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NY's Sports Loud Mouth 3-26-26 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  It it, it's the worldwide sports radio network radio.
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  Network Last night, Major League Baseball kicked off the start of
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  the 2020 sixth season with the Yankees shutting out the Giants
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  7 to nothing on Netflix. The Netflix broadcast was
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  something all right, with dancers, comedians, wrestlers
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  shaking cameras and delayed broadcasts and awesome baseball
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  as the rest of the league got into action.
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  Today we break down all of it and make our season long
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  predictions live tonight. And before we check in on the
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  first day of the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament and take out a
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  look on Wfan's beef between Brandon Tierney and Greg
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  Giannotti, we take a ride on the concrete Jungle carousel and
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  check in on all the local teams in all sports in the tri-state
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  area on another All Gas, no breaks, Wheeling and dealing,
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  hustling and out muscling. Thursday night episode.
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  This is New York's sports loudmouth.
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  The. Mets lose their stock, right?
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  They lose their stock closer. The Mets are the bad spotlight.
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  Now I've. Never.
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  Seen a Ranger team? Quick before the Olympics, we're
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  going to be. Looking at Aaron George and
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  saying that he. Can't win the big game, Michael
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  Jordan. Said I.
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  Played. 80. Two games you don't see LeBron
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  doing that, but Jack Hughes did after getting his teeth knocked
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  down to play every single shift he got back in the game.
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  Into the New York sports Wow. This is the money shot come.
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  On man this is. This is the future of
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  basketball, OK? This is entertainment.
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  Don't hate to play it, hate the game now.
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  The freak show candidate. With your host Errol Marx and Co
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  host Beanie Beanie with ex NFL defensive lineman from the New
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  York Jets, Quinton Cobol. Quinton Cobol.
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  We are back ladies and gentlemen.
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  As always, you're listening to New York's sports loudmouth.
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  My name is Errol Marx, my Co host, ex New York Jack defensive
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  end Mr. Quinton Couples, executive producer Mr. Aaron
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  Fish, Fishman on the board. Tommy Poops.
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  I'm, I'm fixing this whole appearance on this screen.
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  So for all the fans out there, we're working with some new
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  cameras, working with some new different technologies.
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  So it's definitely better for the show.
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  I, I will give you that. But nevertheless, it, it's a
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  back and forth monitor thing. So for all the fans out there
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  was, was probably wondering what was going on last week or
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  actually not even last week. Monday we had, we, we were using
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  so many different things. So I, I want to apologize to the
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  fans, but to get into stuff that's happened over the last 24
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  hours, we've had a lot of meetings.
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  Well, I've had a lot of meetings, but we had a nice
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  meeting last night. We we hired a manager and
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  there's a lot of things going on on the back end of the show and,
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  and we want to have fun. We want to be different.
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  Is this not one of those show shows that we're going to be
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  speaking in mics with producers or any executive people in the
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  background telling us what to say?
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  We don't do that on this show. We know what we're going to get
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  into. We know how we're going to
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  attack it. And it's it's springtime here in
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  New York. It's like, I think it was like
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  6263° today. It is a beautiful day.
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  If it doesn't go any hotter, I worry every single day when it
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  comes to the weather because I don't know if it's going to snow
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  in the springtime. So the springtime is so
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  horrendous and I hate it. So for all the fans out there,
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  I'm a spring baby. Baby I I was born April 29th,
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  1982. I never liked the spring because
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  I don't know if it's going to be hot.
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  I don't know if it's going to rain and I've seen it around my
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  birthday time. It would snow.
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  The only thing good about my birthday is April 29th is
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  around. It's right around the corner or
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  it's even before the it's after the draft.
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  No, it's before the draft. No, it's after the draft, so
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  April, I think what is the draft is April 26th this year, Am I
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  not? Am I not mistaken?
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  I don't know, but that's something that I'm always
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  excited for. Usually the draft comes in
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  usually the 27th or 28th. One time, I think it was during
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  the. 23rd to the 25th. This year, All right, So it's
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  earlier this year because usually, and I'll say this,
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  usually it's never that early and it's been pushed around
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  between 29 and 27, sometimes 26. It never goes to April 23rd.
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  But the NFL, you know, they're they're they're drawing fans
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  from Pittsburgh and all the different states.
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  They're going to be doing it in Kansas City.
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  So they're jumping from state to state.
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  It usually gets held in New York.
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  And I remember Quinton, when you were drafted, it was in New
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  York. Am I not mistaken?
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  No, you're not mistaken. You were absolutely correct.
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  So it was they. Moving around, they they doing
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  some brand new things like we are.
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  Now let me ask you a question. It was at Radio City when you
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  were. Radio City when I was there,
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  yeah. So I, Quinton was drafted in
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  what was it 2013, 2014, twelve, 2012.
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  So and, and it's interesting because I love the festivities
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  for all these events. It's always great the young
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  players, they they do interviews, the red carpet.
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  It's beautiful, but the only thing it's not beautiful is I
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  got to look at Roger Goodell's face for a significant amount of
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  time. There's no beauty in that,
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  ladies and gentlemen, looking at that man's face.
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  But he's a ginger. So all you gingers out there, if
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  you want to make $55 million and rob the league, maybe you'll get
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  lucky and be Roger Goodell one day.
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  Who knows? Roger Goodell is never stepping
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  down. Why?
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  Because the all the owners are giving him all the I, I think
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  it's, if I'm not mistaken, he has a lifetime insurance, him
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  and his family. He's got his own jet.
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  He's got everything. Who's better than Roger Goodell?
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  He's a lucky. You know what?
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  I'm not going to say it because I don't want to curse anybody
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  out, but he's absolutely like that.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, Anyways, we have a great show lined up
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  for you at 8:30. We'll we will be talking to
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  president and scout Scout Central and former Pelicans
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  executive Dan Purcell. He will be joining us.
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  He's great. He knows everything about some
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  of the Next up and coming superstars coming up in the NBA
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  draft. We will get into to Cam Boozer
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  and all the guys. Peterson.
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  Can't wait. I know I'm sure you can.
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  That's great. Great for you.
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  I know you like jumping for joy. But anyways, so let's get into
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  it. Opening Day was yesterday and
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  the Yankees had the opportunity to show off on Netflix.
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  The Yankees defeated the Giants 7 to nothing in the first game
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  of the MLB season. The Yankees got five runs in
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  just two innings of all on All Star pitcher Logan Webb, with
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  six straight Yankees reaching base in that inning.
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  Max free pitch, 6.1 scoreless innings allowing only one walk,
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  two hits and struck out four. Which a lot of people weren't
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  happy when it came to DraftKings and FanDuel.
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  Just so everybody knows, because the estimation was he had to
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  break 55 strikeouts to win some money.
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  So a lot of people didn't win some money.
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  The bigger issue was a lot of complaining complaints coming
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  from the ML PS First at Netflix broadcast, which included a bad
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  interview with Rob Manfred, a weird Yankees lineup
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  introduction with women dancing right next to taxi cabs and Fat
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  Joes Lean back, and the score bug, as we all said, randomly
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  disappearing throughout the game.
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  The Mets beat the Pirates in their Opening Day game 11 to 7,
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  including five runs in the first inning that knocked out Paul
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  Schemes out of the game. Freddy Peralta struggled in his
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  Mets debut, pitching just five innings and allowing four runs,
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  while new Mets hitters like Louise Robert and Marcus Simeon
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  had two hits and an RBI in their Mets debuts.
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  I watched the Yankee game. I watched pretty much the whole
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  game and Max Freed pitched a great game.
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  I know Yankee fans want him to pitch 67 strikeouts and and
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  pitch 7 innings and maybe even pitch a a complete game, but Max
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  Freed last year was fighting injury all season long.
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  He missed a significant amount of time.
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  I think if I'm not mistaken, he missed up over a month because
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  of injury. Three weeks or a month, but he
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  was he was up and down in the second-half of the season.
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  He started off really, really strong.
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  He was going to be he was up for the Cy Young and it kind of fell
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  out of that, that conversation at the tail end of the season.
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  He still won a lot of games for the Yankees.
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  He is their ace. When Garrett Cole comes back,
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  he's probably going to be Garrett Cole is going to be the
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  number two. He will not be the number one.
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  Max Freed they're going to ride and die with because Max Freed
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  is a lefty. He's got all the talent in the
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  world. We've seen what he's done in his
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  career with the Braves. He had a great season with the
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  Yankees. It just he wasn't as good in the
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  second-half as he was in the first half because of the finger
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  injury that he had, the blister injury, which he's had that
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  problem for the last couple of years with the Braves and with
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  the Yankees. Hopefully he doesn't have any
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  blisters this year. Maybe he'll be up for a Saiyan.
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  But he he pitched fantastically against a Giants lineup that is
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  really good. Chapman is a good hitter, Devers
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  is a good hitter. They've got guys that can hit in
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  that lineup for the fact that the Yankees shut them down and
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  shut them out with their bullpen.
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  And the Yankees bullpen is always good in the first half of
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  the season. And then when the second-half
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  comes around, they're not as good.
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  They go from one of the top five to falling probably in the
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  teens, 1314 by the end of the season.
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  Now, everybody wants to blame Aaron Boone for that.
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  And maybe you can point your fingers at him because that's
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  the only thing a real manager controls is the bullpen and the
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  pitching. But watching the game and I,
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  I'll say this, I respect Netflix.
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  I respect it. I love everything that they do.
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  I really do. I like the movies, I like the
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  documentaries, they're sensational, they're fantastic,
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  multi billion dollar industry. But when you look at Jake Paul
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  and all that other stuff that we've seen over the last couple
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  of years and Jake Paul's going black, it black outs.
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  You can't watch all the fights, goes in and goes out.
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  The stream's not strong, it's back.
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  The same thing happened with this Yankee game.
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  There was the Yankees went up 3 nothing and nobody knew because
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  it was it was still 00 on Netflix.
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  And I, I know the introduction, I, me and fish were going back
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  and forth. We were talking about the the
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  fat Show song lean Back and the taxis with the Yankee emblem all
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  over them. And there's, I don't know what
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  you call them, dancers dancing in front of the taxis.
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  Is it embarrassing? I wouldn't say it was
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  embarrassing, but you're knocking what New York is all
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  about. New York is not about taxis.
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  There's a lot of them, but that's not how we want to be
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  portrayed. Oh, where there's a million taxi
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  drivers, they're going to run you over.
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  That's not what you want to portray when it comes to New
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  York City and New York. And it is a New York State of
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  mind. It always is and it always has
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  been. But the fact here is when you
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  think about what happened in this game, Aaron Judge was all
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  for four. He had four strikeouts.
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  Everybody says Aaron Judge hasn't looked good throughout
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  the WBC. He hasn't looked good in game #1
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  Aaron Judge is still one of the elite hitters in baseball.
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  He will figure it out. He in the last couple of years,
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  he's battered over 300. This guy is the best, one of the
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  best, if not the best hitter in all the baseball.
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  Almost won the Triple Crown last year.
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  He was up for the Triple Crown all the way into probably the
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  last two months of the season. And the fact here is as a Yankee
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  fan, you should be excited. Why?
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  Because the Yankees went in to San Francisco and shut down a
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  very good San Francisco Giant offense.
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  They did. And and Logan Webb was not as
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  good as he has been over the years.
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  But Logan Webb, usually if you get, if you want to get to Logan
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  Webb, the only way you're going to get to Logan Webb, guys, is
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  he get to him early because once he settles in, he's one of the
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  more unhittable pitchers in all of baseball.
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  And the Yankees to me with their lineup.
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  And you can go up and down that lineup.
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  Trent, Trent Grissom, who batted at #1 center fielder, 5 at bats,
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  one hit, two RB is Aaron Judge was oh, for four, actually, oh
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  for five. Cody Bellinger got a run and a
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  hit. Ben Rice, a run, a hit and an
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  RBI. So you go up and down.
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  The guy that really a lot of people were questioning this
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  year if he's going to stay healthy with his elbow problems
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  is Giancarlo Stanton. And honest to God, watching
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  Giancarlo Stanton in this game, he looks healthy.
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  He has a pretty good timing swing.
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  He looked really, really good in the game.
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  And if the Yankees could keep him healthy all season long, all
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  season long, how about they don't even have to keep him
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  healthy all season long. Make sure that he's going to be
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  in that line up at least 130 games this year.
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  And then you decide to sit him out at the tail end of the
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  season to get him ready for the play offs because he's one of
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  the more natural hitters in the play offs for the New York
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  Yankees. He's been the best hitter for
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  the New York Yankees over the last couple of years in the play
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  offs. He's got two years left.
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  The Yankees could buy him out if he has an offseason this year,
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  they could buy him out next year.
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  He he's only making $19 million next year.
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  I mean, that's a lot of money. But I'm, I'm just saying for a
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  baseball player, a superstar and John Carlo Stan, I wouldn't call
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  him a superstar, but he is a star.
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  He's one of the strongest hitters in baseball still.
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  The hit, the hit set he had yesterday, he didn't even have
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  to put full contact on the ball and it was all the way out to
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  the center field, to the right field.
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  This guy's got tremendous power and if this line up works the
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  way it looked and worked with the against the Giants in game
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  number one, this line up is not going to have any problem
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  scoring runs. Now, they're not going to score
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  seven runs a game because a lot of these guys go into slumps.
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  Besides Aaron Judge, everybody hit in the game, every one of
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  them from top to bottom, Austin Wells.
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  Austin Wells looks really good. He looked good in the WBC.
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  As a matter of fact, Austin Wells was one of the best
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  players in the WBC and he looks good right now.
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  Maybe it's the beard and the mustache, maybe growing the
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  facial hair, because he didn't have much of that last year.
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  And now you can have that being that the Yankees have changed
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  their rules, their guidelines, but this team is is good.
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  And I believe this team's going to win more than 90 games this
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  year as long as they stay healthy.
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  The pitching, there's a lot of questions.
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  They sent Luis Gil down to the minors.
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  They have a lot of pitchers. Schmidt is back.
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  They they have a talented team, Schlittler Rodon and eventually
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  Garrett Cole. A lot of people were complaining
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  to the Yankees. Why?
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  Why would you send Luis Gil down when he's one of the more
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  talented pitches the Yankees have on this roster?
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  And one of the main reasons why Luisio was sent down is his
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  location of the ball in in pre season.
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  I watched him, I watched him pitch twice in pre season.
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  He was not as good in the pre season over the past.
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  Now it's pre season. That's why they're going to give
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  him some opportunity reps so he can get his pitches back in, you
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  know, and get his location back and his speed pick up and, and
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  he'll get called up probably in the next couple of weeks.
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  But we have to expect that Ben Rice is going to be an everyday
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  first baseman. I know they brought Paul
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  Goldschmidt back. They're not going to play Ben
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  Rice back-to-back days. Ben Rice the way the Yankees
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  want to set this up. He's the future 1st baseman for
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  this team. He can hit is on base percentage
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  last year for a guy that's young or it wasn't a rookie.
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  He's two years into the major leagues last year, but he got
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  his chance to play a lot more than he has.
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  Ben Rice was good. And here's the thing, you you
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  step back and you wonder and at speed, I'll fix your camera.
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  You can still go in. It's OK, I will fix it.
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  You can't do it. You go in and out is not going
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  to help it. Austin Wells has to play well
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  this year. Cody Bellinger has to give them
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  that offense that he did in the second-half of the season.
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  Cody Bellinger was one of the best left-handed hitters in
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  baseball last year. He hit very well against
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  lefties, one of the top three in all the baseball.
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  But in the playoffs he disappeared.
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  Half of these guys disappeared. Jazz, Chisholm.
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  Yesterday they were interviewing on the baseball field.
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  And that's another thing that's embarrassing that has never
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  happened in a professional baseball game where you can talk
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  to the players, the analysts can talk to you while you're playing
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  on the field. You're trying to concentrate.
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  If I'm, I'm a professional baseball player and I'm trying
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  or I'm expecting to get an 8 year, $35 million contract every
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  single year from the New York Yankees, I want to make sure
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  that my head is in the game. And Jazz, we all know about him.
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  If his head's not in the game, he's not the same player.
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  This is a team that is is going to win a lot of games.
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  Yankee fans were not happy with Brian Cashman because they
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  didn't do anything. That's the way they looked at
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  it. But they did.
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  They extended Cody Bellinger. They gave him a contract.
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  I think Cody Bellinger took $25 million less to go to to go stay
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  with the Yankees. He wanted a longer deal.
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  He wanted more than five years. The Yankees gave him no more
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  than five years. The Yankees are sitting in a
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  position where they've got some good young players in their farm
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  system. We're going to see Spencer Jones
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  this year. We will.
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  I don't care what Brian Cashman says.
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  He's not moving the kid Dominguez.
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  We'll see if he figures things out.
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  He has not been the quote on quote Martian.
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  This is a good team. I wonder that when they match up
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  against the teams in their division, the Red Sox, the Blue
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  Jays, the Rays and the Orioles, how good are they going to be
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  able to play against those teams?
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  Because you play more games against your division, the
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  division that you're playing in that any team in all the
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  baseball. And as a as a fan of watching
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  the New York Yankees yesterday, everybody wants to point their
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  finger what's going on with Aaron Judge?
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  What's going on with them? It's game number one, guys.
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  He struck out four times. Do you want to see your best
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  player strike out four times on a Netflix channel where millions
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  and millions and billions of people are watching?
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  But guess what? The Yankees won seven to nothing
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  in San Francisco. It wasn't like they needed Aaron
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  Judge to get a home run or two home runs or five.
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  RB is as the season progressively moves forward,
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  you're going to see Aaron Judge get 5 RBIs in a game, two home
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  runs in a game. I had Jeff call me up and text
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  me all day today. Aaron Judge broke a record last
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  night. He's he's all about breaking
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  records. He's the first player in Major
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  League history to win an MVP and strike out four times in game #1
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  opening day for his with his team.
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  He's the only player that's ever done that.
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  Who cares? Those statistics mean nothing
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  because guess what? Who is 1 and O?
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  The New York Yankees. And the Yankees really did all
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  their damage early in the game in the first two innings.
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  The Yankees did their damage. They had five runs in 2 1/2
• 21:49
  innings. And if you can get those kind of
• 21:52
  runs early in the game against pitchers like Logan Webb, who I
• 21:57
  don't know if anybody understands how good this kid
• 21:59
  is. This guy was one of the top five
• 22:02
  National League pitchers in baseball last year, one of the
• 22:05
  top 10 pitchers in baseball last year.
• 22:09
  And he only gets better as the innings go by.
• 22:11
  But the Yankees ran them out. And this, again, going back to
• 22:16
  San Francisco, this is a young team.
• 22:19
  They've got veterans on it, but they're a young team.
• 22:23
  And I'm telling you right now, San Francisco could be a
• 22:27
  borderline playoff team this year if everything falls right
• 22:29
  for them. They can, but with, with the
• 22:33
  Yankees and looking at some of the positional players that they
• 22:35
  have, they didn't use Volpe. I, I know they didn't send Volpe
• 22:39
  down, but he did not start. And where do the Yankees go with
• 22:44
  Volpe when he gets a chance to play?
• 22:47
  Because he had an up and down spring training, an up and down
• 22:52
  spring training. And you can't depend on a, you
• 22:57
  know, on a shortstop that is, is really a journeyman in the
• 23:01
  league. So the Yankees are going to have
• 23:05
  to decide early and, and moving forward this season.
• 23:08
  They need to get offense from that position.
• 23:11
  They got an RBI and they got a hit and a run last night.
• 23:14
  But he's not going to do it every single game.
• 23:16
  They're going to have to depend on Volpe if they think Volpe is
• 23:20
  going to be the future shortstop of this organization.
• 23:23
  You got to test and test the water with this kid, see what he
• 23:26
  has, see what he can do and if he can get back his swing where
• 23:30
  he can hit for average, he doesn't have to hit 27280.
• 23:34
  If he hits 260 and gives you 20 something home runs and eighty
• 23:38
  RB Rs or 75 RB Rs, that's A and and I guess you could say a
• 23:42
  borderline Gold Glove shortstop because he was 1A Gold Glove
• 23:47
  before. If he can come where, if he come
• 23:49
  back this season and do anywhere close to what he did his first
• 23:53
  two years. The Yankees still have a a
• 23:56
  competent shortstop. Whenever they decide to bring up
• 23:58
  Lombard back back up from from the what do they call it, the
• 24:04
  AAA or whatever their farm system.
• 24:08
  The Yankees have some players, the Yankees and everybody says,
• 24:11
  where's Spencer Jones? Where's he ranked in baseball
• 24:14
  right now? Well, ladies and gentlemen, when
• 24:16
  me and fish were going back and forth a couple of weeks ago
• 24:19
  about Spencer Jones, he said he wasn't a top 100 guy.
• 24:22
  Now he is. Spencer Jones is a top 100
• 24:25
  player. There's no question after the
• 24:29
  spring training he had and what he had last year as a player in
• 24:34
  AAA, you can match his numbers to Aaron Judge's final year in
• 24:39
  AAA when he got called up at the age of 24.
• 24:44
  They're not going to hold him up anymore and this team is going
• 24:48
  to need that offense because none of these guys are going to
• 24:50
  be able to stay healthy. Trent Grissom, you're going to
• 24:53
  bet that he's going to stay healthy out in the outfield.
• 24:56
  Probably not. Cody Bellinger I I would trust
• 24:59
  in Cody more than any of these guys to stay healthy.
• 25:03
  Chisholm I I could see him doing something stupid and hurting
• 25:06
  himself. Ryan McMahon, all these guys,
• 25:08
  they're a lot of these guys are going to go down for a
• 25:11
  significant amount of time. They need that depth and I think
• 25:16
  they have it. They got Dominguez, they got
• 25:18
  Spencer Jones, they got Lombard, they've got guys that you could
• 25:22
  call up at any given time. And I think Brian Cashman is
• 25:26
  really keeping that in his pocket.
• 25:28
  He's not going to show you his hand, but he's going to give you
• 25:32
  an opportunity to know that that's where he's going to go if
• 25:35
  need be. They need offense and they need
• 25:37
  somebody in that line up that's going to spark this line up up.
• 25:40
  Look what Matthew Shaffer has done for the New York Islanders.
• 25:44
  Young guy, 18 years old, the guy comes up, comes in first round
• 25:50
  draft pick, gets in, gets in and automatically makes a change for
• 25:55
  the New York Islanders. The Islanders become a laughing
• 25:58
  stock of the league old team to one of the more exciting teams
• 26:02
  to watch. Now that's what Spencer Jones is
• 26:05
  going to deliver to the New York Yankees when the Yankees call
• 26:08
  them up and I know everybody's going to point their fingers on.
• 26:11
  Why aren't you speaking about what baseball was doing and,
• 26:14
  and, and on Netflix. The one thing I would say it the
• 26:16
  7th inning stretch, take me off to the ball game.
• 26:19
  Did anybody see that, that the video that they had posted of
• 26:22
  all these people on social media, you put your name in and
• 26:25
  maybe they'll ZAP your your, your video on on your your
• 26:29
  computer. How many weirdos look, they all
• 26:33
  look like escaped convicts on those videos.
• 26:36
  I I'm not kidding. There was a couple of cool
• 26:38
  videos, you know, a couple of cool people on their video or
• 26:42
  pictures and and all that other stuff.
• 26:43
  But most of the guys look like they were sitting in front of
• 26:46
  the computer doing something. But it's definitely not watching
• 26:49
  the baseball game. So I think that if you're a
• 26:54
  Yankee fan should be happy, you're not happy about Aaron
• 26:58
  Judge. Hopefully he figures out what
• 27:00
  this slump is doing to him. I think he will.
• 27:02
  I think he will definitely figure it out.
• 27:04
  This guy is a guy that when he gets hot, he is hot and he you
• 27:09
  can't you can throw water on him and it's still stay hot.
• 27:13
  But when he's in a slump, he could go for he could go O for
• 27:16
  16, O for 17. We've seen this before.
• 27:21
  And I I'll go back to fish my argument with him with Spencer
• 27:24
  Jones. Oh, he strikes out too much.
• 27:26
  So did Aaron Judge. So did Aaron Judge and he
• 27:31
  changed his swing when he came up and that's the same thing
• 27:36
  that Spencer Jones did. And I do believe that this
• 27:40
  offense put up a good amount of runs in game #1 if they're not
• 27:46
  going to do that, and the Yankees throughout the season,
• 27:48
  in certain parts of the season, we're not putting up a lot of
• 27:51
  runs. They were depending on their
• 27:52
  pitching. And their pitching has been good
• 27:55
  every single year. You want to go back and look at
• 27:58
  the Yankees and you can say, oh, this is offensive team.
• 28:01
  The Yankees pitching has been in the top 10 for the last seven
• 28:06
  years, Seven years. They're always a good pitching
• 28:11
  staff. Always.
• 28:14
  And now they are an elite pitching staff when Garrett Cole
• 28:17
  comes back. Because then you don't need to
• 28:20
  put Garrett Cole at 1. You can put him at two or three
• 28:24
  because you got Cam Schliedler, who could be a number 2 for you
• 28:28
  this year. Rodon, who was pretty good last
• 28:31
  year, except in the playoffs, of course.
• 28:34
  This is a good team. Yankee fans don't believe.
• 28:38
  There are friends of mine that are die hard Yankee fans that
• 28:41
  does not believe the Yankees are going to win more than 90 games.
• 28:46
  And I say, I say to them, and you're probably listening right
• 28:49
  now, Matt and Mike, all you guys listening to the show right now.
• 28:53
  Here's the twist. You cannot predict what's going
• 28:57
  to happen this year because there's injuries.
• 29:00
  Some of these guys could become superstars.
• 29:02
  Ben Rice could be a superstar first baseman this year and hit
• 29:06
  over 300 and make the All Star team.
• 29:09
  He had glimpses of that last year.
• 29:13
  Wells, this guy is a good catcher.
• 29:17
  He's transition. Everybody said in over the last
• 29:22
  couple of years of spring training that this guy is never
• 29:24
  going to last behind the plate. And now he's figured things out
• 29:30
  in the WBC, was one of the hottest hitters in in all of the
• 29:33
  WBC. And these guys are going to have
• 29:37
  to be those, those type of guys to lean on.
• 29:41
  If guys like Aaron George isn't hitting, Bellinger isn't
• 29:45
  hitting, Chisholm is not hitting because they're going to go into
• 29:48
  slumps. And by the way, I love Hunter
• 29:53
  Pence as a player. I love them.
• 29:56
  I really do. San Francisco, I remember when
• 29:59
  he played for the Phillies and then he went to San Francisco
• 30:02
  and he won a championship. I think he won two championships
• 30:05
  over there in San Francisco. He was a good playoff hitter
• 30:08
  too. Hunter Pence, He's horrible,
• 30:11
  horrible as a broadcaster. CC this is his first time doing
• 30:16
  it. I I don't expect CC to do this a
• 30:19
  lot, but he's a nice guy. He has a nice smile.
• 30:23
  Yankee fans love him, everybody loves him.
• 30:25
  So to CC, CC Sabathia on, on opening day as an analyst,
• 30:32
  that's cool. I, I, I don't want to see that.
• 30:34
  And here's another thing that really turned me off.
• 30:37
  If it's a Yankee game, I want to see the Yankee broadcasters.
• 30:42
  I don't want to see any of this garbage.
• 30:44
  I don't want to see somebody else that calls games in San
• 30:47
  Diego or San Francisco or, you know, for the Nationals or any
• 30:52
  of these teams, if, if the Yankees are playing or if the
• 30:57
  San Francisco Giants are playing and they're playing at home, I
• 31:00
  want to at least hear the San Francisco Giants guys.
• 31:03
  I don't want to hear what Netflix is putting together.
• 31:07
  And he thinks that, hey, let's make this stick.
• 31:09
  Maybe we can get CC Sabath. We'll turn them into Tom Brady.
• 31:14
  You know, that's what I think is what what Netflix is trying to
• 31:17
  do. They're trying to put names and,
• 31:19
  and what is Netflix paying these guys for?
• 31:22
  I mean, I don't know what CC made on, made for, for last
• 31:25
  night's broadcast. I'm sure he's making a pretty
• 31:27
  penny. So is Hunter Pence.
• 31:30
  And who's this actor? Who's this guy?
• 31:33
  This guy does the announcements before the game.
• 31:36
  He's a comedian. Bert, whatever.
• 31:39
  What's his name? Bert Kreischner.
• 31:41
  Bert Kreischner. See, I don't even know who that
• 31:44
  guy is, so why do I give a crap if he's standing out there
• 31:47
  screaming at a mic and trying to get everybody hyped up?
• 31:50
  That was horrible. If that's the way you're going
• 31:53
  to hype your team because you're a San Francisco Giants fan, then
• 31:58
  I don't want to hear you. I would have rather heard like a
• 32:02
  roast of jokes on the mic. Make fun of the Yankees.
• 32:05
  That would have been funny. I would have loved to hear that.
• 32:09
  A little roast, 5 minute roast. I mean, I'm not going to call it
• 32:12
  the the what do they call it? The Oscars or the Globe, What do
• 32:17
  they call it, The Golden Globe? Yeah, whatever.
• 32:20
  I, I, those guys, they get these comedians to come out there and
• 32:23
  make, you know, crack a couple of jokes.
• 32:24
  So you bring a comedian out and he wasn't funny.
• 32:28
  There was nothing nothing enjoyable about that game as far
• 32:32
  as I'm concerned of the broadcast and the
• 32:36
  extracurricular activities, which was absolutely horrible.
• 32:41
  And then he countdown on the on on the the trot over there. 1098
• 32:45
  what counting down to what the season opener?
• 32:49
  Who cares? There's 161 games left.
• 32:54
  Nobody cares. Nobody as a Yankee fan, I I
• 33:00
  laughed at it. I think it's funny.
• 33:02
  Fish told me go, you got to check out the beginning of the
• 33:04
  game because I don't watch the And by the way, I love Barry
• 33:08
  Bonds. I love him.
• 33:12
  I really do. I love him.
• 33:13
  I I've, I've always thought that Barry Bonds is one of the
• 33:15
  greatest athletes I've ever seen play in professional sports.
• 33:19
  I don't care if he did steroids, that doesn't make you see the
• 33:22
  ball. It's a tough statement.
• 33:24
  Greatest athlete. One of the greatest athletes
• 33:26
  I've ever seen. Yes, yes, absolutely.
• 33:29
  Barry Bonds, you can argue, is 1 if not the greatest hitter, the
• 33:33
  second greatest hitter. In baseball, for sure, no
• 33:36
  question. So I love seeing him, and I love
• 33:39
  that Netflix hired him to just sit there and make jokes and
• 33:42
  smile. But here's the problem.
• 33:45
  Everything I've heard about Barry Bonds is he's not a nice
• 33:49
  guy. He's not.
• 33:51
  So when you're watching, you see him smiling and getting along
• 33:54
  with everybody and his peers. This guy couldn't get along with
• 33:56
  anybody. Him and Jeff Kent couldn't stand
• 33:58
  each other. They couldn't stand each other.
• 34:03
  Jeff Kent just got just got inducted into the Baseball Hall
• 34:06
  of Fame. Barry Bonds will never be
• 34:08
  inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame because you have Rob
• 34:10
  Manfred or Manfred running that organization.
• 34:14
  Pete Rose is finally going to get his opportunity to go into
• 34:18
  the Hall of Fame because he's dead.
• 34:21
  It's pathetic. And coming out to fat shows.
• 34:24
  Lean out of all the New York songs to pick.
• 34:27
  Lean back. I'm leaning back every time I
• 34:32
  watch it. What's all you would have chose
• 34:36
  that represents New York, NY? That's a good question.
• 34:38
  New York, NY. Jay-Z, Alicia.
• 34:39
  No, New York, NY. New York, Frank.
• 34:42
  Sinatra. That's what they when they win,
• 34:45
  that's what they play. Why not Frank Sinatra?
• 34:47
  That's the that's the theme song of the New York Yankees.
• 34:51
  That's what I want to hear. I don't want to hear like lean
• 34:54
  back, lean back. I I'm surprised that Fat Joe
• 34:57
  wasn't there dancing right through that.
• 34:59
  Those taxis and all those dancers.
• 35:01
  By the way, no offense to Netflix.
• 35:05
  Some of the ugliest dancers. Honestly, if you're going to
• 35:08
  pick dancers, pick at least sexy ones.
• 35:11
  I mean, at least it's something to look at.
• 35:13
  I. Don't know, it seems like they
• 35:14
  were Nathan approved based on his reaction backstage.
• 35:16
  They weren't pretty. There was nothing about them
• 35:18
  that really stuck out to me except they were wearing
• 35:20
  sweatshirts in 80° weather. Why are they doing that?
• 35:25
  Makes no sense. I, I guess they're trying to
• 35:27
  mock New York. I I don't know.
• 35:30
  And why is our emblem taxi drivers?
• 35:34
  That's, that's what you picked. We're going to walk through
• 35:36
  taxis. That's what we're going to do.
• 35:38
  Great. Congratulations, all you New New
• 35:42
  York fans listening to the show right now, You know what they
• 35:45
  portray us as? Taxi drivers, taxi drivers, fat
• 35:49
  people that Dr. taxis. That's what they think we're
• 35:54
  We're overweight. We don't take care of ourselves.
• 35:57
  We're ugly. We're mean, disrespectful.
• 36:01
  You know what was disrespectful for that?
• 36:03
  Watching Aaron Judge walk through two taxis.
• 36:07
  That's disrespectful. Honestly, if you're a baseball
• 36:11
  fan, you can't tell me that's something you want to see Aaron
• 36:15
  Judge, your superstar player, the MVP of the American League
• 36:19
  last year, yes, last year, walk through a bunch of taxis and,
• 36:23
  and, and you saw Aaron Judge, He wasn't paying attention.
• 36:25
  Bellinger made a you could see that Bellinger didn't like it.
• 36:29
  Aaron Boone don't care, but it's embarrassing.
• 36:33
  That's my argument here. And here's another thing I I'd
• 36:36
  like to hear you guys take. What really bothered me about
• 36:40
  the game is that it wasn't about baseball.
• 36:45
  It was about entertainment. And to me, that's what sports
• 36:50
  has turned into. It's entertainment.
• 36:54
  Nobody cares if you win a championship except the Dodgers
• 36:57
  because they cheat. They found a they found
• 37:00
  something in that the rules and the rule book kind of Bill
• 37:04
  Belichick. But Bill Belichick knew that
• 37:06
  there was no rules telling him that he couldn't do it.
• 37:08
  Oh. Boy.
• 37:12
  But that's the embarrassing thing here, because instead of
• 37:16
  bringing out the past time of America and building it up and
• 37:22
  remember, the Giants were the New York Giants at one point.
• 37:27
  They were here in New York before they went to San
• 37:29
  Francisco, just like the Dodgers, that was the Brooklyn
• 37:33
  Dodgers. And the Yankees are New York,
• 37:37
  besides the Mets, they're New York.
• 37:40
  And to see the New York Yankees get disrespected like that is
• 37:45
  despicable. And I'm sorry.
• 37:47
  I, I'm doing something else. I'm finding something.
• 37:49
  This guy, they're coming through.
• 37:51
  What? What is that?
• 37:52
  A truffle? A truffle, whatever the hell it
• 37:53
  is, like a bus, one of those buses in San Francisco, whatever
• 37:57
  it was trolley, that's what it is.
• 37:59
  It was a trolley, but it's it's embarrassing.
• 38:05
  They're going through a nice trolley and the Yankees are
• 38:07
  walking through taxi drivers. Wonderful, wonderful, great.
• 38:10
  Thank you. Thank you to Netflix for making
• 38:13
  us look even worse than we really are.
• 38:15
  Yeah, it's a Car Wars type thing.
• 38:17
  Seems like more structure for a racing event, not really a
• 38:19
  baseball game. It's kind of weird.
• 38:20
  Racing event You see taxis at racing events.
• 38:24
  I guess you were to go culturally, but I still, it's
• 38:27
  kind of weird nevertheless. Yeah, I was.
• 38:29
  I was disappointed. 100 pence too.
• 38:30
  I actually thought he might be good at broadcasting.
• 38:32
  Yeah, he was definitely all over.
• 38:33
  The place he was horrible, yeah. I didn't like him at all.
• 38:35
  He was absolutely horrible. CC was OK because he was
• 38:38
  speaking in a pitch state of mind, but I wouldn't even tell
• 38:43
  you. I wouldn't even throw Cici under
• 38:45
  the bus, but Cici wasn't really that good either.
• 38:47
  To me, he's a Yankee and Hunter Pence is a is a giant.
• 38:51
  Is he a giant? Because he really wasn't a
• 38:53
  giant. He was a Philadelphia.
• 38:54
  Astros and Phillies, yeah. He's known mostly.
• 38:57
  He had most of his career was with the Phillies, I think, if
• 39:00
  I'm not mistaken. I.
• 39:01
  Think it was like a kind of a mixed bag.
• 39:02
  I think he started with the Astros pretty young.
• 39:05
  If it was, it was maybe by a few years, but like he'd be bouncing
• 39:08
  around all over. The place he won his
• 39:09
  championships with the the Giants and I know him and Buster
• 39:12
  Posey Posey are very close friends.
• 39:15
  They're very cool. Because what happened was the
• 39:16
  2012 Phillies really fell off, so they treated him at that
• 39:18
  deadline to the Giants and then he's won 2012 in the 2014
• 39:21
  championships with them. Yeah, I remember.
• 39:23
  Yeah. And he was a big part of that
• 39:25
  offense. He was a huge part of that
• 39:26
  offense because he was one of the few guys that actually had
• 39:28
  power in that line if it was much more of a contact hitting
• 39:30
  lineup. And him, Posey and a few others
• 39:32
  were the only ones that had a little.
• 39:33
  And Pablo Sandoval were probably the only ones that had a little
• 39:36
  raw power on that team. But you want to hear something
• 39:38
  funny? All I've been hearing on social
• 39:39
  media is not what Max Free did. It's what Aaron Judge didn't do
• 39:44
  in the game. That's all I keep hearing on
• 39:46
  social media. Yeah, that's the part I wanted
• 39:47
  to get to because Aaron Judge, it seems like throughout his
• 39:50
  career, his biggest slumps I think are right after the All
• 39:52
  Star break. I think in general there, a lot
• 39:55
  of his other times are right at the beginning of the season.
• 39:56
  And especially when you look at when you look at the World
• 39:59
  Baseball class, that going on as well.
• 40:00
  And apparently that affected Logan Webb of Apparently that
• 40:03
  affected Paul Skiens, who the Mets lit up in the first inning.
• 40:05
  As well. We'll talk about that.
• 40:06
  Yeah, and the same kind of thing with the Yankees.
• 40:08
  They lit him. They survived the first inning,
• 40:10
  but the Yankees lit him up in the second inning.
• 40:11
  Five runs. And it wasn't even like a lot of
• 40:14
  home runs either that the Yankees had.
• 40:15
  It was a lot of these jazzism got hit by a pitch and it.
• 40:18
  Was like, do you really believe believe it was the WBC that
• 40:20
  caused this? Problem.
• 40:21
  I think it's too early to tell, but it's only it wasn't.
• 40:23
  Right now it wasn't they They pitched as much as they would
• 40:26
  have pitched in spring training. Yeah, that's why I'm saying it's
• 40:29
  too early to tell. Like maybe it's higher leverage
• 40:31
  pitching, maybe it's just not a warm up type.
• 40:33
  Thing wouldn't you think that would they would be better being
• 40:35
  that they had to play against better talent?
• 40:37
  Maybe again, it's tough to tell because it's only been it's been
• 40:40
  three years. It's been a lot of these guys
• 40:41
  first time, especially skiings who's came into the league in
• 40:44
  2024. So again, it's too early to tell
• 40:46
  with that sample. But going back to the Yankees
• 40:48
  itself, like Yankees strung together hits very well against,
• 40:51
  like you said, a top 15 French top ten pitcher in Logan Webb.
• 40:54
  That's so a lot to say amidst Aaron Judge struggling at the
• 40:57
  play. You had Stanton hitting singles
• 40:58
  and scoring from second on a on a single and all these guys
• 41:01
  stringing together hits. It's definitely good to see if
• 41:03
  you're the Yankees standpoint. And you're right, the Giants do
• 41:05
  have a a tough offense, not power wise, but depth wise in
• 41:08
  that lineup. You mentioned jungle Leo before
• 41:10
  the show. Korean kid Helio Ramos is a good
• 41:12
  outfielder too. They've had some decent options.
• 41:15
  Adamus and Chapman are obviously the big free agent signings they
• 41:17
  got. But this is a team that
• 41:18
  definitely is going to be, if they can get enough power, a
• 41:21
  team that will compete for that wild card spot.
• 41:23
  So the Yankees and Max Free definitely should be impressed.
• 41:26
  With that was very impressive what the Yankees did.
• 41:29
  I don't know what anybody was watching, but Max Free shut them
• 41:33
  down. They he shut their offense down
• 41:36
  in that game. They could not touch him and I
• 41:39
  know he didn't have 6 or 7 strikeouts.
• 41:41
  This guy's a strikeout pitcher. This guy's one of the best
• 41:44
  strikeout pitchers in baseball and one of the best lefties in
• 41:47
  baseball. You can argue.
• 41:48
  You can argue he is the best lefty in baseball.
• 41:50
  You can argue that. But again, I just, it wasn't
• 41:56
  about baseball. This game was not about
• 41:59
  baseball. It was about entertainment.
• 42:00
  It was about, hey, you know what we're going to, we bought into
• 42:04
  this. We're paying baseball $150
• 42:06
  million for the next three years.
• 42:08
  They have a couple of games. They have all these different
• 42:10
  they have they're doing the Home Run Derby this year on Netflix,
• 42:14
  which I if you don't have Netflix, good luck if you like
• 42:17
  the Home Run Derby. I'd love to hear how your Pence
• 42:19
  do that. But here's the thing, I want to
• 42:21
  say something. I want to give a shout out to
• 42:22
  Leaf. He runs Miller's Ale House.
• 42:24
  He's one of the managers there. He's a friend of mine that grew
• 42:26
  up with him. He called me a couple of days
• 42:30
  ago and he told me, did you hear?
• 42:31
  And I said what he says. Well, their Netflix reached out
• 42:36
  to us and they asked us if we wanted to buy into the Yankee
• 42:40
  game that was coming opening day.
• 42:43
  And he told me, he said there's no way we're going to be paying
• 42:46
  for what they want. And you have to pay for $10 on
• 42:49
  each TV. Think about it.
• 42:51
  So think about that. And you have to subscribe to
• 42:53
  that. So there was no way that was
• 42:54
  going to happen. So he told all the people the
• 42:57
  day before that was coming in and getting really excited about
• 43:01
  the baseball season that the Yankee game will not be played
• 43:04
  in Miller's Ale House. And then find out the next day,
• 43:09
  five hours before the game, that DIRECTV and Netflix drew up a
• 43:15
  deal. And DIRECTV, don't you know,
• 43:19
  people that have DIRECTV, including the bars, can buy into
• 43:22
  it for the game. So they had to subscribe and buy
• 43:24
  in to DIRECTV for the game. I don't know how much it was,
• 43:28
  but then they eventually got the game in Miller's Alehouse.
• 43:31
  But guess what? Nobody was there.
• 43:34
  Nobody went. You know why?
• 43:36
  Because they were told by Netflix, if you don't buy into
• 43:39
  Netflix, you're not going to get the Yankee game and opening day.
• 43:43
  So that's pathetic, and I'm sorry, as a Yankee fan.
• 43:48
  And the Yes Network, the Yes Network is one of the biggest
• 43:52
  networks in the world. It was the first network ever
• 43:56
  drawn up for professional sports.
• 43:58
  It was George Steinbrenner that created that and opened the
• 44:01
  floodgates. Then there was the Cowboy
• 44:02
  Channel over there. Then it was Jerry Jones that did
• 44:05
  it. Copycat.
• 44:06
  Why? Because him and George were
• 44:07
  very, very close. And then you, you got a chance
• 44:12
  to watch the Yankee games, 162 games, no matter where it is,
• 44:15
  you can watch the Yankee game. Yankee games.
• 44:17
  Not anymore. Not anymore.
• 44:20
  Because they're streaming. You have to.
• 44:22
  And it's not just Netflix that are streaming baseball games
• 44:25
  now. Hulu's going to do it.
• 44:28
  Disney's going to do it. They're all going to freaking do
• 44:31
  it. Why?
• 44:33
  Because it's all about money. It's always about money.
• 44:37
  It's not about the, the love of the game and, and, and, and if I
• 44:41
  was a player right now, OK, you're, you're, you're
• 44:43
  negotiating the deal I'm going to take on.
• 44:45
  They're going to they're making $150 million.
• 44:48
  What are the players getting out of it?
• 44:51
  Nothing. Nothing.
• 44:52
  Not that I've heard. They never get anything out of
• 44:55
  it. A handshake or something?
• 44:57
  Why? Would you want to shake Rob
• 44:59
  Manford's hand though? Well, they loved him.
• 45:01
  When he was giving out their silver, their silver medals at
• 45:05
  the WBC, they were hugging him and saying we love you.
• 45:08
  I I read some of their lips. Thank you.
• 45:10
  Thank you, Mr. Commissioner. Yeah.
• 45:13
  Thank you. Thank you for ruining the game.
• 45:15
  Thank you for making the game a mockery.
• 45:16
  Thank you for making these deals with stream companies and
• 45:20
  ruining what baseball is all about.
• 45:23
  The baseball to me is our pastime.
• 45:27
  And baseball was the only sport I'm, I'm, I'm telling you this
• 45:30
  that hasn't made a mockery of it.
• 45:33
  Now I'm going to say Gary Bettman again is driving in the
• 45:37
  driver's seat. He's the best commissioner.
• 45:39
  You know why? Because he's not doing this.
• 45:42
  He's not doing this. But baseball, I never would have
• 45:44
  thought that baseball was going to sell out like this, Sell out
• 45:47
  like this. And that's if it was even Bud
• 45:50
  Selig. If Bud Selig was running
• 45:52
  baseball, this would never happen, ever happened.
• 45:55
  And this guy was a used car salesman.
• 45:59
  It's pathetic. Baseball should be ashamed of
• 46:02
  themselves. Netflix should be ashamed of
• 46:03
  themselves. But that's what every sport,
• 46:06
  every sport is going into the streaming work.
• 46:09
  So it's it's it's it's like adopting AI and all this new
• 46:12
  advanced technology that we have done.
• 46:14
  So traditional TV is our degree. It's over with.
• 46:17
  But I think there's a difference Quinton, though, with the way
• 46:19
  that the NHL did it when they expanded from NHL to TNT on any
• 46:24
  ESPN, they didn't really make it about themselves.
• 46:26
  They didn't make it about the game as much.
• 46:28
  Yes, there's some personality guys like PK Subban and stuff
• 46:30
  like that. But there's there's not just
• 46:33
  deterring from the game the way you see the MLB and the NBA do
• 46:36
  it now NBA went to prime this year and they've obviously got
• 46:39
  some other spots before that. And MLB has gone to Peacock in
• 46:42
  the past and they're trying to make it away from the game
• 46:45
  because according to these these deals, oh, the MLB, the younger
• 46:48
  fans don't want to watch this traditional baseball.
• 46:51
  So we have to try to make it more fabricated to be more fun
• 46:54
  and to attract these fans. And that's what they're doing.
• 46:56
  And this went way too far to do it to doing all these to these
• 46:59
  cat intros and these these random things that Hunter Pence
• 47:02
  was doing and all that crap. Like it was too much.
• 47:04
  It don't. Yeah, and they need some
• 47:05
  organization with it, especially with the athletes.
• 47:08
  Like athletes should do pre and post though, and then let the
• 47:10
  broadcasters do broadcasting. I didn't let them do the in the
• 47:14
  game. There are.
• 47:19
  Plenty of plenty of those claiming to be throughout that.
• 47:22
  Which I'm. Sure, different.
• 47:23
  Loved with all the hot ladies on the cabs.
• 47:26
  Joba is not an athlete. And Joba was not there, luckily.
• 47:30
  Well, the athlete as as Nathan would say, that's what you're
• 47:34
  going to watch the games. That's why you're going to watch
• 47:36
  the games. It's because of the athlete, not
• 47:40
  the extravaganza of Netflix having a bunch of so-called
• 47:44
  dancers dance in front of taxi drivers or taxi cabs.
• 47:48
  Was there any taxi cab driver in there?
• 47:50
  I'd be very surprised if there wasn't or there wasn't.
• 47:52
  And how did they drive that off the field?
• 47:54
  It was a taxi cab facade and it was just stupid.
• 47:58
  It was so dumb. I couldn't believe how dumb it
• 48:01
  was. I was sitting there with my
• 48:03
  wife. She they're like, she's like,
• 48:04
  they're ruining baseball. How are they ruining baseball?
• 48:07
  And by the way, if you're trying to be hip with the kids, the
• 48:10
  song Lean Back came out when I was in college and we danced to
• 48:13
  it in the club. That's 20 years ago.
• 48:16
  I'm pretty sure it was 2006. The other song they were playing
• 48:20
  Brain Stew by Green Day, which I love that song as a rock song,
• 48:24
  but I don't think I've ever seen a person dance to that song in
• 48:26
  my entire life. And they were like dancing like
• 48:29
  it was some hip hop song as they were walking out the trolley,
• 48:32
  which I I don't know which one was worse, to be honest with
• 48:35
  you. They the trolley goes up and
• 48:37
  down San Francisco. I guess it's a more, well, I
• 48:40
  mean, there might be some of that going on over there too in
• 48:42
  that part of the town. Listen, I, I will say this also,
• 48:46
  and for all the Yankee fans that watch the game and, and
• 48:48
  experienced their first Netflix extravaganza for baseball, do
• 48:52
  you want to ever see the Yankees on Netflix again?
• 48:55
  And the answer would be no. And there's a lot of reasons
• 48:58
  why. Because it, first of all, there
• 49:00
  was so much backtracking in the game.
• 49:03
  The game, the game was 3 nothing.
• 49:05
  And on on your phone, it was still 00.
• 49:10
  You you had to wait to see how they got those runs.
• 49:14
  I had people at work telling me earlier today saying, guess
• 49:19
  what? I couldn't see the game.
• 49:21
  And on my phone they were telling me it was a head and we
• 49:24
  were it was 00 and it was an embarrassment.
• 49:27
  And then you have to remember, like there's a whole bunch of
• 49:28
  people that aren't tech savvy out there that are sports fans.
• 49:32
  I would say, you know, 50 and up generation it like a lot of them
• 49:36
  can't really like get with this. It's just so different.
• 49:39
  They didn't grow up with it and they weren't adults with either.
• 49:41
  Now it's like the second-half of their adulthood and all this
• 49:44
  stuff is changing on them. That's really difficult, but I
• 49:48
  want to get away from that because we could talk about that
• 49:50
  all day. Let's just get into baseball and
• 49:51
  then talk about that Mets Errol. But see, I want to just
• 49:54
  compliment CCI, think CC is good.
• 49:56
  I didn't think anyone else was good.
• 49:58
  I love CCI, love that podcast he used to do with Ryan Ruko that
• 50:03
  they did for a couple of years, like R2C2 or something like
• 50:05
  that. As good as he as he is, you're
• 50:09
  right. Hunter Pence, who was great when
• 50:11
  we interviewed him at the Super Bowl a couple years ago with his
• 50:14
  horses and everything that. Was Hunter Pence by the?
• 50:17
  Way. Oh, Jason Werth, and he was
• 50:19
  talking about Hunter Pence in the interview.
• 50:21
  That's what it was because they were working it together.
• 50:23
  I got you all right, so. So let's get into the Mets.
• 50:26
  Let's. I know a lot of Met fans were
• 50:28
  excited. They won 11 to 7.
• 50:30
  They completely knocked out one of the best pitchers in
• 50:33
  baseball. And you can't pull.
• 50:35
  Skeens is as good as any pitcher in baseball.
• 50:37
  This guy won the Cy Young last year in the National League.
• 50:40
  He's special, absolutely special.
• 50:43
  But what really stuck out to me is their kid and their kid
• 50:49
  actually got a chance and he got his head.
• 50:51
  Carson Bench got a chance to start Opening Day with the New
• 50:56
  York Mets at right field. And some people thought he was
• 50:59
  going to go to the minors. They're going to wait a couple
• 51:01
  of weeks because they want to. They want to make sure that they
• 51:04
  have him for his arbitration, that they can hold on to him for
• 51:07
  the next 6 years instead of five years.
• 51:09
  They had to bring this kid up. They had to bring the kid up.
• 51:13
  This guy was hitting in spring training.
• 51:16
  He's an all world defensive player.
• 51:18
  He's got a great arm in the outfield.
• 51:20
  And what did he do today? He hit a home run.
• 51:23
  And if you're a Mets fan, you should be excited about that.
• 51:26
  They're bringing up some young guys.
• 51:28
  They look like they're going to be studs.
• 51:30
  Nolan McClain is a stud pitcher, made Team USA for the WBC.
• 51:34
  Beau Burchett was horrible. He was really bad.
• 51:38
  I don't expect a lot from Beau Burchett.
• 51:40
  I, I'm, I'm sorry, No, he, he'll be a good hitter.
• 51:43
  He'll hit close to 300, but is he going to stay healthy?
• 51:47
  That's the question. Beau Bichette never stays
• 51:49
  healthy. So they just signed him to a
• 51:51
  three-year deal, right? It was three years and he can
• 51:54
  opt out after his second year. Yeah, it's essentially 3 one
• 51:56
  year deals. So, and if Freddie Peralta, who
• 52:00
  they made a trade and they traded Sproat and and one of
• 52:03
  their better hitters in their farm system, Freddie Peralta did
• 52:07
  not pitch a good game. Now it's early, it's the first
• 52:11
  game of the season. You're playing for the Mets, a
• 52:13
  new franchise. And and I told this to Josh and
• 52:16
  I'll say this to all the Mets fans, playing in New York is
• 52:20
  completely different than playing in Milwaukee.
• 52:24
  I don't care who you are, when you play for The Jets, you pay
• 52:28
  for the Giants, you play for the Yankees, the Knicks, the
• 52:32
  Islanders, the Rangers, the media is on you.
• 52:36
  Like, why? Don Rice, they're always on you
• 52:42
  and to me. I remember when Francisco Lindor
• 52:46
  came, he was traded to the New York Mets and his first full
• 52:51
  season, his first year as a full time Met, was horrible.
• 52:55
  He could not hit a lick. I remember I was going back and
• 52:58
  forth to Speedy and Speedy told me I don't know if he was worth
• 53:01
  the money the Mets gave him. It took him a little while to
• 53:05
  figure things out. Juan Soto.
• 53:08
  Juan Soto is just an all world hitter.
• 53:11
  We know what Juan Soto could do because as a Yankee fan, we saw
• 53:13
  it. He helped lead the Yankees all
• 53:16
  the way to the World Series. And then they he choked.
• 53:18
  Well, they choked not him, but they choked so.
• 53:23
  And what I, I don't understand, I still don't understand.
• 53:27
  Jorge Polanco is the first baseman.
• 53:30
  He started the game as the first baseman and Beatty's the
• 53:33
  designated hitter. But everybody just said that
• 53:37
  Beatty is a better first baseman.
• 53:39
  Why wasn't Jorge Polanco as the DH and Beatty playing at first?
• 53:44
  Because if anybody watch the game, Jorge Polanco did not look
• 53:47
  good defensively. He did not Pete Alonso look
• 53:50
  better than him, but the Mets didn't decide to extend him and
• 53:53
  he goes to the Orioles. So, I mean, if you're a Mets
• 53:58
  fan, if you're standing for what you saw today and saying that
• 54:02
  they won, that's all that matters.
• 54:03
  They were blowing out Paul Skeens and this team early in
• 54:08
  the game. There was no way that the
• 54:10
  Pittsburgh Steelers was going to put up the Pittsburgh sailors.
• 54:13
  The Pittsburgh Pirates were going to put up the kind of
• 54:15
  numbers that the that the Mets were going to put up throughout
• 54:19
  the day. Because if you cannot pull
• 54:21
  Skeens out, their bullpen is up and down every single year.
• 54:24
  Tobias Myers is is a decent pitcher.
• 54:26
  He's not a great pitcher. But the one guy that I you you
• 54:30
  you want to hope and you want to believe is going to have a good
• 54:33
  season is Francisco Alvarez. The Mets need this kid to break
• 54:39
  out, be the the leader of this team, catch every single
• 54:43
  pitcher. This year he caught Peralta.
• 54:46
  Peralta at the end of the game liked the way he was calling the
• 54:49
  game. So and, and, and I know if
• 54:52
  you're a Freddy Peralta fan, well, he got A7 strikeouts, but
• 54:54
  he gave up four runs. And this guy is going to ask for
• 54:57
  a significant amount of money in the offseason.
• 55:01
  Even if the even if the game goes on strike, Freddy Peralta
• 55:05
  is going to be asking for over $200 million.
• 55:08
  This guy is one of the elite pitchers.
• 55:10
  I like Juan Soto. I know a lot of people think I
• 55:12
  hate him because he left the Yankees and went to the Mets.
• 55:15
  Juan Soto is a great player, Alonso to even as good as he was
• 55:19
  last year and he put his team, put the team on his back.
• 55:22
  They choked at the end of the season.
• 55:25
  Lindor wasn't hitting consistently, that's why they
• 55:27
  brought Beau Bichette, Jorge Blanco, they added some defense,
• 55:31
  Marcus Simeon. But guess what they lost
• 55:34
  Brandon. IMO they lost Pete Alonso.
• 55:37
  It didn't show in game number one.
• 55:39
  They played the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 55:42
  They're one of the worst organizations in baseball.
• 55:45
  That's why Paul Schemes wants out.
• 55:47
  That's why he wants to go to the Yankees.
• 55:49
  That's the truth. Apparently he's already starting
• 55:51
  his take job. That's the truth.
• 55:54
  I don't think he tried to take him.
• 55:55
  No, I am kidding. I don't think he tried to.
• 55:57
  I think that he just had a bad game, couldn't find his
• 56:01
  location, couldn't find his pitches.
• 56:03
  That happens to every pitcher even.
• 56:06
  The IT also helps when the center fielder is dog like
• 56:09
  complete dog shit in center field.
• 56:11
  O'Neil Cruz, what an athlete. O'Neill Cruz's nobody's not
• 56:14
  saying great athlete, but he is proof that you cannot just put a
• 56:19
  great athlete in center field and tell him to go get the ball.
• 56:22
  He misread 2 balls in the and just screwed over schemes in the
• 56:26
  first inning. It was really bad.
• 56:28
  It was the worst. Really bad it.
• 56:29
  Was the worst experiment I I saw at center field probably since
• 56:32
  your boy Jazz Chism when he was in Miami.
• 56:34
  They tried the same thing and it was equally as bad.
• 56:36
  Why do you guys think that he's my boy again?
• 56:39
  It was a joke. Thank you Quentin for getting
• 56:42
  the sarcasm, but. He's not my boy and I, anybody
• 56:45
  that calls him my boy, even if it's a joke, I'm going to attack
• 56:47
  it. He is not my boy.
• 56:49
  I never liked him. And that's why I call him jazz
• 56:51
  jism, OK? That's what he is.
• 56:54
  And I, I, I just make fun of all the different people that we've
• 56:58
  seen over the years come to these New York teams and
• 57:00
  absolutely are debacles here. Debacles.
• 57:04
  And you definitely hope it doesn't get to that.
• 57:05
  There's one that's playing as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
• 57:08
  now. There's there's another one.
• 57:10
  I think when you look at the Mets history, history of the
• 57:12
  bringing these free agent pitchers in recently, it just
• 57:14
  doesn't help their system of what they're doing.
• 57:16
  And hopefully it doesn't get that way with Peralta, because
• 57:18
  it definitely wasn't an ideal thing.
• 57:20
  Allowing early base runner, allowing home runs, two home
• 57:22
  runs to Brandon Lau and that kind of thing with 7 strikeouts.
• 57:26
  Yes, But you can't have that kind of consistency all year and
• 57:29
  be able to face these better teams to make it work.
• 57:31
  Now as far as the Mets offense goes, they had nine runs without
• 57:34
  a home run in the game, which was an impressive thing in
• 57:37
  itself. I think Fish, they were even
• 57:38
  saying like the first time in five years that kind of thing
• 57:41
  happened where you especially in a home run driven ERA.
• 57:43
  So you wonder if the approach so far with this Mets lineup is a
• 57:47
  little different against small sample size are not going to
• 57:49
  overreact right away. But it's definitely a good thing
• 57:52
  when all these all these secondary hitters.
• 57:54
  It wasn't Juan Soda that was lighting it up.
• 57:55
  It wasn't those guys that were lighting it up and Bench getting
• 57:58
  his first Major League home run to get to that 11th spot.
• 58:01
  That was the icing on the. Cake and I will say this, Louise
• 58:04
  Robert Junior, everybody says wow, he had a great game.
• 58:07
  This is not the same Louise Robert Junior you think he is
• 58:10
  all right, He had one good game. Game number one, this guy
• 58:14
  couldn't hit a lick last year. A lick now maybe going to
• 58:17
  another franchise, being protected in the lineup and, and
• 58:20
  being behind guys like Polanco and Beatty or and being, you
• 58:24
  know, behind Bichette and and Soto and Lindor, maybe that
• 58:28
  gives him a better chance of getting getting more pitches.
• 58:32
  But this guy is not a good hitter.
• 58:33
  He's one of the worst center fielders as far as offensively
• 58:35
  sound in all the baseball. The fact that he had two hits,
• 58:39
  one RBI, the two RBI's and and one run, that's great.
• 58:43
  You're not going to see consistency.
• 58:45
  I would have kept Brandon IMO. I I still think you would have
• 58:48
  gotten Marcus Simeon for something else.
• 58:51
  You could have gotten Marcus Simeon for a relief pitcher, a
• 58:54
  good relief pitcher in your farm system, or one of those farmhand
• 58:57
  guys in your AA that might be good in the future.
• 59:00
  You did not have to trade Brandon Nimmo.
• 59:02
  And the reason why they traded Brandon IMO was one reason
• 59:05
  money, there was actually 2 money and he didn't get along
• 59:08
  with Lindor. And that was that was the story.
• 59:11
  He did not get along with Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto
• 59:14
  while he is a quote UN quote somebody supporter in in the
• 59:19
  politic world. They didn't like that.
• 59:21
  So they never got along. A lot of people said that Pete
• 59:24
  Alonso was not too fond of the way they treated Brandon MO
• 59:28
  either. So, and a lot of those guys, a
• 59:31
  lot of people thought that Pete Alonzo wasn't really respected
• 59:34
  in that, in that locker room as well.
• 59:36
  So I, I, I don't know. I don't know.
• 59:39
  There's a lot of things that we don't know.
• 59:40
  And I'm sure they'll be a bit a book written 20 years from now
• 59:44
  from Pete Alonzo and Brandon. Maybe they'll they'll write a
• 59:47
  book together. They'll they'll reprive the the
• 59:49
  the book of the 92 Mets, the worst team money could buy.
• 59:52
  They'll make a 2025 like locker room drama version of that.
• 59:55
  Lonzie Nim. That's what we'll call it, the
• 59:57
  documentary Lonzie Nim. Alonzi limp.
• 1:00:02
  They yeah, they limped to the yen and then completely broke.
• 1:00:04
  Somebody's got a limp, right? All the.
• 1:00:06
  Way they all did last season, believe me.
• 1:00:09
  What we're I'd like to see Quinton run now, you know, I
• 1:00:12
  don't know if he can run as fast as he did when he was on a
• 1:00:14
  football field. Very much so.
• 1:00:17
  Really. What do you think you can run in
• 1:00:18
  a 40 right now? Right now.
• 1:00:20
  Right now. What do you think?
• 1:00:21
  No training? Yeah, no training.
• 1:00:24
  Probably about like 465. Really, you could still run in a
• 1:00:28
  465. I'd like to see that.
• 1:00:31
  I'd like to see that. Yeah, I mean, just come down to
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  Georgia, I'll show you. Oh, so I got to come down to
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  Georgia. You don't want to come up here
• 1:00:38
  to New York. I got to go down.
• 1:00:39
  Too cold, too cold, too cold. It's 63°.
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  Today, tomorrow be 30. No, it's not.
• 1:00:47
  He's he's right. It's going to be 30 in the
• 1:00:49
  morning. Fine.
• 1:00:51
  But Errol, he's real fast. Maybe he can chase down our
• 1:00:55
  carousel that's going to be spinning into action.
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  Yep. Ladies and gentlemen, we have
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  our new. Well, it's, it's not a new
• 1:01:02
  segment. It's been around for a little
• 1:01:04
  while as we call this the Concrete Jungle Carousel.
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  Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games.
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  You know where you are welcome. I'm trying to put Tiger Bomb on
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  this jungles nuts to the concrete jungle carousel.
• 1:01:29
  Make her squirt. Make me jerk.
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  All right guys, welcome back to the Concrete Jungle carousel.
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  We're going to cover all the news in all the sports in the
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  tri-state area. We're just going to cover some
• 1:01:41
  minor Yankees and stuff before we leave baseball.
• 1:01:45
  Just some contracts signed by the Mets.
• 1:01:47
  Guess who joined the roster of the Mets to a minor league
• 1:01:50
  contract on the 40 man Mr. Tommy Pham is back on the Mets roster.
• 1:01:56
  Tommy Pham, one of the more controversial guys in Major
• 1:02:00
  League Baseball, but he's he's been a good hitter a lot of his
• 1:02:03
  career rear maybe some depth in the outfit you were talking
• 1:02:06
  about earlier. Obviously Benge was brought up
• 1:02:10
  right off the bat. Minter was put on the IL.
• 1:02:14
  He's still recovering from left lat surgery.
• 1:02:17
  For the Yankees, they look they they still got three guys on the
• 1:02:22
  IL that are coming back, Cole Rodon and Volpe.
• 1:02:24
  We don't really talk about when Volpe's coming back.
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  Volpe's coming back. It looks like going to be around
• 1:02:29
  the same time as the two of those guys.
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  Somewhere between the end of April and May.
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  And the Yankees signed and activated to the main roster
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  Randall Grichuk, who is a nice platoon bat off the bench.
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  Well, I like Tommy Fan. I, I think if you're a Mets fan
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  and you get him on the cheap, you bring him up, he, he's a
• 1:02:50
  good, he's a competent hitter in the major leagues.
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  We've seen it. I remember when he was at Saint
• 1:02:55
  Louis, even when he was with the Mets, he hit the ball very, very
• 1:02:57
  well. And I was very, I was very
• 1:02:59
  surprised that the Mets let him go and, and decided to move him.
• 1:03:02
  But I think this is a good move for the Mets.
• 1:03:04
  Obviously you add some depth to the outfield.
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  This is a guy that can hit for average.
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  You can put him as ADH and sometimes when this kid gets
• 1:03:11
  hot, he can get really, really hot.
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  As far as the Yankees are concerned, Volpe being hurt, I
• 1:03:17
  think it gives him a little bit more time.
• 1:03:19
  I don't know if he's really hurt, but the Yankees are giving
• 1:03:22
  him a little bit more time. He didn't.
• 1:03:23
  He was up and down throughout spring training.
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  When I did get a chance to see him.
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  I I want to see his defense. I'm more worried about his
• 1:03:30
  defense than his offense. We saw what happened last year.
• 1:03:33
  He had the yips, he couldn't throw to first base.
• 1:03:35
  He barely can get it to 2nd. I mean, this guy would a Gold
• 1:03:39
  Glove two years ago and he couldn't even throw.
• 1:03:41
  He became Chuck Noblock. That's what he became.
• 1:03:44
  So that's the guy that really stands out to me.
• 1:03:47
  Grit Chuck is is a good player. We've seen him.
• 1:03:49
  He's a journeyman. He can hit for you can put him
• 1:03:52
  in your lineup, he can hit for he can play multiple outfield
• 1:03:56
  positions. I think he also could play
• 1:03:58
  infield too, so. I think he played a little third
• 1:04:00
  I. Believe so.
• 1:04:01
  You can move him around in on the field if you need some.
• 1:04:04
  Yep. So it wasn't a bad signing.
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  They didn't really have to give up much to get him so I'm not
• 1:04:09
  surprised they brought him in as a platoon.
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  Platoon guy. Yeah, I was going to say that
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  you look at the the depth that the Yankees are going to bring
• 1:04:15
  in with a lot of these outfielders that they have and
• 1:04:18
  Volpe, I think you're right. They're trying to ease him back.
• 1:04:20
  I again, I don't think his problems a lot of the last year
• 1:04:22
  were were medical. I think it was just more of,
• 1:04:25
  yeah, like you said, the yips. He was trying to get his own
• 1:04:26
  head and it affected his offensive game too, as far as
• 1:04:29
  the four man. Was he trying to get in his own
• 1:04:31
  head or trying to get head? Maybe that's so maybe, maybe
• 1:04:36
  leaning in. Maybe leaning in would be
• 1:04:37
  better, but Fat Joe wouldn't allow that.
• 1:04:39
  But he'll be leaning back. He'll be leaning back.
• 1:04:42
  He's trying to, he's leaned back into the Yankees good graces
• 1:04:44
  with the end of the season. He did have though, so the
• 1:04:46
  Yankees I think are trying to ease him back as far as the Mets
• 1:04:48
  bring in Tommy Famine. This was the same guy that took
• 1:04:50
  shots to the Mets team culture in 2023.
• 1:04:52
  Who cares? Hopefully he doesn't make
• 1:04:54
  comments like that again, but I do like them better than a lot
• 1:04:56
  of the other. Outfielders, he'll get along
• 1:04:57
  with Juan Soto, Lindor. They're both idiots, so they
• 1:05:00
  they like to talk behind each other's back.
• 1:05:02
  So why not Miami? Fair will be the third guy, the
• 1:05:04
  Three Stooges right there. Perfect for the Mets.
• 1:05:07
  Hope not. All right, so we're just going
• 1:05:09
  to go quickly because we're going to run out of time And I,
• 1:05:12
  we don't have a lot to talk about with the Knicks and Nets
• 1:05:15
  because we're not going to talk about the Nets, But we will talk
• 1:05:17
  about Miles McBride coming back on Sunday against the Thunder.
• 1:05:22
  Bring the whole squad back to full health basically for the
• 1:05:25
  first time in a long time, allowing them to now have that
• 1:05:29
  combo guard kind of hustle guy that they may have been missing
• 1:05:33
  in the lineup all along does. How do they fit him back in that
• 1:05:37
  rotation? We'll find out.
• 1:05:39
  But the best story from Nick's world is Stephen A Smith taking
• 1:05:43
  shots at Josh Hart saying he should shut his mouth if he
• 1:05:46
  can't average 10 points a game and then Hart calling him a part
• 1:05:49
  time Knicks fan. All right about that.
• 1:05:53
  So I'll get into the Josh Hart thing because Josh Hart is one
• 1:05:56
  of the best two way players the Knicks have, one of the leaders
• 1:05:59
  of the New York Knicks. If he scores 10 points, 12
• 1:06:01
  points or 13 points or even eight points, he does things
• 1:06:04
  better than everybody in the league at his position.
• 1:06:07
  He rebounds at his size, he's one of the better rebounders at
• 1:06:10
  his size. He plays defense to multiple
• 1:06:12
  positions and he's a team leader.
• 1:06:14
  We don't need Josh Hart to score 10 or more points.
• 1:06:18
  We just need him to play his game.
• 1:06:20
  So Stephen A Smith who can't even hit a lick that that guy
• 1:06:22
  can't shoot. I've seen him on the TNT show.
• 1:06:25
  I've seen him on ESPN try to shoot.
• 1:06:27
  That guy can't shoot. And then he says he played
• 1:06:28
  college basketball with who? Who did he play college ball
• 1:06:32
  with? I would love to hear that one.
• 1:06:34
  That's one. Number two with the Knicks.
• 1:06:36
  McBride's a nice addition. But the guy that I think you've
• 1:06:40
  you guys are missing is what Carl Anthony Towns has done over
• 1:06:43
  the last three weeks. Karl Anthony Towns is slowly
• 1:06:46
  showing people that you can you can run your offense through him
• 1:06:50
  if Jalen Brunson's not having a big day.
• 1:06:52
  And that's what they're doing. They're starting to use him as a
• 1:06:56
  guy that's the number one guy when even when Jalen Brunson's
• 1:06:59
  out there, they're feeding him the ball.
• 1:07:01
  And we're seeing consistency now.
• 1:07:03
  He's averaging in the last couple of weeks.
• 1:07:05
  The last two weeks he's averaging 24 and 11.
• 1:07:08
  And when you're doing that, that's what you accept expect
• 1:07:11
  from your superstar big man, one of the best shooting big men in
• 1:07:13
  the NBA when he's playing at a high level, not 80 foot jumpers,
• 1:07:17
  not 70 foot jumpers and trying to be Steph Curry.
• 1:07:20
  Just playing your own game and he's doing things that we
• 1:07:23
  haven't seen him do last year and that's get in the paint,
• 1:07:26
  defend the paint and put his body on the line.
• 1:07:29
  When you see something like that, he's all in.
• 1:07:32
  So that's the big story. It's not McBride.
• 1:07:35
  I know everybody keeps saying, well, we need McBride.
• 1:07:37
  Do we really? He probably don't play a lot of
• 1:07:39
  a lot of minutes in the playoffs.
• 1:07:40
  He really doesn't. He plays 20 minutes, 22 minutes
• 1:07:43
  last year with Tom Thibodeau and he's not going to play a lot of
• 1:07:46
  minutes this year because they're going to play.
• 1:07:48
  They're going to try to play big.
• 1:07:49
  The Knicks are going to try to play big against these teams
• 1:07:51
  like Detroit and and the Celtics.
• 1:07:54
  The Celtics are a small team. They're not big.
• 1:07:56
  The Knicks are a big team. When they have the other guys,
• 1:07:58
  you making faces. The Celtics are.
• 1:08:00
  What when when, When have the cesses been small?
• 1:08:02
  This the Celt? I think Cat going to shoot you
• 1:08:06
  guys out. That's this is an issue.
• 1:08:08
  He's playing big now, but once he started getting them later,
• 1:08:11
  later in the season and start getting to the playoffs, he's
• 1:08:13
  going to start going back shooting threes and then you
• 1:08:15
  guys going to be in trouble. Oh, really, you guys?
• 1:08:18
  Why? Because you're a Celtic fan?
• 1:08:19
  Is that why? Yeah.
• 1:08:20
  Fortunately. It figures.
• 1:08:21
  It figures. That's why you were trying to
• 1:08:23
  throw a curveball. But guess what?
• 1:08:25
  If you look at the Celtics and their size in the Eastern
• 1:08:28
  Conference right now, they're not in the top 10 when it comes
• 1:08:31
  to size. Size.
• 1:08:32
  Size in the NBA? Size.
• 1:08:34
  Yeah, they're not in the top 10. Who just wanted to where
• 1:08:39
  they're. They're outside the top ten.
• 1:08:41
  I think they're 13 or 14. Well, I'm looking it up right
• 1:08:44
  now. They have.
• 1:08:46
  East. No.
• 1:08:47
  In the league. In the league.
• 1:08:48
  They only have one seven footer on the team.
• 1:08:51
  It's Kata. And then they have a couple of
• 1:08:54
  guys that are 610 that don't play Vuchevich, who's hurt and
• 1:08:58
  doesn't look like the same guy at six nine.
• 1:09:00
  And then it's Tillman is 68, Tatum 68, Minot and Hauser.
• 1:09:06
  All these guys are are. Just.
• 1:09:09
  Yeah, but the giant, the giant, the Knicks have Mitch.
• 1:09:13
  You got no answer for Mitch. Mitch is a problem.
• 1:09:16
  Mitch who? Hey Venus, free throws.
• 1:09:21
  Are the Joel and Beanos who Mitches?
• 1:09:24
  Oh, we whooped them too. So this is tough outing.
• 1:09:28
  I like the hype. And Stephen A actually played
• 1:09:30
  for West Southern State, so who can?
• 1:09:32
  I think that's what he was. He averaged 1.4.
• 1:09:34
  Points a game, Yes, and. He sucked and he's attacking a a
• 1:09:37
  good player in the NBA, Josh Hart.
• 1:09:40
  If I'm Josh Hart, I'm just slandering him on my my my
• 1:09:43
  podcast. He was also fired playing out of
• 1:09:45
  possession. Considering his role.
• 1:09:47
  I mean, he don't have no no place to even speak on what Josh
• 1:09:51
  Hart should be doing, but that they they can't take away.
• 1:09:54
  Yeah, Stephen, a average of one point.
• 1:09:56
  What's the same state? All right, You know, we got to
• 1:10:00
  be honest up here, you know? It's one more than 1.4 more
• 1:10:05
  points at Salem State than I got.
• 1:10:06
  So it's it's a great job by him. Let's get to football.
• 1:10:11
  The the Giants and Jets were both at the Ohio State pro day.
• 1:10:15
  It's all about the pro day. They have three guys expected to
• 1:10:18
  go in the top 10 down, four guys, Downs, Tate, Reese and
• 1:10:23
  Styles. Everyone wanted to know.
• 1:10:25
  The Jets are very impressed with Reese.
• 1:10:28
  They're linked to taking him at two people like Bailey from
• 1:10:32
  Texas Tech. But you know, Reese had to jump
• 1:10:34
  out of the gym stats in the combine.
• 1:10:37
  They're trying. The Jets are going to try to
• 1:10:39
  have a workout with Ty Simpson. Errol, I know you said you don't
• 1:10:42
  want this to happen. No, I like it.
• 1:10:44
  I I told you, was it you or Josh?
• 1:10:46
  Round though, yeah. First round?
• 1:10:48
  Why not 16? If you think he's your guy, if
• 1:10:52
  you think he's your guy, and I've heard, I've watched his
• 1:10:55
  footwork at the combine. He was sensational.
• 1:10:57
  He looked as good as a quarterback has played at the
• 1:11:01
  combine in the last three years. He threw the ball very, very
• 1:11:03
  well. He's got a very strong arm.
• 1:11:05
  They say that he has a better arm than Mendoza.
• 1:11:08
  So I'm just saying if, if The Jets think he's their guy and
• 1:11:11
  they're going to sit in behind Geno Smith for one year, you do
• 1:11:14
  not play in this year. You let him sit behind Geno
• 1:11:17
  Smith for a full year. Let him learn in the offense on
• 1:11:20
  the right and then you bring him in next year, early in the next
• 1:11:24
  year season. If you think he's your guy, if
• 1:11:26
  you think absolutely slam thunk. But you can't watch a combine.
• 1:11:30
  You have to watch film. And I'll tell you this, the
• 1:11:33
  Alabama Crimson Tide didn't have the talent over the years they
• 1:11:37
  had this year, they really didn't have that kind of talent.
• 1:11:40
  They didn't have a star wide receiver on a top first round
• 1:11:42
  draft pick. They didn't have that.
• 1:11:44
  And and Ty was up for a Heisman Trophy this year and before he
• 1:11:49
  fell out the last month. So I know a lot of people are
• 1:11:51
  like, I don't know if I go after Ty, he's too small, He's got big
• 1:11:55
  hands, he's got great footwork. If The Jets think he's the guy
• 1:11:58
  and you're going to send him out the whole season, do it.
• 1:12:00
  I I'm I'm all for it. That's all I'm going to say
• 1:12:03
  about that. So and as.
• 1:12:05
  Far as Reese. As far as Reese, as far as Reese
• 1:12:07
  is concerned, it could be raised Reese, it could be Bain, Styles,
• 1:12:11
  anyone of these guys, I just want them to play.
• 1:12:13
  I want them to fit the defense. If if they think Reese is the
• 1:12:15
  guy that's going to fit their defense and they're going to
• 1:12:17
  move all over the field and cause havoc for the quarterback,
• 1:12:20
  so be it. Draft Reese, but.
• 1:12:22
  Make So what do you so who so who do you like Reese out of
• 1:12:25
  those 3? I like Reese and Bane.
• 1:12:28
  So which way did you choose? I wanted, I like Bain, but Bain,
• 1:12:33
  they're saying I have to see him in his pro day and they're
• 1:12:35
  saying he has very small arms. So I don't know how that works
• 1:12:39
  in the NFL now. It has worked for some guys.
• 1:12:42
  He said that about Von Miller and Von Miller was really good.
• 1:12:46
  So I'm just saying I'm not calling Bain Von Miller.
• 1:12:49
  But Reese is just like a physical specimen.
• 1:12:52
  This guy's got long arms. He's tall, he's athletic, he's
• 1:12:56
  big. Maybe a lot of people think his
• 1:12:59
  style is more like a Michael Parsons.
• 1:13:01
  If he's anything like Michael Parsons, The Jets have a slam
• 1:13:05
  dunk right there. So I I trust in Moji.
• 1:13:08
  I don't want Aaron Glenn picking the guy.
• 1:13:10
  I want Moji picking the guy. He's done a lot of things good
• 1:13:13
  this offseason. It's a slam dunk if Moji goes
• 1:13:16
  after the guy that he wants, not what Aaron Glenn wants.
• 1:13:19
  Because he was sleeping at the compound.
• 1:13:21
  Yeah. He was sleeping, he was
• 1:13:23
  sleeping, he was sleeping during the day.
• 1:13:24
  He was out of control, talented wise, but I don't necessarily
• 1:13:28
  think he's the best pick for number 2.
• 1:13:30
  I think they're going to pick him at #2 but I don't think he's
• 1:13:33
  the best pick for that style of defense that they're playing.
• 1:13:35
  And so I think that they should probably, you know, re evaluate
• 1:13:39
  that, But it's nothing else that we can do about it because
• 1:13:41
  they're going to pick him at 2 anyway.
• 1:13:42
  And TA Simpson, I thought, I think it's a bad pick as well.
• 1:13:47
  I don't think they should pick that 16.
• 1:13:48
  They might end up trading that pick and getting an extra pick
• 1:13:52
  later on in the draft and get an extra pick in the second round.
• 1:13:55
  I definitely should trade back is a lot of needs of what The
• 1:13:57
  Jets could use with. Receiving.
• 1:13:59
  Corner in those drafts, too. You're going to be able to
• 1:14:02
  stockpile a lot of that even at two.
• 1:14:03
  You can't rule out trading back either, even with a talent as
• 1:14:06
  good as Reese at 2:00. What about Malik Willis just
• 1:14:10
  sound with the Dolphins? What if he would?
• 1:14:11
  We would have picked them up. I hate.
• 1:14:13
  Malik Willis, I don't think he's any good.
• 1:14:15
  No good. No, I don't think he's any good.
• 1:14:17
  I don't want to be stuck in a really bad.
• 1:14:19
  Honestly, you paid Malik Willis What?
• 1:14:22
  What was what was the money it? Was 22 million a year 20. 2
• 1:14:24
  million a year I'm. Not I don't, yeah, I don't think
• 1:14:26
  we're going to get that. I don't think we would have got
• 1:14:28
  that number. I think that's just Miami pen
• 1:14:29
  and desperation. I don't think they would have
• 1:14:31
  paid that. I'm fine with Geno Smith.
• 1:14:33
  I I'm fine with him for two years.
• 1:14:35
  I am. I think he's he's the
• 1:14:38
  prototypical quarterback of veteran quarterback The Jets
• 1:14:40
  bring in that's going to play that style of game.
• 1:14:43
  So I'm fine with Geno Smith. They're not winning anything
• 1:14:46
  this year. I'm hoping they're not going to
• 1:14:47
  try to win anything and get the court.
• 1:14:49
  If they don't get a quarterback this year, get a quarterback
• 1:14:51
  next year. So who you who?
• 1:14:54
  Would you know the main thing I always say?
• 1:14:56
  What we saying quick? Who's that?
• 1:14:58
  Who's they take it? Who they take it for?
• 1:15:00
  What do you mean in your opinion?
• 1:15:01
  If you if you wouldn't detain, who did?
• 1:15:03
  Who would they take for? Next year you're talking about.
• 1:15:05
  Yeah, next year. I like Dante Moore.
• 1:15:09
  I I like Manning. I mean, those two guys are the
• 1:15:12
  the two guys that I'm looking also like Sellers.
• 1:15:14
  I like all three of those guys. I would take any one of those
• 1:15:17
  guys we're. Gonna talk about that another
• 1:15:18
  day. Why was The Jets at Ohio State?
• 1:15:21
  Just to see they just dropped the Abdul Carter.
• 1:15:24
  I'm confused why we even. The Giants, yeah.
• 1:15:26
  So the Giants are interested in Caleb Downs, safety, box safety
• 1:15:31
  that they think you can also drop back hard hitter.
• 1:15:34
  And Carnell Tate they're talking about is possibly a receiver to
• 1:15:37
  take at 5. The Giants are also in on
• 1:15:40
  Jeremiah Love, which is interesting considering they
• 1:15:43
  have Scataboo and Tyrone Tracy. That's something a lot of people
• 1:15:48
  are kind of mocking. No, they're not giant.
• 1:15:50
  There's the reason why you shouldn't mock it because they
• 1:15:52
  probably know something with Cam scataboo after that injury.
• 1:15:56
  Yeah, I think he's done too. That is a bad injury.
• 1:15:59
  And did he say something about retirement as well?
• 1:16:01
  He posted something crazy. I don't think, he said
• 1:16:03
  retirement. He's definitely crazy.
• 1:16:06
  We can't stay here. We got to keep moving because we
• 1:16:09
  got to get out of the segment. But a lot of Jets and Giants
• 1:16:12
  offseason news to come. Just quickly hockey, not too
• 1:16:15
  much going on with the Rangers. They only they were held to nine
• 1:16:18
  shots the other day, Errol, which is just absurd.
• 1:16:21
  The Sabres are now tied for first.
• 1:16:23
  Just kind of combining that, all the hockey together with the
• 1:16:26
  Hurricanes for the most points in the Eastern Conference, even
• 1:16:29
  though they lost a couple of games in overtime, the
• 1:16:32
  Islanders, if these playoffs started today, are not in a
• 1:16:35
  playoff spot at all. They're.
• 1:16:36
  A point out of a playoff spot. Correct, correct.
• 1:16:39
  But, you know, this was a team that like, was trending a little
• 1:16:43
  better than this not that long ago.
• 1:16:45
  There are a lot of teams playing good hockey right now.
• 1:16:47
  The Blue Jackets are playing good hockey.
• 1:16:48
  Ottawa is playing good hockey. So he can't blame the Islanders.
• 1:16:51
  You're not going to win every single game.
• 1:16:53
  I still think the Islanders are fine.
• 1:16:55
  They have they have 10 games left.
• 1:16:57
  If they win 7 or even 6 of those games, I think they get in.
• 1:17:01
  There's no way Ottawa is going to win the majority of their
• 1:17:03
  games, so I'm not going to bet on that.
• 1:17:04
  The Blue Jackets, even if the Blue Jackets make the playoffs,
• 1:17:09
  I, I, I'm not scared of the teams in front of them.
• 1:17:11
  So the Islanders are fine. The Sabres are the teams that
• 1:17:14
  that seem to talk about. I, I mean, everything that we've
• 1:17:16
  seen with the Sabres have done this year, even the second-half
• 1:17:19
  of the season, they're one of the hottest teams in hockey.
• 1:17:21
  Paige Thompson coming back, winning the gold medal from Team
• 1:17:23
  USA. He's been one of the hottest
• 1:17:25
  goal scorers in the league. I mean, everything is working.
• 1:17:28
  They're goaltending, their defense, They're as good of a
• 1:17:32
  team as any team in the NHL right now.
• 1:17:35
  If you would ask me right now who is going to the Stanley Cup
• 1:17:38
  Finals, it's the Sabres and the Colorado Out Village.
• 1:17:42
  Those are the two best teams in the NHL and they've been the two
• 1:17:44
  best teams over the last couple of weeks.
• 1:17:46
  Yeah, the Islanders are not playing bad.
• 1:17:48
  Just the Blue Jackets got hot. There's a lot of teams going.
• 1:17:50
  Coaching change, Rick bonus now going over there.
• 1:17:52
  Went to the cup with Dallas in 2020 and they're just hot right
• 1:17:56
  now off the 3rd. And the Penguins are not great
• 1:17:58
  either. Like the Islanders very easily
• 1:18:00
  catch them. They're an older team and
• 1:18:01
  Buffalo. I agree with you.
• 1:18:02
  Their offensive potency is as good as anything.
• 1:18:04
  If they can get any consistent goaltending, they're going to be
• 1:18:06
  right. There, Paige Thompson is a
• 1:18:07
  beast. He is an absolute beast.
• 1:18:10
  Saint Louis is probably itching their head after years ago after
• 1:18:14
  trading him after they drafted him.
• 1:18:16
  I mean, the kids. A special player, I believe the
• 1:18:19
  best United States goal scorer in the NHL.
• 1:18:22
  Yeah, and the Rangers. Yeah, that's as embarrassing as
• 1:18:24
  it gets. Fish, I gave this out to you.
• 1:18:26
  Not since Chosen 3 have you seen less than 10 shots on goal in a
• 1:18:28
  game. Just just so ugly.
• 1:18:31
  The worst hockey you can possibly watch right now at the
• 1:18:34
  Garden. Just wrapping it up, talking
• 1:18:36
  about the Big East and what's going on in the Sweet 16.
• 1:18:39
  We got two teams left. We got UConn, Aints and Saint
• 1:18:42
  Johns. They both play tomorrow.
• 1:18:45
  UConn gets Michigan State, they played earlier in like
• 1:18:49
  exhibition in an early season game.
• 1:18:51
  UConn won by 7. Michigan State's not going to
• 1:18:55
  have their point guard. It's going to be a problem.
• 1:18:57
  Broken foot with a defensive guard.
• 1:18:59
  So they're down a couple of guys.
• 1:19:01
  UConn has a couple of guys questionable, but they're going
• 1:19:04
  to try to try to stop Tyrus Reed.
• 1:19:07
  Tyrus Reed, who had one of the biggest, you know, big man games
• 1:19:10
  in a long time, in the first game he had with 27 rebounds,
• 1:19:14
  and it was absolutely a monster. That's the point.
• 1:19:17
  And Danny Hurley has mentioned that UCONN's foul trouble is a
• 1:19:20
  problem against a team like Michigan State that's 38th in
• 1:19:24
  the country and shooting foul shots.
• 1:19:26
  St. John's, Duke, real quick.
• 1:19:28
  Duke got Nongba back versus TCU. They think that Caleb Foster has
• 1:19:33
  a chance to come back only three weeks removed from a foot
• 1:19:37
  fracture, which is kind of crazy as well for that game.
• 1:19:42
  Obviously St. John's is going to face that
• 1:19:44
  team is ranked #1 heading into it.
• 1:19:46
  Pitino is going to try to pressure the ball.
• 1:19:48
  You know, Pitino, he thinks it's their weakness.
• 1:19:50
  They're going to go after him, especially if the point guard
• 1:19:52
  has a broken foot. I want St.
• 1:19:54
  John's to win. I really, really do.
• 1:19:57
  I want them to win. But I'm a Duke Blue Devil fan
• 1:20:00
  and I can't stand John Shire. And if the game's close, I'm
• 1:20:03
  going to bet that Saint John's is going to win the game.
• 1:20:05
  But if they pull away and they they have a 15 or 14 point lead
• 1:20:09
  in the second-half and I don't see the the Duke Blue Devils
• 1:20:13
  choking this time. Cam Boozer has been up and down
• 1:20:15
  throughout the tournament. Cam Boozer is a star, he's a
• 1:20:17
  stud. I love him and I think he's
• 1:20:19
  going to take over this game. They're going to have no answer
• 1:20:21
  with Cam Boozer in this game. I think Duke is going to win the
• 1:20:24
  game. Now as far as EU.
• 1:20:26
  U Conn versus Michigan State, that's an interesting game.
• 1:20:29
  Izzo versus Hurley, 2 very respected coaches in college
• 1:20:33
  basketball, one guy that acts like Bobby Knight and the other
• 1:20:36
  one is more quiet, likes to keep to himself, like likes the
• 1:20:40
  players, play his style of game. But I'm going to tell you this
• 1:20:43
  right now, UConn is going all the way to the national
• 1:20:47
  championship. I've said it, I believe it.
• 1:20:49
  I think this team is as good as any team in the nation.
• 1:20:53
  So I think they're going to beat Michigan State.
• 1:20:55
  It's going to be close. It'll be back and forth.
• 1:20:57
  Bobby Hurley's been the best coach I believe in college
• 1:21:00
  basketball for the last four years and I I believe that he's
• 1:21:03
  going to make another run at a national championship.
• 1:21:05
  I was worried about Michigan State not shooting a lot of
• 1:21:07
  threes, but this is not the match of the duo.
• 1:21:08
  You want to attack the hoop like you were saying and Dan Hurley,
• 1:21:11
  they can't have these foul troubles like they did in the
• 1:21:13
  second-half against UCLA. If they can play like the the
• 1:21:15
  next part of that game, they could beat Michigan State pretty
• 1:21:17
  easily. As far as Saint John's and
• 1:21:19
  Yukon, interesting match up with Zubi, Azure for and Cam Boozer
• 1:21:22
  inside. Can they attack that and get
• 1:21:24
  enough rebounding to make it work and take away those
• 1:21:25
  possessions for Duke's offense even with Proctor or not or not
• 1:21:28
  Proctor? Yeah, 900%.
• 1:21:31
  All right, guys. Well, that is the concrete
• 1:21:33
  jungle carousel. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:21:36
  we call this the deuce of the day.
• 1:21:38
  The deuce of the day you'll log. Not a log.
• 1:21:41
  I don't have a log, but you know.
• 1:21:50
  All right, my juice of the day goes to the Philadelphia
• 1:21:53
  Phillies as a story came out over the last 24 hours that a
• 1:21:58
  kid that they signed at 13 or 14 years old, I think 13 years old,
• 1:22:04
  who they gave him $1.5 million, was caught using steroids.
• 1:22:10
  That's what they they tested them for steroids.
• 1:22:13
  And now Phill, the Phillies are going to cancel the agreement
• 1:22:16
  and take the $1.5 million away from the kid and his family.
• 1:22:21
  And I'll say this, steroids should not be used in
• 1:22:24
  professional sports. But guess what?
• 1:22:27
  They're always going to be used. They're always going to be used
• 1:22:31
  so hiding it and figuring out what to take away or not think
• 1:22:36
  that this kid has the God-given talent because he was taking
• 1:22:39
  steroids or just trying to grow. Maybe that's why he was doing
• 1:22:41
  it. It's despicable honestly.
• 1:22:43
  It's 1.5 million. Is it going to burn a pocket?
• 1:22:45
  Burn his pocket is going to burn Philadelphia pocket.
• 1:22:48
  No, I'm not surprised this is going on.
• 1:22:51
  This isn't the first thing we're going to hear in any
• 1:22:53
  international international player using steroids or human
• 1:22:56
  growth hormones to get get get bigger, get stronger and get
• 1:23:01
  into the major leagues. So it's a horrible story.
• 1:23:04
  Philadelphia is going to do what they want to do.
• 1:23:06
  But it it's, you know, it's Philadelphia like to do
• 1:23:10
  something like that. So that is my deuce of the day.
• 1:23:13
  When we come back, ladies and gentlemen, we will be talking to
• 1:23:15
  the president of Scout Central and former Pelicans executive
• 1:23:19
  Darren Purcell. He's been on our show before.
• 1:23:21
  This guy's sensational when it comes to talent and
• 1:23:25
  understanding talent in the NBA. This man is one of the best in
• 1:23:29
  the business. We will have him.
• 1:23:30
  But first, our sports minute. The New York sports Loudmouth
• 1:23:37
  Sports minutes. All right guys, what's up?
• 1:23:42
  Aaron Fishman here with your sportsman.
• 1:23:43
  A couple of stories before we get into tonight's scores.
• 1:23:46
  Warriors forward Moses Moody was stretchered off the floor with a
• 1:23:49
  non contact injury late in the Warriors Monday night overtime
• 1:23:53
  win over the Mavs, 137 to 131. Moody stole the ball from last
• 1:23:57
  year's number one pick Cooper flag and was on his way to
• 1:23:59
  punctuate the win with a breakaway slam.
• 1:24:02
  But as the court parted like the Red Sea for Moses, his knee gave
• 1:24:05
  way on the attempt. Injured future Hall of Fame
• 1:24:08
  guard Steph Curry can only shake his head on the side guideline
• 1:24:11
  at the team's continued misfortune, which continues even
• 1:24:14
  in wins in the 202526 season. Moody was then diagnosed late
• 1:24:19
  Tuesday with a torn patellar tendon and will miss the rest of
• 1:24:22
  the year and presumably much of next season as well.
• 1:24:24
  After the game, coach Steve Kerr, Draymond Green and others
• 1:24:26
  shared their feelings about Moody's injury.
• 1:24:28
  MO is such a great human being, Kerr said.
• 1:24:30
  Great teammate, wonderful guy to coach.
• 1:24:32
  Just puts in the work every day and was brilliant Monday night.
• 1:24:34
  By the way Green shared is brutal.
• 1:24:36
  You know we've been waiting for the get back healthy Moses, the
• 1:24:39
  guy who does everything right. Moody was averaging career high
• 1:24:42
  11.9 points this year, was having his best season as a pro
• 1:24:45
  in the first year of his three-year, $39 million
• 1:24:48
  extension that he signed after being drafted by Golden State
• 1:24:51
  14th overall out of Arkansas back in 2021.
• 1:24:55
  In a press conference and subsequent exclusive interview
• 1:24:58
  on ESPN Sports Center on Tuesday, 14 year NFL veteran
• 1:25:01
  middle linebacker Levante David announced his retirement from
• 1:25:04
  the game of football. David, who's 36, said he came up
• 1:25:07
  with a decision to hang it up a week ago.
• 1:25:09
  I feel it's time to move on and find a different path in life.
• 1:25:11
  Be a dad to that amazing little girl over there.
• 1:25:14
  David said, referring to his three-year old daughter Logan.
• 1:25:17
  Having a girl. Help me become a man, help me
• 1:25:19
  understand what's important in life.
• 1:25:21
  First thing I thought about is figure out my life, figure out
• 1:25:24
  my identity, figure out who is Levante David.
• 1:25:27
  People see me as Levante David the football player, but who is
• 1:25:30
  Levante David? The main thing is being a great
• 1:25:34
  father. Both head coaches, Top Bowl and
• 1:25:37
  GM Jason Light had great things to say about their retiring
• 1:25:39
  defensive captain, a role he's held for the past twelve
• 1:25:41
  seasons. When I got it, I already knew I
• 1:25:44
  kind of felt it. Both said it was emotional on
• 1:25:46
  both sides. But for him to spend time with
• 1:25:48
  his daughter now, he deserves that, right?
• 1:25:50
  I'm very happy for him that way. Light added.
• 1:25:53
  It's been awesome being around greatness, as it always is.
• 1:25:56
  For 12 years I've been here, I've been surrounded every day
• 1:25:59
  and I don't take any of that for granted.
• 1:26:01
  But what's hard to say is I can't believe that he's an even
• 1:26:03
  better person and he is a player and that says a lot.
• 1:26:07
  David is a surefire Hall of Famer and Super Bowl champion
• 1:26:09
  back in 2021 when Tom Brady was their quarterback in Tampa.
• 1:26:13
  He was named a member of the 2020 tens all decade team and is
• 1:26:17
  ranked 1st in solo tackles in his time in the league and 2nd
• 1:26:21
  in TFLS and is one of only three players in NFL history with 40
• 1:26:25
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  So, Dan, we've been arguing back and forth.
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  The Banza, the Banza, Peterson and Boozer.
• 1:29:28
  Now I think Boozer is going to Indiana.
• 1:29:30
  Something tells me Indiana's going to get that pick, the
• 1:29:33
  third or second pick, no matter where they're picking it.
• 1:29:36
  It seems like it's called, it seems like it's going to be camp
• 1:29:39
  Boozer. They love him.
• 1:29:40
  I've been reading a lot of different things about what they
• 1:29:43
  think of him and how how big of a young superstar he is and and
• 1:29:47
  what he is going to be in the NBA.
• 1:29:49
  You look at the three guys and me and Quentin have been going
• 1:29:51
  back and forth. Who do we believe is the number
• 1:29:54
  one guy in this draft class we've now?
• 1:29:56
  They're all talented, they're all special.
• 1:29:58
  Even Wilson from North Carolina is a special offensive player.
• 1:30:02
  Who do you feel should go #1 and why?
• 1:30:06
  This is a loaded question. So there's so much talent at the
• 1:30:11
  top of this. And Arrow, if you remember last
• 1:30:13
  time I told you 26 is going to be the greatest draft since
• 1:30:15
  2003. From the very first time you and
• 1:30:17
  I ever met, I told you this was before everybody else was on the
• 1:30:21
  bandwagon. I literally told you O 626 was
• 1:30:24
  going to be the best draft since LeBron, if not as good at, not
• 1:30:28
  better, if not better than LeBron, Carmelo Wade, Bosch, all
• 1:30:31
  those guys, right? So you kind of have to walk
• 1:30:35
  through the teams here first. You have Indiana, So if Indiana
• 1:30:39
  gets the number one pick, The thing is they have Matheran and
• 1:30:41
  Halliburton already. So there's so much top end
• 1:30:44
  talent here that you can pick and choose who you want to go
• 1:30:48
  with Peterson. And Peterson is better than
• 1:30:50
  Matheran by a long shot. But The thing is, if you've
• 1:30:53
  already invested so much in Matheran and he does roughly the
• 1:30:56
  same type of game, he's not as good.
• 1:30:59
  But your front court, since you lost Miles Turner is just you
• 1:31:02
  pretty much your full front court is done in terms of star
• 1:31:05
  power, right? So I do like I do like Boozer if
• 1:31:08
  it's Indiana, But then you have to look at like, you know, do we
• 1:31:11
  go to Sacramento next? If Sacramento gets the number
• 1:31:13
  one pick, they're probably going Peterson.
• 1:31:16
  You know, if it's Brooklyn, they're going to go Peterson
• 1:31:19
  most likely. If it's Washington, Washington
• 1:31:21
  is a little different there. I still think they go Deboncha
• 1:31:24
  or Peterson there. It's a toss up.
• 1:31:27
  A lot of people love Deboncha. I I like, I loved a bunch.
• 1:31:31
  I think he's amazing. He's very Kevin Durantish in his
• 1:31:33
  game, but he's not 611, you know what I mean?
• 1:31:36
  He can get to his spots, but he doesn't have that separation
• 1:31:40
  that Kevin Durant has when it comes to getting to his spots on
• 1:31:43
  the floor, right? So are they all great guys?
• 1:31:47
  All three are really good, good kids.
• 1:31:48
  Really, really good kids. This whole thing about Peterson
• 1:31:51
  and all this, he's injured like he's literally having issues
• 1:31:55
  with his body. Part of it is his fault.
• 1:31:56
  Part of it is just the fact that injuries happen and things like
• 1:31:59
  that happen, right? So if with an NBA team, you have
• 1:32:03
  to remember you have sleep doctors, you have hydration, you
• 1:32:06
  have PTS, you have these layers of people.
• 1:32:09
  So I'm not worried about Peterson at all.
• 1:32:11
  He was rarely hurt in high school too.
• 1:32:13
  He had a couple ankle sprains. His knee was, you know, hurt one
• 1:32:16
  of the times, but he was more like a growing pain thing
• 1:32:18
  because he grew another two inches between I think it was
• 1:32:21
  his junior and senior year high school.
• 1:32:22
  So I don't he doesn't have this huge like injury history, but
• 1:32:27
  Debancha is probably the most solid of everybody in terms of
• 1:32:30
  if you want that balance of scoring, high end talent, All
• 1:32:33
  Star caliber player, he's going to be an 8 time All Star.
• 1:32:36
  Like it's not like he sucks. You know what I mean?
• 1:32:38
  We're. We're we're literally.
• 1:32:39
  Pulling like just hairs off of these guys trying to figure out
• 1:32:43
  which one is better than the other.
• 1:32:45
  And then I think those three, they solidified themselves as as
• 1:32:48
  top three. And then you have the next one,
• 1:32:51
  which is, you know, I'm not a big like I love Kingston
• 1:32:53
  Flemings. I don't think he's in that
• 1:32:54
  second tier, but I do love Caleb Wilson.
• 1:32:57
  I love Acuff. Michael Brown is another one.
• 1:33:00
  Michael Brown, I don't know, whatever you want to call him,
• 1:33:02
  all those guys are in the next, you know, next kind of tier of
• 1:33:07
  players. So top three, you're probably
• 1:33:10
  getting a franchise player. Doesn't matter which one it is.
• 1:33:12
  You're probably very happy if you're the 3rd pick in the draft
• 1:33:16
  because then you don't have any of the pressure or the
• 1:33:18
  speculation of, oh, well, Devanche ended up being better
• 1:33:21
  than Peterson or Peterson ended up being up better than Boozer
• 1:33:23
  or Boozer was better. You know what I mean?
• 1:33:25
  You're just kind of like, well, we were third and we just took
• 1:33:27
  the best player on the board and we're just going to make it
• 1:33:29
  work. It's it's very hard to
• 1:33:32
  understand when you watch these guys and how can you predict
• 1:33:35
  what these guys are going to transition into with the NBA?
• 1:33:38
  Because we've seen a lot of great young players get drafted
• 1:33:41
  very, very high and do nothing. And, and unfortunately, the NBA
• 1:33:46
  is completely different. It's faster, they're more
• 1:33:47
  athletic, and they're just the best of the best.
• 1:33:50
  And that's where me and Quentin go back and forth because I look
• 1:33:54
  at all three of these guys and I am, I am a Duke fan.
• 1:33:57
  I am a Duke fan, but I've been watching Cambuser when he was in
• 1:34:00
  8th grade, just like I was watching Cooper flag.
• 1:34:02
  I understand all these guys are the best in their state, the
• 1:34:07
  best in the nation or whatever side of the nation they're from.
• 1:34:10
  The only problem I have with the Banjo is he's not a good
• 1:34:15
  three-point shooter. Now he can develop 1, he can
• 1:34:17
  develop one, but it's very, very hard when you're going into the
• 1:34:21
  NBA, unless you're Kobe Bryant, you're going to shoot like 203
• 1:34:24
  pointers in the morning, 203 pointers in the afternoon and
• 1:34:27
  203 pointers at night and, and wake up early in the morning.
• 1:34:31
  If the Banjo doesn't have that work ethic and I know he he
• 1:34:34
  wants to play 42 minutes. We heard this.
• 1:34:36
  There's a lot of back and forth of what who who he is and how
• 1:34:40
  hard of a work he is. The guy that I like is Cam
• 1:34:44
  because I watch his inside game. I I like his his his presence on
• 1:34:49
  the on the basketball court, his leadership with the Duke Blue
• 1:34:52
  Devils and his father, Carlos Boozer.
• 1:34:55
  We watched him play for Duke. We've watched him play.
• 1:34:58
  He was a good player. This kid is way better than his
• 1:35:00
  dad is his ability to shoot the ball.
• 1:35:03
  He could shoot the three. He can get inside.
• 1:35:05
  He can do all those things. And that's why I go back and
• 1:35:07
  forth with Quentin, because Quinton has his thoughts.
• 1:35:10
  He likes, I think he said he likes the banja.
• 1:35:12
  I, I like Boozer and I, I'm not worried.
• 1:35:16
  I think Peterson's probably the most talented out of all of
• 1:35:19
  them. I really do believe that with
• 1:35:21
  all around talent, I think if he could just play the game and not
• 1:35:24
  put himself out there, I think Peterson could be the best one
• 1:35:27
  out of all of them. But I worry about him because
• 1:35:30
  we've heard things off the court about what he has said to the
• 1:35:34
  coaching staff. There are there are some things
• 1:35:37
  that have been going on or repeatedly going on that he told
• 1:35:42
  the coach that he doesn't want to go back into the game.
• 1:35:44
  We've heard that. And here's another thing, you
• 1:35:47
  mentioned the other guys and you go back and forth with
• 1:35:51
  Fleming's. Flemings reminds me of Donovan
• 1:35:54
  Mitchell, a bigger version of Donovan Mitchell.
• 1:35:56
  He can play defense, he's a shutdown defender.
• 1:35:58
  And that's what Donovan Mitchell was when he was playing for
• 1:36:01
  Louisville. He was a he averaged 11 points.
• 1:36:04
  He wasn't considered a score. And that's why the Knicks
• 1:36:06
  decided to pass up on him. They made a mistake because it
• 1:36:09
  developed a shot when he came into the NBA with Utah and
• 1:36:12
  became a superstar. I look at Flemings.
• 1:36:15
  If he goes to the right place, if he develops that 3 point shot
• 1:36:19
  like Donovan Mitchell did, he's he's bigger, he's longer he and
• 1:36:22
  he can play. I think he could play the one.
• 1:36:24
  I think he could play the two. I think he's better off playing
• 1:36:26
  the two in the NBA. I mean, I, I, Kingston is, is
• 1:36:33
  interesting because I saw him. There's a tournament in Dallas
• 1:36:38
  every year for high school and Kingston was in it.
• 1:36:41
  So is Isidor Newman out of New Orleans.
• 1:36:43
  That's where Chris Senak went before he, you know, went to
• 1:36:48
  Missouri or you know, the link Academy in Missouri.
• 1:36:54
  And when I saw Kingston in junior year, I thought, man,
• 1:36:58
  this kids, he's good. Like he's he's he was a three
• 1:37:00
  star I think then and I'm like this, he's very good, crafty
• 1:37:03
  with the ball, can get up. You know, the two year leap on
• 1:37:07
  his development has been on in, in my opinion, it's some of the
• 1:37:10
  most unprecedented leaps you can get because most time guards
• 1:37:13
  like that are pretty much have a skill set by the time they get
• 1:37:16
  to be a senior in high school. And then they're just honing
• 1:37:19
  that craft, right? Whether you're a pick and roll
• 1:37:21
  point guard, whether you're a facilitator, you're a defender,
• 1:37:23
  whatever that is, you kind of like because you're not going to
• 1:37:26
  most likely grow anymore or get bigger, right?
• 1:37:28
  Kingston grew a little bit, but his body frame is still almost
• 1:37:32
  the same as it was. He's yeah, he's gotten a little
• 1:37:33
  stronger as I think everybody does as they get into,
• 1:37:36
  especially Houston. You know, you know, Calvin's not
• 1:37:39
  out there having those guys just jog around.
• 1:37:41
  Like those guys are working 24/7.
• 1:37:43
  And you know, Kingston, I actually see him more like Dee
• 1:37:48
  Aaron Fox, to be honest with you.
• 1:37:49
  Like that's the type of guy that I think Kingston is going to be
• 1:37:54
  like if he gets into a system that will let him do that, if he
• 1:37:57
  ends up somewhere that doesn't, then you might see a regression.
• 1:38:00
  And he's he's a, to me, he's hit or miss here in this draft.
• 1:38:04
  He's going to be a core guy for you.
• 1:38:06
  He's going to be a guy that's around for seven to 10 years and
• 1:38:09
  you're going to build, help build around.
• 1:38:11
  He's going to be like your Drew Holiday secondary type player.
• 1:38:13
  You know, like a Drew Holiday Prime player is like the best
• 1:38:16
  second or third option you could have on a team.
• 1:38:18
  Look what happened with Boston, right?
• 1:38:19
  He was what, the third option? And they were unbelievable with
• 1:38:22
  him. So somebody like that, I think
• 1:38:24
  that's more Kingston's flow there.
• 1:38:27
  But he got so much better at shooting the three.
• 1:38:29
  He was always crafty around the rim and he could always defend.
• 1:38:32
  He uses his IQ and he has a little bit of length to him.
• 1:38:34
  So Kingston's a big. I think he's just hit or miss
• 1:38:38
  though. I think he's either going to be
• 1:38:39
  one of those guys that is just a core guy or he becomes a career
• 1:38:42
  back IT backup like Tyus Jones, somebody like that that you
• 1:38:45
  know, that is a really good player and teams want that
• 1:38:48
  player, but he's just never going to stick in one place for
• 1:38:51
  a long. Time.
• 1:38:52
  So Acuff has gotten a lot of hype because of the tournament
• 1:38:55
  he's had so far, and obviously they beat Arizona tonight.
• 1:38:57
  He could definitely justify it even more.
• 1:39:00
  You look at an NBA executive now thinking maybe he could be a top
• 1:39:03
  five pick and there was someone saying I might take him over
• 1:39:05
  Peterson. With the Peterson having the
• 1:39:06
  injury concerns, what do you think his ceiling is as an NBA
• 1:39:09
  player and do you think there is top five potential for him?
• 1:39:12
  Petey, you're talking about my guy Acuff.
• 1:39:13
  I love Acuff. He was my favorite interview.
• 1:39:16
  So I did interviews with every lottery pick or it was like the
• 1:39:20
  top 1415 two years ago when they were juniors in high school.
• 1:39:24
  I did that on purpose because I wanted to, like I wanted to get
• 1:39:27
  them before they got inundated with PR and all agents and all
• 1:39:31
  that stuff, right? And Acuff was the best interview
• 1:39:36
  that I had. He is so intelligent and he's so
• 1:39:40
  high IQ and it was crazy because a lot of people thought he was
• 1:39:45
  this ball dominant point guard who just could score like a Team
• 1:39:49
  USA going into his junior year, I believe it was.
• 1:39:53
  They really thought that he was not going to make Team USA
• 1:39:57
  because he just dominated the ball the whole time.
• 1:39:58
  And it took him all this time to like understand that now that
• 1:40:02
  he's with Cal that he can get off of it and get it back and be
• 1:40:05
  way more effective. If you watch Arkansas throughout
• 1:40:07
  the year, he's gotten way better at getting off the ball, coming
• 1:40:11
  back to it within the set and then finishing up what he needs
• 1:40:14
  to do right. His shooting has gotten so much
• 1:40:16
  better than when it was at IMG. Like he was a volume contest guy
• 1:40:21
  at IMG his first year and. It was not very good and I even
• 1:40:25
  talked to him. It was nice of him.
• 1:40:26
  He actually asked me what can I do?
• 1:40:28
  Like if I'm going to get the NBA, what do I need to do?
• 1:40:30
  I said you need to shoot threes better.
• 1:40:31
  Like you take bad threes. And he's gotten so much better
• 1:40:35
  at contest off the pick and roll off, you know, off of secondary
• 1:40:38
  action. Like right there, they just ran
• 1:40:40
  twist on that highlight right there.
• 1:40:41
  Like all of those things like you're seeing him do, he's
• 1:40:44
  always finished. But if you look at his.
• 1:40:47
  Body now if you guys didn't notice his father played I
• 1:40:49
  believe at Detroit, University of Detroit.
• 1:40:52
  I think that's where it was. And he was a very different type
• 1:40:54
  of player and he has got more body to him than his dad had for
• 1:40:59
  him or that his dad had. And his body is one that you
• 1:41:03
  look for in an NBA point guard. You are looking for big, strong
• 1:41:07
  long guys who can get to the rim, who can shoot, but they can
• 1:41:11
  also facilitate off of this. And I think the way his like he,
• 1:41:15
  he plays so low sometimes that it's almost impossible with his
• 1:41:18
  strength for anybody to get a bump on him.
• 1:41:21
  So I think, you know, Acuff is, I think he's better than
• 1:41:25
  Kingston in this sense. I he's not in the top three.
• 1:41:28
  Let's just make sure we're all clear on that.
• 1:41:30
  Quentin's going to agree with me. 100 million that I can see
• 1:41:33
  already. I can see it already.
• 1:41:36
  And I actually think Acuff could be the 4th pick.
• 1:41:39
  They'll probably end up being the 5th or 6th but that's how
• 1:41:41
  deep if think about it this way. If Darius Acuff was in the draft
• 1:41:45
  last year, where would he go #1? He'd be the first pick he'd.
• 1:41:49
  Have been the second or third pick.
• 1:41:50
  Max flag was the number one pick regardless.
• 1:41:52
  You have to remember. That flag flag was supposed to
• 1:41:55
  be in this class. If everybody remembers he was in
• 1:41:58
  this class and then he reclassified to go in the one
• 1:42:01
  before this. Well, I was.
• 1:42:02
  I was guessing what you were going to say, I thought.
• 1:42:06
  Maybe a second? I'm a Cooper.
• 1:42:08
  I'm a Cooper Flag fan. Everybody knew I had Cooper Flag
• 1:42:11
  going one like 8 years ago when I watched him play high school
• 1:42:14
  ball. I was like, this guy's special,
• 1:42:16
  he's going to be the face of United States basketball.
• 1:42:18
  And I've gone back and forth and I know Q's got a question for
• 1:42:21
  you. I look at Cambuser and I look at
• 1:42:22
  Flag, you know. And could you have imagined if
• 1:42:25
  if Flag decided to play one more year with this Duke Blue Devil
• 1:42:28
  team, but that team right now, I mean, it, it would be
• 1:42:32
  ridiculous. And and that's the thing I'm I'm
• 1:42:35
  looking forward to seeing both these guys develop as NBA
• 1:42:37
  players and see how we can compare them in the future when
• 1:42:40
  it comes to playing college ball.
• 1:42:42
  And both maybe one wins a national champion and the other
• 1:42:45
  one, you know, fell short because of, you know, John
• 1:42:49
  Shire, as we all know because. You hate John Shire.
• 1:42:52
  I hear it all the time, but I listen.
• 1:42:53
  I can't stand John Shire. Why I can't stand him because I
• 1:42:57
  don't think he knows what he's doing.
• 1:42:58
  I I really don't. I think it's Coach K, Rudy
• 1:43:01
  recruiting these guys. He still lives in over there on
• 1:43:04
  the university, at the university House over there.
• 1:43:07
  He's he's always at the practices, He's always working
• 1:43:11
  out with the team. So, yeah, I think Coach K has a
• 1:43:13
  lot to do with some of the recruiting guys that they have
• 1:43:15
  over there. But I just don't like John.
• 1:43:18
  I I, it's not, not to hate on him.
• 1:43:20
  I just, I never saw him as, oh, that's the guy I want to run the
• 1:43:25
  team. After Coach K stepped down, I
• 1:43:27
  wanted Bobby Hurley. That's who I wanted.
• 1:43:30
  I and everybody says, well, what?
• 1:43:32
  Bobby Hurley just got fired. Look at the program, look at the
• 1:43:35
  program he was coaching at. If he was over there with Duke,
• 1:43:39
  he'd still get the recruiting class that John Shire has.
• 1:43:42
  So that was my argument. I think Bobby Hurley's had he's
• 1:43:46
  been kicked in about too many times.
• 1:43:48
  That's all I'm going to say. Got top three right, so an ideal
• 1:43:51
  mock draft situation. Me personally, I think Kim
• 1:43:55
  Boozer is more of a system guy. I think it's something that you
• 1:43:59
  mentioned earlier, whatever, where I feel like AJ has the
• 1:44:03
  versatility and he's a wing and you can kind of place them in
• 1:44:06
  places to make him exceed and be great at it.
• 1:44:09
  And a mock draft. Where were you watching?
• 1:44:10
  To Indiana and whoever who else will be there will be thirteen
• 1:44:14
  that we can just say. Yeah, Sacramento.
• 1:44:19
  Well. That would be.
• 1:44:23
  Atlanta, So give me those top three in regards to who you
• 1:44:27
  would see fit best with this that they got going on because
• 1:44:30
  AJ wouldn't fit with Indiana, right because they got password
• 1:44:33
  to it wouldn't make sense. He's good enough, I mean.
• 1:44:38
  Yeah, but. System players.
• 1:44:40
  You've been on teams with great players, sometimes great
• 1:44:42
  players. You make the system right, You
• 1:44:44
  don't. It's like it doesn't change
• 1:44:46
  between sports if you have a A. *.
• 1:44:50
  You're going to like if you have Cam Newton, you are going to
• 1:44:52
  make the team around Cam Newton. Let's just be real.
• 1:44:54
  You know, make those adjustments.
• 1:44:56
  Yeah, now I I think it's more fit and yeah, Indiana, let's
• 1:44:59
  just say Indiana goes one. I do think they actually go
• 1:45:02
  boozer. I if the the thing with Peterson
• 1:45:05
  is Peterson has such a high ceiling like.
• 1:45:08
  He could be. Just under Kobe Bryant.
• 1:45:10
  Good, In my opinion, as long as he's working, doing, being
• 1:45:14
  healthy, doing what he's, you know, everything kind of goes
• 1:45:16
  right. Remember, Kobe wasn't always.
• 1:45:18
  Healthy. No, he wasn't.
• 1:45:19
  He wasn't. He wasn't, no, he, he had
• 1:45:21
  checked to ride on for the first few years till he matured, got
• 1:45:24
  better at his body. I mean, he was 18 years old and
• 1:45:26
  he was out here competing, which is great.
• 1:45:28
  So Peterson by far has the highest ceiling.
• 1:45:31
  Like he's a guy who could be a Hall of Famer first ballot.
• 1:45:34
  Like you could win 3 championships, 4 championships
• 1:45:37
  with the guy. Like, that's the talent that he
• 1:45:39
  has. So if Indiana wants to go that
• 1:45:42
  route, that means they're saying it's Halliburton Peterson, and
• 1:45:46
  then they're going to try to figure out Mathrin and his
• 1:45:49
  money, right? But then your front court is
• 1:45:51
  absolutely gutted. You're going to be playing, you
• 1:45:54
  know, you're going to try to be gluing pieces of paper into the
• 1:45:58
  cement wall, trying to figure out your front court because now
• 1:46:01
  you got to go against Boozer the rest of your career and you
• 1:46:03
  still got Jokage out there and you know what I mean?
• 1:46:06
  Still got sanguine. You got all these other guys
• 1:46:08
  that you're going to have to play eventually, you know?
• 1:46:11
  So, yeah, if it's Indiana, I think I think Boozer is the best
• 1:46:13
  pick for them. If it's Sacre, let's say it's
• 1:46:17
  Utah, for example, right? Utah's a big wild card here.
• 1:46:21
  Danny loves talent. That's Danny's.
• 1:46:23
  Danny Age's big thing is he loves talent.
• 1:46:27
  Like if you're a dude who just is, is talented like Jaylen
• 1:46:29
  Brown was or Tatum or anybody like that, Danny is all about
• 1:46:33
  he's just going to go for you immediately, right?
• 1:46:35
  So for him it's Peterson. It's Peterson or bust right
• 1:46:39
  there because the talent's so high.
• 1:46:40
  And but if you get to Washington, what is Washington
• 1:46:43
  going to do now? Now you have Anthony Davis, you
• 1:46:45
  have all these other pieces, you have Trey Young, like how does
• 1:46:49
  that all work? I think they I think they go to
• 1:46:51
  Bancha if it's Washington, you know what I mean?
• 1:46:53
  Like it's a. Better thing.
• 1:46:54
  In that in that grouping now, yeah, obviously a DS at the end
• 1:46:57
  of his career, Trey Young probably is 3 to 4 years Max of
• 1:47:01
  where he's at, you know, where in terms of like peak.
• 1:47:04
  But like Sacramento, Sacramento, I think they go to Bancha just
• 1:47:08
  the way that their teams built, you know, But then if you have a
• 1:47:11
  wild card, let's just say Atlanta, you know, let's just
• 1:47:15
  say the Pelicans start sliding again and Atlanta ends up with
• 1:47:18
  the number one pick. They're probably going Peterson,
• 1:47:21
  right? They're probably going with.
• 1:47:22
  The most talent, yeah. So the draft, the rule of the
• 1:47:26
  draft is you always go for the best projected talent, the best
• 1:47:31
  talent. How good is that guy going to be
• 1:47:33
  in six years when that second contract is up?
• 1:47:37
  You know, that's the big thing. You have 7 years to rent.
• 1:47:39
  In essence, you're renting a guy for seven years and hopefully he
• 1:47:42
  sticks because you're winning, right?
• 1:47:43
  Like that's the whole thing. And then how much trade value
• 1:47:46
  does he have in year 6? Those are the two things that
• 1:47:48
  you really look at in terms of, you know, the draft.
• 1:47:51
  You hear that arrow, you hear that potential.
• 1:47:53
  You know, I was trying to tell you that before.
• 1:47:56
  Potential. Potential doesn't sell anything.
• 1:47:59
  Potential doesn't sell me any you.
• 1:48:00
  Just had a great tell us this, OK?
• 1:48:02
  Remember Markel? Remember Markel's faults?
• 1:48:04
  Remember him? Oh, potential.
• 1:48:06
  Look at the potential. So the guy couldn't hit a free
• 1:48:08
  throw. So please stop it.
• 1:48:10
  He's talking about Mark. You want to hear the Markel
• 1:48:12
  Fultz story? Error.
• 1:48:13
  Let's hear it. So, so Danny Ainge, you know,
• 1:48:16
  this is I, I think Danny's really smart.
• 1:48:19
  The story goes that Danny had Markel Fultz come in and they
• 1:48:24
  went for a walk around the facility around, But I don't
• 1:48:28
  know if it's town. I don't know if they were at TD
• 1:48:30
  Yard anyways, and there was a team Doctor Who trailed them and
• 1:48:35
  Markell did not know that the doctor was trailing them.
• 1:48:38
  And the doctor was watching how Markell Fultz walked and turned
• 1:48:42
  corners and how he stopped at stop signs, etcetera, etcetera,
• 1:48:46
  etcetera, to find like they because they knew about the foot
• 1:48:49
  injury, they knew about the stuff that was going on with
• 1:48:51
  him. And so they they walked I guess
• 1:48:53
  like a mile, mile and a half, something like that.
• 1:48:56
  And the doctors then told Danny, you cannot draft this guy.
• 1:49:00
  He's going to have foot and ankle problems his whole career.
• 1:49:03
  And they literally took a picture of him and Danny and
• 1:49:06
  both of Markelle Fultz's feet were pointed out like this.
• 1:49:09
  And Danny went done and he, and that's when he traded and he got
• 1:49:14
  Jalen. I think it was Jalen Brown.
• 1:49:16
  Yeah. Jalen Brown at 3:00 and that
• 1:49:18
  story, that's one of the most resonating stories of Danny
• 1:49:20
  Ainge that I can remember. Crazy.
• 1:49:22
  Like that's the stuff. Like that's like mad scientist.
• 1:49:25
  Stuff. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:49:26
  So the cool, good, good Markelle Fultz shout out by the way.
• 1:49:31
  I like to throw curveballs. We are talking to president of
• 1:49:33
  Scout Central and former Pelicans executive Dan Purcell,
• 1:49:36
  a friend of the Show, 1 of the Smarter basketball knowledgeable
• 1:49:40
  guys when it comes to college athletes and who you're going to
• 1:49:44
  draft in these drafts. This is the guy you go to if you
• 1:49:47
  want to have, if you have questions about a talent OR a
• 1:49:50
  certain person or player that is coming out of the draft and even
• 1:49:53
  in the future. Because he told me 2026 and 27
• 1:49:58
  are two really good drafts. So even next year, I think you
• 1:50:00
  told me that 2027 is going to be a big one as well.
• 1:50:04
  But I wanted to get into the Knicks and to me, a lot of
• 1:50:09
  people are questioning the team at the Celtics.
• 1:50:12
  They got Tatum back and right now the Tatum and the Celtics
• 1:50:16
  are in that second spot, but not by much.
• 1:50:19
  And even if the Knicks get the two and and the Celtics are the
• 1:50:22
  three, this is how it really felt last year.
• 1:50:25
  The Celtics play too. They have homecourt advantage.
• 1:50:28
  The Knicks play them in the second round.
• 1:50:29
  So we know how this is all going to fall.
• 1:50:32
  But I think the Knicks are a little bit better of a team this
• 1:50:34
  year. I think they're better coached.
• 1:50:36
  And I'm not taking shots at Tom Thibodeau.
• 1:50:38
  I love Tom. He's a New York guy.
• 1:50:40
  He's he's from the Connecticut area.
• 1:50:42
  He grew up in Nick Fan. So I love Tom Thibodeau and I'm
• 1:50:44
  not taking shots at him, but Mike Brown, to me, as long as
• 1:50:48
  he's not shaking people's hands or smiling at the opposing teams
• 1:50:52
  when they they lose, I like Mike Brown.
• 1:50:54
  I think he's coached his team very, very well this year.
• 1:50:57
  He's taking a Cavalier team to the Finals.
• 1:50:59
  Yes, they lost, but he took him there.
• 1:51:01
  He was good with Sacramento until he got fired.
• 1:51:03
  I think to me he's a kind of a different well-rounded coach and
• 1:51:08
  I think that he's getting these guys to start to buy in.
• 1:51:11
  Look at Karl Anthony Towns in the last couple of weeks.
• 1:51:13
  He's buying in OG Ananobi, even though a lot of people think
• 1:51:17
  he's an up and down type of player.
• 1:51:19
  He's a great two way player. He's probably one of the best
• 1:51:21
  perimeter defenders the NBA has. And then you have Mikhail
• 1:51:25
  Bridges. Even though the Knicks gave up
• 1:51:27
  five first round draft picks, I still think Mikhail Bridges is
• 1:51:30
  going to play a big part if the Knicks are going to win a
• 1:51:32
  championship. What do you think the Knicks
• 1:51:35
  need to win a championship going into the playoffs this year?
• 1:51:39
  Health. That's it.
• 1:51:41
  The Knicks have everything you need in a team to come out of
• 1:51:44
  the East now. Can they win it all?
• 1:51:47
  That's if you have San Antonio or OKC sitting on the other
• 1:51:51
  side. I'm not sure that anybody is
• 1:51:52
  going to beat them. Those are the two best teams in
• 1:51:54
  the league in my. So that's just beat OKC last
• 1:51:56
  night by team. So good.
• 1:51:58
  The Knicks beat that. Knicks kicks the crap out of the
• 1:52:00
  Spurs both times. One, they won the Cup that.
• 1:52:02
  Doesn't mean the Spurs are young.
• 1:52:03
  We're not. We are.
• 1:52:04
  They just March 20. Six in the South, like the
• 1:52:07
  Spurs, are pretty much locked up where they are going to be.
• 1:52:11
  Dan Dan Quitney is a he has a love fest for the South.
• 1:52:15
  Yeah, it's my team. I.
• 1:52:16
  Just said it is a love fetish. Nothing wrong with it.
• 1:52:18
  Well, he should be excited like they just got their best player
• 1:52:21
  back. Like they you should be excited
• 1:52:23
  now the the Boston is very, very good still, right?
• 1:52:28
  Like it's not like they're bad. They weren't bad before.
• 1:52:30
  Front court depth is going to be an issue as it comes down to
• 1:52:33
  this, you know, and let's just say Celtics make it to the
• 1:52:36
  finals. They have 0 answer for Wemby or
• 1:52:39
  Chet. They don't have any.
• 1:52:40
  They don't have anything for those guys.
• 1:52:42
  And that ultimately in A7 game series is your difference
• 1:52:45
  between if the New York, if the Knicks can win the finals or
• 1:52:49
  not. I don't think they could win the
• 1:52:51
  Finals if those two teams are there.
• 1:52:53
  Now if there's a random team that beat them or nothing
• 1:52:56
  happened or there's injuries, absolutely the Knicks could be a
• 1:52:58
  favorite. But with those two teams
• 1:53:00
  standing in the way, the front court depth of both of those
• 1:53:03
  teams is just going to be way too much in A7 game series for
• 1:53:07
  the Knicks. Now can the Knicks go to the
• 1:53:08
  Finals 100%? Would I want to be in the Garden
• 1:53:11
  for game three of the NBA Finals?
• 1:53:13
  Oh hell yeah. Give me the Garden that anytime
• 1:53:16
  you want to talk about maybe the greatest basketball game you
• 1:53:19
  could be a part of. Game three tied at 1:00.
• 1:53:23
  Oh my God, in the garden. Oh my gosh, that would go crazy.
• 1:53:27
  Insane and. Then, and here's another thing.
• 1:53:29
  And I, I, I go back and forth and I argue my points.
• 1:53:32
  I've been on in a couple of Nick's shows.
• 1:53:33
  They've asked me to come on and, and, and I've gone back and
• 1:53:36
  forth with Quran, shout out to Quran.
• 1:53:38
  So I, I understand the Nick fans are dedicated fans, but you have
• 1:53:43
  to be honest with yourselves. And to me, the secret of the
• 1:53:46
  Nick's success going into the playoffs is you got to use Karl
• 1:53:51
  Anthony Towns more offensively. If he disappears in the series,
• 1:53:56
  the Knicks don't have a chance. They don't have a chance.
• 1:53:58
  They could beat Detroit. Detroit, Cunningham, he's not
• 1:54:02
  healthy. We don't know if he's going to
• 1:54:04
  be 100% in the playoffs. So I'm not worried about
• 1:54:07
  Detroit. The Celtics are the team that I
• 1:54:08
  worry about, the Cavaliers. I'm not really worried about
• 1:54:12
  James Harden. I he doesn't play well in the
• 1:54:14
  playoffs. The guys are a hit or miss in
• 1:54:16
  the playoffs. And then even the teams below,
• 1:54:18
  below the Cavaliers, I just, I don't trust any of those teams.
• 1:54:22
  I, I look at the Celtics, they are dangerous.
• 1:54:24
  I think Jalen Brown is their best player I've I've watched
• 1:54:28
  Taylor Brown in his development. You're not smart.
• 1:54:31
  Now, well that's that's your opinion, but guess what?
• 1:54:34
  They're both. Great, let's not.
• 1:54:36
  They're both, yeah. Either one could be the best
• 1:54:38
  player. I'm not.
• 1:54:39
  Smart, Quentin. You're going to tell me, Jason?
• 1:54:42
  About about about this this particular OK position that you
• 1:54:47
  take not missing. I'm going to, I'm going to
• 1:54:49
  attack your position. Let's go and.
• 1:54:51
  Tell you why you're wrong. Jaylen Brown is a two way
• 1:54:55
  player. He is by far their best
• 1:54:57
  defensive player on that. Run.
• 1:54:58
  By far, he could play multiple positions.
• 1:55:00
  Jason Tatum's a good defender. He's not an elite defender.
• 1:55:03
  Jaylen Brown, he has turned into an elite defender and he can
• 1:55:07
  score. He's averaging what, 27 points?
• 1:55:10
  I mean, the guy is the he's one of the best two way players in
• 1:55:12
  the NBA. So when I look and I love Jason
• 1:55:15
  Tatum, he's a Duke Blue Devil. So he's in my heart.
• 1:55:17
  I can't stand the Celtics, but I love Jason Tatum to go out there
• 1:55:21
  and tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about.
• 1:55:23
  Well, look at the development. Look at the development.
• 1:55:26
  And here's another thing about Jalen Brown that people don't
• 1:55:28
  understand. This guy could have signed with
• 1:55:30
  Nike. He could have signed with Nike
• 1:55:32
  instead, this man said. You know what?
• 1:55:34
  I'm going. To create my own.
• 1:55:35
  Shoe, I'm going to create my own style.
• 1:55:38
  I'm going to create my own fashion.
• 1:55:40
  That's something that's that I look at Jaylen and Jaylen Brown
• 1:55:43
  is by far the smartest player on that roster.
• 1:55:46
  He is such a very smart basketball player.
• 1:55:49
  So I look at both guys and if you were to ask me right now,
• 1:55:53
  who am I building my team around now, especially with the
• 1:55:56
  Achilles tear, it's that man right there, Jaylen Brown, who
• 1:55:59
  always is healthy, always. Two points right here.
• 1:56:03
  If if the guy that I'm guarding is averaging 30 points, would
• 1:56:06
  you say I'll go good defender? Yes.
• 1:56:08
  OK, so This is why I say that you're not here.
• 1:56:11
  There's no way in the in the world that you can sit here and
• 1:56:15
  say that someone who is putting up 30 points a game is being in
• 1:56:19
  the defender, is an elite defender.
• 1:56:23
  You're wrong. You're wrong, and I'm going to
• 1:56:25
  tell you why. OG Nanobi OG and Nanobi defended
• 1:56:29
  Shay Alexander. Did he score 30 points in that
• 1:56:31
  game? Did he?
• 1:56:33
  You was just talking. About Jaylen Brown, you said you
• 1:56:36
  just said it. You just.
• 1:56:37
  Said it. Did you not say that?
• 1:56:39
  Did you not say that? You said if you're defending him
• 1:56:42
  and he scores 30 points, is that does that make you an elite
• 1:56:44
  defender? OG and Nanobi is an elite
• 1:56:46
  defender and he played Shay Alexander.
• 1:56:49
  He defended him 90% of the time and he still scored 30.
• 1:56:52
  So you're going to tell me that that's your argument, that's
• 1:56:55
  what you're throwing, That's what you're trying to make
• 1:56:57
  stick. Come on.
• 1:56:58
  Dude, come on, stop. Come on, get his job done.
• 1:57:01
  Get out of that's what is it. Someone is going 30 on you, get
• 1:57:05
  out of you. That means you're not getting.
• 1:57:07
  Consistently, who scored? Consistently on it.
• 1:57:10
  You can't outweigh that based on who is scoring 30.
• 1:57:13
  Points consistently against Jaylen Brown.
• 1:57:16
  Give me one. Give me one, Give me one.
• 1:57:19
  Yeah, give it. Give me.
• 1:57:20
  You watch the Celtics all the time.
• 1:57:21
  Tell me. Tell me.
• 1:57:25
  Everybody. Don't.
• 1:57:26
  Don't give me these everybody either.
• 1:57:28
  You asked for the answer and I gave you.
• 1:57:34
  I gave you two. I'm not going to keep going down
• 1:57:36
  the whole list. Wait a second.
• 1:57:41
  I love Jaylen Brown. No, you think he's a good
• 1:57:43
  defender. However, when someone scores 30
• 1:57:46
  points on you, that doesn't mean that you're a great defender.
• 1:57:49
  That doesn't mean that you should be held at an elite level
• 1:57:52
  in defense when the star player is scoring 30 points because
• 1:57:55
  you're going to knock Jayden and Jason Tatum for not guarding the
• 1:57:59
  greatest player, but his player ain't getting 30 points neither.
• 1:58:02
  So that's that. So two players who are probably
• 1:58:05
  two of the most elite offensive players you.
• 1:58:07
  Asked for one and I gave you 2. You're wrong.
• 1:58:10
  That is a terrible take. That's a terrible argument you.
• 1:58:13
  Luke. Luke and his scores are doing.
• 1:58:18
  That from somebody who like broke this down for years.
• 1:58:22
  Neither of if you were wrong, by the way, like I hate to pray.
• 1:58:25
  I know we're sitting here going you actually both of you are
• 1:58:27
  absolutely right because like there's there's something in the
• 1:58:30
  chat. Kevin Durant can get 30 on
• 1:58:32
  anybody any night. Yep, he sure can Steph can get
• 1:58:34
  30 any night. It doesn't matter who's guarding
• 1:58:36
  him right, But there are times in the playoffs where you need
• 1:58:40
  Jalen to score 30 and then he needs to guard SGA and SGA just
• 1:58:44
  needs to score 22 and Jalen can help with those 3 to 4
• 1:58:47
  possessions of doing that. So there's it's it's a it's a,
• 1:58:50
  it's a, it's a slippery slope of like this argument of they're
• 1:58:54
  both super valuable, both of those guys.
• 1:58:56
  Now if I have to pick OGOG or Jaylen Brown, I'm taking Jaylen
• 1:58:59
  Brown not even thinking. So that's when you start getting
• 1:59:02
  into comparables right between now we start breaking down
• 1:59:05
  defensive positions. So we're talking about OG
• 1:59:08
  bridges. Like, we can go on and on about
• 1:59:10
  guys who can, you know, you could talk about Herb Jones at
• 1:59:13
  that point if we're talking about, you know, defenders.
• 1:59:15
  But neither of you are wrong. I love this argument, but you
• 1:59:19
  literally neither of you are wrong in this argument at all.
• 1:59:22
  My thing is that it just trying to take a shot at Jason because
• 1:59:25
  he you know that he's just elite two way defender and it's like,
• 1:59:30
  OK, well, the guy that I'm supposed to be stopping is
• 1:59:33
  consistently scored 30 or I can defend, but I'm just not the
• 1:59:37
  elite defender that you're trying to prop up the beat.
• 1:59:40
  And that's what I'm saying. And then you don't consider
• 1:59:41
  Jason Tatum defense in the offensive rebounds.
• 1:59:44
  You don't consider that he's almost averaging a triple double
• 1:59:47
  and you're going to tell me that Jaylen Brown is the best player
• 1:59:49
  on the team. He is just makes no sense.
• 1:59:51
  He is the best player on the. Team, He's a great asset and I'm
• 1:59:55
  glad they don't let people like you influence the.
• 1:59:58
  People like me, people like you who's absolutely gullible and
• 2:00:02
  blind. OK, you're going to tell me
• 2:00:05
  right now when you watch the Celtics religiously, and I watch
• 2:00:08
  a lot of Celtics games and I love Jayson Tatum, I couldn't
• 2:00:12
  stand Jaylen Brown. Anybody that listens to this
• 2:00:14
  show, when he was drafted, I was watching the draft.
• 2:00:17
  When they draft, I said who? Jaylen Brown?
• 2:00:20
  That's the way. That's the place they're going
• 2:00:22
  in the draft. And I laughed at, I said this
• 2:00:24
  guy's not going to be anything. His development has been
• 2:00:27
  absolutely. So impressive and compared to
• 2:00:31
  Jason Tatum, who I already knew was going to be special.
• 2:00:33
  I watched him play for Duke. He's long, He's talented,
• 2:00:36
  athletically gifted. Jaylen Brown is on a whole
• 2:00:40
  nother level, my friend. A whole nother level.
• 2:00:43
  He that's the thing that everybody talks about is Joe
• 2:00:47
  Missoula putting them in the right position.
• 2:00:51
  I know you don't like them and Sam over there.
• 2:00:53
  They're coaching their tails off over there, putting these guys
• 2:00:56
  in excellent positions and and really doing a great job in in
• 2:01:00
  in regards to detail. Don't worry, quit.
• 2:01:01
  And he still likes it more than John Shire.
• 2:01:03
  I do. I like Masood, OK, Yeah, yeah,
• 2:01:05
  you definitely like it more than that.
• 2:01:06
  I. Definitely.
• 2:01:09
  Do. Yes, yes.
• 2:01:10
  I wanted to get your take on the Will Wade situation.
• 2:01:15
  This is this is as time keeps going on.
• 2:01:19
  I had to ask you today. I was so excited that I was
• 2:01:22
  coming on to talk to you about this today because like it
• 2:01:24
  happened all today, like literally in real time in the
• 2:01:27
  last six hours. Do you what have you know for
• 2:01:30
  what you know about it? I got to know what you think
• 2:01:33
  about. So so tell me exactly I heard
• 2:01:35
  some things on I don't watch a lot of.
• 2:01:37
  This is huge. This is unprecedented.
• 2:01:39
  So what is it saying Will? So will Wade.
• 2:01:42
  So, OK, the administrators that were at McNeese State, that's
• 2:01:46
  when Will Wade, that's in Lake Charles, LA, on the border of
• 2:01:50
  Texas in Louisiana. So remember, he took them into
• 2:01:53
  the Sweet 16, I think, or I'm sorry, into the NCAA Tournament
• 2:01:57
  twice, 2. Years in a row.
• 2:01:58
  Yeah, yeah, three. Sorry.
• 2:01:59
  Yeah, The administrators for McNeese are now in charge at
• 2:02:04
  LSU. So this job is not open.
• 2:02:09
  By the way, it was not open. The old coach, I forgot his
• 2:02:13
  name. He's a nice guy.
• 2:02:13
  I I forget his name, nice guy. Whatever.
• 2:02:16
  He was not winning, right? And they just were like
• 2:02:18
  wholesale changing, Will Wade said a week ago, a week ago, I'm
• 2:02:22
  not going anywhere instead, you know, and that's you normal
• 2:02:25
  talk, right? But the guys got hired at from,
• 2:02:29
  at from Mcneeson to LSU, right? Will Wade got a 1.7 or $1.6
• 2:02:34
  million a year raise. He's up to 4 million now.
• 2:02:37
  And LSU gave him $10 million for NIL slash staff slash, whatever
• 2:02:43
  he wants to use it for. I think it's double what NC
• 2:02:46
  State was going to give. Or maybe it was, you know, 40.
• 2:02:48
  Percent got rid of their coach to hire Wade.
• 2:02:51
  And then they fired Matt. I think his name was Matt.
• 2:02:54
  Fired. Him.
• 2:02:54
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they fired him on the spot
• 2:02:59
  and they didn't interview anybody.
• 2:03:01
  There was nobody. This was not a job that you
• 2:03:03
  could even interview for. And you know, there's rules in
• 2:03:06
  the NCAA where you have to, you have to.
• 2:03:09
  So there's there might be lawsuits coming out on top of
• 2:03:12
  this for what is going on because they just stole him from
• 2:03:15
  NC State. And then his agent, Errol, get
• 2:03:17
  this, his agent sent sent the president an e-mail saying Will
• 2:03:24
  Wade's going to LSU, by the way, no face to face, no talk, no
• 2:03:28
  counter, nothing. It was gone.
• 2:03:32
  It is unprecedented. It really isn't.
• 2:03:34
  You want me to tell you why it is?
• 2:03:36
  Because I can tell you right now, Pitino wouldn't do this,
• 2:03:40
  John Shire wouldn't do that. I'm not I'm.
• 2:03:43
  Just saying. I'm just saying like.
• 2:03:44
  You can't do that. I'm not surprised that this is
• 2:03:47
  happening in LSU because something happened in football
• 2:03:51
  this year with LSU Tigers. As we all know, Lane Kiffin just
• 2:03:56
  magically got a job over there at LSU, walked away from a
• 2:04:01
  championship team, A-Team that probably wins a national
• 2:04:04
  championship if he doesn't leave.
• 2:04:06
  That's the problem right now. LSU has their hand up
• 2:04:09
  everybody's skirt. That's what they're doing.
• 2:04:11
  They're, they're just fiddling whatever you want to fiddle
• 2:04:14
  under the skirt and, and they're making sure that she's having a
• 2:04:18
  little bit of fun. And, and to me right now, when
• 2:04:20
  you hear a story like that, it's just like Lane Kiffin.
• 2:04:23
  Lane Kiffin was making money. He was making money as the team
• 2:04:28
  was moving forward in the tournament.
• 2:04:30
  And he's laughing. He's laughing to the bank.
• 2:04:32
  I don't care. They're not winning the national
• 2:04:33
  championship. There's no way they're going to
• 2:04:35
  beat Indiana. There's no way they're going to
• 2:04:37
  go through this team and that team and they as far as they
• 2:04:39
  went, he was making money. And now you're hearing, I'm, I'm
• 2:04:42
  just hearing this story and Wade gets this job.
• 2:04:45
  He gets $10 million of NIL deals, which is enormous.
• 2:04:49
  You can you, you could do so much with that, so much with
• 2:04:52
  that. As a matter of fact, recruiting
• 2:04:53
  players should be no problem next year for LSU because they
• 2:04:57
  could just throw that money into it.
• 2:04:58
  So. They go use it up.
• 2:05:00
  Oh, there definitely. Are Will's going to spend that?
• 2:05:02
  I can guarantee you. Every dot.
• 2:05:05
  And also do a better job than Mark Pope did at Kentucky with
• 2:05:07
  22 million. That's true too.
• 2:05:08
  I, I forgot about that one too. But it seems like LSU is in
• 2:05:12
  between all these stories, stealing coaches and making sure
• 2:05:16
  that these coaches, and by the way, they promised Lane Kiffin
• 2:05:19
  more money to go to LSU for NIL deals.
• 2:05:23
  So. 200, yeah. And Lake Kiffin's one of the
• 2:05:26
  highest paid coaches in college. College football now.
• 2:05:30
  Because. Because a lot of the money in
• 2:05:32
  Baton Rouge, apparently we're not.
• 2:05:34
  A lot of money. I'm only an hour from Baton
• 2:05:36
  Rouge and I'm not in on this money.
• 2:05:38
  I wish I was in on it you. Got to go up the road, you got
• 2:05:41
  to go. Up the road, Errol's just
• 2:05:42
  waiting for them to try to build up to the next level where they
• 2:05:45
  give any more lucrative deal to John Shire.
• 2:05:47
  Please, I do when, when and I'll say this with John Shire and I
• 2:05:52
  and A lot of people, they attacked me.
• 2:05:54
  I wrote a story about John Shire, comparing him to JJ
• 2:05:56
  Redick and and and I put a really and listen, Dan, I get, I
• 2:05:59
  definitely get. AJ such a bad coach.
• 2:06:02
  I know, I know. And I hate JJ too though, that's
• 2:06:05
  the crazy thing. I hate JJ too, but that that's a
• 2:06:08
  whole nother story and it's not because I the problem here is
• 2:06:11
  when I look at these two coaches is Shire got his job because he
• 2:06:15
  kisses Coach K's ass. That's that's why he was there
• 2:06:19
  kissing his ass for the last couple of years.
• 2:06:21
  I'll sit the bench. I'll learn unto you and I'm
• 2:06:24
  going to get this job. JJ Redick kissed Lebron's ass,
• 2:06:27
  the LJA, the LeBron James Association, and what did they
• 2:06:30
  do? They work on a podcast.
• 2:06:32
  His guy has no coaching experience at all, ladies and
• 2:06:36
  gentlemen, none. He's never even coached Payrie
• 2:06:39
  basketball. He played the game.
• 2:06:41
  The LeBron. James.
• 2:06:43
  Associate. Associate is crazy.
• 2:06:47
  You got to copyright that. I, I just, I, I sit here today
• 2:06:54
  and I, I watch the way the NBA works now it, it's become, it's
• 2:06:59
  a players league. So if let's say Wembi Yami, you
• 2:07:01
  know, I, I, we know where Giannis is going next year.
• 2:07:04
  It's not even, it's not even debatable.
• 2:07:06
  Where's he going? He's going to the Knicks next
• 2:07:08
  year. There's no.
• 2:07:09
  Doubt in my mind. There's no doubt in my mind.
• 2:07:11
  What are you talking about? They don't have enough.
• 2:07:14
  Good enough? The the Knicks, unless they pull
• 2:07:17
  the LSU. Yeah, you better find some NIL
• 2:07:20
  money to. Trust me, the Knicks, if Giannis
• 2:07:24
  wants to go to the Knicks, they'll make it work.
• 2:07:26
  They'll make it work. Y'all are going to hate me when
• 2:07:28
  I tell you that he's going to OK, see, next year y'all are
• 2:07:30
  going to be mad at me, right? I'd be very interested to see if
• 2:07:33
  he goes OK. See, I think it'll work, but I
• 2:07:36
  think it'll be great. Oh, they have so many picks it
• 2:07:37
  doesn't matter. No, I say yeah.
• 2:07:39
  I don't think it'll work, but I think it'll be great for the I.
• 2:07:42
  Mean they trade Jay well you had the other Jay Wells yeah and you
• 2:07:47
  got well no, you probably don't need to put Chet in there I mean
• 2:07:49
  Jay Wells enough to. Give me draft picks.
• 2:07:51
  So yeah, then you just load them with draft picks, like the most
• 2:07:53
  draft picks I. Wanted to tell you guys that JJ
• 2:07:56
  Redick I have no disrespect for JJ Redick, I really don't.
• 2:08:00
  I I thought he was a good six man when he played in the NBA.
• 2:08:04
  Pretty good 3 point shooter. Overrated when he was drafted.
• 2:08:07
  Never liked him in Duke. He shot too many threes.
• 2:08:10
  Never. It just wasn't a guy that I say,
• 2:08:12
  oh, that's the guy I want to build my national championship
• 2:08:14
  team around. OK, that's the fact.
• 2:08:16
  Now JJ Reddick, he has no clue. No clue when he's on his
• 2:08:22
  podcast. I listen to that podcast a lot
• 2:08:25
  and I I listen to Steve. I like Steve Nash.
• 2:08:27
  I think Steve Nash would be the what the Nets did to him was
• 2:08:30
  pathetic. I didn't like the way the.
• 2:08:32
  Next, they're not very smart. OK, I I don't it was because of
• 2:08:36
  a lot of different players on that roster too, but I, I look.
• 2:08:39
  At. Yeah, it was it was absolutely,
• 2:08:41
  I'm going to tell you this, Steve Nash might be the next
• 2:08:44
  coach of the Phoenix Suns. I and I believe that might
• 2:08:46
  happen. So if if Phoenix decides to part
• 2:08:49
  ways with with whoever they decide to part way, I could see
• 2:08:52
  Steve Nash taking that job. But because he has that that
• 2:08:55
  background behind, you know, the Suns organization.
• 2:08:58
  Yeah. So, but my, my argument here is
• 2:09:01
  I watched JJ Reddick and I I remember him as a player.
• 2:09:04
  I met JJ Reddick three years into his NBA career.
• 2:09:08
  Very, very nice guy. He really is.
• 2:09:10
  He's a sweetheart as an NBA coach for the LA Lakers, one of
• 2:09:14
  the greatest historical teams in professional sports.
• 2:09:18
  You get the job because the LJA vouch for you and put you out
• 2:09:23
  there and say, you know what? I don't want this guy.
• 2:09:25
  I don't want that guy. Danny Hurley.
• 2:09:27
  Danny Hurley didn't take that job.
• 2:09:28
  The story came out because of Tom Izzo.
• 2:09:31
  That came out because Tom said stay in college, don't go to
• 2:09:34
  that organization. He's going to kill you and
• 2:09:36
  you're going to probably quit before you know it.
• 2:09:38
  So and and JJ just sits there with his hands behind, you know,
• 2:09:41
  in his lap. He sits there and he talks to
• 2:09:44
  LeBron and him and Luca does not like him.
• 2:09:47
  You could tell Luca doesn't like him.
• 2:09:49
  And I'm telling you right now, when the LJA LeBron, LeBron
• 2:09:51
  James goes back to Cleveland next year, JJ Redick is going to
• 2:09:54
  get fired because there's no way Luka Doncic is going to want
• 2:09:58
  that guy on the bench. And then JJ comes out and says,
• 2:10:01
  oh, I we have this love. Me and me and Luke are like, we
• 2:10:04
  love each other. We're brothers.
• 2:10:06
  We know how we What you see on the bench is not what you get.
• 2:10:10
  Yeah. And you believe in the Easter
• 2:10:11
  Bunny, too. You believe in the tooth fairy.
• 2:10:13
  Is that what you tell your kids? How about did Santa send you a
• 2:10:16
  bunch of coal today or last yesterday?
• 2:10:18
  Or how about it during Christmas?
• 2:10:20
  The fact here is JJ Redick should have never got that job.
• 2:10:24
  Now, I'm not saying he's not good.
• 2:10:25
  He's better than Shire. I take him over Shire any day.
• 2:10:28
  That guy's a deer in headlights. He's a deer in headlights.
• 2:10:32
  He can't get, he can't catch a break.
• 2:10:34
  So you don't think JJ is doing a good job?
• 2:10:36
  No, I don't because you dude, when you, when you look at the.
• 2:10:40
  When he got LeBron and Luca, so I mean, I'm what coach can step
• 2:10:44
  in and really do anything with them too.
• 2:10:46
  I will say this, LeBron and Luca, they don't like each
• 2:10:50
  other. You could tell they don't like
• 2:10:51
  each other. Here's here's the thing.
• 2:10:55
  When Luca had his, when he got resigned in the offseason, every
• 2:11:00
  single one of those players showed up to that that that
• 2:11:03
  media day. They all got shoes.
• 2:11:05
  They all were happy. Where was LeBron?
• 2:11:08
  Oh, I'm sorry. He's 40 and he's like, bigger
• 2:11:11
  than life. Like the bigger than.
• 2:11:13
  The league like. Bigger than.
• 2:11:15
  Life. That's showing up to them that
• 2:11:17
  go. Why not?
• 2:11:18
  He's a kind. He's.
• 2:11:19
  The leader of the team, is he not?
• 2:11:22
  He's got him a text, right? Oh, I'm sorry.
• 2:11:25
  Oh, Oh my God. LeBron James sent me a text.
• 2:11:28
  What does LeBron need a pair of shoes for?
• 2:11:30
  Like, he doesn't. He owns Nike.
• 2:11:31
  What does it matter, you know? What I mean, he owns everything.
• 2:11:34
  He owns the NBA too. If he wants to buy the Knicks, a
• 2:11:36
  couple of. Years.
• 2:11:37
  So why you want him to be showing up the signing day?
• 2:11:40
  Signing day You're you're are you a team player?
• 2:11:43
  Are you? Did you want Luca Dodges to come
• 2:11:45
  to the? Television, sports.
• 2:11:47
  It's not team, though. It's a business.
• 2:11:49
  I know you're a giant. I think everybody they knows
• 2:11:51
  LeBron has a good track record of that.
• 2:11:53
  So I think we're OK, right? Can I ask, so can, can I change
• 2:11:56
  gears here a little bit? I have a question for you, man.
• 2:11:59
  As a Tar Heel, what, what are you thinking about this Hubert
• 2:12:03
  Davis stuff? What, who do you think the next
• 2:12:05
  coach is going to be like? Who would you want to see as a
• 2:12:08
  alum of one of the greatest universities in America taking
• 2:12:13
  over arguably the greatest program in NCAA history?
• 2:12:17
  Me. Sure.
• 2:12:20
  I would definitely want to see him step up and and get off the
• 2:12:24
  pod and actually get on the bench because these guys.
• 2:12:27
  Screaming all the time, man. I'm.
• 2:12:29
  Like get your ass on a butt damn court.
• 2:12:32
  I like the yeah, I didn't like the Hubert higher from the
• 2:12:37
  beginning. I think that he wasn't the the
• 2:12:42
  ideal pick. I thought we was in a phase of
• 2:12:44
  like trying to figure it out. I don't think we knew exactly
• 2:12:46
  who where we wanted to go with in that direction.
• 2:12:49
  I did like the thought of Jerry Seckhaus, but obviously when he
• 2:12:54
  went to Villanova and his results there kind of deterred
• 2:12:58
  everybody from, you know, picking him as far as as far as
• 2:13:04
  coaches. Now it's tough because right now
• 2:13:09
  we're in a place where we're not being, we're not able to get the
• 2:13:12
  talent that we supposed to be getting out there in the market.
• 2:13:16
  And I don't, I never, I don't really understand why we have
• 2:13:20
  not only a Jordan brand, but we have second Nike brand and then
• 2:13:24
  we have Carolina. Like when you go on campus and
• 2:13:27
  you see the, you know, the banners and the the aura that
• 2:13:30
  Carolina brings, It's just like how we missing out on all these
• 2:13:34
  top recruits. So the names that I would say
• 2:13:40
  that, you know, Stephen A has been throwing Kenny Smith out.
• 2:13:43
  I'm not sold on that. I don't believe that Kenny Smith
• 2:13:46
  can actually coach. I think that those type of Kenny
• 2:13:50
  Smith would be somebody far as like a a player personnel coach
• 2:13:53
  or, you know, a consultant role or whatever.
• 2:13:58
  But I don't know. I don't know.
• 2:13:59
  It's it's interesting to see who could possibly be an option for
• 2:14:06
  for Carolina because the team itself is like kind of a little
• 2:14:10
  bit of talent little bit there. I think Caleb's gone.
• 2:14:13
  So it's like who's the next? Yeah.
• 2:14:16
  So who's the next big deal there that we can, you know, sell in
• 2:14:21
  regards to get another recruits there.
• 2:14:24
  And then we didn't finish well in the tournament up by 20 then
• 2:14:28
  get knocked out. You can't have that happen.
• 2:14:31
  So I don't know who who from your who you think would be a
• 2:14:35
  good fit. I don't really have a name that
• 2:14:38
  I would like that makes sense. It's more so like it's going to
• 2:14:42
  take one to two years to figure out whether this is the right
• 2:14:44
  coach or not. Well, that's not that's not the
• 2:14:47
  Carolina way. This thing's got to turn around
• 2:14:49
  next year you got. To get to this is.
• 2:14:51
  Where you work, it's like, so names that I've heard that enjoy
• 2:14:56
  that that they would like to talk to, right?
• 2:14:59
  They are no longer going the Carolina way in essence of that
• 2:15:02
  Carolina coaching tree. They are deciding to go 180 and
• 2:15:06
  go away from that, right? Yeah.
• 2:15:08
  And you know, Brad Stevens was the first name that they called.
• 2:15:12
  I don't think they're going to be able to get Brad Stevens out
• 2:15:14
  of, I mean, out of Boston, I think.
• 2:15:16
  He's. So entrenched for the Celtics.
• 2:15:18
  Like it's hard to be. Now if he was.
• 2:15:21
  Entrenched for the bucks. I think you could probably pull
• 2:15:24
  him out of there or if he was in like, I don't know, just pick a
• 2:15:27
  Minnesota, you know, then he would.
• 2:15:29
  Or Sacramento, then yeah, he would be like, OK, well that's a
• 2:15:32
  good step. But he's with the number one
• 2:15:34
  organization ever, or #2 whatever you.
• 2:15:36
  Want It's too good in Boston right now.
• 2:15:37
  Yeah, it's too good. It's too good.
• 2:15:38
  They're winning championships. I just don't see that as a
• 2:15:40
  situation now. Jerry Stackhouse was a name that
• 2:15:43
  was mentioned. He's an assistant for the
• 2:15:44
  Warriors right now. And Stackhouse, it's not that he
• 2:15:48
  was great, but he could argue that he did.
• 2:15:50
  He did as much as he could with the resources he was giving in
• 2:15:55
  the talent pool he could pull from in a very competitive
• 2:15:58
  conference, right? He could say that all those
• 2:16:00
  things and he says, well, give me the Carolina deal with the
• 2:16:04
  NIL and the bump and the the staff and all those things.
• 2:16:07
  And you know, a campus that cares, not saying not saying
• 2:16:11
  Vandy doesn't care, but it's not Carolina.
• 2:16:13
  I think all all of us that are listening 1,000,000% Vandy
• 2:16:18
  Carolina basketball are not the same thing, right.
• 2:16:21
  So though, so that's a name that was around it.
• 2:16:25
  Now Dusty Mays, another name that they were throwing around
• 2:16:28
  over in Michigan. I don't think after one year,
• 2:16:30
  because Michigan and Carolina right now are very similar jobs.
• 2:16:34
  So that could be, you know, something There was I, I know
• 2:16:37
  some I don't. I didn't really believe this
• 2:16:39
  when they said we'll wait. I was like, there's no way.
• 2:16:40
  We'll, that would be so. Funny, there's no way that.
• 2:16:42
  Carolina would ever hire, will wait.
• 2:16:44
  Ever. Ever.
• 2:16:45
  Ever. He's like that.
• 2:16:46
  Type of guy, right? So it's, it's interesting to
• 2:16:49
  see. I think ultimately they're going
• 2:16:50
  to end up with someone who honestly could be like a Pitino,
• 2:16:54
  not Rick. Bobby could be somebody like
• 2:16:57
  that that could come in and somebody that they you just
• 2:16:59
  don't think is a Carolina guy and.
• 2:17:02
  You don't think they would go younger?
• 2:17:04
  Like more younger? It's tough to go young.
• 2:17:07
  Like yeah, I I get it, but I can't.
• 2:17:10
  Just throw a first year coach or a guy whose career.
• 2:17:13
  Is OK, Yeah, more like 4 or five years somewhere established.
• 2:17:16
  I don't know who is either on the name.
• 2:17:18
  To it. What name is that?
• 2:17:21
  Kevin at BYU. Maybe he, you know, Kevin at
• 2:17:23
  BYU. Kevin Young BYU would be great,
• 2:17:26
  but he's only coached college for one year.
• 2:17:28
  He was an NBA assistant forever. He was a, you know, lead
• 2:17:31
  assistant in the NBA, head coach in the G League.
• 2:17:34
  Like Kevin be a great option, but he's only coached one year.
• 2:17:38
  I don't know if you can have that type of guy over at
• 2:17:41
  Carolina. No offense to Kevin, I think
• 2:17:43
  he's great, but like Dusty, Mays took college teams over and over
• 2:17:47
  and over and over and over and over 2 places, you know what I'm
• 2:17:50
  saying? So it's going to be got.
• 2:17:51
  A lot of nil money. He's not going to want to leave
• 2:17:53
  there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:17:55
  I definitely we got nil money. We just don't use it.
• 2:18:00
  That's a problem. Boosters in the contract that we
• 2:18:03
  have there is out of control. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
• 2:18:05
  Quick, quick, quick. And all you really need is just
• 2:18:07
  to hire somebody from LSU's program and then you might get
• 2:18:10
  something going. We need to go down there and
• 2:18:11
  consult with them and figure out what what they did to get that
• 2:18:13
  boosters to be giving out 91 and $200 million.
• 2:18:17
  You can have John Shire if you want them.
• 2:18:19
  You don't want them. You can have him.
• 2:18:22
  You can. Take what?
• 2:18:23
  So I do want to say Billy Donovan has been a name.
• 2:18:26
  I would not be surprised if Billy goes there because being
• 2:18:29
  in Chicago, Chicago doesn't spend money.
• 2:18:31
  They don't go into the luxury tax.
• 2:18:33
  They never will. You know, Chicago is one of
• 2:18:36
  those teams. If you guys remember, the Bulls
• 2:18:37
  are like, they're a Reinsdorf. That is his business, right?
• 2:18:42
  Like think about Dolan and Cablevision or whoever owns, you
• 2:18:44
  know, I don't know what the actual entity that owns the
• 2:18:46
  Knicks. Like that's not Dolan's number
• 2:18:48
  one thing. The Knicks, you know what I
• 2:18:50
  mean? He's got 10 other things that he
• 2:18:52
  does. Reinsdorf, the White Sox and the
• 2:18:54
  Bulls and whatever other sports entity he owns, that's his
• 2:18:58
  business and he makes money off of that business.
• 2:19:02
  So if you're Billy Donovan, like, yeah, you'll always have
• 2:19:04
  an OK team, but you guys are going to be a 7-8 seed at best
• 2:19:07
  probably moving forward. You're you're stuck in
• 2:19:10
  mediocrity. Yeah, well, go to.
• 2:19:12
  Go to Carolina and just get to start fresh and just take all my
• 2:19:16
  NBA experience and try to get those guys.
• 2:19:18
  So like, you know, I, I, I, I wouldn't be surprised if Billy,
• 2:19:21
  I don't see it, but it could happen.
• 2:19:24
  What about Todd Golden? Ever.
• 2:19:27
  There in Florida. I would rather take Tommy Lloyd
• 2:19:30
  over Todd Golden. Tommy Lloyd, I'll just tell you
• 2:19:32
  that, right? Now, I would also take Nate
• 2:19:33
  Oates. The problem with Nate Oates,
• 2:19:34
  though, is that his buyout is huge.
• 2:19:36
  There's, it's a $14 million buyout, I believe, until I want
• 2:19:41
  to say April 15th. It could be April first, could
• 2:19:44
  be April 15th. I think it's April 15th.
• 2:19:46
  There's a $14 million buyout. It moves to 10 million after
• 2:19:49
  that. So there's a big gap right
• 2:19:51
  there, unless MJ wants to write the check.
• 2:19:53
  Well, apparently he flew in today.
• 2:19:55
  Diddy OK, because he might have to write that check if he wants
• 2:19:58
  to do that. I would rather if I'm going to
• 2:20:00
  go anybody and I have to I'm going to go Tommy Lloyd.
• 2:20:03
  I just think he's a he's a he did a great job at Arizona.
• 2:20:06
  They have an All Star team. By the way, KOA Pete in this
• 2:20:08
  draft. I don't know if anybody's
• 2:20:09
  following, but KOA Pete, it's probably a lottery pick.
• 2:20:12
  I love KOA but like I think Tommy just from Gonzaga to
• 2:20:17
  Arizona, North Carolina would be a normal transition.
• 2:20:22
  To the next big thing. So it's going to be interesting
• 2:20:24
  to see. Obviously I, I don't know, I
• 2:20:26
  there's this is the job. Like, let's just be real.
• 2:20:29
  Sure. This is the job.
• 2:20:30
  It's there's literally Duke, Kansas, Carolina, UCLA.
• 2:20:35
  After that, you can start ruffling all the feathers you
• 2:20:38
  want, but those are the those are the four.
• 2:20:40
  Let's just be real. Those are the four that
• 2:20:42
  everybody will go to, no matter who you are or where you're at.
• 2:20:46
  So we got it. Yeah, I think, I think that'll
• 2:20:48
  be a good pick. I think we got a $14 million
• 2:20:50
  too. I mean, Michael George just won
• 2:20:52
  what, a billion dollar lawsuit? Then it just here another 730
• 2:20:56
  for the NASCAR situation. So he got 14 million to spare.
• 2:21:01
  Yeah, everybody's got four. I got it.
• 2:21:03
  Yeah, just Purdue a Texas game Arrow.
• 2:21:05
  Were you checking it out? Yeah.
• 2:21:07
  I'm getting sick, man. I'm getting sick.
• 2:21:08
  I have Purdue going to the national championship and
• 2:21:10
  winning. About.
• 2:21:13
  Iowa just beat Nebraska, by the way, the Battle of the Corn.
• 2:21:19
  Right up. You know what I missed a job of
• 2:21:21
  Chamberlains ass. You know he missed.
• 2:21:27
  He got it. Purdue just saved it.
• 2:21:29
  Yeah, he did it 7977. He just saved it.
• 2:21:32
  Nice tipping. And that's the game, Purdue,
• 2:21:34
  you're safe. Errol all.
• 2:21:36
  Right, come on now, safe Save my brackets is like, By the way,
• 2:21:39
  Earl, did you tell Dad who's winning the bracket?
• 2:21:42
  You're winning by 4 points. What do you?
• 2:21:45
  Think, Dan, can you tell him how many it takes to win again?
• 2:21:48
  Yeah, how many points it takes to win?
• 2:21:49
  After after the. Sweets if you're up 4 after the.
• 2:21:52
  Sweet 16 I'll be winning my friends, so don't worry about
• 2:21:55
  that. You don't.
• 2:21:56
  Worry about it. And yes, Nate Oates is a Buffalo
• 2:21:59
  legend. I I met Nate when he was the
• 2:22:01
  coach at Buffalo. Dan, we got to get you on again.
• 2:22:05
  Let's get you on more sooner. Let's do it in a couple of weeks
• 2:22:09
  when the NBA playoffs start. I definitely.
• 2:22:11
  Want to hear? Your take and you're fantastic.
• 2:22:14
  You do such a great job with Scout Central so and you're one
• 2:22:17
  of the best, so I know you know what you're talking about.
• 2:22:20
  Unfortunately, Q doesn't really know much of anything, so.
• 2:22:24
  As long as as long as Q is here, I'm here, right?
• 2:22:28
  There. Oh my God.
• 2:22:30
  Oh. Man, thank you, Dan.
• 2:22:33
  Absolutely. I appreciate you guys for coming
• 2:22:34
  over man. It was a pleasure.
• 2:22:36
  Dan Purcell, fantastic as always, gives us great takes.
• 2:22:41
  He knows his basketball and I love, you know, I love going
• 2:22:45
  back and forth with Q, but Q's losing his mind.
• 2:22:48
  I think there's something going on in that head of his.
• 2:22:51
  Maybe he's going senile, I don't know.
• 2:22:54
  What happened? Alzheimer's maybe?
• 2:22:55
  That we'll give you that. We'll give you that information.
• 2:23:00
  I don't know, maybe it's you shaking your head over and over
• 2:23:02
  and over again. Anyways, maybe I have water in
• 2:23:04
  your ears or something. Anyways, we call this all righty
• 2:23:07
  then. All righty then all.
• 2:23:09
  Righty all. Righty.
• 2:23:14
  All righty all. Righty then.
• 2:23:17
  All righty then, we're back with another literary segment of
• 2:23:22
  Arrows articles. Have you checked out this latest
• 2:23:26
  one, guys, on what we were just talking about in the interview,
• 2:23:30
  Errol's hatred of John Shire and JJ Reddick?
• 2:23:36
  Well, if you haven't, you got to check it out.
• 2:23:37
  It's on the worldwidesportsradio.com and if
• 2:23:42
  you haven't checked it out, that's where all of our clips
• 2:23:44
  are that you can find from the show that we post up our best
• 2:23:47
  clips. You can also check those out on
• 2:23:49
  our new YouTube page. Check out all the information in
• 2:23:53
  the links guys. Here is the article for today
• 2:23:58
  Podcast Privilege and Coach K Nepotism.
• 2:24:01
  The JJ Reddick John Shire experiment nobody asked for.
• 2:24:06
  Take a look. There are two types of people in
• 2:24:09
  this world. People grind 20 years for a head
• 2:24:11
  coaching job and people who sit next to LeBron James on a
• 2:24:15
  podcast or share locker room with Mike Shashefsky and
• 2:24:18
  suddenly wake up as the boss. Welcome to the basketball
• 2:24:21
  multiverse where logic takes a back seat and vibes get you
• 2:24:25
  hired. JJ Reddick from podcast takes to
• 2:24:28
  play calls. Let's start with JJ Reddick, a
• 2:24:31
  man who went for breaking down pick and roll coverages on a mic
• 2:24:33
  to actually calling them for the Los Angeles Lakers.
• 2:24:37
  Now listen, JJ smart like scary film room junkie smart.
• 2:24:41
  But coaching the Lakers is not a group project at Duke.
• 2:24:44
  This is Hollywood, this is pressure, this is LeBron staring
• 2:24:48
  at you mid time out. Like you sure about that podcast
• 2:24:51
  boy. And yet, somehow, it's working.
• 2:24:54
  As we move on, there's John Shire, Coach K's favorite
• 2:24:57
  student, or just the one who answered the phone.
• 2:25:00
  Now, John Shire, the chosen one of Duke basketball, hand picked
• 2:25:04
  by Coach K himself to take over the throne of the Duke Blue
• 2:25:07
  Devils. And look, Shire has been good.
• 2:25:09
  Not great, not legendary. Yeah, just.
• 2:25:11
  Yeah, that'll do. He's Got Talent every year
• 2:25:14
  because it's Duke, not because he's a wizard recruiter.
• 2:25:17
  And this year, he's sitting pretty with a number one seed.
• 2:25:20
  But let's not forget last year lately the Houston Cougars in
• 2:25:24
  the Final four like someone accidentally hit the self
• 2:25:28
  destruct button. 2 minutes left and the offense looked like five
• 2:25:32
  guys trying to remember a TikTok dance.
• 2:25:36
  Speedy. All right, we'll start it off
• 2:25:38
  with yeah, tie edge here. Actually, we'll start it off
• 2:25:42
  with Glumgate first. These two actually were kind of
• 2:25:45
  rebuttaling at each other. So this is the first one.
• 2:25:47
  How is their coaching performance remotely similar?
• 2:25:48
  Shire took Duke and made the Elite 8 in the Final Four and
• 2:25:51
  now it worst the Sweet 16 the last three years.
• 2:25:53
  While JJ Reddick, it's a long comment.
• 2:25:55
  He was out in the first. Round of the playoffs.
• 2:25:57
  All right, Glumgate. I think it's a lot harder
• 2:25:59
  coaching an NBA team. That's my opinion.
• 2:26:02
  And you over the last couple years without Luka Dodgek.
• 2:26:05
  You just got Luka Dodgek last year in the middle of the season
• 2:26:09
  and you you took a team to the playoffs and and failed to to
• 2:26:12
  get over the hump. Here's the thing, Shire every
• 2:26:15
  year has the top recruits in the country.
• 2:26:18
  Every year he had two guys that are going to be up for a rookie
• 2:26:21
  of the year for the NBA and fell short in the Final four.
• 2:26:24
  Anybody could have taken that team to the Final four.
• 2:26:27
  That's how talented they were. Proctor decided to stay back in
• 2:26:30
  college this year because he wasn't going to come out in the
• 2:26:33
  first round this year. If he gets healthy, Proctor's
• 2:26:35
  probably a late first round draft pick.
• 2:26:37
  So my honest opinion here is when you look at Shire and you
• 2:26:41
  look at JJ, there is no comparison because one's
• 2:26:44
  coaching an NBA team and the other one's coaching a college
• 2:26:48
  team. So I think there's more pressure
• 2:26:51
  on JJ Redick because LeBron James is getting old and they
• 2:26:54
  won another championship and Shire could sit there for the
• 2:26:58
  next 5 years as he got an extension at the end at the end
• 2:27:01
  of last season. 5 years for losing in the final four when
• 2:27:05
  you off by 12 points with two minutes left.
• 2:27:08
  So that's my opinion on that one.
• 2:27:09
  All right, so this this guy tie edge rebuttal a lot with with
• 2:27:12
  glove gate. They were back and forth about
• 2:27:13
  10 different comments. So he has thinks the opposite.
• 2:27:15
  He has more money than any other schools possible for recruiting
• 2:27:19
  Duke's elite one and dumb players with under coach K
• 2:27:22
  anything but a surprise that he's gotten that job.
• 2:27:24
  Yeah, I can't get behind that. Thank you, Tie.
• 2:27:28
  I love that take because I would agree with you.
• 2:27:30
  Coach K picked the wrong guy. And I'm not saying Shire isn't a
• 2:27:33
  good smart basketball mind, but when you have people like Jeff
• 2:27:36
  coming to me and telling me, well, this guy is is a genius.
• 2:27:40
  Yeah, a genius, a genius, a losing.
• 2:27:42
  What did that? What happened against North
• 2:27:44
  Carolina this year? And Hubert Davis, you were up by
• 2:27:46
  eight points with, what, a minute and 10 seconds left and
• 2:27:50
  you choked and you lost against a North North Carolina Tar Heel
• 2:27:54
  team that's nowhere close to the talent you are.
• 2:27:56
  So honest to God, the guy doesn't know how to finish, and
• 2:27:59
  he's not going to finish this year.
• 2:28:01
  When are they going to lose the Elite 8?
• 2:28:02
  I think that's where they're going to lose.
• 2:28:03
  They're going to lose in the Elite 8 because I just don't
• 2:28:06
  think this team knows how to to win the big game so.
• 2:28:11
  All right, we'll go to this one now.
• 2:28:13
  Dumute, CBUCBU. There isn't a fan of any program
• 2:28:17
  in the country that wouldn't want Shire's first four years as
• 2:28:19
  a head coach. Where is Reddick?
• 2:28:22
  OK, now I will tell you this because I'm being in Dumute.
• 2:28:26
  Thank you. I have to tell you this, anybody
• 2:28:30
  coaching this team that knows any type of basketball can coach
• 2:28:34
  this team all at least to the Sweet 16.
• 2:28:37
  It's too talented. What are you calling give the
• 2:28:40
  ball to Boozer, Give the ball to Boozer, give the ball to Boozer.
• 2:28:44
  It's not rocket science guys. It really isn't.
• 2:28:47
  What is Shire doing on the sidelines?
• 2:28:49
  He's got three guys, 3 assistants that have been NBA
• 2:28:52
  players or NBA coaches. Shire just has to sit there and
• 2:28:55
  collect his money. That's why he got a five year
• 2:28:57
  extension and it's impressive. Dude.
• 2:29:00
  Look at the recruits he's brought in.
• 2:29:02
  Cooper Flag and another 3 point shooter that just broke a record
• 2:29:06
  with the Charlotte Hornets this year.
• 2:29:08
  And it's probably going to be up for an MVP.
• 2:29:10
  I mean, rookie of the year this year with Cooper Flag and now
• 2:29:13
  this year Cam boosters, arguably the number one, number two and
• 2:29:16
  #3 pick. If you have this kind of talent,
• 2:29:18
  guess what, you're probably going to win.
• 2:29:22
  All right, so now we'll go to a different viewpoint, kind of
• 2:29:25
  comparing how they got hired. So crave Case No.
• 2:29:28
  Shire fired a traditional internal pipeline under Coach K
• 2:29:31
  spending years on his staff. Shire, while JJ Reddick made a
• 2:29:36
  rare leap straight from playing in media to an NBA job.
• 2:29:40
  They both kissed a lot of asses to get where they have gone.
• 2:29:44
  OK, you're going to tell me Shire was the guy that I'm going
• 2:29:47
  to pick. Out of all the coach coaches
• 2:29:49
  that have been working on coaches Kay's staff all these
• 2:29:52
  years, that's the guy I'm picking.
• 2:29:54
  I could pick anybody for that Duke Blue Devil job.
• 2:29:56
  That's the best. And you can say whatever you
• 2:29:59
  want it. As far as prestige colleges,
• 2:30:01
  right now, Duke is #1 everybody wants that Duke job.
• 2:30:06
  Everybody. So you're going to tell me out
• 2:30:08
  of all the people you could have picked, that's the guy I would
• 2:30:11
  have picked? And as far as JJI would agree
• 2:30:13
  with you, what has JJ done? But guess what?
• 2:30:17
  JJ is coaching a Laker team. There's more pressure with the
• 2:30:20
  Lakers and winning with LeBron James and Luka Doncic now than
• 2:30:24
  it is right now for Shire. If Shire loses in the Elite 8
• 2:30:27
  after losing in the Final Four, does he lose his job?
• 2:30:30
  No, he is going to keep his job for the least the next four
• 2:30:33
  years and if he can't get over the hump, he can't win in the
• 2:30:36
  next 4 years then he'll get fired.
• 2:30:38
  To me, Coach K is still driving the stick over there with the
• 2:30:41
  Duke Blue Devils. All right.
• 2:30:43
  Last one we'll go to as an opposite standpoint.
• 2:30:45
  So JJ Reddick was higher because he's a solid basketball mine and
• 2:30:49
  he's proven himself to be, at a minimum, a very good coach so
• 2:30:51
  far, Whereas John Shire, he agrees with you, is a bit
• 2:30:53
  overrated. OK, basketball mine, JJ Reddick.
• 2:30:58
  That doesn't go two and two together.
• 2:31:01
  All right, JJ Reddick, what does he know about basketball?
• 2:31:05
  Has he coached before he got this job?
• 2:31:07
  No. Was he an assistant coach?
• 2:31:09
  He was working on a podcast with LeBron James and LeBron probably
• 2:31:13
  said, we're not kidding. Danny Hurley.
• 2:31:15
  We struck out on that. Nobody else wants this job.
• 2:31:18
  Let's do I'll just bring my guy in and I could tell my guy what
• 2:31:21
  to do, call the plays and I'm going to be in charge because
• 2:31:24
  I'm LeBron James the LJA. So I I disagree.
• 2:31:28
  I don't think JJJ Reddick is a great basketball mind.
• 2:31:32
  Is he know a little bit more than John?
• 2:31:34
  Yeah. He played in the NBA.
• 2:31:35
  John Shire never played in the NBA.
• 2:31:36
  He was drafted, but he couldn't he couldn't stay healthy.
• 2:31:39
  So I honest to God, who would I take?
• 2:31:42
  I mean, I'm pulling strings here.
• 2:31:44
  I take JJ because he had a longer NBA career.
• 2:31:47
  That's it. That's the my argument.
• 2:31:48
  Both guys stink. All right.
• 2:31:53
  That's the facts, guys. Are you guys like JJ Redick, You
• 2:31:56
  like John Shire? Good.
• 2:31:58
  I I, I wish you all the the best with the arguments, but there's
• 2:32:02
  just no argument to that that take to say that one's better
• 2:32:06
  than the other. They're both were handed the job
• 2:32:09
  by coach K and LeBron James. LeBron James went to ownership.
• 2:32:14
  As a matter of fact, missus Buss was the one that came out and
• 2:32:18
  she said this past year he says everything LeBron wanted.
• 2:32:22
  I gave him everything he wanted. I gave him, including she didn't
• 2:32:26
  say JJ Redick. But what is what does that mean?
• 2:32:28
  So think about it. So it it just, it's pathetic.
• 2:32:31
  Anthony Davis, he wanted Anthony Davis, he got Anthony Davis.
• 2:32:34
  I, I do not believe Luke and him like each other.
• 2:32:37
  I think Luca wants him out and I think LeBron wants out of the
• 2:32:40
  Lakers at the end of this year. So who got Luca there then what?
• 2:32:44
  What do you mean? I think that the NBA stepped in
• 2:32:47
  there and I. The NBA?
• 2:32:50
  Yes, I'm going to tell. You.
• 2:32:51
  I'm going to explain why. I'm going to explain why.
• 2:32:53
  I'm going to explain why. Here's the facts.
• 2:32:57
  They could have gotten a better package from the Celtics because
• 2:33:00
  the Celtics would absolutely made a bit firm.
• 2:33:02
  They could have gotten a better package from the Knicks.
• 2:33:05
  They gave up nothing for Luka Dodgek.
• 2:33:08
  As a matter of fact, it is one of the worst trades, if not the
• 2:33:12
  worst trade in NBA history. And it's a proven fact.
• 2:33:15
  There would've been a teams lining up.
• 2:33:17
  The only team they reached out to twice was the Lakers.
• 2:33:20
  Why? Because the NBA and the LJ, it
• 2:33:23
  was a part of it. I'm telling you, you're going to
• 2:33:25
  tell me out of all the teams you could have asked for to have a
• 2:33:28
  conversation, they couldn't get a better deal than what the
• 2:33:31
  Lakers gave him? Please.
• 2:33:33
  Why would why would the balls? Why would the sensors?
• 2:33:35
  And then two, why would LeBron hire somebody he don't like?
• 2:33:39
  What? Do you mean?
• 2:33:41
  You said the LGALJ approved Luke Lucas arrival in the LA.
• 2:33:48
  At the time, at the time LeBron James and Luca, Luca thought, I
• 2:33:52
  mean LeBron, LeBron probably thought he could play with Luca
• 2:33:54
  and they can get along on the basketball court.
• 2:33:56
  But if you watched all season long with the Lakers and I've
• 2:33:59
  watched them a lot, they don't like each other.
• 2:34:01
  If you see them on on the on the bench, LeBron sits on one side,
• 2:34:05
  Lucas sits on the other. What are you guys blind?
• 2:34:08
  You don't see it. They don't.
• 2:34:09
  Yeah, but they don't mean they don't like each other.
• 2:34:12
  LeBron needs like 2 seats and a. Wants to see like.
• 2:34:15
  He has stuff that he needs on the side.
• 2:34:17
  That's what you're not paying attention to.
• 2:34:19
  Like they're not. They don't have to be friends
• 2:34:22
  and buddy buddy to be able to, you know, work together like you
• 2:34:26
  don't. You don't have to be that.
• 2:34:28
  I think that's where you think that they like dislike each
• 2:34:30
  other because they don't. They're not friendly and buddy
• 2:34:33
  buddy, but they have spacing issues, which is the real issue
• 2:34:36
  between them two. They both are ball dominant and
• 2:34:40
  then LeBron sometimes don't want to take the back seat.
• 2:34:43
  So and it's it's like a huge facing issue because he's a
• 2:34:46
  primary ball hammer and all throughout his whole career.
• 2:34:49
  I'm going to tell you you're absolutely wrong.
• 2:34:51
  And when you don't like each other and you realize that you
• 2:34:54
  guys can't play together and they've played enough games and
• 2:34:57
  and you say it doesn't matter if they like each other or not.
• 2:35:00
  It does. Because if you've seen what's
• 2:35:02
  going on with the Lakers, the Lakers are hot right now.
• 2:35:05
  Why are they? Hot.
• 2:35:05
  Why they're very hot right now. Hold on, hold on one second.
• 2:35:10
  You don't let me speak. So let me just I let you speak
• 2:35:13
  so let me finish what I have to say.
• 2:35:15
  They're hot right now. They won 10 games or 9 games in
• 2:35:18
  a row and they're playing great basketball.
• 2:35:20
  But here's the thing. Why are they playing big great
• 2:35:22
  basketball? It's not because of LeBron
• 2:35:24
  James. It's because of Luka Doncic.
• 2:35:26
  Luka Doncic LeBron has given the reins over to Luca Luca is now
• 2:35:32
  the leader of this team. He is the guy and why is there
• 2:35:35
  stories coming out right now that LeBron James?
• 2:35:38
  They're have been many different stories that have come out and
• 2:35:41
  said that LeBron James will not be back next year with the
• 2:35:43
  Lakers. Why is that?
• 2:35:45
  He has one more year left on his contract and he would make more
• 2:35:47
  money with the Lakers than go to another team and take lesser
• 2:35:50
  money. So why would he be doing that?
• 2:35:52
  Because he doesn't like Luka Doncic, that's why.
• 2:35:55
  Well, they they always say that whenever LeBron got one year
• 2:35:58
  left on his contract, he's up, he's not going to come back.
• 2:36:01
  He's. Going to go.
• 2:36:02
  To do that and do it every single time, and LeBron has
• 2:36:05
  averaged 20 points on the last 10 games.
• 2:36:07
  That's great and Lucas Average. 32 So just Lucas.
• 2:36:11
  Lucas scoring 32. Great.
• 2:36:14
  So it's not just Luca that means they're working together,
• 2:36:16
  something that you say is impossible for them to do.
• 2:36:19
  We'll see what they do in the playoffs.
• 2:36:22
  Don't you think it could be something else that just like
• 2:36:24
  LeBron doesn't like being the third scoring option on the
• 2:36:28
  team, he, Austin Reeves, averages 2 1/2 points a game
• 2:36:32
  more than LeBron this year. You know, it's, he's, he's the
• 2:36:35
  second option offensively, not LeBron.
• 2:36:38
  And I, I think defensively, you know, LeBron and Luca, they fall
• 2:36:42
  asleep a lot. They both fly builders.
• 2:36:44
  They always been LeBron, you know?
• 2:36:46
  But LeBron, LeBron, go get a block, He'll go get a block and
• 2:36:50
  then they'll make it seem like he's his first team all
• 2:36:52
  defensive guy because he got a huge block in the game.
• 2:36:55
  LeBron was not always a liability.
• 2:36:57
  LeBron was an elite defender. In the last like half dozen
• 2:37:01
  years. What are you talking about?
• 2:37:03
  What game are you watching? You say you watching a lot of
• 2:37:04
  games. LeBron.
• 2:37:06
  LeBron was elite defender for nine years.
• 2:37:08
  He was an elite defender. We in year 22.
• 2:37:11
  That's fine. He was an elite defender.
• 2:37:13
  You say that LeBron James never played defense.
• 2:37:15
  He's a liability. He wasn't a liability forever.
• 2:37:18
  As you get older, your defensive skills obviously aren't the
• 2:37:21
  same. When Tim Duncan was getting
• 2:37:23
  older, he wasn't the same defender he once was.
• 2:37:25
  He was the anchor of that defense for so many years.
• 2:37:27
  But once he hit year 15, he wasn't that guy anymore.
• 2:37:30
  They had to press more. They had to use the guards and
• 2:37:33
  press more up up a top to get to put more pressure on the bigs.
• 2:37:37
  So are you saying that LeBron was a liability is ridiculous?
• 2:37:40
  That's not. True years, he hasn't done
• 2:37:44
  anything. That's fine.
• 2:37:45
  That's what I'm saying. Like 1/2 a dozen years because
• 2:37:48
  he's like 36 to 42. Not the same guy defensively,
• 2:37:51
  obviously, and how can he be? You know what I mean?
• 2:37:54
  But it's the type of mistakes that him and Luca next to each
• 2:37:57
  other on the court together that could be a big problem because
• 2:38:01
  there's no one to catch up for those mistakes.
• 2:38:04
  Anthony Davis ain't back there to to make up for some of the
• 2:38:07
  things that they're doing. I mean, that's.
• 2:38:09
  What saved? That's what saved LeBron for
• 2:38:12
  years was Anthony Davis could protect the rim, right?
• 2:38:16
  And they don't really have that now.
• 2:38:18
  Not the same. It's not the same without them.
• 2:38:20
  Obviously they're better scoring team with Luca, they're probably
• 2:38:22
  better team It's. Just their best defender.
• 2:38:26
  Right. But I mean, he can't shoot.
• 2:38:27
  He never could. You know that as a Celtics fan.
• 2:38:31
  Yeah, but that's what I'm saying.
• 2:38:31
  But they only got 1 defender. So it's like, yeah, you can
• 2:38:34
  score all these points, but when it comes down to it, you're not
• 2:38:36
  going to outscore people who end up getting stopped on you.
• 2:38:39
  If your shot ain't falling that night, you're going to get blown
• 2:38:41
  out. True.
• 2:38:43
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, we call this What's Beef?
• 2:38:46
  Do you know what beef is? Do you know?
• 2:38:54
  What beef is? Which are your face?
• 2:38:59
  I fight you both together. If you want I fight, You want 1
• 2:39:01
  poor time behind the back, I fight you.
• 2:39:03
  Stand on more. Foot, I fight you.
• 2:39:04
  What? My eyes close.
• 2:39:06
  What are you scared? Watch your mouth.
• 2:39:10
  I see you. Guaranteed to be.
• 2:39:12
  I see you one more time. What's beef?
• 2:39:14
  Beef. Beef.
• 2:39:14
  Beef. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 2:39:17
  there's a lot of beefing here in New York.
• 2:39:21
  And I will say this, Brandon Tierney and Craig Greg Giannotti
• 2:39:26
  are two guys very well respected.
• 2:39:29
  Brandon Tierney got fired from CBS because CBS went down the
• 2:39:33
  drain. And Greg Giannotti said some
• 2:39:36
  interesting things about Brandon Tierney.
• 2:39:39
  We got some video. You guys ready?
• 2:39:40
  Let's go. But the thing that he said that
• 2:39:48
  annoyed me and the reason why I want to bring it up is he said I
• 2:39:52
  was a bad teammate for pranking the show and being a caller who
• 2:39:58
  was busting his balls about drinking with the team.
• 2:40:01
  Because he said that, I was implying that he was drinking
• 2:40:03
  with the team and that's being a bad teammate.
• 2:40:06
  His take on that? Is exactly the reason why he
• 2:40:11
  couldn't cut it here because he is someone who takes things way
• 2:40:16
  too seriously. He can't laugh at himself and he
• 2:40:20
  doesn't get it. And if he did, and he showed a
• 2:40:24
  little bit more personality and could laugh at himself, maybe he
• 2:40:27
  would have had more success here.
• 2:40:29
  So I've. So hold on one second.
• 2:40:32
  Because he doesn't know how to laugh at himself and he doesn't
• 2:40:34
  know how to take a joke. That's why he got fired.
• 2:40:38
  Is that what you're saying? And that's why he doesn't have a
• 2:40:40
  job, I think. Come on, Greg.
• 2:40:42
  I've known Greg Giannotti for a very long time.
• 2:40:44
  Me, me and him are practically the same age.
• 2:40:46
  Greg Giannotti, I think is 43. I'm 44.
• 2:40:49
  I'm going to be 44 this year. I, I look at Greg Giannotti.
• 2:40:53
  How did you get your job? How many people and how many
• 2:40:56
  asses you had to kiss to get back to WFN And then you said
• 2:41:01
  you were in Pittsburgh, you were working for a Pittsburgh
• 2:41:03
  station, and then you took Brandon Tierney's job because,
• 2:41:08
  and you said this, and it'll probably be a part of this, this
• 2:41:11
  take over here in a very few minutes because there's more to
• 2:41:14
  hear. What Greg Giannotti has to say.
• 2:41:16
  Greg Giannotti is a person of disrespect.
• 2:41:19
  Now, I know a little bit about Brandon Tierney.
• 2:41:22
  I know people that know Brandon Tierney.
• 2:41:24
  Tierney, I don't know him personally, but I've heard a lot
• 2:41:27
  of good things about this guy. Whenever somebody wants to take
• 2:41:29
  a picture with him, he will take a picture with you.
• 2:41:32
  Whenever you have a question, if you're at an event with him,
• 2:41:34
  he's going to sit there and have a conversation.
• 2:41:36
  If you're a fan person, woman, man, kid, this guy is such a
• 2:41:41
  friendly person. He loves his teams, he loves his
• 2:41:44
  sports. I have never heard anybody say
• 2:41:47
  anything bad about Brandon Tierney ever.
• 2:41:50
  And the guy, to me, has one of the most unique voices on radio.
• 2:41:53
  He's very talented. He loves the Yankees, he loves
• 2:41:56
  his sports, he loves the Knicks. He loves everything about New
• 2:42:00
  York sports. And then Greg Giannotti had the
• 2:42:02
  audacity, the Bulls, to say that's why he doesn't have a
• 2:42:05
  job. He doesn't have a job because
• 2:42:07
  CBS couldn't keep them. They couldn't afford them
• 2:42:09
  because they're paying Greg Giannotti a lot of money because
• 2:42:12
  he's Boomers bitch and they bring him back a felon and Craig
• 2:42:16
  Cordon. So that's that's the facts.
• 2:42:18
  And then they they breathe. They put Tiki Barber with Evan
• 2:42:23
  Roberts because Tiki is such a knowledgeable sports
• 2:42:26
  broadcaster. He knows everything.
• 2:42:28
  Tiki doesn't know crap. The only thing he knows is
• 2:42:31
  football. But hey, Tiki Barber is Tiki
• 2:42:33
  Barber and New York Giant fans love him.
• 2:42:35
  That's why he has a job. Why would you attack this guy?
• 2:42:38
  He was the wrong person to attack.
• 2:42:40
  And Brandon Tinney, I, I just, I feel bad for the guy because now
• 2:42:45
  he's looking for a job. There's not many jobs out there
• 2:42:48
  right now for a guy his age and he's had this backlash.
• 2:42:52
  What Giannotti's doing to him is hurting his worth.
• 2:42:56
  Nobody's going to hire Brandon Tierney if Greg Giannotti's
• 2:42:59
  coming out and slandering him next one.
• 2:43:02
  All right, here's here's Tierney firing back.
• 2:43:04
  Sports station in the world and you can't even talk sports.
• 2:43:09
  Nobody cares what you say. Do you think that anybody
• 2:43:12
  listens to you to get ready for the Yankees or the Mets season?
• 2:43:16
  Do you think that anybody gives a fuck what you think about
• 2:43:19
  sports? Nobody does and nobody has and
• 2:43:22
  nobody ever will. The shots that he's taking at
• 2:43:25
  me, they are coming from somebody who is the most thin
• 2:43:29
  skinned person in the business. When anybody takes a shot at
• 2:43:33
  Greg, you know, now it's the end of the earth.
• 2:43:36
  But Greg's never had an issue taking jabs at everybody.
• 2:43:40
  And I mean everybody at the station always like that's his
• 2:43:45
  game. That's his meal ticket.
• 2:43:47
  You can't make fun of Joe B. And now if you can't make fun of
• 2:43:51
  me and you can't make fun of Mike, what are you doing?
• 2:43:55
  Because nobody cares what you do.
• 2:43:56
  You think about Shawn Minai's dip in Velocity.
• 2:43:59
  Nobody and nobody ever will. He's absolutely right.
• 2:44:04
  Here's the thing, I I agree with a lot of things Brandon Tierney
• 2:44:07
  has said about Greg Giannotti. He doesn't know anything about
• 2:44:11
  sports. He's a Minnesota Vikings fan and
• 2:44:14
  he's a broadcaster here in New York, a Minnesota Vikings fan,
• 2:44:18
  and he talks about New York sports like he's so embedded
• 2:44:22
  into it. Really.
• 2:44:23
  You try to be like Craig Carton, You're not Craig Carton.
• 2:44:26
  Let's be honest. You don't have that personality.
• 2:44:28
  Craig Carton doesn't know sports and either to you, but you're
• 2:44:30
  not as funny as Craig Carton. I even know both of you don't
• 2:44:34
  know what the hell you're talking about when you talk
• 2:44:35
  about it. But the fact here is he tries to
• 2:44:38
  be something he's not. He really doesn't have the
• 2:44:41
  education behind him on speaking New York sports because every
• 2:44:45
  time he speaks about the Mets or every time he speaks about the
• 2:44:47
  Yankees or every time he speaks about the teams that he enjoys,
• 2:44:50
  he's so wrong. He's so off.
• 2:44:52
  And then you have Boomer Asaisin that kisses his ass.
• 2:44:55
  Oh, Boomer, what do you think? I agree totally, Craig.
• 2:44:59
  You're you're absolutely right. It's just pathetic.
• 2:45:02
  What, when you go on a radio show and you're supposed to be
• 2:45:06
  somebody's Yang to their Yang, kind of like Quinton Couples.
• 2:45:10
  He is my Yang to my Yang. We love each other, but he
• 2:45:14
  disagrees on some of the stuff and some of the takes I have and
• 2:45:16
  I completely disagree with some of his takes.
• 2:45:19
  I don't I don't hate him. I'm not going to go out and say,
• 2:45:22
  yo, Quinton Couples is an ass. I can't take that MOP.
• 2:45:26
  I want to smack the you know what out of him.
• 2:45:28
  When I see him in Pittsburgh, I'm going to beat the hell out
• 2:45:30
  of him. I'm going to choke him when he's
• 2:45:31
  sleeping. I'm not going out there saying
• 2:45:34
  that, even though sometimes, you know, I want to do that to some
• 2:45:37
  of the guys here in the studio. But hey, the fact here is I'm a
• 2:45:41
  respectable guy. And if I know that I'm in the
• 2:45:44
  same studio as somebody and I see him, I'm going to say hi to
• 2:45:46
  him. I'm not going to sit back in
• 2:45:48
  another room knowing that he's doing another show in the other
• 2:45:51
  area and not going over there at the end of my show and, and
• 2:45:54
  having, you know, having a nice conversation with him because,
• 2:45:57
  oh, I don't like him or he doesn't speak to me with
• 2:45:59
  respect. Greg, stop being a bitch.
• 2:46:03
  Stop being a bitch. You're you're you're at WFAN and
• 2:46:07
  you have a job. Because nobody Boomer wanted to
• 2:46:10
  work with. Nobody wanted to work with
• 2:46:12
  Boomer, and the only one Boomer wanted to work with was you.
• 2:46:15
  Why? Because you kiss his ass.
• 2:46:17
  All you do is kiss everybody's ass.
• 2:46:20
  So Brent, it's here and he's absolutely right.
• 2:46:21
  Nobody wants to hear what he has to say when it comes to sports.
• 2:46:24
  He doesn't know what he's talking about.
• 2:46:26
  He has no idea what he's talking about.
• 2:46:28
  All he does is he makes these these voice impressions.
• 2:46:31
  He makes fun of Mike Francesca, He makes fun of Joe B.
• 2:46:34
  He doesn't like those guys or he throws it.
• 2:46:37
  He's taking shots at a Ryan Hurley, his boss.
• 2:46:40
  Ryan Hurley hasn't fired this guy.
• 2:46:42
  You know why? Because Boomer likes him and
• 2:46:44
  Boomer runs that station right now.
• 2:46:46
  Say whatever you want. The morning show is their
• 2:46:48
  biggest show even though stuff is falling apart because I have
• 2:46:51
  this idiot as the face in the the voice of the morning show
• 2:46:55
  all. Right.
• 2:47:00
  Well, guys, you could also share your takes on it, sweetie and
• 2:47:03
  Quinn, like I've been listening to these guys for a long time
• 2:47:06
  too. And it's really important as a
• 2:47:10
  sports fan to know that it's sports we're talking about.
• 2:47:13
  If you make it personal, that's on you.
• 2:47:16
  When you make it personal, you're absolutely right, Errol.
• 2:47:19
  Like it's, that's not what it's about.
• 2:47:21
  Like we're trying to have fun here.
• 2:47:23
  We're talking this is about a game we're playing.
• 2:47:25
  Obviously it's business. There's money and stuff like
• 2:47:27
  that. And people's character, you
• 2:47:29
  know, gets revealed by actions when they're put under pressure,
• 2:47:32
  when a lot of money's at stake. I don't have those things, that
• 2:47:35
  type of pressure on me. I'm just sitting here on the
• 2:47:38
  sidelines, you know, seeing it just like the rest of us, you
• 2:47:40
  know, judging. But why are we taking it
• 2:47:43
  personal? Here's the thing now I want to
• 2:47:44
  say this. When you're making between
• 2:47:47
  $280,000 and 500 grand, all to be boomers bitch, and you're
• 2:47:53
  going to sit there and say you have a job and you're you're
• 2:47:55
  mocking a guy that just lost his job.
• 2:47:58
  I would never mock anybody for losing their job.
• 2:48:02
  And it wasn't it wasn't Brandon Tierney.
• 2:48:04
  That was the reason why he lost his job.
• 2:48:06
  He lost the job because CBS went out of business.
• 2:48:10
  That's the fact that the sports broadcasting end of it went out
• 2:48:13
  of business and the only reason why he still has a job is
• 2:48:16
  because WFAN is trying to salvage what is going on because
• 2:48:22
  they bring in Spy Gaskins. He jumps, he leaves because he
• 2:48:25
  he ruined the organization, he ruined the sports part of the
• 2:48:28
  the industry. He jumps, he goes back to
• 2:48:31
  Philadelphia to drive to to be the voice of the drive home show
• 2:48:33
  in Philadelphia at at the fan over there.
• 2:48:36
  And then they they bring in Ryan Hurley, who is a hoster alum who
• 2:48:41
  was running ESPN New York. And he's a guy that is a yes man
• 2:48:46
  guy. That's what Ryan Hurley is.
• 2:48:48
  He's not a guy that's going to pull the take the bull by its
• 2:48:51
  horns. He's just somebody else speaking
• 2:48:53
  from the the guys, the bosses. And I think the fact here is if
• 2:48:57
  I was Ryan Hurley and I heard that this man was mocking me and
• 2:49:01
  I was in the other room, I would go right in there and suspend
• 2:49:04
  him. I would have suspended him.
• 2:49:06
  And you're talking about two guys, Joe B, who retired and
• 2:49:10
  then came back because they begged him to come back.
• 2:49:13
  And Brandon Tierney, who took the job.
• 2:49:15
  He should have just stayed at CBS Sports where he was, where
• 2:49:18
  he was. He jumped because his dream was
• 2:49:21
  to be a broadcaster with WWFN. And then they had him in
• 2:49:25
  position with Tiki Barber. He was with Tiki Barber, and
• 2:49:28
  they moved him and they gave him one of the dumbest people in
• 2:49:31
  sports broadcasting. And yet Mr. Baldy himself, who
• 2:49:35
  couldn't cut it over there at WFN and he barely has a job at
• 2:49:38
  SNY and everybody knows what I'm talking about with that one too.
• 2:49:41
  Yeah, the one that makes all those bad Mets takes.
• 2:49:44
  As a Mets fan, it's definitely painful to have to listen to him
• 2:49:47
  and SNY. And it makes the rest of the SNY
• 2:49:50
  analysts, a couple of them have been on our show, actually look
• 2:49:53
  pretty good and makes the rest of that show look really.
• 2:49:56
  Bad. I'm so I'm so done.
• 2:49:58
  I'm so done with this Greg Giannotti, she'd apologize.
• 2:50:02
  He should really reach out to Brandon Tierney and apologize
• 2:50:05
  for what he said because this man lost his job.
• 2:50:07
  He's got got children, he's got a family, he's got a house to
• 2:50:10
  take care of. And you're going to just mock
• 2:50:12
  him on a radio station because you have a job and he don't?
• 2:50:16
  That's so disgusting. It's like me, OK, I got a job.
• 2:50:21
  I get hired by a major network and a major network tells me,
• 2:50:24
  well, you can't have these guys. You, you got to you got to come
• 2:50:27
  on without these guys. And I, I sit there and I say,
• 2:50:30
  no, I want these guys to come and I want them to be a part of
• 2:50:33
  this. They work their asses off too.
• 2:50:34
  And they say, well, we don't want them.
• 2:50:36
  We want you. Well, then you can't have me,
• 2:50:38
  you know, So I'm, I'm a dedicated person.
• 2:50:42
  I'm a I'm a team, I'm a team player, OK.
• 2:50:45
  And Greg Giannotti, doing what he did at WFEN shows you he's
• 2:50:49
  not a team player. He's a me player.
• 2:50:51
  He's all about himself. He doesn't care about anybody
• 2:50:54
  else but himself. And to attack a man after losing
• 2:50:57
  his job the way he did is completely despicable,
• 2:51:00
  completely despicable. I, I, I have nothing else to say
• 2:51:03
  about it. It's just horrible to see.
• 2:51:05
  And, and Brandon, honestly, there's no reason he's even to
• 2:51:10
  attack him. Because the truth is, anybody
• 2:51:12
  that knows you as a person and respects you as a man knows that
• 2:51:16
  you are not a bad person, knows that you're a respected person
• 2:51:19
  in this industry. And what I've heard from people
• 2:51:22
  that know Brandon Tierney says that he's one of the nicest
• 2:51:26
  educated sports broadcasters in this industry, so.
• 2:51:30
  Who was the one that you called and attacked him on?
• 2:51:32
  Daniel Jones and Aaron Rodgers. Monaco.
• 2:51:35
  Oh. Chris Mcmonaco.
• 2:51:39
  Is that a cardin's guy now? Yes, I think it is.
• 2:51:41
  Yeah, I think it is. I think it is.
• 2:51:43
  It was Chris Mcmonaco, his fat ass.
• 2:51:46
  OK, I'll say what I have to say. He had the audacity to tell me
• 2:51:52
  on the show, my Brittany was sitting in the bed with me when
• 2:51:55
  I called this guy up on a speakerphone.
• 2:51:58
  So I wanted to hear the interview.
• 2:51:59
  I wanted her to hear the interview.
• 2:52:01
  And this idiot tells me that Daniel Jones had better numbers
• 2:52:06
  than Aaron Rodgers that year. And then he had the audacity to
• 2:52:11
  tell me after that, after that, that sake, they should not
• 2:52:16
  resign Saquon Barkley, that they should give Darren Waller more
• 2:52:21
  money and sign up for a longer deal.
• 2:52:24
  What did Darren Waller do for the Giants?
• 2:52:27
  Absolutely nada. Nothing.
• 2:52:30
  Saquon Barkley goes to the Eagles, breaks, almost breaks
• 2:52:34
  Eric Dickerson's record and runs all over people and wins the
• 2:52:38
  Super Bowl with the Eagles the next year and you got, you have
• 2:52:40
  the audacity to say that? And then Craig Cardin brings him
• 2:52:43
  on his show. What a joke.
• 2:52:45
  An absolute joke. If I ever sat in a room with
• 2:52:47
  this guy, I would snap. I would smack the fat off that
• 2:52:50
  guy's body. OK, it it just absolute
• 2:52:53
  ridiculousness. New York sports is dying right
• 2:52:56
  now. New York sports radio is dying
• 2:52:59
  because of this garbage that's on the radio.
• 2:53:02
  Waller decided instead of playing for the Giants, he was
• 2:53:06
  going to release the worst rap album of the entire year.
• 2:53:10
  And. And.
• 2:53:12
  Figure this one. Figure this one out after he
• 2:53:14
  signed with the Giants, he gets a divorce with his wife.
• 2:53:17
  So she probably says, you know what?
• 2:53:19
  I don't want to go to New York. I don't want to the.
• 2:53:21
  WNBA, right? He's on the Aces and then Jeff
• 2:53:24
  trade Kelsey Plum. As soon as he signed that
• 2:53:26
  contract with the Giants, she divorced him.
• 2:53:29
  So. She or she was the better
• 2:53:31
  athlete. I don't know, but Chris Mcmonaco
• 2:53:35
  is AII have no idea what why and by the way he did.
• 2:53:40
  Craig Carton doesn't even let that guy speak.
• 2:53:43
  That guy does not, he's not even allowed to speak that.
• 2:53:46
  He has to have his own podcast because and nobody do you want
• 2:53:50
  to listen to a guy for six hours, six hours on the radio
• 2:53:54
  going back and forth with Craig Carney, who doesn't speak any
• 2:53:56
  sports whatsoever. He's talking about dog shit on
• 2:53:58
  the side, the side of the road and people don't pick up their
• 2:54:01
  dog shit. I mean, this is sports radio.
• 2:54:03
  I don't want to hear about your take on dog crap or doggy Doo
• 2:54:07
  Doo or this stuff. And then you talk about The Jets
• 2:54:09
  like you're they're your team. Meanwhile, you've thrown The
• 2:54:12
  Jets under the bus every single year you've been on WFN.
• 2:54:15
  So I, I just, I don't want to hear it.
• 2:54:17
  And then I listen to Chris and then after six hours he has his
• 2:54:21
  own podcast almost every other day.
• 2:54:23
  Why do I want to hear that fat ass on his own podcast?
• 2:54:26
  Have to listen to him for six hours with Craig Cotton.
• 2:54:29
  It's pathetic. It's garbage.
• 2:54:32
  Brandon Tierney is probably one of the more talented guys WFA
• 2:54:37
  had, and they fired his ass. It makes no sense.
• 2:54:41
  None of it. So please, tell me, what if I'm
• 2:54:44
  wrong about this great Giannotti taking shots at Brandon Tierney?
• 2:54:49
  It's just ridiculous. And all he does is do these
• 2:54:52
  these impressions, you know, tries to do the Frank Sinatra
• 2:54:56
  thing. He tries to do this, tries to do
• 2:54:58
  that. And I don't want to hear about
• 2:54:59
  the ministry Minnesota Vikings here in New York.
• 2:55:01
  I could give a crap about the Minnesota Vikings.
• 2:55:06
  All right, looks like we got a Wesson.
• 2:55:09
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, we call this Let's parlay. time
• 2:55:21
  for Let's parlay. And I just want to let everybody
• 2:55:26
  know something. I respect everybody that I work
• 2:55:29
  with, no matter what I would say on the show, when I get angry, I
• 2:55:32
  respect Quinton Colpost, he came on, he's working with me.
• 2:55:36
  I love the guy. I just, I, we just started
• 2:55:38
  working together and I think we, we've built, we built a good
• 2:55:42
  relationship and Speedy and all the guys, I would never throw
• 2:55:46
  any of you guys under the bus, even if they tried to draw it
• 2:55:49
  out of me in a radio show. And by the way, I, I interviewed
• 2:55:53
  on a Wall Street Journal story today.
• 2:55:55
  I, I wrote a story about obviously the Netflix and the
• 2:55:58
  Yankees game and somebody reached out to me today and they
• 2:56:01
  did, they did an interview with me, which is going to be posted
• 2:56:04
  on the, on the Wall Street Journal.
• 2:56:07
  And by the way, I spoke about the New York sports loudmouth.
• 2:56:10
  So I just want to let everybody know that you can't go out there
• 2:56:13
  and attack people when there's no reason to attack them.
• 2:56:17
  They're already down and out. Why would you try to push, push
• 2:56:20
  it even more, you know, push him even more down or shoot him?
• 2:56:24
  Could you imagine a dog's limping or a dog has one leg and
• 2:56:27
  you don't think it's worth keeping that dog alive And you
• 2:56:30
  you take it to the back and you shoot him in the head because
• 2:56:33
  you don't think a family wants a A3 legged dog.
• 2:56:36
  I mean, that's that's what Brandon Tierney is.
• 2:56:38
  He lost one of his legs and he's getting shot in the back.
• 2:56:42
  He hadn't, He never said anything.
• 2:56:44
  He never said anything. So Greg Giannotti, man, I would
• 2:56:49
  love to sit down with Greg and, and have a nice conversation
• 2:56:52
  with him. Ask him what was the point of
• 2:56:54
  that, putting somebody down like that.
• 2:56:56
  All right, all right. If everybody has not listened to
• 2:56:59
  this, this segment, it's pretty simple.
• 2:57:02
  Wes is one of our best parlay guys, one of our best hot
• 2:57:05
  handicapped guys. He's one of the best in the
• 2:57:07
  industry, especially with the Canadian Football League.
• 2:57:10
  He's always over 60% and he he really always hits on most of
• 2:57:15
  his bets. So ladies and gentlemen, he's
• 2:57:17
  going to give you his three top bets and he's going to give you
• 2:57:19
  one for one extra one for his parlay.
• 2:57:22
  Wes, you're ready. Yeah.
• 2:57:25
  Can I give you one for what just started, is it?
• 2:57:27
  Can I do that? Yeah, go ahead.
• 2:57:29
  Money line you've been on Houston all year the one that
• 2:57:32
  played for basketball team watch.
• 2:57:34
  I live in Big 12 countries, a bunch of family, but I I'm an
• 2:57:38
  Illinois money line and a half points Illinois.
• 2:57:42
  Can you a bit much in the last three or four games where they
• 2:57:47
  faced where they they they they they smashed on Iowa State
• 2:57:56
  Arizona. I mean, they play in a tough
• 2:57:58
  conference, but you can come up small and they need to score
• 2:58:02
  points and they will need to score points going on the the
• 2:58:06
  odds makers might be looking back at the Big 10 tournament,
• 2:58:09
  but this game just started. It's it's two to nothing
• 2:58:12
  Illinois, but I think Illinois is going to win this game out
• 2:58:14
  right now. I'm glad that we got on when we
• 2:58:16
  did, so I can call that one out. They're.
• 2:58:18
  Going to recreate a new graphic for the skull again.
• 2:58:22
  No, no, in fact, we're going to have to retire then.
• 2:58:25
  And and you know what? It's terrible because in our
• 2:58:28
  group chat I do skull and them together, but no I'm not.
• 2:58:35
  Give us your number two, my friends. #2 We're going to go
• 2:58:37
  tomorrow and I'm going to do something a Buckeye fan should
• 2:58:41
  never do, but I'm going to lay 9 1/2 points on the team up north.
• 2:58:44
  I believe that the Wolverines are going to cover that.
• 2:58:47
  Alabama has been banged up for weeks, a month.
• 2:58:50
  They have some off the court drama taking place.
• 2:58:52
  They can score a lot of points, but they can sometimes come up
• 2:58:55
  small defensively. And I think that the team up
• 2:58:58
  north, the team from Ann Arbor, the Wolverines, as Urban Meyer
• 2:59:02
  would say, they're just far superior off the boards in terms
• 2:59:07
  of rebounding and defense than this SEC team they're going to
• 2:59:11
  play against. Right now we're seeing a clinic
• 2:59:13
  that the Big 10 is putting on in this tournament.
• 2:59:16
  Right. Give us your #3.
• 2:59:19
  I'm going to take it. I'm going to take another
• 2:59:20
  favorite and I'm going to lay the 1 1/2.
• 2:59:22
  And I know that most of the betting public doesn't agree.
• 2:59:25
  Right now, 53% of the action is is on Michigan State.
• 2:59:30
  People are taking the Spartans, and I'm now finding value laying
• 2:59:34
  1 1/2 on UConn. It's a coaching matchup and you
• 2:59:37
  probably could flip a coin. You know the guy of today, the
• 2:59:40
  guy of yesterday, but you know, Yukon is still Yukon.
• 2:59:43
  That Big East is is really, to me, it's the most fun conference
• 2:59:48
  to watch. But I like Yukon to show up in
• 2:59:50
  this tournament. In the past couple years, that
• 2:59:53
  coach has had them in the right position more often than
• 2:59:57
  whatever nostalgia we feel for for Izzo and laying a point and
• 3:00:01
  a half. If I would have told you two
• 3:00:02
  years ago, a year ago, you'd have an opportunity to lay only
• 3:00:05
  1 1/2 and take Yukon in a Sweet 16 game.
• 3:00:08
  You'd probably do it. Yukons gonna Yukons gonna win by
• 3:00:11
  a point and a. Half.
• 3:00:12
  All right, give us your final pick of the night.
• 3:00:16
  This is the final I'm taking a dog I'm and, and I'm right there
• 3:00:21
  with the public. And the scary part is 63% is
• 3:00:24
  doing the same thing that I'm doing.
• 3:00:26
  So I'm, I'm really square here, but I'm, I'm going to take Saint
• 3:00:30
  John's and I'm going to take the 6 1/2 points.
• 3:00:33
  Duke has been off to some slow starts.
• 3:00:35
  If you put the coaches up against one another, I think
• 3:00:38
  that we have the, we have the better coach on the side of
• 3:00:41
  Saint John's. I don't care where Shire is
• 3:00:43
  going. I, I care what we've seen out of
• 3:00:47
  out of Saint John's. And that was they almost lost
• 3:00:50
  that game to Kansas. Forget Homer.
• 3:00:53
  I am not a Jayhawk fan. My family is and I live here,
• 3:00:56
  but they almost lost that game to Kansas because they they just
• 3:01:00
  thought they had it under control.
• 3:01:01
  But what the way that they were able to shut down a team that
• 3:01:05
  can beat you a lot of different ways in that Jayhawk team.
• 3:01:09
  They we could talk for an hour about how broken The Jayhawks
• 3:01:12
  are and how Bill Self needs to go.
• 3:01:14
  But what what Saint John's did to them and the way that they
• 3:01:18
  shut them down is far superior than any type of any type of
• 3:01:23
  approach Duke is going to show up with.
• 3:01:24
  And Duke has gotten off to some slow starts.
• 3:01:27
  You got a week off to get ready for a matchup.
• 3:01:30
  Which coach do you want? St.
• 3:01:31
  John's is going to cover the points.
• 3:01:33
  I don't know that they win, but 6 1/2 is too many.
• 3:01:36
  I want to say something, I want to apologize.
• 3:01:38
  I have not reached out to you over the last couple of weeks.
• 3:01:41
  I've been very sick. So we'll talk.
• 3:01:43
  I'll definitely reach out to you over the weekend.
• 3:01:45
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• 3:01:48
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• 3:01:49
  So the guys know what I've been doing.
• 3:01:51
  And, and dealing with it, I, I'm here, man.
• 3:01:55
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• 3:01:57
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• 3:01:59
  I have to speak to. You off air?
• 3:02:02
  Yeah, pick up the phone when you need to.
• 3:02:03
  I'm up at 4:00 AM, which is equal to 5:00 AM your time.
• 3:02:07
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• 3:02:10
  joining us. Yeah, good talking to you guys.
• 3:02:13
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• 3:02:17
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• 3:02:20
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• 3:02:23
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• 3:02:26
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• 3:02:30
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• 3:02:33
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• 3:02:38
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• 3:03:06
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• 3:03:09
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• 3:03:24
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• 3:03:25
  A couple of more stories before we get into how all the scores
• 3:03:29
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• 3:03:31
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• 3:03:34
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• 3:03:38
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• 3:03:41
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• 3:03:44
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• 3:03:46
  her and her three kids, all under the age of 9.
• 3:03:49
  The Minnesota Wild organization is heartbroken by the tragic
• 3:03:52
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• 3:03:53
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• 3:04:02
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• 3:04:07
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• 3:04:10
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• 3:04:13
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• 3:04:19
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• 3:04:21
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• 3:04:28
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• 3:04:37
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• 3:04:41
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• 3:04:45
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• 3:04:49
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• 3:04:54
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• 3:04:59
  2026 season. Wilson will compete with Spencer
• 3:05:02
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• 3:05:06
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• 3:05:10
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• 3:05:13
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• 3:05:15
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• 3:05:18
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• 3:05:29
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• 3:05:32
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  There's been a lot of debating tonight.
• 3:07:05
  A lot. And I love it it.
• 3:07:06
  It really brings out personality.
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  It brings out who we are on this show.
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  And we're not fake. That's one thing I can say about
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  us. We know what we're going to
• 3:07:15
  argue about and we know how to argue it.
• 3:07:18
  And we're not going to throw something out there just because
• 3:07:20
  it sticks. But I'd like to thank Scout
• 3:07:24
  Central and former Pelicans executive Dan Purcell for
• 3:07:26
  joining us. He was sensational.
• 3:07:28
  We really appreciate him. He always comes on, He always
• 3:07:30
  gives us good takes, and he's one of the more knowledgeable
• 3:07:33
  people when it comes to college basketball and future NBA
• 3:07:37
  superstars. And I'd like to thank Worldwide
• 3:07:40
  W for joining us and giving us his handicaps and his picks of
• 3:07:44
  the week. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
• 3:07:46
  we have another segment as we got to get into the March
• 3:07:50
  Madness check. Are we ready?
• 3:07:53
  What's going on right now in the Sweet 16?
• 3:07:56
  There's a couple of games in action.
• 3:07:58
  You guys were just talking about them in the Let's parlay
• 3:08:00
  segment. Houston, Illinois, just getting
• 3:08:02
  started. You know, it's back and forth
• 3:08:04
  just to get going. Not a lot of points.
• 3:08:06
  I don't think we have a lot of points coming in this game.
• 3:08:09
  It's 9 to 8 halfway through the first half, which is pretty
• 3:08:12
  crazy. So to me, I know what Houston
• 3:08:16
  wants to do and they want a low scoring game.
• 3:08:18
  I feel like that favors Houston. How do you feel about this
• 3:08:21
  matchup? Oh, I love it.
• 3:08:22
  And I think Houston is going to the Final four.
• 3:08:24
  They're in probably the easiest bracket.
• 3:08:26
  I I and now that Vanderbilt's out, I mean, Illinois might be
• 3:08:30
  the hardest game they have left. So if they knock off Illinois,
• 3:08:33
  I, I, I just, I think they're good.
• 3:08:36
  They're destined to go to the Final four now.
• 3:08:38
  I don't, I know they're not going to win.
• 3:08:40
  I know they're not going to beat anybody that they're matched up
• 3:08:42
  against in the Final four. But I think that they have a
• 3:08:46
  little bit more offense in the tournament than they had last
• 3:08:50
  year, which a lot of people didn't predict that they were,
• 3:08:53
  but they played offense. They're they've been pretty good
• 3:08:55
  offensively and I do think they're better than Illinois.
• 3:08:59
  That doesn't mean Illinois can't win this game, but I, I just,
• 3:09:02
  there's just something about this team that Houston wants to
• 3:09:06
  get back in that final four and whoever they match up with, you
• 3:09:09
  know, they have an opportunity just get into the final four.
• 3:09:14
  Anything could happen. So I, I, I definitely have for
• 3:09:17
  Houston winning this game. And I don't even think I think
• 3:09:20
  it's going to be like 5-6 points.
• 3:09:21
  They'll, they'll, they'll probably win by so and you're
• 3:09:24
  right, Fish. They want to keep it as low as
• 3:09:26
  they possibly can keep the game close, being that Houston's a
• 3:09:29
  great dominant defending team and they they're not what it
• 3:09:32
  what you call an offensive style of team.
• 3:09:35
  So I think this bodes well for Houston that the game is very
• 3:09:39
  low scoring. I was talking about how Illinois
• 3:09:41
  shoots the three a lot and they're always been, since Brad
• 3:09:43
  Underwood has gotten there, one of the more potent offensive
• 3:09:45
  schemes in the country. They've tended to rotate around
• 3:09:48
  some several big, big men. They have some good big men on
• 3:09:50
  this team as well. I'm curious how much they end up
• 3:09:52
  going inside in this matchup a lot more, especially since, like
• 3:09:55
  you're saying, fish, they're already struggling to shoot so
• 3:09:57
  far and struggling to shoot is definitely a benefit to Houston.
• 3:09:59
  Houston is the slower pace that Samson wants to play definitely
• 3:10:04
  favors them, so it'll be up to Underwood to adjust the
• 3:10:06
  offensive efficiency. Houston has been good on display
• 3:10:08
  this tournament so far, 80 points in both their tournament
• 3:10:11
  games. Illinois's defense though has
• 3:10:12
  been very sharp so far as well. So which over performing unit
• 3:10:15
  comes through will be a big question.
• 3:10:16
  But yeah, I tend to favor Houston a little more, even
• 3:10:18
  though I know W was on Illinois that time.
• 3:10:21
  I don't know. I think, I think I pick Houston
• 3:10:24
  to go for it, but I think that might be upset tonight.
• 3:10:27
  I just feel something different about Illinois tonight.
• 3:10:30
  I think they might come out and not actually upset Houston, but
• 3:10:33
  then again, I would upset it Nebraska already, so that might
• 3:10:37
  have been the upset feeling I'm feeling.
• 3:10:39
  But I definitely got Houston going well to the Final Four, so
• 3:10:43
  I look forward to them pulling it out overall just so my
• 3:10:46
  bracket can stay where it's at. But I would not be surprised if
• 3:10:51
  Illinois came out on top of this one.
• 3:10:54
  All right, let's talk about the other game that's going on right
• 3:10:56
  now. Arizona, Arkansas.
• 3:10:59
  We got Calipari, Tommy Lloyd, who Dan Purcell thought is a
• 3:11:03
  really good head coaching candidate for possibly UNC.
• 3:11:08
  Which is. Interesting.
• 3:11:09
  I think they're getting a Big 12 coach, yeah.
• 3:11:12
  Right now it's 23 to 15. Arizona up 8 early.
• 3:11:16
  The shooting percentage is 75% right now for Arizona, 100% from
• 3:11:22
  three. Buries has five points.
• 3:11:24
  So does Co opete. A cuff is getting taking all the
• 3:11:28
  shots. It's a very ball dominant game.
• 3:11:30
  Just like Purcell was saying, it's ISO ball.
• 3:11:34
  Mr. Acuff Junior, he's if you're great at it, it's great.
• 3:11:37
  I just don't think that style of play is gonna beat a really good
• 3:11:40
  college. Score in college tournament.
• 3:11:42
  What's the? Score right now it's a 10 point.
• 3:11:44
  It's now 20. It's a 10 point lead right now
• 3:11:46
  for Arizona halfway through the 1st.
• 3:11:49
  Okay, and I Arizona's obviously going to be the favorites.
• 3:11:53
  They're they're they're good. They're very well oiled machine.
• 3:11:56
  They always are. They're very good offensively.
• 3:11:58
  They've played very well throughout the tournament, but
• 3:12:01
  Arkansas has been their hardest competition.
• 3:12:03
  Now we'll see how Arkansas remember they were saying that
• 3:12:06
  Arkansas has been tired since the winning the championship.
• 3:12:10
  We'll have to see as the game moves forward if Arkansas can
• 3:12:14
  keep them as as as close as they possibly can.
• 3:12:17
  So in Calipari's teams, the last five minutes of the game, they
• 3:12:20
  play and, and you know, Calipari is going to get out there, he's
• 3:12:24
  going to coach the hell out of that game.
• 3:12:26
  And this guy was a winner. This guy, everywhere he goes, he
• 3:12:29
  finds a way to win. This is his second Sweet 16 and
• 3:12:31
  he's been with Arkansas, what, 2 years?
• 3:12:33
  It's been very impressive what Calipari has done, especially
• 3:12:37
  when you talk about Kentucky leaving Kentucky, where they get
• 3:12:40
  all the top recruits. And then you go to Arkansas and,
• 3:12:42
  and, and, and how he's built this team and how he's built
• 3:12:45
  this program has been sensational.
• 3:12:46
  So I I'm not going to, I'm not going to say that Arkansas can't
• 3:12:49
  win this game just because they're down by 10 points.
• 3:12:52
  I expect this game to be a lot closer at the end of the game.
• 3:12:55
  So Arizona is a good team, man. There's no question.
• 3:12:58
  And I know you have them the winning championship.
• 3:13:00
  I have them losing against Purdue in the next round.
• 3:13:02
  So a lot, a lot. Instead, you know, in stake for
• 3:13:07
  both teams. And if Arkansas wins this game,
• 3:13:10
  they match up better, I think, against Purdue than Arizona
• 3:13:12
  does. Yeah, they definitely do.
• 3:13:14
  I think you look at the forward depth that Arkansas has,
• 3:13:16
  defensively speaking. I think that's the guys that
• 3:13:19
  have to step up offensively in this game because we've seen
• 3:13:21
  we're due to have the wing depth offensively a lot more this
• 3:13:25
  year. And that's the test in this game
• 3:13:26
  as well with Arizona with the three-point shooting prowess
• 3:13:29
  that they have with berries and if Bradley is on in this game,
• 3:13:33
  the three-point shooting prowess that they have with size and
• 3:13:36
  Arkansas, can they be get more than a cuff is going to be the
• 3:13:39
  question. A cuff right now has seven of
• 3:13:40
  the 15 points for Arkansas. They're going to need a lot more
• 3:13:43
  secondary scoring to make that work.
• 3:13:44
  And you mention being tired like these are two teams that both
• 3:13:46
  won their conference championship.
• 3:13:48
  So maybe the SEC one was longer and maybe more physical, but the
• 3:13:53
  Big 12 was a deeper 1. So it'll be similar tests both
• 3:13:55
  ways on that standpoint with the week off to be able to game plan
• 3:13:58
  for and like you say Calipari, can you make an adjustment to
• 3:14:01
  get 180 runner and something like?
• 3:14:02
  That he always, if the game is close and there's 5 minutes
• 3:14:05
  left, let's say if Arizona up by 5 points, I would bet on
• 3:14:09
  Calipari getting this team back into the game and maybe pulling
• 3:14:12
  it out and winning it. If it's like 15 points, there's
• 3:14:16
  no chance. But I'm telling you, I've seen
• 3:14:18
  Calipari's teams, if they're down by 5 points, it doesn't
• 3:14:21
  matter where he coached Memphis, everywhere he's gone, Kentucky,
• 3:14:26
  he finds a way to pull out those close games.
• 3:14:28
  So I'm telling you, if there's 5 minutes left in the game and
• 3:14:31
  Arkansas is only down by 5, I'd bet on Arkansas.
• 3:14:34
  If you're betting on DraftKings and you have 5 minutes left to
• 3:14:37
  bet, I would bet on Arkansas so. I think Arkansas tire, I think
• 3:14:42
  we saw it against high point. And so at the end of the day, I
• 3:14:44
  think Arizona run away with this game.
• 3:14:46
  I think 10 points up now it's just the beginning.
• 3:14:49
  I think it's going to be a long night.
• 3:14:51
  Well. Your mouth to God's ears for my
• 3:14:54
  bracket, I'll tell you that. So let's.
• 3:14:56
  Get in. Look, I I I just think the Big
• 3:15:01
  12 is the best conference this year and I like the teams that
• 3:15:05
  have already been eliminated like Kansas, they were like the
• 3:15:08
  4th or the 5th best team in that conference and they would have
• 3:15:11
  been like a two or third, second or third best team in the SECI
• 3:15:15
  think the SEC is not as good this year.
• 3:15:18
  Then I think this game is going to kind of show it as well.
• 3:15:20
  Let's talk about the big, well I guess Big 10 over here and the I
• 3:15:25
  can't believe I messed this up in their first sports minute.
• 3:15:27
  But Iowa and Nebraska, the battle of the people that grow
• 3:15:34
  the most corn in America, the Nebraska Hawkers and Iowa
• 3:15:37
  Hawkeyes and the 9 seeded Iowa Hawkeyes pull the upset with a
• 3:15:42
  big second-half, holding Nebraska to only 25 points in
• 3:15:47
  the second-half of that game. 7771 finish.
• 3:15:51
  Bennett Sturtz, 4th year senior, Big 10 player of the year.
• 3:15:56
  If you remember he had that run as a freshman with Drake and him
• 3:16:00
  and his coach moved over to Iowa.
• 3:16:04
  He's phenomenal. Played all 40 minutes, 20
• 3:16:07
  points, 4 assists on 7 to 15 shooting for Nebraska.
• 3:16:12
  Sanford had a big game, 25 points, had six threes.
• 3:16:16
  It just it wasn't enough. It was a team that seemed to,
• 3:16:20
  you know, just struggle with being consistent offensively in
• 3:16:23
  the second-half of the season in my opinion.
• 3:16:25
  Congratulations to Nebraska to get into the Sweet 6, Sweet 16
• 3:16:29
  for the first time ever and doing what they did all season
• 3:16:33
  long, playing hard shooting and and and playing for their coach.
• 3:16:37
  It's a sensational story. So I want to give a shout out to
• 3:16:39
  Jabba and his Cornhuskers. They definitely well deserved
• 3:16:43
  Iowa. Iowa could go all the way.
• 3:16:46
  Iowa has the talent they can. They can absolutely go all the
• 3:16:50
  way. When you watch teams play as
• 3:16:53
  hard as they remember, they were down by 10 in this game at one
• 3:16:56
  point and coming back the way they did, they played hard
• 3:16:59
  defensively in the second-half. They have the ability, they have
• 3:17:02
  the size, they have the ability and they can shoot the ball.
• 3:17:05
  Why couldn't Iowa go all the way Now, they they got to go through
• 3:17:08
  a couple of teams before that happens, but they absolutely
• 3:17:12
  could and they could be the Cinderella team in this
• 3:17:14
  tournament. But we I knew this game was
• 3:17:17
  going to be close. I had, I had, I didn't have Iowa
• 3:17:21
  winning this game. But I.
• 3:17:23
  Did bracket bracket Buster again.
• 3:17:25
  No, I'm actually doing pretty damn well, so I don't know what
• 3:17:28
  you're talking about. So.
• 3:17:30
  Where you at now, second? Don't worry, I'm going to be at
• 3:17:33
  first before you know it, don't you?
• 3:17:34
  Worry you can't check it till Monday because in the middle of
• 3:17:38
  the week of you know it's just going.
• 3:17:40
  To matter, I'll be at first by then, so it doesn't matter.
• 3:17:43
  I'm good as after St. John's loses against Duke, I I'm
• 3:17:47
  going to tell you, I told you so because that's what's going to
• 3:17:50
  happen. And UConn will win.
• 3:17:52
  They'll beat Michigan State and and there she blows as we have
• 3:17:56
  it, Yeah. Fish, I was going to mention
• 3:17:58
  with the go back to the Iowa game Bennett starts has been
• 3:18:01
  somebody that you get those kinds of transfers that have
• 3:18:03
  experience going over from other teams.
• 3:18:05
  A lot of times those are the biggest keys to victory.
• 3:18:08
  You saw that last year with Florida, with Elijah Martin, a
• 3:18:10
  guy that had Final Four experience with FAU and UConn.
• 3:18:13
  Obviously taking a lot of these veteran players in their time,
• 3:18:16
  that's the way it's going. And Iowa was always kind of that
• 3:18:18
  one identity type team. It's kind of funny.
• 3:18:20
  They're like the opposite of their football team.
• 3:18:21
  They were all offense, no defense with their basketball
• 3:18:24
  team. They never went far in the
• 3:18:25
  tournament. They usually would win around
• 3:18:26
  and that was it. And now you're seeing a coach
• 3:18:28
  that has the experience with Drake, a kind of different
• 3:18:30
  identity that they brought over there.
• 3:18:32
  Nebraska was a very balanced overall team and you're right,
• 3:18:34
  they deserved a lot of credit for where they came back
• 3:18:36
  recovering. They've never been in the
• 3:18:38
  tournament. Yes, the second-half of the
• 3:18:39
  season they didn't look great and they looked like they were
• 3:18:42
  struggling in conference play a lot of the time, so maybe the
• 3:18:44
  sense of familiarity with Iowa definitely helped them be able
• 3:18:47
  to game plan for it. They should shot the three
• 3:18:49
  pretty well in this game. This didn't do much else.
• 3:18:50
  Iowa. Iowa was always here.
• 3:18:53
  Iowa always makes the tournament.
• 3:18:55
  They usually in the tournament every single year.
• 3:18:58
  This team has never been in the tournament.
• 3:19:00
  They've never gone as far as the Sweet 16.
• 3:19:02
  That by itself sells you to understand how great of a season
• 3:19:07
  they had. So I, I, I give a shout out to
• 3:19:09
  Nebraska. The fact that they went as far
• 3:19:12
  as they did, they played as hard as they did, gives at least
• 3:19:16
  shows you that this program could win and get into the
• 3:19:19
  tournament every single year if they put the right guys in
• 3:19:21
  place. So I think it's a great story.
• 3:19:24
  And they got a good coach. And you know, I when you have
• 3:19:27
  the good coach, it helps. Speaking of good coaches, Sean
• 3:19:30
  Miller almost did it today. Errol, he, he really almost did.
• 3:19:34
  And I don't I don't know what happened what they do when it
• 3:19:37
  gets to tournament time on his teams, but he seemed in his
• 3:19:41
  entire career to figure it out. They were only 21 and 15 this
• 3:19:44
  season. Texas Longhorns 11 seeded Texas
• 3:19:47
  Longhorns had to win the play in game.
• 3:19:50
  They lost on a last second tip in to Purdue 7977 gave them
• 3:19:57
  everything they could handle. It was Kauffman Wren at the
• 3:20:01
  buzzer. He's got buzzer beater.
• 3:20:03
  You're going to get to see replays of it.
• 3:20:05
  We'll probably show it on Monday Show. 20 points for Kauffman
• 3:20:08
  Wren on, 8 of 10 shooting, 4 for four on from the line, eight
• 3:20:12
  boards. The guy is a beast down the
• 3:20:16
  line. Five guys in double figures for
• 3:20:19
  Purdue. They just keep coming with guys
• 3:20:22
  even if you throw everything at them in the kitchen sink.
• 3:20:25
  And it looks like they did train on mark for Texas out of
• 3:20:28
  nowhere. 29 points, 11 of 15, five of seven from three.
• 3:20:32
  You know, it's just, you see teams like Texas and you're
• 3:20:35
  like, I don't get it. This coach has something magical
• 3:20:38
  that he knows how to motivate this time of the year.
• 3:20:41
  You got to explain it to me because I I don't have any other
• 3:20:44
  other explanation that it's not the coach.
• 3:20:46
  Championship teams find a way to win.
• 3:20:49
  They find a way to win. I'm not.
• 3:20:50
  Purdue hasn't won a championship yet, but they've been there.
• 3:20:52
  They lost against UConn. But this is an organization.
• 3:20:56
  This is a program that has a very good coach.
• 3:20:58
  They play hard for the coach. They're very well built.
• 3:21:02
  I mean, they're big, they're strong.
• 3:21:03
  Their point guard is one of the best passers in in the world
• 3:21:06
  right now. As far as college basketball, he
• 3:21:08
  is and they've done all the things that they needed to do to
• 3:21:12
  win the game. Now they cannot do this against
• 3:21:14
  Arizona if Arizona is matched up against them and they they
• 3:21:17
  cannot give a no name player or a player that's not a star on
• 3:21:20
  that roster 29 points and expect to win the game.
• 3:21:23
  They got to keep it low and they got to play defense.
• 3:21:26
  That's what Purdue teams do. They keep the game close and at
• 3:21:29
  the end of the game, they have enough talent to find a way to
• 3:21:31
  close in. But it to me, I'm not surprised
• 3:21:35
  that a team like that in Texas found a way to keep the game
• 3:21:39
  close. Purdue is a team that just finds
• 3:21:42
  a way to win those games all year round and they won.
• 3:21:45
  I think they lost like 7 or 8 games this year.
• 3:21:48
  The games that they lost, all the games were close.
• 3:21:50
  They were all close. So they're not a team that gets
• 3:21:54
  beaten down. They're the ones that make sure
• 3:21:57
  that they're doing all the right things at the tail end of the
• 3:22:00
  game. And that's why I like Purdue in
• 3:22:02
  this tournament, because if the game is close, it doesn't matter
• 3:22:05
  who they matched up with. Arkansas, Arizona.
• 3:22:08
  I'm betting on them because they'll find a way to get it
• 3:22:10
  done. Yeah, they this is something
• 3:22:12
  that they haven't had in other years, even with a lot a lot of
• 3:22:14
  other top players from Carson Edwards to Jaden Ivy to Zach
• 3:22:17
  Edie, they haven't had the depth scoring, the balance scoring
• 3:22:20
  that you saw in this kind of game.
• 3:22:22
  Like having 5 double digit scores is not the Purdue way.
• 3:22:25
  And a lot of these other teams that have won championships are
• 3:22:28
  gone in the Final Four, have some level of balance scoring.
• 3:22:30
  It was always all right, Let's hope this guy could carry you
• 3:22:32
  and get enough supporting cast with their defense.
• 3:22:34
  And they didn't even have their defense in this game.
• 3:22:35
  But this was a team that was ahead of schedule last year,
• 3:22:37
  made the Sweet 16 and lost to Houston on that tip in, that
• 3:22:40
  inbound tip in. And now they get a little magic
• 3:22:42
  of their own to happen. Give some credit to Texas.
• 3:22:44
  This was a great, good offense performance.
• 3:22:47
  Like you said, that Sean Miller kind of recreating his own
• 3:22:49
  coaching style because he was up and down at Xavier when he was
• 3:22:51
  there and they never really had a great tournament identity.
• 3:22:54
  They had another team that was all offense, no defense, but got
• 3:22:57
  Texas. Made some good plays in this
• 3:22:58
  game, got some spread out scoring.
• 3:23:00
  Just wasn't enough for Purdue's really balanced scoring in this.
• 3:23:02
  Game, But Purdue cannot do that against Arizona.
• 3:23:04
  Not defensively, no, they definitely cannot.
• 3:23:06
  They don't do that against Arizona because they they.
• 3:23:07
  Don't want to get involved in a faster paced shootout as much as
• 3:23:11
  painters team this year is faster paced than their usual
• 3:23:14
  team. That's still not his Forte as
• 3:23:15
  much compared to. Arizona.
• 3:23:16
  I'm more worried about Arkansas. I am, too.
• 3:23:19
  If Arkansas wins this game, I'm more worried about them than I
• 3:23:23
  am of Arizona. Because Arkansas, they're a
• 3:23:25
  greedy team. And John Calipari likes those
• 3:23:27
  greedy games. Yeah, but they're going to run
• 3:23:30
  out of gas, so I don't think that's going to happen.
• 3:23:32
  And then I thought something Arizona just got too much
• 3:23:34
  firepower and Purdue is a good, good, you know, play hard team.
• 3:23:40
  I think every year we get those one or two teams that just, you
• 3:23:43
  know, out will they they opponents to get to deep into
• 3:23:48
  the bracket. And so, yeah, I I see Purdue
• 3:23:51
  falling short again this year, but they are they are a good
• 3:23:54
  organization. And then I think also Arizona
• 3:23:57
  just and those business as well. But yeah.
• 3:24:00
  If they if they beat, if they beat Arizona or Arkansas, you
• 3:24:04
  can book it. Purdue is winning the national
• 3:24:06
  championship. I'm telling you right now, if
• 3:24:08
  they beat Arkansas, Arizona and they get into the Final Four,
• 3:24:12
  there's no way in hell this team is going to lose the
• 3:24:14
  championship. Yeah, I still like UConn if they
• 3:24:16
  do beat them too. Well, Uconn's on the other side.
• 3:24:19
  They would have to meet in the championship.
• 3:24:21
  And yeah, that's what you said, the championship.
• 3:24:23
  I have UConn and Purdue in the championship, the national
• 3:24:26
  championship, and I would love to see that again.
• 3:24:28
  I would. Love, you were saying just make
• 3:24:29
  it to the championship? Yeah, I thought just said I was
• 3:24:31
  going to win it. No Purdue, no Purdue is going to
• 3:24:33
  win. I I think that they go through
• 3:24:36
  Arkansas or Arizona, I think it's a sure thing they're going
• 3:24:39
  to win the national championship because whoever they're matched
• 3:24:42
  up against Michigan, which I have Michigan in them, and even
• 3:24:45
  if they beat Michigan and they go against UConn or anybody on
• 3:24:48
  the other side, Houston or UConn, I just think that this
• 3:24:52
  year is there's just something special about this team.
• 3:24:56
  That's what I think. And by the way, the last time
• 3:24:59
  somebody broke the the assist record was Bobby Hurley.
• 3:25:03
  And if you remember when they did that, Duke won the national
• 3:25:06
  championship. So I'm just saying I mean.
• 3:25:09
  You don't have to worry about that, *** OK, I remember I'm not
• 3:25:13
  listening when I when I tell you.
• 3:25:15
  You don't need to have Duke in the championship.
• 3:25:17
  No, I don't. No, I don't he.
• 3:25:18
  Said he's. Going to lose you, right?
• 3:25:21
  What are you talking about? I said the last time Braden
• 3:25:24
  Smith broke Bobby Hurley's record, the last time Duke won
• 3:25:28
  the champ, when Duke won the champ, when he broke that
• 3:25:30
  record, Bobby Hurley broke that record.
• 3:25:32
  Duke won the national championship.
• 3:25:33
  Braden Smith, he just broke Bobby Hurley's record.
• 3:25:36
  And that's why I think it's just to me, I, I believe that this is
• 3:25:41
  Purdue's year. I think they win the National.
• 3:25:43
  Championship. So this is Purdue, Yeah.
• 3:25:46
  Before we we wrap this up, I just wanted to again bring
• 3:25:49
  attention to Sean Miller. What do you think?
• 3:25:51
  His he's, he's coached 718 games over since 2004.
• 3:25:58
  So in the last 22 years, what do you think?
• 3:26:01
  How many wins do you think he has out of 7/18?
• 3:26:04
  He's got to have at least 600. It's not No 600.
• 3:26:08
  I mean, he's like the best coach of all time.
• 3:26:09
  Like 9 out of 718. Games So what what do you think
• 3:26:13
  is winning percentages it's got to.
• 3:26:14
  Be over 506. 100 / 600. Yeah, it's seven O 8.
• 3:26:19
  He's a seven O 8 coach, which means that that's like rarefied
• 3:26:23
  air if you can be over 700. Yeah, but he doesn't win the big
• 3:26:25
  game. He.
• 3:26:26
  Doesn't win. Well, you're right.
• 3:26:27
  But I think what you're seeing is he I think some guys just, it
• 3:26:31
  takes time and that was one of them.
• 3:26:34
  I was watching on the back while you guys were doing a lot of the
• 3:26:37
  interview. They were beating their ass most
• 3:26:39
  of the game like they were taking it to him and they had
• 3:26:42
  the lead and then they lost it in the last couple of minutes
• 3:26:45
  and then they came back and tied it up again.
• 3:26:47
  That's a gutsy, gutsy performance.
• 3:26:50
  And the fact that they won three games in this tournament,
• 3:26:52
  including the first four-game is really impressive.
• 3:26:55
  It you got to give him credit. Now they're just going to devote
• 3:26:57
  more nil money and not give it all the arch manic.
• 3:27:01
  I mean, he couldn't win the big game in Arizona and now the the
• 3:27:04
  irony is maybe Arizona is the big game team now he.
• 3:27:07
  Got in trouble in Arizona? OK, we all know what happened.
• 3:27:12
  We all know what he what he did under the table, OK.
• 3:27:15
  And we can, we can, we can reach out to DeAndre Ayton and ask him
• 3:27:19
  what he was doing. OK, that aside, he is, I think
• 3:27:22
  it's obvious he's an excellent. Coach.
• 3:27:23
  No, he's a great coach. No, by far.
• 3:27:25
  He's a great coach. All right, John.
• 3:27:29
  Left. Darrell.
• 3:27:30
  All right, All right. Ladies and gentlemen, we call
• 3:27:33
  this Dial it Up. We interrupt this regularly
• 3:27:36
  scheduled hot mix to bring you important news.
• 3:27:38
  We got a big broadcast to do here.
• 3:27:40
  We're about to dial it up. All right, everybody, welcome
• 3:27:48
  back to Dial IT Up, everyone's favorite Lightning round sports
• 3:27:54
  segment. We're going to give Errol five
• 3:27:56
  stories he hasn't heard or seen yet and he's going to dial up a
• 3:27:59
  take and one of us is going to go back and forth with them.
• 3:28:02
  Here we go. First one up in Dial It Up and
• 3:28:07
  let's just get the camera working.
• 3:28:08
  There it is. The MB Pai, don't know if you
• 3:28:11
  saw this, slams the Bucks for benching Giannis.
• 3:28:16
  Giannis wants to play. He says he's healthy.
• 3:28:20
  The Bucks are trying to tank. And Adam Silver has already said
• 3:28:25
  next year this ain't happening anymore, that there's going to
• 3:28:28
  be punishments. I'm very curious what those
• 3:28:31
  punishments are going to be. But the Bucks seemingly are
• 3:28:34
  letting this relationship go as South as possible because they
• 3:28:40
  don't. They're clearly not keeping him
• 3:28:42
  after this year. Errol.
• 3:28:45
  Dial it. Up Well, it's pretty simple.
• 3:28:47
  If you're a Yanis fan and you want to see him win as many
• 3:28:50
  games at his final year with the Milwaukee Bucks, that's what you
• 3:28:53
  want. They're trying to protect
• 3:28:55
  Giannis. Giannis just coming off a major
• 3:28:57
  injury. He has been on and off all
• 3:28:59
  season long on his ankle and his leg.
• 3:29:01
  He wants they want to make sure that he's healthy so they can
• 3:29:03
  trade him in the offseason and not lose out on getting as much
• 3:29:07
  back for him. So they're trying to keep him
• 3:29:09
  healthy, then they're trying to get a high draft pick.
• 3:29:12
  So I'm not surprised this is going on.
• 3:29:14
  And by the way, Adam Silver has has created this problem.
• 3:29:18
  He's the one that has allowed this to happen.
• 3:29:20
  If he stepped in and done something about it over the last
• 3:29:23
  couple of years, this wouldn't be going on.
• 3:29:25
  This has been going on for a lot longer than a year.
• 3:29:28
  This has been going on for years and they're getting away with
• 3:29:32
  it. So now all of a sudden, Adam
• 3:29:34
  Silver's stepping in because he knows that half these teams are
• 3:29:37
  trying to get these top draft picks because they know that
• 3:29:39
  there are there are tons of superstars in this this class
• 3:29:42
  like you heard Dan Purcell. It's not surprising to me.
• 3:29:46
  And now, now all of a sudden, Adam Silver or the LGA or LeBron
• 3:29:50
  James reach out to Adam and said, listen, you need to clean
• 3:29:52
  this up, man, or I'm going to fire your ass.
• 3:29:55
  That's what I think. Yeah, it looks like there's
• 3:29:56
  special treatment on tanking, like we talked about a few weeks
• 3:29:59
  ago with the NBA tracking down on the Utah Jazz and the Indiana
• 3:30:02
  Pacers. Now they're going to track down
• 3:30:03
  on the Milwaukee Bucks, but not some of these other teams doing
• 3:30:05
  it like you're picking and choosing like which teams to
• 3:30:08
  target. And it just happened to be that
• 3:30:09
  the top five player in the league that's going to be traded
• 3:30:12
  and the number one commodity of the offseasons is the model of
• 3:30:15
  it. Yeah, OK.
• 3:30:15
  He's not going OKC, by the way. I'm telling you right now, he's
• 3:30:18
  not going, OK? Why, why?
• 3:30:21
  Why wouldn't he? Because he doesn't want to go to
• 3:30:23
  OKC. But he can't go where he wants
• 3:30:26
  to go. That's the biggest issue.
• 3:30:27
  In the NBA. He have really have a set spot
• 3:30:29
  where he wants to. Listen to me, Listen to me.
• 3:30:31
  There's one. Reason why he wanted to go to
• 3:30:33
  niche. There's a reason.
• 3:30:34
  There's a reason why I'm saying this.
• 3:30:36
  In the NBA, the players get to choose where they want to go.
• 3:30:40
  And if they don't, they're going to sit out.
• 3:30:42
  They're going to say, you know what?
• 3:30:43
  I'm not playing for that team. You're going to have to trade
• 3:30:45
  me. In the NBA.
• 3:30:46
  This is the only sport that they have this problem.
• 3:30:49
  And I'm telling you right now, Giannis wants to go to the
• 3:30:51
  Knicks. He's going to the Knicks.
• 3:30:53
  I'm telling you right now, and when Dan Parcells comes back on
• 3:30:56
  the show, I'm gonna say I told you so.
• 3:30:58
  Well, you get rid of cat. See what's gonna happen?
• 3:31:00
  It would be. Mitch wouldn't.
• 3:31:02
  It would be Mitch and OG Anobi. Make the salary.
• 3:31:06
  Make the salary. Just dose it just.
• 3:31:08
  And then you would give, it would probably be like picks,
• 3:31:10
  like 3 picks picks, you know? He still got one year on his
• 3:31:13
  country though, right? Yes, he's getting traded.
• 3:31:16
  Two years, Two years, Well, you would assume there's going to be
• 3:31:19
  some kind of extension. Right.
• 3:31:20
  So they don't want more than just those two players.
• 3:31:22
  I don't know. I, I, it's, it's really more a
• 3:31:24
  leverage thing because he has the no trade clause because he's
• 3:31:28
  been in the league for so long. So he can kind of force his way
• 3:31:30
  where he wants. So they might not get the best
• 3:31:32
  deal. I mean, OKC can offer the best
• 3:31:34
  deal, but I don't know who's trying to make OKC better right
• 3:31:38
  now. He could have won, I mean.
• 3:31:39
  He could have won. Who really wants Giannis at?
• 3:31:42
  The Knicks? The Knicks, they didn't want to
• 3:31:44
  give up. See, the problem was in the
• 3:31:46
  offseason, he, Giannis told, told the organization to reach
• 3:31:50
  out to the Knicks. That's where he wants to play.
• 3:31:52
  They wanted OG Ananobi that last year.
• 3:31:55
  But I think that now sitting back and knowing where they are,
• 3:32:00
  it's leverage. Like like Fish was saying, and
• 3:32:03
  now Giannis is going to leverage his way out of there.
• 3:32:06
  He's going to say, listen, I want to go here and this is all
• 3:32:09
  I want to go. And if you don't train me here,
• 3:32:11
  whoever you train me to, I'm going to force my way out of
• 3:32:13
  there too. So they're not even going to
• 3:32:15
  want you. They're not even going to want
• 3:32:17
  me so. Milwaukee wouldn't care about
• 3:32:19
  that. Could they still get what they?
• 3:32:21
  Because he has a no trade clause, so he's not gonna wanna
• 3:32:25
  go there. Oh well, he just tell you he
• 3:32:26
  just sit back. So it's gonna play out this
• 3:32:28
  offseason, 'cause this like the way they're handling it, clearly
• 3:32:32
  the Bucks at this point, he's gone.
• 3:32:34
  I mean, I that's what it looks like to me.
• 3:32:36
  And it's not a Kawinki dink that he bought a condo in Brooklyn
• 3:32:40
  recently, so. Just so you're going to the Nets
• 3:32:42
  that makes. No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 3:32:44
  It has nothing to do with the Nets.
• 3:32:46
  He does he want to really go to such a crap franchise?
• 3:32:49
  I mean, he don't want to, but he wants the New York market.
• 3:32:51
  So he gets the New York market and he just doesn't get.
• 3:32:55
  I mean, they would have the at, they definitely would have the
• 3:32:58
  assets. But let's let's keep it rolling.
• 3:33:00
  We got more stories here. We're going to go from
• 3:33:03
  basketball to baseball. I think I mentioned this to QA
• 3:33:06
  little earlier. There was a Rangers AA pitcher
• 3:33:09
  right at the last game of the pre season.
• 3:33:11
  He was on the mound, looked like he was going to get pulled.
• 3:33:14
  Manager Skip Schumacher, he was, you know, one of these guys that
• 3:33:19
  people really think highly of and that was kind of
• 3:33:21
  disrespected in his first stop. He gathers the infielders
• 3:33:25
  together and it became a very big viral moment when everywhere
• 3:33:29
  all over the Internet and instead of taking him out, he
• 3:33:33
  announced that he made the team never pitched above AA before.
• 3:33:36
  He's one of their, you know, relievers on the on the staff
• 3:33:39
  and became this heartwarming warming moment made me think,
• 3:33:42
  you know, do you have anything like that that you remember?
• 3:33:45
  You know, maybe some friends who made the team or you know, in
• 3:33:48
  collar got on scholarship, maybe yourself included.
• 3:33:53
  Kind of like a real heartwarming story that got lots of clicks.
• 3:33:58
  First of all, when you work so hard to make the major leagues
• 3:34:04
  and, and move up, you have to go from single A to AA to AAA
• 3:34:08
  before you even step on a Major League field.
• 3:34:10
  And to do that, you got to play at a high level.
• 3:34:13
  And for a guy that probably has been in the minor leagues for
• 3:34:16
  years to get a chance to move up and, and, and get announced by
• 3:34:20
  his manager and stop everything, for all the teams to cheer in to
• 3:34:24
  be excited for him, that's a great story.
• 3:34:26
  That's something that you like to see baseball teams do.
• 3:34:30
  It doesn't matter if it's AAA, AA or single A.
• 3:34:33
  The fact is, is that you work your ass off Q knows you, you
• 3:34:36
  got to go through high school ball to college ball and then
• 3:34:39
  you got to get drafted and then or you're undrafted and then you
• 3:34:42
  got to make the team. If you're undrafted.
• 3:34:44
  It's never a sure thing when you go into the NFL.
• 3:34:47
  So to see somebody grow and as a player and, and everybody loves
• 3:34:52
  him and and stands up for him. That's something to watch and
• 3:34:54
  something that you cheer for. But I have seen stuff like that
• 3:34:57
  happen over the years. Took took his spot on the
• 3:35:00
  varsity team and he said, hey, coach, you know, you know the
• 3:35:03
  guy that you chose, I'm Michael Jordan.
• 3:35:05
  He's there. So it's fun to see when you see
• 3:35:07
  the growth of a player and how everybody's behind him.
• 3:35:10
  So it is a great story. Yeah, I've seen it numerous of
• 3:35:13
  times. I've seen guys get rewarded
• 3:35:16
  scholarships. I've seen also guys that was on
• 3:35:19
  the practice squad get moved up and it's a game changer.
• 3:35:22
  It's. Life changing these guys, you
• 3:35:24
  know, put all the work in and those and then those situations,
• 3:35:28
  you just don't know. They never know like where the
• 3:35:31
  opportunity is going to come or if they're going to make it to
• 3:35:34
  the big leagues and make it to the make it a victory roster or
• 3:35:38
  make it to the Major League Baseball in this scenario.
• 3:35:41
  So I would say, yeah, it's it's it's a wholesome moment,
• 3:35:46
  Rightfully so. Deserve to go viral and shout
• 3:35:49
  out to him for making it. Yeah, we'll see if he's any
• 3:35:51
  good. Texas looks like they're going
• 3:35:53
  to be a better team this year. All right, let's move it on.
• 3:35:56
  Next story coming on up, we're going to go.
• 3:35:59
  I believe we're going to go back to the NBA.
• 3:36:01
  Oh, we're definitely going back to the NBA.
• 3:36:03
  It's our boy Paul George coming back from his 25 game suspension
• 3:36:10
  for PEDs, which he came back and gave an interview very candidly,
• 3:36:14
  blaming his mental health for taking the steroid, saying that
• 3:36:19
  his body really couldn't do the things that he used to do and he
• 3:36:23
  got depressed about it, so he had to take steroids.
• 3:36:25
  No, well, I'll get read you the real quote.
• 3:36:27
  The most difficult thing is when your body isn't where you know
• 3:36:29
  it needs to be or where it once was.
• 3:36:32
  That leads and bleeds into the mental side of things, knowing
• 3:36:35
  that you're limited. But for me, I feel good.
• 3:36:37
  My body's feeling great mentally.
• 3:36:39
  I know I'm capable of doing what I can do and what I've been able
• 3:36:43
  to on the court for years. He's only averaging 16 points a
• 3:36:47
  game this season in 27 games and did not look any good before the
• 3:36:51
  suspension. Errol Interesting one with this
• 3:36:55
  guy. So I have a lot of respect for
• 3:36:59
  Paul George. This guy snapped his leg playing
• 3:37:02
  for Team USAA lot of people thought his career was over.
• 3:37:05
  He came back, he made himself a lot.
• 3:37:07
  Of money hit for him and his family.
• 3:37:09
  He's jumped ship. How many teams after that?
• 3:37:11
  And now he's with the 76ers. They overpaid him.
• 3:37:14
  It seems like it's not working over there.
• 3:37:16
  And then he denied taking steroids after he got caught, he
• 3:37:20
  denied it. Now all of a sudden he says it's
• 3:37:22
  because of mental health issues. Come on, man, that's that's
• 3:37:25
  ridiculous. The fact here is Paul, if you
• 3:37:29
  think you're done, then retire. If you think you're no good
• 3:37:32
  anymore, then retire. For you to take steroids and and
• 3:37:37
  claim that you did steroids where your mental issues, mental
• 3:37:39
  health issues, it only tells me one thing.
• 3:37:42
  It tells me you're not behind the game anymore.
• 3:37:45
  You're not the player that you once was.
• 3:37:47
  So if you're not, just walk away from the game.
• 3:37:51
  Don't don't do things and make excuses after the fact that you
• 3:37:54
  do it. So I think it's just absolutely
• 3:37:56
  pathetic. That's a terrible excuse to say
• 3:37:58
  that it's mental health issues. You say you're fine.
• 3:38:01
  You're you're saying you're healthy.
• 3:38:03
  How is it mental health that's bothering you or, or has made
• 3:38:05
  you turn into this? So it doesn't make any sense.
• 3:38:08
  That's a terrible take. Yeah, I I think it's I mean,
• 3:38:11
  yeah, he should have just admitted that he took it from
• 3:38:14
  the beginning. But a lot of times with
• 3:38:17
  medicines and and these different things that these guys
• 3:38:20
  are using in their. Body like it's not that it's an
• 3:38:23
  essential like I'm just blatantly taking steroids to
• 3:38:25
  enhance my performance and things of that nature.
• 3:38:27
  It can literally be something made in the same lab and it's I
• 3:38:31
  was a dust got on it or some form of something happened in
• 3:38:35
  the in the factory or whatever. And then it comes back testing
• 3:38:38
  positive in the in the drug test.
• 3:38:41
  But he's been ashamed of himself since, you know, he tore his leg
• 3:38:44
  up and he hasn't been able to be the same player since then.
• 3:38:47
  So and then getting on, then he had like a podcast and it was
• 3:38:51
  doing that on by being a podcast and not performing on the court.
• 3:38:55
  So I do I think he has mental health issues?
• 3:38:57
  Absolutely. But do I think that's the cause
• 3:38:59
  for him to be taken? The stair was not Q We all have
• 3:39:03
  mental health issues, all of us. No, I really don't think that
• 3:39:08
  though. Like this is a new trend that
• 3:39:10
  we're claiming where it's like, hey, if I have any.
• 3:39:13
  Hard time in life or something? Struggling.
• 3:39:16
  I'm uncomfortable. In the situation, let me just
• 3:39:18
  blame mental health. Like that's not reality.
• 3:39:21
  Like there's some people who are really suffering and really
• 3:39:23
  going through stuff, but then it's just people who can't deal
• 3:39:26
  with the social pressures then and having to grind it out and
• 3:39:30
  go through some different things in life or whatever life throws
• 3:39:32
  at them. And they blame mental health for
• 3:39:34
  that. So I don't think I think mental
• 3:39:35
  health is very small percentage of of the population versus the
• 3:39:41
  the new nuance that everybody's using to get out of the
• 3:39:44
  situation or hard terms or having to actually work.
• 3:39:48
  Podcast PED is back with the Sixers.
• 3:39:51
  We'll see more of him in a little bit.
• 3:39:54
  All right, let's get to what I would say A.
• 3:39:58
  Superstitious. Really bad thing, if I was a
• 3:40:02
  superstitious person. And I'm curious what you think
• 3:40:06
  about this, Cyril, because I think the Mets may be jinxed
• 3:40:09
  already. It has nothing to do with the
• 3:40:14
  play on the field. The Mets national anthem singer
• 3:40:18
  was Christopher Jackson. You may know him as.
• 3:40:21
  George Washington from Hamilton. The play, and also I think he
• 3:40:25
  was in the new Sex and the City reboot that I was forced to
• 3:40:28
  watch with my wife. And he was the original Simba in
• 3:40:32
  The Lion King on Broadway, which I saw in middle school.
• 3:40:36
  He's like a legendary type of Broadway guy.
• 3:40:39
  He's doing the national anthem and forgets the words.
• 3:40:44
  This was George Washington, Errol.
• 3:40:46
  He forgets the words to the national anthem.
• 3:40:50
  He had to remember all those songs for Hamilton, but he
• 3:40:54
  forgets the words at Citi Field. I don't like that.
• 3:40:59
  If I'm a Mets fan, I, I I don't know, man.
• 3:41:02
  I'm superstitious. I want to hear what you got.
• 3:41:05
  First of all, it it makes no sense how you've listened to the
• 3:41:08
  national anthem a million times. I know the national anthem and
• 3:41:12
  it's embedded into my head. I've heard it so many times.
• 3:41:15
  How do you forget the words? I mean, I could forget a lot of
• 3:41:19
  different things. What I ate the next day or what
• 3:41:21
  I what I've ate yesterday or the day before or how many times I
• 3:41:25
  took a dump the last couple of days, but I can never forget the
• 3:41:29
  national anthem. I can never forget that.
• 3:41:32
  How do you go up in front of the fans?
• 3:41:34
  You've danced, you've sang in front of so many people and
• 3:41:38
  forget the one thing everybody always remembers?
• 3:41:40
  It's it's absolutely appalling. Honestly, I would never invite
• 3:41:45
  him to sing the national anthem again.
• 3:41:47
  It's embarrassing. Absolutely embarrassing.
• 3:41:49
  Things happen. Your mind is not in the right
• 3:41:52
  place, unfortunately. But you can't forget the
• 3:41:55
  national anthem. I guarantee, I guarantee you.
• 3:41:58
  Q No matter how crazy your life is, you can never forget the
• 3:42:03
  words of the national anthem. Hey, Fish.
• 3:42:05
  You do have to remember, though, that the Star Spangled Banner
• 3:42:08
  did not exist in the time of George Washington.
• 3:42:10
  Allen has an Aaron birth. The Star Spangled Banner came
• 3:42:13
  out. It came out later and I did.
• 3:42:15
  See the play? He is a good singer,
• 3:42:16
  Christopher. It's like forgetting the Pledge
• 3:42:18
  of Allegiance. Yeah, they don't do it no more.
• 3:42:21
  It's. Not in schools.
• 3:42:22
  You don't have to stick in the world.
• 3:42:23
  It's not they don't do. It no more, so you go there with
• 3:42:27
  all the confidence. You can have all the confidence
• 3:42:29
  in the world. And then you get up there and
• 3:42:31
  you. Like, I got this and it's no
• 3:42:33
  brainer. And then you get up there and
• 3:42:34
  you freeze up and you forget to where it was opening day.
• 3:42:37
  It was a big name. Come on, you're going to see
• 3:42:39
  here and you've sang the national anthem a ton of time
• 3:42:43
  and you sing other songs and you forget that.
• 3:42:46
  I can tell you the Pledge of Allegiance.
• 3:42:47
  I don't care if they don't do it.
• 3:42:49
  In the schools anymore. It's embedded.
• 3:42:50
  In my head, it's embedded into my head.
• 3:42:53
  How do you forget that? It's ridiculous and you're an
• 3:42:56
  American. Please embarrassing.
• 3:42:59
  I I tend to I tend to favor Burr and the King in that in that
• 3:43:02
  show in Hamilton when I did go to see them, but I've never seen
• 3:43:05
  Hamilton DJ. He should.
• 3:43:07
  He did have a good, he did have a good character with with
• 3:43:09
  Washington. And definitely was a good
• 3:43:11
  singer. Jefferson was the one that was
• 3:43:13
  more annoying, but I'm not a theatre type, he presented.
• 3:43:15
  It very well it looks like he was.
• 3:43:17
  Staying well for a while, that just.
• 3:43:18
  Had a cafe. All of a sudden, but like I
• 3:43:19
  said, fish, they just said pre pre star spangled banner times.
• 3:43:24
  I am not a theatre person. I, I just not if, if Britney
• 3:43:28
  asked me to go to a theater, I'll go.
• 3:43:29
  I mean I, I I just Would you go to a non musical theater show
• 3:43:34
  though? If it wasn't a musical, I, I
• 3:43:37
  would. I like concerts.
• 3:43:39
  I like doing those things. I just it just, it's sometimes
• 3:43:42
  it just gets boring. And I'll just sit in the chair
• 3:43:44
  and I'll fall asleep and like, what am I watching here?
• 3:43:46
  You know, I just. Watching a bunch of people talk
• 3:43:49
  to each other and and pretend that they're acting when they're
• 3:43:51
  really bad at it. Please, I, I I don't have any
• 3:43:55
  interest in doing that. Thank you.
• 3:43:56
  I I saved the story for the end that I wanted to talk about.
• 3:44:00
  Is it about my dump? I'm just saying no.
• 3:44:03
  Well, it's a real dump. It's about the guy who was the
• 3:44:05
  second best wide receiver. In all the football last year,
• 3:44:09
  Mr. Puka Nakua, who was sued in his most Dracula state of mind
• 3:44:18
  for biting a woman on the shoulder.
• 3:44:22
  Civil lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by plaintiff Madison
• 3:44:26
  Adiabi. Includes.
• 3:44:29
  Several serious claims regarding Nikua's behaviour during a group
• 3:44:33
  outing in Century City. She alleges that while in a
• 3:44:38
  sprinter van, Nikua forcibly bit her on the left shoulder,
• 3:44:42
  leaving a visible teeth print. Like he's some kind of Dracula.
• 3:44:47
  She also claims bit a female friend's thumb with enough force
• 3:44:52
  to cause acute pain. The suit then claims he shouted
• 3:44:55
  profane anti-Semitic slur F all the Jews during a dinner, which
• 3:45:00
  Adiabi said caused her severe emotional distress due to her
• 3:45:04
  Jewish faith. Then said he got touchy feely
• 3:45:08
  and erratic and sexually and physically aggressive with the
• 3:45:12
  women in the group. And this was the guy that got
• 3:45:15
  caught with some anti-Semitic stuff.
• 3:45:16
  I'm not, if I'm not mistake with one of those influencers in the
• 3:45:19
  manosphere not that long ago as well.
• 3:45:22
  Dial it up. Well, he must be very, very
• 3:45:24
  kinky. I can tell you that.
• 3:45:26
  He likes to bite people. He likes to do all these things.
• 3:45:29
  Very interesting when you hear these kind of stories.
• 3:45:32
  I don't know puka nakua. Personally, he might be a nice
• 3:45:35
  guy, but when you hear these stories and just like Bauer,
• 3:45:39
  Bauer's is dealt dealt with this with baseball over the years and
• 3:45:43
  a lot of people say he's a bad guy and we don't know.
• 3:45:45
  And then you have Nick Goody and you got Jabba.
• 3:45:47
  Jabba couldn't stand but Nick Goody loved him.
• 3:45:49
  I don't know Puka. I don't know what he does in his
• 3:45:52
  private life. I don't know what he does in his
• 3:45:53
  bedroom. I don't know what he watches
• 3:45:55
  when it comes to watching kinky stuff in his bedroom.
• 3:45:58
  What I do know is when you're out there and there's been proof
• 3:46:02
  that you have taken shots and having anti-Semitic views, it
• 3:46:06
  says to me that you need to sit down and get to know certain
• 3:46:11
  people, Jews, anybody that you don't like and get to know who
• 3:46:15
  they are and that type of people they are.
• 3:46:17
  You cannot go out there and attack a religion, a
• 3:46:21
  nationality. You're a person that's from
• 3:46:23
  Hawaii. Nobody judges you from Hawaii.
• 3:46:25
  You are you are fourth round draft pick.
• 3:46:27
  You became a star because you went to Sean McVay and Sean
• 3:46:30
  McVay helped you grow as a player.
• 3:46:32
  When I look at somebody like Pukunuku, I think he just
• 3:46:34
  doesn't have the right people around him.
• 3:46:36
  I think he needs to be put around older, more mature
• 3:46:40
  people. Maybe his mother and his father
• 3:46:42
  didn't raise him right. Maybe there was some kind of
• 3:46:45
  abuse in the back end we don't know about.
• 3:46:47
  So I can't judge him as a person.
• 3:46:49
  I don't know him as a person. But when you hear a story like
• 3:46:52
  this as an owner of a team, is he going to continue putting
• 3:46:57
  himself in harm's way where like Antonio Brown or Ben
• 3:47:00
  Roethlisberger or one of these guys where I can't control this
• 3:47:04
  guy anymore? I'm going to have to trade him
• 3:47:05
  and that. Might.
• 3:47:06
  Happen. I saw a couple of videos
• 3:47:09
  recently of Puka Nakur when he was at the Super Bowl and I
• 3:47:13
  don't know if he's doing drugs, I don't know if he's taking some
• 3:47:16
  highs, but it just seemed like he was off.
• 3:47:19
  He's not in the right state of mind because he has so much
• 3:47:22
  energy and he says some wild things when he gets interviewed.
• 3:47:26
  It really weird things. So I don't know him personally,
• 3:47:29
  so I don't know what's going on in his brain, but him biting a
• 3:47:32
  woman and then biting her friend's finger, almost hurting
• 3:47:34
  her friend's finger or biting it off, whatever he was doing, it
• 3:47:38
  just it's starting to make me think.
• 3:47:40
  It's starting to make me think that the way he was raised was
• 3:47:44
  not the proper way. Well, look, I feel a certain
• 3:47:48
  ways of being Jewish. As well.
• 3:47:49
  About this but. He just seems like just this
• 3:47:53
  overgrown dumb frat guy that's like never got out of like that.
• 3:47:56
  Mentality of just partying hard and going hard at it.
• 3:48:00
  And he's just this big strong dude.
• 3:48:02
  And I think at the same time, he's really been influenced by a
• 3:48:06
  lot of the crap that's out there on the Internet these days.
• 3:48:09
  This manosphere bullshit that you could see on the documentary
• 3:48:13
  that came out on Netflix recently.
• 3:48:15
  It's really toxic. I, I see it all the time, you
• 3:48:18
  know, working in the high schools, these kids like it's an
• 3:48:21
  issue, like it's a real thing where they don't get it.
• 3:48:25
  Like if you hear it as an adult, you're like, this guy's being
• 3:48:27
  like whatever, but as a kid they are impressionable.
• 3:48:30
  And Puka probably started hearing this stuff since he was
• 3:48:32
  1516 because it's been out there that long.
• 3:48:36
  And I think there's a lot of young, young 20 year olds that
• 3:48:40
  are a lot more violent and maybe, you know, anti-Semitic
• 3:48:43
  and racist than used to be in previous generations.
• 3:48:45
  I never heard him say it. Even though people are saying
• 3:48:48
  it. I have to hear him say it like
• 3:48:51
  Kyrie Irving. When Kyrie Irving said it, we
• 3:48:54
  know. And then he came out and and he
• 3:48:55
  denied it. And then he.
• 3:48:57
  Took back what he said and then he did it again.
• 3:48:59
  So unfortunately there are people that have hatred for
• 3:49:04
  certain nationalities and religions.
• 3:49:08
  I don't want to hear it. I don't care what you think.
• 3:49:10
  You have your own opinions and I have mine.
• 3:49:13
  And I I don't think biting somebody or going out there and,
• 3:49:17
  and shooting whatever thoughts you have for a nationality or a
• 3:49:22
  religion is going to make you look better as a person.
• 3:49:25
  Unfortunately, Puka Nakua is still a a beloved guy.
• 3:49:30
  He has a tremendous amount of fans around the world.
• 3:49:33
  And if he wants to prove himself to be a good guy, maybe he needs
• 3:49:36
  to do something in the next couple of months or before the
• 3:49:39
  football season to show that he really has nothing against a
• 3:49:44
  religion or against anybody that he has worked with.
• 3:49:48
  Yeah, that's nothing he can do. I mean, this, this story right
• 3:49:51
  here is going to be the leading story.
• 3:49:52
  He's going to have to defend this for the Nets all the way up
• 3:49:55
  until the season, until he start playing ball.
• 3:49:57
  That's the only thing that. Taste away from these type of
• 3:50:00
  stories or whatever I would say this I think that this story is
• 3:50:04
  a little fishy. So what I see is from based off
• 3:50:09
  the report, I think that there was, there was having fun being
• 3:50:13
  wild. And to think about it is in this
• 3:50:16
  day and age, there's a there's a version when you don't get
• 3:50:19
  caught and then there's a version when you do get caught.
• 3:50:20
  So when she comes out and say something, it's like, Oh, it was
• 3:50:23
  horrific. But the other two weeks or two
• 3:50:26
  months or two years that she was dealing with it, it was no
• 3:50:29
  issue. So I think that that's kind of
• 3:50:32
  what happened. They probably had a little wild
• 3:50:34
  night and he, he, he got a little too crazy, But and she
• 3:50:39
  she saw an opportunity take him to court in jail.
• 3:50:42
  And then, hey, let's just throw he's an anti-Semitic up there.
• 3:50:46
  Throw it on that rap sheet as well.
• 3:50:47
  Well, and then get some money out of it, get another
• 3:50:50
  opportunity like the the 20 other girls that he didn't say
• 3:50:54
  nothing. So, you know, I think that this
• 3:50:56
  is just an opportunity and it's going to haunt him until he get
• 3:51:00
  back on the field and he's going to have to defend it.
• 3:51:02
  But I don't see no harm, no fire.
• 3:51:05
  I think anti-Semitic is the new races.
• 3:51:07
  Like, you know, there's always something there.
• 3:51:09
  There are people that are anti-Semitic and racist, but it
• 3:51:13
  don't, it doesn't have to be, you know, it's just a lot of
• 3:51:15
  sugar on the donut. You know, just to finish this
• 3:51:18
  up, I think it's a lot of times when people are anti-Semitic and
• 3:51:21
  it's just because my experience is because they don't know any
• 3:51:24
  Jews or they don't have any Jews that are friends.
• 3:51:26
  They don't really know. So you can't.
• 3:51:27
  Even be anti-Semitic. You even had no interaction just
• 3:51:30
  like I was telling people with like you know when it comes to
• 3:51:33
  being racist, whatever. If you hear the words in a in a
• 3:51:35
  song and you just repeat it, you don't.
• 3:51:37
  You don't have any interaction with the people, so you don't
• 3:51:39
  even really understand what you're saying.
• 3:51:41
  You just saying stuff. Yeah, I feel like.
• 3:51:43
  But once you get into your 20s, you're an adult now, you know,
• 3:51:46
  no responsibility at that point, I hope should, but it is there
• 3:51:51
  no responsibility? Well, people, it seems like
• 3:51:53
  people. Are going to try to hold them
• 3:51:54
  responsible for this one of course we'll see how place you
• 3:51:57
  know well. That is interesting that he's
• 3:51:59
  now I'm interested to see what's.
• 3:52:02
  Going to happen when he does speak to the press, because the
• 3:52:04
  press is going to draw it out of him one way or another.
• 3:52:06
  And he's going to have to. Answer the question.
• 3:52:08
  So it's unfortunate when you hear somebody.
• 3:52:11
  Like Puku Nakua, who seems like a nice guy, but I'm telling you,
• 3:52:14
  I heard a lot of stories. I I've seen so many interviews
• 3:52:16
  when he was over there at the Super Bowl when he was
• 3:52:19
  interviewing and jumping from one table to another that it
• 3:52:22
  looked like he was on something, like he was taking like ecstasy
• 3:52:26
  or something. Dude, the guy was jumping
• 3:52:27
  around, dancing around. It was like crazy.
• 3:52:30
  And he and he couldn't finish a sentence when people were asking
• 3:52:33
  him questions. So I don't know, I wouldn't put
• 3:52:36
  that on him, but he is in Lai Just say that.
• 3:52:40
  I don't know. I I don't know what's going on
• 3:52:42
  with him, but seems like a pretty fun guy and he's an.
• 3:52:46
  Educated guy. He's not stupid.
• 3:52:48
  So I'm 40, the best wide. Receivers in the National
• 3:52:51
  Football, I think he is the best overall, best wide receiver in
• 3:52:54
  football. He does everything the highest
• 3:52:55
  paid. So he's not no, no.
• 3:52:56
  But I, I, I'm telling he will be.
• 3:52:59
  He will be the highest paid. Wide receiver, There's a guy
• 3:53:01
  that just came off a championship.
• 3:53:02
  Run. Yeah, I I'm not saying that.
• 3:53:06
  I'm not saying he's not. Great.
• 3:53:07
  But if you were to ask me right now, Puka, who does everything
• 3:53:11
  he blocks. He does everything that that's
• 3:53:13
  the guy. That I want the prototypical
• 3:53:15
  type of guy that I want. So and I would say you can put
• 3:53:18
  SAN in any other offense and you can put Puka in any other
• 3:53:21
  offense. And hey QQ, why don't why don't
• 3:53:26
  you ask Carol who was high on the JSN?
• 3:53:28
  Before the season started, it was how JS said.
• 3:53:32
  Before the season started, it was the one thing.
• 3:53:34
  He was right about one thing. All right, all right.
• 3:53:38
  One out of 100. Good job, fish.
• 3:53:40
  He's a good one though. I said I was like, watch, he's
• 3:53:43
  going to be like top three. He did, you know, because.
• 3:53:46
  You know who else are they throwing to?
• 3:53:47
  Him it didn't matter because. I won our fantasy league.
• 3:53:52
  I got to get back with the bracket.
• 3:53:54
  I got y'all, Don't you worry. We'll see.
• 3:53:57
  We'll see. We'll see.
• 3:53:59
  I remember you said that, so I remember I won the bracket last
• 3:54:03
  year. Too.
• 3:54:03
  So yeah, you know, last year was last year I did.
• 3:54:06
  I won the bracket last year. You'd be quiet.
• 3:54:08
  You too quiet. Anyways, it's all about luck,
• 3:54:13
  first of all. It's all about how it.
• 3:54:14
  Falls, but whatever, that's it for our show.
• 3:54:17
  Ladies and gentlemen, thank you to Dan.
• 3:54:18
  Purcell. For joining us, he was
• 3:54:20
  sensational, scouting central and ex Pelicans executive and I.
• 3:54:25
  He's just such a smart guy. He knows his basketball.
• 3:54:28
  He loves coming on the show. We go back and forth.
• 3:54:31
  It's pretty amazing all the things that he has done over the
• 3:54:34
  last couple years in his growth of his programming and
• 3:54:37
  everything. He's sensational.
• 3:54:38
  He really is. Thank you, thank you to
• 3:54:40
  Worldwide W for joining us and giving us his take, his
• 3:54:42
  handicaps. So he's been unbelievable too.
• 3:54:45
  And I want to apologize. He's been reaching out to me.
• 3:54:47
  I just been not in the right state of mind over the last
• 3:54:50
  couple of weeks and I'm getting better.
• 3:54:52
  But it it's just, it's horrible the way I feel and just doing
• 3:54:57
  the show for four hours is a lot for me and I I really work my
• 3:55:00
  ass off to get through it. So for all the fans that
• 3:55:03
  understand what it takes to do a four hour show and entertain
• 3:55:06
  people and, and, and feel the way I feel is it's it's not that
• 3:55:10
  easy. So anyways, thank you to all the
• 3:55:12
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• 3:55:15
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• 3:55:18
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• 3:55:21
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• 3:55:23
  Really appreciate it. I want to give a shout out to
• 3:55:25
  our new manager, Mike V He's he's been in and out of the show
• 3:55:30
  all show long. So thank you Nathan, Mr. Mr.
• 3:55:35
  Leishman himself, as he always says, suck my Indo.
• 3:55:39
  We we love you. Thank you for doing what you do
• 3:55:43
  and and doing all the back end stuff.
• 3:55:45
  And hopefully you're not bending over as we speak.
• 3:55:47
  Anyways, yeah, that's it. Speedy, who do we have lined up?
• 3:55:50
  Next week, Nathan got two draft prospects for next week, both
• 3:55:53
  8:20 Eastern Time starts. Monday will be Jelani Davis's
• 3:55:57
  name. He's a defensive defensive
• 3:55:58
  lineman. Draft prospect at Kent State, 6
• 3:56:00
  foot two, 280. 5 lbs Lulu. He'll be joining us at 8:20.
• 3:56:03
  And then on Thursday, safety and outside linebacker from Navy 6
• 3:56:08
  foot 202 LB Jackson Campbell will be joining us.
• 3:56:11
  Make her squirt. Make.
• 3:56:13
  Me jerk. Very interesting guy as always
• 3:56:16
  Nathan as he always says. I love Lisa Anne as he always
• 3:56:21
  says and he never will get Lisa Anne.
• 3:56:22
  Just so everybody knows, no way. I think Lisa Lisa Anne has slept
• 3:56:26
  with every single cowboy player in the 90s, Nathan.
• 3:56:30
  'S probably like. Like like a little teddy bear to
• 3:56:33
  her. I mean, I mean 5 foot 6.
• 3:56:37
  I mean, come on. She would torture that guy.
• 3:56:41
  Him and his blue blazer. There he is.
• 3:56:47
  Nathan the Care Bear. That's it is, that's all it is.
• 3:56:50
  I love his hand. Athletes, athletes, athletes,
• 3:56:56
  athletes. I love when he says that.
• 3:56:58
  And I'm like, athletes. You mean athletes?
• 3:57:02
  I love you, Nath. We love you.
• 3:57:04
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• 3:57:05
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