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  with Kobe, Dwight, Pal, Nash at that point, you know what I'm
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  saying? You just watching this crazy,
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  just watching that. Yeah.
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  That's great. We had a great team, though.
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  We had a really good team. So man, as a as a, as a top
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  defender to ever lace it up, man and I and as far as my eyes, you
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  definitely wanted the top defenders ever.
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  The Hall of Fame, baby, check it out.
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  Let me ask you a question. So are you saying I'm the top
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  like so so so the top that doesn't that merits the Hall of
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  Fame? Because you didn't say I'm the
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  bottom. You said on the top.
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  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, first NBA player with the
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  Nobel Peace Prize in the Hall of Fame.
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  Baby, let's get it in. Your career like you kind of got
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  a chance to see both sides of the court in regards to planning
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  that, like, you know, Jordan 90s early 2000 area and then coming
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  into what what we see today on TV.
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  Talk to me a little bit now and I'm sure I'll go have a follow
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  up, but talk to me a little bit now in regards to the shifted
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  skill set. And also, you know, I, I think
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  the 90s get that tough, you know, competitive right label
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  and then these guys kind of get the more skill set finesse
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  label. So tell me a little bit about,
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  you know, both games. Well, one, I think not the
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  players, but too many people are talking about the skill set, but
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  we're not talking about the traveling because Michael Jordan
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  couldn't take you ain't going to find it.
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  You ain't going to find a clip where Michael Jordan took four
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  steps. You know, I'm saying so you
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  can't give guys a stroke. No, no, no, no, we all grown
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  men. You ain't getting no handicap.
• 18:37
  Travel, travel, travel, travel, travel, you getting merits and
• 18:40
  asterisks, right? So and you know, on top of that,
• 18:44
  I think I think it's more, I think it's more talent.
• 18:48
  I think more people are a little bit more skilled, more athletic
• 18:52
  and they have more technology. You know, Larry Bird, those guys
• 18:55
  are playing in flip flops. Go pull out some Pumas and some
• 18:58
  Converse old school. And I want to see somebody the
• 19:01
  whole season in flip flops. OK, play a whole season, then
• 19:04
  tell me how athletic you are. Like these guys had no support.
• 19:08
  None of the guys had arches. They all have flat arches.
• 19:12
  That's a. Fact.
• 19:15
  So hey, man, these guys, I say like the technologies, you know,
• 19:19
  I think the technology is different, but Jordan played 82
• 19:22
  games in flip flops. Now he had better shoes, but
• 19:25
  Jordan played 82 games nine times.
• 19:27
  Right, but they don't. Other side got LeBron who played
• 19:29
  23 seasons and. That's one.
• 19:32
  I'll talk about AC Green, I'll talk about John Stockton, I'll
• 19:35
  talk about Carl Malone. How many games?
• 19:38
  Hey, you want to know something? When we was with the Lakers,
• 19:41
  with the Lakers, the goal was to play 82 games like that.
• 19:44
  Last when we won that season, like it was a whole different
• 19:47
  mindset. They like, hey, we here we
• 19:49
  played 82. First time I ever played 82 was
• 19:52
  with the Lakers and then we had like 4 people play 82.
• 19:55
  Usually I'm saying there there are no breaks.
• 19:58
  So anyway, that's the the difference is not I'm not going
• 20:01
  at the players, I'm going at the people like making opinions
• 20:04
  because you got to you got to lift up the hood you.
• 20:06
  Definitely got a factor that is. Well, I just want to tell you
• 20:09
  Meta, that's why I love you. That's why I love you because
• 20:11
  you set him straight as as everybody knows, we are talking
• 20:15
  to former 18 year NBA vets. Former formerly known as Metta
• 20:20
  World Peace, formerly known as Ron Artest.
• 20:22
  You can call him whatever you want.
• 20:24
  You want to call him Metta? Metta World Peace, Ron Artest,
• 20:26
  You can call him whatever you want.
• 20:28
  You won a championship with the Lakers, but I want to get into
• 20:30
  you. When you were drafted, you were
• 20:32
  drafted by the Chicago Bulls at 16.
• 20:35
  The Knicks passed up on you. The Knicks who you grew up
• 20:39
  rooting for, you always wanted to be a Knick.
• 20:41
  How did you feel when the Knicks passed up on you?
• 20:44
  Meta. It was that, you know, it wasn't
• 20:46
  supposed to happen. You look at my career, look at
• 20:48
  everybody that went ahead of me was not supposed to have them.
• 20:52
  I should have been a Knick. I love the Knicks to this day,
• 20:54
  but I still, you know, sometimes I get into that mode in 1999
• 20:58
  where I'm like, I should have been a Knick.
• 21:00
  So they know how I feel the next the Knicks embrace my emotions.
• 21:04
  So shout out to the Knicks organization, by the way,
• 21:06
  because they treat me very well like the Knicks that they bring
• 21:10
  me out, they give me out, they give me a legends jacket.
• 21:12
  I only was there three months, right, I was only a Knick for
• 21:15
  three months, but I think they understand like how how
• 21:17
  important the Knicks is are are to me, right.
• 21:20
  So from that perspective, like I should have been a Knick, I
• 21:23
  should have been a defensive player of the year in New York
• 21:26
  City. And like I see I get a little
• 21:28
  bit better because I see these guys jerseys about to be
• 21:30
  retired. I see guys playing well with the
• 21:32
  Knicks. They're going to go down as Nick
• 21:34
  Nick legend. But so my only argument is
• 21:37
  imagine a defensive player of the year in the garden.
• 21:38
  You understand, imagine imagine people coming in the garden and
• 21:42
  not leaving the garden and you talking about hall of farmers,
• 21:46
  right. You talk about imagine people
• 21:47
  get unfortunately, I'll somebody from an organization I want to
• 21:52
  mention to zero to 0 points for an entire season.
• 21:57
  That's next level stuff on top of being a go to guy on top of
• 22:02
  for six. Up until Kobe, I was I was a go
• 22:04
  to guy. So now you talk about defense
• 22:06
  and office in the Garden. You would never seen nothing
• 22:08
  like it. It would have never been nothing
• 22:10
  like it in the garden. I love the I always look
• 22:12
  passionate about New York. As you know, I tried to get the
• 22:14
  Nick head coaching job. Shout out to Mike Brown.
• 22:16
  Mike Brown got the job. They needed somebody from, you
• 22:18
  know, right caddy corner from Nas block.
• 22:21
  They needed a caddy corner from Nas block.
• 22:23
  Queens Bridge on his front that's.
• 22:25
  What I thought bridge. I love Manhattan, I love Harlow,
• 22:28
  I love the Bronx, I love all New York City.
• 22:30
  You know they really. Need a little?
• 22:33
  Yeah, come on man. But a shout out to the Knicks.
• 22:36
  I love New York all. Right, nada.
• 22:39
  How many kids do you have? Man, I see kids crying in the
• 22:41
  back. How many kids do you have?
• 22:43
  You have sons. How many kids do you have?
• 22:46
  I got five children, 3 grandchildren.
• 22:48
  Wow, your grandfather, man, you look good for a grandfather.
• 22:51
  Yeah, I started early. I was 16 on a mall deep block.
• 22:59
  All right, let's get into your coaching right now.
• 23:02
  What are you doing as a coach? You said yeah.
• 23:06
  What are you doing as a coach right now?
• 23:08
  Yeah, You know, people said I wasn't coaching when I was
• 23:11
  trying to get jobs. Mary doesn't coach this and
• 23:13
  that. You know, I got to hear it.
• 23:14
  They got everybody got their own little teams and little media
• 23:17
  team. We won the CCAA, my women's
• 23:20
  team, coaching for the last seven years, first time in
• 23:23
  California history, Cal State history.
• 23:26
  They've been around since 1947. We won the tournament first time
• 23:32
  ever player of the year. I'm the lead assistant.
• 23:34
  I am a real coach. This is not I'm not just like
• 23:38
  some fly by night. I don't need a lot of it.
• 23:41
  I don't need a lot of us former head coaches, you know, I don't
• 23:47
  need a lot. You know, we going to get it
• 23:49
  done. So I say that because I love
• 23:50
  coaching. I'm obsessed with the game.
• 23:53
  I did need a break from the game.
• 23:55
  If you if you know, my career when I retired, I need a break.
• 23:58
  So I did get a break from the game.
• 24:00
  But now we're coming back to win the NBA championship.
• 24:02
  Yeah, that's the goal. That's what we're going to do.
• 24:05
  You know, and everybody that said it was never going to
• 24:07
  happen. I'm challenge accepted.
• 24:10
  You know, high level, high level to low level, high level to low
• 24:14
  level, right? Challenge accepted.
• 24:18
  I got a team for you right now. I got a team for you right now.
• 24:21
  The Chicago Bulls are looking for a coach right now.
• 24:25
  Why don't we you got? Drafted.
• 24:26
  Yeah. So let me ask you so you know
• 24:29
  how last year I was really public about trying to get the
• 24:32
  big job right now this year, all the jobs that came up, I'm not
• 24:37
  as excited. So I'm taking I'm taking a year
• 24:43
  off of asking for coaching job. I'm not.
• 24:45
  Looking for coaching job? It's the reboot.
• 24:49
  On my own time, I'm just not looking.
• 24:52
  This time I just had it, you know, so, so this year I'm not,
• 24:56
  I'm not pursuing coaching right now.
• 24:59
  You're holding up for the Lakers job when Arrow's favorite coach,
• 25:02
  JJ Reddick, gets fired. Well, first of all, it's the
• 25:04
  LJA, it's the LeBron James Association, It's not the NBA,
• 25:08
  it's the LeBron James Association.
• 25:10
  So if LeBron wants Ron Artest or Metta World Peace to run that
• 25:14
  organization, so be it. I'm gonna give myself credit,
• 25:16
  say I'm I'm just ready. I don't need anybody's approval.
• 25:20
  I am. I'm ready.
• 25:22
  I'm ready to go. I'm just waiting for an
• 25:24
  opportunity. But you know, it's so exciting.
• 25:26
  I'm going back to coach my girls again.
• 25:28
  You know, it's been, it's been a hell of a ride.
• 25:31
  I mean, you got people coming from Division One kept trying to
• 25:34
  come back down, you know, and without NIL money.
• 25:37
  So imagine that. They say I can't develop how I'm
• 25:40
  in college, coaching college for seven years.
• 25:42
  That's the development. That's a new freshman every
• 25:44
  year, right? That's that's real development.
• 25:47
  So but I really do love it. And thanks for giving me the
• 25:49
  platform. Absolutely.
• 25:50
  You know, to talk about how great I am as a coach.
• 25:54
  Better. First of all, I just want to let
• 25:55
  you know we wanted you to come back on the show.
• 25:57
  We would love for you to come back on the show and interact
• 26:00
  with us. You know your foot, you know
• 26:03
  your basketball, I'm sure you know your football, you know a
• 26:05
  lot about sports. You've been all over the place
• 26:07
  and you've done so many great things, not only in basketball.
• 26:10
  For all the different things that you've done outside of
• 26:12
  basketball, it's pretty amazing. We really appreciate you joining
• 26:15
  us. Thanks for having me guys,
• 26:17
  hopefully you can have me again. Absolutely, we'll do.
• 26:19
  Thank you, Metta. We really appreciate it.
• 26:21
  Metta. World Peace, ladies and
• 26:23
  gentlemen. Fantastic.
• 26:25
  The fact that he joined us, he's got his kids in the car, he's
• 26:29
  hanging out with the fam. We really appreciate him.
• 26:32
  Thank you, Nathan. Nathan, you got to give.
• 26:33
  Nathan. Got to give the Nath some credit
• 26:36
  here as the Nathmeister landed the great Metta World Peace.
• 26:41
  He's doing so many great things right now in LA.
• 26:43
  We want him to come back to New York.
• 26:46
  Damn you, New York. I'm just kidding.
• 26:47
  We'll see. Mike Brown.
• 26:50
  Mike Brown's up 100 and 11:57. Thank you.
• 26:53
  Great freaking interview with Meta World Peace.
• 26:56
  He had some interesting details. I didn't think he'd go in depth
• 26:58
  like that into all the fights he had.
• 27:00
  That was real interesting if you're a big Meta fan.
• 27:03
  Like I thought he really was fantastic.
• 27:06
  What? What a great guest.
• 27:07
  He was and he's, he's just a great personality.
• 27:09
  All the things that he's done, all the trials and tribulations
• 27:12
  the guy's been through, it's pretty amazing.
• 27:14
  And, and, and to me, if you look at his career, he always wanted
• 27:19
  to be a Nick, always wanted to be a Knick.
• 27:21
  I remember, I remember the draft.
• 27:23
  I was a kid. I was a kid.
• 27:25
  I was in high school and I was like, I want meta.
• 27:28
  I want meta. Well, I wanted Ron Artest.
• 27:30
  I want Ron Artest. I want Ron Artest.
• 27:32
  And I remember the Knicks were sitting there.
• 27:34
  If I'm not mistaken, they were sitting there at 10 or 11 and,
• 27:37
  and they passed up on Ron Artest.
• 27:40
  I was pissed. I was pissed when they passed up
• 27:44
  on him. He goes to the Bulls and we all
• 27:46
  know where where it all went. Then he eventually went to
• 27:48
  Indiana and had his career started.
• 27:50
  His career really just completely elevated and and
• 27:53
  became the player now, now we call Metta World Peace.
• 27:56
  So it's an amazing story and the guys got a great personalities,
• 28:00
  personality. He absolutely could be a coach
• 28:03
  in the NBA, 100% could be a coach in the NBA and everybody
• 28:07
  would thrive. To him, this guy was a great
• 28:08
  defensive player, great offensive player, defensive
• 28:11
  player of the year, and he did all The Dirty work.
• 28:14
  Everywhere he went. He was really Kobe's protector.
• 28:17
  When he went to the Lakers, he was out there protecting Kobe.
• 28:20
  Anybody pushed, anybody shoved Kobe, he was the guy to get into
• 28:24
  your face. He's to me.
• 28:26
  I've always loved him, always loved him, always Rudy for him.
• 28:30
  And he did play for the Knicks for three months.
• 28:32
  It wasn't long enough, but it was at the tail end of his
• 28:34
  career. But very happy to have him on
• 28:36
  the show. And we got to give Nathan a lot
• 28:38
  of credit. Nathan was the.
• 28:39
  One that but yeah, he had AI could definitely see him coming
• 28:43
  in as a great coach and probably having a, you know, Hall of Fame
• 28:46
  type coaching career like Doc Rivers and and whatnot.
• 28:50
  So I really. Oh please stop with this Doc
• 28:53
  Rivers crap. Speedy, I just think he'd be
• 28:57
  like as crazy as Joe Missoula, but way scarier because let's
• 29:02
  face it, he would kill you. He's he's got, he's twice
• 29:07
  Joseph. He ain't Joe.
• 29:09
  I mean, I'm not saying Joe. What's he killing a rat?
• 29:13
  The real. Question is if he does take the
• 29:15
  Lakers job, how would he coach Brody James?
• 29:19
  Oh please, the guy that shouldn't be in the NBA right
• 29:24
  now. And actually develop at a lot
• 29:27
  faster rate with better World Peace at his coach.
• 29:30
  We should probably next time we have him on in like 8.
• 29:33
  Like whenever it is that JJ Reddick gets fired, we should
• 29:36
  ask him if it's Wow. JJ is.
• 29:40
  Getting that's how that series goes.
• 29:41
  You know JJ is getting that furious.
• 29:43
  He's getting fired. There's no way if LeBron James
• 29:46
  leaves and he goes to the cabs. I know everybody heard everybody
• 29:49
  seen Luka Doncic. He actually JJ Reddick liked the
• 29:52
  coat that he was wearing was all over social media.
• 29:55
  And then JJ was a Dior. It was Christian Dior jacket.
• 29:58
  And he went and he bought him the same jacket and it's cool.
• 30:01
  I mean, when you're making millions and millions of
• 30:03
  dollars, I'd buy him a, a $15,000 jacket.
• 30:06
  I mean, that's like pennies. That's like pennies to a guy
• 30:10
  like Luka Doncic who has a sneaker deal like he has.
• 30:12
  So I, I mean, it's cool, but there's no way JJ Redick has a
• 30:16
  job over there. If LeBron decides to go to
• 30:18
  Cleveland, I'm just, I, I can't see it.
• 30:20
  He's going to pick his coach. Whoever he wants there is going
• 30:23
  to happen anyways. I don't know.
• 30:26
  That's, that's a good question. That's no, I don't think it's
• 30:29
  Tyron. It's going to be It's going to
• 30:31
  be somebody like Jason Kidd if he becomes available.
• 30:34
  If Jason Kidd gets fired, which a lot of people believe he
• 30:37
  might, Jason Kidd is definitely the next guy to get that job
• 30:40
  with the Lakers. A hundred 100% because him and
• 30:43
  Luca are like this. He did not want Luca Doncic
• 30:46
  being traded from Dallas. He thought Dallas screwed him
• 30:49
  and really affected the growth of this team.
• 30:52
  They went all the way to the finals and then they traded him
• 30:55
  the next year. It made no sense.
• 30:56
  One year that made Nico Harrison.
• 30:57
  It made no sense. It made no sense.
• 31:00
  Just so everybody. Got the first pick.
• 31:02
  What do you mean it made no sense?
• 31:03
  Yeah, yeah, because, because the LJ gave them the first pick.
• 31:07
  That's why we gifted. You, Luka Doncic, let's reward
• 31:09
  the worst GM ever, but they're going to do the first overall.
• 31:12
  Pick and they're going to gift them another top four pick this
• 31:14
  year I mean what else do they need they might as well get
• 31:17
  everything anyway I. Actually have something that
• 31:20
  exactly what you're talking about this great story and dial
• 31:23
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• 31:25
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• 31:27
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• 31:40
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• 31:43
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• 31:46
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• 32:35
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• 32:47
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• 32:49
  1 today. Now I'm going to read you this.
• 32:51
  Is for you. Q.
• 32:54
  From this article before we start.
• 32:56
  All right, hold on. We are a little frozen in the
• 32:58
  backstage. Oh wow, please Harry this up.
• 33:03
  Blow my back out. Yeah.
• 33:09
  Soundtrack back there in the back speed and you kill it.
• 33:12
  Dildo. That's bad.
• 33:13
  Jabba likes my shrimp cocktail. My rear.
• 33:16
  End Thanks, Errol, for all the sound effects while I was having
• 33:20
  technical difficulties. That's actually the first time
• 33:22
  they've ever been useful in the show's history.
• 33:25
  That was a fantastic job by you. Caitlin Clark just sold out
• 33:31
  sneakers faster than concert tickets.
• 33:33
  Did WNBA better build her statue before Nike does?
• 33:38
  Let's take a look at this article.
• 33:40
  Here she is, Caitlin Clark. Caitlin Clarke Nike Kobe 5 Pro
• 33:44
  TRO Rookie of the Year Sneakers didn't just sell out, they
• 33:47
  vanished faster than the Mets lead in the 8th inning.
• 33:50
  What she gonna happen tonight? Within minutes, the shoes were
• 33:53
  gone. Poof.
• 33:55
  Finished, reduced to sneaker resale purgatory where desperate
• 33:58
  fans now have to sell a kidney to get a pair.
• 34:01
  The $190.00 sneakers immediately hit resale markers for well
• 34:05
  built retail after the drop sold out in mere minutes.
• 34:08
  And if you're asking whether Caitlin Clark is the biggest
• 34:11
  superstar in sports right now, buddy.
• 34:14
  She might be. Or, at minimum, she's in the
• 34:16
  conversation with the kind of momentum most athletes would
• 34:19
  sacrifice a back for a backup point guard for.
• 34:22
  Let's take a look through some of the rest of the article,
• 34:24
  Caitlin. Clark is not just the WNBA star,
• 34:26
  she's a sports business nuclear weapon.
• 34:29
  What she's already done in her career.
• 34:31
  One MWNBA Rookie of the Year helped drive record attendance
• 34:35
  and TV ratings for the league. Become one of the most
• 34:37
  marketable athletes in America. It's absurd.
• 34:41
  She's basically doing for the WNBA what Steph Curry did for
• 34:45
  the NBA. If Steph arrived with a
• 34:47
  flamethrower. A billion social media
• 34:49
  followers. And sneaker heads foaming at the
• 34:53
  mouth. Speedy.
• 34:56
  All right, we'll start with a more generic one.
• 34:57
  To start. This is KBD 13.
• 35:00
  He he says, no, it's Kobe. If they weren't Kobe shoes,
• 35:03
  these numbers would be minimal. Well, first.
• 35:05
  Thank you KBD. I'm sorry, but that one.
• 35:08
  KBD, thank you for your your message, but you're wrong.
• 35:12
  Kobe's sneaker was not the one that exploded sneakers.
• 35:14
  It was Michael Jordan's. Jordan's in eight in the 80s
• 35:18
  from 85 all the way through. He changed the sneaker deals.
• 35:22
  He opened the floodgates. But right now, I've never seen a
• 35:26
  sneaker sell out as fast as her sneakers done in minutes.
• 35:30
  This She's the first woman to ever do that, and she is
• 35:33
  changing the game. Changing the sneaker game.
• 35:36
  Go ahead. All right, so this one kind of
• 35:38
  agreeing with you, this is Evan P11.
• 35:40
  She's going to get the signature to end all signatures, probably
• 35:42
  a tier above the highest tech Nike models like KD and LeBron
• 35:46
  and even more than Wembe because big man's shoes are not going to
• 35:48
  sell as much because of the size of the shoe obviously.
• 35:51
  Evan, she has changed the world. She's changed the women's
• 35:54
  basketball world, she's changed the NBAI don't think we'll ever
• 35:58
  see a woman play in an NBA game, but what she has done, she's
• 36:01
  opened the floodgates to see that women can take and dominate
• 36:06
  a professional sport. She is the transition that
• 36:09
  everybody was waiting for. She's everything you want as
• 36:12
  not, not just as a woman, but changing the the values of where
• 36:18
  professional sports is going. I think it's great.
• 36:21
  This is great for professional sports.
• 36:22
  It's great for basketball. NBAWNBA.
• 36:26
  She is going to be a rocket ship for the WNBA to get billions and
• 36:31
  billions of dollars of contracts.
• 36:33
  As we've seen, they just got their first billion dollar
• 36:36
  contract. After that's up in the next 10
• 36:38
  years, she's going to bring in another 6-7 billion dollars.
• 36:41
  She is amazing and so easy to sell.
• 36:44
  All right, this one is from 2:20 X.
• 36:46
  These shoes took the whole beta sell out, then it went back on
• 36:48
  sale a few days later. What a joke.
• 36:50
  These were easily the worst of the CC Kobe 5.
• 36:53
  First of all, you could say whatever you want.
• 36:56
  You could say that. You joke a woman's sneaker is
• 36:59
  selling out and then being brought back and they're trying
• 37:02
  to find ways to bring it back into the stores.
• 37:04
  And first of all, here in New York, they only had a certain
• 37:07
  amount of those sneakers selling in all the stores because
• 37:10
  they're very hard to get. They sold out on the Internet,
• 37:14
  sold out on the Internet. To say that that's not amazing
• 37:17
  that a woman's sneaker is selling that fast, it's crazy.
• 37:21
  It is Kobe's sneaker. It is the fact that Kobe's name
• 37:24
  is branded to it. Who cares?
• 37:26
  What she's doing right now is changing the game for women's
• 37:29
  basketball. All right, this one is from OK
• 37:32
  Astronaut 2258. She's growing a brand, not the
• 37:36
  league. The league doesn't cover the
• 37:37
  majority of players, and it's hard for fans to realize that.
• 37:40
  He kind of extends it further. I didn't have room to show it
• 37:42
  all. He was mentioning a lot of the
• 37:44
  the casual fans are the only ones that care about Caitlin
• 37:46
  Clark compared to the hardcore WWE fans.
• 37:48
  OK, you're probably right. You're absolutely right.
• 37:50
  You see, Q, he's he doesn't give a crap about Caitlin Clark.
• 37:54
  He's got his own opinion, and that's fine.
• 37:57
  But here's the here's the facts. She is going to change the game.
• 38:00
  Say whatever you want. You hate her, love her,
• 38:03
  disrespect her. This woman is changing the game.
• 38:06
  She's helped the college game, and now she's helping the WNBA.
• 38:10
  These women are not going to have to go overseas anymore.
• 38:12
  They're going to get sneaker deals, everything.
• 38:14
  They're going to get all these different opportunities to make
• 38:17
  money. Why?
• 38:18
  Because of Caitlin Clark. Why do you want to hate her?
• 38:21
  You should love her. All right, last one from Nomad
• 38:26
  Chief 789 taking shots of the WA and WNBA.
• 38:29
  Maybe not loving her as much as they do, the WMA will allow her
• 38:32
  to get treated like a ping pong ball.
• 38:33
  That league will kill the golden goose the way it's run right now
• 38:36
  instead of protecting their prized.
• 38:38
  Assets. Norman, I agree completely with
• 38:41
  you. I don't understand why none of
• 38:43
  these women want to stand behind her.
• 38:45
  She has done so many things for the WNBA.
• 38:48
  She's not going out there and saying she's the best.
• 38:50
  She's going out there and making more money for the WNBA growth.
• 38:55
  That's what you want to see. The WNBA was falling apart.
• 38:58
  They were never getting this billion dollar deal.
• 39:01
  Now all of a sudden Caitlin Clark comes in and she's selling
• 39:03
  out games. People are buying $400.00
• 39:06
  tickets to go and watch Caitlin Clark.
• 39:09
  It's pretty amazing. How could you sit here and and
• 39:12
  attack her for what she's doing? You're Norman me and you agree
• 39:16
  absolutely, totally that this woman is changing the game.
• 39:19
  Why is anybody attacking her for it?
• 39:21
  It's pathetic. It's pathetic.
• 39:24
  Stand behind her all. Right.
• 39:28
  I'm I'm going to have a heart attack.
• 39:30
  How do you hate this woman? How does anybody hate this
• 39:34
  woman? All right, she's not the only
• 39:36
  WNBA player. You're right.
• 39:38
  She's not. That's fine.
• 39:39
  You don't want to give her credit.
• 39:41
  Kudos. Don't want to give her credit.
• 39:42
  That's fine. But what she's doing for the
• 39:44
  WNBA, what she's doing for the the WNBA is going to change the
• 39:50
  opportunities for these women. That's what's going on right
• 39:53
  now. More money is being brought to
• 39:55
  the table. These women are not going to
• 39:57
  have to go to Spain, Portugal, Argentina to go and play
• 40:01
  basketball. They could stay here in America
• 40:04
  and make a ton of money. Why?
• 40:06
  Because of a woman named Caitlin Clark.
• 40:08
  And you're going to attack her for it?
• 40:10
  OK, that's fine. That's your prerogative.
• 40:12
  My prerogative is I'm going to Rep her.
• 40:15
  I'm going to transition and tell you she is the great.
• 40:20
  Caitlin Clark, the great Caitlin Clark, ladies and gentlemen.
• 40:25
  That's why I wear her jerseys. That's why I Rep her.
• 40:28
  And that's why, ladies and gentlemen, her sneakers will
• 40:31
  continue selling out. Lovely.
• 40:34
  That's why I wrote that to. How many people read that story,
• 40:37
  Speedy? How many I put?
• 40:39
  It in like the Nike group and the main basketball shoes group
• 40:42
  I got about 27,000. 27,000 people read that story and I
• 40:48
  think everybody for reading it hate it or love it.
• 40:50
  I'm out there to support everything that's going good in
• 40:54
  professional sports. I'm going to go out there.
• 40:56
  I'm not going to turn down anything and if anybody wants to
• 40:59
  attack what I say, fine. I don't care.
• 41:01
  That's fine to me. That's who I am.
• 41:04
  I'm going to attack back. I'll bite your head off, I'll
• 41:06
  bite your fingers off, and if I'm down on the ground, I'll
• 41:09
  bite your toes off. That's what I'll do.
• 41:10
  Here's going to create a Reddit account just to find a bunch of
• 41:12
  Angel Reese. Fans, right?
• 41:14
  But don't worry about that, ladies and gentlemen.
• 41:16
  He don't have two front teeth so therefore he wouldn't be biting.
• 41:18
  First of all, I do have two front teeth.
• 41:22
  I'm waiting for my teeth to come.
• 41:25
  All right, you got about two weeks, ladies and gentlemen, 2
• 41:27
  weeks. You can't bite nothing.
• 41:29
  Screw you. Kill one.
• 41:30
  I can't stand you, man. I can't stand you.
• 41:33
  You do piss me off, man. Sometimes I tell you something
• 41:36
  up. There it is.
• 41:37
  I I'll be drinking more than I'm going.
• 41:39
  To you had already released it, I have rule to say something.
• 41:42
  You released it already. You did your press release in
• 41:44
  the beginning of this show. I have that I can say something
• 41:46
  about it now. I didn't make that face.
• 41:48
  By the way, Qi did not make that face.
• 41:50
  That was not my face, by the way.
• 41:52
  I did not make that face. And I did not have to blow out
• 41:55
  any candles. I told Brittany I was not
• 41:58
  blowing out any candles and I was not having cake.
• 42:00
  I do not want that. No, I'm not.
• 42:02
  But you got to get scandals. Right.
• 42:04
  I don't. It's embarrassing anybody.
• 42:08
  Embarrassing. It's embarrassing.
• 42:09
  You go to a restaurant and the first thing they're going to do
• 42:11
  is come out and clap their hands.
• 42:13
  Happy, happy joy, joy, happy, happy joy, joy.
• 42:16
  I mean like, give me a break. I don't want to be happy.
• 42:18
  Joy, joy. That's some of them.
• 42:20
  That's what they say. I mean it.
• 42:21
  Must be Italian. Whatever they want to say.
• 42:24
  That's like Ren and Cynthia or something.
• 42:26
  That's fantastic reference. Well, thank you anyways.
• 42:29
  We call this Are you ready speedy inside baseball.
• 42:32
  Now let's go deep, deep. What I am excited.
• 42:37
  This is inside. Baseball.
• 42:40
  Let's go, ladies and gentlemen. We got a lot to get to do with
• 42:44
  some baseball conversation. Let's start with the Yankees,
• 42:48
  shall we? The Yankees are doing pretty
• 42:51
  barn well right now. They just split a series in
• 42:54
  Texas, had some injuries that we should probably talk about.
• 42:58
  Dominguez, they brought him up. It's hit by a pitch on the
• 43:02
  elbow. X-rays are inconclusive.
• 43:05
  Got a CAT scan today. We'll find out if he has to hit
• 43:08
  the ill tomorrow. They just brought him up to
• 43:11
  replace Stanton, who has a calf injury.
• 43:14
  All right, we're probably not going to see him for the next
• 43:16
  six weeks, but again, I don't think anyone's really
• 43:19
  complaining because we know Stanton just needs to be healthy
• 43:22
  when we get to the playoffs. We know he still could play.
• 43:25
  Garrett Cole successfully completed his third rehab start
• 43:28
  yesterday, throwing 6 innings. Looks like he's probably going
• 43:33
  to be back for his next start. Lewis heel was optioned to AAA.
• 43:37
  He's really the only Yankee pitcher in the rotation that
• 43:40
  couldn't get it going so far in the regular season first place.
• 43:45
  Why is anybody complaining? They were in first place?
• 43:48
  The Yankees are going to have injuries.
• 43:50
  It's 162 game season. Here's the great thing about the
• 43:53
  Yankees. When players go down, you bring
• 43:55
  players up and go see what they just brought up.
• 43:58
  Elma Rodriguez, which everybody couldn't wait to see a guy that
• 44:01
  could throw 103 mph coming out of the bullpen.
• 44:04
  It's an absolute great thing to see some of these young players
• 44:08
  get called up. Eventually we're going to see
• 44:10
  Jones. That's what we want to see.
• 44:12
  That's what I've been waiting for.
• 44:14
  Yankee fans, we're winning. There's no complaints.
• 44:17
  Everybody knew that John Carlos Stanton wasn't going to stay
• 44:20
  healthy all season. John Carlos Stan was the only
• 44:22
  one that didn't believe they were going to stay healthy all
• 44:24
  he was going to be healthy all season.
• 44:26
  So, ladies and gentlemen, I'm I'm dancing because the Yankees
• 44:30
  are in first place in all of the American League.
• 44:33
  All loving it yeah they have a leeway now with the rest of the
• 44:37
  outside of the race. The rest of the American League
• 44:39
  is struggling to get these kids up and get them comfortable in
• 44:41
  these types of roles. Rodriguez, like Errol saying use
• 44:43
  the velocity right away to get that fastball going more in that
• 44:48
  like lesser innings and then bullpen type role, which I
• 44:50
  imagine once Gary Cole and grow down get healthy, they're going
• 44:53
  to transition him into that. So they're going to get him
• 44:54
  working. I always say with the Yankees,
• 44:56
  and I think they did this well with Severino at times, they did
• 44:58
  it well with some of the other young pitchers in early in Aaron
• 45:00
  Boone's tenure. They used him, got him used to
• 45:02
  being in the bullpen at points where they could prep him mid
• 45:06
  transition or starter later. And then Dominguez unfortunately
• 45:08
  gets hurt. He gets his chance, finally gets
• 45:10
  hurt. But if he gets his chance, we'll
• 45:12
  see what he does in Lombard. I know Jabba was talking about
• 45:15
  it last year, a fast riser in that farm system.
• 45:18
  Hold on. Garrick Cole will be back very
• 45:20
  soon. Schmidt will be back very soon.
• 45:24
  Rodon will be back very soon. Who has all these riches?
• 45:28
  The New York Yankees. Nobody's complaining right now.
• 45:31
  The Yankees are 20 and 11:00. They have a 645 percentage right
• 45:35
  now, winning percentage. They're eight and five at home,
• 45:37
  12 and six away, and they're eight and two in the last 10
• 45:40
  games. Nobody's crying except maybe
• 45:43
  somebody at second base because he's not getting an 8 year deal.
• 45:47
  I can guarantee you that. So.
• 45:49
  Guess what though, you're underselling it.
• 45:52
  Lombard junior was just promoted to AAA after destroying AA.
• 45:56
  He's going to be ready next year it looks like.
• 45:59
  And now Volpig is the candidate to come back and take the roster
• 46:04
  spot of Dominguez if he has to go on the IL.
• 46:07
  So we may be getting the entire offense and the big elite
• 46:11
  pitching back within the next three weeks and see what this
• 46:14
  team can really do. I'm going to tell you this right
• 46:16
  now. Anthony Volpe was not 100%
• 46:18
  healthy last year. For all the Yankee fans that
• 46:20
  were putting him down and screaming that he stinks, he
• 46:22
  stinks. He couldn't throw to first base,
• 46:24
  it was because of his arm. Now he's getting healthy.
• 46:27
  I'm telling you right now, Anthony Volpe is a future 2nd
• 46:30
  baseman for the New York Yankees.
• 46:33
  Jazz Jism is going to be traded at the trade deadline because
• 46:35
  the Yankees aren't going to extend them.
• 46:37
  They're going to try to get as much talent back for him, and
• 46:39
  they're going to move Anthony Volpe in a second, Lombard over
• 46:43
  there to shortstop, and the Yankees are going to solidify
• 46:45
  their infield for many, many years.
• 46:47
  Home run. Let's go, baby, let's go.
• 46:52
  All right, how do you feel about Rodriguez now?
• 46:56
  Rodriguez, he's probably only up for a cup of coffee because
• 46:59
  those guys are coming back, right?
• 47:01
  He wasn't great when he was up. He throws hard, you know, speedy
• 47:05
  what, what's the scouting report on him?
• 47:07
  What is it that he's got to work on to, you know, be an impact
• 47:11
  player on this roster? Can he be a guy they bring up
• 47:14
  for the bit, the bullpen for the stretch run later this season?
• 47:17
  That's what I'm thinking because I think if he's going to trust
• 47:19
  his fastball at the beginning of his career, you would imagine
• 47:22
  that's more of a relief pitcher type guy.
• 47:23
  A guy that you worry about, maybe he's a starter that could
• 47:25
  overthrow and maybe get too trusting of that velocity in
• 47:30
  games where again, these Major League hitters are going to
• 47:32
  figure it out. Now the cliche across base
• 47:34
  baseball is it's usually harder to figure out a rookie pitcher
• 47:37
  than it is a rookie hitter when they first come up.
• 47:40
  And because these guys aren't used to it, it's still harder to
• 47:42
  get out if you're a hitter than even the best hitters only get a
• 47:46
  hit of one of three times. So the cliche is that.
• 47:48
  But I think with the Yankee situation, I agree with Fish.
• 47:50
  I think get the best approach is to get him in the bullpen, maybe
• 47:53
  a spot start on occasionally as an opener, but until he gets his
• 47:56
  other pitches expanded I don't see him being a full time
• 47:59
  starter yet. OK, let's go talk about the team
• 48:03
  on the other side of the city. They're not doing near, not
• 48:07
  doing nearly as well. The story really was, you know,
• 48:13
  about are they going to pull the the cord and fire Mendoza?
• 48:16
  That still might happen. It hasn't happened yet, but
• 48:19
  they've had some injuries. Louis Robert Junior has a
• 48:24
  herniated disc in his lower back.
• 48:27
  That's not particularly good for a baseball player.
• 48:29
  That's a swing, a baseball bat and run in center field.
• 48:32
  He we're not going to see him for a little while.
• 48:34
  That's not good. That was the big signing by
• 48:36
  Stearns to replace Brandon Nimmo, right?
• 48:39
  Kodai Senga. Everyone was so high on him.
• 48:42
  I was thinking about him as a sleeper in fantasy this year.
• 48:46
  He's been got off for. He's another one with a lower
• 48:50
  back inflammation. Not good.
• 48:52
  We know Lynn Doors got the calf the day that's.
• 48:55
  Lindor is a big one. It's a big one.
• 48:57
  Polanco still down with the wrist.
• 48:59
  He's the risk for. The risk for a power hitter, not
• 49:02
  a good thing to have injured. I mean, it's terrible.
• 49:04
  And Jared Young, the guy that they brought up to that everyone
• 49:07
  was real high on, He tore his meniscus.
• 49:10
  So they're screwed. I don't know if it's Mendoza's
• 49:13
  fault. He shouldn't have to take the
• 49:15
  fall if they're trying now. AAA guys.
• 49:17
  It is David Stern's fault. I've been saying this over and
• 49:21
  over and over again. He's the one who built this
• 49:23
  team. He was the one out there saying
• 49:24
  boba shet, Boba shet, we can move to the third.
• 49:27
  He wasn't even a great shortstop.
• 49:29
  We're going to sit here and we're going to complain about
• 49:30
  this. Boba Shet hasn't hit.
• 49:32
  Lindor can't stay healthy. Juan Soto can't stay healthy.
• 49:35
  Polacco can't stay healthy. Nobody can stay healthy.
• 49:37
  And you're going to blame a manager who's been throwing
• 49:41
  everything out there he can and everybody's been sitting here.
• 49:44
  Lindor. And so does the other one that
• 49:45
  sticks up for him. And those are two guys that
• 49:47
  don't like each other, the locker room and as far as the
• 49:50
  dugout they don't like, there's a lot of people on that dugout
• 49:53
  that don't like each other. You can see it.
• 49:55
  They traded Brandon Nimmo. Brandon Nimmo was one of the
• 49:57
  leaders. Alonzo was one of the leaders.
• 50:00
  McNeil was one of the leaders. You traded 3 guy.
• 50:02
  You let go of three guys that were leaders in that locker
• 50:06
  room. And what did you bring in?
• 50:07
  You brought in a bunch of me players.
• 50:09
  Me, me, me, me. And that's why the New York Mets
• 50:12
  stick. And the Mets are going nowhere
• 50:14
  this year. David Stern should be losing his
• 50:16
  job. Mendoza should be losing his
• 50:18
  job. Bring Mark DeRosa in.
• 50:21
  I've been saying it, bring it to New York.
• 50:24
  I like Mark DeRosa. If the Yankees don't want them,
• 50:26
  bring them with the Mets. I'll root for the Mets, too.
• 50:29
  Mark DeRosa, I'm out there for. So you know, it's rock bottom
• 50:33
  when there was a Instagram post on bet MGM posting that Brandon
• 50:37
  Nimmo has a 823. I think OPS Pete Alonso, even in
• 50:41
  a in a down year is still in the 750 range.
• 50:44
  And then Jeff McNeil is it has a 739 OPS, which he hasn't done I
• 50:49
  think ever as a bet in a full season.
• 50:51
  I think he did when he first came up with 2018 to half a
• 50:53
  season and then Marcus Simeon 585, Beau Bichette 575 and
• 50:58
  Polanco 530 something. That's where you know your moves
• 51:02
  have really gone wrong. Robert was a a low flyer risk.
• 51:05
  We knew he was. Say it's feeding.
• 51:07
  Say it. What do they do with them?
• 51:08
  What do they do with them? David Stearns?
• 51:11
  What do the Mets do with them? Well, they'll keep them as long.
• 51:13
  As say it. Say it as you're.
• 51:14
  Fired. Say it.
• 51:16
  No, I'm not. I'm not Josh.
• 51:17
  I'm not going to do wrestling promos.
• 51:19
  You're fired. I'll let Josh do that on his
• 51:21
  show. At that point, that's what I'd
• 51:22
  be doing. Yeah.
• 51:23
  Yeah. Because.
• 51:24
  I'd be out there going to a Met game and I'd be like, you're
• 51:27
  fired, you're fired, David Stearns, you're fired.
• 51:31
  Yeah, you and Josh could go for an old.
• 51:32
  School fire. And make those kind of analogies
• 51:34
  work. I know for sure a wrestling fan,
• 51:36
  you could definitely kind of make that kind of.
• 51:37
  Thing, I'm not a wrestling fan anymore, but I just old school
• 51:40
  got to throw it out there. I got to throw it out there.
• 51:42
  Vince McMahon, you're fired because that's where David
• 51:44
  Stearns needs to be. That team is an absolute
• 51:48
  debacle. Get him out.
• 51:49
  He's following a get him out since the last year straight
• 51:51
  deadline when that was an absolute debacle as well.
• 51:53
  Getting Cedric Bullen's, getting three relief pitchers that did
• 51:55
  not work out. They tried to trade for robbery
• 51:56
  last year and that would have been an absolute disaster as
• 51:58
  well because he didn't hit in the second-half of the season.
• 52:00
  Now he's hurt again. Polanco, who you pay $20 million
• 52:04
  for for one year, he's hurt now and he's a fluky player to begin
• 52:07
  with. So yeah, you could have a couple
• 52:09
  stars that are playing reasonably well.
• 52:11
  McLean, Clay Holmes actually pitched pretty well.
• 52:13
  But when you had have hitting it all for offense are supposed to
• 52:17
  be a top five offense on paper and.
• 52:19
  As Mike Francesa always said, they stink.
• 52:23
  Yeah, that might be accurate in this case because your dial you
• 52:27
  lost two out of three to fish. We talked about this.
• 52:29
  They were the 4th worst team at the end of since the end of June
• 52:32
  last year. The Nationals were one of those
• 52:34
  teams worst, but they lost two out of three to them.
• 52:37
  I, I have like a, a number thing with statistic.
• 52:40
  It's not exactly advanced statistic.
• 52:42
  It's just my like ballpark thing.
• 52:43
  Errol, you might appreciate this one.
• 52:45
  It's not advanced. It's just like a fish statistic.
• 52:47
  If your OPS is below 700, you're not a great player.
• 52:52
  If you're below 600, you're not a Major League player.
• 52:55
  Let me tell you, the OPS is on this Mets team right now.
• 52:58
  Now Juan Soto is at 1000. We know Juan Soto's a great
• 53:02
  player. He's one of the 10 best players,
• 53:03
  if not 5 best hitters in all of the game.
• 53:07
  Boba Shet is at a 589, not a Major League player.
• 53:14
  MJ Melendez only got a few at bats, hasn't played a lot, so
• 53:16
  he's got good numbers right now. He had a good day.
• 53:18
  He had a home run today. Mark Vientos, 560 something.
• 53:23
  Brett Beatty 566, Marcus Semion 566, bench 526.
• 53:35
  Alvarez is at 718 but again he's been out and Ronnie Mauricio
• 53:40
  just joined the team but he's at a like not even 400.
• 53:43
  There are like 3 Major League players on this roster right
• 53:47
  now. Not good, not good men fans, not
• 53:51
  good at all. Rock.
• 53:52
  Bottom Rock bottom Little Eminem song Rock bottom.
• 53:58
  Really, really kind. Of I don't want to sing.
• 54:00
  On this show aren't worthy for a rapper like.
• 54:02
  I don't want to scare anybody away, so I'm not singing on the
• 54:04
  show. So do they fire Mendoza?
• 54:06
  Are they just going to like, throw him to the wolves?
• 54:08
  They're going. To get out until the end of the
• 54:10
  month. They're going to wait until the
• 54:11
  All Star break and then they're going to fire him.
• 54:13
  They're going to give it time because you get a couple of, you
• 54:15
  get like a week and a half to get somebody in there to learn
• 54:18
  that roster. I think they wait.
• 54:19
  David Stearns will wait. He'll bring somebody in or bring
• 54:22
  a bench coach. Gibbons, right, probably him in.
• 54:26
  If he fails, David Stearns will go in the offseason and so will
• 54:29
  this whole coaching staff, which is horrible.
• 54:32
  We're just all hired this year, but besides Mendoza.
• 54:35
  Yes. All right, let's move on.
• 54:38
  All right, this ones real wild one.
• 54:40
  The Phillies had a real slow start to the season.
• 54:42
  No defense, no pitching to be found on that roster to start
• 54:45
  the year with Wheeler hurt, Lizardo struggling out the gate.
• 54:49
  He's been a little bit better recently, but they fired Rob
• 54:52
  Thompson after all the accolades and how everyone kind of
• 54:56
  recognized him, I thought is one of the five best managers in the
• 54:59
  game. I think everyone kind of felt
• 55:00
  that way. Well, I guess you know, one
• 55:04
  man's trash is going to be another man's treasure with
• 55:06
  Thompson. But Don Mattingly gets to become
• 55:09
  the interim manager right now. Although the Phillies, before
• 55:12
  they gave it to Mattingly, offered the job to Alex, Korra,
• 55:16
  who was fired the day before or two days before by the Red Sox,
• 55:20
  said no. Alex Korra doesn't want this
• 55:22
  team. He wants to go to a young team.
• 55:23
  If the Padres open up for a new coach next year, new manager
• 55:27
  next year, I could see him going there.
• 55:28
  He'll go to a team that makes sense for him.
• 55:30
  Maybe Houston. If if Houston wants to bring him
• 55:33
  in as an assistant coach and assistant manager and maybe
• 55:36
  become the manager in the future, that could happen.
• 55:38
  He wants to go to an organization that makes sense
• 55:40
  for him. I love Don Madam, but Rob
• 55:44
  Thompson, this is a guy that took this team all the way over
• 55:47
  the last two years. This team was one of the best
• 55:49
  teams in baseball with all the injuries and all the different
• 55:52
  players that he had to bring up and, and and develop.
• 55:55
  This guy has been one of the best managers ever since he took
• 55:58
  over for Joe Girardi. He's been one of the best
• 56:00
  managers in baseball, one of the most successful managers.
• 56:03
  No, he hasn't won in World Series.
• 56:05
  Aaron Boo never won a World Series and has one of the best
• 56:07
  records right now as a manager in all the baseball.
• 56:09
  I'm not going to sit there and blame Rob Thompson on the lack
• 56:12
  of talent that they have. Schwarber's old, they extended
• 56:16
  him. Bryce Harper's old, they
• 56:18
  extended him To me, this is an old team and, and, and Zach
• 56:22
  Wheeler, as good as he is, he hasn't looked the same this
• 56:25
  year. Even coming back, he's been
• 56:27
  fighting injury. This is an old team.
• 56:29
  They had to get more youth and now they bring in Donnie
• 56:31
  Baseball. I love Don Manningly, he's my
• 56:33
  favorite player. Don Manley hasn't won anything
• 56:36
  as a manager, as assistant manager, as a player.
• 56:40
  Donnie, I hope you do well over there.
• 56:42
  I hope you succeed. I hope you win over there.
• 56:44
  The chances of that happen are very slim.
• 56:47
  Just say. I think the Phillies are
• 56:48
  probably looking for that same kind of spark though when
• 56:50
  Thompson was higher because Thompson was hired as an interim
• 56:52
  at the time in 2022 when things just got very stale with
• 56:55
  Girardi. Girardi went there in 2019 to
• 56:58
  restabilize a team that had like 9 straight losing seasons after
• 57:01
  they had that core that went to the World Series and made it to
• 57:04
  the NLCSA lot. And he stabilized it to get to a
• 57:07
  World Series as a six seed in the first year of a new
• 57:10
  expansion of it. And again, it just wears down in
• 57:12
  a lot of these players. A lot of these players have big
• 57:14
  egos and eventually caught up to them.
• 57:16
  So I think they're trusting that same kind of spark with now a
• 57:19
  different type of mindset. Thompson was a younger manager
• 57:21
  at the time. Manually.
• 57:22
  He's more of an old school guy. Maybe they're trusting maybe an
• 57:24
  older team, a veteran team that is maybe in this last ditch.
• 57:27
  I thought the last ditch effort was going to come for them last
• 57:29
  year because they were going to be very cashed up.
• 57:31
  Like you were saying, Errol, they couldn't really do much
• 57:32
  this offseason besides sign their own players back really.
• 57:36
  And they really were not thinking about doing that
• 57:38
  either. Yeah.
• 57:38
  And they barely were able to do it with Swarber because Swarber
• 57:41
  had a better offer from Cincinnati.
• 57:42
  He elected to take less to go to Philadelphia.
• 57:44
  And maybe he maybe he regrets that.
• 57:46
  Because of Coach Thompson, because of Coach Thompson.
• 57:49
  He wanted to stay there with Coach Thompson and now he's
• 57:52
  getting fired 30 and 30 something games into the season.
• 57:56
  It doesn't make any sense. Now, again, Schwarber was not on
• 57:58
  the team in 2022 when they did that.
• 58:00
  They were looking for that spark somewhere else.
• 58:02
  Maybe they get that with the rest of the players.
• 58:04
  Maybe Schwarber will buy in later in the season because he
• 58:06
  is a good playoff player. Obviously he's still valuable
• 58:07
  for that kind of thing and the on base percentage.
• 58:09
  So I think they're trying to recreate the 20/20/22 team by
• 58:13
  making this kind of move and hoping they get a quick switch.
• 58:15
  I don't think they're as dead as the Mets are, but I still don't
• 58:17
  know if it'll happen. All right, let's get into some
• 58:21
  of the injuries in the league before we get out of this.
• 58:24
  Oh, I'm sorry. I have one more.
• 58:25
  That's a real big one. Errol, you're going to like this
• 58:27
  story. Shohei Ohtani has gotten some
• 58:30
  flak because of playoffs. Maybe he isn't the superstar
• 58:34
  that we thought of him as during the regular season.
• 58:37
  This year, Dave Roberts and the Dodgers have taken a new
• 58:40
  approach. They're not having him hit on
• 58:42
  days that he pitches. It's the first time that they're
• 58:45
  doing that. They had not done that before.
• 58:47
  He'd always hit when he pitched. They're trying to keep him fresh
• 58:50
  for October. Seems like a pretty logical
• 58:53
  thing. They're going to be doing it on
• 58:54
  a start by start basis, but so far they have not hit him and
• 58:58
  he's been one of the best pitchers in baseball to start
• 59:01
  the season on top of being his usual pretty awesome self on
• 59:05
  offense. Well, interesting.
• 59:06
  We know that Shay Otani is one of the top three top two players
• 59:10
  in the league. You can argue he's having a
• 59:12
  great season as a pitcher. He's having probably his best
• 59:14
  season as a pitcher and maybe Dave Roberts has it right.
• 59:18
  But I know Shay Otani wants to be in that line up.
• 59:20
  I know he wants to hit every single time he pitches.
• 59:23
  But it's for the team. They want to win another World
• 59:25
  Series because we all know they're going on strike next
• 59:28
  year. Major League Baseball is going
• 59:30
  on a strike and they're probably not going to have much of A
• 59:32
  season next year. So they want to win their third
• 59:35
  championship in a row, which a lot of teams are going to have
• 59:38
  their own thoughts to that, but we'll see what happens.
• 59:41
  But so Tony is one of the best players in baseball.
• 59:43
  He's a Unicorn, as we've heard Alex Rodriguez say it, as we
• 59:46
  heard David Ortiz say it and Derek Jeter say it.
• 59:49
  He's a special player. He might this year win a Cy
• 59:52
  Young. If he wins a Cy Young, he's
• 59:55
  probably not going to win the MVP because I don't think he can
• 59:57
  do those two things at a high clip.
• 1:00:01
  What he's doing right now, yeah. But you're trying to protect
• 1:00:03
  your asset because you have all the other pitchers that are hurt
• 1:00:06
  right now. You have a guy in Sasaki that's
• 1:00:07
  really struggle. Obviously Fish, you mentioned
• 1:00:09
  Blake Snell's injury. So you want to be able to do it
• 1:00:11
  where you have enough depth with the offense to make it work.
• 1:00:14
  They've they're hitting like crazy.
• 1:00:15
  Like Errol saying last week, they're young hitters are
• 1:00:17
  hitting like crazy too. And when you have that
• 1:00:19
  combination, you want him to be able to pitch at the best level
• 1:00:21
  he's ever pitched in his career. The hitting will come,
• 1:00:23
  obviously, oh, Tony had that rough first couple weeks to
• 1:00:26
  start the season. But this is a team like the
• 1:00:28
  Yankees that have the luxury to be able to do this kind of
• 1:00:30
  experiment now where you can make it easier for a ton to
• 1:00:33
  pitch at this highest level. This is the best he's ever
• 1:00:35
  pitched and you want him to be able to get to that next level
• 1:00:38
  to be able to three peat. I think they they probably 3
• 1:00:40
  peat anyway if they don't have enough injuries as it is, but
• 1:00:42
  they will come injuries in the past.
• 1:00:44
  Who knows to make it work. I I like this move a lot.
• 1:00:45
  We'll see how long it lasts, but I think it's good.
• 1:00:49
  Yeah, they got glass now as like the number two over there right
• 1:00:52
  now because he's been absolutely killing it.
• 1:00:54
  He's another guy, though. Always worry about him with the
• 1:00:56
  injuries. His body is glass.
• 1:00:58
  That's that's why I call it glass now.
• 1:01:00
  He he his body is his bones are like glass, so had to.
• 1:01:04
  Say, well, let's talk about other guys who are on the Mr.
• 1:01:07
  Glass injury report here. I was reveling in it when we
• 1:01:12
  talked about the Red Sox firing Kora on Monday.
• 1:01:15
  Well, Garrett Crochet since then has been placed on the 15 day IL
• 1:01:20
  with left shoulder inflammation. Not what the left-handed pitcher
• 1:01:26
  wants to hear. If there's a year to shut him
• 1:01:28
  down to make sure he's not hurt, it would be now.
• 1:01:31
  I encourage all Red Sox management to just give up on
• 1:01:35
  the season now and let us beat you up all here.
• 1:01:39
  Trade them. They're not going to do that.
• 1:01:42
  It's typical Red Sox fashion. When they quit, they quit big
• 1:01:46
  and the season is not over. There's a lot of baseball to be
• 1:01:48
  played, there's a lot of baseball to be left, and now all
• 1:01:51
  of a sudden they're giving up. This sounds like the New York
• 1:01:54
  Rangers. Chris Drury wrote a story.
• 1:01:57
  What was it? What was the thing that he said?
• 1:01:59
  The sequel of the letter. The sequel of a letter.
• 1:02:02
  We're not rebuilding. We're retooling.
• 1:02:03
  We're retooling. Tool retooling.
• 1:02:06
  And he writes it 30 games into the season when there's like 650
• 1:02:10
  games left of the season and given up on the season.
• 1:02:13
  It made no sense. But that's Chris Drury and he
• 1:02:16
  still has a job. And now the Red Sox are doing
• 1:02:18
  the same. They gave up on Alex Corry.
• 1:02:19
  They gave up on their coaching staff because they started off
• 1:02:22
  very, very slow it and then they went 17 to 1 and then they still
• 1:02:26
  fire him. Why?
• 1:02:27
  Because he lost against the Yankees.
• 1:02:29
  It's very Celtic like, if you know what I mean.
• 1:02:32
  The Knicks beat the Celtics in the beginning of the season and
• 1:02:35
  Jaylen Brown had to call a team meeting because the Knicks beat
• 1:02:38
  him. Come on, are you kidding me?
• 1:02:41
  Please. Yeah, there's going to be a lot
• 1:02:42
  that's going to have to transform this culture change.
• 1:02:44
  I know a lot of these other pitchers, in the absence of
• 1:02:46
  Crochet, you're going to have to step up in the quantity when you
• 1:02:49
  look at somebody else. Crochet, who does a lot of
• 1:02:51
  innings, was a Cy Young finalist last year with a heavy strikeout
• 1:02:55
  guy, and his advance stats were very good.
• 1:02:57
  With the White Sox, has just never got overshadowed because
• 1:02:59
  the White Sox were such a crappy team and a crappy run
• 1:03:01
  organization. Now he goes to the Red Sox.
• 1:03:03
  You think you're going to a more stable organization.
• 1:03:05
  And then once he gets there, Craig Breslow makes a big drama
• 1:03:07
  about Rafael Devers for five months.
• 1:03:09
  Then he gets traded and the team rallies around it for a while,
• 1:03:12
  good enough to make the playoffs.
• 1:03:13
  So you have these young players that have the adversity and now
• 1:03:15
  who? The hell is Craig Breslow?
• 1:03:17
  I mean a. Guy that is getting way too much
• 1:03:19
  in the way, just like Chris Drury likes to do, just like the
• 1:03:22
  Rangers organization Asia likes to do with their players and
• 1:03:25
  wants to try to defend them recklessly for whatever reason.
• 1:03:27
  Except if you're Raphael Devers, then you can just get thrown to
• 1:03:29
  the wolves like he has. But you have a case just.
• 1:03:33
  Had to do that. You have a case where now you're
• 1:03:35
  doing this with crochet and you really you just paid him a good
• 1:03:38
  contract, seven years, 175 for a guy that's a top 10, borderline
• 1:03:41
  top five pitcher of baseball when he is healthy.
• 1:03:43
  And now you're going to try to tamper with this and not do it
• 1:03:46
  right. And you're right.
• 1:03:47
  This is a team that doesn't look like it's quitting.
• 1:03:49
  They've won a lot since they've fire, Cora.
• 1:03:52
  We'll see if it lasts. But yeah, it's not an ideal
• 1:03:54
  situation where you want to get these young players into that
• 1:03:57
  system. And Fish, you mentioned it last
• 1:03:58
  year too, or I think either on Inside Baseball or on Goody's
• 1:04:01
  segment, something like that with the the Red Sox pitching,
• 1:04:05
  Red Sox prospect development thing that's supposed to be this
• 1:04:08
  new age thing. Well, it's not going to do well
• 1:04:10
  if they keep treating their players like this.
• 1:04:13
  Yeah, I just love that they have crap management now.
• 1:04:16
  It's just a beautiful thing that they're going to suck.
• 1:04:18
  Let's talk about some of the other.
• 1:04:21
  You know, did you see Junior Caminero fouled the ball off the
• 1:04:24
  plate and it bounced up and whacked him in the face and they
• 1:04:27
  thought he broke his jaw? Didn't There was no fracture in
• 1:04:31
  the jaw back in the lineup? I actually saw a kid in a Little
• 1:04:36
  League game I was playing foul a ball and break his nose just on
• 1:04:39
  a foul tip and it smashed him in those.
• 1:04:41
  You ever see anything like a freak injury like that?
• 1:04:44
  Yeah, I've seen a kid foul a ball and hit an umpire in the
• 1:04:48
  you know what? Not wearing a cup, You know
• 1:04:50
  where he was, you know where he went.
• 1:04:53
  Paramedics, hospital, here we come.
• 1:04:56
  No balls for him anymore, probably.
• 1:04:59
  I remember it. I actually was humping in that
• 1:05:02
  game when I found out the umpire wasn't wearing a cup over there
• 1:05:05
  and we had to call paramedics. I mean, he was in a lot of pain.
• 1:05:09
  That was pretty hard. Foul ball right in his private
• 1:05:12
  area, Speedy in his keister right over there.
• 1:05:15
  Yeah, for somebody as big as common Arrow, so you definitely
• 1:05:17
  don't want. That I don't know how big he was
• 1:05:19
  over there. We'd have to ask.
• 1:05:20
  Yeah, I don't know about your your Little League story.
• 1:05:22
  It wasn't a Little League, it was high school.
• 1:05:24
  Or high school. OK, but I, I know you've
• 1:05:26
  mentioned that story in the past.
• 1:05:27
  I I can't. Joe, I mentioned other stories,
• 1:05:30
  not that story. Yeah, you did mention this one
• 1:05:32
  too to some of our guests, but as far as Cominero, he's a
• 1:05:36
  powerful guy. So you wonder if something like
• 1:05:38
  that, how much it'll affect him. You definitely don't want this
• 1:05:40
  for a race team that's that's hot right now.
• 1:05:42
  Somebody's got to step. The riches of the Blue Jays and
• 1:05:45
  the Red Sox struggling. It's been the race so far and
• 1:05:47
  you want for them that deal with all these pitching injuries, you
• 1:05:49
  want them to be able to keep it up.
• 1:05:50
  This is a guy that had a lot of power last year, definitely
• 1:05:53
  showed it from the base percentage perspective too in
• 1:05:55
  the second-half the season kept them competitive for a while.
• 1:05:57
  So hopefully it's not too bad. But you always wonder with
• 1:06:00
  somebody that big. I'm nuts.
• 1:06:03
  I probably would have kept them out another day personally.
• 1:06:05
  You know, I it just with that, with something you get shook in
• 1:06:08
  the head like that, you never know it's going to react.
• 1:06:09
  Remember what happened to Rizzo? You know, he was playing pretty
• 1:06:12
  well for the Yankees and then he had this like mystery
• 1:06:14
  concussion. They didn't diagnose it.
• 1:06:17
  He played with it and he would. He never was good again.
• 1:06:19
  He just couldn't really play again.
• 1:06:21
  I just worry about weird things with the head.
• 1:06:24
  Let's just some of the other injuries.
• 1:06:25
  Javi Baez, Casey Mize and the Tigers both got hurt on the same
• 1:06:29
  day, both on the IL ankle for Baez, abductor strain for Mize.
• 1:06:34
  One of the better players, Brandon Woodruff left his start
• 1:06:38
  today not looking good. His velocity was down like like
• 1:06:42
  7 miles an hour. That usually means you have a
• 1:06:45
  really bad injury in your arm. They're probably it's probably a
• 1:06:49
  Tommy John thing. He just had his shoulder fixed,
• 1:06:52
  you say? Kikuchi left with shoulder
• 1:06:53
  tightness today. Trevor Rogers.
• 1:06:56
  Acuchi, Acuchi. Speedy say that.
• 1:06:58
  Acuchi, Acuchi, Acuchi like a Cuchi.
• 1:07:02
  Cuchi. Kikuchi, Kikuchi, Kikuchi.
• 1:07:03
  Say it. Kikuchi.
• 1:07:05
  OK, there we go. I don't know about that one.
• 1:07:10
  There's 3 Rogers brothers, the one on the Orioles that used to
• 1:07:13
  be on the Marlins. He has a serious illness.
• 1:07:16
  They're not saying what it is. Is he related to Aaron Rodgers?
• 1:07:20
  No, no, no D. I'm just kidding.
• 1:07:22
  I'm just kidding. He probably has a wife that
• 1:07:24
  actually exists. You're sure it's not his hands,
• 1:07:27
  Brittany? No, Trevor Rodgers, I'm saying
• 1:07:30
  there's a vote. I got.
• 1:07:31
  That as a vote there. Hi, Brittany.
• 1:07:33
  How are you? I'm going.
• 1:07:34
  Let me. I'm going to put my hands in my
• 1:07:36
  pants tonight. OK, let's do it.
• 1:07:38
  Let's go. Errol, I'm trying to say a man
• 1:07:41
  is. Sick.
• 1:07:42
  I'm just talking to my hands. We have Nathan's watching.
• 1:07:47
  Best wishes to him. Hopefully he's not that sick.
• 1:07:50
  He'll be coming back. Jonathan India was shut down for
• 1:07:52
  the season. Labrum repair and Jeffrey
• 1:07:55
  Springs, who's now on the Sacramento A's.
• 1:07:59
  I guess he's one of their. He's probably one of their best
• 1:08:02
  pitchers. He left with an injury today as
• 1:08:05
  well. That's the injury report inside
• 1:08:09
  baseball. How wonderful.
• 1:08:11
  There's a lot of injuries in professional sports.
• 1:08:13
  This is what happens. You play at a high level and
• 1:08:15
  things happen. We're going to cry about it.
• 1:08:18
  I mean, Q cries about a lot of things.
• 1:08:19
  I mean, you know what? He should wear a hat, says
• 1:08:23
  instead of no idols, it should be no idiots, No.
• 1:08:27
  Idols. No, idiots.
• 1:08:29
  There's a lot of idiots, I can tell you.
• 1:08:31
  But anyways, thank you to all the fans on all the platforms,
• 1:08:35
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• 1:08:39
  There it is. That's what it looks like.
• 1:08:41
  That's what it feels like right now.
• 1:08:42
  What am I supposed to be a Beaver there, I mean?
• 1:08:45
  Chip Chipmunk. I told fish to make you make you
• 1:08:50
  like the Christmas chipmunks. So you all I want for Christmas
• 1:08:52
  my 2 front teeth. You guys idiots, I do want my 2
• 1:08:55
  front teeth fixed right now, but my teeth do not look like that
• 1:08:59
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• 1:09:01
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• 1:09:04
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• 1:09:22
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• 1:09:25
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• 1:09:29
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• 1:09:32
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• 1:09:48
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• 1:10:10
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