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Pete Alonso’s Revenge | Jets & Giants For Real? | Yankees Clinch | Brunson on SVU | Knicks Sign Vets · Independent N.I.C.

• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Listen man, if you're one of these Mets fans who
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: feel like it's disrespectful to the current players or you're
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: not an actual Mets fan if you're a person who
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: who was cheering for Pete Alonzo, who was chanting Fire Stearns.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: If you're one of those people that.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: I've been arguing with on Twitter or X, follow me
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: at IndependentNick, N-I-C, no K. If you're one of these people,
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, turn this shit off.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: It's not for you. It's not for you.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Because Pete Alonzo just came back to Queens from, He
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: hit two home runs, one being a game-tying home run
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: in the ninth off of Kodai Senga in game two.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Game three just wrapped up. In his first at-bat in
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: game three, he hit a towering shot. Two very consequential,
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: massive home runs. And the Orioles get a sweep. Sorry,
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Yankees fans. The Yankees, they don't even care about the
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Orioles at this point. The Yankees just clinched. They are
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: going to be going to the postseason again. It seems
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: like they go every single year. And the Mets, their
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: season was over a long time ago, but they got
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: to get a new narrative now that will be talked
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: about for quite some time. Because, you know, I've always
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: said that losing Pete was an absolute travesty. It's our
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: generation's Tom Seaver. It immediately made me feel like there
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: is no such thing as a boy wonder when it
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: comes to David Stearns, and instead he is a boy blunder.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: You got to get rid of this guy. And Pete Alonzo,
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: along with the Mets faithful, just made it crystal clear.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: And that's the point that I'm going to make off
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  Speaker 1: the top to all of you people out there who
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: get so upset with how Mets fans are cheered for
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: Pete Alonso's 300th home run, how Mets fans immediately left after.
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: His last at-bat in all three of these games.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: You get upset by the fact that Mets fans booed
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: when he got walked by Jonah Tong in game one.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: And you're totally missing the point. Honestly, if your point
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: is that Mets fans shouldn't be rooting against their own team,
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: then you're just not that smart. You have no ability
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: to understand nuance. You're not really understanding the big picture here.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: Once again, over on X, at Independent Nick, check my replies.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: All I've been doing is fighting with people these last
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: couple days, a couple people who are somewhat prominent in
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: Mets Twitter, about this point that it's not about... How
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  Speaker 1: we feel about this current Mets team or about the
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: Mets overall as a franchise in our fandom. This has
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with that. This is about sending a
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  Speaker 1: clear message to David Stearns. To Uncle Stevie Cohen. Shit,
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  Speaker 1: somewhat to Pete Alonzo.
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  Speaker 2: That.
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  Speaker 1: This was the worst idea ever to get rid of
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: this guy. For anybody who makes the point, oh, well,
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: Pete's turned down so many deals. Pete turned down one deal,
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: seven for 158. It was a below the market deal.
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: At the time.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: You don't understand market value if you still feel like
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Pete's just, you know, just been turning down deals and
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: he got Boris and this and that. What is the
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: point of being a New York franchise and having the
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: richest owner in all of sports? Definitely the richest in baseball.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: Is he the richest in all sports?
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: I think Balmer might be richer than him.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: But what's the point of having the guy who's the
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: richest owner in baseball, who's an actual fan of the team?
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: If you're going to allow somebody to pay Pete Alonzo
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: more money than you are. What does a guy have
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: to do? And this is why I say you have
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: to fire the nerd. Because if he doesn't understand that
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: this guy is a guaranteed 30 to 40 and 100
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: to 125 every single year, he plays every single day.
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, and by the way, the defense was the problem, right?
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: Well, not only are Pete's defensive metrics much better this year,
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: But we got to see him flash the leather a
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: couple times just in this series. A couple diving plays.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: One of them in extra innings. He's throwing the ball
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: over to first base with no issues at all. Nice
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: soft toss sending it over there.
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, damn.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: Not only did he make the errant throw a couple
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: years ago that went high that Senga went up for.
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: Pulls a hammy.
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  Speaker 1: He's never the same for the rest of the season
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  Speaker 1: after starting out looking like an ace. But then Pete,
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: with a man on down by two in the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the ninth, in game two of the series, turns
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: on one, a fork ball that didn't quite fork. And Pete,
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: Pete obviously, he was ahead in the count. He knew
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: the fork ball was coming, right?
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: He understood.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: You know, he played with this guy. He's watching from
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: first base. I'm sure he faced him sometimes in BP.
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: And so he knows what this ball does. And he
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: knows that if it's on this certain plane, it's going
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: to be so low that I'm not going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to get to it. But Pete almost went down
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: to one knee, like old school Albert Bell style, to
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: turn on that shit and took it out. And the
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: Mets faithful in Citi Field, I mean, they showered him
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: with the praise that he deserves.
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: He got.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: A huge ovation every time he came to the plate.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: He hit that home run. Many people were there hoping
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: they would get to see Pete hit number 300. And
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: he does it in dramatic fashion. And the Mets fans
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: go wild so crazy that Pete does a curtain call.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: After tying up the game in an opposing stadium. God,
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: that had to have felt good to him. Pete's done
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: a great job of taking the high road throughout this
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: entire thing. Every time somebody asks him, he's always like, man,
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: it's just lots of great memories, and it's nothing but
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: gratitude for those guys over there. He's talking about people
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse, the staff, the players, everybody. Notice he
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: didn't say anything about management or ownership.
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: He did not say that.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: He's being interviewed. He's making plays in the field after
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: hitting the home run in Game 3 on ESPN. The
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: ESPN broadcast is just having a great time with the
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: fact that the Mets not only gave up Pete Alonzo,
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: but also traded away a guy who's having an all-time
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: epic season and, you know, maybe the best young player
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: in baseball.
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: In PCA, Pete Crow Armstrong.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: A couple Pete's that the, if the Mets ever have
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: another ball player that's named Pete, you can't ever get
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: rid of this guy. I mean, it's just a bad
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: omen at this point. PCA having a crazy day. My
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: typical producer, your guy, super producer, Jason Baum, Not here
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: today playing kickball, but he and I are facing off
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: in our fantasy baseball finals right now.
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  Speaker 2: And we've been in this league for a decade.
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  Speaker 1: And PCA, I have PCA on the team.
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: And PCA today, let's get these numbers. Three for four, three.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: Hits, three runs, two home runs, three RBIs. He had
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: a home run and two home runs and also a triple.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: So PCA getting it done. And yeah, half a season
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: of hobby bias. But yeah, man, the Pete thing, you know,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: the inability for people to understand how the Mets fan
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: feels and some people just having this like rigid thought
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: process where it's like, okay, well, you root for your team.
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: When a guy leaves, like you give him a good
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: round of applause that first time, but then you continue
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: to root for your team. First and foremost, The Mets
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: are totally out of it. That makes things totally different.
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: Mike Piazza came back as a Padre. He hit two
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: home runs.
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: In game two.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: He got his ovation from the crowd and ended up
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: doing a curtain call as well. People act like that
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: didn't happen. But the Mets were a good team at
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: that point. So it was a little bit different because
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: in that game one, We were a good team. We
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: were headed to the playoffs. It wasn't like, yo, we
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: have to win this game. If we lose this game,
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: then we fall out of a wild card spot. It
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: was not a situation like that. So that being a
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: little bit different, but mainly the big difference between this
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: situation and anything else is that no person with any
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: type of sense thought that Pete Alonzo shouldn't retire a Met.
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: That's a Mets fan.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: Now, there's a whole lot of people that feel that way.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: Those people have no sense. And clearly, the vast majority
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: of the fan base... wanted Pete Alonzo to be a
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: Met forever. I mean, you know, if you can't understand
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: that a guy who plays every day, mashes home runs
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: and drives in runs, your all-time home run leader for
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: your franchise, he's 31 years old, and you let him
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: go somewhere, you let somebody outbid you for him? Stern's
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: just got to go. Because not only does he, this
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: is why I call him a nerd, right? People on
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: X get so mad at me for calling him a nerd.
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: I'm like, the whole thing about it is, is like,
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: you know, if that bothers you that much, you've been
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: called a nerd before. It touches you somewhere, you know,
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: it touches you really at home. Because, I mean, at
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, you could call a guy
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: a lot worse. And I think that it's clear that
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: to me, his nerdiness, and I'm not talking about because
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: he went to Harvard, I'm talking about the fact that
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: He looked at Pete Alonzo and said, we need to
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: get some better defense. So we're going to get Polanco,
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: a guy who's never played first, and a guy who
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: never plays. And we're going to let Pete Alonzo go
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: somewhere else, get outbid for him in a non-salary cap sport.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: So this is not like it was something where it
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: was like, hey, well, if we sign Pete at that number,
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: we won't be able to.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: Nope, nope, nope, nope. That's not what it is. We
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: let Pete Alonzo go, man. Look at him. Look what
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: he's doing.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: You see him throw his bat after that game-tying home
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  Speaker 1: run in the ninth, and you telling me he didn't want.
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: To stick it to the Mets? Of course he did,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: as he should.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: My wife was, when Pete hit a home run both times,
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: she was literally teary-eyed about the crowd.
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: She's like, this just isn't right.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: And she said, you know, she said, and this is,
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: I feel like, it's just beyond being.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: Like, yay, Pete, you did it. Or, oh, the Mets suck.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: Or, you know, or even like, oh, look at that,
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: David Stearns, which I think that is one of the
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: main sentiments. I think the overwhelming sentiment from Mets fans,
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: especially the large majority of us that love Pete Alonzo,
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: The overwhelming feeling when you see him hit home run
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: 300 and hit another home run in the final game
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: of the series. The overwhelming feeling from all of us
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: is good for him. He wanted to be a Met.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: He turned down one contract that was way under market
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: at the time. The rumors were that he, the Mets
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: didn't even really even negotiate a contract with him. They
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: continued to make him offer after offer that were either
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: short on years or an AAV that was not, that
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: was not, you know, it wasn't, it's not even that
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: it wasn't even enough. Like some of it was kind
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: of disrespectful, right? And I think that David Stearns had
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: this hard line. And I hope that, I really, really
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: hope that the rumor is true. That at one time
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: during negotiations, Pete said, I'll be getting my jacket and
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: going to Cooperstown while you're still looking at your graphs
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: and charts or something to that effect. If he really
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: said that to David Stearns, bravo, man. Fuck, man, I
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: can't believe. It hurts my heart, yo. These last few days,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm one of these people who all season
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: is just like, fuck, man, I can't believe. People are like, oh,
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: get over it, move on, he's gone, he left. I'll
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: never get over this shit. I will never, ever get
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: over this. I'll be talking about this for years, for
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: the rest of my life. And that's, to me, why
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: he is our generation's Seaver, because when I hear people
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: from back then talk about Seaver getting traded, It's like
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: a piece of their joy was stolen. And that's exactly
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: how I feel when it comes to Pete Alonzo no
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: longer being a New York Mets and hitting big home
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: runs against the New York Mets.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Come on, man. Listen, man, I'm sorry.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: If you're one of these people that's like, oh, you
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: can't root against the Mets. First of all, we're not
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: rooting against anything. People were not booing Jonah Tong. People
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: were not cheering against Kodai Senga. They wanted to see
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Pete hit number 300, and they were happy when they
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: saw him hit number 300. And it didn't matter as
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: far as the Mets are concerned when it comes to
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: their overall ability to do anything this season.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly....
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Sean Minaya, you know, coming out saying like, oh, you know,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: he was a little bit upset and it's kind of
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: crazy to see and all that other shit.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Sean Minaya, shut the fuck up.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Because your ass not being able to, you know, throw
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: more than three innings last year while you're getting paid
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: $ 25 million was the biggest reason why we didn't have
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: a great season, the type of season where we go
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: to the playoffs and Pete has some big moments and
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: he's still here in the first place.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Sean Minaya, Mr.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Big Inning, can be cruising along and all of a
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: sudden he's getting shellacked. Yeah, I want to hear from Sean, man.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: I want to hear from Sean. And, you know, Lindor
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: did say, like, you know, he said he was trying
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: to pick up Jonah Tong. But Lindor gets it. You
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: saw Lindor on the field with Pete today in between
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: innings going up and embracing. I mean, Lindor has basically said, yo,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: you look over at Pete's numbers and you're like, fuck,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: we wish we.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Had that over here.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: He's said that in not quite so frank words multiple
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: times this season when asked about Alonzo. That's the thing
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: is that it's not like Alonzo instead, like, okay, well,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: if we have Alonzo, then we don't. No, fuck that.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Jared Young, we could find some other places for him
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: to possibly make an impact. But if we just added that.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Into the lineup, you never know how the season goes.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Baseball is one of those things where it's like, yo,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: you add another guy who's consistently knocking in runs like that,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: doing it in clutch moments, which Pete has proven to
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: be able to do throughout his career. It changes everything.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: A couple more times where you don't get the big hit,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: if all of a sudden you turn that around and
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: you make that not just a big hit, but like
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: a big extra base hit, it changes the whole season.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: That 12-game losing streak that we had in April, yo,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: all you need is one or two things to go
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: your way. One hit impedes that guy. He brings that emotion.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: He was the lifeblood of the team. He was never,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: ever supposed to wear another jersey. Fire David Stearns.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: He's got to go.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Uncle Stevie, I'm talking to you. Please, Uncle Stevie, fire
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: David Stearns.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: He's got to go.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: It's sad man it really does it fucking hurts my
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: heart it hurts my heart uncle stevie please man david
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: stearns he's just gotta go jets and the giants they
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: both get wins on week one for the first time
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: since oh nine i believe i heard jets get their
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: first one i think since 2016 and then um Other
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: than 2023, which we know was the game that they won.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: With the Xavier Gibson.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Great punt return, but we lost Brett Favre. Wow, that's
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: a slip right there. Another Green Bay quarterback, Aaron Rodgers,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: on the fourth play of the game to the Torn Achilles.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: So therefore, that was not one that we got to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: really enjoy as a week one win.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Jets come out, they take care of business.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: And they dominated the Titans. I watched the game on
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the plane. I went back to New York, New Jersey,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Jersey at first, and then I spent some time in
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: New York, specifically in Queens, and had a great, great chip.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: As I'm getting on the plane in Arizona, I'm going
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: through TSA, and the dude that is directing people on
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: what to do with their bags, by the way, TSA,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: like the difference between TSA when you're in Phoenix and
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: that airport, which it's not like it's a small airport.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: It's a legit airport. But the difference in TSA with
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: there and then the, and JFK, it's just so crazy.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: It's like, it's not even the same place.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Beyond just the, you know, the 100X people, in addition
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: to that, you also, like the TSA is just totally different. Like,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: you know, you're just rolling through. No, there's no, you know, shit.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Let me not talk about.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Security via lax at the airport.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Let me not talk about that. I want to end
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: up on a list of some shit. But yeah, man,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: it's totally different. And as I'm walking through security, do
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: with the bags, I got my Knicks championship hat on,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: which will make an appearance here soon. And I'm wearing
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: that as I'm going through. And the guy standing there,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: he's like, man, I was happy for y'all, man. Y'all fans,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: y'all deserve that.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Y'all deserve that.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I was like, ah, thank you, brother. I appreciate you.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I still don't feel like it's real. And then
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: as I'm going through the body scan joint, as I'm
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: going through there, The lady on the other side looks
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: at me and goes, Nixon five, and like pulls out
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: her chain. She's got a Knicks chain on.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: She starts talking.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: She had a heavy Bronx accent. She was like, yo,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I like that hat. I had the ill hat, but
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I lost it when I was at the parade. I
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: was like, yo, I flew back for the parade too.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: She was like, oh, that shit was loud. And then
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, I ain't had a hat that they
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: was wearing on the floor after the game.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I said, nah, that hat, they made that hat for
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the Spurs.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: That hat and the shirt. She was like, yep, they
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: sure did. They sure did. I'm getting the Knicks in five,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: you know, before I even leave Arizona, before I even
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: touch down back in Newark. And yeah, man, people are
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: still hype.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: A lot of people still talking about the Knicks, you know,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: like a couple of Knicks and fives still out there. And,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you know, it was fun to go back. But yeah, man.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: So I'm on the way back and I purposely fly JetBlue.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: So I can have the screen and I can watch
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the Jets game in its entirety while I'm on the flight.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And the Jets, from the very beginning, you know, first drive,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: go straight down the field, score a touchdown. That's not,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you know, I know there's a lot of people who
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: are fans of NFL teams who, you know, to them,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: seeing that is not a real big deal. As a
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Jets fan, that's a big fucking deal. We don't see
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: that very often. We do not get to see that
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: very often. And truthfully, I was kind of like, you know,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: kind of taken aback by it. Like, okay, Geno's hitting
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: his spots on time throws. Guys are catching it, running
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: after the catch.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man. And the offensive line, which.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: To me is the biggest factor this year for this team.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: what they can end up being, and they were absolutely
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: dominating what's supposed to be a pretty decent Tennessee defensive line.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Simmons up the middle is supposed to be one of
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the best he tackles in the league, but the Jets,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it didn't matter.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: They came out, they dominated.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: They dominated in the trenches on both sides of the ball.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Cam Ward was running for his life. Brees Hall was,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you know, 22 touches. It's like only his eighth game
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: in his career where he's gotten 20-plus touches, which is crazy.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Frank Reich, I mean, I love this guy so far.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: The Jets were scheming guys wide open. How long has
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: it been that you feel like every time a Jets
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: receiver makes a catch, he's got to make some miraculous
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: catch with a guy on top of him? It seems
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: so simple, but I'm always watching these other teams play
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: against the Jets, and guys are wide open. And, you know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the quarterback is just throwing at some dude, and he's just, ah,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and just, you know, mad room to go or just,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you know, by himself in the end zone. We seem
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: like we never see that. They're doing these little trick
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: plays that catch us totally by surprise. For once, we
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: got to see the Jets be that team, the team
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that looked like they were the prepared team, like they
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: came ready to play and to win a football game.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: It was great to see. Now, some of that is
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the fact that Tennessee sucks.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: You know, you can't make that the whole conversation and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: just throw away what the Jets actually did and how
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: they performed and what they looked like as a football team.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: But you also can't.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: You can't, you know, you can't get around that and
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: just like, you know, discount it and not give it
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: some credence. Yes, there's definitely a part of this was
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the fact that Tennessee's not that good. Robert Sahl's not
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: that good of a head coach. You saw him do
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the same shit that he's always done. He's wasting timeouts.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: He runs that wide nine defense where he only brings four.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: That's why Geno is just standing there. He's never getting touched.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And Garrett Wilson is coming. He's going, eh. And at
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: some point, he's going to be open. And Geno's zing,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: zings him right in there and hits him. Omar Cooper
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: had a great reception. Ends up getting an ankle sprain.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: At first, they're saying, High ankle sprain, you're like, oh,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: minimum four weeks. But then after getting some imaging on
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: it on Monday, they say it's not that bad and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that there's a good chance that, you know, they say
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: he's weak to weak at this point. I think that's positive.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Minka Fitzpatrick goes down. People sometimes say quad. I saw
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: him grab it. It looked like it was growing. They
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: are saying growing now. You know, I think he's weak
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to weak as well.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I haven't really got a real prognosis on Minka. Let
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: me look that up.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: But, you know, you lose Minka Fitzpatrick on literally the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: first defensive possession, and you're like, okay. Yeah, they're saying
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: week to week. He was not in practice today, Minka. But, yeah,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you lose him on the first drive, and you're like, oh,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: here we go again.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: But the Jets defense, it held strong.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: At first, I was getting a little frustrated with Cam Ward,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: you know, scrambling on third down and getting some first downs.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: But overall, they were able to get good pressure on him.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: David Bailey had six pressures, one sack. He really, really,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, this kid, he's going to be a
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: legit pass rusher in this league for a long time.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And the Jets haven't had that in quite some time.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: And the offensive line, man, once again, you know, they're
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: just moving guys. They are opening up holes. It seemed
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: like every Jets run was at least a four-yard run, minimum.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Braylon Allen comes in. He's got a head of steam.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: He's going downhill. Nobody wants to get in, just, you know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: go straight up, square up pads with that dude. So
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Braylon Allen did his thing for sure. Just only 10
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: carries and 40 yards. But then Brees, yeah, getting over
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: 100 yards, getting a touchdown, 22 carries, feed him. And
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: then you see the young kid, Sadiq, on the jet sweep,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: getting around the corner with ease. A guy that size
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: who runs a sub 540, he's a weapon. I think
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: we're going to continue to see his overall just game
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and usage expand. Frank Reich, he loves it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: It's a new toy.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Bart Scott keeps comparing him to Anderson Hernandez, and every
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: time he does, he's like, yo, I got to, you know,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I know, like, he has to give some sort of disclaimer. Bro,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: we're talking about the football player, man. We're not talking about,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you know, the murderer. If he wants to bring up
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Anderson Hernandez, don't fucking, come on, Bart. Don't give him
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: no disclaimer. Just talk about Aaron Hernandez.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Shit.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Yo, man, I'm like, yo, shout out to Bart. You know,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: he's doing his thing locally with the New York stuff. Obviously,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: lots of Jets coverage on SNY. And then he's got
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the podcast that's on the official Jets network. And, you know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: flaming on his feet, obviously, after the ESPN firing.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Listen, as far as, like, I.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Don't know. My thing is, like, okay, so say we say, hey, Bart,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: we don't want you on the national shows anymore. But
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you don't want him on ESPN Radio New York, ESPN
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: New York anymore? Eh.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on. It's a. I don't know.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a whole lot. Barton Hahn was
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the best. That was the best show. I know Hahn
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: now is in the bigger time slot. He's later there
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: with Rosenberg. And I don't remember the other guy's name
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: right now. But, yeah, it used to be the Michael K.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: time slot.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: It's not that good. Barton Hahn together was fantastic. It
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: was great.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: It's better than any of these ESPN shows that they
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: have now on ESPN New York was Barton Hahn. But hey, man, ESPN,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: they obviously they're doing something right. But also shout to
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Ryan Clark.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Ryan Clark. Hey, man, his show's called Pivot.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: How could he not? He makes the pivot and he's
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: got the weekly show. That's like in the nice studio
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: that's on Netflix. And then they're still doing the pivot
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: as well. You know, he's that guy. You know, he's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: going to fall on his feet.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: He's going to get it done. Shout to Ryan Clark.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: But yeah, man, Jets.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: They get a big win, and they, like I said,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: dominate the Titans. The Robert Sala questions and deficiencies that we...
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: had as Jets fans were on full display from the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: very beginning. Bad special teams, they kick the ball out
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: of bounds. Jets get the ball in the 40, go
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: straight down, score. And then Jets really, 23-10, that didn't
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: tell the story. They dominated at a higher level than 23-10.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: So what we got to see now moving forward is,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: is it real or was it just because they were
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: playing the Titans? And the Giants have a similar question
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: because the Giants come out and Jackson Dart looks great.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: They went 28 to 20 against the Cowboys. Cowboys defense
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: looks like it's bullshit all again. That again was a
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: score that was closer than the actual game was. Scadaboo's
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: running guys over. You know, you go out and you
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: trade your first round pick For Quentin Richardson, I'm sorry,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Quentin Williams. Quentin Williams, my bad. Quentin Richardson's a basketball player.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Quentin Richardson, yo, underrated Knick. Didn't have great times with
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the Knicks, and it was definitely not a very good
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Knick team, but I enjoyed him when he played for
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the Knicks. But Quentin Williams, he is a guy who
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: you give up all these picks for, And specifically, you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: give up your first round pick next year. And when
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: you give up that pick, you get a guy who
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: needs to be a cornerstone. You obviously like him, not
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: just as a player, but the type of guy he
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: is in the building because you give him a contract
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: extension and pay him big money. If you're my defensive tackle,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I need you to be the type of guy who
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: this other team is not going to be able to
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: just run the ball straight at us all the time.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: And that's the thing. I love Quinton.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I was not happy when the Jets traded Quinton. But
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the thing about Quinton is, is that he's good at
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: rushing the passer. He will make some amazing plays where
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: he gets by his guy and makes a play in
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the backfield, whether it be a sack or whether it
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: be a tackle for loss against the running back. But
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: He's not just like a big dude that you put
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: in the middle, big fat guy who's just a run
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: stopper who just takes up space.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Sweat is that guy.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: The Jets have a few tackles now who are more
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: from that ilk where they're just big dudes who take
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: up a whole lot of space and they stuff the run.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: And then you have linebackers who are ready to fly around.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Demario Davis.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Sherwood. These guys.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: are tackle machines. And especially when they have somebody to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: clog up those offensive linemen that allows them to come downhill.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: And they were laying hits on Sunday. The Giants come out,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: they immediately again, just like the Jets, look like a
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: more professional football team than they have recently. Shout to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn, shout to Harbaugh. Because at the end of
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the day, these teams, they look prepared. Isaiah Likely, Looks
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: like he just needed to be.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: A number one.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Some people would say they could never see, you know,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: some people didn't see that coming necessarily. Clearly I did
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: because he's a starting tight end on my fantasy team.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Put up 150 points, half point PPR in week one.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Glennon Juice is looking good. It was Salivation Army prior
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: to Glennon Juice. just to show you guys the theme
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I got going on there. But, yo, man, I just
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: feel like both of these New York teams, they're giving
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: their fan bases some hope. They're putting out a product
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: that it's not an embarrassment, and I don't think either
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: team's winning the Super Bowl. I'd be surprised if either
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: team made the playoffs. But both teams, after week one,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: give you some hope that that's a possibility, and they
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: both have a chance now. against what is assumed to
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: be a much better opponent in Week 2, they both
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: have the chance to really make not just New York fans,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: but the entire NFL take notice. Giants and Jets, they
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: have a chance this year to take the next step,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and that starts in Week 2. So we're going to
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: find something out about the Jets this, and the Giants
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: in week two, are they real? Are they legit? Is
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: this real reason for hope? Or did they play bad
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: opponents in week one and we're in for a long
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: season with a lot of losses and some embarrassment? I really,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I think that the Jets definitely have a chance against
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Green Bay. Green Bay lost against Minnesota. With Carson Wentz
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: as the quarterback. Second half of that game, they just
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: totally shit the bed. They are getting blitzed mercilessly. And
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I think it was 81% of the time. I think
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: it was 81% of the time.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Um, and, uh, yeah, yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: 81% of the time, Brian Flores, absolute psychopath says we
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: are bringing the heat.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: We are bringing the heat and love. Couldn't handle it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: The whole team, you got some, you know, some fumbles
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and then Minnesota comes back. They win that game, especially
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: with some big turnovers. Um, you know, in, uh, on
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Green Bay's side of the field. And now Green Bay, again,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: very shaky offensive line. Jets have a good defensive line.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: They come at you in waves. They have a couple
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: dynamic edges in Will McDonald and David Bailey.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: It could be a problem.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn, you know, I listen, you know, he's not
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: scared to send people. I think the jets blitzed 40
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: something percent of the time. And that's also in a blowout.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: So therefore, you know, towards the end of the game,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: you're not, you're not blitzing a lot. I, that's the
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: one thing I didn't love.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I didn't love how the.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Jets totally just, you know, took their foot off the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: gas and gave up that touchdown where they were just
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: in prevent.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Fucking holding the three points. 23 to 10.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Didn't, didn't, you know, that, that, the game and watching
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the game left me much more satisfied than that final
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: score did. But Jets and Giants have a chance to
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: show us that they're legit in week two. The NFL
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: in general, it was a good week. It was an
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: interesting week. The Lions game, I thought that was, I
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: saw it because I had, I had the Jets game
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: on the The JetBlue TV. Shout out to JetBlue, my
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: favorite airline, especially the TVs. I was taking JetBlue in 2003,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and they had TVs.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Nice, the best seats. They give you a little bit
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: of extra room.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I've gotten to the point in my life, you know, Southwest,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: maybe if it's a short flight and it's just me, but,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: you know, these hopping on a Spirit.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: or a Frontier, fuck.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: All that, man, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, miss me with
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: that shit, I need a nice seat, especially, most of
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: my trips are back to New York or New Jersey,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: that's the place I go the most, and, um, that's
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: a long flight, and, uh, I need a, I need
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: a decent sized seat, um, I'm gonna be, I'm probably
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: going to be taking, you know, a decent amount of
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: luggage as well, um, and so, yeah, I've, I've totally,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I've totally, you know, just, just sworn off some of these, uh,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: more low budget, um, places, I think I'm gonna go
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: all the way JetBlue, I think I'm just gonna become
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: like a JetBlue guy, I gotta get like a JetBlue
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: credit card and some shit, but, um, yeah, this, uh,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: this past week in the NFL that, um, I had the,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: so I had the, the, the Jets game on the
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: big screen, and then I had, um, I had Red
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Zone on my phone, so it's basically just like my
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: setup at home, where I got the 70 inch and the, uh,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: 55 inch underneath it, but it was just a, uh, a.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Miniature version.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: And the flight from here to New Jersey, the two
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: ladies next to me when I sit down, they're just
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: immediately the best of friends, chatty Cathy's, which is not,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Like, oh my God, this is horrible.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's not exactly who I
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: want necessarily sitting next to me, the two ladies that
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: are gonna talk to each other the whole time. But
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I got my headphones in, it's all good, whatever. By
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: the end of the flight, I was, like, friends with
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: both of them. I was talking shit in one of
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: my group chats. I was like, yo, these ladies, blah, blah, blah,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: they're going to talk the entire flight. And I was like, well,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I take it all back. Uh, me and, uh, well,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I'll leave her name out or whatever. We, uh, we're,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: we're besties. She's, she's going to try to get the,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: help me get the, my EMF readings down in my home. Um, my, my,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: you know, there's, she's telling me about all the electricity
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and how you do this and how she put one
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: in or, you know, her dog that had cancer. He, uh,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden was, um, he, you know, he
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: was right in front of, I just, yeah, we became besties,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: the other lady, um, she's got the same nickname as
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: my daughter, and so I, I was, I was, you know,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: chatting up both these ladies, I gave, I gave, uh,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the one lady my card, um, it just goes to
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: show you, man, sometimes, you know, you, you make it, don't, don't,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: don't be such an asshole, and I'm talking to myself,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: but I'm talking to you too, if you're watching, give
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the lady a try, she might, you know, she might
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: be a nice lady, and she might be somebody who can, uh,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, man, she, she just, She
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: was sweet as pie. And she was actually talking about
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: some real shit on some, you know, on some, you know,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: these data centers and all this electricity and all the
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: effects that it's having on you and your kids and blah, blah, blah.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: There's this thing you plug in. It takes out this
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: percentage and this, this, and that.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Yo, the lady was legit. She's a real one. I
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: fucks with her. But yeah, so I'm sitting there.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I'm watching Red Zone on my phone. And then I
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: see This, I see the Detroit versus.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: New Orleans game. And that game's going back and forth,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: back and forth, back and forth.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I'm watching it. And then I got St. Brown and
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: I also have Olave on my fantasy team. So I'm
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: into it.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Both of them have great games. And then, you know,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: you get into overtime and New Orleans, they go for it.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Detroit goes down. They get seven. New Orleans gets back.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: They get six. They can kick and, you know, either
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: in continuing overtime and now you're looking at the possibility
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: of a tie.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Pretty much a tie or.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: A loss at that point because there's not a whole
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: lot of time left. Instead, they say, fuck it, we're
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: going for two. I love that decision. Love that decision.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: But unfortunately, they kind of got blown up. Throw out
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: of the back of the end zone. To me, the
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: throw out of the back of the end zone, that's
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the part that I hate. Just throw a ball that, like,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: someone has a chance.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: To make a catch. Like, fuck it. Let it get
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: picked off. It could get tipped.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Anything could happen, but just give it a fucking chance.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: But that was an exciting game. Lots of good games
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: this week. You know, Baltimore looks really good.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Fucking Jesus, man.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I run a survivor pool, and it's week one, and
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: who do I pick?
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: The Chargers. Great. My dad was giving me shit. He said, yo,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I feel like three out of the last five.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Years, you've been out in week one. Now I just
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: get to run this shit. The most annoying one to run.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even have run it this year if it
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: wasn't for my dad being like, yo, you should do it.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Are you going to do it? Because he wants to
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: be involved, but he don't want to run it. And,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: you know, every fucking week you're hounding people like, yo,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: get your pick and get your pick in. Oh, you
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: didn't get your pick in on the early games. Now
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: you're going to pick one of the late games, blah, blah, blah.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: It's just, it's annoying. It's by far the worst thing to,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: and you have to, you can't have everybody just like
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: add it to a sheet because then some people add it.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: And then another person gets to see that it's been added. Well,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: you know what the other person picks. So they kind of,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I've got to all give it up to me. And
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: then when the game start, I add them all and
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: put it out there for people to see. And I
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: haven't even made a spreadsheet yet this week. Cause yeah,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I'll fucking do it when I feel like it.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Cause I'm annoyed. Cause I'm not in it. Very annoying.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Very annoying. But, um, yo man, uh, Going back is
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: always fun. Food was great.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know why ethnic food is so much better
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: there than it is here. I mean, when I go
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: to a Chinese place here, it's Chinese people there, but
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: the Chinese food sucks.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: But when I go to a.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Chinese place in New Jersey, food is great.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Chinese is great. So much better. I don't get that.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: I don't get that.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Breakfast sandwich. Yo, I got a patty. I went to
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: this Guyanese place. It's called Dat's Deli.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: It's in Queens.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Hollis. Right off the L-I-R-R Hollis stop.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: And they had a beef patty with mac and cheese,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: And Oxtail....
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: That shit was fucking fire... I was on a mission...
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Because I've been seeing this shit on Instagram... Of shit
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: just like that... Where people are doing crazy shit with patties.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Like that I ain't never seen before in my life...
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: And I always see... It's always in Queens.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Queens is like the ultimate melting pot of the city...
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: They say especially like areas like Astoria... Ultimate melting pot
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: of the city... But yo... This patty... With this beef patty...
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: With the mac and cheese... And the oxtail, yo, off
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: the chain. That shit was so fucking good, yo. Had
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: cocoa bread on it, too. First half, I ate it
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: with the cocoa bread. Second half, I had it without
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the cocoa bread. I preferred it without, actually. Shit was
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: so good. Also in Queens, I ordered from some Spanish spot,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: and I got, it was like a plantain, like a plantain,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: the whole joint split down the middle, and then in
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the middle was just like, you know, like some ground beef,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: with some, you know, obviously well-spiced and whatnot, well-seasoned, and
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: then had a couple, like, some peppers in there, some shit,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: and then just, like, some cheese melted on the top.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: That shit, I got that shit late night, and it
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: was off the chain. Fantastic.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: The food is so much better, man. It's not even close. Yeah,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: great time seeing the guys. Shout-out to my man Chad.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Shout-out to my man Chung. And also shout-out to the
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Southern Queens Park Association, which my grandfather founded 50 years ago.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: And they had their 50th anniversary gala, which I was
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: able to attend. I was very, very honored to be invited.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: It was an amazing night. I learned some stuff about
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: my grandfather that even I didn't know. And it was
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: just a beautiful night, man.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: It was humbling.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: It was inspiring. And just a beautiful night. Yo, man,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: these football teams, they got a chance to do something
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: this year, and we're going to find out how for
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: real they are.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: They don't even.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Necessarily have to win. They just got to play well.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Giants going up against the Rams. The Rams,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: you know, they lose that first game. They're not going
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: to have Myles Garrett for at least the next four weeks.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: He's on the IR with a knee surgery. I don't
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: know if Aaron Donald's playing.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: I feel like he probably isn't going to. I don't
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: see any reason why you would want to rush him.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: And they didn't look great against.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: The 49ers out in Australia last week. And so the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Giants got a chance to, you know, if they come
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: out and they beat the so-called super team, everybody's going
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: to be like, yo, the Giants are for real. If
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: the Jets come out and they beat Green Bay, everybody's
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: going to be talking about the Jets being for real.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: So let's find out. Let's find out. The Knicks. The Knicks.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Knicks have made some news here. Actually, first, let's do
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Yankees clinch. Yankees clinch, and they now, like I said,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: are in the postseason once again. You know, their bullpen
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: has been a whole lot better as of late, and
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: they finally got back Aaron Judge.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: But, oh, wait, not so fast.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Today, Aaron Judge leads the game with some lower leg
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: stiffness or, you know, some sort of lower leg injury.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what that means. I'm not one
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: of these, you know, like, Met fans who, like, hates
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: the Yankees. I have a lot of friends who are
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Yankees fans, so therefore I, you know, we go back
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: and forth sometimes and have been since I was a kid.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: But I just, you know, to me they don't matter
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: that much. I worry way more about, you know, the
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Phillies and the Braves. Fucking Cardinals. These are the teams
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: that I hate. I don't feel that way about the Yankees. But,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, I sat on, shout out to my man Chad,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: diehard Yankee fan. I sat and watched Subway Series, Yankees
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: versus Mets with him this past Friday.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: We watched the game.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: We both enjoy our teams, but it's not like we're
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: at each other. And Juan Soto grounds out to end
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: the game. I might even have grounded into a double
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: play to end that game. when I'm pretty sure he
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: was the tying run. Maybe the tying run was on him.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: But, you know, it was a big spot. And Juan Soto,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: since he's been at the Mets, as much as, you know,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: he's a great player and all that, he hasn't gotten–
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: he's allergic to the big hit. I heard Joe Benigno
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: talk about this the other day. He never gets the
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: big hit. Never gets the big hit. But my boy's not, like, so, like, all, like,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: talking shit and, like, laughing about Soto, ha-ha, ever since
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: he's been to the Mets. Yo, man, on Twitter, man,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: there's so many people like you Yankee fans. You're so
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: fucking obsessed with the Mets.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: I don't understand. Enjoy yourself. Go try to actually win
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: a World Series. You're in the playoffs every fucking year.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Good for you. They seem so obsessed with the Mets sometimes.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Specifically, they're extremely butthurt about the fact that Juan Soto
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: chose us. Hey, man, we ain't got that much to
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: be excited about, but at least we got Soto for
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: the next decade plus, and he chose us. But just,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: you know, worry about the Yankees and what y'all got
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: going on. Worry about the fact that Judge seems to,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: you know, get hurt quite a bit. He is one
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: of the two most dynamic players in baseball when he's
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: on the field. It seems like every year he gets
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: an injury. And now, as we're, you know, 10 games
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: left until the postseason, he comes up lame again. I
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: hope he gets right.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Because the Yankees have a team, I think, this year–
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: that is not so reliant on the home run.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: They have legit pitching. They got the bullpen.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: They got a team that I think could actually get
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: them to the point where they win a World Series,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: but they can't do it without Aaron Judge. So Yankee
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: fans will be crossing their fingers and toes and saying
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: an extra prayer tonight that this injury with Judge is
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: not a big deal, but I feel like almost every
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: time that he comes up lame, it is a big deal.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: And we know that Stanton.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: You know, Stanton can't sneeze without throwing a hammy out.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: He's wound way too tight. Clearly, Stanton is wound way
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: too tight. And, you know, you can't ever expect him
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: to be healthy. And, you know, we're not quite there
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: with Judge. But it could be on the horizon if
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: he continues. He's not Stanton level of injury prone, but
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: he does seem to get nicked up quite a bit.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: And yeah, man, Yankees, that's what it comes down to.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: They're not winning a World Series without Aaron Judge. So
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: hopefully it's not that serious. The New York Knicks, they
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: make a bunch of signings. Also before, Jalen Brunson, shout
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: to him real quick. You know, he's got the commercial
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: that just came out for the Emmys with Mariska Hargitre.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: And they, and obviously those two, Brunson loved the show
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: growing up, and she's a huge Knicks fan. Her and
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift and whoever those other girls were going crazy
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: during Game 4 was one of the famous images from
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: the infamous comeback. I shouldn't say infamous. From the famous
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: comeback and the tip-in by OG, and they make fun
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: of that in that commercial for the Emmys with Brunson.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, Brunson, they just.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Showed, just rapped. an episode of SVU. Very cool.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Very interested to see what they're going to have Brunson
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: do in SVU. I mean, he's playing himself. Is he
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: playing somebody else? Is he playing the bad guy? Not
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: in SVU.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: You can't... Not heinous sex crimes.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: No, we can't have Brunson be doing any heinous sex crimes.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: I'm sure his people wouldn't let him do that.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: He's got a new marketing company. His mom is the...
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: His mom is the... executive director, something like that. And, um,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: and his, uh, sisters, you know, hi, whatever, whatever.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: Look up Jim.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Once he gets in a brand managing business with new
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: family venture, the new venture is called 33rd. And I've
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: 2018 draft. Brunson's mother, Sandra Brunson will be serving as president.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Eric Brunson working as a, Director of Classics.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Technical teammate and former.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: And friend, Connor Cashel. Will be Director of Business Development.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Coming out in his family with a brand management business. Obviously,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: his brand, I think, has been managed perfectly because they've
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: allowed him to develop and becoming the people's champ. He's
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: created a brand by what he's done on the court.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: And now he is taking that to a whole new level.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: He's getting to like, you know, Jeter status. I wish
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I could use a Met or a Jet, but honestly,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: he's getting to Jeter status. He really is because now
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: my dude is doing SVU. He's about to host SNL,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: which I don't think Brunson would do that unless he
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: really felt like he had a chance to do a
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: good job. Like, I think that he's going to be
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: closer to Peyton Manning than he's going to be to
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: LeBron when it comes to you know, doing SNL. And
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: I think that, you know, he's always, you know, he's
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: going to prepare. And I'm just, I'm happy for him, man.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: I'm happy that he's getting all his flowers, that he
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: is getting recognized and he's getting his fame. And I
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: don't for a second think it's going to take away
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: from this game. I saw him shoot the other day
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: at the brace off. He's taking jump shots. He's going
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: to be ready for the beginning of the season. The Knicks, today,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: they were active the last couple days.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Five players. They got one open roster spot right now.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: They have two open roster spots, but all of the
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: guys that they signed would all get vet minimums, which
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: would be the extent of the money that they have left.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: So in the last two days, they have picked up
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: John Concher, drew eubanks i heard cp a franchise calling
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: them ebanks earlier i don't know if that's a nickname
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: i cp you know he's usually pretty on point so
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: if it's ebanks it's spelled eubanks i thought it was
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: eubanks but so i'm gonna go with eubanks but they
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: got him bruce brown um ochai agbaji and james wiseman
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: five guys competing for one spot i believe in two
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: spots i believe bakom.ea is out of here, I don't
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: see any of these guys being somebody that you give
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: up deuce for, to me, the only way you give
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: up deuce is if you're getting a legit, young, rim protector,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: rim running center, and like legit, Diabate, some shit like that,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: if not, then none of these guys you're giving up
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: deuce for, Conchar, He's a decent shooter, not great.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: But they say he plays great defense.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Crazy floor game, like a first NCAA player with X
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: amount of points, rebounds, and assists of all time. I mean,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: just total floor game, doggone defense. They say he has
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: potential to be an even better shooter. Eubanks, we saw
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: him in summer league. He can stretch the floor a
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: little bit. He's willing to protect the rim. He's not
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: a crazy athlete, but he does get rebounds, and he
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: does block shots.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: And, you know, he's a big guy.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: He's 6'10. And like I said, he can step out
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: and hit a 3-2. So I think that he is
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: a real possibility at the third center spot. James Wiseman,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: number two overall pick. People keep, you know, look at
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: this guy's potential and wanting to be the team that,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: you know, figures out a way to unlock it. But
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: with him, the big thing is can't stay on the floor.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: This guy, I mean, he's less likely to play than
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. And we know that is saying something. So
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: with Wiseman, all the potential, obviously the frame, crazy ability.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: You don't become a number two overall pick for no reason.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: But it's going to be interesting to see whether or
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: not he can find a way to stay healthy.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: Me versus my chair. I don't know. I think I've
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: gotten to the point where I've had this chair long enough.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: I can get another chair.
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  Speaker 1: I paid too much money for it. to just be like,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: fuck it, I'm going to get a new chair. But
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: now at this point, I think we might have gotten
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: to that time. If I could take myself off punishment
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: and get a new chair, this chair, every once in
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: a while, it just sinks. A couple times in an episode,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I got to raise it back up. All of a sudden,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: I don't even notice it. All of a sudden, I
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: just look and I realize that less of the words
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: on my shirt are showing or something.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, fuck, my chair went down. But yeah, man.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Ochai Agbaje, I wasn't super familiar with his game. Former
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: lottery pick. I watch highlights of him. It just goes
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: to show you, you watch some highlights of anybody in
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: the NBA and you're like, yo, this dude is nice.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Motherfucker averaged five points a game.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: But he can shoot. Seems like he's got a little
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: bit of athletic ability. Wing type. Could be interesting.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Bruce Brown, we know that he was a key contributor
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: on that Denver championship team a few years back. Since then,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: he's bounced around a ton. He's honestly, he's been more
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: noticeable recently in the mustache and the cowboy hat while
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: sitting on the bench injured than he has been as
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: far as, you know, actual play or anything that he
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: does on the court.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: I forgot to switch that. Yeah, man.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: So it's going to be, it's going to be interesting.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: And I think that Leon Rose, once again, it's a
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: masterclass because what he does is he creates competition, a
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: team that is coming back from a championship run. He
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: creates competition in camp because you have five guys competing
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: for one, maybe two spots, five veteran guys who feel
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: like they should be in a league and want a
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: shot to be able to be on a championship.
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  Speaker 2: Level caliber team.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: And so those guys are going to be competing with
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: each other they're going to be competing with the likes
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: of jordan clarkson and landry shamit and um deuce jose
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: alvarado they're going to be competing with those guys for
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: minutes And so it creates some competition, which I think
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: will go through the entire roster. And I think that's
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: a very good thing. James Wiseman, man, if you don't,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: you know, you got to sit down with a guy
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: who battled a little bit more injuries. Nothing close to
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: the Wiseman scale, but battled some injuries earlier on and,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: you know, has been much more healthy recently. So maybe
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: he can, you know, mentor this guy and we can
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: have him as a young project center on a vet minimum.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: who gives us a real contribution where we don't have
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: to ask too much of him, keep him healthy, and
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: have him ready to go for a finals run, a
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: true rim protector, rim running center. And then Leon obviously
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: is positioning himself where at the trade deadline, we can
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: make a move. As we saw last year, a very
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: small move can pay huge dividends. Jose Alvarado, a lot
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: of Knicks fans wanted him. We talked about him for
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: a couple seasons at the trade deadline. Nobody was like, oh,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: my God, the Knicks won the trade deadline.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Well, guess what?
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: The Knicks won the trade deadline because Jose Alvarado won
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: us a finals game. Jose Alvarado, though the smallest guy
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: on the court, brought the Knicks some ball handling, some
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: ball pressure. And more than anything else, he brought the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Knicks a moxie. He gave us a little bit of swag,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: a little bit of dog that we needed. And that
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: showed up. As soon as he got there, literally the
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: first game, somebody tried to like stepping over Mitch and
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: he was like, nah, nah, we not having that. Got
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: up in dude's face. We know that he'll square up
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: with a seven footer and hitting with a, you know,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: a chicken biscuit. So we already know that about him.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: He's a straight up New York kid and we needed him.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: It was a huge move. And if we don't have
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: exactly what we need, and we need something on the margins,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: or if we need, you know, a big piece. We
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: know Leon will make the move around the trade deadline
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: and get it done. Yo, man, we got some big
• 1:01:37
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• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: near future. You know, we're going to be a little
• 1:01:43
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• 1:01:46
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• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a co-host. It is somebody who is.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: A pretty big name in the Knicks Twitter space. Somebody
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: who I've had as a guest before and I don't
• 1:02:03
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• 1:02:05
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• 1:02:09
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• 1:02:11
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• 1:02:15
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• 1:02:19
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• 1:02:22
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• 1:02:24
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• 1:02:26
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• 1:02:41
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• 1:03:07
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• 1:03:10
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• 1:03:13
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• 1:03:16
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• 1:03:20
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