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Well, bring us both things. Good morning, everybody.
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Keith Angle here for national streaming sports and a brand new
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show called Jack and Keith's Weekend Playbook.
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Good morning, Jack Hirsch, How are you?
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Hey, good morning. It feels like opening day,
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Keith. It does.
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It's it's as as and again, I played the let me kill the music
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here. I did play the National
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Streaming Sports Open. This is technically the last day
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that you may see it, where you're seeing it.
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We'll give you guys some updates.
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We're talking with, as you know, our illustrious leader, Mac
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McGrath passed away here, I don't know, a month ago.
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I guess Jack, we miss Mac a lot and we've been trying to make
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decisions on what to do with his vision and we don't want
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National Streaming Sports to go away.
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So we're trying to do what we can to keep the Roku presence if
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it doesn't, national streaming sports and the content at least
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that I create and Jack creates will continue in in some form or
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another. I can promise you that.
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And we'll keep you guys informed every step of the way this week.
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And this show, brand new show, as I said, Jack and Keith's
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weekend playbook. You can see it right there.
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Smart takes a lot of opinions, real sports talk.
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It's kinda, I don't want to say replacing Mac and Jack because I
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don't think you can replace a show like Mac and Jack.
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But we're this is going to be the new Monday, Friday format at
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8:00 to 9:00 AM. It'll be Jack and myself and
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we'll recap some of the stories over the weekend.
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And oh, the story didn't necessarily have to have
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happened exactly over the weekend because there'll be some
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stuff we get into nostalgia wise and whatnot on Mondays.
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We'll recap the the important news there and also on Fridays
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we'll talk about the same kind of things, but leading into the
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weekend. And Jack, I'm I'm happy to be
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doing this with you. We've always enjoyed working
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with you. The last five years we've worked
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a lot together. It's not like our first time.
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But I've got to make a little bit of an adjustment for my end
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because Mac was old school and you're more more like new
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school. Mac.
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Mac didn't believe in women's boxing.
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Mac didn't believe that boxers, when they walked into the ring,
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should have all this music going on.
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He was old school. I mean, Mac believed in the old
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fashioned uniforms. Keith, you're with the new
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logos. You probably support these teams
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who have all these crazy new uniforms you don't even know.
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How do they invent these new uniforms?
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I like the old uniforms. You're going to find out that
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I'm much more old school than probably Mac was.
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The logo could be a work in progress as well.
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I'm playing around with AI and ChatGPT, so we're trying to get
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some new things and you guys will see some new logos.
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Well, we're going to experiment with some things, some openings
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and whatnot, so we'll have some fun and Jack will find out that
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I am as old school as it gets because I wish it was 19.
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You may wish it was earlier. I wish it was like 1975 again,
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and I'm not going to get that. So.
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So who's with us this morning? Let's say a couple of quick good
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mornings while we're here. Hope Sonia's with us this
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morning. Good morning, Sonia.
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Good to see you and she's. Here.
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Good morning, Sonia. Thank you and I want she she
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says she's sharing the show. I want to thank everybody
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watching this morning on the national streaming Roku channel
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on the on my Facebook platform, my personal page and the TGI
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sports talk page. We're also on you YouTube.
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We're also on Twitter and I'll be sharing later on to all the
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groups that are so kind to let me share my content.
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John Gonzalez, it's the sports authorities.
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Greg Rawlings And when applies, guys, if there's a cap that
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doesn't apply to your group, you know, I'm not going to share it.
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Greg Rawlings at America's Pastime.
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Bottom line, sports flow in the gang.
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Let's talk sports. Ken Krause and Golf Buds, sports
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of all sorts and so many others. There's got 100 groups I shared
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through and we're going to get so many views.
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Jack, you're not. You're it's going to knock your
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socks off. So anyway, good morning, Sonia.
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Good to have you with us. Good morning, Sonia.
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I think it's proud of me the way I was hearing all this out about
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the new content, the new shows, without cutting in and talking
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about sports the way I did with her.
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I learned from Sonia. And we hope to bring a lot.
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We hope to bring a lot of our people along.
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And I know they miss Mac, but hopefully they'll like us.
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And I've got a lot of my people. Rick Sherlock, who's been he's
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an old classmate, a little bit older than me, but old classmate
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at Perth has been a follower of mine and he and a big follower
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of national streaming sports. We thank him.
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Michael Got. I'll tell you the reach of this
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show. Michael Got is one of our number
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one fans. He's over in the UK.
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UK Michael, I write for Boxing News in the UK.
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If you're a boxing fan there, you're probably familiar with me
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there. TuneIn with us, Michael on
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Mondays and Fridays. Rick's with us.
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You don't get more old school than Keith.
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Maybe he'll Rick has been known to take those shots at you,
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Jack. So.
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Rick, they don't get more impulsive than Keith.
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A couple of bad games. He wants to manage a fire.
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He's old school and that's them. I don't know, Aaron Boone's been
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here a little more in a couple of games.
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I'm just staying with us. Good morning, Linda.
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Hey, Linda. How are you good to have you
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with us. Hope you're doing well and
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perfect year 1975. I just picked one in the 70s.
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My wife says I got to get out of the 70s.
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I dress like I'm in the 70s It's terrible.
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CACA big follower of ours runs our fantasy Football League over
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there on TGI sports talk. Thank you for tuning in CA and
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also that's but Sonia, again, so proud of you Jack.
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Well. I learned from Sonia.
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You got to, you know, I got to listen a little more.
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Apparently I just showed up today, that's all.
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So I'm just kidding. Anyway, Jack, for a normal show,
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there's lots, there's lots to talk about.
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I want to I want to get started. Let's start real quick with Don
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Staley and the Knicks. I we talked about it the
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yesterday morning and you know, as we, we do so many shows on
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these on the network, it's impossible not to kind of repeat
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topics, but you know, sometimes new content comes up.
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I don't see anything new. First of all, I don't know that
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Don Staley's interested in the Nick job.
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I don't know the Nicks have contacted Don Staley.
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All I know is they put her name on their list.
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And this just to me, we're just looking at how, how, how that's
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the word I'm looking for a dysfunctional.
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This whole search has been from the very beginning, from the
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firing of Tibbs, which was dysfunctional in itself to the
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his looking for his replacement. What are your thoughts here?
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My thoughts, You know, this Dawn Staley talk, is it really
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getting traction? It's getting enough for us to
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talk about. But who exactly put her name
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out? Did she say she would be
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interested? Did anyone from the next front
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office, you know, contact her? And she hasn't been in for an
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interview as far as we hear from everything we've heard.
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And it's been kind of quiet, like what's taking the Knicks so
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long? Make a dawn decision finally,
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unless there's a candidate that they're waiting on, unless they
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think they can still try one of these big name coaches away from
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another team. But what exactly are they
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waiting for? So then are the Knicks thinking
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in terms they're going to do a low level hire and hope one of
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the big name coaches become available?
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But you know, the truth of the matter, Keith.
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It's not just the next. The NBA is dysfunctional.
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Look at all the recent NBA championship coaches who a
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couple of years later they're gone.
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They're gone from their team from Frank Vogel to Nick Nurse
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and so on. They don't they long you win a
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championship, now you So what are what are they going to do?
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Exact? Did they reach out for Rick
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Pitino? No Did they reach out to Dan
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Hurley? No, Jay Wright took himself out
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of the running immediately. What's really left?
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If you want someone like a Mike Brown, hire him.
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At this point, what are we waiting for?
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You know a couple of things there.
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Steve Kerr is the only guy I can think of who's won a
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championship in the last 10 years.
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He still has a job and but to go back to Don Staley, I've I went
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and searched in great detail yesterday and I could not find
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one item about Dawn Staley initiating this, having any
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conversation about this, having any comment about this.
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To me, this is all the Knicks. And part of me thinks, and I
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said this at the end of the conversation yesterday, part of
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me thinks this is just a smokescreen for the Knicks to
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say we, we even went outside the box, we did everything we could.
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And then they're going to announce Mike Brown as the coach
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of the Knicks. Well, they're just two hires now
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that could create a big splash outside the Dawn Staley.
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And I doubt if they're going to hire Dawn Staley because it's
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true. For the matter is, even though
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she's been a great WNBA coach, does she know that XS and OS on
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an NBA level? Because I would think it's a bit
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more intense than the WNBA. But you get assistant coaches.
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I'll be honest about it. I could coach an NBA team if you
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give me high profile assistance and I just listen to whatever
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they say, whatever they tell me to do as a head coach and stay.
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I'll just repeat, you know, in that sense.
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But it's the only two hires that realistically can make a splash
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at this point who would be available.
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And I'm not talking about the Rick Pitino to the Dan Hurley's
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like I mentioned, but because they're not coming over to be
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Jeff Van Gundy would be available in all probability and
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Mark Jackson. Now, if you want the best of
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both worlds, offer the job to Jeff Van Gundy, who's very close
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to Mark Jackson. The Mark Jackson will come
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aboard as his main assistant or maybe you have Stan Van Gundy
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joined Jeff as his main assistant.
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Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson as his main assistant.
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That wouldn't that would make the biggest splash.
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That would go over well. Even you give the head job to
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Mark Jackson, even though I'm not the biggest fan of that,
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believe me, not at all. That would create, but that
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would create a little bit of a buzz.
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That Jackson, former great St. John's player who had success
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paving the way for Golden State to win the championships that he
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comes to the Knicks, former Knick player.
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It would create a little bit of a buzz, but there's nothing out
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there to create a buzz. No, nothing else.
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Out there. Listen, I'd be all for Jeff Van
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Gundy, but one of his other good friends is Tom Thibodeau.
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Tom Thibodeau kind of learned under, one of the guys he
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learned under was Jeff Van Gundy.
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And I don't know if he's going to come in and take a job that
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they just fired a friend of his and under these circumstances in
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my mind, so. Well, well, well, how about
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this? I mean, the biggest splash of
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all, of course, would be to invite Tom Thibodeau back.
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They look, we got a little emotional.
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Shouldn't have done it on reflection.
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That's why we didn't hire another coach immediately.
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We had misgivings after making the move.
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And extend Thibodeau one extra year, you know, on his contract
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to kind of make it up to him. And I think tips, I don't know
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what his mindset would be. Maybe he wouldn't come back
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under any circumstance. But look, it's easy to tell
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someone else what to do. It would be easy to tell tips
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don't come back under any circumstance.
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But what's out there for tips? He's 67 years old.
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It's either the Knicks or retire.
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And this is his opinion. Chances are he would come back,
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he would accept the apology it it with a year and that one more
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year added on to his contract as a matter of goodwill.
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You know, you kind of take it from there.
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It'd be that would be an odd move to make, but I listen.
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Maybe they should do it and have an old timers game.
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That could be like 1978 when the Yankees well announced Thibodeau
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is going to be the coach. You know, in 2027 or something.
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Wow, that, that would be great. I mean, that would create the
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biggest buzz of all and. You remember that day in 1978,
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don't you remember like was yesterday, I fell out of my
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chair. Yeah, but but but what happened
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that I what you're talking about is when George Stein friend
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abroad, Billy Martin back on Old Timers day, he fired him in the
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1978 season, but he said he'd return as manager in 1980s,
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which made no sense in the year and 1/2 he was going to return
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as manager. I mean he didn't make any sense.
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But by the way, he did return sooner than that in 1979.
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He did a 1979 is not a good. Year Reggie Jackson felt
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completely blindsided by it because he couldn't stand Billy
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Martin. And then, you know, what can you
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say? We're going to get into Michael.
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I'll get into your comment when we get into some boxing with
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Jack because that looks like a boxing related question.
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So I'll get into that in a little bit and any comments I'll
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go back. Michael's a boxing fan.
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I see the comments in the backstage.
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We could talk some serious boxing later.
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We'll go there in just a little bit for sure.
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Let's finish this part of the segment up.
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Dawn only played the WA did not coach.
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Listen, she can coach, I have no doubt.
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About it. Excuse me?
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Just so you know, and again, I got in a little trouble, not in
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a little trouble, but we had a little because I get keep
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getting miscommunication. I like Sunday stream of
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consciousness. I never said Dawn Staley
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couldn't coach. She could coach.
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The question is whether it's she could coach a bunch of prima
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Donna guys in the NBA when she's never done that.
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And by the way, Carl Anthony Towns already had a laugh at
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this whole topic yesterday. So that's the kind of thing that
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I don't think they'll take her seriously.
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They should because she can coach and maybe this would be a
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good move, but I can. Get used to anyone after a
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while. You know it would be another
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great high if they reached out to him and put a full court
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press on them and made them the highest paid coach in the NBA to
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satisfy his ego. I know this sounds crazy.
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Magic Johnson, because he said if he could get an ownership
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stake in the next and, and that would mean as a minority owner,
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of course he would do that. He would flip over from the
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Lakers to the next. And Magic is a minority owner
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for the Washington Commanders that he's in and he's a minority
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owner with the LA Dodgers, the Magic like stuff like that.
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But if you make Magic a minority owner and allow him to coach as
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well, and the NBA would sign off on that match, that's coaching
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experience, OK, Yes, coaching experience.
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He's a big student of the game, and he would command tremendous
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respect, and he knows how to deal with people.
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You convince Magic and they have a roster.
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The next step is ready to win. And also, Magic might feel that
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the little unfinished business from, you know, his overall
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experiences with the Lakers, even though he still roots for
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the Lakers, there's maybe a little unfinished business.
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Perfect. Listen, at the end of the day,
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we're going to do all this talking.
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We're going to put Mike Brown as a coach, and that's really sad.
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But what are you going? To do gone through all this,
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Mike Brown comes on you like a good solid coach.
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By the way, Mike Brown is a solid.
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Coach yes, but the stated goal of this was to get to the next
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level and Mike Brown's that that guy.
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Yeah, it's like your college is being sent to compete in an
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academic contest with all the colleges in the country and
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you're sending a student that's an A minus to a student, you
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know, down there transcript and you're not sending you a plus.
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I mean, it's a Mike Brown's a good solid culture.
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It's culture of the year. I mean not good culture.
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I I want to throw something out there too, and I'm I'm really
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this this topic until Friday, when there's probably more news
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we can jump back into it, but I'm pretty much done here.
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Any last thoughts on this? I say Don Staley Wolf will not
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be the coach, No. No, I don't think John Staley is
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going to get an interview, but it but but I'm just saying a
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high profile women's coach, let's say hypothetically half,
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half stomach with all the coaching experience, OK with the
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Tennessee Volunteers was available.
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You mean to tell me the men wouldn't listen to Pat's summit?
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Come on. Well, she's dead, so I don't
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think they're going to. Listen to no, no, no.
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But I'm saying had Pat's, if Pat's summit were round, I mean,
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what a higher that would be. You know what, I I agree with
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you and I know yesterday you mentioned, I guess I'm not going
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to end this yet. Yesterday you mentioned, you
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know the, the correlation between the, the, I'll say the
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private sector, right, the real world sector.
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Men work for women all the time. They do and it's it's not a
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problem. It might have been when it first
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started, but sports isn't the real world and got these
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testosterone fueled locker rooms are a lot different.
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And I'm not saying she can't do it or somebody else can't do it.
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I'm just going to say it's not going to be an easy transition.
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And in New York with the Great Expectations, this is probably
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not the place to start. That's all I'm saying.
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When you have a team that's ready to win, that's where you
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want to start. That's the best possible
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scenario when a coach comes in. I mean, look at Chauncey Billups
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at Portland. He takes over.
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Bad team. And sometimes these bad teams,
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especially in the NBA, unless they get lucky and draft a high
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profile player who makes an immediate impact, they're going
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to be in a rut for years. The years and years, if you
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could go to a team that's in a situation where they're ready to
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win right now and they're not a team that's descending like the
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Milwaukee Bucks, the perhaps the Philadelphia 76ers.
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You want a job like the Knicks. It's it's about the best job you
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can get in the NBAI mean, the only better job is to get if you
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get a job with a team like the San Antonio Spurs, you know,
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with all that great young talent led by Wembe, that that would be
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the only drop out of the Dallas Mavericks Cooper flag.
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That's what drives me crazy. People say no Jason Kidd, let
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him come to the Knicks. If you're chasing Kidd, why
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would you want to go to the Knicks with your future?
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You know a Copa flag that Dallas, Anthony Davis, Kyrie
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Irving, you have a great bench. Well, I agree.
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Oh, he's also got a contract. By the way, these I this could
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be him and Billy Donovan. Both are still theoretically in
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play because they're both position positioning themselves
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for contract extensions. So I'm not so sure they want to
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go to New York. I think they want to use New
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York, but let. Me just point out Phil Jackson
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when he was running the next he wanted Steve Kerr to become his
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coach. This is before Steve Kerr became
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coach of the Warriors. OK, he.
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Wanted Steve Kerr, His coach. Steve Kerr played for Phil
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Jackson on the Chicago Bulls, so they were very close.
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And Steve Kerr turned down the Nick job to take the Warrior
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job. Can you imagine?
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Steve Kerr listened to Phil Jackson, who maybe you could
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call his mentor he was his culture is close with.
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If he listened to Phil Jackson, how would history have played
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out for Steve Kerr? Individually, he would have
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coached the Knicks a couple of years, gotten fired, never been
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the Warrior coach, maybe never gotten another job coaching an
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NBA team. And now look at them.
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He's he's a borderline legendary NBA coach, you know, at 4
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championships and look what it meant to him.
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In hindsight, would that have worked?
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In New York, though, he had no players.
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He had Steph Curry, Klay Thompson.
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And exactly. But but Steve Kerr decided he
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wanted the Golden State job instead.
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And that's what I'm saying about Jason.
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If he became the Knick coach. Odds or they don't win a
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championship. The Knicks going forward?
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It's possible, but odds against it.
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But the odds are greater that at some point The Mavericks are
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going to win an NBA championship than the next in the next few
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years, if not this upcoming year.
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Probably to put a pin in this Bistrella who I think is 1 ass
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cheek three toes. One of my favorite.
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I have here training for Coach Staley in the way at this point
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I am Rick. This is actually yes he's a
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Bistrella's mentioning that the coach a woman's culture probably
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best starting in a small market and Jack did is subliminally
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campaigning for Don Staley obviously with a sweatshirt.
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Good call there Rick. Let's just because there's a
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couple of football comments here.
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Maybe we'll I want to make a comment about football real
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quick. Where is there was a call for
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you to join the TGI Sports Talk Fantasy Football League
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yesterday, Jack, if you do such things.
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And I I don't play fantasy football.
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It's there was a big clamor for you and I don't know who John
23:49
is, but thank you. CAI know that a couple guys got
23:51
in yesterday. So we're still looking for five
23:54
teams over there, but we'll talk more about that and in football
23:57
news real quick, I'll throw this out there.
24:01
Todd Bowles gets kind of slow. There's two things I want to
24:04
talk about. They're all just mentioned.
24:06
We don't have to comment a lot. Todd Bowles and licked the GM
24:11
get extensions in Tampa Bay. I didn't think Todd Bowles is a
24:14
great hire in in Tampa, by the way, to replace Bruce Arians,
24:17
but he's done a pretty good job and they've done a great job
24:20
kind of with a reclamation project and in.
24:25
Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield down there.
24:28
So congratulations to Todd Bowles.
24:31
He kind of he. Deserves it.
24:32
Listen, Todd Bowles has done a heck of a job.
24:35
And keep in mind he was the defensive coordinator, you know,
24:39
on the Bruce Arians when they won the Super Bowl as well.
24:43
And then he transitioned being a coach and they've made the
24:46
playoffs every year the last five years.
24:49
I mean, you know, Tampa Bay is kind of, I don't want to stay in
24:54
the rut. It's more positive rust than a
24:57
negative rut. If there's a such thing as a
24:59
rust being positive in that day. Consistently good.
25:05
But they're consistently not a Super Bowl contender.
25:09
They make the playoffs year after year after year.
25:14
They're in the playoffs. But when the playoffs begin, no
25:18
one thinks Tampa Bay is going to be a fact.
25:21
And they're not like last year. They lose a tight game to the
25:25
Washington Commanders, who then go on the Commanders to beat the
25:28
Lions with Tampa beating the Lions and then gone to the NFC
25:33
Championship game against the Eagles.
25:36
I mean, who knows at that point? But but they're always
25:39
competitive. Even in the playoff forces.
25:42
They get eliminated immediately. Even with Tom Brady after they
25:47
won the Super Bowl, they lose a close playoff game to the LA
25:50
Rams. You know, things like that and
25:54
he has them in the mix. That's the thing about it.
25:57
Not to win the championship, but when you talk about that
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division this year in with the Atlanta Falcons, the Carolina
26:05
Panthers, again, forget the New Orleans Saints, they're not even
26:09
worth mentioning. But I had to do it as far as
26:12
winning the division and, and a lot of people are going to pick
26:16
the Falcons like I did last year, or they're going to think
26:20
Carolina's an upstart team. They could win the division.
26:23
But when all's said and done, the Buccaneers are always there
26:27
at the end. You know what they remind me of
26:29
a little bit right now? A shorter version of the
26:32
Cincinnati Bengals under Marvin Lewis.
26:34
That's what the Buccaneers remind me of right now.
26:37
A good team never able to win a playoff game.
26:39
What was more frustrating, if you had to look at it
26:43
objectively, the American League losing the All Star game every
26:47
year for the National League back in the day, or the Bengals,
26:51
it was a tradition. They make the playoffs, they get
26:55
eliminated immediately. And I, you know, a quarterback
27:01
like Andy Dolphin, you know, had success, but they don't.
27:05
It would always be they'd be out immediately.
27:08
Yeah, that's a great comparison and I will just a comment
27:11
because you brought it up. I would say the American League
27:13
because the All Star game mattered back.
27:15
When you're talking about the American League losing every
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year, they lost 11 out of 12. I know at least at one point.
27:22
And even worse, I think if we take it out further, but that as
27:26
an American League baseball fan at the time and at the time I
27:29
never, you didn't get to see all these players except in the All
27:32
Star game, right? And it was very frustrating to
27:35
lose to them here. Well, they got what they got to
27:37
do for an All Star game. They got to have a winner take
27:42
all for an All Star game. And believe me, players like
27:46
money. I don't want to hear that
27:47
they're so rich, $1 million for every player on the winning
27:52
team, $0.00 for every player on the losing team and you're
27:56
taking the NBA game. They're going to want the
27:58
1,000,000 bucks. They're going to be playing to
28:01
win. They're only going to want the
28:03
best players and then they're going to be playing hard for the
28:05
$1,000,000. Believe me, no one see I don't
28:09
care how much money it if it's a player making 50 million, he
28:13
still likes the concept $1 million man.
28:18
Same thing in baseball, $1,000,000 NFL.
28:22
You could go back to playing the game.
28:23
The guys are going to hit one another hard for $1,000,000.
28:26
Are you kidding me? 100% I would love to see
28:29
anything that makes these All Star games relevant again.
28:31
All I get is guys talking to the the announcers in the booth for
28:36
the whole game. Who wants to watch that?
28:38
I can't even what they are going to be in their own uniforms
28:40
though You made a comment earlier about I'd be in favor of
28:43
all these crazy you. Reminded me of a debate
28:45
question. I got to put this down now for
28:49
Saturday. Home Run Derby or slam dunk
28:54
contest. What's more exciting?
28:56
Oh, there you go. I got to write it down,
28:59
otherwise I'm going to forget. That's a good question.
29:01
Not as great. I'm not going to discuss it from
29:04
my end, but you could Give your opinion.
29:06
What is more entertaining to watch?
29:09
Because the Home Run Derby's more entertaining than the ball
29:12
game itself. And the slam dunk is, well,
29:16
maybe not the baseball game itself, but I know the slam dunk
29:20
contest is more entertaining than these guys pulling up and
29:24
taking 3 pointers all game. That both of these contests have
29:29
gotten a little stale for me. And yeah, I know they tried to
29:32
like, especially the home run contest.
29:34
They tried to tweak the rules a little bit.
29:36
I guess It's interesting, some of the guys that are in it
29:41
today, the big stars don't want to get in it per SE.
29:44
So if I had to pick one, you're making me pick one.
29:46
I'll pick the Home Run Derby. Who's this kid, I forgot his
29:50
name, who keeps winning the slam dunk contest?
29:53
It's one of the couple of years but doesn't have a is he?
29:57
Is he on the Sixers on the bench play or what?
30:00
Did they get him off the street or what He.
30:03
Plays him on 10 minutes a year. I can't think, yeah.
30:06
Yeah, I know. Who the heck is he if he's that
30:08
good? I mean it's.
30:10
Maybe somebody out here will. OB Topping wins the slam dunk
30:15
contest one year and then game seven he gets OK C no points at
30:20
all. You can't dunk it one time at
30:23
some point. Yeah, it's it's kind of crazy to
30:26
me as well. Let's pivot a little bit, Jack,
30:29
to your Forte. There was a big fight, like big
30:32
fight. Jake Paul, couple questions.
30:36
So Jake Paul beats Chavez junior this weekend and a cruiser
30:41
weight, but it's not a championship.
30:44
It was just a fight, right? Yeah, yeah.
30:46
And that was for No title at all.
30:48
It was. Is this fight the people care
30:51
about these fights? Is Jake Paul ready to move into
30:53
like mainstream boxing and be a. Yes and no.
30:59
He's limited, but it's gotten to the point where he's competent.
31:03
He's competent. And if you put him in with,
31:07
let's say, a Canelo Alvarez, he might be able to go 567 rounds,
31:14
you know, and maybe compete, maybe win around the two, you
31:19
know, jabbing, moving. It's conceivable.
31:23
And you know, he hasn't fought anyone in that.
31:25
The biggest name he fought was Julio Cesar Chavez junior.
31:29
And there's one word to describe Julio Cesar Chavez junior.
31:33
That word is lazy. Lazy. 39 years old, unmotivated.
31:38
At one point he was very talented.
31:40
Julio Cesar Chavez junior. He fought for the legitimate
31:45
world middle weight championship against Sergio Martinez.
31:48
Not Martinez down in round 12. Had Martinez in big trouble.
31:53
He beat John Duddy, who was a pretty good fighter here from
31:56
New York. So at one point he was, you
31:59
know, he's a good fighter, but he always piggybacked off his
32:04
dad's name, Julio Cesar Chavez senior.
32:07
And now he's 39 years old coming off a layoff.
32:11
And he trained somewhat for this fight, but it was a 10 round
32:16
that he did nothing. The 1st 8 rounds, it's like all
32:19
he Chavez did was follow Paul around the ring.
32:23
Paul thoroughly outboxed them. Chavez hardly threw a punch.
32:28
And then in the last two rounds, Chavez started firing away,
32:32
making a legitimate attempt, you know, to win the fight, to score
32:36
a knockout. And he landed a few good
32:39
punches. But at this point, Paul is a
32:42
competent pro, not a world class pro by any means.
32:46
OK, you put Paul in with, you know, a Terence Crawford, any
32:51
elite fighter, they're going to destroy him.
32:54
But Paul is Paul is the equivalent of a good eight round
32:59
fighter now, a decent eight round fighter.
33:02
And I know he's been fighting YouTube guys, this and this and
33:06
that, but he's dedicated himself to the sport.
33:09
You know, he's down in Puerto Rico.
33:11
He trains all the time. So he kind of works at his
33:15
craft. He didn't have an amateur
33:17
career. So in the way he was having his
33:19
amateur career during these early fights and these YouTube
33:23
guys, he was beating a mixed martial artist.
33:27
Some of them were the equivalent of mediocre amateur boxers who
33:33
he would have been facing if he just had started a traditional
33:37
boxing career. Well, at least again, Chavez,
33:40
you fought somebody that was born in the last five decades
33:42
and that you know, Jesus come. On Well, yeah, I wasn't I.
33:47
But listen, he picked a spot, he took a fight that wasn't risky.
33:52
And the bottom line is, you know, the only other fighter he
33:56
ever fought who was strictly a boxer, Tommy Fury, Jake Paul
34:00
lost to. And Tommy Fury from the UK is no
34:04
more than the club fighter. Will they have a rematch?
34:07
It's terrible that they could have a rematch.
34:09
But what's interesting too, and Paul lost to Tommy Fury, his
34:13
marketability didn't crash, which shows you it's an
34:17
entertainment business. You could keep it going.
34:20
But what Paul wants to do at this point is, you know, cash
34:24
out when you cash out with the biggest money fight imaginable.
34:30
If you fight a Canelo Alvarez, by the way, the Mike, when I
34:35
said the only traditional box, I left out Mike Tyson.
34:38
But when you're fighting a guy who's 58 years older, I don't, I
34:42
don't really count back. You would be amazed, Keith, you
34:46
would be amazed the amount of people who think and it's not
34:50
true, who think the Tyson Paul fight was staged.
34:55
I'm overhearing people getting into discussions about it and
34:59
I'm keeping my mouth shut, you know, overhearing people in
35:02
mainstream society after the Paul Tyson.
35:05
But what a fix. Tyson could have knocked him out
35:09
anytime he wanted to. He held back.
35:11
Even Sylvester Stallone got into the ACT.
35:14
He says to Jake, you should thank Mike for saving your life.
35:18
Trust me, he could have killed you if he wanted to when you're
35:23
close to 60 years old. Come on.
35:26
It's funny that you bring that up because I forgotten this.
35:29
I heard this morning, I don't know if you heard this, but
35:32
there are rumors about this last fight with Paul and Chavez
35:35
because people who googled, I don't know if you heard this,
35:38
people who Googled the fight before the fight were given a
35:43
result that Jake Paul won in a unanimous decision before the
35:46
fight ever happened because of AI and how Google gives you, you
35:50
know, these summit some summations.
35:53
So so people, there's a lot of people out there thinking this
35:56
fight was fixed because what did Jake Paul do?
35:58
He wanted the United States decision.
36:02
Did you hear this story and I'm assuming?
36:05
Julio Cesh Junior has been a dog and he's dogged it OK.
36:11
He's quitting big spots. He's been lazy.
36:15
He hasn't trained yet. Talent till, you know, be a much
36:19
better fighter than you know he ultimately was much, much
36:23
better. He's 39 years old coming off a
36:27
layoff. He hadn't fought forever and he
36:30
hadn't been training, I'm sure, during all that time.
36:33
And then he signs the fight. Jake Paul, he starts training,
36:37
he gets an assemblance to shape the fight and and it told during
36:42
his performance where he held back and did nothing at all the
36:45
1st 8 rounds to conserve energy. But the last two rounds of the
36:49
fight he did fire away with hard punches.
36:52
I mean, but at this point Paul is confident enough that he's
36:57
not going to fall apart, that Paul seems to be able to take a
37:01
punch. Paul's stamina so so, but he's
37:04
used to going rounds. Paul is competent at this point.
37:08
He's not world class by any means, not close to it, but he's
37:12
competent. We let's call him a boxer.
37:16
People still are hung up and calling him a YouTube.
37:20
Let me while we're on boxing, let me bring back Michael's
37:23
comment here so you can comment like coming up, Chris Huback,
37:27
Junior against Connor Ben and a possible rematch already set for
37:33
the 20th. And I have a question once you
37:34
get into this, I've got one question about this fight I want
37:37
to get into. Yeah, you know, it would be a
37:40
rematch. Your bank beat then in the first
37:43
fight, close fight, but the decision was fast, It wasn't
37:47
controversial. It was a terrific, terrific
37:50
fight. Fight of the year candidate and
37:53
I in both men, even though that good fighters in their riding,
37:57
Chris Eubank junior, obviously very established writer and Ben
38:01
is getting there. They're piggybacking off their
38:04
famous dad's name. You know, the famous Chris
38:07
Eubank, you're Nigel Benn rivalry, you know.
38:11
And now the sons are going at it and there was a lot of bad blood
38:16
the first fight. I don't know.
38:18
Will it quite be the same way in the rematch?
38:21
But they pushed themselves to the limit.
38:23
You know, the first fight, the rematch in England, it'll be
38:27
big, it'll be big. There's no way of getting around
38:30
it. And considering that New Bank's
38:34
victory in the first fight, even though it was legitimate, it
38:38
wasn't so conclusive to prohibit a rematch.
38:42
The rematch is sellable, especially because Canelo
38:46
Alvarez and Terence Crawford are boxing the week before.
38:50
What else is out there for both guys?
38:52
Chris Eubank can't be waiting on a Canelo Alvarez fight #1
38:58
Alvarez has to beat Terence Crawford.
39:01
If he does, yeah, then maybe he goes in with Chris Eubank.
39:04
There's a reasonable chance Conor Ben was suspended for you
39:09
know what drug use. And finally, I, I don't want to
39:15
say he got cleared the way he claims he did, but the
39:18
suspension and everything was up and he's allowed to fight again.
39:24
And you know, and that's natural match if I'm kind of Ben's not
39:29
going to get a fight nearly as big as he would with anyone
39:32
else. I have one problem here with
39:36
this fight and I don't know how prevalent I'm I'm assuming it's
39:38
prevalent in the fight industry today because of who the guy is.
39:43
Tariki Al Alashique, if I tell you his name correct from the
39:48
Saudi. Arabia.
39:50
And they own, yeah, right. And they own Ring magazine.
39:53
I have a problem with the Saudis be involved in and money washing
39:57
all their their their blood money in sports today.
40:00
They did it with live golf. It appears that they're doing a
40:02
lot of this in boxing today. I mean, do you or or or
40:06
traditional boxing people have a problem with the Saudis being so
40:10
deep into this promoting of fights?
40:13
That that's AI don't want to ask the question for another day
40:16
because you're asking me that now the.
40:18
Deep question you have Charles out there?
40:20
That's the overall ethics involved in sports.
40:24
I mean, they're doing obviously some things that are less than
40:29
honorable, to put it mildly. The Saudis, should I not watch
40:34
the fights they make? Should I not cover the fights
40:37
that they make? I mean, in my past to me, is it
40:43
a separate thing? I mean, they're making the
40:46
Canelo Crawford fight. It wouldn't come off otherwise.
40:50
They're making these big fights that normally wouldn't take
40:54
place. Look, the Eagles were going to
40:56
play the Chiefs in the Super Bowl no matter what.
40:59
That's the way the lead was set up.
41:01
But could you imagine different promoters had to negotiate to
41:05
make a Kansas City Chiefs Philadelphia Eagle Super Bowl
41:10
game and, and, and imagine it wouldn't come off for whatever
41:14
reason, but the Saudis could save the game, the Super Bowl.
41:18
Would you watch the Super Bowl if they could save it?
41:23
You know, that's an interesting question because right now my,
41:25
my, my answer would be no. But then if I had no game, it
41:28
might be different because it's theoretical.
41:31
With golf it's been easy because live I just, I have not watched
41:34
any live golf ever, but I've got the whole PGA Tour to watch and
41:37
all the majors are still, you know, have nothing to do with
41:41
this so. It's a member of the media.
41:47
I'm not crazy about the Saudis. Like, they even have a show July
41:51
12th in New York, headline by Shakur Stevenson and William
41:55
Cepeda at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens.
42:00
And I can't find anywhere where I could get press credentials.
42:03
When they had this show at Times Square, the big show at Times
42:06
Square, the media was cut off from being a ringside except for
42:11
someone from Ring magazine, which they bought.
42:15
And we would sign different locations.
42:18
It don't laugh, Keith. I was assigned to watch the
42:22
fight in the seafood restaurant, the seafood restaurant.
42:26
And I had no idea. And I have to cover right about
42:29
it. I have no idea what I'd be
42:32
getting into. So I would have to sit at the
42:34
bar, maybe order dinner, a stand with a bunch of people.
42:39
And I wound up staying home and I, you know, and I got it on the
42:43
pay-per-view because I had to cover it at that point.
42:46
But that's what they're doing, you know, with them.
42:49
They have no real regard for the media whatever.
42:53
But His Excellency gets offended if you talk negatively about
42:57
them. But he is making the best
43:00
fights. I mean, he is making the best
43:03
fights. And obviously, you know, the
43:06
Saudis can't be making money on them, but they but I think they
43:10
have a plan. They're paying big money now.
43:13
And I think the plan is get a monopoly on the sport, get
43:17
complete control and then pay much lower than they're doing
43:22
now. And that's how they're going to
43:24
make their money. But also a Turkey, Alaska,
43:29
however you pronounce his last name, It's always a tongue
43:33
twist. He.
43:33
Sounds good to me. He.
43:35
Genuinely loves boxing. I got to give him his do.
43:39
He loves to sport the boxing, he's knowledgeable on it and he
43:44
loves seeing good fights himself.
43:47
And not all promoters love the sport.
43:51
I mean, we have a lot of promoters that it's a business
43:54
to them. But sometimes you get a promoter
43:57
who genuinely loves the sport. And His Excellency, he does love
44:01
the sport. I got to give him his do in that
44:03
regard. Well, let's move on from the
44:05
Excellency to sport that he hasn't yet infiltrated.
44:09
We'll give them time. Major League Baseball we're
44:12
we've reached a halfway point in the season.
44:14
People like the point to the All Star game as a halfway point of
44:17
the season, but really not. We're here right now, basically.
44:21
The Mets and Yankees maybe have surprised a little bit in the
44:25
early going and they both faded a little bit.
44:28
The Mets a lot the last 3-4 weeks.
44:34
And we can start with either 1 you want.
44:36
We obviously judges on a tremendous pace.
44:38
Still, even though he's slowed down, he's still on his way to a
44:41
historic season if this continues.
44:44
Yankees have their problems, Mets have their problems.
44:46
There's holes everywhere on both of these teams.
44:50
Are these teams going to be able to hold up, you think, for the
44:53
second-half and and no. No concerns.
44:57
In the beginning of the season, I picked the Mets to win their
45:00
division. They're only a game and a half
45:03
out, and they've been they've lost, what, 13 of their last 15?
45:08
Keep in mind, the Yankees ended the 2000 season by losing 15 of
45:14
their last eighteen. They were awful.
45:16
And then they went on to win the World Series.
45:19
OK, you know, they went into the playoffs losing 15 at 18 and in
45:24
the beginning of the season I picked the Yankees to get into
45:27
the playoffs as a wild card, as a wild card.
45:31
And that might still happen. Only a game and 1/2 in first
45:34
place, but both teams are going to be in the playoffs.
45:37
I would tell people to relax. I know the Mets finish one of
45:42
their worst home stands in team hit.
45:45
I mean, one of their worst theories they were at Pittsburgh
45:49
and team history. They not only got swept in three
45:52
games by the Pirates, they got annihilated.
45:55
They got annihilated. But I I think it's just one of
45:58
those things. They played the Milwaukee
46:00
Brewers this week. The Mets all bounce back before
46:05
the weeks over. There's a lot of, just to
46:08
address a couple of the holes that the the Mets have
46:11
specifically. I mean, they just sent Alvarez
46:13
to the minors a week ago. John Gonzalez called that on my
46:16
show. He happened the same day.
46:19
He's been atrocious. He was atrocious last year.
46:21
So he got a big hole behind the plate.
46:24
There's a hole at second base because McNeil hasn't really
46:26
stepped up since he came back. No, he wants, that's a hole with
46:31
Jeff McNeil. He hasn't.
46:33
He hasn't been bad. He's been good.
46:36
No, I I would not listen, Mcneil's on the contract I think
46:41
through next year as well. And then I they have a team
46:45
option on them I think the year after.
46:47
But you let Jeff McNeil play, he doesn't hurt you.
46:50
Jeff McNeil, I wouldn't point him out.
46:53
What about Vientos? You're going to.
46:54
So you're going to let two holes in the infield and you're just
46:57
going to hope they play better? I'm going to try to Alonso's
47:00
defense leave something to be desired.
47:04
And the beginning of the year, I said, you know, he's not as bad
47:07
as people are making him out to be.
47:10
Well, he's I gave him maybe a little too much of A prop, you
47:14
know, by saying his defense isn't as bad.
47:18
Listen, he's not good. You know, you hit, you know,
47:22
line, driveway, yes, they moved his right or left, What can I
47:27
say? But he hits a lot of home.
47:29
It's it's going to be interesting next year.
47:33
Alonso has a $24 million player option.
47:37
He made 30 million this year. Or he could go free agent again.
47:42
But a ton of Mets. I want him to be a career Met,
47:46
but it has to be at a reasonable price.
47:48
I'm not going to pay Scott. Boris is his agent.
47:52
I don't think I want to play this game again with him next
47:56
door of season. You know what, we're going to
47:58
sign him or not. I'll sit down with Peter Lonzo
48:01
and I'm even willing Keith to give him a five year deal, OK,
48:07
and give him something like 20, six, $27 million a year because
48:13
I want him to break all these Met records.
48:15
I want him to be a legacy player.
48:17
We've talked about legacy players, and I think Peter Lonzo
48:21
has entered that territory for the mess where he should be a
48:26
legacy player. The way we talked about Aaron
48:28
Judge being one for the Yankees and Daryl Strawberry should have
48:33
been one for the Mets. But he left after eight years
48:37
and then they still retire his number.
48:38
I don't see the fence in that, but you know, you know fine.
48:43
I have AI have one issue there with putting Pete Alonzo and
48:47
Aaron Judge in the same sentence.
48:49
Sorry, I have to call you out there a little bit because Aaron
48:53
Judge is miles ahead of Alonzo as a player overall.
48:58
But when you what? No, no, no.
48:59
What I'm trying to say, I agree with you on that point.
49:02
But when you talk about team history, looking at the future,
49:08
it would benefit Alonzo to hold all these net records.
49:14
OK. And it does count for something.
49:17
And I've done this by you a long time ago.
49:21
Keith, I forgot what the answer was.
49:23
Take the case of Andy Pettit. OK, what does he have?
49:26
254 career victories? He's not in the Hall of Fame.
49:31
And it's not because a steroid used.
49:35
He only used steroids 4 days or so.
49:37
It wasn't like he used it over time from what we gathered, he
49:41
just experimented with it. You know, short term.
49:45
But the point is, the guy who holds the most wins in Yankee
49:51
histories, Whitey fought with 236.
49:54
Andy Pettitte was the all time win leader for the most
49:58
historical sports franchise. That would have boosted his
50:03
chances of getting in the Hall of Fame considerably.
50:06
No question. I remember.
50:07
I remember you answered the question.
50:09
I remember my answer. He'd be in the Hall of Fame or
50:11
going to the Hall of Fame. He.
50:12
Went to Houston, he went as a free agent to the Astros for
50:16
three years and they got to a World Series.
50:19
There wasn't a terrible move from that perspective.
50:23
And they got the World Series during a time when the Yankees
50:26
didn't get to a World Series in the three years and they lost
50:29
the White Sox. Him and Clemens won together on
50:32
that Astro team. But had he stayed with the
50:35
Yankees all the way through and began to winning his pitch in
50:38
history, man, that would have bolted his case.
50:42
Well, again, basically he would have been Whitey Ford, right?
50:45
100 and 250 wins in 4 World Series champions.
50:49
He's going to be in the Hall of Fame, without a doubt, yeah.
50:53
Well, yeah. Well, that's the thing about it.
50:55
It's but but he doesn't have any.
50:58
It's not the all time winningest Yankee pitch, no.
51:01
And so. You become.
51:03
That's the case of Alonso. Alonso can hold all these MEM
51:07
records and that would make him a franchise icon when all is
51:12
said and done. And you know who no one talks
51:16
about on the Met? You've never mentioned this key
51:19
to my knowledge. You know, you talk about all
51:22
these players. Brandon Nemo, he say he's a
51:24
crowd favorite, signed him to an 8 year deal, 162 million.
51:30
He was never $20 million player. But they were scared.
51:34
There was one other team out there that was going to give the
51:37
money to Colorado Rockies. So Steve Cohen was like perky
51:43
Turkey in boxing, His Excellency just throwing the money around
51:48
in the beginning. Yeah, if I if anybody was
51:53
threatening to go to the Rockies, I would say go and have
51:55
fun because that's where players go to die.
51:57
I mean, remember Chris Bryant? Does anybody?
52:00
$20 million a year. This is Brandon Nemo.
52:04
I mean, I'm not saying he's, he's not good enough to he's.
52:07
A nice. Player.
52:08
He's a nice little way at the hand, not at 20 million a year,
52:13
20 million a year. Save the 20 million and let it
52:17
go to another star when you're a bit of a team.
52:22
Well, you got to, again, if you're the Mets, you don't care
52:24
about the 20 million because money is not an object.
52:27
You'll just pay the luxury taxes and be done.
52:29
But you know, you still got to spend the money wisely.
52:33
And Pete Alonzo, yes, you know what?
52:35
I want to see more legacy players.
52:38
I want to see more guys play their entire career with with
52:41
teams. We don't see much of that
52:42
anymore. I mean, who's who's the last
52:45
superstar who retired that played his entire season?
52:47
You know, I think it becomes the type of guy that Pete Alonso
52:53
could go to him, sit down and say, look, I want to I want to
52:56
break these records. I want to be a legacy player.
52:59
I want to be a career meth cause Steve Combs, a Mets fan, not
53:03
just a no and a Mets fan and say, look, what can we work out?
53:08
I it would have to be a no trade deal.
53:11
I want to be the first baseman here the next five years.
53:14
What can you comfortably pay me? I'll I'll, you know, I won't
53:20
push it to the limit, but what can you come up?
53:22
Can you give me 25,000,000 a year, five years, 125 million?
53:28
I even I'm from Alonzo, I'll take 120 million for five years,
53:33
24,000,000 a year. But you know what's going to
53:36
happen in the offseason, Scott? Boris, who doesn't give a dawn
53:39
of his legacy, is going to put Alonzo in the market again.
53:45
And if teams didn't bite last year, are they going to do it
53:49
this year? The only thing he has going from
53:51
Alonzo that he maybe didn't have going last year.
53:55
There were maybe teams out there who thought to themselves that
54:00
Vladimir Guerrero was going to become a free agent this year
54:05
and they were saving their money for him.
54:07
So no one wanted to get stuck stunning Alonso because Vlad
54:11
Guerrero was the goal. And that was maybe even the Mets
54:14
goal initially, but not at Guerrero.
54:17
It's signed with Toronto. He's off the market.
54:20
And even a team like the Yankees, I mean, I'm sure if
54:25
Alonso's available, unless Paul Goldschmidt starts rebounding,
54:30
he got off to a phenomenal start for the Yankees, but then he's
54:34
been slumping. He.
54:37
Still gives me, but he still gives me a more complete game
54:40
than Pete Alonzo. He's a decent, he's a above
54:43
average. And.
54:45
He runs a base as well. So he's not signed for next
54:49
year. Paul Goldschmidt the only sign
54:51
the one year deal with the Yankees.
54:52
If the Yankees signed Paul Goldschmidt for one year last
54:56
year, they're not going to give him more than one year again at
55:00
most. Well, I'm not giving him more
55:02
than Alonzo gets either. By the way, he's he's 14,000,000
55:05
I think this year, right? Yeah, and the Yankee.
55:07
No, no one. I can't see anyone signing
55:09
Alonzo to A5 year deal unless A-Team.
55:13
It gets overly ambitious. It only takes one team to get
55:17
overly ambitious. I'm kind of new school too,
55:22
Rick. I mean, I'm not just like old
55:25
school I I like to keep up with the times.
55:27
What's this Mike Trout will be the next one team I was talking
55:31
about one team players Mike Trout will be the next guy to
55:33
retire would play a plate on one team I.
55:36
Can't remember what this game might have been.
55:38
The attitude, Mike. You know, the owner, the Angels,
55:41
the Audie Marino. Said Kershaw's and I.
55:44
Trade Mike Trout if he wanted to be traded.
55:48
Mike Trout never asked to be traded, and he's been with a
55:52
losing team. And consider this Mike Trout's
55:55
from New Jersey. That's his hometown, and he's
55:57
playing out in California. So unless Mike Trout plans to
56:02
live in California the rest of his life, why wouldn't he want
56:06
to come home? It would be wouldn't it be a
56:09
dream of Mike Trout if he could play for the Philadelphia
56:12
Phillies? He grew up a Philly fan.
56:14
Even the Yankees, the Mets, your local, even the Orioles.
56:18
Well, we only got about two minutes, but before we need to
56:22
start to wrap it up, we didn't talk about the Yankees.
56:24
Yankees I think will be solid in the second-half, but still some
56:28
some issues to deal with. I think Clark Schmidt and Will
56:31
Warren has stepped up huge like I thought they would that before
56:34
the season they started to step up.
56:37
Anyway. I still worry about that
56:39
rotational event he'll supposed to start throwing hopefully in
56:42
the minor leagues in July to get ready to come back.
56:46
I still think they need another pitcher, maybe some bullpen
56:49
help. They need a second base or third
56:51
baseman because we want Jazz to play second base.
56:53
This team still has some holes too, but no well.
56:55
No come on breed run down Clark Schmidt.
57:01
They would be in top three. You know playoff rotation Louis
57:07
heel by the time the playoffs would come around he you'd have
57:11
to assume he would be ready. You know, their bullpen, Devin
57:15
Williams has come around and he's pitching like the guy we
57:19
thought we were getting, you know?
57:21
So, I mean, we're we're, we're, we're the Yankees, OK, in that
57:25
area. I mean, every team could use
57:27
more pitching, more depth, as though it's the threat of an
57:30
injury. And you know, Charles Chism
57:33
drives me a little crazy because he's defensively flawed at
57:37
second base. Ranger.
57:40
He's better at second base than third base for sure.
57:43
And DJ Lemayo, he's giving you maybe a little more than
57:47
expected. There's a little bounce to him.
57:49
There's some hope there, Keith. There's some hope he could get
57:53
back to being close to the old DJ he was.
57:56
I'm not even ruling that out because he has some bounce to
57:58
him when he plays. He hasn't been that bad.
58:02
Or he could go into a rut and he could be terrible DJ.
58:05
I don't. Understand what I don't
58:06
understand why not playing him at third base and Jazz at 2nd?
58:09
That's what I don't get. That was the plan originally.
58:12
So there must be something in DJ's health issues where they
58:17
don't want him at third base. I don't know.
58:18
But again, I'm not saying the Ikis won't win.
58:21
Danny Fuller knows. I'm too tough on my team
58:23
according to Danny Fuller and you.
58:26
But I'd like to look at things realistically, not just with
58:29
rose colored glasses. That's all.
58:31
Yeah, but in case you can't just say go out and get another, but
58:34
we need to improve this and that.
58:35
Every team has that issue. But what's out there for you to
58:39
get one player, You know, and I'm going to close in this
58:42
quickly because I know we're winding down.
58:44
Who I felt was always destined to be a Yankee, who I've always
58:48
badly wanted them to get. And it's not the biggest deal.
58:50
Brian Buxton, you know, the Twins.
58:53
It's like this guy's going to be a career Twin and some reason I
58:57
always thought he'd make his way over, you know, and be the
59:00
Yankees center fielder. He's a great player.
59:02
When he gets on the field, he's another guy.
59:04
He can't stay in a field though, you know, So I don't disagree
59:08
real quick. Yeah.
59:10
Listen, this is our maiden voyage today, guys and I think
59:12
we had we had some fun. We as always, Jack and I go
59:15
through and get all these topics.
59:17
We don't get to him because we just get shattering, which is
59:19
what the show's going to be about.
59:20
It's going to be about opinions and and having some fun and I
59:23
thank Danny and Rick and and CA for coming out today.
59:28
Dave saw out. There.
59:29
Sorry I didn't get into the Wimbledon comments CA, but we'll
59:32
talk a little about Wimbledon. That's a if the if the need
59:35
arises. I don't think Jack and I are
59:37
either one. Of us listen with tennis, you
59:41
know I like talking tennis. Yeah, we'll get into some of
59:43
that and I'm going to force Jack to talk about golf from now on
59:47
from time to time too. Mack would never talk about
59:49
golf, but we will from time to time.
59:52
So Andy, one last thing from Danny mentions, Charlie Blackman
59:58
did play his whole career at in the at Colorado.
1:00:03
So we got to run. It's 9:00 guys.
1:00:04
Thank you for tuning in. We'll see you on Friday with the
1:00:07
same show, the same cast. Have a great weekend guys, and a
1:00:13
great weekend. Sorry, I'm used to being out
1:00:15
with Jack on a Friday apparently.
1:00:17
You guys have a great week. We'll see you on Friday morning.
1:00:19
Bye bye.