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RUSSELL WESTBROOK exposes the TRUTH about LEBRON JAMES and his legacy! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  Mouth. We are now talking to WFAN
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  Yankee postgame host SNY, Yankee analyst and Fox Sports college
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  basketball broadcaster Emmanuel Babari.
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  What's up, Manny? What's up?
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  Thanks for having me. That's a great graphic right
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  there. I'm honored to be on and yeah,
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  yeah, that's a really nice. I'm like hovering over Yankee
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  Stadium right there, which is nice.
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  Thanks for having me, guys. Did.
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  Anybody ever tell you that you look sexy there?
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  I mean, did your mom ever said you'll look sexy in that
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  picture? I mean, that picture, she's been
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  all over social media, so and you're wearing these nice suits.
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  Where did you get this style? I mean, who taught you how to
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  dress like that? You know, no one taught me.
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  I just throw it together. And if you think that looks
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  sexy, you know we're even. We're even more friends than I
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  thought. I will.
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  I will say the the lapel matching your tie solid.
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  That's the very underrated look. Yeah, and what's funny is like,
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  I have such a lack of knowledge for fashion that I didn't even
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  plan that. It's just by chance that the so
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  I appreciate that it came off that way.
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  You know, it's interesting when people watch this show and they
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  say, well, Errol wears these like tank tops and, and you look
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  at, you look at guys like Mr. McAfee, who's been doing that
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  for a long time. He copied me because I've been
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  doing this a lot longer than Mr. McAfee.
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  And Pat's been doing it for, you know, ever since he started.
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  And everybody says it's his style.
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  He took the style for me. I'll never get credit for it.
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  But we're not, we're not here to talk about me.
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  We're here to talk about you. We're here to talk about the
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  Yankees and the New York Yankees fell short once again this year.
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  But it wasn't because of Aaron Judge.
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  He he had 500. He did what he was supposed to
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  do. It was really because of this
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  lousy pitching staff in the playoffs.
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  Max Free choked. I mean, Rodon choked.
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  And, and this is what the Yankees invested in.
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  They invested into pitching in the offseason.
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  They added Bellinger. Bellinger really didn't do
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  anything like we thought he was going to do in the playoffs when
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  all season long he was hitting over 300 against lefties.
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  He was one of the best left-handed hitters in all of
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  baseball. What what do you think happened
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  to the Yankees? Why did the Yankees fall short?
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  I think what you, what you said is perfect.
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  Like if I went into that Toronto series and you asked me if the
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  Yankees lose, what's going to happen?
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  I never would have predicted that the starting pitching would
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  be that poor against the Blue Jays.
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  Now they struggled against Toronto all year.
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  But Fried and Rodon, when you think about what they gave the
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  Yankees in the regular season, especially in a year without
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  Garrett Cole, that was astronomical stuff.
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  They made every single start. They were two of the best
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  pitchers in baseball, let alone two of the best left handers in
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  baseball. Rodon had by far as best year as
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  a Yankee. Fried had as good of a first
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  year as you could have getting that big of a contract.
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  And against Toronto, those two starts with a 2 worst Fried
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  Rodon starts we saw all season, there's no start you could pull
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  up. You go up the game logs, you
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  watch any start this year, there's no Frieden Rodon start
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  that was as bad as what we saw against the Toronto Blue Jays.
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  So you can talk about the lineup.
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  Yeah, Aaron Judge didn't have a lot of help in this post season.
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  It was different in that he hit and everyone else really didn't
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  hit. But you can't win with that type
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  of pitching. They'll have 30, four runs in
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  four games. You're not going to win a series
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  that way. With Garrett going out and you
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  obviously being around it and we see it from afar, what kind of
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  impact did he have from the other side of it?
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  Because you know, there it always, it sucks when you can't
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  be in there, especially a guy that loves to compete like like
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  he does. Did you notice like there was
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  there a different passion or a different perspective that he
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  tried to take beings that he knew he wasn't going to back?
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  And then obviously with Cam coming in doing what he did, did
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  he play a bigger role than than you guys anticipated just from
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  the the competitor that he is or did you think it was going to go
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  the way it did? That's a that's a really good
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  question because Garrett Cole is always like to teach, but it's
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  easier to teach when you're part of the starting rotation, right?
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  And you're that ace and that guy that people lean on and that
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  veteran. And then it's like, all right,
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  I'm out all year now I'm around the team more down the stretch.
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  How much can I share? How much do I feel comfortable
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  sharing? So I think he did a good job
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  striking the balance and he was a big reason why the starting
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  pitching finished as well as it did up until the postseason.
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  And for guys like Schlittler and even Warren, he was a big part
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  of their their growth and development this year.
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  But I think he felt more comfortable as he started to,
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  he's a lot of this year's rehab for him and making sure he got
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  over the initial hump. And then once he started to be a
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  little bit more part of the fabric down the stretch, I, I
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  think his voice started to get heard almost as much, not all
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  the way there, but almost as much as if he was that ace
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  leading the rotation. So I think he made a big impact.
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  But at a certain point you just got to leave things to to chance
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  and Toronto was a better team this year.
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  And I think that's why you saw the pitching not maybe to that
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  level but fall flat in the postseason.
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  But Gerrit Cole was a huge impact, I think, especially the
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  final four or five weeks of the season.
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  So impressions of Schwitler, obviously he obviously the
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  postseason is where he got broke out kind of from a national
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  standpoint, but he's pitched really well the first three
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  months since he came up with the Yankees.
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  What were your? Thoughts on him?
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  He's really impressive man. I think the Sky's the limit with
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  what he can do. And and Aaron Boone said this
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  and I I agree with this assessment.
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  His floor is really high. Like when you throw one O 1 with
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  ease, you're only going to get hit by so many teams.
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  So I think we saw a lot of that his first few starts as a league
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  hadn't really seen him before. And yeah, he'd get hit a little
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  bit, but his floor was what, you know, 5 innings and two runs.
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  You know, that's, that's a good start.
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  And I think that's what made you so excited about him.
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  And I also liked how he adjusted second times facing teams like
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  the first team he faced twice and it was Tampa.
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  He pitched almost a perfect game.
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  He was through 6 and 2/3 I believe perfect innings against
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  Tampa the second time through. So that makes you excited like
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  his adjustments against a particular given lineup.
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  And then I was fully confident going into the postseason given
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  his his confidence, his demeanor, like his makeup that
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  they talk about is so good. Checks every box.
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  I thought he'd have a good start against Boston minimum, but you
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  know, that's not one of the best starts you've ever seen from a
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  rookie pitcher in the postseason.
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  That's one of the best ever seen from anybody in the postseason.
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  So he's he's special. I think a lot of things have to
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  go right to have a prolonged career.
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  He need health. You're going to need a lot of
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  things to go your way. Like, it's not all up to you,
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  but if everything you know goes as according to plan, I think
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  he'll be anchoring this rotation for years to come.
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  Is he as big in person as he does as he looks on TV?
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  Yeah, yeah, he's, he's imposing. I think he has that perfect, you
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  know, pictures, I guess frame where he's, he's kind of
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  tantalizing in that he's not overly muscular, but he's tall,
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  he's lean. And I'm sure if you're facing
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  him as a hitter, he explodes at you because what is HE66?
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  So you've been. Closer than we have.
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  Yeah, no. When I walk up to him in the
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  clubhouse and I'm 65, you should know that.
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  About me. But I'm not.
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  I was about to. Say, yeah, I'm not athletic.
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  I can kind of be eye to eye with him, but he's like what I'm
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  saying about his athletic frame is he's so much, he's so much
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  more of a a guy you look at and say whoa, like that's a guy I
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  don't want to face. Wait a second, Manny.
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  You're not going to give yourself any credit for any kind
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  of athletic. Ability.
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  Yeah, yeah, especially we're talking about me walking up to
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  Cam Schlittler in the clubhouse. I can't be like oh I'm 65 and
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  E66, no, let's see here 6. 6/2. 25 I'm 65, like 2-10 but a lot
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  less muscle than Cam. You got those like thin stilt
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  legs. So he's got, I got it.
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  I got what you're saying by the way.
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  He can throw. That's why he can outside of the
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  athletic gifts. That's why he can throw one O 1
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  now throw like 60. Eight Well, if anybody doesn't
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  know who we're talking about, we're we're we're talking to
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  Wfans, Yankee post game host SN Wise, Yankee analyst and Fox
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  Sports college basketball broadcaster Emmanuel Babari.
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  I want to get into the Aaron Boone saga because a lot of
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  people hate Aaron Boone. I don't know why they hate him,
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  because if you look at what he has done as a Yankee manager,
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  he's been successful. He hasn't won a World Series.
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  Joe Girardi won one World Series in 2009.
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  Jabba knows all about it because he was a part of that, but he's
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  never won a World Series. But if you look at his record,
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  you look at his consistency, he's one of the most consistent
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  managers in the major leagues, you would say in Yankee history.
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  He's one of the top five managers of all time.
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  When you look at his his back end of what people, what people
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  are saying on the back end and what he is, what you see as a
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  manager. Why do you think people don't
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  like him? Why do you think people want him
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  gone? Yeah, I think it has less to do
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  with everything you laid out and the fact that he can manage his
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  team and manage it effectively, and behind the scenes he does.
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  But when you're the Yankee manager, you know, Jabba knows
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  this, We all know this. You're in the hottest of
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  spotlights and if you don't win, naturally, you could be anybody.
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  The criticism is going to come your way.
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  And he just hasn't gotten over that that highest mountain.
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  And a lot of Yankee fans, even the youngest ones, you know,
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  long for the days of 2009 and how dominant that team was and
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  some post season magic that's been elusive in recent years.
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  So he he can manage his team. He can manage it effectively.
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  And we've seen it in their ability to get to the post
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  season. And I think personally, there's
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  only so much he can do. Other years has just been
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  they're better teams in the American League, like those
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  years against Houston, they're better.
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  So you can only manage what's given to you.
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  And I think, you know, 2024, we saw a team that was on paper,
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  the best team in the American League, and they went out and
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  went to the World Series and lost the Dodgers.
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  We all know what happened in that series.
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  This year was interesting because I think you could have
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  made the case the Yankees were the best team in the American
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  League, but Toronto had some secret sauce where they had the
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  right balance of players. Sometimes you can't quantify it.
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  There's a special you know it factor with the group.
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  I think Toronto has that right now and they have the right
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  balance of superstar and role player and they all know their
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  roles and they're playing it. So you look on paper, Toronto's
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  not better than the Yankees, but are they the better team right
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  now? Absolutely.
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  Aaron Boone can only do so much about that.
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  Manny, Manny, here's the secret sauce.
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  It was jazz jism. OK, That was the secret sauce.
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  Jabba shakes his head. I don't call him Chism.
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  I call him jism. Because this man goes out there
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  week in, week out. He has his own appearance, his
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  own thoughts with his thick chain, his manipulation.
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  And he goes out there. We're the best.
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  We have the best defense. We have the best.
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  This, we're, this, we're that. We're the best.
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  We're going to win a World Series.
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  And then when it goes, goes to the big game and the mistakes
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  that this man makes, he doesn't get put center stage and and who
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  takes the responsibility for that?
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  Aaron Boone does. And and I'm going to go back to
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  Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter after that game.
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  They didn't blame Jazz. They, they went after Brian
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  Cashman, they went after, I don't know, Aaron Boone and,
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  and, and saying that Aaron Boone should have put him in a better
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  position and this and this and that and that and probably speak
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  up and speak to Jazz, not to open his mouth when he's out
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  there and he is speaking to the press the way he does.
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  There's just so much here. And, and they got to pay this
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  guy in the offseason And I, I just don't want him.
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  I don't want him on my team. If I was, if I, if I was the
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  manager of this team or the GM of this team, I don't want him.
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  Yeah, I wouldn't assume they're going to pay him in the
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  offseason. If I had to give you give you a
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  gut instinct right now, there's a short term marriage, not a
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  long term marriage between Jazz and the Yankees.
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  I'm not saying it can't happen, but are are you really like this
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  guy's going to make big money. You look at his numbers and you
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  look at the type of player he can be and also what he can do
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  in a walk here, especially if he's motivated to go out and get
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  that contract. I think this is perfect for the
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  Yankees in terms of cashing in on this walk here.
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  I think he's I think he's going to have a massive season this
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  year and go out and get a contract.
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  But who's going to give him that contract?
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  This might get out out of hand for what the Yankees are
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  comfortable playing their second baseman.
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  But yeah, the question becomes you can have players like Jazz
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  on your team, but how many of them?
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  You know, there's a balance with everything and Jazz, sometimes I
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  think you're looking at a guy who's ultra talented and can do
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  a million things at an elite level on the baseball field.
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  But is it consistent? Is it coming in the right
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  situations? Is he taking what the
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  situation's given to him? You know, you know, runner on
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  3rd lesson 2 outs. Is he, well, what is he trying
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  to do? How's he approaching that at
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  bat? So I don't know.
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  I I like a guy like Jazz because he's very fun to watch at times,
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  very talented. He can go on these hot streaks,
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  but it really depends on how you want to build your team and
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  there's only so much room for players like him you can only
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  have so many of. Them Now, if you listen to this
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  show, you know I don't like him and I'll tell you this, it can.
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  I know Jabba loves this guy. I know he shakes his head but he
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  has this like love fetish for him.
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  I don't know what it is but you can have him.
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  I don't get it. Good player.
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  We we talk about it all the time.
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  If you look at a 162 replica of what the season would be, he was
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  the best second baseman in baseball.
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  I was just, I mean, and I'm going by that and yes, were
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  there times when you open his mouth?
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  But I I think you're 100% right where you have to have the
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  pieces of the puzzle, right? Like we brought in Swisher and
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  that was that was a piece of the puzzle that we that is kind of
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  jazz esque in, in that, I guess situation of however you want to
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  look at it, but you can't have too many of them because it's
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  just it, it doesn't work. You have to have the bits and
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  pieces of is he going to get paid?
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  Yes, 100%. Are they willing to pay it?
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  But also, I think there's there's so many other pieces of
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  that puzzle that have to come together to figure out where
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  this team wants to get and what they're going to do.
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  So my question is, where in this offseason, where do you think
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  they attack first? Because I for me, there's a lot
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  of ways they could go about it. Do you make belly a priority?
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  Is that something that you do? Do you go look for somebody?
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  Do you try to reinforce the pen? You don't know what's going to
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  happen there. So there's there's, I mean, this
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  is every team. We're not just talking about the
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  Yankees. But where do you think where
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  would let's let's put it to it, where would you go and where do
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  you think they will go? Yeah, yeah, really good
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  question. So and I like the Swisher
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  comparison because that added some juice.
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  You, you know, it being in there to to that team.
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  And also like Swisher was a guy who wasn't batting 5th, he was
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  batting 8th. And like that's where you could
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  utilize a guy like Jazz in a in a great way where he's hitting
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  it near the bottom of your line up.
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  That's a that's a great player and and a great piece for your
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  team. So I think it's all how you
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  build it out and the different components.
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  I would. I'm going to give you what
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  they're going to do and what I would do.
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  I think they're going to re up Cody Ballinger, and I have no
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  problem with that. I think he was a really good
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  Yankee, sort of a match made in heaven when he arrived this year
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  and he can play 4 positions really well defensively.
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  Underrated 2. Defensively, I.
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  Think underrated, which is rare. He can run the bases, but I
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  think there are some questions. OK, he's a little, he's not old,
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  but he's a little older than some of the other options out
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  there. How does he project long term?
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  Are you going to give him a six year deal?
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  Where's the Yankees cut off? I wouldn't call it a slam dunk.
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  They re sign him, but I think they want to re sign him.
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  It's all going to depend on the market and where it goes.
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  And of course he's wrecked by Boris so he's probably going to
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  get top dollar coming off this year.
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  What I would do, I think Kyle Tucker is a better player.
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  I just I think that's wing fits perfectly in Yankee Stadium.
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  That's a guy who compliments Aaron Judge super well in the
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  lineup and I'm not sure how many.
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  I thought after 2022 Judge would never have another 62 Homer type
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  season again. I'm like he'll have good years,
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  but I'll never have that type of year.
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  Well, two years since 2022, he's had a better war well-rounded
• 18:12
  season than even out in 2022. So I'm not sure exactly when his
• 18:16
  prime is going to expire, but I want to guy to hedge that I Kyle
• 18:21
  Tucker type when judge starts to decline.
• 18:23
  I think Kyle Tucker still in his prime and you could have him
• 18:26
  right alongside Judge in that outfield and that's the Yankee
• 18:30
  of old type of move where you have the best player on the
• 18:33
  market. You go and get the best player
• 18:35
  on the market and go all in for that championship.
• 18:39
  Not to say Bellinger can't do it, I think they probably will
• 18:42
  end up re signing Bellinger, but I would go really big and try to
• 18:45
  get Tucker in here. See Manny?
• 18:46
  We see eye to eye here. We see eye to eye here because I
• 18:49
  said I've been saying this all season, go get Kyle Tucker.
• 18:53
  I don't care what he did in the second-half.
• 18:55
  I don't care what he did in the last month.
• 18:57
  I care about what he can do in Yankee Stadium with that
• 19:01
  unbelievable bat. You put him behind, you put him
• 19:03
  in front of Aaron Judge. You're talking about a middle of
• 19:06
  a lineup that you're going to have to you're going to have to
• 19:08
  pitch to one of these guys. And I, I just, I agree with you.
• 19:12
  How about this one? So they're not going to do this,
• 19:15
  but here's what I would do. You have a lot of money coming
• 19:17
  off the books this year. You have a lot of payroll
• 19:19
  flexibility. I understand you maybe have a
• 19:21
  lockout looming, so some owners might be tentative to go crazy
• 19:25
  in this offseason. But a 2009 style Yankee
• 19:29
  offseason go re sign Bellinger and AD Tucker.
• 19:32
  You know, you know, Bellinger is just retaining that is keeping
• 19:35
  your team as is. So you're hoping things roll
• 19:37
  back the same way. Tucker's in addition, I hesitate
• 19:41
  to go into an offseason saying our big moves going to be Cody
• 19:43
  Ballinger because you already had that guy.
• 19:45
  You know that's part of your team if you want to improve on
• 19:48
  what you did. So I'm not saying it's going to
• 19:50
  happen. What I would do, though, with a
• 19:51
  lot of money coming off the books this offseason, if you
• 19:53
  could grab both, great. If not, you have to decide
• 19:57
  between Dominguez and Spencer Jones, who's going to play every
• 20:01
  day next year? Because if one of them is not
• 20:03
  playing every day. I'm sorry they have to get
• 20:05
  traded. Get rid of Dominguez.
• 20:07
  I don't want to see him anymore. I'm done with what do they call
• 20:10
  him? The Martian?
• 20:11
  I've seen enough. OK, OK, I've got OK, Tell me, as
• 20:15
  you've covered baseball long enough and we've been fans,
• 20:19
  don't you have to do something to earn a nickname like The
• 20:21
  Martian? I don't know the kid.
• 20:23
  I think he has tremendous talent, but I'm old school.
• 20:27
  Like you've got to earn the name, right?
• 20:29
  Like I don't care what you do. Minor leagues you got to earn
• 20:32
  that because that's a dumb nickname.
• 20:33
  It's a great nickname, and I think we're all in agreement.
• 20:35
  You got to earn a nickname like that.
• 20:37
  In his defense, this nickname, I think it was a Jeff Passan
• 20:41
  article back when he was 16 years old when the Yankees
• 20:44
  initially signed him. And I don't know where it came
• 20:47
  from, but he got dubbed The Martian.
• 20:49
  It was maybe in the article or somebody had given him that name
• 20:52
  on the side and Passan looked into it like.
• 20:55
  Yeah, because The thing is build, right?
• 20:57
  Because. Yeah, I must feel for him.
• 20:59
  He got Build the Martian at 16 years old before he had played a
• 21:01
  professional game. And I'd like he's getting these
• 21:04
  comparisons to Mickey Mantle, like who gets compared to Mickey
• 21:07
  Mantle at 16 years old. So this guy could end up being a
• 21:10
  really good Major League player, maybe not a star.
• 21:12
  He could be solid, he could be good.
• 21:14
  And I look at it, when you sign somebody at 16 years old, they
• 21:17
  turn into a good Major League player.
• 21:19
  That is a major success. A lot of guys flop.
• 21:21
  A lot of guys don't turn into good players, so the fact you're
• 21:24
  like putting these mantle esque expectations on him.
• 21:28
  He's handled it well. He he has a good head on his
• 21:31
  shoulders Dominguez, but it's unfortunate that got labeled
• 21:34
  that early because people started setting these sky high
• 21:36
  lofty expectations. All right.
• 21:39
  Quickly, I know you got to go soon.
• 21:40
  What is your World Series pick and who wins World Series MVP?
• 21:45
  All right, so I'm going to be pulling for Toronto a little bit
• 21:49
  like it's a it's an awful match up for Yankee fans.
• 21:51
  Like it's a team that beat you in a division rival and a team
• 21:53
  that beat you last year. It's how much?
• 21:55
  Better for Mets fans? I have to root for Max Scherzer
• 21:57
  and Chris Bassett or the Dodgers baseball.
• 22:00
  It's that all the way around. But I like the Toronto people.
• 22:03
  I have some people like broadcast wise that are really
• 22:07
  good friends and I would like to see them get a ring.
• 22:09
  So I'll be rooting for them in the upset.
• 22:11
  It'll be a nice story if they upset the Dodgers, but I don't I
• 22:14
  don't see them winning the series.
• 22:15
  I think the Dodgers are just they're they're juggernaut.
• 22:17
  They're too good right now. The pitching between Snell and
• 22:21
  Yamamoto and Glass now and what Otani did, that's a game of the
• 22:26
  ages. And Sasaki's closing games.
• 22:28
  It's it's ridiculous right now what the Dodgers are.
• 22:31
  I don't think it's going to be a rollover situation.
• 22:34
  People are saying like Dodgers and four Dodgers and five, no
• 22:37
  way. I think Toronto's pesky enough
• 22:39
  and they have enough fight. This series will go like 6,
• 22:42
  maybe not 7, but six games. But I see the Dodgers winning
• 22:45
  the series and Otani will be the MV.
• 22:47
  He hasn't hit all postseason. I'm a big law of averages guy.
• 22:50
  Like he didn't hit all postseason game four and has a
• 22:53
  game of all time. That to me is a carryover.
• 22:56
  He's going to have a massive world.
• 22:58
  Series Manny, I, you know, I, I, I consider you a friend now and
• 23:01
  you just upsetted me. I I mean, you had you and Jabba.
• 23:05
  Jabba has been absolutely killing me on this show.
• 23:09
  I would go back and forth with Aaron Judge and Otani.
• 23:13
  Who's the best player in the league.
• 23:14
  I got Judge, he's got Otani. I've made my points.
• 23:18
  He's made his points. And, and, and I, I I don't want
• 23:22
  to hear this guy. I don't want to hear about Shay
• 23:24
  Otani anymore. I want to be dumb.
• 23:26
  You know what? I was a little Otani doubt after
• 23:29
  a while because like Otani Otani, Otani, you got to
• 23:32
  appreciate the talent first and foremost.
• 23:34
  And and #2 at a when you hear it all the time, I, I compare it to
• 23:40
  being a Jet fan, which I unfortunately AM.
• 23:42
  And after year, after years of Tom Brady just steamrolling you,
• 23:46
  you're not mad at Tom Brady anymore.
• 23:48
  You're just like, we stink and this guy's great.
• 23:51
  So there's a Tom Brady moment for Shohei Otani where I watch
• 23:54
  him in game four against the Brewers.
• 23:55
  I'm like, I'm tired of complaining about him.
• 23:58
  He's so good, I just have to appreciate it.
• 24:01
  Well, hold on, hold on. I hate saying.
• 24:03
  It's a rollover moment for me. This is the Tom Brady moment for
• 24:06
  showing Tom. Brady, you bring up Tom Brady.
• 24:08
  We just had Rob Nikovic on the show the other day.
• 24:12
  He went back and forth with me. He loves the fact that I'm a Jet
• 24:16
  fan and we went back and forth. He made some jokes.
• 24:19
  He was part of the Butt Fumble. He brings up Mark Sanders after
• 24:22
  Mark Sanchez just got arrested and could go to jail.
• 24:25
  I mean, I I just can't catch a break as a Jet fan.
• 24:29
  Every single time. It doesn't matter if I have a
• 24:31
  Patriot on this show or I have some other player from the
• 24:34
  Giants on this show or Lorenzo Alexander.
• 24:37
  Oh, Lorenzo Alexander. You know what we got to figure
• 24:39
  out? We got to figure out how to
• 24:40
  complete a pass first and then we can talk about everything.
• 24:43
  Else I got it. So I've got it.
• 24:44
  I was out the game this weekend, and that was the worst football
• 24:47
  game I've ever watched. Yeah, you know, 13 is 6 against
• 24:50
  the Carolina Panthers. It doesn't get much worse than
• 24:52
  that. So I'm all into your misery
• 24:54
  about The Jets, and I'm tired of hearing about all these guys.
• 24:57
  We got to figure out how we could get a quarterback on the
• 24:59
  field who can complete like a basic pass.
• 25:02
  I've got an. Answer and that we can take Step
• 25:03
  1 towards. Ready, ready.
• 25:05
  Here's the answer for all ages. You guys ready?
• 25:07
  I'm going to give you the lowdown before Manny goes.
• 25:10
  And Manny, we could talk off air.
• 25:12
  Here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
• 25:13
  His name is Fernando Mendoza. I have said this, Josh has been
• 25:20
  saying it. That is the guy.
• 25:22
  Jets, don't screw this up, don't win a game and put us in a
• 25:26
  position where we don't get the guy.
• 25:28
  This always happens. Keep Aaron Glenn just.
• 25:31
  For the 100 percent, 100%, yeah, like.
• 25:33
  Don't don't do anything stupid here like you did last year.
• 25:36
  Firing Salah in week 5. What was it?
• 25:38
  Keep Aaron Glen go O 117 and then get your pick at the
• 25:42
  quarterback because at this rate, if you keep everything in
• 25:44
  place, they're going O 117, So keep it.
• 25:47
  I agree with you, keep Aaron Glenn and if you look at Aaron
• 25:50
  Glenn and compare him to Robert Salas, everybody says this was
• 25:53
  the all time worst coach. Aaron Glenn besides two games is
• 25:57
  in every single one of the games and he doesn't have a
• 25:59
  quarterback that can complete a pass.
• 26:01
  That says a lot about Aaron Glenn as a head coach.
• 26:04
  That's. All I'm going to say get him a
• 26:05
  quarterback, Mendoza, get him, get a Mendoza and go from there.
• 26:08
  You, Manny, we'll talk to you soon and we'll get you on the
• 26:10
  show again. You're fantastic.
• 26:12
  Keep up the good work and we'll talk to you soon.
• 26:14
  Appreciate you guys. Good to see you have a good one.
• 26:17
  Emmanuel Babari, he's fantastic, fantastic, great personality,
• 26:22
  does a great job on S&Y and WFAN and Yankees.
• 26:26
  He's great. He really is.
• 26:28
  He's a good guy and I got a chance to speak to him a little
• 26:30
  bit and it was funny how we bumped into each other and it
• 26:35
  was, we were at Flynn's. It was at the last day.
• 26:37
  Flynn's was open and he was walking around.
• 26:40
  I knew who he was and I and it was just funny.
• 26:42
  It was a funny thing. There were a lot of MSG people
• 26:45
  there working famous GSN Why? I'm like, I know her, I know him
• 26:50
  and I'm like, why is everybody here?
• 26:52
  And then I figure out why everybody's there.
• 26:55
  Miley Cyrus's sister was DJ in that day at the, at the, at the
• 26:59
  place. And I'm like, and she's not very
• 27:01
  good, by the way. She looks just like Miley, by
• 27:04
  the way, but not the not the best DJ.
• 27:07
  I might have to teach her a thing or two.
• 27:09
  I just, you know, that's all I'm going to say.
• 27:11
  Jabba wants to see the PS and the QS or whatever he calls it
• 27:14
  and the CS and the DS Jabba, anytime you want to come and
• 27:17
  watch me and I'm going to send you a mix.
• 27:19
  You, you tell me your favorite music.
• 27:21
  I will mix it for you. And I like you like all music,
• 27:25
  but what is your favorite? I mean, you got to give me some.
• 27:28
  You like house music? I like any I mean, if you're
• 27:31
  putting a mix together, then show me what you got.
• 27:34
  You should. You should be able to to give me
• 27:37
  something that's good. I like that.
• 27:39
  I like that show. Me.
• 27:40
  Show me what I got. Show me what I got.
• 27:43
  OK, What do you got, kid? I'll show you what I got.
• 27:46
  You know, Speedy doesn't have much in his pants, but you know,
• 27:53
  anyways, that was Manny Babari. He was fantastic.
• 27:57
  Thank you to him for joining us. So I was taking a shower and I I
• 28:01
  listen to things. I listen to podcasts when I'm in
• 28:05
  the shower because I want to hear what other everybody are
• 28:07
  speaking. And I went through a podcast
• 28:11
  called Speakeasy and it has Emmanuel Ocho on it.
• 28:16
  He was a linebacker in the NFL, La, Sean McCoy, as we all know,
• 28:22
  Shady and Kieran Hickey Semple. I don't know who this guy is and
• 28:26
  he shouldn't be speaking. I wanted to get into this
• 28:28
  because there was something that came out recently.
• 28:32
  As a matter of fact, Russell Westbrook came out with a book
• 28:37
  and he mentioned something that I really wanted to get into and
• 28:41
  and here here's the story. Russell Westbrook calls out
• 28:44
  LeBron James fake new book excerpt about Lakers fallout.
• 28:48
  Now, Russell Westbrook was with the Lakers for about two years,
• 28:53
  and I wanted to get into what these guys said, and I'm going
• 28:55
  to attack it. So here we go.
• 28:58
  First excerpt. Is Russell Westbrook, there was
• 29:00
  a report that he reportedly grew tired of Lebrons fake behavior
• 29:04
  during their time in LA. Quote.
• 29:06
  I hate that fake shit. I just can't do it.
• 29:10
  Apparently LeBron quietly pushed for a union with Kyrie Irving, a
• 29:13
  move that would have required trading Westbrook despite
• 29:15
  publicly denying it. Out it on it too.
• 29:17
  LeBron also said let Russ be Russ in interviews, but didn't
• 29:21
  actually support him behind the scene.
• 29:24
  All right, so here's the facts. First excerpt that I want to
• 29:27
  attack here. Now LeBron James and Russell
• 29:30
  Westbrook obviously didn't see eye to eye.
• 29:32
  Now Russell Westbrook at the tail end of his career and he's
• 29:34
  still playing in the NBA, had a pretty good year with the Denver
• 29:37
  Nuggets last year. He was very big.
• 29:40
  He worked very well with Yokola Yokich.
• 29:44
  He he actually played very well. Now here's the the problem here
• 29:50
  and what obviously the brought up conversation where this all
• 29:53
  started. Now, Russell Westbrook obviously
• 29:56
  spoke and attacked LeBron James because he believes LeBron James
• 30:00
  was fake. He wasn't a great teammate,
• 30:02
  didn't really help him out when he went to the Lakers.
• 30:04
  As a matter of fact, LeBron James probably wished to
• 30:08
  bringing he well, he tried to bring in Kyrie Irving.
• 30:11
  That's what he wanted. He wanted Kyrie Irving, but the
• 30:14
  Lakers had no chance of getting Kyrie Irving at the time.
• 30:17
  So they looked at the second best player available and that
• 30:21
  was Russell Westbrook. Now Russell Westbrook was not
• 30:24
  the same player. He wasn't the triple double
• 30:27
  machine that he was in his youthful years, in his prime
• 30:31
  years. But the fact here is, and we're
• 30:35
  going to get into that and we're going to get into the next
• 30:37
  excerpt that I, I definitely want to attack.
• 30:40
  LeBron James has always been a guy that attacked players.
• 30:45
  Now you're going to hear from these guys that they believe
• 30:49
  that LeBron James and Russell Westbrook were two different
• 30:51
  players. LeBron is a quiet.
• 30:53
  He doesn't really go after players in in a way where he's
• 30:58
  throwing players under the bus as Russell Westbrook will tell
• 31:00
  you how it is and he's going to let it and he's going to drop it
• 31:03
  and he's going to give you his own thoughts to it.
• 31:05
  Go ahead, Tommy. I think Le Bron thought
• 31:10
  Westbrook was sorry and he was with the Lakers.
• 31:12
  Like I think Le Bron realized Westbrook can't help me win
• 31:14
  nothing. Westbrook gonna clog up the
• 31:16
  lane. He don't clog up the paint.
• 31:18
  I can't kick to him when I drive because he ain't gonna hit no
• 31:20
  threes. So what's the point in having
• 31:22
  Westbrook? And Le Bron did throw shade
• 31:24
  because remember when Westbrook was on squad, Le Bron all but
• 31:26
  said, I wish we would have traded for Kyrie Irving and we
• 31:29
  couldn't. So I just kind of got my hopes
• 31:30
  up. But if we really thinking about
• 31:32
  it, I think Le Bron thought Westbrook was sorry.
• 31:34
  And Le Bron did catch Westbrook right at the beginning of his
• 31:38
  epic drop off. Westbrook had like slow, slow,
• 31:41
  slow drop offs. He caught Westbrook right at the
• 31:43
  beginning of the major deteriorate.
• 31:46
  Hold on. 3rd like total opposite.
• 31:48
  Westbrook is like super serious super competitive.
• 31:50
  Westbrook is like super serious, super competitive plays with a
• 31:53
  super dog mentality with LeBron is like more chill.
• 31:56
  He played with dog if he has to. He's not as serious, right?
• 31:59
  You see him jokingly see him on different platforms, but that's
• 32:02
  different. And I think that's really what
• 32:04
  it really was like. We're just different people, you
• 32:07
  know? And like LeBron, I see him
• 32:08
  laughing and playing all that. We're rusting with all that,
• 32:11
  right? Look, look at look the way Russ
• 32:13
  takes criticism compared to LeBron.
• 32:15
  Rusty ain't going to say what you want to hell.
• 32:17
  So I think it was different, right?
• 32:19
  And you look at the way they are like like AD and LeBron, that's,
• 32:22
  that's more similar, yeah, compared to, to, to West.
• 32:26
  Hold on one second. So he said that he was at the
• 32:29
  tail end of Russell Westbrooks career when he went to the
• 32:33
  Lakers. Well if you look at Russell
• 32:35
  Westbrooks numbers with the Lakers, he averaged 18.5 points
• 32:38
  per game, 7.4 rebounds per game and 7.1 assists per game.
• 32:43
  Almost a triple double over there with the Lakers.
• 32:46
  Now when you look at tail ends now when he was over there with
• 32:49
  Russell Westbrook, he was the 3rd option on that team.
• 32:53
  You're getting third option points of 18 points.
• 32:57
  You're getting third option rebounds at almost 8 rebounds a
• 33:00
  game and third option assist that was almost 8 assists per
• 33:03
  game and you're going to tell me it's at the tail end of his
• 33:06
  career and his drop off? I don't see a drop off here.
• 33:09
  I don't know why. And I'll give a shout out to
• 33:12
  Shady. I'll give a shout out to what he
• 33:14
  was saying. He says, well, they're two
• 33:16
  different people. And LeBron has his own way of
• 33:19
  attacking things to Russell Westbrook, who doesn't give a
• 33:21
  crap. He's going to tell you how it
• 33:23
  is. But to come out and say, and and
• 33:25
  I'm not, I don't know who that is.
• 33:27
  That was Ochoa. I I don't know him personally.
• 33:29
  He doesn't know what he's talking about.
• 33:31
  He shouldn't be coming out and attacking Russell Westbrook and
• 33:35
  his personality and and how he is as a player when if you look
• 33:39
  at his numbers and compare his numbers, even when he was on
• 33:42
  Washington, he average 2211 and nine.
• 33:45
  It wasn't tailing. His numbers were practically
• 33:49
  calculated exactly what it were when he was at the top of his
• 33:53
  game almost averaging a triple. Double hit it, Tommy.
• 33:58
  I would suggest it's probably an overachiever.
• 34:00
  You don't think overachiever his ability?
• 34:02
  Is. You're crazy.
• 34:03
  Russ was an MVP three times. Triple double.
• 34:05
  Like overachiever. Meaning like he exceeded his
• 34:07
  talent. That's an effort.
• 34:08
  Oh, no dog. Really.
• 34:09
  No, he can't shoot. But see, the way he played, he's
• 34:12
  still playing. He played like a dog and he Got
• 34:15
  Talent. How many Parkers you see like
• 34:16
  him? Mercedes, if you average a
• 34:18
  triple 33 years in a row, that's crazy.
• 34:21
  But I'm saying that's in him. I can see him doing that.
• 34:23
  I can see him doing that. He.
• 34:25
  Does have crazy talent. I would say my favorite player
• 34:29
  is Steph Curry, right? Would you say he's over?
• 34:34
  Not quick, not super fast. Like, look at these small, you
• 34:36
  know, look at this Dirk. Nowitzki and overachiever.
• 34:40
  Russell Dirk was Dirk used to give buckets when he was a kid.
• 34:43
  He's to get buckets off the Charles Barkley own dudes.
• 34:44
  He's like 17. Steph Curry even go Division
• 34:47
  One. He was small.
• 34:47
  He's a small scony dude. 1 fast get bad ankles.
• 34:51
  Hold on one second. He went to overachieving and,
• 34:55
  and, and Russell Westbrook never overachieved.
• 34:58
  I don't know where they're going with this.
• 34:59
  I don't know. First of all, he came from UCLA.
• 35:02
  He was a high draft pick, all right?
• 35:04
  He was high. He played with Kevin Love.
• 35:06
  He he was a great college player.
• 35:08
  When he came into the NBA, he came and he played at OK C He
• 35:12
  played with Kevin Durant, he played with James Harden.
• 35:15
  He played with, you know, a, a talented organization and a
• 35:19
  great team that should have won multiple championships.
• 35:22
  To come out and say that you overachieved, having 3 three
• 35:26
  triple double seasons. The last player to do that is
• 35:29
  Oscar Robertson. And and to come out and say,
• 35:31
  well, you overachieved. He was expected to be a great
• 35:34
  player. Now he's not a great 3 point
• 35:36
  shooter, never was. But as far as going to the hole,
• 35:39
  he's one of the best to go in the hole in NBA history.
• 35:42
  One of the fastest guys we've ever seen play the game of
• 35:44
  basketball. I, I, I mean, I watched that
• 35:47
  science show on ESPN where they were comparing his drop off of,
• 35:52
  of going down, going down the court.
• 35:54
  Do you know many steps Russell Westbrook needed from one side
• 35:58
  to another, one part of the court to another to get to the
• 36:01
  hole 4? Think about it that way.
• 36:04
  Four steps to get to the other side.
• 36:08
  Think about that. Think about how fast you're nuts
• 36:11
  dribbling a ball. Russell Westbrook needed from
• 36:15
  one side to another from a basketball court.
• 36:18
  And to say that he overachieved, that he's not.
• 36:20
  And Dirk Nowitzki overachieved it.
• 36:22
  Did he say that? Did he say that Dirk Nowinski
• 36:24
  overachieved? Dirk Nowinski was one of the
• 36:27
  greatest international players that ever came out
• 36:31
  internationally from Germany when he was drafted.
• 36:34
  And now let me ask you a question.
• 36:36
  Nicola Yokich was a second round draft pick.
• 36:39
  You're going to tell me he overachieved?
• 36:40
  How many MVPS did this man win? You're going to tell me that,
• 36:44
  hey, you know what? Teams passed up on him.
• 36:46
  He's an overachiever. That is the most ridiculous
• 36:49
  statement. You know why he's saying that?
• 36:51
  Hold on, hold on. Why do you think?
• 36:54
  Because he's doesn't look like a, you know, a quote UN quote
• 36:58
  like normal looking athlete doesn't have that build that
• 37:02
  would say he's athletic. Track and field, track and field
• 37:05
  champions guys are. I disagree if you look at
• 37:08
  Russell Westbrook background. I disagree too, but I'm going to
• 37:10
  say it's like a, it's, I don't want to say is racist or
• 37:13
  stereotypical, but you hear that very often with like the gangly
• 37:17
  white guys like like Dirk, that they're not the same type of
• 37:21
  athletes as in Anthony Edwards, who's a high riser.
• 37:23
  Dirk wasn't a high riser, so he's not athletic.
• 37:26
  If you don't dunk like that at any point in your career, you're
• 37:29
  not, you know, you're not athletic, so you overachieve.
• 37:33
  Because you're not an athlete. No, here's the problem, Here's
• 37:35
  the problem and anybody and you guys got to watch starting 5.
• 37:38
  David Wells in baseball overachieved because.
• 37:40
  Hold on. Hold on.
• 37:41
  I disagree. I disagree with everything that
• 37:43
  you're saying right now. I disagree with it because if
• 37:46
  you watch starting five, everybody praises Kevin Durant.
• 37:50
  Everybody could praises Kevin Durant, the greatest big man
• 37:54
  shooter in NBA history, Really greatest big man shooter, Dirk
• 37:59
  Nowinski's A7 footer who really brought the three-point shot to
• 38:05
  the league the way he had from Germany.
• 38:07
  This guy was an international player who brought it to the
• 38:10
  league before Kevin Durant did, and he doesn't get credit for
• 38:14
  it. International.
• 38:16
  This is not an American player. This is an international player
• 38:19
  came from Germany played for team Germany all those years
• 38:23
  never won anything at the Olympics and it had nothing to
• 38:26
  do with I I don't think it has anything to do with color,
• 38:29
  nationality or any of that. I think it has something to do
• 38:32
  with the way they're comparing one one player who's one of the
• 38:37
  greatest players of all time to Russell Westbrook.
• 38:39
  Who are they kind of pushed out of the top ten top 20 that don't
• 38:43
  compare his skill and and and even though he was great, he's
• 38:48
  an overachiever. Hit it, Tommy.
• 38:52
  I'm a LeBron fan. I love.
• 38:53
  LeBron fan too. But this is like like we gotta
• 38:55
  be honest though, like he started this whole running
• 38:57
  around jumping on team to team like, like we we talk about MJ
• 39:00
  and all that and I don't make the comparison, but yo, they
• 39:03
  sucked too though. They sucked.
• 39:04
  They did suck, yo. And they stayed early on and and
• 39:07
  I stayed there though. Yeah, but they stayed there.
• 39:09
  But. They also drafted Scottie
• 39:10
  Pippen. They also got Tony Kuko.
• 39:13
  They they, that's weird, but that's a time.
• 39:15
  What I'm saying is yo like you can wait for that to happen.
• 39:19
  He was already waiting. He was already waiting.
• 39:21
  Different surrounded him with Eric Snow.
• 39:23
  Created that area, though he created the era of.
• 39:25
  That's a good point. But when when I say the era is
• 39:27
  like when LeBron was doing, when LeBron started doing it, we
• 39:30
  lived in an era of you better win right now.
• 39:32
  Yeah. And not winning a championship
• 39:34
  was unacceptable. The greatest player, you said
• 39:37
  that it was an era where it was like you better win that.
• 39:40
  Like not winning a chip if that was not.
• 39:41
  Accepted always, like always, right?
• 39:43
  With LeBron, how can you not? Well done one second now.
• 39:45
  Now I'm going to attack this because this is absolutely
• 39:48
  ridiculous. And I don't know what.
• 39:50
  And I give Shady a lot of credit because he's going back and
• 39:52
  forth with these two guys and he's trying to make a point on
• 39:56
  what LeBron James did say. These guys are saying that
• 39:59
  LeBron James practically left because it was all about winning
• 40:03
  a chip when they brought up when Shady brought up Michael Jordan.
• 40:07
  He didn't bring up Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, or any of
• 40:09
  these, even Kobe Bryant. These guys played on one team
• 40:12
  their whole career. They didn't jump ship.
• 40:14
  They didn't jump somewhere to win a championship.
• 40:16
  Then he brought up that they brought up Scottie Pippen.
• 40:19
  Well, Scottie Pippen was drafted in 87 and they brought in Tony
• 40:23
  Kukochi after that, and that was in the 90's, the Midnights.
• 40:25
  Then they brought in, obviously, Rodman.
• 40:28
  Here's my fact here. If you're going to tell me who
• 40:31
  LeBron James was there for seven years.
• 40:33
  He was with the Cavaliers for seven years before he made the
• 40:37
  decision. Remember that decision where he
• 40:39
  decided to flee, to go to Miami to win championships?
• 40:43
  OK, Michael Jordan was drafted in 84.
• 40:46
  He was drafted in 84. His first championship was 9192.
• 40:51
  How long was that? That was seven years, and
• 40:55
  Michael Jordan didn't have to win a chip right away.
• 40:58
  I disagree with them. I absolutely agree with Shade.
• 41:02
  You didn't need to win a chip, and LeBron didn't even win the
• 41:05
  win a chip to make a statement of who he was and what type of
• 41:09
  player he was. If LeBron James stayed there in
• 41:12
  Cleveland and drew players to come and play with him to win
• 41:16
  chips there, it would have made him look more dedicated to the
• 41:20
  organization that decided to draft him, Which, by the way, is
• 41:24
  where he's from, from Cleveland, OH, where his jersey was burnt
• 41:30
  after he went to Miami. And then after the fact, after
• 41:33
  he won his two titles and made his statement over there,
• 41:36
  decided to go back to play with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love
• 41:39
  because he felt bad for the organization.
• 41:42
  Go ahead, hit it, Tommy. LeBron James on teams that he
• 41:47
  has actually been on have never drafted an All Star level
• 41:50
  player. Michael Jordan's team drafted 3
• 41:52
  Hall of Farmers like that. It just, it is what it is.
• 41:55
  I, I, I don't think that Cleveland was a badly run
• 41:57
  organization when he was there. And that's just you.
• 41:59
  Saying that, but yo, do you know how many years it took for them
• 42:02
  to draft these guys? They didn't come to draft any.
• 42:04
  Year so 84 he had bad players. He had Dave Corzine as his
• 42:07
  center. 8586 they they were they were losing to the Celtics.
• 42:11
  Then you end up getting Scottie Pippen at 80.
• 42:13
  Seven, you end up getting. What about the part about yo,
• 42:15
  I'm, I'm a you know what? I'm a fighting way out of this
• 42:18
  situation. He tried.
• 42:19
  He tried to try to. I think he did try, try.
• 42:21
  I was. Seven.
• 42:22
  They went there and then he's also Celtics and then he saw.
• 42:24
  Like any help that is like. What are you supposed to do?
• 42:26
  He couldn't draft and you asked me about that.
• 42:28
  I didn't like that. Hold on one second now we're
• 42:31
  gonna go into trades or how about this drafting players?
• 42:35
  Let's go to the draft and let's talk about what he they're
• 42:38
  trying to bring up Michael Jordan bringing in Scottie
• 42:41
  Pippen and all these Hall of farmers that they drafted.
• 42:43
  Were they Hall of Farmers without Michael Jordan?
• 42:46
  The answer no. OK, we bring in Phil Jackson.
• 42:50
  Where was Michael Jordan going to be?
• 42:52
  Michael Jordan without Phil Jackson, The answer no.
• 42:55
  Now we could go back and forth and argue here points on
• 42:59
  understanding who was drafted, who was mod and and look at
• 43:02
  LeBron James James's Cavalier team a Gauskas was one of the
• 43:05
  best centers in the league. Larry used when they brought him
• 43:08
  in for Washington was one of the best defensive players at his
• 43:10
  position. He averaged 15 points and he
• 43:13
  gave you enough offense as a third optional player.
• 43:16
  They had MO Williams there. That MO Williams was a good six
• 43:20
  man to come out here and say that LeBron James had nothing
• 43:24
  and let's go to that eastern team Speedy.
• 43:27
  Tell us how many teams in the Eastern Conference was over 500.
• 43:30
  There were 5. Teams over 500 under that year,
• 43:33
  the six, the six and seventeens were all exactly 500 and the
• 43:37
  Cavs were the two seed. Only the Pistons were higher.
• 43:39
  I rest my case. That was a terrible Eastern
• 43:42
  Conference. Terrible.
• 43:44
  How hard was it to LeBron James to go through the Eastern
• 43:48
  Conference the way he did and go through an old Detroit Piston
• 43:51
  team at the tail end of their dominance?
• 43:55
  That wasn't a good Piston team. Prince was the youngest player
• 43:59
  on that team and he was old Rick Hamilton.
• 44:03
  I mean, that team was not Chauncey Phillips is at the tail
• 44:06
  end when he was going to go to Denver, when he was traded to
• 44:09
  Denver to come out and say that LeBron James did it himself.
• 44:14
  It was ridiculous. Teams in the Eastern Conference
• 44:17
  gave it away. What that?
• 44:19
  Then he played it, actually a good Spurs team and got swept.
• 44:23
  And you're going to come out here and tell us, hey, you know
• 44:26
  what? Well, LeBron James needed to win
• 44:28
  a chip. He needed to make a statement.
• 44:30
  He needed AB at the top of the game.
• 44:32
  He would have never won the championships that he would have
• 44:34
  won if he didn't leave. Hit it, Tommy.
• 44:39
  I look at Barkley, I look at news like Prash and Ewing.
• 44:42
  I could name you cats. That was super nice.
• 44:44
  But I was MJ, you know? You know what?
• 44:47
  You know what, yo, I can't beat. I can't beat him.
• 44:49
  I can't beat him. Let me join him.
• 44:52
  Let me just join him. Look, let me just join Michael
• 44:55
  Jordan. I'm gonna win me a championship.
• 44:56
  Let me let me ask you this. Or no.
• 44:58
  But I see that's why. Let me ask you this though,
• 45:00
  because we always overlook not prime Shaq, but prime adjacent
• 45:05
  Shaq joined D Wade. If, if, if if.
• 45:08
  D Wade ain't in Miami, Shaq not going to Miami.
• 45:11
  If D Wade was in Cleveland, Shaq's not going to go play in
• 45:13
  Cleveland, leaving LA and go live in in in Cleveland and
• 45:16
  Strongsville, OH. Shaq joins D Wade, D Wade wins a
• 45:19
  chip, but we don't ever say nothing about that.
• 45:22
  It's just what it was. Is that the same?
• 45:24
  Well, OK, now I'm going to attack this.
• 45:27
  LeBron James is in Cleveland and Shaq is free and he wanted to go
• 45:32
  and win a chip. You don't think Shaq goes to
• 45:34
  Cleveland and wins the championship with LeBron and he
• 45:37
  just decides to jump with Dwyane Wade?
• 45:39
  At the time that Dwyane Wade was really starting to break out as
• 45:44
  a player, LeBron was already broken.
• 45:46
  He was still in the LeBron was at one of the top elite players
• 45:50
  in the league when Dwyane Wade was starting to make a mark on
• 45:53
  himself. If you remember, think about it
• 45:56
  this way, and you go back and you bring up Shaq.
• 45:59
  Well, if Shaq, if Shaq went to this team or he wouldn't have
• 46:02
  went to Cleveland if LeBron wasn't there, oh, how do we know
• 46:05
  what Shaq would have done? Shaq wanted to win without Kobe
• 46:08
  and Kobe was never leaving the Lakers.
• 46:10
  And the Lakers knew that Kobe was the youthful player.
• 46:13
  He was the young player. They had to move on from one
• 46:16
  player to the other and they felt that Kobe was the guy they
• 46:20
  were going to lean on as the young player.
• 46:23
  That was the only reason why Shaq left.
• 46:25
  And if you ask anybody who was the better player on those 3
• 46:29
  championships, well go look at the MVPS.
• 46:31
  Go look who won the MVPS on the Finals.
• 46:35
  That was Shaquille O'Neal all three times.
• 46:37
  If you look at who was the better player of those that
• 46:41
  franchise at that time, it wasn't Kobe Bryant, it was
• 46:44
  Shaquille O'Neal to attack that. And here's another thing.
• 46:47
  And we have one more, we have one more clip, right?
• 46:49
  No, that was the last one. All right.
• 46:50
  So they went on and talked about players like Tim Duncan and Tim
• 46:55
  Duncan and, and, and growing the team that they grew.
• 46:58
  If you go back and you look at Tim Duncan, Tim Duncan and the
• 47:01
  way the Spurs built that organization when David Robinson
• 47:04
  left, they built it through the draft.
• 47:07
  It was different. They knew how to draft.
• 47:09
  If you look at all the guys, Tony Parker, Tony Parker was a
• 47:12
  late first round draft pick. Mano Ginobili was a second round
• 47:15
  draft pick. Then you bring in Kawhi Leonard.
• 47:17
  Kawhi Leonard was drafted in the middle of the first round.
• 47:20
  He was drafted from San Diego State.
• 47:22
  OK. When they brought up this
• 47:24
  concept and they brought up well, they won championships.
• 47:27
  How was LeBron to going to compete?
• 47:29
  And then they brought up the Paul Pierce Celtics and they
• 47:34
  said, well, look at Kevin Garnett.
• 47:35
  They combined forces over there and they brought Ray Allen.
• 47:39
  Okay, well, first of all, they traded for Kevin Garnett, did
• 47:42
  they not? He didn't go to free agency.
• 47:44
  They traded for him. They traded for Ray Allen,
• 47:48
  right? Am I, am I, am I mistaken that
• 47:51
  they brought in these players? Ray Allen was there first and
• 47:54
  then they I think, I don't know if Ray Allen came in free
• 47:56
  agents, I'm not positive on that, but they brought Kevin
• 47:59
  Garnett. He was traded for and what?
• 48:01
  They only won one chip. They won 1 championship.
• 48:05
  OK, when LeBron James went to Miami to combine forces with
• 48:09
  Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, he knew he was going to win
• 48:11
  multiple chips. And the only reason why they
• 48:13
  didn't win 3 chips is because the first year they were trying
• 48:17
  to figure each other out and they bumped into a a jigsaw
• 48:19
  puzzle of the Dallas Mavericks with an old Jason Kidd and yeah,
• 48:25
  a guy that overachieved. Yes, as they called it, Dirk
• 48:28
  Nowinski and he and Dirk Nowinski and the Dallas
• 48:32
  Mavericks and Rick Carlisle, who is now with the Indiana Pacers,
• 48:37
  ran through that Miami Heat team to come out and and I listen,
• 48:42
  these guys are football players and I give AI want to give a
• 48:45
  shout out to Shay McCoy. Love him, followed him and I
• 48:48
  want to give a shout out to him. I love your takes.
• 48:50
  I agree with everything that you had to say.
• 48:52
  And he's absolutely right. Patrick Ewing could have joined
• 48:55
  Michael Jordan. He could have Patrick Ewing
• 48:58
  never could get over the hump because you could never beat
• 49:00
  Jordan. If you look at it, the only
• 49:02
  reason why Elijah won won back-to-back championships is
• 49:05
  because Michael Jordan retired. He retired when his father died
• 49:10
  to go play baseball for two years.
• 49:12
  And then he realized he wasn't much of a baseball player and he
• 49:15
  went back because of BJ Armstrong suckered him to come
• 49:19
  and practice with the team. Guys, don't try to call me out
• 49:22
  of basketball. Basketball is my favorite sport
• 49:25
  and you want to come out, you want to attack and you want to
• 49:27
  make it OK. For what LeBron James did to
• 49:30
  Russell Westbrook, Russell Westbrook is not an
• 49:33
  overachiever. Russell Westbrook in the last 25
• 49:37
  years is 1 of the greatest players the NBA has ever seen.
• 49:42
  Everybody talks about James Harden, everybody talks about,
• 49:45
  you know, guys like Kevin Durant and LeBron James and Chris Paul.
• 49:48
  You're going to tell me Russell Westbrook isn't as good as these
• 49:50
  guys? You're going to tell me that
• 49:52
  when he averaged a triple double back-to-back to back years?
• 49:56
  You can't compare any of the great things that LeBron James
• 50:00
  did and he won chips. And I know Russ never won a
• 50:02
  championship and that has a lot to do with what he decided to
• 50:06
  do. Kevin Durant decided to leave
• 50:08
  OKC to go win chips with Golden State.
• 50:11
  Let me ask you a question. As great as Kevin Durant is, as
• 50:15
  much he's loved by everybody and how he's one of the top 10
• 50:18
  greatest players of all time, which everybody put, or how
• 50:21
  about Steph Curry? Let me ask you a question.
• 50:25
  How many championships has Steph Curry won without Kevin Durant?
• 50:31
  He won two. Now think about it this way.
• 50:33
  And I'm, I'm, I'm just, I'm trying to, I'm trying to hit on
• 50:36
  all cylinders on this. Steph Curry played with Klay
• 50:40
  Thompson, who's a Hall of Famer. Draymond Green is a Hall of
• 50:42
  Famer. Steve Kerr is a Hall of Famer.
• 50:44
  Coach, right? Not right now, right.
• 50:45
  Are we we on you have Wiggins, who at the point of you know of
• 50:51
  his top end play, he was one of the best defensive players at
• 50:55
  his position and a good fourth player on a roster.
• 50:59
  You look at those rosters, those Golden State Warriors rosters
• 51:03
  without Kevin Durant, they had more depth than they did with
• 51:06
  Kevin Durant on the roster. OK.
• 51:10
  And and and to go back to this and go back to LeBron James,
• 51:13
  LeBron James left, he went to make another three team mold.
• 51:17
  What do they call it? Super team, super team over
• 51:19
  there with Cleveland. How many championships did they
• 51:21
  bring home after that? They brought him one and who did
• 51:25
  they beat in the finals? The Golden State Warriors and if
• 51:29
  we go back in time on who hit the big shots in those games,
• 51:33
  was it LeBron James? It was Kyrie Irving.
• 51:37
  So going back to Lebron's quote UN quote greatness and why
• 51:43
  LeBron James is considered a top three player of all time and why
• 51:48
  LeBron just James decided to jump ship from one place to
• 51:52
  another. LeBron James.
• 51:54
  I'm I'm going to read stuff off to you guys that LeBron James.
• 51:56
  They say LeBron James never spoke bad.
• 51:59
  He's not Russell Westbrook. He doesn't come out nonchalantly
• 52:03
  and throw players under the bus. OK, well this is something that
• 52:08
  I wanted to read off to you guys because they don't know what the
• 52:10
  hell they're talking about. Infamously tweeted IN20005015
• 52:16
  widely believed attack at Kevin Love criticized his difficulty
• 52:22
  fitting into a new role with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
• 52:26
  That's just one. That's not the other stuff that
• 52:28
  he said about Kyrie Irving after he left and Kyrie Irving decided
• 52:32
  to flee and leave LeBron James because he couldn't stand LeBron
• 52:35
  James. And then when he realized that
• 52:37
  LeBron James was the way he was as a leader, when he went to the
• 52:42
  Celtics, realized he should have stayed with LeBron James because
• 52:45
  he could have won more championships.
• 52:47
  He didn't realize how much pressure he needed he had on
• 52:50
  him, less pressure he had on him at not being a leader to go to
• 52:55
  the Celtics and realized that he should have stayed with the the
• 52:58
  Cleveland Cavaliers. What I'm trying to say here and
• 53:01
  what I'm really attacking here with what Emmanuel Ocho said and
• 53:06
  Kerrian Hickey simple said to LeSean McCoy is when you speak
• 53:12
  about something that you really know nothing about and you bring
• 53:16
  up Michael Jordan and you bring the players of these magnitude,
• 53:20
  this magnitude, and you're trying to compare LeBron James
• 53:23
  and saying that LeBron James would have never won
• 53:26
  championships if he stayed in Cleveland.
• 53:28
  That's false advertisement because Michael Jordan never
• 53:32
  left. He won how many championships?
• 53:35
  6 greatness we're talking about. LeBron wants to be considered
• 53:39
  better than Michael Jordan. Did he not say that his own wife
• 53:43
  and children at the ESPY Awards came out and said the greatest
• 53:47
  basketball player of all time? Well, if you're the greatest
• 53:50
  basketball player of all time, LeBron, why did you play for one
• 53:55
  team and stay on one team to win championships?
• 53:57
  Why did you decide to flee and you didn't just go to one place,
• 54:00
  you went to multiple places to win championships.
• 54:04
  Let's see, you went to Miami to win 2.
• 54:07
  You went back to Cleveland to win one, and then you went to
• 54:10
  the Lakers to win another. OK, Michael Jordan ever do that.
• 54:14
  Magic Johnson ever do that, Larry Bird ever do that.
• 54:18
  Elijah won't ever do that. Do you want me to go on, Tim
• 54:21
  Duncan ever do that? Let's let's go on and on and on.
• 54:25
  You want to talk about greatness, you want to compare
• 54:28
  yourself to the greatest basketball players of all time
• 54:32
  and you want to say that you are the greatest of all time.
• 54:36
  LeBron and you guys, you idiots, Emmanuel Ato, you come out and
• 54:41
  you're you're you, you come out. You're an ex football player
• 54:43
  great for you. And I'm not I I again, I'm not
• 54:46
  going to attack Shady McCoy because Shady McCoy and he agree
• 54:49
  with everything that we both agreed to on what he was saying.
• 54:53
  You cannot tell me you cannot tell me that LeBron James is the
• 54:59
  greatest basketball player of all time and by the way, you put
• 55:02
  Steph Curry in the top ten. Stop now.
• 55:05
  I've got to give Steph Curry a little bit of credit.
• 55:07
  Steph Curry has not fled to go to play with other teams to win
• 55:12
  championships. Steph Curry decided to stay with
• 55:15
  one the Golden State Warriors. You and you want to you want to
• 55:20
  know my honest opinion to it. If you were to ask me right now,
• 55:25
  is LeBron the the top 3 greatest, greatest player of all
• 55:29
  time? Absolutely.
• 55:31
  Absolutely. But it's not because he stayed
• 55:34
  with one organization to win with that organization and show
• 55:38
  his greatness. No, He is one of the greatest
• 55:40
  players of all time because he built statistics to compare
• 55:47
  himself better than the great players like Karl Malone.
• 55:51
  Did Karl Malone ever win a championship?
• 55:53
  No. Did he go to the Lakers to try
• 55:54
  to win a ring? Yes.
• 55:55
  Did he win a ring? No.
• 55:57
  John Stockton. Did he ever go anywhere else
• 55:59
  besides the Utah Jazz? Did he ever win a ring?
• 56:01
  No. I, I, I, I'm giving you players
• 56:05
  that stayed or didn't win with other teams.
• 56:08
  Now Gary Payton tried to do that too.
• 56:11
  Gary Payton went to the Lakers for one year to win the title.
• 56:13
  I remember it didn't work out for him.
• 56:16
  Gary Payton never won a championship with the Seattle
• 56:20
  SuperSonics. I'm pretty sure he never won.
• 56:22
  He went, they went to a championship, but they never won
• 56:25
  him. And Sean Kemp never won a
• 56:26
  championship together. So the fact here is when Manny
• 56:32
  Ocho and Ako, whatever his name is, and Lashawn McCoy and Kieran
• 56:37
  Hickey Semple come up and they are attacking and they're saying
• 56:40
  the Russell Westbrook, he, he speaks, he's, he's, he's so
• 56:44
  overtone. He's, oh, he overachieved.
• 56:48
  Here's what I'm going to say. Russell Westbrook might not be a
• 56:53
  top 10 greatest player of all time, might not be a top ten
• 56:57
  guard of all time, but Russell Westbrook didn't overachieve.
• 57:03
  Russell Westbrook was the closest thing to Oscar Robertson
• 57:08
  in 50 years. To say that's overachieving
• 57:13
  tells me how much you know about basketball.
• 57:16
  And that's my take to that. Speakeasies.
• 57:19
  I, I listen to this show, I, I think it's an interesting show.
• 57:23
  I disagree with everything they said except LeSean McCoy.
• 57:27
  I disagree with every take they had.
• 57:29
  You brought up Tim Duncan, you brought up all these other guys
• 57:33
  and Tim Duncan never left the Spurs, Michael Jordan never left
• 57:37
  the balls, Kobe Bryant never left the Lakers and all these
• 57:42
  guys. I don't even put Kobe in the top
• 57:44
  ten of all time. Honestly, I would give Kobe a
• 57:48
  little bit more credit than he deserves because of the fact he
• 57:52
  stayed with the Lakers. Because you don't.
• 57:54
  Have. Kobe in the top ten.
• 57:56
  I have Kobe 15 or 16 in my rankings when I did it, when I
• 58:00
  looked at my rankings over the years, because there's so many
• 58:03
  great players got dude, you know, if you think about decades
• 58:06
  and and people forget it, Bill Russell was there, Will
• 58:09
  Chamberlain was there. Shaquille O'Neal was the best
• 58:12
  player on those Laker teams when they won three titles.
• 58:15
  He just was and he changed the game.
• 58:17
  He was a diesel. He was the most dominant player
• 58:19
  in the league at one point for five years.
• 58:22
  Was Kobe Bryant really the best player in the league when he was
• 58:25
  at at his prime? I don't think he was because at
• 58:29
  the time where he was at his prime, LeBron James was in the
• 58:32
  league. Michael Jordan was in the league
• 58:35
  before. As soon as Michael Jordan
• 58:37
  retired, LeBron James was in the league.
• 58:40
  So and then you had Tim Duncan and he had all these other great
• 58:44
  players. So you want to ask me right now,
• 58:48
  was Kobe ever the best player in the league?
• 58:52
  I would say he's won how many MVPS?
• 58:54
  One or two. I, I could probably tell you
• 58:58
  even the times that he won those MVPS, that LeBron James was the
• 59:00
  better player. So that's just my opinion.
• 59:04
  Now, people can argue that, but I just think that Kobe was
• 59:09
  great, but I wouldn't put him in my top 10.
• 59:12
  I wouldn't because it's just so many great players and so many.
• 59:15
  I would put Elijah on there. Tim Duncan definitely was there.
• 59:19
  I I mean, everybody gives all the credit to coaching and all
• 59:24
  of that. Popovich was a great coach.
• 59:26
  Let me ask you a question. Did Popovich ever go back to the
• 59:29
  finals when Tim Duncan left and retired?
• 59:32
  Never. He never even made it to the
• 59:34
  Western Conference Finals, never after Tim Duncan retired.
• 59:39
  So it just tells you how great Tim Duncan was and how much of A
• 59:43
  dominant player he was at his position and, and consider the
• 59:47
  greatest power forward to ever play in the game.
• 59:49
  So I, I just, I disagree with every one of their takes.
• 59:52
  And, and to say that that Wes Russell Westbrook was an
• 59:56
  overachiever. If Russell Westbrook's an over
• 59:58
  achiever, so is James Harden 7. So is Kevin Durant, because
• 1:00:03
  Kevin Durant never wins a championship if he doesn't go to
• 1:00:05
  Golden State. James Harden's never won a
• 1:00:07
  championship and he's considered one of the top 20 players of all
• 1:00:11
  time. You're going to tell me Russell
• 1:00:13
  Westbrook is not as good as James Harden?
• 1:00:17
  That's a joke. Just say that's all I got to say
• 1:00:21
  about that. So that's my take on the speak.
• 1:00:24
  Easy take on LeBron James those the footage the the thoughts of
• 1:00:31
  LeBron they might they have a love fest for LeBron James.
• 1:00:33
  I like LeBron James as a player personally.
• 1:00:36
  I have nothing against his game. I, I, you know, I call the NBA,
• 1:00:40
  the LJAI just think it's horrible to listen to the
• 1:00:45
  garbage that you know, that I've listened over the years in
• 1:00:49
  comparison to him and comparing him to Michael Jordan.
• 1:00:52
  There is no comparison to him, Michael Jordan, because Michael
• 1:00:55
  Jordan never fled. And by the way, when Michael
• 1:00:57
  Jordan left and he came back for Washington, the only reason why
• 1:01:00
  he came back to play with Washington, I know everybody's
• 1:01:03
  going to say, well, he played for Washington.
• 1:01:04
  The only reason why he came back to play for Washington is
• 1:01:07
  because the Bulls in 99 in the strike year, he wanted Scottie
• 1:01:11
  Pippen to come back and they would never bring in Scottie
• 1:01:13
  Pippen back. Management never wanted Scottie
• 1:01:15
  Pippen back and that's why they they moved them to Portland.
• 1:01:18
  If you guys think, I don't know basketball, I know basketball.
• 1:01:21
  The organization wanted to get rid of Scottie Pippen for two or
• 1:01:25
  three years before that, but because they were winning, they
• 1:01:27
  couldn't. And when Michael Jordan said
• 1:01:29
  that 98 was his final year because of the Scottie Pippen
• 1:01:33
  contract and that the organization was going to bring
• 1:01:36
  him back, Michael Jordan was never going to go back and play
• 1:01:38
  for the Chicago Bulls. And I'm going to tell you this
• 1:01:40
  right now, if Michael Jordan stayed with the Chicago Bulls
• 1:01:42
  for 99 and 2000, they win. They win another two titles and
• 1:01:45
  they win eight in a row. And if he didn't retire those
• 1:01:49
  two years, they would have won ten in a row.
• 1:01:52
  That is how dominant Michael Jordan was.
• 1:01:56
  So there you go guys. That's my take, that's my poll.
• 1:02:01
  Kiss my ass and try to take names and numbers at the time
• 1:02:05
  that you are. Anyways, thank you to WFAN
• 1:02:09
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• 1:02:14
  Sports college basketball broadcaster Manny Babari.
• 1:02:19
  He was fantastic. Thank you to him for joining us.
• 1:02:22
  I know he's very, very busy. He's getting ready for the
• 1:02:24
  college basketball season, which is right around the corner and
• 1:02:28
  the Yankee season's over and he he fills in a WFAN here and
• 1:02:32
  there overnights. He's fantastic and and we've
• 1:02:35
  really become friends over the last couple of weeks and months.
• 1:02:39
  So speedy, speedy on give me well, whatever info that he
• 1:02:43
  wants, I'll go I'll do his show there you.
• 1:02:46
  Go. He's fantastic, by the way,
• 1:02:48
  Manny. Is a yeah, he's great.
• 1:02:50
  So thank you to Manny for. Joining.
• 1:02:52
  I didn't know that. But yeah, dude, when I saw him,
• 1:02:56
  I didn't realize how tall he was until I saw him and I'm looking
• 1:03:00
  up. I'm like, damn man, you're big,
• 1:03:02
  you know so. And you're just you're barely
• 1:03:04
  average height. What are you talking?
• 1:03:07
  Average height is 5/8. I'm 510 1/2.
• 1:03:10
  Screw you Jabba, you know screw you.
• 1:03:13
  What is this, Attack arrow day? I need a gin and tonic.
• 1:03:18
  I'm going to need something like that after tonight's show.
• 1:03:21
  Anyways, thank you to all the Spotify and Apple fans.
• 1:03:24
  We're going to break over 185,000 this month.
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  We've been killing it over the last couple days Speedy.
• 1:03:30
  We, we've been all over man I the numbers are really, really
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• 1:03:49
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• 1:04:03
  And we just really appreciate everybody that that have been
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  tuning in and checking out our show.
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  We, we like to make people laugh.
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  I hope everybody enjoys the content.
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• 1:04:15
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  else. That's what we want to do.
• 1:04:19
  So thank you to all the fans. We'll be back on Monday.
• 1:04:22
  Speedy, who do we have? We don't have anything yet.
• 1:04:23
  Monday, Wednesday. We do have our friend Ovi Muhali
• 1:04:26
  returning former. Falcons OV.
• 1:04:28
  All pro full. Back you know, why do you always
• 1:04:30
  say that? You know why?
• 1:04:32
  Why? Why, Why do you always say that?
• 1:04:34
  Because you have to make sure that the first.
• 1:04:36
  Time. I'm sure that's what he wants
• 1:04:38
  you to say. Entrepreneur.
• 1:04:41
  He doesn't want to hear all probe fall back.
• 1:04:43
  He's retired entrepreneur. Say it right.
• 1:04:46
  Say it, entrepreneur. There you go.
• 1:04:48
  That's what he is. He's an entrepreneur.
• 1:04:50
  He's doing big things with life insurance.
• 1:04:51
  If you want your life insurance, you need any insurance, Go to
• 1:04:54
  Ovie Mihali. He's got a nice smile, wears
• 1:04:57
  nice suits, and as he his wife says, he looks sexy everywhere
• 1:05:01
  he goes. So Ovie Mihali, we're going to
• 1:05:03
  enjoy him on Wednesday. I'm sure I'm going to get him to
• 1:05:07
  buy into Stranger Things, which is coming out in a few weeks.
• 1:05:11
  Did November, right? Yeah, that's right.
• 1:05:13
  Yeah. Ready for that.
• 1:05:14
  So if you're a Stranger Things fan, which I am, Final episodes,
• 1:05:20
  I've been waiting five years for this guy.
• 1:05:23
  So since COVID, Yeah. All right.
• 1:05:25
  So me too. I I'm I've been waiting for it
• 1:05:28
  finally. Is that how long it's been?
• 1:05:30
  It's been the last season. It's been no, the last 2002, the
• 1:05:33
  last season 20/2/2022, Yeah. But even then, before then they
• 1:05:37
  were they had the season already.
• 1:05:39
  Yeah, but yeah, yeah. But I I started watching it in
• 1:05:42
  2000 so 20/20/2022 I'm. Sorry, the girl started as a kid
• 1:05:49
  and now she's like married to Bon Jovi's kid in real life.
• 1:05:53
  Yeah, she is like 27. She is, yeah.
• 1:05:56
  It's going to be fun to watch. And it's funny because they were
• 1:05:58
  talking about how the first time when she first was on the show,
• 1:06:00
  she was a little kid. So she ended up actually shaving
• 1:06:02
  her head. And I don't want to spoil
• 1:06:04
  anything, so I'm not going to, but I'm just saying she, what's
• 1:06:07
  it called? They asked her to shave her head
• 1:06:09
  again for the newer season and she said no, which, like you
• 1:06:12
  said, she's a 27 year old woman. I don't know who has like
• 1:06:15
  luscious hair like that and then just wants to shave it all over
• 1:06:17
  again. Jabba, you know, maybe Jabba
• 1:06:20
  would have done it. You know, he doesn't need to
• 1:06:21
  shave his head. He doesn't need to shave his
• 1:06:23
  head. I'm ready.
• 1:06:24
  I I don't know if Jabba would look like her.
• 1:06:26
  So I don't know if he would be a good, you know, good fill in for
• 1:06:29
  that. But Jabba, are you a Stranger
• 1:06:31
  Things fan? You know what?
• 1:06:33
  I've never seen an Oh you. Should you should start watching
• 1:06:37
  it? That's pretty good.
• 1:06:37
  That is really good. Is it?
• 1:06:39
  Yeah, I think. How many seasons is there?
• 1:06:40
  Or right now, there'll be a fifth.
• 1:06:43
  Yeah. So. 5th and final final one
• 1:06:45
  There's a really cool scene in the fourth season that involves
• 1:06:49
  an A classic Metallica song and. I know exactly yeah in.
• 1:06:53
  My opinion worth watching. Just master of puppets, baby.
• 1:06:57
  Master of puppets. It's.
• 1:06:58
  One of my Would you believe me if I told you I could play that
• 1:07:00
  song? On guitar, do you know I could
• 1:07:01
  play the drums, double bass pedal to that song.
• 1:07:04
  So we got to make. That I think the guitar is more
• 1:07:05
  impressive than anything, Laura. Screw you, what are you talking
• 1:07:08
  about? Just saying, Kurt.
• 1:07:09
  Ham, it was great. OK, And so is James Hetfield
• 1:07:13
  the. Grace of all.
• 1:07:13
  Time. And what do you think Lars
• 1:07:15
  Ulrich is? Lars was cool.
• 1:07:17
  Dude, I am a Metallica Fanny. They're my favorite band.
• 1:07:21
  Do not get me. Started.
• 1:07:22
  I feel like this is a discussion for a.
• 1:07:24
  Do not get me started about Metallica.
• 1:07:27
  I love how I love Metallica, but Lars was the weak link of
• 1:07:31
  Metallica. Oh, stop.
• 1:07:33
  First of all, come on. The weak, the weak link, and the
• 1:07:37
  most. Talented, had a double bass
• 1:07:38
  pedal so. That's what made it so it's easy
• 1:07:41
  to play double bass pedal. No, it's not, But it's not like
• 1:07:44
  he was freaking like a great drummer out there.
• 1:07:47
  Yes, he was. What are you talking about?
• 1:07:51
  Stop, Stop who? Who's the one who put Metallica
• 1:07:54
  together? Who's the one who put Metallica
• 1:07:56
  together? Who's the one who put?
• 1:07:58
  That and he was kind of a douchebag about Napster back in
• 1:08:00
  the day. He was and he had every right.
• 1:08:02
  People were stealing their music.
• 1:08:04
  He has every right. They were listening to them and
• 1:08:07
  becoming fans and then going and buying their stuff.
• 1:08:10
  Dude, they were they. Were stars before that?
• 1:08:14
  And, and first of all, what's your favorite?
• 1:08:15
  If you're such a Metallica fan, what's the best?
• 1:08:18
  What is the best album Metallica ever put out?
• 1:08:22
  Well, I would probably say ride the Lightning.
• 1:08:24
  No. No, you're wrong because it is
• 1:08:26
  right. Right.
• 1:08:27
  No, it's not. The one before master.
• 1:08:28
  Puppets. No, The Black Album was the best
• 1:08:30
  album. Most people.
• 1:08:32
  Will most sold album is the black album.
• 1:08:35
  That's that's not the best album.
• 1:08:37
  It, it absolutely is the best. No, it's the best.
• 1:08:41
  It's. Definitely the most commercial.
• 1:08:42
  It is the best album. But I would say there are three
• 1:08:45
  albums better than that by mentality.
• 1:08:47
  Oh come on dude, The Black Album is the best album.
• 1:08:50
  The album that has one on, It's the best album.
• 1:08:53
  Oh, stop. All right, I'm done.
• 1:08:54
  I'm done. I'm done.
• 1:08:56
  Butt plug. He's got one, that's for damn
• 1:08:58
  sure. Anyways, that's it for a show,
• 1:09:00
  ladies and gentlemen. Now you heard my take on
• 1:09:02
  Metallica, and if you want to hear any more, well, I might be
• 1:09:06
  doing something, so I'll, I'll lead you to that way a little
• 1:09:09
  bit, you know, in the next couple of weeks.
• 1:09:11
  Anyways, that's it for a show. Good night, it.
• 1:09:13
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• 1:09:18
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