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Joba and the Mouth 7-1-25 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  It it is the worldwide sports radio network.
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  Dolphins trade Jalen Ramsey and Jonnu Smith to the Steelers, the
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  Pistons guard Malik Beasley being investigated for gambling
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  and LeBron James opts into his player option with the Lakers.
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  And we have a lot more to get into as we were working on
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  Preston Carries committing commitment to going to Georgia.
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  So we'll get into a lot of that when we come back for a new show
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  of job in the mouth. Do you believe in that?
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  You're going to give him a significant, you're going to
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  have a ton of money to spend. Why not pulling in one of the
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  top three offensive players in the league?
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  We're going to be looking at Aaron Judge and saying that he
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  can't win the big game, Michael Jordan said.
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  I played 82 games. You don't see the fun doing
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  that. A game where you got to go for
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  four. I told you, Giant fans, Saquon
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  Barkley at this point. Let's do it.
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  You're listening to Jabba and the mouth.
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  Mouth. Welcome, welcome, Welcome back
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  ladies and gentlemen to a new show of Jabba and the Mouth.
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  It's been crazy. It's been humid, it's been
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  It has been sticky. I, I will say this guys and I, I
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  wanted to, to figure out what's going on in the world.
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  Jabba, what's going on? What is going on over there in
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  Nebraska? Is it hot, Is it cold?
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  Is it humid? Is it rainy?
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  Hey, it could be snowing in Nebraska.
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  I've never been there. No, we've got a humidity is, is
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  at its peak point right now, usually around the 4th of July.
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  You usually get there actually not too bad today, but we've
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  been, we've been 90s about 90% humidity.
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  So we've, we've been sticky, that's for sure.
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  It's been sticky here in Long Island, New York.
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  I can't stand this weather and yesterday and I we will get into
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  yesterday and the commitment of Preston Carey, which by the way,
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  it was fantastic. It was a great gathering for all
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  the fans out there. That's never been to a
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  commitment And and it it's crazy because how many people actually
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  show up to event like this. And it was superbly put together
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  by Kelly and obviously her entourage of, of people.
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  Liz, it was just fantastic. It was very well put together.
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  The video that was put up by Jackie Robertson was sensational
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  and Ben Carey and even Preston, it was really sensational.
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  Congratulations to Preston and we will let every fan know if
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  you haven't checked out all of the social media and on YouTube
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  or on any of the social medias that were posting up where
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  Preston is going. Well, we will give you the
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  information in just a few moments.
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  But it was very well put together.
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  It was at the castle in Huntington, NY.
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  I, I don't, I look at that place because I've been to that place
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  many, many times. I've DJ, I've hosted events,
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  golf tournaments with CC Sabathia, AJ Burnett, Plaxico
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  Bores. So many great athletes have gone
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  and played golf over there and they are sensationally built
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  when it comes to the, the guest and, and, and the great venue
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  that they have over there. So I, I loved it over there and
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  it was to me, what I noticed about that place is when you go
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  in and you, you, you get to the castle, you got to go through
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  these bushes and it, it, it's just amazing how it's just very
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  well built and you just like kind of like squeak right
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  through. So it was, it was a sensational,
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  sensational event. And I want to give a shout out
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  to Ben Carey because Ben is a guy that is 100% for his son.
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  And, and a lot of these kids, a lot of their parents, you know,
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  they're obviously they love their kids and they want their
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  kids to succeed. But there are parents out there
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  worried about how much money their kids going to get, how
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  much money they're going to get out of the deals or where
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  they're going to go when it comes to the colleges that they
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  choose. Ben is not like that.
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  He really isn't. He wanted to make sure that his
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  son picked the right school and put himself, his son in the
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  right position to succeed. And by the way, if nobody knows,
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  I'm going to give you the announcement.
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  Yes, Preston Carey decided out of Rutgers Florida, which is the
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  Gators. If you want to know what it is,
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  whatever Florida team that is, Auburn and Georgia, the Georgia
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  Bulldogs, he chose to go to Georgia.
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  And congratulations to Preston. It was great.
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  It really was a sensational and I want to give a shout out to
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  Kelly and Liz. These two ladies worked really,
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  really hard putting this together and I was just happy to
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  be a part of it and be be the host of the events.
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  And that has a lot to do with obviously been asking me and
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  putting me in the position to host the event and and announce,
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  you know, the introductions on where Preston was going.
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  And we had a lot of people. Varsity, varsity high school was
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  there. They were doing their broadcast.
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  All right, it's varsity. Speedy.
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  What was MSG varsity? MSG varsity was there.
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  They were a bunch of people. Newsday was there, Channel 12
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  news was there. Peter Schwartz was there.
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  Everybody, you name it, every media person in the world, when
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  it comes to the big media conglomerates, I'm, I'm trying
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  to choke on my words. All the big media conglomerates
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  were there yesterday and I've been very, very tired.
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  I know a lot of people, if you've watched this show, I got
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  a lot of energy. I'm going to put all the energy
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  into the show. But I didn't get home till late
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  last night. I didn't go to bed till 2:00 in
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  the morning. I had work this morning and
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  look, I'm here and I'm taking care of other things that I'm
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  going, going through medical problems and all that other
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  stuff. I don't want to get into it on
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  the show, but it was a sensational, sensational event
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  and I want to give a shout out to the Carey family and
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  congratulations to Preston Carey for announcing where he was
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  going and, and doing it in front of his friends, his family and
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  the media. It's not easy doing it for an 18
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  year old kid and, and I don't know if anybody's checked out.
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  You don't know who Preston Carey is.
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  He's 6 foot 5-6 foot six, 300 lbs of brute strength and
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  muscle. I, I did call him the Beast.
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  I don't know what his nickname is.
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  I don't know what people call him, but it's a sensational,
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  sensational specimen. He is.
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  It's a sensational specimen. So congratulations to the the
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  Carey family. Speedy, what he picked, he
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  picked a good school, though, the best, the best.
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  So he's he he's he can go to American whiskey anytime because
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  we are a Georgia bar. There you go.
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  There you go. I, I, I remember him saying
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  that. So I have to talk to Ben.
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  Maybe we do an event and when obviously during the season
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  we'll do something at at American Whiskey for the Georgia
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  Bulldogs and, and promote Preston and, and do do our show
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  live at American Whiskey for all the Georgia Bulldogs fans.
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  I think they would really enjoy it And and some of the Long
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  Islanders wanted to go and check out the game at one of those
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  bars where you get a chance to watch just the Georgia Bulldogs
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  and their games. You can go to American Whiskey
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  in Manhattan, NY and Job is one of the owners of the of the
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  facility. So it'll be fun.
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  And I think that would be a great idea doing a live show for
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  the Georgia Bulldogs, who is going to be one of the top three
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  favorites of winning the national championship.
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  So I'm not going to say I don't know how much time Preston's
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  going to have as a freshman this coming season, but the fact that
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  he is going to be on the Georgia Bulldogs, give him two more
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  years. This kid could be a super
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  superstar for the not only as a professional NFL player, but a
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  college NCAA champion, possibly 2 before he even gets on the
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  field and plays a significant amount of minutes.
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  So very happy to be there for Preston.
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  He is a great kid and he has a great calm personality.
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  That's what you want to see with these athletes.
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  Some of these, some of these athletes, we've got them on the
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  show, they're stuck up. Their personality suck.
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  Preston was not like that. He was so eager to to make that
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  announcement in front of his friends and his family.
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  And then not only that, the way he handled it, it's not easy
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  handling something like that as an 18 year old.
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  And the way he handled it was sensational.
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  So congratulations to the Carey family.
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  Preston Carey. I said that about six or seven
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  times and I'm going to say it once again, congratulations and
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  very well done. It was very well put together.
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  Congratulations to Kelly and Liz putting on put on putting a
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  great obviously leveled show, I would say, committee over there
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  at the Castle. So congratulations to all the
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  family and friends that joined us over there at the Castle
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  yesterday afternoon and night. Oh man.
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  Anyways, we have a great show lined up for you at 9:00.
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  We'll be talking to former Orioles, Blue Jays and Yankees
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  Bitcher Josh Towers. He's been on the show.
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  I'm sure Jabba has a ton of stories and and Jabba hasn't
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  been on the show when Josh has been on.
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  So this this is the first time Jabba and Josh are going to be
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  together and and kind of interact with each other since
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  obviously playing against one another over there when he
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  played for the Orioles and Jabba was with the Yankees.
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  So it'll be fun to hear what Josh's thoughts were when he
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  first got the chance to see Jabba on the mountain.
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  And I'm sure Jabba I played I played with amid the Yankees
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  too. That's true.
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  I forgot about that. Yes, you did.
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  So it'll be fun to get both of these guys on at the same time
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  and kind of see their connection as a professional athletes and
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  and MLBMLB baseball player. So it'll be fun here.
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  Rappaport reports that the Dolphins have traded for well
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  cheated Jalen Ramsey and Jonnu Smith for a seventh round pick
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  to the Steelers. The Dolphins reunite with Mika
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  Fitzpatrick and also get a fifth round pick back in the deal.
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  The Steelers will take on a 26.6 million of the last of last year
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  of the last year of Ramsey's deal while the Dolphins will
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  take on 1.5 million of the deal. Adam Schefner reports that this
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  deal is also added a one year $12 million extension with Jonnu
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  Smith for his deal. Mika Fitzpatrick's contract has
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  two years remaining on it with a cap hit of 15.5 million this
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  year and 17.6 million next year. Both players have been Pro
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  Bowlers in four out of the of the last five seasons.
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  After the trade, the Steelers have $21.8 million of cap space,
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  tenth lowest in the NFL, while the Dolphins have just 13.7
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  million, fifth lowest in the NFL.
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  Well, there's a lot to get into this trade and I think it was
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  very evenly traded. I I do believe Minka Fitzpatrick
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  is the best player in this trade.
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  Now, Jonnu Smith had a great season last year with the
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  Dolphins. We'll see what he does over
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  there with Aaron, Aaron Rodgers. We'll see what Aaron Rodgers
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  shows up this year. Is he the team player, Aaron
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  Rodgers or he's a me player, Aaron Rodgers?
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  Because when he's a me player, Aaron Rodgers, he's definitely
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  not the same player. What I do see with this trade
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  and the reason why I think it's evenly matched, I think the
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  problem last year for the Pittsburgh Steelers was the
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  corner positions. They have Porter, who is one of
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  the young, young, some heroes over there with the Pittsburgh
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  Steelers, but they're secondary, especially on the other side of
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  the field, was not too good. Now, Mika Fitzpatrick's been one
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  of the better safeties. He's in the league since he's
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  moved from the cornerback position to the safety position.
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  He has not moved back to the corner position.
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  And the one weakness the the well, he they have a bunch of
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  weaknesses on the defensive side of the ball.
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  But for the Miami Dolphins, it's one of their biggest weaknesses
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  defensively for the last couple of years.
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  As at the free safety position. Now you have Mika.
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  Mika can move inside, he can move outside.
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  He can obviously defend multiple, multiple players.
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  You can put them at the corner position if need be.
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  I think obviously Mika Fitzpatrick is a perfect fit for
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  a Dolphins organization that's been craving for a superstar
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  player. Now, Mika Fitzpatrick is from
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  the New Jersey area and a guy that is always wanted to go play
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  in Florida. This is a kid that has a
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  tremendous amount of ability play for the Alabama Crimson
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  Tide. He is a Nick Saban guy.
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  We all know what he is as a defensive player, but he's just
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  as good on the field as he is off the field.
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  He is a team leader. It's something, and I don't
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  think Jalen Ramsey is. He is not a team leader.
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  He's a me player. We've seen him over the years.
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  He came from the Jacksonville Jaguars, then he went to the
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  Rams. He did win a championship with
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  the Rams. And then over the last couple of
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  years he's been floating around in the NFL, couldn't find a
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  home. And everywhere he goes, there's
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  a problem. On the football field.
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  Everywhere he goes there's a problem.
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  You know, when he's on in a magazine or he's in a newspaper,
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  he has been a Jackass. Now him going to Pittsburgh,
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  he's going to have to learn how to keep his mouth shut.
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  Now, Mike Tomlin has been a player's coach and we've seen
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  the guys that Mike Tomlin has coached over the years, One of
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  them, Brown, he's been in trouble with the law numerous
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  amount of times. Le'veon Bell, another one who's
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  done some disgusting things off the field, which we've heard
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  under Mike Tomlin. There has been guys over the
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  years when we've heard from the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  And I think if there's anybody I can handle, Aaron Rodgers, it's
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  Mike Tomlin. But why?
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  Because Mike Tommen let's everybody do what they want to
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  do on the football field as long as they win.
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  But the problem with the Pittsburgh Steelers over the
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  last couple of years, they can't get over the hump.
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  They can't get out of the first round.
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  This is 8 years, right? Am I mistaken?
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  8 years in a row where they've gone into the playoffs and get
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  and been eliminated in the first round.
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  The last time they ever won in the second round or later in the
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  playoffs, they won. They beat the Chiefs by getting
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  6 field goals. Well, who cares about that?
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  The fact is right now, Mika Fitzpatrick is the name in this
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  train because if Miami wants to challenge Buffalo in this
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  division, it's not going to be the New York Jets.
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  I know Jet fans want to believe that.
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  I am a Jet fan. I'm not going to sit here and
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  try to beat around the Bush. Now, Justin Fields has an
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  opportunity this year to show people why he should be a
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  starter in the NFL. But I still think they're a
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  young team. You have a new coach.
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  Aaron Glenn's going to be sensational coach in the AFC
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  East. He's played in the AFC East.
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  He was drafted by the New York Jets.
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  So I believe he's going to be a good coach, but it's going to
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  take a little while for him to implicate his offense and his
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  defense to this team. I really believe Miami is the
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  only team that could challenge the Buffalo Bills for this
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  division. Now, to attack a Viola has to
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  stay healthy. And you can't trust that if he
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  goes down, you're going to trust the guy that used to be the
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  starting quarterback and draft pick by the New York Jets.
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  And you know what I'm talking about, Speedy.
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  Mr. Zach Wilson. Zach Wilson, Mr. Mama Lover.
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  So we all know that we don't want to see Zach Wilson play.
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  Now obviously there coach is on a hockey seat and I do believe
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  he's going to be on a hot seat this year.
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  McDaniels is is a guy that obviously he's young, he's
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  Mighty Mouse. That's what they call him in
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  Miami. Love to watch him go running off
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  off the field, you know, during halves.
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  I love his speeches. I love when he steps on a
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  stepping stool and he he shows his personality on a mic.
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  The problem right now is Miami needs to win.
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  Their ownership wants to see wins.
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  They want to see playoff wins. They have not done that over the
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  last couple of years with Mike McDaniel there.
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  Now if Mike McDaniel figures about what the defense is, which
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  has been a big problem for the team for the last two seasons,
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  how many defensive coordinators have they had in the last four
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  years? It's been horrible for the
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  Dolphins. Their offense will find a way.
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  They have the ability with obviously Hill there and and and
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  the weapons that they have over there as far as far as their
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  running game is going to be even better than it was last year.
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  They're going to be fast-paced and they're going to be one of
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  the better offenses in the league.
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  The defensive side of the ball, you need to add that secondary
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  help. Mika Fitzpatrick could be play
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  multiple positions and he is the kind of guy that you you give
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  him a scheme, you tell him what you want him to do, he's going
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  to go out there and he's going to lead the troops.
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  I don't think Jalen Ramsey's that type of player.
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  Now, John U Smith was never going to be resigned by the
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  Miami Dolphins. I believe that Miami was going
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  to do whatever they can to put him in a trade so they can get a
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  specific player of their of their pickings.
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  I believe Mika Fitzpatrick was a player that the Dolphins have
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  been looking at for the last two seasons.
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  They couldn't get him at the trade deadline last year and
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  Mika Fitzpatrick, I believe out of Pittsburgh, he did get his
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  extension. What was it 2 1/2 years ago?
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  I, I do believe that Mika did not like it in the Pittsburgh.
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  He really wasn't the cornerstone of that defense ever since they
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  brought Porter back, especially at young Porter, Porter junior
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  who has taken over as their lead secondary guy.
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  So I, I do believe Jalen Ramsey is a guy that wants to try to
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  win another Super Bowl. The one thing I could say about
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  Pittsburgh that I could say that they're going to be different
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  this year is the way they're going to pace the game
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  offensively to the defense, defensive side of the ball.
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  Their defense is still going to be their number one priority.
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  Their defense is still going to be elite no matter if Mika
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  Fitzpatrick's there or Jalen Ramsey's there.
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  I, I the problem is, is what Aaron Rodgers is going to show
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  up. Like I just said, that is the
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  question. And what where's the running
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  game coming from? The Harris is not there anymore.
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  Now they're going to they drafted a running back in the
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  later rounds this past year in the draft.
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  They also have Jalen Warren. Who did they extend them in the
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  offseason? They did extend them.
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  What was it 2 years, a two year deal?
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  Jalen Warren when he does play, he plays a majority, the
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  majority of the 1st to 3rd downs.
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  I I think Harris was used not right for the Pittsburgh
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  Steelers and that's why the Pittsburgh Steelers decided to
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  part ways in the offseason with him.
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  I do believe Warren is going to be used a lot.
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  Warren fought injury all season last year and the year before
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  that. If the Pittsburgh Steelers plan
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  to make the playoffs and make a run this year, they're going to
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  have to have a healthy Aaron Rodgers and a guy that's going
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  to have to step back and be more of a team player, not all me
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  player. And and again, going back to
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  that, I don't know if you're going to expect that by Aaron
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  Rodgers. Donu Smith is a perfect fit for
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  the Pittsburgh Steelers because now you I what I believe
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  Pittsburgh is going to do this year is they're going to use a
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  dual threat tight end offense. That's what they're going to do.
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  A lot of teams are doing it now in the NFL.
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  We've heard Aaron Glenn wants to do that with the New York Jets.
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  We all know that the the teams like the New England Patriots
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  were teams that really brought this and implicated this to the
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  the NFL with Bill Belichick and O'Brien.
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  I expect a lot of teams in the NFL to do that this year.
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  And I think Johnny Smith is a dangerous factor if he can play
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  like he did when Miami. Now remember, Pittsburgh don't
• 20:11
  have the weapons. Miami does not.
• 20:13
  They don't have Waddle, they don't have Hill, they don't have
• 20:15
  the speed that Miami has. But what they do have is they
• 20:20
  have hopefully a competent coach that is going to let his players
• 20:25
  make the decision on the field. Tomlin has.
• 20:28
  It's worked for Tomlin over the years.
• 20:30
  If you look at Tomlin's record, he has the winningest record in
• 20:33
  the last 12 years as a head coach.
• 20:35
  The problem is he's has the losing his record in the last
• 20:39
  eight years in the playoffs. Yeah, and you're and you
• 20:41
  mentioned something with the Steelers offense like not having
• 20:43
  a lot too. And that was the thing that was
• 20:44
  most bizarre to me about the about the straight out what now
• 20:47
  you talked about it a few weeks ago.
• 20:48
  Go on your deuce of the day. I think it was when Jonnu Smith
• 20:51
  was initially in interest with the Steelers.
• 20:53
  Now they have another tight ending, Pat Fryer move as a
• 20:55
  solid tight ending. They signed him to a decent
• 20:57
  contract. But you're right, they're
• 20:58
  probably going to have to keep him and use an ace tight end
• 21:01
  formation, 12 formation because they did not address the second
• 21:04
  receiver position after they traded George Pickens.
• 21:06
  A lot of people thought they were going to go after a veteran
• 21:07
  guy or even draft a guy. They they we knew Pickens wanted
• 21:11
  out already. So they could have done that.
• 21:13
  They did not go after that. They're trusting Roman Wilson as
• 21:15
  they drafted last year. And like you said, it could be a
• 21:18
  mistake when a lot of these guys are just role players.
• 21:19
  Jalen Warren is a good running back, but again, is he going to
• 21:23
  be able to handle that level of volume with Caleb Johnson, a
• 21:26
  rookie, as your other option? That's the thing that doesn't
• 21:28
  make sense of this trade. Who's their number 2 too?
• 21:30
  Remember, they traded George Pickens to the Cowboys.
• 21:33
  Yes. So right now.
• 21:33
  Who's their number 2? It's Roman Wilson, and then they
• 21:35
  have DK Metcalf. DK Metcalf is their one target.
• 21:38
  And can you trust him to be a consistent #1?
• 21:40
  I don't. Really well health, yeah.
• 21:42
  The whole thing with DK Metcalf is he's he's he's a top notch
• 21:46
  player, There's no question. But he plays his pure
• 21:49
  adrenaline. That's what he how he plays.
• 21:51
  He plays power football. And whenever you see a wide
• 21:54
  receiver play power football like him, DK Metcalf is, is a
• 21:58
  wide receiver in a tight end body.
• 21:59
  That's what he is. He's got the speed like a wide
• 22:02
  receiver, but he's as big as a tight end.
• 22:04
  And that was the problem when he came out of the draft.
• 22:07
  He was a top end draft pick. Remember, it was his combine
• 22:10
  that moved him up in the draft, of course, because he was, it
• 22:13
  was all his combine. It was his.
• 22:16
  It was his running. It was his, the way he he ran
• 22:18
  his 40 and it was the way he was benching.
• 22:20
  I mean, he was bench pressed for, for a guy his size as a
• 22:23
  wide receiver, I think he benched 225 times, like 28 times
• 22:27
  or 27 times, which is for a wide receiver is ridiculous.
• 22:30
  That's something that you see from a defensive lineman.
• 22:33
  So DK Metcalf is, is brutally strong.
• 22:35
  The problem with him is when you're that fast and you're that
• 22:38
  strong and you're, you're lugging up all that muscle,
• 22:41
  you're, you're going to have problems on a football field and
• 22:43
  you're playing well, obviously in Pittsburgh.
• 22:45
  I think this is perfect for DK Metcalf because one of the one
• 22:49
  of the places, one of the only two places in the NFL that still
• 22:52
  has grass, it's Pittsburgh and Chicago.
• 22:55
  So I usually when you play grass, we've heard it from
• 22:58
  players that have been on the show, you have a better chance
• 23:00
  of lasting a season and not having knee injuries, Achilles
• 23:03
  injuries or even hip injuries or even your quad injuries.
• 23:06
  As we've seen guys like, you know, guys that have played for
• 23:10
  the New York Giants over the years, Saquon Barkley being one
• 23:12
  of them that had problems with his quads and, and, and
• 23:15
  different injuries over the last couple of years playing on on
• 23:18
  turf. I Pittsburgh, it's a place.
• 23:21
  Now here's the problem with Pittsburgh.
• 23:23
  When it gets cold, brutally cold and it's raining over there,
• 23:26
  your, your cleats stick to the ground.
• 23:27
  We've heard players that have played in Pittsburgh have
• 23:30
  problems. Even kickers that we've had on
• 23:31
  this show have complained about the ground over there in
• 23:34
  Pittsburgh. So DK Metcalf has played now
• 23:37
  he's played in Seattle on turf and, and in the rain, but he's
• 23:41
  not played it, you know, 8 * 8 * a year, eight games a year on,
• 23:46
  you know, on grass where it, it's definitely harder to play
• 23:49
  on when it's raining. Yeah, and you're talking about
• 23:51
  the Steelers like late in the season too.
• 23:53
  They their two best seasons recently have been 2020 when
• 23:56
  they started undefeated. They were the last undefeated
• 23:57
  team left and then they collapsed at the end of the
• 23:59
  year. And then last year, too, they
• 24:00
  were eight and three or something.
• 24:01
  And then when a game when Russell Wilson really struggled
• 24:04
  the last month of the season, that's where all these drama
• 24:06
  started with George Pickens. And obviously they ended up
• 24:08
  moving him eventually. And DK Metcalf, you're like you
• 24:10
  said, he's a freak athlete, but again, he's a very inconsistent
• 24:14
  game to game type wide receiver too.
• 24:16
  So can you trust that as a number one option?
• 24:17
  That's the reason I don't love this trade for the Steelers.
• 24:19
  Like I think that Mike Tomlin and that defense can try to make
• 24:22
  things work. I think their biggest issue over
• 24:23
  the years has been their run defense.
• 24:25
  And I think they didn't really address that enough in this type
• 24:28
  of deal. If they were to trade Minka
• 24:29
  Fitzpatrick, there's probably a higher end offensive player I
• 24:31
  think they could have gotten. Now from the Miami standpoint,
• 24:34
  Minka Fitzpatrick definitely does help.
• 24:36
  They lost Javon Holland. He went to the Giants and like
• 24:39
  you said, he could play slack, he can play safety at a very
• 24:41
  high level and he. Hasn't played corner in a while,
• 24:44
  that's it's been a couple of years.
• 24:45
  That's the only thing that concerns me and then the other
• 24:47
  thing that concerns me on the Miami and is they're going to
• 24:49
  trust all these pass rushers to come back and be healthy.
• 24:52
  Chop Robinson a nice rookie year, which does help, but they
• 24:55
  still need a lot of beef on the inside.
• 24:57
  It's crazy how a corner jumps to safety and is still a pro ball
• 25:00
  play. Not many, not many corners over
• 25:03
  the years that have moved to safety has been as dominant as
• 25:06
  Mika Fitzpatrick has been over the last couple of years.
• 25:09
  One of them and I, we, we talk about it, that has been as good
• 25:13
  as anybody we've seen over the years as Charles Woodson.
• 25:16
  Charles Woodson, if you remember when he came into the league, he
• 25:18
  was a corner. When he obviously finished his
• 25:21
  career, he went from corner to safety and he was a pro ball
• 25:24
  player. As a matter of fact, if I'm not
• 25:25
  mistaken, I don't know if this is true.
• 25:27
  Didn't Charles Woodson win Defensive Player of the Year as
• 25:29
  a safety? Or was it a corner?
• 25:31
  I think. He won it as a corner.
• 25:33
  He was an all pro at both positions.
• 25:34
  Yeah, so the only person I can remember that move from corner,
• 25:38
  the safety and as Dominic, as Mika Fitzpatrick has been over
• 25:42
  the last couple of years is Charles Woodson.
• 25:45
  It's not very easy to jump from one position to the other when
• 25:48
  you're you're defending the best and the most talented offensive
• 25:51
  player on another team. And then moving inside where
• 25:53
  you're, you're playing free or you're playing where you're, you
• 25:56
  have to stop those, those tight ends, these fast tight ends like
• 25:59
  the Gronkowski's, the Travis Kelsey's.
• 26:01
  That's not easy to do. And that's something Mika
• 26:04
  Fitzpatrick's done so well all season over the last three years
• 26:08
  and done it at a high level. Remember, Pittsburgh defense was
• 26:12
  a top 2 defense for the last, well, top three defense for the
• 26:16
  last three years. Why do you think it's been a top
• 26:18
  three defense for the last three years?
• 26:20
  Well, one of the main reasons Mika Fitzpatrick.
• 26:22
  And that's why I think Mika Fitzpatrick was the headliner.
• 26:25
  Everybody keeps talking about Jaylen Ramsey.
• 26:27
  Jaylen Ramsey is a great corner. Is he a Hall of Famer?
• 26:30
  I don't know. I know a lot of people love
• 26:32
  Jaylen Ramsey. I don't think so.
• 26:34
  I really don't. It's tough to tell he was the
• 26:36
  same. Guy that took shots at Josh
• 26:38
  Allen on the GQ magazine when he came into the league.
• 26:41
  Same guy that opened his mouth about Josh Allen saying that
• 26:43
  Josh Allen's not going to be any good.
• 26:45
  Meanwhile, Josh Allen won the MVP this year and he's one of
• 26:47
  the top three quarterbacks in the NFL.
• 26:49
  Where's Jaylen Ramsey speaking now?
• 26:51
  I don't hear Jaylen Ramsey and GQ on Newsday or whatever the
• 26:55
  hell he's at right now heading to Pittsburgh playing with
• 26:57
  himself. I, I'm going to tell you this
• 26:59
  right now, Jalen Ramsey is a problem.
• 27:02
  He's going to be a problem in the locker room.
• 27:04
  And we all know what the Pittsburgh Steelers, they do not
• 27:07
  know how to control their players.
• 27:08
  We've seen it. Juju Smith, Schuster, remember
• 27:11
  him with his TikTok. I remember that.
• 27:14
  And Mike Tomlin obviously pulled him to the side.
• 27:16
  They didn't even suspend him. He fined him 5000, I think it
• 27:20
  was $5000 and let him play the next next week.
• 27:23
  That's something Mike Tomlin likes to do.
• 27:25
  He's all for the players. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
• 27:28
  is why Aaron Rodgers wanted to go there.
• 27:30
  And that is why Jalen Ramsey wanted to be traded to the
• 27:34
  Pittsburgh. Steel, yeah, they're in too deep
• 27:35
  at this point with all the all the personalities there.
• 27:38
  We talked about it with other teams in the past, like
• 27:39
  sometimes you can accumulate the loud ones and make it to work.
• 27:42
  Obviously Seattle got that to work with Pete Carroll there in
• 27:44
  the beginning, and then once it got all sour with everybody, it
• 27:47
  all started to fall apart all at once.
• 27:49
  Same kind of thing with the Eagles when they won their Super
• 27:50
  Bowl in 2017. They had a lot of loud
• 27:52
  personalities on that team. Without Sean Jeffrey, obviously
• 27:55
  Michael Bennett. A lot of those defensive players
• 27:58
  on that first Super Bowl team for the Eagles were were like
• 28:00
  that. They made it work.
• 28:01
  But again, not a lot of those teams.
• 28:03
  There's also the same level of loud teams that don't work.
• 28:05
  Look at the Browns when they tried to get Odell and Baker
• 28:07
  Mayfield all at once and they have Freddie Kitchens as their
• 28:09
  head coach. That was a disaster.
• 28:10
  Notice the AFC North has been a problem with three teams.
• 28:15
  The Browns, Pittsburgh and the Bengals, all three teams over
• 28:20
  the years have had problems. Coaches have had problems
• 28:23
  controlling their players. Remember Vonte Burfict, remember
• 28:26
  him? Remember when he just completely
• 28:28
  nailed in the playoffs? Antonio Brown?
• 28:30
  Remember that? I don't think anybody gets that
• 28:33
  hit all right. They've had problems controlling
• 28:35
  players. Pittsburgh has had problems
• 28:37
  controlling players. And then obviously I mentioned
• 28:39
  the Browns, who obviously there's a guy named Watson who
• 28:45
  can't stay on a football field, got guaranteed money and loves
• 28:48
  to go massage parlors or at least create his own massage
• 28:51
  parlors. At the stadium and there was a
• 28:53
  second round draft pick they had last year that I already got a
• 28:55
  domestic assault or something like that.
• 28:57
  There was a linebacker that got suspended for financial fraud.
• 29:01
  Yeah. Good job, Cleveland, Good job.
• 29:03
  No, I was just going to say of these two, who do you think it
• 29:06
  actually has a bigger impact? And I I say this positively.
• 29:09
  Because they need him more because the Dolphins lost Javon
• 29:13
  Holland, they have injury prone other corners that have not been
• 29:16
  great to develop wise. I think with the with Jalen
• 29:18
  Ramsey, it brings another physical presence with with Joey
• 29:21
  Porter. They're both the same type of
• 29:22
  player at this point. I don't know if it's like a deal
• 29:24
  breaker to like make their defense to to the higher level.
• 29:28
  Miami needs the defense to be what they were in the
• 29:30
  second-half of the season. second-half of the season they
• 29:31
  played very well. It took them a while to get
• 29:34
  going though. But the problem is you just
• 29:35
  don't know what they're rushers, how healthy they'll be coming
• 29:38
  back. Makes sense, but it's just like
• 29:44
  you look at it because it's so weird when when a trade like
• 29:47
  this happens because it doesn't happen that often.
• 29:49
  Now with two star defenders all at once, and that was the that
• 29:51
  was the thing that was questioning with the Steelers,
• 29:53
  because the Steelers need more offense than defense and Miami
• 29:56
  kind of needs more front 7 than they do secondary.
• 29:58
  But again, at the same time, Minka could do so many different
• 30:01
  things. It's good.
• 30:02
  Yeah, and he can, he can adjust and obviously we've seen what he
• 30:05
  can do. And that's I was just wondering
• 30:06
  what like how the impact and obviously from from both sides
• 30:11
  of the ball, but I mean you're getting quality players on both
• 30:14
  sides. I think Mika's just more more
• 30:17
  susceptible to being able to do more things in a scheme than
• 30:20
  than Jalen is. Well, I just want to let, I want
• 30:23
  to give an announcement. I didn't get a chance to do that
• 30:25
  in the beginning. Happy birthday to Thomas and
• 30:28
  Thomas has been a a really good friend, a fan of the show.
• 30:31
  It is his birthday yesterday. Happy 19th birthday to Thomas.
• 30:36
  It is a great I watched this kid grow up Eric Martini's nephew,
• 30:40
  OK and I've known Eric for years.
• 30:43
  I haven't spoken Eric for over over six months.
• 30:45
  It's been a long time, but his nephew has been a fan of the
• 30:48
  show, loves the show and I wanted to just I, I, I didn't
• 30:52
  get a chance to do that. Happy birthday to Thomas.
• 30:54
  Happy 19th birthday, almost at 21, man, you're, you're
• 30:58
  considered a man, but you're still a young kid.
• 31:00
  Great drummer, great kid, great personality, big Yankee fan and
• 31:04
  loves Jabba Chamberlain. So keep listening.
• 31:07
  We will get in to the Yankees. And I'm sure Jabba's thoughts of
• 31:11
  what's going on with Anthony Volpe, who's been absolutely
• 31:13
  horrible, really. And the Yankees are going to
• 31:15
  have to figure out what they're going to do with him.
• 31:17
  Are they, do they move him or do they send him down to AA?
• 31:20
  Because I don't even think he can hit a AAA right now.
• 31:22
  He's had a problem all season long seeing the ball, but that's
• 31:25
  a whole another story. But to get back to what you guys
• 31:27
  were saying, Mika Fitzpatrick is the slam dunk player in this
• 31:30
  trade because one Mika Fitzpatrick is a team player 2.
• 31:35
  Mika Fitzpatrick wanted to he wanted to go to on down to a
• 31:38
  Florida team. He re signed with Pittsburgh
• 31:40
  because Pittsburgh obviously told him that he they wanted him
• 31:44
  to be there for life and he loves Mike Tomlin.
• 31:47
  Everybody loves Mike Tomlin, but I think Jalen Ramsey wanted out
• 31:51
  of the Miami Dolphins. The defense is obviously not
• 31:54
  been up to par over the last two seasons.
• 31:56
  This year, last year they weren't good, The year before
• 31:59
  was pretty good. Their defense played well with
• 32:00
  all the injuries they had and obviously losing their coach.
• 32:04
  He goes to the Philadelphia Eagles and wins, wins the Super
• 32:07
  Bowl the year after. But nevertheless, Jalen Ramsey
• 32:10
  had no interest to staying over there in Miami.
• 32:13
  There it's going to be an all offensive team.
• 32:15
  If Miami has any chance to win this coming season, they're
• 32:18
  going to have to really be an all out offense.
• 32:21
  And I could say this about Pittsburgh, they're going to be
• 32:23
  the complete opposite. Pittsburgh is a defense first,
• 32:26
  offense second. They've always been that way.
• 32:29
  And with obviously Mr. Watt there and now Jalen Ramsey, you
• 32:32
  have two guys that have been elite players at their position.
• 32:35
  But me losing Mika Fitzpatrick in the middle against tight
• 32:38
  ends, especially in the AFC, what you're going to have to
• 32:41
  contend with, you're going to have a lot of problems because
• 32:43
  you know, these coaches like to go up in the middle when it
• 32:47
  comes to these tight ends. And it's changed.
• 32:49
  The leaks changed. Go ask.
• 32:50
  And we all know Travis Kelsey, we all know the Kansas City
• 32:53
  Chiefs. The Kansas City Chiefs love to
• 32:55
  play that middle. They love to throw inside and
• 32:58
  losing Mika Fitzpatrick, who's so very good at hot, you know,
• 33:01
  Hawking the ball and and clogging up the middle.
• 33:04
  Now you sent him over there to the Dolphins.
• 33:06
  What are you going to do? Jalen Ramsey can't do that.
• 33:08
  Jalen Ramsey is a one-on-one player and again, they have a
• 33:12
  good one-on-one player in Porter junior.
• 33:14
  So I again, you you do have to contend with the teams that
• 33:18
  you're contending with in the in the in the AFC North.
• 33:22
  You do have to contend with the Bengals.
• 33:24
  You have Higgins there and you have have chased there and
• 33:27
  they're that's probably one of the most dynamic duos in the
• 33:31
  NFL. But I, I just think giving up a
• 33:33
  player of this magnitude, a guy like Mika Fitzpatrick, it, it
• 33:36
  really puts you in a bad position, especially when you're
• 33:39
  going into a season where you're not really deep at that
• 33:42
  position. Yeah, and also you mentioned
• 33:44
  like the Miami's going to have to rely a lot on their offense,
• 33:46
  still trying to figure out their defense.
• 33:47
  I know it's the second year of a coordinator that did well later
• 33:50
  in the season. But again, it's one of those
• 33:52
  things where can you trust Chubb and Jalen Phillips and all these
• 33:54
  other guys to come back healthy? Jake, in our private, I was also
• 33:56
  mentioning losing Christian Wilkins.
• 33:57
  They've really never been able to replace him.
• 33:59
  But on the offensive side of the ball, their offensive line last
• 34:02
  year was a mess though, too. They were, I think, the third
• 34:04
  worst overall offensive line in the NFL.
• 34:06
  Like they couldn't have done that in this type of Minka
• 34:08
  Fitzpatrick or a Jalen Ramsey trade if they knew they were
• 34:10
  going to trade Ramsey. It's been two months that
• 34:11
  they've known since they're trading Jalen Ramsey too.
• 34:13
  So that's the only thing that was kind of.
• 34:14
  Pitch goes into trade, any off? No, no, no.
• 34:16
  I'm not saying Pittsburgh, but they could have done around the
• 34:18
  league too. Like we talked about it one of
• 34:20
  the weeks you were gone Errol, when you were in Florida, I
• 34:22
  thought Minnesota was a really good fit for Jalen Ramsey
• 34:25
  because and they could have traded an offensive line in
• 34:26
  Washington would have been a good fit for.
• 34:28
  Jalen, you think Jalen Ramsey wanted to go to Minnesota?
• 34:30
  I don't know for sure, but like I think schematically speaking
• 34:33
  from the Dolphins, I think even though I think they got good
• 34:35
  value in this trade besides Pete.
• 34:36
  Burstick I don't think there's any player in the NFL that
• 34:39
  really wants to go to Minnesota, especially unless they getting
• 34:42
  they're getting paid because Minnesota is a cold place in the
• 34:46
  winter time. They do play in a Dome and
• 34:49
  besides the wonderful mole that they have over there, what do
• 34:53
  they call that Mall of America? There's really nothing out there
• 34:57
  except hockey and snow. So and farm.
• 35:01
  And if you like to hunt, if you if you like to hunt, Minnesota
• 35:03
  is a good place to go. But I don't think Jalen Ramsey
• 35:06
  is the type of person that likes to hunt.
• 35:08
  And I don't think Jalen Ramsey is the type of person that wants
• 35:10
  to go to Minnesota and enjoy his what last two or three years in
• 35:14
  the NFLI Think he wanted to go to Pittsburgh.
• 35:16
  I think he wanted to play for Mike Tomlin like everybody else
• 35:19
  does. And he thinks by playing with
• 35:21
  Jay, with a guy like Watt over there and the the talent that
• 35:25
  they have on that defensive line, he can compete and, and
• 35:28
  become that that superstar pro ball player that he has been
• 35:32
  over the last couple of years. And was he a pro ball player
• 35:34
  last year? I don't think he was.
• 35:35
  Yeah, he was. He was for the last five years,
• 35:37
  I think. How did he make, how did he make
• 35:38
  the pro ball with all the dominance of corners in the NFL,
• 35:42
  especially in the division of, well, in the conference he's in.
• 35:45
  Yeah, I guess. I guess maybe maybe because
• 35:48
  because I know Marlon Humphrey got the slot nod, so maybe that
• 35:51
  gave it another position for another TFC corner to get to get
• 35:54
  in there with Jalen Ramsey. Was he that?
• 35:55
  Good last year. He was top 15 corner last year.
• 35:58
  Maybe, but was he a pro ball player?
• 35:59
  I mean, again, it's tough to tell.
• 36:01
  I mean, Sir Tan was the obvious. That's the problem with the pro
• 36:03
  ball. I mean, yeah, there's because
• 36:05
  the. Fans vote.
• 36:06
  The fans vote. That's why Jalen Ramsey always
• 36:08
  makes it every single year is because of the fans.
• 36:10
  Because to me, I don't, I, I know everybody looks like these
• 36:13
  unbelievable statistics, the PFFS and whatever they call
• 36:17
  them, baseball's got them. And now football's got it.
• 36:20
  The NBA has got it. All these new statistics I could
• 36:22
  give a crap about. The fact is when I watched
• 36:25
  Jaylen Ramsey, he was beaten a lot when I was watching him
• 36:29
  play, especially when he was playing for Miami.
• 36:31
  Miami's defense was one of the worst defenses in the NFL last
• 36:34
  year and Jaylen Ramsey was a part of that defense.
• 36:37
  So for the fact that Jaylen Ramsey was a pro ball player
• 36:40
  just tells me why the pro ball is an absolute joke.
• 36:45
  And I know it's flag football. And by the way, there are a lot
• 36:48
  of guys that made the pro ball last year, one of them Russell
• 36:51
  Wilson. How did Russell Wilson and made
• 36:53
  the Pro Bowl last year? How the hell did he make the
• 36:56
  pro? Give you that one.
• 36:57
  You give it that. Give me that one.
• 36:58
  How about the kid from the Patriots?
• 37:00
  May. Drake May, yeah.
• 37:01
  How did May make well also the Pro Bowls like as Jake said in
• 37:05
  our chat too, it's like it becomes one of those things
• 37:08
  where it's like a popularity contest.
• 37:09
  It's not really who the best is. And as we're seeing, we see it
• 37:13
  in all sports too, when fans are part of the voting, they're not
• 37:16
  voting because he's the best. They're voting because he's the
• 37:18
  favorite player or whatever. And you see it, you see it all
• 37:21
  the time. And I think there's some some
• 37:23
  things that need to change. But also too, it's like, hey, I
• 37:26
  get another 50 grand if I, you know, if I'm a Pro Bowler, like
• 37:29
  hell, let him. Let him keep voting for me.
• 37:31
  Yeah. I mean, it's it's part of the
• 37:33
  game. And I don't think they'll ever
• 37:35
  take the fan voting out of it because it makes the fan feel
• 37:37
  like they're part of the game. Here's the problem, and I agree
• 37:40
  with you, here's the problem with the whole pro ball thing
• 37:42
  and the fans get to vote. When these guys are looked at as
• 37:46
  future Hall of Farmers, that's one of the things they look at.
• 37:49
  How many times have they made the pro ball?
• 37:51
  I know obviously being an all pro player is more important
• 37:54
  than being a pro ball player, but that's one of the things
• 37:57
  that the committee looks at. Oh, he's a 10 time, 11 time, 12
• 38:01
  time pro baller. I mean, Tom Brady was a career
• 38:04
  22 year pro ball player and he was an all pro player too.
• 38:08
  But the problem here is that you, you have the fans voting
• 38:12
  for these players and it doesn't make any sense.
• 38:14
  I don't think Jalen Ramsey was a top ten wide, top ten corner in
• 38:19
  the league last year, but he was a Pro Bowl player.
• 38:22
  Did he make the All Pro team? No.
• 38:25
  So that's the problem. If you're a Pro Bowl player, you
• 38:28
  should be an All Pro player too. That's where the NFL needs to
• 38:31
  figure this out because that's the same thing that happened.
• 38:35
  I I wasn't a couple years from a jet, one of the linebackers from
• 38:37
  the New York Jets. He was a all pro player, but he
• 38:40
  didn't make the pro ball. OK.
• 38:42
  It made no sense. If you're an all pro player,
• 38:45
  isn't that isn't that ass backwards?
• 38:46
  Yeah, it doesn't make sense. If you're an all pro player,
• 38:50
  you're a pro ball player. That's the way it should go.
• 38:54
  It doesn't make any sense. There are all pro players every
• 38:57
  single year that are not voting into the pro ball.
• 39:00
  How does that make sense? It just it never makes sense
• 39:03
  with the in in professional sports anymore.
• 39:05
  Yeah, it's all about money. It's all about the superstars.
• 39:07
  But guess what? If you're an all pro player,
• 39:10
  you're a superstar as far as I'm concerned.
• 39:12
  If you're out there playing your heart out every single week and
• 39:16
  you're the best defensive player for your team and one of the
• 39:18
  best defensive players at your position, how are you not a
• 39:21
  star? I mean, seriously.
• 39:23
  Once conference based one is the whole league like all pro.
• 39:26
  Definitely make it matter. But before we move on I would do
• 39:28
  what I bet you scoops mentioned in a private chat.
• 39:30
  Tyler Huntley made the Pro Bowl. Yes, the same Tyler Huntley that
• 39:32
  Jeff thought was better than DAC.
• 39:33
  Prescott, That's all. Another story, Jeff, That's all.
• 39:36
  And by the way, I love Jeff. Jeff went back and forth with me
• 39:39
  about the Knicks signings, which we'll get into tomorrow.
• 39:42
  But he was like, oh, our team did this and our team that.
• 39:45
  I don't care less right now. I want to know who the Knicks
• 39:49
  are going to be bring in as their head coach and until that
• 39:51
  happens I could care. That's who they bring in for for
• 39:54
  bench, hell board, even starters because it means nothing until
• 39:57
  you know who your head coach is going to be.
• 39:59
  ESPN reports that the Pistons guard Malik Beasley is being
• 40:03
  investigated by the US District Attorney's office for gambling
• 40:08
  allegations during a 2023 NBA season with the box evidence
• 40:14
  from well known sports book noticed some unusual activity
• 40:19
  starting in January of 2024, especially with.
• 40:22
  Prop bets Beasley's agent, Steve Haney told ESPN that an
• 40:28
  investigation is not a charge and gets the same rights of
• 40:33
  innocence as anybody else. The investigation also revealed
• 40:37
  that Beasley didn't pay a 650,000 payment on time based on
• 40:43
  a lawsuit from his former marketing agency.
• 40:46
  He is also liable to pay 2.25 million for violation violating
• 40:52
  a breach of a contract with Hazan Sports Management Group.
• 40:57
  Back in April, Beasley was in negotiations on a three-year
• 41:01
  deal to return with Detroit, but those negotiations were put on
• 41:07
  hold amidst this absolute scandal.
• 41:10
  Last year's John Last year John Day Porter was suspended
• 41:14
  indefinitely by the NBA after pleading guilty to wire fraud
• 41:18
  and conspiracy with gambling. Let me tell you guys something.
• 41:23
  Jonte Porter is no longer going to be an NBA player.
• 41:28
  That's the facts here. Adam Silver, if it was LeBron
• 41:33
  James, if, if it was LeBron James, the LJA himself betting
• 41:38
  on sports, he would have had a slap on the wrist.
• 41:41
  Slap on the wrist. That's a fact.
• 41:43
  OK. But because it's Jonte Porter,
• 41:46
  it's like it's not Michael Porter Junior, and Jonte Porter
• 41:49
  is Michael Porter Junior's brother.
• 41:52
  OK John Day Porter will never step on a basketball court ever
• 41:56
  again in the G League or the NBA ever because of this betting
• 42:01
  scandal. Now, Mike Malik Beasley is a
• 42:04
  good player. Is he a superstar player?
• 42:06
  No. The fact that obviously the
• 42:09
  District Attorney is investigating this situation,
• 42:13
  obviously there's some kind of story to it that he is not
• 42:17
  saying. There is some evidence that
• 42:20
  states that Beasley had some kind of involvement on this
• 42:24
  betting scandal with the box, with the buck game.
• 42:27
  I don't know the truth and I don't know the inside source.
• 42:30
  The fact is, I don't understand. If you're not betting against
• 42:35
  your team, I don't think there should be a problem with betting
• 42:39
  on sports. I don't think you should be
• 42:41
  allowed to bet on any of the games that you're playing in.
• 42:44
  That's what I think. But any other game outside of
• 42:48
  the lines of the game that you're playing, where you're
• 42:51
  going to affect the game, you can affect the game.
• 42:53
  It does. It shouldn't matter that these
• 42:55
  players are putting their own money in the game.
• 42:58
  Now, obviously there's some inside sources.
• 43:01
  They know referees, We all know that, but they're not the only
• 43:03
  ones. You're telling me right now
• 43:05
  Vegas doesn't have connections with the referees, with the
• 43:07
  league. Of course they do.
• 43:09
  How would they get it? Why are why is Vegas?
• 43:12
  I wouldn't say 90%, sixty, 8% of the time, right?
• 43:16
  They're 68% of the time, right? Because they have an inside
• 43:19
  source, duh. So why couldn't the players do
• 43:23
  it if the NBA could do it? And the NBA is making money on
• 43:27
  betting. They're 100% making money on
• 43:29
  betting millions, hundreds of millions of dollars every single
• 43:33
  year. Now.
• 43:33
  Meanwhile, the players, when they, they have their hands
• 43:37
  dipped or they want to make some money out of betting on certain
• 43:40
  sports games or even not their own games, but other games going
• 43:43
  on in the league, why can't they bet on sports?
• 43:46
  It makes no sense. Now with the District Attorney.
• 43:49
  I, I don't know what the, the United States or how the United
• 43:53
  States work when it comes to betting.
• 43:55
  Was it in an illegal state where you can't bet?
• 43:57
  I I don't know why the District Attorney is involved with this
• 44:00
  because this is an NBA thing, not a world thing.
• 44:04
  This is not a United States thing.
• 44:06
  So I don't understand why the District Attorney is involved
• 44:08
  with it unless he was doing something illegally where he is
• 44:12
  stealing money. That's, that's the only thing,
• 44:15
  stealing from taxes, tax evasion.
• 44:18
  I don't know why the District Attorney is involved with this.
• 44:20
  I got to read more about it, but obviously there's evidence that
• 44:24
  he was working with a sports bookie and and there are a lot
• 44:27
  of players doing it. And obviously Shay Ohtani was
• 44:31
  doing it, but he got away with it because the MLB knows that
• 44:34
  Shay Ohtani is one of the faces of their internationally
• 44:38
  international baseball. And they know that if Shay
• 44:40
  Ohtani was caught with that, his career is over.
• 44:43
  When it comes to baseball, Malik Beasley is not important.
• 44:46
  LeBron James, different guy. He's the face of he's still the
• 44:49
  face of the NBA. If Giannis did it, you think you
• 44:52
  don't think the NBA would get involved and try to hide it or
• 44:54
  push it under the rug or any of you?
• 44:56
  And Joel Embiid, the big mouth that he is.
• 44:58
  If Joel Embiid was doing it, obviously the NBA would have
• 45:01
  brushed it on the rug or done something to protect their
• 45:03
  superstar player. It is a big problem.
• 45:06
  And if you're going to go after the, the, the, what do they call
• 45:09
  them? The, the smaller puppy?
• 45:11
  Is that what they call him? The lower door market teams?
• 45:13
  No, no, no, I'm talking about the player.
• 45:15
  You're, you're going, you're going after the puppy instead of
• 45:17
  you're not going after the whale, you're going after the
• 45:19
  minnow. There you go, you're going out,
• 45:21
  you're going after the minnow instead of the well.
• 45:23
  And the truth is, if LeBron James is betting, which he
• 45:26
  probably is and I, I'm not, I'm not going to try to beat around
• 45:30
  a Bush. You're going to tell me that
• 45:31
  LeBron James when he goes to these MMA fights and he's going
• 45:33
  to these boxing fights, he's not betting on those sports.
• 45:36
  Come on guys. What kind of what kind of person
• 45:39
  do you think we are if we wouldn't believe that LeBron
• 45:42
  James is betting on sports? He's a multi millionaire and
• 45:45
  throwing away two $3,000,000. Look what Drake did.
• 45:48
  I mean, Drake week in and week out, a fight is out out there.
• 45:51
  He's throwing $3,000,000 here, $4 million there, two and a half
• 45:55
  million here. He doesn't care because it's
• 45:57
  it's the money that these guys are making.
• 45:59
  It's endless. But a guy like me, if I'm
• 46:02
  throwing two and a half million dollars, you best be known that
• 46:04
  I'm going to know who I'm betting on and I am I'm almost
• 46:08
  100% sure that he's going to pull out a win.
• 46:10
  Malik Beasley doesn't know what's going on.
• 46:12
  He might have an inside source where it's telling him that it's
• 46:16
  going to be around these points or it's going to be around the
• 46:18
  over under. I don't know.
• 46:20
  But the problem right now lies with Vegas, not with the players
• 46:24
  and not with the referees. It lies with Vegas.
• 46:27
  Because if Vegas knows what's going on and they have the
• 46:30
  answers to everything that's going on, why shouldn't the
• 46:32
  players get the information and bet on it too?
• 46:35
  And that's what's tough with this kind of situation too,
• 46:37
  because you're right, there probably is another source now.
• 46:39
  It's interesting. I know they were saying it was
• 46:41
  prop bet. It doesn't seem like it was on
• 46:43
  his game specifically because he actually still played really
• 46:46
  well that year. Like Jonte Porter, the situation
• 46:48
  with him was he actually he actually was actively tanking a
• 46:51
  lot of his games to get prop bets on the under I there's no
• 46:53
  evidence that suggests that with.
• 46:55
  Peter, let me ask you a question on the Pistons.
• 46:57
  Malik Beasley is playing on a Piston team, a young team.
• 47:00
  You think Malik Beasley is the only player on that roster that
• 47:03
  was betting on whatever he was betting on?
• 47:05
  Come on. Probably not not.
• 47:07
  He's a Malik. First of all, he's a young guy.
• 47:09
  He's a young guy, by the way, killed the Knicks, killed the
• 47:11
  Knicks in the first round. He absolutely dominated the
• 47:14
  boards against the Knicks. He he put a lot, he made a lot
• 47:18
  of problems for OG and Anobi when he was defending OG and
• 47:20
  Anobi. I, I, I think Malik Beasley is
• 47:22
  actually a pretty good player. He's still young, he's still
• 47:25
  developing. But to put it on like you were
• 47:27
  saying as a Jabba, he is not a whale and the NBA don't care
• 47:31
  about him. They if if these stories to be
• 47:33
  true and they come out to be true, if the NBA suspended for
• 47:36
  life, it wouldn't matter. But if it was anybody else, it
• 47:40
  would be Anthony Edwards. Could you imagine if Anthony
• 47:42
  Edwards is involved in the scandal, how big this would be?
• 47:45
  Nobody cares about Malik Beasley.
• 47:47
  Nobody even knows who he is. Unless you're a Detroit fan or
• 47:50
  you're a basketball fan. Nobody knows who Malik Beasley
• 47:53
  is. Nobody.
• 47:55
  Anthony Edwards loses $1 million at a bet he'll find 5 other
• 47:57
  people to blame before himself. That's what I'm saying.
• 48:00
  But if it's anybody else, Jalen, you're going to do it.
• 48:03
  Be smart about it. Right.
• 48:04
  And it goes back to the story we had last year too with Kevin
• 48:06
  Durant, too. Kevin Durant was something in as
• 48:09
  a FanDuel analyst during the NFL season.
• 48:11
  I think before the basketball season started.
• 48:13
  He was helping out making bats too.
• 48:15
  But meanwhile, John T Porter obviously gets to spend for
• 48:18
  pretty much for life barring some miracle and then Malik
• 48:21
  Beasley where he's being investigated too.
• 48:23
  But no, Kevin Durant could be a FanDuel analyst no problem and
• 48:26
  get football bets out. And Jake, like you're saying in
• 48:28
  the in the private chat there, you could bet on the NFLI guess.
• 48:31
  But again, why is he doing it publicly and him getting away
• 48:34
  with it because LeBron James association has no problem with
• 48:38
  Kevin Durant has been the other face of their league for quite a
• 48:40
  while. They'll get no problem.
• 48:41
  But Malik Beasley, a young kid who won a won a championship
• 48:44
  with a Nuggets, a good bench player, like you said, a pretty
• 48:46
  good player with the Pistons this year to help their young
• 48:48
  team and he's going to get, he's not going to get away with it to
• 48:51
  the same level. How old is Malik?
• 48:53
  Malik, I believe is 27. I want to.
• 48:55
  Say, still young, he's still a kid and he's going to make
• 48:58
  mistakes. But again, he is not the only
• 49:01
  NBA player that is doing he's not right.
• 49:04
  And I like you said Kevin Durant, Kevin Durant had how
• 49:06
  many Twitter feeds he had like 7 or 8 when that came out, nobody
• 49:10
  cared when Kyrie Irving sent out anti-Semitic views, nobody
• 49:14
  cared. As a matter of fact, Adam
• 49:16
  Silver, who is a Jew, he's a Jewish man.
• 49:18
  He didn't really do anything. He sat down with Kyrie Irving
• 49:21
  and pretty much said, listen, Kyrie, we're going to we're
• 49:23
  going to find you. We're going to suspend you for a
• 49:25
  couple of games and we're going to bring you back.
• 49:27
  I want you to apologize to the net fans.
• 49:29
  He apologized to the net fans. He gets traded a couple weeks
• 49:31
  later, he goes to Dallas at his press conference right in front
• 49:35
  of Adam Silver and said, I take back what I said.
• 49:37
  I take back my apology. I have a right to say and reach
• 49:41
  to my opinion. And I said what I said because I
• 49:43
  feel that it was right. So and and and Adam Silver
• 49:47
  allowed him to say those things and not punish him.
• 49:50
  But if it was Malik Beasley or Porter or any of these small
• 49:54
  known unknown guys, he would have dropped a hammer on them
• 49:57
  for doing something like. That was it.
• 49:58
  Those like 3 or 4 guys on the next that were doing it too and
• 50:01
  then they didn't. Then they got that covered up so
• 50:03
  badly. And again, it's just a matter of
• 50:06
  like, like you said, class record and again, other sports
• 50:08
  too, comparing him like the NFL, we Calvin Ridley got a whole
• 50:11
  year. Jameson Williams got 10 games
• 50:13
  this year for the same kind of thing.
• 50:14
  Like you're trying to set an example with that where the NFL
• 50:17
  doesn't have that kind of power with the players.
• 50:18
  Now they have player power when it comes to like going where
• 50:20
  they want to go and stuff, but not to the same level of like
• 50:23
  they're running the league. Like the NBA is like the NBA,
• 50:25
  the LJA, LeBron James Association, They've been driven
• 50:28
  by these stars trying to drive it up.
• 50:30
  The Players League. Yeah.
• 50:31
  And and that's going to be more encourage if these other.
• 50:34
  How many owners lost their teams because of the players?
• 50:38
  And now I'm not saying the owners were right for what they
• 50:40
  did because they were racist. They were disgusting people and
• 50:43
  what they've done in their past, but the NBA took those teams.
• 50:48
  The players took those teams away from the owners.
• 50:50
  They had to sell those teams because of what they did in the
• 50:53
  past. Again, they were not right for
• 50:55
  what they did and they apologized for what they did,
• 50:58
  but they did it. And the NBA players said,
• 51:00
  listen, we're not playing for any owner that's racist like
• 51:03
  that. So you know what, either you
• 51:05
  either you sell your team or we're not going to be stepping
• 51:08
  on your basketball court. And what happened, Remember
• 51:10
  Chris Paul, remember with the LA Clippers, Chris Paul had like
• 51:14
  this like picket fence staying that he did in front of LA where
• 51:18
  he said he will not play for this owner again.
• 51:21
  And what happened after that? And what was it, I forget the
• 51:23
  owners name again, Donald Sterling, Donald Sterling.
• 51:25
  Within weeks, Donald Sterling. Sterling had to sell to the
• 51:28
  biggest bidder and he got rid of his team just as quick.
• 51:32
  Because the NBA is run by the players now.
• 51:35
  You don't see that in the MLB. If there's something like that
• 51:38
  happening in the MLB, no, the owners would have been fine.
• 51:41
  They would have sat down with the other owners and they would
• 51:42
  have figured something out. Or even the NFL.
• 51:45
  You wouldn't see an NFL team do that or or players can't do
• 51:49
  that. We have seen so many things over
• 51:51
  the years in all different professional sports, but the NBA
• 51:55
  seems to be run by who? It's been run by 1 and the one
• 51:59
  and only players. That's all.
• 52:00
  ESPN reports that LeBron James has opted into a 52 point, $2.6
• 52:06
  million player option with the Lakers for this season.
• 52:10
  LeBron says he knows the Lakers will be very active this
• 52:14
  offseason, especially with new ownership buying the team for
• 52:18
  $10 billion. Rich Paul says that LeBron wants
• 52:21
  to compete for a championship and understands that the Lakers
• 52:25
  will still want to build for the future.
• 52:29
  Paul added that there's no guarantees LeBron will stay with
• 52:33
  the Lakers after the season, thinking the new ownership might
• 52:38
  want to build around Luka Doncic.
• 52:40
  He mentioned that the Warriors reached out about trading for
• 52:44
  him in February of 2024, and the Heat were open to reuniting with
• 52:49
  him if they were unable to trade Jimmy Butler.
• 52:54
  Kevin Love, when he saw LeBron recently, said that Lebron's
• 52:59
  wife badly wants him to retire after the season.
• 53:03
  LeBron averaged 24.4 points per game, 8.2 assists per game, and
• 53:08
  7.8 rebounds per game in this past season.
• 53:12
  All right, and, and we all know that LeBron James runs the
• 53:15
  league. I call it the LJ.
• 53:16
  There's no argument to that. LeBron James came back because
• 53:19
  he's making $52.6 million. I know his wife wants him to
• 53:23
  retire. He's been on how many SP awards
• 53:26
  claiming that he might not come back?
• 53:28
  And then he is coming back. Over the last two years during
• 53:33
  the playoffs after being eliminated, he's come out and
• 53:36
  said he doesn't know if he's going to come back.
• 53:37
  And then he automatically comes in and he opts into a contract.
• 53:41
  LeBron James is probably going to retire after this year.
• 53:45
  Now, unless the the the Golden State Warriors are one of these
• 53:48
  big time NBA teams, maybe even the Houston Rockets, because the
• 53:53
  Houston Rockets are a team that's rebuilding and have a
• 53:55
  chance with a young coach in a Duca.
• 53:58
  Maybe the Rockets would combine him with Kevin Durant over there
• 54:02
  in Houston and try to make a run for an NBA title.
• 54:04
  But LeBron James is probably playing his final season as an
• 54:09
  NBA player. He's he's building his podcast.
• 54:11
  He has all these different production companies, he's got
• 54:15
  all these different assets that he's invested in over the last
• 54:18
  really last 10 years. And he's one of the most, he's
• 54:21
  one of the more richer athletes we've seen come out of
• 54:24
  professional sports in history. The fact is, Luka Dodgek is the
• 54:29
  young superstar. He's going to be 26 years old
• 54:32
  going into the season. He lost a lot of weight.
• 54:34
  So far what we've heard, he's lost 20 lbs.
• 54:37
  He was at one of the NBA playoff games.
• 54:40
  It looked like he he lost at least 20 lbs, maybe even £15.
• 54:43
  He looks like he's in a really good shape.
• 54:45
  And with new ownership, $10 billion that they obviously
• 54:49
  invested into buying the Lakers, I expect the Lakers and new
• 54:54
  ownership to build around Luka Dodgek.
• 54:56
  Now LeBron James is still going to make his $52.6 million if the
• 55:00
  Lakers fall out this going this coming season and and Luka
• 55:04
  Doncic isn't enough with LeBron James.
• 55:06
  I could see LeBron James getting traded at the trade deadline.
• 55:09
  Reason why is there going to be a ton of teams lining up for a
• 55:13
  play of this magnitude. LeBron James is still averaging
• 55:15
  24 points, 8 rebounds, I mean 8 assists in seven rebounds.
• 55:20
  If you look at his career statistics, LeBron James is a
• 55:23
  career 2728 point scorer, 8 assists, 8 1/2 assists a game,
• 55:29
  and 7:00 to 8:00 rebounds a game in his career.
• 55:32
  So LeBron James is still at the top of his game.
• 55:34
  Now, LeBron James is not the defender he once was, and LeBron
• 55:39
  James cannot keep up with some of the younger players that
• 55:41
  we've seen over the last couple of years in the NBA.
• 55:44
  But he's still a sensational player.
• 55:46
  He's still one of the elite players in the NBA.
• 55:48
  If you were to look at LeBron right now and, and, and put him
• 55:51
  in the top 15, top 20, I don't think you can argue LeBron James
• 55:54
  is a top 15, top 17 player right now in the NBA.
• 55:58
  But the Lakers are going to look to go young.
• 56:02
  Austin Reeves turned down a $96 million contract this offseason.
• 56:06
  I think he wants to go to free agency next year and see what
• 56:09
  free agency is going to offer him.
• 56:11
  And with new ownership now it's going to be a little bit
• 56:14
  different for the Lakers and where the Lakers organization is
• 56:17
  going to go in the future. The only reason why LeBron James
• 56:20
  came to the Lakers it was because of the bus family.
• 56:23
  The bus family don't own the organization anymore.
• 56:27
  Now you're going to look at LeBron James and and think that
• 56:29
  LeBron James is looking to win that 5th title to tie Kobe
• 56:33
  Bryant to be considered arguably the greatest, greatest
• 56:37
  basketball player of all time. Now we all know he's not Michael
• 56:40
  Jordan, but if he gets his fifth championship, if he goes to
• 56:43
  Golden State or he goes to Houston, or maybe if he goes to
• 56:46
  OK C and wins another title, then you could start to consider
• 56:51
  or people will start even considering the argument that he
• 56:54
  is as good or even better than Michael Jordan.
• 56:57
  LeBron James practically has every single playoff statistic,
• 57:02
  regular season statistic. He is broken record after record
• 57:06
  after record. There's nothing LeBron James
• 57:08
  needs to do to prove that he is the second greatest basketball
• 57:11
  player of all time. I believe that's what LeBron
• 57:13
  James is. A lot of people would argue me,
• 57:16
  argue with me. They'll say Kareem, a dual
• 57:18
  Jabbar, they'll say Kobe Bryant, they'll say Tim Duncan, they'll
• 57:21
  say Hakim Moulashwin, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson.
• 57:24
  You could put all these guys amongst the best players right
• 57:28
  behind Michael Jordan. But the fact is LeBron James is
• 57:32
  coming back because he's making $52.6 million and I if I'm not
• 57:36
  mistaken, this is the most money he will make as a professional
• 57:39
  basketball player. Nobody's going to walk away from
• 57:42
  52 and a half million dollars. Nobody.
• 57:45
  I don't believe LeBron James will be a Laker for the rest of
• 57:48
  the season. I think at the trade deadline if
• 57:51
  the Lakers fall out, and I don't think the Lakers are going to be
• 57:53
  aggressive because trade, I mean, obviously the offseason
• 57:57
  has started, free agency has opened up.
• 57:59
  Unless they get Giannis, who they going to get there and
• 58:02
  you're only getting Giannis if you trade something.
• 58:04
  Who you trading for Giannis, Austin Reeves, nobody.
• 58:08
  You're going to have to trade a hell of a lot more than Austin
• 58:10
  Reeves. They get Giannis.
• 58:12
  You're going to have to trade maybe LeBron James, Austin
• 58:14
  Reeves and and probably your future to bring in Giannis and
• 58:18
  and that means LeBron James is no longer with them.
• 58:20
  So that's not going to happen. I just think there's nothing out
• 58:25
  there right now. Now this free agency market is
• 58:27
  not as good as it's going to be next year.
• 58:29
  I, I don't know where anybody believes that LeBron James will
• 58:33
  stay with the Lakers by the trade deadline.
• 58:35
  There are a numerous amount of teams that are looking to win a
• 58:38
  championship or on the cusp of being one of the elite teams.
• 58:41
  Any of it. Maybe it goes back to the
• 58:43
  Cleveland Cavaliers. Maybe it goes back to Cleveland
• 58:46
  and tries to win a championship with Spider and, and, and the
• 58:49
  coaching staff over there with, with Kenny Atkinson.
• 58:51
  This is if they add LeBron James to that roster.
• 58:55
  I mean, is anybody going to beat them in the East?
• 58:58
  I, I that automatically makes them the favorites at the trade
• 59:02
  deadline to win the East. How about the Celtics?
• 59:05
  The Celtics, obviously you have Brown, you have White there.
• 59:10
  You don't have, you don't have, you don't have Tatum.
• 59:13
  He's he might be back at the end of the season.
• 59:15
  They're saying Jason Tatum will miss the whole season with an
• 59:18
  Achilles tear. If he's training already.
• 59:20
  He had his surgery the next day within 24 hours of the Knicks
• 59:24
  game. The Knicks series, I, I expected
• 59:27
  him to possibly be back sometime before the playoffs.
• 59:31
  If Tatian comes back and you have LeBron James and you have
• 59:34
  Jalen Brown and you have you have a guy like White.
• 59:37
  I mean, aren't you a contender? Aren't you Eastern Conference
• 59:41
  contender? Well, LeBron James, they're
• 59:43
  going to play for the Celtics. Do you remember the last Laker
• 59:47
  to jump ship and go from Miami to Cleveland to the Celtics?
• 59:52
  Do you remember that? It was Shaquille O'Neal?
• 59:56
  Shaquille O'Neal retired as a as a Celtic.
• 59:59
  Now, he didn't do anything with the Celtics, but he retired.
• 1:00:02
  Well, he actually retired with, if I'm not mistaken, it was
• 1:00:05
  Orlando he retired with. But he that's what usually
• 1:00:10
  happens after your career. You usually, you usually sign
• 1:00:14
  with your old team and you retire with your old team.
• 1:00:16
  That's what usually happens. I'm not sure if he retired with
• 1:00:18
  Orlando or the Lakers, but he retired with one of those teams.
• 1:00:22
  But his final? Year as an NBA player, if I'm
• 1:00:26
  not mistaken, it was with the Celtics and if LeBron James
• 1:00:30
  wants to do that and and and try to fight and try to win a
• 1:00:33
  championship over there with the Celtics.
• 1:00:35
  The Celtics are automatically the favorites are coming out of
• 1:00:38
  the East because LeBron James automatic could you put if Jason
• 1:00:42
  Tatum comes back and if Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, you're
• 1:00:45
  automatically a championship contending team.
• 1:00:48
  Right. And especially you're seeing now
• 1:00:50
  with the way that the salary cap could go up to obviously it
• 1:00:53
  doesn't matter. I mean, yeah, LeBron, we know we
• 1:00:55
  can manipulate a lot of. Different because here's the
• 1:00:57
  reason why. Jason Tatum, if he comes back,
• 1:01:00
  it will be at the end of the season.
• 1:01:01
  Insurance already is paying for him.
• 1:01:03
  So even if he comes back, you're not paying him for a full
• 1:01:05
  season. So you could bring LeBron James
• 1:01:08
  contract in with the Boston Celtics at the trade deadline
• 1:01:11
  because even if Jason Tatum comes back, he's not going to be
• 1:01:14
  paid. That is paid by insurance.
• 1:01:16
  It doesn't affect their salary cap.
• 1:01:18
  It doesn't affect their cap. So they can actually trade for
• 1:01:22
  LeBron James and not worry about Jason Tatum coming back because
• 1:01:25
  it won't affect them. Right.
• 1:01:26
  And that's the luxury that you have when you have these these
• 1:01:30
  salary cap situations, these aprons.
• 1:01:32
  Obviously, they traded Drew Holiday in Porzingis just to get
• 1:01:34
  under it. But like you were saying last
• 1:01:35
  week, like there's no guarantee that the Celtics don't have
• 1:01:37
  another big thing in mind too. And they know what's going on
• 1:01:40
  with the Lakers. They know what's going on with
• 1:01:41
  the box. And it seems like that too.
• 1:01:42
  And again, with the situation with the Lakers with with
• 1:01:45
  LeBron, like he would seem like it was kind of set in stone the
• 1:01:47
  way he was manipulating it. But again, being he's already
• 1:01:50
  won a championship there, there's always going to be that
• 1:01:52
  extra threshold of what am I going to do one more time.
• 1:01:55
  And obviously these companies out there production wise, all
• 1:01:57
  this pizza stuff and all that stuff is out there, but.
• 1:02:00
  Albums are dipped into every single business.
• 1:02:02
  I know that. And again, at the same time, you
• 1:02:04
  now bring in new ownership. You have a ownership group that
• 1:02:07
  comes from the Dodgers. That's obviously they like to
• 1:02:09
  spend a lot of money too, but they're also very they try to be
• 1:02:11
  more young and progressive. And that's why I think they were
• 1:02:13
  mentioning, OK, we're going to try to build around Luka Doncic.
• 1:02:15
  I'm surprised Magic Johnson didn't buy into the Lakers.
• 1:02:17
  Yeah. It's interesting because I think
• 1:02:19
  he has a little bit of a stake, but it's not to the same level
• 1:02:21
  of those with the Dodgers. And now Andrew Walter the new
• 1:02:25
  owner or Mark Walter the new owner, if that is there, you
• 1:02:28
  would think there would be some kind of influence get magic
• 1:02:31
  involved, especially with Magic now being involved with.
• 1:02:33
  Washington Magic Johnson will be involved with the Lakers,
• 1:02:36
  especially with Luka Doncic being there.
• 1:02:38
  One way or another, Magic Johnson will have his hand
• 1:02:40
  dipped in with with the Lakers after LeBron James decides to
• 1:02:44
  part ways with the Lakers organization.
• 1:02:46
  So will LeBron at some point. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:02:48
  LeBron James is going to be. I don't know if LeBron James
• 1:02:52
  will be a part of the Lakers. I think when LeBron James
• 1:02:55
  retires. Yeah, when I think when LeBron
• 1:02:58
  James retires, when a team becomes available, maybe The
• 1:03:01
  Mavericks, because if ownership can't find a way to bring a
• 1:03:05
  casino over there in Dallas, you know, he loves Cooper flag and
• 1:03:09
  LeBron James has billions of dollars.
• 1:03:11
  He by the time LeBron James is ready to buy a team, he probably
• 1:03:15
  is worth a couple of billion dollars with the assets that he
• 1:03:18
  has. LeBron James is going to buy
• 1:03:20
  into an NBA team. Why not the Dallas Mavericks?
• 1:03:22
  Think about it that way. Think about it this way.
• 1:03:25
  The Dallas Mavericks have Kyrie Irving, there has Anthony Davis.
• 1:03:29
  Both players played with LeBron James, both players won
• 1:03:32
  championships with LeBron James, and then you have Cooper Flag
• 1:03:35
  there. One of the best young stars
• 1:03:37
  right now the NBA has to provide, and he has come out and
• 1:03:40
  said during the Olympic practices that this guy is the
• 1:03:44
  best American player he's seen come out of United States
• 1:03:46
  basketball in the last five years.
• 1:03:48
  That's just a lot about what he thinks about Cooper Flag.
• 1:03:52
  As a matter of fact, one of the things that were brought up
• 1:03:55
  after Cooper Flag was drafted, when he was obviously
• 1:03:57
  interviewed, he said, what did LeBron James talk to you about?
• 1:04:00
  And he told Cooper Flag, you know, cherish the moments of
• 1:04:05
  this, this opportunity because you're never going to be at the
• 1:04:08
  in this situation again. And that says a lot about LeBron
• 1:04:11
  James, who, by the way, never even played college ball.
• 1:04:13
  This guy went right to the NBA as a high school player and it
• 1:04:17
  was already inaugurated as the King.
• 1:04:19
  So I'm not saying Cooper flag is LeBron James and I'm I think
• 1:04:23
  he's the next Kevin Durant. That's just my opinion.
• 1:04:25
  But LeBron James has an opportunity at the trade
• 1:04:28
  deadline if need be. And and again, the bus family is
• 1:04:31
  not running the organization anymore and he has no reason to
• 1:04:34
  stay there. Expect LeBron James if the
• 1:04:37
  Lakers are not a contending team and they don't have any assets
• 1:04:41
  where they can make a trade at the trade deadline to bring in
• 1:04:43
  another superstar to play with him and Luca where LeBron James
• 1:04:46
  is going to ask to be traded. I I'm willing if you're a bet
• 1:04:50
  man, Jabba, if they're obviously we're not NBA players, so we can
• 1:04:54
  bet if you're a betting man, ladies and gentlemen, I would
• 1:04:57
  bet LeBron James at the trade downline will be traded to a, an
• 1:05:01
  experiencedly gifted NBA title team.
• 1:05:05
  And I say experience because I think one of the teams that he's
• 1:05:08
  going to get traded to as a team that's won a championship in the
• 1:05:10
  last couple of years or is ready to win a championship.
• 1:05:14
  And again, there's always going to be the veteran ties because
• 1:05:16
  we talked about, OK, can LeBron handle the young players too,
• 1:05:18
  which if the Lakers are going to progress in that direction, are
• 1:05:21
  they going to want to trade a lot of those younger players as
• 1:05:23
  well? Like, yeah, you're talking about
• 1:05:24
  like they don't have this high end younger player that you'll
• 1:05:27
  be like, OK, this guy's a can't miss type prospect.
• 1:05:29
  I like to connect. Last year he was kind of up and
• 1:05:31
  down his rookie year. Rui Hatchimor is not bad.
• 1:05:33
  Like you said, Austin Reese is probably their best trade option
• 1:05:35
  and he's kind of frustrated with the team anyway.
• 1:05:37
  So it seems like he's inevitably going to be out.
• 1:05:39
  That's going to shoot down your trade value.
• 1:05:40
  So so like, what do you have if you're the Lakers to be able to
• 1:05:43
  do that kind of thing? If you don't go to that next
• 1:05:45
  level with this new philosophy that you're saying you look at
• 1:05:49
  the way the league is now outside of the Warriors, you're
• 1:05:51
  looking at a format where it's two stars and you build a pretty
• 1:05:54
  good core around it, balance players.
• 1:05:57
  It doesn't really matter of having like the star point guard
• 1:05:59
  or the star center where I know, OK, you see just one with
• 1:06:01
  Shadeja Alexander and Jed Holmgren.
• 1:06:03
  But besides that, you're seeing a lot more of these wing type
• 1:06:06
  teams and it's really two stars and getting everyone else
• 1:06:09
  affordable at that point. And maybe that's the Lakers
• 1:06:11
  mindset. And if it takes trading LeBron
• 1:06:14
  in order to do that, if the Lakers don't contend right away,
• 1:06:17
  because we know LeBron doesn't like to play a lot at the
• 1:06:19
  beginning of the regular season either.
• 1:06:21
  And if he can't? He's averaged about 62 to 65
• 1:06:24
  games this season for the last five years.
• 1:06:25
  Yeah. And again, it's interesting to
• 1:06:27
  think like if they could fill that void if LeBron doesn't have
• 1:06:30
  to quote UN quote low man and stuff like that, if he does stay
• 1:06:32
  healthy. And that's the other question
• 1:06:34
  that somebody like JJ Reddick keeps.
• 1:06:37
  Favorite coach if you know. LeBron, If LeBron James knows
• 1:06:40
  this could be his final season, you would think, think that
• 1:06:43
  LeBron James is going to play at least 80 games, wouldn't you?
• 1:06:45
  Thank you. You want you want the fans to
• 1:06:48
  come and see you for the last time.
• 1:06:49
  Michael Jordan, We all know the Michael Jordan story.
• 1:06:52
  He came out many, many times, said teams.
• 1:06:55
  I mean, fans come to watch me play.
• 1:06:57
  I wanted to make sure that everybody got a chance to see me
• 1:06:59
  play at least once when I was playing basketball.
• 1:07:02
  And that's why he played almost every single game.
• 1:07:04
  You never see Michael Jordan miss a game.
• 1:07:06
  He was always out on the basketball court hurt with the
• 1:07:09
  flu as we saw him in the playoffs.
• 1:07:11
  That man went out there and played his heart out.
• 1:07:14
  LeBron James has not been that type of player really over the
• 1:07:16
  last five years. Now, LeBron James is still an
• 1:07:19
  elite player. There's no question that he is.
• 1:07:21
  He's still at the top of his game, Maybe not the same
• 1:07:23
  defensive player was, even though he's tried to play that
• 1:07:27
  contagious defense over the last couple of months of the season.
• 1:07:31
  He's not that type of player anymore.
• 1:07:33
  But LeBron James still has the ability.
• 1:07:36
  If he goes to an organization in the right team, he is absolutely
• 1:07:39
  that boost that that organization's going to need to
• 1:07:42
  win a title. Yeah, always going to be thought
• 1:07:43
  of as a missing piece when you're that good in the
• 1:07:45
  playoffs. And even the durability aspect
• 1:07:46
  compared to some other NBA players have still been better
• 1:07:49
  for LeBron, even at age 41, than a lot of Kawhi Leonard.
• 1:07:53
  And look at Paul George, all these other guys that these
• 1:07:55
  veterans that are always getting hurt too.
• 1:07:56
  So there's still an optimism that you would believe if you
• 1:07:59
  were the Lakers to be able to make that kind of thing work.
• 1:08:01
  And that's what the new ownership will bank on at the
• 1:08:02
  moment. And also new ownership thinks
• 1:08:04
  that they can get something for him.
• 1:08:06
  I, I mean, LeBron James is a guy that can help A-Team give him a
• 1:08:10
  boost to possibly win a title. What would you get for LeBron
• 1:08:13
  James if he's averaging about 25 points per game, 8 assists and
• 1:08:16
  seven rebounds and can change your roster for the better?
• 1:08:19
  Even if LeBron James comes off the bench, which that will never
• 1:08:21
  happen now, even if LeBron James comes off the bench and you got
• 1:08:24
  a player of this magnitude coming off the bench, what are
• 1:08:27
  you willing to give up for somebody like this will almost
• 1:08:30
  guarantee you an Eastern or Western Conference chance to win
• 1:08:33
  a championship finals to win a championship.
• 1:08:36
  What would you what would you be willing to give up?
• 1:08:38
  You're talking about me. I think I think it'll be decent
• 1:08:41
  though. But you got to remember it it at
• 1:08:43
  this point you got you got to look at it as a rental, not as a
• 1:08:46
  long term. So then I think you got to look
• 1:08:48
  at it like, OK, are we are we just this rental and what are we
• 1:08:52
  willing to give up or what do we want to give up?
• 1:08:54
  Or is it worth giving this up to to figure out like, OK, we got a
• 1:08:59
  shot if we get this guy. That's kind of like it's just
• 1:09:02
  hard when you get into that rental frame of mind because
• 1:09:04
  it's like, what do I really want to get rid of knowing this isn't
• 1:09:08
  going to be long term 100? Percent and that's what a lot of
• 1:09:11
  other NBA teams have kind of fallen into the trap of too.
• 1:09:14
  We talked about it last week with the Kevin Durant trade with
• 1:09:15
  the Suns too. They kind of felt like they were
• 1:09:17
  desperate at that point. Now at the time when they did it
• 1:09:20
  I thought it was fine. I like 2023 they had the season
• 1:09:24
  before where they lost to The Mavericks in the in the Western
• 1:09:26
  Conference finals, the 67 win team so it seemed like a big
• 1:09:29
  swing and then they go get Bradley Beal and everything goes
• 1:09:31
  downhill after that and the Nets have done it the Clippers have
• 1:09:34
  done it with Paul George and Koi Leonard.
• 1:09:36
  Obviously, we talked about how that trade really helped OKC get
• 1:09:39
  over the top the way they did and that meant there's going to
• 1:09:42
  be some teams, Jabba, that don't think that way.
• 1:09:44
  They're going to fall into that desperate.
• 1:09:45
  All right, last plea, tight move.
• 1:09:46
  If they can get something else around it.
• 1:09:48
  We mentioned Miami before, like Miami reuniting with Pat Riley.
• 1:09:51
  They get Jimmy Butler off the books who was disgruntled over
• 1:09:54
  there. Would they consider a big move?
• 1:09:56
  Does Pat Riley have something up his sleeve for somebody like
• 1:09:58
  LeBron? You said the South.
• 1:09:59
  No, he's not going. LeBron James is not going back
• 1:10:02
  to Miami. He's not.
• 1:10:04
  They don't have a chance to win. Even if they had LeBron James
• 1:10:06
  there with Bam out of bio and Tyler Hero, do you think they're
• 1:10:09
  going to get over the even against the Knicks with the
• 1:10:12
  roster the Knicks have? They don't beat the Knicks.
• 1:10:14
  They don't beat the Cavaliers if the Cavaliers are healthy.
• 1:10:17
  So I I don't see LeBron, LeBron James, if he knows this is his
• 1:10:21
  final year, which could very much happen if if he believes
• 1:10:24
  this is his final year, he's either going to go to the
• 1:10:26
  Western Conference where he can win with Houston with Kevin
• 1:10:29
  Durant. Could you imagine him and Kevin
• 1:10:30
  Durant on a roster they've always wanted to play together?
• 1:10:33
  Why not go, you know, play your final season at the trade
• 1:10:37
  deadline with one of your favorite players to play with,
• 1:10:39
  with Team USA Basketball and go and make a run with Kevin
• 1:10:42
  Durant. See if you can get over the
• 1:10:43
  hump. That would be amazing.
• 1:10:45
  LeBron James ride offs to the sunset like Peyton Manning did.
• 1:10:49
  Win a championship with one of your best friends.
• 1:10:51
  I mean, that would be, that would be a storybook ending in
• 1:10:55
  LeBron James's. Story with the power of the
• 1:10:57
  LeBron James association help everything out with it as well.
• 1:11:00
  He's going to definitely try to manipulate as much as possible
• 1:11:02
  with wherever he ends up going. Again, I don't know how
• 1:11:05
  frustrated the would be with the Lakers, but it's always
• 1:11:07
  different with newer ownership. When LeBron, LeBron obviously
• 1:11:10
  decided to go to the Lakers, it was different with the Buss
• 1:11:12
  family there. And obviously there's other
• 1:11:13
  players that have come and gone with the Buss family that have
• 1:11:16
  had their power. But at the same time, the Lakers
• 1:11:18
  haven't had the holding power of these players either.
• 1:11:21
  Look at somebody like Anthony Davis.
• 1:11:22
  Now, obviously you can't pass up a trade with Luka Doncic, but
• 1:11:25
  look at all the other stars that have come and gone or even just
• 1:11:27
  almost went there and get that kind of result.
• 1:11:29
  And now you're seeing it with LeBron.
• 1:11:30
  It seemed like a. Surefire, you know who would
• 1:11:32
  have? Who would have thought that
• 1:11:34
  after trading Luka Doncic and and Nico Harrison look like the
• 1:11:38
  the dumbest GM in NBA history and he's really dumb.
• 1:11:42
  I mean we all know what the Nets have done over the years.
• 1:11:45
  They've done a lot of stupid things.
• 1:11:46
  But Nico Harrison trading one of the best young players the NBA
• 1:11:50
  has ever had, foreign international players the NBA
• 1:11:53
  has ever had, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere, out of
• 1:11:57
  nowhere, win the lottery, win the lottery with a 3.8% chance
• 1:12:02
  of winning it. Listen, that it was like 2 point
• 1:12:05
  something, whatever it was, it doesn't matter.
• 1:12:08
  It was a percentage. No chance in hell for him to win
• 1:12:12
  Cooper flag. And then he wins the best young
• 1:12:14
  American player we've seen come out of the draft like LeBron
• 1:12:16
  James have said in five years. That says a lot about where the
• 1:12:21
  NBA is and how I believe LeBron James has run the organization.
• 1:12:25
  And that's that's just the facts.
• 1:12:26
  And if LeBron James wants to go and play with the Rockets and
• 1:12:29
  play with Kevin Durant, he'll go there.
• 1:12:31
  If LeBron James wants to go and play with Miami, he'll go there
• 1:12:34
  there. If LeBron James wants to go to
• 1:12:35
  the Cleveland Cavaliers and and win his his final championship,
• 1:12:39
  I have his chance to win and right off into the sunset in his
• 1:12:42
  hometown, his home, his home area in Cleveland, he will go
• 1:12:45
  there. So it it's up to LeBron James
• 1:12:48
  where he wants to go and I think the Lakers will oblige him.
• 1:12:51
  I don't know what the Lakers are going to get much knowing that
• 1:12:54
  he is going to walk away from the game.
• 1:12:55
  He is going to leave. But guess what, you land LeBron
• 1:12:58
  James. If you're the Cleveland
• 1:13:00
  Cavaliers or you're the Houston Rockets, you're almost
• 1:13:03
  guaranteed to go to the Western Conference Finals and maybe even
• 1:13:06
  make a run to the NBA Finals. That's how good LeBron James
• 1:13:10
  still is and what LeBron James could give you as a player on a
• 1:13:15
  basketball court. So there's, again, going back to
• 1:13:18
  this whole situation with LeBron James and taking the 52 and a
• 1:13:21
  half million dollars. I only believe he took the money
• 1:13:24
  because he's making the most money he's ever made.
• 1:13:26
  And #2 I really do believe he has no interest of staying with
• 1:13:31
  the Lakers. By the trade deadline.
• 1:13:33
  I expect LeBron James to ask to be off.
• 1:13:36
  By the way, another team that would be looking at LeBron James
• 1:13:38
  is the Golden State Warriors. I, I could see the Golden State
• 1:13:41
  Warriors if they're playing good basketball and Steph Curry is
• 1:13:43
  healthy. That's another guy that LeBron
• 1:13:45
  James and, and Steph has said over the years he would love to
• 1:13:48
  play with. So I wouldn't be surprised if he
• 1:13:51
  gets traded to the Golden State Warriors with Steve Kerr there.
• 1:13:54
  So, and, and they'll have a chance to win a champion.
• 1:13:56
  Could you imagine him, Jimmy Buckets and Steph Curry on a
• 1:14:00
  roster? Scary.
• 1:14:02
  Oh God, they're going to steal all the headlights too.
• 1:14:04
  They've already done already. LeBron steals headlines as it
• 1:14:06
  is. We talk about the Warriors, all
• 1:14:07
  the. Time scary.
• 1:14:09
  The LJA is back, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:14:11
  Mr. Mr. Draymond, Greed is still there.
• 1:14:14
  He'll steal some other headlines.
• 1:14:15
  Too, It would piss me the apple off.
• 1:14:16
  Oh, I know. If if I watch LeBron James go to
• 1:14:19
  Golden State and win a championship with Steph Curry
• 1:14:21
  and Jimmy Buckets, I will be. Pissed the FL that would be
• 1:14:24
  probably. Just I will not be happy.
• 1:14:27
  I am not. Listen, everybody thinks that
• 1:14:29
  I'm a LeBron, a LeBron James fan because I think he's the second
• 1:14:31
  greatest basketball player of all time.
• 1:14:33
  And I do because he's going to have almost every single record
• 1:14:36
  when he walks away from the game and he the longevity to do what
• 1:14:40
  he is doing on a basketball court is untouchable.
• 1:14:42
  I don't think we'll ever see an NBA player play as long as
• 1:14:46
  LeBron James and be as dominant as LeBron James has been over
• 1:14:50
  the last 20 years. OK, that's a fact.
• 1:14:52
  I don't care what anybody says. You could cut this up and roll
• 1:14:56
  it up and throw it wherever we want to throw it.
• 1:14:59
  I, I am not a LeBron James fan. I, as a matter of fact, I don't
• 1:15:02
  like him as a personality off at the basketball court.
• 1:15:04
  His politics, his, his political views are absolutely horrendous.
• 1:15:08
  But what he is as a basketball player, you can't take away his
• 1:15:11
  greatness. You can't.
• 1:15:14
  He is the greatest basketball player, right behind Michael
• 1:15:17
  Jordan. That and that includes over Kobe
• 1:15:20
  Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kareem Dole, Jabbar or Magic Johnson, Larry
• 1:15:25
  Bird. This guy is going to go down as
• 1:15:27
  the second greatest basketball player of all time.
• 1:15:29
  And you could take back whatever you say about me on social media
• 1:15:32
  saying I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to
• 1:15:34
  basketball. If you guys actually don't
• 1:15:36
  believe this guy is the second greatest basketball player of
• 1:15:39
  all time, then you guys don't know basketball.
• 1:15:41
  Yeah, you do not. Yeah, and I think he there was
• 1:15:43
  another step that too like he already has.
• 1:15:45
  I think he's 40 games away from already having the most regular
• 1:15:48
  season games played record amidst all his load, load
• 1:15:52
  management and stuff like that too amidst all the other stuff
• 1:15:54
  to get all the dramas and stuff going throughout the league.
• 1:15:58
  So his longevity, like we said, as as crazy as he's.
• 1:16:01
  Incredible. Yeah, he's incredible.
• 1:16:04
  How could you be 40? What, he's going to be 4142
• 1:16:07
  years old? He's 41 right now.
• 1:16:09
  He'll be 42. At the he'll be 42 years old.
• 1:16:11
  Last year, he's 41 years old. He turned 41.
• 1:16:13
  He was averaging 24/8 and 7/24, 8:00 and 7:00.
• 1:16:17
  His career numbers are at 28 or 29, eight and seven.
• 1:16:22
  This guy's longevity at the top of his game will be unmatched
• 1:16:26
  forever. Nobody's going to touch this,
• 1:16:29
  and as much as you think I have a love fest for him, I can't
• 1:16:33
  stand the man. I don't walk away from
• 1:16:35
  greatness. When you walk, when you look at
• 1:16:37
  Alex Rodriguez, there are a lot of Yankee fans that can't stand
• 1:16:39
  Alex Rodriguez. Oh, he cheated.
• 1:16:41
  He did this, he did that. Guess what?
• 1:16:43
  Alex Rodriguez is a top five player of all time.
• 1:16:46
  And if you guys want to argue that, we could come on this show
• 1:16:48
  right now and I can go through statistics, new statistics, old
• 1:16:53
  statistics, and argue my points why Alex Rodriguez is still a
• 1:16:56
  top five player of all time. You can't take away greatness.
• 1:16:59
  No matter what he did, he's special and that's what LeBron
• 1:17:04
  James is. He's a special player and he'll
• 1:17:06
  always be remembered as the second greatest basketball
• 1:17:09
  player that ever played in NBA history.
• 1:17:12
  And then we got Jabba, who could defend Alex Rodriguez from
• 1:17:14
  knowing him personally. I'm sure Jabba would agree with
• 1:17:17
  me on that one too, in more ways than one.
• 1:17:19
  I mean, obviously I get it. But yeah, it's, I guess if you
• 1:17:25
  wanna go off a matrix and they put it.
• 1:17:27
  I mean, you can put all their numbers into whatever, but it's
• 1:17:29
  like we can talk about Barry Bonds.
• 1:17:31
  Bonds is a Hall of Famer before supposedly he did this.
• 1:17:34
  I mean, your head doesn't grow in your 30s.
• 1:17:36
  So I'm gonna put two and two together.
• 1:17:38
  Yes. He never tested positive, but
• 1:17:40
  I'm gonna go ahead and throw two and two together.
• 1:17:42
  But tell Jason Kidd that. Yeah, same time you still got to
• 1:17:46
  put bat on ball. Just because you take it doesn't
• 1:17:48
  necessarily make you a better baseball player.
• 1:17:50
  So yeah, there's there's a lot of things we could argue with
• 1:17:53
  with a lot of athletes before, you know, things, things I guess
• 1:17:57
  came to a head and, and, and what have you.
• 1:17:59
  But yeah, there's there's a lot of guys that didn't need it.
• 1:18:01
  They they did it for other reasons.
• 1:18:03
  And who knows what those reasons really, really are.
• 1:18:06
  Jabba, we have had guys on the show that told us straight out
• 1:18:09
  they did steroids and we're never Major League players long
• 1:18:12
  in a week longer than a week and and they did steroids.
• 1:18:17
  But but because Alex Rodriguez did steroids.
• 1:18:19
  Oh, he's the worst person in the world.
• 1:18:20
  Yeah. Did he do bad things?
• 1:18:22
  Did he throw people under the bus that he tried to threaten
• 1:18:25
  people? Yeah.
• 1:18:25
  Alex Rodriguez is not a good person, but as an athlete, as a
• 1:18:29
  player, you can't argue he's a top five player of all time.
• 1:18:32
  The numbers would tell you that he is and the same.
• 1:18:34
  Yeah, you don't, you don't have to like, you don't have to like
• 1:18:37
  the person, but you got to respect whatever it's I don't
• 1:18:42
  care like Floyd Mayweather, not a fan, but to never lose in a
• 1:18:46
  boxing ring. That's that's tough to say.
• 1:18:49
  And I, you don't have to like him.
• 1:18:51
  You don't have to agree with what he does.
• 1:18:52
  I, I get it because I don't with, with a lot of athletes.
• 1:18:55
  But at the end of the day, I respect of what they did and how
• 1:18:58
  they did it. To be that successful for that
• 1:19:00
  long and to do something that less than .01% get the
• 1:19:05
  opportunity to do it and do it for a long time.
• 1:19:07
  You got to respect what they do. You don't have to like them.
• 1:19:10
  You don't have to take them to dinner.
• 1:19:11
  You don't have to invite them to your kids birthday party, but
• 1:19:14
  you respect the craft that they do in, in, in any way shape or
• 1:19:17
  form. And that's in that's not in
• 1:19:19
  sports, that's in anything. You got to give credit where
• 1:19:21
  credit's due, even if you don't like them.
• 1:19:22
  Oh, and, and again, a lot of people on social media would
• 1:19:25
  think that I'm a big LeBron James lover.
• 1:19:27
  Like I have some kind of love fest for LeBron James.
• 1:19:30
  I can't stand the man and I don't walk away and I don't
• 1:19:33
  trend to the the opposite side saying that LeBron James isn't
• 1:19:37
  worth every bit to get a chance to watch him play, you know,
• 1:19:40
  every week or every game or every other game because LeBron
• 1:19:44
  James plays one game a week. Nevertheless, LeBron James is
• 1:19:47
  special to watch. LeBron James, if he cares about
• 1:19:51
  the fans and he knows this is his final year as an NBA player,
• 1:19:55
  he should play all 82 games. If he's healthy enough to do it,
• 1:19:58
  he should give every young kid that wants to get a chance to
• 1:20:01
  watch. One of the greatest basketball
• 1:20:03
  players of all time. Get to watch him one more time,
• 1:20:05
  one last time. That's what Mariano Rivera did.
• 1:20:08
  Remember Mariano Rivera, they, the Yankees made sure that when
• 1:20:11
  he did that whole trend around for his final season, his Grand
• 1:20:16
  Tour, they made sure he was out there.
• 1:20:18
  He was pitching not every single game, but the majority of the
• 1:20:21
  games. So Derek Jeter, Derek Jeter, you
• 1:20:24
  know, nobody knew that it was Derek Jeter's last season until
• 1:20:28
  Derek Jeter pretty much came out, you know, mid, What was it,
• 1:20:32
  quarter, quarter into the season.
• 1:20:33
  And he said this was his final year.
• 1:20:35
  OK. And what did Derek Jeter do for
• 1:20:37
  the fans? He made sure he was out there
• 1:20:40
  every single game so the fans could get a chance to watch him
• 1:20:43
  play. That's greatness.
• 1:20:45
  That's what you want to see. I want to say, hey, you know
• 1:20:47
  what? For all the people 20-30 years
• 1:20:50
  from now, I could say I watched Alex Rodriguez play baseball.
• 1:20:54
  I watched Derek Jeter play baseball.
• 1:20:56
  I watched Michael Jordan play basketball.
• 1:21:00
  I watched Wayne Gretzky play hockey or Marc Messier or Mario
• 1:21:04
  Lemieux, OK. Or, you know, if you're a cream
• 1:21:07
  of dual jabbar, I saw Korean of dual jabbar play live.
• 1:21:10
  That's what you want to say. That's what you always want to
• 1:21:13
  remember. That's what you want to tell
• 1:21:14
  your grandchildren, your kids or your great grandchildren.
• 1:21:16
  And that's what LeBron James stands for.
• 1:21:19
  As much as you can't stand him and as much as I can't stand him
• 1:21:22
  because I believe the NBA is the LJA, I don't take away for what
• 1:21:26
  he has done for the game of basketball and what he has
• 1:21:29
  delivered as a young man. Remember, he came from high
• 1:21:33
  school and everybody considered him the King.
• 1:21:36
  Could you imagine the pressure LeBron James had when he stepped
• 1:21:40
  on an NBA court? Now, do I think LeBron James
• 1:21:44
  should have won Rookie of the year?
• 1:21:45
  No, Carmelo Anthony was rookie of the year when when him and
• 1:21:47
  Carmelo came out from the draft. Carmelo had better numbers than
• 1:21:51
  LeBron James. My honest opinion is Carmelo and
• 1:21:54
  Carmelo. Carmelo Anthony was robbed, was
• 1:21:57
  robbed for the rookie of the year.
• 1:21:59
  Nevertheless, LeBron James has won every single thing he's he's
• 1:22:05
  won rookie of the year, he's won MVPS, he's won Defensive player
• 1:22:08
  of the year, he's won everything.
• 1:22:10
  And that's why LeBron James is considered the second greatest
• 1:22:15
  basketball player of all time. And there are statistics.
• 1:22:18
  There are records that will never be broken, never be
• 1:22:21
  broken, because you're not going to see an NBA player play as
• 1:22:25
  long as LeBron James has played all.
• 1:22:27
  Right quickly before our guest is in and we have Golf Club New
• 1:22:30
  York Yankee mania. Shout out to him again the
• 1:22:32
  Lakers challenge next year. Yeah, they definitely could, but
• 1:22:34
  they need a lot this offseason. By the way, I want to say
• 1:22:37
  something for all you Laker fans and I'm just being honest.
• 1:22:42
  Luka Doncic was traded to be brought in to the Lakers for the
• 1:22:46
  reason that LeBron James was probably his final one or two
• 1:22:50
  years going to be moved at 11 point or another.
• 1:22:54
  I expect LeBron James to be traded.
• 1:22:57
  Do I think the Lakers are making the playoffs next year?
• 1:22:59
  They had their chance this year to make a run.
• 1:23:02
  They fell short. LeBron James will not be a Laker
• 1:23:05
  at the trade deadline. I guarantee you by the trade
• 1:23:08
  deadline he will be traded somewhere He is playing this
• 1:23:12
  final year. He will not be back the after.
• 1:23:15
  I expect LeBron James to be an owner, maybe even AGM of a team
• 1:23:21
  really early in his career before he he eventually buys a
• 1:23:24
  team in the open market. And I do believe it's going to
• 1:23:26
  be Dallas. I really have this feeling it's
• 1:23:29
  going to be the Dallas Mavericks because it's very typical
• 1:23:32
  ownership over there in Dallas do not know what they're doing.
• 1:23:35
  And they only bought the team because they thought they were
• 1:23:37
  going to build a casino over there.
• 1:23:38
  And it doesn't seem like Dallas is going to allow a casino.
• 1:23:42
  And if they don't in the next five years, expect Cooper Flag
• 1:23:46
  to leave unless LeBron James comes in and takes over or a big
• 1:23:50
  name comes in there and takes over and tells Cooper Flag to
• 1:23:52
  stay there. Because he's going to build,
• 1:23:54
  he's going to build an organization around him.
• 1:23:57
  Because I, I just don't think Cooper Flag's going to want to
• 1:24:00
  be there. I, I think he, his goal or his
• 1:24:03
  presence on what we've heard over the last couple of months
• 1:24:05
  is his future could be in Boston.
• 1:24:08
  So I, that's, that's my opinion. I think Boston is going to do
• 1:24:12
  everything they can to free up salary to maybe make a move to
• 1:24:16
  bring in a guy like Cooper flag in the future.
• 1:24:18
  And that's what, 5-6 years down the road.
• 1:24:20
  So I expect Cooper flag if if Dallas doesn't get it together,
• 1:24:26
  ownership doesn't get it together with this casino.
• 1:24:28
  Cooper flag to say, you know what, I don't want to be here
• 1:24:29
  anymore. I want to go to my hometown.
• 1:24:31
  I want to play for my home team and I want to be at Boston
• 1:24:34
  Celtic. And that's something the Celtics
• 1:24:36
  absolutely believe could happen. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:24:40
  our golf clap of the day. This deserves a golf clap.
• 1:24:45
  No doubt. Golf clap.
• 1:24:46
  Golf clap. Our golf clap of the day goes to
• 1:24:51
  the New York Knicks, and I know a lot of Knicks fans are
• 1:24:53
  probably upset that the Knicks have not.
• 1:24:56
  You heard it from me, Not brought in a head coach.
• 1:24:59
  There are rumors coming out that Mike Brown might be the lead guy
• 1:25:03
  to get the job, but there's also rumors that the second guy on
• 1:25:06
  the list is Taylor Jenkins. The reason why the Knicks are
• 1:25:09
  going to get a golf clap of the day is for Leon Rose.
• 1:25:13
  Leon Rose, for all the Knick fans out there on social media
• 1:25:16
  saying that the Knicks are a stupid organization and how
• 1:25:19
  could you go into a draft without a coach?
• 1:25:21
  How could you go to free agents without a coach?
• 1:25:23
  Well, This is why the Knicks went into free agency without a
• 1:25:26
  coach. Because Leon Rose, everything
• 1:25:29
  he's touched turned to gold. He brought in Jaylen Brunson.
• 1:25:32
  He paid Jaylen Brunson $58 million as a free agent.
• 1:25:35
  And look what Jaylen Brunson has become.
• 1:25:37
  He's been become Mr. Clutch. As for the New York Knicks and
• 1:25:41
  and the Knicks first captain since Carmelo Anthony.
• 1:25:43
  What did the Knicks do after that?
• 1:25:45
  Well, they made trades trading RJ Barrett.
• 1:25:47
  They brought in a guy like OG Anobe.
• 1:25:50
  OG Anobe is one of the best defensive players, perimeter
• 1:25:53
  wing defenders in the in the NBA.
• 1:25:55
  You bring in Mikhail Bridges, you bring in Karl Anthony Towns,
• 1:25:58
  you you, you decided to move players and give Miles McBride a
• 1:26:03
  big contract. Well, a three-year contract for
• 1:26:05
  a bench player after training Cretan Grimes and absolutely
• 1:26:09
  slam dunk that move, bringing a Mitchell Robinson and paying
• 1:26:12
  Mitchell Robinson to a four year, $60 million contract where
• 1:26:15
  he's underpaid as a center in the league.
• 1:26:17
  Everything Leon Rose has done for the New York Knicks has
• 1:26:21
  turned to gold. So why judge him on social
• 1:26:24
  media? I'm not going to judge him.
• 1:26:26
  I think Leon Rose knows what he's doing.
• 1:26:28
  And my golf clap of the day goes to Leon Rose and the New York
• 1:26:32
  Knicks because the Knicks are not reaching on this coaching
• 1:26:35
  search. They're going to make the right
• 1:26:37
  decision and they're going to put themselves in position next
• 1:26:40
  year where they're going to make a run for another championship.
• 1:26:42
  So my golf clap of the day goes to Leon Rose and the New York
• 1:26:46
  Knicks. When we come back, ladies and
• 1:26:49
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• 1:26:51
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• 1:27:00
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• 1:27:03
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• 1:27:07
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  Ladies and gentlemen, he can get his glasses.
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  You can get anything you want from Detroit to the Mets to the
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  Yankees to even, yes, Ohtani and the Dodgers.
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  There you go, ladies and gentlemen.
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  I, I, I saw Josh. He was like, you know, he's, he
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  was hiding and he appears, he reappears.
• 1:29:09
  He's like a magician, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:29:10
  And now, ladies and gentlemen, he's been on our show four or
• 1:29:13
  five times. He's a great personality.
• 1:29:16
  He's doing so many things in the world of sports podcasts.
• 1:29:20
  He's been on iHeartRadio. He's been all over the place,
• 1:29:23
  including sports betting. We're now talking to former
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  Orioles, Blue Jays and Yankees pitcher Josh Towers.
• 1:29:30
  Josh, what's up, buddy? Listen man, I love those photos,
• 1:29:34
  by the way, No Golf Club of the day for me.
• 1:29:39
  What's going on with that? Well, that had something to do
• 1:29:42
  you want. Me.
• 1:29:45
  To give you a Golf Club. Do you want me to give you a
• 1:29:47
  golf? Club.
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  No, that's good too right now. Hey Speedy, they changed the
• 1:29:50
  name of the show and you don't even get none.
• 1:29:52
  Java gets it. His job would take questions
• 1:29:57
  over you well. Hold on one second.
• 1:29:58
  He's in the He's in the logo. He's in the logo.
• 1:30:01
  There you go. He's hanging from his underwear.
• 1:30:03
  I I was hanging for the for my underwear for the last four
• 1:30:05
  years. Wow, that's not dirty shows up
• 1:30:08
  and now you, I mean you just kicked to the curb again.
• 1:30:13
  My underwear won't fit on the curb.
• 1:30:14
  Speedy is just the biggest star as any of us on this show.
• 1:30:17
  Let me tell you something. Nobody pushed him.
• 1:30:19
  To the curb. He's still, he's still the
• 1:30:21
  producer slash Co host of this show and he's a great
• 1:30:25
  personality. Speaking of Co host and being a
• 1:30:27
  great personality, that goes to you, my friend, because we know
• 1:30:30
  the whole background behind you. Before we get into our
• 1:30:34
  conversation about what's going on in the MLB, what's going on
• 1:30:38
  with your nephew? I mean, he was playing baseball,
• 1:30:40
  right? What's going on with him?
• 1:30:42
  My son. And your nephew, isn't he your
• 1:30:44
  cousin or your his cousin or your nephew?
• 1:30:46
  Somebody else was playing college ball.
• 1:30:49
  It wasn't just your son. No, just my boys like I have.
• 1:30:53
  I have my son and my adopted son.
• 1:30:56
  They've been adopted. In college.
• 1:30:58
  Yeah, no, he's done things. Just laziness on his part, to be
• 1:31:02
  honest with you. My son actually just had Tommy
• 1:31:04
  John, unfortunately. Yeah, you were saying that,
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  which sucks. Yeah, because he.
• 1:31:07
  Well, he was going to be drafted pretty high, like top three
• 1:31:11
  rounds and then then Tommy John. But so we'll see what happens
• 1:31:14
  now he's going to be that senior kid that hopes to sign.
• 1:31:16
  But just bad timing. I mean, his fall was awesome,
• 1:31:21
  like 9 innings, no hits, no walks, 15 punches, just doing
• 1:31:25
  well, right? And then and then this thing
• 1:31:27
  shows up out of nowhere, which is unfortunate.
• 1:31:29
  But when he got hurt, it was January.
• 1:31:32
  The doctor read the MRI wrong. So we just found out like in May
• 1:31:38
  that it actually is torn and his somebody with the team, one of
• 1:31:43
  the trainers or something told him he goes, yeah, dude, I I
• 1:31:46
  thought it was torn the whole time.
• 1:31:47
  Like I knew it was torn. And Ryan said why do you say
• 1:31:49
  anything? He goes, I wasn't allowed to.
• 1:31:52
  So even though the document wrong and whoever else, he's
• 1:31:55
  like, I wasn't allowed to say anything and I was like, bro,
• 1:31:57
  you, we lost three months. Like there was, it's not the
• 1:32:00
  full Tommy John. This is like 8 or 9 months.
• 1:32:02
  I don't know if that is, but like we lost three months of
• 1:32:05
  rehab time. But that's a big deal when
• 1:32:06
  you're trying to play college baseball.
• 1:32:08
  So hopefully it works out. We'll see what happens.
• 1:32:11
  Josh, the New York Yankees and Aaron Judge was breaking
• 1:32:14
  records. He was doing things that we've
• 1:32:16
  never seen a player do since Ted Williams.
• 1:32:18
  I mean, he was unbelievable for the 1st 2 1/2 months of the
• 1:32:21
  season. And then and then in the month
• 1:32:25
  of June, he was batting. He's been batting 267.
• 1:32:28
  He only has seven home runs. He's in kind of a slump right
• 1:32:31
  now, but he's still batting 354. He has thirty home runs, 67
• 1:32:35
  RBI's. He's on pace to hit about 606566
• 1:32:39
  home runs this season and still over over 130140RB is if he
• 1:32:44
  stays healthy, does he win? Does he win the Triple Crown?
• 1:32:47
  I. Mean he's always in the running
• 1:32:48
  now, I mean you don't have to hit but 300 to win the the the
• 1:32:51
  batting title these days. So that's not that hard.
• 1:32:55
  He's always going to be in the legal league at home runs and RB
• 1:32:57
  is because of, you know, where he hits and the power that he
• 1:32:59
  has. So I mean, I don't I don't see
• 1:33:01
  why he doesn't He's not always going to be in the talk.
• 1:33:04
  It's crazy, right, and Java, you can speak on this man.
• 1:33:06
  It's crazy how and I know we're not picking on Aaron Judge, but
• 1:33:10
  you know, we expect big things from these guys and and you have
• 1:33:13
  one bad month where he's struggling a little bit and now
• 1:33:16
  it's like, oh, what's happened to judgey?
• 1:33:18
  But usually it's April that he struggles, right, and then he
• 1:33:21
  has this fantastic April. You know how hard it is to be
• 1:33:24
  lights out for six straight months.
• 1:33:26
  It's so hard, right? And so for this to be a bad
• 1:33:29
  month for him and it's still those numbers, like, it just
• 1:33:33
  shows you how good this kid is, man.
• 1:33:35
  He starts slow and kind of to see the way he's, you know,
• 1:33:40
  managing how he continues to get better because we we've seen how
• 1:33:44
  there's been like, oh, you know, his strikes don't discipline now
• 1:33:46
  we've seen how it's gotten better.
• 1:33:48
  His chase rate has gotten better and you know how he just keeps
• 1:33:50
  getting better and you know, he he's going to be in the
• 1:33:53
  conversation especially too. You got to look at it now,
• 1:33:56
  obviously your favorite player, Errol and and Jazz and how he's
• 1:34:00
  been hot since he came back. Jazz Chisholm it it's giving him
• 1:34:05
  it's giving him a little bit of relief.
• 1:34:06
  But if you look at it as a whole, he really hasn't had much
• 1:34:10
  thank, thank goodness Goldie got off to a hard stop.
• 1:34:12
  I mean, he's still hitting 285. But it's just I mean, he's kind
• 1:34:16
  of done it by himself with no protection.
• 1:34:19
  He's been walked twenty plus times in the first half already.
• 1:34:22
  Still nothing compared. And we haven't talked about this
• 1:34:24
  kid and we'll get it to him tomorrow.
• 1:34:26
  James Wood is a joke. He has better than Juan Soto
• 1:34:28
  numbers in the start of his career.
• 1:34:30
  James Woods an absolute joke. He's the guy that we're going to
• 1:34:33
  be talking about like this the next couple of years.
• 1:34:34
  He just, he's quietly doing, I think they all are in
• 1:34:38
  Washington. I think Washington's the team
• 1:34:39
  like probably starting next year that people have like where'd
• 1:34:41
  they come from? And it's like what?
• 1:34:43
  But he it's like every year, every month, he's doing the
• 1:34:47
  little things to slightly improve, slightly improve.
• 1:34:50
  Or it's not like this amazing season that we all get all
• 1:34:53
  excited and they fade. Like the consistency of his
• 1:34:56
  improvement is so good. And it's it's, it's done so
• 1:35:01
  right without anything being rushed.
• 1:35:03
  Like this dude is going to be a star bro, A star in this game.
• 1:35:08
  And I and I seen it with the way judges like, you know, struggle
• 1:35:12
  and he's always had those stupid like, you know, the toe running
• 1:35:15
  into the fence and getting hit by a ball.
• 1:35:17
  Like that's just dumb luck, which sucks.
• 1:35:19
  But I think the way he's gotten better and he continues to get
• 1:35:22
  better and especially with really nobody around him being
• 1:35:26
  able to protect him, he's he's going to be in the conversation
• 1:35:31
  every year. I mean, that's just a long and
• 1:35:32
  sure, if you look at him, if you look at him right now, he's he's
• 1:35:35
  first in batting average, 358. He is second in home runs right
• 1:35:40
  now in a league with 32 rallies. A33.
• 1:35:43
  Well, he's not like I love it. Always doing and cut you off
• 1:35:46
  real quick, brother, probably being a catcher.
• 1:35:49
  It's so hard to continue to do this dude.
• 1:35:52
  They don't get time to breathe. We don't ever stop talking to
• 1:35:55
  him. Somebody's always talking to
• 1:35:56
  him. That's why I catch a swing at
• 1:35:57
  the first pitch all the time. They're I mean, they're in
• 1:36:00
  conversation walking up to the plate right with some pitcher or
• 1:36:03
  some pitching coach. It it's a lot of work for those
• 1:36:07
  guys to go squat 5-6 hundred times a day and continue to
• 1:36:10
  drive like this. So I mean, it's amazing what
• 1:36:12
  he's doing, but I don't think those home run numbers continue
• 1:36:15
  for Cal. And no disrespect to him, it's
• 1:36:17
  just his position. So if if he's the only guy that
• 1:36:21
  judges in in in the race with, it's I judge going to pass it
• 1:36:24
  pretty soon. So.
• 1:36:25
  Yeah. So I want to ask about the the
• 1:36:26
  trade deadline strategy with the Yankees too, because like the
• 1:36:28
  combined value with the depth of the Yankees looked like they had
• 1:36:30
  at the beginning of the season with the lineups obviously the
• 1:36:32
  Torpedo back. Controversy.
• 1:36:34
  What? Yeah, What depth are you talking
• 1:36:36
  about? The one that the ones they were
• 1:36:37
  supposed to have signed, obviously Goldsmith been great.
• 1:36:40
  Cody Bellinger, they make the trade for and.
• 1:36:42
  We're. Expecting a bigger.
• 1:36:45
  With Anthony Volpe, and that hasn't really been there.
• 1:36:49
  Who was you? The Yankee fan's gonna hit me.
• 1:36:50
  He's not good. The guy's not good.
• 1:36:52
  But but people are freaked. Down because his swings long and
• 1:36:56
  slow. How about fix your swing?
• 1:36:57
  He's not that good man. It's just this overrated hype
• 1:36:59
  coming out of minor leagues. That's my opinion.
• 1:37:01
  But think about it. Everybody wants to say sucks
• 1:37:04
  does this. He has over 1600 at bats in the
• 1:37:06
  big leagues. He's a career 228 hitter.
• 1:37:08
  We're not talking about 300 at bats.
• 1:37:10
  What are we talking about? That's what I feel about soda.
• 1:37:12
  Like look at the last three or four years.
• 1:37:14
  The last four years is like a 268 hitter.
• 1:37:16
  He had that amazing second year. He's had some good power
• 1:37:18
  numbers, especially Yankee Stadium.
• 1:37:20
  But it's like, let's be honest about facts here.
• 1:37:22
  I mean, again now once the hype of the the bat thing he got is
• 1:37:27
  gone, he's back to being a 220 hitter or whatever.
• 1:37:30
  It's just let's face reality with this man.
• 1:37:33
  Yeah. So what would you do with the
• 1:37:34
  deadline like approaching with the lineup like obviously they
• 1:37:37
  might need pitching, but again, they.
• 1:37:38
  Have had top guys. They had top guys, too.
• 1:37:41
  They've done well. They, they always need pitching,
• 1:37:43
  man. I mean, look at the Mets, right?
• 1:37:45
  When they were going good until this last three weeks, they led
• 1:37:49
  baseball, I think in starting pitching and bullpen.
• 1:37:51
  And that's when they're winning. And now that their pitching is
• 1:37:53
  the worst in the game in the last three weeks, both sides
• 1:37:56
  starting and relieving, they, they're the worst team in
• 1:37:59
  baseball the last three weeks. And so you, you always need
• 1:38:03
  pitching. So whether you go back, I mean,
• 1:38:04
  are you really going to trust him?
• 1:38:05
  Weaver pitched in the 7th inning today.
• 1:38:07
  I mean, you see the closers, the 8th inning guys, he's the 7th
• 1:38:10
  inning guy. Like who's doing what?
• 1:38:12
  And you they show that they don't have faith.
• 1:38:14
  And and even when we were there before, when I was with the Oars
• 1:38:18
  and Blue Jays, they they've never really understood how to
• 1:38:20
  run a bullpen no matter who was there.
• 1:38:22
  So they use everybody. So they're going to need
• 1:38:24
  pitching no matter what. Somebody's got to keep the other
• 1:38:28
  team off the boards. I don't you don't look at
• 1:38:30
  Houston, right? They're winning all the time.
• 1:38:33
  It's because they don't give up a lot of runs and they do what
• 1:38:35
  they need to do to win. So pitching's for sure.
• 1:38:38
  They don't trust Stroman. Plus, I don't know how you could
• 1:38:40
  trust Stroman. We've had some injuries and
• 1:38:44
  then, yeah, you can go get a bat.
• 1:38:46
  Like I'm cool with that. But is that why?
• 1:38:50
  And I know there's no so no. But is that why they lost the
• 1:38:52
  World Series last year? Because it wasn't right?
• 1:38:55
  It's all the little stuff. It's the back end of the bases.
• 1:38:57
  It's knowing where you're going with the ball before you get to.
• 1:38:59
  It's getting your ass to first base.
• 1:39:01
  I mean, Volpe gets off the hook and I'm not picking on the kid,
• 1:39:04
  but Gerrit Cole takes the heat for not going over to first
• 1:39:07
  base, right? He should have been over to
• 1:39:08
  first base, but I'll give him a little pass just because of the
• 1:39:14
  mental grind he was in that inning to stay in the moment.
• 1:39:18
  But instinctively, it's why we work every day.
• 1:39:20
  So our incidents are there when our brains off.
• 1:39:22
  We all know when the balls to that side we got to get to first
• 1:39:25
  base. So you know, he takes a little
• 1:39:27
  heat. Judge took the heat for dropping
• 1:39:29
  the 1st 5 ball, but Volpe had no idea where he was going with
• 1:39:32
  that ball ahead of time. And so like if it's a position
• 1:39:34
  player, if it's coming to me, I'm going here.
• 1:39:36
  So this side I'm going here. So this side I'm going here
• 1:39:38
  depending how slow it is. He didn't put himself in those
• 1:39:40
  situations that balls hit to his right last second.
• 1:39:43
  He decided to go to 3rd. It's too late there right.
• 1:39:45
  So I still think they have the team to do it even if they
• 1:39:49
  didn't go make moves. But they got to clean up the the
• 1:39:53
  the mental side of the game and knowing where to be ahead of
• 1:39:56
  time. If they want to be that good and
• 1:39:58
  and face a team that like Detroit or or LA or even
• 1:40:03
  Houston, that does the little things right, that gives them a
• 1:40:06
  chance to where they don't have to score six runs a game.
• 1:40:11
  You know, it's it's crazy. And by the way, if anybody
• 1:40:13
  doesn't know, we're talking to the one and only, and we've had
• 1:40:16
  them on the show quite a few times.
• 1:40:18
  We're talking to former Orioles, Blue Jays and Yankees pitcher
• 1:40:21
  Josh Towers. You know, it's crazy when you
• 1:40:23
  look at the league and we have looked, we, we have seen so many
• 1:40:27
  young superstars come up over the last couple of years and
• 1:40:31
  pitching. We, we were just talking about
• 1:40:33
  it last week. Milwaukee's got a young stud
• 1:40:36
  right now. Paul Skins is a sensational
• 1:40:39
  young pitcher right now in Pittsburgh.
• 1:40:41
  Who do you think I know you mentioned Woods.
• 1:40:43
  Who do you think is the next guy up that's going to take over,
• 1:40:47
  you know, in the next 5 years as the superstar of the league over
• 1:40:51
  guys like Ohtani and Aaron Judge?
• 1:40:53
  I. Mean those are our two real big
• 1:40:54
  superstars. I don't know, man, you might
• 1:40:57
  want to give me some time to research this before you ask me
• 1:40:59
  a crazy question like that. Is it crazy?
• 1:41:02
  I mean we before we before we talked about Jay Wood, like he
• 1:41:04
  would literally he would have been my answer.
• 1:41:06
  No question about it. I just think the world of this
• 1:41:08
  kid and and what he's doing. So I you know, without being
• 1:41:12
  prepared, I'm going to I'm going to stick with that.
• 1:41:13
  It's it's tough with pitching right, because so many guys are
• 1:41:18
  so, so damn talented, but talent.
• 1:41:21
  What's it worth if you don't know how to use it?
• 1:41:24
  That kid in Milwaukee is insane. I think that's where he's at,
• 1:41:27
  right? That kid we just got called up.
• 1:41:30
  He's absolutely insane. But you know, the Cincinnati
• 1:41:34
  Reds are a prime example. We rush these dudes to the big
• 1:41:37
  leagues so fast, and you can't rush time and development.
• 1:41:39
  There's certain things that I don't care how talented you are,
• 1:41:43
  you need time to learn. And they rush Burns to the big
• 1:41:46
  leagues. And I was telling my son before
• 1:41:49
  yesterday, this game, I go, dude, he's going to get torched.
• 1:41:50
  And he's like, Oh, you know, you know, something's in college.
• 1:41:52
  You're like, oh, no, he's this, he's that.
• 1:41:54
  I'm like, I don't care, I don't care.
• 1:41:56
  You throw 95, I throw 95. You have a change up.
• 1:41:58
  I got to we all get the same stuff.
• 1:42:00
  Why, Why did Java pitch nine years in the big leagues and I
• 1:42:02
  pitched 8 years and you have zero and you got better stuff.
• 1:42:05
  Why? Because clearly we know how to
• 1:42:07
  use it. And there's certain situations
• 1:42:08
  that we've had time to work our our brain through and we've been
• 1:42:11
  comfortable in certain situations to trust stuff.
• 1:42:14
  And you don't just throw 100 miles an hour to have a nasty
• 1:42:17
  slider and fall behind and the ball leaves early so hitters can
• 1:42:21
  take it a little bit early and then next thing you know, it's
• 1:42:23
  2O, it's 21, it's one O and now you got to come to me and you
• 1:42:26
  don't have the trust to work on the corners on off of depth
• 1:42:29
  hill. And now what?
• 1:42:30
  Now you're just going to serve me a cookie at 100.
• 1:42:32
  Those go a long ways. And so I think a lot of a lot of
• 1:42:36
  our issues is, is the rushing and their thing to Burns and is
• 1:42:39
  a lot of guys like this. I just mentioned his name.
• 1:42:42
  We're we we've done spring training right?
• 1:42:44
  We've done April, we've done May, we've done June where we're
• 1:42:47
  four months into this. Where in his life has he played
• 1:42:50
  four months straight of of season baseball to where you
• 1:42:54
  have to continue to be on a routine and continue to work
• 1:42:58
  colleges what 4050 games, high schools, 2030 games without post
• 1:43:03
  season minor leagues. He didn't have it like he's
• 1:43:05
  already at his peak that he's ever played consistently this
• 1:43:08
  most baseball without a break, he's going to fade.
• 1:43:11
  And that's part of it too. So we have young guys all over
• 1:43:15
  the place that are beasts, and we have more young arms that are
• 1:43:18
  freaks than ever before. Don't don't forget spring
• 1:43:21
  training too. Josh, as I said, spring
• 1:43:23
  training, yes, the first part, yeah.
• 1:43:24
  We, we've had 40 bodies of camp that people don't realize.
• 1:43:27
  And so now you're at your peak and you still got three months
• 1:43:30
  of baseball left. It it's it's not that easy, man.
• 1:43:32
  And and so we have all these kids and, and we're rushing him
• 1:43:37
  to the big leagues. Look at Dylan Cruz, what are we
• 1:43:39
  doing? Look at what they did with
• 1:43:43
  Torkelson. Luckily, he slowly started to
• 1:43:45
  figure it out. Look at Vaughn and in the White
• 1:43:47
  Sox, like all these guys should be stars.
• 1:43:49
  But we rushed the development of every time you get, you do good
• 1:43:53
  for a month or two or a week or two, we promote you, then we
• 1:43:56
  promote you, then we promote you.
• 1:43:58
  Guess what happens when you get to the big leagues?
• 1:43:59
  There's no more promoting now. Let's do it again tomorrow.
• 1:44:02
  Guess what? Do it again tomorrow.
• 1:44:03
  Guess what? Do it again tomorrow and be
• 1:44:05
  good, Guess what? Do it again tomorrow and that's
• 1:44:08
  all. And that'll never end.
• 1:44:09
  And we don't know how to do that.
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  And so these guys don't know how to work through success and then
• 1:44:14
  maintain it and improve along the way.
• 1:44:17
  And then the first sign of failure, they've never faced it,
• 1:44:19
  so they don't know how to handle that.
• 1:44:21
  We've taken that away in the development aspect.
• 1:44:24
  So we have a lot of players on the offensive side or the
• 1:44:26
  pitching side that should be, could be, but aren't.
• 1:44:33
  Hold on. A little while ago, one second.
• 1:44:37
  Hold on, one second. There was something that you
• 1:44:39
  mentioned, I would say about 15 minutes ago where you were
• 1:44:43
  yapping about Juan Soto. What is what is this hatred for
• 1:44:47
  Juan Soto? Listen, I'm not a Juan Soto guy.
• 1:44:50
  I was very happy that the Yankees parted ways with him.
• 1:44:53
  I would never pay him $768 million.
• 1:44:56
  Why do you hate him so much? Why do you think?
• 1:44:58
  He's an overrated player. What makes him a?
• 1:45:01
  I think he's just completely overrated.
• 1:45:02
  I mean, I do, I think he's talented, of course.
• 1:45:04
  I think he's a good player. Yeah, he's a subpar outfielder.
• 1:45:07
  He's what does he do on the bases?
• 1:45:09
  He doesn't do anything on the bases.
• 1:45:11
  It's he's in it. I don't care.
• 1:45:13
  I want everybody to get paid all the money in the world.
• 1:45:15
  Dude, I like, I don't want anybody to ever like not have
• 1:45:17
  money, so I root for that. But bro, you give him all this
• 1:45:21
  money and you act like he's Aaron Judge.
• 1:45:23
  You act like he's Barry Bonds. He's not.
• 1:45:24
  He's a, he's a 260 something, 270 hitter who doesn't do well
• 1:45:30
  with the glove. And there's a million guys in
• 1:45:34
  baseball with his stats. Like we have a million guys in
• 1:45:36
  our generation who have the stats.
• 1:45:38
  You don't even know their names because they were average stats
• 1:45:40
  for us. And so like I, I just think it's
• 1:45:42
  so overrated. Part of it is, and, and maybe so
• 1:45:46
  does the guy that I'm picking on with this.
• 1:45:48
  Part of it is, is we, we make you believe that that is elite.
• 1:45:57
  We make you believe that those numbers are elite, that that's
• 1:45:59
  what it takes to be elite when to me that's average, right.
• 1:46:03
  And so I think we're teaching the next generation and this
• 1:46:07
  current generation that you don't have to be very good for
• 1:46:10
  us to consider great. And if we if that's setting the
• 1:46:13
  bar for greatness, then our future doesn't look very bright.
• 1:46:17
  He's not as good to me as what people think he is.
• 1:46:19
  And and I don't even think it's debatable.
• 1:46:21
  I agree with you and part of it, the game has changed you.
• 1:46:24
  You don't have to, like you said earlier, you hit 300, you're
• 1:46:26
  going to be in the conversation for the batting title.
• 1:46:30
  And I think that's where it's changed.
• 1:46:32
  I mean, if you, if you look at his, you know, his last five
• 1:46:34
  years, it's two, 3246236275. 288 and 2:58 so.
• 1:46:40
  Nothing to like write home about where, you know, 10 years ago.
• 1:46:44
  That's a whole we're having a whole different story about
• 1:46:46
  this. I mean, obviously it's on base
• 1:46:48
  percentage. He's a below average outfielder.
• 1:46:51
  Let's I mean, let's we're not and it's not like we're talking
• 1:46:53
  shit. We're just we're we're saying
• 1:46:55
  what it is. And I think because the game has
• 1:46:58
  changed in certain directions and, and certain dynamics of how
• 1:47:03
  people are portrayed were now it's so analytical and his war
• 1:47:06
  plus and his on base percentage quantified to the extreme that
• 1:47:10
  they are now to show the ability of the type of player that they
• 1:47:14
  really are. I I wouldn't say he's overhyped
• 1:47:17
  by any means. I think obviously his plate
• 1:47:20
  discipline, he's, he's going to get on base.
• 1:47:22
  He's he's going to hit, hit you 260-5270 somewhere in there.
• 1:47:27
  He's going to play an average at best outfield.
• 1:47:32
  And I think there's there's certain things and you know,
• 1:47:35
  it's my son's. Do we forget what he did in the
• 1:47:38
  playoffs last year? Do we forget what he's done in
• 1:47:40
  the playoffs before? This guy is a career over 300
• 1:47:43
  hitter in the playoffs. And that's when you're that's
• 1:47:45
  where you get your money. That's where you get paid.
• 1:47:47
  Did you see what he did against Cleveland?
• 1:47:50
  Did you in the American League Championship?
• 1:47:52
  He's a career 281 hitter. That's right.
• 1:47:54
  It doesn't matter if he's a career.
• 1:47:56
  You said 300. Whatever, It doesn't really
• 1:47:58
  matter. It takes a team to get to the
• 1:48:00
  playoffs. It takes a team to win.
• 1:48:02
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:48:02
  So we had a good couple weeks of the.
• 1:48:04
  Here was the reason why the Yankees went to the World
• 1:48:07
  Series, was he not? Was he the one that hit that
• 1:48:09
  home run that put the Yankees in the World Series?
• 1:48:13
  Was there? Somebody on base?
• 1:48:14
  What do you mean? Was there somebody on base?
• 1:48:17
  Was there somebody on base? I, I guess there was, I don't
• 1:48:19
  remember. I just, I just remember the
• 1:48:21
  shot. I remember his.
• 1:48:23
  Home run winning the game, but but for his teammates getting on
• 1:48:26
  base and giving him the opportunity, does he get a
• 1:48:29
  chance to be that hero? Anybody could be good for two
• 1:48:31
  weeks, right? A good time to be good for sure
• 1:48:33
  in the postseason. But like I said, I mean, I don't
• 1:48:35
  know, man. I just need more consistency if
• 1:48:37
  we're going to put him as the top 345 guy in the game and and,
• 1:48:42
  and pay him like he's the best player in the game.
• 1:48:44
  And and it's it's it's a nice thing.
• 1:48:47
  My Yankee fans are not sure I met fans.
• 1:48:49
  What are we crying about? He is doing right now what he's
• 1:48:52
  done his whole career outside of his second year in baseball.
• 1:48:55
  And let's go back and look at that team and talk about who am
• 1:48:58
  I going to pitch to when you have that loaded team and I got
• 1:49:02
  this kid coming up in his second year, Guess what you're getting
• 1:49:04
  all fastballs down the middle. I have time to waste time with
• 1:49:07
  you Soto when I got all those other guys right, so he's going
• 1:49:09
  to get more pitches to hit anyways.
• 1:49:11
  But I don't know, man, I just I just to say that he's on that
• 1:49:19
  level. I just, I completely disagree.
• 1:49:21
  Now, does he have a lot of great qualities and a lot of things
• 1:49:24
  that he can do for sure. And can he go out there
• 1:49:26
  potentially hit 350 with 40? Yeah, No, I think he's very
• 1:49:29
  capable. Will he do it?
• 1:49:30
  No, he's never done it. I don't know.
• 1:49:32
  I just, I, I think it's, it's, it's it's I don't know.
• 1:49:35
  I don't know. He shouldn't be in the
• 1:49:36
  conversation. And for the Mets fans to to
• 1:49:39
  snivel about anything. He's doing exactly what he's
• 1:49:41
  always done. So you're you're getting what
• 1:49:43
  you what you thought you were getting outside of we overly
• 1:49:47
  hyped them to make you guys think that he's doing what Aaron
• 1:49:49
  Judge is doing and he's he's not that he's not Ohtani and so be
• 1:49:54
  happy. But like it adds depth, it adds
• 1:49:56
  protection. Peter longs would definitely
• 1:49:57
  benefited the first half for it. But now what I mean, I don't
• 1:50:02
  even know how to to put this in, but they're winning because
• 1:50:05
  their pitching was amazing, both starting and relieving.
• 1:50:09
  Offense has not been good all year.
• 1:50:11
  Now all of a sudden the pitching's dead.
• 1:50:13
  Soto's unconscious right now and they're losing more games than
• 1:50:17
  ever. So how does that tie to helping
• 1:50:19
  that team win? Yeah.
• 1:50:21
  So I wanted to ask about the another team that spent a lot of
• 1:50:24
  money this offseason that the Dodgers with the deferred money,
• 1:50:26
  that whole controversy, obviously, oh, Tiny got the 600
• 1:50:28
  million and it was deferred money and then they kept going.
• 1:50:32
  Do you think that's something that should be changed across
• 1:50:34
  baseball? Is it a problem for it or is it
• 1:50:35
  just the Dodgers being like that crazy?
• 1:50:38
  No, it's something we've done for decades.
• 1:50:40
  Everybody's done this. We've all always done it.
• 1:50:42
  Frank Thomas did this. Frank Thomas did for like 30
• 1:50:44
  million which is a ton of money back then when you're signing.
• 1:50:47
  Hey, today's Bobby Bonilla Day. Yeah, but like everybody,
• 1:50:51
  deferred money, if this is not new at all by any means, it just
• 1:50:57
  got highlighted because the Dodgers are doing it.
• 1:50:59
  But then the Dodgers are signing a lot of guys and everybody's
• 1:51:01
  getting pissed, the Dodgers for signing all these guys.
• 1:51:03
  So then we're looking at things to bang them for, but not
• 1:51:05
  deferred money's nothing new in our game.
• 1:51:07
  It's been going on for decades. It's smart by players, by the
• 1:51:12
  way, super smart, especially when you can make 20 million a
• 1:51:15
  season just to just to see if we like the guy.
• 1:51:18
  I mean, that's after 20 million. You're sitting pretty good for
• 1:51:21
  the rest of your life. So for players, for money, I
• 1:51:24
  just think it's brilliant. I mean, look at Ohtani, look at
• 1:51:26
  Max Scherzer. The soon as they retire for the
• 1:51:29
  next 15 years, 20 years, they're going to have 20-30 million
• 1:51:33
  coming in this season. Like it's beautiful.
• 1:51:35
  It's brilliant by those guys. Playing with Max and, and
• 1:51:37
  getting to know Max, I played him against him in college and
• 1:51:40
  obviously played with him in the big leagues.
• 1:51:42
  But yeah, he was like, I'll take less money.
• 1:51:45
  I don't need to get paid much. He got, I think he got a $50
• 1:51:47
  million bonus and he's like, you could pay me 10 million a year.
• 1:51:51
  I don't care. And he deferred it for like, I
• 1:51:52
  think 12 years. And he's like, I don't need to
• 1:51:55
  get paid 50 million a year. There's other people that look
• 1:51:58
  at it this way too, where it's like the faster I get it, the
• 1:52:00
  faster I invest it. But then if I can't live off 12
• 1:52:02
  million after I'm done, I still invested that I didn't spend it.
• 1:52:06
  And now I get to sit at home, sit at the crib with the kids,
• 1:52:09
  play, and next thing you know, I get a check.
• 1:52:11
  I'll just use Bobby Benny a day. Oh, here's, here's a 7 figure
• 1:52:14
  check. Now they're 8 figure checks. 8
• 1:52:17
  figures bro. He's got like deferred money
• 1:52:19
  from like 3 different teams coming like he's I I used him as
• 1:52:22
  an example that we're talking. It's funny, I use him as an
• 1:52:25
  example today. I'm like Max Scherzer is just
• 1:52:27
  had those brilliant contracts of all time for what he's done for
• 1:52:32
  his future. But, you know, some people blow
• 1:52:33
  their money. Some people are very good with
• 1:52:36
  their money. So it works both ways.
• 1:52:38
  But you get a lot of money at once.
• 1:52:40
  And then money stops coming in and in the middle of it,
• 1:52:42
  depending on how smart you are, you know, you don't look at
• 1:52:44
  price tags. You just go spend.
• 1:52:45
  We fight over thousands of dollars of dinner.
• 1:52:48
  I got it. I got it all fighting and stuff,
• 1:52:50
  you know, and it's like, it's no big deal.
• 1:52:52
  And then one day it stops. And if you hadn't made a ton of
• 1:52:55
  money, it becomes a little bit different place for you.
• 1:52:59
  So when you make a ton, it's OK. But to now live off potentially
• 1:53:04
  less money raised to a lot of money.
• 1:53:06
  And then to have that money coming in every year for years
• 1:53:09
  and years and years after retire.
• 1:53:11
  Like it gets to a point where you've done it all, spent it
• 1:53:14
  all. And now you, you start to budget
• 1:53:17
  and become a lot smarter with when you what you want to do.
• 1:53:19
  And interesting. Like Musina Moose was the only
• 1:53:22
  new job. And I don't know if you've ever
• 1:53:23
  heard of this before. I don't know why we didn't do
• 1:53:25
  this, but Moose was the only dude who got paid over 365.
• 1:53:29
  All of us got paid over six months.
• 1:53:31
  Moose got paid over 365, which I thought was brilliant because
• 1:53:34
  then it makes you learn how to structure and budget money a lot
• 1:53:37
  better and you got money coming the offseason.
• 1:53:39
  And I'm like, why don't we all do that?
• 1:53:41
  Like that's that's the way to go right there.
• 1:53:43
  Yeah, there's, there's a few people that did that.
• 1:53:45
  He he deferred. I think he deferred for I think
• 1:53:48
  it was like 3 or five years I think from his last contract.
• 1:53:52
  But yeah, he, he, he always took that option.
• 1:53:56
  And I, I think a lot of people really didn't know if you could
• 1:53:58
  or not. And I.
• 1:53:59
  Think I never heard of it until I heard Mike do it.
• 1:54:01
  Yeah, and I think a lot of people were under the the
• 1:54:03
  premise too. It's like a lot of people and
• 1:54:05
  you know, it's your agents and your, your financial people, the
• 1:54:08
  faster you invested. So it's like, yeah, you're going
• 1:54:10
  to take more. But then it's like, OK, there's
• 1:54:12
  nothing coming. And it's, there's so many ways
• 1:54:14
  to look at it. I I think the deferred money's
• 1:54:17
  brilliant. I do too.
• 1:54:18
  And if you and it's it's been going on, there's so many people
• 1:54:21
  still getting paid. Griffey was the highest paid
• 1:54:23
  dude on the Reds for like 4 years and played with him
• 1:54:26
  forever. So think about it now, dude.
• 1:54:28
  And I know we've been out of the game for a second, but think
• 1:54:30
  about it now. Like, would you not like to have
• 1:54:32
  a paycheck coming every two weeks right now?
• 1:54:35
  I do and it's nice but not as big as those ones.
• 1:54:38
  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like even even if we would have
• 1:54:40
  cut that back in half and then now it's still coming in every
• 1:54:43
  two weeks like it. Yeah, it's just the structure is
• 1:54:45
  so much better. Yeah, it's it's completely
• 1:54:47
  different. We are talking to former
• 1:54:50
  Orioles, Blue Jays and Yankees pitcher Josh Towers.
• 1:54:53
  You know, Clayton Kershaw is a guy that's probably going to
• 1:54:56
  walk away from the game and a lot of people are going to, you
• 1:55:00
  know, after his career is over, what are they going to say about
• 1:55:03
  him? What what are they going to
• 1:55:04
  compare his game to? And he could go down as one of
• 1:55:08
  the greatest left-handed pitchers we've ever seen.
• 1:55:10
  When? He was that.
• 1:55:11
  Do you think he's good, Errol? I I for seven or eight years, I
• 1:55:15
  don't think there was anybody better than him.
• 1:55:16
  I mean he was untouchable but like.
• 1:55:19
  Given what you just said about Soto makes me think that you
• 1:55:21
  would think he sucks because he's awful in the playoffs.
• 1:55:24
  Well, that's fine. And but.
• 1:55:26
  Also also, when Clayton Kershaw was at the top of his game, the
• 1:55:29
  Dodgers were up and down when it came to their lineup.
• 1:55:32
  Their lineups were never as good as it is right now when you have
• 1:55:35
  Friedman on the lineup, Mookie Betts, I mean, oh, Tony, it's
• 1:55:39
  ridiculous. What that when when Clayton
• 1:55:41
  Kershaw was at the top of his game, who is their best hitter?
• 1:55:44
  I mean, seriously. Like camping and and.
• 1:55:47
  There was nobody, I mean, they, they didn't have any, any of the
• 1:55:50
  roster. They if Clayton Kershaw had the
• 1:55:53
  roster he had right now and he was at the top of his game.
• 1:55:57
  He wins multiple championships. Clayton Kershaw is probably the
• 1:56:00
  best left-handed pitcher we've seen in the last 30 years.
• 1:56:03
  I mean. When I was there after after O9
• 1:56:06
  with with the Yanks, I went to the Dodgers.
• 1:56:09
  He was 22 years old, bro. We usually you pull that roster,
• 1:56:12
  I'll talk about a roster that should have won, you know,
• 1:56:14
  Garrett Anderson and Manny Ramirez and Matt Camp and Andre
• 1:56:18
  Ether. We were loaded on that team to
• 1:56:20
  walk around that clubhouse on Starstruck looking at that team,
• 1:56:23
  dude 22 years old and he was our leader, bro.
• 1:56:26
  He everybody just followed CK everybody he led by example,
• 1:56:31
  kind of had this Roy Holiday quality to him.
• 1:56:34
  Like, it's amazing that a kid that young on a team like that
• 1:56:38
  had that much respect from an early age.
• 1:56:40
  I mean, it's just, it's part of why he's so damn good.
• 1:56:43
  But no, he's one of the best pitchers not only just our
• 1:56:46
  generation, but like ever. He's so good bro.
• 1:56:49
  That's crazy. That's that's why, because I, I
• 1:56:52
  want to ask from a, you know, a picture standpoint we have Nick
• 1:56:55
  Goody is on the show all the time.
• 1:56:56
  I asked him off, said congratulations to Nick.
• 1:56:59
  He was working with the Guardians this weekend, did his
• 1:57:01
  play by play. It was fantastic.
• 1:57:03
  But Nick, I asked Nick Goody offset, I said, what, what do
• 1:57:07
  you see Clayton Kershaw being remembered as?
• 1:57:09
  I mean, obviously his greatness for the 7-8 years of his
• 1:57:12
  dominance, but what is he going to be remembered?
• 1:57:14
  Because the World Series that he won, he wasn't really even a big
• 1:57:17
  name or a big part of those World Series championships that
• 1:57:20
  he's won, the 2 championships that he's he's won over the last
• 1:57:24
  couple of years. So what is he remembered as?
• 1:57:26
  And he said dominant. He was the dominant pitcher in
• 1:57:30
  the major leagues. I don't think anybody can argue
• 1:57:32
  that. So that's my question to you.
• 1:57:34
  Another guy that I want to get into is Carlos Rodon.
• 1:57:37
  Everybody's taking shots. Yankee fans have taken shots at
• 1:57:40
  this contract when obviously, yes, Brian Cashman gave him the
• 1:57:44
  money that he gave him. And I thought he underpaid a guy
• 1:57:47
  like Carlos Rodon. And Carlos Rodon is having a
• 1:57:50
  great season. If you look at his numbers right
• 1:57:51
  now, he's nine and five, 2.95 ERA, 123 strikeouts in his WHIP
• 1:57:57
  is 1. Why does why does everybody hate
• 1:58:00
  on this guy now? He's inconsistent, but when he
• 1:58:02
  is on, he's one of the best pitchers in baseball.
• 1:58:04
  Let me jump back real quick. In his career, Clayton's 216 and
• 1:58:08
  94 is win percentage. I mean, it's insanely dominant.
• 1:58:12
  I don't know what I think about Rodon, right?
• 1:58:13
  Like he was literally like a like a good night's sleep away
• 1:58:17
  from being out of baseball and being done.
• 1:58:20
  And then the White Sox bring them back because I think he had
• 1:58:22
  no offers. And then he goes out and puts a
• 1:58:24
  healthy, phenomenal season where it showed off why he was a high
• 1:58:29
  round pick. And if I'm not mistaken, I think
• 1:58:30
  he was rushed to past the development stage or some sort
• 1:58:33
  of the struggles factored into the big leagues and then he
• 1:58:36
  didn't have any offers. I think it was.
• 1:58:38
  So he signs back with the White Sox and part of that like it's
• 1:58:42
  beautiful because now it's personal.
• 1:58:43
  Now it's like, oh, no one thinks I'm any good.
• 1:58:45
  And it's like, yeah, your past wasn't very good and it was full
• 1:58:48
  of injuries. So, yeah, no, we're good, dude.
• 1:58:50
  And then he's like, all right. So then like the perfect timing
• 1:58:53
  of he gets an opportunity back to the White Sox and he has
• 1:58:55
  something to prove. And it just shows that one good
• 1:58:58
  season and you can get a contract.
• 1:59:00
  But then I think he went to that next team.
• 1:59:02
  I was shocked at the contract. I thought that that it was, it
• 1:59:06
  was a rushed, He was 180 million.
• 1:59:09
  I thought it was rushed given he had the one Goodyear with the
• 1:59:11
  White Sox and then he had the next season and then he becomes
• 1:59:14
  that free agent and he was one of the guys on the market,
• 1:59:17
  bigger name. I thought it was a very big
• 1:59:20
  contract given he hadn't proved enough consistency yet in his
• 1:59:24
  career to be the guy. So again, I don't care what the
• 1:59:28
  number is to an extent, like like I said, you can give Soto
• 1:59:33
  $765,000,000. That doesn't make him Hank
• 1:59:36
  Aaron. He's that's just how much you
• 1:59:38
  decided to give him. He still is the guy that he is.
• 1:59:42
  And so 180 million doesn't necessarily mean now all of a
• 1:59:45
  sudden they got to go win 20 games.
• 1:59:47
  And, and when it's not young, he's he's, he's still better
• 1:59:51
  than he had consistently been his first five years.
• 1:59:54
  And so is he giving you a chance to win?
• 1:59:57
  Is he making his starts? Is he, is he doing to an extent
• 2:00:00
  what he should do or did you sign him with the expectations
• 2:00:04
  that he was going to be Max free 1st 15 starts where he couldn't
• 2:00:07
  be hit? Like that's not reality either.
• 2:00:09
  So again, I can't, you can't always let the number skew us
• 2:00:13
  from what the player is and what what they were doing.
• 2:00:17
  You have to overpay everybody these days.
• 2:00:19
  You got to pay. Over.
• 2:00:20
  Everybody, if you want to get him in New York anyways.
• 2:00:23
  So the price is always higher in, in in New York, that is
• 2:00:26
  anywhere else you need depth. And so look, I mean, look, we
• 2:00:30
  lost Garrett Cole. We got hurt.
• 2:00:31
  Like we're not invincible. And you can never have enough
• 2:00:34
  pitchers. The Dodgers have the worst
• 2:00:36
  throwing program. Whoever's running that needs to
• 2:00:38
  be fired 30 times. Crazy.
• 2:00:41
  Don't tell them that because they think.
• 2:00:42
  They're just geniuses after all the things they've done.
• 2:00:47
  Every player in the world gets hurt on that team.
• 2:00:48
  There's no way whoever's running that.
• 2:00:50
  That's the biggest joke of all time, because it's been like
• 2:00:52
  that. But that's why they got to sign
• 2:00:53
  everybody, because everybody. Gets hurt.
• 2:00:55
  I mean, who doesn't like Tyler? Glass now, I mean.
• 2:00:58
  He's felt like Glass. His last name is Glass now,
• 2:01:01
  Tyler Glass now, and that guy. They've used the most starting
• 2:01:05
  pitching this year. They've used 16 starters.
• 2:01:07
  It's ridiculous. It's.
• 2:01:09
  Bro, we just started to sign. It's insane.
• 2:01:11
  Like this is crazy that everybody gets hurt like that.
• 2:01:14
  And to me, there's four non negotiables, man.
• 2:01:17
  It's your phone program, it's your core, it's your running and
• 2:01:19
  it's your cuff leads. And I like, I'm going to assume
• 2:01:22
  they're doing none of those four.
• 2:01:23
  That's what I think is like, I've never seen a team get hurt
• 2:01:26
  so much. But again, you need pitching
• 2:01:29
  like you can't just go in with five or six guys and think
• 2:01:32
  that's going to work. And then whatever you have in
• 2:01:33
  the minor leagues, but it's always what makes the Yankees so
• 2:01:36
  brilliant. And I've had this conversation
• 2:01:38
  with people too. It's like, you know, to be a
• 2:01:40
  minor league free agent guy like myself.
• 2:01:42
  And it's like, yo, I got I got 2.
• 2:01:43
  I got a couple options. One of them is like the Yankees
• 2:01:46
  and one of them is the Marlins. And I'm thinking about starting
• 2:01:48
  with the Marlins. And I'm like, no, no, no, that's
• 2:01:50
  not what you want to do. And like, what do you mean?
• 2:01:51
  Like it's an easier path to the big leagues?
• 2:01:53
  And it's like, no, I got it. Seems like it.
• 2:01:55
  But no, it's not. The Marlins are just going to
• 2:01:57
  use their guys because they're not really going to use us.
• 2:01:59
  We're minor league death. The Yankees will use everybody.
• 2:02:02
  They don't care. They just care about winning.
• 2:02:05
  And if you have any experience in the big leagues, and I'm an
• 2:02:08
  example of of them using them like they're go, they would
• 2:02:11
  rather do that and have a person that they can bring up and use
• 2:02:15
  for one day or one week that's going to give them the best
• 2:02:18
  chance of winning right now because that's all it is, is can
• 2:02:21
  we win today's game job in that clubhouse?
• 2:02:24
  I never heard anybody talk about anything except how do we win
• 2:02:28
  today? Everybody collectively talked
• 2:02:30
  about how we can win today's game and it meant nothing else
• 2:02:33
  meant anything. And so the Yankees do that.
• 2:02:35
  They like our 24th, 5th guy was me, Chad Gordan, Sergio Mitre,
• 2:02:42
  like it's like your 25th, 24th, 23rd guys on it like 6 years in
• 2:02:46
  the big leagues. That's a good place to be when
• 2:02:48
  it comes to depth. And so the Yankees, they they do
• 2:02:51
  this stuff where they bring all these guys and you got Alan
• 2:02:53
  Winans now is one of them. And, and they do whatever they
• 2:02:56
  can do to win. But it just also shows you you
• 2:02:57
  cannot have enough pitching. I do not care.
• 2:03:00
  It's it's a tough thing. So you know, you can.
• 2:03:03
  I was shocked at the Orioles. Bro how do you I'm not.
• 2:03:07
  Eflin and and and who Kyle Gibson like I'm a fan of Kyle
• 2:03:11
  Gibson's, but how do you how do you let the Bourbons go?
• 2:03:14
  How do you not go after Freed? How do you not go after all of
• 2:03:17
  these dudes and load up with what you have?
• 2:03:20
  And they they have new ownership too.
• 2:03:23
  They think that they're doing good in the minor league system
• 2:03:25
  as far as they've had the number one rated minor league system.
• 2:03:28
  They think they're developing. They don't develop.
• 2:03:30
  They're one of the worst ever developing.
• 2:03:32
  They just had the first pick for so many years and they traded
• 2:03:35
  all these guys and took all these.
• 2:03:36
  So they got the stockpile of talent.
• 2:03:38
  But now we're seeing that none of them are developing and none
• 2:03:41
  of the pitchers have developed. And so it's like shows you guys
• 2:03:44
  didn't actually develop stockpile minor league prospects
• 2:03:47
  and then you have the first pick in the draft, which is pretty
• 2:03:48
  hard to mess up. And and so it's like it's like
• 2:03:51
  what happens now? And.
• 2:03:52
  Whenever they develop a player, they they can't sign him, they
• 2:03:56
  can't bring him up. Manny Machado.
• 2:03:57
  Look what? Look what he turned out to be.
• 2:03:59
  He was a superstar. And then they let him go.
• 2:04:01
  And where does he go? He goes to San Diego and.
• 2:04:04
  You see what they got for Manny Machado.
• 2:04:06
  Yeah, I saw what they got, but how?
• 2:04:08
  What have they won? None of them.
• 2:04:09
  None of them were left. None of them.
• 2:04:10
  None of them. What are the Padres get for Juan
• 2:04:16
  Soto? Like it's like, how do you mess
• 2:04:19
  that up? You got like 6 dudes and the guy
• 2:04:22
  they wanted more than anything in the world that was off
• 2:04:24
  limits. Then the Off Limits guy was
• 2:04:26
  Gavin Lux and there was all these other dudes that were
• 2:04:31
  there they could have chose from that are stars.
• 2:04:34
  Before we let you go, I want you.
• 2:04:36
  I want you guys both. Of you I.
• 2:04:40
  Was getting my golf clap. This is ridiculous.
• 2:04:42
  No, no, no golf clap. Josh, get your thumb out of your
• 2:04:45
  ass. I got to ask you a question.
• 2:04:47
  Is there a particular story that you can tell us about Jabba?
• 2:04:50
  When you first or you met Jabba or you played with Jabba?
• 2:04:54
  Is there a funny story that you have about?
• 2:04:56
  Jabba ain't funny to him. It'd be funny to me.
• 2:04:58
  Every time I hear Jabba's name, this is all I think about.
• 2:05:01
  Jim Palmer's our TV Guide for the Orioles and Jim's great
• 2:05:04
  right Hall of Fame guy. And but Jim, you know, he was
• 2:05:07
  the jockey guy. No, sure.
• 2:05:08
  You know, he thinks that, you know, he's still in his head.
• 2:05:10
  He thinks he's super, super famous and he might be in some
• 2:05:13
  worlds and I love it. That's his ego.
• 2:05:15
  It's him, but he's a nice guy. So I I think it's great.
• 2:05:18
  And and you know, there's certain things in your career,
• 2:05:21
  your life that are said to you and it's usually by people that
• 2:05:23
  are not that close to you, because people close to us are
• 2:05:25
  afraid to say the right thing and fear they might have our
• 2:05:27
  feelings. And so Jim would always, I would
• 2:05:31
  always hear it down the hall, throw your change up, throw your
• 2:05:34
  change up. And he would always yell at me
• 2:05:35
  to throw my change up. You know, I got to force you to
• 2:05:37
  use it more. You would have good
• 2:05:39
  conversations with him because the intelligent guy, he would
• 2:05:41
  always mix himself into the conversation.
• 2:05:43
  Don't get me wrong, because he likes stock by himself in O 9
• 2:05:46
  where the Orioles and Jim's the guy that'll just say whatever he
• 2:05:52
  wants because in his head he's Jim Palmer.
• 2:05:54
  And I've never he was in the like tunnel and he went to go
• 2:05:59
  say something to Jabba about something.
• 2:06:01
  Same thing he would say to me. And he went to go say something
• 2:06:03
  to Jabba and Jabba's like, yeah, Jim, we know no one gives a
• 2:06:07
  shit. And he walked away.
• 2:06:08
  I just to me it was the funniest thing in the world because I
• 2:06:11
  know Jim so well to hear Jabba just blow his ass off and keep
• 2:06:16
  walking. And Jim was only in his head
• 2:06:18
  trying to give like good advice and Jabba just told him where to
• 2:06:21
  go. And I was like quietly dying
• 2:06:23
  laughing because known him so well.
• 2:06:26
  It's like, is it everybody else? Not the best, but to me I've
• 2:06:28
  always, it always stood out man. To me, I don't know if you
• 2:06:31
  remember something as simple as that, but it was great.
• 2:06:34
  That sounds like job it was, right?
• 2:06:36
  I'll tell you mine before we let him go.
• 2:06:38
  Josh, my debut was when you hit a rod in the clear benches
• 2:06:41
  twice. That was your debut?
• 2:06:43
  What? Fuck dudes like that.
• 2:06:45
  That should have been headed weeks before that.
• 2:06:47
  These guys know the story. But Major League Baseball steps
• 2:06:49
  in and was like, oh, you can't hit him.
• 2:06:50
  I'm like, you're going to escalate this.
• 2:06:52
  We've had this issue a million times Yeah, that was fun dude.
• 2:06:55
  Remember like so and everyone like now every knows but yes, we
• 2:07:00
  cleared the second time was because I went at Tony pain
• 2:07:02
  Yeah, Alex thought I was going to him.
• 2:07:03
  I was going to Tony because Tony.
• 2:07:04
  I know well and the first time was it's my first, it's my first
• 2:07:08
  day. I got the bubble guts.
• 2:07:09
  I had to take a shit. And so I was, I was on when you
• 2:07:14
  cleared the first time I heard it, I was literally getting off
• 2:07:18
  the Cam and like, I'm running out because, you know, the
• 2:07:21
  visiting, you got to go out and then run down.
• 2:07:23
  So I'm like trying to run and put my stuff together.
• 2:07:26
  They're like, you might want to run out there.
• 2:07:28
  I was like, oh, this is a great first impression.
• 2:07:29
  Yeah. Sweet.
• 2:07:31
  Yeah, Well, yeah, you got a second time, too.
• 2:07:34
  Brian Wolf also was making his Major League debut that day as
• 2:07:37
  well. For us, he came in.
• 2:07:39
  Oh, sorry, I backtracked. That was the first time we
• 2:07:41
  should have. Allenton ended it when Brian
• 2:07:43
  made his Major League debut and he was asked to hit him and he
• 2:07:47
  didn't do it because it was his debut and he was too nervous to
• 2:07:49
  do it. That's interesting.
• 2:07:51
  So, you know, obviously when I was with you guys, I'm in the
• 2:07:53
  bullpen and we're in New York and we here it is, we're
• 2:07:56
  fighting again, Johnny Maggots hit or whatever.
• 2:07:58
  It is a fight. And I'm running out with Mariano
• 2:08:00
  in slow motion because I was like, MO, I should be in a Blue
• 2:08:02
  Jays uniform right now and Mogos, hey, just jog slow.
• 2:08:07
  And I was like, you're the best dude.
• 2:08:08
  It's like the slowest walk ever. So I didn't have to get involved
• 2:08:11
  in a fight wearing a Yu when I was part of what started that
• 2:08:15
  whole shit thing that lasted 4 years.
• 2:08:17
  Wow started it but. I think the golf clap of the day
• 2:08:19
  has to be Jabba saying he had the bubble guts.
• 2:08:24
  And those nerves are like, you can't duplicate those feelings
• 2:08:27
  anywhere else in the world. I don't care, man.
• 2:08:29
  Like this something that just takes over.
• 2:08:31
  And it's that's what I'm saying about all this rush stuff,
• 2:08:34
  rushing these guys to the big leagues.
• 2:08:36
  We're putting them in a situation you don't realize what
• 2:08:39
  you're feeling and how long it takes to to calm that down and
• 2:08:43
  be able to do your job when you're feeling something you've
• 2:08:46
  never felt before. Because there's nothing else
• 2:08:49
  that that gets to it. And now you got to figure out
• 2:08:51
  how to get rid of all this adrenaline and look at yourself
• 2:08:55
  as an equal and not look at, holy shit, that's Derek Jeter.
• 2:08:58
  And look at, oh, there's a hole here and a hole here.
• 2:09:00
  And he does this in this county, likes to do this.
• 2:09:02
  And this dude takes a long time. And those nerds are real.
• 2:09:06
  Well, I'll tell you what my golf clap of the day goes to you for
• 2:09:10
  joining us for joining us okay, Josh, we love you.
• 2:09:14
  We do we love you man, we love what you do you do so many great
• 2:09:18
  things to reach out to your son tell your son we love him and
• 2:09:22
  keep up the good workout I'm. Looking forward.
• 2:09:24
  To seeing him, you know, get back into, you know, baseball
• 2:09:27
  and pitching and getting. East East Carolina, he'll be
• 2:09:30
  there. He was there on that team and
• 2:09:31
  they're a good program, so he'll be there.
• 2:09:33
  Maybe, maybe we'll link your son and Jabba's son together.
• 2:09:36
  How about that? Place now where's he at?
• 2:09:37
  What's going on with that? He's a sophomore.
• 2:09:40
  He he's at Hutch right now. Oh, nice.
• 2:09:42
  OK. Yeah, he was.
• 2:09:43
  He was a two way and then wanted to figure it out and then so he
• 2:09:46
  just got a PRP in his elbow so. So we've had that done too.
• 2:09:50
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Does he throw fuzz?
• 2:09:51
  He's. Like 1994.
• 2:09:54
  So they're about the same. Yeah.
• 2:09:56
  Nice. Yeah, 656-5210 it's.
• 2:10:01
  A beautiful frame, Your last name.
• 2:10:05
  How about Java? Did you think you had a
• 2:10:06
  beautiful frame wide? That's all right, as long as
• 2:10:13
  you're hiding the ball and it sneaks up and it works good.
• 2:10:15
  Java is a beast. Could you imagine Josh Towers?
• 2:10:20
  You know, he's in a dugout, goes up to job is as man.
• 2:10:23
  You got a beautiful frame. I've I've heard worse.
• 2:10:28
  Trust me, Josh. We love you, man.
• 2:10:32
  We love. You.
• 2:10:33
  I love you. Thank you.
• 2:10:34
  Absolutely, Josh. Good to see you, Josh.
• 2:10:40
  What a beautiful frame. I love Josh.
• 2:10:43
  You know why? Because his personality, he he's
• 2:10:46
  just very, very funny. He's very fluent and he doesn't
• 2:10:49
  give a crap. He will say whatever he wants is
• 2:10:52
  he's just like Jabba. No wonder why they click.
• 2:10:55
  I mean it when when it came back and and the bubble, what would
• 2:10:58
  he call it? Bubble guts, Bubble guts.
• 2:11:02
  Jabba, I expect that to be your the most used sound bite of
• 2:11:05
  yours next week. And those things are real, man.
• 2:11:08
  Bubble guts. Beautiful frame, I'm sorry,
• 2:11:15
  beautiful frame, I'm sorry. That was funny when he said.
• 2:11:19
  You definitely, definitely get fish to make a graphic.
• 2:11:22
  What is the most beautiful frame for you?
• 2:11:25
  I said why? UFC 317 featured 2 main event
• 2:11:32
  championship fights, both ending in under 3 minutes.
• 2:11:36
  In the flyweight championship fight, Alexander Upon Toha
• 2:11:40
  defended his title by beating Kai Kara Franzau with a rear
• 2:11:46
  naked chokehold. By the way, fantastic finish.
• 2:11:49
  When you get a chance to watch somebody put a rear naked
• 2:11:51
  chokehold, it's it's really in mixed martial arts now.
• 2:11:54
  It's almost impossible. You don't see that anymore
• 2:11:57
  despite being ranked #9 in the UFC rankings, Pantola said He is
• 2:12:03
  no doubt a top 4 fighter in the UFC.
• 2:12:07
  After that win, the lightweight championship match, Ela Tupara
• 2:12:11
  knocked out Charles Olivera, which by the way, was one of the
• 2:12:14
  most unbelievable knockouts I've seen in a long time, just in 2
• 2:12:19
  minutes and 27 seconds into the fight.
• 2:12:21
  And by the way, before the fight, he actually told
• 2:12:24
  everybody he predicted he was going to knock him out in the
• 2:12:27
  first round, which is unbelievable.
• 2:12:29
  So that that by itself is a crazy, crazy story.
• 2:12:34
  So Ilya became one of just 10 UFC fighters ever to win a
• 2:12:41
  championship belt in two different weight classes.
• 2:12:43
  After becoming champion, Ilya is likely to fight Armand so
• 2:12:48
  Yukiyan and Justin Gagee or maybe even Patty Piblet to
• 2:12:54
  defend his title. And Ilya says he would like to
• 2:12:57
  fight Patty. I would love to see Ilya and
• 2:13:00
  Patty fight. I, I, I think that he doesn't
• 2:13:03
  deserve a fight right now. Who?
• 2:13:05
  Patty. No, he just sells fights.
• 2:13:08
  He doesn't. He's he's #8 you don't give an 8
• 2:13:11
  guy against him. Yeah, but that's what only
• 2:13:12
  person in two weight classes to be undefeated.
• 2:13:15
  No chance to say that. Say that about Conor McGregor.
• 2:13:17
  And when it comes to putting, yeah, no, I get it.
• 2:13:19
  I understand. He's he's 2 point O First of
• 2:13:22
  all, I think Topuria right now is the number one ranking
• 2:13:25
  fighter right now in the UFCI. Think now after not knocking
• 2:13:28
  Charles Olivera. Olivera was in the top five, top
• 2:13:31
  6 even with some of the latest losses that Olivera has had.
• 2:13:36
  Olivera has been one of the top five fighters the UFC has had in
• 2:13:40
  a very long time and knockout fighter.
• 2:13:43
  Mixed martial artists can take you down.
• 2:13:46
  Wrestling, jiu jitsu, black belt.
• 2:13:48
  I mean, Charles Olivera is a great fighter, but the way Ilia
• 2:13:52
  just knocked him out the way he did with two minutes and 27
• 2:13:55
  seconds into the fight was just absolutely incredible.
• 2:13:58
  And it says a lot about who he is as a fighter because when he
• 2:14:02
  comes out, there are a lot of fighters that come out and say,
• 2:14:04
  oh, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that and never do
• 2:14:06
  that. As we all know, Conor McGregor
• 2:14:08
  for years has done things and said things that never came to
• 2:14:11
  fruition. But I this guy is as a dominant
• 2:14:14
  as a fighter. We've seen really since I I
• 2:14:17
  would say Jon Jones. I mean Jon Jones, who, by the
• 2:14:20
  way, just retired recently and he's I don't think he's ever
• 2:14:23
  going to come back again. It's pretty obviously that he's
• 2:14:25
  not. But Ilia, what he did on
• 2:14:29
  Saturday night just shows you why the UFC has been looking for
• 2:14:33
  a superstar fighter to to move forward with and he is that guy
• 2:14:36
  now. Is he going to stay in those
• 2:14:38
  weight classes? Which class is he going to stay
• 2:14:40
  in? And it it being that he has
• 2:14:42
  dominated his weight class. Does he move up in weight class?
• 2:14:46
  Does he move up maybe 2-2 weights two classes to to fight
• 2:14:50
  event that gets better competition?
• 2:14:52
  I obviously he's in a, in a weight class right now that he
• 2:14:55
  has been really the best fighter in it and maybe he dips TO155150
• 2:15:01
  now that's a lot of weight. I, I think right now he would
• 2:15:04
  have to dip. What is it 15 lbs?
• 2:15:06
  I'm not I'm not quite sure. Let's get Jake in here because
• 2:15:09
  Jake is the big UFC guy and I, I, I know Jake has followed a
• 2:15:13
  lot of UFC fights. I'm sure he watched this card
• 2:15:17
  317. I watched bits and pieces.
• 2:15:19
  I watched the final fight. I watched bits and pieces of the
• 2:15:22
  rear naked chokehold, which you don't see in in the way, did
• 2:15:26
  you? Did you not see the best fight
• 2:15:28
  of the night? What are you talking about?
• 2:15:29
  Which one? Which one is that Joshua Van and
• 2:15:31
  Brandon Rival? Well, with the, Yeah, that.
• 2:15:33
  I was going to say Java, thank you for that.
• 2:15:35
  Friend of Joshua Vaughn was. Honestly it was probably fight
• 2:15:39
  of the night. I know Ilya's knockout of
• 2:15:40
  Charles was fantastic. They did, they did.
• 2:15:42
  They won Fight of the Night. Yeah, Alexandra Pantogia against
• 2:15:46
  Kaikar France like Pantogia put on a fantastic performance as
• 2:15:49
  well, but that fight Brandon Rival and Joshua Vaughn was so.
• 2:15:53
  Bad. They didn't.
• 2:15:53
  They didn't stop. No.
• 2:15:55
  I was exhausted and they were just taking licks too.
• 2:15:59
  And it was non-stop. It was it was so fun to watch.
• 2:16:01
  I just watched I didn't, I didn't watch the the I only
• 2:16:05
  watched the final two fights of the main card.
• 2:16:07
  I didn't watch the whole card, the whole 5 fight card.
• 2:16:10
  I didn't even watch the preliminaries.
• 2:16:12
  I I didn't get a chance because I was DJ ING that night and I
• 2:16:15
  was pretty much working. So I was watching it on my
• 2:16:17
  phone. But I, I wanted to watch the
• 2:16:19
  Oliveira fight because Ilya, you know, this fight was being, you
• 2:16:24
  know, graded as one of the best fights the UF CS put together
• 2:16:27
  and probably the last five cards.
• 2:16:29
  And this wasn't even a fight. I mean, in 2 minutes, Ilia just
• 2:16:33
  pretty much dominated the fight 2 minutes and Charles Olivera
• 2:16:38
  has never been knocked out like that ever.
• 2:16:40
  I've never seen Charles Olivera just completely get his ass
• 2:16:43
  knocked out the way he did. So it was incredible.
• 2:16:47
  That was an incredible show, show of just dominating and and
• 2:16:51
  why he's probably the best pound for pound fighter right now the
• 2:16:54
  UFC has. I mean, who's better than him
• 2:16:56
  right now? Who's better than no he?
• 2:16:58
  He is number one right now. No, Yeah, right.
• 2:17:00
  Rightfully so. And you're definitely right,
• 2:17:02
  Errol. I think like, that's what was so
• 2:17:03
  crazy about. It's like Charles Olivera has
• 2:17:05
  been taken down before, but never like that.
• 2:17:07
  Just absolutely slept like Ilia is punching power.
• 2:17:10
  Like I know everyone was thinking like, oh, is he really
• 2:17:13
  going to be able to hang at 1:55 and is he going to have that
• 2:17:16
  same power? And there's no doubt at all
• 2:17:19
  after that after knocking out Charles Oliver, sleeping him
• 2:17:22
  like the KO victory like that. I was absolutely phenomenal.
• 2:17:25
  And I know, I know you said you didn't watch this fight, but I
• 2:17:27
  just got to show you this this clip really quick.
• 2:17:29
  The ending of this of Roy Val and Vaughn, like this fight was
• 2:17:32
  absolutely this ending was so like it's such a breakneck pace.
• 2:17:37
  It was a phenomenal fight. They were just going at each
• 2:17:39
  other the entire night, putting on a show for the fans.
• 2:17:41
  Like this is definitely one fight of the year.
• 2:17:43
  You should definitely check this out.
• 2:17:44
  Errol. This is like the last I'll watch
• 2:17:47
  the card. But it was it was so close back
• 2:17:49
  and forth and you know it right here at the OR close grand Roy
• 2:17:53
  Val was was tagging Joshua Vaughn, but Vaughn was answering
• 2:17:56
  right back. And it gets almost to a photo
• 2:17:58
  finish near the end here where Joshua Vaughn almost finishes
• 2:18:02
  the fight. But you know, Brandon Roy Val
• 2:18:04
  just hung around the entire time and they bloodied the hell out
• 2:18:07
  of each other. And it was.
• 2:18:08
  And it was this pace the entire time.
• 2:18:10
  Oh my God, yeah. They never, they never stopped.
• 2:18:12
  They never is a breakneck pace the entire fight.
• 2:18:14
  Did you, did you see him keep slipping too?
• 2:18:16
  I didn't know if that was like sweat or like what, because he
• 2:18:20
  kept. Yeah, I don't know, I I think it
• 2:18:21
  might it maybe it was the canvas because like they were going
• 2:18:24
  really fast. Like there wasn't too much
• 2:18:25
  blood. I mean, they were bleeding
• 2:18:26
  definitely. So it wasn't from the previous
• 2:18:28
  fights, but it must have been just from previously, like right
• 2:18:31
  there. Like it was almost finished by
• 2:18:32
  Joshua Fond. Like he was right.
• 2:18:34
  And Brandon Warval was like trying to do everything he could
• 2:18:36
  to scramble and just make sure he can make it because, you
• 2:18:38
  know, like 10 seconds right there left like that.
• 2:18:40
  Finally, me and my brother or my brother, he had a bad head on
• 2:18:44
  for the fight to just go to the decision and right there, like
• 2:18:47
  Joshua Vaughn takes down Brandon.
• 2:18:49
  We're about 5-6 seconds left there.
• 2:18:51
  Like, Oh my God, like it might really end here.
• 2:18:53
  Like a photo finish. I will say this, I I'm going to
• 2:18:56
  get a chance to watch the whole card.
• 2:18:58
  I'll probably not tonight, but over the weekend I'll get a
• 2:19:01
  chance to watch 317 again. I the the fight that I wanted to
• 2:19:05
  watch. I want to watch Elia and I
• 2:19:06
  wanted to watch Charles. Olivera is one of my favorite
• 2:19:08
  fighters. I've always rooted for Charles
• 2:19:10
  because he's such a likable person and so very well, well,
• 2:19:13
  well respected in the UFC. He doesn't go out there and talk
• 2:19:16
  crap. He goes out there and fights and
• 2:19:18
  even when they were doing the weigh insurance, how respectful
• 2:19:21
  both of these guys are to one another.
• 2:19:23
  You didn't when Elia knocked him, knocked him out.
• 2:19:26
  He actually, after he knocked him out, he wanted to make sure
• 2:19:29
  that he was OK because he was worried about Charles Oliveri
• 2:19:32
  getting knocked out the way he did.
• 2:19:33
  So it just shows you the type of respect these two guys have for
• 2:19:37
  one another. And yeah, I, I think Gili is the
• 2:19:40
  best pound for pound fighter right now the UFC has to offer.
• 2:19:42
  But that says a lot about who he is.
• 2:19:45
  This guy, if you remember when he came into the UFC, he had to
• 2:19:49
  work his way up to the top and the UFC never gave him any, any
• 2:19:54
  light, you know, lightweight all the way to the top.
• 2:19:57
  He had to earn his way to the top.
• 2:19:59
  When you, when you talk about Conor McGregor, Conor McGregor,
• 2:20:01
  when he came into the UFC, it took maybe 3 or 4 fights before
• 2:20:05
  the UFC and obviously Dana White fell in love with him and then
• 2:20:09
  he was moving up and ranking so fast.
• 2:20:12
  This guy, it took him a while to get where he was and now you
• 2:20:15
  know, he's 2728 years old. He, he, he's unbelievable.
• 2:20:18
  I I honestly think right now there's nobody in the UFC that
• 2:20:23
  could beat this guy in three different classes.
• 2:20:25
  Passes, he can move up 10 more pounds, 15 more pounds.
• 2:20:29
  This guy is one of the best boxers, stand up fighters I've
• 2:20:32
  seen in a very long time really since Jon Jones.
• 2:20:35
  I mean, you look at Jon Jones and what he could do with his
• 2:20:37
  legs and throwing punches, his combination.
• 2:20:40
  That's what this this kid can do.
• 2:20:41
  I mean, he could do so many things.
• 2:20:43
  And by the way he trains, he does kickboxing, Muay Thai.
• 2:20:47
  This guy is as good a fighter all around, fighter we've seen
• 2:20:49
  in a very, very long time. Yeah, no, I think you're
• 2:20:52
  definitely right. You point out the fact with Ilya
• 2:20:54
  Tapori and how like the the similarities with Conor
• 2:20:56
  McGregor. I should have put this this
• 2:20:58
  photo up here really quick. I saw this Ilya and he
• 2:21:01
  apparently DM Ed, Conor McGregor way back in the day this poster
• 2:21:04
  here and Conor just put it up on his social media for not too
• 2:21:07
  long ago right there. Congratulations.
• 2:21:09
  I'm going to be you somedays. Fair play, son.
• 2:21:11
  And I think it's such an interesting thing to think about
• 2:21:14
  that, you know, Ilya it, it's I'm not, again, I'm not calling
• 2:21:17
  him Conor McGregor, but he definitely has that fighting
• 2:21:21
  style, that quickness, that, that pull, that that star power.
• 2:21:24
  And like you and me, we were going back and forth about how
• 2:21:26
  who should be the next face of the UFC and we were talking
• 2:21:29
  about Merab. And he definitely has the the
• 2:21:30
  skill, But Ilia has that, that like that, that star power or
• 2:21:35
  whereas Merab's kind of he's a little, he does run his mouth
• 2:21:38
  sometimes, but he's a little bit more quiet.
• 2:21:40
  He's more humble. Ilia has that like booming
• 2:21:43
  confidence on the on the brink of, you know, cockiness.
• 2:21:46
  And it's like it's such a strange thing because you like
• 2:21:48
  want to hate on Ilia. But then again, he is very
• 2:21:50
  respectful. Like I thought I couldn't
• 2:21:52
  believe like at the press fight or pre fight press conference,
• 2:21:56
  he was straight up telling Charles Oliveira to his face,
• 2:21:58
  this isn't how I wanted to do, I wanted to fight Makachev.
• 2:22:01
  And he said, I I I've already won.
• 2:22:04
  I've got the victory. And like in his face and I'm
• 2:22:06
  telling I'm like, how can you say that to a man?
• 2:22:08
  Like you're about to go to war with this guy and you're telling
• 2:22:10
  him, I already beat you. And and literally he said, I'm
• 2:22:12
  going to knock. I'm going to knock, right.
• 2:22:15
  Yeah, like Java, you're right. He he said, I'm going to knock
• 2:22:18
  him out in the first round. And he did it with ease.
• 2:22:20
  Like I will say this, Charles, that one moment he had in the
• 2:22:24
  match where he had ILY in the in the heel hook.
• 2:22:26
  If he if he clamped that in and he got it on Ilia, he probably
• 2:22:30
  would have because it's one of the worst injuries you can have.
• 2:22:34
  Like it's something that you do not want to stay in your.
• 2:22:37
  Achilles Tenon if once you get a like, you can RIP somebody'd
• 2:22:41
  Achilles. Tenant right quick, but I will
• 2:22:42
  say Ilia, he didn't panic, he didn't forget.
• 2:22:45
  He scrambled like confidently almost, which was insane because
• 2:22:48
  it's like normally most times fighters in there, they panic
• 2:22:50
  and you know, it's like you get twitchy, especially with Charles
• 2:22:52
  Oliveri saw once he was on the ground, like Ilia was kicking
• 2:22:55
  him a couple of times, but he didn't he didn't want to go to
• 2:22:57
  the ground with Ilia at all. But even when he was in that
• 2:22:59
  dangerous position, he didn't you know, he didn't panic.
• 2:23:02
  He didn't scramble like like in a fear.
• 2:23:05
  He was confident. He got out of it quickly.
• 2:23:07
  He kept tagging Charles. And what was interesting to me
• 2:23:10
  was, is that Charles pursued Ilia a lot and that felt like
• 2:23:15
  Ilia normally is pressuring all of his opponents.
• 2:23:18
  And despite the fact he's only 5-7 and I don't believe his
• 2:23:20
  reach is very long and and Charles had such a huge frame
• 2:23:24
  and a reach compared to Ilia, but he was pressuring Ilia the
• 2:23:26
  whole time. So it was almost like Ilia
• 2:23:28
  baited him in just waiting for him to keep coming and keep
• 2:23:31
  popping in with that jab. And then he found that right
• 2:23:33
  hand and knocked him out. You mentioned Merab and the only
• 2:23:36
  reason why I think Ilia right now is a little bit ahead of
• 2:23:39
  Merab right now, because Merab is, is a small guy.
• 2:23:42
  I don't know if he could fight in any higher or bigger weight
• 2:23:46
  classes because he's really small.
• 2:23:48
  Ilya, he's not a small man. The guy could he, he drops like
• 2:23:52
  30 lbs before his fights. He could fight, he could fight
• 2:23:55
  at 175, he could fight at 185 if he really wants to and he throws
• 2:24:00
  really, really hard and, and the ability that he has, the way he
• 2:24:04
  throws, he could fight in the higher weight classes and knock
• 2:24:07
  a lot of guys out in the bigger and the heavier weight classes.
• 2:24:09
  So I that's why I think Ilya is the best, best fighter, best
• 2:24:13
  pound for pound fighter right now the UFC has, and it's so
• 2:24:16
  funny because Joe Rogan after the fight and the way he Joe
• 2:24:19
  Rogan wanted to get on his hands and knees and suck him off.
• 2:24:21
  I mean, Joe Rogan absolutely loves Ilya.
• 2:24:27
  And you saw it after the fight. Oh, you're the greatest fighter.
• 2:24:30
  This is one of the greatest dominating fights against one of
• 2:24:32
  the greatest fighters the UFC has ever had.
• 2:24:34
  And, and really, Charles Dellavera is a great UFC
• 2:24:38
  fighter. This guy has been a multiple
• 2:24:40
  champion. This guy is is is he's a black
• 2:24:42
  belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He's a good boxer, he's a good
• 2:24:45
  wrestler. His all around fight games is is
• 2:24:48
  as good as we've seen in a very, very long time.
• 2:24:51
  And then he's this guy goes into the ring and says, you know, I'm
• 2:24:54
  going to knock you out in the first round and embarrass him
• 2:24:56
  right in front of national crowd and and the national fans around
• 2:25:00
  the world and just really showed why the UFC now has the next
• 2:25:04
  guy. And by the way, Ilia is so much
• 2:25:06
  better than Conor McGregor ever was.
• 2:25:09
  For anybody to think that, you know, you're trying to compare
• 2:25:12
  who is better at the top of their game.
• 2:25:14
  Ilia is a better fighter than Conor McGregor was.
• 2:25:17
  Now Conor McGregor had that knockout punch.
• 2:25:19
  He had that left hand. We all know what Conor McGregor
• 2:25:21
  is. He was more of a boxer.
• 2:25:23
  His Muy Thai suck sucked. His ground fighting sucked.
• 2:25:27
  He had no stamina whatsoever. Ilia has stamina.
• 2:25:30
  He's got the ground fighting. He's got the stand up, he's got
• 2:25:34
  everything, so for anybody to try to compare Ilia to to
• 2:25:38
  Connor, there's no comparison. Ilia if he fought Conor McGregor
• 2:25:42
  at the top of his game, he knocks Conor McGregor out.
• 2:25:45
  I, I will say I would have loved to see that fight.
• 2:25:48
  I I think it would be kind of close just because of if you
• 2:25:50
  remember prime Connor, just how he he had that.
• 2:25:52
  I understand his stamina was not there and Ilia was definitely a
• 2:25:55
  better ground fighter. We haven't really have to seen
• 2:25:57
  it though, because it has just been knocking everybody out left
• 2:25:59
  or right. But he definitely was a Connor
• 2:26:02
  was a very like traditional striker.
• 2:26:04
  And then he of course, he worked on his boxing when he went to go
• 2:26:07
  fight Floyd Money, Mayweather and things of that nature.
• 2:26:09
  But it would it would be interesting to see.
• 2:26:11
  But like, I think I honestly like, and maybe this is just
• 2:26:14
  like recently by saying, but I might have to give it to Ilia
• 2:26:16
  because it's his power like again and he's fast, like Connor
• 2:26:20
  was the same way. But Ilia, it's just like it's,
• 2:26:23
  it's lightning quick and you, it just comes out of nowhere and it
• 2:26:25
  doesn't really make sense. And the fact that he moved up to
• 2:26:28
  the weight and it seems like the power's still there.
• 2:26:30
  That's what's crazy to me. And and I know we talked about
• 2:26:33
  you said he could probably move up another weight class and
• 2:26:36
  personally, but I think what's going to happen is depending on
• 2:26:38
  whatever happens with Islam Mahachev and Jack Della Madalena
• 2:26:41
  at the names. I'm not going to lie with you on
• 2:26:43
  that, depending on what happens. At welterweight, whether Islam
• 2:26:48
  is to win or lose, I think Ilia will probably wait for Islam.
• 2:26:52
  The only Personally me I'm a big Justin Gaichi fan so I would
• 2:26:56
  love to see Justin Gaichi fight Ilia Zeporia because I think
• 2:26:58
  Justin Gaichi does have the power to match to Poria although
• 2:27:01
  I am worried about his speed because I feel like he would be
• 2:27:04
  really fat. Or cagey.
• 2:27:05
  Too much, right? I'm not his defenses.
• 2:27:09
  It does scare me a lot of times because he eats a lot of shots
• 2:27:12
  and you can't with Ilya, you cannot, you can not get tagged
• 2:27:16
  over and over again. But is an.
• 2:27:19
  Amazing. He has an amazing jab.
• 2:27:21
  He could throw the jab and he sets up I Ilia to me, when you
• 2:27:26
  look at the context of trying to compare his skill, his stand up
• 2:27:30
  skill to somebody, it would probably be Jon Jones.
• 2:27:33
  That would be the guy. Jon Jones obviously bigger and
• 2:27:35
  stronger than he was. But what what Ilia does so well
• 2:27:40
  is his stand up game hit, the way he sets up punches, the way
• 2:27:42
  he sets up combinations and then he doesn't need to take you
• 2:27:46
  down. He dominates you from the waist
• 2:27:48
  up and he makes sure that you can feel how hard he throws his
• 2:27:51
  punches. As a matter of fact, Charles
• 2:27:53
  Aloe Vera at at the press conference after the fight, he
• 2:27:56
  says that was the hardest punch I've ever felt in my UFC career.
• 2:28:00
  Could you imagine Oliver coming out and saying that and, and,
• 2:28:04
  and he's fought some of the best fighters UFC has ever had.
• 2:28:06
  And he said that was one of the hardest punches I've ever felt
• 2:28:09
  in my career. That says a lot about the power
• 2:28:12
  Ilia has and, and what he can do to people.
• 2:28:15
  It doesn't matter what weight class.
• 2:28:16
  That's what makes him special. And I, and again, I'm going to
• 2:28:19
  tell you this right now, I don't think this guy is going to be
• 2:28:21
  beaten. I don't care.
• 2:28:23
  In the next three years, years, I think this guy is going to
• 2:28:25
  dominate. He's going to give up one of
• 2:28:27
  those belts. I wouldn't even be surprised if
• 2:28:29
  he says OK, I'm I'm dominated this division.
• 2:28:31
  I've dominated this division. I want to go into this division
• 2:28:34
  because I want to be the first three division champion the UFC
• 2:28:37
  has ever had because nobody had on that.
• 2:28:40
  Yeah, I have heard that take. Like they said, like Iliad, like
• 2:28:43
  he's so good and he probably won't be like, even though I
• 2:28:45
  want him to fight somebody's like I want him to fight Armand
• 2:28:47
  Saruki. I want him to fight Justin
• 2:28:49
  Gaichi and I want to like, I think Patti Pimble.
• 2:28:50
  Like obviously there is the rivalry there.
• 2:28:52
  It's he's not ready yet. Like he doesn't deserve.
• 2:28:54
  I know Joe Rowan called him out and said like, hey, you know, we
• 2:28:57
  could see this fight between you and Patti because you guys have
• 2:28:59
  had your beef. I think it's probably going to
• 2:29:00
  be Armand Saruki and or Justin Gaichi and they'll probably have
• 2:29:03
  Patti fight someone like Dan Hooker or maybe he'll fight
• 2:29:06
  Gaichi or Armand. And the other will be we'll get
• 2:29:08
  the chance against Ilia first. But yeah, I think they, you see,
• 2:29:11
  definitely want to set up Islam versus Ilia and that's probably
• 2:29:15
  going to be the match up that everyone to see is I'll throw
• 2:29:17
  this up here too. This was the the power rankings
• 2:29:21
  after the pay-per-view. And you know, Ilia, obviously
• 2:29:23
  the number one spot, Islam at #2 maraba #3 Drakus Duplessy at #4
• 2:29:28
  and then Pantoja, you know, getting his respect that I think
• 2:29:30
  he violently deserves, deserved to be in that higher rankings in
• 2:29:33
  the pound for pound rankings. I think he arguably probably
• 2:29:35
  should be #4 I do like Drakus, but I think that Pantoja has
• 2:29:39
  proved over the last couple of fights he's had, you know, Cara
• 2:29:42
  France, Arison as well. And he's, he's just been
• 2:29:47
  dominant and fantastic. And they, I think they
• 2:29:49
  definitely want to see to Pori and Makachev.
• 2:29:51
  And I like you say like I love Justin Gaichi but I am nervous
• 2:29:56
  for that fight. I think Ilia would also dominate
• 2:29:58
  Arma. I think he would dominate Patty.
• 2:30:00
  Like to me Islam is the only guy that I would think it will be a
• 2:30:04
  good fight. It won't just be Ilia is
• 2:30:06
  knocking someones ass out again. And that's the problem because
• 2:30:10
  Islam, he, he likes to and this down his truth, he wants to take
• 2:30:13
  you down. He wants to wrestle you and take
• 2:30:14
  you down. And and you're going to get the
• 2:30:16
  chance to see what Ilia could do on the ground because that's
• 2:30:19
  what Islam is going to do. But.
• 2:30:20
  Islam does have hands, though, I will say like he can, he can
• 2:30:24
  like to me like if you look at him in versus Khabib, like
• 2:30:27
  Khabib was a straight wrestler. Like he could, he could box, but
• 2:30:31
  he he just wanted to take you to the cage, tire you out, wear on
• 2:30:34
  your ground and pound and hurt you.
• 2:30:35
  Like if you like remember the fight with Dustin Poirier and
• 2:30:39
  Islam Mahashev, like Islam was boxing with Dustin pouring.
• 2:30:43
  That's somebody you don't want to stand up on a ground game
• 2:30:45
  with and box with. Like so I would love to see that
• 2:30:47
  fight. I like again, like you said,
• 2:30:48
  though, I don't think he'll want to trade with Ilia.
• 2:30:50
  He'll probably take him down and wrestle him and hire him out and
• 2:30:53
  we'll get to see how Ilia does. But that's that's the fight to
• 2:30:56
  make. Well we'll see what happens it's
• 2:30:59
  fun when with the UFC and again I haven't really watched the
• 2:31:02
  full card. I will watch 317 this weekend.
• 2:31:05
  It's 4th of July weekend. And by the way, I wish everybody
• 2:31:08
  a happy 4th of July. We'll say that after the show,
• 2:31:11
  but it it's crazy because I never got a chance to watch it.
• 2:31:15
  Everybody kept telling me how how good the card was.
• 2:31:18
  The only two fights that I got a chance to see is the final two
• 2:31:20
  fights. And I I thought that the Ilia
• 2:31:22
  fight really stood out for me because I like Ilia.
• 2:31:25
  I think he, he's up, you know, obviously he's been around for a
• 2:31:29
  while, but he's up and coming when I mean by up and coming,
• 2:31:31
  he's it's going to be very hard to to see anybody in any of
• 2:31:36
  these weight classes beat this kid because the guy is so
• 2:31:38
  confident and so careful when he's he, he's so, you know,
• 2:31:42
  precise the way he boxes and way he stands up against people that
• 2:31:47
  the only way you're going to beat him is taking him down.
• 2:31:49
  And nobody's ever done that. So until somebody does that,
• 2:31:53
  good luck trying to stand up with him and trying to knock
• 2:31:55
  this guy out because the guy's got heavy hands.
• 2:31:58
  And like Charles Oliveira said at his press conference, this is
• 2:32:00
  the he is the hardest puncher he's ever been in the ring with.
• 2:32:04
  So that says a lot about him as a fighter and and how how
• 2:32:07
  dangerous and how scary this guy could be for the future and the
• 2:32:10
  US. He's only 27 years old too.
• 2:32:13
  So he's got a lot of fights left and a lot of opportunity to
• 2:32:16
  really show who he is. Might go down as the greatest
• 2:32:19
  UFC fighter of all time. He's got a lot he's got a lot to
• 2:32:22
  go. But Jon Jones to me, as much as
• 2:32:25
  everybody says Jon Jones is the greatest fighter of all time.
• 2:32:27
  To me, he might be the greatest bitch of all time because when
• 2:32:30
  he I'm. Just so pissed off with Jon
• 2:32:32
  Jones. And that why?
• 2:32:33
  Why do you think he didn't want to fight absent all though?
• 2:32:35
  Because he knows he's going to lose.
• 2:32:37
  I mean, yeah, it was the there are the legal like a parent,
• 2:32:40
  apparently. I think there are some legal
• 2:32:41
  cases that just came up with him.
• 2:32:42
  He might have gotten into a like a hit and run accident or
• 2:32:45
  something like that. But to me, the guy I agree with
• 2:32:48
  Errol, like I think he knows that he's older now.
• 2:32:51
  He beat up on steep a who was like 40 plus years old, which
• 2:32:54
  like steep AI got. I respect to him, Grace
• 2:32:56
  heavyweight of all time, but he just didn't have it anymore.
• 2:32:58
  He took the easy fight, but the payday and like.
• 2:33:01
  Well, yeah, and Steep a was he was firefighting 90.
• 2:33:04
  Percent yeah and he like been laid off for like 3 to 4 like he
• 2:33:07
  hadn't fought in like 3 plus years.
• 2:33:09
  And it's like you're just not going to be in fighting shape to
• 2:33:11
  go up against the heavyweight champ like John Jones, like the
• 2:33:14
  guy who's arguably the best in the world right now.
• 2:33:16
  Like I think Tom Aspinall would have won and I wanted to see
• 2:33:19
  that fight. I'm so freaking pissed off with
• 2:33:21
  Jon Jones for quitting and like like you said, I think he
• 2:33:24
  bitched out on it and it bitched out a lot of I mean, Dana White
• 2:33:27
  said the fight was done and they said they had it ready, but John
• 2:33:30
  just wanted to drag it along and be a duck like let.
• 2:33:33
  Me tell you something about Aspinall and why I like Tom
• 2:33:36
  Aspinall after he heard that he was he was firing, he didn't go
• 2:33:41
  after he didn't attack John Jones.
• 2:33:43
  He wished him nothing but the best and he and he sure how much
• 2:33:46
  class Aspinall has he he went out there and said, listen, he's
• 2:33:50
  one of the greatest fighters of all time.
• 2:33:52
  I understand when when somebody wants to walk away from the
• 2:33:54
  fights and spend time with his family.
• 2:33:55
  I wish him nothing but the best and I hope I hope he gets the
• 2:33:59
  chance to spend the time that he wants with his family, which he
• 2:34:02
  hasn't over the last couple of years.
• 2:34:03
  That says a lot about Aspinall and and the type of person that
• 2:34:06
  he is as a professional because he could have went out and
• 2:34:08
  attacked John Jones and told him go F himself.
• 2:34:11
  He didn't do that. That's something Connor would
• 2:34:12
  do. Espinal did not do that.
• 2:34:14
  And that's something that yet the class and the respect that
• 2:34:17
  you have to have for a fighter that could go down as the
• 2:34:20
  greatest MMA, greatest mixed martial artist, UFC fighter of
• 2:34:24
  all time in Jon Jones. So.
• 2:34:26
  Yeah, I think like you said, like Tom definitely would have
• 2:34:28
  been 100% justified in Colin Jones a bitch and just telling
• 2:34:31
  him like he's a Jackass or whatever because he I mean,
• 2:34:34
  wasted a year of Tom Espinal's prime.
• 2:34:36
  Like he was literally sitting on the shelf just training, working
• 2:34:39
  hard. And they and Dana White and
• 2:34:41
  Hunter Campbell and all them just said just stay ready.
• 2:34:43
  Just stay ready. Like keep training, keep, you
• 2:34:45
  know, be in shape. We'll we'll tell you when the
• 2:34:47
  fight is. And they just had to be at the
• 2:34:49
  bend at the well, but they. And the crazy part is they said
• 2:34:52
  it more than once that we're either close or, yeah, it's
• 2:34:54
  almost a done deal. And so.
• 2:34:56
  It's like I, I this is Dana. White's fault This is Dana
• 2:34:59
  White's fault by the. Way, yeah, I think realistically
• 2:35:02
  they, they probably didn't have the fight ever ready.
• 2:35:04
  Like maybe they maybe they like verbally agreed to it, but I
• 2:35:07
  don't think it was ever written in in like a contract or was
• 2:35:10
  never signed by Jones and Aspinall.
• 2:35:12
  Like they probably were just saying that just to like keep
• 2:35:14
  people's interest around. Because I will say I was excited
• 2:35:17
  for it. But like I hear tons of people
• 2:35:18
  online and UFC fans around the world, like they didn't really
• 2:35:21
  care. They didn't want to watch the
• 2:35:23
  fight anymore because it's like you kept dangling in front of us
• 2:35:26
  and then you was like, you never gave it to us was like, people
• 2:35:28
  aren't going to give a shit anymore.
• 2:35:29
  Like similarly, like with Connor, like I wanted to see
• 2:35:31
  Connor versus Michael Chandler and Connor kept getting in his
• 2:35:34
  party and in his legal troubles. And it's like now most people
• 2:35:37
  don't even really care. Like Michael Chandler, he went,
• 2:35:40
  he moved on, he moved on. I didn't want, I didn't want to
• 2:35:44
  see Connor and and Michael Chandler because to me, I'm.
• 2:35:47
  Just saying that like if you wait too long.
• 2:35:49
  No, I wanted to see. I wanted to see Connor and Nate
• 2:35:52
  Diaz 3. That's what I wanted to see.
• 2:35:54
  For the. Years, that's what I wanted to
• 2:35:56
  see because honestly, Nate Diaz won both fights and Conor
• 2:35:59
  McGregor only won the second fight because if he lost that
• 2:36:01
  fight, his career would have been over with the UFC because
• 2:36:04
  he lost two consistently after, you know, before and after that
• 2:36:08
  fight. I mean, Connor won out of the
• 2:36:10
  five, his five last fights, I think he won two fights.
• 2:36:13
  He lost three of them. He he was just inconsistent at
• 2:36:16
  the tail end of his career. And why?
• 2:36:18
  Because Conor McGregor had to fight Floyd Mayweather for the
• 2:36:21
  money. Now, I'm not going to take shots
• 2:36:22
  at him. He made $100 million.
• 2:36:24
  He invested in it to whiskey and from there he sold it for almost
• 2:36:28
  $600 million. You're not going to take a shot
• 2:36:31
  at a guy that was, you know, living off the streets and and
• 2:36:34
  working as a plumber or an assistant plumber when he was in
• 2:36:37
  Ireland and then became one of the one of the great popular
• 2:36:40
  fighters the UFC has ever had. I just I don't like Connor
• 2:36:44
  because of what he has done after the fact and what he has
• 2:36:47
  said after the fact, no matter who he fought and what he said
• 2:36:50
  about Jose Aldo. That knockout listen, it was an
• 2:36:53
  amazing knockout, but what a lucky punch, man, that was
• 2:36:57
  lucky. And I I don't think Jose Aldo
• 2:36:59
  really expected anything for Conor McGregor and he he got
• 2:37:02
  colder one. But yeah, Conor wants to stand
• 2:37:04
  there and talk crap after the fact when Jose Aldo is one of
• 2:37:07
  the greatest, you know, fighters of his class, his weight class
• 2:37:11
  in history. Remember, he didn't come from
• 2:37:13
  the UFC came from what was it? What, what, what was the the
• 2:37:18
  organization he came from before he went to, you know, before he
• 2:37:20
  went to the UFCI forget. But I don't know if it was
• 2:37:23
  Strikeforce. No, it wasn't Trikeforce.
• 2:37:25
  It wasn't trikeforce. It was, I forget, I got to look
• 2:37:28
  that up, look that up. Jose Aldo, Jose Aldo, he was
• 2:37:32
  from like WEC or whatever it was.
• 2:37:34
  It was something he was from an organization which by the way,
• 2:37:37
  he was undefeated. And anybody that knows the
• 2:37:38
  background about Jose Aldo, Jose Aldo was a great soccer player
• 2:37:42
  and he hurt his leg and it could have been a professional WECWEC.
• 2:37:46
  Yeah. And UFC signed him and he became
• 2:37:49
  the champion and held the belt for a little while and then lost
• 2:37:52
  it. So I obviously from Conor
• 2:37:54
  McGregor. But again, my problem with Conor
• 2:37:58
  McGregor doesn't lie about who he is and what he's all about
• 2:38:01
  and where he comes from. My problem is, is the way he has
• 2:38:04
  come out and thrown people onto the bus and made himself look
• 2:38:07
  like a Jackass doing it. That is why I don't like Conor
• 2:38:10
  McGregor. You can't take take away from
• 2:38:13
  what he has done since such a short time and how much money
• 2:38:16
  he's made for the UFC and himself and his family.
• 2:38:19
  That is incredible. But Jon Jones is a bitch and I
• 2:38:22
  don't care when anybody says you can take that to the bank.
• 2:38:24
  He's a bitch. Aspinall would have beaten his
• 2:38:26
  ass. I, I wouldn't be surprised with
• 2:38:28
  Aspinall knocked him out in the second round.
• 2:38:30
  He was fat, he was slow and that's the truth.
• 2:38:33
  And that's the he fought Steep A because steep A was 40 years old
• 2:38:37
  and he was just looking for a payday.
• 2:38:38
  You're absolutely right, Jay and, and, and the reason why he
• 2:38:41
  didn't want to fight Tommy is because in his eyes, he's
• 2:38:43
  undefeated, even though he was, he really has a loss on his
• 2:38:46
  record because, you know, it was a disqualification.
• 2:38:50
  The fact is he his cheating ways, he cheated against Daniel
• 2:38:54
  Cormier. He can say whatever he wants.
• 2:38:56
  He cheated and he's always been in these these these situations
• 2:39:01
  over the years where he has not kept himself out of the
• 2:39:03
  tabloids. This is the same thing with his
• 2:39:05
  family, his brothers and they're great athletes, tremendous
• 2:39:08
  athletes. He's just, he's a problemsome.
• 2:39:10
  I mean, yeah. Didn't, didn't, didn't Chandler
• 2:39:13
  Jones, like, lose his mind on the waiters?
• 2:39:15
  Like he wasn't saying almost. Chandler Jones is nuts.
• 2:39:18
  They're all family's nuts. That whole family's nuts, dude.
• 2:39:21
  His his other two brothers. Chandler Jones and his other
• 2:39:24
  brother. Arthur was also an NFL.
• 2:39:25
  Yeah, he was an NFL player. They're all great athletes.
• 2:39:28
  They're father. I mean, they're giants and, and
• 2:39:32
  they're obviously Jon Jones is the greatest of all of them.
• 2:39:34
  I mean, Chandler Jones was great, but Jon Jones is you
• 2:39:37
  could, he's probably going to go down as the greatest mixed
• 2:39:39
  martial artist I've ever, ever, But that's because Dana White
• 2:39:42
  was protecting him for years. Dana White protected Conor
• 2:39:46
  McGregor, he protected Jon Jones and and I, and I, by the way, I,
• 2:39:50
  I, I've grew up and I, we have to move on.
• 2:39:54
  BJ Penn, the stories coming out about BJ Penn and for all the
• 2:39:58
  stories that probably are true, BJ Penn is a piece of shit.
• 2:40:02
  OK, that man for if these stories are true or what he was
• 2:40:05
  doing to his kids and what he was doing to his wife, it's
• 2:40:09
  despicable. I love BJ Penn.
• 2:40:10
  I followed him fastest to get a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt,
• 2:40:14
  Gracie black belt in two years. Fastest American to do that.
• 2:40:18
  And, and, and you're hearing these stories that he was
• 2:40:20
  abusing his kids and his wife and threatening them and, and
• 2:40:23
  talking all this rubbish. If these stories are to be true,
• 2:40:26
  that BJ Penn should be washed away from the UFC, and should
• 2:40:29
  be. Spoken about again, it's
• 2:40:31
  despicable the stories that I heard about BJ Penn and that's
• 2:40:33
  coming from ABJ Penn fan so. I'm gonna, I'm gonna have to
• 2:40:37
  look at stuff. I haven't heard about that, so
• 2:40:39
  it'll be news to me. I'm gonna have to look into
• 2:40:40
  those stories. It's a horrible story.
• 2:40:42
  You can read it. He's been, dude, he was arrested
• 2:40:45
  three times in a week, three times in a week, and it was.
• 2:40:50
  It's despicable and his I'm not sure.
• 2:40:53
  I'm not going to don't call me. I think his mom was saying that
• 2:40:56
  he was doing some abusive things.
• 2:40:58
  So it's A and this guy is this guy fought in the UFC.
• 2:41:02
  This guy fought and won multiple championships and he's beating
• 2:41:05
  up a woman and his kids and threatening them and, and
• 2:41:08
  talking all this crazy crap that's coming out his mouth like
• 2:41:11
  though that they're, they have like aliens or they're saying
• 2:41:14
  that they're, they're he they're demons or something like that.
• 2:41:16
  He's losing his mind. Maybe CTE.
• 2:41:19
  And that's something that the UFC needs to look into as well
• 2:41:22
  because of mixed martial arts and all those punches to the
• 2:41:25
  head and all the different things that we've been talking
• 2:41:26
  about over the last couple of years with football.
• 2:41:28
  I think maybe he has CTE problems as well, but it's
• 2:41:31
  despicable. The stories are despicable.
• 2:41:33
  Go check it out. It's it's not it's not very good
• 2:41:36
  for mixed martial arts in the UFC when those stories come out
• 2:41:39
  about one of their best fighters and a Hall of Fame fighter in in
• 2:41:42
  UFC history. So.
• 2:41:43
  Before we move on to Tom, had a question in the comments
• 2:41:46
  section. What do you think about the
• 2:41:47
  recent Jake Paul fight? What do I think?
• 2:41:49
  I think Jake Paul paid Julio Cesar Chavez junior.
• 2:41:53
  That's what I think he did. Because if he really fought
• 2:41:56
  Julio Cesar Chavez Junior, Julio Cesar Chavez Junior would have
• 2:42:01
  beaten him. I, I don't want to hear anything
• 2:42:03
  in anybody that wants to deny it.
• 2:42:05
  Now, I respect Jake Paul because he's training.
• 2:42:08
  He puts the time in and you got to give him a little bit of
• 2:42:10
  credit. It's not easy from going to what
• 2:42:14
  Disney World or being on the Disney Channel to being a
• 2:42:17
  professional boxer. But who's he being?
• 2:42:20
  I don't want you see the list. The first person, Nate
• 2:42:23
  Robertson. Nate Robertson just had a kidney
• 2:42:25
  transplant or a livid transplant.
• 2:42:27
  Are you kidding me? He's like he's like 6, 6 foot or
• 2:42:29
  five foot 8:00 and you're going to sit there and you're going to
• 2:42:31
  brag about that you beat Anderson Silver who and Ben
• 2:42:36
  Askin. I mean, by the way, I got to
• 2:42:38
  give him shout out after winning that fight, going out there and
• 2:42:41
  trying to raise money for Ben. That says a lot about who he is
• 2:42:44
  as a as a person. Even though they hate each
• 2:42:45
  other. That was nice of Jake going out
• 2:42:48
  and doing what he did. But the guy is a marketer.
• 2:42:51
  He's a genius. He's a marketing genius.
• 2:42:54
  If you want to give him some kind of credit, the guy is, is
• 2:42:58
  one of the best marketing, you know, programming, you know,
• 2:43:02
  geniuses I've ever seen him and his brother Logan.
• 2:43:05
  How does it, how does Logan go to the WWE and become a
• 2:43:09
  champion? How does he go to the WWE?
• 2:43:11
  And, and with the athletic ability that he have just
• 2:43:15
  completely be one of the most hated wrestlers in the in in the
• 2:43:19
  WWE and, and going, you know, being at main events and and
• 2:43:23
  being like the Co main event and the main event.
• 2:43:26
  That's incredible. The brothers are just geniuses.
• 2:43:29
  They're marketing genius. I'll give him credit for that.
• 2:43:31
  But as a boxer, if he ever gets into a ring with a real boxer,
• 2:43:35
  he will be knocked the hell out, knocked the hell out in the
• 2:43:38
  first round. You want to fight Canelo, You
• 2:43:40
  want to fight a real boxer and get in the ring with a real
• 2:43:43
  boxer, Good friggin luck. He will abuse you in in about a
• 2:43:48
  minute. You wouldn't even last a minute
• 2:43:50
  with a Canelo Alvarez. So it it's just Canelo's.
• 2:43:53
  Canelo's got a big fight in September.
• 2:43:55
  Yes, he does. Yes.
• 2:43:56
  And we, you know he's fighting. Yes, I know he's fighting
• 2:43:59
  Nebraska. We all know.
• 2:44:00
  I know, I know. It's more than three hours of
• 2:44:04
  the show. That was the first Nebraska.
• 2:44:05
  Reference, by the way, the best I got I got a hat on so that
• 2:44:08
  that down. Listen, he's the best anti
• 2:44:11
  dextrous fighter I've ever seen, OK?
• 2:44:13
  And there's no question. I can't I can't stand freaking
• 2:44:16
  Jake Paul, man. Like to me, like the fact that
• 2:44:19
  you even think that you could just like you sound like
• 2:44:21
  intelligent and people will buy the shit that you.
• 2:44:23
  I mean, you're right, he's a smart marketer, but like the
• 2:44:26
  fact he's like, Oh yeah, I can go fight Canelo and be like
• 2:44:28
  promoter, but then you, you want to turn around, you want to turn
• 2:44:31
  around and then fight a 60 year old Mike Tyson.
• 2:44:33
  Like, okay, dude, like whatever. And you fought like 2 minute
• 2:44:39
  rounds like. What a joke.
• 2:44:42
  That wasn't Jake Paul's fault. That was Mike Tyson's fault.
• 2:44:46
  Mike Tyson almost died three months before before the fight
• 2:44:50
  and. Then you're right, he reached.
• 2:44:52
  Out to Jake and he said he wanted that fight.
• 2:44:54
  You know why he wanted that fight?
• 2:44:55
  Because he was getting 16 to $20 million off that deal.
• 2:44:58
  Mike Tyson needed the money, OK? So no, I get, I get why they
• 2:45:02
  did, but I mean, like to me it was just like I was just the
• 2:45:05
  most boring, horrible thing. That's I think it was nice that
• 2:45:09
  it was on Netflix because everybody has Netflix.
• 2:45:11
  It was like it was horrible on Netflix.
• 2:45:13
  It froze every time it was, well, I.
• 2:45:15
  Know, I know, but I mean like it was like at least you'd have to
• 2:45:18
  buy a pay-per-view for it like you could just buy but like dude
• 2:45:21
  it. Was.
• 2:45:22
  It was. So boring.
• 2:45:24
  Like I remember watching 2 minute rounds and I was like
• 2:45:27
  what the hell is this? Here's the problem.
• 2:45:28
  Here's. The here's the problem, he got
• 2:45:32
  Floyd Mayweather that's fighting exhibition fights against Gotti
• 2:45:35
  and, and embarrassed Gotti, even embarrassing himself after the
• 2:45:39
  fact. And, and, and by the way, John
• 2:45:41
  Gotti junior made like, I don't know, like 9 or $10 million off
• 2:45:45
  of both fights. How does a guy who has no boxing
• 2:45:48
  experience and by the way, I watched his first UFCI mean I'm
• 2:45:51
  not UFC mixed martial arts amateur fight.
• 2:45:53
  I was at the event when he fought his first mixed martial
• 2:45:57
  arts and I was right there where he said John Gotti Junior and I,
• 2:46:00
  he was bragging about his son. I'm like your son, it wouldn't
• 2:46:02
  last a second in the UFC and then he and then he goes out
• 2:46:06
  there and he goes into the boxing world again.
• 2:46:09
  These guys have names. If you have a name and you can
• 2:46:12
  promote it, you're going to make money.
• 2:46:14
  That's just the way sports are now.
• 2:46:16
  It's a business. It's not about who's better than
• 2:46:19
  who or who's the most athletic. It's about, oh, it's Gotti.
• 2:46:22
  You have the last name Gotti. I'll put you in a ring.
• 2:46:24
  I'm going to make $10 million off the name.
• 2:46:27
  If Jabba wants the box right now and he's fighting in Nebraska,
• 2:46:30
  do you? How many people would go to
• 2:46:32
  watch Jabba Chamberlain fight? I mean, seriously, it doesn't
• 2:46:35
  matter who he's. Fighting, yeah, but you gonna
• 2:46:37
  fight? Who is it?
• 2:46:41
  Doink the clown. If he fought Doink the Clown
• 2:46:43
  people would sell out to to. Watch.
• 2:46:45
  No, no, no. You know, play David Ortiz.
• 2:46:47
  We'll do Red Sox versus Yankees. No, Kevin Euclis is his number
• 2:46:50
  one enemy. Yeah, yeah, I can't see that.
• 2:46:54
  I'd do that for free. I pay to see that.
• 2:46:56
  That's what we got to set up. We got to set up Jabba
• 2:46:59
  Chamberlain against Kevin Euclis.
• 2:47:01
  That would be great because you know, Tom Brady would show up to
• 2:47:05
  that match because that's his brother-in-law.
• 2:47:07
  That would be perfect. That would be absolute anyways
• 2:47:15
  that that by the way, that was a great that was great when it
• 2:47:18
  comes to mixed martial arts, we got into Jake Paul.
• 2:47:20
  It was great. Honestly, we're not even going
• 2:47:22
  to do king of the hill tonight. We're not.
• 2:47:24
  We don't have to. We just gave you king of the
• 2:47:27
  hill. We got into the mixed martial
• 2:47:29
  arts, the boxing. We gave you everything that you
• 2:47:32
  wanted there. Screw king of the hill tonight.
• 2:47:34
  That was great. Jake, you are your knowledge
• 2:47:37
  when it comes to mixed martial arts and combat sport is
• 2:47:39
  sensational. But again, and Jake Paul is a
• 2:47:42
  promoter, that's what he is. I I'd love to see him get into a
• 2:47:46
  ring with a real boxer in the prime of his career.
• 2:47:49
  And if he he, if he could even get out of two rounds, I'll give
• 2:47:53
  him props. And I'm talking about 3 1/2
• 2:47:55
  minute rounds, No2 minute rounds, 3 1/2 minute rounds with
• 2:48:00
  a real professional boxer. I pay, I pay to see it, but he's
• 2:48:05
  not going to do that. He's a chicken shit.
• 2:48:07
  That's it. I I'll challenge him on the show
• 2:48:09
  right now. I boxed for seven years
• 2:48:12
  competitively. I was an undefeated amateur for
• 2:48:15
  seven years. I was 22 O and one I fought.
• 2:48:19
  I I boxed a lot of good fighters out here in Long Island with
• 2:48:22
  fate, you know, obviously with, with face, you know, hell, you
• 2:48:25
  know, mad, you know, protecting face.
• 2:48:27
  But I I can, I can fight. I challenge Jake anytime,
• 2:48:31
  anytime he wants to fight. I got to I got to train for six
• 2:48:33
  months. It's a lot.
• 2:48:35
  You got to train for six months and I got to run and I got to
• 2:48:37
  get back into shape. I challenge his fat ass and I'll
• 2:48:40
  knock him the fuck out. OK, in two rounds.
• 2:48:43
  I would knock him out in two rounds.
• 2:48:45
  He's a chicken shit who throws a heavy right hand.
• 2:48:48
  And that's all I'm going to say about Jake.
• 2:48:49
  Jake is not a good fighter. He drops his hands, he tips his
• 2:48:52
  hands and he's just like Conor McGregor.
• 2:48:54
  He gets two rounds, his hands start to fall.
• 2:48:57
  And if you do that, he's got a soft chin.
• 2:48:59
  And that's all I'm going to say about that.
• 2:49:01
  What's going on over here? What?
• 2:49:03
  Thanks. Thanks, Raul.
• 2:49:04
  Yeah. I fought the bugs in Cleveland.
• 2:49:06
  There, boy, he did. Ghost of Gotham here.
• 2:49:10
  Javik is going to take Kevin Yukos.
• 2:49:12
  Believe it no, but I I would love to fight.
• 2:49:15
  I would love to fight Jake Paul if he obviously I'm not I'm not
• 2:49:19
  a big name and is get into a ring with a real person.
• 2:49:22
  I I'm not even a real boxer because I I'm not a professional
• 2:49:25
  boxer. I'll knock it out.
• 2:49:27
  I'll knock you out. I will knock you out.
• 2:49:29
  I'm you you go against these hockey players, these basketball
• 2:49:32
  players, former this former that UFC fighters out of shape.
• 2:49:36
  I'm 43 years old you. I am.
• 2:49:38
  How old is Jake Paul? 28?
• 2:49:40
  Oh, is it 28 years old? He, he is 15 years of my I am 15
• 2:49:46
  years of his elder. OK, I get into the ring and I
• 2:49:49
  promise you guys I beat him in A5 round fight, five round
• 2:49:53
  fight. What is he?
• 2:49:55
  3 minute rounds? 3 minute rounds, 3 minute
• 2:49:57
  rounds, 3 minute rounds. I don't think he lasts.
• 2:49:59
  If he fights 3 minute rounds, 5 rounds with me, he'll I'll end
• 2:50:02
  him in two or three rounds. I'll end him in two or three
• 2:50:05
  rounds. He doesn't.
• 2:50:06
  He's not what he says he is. And I, I any day, anytime I'll
• 2:50:10
  fight him on the streets. We don't even have to go in the
• 2:50:12
  ring and sell it. Get me gloves.
• 2:50:15
  I'll train for a couple of couple of months because I'm
• 2:50:18
  going to need a couple of months to get my cardio back at least a
• 2:50:21
  little bit. I got to run a couple of miles.
• 2:50:23
  But I am absolutely right. I got to drop what, what does he
• 2:50:26
  fight at 202 O five? I think it's two O 5, right?
• 2:50:29
  Jake What does he fight AT2O5 was this.
• 2:50:32
  Last. Well, I don't.
• 2:50:34
  Know 190 something All right so I'm two I'm 216 today so I would
• 2:50:40
  have to drop 3025 lbs I would I would need at least at least
• 2:50:44
  four months to do that because I I definitely need to train my
• 2:50:47
  body with the stamina and all that other stuff and get into
• 2:50:50
  the ring and have some you know some some competition with guys
• 2:50:54
  a little. Bit cruiserweight standing so I
• 2:50:56
  don't know what. Cruiserweight that is, Yeah,
• 2:50:57
  Cruiserweight IS191185190. That's what he's at.
• 2:51:01
  So. I just had to point out too goes
• 2:51:03
  to Gotham, he says. If he doesn't run from you bro.
• 2:51:05
  So yeah, you might have to, you have to just train your cardio
• 2:51:07
  because Jake will be running for me the whole.
• 2:51:09
  He's a bitch, man. And I'm going to tell you right
• 2:51:11
  now, I, I know how to stand with them and I, I know how to throw
• 2:51:15
  combinations. I did it.
• 2:51:16
  I'm not. And I'm going to tell you this
• 2:51:18
  right now, I'm not talking crap. I, I will absolutely do it.
• 2:51:21
  If he wants to do it, you could send this, but you could send
• 2:51:24
  this to his social media. I will challenge him.
• 2:51:27
  I'd fight him anywhere. I'd fight him in Disneyland
• 2:51:31
  right by the, what do they call that?
• 2:51:32
  The you know, Princess, Princess freaking magic.
• 2:51:36
  Castle magic. Castle.
• 2:51:38
  Magic Castle did. Have a Disney show that didn't
• 2:51:40
  do too great. Didn't have anything doing too
• 2:51:43
  great. He's the only thing he does
• 2:51:44
  great is promoting. I got to give him credit for
• 2:51:46
  that. But if he wants to fight, he's
• 2:51:48
  looking for a fight. I I'll, I'll be it'll be a
• 2:51:51
  pleasure to jump in the ring with him and give him a nice
• 2:51:54
  beat down and I'll do it for free.
• 2:51:56
  You don't even have to pay me. I'll do it for free.
• 2:51:59
  Jake, how about this will do. Whoever wins the fight donates a
• 2:52:04
  certain amount of money to whoever's organization.
• 2:52:08
  OK, cuz, cuz after I knock you the F out and I beat your ass,
• 2:52:13
  you can donate to Jabba Chamberlain's foundation,
• 2:52:17
  whatever foundation he chooses. OK, job will be in my my corner
• 2:52:21
  after, you know, I spit a couple times in, you know, in, in my
• 2:52:24
  little bucket. And after I do that, I'll be
• 2:52:26
  dancing around and shoving my fist up your ass.
• 2:52:29
  Anyways, there you go. That's a challenge.
• 2:52:32
  But he's not going to take it because he's a pee wee.
• 2:52:34
  Anyways, ladies and gentlemen, no goodies, bag of balls, no
• 2:52:37
  king of the hill. But we have dial it up.
• 2:52:40
  We interrupt this regularly scheduled hot mix to bring you
• 2:52:43
  important news. We got a big.
• 2:52:45
  Broadcast to do here. We're about to dial it up.
• 2:52:50
  Well dial it up will not be the same without goody saying dial
• 2:52:53
  it up before every segment. Dial it.
• 2:52:55
  Up so well, maybe we'll fish dial it all, yeah, but when
• 2:52:58
  Goody does it, it's like. You want to take it up the SP.
• 2:53:02
  No. You want to dial that up.
• 2:53:04
  No, Nathan might with one of his hot ladies, but that's what.
• 2:53:08
  You bring all the guys in, Let bring Aaron in, Jake, let him
• 2:53:11
  come in. All right, Nathan, you could
• 2:53:12
  come. In all of them, Come in, you're
• 2:53:14
  on some fun. You could dial it up a little
• 2:53:15
  too. All right.
• 2:53:18
  We'll start with this. Bring Aaron in.
• 2:53:19
  Go ahead, bring them all in. Well, yeah, we'll start with
• 2:53:21
  this one. So Rob Manfred is blaming the
• 2:53:23
  players for the reason that the baseball has lost approximately
• 2:53:27
  $2.5 billion. It was a response directly after
• 2:53:30
  that where Tony Clark, who's the progressive player with the
• 2:53:34
  players Association, is blaming them as a sales pitch type
• 2:53:38
  thing. And naturally Rob Manfred is
• 2:53:40
  trying to throw the players under the bus like he always
• 2:53:42
  does. So what do we got here for this
• 2:53:44
  one? You know we don't.
• 2:53:45
  You don't like Rob Manfred? Dial it up on your least
• 2:53:48
  favorite commissioner. First of all, Rob Manfred is
• 2:53:51
  despicable, blaming the players when this is a guy that wouldn't
• 2:53:54
  even let one of the greatest hitters in Major League history
• 2:53:58
  in the Hall of Fame. You know what I'm talking about,
• 2:54:00
  Pete Rose. And this guy has gone out and
• 2:54:02
  said a lot of derogatory things over the years.
• 2:54:05
  And then he's gone out there and try to make and change rules for
• 2:54:09
  the Major League thinking that it's going, yeah, it speeds up
• 2:54:12
  the game, doesn't make the game better.
• 2:54:13
  I love those four or five, five hour games when I went to those
• 2:54:17
  Yankee Red Sox games. So what is he trying to do?
• 2:54:19
  He's trying to speed up the game and make the game worse.
• 2:54:22
  The game worked so many years the way it has now.
• 2:54:25
  Steroids. Bud Selik, he's the one who came
• 2:54:28
  from the steroid hour, steroid time.
• 2:54:30
  And then Bud Selik is inducted into the Hall of Fame.
• 2:54:33
  Why? Because Rob Manfred was the one
• 2:54:35
  that inducted him into the Hall of Fame.
• 2:54:37
  His butt buddy. I don't like Rob Manfred,
• 2:54:39
  whatever you want to call him, he's a free ass.
• 2:54:42
  That's what he is and what I believe in 2026 or 2027 when his
• 2:54:48
  contract is up, please somebody take that job.
• 2:54:51
  He's an idiot, he's disrespectful and he's one of
• 2:54:54
  the worst commissioners in Major League Baseball history.
• 2:55:01
  You don't have to really argue this with me.
• 2:55:03
  Like, it's one thing to see what he does and, and how he's tried
• 2:55:10
  to change the landscape of certain types of the of the
• 2:55:15
  game. But when you blatantly go out
• 2:55:18
  and I've been fortunate enough to work under Tony and a lot of
• 2:55:22
  other great union leagues and and Michael Weiner and, and guys
• 2:55:25
  like that. And to, to have him put it on
• 2:55:29
  the players is, I mean, he's just really in the end of the
• 2:55:33
  day, trying to make himself look good.
• 2:55:34
  When, when really all that matters is our guys and we know
• 2:55:39
  what we're doing. Like, OK, we're costing 2.5
• 2:55:42
  billion, right? But yet we're setting records
• 2:55:44
  every year in contracts. Like you, you aren't making
• 2:55:47
  sense. Like what you're saying is that
• 2:55:49
  our union is costing us money. I, I don't understand how you
• 2:55:54
  can even say that when we're setting marks every year, either
• 2:55:57
  through arbitration or contracts and length of contracts and age
• 2:56:01
  of contracts. Like the numbers don't lie.
• 2:56:04
  I would love to know where he's coming up with this 2.5 billion
• 2:56:10
  and how they where did they lose it?
• 2:56:13
  I don't understand. I got something for you.
• 2:56:15
  I got something for you. Rob Manford is making $17.5
• 2:56:19
  million a year to do, not to do what?
• 2:56:22
  What is he doing? He's ruined the game.
• 2:56:25
  He's made the game worse. And he sits there and he's
• 2:56:27
  blaming the players for billions of dollars of loss.
• 2:56:30
  How about this? Why were you hiding Otani's
• 2:56:34
  betting scandal? Why were you doing that, Rob?
• 2:56:36
  Because we all know you are part of that.
• 2:56:39
  How much did you pay the FBI to hide or secure the fact that
• 2:56:44
  Otani didn't do anything wrong? Because we all know he was a
• 2:56:48
  part of that. So I, I I'm tired of Rob
• 2:56:50
  Manfred. I hope he for one way or one way
• 2:56:53
  or another, the the major leagues or the MLB and the
• 2:56:55
  owners decide after his contract's up that he can take a
• 2:56:59
  hike. He is a horrible commissioner,
• 2:57:01
  horrible commissioner. It's terrible.
• 2:57:03
  But if he like, OK, you make the like, that's fine, OK, like you,
• 2:57:08
  whatever. You have people in your ear all
• 2:57:10
  the time. But if you're going to say that
• 2:57:12
  and talk about us as a unit and the players that have have done
• 2:57:16
  things for the future generation, tell me, where are
• 2:57:19
  you coming up with this number and why?
• 2:57:21
  Why dudes are signing $785 million contracts?
• 2:57:24
  Like what are we talking about? All right, so for somebody from
• 2:57:27
  somebody making the game worse to making the game better and
• 2:57:30
  then we're back to Caitlin Clark.
• 2:57:32
  Another record for her a record setting shoe deal this time
• 2:57:36
  selling out immediately within the first day and some more
• 2:57:39
  growth for the WNBA is we mentioned she could bring in
• 2:57:41
  billions of dollars. What is that has led to also
• 2:57:44
  three new expansion teams in the WNBA in Detroit, in Philly and
• 2:57:48
  in Cleveland. Errol, you can dial it up.
• 2:57:51
  Well, it's pretty serious and pretty honest here.
• 2:57:54
  Caitlin Clark is one of the biggest superstars in
• 2:57:57
  professional sports history. She is going to take the WNBA to
• 2:58:01
  another level that you couldn't even imagine.
• 2:58:03
  And for all the ladies and all the people out there that don't
• 2:58:06
  believe she is the face of women's sports, well then you
• 2:58:09
  don't know any sport this woman has been taking, been been
• 2:58:14
  beaten up, thrown around and prosecuted because of her
• 2:58:17
  talents. She is going to take the WNBA to
• 2:58:22
  a position and in a place where the WNBA is going to have shoe
• 2:58:26
  deals that are going to be worth 10s of millions of dollars.
• 2:58:29
  These players are going to make money that you wouldn't even,
• 2:58:32
  they couldn't even have dreamed of over the last couple of
• 2:58:35
  years. She is the face not only of
• 2:58:37
  women's basketball, professional sports.
• 2:58:40
  She was what athlete of the year last year for a reason, because
• 2:58:44
  of what she brings in, the money, she brings in the
• 2:58:46
  endorsement she's bringing in. And by the way, why do you think
• 2:58:50
  the new season CBA in the new television deal that they got
• 2:58:52
  last year, which was over what, a billion dollars?
• 2:58:56
  Why do you think they got that contract?
• 2:58:58
  It was because of Caitlin Clark. And you see all these women, all
• 2:59:00
  these girls out there calling her names, telling her she's not
• 2:59:03
  good for basketball, pushing her around, beating her up on the
• 2:59:06
  basketball court and she's breaking records and getting
• 2:59:09
  triple double S. And she's showing you why the
• 2:59:13
  the WNBA is needed this for over 10 years.
• 2:59:17
  And I think she's now going to take the WNBA, NBA and the sport
• 2:59:22
  to another level we wouldn't even imagine.
• 2:59:24
  Yeah, we were looking at the record setting shoe deals.
• 2:59:26
  Now this is among NBA players is among a lot of soccer players,
• 2:59:30
  the instant success that they've broken like it was one day that
• 2:59:34
  it's it's spawned to that kind of deal and now you're seeing it
• 2:59:37
  three expansion teams obviously directly correlated with
• 2:59:40
  obviously not just like 1 instance with Clark, but so many
• 2:59:42
  other different things with that.
• 2:59:44
  I think we're thinking for a while Philadelphia was going to
• 2:59:46
  get a WNBA expansion team. There's already another new one
• 2:59:49
  this year with the in Golden State with the Valkyries.
• 2:59:52
  So there definitely is evident growth of the where getting to
• 2:59:55
  that $1 billion plateau. And even when she's hurt, like
• 2:59:59
  she's still getting a lot of the reputation for all the good
• 3:00:01
  things that she's done and obviously all the jealous WNBA
• 3:00:04
  players and coaches that we talked about over the last
• 3:00:06
  couple weeks of what she's done for the game.
• 3:00:09
  And now you're seeing a bunch of expansion teams go along with
• 3:00:11
  that too. You're going to get more
• 3:00:12
  competition that way, more national exposure to the game in
• 3:00:15
  those cities. By the way, Carl actually came
• 3:00:18
  out and said Jabba Manford came up with the 2, $1,000,000 number
• 3:00:21
  due to the lack of 5050 revenue split between owners and
• 3:00:25
  players. Well, I I mean, he's obviously
• 3:00:28
  calculating something that doesn't make any sense.
• 3:00:30
  Yeah. And that'll never happen.
• 3:00:32
  He knows that. Yeah, he's he's just an idiot.
• 3:00:35
  That's what the speed speedy real quick, Errol.
• 3:00:38
  By the way, Indiana Fever won the Commissioner Cup today, so
• 3:00:41
  Congrats to the. Congratulations, Yeah.
• 3:00:44
  Yeah, they're doing the playoff tournament just like the NBA, so
• 3:00:46
  I don't know. Well, let's see how that works.
• 3:00:48
  Caitlin Clark, that's why. That's all I'm going to say.
• 3:00:51
  She didn't even play. I know, I know.
• 3:00:53
  You don't need to play. She doesn't need to play.
• 3:00:55
  They're winning because of just her presence.
• 3:00:57
  She could sit on the bench and she gives them a kind of a boost
• 3:01:02
  that they never had. Just think about it.
• 3:01:04
  Indiana two years ago won what, three games the whole season?
• 3:01:08
  They were the other #1 pick two years in a row and then.
• 3:01:10
  Games. Three games and then she goes
• 3:01:13
  there and they make the playoffs and now she's not even on the
• 3:01:17
  roster and they're still winning.
• 3:01:18
  What does that tell you? One player.
• 3:01:21
  Probably a job his favorite ass kicker Sophie Cunningham.
• 3:01:27
  Hey, Speaking of Sophie, did you guys see her her comments about
• 3:01:31
  the expansion teams saying she was dissing?
• 3:01:34
  No, no, she was, she was dissing Cleveland in Detroit.
• 3:01:36
  But I agree with her. I think they should have done
• 3:01:39
  Miami. I think Miami is a much bigger
• 3:01:42
  city attractive to a lot of people.
• 3:01:44
  They they should have done in Miami also in my opinion.
• 3:01:47
  There's no guarantee there's well, then people came and
• 3:01:50
  heard, though. They're like you play in
• 3:01:52
  Indiana. That's not Miami is a good
• 3:01:55
  basketball city, but it's not great for the other sports.
• 3:01:58
  Cleveland has been pretty good with all their sports, so I can
• 3:02:00
  see why that could work over there.
• 3:02:01
  All right, let's move on. A very sad story in baseball.
• 3:02:04
  Dave Parker passing away, great Pirates outfielder just before
• 3:02:08
  his would have been Hall of Fame induction ceremony in July, late
• 3:02:12
  in July. Very sad story on on their part.
• 3:02:15
  Rest in peace to a great but another case of maybe a baseball
• 3:02:19
  not putting a guy in the Hall of Fame waiting way too long to do
• 3:02:22
  it. So Errol, you can dial this one
• 3:02:24
  up. It's a shame and and that's the
• 3:02:26
  problem with Rob Manfred, the idiot of himself.
• 3:02:30
  He looks at himself in a mirror and I wonder if he actually sees
• 3:02:32
  himself or he believes he's something that he's not.
• 3:02:35
  Parker was the absolutely a Hall of Famer.
• 3:02:38
  He should have been a Hall of Famer 5-6 maybe even 10 years
• 3:02:41
  ago. But Rob Manfred is a complete
• 3:02:43
  moron. And by the way, blood Sealix
• 3:02:45
  even a bigger moron. 22 commissioners that didn't know
• 3:02:48
  what they were doing but guess what as soon as as Bud Selig
• 3:02:51
  retires, he goes to the Hall of Fame.
• 3:02:53
  What in two or three years? It's pathetic.
• 3:02:56
  Dave Parker should have been a Hall of Famer years ago and he's
• 3:02:58
  never going to get a chance to experience making a speech in
• 3:03:01
  front of his family, his friends and all the greats because this
• 3:03:05
  is a man that and by the way, the Pittsburgh Pirates, you talk
• 3:03:09
  about Roberto Clemente and, and maybe Dave Parker might be the
• 3:03:13
  3rd or 4th best Pittsburgh Pirate of all time and this guy
• 3:03:17
  was not inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame quick
• 3:03:20
  enough. It's again Rob Manford, you're
• 3:03:23
  an idiot. Please retire.
• 3:03:26
  Get away from the game. You're hurting the game.
• 3:03:28
  Every time I look at your ugly face, you make me sick to my
• 3:03:31
  freaking stomach. Go away, come again.
• 3:03:35
  Never not to come again another day.
• 3:03:37
  Go away. If I could actually make a song,
• 3:03:40
  it would be Rob Manfred. Kiss my ass.
• 3:03:43
  Drop dead. That's my song.
• 3:03:45
  And how many, how many guys have played almost 20 years in the
• 3:03:48
  major leagues? Errol, you talk about it all the
• 3:03:50
  time. How many hitters?
• 3:03:52
  Rob Manfred, Manfred, whatever you want to call him, he is the,
• 3:03:55
  there are a lot of bad commissioners.
• 3:03:57
  Adam Silva, we all know he the LJA, he runs the LJB.
• 3:04:01
  And then there's Rodger Goodell, who's just keeps stealing and
• 3:04:03
  stealing and stealing as him and his family have benefits forever
• 3:04:07
  and a jet to drive in or fly in wherever he wants to go in the
• 3:04:11
  whole wide world. And he won't even give his own
• 3:04:14
  and former players full, you know, full compensation after
• 3:04:18
  they walk away from the game. This guy Rob Manford is the
• 3:04:22
  worst commissioner in sports. It's not even close.
• 3:04:27
  He's the worst. So he needs to go and baseball
• 3:04:31
  players union, everybody need to push him out.
• 3:04:34
  It should have been Theo Epstein, but now he he's partial
• 3:04:36
  owner of the Boston, Boston Red Sox.
• 3:04:39
  I don't think he's going to walk away from that to be the
• 3:04:41
  commissioner of a professional baseball.
• 3:04:43
  So that's. Unfortunate.
• 3:04:45
  You think he's worse. You think he's worse than
• 3:04:46
  Goodell, Errol? Yes, yes, I he's so bad.
• 3:04:51
  At least Roderick, I'll tell you what, Rodger Goodell does good.
• 3:04:54
  Rodger Goodell knows how to sell a product no matter where he
• 3:04:58
  goes. He's gone to Germany, he's gone
• 3:05:01
  to England, he's gone all over the world and he's selling the
• 3:05:05
  product. Rob Manford, the only time, even
• 3:05:08
  when he went to Japan, nobody wanted to go and see the Major
• 3:05:11
  League Baseball players. What he did was he put the
• 3:05:14
  Dodgers there because Otani and all those Japanese players, if
• 3:05:18
  it was anybody else besides the Dodgers, those games would have
• 3:05:23
  never sold out in Japan. Fact.
• 3:05:25
  And I that just shows you what Rob Manfred is.
• 3:05:28
  He's a piece of shit. That's what he is.
• 3:05:30
  He's a piece of garbage. He doesn't belong.
• 3:05:32
  He doesn't help the game of baseball.
• 3:05:34
  He's ruined the game of baseball.
• 3:05:36
  And anybody that we've had on this show, unless they're
• 3:05:39
  working for the MLB or they're trying to protect something,
• 3:05:42
  every single one of them would tell you how big of a piece of
• 3:05:44
  garbage Rob Manfred is. And I don't care if I get, I get
• 3:05:47
  hired from MLB Network, I could give a shit.
• 3:05:50
  I hope he's gone in the next year.
• 3:05:52
  I could care less. All right, we'll move on to the
• 3:05:54
  next one. You kind of hinted at it earlier
• 3:05:56
  with the Knicks coaching search, but there was a very interesting
• 3:05:58
  name that was brought up and that was Don Staley, who is
• 3:06:01
  obviously the great college basketball coach at South
• 3:06:03
  Carolina many times national championship.
• 3:06:05
  James Borrego, another name that was mentioned, the former
• 3:06:07
  Hornets head coach and a couple unconventional ones, but Don
• 3:06:11
  Staley was one of them. There's never been an obviously
• 3:06:13
  a woman hired as an NBA coach. Becky Hammond was the only one
• 3:06:16
  that was interviewed. But try to do their due
• 3:06:19
  diligence a little more. What are your thoughts on that
• 3:06:21
  one? I have that.
• 3:06:22
  It's pretty sick. It's pretty honest.
• 3:06:24
  OK, I'm I'm I'm going to be pretty honest with this.
• 3:06:27
  The Knicks are just trying to sell newspapers.
• 3:06:31
  That's what they're trying to do.
• 3:06:32
  There was no thought in their minds to hire Dawn Stanley.
• 3:06:36
  OK, Dawn's she's been very successful in college
• 3:06:39
  basketball. That's great.
• 3:06:41
  This is this is the NBA, OK, The NBA and I just I'm sorry.
• 3:06:48
  LJA, LeBron James Association. If there's anybody that's going
• 3:06:53
  to be hired, it wouldn't be Dawn Staley.
• 3:06:55
  And no offense to her, the Knicks are in a big city.
• 3:06:59
  They're from, you know, James Dolan.
• 3:07:01
  James Dolan will never allow Dawn Staley being hired as her
• 3:07:05
  his next head coach. It was never going to be done.
• 3:07:07
  I understand what the Knicks are trying to do.
• 3:07:09
  They're trying to sell newspapers and and sell a story.
• 3:07:13
  This is just a story, guys. Dawn Staley was never going to
• 3:07:16
  get higher. Maybe Dawn Staley would be a
• 3:07:18
  great coach in the NBA. She probably would be.
• 3:07:20
  It's just the Knicks are not the organization that she would go
• 3:07:25
  to. She has a better chance of
• 3:07:26
  taking a job with Sacramento or one of these small cities that
• 3:07:30
  are looking for a little boost. Not New York, not LA, not Miami,
• 3:07:35
  not any. Maybe Detroit.
• 3:07:37
  Detroit's another city. Maybe Staley going to Detroit?
• 3:07:40
  That makes sense. The New York Knicks?
• 3:07:42
  Not a chance in hell they would. The Knicks and Leon Rose would
• 3:07:45
  be eaten up alive if they hired Staley.
• 3:07:49
  Who's the girl with the Spurs? Becky, that's what I was.
• 3:07:51
  Mentioning before she's. The only one who got the higher
• 3:07:55
  interviews in the past. Milwaukee I think was the
• 3:07:56
  closest one before they hired Booth Holzer.
• 3:07:58
  In New York, it would never. Work and I was going to say that
• 3:08:01
  too, because he she also has roots in Philadelphia too.
• 3:08:04
  So I don't know if she would even want to go to New York.
• 3:08:05
  Obviously has roots. In that has.
• 3:08:07
  Coaching in South Carolina, so maybe if there's any chance it
• 3:08:10
  would be a one of those. That would be that would be a
• 3:08:12
  very Philadelphia thing to do by the.
• 3:08:14
  Way and that's and that's what I'm.
• 3:08:15
  Going to that's. What I'm going to lead back to
• 3:08:17
  with what we're talking with the WMA expansion, I think it's more
• 3:08:19
  likely maybe she starts something like that, one of
• 3:08:21
  those new teams in Philadelphia, especially with her having roots
• 3:08:24
  there and then maybe gain it that way because I think she has
• 3:08:27
  a reputation as a great coach. As much as we like to take shots
• 3:08:29
  at Sean Smith with the Gamecocks when he was on our show, they we
• 3:08:32
  have had the best last decade women's basketball team.
• 3:08:36
  But I think there will probably be another layer it has to get
• 3:08:38
  through. Unfortunately.
• 3:08:39
  We'll get another job. You're right for the Knicks,
• 3:08:40
  Sagan, James, Borrego and all these other names being thrown.
• 3:08:43
  First of all, there's no way. I got it.
• 3:08:45
  I got to attack Carl here, he says.
• 3:08:47
  Errol's showing why the Knicks never get it done if they are
• 3:08:50
  trying to sell newspapers. When?
• 3:08:53
  When is the last time anyone held a newspaper?
• 3:08:55
  Dude, if you come here to Long Island, you have newspaper guys
• 3:08:59
  throwing newspapers all over the place.
• 3:09:02
  There's newspapers all. You have Newsday, The New York
• 3:09:06
  Times, The Post, there's newspapers still here.
• 3:09:09
  You go to a bagel shop, you're going to find newspapers.
• 3:09:12
  And yes, it's all about selling newspapers and selling stories
• 3:09:16
  on social media. That's what the Knicks are
• 3:09:18
  trying to do. Leon Rose is one of the most
• 3:09:21
  intelligent GMs or presidents we've ever had in New York
• 3:09:26
  sports. The guy knows how to sell
• 3:09:28
  stories. He's the one who's selling this
• 3:09:31
  story. Guys, it's not happening.
• 3:09:33
  It's never it was never going to happen.
• 3:09:36
  Take that to the bank. It was never happening.
• 3:09:39
  It's just a stupid story. Sell it, take it, turn it
• 3:09:45
  sideways and stick it up your straight up candy ass.
• 3:09:48
  OK, it's never happening. Never.
• 3:09:51
  We will round it out with the last story of the day.
• 3:09:53
  Another layer to the Miami Dolphins we were talking about
• 3:09:56
  in the beginning they trade for and now unretired Darren Waller.
• 3:10:02
  He. Is just crazy the.
• 3:10:04
  Giants he apparently unretired. Now the Giants are trading in
• 3:10:07
  with a seventh round pick for a conditional sixth round pick and
• 3:10:10
  are trying to join that loaded offense in Miami.
• 3:10:13
  You know what's so funny about this story?
• 3:10:15
  Because Kniffin brought it up to me today.
• 3:10:17
  He says, guess who's coming out of retirement and coming back?
• 3:10:20
  And I said who? He said Darren Waller.
• 3:10:22
  I said who? And he said Darren Waller.
• 3:10:24
  I said, yeah, the tight end that play for the Giants.
• 3:10:27
  And how many games did he play for the Giants?
• 3:10:29
  Like 12. He played two years with the
• 3:10:32
  Giants and play 12 games. Give me a frigging break.
• 3:10:36
  I love his story. It's a great story about the
• 3:10:39
  drug addiction that he had and and, and working at a grocery
• 3:10:42
  store and then making the Ravens or and then he was spotted by
• 3:10:47
  John John Gruden on the sidelines and then signed him.
• 3:10:51
  Made a trade after the game. Great story and he was a good
• 3:10:55
  player. It's not Tom Brady, it's not
• 3:10:57
  Peyton Manning coming out of retirement.
• 3:10:59
  I could give a crap if Darren Waller is coming out of
• 3:11:03
  retirement. Who the hell is Darren Waller?
• 3:11:06
  He's not a Hall of Famer. He's he at one time.
• 3:11:09
  What was it, 2 years where he was an elite tight end?
• 3:11:13
  He's not Travis Kelsey, he's not anybody.
• 3:11:15
  Hey, if it was like, I don't know, give me a tight end that
• 3:11:19
  was great in in the time that he was dominant.
• 3:11:22
  I mean, honestly, give me one. Give me a George.
• 3:11:26
  No, he's, he's in the league. The guy that's retired?
• 3:11:29
  I mean, you could even look back at like when for Brady and
• 3:11:32
  Gronk, when Gronk retired from the Patriots, then he came out
• 3:11:34
  of. Retirement.
• 3:11:35
  And he wasn't like phenomenal, but he was still a solid.
• 3:11:40
  Antonio Pierce. OK, right.
• 3:11:42
  Antonio Pierce. Who?
• 3:11:43
  Who's the who's the guy? Antonio Gates?
• 3:11:45
  Antonio Gates. Antonio Gates.
• 3:11:46
  I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Antonio Gates.
• 3:11:48
  If Antonio Gates came out of retirement after like 10 years
• 3:11:53
  to play to play NFL football, that would be a story.
• 3:11:56
  The guy's one of the greatest tight ends of all time.
• 3:11:59
  He hasn't played in a long time and he wants to come back and he
• 3:12:01
  wants to compete. That's a great story because
• 3:12:04
  he's a Hall of Famer. This guy Waller, he's never
• 3:12:07
  going to the Hall of Fame. He's like he's in the hole of
• 3:12:10
  shame. OK.
• 3:12:11
  I could give a rat's ass if Darren Waller ever comes back.
• 3:12:17
  Greg Olson. I'd be more impressed if Greg
• 3:12:19
  Olson came back from, you know, the broadcasting.
• 3:12:22
  And by the way, Greg Olson is a great coach.
• 3:12:24
  He should get a coaching job in in the near future.
• 3:12:26
  But I Yeah. And if Antonio Gates came out of
• 3:12:29
  retirement, I'd actually give a crap.
• 3:12:31
  And I could give a crap about Darren Waller.
• 3:12:33
  I'm going to say Evan Neil outside, Evan Neil and someone
• 3:12:37
  outside. Evan Neil, do you bring up Evan
• 3:12:41
  Neil? No, I'm saying Evan Neil,
• 3:12:43
  outside of Evan Neil. You said that about six times.
• 3:12:46
  I swear to God. Evan Neil.
• 3:12:47
  Evan Neil is like, publicly. Number.
• 3:12:49
  One nobody, nobody like you, said Arrow.
• 3:12:52
  Nobody cares because only the fact.
• 3:12:53
  Scoop sits on the sitter I. Remember exactly the moment when
• 3:12:57
  Darren Waller actually came into the to the New York Giants?
• 3:12:59
  It was a little suspect at first, but hey, yeah, two good
• 3:13:02
  seasons with the Raiders. And pass liquor.
• 3:13:04
  There's no there's no reason that nobody should be excited or
• 3:13:06
  anybody even cares about Darren, Wally even coming.
• 3:13:09
  Out. Blow my back out.
• 3:13:11
  Coming out of the league for whatsoever.
• 3:13:12
  I mean, he's not even gonna be a number one option over there in
• 3:13:14
  Miami. He's not even gonna be the fifth
• 3:13:16
  or third or fourth option outside of someone like Dylan
• 3:13:19
  Waddle. Or Jabba like Martin cocktails
• 3:13:21
  or even the. 2 running backs that we have over there with
• 3:13:24
  what's his name be the number fifth option outside of those
• 3:13:30
  four guys I just named right there so.
• 3:13:32
  I like anal. And on top of that, I also one
• 3:13:35
  time when he divorced recently, Kelsey Plum.
• 3:13:38
  Everybody knows, of course, Kelsey Plum.
• 3:13:40
  That time she was. Double.
• 3:13:41
  She just went. That's better than he was, yes.
• 3:13:43
  I literally he he sent out an Instagram post of him singing by
• 3:13:47
  the way, he's a terrible rapper. He he makes horrible music.
• 3:13:49
  On top of that. I went and commented saying I
• 3:13:52
  could see why your wife is a two time champ and you're not, with
• 3:13:56
  thousands and thousands of comments eating me up for the
• 3:13:59
  fact that oh he doesn't have. A great quarterback.
• 3:14:02
  This and that, It doesn't even matter outside of that.
• 3:14:04
  He had Derek Carr outside of that with those two seasons that
• 3:14:07
  he actually put up good. Night Robot.
• 3:14:08
  It doesn't even matter. Like I said, it doesn't even
• 3:14:10
  matter what Tuga tuga tuga Vailoa who he's even, he might
• 3:14:13
  not even actually be helpful or if he's even stay.
• 3:14:16
  Healthy Breaking News A. Lot of hot ladies.
• 3:14:18
  He's not even going to be a number two or third option.
• 3:14:20
  He'll be the number fifth option and nobody cares about Darren
• 3:14:22
  Wall. No I don't.
• 3:14:23
  I don't get this story. This is a stupid story and and
• 3:14:26
  and and the reason why I laugh. Maybe Mike McDonald want.
• 3:14:30
  I mean, maybe Coach McDonald or McDaniels wants to be in the
• 3:14:33
  next rap album. I don't know.
• 3:14:34
  Stop. With this crap, Nathan, you
• 3:14:36
  actually shut the music up, Nathan.
• 3:14:39
  Nathan actually brought this story, story up to me today.
• 3:14:43
  He says, guess who's coming? Oh, breaking news.
• 3:14:45
  Oh, you're not going to believe this.
• 3:14:46
  Guess who's coming out of retirement?
• 3:14:48
  I thought it was Tom Brady or Peyton Manning, he says.
• 3:14:51
  Darren Waller. I was like, what are we
• 3:14:55
  actually? Bringing up basically.
• 3:14:58
  Darren Waller. Come on, man.
• 3:15:01
  Darren Waller. The only the only retirer that
• 3:15:04
  or unretirer that if it would celebrate more is EJ Perry.
• 3:15:08
  Ridiculous. But his story is sensational for
• 3:15:11
  anybody that knows what he's been through when it came to
• 3:15:13
  opioids and, and, and all the, the trials and tribulations he
• 3:15:18
  had when he came from high school and then college and, and
• 3:15:21
  then falling apart. That is a story.
• 3:15:23
  It is an amazing story. You got to give John Gruden a
• 3:15:26
  lot of credit for taking a chance with him.
• 3:15:27
  But for anybody to sit here and brag about Darren Waller coming
• 3:15:31
  out of retirement, this guy, is he he, he couldn't stay healthy.
• 3:15:36
  He's he's, he's as important as the Speedy shit stain right now.
• 3:15:40
  OK, That's as far as I'm concerned.
• 3:15:43
  That's that's the truth. Speedy, do you have any skid
• 3:15:45
  marks? No, that's your nickname.
• 3:15:47
  That's actually Sarge's nickname for you.
• 3:15:48
  That first of all, who who, who's, who's Ashley?
• 3:15:52
  Was the nickname he gave you. Listen, just so everybody know,
• 3:15:56
  first of all, Ashley, Ashley, if you're listening to the show,
• 3:16:00
  and I'm sure he is because he's a pain in my ass.
• 3:16:02
  Ashley wants to come on the show, talk a little hockey and
• 3:16:05
  we maybe I'll get him on the show tomorrow so we could talk
• 3:16:07
  about the. Rangers and the others.
• 3:16:10
  I I want to say something, Ashley.
• 3:16:12
  Ashley, do you remember when we went to the draft in Dallas?
• 3:16:15
  Remember what I did to that leg of yours?
• 3:16:17
  You be careful. Man.
• 3:16:19
  You be careful, man. You know, I could tell that
• 3:16:21
  story. I could embarrass you on live
• 3:16:23
  radio. Anyways, we have one more
• 3:16:26
  segment of the night and we call that.
• 3:16:29
  What's that smell? Hold up, what is that smell?
• 3:16:33
  What's that? Smell.
• 3:16:39
  Wow, you don't see that every day.
• 3:16:42
  Breaking news Fish is a grumpy old man.
• 3:16:47
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have the boys and we're going
• 3:16:49
  to give them an opportunity too. Why not?
• 3:16:52
  They're they're our interns. They've done a great job.
• 3:16:54
  Jake, Aaron, Zach will be back tomorrow.
• 3:16:57
  So let's do it with them. All right, so here's the story.
• 3:17:00
  This is how we're going to do it.
• 3:17:01
  Anything you could join us too? It's very simple.
• 3:17:04
  We're going to we're going to give you a story that's happened
• 3:17:06
  over the last past week and we're going to tell you what it
• 3:17:09
  smells like. All right, we're going to go
• 3:17:11
  first. We're going to go with scoops.
• 3:17:14
  We're going to go with Aaron, Jake, Nathan.
• 3:17:18
  Well, I don't have a story for this one all.
• 3:17:20
  Right one up, Nathan. We'll take, we'll take Nathan
• 3:17:23
  out. All right, we'll take Nathan
• 3:17:25
  out. Then we'll have Speedy Jabba me.
• 3:17:28
  Here we go, all. Right, let's let's get the music
• 3:17:31
  going. Let's go.
• 3:17:31
  You're the one who spits it out. All right, so.
• 3:17:34
  Speedy. 'S mom over?
• 3:17:36
  This past weekend we had AWWE event known as Night of
• 3:17:40
  Champions where they had over in Saudi Arabia.
• 3:17:43
  I just have to come on and say that's called Saudi Arabia pay
• 3:17:46
  per views, that they've had been going on since 2:00. 1018 or.
• 3:17:50
  Whatever or have been absolutely atrocious a lot of these Saudi
• 3:17:53
  pay per views. Are not I'll let you lick my
• 3:17:54
  butt. And it's really just, I don't, I
• 3:17:57
  don't know what it is with the quality of wrestling right now.
• 3:17:59
  I do say Triple H is doing a really good job with the way
• 3:18:02
  wrestling has been going on and his booking.
• 3:18:04
  But however the Saudi paper, he's got to go.
• 3:18:07
  You got Crown Jewel, the United Champions, that was a bust and
• 3:18:09
  are going to not going to go anywhere as it's going to be in
• 3:18:12
  Royal Rumble next year. A lot of the matches didn't
• 3:18:15
  deliver. I mean, you had the king of the
• 3:18:16
  ring, OK, sure. The queen of the ring.
• 3:18:18
  A lot of people weren't happy about that.
• 3:18:20
  You even had the last time ever John Cena was on his retirement
• 3:18:23
  tour against CM Punk, which was a pretty underwhelming match
• 3:18:27
  considering these guys have had great matches in the past
• 3:18:30
  before. So what does it smell like?
• 3:18:31
  It smells like some Saudi Arabia sand that Triple H shoved up his
• 3:18:36
  underpants. So there we go there.
• 3:18:39
  You go. All right.
• 3:18:39
  So this is something I saw I think within the past week, I
• 3:18:43
  want to say on Twitter, I had thought of it, this would be
• 3:18:45
  good for this segment. I don't know if any of you guys
• 3:18:48
  saw it, but there is if there was a video out there with
• 3:18:51
  someone trying to get Kelsey Plum to sign one of their their
• 3:18:55
  rookie cards or like that. And she was very turned off by
• 3:18:59
  it, didn't want to do it. I mean, it was an older
• 3:19:02
  gentleman, but he seemed very nice.
• 3:19:05
  She was very standoffish. She ended up signing it anyway.
• 3:19:08
  But I was sitting there watching that video and going, man,
• 3:19:11
  everyone, everyone's complaining about the WNBA, how they don't
• 3:19:14
  get what they want, the money that they want or, or the views
• 3:19:17
  that they that they want and they want more people to watch
• 3:19:20
  them. But then you see stuff like this
• 3:19:21
  and go, OK, you're only hurting your brand by doing this.
• 3:19:26
  And then you also see the stuff with Caitlin Clark and go, OK,
• 3:19:29
  this one generational player is trying to save your, your the
• 3:19:34
  entire league, but you guys are not willing to pursue other
• 3:19:38
  things and, and be nice to not even be just just be a normal
• 3:19:41
  person. Someone's asking to sign
• 3:19:42
  someone, just sign it. Like to me, I just, I thought it
• 3:19:45
  was just like you're, you're just ruining your sport.
• 3:19:48
  Like just just do what you got to do to help your league at the
• 3:19:52
  end of the day. So to me it's not like it was
• 3:19:55
  shitting on their own league, essentially just taking a big
• 3:19:57
  ass doogie on their league and that's it.
• 3:20:00
  The other one, Aaron, too, I don't know if you saw it too, if
• 3:20:02
  you guys saw it, where that girl was sitting courtside, She had a
• 3:20:05
  Caton shirt on. She brought over their shirt and
• 3:20:09
  she told the girl to do better. I didn't see that.
• 3:20:12
  But like, you see, it's like, I don't understand the narrative.
• 3:20:16
  Like, yeah, I get it. Like I think everyone wants to
• 3:20:18
  at least see some some sort of like uphill battle with them.
• 3:20:22
  Like they want to see the League do good.
• 3:20:24
  But then at the end of the day, they're just ruining you for
• 3:20:27
  themselves. I don't know, Maybe that's the
• 3:20:28
  way I see it, but I saw that and I I got, I was like, that
• 3:20:32
  doesn't make any sense. All right, Yeah, So for my
• 3:20:34
  story, I'm going to go to the NBA.
• 3:20:36
  Obviously we're right in the middle of NBA free agency, so
• 3:20:38
  there's a lot of great moves. I'm sure we'll get into that in
• 3:20:40
  tomorrow's show. But the one I wanted to point to
• 3:20:42
  was the OR the the free agency move of Miles Turner leaving the
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  Indiana Pacers and going to the Milwaukee Bucks on I believe it
• 3:20:51
  was like a four year, $109 million contract.
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  Literally just, you know, weeks or even days after they lost the
• 3:20:58
  NBA Finals heartbreaking Game 7 to the Oklahoma City Thunder
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  when they were one game away, they went on an improbable run.
• 3:21:05
  It was unbelievable. And the Pacers owners, they
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  don't want to pay Miles Turner, who's been there Center for like
• 3:21:14
  for their franchise for the last like 5 to 8 tennis plus years,
• 3:21:18
  all because Tyrese Halliburton went down with a horrific
• 3:21:21
  injury. You don't want to keep this team
• 3:21:22
  together and try to compete and let alone you go to go to
• 3:21:25
  Milwaukee, your your main rival after they just cut and waved
• 3:21:28
  Damian Lillard. Like what, what, what kind of
• 3:21:31
  logic is that? Like you're just going to throw
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  in the town and give up on one year after you just went to the
• 3:21:35
  finals and we're one game away from winning a championship.
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  You're going to throw away one of your key contributors and
• 3:21:40
  pieces and let him walk to your main rival That?
• 3:21:44
  That smells like deep, bloody betrayal to me.
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  And the shitty smell of a dead deer carcass.
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  There you. Go.
• 3:21:52
  That smells fitted very well with the Milwaukee Bucks steam.
• 3:21:55
  All right, I'll shift to some hockey.
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  These are two Boston radio hosts, Mike Felger and Tony
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  Maserati, who took shots at the Bruins claiming that they draft
• 3:22:04
  too many local prospects, allegedly.
• 3:22:07
  Well, let's see how many prospects they drafted are from
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  New England, Not their first round pick and James Hagan's.
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  We know Errol's a Long Island guy.
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  They drafted another New Yorker in the third round.
• 3:22:16
  They drafted a Swedish kid in the second round in Liam
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  Peterson and a later draft pick from Minnesota.
• 3:22:21
  So let's see how many New England prospects are coming
• 3:22:23
  from there. None to go with that.
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  So good job geography goodies. Sony's geography looks better
• 3:22:29
  than yours at this point. And even if you wanted to not
• 3:22:32
  like even if you wanted to just reference the northeast,
• 3:22:34
  Northeast is a good hotbed for hockey.
• 3:22:37
  So like, why is it a bad thing for them to draft local
• 3:22:39
  prospects just because of a few of them in workout?
• 3:22:42
  So what does that smell like? Don't like this one?
• 3:22:44
  And it smells like a sweaty Kevin Yuklas being knocked out
• 3:22:47
  by you into a barrel of rotten baked.
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  Beans. Hey.
• 3:22:54
  I just had baked beans the other day, they're good.
• 3:22:57
  Yeah, but you're knocking him into a a container of rotten
• 3:23:00
  baked. Beans OK rotten you're not gonna
• 3:23:02
  rot sound all right I'm going to switch to baseball and I don't
• 3:23:06
  know if you guys seen this, but this dumbass Dave McCaskill,
• 3:23:11
  it's been four years in a row of interfering God plays left
• 3:23:15
  center. He's he's kind of, they try to
• 3:23:17
  emulate him and his buddies have a contest and they're kind of
• 3:23:21
  like the Zach Hampel of the other side.
• 3:23:23
  And, and he, he gives an interview and he's like, yeah,
• 3:23:27
  I've only been ejected twice. And so he is now banned for 2025
• 3:23:34
  for the rest of the year. And he can come back in 2026 if
• 3:23:39
  he follows all the rules. I talked to a colleague of ours
• 3:23:44
  and Megan Plain who actually did an interview with him and she
• 3:23:47
  was like, you know, it was interesting.
• 3:23:50
  He's very, very proud of what he did.
• 3:23:51
  But you know, when it comes to interfering with games and
• 3:23:54
  outcomes of games, and I just, I don't like it.
• 3:23:57
  And then you are proud of it. And you you say you vote.
• 3:24:01
  You've already gotten thrown out twice.
• 3:24:03
  Like, OK, maybe once you know, you get a little overzealous and
• 3:24:07
  you reach out because you're excited.
• 3:24:09
  But then again, and then now you're banned it it just shows
• 3:24:12
  that you I have little little leaner man syndrome and it
• 3:24:16
  sounds like he didn't use his dude wipes and he wipes back to
• 3:24:19
  front. As long as she's using dude
• 3:24:21
  wipes and taking care of my 2 hole, I'm good.
• 3:24:27
  All right, the final. Oh sorry, I was just going to
• 3:24:29
  say really quick. I know a lot of baseball fans
• 3:24:32
  have their opinions on him, but like, it's players.
• 3:24:34
  Do you hate Zach Ample too? I just had to now ask.
• 3:24:37
  Oh, he's annoying his balls. OK, I, I mean, I get, I get
• 3:24:43
  like, I mean he's wrote books and whatever, but why he does
• 3:24:48
  it, it, it, it annoys me and like he'll literally steal balls
• 3:24:51
  from kids. Yeah, no, I I just wanted to
• 3:24:54
  know, but that makes sense. All right, my final What's that
• 3:24:58
  smell goes to one of my worst hated players in NFL history,
• 3:25:05
  Rodney Harrison to be inducted into the Chargers Hall of Fame
• 3:25:11
  during 2025 season. I love this Ronnie Harris is set
• 3:25:16
  to be honored by the club that drafted him.
• 3:25:19
  The chargers announced on Monday that they will be inducting
• 3:25:22
  Harrison into the team's Hall of Fame during halftime of their
• 3:25:27
  week, a Thursday Night Football game against the Minnesota
• 3:25:30
  Vikings on October 23rd. Rodney Harrison is is explained
• 3:25:35
  as his physicality, his emotion, his relentlessness, his effort,
• 3:25:40
  his toughness in his grit. The only thing I remember of
• 3:25:44
  Ronnie Harrison is Super Bowl 2O7 when he was trying to catch
• 3:25:50
  on, intercept the ball and David Tyree steals the ball and
• 3:25:56
  catches it with his helmet and cost, yes, the New England
• 3:26:01
  Patriots Super Bowl on what, undefeated season?
• 3:26:05
  You know what that smells like? It smells like an absolute shit
• 3:26:09
  stain loser that Rodney Harrison is.
• 3:26:12
  And by the way, probably you could pull that wedgie out of
• 3:26:15
  Phillip Rivers ass. There you go.
• 3:26:17
  So that's about it. And by the way, for all the
• 3:26:20
  Phillip Rivers haters out there, you can kiss my ass because
• 3:26:23
  Phillip Rivers is a Hall of Famer.
• 3:26:26
  That's what I'm going to say. When are we going to get Steve
• 3:26:29
  Weich bat back on the show? Well, I want Steve on the show
• 3:26:33
  because Steve is going to be kissing my ass after he goes to
• 3:26:36
  the Hall of Fame. That's what Steve's going to be
• 3:26:38
  doing. He's going to be you know what
• 3:26:40
  I'm going to do after he takes me out to a steak dinner.
• 3:26:42
  I'm going to tell I'm going to have him and his wife at the
• 3:26:44
  dinner table and I'm going to say, you know what, I'll pay for
• 3:26:47
  dinner. You know what you're going to
• 3:26:48
  do? I'm going to pull down my pants
• 3:26:49
  and you're going to kiss my left cheek and you're going to do it
• 3:26:52
  in front of all these people out here.
• 3:26:54
  And then I'm going to send it to ESPNNFL network and I'm going to
• 3:26:58
  show you how big of a idiot you are when you came out and said
• 3:27:01
  that Philip Rivers is in a Hall of Famer.
• 3:27:03
  So I don't know, Steve, I love you, but you're out of your damn
• 3:27:06
  mind. For all the people.
• 3:27:08
  TJ Ward, you're out of your damn mind.
• 3:27:10
  Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger and Philip Rivers are in a Hall
• 3:27:15
  of Famer. That was a crazy take.
• 3:27:16
  We got to take that and cut that baby.
• 3:27:18
  Oh, I did already. That is that is absolutely.
• 3:27:21
  He went. He went Eli Ben, right?
• 3:27:25
  Yeah, when I was making that clip for Instagram and I was
• 3:27:29
  going back and rewatching, I was like, I couldn't believe he said
• 3:27:31
  that. And I was like, if he doesn't
• 3:27:33
  think any of those guys is over, going like no quarterback in
• 3:27:36
  this current league aside from maybe Mahomes, I'm like, must be
• 3:27:40
  at all eligible. Because if that's his logic,
• 3:27:43
  that's crazy. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
• 3:27:44
  And by the way, he said Eli Manning first.
• 3:27:47
  Yeah, Eli Manning won two Super Bowls, and I know fish was have.
• 3:27:51
  He was getting a hard on when he heard that.
• 3:27:53
  He was like, Oh my God. Oh, my God.
• 3:27:56
  Listen, I understand he's the name.
• 3:27:59
  He's Eli Manning. He's Peyton Manning's brother.
• 3:28:01
  The fact is, he even said, I said who was the better player?
• 3:28:05
  He said you didn't ask me that and he knows the truth.
• 3:28:08
  Philip Rivers was the better player out of all three of them.
• 3:28:10
  So how could you say Eli Manning, who, Yes, he won two
• 3:28:14
  Super Bowls. Yes, he has a name.
• 3:28:16
  Should go to the Hall of Fame ahead of Ben Roethlisberger and
• 3:28:19
  Philip. That didn't make any sense.
• 3:28:21
  TJ. Where are you coming from, man?
• 3:28:23
  What are you smoking? Anyways?
• 3:28:26
  I just had to say that we love you, TJ.
• 3:28:28
  We can't wait for you to come back on the show.
• 3:28:29
  No one be hating on my guy. I'm not hating on him, I was
• 3:28:32
  just. We know he's smoking, he's
• 3:28:35
  smoking, he's smoking the Nathan shrimp cocktail.
• 3:28:37
  All right, we got to go. Congratulations to Preston
• 3:28:40
  Carey. Keep listening to us on Spotify,
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  www.worldwidesportsradio.com And by the way, don't be a clown
• 3:28:55
  sitting on a trash rental or a home from hell.
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  Don't be a clown. Get paid for it.
• 3:29:02
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  and kiss my ass while you're doing it.
• 3:29:23
  So there you go. I got, I got you guys a special
• 3:29:26
  guest on July 16th, Wednesday at 9:00 PM.
• 3:29:29
  Who is it? Matthew Dennis.
• 3:29:31
  He was at the Fanatics games this year.
• 3:29:33
  He was the one of the the fans that competed.
• 3:29:36
  He was in 3rd place. He got 250250K from Tom Brady.
• 3:29:41
  Yeah. Where's he's coming on the show?
• 3:29:42
  Where's my 2? 150K Tell him, hey, Tommy, first
• 3:29:47
  of all, you were supposed to get me that thing over there in the
• 3:29:50
  Hamptons with Tom Brady. You never got that for me, you
• 3:29:52
  little piece. They.
• 3:29:53
  Never answered back. Bend over.
• 3:29:56
  Show everybody that ass, that Indian ass.
• 3:29:58
  Show them that Indian ass. As long as she's using dude
• 3:30:02
  watch and taking care of my 2 hole, I'm good.
• 3:30:04
  This makes my pecker harder anyways, that's it for our show
• 3:30:07
  ladies and gentlemen we'll be back tomorrow.
• 3:30:09
  We'll have fish back we'll have Zach here.
• 3:30:11
  We'll have the whole show and maybe we'll add king of the hill
• 3:30:14
  because we never get a chance. We got to do that that whole UFC
• 3:30:18
  mixed martial arts thing. That wouldn't be fair because it
• 3:30:20
  would probably just be me and Jake.
• 3:30:22
  That wouldn't have been fair. What is fish thinking?
• 3:30:24
  I don't I don't get it. Hey, you're not going to give me
• 3:30:27
  any credit on the UFCI Didn't say that.
• 3:30:29
  I didn't say that. But I I I listen to Jake and I
• 3:30:32
  listen to his take. I I just it's going to be hard
• 3:30:35
  to to attack this guy when it comes to his takes when it comes
• 3:30:38
  to mixed martial arts, You probably you probably have the
• 3:30:41
  third most knowledge on the show about mixed martial arts.
• 3:30:43
  So it would have been I'm the only one that's ever had a deal
• 3:30:46
  with the UFC. So right there, there, you
• 3:30:48
  child, there you show. All right, you want to show your
• 3:30:50
  ass? Show everybody your ass.
• 3:30:52
  I mean, I got Birthmark on my right cheek.
• 3:30:55
  There you go. Me too.
• 3:30:56
  Is that what your future wife is looking at right now after the
• 3:31:01
  show? Sitting down, you stupid ass.
• 3:31:03
  How do we know you're sitting? Maybe you're sitting on her.
• 3:31:08
  That would be silence. I'm losing my mind tonight.
• 3:31:12
  I'm losing my voice. I'm losing everything.
• 3:31:14
  Anyways, that's it for a show. We'll be back tomorrow.
• 3:31:17
  Goodnight it. It it's the worldwide sports
• 3:31:20
  radio network, Radio network.