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The Bounce That Broke the Borough · Rice on the Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: I guess there's only one way to find out.
• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Let's do it to it right.
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Five, four, three, two, one, zero, all engines running, liftoff.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: We have a liftoff, oh oh.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Beatty with the bat, halliburton with the flex, brunson's burning out, but the garden still expects Lindor's locked in and Soto Slander on deck.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: If game two is a repeat, thibs better check his neck.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, new, oh boy.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: New York, New York.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: Nick's finally got a taste of their own medicine and blew a 20-point lead.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: All while how he's really leaning into this villain role.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, and while that's happening, we're sitting split-screen babe.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: On one side I'm watching the bounce from hell, silence the garden.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: And on the I got Brett Beatty saying please don't send me back down in Boston, and Dominguez walking it off in the Bronx.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: How about all them bees?
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: And what else is new?
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: We got some Soto bashing and I'm trying to quiet it down.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: The media keeps trying to kill my guy and I just won't stand for it.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: I won't, I'm sorry.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: So there I am at the bar, sitting in a Jacob deGrom jersey, vintage Knicks hat, and now I'm reliving 15 years of playoff baggage.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll take another tequila, please.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: Welcome to New York sports, huh.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: And welcome to the only mic that actually speaks for the fans, not the back pages and the clicks.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: This is Rice on the Mics.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: Let's get after it.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: Tranquility Base here.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: The Eagle has landed.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, I promise we're going to dive deep into the Subway Series, my fans and Yankee fans.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: I got a lot to say about soto, about the pitching, about the fans, all of it.
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: But first things first.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: We gotta talk about the knicks, because what just happened at the garden?
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: That wasn't a game, that that's a goddamn collapse.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: And if they lose this series, that moment right there, that just created a whole new generation of fans who will hate Tyrese.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: However, in the way that we grew up hating Reggie Miller, god, I cannot stand him.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: So let's get the stat out of the way, because you've probably heard it by now.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: But if not, buckle up, boys.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: 994-0.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: That was the record.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: That was the record for teams leading by 14 points with under three minutes left.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: Undefeated.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: Undefeated until now Until the Knicks.
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: And listen, listen.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not even mad at the shot.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: I mean it's one of those shots but I'm a little mad at the refs.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: There's plenty of fodder there.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: They missed an obvious goaltending.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: They blew calls all night on both sides.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: But that shot, that bounce, jesus Christ man, that's straight from hell.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: And thank the basketball gods that Halliburton was doing his best KD impression with his toe on the line, because if that was a game-winning three, forget it, forget it.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: He goes straight into the NBA history books right next to Reggie.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Actually, I mean, the ball hung in the air like a soul floating above the city.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: It went so high that it even went off camera if you were watching at home, so you thought the game was over.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: And then, all of a sudden, sure as shit, of course, of course the shot falls so literally.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: Unless you were in the garden, you literally couldn't see the ball drop in until it fell.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, he thinks it's a three.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: They go crazy.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: Premature celebration Hits us with the Reggie choke right there at MSG with Reggie Miller in the building Culling the goddamn game.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: And he points right at him because why wouldn't he?
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: And, of course, reggie points back because he's the absolute worst.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: How he gets it.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: He knows the history, he knows exactly what he's doing.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: He enjoys being the history.
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: He knows exactly what he's doing.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: He enjoys being the heel.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: He thought it was a three and it would have made him a playoff legend instantly.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: Look, reggie was a great player, don't get me wrong, but he wasn't a superstar.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, he was Reggie Miller, but everyone remembers him for us for beating the Knicks, for the eight points in you know 10 seconds, whatever the fuck it was.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: And Hal Burton he was fucking one toe away from being that guy linked to us forever.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: You know what a lot of people forget, though the Pacers lost that series in 94.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: The Pacers lost that series in 94.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: So that's all fun and games, but still came out with the L.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: Let's see if history repeats itself.
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: The worst is, too, that the Garden was ready.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: I mean five minutes before that collapse.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: The place was on fire.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: It was shaking, as they always say that the garden does.
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: Brunson was cooking, towns was super locked in.
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: I mean brunson drops 41 and big cat with 35 and 10 finally showed you some toughness.
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: That what this fan base has been asking for forever.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to win that game and then, fucking, all of a sudden, naysmith turns into steph curry.
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: I mean we fouled him twice, but what does it matter by that point?
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: It was too late.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: You got to push him off the three.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Then, of course, hal burton hits the miracle and the momentum flips, man, and look, I get the chip on, like hal burton's shoulder.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, the players voted him the most overrated player in the league this year.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's gonna put.
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: That's okay to put, that's okay.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: If nobody likes me, fuck them.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: Watch this.
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: And Halliburton is on a team that's of the final four in the league, right.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: But the Knicks, man, look, it's tough to you know.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: You can't say that the Knicks stole games from Boston and Boston didn't give it away, but then turned around and said the Knicks gave this one away and that Indiana didn't steal it.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: But the turnovers, the missed free throws, the lazy switches, foul trouble, they got frazzled, man, you never saw that from this team all year.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: They got comfy and then they got shook.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: You had OG and Big Cat arguing on the bench.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: Cameras barely picked it up, but it got to the point where Brunson had to step up and be dead and be like Yo, enough.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: But Cat, where's that fire?
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: You're yelling at the wrong people, you're yelling at your teammates.
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: Where's that fire?
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: I need you to throw an elbow down in the paint and then even in overtime, after, after all that you take a four-point lead and you still fold.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: The garden was begging you to bounce back and you let it all go again.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: And the worst part, this wasn't one of those like yeah, you know, first game of the series, we're feeling each other out, we'll adjust and we'll get them next time.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: No, this was a fucking, a fucking gut check, man.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: This is a big wake-up call.
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: You dominated them in the regular season, sure, but this is like a young, hungry Pacers team that was in the conference finals last year and, even if they got swept by Boston, they've been here.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: This is the second year in a row and now they want to prove that they're not just like beating teams with injuries, like Giannis with no Lillard or a Donovan Mitchell with no Garland and whatever, like you're giving them a reason to believe that they're the good team in this series.
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: When you're the team that's the good team in this series, and when a team starts believing man mind over matter, that's all it takes sometimes.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: And you finally played the most complete game you have all year.
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: Brunson was unreal Again.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: Cat was strong in the paint, but like you lost, so there goes home court Game, one at the garden gone.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: So instead of being up 1-0, puffing your chest, feeling like you know we're the big bad wolf.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: No, now game two becomes a war, because I'm telling you, if you go down 0-2, heading back to Indiana, you're cooked.
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: You're not just playing to keep the series alive, you're asking yourself to win four of the next five games against a team that's 9-2 in the playoffs right now.
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: You're not chasing wins, I mean, you're trying to chase history.
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: You're chasing every collapse this franchise has ever worn, every demon that's ever worn blue and orange and boys.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: It falls on your shoulders.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, can you bear the load?
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: As fans?
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: We're begging you to.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: We will hang.
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: If you win in New York, especially as a Knick, you won't just get a statue.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: They might fucking.
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: They've already renamed the streets for you.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: You might get a.
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: They might rename Madison Square Garden for you, but you got to be there, you got to get after it.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: You got to kick ass like we know you can.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: We're begging you to as fans.
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: God, game two is going to be Go Knicks, go Knicks.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you, you All right, deep breath.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: The Knicks will be fine, so we hope.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: But now it's time to get into the media.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: Last weekend, new York baseball, boys and girls, the Subway Series and they lived up to the billing.
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: It had everything booze, some bombs, a couple defensive disasters, just a whole lot of noise.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: The city was rocking, some of it earned, some of it garbage.
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: So let's go game by game and break this thing down.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: Try to figure out what went right and what went wrong.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: So, game one Yankees take it 6-2.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Fine, it's all good.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: Rodan on the hill Figured it out.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: Soto's triumphant return To the Bronx in a Mets uniform Not all, it was Cracked up to be Greet, greeted with non-stop booze fuck you.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Soto.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: Chants bleacher creatures turning their backs on him.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know that was Tiki's thing and his suggestion.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: It sounded funny on paper, but I don't know.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: Once I actually did it, once I saw it, it was, it was uh, it's pretty cringy man, especially considering when they cut to the crowd for it and all the fans turned their back on them.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: But then they're still looking over their shoulder like, ooh, is he looking at me?
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: Is he looking at me?
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Man, I get it.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: You're allowed to be mad, you're allowed to be jilted.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: You paid for your ticket, you can do whatever you want, but you look like a tool.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: You look pretty cringy and on top of it, through the mitts, offense actually started hot.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of traffic on the bases early, which is the key to getting rodon flustered.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: That's his whole thing.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: He, you know one bad pitch, one bad bullshit hit, he gets in his own head and then you know, unravels.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: But, par for the course, the Mets fail to get the big hit with all the traffic on the bags.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: So then what happens?
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: Ron settles in and by the third inning McGill melts.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Just walk after walk after walk lost the zone and it unraveled.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Man the Yanke, they put up a four spot.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: It was downhill from there.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: Look, you knew game one for Soto was going to be brutal, unless he shut the crowd up early.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: A big home run, a double in the gaps, just something, loud something.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: But instead he walked three times and he scored once and he did his job.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: It was once and he did his job.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: It was quiet but he did his job.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: But he gets clowned throughout the whole game and you could see he was pretty chummy with some of his former teammates.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: I mean shit, every time we came up with the bat after every pitch he pretty much had a full-on conversation with Wells behind the plate.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: So game one went exactly how yankee fans drew it up soto gets booed out of the building, mcgill gets lost in his own and rodon looks like an ace again.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: And then, by the time the eighth rolled around, well, mess fans were ready to leave and Yankee fans looked like they wanted to fight anybody.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: They wanted to.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: It is what it is.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: Then on to game two.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: Big old day game after a night game and a nice big clutch win for the Orange and Blue.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Yankees did get on the board.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: First DJ LeMayhew, the senior citizen, homer of all people who had that on their bingo card for the series.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: And you know, listen, I'll give credit where credit's due.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: He had a pretty solid series, I'll give him that.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: But then the Mets tacked two on right away the next inning and the Yankees tie it.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: And now here comes the drama Mets fighting to take the lead in the seventh.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Beatty gets hosed, gets sniped at home on a perfect relay Bellinger to Volby to Escarra, nice slide by, beatty too good attempt, but foot lifted up a little bit, just enough to come up from the plate for the tag.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: And then you know, the bullpen was good for the Mets does what the bullpen does Garrett strands the bases loaded with the eighth, here we are, top of the ninth.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Acuna gets hit, beatty legs out an infield single, tyrone Taylor gets plunked to load the bases up.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: And here here he comes Up, steps Captain Lindor and, of course, not a doubt in mind, scratches out the sack, fly in the ninth to give the Mets the lead.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, just how you dreamed it up, edwin Diaz comes in.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: My best guy versus your best guy, edwin Diaz.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge in the ninth Gets him swinging, gets the K, slams the door shut.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: 10 for 10 on the year for save chances.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: You'll love to see it.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Or maybe you hate to see it if you're a Yankee fan, but I love to see it.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: After the game he said he's been making some adjustments.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: That's that pitching line I'm speaking.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: And now he feels like he can do whatever he wants On the mound.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: That's some good confidence Coming out of the closer.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: That's the kind of closer mentality I want.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Shit.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Devin Williams might have to give him a call.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: That's a good bounce back.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Win man Nice, hostile crowd Day game.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: People called out of work, got nice and drunk.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Beatty just got gunned down.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Team stayed poised, manufactured the win.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Shuts it down with the pen.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: That's the kind of baseball you want to see in October.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: That's the win.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: You circle back to look we've been here before, you love love to Look.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: We've been here before, you love love to see that.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Oh God, game three.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Do I even have to cover game three?
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I guess to stay biased, non-biased, I will.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: This was the big ticket matchup.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: This was what ESPN was salivating for, this rubber match David Peterson versus Freed, I mean and it got, as advertised, tied through seven, nobody could do anything.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: 2-2 heading into the eighth.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: And well, well, fuck it.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: It all went to hell.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Alonzo did his best Lucas Duda impression.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: As soon as he threw it, I had flashbacks to 2015.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: He does his best Lucas Duda impression, airmails the throw to home and then here come the floodgates.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: They are now not just open, they are kicked down the door wide open.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Stanek comes in and he tries to do what he can, but he gave up a couple soft hits.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: And then boom, ballinger hits a short porch grand slam, but a grand slam nonetheless.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: And that that was the ball game.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Ball game blouses, uh, yankees, excuse me, me.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: And yeah, soto went 0 for 4.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: He had some terrible body language throughout the game.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: He didn't hustle on a close play to first.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: That could have helped the Mets.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: The crowd was eating it up.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: They got to him.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say they didn't.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: It's tough.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Vientos makes a fucking bad read at third and like like he's not hitting and with baity on his heels, like the leash gets shorter day by day.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: That's not great, you know, that's probably getting in his head.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: The best pitchers walked eight, a season high.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, eight, just fucking bullpen these starters, they don't walk guys.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Eight, whoo, just fucking bullpen these starters, they don't walk guys.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Eight, whew, all that together.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: You put all that in a pot.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: That's a recipe for disaster.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: But just for the record, just to keep everybody honest here, judge did go 0 for 5 in that game, not one ounce of heat, which of course, fair, it's Yankees and they won.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: But you know, let's keep the scales even here.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: So the Mets had the chance.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: They had the chance to steal the series.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: It was right there.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: It was right there.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: And then one slobby inning, one bad throw turned everything into quicksand.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: One mistake after another, after another, after another, and the slam from Bellinger that was.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: That was the cap, that was the middle finger from the bronx, and it could have been avoided, but they didn't.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: So they take the series for now.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Next time we'll see them is july 4th at city, and city field has been rocking.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: So to wrap it up, game one bad vibes.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Game two clutch win.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Game three disaster or exclamation, I mean depending on who you root for.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: But that's the problem with this men's team right now.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: These streams kind of the yankees too.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Man, there's plenty of times where the pitching is bad and the hitting is good, or vice versa.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: But you either love the resilience or you hate the inconsistency.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: The Yankee fans booed Soto like he slept with the entire Bronx.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Then, meanwhile, judge strikes out three times and nobody says a word.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: But you know what?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Look, I'm going to say it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Then, meanwhile, judge strikes out three times and nobody says a word.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: But you know what?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Look, I'm going to say it and you guys aren't going to like it, but I'm going to say it because this is the first time in a very, very long time that I can actually say it and it actually kind of holds a little bit of weight, just a little bit.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Yankee fans, congratulations on your World Series wins.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Yankee fans, congratulations on your World Series wins.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: How many years did.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: We beat you in the Subway Series and you brushed it off like, oh, that's your World Series, you're not going to do anything in October?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, of course little brother gets up for us.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, guess what, man?
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're not going to be twiddling your thumbs in October, like I fully expect the Yankees to make a good deep run.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: But this series kind of felt like your do-or-die moment World Series.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: That's never how the Yankees used to operate.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: So, on the long term, I don't know, man, there might be something to keep an eye on here, because you can play it off as much as you want, that you don't feel threatened.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: But listen, we stole your biggest free agent, we stole a pitcher.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: You didn't think you had anything to do.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm being a dick to be a dick, but it is something to look at.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: But it is something to look at.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Now that we got that out of the way, it's time that I address the elephant in the room, Something that needs to be talked about, something that I just won't stand for anymore.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, the Soto slander.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I've been letting it build now and it's enough.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: It's time to deal with it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: This man just signed the biggest contract in North American sports history 15 years, $765 million.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: He chose the Mets, not for one year, not for a little tour stop, stop.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: He's here for a decade and a half.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: So if you're a Mets fan, you ride with him.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Period period, let's look, okay.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, getting angry.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Let's start with the dumbest narrative floating out there, big old, big head, michael K, sitting on his mic'd up throne, claiming I have it on good authority that Soto wanted to be a Yankee, but his family talked him out of it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, first of all, even if that is true, which I really, that doesn't come on.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: But okay, let's whatever.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Let's say it is true.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: So now we're, we're blaming him for talking to his family for advice.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Michael k, you ever asked your wife for advice for a job offer or an event in life, or anybody?
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Ever ask an uncle or a cousin or someone close in your family for any advice ever?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, you ever run something by your parents for your middle life move?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, god forbid.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: He asked his fucking family what they thought about this thing.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: You guys spent the entire offseason yelling that he was a mercenary, that he'd go wherever the bag was the biggest, and now you're saying that he actually wanted to be here but he didn't have the guts to pull the trigger.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Pick a lane and then, on top of it, njcom, bob Clappish, writing some weird fan fiction, I guess for some clicks, saying Soto's miserable, that he ditched ESPN to be mic'd up, that he stormed out of the locker room.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: He only smiled when he was talking to Aaron Judge and Jez Chiz Like what are we talking about?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Clash actually wrote this man is downright miserable and he looks overweight.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: That's a quote.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: That's not a paraphrase.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: That's a quote.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Like you want to know what I saw?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I saw soto, as expected, get booed and get his ass kicked and then he tipped his helmet to the crowd and mouth thank you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Does that sound miserable?
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Does that sound upset, defeated?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: No, sounds professional.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: It sounds owning the moment.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It sounds like he's living up to it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Like look, yes, the bat has not been where it should be.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: He's pressing a little bit.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: He's stiff at the plate sometimes and I might have seen some bad body language here and there, but what's real?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: What's really real?
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: He's drawing walks.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: He's drawing walks.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: He's seeing pitches Still playing decent defense in the outfield.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: He's still helping you win games.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: He makes your team better.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry if you're mad.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: He's not hitting 315 in May, like there's 130 games left.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Trust me, he's going to come out of this, he's going to find his groove, he will be just fine.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: That's pretty much what Pedro Martinez touched on too, by the way, beautifully, might I add came out.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: You know, fellow Dominican, fellow Met player, came out and tweeted I was once the highest paid player and it took me a while to adjust.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Nobody thinks about the human inside of the uniform, that's.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: There's things that get you distracted and we forget how young that he is.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: That's pedro.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: That's a hall of famer, a world champ.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Even he needed time, but soto, god forbid.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: He's not allowed to breathe because he didn't go three, four in the bronx this weekend.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Come on, I mean what?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: All right, here's another example.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: You want more?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: How about mike piazza?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Guy's a fucking hall of fame catcher.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, he literally lived this.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: He got booted shea, even if with him starting hot, even though he was already one of the best catchers in baseball already.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like he had to, like you know, make a name for himself.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: He's literally soto.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Soto was one of the best players in baseball and now he comes to the mets.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: You know what he said.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: You know what he said it was a character builder.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: It made me better as a player and better as a person.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: It was a rite of passage.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: How good is that?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: That's exactly what Soto's going through right now.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It's not a collapse, it's a test man.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: If anyone knows what that arc looks like, from Piazza, from boo to beloved to hall of fame.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, piazza said the spotlight on soto is bright, and he is right.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: He said he didn't forget how to hit.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: The game is hard, the city is harder.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: That's the message play the game hard, let everything else take care of itself, and that's it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I'm gonna go to bat for juan soto, because I've seen what this city does to its own.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: You booed Lindor, you booed Beltran, you booed Piazza and you booed Judge, if you want, you booed Stanton.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I mean these guys literally all of them are MVPs.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: They all came out on the other side of it.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: So guess who's turning this?
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Mr Juan Soto.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: And you know what I'm going to do.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to turn my back on the guy who's not supposed to be the face of the franchise In the next 15 years.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: This is a marriage, it's not a weekend fling.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: It's not the first couple months that are rocky.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: You don't walk away.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: You dig in, you man up, you defend your guy.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: You want to be a real M's fan?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Then fucking act like it, because the comeback arc is better than the perfect start.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Trust me, if I end up with egg on my face I'll be the first owner.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Fine, no problem.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: But soto.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Soto is my guy.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: He makes my team better.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: The media they can chase all the clicks they want.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: They can get you listening for whatever they need.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: But you hear it real over here.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: They can chase the clicks.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I'll chase the rings and guess what?
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: You don't win one without Juan Soto.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Let's step away from New York for just a minute.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Hit a few things from around the leagues.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: You know got to keep everybody informed.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: That listens make you sound real smart at the bar, even when you're not watching the games.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: So let's start with the Thunder, because they have now smacked the Wolves twice and it's not even looking close anymore.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Okc came out game one and smoked Minnesota.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Sga dropped 20 of his 31 points in the second half when it mattered the most.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Chet threw down some spinning dunk.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: That was crazy looking.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden the Wolves, who were supposed to be the bullies in this series, are starting to look like the younger team.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Edwards game one only took 13 shots and he said post game he's got to take more.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: He needs to start playing off the ball more.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I appreciate him coming out and saying that, but that just means the okc's plan is working.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So let's fast forward to game two.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Here shy gets handed the mvp trophy literally probably right before the game, and then drops 38 with a smile.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Not just him either.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Jalen Williams goes 26-10.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Chet Holmgren fucking skinny white boy.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Chet Holmgren threw down 22.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: And the defense now featuring two newly named all-defensive guys, by the way clamped down.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Minnesota's got no answers right now.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, ant got 32, but he had to force 26 shots to do it.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And once again, third quarter trend it's definitely real.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Thunder outscored them by 14.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Again in the third quarter last night, a wild end, one from SGA Couple lobs to Chet and boom.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden it's a 20-point game before Minnesota even blinked.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: So now it's 2-0, and the Wolves are headed back home where they're 4-1.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: You know the Timberwolves have a great home court presence, but OKC looks like they're playing to take no prisoners whatsoever.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Mets bounce back.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: After the subway series they dropped two games to Boston but they take a nice 5-1 win over Crochet.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I know Yankee fans are happy about us beating Boston to avoid the sweep.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: And your boy Brett Beatty my boy, mr Quadruple-A player, himself saying please don't send me back down has himself a game.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Knocks in three ribbies.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, knock off.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: The monster.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Makes a barehanded play earlier in the game too.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: A little flash of David Wright there.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Not that I would ever put the two of them in one sentence, but I guess I just did.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Mcgill bounces back.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: He's got 10 Ks Soto.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: You know know, little sack fly got moved around in the lineup hitting third.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Now they're trying to change some things around.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Look, it's a step in the right direction, especially with a big, big three-game series coming up with.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: The dodgers need that.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, also shout out to the grom.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: He threw threw over 100 pitches in his first start back in New York.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Not with the Mets, obviously, but look, I'm crossing my fingers that Texas is out of it come trade deadline and the Mets can bring the kid back home.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: But that's neither here nor there.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: It was nice seeing him deal again and living up to his usual seven strong two earned nine strikeouts pretty impressive considering it's the second tommy john, but doesn't get the win.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Yankees walk it off dominguez in the ninth great moment, for the kid just hits a bomb.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Good for him and brace yourself here, folks, this is not a drill.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: We are about to see NFL players in the 2028 Olympics playing flag football.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, flag football, nfl players, flag football, that's real.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, the owners love it until one of their guys gets hurt.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Goodell is obsessed with globalizing the game and this is his prime opportunity to do that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I've said it before, I'll say it again the NFL won't stop until there's a stadium on the moon.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I swear to God, thanksgiving, christmas, black Friday, freaking Olympics.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, what's next?
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: A New Year's Eve kickoff hosted byyan seacrest going up against the college playoff, and it kicks off in antarctica.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: What it's never gonna end.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: And I I get it from a business standpoint.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: But how much is too much?
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: How much is it?
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: How much are you to oversaturate the market?
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I guess you know people really do love football like that.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: But Jesus Christ, it's so much man.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: But whatever it is what it is the money in San Francisco is flowing like Silicon Valley in 2012.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Kittle Fred Warner, brock Purdy Brock Purdy just got paid $265 million.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: He was making less than a punter last year.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: It's got to be a little tough for Debo.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: All he wanted was a contract with the Niners and he played some hardball, which I don't.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm not mad at him for doing but they shipped his ass out to Washington and now he gets to watch all his teammates get paid right in front of him.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: But I don't know.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Something tells me him and Jaden Daniels are going to be pretty good friends this next upcoming season.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels can ball and Debo might be the missing piece that they've been looking for.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: But here's the thing Niners, they're doing it early, they're doing it smart.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: No drama, no circus.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: They said these are our guys, man, so let's build around them.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Let's get it done now.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Could you imagine that?
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Stability and a plan?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: That's a wild concept.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Huh Jazz fans.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: So yeah, whether it's the Wolves getting rocked or Soto getting booed or Goodell's Olympic fever, it has been a week in sports, but in New York, well, as far as anybody's concerned, it's game two.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: It's the garden.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: This stage is set for redemption or regret.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: There is no in between.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: The lights at MSG do not forgive.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: They remember, but they don't forgive.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: So if you're going to respond, you guys better make it loud and, as always, I'll be right here through all of it to call it exactly how it is.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: And that's a wrap for this one.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I'm still here.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Mic on jersey half button voice half shot.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: The Knicks dropped one that will haunt us for a long time.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: The Mets keep building, clean it up a little bit, huh, and the Yankees congrats boys.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: But I'll see you guys in October.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: And Soto, that's still my guy, still standing 10 toes down for him.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: And this mic, well, still the only mic speaking for the fans and not the headlines.
• 36:13
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• 36:26
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• 36:37
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• 36:38
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• 36:41
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• 36:47
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• 36:55
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• 36:57
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