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Joba and the Mouth 3-16-26 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  It it it's the worldwide sports radio network.
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  Team USA defeated the Dominican Republic 2:00 to 1:00 on Sunday
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  night, putting them into Tuesday's finale.
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  Behind homers from Gunner Henderson and Roman Anthony and
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  some clutch pitching from starter Paul Skeens and timely
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  defense from captain Aaron Judge, the Dominican Republic's
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  potent offense was virtually shut down in the high-powered
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  semi final. With only one game remaining in
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  tonight's semi final of Ronald Cunha Junior's Venez Well A-Team
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  versus Vinnie P and then Espresso sponsored Team Italy,
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  who beat the US in Pool play. The question is, can the US win
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  their first Spring Classic since 2017 or will they go home just
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  the bridesmaid for the second straight time?
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  And before we preview the AL and NL W divisions for the 2026 MLB
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  season. And after we crack a six pack
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  with Speedy and recap all the NCAA Conference Championships
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  last weekend, we dive head on into March Madness and break
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  down the brackets on another jam packed, fully loaded, edge of
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  your seat live Monday night edition of Jabba and the Mad.
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  Difficult. You're going to have a ton of
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  money to spend. Why not?
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  Pulling in one of the top. Three offensive players in the
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  league we're going to be. Looking at Aaron Judge and
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  saying that he. Can't win the big game, Michael
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  Jordan. Said.
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  I. Played 82 games.
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  You don't see LeBron doing that. A.
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  Game where you got to go before? I told you, Giant fans and
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  Saquon Barker. This.
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  Quarterback in the NFL? Really.
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  www.worldwidesportsradio.com. Ladies and gentlemen, it is
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  If you have an umbrella, pull it out.
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  Well, somebody's got to pull it out anyways.
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  A lot to get into tonight, but. Speedy, we, we've.
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  Been back and forth all weekend long.
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  We've been back and forth and text message.
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  I did something on Saturday that I've never done.
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  Do you remember what I did? You did something on Saturday.
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  You never done that. You wrote two stories in one
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  day. And I actually 3.
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  Stories, actually. Three.
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  You're right. Yeah, the other one was past
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  midnight. That's right.
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  So for anybody and everybody that reads my stories, I put a
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  lot of work into it. So I could not sleep Saturday
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  night. I've been dealing with, you
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  know, my own issues when it comes to health.
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  So I'm having a problem sleeping.
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  So I watched 42 for like the 100th time in my life and it's
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  one of the best sports movies of all time.
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  I know a lot of people don't really or have not been into
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  baseball movies. As a matter of fact, there are
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  more people into those football movies like Necessary Roughness.
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  Remember that movie or the program?
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  Love that movie as well. Baseball movies besides Field of
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  Dreams or Little Big League League, which was a good movie
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  when I was in, you know, I was young in the 90s, but the movies
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  over the years have not been good in baseball.
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  But when you go back and you look at the Lou Gehrig story,
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  that's also a very good movie from the 50s.
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  And if you have not checked it out, it's a great movie.
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  I forget what. They call it pride of the
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  Yankees. Pride of the.
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  Yankees. Yeah, I think I saw that a while
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  ago. So yeah.
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  That was a really good baseball movie, but it's not a lot out
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  there. And it was 61, as they called
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  it. But yeah, the the Roger Maris
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  movie love, you know, obviously everybody that loves Roger
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  Clement, I mean, Roger Clemens, Roger Maris, Roger Clemens.
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  I don't think a lot of people. Using the Yankees.
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  Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Everybody knows that race.
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  One of the greatest home run races the Yankees ever had in
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  one season. Mickey Mantle, who's one of the
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  most beloved Yankees of all time.
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  But I got a chance to watch 42. It was late at night, popped on
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  television. Got to watch it in the beginning
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  of the movie. I'm a big Harrison Ford fan, so
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  I I got a chance to really watch in depth because when you watch
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  movies over and over and over again, you just know everything.
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  So you don't pay attention to certain things in the movie.
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  You're doing other things. I've seen this movie a million
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  times. So I'm going to look at my
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  phone, I'm going to be on the computer and I really in depth
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  watch this movie for the first time in it since it's been out.
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  And it's one of the best acting movies for anybody to act a
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  professional athlete. It was sensational, may rest in
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  peace by the way, but it was a sensational movie and I, I, I
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  wanted to write about it. I never got a chance to write
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  about Jackie Robertson. And it is a great story.
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  It has a lot of back end story behind it.
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  I don't think people understand what Jackie Robertson went
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  through in his career before people started to respect him as
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  a professional baseball player, as a professional athlete.
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  He was the first African Negro player in baseball history.
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  And I think people don't give this story a lot more when it
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  comes to back end stories of baseball and the pride of
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  baseball and where baseball really took off in those times.
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  So I, I love the movie and I, I wanted to put out a story.
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  So that was my first story. Sweetie, you remember my second
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  story. Revis Island I believe.
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  That's right. And what was that about?
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  Why Darrelle Revis is a fearsome menace for any wider Seger that
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  ever faced him. Well, it was a quarterback
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  story. Oh yeah, that's true too.
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  Yes. So I wanted to explain why I
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  believe the cornerback position is one of the most important
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  positions in professional football.
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  And I mentioned I believe the top 6, the top five corners in
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  the NFL right now. Patrick Surtain.
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  I know everybody doesn't believe this anymore, but there was a
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  guy on the New York Jets that was traded last season to
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  Indianapolis, Sauce Gardner, who I still think is an elite
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  cornerback. I still think he's a top five
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  corner in the league. Stingley, all those guys, all
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  the guys that really start stuck, stuck out over the last
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  three years of the NFL. So I compared them from the past
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  and why the cornerback position is so very important to
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  championship level teams and, and why they stand out from all
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  the rest. If you really look at the
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  positions, the most important positions which we have attacked
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  on this show plenty of times, the offensive line, the
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  offensive tackle, the quarterback position, the
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  defensive line, the DE defensive end, and then obviously the
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  cornerback. So you don't understand it until
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  you really put two and two together.
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  And I, I worked really, really hard on that article and my last
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  article that day was Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano.
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  And I think it was to me something that a lot of people
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  wanted me to put out there for the fans, the UFC fans and, and
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  to tack attack Dana White and for something that I've never
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  done on the show. And that's compliment Jake Paul.
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  I really for anybody that didn't check out that story, you're a
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  Jake Paul fan and you want to check out something of that
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  magnitude of, of really comparing and comparing what
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  Jake Paul has done for mixed martial arts and and boxing.
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  I and I don't like what he's done for boxing.
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  He's made it a mockery. I know everybody keeps saying
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  he's helped boxing, but how much has he helped boxing?
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  The way boxing has been portrayed as a, a selling sport
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  in a, in a sport you can buy, but the UFC, these fighters, Jon
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  Jones, Ronda Rousey, a lot of these guys are not making enough
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  money. Conor McGregor, who made
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  probably the most money as a professional fighter for the UFC
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  and then finally got his payday when he fought Floyd Mayweather.
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  And then he walked away from mixed martial arts after losing
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  against Justin Poirier not once but twice, and walked away from
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  mixed martial arts, bought a whiskey company, sold it for
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  $500 million. And he's almost a billionaire.
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  OK. I mean, it's a magical story
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  because probably six or seven years before that he was on
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  welfare and he was a plumber, an assistant plumber and working
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  out in Ireland and nobody even knew who Conor McGregor was.
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  So I, I think when, when you look at these stories, I like to
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  put these stories in perspective.
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  And I like people to really absorb my content and, and, and
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  like what I put out there, either laugh at it.
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  And if anybody that reads my, my content knows that it's coming
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  for me because I'm crazy and I have a deluded way of attacking
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  things. So I hope that when people read
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  my stories, they know that there's a lot of work put into
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  it, a lot of love and and comparison to the sports that I
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  talked about. And I hope everybody enjoys it.
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  So three stories in one day. It's something that I've never
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  done before. I want to give a shout out to
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  all the boys here. We, we are ranked 98th going
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  into today and Apple and Spotify are videos are up right now.
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  We're killing it right now. And it it's, it's a great, great
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  thing to see where, where we have driving the, the
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  opportunities that we're going to have in the future for our
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  show. And that has a lot to do with
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  the people that are down alone in our show.
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  We're going to get our YouTube bopping and I want to make an
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  announcement right now before we get into our show.
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  March 23rd will be the beginning of a new show, same show, but
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  it's going to be a new name. It's going to be called the New
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  York's Sports Loudmouth and it's going to be featured with
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  Quinton Couples. So for anybody that hasn't heard
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  or hasn't checked it out on social medias, which I've been
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  posting it slowly on my DMS. Well, now you guys know Quinton
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  Couples will be joining us full time every Mondays and Thursdays
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  and, and working on the content with us and driving this content
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  to the next level. So it has nothing.
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  I know everybody's going to ask me what happened to Jabba.
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  Nothing happened to Jabba. Jabba is busy right now.
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  His son's playing college ball. I'm working on something with
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  Jabba that could be something being built in the future.
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  But there's a lot going on. So I just want to make that
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  announcement. I want people to know that
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  there's a lot of opportunity here for where we're going.
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  And I want, I want to thank all the fans that really have tuned
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  in and really appreciated all the work that we put into this.
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  So thank you everybody and stay tuned.
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  A lot of good and big things happening in the very near
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  future, including a high school product that we're bringing out
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  here on Long Island, New York that people are going to love as
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  well. At 8:30 we will be talking to
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  former 34 year MLB umpire Phil Puzzy will be joining us for the
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  first time on Jabba in the Mouth.
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  We're going to talk about some of the new rules and where he
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  sees himself in his future is, is he planning to stay with
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  baseball, maybe move away from MLB and maybe go to college ball
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  or just walk away from baseball. So I'm very intrigued, very
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  happy to have another umpire on the show.
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  We've had a former umpire on the show, Speedy Rule Dale Scott.
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  Dale Scott, who wrote a book and very creative book and and and
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  maybe we should get Dale Scott and Koozie on the show now it.
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  Would be interesting. That would be interesting and
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  Phil is probably pretty good friends with Angel so.
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  Or maybe not I. I'd love to hear his his his
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  thoughts to Angel. I think Phil, I think Dale Scott
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  started, I believe in 87 and then 'cause he started in 91 I
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  believe. So they definitely crossed paths
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  at some point. No question and and listen, we
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  love getting new guests. I want to give a shout out to
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  Nathan because Nathan works really, really hard to get our
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  guests and he's been a big backbone of some of the great
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  guests that we've had on the show in the past and soon to be
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  in the future. So thank you to Nathan, our PR
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  manager. Hard working Nathan the Nath
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  man, the leash man as we call him.
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  And hopefully he's not putting any of them on a leash because
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  we, we don't want that. Anyways.
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  Team USA beat the Dominican Republic 2 to one to advance the
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  World Baseball Classic championship.
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  The Dominican Republic scored first on a home run by Reyes DH
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  I'm sorry Junior Caminero in the second inning.
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  The United States scored both their runs in the fourth inning
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  with Gunner Hernandez, I'm sorry Henderson hitting the game tying
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  home run and Roman Anthony hitting the go ahead home run,
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  which Roman Anthony has played pretty good baseball.
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  The youngest player on Team USA, Aaron Judge, also threw out
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  Fernando Tatis junior at third base when he tried to advance
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  following a hit by Katel Kateel, right Katel Marte.
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  Paul Skeens pitch four and a third innings, allowing just one
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  run and five different relievers combined for four and a third
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  scoreless innings. Mason Miller got the save for
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  the United States on a controversial call on a three
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  and two pitch that appeared to be low, but umpire called it.
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  The umpire called it a strike for strike three. the United
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  States will now face the winner of tonight's semifinals between
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  Italy, Italy and Venezuela. I'm going to tell you guys
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  something now. Everybody wants to see Team USA
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  versus Japan. That's what everybody was
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  looking forward to, Otani versus Judge, and we're not going to
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  see it. We're not.
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  It's not going to happen. And we'll get into that a little
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  bit later in the show. I'm sure a lot of people have
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  their thoughts to what happens to Japan.
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  It happens when you're facing off talented teams and baseball,
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  professional baseball players. And maybe Venezuela is not as
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  good as Japan. Well, obviously they're not with
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  the star power that Japan has brought to the major leagues.
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  And the same thing goes to Italy.
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  Italy was never expected to be Team USA in the final game to
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  advance into the semis and the quarterfinals.
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  Nobody thought Italy was going to beat Team USA and they went
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  up 8 to nothing. And then USA had to play catch
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  up. And finally at the end of the
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  game, they couldn't put up the eight runs to tie the game and
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  United States lost in nine innings.
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  And a lot of people were blaming Mark De Rosa on not knowing why
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  or explaining why he didn't play three of his best players
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  because he thought they're automatically going to make it
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  to the quarters. Now, you look at a coach and,
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  and a manager or whatever, you want to look at executives, you
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  want to look at your pointing fingers, that's fine.
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  And I, I've, I've been out there to speak my piece about Mark
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  DeRosa. I think Mark DeRosa is a hell of
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  a coach, hell of a manager. I think he's as good as anybody
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  right now in the majors. You're going to make mistakes.
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  People make mistakes. You wouldn't be human if you
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  weren't. And he made a mistake.
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  He didn't hide behind it. He didn't throw anybody under
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  the bus. And you like that when you hear
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  that from a manager that you respect and a guy that has been
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  chosen by Team USA Baseball to lead this team to the promised
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  land. And that's to win, to win the
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  whole thing. And then going into Sunday
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  night, United States, being in Canada on Friday, knocking off a
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  Canadian team that fought their way just like Mexico did, it
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  wasn't easy. It hasn't been easy for Team
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  USA. As good as these, as good as the
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  line up is for Team USA, as good as the pitching, when you look
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  at the the star power, Paul Skeens.
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  Paul Skeens is one of the best pitchers, if not the best
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  pitcher in baseball. Before this tournament start,
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  they had it. They had Tarek Skubal.
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  This is a good roster, but baseball is not won by good
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  rosters. How many great teams in the past
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  didn't win a World Series? How many great teams have not
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  won Stanley Cups? How many great teams have not
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  won the Lombardi Trophy? You go into these championships
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  and you're competing in these games, these round Robin games,
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  you don't know how it's going to work.
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  That's why the Olympics is so incredibly fun to watch, why it
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  was so incredibly fun to watch Team USA knock off of Canada,
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  not only in the men's but in the women's.
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  When you watch this competition, you look forward to seeing some
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  of the great players. Seeing Juan Soto, Vladimir
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  Guerrero, Junior Tatis, all these guys.
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  It's been fun to watch and this is great for baseball.
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  This shouldn't be an All Star game every single year.
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  Baseball should put something, not the WBC, but put something
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  together where some of the best teams, some of the best players
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  in their countries play in a round Robin tournament.
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  That would be fun to watch. Look what happened with the NHL
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  last year. Look how that worked for Gary
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  Bettman. Gary Bettman looked like a
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  genius and it changed everything for the Olympics because Team
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  USA lost against Team Canada in the finals.
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  Conor McDavid scores the game-winning goal and Team USA
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  smell blood. They went into the Olympics
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  looking at a completely different We need to go out
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  there. We need to win a gold medal.
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  We haven't won it in 46 years. And that goes for Team USA
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  baseball. This is not the dream team.
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  I don't want to hear it about the 92 Olympic basketball team
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  with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Karl
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  Malone, John Stockton, David Robertson, Christian Leitner.
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  I had to add that one. I had to add that one.
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  It's different and I wrote a story this weekend about it.
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  I didn't call him the Dream Team.
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  I kind of compare them to the Redeem team, the team that had
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  to come back, the team that before they added Kobe Bryant to
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  LeBron James and those superstars to to come back after
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  losing and only bringing home a bronze medal.
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  Do you remember that? But Stefan Marbury and Allen
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  Iverson and Tim Duncan on that roster, Dwight Howard, they
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  failed. Carmelo Anthony, they failed to
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  win a gold medal. Kobe Bryant put it on his
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  shoulders to go into the Olympics and help Team USA bring
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  home gold. Wasn't LeBron, wasn't Dwyane
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  Wade. They were there.
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  Wasn't Chris Bosh. It was Kobe Bryant.
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  May rest in peace. Aaron Judge is 34 years old.
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  Mark DeRosa was recruiting players.
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  I don't know if anybody's heard the Logan, the Logan story.
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  You know the Logan story, Speedy.
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  You know the Logan story. I don't.
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  Now there are a lot of country fans out there, so Mark DeRosa,
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  Pat McAfee and all of them, they're all friends.
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  They're all good friends with one another.
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  And they weren't. Well, Mark DeRosa was not on the
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  bus, but he was at the concert. He had his guys go on the same
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  bus as Logan and Logan had no interest in pitching for Team
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  USA, No interest. Maybe because of San Francisco
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  and and getting his big contract, I don't know what it
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  was, but he had no interest. Pat McAfee and a bunch of, I
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  guess, United States execs and and friends, they were on that
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  bus and they pitched Logan to come and pitch for Team USA
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  Baseball for the WBC. It took a lot.
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  It took a lot of push and drive. And he's one of the big
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  important reasons why Team USA is going to the championship
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  this year. He has been as good as any
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  pitcher for Team USA. He's been clutch throughout this
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  tournament. But Aaron Judge, he's 34 years
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  old. He did not have to play for Team
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  USA. He did not have to be the
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  captain of this team. He just, he just fell in the in
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  the playoffs against the Blue Jays the year before he lost in
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  the World Series against the the Dodgers.
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  He's got another probably 4 good years left in the majors to win
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  in his first World Series and his only maybe his only World
• 23:17
  Series. Think about this, he did not
• 23:23
  have to play for Team USA and and by the way, he's not only
• 23:26
  the heart and soul of this team, he has done things in in this
• 23:31
  tournament that are going to be remembered forever.
• 23:37
  And I don't know if anybody watched the game I did that
• 23:42
  throw when Tatis was trying to go from 2nd to 3rd and how he
• 23:47
  picked him off at third base. Everybody was talking about,
• 23:52
  well, Aaron Judge is a great player, 5 tool.
• 23:55
  I don't know. He's not.
• 23:56
  I don't know if he's A5 tool player.
• 23:59
  Aaron Judge showed you guys or everybody, why not only is he A5
• 24:03
  tool player, he's the best player in the world, The best
• 24:07
  player in the world. Everybody's going to say Shayo
• 24:09
  Atani. Oh, he's a freak, A Unicorn.
• 24:13
  Whatever they call them, I don't care what they Everybody's a
• 24:15
  Unicorn in professional sports now.
• 24:17
  Everybody gives them that that compliment.
• 24:19
  You know you're always not a Unicorn, Travis Hunter.
• 24:22
  That's that's for sure. But what Aaron Judge did in the
• 24:28
  third inning will be remembered. If Team USA brings home the
• 24:32
  gold, they win this tournament as they call themselves the
• 24:37
  Dream Team, or I call them the Redeem Team.
• 24:40
  That play is going to be remembered more than anything
• 24:44
  because if Tatis gets to third base, he probably scores and
• 24:49
  maybe the game is completely different.
• 24:53
  And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Aaron Judge is the best
• 24:56
  player in the world. It's the smallest and the
• 25:01
  littlest things that happened in the game that stands out the
• 25:04
  biggest. This is a 6 foot eight, 280 LB
• 25:09
  powerhouse hitter that when he came into the league people
• 25:14
  didn't think he was going to hit for average.
• 25:18
  People didn't struck out a lot and AAA and AA.
• 25:21
  He didn't get into the majors until late 2425 years old.
• 25:26
  Lot of people thought, hey, he reminds me of a little bit
• 25:30
  better of a done type of player. Well, he is a different player.
• 25:33
  He might go down as one of the greatest Yankees to ever play
• 25:36
  the game. That's crazy when you talk about
• 25:38
  Derek Jeter, who has been the stand out the face of New York
• 25:41
  Yankees baseball for over 20 years and to name Aaron Judge,
• 25:49
  the captain of this team has not only driven this organization,
• 25:55
  everybody says, well, it's what does he want?
• 25:56
  He hasn't won a championship. That has a lot to do with the
• 26:02
  executives over there. Brian Cashman, Hal Steinburn
• 26:05
  opening up his pockets like like his father did.
• 26:08
  That is not Aaron Judge's fault. Aaron Judge goes out there every
• 26:12
  single year. He gives you almost fifty home
• 26:15
  runs. He has been as consistent as any
• 26:18
  player in baseball in the last four years.
• 26:21
  Even when he hurt his toe, he came back and he played at a
• 26:25
  high level. That says a lot about who he is
• 26:29
  as a player, as a leader, and you want to follow a man like
• 26:34
  that. And we have guys like Gunner
• 26:37
  Henderson and Roman Anthony and Paul Skins.
• 26:42
  The future of United States baseball.
• 26:46
  That, ladies and gentlemen, stands out from the rest.
• 26:50
  I don't want to hear about. Hey, you know what?
• 26:52
  United States isn't killing everybody.
• 26:54
  This team is unbelievable. They should be getting 15 or 16
• 26:58
  or 17 runs every single game. It doesn't matter if it's the
• 27:01
  the Dominican Republic or Japan. We have our best players on the
• 27:04
  field. When you're playing a round
• 27:10
  Robin and you look at these games and the competition that's
• 27:12
  out there, it's not as easy as it seems.
• 27:17
  And as far as I'm concerned, for all you fans out there that have
• 27:21
  their own thoughts or after after thoughts to who Aaron
• 27:24
  Judge is and you don't want to give this guy any respect for
• 27:29
  what he has done for baseball, shame on you.
• 27:33
  Shame on you because this man has been nothing.
• 27:39
  Nothing but a Good Samaritan for the game of baseball.
• 27:42
  He doesn't go out there and throw anybody on the bus.
• 27:44
  He didn't throw Mark Derozo under the bus after the mistakes
• 27:49
  that he made against Team Italy. He hasn't done any of that.
• 27:54
  He stuck up for Mark Derozo. He stuck up for Aaron Boone over
• 27:58
  the last couple years. Why do you think Aaron Boone
• 28:00
  still has a job for the New York Yankees?
• 28:04
  This man has been everything to United States baseball and
• 28:11
  Yankee fans. I say this to all the Giant
• 28:13
  fans. When Eli Manning was going to
• 28:16
  step down, but he was going to walk away from New York Giants
• 28:20
  football, I told the Giant fans, I said you don't realize how
• 28:24
  important he is until he's gone. As a Jet fan, we don't know
• 28:28
  anything about it. I mean, we're looking at Geno
• 28:31
  Smith again. Hopefully a second time around
• 28:34
  will be better. Justin Fields was traded.
• 28:39
  We'll get into that a little bit later in the show.
• 28:43
  The fact here is the reason why I bring this up and everybody
• 28:46
  looks at the score and they look at the two one and what?
• 28:49
  United States got lucky? That wasn't a strike.
• 28:52
  Who cares? First of all, the bases were
• 28:58
  cleared. There was nobody on base.
• 29:00
  Even if he walked them, what does that mean?
• 29:04
  It was 2 outs. Is that the reason why the
• 29:08
  Dominican Republic lost against Team USA in nine innings?
• 29:13
  That's not the reason why It's not.
• 29:18
  If the Dominican Republic wanted to win the game, they had to put
• 29:21
  on put up runs and they couldn't.
• 29:24
  They couldn't hit against Paul Skins.
• 29:26
  They had one home run. They had one big hit against
• 29:29
  Paul Skins, and that's why Paul Skins is the best pitcher.
• 29:32
  That's why he's going to be the highest paid pitcher in baseball
• 29:35
  in the next 5 to 6 years. The guy's going to make almost a
• 29:38
  billion dollars. The man is so impressive and he
• 29:44
  doesn't have more than 3 or 4 pitches.
• 29:46
  He's got like 5 pitches and he's unhittable.
• 29:52
  And when you think about the back end of baseball, America's
• 29:57
  pastime, and everybody says, well, Japan has conquered
• 30:01
  baseball over the last couple of years and the Dominican Republic
• 30:03
  have the biggest stars. When you have guys like Vladimir
• 30:09
  Guerrero Junior, who was unbelievable in the playoffs
• 30:12
  last year, unbelievable. Juan Soto has has been so good
• 30:17
  in the playoffs, one of the best.
• 30:20
  You have two players that good the big important game and have
• 30:26
  done it in big, important games and failed to do it against
• 30:31
  United States baseball. You're going to blame that on
• 30:36
  anybody? You're going to blame that on
• 30:38
  Team USA or the umpire because they missed a strike.
• 30:43
  Are you going to tell me that the umpire is American and
• 30:45
  that's why that happened? It was very impressive.
• 30:53
  And, and, and I, I, if I was a United States player and I, I
• 30:56
  was lucky to get into the quarterfinals because they were
• 30:58
  lucky. Italy really, really saved the
• 31:04
  United States from absolute smack around.
• 31:08
  Because if the United States don't get into the
• 31:10
  quarterfinals, they'll be the they'd probably be the laughing
• 31:15
  stock of Major League Baseball all season long.
• 31:19
  What anybody says, Bryce? Harper says that, you know, it's
• 31:22
  baseball. This, this happens.
• 31:23
  I don't want to hear it because Bryce Harper knows Paul Skeens.
• 31:27
  Knows. Aaron.
• 31:29
  Judge knows. That United States baseball is
• 31:32
  not at the top level it's been over the last 50-60 years.
• 31:37
  It's not. Countries are getting close.
• 31:42
  Successful superstar players are coming from all different parts
• 31:46
  of the world and the Dominican Republic in Japan are only two
• 31:51
  places that there are development of great talent.
• 31:56
  Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Italy, Mexico.
• 32:06
  It's growing just like. Basketball.
• 32:09
  Just. Like football, Just like hockey.
• 32:13
  And when you look at United States baseball?
• 32:15
  Now, if they can come out winning this tournament and
• 32:19
  they're going to, it's not going to be easy.
• 32:20
  I don't care if it's Venezuela or it's Italy and you want
• 32:25
  Italy. If you're an American, you want
• 32:28
  Italy. You want them because of what
• 32:32
  Italy did, almost knocking out the United States out of this
• 32:36
  tournament. I know for a fact Aaron Judge
• 32:40
  and this team wants to see Italy in the finals because they want
• 32:44
  to put a. Spanking on them and that's what
• 32:47
  you want to see. Those are stories.
• 32:50
  What do you think Team USA wanted to do in the Olympics?
• 32:54
  When the Olympics started, they wanted to play Team Canada in
• 32:57
  the finals and knock them off. They're the powerhouse.
• 33:00
  They're known as the best in the world and unbeatable.
• 33:04
  That roster, everybody said, was unbeatable.
• 33:08
  We all know what happened. In the In the 1980s, that was
• 33:12
  the last Time Team USA won a gold medal in hockey, knocking
• 33:17
  off the Soviet Union. Miracle.
• 33:19
  Remember that this isn't like that.
• 33:23
  Nobody's comparing them to the Dream Team miracle, or even the
• 33:27
  Olympic team that happened this past last couple of weeks.
• 33:33
  Nobody's going to compare it to Jack Hughes's golden goal.
• 33:38
  As you're seeing on the screen right now.
• 33:40
  Thank you, Fish. The fact here right now is.
• 33:46
  This is the year of Team USA. This is where we take over
• 33:52
  sports again. It's been a big problem.
• 33:57
  I'm sorry, over the last couple of years we we've been
• 34:01
  dominating basketball. There's no question.
• 34:04
  There's no question, but it's getting close.
• 34:06
  Look at the top three. Players right now.
• 34:08
  In the NBA, they're not United States players.
• 34:11
  They're just not. Actually, the top four players
• 34:13
  are not United States players, you can argue.
• 34:16
  Maybe the top five are. United States players, it's
• 34:20
  crazy, it's growing, but what hockey brings and baseball has
• 34:28
  brought and what sports is starting to drive now here in
• 34:32
  the United states, this is what as a United.
• 34:36
  States. USA stand out a person that for
• 34:41
  my whole life. Respected the red white.
• 34:44
  And Blue and I, I know everybody sits here and they're probably
• 34:47
  saying, oh, this is somebody that's just reading off a,
• 34:50
  reading off a storyline and stuff.
• 34:52
  Like that's not me. If you listen to the show, I
• 34:55
  don't beat around the Bush. Well, sometimes I do, if you
• 34:58
  know what I mean, sometimes. But I, I I.
• 35:02
  I'm not beating around a Bush. Here.
• 35:06
  I'm a fan. Of professional sports, I'm a
• 35:09
  fan of college sports. I'm a fan of high school sports.
• 35:14
  And when you see. Some of the.
• 35:17
  Best players in the. World compete against one
• 35:19
  another and then win tournaments or win series or games when
• 35:28
  people counted you out and I'm telling you.
• 35:33
  There are a lot of people that. Don't believe the United States
• 35:36
  is the dominant? Dominant force of.
• 35:38
  Professional baseball anymore? How do I know this?
• 35:43
  I put a survey up on my social media the other day and I asked
• 35:50
  strictly who do you think is the most dominant countries in
• 35:56
  professional baseball? And you know what?
• 36:00
  The two dominant countries. Over the United States was the
• 36:03
  Dominican Republic and Japan. With all the talent the United
• 36:09
  States have. Brought over the last 20 years
• 36:15
  the superstars of the majors besides Aaron Judge.
• 36:23
  They've all washed away nobody. Looks, I mean, Paul Skeens is
• 36:25
  becoming a superstar, but he's still young.
• 36:28
  But if you look at the top ten players right now, the majors, I
• 36:31
  would tell you right now, seven of them are not American
• 36:35
  players, 7 of them. And that's why when you look at.
• 36:42
  The game and you look at the. Difference of.
• 36:46
  What this game and what this tournament means to United
• 36:50
  States and USA Baseball, it's more than anybody believes it
• 36:55
  should be and what it could be. Yeah, it's one of those things
• 36:57
  where you look at these. Super team labels over the years
• 37:01
  that we've seen in other sports and baseball definitely was
• 37:03
  certainly one of them. You've seen the Dodgers have all
• 37:05
  these super teams in the past that joked in the first round of
• 37:07
  the playoffs. That was an ongoing joke for a
• 37:09
  while. They did win since 1988.
• 37:10
  And then same kind of thing on an international level too with
• 37:13
  the US and the and the dream team.
• 37:14
  Like they could have very easily lost the gold medal game in 2024
• 37:17
  against France. France played them very well up
• 37:19
  into that point. So everything like that has a
• 37:22
  sense of a diversity that's necessary.
• 37:24
  Did they obviously get lucky backing in with getting help
• 37:27
  from Italy? Yeah, sure.
• 37:28
  But at the same time, you can't just be an all talent driven
• 37:31
  team and try to make that kind of thing work without a sense of
• 37:34
  adversity. And that's the same kind of
• 37:35
  thing with somebody like Aaron Judge.
• 37:37
  Aaron Judge has magnified well. He hasn't been hitting greatly
• 37:40
  outside of the early stages of the tournament, but that throw
• 37:43
  is a game changing play against somebody as fast as Fernando
• 37:46
  Tatis, who definitely could have scored on an infield hit or a
• 37:48
  sacrifice fly. If he makes it a third base,
• 37:51
  maybe skins out of the game at that point.
• 37:52
  There's a lot of factors that go into that and I agree with you
• 37:56
  when it comes to the umpiring thing.
• 37:57
  Yeah. Was the pitch a ball?
• 37:59
  Yeah, it probably was, but there's wouldn't be other calls
• 38:01
  like that too. We're going to have Phil Cuzzi
• 38:02
  on in about an hour and he's going to say there's no umpire.
• 38:06
  That's going to be completely perfect when it comes to those
• 38:08
  calls. And you look at the way that
• 38:11
  international versus US umpires and that stuff like that.
• 38:14
  This could be like that. The whole tournament, every
• 38:16
  international event is going to be like that.
• 38:18
  And there's not going to be this drastic bias like we were
• 38:21
  talking with the Olympics, with the whole figure skating
• 38:23
  scandal. It wasn't like that.
• 38:24
  It wasn't like this drastic judgment difference.
• 38:27
  That was a pitch that probably was a ball.
• 38:29
  Yeah, but you can't blame it on that one call when the United
• 38:34
  States definitely had some against them as well.
• 38:35
  So I think you look at this U.S. team now going forward, though,
• 38:39
  you have a good sense of your other guys being able to do it.
• 38:42
  Paul Skeen's got, I mean, he wasn't going to pitch obviously
• 38:45
  a normal length like a Major League game.
• 38:46
  But those bullpen guys are unsung heroes compared to like
• 38:49
  the rest of this quote UN quote super team.
• 38:51
  This dream team, as your boy AJ Burzynski likes to call it, and
• 38:55
  those those five relievers, you calling him my boy that was.
• 38:58
  Sarcasm, but. You called him a dream team and
• 39:02
  these relievers, not the starters that the starters were
• 39:05
  getting all the flashy hype. It was the relievers that came
• 39:07
  through in that game against the Dominican Republic offense.
• 39:09
  That was the best offense throughout the tournament and
• 39:12
  that's why you're saying you can't just rely on talent as it
• 39:15
  is now. Obviously, we questioned the
• 39:16
  pitching with the Dominican Republic and Luis Severino until
• 39:18
  that 4th inning actually looks pretty good.
• 39:21
  But you knew that offense was going to cool off and the United
• 39:23
  States did a good job of just pitching and staying focused on
• 39:26
  that kind of thing. And Mark DeRosa, whatever
• 39:29
  everyone was slandering that week, last week, has to get some
• 39:32
  credit for that for getting them to reset and just be
• 39:35
  concentrating on their own game. Now, again, in baseball, it's
• 39:37
  harder because there's a lot of individual factors that can't be
• 39:40
  controlled with everything because again, A2 hitter is not
• 39:43
  going to have a direct impact on A5 hitter and so forth.
• 39:46
  But you still have to have that kind of sense of camaraderie
• 39:49
  with your team. It's still an Ultimate Team
• 39:51
  sport with a lot of uncontrollable factors in the US
• 39:53
  did all the little things when the Dominican Republic was the
• 39:56
  more talented team the whole way the US show they were still the
• 39:59
  more talented team and focused and and again if if.
• 40:02
  You're a fan of professional baseball, and if you're not a
• 40:06
  fan of professional baseball, these are the kind of
• 40:09
  tournaments you watch even if you're not a baseball fan
• 40:11
  because you get a chance to see the best in the world.
• 40:13
  You get to see the chance to watch Aaron Judge and Otani and
• 40:18
  and Soto and Guerrero get a chance to play at a top level
• 40:22
  with their peers and their teammates or even guys that you
• 40:26
  probably never get a chance to see play with one another in any
• 40:29
  part of their careers because they're they're such great
• 40:32
  players. They're not getting traded or
• 40:34
  they're going to be with that organization for the rest of
• 40:36
  their careers. So that's what's fun to watch
• 40:38
  when it comes to these tournaments and getting a chance
• 40:40
  to see the competition at a high level, you know, that's.
• 40:43
  One thing to enjoy, but if you're like a team that has like
• 40:47
  a big country behind you, like the United States, I don't know
• 40:49
  if everybody's into the WBC like I wish they were.
• 40:52
  I know I'm into it. I know we're into it like what
• 40:54
  following it on the show, but I don't know if it's like how
• 40:58
  Venezuela is, how the Dr. is and how those fan bases have been
• 41:02
  brought together. But think about what's going on
• 41:04
  in Japan right now. The Japanese lost in the
• 41:06
  quarterfinals in so they played their first couple around in
• 41:10
  their pool games in Japan, but then they played in Miami and
• 41:14
  they lost. Was it to Venezuela?
• 41:16
  Right. So Venezuela moves on and
• 41:18
  they're playing in Italy tonight.
• 41:20
  They had an issue where the entirety of Japan tried to
• 41:24
  cancel Netflix because they were forced to buy the games that for
• 41:30
  the WBC through Netflix. It was free in 2023.
• 41:34
  So now like the entire country lost their mind.
• 41:36
  They're blaming the pitcher because they everyone had to pay
• 41:38
  20 bucks to only watch one game where they were upset.
• 41:42
  This horrible thing. Otani was great.
• 41:46
  You know, he had 460 and had three homers.
• 41:49
  Yamamoto was good. He got hit, hit the first
• 41:51
  inning. He was in there in that game.
• 41:53
  But they he left with the lead 5:00 to 2:00.
• 41:55
  They're getting killed in Japan. The whole country team that guy
• 41:58
  is not going to be able to coach again for that national team.
• 42:01
  As bad as I was worried about Derosa after they lost to Italy,
• 42:04
  imagine that times a million for what's going on in Japan right
• 42:07
  now. It's it's.
• 42:09
  Incredible. When you lose, you're going to
• 42:12
  be looking that's a bad guy. You're going to be attacked by
• 42:14
  everybody, a country, an organization.
• 42:18
  And and that's what Japan baseball is.
• 42:19
  It's it's it's an organization that they built their product
• 42:23
  through superstar players. Yamamoto, Otani, Sasaki, all
• 42:27
  these guys. And in the past you had the
• 42:29
  Godzilla and we all know Matsui and all the guys that we've seen
• 42:33
  come into the league Nomo there, there was superstar after
• 42:37
  superstar and player after player.
• 42:39
  When you look at all the different great players from
• 42:42
  Japan and then you look at what has happened when it came to
• 42:47
  this tournament and, and again, this is what happens.
• 42:51
  You're even though you're expected to win and you're
• 42:53
  supposed to be in the finals. You've been dominant in the WBC
• 42:57
  for the last I, I would say the last five years you've won three
• 43:01
  of them. Well, it's not five years every
• 43:02
  three years. So every every three years you
• 43:05
  have won three out of the last five, which you've been
• 43:09
  dominant. You've been as good as you
• 43:11
  should be as a professional bunch of baseball players.
• 43:15
  And, and Otani, he made his name in these tournaments, the WBC.
• 43:20
  Otani wasn't in the major leagues when he first played in
• 43:23
  the WBC. He was seen in the WBC.
• 43:27
  And then same thing with Yamamoto.
• 43:29
  They all were seen in the WBC. And that's how they got their
• 43:34
  big contracts. And that's where they move from
• 43:36
  international baseball to National Baseball.
• 43:41
  It's different. Now.
• 43:44
  The best? Players want to come to.
• 43:45
  America and play against the best.
• 43:48
  But those best players don't believe America.
• 43:50
  Is the best they believe. They're the best.
• 43:54
  And that's is why this tournament as is as important to
• 43:58
  Team USA than it has. Been for.
• 44:02
  Any of these countries? Italy's.
• 44:06
  Making a statement. They're making a statement now.
• 44:11
  A lot of these guys are not Italian, they're not from Italy,
• 44:15
  they're Italian Americans. Their families are from Italy or
• 44:19
  their great grandparents are from Italy and they're playing
• 44:22
  in this tournament cuz there's no way Team USA is going to take
• 44:24
  them on. They're nowhere close to the top
• 44:26
  players in baseball. But.
• 44:31
  When you go out there and play like a team and believe
• 44:35
  anything's possible, professional.
• 44:38
  Sports is all about. Competition Sports is all about
• 44:41
  competition. That's.
• 44:44
  Why I love watching it. Everybody asks me, why are you a
• 44:47
  sports fan? Not because I was an athlete,
• 44:49
  because I was. I was a good athlete.
• 44:51
  But that's not why I love the game.
• 44:53
  That's not why I love sports. I love sports because I love
• 44:57
  competition. I love.
• 45:00
  When I see. The Cinderella team knock off
• 45:05
  the championship team, the team that's expected to win boxing.
• 45:10
  Is so fun. Well.
• 45:11
  It used to be fun to watch. Not anymore.
• 45:13
  Prize fighting isn't prize fighting anymore.
• 45:16
  But if you're a boxing or mixed martial arts fan, the.
• 45:20
  Game has transitioned. And you would have.
• 45:23
  Thought like remember when? The UFC came out most of the top
• 45:28
  end fighters are from the United States.
• 45:30
  Besides the Gray season Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, they were
• 45:33
  from the USA the best. Fighters in the world.
• 45:37
  Are not from the United States. They're just not.
• 45:41
  You know why? Because it's become
• 45:44
  international. And that's the same thing with
• 45:48
  baseball. It was American sport, America
• 45:51
  sport. It's not that anymore.
• 45:52
  And I'm going to tell you this right now, even though everybody
• 45:54
  says there's no way international football.
• 45:59
  Is going to come to. The NFL, that's wrong.
• 46:02
  It's going to happen. The NF LS making that happen.
• 46:05
  You're going to tell me there's not going to be an international
• 46:09
  football team in the NFL? It's going to happen.
• 46:13
  It is. Even though everybody.
• 46:14
  Says it's impossible because of the the times and the changes.
• 46:19
  It's not going to make a difference.
• 46:22
  It's going to happen. You could.
• 46:25
  Argue it, you can cry about. It it's going to happen.
• 46:29
  Sports is open for money, advertisers, sponsors,
• 46:35
  networking. Networking International is
• 46:39
  going to bring money and more money to the sport and that's
• 46:45
  where it is right now in Japan. Why do you think Ohtani took
• 46:48
  deferred money? Why ask me?
• 46:52
  That Riddle me this as I used on the last show, here's.
• 46:57
  The reason why? Because no matter what, that $70
• 47:01
  million is $100 million at the end of this year.
• 47:05
  Why? Because he's an international
• 47:08
  superstar. The sponsors, the advertisements
• 47:12
  this man is making right now, that money's not going to itch
• 47:15
  the surface to bother him when the game transitions.
• 47:21
  And it's going to happen. AI artificial intelligence is
• 47:28
  going to be a part of the game in the very near future. 10
• 47:32
  years from now, artificial intelligence is going to be a
• 47:35
  part of it. So is Nick Goody going to be?
• 47:36
  And they'll be. Commissioner, at that point,
• 47:38
  hopefully we love you. Good.
• 47:40
  We love you, but it's not going to happen right away, but it's
• 47:43
  going to when that happens, players.
• 47:47
  International players. Are not going to be as
• 47:50
  impressive as all this AI technology that's going to drive
• 47:55
  the sport drive the game maybe bring in robotic simulators into
• 48:00
  the game that's going to change it maybe you're not going to see
• 48:03
  pictures anymore you can have robots throwing the ball I don't
• 48:06
  know I don't know how it's going to work but that could happen
• 48:10
  the. Game is changing.
• 48:13
  Sports is changing. Athletes are changing.
• 48:16
  Everybody says, oh, Michael Jordan couldn't play in the game
• 48:19
  now, which I think is absolutely bogus.
• 48:21
  It's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous take.
• 48:23
  But guess what? The competition and the
• 48:26
  training. And the facilities that they
• 48:28
  have now are way better than they were in the 80s and the
• 48:31
  90s, way better. The athletes are running.
• 48:34
  Look at the combine, you got £350 guys running 4 eights.
• 48:40
  It's ridiculous. They're running it faster than I
• 48:43
  can. And I'm like 2200 and 5 lbs.
• 48:47
  I, I can't run a 48 anymore. Maybe when I was younger I can
• 48:51
  run faster than that. I can't do it now.
• 48:53
  These guys, they're £350, they're 150 lbs heavier than me
• 48:58
  and they can run it faster than me.
• 49:00
  It's unbelievable. The training, the facilities,
• 49:03
  everything. And Baseball international.
• 49:06
  Remember in Puerto Rico 20 years ago, they were playing without
• 49:10
  cleats. They were playing in there with
• 49:11
  their feet. Anybody know who Daddy Yankee
• 49:17
  is? Daddy Yankee was a great
• 49:21
  baseball player. He's a, he's a rapper or Spanish
• 49:26
  rapper, reggaeton. That's what they that's what
• 49:30
  he's known for. He's one of the best in the.
• 49:32
  Industry. He has been one of the best in
• 49:35
  the industry for a very long time.
• 49:38
  He was a great baseball player. You know what ruined his career?
• 49:42
  He got. Shot Daddy Yankee got shot.
• 49:46
  Got shot in the back. Couldn't play baseball anymore.
• 49:54
  His career was over. And he took his career to
• 49:56
  another sector which became a national voice.
• 50:02
  In in. Music changed.
• 50:04
  Break it. Tone changed.
• 50:05
  Music. I mean, there's no Bad Bunny
• 50:08
  without Daddy Yankee. See what I'm getting at?
• 50:13
  Music changes, it evolves. Sports evolves.
• 50:19
  It's different, and no matter how it's changed or the way it's
• 50:23
  changed, it's going to change. Fans, everybody out.
• 50:28
  There, you want to you want to doubt me on my arguments to
• 50:31
  this. I'm not going to sit here and
• 50:33
  read off a clip paper that somebody's going to give me, my
• 50:36
  producers going to give me. This is coming from my own
• 50:39
  brain, my own take, my own thought.
• 50:43
  It's changing and you're not going to see guys like Aaron
• 50:47
  Judge forever. They'll they'll be prototypes.
• 50:53
  These guys don't grow. They don't grow on trees.
• 50:56
  They're not. They're humans.
• 50:58
  So when you get a chance to watch greatness, ladies and
• 51:01
  gentlemen, love it, respect it and just root for it.
• 51:09
  And that's what I that's, that was my, that's my whole take to
• 51:12
  this guys. And as as a fan of professional
• 51:15
  sports, especially baseball, I've, I've been a baseball fan
• 51:18
  my whole life. I grew up a Don Mattingly fan, a
• 51:19
  Yankee fan. I my first pair of clothes
• 51:23
  leaving the hospital, Port Jefferson Hospital was a Yankee
• 51:28
  pyjama with Don Mattingly's name on the back of it. 1982 Growing
• 51:36
  up, he was my favorite player. Not because it was my first
• 51:40
  pajamas, not because I not because he was the best player
• 51:45
  on the New York Yankees. Is because he stood for
• 51:47
  something. He was the captain.
• 51:51
  He. Was the leader.
• 51:53
  And even though he never won a. Title.
• 51:55
  He never won a title with New York, never won a title as a
• 51:58
  manager. Yet he was with the Blue Jays
• 52:00
  last year. Still haven't won.
• 52:03
  He was one and still. Is one of the most beloved
• 52:06
  Yankees of all time. Yeah, I also want to comment on
• 52:09
  the. International side of it too,
• 52:10
  when you look at some of these baseball leagues, a lot of these
• 52:13
  professional leagues that start younger too.
• 52:15
  I think that's why Aaron Judge was even saying like a lot of
• 52:17
  these WBC crowds are much stronger than we ever saw at a
• 52:20
  Major League game is because a lot of these players have been
• 52:23
  followed for a very long time. And you were talking about it
• 52:25
  like a lot of these, a lot of these leagues started up in
• 52:29
  leagues that were very poor areas.
• 52:30
  Cuba, another example we didn't list, they have a lot of those
• 52:34
  types of leagues over there. And I obviously everything
• 52:36
  political going on over there, it's harder for them to get the
• 52:39
  types of resources that you see in the United States or even in
• 52:42
  Mexico or stuff like that. And same kind of thing with all
• 52:44
  these other island nations. Like a lot of those times are
• 52:47
  just followed for a long time. Even the names that aren't like
• 52:50
  the big names yet are known for a long time with a lot of those
• 52:53
  countries as well. And the same kind of thing with
• 52:55
  Japan too. A lot of those Japanese guys are
• 52:57
  in that professional league for a while.
• 52:59
  So they're followed closely and they have these connections that
• 53:01
  work out well. And maybe that's why they're
• 53:03
  just getting all this unfortunate backlash that you're
• 53:05
  describing. Fish, these relievers and these
• 53:07
  these coaches. It's it's basically to the level
• 53:10
  that you see in European football.
• 53:11
  All these like hot head fans want to just take take them down
• 53:15
  just because of that. And you see this during the
• 53:16
  World Cup. We've seen this in soccer
• 53:18
  leagues. All these coaches are going to
• 53:20
  get the I guess the protest treatment that you're seeing at
• 53:23
  something at that level. And now you're seeing it like
• 53:26
  you're saying, Errol, with the United States kind of fusing
• 53:29
  these international cultures together and all these other
• 53:31
  sports with baseball, with the NBA just getting really stronger
• 53:35
  at a higher level than we ever saw before internationally.
• 53:37
  The NH LS always had that kind of thing because they've
• 53:40
  embraced the the Russian players, the Swedish fin finish,
• 53:43
  etcetera, post the Cold War. But now you're seeing it a lot
• 53:46
  more with baseball, definitely, and even higher in basketball
• 53:49
  where, like you said, the top four players in the NBA, Yokich,
• 53:52
  Luka, Yanis, SGA, whatever argument you want to make,
• 53:54
  Wendy, they're all international players.
• 53:56
  They're not they're not US board.
• 53:58
  So it's crazy to think that the melting pot is really fusing
• 54:01
  together more. I before we move on.
• 54:03
  I. Do have to say I'm only a
• 54:05
  quarter Italian, but I'm loving every single bit of this Team
• 54:09
  Italy business with the taking the shots of espresso after
• 54:12
  homers, this camaraderie. Francisco Cervelli, the manager
• 54:17
  over there is. I haven't seen a single person
• 54:21
  who isn't super on board with what team Team Italy's done.
• 54:26
  Even though there aren't really, you know, Italian Italians
• 54:29
  there. It's it's a great thing for
• 54:31
  Italian Americans. The fact they're gone this far,
• 54:34
  it's hard to not root for them until tomorrow night.
• 54:37
  Which begs the question, Errol USA winning this or is this
• 54:41
  going to be a pretty bad choke job because they should beat
• 54:45
  either one of these teams. I will say this.
• 54:47
  If Tim Team Italy plays the United States in the finals, I
• 54:52
  think they're going to absolutely destroy them.
• 54:54
  There is no way they're going to let this team breathe, get an
• 54:57
  early lead. I expect Team USA to go hard and
• 55:00
  hard at them early in the game. I I expect their big boppers to
• 55:05
  bop that ball and smack that ball around.
• 55:08
  There's a, there's This could be an absolute demonstration of why
• 55:12
  Team USA is one of the best baseball organizations, baseball
• 55:16
  products in, in, in international sports.
• 55:20
  And I, I think baseball is always going to ride with USA
• 55:23
  baseball because this is where it was built.
• 55:26
  But it's starting to obviously all these countries are starting
• 55:29
  to catch up to them. So I agree with you, fish.
• 55:32
  It's, it's very exciting to see team Italy tonight.
• 55:35
  Hopefully they knock off Venezuela.
• 55:37
  I'd love to see Italy go back with Team USA and and the United
• 55:41
  States teach them a lesson, you know, smack them around a little
• 55:43
  bit, explain to them why we're known for our baseball.
• 55:48
  This is this is United States has always been a baseball
• 55:54
  national stage product. It it's always been baseball has
• 55:59
  been America's pastime. Field of Dreams.
• 56:02
  It it's a movie that everybody's going to remember Kevin Costner
• 56:06
  ever ever. It it was one of the one of the
• 56:08
  baseball movies that really dropped James Earl Jones.
• 56:10
  My favorite movies of all time. That movie is just legendary
• 56:14
  American film because baseball, you know, they say is America's
• 56:17
  past. I mean, you can get in that
• 56:18
  argument if it's still America's pastime, but it's certainly part
• 56:21
  of America and it always will be.
• 56:23
  It's a sport that was created during the American Civil War.
• 56:26
  It's been around that long. It's what the soldiers were
• 56:28
  doing in downtime on both sides. So it's kind of fascinating that
• 56:34
  it's, it's stick stuck around and then spread around the world
• 56:36
  as much as it has. Because a game like soccer, you
• 56:40
  know, that goes back into ancient times that honestly, it
• 56:43
  starts with like guys kicking skulls around cemeteries in
• 56:46
  medieval times is actually how it started.
• 56:48
  And it, it becomes something that, you know, 'cause there was
• 56:52
  a lot of that during the plague, there just was a lot of that.
• 56:54
  And they didn't bury very well back then.
• 56:56
  And it is people just want to have fun and people wanted to do
• 56:59
  things that are entertaining. And sports has always been that.
• 57:02
  And sometimes we get too serious about sports.
• 57:04
  And I think sometimes the sports media, especially we're seeing
• 57:06
  in Japan getting way too serious about some of this stuff.
• 57:10
  But just have fun, man, and be proud of your country.
• 57:13
  I just want to. I want to finish up.
• 57:15
  One thing before we move on to Speedy's 6 packs of 6 pack of a
• 57:18
  week, I want to say something for all the Japanese right now
• 57:22
  out there in Japan crying the river, blah blah blah.
• 57:25
  We got cheated, we got this, we got that.
• 57:28
  Let let me, let me throw something and let this stick to
• 57:31
  all you fans out there. Shay Ohtani should be kicked out
• 57:34
  of baseball. He should been.
• 57:38
  He should. Have been kicked out of the
• 57:40
  major leagues betting on baseball.
• 57:43
  You could say whatever you want guys.
• 57:45
  Oh, he was in court he wasn't this you're going to tell me he
• 57:47
  didn't know where 20 five, $27 million was when he was betting
• 57:51
  on sports get out of here. He knew exactly what was going
• 57:54
  on and he just settled while the WBC was going on with the the
• 57:59
  money that him and his friend who's an agent took from these
• 58:04
  rich guys, these rich real estate guys, 240 million, which
• 58:08
  the settlement never came out. I wonder why?
• 58:11
  I wonder why. So for all you Japanese fans,
• 58:15
  oh, I'm so sad, such a sorrow that our team got robbed and all
• 58:21
  this and all that and we're going to fire our manager.
• 58:23
  Bah humbug. Go cry to somebody that actually
• 58:26
  gives a crap. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 58:29
  we call this Speedy 6 Pack of the Week.
• 58:32
  Let's have a. Sensor.
• 58:34
  Hey, who wants to play print the?
• 58:36
  Beer, it's time for the speedy. 6 pack of the way.
• 58:42
  All righty, so very good. On the graphic fish, I like that
• 58:44
  one a lot. With the conference championship
• 58:46
  theme, we'll start in the Big East.
• 58:48
  St. John's after Yukon blew them out
• 58:50
  during the regular season in the last matchup, they get their
• 58:53
  revenge in the conference championship game.
• 58:56
  They blow out Yukon 72 to 52, both Zubi Zubi Ajorafor and
• 59:00
  Bryson Hopkins 18 points each. You kind of shot at that one
• 59:04
  seat if they won that game, but they will fall to #2 Saint Johns
• 59:07
  stays at 5. One of those teams that was kind
• 59:09
  of ranked a little lower than I was expecting, but they stay at
• 59:12
  5. They were a fringe team and.
• 59:14
  And, and again, the reason why, and now, now fringe team to the
• 59:17
  tournament, but a fringe team in the top five.
• 59:19
  A lot of people thought they could have been a top two, top
• 59:22
  three team. They fell to the top five maybe.
• 59:25
  Now as far as a Big East team, I think they were 18 and 1 or 18
• 59:29
  and 2. They were great in against the
• 59:31
  Big East teams, but not so great against the other teams that
• 59:34
  they were playing against throughout the year.
• 59:37
  But again, Saint John's is going to be a challenging team.
• 59:40
  They could score, something they couldn't do last year as far as
• 59:44
  shooting the three. They could shoot the three and
• 59:46
  they're very well built defensively.
• 59:48
  You know, Rick Pitino preaches defense.
• 59:50
  You saw what they can do against UConn.
• 59:52
  You saw what they can do against Princeton.
• 59:55
  This is a good defensive team. If they could play at a high
• 59:57
  level defensively, why couldn't Saint Johns make it to the the
• 1:00:00
  Elite 8 or maybe in the Final four, depending on how
• 1:00:03
  everything falls? We'll have to see.
• 1:00:05
  They're in a very hard bracket, but it's possible.
• 1:00:08
  It's possible. I'll I'll hint at it a little
• 1:00:09
  later at the end of my 6. Pack, but maybe it was one of
• 1:00:11
  those teams I was probably hit with a worse because of their
• 1:00:14
  lack of a non conference schedule because the Big East
• 1:00:16
  didn't play as many of the powerful outside of conference
• 1:00:19
  teams as a lot of these other conferences.
• 1:00:21
  So maybe the committee said, all right, we're going to keep you
• 1:00:23
  at 5:00, but five and four played out pretty much the same
• 1:00:25
  cluster. I was thinking there would be a
• 1:00:26
  four, but nevertheless, let's move on.
• 1:00:28
  Fish's team that he used it in his college shot Arizona.
• 1:00:31
  They also prevent another team from being on number one seed.
• 1:00:33
  They beat Houston 79 to 74 to win the Big 12.
• 1:00:37
  Braden Burris and Coopete 21 points each and Kingston
• 1:00:39
  Fleming's the top 10 projected NBA pick just eight points in
• 1:00:42
  that game. Kingston, Flemings to.
• 1:00:45
  Me is going to develop as a two in the NBAI don't think he's a
• 1:00:49
  one, I think he's a 2. He's a point guard right now in
• 1:00:51
  college basketball and a lot of people like this kid.
• 1:00:54
  I like his ability to defend and score.
• 1:00:57
  He still needs to get got a shot.
• 1:00:58
  I you know who I compared him to?
• 1:01:00
  Donovan Mitchell. I think he's that type of
• 1:01:02
  player. He came.
• 1:01:04
  Remember, Donovan Mitchell came into the game came, he was a
• 1:01:06
  defensive player, averaged 11 points for Louisville.
• 1:01:09
  He came into the NBA, developed a shot and defend, developed an
• 1:01:12
  offensive game. And look at the type of player
• 1:01:15
  he's become. He's become the Spider in the
• 1:01:17
  NBA and one of the more dominant forces offensively in the NBA.
• 1:01:22
  I'm not surprised. Arizona won.
• 1:01:23
  This game, the question is, is Arizona going to lay up a cold
• 1:01:26
  shoulder in the tournament as they do every single year?
• 1:01:30
  This is a team that is high flying high offensively sound
• 1:01:34
  every single year can shoot the three rebound long lengthy could
• 1:01:38
  do everything and and do it at a high level and what what happens
• 1:01:42
  early in the tournament? They play a team that should not
• 1:01:45
  beat them and knocks Arizona out very early in the tournament.
• 1:01:49
  Can it happen this year? Absolutely.
• 1:01:51
  I think this is the the most wide open tournament it's been,
• 1:01:54
  especially with Duke losing 2 of their best players.
• 1:01:57
  So and Duke was very impressive and we'll get into that a little
• 1:02:00
  bit in just a few moments on what I thought they did in their
• 1:02:04
  ACC Championship. Yeah, and Houston is a lot.
• 1:02:07
  Of that same identity they were last year their size may be a
• 1:02:09
  little more questioned, but they actually did well in this game
• 1:02:11
  with that just Arizona between the freshman stardom and the
• 1:02:15
  depth that they have on the on that side of the ball definitely
• 1:02:16
  interesting, but will the experience factor get into them?
• 1:02:19
  It will be another question. All right let's go to the one
• 1:02:21
  seed that actually lucked out because they lost in their
• 1:02:23
  conference tournament the year or the week before the day
• 1:02:26
  before that Florida they hold on to #1 despite losing against
• 1:02:30
  Vanderbilt, one of my favorite teams Vanderbilt in the semi
• 1:02:32
  finals and then Arkansas takes down Vanderbilt in the SEC
• 1:02:35
  championship. Vanderbilt is a five seed
• 1:02:37
  Arkansas with John Calipari in the same region as Arizona as a
• 1:02:40
  four Arcatrol got. It kind of got pushed off
• 1:02:45
  because of John Calipari. I, I, I'm not saying Arkansas
• 1:02:48
  isn't a good program. And John Calipari knows how to
• 1:02:51
  recruit players. We've seen him do it with
• 1:02:53
  Kentucky. He was a decent NBA coach.
• 1:02:56
  He's very well respected around college basketball and the NBA,
• 1:02:59
  and he's a New York guy. So you root for John Calipari.
• 1:03:03
  Arkansas went far in the tournament last year.
• 1:03:06
  I don't think they're going to have that type of year where
• 1:03:10
  they're just going to surprise people and go all the way to the
• 1:03:12
  Sweet 16 and maybe the Elite 8 and maybe go to the final.
• 1:03:16
  I don't think they're that good. The interesting thought here
• 1:03:20
  with all those teams that you mentioned and, and again, I, I
• 1:03:23
  look at all the teams that are wide open to maybe going far in
• 1:03:27
  this tournament. They all have talent on each
• 1:03:30
  other's teams like Vanderbilt. They're a good team, they're a
• 1:03:33
  very good team, but can they go into a tournament and take it
• 1:03:37
  all the way to an Elite 8 or to a Final Four with all the talent
• 1:03:42
  that's out there and so wide open this tournament is because
• 1:03:45
  we don't know what Peterson's going to bring to the table in
• 1:03:47
  in this tournament. He hasn't really shown up week
• 1:03:50
  in and week out, but this guy is a a dominant player.
• 1:03:54
  AJ2, another dominant player. BYU is in this tournament.
• 1:03:57
  They can make a run. So I mean, all these teams that
• 1:04:01
  you mentioned Speedy, Yeah. And and and again, we'll see how
• 1:04:04
  it all works out and how everything falls together.
• 1:04:07
  There's a lot of questions with all these teams that none of
• 1:04:09
  these teams are flat out going to win this tournament because
• 1:04:12
  of talent now and they're Arkansas is in.
• 1:04:15
  That cluster too with Arizona and a team we'll get to in a
• 1:04:17
  bit. I know that T that you were very
• 1:04:19
  high on at the start of the year.
• 1:04:20
  But yeah, they were definitely one that I thought definitely
• 1:04:22
  got a boost. I thought they were five or six
• 1:04:24
  seed most of the bracketology I saw before that.
• 1:04:26
  So they're rewarding for the conference where other ones got
• 1:04:29
  downplayed. Very interesting.
• 1:04:30
  All right, let's go to your preseason pick in Purdue.
• 1:04:32
  They elevate themselves to a two seed.
• 1:04:34
  They upset Michigan in the Big 10 tournament to win the Big 10
• 1:04:38
  tournament. They were good most of the year.
• 1:04:39
  They kind of fell off in conference play but got hot
• 1:04:41
  right at the end of the year. Veteran team Trey Kaufman ran 20
• 1:04:44
  points. Omar Cliff, Young big man Cliff,
• 1:04:47
  big man 21 points in that game. Love Purdue.
• 1:04:50
  I love. Purdue in this tournament,
• 1:04:51
  especially where he they are in the bracket.
• 1:04:55
  I think Purdue can go all the way to the Final Four this year.
• 1:04:57
  It all depends on how everything falls together.
• 1:05:00
  There are, there's going to be a lot of impressive teams.
• 1:05:03
  I, I said it and Speedy and me went on it on the the weekend
• 1:05:06
  Crunch this weekend. And he asked me, we went back
• 1:05:09
  and forth, do we think there could be 1/7, seven or eight
• 1:05:12
  seed to go to the Final Four? Absolutely.
• 1:05:14
  Why couldn't there be over? Last year was all number ones.
• 1:05:17
  I do not believe it's going to be all number ones this year.
• 1:05:19
  I think it's going to be wide open.
• 1:05:21
  I think there's going to be some surprises in the first couple of
• 1:05:24
  rounds. And yeah, you're right, Speedy,
• 1:05:26
  I, I, I'm still going to ride or die with Purdue.
• 1:05:28
  I think Purdue can absolutely go to the Final Four this year.
• 1:05:31
  They have a lengthy team, they're very well coached and
• 1:05:33
  they can rebound the ball. So absolutely, yeah, they're on
• 1:05:35
  the other end of that. Tough gauntlet in the top five
• 1:05:38
  that's I think the best top five in that group will get to the
• 1:05:40
  brackets in a in a bit, but that's collectively with Arizona
• 1:05:45
  and Purdue. That's the top 2 is the best
• 1:05:46
  group. And I think this is the team you
• 1:05:48
  definitely saw at the beginning of the year.
• 1:05:50
  It's weird to think with both Purdue and Arkansas there are
• 1:05:52
  actually much better offensive teams than usual and their
• 1:05:55
  defenses which are normally their coaches.
• 1:05:57
  Forte's are actually not bad, but if you look.
• 1:05:59
  At the bracket. And how Purdue has to get and to
• 1:06:02
  get into the Elite 8. It's not going to be hard.
• 1:06:05
  I mean, they have to play BYU in I think in the Sweet 16.
• 1:06:09
  That's where is BYU even going to make it.
• 1:06:12
  Yep, the the three seed in that. Is is Gonzaga is Gonzaga and I
• 1:06:16
  don't trust Gonzaga this. Year they've been up and down I
• 1:06:19
  they got I think they they were rated higher than they should
• 1:06:22
  be. I actually agree with that, but
• 1:06:24
  I still really do like. Them as a team I but you're
• 1:06:26
  right, they probably should have been a four seed.
• 1:06:28
  There was a lot of teams that were fours that probably should
• 1:06:30
  have been threes. We'll get to that in a bit.
• 1:06:32
  All right now we'll go to your Duke Blue Devils.
• 1:06:33
  They take down Virginia 4770 very impressive.
• 1:06:37
  They win the. ACC.
• 1:06:37
  Title Cam. Boos are 13 points on his best
• 1:06:39
  shooting day, but 8 rebounds, 8 assists while his brother Kaden
• 1:06:42
  16, five and four. Virginia, a team that I thought
• 1:06:45
  maybe could have been a two seed, falls to a three seed.
• 1:06:47
  Now Virginia's going to be dangerous.
• 1:06:49
  Everybody knows they're going to be dangerous.
• 1:06:51
  They're very well coached, they have a very good defense, but
• 1:06:53
  they can score, they can shoot, they could do all that.
• 1:06:56
  It was very impressive what Duke did against them, especially in
• 1:06:59
  the fourth quarter. And we got a chance to see both
• 1:07:02
  boozers. We didn't see the dominance of
• 1:07:04
  Cam in the game, but we if if they have any chance to win this
• 1:07:07
  tournament after losing the players that they've lost late
• 1:07:10
  into the season, Cam is going to have to put up 20 to 25 points
• 1:07:14
  every single game. If this team expects to be elite
• 1:07:17
  and to go to the final four and maybe be a championship team.
• 1:07:20
  But they're going he's going to need his brother.
• 1:07:21
  He's going to need some of these guys off the bench.
• 1:07:24
  They still have a lot of depth. Duke has some of the best
• 1:07:27
  recruit recruited players in all of the country.
• 1:07:29
  Still, they're dangerous. And I'm going to say this right
• 1:07:32
  now. Why couldn't Duke go to the
• 1:07:34
  final four? Even with the the the missing or
• 1:07:37
  or some of the injured players that they have, I think Duke
• 1:07:40
  still can be elite and and the way their bracket is set up for
• 1:07:43
  him, I don't. Think.
• 1:07:47
  They're going to maybe have to play Kansas in the Sweet 16.
• 1:07:50
  Maybe if Peterson actually shows up, I would love to see that.
• 1:07:54
  I would love to see Peterson versus Boozer.
• 1:07:56
  That's something that you want to see.
• 1:07:58
  You can see Duke versus St. John's, too.
• 1:07:59
  That's true too. And and Petino.
• 1:08:01
  Is going to make sure I'm sure he has that marked.
• 1:08:05
  If Petino can get out and get into the what would they call
• 1:08:09
  that? The 32?
• 1:08:10
  Because I think it's 30 two. Yeah, they were so St.
• 1:08:12
  John's would play Kansas. 32 Yes, and that it would Duke
• 1:08:16
  playing against the winner of TCU, that would be sweet. 16,
• 1:08:19
  yeah. So Saint John.
• 1:08:20
  The Duke or Kansas versus Duke would be in the Sweet 16.
• 1:08:23
  Yeah, so. All right, so I'll finish it off
• 1:08:25
  with. This just the seating
• 1:08:27
  discrepancies that we talked about.
• 1:08:29
  It seemed like the Big 10 and the Big 12 got rewarded more
• 1:08:32
  seating wise. Michigan State and Illinois
• 1:08:34
  despite early upsets in the conference tournament.
• 1:08:37
  I know W wasn't very happy about Illinois losing against Josh
• 1:08:40
  Silverberg's Wisconsin Badgers but they had more rewarded teams
• 1:08:43
  whereas the SEC like Vanderbilt, like Kentucky only being a 7 and
• 1:08:47
  the ACC. A lot of people thought North
• 1:08:49
  Carolina should been higher than a six and I think Virginia maybe
• 1:08:52
  should have been a 2A. Little bit of bias there,
• 1:08:54
  especially with Duke being the ACC number one overall seed.
• 1:08:56
  No, North Carolina lost Wilson. For the rest of the tournament,
• 1:09:00
  I mean, that's why when you're obviously voting or how they're
• 1:09:04
  setting up the bracket, they're looking at talent and if they
• 1:09:07
  can go far in this tournament and how they're going to rate
• 1:09:09
  these guys going into the tournament and Wilson is their
• 1:09:12
  best player. He might not play for the rest
• 1:09:14
  of this tournament. Maybe later in the tournament.
• 1:09:16
  Remember he broke his finger so in a shooting hand.
• 1:09:19
  So I I don't know. I, I I'm.
• 1:09:23
  Not I'm not going to say they were wrong about giving them a
• 1:09:25
  six seat, but I will say this for all the teams that are
• 1:09:29
  sitting here and and where everybody's questioning where
• 1:09:32
  they're rating rating or they're rating these guys or where
• 1:09:35
  they're putting these guys just like Florida.
• 1:09:38
  I'm not surprised Florida is where they are as a number one.
• 1:09:40
  They won a national championship last year.
• 1:09:43
  They're very well coached. They have a good they still have
• 1:09:45
  a good roster yes, they they throughout the season they've
• 1:09:49
  had a couple of losses that have you shaking your head.
• 1:09:51
  This is still a very good run oil machine and and why couldn't
• 1:09:56
  they make it to the final four this year or the Sweet 16 and be
• 1:09:59
  a challenging team with the talent that they have?
• 1:10:01
  So it's speedy like you were saying.
• 1:10:03
  I mean, comparing and contrasting what the Big 10 is
• 1:10:05
  or the the 12 is, what I see is the way you're ranked is not
• 1:10:11
  going to make a difference when you go into this tournament.
• 1:10:13
  It's the way you're set up or the way you're you're matched up
• 1:10:17
  in this tournament. It's where it's going to settle
• 1:10:19
  who's better or who is going on and who's going home.
• 1:10:23
  So yeah, I only brought up North.
• 1:10:25
  Carolina, because I think that was the one that got the most
• 1:10:26
  backlash. I think just because there might
• 1:10:29
  be some inside source of Caleb Wilson may be returning later.
• 1:10:32
  And so all of a sudden you're going to make him a higher seed,
• 1:10:34
  but you can't do it unless there's a guarantee.
• 1:10:37
  And I think that's where it's kind of weird.
• 1:10:39
  I don't know about weird. I I.
• 1:10:41
  Just think that with the way they are bringing, because
• 1:10:45
  there's a lot of teams that they were, there was a lot of crucial
• 1:10:48
  thoughts that some of these, some of the teams that didn't
• 1:10:50
  make it should have made it in the tournament and they fell out
• 1:10:54
  of it because not all of them can make the tournament.
• 1:10:57
  Yeah. So which actually we'll get to
• 1:10:59
  that in a bit. We'll get into the brackets now.
• 1:11:00
  They're actually, I didn't think that was as bad this year as
• 1:11:03
  we've seen in previous years. Usually there's like two or
• 1:11:05
  three that are wrong, but I think it wasn't as bad this time
• 1:11:09
  The. NCAA.
• 1:11:10
  Tournament bracket was released with Duke, Arizona, Michigan and
• 1:11:14
  Florida as #1 seeds. UConn, Houston, Purdue and Iowa
• 1:11:18
  State made it as #2 seeds. The Big East only had two other
• 1:11:23
  teams make it make it in. St.
• 1:11:26
  John's getting the number 5 seed and Villanova getting the number
• 1:11:29
  8 seed. NC State, SMU, Texas, Miami of
• 1:11:34
  Ohio got in as the last four at the large bids, while teams like
• 1:11:41
  San Diego State, Auburn and Oklahoma got left out of the
• 1:11:46
  tournament. Former Auburn coach Bruce Pearl
• 1:11:48
  believed that Auburn was robbed of a tournament spot, but
• 1:11:52
  selection committee chair Keith Gill mentioned that they took
• 1:11:58
  SMU over Auburn because their best guard, BJ Edwards, is
• 1:12:03
  expected to be healthy for the tournament after missing missing
• 1:12:08
  time with his ankle injury. As the SEC had the most team
• 1:12:13
  teams make it to the tournament with 10, while the Big 10 had
• 1:12:17
  nine and both the PAC 12 and the ACC had eight.
• 1:12:24
  All right, so. I know Speedy, I know you're,
• 1:12:26
  you're always into the tournaments, me and you go at it
• 1:12:30
  every single year and and match our brackets and it's really a
• 1:12:34
  crapshoot. It really is.
• 1:12:35
  And we're going to be doing our bracket.
• 1:12:37
  And if you want to join our bracket, our bracketology, we're
• 1:12:39
  going to set it up. Reach out to Speedy, reach out
• 1:12:42
  to one of us. You can join our bracketology.
• 1:12:45
  We're going to have like a bracket competition, somebody
• 1:12:47
  maybe we'll put some money on it and see who can win.
• 1:12:50
  And you know, it's all about luck and I guess percentages.
• 1:12:53
  Whoever wins with by percentages, yeah, there's a lot
• 1:12:55
  of luck involved. With when Chaz had the winning
• 1:12:57
  bracket of 2023, when you kind of San Diego State made it to
• 1:13:00
  the finals, which was unbelievable.
• 1:13:03
  But when you look at the bracket, I mean, it's evenly
• 1:13:05
  matched. I love that Liu is getting in.
• 1:13:09
  I I know they're matched up against Arizona and, and a lot
• 1:13:11
  of people think that that's, that's just going to send them,
• 1:13:14
  you know, send them home early, but LIUII didn't get a chance to
• 1:13:18
  see him this year. But they have a two really good
• 1:13:21
  players, one guy that could be a fringe NBA player, a second
• 1:13:24
  round draft pick. So Liu is a good rebounding
• 1:13:28
  team, a team that is very good defensively.
• 1:13:32
  They're matched up against one of the best offensive teams in
• 1:13:34
  the country. So you're going to see defense
• 1:13:36
  versus offense. That's going to be fun.
• 1:13:38
  And by the way, congratulations to Hofstra getting into, I mean,
• 1:13:41
  they're in the they're one of the fringe teams.
• 1:13:43
  They're going to be playing, if I'm not mistaken, Alabama.
• 1:13:46
  Alabama, yes, they're matched up against Alabama.
• 1:13:49
  If they beat Alabama, they move on.
• 1:13:51
  So, and I'll say this about Hofstra, I love what Speedy
• 1:13:56
  Claxton is doing and we should have went there this year,
• 1:13:58
  Speedy and interviewed Speedy Claxton.
• 1:14:01
  Speedy Claxton has been one of the faces of Hofstra basketball
• 1:14:06
  before he went into the NBA and that is a pretty long career as
• 1:14:10
  an NBA player. But Speedy has really taking
• 1:14:13
  that team and brought that team to the forefront and has built
• 1:14:17
  Hofstra basketball back to the to a competitive team and a team
• 1:14:21
  that can compete in the maybe March Madness for the next
• 1:14:26
  couple of years. You have to recruit right.
• 1:14:29
  And he's recruited the right players, the players that the
• 1:14:31
  fringe players that want to come to Hofstra and play at a level
• 1:14:35
  maybe in an NBA level, because that's what Speedy is trying to
• 1:14:39
  teach here in Long Island, New York, in Nassau County.
• 1:14:42
  So that's fun to see. The fact that we've had a
• 1:14:45
  couple, couple of teams make this tournament is is really
• 1:14:48
  exciting. But the one.
• 1:14:51
  Thing that I would say about. This tournament, out of all the
• 1:14:54
  other tournaments, there's no sure thing.
• 1:14:57
  This year, there really isn't if you're a.
• 1:15:01
  Betting man, and I know there's. Jeff and Snog and all these guys
• 1:15:05
  that bet on sports all year round and I know Jeff is betting
• 1:15:09
  on the tournament as well as probably 90% of Americans and
• 1:15:14
  probably 75% of the world is betting on this tournament
• 1:15:17
  because everybody loves basketball nationally.
• 1:15:22
  I look at and. You said speedy, you think the
• 1:15:24
  West is the best? Yes, the top five teams
• 1:15:29
  collectively. Are the best in that region.
• 1:15:31
  I disagree. OK.
• 1:15:33
  I think the best, right? Now, out of the regions and,
• 1:15:37
  and, and I, I can argue that is the East.
• 1:15:41
  You look at teams there, there are a lot of fringe teams, teams
• 1:15:44
  that you're you're, you're looking at, you're going to cut
• 1:15:47
  a question, but Michigan State is in the.
• 1:15:50
  East with. Tom Izzo You can never bet
• 1:15:52
  against them, Duke. Even though I'm not a Shire fan,
• 1:15:57
  I expect them to be a contender this year with the talent that
• 1:16:03
  they have. UConn, they're they could be one
• 1:16:05
  of my favorites. They're A-Team.
• 1:16:07
  I, you know, I love their coach, Danny Hurley.
• 1:16:09
  They're dangerous. How about St.
• 1:16:11
  John's? St.
• 1:16:13
  John's could go all the way this year.
• 1:16:16
  So I just gave you 5 teams. You mentioned five teams from
• 1:16:19
  the West. I think the East is just as good
• 1:16:22
  as the West. I wouldn't be surprised if the
• 1:16:24
  East bracket is better than all the brackets because the games
• 1:16:28
  are going to be so very close and competitive and that's what
• 1:16:31
  you want to see in these tournaments.
• 1:16:32
  I, I think the weakest bracket and I'll, I'll say this and I'm
• 1:16:36
  looking at the brackets right now, the weakest brackets is, is
• 1:16:39
  probably the South. I agree with that.
• 1:16:43
  And. Who's in the South?
• 1:16:46
  Nebraska. Jabba's team.
• 1:16:47
  I mean, they're A4 seat. Yeah.
• 1:16:49
  He won't be happy when Vanderbilt.
• 1:16:50
  Blows them out probably or maybe.
• 1:16:52
  Hey, you say Vanderbilt, but if they if let's say if they get
• 1:16:56
  out of that so. Nebraska is matched up.
• 1:16:59
  Against Troy? Could Nebraska even get out of
• 1:17:02
  that Troy game? Cuz Troy's Troy, right?
• 1:17:05
  Now is ranked 13th. There are going to be 12 and 13
• 1:17:10
  teams, fringe teams that can win in round one I think.
• 1:17:14
  There's more of a chance. To that this year than it's ever
• 1:17:17
  been. I don't.
• 1:17:18
  I wouldn't be surprised if they're at least two or three 12
• 1:17:22
  or 13 teams coming out of the first round in this bracket.
• 1:17:26
  Yep, I have a 12/5. With that Texas Tech Akron one
• 1:17:29
  in the in the Midwest region because Texas Tech lost their
• 1:17:32
  best player and you're right there's always a 14 three
• 1:17:34
  possibility to the Ivy League upset with Penn should have been
• 1:17:37
  Yale. Yale actually choked the Ivy
• 1:17:39
  League championship away. They were up by 7 under 3
• 1:17:42
  minutes to go and blew it. But pen, you never know what
• 1:17:44
  that Ivy League upset too and the vulnerabilities of some of
• 1:17:48
  these three seeds. I I mentioned the four and
• 1:17:50
  fives, I think collectively are bigger clusters this year.
• 1:17:53
  Again, I'm not as high on Nebraska.
• 1:17:55
  I think they've been iffy in conference play a little more,
• 1:17:57
  but a Kansas could be a high point that maybe if they get
• 1:18:01
  Peterson actually play could be very interesting.
• 1:18:03
  I you know, I always love Alabama.
• 1:18:05
  You always love and. Arkansas is.
• 1:18:07
  Interesting. I don't think they should be a
• 1:18:09
  four seed necessarily. They're big.
• 1:18:12
  Arkansas is a big team. And, and that's what John
• 1:18:14
  Calipari goes when he when he's recruiting players, he wants the
• 1:18:17
  biggest, the strongest guys, they're going to bounce off the
• 1:18:20
  boards and, and do the things, do The Dirty work for him.
• 1:18:22
  They're not, he's not going to be able to recruit the players
• 1:18:25
  that he got for Kentucky, but he's going to get enough because
• 1:18:28
  he's John Calipari just like Pitino.
• 1:18:30
  Look what Pitino has built over there in Saint John's in such a
• 1:18:32
  short time. He he's drawing players that
• 1:18:35
  want to get into the portal, even if they're older players
• 1:18:37
  and play for him because Pitino is a winner.
• 1:18:39
  And Pitino is going to get you the NIL money that you need,
• 1:18:42
  which he's got such a, a great position right now and bringing
• 1:18:47
  in that, that NIL money, which Pitino has bragged about over
• 1:18:50
  the last couple of last couple of months.
• 1:18:52
  So I, I, I think also, and I'll look at, I'm looking at the
• 1:18:57
  South right now. There could be a lot of surprise
• 1:18:59
  teams. One of them is Texas A and I Me
• 1:19:01
  Too St. Mary.
• 1:19:03
  'S there's a lot of questions. I know we, we were talking to
• 1:19:06
  West over the weekend and West like Saint Mary's and and so
• 1:19:10
  does Reno Johnny, they both love Saint Mary's and Saint Mary's.
• 1:19:14
  They always get into the tournament.
• 1:19:16
  They're a lot higher than I thought they should be.
• 1:19:19
  I I I thought Saint Mary's if. They were going to be seated.
• 1:19:21
  Maybe a nine seed. I I I was seeing mostly as a
• 1:19:24
  nine as well. Yeah, I thought they were a
• 1:19:26
  nine. Seed, I didn't think they were a
• 1:19:28
  seven seed. So they, they were rated pretty,
• 1:19:31
  pretty high by the committee, but they're matched up against a
• 1:19:36
  team in Texas A&M that is very good and they can score, they
• 1:19:41
  can do things and it could cause a lot of problems on the board.
• 1:19:44
  So I, I was very surprised. Again, I know everybody has
• 1:19:49
  Houston coming out of here. Maybe even either there are
• 1:19:52
  people that have Houston and they're probably have people of
• 1:19:54
  Florida coming out of this. I'm going to tell you this right
• 1:19:57
  now, I wouldn't be surprised if a surprise team like Vanderbilt
• 1:20:00
  comes out of this or Texas A&M. That's literally my elite aid in
• 1:20:06
  that region. Because here's the thing that I
• 1:20:08
  think is the other trend that goes in the direction
• 1:20:10
  experienced teams a lot more rather than these flashier
• 1:20:13
  freshman teams win. Now, Fish, I was discussing this
• 1:20:15
  with you when you were talking about Arizona and that's the
• 1:20:18
  only thing that hurts against Arizona side is they don't have
• 1:20:21
  this. The average age is like 19.5
• 1:20:24
  compared to Texas A and it was actually one of the oldest teams
• 1:20:26
  in the country. Vanderbilt is another one that's
• 1:20:28
  like that too. Michigan's an interesting
• 1:20:30
  combination of veteran and transfer portal type guys that's
• 1:20:34
  very built like Florida is, as is Purdue, as is Gonzaga.
• 1:20:37
  A lot of those teams. That's the trend now of what
• 1:20:40
  wins in college basketball. That's why, yeah, we've talked
• 1:20:43
  about a lot of these prospects, Darren Peterson, Agent Debanta
• 1:20:45
  seems like that. It's not a lot of them what wins
• 1:20:48
  in today's game. I was snake bitten by Florida
• 1:20:52
  last year. I'll admit it.
• 1:20:52
  I but they have a philosophy that a lot of teams have adapted
• 1:20:56
  now this year where you could get veteran transfers to work.
• 1:20:59
  And a lot of those teams that I listed are really good
• 1:21:01
  combinations of that. UCLA is another one too.
• 1:21:03
  That's a very interesting sleeper in that in that region.
• 1:21:06
  That's why I yeah, maybe the East didn't have the top five
• 1:21:09
  that I was thinking, but they definitely have, I think the top
• 1:21:10
  7. When you look at a team like
• 1:21:12
  Louisville and you, I'm going to, I'm going to throw you a
• 1:21:13
  curveball. Throw all your fans out there.
• 1:21:16
  If Villanova gets out of the first round, I.
• 1:21:22
  Wouldn't be surprised if they. Upset Arizona.
• 1:21:25
  I wouldn't even be surprised. I know Fish has Arizona going
• 1:21:28
  all the way, but Villanova is a good defensive team.
• 1:21:32
  They're very good and I think they have the size and they have
• 1:21:36
  the defense advantage against Arizona.
• 1:21:39
  Arizona is not, and throughout these tournaments over the
• 1:21:42
  years, they're not very good defensively.
• 1:21:43
  They don't know how to stop teams, especially when teams can
• 1:21:46
  shoot the three and Villanova is going to be shooting a lot of
• 1:21:50
  threes in that game if they match up.
• 1:21:51
  Now, Villanova still has Utah State.
• 1:21:53
  They got to get, they got to get out of that and then Utah
• 1:21:55
  State's a good team. I've always been following for
• 1:21:58
  them a lot. They're.
• 1:21:58
  Not a very good tournament, but they're a good team.
• 1:22:01
  And they're going to they're going to cause problems against
• 1:22:03
  Villanova early in the first round.
• 1:22:05
  But if Villanova gets out of that, don't be surprised if
• 1:22:08
  Villanova knocks out a knocks off Arizona.
• 1:22:11
  Not because Arizona is not a contending team and they're not
• 1:22:15
  they're not a championship built team.
• 1:22:16
  I just think Arizona is a that falls apart, falls apart.
• 1:22:20
  So I I thought that. Was the narrative too.
• 1:22:23
  And I went on my out on my limb and call your shop because I'm
• 1:22:25
  not risking any money on it. But then I watched the Big 12
• 1:22:28
  championship game, Meryl, where they were up big on Houston and
• 1:22:33
  blew it. They'd let Houston come all the
• 1:22:35
  way back. But how did this young group,
• 1:22:38
  and you're right, speed, it's a very young group.
• 1:22:40
  Two of those guys are going to be in the lottery, two of them
• 1:22:43
  not 1-2. KOA.
• 1:22:44
  Pete's going to be a top ten pick and so is Buries.
• 1:22:47
  If he has a good tournament, I think he's probably going to be
• 1:22:49
  in like maybe 10 to 15, but I think he's a steal.
• 1:22:53
  This guy is fantastic defensively on the perimeter.
• 1:22:56
  He's fantastic with the ball in his hands and can create his own
• 1:22:59
  shot. Him and Pete are doing so much
• 1:23:03
  and then they have the senior leadership and then they have
• 1:23:05
  the big depth. They got a 72 centre and they
• 1:23:08
  have like 4-3 other bigs that they could throw at guys.
• 1:23:11
  They could play big, they could play small.
• 1:23:13
  They have the leadership. I I love their route to the to
• 1:23:17
  the championship. I'm worried about Calipari maybe
• 1:23:21
  at the one verse 4 later on in that.
• 1:23:24
  I would also watch out if Wisconsin.
• 1:23:26
  Wins that game. I would also watch out for them
• 1:23:27
  too. They're a good team.
• 1:23:29
  Well, I I just. Think that.
• 1:23:31
  I saw a defensive team like Houston get smothered by a team
• 1:23:36
  that supposedly doesn't have a good, good defense, good enough
• 1:23:39
  defense to stop someone, be able to commit their offense against
• 1:23:42
  a good defensive team. Because Arizona's offense I
• 1:23:44
  think plays against every single defense in the country and
• 1:23:48
  that's super important. They don't need the three.
• 1:23:50
  They can shoot the three, but they can play inside of the
• 1:23:54
  three-point line, which is going to be really important in this
• 1:23:57
  tournament. I'm going to tell you this,
• 1:23:59
  right? Now for all the fans out there
• 1:24:02
  and, and I know everybody listens to us and, and I've been
• 1:24:05
  listening to this craziness from Fish over the last couple of
• 1:24:09
  weeks telling us Arizona, Arizona, Arizona.
• 1:24:12
  I'm not I'm not betting on Arizona in any kind of way
• 1:24:17
  because I have seen this team choke every single tournament,
• 1:24:21
  every single tournament. They've had so many great
• 1:24:24
  players, so many great teams over the years.
• 1:24:26
  You're talking about elite players, NBA players on those
• 1:24:29
  rosters and what did they do? They do I'm.
• 1:24:32
  Not going to bet on it. I'm not going to bet on it.
• 1:24:35
  I I bet the 20 of it. I picked the 20. 17 Arizona.
• 1:24:39
  I know. I remember that.
• 1:24:41
  And Lori? Markenham is a great NBA player
• 1:24:43
  and they've had they've had some good NBA players, guys that were
• 1:24:46
  elite guys were top draft picks and and they couldn't win the
• 1:24:50
  tournament. So and honestly, there are times
• 1:24:53
  that Arizona should have went to the final four because of the
• 1:24:56
  bracket, the way it was set up for them and they couldn't even
• 1:24:59
  get it. They couldn't even get it to the
• 1:25:00
  Sweet 16. I forget the year after too or
• 1:25:02
  like. They were a four seed and there
• 1:25:03
  were more people picking them than the top three seeds when
• 1:25:06
  DeAndre was there. And who did they lose?
• 1:25:08
  2 fish your Buffalo bulls and NATO before he took the Alabama
• 1:25:12
  job was like the high. Point of my fandom for my
• 1:25:16
  college ever. They were so bad for so long.
• 1:25:18
  Errol, they used to run this offense.
• 1:25:21
  I it was the same play every single time down the court.
• 1:25:24
  They were ranked I think like dead last in football and
• 1:25:28
  somewhere near the bottom in basketball for most of my time
• 1:25:32
  in college at at SUNY Buffalo. But the offense they ran, they
• 1:25:35
  had a 611 guy from Morocco taking threes who was like a
• 1:25:40
  statue out there. His name was like Yasim the
• 1:25:43
  dream. It'd be he.
• 1:25:45
  So I remember him and then they had a dunker power forward named
• 1:25:49
  Bortz who would try to get a rebound and Duncan.
• 1:25:51
  And he was actually pretty good at that big white guy who could
• 1:25:54
  jump. And then it is a bunch of
• 1:25:56
  chuckers and one guy who could drab, who can dribble, whose
• 1:26:00
  brother actually was pretty good on Penn State.
• 1:26:02
  Turner Battle was the guy and his brother was another battle.
• 1:26:05
  Did you throw out names, Turner? Battle, I'm telling you, Turner,
• 1:26:09
  battle we've. Rooted for these guys like crazy
• 1:26:12
  when I was 18. Errol.
• 1:26:13
  You don't forget those guys names if there's no Tundra.
• 1:26:17
  If Nathan played for that Buffalo.
• 1:26:19
  Team I would have had a dude big like that's like a Smurf
• 1:26:24
  there's. No way.
• 1:26:25
  He's playing basketball. He's like 5 foot 5 at best.
• 1:26:28
  I mean, the guy's like a little Smurf.
• 1:26:30
  Now the real question How? How?
• 1:26:32
  Would these college basketball players do if they all had to
• 1:26:34
  wear blue Blazers and play? That's true, too.
• 1:26:36
  Could you imagine? That I mean, you could see
• 1:26:38
  Nathan like if he was at the NCAA tournament, he's walking,
• 1:26:41
  somebody gives him a mic, You see him run on.
• 1:26:43
  He's wearing that polo, like bright red shirt with the blue
• 1:26:47
  blazer and he's like these camouflage pants.
• 1:26:51
  And you see, Nathan, you can't miss the guy.
• 1:26:53
  You can't miss him. A 5 foot, 65 foot five guy
• 1:26:56
  running on a court trying to can I get an interview with you?
• 1:27:00
  What's your name? Ali Baba over here.
• 1:27:04
  You know it would look like Space Jam.
• 1:27:06
  Like he was going up to the Monstars or something like that.
• 1:27:10
  Ali. Baba, Anyways, I like, listen, I
• 1:27:15
  like Purdue. I like Purdue.
• 1:27:18
  I, I think I wouldn't be surprised if Purdue gets out of
• 1:27:20
  the West. I, I, I think the way it's set
• 1:27:23
  up for them, the only targeted team that I would be worried
• 1:27:26
  with them is BYU. And that's because AJ, because
• 1:27:29
  AJ is going to play hard. He's going to play.
• 1:27:32
  He already said he'll play 47 minutes if he has to, he'll play
• 1:27:35
  as many minutes as he possibly can to help his team win a
• 1:27:38
  national championship. Are you going to bet against the
• 1:27:41
  kid? No, I, I'm not going to, I, I
• 1:27:44
  don't depend. I don't bet against guys that go
• 1:27:46
  out there week in and week out and play hard.
• 1:27:49
  I don't I'll I'll say this about Ajaj plays harder than Cam and
• 1:27:56
  he plays harder than Peterson. He wants.
• 1:27:59
  It. Now, does that mean he's better
• 1:28:02
  than Cam? I don't.
• 1:28:04
  Think he's better than? Cam and that's and people can
• 1:28:06
  argue with me all they want on social media, think I'm crazy,
• 1:28:09
  but look what Cam does what how how he makes his team.
• 1:28:14
  Everybody had Virginia win in that game.
• 1:28:17
  Everybody with the, the injuries.
• 1:28:19
  That's why Carlos Boozer went after, after they won.
• 1:28:22
  He went on, he went on on the court dancing and, and prancing
• 1:28:25
  around because I, I don't think Carlos Boozer thought that that
• 1:28:30
  Duke was going to win that game. And everybody's giving,
• 1:28:32
  everybody's giving Shire all the credit after the game, which is
• 1:28:36
  so funny, had nothing to do with Shire.
• 1:28:39
  It really had nothing to do it. Jaden was unbelievable.
• 1:28:43
  But why is it? Shire getting credit when two of
• 1:28:47
  his guys that he would normally play were hurt, so he played
• 1:28:49
  whoever was left. Oh, great coaching.
• 1:28:53
  Great job putting in the guys that you didn't want to play
• 1:28:56
  that actually helped you win the tournament.
• 1:28:58
  Good job by you. Yeah, Fish, you brought the
• 1:29:00
  graphic. Before of the coaching gauntlet
• 1:29:03
  in that region, I would say John Shire would probably be #7 of
• 1:29:06
  the top eight teams, I mean, there's a half dozen.
• 1:29:10
  Rate bamers these got to go through arrow.
• 1:29:11
  Did you see? Did you see where?
• 1:29:13
  They rated John Shire as the top five elite coaches in NCAA,
• 1:29:18
  where they rated him number. 1. Where?
• 1:29:20
  That's crazy. What do you?
• 1:29:22
  Mean God. Whoever made that list, that
• 1:29:24
  might be just. As bad as that all time coaches
• 1:29:26
  list you did for in like Flynn probably shires like daughter.
• 1:29:30
  Or something for a school project or maybe or whatever.
• 1:29:33
  But you realize he's got, they've got Danny Hurley as the
• 1:29:35
  two seed. Izzo is the three seed.
• 1:29:39
  Speedy they got then they got Self and Kansas and Peterson as
• 1:29:42
  the four seed. They got Pitino at the five
• 1:29:45
  seed. I'm telling you they've they got
• 1:29:48
  Louisville and UCLA speedy. Tell me the coaches names on
• 1:29:51
  those two. Pat Kelsey, who's very good.
• 1:29:53
  Very underrated for a while built a program that was in
• 1:29:55
  poverty for a while. Louisville had us all that debt
• 1:29:57
  and stuff like that. I they're they're an interesting
• 1:29:59
  sleeper to watch too. And then UCLA is Mick Cronin,
• 1:30:02
  who took them to a final four or five years ago.
• 1:30:04
  I'm telling you right now, I'm. Telling you right now, the Big
• 1:30:06
  East is the best out of all the regions.
• 1:30:09
  I'm telling you right now, you're the best games are coming
• 1:30:12
  from the Big East. I I think there's something
• 1:30:14
  real. Interesting going to happen with
• 1:30:15
  the top of the draft. You were mentioning a second ago
• 1:30:17
  the Bansa if he can carry his team to the Sweet 16 because
• 1:30:21
  they are vastly inferior to the to the Kansas and Duke for those
• 1:30:25
  other two guys at the top of the draft.
• 1:30:27
  If he can do that, I think he he locks up the first pick.
• 1:30:32
  I think he does if he can do it. But if they go one and out, like
• 1:30:35
  you remember Kevin Durant, he was a great college basketball
• 1:30:38
  player, but they were one and done when they got to March.
• 1:30:42
  And did he go first? No, he did not.
• 1:30:44
  No, he didn't. Two teams, their player No
• 1:30:46
  slouch. Either NC State's a very
• 1:30:48
  interesting one too, because they were another one that they
• 1:30:50
  struggled at the end of the year, but they were so they were
• 1:30:52
  dropped all the way to an 11. They were really good in the top
• 1:30:54
  25 in the AC in the ACC all year too.
• 1:30:57
  And they're another team that has a lot of experience.
• 1:30:59
  Will Wade's a good coach. She was there at LSU before a
• 1:31:02
  scandal in Texas. They have a chip on their
• 1:31:04
  shoulder too with all this. The stuff that they've gone
• 1:31:06
  through with their coaching changes too.
• 1:31:08
  And you know, Sean Miller after, and I don't love him taking all
• 1:31:11
  the NIL money and stuff like that, but he wants to prove
• 1:31:13
  himself again, I think, I think. This is the best tournament for
• 1:31:17
  number twos. I think they're the best number
• 1:31:19
  twos the tournament has ever had.
• 1:31:21
  If you look at it, Houston is a #2, right?
• 1:31:24
  UConn is a #2 so I'm, I'm looking at the number that's on
• 1:31:28
  one side. Yeah, Purdue.
• 1:31:29
  You're yeah, Purdue on a Purdue and in Iowa State.
• 1:31:33
  And honestly in my. Opinion.
• 1:31:35
  The Midwest is the most wide open bracket because Michigan
• 1:31:39
  did not end the season as strong as you would like to see number
• 1:31:42
  one seed end the season. Then you got Iowa State, who
• 1:31:45
  played everyone tough all year in that tough Big 12, and then
• 1:31:49
  Virginia, which dropped. And then after that, that Bama
• 1:31:53
  team versus Hofstra, Bama lost their second leading scorer.
• 1:31:57
  I'm going to talk about it in the sports minute.
• 1:31:59
  He's in jail. He's off the team.
• 1:32:01
  That's a problem for Bama. And then it's like Texas Tech
• 1:32:07
  good, maybe Tennessee, maybe Kentucky.
• 1:32:10
  Not a great Kentucky team. No, they're not good.
• 1:32:12
  I think they're losing. You know, and then it's.
• 1:32:14
  Like they haven't picked good since.
• 1:32:16
  Since John Calipari, they've been streaky all year.
• 1:32:18
  You could I, I. Think Iowa State, even though I
• 1:32:20
  don't think they're in the caliber of the other two seeds.
• 1:32:24
  I think they probably got the easiest path like that.
• 1:32:27
  That's not a tough like, that's as wide open as it gets.
• 1:32:30
  I like them more in Houston. You can have a real low seed.
• 1:32:33
  Possibly come out over there and it wouldn't surprise me because
• 1:32:37
  I I think it's pretty even. I tend to agree with Errol
• 1:32:39
  though with when you. Look at the South region as
• 1:32:41
  potentially having sleepers that could come out of there too.
• 1:32:43
  I mentioned Vanderbilt already. Clemson's another interesting
• 1:32:47
  one too. Another tough ACC team.
• 1:32:48
  And I mentioned on my call your shot a few weeks ago, the trends
• 1:32:52
  do not bode well for repeat champions outside of UConn
• 1:32:54
  because they broke every trend imaginable in 2024 when they
• 1:32:57
  went back-to-back for a defending champion type team.
• 1:32:59
  So maybe there is more vulnerability to Florida there
• 1:33:02
  playing very overconfident and they again, they squeaked into a
• 1:33:05
  one seed is definitely a possibility too.
• 1:33:07
  And even some of those other teams, Texas A&M we mentioned
• 1:33:10
  VCU is another interesting one too if Caleb Wilson is hurt.
• 1:33:13
  And I think they can make a lot of noise to winning the their
• 1:33:17
  conference tournament this year as well.
• 1:33:18
  Always an experienced well coached team with them.
• 1:33:20
  Are you going to be surprised if Hofstra.
• 1:33:22
  Knocks you off Alabama, I would be only because I really.
• 1:33:25
  Like Alabama, but I'm taking it bro I'm.
• 1:33:27
  Taking it all right? Why not?
• 1:33:30
  Why? Couldn't.
• 1:33:30
  I was hoping they were going to play Kansas because.
• 1:33:33
  Because if they knock. Off Alabama, they would be not.
• 1:33:37
  They would be matching up against Texas Tech or Akron, and
• 1:33:41
  I think they could be both those teams too.
• 1:33:42
  Could you imagine Hofstra get into the Sweet 16?
• 1:33:46
  That would be interesting. I actually have that.
• 1:33:47
  Akron upset because of the Texas Tech injury but yeah that would
• 1:33:50
  be well very well earned if they could beat Alabama who I think
• 1:33:53
  of the four seeds right now probably look like the highest
• 1:33:56
  quality unless you we'll see with Kansas if they can get all
• 1:33:58
  their guys well like fish said losing your.
• 1:34:00
  Your second best scorer to to the tournament now is Alabama
• 1:34:05
  going to put up enough points against a team like Hofstra and
• 1:34:08
  speedy likes to run and gun. He likes to play fast pace.
• 1:34:11
  I, I was reading about Hofstra and what made Hofstra so good
• 1:34:14
  this year is, is the way they, they run up, up and down the
• 1:34:17
  court as fast as they do and, and they play high octane
• 1:34:20
  offense. So in this kind of tournament,
• 1:34:23
  you're going to have to play that high pace, that high pace
• 1:34:26
  against Alabama, especially Alabama, who's a good scoring
• 1:34:28
  team, but always have been and they are very fast-paced.
• 1:34:31
  As well, And the question is with them is the same thing that
• 1:34:34
  issued them in 22 was their their size.
• 1:34:36
  Do they have enough of that? That's where I started to worry
• 1:34:38
  if they played Michigan later, because Michigan fish like you
• 1:34:41
  were talking about, has the size.
• 1:34:42
  You know, there's questions with the health of of Yaxel.
• 1:34:45
  He got suffered an ankle injury against Purdue, but that's going
• 1:34:48
  to be if Alabama survives out of there.
• 1:34:50
  That's what could be interesting for somebody like Iowa State or
• 1:34:53
  even on the the bottom of that bracket with Virginia, who I
• 1:34:55
  really like as they're they say you top 20 offense defensive
• 1:35:00
  efficiency teams usually win the championship in Virginia.
• 1:35:02
  I think was one of those ten teams.
• 1:35:04
  Iowa State was another one that was as was Michigan in that
• 1:35:07
  region. Arizona obviously was fish.
• 1:35:08
  I think they were two and one, and then Duke, obviously that's
• 1:35:12
  the number one overall seat is going to be that, too.
• 1:35:14
  Vanderbilt was another one, as was Gonzaga.
• 1:35:16
  It's going to be fun to watch. Guys, we're going to have our
• 1:35:19
  bracket. If you want to join our bracket,
• 1:35:20
  you're more than welcome to. We are.
• 1:35:22
  We usually do our brackets on Tuesday or Wednesday, probably
• 1:35:27
  Wednesday this week. It's it's a very busy time for
• 1:35:30
  all of us. So but we're working on it.
• 1:35:33
  If you want to join a bracket, Speedy will post it up and and
• 1:35:36
  you can join a bracket that we need.
• 1:35:38
  We usually have 10 to 12 teams. Last year we only had eight.
• 1:35:41
  I think it was something, yeah, we had the, we had the betting.
• 1:35:44
  Guys and our guys, I think really, yeah, I don't think we
• 1:35:47
  made it public. Last year, so we'll make it
• 1:35:49
  public as well as enter. All of us will enter it and if
• 1:35:52
  you guys are interested, we'll definitely post it on all the
• 1:35:54
  socials for you. Everybody will put $20.00 into.
• 1:35:56
  It and whoever wins, you know, when it comes to points, they
• 1:35:59
  win themselves, you know, 100 bucks or 100 and 150 bucks.
• 1:36:03
  I mean, I mean it's all lock. You don't know how it's going to
• 1:36:06
  work out so it you can guess you can predict, but doesn't always
• 1:36:11
  happen the way that you predict it to be.
• 1:36:13
  So that's why March Madness is so open and so fun to watch.
• 1:36:16
  So stay tuned anyways, my golf clap of the week this.
• 1:36:21
  Deserves a. Golf clap.
• 1:36:23
  No doubt. Golf clap.
• 1:36:24
  Golf. Clap.
• 1:36:27
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, my.
• 1:36:29
  Golf clap of the week goes to Darren Moji as he decided to
• 1:36:34
  trade a seventh round pick this year in 2026 for Mika
• 1:36:38
  Fitzpatrick and then extended him to a three-year, $40 million
• 1:36:41
  contract to one of the best safeties in the league.
• 1:36:43
  He flipped this. Now, everybody was questioning
• 1:36:46
  what they were going to do with Justin Fields.
• 1:36:48
  Are they going to wave him? Are they going to drop him?
• 1:36:50
  Well, Darren Moji had some other plan.
• 1:36:52
  And boy, oh, boy, this was a success for both Kansas City and
• 1:36:59
  the New York Jets. The New York Jets trade Justin
• 1:37:03
  Fields. Listen to this for next year's
• 1:37:06
  Kansas City Chiefs sixth round draft pick.
• 1:37:09
  So he gained 1/6 for next year and in return, The Jets are
• 1:37:13
  going to pay 7 million of Justin Fields salary this year to trade
• 1:37:18
  him to Kansas City to be the backup of Patrick Mahomes, which
• 1:37:22
  we don't know if you'll be ready for the, you know, the beginning
• 1:37:24
  of the year. Maybe he will, maybe he won't.
• 1:37:25
  But Justin Fields will be backing up Patrick Mahomes and
• 1:37:28
  The Jets get themselves a sixth round draft pick after training
• 1:37:31
  a seventh. Well, 2 sevenths over the last
• 1:37:34
  couple of weeks. So this is an absolute home run.
• 1:37:37
  Think about it, The Jets got a sixth round draft pick and only
• 1:37:41
  had to pay $7,000,000 of Justin Fields money this year for.
• 1:37:46
  A sixth round draft. I mean, it, it's a slam dunk.
• 1:37:49
  It is an absolute slam dunk for Darren.
• 1:37:51
  And Darren Mochi slowly but surely is looking like the GM of
• 1:37:56
  the offseason. Think about some of the moves
• 1:37:58
  that he has made so far this year and he's not spending a lot
• 1:38:01
  of money, $7,000,000 isn't going to burn a hole in the New York
• 1:38:05
  Jets pockets. And still The Jets have the 4th
• 1:38:08
  or the 3rd, still most money to spend next offseason because
• 1:38:14
  three of these guys are going to be off the cap next year because
• 1:38:17
  they're going to be free agents. If they want to bring them back,
• 1:38:19
  they can bring them back. If they don't, they don't have
• 1:38:22
  to. And The Jets are sitting pretty
• 1:38:23
  next year with three first round draft picks and not trading and
• 1:38:27
  now next year adding a sixth round draft pick in a draft
• 1:38:29
  that's better than it is this year.
• 1:38:31
  So who's better than Darren Moji?
• 1:38:34
  So my Golf Club goes to not Kansas City, not Justin Fields,
• 1:38:39
  not the $7,000,000 they're sending to Kansas City.
• 1:38:42
  No, it is Darren Moji who it looks like a complete genius
• 1:38:46
  right now for the New York Jets, for all the fans out there that
• 1:38:49
  likes to take shots of Aaron, Aaron Rodgers, the whole debacle
• 1:38:54
  with Aaron Rodgers, even Aaron Glenn this past season.
• 1:38:58
  The Jets have something cooking and Darren Moji looks like he
• 1:39:02
  looks like he knows what he's doing.
• 1:39:04
  So my Golf Club goes to the moocher.
• 1:39:07
  The moocher. Thank you.
• 1:39:09
  Thank you for giving us another pick, another success and
• 1:39:12
  another hole in Speedy's ass. When we come back, ladies and
• 1:39:16
  gentlemen, we're going to be talking to a Major League
• 1:39:20
  umpire, 34 year vet. Umpire Phil Puzzi will be
• 1:39:25
  joining us when we come back. Very interesting cat.
• 1:39:29
  I mean, he's had a long baseball career and we'll see what he's
• 1:39:33
  what his plans are. We're very excited to have him
• 1:39:36
  on. But first, our sports minute
• 1:39:38
  with Fish this. Is the.
• 1:39:42
  Jabba and the Mouth Sportsman at.
• 1:39:46
  All right, guys, Aaron Fishman. Here with your sportsman.
• 1:39:48
  He got a couple of stories before we get into the scores
• 1:39:51
  this evening as we were just talking about.
• 1:39:53
  The Alabama Crimson Tide have been awarded the fourth seed in
• 1:39:57
  this year's NCAA Tournament despite being upset early in the
• 1:40:00
  SEC Tournament in their opening round match against Ole Miss,
• 1:40:04
  facing Long Island Tofstra University in the first round,
• 1:40:07
  the team found out Monday that their second leading scorer,
• 1:40:10
  Aiden Holloway, had been arrested on felony drug charges
• 1:40:14
  a short four days before they square off in Tampa, FL against
• 1:40:19
  the Pride of Strong Island. Holloway was arrested for having
• 1:40:24
  over a pound of marijuana and failing to affix a tax stamp.
• 1:40:29
  I guess to the bag. I guess that's how they're doing
• 1:40:31
  in Florida. Holloway averaged 16.8 points
• 1:40:34
  per game this season is shot 44% from 3 point land.
• 1:40:38
  Without Holloway, the number three offense in college
• 1:40:41
  basketball loses one of their key players when they can afford
• 1:40:44
  to do so. The least recent updates have
• 1:40:47
  him being removed from the school and the program entirely
• 1:40:52
  due to these charges, which carry a maximum sent 10 years of
• 1:40:57
  jail. Oklahoma City.
• 1:40:59
  Thunder. Guard and reigning MVP Shay
• 1:41:02
  Gilgeous Alexander made news last Thursday when he broke Wilt
• 1:41:05
  Chamberlain's record streak of 126 games with 20 or more points
• 1:41:10
  scored against the Boston Celtics.
• 1:41:13
  Shay almost lost the streak on Sunday but was able to get it to
• 1:41:16
  128 as he went into the fourth quarter with only 10 points.
• 1:41:20
  But he got to 20 with a what, late and one on a jump shot and
• 1:41:24
  he was fouled by Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards and their
• 1:41:26
  win against them. 116103 Shay, who is anywhere from a 2 to one
• 1:41:31
  to an almost 3 to one favorite for getting a back-to-back MVP
• 1:41:35
  trophy, told reporters after the game that the streak means far
• 1:41:39
  less than the outcome of the game.
• 1:41:41
  Yeah, I didn't care about anything besides winning the
• 1:41:43
  game as usual. The game tonight was so junky
• 1:41:46
  low scoring. They're obviously a good
• 1:41:47
  defense. We're a good defense.
• 1:41:49
  So it's no surprise to me those type of things have never
• 1:41:52
  mattered. It's it's just always about
• 1:41:54
  walking out of here with a W If I have a night like I had
• 1:41:56
  tonight and we win the way we win tonight, for the rest of the
• 1:41:59
  season, I'll be the happiest guy on earth.
• 1:42:01
  The winning is all that matters. The comfort.
• 1:42:04
  The Thunder sit comfortably atop the Western Conference standings
• 1:42:08
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• 1:42:13
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  We are now talking to former 34 year MLB umpire Phil Kazi is on
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  the show. Phil, what is up my friend?
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  What's up guys? It sounds like you're having too
• 1:45:20
  much fun out there. Well, we always have fun.
• 1:45:22
  I mean if. You watch this show, we are a
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  little outlandish. We can go a little bit off, off
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  the train. I mean, we tilt, we spill and
• 1:45:31
  Speedy doesn't use much of any kind of napkins.
• 1:45:34
  So when it spills, he leaves a couple of stains, if you know
• 1:45:36
  what I mean, Phil. But I mean, the stains are
• 1:45:39
  definitely going to stick and hopefully we're not racking
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  anything. And if we're racking, maybe
• 1:45:44
  we'll play some pool. If you're a good pool player,
• 1:45:46
  you know, I could win some money.
• 1:45:48
  But anyways, Phil, we got to get into your career and you've been
• 1:45:51
  in the majors for 34 years. You announced, I want you to
• 1:45:56
  tell the fans before I, I announced that you have just
• 1:46:00
  announced your retirement, which is if you have had a sensational
• 1:46:04
  career, 34 years in the major leagues, to have a career like
• 1:46:06
  that, that's, I mean, I've been on this earth for 43 years.
• 1:46:11
  So just think about it. When you started your umpire
• 1:46:14
  career, I was nine years old. To think about 30-4 years in the
• 1:46:18
  major leagues at a top level, it's an impressive career.
• 1:46:22
  So tell us a little bit about your career and and 34 years at
• 1:46:26
  a dominant level with some of the great baseball players of
• 1:46:29
  our time. Well, 34 years total.
• 1:46:32
  It was 27 in the big leagues. I started the minor leagues in
• 1:46:35
  85 in the New York Penn League. But it was the best way I could
• 1:46:41
  describe it is to say that I was living my dream that that's,
• 1:46:46
  that's what it was. I mean, like every other kid in
• 1:46:48
  the, in the country, you thought about playing Major League
• 1:46:52
  Baseball, right? You wanted to play baseball
• 1:46:54
  since Little League and, and below that.
• 1:46:57
  And you know, who didn't want to in this area, especially who
• 1:47:00
  didn't want to play for the Yankees or the Mets, right?
• 1:47:03
  And you know, it wasn't until I went to college to play and then
• 1:47:10
  blew out my, my shoulder. I was a catcher, which I
• 1:47:14
  believed helped me as an umpire. And my first job out of college
• 1:47:18
  was a school teacher. And I did that for about four
• 1:47:21
  years. And I said, you know, I, I love
• 1:47:24
  this job, but I'm in a good school system in Union, NJ And I
• 1:47:30
  said I just, you know, I don't want to.
• 1:47:32
  Yeah, I was young. I was right out of college.
• 1:47:34
  I said, I, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to always
• 1:47:36
  have to have a, a summer job. I wanted to be married, have a
• 1:47:40
  family. So I, I, you know, a friend of
• 1:47:43
  mine said, you know, you have a pretty good personality.
• 1:47:45
  Why don't you go into sales? So I, I went into sales.
• 1:47:48
  I did that for about a year and I was, I, you know, the idea was
• 1:47:52
  to make more money. I did, but it wasn't anything
• 1:47:55
  that really excited me. And you know, the, the, what's
• 1:47:58
  the, what's the, the pinnacle of, of being in sales, closing
• 1:48:01
  an order, right. And so I was doing that, but it
• 1:48:04
  just wasn't lighting me up. And it wasn't until I was at
• 1:48:07
  Yankee Stadium with my buddies one night and for whatever the
• 1:48:10
  reason, I just started focusing on the umpires rotating around
• 1:48:13
  the field. And I said, now that would be a
• 1:48:16
  good job. And my, my buddy next to me
• 1:48:18
  said, you know, there's an umpire school.
• 1:48:20
  I, I see the advertised in the back of the Sporting News.
• 1:48:23
  And so I, I rode away and there were two private schools at that
• 1:48:28
  time. A little different today, but,
• 1:48:31
  and that's where my journey began.
• 1:48:33
  But it was a long journey to get to the big leagues and a lot of
• 1:48:37
  bumps and and and potholes in the road, the lot of New York
• 1:48:42
  potholes we. Deal with that every single day.
• 1:48:44
  A lot of every. Day.
• 1:48:46
  I'm hitting a pothole, and sometimes I wonder, when are our
• 1:48:51
  taxes going to be used in the right way?
• 1:48:53
  But yeah. And it sounds like you're from
• 1:48:55
  New York, and it sounds like you're more from the Brooklyn
• 1:48:58
  area, Am I right? Well, you know, my mother grew
• 1:49:00
  up in. Brooklyn, I'm from Jersey.
• 1:49:02
  I gotcha so. I grew up now, I grew up here in
• 1:49:06
  Long Island, but I went to school in Brooklyn.
• 1:49:10
  I, I was, I was a bad boy as what they would call me when I
• 1:49:14
  was a kid, when I was a teenager.
• 1:49:15
  And that's why I played hockey and I played hockey to try to
• 1:49:18
  take people's heads. I, I clothesline people and try
• 1:49:21
  to knock people's heads off their bodies.
• 1:49:23
  So I, I was always an abusive kind of guy on and off the, the
• 1:49:27
  ice. So I, I like to fight.
• 1:49:29
  It was something about it, you know, living, living in such a
• 1:49:33
  soft neighborhood in Long Island, because Long Island
• 1:49:36
  soft, when you go to Brooklyn or you go to the city, you realize
• 1:49:39
  that you're not as tough as you think you are.
• 1:49:41
  And there are a lot of tougher guys.
• 1:49:43
  And, and it's not even a tougher guy in, in a, you know, in a
• 1:49:47
  city or a tougher guy in a town, it's a tough guy every single
• 1:49:51
  block. So every single block you step
• 1:49:54
  on, there's somebody tougher. So it was, it was interesting,
• 1:49:58
  but I, I got a chance to understand what it was to not
• 1:50:03
  understand what it was to live in such a small place in, in an
• 1:50:07
  island and, and go somewhere so much bigger and so much more, I
• 1:50:11
  guess charismatic in Brooklyn. So I, I want to get into MLB
• 1:50:18
  and, and some of the rule changes.
• 1:50:20
  I mean, you've been in the game for a long time.
• 1:50:22
  You've seen the transition. Obviously, Bud Selig, you were
• 1:50:25
  there during the steroid era where a lot of people question
• 1:50:29
  why Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa are not in the Hall of Fame.
• 1:50:34
  I don't care if they did steroids.
• 1:50:35
  So I know you got a chance to umpire for these guys.
• 1:50:39
  You saw these guys play at such a top level when you look and I
• 1:50:43
  and I, I know you're, you're no longer a Major League umpire.
• 1:50:46
  So you have a right to to give your own opinion.
• 1:50:49
  And I don't know if anybody's asked you this question since
• 1:50:51
  since the, the announcement that you're retiring.
• 1:50:54
  So my question to you is you look at the game, the 90's, the
• 1:50:58
  strike. Baseball needed a savior,
• 1:51:01
  baseball needed saviors and Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa were the
• 1:51:05
  guys. Those are the guys that really
• 1:51:07
  took baseball, put baseball on their shoulders and help
• 1:51:09
  baseball and and really drive baseball.
• 1:51:12
  I mean, literally Dr. baseballs outside of stadiums.
• 1:51:16
  When you look at the steroid era, do you believe that Barry
• 1:51:20
  Bonds, Rodger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGuire, Gary
• 1:51:25
  Sheffield, some of the greatest baseball players of this era
• 1:51:29
  should be in the Hall of Fame? Yes or no?
• 1:51:30
  Well, that's, you know, that's the, that's.
• 1:51:32
  The $100,000 question, right? But, you know, you make the
• 1:51:35
  point about Sosa and and McGuire.
• 1:51:40
  You know, think about that whole season, how exciting it was and
• 1:51:44
  how people were glued to the, to the TV and the attendance, I'm
• 1:51:48
  sure was up because of that. And, you know, just very, very
• 1:51:52
  exciting. Should they be in the Hall of
• 1:51:54
  Fame? I mean, you know, I, I, I, I
• 1:51:58
  don't know as a, you know, as a, as a gatekeeper of the rules,
• 1:52:04
  the rules were broken. So should that, you know, I
• 1:52:09
  mean, and we could talk about Pete Rose, you know, should Pete
• 1:52:12
  Rose be in the Hall of Fame more hits than anybody in the in the
• 1:52:16
  history of the game? That's a tough question.
• 1:52:18
  I didn't want it. I didn't want it to stick to
• 1:52:20
  your. Board over there.
• 1:52:21
  OK, I, I'm, I'm just, I'm a very open guy.
• 1:52:24
  And when you watch this show, I'm I'm a pretty straightforward
• 1:52:26
  person and I, I love that you're on and I, I respect we, we've
• 1:52:29
  had umpires on the show and I've asked him questions and I, I've
• 1:52:32
  gone deeper into conversations about this.
• 1:52:35
  And that's what bothers me because Pete Rose should have
• 1:52:38
  been in the Hall of Fame a long time ago.
• 1:52:40
  Let's be honest. And now he's going to go into
• 1:52:42
  the Hall of Fame. Now that he's dead, what does it
• 1:52:44
  matter if he's in the Hall of Fame?
• 1:52:45
  He didn't get to get to experience.
• 1:52:47
  This is one of the greatest hitters in baseball and this guy
• 1:52:49
  bet on baseball. So did Shay.
• 1:52:52
  Otani. Shay Otani did the same thing.
• 1:52:56
  Okay, but Shay Otani still in the major leagues.
• 1:52:58
  Shay Otani is an international superstar.
• 1:53:00
  Shay Otani has 70 millions of deferred money and making all
• 1:53:04
  these great sponsors and advertisement deals that he's
• 1:53:07
  getting on and off the baseball field.
• 1:53:09
  Why is it allowed that now baseball is trying to protect
• 1:53:13
  their players because they're trying to hide situations
• 1:53:16
  because let's be honest, and I am.
• 1:53:18
  I am being nothing but the honest, I'm honest guy.
• 1:53:21
  When if you're going to do it to 1, you do it to all.
• 1:53:23
  Everybody should be prosecuted for what they do.
• 1:53:26
  And I know what baseball's going to say.
• 1:53:28
  Baseball loves to do this. They say, hey, you know what, I
• 1:53:32
  got news for you. We did our investigation.
• 1:53:34
  As a matter of fact, the FBI did an investigation in two weeks
• 1:53:39
  after this has been going on for years.
• 1:53:41
  And there were players on his team, his friends that were a
• 1:53:45
  part of this whole scandal. But you know what, Shayoh didn't
• 1:53:49
  know anything about it. 20 something, $1,000,000, They
• 1:53:52
  didn't know that was it. And I was counting.
• 1:53:54
  He's got 6 accountants. How does he know anything about
• 1:53:57
  this? Come on, come on.
• 1:53:59
  You know Mr. Phil, you know this is a bunch of rubbish.
• 1:54:03
  You know that baseball is protecting their international
• 1:54:05
  superstar, their breadwinner. Am I right or wrong on this?
• 1:54:09
  Well, could you imagine? Having so much money that you
• 1:54:12
  don't that you that you can't keep track of what was it, $27
• 1:54:17
  million? Come on, you can have all the.
• 1:54:19
  Money in the world. How can you not tell $27 million
• 1:54:23
  is outside of your pocket? I could you could be the richest
• 1:54:26
  man in the world. You're going to tell my you're
• 1:54:28
  going to tell me right now Elon Musk doesn't know that there's
• 1:54:31
  $27 million outside of his pocket Come on, Phil, we are
• 1:54:37
  we're not stupid here. I have bright eyes.
• 1:54:40
  I mean, I have brown eyes, not bright eyes, but they're brown
• 1:54:42
  enough. So I I, and I'm not trying to
• 1:54:44
  brownie, you know, brownie anybody.
• 1:54:46
  I just like, I like to throw them and hopefully it doesn't
• 1:54:49
  stick on the wall like shit. But it there there is stuff that
• 1:54:52
  happens in baseball, happens in sports that people try to re
• 1:54:56
  evaluate because, oh, he's our superstar, you know, and let's
• 1:55:00
  let's push it to the side. Let's not talk about this
• 1:55:02
  anymore, which by the way, nobody has spoken about this
• 1:55:05
  after everything was pushed to the side.
• 1:55:07
  Not one thing has been mentioned in the public eye since then.
• 1:55:11
  Why? Oh, I'm sorry.
• 1:55:13
  It's Shayo Itani, the Japanese phenom.
• 1:55:16
  Everybody loves him. He's such a nice guy.
• 1:55:19
  Oh, he's just been in two scandals in the amount of two
• 1:55:21
  years. But who cares?
• 1:55:23
  It's Shayo Itani. Come on, Phil, give it to me.
• 1:55:27
  Well, I love you, man. You look good, man.
• 1:55:29
  By the way, you look really, really good.
• 1:55:30
  You should have never retired. Not paid for an old man, right?
• 1:55:33
  No, you look good, man. I think you look.
• 1:55:35
  Great. Well, thank you.
• 1:55:37
  Thank you. It's, you know, I think my
• 1:55:39
  secret was orange juice in the morning, red wine in the
• 1:55:42
  evening. And I think that might have been
• 1:55:45
  that might have helped. That might have been a big help.
• 1:55:47
  Well, you know, and also. Taking a shower every day?
• 1:55:50
  I hope so well. Yeah, once in a while.
• 1:55:53
  Well. There's people you know,
• 1:55:54
  there's. People sometimes I wonder, you
• 1:55:56
  know, the things that it's funny, I meet a lot of athletes
• 1:56:00
  and I, I talk to a ton of athletes and, and when I meet
• 1:56:03
  them in person, they tell me some of them smell good, others
• 1:56:07
  smell interesting. And I'm like, what do you wear?
• 1:56:09
  And they're like, they're all happy.
• 1:56:11
  They're all, they're like, Oh, I wear a mask or I wear this and I
• 1:56:14
  wear that. And I'm like some of the guys, I
• 1:56:16
  ask them what they wear is like, why do I smell?
• 1:56:18
  And I'm like, Oh, no, you smell pretty good.
• 1:56:20
  And I walk away and I go, damn, did you take a shower yesterday?
• 1:56:24
  Did you take a shower today? I mean, some of these athletes,
• 1:56:27
  they, they're, they're interesting fellows.
• 1:56:29
  But I, you know, it's I'm when I, when I throw you curveballs
• 1:56:33
  on this show, I don't want you to get, I don't want you to feel
• 1:56:35
  out of place. I just, I want, I, I'm an honest
• 1:56:38
  guy and I, I look at things in a, in a very different way than
• 1:56:40
  a lot of these broadcasters. I think they beat around a Bush.
• 1:56:43
  They hide behind certain things and I think they're, they're
• 1:56:47
  unwatchable and unlistened to. And, and I can't listen to
• 1:56:50
  people that can't be honest and, and to me with baseball.
• 1:56:54
  And I'm not, I'm not the biggest Rob Manfred fan.
• 1:56:57
  I'm not, as a matter of fact, I can't stand the man.
• 1:57:00
  Everybody on the show would tell you, I, I think he's, he's hurt
• 1:57:03
  the game of baseball with these new rules, these just everything
• 1:57:08
  about this strike and, and why it's happening.
• 1:57:11
  I blame him for it. I, I think there's a lot of
• 1:57:13
  things that he could have cleaned up over the last two
• 1:57:16
  years where we can figure out why this has been going on with
• 1:57:19
  the Dodgers. And that's where I want to get
• 1:57:21
  out. And I just think he has some
• 1:57:22
  questions for you too. But is there a reason why Rod
• 1:57:27
  Manford has allowed the Dodgers to control baseball over the
• 1:57:31
  last couple of years? Because that's what they've been
• 1:57:34
  doing. They've been controlling the
• 1:57:35
  game of baseball by this deferred money crap.
• 1:57:38
  And everybody tells me all these athletes come on the show.
• 1:57:40
  Well, guess what, Errol? This has been on.
• 1:57:42
  This has been going. On forever and and nobody's
• 1:57:45
  doing it but the Dodgers so have amphetamines and everybody was
• 1:57:49
  doing them in the 50s and 60s. Isn't that cheating?
• 1:57:52
  So let's get back to it. Why is Rob Manford sitting there
• 1:57:57
  and sitting pretty and saying, well, they're they're doing
• 1:58:00
  everything right. Everything is is part of the
• 1:58:03
  rules of baseball. Well, these rules have not been
• 1:58:06
  attacked the way the Dodgers have attacked it.
• 1:58:08
  And then now the Dodgers are sitting here.
• 1:58:11
  They get Tucker in the offseason.
• 1:58:12
  It seems like they're on another run to win another World Series.
• 1:58:15
  And it makes you sick to your stomach.
• 1:58:17
  And everybody brings up, well, the Yankees did it.
• 1:58:19
  No, the Yankees never did this. This is ridiculous.
• 1:58:23
  That's a ridiculous statement. So you've been around baseball
• 1:58:25
  for a long time and you've been around different commissioners.
• 1:58:29
  Why is Rob Manford so clueless when it comes to the game of
• 1:58:33
  baseball? I don't have the answer to that
• 1:58:35
  question. I love you.
• 1:58:37
  Man, I love. It.
• 1:58:38
  I know that. You know, you're bringing up
• 1:58:42
  aspects of the game that that never even crossed my mind.
• 1:58:45
  You know, I, I, I'm recently retired.
• 1:58:49
  Before I retired, it was just a ball strike, safe out handling
• 1:58:52
  situations and keeping the game in check.
• 1:58:55
  And you know, that's what we did.
• 1:58:58
  Never ever looked at the game since I've been an umpire, minor
• 1:59:03
  league included, never looked at the game and through fans eyes.
• 1:59:08
  And you know, what I do know is regardless of what team, you
• 1:59:13
  know, any, any team, whatever roster they put together, they
• 1:59:17
  still have to go out and they have to play a lot of games.
• 1:59:19
  So things always happen. Guys always get hurt.
• 1:59:23
  And, you know, if you want to say, yeah, on paper, the Dodgers
• 1:59:26
  look like they should have a dynasty, let's you know, they're
• 1:59:30
  going to have to play the game and let's see where it lands.
• 1:59:34
  So I want to ask about the. Sticky substance situation that
• 1:59:37
  was going on the last few years in baseball.
• 1:59:38
  Obviously there've been other cases of it in the past, but
• 1:59:40
  even before the last five years with guys like Michael Pineda
• 1:59:43
  and some notable ones like that. But not sure as it was the big
• 1:59:46
  one starting in 2022 when they started to like tighten up on
• 1:59:48
  that whole situation. What are your thoughts to as an
• 1:59:51
  umpire, like how they handled, how baseball has handled that
• 1:59:53
  type of situation with these pitchers?
• 1:59:56
  Well, it fell on. Us right as most new rules you
• 2:00:00
  mentioned a lot of rule changes, certainly since I started and,
• 2:00:04
  and, and what does it do? It makes our job harder.
• 2:00:07
  It falls on us. And it then it was became our
• 2:00:10
  responsibility to check the pitchers randomly.
• 2:00:14
  You know, it, it, it didn't matter if we, you know, we, we
• 2:00:17
  were given the freedom to, to check the pitchers if they were
• 2:00:20
  coming on the field, walking off the field.
• 2:00:23
  You know, and, and that's what we did and, and, you know, in
• 2:00:28
  the, there were a handful of guys that were caught and, you
• 2:00:33
  know, and it was just the, IT was, you know, they may have
• 2:00:37
  been doing it forever, you know, and I'm sure that they were
• 2:00:40
  before we started checking. And, and then, but I have to say
• 2:00:43
  the, IT seemed like it was the, the, the more seasoned and
• 2:00:48
  veteran guys that seem to have a little more stickiness on their
• 2:00:53
  hands. The younger guys, whenever I
• 2:00:55
  check the younger guys hand coming out of the bullpen, they
• 2:00:58
  were, it was, it was like like touching a baby's hand.
• 2:01:00
  It was like clean as a whistle. So, you know, I guess it's just
• 2:01:04
  the way they're raised and, and, and the guys, you know, the
• 2:01:07
  older guys that, that did get caught, you know, I, I get that.
• 2:01:12
  That was the culture when they, when they started and it was
• 2:01:14
  just, you know, it was, I guess innocently enough when they
• 2:01:18
  started saying, I just wanted looking to get a better grip.
• 2:01:21
  But you know, they track everything.
• 2:01:23
  So all of a sudden when you see a guy in a spin rate, you know,
• 2:01:26
  goes up significantly, then you have to wonder, you know, is it
• 2:01:30
  just for about the grip or is it something more?
• 2:01:33
  And I think it turned out to be something a little bit more and
• 2:01:38
  and they got pinched. So another big thing.
• 2:01:40
  This year has been the the challenge system, this ABS
• 2:01:43
  system. They're experimenting with the
• 2:01:44
  spring training. I think the Brewers got caught
• 2:01:46
  with something like they tried to put a green card on their
• 2:01:48
  dugout. And Pat Murphy, he admitted he
• 2:01:51
  did something wrong, but he tried to bend the rules a little
• 2:01:54
  bit. Like, do you like that kind of
• 2:01:56
  thing for a player, whether it's a pitcher or catcher, to have
• 2:01:58
  that kind of control, the challenge rather than just
• 2:02:00
  coming from the dugout? Or do you think it's going to be
• 2:02:02
  too much of A hassle for MLB? Yeah, No, I I mean if you.
• 2:02:05
  Know we, we experimented with it, obviously they're doing it
• 2:02:08
  this this year during, in the season.
• 2:02:10
  We experimented with it during spring training last year.
• 2:02:13
  And the way it always, you know, was handed down that it had to
• 2:02:16
  be done instantly, immediately by only one of three people,
• 2:02:21
  pitcher, catcher to hitter and could not.
• 2:02:25
  And actually, you know, the directive was that if you heard
• 2:02:28
  it, you know, if it was delayed, you didn't accept it.
• 2:02:32
  If it, if, if something came out of the dugout in terms of
• 2:02:36
  challenge or don't, you know, challenge, we would not accept
• 2:02:40
  the challenge. So it had to be done, you know,
• 2:02:42
  instantly, No surprise. I, I didn't hear about that
• 2:02:46
  with, with the green card and all that.
• 2:02:48
  But am I surprised that they would try to cheat or try to
• 2:02:51
  circumvent the rule? No, I'm not because they always
• 2:02:56
  will try to circumvent a rule. So I'm not surprised about that
• 2:03:01
  whatsoever. Is it going to change the game?
• 2:03:05
  I think what it's going to eventually do is bring in the
• 2:03:09
  full ABS and do away with the challenge system because I don't
• 2:03:14
  even know. Are they using the challenge
• 2:03:15
  system during the the WBC? I haven't seen it.
• 2:03:19
  With that yet, no, I don't think they have used.
• 2:03:21
  It, I haven't seen any of it. I haven't seen anybody
• 2:03:24
  challenging. So yeah, I really haven't been.
• 2:03:26
  Watching, but I don't think that if you've been watching and if
• 2:03:30
  you haven't seen it, that probably means that they're not
• 2:03:32
  using it because somebody would have challenged.
• 2:03:34
  But I think that when the season comes on, I think that the teams
• 2:03:41
  will be much more selective about challenging because they
• 2:03:46
  don't want to be out of challenges if they really need
• 2:03:49
  it in the 8th or the 9th inning, you know you have the tying run
• 2:03:51
  or go ahead run on second base in the bottom of the ninth.
• 2:03:54
  You don't want to be without challenges then.
• 2:03:56
  So I think that it's going to be a little more controlled and I'm
• 2:04:00
  sure that there's going to be particular hitters that they're
• 2:04:02
  going to say you are not allowed to challenge.
• 2:04:05
  We are talking a former. 34 year MLB umpire Phil Cuzzi.
• 2:04:09
  He's joining the show for the first time.
• 2:04:11
  Happy to have him on good looking man man I, I, I don't
• 2:04:14
  know why he retired. He should he should still maybe
• 2:04:17
  he'll come back. I I don't know.
• 2:04:18
  I mean, we've seen guys come back.
• 2:04:19
  Michael Jordan came back. So hey, there's a lot of people
• 2:04:22
  that have come back. Hey, Tiger Woods came back when
• 2:04:25
  everybody thought he was done. So Speaking of great players
• 2:04:30
  now. We remember the Barry.
• 2:04:31
  Bonds breaking the record. We remember Mark McGuire and and
• 2:04:36
  so so doing what they did, but Aaron Judge is always going to
• 2:04:39
  be looked at as the the guy that broke Rodger Maris's record.
• 2:04:44
  And a lot of people questioned the baseball world, especially
• 2:04:49
  the major leagues and Rob Manford on these quote UN quote
• 2:04:54
  Goldilocks bowls that we heard about.
• 2:04:58
  And I didn't understand it. A lot of people said, hey,
• 2:05:00
  baseball made these balls specially for Aaron Judge
• 2:05:03
  because they want him to break the record.
• 2:05:05
  They were absolutely out there trying and making sure that this
• 2:05:09
  man was the face of Rodger Maris's broken home run record,
• 2:05:15
  which he did it so sensationally.
• 2:05:18
  Now, I don't know if you know this Aaron, Aaron Judges rookie
• 2:05:24
  card, his one in one rookie card just sold, signed by him over
• 2:05:30
  $5,000,000. Did you hear about that?
• 2:05:32
  I did not, but I'm not surprised.
• 2:05:34
  Yes, you've watched this guy and I don't.
• 2:05:36
  Know if you were part of these Goldilock balls?
• 2:05:39
  Have you ever put your hands on these Goldilock balls?
• 2:05:41
  Have you ever seen these Goldilock balls that everybody
• 2:05:43
  was talking about, that they were softer or tighter or just
• 2:05:48
  add more pop off the bat? What are they talking about?
• 2:05:51
  There's always these these. Theories right whether they're
• 2:05:54
  true or not I I don't know I can only say this I I handle a lot
• 2:06:00
  of balls during the course of a game and I never said all this
• 2:06:04
  one feels different in any way looser tighter higher stitches.
• 2:06:08
  I, I've never, you know, I, I know that they go through a lot
• 2:06:13
  of baseballs, you know, I mean, how many, how many dozens of
• 2:06:18
  balls that they're rubbing up before each game?
• 2:06:21
  But, you know, think about it, how, how if you were to, they
• 2:06:27
  have stats on everything. If you were to take a look at at
• 2:06:30
  a baseball and think about put an over under on it, how, how
• 2:06:34
  many pitches or hitters is the same ball in the game?
• 2:06:39
  I, I, whatever the number is, I would take the under because,
• 2:06:42
  you know, and, and, and, and some, you know, unless I saw
• 2:06:46
  that, that it was really scuffed or, or muddy or something like
• 2:06:50
  that, I kept it in the game. But I've seen some of my, my
• 2:06:53
  colleagues, you know, pit ball comes in, they change it every
• 2:06:57
  single time. I, I don't know why they did,
• 2:07:00
  but but they do. But yeah, so, but back to your
• 2:07:04
  original question, I, I never felt anything different with,
• 2:07:07
  with the, with the, with the ball.
• 2:07:10
  So conspiracy theory, true or not, I, I, I don't know, you
• 2:07:15
  know, I, I know that, you know, so why are they hitting more
• 2:07:19
  home runs? Is it because the players are,
• 2:07:21
  are, are stronger, they're in better shape?
• 2:07:24
  I don't know. And and if if if they did have
• 2:07:28
  juiced up balls, then everyone should be hitting more home
• 2:07:32
  runs. I guess in some ways everyone,
• 2:07:36
  you know, second baseman are hitting a lot of home runs now I
• 2:07:39
  guess you know, so who knows? I'm going to throw a curveball
• 2:07:42
  at you. You.
• 2:07:42
  Said, well, everybody should be hitting a home run.
• 2:07:44
  So we've had guys on the show that have said steroids, going
• 2:07:49
  back to steroids. They said, well, if this guy
• 2:07:52
  Alex Rodriguez is hitting fifty home runs and he's winning MVPS,
• 2:07:57
  why are the other guys in the minor leagues not hitting home
• 2:08:00
  runs being MVPS of the minor leagues are coming up to the
• 2:08:03
  majors? Well, it it's not the steroids
• 2:08:06
  that's doing and it's the players and and to go back to
• 2:08:09
  balls and handling balls, which I handle 2:00 every single day,
• 2:08:12
  you know, I'm just throwing a curveball there having fun as we
• 2:08:16
  always do on the show. The problem here, I think with
• 2:08:21
  professional baseball is you got to do 1.
• 2:08:24
  If you're going to do on to 1, you should do be you should be
• 2:08:26
  doing on to others. And that is the problem, I
• 2:08:30
  think. And I feel what is going on in
• 2:08:32
  baseball. I think baseball is going to
• 2:08:35
  grow even substantially like we've seen basketball has grown
• 2:08:39
  internationally and has become the second biggest sport in
• 2:08:42
  America when it comes to sales and advertising players and
• 2:08:46
  sponsorships. I mean, I think basketball
• 2:08:48
  players are easy to sponsor than any sport right now.
• 2:08:50
  They really are in football. They're bringing in all these
• 2:08:53
  big sponsors because of their how many stadiums do they fill
• 2:08:56
  out and sell and, and how it's becoming internationally savvy
• 2:09:00
  and, and Roger Goodell has found a way to find a market
• 2:09:04
  internationally. The problem right now I think
• 2:09:07
  that is going on in baseball is. They're.
• 2:09:11
  Superstars and, and I'm talking about Aaron Judge and Shay
• 2:09:15
  Ohtani and Vladimir Guerrero and and Juan Soto, all these guys,
• 2:09:20
  they're, they stand for something internationally,
• 2:09:24
  nationally, but now players and and fans are looking at them and
• 2:09:28
  saying, okay, well, how many guys get up to the major
• 2:09:32
  leagues? I mean, there are more, you have
• 2:09:34
  more of a chance to play professional football or even
• 2:09:37
  professional basketball or even professional hockey now than you
• 2:09:40
  do in professional baseball. You got to go through the minor
• 2:09:43
  leagues, you got to go single A, AA, AAA and to the majors.
• 2:09:47
  And you know all about this, you as a umpire, Mr. Cuzzi, you had
• 2:09:52
  to go up and, and you had to drive yourself to the, the big
• 2:09:54
  leagues. It wasn't, you didn't just jump
• 2:09:56
  right into the big leagues. You had to earn the right to get
• 2:09:59
  to the big leagues. Do you think that's the reason
• 2:10:01
  why a lot of these, you know, parents now more than ever, kind
• 2:10:08
  of tell their kids baseball's not the sport to go and play,
• 2:10:11
  that maybe you're better off going to play football or
• 2:10:14
  basketball because you have a better chance to make money and
• 2:10:17
  succeed as a professional athlete?
• 2:10:19
  Well, I mean, you know the the. Salaries have become
• 2:10:21
  astronomical in baseball as well.
• 2:10:24
  It may be just the top percentage of guys that are that
• 2:10:27
  are making that. But I mean, even the, you know,
• 2:10:30
  even the, you know, the get the average guy is still making a
• 2:10:35
  great salary. But you know, the interesting
• 2:10:37
  thing to me is when you think about even like, you know,
• 2:10:41
  parents who are raising kids that are playing baseball,
• 2:10:45
  everyone has to go to a camp, everyone has to take hitting
• 2:10:48
  lessons. You know, it was just friends of
• 2:10:51
  ours. They they were, they were again,
• 2:10:54
  I'm from Jersey, right? They're in Florida playing in a
• 2:10:58
  tournament. You know, some kind of it's
• 2:11:00
  always like these traveling tournaments.
• 2:11:01
  It's, it's a money maker for somebody and it's costing the
• 2:11:04
  parents a lot of money to think that, you know, their kid is
• 2:11:08
  going to be the next Aaron Judge, the next Derek Jeter, you
• 2:11:11
  know, and, and it's, you know, it's good for, for me, what, you
• 2:11:14
  know, when I was growing up, it was not to sound like an old
• 2:11:17
  man, but, but here I go, You know, an away game for me was
• 2:11:22
  instead of the playground at the top of my street, it was like 3
• 2:11:25
  blocks away. That was an away game.
• 2:11:27
  Now these parents are going, you know, across the country for
• 2:11:30
  tournaments and they feel as though if they don't do it,
• 2:11:33
  they're not a lot. Their, their kid is not going to
• 2:11:35
  compete with, with, you know, with the, with the talent.
• 2:11:38
  So, you know, it's crazy, but you know, I, I don't know if,
• 2:11:43
  if, if, if parents are steering their kids 100% are.
• 2:11:48
  And I'll tell you. Why?
• 2:11:50
  Mr. Cousy and I'm around a lot of young kids.
• 2:11:53
  We we work with a lot of young kids.
• 2:11:55
  We're actually building a program right now called the
• 2:11:58
  Long Island Mouth. We're going to be working with
• 2:12:00
  high school kids and helping them get NIL deals and all that
• 2:12:03
  other stuff. And I think the big problem
• 2:12:05
  right now, and a lot of great things that are happening, I've
• 2:12:08
  been preaching this for a very, very long time, that kids should
• 2:12:11
  be making money off their own names, not the colleges.
• 2:12:13
  I've been a supporter for this for a long time.
• 2:12:17
  The problem now is, is that there are kids now making,
• 2:12:20
  they're thirteen years old, 14 years old, and they got a huge
• 2:12:24
  following. They post up all over social
• 2:12:26
  media and these nil companies are saying, listen, this guy's
• 2:12:30
  going to be a star. Let's give him $7000 and let him
• 2:12:33
  sit on $7000 a month. We could promote through them.
• 2:12:36
  They can post things and and these kids are going to see
• 2:12:39
  money that they've never seen before.
• 2:12:41
  And now the parents see it. They're like we can we can make
• 2:12:44
  a living off this guy. Let's push this kid.
• 2:12:46
  Let's do what we got to do. And and the problem with me
• 2:12:49
  right now with parents and and I hope the parents are listening
• 2:12:53
  to this because I'm going to be honest and I always am on this
• 2:12:56
  show because I'm a crazy SOB is it's.
• 2:13:01
  It the parents. Are not showing the love for
• 2:13:03
  their, the athlete, they're not showing the love and the
• 2:13:06
  conditioning and the push. They're, they're just pretty
• 2:13:09
  much telling the kid, listen, you're going to play sports
• 2:13:11
  because you're good at it. And we're going to, we're going
• 2:13:14
  to educate you and we're going to bring you to the forefront
• 2:13:16
  and you're going to support your family.
• 2:13:19
  And look how much pressure these kids are, are going to have when
• 2:13:23
  they hit that age mark when they're 16 and 17 and they know
• 2:13:27
  that their parents are relying on them to become a professional
• 2:13:30
  athlete. And that is, is a big problem
• 2:13:32
  right now here in America because I was a fan of sports
• 2:13:36
  and a person that was a pretty good athlete.
• 2:13:39
  I was a really good athlete. And a lot of people make jokes
• 2:13:41
  and I'm like, I'm like, yeah, you know, you hurt yourself and,
• 2:13:44
  and you wonder, well, where could my career have gone?
• 2:13:46
  And, but I never had NIL deals. I mean, I'm, I'm a younger than
• 2:13:50
  you, but I'm not, I mean, I'm 43 years old.
• 2:13:53
  So I, I, I all the things that I could imagine and dream for.
• 2:13:56
  I'm never, I'm never will ever see that.
• 2:13:59
  But now these kids that are like 1718 years old, they're getting
• 2:14:02
  NIL deals. Some of them are getting
• 2:14:03
  millions and millions of dollars before they step on a a college
• 2:14:07
  football field or a college basketball field, a basketball
• 2:14:10
  court. And here's the problem.
• 2:14:12
  You mentioned something that I'm going to go back and, and, and
• 2:14:15
  flip it on you. Did you know that the 13th and
• 2:14:19
  14th player in an NBA team is making more than a bench player
• 2:14:25
  right now in the major leagues? No, I did not know that.
• 2:14:29
  But but I'm not surprised look at look at the salaries of of
• 2:14:32
  like a backup quarterback. A backup quarterback in the NFL
• 2:14:35
  is a millionaire. And you know, I mean, God bless
• 2:14:40
  them. You know, the, the, the league,
• 2:14:42
  the teams have to be making the money.
• 2:14:44
  If they're paying these guys that kind of money, It's and I.
• 2:14:48
  Again, for all the fans out there, all the kids, all the
• 2:14:51
  fans on, on Spotify and we're I want to give a shout out to all
• 2:14:54
  the fans that are tuned in and listen to us and download our
• 2:14:56
  show and being being where we are and all the work that we put
• 2:15:00
  into it. We really appreciate we're a top
• 2:15:02
  100 show in the country. And it's something that, you
• 2:15:05
  know, you put a lot of work and dedication into the the product
• 2:15:08
  that we do. I I say this, everybody thinks
• 2:15:11
  they can do this. Everybody thinks they can go on
• 2:15:13
  a mic. Everybody thinks they can play
• 2:15:14
  professional baseball. Everybody thinks, oh, I can, I
• 2:15:17
  can do that. I can, I can jam the ball.
• 2:15:19
  I can beat Kobe Bryant. I watched, I watched the the
• 2:15:23
  Oscars last night and Michael, Michael B Jordan won Oscar of
• 2:15:27
  the year. He won, he won best male, best
• 2:15:30
  man, you know, and everybody was so excited.
• 2:15:33
  He's from Newark, he's from New Jersey.
• 2:15:36
  And they today they went to the school that he went, he
• 2:15:39
  graduated from his high school that he graduated from all arts
• 2:15:42
  and everything like that. And they interviewed all these
• 2:15:44
  kids and they were like, if he could do it, I could do it and
• 2:15:47
  all this other stuff. And I'm listening and it's
• 2:15:49
  great. It's great for the kids to
• 2:15:51
  believe that, but this is the real world here.
• 2:15:54
  There's only one Michael B Jordan.
• 2:15:56
  There's only one Michael Jordan, there's one Larry Bird, there's
• 2:15:59
  one Aaron Judge, there's one Juan Soto, there's one Mickey
• 2:16:01
  Mantle, there's one Babe Ruth, there's one Hank Aaron.
• 2:16:05
  So my point here is the problem right now in the world is when
• 2:16:12
  you see somebody successful and and the guy is going to go out
• 2:16:15
  there and preach, you can be me, you can do this.
• 2:16:18
  That's that's great. That's really, really great for
• 2:16:21
  sports. It's really, really great for
• 2:16:22
  anything that you do in the entertainment world.
• 2:16:24
  The only problem I have with it is what happens when that's not
• 2:16:28
  true. What happens if that doesn't
• 2:16:32
  happen and your parents are pushing you because they're
• 2:16:35
  making you believe that. They're telling you, hey, you
• 2:16:37
  could be that you got to work hard.
• 2:16:39
  You got to go out there and play.
• 2:16:41
  Shoot 503 pointers every single day like Kobe did, or you want
• 2:16:45
  to be Steph Curry. Well, Steph Curry shot 303
• 2:16:48
  pointers every single morning and every single night you do
• 2:16:51
  that, you're going to be the next Steph Curry.
• 2:16:53
  It's not true. It's not true.
• 2:16:56
  Right or wrong. Well, yeah, you know, and I.
• 2:16:58
  Talk to kids a lot. I, I have the opportunity to, to
• 2:17:01
  talk to kids, school kids and, and all that.
• 2:17:03
  And, and I don't say to them, you know, you, you could, you
• 2:17:07
  could, you know, you could be me or you can be Hank, you could be
• 2:17:11
  iron judge. You know, I, I don't say that.
• 2:17:13
  What I do tell them is I, I tell them to set their by their bar
• 2:17:17
  high and just keep jumping and don't let anyone tell you that
• 2:17:21
  you can't do it. Because, you know, if I would
• 2:17:24
  have listened to the supposed experts who, who, who said that
• 2:17:29
  I would never make it. I wouldn't have just retired
• 2:17:32
  with a, with a, you know, 27 year career from the, from the
• 2:17:35
  major leagues, pinnacle of, of, of you know what I attempted to
• 2:17:40
  do. So I, I don't tell them, you
• 2:17:44
  know, that they're going to be the next, you know, like I say,
• 2:17:46
  you talk to a kid on a baseball field and, and he wants to be
• 2:17:49
  the next Aaron Judge. I don't tell him he's that he
• 2:17:52
  can be the next Aaron Judge, but I tell him to, if that's what
• 2:17:55
  his dream is, you know, go for it, of course, and just keep
• 2:17:58
  jumping, you know, and you know, the expression that I use
• 2:18:01
  sometimes is, you know, if you're not really sure, take
• 2:18:04
  pretend you're in the backyard and you're, you got to walled in
• 2:18:06
  in yard and throw your hat over the wall and then just go figure
• 2:18:10
  out how you're going to go and get it.
• 2:18:12
  And, and as long as you're going to do something like that, you
• 2:18:16
  may not end up in on a Major League field, but you may do
• 2:18:19
  something that's going to fall. You know, I tell them to follow
• 2:18:21
  their pet, follow their dreams. I tell them to dream, follow
• 2:18:24
  their dream because their dream is going to bring them to their
• 2:18:26
  passion. Well, it's it's so funny you say
• 2:18:29
  that because. My we, I had five really close
• 2:18:32
  friends as a kid and we all had dreams.
• 2:18:34
  Our dreams were really unique. And you're going to love this
• 2:18:37
  one. One of my friends, my friend
• 2:18:40
  Jimmy, my friend Sal, my friend Paul, my friend Evan and me, we
• 2:18:45
  were we were all a clan and, and the one we all had a dream.
• 2:18:49
  I wanted to be a professional hockey player.
• 2:18:51
  Jamie wanted to own his own business and be a millionaire.
• 2:18:54
  And Sal wanted to be his own boss and, and, and buy a big
• 2:18:58
  beautiful house. And Evan wanted to be a computer
• 2:19:01
  engineer and, and, and Jimmy wanted to be a porno star.
• 2:19:06
  That's, that's what he wanted to be.
• 2:19:07
  He wanted to be a porno star. He's like, why do you want to be
• 2:19:09
  a porno star? Come on, those guys are rocks
• 2:19:11
  and they, they get whatever they want.
• 2:19:13
  They can go wherever they want, do whatever they want and love
• 2:19:16
  whatever they want. And I'm like, all right, so how
• 2:19:19
  what are the chances of you becoming a porno star?
• 2:19:21
  He says, wow, there's, there's a lot more of a chance by, you
• 2:19:24
  know, look at, look at the magazines, look at the pornos
• 2:19:27
  and stuff like that as like, I'm like, dude, there's how many
• 2:19:31
  guys in those porno videos? I mean, that's like 8 guys going
• 2:19:36
  jumping from one, one video to another.
• 2:19:38
  And I say the chances you becoming a porno star.
• 2:19:40
  He says, you watch, I'm going to be a porno star.
• 2:19:42
  So the funny story here is and why I'm bringing this up is I
• 2:19:46
  just bumped into my friend Jimmy recently and we had a
• 2:19:50
  conversation and I actually brought this story up to him and
• 2:19:53
  it's really, really funny. And I said, well, what are you
• 2:19:55
  doing now? I haven't spoken to you in a
• 2:19:57
  long time. Well, he says it's, it's a good
• 2:19:59
  question, but you know, couple of years ago I was, you know, I
• 2:20:03
  was in Texas and I, you know, I was doing some, you know, I was
• 2:20:07
  trying to get into that, that market, what we were talking
• 2:20:10
  about. And I said, well, how did it go?
• 2:20:11
  And he says, well, I wasn't big enough.
• 2:20:17
  That's what he told me and I was like.
• 2:20:19
  I laughed at it. I said, well, how did they know?
• 2:20:22
  And he said, well, you know, it's like when you go into these
• 2:20:25
  meetings and you meet the directors and the producers,
• 2:20:28
  they tell you the first thing they tell you to do is drop
• 2:20:31
  them. And the first thing they say is
• 2:20:33
  like, you're not fit to do this. So, so the funny.
• 2:20:40
  Thing is, and I bring this story is he went for his dream, but he
• 2:20:44
  struck out. You know, it was like, you know,
• 2:20:46
  it was right there. You're over, man.
• 2:20:48
  You got to walk. And that to me.
• 2:20:50
  And I make a joke about it because you can, you should go
• 2:20:53
  for your dream. You should believe that you can,
• 2:20:55
  you can get to that highest point in your career and and go
• 2:20:58
  and stride. And I, I want to be the next
• 2:21:00
  Phil Cuzzi. I want to be the next, you know.
• 2:21:03
  I'm not going to tell. You, Mr. Dennehy But I want to
• 2:21:06
  do that. But you know, the fact here is I
• 2:21:08
  want to be at the top level of what I do.
• 2:21:10
  I want to be the best broadcaster in the world.
• 2:21:12
  I want to be the best. I want to be considered the
• 2:21:14
  number one broadcaster in the country to compete against the
• 2:21:17
  best. Well, how do you do that?
• 2:21:19
  You got to work your ass off, no doubt, but you got to get some
• 2:21:22
  luck too. There's there's things that have
• 2:21:23
  to flow together for you to get to that point.
• 2:21:25
  That's what I tell the kids. I don't believe in luck.
• 2:21:29
  I believe being in the right place at the right time,
• 2:21:32
  speaking to the right people and understanding your business and
• 2:21:36
  understanding how you can drive who you are to the people that
• 2:21:41
  have the power to take you to the next level.
• 2:21:44
  And I think I think with you, Phil, I'm getting to know you
• 2:21:49
  and you're probably saying this is one of the craziest
• 2:21:51
  interviews I've ever been on and and probably saying, wow, this
• 2:21:55
  guy is unique, but crazy and probably nuts.
• 2:21:59
  But I'm not the point is that you said that that.
• 2:22:02
  You wanted to play in the NHL, Yes.
• 2:22:05
  OK, so for whatever the reason, you didn't get to the NFL, but
• 2:22:08
  yet you still had the perseverance to do something at
• 2:22:13
  at a level at a high level and here you are.
• 2:22:15
  I mean, you know, you you want to be a broadcaster.
• 2:22:18
  Well, you are broadcaster Where where where this podcast takes
• 2:22:22
  you, Nobody knows yet. You know, you might have an idea
• 2:22:25
  where you want it to go, but I I still think it's that drive that
• 2:22:30
  that didn't you know, you had the drive to say I want to play
• 2:22:33
  in the NF NHL, But you know, you didn't you didn't, you know, go
• 2:22:38
  home with your tail between your legs and, and, and you became a,
• 2:22:43
  you know, video, you know, play video games in your parents
• 2:22:46
  basement. You know, I don't do that.
• 2:22:48
  So I I. Think the idea.
• 2:22:49
  To tell the kids is to you know, you got to have perseverance,
• 2:22:52
  whatever it is that you want to do.
• 2:22:54
  And yeah, and and and dream, but it doesn't mean just because you
• 2:22:59
  have a dream that you're going to reach that dream.
• 2:23:01
  But you know, but again, it's it's a it's a matter of that,
• 2:23:05
  you know, if if if you follow, you follow your dream, follow,
• 2:23:09
  you know, it's going to lead you to something else.
• 2:23:11
  And you say you don't believe in luck.
• 2:23:13
  My my father used to say the harder you work the more lucky
• 2:23:16
  you will become. Interesting, that's a good take.
• 2:23:18
  I like it. Last question, just remember
• 2:23:21
  where you got it. Well, I I remember where my
• 2:23:24
  socks come. From I wear I remember where my
• 2:23:26
  underwear comes from and I don't remember where my brain came
• 2:23:28
  from. But hey, when people ask me who
• 2:23:31
  my father is and may rest in peace.
• 2:23:33
  I love you dad. But my father told me one thing.
• 2:23:36
  You're the one of the most charismatic and personal people
• 2:23:41
  you can ever talk to. And my father always told me
• 2:23:44
  that you have a gift and, and, and be able to interact with
• 2:23:48
  people and conversate with people and drive people to you.
• 2:23:52
  And that was something that I learned over the years for
• 2:23:55
  people hating me because I was one of the loudest, most
• 2:24:00
  derogatory people on the ice. And the only reason why I didn't
• 2:24:04
  make it is because of injury. But I, I, I, again, you could go
• 2:24:10
  back and argue anything that I did in my lifetime.
• 2:24:13
  I, I don't regret any of it. I just want to better myself and
• 2:24:19
  my guys that are here on the show working their asses off as
• 2:24:22
  well as you, Mr. Koozie. I, I, I think what's so
• 2:24:26
  interesting about people that we interview and, and people that
• 2:24:29
  we get to know and, and, and people that have succeeded into
• 2:24:34
  their careers and at a high level and to see what they've
• 2:24:37
  done over the years and just conversate with them and, and
• 2:24:40
  just build a relationship with them.
• 2:24:43
  It is, is pretty amazing. And my question for you, my
• 2:24:47
  final question for you is you've been in the.
• 2:24:50
  Game for such a long time. What is the?
• 2:24:53
  The. Most.
• 2:24:55
  Important part of. Your career that what?
• 2:24:57
  What was the thing that really, when you're done with your well,
• 2:25:02
  obviously you're done with your career.
• 2:25:03
  When you walk away 30 years from now and your grandchildren sit
• 2:25:06
  with you and say, grandpa, grandpa, great grandpa, you
• 2:25:09
  know, what was the, the, the, the thing that really stuck out
• 2:25:13
  to you as a professional umpire? What was the game that stuck out
• 2:25:16
  to you? What was the thing that made you
• 2:25:18
  remember your time in the MLB? What would that be?
• 2:25:22
  Well, you know, if you talk about the highlights.
• 2:25:24
  You know, my, my first game in the big leagues as a call up
• 2:25:27
  umpire working in a World Series game was certainly one of the,
• 2:25:31
  you know, one of the greatest highlights.
• 2:25:34
  But you know, the, the thing to remember that I remember about
• 2:25:38
  this job is, you know, just having to do it every single
• 2:25:43
  night. You know, we we we we get time
• 2:25:46
  off during the season, but we still work, you know, somewhere
• 2:25:49
  around 120 something games. And it doesn't mean that you
• 2:25:53
  have, you know, every Tuesday off, you know, and and, and so,
• 2:25:56
  you know, sometimes it's a it's just a question of, you know,
• 2:25:59
  you have a night game in, in, you know, pick a city and then
• 2:26:03
  you have a six O clock flight the next morning to get into the
• 2:26:06
  following city. You know, by noon, you hope and,
• 2:26:10
  you know, just be ready to work that night.
• 2:26:12
  And people don't realize that the travel that the grind that
• 2:26:15
  it is. And, and that's the difference.
• 2:26:18
  You know, you could have great college umpires, great high
• 2:26:23
  school umpires, but it's, there's a difference if you have
• 2:26:26
  to do it every single night at that level.
• 2:26:29
  And that's, that's the, that's what makes the difference.
• 2:26:32
  Well, Phil, you are. Fantastic.
• 2:26:35
  And I just want to let you know, everything that we, we talk
• 2:26:39
  about on this show, I want you to realize that when we get
• 2:26:43
  people on the show, we want them to know that this isn't the same
• 2:26:46
  interview that they're going to have.
• 2:26:47
  The questions that we ask are different.
• 2:26:49
  And we, we want to open the guest up and, and realize that
• 2:26:52
  we're, we're, we want you to feel like you're at home and,
• 2:26:56
  and hanging out with the boys and not feeling like, oh, we're
• 2:26:59
  going to tear this guy's head off or, or we're going to ask
• 2:27:02
  him the same boring, dumb question questions he gets asked
• 2:27:06
  on every single podcast. So that's one of the reasons why
• 2:27:10
  when Niffen told me, we're going to get you on the show.
• 2:27:12
  And Niffen, shout out to Niff for getting you on the show, the
• 2:27:16
  work that he puts in and, and, and all the back end stuff that
• 2:27:20
  he does for getting us the guests that we get.
• 2:27:22
  And just all the, the different personalities that we found on
• 2:27:26
  the show over the over the years.
• 2:27:29
  The the most interesting thing I can say about umpires and
• 2:27:32
  writers and people on the back end that don't really get enough
• 2:27:36
  there he is lithomania, as we call it.
• 2:27:40
  Thank you Fish, but all the different.
• 2:27:43
  Guests that we found on the show.
• 2:27:44
  The guests that really stick out to me from all the rest are the
• 2:27:48
  guys behind the scenes, the guys that don't get enough credit for
• 2:27:51
  the work that they do and in the years that they put in.
• 2:27:54
  And that goes for umpires, referees, coaches, assistants,
• 2:27:59
  executives, GM's that just don't get enough credit for the work
• 2:28:04
  they put in. They, they always goes to the
• 2:28:06
  players. It always goes to the athlete.
• 2:28:09
  So congratulations on such a great long career.
• 2:28:13
  And we would love to get you on the show again and, and keep up
• 2:28:17
  the good work with the kids. And maybe we'll get you out here
• 2:28:20
  in Long Island to talk to some of the kids, some of some of the
• 2:28:22
  young baseball players and some of the young athletes that would
• 2:28:26
  maybe want to, you're not part in the future or, you know, a
• 2:28:29
  referee in the future in their respectable sports.
• 2:28:32
  So my question is. To you do all the bad boys from
• 2:28:37
  Long Island get shipped to Brooklyn That's a good.
• 2:28:40
  Question. I think I'm one of very few
• 2:28:42
  because a lot of these a lot of these Long Island boys, they
• 2:28:47
  they're they pretend to be tough.
• 2:28:48
  They, they walk around. Oh, I live in Bayshore,
• 2:28:51
  centralized slip, Shirley Nasty Beach.
• 2:28:54
  And you live in the foot or the armpit of Long Island.
• 2:28:58
  Yeah, we know. Or why dance as a lot of the
• 2:29:01
  rappers come from. No, I, I don't, I, I think my
• 2:29:05
  parents were very strict with me.
• 2:29:09
  I wasn't what you call a person that would listen to my parents
• 2:29:14
  when they told me to come in, they told me they rather me stay
• 2:29:16
  out because I was, you know, I was, I wouldn't say I was a bad
• 2:29:20
  boy, but I was a guy that I didn't, I didn't like to be told
• 2:29:25
  what to do. And when I realized as I got
• 2:29:28
  older, when I was in my young teens, when I was 1314 and my
• 2:29:32
  parents said, OK, we're sending you off.
• 2:29:33
  You can't handle, you can't handle the heist of the middle
• 2:29:36
  schools out here. You can't handle, you know,
• 2:29:38
  staying out of trouble. And I wasn't drugs, by the way,
• 2:29:41
  because I was an athlete. I would never touch any of that
• 2:29:42
  stuff. It was just my hands.
• 2:29:44
  I just like to throw hands. And I could care less what
• 2:29:47
  anybody said to me when my parents sent me over there.
• 2:29:52
  I realized that I could be the toughest kid in a town, toughest
• 2:29:56
  kid in a school. But when you go out to a place
• 2:29:59
  that they're a bunch of tough guys, you are a little pee in a
• 2:30:03
  big pond and you're you're just, you're nothing.
• 2:30:09
  And no, I don't believe a lot of bad boys go to Brooklyn and ship
• 2:30:12
  them out to Brooklyn. But I've heard stories and I've
• 2:30:15
  heard success stories and I've heard bad stories.
• 2:30:17
  But I have been one of those guys that I can, I'm not going
• 2:30:20
  to pat myself on the back cuz I really don't want to do that.
• 2:30:23
  But I've changed a lot in my lifetime.
• 2:30:26
  Anybody that's known me or actually knows me as a kid will
• 2:30:30
  tell you that I have been, I've done a whole like 360 from what
• 2:30:35
  I could have been. And, and that's because of
• 2:30:37
  sports. I think sports and, and, and
• 2:30:40
  competitive note nature and, and me trying to be just a different
• 2:30:45
  person. I I thought that being a
• 2:30:49
  different person can change my way of thinking.
• 2:30:51
  That has changed me as a man, that's changed me as a
• 2:30:55
  personality, that's changed me as a broadcaster.
• 2:30:57
  So yeah, I think that's a good question, Phil.
• 2:31:00
  Nobody's asked me that question. And well, let me, let me ask you
• 2:31:02
  another one. You talk about your passion of
• 2:31:04
  throwing hands. I would think boxing might have.
• 2:31:07
  I did. I boxed.
• 2:31:08
  I boxed. I boxed for seven years.
• 2:31:10
  I was an undefeated amateur fighter.
• 2:31:12
  I I won 21 fights. I drawed 1 I I also was a mixed
• 2:31:17
  martial artist. I tried that for about a few
• 2:31:20
  years. 1 is in a bunch of ring of combat fights.
• 2:31:23
  But I'll, I'll tell you the last time I ever stepped foot in an
• 2:31:27
  Octagon, it was when I was playing in a ring.
• 2:31:30
  I was fighting in a ring of combat fight and I was against
• 2:31:35
  the the fence and I was trying to wrap my body and trying to
• 2:31:39
  structure my body, spread my legs out so he couldn't take me
• 2:31:43
  up and flip me over and he took to me.
• 2:31:45
  He took me and he took me over and dropped me on my neck and I
• 2:31:51
  woke up in like 3 seconds with him on top of me pounding me.
• 2:31:55
  I got out of it, I winded up winning the fight, but not
• 2:31:59
  without having a contusion on over my left eye, which shut my
• 2:32:03
  left eye and it took me 3 months to get my eye.
• 2:32:07
  I thought I'd pop my eye socket when it happened.
• 2:32:09
  It was the worst feeling in the world.
• 2:32:11
  I had a concussion, definitely did.
• 2:32:13
  But after that I said, you know what?
• 2:32:15
  I I was done with this. I, you know, my mom always said
• 2:32:18
  I was too pretty for that. But you know, it's, you know, it
• 2:32:21
  happens, you know, for mom say that.
• 2:32:23
  Yeah. I think they do.
• 2:32:24
  I think my mom's just trying to blow my head up, you know?
• 2:32:29
  What I mean but we. Appreciate you man and great
• 2:32:33
  career we loved it. There it is, the bad boy called.
• 2:32:38
  Yes, they're Brooklyn first. Of all, first of all.
• 2:32:40
  I never, I never smoke a cigar just for all the fans to see
• 2:32:44
  this picture right now. I do not smoke cigars, so that
• 2:32:48
  is a lie. But hey, listen, did you find
• 2:32:52
  Spumoni? Gardens in Brooklyn.
• 2:32:54
  Oh yes, I have. Yes, I have.
• 2:32:56
  Yes, yes, I'll tell you this Brooklyn has some of the best
• 2:33:00
  restaurants in the world in the world and some of the best
• 2:33:04
  bakeries in the world. If you ever been to Brooklyn.
• 2:33:07
  So if you've never been there any of the fans around the
• 2:33:11
  country that's listening to the show right now, you got to come
• 2:33:13
  out to New York, stop with the Manhattan crap or all the other
• 2:33:16
  stuff. We wouldn't go to Manhattan to
• 2:33:18
  see the, the World Trade Center where it was in the the Empire
• 2:33:21
  State Building, you know, and I want it, you want to come out,
• 2:33:24
  you want to come out to places like Long Island, check the
• 2:33:27
  wineries if you're you're a wine drinker at the beaches here in
• 2:33:30
  Long Island or even Brooklyn, the food and even here in Long
• 2:33:33
  Island, some of the, the great different seafood places and
• 2:33:37
  steakhouses that we have here. There's a lot to see here in New
• 2:33:40
  York. Some of the things it's so
• 2:33:42
  funny. I I talked to a lot of
• 2:33:43
  professional baseball players. We've built a lot of good
• 2:33:45
  relationships over the years. One of them is Nick Goody.
• 2:33:48
  Nick Goodies been on a show and great, great, great guy and
• 2:33:52
  Nick, Nick tells me, oh, I've been to Long Island.
• 2:33:54
  I I played for the ducks and I was like, that's not Long
• 2:33:56
  Island. That's central Islip, that's
• 2:33:58
  garbage. OK.
• 2:33:59
  And he's like, well, that's Long Island.
• 2:34:01
  I was like, no, that's not Long Island.
• 2:34:03
  And that's the armpit of Long Island, please.
• 2:34:05
  So he doesn't know what good food is here in Long Island.
• 2:34:08
  He doesn't know what good places to go so that it doesn't it
• 2:34:12
  doesn't work in his favor as far as I'm concerned.
• 2:34:15
  But again, Phil, we love you. Let's get you on the show again.
• 2:34:18
  We'd love to get you on the show again and keep up the good work.
• 2:34:22
  Keep talking to those kids and being who you are, man.
• 2:34:24
  Great career. Let's give them a golf clap,
• 2:34:26
  boys. Let's give them a golf clap.
• 2:34:29
  Let's give them a golf. Clap.
• 2:34:31
  Thank you very much, I enjoyed. It.
• 2:34:34
  And keep doing. What you guys are doing?
• 2:34:36
  Thank you. Thank you, Phil.
• 2:34:38
  Phil. Cousy.
• 2:34:39
  Ladies and gentlemen, a fantastic personality knows his
• 2:34:42
  baseball had a great long career and now he's going to enjoy the
• 2:34:47
  relief life, the the life of hanging out with the kids and
• 2:34:50
  the grandchildren and just watching baseball on television.
• 2:34:54
  That's, that's the way to go, man.
• 2:34:56
  There he is. There is the good stir.
• 2:34:58
  You know what's so funny? Every time I talk to Goody and,
• 2:35:02
  and I love him, he's one of, he's become one of my good
• 2:35:05
  friends and I have conversations with him off air.
• 2:35:08
  The funny thing about Nick Goody is he always beats around the
• 2:35:12
  Bush. Everything he says, everything
• 2:35:15
  he imagines things to be so great.
• 2:35:19
  It's like a fairy tale with him. Oh, it's beautiful.
• 2:35:22
  Everything's beautiful. Oh, it was beautiful.
• 2:35:24
  It was great. This the only time he can't
• 2:35:27
  stand it is the weather. And when the weather is cold
• 2:35:29
  and, and, and wherever he's from, Orlando, Tampa, wherever
• 2:35:33
  he's at, he, he hates it. But everything else, dude, it's
• 2:35:37
  80° and he's under a big freaking blanket. 80° that's
• 2:35:41
  cold to him. Please.
• 2:35:44
  Anyways, that was a great interview.
• 2:35:48
  I was trying to get a lot out of Mr. Phil.
• 2:35:51
  I understand why he didn't want to answer some of the questions
• 2:35:54
  that I asked him, and I respect that I do I respect.
• 2:35:58
  What? What are you laughing at?
• 2:36:01
  You're. Like, so you know, Rob Manfred's
• 2:36:04
  a huge asshole. Tell me about how huge of an
• 2:36:06
  asshole he is. Well.
• 2:36:09
  I was trying to be. Honest.
• 2:36:10
  I mean, I mean you, I, when I watch sports and I follow
• 2:36:16
  sports, I, I just, I, I let it go and I let it flow.
• 2:36:21
  So I, I was dying. I'm not going.
• 2:36:24
  To lie. I was dying.
• 2:36:25
  I know a lot of people die. When when I interview people
• 2:36:28
  because they think I'm outlandishly crazy and a little
• 2:36:32
  out there, but I I let it stick and I want people to Remember
• 2:36:35
  Me. I don't want people to say, oh,
• 2:36:37
  that's he Errol. He's just like, he's like
• 2:36:40
  everybody else. No, I don't want him to think
• 2:36:42
  that. I want him to say, you know,
• 2:36:43
  that arrow marks that. That guy's got some personality.
• 2:36:46
  That guy is crazy. He will go out on a limb and
• 2:36:49
  throw anybody under the bus and he won't be afraid to do it.
• 2:36:52
  So, and that's what I do on this show and I want everybody to
• 2:36:55
  understand that about me. If you think for one second, I'm
• 2:36:59
  going to kiss anybody's ass and I'm going to go out there and
• 2:37:03
  just, I don't care what anybody says on me about me on social
• 2:37:06
  media and attack me on YouTube or my Reddits or my stories.
• 2:37:12
  I really don't give a, you know what?
• 2:37:15
  I could care less what you think.
• 2:37:17
  But guess what? I love when you have something
• 2:37:19
  to say because I'm going to say it back to you.
• 2:37:21
  So anyways, the Mariners are betting favorites to win the
• 2:37:26
  American League West at plus 130, followed by the Astros at
• 2:37:31
  plus 225 and the Rangers at plus 350.
• 2:37:37
  Seattle resigned Josh Naylor and traded for utility A player,
• 2:37:43
  Brandon Donovan from the Cardinals to replace Jorge
• 2:37:47
  Polanco who signed with the Mets.
• 2:37:50
  The Astros had a pretty quiet off season signing Japanese
• 2:37:53
  pitcher e-mail or am I or whatever his name is, but also
• 2:37:57
  lost ace pitcher from BA Valdez. The Rangers lost a couple of
• 2:38:04
  starting pitchers but also traded for Nationals lefty
• 2:38:08
  Mackenzie Gore and also traded for Marcus Simeon for Brandon
• 2:38:13
  Nimmo. For from the Mets.
• 2:38:15
  The Dodgers are heavy favorites to win the National League West
• 2:38:19
  at a -, 600. I wonder why?
• 2:38:22
  While the Padres are plus 750 and both the Giants and
• 2:38:28
  Diamondbacks are plus 2200. The Diamondbacks brought back
• 2:38:32
  starting pitcher Meryl Kelly and Zach Gallon and and made a trade
• 2:38:39
  for Nolan Arenado and also signed Carlos Santana.
• 2:38:43
  The Giants signed starter Tyler Malley, outfielder Harrison
• 2:38:48
  Bader and 2nd baseman Luis Arise.
• 2:38:52
  The Padres re sign Michael King but lost many pieces including
• 2:38:57
  Dylan Sees, Robert Suarez and Luis Arise.
• 2:39:03
  The Dodgers spent big, as always, making Edwin Diaz the
• 2:39:07
  highest paid reliever and signing Kyle Tuck to a big deal
• 2:39:11
  worth about 60 million per year. Year.
• 2:39:15
  Well, not surprised. Everybody.
• 2:39:17
  Has the Dodgers as favorites, I mean the deferred Dodgers as we
• 2:39:21
  call them, the DDS as I can't stand and listen, I'm not going
• 2:39:26
  to take shots at Kyle Tucker. He took he took the money and he
• 2:39:31
  went there because he has a way out of the in in somewhere in
• 2:39:36
  the near future in the next two or three years.
• 2:39:38
  He can request out of that Ikana has a player option to leave.
• 2:39:43
  So I'm not surprised. Edwin Diaz going to the Dodgers.
• 2:39:46
  I mean that it was the probably the biggest steal in the
• 2:39:49
  offseason because the weakness of the Dodgers was their relief
• 2:39:53
  pitching and now they have the best relief pitcher in baseball.
• 2:39:56
  So very, very nice. It's wonderful to see the
• 2:39:59
  Dodgers just completely slam dunk the offseason.
• 2:40:03
  But. The team that I.
• 2:40:05
  Think is. Going to drive.
• 2:40:09
  In this division this year, and I know a lot of people don't
• 2:40:12
  have them as favorites and betting favorites.
• 2:40:14
  And I, I think it's going to be the Diamondbacks.
• 2:40:18
  I think the Diamondbacks have a good young roster and I know
• 2:40:22
  they're a + 2200 and the Giants are a + 2022 hundred and the
• 2:40:26
  Giants are rebuilding and they're nobody wants to play
• 2:40:30
  there. Aaron Judge had a chance to go
• 2:40:31
  to San Francisco. He had no interest in going over
• 2:40:34
  there. I think their GM or the
• 2:40:38
  executive, one of the executive executives of the year last year
• 2:40:41
  was Buster Posey. I think he's a great executive.
• 2:40:44
  He knows the game as good as anybody does.
• 2:40:46
  One of the great catchers of this era and of this time.
• 2:40:50
  So I like Buster. I think he's going to rebuild
• 2:40:52
  that team. He's been a part of that
• 2:40:53
  organization for a very, very long time.
• 2:40:56
  But I like the Diamondbacks. I like the fact that they they
• 2:41:01
  brought back starter Meryl Kelly, Zach Gallon and obviously
• 2:41:06
  Nolan Arenado adds a little bit more depth to their roster and
• 2:41:10
  also gives them a leader, a veteran leader.
• 2:41:14
  And Carlos Santana, I mean, he's been a journeyman.
• 2:41:17
  We've seen them all different places.
• 2:41:19
  We've seen them with the Guardians, he's jumped and all
• 2:41:21
  different places. I I like Carlos Santana.
• 2:41:24
  I think he gives them depth. He gives them another veteran.
• 2:41:27
  This is a young roster. This is a young farm system.
• 2:41:31
  They have a great coach over there.
• 2:41:33
  I wouldn't be surprised if the Diamondbacks surprise a lot of
• 2:41:36
  people in this division. As far as the other teams, the
• 2:41:40
  Giants, like I said, interesting.
• 2:41:43
  I, I, I think the Giants are an interesting team.
• 2:41:45
  I mean, Tyler Malley, Alfielder Harrison Bader, who's been a
• 2:41:49
  journeyman too with the Yankees, the Mets, Luis Arise, Luis
• 2:41:53
  Arise. Now I want to say this, A lot of
• 2:41:56
  people attacked the Yankees this offseason.
• 2:41:59
  Because Luis. Arise has been one of the best
• 2:42:02
  hitting players in baseball. He has been, I mean, he's won
• 2:42:05
  batting titles. I mean, this guy is a great
• 2:42:08
  hitter and if I'm not mistaken, the Giants got him for like 14
• 2:42:11
  million or something. It was like a low amount of
• 2:42:14
  money, A1 year deal. Arise was not the elite hitter
• 2:42:22
  he has been over the last couple of years.
• 2:42:24
  Now, I agree with a lot of fans that the Yankees should have
• 2:42:27
  taken a flyer on him. I think they should have.
• 2:42:30
  I mean, he could have been a good bona fide second baseman if
• 2:42:33
  they decide to trade Mr. Nutjob, Mr. Jism.
• 2:42:37
  I mean, he's a he's a good second baseman.
• 2:42:40
  I think you can move him around and maybe a third base.
• 2:42:42
  I think you could play third base.
• 2:42:44
  Maybe I, I, I mean, it would have made more sense to go there
• 2:42:48
  than some of the other places they went in the offseason.
• 2:42:52
  But I'm not going to attack Brian Cashman until I see the
• 2:42:55
  finishing product at the trade deadline.
• 2:42:57
  But I, I think a rise was brought there to be a trade
• 2:43:01
  piece because I don't out of all the teams that are making a run
• 2:43:06
  this year, I don't think the Giants are going to be one of
• 2:43:09
  those teams. I don't I, I, I and I'm not
• 2:43:12
  saying that the Giants don't have a good future.
• 2:43:14
  They don't have some good young players in their farm system.
• 2:43:16
  I think they have two of the top 25 farm hands in all the
• 2:43:21
  baseball. I was reading some of the things
• 2:43:22
  that I was, I was seeing and, and they got a great, Logan's a
• 2:43:26
  great pitcher and they, they've got some good pitching prospects
• 2:43:29
  coming up. But I, I, I think that when you
• 2:43:34
  look at the American League, it's a little different.
• 2:43:38
  The Mariners are betting favorites.
• 2:43:41
  I'm not betting on them. I'm just.
• 2:43:43
  Speaking the truth here. I, I, I think the Astros,
• 2:43:47
  they've been up and down over the last couple of years,
• 2:43:51
  obviously because of some of the players that have decided to
• 2:43:55
  part ways with them. They didn't want to overpay Kyle
• 2:43:58
  Tucker. So they moved him and they
• 2:44:01
  traded him to the Cubs. And I listen, it all makes
• 2:44:05
  sense. It it under, you understand what
• 2:44:07
  the Astros are trying to do. They got some good young
• 2:44:09
  pitchers. They they got a good roster.
• 2:44:12
  They have Altuve still there. They brought Correa back.
• 2:44:15
  I don't know if he's going to be a part of that roster this year.
• 2:44:17
  We'll see if he if he makes the roster, but I I think the
• 2:44:23
  Seattle Mariners spent a lot of money in the offseason.
• 2:44:27
  They did they Seattle re sign Josh Naylor.
• 2:44:31
  They paid him a lot of money. Brendan Donovan from.
• 2:44:35
  The Cardinals is is a decent player.
• 2:44:38
  Is he Jorge Polanco? You can question that.
• 2:44:42
  I I obviously am. I, I, I've read about this kid.
• 2:44:47
  I know the Yankees were interested in him.
• 2:44:49
  These Japanese pitchers, they're a hit or miss.
• 2:44:51
  I mean, you don't know what you're going to get out of them.
• 2:44:53
  So I see Fish sitting there. You know, he's putting his hand
• 2:44:56
  under his lip and, you know, he likes to fiddle around with his
• 2:45:00
  chinny chin, chin and his little ear, you know, But it's OK,
• 2:45:05
  Fish. The Rangers are the team to
• 2:45:07
  watch in this division because I love Jacob degrom and I think
• 2:45:15
  with the veteran pitching that they have over there on this
• 2:45:18
  roster and some of the. Young guys that they.
• 2:45:21
  Have and I think that the this is the year that remember the
• 2:45:25
  Rangers won a World Series a couple years ago.
• 2:45:28
  This is this was a a a well oiled machine.
• 2:45:31
  Now Bruce Bocci is not there anymore.
• 2:45:33
  He stepped down. I still think that this team in.
• 2:45:36
  This roster is good and I. Think that a lot.
• 2:45:40
  Of people question what the the Rangers did last year and say,
• 2:45:46
  well, this team's not really that good anymore.
• 2:45:48
  They should trade away pieces and rebuild it.
• 2:45:50
  I don't think so. I think this team is good.
• 2:45:53
  I think any Brandon Nemo is a home run for them.
• 2:45:56
  It gives him the depth player in the outfield who's a is a he can
• 2:45:59
  hit in your number one or can hit in your number 9.
• 2:46:01
  He can he can be at the top of your your lineup on the back of
• 2:46:05
  your lineup, or it could be your number two.
• 2:46:07
  It it depending on how much speed you want on your bases.
• 2:46:10
  I think he was a home run move. I think getting him for Simeon,
• 2:46:14
  who was an old man and I'm sorry for Met fans.
• 2:46:16
  Oh, he's a Gold Glover. He can play multiple.
• 2:46:18
  But give me a break. This guy is still young.
• 2:46:23
  He still has a lot of baseball left.
• 2:46:26
  I think the Mets traded away their best outfielder.
• 2:46:29
  I I like, I like what I see with the Rangers.
• 2:46:32
  I really do. The Rangers will depend on a lot
• 2:46:34
  of their. Young player development, it's
• 2:46:36
  always been a flaw for them. A lot of the times they have
• 2:46:38
  these higher end prospects that flame out and they either do
• 2:46:41
  well in other places or they have issues with injuries.
• 2:46:43
  And I think you look at a case like this year, they lost 2
• 2:46:46
  starting pitchers. John Gray was one of them.
• 2:46:49
  I forgot John Gray sucks. Yeah, I was.
• 2:46:51
  Going to say I think. The the upside is still there
• 2:46:53
  with somebody like are we talking about the Colorado?
• 2:46:55
  Rockies John Gray. Yeah, he's Gray now.
• 2:46:58
  He's black. The guy stinks.
• 2:47:00
  Yeah. Go ahead.
• 2:47:01
  What else? What else you're going to throw
• 2:47:02
  at me? I'm going to say Jack Leiter and
• 2:47:04
  Kumar. Rocker, the two obviously out
• 2:47:06
  lighter son with the Mets and then Kumar Rocker, the Mets
• 2:47:09
  draft pick. They decided to they decided to
• 2:47:10
  ditch for whatever reason. Those are the two guys at the
• 2:47:12
  back end of the rotation that are very interesting.
• 2:47:14
  Josh Young was a big part of the Jack Leiter's going to be a
• 2:47:16
  beast. And.
• 2:47:18
  Josh Young, obviously a big part of that World Series team.
• 2:47:20
  So if they can get those guys to develop and at least get some
• 2:47:22
  level of competent offense, they had really good pitching last
• 2:47:25
  year, they could definitely make you ready.
• 2:47:27
  You ready for a bold statement? What do you got?
• 2:47:29
  Here's a bold statement for all you guys out here this.
• 2:47:32
  Pitching staff is. Going to be one of the top five
• 2:47:35
  pitching Staffs in baseball this year, all right.
• 2:47:38
  You ready? You ready guys?
• 2:47:40
  You ready to hear this? This is going to be a top five
• 2:47:43
  pitching staff. I mean, starting rotation in
• 2:47:45
  baseball this year. You think Mackenzie Gore is
• 2:47:48
  going to? Be that number 3 for them 100%
• 2:47:51
  because he had the Jekyll and Hyde season of all time last
• 2:47:55
  year where he was a top five, top ten guy for a stretch of the
• 2:47:59
  season and then was a bottom 5 getting lit up every single
• 2:48:04
  time. Who do you play for?
• 2:48:05
  We've seen who do you play for? He's playing in.
• 2:48:07
  Washington Look. He's.
• 2:48:09
  It's been his whole career. Like this, though, where like
• 2:48:12
  you see the flashes and there's guys like that.
• 2:48:14
  You mentioned some of the hitters.
• 2:48:15
  Speedy Evan Carter's a guy that comes to mind for me.
• 2:48:18
  He's a center fielder. He's had back problems.
• 2:48:20
  They thought he was gonna be too They.
• 2:48:22
  Have a pretty good one. Seeger is.
• 2:48:25
  One of my favorites and I always, I'm hoping that they
• 2:48:29
  fall out of contention or they get injuries to everyone but
• 2:48:31
  Seeger so the Yankees can trade for Seeger because I would love
• 2:48:34
  freaking Seeger. But I I like, I like Langford a
• 2:48:39
  lot as well. And he's their other young guy.
• 2:48:42
  He's a power bat. They have some real interesting
• 2:48:45
  guys. If they all come together this
• 2:48:47
  year, it could happen. And degrom, you know, if he's
• 2:48:49
  healthy, if he's 85% of what he used to be, that's still an All
• 2:48:54
  Star pitcher because he was on a path for the Hall of Fame before
• 2:48:57
  the interest. They have two young guys that
• 2:48:59
  played. Together in college, one of them
• 2:49:01
  that was a Mets who parted ways because the Mets just a stupid
• 2:49:06
  organization, let me tell you. Yeah, nobody said that Arrow.
• 2:49:08
  Of the Mets was the brightest and I'm telling you right now,
• 2:49:10
  Jack. Leiter is a beast.
• 2:49:12
  That guy is a number one. That guy's going to be a number
• 2:49:15
  one in this league. He's a baby.
• 2:49:17
  He is a baby. He dominated AAA baseball,
• 2:49:19
  dominated. Go look at his numbers.
• 2:49:21
  He's ridiculous that he is. He is.
• 2:49:24
  I'm telling he's ridiculous. How's that?
• 2:49:28
  I like, I like this roster. I like this pitching staff.
• 2:49:31
  I think they have a couple of good young pitchers in their
• 2:49:34
  bullpen that we're going to see grow into.
• 2:49:36
  Maybe one of them. I think I, I forget what his
• 2:49:38
  name is. He could be a starter in this
• 2:49:40
  league too. So I like, I like the Rangers.
• 2:49:43
  I, I really do. I think the Rangers are going to
• 2:49:45
  surprise a lot of people. Don't be surprised if they're a
• 2:49:48
  playoff team. I I've got a crazy name for you.
• 2:49:50
  Errol, that's way out of left field for the AO W What?
• 2:49:54
  It's the Sacramento Athletics. Listen to this.
• 2:49:58
  Line up that. They have Shay Langoliers just
• 2:50:00
  hit three home runs in a spring game.
• 2:50:03
  He's one of the best catchers in fantasy.
• 2:50:06
  He's going to be a top three patcher drafted this year.
• 2:50:08
  Nick. Nick Kurtz is going to be a top
• 2:50:10
  three first baseman drafted this year.
• 2:50:12
  He was rookie of the year last year.
• 2:50:14
  He is a monster and he's going to be one of the best first
• 2:50:17
  baseman for a long time. They got Jeff McNeil playing
• 2:50:19
  second base. It looks like Jacob Wilson was
• 2:50:22
  in the running for Rookie of the year last year at shortstops on
• 2:50:25
  a Jack Wilson. They got one of the Muncie's
• 2:50:29
  over at 3rd Soderstrom, who had a monster year in left and can
• 2:50:34
  also play some first. Denzel Clark is a great
• 2:50:37
  defensive center fielder. We saw him last year.
• 2:50:40
  So any of those bad, you know, balls does.
• 2:50:42
  They don't have any pitching, let's face it.
• 2:50:44
  And that place is a bandbox. Didn't Clark play?
• 2:50:47
  On he's playing and Lawrence Butler too, in the in.
• 2:50:49
  The other side isn't Clark playing for one of these teams?
• 2:50:51
  Canada. I believe he's playing for
• 2:50:52
  Canada. He's Yep.
• 2:50:54
  And then they have Brent Rooker. At DH, who's a masher, like
• 2:50:57
  that's a real line up that I would argue is a top five line
• 2:51:00
  up. You know, at least offensively
• 2:51:03
  we are in all of the AL. We are talking about the
• 2:51:06
  athletics here. They play in a.
• 2:51:08
  Bandbox, they don't have any pitching, but everyone else that
• 2:51:11
  goes there, it's going to be almost like Coors Fieldish when
• 2:51:14
  they go to this place this year. If I would just say this, if
• 2:51:18
  you're gambling, look for overs early in the season on the A's
• 2:51:23
  because everyone's going to get lit up in in those home games.
• 2:51:26
  I I would just be hammering the overs all all season.
• 2:51:30
  I'm not betting on the A's. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
• 2:51:32
  The overs though, like you got? To think about that because
• 2:51:35
  that's a lot of power in that line up, I'm sure, but I.
• 2:51:39
  I'm not been in the 10 you. Know half of those guys won't.
• 2:51:42
  Six half. Of those guys won't be.
• 2:51:44
  A part of that. Organization in the next three
• 2:51:45
  or four years, so it doesn't matter.
• 2:51:48
  It doesn't matter half of them. Will be with the Red Sox, the
• 2:51:50
  Yankees, the Mets, the Dodgers. I mean, well, that's why they
• 2:51:54
  did that. Whole you know, Atlanta Atlanta
• 2:51:56
  Braves method where they've signed them these 888 years, 70
• 2:52:00
  million while they bought out the arbitration years so they
• 2:52:02
  can keep it together for a little bit longer.
• 2:52:05
  You know, Billy Beane knows what he's doing over there.
• 2:52:07
  He's I like Billy Beane. I I've.
• 2:52:10
  Never taken shots at Billy Beane Money Bowl.
• 2:52:12
  I mean, he really designed that whole style of game.
• 2:52:14
  And I love what he does on and off the baseball field.
• 2:52:18
  And he's a quiet guy too. He doesn't really say much.
• 2:52:22
  He's not out there bragging and and speaking like some other
• 2:52:25
  guys here in New York, if you know what I mean.
• 2:52:28
  David Stearns or, you know, Brian Cashman or jazz.
• 2:52:31
  Chillum or jazz? Well, he's not a.
• 2:52:33
  He's not AGM, but I didn't say AGM but he's.
• 2:52:36
  His own guy. He's his own.
• 2:52:37
  GM OK, he's selling himself right now.
• 2:52:40
  He thinks he's worth. What did he say?
• 2:52:42
  Oh yeah, 35 million, 5 million, The lost, lost man, the lost
• 2:52:47
  little man in jazz Chisholm. I, I will say this about Jazz.
• 2:52:51
  I got to give him a little bit of credit because for all the
• 2:52:54
  people that love him, hate him just as much.
• 2:52:58
  And he goes out there on social media and he doesn't really shut
• 2:53:01
  up. He, he, he just goes out there
• 2:53:02
  and just spits it out. And, and that chains got to go,
• 2:53:06
  man, that chains got to go. That is one of the ugliest
• 2:53:10
  chains I've ever seen. And it's, and it's so funny, so
• 2:53:13
  fitting that he's he's he's engaged to one of those Batty
• 2:53:16
  girls, one of those girls that like to fight and like to pull
• 2:53:19
  their you know what, Sal, you know, and do all that dirty
• 2:53:22
  stuff, if you know what I mean. It's it's very jazz jism type,
• 2:53:27
  if you know what I mean. You just love that guy on the.
• 2:53:30
  You know I don't love him now. What if I told you he's?
• 2:53:33
  A top three round pick in fantasy?
• 2:53:37
  I believe it. He's a second.
• 2:53:38
  He's a top second baseman. He's a top second baseman.
• 2:53:42
  He's going to he's he's asking for crazy money.
• 2:53:45
  Is this, I mean, we'll talk about the AL East in a little
• 2:53:47
  bit, but he's a guy that one of these teams, you know, competing
• 2:53:52
  in the AL West may want to, may want to try to do some crazy
• 2:53:57
  swap for, you know, like this is a guy that if the Yankees don't
• 2:54:00
  want to keep him, don't put it past Cashmere to do something
• 2:54:04
  like this, especially if he's causing problems in the
• 2:54:07
  clubhouse, at least perceived problems in the media.
• 2:54:11
  I, I, I just be worried about it.
• 2:54:12
  And you mentioned arise earlier as someone the Yankees should
• 2:54:14
  have looked at. I, I think the Mets should have
• 2:54:17
  looked at arise instead of Polanco to play first base,
• 2:54:19
  because that at least arise. I've seen do it and has pretty
• 2:54:22
  good fielding percentage when he does it.
• 2:54:24
  But they say arise at any other position and at second base had
• 2:54:28
  the worst range, Meaning he's a statue out there.
• 2:54:31
  He'll, he'll get it if you hit it right at him.
• 2:54:33
  He's he's got short hands, but he doesn't move.
• 2:54:37
  So first base is really where you want him.
• 2:54:40
  And that's why I think he didn't go for as much money is is that
• 2:54:44
  and that he doesn't walk. It's all batting average.
• 2:54:46
  So if his batting average of 330, you know, he's gonna have a
• 2:54:49
  350 on base, that's great. But if he's hitting 280 like he
• 2:54:52
  did last year and then he has a like a 295 on base, that's
• 2:54:55
  that's a guy that you hit at the bottom of the lineup.
• 2:54:57
  And that's what they were doing with the Padres, a lot of the.
• 2:55:00
  Year at the end of the year last year he was hitting 7th or 8th
• 2:55:02
  sometimes and generally even you want the the guys that get on
• 2:55:06
  base 6th and that defeats that purpose too.
• 2:55:10
  The Yankees had Starlin. Castro, years ago, he was very
• 2:55:13
  similar with him, you know, he's a high batting average, but no
• 2:55:16
  walks. And if he was hitting a high
• 2:55:17
  batting average, he's great. Put him at the top of the
• 2:55:19
  lineup. But if he's like hitting like
• 2:55:21
  250, you can't play that guy. But Arise is better than Castro.
• 2:55:25
  But you know, I want to. I'll just go back to the.
• 2:55:28
  Divisions. I was going to mention the
• 2:55:29
  Astros too as an interesting bounce back candidate because
• 2:55:32
  they were another team that had really good pitching for most of
• 2:55:34
  the season. And they had a similar collapse
• 2:55:37
  with the Mets when their bullpengers all fall apart in
• 2:55:39
  the second-half of the season and obviously didn't get the
• 2:55:41
  same level of height to the Mets collapsed it.
• 2:55:43
  But it was arguably they were the best or second best team in
• 2:55:46
  the in the American League all year.
• 2:55:48
  And then they fell apart late in the season.
• 2:55:49
  But I do think they're due to bounce back.
• 2:55:51
  I agree with they're all on that one.
• 2:55:52
  And I do agree with him on the Diamondbacks too.
• 2:55:53
  They're another team that has been unlucky with injuries
• 2:55:56
  recently, especially with their pitching.
• 2:55:57
  I would say them, the Reds and the Braves have been probably
• 2:55:59
  the three unluckiest teams when it comes to injuries recently.
• 2:56:01
  And they have some kids that are still really good and Brandon
• 2:56:04
  Font, I think can take another leap as well.
• 2:56:06
  Jordan Lawler's an interesting name that hasn't developed but
• 2:56:08
  still has a lot of upside as well.
• 2:56:10
  Even some of the kids already came through for them.
• 2:56:11
  Guy like guys like Marino in that lineup and now they get
• 2:56:14
  some veteran pieces to go along with it.
• 2:56:16
  This could definitely be a wild card team.
• 2:56:17
  I agree. Seattle, by the way.
• 2:56:19
  Before you, before you throw a little water on them, they have
• 2:56:22
  like one of the top shortstop prospects in baseball and they
• 2:56:25
  think he's going to make his debut soon.
• 2:56:27
  Colt Emerson. So there's he's a top 10
• 2:56:30
  prospect. He's been coming for a while.
• 2:56:33
  JP Crawford's holding that spot right now.
• 2:56:35
  He's already hurt. It could be a situation where we
• 2:56:38
  see it. So they may get some more
• 2:56:39
  infused guys into that line up that we didn't really see with
• 2:56:42
  stuff in the offseason. Donovan's an interesting player.
• 2:56:45
  He could he plays Gold Glove defense at numbers of positions
• 2:56:50
  and that's a guy that's like worth his weight in gold in your
• 2:56:52
  on your team, especially the way that they kind of mix up the
• 2:56:56
  lineup over there. So I think they did some good
• 2:56:59
  stuff. I don't know if it's enough.
• 2:57:00
  I'm hoping this is the year those cheaters over in Houston
• 2:57:02
  finally, you know, go down and they fall back.
• 2:57:05
  I feel like they didn't do enough losing.
• 2:57:10
  What's his face, Framber? I mean, he's had the most wins
• 2:57:14
  in baseball since 2020, tied for the most wins in baseball is 73
• 2:57:19
  since the year 2020 when he became a full time starter.
• 2:57:22
  That's not a guy I want to give up on.
• 2:57:24
  I mean, it wasn't, he didn't have maybe the world's greatest
• 2:57:27
  year last year, but it wasn't the guy that I would give up on.
• 2:57:31
  But they, they let him go cuz the guy, he wanted a lot of
• 2:57:33
  money. They decided to go with the
• 2:57:34
  younger guys and they went with the, you know, with EMI.
• 2:57:37
  So I hope they suck. I still mad at them for cheating
• 2:57:41
  in 2017. I just seem like a team is going
• 2:57:42
  to be bad another year in a row. Especially how they don't you
• 2:57:45
  love when he says I hope they. Suck.
• 2:57:48
  I do. I hope they suck.
• 2:57:49
  Jeremy Pain is injured. They're going to put Carlos
• 2:57:51
  Correa at shortstop for now. Correa, as you remember, he got
• 2:57:55
  traded back there last year at the deadline.
• 2:57:58
  He's been pretty bad for a while surprisingly after he started
• 2:58:03
  well, got paid and then was bad. Not an Anthony Rendon situation
• 2:58:07
  but he's been hurt a lot too. Nothing is ever as bad as Push.
• 2:58:11
  Spank. Em now.
• 2:58:12
  Fish. Here's the real question, Spank.
• 2:58:13
  Em how does the Astros suck and correlate with the chances of
• 2:58:15
  the Yankees getting Corey? Breaking news?
• 2:58:17
  I farted. Breaking.
• 2:58:19
  You want to jerk me off? I don't know.
• 2:58:21
  Did you? Did you?
• 2:58:22
  Like talk about it Nimmo enough. Because I, I feel like Nimmo,
• 2:58:25
  going to Texas is a big part of why you're I'm putting you on a
• 2:58:28
  leash now. Don't you think that kind of?
• 2:58:31
  Leadership he provided in the clubhouse, that's going to be a
• 2:58:34
  guy that really is going to be important to them.
• 2:58:36
  It's going to cost the Mets. It's going to cost them, I
• 2:58:39
  think, the Mets. Think.
• 2:58:40
  By adding the the depth that they have and you bring in Beau
• 2:58:44
  Bichette and you're moving them to third base.
• 2:58:45
  And we'll get into it, you know, in the next couple of weeks.
• 2:58:49
  I'm sure a lot of people look at the Mets and you question maybe
• 2:58:54
  if the Mets actually know what they're doing.
• 2:58:55
  And is this the final year for David Stearns to prove himself
• 2:59:00
  as the GM of this team and this organization if they miss the
• 2:59:03
  playoffs again? I mean, there's no way he keeps
• 2:59:07
  his job. There's no way.
• 2:59:09
  I don't care what anybody says. I don't care what the Mets fan.
• 2:59:12
  Oh, he's one of the best GM's in baseball.
• 2:59:13
  Really. What has he done?
• 2:59:15
  What's he done? I I would love to hear it
• 2:59:17
  because you could sell everything on me.
• 2:59:19
  Why? You paid Juan Soto.
• 2:59:20
  Yeah. You gave him $700 million.
• 2:59:22
  Good for you. I mean, what did you do?
• 2:59:25
  What have you done? You went from one of the biggest
• 2:59:28
  off seasons in baseball. Everybody was bragging.
• 2:59:31
  Look what the Mets are going the 1st 25 games to a team that had
• 2:59:34
  one of the biggest drop offs in baseball history at the end of
• 2:59:37
  the season. I mean, it reminds me of the
• 2:59:40
  Mets. Yeah, that's what I remember.
• 2:59:41
  Yeah, reminds me of the old Mets.
• 2:59:43
  Typical. I I and I'm sorry Met fans, I'm
• 2:59:46
  not trying to pick on you. I mean, I'm just trying to smell
• 2:59:49
  my ass or something. Of that magnitude.
• 2:59:52
  Or something butt plug or? Goody has no.
• 2:59:55
  Woody, Speedy's mom. I got to go back off now
• 3:00:00
  somebody's got to whack off about.
• 3:00:01
  This because I know it's not well, actually, Nathan's
• 3:00:04
  probably doing that right now in his jail cell, his little
• 3:00:07
  quarter sector over there. He's wearing a cowboy jersey, so
• 3:00:12
  that's better than that. Some of some of the stuff that
• 3:00:14
  we've seen him wear in the past as we all know.
• 3:00:17
  But anyways, Patty cake. Patty cake.
• 3:00:19
  Patty cake. Bakers man, somebody's got a
• 3:00:22
  smack him and a yes again. Anyways, when we come back,
• 3:00:25
  ladies and gentlemen, we got a lot more to go, so stay tuned.
• 3:00:29
  I mean we've had a good one and great guests.
• 3:00:32
  Thank you to the old myth boy. But when we come back, we have
• 3:00:36
  in like Flint. We got Tic Tac, No.
• 3:00:38
  And we got somebody smells like, give me that chicken Curry.
• 3:00:42
  Something like that or. You know what?
• 3:00:44
  I like this one more than anything.
• 3:00:46
  Hold on. Squeeze the cheese.
• 3:00:47
  Squeeze in. Those cheeses, if you.
• 3:00:49
  Know what I mean or I ram you? Droba.
• 3:00:53
  Smack my ass. Droba.
• 3:00:55
  I forget this one. Hold on.
• 3:00:56
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  cornerback Lajarius Sneed. The move saved them $11.4
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  million against the salary cap this season.
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  This comes after they traded for Sneed after the 2024 season,
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  giving him a massive 4 year, $76 million contract at the time.
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  After his success playing a key role in the secondary with the
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  Kansas City Chiefs last couple of Super Bowl winning squads,
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  Sneed could not stay healthy in his two years in Tennessee,
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  playing only 12 games total, missing time with various
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  injuries for one of the NFL's worst teams in that span of
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  time. The Titans had already moved on
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  from Sneed if you were reading the tea leaves this offseason
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  after they signed Alonte Taylor, Cordell Flott and Josh Williams
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  at the corner position. Sneed, who was once thought of
• 3:02:00
  as good enough to be paid the fifth highest amount of any
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  corner in the league just two years ago, will now be available
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  for far less on a reclamation project for this two time
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  champion. Edmonton Oilers superstar
• 3:02:15
  forward Connor McDavid called out the NHL suspension process
• 3:02:20
  on Sunday, saying it needs to be audited after the outrage across
• 3:02:24
  the league for the slap on the wrist 5 game suspension for
• 3:02:27
  Anaheim Ducks defenseman Radko Goodish.
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  Goodish was suspended for a vicious hit on Maple Leafs
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  captain and gold medal winning Team USA captain Austin
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  Matthews. Matthews will miss the remainder
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  of the season with a Grade 3 MCL tear and five intuition.
• 3:02:44
  Goodish made news during the Olympics for another injury
• 3:02:47
  causing it, putting Team Canada captain Sidney Crosby out for
• 3:02:51
  the tournament. Crosby hasn't played since then.
• 3:02:54
  McDavid, feeling like he could be next if punishments aren't
• 3:02:57
  more logically applied, told TSN.
• 3:03:01
  If every time there's a suspension, everyone complaints
• 3:03:03
  about it, why don't we take a look at the process, figure out
• 3:03:07
  there's a better way to make both parties that are happy
• 3:03:10
  because it seems like there's a lot of frustration in light of
• 3:03:12
  the be a severity of the play. I'm very disappointed and
• 3:03:16
  shocked that the league would allow for such a ruling.
• 3:03:19
  A phone hearing in five games is just laughable and preposterous.
• 3:03:24
  That comes from Moldavar, who's one of these lawyers for a
• 3:03:29
  spokesman for the team. All right, this is actually a
• 3:03:32
  spokesman for the agent. I'm sorry, the agent for Austin
• 3:03:36
  Matthews. While the hearing process is
• 3:03:39
  prefixed in our CBA, that there was no further discipline is a
• 3:03:43
  reckless and ridiculous position for player safety.
• 3:03:47
  This decision results in a further loss of confidence in
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  the disciplinary process for all players.
• 3:03:52
  Players and fans deserve better. The player safety department
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  should be suspended. While the player safety
• 3:03:58
  department is unlikely to be suspended, it is likely some
• 3:04:02
  sort of reform will be on the table this offseason after the
• 3:04:05
  satisfaction with how one player has been allowed to injure star
• 3:04:09
  players in the league and due to illogical rules, cannot be
• 3:04:12
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• 3:04:15
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• 3:06:25
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  It's right there. I know in eight days we have the
• 3:06:51
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  Should we do that? Should we go that route or
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  What would you rather, Speedy? Do you want to make a guess for
• 3:07:03
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  Who wins the lottery? Want to do that Top 10?
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  You want to do. That you want to do that
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  because. That's eight days away.
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  The lottery is 8 days away for 2027.
• 3:07:15
  Interesting. You want to do that?
• 3:07:17
  OK. All right, let's do that
• 3:07:20
  tonight. I think the players July I'll do
• 3:07:23
  that closer to July, but I it's 8 days away.
• 3:07:26
  Who doesn't want to know this? All right, so where if anybody
• 3:07:31
  doesn't know this, this is very easy to find.
• 3:07:33
  All right, so you can go to take a thong, take a thong.com/MLB.
• 3:07:41
  It's very simple. Ladies and gentlemen, it's
• 3:07:44
  fantastic when it comes to picks and odds.
• 3:07:48
  All right, so I'm going to give you a little tip here.
• 3:07:51
  So the first, the number one team, which be which this year
• 3:07:56
  would be Colorado. Well, I'm sorry, in 2027 will be
• 3:08:00
  Colorado. So they were the worst team last
• 3:08:03
  year. All right, right.
• 3:08:05
  It was last year, yeah, by a pretty big margin.
• 3:08:07
  So. They're.
• 3:08:09
  They're the betting favorites. They're 22.73% chance of getting
• 3:08:16
  the number one pick. So is Washington, which is
• 3:08:19
  22.373. So they're they're the two
• 3:08:22
  highest ones. So they're more than likely to
• 3:08:24
  get the number one pick. So we're going to start from 10
• 3:08:27
  and we're going to make the predictions here.
• 3:08:29
  So they're predicting. Take a.
• 3:08:31
  Thon is. Predicting that Miami, I'm
• 3:08:35
  sorry, no Chicago, the White Sox would get the number 10 pick.
• 3:08:41
  That's the prediction right now. They're there to get the number
• 3:08:44
  10 pick. My prediction on this is Saint
• 3:08:48
  Louis will fall to 10. Saint Louis will fall to 10 this
• 3:08:55
  year and my and Chicago will move on.
• 3:08:59
  OK, so at #9 they got Tinkathon. Has.
• 3:09:03
  Miami. They have Miami at. #9.
• 3:09:07
  They won the 9th worst team last year so that for 2027 they would
• 3:09:12
  be considered the 9th pick. Here's my prediction.
• 3:09:17
  Miami. And Chicago.
• 3:09:18
  Are going to move up in the draft, they're going to move up
• 3:09:22
  and. I believe.
• 3:09:24
  At #9 Tampa will fall to 9 at. #8.
• 3:09:32
  Right now it would be Saint Louis for 2027, eight days from
• 3:09:36
  now. And I and listen, I I'm just,
• 3:09:39
  this is a, this is a betting guess over here.
• 3:09:42
  So we got Saint Louis. I mean, I'm sorry, Miami and
• 3:09:45
  Chicago moving up. So my prediction at #7 is Miami
• 3:09:51
  will get the number seven pick. Chicago will again move up on
• 3:09:57
  that. Chicago's moving up as far as
• 3:09:59
  I'm concerned, and Chicago right now, the chances of them moving
• 3:10:03
  up is slim, but I I still think they're going to move up.
• 3:10:07
  So at number six, you have the athletics, right?
• 3:10:12
  They have the athletics. Chicago moves to number six.
• 3:10:17
  OK, you got that? I'm sorry, Chicago, did I say
• 3:10:20
  Tampa? Did I pick #7 yet?
• 3:10:22
  I think 7 is where you're at right now.
• 3:10:23
  I'm sorry, so I'm sorry. Chicago moves.
• 3:10:26
  Chicago moves. No, no.
• 3:10:28
  Athletics move to Athletics move to seven.
• 3:10:32
  Chicago moves to six. That's what I think.
• 3:10:34
  Chicago's going to jump from 5:50 and the Athletics are going
• 3:10:39
  to move one spot down to seven at #5 They have Baltimore, I
• 3:10:45
  think. Baltimore moves up.
• 3:10:48
  I think. The Angels.
• 3:10:49
  Back at #4 where they have their betting favorites to get the
• 3:10:52
  number four pick 10.33 I think. I'm just this is a.
• 3:10:59
  Prediction. I think the Angels go to five
• 3:11:02
  and Baltimore go to 4. Then you have Minnesota,
• 3:11:06
  Washington and Colorado, I still think.
• 3:11:09
  Colorado and. Washington are sitting there,
• 3:11:11
  but here's my prediction. Washington gets the number one
• 3:11:13
  pick. Colorado.
• 3:11:15
  Gets the number 2. Pick and Minnesota will sit
• 3:11:18
  there at 3:00 with the number three pick.
• 3:11:21
  So here's my prediction Chicago, where the chances of them, the
• 3:11:27
  odds of them moving up, is like none.
• 3:11:32
  Look at that, look at that. Look at the lottery.
• 3:11:33
  Over there, I mean, it's bad. I mean, I'm, I'm looking right
• 3:11:37
  now. What are what are chances all
• 3:11:38
  right #10? #10.
• 3:11:43
  To move. So it's one. .8 to get to the.
• 3:11:47
  Number one pick the number one pick so.
• 3:11:50
  I think they're going to 6, right?
• 3:11:53
  Yeah, you had them going to six. So that's. 3 point 93.9 so.
• 3:11:59
  I'm predicting they have a 3.9% chance to move to five.
• 3:12:03
  I mean, it's six and they're going to jump from 5:50.
• 3:12:07
  So that's that's the biggest jump out of this, this this
• 3:12:10
  draft, which we're going to see the lottery is going to be this
• 3:12:14
  next week, actually next week. When would that be?
• 3:12:17
  8 days opening night Tuesday, it'll be.
• 3:12:20
  Opening night, too? I don't know.
• 3:12:21
  Maybe Wednesday it. Looks like the countdown says
• 3:12:24
  maybe Wednesday. Well, that's opening night I
• 3:12:26
  think, too. I think the lot of opening is
• 3:12:28
  Thursday, all right. SO looks like an 8 day countdown
• 3:12:30
  though, so all right so. There we go.
• 3:12:33
  So that's that's my prediction here.
• 3:12:36
  My prediction is Washington gets the number one, Colorado gets
• 3:12:39
  the number 2. Minnesota gets the number 3.
• 3:12:43
  Los Angeles stepped down. Baltimore jumps 4.
• 3:12:46
  Los Angeles 5. Chicago number six.
• 3:12:49
  The Athletics moved to 7 Saint Louis.
• 3:12:53
  Falls to 10. And I would say my, what did I
• 3:12:57
  say? Miami, Miami 8, Tampa 9.
• 3:12:59
  Tampa 9. That's my.
• 3:13:00
  Prediction so very interesting you like that those little
• 3:13:05
  hybrid of call your. Shot and in like Flynn, I would
• 3:13:08
  still listen I I mean. I'm looking at the players this
• 3:13:11
  year and traps not until July. So I mean, everybody's saying
• 3:13:14
  that this guy, what's his name? Chalowski, Rock, Chaloksky.
• 3:13:19
  Chalosky. He.
• 3:13:20
  He from UCLA, he's the shortstop that everybody thinks is going
• 3:13:24
  to be the number one pick this year.
• 3:13:25
  And Grady Emerson is another kid.
• 3:13:28
  There are a lot of short stops in this draft, by the way,
• 3:13:30
  That's a lot of them are like that now they want.
• 3:13:32
  The freak athletes, yeah. So that's where.
• 3:13:35
  Everybody, that's what I'm seeing right now, and there's
• 3:13:38
  the best outfielder in this draft they're saying is Drew
• 3:13:42
  Burris. So from Georgia Tech, Derek
• 3:13:45
  Corio, as I'm just reading their names, all an LSU guy.
• 3:13:49
  Goody your love. Hat Yeah, there you go.
• 3:13:51
  Another another goody was a Woody Carson.
• 3:13:55
  Bowman. A Bowman and Gio Rajas, the
• 3:14:00
  left-handed pitcher. So the first pitcher that could
• 3:14:03
  be off the board is Carson Bowman, who plays for Southside
• 3:14:09
  Christian. So he's a high school kid.
• 3:14:10
  It looks like he's a left-handed pitcher and he plays.
• 3:14:15
  I, I, I heard he, I think he plays another position, but he
• 3:14:19
  bats. He bats right.
• 3:14:21
  So I, I, I think he's a first baseman, if I'm not mistaken.
• 3:14:24
  But yeah, I'm curious if any of them have. 22 way system
• 3:14:27
  development possibilities usually flames out, but who
• 3:14:31
  knows. Interesting anyways.
• 3:14:33
  I I didn't want to do that because that's not until July.
• 3:14:35
  So why are we getting it? I mean, the lottery is right
• 3:14:38
  around the corner. So the the the tank a thon
• 3:14:41
  belief right now is, you know, Chicago moving up as far as I
• 3:14:46
  thought they should. I mean, the chances of it
• 3:14:48
  happening is something not, but hey, I'm a betting man.
• 3:14:52
  I'm going to sell it. Are you going to buy it Speedy?
• 3:14:56
  You know what? I.
• 3:14:57
  Could I could definitely buy that nationals getting the 1
• 3:14:59
  Peck and I think I actually Charlie Slows will love it.
• 3:15:03
  I'm sure he would he'll. Love it, I mean.
• 3:15:06
  I, I don't know what the, some of the draft picks are going to
• 3:15:09
  be next year and what the draft's going to be like next
• 3:15:11
  year, but hopefully it's not a shortstop draft because this
• 3:15:14
  year it seems like it's heavy on the shortstop.
• 3:15:16
  I just got to make sure they don't flame them out.
• 3:15:18
  To then have to trade them. Oh, you flame a lot.
• 3:15:20
  You know what? I mean, anyways, we call this
• 3:15:23
  tic tac. No, Dick, Dick.
• 3:15:27
  Morris right in the butt. What?
• 3:15:30
  We get the. Prizes cheap.
• 3:15:31
  Because they're stolen, no. No.
• 3:15:35
  No. No, no.
• 3:15:37
  No, no. There's no serious reason to.
• 3:15:45
  Have my cheeks sprayed? No, there's not.
• 3:15:49
  Finally, a drop that actually makes sense.
• 3:15:53
  Doo Doo, I'll. Squeeze the cheese, make her
• 3:15:57
  squirt, make me jerk. All right, here we go.
• 3:16:01
  Once again, is Mia for. Tic Tac off the other room, off
• 3:16:05
  in the other room. Doing who?
• 3:16:06
  He's in solitary, right? Now Errol confinement as he.
• 3:16:11
  Always, says athletes, he. Does say that a lot.
• 3:16:15
  All right, let's we're going to stick to some baseball tonight.
• 3:16:18
  I had some college basketball once prepared, but maybe we'll
• 3:16:20
  do those next week. But we'll start with one that on
• 3:16:22
  the theme of Phil Kozi, our guest for tonight.
• 3:16:24
  So he was the home plate umpire for a no hitter in what pitchers
• 3:16:29
  final start with the Phillies in 2015.
• 3:16:33
  Final start in. 2015 the. Phillies.
• 3:16:46
  It's not Roy Holiday, because he was.
• 3:16:48
  He was gone. He was already gone, Yeah.
• 3:16:52
  It's going to be like somebody. Like random.
• 3:16:56
  And this is bad on me because I. Researched it and I know that he
• 3:16:58
  called 3 no hitters and I can't remember the name.
• 3:17:04
  So we're not going to get this one.
• 3:17:06
  I'll take a guess, Sanchez. Nope, you take 2 if.
• 3:17:12
  You want. To.
• 3:17:13
  Take mine. Cliff Lee.
• 3:17:15
  Nope. Damn, I got nothing.
• 3:17:25
  I can't remember it. That sucks.
• 3:17:28
  Do you? Want me to guess again?
• 3:17:37
  Paul handles. For the win, yeah, I got.
• 3:17:41
  It did you cheat? Did you?
• 3:17:43
  Cheat. No.
• 3:17:44
  I just went back into the recesses of my brain.
• 3:17:48
  All right, here it is. You got to you.
• 3:17:51
  Got to respect. The whole brain somehow works
• 3:17:53
  that way. That was his last start with the
• 3:17:55
  Phillies before. He was traded to Texas.
• 3:17:58
  Could have been a Yankee. Could have been, I mean.
• 3:18:01
  He was the nemesis when? We were against him in the World
• 3:18:04
  Series. He was there, right?
• 3:18:05
  He was very, very close that he. Could have been a Yankee, very
• 3:18:08
  close. So he was a great player for a
• 3:18:10
  long time. All right, so we'll go to
• 3:18:13
  somebody that the. Yankees might have faced a lot.
• 3:18:15
  So the what? Former outfielder in the
• 3:18:18
  American League East and also a future teammate of Jabba's in
• 3:18:20
  Kansas City. The last time that Japan lost in
• 3:18:24
  the OR the first time that Japan lost in the World Baseball
• 3:18:26
  Classic in 2013 against Puerto Rico.
• 3:18:29
  Hit the two run Homer that won them that game.
• 3:18:32
  Say that again. So a former.
• 3:18:34
  Long time American League East outfielder and then also a
• 3:18:37
  future teammate of Jabba's with Kansas City in 2015 when Japan,
• 3:18:42
  the first year they did not win the World Baseball Classic in
• 3:18:44
  2013, hit the go ahead to run home run.
• 3:18:50
  I have a feeling. Let me guess, what do you got?
• 3:18:57
  I forget his name. I forget his name.
• 3:19:07
  I forgot his name. Does anybody know?
• 3:19:15
  I have nothing. Anybody.
• 3:19:17
  Lost on this? Nothing.
• 3:19:20
  Japanese. Outfielder.
• 3:19:21
  No, no, no, Puerto Rican outfielder.
• 3:19:23
  Oh, Puerto Rican. Outfielder that hit the two run
• 3:19:26
  home run to beat. Japan the first time Japan did
• 3:19:29
  not win a like a serial killer. I'll let you lick my butt.
• 3:19:38
  Oh, another toe job, go suck on an egg and and oh, you haven't
• 3:19:45
  used that one in a while. You just made my nipples hard.
• 3:19:49
  As long as you don't. Know I've.
• 3:19:50
  Been taking care of my 2 hole. I'm good.
• 3:19:52
  Yeah, I think you got us a stump on this one.
• 3:19:53
  I'm speeding, pulled it out of my what else now?
• 3:19:55
  No, I don't. Know either?
• 3:19:57
  He tastes. Himself.
• 3:19:59
  All right, I'll give you the. Team it was the.
• 3:20:01
  Blue Jays, I want to hit it. Blue Jays outfielder?
• 3:20:06
  Yep, Batista. Nope.
• 3:20:10
  Blue. Jays.
• 3:20:11
  Outfielder. That played with Jabba in Kansas
• 3:20:14
  City. Yeah, that was last year.
• 3:20:18
  In the league in 2015, but he spent most of his career with
• 3:20:20
  the Blue Jays. Who knows?
• 3:20:23
  Go ahead. All right.
• 3:20:25
  It was Alex Rios. That's who we were looking for
• 3:20:29
  that. One Alex Rios he was.
• 3:20:32
  A good player, he was all right. He plays with himself.
• 3:20:38
  I need a. Generic.
• 3:20:40
  Key Where are we going? Busy all day today.
• 3:20:43
  Top right. Top right all.
• 3:20:46
  Right, bye. All right, all right, speedy,
• 3:20:52
  next question. All right, So the last time the
• 3:20:53
  United States was in the. WB.
• 3:20:56
  They won the. WB signal WBC Finals was
• 3:20:58
  obviously In 2017, they beat Puerto Rico in a battle of two
• 3:21:03
  former Mets starting pitchers. Marcus Stroman.
• 3:21:06
  Marcus Stroman. Was the US guy.
• 3:21:08
  Who was the Puerto Rico guy? Oh, wait a second, is.
• 3:21:12
  It the guy that threw his glove out in the outfit threw
• 3:21:15
  something in the oh, no, it's not him.
• 3:21:18
  He was a reliever. Yeah.
• 3:21:19
  But maybe it was a starter back then, Jorge Lopez, not Edwin
• 3:21:23
  Diaz. No.
• 3:21:25
  It was a guy who probably spent most of his career as a star.
• 3:21:27
  Did summer leaving. I mean, it isn't one of our.
• 3:21:30
  Frequent guests, is it? No, not Nelson Figueroa.
• 3:21:34
  That's your. Thing.
• 3:21:36
  No, I think. He was out of the league but.
• 3:21:38
  Then fish is not a. Panty.
• 3:21:39
  Dropper. I got nothing.
• 3:21:43
  My pinky. Is bigger than.
• 3:21:45
  Yours, zoot. I got nothing again Java takes.
• 3:21:49
  It up the ass. All right, Speedy, you got us
• 3:21:55
  again. I.
• 3:21:55
  Guess all right, I love Lisa Ann all.
• 3:21:58
  Right. So with Seth Lugo.
• 3:22:00
  Seth Lugo all. Right, well, let's switch to
• 3:22:03
  another. Sport so I can get we can get
• 3:22:05
  that's more with you here Tommy, are you trying to?
• 3:22:06
  Kill going speedy and zoo more involved.
• 3:22:08
  We'll go. Bottom right.
• 3:22:10
  Is that your cucumber or? Are you happy to see me?
• 3:22:13
  All right, we'll go to we'll go to the NBA for.
• 3:22:15
  This one so SGA recently surpassed Wilt Cherlin, for
• 3:22:18
  instance, 128th consecutive 20 point game, passing Wilts 126.
• 3:22:23
  Wilts is also third on the list of 92, which point guard is
• 3:22:27
  fourth with 79 point guard. Yeah, 79. 79 straight. 20 plus
• 3:22:33
  point Games point. Guard O20 plus.
• 3:22:39
  Point Games. I mean, if I didn't.
• 3:22:45
  I didn't see that when I did the research for that, that sports,
• 3:22:50
  it feels. Like something?
• 3:22:51
  Ridiculous, like a ridiculous streak somebody had that was
• 3:22:56
  clearly a scoring point guard. Could you give us?
• 3:23:00
  AI want to say. Stephan Marbury No, it's not.
• 3:23:04
  All right, I'll. Give you.
• 3:23:04
  It was a player that was an old school player.
• 3:23:09
  Old. School guy. 20 points.
• 3:23:12
  In 79 what's an old school player?
• 3:23:14
  What do you mean by old school? I mean, I can't specify the
• 3:23:17
  exact. Deck I mean, but old school. 80s
• 3:23:20
  is old school. Is that 80s or earlier?
• 3:23:22
  I'll say which. Point.
• 3:23:27
  Guard. Point guard. 80s or earlier.
• 3:23:30
  If you're saying I'm going to just guess, I'm going to say.
• 3:23:35
  Jerry West? Nope.
• 3:23:37
  Damn. The two guard.
• 3:23:40
  I guess you played a little point.
• 3:23:42
  Yeah, I don't know. This might.
• 3:23:45
  Be too old school but Bob. Cousy.
• 3:23:47
  Nope. Good.
• 3:23:49
  Guess though. That's a good guess.
• 3:23:50
  That's a good guess. That is a good.
• 3:23:52
  Guess Bobby O better than my. Guess the old cooster, the
• 3:23:55
  coochster as we call it. So, Errol, it's down to you.
• 3:24:00
  Cooch was he? The triple.
• 3:24:01
  Double King, that's who I was. Going to I was thinking of him.
• 3:24:05
  Too what? Else, Yep.
• 3:24:08
  That's him. Yep, man, that was doing my
• 3:24:09
  other. Guess Errol saves the day.
• 3:24:12
  Errol for the block. Wherever you want to put it,
• 3:24:16
  speedy. To block it.
• 3:24:21
  There it is, all right. We can win on the next one,
• 3:24:25
  Speedy. What you got?
• 3:24:26
  All right? What New York baseball player?
• 3:24:28
  Hit the Grand Slam to give the US the lead the last time they
• 3:24:30
  played Italy in the World Baseball Classic 2013.
• 3:24:33
  What New York baseball player hit the Grand Slam that gave the
• 3:24:37
  United States the lead the last time they played Italy in the
• 3:24:40
  World Baseball Classic in 2013? 2013.
• 3:24:45
  Yes, Oh my God, Italy doesn't get it.
• 3:24:48
  There that often and he's he was on the.
• 3:24:51
  Yankees. At that time, he was a New York
• 3:24:52
  baseball player. Oh, it could be.
• 3:24:55
  A met too, It could be. A Met or Yankee?
• 3:24:58
  Grand Slam world. Baseball classic.
• 3:25:03
  I don't know. David Wright.
• 3:25:06
  Yeah, he got it. That's what I was.
• 3:25:08
  Where I was going to go? Captain America.
• 3:25:10
  But hey. How?
• 3:25:12
  About that, let's do it. Somebody that's a win for.
• 3:25:16
  US. Somebody loves himself.
• 3:25:22
  How about that? Look at.
• 3:25:23
  That speedy loses. Catch me outside How?
• 3:25:26
  About. That oh speedy you.
• 3:25:29
  Had to bring that back. Dildo I.
• 3:25:32
  Like anal, We're sure my lovely Sam Scoop sits on the shitter.
• 3:25:37
  Grow up fast. Licker Fish is not a panty
• 3:25:39
  dropper. Carl plays with himself.
• 3:25:42
  Oh, there's Nathan. He's.
• 3:25:43
  Hiding wherever he Nathan like leaves his scope on and he just
• 3:25:46
  like goes to sleep. But who does that?
• 3:25:49
  He just sits there. He leaves his little couch, his
• 3:25:52
  back room, whatever that is. I mean, his back wall has no
• 3:25:56
  pictures. I I don't know if anybody's seen
• 3:25:58
  Nathan when So Nathan when he's watching television or he what
• 3:26:03
  he does is he does his like he goes on other people's shows and
• 3:26:07
  he he connects his computer to his 65 inch screen TV.
• 3:26:12
  So he takes pictures of his television.
• 3:26:14
  When I tell him, what are you doing Nathan?
• 3:26:15
  There he is. What are you doing?
• 3:26:17
  He's doing. So he's on like different shows.
• 3:26:19
  He's watching us on the computer while he's watching or he's a
• 3:26:24
  part of another show. It is some of the funniest
• 3:26:26
  stuff. Nathan is one of the most
• 3:26:29
  unique. He takes his calls.
• 3:26:31
  From other shows though in his kill so I'm going to tell you
• 3:26:35
  guys. A funny story so quickly before
• 3:26:37
  we get we finish up the show, I there was a show that asked me
• 3:26:42
  to to come on as a guest and I was really sick and I, you know,
• 3:26:48
  he told me I had to come in and he only has 5 minutes or 7
• 3:26:51
  minutes to get me on his show. So I was sitting on the shitter.
• 3:26:55
  OK, while and The funny thing is, is on the back of my wall on
• 3:27:00
  my shitter, I have like a picture of Tupac Shakur.
• 3:27:02
  You guys know it. I got a picture of Tupac Shakur.
• 3:27:06
  So this kid who was like, he was watching it, like he was
• 3:27:11
  noticing that I was in some room with, you know, he didn't see my
• 3:27:16
  shower, but he saw a Tupac Shakur and he was like, he says,
• 3:27:20
  is that Who is that over there? Is that one of the mikos?
• 3:27:23
  And I was like, what? I said what I was like, why?
• 3:27:27
  Would I have the Migos on my wall?
• 3:27:29
  I was like. So he's I was.
• 3:27:32
  Like, that's Tupac, he said. To who?
• 3:27:34
  And I was like, how old are you, kid?
• 3:27:36
  Oh my God, how old are you? Kid and he's.
• 3:27:38
  Like 1918 or whatever he said. And I was like, he's like,
• 3:27:44
  that's Tupac Shakur. He's one of the greatest rappers
• 3:27:46
  of all time. Before you time, buddy, before
• 3:27:48
  you time. A funny story is, is that that
• 3:27:51
  whole interview, I was like farting up a storm, taking a
• 3:27:56
  dump, and this guy was asking me questions.
• 3:27:58
  Every time he was asking me questions, I was muting it
• 3:28:00
  because I was like just laying it on, man.
• 3:28:02
  I was like, after the show, dude.
• 3:28:04
  I was like Brittany was outside and she was watching me and
• 3:28:08
  she's like, you just did that interview on the shitter.
• 3:28:10
  So true story. That was recently and I I nobody
• 3:28:15
  knew that I was on a shitter doing that, but it was fun.
• 3:28:17
  It was cool, I I guess, but Migos, where the hell we going
• 3:28:20
  like that? Anyways, ladies and gentlemen,
• 3:28:22
  we call this what's that smell? Hold up, what is that?
• 3:28:26
  Smell. What's that?
• 3:28:31
  Smell. Wow, you don't see that every.
• 3:28:35
  Day. Well.
• 3:28:37
  Well. Well, final segment of the
• 3:28:38
  night, it's a doozy as always, ladies and gentlemen.
• 3:28:42
  And we call this What's that smell?
• 3:28:44
  So what we're going to do is we're going to put this very
• 3:28:47
  well together. We're going to tell you a story.
• 3:28:50
  We're going to tell you what it smells like.
• 3:28:52
  And tonight we're going to throw a little curveball tonight.
• 3:28:56
  You know why? Because Speedy is going last.
• 3:29:01
  Fish is going first, Hoops is going second, I'm going third
• 3:29:07
  and Speedy's going. Last.
• 3:29:08
  You ready? Let's do it.
• 3:29:10
  RIP it and stick it. I like that.
• 3:29:14
  Right. Everybody time to start off.
• 3:29:17
  What's that smell the right way? Let's stay with baseball and the
• 3:29:22
  Major League Baseball Players Association's new executive
• 3:29:25
  director, Bruce Meyer, who said today that or sorry yesterday,
• 3:29:30
  that work stoppage we know is going to happen because of the
• 3:29:34
  deferred Dodgers. All this money that's going, you
• 3:29:37
  know, these they got to fix the CBA.
• 3:29:40
  Now they're threatening that it might affect the Olympic play.
• 3:29:43
  Yes, we we have this WBC right now.
• 3:29:46
  Everyone loves the WBC, but what would be better than the WBC?
• 3:29:51
  Olympics baseball. And if they're going to have
• 3:29:55
  this strike, they're saying we may not have what we've all been
• 3:29:58
  asking for, which is Olympics baseball.
• 3:30:00
  And if you're having a good time watching WBC, I know we're
• 3:30:03
  having at least some fun. It looks like Venezuela took the
• 3:30:06
  lead right now on Italy. They're up four to two in the
• 3:30:08
  7th. It's absolutely imperative that
• 3:30:13
  they play in the Olympics when it comes about.
• 3:30:16
  It's huge for the sport. It's necessary to grow the sport
• 3:30:21
  to get it back to respectability, at least in this
• 3:30:24
  country, at least closer to where basketball kind of has
• 3:30:27
  supplanted it and football has taken leaps and bounds above it.
• 3:30:30
  So what does this smell like? This smells like idle threats
• 3:30:34
  and a bunch of nonsense because they all know that they have to
• 3:30:39
  be back for this Olympics. They're going to come up with an
• 3:30:41
  agreement. I think this whole strike thing
• 3:30:44
  that we keep hearing about, there's just too much money on
• 3:30:47
  the table. It smells like bullshit duty.
• 3:30:51
  Dodger All right, so I'm. Going to keep it brief.
• 3:30:54
  I'm going. Over to the.
• 3:30:55
  Squared circle, I go over to wrestling a lot, but I'm
• 3:30:58
  specifically going over to AEW. And why am I doing that?
• 3:31:01
  Because many Why are you doing it?
• 3:31:03
  Let's hear it. So you even mentioned.
• 3:31:05
  Very briefly about Ronda Rousey having this fight.
• 3:31:08
  Oh, Ronde, I'm going to sort. Of stick away.
• 3:31:10
  From her MMA career. Because my rear end is burning,
• 3:31:13
  say. Whatever you want a better MMA
• 3:31:14
  career. But her wrestling career has
• 3:31:16
  been very, very lackluster. Doo Doo even.
• 3:31:20
  Going as far as. Mentioning in a book within the
• 3:31:22
  last year that she's written talking about how horrible.
• 3:31:25
  It's been. Wrestling, how bad it is, how
• 3:31:27
  much of A traveling it is, how bad the company she worked for,
• 3:31:30
  how bad the people is, the atmosphere, what not talking
• 3:31:33
  about. She even wanted.
• 3:31:34
  To become a mother, have a farm and whatnot, all mentioned in
• 3:31:37
  her book, by the way. But the thing that I don't
• 3:31:39
  understand is that just to return to the same capacity,
• 3:31:42
  capacity and AW, now what are we doing?
• 3:31:44
  We're doing it with Tony Khan, which is a guy that grabs only
• 3:31:48
  WAWWE has been, has no clue exactly what it is that he's
• 3:31:53
  doing and even feuding now Ronda Rousey with Tony Storm, who's a
• 3:31:56
  former WWE has been, nobody cares.
• 3:31:59
  Nobody wants to watch this crap. Nobody barely even wants to see
• 3:32:02
  the Netflix fight that she's going to be having with Jake
• 3:32:05
  Paul or whatever things she's doing.
• 3:32:08
  The whole point is, is that Ronda Rousey?
• 3:32:10
  I don't understand what the point of moving to AW is.
• 3:32:13
  It smells like the most rancid, expired and spoiled poo Tang pie
• 3:32:19
  imaginable. A little poo.
• 3:32:21
  Tang Pie. Speedy, you like to you don't
• 3:32:23
  have a niffin drop for poo Tang pie.
• 3:32:26
  But all that. Said shout out MJF, Long
• 3:32:29
  Island's finest AW heavyweight champion not only winning
• 3:32:33
  yesterday. But on his birthday as well.
• 3:32:35
  Happy birthday on his 30th on your face. 30th birthday Ram
• 3:32:38
  Jeff Coot he. Is the.
• 3:32:41
  Best wrestler in the world circle jerk WWE hi Ram you run
• 3:32:44
  that out there make. Her squirt.
• 3:32:45
  Make me. Jerk couldn't agree more.
• 3:32:47
  Fish all right. I'm not the final.
• 3:32:51
  One, but this is a story. I like it.
• 3:32:53
  It's a headliner tonight and I had to look on ESPN to find it.
• 3:32:56
  Gary Bettman speaks out about Russia playing in the World Cup.
• 3:33:00
  Oh, this is a good one. I like this.
• 3:33:02
  Whether Rusher is collecting NHL stars, what will they be invited
• 3:33:08
  in 2028's World Cup of Hockey remains very uncertain.
• 3:33:14
  Here's what Gary Bettman says about it.
• 3:33:17
  We're going to see how things develop.
• 3:33:19
  Time will tell, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said on Monday at
• 3:33:24
  the GM meetings in Florida. There isn't any immediate need
• 3:33:28
  or urgency to make that decision, so let's see how
• 3:33:32
  things play out. I'll tell you how it plays out.
• 3:33:36
  Mr. Mr. Elite over there in Russia needs to take his thumb
• 3:33:40
  and shove it up his ass and hopefully it squirts out of his
• 3:33:44
  little tongue or his mouth or whatever the hell he's doing.
• 3:33:47
  Because right now Russia is one of the best hockey teams in the
• 3:33:52
  world. And the fact that we didn't see
• 3:33:53
  them in the Olympics, the fact that we didn't see them in that
• 3:33:56
  tournament last year during the All Star break was just
• 3:33:59
  absolutely pathetic. I'm not saying Finland isn't
• 3:34:01
  great or Sweden isn't great. I'm not saying that.
• 3:34:04
  But it bothers you as a as a hockey fan where you don't get a
• 3:34:08
  chance to see Russia, You don't get to see Canada, You don't get
• 3:34:11
  to see the United States. The some of the best hockey
• 3:34:14
  players in the world are from Russia.
• 3:34:18
  As a matter of fact, I would say half of the best hockey players
• 3:34:21
  in the world are from Russia and we haven't seen them play at a
• 3:34:24
  high level in a long time. Thanks to our our friend over
• 3:34:28
  there in Russia. So hopefully this Ukraine thing
• 3:34:31
  gets fixed up. I know.
• 3:34:34
  Obviously, we're not going. To get into politics.
• 3:34:36
  But this is been a big problem and I think every hockey fan
• 3:34:41
  wants to see Russia in these tournaments.
• 3:34:42
  Everybody wants to see it and Gary Batman coming out and
• 3:34:45
  saying what he feels, it just tells you that Gary Batman is
• 3:34:48
  unsure that Russia is going to be involved in 2028.
• 3:34:52
  And what does that smell? Well, it smells like Speedies
• 3:34:54
  rear end and I don't know if he's wiping it, I don't know if
• 3:34:57
  he's cleaning it, but he's definitely sniffing it.
• 3:34:59
  So there you go. All right, I'll finish.
• 3:35:01
  It right off with a team back in the tournament after they made
• 3:35:03
  history in 2018. That is UNC Who?
• 3:35:06
  Upset Virginia, infamously, is the. 1st 16 seed ever to win in
• 3:35:09
  the NCAA tournament, winning it by 20.
• 3:35:11
  Which by the way I did pick. I wrote an article about on a
• 3:35:13
  site that no longer exists, but I did call it at the time.
• 3:35:15
  My bunkie is bigger than Alex. Made it back after they beat.
• 3:35:18
  Vermont to win the America East championship and they found out
• 3:35:21
  they're playing in the first four against Howard and what
• 3:35:23
  happens their flight gets delayed and because they were
• 3:35:26
  scheduled to leave after they were announced thumb up.
• 3:35:29
  It got delayed in Pittsburgh. So naturally there were people,
• 3:35:32
  a lot of fans trolling UMBC online, including one of them
• 3:35:36
  being a Pittsburgh Steelers fan that was saying I look delayed.
• 3:35:41
  We stop complaining. We'll just put another 16 seat
• 3:35:43
  in the tournament. Poor bag.
• 3:35:45
  Another guy, Chris. Womack.
• 3:35:46
  Continued to Poor bag Sports Director.
• 3:35:48
  Continued to back then because UMBC trolled Alabama a couple of
• 3:35:51
  years ago when obviously they were going after all the one
• 3:35:53
  seeds. It's like, oh, we don't have a
• 3:35:54
  football program, but we'll respect you.
• 3:35:56
  So he was like, oh, you're going to go after Alabama again.
• 3:35:58
  Like now we'll go after Indiana. More respectable football
• 3:36:00
  program, AKA one seed that destroyed Alabama, won a
• 3:36:03
  national championship. But what did they say to the
• 3:36:05
  Steelers fans? We're at least used to winning
• 3:36:07
  multiple playoff games in the last few years where the
• 3:36:10
  Steelers, we all, as we all know, haven't won a playoff game
• 3:36:12
  since 2016. So what does that smell like?
• 3:36:16
  It smells like Aaron Rodgers getting licked by 16 retrievers,
• 3:36:19
  which is their team name, and then making out to his his
• 3:36:22
  girlfriend or as our Alexa call him, his hand spread his sheets.
• 3:36:26
  Spread his sheets. Do you know a rooster is a cock?
• 3:36:32
  Sweetie, did you know a rooster? Is a cock.
• 3:36:35
  And I believe. Sean Smith is the expert on
• 3:36:37
  that. Now let me ask you a question.
• 3:36:39
  Could you give me? Like a rooster sound for the
• 3:36:41
  show. Come on, we'll try, try, try
• 3:36:43
  this. Years ago.
• 3:36:44
  How about a Willie Mammoth? Could you give me something with
• 3:36:46
  that noise? I mean something.
• 3:36:48
  Come on, give it to me. No, I can't.
• 3:36:50
  How about an elephant? Could you give me a noise?
• 3:36:52
  An elephant? Try.
• 3:36:57
  No, that was horrible. All right, So what, what, what?
• 3:37:00
  Kind of elephant wait. You said.
• 3:37:02
  Woo, what the hell was that? Was that Ric Flair the.
• 3:37:06
  Elephant. Just slow stepping.
• 3:37:13
  Speedy. You imagine the.
• 3:37:15
  The an elephant bouncing off the ropes like Ric Flair and then
• 3:37:19
  doing the a little stump. Speedy, Remember that song?
• 3:37:22
  The Madonna. Song What did I tell you to say?
• 3:37:25
  What did I tell you to say? No, I don't remember.
• 3:37:27
  You don't remember what? I told you to say Britney.
• 3:37:28
  Do you remember? Like a child.
• 3:37:32
  Good. Give it to us.
• 3:37:33
  Give it to us like, like this song, like a child.
• 3:37:36
  Do it. Like a child one more time for
• 3:37:46
  us. Like a child.
• 3:37:52
  That, ladies and gentlemen, is. Speedy, yes.
• 3:37:55
  Weird but anal type of man. No, that's nothing.
• 3:37:59
  Wow he likes anal but. You're the anal No, I'm not.
• 3:38:02
  You like your thumb in your. Ass you said you did.
• 3:38:05
  No, I didn't like a child. Well.
• 3:38:07
  He he told us now the funny story.
• 3:38:08
  Is a Speedy told us a while ago that he didn't mind sticking his
• 3:38:13
  thumb up his ass. You you said you stuck your
• 3:38:15
  thumb up your ass, right? I don't enjoy it though.
• 3:38:22
  He's a crybaby. Why did?
• 3:38:24
  Why was there scenario that that happened though?
• 3:38:27
  Because of the way his brain wanders.
• 3:38:29
  I. Can't the right way or the.
• 3:38:31
  Left way. You got to put your tongue on
• 3:38:34
  something. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 3:38:36
  that's Speedy. He's wonderful.
• 3:38:38
  Likes to dance, likes to Prince and like a child.
• 3:38:43
  Kind of thing, you know you like the child.
• 3:38:44
  You like the children, right? Children.
• 3:38:48
  You know we are the world. Could you sing that song for me?
• 3:38:52
  Do you have Do you know that song?
• 3:38:54
  I've heard it before. Could you sing that I?
• 3:38:55
  Don't know the. Lyrics sing it I don't know all
• 3:38:58
  the. Lyrics we are the.
• 3:39:00
  World. We are the children.
• 3:39:02
  Could you say that guys? Sing that with us?
• 3:39:04
  We are the world. We are the children.
• 3:39:09
  He sounds like a nut job. Anyways, that's it for our show.
• 3:39:12
  Ladies and gentlemen, thank you to Phil Cuzzi for joining us.
• 3:39:15
  He was sensational, fantastic, gave us his take, tried to get a
• 3:39:20
  lot out of them and got got enough out of them in every kind
• 3:39:23
  of way. But we were talking about balls
• 3:39:26
  and robbing Speedy. You know all about that, right?
• 3:39:28
  It's an Ethan's department again.
• 3:39:30
  Oh. OK, I'm just saying I.
• 3:39:31
  Mean, we did speak about that. There it is, Speedy.
• 3:39:34
  Did anybody in the last couple of months go on your only fans?
• 3:39:37
  I have no idea. You do look good as a blonde I.
• 3:39:41
  Have to say that you do you look good.
• 3:39:44
  What the hell is? That in the corner right there
• 3:39:46
  that. Fat, whatever that is, that's
• 3:39:49
  that's Chris. Farley from.
• 3:39:51
  The lunch Lady Land sketch. Anyways, thank you to Phil.
• 3:40:02
  Cuzzi, thank you to all the fans on Apple and Spotify following
• 3:40:06
  us and on video and audio, all the different platforms that
• 3:40:09
  were on X Instagram, TikTok, Jabba in the mouth.
• 3:40:13
  By the way, our show is transitioning into the New York,
• 3:40:16
  well, New York sports loudmouth, which will be next week.
• 3:40:21
  We're working on everything on the back end.
• 3:40:23
  But yeah, it's going to be it's same show, but we're going to
• 3:40:26
  have Quentin couples joining us full time and it's going to be
• 3:40:30
  very interesting. I can tell you that another
• 3:40:32
  voice a lot of craziness and Quentin doesn't like losing
• 3:40:37
  arguments. So that'll be interesting.
• 3:40:40
  Anyways, Yeah, Speedy, who do we have on Thursday?
• 3:40:42
  Nothing else I'm sure. Nathan will have something.
• 3:40:45
  Planned something to want soda's a bitch some but maybe we get
• 3:40:49
  want soda on the show. What do you think speedy?
• 3:40:51
  I want to do a whopping. What do you think I.
• 3:40:54
  Don't know. I don't.
• 3:40:55
  Know what Nathan would have to do to do that?
• 3:40:57
  How about rattling her? Maybe he would or.
• 3:41:03
  He. Is goofy.
• 3:41:04
  Well, somebody'd goofy, right? Could you do that like?
• 3:41:08
  Alright, that's it for a show. Goodnight.
• 3:41:10
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