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The Steelers have TRADED George Pickens to the Cowboys! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Pickens and A 2027 sixth round pick has been traded to the
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Cowboys for a third round pick next year and a fifth round pick
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in 2027. Jerry Jones said after not
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drafting a wide receiver, he was very active in the wide receiver
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trade market. Since then, reports say that the
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Steelers didn't want 2 receivers that had very similar skills.
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After trading for DK Metcalf and paying him 30 million per year
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after CD Lamb, the next highest receiver was Jalen Tolbert, who
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had 610 receiving yards. Pickens has had 800 yards or
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more in all three of his NFL seasons after DK Metcalf.
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The Steelers also have Roman Wilson, Calvin Austin and Robert
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Woods as their other wide receiver death.
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Mike Tomlin has criticized Pickens for a lack of effort at
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several points at the end of the season, particular with
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blocking. Pickens had 59 catches for 900
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yards and three touchdowns last season.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's pretty serious for the Cowboys.
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And if you're a Cowgirls fan, well, you should be happy.
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I do believe that Anning George Pickens gives you another weapon
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which they've been craving for for the last four years, years.
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And CD Lamb has not had another weapon really since you know him
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as Amari Cooper, who was traded over there to the Raiders.
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It has not worked for them. Actually, wasn't the Raiders, it
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was the Browns, Cleveland Browns.
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I'm sorry. Right now, if you look at the
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position that the Cowboys are in, they needed another weapon.
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They needed a weapon that's going to absolutely take away
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double teams in the open field on CD, Lamb.
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And it made a lot of sense being that George Pickens might have
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been the best receiver available, but the biggest mouth
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in the NFL. Now, if it works, it's it's a
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home run for for the Cowboys, absolute home run.
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But as we all know, Pittsburgh, a former Pittsburgh wide
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receivers that have left my Tomlin.
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It never does as we've seen it many, many times over, including
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a guy named Le'veon Bell that was screwing as he's a
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disgusting pig, his own cousin at the age of 13 years old.
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There is no control over these Pittsburgh Steelers.
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There's no no nonsense that is never taken from Mike Tomlin and
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his coaching staff. This guy should have never
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finished the season on the Pittsburgh Steelers for all the
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things that you've heard on and off the the field.
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And honestly, there's no control over these players over in
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Pittsburgh. And, and it's the perfect team,
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ladies and gentlemen, for him to go to.
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Why? Because this is an organization
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that took Greg freaking Hardy. Yes, we all know what Greg Hardy
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did. How despicable and disgusting he
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is. Well, they went on and they dug
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their hands deep and and obviously Jerry Jones dug deep
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into his pockets or his pants to whip it out.
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And he's probably hanging out with Deshaun Watson because this
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guy is an absolute debacle. I'm interested to see how this
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is going to work. I know CD Lamb had his own
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thoughts to obviously Dak Prescott.
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Now you're bringing this guy in. This is never going to work.
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And if it works, it's a slam dunk.
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It's a slam dunk and Jack wanted that other weapon.
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But how is this going to work when, you know, CD Lamb is the
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guy and this guy has always thought of himself as the guy.
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And if he's not the guy, boy, oh boy, he's going to stamp his
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feet and complain and cry the river.
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It's never going to work with the press over there, with the
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Cowgirls. And I believe that one way or
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another, this is going to cause friction in that locker room
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when it comes to Dak Prescott and the offensive line and
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everybody on the offensive side, the ball.
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This is a bad move for the Cowboys.
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CJ Wilson. That's why I asked CJ Wilson.
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I wanted to know what he thought when it came because he is a
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professional athlete. He was a professional football
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player and he understands what goes in to control in a locker
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room. This man has no control.
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Yeah, I also, I also looked at it with the Steelers
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perspective. I think they need to get 2 very
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similar skill sets out of there. It was the biggest thing I said
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at the time. Like you're have a bigger
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bodied, inconsistent route running and then inconsistent
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stat production guy. He's had three good like
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receiving seasons, 800 yards I think at 11150 and then 900
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something last year. But his production is all in the
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span of three or four games. And DK Metcalf's been a little
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bit better than that, but he's still been a lot of the same
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version his career. Now for the Cowboy, I think it's
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the best thing they could have done because obviously a lot of
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these veteran receivers we've seen fall off.
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So if you try to bring back Amari Cooper who had a injury
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Riddle year last year, or somebody like Keenan Allen that
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really struggle with the bears, those are your only other
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options you left. So I don't mind them swinging
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for the fences. It was just a third round pick.
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I think the Steelers made made good out of it.
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Consider the trade market. So I think from that
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perspective, it's fine with both teams.
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The Cowboys have to take a chance somewhere because they
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Jerry Jones in the all in off seasons continues to do nothing
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and doesn't draft a wide receiver either.
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It just makes no sense. So they have to try something at
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that point. So I, I think it's a good trade,
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but I, I don't think it's going to push the Cowboys over the
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edge where they're a playoff team automatically because they
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still have a lot of other problems.
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No, I think you're right too and you bring up something too and I
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wanted to ask you guys this too. I was going to ask CJ and kind
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of forgot but do you think with Pickens attitude and kind of
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wanting to be the guy and throwing tantrums, do you think
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he lasts the whole year? He'll last the whole year, but I
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think this is the one thing I'll give the Cowboys credit for,
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Jerry. Jerry Jones and the ownership
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are making him earn the contract.
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They're not going to pay him right away unless he shows.
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There is no way it's going to work over there.
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CD Lamb is too big of a personality.
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We all know CD Lamb is not going to sit still.
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He didn't sit still with the Dak Prescott situation.
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I love Dak, I root on Dak and if there's anybody that deserves an
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opportunity to have another weapon on the other side, that's
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great. I just don't trust the Cowboys.
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You have a new coach there. You don't even have Mike
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McCarthy there. You have a rookie coach that's
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never done it before. We know Schottenheimer as I know
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Schottenheimer because at one point he was Rex Ryan's
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offensive coordinator, so I know all about Brian Schottenheimer.
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It doesn't work when you bring in a rookie coach who has no
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control or has never controlled a dumb, crazy personality like
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George Pickens. It is I I don't get it.
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I don't get it. You got it.
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You bring in a rookie coach and you're going to bring this mess
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in. I would have taken anybody else
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but this guy. This is not smart for the
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Cowboys. But hey, if it works, he looks
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like a genius. Jerry Jones looks like a
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complete genius. He was offered to the entire
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league. There's reports coming out on
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The Athletic today about nobody wants him, that he's just like
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what you expect if Tomlin's giving up on someone for a third
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round pick and a pick swap in like 6th or 7th round or
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whatever it's going to be. I didn't see the final report on
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it. It's probably like close to a
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lost cause. But he was so productive.
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So you wonder what happened and a lot, I think he type became
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like a cancer in the locker room, I don't think.
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And like it was great to have like CJ Wilson on.
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He was talking about shudor about this.
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But it doesn't have to just be the quarterback.
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If the other guys don't want to block for you, the other guys
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don't trust you. It's a problem on the team.
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And Pickens is so immature. He's basically forced this to
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happen. Is what they're what all the
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articles, There's like three of them, a couple of different
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authors from the Athletic writing about it.
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Just killing this guy, just killing him.
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And it makes me very happy as a Giants fan that the Cowboys
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added like the absolute combustion.
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Oh, I. Like that?
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Blame that busting right here, bursting in your pants.
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Is he like do you think he's an AB2 point O?
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I don't know if he's like that. I think AB, like, I mean, AB is
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really funny on social media. He has a pretty ridiculous sense
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of humor. I think he's just a crazy
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bastard. AB this guy is kind of a douche.
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But they said he's a hit trip. They said that he has those
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tendencies, that he needs help, that he might have bipolar
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disorder. They said that there's things
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about him. Earlier today I was talking to
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you about that. I think if it's either because
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we see him do like the Macho Man elbow drop in the middle of
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plays, getting 15 yard penalties, doing dumb dumb stuff
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like just. You almost said it.
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Go ahead, say man. But you know, like, it's, it's
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just that you can't do things like that.
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It's not winning football. You have to realize that your
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actions affect that other people.
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And in the NFL, it affects other people's ability to get paid.
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And that's what really bothers people.
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When you get to this level, it's not just college, not just
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having fun anymore. It's, you know, your NIL money
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is whatever it is no matter what you do, right?
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This is like, you get to the Super Bowl, there's more money,
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right? You get to, you get to these
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different, like all pro teams, all these other teams.
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Well, what if you don't make it? Because, yeah, the running back
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doesn't get to get to that, that extra $1,000,000 incentive
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because George Pickens won't block a freaking fly out there
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down field. So he doesn't get the extra 70
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yards he needed to get $1,000,000.
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That's a real thing. I was surprised.
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I was. I'm sorry to cut you off,
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Speedy. I was surprised that the Eagles
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were not injured. He's a bulldog.
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He knows a bunch of those guys over there with the Eagles.
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It would have made a lot of sense.
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A.J. Brown maybe controls him in the
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locker room because A.J. Brown is a leader.
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I thought that would have made a lot of sense.
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I don't think they just, they, they didn't want to deal with
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it. I don't think the, I'm sure the
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Eagles were interested, but they were like, I don't want to deal
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with this crap. I don't want to deal with this.
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Person A.J. Brown.
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I'll have to have him read his book.
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Like football wise, it should make sense.
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Like, let's face. It he's a good blame.
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Plays in the slot as much as he plays outside of the slot, he
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can do everything on the football field so you can move
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him around you can put Pickens on the other side if you're you
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can put them on the same side of the field and really give teams
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trouble and you know the double team's probably going to go to
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Lam no matter what he's a much better player than Pickens in my
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opinion. But if you put him in the slot,
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you know, teams will try to inside out.
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They'll do different strategies. Pickens is, you know, but can he
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keep his head on straight? And this is his last real chance
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to really be a star in this league because he could be a
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star in the star, you know, like on the star literally in Dallas.
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But I don't. Everyone's betting against it.
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Everyone's coming out killing this guy, Everyone.
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I hope. I hope I didn't.
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Eagles take them, they they should know best.
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They have all the Bulldogs. Wouldn't they give him a
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recommendation if he was only costing the third round pick?
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And they probably were. Like, well, they already traded
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one last. Year they won a Super Bowl, they
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won a Super Bowl, and I don't think they want to deal with any
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craziness that's going to be because we all know what they
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did to the other crazy guy. Reddick went to The Jets.
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How did that work out? They didn't work out very good.
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They win a Super Bowl, Reddick leaves his face and they win.
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They win a Super Bowl. So.
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Big Dom getting into it over there on the sideline, you know,
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picking up Siriani, dragging him.
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Away by the way, Niffin posted up former NFL NFL wide receiver
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Antonio Brown has officially applied for a NASCAR NASCAR Cap
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competition license. Per source, NASCAR is currently
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reviewing his application. You know what?
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NASCAR is going to tell him to go take a hike.
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There's no way they're letting that crazy bastard on a Raceway.
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That guy is nuts. He'll kill somebody before he
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even gets on that Raceway and actually goes around the bend
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one time. It is absolutely ridiculous.
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They. Already have dudes in NASCAR
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that are like that. No, they're not going to bring
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that. There's no way NASCAR is going
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to sell that. And I know people would love to
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see this guy ram himself into a wall and kill himself because
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he's done a lot of stupid things.
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But I, I just think he's already had head trauma.
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We don't need to see any more head trauma from this guy on
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NASCAR, NASCAR, whatever they call it, Raceway.
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He's just, it's just horrendous. It's a terrible move.
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If NASCAR allows this, they're, they're a dumb organization.
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This guy needs he needs help and, and, and for anybody thinks
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that this guy is going to be able to drive 280 mph around the
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bend and not kill somebody while I was doing it is stupid.
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It's a dumb, dumb source, whoever is saying this.
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And if it is true, and if he's that dumb enough to do that, do
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these guys it? Takes only 180, not 2. 80,
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whatever, it doesn't even matter.
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It could be two 8180, it could be 80 mph.
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This guy, I don't trust him in a car.
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I don't trust him with machinery going at fast.
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I don't trust him on a football field anymore.
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Do you think I trust him with something 3000 tons of you know,
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whatever that whatever you call that.
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I mean, honestly, it's stupid. I if NASCAR, NASCAR needs to get
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this this sorted out and tell him to go take a hike, go go
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play rugby or something. I don't know, do something, go
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play ping pong or something like that and try to make the United
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States Olympic team. That would have been more
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smarter than here. Here.
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I got one beach dodge ball. That's what I would do if I was
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him. Create a league for the one and
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only idiot of the NFL. Who does Stupid idiotic.
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Things Java you mentioned the the gap with Antonio Brown and
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George Pickett. This is how I would do it for ex
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Steelers receiver. So Antonio Brown at the top of
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the list both skill wise and antics.
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George Pickens in the middle and then Chase Claypool at the.
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Bottom I just reached him. I would just reach if I was
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Antonio Brown, I would reach out to him.
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You know, a guy like George Pickens sit and hang out and
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enjoy stupidity because that's what they are.
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Just two stupid guys that don't know what the hell they're doing
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and both need mentally, you know, mental help and they're
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mentally ill. So anyways, I, I want to get off
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this, this story is stupid. I, I, I honestly think that the
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George Picken story is ridiculous.
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I, I know Nathan was so proud of this.
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I know he was posting it up at 7:00 in the morning, which Goody
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and fish were like, what are you doing, Nathan?
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No, Jabba's it. It's like 6:00 in the morning.
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No, it was 645. 6:45 in the morning, he's posting George.
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I was awake but I was like if. It's pre ordering his playoff
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tickets. Nathan, Nathan, we love you, but
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we don't want to hear from you at 7:45 about George Pickens.
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Goody was so funny. When Goody answered it, it was
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so funny. He's like Nathan I I could give
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a crap about George Pickens. People are.
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Trying to Nathan, I think it's a good trade, but they're not
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going to be a playoff team. We have we have goody on for
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humor and baseball. That's that's what.
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Man, it's just it's absolutely craziness.
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Anyways, let's get into some baseball, as we call this inside
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baseball. Now let's go deep, deep inside
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what I am excited. This is inside baseball.
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All right, the good. Guys, we are here for another
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segment of Inside Baseball. We're going to have a few
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stories going around the league. We're going to do a couple a
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show of a clip as well of a really interesting play of the
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week. The guys know it ahead of time,
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You guys might know it. It's not exactly a great play,
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but we'll start off with the story of the day, and that is
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the Pittsburgh Pirates firing manager Derek Shelton after
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losing A7 straight game to fall to 12 and 26 with a -57 run
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differential. Shelton went three O 6 and 440
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in five seasons in in Pittsburgh.
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Guys, it just seems like we've started this segment like a the
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beginning of the season and we've had four incredibly
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negative pirate stories already. And it's not like I care about
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the Pirates one way or the other.
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They're just doing it to themselves between the bucko
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bricks being taken out the the stuff with the.
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Ricardo Clemente in right field and the fact that the last big
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contract was Francisco Liriano for what, 3 for 39 million?
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At least the fan who fell didn't die.
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Apparently he's walking. Oh, they're, they're really
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trying. Let's just say that.
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So what do you think about this manager?
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You know he was there for a while.
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Obviously it's not just his fault going on in Pittsburgh.
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What do you guys got to say about it?
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Yeah, no, I I was a huge Derek Shelton fan and it's crazy
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because like when I heard too and then, you know, you got guys
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coming out in the industry who you know why we said Ken
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Rosenthal on and Ken Rosenthal went on foul territory and
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literally said he goes, this isn't Derek Shelton, this is the
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pirates owner. Because look at what they've
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done and Goody goody made a great point on their highest
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country. Obviously if why haven't they
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paid schemes yet? But you expect things to win you
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20 games every year with what what your feature in to score
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runs. And he said it's literally like,
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and this is from Ken Rosenthal on foul territory on X.
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And he was like, it's like trying to make apple juice when
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you're giving me lemons. Because look at their lineup.
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Like, really, they don't spend money.
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It's a great place to play great clubhouses.
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And it just, it boggles my mind when you have one of the best
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young pitchers in the game too, that you wouldn't want to put
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something behind him. But as we've all seen in in any
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sport, whether it's basketball, football, hockey, whatever it
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is, somebody has to take the fall.
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And nine times out of 10, it's usually the manager.
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We saw AGM and a manager this time because they both didn't
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like each other in a different sport.
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But there's somebody that has to take the fall.
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And it, it sucks that it's him, but he'll land on his feet.
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He's too. He's too damn good of a coach to
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not and it just sucks that somebody has has to wear it when
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they're what, 2038 games in? Yeah, it's just part of it.
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Like we said, they don't spend a lot of money.
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They're not. They haven't spent a lot of
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money. You have exciting young players
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that are coming through and they're just not.
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They're just missing the mark. That's that's really all it is.
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And as Jabba alluded to you, somebody has to take the fall,
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certainly won't be the GM. He's not going to fire himself.
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So my next best thing is we'll fire the manager and see how it
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goes. Listen, when you play it, when I
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played in Mexico, our coaching staff was on notice every week.
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All right, If we lost, if we if there wouldn't be if it was like
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3 games in a row, we were the coaching staff was getting put
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on notice and players are getting sent back.
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So, you know, you have a little bit of leeway here.
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But for three years, you you, you said his record was what,
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250 and 4 something that. Is hold on, I'll bring it back.
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Up 300. Five years and three O 6 and
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4:40. Yeah, and that's not like that's
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not entirely his fault. Like said, you know, that's a,
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that's an organizational thing. You know, the Pirates
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traditionally, I think have a pretty decent minor league.
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Organization, I know they're making some changes there now,
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maybe those changes just haven't had enough time to play out, but
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they are producing some good talent, some good young talent.
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So maybe in the next couple of years they should be better.
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It sucks that Shelton took the, you know, took the brunt of it,
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but at the same time, it's baseball.
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It is what it is. And and as Jabba said, like he
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will find another home. That's what managers end up
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doing and maybe become a special assistant or whatever else.
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But he will be in this game. I know the players really like
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him. So, and that's, that's what
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really sucks is the relationships that he had are
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are they'll still be there, but they won't be day-to-day.
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So Ben Cherington runs it right, Speedy.
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Yeah, I think he's still there, unfortunately for them.
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He's living off of a lot of former success over in Boston,
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and he's been there, what, 6 years now?
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What are we? Do we really think this guy was
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the reason for Boston's success after watching this?
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What do you think, Speedy? Well, no, they've had their
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track record of other GMs go over to other smaller market
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organizations. That would not be the case.
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And again, that's what I think what good he's getting at is
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like he's a it's a product of just them being so cheap.
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And Derek Shelton, while I get I wasn't crazy about the hire at
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the time, like you were saying, Java, I think a lot of the
21:22
players liked him in Minnesota when he was with the Twins over
21:24
there. So again, it's just one of those
21:26
tough situations for a team that just the top 10, not payroll,
21:31
top ten money with the owner and they just don't want to do
21:33
anything with it. With a flashy player in ski,
21:35
he's a flashy player in O'Neill Cruz.
21:37
They need a manager that's a personality.
21:38
Maybe they get our friend Michael McHenry to join.
21:41
Errol, you think? Should hire me.
21:45
Worst ownership group they may be going right now.
21:48
They're the worst. They're just as bad as any team
21:51
we've seen in a long time. Cincinnati was there, they're
21:54
getting better. We're watching Cincinnati.
21:56
They did the they made the right choice with Terry Francona.
21:59
They're bringing in a guy that actually knows what he's doing.
22:01
He's a great manager. So that's where, and I'm not
22:04
blaming Pittsburgh, obviously with the manager over there, he
22:08
it just didn't work out over there.
22:09
I know the players liked him, but they need to find a guy
22:12
that's more of a drill Sergeant than a guy that's patent babies
22:17
on the ass and saying don't worry boys, we'll get him next
22:20
time. I think they need to get a guy
22:22
that's going to go in there and tell them, listen, you got to go
22:24
out there and play. You want to play in the big
22:25
leagues, you want to make some money, you want to be the best.
22:27
You got to go out there and be and go and play like you're one
22:30
of the best. So I think that's the problem
22:32
right now. Pittsburgh has talent like you
22:34
were saying, Goody, like you were saying Jabba.
22:37
They're just these talented players aren't developing and
22:40
then they wind up trading them away and it just, it doesn't
22:43
make any sense. This has been the the Pittsburgh
22:45
Pirates Forte for the last, I don't know, 2 decades.
22:49
So it hasn't been good really since Bobby Bonilla and Barry
22:53
Bonds. I mean, that's how they're just
22:55
not good. They're just not a good and
22:57
presently run organization. So my.
23:00
Opinion is probably still getting paid more than a lot of
23:03
those players. That's.
23:06
Bobby Bonilla's best contract of all time, right?
23:08
So, yeah, I don't really know what you do to an ownership
23:13
group that just doesn't want to spend money and they're just
23:16
going to sell players. There seems to be no penalty or
23:19
way to penalize them. And I feel like something is
23:24
going to have to give it some point.
23:26
So let's get this back up here. Looks like I'm more frozen here
23:29
we are. All right, so let's talk about
23:31
the Yankee game last night a little bit because it was really
23:33
fascinating. Yankees won four to three and 10
23:36
innings. There's Padres, Padres obviously
23:38
with a real hot start this year as well.
23:40
Max Freed versus Dylan Cease great pitching duel.
23:44
It was 1 nothing going into the 7th inning.
23:48
Cease had a no no going and he gives up a a home run to
23:52
Bellinger ties the game up and batter 2 later he has to come
23:57
out of the game he gets the forearm cramp.
23:59
Now, this was more of a question that I wanted to ask our two
24:02
pitchers over here. You give up a home run in that
24:05
situation. What causes that cramp?
24:07
You just start like pensing up and throwing harder than at that
24:10
point get a little angry. Or could it just be like you're
24:14
so like exhausted from trying to do the no hitter that you're
24:19
like almost dehydrated and you can cramp up?
24:21
What do you, what do you think that was on this one guys?
24:24
It's I mean, you can never really tell when that happens.
24:27
I mean, I mean, because I started and relieved, but I was
24:31
never the best water drinker when I was pitching.
24:36
I know some guys that would drink a bottle and inning.
24:39
I don't know how they did it, but that was just their routine.
24:42
I just was never really, really good at it.
24:43
I mean, I always would have enough water where I wouldn't be
24:48
dehydrated. But you, I mean, it's just weird
24:53
to I don't think necessarily he was gripping the ball too tight.
24:56
Like I think it was just he was probably dehydrated and he just
25:02
caught a cramp. But also no cramps can lead to
25:05
other things too. So you don't really know.
25:08
And it was, it was just a, it was an interesting game watching
25:11
it go back and forth and, you know, just going into the 6th
25:15
and then it's no hitter and Max just gave up the home run early
25:19
in the game. And you know, he just battled
25:20
his tail off and, and it, it, it was just a, it was a great game
25:25
overall for the Yankees in momentum.
25:27
Devin Williams obviously got 2 quick first outs, then he gets
25:32
the bases loaded first and third hits Jackson Merrill to load the
25:36
bases and then gets out of it with a strikeout with Bogart.
25:39
So, and then they just go on a tear from from after that.
25:43
But I don't think more than a cramp it it unless they said
25:49
that there's going to get an MRI, but I would assume he just
25:52
tightened up and they're like all right.
25:54
And it's still so early in the season, you don't want to push
25:56
it. Yeah, What do you think, Betty?
26:01
I don't know, man. I, I know Cease is a dog.
26:04
I know he'd go out there and pitch through a lot of things.
26:06
So I don't think he would pull himself out of the game for a
26:10
little cramp. I know he, he came out and said
26:12
he would push through it but just you know, with the being
26:16
cautious, you know the, the training staff pulled him out.
26:22
It is ironic that it happened after a home run after he was
26:25
going for a no hitter. I'm not sure exactly what his
26:27
pitch count was or how high you know where where he was at, but
26:30
couldn't be too high. I'm assuming you know these.
26:37
I personally don't think I've ever cramped in my forearm while
26:40
pitching. I haven't.
26:42
Yeah, that was my bigger question.
26:43
Because when I cramp, it's my calf.
26:45
If it's real bad, it could be like quad like area.
26:49
You can cramp up sometimes like foot cramps up like my heel
26:52
like. I don't, I don't, I don't know,
26:55
I don't know, maybe, maybe my calf, if I've ever cramped while
27:01
pitching, it might have been a calf muscle.
27:03
And you just walk around the mound or you know, whatever and
27:07
you kind of work itself out as far as the forearm, the only
27:10
thing if it cramped up, it was like I the one time it cramped
27:14
up, I had time to jump like right then that just didn't
27:16
cramp up. Like it, it, it, it, it blew.
27:20
So it's like, you know, I don't know, right?
27:23
We know we'll find out. We'll find out when when we get
27:26
more details and everything that come out.
27:28
You know, teams like to hide these things for a little while.
27:30
So you know, who knows? Nobody knows.
27:34
But ceased in the medical staff what's actually really going on.
27:37
And when that comes out, we'll we'll find out.
27:39
I'm sure we'll discuss it. But until then, he pitched a
27:41
hell of a baseball game, gave up a hit epic bat flip by Grissom.
27:46
And it is what it is he was like. 6 and 2/3 with 89 pitches.
27:52
Yeah, I mean, that's he was just, he was cruising.
27:55
He was cruising. It was like. 59 strikes.
27:58
Speedy, yeah. You're the one I wanted to ask
28:01
about Grissom specifically. This guy was a platoon guy.
28:05
Forever was, never always had pop, obviously great defensive
28:09
player. What do you think's led to this
28:11
kind of a turn around? I mean, you've seen the
28:13
statistics, they're off the charts for this guy.
28:16
Yeah, I was supposed to what he was supposed to be in Milwaukee.
28:18
He was a top prospect there and he was supposed to be kind of
28:21
that transition from their veteran offensive players that
28:23
they had there and never really amounted and obviously had that
28:26
great post season series against the Mets when he was with the
28:29
Padres. But yeah, this is definitely,
28:32
you always see this with some random outfielders, especially
28:35
veteran outfielders. There's usually a couple that
28:37
have their flashes like this and it, I mean, I don't know how
28:40
sustainable it'll be, but he had the upside for a reason.
28:43
Maybe he's just finding it. It'd be great if he can be this
28:46
good and like just be one of our guys going forwards, That'd be
28:49
amazing. He's got more.
28:50
He's got more homers this year into May than he did all of last
28:53
year. Errol Last.
28:57
No. No, not this.
28:59
That's on Monday. No, we've talked about Max
29:02
Freed. He's got to be the front runner
29:04
for AL Sai Young though. He's special.
29:07
He's been special. It would be interesting to see
29:10
what Garrett Cole and him as a dynamic tandem, which the
29:14
Yankees are looking for probably, hopefully next year at
29:17
the end of the season is seeing how this is going to work.
29:20
But Max Freed has been the best pitcher in baseball really since
29:24
the beginning of the season, 9 starts.
29:27
He, the Yankees have won every single start since he's been on
29:30
the mound. And that's what you want your
29:31
ace to do. His ERA is almost one.
29:34
His WHIP is under one. I mean, the guy has been the
29:37
best pitcher in baseball. If you were to tell me right now
29:40
going into the season that the Yankees would have by far the
29:43
best player in baseball and the best pitcher in baseball, well,
29:47
that means the Yankees would be a pretty good team.
29:49
And they are there. They're just not playing as the
29:52
best team in the American League.
29:54
But I think they'll figure it out.
29:55
I think Max Reed is special. He's winning the Cy Young.
29:58
If he stays 100% healthy all season long, he's on his way.
30:02
But it it's it's incredible. He people thought, hey, you go
30:06
to New York, could you handle Yankee Stadium?
30:08
Could you handle New York? A lot of pitchers couldn't.
30:11
As we all know, the Yankees, the Yankees have done so many things
30:14
over the years that bring guys in and it never worked.
30:16
And one guy, the guy that sticks out to me more than anything, is
30:19
Carl Pavano. Remember that guy?
30:22
Remember the money the Yankees gave him?
30:24
It didn't work out. He got hit by a sausage truck.
30:27
OK. It's ridiculous, the story about
30:30
Carl Pavano. The Yankees right now have an
30:34
opportunity if they put some guys around this guy.
30:37
And by the way, the Soto move was the best move the Yankees
30:40
did not do in the offseason. They brought in Max Freed and
30:43
Goldilocks. I call him Mr. Goldilocks
30:45
himself. You know, Goldschmidt, who right
30:48
now has the second best batting average right now in baseball.
30:51
Where are you, Jeff? Where are you?
30:53
I can't see you, Jeff. Remember when you said
30:55
Goldilocks is done? Well, he's right behind Aaron
30:59
Judge, right behind the great one as the second best batting
31:04
average in baseball. Eat it, Mr. Jeffrey.
31:07
Sink to the river, sink to the ocean.
31:09
That's all I got to say about that.
31:13
I I agree with that sentiment about Jeff.
31:15
Now moving back on to the next thing we're going to get into
31:18
some injuries, guys. First one, a couple of groin
31:22
injuries. Hunter green Jabba we were
31:23
talking about. It went down with what could be,
31:27
you know, you never know what the groin, but I think it was
31:29
more upper and it might be a little while for him.
31:33
Obviously he, we've mentioned him a couple weeks ago, has had
31:35
one of the fastest starts for any pitcher in baseball, the
31:40
Oscar Hernandez. That's a blow for the Dodgers.
31:43
Obviously, they're still crushing it, but he's a big part
31:46
of what they're doing. I think he was second in RBI is
31:49
behind Judge at one point. Other injuries.
31:51
Noel V Marte for Cincinnati. He's somebody that's really
31:56
coming on. Errol, I don't know if you know
31:57
too much about him, but he was a hot prospect, got hurt.
32:01
I think he might that Was he suspended?
32:02
Is he the one that was? Suspended.
32:04
For the steroids or something anyway, he was crushing
32:07
beginning of this year. He's got an oblique.
32:09
He's going to be gone for a little while.
32:11
And then those are the ones I didn't really want to talk too
32:14
much about. The ones I really want to talk
32:16
about is starting off with Chris Bryant, who has lumbar
32:22
degenerative disc disease. He's batting 150 something with
32:28
absolutely no ability to play anymore.
32:30
He's got, I don't know, speedy. You'll have to tell me the
32:32
contract details, but it. Is it was 6 years I think 175 or
32:36
something at the time. Nobody is stealing money more
32:41
than Chris Bryant, but on power to him if his back's really that
32:43
messed up. I mean, have you ever even heard
32:45
of a guy in baseball having something like this?
32:48
Is it similar to David? Wright, I was going to say when
32:50
David, when David Wright had spinal stenosis, that was the
32:52
first time I heard of. That, yeah, Yeah.
32:55
And then Prince was neck. But this is the first time I've
32:58
heard it Speedy. It was 7 for 182. 07/1/82 OK.
33:02
Who cares? He plays for the Rockies.
33:04
Well, I mean, he picks or 31 Rockies.
33:08
Yeah, they are. They are not good.
33:12
Yeah, I mean, it sucks because I mean, it's one of those things
33:18
where like, if you have bad luck, you have bad luck, right?
33:22
But this is something that you really can't control.
33:25
And since since he left San Francisco and, you know, signed
33:29
the the the deal and you just look at he hasn't played more
33:33
than 80 games. And it I mean, he played like
33:39
51. Chicago was the last time he
33:41
played almost 100 and that was in 21.
33:46
Then when he got traded. So he played 140 between two
33:49
leagues, but he hasn't played more than 80 games.
33:52
And it I can only imagine the frustration because everything
33:56
that I know about him and everybody that I've talked to
33:59
and, and goody you probably in the same like nobody has a bad
34:02
thing to say about the guy. And it just sucks when it's one
34:05
of these things you can't control if it's like, you know,
34:08
just a string of like, oh, my knee, my ankle, whatever.
34:11
But this is something where it's degenerative.
34:13
Like, and I look at it from this point of view, it's like, man,
34:17
if you want to pick up your kids when you're 40 years old and you
34:20
and I actually play like, is it worth trying to grind and do all
34:25
that stuff? Or like, Hey, then I'd like I
34:28
said, I don't know him personally, so I don't know if
34:30
he has kids or whatever, but that's where my brain would go.
34:33
Like, I want to play catch with my son.
34:35
I want to, you know, when he gets grandkids, I want to be
34:38
able to, you know, have him over and, and play with them.
34:40
So from that point of view, I just, I, it sucks because it's,
34:45
it's nothing that he can control.
34:48
It's not like he hasn't put the work in because you've seen him
34:50
in AAA trying to rehab and then it flares up and he can't get
34:54
back. So at this point, with the way
34:56
it's gone the last five 4-5 years, you started looking at
35:00
your, your own personal life and, and what the limitations
35:04
that you're going to have with this and, and how you can, you
35:07
know, minimize it by obviously not putting your body through
35:09
the wringer for, you know, nine months a year, 10 months a year
35:14
and hopefully have a long lasting life.
35:17
But you know, you're still in pain.
35:19
I mean, I'm nine surgeries in. So, you know, there's a days
35:22
that aren't comfortable, but with that I just I think you got
35:26
to look out for yourself at at some point.
35:29
What do you think, Goody? I got another injury here that's
35:32
interesting. Jordan Alvarez, hand
35:35
inflammation now for me. That could be 10,000 different
35:38
things. Right.
35:39
So they're talking about the muscle like I think it's, I
35:44
think it's like the the muscle on the outside of the hand right
35:47
here that's bothering him. I don't think it's over here by
35:49
the thumb. I think they were saying more
35:51
about like the grip. I didn't know if I wanted to
35:56
save this one for for for you goody or if I was going to give
35:59
it to Errol and have him go with Speedy on this one.
36:03
But I'll tell you, I'm more concerned as like a guy in
36:06
fantasy. So I have a rule with fantasy
36:08
baseball and I've done this fantasy baseball forever.
36:11
If the guys got a bad wrist, you've got to get rid of him
36:14
immediately. Like the wrist injury, like it's
36:16
going to sack his power. It's going to sack his bad speed
36:20
and until he heals. And it might take a while.
36:22
Like those could be a while. Like whenever a guy gets hit
36:26
like on the hand and breaks like a little bone in his wrist or
36:29
something like that, they're they're the ham 81's, the worst
36:32
one, right? And they say, oh, you don't
36:34
really need that one. Well, you, you, it makes you,
36:37
you don't have the same power. I've never seen a guy with those
36:40
types of injuries have, especially a power hitter like
36:43
Alvarez. It's it could be a really bad
36:46
injury for Houston Astros. Well, I think why they even did
36:50
it anyways, because he was only hitting 210 with three homers
36:54
and it's like. I think they're saying that's
36:56
why. Right.
36:57
Yeah. You know, it's like, I mean, I
37:01
was, I was actually hitting some golf balls today and I was just
37:04
like, Oh yeah, if you don't swing so hard and you just, you
37:07
know, you don't grip it so hard and you just let your body go,
37:10
It's that's what you want. And sometimes I know you could
37:12
do that. We're going to talk about
37:13
someone who we think grips it too hard.
37:15
Arrow isn't, if you get back to your line of questioning, has a
37:18
couple of elbow weaknesses, but I don't know what to.
37:23
Don't worry everybody, it's not me.
37:26
I don't know what to make of it. I really, I worry about that
37:30
injury. Speedy if you have.
37:33
What else does Houston have if they lose Alvarez?
37:36
Yeah, their offensive depth was already a question mark for me
37:39
even last year when they still had Tucker in Bregman.
37:42
Now losing those two as well in the offseason, you're banking on
37:46
a young catcher that in Diaz, it's a good prospect, but he's
37:49
struggled. Altuve's played fine, but he
37:52
could only do go so far with one hit or Pena's, all right.
37:55
So. But again, it's not a lot of
37:56
good depth and the way Seattle's playing and they could pitch and
38:00
go, your Texas Rangers good either in a little bit of a
38:02
slump, but I think they're still better than the Astros right
38:05
now. All right.
38:07
And the last one, Errol Giancarlo Stanton, they're
38:12
saying that when he is able to come off with a 60 day, this a
38:17
or is it the ILDI don't know if it's 60.
38:19
Days 60 day. DL they should have kept the DL
38:23
for the 60 day one, but the 60 day one, May 27th, they think
38:28
they'll be ready soon, as soon as that time's up.
38:32
You ready for some more Giancarlo in the Bronx?
38:36
Well, right now you're not getting anything from Bellinger,
38:39
so you're going to need something in that lineup.
38:42
And and really it's been Ben Rice and Aaron Judge and nobody
38:46
else. They've been up and down in that
38:48
lineup. And this is and Goldman.
38:49
I'm sorry, I forgot about Goldman.
38:51
So it's been three guys. Grissom, yeah, he's he's got the
38:54
whole bronze. He's yeah, he's hitting too, but
38:57
he's not your everyday outfielder.
38:59
So you're getting that off the bench.
39:01
So I, I you wanted to see Dominguez this year.
39:04
You wanted to see some of these players and, and what, And
39:07
Austin Wells, I expect him to get better.
39:09
And he hit that Grand Slam the other day, but really he hasn't
39:12
been hitting as much as you would expect this year.
39:15
And he was so good in spring training.
39:17
John Carlos Stanton adds that depth that they need in the
39:19
lineup. He's got the power, he's got the
39:21
protection. We all know what he could do in
39:23
the playoffs. I just want to make sure that
39:25
John Carlos Stanton stays healthy for the playoffs.
39:27
I, I would have sat him the whole season and waited maybe
39:31
like 30-40 games before the season's end.
39:33
Let him get warmed up and get ready for the playoffs because
39:36
that's when John Carlos Stanton shines the most in the playoffs.
39:40
I don't want to put him in harm's way.
39:41
This guy breaks a nail or something.
39:43
I mean, this guy is the weakest piece of, you know, piece of
39:48
paper. I mean, all you got to do is
39:50
pull something and you might tear something off his body.
39:53
I I mean, he's built like an ox. I mean, he's got muscles from
39:56
top to bottom. And, you know, every woman wants
39:59
to kiss his ass. But to me, the guy just falls
40:03
apart. He doesn't stay healthy.
40:05
So I'm happy. Hopefully he stays healthy and
40:08
he helps the Yankees line up. I'm just worried that he's going
40:12
to come back and then he's going to go out a significant amount
40:14
of time and. We won't see him in the
40:17
playoffs. I I think he's only going to
40:20
hit. Though so it's it's unless,
40:23
unless he does something weird. I mean, I guess he's got bad
40:26
elbows or whatever. It's got bad everything.
40:28
Elbow sausage, You know all about that.
40:31
And I'm just called Pavano. Chime in on Dominguez first of
40:34
all when you give a dude a nickname before he gets the big
40:36
leagues and especially in New York and to try and live up to
40:40
those expectations like they thought he was the next coming
40:43
of. I don't know what it is, but he
40:45
just, he, he doesn't do it for me in any way, shape or form.
40:48
He can run a little bit, but he just, there's, there's nothing
40:52
that I've seen over the time that they've given him chances.
40:56
He has over 100 at bats. It's, it's not like he's got
40:59
like 40 at bats like it's. He's getting you mentioned this
41:02
Java because that's where I was going with this.
41:05
Look, look what's going on. You said it Errol Rice.
41:08
Rice is plays first base, he plays catcher and he plays DH.
41:14
That's Goldsmith, That's Wells, that's Giancarlo.
41:18
There's an issue here, right? Where is the opening where, I
41:22
mean, third base is a sieve right now.
41:24
And you can theoretically put some guys out in the outfield.
41:27
Grisham, if he can play, you can put him out there.
41:30
And then you don't need to worry about Dominguez.
41:33
So he automatically becomes one of the biggest trade ships in
41:37
baseball for this season. And I think that if they are
41:42
going to make a move that's massive, if they're trying to
41:45
add a big name, whether they add it to the staff or they add it,
41:49
add a position of need like third base or they don't trust
41:52
Volti and they want to add a big time shortstop, Dominguez is
41:56
going. To be nobody wants Dominguez.
41:59
What has he done? He's horrible, dude.
42:02
He's done. He's done.
42:03
He doesn't work in dude. He is another bust for the New
42:06
York Yankees. He's a bust.
42:08
The guy's not good. He's not good.
42:11
Had that hot first year he's. Clint Frazier, one O 1 man.
42:15
He is horrible. Come on dude.
42:18
This guy, this guy's afraid of the outfields.
42:21
He can't even catch anymore. This guy was A5 tool player when
42:25
he came to the league. They called him the alien or
42:27
whatever. The Martian, whatever they call
42:30
him, Martian aliens. Friggin thing.
42:32
And he's a switch hitter. The guy can't hit a lick on both
42:35
sides of the, you know, the plate.
42:36
They would still get a lot for. Him, he's got two home runs, two
42:40
home runs in Yankee Stadium. Yeah, but he's still very young,
42:45
dude. He still have time to adjust to
42:47
the league, you know, He's still very young.
42:50
He's still very projectable, you know, as a player.
42:53
So he's got pop. He can run, he can throw.
42:56
You need to work on his defense. But yeah, I would agree with
43:00
you, Fish. He's definitely going to be a
43:02
trade ship if the Yankees do want to make that big splash.
43:07
So he'll, he'll play, he'll play every year at the same age, like
43:10
he'll play this whole year at 22.
43:13
So yeah. He's young.
43:14
He's 22 years old, dude. At 20 years old, what were you
43:17
doing? He's a boss, I.
43:18
Was two years. I was two years in the big
43:19
leagues, dog. He's a boss.
43:21
Well, not you. Oh, sorry.
43:25
He's a boss. Remember I said that five years
43:27
from now, boys, remember I said that when we're on top of the
43:30
world? I said Dominguez is a boss.
43:32
He's a boss. He's not good.
43:34
I don't care how old he is, he's never going to mount anything
43:38
one way or another. The Yankees a boss.
43:41
All right, here's a boss. He's.
43:43
He'll be lucky. He'll be lucky to have, if he
43:47
goes to the right place, having two seasons with 25 or more home
43:50
runs. That's it.
43:52
I don't think he's any good. I think he's playing in the
43:55
smallest stadium in all the baseball where it's a home run
43:59
park and you can't hit home runs.
44:01
You got two home runs in your starting outfielder.
44:03
It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing.
44:06
I don't want to hear it. I think he stinks.
44:08
Let's think, he states the. Heats up.
44:09
I hope he does because I think that they could get a lot for
44:12
him. So guys, the play or blooper of
44:16
the week comes from the second baseman, rookie of the Chicago.
44:20
We got a surprise too, for Let's parlay.
44:23
Here's the first time in a while for Mr. Mountain.
44:26
Take a look at this. So it's 9th inning and we got a
44:30
runner on 1st, but the Royals are down 1.
44:33
Oh my God. Right off the noggin.
44:36
Then they throw it away. They don't advance.
44:39
But of course this led to a 9th inning comeback finished by
44:44
Bobby Witt. Junior 43V.
44:47
The White Sox, I think, have ten wins this season.
44:50
Better than Colorado, but still pretty.
44:53
Terrible. That's not as bad as Jose
44:54
Canseco, let me tell you. That's definitely.
44:57
Right. So, so let's get it.
44:58
Let's get into that, Jose Canseco.
45:00
The white socks are white socks and dude.
45:03
Accurate. It's rough that it's, it's ugly
45:06
over there. Errol, though I've shown the
45:07
Jose can see the clip a million times.
45:10
It's it's the most embarrassing thing ever.
45:13
I remember the Luis Castillo pop up.
45:16
Hey, Rod, Hit. That, but the Yankees and the
45:18
and the Mets. I'll never forget that.
45:20
Mainly because of how my mother, who's a Mets fan, shrieked when
45:23
it happened, when we were watching it together.
45:25
Like could have broken glass. How bad, how angry she was with
45:29
Luis Castillo on that one. But I can't remember anything
45:33
like this in the infield when I played Little League, though.
45:35
This is the one time I'll share you a Little League story.
45:38
I was terrible, but I had I was playing first guy next to me.
45:41
It shouldn't be surprising. Guy playing second next to me.
45:44
He had a really old glove, but he's playing.
45:45
He's got glasses on, pop up right to him, pose up for it,
45:50
goes through his glove, breaks his glasses, like destroyed the
45:55
webbing, just holding it and then bounced into the outfield.
45:59
He was hurt like a little. He was hurt a little bit.
46:02
I've never seen anything like that in the pros, though.
46:04
Boys, have you seen anything like that?
46:06
Not in the infield. I've seen I've.
46:08
Seen No. I don't think I've ever seen one
46:11
off the Dome right there live. Right off here.
46:14
Yeah, No, like glove. No, I mean, obviously Conseco is
46:19
the only other. I mean, but I can't think.
46:23
And it sucks that it's the White Sox because you're just like, oh
46:26
gosh, really? He looks owned.
46:28
Look at him, he looks. So, well, he has to be.
46:31
He feels like to play with the White Sox.
46:33
Sad. He just made.
46:36
That's there forever. He just made.
46:38
ESPN's Blooper of the Year. Well, how sad could he be?
46:41
Nobody's going to remember him. They're going to remember him
46:43
for that. At least he's remembered for
46:45
something. I mean that was embarrassed for
46:47
hitting dingers. Though, dude.
46:49
That's a dinger. All right, Dinger.
46:51
Off his head. That's that's fun man, that
46:53
looks fun. It's, you know, it's just part
46:55
of the game. High, high skies, late at night.
46:57
Maybe lost it, I don't know. Maybe they were excited they
47:00
were going to win a game for the first time in a couple weeks and
47:02
then you just you don't just misplayed.
47:04
It sucks. Party of the game though, got to
47:07
play, you got to get 27 outs and then they fortunately they got
47:10
26 all. Right, let's finish this we got
47:13
so I decided I'm going to give you guys power rankings every
47:16
once in a while, so I'll get this is the fish power rankings.
47:19
I didn't look at anything. I thought I was actually talking
47:21
to Errol and Speedy while I made it.
47:23
Made one change, Speedy since I talked to you, but Dodgers and
47:26
Padres at the top. I don't think many people are
47:28
going to argue with that. The way they're playing pretty
47:31
impressive. Dodgers have suffered some
47:33
injuries, so I don't know if they'll be able to maintain that
47:35
for for the time being. And this isn't at the end of the
47:38
year projections. This is currently as of this day
47:41
in baseball this season, right? The Tigers are leading, I
47:44
believe, in run differential in all of baseball right now.
47:47
The Giants have had that really hot start.
47:50
Obviously a lot of competition as you can see already two teams
47:54
ahead of them in the same division, the Royals.
47:57
Goody, you brought this up to me earlier today. 14 of their last
48:00
16. 15 of their last seven, so now. 15 of 17 the Royals have
48:04
won. Pretty outrageous.
48:07
They're the hottest team in baseball.
48:09
That's after losing 9 of 11. Yeah.
48:12
So their record isn't as good as it as it could be.
48:16
And then just around out the top ten, I got the Mets at six and
48:19
the Yankees at 7. The Yankees, I was impressed
48:21
with them being able to beat the Padres in that series, who I
48:24
think are outstanding. I couldn't believe how good the
48:26
Padres are. If Francesco Tatis is going to
48:28
play like this, he may be the NLMVP over Otani.
48:32
He's incredible this year. By the way, I just want to say
48:36
something. I'm sorry to cut you off.
48:37
I had Bobby Witt Junior winning the MVP.
48:40
If, if Aaron Judge wasn't having the year that he's having right
48:43
now, Bobby Witt Junior right now is the lead.
48:47
You know, as far as the lead guy for for the American League,
48:51
he's been unbelievable in the last 16 games.
48:55
He's been unbelievable. One duty can't strike him out
48:59
the guys. In this last year too, like he
49:01
last year, he was second the judge and the MVP.
49:04
It's going to happen again. Like that he is the second best
49:06
player in the AL, there's really no question about it.
49:09
Or at least position player at this point.
49:12
It's unbelievable, man. What's the finish about?
49:14
Phillies really strong again. We got a couple of really good
49:17
divisions. I think the Braves will bounce
49:19
back too. So I think the NL East and the
49:21
NL W just outstanding divisions this year.
49:25
Then I got the Cubs a ninth and the Guardians, goody, I know
49:29
their records really good. You see they have a -14 run
49:33
differential at that. They're like 9 games over or
49:36
eight games over 500. They're playing really good
49:39
baseball right now. They're just finding ways to win
49:41
and that's what they do. They find ways to win.
49:43
It's not sexy, is that? Sustainable, though, you know
49:46
what I mean? Like the teams in their
49:48
division, the Tigers, they're the.
49:50
If one team could do it, it's probably them because they just
49:52
find a way to win that. It's like I said, it's not sexy,
49:56
but they find a way to win. They get job done.
49:59
And it's just beneficial. It's like that every year.
50:03
They're on paper. You're just like, and then you
50:06
look up and it's September and you're there pushing for the
50:08
playoffs. You know it's.
50:09
Just like. It is what it is.
50:13
All right boys, so anyone have any comments?
50:15
You think my list is terrible? No.
50:18
You guys send them in the message and comment and reach
50:22
out to us on socials. But for that guys, that has been
50:25
inside baseball. There it is, ladies and
50:28
gentlemen. It's fantastic.
50:29
It's beautiful. Speaking of beautiful faces we
50:32
haven't seen in a long time. I mean, a guy that doesn't need
50:35
any applause. We know him as a Mountaineer and
50:39
he's back. Ladies and gentlemen, for the
50:41
one and only, let's parlay, parlay time for Lex Parlay.
50:55
The man, the myth, the legend. He's back, ladies and gentlemen.
51:00
We haven't seen him for over a year.
51:02
He's been busy. You know, his his brother having
51:05
a baby. I mean, he's an uncle now.
51:08
His other brother, you know, doing his thing with hockey.
51:11
I mean, everybody's all over the place and this guy's doing his
51:14
thing. How the hell are you my friends?
51:18
Not too bad, not too bad. How are you guys?
51:21
You know what's so funny? When I hear your voice, you, you
51:23
sound just like your brother. And it's pretty funny.
51:26
Every time I listen, I I think of your brother's voice.
51:28
I think, wow, you guys sound so alike.
51:31
But you know, it's crazy. I mean, how how are you doing?
51:34
How's the girl? How's Boston?
51:36
What's going on with you? Not.
51:41
Too bad we got married. Congratulations,
51:43
Congratulations. So married life, so been crazy,
51:47
but get crazy. Yeah, no, nothing, nothing else.
51:54
You know that that kind of remarkable, but just.
51:57
Who's your best man? Who's your best man?
52:00
Who was my best man? Well Brian and Kyle were Co best
52:03
man. I I would have loved to hear
52:05
what Brian had to say at your. A good speech.
52:08
His speech. But yeah, Kyle did.
52:10
A good speech, you did a good job.
52:12
But it's it's, you know, Brian is very soft with words.
52:16
So I think he probably I think he probably would give you a
52:19
really good speech. I don't know much about Kyle,
52:21
but I know a lot about your brother.
52:23
So we're happy to have you back, man.
52:25
I'm I'm glad that you finally snuck right back.
52:28
And Wes has been in and out too. He's doing some big things too.
52:31
But we love one of these days we got to get you both on again
52:35
because it is fantastic. So you know the rules, everybody
52:38
knows the rules he's going to give us since it's only him,
52:41
he's going to give us his top 4 picks of the week as we do this
52:46
every single week. We call this Let's Barley a
52:48
speedy set and we have the one and only Derek Mountain.
52:54
Go ahead, Derek. All right, so I'm just going to
52:57
go fourth straight. I don't have any.
52:59
Wow. No, no ping pong in tonight.
53:01
OK, so first one, I like the Nuggets tomorrow +5 at home.
53:08
They complete completely punted last night's game.
53:11
They lost by 40. They're down by 30 in the first
53:14
half, but you could tell from the jump, you know, they they
53:17
emptied the tank game one. They got the win late from the
53:21
Thunder choking. But Game 2 last night, they went
53:24
in going knowing that they were going to lose that game, Similar
53:28
to what I think the Warriors are doing right now.
53:31
You know, they're they're a little more competitive tonight,
53:33
but really they're just gearing up to get healthy before in
53:37
front of the home crowd, they got five points.
53:39
Jokic looks the same. Russell Westbrook looks really,
53:42
really good. Jamal Murray in the playoffs is
53:46
a playoff riser. Aaron Gordon's been really good.
53:48
I think it's enough to keep it a close game.
53:51
So we got five points there. Tomorrow, the Rockies play
53:56
against the Padres. I like the Padres over their
53:59
team total. It's at Coors Field, so we get
54:02
the altitude and they're going against Antonio Sends.
54:07
Sends who has given up 4 earned runs or more and every start but
54:12
two this year? Jackson Merrill's back in the
54:15
line up. I think San Diego will not have
54:18
an issue as the Rockies gave up over 20 runs today in
54:20
doubleheader. Who else do I have?
54:26
I only have one more pick if that's OK.
54:29
Go ahead, babe. Go ahead.
54:30
All right, I don't want to force anything.
54:33
So as Speedy Rocks is Knicks hat, he pains me to say I'm
54:39
going to go with the Celtics at the lowest value that we'll
54:44
probably ever get them plus 170 on fanatics.
54:49
I believe I got that today to win the Eastern Conference.
54:53
Backs are against the wall next game Saturday afternoon.
54:58
So they they got plenty of rest here.
55:00
I I do worry about Porzingis health and I think that's a big
55:03
deal for them to win the finals. But to win the east, I mean, I
55:07
think New York's going to be a tougher task than whoever they
55:10
have to play the next round, which to me, it looks like
55:12
Indiana. I know they're up to low, but if
55:15
Garland and and Mobley aren't healthy, I don't think
55:18
Cleveland's going to be able to win that series.
55:20
And if they do, they're, they're really hanging on by a thread
55:22
there. So it's really good by the
55:24
Knicks. And I think if they win this
55:26
game three, which they should, they're they're 5 1/2 point
55:28
favorite. I think it might help Boston to
55:31
to get away from that home crowd.
55:33
I think they're just playing so tense down the stretch in these
55:37
games. They're dominating the Knicks
55:38
for 3 1/2 quarters and can't finish the job.
55:42
I think if they win game three, get that monkey off their back,
55:45
they they'll be fine and they can win this in six or seven.
55:50
But I think plus 170 to win the East, they they get by the
55:53
Knicks, they they should be able to do that.
55:55
So I'm going to take the Celtics plus 170 to win the Eastern
55:58
Conference Scope Finals. Right man, you know you know
56:02
what's so funny I I know everybody has the Celtics
56:05
winning game three I it's going to be very interesting to see
56:08
how the Knicks come out. I the Celtics have been
56:11
dominating the first half of every single, every single first
56:17
and second game. I mean, they've been dominating
56:19
the first and second game. They've been, I think they were
56:22
up 12 points in both those games.
56:24
And then they go into the second-half, they play well in
56:27
the third quarter, but at tail end of the third quarter you see
56:30
that the Knicks have life. And in the fourth quarter the
56:33
Knicks just take over. They play hard, they play
56:35
defense and Mitchell Robertson has been a big piece and
56:38
important piece to the Knicks and and what they've done
56:41
defensively really over the last couple of years.
56:44
And now you have wing players like Miguel Bridges, you have
56:47
Josh Hart and you have arguably I I think it's Kawhi Leonard ask
56:52
and I'm going to say he he is that.
56:55
And you know, I'm talking about speedy OG, Mr. OG Ananobi, who's
56:59
been sensational too. So and he's been shooting very,
57:02
very well since he's come back from his injury.
57:04
So it's interesting and I do believe I agree with you.
57:06
Whoever wins this series is coming out of the east.
57:08
They're going is probably going to the NBA championship and and
57:13
honestly, I'm going to take whoever comes out of the East to
57:16
win the whole thing. I don't trust OKC.
57:18
They're too young and I don't know if they're, you know,
57:21
obviously as they move forward, the Nuggets, could they get
57:23
through that series? The Nuggets are interesting, but
57:26
I don't know, I, I just, I question if they have enough
57:29
depth like they've had over the years.
57:31
And Jamal Murray isn't the same Jamal Murray.
57:33
I don't know what's happened to him.
57:35
And then on in the other thing, Golden State's old.
57:37
They're an old team. I if they win this series, I'll
57:40
be shocked. The Timberwolves are
57:42
interesting. I the Timberwolves should this
57:45
might be the easiest path to the championship that they ever had
57:49
and and I think they could beat. OK, see, I think they could be
57:52
any one of those teams, the Nuggets.
57:53
If Anthony Edwards is playing at the top of his game.
57:56
I just ain't. I think Andy Anthony Edwards,
57:58
his problem is he forgets that he is Anthony Edwards and not a
58:02
third person. Reminds me of Kyler Murray who
58:05
just likes to talk in 3rd 3 pers Three people like he's this guy,
58:10
that guy in the other guy and he's got to stop playing those
58:12
video games. I, I I don't know.
58:14
He's playing with Anthony. Edwards, dude, all he's doing on
58:16
the site, everything he's posting on social media, it's
58:19
oh, who's what's my highest score?
58:21
I don't care what you're doing on Twitch.
58:23
I don't care what you're doing on a video game.
58:25
Control yourself and concentrate on the basketball game and
58:29
knocking off the Golden State Warriors who right now you have
58:32
an advantage because you don't have to deal with Steph Curry.
58:35
So that's my opinion to that. But Derek, man, I'm I'm happy
58:39
for you, man. You're married.
58:40
What's going on with you? What you what have you been
58:42
doing? Are you been going to school?
58:43
What's going on? I, I've been going to I, I have
58:47
not been available for the show because I have been going to law
58:51
school part time at night, evening.
58:53
I just had my last exam last night, which you know, was a
58:57
doozy, but I got through the first year one down 3 to go.
59:02
But you know, it was good. You know, Brian's done it
59:05
before, but so it was fine. I didn't, I, I thought I would
59:10
kind of, you know, dread it, but it was actually, it was, it was,
59:14
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
59:16
But it's, it's, it's tough. It's a family business.
59:19
Your father's a lawyer, your brother is a lawyer, and now
59:21
you're going to be a lawyer. But they're different lawyers.
59:24
They're that you don't, you don't want to be a sports agent.
59:26
I I would. I do not.
59:28
I do not, no. I think you want to do something
59:30
else, but I'm listen, man, I wish you nothing but the best
59:34
and like us. So we're going to we're going to
59:36
make announcements at the end of the show as well, where we've we
59:42
have an opportunity to and moving forward.
59:44
I know your brother knows the situation.
59:47
We're very excited. There's there's a great
59:49
opportunity and where we're going to be going in the very
59:51
near future. And I, I, it's been a long road,
59:55
but it's, it's, there's always a light at the end of the tunnel.
59:58
So, and hopefully it's not raining when we get out of the
1:00:01
tunnel, that's for sure. Anyways, Derek, we love you.
1:00:04
Come on next week, if you have time, we'd love for you to come
1:00:07
on and absolutely give us your. Take really appreciate you guys
1:00:11
having me on. Always good to see you guys.
1:00:12
Absolutely. The one and only Mountaineer
1:00:15
himself, Derek Mountain. We will be back on Monday.
1:00:21
Keep following us on social media.
1:00:23
I want to make it quick. I want to make a quick
1:00:26
announcement obviously and we'll make another announcement on
1:00:28
Monday. Where the announcement is, is
1:00:32
that we are signed for a year with Blue Wire podcast.
1:00:36
We are going to be doing our show on their platform moving
1:00:40
forward for a year. It will be out there on social
1:00:43
media. I'd like to thank TI and Kyle
1:00:47
and Nick, Nick Goody for setting it up.
1:00:50
And it's a great opportunity for us to really put ourselves
1:00:53
center stage with some of the best shows in America and just
1:00:58
putting ourselves, you know, in a position where we could be
1:01:01
very successful in the next year.
1:01:03
So thank you to TI, thank you to Blue Wire, thank you to the team
1:01:07
over there. We really appreciate it and
1:01:09
we're looking forward to, you know, beating down the log.
1:01:12
Anyways, that's it for our show. Ladies and gentlemen, We'll be
1:01:15
back on Monday. Goodnight Worldwide Sports Radio
1:01:20
Network.