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Joba and the Mouth 2-26-26 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Reports into Yahoo Sports Wednesday included a juicy rumor
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about the NBA's all time points leader Le Bron James and his
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destination next season if he doesn't retire.
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While the Lakers may still be in play, the prevailing theory is
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that Le Bron will pick to continue his career in 2026 and
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2027, either going back home to the Cavaliers, joining forces
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with Steph and the Warriors, or yes, your New York Knicks are in
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the mix. Is LeBron finally going to make
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the decision to come to MSG to chase that fifth ring, or will
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the King continue to take his talents elsewhere?
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Or call it quits. On today's Concrete Jungle
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carousel, we catch up with all the tri-state area teams in all
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sports headlined by The Jets trade of defensive end Jermaine
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Johnson to Tennessee where he will be reunited with Bambi Bob
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Sala in exchange for nose tackle to Andre Sweat.
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And before we find out who is in like Flynn and who is our new
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King of the Hill, we will whip around the rest of the NF LS
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offseason news on the start of the combine on another jam
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going to have. A ton of money to spend.
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Why not putting in one of the top three offensive players in
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the league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that you can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see Levon doing that. A game where you got to go
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before I told you, Giant fans, Saquon Barkley at this point.
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Thank you. Whatever you want about that
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's been a crazy last couple of days.
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I went to the doctor and for everybody to understand and no,
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I have a colonoscopy tomorrow, a colonoscopy tomorrow, ladies and
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gentlemen. And I to me, you think about
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this and I, I wonder if anybody has been through what I've been
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through when it comes to this situation.
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And we're fixing our computer because Speedy likes to play
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with the controls and I have no idea what he's doing.
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But I, I have this gas problem. I, I don't know what it is, but
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I, I think it's IBS irritable barrel syndrome, or it could be
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I, I'm locked those intolerant, I don't know.
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But over the last couple of years my girlfriend's been
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telling me, oh, you got IBS, you got IBS.
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I'm always in and out of the bathroom, always not as bad as
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Tommy, but I'm bad. So over the last couple of weeks
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I've been, I've been dealing with stomach pains and I've been
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getting cramps and I don't know if anybody has dealt with this
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stuff. You're, you're doing it again,
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speedy on the camera. Stop doing it and and make sure
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that you're not moving it. I'm trying to help you.
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What do you keep changing the thing?
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If you don't know how to run it, let me run it.
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But I've been through this situation before with the
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problems with, you know, cramps and I as an athlete, you know,
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you play sports, you're running and you, you get this like you
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get this acid in your ribs and it feels very awkward.
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But I'm not running. I'm not, there's no acid going
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on with me. And I, I don't think it has
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anything to do with that. So I went to the doctor, my
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gastrologist, and he told me, he tells me that well, we need to
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do all these different things to you.
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So I went for a CAT scan, got my pelvis, all the pelvic areas, my
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intestines, all of it, you you name it.
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They, they took a picture of it. I don't even want to get into
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it, but they didn't find anything.
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All they told me is they, they saw that you have kidney stones.
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I know I have a 3mm and 4mm, that's fine.
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Then he tells me, well, we got to check your your feces.
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So I don't want to scare anybody away on this show.
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But so I checked it, but they want me to do other things with
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it. It's like it's like finger
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painting in a way that it's not something that you want to talk
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about on this radio show. But now tomorrow I have a
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colonoscopy. Now I thought I've had a
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colonoscopy before three years ago to get my my back end
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checked. Yes.
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And I was fine. The doctor said I don't have to
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come back for another nine years.
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So what I did, ladies and gentlemen, as I thought, I, I, I
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don't have to deal with this ever again for for a while.
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So he tells me that he looks at the situation.
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He tells me, listen, we need to do another colonoscopy.
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I have to see what's going on with that, the backside.
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So I said, I, my doctor told me I don't have to go and see it
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for another nine years. But he, he says, well, I have to
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see it. So I, it's all about a money
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thing. I, I really think insurance
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companies are all about the money.
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So here's the situation, ladies and gentlemen.
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Tomorrow I have to fast for 30. So I started to fast last night
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at 12 midnight. I got to fast from 12:00 now to
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2:00 in the afternoon tomorrow. So think about this.
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That's over 38 hours of fasting, no food, only liquids.
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Now, I know there's a lot of people that have dealt, dealt
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with this and done this. I mean, in the Indiana Indian
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culture, they do it once, I think it's once a year, once a
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week where they only drink liquids.
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They don't eat. So they got a drink.
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They only can drink liquids for a week.
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I don't know what it's called, but whatever.
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So I, I feel for those people. I do.
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I feel for them. But the fact here is, yeah, why
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do you have to do that? Fish, You got to make me look at
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food. I get sick just really realizing
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that I'm never going to be able to eat.
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I feel like I'm never going to eat again.
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But that's. Not food, Errol, that's what you
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had to paint do finger painting with.
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I gave you a paintbrush though. OK, well thank you.
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Well, it looked like food so it made me a little bit hungry so.
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Sorry to get you hungry. Yeah, well, I told you you're
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going to do this one one way or another tonight.
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But I, the whole problem here is I got to wait 363036 to 38 hours
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to to do this to, to get this procedure.
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By the time I eat, it'll be probably 3:00 or 4:00 in the
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afternoon. So I am, you know, it's funny
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because I was talking to fish early this morning and he was
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telling me, I could only imagine how angry you're going to be on
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this show because you're probably going to be craving
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food. And I, and I will tell you guys
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that there is a possibility at some point tonight, I'm going to
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probably RIP this mic off this stand because I am extremely
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hungry right now. And it's not like I've never
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fasted before. It's just when you're being told
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that you can't eat, it makes you even want to eat more.
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It's it's not that I've never done this before, It's just the
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fact that I know I can't eat. It pisses me off.
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That's all I'm going to say. So expect a little craziness on
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the show tonight like it always is.
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I I've always been crazy on the show so I don't kick back on any
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of the crazy stuff that I do. Anyways, at 8:30 we will be
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talking to former Rangers and Islander Stanley Cup winning
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general manager Neil Smith. Now first of all, Speedy is the
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one that put this up here. He never won a Stanley Cup as
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far as a manager with the New York Islanders, just so
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everybody knows, that's not what he was mean.
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He won the Stanley Cup with the New York Rangers.
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He was the the mastermind of the 94 Stanley Cup champion New York
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Rangers. He was the one that made the
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trade for Mark Messier and Adam Graves.
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He was the one that drafted Sergey Zubov.
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This guy was the reason why the Rangers won a Stanley Cup in 94.
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So for all the Ranger fans that want to doubt him or don't know
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who Neil Smith is, well ladies and gentlemen, then you don't
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know your Rangers hockey. This guy is as good and as
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bright as any hockey mind that's been on this show.
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Smart, energetic, and I'm sure he has his own take on United
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States hockey. As if you don't know, Neil Smith
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is a Canadian so I I don't know if he's rooting for Canada or
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he's rooting for United States, but we'll know a little bit
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later in the show where he was going or what he has to say
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about Team USA Hockey. Speaking of where he wants to
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go, 16 years after LeBron first made his decision to take his
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talents to South Beach, the NBA all time points leader has
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another choice to make this offseason.
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That choice, according to Bleacher Report, Eric Pincus,
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yes, Pincus as they wanted to pronounce his name.
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I no pink SI don't know, I'm sorry.
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Pink S is that if LeBron James returns next year for his 24th
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NBA season, it would only be for either the Warriors, the
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Cavaliers, or yes, your New York Knicks.
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In the article, Pincus mentions how LeBron has always wanted to
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play with Steph Curry and Draymond Green, who probably
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won't be there next year, and that the Warriors would be
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willing to take LeBron if he takes a drastic pay cut.
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The Cavaliers as well would take take back LeBron on a pay cut
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and James Harden would likely opt into his player option in
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order to stay with Cleveland if LeBron comes back home the New
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York Knicks. LeBron has ties to both the head
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coach Mike Brown from his first run with the Cavaliers early in
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his career, while Leon Rose was Lebron's agent before he signed
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with Rich Paul and Clutch Sports.
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This report came a day after LeBron LeBron James took shots
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at Luka Doncic for making the wrong play at the end of the
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Lakers loss to the Magic when he thought Luca should have shot
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the 3.3 point shot instead of passing it to him with under 7
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seconds left as LeBron bricked the potential game winner.
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Reports have also mentioned the Lakers are all in on bringing
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back Austin Reeves on a five year Max contract and are
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expected to be in the sweepstakes for Giannis.
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Yeah, not going to happen, especially if LeBron doesn't
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return to LA. While the Knicks are not the
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favorites in Vegas for James service services this offseason,
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that's the Cavaliers currently. This is a new report, so I think
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obviously the Cavaliers are currently the the favorites of
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getting LeBron. Especially with the Knicks
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having the most room of the three teams to afford James May
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change those odds in the very near future.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I am not going to attack
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LeBron James. No, I'm not going to do it.
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I will not do it because there's a very good chance that he could
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be a New York Knick. Here's the facts.
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If the next if the Knicks decide to make this move and bring
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LeBron James here to New York, Giannis is definitely got to be
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the big picture. They have to bring Giannis here
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before this happens because their big move cannot be LeBron
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James, especially if they fail to go to the Finals or even win
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an NBA championship this year. The way the East is really
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performed, Detroit right now looks like they are the
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favorites are coming out of the East because of what they've
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done to the Knicks and how dominant they have been in the
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Eastern Conference all season long.
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LeBron does not make the Knicks a contender.
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He doesn't. So for fans to sit here and say,
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oh, we can land LeBron James, We can get one of the greatest
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basketball players to come and play in New York, we never got
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Michael, we never got Magic, we never got Bird.
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We'll get James. That would be a mistake.
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Now if Giannis comes and James is an add on piece to this team
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with Jaylen Bronson and Mikhail Bridges or whoever OG and Nanobi
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or however way they design this team, if it fails to win a
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championship with Karl Anthony Towns and OG and Nanobi, Mikhail
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Bridges and Jaylen Bronson and so on.
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Well then it would make a lot of sense to bring James in to be a
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compilational, a compilation prize to Giannis.
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But here's the problem. LeBron James went to the Lakers.
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He won 1 championship in a year that it was a bubble year.
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He didn't play in front of fans and no fans can go and watch
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those games. All the teams had to stay in a
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specific area. It wasn't to me a real
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championship here. It was a short season and it was
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like the 99 champion Spurs. And I'm not saying you can't
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give LeBron and Anthony Davis any credit.
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They won a championship. They had to go through the
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Western Conference and they had to beat the best in East.
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But LeBron has not done what he came to the LA and the Lakers to
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do, and that was to tie Kobe and maybe tie or even break Michael
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Jordan's championship record. Now he will never catch Bill
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Russell. He won't.
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So we're not going to even try to even come to that thought or
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even argue that thought. But the fact here is LeBron has
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not fulfilled his spot with the Lakers.
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As a matter of fact, him and Jeanie Buss obviously don't like
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each other. The Buss family were not very
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high on LeBron James since he's come here now.
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They brought him here because he was the biggest star in the NBA
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and the LA Lakers always bring those big stars at the tail end
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of their careers or in the somewhat prime of their careers.
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They got lucky with Luka Dodgic. Why?
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It makes sense with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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He would be going home this year and he played his final game
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possibly in Cleveland. They had banners and they had
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videos and and LeBron James was tearing and crying.
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And maybe this will drive him to go home and try to win his fifth
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title with the Cleveland Cavaliers and end this God
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forsaking drought that he's had with the Lakers for the last, I
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don't know, five years. This guy deserves a lot of the
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accolades he does. He is great.
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I've always said he was the second best basketball player in
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the NBA. I've always said it in history,
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there is nobody besides Michael Jordan by the time this guy
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retires that you can even argue is better than LeBron James.
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But Michael Jordan, because he's going to have 90% of the
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records. He's done everything he was
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supposed to do coming out of high school.
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He had the the name the King. Now Felix, Felix Hernandez, he
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got the name the King. It didn't work out for him.
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Henrik Lundquist, he was the King.
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He was. He was a good player.
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Never won, never won with the Rangers.
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You got to win. If you're the King, and LeBron
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James has won four titles, say whatever you want.
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He went to South Beach to band together with Dwyane Wade and
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Chris Bosh. Maybe he did.
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You want to say that? You want to cry about it.
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He did what he did. So did Kevin Durant.
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He went to Golden State. So if you want to attack the 2
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greatest players of this era, well then attack them.
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They had the band together with superstar players to win.
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But he did go back home. He did win in Cleveland.
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He did band again with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love.
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He did. And then he left again.
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So the Cleveland Cavaliers make a lot of sense.
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Donovan Mitchell, James Harden. I don't.
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I would love to see how James Harden would work with LeBron
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James. Remember, it's one ball being
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shared. They have the pieces.
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Jared Allen has looked really, really good.
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Honestly, Jared Allen's been one of the best big men in the
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league for the last three weeks and they have the pieces.
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If LeBron James goes there to compete to win a title, I don't
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know if LeBron is going to make a big difference, but he'll make
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a difference even if he's coming off the bench.
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Who would have thought that LeBron James at the tail end of
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his career could be a guy coming off the bench a six man?
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But why not? There were a lot of great
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players at the tail end of their career that became six men and
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been really big parts of those teams.
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Mano Ginobili was always a six man.
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Really, he was the greatest six man.
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Look at Speedy Yawn. He's a little lost over here,
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but Mano Ginobili was one of the greatest six man of all time.
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Jamal Crawford was a great six man when he was a starting
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player when he came from the Chicago Bulls and went to the
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Knicks and he jumped around with different teams and one six man
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of the year. James Harden was a six man
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before he became a starter with the Houston Rockets.
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LeBron James would be a good piece to a championship team if
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he was coming off the bench. It would make a lot of sense
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with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Golden State Warriors, not
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so much. Jimmy Bucket still has another
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year on his contract. He's coming back from a knee
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injury. He's going nowhere.
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He he's, there's nobody that's going to buy or even buy into a
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$52 million contract that he is owed.
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There's no way anybody's going to do that.
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He's making a lot of money and he's at the tail end.
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He's really at the tail end of his career.
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The guy can't stay healthy. He's got knee problems, he's got
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ankle problems. He's going nowhere.
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Draymond Green makes a lot of sense on why they can move him
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or they don't want to. They don't need him there
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anymore. They can move him to another
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team. Steph Curry wants to end his
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career with the the Golden State Warriors.
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And I know LeBron has always wanted to play with Steph.
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These guys have a love fest with with one another.
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So it would make sense that the Golden State Warriors would be
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in on LeBron James. But is that good for the
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organization? If this organization is trying
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to get younger, is it worth bringing a 42 year old X
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superstar player to a team that's probably going to use you
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as a bench player? He's turned into, he's a better
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version, a lot better version of Carmelo Anthony.
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That's what he is. When Carmelo Anthony left the
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Knicks, he was a bench player. He was coming off the bench when
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he went to the Lakers. He was like a 6th man, 7th man.
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LeBron would be a better six or seven man coming off the bench
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for the the lake for the Lakers if he if he they decided to to
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bring him back the Cavaliers or even the Golden State Warriors
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as a starter. I wouldn't do that.
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And how does this work when it comes to Golden State where the
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way they like moving the ball, I just, it doesn't make sense.
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And, and the way the Golden State right the, the Golden
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State Warriors like to run their, their offense through
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that the similar triangle offense that Phil Jackson like
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to run. It wouldn't make sense.
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The only thing that makes sense would be the Cavaliers.
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But Knick fans, don't be surprised if Giannis gets traded
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to the Knicks if LeBron James's name is going to be in the mix
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after that. Because if Giannis agrees to go
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to New York, which I believe he had a chance to go to Miami at
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the trade deadline, he did not want to go there because they
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don't have a team that can win. And he had a chance to go to the
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Timberwolves. And he realized I can't win with
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Anthony Edwards because look at the talent Anthony Edwards had
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in their primes, Jimmy Butler, Karl Anthony Towns, he, he
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couldn't get over. And then he took a team all the
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way to the finals and lost, got crushed.
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So I know you sit here and a lot of Knick fans are like LeBron
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James. Could you imagine #23 wearing a
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Knicks jersey? No, I cannot.
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It will not help this team and the way this team wants to run
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their next year. If they run, if they're running
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done this year and they get knocked out in the playoffs, you
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know that it's a make or break year for Jalen Brunson, who's
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going to be expecting a long term deal from the New York
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Knicks. He he came out on a magazine and
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well, in a particular magazine and said that he wants the
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Knicks to take care of them. He wants to make a super Max
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contract. He took less money to come here
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and sign sign with the Knicks from Dallas.
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And he took less for his extension recently to try to win
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with the team that they have to bring in Mikhail Bridges and
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make the trade for Mikhail Bridges and then sign them and
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then OG on Anobi. He took less for these guys to
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get their contracts. But by the time Jaylen Bronson
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becomes a free agent, he's going to be about 33 years old.
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To sign him to a five year deal would be really detrimental to
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this organization moving forward.
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And Leon Rose is not going to put himself in that situation.
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It would be 3 years worth about $180 million.
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Now, if that, if that makes him happy that that deal could make
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it done, that could get that could get done in in three
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years. It just doesn't make.
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It's not feasible for the Knicks to, even though contracts would
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say that if LeBron James comes to the New York Knicks, if they
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can make it work as well as they could, it wouldn't fit the
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culture of this team. Even if Mike Brown is here.
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He knows Mike Brown's offense. He knows Mike Brown's defense.
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But Mike Brown has been transitioning as a coach.
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Remember when he left the Cavaliers?
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He went to San Antonio and then he went to Golden State.
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So he's learned a different style of pace and offense that
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he did not run with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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As a matter of fact, if you watch the Cleveland Cavaliers
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games when Mike Brown was coaching a young LeBron James,
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they were complete, completely different.
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If you think as a Knick fan, LeBron could be a fit, then
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maybe you take a flyer. Well, the fact that LeBron James
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mentioned the Knicks scares me because he never mentioned the
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Knicks at any point when he was making a decision on where he
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was going from Miami, Chicago and all the teams he interviewed
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with. As much as he interviewed, he
26:07
gave the Knicks an opportunity to pitch it.
26:09
He was never going to the Knicks.
26:10
That was never in the cards of LeBron James.
26:13
So why? Why does LeBron James want to
26:16
come to New York? To try to make amends with the
26:21
team that he never wanted to play for.
26:24
And why would the fans appreciate LeBron James to come
26:28
here and Root hit root for him at the tail end of his career
26:33
when the Knicks are ready? A good Eastern Conference team,
26:36
A competitive, elite Eastern Conference team.
26:39
What would make sense to Leon Rose?
26:42
I don't care if he was his agent, he screwed Leon Rose.
26:45
He left them to go to Paul and Clutch Sports.
26:51
Why would Leon Rose want to bring this man in when this team
26:55
and this roster has won enough and has been in a good
26:59
situation? Now if they fell full short from
27:02
an Eastern Conference finals this year, then I can see why
27:07
they would be crazy to not go after Giannis in the offseason
27:12
to make it. Maybe make these these
27:15
ridiculous moves to bring in a LeBron James and another
27:17
superstar to come and play with Jalen Bronson and bring in some
27:21
old players that have won in different places.
27:24
It doesn't make sense. It never worked.
27:27
Go ask the Lakers. Do we remember when they brought
27:30
in Karl Malone and Gary Payton to play with Shaquille O'Neal?
27:34
Was it Shaquille O'Neal? Was Shaquille O'Neal there?
27:36
I'm sorry Shaquille was not there.
27:38
It was Gary Payton, Karl Malone playing with I think Odom and
27:44
and Kobe. It didn't work.
27:46
It just say that it didn't work. It never worked.
27:52
Carmelon was at the tail end of his career, The mailman, the
27:57
Glove. Peyton was at the tail end of
28:00
his career. It didn't work.
28:04
So I I'm not saying LeBron James isn't better than those two guys
28:07
cuz he is still at this time, LeBron James is averaging 2322
28:11
points a game. He's still averaging a high clip
28:14
of assists and a high clip of rebounds.
28:16
This guy is still I would say a top 25 player in the league,
28:19
maybe top 30. I would say 25 S as a as a Knick
28:26
fan or as a Knick, I guess, enthusiast.
28:33
How would this work? How does this make sense for the
28:37
New York Knicks to bring this man in?
28:39
And by the way, LeBron James coming out and saying this, this
28:42
isn't somebody being a fool to believe why he wants to come
28:45
here. He's got a brand.
28:47
LeBron is building a brand after basketball.
28:51
And why not come to the Mecca? You're in LA, you played in
28:54
Miami, two very big cities, popular cities for brands and
29:00
building brands. And now come to New York and be
29:03
the ultimate brand because this New York is the ultimate brand
29:07
place in the world. Wall Street, everything is here.
29:14
Madison Square Garden is the the Mecca of basketball.
29:19
Why not come to New York? Kobe didn't do it.
29:21
Jordan didn't do it. So James would do it just to
29:24
appease the fans that couldn't stand up for years coming here
29:29
and beating down the New York Knicks.
29:33
I do not want LeBron James here in New York.
29:36
Not because I dislike him. I don't like him politically.
29:40
I don't want to hear his political thoughts.
29:42
I don't want to hear anything but basketball.
29:44
I respect his game. I respect who he is as a player.
29:49
I respect what he's done for basketball.
29:53
I do not respect what he will do to this team.
29:57
He does not help this team. As far as the future is
30:02
concerned, the Knicks need to get younger.
30:05
They have traded away youth to bring in, I guess, a
30:12
championship competitive team. We don't know what they are.
30:17
We have not seen them get to that finals where you could play
30:20
the best in the West. We saw him at the Easter
30:23
Conference finals and they failed.
30:24
They look like a bunch of scrubs last year against Halliburton
30:27
and the Indiana Pacers, that they were better on paper.
30:30
Then they can't beat Detroit in a regular season.
30:35
Does that mean that they can't beat Detroit in the playoffs?
30:38
No, but the fact that LeBron James made the Knicks a
30:43
destination, Yeah. You want to pat yourself on the
30:45
back. You want to give yourself a
30:48
thought that LeBron James wants to come to New York, and maybe
30:54
we've made this a destination for players to want to come and
30:57
play now. No, this has nothing to do with
31:03
the Knicks as an organization and as an organization that
31:07
knows what they're doing. No, this has something to do
31:10
with LeBron James and branding. Just branding.
31:13
Yeah, it's one of those basketball moves that is
31:16
outdated to think it's going to happen.
31:18
You talk about the Lakers failing with that big three,
31:21
big, big three towards the end of Shaq's career there before he
31:23
went to Miami. What about the one with Steve
31:26
Nash, Kobe and Dwight Howard that epically failed too?
31:28
All the ones with the Nets, the two with the Nets that epically
31:31
failed as well. It's not the way you build
31:33
anymore. And teams are getting younger,
31:35
championship players are getting younger.
31:37
And sometimes you could see it. I'm not saying it's like right
31:39
away where these curves are happening, but OK, See their
31:42
best player young last year, the Celtics, their two best players
31:46
young. It's two players and decent
31:48
depth is the way you win now. And obviously defense, you need
31:51
to eat a good defense, which the Knicks have had to most of the
31:53
year. Getting LeBron is not going to
31:56
make that pace of the game any faster, which is what the Knicks
31:59
needed to do because the Knicks under Tom Thibodeau last year,
32:02
very slow. And that was a big reason they
32:04
got rid of Thibodeau because they couldn't handle the
32:06
transition game when they played the Indiana Pacers.
32:08
Because you're right, the Knicks had more talent on paper than
32:11
the Pacers did. But Rick Carlisle was able to
32:13
play fast. That younger Pacers team was
32:15
ever to play, able to play fast and catch the Knicks out of
32:18
transition, hitting a lot of threes.
32:20
That was the problem the Knicks had, not the fact that they
32:23
needed, oh, LeBron James to step up.
32:25
The Knicks have the core to make it work, regardless of Giannis
32:28
right now, this year, Karl Anthony Towns, will he perform
32:31
in the playoffs? That's another question.
32:32
His defense was really bad last year.
32:34
They have to get that to help out.
32:35
That's why they got all those bench pieces at the trade
32:37
deadline. They have all the support
32:39
defense to help them inside with Jaylen Bronson and what?
32:42
But that's not that's not the story here, speedy.
32:45
You're going on what what the what the Knicks did at the trade
32:48
deadline. We're talking about next year.
32:50
We're talking about where this team will be next year, when
32:54
we're going to have to figure out if this team is built to win
32:58
a championship this year or they go another route.
33:02
They go another way. And LeBron James will be in the
33:04
mix next year if this team fails to do what they're expected to
33:08
do. And that's go play in the
33:09
Finals. You could say here, you want to
33:11
say Carl Anthony talents, McHale Bridges, OG Ananopi.
33:14
We all know that these guys show up in the games when they want
33:17
to and they disappear in games when they have to, OK?
33:20
That's the way the Knicks have played week in and week out in
33:24
certain aspects of the playoffs last year.
33:27
And you sit here and you're you're you're telling us what
33:28
everybody knows, Speedy. We we don't want to hear what
33:31
you thought or what these guys are supposed to do.
33:33
We don't want to hear what Leon Rose thought that this team was
33:36
going to be when he made those trades, which with Jose Alvaro
33:42
or bringing in free agents or guys that we got waved from
33:46
other organizations and other teams.
33:48
The fact here is they're built to win now.
33:51
If they fail to win now, they're going to look at elsewhere.
33:54
They're going to look at other positions and other places where
33:57
they think that bringing in a veteran player here and bringing
34:00
in a veteran here and sugar coating it and maybe putting
34:03
some salt and pepper to it, it's going to give them a chance to
34:05
win. It doesn't work that way.
34:07
It's never worked that way. Ask anybody that is built
34:11
championship teams teams you look at the Chicago Bulls of the
34:14
90s, they brought in Dennis Rodman in the prime of his
34:17
career. Yeah, the Spurs couldn't handle
34:20
we knew Detroit couldn't handle him at the tail end but and and
34:23
he was practically done. But Michael Jordan and Scottie
34:26
Pippen believe that they can get this guy to play their way.
34:30
And what did it do? It brought they brought in
34:33
multiple championships because that worked.
34:35
It doesn't always work and it all it had to take a very unique
34:40
individual and Co coach like Phil Jackson and the way he was
34:45
to bring in a Dennis Rodman and control his antics on and off
34:48
the basketball court. Now LeBron James is, I wouldn't
34:52
say as bad as Dennis Rodman, but his antics has hurt him on and
34:56
off the basketball court because it's not about basketball
34:59
anymore. It's about branding.
35:01
And that's the whole point, Speedy, you're losing the point
35:03
here. It's branding.
35:05
It's not comparing what these players are and what these
35:08
players are going to bring to the New York Knicks.
35:10
And here's the thing, I would rather LeBron James go to Golden
35:14
State and Cleveland because I don't want to deal with the
35:17
craziness with the media because it's not going to be about the
35:20
team, it's going to be about LeBron James.
35:21
Nobody cares. Everybody's going to forget that
35:23
Giannis is there because LeBron James is going to take the
35:25
media. He's going to take the media on.
35:27
He's going to be the face of the media because it's the King.
35:30
It's the great LeBron James. When he speaks, everybody's got
35:33
a bow. I don't want it here in New
35:35
York. You forget that.
35:37
And that's where your problem is, Speedy.
35:39
You're a young kid wondering, hey, what is it going to take to
35:42
bring LeBron James here? If LeBron going to be a missing
35:45
piece for this team to finally win a championship since 1973?
35:49
The answer is no. So you sit here and you tell us,
35:52
go to the details. We knew about this and we knew
35:56
about Oh Janet and we and we know about Michael Brizzy and it
36:00
it doesn't work. You can tell me whatever you
36:03
want until I'm blue in the face. You're garbage.
36:05
And that's the problem with analytics.
36:07
Analytics don't sell me if you're a Knicks fan.
36:10
It just tells me that the Knicks would do something like this to
36:13
ruin those one thing that they've built.
36:16
Leon Rose would not be stupid enough to bring this man in here
36:19
for the New York Knicks to just compile old dump and garbage
36:24
that we've seen over the years that other organizations have
36:27
done. No, it doesn't fit his style.
36:28
We talked about it last week with the Cavs.
36:30
Like the Cavs, only we're going to be willing to do it on a pay
36:32
cut as well. And Golden State, they're kind
36:34
of stuck on having to do another pay cut.
36:35
And no, LeBron is, I agree, not a missing piece by any means.
36:38
Yannis is the missing piece if the Knicks don't win the Finals
36:41
this year or don't win the East this year and regress.
36:44
LeBron is the opposite where of what the Knicks need right now
36:47
because they have enough of those types of players.
36:49
The Knicks neither either elite defenders inside or shooters.
36:53
LeBron at this point in his career is not going to be that
36:55
guy. And you're right, they can't be
36:56
enamored by the Flash. It is a James Dolan type thing
36:59
that he cannot be enamored by. And Leon Rose is smart enough
37:02
where I think to override. It And that's where you went.
37:03
That's where you have it wrong. It is not James Dolan's team
37:06
anymore. This is Leon Rose's team.
37:09
That's where you forget and Chris Drury is why the New York
37:14
Rangers are falling apart because you know who still has
37:18
the back end and and is a part of the decision making?
37:21
It is James Dolan. Do you see the problem right now
37:24
with the different teams in Madison Square Garden?
37:26
One team can't find or buy a win or is trying to lose to try to
37:30
get prospects and another team finally has it right.
37:34
Worldwide West and Leon Rose are controlling this team,
37:38
controlling the roster and put this team in a position where it
37:41
is today. So you sit here and you say, if
37:47
you're a Knick fan right now and you're trying to figure out what
37:50
this team is, well then you don't know the Knicks and you're
37:52
not following. Shout out to Quran, shout out to
37:55
the New York Knick podcast out there that are out there trying
37:58
to promote what the Knicks are trying to do and what the Knicks
38:01
are have been over the last couple of years.
38:02
But I'm going to tell you this right now, if the Knicks bring
38:06
in LeBron James, it is nothing but a stunt to bring publicity
38:11
here and media. I do not want him here.
38:14
It's not going to help. It's not going to benefit this
38:16
team. It's not going to benefit the
38:17
growth and and honestly draw anybody wanted to come to play
38:21
here because nobody wants to play with the LA Lakers because
38:23
they don't want to deal with LeBron James.
38:25
Fish before you go. Last ditch effort for the cat,
38:27
for the Warriors, I think is what you're especially looking
38:29
at. If he wants Draymond Green to
38:31
stay there, he's going to have to take a massive take on
38:33
because they still have. Jimmy, it's not going to.
38:34
Happen Jimmy Butler under contract?
38:35
Good luck trying to figure that out.
38:36
Mike Dunleavy, Great GM, you are over there.
38:39
And then the Cavs. I agree with you.
38:40
I don't know how it would work with James Harden there, unless
38:42
James Harden comes off the bench.
38:43
That's the only thing that would make sense to me.
38:45
But James Harden is so egomaniac, he's not going to.
38:47
Want to do that? Will be coming off the bench.
38:49
Yeah, I just don't see either one of them having the throw
38:52
their egos away to make that kind of thing work.
38:54
I can't see them unless they get rid of James Harden doing that
38:57
kind of thing and making it. Work, I think, you know, you got
38:59
to really think about Lebron's ability to be a the same price
39:03
as a mid level guy. That's what they're saying.
39:06
If he takes a mid level contract, that's way he's so
39:09
much better than anybody at that price.
39:12
So you have to think about it. And if he wants to come to New
39:15
York at that price, you'd be kind of stupid to say no.
39:20
And the basketball side of it. Now the other part of it, Errol,
39:23
that's a whole different story. And I completely agree with you.
39:26
The fact that headache, the media circus, all that nonsense,
39:30
taking away a little bit from what Jaylen Brunson has done,
39:33
you know, get bringing his attention to it a little bit.
39:36
I don't think it's the answer, but to me, like if that guy
39:40
could be a point forward at age in his 24th NBA season and you
39:46
know, give you playoff minutes, finish games for you.
39:49
He doesn't have to play more than 28 minutes a game.
39:52
He can rotate in when they need to go offense.
39:55
You know, they can put OG in his position on defense and OG can
39:59
move down a spot and have LeBron out there finding him in the
40:02
corner. I like that idea, allowing
40:05
Jaylen Bronson to playoff ball, getting some kind of point
40:07
forward. The LeBron circus is problem,
40:10
but the Knicks problem isn't LeBron.
40:11
It's the fact that Karl Anthony Towns doesn't have a consistent
40:15
shot, doesn't play defense, and he plays the same position as
40:17
Mitch Robinson. That's the Knicks problem.
40:20
The problem will be LeBron James.
40:22
If LeBron James comes here, that will be their problem.
40:25
There's no doubt in my mind the media is going to swarm to him.
40:28
They're not going to worry about the Knicks losing or the Knicks
40:31
going into the playoffs as a 5 or 4 seed because they just not
40:35
playing good basketball. They're going to worry about
40:36
what LeBron James thinks. And all LeBron needs to do is go
40:39
out there and speak and throw his teammates under the bus,
40:43
just like he's done with the Lakers over the last couple of
40:45
weeks. You saw that he did not show up
40:47
to Luka Doncic when he signed that extension in the offseason.
40:51
Everybody else did but LeBron James.
40:53
Do you think that was a coincidence?
40:55
Come on, guys, there is no coincidence on that.
40:57
He did not want Luka Doncic. That's what it seems.
41:00
And the only people that wanted Luka Doncic there was Jeannie
41:03
Buss and the organization, because they need another
41:06
superstar they can build their team around.
41:08
And LeBron obviously thought that he still had a little bit
41:11
left in him that he can take it, he can take another team to a
41:14
championship, which he can't. And I'm telling you right now,
41:17
off the ball or nothing, you do not want LeBron James on that
41:21
basketball court because LeBron James will be the leader.
41:23
LeBron James will be the captain.
41:25
We go from the captain, yes, Jalen Brunson, where everybody
41:29
respects him and looks up to, to the guy that is the greatest
41:33
basketball player of this era. And when he walks into the
41:36
locker room, it's going to be LeBron, LeBron, LeBron, not
41:39
Brunson, not Towns if he's still there, or OG if he's still
41:43
there. And McHale Bridges.
41:45
You do not want that as a New York Knicks fan.
41:47
You do not want this publicity and this crazy.
41:51
And by the way, I am not the biggest Stephen A Smith fan, but
41:56
could you imagine LeBron James going to New York?
42:01
And Stephen A Smith is the biggest New York Knick fan.
42:03
He stands by his Knicks, even though he didn't stand by him
42:06
recently with the Detroit Pistons whipping their ass and
42:08
saying that the Knicks are done. They're not going through
42:11
Detroit, which that just shows you how much Stephen A Smith
42:13
knows. But that's that's just a whole
42:15
nother take. The fact here is, could you
42:18
imagine LeBron James going to his basketball team, his Mecca,
42:23
his place of where he loves to go, Madison Square Garden to
42:28
watch the guy he despises? It won't work, Ladies and
42:32
gentlemen. This wouldn't work.
42:34
Of course Fish would sit there and say LeBron James.
42:37
LeBron James in a Nick Jersey 23.
42:39
I mean, I mean, that has a little, little spice to it,
42:42
Yeah. If they only got to pay him 8
42:44
million though, Errol, if it's only like 8 million, I don't
42:47
want to LeBron. And that's all it's they're
42:49
saying that everyone else only has around like 7 in cap space
42:53
and the Knicks can get him at that mid level exception and
42:57
give him more money than he can get anywhere else.
43:00
And he doesn't have to start. You got to think about it, man.
43:05
You have to. He's the greatest, you know,
43:08
scorer, you know, all time point, not scorer, but greatest
43:10
all time point leader, second greatest player we talk about
43:13
all the time behind Michael Jordan of all time.
43:16
If you put him lower than second or third, you're crazy.
43:19
That's how important he is to the game as well.
43:22
Everyone that's playing now grew up watching him play, you know,
43:26
even Kevin Durant, you know, it's wild what he's doing.
43:30
You got to think about it. It also is going to put butts in
43:33
seats. I do not I.
43:35
Buy more merch. Listen, the Knicks don't need
43:37
butts in a seat. They sell out every single game.
43:39
Merch. The Knicks sell one of the most
43:42
most popular jersey. I'm just saying.
43:44
Out there, I mean, their merch is, listen, I buy a lot of merch
43:47
for the New York Knicks. I buy a lot.
43:49
Of Would you buy a LeBron James Knicks jersey?
43:51
Never never. You wouldn't buy a LeBron James
43:54
Knicks never, if he was on it. Not a.
43:55
Chance in hell? You who has all these jerseys
43:57
and they win a champion? First of all, first.
43:59
You wouldn't buy that first. No.
44:00
First, it's LJA. First of all, first of all,
44:03
everybody knows I, I named the association, the LeBron James
44:07
Association. So no, I would never wear a
44:10
LeBron James jersey with the Knick colors.
44:12
Never. I've never I don't really buy
44:15
jerseys with other players names on the back of it.
44:17
I put my name on the back of it. So just so everybody knows, I,
44:21
it's very rare that I do that. But as far as merch is concerned
44:24
and what this team's going to bring in when it comes to
44:27
filling out seats, they don't need to fill out any seats.
44:29
This team has sold out for the next five years.
44:33
It doesn't matter who's playing on this roster.
44:36
They sell out games. It's a corporation place.
44:38
Madison Square Garden is built on corporations, not fans.
44:43
Let's be honest here. It's about millionaires and how
44:46
many people are going to buy those seats for hundreds of
44:49
thousands of dollars? That's the facts, Jack.
44:52
I'm not going to sit here and beat around the Bush and anybody
44:55
that's going to sit here and tell me that LeBron James will
44:58
make or break this New York Knick team and we could get it
45:00
for $8 million and that makes sense.
45:03
Well, then you're trying to sell me something that's a pipe dream
45:06
because to me, that is not going to bring a championship home to
45:10
this New York Knick team. New York is built on scrappy
45:14
players. You want to bring somebody back,
45:16
bring Dante Diva, Chenzo back. That's what you bring back.
45:19
You bring back. You want to bring Giannis here,
45:22
then you move on and you have to fill out and try to figure out
45:24
how contracts work. Then you trade away pieces and
45:27
you bring the scrappy players on that stand for what the New York
45:30
Knicks have always been scrappy team.
45:32
The Pat Riley teams, which I have a story up on the Worldwide
45:35
Sports Radio Network, The scrappiness and those defenses,
45:38
the Jeff Van Gundy teams. That's what I want to see.
45:41
I want to see a scrappy Nick team that's going to bring a
45:44
dominant force on the boards, on the offensive and defensive side
45:48
of the boards. And they're not going to show
45:50
that they give up at the end of the game, even if they look like
45:52
they're going to lose, which we've seen a couple of times
45:55
this year against teams I don't want to mention.
45:58
All right, that's my that's my take on it.
46:02
I am so done with people and fans coming out here and telling
46:07
me, wow, wouldn't LeBron James look good with the the blue,
46:11
white and orange? No, I do not want to see LeBron
46:15
James wearing my colors. No, you didn't want to come here
46:18
when you were on top of the world.
46:19
Why the hell do we want you when you're on the bottom?
46:23
I don't want you. I don't want to sell that.
46:26
And fans, if you think the New York Knicks as an organization
46:30
in Leon Rose would do something like this just because he has a
46:34
relationship with him on and off the court, well, then you don't
46:37
know Leon Rose. Because the only, the only move
46:40
that he made that made sense because he got Carl Anthony
46:43
Towns at the deal that he got now.
46:45
Carl Anthony Towns was his guy. He was the agent of Carl Anthony
46:50
Towns, but it worked because Karl Anthony Towns was traded
46:56
for Dante Divicenzo and and Julius Randall.
47:00
You got one of the top five centers in the league for two
47:04
good players, but not anywhere close to the the type of player
47:08
Karl Anthony Towns. Karl Anthony Towns has been an
47:10
All Star since he's come to the Knicks.
47:12
He's been an all NBA player since he's come to the Knicks.
47:15
The problem with Karl Anthony Towns is he doesn't show up in
47:18
the big game. He doesn't play any defense.
47:20
Yes, Quran, he doesn't play any defense.
47:22
Sorry, he don't I don't care what what you think and you're
47:26
looking at it and I love you Quran.
47:28
You know I love you, man. You know, he tries Errol, he's
47:30
just not very good at it, is the problem.
47:33
Like it's not an effort thing with him.
47:34
He just looks. Look, his body language is not
47:38
my favorite. Everyone knows he has these
47:40
weird poses after shots. It always gets caught on camera.
47:44
I put a lot of them up in the graphics when we get a chance
47:46
to. It's a lot of fun.
47:47
We circle jerk. But again, the guy has a skill
47:51
set that nobody else has in the NBA.
47:53
Who else is doing what he's doing shooting three?
47:56
I mean, his three-point numbers are down a little bit this year.
47:58
And I would say that's probably why the Knicks aren't doing
48:00
better than they are in the record right now because he was
48:03
lights out last year from three. He's down about 5% Errol from
48:06
like he was over 40s that are on 36 right now.
48:09
He's streaky this year. You know it is.
48:11
And that's a problem if your defense is mid at best, which is
48:15
basically who he is. And against better competition,
48:18
he's not stopping nobody. He never, he can never stop
48:21
Giannis. We've seen that every time they
48:23
face. Off dude, there are people on
48:24
TikTok right now playing like one-on-one with LeBron James.
48:28
They have these like AI guys that are LeBron James and
48:31
they're doing it. It's so funny because they're
48:34
making fun of LeBron James's defense that, you know, a street
48:38
baller can go right past them. No, I don't believe that I I
48:40
think he's a lot better than a street baller, but it just shows
48:44
you how many jokes are out there about LeBron James's defense
48:47
that he has holes in his defense.
48:49
Now I'm telling you right now, if you bring him in this team is
48:53
the the New York Knicks are a good team defensive.
48:56
You know their prowess as a team defensive team.
49:00
I I mean is good. It it's only going to make him
49:03
worse and and OG on Anobi if you're training him for Giannis
49:07
and you're going to have to maybe move Mikhail because you
49:09
think that this guy's going to fit better with playing with
49:11
Giannis and LeBron. It's never going to work.
49:14
You're losing the pieces that you helped build to made that
49:17
made this team a foundation in the NBAII.
49:20
Just it's a big no big no for me.
49:22
Stay the hell away. From me.
49:23
So there's a salary cap thing that we got to talk about too,
49:26
and the whole Rich Paul possibly getting rid of LeBron as a
49:30
client because he's not going to take this player option.
49:33
It's $55 million sitting on the table that LeBron can just say I
49:38
accept this player option, There's nothing you could do
49:41
about it, Lakers, and you got to pay me 50 something million.
49:45
In which case the Knicks have cats crazy contract and if they
49:48
want to get off a cat, they could do that switch and LeBron
49:50
retires the next year and then they don't have to worry about
49:53
that contract and they can get some picks or something from the
49:55
Lakers. I don't think I would do that.
49:58
I wouldn't do that. They don't have to look.
49:59
They don't have to. The bigger thing is that's
50:01
crazy. Leon Rose would be the natural
50:04
guy LeBron would go to if he leaves Rich Paul as an agent and
50:09
the fact that Leon Rose can obviously market going forwards
50:13
with LeBron, if they have a falling out, why wouldn't he
50:16
jump in? Well, first of all, Leon Rose.
50:19
Leon Rose cannot be his. Agent, but you know what I mean.
50:22
His agency will represent LeBron.
50:26
I first of all, Rich Paul is never going to leave LeBron
50:30
James, LeBron James's side because Rich Paul is the reason
50:33
why the Rich Paul is where he is today is because of LeBron
50:36
James. I don't care if LeBron James
50:37
takes less Rich Paul and LeBron James.
50:40
Rich Paul's country. I mean company that he works for
50:43
the clutch Sports is run really by LeBron James.
50:47
So you sit here and you're saying, well, he'll leave Rich
50:50
Paul. He's not leaving clutch sports
50:53
because that's LeBron James's brand.
50:55
So I'm but I'm sorry, that's not going to happen.
50:58
This story this, this back and forth that that LeBron James
51:02
came out and it's a good story for Knick fans to talk about.
51:06
But there's no way in hell you're going to sell me right
51:09
now that just because LeBron James put the Knicks name up
51:12
there on the list, that the Knicks are going to be the team
51:15
that he's going to choose because the Knicks don't want
51:17
them. The Knicks don't want him.
51:20
So I'm telling you right now that's a no for me and a no for
51:24
everybody else. And if you decide at any thought
51:27
in the offseason, well, let me see.
51:29
I'll be like speedy, you know, you know, Yeah.
51:36
That's that's exactly what I think about the Knicks.
51:39
No, no, no, no. I don't need to think about it.
51:43
The answer is no. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
51:46
we got a new segment. We call this concrete jungle.
51:51
Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games.
51:54
You know where you. Are.
51:57
In the jungle. Baby welcome.
51:59
I'm trying to put tiger bomb. On this jungle's nuts.
52:01
To the concrete jungle carousel. We got the concrete jungle
52:13
carousel. We're going to go around all of
52:17
the sports in the biz right now, starting off with the only,
52:21
well, actually going to start off with basketball.
52:24
We will get the hockey a little bit later, but here we go.
52:26
Nixon Nets starting it off the Knicks stumble out of the All
52:30
Star break. You're just mentioned in some of
52:32
it, so we'll start there. They got blown out by the
52:34
Pistons at home 1/26 1:11 in their first game out of the
52:37
break. Kate Cunningham monster game.
52:41
You know, there's a mini story out there, Errol, that it could
52:44
be Luca. Luca.
52:46
Well, Luca too actually, but Jokic and Shay might not be able
52:50
to play enough games to be eligible for the MVP and there's
52:54
a lot of people putting money on Kade right now while he's still
52:57
around 6 to 1 to get the MVP because he would be the next guy
53:01
if they're ineligible. Cade's killing it right now.
53:03
He's killed the Knicks every time.
53:04
The Knicks have gotten swept by the Pistons this season. 3 O in
53:09
the regular season, they had a huge comeback against the
53:12
Rockets. After that they were down 18
53:13
down as much as 25 at one point in that game.
53:16
Storm back. I showed some of the highlights
53:18
of it while you in the last segment.
53:20
Jalen Brunson had a clutch. I'm just doing Jalen Brunson
53:23
things. Clutch win.
53:24
But then they didn't show up against Cleveland.
53:27
Looks like James Harden broke his hand in that game.
53:29
But it looks I think he's day-to-day.
53:31
He's actually not. It's just a fracture.
53:32
Squeeze the cheese, he's going. To be out.
53:35
But the Knicks did not shoot well.
53:37
Everyone had a bad shooting day, Brunson included.
53:40
And Cat is just not put in the ball in the whole arrow.
53:44
I disagree with you. Cat before the Cavaliers game
53:47
was playing good basketball. He was average 20, almost 20 and
53:50
10. So I disagree with you.
53:52
I think Cat has played better since he came back from the All
53:55
Star break. Here's the problem right now
53:57
with the Knicks. These guys are being a lot of
54:00
the players are inconsistent. Mikhail Bridges is inconsistent.
54:03
He had 19 shots against Cleveland.
54:05
Cavaliers only hit five of them. If you're inconsistent, you're
54:08
not going to find ways to win against teams that are just as
54:11
good as you, especially with the Cavaliers in their bench.
54:14
You need to play up to your team's competitive nature.
54:18
And the Knicks haven't against the talented teams that they,
54:21
no, they played well against Houston, but they, they're,
54:23
they're the really, Detroit has dogged them.
54:26
And now you, you can tell that some of their competition is
54:30
playing higher and better than the New York Knicks are.
54:33
The Knicks have to play, I think more, more.
54:36
They have to be more defensively sound.
54:38
They got to be better on the boards offensively, and they got
54:40
to do more on the defensive side of the ball in the most
54:43
important parts of the game. At the tail end of the game,
54:46
especially in the fourth quarter with 5 minutes left, the, the
54:49
Knicks are giving too many easy buckets, too many easy threes.
54:53
This team has been one of the best 3 point shooter teams at 3
54:56
point teams in in all of the NBA.
54:58
Offensively they're probably the best offensive team in the NBA
55:02
and even in defense they're ranked I think 8th or 9th right
55:05
now in all of the NBA. But here's the thing, how many
55:08
points do they give up in the tail end of games when it comes
55:12
down to the Minnie and the gritty?
55:13
That's the problem with the Knicks.
55:15
It has nothing to do with Carl Anthony.
55:16
He needs to show up in the big game.
55:18
I disagree with you. I think Carl has played better
55:21
since the All Star break since the Detroit game, so I disagree.
55:24
The last two years the Knicks have been one of the few teams
55:26
in the NBA that have been both top ten and offensive and
55:28
defensive efficiency and it just needs to be a little more
55:31
consistent with the three-point shooting especially.
55:32
That was a big thing that hurt them against the Cavs.
55:34
OG Anobe He's been mostly efficient this year but has had
55:37
his lows. But British, like you said, is
55:38
the main one. I think that has to really get
55:40
going. Towns yeah, he'll have his lows,
55:42
but I agree with you mostly. Still good after the All Star
55:44
break. Just got to fix that defense and
55:45
the Knicks have to just get this depth to sync up again.
55:47
He's never going to fix his defense because he's not a
55:50
defensive player and I don't want to hear it from Knick fans
55:53
crying about it. If you want a defensive player,
55:55
you trade him in the offseason, you bring in Giannis.
55:57
That's the only way you're going to fix the problem they have.
56:00
If you want him as a starter or make Mitchell Robertson the
56:03
starter and and make Carl Anthony Towns the four, make
56:06
Carl 4, make Mitch 5. That's the way I go.
56:10
I mean, that's the only way I would go if that's the case.
56:13
But they're worried about time. They're worried about some.
56:15
See what they do? They actually played the the
56:17
Bulls in that span 2 and murdered them.
56:19
But the Bulls have given up in general on this traded away
56:23
Vujovic recently. You're right, he's he's done
56:26
better. But you know, in the two games
56:27
that they lost to the number one and I guess their other
56:30
competition besides the Celtics and the East, 13 pointer in both
56:34
games. This guy needs to be putting up
56:37
the three for them if they're going to be good offensively.
56:40
It's just, you know, he's really important.
56:42
Here's the thing. They undersell how important he
56:45
is. Here's the thing, I think they
56:46
need to play more to Karl Anthony Towns and less to Jalen
56:51
Bronson in certain games. If you get Karl Anthony Towns
56:53
more involved in the game. And I want to give a shout out
56:55
to Koran because that's what we were talking about on his show,
57:00
The Blue and Orange Brunch. We went back and forth and we
57:03
believe, and I agree with Koran cold heartedly that they have to
57:08
run their offense, Drew Karl Anthony Towns if they want to be
57:12
a championship team. They cannot play that isolation
57:16
basketball all game long with Jaylen Bronson.
57:18
They have to. Every time they bring Karl
57:20
Anthony Towns and make him the pin of the offense, you can see
57:24
that they're a different team. That's all I'm saying.
57:27
More Karl Anthony Towns, less of Jaylen Bronson.
57:30
All right, let's move on to baseball offseason news.
57:34
Starting to get into the pitchers and catchers we've got,
57:37
that is long gone. We are now up to a whole bunch
57:40
of preseason games before we get into the Yankees and Mets.
57:44
This number 1 prospect the Pirates have, I don't know if
57:47
you saw the home runs, he had two bombs.
57:50
This kids crazy Connor Griffin. Connor with AK, pay attention to
57:53
that name. But starting off Yankees, Mets
57:55
guys, the Yankees have this DH that they traded for Derek Jeter
58:01
gave them to us. His name is Giancarlo Stanton
58:04
Errol. He can't open a bag of chips
58:06
without pain. He has really, really bad
58:10
bilateral elbow weakness. Still 2 years into this
58:15
apparently debilitating condition that he thinks, and
58:19
apparently is because he swings the bat too damn hard, he says
58:22
he's going to tough it out. He's still eyeing 162 games
58:25
season. He's never played more than 150
58:27
with the Yankees, was his first season with them.
58:30
It's obvious he decided not to have surgery to clean out the
58:33
tendons in his elbows. Probably wouldn't have been
58:36
great coming back from that. I guess he's playing out the
58:38
string and that's going to call it a day.
58:40
Well, the string needs to be cut, ladies and gentlemen, I
58:44
honestly don't believe Giancarlo Stanton is going to play more
58:48
than 100 games this year. His elbows are really, really
58:50
bad all season long. Back and forth on the ILII just
58:54
can't see it. I know he wants to believe that
58:56
he's the same player and same young player, but even even when
59:00
the Yankees went to the World Series a couple of years ago
59:02
when he took off his hat when they they got in the AL East and
59:06
and they won the AL East against the Cleveland Guardians.
59:09
He looks older now. He's got the body, body of all
59:12
like AI don't even know like some supermodel, but he his his
59:17
body's breaking down when you playing 162 games and you're as
59:20
big as him and as strong as him and he swings the bat as fast
59:24
and as hard as him. Eventually stuff start to go on
59:28
your body and it and his elbows are going it just he, the way he
59:31
works out. I don't know if anybody's
59:32
watched Gian Carlo Stanton's workouts.
59:34
This guy used to bench 300 lbs like it was nothing.
59:38
I'm telling you this guy is, he's built like a, you know,
59:42
like a Hercules. That's what he is.
59:44
But he's he doesn't play like it anymore.
59:46
I'd be surprised if he plays more than 100 games this year.
59:50
I'll be surprised. I I'd say this if he does it,
59:53
he's worth every penny the Yankees give him because they're
59:55
going to need him in the playoffs.
59:56
But it's not going to happen. I think he's on drugs and
59:59
whatever he believes, he thinks. Things he's going to do, he must
1:00:01
be drinking or smoking something because it's not going to
1:00:04
happen. And there's no reason for the
1:00:05
Yankees to have to push that either.
1:00:07
They have enough guys that could slide into the DH area to make
1:00:09
sure he's healthy for the playoffs.
1:00:10
We always said all the time he's the Yankees second best playoff
1:00:13
player consistently and sometimes their number one
1:00:15
playoff player. I I think he's been their best
1:00:17
playoff, him and Gleber Torres, he's no longer with the
1:00:20
organization And and, and finally Aaron Judge showed up in
1:00:23
a big playoff run but fell short because they couldn't get out of
1:00:26
semis the divisional game. So.
1:00:28
Especially like with the other key players at the Yankees had
1:00:31
dipping at points last year. Bellinger was pretty bad in that
1:00:33
Blue Jays series. Your boy Jazz jism really
1:00:36
disappeared in that Blue Jays series.
1:00:37
Outside of the one game they have to.
1:00:39
Are you be able to trust the kids and make it work?
1:00:41
And if you want to make it work, have him have a guy like
1:00:43
standing around you to take a lot of pictures.
1:00:45
I have always liked John Carlo, Stan, ever since he came here.
1:00:48
The Yankees got him for nothing. Nothing.
1:00:50
Derek Jeter wrapped them up with a nice little bow and said,
1:00:53
here, you can have them, OK? He gave the Yankees one of the
1:00:57
best power hitters in baseball at the time, and the year before
1:01:00
he was the National League MVP, but he has not been the same
1:01:03
player in five years in a regular season.
1:01:07
You want to set him up for the playoffs, set him up right.
1:01:09
Don't play him more than 80 games.
1:01:11
Make sure he's 100% healthy for the playoffs.
1:01:14
For him to come out and say that he wants to play or he thinks he
1:01:16
believes with his bad elbows, he's going to play 162 games.
1:01:19
He's only selling you a bag of balls, and I mean goodies.
1:01:24
Bag of balls. That's about it.
1:01:26
That's it, ladies and gentlemen, because that is not selling to
1:01:29
me. It's offset to anybody's belief
1:01:32
that he is going to play next year more than 100 games.
1:01:35
A goodies bag of balls packed in with Pokémon balls and aliens
1:01:38
and. Whatever it is, whatever kids
1:01:40
like to play with. I mean, not those kind of balls,
1:01:43
but you know what? The Yankees are going to retire
1:01:44
CC Sabathia's number on September 26th.
1:01:48
It's going to be the first guy since Paul O'Neill had #21
1:01:51
retired in 2022 with the Yankees, in 11 seasons, he had a
1:01:57
381 ERA, 127 WHIP, but also in the playoffs, 34297 strikeouts.
1:02:05
He had 1700 strikeouts with the Yankees.
1:02:08
Obviously Hall of Famer, left-hander, just incredible
1:02:12
pitcher for the Yankees, obviously World Series champion.
1:02:14
Yankee, that's all I'm going to say.
1:02:16
He was a he was a monster. And he, he came from Milwaukee.
1:02:20
He had all those perfect games. And I mean, CC stood for a lot
1:02:24
for the New York Yankees. And yes, he took two big
1:02:27
contracts from the Yankees, got paid a lot of money.
1:02:29
But even with all the drinking problems and all the problems
1:02:33
that he's had in the past and, and even weight problems, he
1:02:36
stood for everything. And, and then when he had to
1:02:38
redefine his pitching motion and and become a more finesse
1:02:42
pitcher, not a power pitcher, he still accomplish a lot doing and
1:02:46
playing that way. So I, I mean, CC really stood
1:02:49
for a lot for the Yankees and I, I think it's well deserved.
1:02:52
I think it's long overdue and I think the the man's going to be
1:02:57
placed there and and remembered as one of the greatest Yankee
1:03:00
pitchers of all time. Yeah, definitely one of the best
1:03:02
ones when you look at starting consistency in this era.
1:03:04
Yeah, he had a couple years, like you were saying, when he
1:03:06
had those drinking issues, but recreated himself in that 2015
1:03:09
season. I think especially when the
1:03:10
Yankees were supposed to be one of the worst teams on paper in
1:03:13
that tough division and they still made the playoffs.
1:03:15
A lot of that had to do with him.
1:03:16
And again, real first four years, peak years for the
1:03:19
Yankees when they've had trouble signing these other starting
1:03:21
pitchers in the past. He definitely will deserve it.
1:03:23
Yes Mikey C he's a Hall of Famer easily.
1:03:26
Not like what you. Were thinking years ago Mariano
1:03:28
Rivera helped him with the cut fastball and even Andy Pettitte
1:03:32
was teaching him some pitches that helping him with his change
1:03:34
up. I mean, CC really redefined the
1:03:37
way he pitched at the tail end of his career.
1:03:39
Not many pitchers could do that. CC did.
1:03:41
You're a power pitcher and you're throwing over 100 mph and
1:03:44
then change everything because you can't throw over 9293 and,
1:03:48
and completely change your motion and, and, and over one
1:03:51
season and learn how to pitch. It says a lot about who he is as
1:03:55
a player. Very well deserved.
1:03:56
Congratulations to CC Sabathia. He tried everything.
1:04:00
Remember the year he lost like 75 lbs out of nowhere it seemed
1:04:03
like and then he it thought that was going to make him better.
1:04:06
He didn't have the fastball anymore when he lost the he was
1:04:08
like thrown in the 80s and he couldn't do anything.
1:04:11
Like his numbers. I just read them.
1:04:12
They don't sound that great outside of the strikeouts with
1:04:15
the Yankees because, you know, he got lit up for a couple of
1:04:18
years there. It was real tough.
1:04:20
But you know, there's only a handful of shoulder problems
1:04:22
that figure out that well, shoulder problem, you know, the
1:04:25
personal problems. But you know, the guy fought
1:04:29
through it, came back absolute Hall of Famer.
1:04:31
Congrats to him again, September 26th if you're trying to go to
1:04:34
that game. And let's talk about the Mets.
1:04:37
There's a real interesting prospect that the Mets have who
1:04:40
might end up with the team breaking out of camp.
1:04:43
It's their top prospect, Carson Benz.
1:04:45
He's the 16th overall prospect in baseball.
1:04:49
He had a 282 average, 24 Steelers, 15 homers last year at
1:04:54
three different levels of the minors.
1:04:57
He's trying to get right field job competing with a who's who
1:05:02
of maybe who's not. We got Mike Tauchman, Brett
1:05:06
Beatty, who I guess is a right fielder now.
1:05:09
Tyrone Taylor and MJ Melendez are all competing for that spot
1:05:13
on the roster. But this kid had a three hit
1:05:16
game the other day. I just seems to be ready, which
1:05:21
is pretty wild. And it could be someone that the
1:05:24
Mets could get a real shot in the arm from this year.
1:05:26
All right. First of all, if you know
1:05:28
anything about Stearns and David Stearns, what he likes to do,
1:05:32
he's not going to call a guy up in the beginning of the season.
1:05:35
They want full control of his arbitrations.
1:05:38
So that is not going to happen. That is not going to happen.
1:05:41
They're going to have, obviously, if he has a good
1:05:43
spring training, they'll probably send him back down for
1:05:46
a couple of weeks until they they they have a chance to bring
1:05:49
him up and it doesn't affect their arbitration and he could
1:05:52
come up. This is the same thing what what
1:05:54
Spencer Jones was doing for the Yankees in spring training.
1:05:57
He looked unbelievable last year in spring training.
1:05:59
Did the Yankees call him up? No.
1:06:01
And, and by the way, for all those Spencer Jones haters or
1:06:05
whatever Brian Cashman said about him, Spencer Jones hit 277
1:06:09
last year. He had 35 home runs and eighty
1:06:11
RBI's. By the way, is better than
1:06:13
bench. Maybe not it's batting average,
1:06:15
but power numbers were better than bench.
1:06:18
And I know bench is, is like a top 15 prospect and Spencer
1:06:23
Jones is not even a top 100. That doesn't matter to me.
1:06:26
I, I'm just looking at the, the, the facts.
1:06:29
And the facts is if the, if the Mets want to bring him up early,
1:06:33
that is not something that David Sterns likes to do.
1:06:35
It will throw you off and and realize is that David Stearns is
1:06:38
on the hot seat and he has to do this because it's going to do it
1:06:42
in his way or his performance will probably save his job.
1:06:46
That's the only reason why he would bring him up, because
1:06:48
these moves that he made in the offseason may just shake your
1:06:51
head. Yeah, Beatty is the one I think
1:06:53
I think deserves the best shot first, even though Fish, like
1:06:55
you're saying, it's not his natural position in his corner
1:06:57
round field spot, but his offense is going to bring a lot
1:06:59
more. You don't need the defense in
1:07:01
center field like you did last year with Tyrone Taylor that
1:07:03
couldn't hit. He hit in the clutch, which was
1:07:05
good, but he really disappeared offensively the second-half of
1:07:07
the year. Mike Tauchman, like, yeah, those
1:07:09
two good years with the Yankees and like, one Goodyear somewhere
1:07:11
else. Yeah, that's not really good to
1:07:12
trust. Melendez is interesting because
1:07:14
he had that Goodyear two years ago at Kansas City but really
1:07:16
fell off offensively. But I agree with you, Errol.
1:07:18
I wouldn't rush him up right now.
1:07:19
Don't. Put extra.
1:07:20
Pressure on the kid right now, they'd have to try to.
1:07:22
Do a lot. Did Stearns ever do that in
1:07:25
Milwaukee? He never did.
1:07:26
Ever did. He is not going to change his
1:07:29
ways because he the only way he does if he's really on the hot
1:07:34
seat and he needs to rush his kid up because they got to pull
1:07:37
lightning in a bottle and maybe this guy turns into a star and
1:07:40
he looks like, oh, look, it's David Stearns.
1:07:42
The man's a genius, an absolute genius.
1:07:45
Yeah, it's not going to be because of him necessarily that
1:07:47
they do it. I think it's also it would just
1:07:49
be all right if April and maybe early May they have a really
1:07:52
rough month of offensive outfield production from those
1:07:54
right fields guys. Okay, yeah, give him a shot at
1:07:56
that point. He's supposed to be this, a
1:07:58
dynamic defensive outfielder too, in addition to stolen
1:08:01
bases. But again, you don't want to
1:08:02
rush these guys up. The Mets, I know Nelson
1:08:04
Figueroa, when we had them on last year, was praising the way
1:08:06
they were developing. My indoors.
1:08:08
It's still been still raw in some areas.
1:08:11
I think it's been mostly good, but not as good as it should be.
1:08:14
Thumb up my ass. All right, all right, let's talk
1:08:18
some football. There was a huge trade today.
1:08:20
The Jets have made a big deal. The Jets traded edge rusher
1:08:26
Jermaine Johnson to Titans for nose tackle to Vondre Sweat.
1:08:31
Sweat's got two more years left on his rookie contract to a
1:08:33
second round pick. It'll cost The Jets 1.7 million
1:08:37
against their cap. It saves them 13.4 million
1:08:41
against the cap. By trading Johnson in his fifth
1:08:43
year option on his first round contract, he gets reunited with
1:08:48
Bambi, Sala, Errol back in Tennessee.
1:08:54
How do you like that steal for? The Jets.
1:08:57
Well, I think it was a steal for The Jets.
1:08:59
They get a nose tackle. They they've had problems
1:09:02
stopping the run. This guy is going to be a big
1:09:04
part of their run stopping game in the future.
1:09:06
He's still a young player, has a lot to give to an Aaron Glenn
1:09:11
defence or a future of another defence if Aaron Glenn doesn't
1:09:15
work out over there because they have control of him.
1:09:18
And Jermaine Johnson was going to get traded at the trade
1:09:20
deadline last year if they were going to get the pieces or get
1:09:22
what they were asking for. So they were looking to move
1:09:25
Jermaine Johnson anyways. They didn't think that he was
1:09:27
going to be a part of the future of this organization, at least
1:09:30
with Aaron Glenn. I like Jermaine, I like what he
1:09:33
said. Go check out on his Twitter
1:09:35
page. He thanked all the Jet fans and
1:09:37
and New York fans for everything that they did for him.
1:09:39
He class act very well deserved. But Sweat, I think he's going to
1:09:43
fit very, very well in this defense.
1:09:46
I think they're going to rebuild this defense and free agency
1:09:48
this offseason. And now they save $13 million
1:09:52
and they don't have to overpay a nose tackle, which they've had
1:09:55
problems doing and finding over the last couple of years.
1:09:58
This guy is under control for the next two years.
1:10:00
Slam dunk. And by the way, Moji still, I
1:10:03
mean, everybody's questioning if Moji is going to be the guy, the
1:10:05
right guy. He's looked like a genius in the
1:10:08
last three moves he's made. Yeah, this is a second round
1:10:10
pick that a lot of people thought could have a first round
1:10:12
pick, obviously had the DUI or whatever was that made him
1:10:16
follow the second round. But he's big.
1:10:17
He's six 366 lbs. This is the guy that still has
1:10:20
two years left on his rookie deal.
1:10:21
Young enough where The Jets are still going to get some level of
1:10:24
upside. They cannot be a rotational
1:10:26
defensive tackle type thing with somebody that isn't as good as
1:10:29
Quinn Williams there. Now I see Quinn Williams
1:10:31
probably not, but he's still has enough upside to make that kind
1:10:33
of thing work on the Titans side.
1:10:35
They definitely need some edge pressure too.
1:10:36
I do like the move for them trying to get bring in a guy
1:10:38
that Sal is familiar with. Fish.
1:10:39
You want to know who their leading sack guy outside of
1:10:41
Jeffrey Simmons was for an edge rusher last year?
1:10:43
It was Giants legend Jihad Ward. Like that's how raw they are.
1:10:47
You also know that Jermaine Johnson just came back from an
1:10:50
Achilles tear and the only guy that came back from an Achilles
1:10:53
tear playing the same position he had was that was successful
1:10:57
is Suggs. I do not believe that this was a
1:11:00
good move for Tennessee and I'm not taking shots at The Jets and
1:11:04
I'm not taking shots at Jermaine Johnson.
1:11:06
I love him. I hope nothing but the best for
1:11:08
him. This is going to fail and it's
1:11:10
going to fail quickly because Robert AKA Bambi Sala is going
1:11:13
to fail as a head coach over there just like he did with the
1:11:16
New York Jets. Yes, Fisher.
1:11:17
And it's 8 kids, by the way. Eight kids.
1:11:20
Fisher is true. Jeffrey Simmons led the team
1:11:22
with 11 sacks. He was next with five.
1:11:25
It's crazy. Look, you need a nose tackle to
1:11:27
stop the run. It's something that they
1:11:29
struggled with last year. I think it's a smart move.
1:11:31
It's a thing they needed for an expiring contract that saves
1:11:34
money. But Errol, they're sitting at #2
1:11:37
in the draft. You get a choice now of Bane or
1:11:42
Bailey because it's not really, you know, it's really going to
1:11:45
be the, you want to play that 3-4, kind of like the heavier
1:11:49
guy. You know, it's not going to be
1:11:50
so much like an outside rusher. You know, they like to play
1:11:53
Johnson doing both. I think you need to have that
1:11:55
versatility in today's game. Bain certainly could be the guy.
1:12:00
What do you think? After hearing about the combine
1:12:04
today and what Reese did, I don't know now.
1:12:06
I mean, he just read he just ran a 4.46 as a pass rusher.
1:12:12
He put on some weight in the offseason and he believes he's
1:12:16
an edge rusher. A lot of people now I'm reading
1:12:18
that people think the way you look today, you look like
1:12:21
Michael Parsons. So I don't know.
1:12:23
Now, I think Reese is definitely involved in the conversation.
1:12:28
Do The Jets make Reese, you know, a defensive end or an edge
1:12:32
rusher? If he has that kind of speed and
1:12:35
that kind of torque, maybe they go that way.
1:12:37
But I I like Bane too. I love him.
1:12:39
Bailey, I love any one of these guys would be a great fit for
1:12:42
The Jets. I would rather Bane.
1:12:44
I would. But what Reese is doing today at
1:12:48
the combine and and really just looking like a super superstar,
1:12:54
it's going to be hard to pass up on a guy that can change your
1:12:57
defense for the better. Super versatile defense too,
1:12:59
which is what I think Aaron Glenn tried to do in Detroit and
1:13:03
tried to do with a lot of rotational defensive lineman
1:13:05
outside of Hutchins. Remember when Hutchinson was
1:13:07
hurt and he had that gruesome injury two years ago?
1:13:09
We thought the Lions defense would fall off a Cliff.
1:13:11
Speedy A 446. That is what wide receivers run.
1:13:18
Wide receivers run and he's 2. Elite wide receivers, yes, run
1:13:22
that kind. Of a speed and he ran that and
1:13:25
he's he's a guy that's 230 something pounds I mean come on
1:13:28
guys yeah you're you're that's. Ridiculous.
1:13:32
So the issue with Reese, you know, do you take a guy at 2 and
1:13:35
change his position? That's kind of wild.
1:13:37
You know he's going to have. To put up the real matter.
1:13:39
You know, if he's going to play that and he's at 2:30. 44630.
1:13:43
I know, but if he's at 2:30, you get if.
1:13:46
If one of those 300 something pound tackles gets their hands
1:13:48
on you, you're going down. Dude, Michael Parsons got it.
1:13:51
Michael Parsons, when he came in, when he came to the the
1:13:54
Cowboys, he was like 2. 15 lbs. He was 233.
1:13:57
To get 1015 lbs, he needs to get heavier, you know.
1:13:59
But again, if you're going to play off ball, that's one thing.
1:14:02
You know, I don't know what they'll do now.
1:14:03
When he was in Ohio State, an interview Reese gave, he said
1:14:07
that he was coached by Matt Patricia to be like Jamie
1:14:10
Collins for the Patriots, who was an All pro for a few years
1:14:13
back in that where he played inside linebacker.
1:14:16
He rushed off the edge to play so versatile that you don't know
1:14:19
where he's coming from. This guy would be like a Jamie
1:14:22
Collins on steroids if he's running a 446 scheme.
1:14:26
Versatility might excite some defensive coordinators, but
1:14:29
speedy, you tell me. It reminds me of a linebacker
1:14:31
named Isaiah Simmons also. Who I was a big chance at the
1:14:35
time. Who I was a big fan of because
1:14:37
he ran like a 446 or something at the combine and then he
1:14:40
couldn't play because he didn't have a real position.
1:14:42
I don't think Reese is like that.
1:14:44
But at the same time, when you know Bane is probably going to
1:14:48
be a freaking great player by the way, I wonder what choice
1:14:50
you. Make.
1:14:51
By the way, at the combine, he weighed in at 2:43.
1:14:54
So I take back. That's pretty good.
1:14:56
Yeah, he's 64, 243. That's what he weighed into
1:15:00
today. So just so everybody knows, so.
1:15:03
He might be going to. He's going to.
1:15:05
Yeah, again, you can't be going to 6 foot 4 already with enough
1:15:08
strength. And again, that kind of burst
1:15:10
off the line of scrimmage is already going to be a big thing.
1:15:12
That's. What they're saying right now, I
1:15:13
think. You weighed in.
1:15:14
The versatility is still going to be an added bonus, too,
1:15:16
because that was the same thing last year with Abdul Carter and
1:15:18
he went in the top three. And Reese is probably a better,
1:15:21
like more explosive raw pass rusher than Carter is.
1:15:25
I don't know, maybe more explosive.
1:15:26
I think the Carter's got the speed, but let's talk about the
1:15:29
other. Pass.
1:15:30
You're going to tell me? The Carter answer going to get.
1:15:31
Hold on, hold on, You think Carter?
1:15:33
Carter is the fastest guy, yeah. He's not faster.
1:15:36
He did not run. The league he led the league in,
1:15:40
he didn't think he ran. He.
1:15:41
Led the league in quick pressures I'm.
1:15:43
Just. First off, 446, the 40 yard dash
1:15:46
is not the measure. I'm just saying lineman.
1:15:48
I'm just saying when you're looking at what he just did at
1:15:51
the Combine, it's not. I'm sure the numbers for the
1:15:54
thing he did is great too. I'm just saying like the the
1:15:58
quick pressure thing with being able to beat your man, like they
1:16:02
look at that as like the new like elite stat you want to see
1:16:04
for a pass rusher is a rookie and not even playing like pass
1:16:08
rusher for the whole season. Carter led the league.
1:16:11
So there's there's like a lot. Giant fan.
1:16:14
People excited. Giant fan, ladies and gentlemen,
1:16:17
giant fan. You know, but you know who
1:16:19
they're not excited about Errol. They're not excited about Cave
1:16:22
on Thibodeau because Cave on Thibodeau, everyone's saying, is
1:16:25
all but out the door from New York right now.
1:16:28
Connor Hughes, SNY Giants are listening to trade offers for
1:16:32
Thibodeau. He's almost guaranteed to be
1:16:35
gone. They're going to restructure
1:16:36
Dexter Lawrence's contract. Like I said, probably.
1:16:40
They said it came out today that Dexter Lawrence fought an elbow
1:16:43
injury last season that they kind of hushed up that he played
1:16:47
through. But the Ravens, Jaguars,
1:16:49
Packers, Lions and Bears are teams that have expressed a lot
1:16:53
of interest in trading for Thibodeau.
1:16:55
The ranges are a third round pick for Thibodeau would
1:16:59
probably get the job done right off the bat.
1:17:02
And some people are talking, you know, similarly, they should do
1:17:05
a player for player deal just like The Jets just did for
1:17:08
Jermaine Johnson and get a guy at a position maybe like middle
1:17:11
linebacker that the Giants need. Maybe it's not as valuable as an
1:17:15
edge rusher that they can kind of swing a similar deal.
1:17:17
I'd never liked Kevon Thibodeau. I never liked him.
1:17:20
I I I remember when he was drafted.
1:17:22
He was Shane's first draft draft here wasn't wasn't even first
1:17:26
draft here for Joe Shane, him and Neil.
1:17:29
Evan Neil is not going to be a part of this organization moving
1:17:32
forward and either is Kayvon Thibodeau.
1:17:34
You got two guys that were drafted in the top ten.
1:17:37
Look across look what he's doing right now.
1:17:39
He just won a Super Bowl with Seattle, which by the way, the
1:17:42
Giants could have drafted, but they decided to go with Evan
1:17:45
Neil from Alabama. How did that work out?
1:17:48
Kayvon Thibodeau, he's, he's been up and down as a New York
1:17:51
Giant. He didn't fit there.
1:17:52
He didn't fit the at any point with any of the defenses that he
1:17:56
ran. The Giants are going to get a
1:17:57
third round draft pick for me. I don't think for the New York
1:18:01
Giants, Kayvon Thibodeau was ever going to be a part of this
1:18:04
organization after his fourth year.
1:18:07
I think that the Giants will move them.
1:18:09
They'll get 1/3 or 1/4 for him. I don't think they get it any
1:18:11
more than that. Maybe goes to another team.
1:18:14
There are players that have gone.
1:18:16
I mean, remember Farrier, he left the New York Jets, he went
1:18:19
to see, he went to Pittsburgh and became an All All pro
1:18:24
defensive lineman, a linebacker. Maybe.
1:18:28
Maybe that is what happened to Kayvon Thibodeau.
1:18:30
He goes somewhere else. How about there's a guy that
1:18:33
played for The Jets and the Giants, went to Seattle and
1:18:35
became an All pro Π type of player in Williams.
1:18:39
Maybe that happens with him. He goes somewhere else and
1:18:42
really develops his skill. I just don't think it's going or
1:18:45
ever was going to work with New York.
1:18:47
Too much pressure and too many bright lights and and really the
1:18:51
fans being at him when he doesn't do anything in games and
1:18:53
man, he disappears in games. Yeah, I always thought he had
1:18:57
the raw talent to do that. But Fish, I was talking to you
1:18:59
earlier about it like he'd never really developed that move set
1:19:01
you would want for a guy that with his the level of
1:19:03
athleticism. Now his problem at the beginning
1:19:05
of his career, he was his power rushing game was not as strong
1:19:07
and his run defense was struggled.
1:19:09
Now run defense got good, but I think he still has issues with
1:19:11
the move. Said he still has issues with
1:19:13
the awareness. And now with Giants having like
1:19:15
you said, Abdul Carter developing in the second-half of
1:19:17
the year and obviously still having Brian Burns, it seems
1:19:19
like cap space wise, he's definitely out the door.
1:19:21
The other one I know you mentioned to me, Fish was
1:19:23
Tremaine Edmonds A1 for one swap as a possibility.
1:19:26
What about for the Packers? Quay Walker as an option of
1:19:29
that, too, because he's got an expiring contract.
1:19:31
They can't afford him. You, you giant fans, don't get
1:19:34
it in your heads. If they bring in this guy or
1:19:37
they bring in another guy, Walker's going to want money.
1:19:40
That's one. And Dexter Loris, even if he
1:19:42
takes somewhat of a pay cut, how much money do you think he's
1:19:45
going to take? He's not.
1:19:46
Maybe. Drops.
1:19:47
It's not going to be a pay cut. They're going to give him a
1:19:49
raise. They're going to give him an
1:19:50
extension and lower the cap number this year and do the void
1:19:53
year. They're not.
1:19:54
They're not. That's what they're going to do.
1:19:56
They're not going to lower his. They're not going to have a lot
1:19:57
of money to work with, so I don't know where you think
1:20:00
they're going to get Walker. He's going to want big bucks,
1:20:03
so. Well, Thibodeau has a big
1:20:05
contract, so if you move Thibodeau, then like it kind of
1:20:07
matches up a little bit. What's his big contract?
1:20:10
What's he making? It's the.
1:20:11
Same 5th year option as what's his face Jermaine Johnson.
1:20:16
I think he's a little higher because he was a top five pick,
1:20:18
but he's 14. It's slightly higher, so it's
1:20:21
like 1516, you know what I mean? So it's like one of those that
1:20:26
you can kind of fit a better guy.
1:20:27
But Speedy, I don't think they're going to do.
1:20:29
I think more with what Errol's saying where they're going to
1:20:31
try to save salary at this position, whether they draft
1:20:34
somebody. I mean, the Texas Tech kid,
1:20:36
Rodriguez, as they say, it's like a second, third round pick.
1:20:39
I'd be very interested in that kid, to be honest with you.
1:20:42
By the way, by the way, Dom says 14.7 according to spot track.
1:20:48
So thank you, Dom. Yeah.
1:20:50
So yeah, around 15,000,000 and it's a, it's a guy that I, I was
1:20:55
excited about and he just, you're right, he just was more
1:20:58
flash than anything. Else remember when the.
1:21:00
Defensive ends were better. Remember when he got, he had
1:21:03
those special made headsets when he, when he was coming into the
1:21:06
league, it was just about when he was going to get drafted and
1:21:08
he had these like I, I, I think it was Doctor Dre Beats, you
1:21:12
know, headsets that he had made for him and his colors.
1:21:15
I had just, I, I'm sorry, I never ever liked Thibodeau,
1:21:20
never ever did coming from Oregon and we've how many Oregon
1:21:23
guys that we've had on the show and they loved him and I, I told
1:21:27
him straight out I'd like, I don't like him.
1:21:28
I don't like, oh, you don't know how nice of a guy he is.
1:21:31
I don't nice guys finish last, as we all know, I've been a nice
1:21:35
guy and I've, I wouldn't say finish last, but I sometimes
1:21:39
think that I have. So there you go, A.
1:21:41
Little bit of hockey. So the Sabers played the Devils
1:21:45
last night or is it 2 night things last night and it was a
1:21:49
real like coming out party for Jack Hughes back home as the
1:21:53
Olympic hero gave a speech to the crowd.
1:21:57
I'm so proud and so happy. The men's and women's USA Hockey
1:21:59
teams brought gold back to United States.
1:22:01
He brought H Thompson off of the Buffalo bench.
1:22:05
USA chance. It was really beautiful.
1:22:08
Quinn was there too. Quinn Hughes in the stands with
1:22:11
the family, you know, it's and she won the silver medal, as you
1:22:15
know, when she was on the women's team back in 1992.
1:22:18
It was one of the most phenomenal female hockey players
1:22:22
in the late 80s, early 90s. So that's really the only thing
1:22:26
I got for the for hockey for that side of it.
1:22:29
Braden Schneider might be traded by the Rangers, probably because
1:22:33
Drury doesn't want to re sign them because it wasn't his
1:22:35
original pick. He's he's not having a great
1:22:38
year, but no one is on that team.
1:22:39
And the Islanders have some trade targets.
1:22:42
Errol, it's you know, second-half of the season they
1:22:45
got 69 points. They're third in the metro, one
1:22:48
point behind the Penguins, 2 ahead of the capitals on the
1:22:51
fringe right now of getting that seed.
1:22:54
And then many reports are linking them to get in some
1:22:56
scoring on the wing. The Blues have a couple of
1:22:59
wingers, Thomas and Kairu. Predators have Bunting and
1:23:04
Forsberg might be available, especially with Barry Trotz over
1:23:09
there. There might be a connection
1:23:11
between the the Old Islanders coach and the Canucks have a
1:23:15
couple of wingers as well, a Bowser, Garland and a center.
1:23:19
Peterson's probably available. Who was going to have the
1:23:22
biggest contract of anyone the Islanders would try to add.
1:23:26
First of all, congratulations to Jack Hughes and, and celebrating
1:23:30
and what he said about the New Jersey fans and how he's happy
1:23:33
to be there and playing for such great fans.
1:23:35
And I I've been to New Jersey, I've been to a devil game, even
1:23:39
though sometimes you think that it's a dead place to go.
1:23:41
New Jersey has great devil fans. They they pack out those
1:23:45
stadiums, they back out those games, especially when you have
1:23:48
a young superstar like a Jack Hughes, they're just not going
1:23:51
to do anything this year. Jack has been out for a
1:23:53
significant amount of time this year, but it was fun to watch
1:23:56
Tage Thompson, his family was there, the crowd going wild,
1:23:59
everybody screaming USAUSA. It's a great feeling.
1:24:02
I had goosebumps watching it. So I love Jack Hughes.
1:24:05
I think he's a young stud. He's going to be the face of
1:24:07
United States hockey for the next two, maybe even 3 Olympics.
1:24:13
So it was fun to watch. It was really, really great to
1:24:16
watch it. And, and shout out to Dave
1:24:18
Thompson too. Love the kid.
1:24:20
As far as the Rangers, I don't think they trade Schneider.
1:24:24
It's more Vincent Trochick. That's what everybody keeps
1:24:27
talking about. Trochick is the guy that
1:24:29
everybody's going to be looking at and he's the, he's going to
1:24:32
be a guy that the Rangers can cash in on.
1:24:34
They can get a lot back for a guy like Vincent Trochick,
1:24:37
Braden Schneider. I I think they hold on to him at
1:24:41
least until the offseason and maybe they move him and maybe
1:24:45
Chris Jury screws it up even more And, and trades a lot, a
1:24:48
lot of other pieces in the offseason.
1:24:49
It makes the Rangers look like an AHL team.
1:24:53
I mean, he's been absolutely putrid as far as the Islanders
1:24:56
are concerned. Remember this name and I think
1:24:59
it's going to happen. It's Vancouver and it's
1:25:01
Peterson. And I think Peterson makes a lot
1:25:04
of sense. Him and Paul Horvat play
1:25:05
together, play together over there with Vancouver.
1:25:08
They played on the same line. Peterson has not been the same
1:25:12
goal scorer since Bo Horvat has left.
1:25:15
And this guy at one point of his career was a 4040 goal scorer.
1:25:19
I think Peterson is a slam dunk for the Islanders.
1:25:22
If you're willing to give up a first round draft pick for a guy
1:25:25
that's under control. He's 27 years old and is he's
1:25:28
still a young stud in this league that could be a star and
1:25:31
an offensive option for the Islanders.
1:25:33
It's Peterson. Stay away from the other.
1:25:35
I like the Saint Louis Blue kids I but I think Peterson's the
1:25:39
guy. It's the home run.
1:25:40
Yeah. I worry about with two guys on
1:25:42
that list is Forsberg and Robert Thomas with the Blues, both
1:25:45
injury prone. I know you might get a discount
1:25:47
with Barry Trotsview trade with Nashville, maybe go for bunting
1:25:49
in that case, maybe the combination is Patterson, you
1:25:51
get a center and then Bunting, you get a winger who's had some
1:25:54
good scoring flashes in Toronto, did pretty well last year with
1:25:56
Carolina, but not enough where they're able to keep him on the
1:25:58
contract that he wanted. And now Nashville been
1:26:00
disappointing. But yeah, I think he, Patterson,
1:26:02
someone's kind of disinterested in Vancouver research.
1:26:05
Who talked about that last year with JT Miller?
1:26:06
We talked about it last year with a lot of other players.
1:26:08
They just really falling off to rock bottom.
1:26:10
I think it's a nice fresh start with the Islanders.
1:26:11
The money make it work. One last thing to talk about,
1:26:15
and that is the rematch between UConn and St.
1:26:18
John's. That went very differently.
1:26:21
Now, if you remember, St. John's upset UConn by about 8:00
1:26:24
or 9 points. Not the same today.
1:26:27
That game was at MSG. This game was embarrassing 72 to
1:26:32
40. Rick Pitino's largest defeat
1:26:35
since becoming St. John's head coach.
1:26:37
They missed 12 straight shots in the first half and their last 24
1:26:41
shots of the game, shooting 20% from the field.
1:26:47
Tyrus Reed Junior 20 points for UConn with eight boards and six
1:26:50
blocks. Caravan 14 points, four boards,
1:26:53
2 assists for the Huskies. Hoop happens.
1:26:57
I'm not going to say it, I I want to say it, but it is
1:27:00
absolute. Hold on.
1:27:02
I'm trying to find a Nifan take on here.
1:27:04
There it is. Ludu.
1:27:05
That's it, there it is. Ludu.
1:27:08
Here. Here's the facts.
1:27:10
I I know it's a game that you want to you want to get back.
1:27:13
I know Pitino after the game said his piece.
1:27:16
My team didn't play well. I didn't coach well.
1:27:18
We got to play better. That's every coach.
1:27:21
Every great coach is going to say that and it's going to give
1:27:23
you a take. This is a team that won 13 games
1:27:25
in a row. It's one game.
1:27:28
Yeah, UConn made him look like a, you know, a peewee basketball
1:27:32
team. They did.
1:27:33
And Danny Hurley won back-to-back national
1:27:36
championships. And this guys one of the best
1:27:39
coaches in all of college basketball and he's got a great
1:27:42
recruiting class. This UConn team is one of the
1:27:45
best in the nation. If they meet in at any point in
1:27:49
the tournament, any point and they might win in the the
1:27:52
championship game, they might meet meet in the Big East
1:27:56
tournament, the Big East tournament.
1:27:57
So they might see each other again.
1:27:59
Best believe this won't happen again.
1:28:02
Rick Pitino does not see games like this over and over and over
1:28:06
again. This is a guy that's one of the
1:28:08
best coaches in college basketball history.
1:28:11
This is a born winner. He is going to make sure that
1:28:14
his team feels it. I've seen what he did his first
1:28:16
year. They had a camera.
1:28:17
They had a St. John's, had a documentary for
1:28:22
Paramount, had him following Pitino all last season.
1:28:26
I think it was last season, the season before I think it was
1:28:28
last season. And Pitino was very hard on his
1:28:30
players last year, very, very hard on his players.
1:28:33
This is a guy that knows how to push the right buttons.
1:28:37
I believe St. John's will be fine.
1:28:39
This is a wake up call for some of their players, veteran
1:28:42
players, older players to play harder, play better and don't
1:28:46
miss shots which they were missing a lot of them.
1:28:49
Yeah, we talked about it a few weeks ago, weeks ago with Dan
1:28:50
Hurley getting his wake up call on the defensive side where
1:28:53
their defense was the stronger unit for the team.
1:28:55
And now you look at Saint John's of this perspective, their
1:28:58
defense has always been strong. Now they have 72 points to a
1:29:00
team playing with a sense of urge with UConn.
1:29:03
UConn had some Dodds recently. Even some of the games they won,
1:29:05
they weren't playing as well as they should have.
1:29:06
And all streaks for our mental coming in you.
1:29:08
It's very hard in college basketball or really in any
1:29:11
sport to just have an ongoing streak and have it sustainable
1:29:14
into the Big East tournament and into the NCAA tournament, which
1:29:16
obviously the bigger ceiling for a program like Saint John's.
1:29:18
UConn has a championship pedigree.
1:29:20
They showed it there. 40 points is alarming a lot.
1:29:23
It's one game like they they're not going to let it drag on
1:29:26
them. Pitino's too good of a coach.
1:29:27
Jesus, I mean, could you fill the the lines as fast as you
1:29:31
did? I mean a little bit slower.
1:29:34
I, I didn't even understand what you were saying.
1:29:36
Jesus, throw me off. All right, that's it for the
1:29:43
carousel. We'll take a spin again next
1:29:45
week. Well, we took a spin on that
1:29:47
one, and I definitely spin backwards with Speedy's notion
1:29:51
of words and presentation, of just spitting it out and making
1:29:55
me sick to my stomach. I was like, it was like one of
1:29:58
those, like, what do they call those, the horse things?
1:30:02
What are the carousel? Yeah, the carousel.
1:30:04
There it is. That's a normal point.
1:30:07
Could you speak a little slower so I can understand?
1:30:09
You Oh, we have another segment and a guest coming up.
1:30:11
Well, oh, so that's what it is. So every time you speak, it's
1:30:18
every time I hear you, I'm like, woof, woof, woof, woof.
1:30:21
It's like, it's like a fastball coming at me and I'm not even
1:30:23
seeing it, you know? Well, that's all I'm going to
1:30:26
say. Anyways, We call this all righty
1:30:27
then. All righty then.
1:30:32
All righty. All.
1:30:35
Righty then all. Righty then, that's my face.
1:30:38
Right there. That's my face.
1:30:40
Every time I hear Speedy just to talk, I'm like, I'm like, what
1:30:45
the hell? What the hell you know.
1:30:48
Jesus. Well, all righty then.
1:30:50
Tonight we're just going to go into an article Errol wrote.
1:30:52
This one is about the USA gold medal win in the Olympics.
1:30:58
US snowed in. In Canada snowed out.
1:31:03
Let's remove this and put up the article.
1:31:05
USA wins gold while New York was getting turned into a Slurpee.
1:31:08
Yes, if you're not living in New York, pay attention.
1:31:12
Sunday morning, 8:10 AM on the East Coast, the last day of the
1:31:15
Winter Olympics outside New York, the worst Blizzard of the
1:31:18
year was actively trying to relink at my house to
1:31:21
Connecticut. And inside history, Team USA
1:31:25
just defeated Canada to win its first Olympic gold medal since
1:31:28
1980. Yes, the first one since the
1:31:31
legendary Miracle on Ice. Now listen, I wasn't allowed to
1:31:34
see Mike Eruzione and the boys shocked Soviets, Soviet Union
1:31:37
men, national ice hockey team. But like every Red Blood in
1:31:41
America hockey fan, I've studied that team the way people study
1:31:44
the subruder film and this team that Bill Guerin put together.
1:31:47
Youth, speed, hard and just enough swagger to walk into a
1:31:52
gold medal game against Canada and say, respectfully, we've got
1:31:56
this. No Crosby, no overtime trauma.
1:32:00
And look, with all do love and do love and respect to Canadian
1:32:04
royalty, No Sidney Crosby in the gold medal game, then no
1:32:08
overtime flashbacks, no national PTSD, no Golden Bowl sequel.
1:32:13
Just vibes, speedy. All right, we'll start.
1:32:18
We got a mixed bag of comments here.
1:32:19
We'll start with one that was kind of salty.
1:32:22
This is Darth Devastator. US got very lucky in that game.
1:32:26
Thank you, Darth Devastator, for devastating my thoughts of this
1:32:30
gold medal. I'm lucky luck doesn't have
1:32:33
anything to do with it. They had great gold ending and a
1:32:36
guy stood on his head. Over the years Canada got lucky
1:32:40
against us. I remember when Sidney Crosby
1:32:42
won in overtime against Team USA in a goal that honestly was
1:32:47
lucky. I mean, you're going to sit here
1:32:49
and you're going to tell me that Canada hasn't been lucky over
1:32:51
the years against Team USA? Luck has nothing to do with it.
1:32:54
It's all about getting that goal, getting that opening pass
1:32:57
and putting the ball, putting the puck right in the net.
1:33:00
Luck had nothing to do with it. All right, one of the more
1:33:02
positive comments, Math nerd 61. Can we give a shout out to Jack
1:33:05
Greenski for his game? Winning assists, body control
1:33:08
and sheer will to get to the puck to Jack Hughes Should be
1:33:10
getting more praise than it's been getting.
1:33:12
Thank you. What is it Math.
1:33:13
Math Nerd 61. Math nerd, thank you for giving
1:33:16
us your take. I agree where where in Ski was
1:33:19
really really good throughout the tournament.
1:33:21
He was the second best defenseman offensively on this
1:33:24
roster, right behind Mr. Quinn Hughes, who was absolutely
1:33:29
unbelievable. His brother gets the
1:33:31
game-winning goal, scoring, you know, tribute, but Warinsky was
1:33:35
a part of that. He he was the one that made that
1:33:37
pass. He was the one that put his head
1:33:38
up and got the pass right. Through the.
1:33:41
Wickets of the defensive player and got it to Jack Hughes and
1:33:45
pinned it right behind Mr. Pennington.
1:33:49
Pinnington. I called him Pennington because
1:33:51
he pinned it right behind him. I can't stand him.
1:33:54
I couldn't stand him when I was over there at the Stanley Cup
1:33:55
finals trying to interview him when they won the Stanley Cup
1:33:58
with Saint Louis Blues. And I love the fact that he put
1:34:01
the puck right behind him to win the gold.
1:34:03
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the amazing USA glory gold.
1:34:09
I call it the glory hole goal. That's what I call.
1:34:12
It I'm sure you do all right. This one, this one sounding like
1:34:15
a Toronto Maple Leafs fan that's still living on 13 Stanley Cups
1:34:18
that are all in the original 6 era.
1:34:19
This is a lab tech. 7 gold medals to actually beat can.
1:34:23
What was that? Again, 7 gold medals to actually
1:34:25
be Canada. Yeah, 7 gold.
1:34:27
Oh, so thank you, a lab for making me even more sicker.
1:34:31
First of all, I, I don't want to sit here and say that Canada
1:34:35
hasn't been the most dominant hockey program in professional
1:34:39
in in the hockey world. We all know they are.
1:34:42
Since the Soviet Union, it's been all Canada.
1:34:44
All the greatest and the best hockey players come from Canada.
1:34:48
And I'm sure Neil Smith would agree with me on that when he
1:34:50
comes in, there's no question. But here's the facts.
1:34:54
It doesn't matter how many they've won.
1:34:56
It matters what they have lost. And yes, ladies and gentlemen,
1:35:00
2026, the gold medal winners of the men's Olympic hockey is not
1:35:07
Canada. It's not Connor McDavid who
1:35:10
hasn't won a gold medal and hasn't won a championship.
1:35:14
Ladies and gentlemen, it goes to the one, It goes to the only the
1:35:18
one we call us. All right, next one from a
1:35:21
peanut brittle latte. An interesting 1.
1:35:23
Connor Hollabucks is not just a goalie, he's the Secretary of
1:35:26
Defense. And Peanut, thank you for giving
1:35:30
us your shout out. We love the take.
1:35:32
Secretary of Defense, I don't know about that, but I there's
1:35:36
no doubt about it that what he did was amazing.
1:35:40
I, I that save against Tames of the Devin Tames do what really
1:35:44
makes me sick. This guy made the Canadian team
1:35:47
and by the way, he was drafted by the Islanders and the
1:35:49
Islanders let him go to Colorado for nothing.
1:35:52
They got nothing for Devin Dames.
1:35:54
Makes me sick. All right, last one, this was an
1:35:56
interesting 1. So Connor McDavid, who was the
1:35:59
tournament MVP, he this guy Pirates say R said McDavid cost
1:36:05
Canada that game. The back check was very weak.
1:36:09
Pirate. Stop being a pirate.
1:36:11
All right? I I mean, what are you on drugs?
1:36:13
I mean, this guy pretty much was the best player on ice every
1:36:17
time he was out there. I mean he was doing minute and
1:36:20
1/2 shifts and he was coming out after the 2nd shift, but the guy
1:36:24
was playing practically the whole game.
1:36:27
I don't know about you pirate. How many times have you skated
1:36:30
on the ice? Do you think you could do a 32nd
1:36:32
shift? Then again do a minute and 32nd
1:36:34
shift as much as he did throughout that game.
1:36:37
This guy is the best player in the world and to take shots at
1:36:39
him and say that he's the reason why because I'm back checking.
1:36:42
You can back check my foot in your ass, sorry.
1:36:46
Maybe we should have Karlie McDavid skate on a peg like
1:36:48
versus you on a skate. What?
1:36:50
Kind of take is that Connor McDavid is the reason why Team
1:36:54
Canada didn't win the gold medal.
1:36:56
What are they nuts? I, it had nothing to do with
1:37:00
Connor McDavid, ladies and gentlemen, nothing to do with
1:37:04
Connor McDavid. He played his ass off in the
1:37:07
game. And I'll tell you this right
1:37:08
now, on any given day, Canada probably wins that game.
1:37:11
But Team USA three on three, they, they made the moves, they
1:37:15
made the plays that they needed to do to win that game.
1:37:18
And congratulations to Team USA, very well deserved.
1:37:21
And, and by the way, maybe the only championship Sullivan will
1:37:25
win in the next 5 or 6 years because it's not going to be
1:37:28
with the Rangers. I know Neil's going to love that
1:37:32
one. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
1:37:37
my deuce of the day. The deuce of the day you log.
1:37:42
Not a log I don't have a log, but well ladies and gentlemen,
1:37:53
as you want to well hold on I'm trying to get this smell my ass
1:37:56
there it is You want to smell my ass This is something that
1:37:59
really stinks and if I had the button to press when it comes to
1:38:03
the fart sounds this is just as bad as this one Jonte Porter is
1:38:07
banned from the NBA, so you know what he decides to sign with
1:38:11
who? The USB LS Super Hawks Who?
1:38:15
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Jonte Porter, who was banned, which if
1:38:21
if he's banned, everybody in the NBA should be banned because I'm
1:38:24
sure they bet on basketball one way or another.
1:38:27
He was obviously gambling in 2024 and currently awaiting
1:38:30
sentencing and pleading guilty for related federal charges, is
1:38:34
planning to play in an upstart pro basketball league, the
1:38:39
Seattle Super Hawks. Well, it's not called the
1:38:42
Seattle SuperSonics, so why don't we call them the Super
1:38:45
Hawks? This is horrible and I feel bad
1:38:48
for Jonte Porter. I, I, I understand that he got
1:38:51
caught. He did cheat.
1:38:52
He did do something that the NBA does not allow and professional
1:38:55
sports does not allow betting on their sports game.
1:38:58
But to go and play outside of the NBA because you, you're
1:39:02
obviously scraping for pennies or scraping for money or trying
1:39:06
to believe that you're going to be something in an elite that
1:39:08
nobody's even heard of only says that you're reaching.
1:39:11
This is a horrible move for Jonte Porter and it just shows
1:39:15
you that he's never going to be back in the NBA.
1:39:18
So my deuce of the day goes to Jonte Porter.
1:39:21
What are you drinking or what are you eating?
1:39:24
I farted. Oh.
1:39:25
Well, that's all I'm going to say about that anyways, when we
1:39:28
come back. This guy's been on a show plenty
1:39:31
of times. We love him.
1:39:33
He's one of the best sports analyst in the game.
1:39:37
I, I really do believe should be a Hall of Famer, big fan of his.
1:39:41
And he's the one that brought a championship home to New York.
1:39:45
No, not the Islanders, not the Knicks, because the Knicks
1:39:47
haven't won since 1973. No, the 94 New York Rangers,
1:39:53
we're not hearing 1950. Whatever the hell it is we're
1:39:56
not hearing anymore, now we're hearing 1994.
1:40:00
Chris Jury, eat your heart out because this guy actually wants
1:40:04
something. Ladies and gentlemen, we would
1:40:05
be talking to for Rangers and Islanders Stanley Cup winning
1:40:09
general manager Neil Smith. But our sports minute with the
1:40:13
fish. This is the Jabba and the Mouth
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1:40:21
Aaron Fishman here with your sportsman.
1:40:23
I got a couple of stories before we get into the scores this
1:40:25
evening. Reports in the ESPN Jeff Passen
1:40:28
on Tuesday say the Atlanta Braves and veteran starting
1:40:30
pitcher Chris Sale have agreed on a one year contract extension
1:40:33
worth $27 million. He is.
1:40:37
There's also a $30 million option for 2028 with no buyout.
1:40:41
Sale, who won the NL Sai young back in 2024, had another strong
1:40:44
season in 2025, resurrecting his career after arm trouble,
1:40:48
limiting him significantly in the last three years of his
1:40:51
contract with the Red Sox. A RIB injury limited Sale to
1:40:54
only 125 2/3 innings in 2025, but he was excellent with the 25
1:40:59
ADRA and 165 strikeouts despite the team struggling around them
1:41:03
with injuries to frontline starter Spencer Schwellenbach,
1:41:06
Hurst and Waldrap keeping Sail in the fold, especially with his
1:41:09
refound form, makes tons of sense for the Braves heading
1:41:12
into the 2026 season. Sail for himself is entering his
1:41:15
17th season in the league and has a career three O 1 ERA with
1:41:20
25179 strikeouts in 2084 innings.
1:41:24
Won the World Series with Boston in 2018.
1:41:27
Couple more years playing at this level and Sail may be very
1:41:30
close to punching his ticket to Cooperstown.
1:41:33
In an interesting story into ESPN on Tuesday, the United
1:41:36
Football League announced ahead of the start of their 2026
1:41:39
season that there are two significant rule changes being
1:41:42
added to how they do the show. First, unlike the NFL who is
1:41:46
unlikely to even bring up a vote for it this year, the UFL has
1:41:51
banned the tush push, which we know helped the Eagles win their
1:41:53
Super Bowl 2 years ago. But the biggest change is
1:41:56
something we haven't seen in professional sports really since
1:41:59
the ABA merged with the NBA. Before Doctor J and those ABA
1:42:04
guys came over to the NBA, there was No 3 point shot.
1:42:07
When that change, so did the game forever and most people
1:42:10
feel for the better. While in the same vein, the UFL
1:42:13
has decided that field goals from 60 plus yards out are going
1:42:17
to be worth 4 points instead of three.
1:42:21
This idea could drastically change how strategy works in the
1:42:24
game and adds a whole new level of excitement to, let's face it,
1:42:28
probably a pretty lackluster football product.
1:42:30
If the NFL adopted this rule in the past two seasons, there
1:42:33
would have been 16144 point field goals kicked in 37
1:42:38
attempted kicks, just under a 50% success rate.
1:42:42
The coin flip. To win the game the NFL will
1:42:44
surely be playing, paying close attention to what could be the
1:42:47
equivalent of doing what adding the three-point shot did for the
1:42:51
NBA, especially with kickers like Cowboys phenom Brandon
1:42:54
Aubrey. Who wants to get paid more?
1:42:55
Who would have had five of those 4 pointers all by himself?
1:42:59
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He is a Ranger by heart, but an Islander in my heart.
1:45:28
Ladies and gentlemen, we are now talking to former Rangers and
1:45:32
Islanders Stanley Cup winning General manager, the one that we
1:45:37
love from the 94 New York Ranger Championship team.
1:45:41
Who built it, who traded for Mark Messier?
1:45:44
Who decided to trade my favorite player away, the 1:00 we call
1:45:48
Neil Smith. Neil, what's up, my friend?
1:45:51
I'm good, Harold, Who was your favorite player that I traded
1:45:54
away? John Van Beesbrook, I told you
1:45:56
that. Oh, that's right, That's right.
1:45:58
I thought you were going to say Mike Gartner, and I had Mike
1:46:01
Gartner on the show the other day.
1:46:02
So I said, I said, Mike, you know, I've taken more crap for
1:46:07
trading you than everybody. And everybody says I wish you
1:46:10
hadn't traded Gardner. I said I wish I hadn't too, but
1:46:14
you got to do what you got to do.
1:46:15
Yeah, it's called Mike Keenan. That's what you got to do.
1:46:17
You got to deal with that guy. I mean, and we're working on
1:46:20
getting Mike on the show. That would be interesting.
1:46:23
It would be really interesting to get Neil Smith and Mike
1:46:26
Keenan on at the same time. Could you imagine what you think
1:46:29
that would work? I don't think so.
1:46:30
I think before you know it, I see Neil trying to grab and try
1:46:34
to jump through a screen and choke Mike Keenan before it even
1:46:37
happens. So I I don't think it'll work.
1:46:39
But Neil, I want to get into a lot of hockey with you because
1:46:43
to me, if there's anybody that knows more about hockey than
1:46:47
you, I don't know who it is. You've been around great hockey
1:46:51
teams, great hockey players, the Canadians falling short for gold
1:46:56
and, and the United States finally doing something that a
1:46:59
team has not done on the United States men's hockey team, has
1:47:02
not done since 1980, Miracle on Ice.
1:47:05
What were your thoughts on that goal by Jack Hughes, as they
1:47:09
call the golden goal? What did you think?
1:47:12
And do you think that the United States played hard enough to win
1:47:16
that game? Yeah.
1:47:17
Yeah, I do. I, I think what happens in these
1:47:20
games is sometimes a goaltender can completely win the game for
1:47:25
you. And I, I got to say, I think
1:47:26
that Conor Hallibuck won the gold medal for the United States
1:47:29
because he was unbelievable the way he held Canada out of the
1:47:34
out of scoring and, and they should have been up 3 or 4 to
1:47:37
one at some point during that game.
1:47:39
It should never have gotten no overtime.
1:47:41
But then when it gets to overtime in the Olympic
1:47:43
Committee decided to go three on three, which I don't understand
1:47:47
because they were going three on three for 20 minute periods.
1:47:51
They said if they if it gets through 20 minutes and it's
1:47:54
still tied, we'll go another 20 minutes at three on three.
1:47:57
Well then go 5 on five, do a real game.
1:47:59
Don't do skills competition. But anyway, you know what, it
1:48:04
was fair and square. Jack Hughes got that goal.
1:48:07
They got caught up the ice. The Canadians did on McDavid
1:48:11
sort of missed on that shot going up and then the US got the
1:48:15
puck, got it up to great defenseman for Columbus, Zach
1:48:19
Warrensky got the puck up to him.
1:48:22
He made a fabulous play to Jack Hughes and Jack Hughes is a goal
1:48:25
scorer. I mean, we all, here's the play
1:48:27
here. Look at this, Warrensky goes
1:48:29
after it, somehow McDavid loses it and then he gets it right
1:48:32
across and Jack Hughes makes no mistake.
1:48:34
So you know what, great on them, great for hockey.
1:48:37
It's the whole thing is fabulous, I think.
1:48:41
How about Jack Hughes getting his teeth knocked out and and
1:48:45
and pretty much said he was he swallowed one of his teeth is
1:48:48
half a tooth and then getting up bleeding.
1:48:51
Peterson, I think on Canada hit him and he had a 4 minute minor
1:48:55
and a major, I'm sorry, 4 minute major and then the he goes, he
1:49:00
goes into the box. the United States team does not score in
1:49:05
the 1st 2 minutes and then he gets a penalty.
1:49:07
He goes into the box. You get scared and then the the
1:49:11
United States kill the penalty and it goes to overtime.
1:49:13
I mean, it all fell well, well, but the thing that stood out to
1:49:16
me in that, in that game was the the the save that Connor
1:49:21
Hollabock made against Devin Thames with the shaft of his
1:49:25
stick. It was it, you didn't realize it
1:49:28
and you didn't notice it until Eddie Olczyk said, I think he I
1:49:31
think he hit his stick. I think it hit his stick.
1:49:33
And then you watch the replay and you were like, I was like,
1:49:36
how did that miss the net? How did that not go in?
1:49:39
And Connor Hollabock was amazing.
1:49:41
You're absolutely right. When you look at both coaches
1:49:44
and Cooper and Sullivan and what they did throughout the game, do
1:49:49
you think they Cooper did enough to figure out maybe change the
1:49:53
lines later in the third period that maybe give them a bitter
1:49:57
bigger or better more advantage against Team USA with the talent
1:50:00
that they have? You know what I think that he, I
1:50:03
can't second guess John Cooper because he is such a great
1:50:05
coach. And I thought that they were,
1:50:07
they were out playing the US most of the game.
1:50:09
I thought the one that that Canada got the five on three.
1:50:13
Usually that swings the momentum.
1:50:15
If you don't score, the momentum gets swung to the defending
1:50:19
team. If you do score, you get the
1:50:21
momentum. That's usually what 5 on threes
1:50:23
do. They swing the momentum one way
1:50:25
or the other. And Canada kept, you know, went
1:50:28
and had the momentum after not scoring.
1:50:30
That's what I found amazing because the US up until that
1:50:33
five on three, I thought had the better of the play.
1:50:36
And then from the five on three, from then on, it seemed like
1:50:40
Canada had the better of the play and the US was sort of back
1:50:43
on their heels a little bit. But I don't, I don't know that I
1:50:47
can criticize John for not changing his lines around or
1:50:49
doing anything. I mean, his team was was going
1:50:52
real good. You expected a goal at any time
1:50:56
and it just wasn't to be. And again, you know what, like
1:50:59
you think back to the Marty Bradur days, the Patrick Wah
1:51:02
days, the these fabulous goaltender set that win games,
1:51:07
win series, win cups. I think Connor Hellebuck did
1:51:11
that for them with this gold medal.
1:51:13
You forgot about Mike Richter. Remember what he did?
1:51:15
Of course. Well, I didn't.
1:51:17
I didn't want to brag this. Was Charles bias?
1:51:21
I mean, the, the guy that he traded away, John Van Beesburg
1:51:24
did it. I mean, he didn't win a Stanley
1:51:26
Cup, but he got his team all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals.
1:51:28
So you sure did. Yeah.
1:51:30
Boy, oh boy, did he stand on his head that year.
1:51:33
And it's funny. It's funny when I, when I spoke
1:51:35
to the Beezer like years ago and I, I brought up that time and
1:51:40
and I, I brought up the Rangers trading him.
1:51:42
He never, he didn't mention you, Neil, or never took shots at
1:51:45
you. He said that changed my career,
1:51:48
that changed my trajectory. And he said if that didn't
1:51:51
happen, maybe the great things that happened after that never
1:51:55
happened for me. So he says you have to, you have
1:51:58
to wonder what would have happened if I stayed with the
1:52:00
Rangers. And want to say I never told you
1:52:02
this one with the one, the Stanley Cup with the Rangers,
1:52:05
Maybe that changes everything. That changes my trajectory, so,
1:52:09
he said. I I'm not upset that I never won
1:52:12
a Stanley Cup. Yeah.
1:52:13
The issue was though, and people, you know, this is so
1:52:16
long ago, people might not remember those expansion draft
1:52:20
rules were you could only protect one goalie.
1:52:23
So you you had to make a decision between Richter and Van
1:52:26
Biesburg. I had no choice and Richter was
1:52:29
the younger guy and we just all thought that we should go with
1:52:34
Richter. And then it was hard.
1:52:36
I found a trade for Van Biesburg, if you remember
1:52:39
trading him to Vancouver. And then Rodger Nielsen and and
1:52:44
Bobby Clark for Florida took John in the first pick.
1:52:50
And that's why we got Doug Lidster, who ended up on the ice
1:52:53
for the Stanley Cup buzzer against Vancouver.
1:52:56
But it was it was difficult for teams.
1:53:00
I mean, you could only keep 1 goalie and you have two good
1:53:03
ones. What are you going to do?
1:53:03
You got to trade one guy or the other.
1:53:05
I know, Neil, I, I, I forgive you.
1:53:08
I mean, after having you on the show a couple of times, I
1:53:10
forgive you. I But you know what?
1:53:12
It changed my trajectory because then I followed Van Beesbrook.
1:53:16
I became a Florida Panther fan. And then when he went to the
1:53:18
Islanders for the year, year and 1/2, he was there.
1:53:21
I became an Islander fan because he was also with the, if I'm not
1:53:25
mistaken, he was with Philadelphia and then he went to
1:53:27
the Islanders. I I didn't root for
1:53:29
Philadelphia. I just want to, I rooted for
1:53:31
him. I stayed with the Panthers, but
1:53:33
when he went to the Islanders, I said, you know what, I'm going
1:53:36
to be an Islander fan. And boy, oh boy, I made the
1:53:38
wrong decision for a while, but I'm happy now.
1:53:41
I mean, I got something. That, you know, I think John is
1:53:44
Beazers, one of the only players and I don't know the other
1:53:46
names. I think there's one or two
1:53:48
others that played for the Rangers, the Islanders and the
1:53:52
Devils played all three. I'm trying that's that's a good
1:53:55
question. That's a good.
1:53:57
Question. Yeah, it is a good trivia
1:53:58
question. But he did he he he was in
1:54:00
uniform for all three. So I want to ask from the
1:54:03
Canadian perspective, like the obviously they've had the goalie
1:54:06
platoons and I, I know you're mentioning you don't blame John
1:54:08
Cooper for the way they rotate the line and stuff like that.
1:54:10
But we always see like playing styles for these goalies that
1:54:13
are maybe questionable, like they had to rotate.
1:54:15
I thought Logan Thompson maybe should have played more because
1:54:17
Bennington was kind of up and down throughout the tournament.
1:54:19
Like, do you think that kind of thing is with the playing style
1:54:22
is something that Canada had an issue throughout this tournament
1:54:24
even winning? A mouthful.
1:54:26
A mouthful right there. Yeah, I mean, Ben Bennington to
1:54:29
me, you know, it's hard to believe he's that sounds very
1:54:33
negative. What I'm going to say is it
1:54:34
sounds hard to believe that Bennington is the best Canadian
1:54:37
goalie. But you know, they said that the
1:54:41
way he played in the Four Nations, he earned that spot on
1:54:45
the Olympic team. And then when the Olympics
1:54:47
started, the first three games, I mean, he was great.
1:54:49
And I'm not saying he wasn't good in the in the game, even
1:54:53
though Boldy scored on him on that great rush he had.
1:54:56
And then of course Jack scored, Bennington was still good.
1:55:01
I just don't see Bennington as the best Canadian goalie out
1:55:05
there. Maybe, and I might be totally
1:55:07
wrong, Doug Armstrong's AGM. Guess what?
1:55:11
Doug Armstrong's also the GM of Saint Louis, which happens to be
1:55:15
Bennington's team. So I don't know, I think
1:55:19
there's, you know, everybody can look in the rear view Mirror Now
1:55:22
and and see things. That was a fantastic move by
1:55:26
Baldy. The way he put it up in the air.
1:55:28
You know, how many kids are going to be trying for the next
1:55:31
5 years to replicate that move and try to try to do that, that
1:55:35
sort of like toss it up in the air and go through that was
1:55:38
amazing. And he did it between Dave's and
1:55:40
Makar I believe. Yeah, he did.
1:55:44
He looked really good too. He looked good all the whole
1:55:47
tournament. It didn't show on as far as his
1:55:49
statistics, but he was very, very good.
1:55:51
And and, and I'll tell you this, Sullivan really mixed the lines
1:55:56
up very, very well. And you can see why Sullivan is
1:56:00
and why the Rangers decided to go with him.
1:56:01
I mean, Chris Jury, the idiot decided to go with him.
1:56:04
I'm just, I can't stand Chris Jury.
1:56:06
I played hockey with him. I never liked him as a hockey
1:56:09
player. I never liked his.
1:56:11
You know, I didn't like his father.
1:56:13
So when I played against him, it was very, very hard to deal with
1:56:16
every single, every single time I was on the ice and had to deal
1:56:19
with stepping off the ice and, and dealing with during
1:56:22
intermissions and dealing with his father screaming at me.
1:56:25
So I wasn't, I wasn't a big Chris Drury fan.
1:56:28
So I always take shots and I'm on this show.
1:56:30
I've always attacked him on this show, but I don't think he knows
1:56:34
what he's doing. I I really don't.
1:56:36
The fact that the Rangers quit the way they I've never seen a
1:56:39
Ranger team quit before the All Star break, quit before the
1:56:43
Olympic break the way they did. And then they're trading away
1:56:46
pieces and Panarin, they got nothing back for Panarin.
1:56:49
This guy is one of the best offensive players in the NHL.
1:56:53
And they said, you know what, we'll just give him for this
1:56:55
guy. It looks like a nice guy.
1:56:57
I mean, he's going to 100 points.
1:56:59
He's all right, you know, and we'll get another guy and we'll
1:57:01
just trade him over there LA and hopefully that'll work and and
1:57:04
maybe we'll trade Vincent Trochek.
1:57:06
He's just one of the best two way players in the league.
1:57:08
He'll probably go for, you know, a little pepper and salt and,
1:57:12
you know, that's it. You know, we're about to lose.
1:57:15
We're going to try to get as much as we can in this year's
1:57:17
draft. What the hell is this guy doing?
1:57:19
Neil, you are a GM. You've been a GM, a successful
1:57:23
GM to build this team, this organization.
1:57:26
What the hell is this man doing? Yeah, I can't answer Darryl
1:57:29
because I, I, I have no idea. I don't see the plan.
1:57:33
I don't see why they're doing the things they're doing.
1:57:36
I haven't liked it since Goudreau.
1:57:38
I didn't like the Troopa thing. I don't like the Kryder thing.
1:57:41
I don't like, I didn't like the Kapo Kako thing.
1:57:44
I didn't like any of it. And I Panera.
1:57:47
And you're right, like you're going to trade Panera because
1:57:51
you're not going to resign him. Well, you know, you got to get
1:57:57
more than that or else just let them leave at the end of the
1:58:00
year there. You know, someone said this to
1:58:03
me the other day. In baseball, players leave at
1:58:06
the end of the year. And and not every baseball GM
1:58:09
is, is, you know, tarred and feathered because a baseball
1:58:14
player walked out on them at the end of the year.
1:58:17
It seems like in hockey is the only sport where if, if a, if a
1:58:20
player walks away as a free agent, you tar and feather the
1:58:24
GM. Well, you would have been better
1:58:26
when you to stay with Panarin and keep trying to make it
1:58:30
because you know, and instead of trading him off for nothing.
1:58:34
It it just doesn't ring with me why that happened.
1:58:38
I, I don't understand the philosophy.
1:58:41
I don't understand the plan of, of what they were doing with
1:58:46
that. And I sure don't see this
1:58:48
retooling quote. You know, you're not rebuilding
1:58:52
your retooling. Well, let me tell you something.
1:58:54
If if you tear a building down, how do you retool it?
1:59:00
You, you know, it's, it's gone. You got to rebuild it.
1:59:03
And this building is torn down. So I don't, I don't know what
1:59:07
they're doing. I can't see it from the outside.
1:59:09
Hey, you know what? I should ring, ring, ring and
1:59:12
call James Dolan, Say hey, why did you go on the carton show
1:59:16
his first day back on WFEN and come out with this garbage?
1:59:20
Because I'm not buying it. I haven't bought anything.
1:59:25
Anything Chris Drury has done, by the way, we are talking to
1:59:28
former Rangers and Islanders Stanley Cup winning general
1:59:31
manager Neil Smith. He's a friend of the show, does
1:59:34
such a great job with his podcast.
1:59:36
He's sensational and one of the guys that I believe should be in
1:59:39
the Hall of Fame and hopefully listen.
1:59:41
When you get inducted in the Hall of Fame, you better invite
1:59:43
me. I want to be.
1:59:44
I will, I will. You get me in there and you'll
1:59:46
be there with me at the. Party.
1:59:47
I'm going to be there at the party.
1:59:49
I'll be dancing on the stage, man.
1:59:50
I'll be dancing as your backup dancer.
1:59:53
I'll be like, yeah, wait, wait a second, why am I not holding the
1:59:56
Stanley Cup? That will bring us John Van
1:59:59
Beesbrook Jersey. And by the way.
2:00:01
Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Oh, yeah, that would that would
2:00:04
really sell to the people, ladies and gentlemen.
2:00:08
So you brought up Biddington. All right, now, I was there the
2:00:14
night they won the Stanley Cup in Boston.
2:00:16
I was on the ice when the Saint Louis Blues won that Stanley
2:00:19
Cup. And I walked up to Pennington
2:00:22
and I asked him. I said, listen, I, I know you
2:00:24
have a lot of people and I got a couple of questions to ask you.
2:00:27
You, you were sensational throughout the Stanley Cup
2:00:29
finals. You, you came out of nowhere.
2:00:31
And I, Craig Barubi is one of the nicest people you'll ever
2:00:34
meet. He really is.
2:00:36
He was sensational, one of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
2:00:39
And shout out to Craig Barubi. But this man is the biggest
2:00:44
piece of, you know what I have ever met.
2:00:47
I walked up there and I said, listen, can I get a couple of
2:00:50
questions? He said, who do you work for?
2:00:51
I said, what does it matter? You want a Stanley Cup?
2:00:54
I got a question to ask you. He says, well, I, I got other,
2:00:58
you know, I got other questions to ask you.
2:00:59
So I said, I walked away. I walk away and these two
2:01:02
beautiful women walk up to him and he's like, he's got just
2:01:05
fire away, fire away. I'm like, I turned around.
2:01:08
I looked at him. I'm like, I wish I had that
2:01:10
stick. I'd shove it right where the sun
2:01:12
doesn't shine, that piece of garbage.
2:01:14
I walked right away. And then I went to Keith
2:01:16
Kentucky and I asked Keith, by the way, Keith is not a nice guy
2:01:19
guy either, by the way. So I enough said on that.
2:01:23
When when you look at some of these players and you've worked
2:01:26
with a lot of them, and I'm not going to throw you under the bus
2:01:29
and I don't want to get you in trouble.
2:01:31
Is there a particular player that stood out to you that
2:01:33
really just you didn't see eye to eye with, you just didn't
2:01:37
like because of his attitude? Was there a player out there
2:01:40
that you traded for, drafted or just a specific player that you
2:01:45
just, you just don't like them? A name doesn't come to mind, but
2:01:48
there's got to be somebody out there.
2:01:50
If if they proved to to be selfish and not a team guy, we
2:01:55
got rid of them pretty quickly. I can't.
2:01:57
A name doesn't come to mind. I can name you 25 players that I
2:02:03
loved, but players that I didn't like I I guess I just
2:02:07
immediately forget about them. So I threw you.
2:02:10
Careful. Nobody's ever asked you that
2:02:12
question, huh? No, not really, no.
2:02:14
And I mean, even even the players that I inherited when I
2:02:18
got there and that I traded really early, Michelle Petit was
2:02:22
my first trade to Quebec for Randy Mohler.
2:02:26
I can't say anything bad about Michelle Petit.
2:02:28
I can't see anything bad about anybody that I had there that I
2:02:31
didn't like them. There were some guys that just
2:02:34
weren't team guys and then there were there were other guys that
2:02:37
I was pissed because I would trade them and then they would
2:02:41
badmouth me like I was some badass because I traded them.
2:02:45
Well, you know what? You signed up for this job like
2:02:47
you signed up in to be a pro pro athlete and there's a chance you
2:02:53
could get traded. Don't start crying about having
2:02:56
to move your family when that's what you signed up for.
2:03:00
But it's it's really hard. I, I got to be honest with you,
2:03:04
I I liked much more, many more than I disliked.
2:03:09
Well, you mentioned you, you, you don't want to be, you know,
2:03:13
threatened or being told that you have to be, you have to be
2:03:15
traded at the trade downline. I remember Chris Jury a couple
2:03:18
of years ago telling Goudreau before the trade deadline, I'm
2:03:22
not going to trade you. I, I know it's in the middle of
2:03:25
the season. We're going to keep you.
2:03:26
We'll move you in the offseason. And all of a sudden at the trade
2:03:28
deadline, he moves Goudreau and Gujo was like, and I've I read a
2:03:33
story that Gujo went up to Chris Drew and he said, listen, I
2:03:37
never said I wouldn't do what I said I might not do it.
2:03:40
And and he lied to Goudreau and Gujo got traded and it pissed
2:03:45
off Kudrow because his family thought that they were going to
2:03:47
be there in New York for at least the rest of the season and
2:03:51
he didn't have to move. He was furiated.
2:03:53
And it just it to me, it just tells me who Chris Troy is.
2:03:56
Even personally offset or what I remember him as a player now as
2:04:01
AGM. I just want to beat the hell out
2:04:02
of him. I'm like, if he did listen, if
2:04:04
he did that to me and I was Kudrow, I would have taken my
2:04:08
stick and broken it on his face. That's what I would have done.
2:04:12
I would say you did what? And I would have ran after him.
2:04:14
I probably wouldn't have got another job, but at least I
2:04:18
would have set myself up for a a media job in the long run.
2:04:21
I don't know Chris personally. I do know his brother Ted, who I
2:04:24
like very much, who's works for UBS and lives in Chicago and is
2:04:28
the father of Jack Drury that plays on Colorado.
2:04:33
But I, I don't know Chris. But what I'm really surprised at
2:04:36
with Chris is he's a former player, a former captain, a
2:04:40
former Stanley Cup winning player.
2:04:43
You must have a lot better feelings for what players are
2:04:47
going through than someone like me, I would think.
2:04:50
And yet, you know, he's just treated players like crap a lot
2:04:56
of the time. And that shocks me that, you
2:04:59
know, a former player would do that to the players.
2:05:04
I want to ask from the publicity standpoint, Obviously the Ranger
2:05:07
is making the letter itself. Obviously we talked about you
2:05:09
didn't like the retooling, the Christian reset, but the actual
2:05:12
concept. I know other teams have done it
2:05:13
with social media posts. I think the Sharks did it when
2:05:16
they were trying to purge their core.
2:05:18
Ranger's doing it twice though. Is it a little too much doing it
2:05:22
publicly the way they're doing it?
2:05:24
I think so. I think the, and I think that
2:05:26
second letter basically was a, you know, was a copy of the 1st
2:05:31
letter. It was, it was very similar to
2:05:36
what they sent out the first time in the first time it
2:05:37
worked. I mean, they, they did it, they
2:05:39
did it. They, they and they retool,
2:05:42
rebuilt, redid, whatever, and ended up with a team that, you
2:05:47
know, was very good, won the President's Trophy.
2:05:50
I think it's, you've tried this trick too many Times Now.
2:05:54
You're not going to buy this another letter.
2:05:56
We get another letter like come on.
2:05:59
And the words are very similar. So I'm not sure where that order
2:06:04
came from to do that letter. Maybe it wasn't Chris's idea.
2:06:07
Maybe Chris was told, well, this worked for us a few years ago,
2:06:12
let's do this again. Who knows, right?
2:06:16
We don't. Know we are talking to former
2:06:17
Rangers and Islander Stanley Cup winning general manager Neil
2:06:20
Smith and I I could probably bet that Chris Drury had something
2:06:26
behind it. I I've just taken, you know, if
2:06:28
I'm playing dice or something or I'm playing craps, I'm probably
2:06:32
going to guess the right number on this one.
2:06:34
Baby. I I, I would.
2:06:36
But Speaking of greatness, Matthew Schaefer has been as
2:06:41
good as it gets. I mean, this guy has been
2:06:44
sensational. He was the number one pick.
2:06:46
I was questioning it because I wanted the the goal scorer Misa,
2:06:50
but I'll take it back. I don't know why I did it.
2:06:52
I he also didn't play a lot of games last year, so I didn't
2:06:55
know who really Matthew Schaefer was until the season started.
2:06:59
This kid is going to be the best defenseman in the NHL probably
2:07:04
in the next two years. He's special.
2:07:06
There's something about him that drives players to play with him
2:07:09
and want to play with him. What do you know about Matthew
2:07:12
Schaefer? I'm sure you've met him before
2:07:14
or you've had a conversation with him.
2:07:15
What do you what do you think of him?
2:07:17
I I think the world of them, I've seen him play being at UBS
2:07:21
Arena, I'd say it whatever, at least 20 * a season.
2:07:25
And he's got speed that's great. He can go up on the play and
2:07:30
still get back and defend. He's got great instincts with
2:07:33
the puck. He's great on the power play.
2:07:36
I, I think he is another Lane Hudson and Kale Mccarr and and
2:07:43
Quinn Hughes type player. I think he's in that category
2:07:46
with those 3 great guys. And I think two or three years
2:07:49
from now, maybe even less, maybe next year, he's gonna be right
2:07:53
in the conversation for the Norris Trophy.
2:07:56
I think he's that good. I think he's gonna be fantastic.
2:07:59
And I don't see, you know, you're always looking when
2:08:03
you're a hockey guy for OK, what are the, what are the downsides
2:08:07
of this guy? Where is he weak?
2:08:08
Is he is he weak defensively? Is he weak physically?
2:08:11
Is he scared? Does he not have a good shot?
2:08:14
Can he not turn? He can do everything.
2:08:17
He, he, he is good at everything.
2:08:19
And his maturity is off the charts, which of course is
2:08:24
shouldn't be something that is surprising because to be that
2:08:29
good at 18, you've got to be really mature.
2:08:32
And as that, just like Maclin, Celebrini, the one thing that
2:08:36
everybody says about him at 19 playing for Team Canada was his
2:08:40
maturity as a as a person, he's he's well beyond his years.
2:08:45
So, and I think that's the same with Matthew, Matthew Schaefer.
2:08:48
I think the best thing that ever happened to the New York
2:08:51
Islanders in the last 20 years is that they won that lottery
2:08:55
last summer. And by the way, it was a
2:08:57
sensational lottery because that was one thing.
2:09:00
And everybody takes shots at Gary Bettman.
2:09:02
I say it a lot. Gary Bettman is the best
2:09:04
commissioner in professional sports.
2:09:06
And a lot of people Boo him at the draft and he laughs, he
2:09:10
smiles and it's cool when Gary Gary doesn't care.
2:09:13
But I I think he's better than Goodell, Manford, all these
2:09:17
guys, Adam Silver. Adam Silver let's the lead let
2:09:19
the players run his league and they do and say whatever they
2:09:22
want on on his platform. The Rodger Goodell is all about
2:09:26
money and and the owners and he could screw everybody.
2:09:29
He could care less. And Rob Manfred's a complete
2:09:32
moron, all right? This guy decided to do one thing
2:09:37
and he said, you know what, you think that the lottery draft is
2:09:40
fake or you think that everybody knows that who's going to go 1-2
2:09:44
and three, I'm going to do it in front of the cameras.
2:09:47
You're going to watch the lottery in front of your face is
2:09:50
to see how lucky A-Team can get. And it was amazing.
2:09:54
I, I think that every single league and I believe football
2:09:58
should be doing a lottery like this eventually too.
2:10:01
I think it all should be like that.
2:10:03
You got to earn and get lucky in the lottery.
2:10:06
I think what Gary Bettman is doing for the NHL is amazing.
2:10:10
What are your thoughts to Gary Bettman and the transition when
2:10:14
you were the the GM of the New York Rangers and you were GM in
2:10:17
the NHL to now? I've seen Gary come into the
2:10:20
league. I was already there as GM of the
2:10:22
Rangers when he came in in 1992, and it was a guy from the NBA.
2:10:26
And of course, the NHL was concerned about marketing and
2:10:30
getting more revenue streams and the league becoming more
2:10:35
valuable as the NBA was. And I've watched him since 1992
2:10:40
grow franchise values like Jack and the Beanstalk.
2:10:44
I mean, it's unbelievable. And you know, I don't like all
2:10:47
the expansion. And the reason I don't is 'cause
2:10:49
I'm a, I'm a hockey purist. I'd rather see their less teams
2:10:53
and better players than more teams and watered down players.
2:10:57
But nevertheless, we've got hockey now being played in
2:11:00
places where nobody ever thought about hockey before, and we've
2:11:04
got players coming out of different locations developing
2:11:08
in places like Scottsdale and Vegas and other places.
2:11:11
We never believed that a hockey player could come out of there.
2:11:14
So, and that's all due to Gary Bettman and his ability to make
2:11:20
franchise values grow. And, you know, revenues have
2:11:23
gone up exponentially. The players should love Gary
2:11:27
Bettman because it's it's Gary that has spearheaded the revenue
2:11:34
for the National Hockey League going up the way it has.
2:11:37
So I don't know how he could possibly have done a better job
2:11:41
than he's done for the job description that he had.
2:11:45
And like, honestly, like his job description was Gary, you know,
2:11:50
move us up into up in and, and let us make more money so that
2:11:55
we can be a bigger thing. We can get better network
2:11:59
contracts, we can do better. He's done it all.
2:12:02
He's done. He's spearheaded all of that.
2:12:04
So I, I'm right with you. I don't know how anybody could
2:12:08
criticize the job that he's done.
2:12:10
You look at the league now, the NHL, and like you said, there's
2:12:13
a lot of expansion and they're maybe thinking about bringing
2:12:17
another team to the league in the near future.
2:12:21
The Corbec Nordique's were to me a team that I really, I love
2:12:26
their jerseys. When I was a kid, I always loved
2:12:29
the blue and the white and, and, and I don't know if anybody's
2:12:32
been to Corbec. It is a beautiful, beautiful
2:12:35
city. Do you see the NHL bringing back
2:12:38
hockey from, you know, to the core back Nordiques?
2:12:41
You know, it's possible. They really want a team back
2:12:45
there. Again, I'm not sure that they
2:12:47
have the base for the revenue that you need to have to be in
2:12:51
the National Hockey League nowadays.
2:12:54
But I think Quebec is longing for a team.
2:12:58
You know, when the Avalanche wear those uniforms on those
2:13:01
throwback nights, they wear the Quebec Nordique.
2:13:03
You know, I think it's fabulous. I mean it, it just brings you
2:13:06
back to those days that rivalry between the Habs and the
2:13:10
Nordiques was something special. I'm not sure that the market can
2:13:15
really handle the NHL team in 2026, but then again, I didn't
2:13:21
think Winnipeg could handle an an NHL team and Ottawa's still
2:13:25
going and they're a very small market.
2:13:28
So you know what, who knows if the owners that want to get a
2:13:33
team in Quebec have deep enough pockets, anything can happen.
2:13:37
I mean, you look around Nashville, TN as a team, I mean,
2:13:42
who'd have ever thunk it? But you, you, when you go to
2:13:45
Canada, I, I go to Canada a lot. Neil and me and my girlfriend,
2:13:48
we, we love the city. We, we were in Montreal during
2:13:52
the snow and we were swimming in the hot pools at our, at our
2:13:57
hotel. I mean, it is beautiful.
2:13:58
It really is a beautiful, beautiful city.
2:14:01
All the cities over there, it's hockey.
2:14:03
Is God there? I mean, everything on the
2:14:05
television is God. It's, it's hockey, hockey,
2:14:08
hockey, hockey, hockey. And if you're a hockey fan, you
2:14:10
love it. I, I love it.
2:14:13
How could you not have a hockey team in every big city?
2:14:17
I mean, hockey's everything over there And, and Quebec is
2:14:20
beautiful. It's a beautiful, beautiful
2:14:23
city. I, I don't get it.
2:14:24
I really don't. They should have never taken
2:14:26
that away. I, I, I was upset when the NHL
2:14:28
did that. Remember when Owen Nolan was
2:14:31
drafted by the Nordiques? Remember that.
2:14:33
Yes, yes. And I loved Owen Nolan.
2:14:36
I, I loved him as a player, loved his game.
2:14:39
I loved his strong skating ability and it used his big body
2:14:42
to get to the net. When they when they decided to
2:14:46
move the Nordiques, it really upsetted me.
2:14:49
It really did. I didn't like the way the NHL
2:14:51
treated the Nordique fans and and everything what they stand
2:14:55
for for the city. And I think it really hurt the
2:14:58
NHL and the growth of of that particular area.
2:15:01
It did, but it wasn't the NHL movement, Remember, It's that
2:15:04
that was the owner, Marcelo. Boo.
2:15:06
That's right, Marcelo. And remember, we played the
2:15:09
Nordique's in their very last game ever because we were
2:15:12
playing them in the playoffs. I remember 95I.
2:15:14
Remember. Yep.
2:15:15
And at the Colisee and it was Marcelo Boo that wanted to get
2:15:19
out and he ended up selling to Charlie in in Colorado, who
2:15:25
owned both the Nuggets and now the brand new Avalanche that was
2:15:28
coming there playing in the the old arena.
2:15:31
So it's really not the NHL that decides to move it now in
2:15:34
today's day, the NHL was involved obviously in brokering
2:15:39
the deal of Arizona going to Utah because the Arizona
2:15:44
situation was had gotten really bad.
2:15:46
But it's it's really up to the owner of the individual
2:15:51
franchises to appeal to the league, to let them sell, to go
2:15:55
someplace else. Neil, what's what's up with
2:15:58
these names? The Seattle Krakens and the Utah
2:16:02
Mammoths there's. No S.
2:16:06
It doesn't make any sense. None of it does.
2:16:08
I mean, I'm looking at these names and then the jerseys are
2:16:11
cool, but it doesn't make sense. Are you what is a Utah Mammoth
2:16:16
and a Kraken? Seattle grunge?
2:16:18
I would have called him it's a grunge city.
2:16:19
I would have called him the Seattle grunge.
2:16:21
That would have made sense. None of it makes sense.
2:16:23
What are the what is the NHL doing?
2:16:26
I mean, I'm sorry, not the NHL. What is the that the owners of
2:16:29
these teams doing and how they're building their
2:16:32
franchise. It makes makes no sense.
2:16:34
Neil. What?
2:16:34
The hell these marketing I think they get, they hire marketing
2:16:37
specialists and they come. I'll fire them tomorrow.
2:16:40
You know, we've, we've got, we've had the Tampa Bay
2:16:41
Lightning for a long time. We've had the Colorado Avalanche
2:16:44
for a long time. I've always hated teams with no
2:16:47
S on the end. I, I really have, because I
2:16:49
always think if you're a hockey player, you know, you want to
2:16:53
play for a team with an S on the end.
2:16:54
You want to say, I'm a Ranger, I'm a Canadian, I'm a Maple
2:17:00
Leaf. I'm, you know, how do you say
2:17:02
I'm a Kraken? I'm an ass.
2:17:05
Head. And three of those four teams
2:17:10
could be, three of those teams could be in the conference
2:17:12
finals. I'm all mammoth.
2:17:14
That's right. I'm a mammoth.
2:17:18
Fish had a good one on. Crack.
2:17:22
All right, Dale, since the Trader lines coming up, I'll
2:17:23
finish off with this from the Rangers.
2:17:24
From the seller's perspective, obviously, Trocheck is probably
2:17:26
going to be traded. We've heard Braden Schneider
2:17:28
recently too, from their perspective, and also the
2:17:31
Islanders from a buyer's perspective.
2:17:32
What moves would you make if you were the GM's of their
2:17:35
respective teams at that moment? Well, you know, it's hard to say
2:17:38
with the Rangers because I like Vinny Trochek.
2:17:40
I think he's a real good center iceman for that team.
2:17:43
Great face off guy. Prove that in the Olympics.
2:17:47
I don't know who's going to play for the Rangers if you keep
2:17:49
trading all these guys. They never want to want to sign
2:17:53
Centers for whatsoever reason. Yeah, I mean, maybe it's going
2:17:56
to be the Hartford Wolfpack moving into the garden.
2:17:58
But so I don't, I don't quite know what they're going to do
2:18:03
there. But put the brakes on and try to
2:18:05
keep the guys that are the best leaders in in the locker room.
2:18:08
As far as the Islanders go. I think the Islanders have to
2:18:11
judge very carefully how they do from here to the next 10 games.
2:18:17
And if they, if they are thinking that, OK, you know,
2:18:23
we're in a good position to perhaps, you know, make the
2:18:27
playoffs and we can add something without costing us our
2:18:31
future. I think they, they should do
2:18:33
that because the fans at UBS Arena and that they really want
2:18:36
to see the playoffs. They, they, they want to get,
2:18:39
have hope. And the only way you give your
2:18:41
fans hope is by making the playoffs.
2:18:43
So I'm not saying they should alter their plan at all.
2:18:46
They shouldn't do that, but they should.
2:18:48
If they feel in the next 10 games that they're, they're
2:18:51
right there and they're, you know that it's, it's going in
2:18:54
the right direction. I think they should try to add a
2:18:57
piece or two without giving up future assets.
2:19:01
They have such a future with some of the players they drafted
2:19:04
in this past draft. By the way, we were talking to
2:19:06
former Rangers and Islander Stanley Cup winning general
2:19:09
manager, our friend Neil Smith. Neil, we're going to play a
2:19:11
quick game. You ready?
2:19:13
I'm going to. So this is how we're going to do
2:19:15
it. It's it's going to be really,
2:19:16
really cool. I'm going to tell you a trade
2:19:19
that happened in the past in the NHL that worked for both
2:19:22
organizations when they did it. After I do it, I want you to
2:19:26
give me one. And we're going to do 2 of them,
2:19:27
all right. And it's just going to come to
2:19:29
mind. It's going to pop into my head.
2:19:30
Are you ready? Yeah, sure.
2:19:33
All right. Number one, Peter Forsberg was
2:19:37
traded for Eric Lindros. That changed the trajectory for
2:19:41
both teams, for Philadelphia, obviously.
2:19:44
And for the Colorado Avalanche, Peter Forsberg became one of the
2:19:48
best two way players in the NHL. He won scoring titles.
2:19:53
I mean, he he was great. He was a great player overall,
2:19:56
just couldn't stay healthy. Eric Lindros, one of the
2:19:58
biggest, one of the meanest and one of the greats that we've
2:20:01
seen, escaped one of the fastest big men we've ever seen skate on
2:20:05
ice. Really.
2:20:06
I mean the Legion of Boom, the Legion of Goon, whatever the
2:20:09
hell they call themselves. The Legion of Doom, and they
2:20:13
were the real Legion of Doom as far as I'm concerned.
2:20:15
Those three guys in Claire Lynn Dross and something with an R at
2:20:19
the end. I can't.
2:20:20
Renberg. Renberg.
2:20:21
That's right. I'm sorry.
2:20:23
I am trying to remember. It's a past, man.
2:20:25
I'm losing my mind. All right, so I'm going to go
2:20:28
Eric Lindros for Peter Forsberg. That certainly was a trade.
2:20:32
It was a lot more than Peter Forsberg, though.
2:20:34
That's the only thing. Yeah, I know you got to know
2:20:36
there was a lot, there was a lot of money and there was a lot of
2:20:39
other players. And it's amazing that how well
2:20:43
the Quebec slash Avalanche did by getting Peter Forsberg and
2:20:46
went on to win the Stanley Cups and everything.
2:20:50
So that that was a trade though that that ended up changing both
2:20:54
franchises for sure. All right, give me one for you.
2:20:57
Oh boy. Off the head.
2:20:59
I'll say there was a trade with Toronto and Calgary, Toronto and
2:21:07
Calgary that traded. Doug Gilmour went to Toronto,
2:21:14
which ended up being a staple of Toronto and, and leading them
2:21:19
for a decade or so as as a great player there.
2:21:25
But the players that came back to Calgary helped them win that
2:21:30
Stanley Cup in 1989. And I I now I'm lost for the
2:21:35
names of who went back for Gilmore, but I think, but it was
2:21:38
a trade that helped both teams. Calgary got a Stanley Cup out of
2:21:42
it, but they lost the best player in Doug Gilmore.
2:21:45
Oh. There it is.
2:21:46
Craig Beruby was in the deal. There you go.
2:21:48
Doug Gilmore da da, da da da and I think Calgary won with those
2:21:52
guys. Gary Lehman was a fifty goal
2:21:55
scorer later on in his career. So I I talk about that one.
2:22:01
I mean, one of my trades that helped both teams that I don't
2:22:04
like to this day was Tony Amonte to Chicago.
2:22:09
You took. That away.
2:22:11
You took that away from. Me end up winning the Stanley
2:22:13
Cup with those two, but Tony Imani goes on to be a All Star.
2:22:17
You took that away from me. Yeah, you stole that from me.
2:22:20
That was my other one. Damn.
2:22:23
Well. See Great Minds.
2:22:25
Yeah, great minds think alike, as always.
2:22:27
But Neil, we love you, man. You're you're you do such a
2:22:32
great job. And why don't you tell the fans
2:22:34
how they can check out your show, which is a great hockey
2:22:37
show. We you still haven't asked me to
2:22:38
come on. I'm very upset.
2:22:40
Nhlwraparound.com is our website and you can get all of our shows
2:22:45
on there. We had just this week we did a
2:22:49
Hall of Fame show with Mike Gartner.
2:22:51
We had our first two active players on last week, which was
2:22:56
James van Reemsteke and his brother Trevor van Reemsteke,
2:23:00
the place for Washington. That was a lot of fun.
2:23:03
We have a lot of fun shows on NHL wrap around being we're on
2:23:06
every podcast, a platform out there and it's Victoria Moran
2:23:11
and myself and we have a lot of fun and hopefully say some
2:23:15
things that people didn't know. So we say something that helps
2:23:20
you more understand what's going on.
2:23:22
Well, I don't know if you know this, but over the weekend we
2:23:25
were ranked on Spotify and Apple 56th in the whole country.
2:23:29
So I don't know if you knew that.
2:23:31
Wow, Congrats. Thank you.
2:23:32
Great. We've been in the top 100 for
2:23:34
almost a week. So and we've been we've been
2:23:38
steady in the top 200 in the whole country.
2:23:40
We're under OK, so our genre with Spotify now, but you have
2:23:43
to pick a genre. So and being that we the
2:23:47
football has the most podcast out there in the whole world.
2:23:51
So we picked I saw, I told Speedy let's go football, but we
2:23:54
talk all sports. So we're considered a football
2:23:58
show, but we're really we talk baseball, we talk hockey and and
2:24:02
that's why I think the YouTube channel is it.
2:24:04
We'll do OK, but we we could be doing a lot better if we had a
2:24:06
niche. And we, my guys, my producer
2:24:09
Speedy and my executive producer Aaron, we go back and forth.
2:24:12
We're like, well, you know, should we change it to the New
2:24:15
York, you know, New York sports loudmouth And we're we're
2:24:18
working on something right now because we are, we do talk a lot
2:24:21
of New York sports, but it's harder on YouTube because you
2:24:26
have to have a niche. You got to tell if you're going
2:24:28
to talk hockey and talk just hockey.
2:24:30
And we don't do that. And that's not something that we
2:24:32
do. We want everybody to see that
2:24:34
we're open to talk about anything.
2:24:36
We could speak about anything and we have the knowledge to
2:24:38
speak about everything. So it's different.
2:24:42
YouTube's a different, but Spotify and Apple, everybody
2:24:44
loves us. And I want to thank everybody
2:24:46
that tunes in. I don't know if you know this
2:24:48
Apple and Spotify have Apple and Spotify video now.
2:24:51
Did you know that? No, I didn't know that.
2:24:54
Well, that's going to help you guys.
2:24:56
I. Better get on there.
2:24:57
I better we should do some more video.
2:24:59
You, you got to get on there, man.
2:25:00
I listen. I'm going to try to help you,
2:25:02
Neil. I'm trying to we need all the
2:25:05
help we can get. We know it's a long game, right?
2:25:07
It's a long game. You can't nobody gets into this
2:25:11
and then all of a sudden is, you know, unbelievable the first the
2:25:16
first year. So we're, we're sticking with
2:25:18
it. It's enjoyable.
2:25:19
We have a lot of fun. You guys, you're great anyways,
2:25:22
Neil and, and you want to know something every time we have you
2:25:24
on the show. I get a lot of guys on this
2:25:26
show. I've interviewed every, I've
2:25:28
done this for over 13 years, but our show is now like I, I've
2:25:33
worked with different athletes and it, some of them, they
2:25:36
didn't work out, but I, I've worked with a lot of people and
2:25:40
I, but I've interviewed like over 5000 people in my time of
2:25:43
doing this, going places, doing things, athletes, musicians,
2:25:46
everything. When I meet people or even have
2:25:49
a conversation with people, I, I want to know how much they know
2:25:52
about their sports or how much they don't know about their
2:25:56
sports and how. And then I say to myself, after
2:25:58
I get off the phone with them or even get off a zoom call with
2:26:01
them or anything with them, I'm like, man, how did that guy have
2:26:05
a job in that sport? You know, I just feel like, so
2:26:08
when I when I speak to you, I always, you know, when you won
2:26:13
that Stanley Cup and they gave you the Stanley, I'll never
2:26:15
forget the face that you had when they gave you the Stanley
2:26:18
Cup. Even Mike Keenan's face, even
2:26:20
Mark Messi, when he finally got handed that that trophy and he
2:26:23
he was smiling and he went crazy, you know, and you built
2:26:28
that team. You built that team.
2:26:31
I don't think people understand that, that the Rangers thought
2:26:33
they were going to win plenty of championships after 1994.
2:26:37
That didn't happen. Guys, here it is.
2:26:39
Watch this, watch it. When he gets the ball, watch it.
2:26:42
Look at that smile. Look at him shake.
2:26:44
I mean, come on. I know it was fantastic.
2:26:47
It was something, it wasn't fantastic for me because at the
2:26:51
time I, I hated you, Neil, I hated you.
2:26:53
You're treated my favorite player, but I, I understand you
2:26:57
now. And even talking to the Beezer
2:26:59
after the fact, I never hated you.
2:27:02
I just hated the fact that he couldn't be a part of that.
2:27:05
And that was something that hurt me as a fan because I loved, I
2:27:09
went to his camps when I was a kid, Van Beezbrook's camps.
2:27:12
And I, I just loved him as a person.
2:27:15
And, and it was something that I, it really hurt me.
2:27:17
But knowing you over the last couple of years and just getting
2:27:20
to know you as a person, not only do I have a lot of respect
2:27:23
for you, I think you're one of the most knowledgeable hockey
2:27:28
minds that I've ever got a chance to talk to.
2:27:31
And I appreciate you and I want you to do nothing, but I, I want
2:27:36
you to achieve all your goals. And I definitely would love to
2:27:39
come on your show and just have conversations and laugh and, and
2:27:43
you know, be a little crazy. But you guys, I've checked out
2:27:46
your show. I've checked out some of the the
2:27:48
content that you put out there. You guys are sensational and I
2:27:51
really appreciate you. Well, thank you very much and
2:27:54
anytime you guys want me on here, you know, you know my
2:27:57
number. Absolutely man and keep up the
2:28:00
good work man And let's let's talk off air.
2:28:01
Maybe we should talk off air because.
2:28:03
Yeah, for sure, for sure. OK, great guys.
2:28:06
Thanks. Neil Smith, Man, Stanley Cup
2:28:08
champion, New York Ranges 94. One of the great personalities,
2:28:15
and I'll tell you this, I've interviewed Mark Messier, Adam
2:28:17
Graves, Zubov, I've interviewed a lot of Sergei Nam Chinoff.
2:28:21
All these guys told me the mastermind of that team was Neil
2:28:24
Smith, not Mike Keenan. I, I, I don't know, I I guess
2:28:28
Mike Keenan wasn't loved by everybody.
2:28:30
I'm we all know he's not loved by Neil.
2:28:35
I personally was there as a little kid at the Four More
2:28:38
Years speech. My father worked for Giuliani.
2:28:41
He got me into Gracie Mansion. I actually got to do all that.
2:28:44
I think I may have said it once before on the show, but we all
2:28:47
thought Keenan was coming back. We all thought this was going to
2:28:50
be like a dynasty. It just didn't go that.
2:28:52
Way no. And Neil wanted it, but Mike
2:28:55
Keenan was hard. He was a hard ass.
2:28:57
And if anybody knows the story, we've had Neil, we've we've had
2:29:01
this conversation with Neil plenty of times and we're
2:29:03
working, Nathan is working on getting Mike Keenan on this
2:29:05
show. And I would love to to hear what
2:29:09
Mike Keenan has to say about. Neil, you have to let me ask him
2:29:12
and tell him that story. You gotta let me as a kid.
2:29:15
It's one of my earliest memories.
2:29:16
I will. It just I remember when Mike
2:29:19
Keenan came from the Chicago Blackhawks.
2:29:21
I remember it. And I remember Neil Smith making
2:29:23
that choice and bringing him in. And Neil made the right
2:29:26
decision. It's not like he didn't, and the
2:29:29
Rangers won because of it. But Neil Smith was the
2:29:33
mastermind. He built that team.
2:29:35
He made the trade for Steve Larmer.
2:29:36
He's the one who drafted Sergey Zubov.
2:29:39
He's the guy that was the mastermind and the creator of
2:29:42
that Stanley Cup championship team.
2:29:44
He made the move for Stefan Motto, Mato Mato, all those
2:29:49
guys. SA Teekinen, that was all the
2:29:51
guys that he pulled off and made those trades at the trade
2:29:55
deadline to get them here to help them win a Stanley Cup.
2:29:58
So that guy was the guy that really redefined a championship
2:30:03
contending team like the New York Rangers who only won what
2:30:08
was it the the last championship before that?
2:30:10
Well, 19401940 or something like that.
2:30:13
I mean, and they were the. Worst team in the original 6
2:30:15
era. 19. They chanted it every place.
2:30:18
I forgot, I forgot, dude. You know, when he was on, I said
2:30:21
1950. I was like, oh, wait a second,
2:30:23
it was 1940. But I listen, man, I, I, I, I'm
2:30:26
getting old there. I'm, I'm losing my mind a little
2:30:29
bit, you know? You also haven't eaten any food
2:30:31
in 24. Hours.
2:30:32
That could be it. I mean, longer than that.
2:30:34
Now it's it's longer than 24 hours.
2:30:37
I think about it, but shouldn't. They told you to fast for 36
2:30:40
hours. I don't.
2:30:41
That's what they told me at midnight.
2:30:43
They said you got to stop drink, stop eating.
2:30:45
You could still drink water and you know, you could put some
2:30:49
crystal light in it, but no purple, no blue, no red, all
2:30:53
this garbage, no Gatorade at at any cost.
2:30:56
So I mean, what are you trying to kill me here?
2:30:59
I'm not, you know, I'm not, I'm not Gandhi here.
2:31:02
I mean, I'm hungry, you know, so just kind of bothers down.
2:31:06
Something to look forward to. Oh, dude, I promise.
2:31:09
I promise you guys. I promise.
2:31:11
Well, you turned 40 already. Stop.
2:31:12
Stop. I know it's something for me to
2:31:14
look forward to. I've been being.
2:31:16
I feel bad for you because you, you deal with enough.
2:31:19
I mean, you got diabetes. I mean, that's, that's the worst
2:31:21
you can deal with. I mean, and there's no changing
2:31:23
that. I I got to give you credit
2:31:25
because me fasting for 36 or 40 hours is not as bad as I mean,
2:31:30
I'm not. Going to lie, there's some
2:31:31
studies, you know, in China, they're saying they're curing
2:31:34
it. So we'll type one.
2:31:37
Hey, I'm fine. There's a lot of things going
2:31:39
on. I was still, I actually coached
2:31:40
a kid that had type 1 diabetes. He was a quarterback.
2:31:44
We could not block and he got murdered every single time.
2:31:47
And we we've had him run all the time too.
2:31:49
And they're playing like D3 baseball or something like that,
2:31:52
which is toughest kid I ever seen in my life.
2:31:54
He had one of those old school ports.
2:31:56
Like it's open in your body. Like I don't even have that.
2:32:00
I I can't even imagine. And he had that ever since he
2:32:03
was a kid. And some people look, you can
2:32:05
play through it. We heard who did we interview
2:32:07
was a Pittsburgh Steelers lineman, Kendall Simmons.
2:32:09
Kendall Simmons. Kendall Simmons said he had
2:32:12
blood sugars of like 850 in pre season.
2:32:16
You know I love Lisa. He should not be alive, but
2:32:19
that's what he did. You know, I'm fine.
2:32:21
We're all good. But Errol football players.
2:32:25
Circle jerk Very. Interesting stop topic.
2:32:27
No, not that. Not that.
2:32:29
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we call this the NFL Whip
2:32:32
Around. No whip, whip, whip around.
2:32:38
Make her squirt. Make me jerk.
2:32:43
Welcome everybody to the Whip Around.
2:32:46
We're going to get into some football news and notes.
2:32:51
Let's get that music just a little bit lower.
2:32:54
This one's a loud one, boys. The Bears are allowing middle
2:32:58
linebacker Tremaine Edmonds to seek a trade.
2:33:03
He's entering the last year of his four year, $72 million
2:33:06
contract he signed in 2023. He's got a 13.9 million base
2:33:11
salary with a 1,000,000 roster bonus, 17.9 million cap hit for
2:33:18
an off the ball linebacker. It looks like he thought they're
2:33:23
trying to get rid of him. That's a big.
2:33:24
Squeeze the G. Still one of the best in the
2:33:28
league. He's a top 10 tackler in the
2:33:29
league. Still one of those guys that a
2:33:33
lot of teams, such as the team he used to be on, the Bills,
2:33:38
they're letting Matt Milano go. Most likely he's been hurt too
2:33:42
much. Not the same guy.
2:33:44
He might come back there. He was too expensive for them to
2:33:47
keep back then. Now might not be these might be
2:33:51
cut. If he can't be traded, he's not
2:33:53
going to give up very much for him.
2:33:54
Probably a seventh round pick. There's the Giants.
2:33:58
The Giants are before you go, I'm sorry, the Giants are
2:34:02
probably going to cut Bobby O Carrier K If they sign a guy, if
2:34:06
they trade for a guy like Edmonds, obviously you're
2:34:08
ripping up the contract. You're signing him to like a two
2:34:11
year deal where it's like, you know, very low cap hit for this
2:34:15
year and then you see if he's any good and then you give him a
2:34:18
bigger contract after that. What do you think about Tremaine
2:34:22
Edmonds and the Bears deciding to let him go?
2:34:24
It makes a lot of sense for Buffalo.
2:34:26
I, I think Buffalo's the team. He's, he wants to go back and
2:34:30
obviously it's not the same coaching staff, but Edmonds
2:34:34
knows the way they want to run their defense and he fits what
2:34:38
the what they're missing. They lose Milano, they add
2:34:40
Edmonds that that's a, that's really like, like it's a glove
2:34:44
for that organization. It's a glove like, you know, Ace
2:34:47
Ventura says as far as the, the, the Giants are concerned, I
2:34:52
don't know if the I, I know it makes sense for Joe Shane.
2:34:54
He was, he was a part of that, that group that drafted him.
2:34:58
I, I still think if they're, if they're going to bring in free
2:35:01
agents that are going to fit, they got to make sure that it's
2:35:03
a, a slam dunk. You can't make, you can't make a
2:35:05
decision like this and say, well, we make a mistake.
2:35:08
We bring him in or, or even even if he's a low cap hit.
2:35:12
I don't know if the, I don't know if the Giants are going to
2:35:15
want to do that. I think they're going to try to
2:35:16
get a short thing here. They need corner help more than
2:35:20
a linebacker. That's where I think the Giants
2:35:22
need to look. If they have money and their
2:35:24
free money, that's where you put all your eggs in the basket, not
2:35:27
at a linebacker. So I'm going to say I'm going to
2:35:30
sell the Giants thing. I'm going to buy the Buffalo
2:35:33
Bills thing. Yeah, if the Bills can get at
2:35:34
the price that you were describing, Fish, they could
2:35:36
definitely make that work because they need a veteran guy
2:35:38
that could be a defensive play caller.
2:35:40
They have a lot of young safeties, a lot of young
2:35:42
linebackers. Those are generally the two guys
2:35:43
that are going to be the play callers.
2:35:45
The Giants, I'm with Errol. I kind of want them to focus
2:35:47
more on corner, the receiver obviously losing Wondell
2:35:50
Robinson, you're going to need something to replace.
2:35:51
Them Tate. Yeah.
2:35:53
It's a lot. Of draft in the.
2:35:54
Draft. You look pretty good.
2:35:55
Yeah, and you're not going to you're not going to replace it
2:35:58
with, especially the new scheme with one linebacker, especially
2:36:00
the team that plays a lot of nickel already.
2:36:02
It's the kind of thing with the Bills, they already play a lot
2:36:03
of nickel. So Edmonds would only be a cheap
2:36:05
thing just for millenniality. All right, let's get into it.
2:36:08
I'm hoping the Giants actually go get this guy personally,
2:36:11
because the middle, the linebacker play has been so bad.
2:36:14
I think a lot of it was coaching, but we'll see.
2:36:18
Let's move on. This is a guy you brought up a
2:36:20
second ago, Errol, and we have to talk about him because he
2:36:23
might be on The Jets. Arvel Reese, Ohio State
2:36:27
linebacker, sometimes edge rusher.
2:36:31
I would say last year is probably 5050.
2:36:33
He might have even played a little bit more edge than inside
2:36:36
linebacker last year. But he can play both and he
2:36:39
presents quite a whole bunch of problems for other teams,
2:36:43
especially when you hear what he did at the combine.
2:36:47
It's ridiculous today. It's ridiculous. 40 yard dash
2:36:50
446 tied for first among linebackers and edge rushers.
2:36:56
6424132.5 inch arms shorter than average not really edge rusher
2:37:03
arm length 9.5 inch hands pretty normal and above average Listen
2:37:10
to this 38 inch vertical 38 that's that's NBA 38 inch
2:37:19
vertical 10/8 broad jump both of those top of all players in his
2:37:25
category. The fact that he is 243 lbs now
2:37:29
and they're saying that's how much he weighs.
2:37:31
He's 64. I didn't think he was that big.
2:37:34
I mean, he's big. He's a big man.
2:37:36
He's a big boy and he can run a 446 and jump that high and do
2:37:42
all those acrobatic things. I don't see him going past #2 I
2:37:47
really, I want, I like Bane and I like Bailey.
2:37:51
I understand why everybody loves him.
2:37:53
But when you hear this freakish numbers, I mean, I know the
2:37:57
combo doesn't sell you, but it's freakish how big and how strong
2:38:01
this guy is. I'm going #2 with him.
2:38:04
I, I, I, I don't think I could argue that.
2:38:06
I mean, two 46243, whatever they say he was that, That's
2:38:12
freakish. Yeah, and I was.
2:38:14
It was 240-1241. I always had him pretty far
2:38:18
ahead of Bailey anyway. I think Bailey played with a lot
2:38:20
of good talent around. Not that not that Reese didn't
2:38:22
he obviously Ohio State's loaded as well, but I think his
2:38:25
versatility is so many different positions is a lot that you have
2:38:28
to factor in and now you have the athleticism scores to go
2:38:31
along with that kind of thing. I think this is definitely a #2
2:38:33
pick worthy. I like Bain a lot too.
2:38:35
I think Bain should go #3 right after that if Mendoza goes one.
2:38:37
But this is definitely proving like the versatility fish you
2:38:40
talk about ICS Simmons earlier. I, I versatility isn't as much
2:38:43
of A concern for me with these off ball, with these pass
2:38:46
rushing linebacker is more the off ball in the state.
2:38:48
Because you can discerning these guys with that athletic ability,
2:38:51
you get a spin move. I mean, you're going to be a
2:38:53
Michael Parsons. I mean Michael Parsons, they
2:38:56
they had questions about him when he came into the league,
2:38:59
his arm length and all this other stuff.
2:39:01
And look how good Michael Parsons.
2:39:02
And they're very similar player prototypes in terms of their
2:39:05
skill. Set.
2:39:05
He's bigger than Michael Parsons.
2:39:07
I know that and that's why I'm saying I'm not as worried about
2:39:09
that. And fish, this is coming from me
2:39:10
that I really liked Isaiah Simmons at the time out of the
2:39:12
draft. I thought he was another honey
2:39:13
badger but it seems like those types of ones are the more
2:39:17
concerning, not as much the pass rushers like Reese.
2:39:19
I'll just say this before we move on from him.
2:39:21
Obviously this the the combine is probably going to make this
2:39:24
decision for everybody. But for me, like I, I still
2:39:29
would be very interested in Bain.
2:39:31
Bain is like a true talent. If you're playing a 3/4, Reese
2:39:35
can terrorize, but I think he has to play in a three four.
2:39:39
I think you can put Bain in any defense at all along the line
2:39:42
and he would be an awesome D end or he could play in the 3/4 as
2:39:46
an edge rusher. I don't know if you want to have
2:39:49
Reese playing middle linebacker in a four three, right?
2:39:51
That's not really a value place for a guy of his caliber.
2:39:55
So I think he's a little bit more scheme dependent than a guy
2:39:57
like Bain. But hey, I think you're you're
2:39:59
going to be happy with these guys one way or the other.
2:40:03
Errol next story Kyler Murray, Potential Jets quarterback Kyler
2:40:08
Murray. Not happening.
2:40:10
There was a story that, you know, the GM, Monny Austin Ford
2:40:15
said that they were talking to Kyler.
2:40:17
You know, they've had good dialogue.
2:40:19
That was the, quote, good dialogue with Murray since the
2:40:22
season ended, Murray said. That's never happened.
2:40:26
Apparently, there's been no contact between Kyler Murray and
2:40:32
the Cardinals. And it's just all but a given
2:40:36
that he's moving on and they're probably going to try to replace
2:40:39
him with a veteran this offseason, be another one of
2:40:42
those teams next year by and for one of those top quarterbacks,
2:40:45
unless they take a shot at one of these guys this year.
2:40:47
Errol Kyler Murray, little undersized, built, you know,
2:40:51
he's built kind of like a tank. He's not like slight in frame,
2:40:55
but a little short. And we know his biggest thing
2:40:58
that everyone knows about him. Likes to watch, doesn't watch a
2:41:01
lot, doesn't really like to watch tape, likes to play Call
2:41:04
of Duty maybe a little too much. What do you think about that as
2:41:09
a potential next quarterback for you?
2:41:11
It's not going to happen. I don't know what you're you're
2:41:13
drinking. If you're drinking something,
2:41:15
keep drinking and it's not going to happen.
2:41:17
There's no way that Kyler Murray will be the quarterback of the
2:41:21
New York Jets and here's the reason why.
2:41:23
Aaron Glenn does not want these prima Donna players in his
2:41:27
locker room. He knew Aaron Rodgers was, he
2:41:30
got rid of them and Justin Fields was a yes man type of guy
2:41:34
and it it didn't work, but that's what he wants.
2:41:38
Kyler Murray would be somebody that there is no way in hell
2:41:42
Aaron Glenn is going to deal with in the locker room.
2:41:45
The guy doesn't like people. People don't like him.
2:41:47
Kyler Murray is not a fit for the New York Jets.
2:41:50
I'm telling you right now, that's never going to.
2:41:52
Happen. No, not in New York.
2:41:53
You can't have that kind of thing.
2:41:54
This egomaniac type quarterback, these guy that has really big
2:41:57
good leader since his first two years in the league.
2:41:59
And again, I think The Jets are not a quarterback away.
2:42:03
They don't want to have that kind of drama there.
2:42:04
And the Cardinals, I think they're stuck both ways.
2:42:06
Like Kyler Murray is going to be stuck.
2:42:07
They're probably going to have to caught him for much more than
2:42:09
Ossafor. It's not looking good either by
2:42:11
saying oh I didn't call him, oh I did call him.
2:42:13
That's not a guy for one that should have barely kept his job
2:42:16
as AGM either. Yeah, I was going to say, how
2:42:18
does that guy still have his job?
2:42:20
He got the coach, got fired, everybody knew it.
2:42:23
That roster is not good. So here's the deal.
2:42:25
If they cut Murray before June 1st, it's a $54.7 million cap
2:42:32
hit, dead cap hit. If they trade him and get like,
2:42:36
you know, like I guess a very late round pick, probably it's a
2:42:40
37.2 million save in cap space. So it looks like they're going
2:42:46
to be trying to shop him to somebody.
2:42:48
But I don't know who's taking on that deal because you can't,
2:42:52
you'd have to, you know, RIP up that contract and give him a new
2:42:54
contract. I just don't know like where
2:42:58
he's going to go. They're going to either have to
2:42:59
keep him and deal with a really ugly situation this year over
2:43:04
there, or they're going to cut them and take a $55 million hit
2:43:07
this year and they're not firing their GM.
2:43:11
Maybe they do fire them if they have to take that cat they're.
2:43:13
Going to have to do like one of those weird mid season
2:43:15
situations like you saw The Jets do with Mccagnon and stuff like
2:43:18
that and just do it right after the draft.
2:43:20
They're really stuck. Yeah.
2:43:21
Oh, well, here's one that this might not be more than any just
2:43:26
bluster, but there was a story out that that they're thinking
2:43:31
about trading CJ Stroud. Yes, CJ Stroud, the second
2:43:36
overall pick from a couple of years ago, Rookie of the year
2:43:39
hasn't been as good since, right?
2:43:41
But obviously playoff team this year they won led by that
2:43:46
defense, though. Here's some of the the stats and
2:43:49
some of the value. He's got a very low base salary
2:43:53
and he will have a fifth year option around 27,000,000.
2:43:56
So they have two more years of control of him if he was to be
2:44:00
traded. But of course, you know,
2:44:04
Chairman Cal McNair, you know, is questioning the leadership.
2:44:09
So this one looks like the GM who said it's that's moronic.
2:44:14
Nick Casario. We're not trading the guy.
2:44:16
He's going to be playing quarterback for the Texans.
2:44:18
But we've heard some things about this owner in Houston over
2:44:22
the years, Mr. McNair, and he does not like Shroud and his
2:44:27
leadership. Although the team has officially
2:44:30
distancing themselves from their owner's comments.
2:44:34
I'm not a big believer that the owner should be involved with
2:44:41
the the football or even any kind of operations, but it seems
2:44:45
to happen with the the Cowboys, it happens with The Jets, it
2:44:48
happens with the bad teams. The Texans are a good team.
2:44:52
They have a very good run organization and they're very
2:44:55
well run oil machine. CJ Stroud has not looked good in
2:45:00
the playoffs. He hasn't.
2:45:01
I'm sorry, he hasn't. He's been a good regular season
2:45:04
player. In the first half this year he
2:45:06
wasn't as good as he was in the second-half.
2:45:08
He played very good football in the second-half.
2:45:10
He was one of the reasons why his team made the playoffs with
2:45:12
the defense and the front seven. I'm going to tell you this right
2:45:16
now. CJ Strout is an optional guy you
2:45:21
could trade. There is no way this offseason
2:45:24
they're moving him because first of all, there is no quarterback
2:45:28
in this year's class besides Mendoza.
2:45:31
So I'm not betting on anybody. You can draft or you can nitpick
2:45:34
on who's going to fit and even the veterans that are going to
2:45:37
be available, you're going to tell me that Kirk Cousins is a
2:45:39
better fit than him? It doesn't make sense.
2:45:41
None of them. Kyler Murray.
2:45:43
You want Kyler Murray there I I not a chance.
2:45:47
None of the guys that are available make any sense unless
2:45:51
they have their backup quarterback who I I actually
2:45:54
like to be their their future. And Mills, Davis Mills, I, I
2:45:58
don't think that's happening. I expect him to keep his job.
2:46:03
He stays with the Texans. It's ridiculous.
2:46:05
Yeah, unless you can get two first round picks from a very
2:46:07
desperate team, like I really can't see this kind of thing
2:46:09
happening. And there's only a few too,
2:46:12
maybe the Vikings, maybe the Steelers.
2:46:13
They don't think Ayer Rodgers will come back.
2:46:15
Unless you get that kind of offer, you're not trading him.
2:46:18
And we talked about the Texans in the past with DeAndre Hopkins
2:46:20
having a problem with their ownership.
2:46:22
Andre Johnson's had a problem with their ownership.
2:46:23
It looked like they were finally stepping away for a while and
2:46:26
now all of a sudden you're trying to put your nose back
2:46:27
into things. This is a really good young team
2:46:30
that you don't really want to mess with things.
2:46:31
And he said, look, there are other players, they're going to
2:46:33
want to get contracts soon and you're going to make them all
2:46:36
unhappy. Yeah, You don't want to have to
2:46:37
revert to that kind of thing again.
2:46:39
Ownership McNair. You would think you would
2:46:43
wouldn't. Say something like that, it just
2:46:44
hurts the value, even if you aren't going to keep them.
2:46:46
It's just pretty dumb. But there are some dumb owners
2:46:49
out there that have lots of money.
2:46:51
One of the dumbest things we saw a couple of years ago was giving
2:46:55
Kirk Cousins 40 million a season and then drafting Michael Pennix
2:46:59
only to obviously go with Pennix.
2:47:02
It got the general manager fired.
2:47:05
They're going to cut Kirk Cousins.
2:47:06
It was announced by the start of the league year on, I believe
2:47:09
it's the 11th of March, so it'll be right before that.
2:47:13
They're going to take a dead cap hit of 35 million, but they're
2:47:17
definitely cutting him. He's the best veteran
2:47:21
quarterback on the market. I was kind of joking with the
2:47:23
Kyla Murray stuff before, but Kirk Cousins is definitely a guy
2:47:27
The Jets are going to be looking at, as well as probably every
2:47:31
team that is in the same position pining for that next
2:47:35
quarterback next year. Perhaps they have draft capital.
2:47:38
I think Kirk Cousins is has been really destined to go to the New
2:47:42
York Jets the last couple of years.
2:47:44
They've fallen short and probably at the tail end of his
2:47:47
career for it that it to work. But I, I think Kirk Cousins
2:47:52
makes a lot of sense in the Frank Wright offense, especially
2:47:56
Frank Wright wants to get somebody in a veteran guy that
2:47:58
can run his offense and understand the, the verbiage.
2:48:01
It's a lot. And I, I think Kirk Cousins is
2:48:05
smart guy. So I think it makes a lot of
2:48:07
sense for the New York Jets. But there are other teams
2:48:08
looking for a quarterback. Pittsburgh could be looking for
2:48:11
a quarterback. Maybe Kirk Cousins goes to
2:48:13
Pittsburgh. If Pittsburgh decides to bring
2:48:15
in a rookie quarterback in the first round, AKA Mr. Alabama,
2:48:19
that could happen. But Simpson is not going to be
2:48:22
starting no matter where he gets drafted in the first round.
2:48:24
He's going to back up somebody, a veteran guy.
2:48:26
So I'm going to go Kirk Cousins to The Jets.
2:48:29
I don't see him going anywhere else.
2:48:31
I'll be very surprised if he goes maybe Miami if they can get
2:48:36
rid of Tua and I'm hearing they're going to have to really
2:48:39
cut bait with Tua $90,000,000. That's a lot of money, man.
2:48:42
I I don't see it happening so. Yeah, I think The Jets or the
2:48:45
Steelers, I think either one of those make a lot of sense.
2:48:47
The Steelers obviously if they don't get Aaron Rodgers and
2:48:49
they'll they'll drag it out all he'll probably drag it allocated
2:48:52
last year. So that probably lessens their
2:48:53
chances compared to The Jets just because of the way they
2:48:56
operate. But yeah, The Jets make a lot of
2:48:57
sense. Frank Reich when he was in
2:48:59
Indianapolis, probably outside of the one year they had went a
2:49:01
lot of these pocket presence quarterbacks with Matt Ryan and
2:49:04
obviously Philip Rivers, who came back and retired out of
2:49:06
retirement this year. And Kirk Cousins kind of fits
2:49:08
that bill. He's aging right now.
2:49:10
He's we talked about it last year, kind of having a
2:49:12
borderline Hall of Fame case. So he's going to want to prove
2:49:14
something and I think he does it with a chance where I don't
2:49:16
think anyone has any expectations for.
2:49:18
Him all right, well, that is another episode of the whip
2:49:23
around. We'll probably update you once a
2:49:25
month in the offseason, every few weeks on the NFL, and I hope
2:49:29
you enjoyed our trip. Well, it's definitely a trip.
2:49:33
I might be tripping after that. We haven't.
2:49:36
Let's parlay. Yeah, Johnny.
2:49:37
Johnny was ready to come in. I just texted him come in.
2:49:39
So maybe we'll go to break now and we'll wait.
2:49:40
For yeah, let's go to break 1st and we'll do it after.
2:49:43
All right, we'll go to our sports minutes and then we'll go
2:49:46
to let's parlay, let's go this. Is the Jabba and the Mouth
2:49:53
sports minutes? All right, guys, Aaron Fisherman
2:49:56
back at you with another sportsman.
2:49:58
A couple more stories than the scores.
2:50:01
Atlanta announced on Tuesday that they are launching their
2:50:04
own broadcasting network called Braves Vision and will air 140
2:50:09
games on the news station this year.
2:50:11
This comes on the heels of the collapse of the regional sports
2:50:13
networks across the MLB. At the beginning of February,
2:50:16
the MLB announced that the Reds, Royals, Brewers, Marlins,
2:50:20
Cardinals and Rays will have their local broadcast produced
2:50:23
by the league after they, along with the Braves, Angels and
2:50:26
Tigers terminated their deal with Main Street Sports after
2:50:29
miss payments and financial and the MLB will now produce a total
2:50:34
of 14 teams broadcast in 2026, almost half the league.
2:50:38
The Braves are finalizing deals to partner with cable and
2:50:40
satellite TV as well as streaming.
2:50:42
The expectation is that the MLB will stream the Braves broadcast
2:50:45
on MLBTV. Braves President CEO Derek
2:50:48
Shiller was enthusiastic in sharing the news.
2:50:51
Generations of Braves fans were raised watching games on the
2:50:54
network that shared ownership with the baseball team.
2:50:57
With Braves vision, we believe that we can present Braves
2:51:00
baseball in new an innovative way is allowing us to expand and
2:51:03
elevate our storytelling capabilities across all of our
2:51:06
platforms. The economic model of baseball
2:51:08
broadcast is pretty broken with half the league being produced
2:51:11
by the league now. The Braves, once shown
2:51:13
throughout the country on the Turner Station is during much of
2:51:15
the last half century, will once again be given a chance to stand
2:51:19
out amongst the crowd with Graves vision.
2:51:21
It should be interesting to see how many of the other teams try
2:51:23
to go this route as it has been very lucrative for the Yankees
2:51:26
with the S Network and the Mets with SNY to a lesser degree.
2:51:30
This should be one of the major topics at the next CBA
2:51:33
discussions late next fall and the Pittsburgh Penguins in Team
2:51:38
Canadas captain Sidney Crosby was put on the IR, the
2:51:42
organization, or should say organization, told ESPN on
2:51:46
Wednesday. The future Hall of Famer
2:51:48
suffered a lower body injury when Ducks defenseman Rodko
2:51:51
Goodish fell on top of his leg in the quarterfinals of the
2:51:54
Olympics. Crosby was unable to play in
2:51:57
either the semis or gold medal game, which Canada of course
2:51:59
lost to the US and OT. If Crosby could have played,
2:52:02
maybe it would have been a different result for the
2:52:03
Canadian squad, but apparently Crosby will miss at least the
2:52:06
next 4 weeks with the injury. Before the Olympic break, Crosby
2:52:10
had 27 goals and 59 points, on pace for yet another 80 plus
2:52:14
point season at the age of 38, which will now probably not
2:52:17
happen. The Penguins will sorely miss
2:52:19
their leader as they try to make the playoffs for the first time
2:52:22
since the 2021-2022 season. As play resumes Wednesday, the
2:52:26
Penguins sat in second in the metro with a 2915 and 12 record,
2:52:30
although the blue Jackson capitals are just out of playoff
2:52:32
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2:54:30
Well, Reno is probably raining himself because he's not here.
2:54:35
I don't know where the hell he is, but you know what it it
2:54:39
happens. I mean, he's got a kid running
2:54:40
around probably beating him up with a spoon or maybe whipping
2:54:43
him with a belt. Who knows what's going on over
2:54:45
there? I mean, Reno, he lives in San
2:54:48
Antonio. I mean that that could be one of
2:54:49
the more boring places to live. So, I mean, Speedy, you like San
2:54:53
Antonio? I've never been to San Antonio.
2:54:54
Well, you like it. You think it's beautiful?
2:54:57
Yeah, Well, we did have a, you remember when we had Rich Waltz
2:54:59
on the show and yeah, he actually had the the hotel view
2:55:02
from the Alamo because he was doing that.
2:55:05
He was doing one of the college games that was like the first
2:55:06
weekend of college football. And now that that's as much as I
2:55:09
know whatever was San Antonio. Actually, the only time I've
2:55:12
ever been out of the the time zone was when we were in New
2:55:14
Orleans. I've never been outside the East
2:55:16
time zone. Otherwise, well, broadcasting
2:55:18
can be very weird and I'll never forget.
2:55:21
There's one broadcast I'll never forget because, well, it's
2:55:24
pretty simple. I remember when we had the
2:55:28
Chicago Bulls broadcaster, that show was awkward, but I wasn't
2:55:36
you know what? When we started doing the show
2:55:37
together, Speedy I, I at the end of the show, I would ask him
2:55:40
five weird questions. It didn't matter if it was
2:55:43
players or it would be analysts. I see Reno, we'll get them in.
2:55:47
But I, I, but I want to finish this.
2:55:51
The funny thing is, is that most guys like, liked it.
2:55:55
They, they enjoyed the craziness and, and some of the questions I
2:55:58
asked them. And I'll never forget the
2:56:00
question, who was who was the broadcaster that we had Chuck?
2:56:03
Sworsky. Schwartzky and we never asked
2:56:05
him to come on the show again. I don't know if he ever will.
2:56:07
Be yeah, and we'll try like 10 years or something.
2:56:11
I mean, it's been over 10 years. It's been like 6.
2:56:13
It was 2020. It's a long time.
2:56:16
So the question I asked them is, and this is what scared them
2:56:21
away. I said, if you were a woman and
2:56:24
you had to dress up as a woman to go out in public, what would
2:56:28
you wear? And he looked at me.
2:56:31
He looked up, he shook his head, gave me one of these, looks like
2:56:34
he wanted to kill me. And he said, well, I hope the
2:56:37
show does well in the future. Thanks for letting me.
2:56:40
Come on. We'll talk to you.
2:56:42
Hopefully I'll talk to you soon. And he got off.
2:56:45
He got off this the the video feed.
2:56:49
It was a fun. It was the forward.
2:56:50
At that time we didn't even have any videos.
2:56:51
We didn't even see a reaction. We got it.
2:56:54
Well, the reaction was pretty straightforward.
2:56:57
I mean, I mean, it was there. I'd only have to look at a face
2:57:01
to know what he was doing. You know, he probably wanted to
2:57:03
kill me anyways. That's something I always
2:57:07
remember and never forget what happened to Reno?
2:57:10
No, he's in. He's in all.
2:57:11
Right, let's put the let's put the old Johnster in look.
2:57:15
Up please. And there's the kid I mean.
2:57:17
Sorry, yeah, I'm here. There you are.
2:57:19
I hear it. I hear it.
2:57:21
You can't. You can see your face up buddy.
2:57:24
There you go, let's see, There it is.
2:57:26
Let's sing a song. To you, it hit our night, ran
2:57:28
away from us, it ran away from us.
2:57:30
So we're doing bad time right now, but I got a couple games
2:57:34
for tomorrow. I don't want to give you what's.
2:57:37
Your son's name? What's your son's name?
2:57:40
It's Camden. Camden.
2:57:41
I like that name. I like.
2:57:43
That yeah, I'm still doing my work for tomorrow.
2:57:46
I do have two games I like that I'm going to give out.
2:57:52
Is it one of the games right there?
2:57:54
For more plays, that's not grandpa.
2:57:58
Do I look well? Thank you.
2:58:02
Thank you, Camden, for Grandpa. Hold on one second.
2:58:12
You can you can cherry toy is that great cherry toy pick up
2:58:16
toy. All right, I'm going to give
2:58:19
out. I'll go right now.
2:58:20
I'll get out two boys I got OK, bye.
2:58:23
I got I got Illinois Harry, so just two boys.
2:58:29
I got Illinois winning the game against Michigan.
2:58:33
I think it's a great spot. You're getting a point and 1/2
2:58:36
at home. They're probably the better team
2:58:37
on that court. And it was also coming off a
2:58:40
couple games where they probably misperformed.
2:58:42
So Michigan's coming off. They're pretty much a number one
2:58:46
seed lock, kind of a favorite to win it all that bad loss to do,
2:58:50
but it's a good loss to do. I'm not sure how they're going
2:58:52
to bounce back from that. I think Illinois wins the game.
2:58:55
The other one is are we going to get a team to go 29 and O?
2:58:59
Absolutely. I think the team goes 29.
2:59:01
I know the craziest part about Miami is there's conversation
2:59:06
and they do not win their tournament.
2:59:09
They're a bubble team. They are if they put up against
2:59:13
Auburn, Auburn's got better. Quad one wins.
2:59:16
Miami has no quad one or quad two wins.
2:59:19
It's kind of a a weird season for them.
2:59:23
I like the over in tomorrow's game.
2:59:24
It's 161 1/2. They have and and many of their
2:59:28
games they allow teams to stick around.
2:59:31
They play at a very fast pace that allows the other team to
2:59:34
shoot at a high volume in a high clip.
2:59:36
Now they're also going to score a lot of points.
2:59:39
They got to get to 90, but this is a team that's scored 90 and
2:59:42
scored a hundred a couple a few times this year.
2:59:44
They scored a lot of points. They just their defense is not
2:59:47
as good either. It's Miami, Ohio teams, a great
2:59:50
story, but they were remind me of a couple years ago that
2:59:53
Murray State Racers team that went undefeated into the
2:59:55
tournament. I want to say they lost the
2:59:58
first game in that tournament as well.
3:00:00
They got there and then they're like 11 seed or something.
3:00:02
They lost the first game. That's this that Miami team.
3:00:05
So give me the over in their game tomorrow.
3:00:07
Give me Illinois and a little bit of a slight underdog roll to
3:00:10
win that game. Just two spots today.
3:00:12
I'm still, you know, with basketball because sometimes the
3:00:15
spread doesn't come out with enough time.
3:00:19
Johnny, we actually have a segment we do usually on
3:00:21
Thursdays call your shot and actually use that Miami last
3:00:25
week as I I called it where they wouldn't win the conference.
3:00:29
They would not win the conference.
3:00:31
I think they win the conference. I will say there's a lot of
3:00:34
games that they've got a double overtime win here.
3:00:39
They were they, they won a game by like 3.
3:00:41
They were failed by 14 in like there's a lot of games where
3:00:44
they're just kind of like they're letting teams hang
3:00:46
around very dangerous in tournament time, especially in
3:00:49
the in the conference tournament.
3:00:51
I do think that Akron is probably their best chance.
3:00:54
I think Akron can win that conference.
3:00:56
I I think Akron's probably going to go in probably favored.
3:00:59
If you look at their strength of schedule out of conference, they
3:01:02
probably had a tougher out of conference schedule.
3:01:04
So I think Akron can win the conference for sure.
3:01:07
But if that's the case and Miami goes undefeated into the
3:01:12
conference and they probably meet them in the semis or the
3:01:15
finals and lose, there's there's no way you keep them out.
3:01:20
They would be at that .32 and one they shouldn't, they got to
3:01:24
be in the tournament. Well, I I want to tell you
3:01:26
something. So I've been fasting since
3:01:28
midnight last night. And when you said spread, I
3:01:31
thought you said bread and I was about to kill you.
3:01:34
OK. So I, I just want to let you
3:01:36
know that I'm starving right now.
3:01:38
And I hear bread. And then your son Camden says,
3:01:41
is that grandpa? I mean, come on, man.
3:01:43
What that Do I look that old? Seriously.
3:01:48
I mean I thought I looked pretty young and now he calls me as
3:01:51
that grandpa. What does grandpa look like?
3:01:54
Grandpa, how? How old are you, Barrel?
3:01:57
Let's put it that way. I'm probably the same age as
3:01:59
you, you know, so. I'm 30. 8 All right, so I'm a
3:02:04
little bit older than you. I'm 43.
3:02:06
OK, Yeah, yeah, right there. Grandpa's grandpa.
3:02:09
He's a younger grandpa. He's in his 50s.
3:02:11
Yeah. Well, I'm not Grandpa.
3:02:12
Tell, tell your son, Camden, you know, lay off on that layoff.
3:02:16
On that technically, technically you could be, I look, I have, I
3:02:19
have another son that's 19 and I if he had, if he good thing he
3:02:24
didn't, but at this point like he could have and I would have
3:02:27
been a 37 year old, 38 year old grandpa.
3:02:29
So it's the age to be in today's world.
3:02:34
Oh well, today's world is not my world yet.
3:02:38
I'm not even a dad yet. I'm being called Grandpa.
3:02:43
Skip this generation. And you know what, while we're
3:02:46
talking one last play, I'm I'm thinking I'm just talking it
3:02:49
through right now. Take the spread in that Miami,
3:02:52
OH game. Give me the plus points on the
3:02:54
on the visitor, on the home team, on the home team.
3:02:58
I think they do hang around this game.
3:02:59
Miami of Ohio has let teams hang around all year.
3:03:01
So add that little that could be your parlay piece.
3:03:04
Get that little plus 12 1/2, get some good value out in 3 plays,
3:03:08
then we'll take the over in that game.
3:03:10
We'll take that plus the plus points to the home side and
3:03:13
we'll take the Illinois money line.
3:03:15
We'll take that would be 3 games.
3:03:17
And maybe we'll take Wes that he grew some hair.
3:03:19
Wes is actually at a murder mystery party right now.
3:03:22
I believe it. You know those are fun.
3:03:24
Yeah. Those are.
3:03:25
Those are. Those are a lot of fun.
3:03:27
Good for Wes. I mean, he needs he needs the
3:03:29
time to just relax. I mean, he's just that guy
3:03:34
doesn't stop. Are y'all doing a Vegas show?
3:03:37
A Vegas March Madness show. Maybe we will.
3:03:40
Maybe we'll. Bobby in Vegas.
3:03:42
All right, there you go. Screw you, fish.
3:03:47
That is definitely not me. I kind of feel like that right
3:03:53
now. I'm so hungry.
3:03:57
Meryl, I told it to draw you as a grandpa in like the streets of
3:04:01
Les Mis. I look like for bread.
3:04:02
I look like Bill Murray. That's what I look like.
3:04:05
That looks like Bill Murray. I.
3:04:08
Could I could see that? I look like Bill Murray right
3:04:10
there. Come on, man.
3:04:14
Anyways, thank you, Fish, for making me even more sicker to my
3:04:17
stomach. Anyways, Yeah, what a show.
3:04:21
What a show. Cash those tickets, boy.
3:04:23
Anyways, Reno, Johnny Camden saying that I look like a
3:04:27
grandpa. I mean, and then, you know, he
3:04:32
said spread, but I thought he said bread.
3:04:34
I was a little hungry. There, Why wait?
3:04:35
Why are you fasting? I had to get it.
3:04:37
I, I, if you, you know, if you listen to the beginning of the
3:04:40
show, I'm getting a colonoscopy tomorrow, so.
3:04:43
Don't think can't do that. Can't they do that shoot with
3:04:44
blood nowadays? Yeah, well, screw them.
3:04:47
They're pissing me off. I'm.
3:04:48
I'm hungry, man. I could bite somebody's head
3:04:50
off. I Speedy, you know I'm not going
3:04:53
to say it on live radio. I don't get myself into trouble
3:04:55
here. There we go.
3:04:58
I look fat in that picture, Fish.
3:04:59
What the hell is that all bad? I look like I'm.
3:05:02
Hi fellas, I'll see y'all. Have a good night.
3:05:06
See you later, bro. So I look fat in that picture.
3:05:09
What kind of picture is that? I mean, you put up a grandpa
3:05:14
picture. I look like Bill Murray, then
3:05:17
there it is. That's Bill Murray, not me with
3:05:20
a Yankee hat on, by the way. He's a Cubs fan, you know, so
3:05:24
And that's. How we know it's you in the
3:05:28
future? That's not me.
3:05:29
When you're fasting for a future.
3:05:31
Colonoscopy, I am well, listen, I am not doing this again for a
3:05:35
while after this. I'm done.
3:05:38
I'm done with the colonoscopy clap and I'm sticking tubes up
3:05:41
my ass and, you know, fishing whatever they're fishing.
3:05:44
This is just the foreplay you're dealing with right now.
3:05:46
Oh. Thank you.
3:05:47
I mean, that's foreplay, all right?
3:05:49
I'm starving. That's foreplay, all right?
3:05:52
I'm, I'm lost, dude. I am hungry.
3:05:55
My stomach has been growling. I've been drinking water.
3:05:57
I've been in and out of the bathroom like 7-8 times during
3:06:00
this show. No, that's that's that's crazy.
3:06:02
Probably three times, all right? All I've been doing is drinking
3:06:05
water and piss it. I mean, what kind of, what kind
3:06:08
of fairness is this for me? I'm yelling at the doctor
3:06:11
tomorrow when I wake up from that that sleep.
3:06:13
Because the first thing you see, you don't see the doctor when
3:06:16
you're laying down and they put you to sleep.
3:06:18
But you see the doctor standing there right over your head when
3:06:21
you wake up and your eyes open up and I'm going to be like, you
3:06:23
motherfucker, I'm going to choke him or something.
3:06:26
I mean, this, this guy is making me sick to my stomach.
3:06:30
Then I'm going to be like, Brittany, take me to a diner.
3:06:32
I need to eat like two or three meals.
3:06:37
Dude, this is ridiculous. It's not fair to me.
3:06:40
This isn't fair. I'm starving.
3:06:42
What are you going to eat when you're finally done with this?
3:06:44
Well, I like my grilled cheese, but maybe we'll go to Denny's
3:06:48
and have some nice delicious. Denny's.
3:06:51
I love Denny's. Yeah, I love it.
3:06:52
What, You don't like Denny's? What's wrong with Denny's?
3:06:55
Do you want me to? No, I good thing I don't want to
3:06:58
know. I mean, I know the guy that runs
3:07:00
the Denny's by us and they're very clean.
3:07:02
And so I don't know what you're going to say, but I don't want
3:07:06
to throw up, so let's keep at that, all right?
3:07:08
Give all water again. You're not going to throw up.
3:07:10
What? Are you trying to do here?
3:07:11
I haven't gotten to dance as well.
3:07:13
Grand Slam breakfast at 4:00 in the morning When I was in
3:07:15
college, Denny's was clutch. That's my nice thing to say.
3:07:18
Oh. Thank you.
3:07:20
My nice thing to say is every time I ask for more toast, they
3:07:23
give me like a slew of it. They give me like a loaf of
3:07:25
toast. And I'm like, who's eating this?
3:07:28
I mean, like, and they're like you said you wanted, you know,
3:07:31
two more pieces. Like I didn't want a loaf.
3:07:33
So that's the only thing I could say about Denny's that I didn't
3:07:36
like. Anyways, we call this in like
3:07:38
flame. Go with my lady.
3:07:40
I've often heard that you'd give me a warm welcome if ever we met
3:07:42
again. In like flan flan flan.
3:07:50
So ladies and gentlemen, me and Fish were going back and forth
3:07:54
and Fish was like, you know, Bleacher Report came out with
3:07:57
their top ten players right now if.
3:08:01
They Errol the the ringer not I'm sorry it was my mistake
3:08:04
earlier. Is the ringer not Bleacher?
3:08:05
Report I'm sorry the ringer came up with their top ten players
3:08:09
right now in the NBA right now as we look towards the you know
3:08:15
the All Star break and now you know the rest of the season is
3:08:20
is up for grabs. So I'm I'm going to go through
3:08:23
their top ten and I'm going to rate them my way because I'm
3:08:27
sure my way is completely different from theirs.
3:08:30
So at #10 they have Donovan Mitchell.
3:08:36
Donovan Mitchell, yeah, I wouldn't say Donovan Mitchell at
3:08:40
#10 right now. I would put the one I'm trying
3:08:46
to, you know what, I'm going to do it.
3:08:48
Screw it. I'm going to put Jaylen Brown.
3:08:51
At #10 Jaylen Brown has had a sensational year.
3:08:54
He's been the leader. He's going to be up for an MVP
3:08:56
this year. He's not going to win it, but
3:08:58
he's he's averaging 29.1 points per game.
3:09:01
He's been the team leader. Tatum's been gone.
3:09:03
He's shooting his his, his percentage.
3:09:05
His shooting percentage is, is at a high clip right now.
3:09:07
His three-point percentage has been up.
3:09:09
He's been a very good rebound this year, a rebound of this
3:09:12
year. So I would have Jaylen Brown as
3:09:16
my #10. You're kidding, He's already a
3:09:19
lot for LJ MVP. Yeah.
3:09:20
Well, that's a whole story at #9 They have Kade Cunningham now.
3:09:29
I think Kate Cunningham is a little bit higher than this.
3:09:31
I wouldn't say #9 The Ringer is on drugs.
3:09:34
So at number at #9 I would put Donovan Mitchell.
3:09:40
Donovan Mitchell's been great this year, but a great offensive
3:09:44
player for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
3:09:45
Played a little bit different, has more assists this year than
3:09:48
he did last year. He's become a really good team
3:09:51
leader for them. So I would put Donovan Mitchell
3:09:54
at #9 at #8 they have Steph Curry.
3:09:57
First of all. Steph Curry is not a part of my
3:09:59
top 10. He has missed a significant
3:10:01
amount of time. You cannot put this guy in my
3:10:04
top ten. You can put him in the top 10.
3:10:06
This is all the Steph Curry lovers, and I'm sorry he's not
3:10:10
in the top ten. He's missed a significant amount
3:10:12
of time. I drafted him in our fantasy
3:10:14
league, but I still wouldn't put him there.
3:10:17
So at #8 I would have Kawhi Leonard.
3:10:23
Kawhi Leonard has been sensational right now for the
3:10:25
Clippers. I, he has done everything right
3:10:29
to, to be in this position and I, I think he's been a really
3:10:32
good offensive player and that's why they traded James Harden
3:10:35
because Kawhi is having a great year.
3:10:36
Now. Do they trade Kawhi Leonard or
3:10:39
does he go to free agency next year only?
3:10:41
I think he goes to free agency because he's having a great year
3:10:44
and maybe that's why he's having a great year.
3:10:46
So Kawhi Leonard eight at #7 I would have Anthony Edwards.
3:10:52
They have Kawhi Leonard at #7 I have Kawhi at 8, so I'm putting
3:10:59
Anthony Edwards at #7 Anthony Edwards has been sensational.
3:11:04
He really has been, but he's been up and down all season
3:11:07
long. Blaming players when team, you
3:11:09
know, the team isn't playing well.
3:11:11
That's been a big problem. But Anthony Edwards is as good
3:11:14
as any offensive player right now in the NBA.
3:11:17
He is athletically gifted. He can do all the things that
3:11:20
you want your superstar player to do, and he's taking his team
3:11:23
all the way to a final. But we'll see what this team
3:11:26
does in the the the last three or four weeks of the season.
3:11:29
If this team becomes playoff bound and it's contender in the
3:11:33
playoffs, only time will tell. And Anthony Edwards has to be
3:11:37
the most important part to that roster.
3:11:39
If that happens at number six, they have Anthony Edwards at
3:11:43
number six and I have no idea how this guy is not in the top
3:11:46
10. Jalen Bronson has been one of
3:11:49
the best offensive players in the NBA all season long.
3:11:53
He's going to be up for MVP. He's going to get I, I don't
3:11:56
know if he's going to get #1 votes, but he's going to get #2
3:11:58
votes and #3 votes. He has been as good as any point
3:12:01
guard in the Eastern Conference. You can argue Kate Cunningham
3:12:04
has been a little bit better. I don't know if I would say that
3:12:07
he's been better. Jayla Brunson is the leader of
3:12:09
that team, the captain of Team Madison Square Garden, and the
3:12:12
Knicks are playing as well as they have.
3:12:14
Jalen Brunson should be on this list.
3:12:15
So I completely disagree. He's number six.
3:12:18
He's on this list, not Steph Curry at #5 Giannis.
3:12:23
They have Giannis. Usually if Giannis is playing, I
3:12:28
put him in the top. I think he's higher than top
3:12:30
five. This is one pick that I would
3:12:32
agree with them, even if he's missed a significant amount of
3:12:35
time. You cannot keep him out of the
3:12:36
top ten. He when he's in the game, he's
3:12:39
as good as anybody in the league.
3:12:40
He's averaging 30 points. He's averaging a ton of
3:12:43
rebounds, 9 or 10 rebounds a game.
3:12:45
I mean, he's, he's as good as any guy in the league at his
3:12:48
position. I, I, you can't keep him out of
3:12:50
the top, top 10. So Giannis, I would, I would
3:12:53
agree with him at #4 they have Luca now.
3:12:58
I'm sorry, Luca Doncic is is a little bit better they So I
3:13:04
think Victor Webinama has been the 4th best player in the
3:13:07
league. He's been sensational.
3:13:09
He's he's a great shot blocker. He's the best in the league.
3:13:12
He's a great defensive player because of his stilt legs and
3:13:15
his offensive ability, shooting 3 ball handling at 7 foot four.
3:13:19
And he's been remarkable. He really has.
3:13:21
He's been better than I thought he was going to be.
3:13:23
Michael Jordan asked. Not a chance, but a great
3:13:25
player. He's one of the elite players in
3:13:27
the NBA. You can build your roster and
3:13:29
your team with with him on it. So webbing, I'm a fourth best
3:13:33
player. The number 3 is Luka Doncic.
3:13:35
There's no question Luka has been the third best player in
3:13:39
the league. He usually is a top three
3:13:41
player. He's been a top three player
3:13:42
over the last, you know, three years.
3:13:46
Here's the problem. How the hell does Dallas trade a
3:13:49
top three player for a bag of bones?
3:13:52
And I mean, Anthony Davis is a bag of bones.
3:13:54
It makes no sense. A bag of broken bones, yeah.
3:13:57
It, it makes no sense how Luka Doncic goes to the Lakers for
3:14:00
the garbage that they traded for.
3:14:02
Makes no sense. It, I mean, honestly, it's a
3:14:05
smack in the face for any GM to think that that was a good move
3:14:09
or I, I mean, everybody's mouth dropped when that came out and
3:14:12
it was reported. It was pathetic.
3:14:15
So Luka Doncic, third best player in the league, no doubt.
3:14:17
And that's why LeBron might be right.
3:14:19
He should have shot the ball, But that's about the only thing
3:14:22
LeBron has been right about as far as I'm concerned at #2 they
3:14:25
have Shay Gilchrist, Alexander, I would agree with them.
3:14:31
He's been the second best player in the league.
3:14:33
He's been amazing. He really has.
3:14:34
He's not going to play 60 semi games.
3:14:36
He's not going to win the MVP this year.
3:14:39
But I, I, I, I would say he's been sensational.
3:14:42
I mean, he is the best point guard in the NBI.
3:14:45
Don't think you can argue. And, and that goes back to the
3:14:47
Clippers. What the hell were they?
3:14:49
I mean, 2, two teams and two organizations going completely
3:14:55
the opposite way. I mean, honestly, but Gilchrist
3:14:58
Alexander was traded for Paul George.
3:15:01
Remember that? And boy, oh boy, I'm, I'm
3:15:05
thinking, OK, C has been the the aggressor and the subset, you
3:15:10
know, the team that's dominated in that pic.
3:15:12
So. And don't forget Jaylen
3:15:14
Williams. That's right.
3:15:15
That's true. That's true too.
3:15:16
I mean, think about that. Anyways, Wolf is right and at #1
3:15:21
I think he's been the best player in the NBA for the last
3:15:25
seven years. Got robbed last year.
3:15:26
And I'm not GI mean SGA. I'm not taking shots at SGA.
3:15:31
I'm not. He had a great season, MVP.
3:15:34
I'm giving it to this man. This man has been the best all
3:15:39
around player. Triple double machine.
3:15:41
Is he a great defender? No, he's OK.
3:15:45
But his offensive ability and what he could do on the court,
3:15:49
he could stay on the court for a significant amount of time at
3:15:52
his weight. He's not athletically gifted as
3:15:54
you can see his body tone, it's definitely not.
3:15:57
I mean, you could see his stomach jiggle sometimes when
3:15:59
he's running down the court, but this guy is one of the best
3:16:02
passers at his. He's the best passer at his
3:16:05
position I've ever seen. He's versatile in many different
3:16:09
ways as an offensive player. Big man besides Carl Anthony
3:16:14
Towns, this guy is probably the second best big man, 3 point
3:16:17
shooter in the league. Rebounding machine.
3:16:20
I I don't think you can argue this guy's the best player in
3:16:23
the league and I don't think you can argue that he's going to win
3:16:26
the MVP this year. Nicola Yokich is the best player
3:16:30
and has been the best player in a in a seven-year stand.
3:16:34
And I think they're right about these two guys.
3:16:37
But everything else I would have a backlash and argue and, and
3:16:40
the Giannis, I would say 1-2 and five.
3:16:44
They were right about it. Everything else completely
3:16:46
wrong, completely wrong. And, and the fact that they have
3:16:49
Steph Curry on this list, it's just ridiculous.
3:16:53
I, I, I don't get it. Yeah, that's all I'm gonna say
3:16:57
about that. And I think everybody would
3:16:59
agree with me on this. And.
3:17:00
Definitely the top five, yeah. Yeah, I think you don't agree
3:17:05
with me on some of the other ones.
3:17:07
All you're not saying. No, no, I'm saying for their
3:17:08
list. All right, the top.
3:17:10
No, I'm with you on Steph Curry. Steph Curry should not be on
3:17:13
that list. Yeah, I mean, I don't get it.
3:17:15
And how does Jayla Brunson not make this this group he's been
3:17:19
as? Good.
3:17:20
I looked at that list and I sent it to you because they he wasn't
3:17:23
in that top ten and I had to hear what you to say.
3:17:25
I agree with you. I don't know if I put Brunson
3:17:27
ahead of Cade. I would it's I think it's those
3:17:29
two it like 6 or 7 and. You want me to tell you why I
3:17:32
would put Brunson over Cade? And I know everybody puts Cade
3:17:35
because of what Detroit's doing right now.
3:17:37
I just think that playing in Madison Square Garden, the
3:17:39
pressure that this guy has on him being the captain of the New
3:17:42
York Knicks, it's a little bit more harsher than playing in
3:17:45
Detroit. And it's a lost city that
3:17:48
nobody, no offense to Detroit fans, nobody cares about.
3:17:51
So as we all know, no offense, I'm not taking shots at Detroit
3:17:55
fans. I'm just saying when you think
3:17:58
of basketball towns and cities, Detroit's more of a hockey town
3:18:03
and a hockey city than it is a basketball.
3:18:07
I'm not taking shots at Detroit fans.
3:18:09
Take that. Me being fair to you guys, they
3:18:13
still to me, they're not a basketball town.
3:18:16
That's all. That's it.
3:18:18
I feel bad saying that. I don't want to hurt anybody's
3:18:20
feelings. Yeah, I do.
3:18:21
I don't give crap. Anyways, I'm just telling you
3:18:25
the truth. Anyways.
3:18:26
What's that smell? Yeah.
3:18:28
Hold up, what is that smell? What's that?
3:18:34
Smell. Wow, you don't see that every
3:18:38
day. Yeah, it's just been a crazy
3:18:40
one. Yeah, it definitely has.
3:18:42
And being called somebody's grandpa and somebody, it seems
3:18:48
like everybody's speaking or just I smell food.
3:18:51
So I'm. I'm hungry.
3:18:52
Britney's cooking, but I can't eat any of it.
3:18:55
So that makes me sick. If it's lactose intolerance, you
3:18:59
can't have Alfredo sauce bro. Yeah.
3:19:01
Well, I can't have anything, so it's not fair to me.
3:19:05
I get to watch her eat. All right?
3:19:07
That makes me feel good, you know?
3:19:09
Anyways, all right, so what's that smell?
3:19:12
Tonight we're going to go. So if you guys don't know the
3:19:15
rules of the game, it's pretty simple.
3:19:17
We're going to tell you a story and we're going to tell you what
3:19:18
it smells like. And Speedy has some of the most
3:19:20
awkward smells. Oh yeah, you're right.
3:19:23
You'll definitely get one from me tonight.
3:19:24
I'm sure we will. All right, so we'll go.
3:19:28
Tommy Fish, Speedy B. Here we go, all.
3:19:33
Right, so I'm going to go over to some WWE, but not necessarily
3:19:38
into the world or the ring of wrestling.
3:19:40
You see, I'm going to be talking about former CEO Vince McMahon
3:19:44
because I don't know if anybody recently saw, but over the last
3:19:47
week, a video of emerged the body Cam video of police
3:19:52
officers and his interaction between a car crash that was
3:19:55
actually reported with McMahon this past summer.
3:19:58
Now Vince McMahon, who is now 80, was driving a 2024 Bentley.
3:20:03
At more than 100 mph on Merritt Parkway over in Westport,
3:20:07
according to the state police now McMahon was accelerating
3:20:10
away, then braking too late to avoid crashing into the back of
3:20:15
a BMW. His Bentley then swerved into a
3:20:18
guardrail, careening into the back of the highway or back
3:20:21
cross of the highway, creating even a cloud.
3:20:23
Dirt and car parts going all around.
3:20:26
Thank you fish very much. But this this is the aftermath
3:20:29
of when the cop eventually made contact with Vince McMahon.
3:20:32
Now, I was talking with Errol about it as well too.
3:20:34
But I don't know if, you know, Vince McMahon was a little bit
3:20:38
of indulging of extracurricular activities before driving or a
3:20:41
little bit on the, you know, little bit on the zooted side or
3:20:44
whatnot. But it was a very interesting
3:20:46
car crash that a lot of people are calling him spoiled or I
3:20:50
mean, hey, this is a billionaire.
3:20:51
This is a billionaire, man. I mean, it must be, must be
3:20:54
pretty easy to get in a car accident and be a billionaire,
3:20:56
have everything go away with it without the trace of a of even
3:21:00
an accident being there anymore. But yeah, Vince McMahon being in
3:21:03
a three car accident, I don't know what to say.
3:21:05
This man is over 80 years old, and it couldn't have happened to
3:21:08
either one of the most controversial persons in the
3:21:11
world today of sports. So what does that smell like?
3:21:14
Well, it's got to smell like the diaper that Vince McMahon
3:21:17
currently wears on himself, and he was probably driving home to
3:21:21
change it himself. So that's going to be what it
3:21:24
smells like today. Fat McMahon.
3:21:26
I mean, did you see how fat he looked in that picture?
3:21:28
That dude looks all kinds of interesting nowadays.
3:21:33
You know, you see, you see a picture of him and it almost
3:21:36
looks like it's a yeah. You see one with him of a cane.
3:21:38
You see one with him out of shape now and now in a car
3:21:41
accident so. I'll do my famous impression of
3:21:44
Vince McMahon. You're fired.
3:21:46
That's pretty. That's pretty good.
3:21:50
That's pretty good one. All right, I'm going to go to
3:21:52
football guys. And this one, it's just, it's
3:21:56
almost like it's like we could have saw this coming.
3:22:00
The Colts have given quarterback Anthony Richardson senior
3:22:03
permission to seek a trade. Yes, not even able to battle
3:22:10
Daniel Jones who has a torn Achilles and no contract with
3:22:15
the team. They are not going to even give
3:22:19
Anthony Richardson senior. I believe he was drafted either
3:22:23
4th or 5th speedy, something like that top five pick a few
3:22:27
years back. He had never really played like
3:22:31
like more than like. I don't think he played a full
3:22:34
college season at any point in time while he was there.
3:22:36
He played less than like two seasons of football when like
3:22:39
total in his like life after high school didn't work out.
3:22:44
Shocker. But the Colts saying that
3:22:47
they're trying to trade him as if someone is going to take him
3:22:54
for any amount of money. But then it gets better.
3:22:59
The rumors are the Vikings are interested because the Vikings
3:23:04
who had Sam Darnold decided to give him up for JJ McCarthy, who
3:23:09
apparently also can't play football that well in the NFL
3:23:14
level at least. So what is all that smell like?
3:23:17
It smells like a colt taking a huge pile of horse crap all over
3:23:23
the Viking boat and then they sail out the sea like Vikings
3:23:27
do. Like that aiming arrow and make
3:23:29
it stink for all to smell. You know fish, you know fish.
3:23:33
I actually looked real quick. His only full complete season
3:23:38
over in college was his last year in 2022 and he was one game
3:23:42
short of having a complete season 1 game short.
3:23:45
And it's it's you guys were mentioning 4th overall pick.
3:23:48
I don't know. His numbers weren't all that
3:23:49
great to be 4th overall. I don't understand.
3:23:51
We all knew he was wrong. Yeah, I don't.
3:23:52
I don't understand what we're doing, but.
3:23:56
All right, so I'll shift to some baseball here.
3:23:58
Don't worry, Errol, this is something that you wouldn't eat
3:24:00
anyway because it's nasty. So I get this one.
3:24:04
I get this e-mail because I follow Anthony to come home with
3:24:06
the New York Mets. He has a lot of prospect
3:24:08
newsletters. One of them is Ryan Lambert, who
3:24:11
is a pitching prospect. So apparently it comes out that
3:24:14
him two years ago decided to increase his velocity with a
3:24:19
diet that consisted of eating 30 raw eggs per day in a span of
3:24:25
over a month. Allegedly, it's going to improve
3:24:27
his velocity. Now, the results did speak for
3:24:29
it a little. He's up to 99.6 in spring
3:24:31
training now. OK, great.
3:24:33
Yeah, we'll see if you actually could develop as a pitcher.
3:24:36
You want to claim it's because you were eating a bunch of raw
3:24:38
eggs? It was freaking nasty yolks.
3:24:40
You're going to eat thirty of those a day a month?
3:24:43
Yeah. Good luck with hopefully that
3:24:44
you can make you a roster spot on this team that already
3:24:46
doesn't have a lot of pitching anyway.
3:24:48
Hopefully a raw eggs did you? Because you're probably not
3:24:50
going to make the team. So what does it smell like?
3:24:53
It smells like Noah Syndergaard, another guy that tried to
3:24:55
increase his velocity by working out, and Matt Harvey, who fall
3:24:58
off a Cliff after he tried to increase his velocity bathing in
3:25:02
a tub of raw eggs the size of Daniel Vogelbach.
3:25:05
The gross sexual action of cream on somebody's face and this.
3:25:08
One's like all that. Now cream would be probably
3:25:12
generous with any of you midwives.
3:25:15
Oh God, I hope there's no intimacy in that freaking tub of
3:25:20
raw eggs. Beneficial anyways, all right,
3:25:30
my final what's that smell goes to Charlotte's con canoople.
3:25:35
He reached yet another milestone in his remarkable rookie season
3:25:39
for the number four pick out of Duke.
3:25:43
The Hornet swing man broke Keegan Murray's NBA rookie
3:25:48
record for three pointers, making his 207th on Thursday
3:25:54
night against the Indiana Pacers.
3:25:56
Canoople connected on five threes in the first half and
3:26:01
then broke the record in the third.
3:26:03
Quarter. And you know, it comes back to
3:26:07
having Cooper Flag and Con Canoople in the final four with
3:26:13
14 point lead with three minutes left to go and choking.
3:26:20
Yeah. And I'm arguing.
3:26:22
I'm not going to mention any names in off air.
3:26:25
They know who I'm talking about. Telling me.
3:26:27
I'm going to say Jeff telling me that Shire is an unbelievable
3:26:33
coach and everybody should give him props and da, da, da, da,
3:26:35
da. And I said he was on drugs and
3:26:38
taking him over Bobby Hurley. And he says, well, what is Bobby
3:26:42
Hurley? Well, if he goes what it smells
3:26:44
like, it smells like the wonderful dinner, lunch,
3:26:48
breakfast I'm going to have after my colonoscopy tomorrow.
3:26:52
That's what it smells like. It's going to smell nice and
3:26:55
delicious because my Duke Blue Devils are kicking ass right now
3:26:59
in the NBA in the Cooper flag and con canupal.
3:27:02
So it's going to it's going to smell.
3:27:05
It's going to smell really good and hopefully my Cambusher,
3:27:08
which I'm getting attacked all of social media about my
3:27:11
Cambuser dig because everybody thinks the Baisa and and Darren
3:27:18
Peterson is is a better player. I think they're out of their
3:27:21
minds and when, you know, two or three years ago in their NBA.
3:27:26
Careers, I think all. Three of them are going to be
3:27:27
great players. I'm going to tell you guys who
3:27:30
is right, who is right because Cam Boozer is by far the best
3:27:34
player in that class. I don't care what people are
3:27:36
saying with their athletic ability and all that other crap.
3:27:39
So I boozer's pretty athletic and very gifted as well.
3:27:44
So I don't know where they're coming up with all this garbage,
3:27:46
but we'll see. Anyways, that's it for a show,
3:27:49
ladies and gentlemen, It it's a it was a wonderful thank you to
3:27:51
Neil Smith. We love you, Neil.
3:27:53
I I meant every word I said about you as an NHL or a hockey
3:27:58
guru. If there's anybody I need to go
3:28:00
to, to ask a hockey question to, I'm going to Neil because this
3:28:04
man knows honestly how to build teams and how to build
3:28:07
championships. So I'm not going to take any
3:28:09
shots at Neil Smith. And I don't know I any fan, any
3:28:13
fan, including no, you know, Speedy saying no because I'm,
3:28:17
he's pretty much protecting Neil.
3:28:19
Not to, to say that that this guy is is not not born to be in
3:28:23
the Hall of Fame. This guy should be in the Hall
3:28:25
of Fame and that the NHL needs to allow this guy to head out to
3:28:31
Toronto and enjoy that wonderful, wonderful speech he
3:28:35
will lay on to all the Ranger fans and and all the, you know,
3:28:40
guys including Mike Keenan to go F himself.
3:28:42
So yeah. So thank you to Neil Smith, We
3:28:46
love you. So thank you and thank you to
3:28:48
all the fans, all the people that listen to us and download
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us on Spotify and Apple on the video and audio, all the fans on
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TikTok and Instagram, which is pretty booming right now.
3:28:59
And TikTok, Instagram and X hopefully, you know, the X
3:29:05
starts moving. We need to get that thing
3:29:07
moving. I mean, it's not easy.
3:29:08
These these platforms are not easy to go, especially when
3:29:11
you're you're not you're not on a big major platform, but we're
3:29:15
we're getting there. And when when it moves in the
3:29:18
right direction, we'll kick everybody on the way out,
3:29:20
including the people that we can't stand.
3:29:23
Yeah and our YouTube channel now our YouTube channel is, you
3:29:26
know, moving and but not moving fast enough.
3:29:29
And we're not a niche. And I know people are going to
3:29:32
say, well, if you talked about NBA, if you're talking about the
3:29:35
Knicks or you're talking about just the Yankees, your, your,
3:29:39
your platform on YouTube would really be booming.
3:29:41
But well, that's not who we are. And, and we're not going to
3:29:44
change that. Unfortunately, it might hurt our
3:29:47
niche and, and where YouTube puts us as far as algorithm, but
3:29:54
you know, we, we wish, you know, and we hope that the fans really
3:29:57
start to tune in more. That's why we, we go live on, on
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YouTube for you guys. We want you to come and watch us
3:30:03
live and instead of listening to our record.
3:30:06
I know I'm not saying everybody's got families.
3:30:08
They got lives and they, they, they want to drive or they want
3:30:11
to watch us in a repeat. That's fine.
3:30:13
That's why podcast podcasting is podcasting.
3:30:15
But we, we hope that more fans would be tuned into what we're
3:30:21
doing. We put a great show on for you
3:30:22
guys. We put a lot of work into it,
3:30:24
and we want you guys to enjoy all the benefits of watching us
3:30:27
live because you don't know what's going to happen.
3:30:29
So just saying anyways, that's it for a show.
3:30:33
Who do we have on Mondays? Nothing yet.
3:30:35
Nothing yet. So Speedy's going to Boston to
3:30:39
enjoy his, you know, Celtic pride.
3:30:41
And I don't know what he is, but he's going to Boston to hang out
3:30:45
with his family and hang out with mom, you know, our favorite
3:30:48
woman, you know. Being intimate with any of you
3:30:56
minwits. Yeah.
3:30:57
Well, yeah. Well, or one of these, you know.
3:31:00
This is a good. One for you, no human.
3:31:02
Is a beluga whale scientifically proven or this one?
3:31:09
I like this one. I'm not yanking on a dead man's
3:31:11
Dick. That is also never going to
3:31:13
happen. Ever.
3:31:15
Yeah, there we go anyways. That's speedy, ladies and
3:31:18
gentlemen, anyways. Well, we'll, we'll talk to.
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