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Joba and the Mouth 5-8-25 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Stephen Mets are going to give him a significant They're going
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to have. A ton of.
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Money to spend. Why not put it in one of the top
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three offensive players in the league?
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We're going to be looking at Aaron Judge and saying that he
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can't win the big game. Michael Jordan.
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Said. I.
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Played. 82 games, you don't see LeBron doing that.
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A. Game where you got to go before?
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I told you, Giant fans, Saquon Barkley at this
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Let's do it. You're listening to Jabba and
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the Mouth. Yes, yes, yes.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to a new show of Jabba
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Fish Fishman as you just heard him.
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And ladies and gentlemen, the one and only our I want to say I
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want to give a shout out before I get into anybody else.
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We will have Nick Goody on the show in just a few moments,
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probably a little bit later in the show.
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I don't know when he's going to pop in, but he will pop in a
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little bit later in the show. I want to give a shout out to
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our interns, Manny, Kendall, Benton, all the guys that have
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worked on our show over the last couple of months.
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They've been fantastic, really giving us so much work behind
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the scenes and even on our show. So I'd like to thank Manny,
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Benton, Kendall and all the other guys.
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I, I'm very bad, Spencer, all the guys that have worked on our
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show. I, I, if I missed anybody, I
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want to apologize. Thank you to all the guys that
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have put the time and effort into it and, and hopefully they
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can stay on and help us out in the near future.
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I know they have a lot of other opportunities, but thank you
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very much to all the interns that have worked on and, and the
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new interns that will be joining us in the very near future.
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Jabba, what's up, man? Not a thing, not a thing.
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Just enjoying week. We got up to 82 today, so got a
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nice little workout in, got a nice little run and just kind of
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roam the neighborhood and it was kind of nice.
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Though you run or jog? Or do you walk?
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Speed walk. No, no, I jog.
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Like the days of running are over for me.
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I don't need to do that. I just, I just do it for fun and
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I actually I'd like, I like running.
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I mean it's like 2 miles. It's nothing, nothing crazy, but
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it's just I've I've always liked running because I used to be
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super, super fat and then I just really got into running and it
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just they say you when you talk about a runner side it it's real
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and then you just keep going so. I, I, I do, I do a lot of speed
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walking and today whenever I do my phone calls, So after I get a
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chance to come home, I make my phone calls and my landlords
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outside. I live in a cul-de-sac.
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And every single time he tells me, This is why you need to have
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a, a house phone downstairs. And I'm like, I don't want to be
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downstairs. I don't want to sweat
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downstairs. I, I have a big, huge place
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downstairs in the whole house and I just, I want to be
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outside. I want to smell the fresh air.
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I want to hear the birds chirping, the insects making
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different sounds and, and the craziness of the kids running
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around all over the cul-de-sac. So I actually enjoy it.
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And obviously my landlord just is intrigued on how much I walk
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in a circle. I, it's like it's weird.
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That is my my cardio throughout the week is me be on the phone
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when I'm in the gym, I'm doing lifting and all the other stuff
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that I do, but I enjoy you're speaking on the phone and
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interacting with all my friends and family that call me up
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before the show. So thank you.
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They do. They do say that like the I was
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reading an article, I think it's Google like during their press
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conferences, they have treadmills in there.
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I'm sure because they say as you're like moving, you think
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better. It's probably true, but I've
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noticed too, like I'll go for walks and next thing you know,
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it's like you're just catching up with a buddy or like just you
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got to make a phone call and you're like, oh, next thing you
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know, it's like 45 minutes later you're like, dude.
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That's cool. I'm on the phone sometimes for
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an hour, hour and a half, just interacting with people.
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And then I have four people speaking.
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I have my friends on the call and everybody goes back and
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forth. It's craziness.
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It's havoc in my life, but I actually enjoy it and, and just
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getting a chance to speak to some of my friends who will live
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all, you know, all parts of the country and, and it's just
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really, really cool. And then some of my friends live
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in other countries. So it's cool when they get on
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the phone and we can interact with one another.
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And even my sister, I was yelling at her today about a
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bunch of stuff. So I got the experience of
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people listening to me scream at my sister on the phone.
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So thank you again to our interns.
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They're fantastic. The New York Knicks came back
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once again from a 20 point deficit in each of the first two
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games versus the Celtics, the first time since 1996 where a
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team has done that in both regular season and playoff
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games. In game one, the Knicks were
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down 20 points in the third quarter and then went on a 31 to
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11 run to tie the game and force in overtime and game #2 The
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Celtics had a 20 point lead in the third quarter and a 16 point
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lead almost halfway through the fourth quarter.
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And then? They didn't hit.
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A basket for 8 minutes after going scoreless for 3/4.
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Mikkel Bridges had a 14 points in the fourth quarter and the
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game-winning block against yes you know it Mr. Choke setter
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himself Jason Tatum. Karl Anthony Towns also scored
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21 points and Josh Hart led the team with 23 points as the
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comeback. Kids are back, ladies and
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gentlemen. The Celtics have missed 75 three
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pointers in just two games, the most in NBA history.
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Rd. teams that take a 22 nothing series lead have won the series
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85.7% of all time, ladies and gentlemen.
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I mean seriously, if you're a Knick fan you should be so
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excited because we haven't seen this in a very long time.
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It goes back, I believe in 99 it.
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Does anybody remember? And that was the Eastern
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Conference finals, when we remember Grandma Ma, yes.
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And all the players, yes. And Luttrell Sprewell and even
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the end of Patrick Ewing's era, because after that he went to
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the SuperSonics. That team went on an Immaculate,
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you know, unbelievable Ron and and this team kind of resembles
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that now. This is a better team.
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They have more talent. You have OG and Anobi who's
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really become Kawhi Leonard esque.
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He's become that kind of player. And then you got Karl Anthony
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Towns, the size and the ability that he has on the offensive
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boards. And and then you have a guy like
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Jalen Bronson. We we've never seen a point
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guard this good since really I walk.
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Clive Frazier was the last point guard you can remember, or maybe
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Bernard King if you want to go back of those times, the Knicks.
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And then you have Mikhail Bridges, and I'll get into
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Mikhail Bridges in just one second.
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This is a team that has a tremendous amount of depth and
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defensive prowess and their wings with Josh Hart, Mikhail
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Bridges and OG and Anobi, they've given the Knicks the
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depth that they've needed over the years at the wing positions
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defensively against these sharp shooting teams like the Boston
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Celtics. And I said this before the
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series started, Porzingis is going to play a big part if the
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Knicks are going to win this series that I got, they got to
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keep Porzingis under 20. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
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yesterday they kept Porzingis to 14 minutes and seven points.
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Porzingis is not healthy. This has been a huge problem for
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the Boston Celtics keeping Porzingis healthy, and we've
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always known that, as we all know, Porzingis as a player, The
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quote UN quote, as Kevin Durant says, the Unicorn has not stayed
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healthy really since he's come to the league with his knee
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problems, his stupidity off the court, jumping off of ships.
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This has been a guy that has had problems staying healthy.
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But you go back and you look at what the Knicks are doing right
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now to the Boston Celtics, it says a lot about the heart of
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this team. They've got a tremendous amount
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of heart When you go down 20 points and you're trying to fish
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your way back in a game and you watch the the expressions of the
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team on the sidelines. They they didn't quit.
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There was no quit in the New York Knicks faces when
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Thibodeau's calling the timeouts and you would think teams are
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going go at each other and calling each other names or
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saying whatever. I've seen fights on the
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sidelines when teams go back over the years in in series and
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you're yelling at each other across the the sidelines.
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It it's been tremendous watching this team really work together.
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Josh chart being a leader, A-Team leader, Josh Hart's on
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the sidelines talking to the team saying that we're not out
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of it we're not out of it. We can come back and it's been
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unbelievable. And for all those haters on
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social media taking shots at McHale bridges that the Knicks
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gave up five first round draft picks for McHale bridges.
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It was a big mistake. What are you guys saying now?
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What are all you Knick fans saying now about McHale bridges?
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You know what the answer is nothing You know why?
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Because if, and it wasn't from the Carol Bridges in this
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series, as good as Brunson is, as good as Carl Anthony Towns is
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and Ogianobee and Josh Hart's been, this is the guy that's
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taken over in games in the fourth quarter and the overtime.
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He made the important block against Jayson Tatum at the end
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of the game, up 9190 as Jaylen Brunson score and shot his two
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free throws. He has been as important as any
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player in this series. And you look at guys like Leon
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Rose and Worldwide West and you say, wow, no, these guys
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actually know what they're doing.
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The Knicks actually have executives that actually know
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what they're doing. And we don't hear any more about
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James Dolan ruining A-Team and throwing A-Team away as the New
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York Knicks for years have been doing that.
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And no Charles Oakley stuff and no sideline crap.
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No, you guys are getting the chance to see Patrick Ewing on
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the sidelines. You get to see Reggie Miller
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come out and say that he would love to see the Knicks get
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through this round. So maybe they meet the Pacers
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and we can see that old Knicks, Pacers type of Eastern
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Conference championship. This has been unbelievable.
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And you Knick fans sitting here today should be nothing but
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excited. Nothing but excited because this
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team actually believes. And when you see this usually
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means that these are the teams that have the ability to go all
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the way. Now, again, we have to see what
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they're doing. And I forgot one person that I
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got to give a lot of credit to, and that's Mitchell Robertson
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for all those people. And I was.
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Other than that, free. Other than that, free throw.
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That was rough. Well, you can't spark.
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They need a job. He can't shoot free throws.
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The guy can't shoot free throws. He's just not very good at it.
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But what he does so very well is he is an anchor of a defense.
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He is as important as any defensive player on this roster.
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And there's so much to see that you miss of Mitchell Robertson
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all season long. The Knicks have not been 100%
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all season long. We haven't seen Mitch and Karl
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Anthony Towns and Josh Hart and the Carol Bridges and OG Ananobi
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and Jayla Brunson play together as much as they've played in
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these series and Detroit series. I mean, there were some
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questions in game #2 and game #5 the Knicks choked the way they
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did. But nevertheless, what the
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Knicks showed was heart. And what the Knicks are showing
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right now is they believe. And when you believe like they
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are. And by the way, a plus, if I'm
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not mistaken, I think Fish told me a + 32 right now for a guy
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like Robinson who's been unbelievable defensively for the
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New York Knicks, I think he's got his feet under him now.
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I think that this defense is the best we've seen it all season.
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When you guys have and when they yet when you look at the Knicks
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and you see what they have and Josh Hart is a wing player,
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McHale Bridges, and then you have OG and Anobi and Mitchell
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Robertson and you can play him with Bronson and you could fit
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him with different other players in a rotation.
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You have to see what a defense can do when it comes to win
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championships, and the Knicks are a championship contending
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team. Sit here and argue it all you
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want, all you Boston fans that thought this was going to be an
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easy run to the Finals. It's not.
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It's not going to be easy, and the Knicks are not going to make
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it easy. They're going to Madison Square
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Garden at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon and the Knicks fans
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are going to be screaming and crying, 19,000 fans saying.
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Oh, and, and me and they'll say other things too.
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I'm just not going to say it on live radio.
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But this is a Knick team that you have a reason to cheer for.
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And I sit here today and I'm one of those guys.
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I have not held back. I had the Knicks winning at 7
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and I'm going to stick by it. They're going to win at 7.
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I think Boston is going to claw themselves back into the series.
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But I think the Knicks are that type of team that no matter what
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Boston does in the series and what Boston team shows up in
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game three and game four, I think they have the edge.
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I think they have they have the control that they have played
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defensively and offensively to get in the minds of Jaylen,
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Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown and understand that Porzingis
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isn't 100% healthy. And they're going to drive it
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down the one and only Celtics throats until they choke and
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they give up. Yep.
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And you also look at the trades that they made in the offseason
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and with Mikhail Bridges and then trading last year for
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Rodian and Nobi. They kind of built this team to
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be able to defend the Celtics because the Celtics are built on
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these wing shooters that could do a lot of different things and
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create 3 point shots, create even inside shots normally.
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But the problem is Mitchell Robinson's defensive presence
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has just shy them away from just going inside the role.
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Really outside of Porzingis in the limited bit, he did play in
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game three because he was limited in the first half, then
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he started to take over more in the second-half.
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They have no inside game. And Jayson Tatum, I've never
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seen him that flustered in a long time really since maybe the
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Miami series in the bubble. Like the Knicks are doing a
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great job on him, changing it up on him where they're not making
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it easy for him. And when Tatum is off, it really
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has hit the rest of his offense. Derek White played well, fine.
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Jalen Brown did better than he did game one, fine.
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But the Knicks team defense, this is the team defense you're
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looking for when you have build up all these wings, when you
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hire Tom Thibodeau as your head coach, a defensive minded, old
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school fiery coach, this is the defense you want to see play,
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not the defense you saw at certain points against the
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Pistons letting these old men shoot threes.
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You're not seeing that in the series.
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You're getting the intensities there.
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And the Celtics are never thought of that way as a talent
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driven team relying on it. And it seems like they're doing
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that in this series. And you would think the Celtics,
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they would learn from game one when they were doing that,
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chucking up these threes and missing.
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And the Knicks were sticking their game plans, not fouling,
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not putting them up the free throw line to get extra stuff
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there. And that's where you got to give
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Tom Thibodeau a little bit of credit, but it's mostly on the
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players like. And Missoula has been absolutely
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huge. No.
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Yeah, he has been. Did anybody watch the press
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conference after the game? Did anybody hear what Missoula
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said after the game? He has no answers to anything.
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And he says, listen, this is the way basketball is played.
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Sometimes you you go on the rolls and and you're it's on
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your side or it it goes from, you know, it goes on the other
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side. And he says, we fell on the
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other side. Do we think this series is over?
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No. And then you hear Jason Tatum
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today at the press conference, you know, speak highly of
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himself, as we expect superstars like to do.
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Ladies and gentlemen, give themselves a little pat on the
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back. Jason Tatums has to figure out
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how to play basketball because if he doesn't, his team could
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lose four games. They could lose and sweep, be
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swept by the New York Knicks. And where is Charles Barkley?
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Why isn't Charles Barkley coming out and saying, you know what?
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I was wrong, I was wrong. Everybody thinks that guy is
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funny. I think he's an idiot.
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He's a Jackass. That's what I think Charles
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Barkley is. He's a hater.
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And right now he's got nothing to say.
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There's nothing to say about the New York Knicks besides go New
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York, go New York, go, because that's all you Knick fan should
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be doing right now. You should be very, very
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excited. And Jabba, I know, I'm not sure
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if you're a Knick fan right now, but you might sway that way.
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You did beat, you were a Yankee and you did sway to the New York
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Knicks when you were here. What are your thoughts to the
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one and only New York Knicks? The way they've won the two
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games, it never felt like, like you can always see body language
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and read body language it their body language never made it feel
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like they were out of it. And I think that goes a long way
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just in believing in yourselves and your ability.
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And the other one was just how there were certain guys at
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certain times of the game that stepped up when they needed
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somebody to step up, whether it's on the defensive end or
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they were scoring points. You see it from McHale Bridges,
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you know, not score for 3/4, then go out and give you 14.
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I think the balance that they have and and that's where you
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kind of got to give the worst haircut of a head coach ever and
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Tibbs and and just shave it off. If they win, can we make a bet
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like and be like, can he just shave his head?
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That thing is horrendous. Maybe there is some kind of bet.
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Maybe there's something lying over there in that locker,
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right? It's definitely Josh Hart
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definitely has to be involved with that bet, by the way. 100%,
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yeah. So 100% their coaches come into
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American whiskey. So I'll throw the I'll throw it
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in there here. But I just like the balance that
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they've had when they've picked each other up, whether it was
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defensively or offensively and just kind of the way they knew
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and they know their roles when it comes into it.
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I think that really is the important part.
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And he's he's out coaching Missoula with with one eye open.
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And I wanted to touch on this too, because it has to do with
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it. Do you think Paul Pierce really
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walked that whole way? No, no, I think he did some.
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I think. I think what's going on right
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now is Tips has figured out how to maneuver Mitchell Robertson
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in that defense and in the structure in the fourth quarter
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where he can rotate Mitchell Robertson in the times that he
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needs, the defensive prowess that he can give to Carl Anthony
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Towns, who doesn't play any defense at all.
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Right. And he played 22 minutes and Cat
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played 34. Yeah.
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So the balance, that's why I said the balance is there when
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you need to give him a blower. You need that stop and you need
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that presence. I I think it's he's just done a
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great job. And, and you see how all the
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guys have stepped up in, in certain aspects of the game and
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certain timing of the game. And I just felt like, yeah,
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you're like, oh, you know, a bunch of like, did you watch the
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game? And I was like, yeah, but it
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kind of sucked too, because at times you kind of disengaged
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with the game because they were down 20 plus.
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And you're like, all right, we'll just keep it on.
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And it wasn't like. Another game we're going to
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touch on where they just looked disinterested.
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It was just, you know, the ball wasn't dropping and they weren't
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doing certain things, but you know, they didn't give up and
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you've seen what happened and just crazy how in a division and
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the conference that all Rd. teams won game one, which has
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never happened before. Yeah, and also also all the with
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the Knicks, you look at like doing it twice in a row, like
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that kind of confidence level. I know it's still there for
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these players, but all that kind of statistical anomaly is still
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very hard to believe that the Knicks would be able to do it
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twice. They held the Celtics scoreless
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without a basket, only free throws for 8 minutes straight,
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which that that was something we talked about in college
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basketball a couple times. You rarely ever see that in the
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NBA. That's unheard of.
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And Java to your point, Mitchell Robinson's defensive presence, I
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think made the Celtics scared like they never tried to have
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nothing to do with scared. Stop with the Celtics aren't
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scared of the Knicks. What's going on right now is the
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Knicks have their their games. They're playing team basketball.
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They haven't had a chance to play with one another all season
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long. Mitchell Robinson's finally
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getting his feet under him. And now you're seeing how
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important Mitch Robertson is to the New York Knicks.
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That's why the Knicks didn't trade him this offseason, ladies
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and gentlemen. That's why the Knicks didn't
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trade him at the trade deadline when the the Lakers were
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interested in bringing a big man.
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We all know the story. We all know the Lakers were out
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and trying to draw the New York Knicks to trade Mitchell
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Robertson over there to them. And maybe that would have helped
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the Lakers. Mitch is that is is important as
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OG, Ananobi, McHale, Bridges, and any one of those defensive
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players, including Josh Hart, he is the anchor to that defense.
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And when you got that kind of player and you use them in the
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right motion when it comes to defense, they're a different
22:02
team. They are absolutely different
22:05
team. And yes, you should be excited
22:07
about the Knicks. We haven't seen a defense like
22:09
this with the New York Knicks since the 90s, since the 90s
22:13
when we saw Anthony Mason and Charles Oakley and Patrick Ewing
22:18
and all those play Xavier McDaniel and all those guys that
22:21
played that kind of defense. Hard nose press defense.
22:25
Charlie Ward, remember him? I mean, this was a defense.
22:29
Even Charles Smith who couldn't hit a layup if your ass depended
22:32
on it, he actually played some defense.
22:34
This that New York Knick team, the Pat Riley, Jeff Van Gundy,
22:39
New York team, it. They haven't been like that with
22:42
the guys like Carmelo Anthony and Amari Stottlemeyer.
22:46
That wasn't a defense. Even though Woodson was a great
22:49
defensive line, they weren't a good defensive team.
22:52
Carmelo Anthony was subpar at best defensively.
22:55
He was old, yeah, but I think this is a young team and this
22:58
team is going to be good for many, many years.
23:00
But this is their time, ladies and gentlemen.
23:03
If there's a time for them to sneak into the Finals and maybe
23:07
surprise the world, it's right now.
23:09
Because the Cavs don't know what their identity is right now and
23:13
they're losing 2O against the Pacers.
23:15
The Pacers, as good as they are with depth and they have
23:18
Halliburton, I don't know if the Pacers have enough to beat the
23:21
Knicks if they get through the Celtics.
23:23
And right now in the Western Conference, Come on, we we
23:27
Golden State's old, they're an old team.
23:29
And you'll look at the other teams that are in this in, in
23:32
the Western Conference. The Nuggets, they're up and
23:34
down. OK, See, they they've made some
23:37
mistakes, even though they have tremendous amount of talent.
23:40
And then we all know the other team over there.
23:42
It it just, I don't know if the Western Conference is as good as
23:47
it's been over the years, I think.
23:49
If the whoever wins. This series, if it's the Knicks
23:52
and the Celtics can win the whole thing, That's the crazy
23:55
thing. The only team that probably can
23:58
commit to competing with them right now is OK C maybe the
24:03
Nuggets and I just, I don't know, the Knicks have completely
24:07
beaten the hell out of the Nuggets all season long.
24:09
I know it's the regular season, but and as we've said this many,
24:12
many times, and Fish would know this and let's get Fish in here.
24:16
I'm going to tell you this right now.
24:18
I look at the Knicks right now and if they beat the Celtics in
24:21
this series, it's a shoo in that they're going to the Finals.
24:25
You heard it from me, they beat the Celtics.
24:28
It is a shoo in a shoo in to the finals does the.
24:33
Momentum carry over, do you think 100% like if they
24:36
obviously like getting these two wins are huge.
24:38
I don't think it's going to be a sweep, but you start gelling
24:41
together like we've seen teams win and you're like, they didn't
24:44
stand a chance and then all of a sudden they got hot.
24:46
And I think that could be something that really like as
24:49
they come and gel together and balance their life, I think, and
24:53
obviously it's shown in the first two games it's.
24:55
Definitely I am not scared of the other two teams in the
24:58
Eastern Conference. I the Cavs, the Knicks beat two
25:02
years in a row leading into this would be the third year if they
25:05
face them, if they come back against Indiana and I won
25:08
another shot at Indiana because the Knicks almost beat them with
25:11
no one left healthy on the roster.
25:13
If you remember game seven in that series, or was it, I don't
25:15
remember who was six or seven, he was 7.
25:17
OG got hurt, then OG Josh Hart played through what looked like
25:22
an AB strain in that game and was like a shell of himself and
25:26
Jalen Brunson broke his hand and they still almost beat them.
25:32
And I'm not afraid of those guys.
25:35
So here's the deal. If they win this next game, Game
25:37
3, and go up three O, that's going to be really hard for
25:42
Boston to deal with. And we haven't even talked about
25:44
the injuries. Jaylen Brown is not healthy.
25:47
He's not he's not able to do it all game.
25:50
You saw early in the game he was unstoppable.
25:53
Where was that the rest of the way?
25:55
That guy used to do that all game.
25:58
He can't do that right now. Derek White doesn't scare me
26:01
right now. He just looks like a guy out
26:04
there and not one of the alleged best defensive guards in the
26:07
league. And Porzingis they are, only
26:11
they're throwing him out there less than Tips throws out Mitch.
26:15
They're not going to win that way, not with Al Horford getting
26:18
cooked every possession that he's out there because he's my
26:21
age and they lost another one. Actually another one hurts all
26:24
the bench Houser. I think he's older than you.
26:26
Actually. I remember when he I remember
26:29
when he was in college with Noah winning the championship is the
26:32
twin towers in Florida when I was in college with Nick's
26:35
legend, Joakim Noah, my life ago and Billy Donovan, the Chicago
26:38
Bulls head coach, back-to-back Long Islander baby.
26:43
Give it to the Long Island guys. I don't take pride in every long
26:47
I look like Tobias Harris. First of all, Tobias Harris is
26:51
the biggest ass you'll ever meet.
26:53
I actually met Tobias Harris at a club I was DJ ING at.
26:56
Everybody was like Tobias Harris.
26:57
This is before he was drafted. He's going to be an NBA first
27:00
round pick. I could give a crap the way he
27:02
was treating women and the way he was acting.
27:04
I couldn't stand him. When I met him.
27:06
I looked up, I was like what an ass.
27:08
He walked around like he was Michael Jordan.
27:10
OK, Tobias Harris has had a long career.
27:12
He's made a lot of money. I can't stand the SOB, so that's
27:15
OK. I'm sorry to cut you off there,
27:17
Fish, but I, I had to hear that he brought Tobias Harrison.
27:20
There's only one teammate I got to mention because how do you
27:23
not talk about these last two games?
27:25
If you don't talk about McHale Bridges, how do you not talk
27:28
about him, what he did in the last possession of each game?
27:33
Can you be more clutch defensively than what he is and
27:37
more clutch offensively than what Brunson is at the same
27:40
time? That's incredible that we have
27:43
both of those guys on the on the team.
27:44
He had the the presence of mind in the first game to steal the
27:49
inbounds pass and just run under it and like pick it off like it
27:52
was a safety and wrestle it away like a freaking manchild.
27:57
And in this game, he knows the right time to help off of Jaylen
28:01
Brown to cut off the pass, which if it got to Brown, that's a
28:04
wide open 3. But he knows how to do it
28:07
because he's, I mean, his arms are ridiculously long for a guy.
28:10
I mean, he's tall, but his arms are like a centre's length.
28:13
He's he's like awesome defensively, even when he's not
28:16
shooting well. And Jabba, you said it, he went
28:19
off in the fourth quarter too. This guy's fantastic.
28:22
In fact, I might give 5 non lottery first round picks for
28:26
him and I'm glad they did. Yeah, Errol's bet you to go beat
28:29
this team. Errol's bet you to get with the
28:31
social media. Like all the, all the Nets fans
28:32
were taking shots at McHale, Bridges, every single Net fan
28:36
and even Knick fans, losers, all the Knick fans, Nets fans for a
28:39
second. Because I lived, I lived in New
28:41
Jersey when they were still in Jersey and I grew up in Brooklyn
28:45
and had the choice when the Knicks were terrible to switch
28:48
and I just couldn't do it. And thank God I couldn't do it.
28:51
Thank God I couldn't do it. You guys stink.
28:54
You're a bunch of whining babies.
28:55
All right, all right. You do this about you do this
28:58
with jet fans. You this is what you do with
29:00
fans. You can't stand.
29:01
Come on. Stop.
29:02
Stop all the time. This is what you do.
29:04
You do it. You do it with Islander fans.
29:06
If you're not, if you're not rooting for the team, this is
29:09
what you do. You put down the other team.
29:11
I I think it's ridiculous. You like to rhyme your team.
29:13
No, I don't. No, I do not.
29:15
I do not do. You are one-of-a-kind.
29:18
I do not. I speak the truth of my teams.
29:20
I don't go back and go, oh, my team's so great when they're
29:24
not. I've taken shots at the New York
29:26
Jets all season long. I thought they were wretched in
29:29
so many ways than one. Robert Soller, and you know
29:31
what? I call him Bambi.
29:33
I knew he was going to get fired.
29:34
He was should have been fired two years ago.
29:36
I I'm, I'm honest. I sit here today and I've always
29:39
been honest about my teams. And to sit here and listen,
29:43
Fish, ever since you've been on the show and I I love you.
29:45
You, you attack Jet, The Jets organization.
29:48
Fine. You want to talk about The Jets?
29:50
Yeah. Well, guess what?
29:51
What are the science have done over the last couple of years?
29:53
Nothing. They've done nothing.
29:55
They've been a mockery of the NFL and their draft picks have
29:59
been a mockery. Then you go back and you look at
30:01
your Rangers. Oh, by the way, they resigned.
30:04
Chris Drury, fantastic move by the New York Rangers.
30:07
The end. Mike Sullivan, is that going to
30:09
make a difference? Good for them.
30:10
They've had how many Stanley Cup champion coaches?
30:13
Good job to the New York Rangers.
30:15
And then let's go back to the Yankees, who I'm a fan of two.
30:18
What have they won since 2009? And Chopin knows all about that
30:23
one because he was a part of it. They've won nothing.
30:26
Absolutely zilch. But then you all know what Fish
30:30
likes to do. He likes to go after the Mets
30:33
and the Mets haven't won anything.
30:34
Pick on them. The the landing many baby Mets,
30:38
I'm going to pick on them. And then the Islanders and then
30:41
The Jets, because they're the little cells and they hate them
30:47
like carton. It's just absolute bull crap.
30:51
I'm I'm telling you right now, stop being a kiss ass to your
30:54
own teams and sit back and let these teams get chance get a
30:58
chance. I want to see I want to see
30:59
Cooper flag go to the Nets. I want to see it because what
31:03
it's going to do, it's going to drive people don't want to go to
31:05
net games now and watch Cooper flag.
31:07
One of the great young power forwards we're going to see in
31:11
the NBA in very in a lot of years that we haven't seen.
31:15
I mean, we we talk about all these power forwards that are
31:17
going to come up and they're going to be great.
31:19
None of them transition into anything.
31:21
This kid is special and I'm telling you, I'm I'm going to
31:25
get a chance to see him play. If I get a chance to see him
31:27
play in Brooklyn, I'm getting season tickets, even if I'm a
31:29
Knick fan because I want to see Cooper flag.
31:31
He's special. Speaking of special, Oh my God.
31:35
After game one's loss to the Warriors, Timberwolves head
31:40
coach Chris Finch criticize Anthony Edwards for having just
31:44
one point in the first half. He mentioned Edwards struggled
31:48
early and Light went out of a for him and he he has to set the
31:53
tone early as a leader of the team.
31:56
He also mentioned that if he knows he's struggling to shoot,
32:01
he has to keep the energy and help out his teammates.
32:05
Edwards told ESPN they can blame whoever they want, but nobody
32:11
played well enough to win the game.
32:14
Edwards rally back in the second-half to finish with 23
32:18
points and 14 rebounds, but the Timberwolves still lost by 11 in
32:23
game one. The Timberwolves will look to
32:25
bounce back in game #2 tonight versus the Warriors, who still
32:29
will not have Steph Curry as he is out with the hamstring
32:33
injury. Curry is expected to be out at
32:35
least a week, but possibly longer.
32:38
I'm going to tell you this right now, the series is over.
32:41
If Steph Curry doesn't come back, it's over.
32:43
As good as Jimmy Buckets is, he is not going to be able to keep
32:46
this team on his shoulders, especially with the
32:49
Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards is not going to
32:51
play as bad in the first half ever again in this series,
32:55
especially when the coach is going to come out and take shots
32:58
at him. I believe Anthony Edwards is
33:00
going to put up a 40 spot tonight.
33:01
I think Anthony Edwards is the most electrifying player we've
33:04
seen in the NBA in a very, very long time.
33:07
I think he's he's a man child. His mind is all over the place.
33:10
But when he gets on the basketball court and wants to
33:13
prove himself, boy, oh boy, he likes to shove his fingers right
33:16
up somebody's derriere. And this is a guy that
33:19
understands what he is and he understands where the
33:24
Timberwolves are. If the Timberwolves have a
33:26
chance to go to the Finals, it's this year.
33:29
Because to me, who they're playing against in Golden State
33:32
is an old team. Jimmy Buckets, who's not 100%
33:35
healthy and Steph Curry with a hamstring problem, probably
33:38
shouldn't be back in three weeks.
33:40
This is a bad hamstring problem. If he comes back in one week,
33:44
he's not going to be 100%. So get lot, get get ready to
33:47
watch this team probably get knocked out in a week's time.
33:50
And then there's the OK C and Nuggets.
33:53
I just I don't think that any of those teams are going to scare
33:57
me. As good as Shy Alexander is and
34:00
as good as Yokich is, I think this team is like up and down.
34:04
Both teams are like up and down. I think the Timberwolves have
34:07
the best roster. I think the Timberwolves
34:09
understand what it takes to win after losing in the Western
34:12
Conference finals last year against the Dallas Mavericks.
34:16
I just think that this is the this is the year the
34:19
Timberwolves could breakthrough and go to the finals if they
34:23
find a way to get Anthony Edwards in the game and his mind
34:27
into the game and not with his God damn video games.
34:30
I watch enough of Anthony Edwards, Offset, and he's on
34:34
social media and all he's doing is playing on Twitch and doing
34:37
all that stuff. Dude, you have a kid.
34:39
If you want to pay attention to somebody, pay attention to your
34:42
daughter, or get on the damn basketball courts at 5:00 in the
34:46
morning like Kobe Bryant did and make sure that you're ready for
34:49
game #2I. I just, when you look at the
34:52
talent that he provides on a basketball court, how many
34:55
players could say they're as talented as this player?
34:59
He is as good as anybody we've seen in United States basketball
35:04
is since I think in the last 10 years.
35:06
That's how good he is. LeBron James says that this guy
35:09
could be the face of United States basketball for the next
35:12
20 years, but guess what? He doesn't want to be and stop
35:15
this crap. Go out there and show everybody
35:19
why you're special. Go out there and don't let your
35:22
coach bitch you after the game and show you that you can't be a
35:27
leader of this team. You are the leader.
35:30
You're the face of United States basketball.
35:32
You're the face of the NBA. Go out there and show everybody
35:36
who you are not. Tell everybody, everybody, show
35:39
everybody, and take responsibility when you're not
35:42
playing good. That's what a leader does.
35:44
Don't sit back there and say we all didn't play well.
35:48
Go out there and tell people I didn't play well.
35:51
I'm the leader. I got to be better.
35:54
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is when people start to respect
35:58
you as a man and as a superstar. It's always been twofold with a
36:03
lot of the Anthony Edwards comments we've talked about over
36:05
the last year or so, really dating back to the Michael
36:07
Jordan thing. Obviously the, the football
36:09
thing in the middle of the season and the offseason.
36:11
Oh, I could play in the NFL and be a tight end or something like
36:14
that. And the Olympics, like you were
36:15
saying, like with all the stuff he was doing, oh, label himself
36:17
the truth. And some of them were also fan
36:19
driven narratives too. Like, oh, Anthony Edwards is the
36:21
closest thing to MJ because he had that great first two rounds
36:24
of the postseason. That was a fan driven narrative.
36:25
So I gave him a little bit of of slack for that one.
36:27
But this kind of thing is not something that you want to have
36:31
for the Timberwolves roster that's had their playoff woes
36:34
with other teams. We talked about how bad Julius
36:36
Randall was in the playoffs with the Knicks.
36:38
You don't want to shoot his confidence down like that.
36:40
Rudy Gobert has been iffy in the playoffs in moments with Utah in
36:43
the past. You don't want him to be shot
36:45
down like that either. This is a Minnesota team that
36:47
has an opportunity with Steph Curry out to make a big
36:49
difference. Make a big statement in the
36:51
series like we were talking about with the Knicks series
36:52
like you want to be well rested in the NBA.
36:55
The NHL playoffs are a little different because I think the
36:58
NHL playoffs sometimes sitting too long is a bad thing in the
37:00
NBA. It's not really because you
37:01
want, there's a reason people low manage in the regular
37:03
season. So these kinds of things, you
37:05
can win this series in five games and you're going to lose
37:08
this confidence doing this way. And same kind of thing with the
37:10
coach too, like the coach. We've seen these coaches get
37:12
fired all the time at the end of the season.
37:14
Right now it seems to be a modern trend.
37:16
Let's not act like this coach could be any less safe for his
37:19
job position either. He's a good coach, but these
37:21
coaches are very expendable now. Yeah, I think there's a lot of
37:26
factors are good and you make a great point on you know how
37:28
people you know, moan and groan about load management, but also
37:33
when you get in the grind of, you know, 7 game series, you
37:36
know, every round it it gets a lot.
37:38
And yeah, the the warriors, they're old.
37:43
I don't know if, if Jimmy can hold it together and who knows
37:46
what Buddy Hield you'll get. And I just think with what the
37:51
Timberwolves have, I think their their best shot is I just I I
37:56
don't know what I think about Ant because there are some
37:59
things you're just like, wow. And then there's other things
38:01
like was he really so nonchalant when the he found out they were
38:05
12 or 76? Like you didn't know that.
38:07
Like they don't get sheets afterwards or whatever because
38:10
you're not even looking at them on the desk.
38:12
Yeah, maybe not in the moment, but I guess it's something that
38:14
could pile up in your head thinking that way.
38:17
And the menace, they were so lifeless offensively and, and
38:20
they just kept trying to shoot the threes and he kept trying to
38:22
shoot the threes. But I guess he was saying, oh,
38:24
everyone else was doing it too. This is the problem.
38:26
This is the problem with the NBA now it's become the Steph Curry
38:29
NBA. Everybody's trying to be Steph.
38:32
These 3 point shots, chucking up threes, the Splash Brothers.
38:35
This has been a problem the NBA has always run through, getting
38:39
in the paint and dominating, shooting those 1718 foot
38:42
jumpers, drawing fouls. That's what Michael Jordan did.
38:45
That's what he accomplished all his championship teams and the
38:49
way he accomplished great. Now all of a sudden everybody
38:52
wants to be Steph Curry. Everybody wants to be the next
38:54
big three-point shooter. It hasn't helped the league.
38:57
It hasn't helped the game. The average 3 point shots in the
38:59
90s were under 20. You know what the average 3
39:03
point shots right now in the NBA is 35.
39:06
Think about that that's like 1718 more 3 pointers now than it
39:11
ever has been Why? Because of great Steph Curry.
39:15
The what what Steph Curry is really brought to the league.
39:17
Does it make it better? I don't think so, because I just
39:21
think that teams forget what their identity is.
39:23
Jaylen Brown for the game #1 forgot who his identity was and
39:27
then game #2 in the first quarter, he figured it out.
39:30
Jayson Tatum, he's become a luck chucker.
39:33
Why isn't he getting into the paint and dominating in the
39:35
paint? He's so long and so good when he
39:38
gets in the paint with his 1718 foot jumpers, he forgot how to
39:41
do that. It's.
39:43
A big problem the coaches step in when they see.
39:45
Because he sucks. Because he sucks.
39:48
That's why he's terrible. He's his dump, garbage dump over
39:53
there with the Celtics. That's what the garbage the
39:55
Celtics have put out there. And everybody says, well, look
39:58
at the talent they have. Look at the look at Holiday,
40:01
look at White. White, nobody wanted he they,
40:04
I'm not going to say that White isn't a good play and he hasn't
40:07
transitioned. This guy was a journeyman.
40:09
The Celtics made a trade and brought him in.
40:11
He was a defensive player. Now all of a sudden he's figured
40:14
out how to shoot a three and he chucks it up there and maybe he
40:17
hits it, and most of the time he doesn't.
40:19
It's pathetic and that's what the NBA is.
40:22
That's why nobody watches the regular season.
40:25
It's become a three-point game. Let's play horse, ladies and
40:30
gentlemen, let's be Steph Curry. Let's shoot from the free throw.
40:33
I'm sorry. Let's shoot from the middle of
40:35
the court and see if we can hit it 5 out of 10 times.
40:39
It's boring. The NBA has become boring
40:43
because they all want to be stuff.
40:45
That doesn't take away from his greatness, it just takes away
40:48
from the game and what the game has developed over the years.
40:51
The Kobe Bryant's the fadeaway jumpers are the Shaquille
40:55
O'neal's power and beat you inside the Patrick Ewings or the
41:00
Elijah Wan, the dream shooting those fadeaway jumpers.
41:04
And we will remember what happened in 94 when John Starks
41:07
decided, hey, you know what, I'm going to shoot 73 pointers.
41:11
What happened? They lost to Elijah Wan in
41:13
Houston when they were a shoe in to win the championship up 3
41:16
two. That was the Knicks.
41:18
It is become horrible. And if you're a Knicks fan, stay
41:22
away from the three. Do what you're doing right now.
41:25
It's working for you. So Jabba, I was mentioning it to
41:28
you last show too with like the position emphasis.
41:30
There's not as many good point guards in today's Nbas.
41:32
There's not even any raw centers that are as good in the NBA
41:35
either. And that's why a lot of people
41:36
have tried to adopt the Celtics model as trying to be that kind
41:39
of thing. But when you're the Celtics
41:40
shooting all these threes, 100 threes in two games, like it's
41:43
still defeats the purpose of what you tried to build.
41:45
How many teams tried to duplicate the Warriors and
41:46
failed And the sub just tried to do it recently.
41:48
Look what the Knicks did, those speedy, then the Knicks built
41:51
A-Team to stop this Celtics team, right?
41:53
It was intentionally built to stop this team and they are
41:56
stopping this team. How do you stop a team that
41:59
shoots a lot of threes, get a hand in their face constantly?
42:03
They're not a lot of open threes for this team.
42:06
I remember watching a lot of bad Knicks basketball with Tibbs not
42:09
that long ago, where guys were getting open shot after open
42:12
shot and if they made them, the Knicks lost and if they didn't,
42:16
the Knicks won. That's how the season went for
42:19
the first half of this season. And now you see the playoffs in
42:22
your right arrow that the level of play in the irregular season
42:25
does not match the playoffs. I wouldn't say that it's no
42:28
one's watching it. Obviously people are watching
42:30
it. They're getting more deals.
42:31
You know, they're making billions of dollars, these guys.
42:33
Well, that's the LGA for you. Well, someone's making money.
42:37
And they said viewership's up this year.
42:39
It is they, they, they have new ways to measure.
42:41
No one even knows how to measure viewership today, which is
42:44
probably the biggest issue with all of it.
42:46
I, I just, I, I just want to get back to Anthony Edwards for a
42:50
second before we move on from him.
42:52
That guy I don't trust at all. Finch is right for calling him
42:56
out. How do you show up like that?
42:58
Go over in the entire basically the entire first half.
43:01
Hits like 1 foul shot and then is laughing and joking after the
43:06
game with Julius Randall. You just lost to Steph.
43:10
The warriors without Steph. He he left that game in the
43:12
first half. Scored 88.
43:15
They they scored 88 points. Are you serious?
43:18
That's an embarrassment. Are you like, that's, that's
43:21
really if they lose. Now look, playoff Jimmy's a real
43:24
thing. I, I, I don't I wouldn't put it
43:27
past you to see say playoff Jimmy steals another game or two
43:32
and Steph comes back in like game six or seven and wins it
43:35
for him because they decided to blow this game.
43:38
And Anthony Edwards decided to no show because he just doesn't
43:42
care enough consistently. And I think that's what his
43:45
coach is frustrated with. Jabba, you ever play with
43:47
somebody, you don't have to use any names, but you ever played
43:50
with some guys could have been at a younger level, Errol could
43:53
have been you playing hockey. There's guys that had all the
43:55
talent in the world, but they couldn't focus.
43:57
They just didn't care enough. You just.
44:00
They're surprisingly, yeah, I. Could give you a name.
44:03
I could give you a name. I'm not afraid to give it to
44:05
you, but I'll let Jabba answer it and I'll give you one name
44:09
before we go on. I'm not going to dime anybody.
44:12
I will, I don't care. They.
44:15
Yeah, it wasn't like necessarily like they they were so
44:20
nonchalant because it was so easy for him.
44:23
And so it was like, yeah, OK, whatever.
44:26
And there's been people called out, but yeah, I wouldn't say it
44:29
was so nonchalant, but it's just like, OK, I'm going to show up.
44:32
I'm going to get paid millions and I'm just going to do the
44:34
bare minimum. Like that.
44:36
That was probably more so than like the nonchalant because it
44:39
doesn't look like he ever takes it serious like when he's doing.
44:42
And that's why I said I don't know if I say wouldn't trust him
44:45
because he has all the ability in the world, but it's just like
44:48
which which does he wants to be the fun loving guy, the like my
44:52
fans, does he just want to be that?
44:55
Like I just I don't know if he truly know.
44:57
He said he doesn't want to be the face of the league.
44:59
But if somebody's already labeling you that of the
45:03
standard of LeBron, like you got to take some consideration and
45:07
be like, wow, he sees that in me.
45:08
Can I look myself in the mirror and think about that?
45:10
So I don't, I don't know what he's doing, but whatever.
45:16
I've got 1 and he's actually your GM over there with the New
45:19
York. Rangers.
45:21
Chris freaking Drury yes, ladies and gentlemen, I got a chance to
45:25
skate with that ass and and he talked a lot of crap and then
45:29
when I got on the ice and I was playing hard nosed hockey with
45:32
him, he was a bitch, OK, And that's all he did.
45:35
He went on the ice and he wanted to talk crap and that's what he
45:38
did on this. I'm that I'm great on this and
45:41
and every time, every time I went in the ice with him, I
45:44
would beat him with minutes on the ice and obviously shots on
45:49
the net. The guy was overrated.
45:52
And yeah, he was drafted and I wasn't because, you know,
45:54
obviously everybody knows the story behind my whole story.
45:57
But nevertheless, I've always thought Chris Drury was a
46:00
selfish piece of you know what? And he still is as Ranger fans
46:05
are sitting pretty right now. Because you got to deal with him
46:08
for at least another year, maybe even 2:00.
46:10
You got the right coach, but you had the right coach last year
46:13
with Peter Laviolette. You had the right coach the year
46:15
before when he took you to the Eastern Conference finals.
46:18
It's all bull crap. The guy doesn't know how to
46:20
lead. He wasn't a leader on the ice.
46:22
He thought he could have played professional baseball.
46:25
What a joke. And his father was the same way.
46:28
He was out there. My son asked my son that.
46:30
My father didn't even know what was going on in the hockey game.
46:33
My father couldn't stand the Drury family.
46:35
So that's the truth. That's the truth behind the real
46:39
Chris Drury. You Rangers and you Ranger fans.
46:42
He has he has a demented piece of of horseshit.
46:47
I'm sorry to curse, but that's what he is.
46:49
The Pacers took a 2O series lead versus the Cavaliers after
46:53
winning 120 to 119 on Tyrese Halliburton's game-winning 3
46:57
pointer with one second left. This came after he got his own
47:02
rebound off a missed free throw and took a ball himself behind
47:07
the three-point line and shot. Many fans believe that the
47:11
Pacers got away with a lane violation on the missed free
47:14
throw and the and the the NBA confirmed they missed the three
47:19
lane violation on the Pacers with 48 seconds left.
47:23
The Nuggets are and Thunder are tied 11 after the Thunder
47:27
dominated the the them last night at 149 to one O 6 in game
47:32
#2. The Nuggets won game one on
47:35
another Aaron Gordon buzzer beater this time A3 pointer.
47:39
In the battle of the MVP, Shy Alexander is averaging 3033.5
47:44
points per Game, 7 rebounds and eight assists per game, while
47:48
Jokich is averaging 29.5 points per game, 15 rebounds and six
47:53
assists per game. Right now, Shy Alexander is
47:56
playing like the MVP, but I I look at Yokich.
48:00
I'm going to tell you this right now, if you think for one second
48:04
Jokic cares how many points he scores, all he cares about is
48:08
winning. And I'm going to tell you this
48:10
right now, I don't. I'm not counting out the Nuggets
48:13
after they got their butt smacked, they couldn't hit a
48:15
shot. Russell Westbrook was forcing
48:17
shots in game number 2 when he was so good throughout last
48:20
series and the first game not to just throw up 3 pointers and
48:24
four shots. It's been a big problem over the
48:26
years. Russell Westbrook.
48:27
I think that the Nuggets have the depth and I think they're a
48:30
good enough team to knock off the OKC Thunder.
48:33
But Shia Alexander has his own rights and he has a belief in
48:38
his team and what his team is all about.
48:39
And this is a great offensive team.
48:41
You could see how important Harnstein is.
48:43
He he was beaten up a guy like Yokich down the court.
48:47
And and by the way, if there's anybody that could put pressure
48:51
on you in the pain, it's it's Harnstein.
48:53
We've seen Harnstein do it with the Knicks.
48:55
That's why they spent money in the offseason to bring him in
48:58
and Knicks couldn't afford him. This is going to be the series.
49:01
If Yokich can do what he can do against Torn Stein, I think they
49:05
win the series. This is going to go down to the
49:07
nitty and the gritty. I think this goes seven games.
49:09
I love this series. I think it's going to be so fun
49:12
to watch all the way to the end. As far as the Pacers are
49:16
concerned, they're getting lucky.
49:18
They're getting lucky and and, and Halperton's a sensational
49:21
player. I love what I see with
49:23
Halperton. I can't stand his father and I
49:24
don't want to see his father run on a court on anybody.
49:27
But I love what I see with the Pacers.
49:29
They show grit. They show a hard nosed type of
49:32
basketball. But here's the facts.
49:34
The Cavaliers aren't healthy. Garland is not healthy as we
49:38
were talking fish. He has a broken toe as we expect
49:41
it to be. We we see the injuries and, and
49:44
what the list of injuries they have right now, they're not 100%
49:48
healthy. That's not an excuse.
49:49
Their depth all season long came from their bench.
49:53
Why isn't their bench providing it?
49:55
And and I love Kenny Atkinson. Where's the defense in this
49:58
series? Why can't they stop Hal Burton?
50:01
You know he's their best player. Double team the ass.
50:04
Make the other players beat him, make the other players beat you.
50:08
It's been absolutely pathetic. You know he's the best player on
50:12
the court. You know he's going to get the
50:14
ball. You know he's going to shoot up
50:15
threes. You know, he's not going to give
50:17
up doing what he does best, and that's four shots and make sure
50:20
that he gets more than he misses.
50:22
I I just don't understand it. And that goes to the coaching.
50:26
And I love Kenny. But Kenny, wake up, smell the
50:30
coffee and find a way to get a win for your Cavaliers.
50:33
Beat them, beat the Pacers at their own game, go to Indiana,
50:37
beat them two games. And then go home and win three
50:39
games in a row and get back into this series and show everybody
50:43
why you were the best team, I believe, throughout the season
50:47
in the NBA. Yeah, Kenny Atkins is good job
50:49
for the most part, but yeah, he does have to make some
50:51
adjustments on Halliburton because we've seen Halliburton
50:53
get that playoff confidence last year and the Cavs are now,
50:56
they're not very new. They're kind of the same
50:58
experience level as the Pacers. But it's still one of those
51:01
things where they have a lot of young players that haven't been
51:03
tested with that kind of adversity.
51:04
And you mentioned it, a lot of their bench was the reason they
51:06
struggled in Game 2 to hold that lead in the fourth quarter.
51:09
And while the lane violations did look a little tacky at
51:11
certain points, again, they could have made those free
51:13
throws very easily too. So it might have not mattered to
51:16
a point where the Pacers maybe still tie the game or force
51:19
overtime even if they do get those free throws against them.
51:22
But either way, the Pacers are still playing with great depth.
51:25
This is the same thing they did last year.
51:26
And we thought it was a fluke because, OK, they beat an
51:28
injured box team last year. Then they beat the Knicks when
51:30
they were all hurt last year and like, OK, is this really that
51:33
good of a team? But they're establishing
51:35
themselves as a four seed as far as the Nuggets and Thunder
51:37
series. This is going to go right down
51:38
to the wire. The the Thunders got the depth
51:39
and Nuggets. That was my old team.
51:40
That was my old show name. Yes, it was down to the wire.
51:44
And it's because it's because the Nuggets have that level of
51:47
experience. Where's my drop, baby?
51:49
Where's my drop? I'd see if it's still there, but
51:52
let's get that out. But but the official of it, the
51:54
the Thunder, a lot of farts, the Thunder have the experience,
51:56
like you said, the size inside that is really making it tougher
51:59
on Yokich from a scoring perspective at that point.
52:01
But like you're saying, he's still scoring, he's still
52:03
passing, he's still rebounding like crazy.
52:05
So it's not like they're actually dominating.
52:06
But shy is stepping up big. And I had Thunder and six
52:09
initially, but it's going to see, it's going to be very close
52:10
down the stretch. Yeah, I think the I think the
52:16
pace is it's first of all, do they not teach fundamentals in
52:18
basketball? Like box out, like let's just
52:20
try to tip it back to somebody. Like he got his own rebound off
52:23
a tip and then let somebody else beat you.
52:27
Don't let the best player that you know is going to take the
52:29
shot, like bring bring help, do something.
52:32
I'm watching this and I'm just right it.
52:34
You're seeing it unfold and like, and I wanted to choke
52:38
myself out watching. Myself.
52:40
Do you want me to do it for you? I'll grab your neck right now.
52:43
Yeah, I mean just like box out, like it's the first thing you
52:45
use and you never let literally. Speed your best player.
52:50
Beat you, let somebody else beat you.
52:53
So yeah, I just and, and then I mean health, it sucks.
52:56
I mean, it's it's a grind and and I understand that, but you
53:00
know, if if it is a broken toe, you know how hard that is to
53:02
play. I don't care how much Toradol
53:04
and stuff they shoot up in your foot, that can't be fun running
53:07
up and down. But yeah.
53:09
And I think, I think the Nuggets OKC is gonna go back and forth.
53:13
I think it's gonna go 7 and I'm gonna, I'll take, I'll take
53:16
Denver and seven. But I just think the back and
53:19
forth is gonna make it a bearable series.
53:23
That game was horrendous. To watch Nuggets have been
53:25
champions before, they've been here before.
53:27
So if they if it goes 7, I'm going to trust that the older
53:31
veteran team that's been there before is going to figure out
53:34
how to get that easy or quick basket where it's going to make
53:38
Shy Alexander force up shots. And OKC shy's been really
53:43
incredible. I didn't get a chance to watch
53:45
Shy all season long. I did take shots of Shy
53:48
Alexander because I just think that the NBA forgets how good
53:52
and he deserves to be the MVP every single year.
53:55
He is the Michael Jordan of basketball right now.
53:58
I don't think there's anybody better than him there.
54:00
You could go up and out. He's not Michael Jordan, but
54:03
when you look at his talent, a 7 foot guy that could see the
54:06
court, he's Wayne Gretzky on a basketball court that can shoot,
54:10
that could defend, that can get to the hole at will and dominate
54:14
and nobody could stop him. Nobody could stop him.
54:17
In Game 1, he had 42, 22 and six.
54:21
Yeah, it's ridiculous. He's ridiculous, it's
54:23
ridiculous. And but unfortunately he's going
54:26
to have to do that for them to win against this team.
54:29
This is a great team. They won 68 games this year.
54:32
I don't know how their coach didn't get more consideration
54:34
for coach of the year with over Kenny Atkinson.
54:37
He only got like 2 votes. You would think that they would
54:40
be closer than that. I don't really.
54:42
I guess they just think pressed. He's that kind of AGM, I guess.
54:46
It's a really loaded team. You have depth pieces
54:49
everywhere. I think they're exposed with
54:52
this shed experiment because I don't think they should play him
54:56
inside and he needs to try to. He's just too frail.
55:00
Did you see the picture of his legs compared to Joker legs and
55:04
like why are they having him? Tried playing the paint he's
55:07
got. Chicken.
55:08
I was worried about him out of the draft for that reason.
55:09
He's got chicken legs. First of all, I I disagree with
55:12
you, Speed. I knew he was going to be good.
55:14
You're dead. I remember that.
55:15
I knew he was going to be so talented, but in a playoff
55:17
series where the banging underneath is legitimate, not
55:22
like what you see in the regular season, he's not there yet.
55:25
No way. I mean, I remember Kevin Durant
55:27
came into the league. He didn't even bother with the
55:29
post game for a long time. And I don't think this guy
55:32
really should either, to be honest with you until he builds
55:35
up some strength. I mean, look at Durant now.
55:37
You know, he can do everything obviously, if he wanted to.
55:40
He's also 7/1. I don't think that's that big,
55:42
but it's that's kind of an issue for them in this series because
55:46
Aaron Gordon's a strong freaking man.
55:48
That dude's just all beef. Like he's a dunk champion for a
55:52
reason. He can hit threes now.
55:54
He's he's been a lot better than I thought he would be for this
55:57
Nuggets team. He stepped up more than his role
55:59
was when they won the championship.
56:01
There's been some cool stories about him too, like losing his
56:04
brother then switching his number.
56:06
And being bitten by a dog. And being eaten by a dog.
56:09
He. Hit that.
56:11
He hit that three because he wore 50 and his brother was 32.
56:15
He hit that three with 3.2 seconds left on the clock.
56:18
Oh wow. Crazy, you know, it's
56:21
incredible. And I, I will sit here today and
56:24
say this, you need the understanding how to win.
56:28
If you're not, you've never been there before.
56:30
And OK CS never been there before.
56:32
If it goes seven games, the pressure is on them.
56:36
The OK C Thunder, where everybody expects them to go to
56:39
the Western Conference finals because they've been the best
56:41
team in the West. And that goes to the Celtics
56:43
too. If it goes seven games, even if
56:46
they come back, guess what? Who's the pressure on if the
56:49
next if the Knicks lose? Nobody expected them to be
56:53
there. So even if they come back in
56:55
this series, the Knicks have the opportunity to have the benefits
56:59
of being the underdog. So I know everybody's sitting
57:03
here and everybody's going to try to figure out and try to
57:05
make excuses on where and what this series is going to turn out
57:10
to be. I just think that the the
57:12
Thunder is the the obviously the benefit team because they've
57:16
been the best team in the Eastern.
57:18
I mean the Western Conference finals, but the the team that
57:21
has the most experience, the Nuggets, So and the Pacers.
57:23
I don't really care about the Pacers honestly, it whoever
57:26
comes out of the Celtics and Knicks series is going to have
57:29
the advantage. Everybody knows that no matter
57:32
who comes out of this series, they're going to have the
57:34
advantage. Advantage against the Cavaliers
57:36
that are not 100% healthy and the Pacers that don't shut the
57:38
hell up and they think that they're better than everybody
57:40
else. And I love that.
57:42
Reggie Miller wants to see it, ladies and gentlemen, because
57:44
when Reggie's sitting there talking with eye and Eagle and
57:48
I'm laughing, when the Knicks knocking out like they did years
57:51
and years ago because Reggie had a problem, I'm knocking out the
57:54
Knicks. I'm going to laugh as the Knicks
57:58
are going to head to the finals and finally maybe get over the
58:01
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58:04
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He smells good. I can smell him from over here.
59:05
The one and only. We are talking to former
59:07
Panthers quarterback, the one, the only, the Wilster himself,
59:12
CJ Wilson. CJ what's up, man?
59:16
No, ain't nothing to it man. Loving the show already.
59:19
You boys already turned up. I love it.
59:21
Well, you know, I, I got to turn around.
59:23
I'm like, you know, like a piece of steak.
59:26
You got to turn it up a couple of times before the juices come
59:29
out of it. Just because you like your steak
59:32
well done, don't do just people that don't want boot leather.
59:35
Well, first of all, first of all, I don't like it red because
59:39
I don't want to get sick. I know what they do over there
59:41
in Nebraska. I mean, you're over there in the
59:43
sticks. That's all they do.
59:45
They cut the beef even they eat it.
59:47
I actually like to cook the beef, if you know what I mean.
59:50
And Speedy likes to eat the thick beef, right?
59:52
Speedy, I like flavor. I'm aside by that it doesn't
59:55
matter about one matter about thickness.
59:58
CJ how you like your steak? I'm hey, man, I'm deep country,
1:00:02
man. I'm well done.
1:00:03
I got. I got to see it.
1:00:04
Well done. Who let the dogs out?
1:00:13
That's me. That's right.
1:00:15
That's right, CJ. You know what it's all about?
1:00:18
It's all about eating that well done leather.
1:00:20
Because you know what? You can chop it up.
1:00:23
You put them in some chocolate. Wonderful, wonderful BBQ sauce.
1:00:27
I like it. Chocolate.
1:00:28
OK. I like it nice and sexy.
1:00:31
And I like Richard sauce on it. Oh, love it.
1:00:34
BBQ 100%. I'm a BBQ boy baby.
1:00:37
I don't like the hot sauce. I like the BBQ.
1:00:40
I like the BBQ. And yes, I like honey mustard
1:00:43
too. But I won't dip my steak in
1:00:44
honey mustard. I will not dip my steak in.
1:00:47
Honey, I don't argue with the honey mustard like.
1:00:49
What? I love it in steak on steak, not
1:00:53
on steak. That's what I'm saying.
1:00:55
That's what I'm What are we speaking about here?
1:00:58
Barbecue sauce. On steak, yes.
1:01:02
Well, hold on one second. How do you not?
1:01:04
That's BBQ sauce gives it flavour, right?
1:01:08
Speedy flavour cut, roll it off your tongue flavour.
1:01:11
Flavour. Dude, are you kidding me?
1:01:15
Who doesn't like BBQ sauce? BBQ baby.
1:01:18
I mean, they make, they make supermarkets.
1:01:20
Barbecue. Yeah, BBQ.
1:01:22
Yes, absolutely, 100%. How could you not?
1:01:27
I mean, CJ, you don't like BBQ sauce on your steak?
1:01:29
Come on, I'm. I'm from Texas, man BBQ, steaks
1:01:33
and football. That's what we do down here,
1:01:35
man. Oh, that's what I'm.
1:01:36
Sorry, get on CJ. This is my, this is my win,
1:01:41
baby. Shit, shit, shit shit.
1:01:43
I. Got no.
1:01:45
I'm out. No, listen, they like corn, so
1:01:51
he'll be hanging out in the corn fields.
1:01:57
Shout out to Nebraska, man. Shout out to Nebraska.
1:02:01
If you're a Hoosier, I'm sorry, not a, not a Husker as Huskers
1:02:05
only as Speedy always says, as we have a drop somewhere over
1:02:08
here. It's it's, it's somewhere I
1:02:10
can't find it. I'm, I'm losing it today.
1:02:12
Here it is. Huskers only, Huskers only.
1:02:15
Ladies and gentlemen, as we all know, Java Chamberlain's all
1:02:18
about it. Speaking of football, as we're
1:02:21
here with CJ and CJ is, is coaching right now.
1:02:25
He's doing a lot of great things right right now with the young
1:02:27
ones. But there's a young team right
1:02:30
now in Carolina that you know a little bit about.
1:02:32
Bryce Young had a pretty good second-half.
1:02:35
They added one of the they added the best wide receiver in this
1:02:38
in this class. What are your thoughts to the
1:02:42
Carolina Panthers first round pick?
1:02:45
And we all know who he is. Arizona Big boppa, big, long and
1:02:50
stature, speed. He likes it long.
1:02:51
He likes it Dick. Well, he's got 1.
1:02:53
Ladies and gentlemen, we all know CJ Wilson.
1:02:56
What do you think about Carolina's first round pick?
1:03:01
I loved it giving giving Bryce another, another weapon.
1:03:05
I mean, it's I feel like what they should have done from the
1:03:09
beginning is what you drafted the kid because of what he did
1:03:12
at at at Ohio State and he had a boatload of weapons there.
1:03:16
They're finally starting to go down, go through the process of
1:03:18
getting him the type of weapons that he had there.
1:03:21
So as they continue to add, you know, different guys, the other
1:03:25
guys they had in the draft, but especially him, you're going to
1:03:27
get a chance to see the Bryce that you drafted.
1:03:28
I don't think we anyone has gotten a chance to see the real
1:03:31
Bryce that they drafted because he went into a situation not
1:03:34
having the weapons that he needed.
1:03:36
So giving him this kid with a couple more years to develop
1:03:38
should be pretty awesome. And by the way, it was Alabama,
1:03:41
but you know, those quarterbacks come from Ohio State, too.
1:03:44
But Bryce, Bryce was from. Hey, listen, I'm helping you
1:03:47
here, man. We're all of it.
1:03:49
You're not, listen, you're not Robert Griffin the Third, OK?
1:03:51
You're not going out there and saying stupid.
1:03:54
We all know Robert Griffin's a little lost in his own little
1:03:57
translation. But hey, I'm going to help you
1:03:59
out here. Go ahead, Speed.
1:03:59
Yeah, I was going to ask about the defensive side of the ball.
1:04:01
They drafted a couple edge rushers too, and they gave JC
1:04:04
Horn. It was your position, a big
1:04:05
contract, a $25 million a year contract.
1:04:08
So what are your thought outlook on this defense right now,
1:04:10
especially with the turn around with the coaching staff?
1:04:14
Overall, I thought it was a solid draft.
1:04:17
You can never go wrong. Draft an edge guys.
1:04:19
It's a seven O 7 league now. So if you got guys that can rush
1:04:23
the quarterback and and get there and and pretty much
1:04:26
especially SEC guys that's used to that to a certain thought
1:04:30
process as in terms of getting to the QBI think it's always
1:04:34
good. So they did a great job with
1:04:36
with getting the guys on the defense JC out that corner.
1:04:40
I like his style. I love to see him perform
1:04:44
better. He's already done a great job,
1:04:46
don't get me wrong, but I'd like to see him take that next step
1:04:49
to being mentioned in that top three, that top five best
1:04:53
cornerbacks in the league. He certainly has the ability to
1:04:55
do it, but it's just about the maturation process and actually
1:04:58
taking that step to say, hey, whoever the best guy is, I'm
1:05:01
going to go follow him. Forget everything else.
1:05:03
Once you get to that point and get that respect in the league,
1:05:06
then even the contract he signed for, he'll be setting himself up
1:05:08
for one that probably double S that.
1:05:11
Yeah, CJ, you just said like drafting edge guys is never a
1:05:13
bad thing. And when, like when do you think
1:05:16
it became prevalent that it, it got its own name and, and just
1:05:19
reading stories about the edge rushers that, you know, got
1:05:22
drafted and literally they told Abdul Carter, obviously he's an
1:05:25
anomaly, but they're like, you need to learn 5 positions.
1:05:28
Can you, can you kind of explain and what that like what that
1:05:32
mentality goes in trying to learn all those?
1:05:35
And are you good at all of them? Are you great at certain
1:05:39
specifics like dropping in the coverage or on the pass rush
1:05:42
like that? It just seems like so much being
1:05:45
in one's position to be able to be that good.
1:05:46
And obviously all the edges that were drafted, we're we're very,
1:05:49
very talented. But I me being a non football
1:05:53
guy and seeing that position how becoming so prevalent?
1:05:55
Like how hard is it and how much mental capacity does it go into
1:05:59
preparing for a game each and every week?
1:06:04
It's a reason why those guys are in the top 1% in the world.
1:06:08
You have to be able to do something that not only
1:06:11
physically you got to be in a separate category, but
1:06:15
psychologically you have to. So for to to ask a guy to play
1:06:20
345 different positions, the league is shifting.
1:06:24
The more see on one side of you see guys getting more money,
1:06:27
what his owners are sitting down looking at it like, well, if I'm
1:06:30
paying you all this money to do one thing, I'm really not
1:06:33
getting my money's worth. So I might as well ask you to do
1:06:36
more because what they teach, there's only about 10 guys, 8 to
1:06:40
10 guys that actually play football on an NFL roster.
1:06:43
Everybody else is week to week check to check.
1:06:46
Everybody else says you better do more than what it is that's
1:06:49
on this actual roster. So with them, with the salary
1:06:52
cap going up, money going up, they're asking those eight to 10
1:06:56
guys who was used to doing one thing, now those guys got to do
1:06:59
more. That's why you're looking at
1:07:00
quarterbacks. You can't just sit in the pocket
1:07:02
and throw no more. Now you got to read game, now
1:07:04
you got to be able to RPO, now you got to be able to run the
1:07:07
ball called runs. It's the reason why they're
1:07:10
doing that. They need guys to be more
1:07:11
versatile because they want more bang for the bucks so.
1:07:13
That's what you're seeing. Edge rushers being able to to
1:07:17
rush the passer, drop, back, zone drop, They give A tag call
1:07:22
where you got to peel off on the running backs and stuff like
1:07:25
that, or even guard tight ends. Yeah.
1:07:28
I mean, if they're paying you $40 million a year, I want you
1:07:31
more than just putting your fingers in the dirt and beating
1:07:33
this other big guy. I need you to be able to do more
1:07:35
things. So.
1:07:36
And it also puts coaches who've been scared, I'm just going to
1:07:39
say it. It's a lot of coaches been
1:07:41
skating by for a long time, not really being able to coach.
1:07:46
One of them is over there in Pittsburgh.
1:07:53
So now guys have to be able to say, hey, I need you to do this
1:07:57
and here's why I do this, and here's why I do this and here's
1:08:00
why as opposed to, well, I got a guy, so that's what you're
1:08:03
saying. We are talking to former
1:08:05
Panthers cornerback CJ Wilson. Well, we all know what happened.
1:08:09
The Browns were sitting there at #2 and everybody was wondering
1:08:12
what if Browns going to do it #2 hey, guess what?
1:08:15
They're going to trade with Jacksonville to go after Travis
1:08:18
AK, the gremlin himself, and you know, Hunter and boy oh boy, if
1:08:24
he wasn't on the Ewok adventure, he was definitely on Gremlins.
1:08:28
Because he definitely is going to star in Gremlins 3.
1:08:31
I can't stand this kid. I met him at the Heisman Trophy
1:08:34
dinner. The guy stood tall, stood tall.
1:08:37
He thought that he was bigger than the world.
1:08:39
I think that the Heisman Trophy and, and the group of them voted
1:08:42
him in. When I thought I I thought Gente
1:08:45
was the bona fide Heisman Trophy winner.
1:08:48
And this guy went out there. He smiles.
1:08:50
He's got a bright smile. Deion Sanders loves him.
1:08:53
He calls him his son, his stepson or whatever the hell he
1:08:56
calls him. And this guy has never won
1:08:59
anything. He's never done anything.
1:09:01
He never defended against a top wide receiver in the NCAA.
1:09:05
Why does everybody have a love fest for the Kremlin himself?
1:09:09
Please tell me. Because the kid is a phenomenal
1:09:16
talent. He has the right type of
1:09:18
headlines behind him and there's the the league was shifted in a
1:09:25
way for them to be able to highlight these storylines.
1:09:29
He's going back home to Florida, which is where he's from.
1:09:32
He's going to get a chance to actually the pull in fans to
1:09:35
make those people more money. It's going to be interesting to
1:09:38
see how he does what he does. I don't know if they going to
1:09:41
play them off on the defense otherwise.
1:09:44
What I love to see him do something that hadn't been done
1:09:47
before. Yes, but I think that's also
1:09:49
arrogant to think that someone going into that league can do
1:09:53
something like that. I don't think that he's been
1:09:56
prepared psychologically to understand the NFL and college
1:10:00
are two totally different games. I'm sorry.
1:10:04
That guy, that guy in college is going back to his apartment of
1:10:07
dorm room after he's over with and he can't get him.
1:10:10
He ain't going to get in the portal until the end of the
1:10:12
season. The NFL is a completely
1:10:15
different game. That guy you playing against got
1:10:17
a mortgage. Hell, look, he got kids at the.
1:10:21
You see, See. See.
1:10:23
See how many do you see the? Number I have up right?
1:10:25
There, what is that? What is that equal 7 You know
1:10:30
what that means? The guy is not going to have
1:10:32
longer than A7 year career in the NFL.
1:10:35
The guy is so overrated. I think he's.
1:10:39
He has said that already. He is 7 years and that is it.
1:10:43
That's all he's going to last in the NFL.
1:10:46
Nobody's going to deal with a big mouth guy that goes out
1:10:49
there and he's got to play one-on-one with Brian Thomas
1:10:52
every single week. And that guy is a beast.
1:10:56
That guy is going to be the best wide receiver in football in
1:10:59
three years. Remember I said that?
1:11:01
Now it's two years now because just he is Justin Jefferson, 2
1:11:06
point O3 point O, 4 point O, give it five, baby, cuz Brian
1:11:10
Thomas junior is my man. And if he was a Jet, he'd be
1:11:13
even bigger, my man, if you know what I'm talking about, Speedy.
1:11:16
Nevertheless, I'm telling you right now, the one and only
1:11:19
Brian Thomas versus this guy and he's got to defend this guy.
1:11:23
It might get him better, or it might even make him look like a
1:11:26
peace shooter, which she probably is.
1:11:29
There you go. I just had to add that I'm.
1:11:31
Sorry. Well, he's going.
1:11:31
To get the chance to show. It he's going to get a chance to
1:11:33
show it. One of the things that I know
1:11:35
about Dionne, I've coached against him.
1:11:36
I know him personally, I know his thought process and what he
1:11:40
gives. And so the kid has had, like I
1:11:42
said, he's in a position now to where you're going to have
1:11:45
everything that you need and he's going to get a chance to
1:11:48
learn from a lot of great guys. I think that the biggest thing
1:11:50
for him outside of his day-to-day work is going to be
1:11:54
what are the greats that are technically sound?
1:11:57
Is he going to connect with Dionne was a was a phenomenal
1:12:01
talent that was had an exceptional athleticism,
1:12:04
different than anybody else. Travis, this game that you got
1:12:08
to play in now you got to have skill set.
1:12:10
Athleticism ain't enough. So we don't see.
1:12:13
I wish the best for the kid. He's in a great opportunity.
1:12:16
You got to show what he can do. So how would you coach him?
1:12:18
How would you spread out the snaps?
1:12:20
How would you spread out the percentages of how much you
1:12:23
would play? And we've had several, we had
1:12:24
several ex football players on during the draft and our draft
1:12:27
coverage. And last week we had a Quentin
1:12:29
Couples. That was an interesting debate
1:12:30
that Errol and him were having about how much he would play
1:12:33
Travis under. He was saying only play him on
1:12:34
defense, don't play him on offense.
1:12:35
What would you do if you were coaching him?
1:12:39
Well, I don't like to put put caps on guys, so I'd let him if
1:12:43
we draft him. He was doing both in college.
1:12:44
I'm going to let him play both in the league and I'm going to
1:12:47
do it all day in practice, forget the games.
1:12:50
I'm going to let him do it in practice and then I'm going to
1:12:52
monitor whether or not he can actually handle it on defense.
1:12:55
I think that's where he should where he should go.
1:12:58
I think he's better suited long term receiver.
1:13:02
It takes too much if you have a quarterback that if you have a
1:13:05
system like most NFL systems are multi layered.
1:13:09
He's psychologically going to be burnt out by Week 6 or 7.
1:13:13
College football is not like that.
1:13:15
So I start him out on defense and let him roll and then throw
1:13:17
him out there a little bit on offense just to, you know, let
1:13:20
him get touches and big play, his big play ability.
1:13:23
But again, that's something you got to earn.
1:13:25
I'll give him, I'll give him a shot to do it initially, but
1:13:27
then after that I'd have to gauge this kid to see where he's
1:13:30
at. What do you think we have?
1:13:34
OK, so you say that and you agree.
1:13:36
What do you think like the adjustment obviously from
1:13:40
college for the NFL is, is is vast in in more ways than one.
1:13:44
What do you think that he, as you've watched him that needs to
1:13:49
work on the most to to be successful?
1:13:51
And do you think he can be successful on both sides of the
1:13:54
ball? Yeah, I think he could be
1:13:57
successful on both sides of the ball.
1:13:58
But again, it's going to come down to him getting in, getting
1:14:01
in the room with guys like a Champ Bailey or Charles Woodson,
1:14:04
guys who had that type of capability but didn't do it
1:14:08
because of how hard it was to master one side.
1:14:11
That's what I think he should do as in terms of whether or not he
1:14:16
like I said, he can do it. But this is going to be hard,
1:14:18
man. Look, when when I was given the
1:14:21
Dallas Cowboys playbook by by by Rob Ryan, it was this big
1:14:26
fellas. And he you got to notice by
1:14:29
tomorrow that I'm going to make whatever call I'm going to make.
1:14:31
I need you to go out there and know that by tomorrow.
1:14:35
Now you take a kid that in Colorado they weren't playing
1:14:38
multi layered offense and defense and now they weren't
1:14:41
doing all of that. So it's going to be a whole
1:14:43
different world. The lingo.
1:14:45
He's got to know everything offensive coordinator is
1:14:47
thinking, everything the defensive coordinator is
1:14:50
thinking, yeah. So yeah, I would again, I'd give
1:14:55
him a couple of plays over a package or so.
1:14:57
Give him a couple plays, let him play more so on defense, let him
1:15:00
get up to the pinball and the speed and then I roll it from
1:15:03
there and he's not a big guy. And that's what I don't think
1:15:07
this hike machine understands. When you get hit by a 240 LB guy
1:15:13
playing safety, that's different than that 190 LB guy in college.
1:15:17
It's a totally different game. And then you got to turn around
1:15:20
and go defend the receiver. That's 2:20 that's going for a
1:15:23
big check. Is is different.
1:15:25
It's just different the. Term speed is the biggest
1:15:28
adjustment from college to NFL. You think speed is the biggest
1:15:30
one or technically yes. One of them, yes.
1:15:36
I think the biggest difference is the psychology.
1:15:39
The psychology has to be different.
1:15:42
In college, you always know that I can come back tomorrow.
1:15:46
In the league. You can't think that in the
1:15:49
league your dream is over, your career is over.
1:15:51
That day or tomorrow, you get a phone call with 13 numbers on it
1:15:56
in the middle of the night and a guy you don't know saying, hey,
1:15:59
the general manager want to see you in the morning.
1:16:04
It's over. It's different.
1:16:05
You're not getting that in college.
1:16:06
It's over. So it's that's what you got to
1:16:09
deal with. Imagine being a guy sitting at
1:16:11
home and you get a phone call to come up to play.
1:16:15
You've been working for months. You're at home, you're working
1:16:18
at Burger King. You finally get that call to
1:16:21
come up. They fly you up and you you got
1:16:24
to keep your dream alive. You line up, you've been
1:16:26
working, you've been training and Travis Hunter is on the
1:16:29
other side of is on the opposite side of you.
1:16:32
That guy got a whole different motivation than you do.
1:16:34
The question is how do you respond?
1:16:36
So that dog talk, it sounds good until you actually until they
1:16:40
bring another dog from another from another yard out there to
1:16:44
come get play against you. That's different.
1:16:47
That's when you get smacked by the Whopper.
1:16:49
That's when you get smacked by the.
1:16:51
Whopper. You just got to hope that of
1:16:52
those 13 phone calls, none of them are by Jax Olbrich.
1:16:56
You're going to get smacked. David Clowney just got cut today
1:17:00
by the Panthers. Make you never know.
1:17:02
Yeah, look at Willie Whoppers, Speedy Willie whoppers.
1:17:05
You got to give the Willie and you get to get the whop, as we
1:17:08
all know. By the way, by the way, I love
1:17:11
My Brother's Keeper. You know what movie that's from
1:17:14
New Jack City. That's what I'm talking about.
1:17:17
It's one of my favorite movies. Chris Rock showed you why a
1:17:22
comedian should not, I repeat, should not be an actor.
1:17:26
So that's all I'm going to. Say about that.
1:17:28
I'm just speaking the truth over here.
1:17:30
I like ice TI like the movie, but come on, man, Chris, just
1:17:35
Chris Rock shouldn't have been in that movie, but I'm just
1:17:37
trying to help you, Chris. I'm trying to help you as we Oh
1:17:40
no, we are talking to former Panthers cornerback CJ Wilson.
1:17:45
Well, CJ, there's a lot to to think about over the last couple
1:17:49
of weeks, especially through the draft.
1:17:52
And there is a particular player that has stood out over the last
1:17:56
couple of weeks from the Pittsburgh Steelers.
1:17:58
And his name is George Pickens. Yes, he's been a guy that yaps
1:18:04
his mouth, beats people up in the huddle.
1:18:07
And then when he's on top of somebody elbowing, hitting them
1:18:09
in the private areas. We know somebody that used to do
1:18:12
that. He was on this show, Sean Smith.
1:18:14
So we all know about dirty, baby, dirty, dirty.
1:18:17
There's an ex Patriots quarterback that's now in the
1:18:19
Jaguars. I like to kick guys in the nuts,
1:18:21
too. And then you're hearing over a
1:18:23
couple of days or actually a couple hours that most GMs were
1:18:27
not even calling up the Pittsburgh Steelers because they
1:18:31
didn't want them. They didn't want to deal with
1:18:32
that crap in the locker room and everything else.
1:18:35
And you know who calls up and gets the trade?
1:18:37
You said it, baby. The one and only Dallas Cowboys.
1:18:42
The Cowgirls themself reaching out, maybe having a cheerleader
1:18:46
call up over there and saying, hey, baby, come over here.
1:18:50
I'll show you a. Couple of things.
1:18:52
Well, ladies and gentlemen, George Pickens is now a cowboy.
1:18:56
He's playing with CD Lamb. And by the way, Lamb is not
1:18:59
going to enjoy that piece of chicken on the damn bad damn
1:19:02
football field. Your thoughts to the George
1:19:04
Pickens story? And how is this going to work
1:19:07
over there with CD Lamb and George Pickens as Mr. One and
1:19:11
only Dak Prescott throwing that little pigskin right to the beef
1:19:16
of that jerky? What do you think?
1:19:19
Phenomenal talent, great PR move for the for the team, for the
1:19:24
fans. I mean perfect timing when
1:19:28
everything settled down to kind of help people transition from
1:19:31
the shaddor Sanders thing, football related.
1:19:34
I think it was a terrible move. I believe it was a terrible
1:19:37
move. It makes sense though, because
1:19:39
Jerry like guys that have trouble past which I mean, shout
1:19:42
out to him for you know, finding someone who can you know, who
1:19:45
likes that thought process. Again, the kids, phenomenal
1:19:47
talent, but you have a problem. The problem is this, when he's
1:19:53
when he's not, when he doesn't get the ball the way that he
1:19:56
wants because it's going to happen.
1:19:58
When he doesn't get it, the question is going to be how is
1:20:00
he going to respond? If you didn't really have much
1:20:05
to work with in Pittsburgh, you don't really have much to work
1:20:09
with here in Dallas. CD is going to get 1015 targets
1:20:13
a game, double team, triple teamed, Mama teamed.
1:20:16
It ain't going to matter. He going to get doubled.
1:20:19
So you going to pitch a fit? You going to punch somebody in
1:20:21
the face here? There's different eyes here than
1:20:24
it is in Pittsburgh and Dallas. They going to be watching
1:20:27
everything from the moment you walk out the locker room.
1:20:29
Literally. We all have seen that.
1:20:31
I experienced it. It's different when you you
1:20:34
pissed off in the hallway in Pittsburgh.
1:20:36
Ain't nobody going to see that. But here, oh, it's different.
1:20:39
So again, for all of the media and all of that stuff, it's a
1:20:43
great deal. Again, the kid is phenomenal
1:20:45
talent. He is he's he's a tall, good
1:20:47
size guy. He can make plays on the ball.
1:20:50
I think he's a very good football player.
1:20:52
But again, psychology, I don't think he, I don't think the
1:20:56
psychological element of plan for that star, it's going to be
1:21:00
a little tough. So another guy that.
1:21:02
Has been. Another guy that's been a
1:21:04
personality. Fish and I were our executive
1:21:06
producer. We're talking about him a couple
1:21:08
weeks ago, Jalen Ramsey demanding a trade from the
1:21:10
Dolphins and he's a great corner, but he's bumped around,
1:21:12
probably still played like a top 15 corner last year.
1:21:16
Would you trade for him if you were a team?
1:21:17
And how do you think his longevity could be going to
1:21:20
another team? 100% I would want Jalen Ramsey
1:21:24
in any room that I'm in. It's it's his, his, his know
1:21:28
how. He's one of those guys that it's
1:21:31
like the Gilmore. Those are guys, man, that even
1:21:34
if they're not playing as much as they used to or doing what
1:21:38
they used to, you got to have a guy like that in the room.
1:21:40
So you can you can make him like a prototype or an art type for
1:21:44
the rest of your room. That's what you want.
1:21:47
Jalen may not be able to play, you know, 70 snaps like he used
1:21:50
to, but give me 30 players of Jalen Ramsey at at his best and
1:21:55
then let me go drive two kids that's like him or built like
1:21:58
him that's willing to listen and I'm good.
1:22:02
I'm good because if nothing else, he's going to teach him
1:22:04
how to win. Hold on.
1:22:06
Even if they don't. He's going to teach him how to.
1:22:08
Hold on one second. Wasn't that the guy in GQ
1:22:10
magazine that said Josh Allen? It was a shell of a quarterback
1:22:14
in the NFL. Wasn't that the guy that told
1:22:17
everybody that Josh Allen wasn't going to be a good quarterback
1:22:20
in the NFL? What's going on, Jalen?
1:22:22
This guy is the best quarterback or second best quarterback right
1:22:26
now in the NFL. I don't hear Jalen Ramsey going
1:22:29
in the GQ magazine or Play Play Girl magazine as he's flexing
1:22:33
for all the people out there. Give me a break.
1:22:37
It is absolutely despicableness. OK, Got.
1:22:40
It I'm going to give you some push back.
1:22:42
Here. Emmy.
1:22:43
I agree with him. I want to hear this one.
1:22:47
Please. Let's hear it.
1:22:50
Let's hear. It tell me, OK, so all of the
1:22:55
great things, let's slide that in this corner.
1:22:57
All right, let's slide that in Josh's corner.
1:22:59
Tell me how with everything centered around him, including
1:23:03
the NFL, why does he keep getting to why does he keep
1:23:09
getting to the point of where they're trying to push it over
1:23:11
for him but he can't get it done?
1:23:15
When are we going to see his best?
1:23:17
Because he's already been given everything he needs to tip the
1:23:20
tip the hat in his favor. They've tried to help him beat
1:23:24
Mahomes. I don't know if y'all have
1:23:26
witnessed that. They literally have tried to
1:23:28
help and beat my. Heart.
1:23:29
Can't get it done, don't understand it.
1:23:31
Well, they screwed him last playoffs.
1:23:33
I mean, come on, You don't think Buffalo got screwed by the NFL?
1:23:37
Come on. That was a first down, buddy.
1:23:40
That was a first down. And how could you allow that
1:23:43
catch when it hit the ground? How could you count that catch
1:23:46
as a catch when everybody saw it hit the ground and then you
1:23:49
watched it on the replay and you said it was a catch?
1:23:52
Come on. Are you kidding me?
1:23:54
It's always Kansas City's way. Always.
1:23:57
It finally didn't. Thank you to the Eagles for
1:24:00
shoving the football up their ass.
1:24:03
I agree with you to to this degree.
1:24:06
The game never should have been that close to begin with.
1:24:09
They were better than Kansas City from the start.
1:24:11
It never should have. Guy came down to a play or two.
1:24:15
That's the that's the problem. When they say, when they say
1:24:18
for, I say like the last three years, he should have gotten
1:24:20
over the hump. His biggest nemesis has been
1:24:23
Mahomes, but he has everything that Mahomes does it and he got
1:24:27
the game at home last year. How do you not win that in those
1:24:30
conditions? They stopped running the ball.
1:24:32
That's why that's coaching. You go.
1:24:35
That's the coaching. No, no, no, no.
1:24:37
See, I'm glad you said that. That's the reason why Jalen said
1:24:41
what he said. He had put it out there.
1:24:43
But I'm going to tell you, when they give him that call, they're
1:24:47
giving him 3 plays. He's not getting 2, he's getting
1:24:49
three. Josh goes out there and he makes
1:24:53
those calls himself. McDermott is a defensive guy.
1:24:57
McDermott is not. You'll see him go cursing and
1:25:00
all that type of stuff. He's not going to go and do that
1:25:02
to Josh. He's going to do it to other
1:25:04
people. Josh will make those calls.
1:25:06
If you listen to his his interviews after the game, he'll
1:25:09
tell you that, you know, I saw this different this than the
1:25:12
third. I just got to be better.
1:25:13
I just got to be better. Some of that's PR, but I'm
1:25:15
telling you straight up because I because of what I know, Josh
1:25:18
is not choosing to run the ball that much because it takes away
1:25:22
from what he's trying to do. That's always been his knock
1:25:27
whenever they get close. You got to watch him carefully.
1:25:30
He'll make some amazing plays. Then there'll be some place
1:25:32
you'd be like, why wouldn't you just give this up?
1:25:36
It doesn't make it doesn't make sense, but that's Josh.
1:25:39
So I do agree with Jalen on on that because Josh could be
1:25:44
better clip. They can win the Super Bowl this
1:25:46
year if they do what you just said.
1:25:48
If they hand the ball off and let him just play action off of
1:25:52
it, they can go win the Super Bowl.
1:25:54
But you got to play up to this MVP stuff and let's get
1:25:57
everything over the hump and all that.
1:25:58
You don't have to do that to win.
1:26:00
That's the difference between him and Mahomes.
1:26:03
Mahomes do whatever it take to win.
1:26:06
Josh not there yet. Spank do you think?
1:26:09
Do you think winning equals greatness or will?
1:26:14
If you don't win, it's you're not considered one of the
1:26:16
greatest. No, I think greatness equals
1:26:19
greatness. That's what I think.
1:26:21
I think that in order for you to win, you have to learn how to do
1:26:25
it and that that takes you out of the area of being good.
1:26:29
Good is not great for goodness sake.
1:26:31
I love that. Goodness is a is a big different
1:26:33
sacrifice. It requires a whole different
1:26:36
mindset. Mindset.
1:26:38
Good is going to make you feel good.
1:26:39
You going to burp and maybe go do the number 2 or in a little
1:26:42
bit, That's good, That's good food.
1:26:44
Great food going to have you thinking about it, trying to
1:26:46
figure out when the next time you can get it again.
1:26:48
But I'm talking about more than the food.
1:26:50
There you go, There you go. And I'm talking about more than
1:26:53
just food. You just made, you made Jabba
1:26:55
wet talk. Talk about going #2 we have a
1:27:01
guy that's not here right now that that does that at least
1:27:03
three times a show. So, so greatness.
1:27:08
Greatness is a whole different category, Man is is levels to it
1:27:12
is levels to it. And you don't have to the
1:27:14
winning to come. That'll come.
1:27:16
You just got to understand the how and the why you win, that's
1:27:19
all. So Errol and our guy in the in
1:27:23
the private chat here on Nathan, who's our PR guy?
1:27:25
I had an interview with ladies with one of your ex teammates at
1:27:30
the Super Bowl. That was Jonathan Stewart.
1:27:31
What was he like? On and off the field, no.
1:27:35
Manchild Jonathan was the was a guy that I was thankful of God
1:27:40
every day was on my team. I did not want to play against
1:27:43
him, didn't want to tackle him, none of that.
1:27:45
He was a guy that he would like. It looked like he would run
1:27:48
through steel and you feel bad for the steel and then is he
1:27:52
coming back to the huddle? You'd be like, OK, I'm yeah,
1:27:55
yeah, I'm glad that guy on my team.
1:27:57
But his toe was like his toe looked like, I don't know.
1:28:00
What do you call? What was the name of that movie?
1:28:03
His toe was his toes was so ugly.
1:28:05
It's actually a part of what kind of derailed he had of her
1:28:09
toe injuries. So most of the time, man, what
1:28:11
you guys saw with with with with Stu was he wouldn't practice
1:28:15
during the week. Stu would be in the cold till
1:28:17
about a week and then go out and run for 100 yards on 15 Garys.
1:28:22
That guy's built like an ox, by the way.
1:28:24
We got a chance to meet him at Radio Row and he sat with us.
1:28:28
He carries around his book bag everywhere he goes.
1:28:30
I don't know what he's hiding at it.
1:28:31
My first question to him is, are you going to school or
1:28:34
something? Or what is?
1:28:36
It Jansport book bag. I haven't seen one of those in
1:28:38
like 20 years. I mean this Jansport and I'm
1:28:42
laughing and I'm like, where'd you get that bag?
1:28:45
He's like, oh, that it since I was in grade school, I was like,
1:28:48
man, it looks pretty damn good. And by the way, he's built like,
1:28:52
like an ox. You're absolutely right.
1:28:53
And by the way, his golf game is pretty good too, I hear.
1:28:56
So he's a pretty good golfer. So he likes to swing, you know,
1:28:59
club speed. He should hang out with him.
1:29:03
He's amazing. Pianist.
1:29:06
I saw that. We go run for 50 yards, break
1:29:09
somebody'd collarbone and then go home and play the piano for
1:29:12
about an hour or two. They need to do a Chappelle
1:29:14
Show. Scared about that guy.
1:29:16
He has an amazing, an amazing lifestyle, man, I'm telling.
1:29:19
You he's cool. He was cool.
1:29:21
He was good to hang out with and very calm and collective and
1:29:24
very kind too. You wouldn't expect him to be a
1:29:27
football player. When he sat back and even when
1:29:29
he came over there, he was looking around like I'm like,
1:29:31
dude, what are you looking for? He's like, you know, I want to
1:29:33
see what's around me. I thought that he was afraid
1:29:36
somebody was going to smack him in the back of the head.
1:29:38
I mean, that's what he was doing, looking around.
1:29:40
I'm like, what are you looking for?
1:29:41
And it was so funny who I forget who I interviewed him with
1:29:45
Speedy. Was it Nick?
1:29:46
Was it Nick? No, I think it was Nathan.
1:29:47
It was Nathan that that's right. It was Nathan that we were
1:29:50
sitting with. So it was pretty cool.
1:29:52
Nathan actually wanted to sit down.
1:29:53
And I remember that was the only interview I did with Nathan.
1:29:55
But as everybody knows, we are talking to former Panthers
1:29:59
cornerback CJ Wilson. CJ, one more question for me and
1:30:03
Shador Sanders. You've heard my my take on
1:30:05
Shador Sanders. OK, You know what I feel about
1:30:08
the kid. I'm not a very fond of the man.
1:30:11
I, I he's a boy in a man's body who walked around.
1:30:15
Dude, I saw him at Radio Row. He had an entourage of 30 to 25
1:30:18
people following him around like he's like Michael Jordan, OK, An
1:30:23
entourage. He wouldn't speak to anybody.
1:30:25
The only people that he was speaking to, his little kids,
1:30:27
running around asking for his autograph.
1:30:29
He wouldn't talk to no one unless somebody came to him and
1:30:32
said, hello, Sir, how are you, Sir?
1:30:34
Could I, could I get an interview from you?
1:30:36
And I was like, I do not want to interview that guy.
1:30:39
So I, we got a chance to see him walk around.
1:30:43
And then before the before the, I mean, during the combine, he
1:30:48
didn't throw it into anything, but he spoke to the press, said
1:30:51
some freaking crazy. If you don't, if you don't pick
1:30:54
me, you're making a big mistake. And you know, you're just stupid
1:30:57
if you don't pick me. And then all of a sudden he said
1:31:00
it again at his pro day. He didn't look good on his pro
1:31:02
day. He said it again, too.
1:31:05
And then there were stories coming out that Dionne was his
1:31:07
agent, that Dionne didn't want him to go to five different,
1:31:10
only five teams he would not allow his son to go to.
1:31:13
I just think teams just decided, hey, you know what?
1:31:15
We don't want to deal with this craziness.
1:31:17
We don't want to deal with this selfish bastard.
1:31:19
And we're not drafting him. Your thoughts to Shadora
1:31:22
Sanders? Are you surprised that people
1:31:25
spanked him all the way to the fifth round?
1:31:28
No, I'm not. No, I'm not.
1:31:31
And I know there's most of the sports communities split on
1:31:35
this, but no, I'm not surprised. And the reason why I say that is
1:31:40
there are so many people who players who don't understand
1:31:45
that this is a job interview. All of that other stuff don't
1:31:48
matter. It's a job interview and what
1:31:53
people, what I'd like for people to kind of take a look at is,
1:31:57
and Lord knows I've had this conversation with my coaches, my
1:31:59
kids, all kind of people. But so I'll just say this,
1:32:03
you're getting a chance in 2025 to see what his father was like
1:32:07
back when he came out. It's just that he wasn't getting
1:32:10
that type of coverage. He was coached by his dad to
1:32:13
operate in a certain way. Again, I know them both.
1:32:17
I have coached against them both.
1:32:20
I understand how their thought process is.
1:32:23
I love them both. But there's their take on this
1:32:27
was grossly overlooked, done the wrong way.
1:32:31
There's too much put into me being seen as opposed to me
1:32:35
working. I love the confidence.
1:32:37
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the confidence, but it goes to
1:32:41
another level with the thought process of how to do this stuff
1:32:45
when you're not in control of the NFL.
1:32:48
They've shown everybody that they controlled it.
1:32:52
The owners controlled it. You can say what you want, they
1:32:56
controlled it. And I think he got a chance to
1:32:59
actually see that from bombing those those interviews.
1:33:02
And look, man, I'm going to tell you straight up, when you go sit
1:33:06
down with a team and they have people come in your classes,
1:33:11
following you around campus, They're flying you places.
1:33:15
They got people in the hotels looking at you when they fly you
1:33:18
there, when they give you playbooks and ask you to, OK,
1:33:21
break this down, tell me this and tell me that they're
1:33:23
thinking if I'm if I'm going to put millions of dollars in, I
1:33:26
need to be able to predict your responses.
1:33:30
With him. They can't really predict his
1:33:32
responses. He knew that.
1:33:35
His father knew that. But they felt like that they
1:33:38
could do it because of the bravado in the name of his
1:33:40
father. So what you're seeing is Dion
1:33:43
2.0 and it only worked for Dion because there wasn't that much
1:33:48
coverage. Dion would answer questions the
1:33:50
exact same way when he was younger.
1:33:53
He just coached his son to do the same thing.
1:33:54
So that's what you're saying. If Chador had the athleticism
1:33:59
his father had, he wouldn't have to say anything.
1:34:03
But he didn't and no one told him the truth of, hey, man, this
1:34:09
is not the rightest job interview.
1:34:11
Now he's checked the check he's getting, he's going to be paid
1:34:14
less money now than he was in college.
1:34:17
So now you have to sit down and someone has to tell him how this
1:34:21
legendary stuff you got, I love it, but not right now.
1:34:24
Tom Brady told him, hey, spend more time in the film room then
1:34:30
you are your Rolls Royce. Why do we need to know about you
1:34:34
flying to Cleveland to go to the facility?
1:34:39
Everybody that gets drafted has to do that.
1:34:42
Why do we have to cover you doing that?
1:34:44
Hell, they did that to me and. Carolina and I was a seven round
1:34:47
pick. What is it that doesn't say
1:34:49
anything? Everyone does that, but it's
1:34:52
this, this, this initiative to, to say I am this, that and the
1:34:57
3rd and all you're doing is making defensive guys and more
1:35:01
important, this last thing I say on on this before we go forward.
1:35:05
The part I don't think Dion or the crew has told him is this,
1:35:09
Hey, you know, that offensive tackle, both of those guys,
1:35:15
maybe the way that you're speaking, Have you asked them
1:35:17
how they feel about it? Because now those guys that's
1:35:20
going to peel their ears back to come and get you.
1:35:23
I got to work super hard to stop these guys to to begin with.
1:35:26
But if I don't like how we do keep talking and we don't really
1:35:29
rock like that with each other, I might accidentally not be able
1:35:34
to. I might, I might accidentally
1:35:35
not not kick step the way that I should.
1:35:42
We always look at the defensive guys getting excited.
1:35:45
You got to start thinking about the, the, the tackles and maybe
1:35:48
that tight end. Are they going to want to
1:35:50
continue to block and run routes for a guy that's making himself
1:35:54
become legendary before throwing a pass in the NFL who we don't
1:35:58
even know how he hands the ball off because all he's done his
1:36:01
whole career since high school is throw the ball?
1:36:04
No, he's got great mentors of Kenny Pickett and Deshaun Watson
1:36:06
to learn from. I wish success for the kid, I
1:36:12
do. But yes, to your point, yes.
1:36:15
Before we let you go, why don't you tell us what's going on with
1:36:17
your football team? I, I see you're doing big things
1:36:20
over there. I, I, I obviously I saw a couple
1:36:24
of videos on social media, on some of your speeches.
1:36:27
I mean, you have a remarkable personality.
1:36:30
We all know it. We see you on the show.
1:36:32
Tell us a little bit about your football team, your season, and
1:36:35
where do you see yourself in the future as a head coach?
1:36:38
Oh man, I'm thankful to God for the opportunity to do what it is
1:36:41
that I'm doing. I have a call it man and I
1:36:44
accept it. I realize it.
1:36:46
My wife is the one Karen. She's the one that actually
1:36:49
pushed me into coaching period. All I wanted to do was was
1:36:54
because her and my mom actually had me, pushed me to go back to
1:36:58
graduate from Baylor after I retired from NFL.
1:37:01
So everything that you guys see is a shout out to my wife and my
1:37:05
mother for pushing me to go and do this, my wife for the
1:37:08
coaching looking forward what I want to do.
1:37:11
Well, I'll just touch on my team first.
1:37:14
This year we came up 1/2 short. I had for my starters include my
1:37:17
quarterback got hurt in the last game of the year when the game
1:37:21
we go to the playoffs for the first time and I think like a
1:37:23
decade, which I'm in my second season going out.
1:37:28
We weren't even supposed to be in contention or in
1:37:30
conversation. And with 26 kids, we went up
1:37:33
against 80 and it took five injuries, including one to my
1:37:37
quarterback for us not to make it.
1:37:39
The rest of my programs in the school we we gotten back.
1:37:42
My girls basketball program hadn't been to the playoffs in
1:37:45
40 years. We got them in this year.
1:37:47
Basketball program got in track. We went to the regionals, which
1:37:50
is the playoffs and track broke all of the school records and
1:37:53
all that stuff. So I'm excited to be able to
1:37:57
build, man. I could go to any school in the
1:37:59
country, respectfully and humbly college pro.
1:38:03
I get those calls invites every year.
1:38:06
But I know what my calling is and it's going to go help people
1:38:09
that need it. I can go to the places that have
1:38:11
everything that that's not going to move me.
1:38:13
I went to Baylor when Baylor was facing the death penalty.
1:38:17
So and help turn that program around.
1:38:20
So it's the same thing with with what he's called me to do with
1:38:23
helping here. And I think more players like,
1:38:26
you know, that's gotten a chance to go to the highest level
1:38:29
should go to programs that that are struggling to help those
1:38:32
kids because those kids need to be seen and help too.
1:38:35
We always going to the places, always have.
1:38:38
Then I don't know what service we're really doing because a lot
1:38:42
of those kids are not going to appreciate what you're giving
1:38:43
them anyway because they already have.
1:38:45
So we got some great things coming up.
1:38:48
I'm excited about the year that's coming up.
1:38:50
My daughter is 10 now and she's old enough to understand me.
1:38:54
Yeah, she's almost my height, so she's actually the same height
1:38:57
as my wife, which is nuts. I'm.
1:38:59
Scared to death? Supermodel Supermodel.
1:39:04
Yeah, and she's a track runner too, so I think it was last year
1:39:07
she was a junior Olympian, so she can roll, but probably here
1:39:13
in the next year or two. Man, I'm looking to go to go to
1:39:17
the college ranks to, to help A-Team there get up and get
1:39:22
rolling and stuff like that. And as my wife and my daughter
1:39:24
goes a man, I'll go as long as they tolerate me.
1:39:27
I'll say that much. I think you'd be great.
1:39:29
I think you'll, if you keep going, eventually maybe you go
1:39:32
to the NFL and you become a DB coach or a defensive coin.
1:39:36
Why couldn't you do that? We're watching Aaron Glenn do it
1:39:38
and Aaron Glenn is he's he's special.
1:39:41
I I love everything about him and I'm so excited to see what
1:39:45
an ex jet is going to get a chance to do.
1:39:48
And and we haven't seen a jet guy, an ex Jet actually take
1:39:51
over a team and actually stand for what The Jets are always,
1:39:54
always been known for his losing.
1:39:56
Maybe he builds him up to be a winner.
1:39:58
But CJ, we love you, man, and I'm rooting for you and I love
1:40:04
when you come on the show. We have a lot of fun.
1:40:06
I love the shirt. I I love the coach and I love
1:40:10
your personality man. Keep up the good work man.
1:40:12
You are sensational, You really are.
1:40:14
I appreciate it, man. This is it's one of my wife's
1:40:17
favorite movies, New Jack City. But this is also the name of my
1:40:21
mentorship group that we have for the kids in our school is my
1:40:24
brother's keeping. Then we have MSK, which is my
1:40:26
sister's keeper. So yeah, man, just trying to RIP
1:40:29
my RIP my kids man, that's all. Hey.
1:40:32
CJ before we leave, can you explain to people what a
1:40:34
Polytechnic high school is? Because I feel like a lot of
1:40:37
people don't know. So a Polytechnic high school,
1:40:41
what it is now, it's, it's more, it's a regular school now,
1:40:44
regular public school now, but it used to be a school that
1:40:47
actually specialized with different trades and stuff like
1:40:50
that. So which unfortunately, a lot of
1:40:54
those trades have been taken out of the school.
1:40:56
I know I petition our, our principal to, to try to bring
1:41:00
those back, to actually make those fit, but that's all It's
1:41:02
really just talking about taking trades out of school.
1:41:06
I think our society as a whole, brother would be way better if
1:41:10
we had kids who understood that the, that the, the, the trash
1:41:13
man is making about 8090 grand a year.
1:41:17
That's the problem. Dirt with no debt.
1:41:19
The guy, the guy that's the plumbers making $100,000 a year,
1:41:24
the dude that's fixing cars is making a great movement, has his
1:41:27
own shop and has independence. They're moving towards a lot of
1:41:30
this AI stuff and I understand that, I get it, but there's
1:41:34
everyday people that may never ever come into contact with that
1:41:37
stuff full time. I'm going to need a plumber full
1:41:39
time. I'm going to need a mechanic
1:41:40
full time. I'm going to need someone to do
1:41:42
those jobs full time. So I'm keep having those
1:41:45
conversations, man, to see what all that we can do.
1:41:46
But that's what polytechnics stand for, is talking about the
1:41:49
different layers and levels of trade schools and technical
1:41:53
schools. Well, you definitely need to get
1:41:54
some. You need to help Speedy out
1:41:56
because he definitely needs something on his wrench, if you
1:41:59
know what I mean. Anyways, thank you, CJ for
1:42:03
joining us. We love you.
1:42:06
Keep up the good work and we'll talk to you, man.
1:42:09
I, I know you're a fan of the show, but you know how crazy
1:42:12
this show is and we like to take it and, and we like to drive it
1:42:16
where it hurts. So I just, I really, really
1:42:19
appreciate you joining us. I know you're a busy guy and
1:42:22
Speedy was telling me it's been a little bit harder than usual
1:42:25
to get you on the show. But we love when you come on the
1:42:27
show and and you gave us some really good thoughts of a
1:42:31
gremlin and a big mouth joker and then, you know, a guy that
1:42:39
they call Prime that needs to go back to prime time.
1:42:43
You know, prime time in Speedy's underwear.
1:42:46
Anyways, should be the Cowboys coach of two years.
1:42:49
Anyways, thank you, my one and only friend.
1:42:53
Oh, there it is. Perfect.
1:42:54
What a face. Look at that CJ.
1:42:56
Don't they look like each other? What a specifics?
1:42:59
Hey man, I'm about to go look at my I'm about to go look at my
1:43:02
wife to change this average. I'll put up for a man shout.
1:43:04
Out to Hunter, man. Hey, I love you boys.
1:43:09
The deaf, man. I love you boys, the deaf.
1:43:10
Call me anytime, I love you. CJ, we love you too.
1:43:12
Thank you very much. CJ Wilson, ladies and gentlemen.
1:43:15
Give him a Golf Club. Come on, guys, give him a Golf
1:43:18
Club. It is wonderful.
1:43:19
He's wonderful. And he was sensational.
1:43:22
Our deuce. Of the day the deuce of the day
1:43:27
you log. Not a log.
1:43:28
I don't have a log but. You.
1:43:36
Know ladies and gentlemen ho this is a doozy let me tell you.
1:43:40
Shaddor Sanders is set up to fail with the Browns.
1:43:44
Robert Griffin the third says well are you hearing this?
1:43:48
Shaddor ladies and gentlemen is head a headliner of the group.
1:43:53
He sells tickets, he sells jerseys, he sells confidence to
1:43:58
his team mates who have said they can't wait to play with him
1:44:02
and non team mates. That's what Robert Griffin says.
1:44:06
And guess what? Robert Griffin also says that
1:44:09
the Cleveland Browns has set him up to fail.
1:44:12
You know what I say to Robert Griffin?
1:44:14
The third guess what? Shut up.
1:44:17
I don't want to hear what you have to say.
1:44:19
You're absolutely a dumbass because here's the facts.
1:44:23
Should door Sanders opens his mouth way too much.
1:44:27
If he's not doing it on the football field, he's doing it
1:44:30
off the football field. And the reason why he fell to
1:44:32
the fifth round because he doesn't shut up.
1:44:35
Robert Griffin should not be speaking.
1:44:37
How long was his career in the NFL when he came out and said
1:44:40
I'm a track and field runner, I'm a champion, I guess I'm not.
1:44:45
I'm rookie of the year. How long was your career,
1:44:47
Robert? I love you, Rob.
1:44:49
I know he's friends with Nathan. That's great.
1:44:52
Here's what I have to say to Robert Griffin.
1:44:54
The third I know you're analyzing things.
1:44:56
I know you're an analyst and I know you were an NFL
1:44:58
quarterback. This guy has a debacle.
1:45:01
He has been nothing but a debacle since he went to play
1:45:04
college football, and he's going to be a debacle in the NFL
1:45:07
because he's a debacle and he believes that he's better than
1:45:11
he is. So my deuce of the day goes to
1:45:13
Robert Griffin of the Third because I can think everybody
1:45:17
should tell him to go simmer down because we know what should
1:45:24
door Sanders is an absolute loser.
1:45:27
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we call this segment Save Your
1:45:32
Tears. Mom, what's one thing?
1:45:36
That you can't talk to me about my sexual fantasies.
1:45:41
Say your sorry. It is not ideal, but if it's
1:45:43
what means? It is not ideal, but if it is
1:45:46
not ideal, but if it is, what means?
1:45:48
You can't trouble double stamp. You can't dribble stamp double
1:45:50
stamp Lloyd. You can't dribble stamp double.
1:45:52
Stamp you guys now. It's time for save your tear.
1:46:02
OK, you guys ready for this? This is a landmark episode of
1:46:10
Save Your Tears. Again if you are new to it, on
1:46:13
Monday we picked our rosters. I'll show you who we picked from
1:46:20
in a second here. And this were the games that
1:46:23
came out on Monday and Wednesday for games one and two of the
1:46:30
semi finals. So we got to pick $515 to pick.
1:46:35
Everyone picked their roster and the results.
1:46:40
Are they bad? The results are we have a tie at
1:46:47
the top between me and Errol because Errol copied my team,
1:46:51
yeah. Right, Goodie 1.
1:46:53
Goodie has third place. With his.
1:46:57
Not knowing anything. First of all, I didn't copy any
1:46:59
team because I wasn't even paying attention when you were
1:47:01
picking your team. Sure, I was watching.
1:47:03
I was watching the Knick game. Obviously, if you remember
1:47:06
whatever. Yeah, I was watching the Knick
1:47:08
game too. But look, let's just go over who
1:47:11
scored. Shy Gilds Alexander was the
1:47:13
leader at point guard. We actually did not make the
1:47:16
best pick by taking Jalen Brunts, and he came in third.
1:47:18
Derek White actually had a really good game, had a few more
1:47:21
fantasy points. Jokic was the big winner ever.
1:47:24
As far as the points, again, he had that 42 and 22 and 6 game.
1:47:28
He had 128 points. Jayson Tatum, one O 9 1/2.
1:47:32
Guys that really underachieved. Oh, Josh Hart, by the way, was
1:47:35
big for Errol and Maya's team kind of outpaced almost
1:47:38
everyone. Jaylen Williams, great pick by
1:47:40
Goody. Who doesn't know who that guy
1:47:42
is? Michael Porter.
1:47:44
There's two of them on the table.
1:47:46
Terrible 29.8. Everyone kind of took Pritchard
1:47:50
because he was $1.00. He wasn't any good.
1:47:53
Christian Braun Brown wasn't any good.
1:47:56
Drew Holiday wasn't any good, and Jamal Murray didn't really
1:47:59
have that good of a game. So that's where we are.
1:48:02
And Errol, I texted you earlier today in case this was going to
1:48:06
happen and I asked you, who do you think tonight in the game in
1:48:12
action at the time we go over right now, we'll have the most
1:48:17
fantasy points. And he gave name someone and I
1:48:20
named someone he named Anthony Edwards.
1:48:22
I named Jimmy Buckets. And the big reveal right now is
1:48:27
Errol wins his first ever. Save your tears because the T
1:48:32
Wolves are spanking the Warriors.
1:48:35
They put in Kevin Knox right now of Knicks.
1:48:38
Oh boy. Play on the see a lot of these
1:48:40
old pigs while stupid game off. If you're watching this game is
1:48:45
over. That dude is terrible.
1:48:47
Told you this is so so there's three different for finals
1:48:49
combination. Obviously the Timberwolves would
1:48:51
be the fun one with with Randall and Vincenzo, but then you got
1:48:54
OK C with heart inside now the warriors for Kevin docks.
1:48:57
I told you this was going to happen by the way, and this
1:48:59
series is going to go pretty quick if Steph Curry doesn't
1:49:02
come back soon even comes back hurt.
1:49:04
They have a better chance of even keeping up with but it is
1:49:07
just this is putrid. This is just bad.
1:49:10
That's all. I'm right.
1:49:11
So the way this goes is you're supposed to give, get a
1:49:15
compliment from all of the losers when you win and it goes
1:49:19
in reverse order. So Tommy's not here tonight,
1:49:22
Tommy. I'm sure will, you know, write
1:49:25
his in a sophisticated e-mail to you later on, as he's want to
1:49:31
do. But Jabba, you're up first.
1:49:33
Jabba, Where's Goody? That's what I want to.
1:49:36
Know well finally you won, so congratulations on just giving
1:49:41
it another excuse that you didn't just take fishes.
1:49:45
Still one. I'd still pick the other guys.
1:49:47
So it has to be 51. Percent.
1:49:50
Hey, I'm getting there. I'm getting there.
1:49:53
We're not. We're still at 0% though.
1:49:55
I know but I didn't really say that much.
1:49:57
True, but no, your your vast knowledge of every sport and
1:50:02
being close but not there always being in the top three just
1:50:06
shows how dedicated you are to your craft and it was about time
1:50:10
that you got a very deserved win and I don't think this is
1:50:14
probably going to be the last one so.
1:50:16
Wow. Congratulations.
1:50:19
That was nice that I. Thought that was 51 right on the
1:50:21
boat. That was nicer than I thought.
1:50:25
All right. PDPD, you are next.
1:50:28
It was only a matter of where the compile score was eventually
1:50:31
going to win for Errol. The track record says that
1:50:33
that's bound to happen at some point based on based on a lot of
1:50:37
stats. And it was a it was the heart
1:50:38
and soul of Josh Hart that definitely elevated Jalen
1:50:41
Brunson still doing very well, still doing better than most of
1:50:44
the other point guards besides Shy.
1:50:45
You got to give him credit on those picks sticking with those
1:50:47
Knicks. So got to love it for a Knicks
1:50:49
fan staying passionate to his craft.
1:50:52
All right, right. Well, here I go Errol, despite
1:51:01
the fact you just copied and pasted my template, it was a
1:51:08
wonderful job by you. You, you definitely took the
1:51:11
best advice on drafting this team.
1:51:14
You were you definitely did all the proper research because you
1:51:19
don't even have to. You are such a wise wisdom.
1:51:24
Don't lie to yourself here, master of the sports knowledge.
1:51:30
It's just so impressive it's hard to even fathom anyone
1:51:36
besides me, of course, because we had the exact same score that
1:51:39
could have come up with such a roster.
1:51:42
I mean, let's just face it, genius.
1:51:46
Well, I just want to let you guys know something.
1:51:48
I was going with Bronson and Yokich no matter what.
1:51:50
So it all fell that way because that's where I was going.
1:51:54
I mean, normally you look at the big man, you're going to go with
1:51:58
Yokich. I didn't think anybody else I
1:52:00
was going with. Everybody knows how much I love
1:52:02
Yokich. And then obviously Jalen Bronson
1:52:05
was the best point guard on the board as far as I'm concerned.
1:52:07
So that's where I was going no matter what.
1:52:10
So I guess everything fell that place.
1:52:13
Finisher who spent, I mean, he told me he was in the lab late
1:52:19
coming up with that roster and he got third place.
1:52:23
Great job by Nick Goody. But Nick again, it's time for
1:52:27
compliments. All right, I got.
1:52:29
Carol won the tie break. I I can only imagine what he's
1:52:33
going to say, ladies and gentlemen.
1:52:35
He left he. Told me 945.
1:52:39
And he disappears again. It's like a magic trick right
1:52:42
here now. You see me?
1:52:45
A lot of magicians. In Orlando over there, so Goody,
1:52:50
it's time to give Arrows some comp 50 only has to be 51%
1:52:54
positive. Go ahead. 3rd place finisher
1:52:58
Nick Goody. Give me a second here dude, you
1:53:03
just put me on the spot, here I am.
1:53:05
Your I thought this. Would be like genuine like the
1:53:07
real world like when they get from the camera.
1:53:10
Here I am thinking, here I am getting a text say you want to
1:53:13
come in for save your tears. I'm like, oh for sure, I won
1:53:15
this and now you put me on the spot and I immediately have to
1:53:18
give a compliment. You're the third price winner.
1:53:21
That's the second loser, dog. That ain't a winner.
1:53:23
That's a loser. Well I got to highlight your
1:53:26
name in a bronze ish red. That would be gold.
1:53:30
That looks like that. Looks like blood.
1:53:35
What I got to compliment both you Dick bags?
1:53:37
No, no, I lost the tiebreaker. It's just Errol, but he did copy
1:53:42
my roster. What was the tiebreaker, by the
1:53:45
way? Who had the most points in the
1:53:47
game that's live tonight when we would go over this?
1:53:50
Right on. OK.
1:53:52
It was a fair tiebreaker. Errol, what can I say?
1:53:59
You have a voice meant for radio and a face meant for anything
1:54:10
but TV. Your tattoos are elegant, you
1:54:16
look like you got them for very cheap and we are just very.
1:54:24
Are you kidding me? We are just so excited that you
1:54:28
are here. This is not a compliment.
1:54:29
This is torture. Got to get the 51%.
1:54:33
I think you got 10 more percent to get there, goody.
1:54:35
Yeah, let's just let me finish. We don't know how you pulled
1:54:38
Brittany, but we definitely know wasn't your face.
1:54:43
Must be something with your tongue.
1:54:45
I don't know. Get the hell out of here.
1:54:46
You're beautiful, you're beautiful.
1:54:48
We love you and you know, we just, we're just so happy that
1:54:52
you won this. Save your tears this week.
1:54:54
It's the first time I think you've ever won.
1:54:55
So enjoy this moment. This is not a compliment.
1:54:58
This is torture. This was not compliment.
1:55:01
This wasn't 51%. That wasn't 10%.
1:55:05
That wasn't even 10%. That little bastard.
1:55:10
Thank you. Such a good game.
1:55:12
Oh, wonderful. Thank you for the compliments by
1:55:14
the way. 51% compliment. I couldn't just, I couldn't just
1:55:17
ride you. I had to get, you know, I had
1:55:20
to. That wasn't 51%, that was like
1:55:22
10%, maybe 13%. You're, you're going from this
1:55:26
to that to whatever the hell you were trying to get to.
1:55:29
We've got a guest and I think it is the guy that I haven't spoken
1:55:34
to in a while. He's out there in Alabama.
1:55:37
He's Crimson and tidying his own self.
1:55:40
The one and only Mark Everett Kelly.
1:55:42
What's up, man? What's up, boys?
1:55:46
What's going on, man? I haven't heard from you in a
1:55:47
while. You OK?
1:55:48
Over. There.
1:55:49
Yeah, I know. You know, it's high school
1:55:50
sports. It's just it'll grab you and
1:55:53
keep you for a while, you know? Hopefully they're not smacking
1:55:56
you, you know what I'm saying? But.
1:55:59
Well, we'll talk to you. That's another conversation.
1:56:02
So what would you like to talk to?
1:56:03
Talk about my buddy all. Right.
1:56:06
Well, I mean, I, I don't know if you guys knew about like back in
1:56:08
December, I, I had, I had gotten sick yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:56:12
From the surgery. So they I've been kind of
1:56:14
yelling from that, but I'm almost all better now and that
1:56:19
that you know, that that produced a couple of hard
1:56:21
months, but. Before you finish, I I want to
1:56:25
say something. This guy is gone.
1:56:28
So if anybody doesn't know Mark Everett Kelly story, this is a
1:56:31
guy that's won two Emmy Awards with ESPN.
1:56:34
He's been through the wall, he's gone.
1:56:37
He has Crohn's disease, he has cancer.
1:56:40
He's gotten through everything. He wrote books and he's been up
1:56:44
and down. He lived here in New York, He
1:56:46
went down to Alabama. You know, he's been through the,
1:56:50
the, you know, he's been through the whole, and he's found his
1:56:53
way out of it. I, I mean, you know, I love you,
1:56:55
man, and I, I respect you. You're one of the guys that you
1:56:58
know, has been supportive on everything that I've done and
1:57:01
have been, you know, a good friend.
1:57:03
No matter if we talk weeks from now or months from now, you
1:57:07
always seem to support everything I do and I really
1:57:10
appreciate you. So you know I'm always
1:57:12
supportive and you ever need help, you know I'm here for you,
1:57:15
so. That means a lot.
1:57:17
I appreciate that and you know, absolutely same thing back.
1:57:21
But you know, I believe in you guys.
1:57:23
I've always have, you know, and you guys work hard and you get,
1:57:27
you know, so much. I think there's so much you
1:57:30
bring to everything you do, so you deserve all the alkaline you
1:57:33
get. Thank you.
1:57:35
You know, I appreciate it. And yeah, Speedy's.
1:57:38
Speedy's insane. That's what he knows.
1:57:40
So Speedy reminds me of me a little bit, but yeah.
1:57:43
And Errol, you're, you're like the the other version of me.
1:57:46
I'm a little lost. 1. You know, You know, sometimes I
1:57:50
grab one nut and the other one might be popping out.
1:57:53
So, you know, if I have two nuts, it definitely works
1:57:55
together. So there you go, Nick.
1:57:57
Goody's making his face so he knows all about the nuts.
1:58:00
All right, Mark, Are you ready to give us how?
1:58:02
About the Knicks, because I I've watched the Knicks and Celtics.
1:58:04
So that's a couple, couple games.
1:58:06
OK, What did Knicks have done last two, two games, being down
1:58:11
20 in the third quarter, coming back to win, I mean, but down to
1:58:16
the opposite against the Pistons, like when it comes to
1:58:20
your play that needs to win the game.
1:58:21
They've done that really well this year.
1:58:25
And you can almost sense like you expect them to win.
1:58:28
You know, I expected them to win in Boston first three games,
1:58:31
even though they've lost about four to five, seven this year,
1:58:34
they've really impressed me with what they've been able to do.
1:58:37
But you know, Barclay said something last night after the
1:58:40
game, and he's right. I don't know if you remember,
1:58:43
I'm sure you guys do. But there are a couple of
1:58:46
instances where Barclay was on teams that lost the first two
1:58:49
games at home. And one of them was when he was
1:58:52
the number one seed with the Suns and they lost to the
1:58:55
Lakers. This is post Magic Johnson when
1:58:57
Magic was kind of dealing with his HIV thing.
1:59:01
And the Lakers, as in AC beat them in the first three games in
1:59:03
Phoenix in the best of five. And then, you know, going back
1:59:08
to LA, you figure, OK, they can get one game.
1:59:13
But it's like he said, if the Knicks don't win game three, it
1:59:16
could be a little bit harder because then the pressure will
1:59:19
be beyond them. But I think they they they've
1:59:23
kind of I think they're ready to do that this year.
1:59:26
Now. I don't know if they can get by
1:59:28
the Pacers because they've always had a problem with them.
1:59:30
And, and Halliburton to me is playing probably the best of
1:59:33
anybody in the league. But I, I think that'll be the
1:59:40
Celtics. I think that went, I think that
1:59:41
went on Saturday because the Garden is insane.
1:59:44
Like playing basketball at the Garden is so beyond anything
1:59:48
that I can't compare it to anything.
1:59:50
I've been to playoff games there.
1:59:51
I was at Game 5, but you know, with Jordan when Charles Smith
1:59:54
missed those shots and it was like going home.
1:59:57
And especially it was like someone died.
2:00:01
And the the people there I think are ready for something like
2:00:04
this. It's been a long time since the
2:00:06
Knicks have been. In this position where they were
2:00:09
kind of almost his favorite, to go to the finals and remember
2:00:13
they haven't won a championship in my lifetime, so these people
2:00:16
are really hungry. Yeah, I will say this, if you're
2:00:20
a Knick fan, you should be very excited because I think that the
2:00:23
depth that the Knicks have, thank you to Leon Rose for all
2:00:26
the Knick fans that were so upset when they added him as the
2:00:29
GM. He has really put a mix of wing
2:00:32
players and defensive players that the Knicks have not had
2:00:36
ever. I mean, even in the 90s with the
2:00:38
players that they had, they had big guys, power forwards like
2:00:43
Charles Oakley and Charles Smith and you know, Mason, those guys
2:00:48
and and obviously Patrick Ewing. This is a different team.
2:00:51
I think that they have they've put these guys together and
2:00:54
they've done the right thing when it comes to development
2:00:58
with some of the young players. And hopefully we get the chance
2:01:02
to see this team actually get to the promised land and that's
2:01:05
playing an NBA championship and, and see if they can get over the
2:01:08
hump. You're right.
2:01:09
I have not been alive to see them win a championship.
2:01:12
It's it's since what was the last time they won a
2:01:14
championship 73? Yeah.
2:01:16
It's been a long, long time and a long wait.
2:01:19
And why not? If there's anybody that can
2:01:21
bring a championship home to the New York Knicks, it's Jalen
2:01:24
Brunson. And if he does that, they're
2:01:25
going to build a statue of Jalen Brunson because he's done the
2:01:29
one thing that every New York fan wants to see, and that's a
2:01:32
championship from the New York Knicks.
2:01:34
And like you were saying many times, I'll like a Knicks
2:01:36
championship would be bigger for New York than any other
2:01:38
champion. 100% hundred. Percent, yeah.
2:01:41
And I've never seen a player like Brunson on the Knicks.
2:01:43
I mean, the guy that was that clutch and his size be able to
2:01:47
dominate a game. You know, Alan Houston had his
2:01:51
best. I remember in game six against
2:01:53
the Pacers in 99 that eliminated them.
2:01:55
You know, when the next made it as an AC, you know, Houston was
2:01:59
awesome in the fourth quarter, scored like maybe 16 points.
2:02:02
No matter who they put on or whether it was Jalen Rose or
2:02:05
Travis Best or whoever they say they put on Houston, he just was
2:02:09
able to score on him. Latrell.
2:02:10
Latrell Sprewell was clutch. I think he was clutch when they
2:02:14
next brought him in. I right.
2:02:16
I mean, he had a couple good, yeah, a couple good Four
2:02:19
Seasons, but but he was two, he was 66665, you know, But Brunson
2:02:25
just, you know, when he missed that shot at the end of
2:02:27
regulation in game one, right? He was shot.
2:02:30
I was like, why? Like he makes that shot so much.
2:02:34
He's he's really, I mean, of all the Nick players I've seen, this
2:02:38
guy's the most clutch of anybody.
2:02:40
You know, Ewing was, you know, I mean, let's be honest, hearing
2:02:45
wasn't that clutch, you know, with his ability to miss free
2:02:48
throws. And I mean, he had a couple
2:02:50
shots, don't get me wrong, but I think everyone will remember
2:02:53
that miss layup against Indiana in Game 7 is kind of like, and
2:02:58
it's a kind of unfair because human was really good.
2:03:01
You know, I mean, now that he wasn't there, I mean, Nick
2:03:04
Fair's really took him for granted when they had those 20
2:03:06
years in exile, you know, after Van Gogh he left.
2:03:10
It's, I mean, it's fun to kind of watch them play.
2:03:13
And I mean, like Madison Square Garden is a special place.
2:03:15
It really is, Kenny Smith said. Like there's only one Garden.
2:03:20
And I know the Boston Garden, but you know, Madison Square
2:03:24
Garden in playoff time. I mean, those people love
2:03:26
lunatics. And, you know, being being a New
2:03:30
Yorker and living down here and, you know, down here, here's the
2:03:33
difference here, down here, you get generations of people that
2:03:36
have lived here going back to the Civil War and beyond that.
2:03:40
OK. So it's kind of hard.
2:03:42
They never really accept you down here when you're annoying,
2:03:45
you know, you mean, they're like you or whatever.
2:03:47
But you never become one of the people down here.
2:03:50
You know, I I probably never will.
2:03:52
But, you know, being from New York and being at home, like,
2:03:57
that'll always be my home. And, you know, at times like
2:04:02
that, when, you know, last year with the Mets or, you know, this
2:04:05
year was the next and watching it and being able to go and talk
2:04:08
about my version of things that I've done here or what New
2:04:11
Yorkers really like, 'cause they, you know, they get such a
2:04:14
bad rap. And New Yorkers are so kind and
2:04:19
considerate when there's something that really breaks.
2:04:22
You want a New Yorker that 'cause he knows what to do with
2:04:25
street smart. He's not going to be fooled.
2:04:28
He's going to do the things that need to be done.
2:04:30
And you know, it just makes me appreciate where I come from a
2:04:34
lot more. Well, I want to tell you
2:04:36
something. I, I, I know we have to go
2:04:39
because we got a lot more to go and we have a little bit of
2:04:41
time. But you're absolutely right.
2:04:44
I think the Knicks are what they're doing right now is
2:04:46
pretty special and hopefully they can get it done, beat the
2:04:49
Celtics. That would be such a great
2:04:51
smile. That would put a smile on every
2:04:53
Knick fan's face. And by the way, when the Knicks
2:04:55
win a game, the fans outside the stadium, did you hear that after
2:04:59
the Boston game that the Knick fans would not leave security?
2:05:04
It's very Knick like for them to do that, brothers.
2:05:08
Are at game. 1. It's so funny.
2:05:11
The only fans probably more reckless is Jets fans, but
2:05:13
that's because they're just totally desperate.
2:05:15
Yeah, well, let's not talk about The Jets.
2:05:17
Please don't stop. But.
2:05:18
Here's what I'll only give you one one quick note on the go
2:05:21
ahead. OK, go ahead.
2:05:22
So the Knights pitching staff, All right, so it's been really
2:05:24
good. So they've only allowed I
2:05:27
believe it's 108 or runs through 38 games, which is the 4th best
2:05:31
in team history. Yeah, the 68 team, which really
2:05:35
wasn't very good, but then again, nobody scored runs in
2:05:37
1968, the 89 team, and I think they had a 71 team that only
2:05:42
allowed fewer runs. So it's kind of historic what
2:05:45
their picking staff is doing and nobody really expected these
2:05:49
guys to do that. Well, if they can keep that up
2:05:51
because you know they're hitting him, especially Alonso.
2:05:54
You look at Alonso and Judge, two players that are over, you
2:05:58
know, 1000 OPS and it's in on RBIs.
2:06:02
So nobody expects Lonzo to do that.
2:06:04
And the line, there's really not many weak spots.
2:06:08
And they guys like got guys like Mauricio and minor leagues,
2:06:11
right that are, you know, going to come up later in the year.
2:06:14
So I think they meet a lot of really good moods.
2:06:17
For the first time as a Mets fan, I feel like they're on the
2:06:20
right track. Stability, yeah.
2:06:22
Let's let's just let's hold on, let's wait a little while.
2:06:25
We'll see how this season ends because we all know about the
2:06:28
Mets and The Jets and the Islanders.
2:06:30
But we got to go. We got to go.
2:06:32
Bro, you can't put the Mets in. Jets.
2:06:37
Now. Let's not get into it.
2:06:39
We'll get into that in just a few moments.
2:06:40
Listen to the show. I know you're going to like my
2:06:42
Islander take. Keep listening, buddy.
2:06:44
We love you, man. Keep up the good work.
2:06:46
I, we got to come down there and we got to give little Alabama
2:06:50
Crimson Tide a little little New York, little filling, little
2:06:55
filling. We'll give them a little
2:06:56
Nebraska filling too. Little cluster over there,
2:07:01
little little juices. If Speedy knows how to squirt
2:07:04
it. Anyways, thank you, Mark.
2:07:06
We, we love you, man. Keep listening to the show buddy
2:07:10
Mark Evert Kelly. He's a friend of the show.
2:07:12
He is sensational. He's such a good guy, kind soul
2:07:16
and a person that I've always when he came to me and he asked
2:07:19
me to to join and and work with me.
2:07:22
Somebody I always looked up to. You know, he's a guy that's been
2:07:24
supportive on the work that I do and he's he always tells me
2:07:28
that, you know, you're special, you're great and you keep up the
2:07:30
good work things special is going to happen to you.
2:07:32
And he's been with the best. He's worked with the best.
2:07:35
So he knows and and I, I take that guy has gone through the
2:07:39
I'm not going to say it, but he's been through hell and back
2:07:43
again and it's amazing that he's still doing it.
2:07:45
I am. So I love the guy.
2:07:48
So I I just want him to know that I don't want to cry, man.
2:07:51
I don't cry, but he's a he's a good dude, man.
2:07:53
I feel so bad for him. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
2:07:56
as we do this now every single week, we call this King of the
2:07:59
Hill. Here's the King of the Hill.
2:08:03
This, Bobby, is the Beltline. You never ever hit below that.
2:08:07
Not that kind of King of the Hill, you dumb.
2:08:09
Are you ready? This is King of the Hill.
2:08:15
OK guys, where's the good one? Where's he?
2:08:18
Where's he hiding of the hill. Everyone come in.
2:08:21
Nathan, get your butt in here as well.
2:08:23
You can play in this. This is king of the hill.
2:08:27
So the way this works, you have categories, you have no idea,
2:08:30
you just got a rapid fire. Give your best answers.
2:08:33
The king has appointed me, his court jester to the to give out
2:08:38
these and he will rule on who is moving on to the next round.
2:08:42
So the first round is a peasant fight, everybody for themselves.
2:08:46
The two best competitors from this round will move on to the
2:08:50
joust, where they will joust it out for a chance to take on the
2:08:55
king in round three. Are you guys ready to play king
2:08:58
of the hill when you come at the king?
2:09:01
That's not miss, that's from the wire.
2:09:06
Omar. All right, so here's round one.
2:09:10
We are going to get into the format.
2:09:13
So here it is coming up right here.
2:09:16
Greatest New York baseball unsung heroes in the last 40
2:09:21
years. So for example, Derek Jeter
2:09:24
would be a regular hero, not an unsung hero.
2:09:28
So, unsung heroes, let's go to this one right here.
2:09:33
I'll be up top. We'll go left to right across
2:09:36
the screen. Name one.
2:09:37
Tell me why within 30 seconds. Then the next person goes,
2:09:42
Jabba, you're muted. Give me a New York Yankee or Met
2:09:48
Unsung hero in the last 40 years.
2:09:50
Me. I was hoping you would start
2:09:53
with you. Why?
2:09:54
Why? Java.
2:09:56
Well, because their bullpen was trash.
2:09:58
I set an all time record of getting to the big leagues the
2:10:00
fastest of the New York Yankee, the longest ever tenured start
2:10:04
to a New York Yankee. To never give up a run and pitch
2:10:08
to a .3 and got us and saved us and got us to the playoffs.
2:10:13
Nathan, you're competing. It supports everybody speed.
2:10:19
Here up. So everyone knows, obviously the
2:10:22
2015 Mets run, Daniel Murphy was the big hitter.
2:10:25
But I'm going to go with Juan, your eBay.
2:10:26
Juan, your eBay veteran treated position.
2:10:28
He was a big spark in the second-half of that season and
2:10:32
also during that Dodger series as well, with a lot of clutch
2:10:34
hits and great defense as well. An awesome leadership for a guy.
2:10:37
I think it was 35 or 36 at the time.
2:10:39
Water eBay. Huge wrench.
2:10:42
Huge. Goody.
2:10:46
I'm going to go with Robinson Canal, Derek, Derek Judy's
2:10:51
counterpart. Sweet swing played defensive
2:10:54
played, played that out of his own style of play at second base
2:10:59
with, like butter, apparently a good teammate.
2:11:03
That's what I got. Nathan.
2:11:06
OK, I'm going to go Alex Rodriguez.
2:11:08
You lose. He's not an unsung hero, OK?
2:11:11
Nathan, you have dirt on your face.
2:11:16
I'll I'll go with Jimmy Labra. It's 1990s.
2:11:20
That's my guy and. Run off of Mark Wallers brings
2:11:23
the Yankees back in that series and they eventually win, setting
2:11:28
off that dynasty. Jabba next one.
2:11:31
Give me one more. We're going to go 3 Jabba.
2:11:34
Oh, I thought I was already going to win automatically.
2:11:42
Damacio Marte. Oh.
2:11:45
It comes from the Pirates little low three quarter arm slot who
2:11:49
probably should have won the MVP in 2009.
2:11:52
Didn't give up a run in the World Series.
2:11:54
Punched that Ryan Howard like 9 times and Chase Sutley didn't
2:11:59
get a hit. He actually came in when because
2:12:01
Chase Sutley was killing us and I don't know if he even gave up
2:12:05
it either, but I know he didn't give up a run.
2:12:07
He was. He was definitely our Sonic hero
2:12:09
in O 9 in the playoffs. Speedy All right, I'll go with
2:12:12
the O 6 Mets this time. We'll go have to go with Andy
2:12:14
Chavez. One of the greatest catches in
2:12:16
the playoff history for sure, getting the double play in that
2:12:18
and he actually hit well in that in that series against the Saint
2:12:21
Louis Cardinals. A great pitching staff at the
2:12:22
time with Chris Carpenter and obviously Wainwright at the
2:12:25
closer at that time, but Andy Chavez got to give him some
2:12:28
love. Here goody.
2:12:32
Aaron Boone Homer against the Red Sox.
2:12:35
That's a good one. That's a good one.
2:12:37
All right, I'm going. To I'm going to say Jerry
2:12:40
Harrison, Junior oh, who helped the Yankees win the World Series
2:12:45
in O 9 too. OK, I I will go with Luis Soho
2:12:54
with a huge clutch triple take helping the Yankees again in one
2:13:00
of their majestic runs to the World Series.
2:13:02
Last one, Jabba. I'm going to go off the beaten
2:13:07
path. I'm going to go Kevin Long, our
2:13:08
hitting coach. We led the league in hitting,
2:13:10
wrote a book, still in the league and considered one of the
2:13:14
best hitting coaches still to this day with Rob Thompson and
2:13:18
literally just one of the best that there is.
2:13:21
And we led the league, I think. Through.
2:13:23
Four out of the five years that he was, he was the hitting coach
2:13:26
and he brought some guys in that shouldn't have done what they
2:13:29
did and, and he was he was phenomenal.
2:13:31
Speedy. All right, last one for the 2015
2:13:33
Mets. So the other infielder on the
2:13:35
other side of your rebate, Kelly Johnson, another one that was a
2:13:37
big spark for us, a guy that was a journeyman, he played like 7
2:13:40
different teams. And another one that was another
2:13:42
not as good defensively as your eBay was, but another guy is a
2:13:45
lefty that brought some hits as well.
2:13:49
Goody. Man, I don't know how I I don't
2:13:54
know, You know, Master Hero Tanaka is pretty.
2:13:57
I mean, he's a he's a he's a star, but he wasn't ACC Sabathia
2:14:03
type star, but he's a star. I mean, he locked down the he
2:14:08
locked down the rotation there for quite a long time, put up
2:14:11
some good numbers. I know he's a giant, you know,
2:14:14
in Japan. So I you know, it's probably not
2:14:17
the best answer, but the same time like CC on that staff.
2:14:22
So I'm going to go with Tanakh. Nothing.
2:14:26
Let's. See here. 40 years you don't
2:14:30
have. You can go farther back.
2:14:39
OK. There's literally like per
2:14:41
thousand who's not unsung here. I've got all the hot.
2:14:42
Ladies, I don't. Know damn, I'm drawing a blank.
2:14:49
Wally Bachman. Who got the hottest ladies?
2:14:51
That's yours. Wally Bachman.
2:14:55
How about? How about I'm going to say, I'm
2:15:01
going to say Terry, Colin. All right, OK.
2:15:06
Why? The underrated manager won a lot
2:15:10
of games for the Mets as a manager.
2:15:13
Players love him. He brought he brought intensity
2:15:17
to the game when he was arguing with the managers and also a
2:15:22
legend, a legend in the game. So there you.
2:15:25
Go. That was probably your best take
2:15:27
ever on any show. Okay, just so you know, I'll
2:15:32
finish this one off and I will go with someone who we all gave
2:15:38
a lot of credit to, but on the international and national
2:15:41
stage, Andy Pettit. It's not a Hall of Famer.
2:15:44
Andy Pettit, one of the most important playoff pitchers in
2:15:47
the Yankees history, got it done.
2:15:50
A mentor to one job or Chamberlain on our show we have
2:15:55
we got a tattoo right there of him.
2:15:57
The guy had the best pick off move in baseball, maybe in
2:16:01
baseball history. The guy was awesome.
2:16:04
He was automatic and he was going to give you depth in every
2:16:07
game that he played. OK, Sleeper.
2:16:10
L Duker. Well, Duque.
2:16:13
You want to use El Duque. That might save you.
2:16:16
Yeah, I know, Duque. Duque.
2:16:19
Because any Lal, Duque, you ask any Yankees, any Yankees player
2:16:23
at that time, no matter who it was, who they wanted on the line
2:16:26
with, who they wanted on the mountain, the game on the line,
2:16:29
it was El Duque. Ask them all.
2:16:31
All right, Errol, you get to now pick who are the two finalists
2:16:35
that will joust it out for a chance to take on the king.
2:16:38
So fish, I, I I love you and I love your takes and I love
2:16:42
everything. But you already knew what was
2:16:44
going on, so I, I can't put you there because you're, you're
2:16:47
hosting it, but that's fair. It's easier for me to host.
2:16:50
Yes, Speedy, your takes were great.
2:16:53
But you know, there was a couple of players that, you know, I had
2:16:56
to dig deep to remember some of the things that they did.
2:17:00
The Al Duque thing really fit as far as I'm concerned, Goody.
2:17:04
And that's what helped you, You, you, you move Tanaka and edit Al
2:17:07
Duque. Al Duque is, is to me one of the
2:17:10
greatest pitchers for the Yankees, especially what he's
2:17:13
did and he's done in the playoffs.
2:17:14
I think his record, his career record, I think he was like 8
2:17:17
and one or something, a nine and one.
2:17:19
It's like ridiculous, his numbers, it's sensational and
2:17:23
and I'm going to go with Jabba obviously, because, you know,
2:17:26
even though Jabba could be a pain in the ass, I I loved him
2:17:28
as a player. So I'll go, I'll go with Jabba
2:17:31
and. Good.
2:17:32
My sleeper. My sleeper was David Justice in
2:17:37
that 2000. We got traded for Jake Westbrook
2:17:39
and like 80 games and hit like 20 homers and 300.
2:17:44
He could have. I know his agent, Andy Pettit's
2:17:49
agent now. Yeah.
2:17:51
All right, get him on the show next round right here.
2:17:57
We're going to get Goody over here versus Java.
2:18:04
I'm going to go up speedy. We're going to put you down over
2:18:06
here. And.
2:18:08
The. Next round captured by Nathan's
2:18:10
last. The Joust.
2:18:14
And the question is best curveballs of all time.
2:18:20
I want you guys to go back and forth.
2:18:22
We're going to go five guys on this round. 05 best.
2:18:26
Curves of all time. I think you guys will appreciate
2:18:30
this topic. Give you ready to gather your
2:18:32
balls Goody have a. Good turbo, are we?
2:18:34
Are we explaining? Or no, you could just you can
2:18:39
give like a very quick, you know why you mentioned the guy you
2:18:42
don't have to get. Goody.
2:18:44
All. Right, ready.
2:18:46
Goody you can start it up. Barry's Ditto.
2:18:49
Nastiest curveball ever. It doesn't even matter.
2:18:52
It's Barry's Ditto. left-handed pitcher.
2:18:55
Come on. Just watch the video.
2:18:58
Watch the tape. Watch the tape.
2:19:01
I'm going to go Sandy Kofax. Safe pick.
2:19:06
Sandy Kofax. May be the best ever before it
2:19:08
got hurt, Clayton. Kershaw another one.
2:19:12
Nasty, disgusting left-handed Hall of Famer.
2:19:16
Next. Next.
2:19:18
Speedy, this for you, Dwight Gooden.
2:19:20
Oh. Yeah, it's my guy right there.
2:19:22
Dog Gooden, let's go. What did doc?
2:19:24
Call his curveball. He had a nickname for it, didn't
2:19:27
he? Speedy, You should know this
2:19:28
one. This would be a good Tic Tac, no
2:19:30
question. Don't, don't tell, don't tell.
2:19:33
Oh, he'll get a new theme for pitch names.
2:19:40
Can we wait on Kitty? No, it's the name of it.
2:19:44
I don't know. Uncle Charles, Lord Charles Lord
2:19:50
Charles Lord Charles Not Uncle Charlie, Lord.
2:19:54
Charlie, Bert Blyleven, Bert Twins.
2:20:01
That's a good one. Nasty.
2:20:04
I used to have a shirt his. That was when I played in
2:20:07
Mankato and and summer ball. That's all I had to talk about.
2:20:10
Oh. The old Burt Ball.
2:20:12
I live in curveball. And I'm like.
2:20:14
Yes, I wasn't alive in the 70s like, but then I watched it and
2:20:18
I'm like, all right, dude, he's got some shit.
2:20:20
So I was like all. Right, Java, I'm going to switch
2:20:25
gears. He was known as as the the Nolan
2:20:27
Ryan Express, but his curveball was disgusting and he threw it.
2:20:32
He threw it harder than anybody before this spin rate RPM
2:20:35
garbage. Throwing like in what?
2:20:37
Like in 8889. Yeah, it was something like
2:20:40
that. Yeah.
2:20:43
OK, that's good. I think let's get, let's just
2:20:45
do. One more each.
2:20:46
One more each. Last one for me, he's going to
2:20:48
be Cody Allen. Watch his watch this 2016 World
2:20:52
Series run with Cleveland. Watch the swings and misses that
2:20:55
he was getting on his curveball ball was bouncing 55 feet before
2:21:00
and guys were taking full G axe on nasty spike heater.
2:21:05
Also, you know what sleeper pick Dell and Betanzas but was it was
2:21:09
a nasty one. You guys.
2:21:12
Jabba, I'm actually going to go somebody that they said that
2:21:15
kind of was the innovator of the curveball and Warren spawn.
2:21:19
Woo. The OG, you know the only other
2:21:24
name that. I was going to go Satchel Paige
2:21:25
too, but. Yeah, so you could have gone
2:21:28
Satchel Paige. Who even knows what he was
2:21:30
throwing or what was on the ball.
2:21:31
I just throwing, but it didn't matter back then.
2:21:34
Mets fans may remember Adam Wainwright's curveball a little
2:21:37
bit too far. Well, when somebody when when
2:21:40
Speedy said Uncle Charlie, I was like, God, Adam Wainwright, duh.
2:21:44
How about How about? How about Charlie Morton?
2:21:48
Charlie Morton, Yeah, he's got a good one.
2:21:50
He's got a sweeper. It's yeah, it's, it's flatter
2:21:53
than a little. Different.
2:21:55
Yeah. All right, Errol, that's, that's
2:21:57
the round. You heard their takes on the
2:22:00
Lord Charles and Uncle Charlie's of baseball history.
2:22:05
Who do you think moves on to? Tim Lintz, another one.
2:22:08
Yes. Oh.
2:22:09
I'll tell you what I'm going to I'm going to let I'm going to
2:22:11
let you and speedy pick, OK, I'm I'm fine.
2:22:14
Me and Speedy, you and speedy make their decision of who
2:22:17
should move on. Speedy, I default to you.
2:22:21
You make the choice. All right.
2:22:22
I like I like the history that Jabba was bringing with a lot of
2:22:25
the the past like innovator of the curveball, the past like
2:22:30
history of the evolution of the pitch too.
2:22:33
So I'm going to give him a slight edge.
2:22:35
All right, So it's going to be Jabba and Errol.
2:22:39
Now do. We even have to finish.
2:22:41
He's going to win. It's time to take on the king.
2:22:45
Usually the king stayed a king, but we'll see what happens now.
2:22:49
In this round, the greatest teams in baseball history with
2:22:55
the year. So I'm not as the greatest
2:22:57
single season teams. Now I'm going to want three from
2:23:01
each of you and we're just going to go through the greatest teams
2:23:05
of all time and give me a reason why that you guys get set up and
2:23:11
come up with three. I want the year, right.
2:23:14
So you can't just say the Yankees, although it's the
2:23:16
correct answer. And this one you will have to
2:23:19
add a year. So here we go.
2:23:22
Let's get the next set up on here.
2:23:24
Put Errol up there. So now the four of us will get
2:23:28
to vote. Really, it's the three of us,
2:23:31
Nathan. You'll be the tiebreaker, all
2:23:33
right. If it actually no.
2:23:35
If there's a tie, Nathan's vote doesn't count.
2:23:39
Really fish, Really fish. No, I'm kidding man.
2:23:41
We'll just vote. Make different the play.
2:23:44
Ever as the best performance becomes or stays the king, let's
2:23:50
start off with their competitor Jabba.
2:23:54
Well, I mean, I'm going to have to start with the 2009 Yankees
2:23:59
opening a new stadium, creating an absolute legacy that the old
2:24:03
stadium had built. We moved into a new one, start
2:24:07
off slow April we end up having 13 walk off hits and go on to
2:24:12
win the World Series for the first time in a long time and
2:24:16
just established our name in the history of that stadium forever
2:24:20
as opening up and winning. Errol, I'm gonna go with the
2:24:25
1939 New York Yankees. I mean, Joe Di Maggio, Babe
2:24:28
Ruth, I mean the talent that they had on that roster.
2:24:32
I mean, if you look at their record, I mean, they were pretty
2:24:35
not only they had a great roster when it comes to that pitching
2:24:38
staff, that pitching staff was great.
2:24:39
Their lineup was murderer's row. I mean, Joe Demager, one of the
2:24:42
greatest hitters of all time. I mean, considered one of the
2:24:45
best outfielders of all time. And then Babe Ruth to me, the
2:24:48
greatest baseball player of all time.
2:24:49
Just the talent from up and down from the roster.
2:24:52
And really it started the the the championship Rd. of the New
2:24:57
York Yankees. So I'm going to go to the 1939
2:24:59
New York Yankees. All right, back to Java,
2:25:03
although I have to mention Babe Ruth was dead, was retired in
2:25:07
1935. So he was not on that team.
2:25:10
That. Was the Bill Dickey Well, I'm
2:25:11
sorry, Joe DiMaggio. Well, I'm sorry.
2:25:14
Joe DiMaggio, Joe Gordon and Bill Dickey.
2:25:16
I'm sorry. There you go.
2:25:18
I apologize. I would.
2:25:19
That's the other team. So there's like I kind of got
2:25:23
off on it. There's there's one other that
2:25:25
the other team is the Babe Ruth team.
2:25:28
But guys, let's. Move back to Java for a second.
2:25:30
Java. I'm going to go it's it's not
2:25:33
the sexiest pick because they didn't win, but I'm going to go
2:25:35
most wins all time. The 2001 Seattle Mariners with
2:25:38
that was the rookie debut of Ichiro set the hits record.
2:25:42
And I mean, he was 10 at bats in and never hit 300 below that in
2:25:46
the rest of his career. Granted, they didn't win, but
2:25:50
they had, you know, all those guys that they brought in and,
2:25:53
and Brett Boone being a huge part of that, Dan Wilson yet Jay
2:25:57
Buener, you had all those guys and just to get 116 wins in a
2:26:02
season, that win, but that in the regular season.
2:26:04
And you know, 3 Hall of Farmers that's on their team, including
2:26:08
designated hitter and Edgar Martinez has a damn highway
2:26:11
named after himself. Yeah, they didn't win it, but
2:26:14
that's the greatest regular season team that that we've
2:26:17
seen. All right, so I I kind of
2:26:20
flip-flopped it the 1927 New York Yankees Babe Ruth 356 sixty
2:26:28
home runs, 165 RB is Lou Gehrig batted 373 with 47 home runs and
2:26:34
173 RB is they were 110 and 44 franchise record 714 winning
2:26:41
percentage. I mean, this is as good as any
2:26:44
Yankee team. That's that's I kind of messed
2:26:46
up with the 1939. So I, I have this, honestly,
2:26:50
this is the greatest team of all time.
2:26:52
And then, then it was the 1939 New York Yankees.
2:26:55
So I either, or you could flip flop it.
2:26:57
I, I mean, both teams were great.
2:26:58
This Yankee team was sensational and really it, it just four-game
2:27:03
sweep Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.
2:27:06
I mean, you can't get any better than that.
2:27:08
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. You know, the Iron Horse and Mr.
2:27:13
Baby Ruth, a home run slugging machine.
2:27:17
So there. You go.
2:27:18
That was the 60 home. Run year I believe.
2:27:20
Yes, it was. Yes, it was.
2:27:21
All right. Last ones guys, Java.
2:27:23
I'm going to go the 76 Reds, you, you look at that line up,
2:27:28
they won 102 games. They have Pete Rose, Ken
2:27:30
Griffey, senior Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, just
2:27:34
for for the Big Red Machine. And then what they had, I think
2:27:39
it was like the new era of kind of the game and and very
2:27:43
underrated date Concepcion, which I unbelievable.
2:27:47
They had a team ERA of three. It was just it was a fun team to
2:27:52
watch. They got after it and my dad was
2:27:55
a low key like Reds fan. So I was able to to get to know
2:27:59
those guys a little bit. They went seven know and won the
2:28:01
World Series that year. So it's a it's a different take,
2:28:05
but you know, they have 6 hall of farmers.
2:28:08
Very interesting, very interesting.
2:28:10
Give credit the 1998 New York Yankees, 114 and 48.
2:28:16
Probably one of the greatest runs we've ever seen a Yankee
2:28:18
team have. I mean, look at the roster.
2:28:20
There's no lie to that. Derek Jeter, Paul O'Neill, Scott
2:28:24
Brosius, Bernie Williams, David Wells, David Cone, El Duque.
2:28:28
You just mentioned it right over there.
2:28:30
Tino Martinez. I mean, this roster was stacked.
2:28:33
Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, low to All Stars.
2:28:36
Yes, Chuck Knoblick was on this team and he couldn't throw the
2:28:38
first base. Who?
2:28:40
Who cares? This is one of the greatest
2:28:42
rosters of all time. Great rotation.
2:28:44
I mean, you can't. There's nothing bad about this
2:28:47
rotation. When you look at Orlando
2:28:49
Hernandez, Andy Pettitte, David Wells, David Cohen, even our
2:28:52
friend Jeff Nelson was a part of this wonderful rotation.
2:28:57
I mean, there's nothing bad to say about this team.
2:28:59
And by the way, they swept Ken Cannon, Caminiti and that Padre
2:29:04
team in the World Series yes and Bruce Bocci, as we all know who
2:29:09
went to the World Series with the the Padres.
2:29:10
So the greatest I I think one of the greatest, more underrated
2:29:13
New York Yankee teams of all time.
2:29:15
Get me that I got yeah case 1998.
2:29:18
So let's vote on it. I'll start off the process.
2:29:21
I'm going to go with Earl mainly because the 1927 team and the 98
2:29:26
teams would have been my two pick picks for the.
2:29:29
Yankees, of course you're going to pick the Yankees like.
2:29:31
Well, I mean, you just pick the 2009 Yankees going to go away.
2:29:34
I just, I just feel like. Well, duh.
2:29:37
The 98 team had the record wins, 2017 was the Babe Ruth team, and
2:29:43
you feel like you got to throw DiMaggio in there.
2:29:45
I would have probably included the 61 Yankees.
2:29:47
The 61 and 60. I left off it.
2:29:49
I left that. Off we We opened the stadium
2:29:51
after not making the playoffs and won the World Series at.
2:29:55
Java. It's still one of my.
2:29:57
It's like you're comparing like your favorite children when
2:30:00
you're talking about. Yankees.
2:30:01
Oh bullshit. Everybody has their favorite
2:30:03
child. I don't care what you say.
2:30:04
Goody agree with me. I don't care, say.
2:30:06
Well, for me it's like favorite. You only have one, How would you
2:30:09
know? No, because.
2:30:12
I know. Well, either way, I think those
2:30:16
3. Combined, why did any of you
2:30:18
guys say 2024 Dodgers, Terrell? What happened?
2:30:22
I like the Reds pick a lot though.
2:30:23
I like that. Dodgers were electric, yeah.
2:30:26
They went to, they went to the world.
2:30:28
Series, and we knew they were going to.
2:30:29
Win I just look at I look at the rosters and I I mean those
2:30:33
rosters 24 that and just the wins if you look at the red, the
2:30:37
Yankee teams that I mentioned, they won like almost 400 games
2:30:40
all together, all three of them together so.
2:30:44
The other thing is if you're looking at best, best teams
2:30:47
overall, like the 2009 Yankees would have probably demolished
2:30:52
the 1928 Yankees with the pitching that they have going on
2:30:57
now. So it's like it's just different
2:30:59
eras of baseball. Yeah, but that's not what we're
2:31:01
looking Abe, Ruth, cuz. It's not what?
2:31:03
That's not what we're looking. Or the the sweeper the.
2:31:06
Ghost, I don't think Babe Ruth probably wishes his pants if he
2:31:09
saw that thing. Coming.
2:31:10
But that's not that's not the question.
2:31:11
We're talking about the greatest baseball.
2:31:14
He was. Swinging like a 50 inch.
2:31:17
But that's not the argument here.
2:31:19
I don't that is not the, that's not still bark on the back, but
2:31:24
that's not an argument. That's not a bone in the back.
2:31:27
I don't think there's an argument there.
2:31:30
I mean. Right, so.
2:31:31
Good. You know, I agree.
2:31:32
I agree with the with the with the with the era and style of
2:31:37
baseball. Obviously, the Yankees owned it.
2:31:39
Forever, forever. Yeah, I got our old argument.
2:31:43
So for 39 especially, I think especially for like a
2:31:46
transcendent like, by the way, time, by the way, I give Job a
2:31:49
lot of credit. He could have went with
2:31:51
something else, but he went with his own intuition, even though
2:31:55
he probably thought, hey, you know what, I'm probably going to
2:31:57
lose this anyways. I'm going to go, well, yeah, for
2:31:59
the same reason, for the same reason I gave Jabba the point
2:32:01
over goodie. I have to use the history there.
2:32:05
All right. And Nathan, your your vote
2:32:07
doesn't count because it's already 3 to nothing.
2:32:09
You could judge next week. So thanks for thanks for sitting
2:32:12
in on it, though, Nathan. I mean, I'm just kidding,
2:32:14
Nathan, but how would you vote? It's a democracy.
2:32:18
Vote with arrow man. I guess his his his points are
2:32:21
valid. The Yankees, the Yankees, the
2:32:25
two Yankees teams that won the World Series.
2:32:27
So. By the way, I was thinking maybe
2:32:29
the Red Sox with Curt Schilling and.
2:32:33
I almost put them but it couldn't come out of my mouth.
2:32:35
That was something. As long as she's using dude
2:32:41
wipes and taking care of my 2 hole I'm good.
2:32:47
I will say this, I I got to give Jabba a lot of credit.
2:32:50
He could have went another route.
2:32:51
He went with. That.
2:32:53
I think it was the king stays the king for another week.
2:32:56
Errol, you will take on all competitors again next week.
2:33:00
By the way, we got to mention, Speaking of, so I told Errol
2:33:03
this Cam, Cam Walker has told me that he's related to Ken Gifford
2:33:08
junior and Ken Gifford senior. Great, get him on the show.
2:33:16
He's related to Ken Griffey Junior.
2:33:18
He's related to his dad. Wait, he's related to both?
2:33:21
Of them, no way, yeah. No way.
2:33:25
You guys, we want the family, his blood.
2:33:30
Breaking news. By Nathan's modern DNA tests, he
2:33:34
said. Tell us, Nathan, what was that
2:33:37
about Cam Lockridge? Related to Ken Griffey, Junior.
2:33:43
Really. All right, all right.
2:33:44
Speaking of Kings, the Islanders won the NHL Draft lottery.
2:33:48
The land them the number one overall pick, first time since
2:33:51
2009 when they drafted John Tavares.
2:33:54
This is the fifth time in their history they had the number one
2:33:57
pick, which includes drafting Hall of Famer defenseman Dennis
2:34:01
Podvan. According to nhl.com Prospect
2:34:04
rankings, defenseman Matthew Schaefer is projected to go #1
2:34:07
He had 22 points and a + 21 rating barely played this
2:34:12
season. Center Mike Mesa is the #2
2:34:15
prospect. He's the high scorer in Ontario
2:34:18
Hockey League with 64 goals, 74 assists and 138 points, which
2:34:22
averages one point and one goal at one assist, one goal every
2:34:26
single game. Center James Higgins, Long
2:34:29
Island native, is the #3 ranked prospect, but missed time with
2:34:34
an injury. He is.
2:34:35
He still had 37 points, 30 in 37 games.
2:34:38
Eleven goals in 20, 26 assist. The Islanders are still
2:34:41
searching for a new general manager after parting ways with
2:34:44
Lou Limarello 2 weeks ago. Well, you know, it's so
2:34:48
interesting. This is a great, there's a great
2:34:50
thing for Islander fans. I know everybody's all over
2:34:53
social media saying we're going to win the Stanley Cup.
2:34:56
They're not winning nothing right now.
2:34:58
The Islanders are going to be rebuilding.
2:34:59
They got to bring in the right GM.
2:35:01
And the question is, as questions are, is, and I'm not
2:35:05
going to mention any names, but the the list of guys that are
2:35:08
out there are not and they're not list that you want as as far
2:35:13
as if you're an Islander fan or not.
2:35:15
So that's not a good sign. Nevertheless, Higgins was
2:35:19
projected to be the number one pick going into the season.
2:35:23
Mesa had a sensational year. He's brought to me.
2:35:25
He's projected to be the best player in this year's draft with
2:35:28
the talent that he has offensively.
2:35:30
He's an offensive, defensive forward.
2:35:32
He's got a tremendous amount of speed, unbelievable goal scoring
2:35:36
opportunities to put it in the net.
2:35:38
He can shoot anywhere on the ice.
2:35:40
I Everybody keeps talking about Connor Bedard and what Connor
2:35:42
Bedard was coming out of the class, his class.
2:35:45
This guy is better and faster than Connor Bedard.
2:35:48
I think this guy is going to be sensational player.
2:35:50
I think he's going to be star in the league.
2:35:51
I think Higgins is going to be a star.
2:35:53
It might take him a little bit a little longer to get in touch or
2:35:57
get close to his talents in the NHL.
2:36:00
Nevertheless, this guy is a special player too.
2:36:03
He's going to be the highest pick out of NHL history for a
2:36:06
Long Islander to be picked in the top three as a sensational
2:36:09
story. I I know a little bit about him.
2:36:12
I know one of his. I know one of his family
2:36:14
members. This kid, sensational Matthew
2:36:17
Schaefer protected be the number one pick.
2:36:19
You never draft a defenseman as your number one.
2:36:22
I don't care if he's Victor Hedman.
2:36:24
I don't care if he's Paul Coffey.
2:36:25
You don't draft a defenseman as your number one unless he's just
2:36:29
absolutely a home run. Now we all know over there in
2:36:33
Buffalo, they did that. It took him a while to develop
2:36:36
and he's a good player. I still don't do that.
2:36:39
If the Islanders have the number one pick and they can trade down
2:36:41
to still get a guy like Higgins, I would do that.
2:36:45
Get another first round draft pick from Chicago.
2:36:48
They'll move up. They're still going to be bad.
2:36:50
They're going to be a lottery pick next year and then you have
2:36:53
three first round draft picks next year from obviously
2:36:56
courtesy from Colorado. Thank you to Lula Morello, their
2:36:59
own pick and the Chicago Blackhawks.
2:37:02
You give Chicago that other star to play with Bedard and they
2:37:05
could build around that and it's going to take him a little.
2:37:07
I I just think that this is a, this is a great story for
2:37:10
Islander fans. 3.5% chance that the Islanders are going to win
2:37:14
it. And they and, and the one thing
2:37:16
I can tell you about the NHL draft and this lottery ball
2:37:19
thing, they do it in front of the fans.
2:37:21
They don't do it in another room like the NBA or the MLB.
2:37:25
They do it right in front of your face so you can watch it.
2:37:28
Gary Bettman slam dunk. The Islanders are a lucky team
2:37:31
team. The Rangers are a lucky team.
2:37:33
They weren't lucky with Alexis laughing here.
2:37:34
Hopefully wherever the Islanders go here and the right GM, they
2:37:39
pick the right guy. If they do, it can set their
2:37:41
team forward for the next 10 years with a young superstar
2:37:45
stud to move forward with Barzell and and the players that
2:37:49
they have over there, call them Ricci.
2:37:51
I mean, the Islanders could be put in a really, really good
2:37:54
position. Higgins, Mesa, I go either or.
2:37:58
I'd be happy with any, but if you get Higgins, don't draft
2:38:00
Higgins at all. One trade down and then get
2:38:03
Higgins and get yourself another first round draft pick, right?
2:38:06
The game now is centers that can skate.
2:38:08
And I think those two guys definitely qualify for that kind
2:38:10
of thing. And you talked about with Dalene
2:38:12
and some other defenseman that were drafted early recently with
2:38:15
the Devils, with Simone Nemec has not developed the way that
2:38:18
he should as a second overall pick.
2:38:19
And it sometimes it just takes a while and the Islanders don't
2:38:22
really have a while because they're trying to figure out
2:38:23
what the direction of this roster is.
2:38:25
And it starts with somebody that could skate like that, like
2:38:27
Mesa. Now Mesa is a little taller.
2:38:29
He's a bigger guy. Higgins has to grow in his body
2:38:31
a lot. I think he's 5 foot 10 or he's
2:38:33
18 years old and he's 18 years old.
2:38:35
So I think there's a little more, there's a little more
2:38:38
traction that has to go. That's why I think I, I think
2:38:40
he'll still come up if he does get drafted.
2:38:42
He's the best American prospect to come out of the United States
2:38:46
since Jack Hughes. And that's how good he is.
2:38:48
And you're right, he for a while he was the consensus #1 prospect
2:38:51
until his injury and I think December or January this year.
2:38:54
And a shout out to our friend Anthony Larocco too.
2:38:56
He was saying that Hagen's like skills are not far behind
2:38:59
overall. It just again, the size of the
2:39:01
skating at this level, can it be?
2:39:03
And that's what we were talking about in the past too, with a
2:39:05
lot of these either Scandinavian prospects and the Russian
2:39:08
prospects versus the American prospects.
2:39:09
The American prospects have a better adaptation to the game, a
2:39:12
lot younger and much more of an instant impact overall.
2:39:15
And that's what I think the Rangers obviously fell into a
2:39:17
Capococko never developing the way he should have and stuff
2:39:19
like that. And I think you have two really
2:39:21
bona fide choice. I agree with you.
2:39:23
Try to dupe Chicago if you could.
2:39:24
If you want to trade back and take Hagen's, try to dupe them.
2:39:26
I think they're a dumb enough organization to fall for that.
2:39:28
Otherwise, yeah, I think you go me.
2:39:30
Why is it dumb? Dead.
2:39:31
No, I think Chicago. I think they're a dumb.
2:39:34
That's not a dumb move for Chicago.
2:39:36
Chicago's looking for the other guy to play with.
2:39:38
Connor Bedard. Connor Bedard has been a bust,
2:39:41
really. I know he's young, but he's been
2:39:43
a bust for everybody. Comparing him to the next Sidney
2:39:46
Crosby, the next economy David, he's not anywhere close to that
2:39:50
right now. I know he's young, but Mesa
2:39:53
could be a guy that they could be licking their lips for.
2:39:56
And then the Islanders sit pretty.
2:39:57
They get the Long Island native, They get the guy that they can
2:40:00
build around. And now they get another first
2:40:03
round. Now they have 5 first round
2:40:05
draft picks in the next two years.
2:40:07
They set the and they got, remember Colin Ricci is going to
2:40:10
make the team this year. They got speed, they Got Talent
2:40:13
to those two top lines. And you still have Barzell and
2:40:15
you know who Mr. Vancouver himself, who they spent a lot of
2:40:18
money for. So I think the Island and they
2:40:20
have Sarokin and they have a great young defenseman over
2:40:24
there too. That's why you don't you don't
2:40:26
build around the defense here. You need speed.
2:40:30
And the Islanders have a lack of it.
2:40:32
Yeah, maybe dumb was the wrong word.
2:40:33
I just said maybe a team that's easier to do for because
2:40:35
Chicago, I like you talk like you were talking about like some
2:40:38
teams just get the luck of the of the lottery.
2:40:40
And Chicago is actually one of those teams.
2:40:42
But a lot of those players never amounted to anything.
2:40:44
But I got a question for you. Yeah.
2:40:46
Why the hell did you not post up the argument with the whole
2:40:49
Jackie Robinson and, you know, Lawrence Taylor?
2:40:54
I why haven't I have seen that clip on.
2:40:55
So it's on YouTube. It's on YouTube.
2:40:57
Yeah, well, get it up on on the other things.
2:40:59
I mean, that was a great argument.
2:41:01
I had to say this. I wanted to wait until the end
2:41:03
of the show, but screw it. You need to put that up.
2:41:06
Get the argument. It was a great argument and it's
2:41:09
great back and forth banter. And as far as you're concerned,
2:41:12
it's not the Rangers getting the number one baby.
2:41:14
It is the Islanders so suck. It.
2:41:17
So why? Why not?
2:41:18
There's been two defensemen taken 1st overall since 2018.
2:41:24
We got power from the Sabres and Dolan from the Sabres.
2:41:28
Sabres keep taking hacks at it. Obviously.
2:41:30
Dolan's a slam dunk. Yeah, no, he's great.
2:41:33
He's but it took him a while, but it took him a while.
2:41:35
It takes, you know, it's taken a lot of these guys some time.
2:41:38
I don't know if I see any others unless I go back to like, I
2:41:43
guess. Ed Jovanowski was 94.
2:41:46
Florida Panthers, no Florida Panthers.
2:41:48
Everyone else I'm looking at. You don't see any.
2:41:52
You don't go defenseman at #1 if you're sitting there and
2:41:55
somebody like, you know, the Chicago Blackhawks want him or
2:41:59
the the team right on to San Jose, then do it.
2:42:02
Trade them out. You're going to get Hagen's no
2:42:04
matter what. And, and if these teams want me
2:42:07
some really, really bad and there are teams out there that
2:42:09
will do whatever it takes to get me some.
2:42:12
He's special. He is going to be a great player
2:42:14
in the NHL. He is a great, great young.
2:42:17
I mean, Shaffer's highlights are absurd.
2:42:19
They they really are. I was cutting highlights from
2:42:21
his highlights are outrageous. Canadian team, coast to coast
2:42:25
type of defenseman making all these great.
2:42:28
He's not a defensive defenseman. He's an Adam Fox.
2:42:30
He's not. I don't want no, he might be a
2:42:33
lot better than Adam Fox is. If he is, then we're talking
2:42:37
about a guy with like Leech type skills.
2:42:39
That that's what they got a player like that.
2:42:42
They got a player like that. They got a player like that.
2:42:44
They got a player like that. Well, he's he's like skinnier in
2:42:46
fat in like it just seems a little bit like maybe not as
2:42:51
aggressive like physically as maybe Leach was going inside.
2:42:55
But you don't play defense. I don't really young.
2:42:57
He's like 17, you know, like or 8 or what is he like 18
2:43:01
something like that. He's been injury prone and I
2:43:04
again, he's 6 foot three. He's long.
2:43:06
It's great, good for that, good for him.
2:43:08
You do not draft the defenseman at #1 you're if you're unless
2:43:12
he's a bona fide and he's not the bona fide because I'm
2:43:15
telling you, I'm taking Nisa or Hagen.
2:43:17
I think both guys are going to be starring stars in the NHL.
2:43:20
Go after the guy. You have had a lack of speed on
2:43:24
your wing play or even your center play.
2:43:26
You need a star there. You need a guy.
2:43:30
Again, if I'm the Islanders, I trade out of the pick and get
2:43:33
Hagans. You can really rebuild next year
2:43:36
in the class that's supposed to be stacked next year.
2:43:40
You can get three first round draft picks in next year's
2:43:42
class. You're licking your chops.
2:43:45
If you're AGM, you're you're going to be sitting pretty.
2:43:48
But if you get me some the, the, the Islanders get themselves a
2:43:52
bona fide star. That's going to be a guy that's
2:43:55
going to be able to be your center, your number one line
2:43:58
center. Could you imagine him, Barzell
2:44:00
and what's his name again? Horvat.
2:44:02
Beau Horvat, your two wing guys and have this guy's you're
2:44:05
centering your number one line. It'll be sick.
2:44:08
It'll be disgusting how good. And this guy's fast and he's an
2:44:11
offensive defenseman. That's what he is.
2:44:14
He plays defense. He's so good.
2:44:16
He reads the eye so very well. I'm not he's better than Connor
2:44:21
Bedard. I I don't care what anybody
2:44:23
says. He's big enough where he doesn't
2:44:24
he doesn't lose the puck very easily either.
2:44:26
No, he's strong, strong skater too.
2:44:28
There there is some video I saw of Hagen's like he's, he's just
2:44:34
skating around the ice and he's not even looking at the puck
2:44:37
ever. Not like once.
2:44:38
He's just effortless skating. He's great stick handling.
2:44:41
Best American, best American. So impressive.
2:44:45
He's the best, so impressive. I don't know if I would pass up
2:44:48
on him. No, you know, I, it's first
2:44:50
overall. Do you really want to play that
2:44:51
game like trying to drop down the two or three and still
2:44:55
you're still going to get him. You're still going to get one
2:44:57
great player. What do you get?
2:44:58
Do you get another first round? You're jumping from 3:00 to 1:00
2:45:01
and you get your chance to pick who you want.
2:45:04
All three of these guys are going to be stars in the league.
2:45:06
All three. That's my point.
2:45:07
Like, if all three of them are stars, why trade?
2:45:11
And I don't know if anyone in two or three is going to be
2:45:14
like, yeah, no, I'll take any of these three guys.
2:45:18
You know, why would I? Again, it depends on if there's
2:45:20
a select desire for one of those teams for the Sharks or like, or
2:45:24
you're saying don't want a defenseman that high.
2:45:26
You know, like it's very possible, right.
2:45:28
And and again, both of these teams just had the number one
2:45:31
pick. So maybe they think they can
2:45:33
afford to just go OnStar OnStar. But dart does develop and what
2:45:36
do what people were expecting to be and then celebrating with the
2:45:39
Sharks to same kind of thing. What a nice rookie year or two.
2:45:41
He's I think going to be a finalist for the rookie of the
2:45:44
year, but like the Sharks are still very far away.
2:45:46
So they could they feel like all right, maybe 2 two players that
2:45:49
could be instant impact to help the rest of the the role players
2:45:52
out and just get them to a more, I guess not necessarily
2:45:55
competitive because they're not a playoff team, but a desirable
2:45:57
location against the Sharks used to be when they first came into
2:45:59
the NHL. They were they were rocking for
2:46:01
a while. They never won a Cup, but they
2:46:03
became popular right away. Well, I, I, I will say this time
2:46:08
will show you that you don't draft the defenseman at #1 and I
2:46:11
don't think the Islanders are dumb enough to do that, even
2:46:14
even if they bring in the wrong GMI think you go wing or center
2:46:18
whenever, whatever way you go, you're going to get Higgins can
2:46:22
play wing and center. You're getting two guys that can
2:46:25
play both multiple positions once American and one's
2:46:28
Canadian. So either or you're going to hit
2:46:31
on one of them, I think. I think that's where the
2:46:34
Islanders go. So it's going to be fun.
2:46:36
NFL Network reports that George Pickens and a 2027 sixth round
2:46:43
pick has been traded to the Cowboys for a third round pick
2:46:46
next year and a fifth round pick in 2027.
2:46:50
Jerry Jones said after not drafting a wide receiver, he was
2:46:54
very active in the wide receiver trade market.
2:46:57
Since then, reports say that the Steelers didn't want 2 receivers
2:47:02
that had very similar skills. After trading for DK Metcalf and
2:47:07
paying him 30 million per year. After CD Lamb, the next highest
2:47:13
receiver was Jalen Tolbert, who had 610 receiving yards.
2:47:18
Pickens has had 800 yards or more in all three of his NFL
2:47:24
seasons. After DK Metcalf, the Steelers
2:47:28
also have Roman Wilson, Calvin Austin and Robert Woods as their
2:47:33
other wide receiver death. Mike Tomlin has criticized
2:47:37
Pickens for a lack of effort at several points at the end of the
2:47:43
season, particular with blocking.
2:47:46
Pickens had 59 catches for 900 yards and three touchdowns last
2:47:51
season. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's
2:47:53
pretty serious for the Cowboys. And if you're a Cowgirls fan,
2:47:58
well, you should be happy. I do believe that adding George
2:48:02
Pickens gives you another weapon, which they've been
2:48:04
craving for for the last four years.
2:48:08
And CD Lamb has not had another weapon really since you know him
2:48:13
as Amari Cooper, who was traded over there to the Raiders.
2:48:17
It has not worked for them. Actually, it wasn't the Raiders,
2:48:21
it was the Browns, Cleveland Browns.
2:48:23
I'm sorry. Right now, if you look at the
2:48:26
position that the Cowboys are in, they needed another weapon.
2:48:29
They needed a weapon that's going to absolutely take away
2:48:32
double teams in the open field on CD, Lamb.
2:48:36
And it made a lot of sense being that George Pickens might have
2:48:39
been the best receiver available, but the biggest mouth
2:48:42
in the NFL. Now, if it works, it's it's a
2:48:46
home run for for the Cowboys, absolute home run.
2:48:50
But as we all know, Pittsburgh, a former Pittsburgh wide
2:48:53
receivers that have left my Tomlin.
2:48:56
It never does as we've seen it many, many times over, including
2:49:01
a guy named Le'veon Bell that was screwing as he's a
2:49:05
disgusting pig, his own cousin at the age of 13 years old.
2:49:10
There is no control over these Pittsburgh Steelers.
2:49:14
There's no no nonsense that is never taken from Mike Tomlin and
2:49:19
his coaching staff. This guy should have never
2:49:22
finished the season on the Pittsburgh Steelers for all the
2:49:25
things that you've heard on and off the the field.
2:49:28
And honestly, there's no control over these players over in
2:49:31
Pittsburgh. And, and it's the perfect team,
2:49:33
ladies and gentlemen, for him to go to.
2:49:35
Why? Because this is an organization
2:49:38
that took Greg freaking Hardy. Yes, we all know what Greg Hardy
2:49:43
did. How despicable and disgusting he
2:49:46
is. Well, they went on and they dug
2:49:48
their hands deep and and obviously Jerry Jones dug deep
2:49:52
into his pockets or his pants to whip it out.
2:49:55
And he's probably hanging out with Deshaun Watson because this
2:49:59
guy is an absolute debacle. I'm interested to see how this
2:50:03
is going to work. I know CD Lamb had his own
2:50:06
thoughts to obviously Dak Prescott.
2:50:08
Now you're bringing this guy in. This is never going to work.
2:50:11
And if it works, it's a slam dunk.
2:50:14
It's a slam dunk and Dak wanted that other weapon, but how is
2:50:17
this going to work when, you know, CD Lamb is the guy and
2:50:21
this guy has always thought of himself as the guy.
2:50:25
And if he's not the guy, boy, oh boy, he's going to stamp his
2:50:29
feet and complain and cry the river.
2:50:31
It's never going to work with the press over there with the
2:50:33
Cowgirls. And I believe that one way or
2:50:36
another, this is going to cause friction in that locker room
2:50:40
when it comes to Dak Prescott and the offensive line and
2:50:43
everybody on the offensive side of the the ball.
2:50:45
This is a bad move for the Cowboys.
2:50:48
CJ Wilson. That's why I asked CJ Wilson.
2:50:50
I wanted to know what he thought when it came because he is a
2:50:53
professional athlete. He was a professional football
2:50:56
player and he understands what goes in to control in a locker
2:51:01
room. This man has no control.
2:51:03
Yeah, I also, I also looked at it with the Steelers
2:51:05
perspective. I think they need to get 2 very
2:51:07
similar skill sets out of there. It was the biggest thing I said
2:51:10
at the time. Like you're have a bigger
2:51:11
bodied, inconsistent route running and then inconsistent
2:51:14
stat production guy. He's had three good like
2:51:16
receiving seasons, 800 yards, I think 11150 and then 900
2:51:20
something last year. But his production is all in the
2:51:23
span of three or four games. And DK Metcalf's been a little
2:51:26
bit better than that, but he's still been a lot of the same
2:51:28
version his career. Now for the Cowboys, I think
2:51:30
it's the best thing they could have done because obviously a
2:51:32
lot of these veteran receivers we've seen fall off.
2:51:34
So if you try to bring back Amari Cooper, who had a injury
2:51:36
rate of the year last year, or somebody like Keenan Allen that
2:51:39
really struggle with the Bears, those are your only other
2:51:41
options you left. So I don't mind them swinging
2:51:42
for the fences. It was just a third round pick.
2:51:44
I think the Steelers made made good out of it.
2:51:46
Consider the trade market. So I think from that
2:51:48
perspective, it's fine with both teams.
2:51:49
The Cowboys have to take a chance somewhere because they
2:51:51
Jerry Jones in the all in off seasons continues to do nothing
2:51:55
and doesn't draft a wide receiver either.
2:51:56
It just makes no sense. So they have to try something at
2:51:58
that point. So I I think it's a good trade
2:52:00
by I don't think it's going to push the Cowboys over the edge
2:52:02
where they're a playoff team automatically because they still
2:52:04
have a lot of other problems. No, I think you're right too and
2:52:08
you bring up something too and I wanted to ask you guys this too.
2:52:12
I was going to ask CJ and kind of forgot but do you think with
2:52:16
Pickens attitude and kind of wanting to be the guy and
2:52:19
throwing tantrums, do you think he lasts the whole year?
2:52:22
He'll last the whole year, but I think this is the one thing I'll
2:52:25
give the Cowboys credit for. Jerry, Jerry Jones and the
2:52:27
ownership are making him earn the contract.
2:52:30
They're not going to pay him right away unless he shows.
2:52:32
There is no way it's going to work over there.
2:52:33
CD Lamb is too big of a personality.
2:52:36
We all know CD Lamb is not going to sit still.
2:52:39
He didn't sit still with the DAC Prescott situation.
2:52:41
I love DAC, I root on DAC and if there's anybody that deserves an
2:52:46
opportunity to have another weapon on the other side, that's
2:52:49
great. I just don't trust the Cowboys.
2:52:51
You have a new coach there. You don't even have Mike
2:52:53
McCarthy there. You have a rookie coach that's
2:52:55
never done it before. We know Schottenheimer as I know
2:52:59
Schottenheimer because at one point he was Rex Ryan's
2:53:02
offensive coordinator, so I know all about Brian Schottenheimer.
2:53:06
It doesn't work when you bring in a rookie coach who has no
2:53:10
control or has never controlled a dumb, crazy personality like
2:53:15
George Pickens. It is I I don't get it.
2:53:18
I don't get it. You got it.
2:53:19
You bring in a rookie coach and you're going to bring this mess
2:53:21
in. I would have taken anybody else
2:53:24
but this guy. This is not smart for the
2:53:27
Cowboys. But hey, if it works, he looks
2:53:29
like a genius. Jerry Jones looks like a
2:53:31
complete genius. He was offered to the entire
2:53:34
league. There's reports coming out on
2:53:37
The Athletic today about nobody wants him, that he's just like
2:53:43
what you expect if Tomlin's giving up on someone for a third
2:53:47
round pick and a pick swap in like 6th or 7th round or
2:53:50
whatever it's going to be. I didn't see the final report on
2:53:52
it. It's probably like close to a
2:53:55
lost cause. But he was so productive.
2:53:58
So you wonder what happened and a lot, I think he type became
2:54:04
like a cancer in the locker room, I don't think.
2:54:07
And like it was great to have like CJ Wilson on.
2:54:10
He was talking about shudor about this.
2:54:11
But it doesn't have to just be the quarterback.
2:54:14
If the other guys don't want to block for you, the other guys
2:54:17
don't trust you. It's a problem on the team.
2:54:20
And Pickens is so immature. He's basically forced this to
2:54:24
happen. Is what they're what all the
2:54:26
articles, There's like three of them, a couple of different
2:54:28
authors from The Athletic writing about it.
2:54:31
Just killing this guy, just killing him.
2:54:33
And it makes me very happy as a Giants fan that the Cowboys
2:54:37
added like the absolute combustion.
2:54:39
Oh, I like that. Blame the combustion right here
2:54:42
bursting in your pants. Is he like do you think he's an
2:54:45
AB2 point O? I don't know if he's like that.
2:54:49
I think AB, like, I mean AB is really funny on social media.
2:54:53
Ohh. He has like a pretty ridiculous
2:54:56
sense of humor. I think he's just a crazy
2:54:57
bastard. AB this guy is kind of a douche,
2:55:01
but they said he's a hit trip. They said that he has those
2:55:05
tendencies that he needs help, that he might have bipolar
2:55:08
disorder. They said that there's things
2:55:10
about him earlier today. I was talking to you about that.
2:55:13
I think if it's either because we see him do like the macho man
2:55:16
elbow drop in the middle of plays, getting 15 yard
2:55:19
penalties, doing dumb, dumb stuff like just you almost said
2:55:22
it, go ahead. But you know, like it's it's
2:55:25
just that you can't do things like that.
2:55:27
It's not winning football. You have to realize that your
2:55:30
actions affect that other people.
2:55:32
And in the NFL, it affects other people's ability to get paid.
2:55:35
And that's what really bothers people.
2:55:37
When you get to this level, it's not just college, not just
2:55:39
having fun anymore. It's, you know, your NIL money
2:55:42
is whatever it is no matter what you do, right?
2:55:45
This is like, you get to the Super Bowl, there's more money,
2:55:49
right? You get to, you get to these
2:55:51
different, like all pro teams, all these other teams.
2:55:53
Well, what if you don't make it? Because, yeah, the running back
2:55:56
doesn't get to get to that, that extra $1,000,000 incentive
2:56:00
because George Pickens won't block a freaking fly out there
2:56:02
down field. So he doesn't get the extra 70
2:56:05
yards he needed to get $1,000,000.
2:56:07
That's a real thing. I was surprised.
2:56:09
I was. I'm sorry to cut you off,
2:56:10
speedy. I was surprised that the Eagles
2:56:13
were not injured. He's a bulldog.
2:56:15
He knows a bunch of those guys over there with the Eagles.
2:56:18
It would have made a lot of sense.
2:56:19
A.J. Brown maybe controls him in the
2:56:21
locker room because A.J. Brown is a leader.
2:56:24
I thought that would have made a lot of sense.
2:56:26
I don't think they just they, they didn't want to deal with
2:56:28
it. I don't think the I'm sure the
2:56:30
Eagles were interested, but they were like, I don't want to deal
2:56:32
with this crap. I don't want to deal with this
2:56:34
person. A.J.
2:56:34
Brown. I'll have to have him read his
2:56:35
book. Like football wise, it should
2:56:38
make sense. Like, let's face it, he's a good
2:56:40
player, plays in the slot as much as he plays outside of the
2:56:44
slot. He can do everything on the
2:56:45
football field. So you can move him around.
2:56:48
You can put Pickens on the other side if you're you can put them
2:56:50
on the same side of the field and really give teams trouble.
2:56:53
And you know, the double team's probably going to go to Lam no
2:56:57
matter what. He's a much better player than
2:56:58
Pickens in my opinion. But if you put him in the slot,
2:57:01
you know, teams will try to inside out.
2:57:03
They'll do different strategies. Pickens is, you know, but can he
2:57:07
keep his head on straight and this is his last real chance to
2:57:13
really be a star in this league because he could be a star in
2:57:18
the star, you know, like on the star literally in Dallas.
2:57:22
But I don't. Everyone's betting against it.
2:57:24
Everyone's coming out killing this guy.
2:57:27
Everyone. I hope, I hope they should know
2:57:30
best. They have all the Bulldogs.
2:57:32
Wouldn't they give him a recommendation if he was only
2:57:34
costing the third round pick? They probably were like, well,
2:57:36
they already traded one last year.
2:57:38
They won a Super Bowl. They won a Super Bowl and I
2:57:40
don't think they want to deal with any craziness that's going
2:57:43
to be because we all know what they did to the other crazy guy.
2:57:46
Reddick went to The Jets. How did that work out?
2:57:49
It didn't work out very good. They win a Super Bowl, Reddick
2:57:52
leaves his face and they win. They win a Super Bowl.
2:57:55
So Big Dom getting into it with gods over there on the sideline,
2:58:00
you know, picking up Sirianni, dragging him away.
2:58:03
By the way, Niffen posted up, former NF NFL wide receiver
2:58:07
Antonio Brand has officially applied for a NASCAR NASCAR Cap
2:58:10
competition license. Per source, NASCAR is currently
2:58:13
reviewing his application. You know what?
2:58:15
NASCAR is going to tell him to go take a hike.
2:58:17
There's no way they're letting that crazy bastard on a Raceway.
2:58:21
That guy is nuts. He'll kill somebody before he
2:58:24
even gets on that Raceway and actually goes around the bend
2:58:28
one time. It is absolutely ridiculous.
2:58:30
They already have dudes in NASCAR that are like that.
2:58:33
Now they're not going to bring that.
2:58:34
There's no way NASCAR is going to sell that.
2:58:36
And I know people would love to see this guy ram himself into a
2:58:40
wall and kill himself because he's done a lot of stupid
2:58:42
things. But I, I just think he's already
2:58:45
had head trauma. We don't need to see any more
2:58:47
head trauma from this guy on a NASCAR, a NASCAR, whatever they
2:58:52
call it, Raceway. He's just, it's just horrendous.
2:58:55
It's a terrible move. If NASCAR allows this, they're
2:58:58
they're a dumb organization. This guy needs he needs help.
2:59:02
And and and for anybody thinks that this guy is going to be
2:59:05
able to drive 280 mph around the bend and not kill somebody while
2:59:10
I was doing it is stupid. It's a dumb, dumb source,
2:59:14
whoever's saying this. And if it is true, and if he's
2:59:17
that dumb enough to do that, do these guys it?
2:59:20
Takes only 180, not 2. 80, whatever, it doesn't even
2:59:24
matter. It could be two 8180, it could
2:59:26
be 80 mph. This guy, I don't trust him in a
2:59:28
car. I don't trust him with machinery
2:59:31
going at fast. I don't trust him on a football
2:59:33
field anymore. Do you think I trust him with
2:59:36
something 3000 tons of you know, whatever that whatever you call
2:59:40
that. I mean, honestly, it's stupid.
2:59:43
I if NASCAR, NASCAR needs to get this this sorted out and tell
2:59:46
him to go take a hike, go go play rugby or something.
2:59:49
I don't know, do something, go play ping pong or something like
2:59:53
that and try to make the United States Olympic team.
2:59:56
That would have been more smarter than here.
2:59:57
Here. I got one beach dodge ball.
3:00:00
That's what I would do if I was him.
3:00:02
Create a league for the one and only idiot of the NFL who does
3:00:06
stupid idiotic things. Java.
3:00:08
You mentioned the the gap with Antonio Brown and George
3:00:10
Pickett. This is how I would do it.
3:00:12
For ex Steelers receiver. So Antonio Brown at the top of
3:00:14
the list both skill wise and antics.
3:00:16
George Pickens in the middle and then Chase Claypool at the
3:00:18
bottom. I just reached him.
3:00:20
I would just reach. If I was Antonio Brown I would
3:00:23
reach out to him. You know a guy like George
3:00:24
Pickens. Sit and hang out and enjoy
3:00:27
stupidity because that's what they.
3:00:29
Are just two stupid guys that don't know what the hell they're
3:00:33
doing and both need mentally, you know, mental help and
3:00:36
they're mentally ill. So anyways, I, I want to get off
3:00:38
this, this story is stupid. I, I, I honestly think that the
3:00:42
George Picken story is ridiculous.
3:00:45
I, I know Nathan was so proud of this.
3:00:47
I know he was posting it up at 7:00 in the morning, which Goody
3:00:51
and fish were like, what are you doing, Nathan?
3:00:54
No, Jabba's it. It's like. 5:00 in the morning.
3:00:57
No, it was 645. 6:45 in the morning, he's posting George.
3:01:02
I was awake, but I was like. If it's pre ordering his playoff
3:01:05
tickets, Nathan, Nathan, we love you but we don't want to hear
3:01:09
from you at 7:45 about George Pickens.
3:01:12
Goody was so funny. When Goody answered it, it was
3:01:15
so funny. He's like Nathan.
3:01:16
I I could give a crap about George Pickens and people are
3:01:20
trying to Nathan. I think it's a good trade, but
3:01:22
they're not going to be a playoff team.
3:01:25
We have we have goody on for humor and baseball.
3:01:28
That's that's what. Man, it's just, it's absolutely
3:01:32
craziness. Anyways, let's get into some
3:01:34
baseball, as we call this inside baseball.
3:01:39
Now let's go deep. Deep inside what?
3:01:42
I am excited. This is inside baseball.
3:01:48
All right, all right guys, we are here for another segment of
3:01:51
Inside Baseball. We're going to have a few
3:01:53
stories going around the league. We're going to do a couple a
3:01:56
show of a clip as well of a really interesting play of the
3:02:00
week. The guys know it ahead of time.
3:02:03
You guys might know it. It's not exactly a great play,
3:02:06
but we'll start off with the story of the day, and that is
3:02:10
the Pittsburgh Pirates firing manager Derek Shelton after
3:02:14
losing A7 straight game to fall to 12 and 26 with a -57 run
3:02:19
differential. Shelton went three O 6 and 440
3:02:23
in five seasons since in Pittsburgh.
3:02:26
Guys, it just seems like we've started this segment like a the
3:02:31
beginning of the season and we've had four incredibly
3:02:34
negative Pirate stories already. And it's not like I care about
3:02:37
the Pirates one way or the other.
3:02:39
They're just doing it to themselves between the bucko
3:02:42
bricks being taken out. The the.
3:02:45
Stuff with the. Ricardo Clemente in right field
3:02:48
and the fact that their last big contract was Francisco Liriano
3:02:52
for what, 3 for 39 million? At least the fan who fell didn't
3:02:56
die. Apparently he's walking.
3:02:58
They're they're really trying, let's just say that.
3:03:02
So what do you think about this manager?
3:03:04
You know he was there for a while.
3:03:06
Obviously it's not just his fault going on in Pittsburgh.
3:03:09
What do you guys got to say about it?
3:03:10
Yeah, no, I I was a huge Derek Shelton fan and it's crazy
3:03:15
because like when I heard too and then, you know, you got guys
3:03:18
coming out in the industry who you know why we said Ken
3:03:21
Rosenthal on and Ken Rosenthal went on foul territory and
3:03:24
literally said he goes, this isn't Derek Shelton, this is the
3:03:28
pirates owner, because look at what they've done and Goody
3:03:31
goody made a great point on their highest.
3:03:33
Obviously if why haven't they paid schemes yet?
3:03:37
But you expect things to win you 20 games every year with what
3:03:40
what your feature in to score runs.
3:03:43
And he said it's literally like, and this is from Ken Rosenthal
3:03:46
on foul territory on X. And he was like, it's like
3:03:50
trying to make apple juice when you're giving me lemons.
3:03:54
Because look at their lineup. Like, really, they don't spend
3:03:57
money. It's a great place to play great
3:04:02
clubhouses. And it just, it boggles my mind
3:04:05
when you have one of the best young pitchers in the game too,
3:04:08
that you wouldn't want to put something behind him.
3:04:12
But as we've all seen in in any sport, whether it's basketball,
3:04:16
football, hockey, whatever it is, somebody has to take the
3:04:20
fall. And nine times out of 10, it's
3:04:23
usually the manager. We saw AGM and a manager this
3:04:26
time because they both didn't like each other in a different
3:04:29
sport. But there's somebody that has to
3:04:32
take the fall. And it, it, it sucks that it's
3:04:34
him, but he'll land on his feet. He's too.
3:04:36
He's too damn good of a coach to not and it just sucks that
3:04:40
somebody has has to wear it when they're what, 2038 games in?
3:04:47
Yeah, it's just part of it. Like we said, they don't spend a
3:04:49
lot of money. They're not spent.
3:04:50
They haven't spent a lot of money.
3:04:52
You have exciting young players that are coming through and
3:04:57
they're just not. They're just missing the mark.
3:05:00
That's that's really all it is. And as Jabba alluded.
3:05:04
To. You somebody has to take the
3:05:05
fall certainly won't be the GM. He's not going to fire himself.
3:05:08
So my next best thing is we'll fire the manager and see how it
3:05:12
goes. Listen, when you play it, when I
3:05:14
played in Mexico, our coaching staff was on notice every week.
3:05:18
All right, if we lost, if we if there wouldn't be if it was like
3:05:24
3 games in a row, we were the coaching staff is getting put on
3:05:26
notice and players are getting sent back.
3:05:28
So, you know, you have a little bit of leeway here, but for
3:05:32
three years you you said his record was what, 250 and 4
3:05:36
something that. Is hold on, I'll bring it back.
3:05:38
Up 300. Five years and three O 6 and
3:05:43
4:40. Yeah, and that's not like that's
3:05:46
not entirely his fault. Like said, you know, that's a,
3:05:48
that's an organizational thing. You know, the Pirates
3:05:54
traditionally, I think have a pretty decent minor league
3:05:57
organization. I know they're making some
3:05:59
changes there now. Maybe those changes just haven't
3:06:02
had enough time to play out. But they are producing some good
3:06:05
talent, some good young talent. So maybe in the next couple of
3:06:08
years they should be better. It sucks that Shelton took the,
3:06:11
you know, took the brunt of it. But at the same time, it's
3:06:13
baseball. It is what it is.
3:06:15
And and as Jabba said, like he will find another home.
3:06:18
That's what managers end up doing and maybe become a special
3:06:20
assistant or whatever else. But he will be in this game.
3:06:24
I know the players really like him so and that's that's what
3:06:28
really sucks is the relationships that he had are
3:06:30
they'll still be there, but they won't be day-to-day.
3:06:34
So Ben Sherrington runs it, right, Speedy?
3:06:37
Yeah, I think he's still there. Unfortunately for them, he's
3:06:41
living off of a lot of former success over in Boston, and he's
3:06:47
been there, what, 6 years now? What are we do we really think
3:06:53
this guy was the reason for Boston's success after watching
3:06:56
this? What do you think, Speedy?
3:06:57
I don't know. They've had their track record
3:06:59
of other GMs go over to other smaller market organizations.
3:07:02
That would not be the case. And again, that's what I think
3:07:05
what good he's getting at is like he's a it's a product of
3:07:08
just them being so cheap. And Derek Shelton, while I get I
3:07:11
wasn't crazy about the hire at the time, like you were saying,
3:07:14
job. I think a lot of the players
3:07:15
liked him in Minnesota when he was with the Twins over there.
3:07:17
So again, it's just one of those tough situations for a team that
3:07:21
just the top 10, not payroll, top ten money with the owner and
3:07:25
they just don't want to do anything with it.
3:07:27
With a flashy player in ski, it's a flashy player in O'Neill
3:07:29
Cruz. They need a manager that's a
3:07:30
personality. Maybe they get our friend
3:07:32
Michael McHenry to join Errol, You think?
3:07:36
Should hire me. Worst ownership group maybe
3:07:40
going right now. They're the worst.
3:07:42
They're just as bad as any team we've seen in a long time.
3:07:45
Cincinnati was there, They're getting better.
3:07:47
We're watching Cincinnati. They did the they made the right
3:07:50
choice with Terry Francona. They're bringing in a guy that
3:07:53
actually knows what he's doing. He's a great manager.
3:07:55
So that's where, and I'm not blaming Pittsburgh, obviously
3:07:59
with the manager over there, he it just didn't work out over
3:08:02
there. I know the players liked him,
3:08:04
but they need to find a guy that's more of a drill Sergeant
3:08:08
than a guy that's patent babies on the ass and saying don't
3:08:11
worry boys, we'll get him next time.
3:08:13
I think they need to get a guy that's going to go in there and
3:08:15
tell them, listen, you got to go out there and play.
3:08:17
You want to play in the big leagues, you want to make some
3:08:19
money, you want to be the best. You got to go out there and and
3:08:21
go and play like you're one of the best.
3:08:24
So I think that's the problem right now.
3:08:25
Pittsburgh has talent like you were saying, Goody, like you
3:08:28
were saying Jabba. They're just these talented
3:08:31
players aren't developing and then they wind up trading, bring
3:08:34
them away. And it just, it doesn't make any
3:08:36
sense. This has been the the Pittsburgh
3:08:38
Pirates Forte for the last, I don't know, 2 decades.
3:08:42
So it hasn't been good really since Bobby Bonilla and Barry
3:08:46
Bonds. I mean, that's how they're just
3:08:48
not good. They're just not a good and
3:08:50
presently run organization. So my opinion, Bobby Bonilla is
3:08:54
probably still getting paid more than a lot of those players.
3:08:56
That's Bobby Bonilla's best contract of all time, right?
3:09:01
So I don't really know what you do to an ownership group.
3:09:07
It just doesn't want to spend money.
3:09:08
And they're just going to sell players.
3:09:10
There seems to be no penalty or way to penalize them.
3:09:13
And I feel like something is going to have to give it some
3:09:18
point. So let's get this back up here.
3:09:21
Looks like I'm more frozen here we are.
3:09:23
All right, so let's talk about the Yankee game last night a
3:09:25
little bit because it was really fascinating.
3:09:27
Yankees won four to three and 10 innings versus Padres.
3:09:30
Padres obviously with a real hot start this year as well.
3:09:33
Max Freed versus Dylan Cease great pitching duel.
3:09:37
It was 1 nothing going into the 7th inning.
3:09:40
Cease had a no no going and he gives up a a home run to
3:09:44
Bellinger ties the game up and batter 2 later he has to come
3:09:49
out of the game he gets the forearm cramp.
3:09:51
Now this was more of a question that I wanted to ask my 2
3:09:55
pitchers over here. You give up a home run in that
3:09:57
situation. What causes that cramp?
3:10:00
You just start like pensing up and throwing harder than at that
3:10:03
point get a little angry or could it just be like you,
3:10:06
you're so like exhausted from trying to do the no hitter that
3:10:11
you're like almost dehydrated and you can cramp up.
3:10:14
What do you what do you think that that was on this one guys?
3:10:17
It's I mean, you can never really tell when that happens.
3:10:20
I mean, I mean, because I started and relieved, but I was
3:10:24
never the best water drinker when I was pitching.
3:10:28
I know some guys that would drink a bottle and inning.
3:10:32
I don't know how they did it, but that was just their routine.
3:10:34
I just was never really, really good at it.
3:10:36
I mean, I always would have enough water where I wouldn't be
3:10:41
dehydrated. But you, I mean, it's just weird
3:10:46
to I don't think necessarily he was gripping the ball too tight.
3:10:49
Like I think it was just he was probably dehydrated and he just
3:10:55
caught a cramp. But also no cramps can lead to
3:10:58
other things too. So you don't really know.
3:11:01
And it was it was just a it was an interesting game watching it
3:11:04
go back and forth and, you know, just going into the 6th and then
3:11:08
it's no hitter and Max just gave up the home run early in the
3:11:12
game and you know, he just battled his tail off and and it
3:11:16
it it was just a it was a great game overall for the Yankees in
3:11:19
momentum. Devin Williams obviously got
3:11:21
first two quick first outs, then he gets the bases loaded first
3:11:27
and third hits Jackson Merrill to load the bases and then gets
3:11:30
out of it with a strikeout with Bogart.
3:11:32
So and then they just go on a tear from from after that.
3:11:36
But I don't think more than a cramp it it unless they said
3:11:42
that there's going to get an MRI, but I would assume he just
3:11:44
tightened up and they're like all right.
3:11:47
And it's still so early in the season, you don't want to push
3:11:49
it. Yeah, What do you think, Betty?
3:11:54
I don't know, man. I, I know Cease is a dog.
3:11:57
I know he'd go out there and pitch through a lot of things.
3:11:59
So I don't think he would pull himself out of the game for a
3:12:02
little cramp. I know he, he came out and said
3:12:04
he would push through it but just you know, with the being
3:12:09
cautious, you know the, the training staff pulled him out.
3:12:15
It is ironic that it happened after a home run after he was
3:12:17
going for a no hitter. I'm not sure exactly what his
3:12:20
pitch count was or how high you know where where he was at, but
3:12:23
couldn't be too high. I'm assuming you know these.
3:12:30
I personally don't think I've ever cramped in my forearm while
3:12:33
pitching. I haven't.
3:12:35
Yeah, that was my bigger question, because when I cramp,
3:12:37
it's my calf. It's real bad.
3:12:39
It could be like quad area. You can cramp up sometimes like
3:12:43
foot cramps up like my heel like.
3:12:45
I don't the arch, I don't, I don't know, I don't know, maybe,
3:12:50
maybe my calf, if I've ever cramped while pitching, it might
3:12:54
have been a calf muscle and you just walk around the mound or
3:12:58
you know, whatever and you kind of work itself out.
3:13:01
As far as the forearm, the only if it cramped up, it was like I
3:13:06
the one time it cramped up, I had time to jump like right then
3:13:08
that just didn't cramp up Like it, it, it, it, it blew.
3:13:13
So it's like, you know, I don't know, like we know we'll find
3:13:16
out. We'll find out when when we get
3:13:19
more details and everything that come out.
3:13:21
You know, teams like to hide these things for a little while.
3:13:23
So you know, who knows? See, nobody knows but cease in
3:13:28
the medical staff what's actually really going on.
3:13:30
And when that comes out, we'll we'll find out and I'm sure
3:13:32
we'll discuss it. But until then, he pitched a
3:13:34
hell of a baseball game, gave up a hit epic bat flip by Grissom,
3:13:39
and it is what it is he was like. 6 and 2/3 with 89 pitches.
3:13:45
Yeah, I mean that's he was just, he was cruising.
3:13:47
He was cruising. There was like. 59 strikes.
3:13:51
Speedy, yeah. You're the one I wanted to ask
3:13:54
about Grissom specifically. This guy was a platoon guy
3:13:57
forever was never always had pop, obviously great defensive
3:14:02
player. What do you think's led to this
3:14:04
kind of a turn around? I mean, you've seen the
3:14:06
statistics. They're off the charts for this
3:14:08
guy. Yeah, I was supposed to what he
3:14:09
was supposed to be in Milwaukee. He was a top prospect there and
3:14:13
he was supposed to be kind of that transition from their
3:14:15
veteran offensive players that they had there and never really
3:14:18
amounted and obviously had that great post season series against
3:14:21
the Mets. And when he was with the.
3:14:22
Padres But yeah, this is definitely, you always see this
3:14:25
with some random outfielders, especially veteran outfielders.
3:14:29
There's usually a couple that have their flashes like this and
3:14:32
it. I mean, I don't know how
3:14:33
sustainable. It'll be but.
3:14:34
He had the upside for a reason. Maybe he's just finding it.
3:14:37
It'd be great. If he can be this good and like
3:14:39
just be one of our guys going forwards, that'd be amazing.
3:14:42
He's got more. He's got more homers this year
3:14:45
into May than he did all of last year.
3:14:48
Errol Last no, not that's that's on Monday.
3:14:53
No, we've talked about Max Freed.
3:14:56
He's got to be the front runner for AL Sai Young, though, he's
3:14:59
special. He's been special.
3:15:01
It would be interesting to see what Garrett Cole and him as a
3:15:05
dynamic tandem which the Yankees are looking for probably
3:15:08
hopefully next year at the end of the season is seeing how this
3:15:12
is going to work. But Max Freed has been the best
3:15:15
pitcher in baseball really since the beginning of the season, 9
3:15:19
starts. He, the Yankees have won every
3:15:21
single start since he's been on the mound.
3:15:23
And that's what you want your ace to do.
3:15:25
His ERA is almost one. His WHIP is under one.
3:15:29
I mean, the guy has been the best pitcher in baseball.
3:15:31
If you were to tell me right now going into the season that the
3:15:34
Yankees would have by far the best player in baseball and the
3:15:38
best pitcher in baseball, well, that means the Yankees would be
3:15:42
a pretty good team. And they are there.
3:15:43
They're just not playing as the best team in the American
3:15:47
League. But I think they'll figure it
3:15:48
out. I think Max Reed is special.
3:15:50
He's winning the Cy Young. If he stays 100% healthy all
3:15:53
season long, he's on his way. But it it's it's incredible.
3:15:57
He people thought, hey, you go to New York, could you handle
3:16:00
Yankee Stadium? Could you handle New York?
3:16:02
A lot of pitchers couldn't. As we all know, the Yankees, the
3:16:05
Yankees have done so many things over the years that bring guys
3:16:08
in and it never worked. One guy, guy that sticks out to
3:16:11
me more than anything is Carl Pavano.
3:16:14
Remember that guy? Remember the money the Yankees
3:16:16
gave him? It didn't work out.
3:16:18
He got hit by a sausage truck. OK, It's ridiculous, the story
3:16:23
about Carl Pavano. The Yankees right now have an
3:16:26
opportunity if they put some guys around this guy.
3:16:30
And by the way, the Soto move was the best move the Yankees
3:16:33
did not do in the offseason. They brought in Max Freed and
3:16:36
Goldilocks. I call him Mr. Goldilocks
3:16:38
himself. You know, Goldschmidt, who right
3:16:41
now has the second best batting average right now in baseball.
3:16:44
Where are you, Jeff? Where are you?
3:16:46
I can't see you, Jeff. Remember when you say Goldilocks
3:16:49
is done Well, he's right behind Aaron Judge, right behind the
3:16:55
great one as the second best batting average in baseball.
3:16:58
Eat it, Mr. Jeffrey. Sink to the river, sink to the
3:17:02
ocean. That's all I got to say about
3:17:03
that. I I agree with that sentiment
3:17:07
about Jeff. Now moving back on to the next
3:17:10
thing we're going to get into some injuries, guys.
3:17:12
First one, a couple of groin injuries.
3:17:15
Hunter green Jabba we were talking about it went down with
3:17:19
what could be, you know, you never know what the groin, but I
3:17:22
think it was more upper and it might be a little while for him.
3:17:26
Obviously he, we've mentioned him a couple weeks ago, has had
3:17:28
one of the fastest starts for any pitcher in baseball, the
3:17:33
Oscar Hernandez. That's a blow for the Dodgers.
3:17:36
Obviously, they're still crushing it, but he's a big part
3:17:39
of what they're doing. I think he was second in RBI is
3:17:41
behind Judge at one point. Other injuries.
3:17:44
Noel V Marte for Cincinnati, he's somebody that's really
3:17:49
coming on. Errol, I don't know if you know
3:17:50
too much about him, but he was a hot prospect, got hurt.
3:17:54
I think he might that was he suspended?
3:17:55
Is he the one that was suspended for the steroids or something?
3:17:59
Anyway, he was crushing beginning of this year.
3:18:01
He's got an oblique. He's going to be gone for a
3:18:03
little while. And then those are the ones I
3:18:06
didn't really want to talk too much about.
3:18:08
The ones I really want to talk about is starting off with Chris
3:18:12
Bryant, who has lumbar degenerative disc disease.
3:18:18
He's batting 150 something with absolutely no ability to play
3:18:22
anymore. He's got, I don't know, speedy,
3:18:25
You'll have to tell me the contract details, but it is.
3:18:27
It was 6 years, I think 175 or something at the time.
3:18:31
Nobody is stealing money more than Chris Bryant, but on power
3:18:35
to him if his back's really that messed up.
3:18:37
I mean, have you ever even heard of a guy in baseball having
3:18:40
something like this? Is it similar to David Wright?
3:18:42
I was going to say when David, when David Wright had spinal
3:18:44
stenosis, that was the first time I heard of.
3:18:46
That, yeah, yeah. And then Prince was neck.
3:18:50
But this is the first time I've heard it speeding.
3:18:52
It was 7 for 182. 07/1/82 OK. Who cares?
3:18:55
He plays for the Rockies. Well, I mean, he picked the.
3:18:58
Rockies 31 Rockies. Yeah, they are.
3:19:02
They are not good. Yeah, I mean, it sucks because I
3:19:07
mean, it's one of those things where like, if you have bad
3:19:12
luck, you have bad luck, right? But this is something that you
3:19:16
really can't control. And since since he left San
3:19:19
Francisco and, you know, signed the the the deal and you just
3:19:25
look at he hasn't played more than 80 games.
3:19:29
And it I mean, he played like 51.
3:19:33
Chicago was the last time he played almost 100 and that was
3:19:38
in 21 then when he got traded. So he played 140 between two
3:19:42
leagues, but he hasn't played more than 80 games.
3:19:45
And it I can only imagine the frustration because everything
3:19:49
that I know about him and everybody that I talked to and
3:19:52
and goody you probably in the same like nobody has a bad thing
3:19:55
to say about the guy. And it just sucks when it's one
3:19:58
of these things you can't control if it's like, you know,
3:20:01
just a string of like, oh, my knee, my ankle, whatever.
3:20:04
But this is something where it's degenerative like.
3:20:07
And I look at it from this point of view, it's like, man, if you
3:20:10
want to pick up your kids when you're 40 years old and you and
3:20:13
I actually play like, is it worth trying to grind and do all
3:20:18
that stuff? Or like, Hey, then I like I
3:20:21
said, I don't know him personally, so I don't know if
3:20:22
he has kids or whatever, but that's where my brain would go.
3:20:26
Like I want to play catch with my son.
3:20:28
I want to, you know, when he gets grandkids, I want to be
3:20:31
able to, you know, have him over and, and play with them.
3:20:33
So from that point of view, it's just, I, it sucks because it's,
3:20:38
it's nothing that he can control.
3:20:40
It's not like he hasn't put the work in because you've seen him
3:20:43
in AAA trying to rehab and then it flares up and he can't get
3:20:47
back. So at this point, with the way
3:20:49
it's gone the last five, 4-5 years, you started looking at
3:20:53
your your own personal life and, and what limitations that you're
3:20:57
going to have with this and, and how you can, you know, minimize
3:21:00
it by obviously not putting your body through the wringer for,
3:21:04
you know, nine months a year, 10 months a year and hopefully have
3:21:09
a long lasting life. But you know, you, you're still
3:21:12
in pain. I mean, I'm nine surgeries in.
3:21:14
So, you know, there's a days that aren't comfortable, but
3:21:17
with that, I just, I think you got to look out for yourself at
3:21:20
at some point. Yeah.
3:21:22
What do you? What do you think, Goody?
3:21:24
I got another injury here that's interesting.
3:21:25
Jordan Alvarez, hand inflammation now for me.
3:21:30
That could be 10,000 different things.
3:21:32
Right, so they're talking about the muscle like I think it's I
3:21:36
think it's like the the muscle on the outside of the hand right
3:21:39
here that's bothering him. I don't think it's over here by
3:21:42
the thumb. I think they were saying more
3:21:44
about like the grip. I didn't know if I wanted to
3:21:49
save this one for for for you goody or if I was going to give
3:21:52
it to Errol and have him and go with Speedy on this one.
3:21:55
But I'll tell you, I'm more concerned as like a guy in
3:21:59
fantasy. So I have a rule with fantasy
3:22:00
baseball and I've done this fantasy baseball forever.
3:22:04
If the guys got a bad wrist, you got to get rid of them
3:22:06
immediately. Like the wrist injury, like it's
3:22:09
going to SAP his power. It's going to SAP his bad speed
3:22:13
and until he heals and it might take a while.
3:22:15
Like those could be a while. Like whenever a guy gets hit
3:22:19
like on the hand and breaks like a little bone in his wrist or
3:22:22
something like that, they're they're the ham 81's, the worst
3:22:25
one, right? And they say, oh, you don't
3:22:26
really need that one. Well, you, you, it makes you,
3:22:29
you don't have the same power. I've never seen a guy with those
3:22:33
types of injuries have, especially a power hitter like
3:22:36
Alvarez. It's it could be a really bad
3:22:39
injury for Houston Astros. Well, I think why they even did
3:22:43
it anyways, because he was only hitting 210 with three homers
3:22:47
and it's. Like I think they're saying
3:22:49
that's why, right? Yeah.
3:22:51
You know, it's like, I mean, I was I was actually hitting some
3:22:55
golf balls today and I was just like, Oh, yeah, if you don't
3:22:57
swing so hard and you just you know, you don't grip it so hard
3:23:01
and you just let your body go, It's that's what you want.
3:23:04
And sometimes I know you could do that.
3:23:05
We're going to talk about someone who we think grips it
3:23:07
too hard. Errol isn't if you get back to
3:23:09
your line of questioning, has a couple of elbow weaknesses.
3:23:13
But I don't know what to worry everybody.
3:23:16
It's not me. I don't know what to make of it.
3:23:20
I really, I worry about that injury.
3:23:23
Speedy, if you have. What else does Houston have if
3:23:28
they lose Alvarez? Yeah, their offensive depth was
3:23:31
already a question mark for me even last year when they still
3:23:33
had Tucker in Bregman. Now losing those two as well in
3:23:36
the offseason. You're Becky on a young catcher
3:23:40
that in. Diaz is a good prospect, but
3:23:42
he's struggled. Altuve's played fine, but he
3:23:45
could only do go so far with one hitter.
3:23:47
Pena is all right, so. But again, it's not a lot of
3:23:49
good depth. And the way Seattle's playing
3:23:51
and they could pitch and go, your Texas Rangers, goody,
3:23:55
they're in a little bit of a slump, but.
3:23:56
I think they're. Still better than the Astros
3:23:58
right now. All right.
3:24:00
And the last one, Errol Giancarlo Stanton, they're
3:24:05
saying that when he is able to come off with a 60 day, this a
3:24:10
or is it the ILDI? Don't know if it's 60 days. 60
3:24:13
day DL. They should have kept the DL for
3:24:16
the 60 day one but the 60 day one May 27th they think he'll be
3:24:21
ready. Soon.
3:24:23
As soon. As that time's up, you ready for
3:24:26
some more Giancarlo in the Bronx?
3:24:29
Well, right now you're not getting anything from Bellinger,
3:24:32
so you're going to need something in that lineup.
3:24:35
And and really it's been Ben Rice and Aaron Judge and nobody
3:24:39
else. They've been up and down in that
3:24:41
lineup. And this is and Gulchman.
3:24:42
I'm sorry, I forgot about Gulchman.
3:24:43
So it's been three guys. Chris.
3:24:46
Yeah, he's he's got the home run.
3:24:49
Yeah, he's hitting too, but he's not your everyday outfielder, so
3:24:52
you're getting that off the bench.
3:24:54
So I, I, you wanted to see Dominguez this year, You wanted
3:24:57
to see some of these players and, and what an Austin Wells.
3:25:01
I expect him to get better. And he hit that Grand Slam the
3:25:03
other day, but really he hasn't been hitting as much as you
3:25:06
would expect this year. And he was so good in spring
3:25:09
training. John Carlos Stanton adds that
3:25:11
depth that they need in the lineup.
3:25:13
He's got the power, he's got the protection.
3:25:15
We all know what he could do in the playoffs.
3:25:17
I just want to make sure that John Carlos Stanton stays
3:25:19
healthy for the playoffs. I, I would have sat him the
3:25:21
whole season and waited maybe like 30-40 games before the
3:25:25
seasons end. Let him get warmed up and get
3:25:28
ready for the playoffs because that's when John Carlos Stanton
3:25:30
shines the most in the playoffs. I don't want to put him in
3:25:33
harm's way. This guy breaks a nail or
3:25:35
something. I mean, this guy is the weakest
3:25:39
piece of, you know, piece of paper.
3:25:41
I mean, all you got to do is pull something and you might
3:25:44
tear something off his body. I I mean, he's built like an ox.
3:25:48
I mean, he's got muscles from top to bottom.
3:25:50
And, you know, every woman wants to kiss his ass.
3:25:53
But to me, the guy just falls apart.
3:25:56
He doesn't stay healthy. So I'm happy.
3:25:59
Hopefully he stays healthy and he helps the Yankees line up.
3:26:03
I'm just worried that he's going to come back and then he's going
3:26:06
to go out a significant amount of time and we won't see him in
3:26:10
the playoffs. I I think the he's only going to
3:26:13
hit though, so it's it's unless, unless he does something weird.
3:26:17
I mean, I guess he's got bad elbows or whatever it's.
3:26:20
Got bad everything. Elbow sausage.
3:26:23
You know all about that. And I'm just chime in on
3:26:26
Dominguez. First of all, when you give a
3:26:28
dude a nickname before he gets the big leagues and especially
3:26:31
in New York and to try and live up to those expectations like
3:26:34
they thought he was the next coming of.
3:26:36
I don't know what it is, but he just, he, he doesn't do it for
3:26:40
me in any way, shape or form. He can run a little bit, but he
3:26:44
just, there's, there's nothing that I've seen over the time
3:26:47
that they've given him chances. He has over 100 at bats.
3:26:50
It's not like he's got like 40 at bats like it's.
3:26:54
He's getting you mentioned this Java because that's where I was
3:26:56
going with this. Look.
3:26:58
Look what's going on. You said it, Errol Rice.
3:27:01
Rice is plays first base, he plays catcher and he plays DH.
3:27:07
That's Goldsmith, that's Wells, and that's Giancarlo.
3:27:11
There's an issue here, right? Where is the opening where I
3:27:14
mean, third base is a sieve right now and you can
3:27:18
theoretically put some guys out in the outfield.
3:27:20
Grisham, if he can play, you can put him out there and then you
3:27:23
don't need to worry about Dominguez.
3:27:25
So he automatically becomes. One of the.
3:27:28
Biggest trade ships in baseball for this season.
3:27:32
And I think that if they are going to make a move that's
3:27:36
massive, if they're trying to add a big name, whether they add
3:27:40
it to the staff or they add it, add a position of need like
3:27:43
third base or they don't trust Volpe and they want to add a big
3:27:47
time shortstop, Dominguez is going to be nobody wants
3:27:50
Dominguez. What has he done?
3:27:53
He's horrible, dude. He's done.
3:27:56
He's done. He doesn't work in dude.
3:27:58
He is another bust for the New York Yankees.
3:28:00
He's a bust. The guy's not good.
3:28:02
He's not good. Had that hot first year.
3:28:06
He's Clint Frazier one O 1 man. He is horrible.
3:28:10
Come on, dude, this guy, this guy's afraid of the outfields.
3:28:14
He can't even catch anymore. This guy was A5 tool player when
3:28:18
he came to the league. They called him the alien or
3:28:19
whatever, The Martian, whatever. They call him a Martian aliens
3:28:24
friggin thing. And he's a switch hitter.
3:28:26
The guy can't hit a lick on both sides of the, you know, the
3:28:29
plate. They would still get a lot for
3:28:30
him. He's got two home runs, two home
3:28:33
runs in Yankee Stadium. Yeah, but he's, he's still very
3:28:36
young dude. He still has time to adjust to
3:28:40
the league. You know, he's still very young.
3:28:43
He's still very projectable, you know, as a player.
3:28:46
So he's got pop. He can run, he can throw.
3:28:49
You need to work on his defense. But yeah, I would agree with
3:28:53
you, Fish. He's definitely going to be a
3:28:55
trade ship if the Yankees do want to make that big splash.
3:28:59
So he'll, he'll play, he'll play every year at the same age, like
3:29:03
he'll play this whole year at 22.
3:29:06
So yeah. He's young.
3:29:07
He's 22 years old, dude. At 20 years old, what were you
3:29:10
doing? He's a boss.
3:29:10
I was. Two years.
3:29:11
I was two years in the big leagues, Dog.
3:29:13
He's a boss. Well, not you.
3:29:15
Oh, sorry. He's a boss.
3:29:18
Remember I said that five years from now, boys, remember I said
3:29:22
that when we're on top of the world?
3:29:24
I said Dominguez is a boss. He's a boss.
3:29:26
He's not good. I don't care how old he is, he's
3:29:29
never going to mount anything one way or another.
3:29:32
The Yankees a bust. All right, here's a bust.
3:29:35
He's he'll be lucky. He'll be lucky to have if he
3:29:40
goes to the right place, having two seasons with 25 or more home
3:29:43
runs. That's it.
3:29:44
I don't think he's any good. I think he's playing in the
3:29:47
smallest stadium in all the baseball we ate.
3:29:51
It's a home run park, and you can't hit home runs.
3:29:53
You got two home runs in your starting outfielder.
3:29:56
It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing.
3:29:58
I don't want to hear it. I think he stinks.
3:30:01
Let's think he states he heats up.
3:30:02
I hope he does because I think that they could get a lot for
3:30:05
him. So guys, the play or blooper of
3:30:09
the week comes from the second baseman, rookie of the Chicago
3:30:13
White. We got a surprise too for let's
3:30:15
parlay. Here's first time in a while for
3:30:18
Mr. Mountain. Take a look at this.
3:30:20
So it's 9th inning and we got a run around first, but the Royals
3:30:24
are down one. Oh my God, right off the noggin.
3:30:29
Then they throw it away. They don't advance.
3:30:32
But of course this led to a 9th inning comeback finished by
3:30:37
Bobby Witt. Junior 43V.
3:30:40
The White Sox, I think, have ten wins this season.
3:30:42
Better than Colorado. But still.
3:30:44
Pretty terrible. That's not as bad as Jose
3:30:47
Canseco, let me tell you. That's definitely.
3:30:50
So let's get it. Let's get into that, Jose
3:30:52
Canseco. The White Sox are White Sox and
3:30:55
dude. Accurate.
3:30:56
It's rough that it's it's ugly over there.
3:30:59
Errol though I've shown the Jose can see the clip a million
3:31:02
times. It's it's the most embarrassing
3:31:05
thing ever. I remember the Louise cast Theo
3:31:08
pop up. Hey, Rod, Hit.
3:31:10
That like the Yankees and the and the Mets.
3:31:11
I'll never forget that. Mainly because of how my mother,
3:31:14
who's a Mets fan, shrieked when it happened when we were
3:31:17
watching it together. Like could have broken glass.
3:31:20
How bad, how angry she was with Luis Castillo on that one.
3:31:24
But I can't remember anything like this in the infield when I
3:31:27
played Little League, though. This is the one time I'll share
3:31:29
you a Little League story. I was terrible, but I had I was
3:31:33
playing first guy next to me. It shouldn't be surprising.
3:31:35
The guy playing second next to me, he had a really old.
3:31:37
Glove, but he's. Playing, he's got glasses on,
3:31:40
pop up right to him, goes up for it, goes through his glove,
3:31:45
breaks his glasses like destroyed the webbing just
3:31:49
holding it and then bounced into the outfield.
3:31:52
He was hurt like a little. He was hurt a little bit.
3:31:55
I've never seen anything like that in the pros, though, Boys,
3:31:58
you see anything like that not in the infield I've seen.
3:32:01
I've seen no. I don't think I've ever seen one
3:32:04
off the Dome right there. Right off here, Yeah, no, like
3:32:08
glove. No, I mean, obviously Canseco is
3:32:12
the only other I mean, but I can't think, and it sucks that
3:32:17
it's the White Sox because you're just like, oh gosh,
3:32:20
really looks. Well, he has to be here to play
3:32:25
with white socks. Sad he just made.
3:32:29
That's there forever. He just made ESPN's blooper of
3:32:32
the year. Well, how sad could he be?
3:32:34
Nobody's going to remember him. They're going to remember him
3:32:36
for that. At least he's remembered for
3:32:38
something. I mean, that was embarrassed for
3:32:40
hitting dingers, though. Dude, that's a dinger, all
3:32:43
right? Dinger off his head.
3:32:44
That's that's fun, man. That looks fun.
3:32:46
It's, you know, it's just part of the game.
3:32:48
High, high skies, late at night. Maybe lost it, I don't know.
3:32:51
Maybe they were excited they were going to win a game for the
3:32:54
first time in a couple weeks and then you just you don't just
3:32:56
misplayed. It sucks.
3:32:58
Party of the game though, got to play, you got to get 27 outs and
3:33:02
then they fortunately they got 26 all.
3:33:04
Right, let's finish this we got so I decided I'm going to give
3:33:07
you guys power rankings every once in a while, so I'll get
3:33:11
this is the fish power rankings. I didn't look at anything.
3:33:13
I thought I was actually talking to Errol and Speedy while I made
3:33:15
it. Made one change, Speedy since I
3:33:17
talked to you, but Dodgers and Padres at the top.
3:33:20
I don't think many people are going to argue with that.
3:33:22
The way they're playing pretty impressive.
3:33:25
Dodgers have suffered some injuries, so I don't know if
3:33:27
they'll be able to maintain that for for the time being.
3:33:30
And this isn't at the end of the year projections.
3:33:32
This is currently as of this day in baseball this season, right?
3:33:36
The Tigers are leading, I believe, in run differential in
3:33:39
all of baseball right now. The Giants have had that really
3:33:42
hot start. Obviously, a lot of competition,
3:33:45
as you can see already two teams ahead of them in the same
3:33:47
division. The Royals.
3:33:49
Goody, you brought this up to me earlier today. 14 of their last
3:33:53
1615 of their last seven. So now 15 of 17 the Royals have
3:33:57
won. Pretty outrageous.
3:34:00
They're the hottest team in baseball.
3:34:02
That was after losing 9 of 11. Yeah.
3:34:05
So their record isn't as good as it as it could be.
3:34:09
And then there's the round out the top ten.
3:34:10
I got the Mets at six and the Yankees at 7.
3:34:12
The Yankees, I was impressed with them being able to beat the
3:34:15
Padres in that series, who I think are outstanding.
3:34:18
I couldn't believe how good the Padres are.
3:34:20
Francesco Tatis is going to play like this.
3:34:22
He may be the NLMVP over Otani. He's incredible this year.
3:34:27
Incredible. By the way, I just want to say
3:34:28
something. I'm sorry to cut you off.
3:34:30
I had Bobby Witt Junior winning the MVP.
3:34:33
If, if Aaron Judge wasn't having the year that he's having right
3:34:36
now, Bobby Witt Junior right now is the lead.
3:34:40
You know, as far as the league guy for for the American League,
3:34:44
he's been unbelievable in the last 16 games.
3:34:48
He's been unbelievable on duty. Can't strike him out.
3:34:52
The guys in the last year too, like he last year he was second
3:34:55
the Judge and the MVP. It's going to happen again like
3:34:57
that. He is the second best player in
3:34:59
the AL. There's really no question about
3:35:02
it or at least position player at this point.
3:35:04
He's unbelievable man. What's he's doing about Phillies
3:35:08
Really strong again. We got a couple of really good
3:35:10
divisions. I think the Braves will bounce
3:35:12
back too. So I think the NL East and the
3:35:14
NL W just outstanding divisions this year.
3:35:17
Then I got the Cubs in 9th and the Guardians, goody.
3:35:22
I know their records really good.
3:35:24
You see they have a -14 run differential at that.
3:35:27
They're like 9 games over or eight games over 500.
3:35:30
They're they're playing really good baseball right now.
3:35:32
They're just finding ways to win.
3:35:33
And that's what they do. They find ways to win.
3:35:36
It's not sexy, is that? Sustainable though, you know
3:35:38
what I mean? Like the teams in their
3:35:41
division, the Tigers, they're the IF one.
3:35:43
Team could do it. It's probably them because they
3:35:45
just find a way to win that. It's like I said, it's not sexy,
3:35:49
but that they find a way to win. They get job done.
3:35:52
And. It's beneficial.
3:35:54
It's like that every year. They're on paper.
3:35:57
You're just like, and then you look up and in September and
3:36:00
you're there pushing for the playoffs.
3:36:01
You. Know it's just like.
3:36:03
It is what it is. All right boys.
3:36:06
So anyone have any comments? You think my list is terrible?
3:36:10
No, you guys send them in the message and comment and reach
3:36:14
out to us on socials. But for that guys that has been
3:36:18
inside baseball, there it is. Ladies and gentlemen, it's
3:36:21
fantastic. It's beautiful.
3:36:23
Speaking of beautiful faces we haven't seen in a long time.
3:36:26
I mean a guy that doesn't need any applause.
3:36:29
We know him as a Mountaineer and he's back.
3:36:32
Ladies and gentlemen, for the one and only, let's parlay.
3:36:37
Parlay Ole It's time for Les Parlay.
3:36:48
The man, the myth, the legend. He's back, ladies and gentlemen.
3:36:53
We haven't seen him for over a year.
3:36:55
He's been busy, you know, his his brother having a baby.
3:36:59
I mean, he's an uncle now. His other brother, you know,
3:37:02
doing his thing with hockey. I mean, everybody's all over the
3:37:05
place and this guy's doing his thing.
3:37:08
How the hell are you my friends? Not too bad, not too bad.
3:37:12
How are you guys? You know what's so funny?
3:37:14
When I hear your voice, you, you sound just like your brother.
3:37:17
And it's pretty funny. Every time I listen, I I think
3:37:20
of your brother's voice. I think, wow, you guys sound so
3:37:24
alike. But you know, it's crazy.
3:37:26
I mean, how how are you doing? How's the girl?
3:37:28
How's Boston? What's going on with you?
3:37:30
Not. Too bad we got married.
3:37:36
Congratulations. So married life, so been crazy,
3:37:40
but get crazy. Yeah, no, nothing, nothing else.
3:37:47
You know that that kind of remarkable, but.
3:37:50
Just who's your best man? Who's your best man?
3:37:53
Who was my best man? Well Brian and Kyle were Co best
3:37:56
man. I I would have loved to hear
3:37:58
what Brian had to say at your. A good speech.
3:38:01
His speech. But yeah, Kyle.
3:38:03
You did a good job. But I, I, it's, you know, Brian
3:38:07
is very soft with words. So I think he probably, I think
3:38:11
he probably would give you a really good speech.
3:38:13
I don't know much about Kyle, but I know a lot about your
3:38:16
brother. So we're happy to have you back,
3:38:18
man. I'm I'm glad that you finally
3:38:20
snuck right back. And Wes has been in and out too.
3:38:23
He's doing some big things too. But we love one of these days we
3:38:26
got to get you both on again because it is fantastic.
3:38:29
So you know the rules, everybody knows the rules he's going to
3:38:32
give us since it's only him, he's going to give us his top 4
3:38:36
picks of the week as we do this every single week.
3:38:40
We call this Let's Barley a speedy set and we have the one
3:38:43
and only Derek Mountain. Go ahead, Derek.
3:38:48
All right, so I'm just going to go fourth straight.
3:38:51
I don't have any. Wow.
3:38:52
No, no ping pong in tonight. OK, so first one, I like the
3:38:57
Nuggets tomorrow +5 at home. They complete completely punted
3:39:03
last night's game and lost by 40.
3:39:05
They're down by 30 in the first half that you could tell from
3:39:09
the jump. You know, they, they emptied the
3:39:11
tank game one. They got the win late from the
3:39:14
Thunder choking. But Game 2 last night, they went
3:39:17
in knowing that they were going to lose that game.
3:39:20
Similar to what I think the Warriors are doing right now.
3:39:23
You know, they're they're a little more competitive tonight,
3:39:25
but really they're just gearing up to get healthy before in
3:39:29
front of the home crowd, they got five points.
3:39:32
Jokic looks the same. Russell Westbrook looks really,
3:39:35
really good. Jamal Murray in the playoffs is
3:39:38
a playoff riser. Aaron Gordon's been really good.
3:39:41
I think it's enough to keep it a close game.
3:39:44
So we got five points there. Tomorrow, the Rockies play
3:39:48
against the Padres. I like the Padres over their
3:39:52
team total. It's at Coors Field, so we get
3:39:55
the altitude and they're going against Antonio Sends sends and
3:40:00
Kellen, who has given up 4 earned runs or more.
3:40:04
And every start but two this year, Jackson Merrill's back in
3:40:07
the lineup. I think San Diego will not have
3:40:10
an issue as the Rockies gave up over 20 runs today in
3:40:13
doubleheader. Who else do I have?
3:40:19
I only have one more pick. If that's OK, go ahead.
3:40:22
Babe, go ahead. All right, I don't want to force
3:40:24
anything. So as Speedy Rocks is Knicks
3:40:29
hat, he pains me to say I'm going to go with the Celtics at
3:40:35
the lowest value that we'll probably ever get them plus 170
3:40:41
on fanatics. I believe I got that today to
3:40:43
win the Eastern Conference. Backs are against the wall next
3:40:48
game Saturday afternoon. So they they got plenty of rest
3:40:52
here. I, I do worry about Porzingis
3:40:55
health and I think that's a big deal for them to win the finals.
3:40:57
But to win the east, I mean, I think New York's going to be a
3:41:01
tougher task than whoever they have to play the next round,
3:41:03
which to me, it looks like Indiana.
3:41:06
I know they're up to low, but if Garland and and Mobley aren't
3:41:10
healthy, I don't think Cleveland's going to be able to
3:41:12
win that series. And if they do, they're, they're
3:41:14
really hanging on by a thread there.
3:41:16
So it's really getting by the Knicks.
3:41:17
And I think if they win this game three, which they should
3:41:20
they're, they're a 5 1/2 point favorite.
3:41:22
I think it might help Boston to to get away from that home
3:41:25
crowd. I think they, they're just
3:41:27
playing so tense down the stretch in these games.
3:41:30
They're dominating the Knicks for 3 1/2 quarters and can't
3:41:33
finish the job. I think if they win game three,
3:41:37
get that monkey off their back, they they'll be fine and they
3:41:40
can win this in six or seven. But I think plus 170 to win the
3:41:44
East, they, they get by the Knicks, they they should be able
3:41:47
to do that. So I'm going to take the Celtics
3:41:50
plus 170 to win the Eastern Conference, go the Finals.
3:41:54
Right man, you know you know what's so funny I I know
3:41:56
everybody has the Celtics winning game three I it's going
3:41:59
to be very interesting to see how the Knicks come out.
3:42:03
I the Celtics have been dominating the first half of
3:42:06
every single, every single first and second game.
3:42:10
I mean, they've been dominating the first and second game.
3:42:13
They've been, I think they were up 12 points in both those
3:42:16
games. And then they go into the
3:42:18
second-half, they play well in the third quarter, but at tail
3:42:22
end of the third quarter, you see that the Knicks have life.
3:42:24
And then the fourth quarter the Knicks just take over.
3:42:27
They play hard, they play defense and Mitchell Robertson
3:42:30
has been a big piece and important piece to the Knicks
3:42:33
and and what they've done defensively really over the last
3:42:37
couple of years. And now you have wing players
3:42:38
like Miguel Bridges, you have Josh Hart and you have arguably
3:42:43
I I think it's Kawhi Leonard ask and I'm going to say he he is
3:42:48
that. And you know, I'm talking about
3:42:49
speedy OG, Mr. OG Ananobi, who's been sensational too.
3:42:53
So and he's been shooting very, very well since he's come back
3:42:56
from his injury. So it's interesting and I do
3:42:58
believe I agree with you. Whoever wins this series is
3:43:00
coming out of the east. They're going, it's probably
3:43:03
going to the NBA championship and, and honestly, I'm going to
3:43:07
take whoever comes out of the East to win the whole thing.
3:43:10
I don't trust OKC. They're too young and I don't
3:43:13
know if they're, you know, obviously as they move forward,
3:43:15
the Nuggets, could they get through that series?
3:43:17
The Nuggets are interesting, but I don't know, I, I just, I
3:43:21
question if they have enough depth like they've had over the
3:43:24
years. And Jamal Murray isn't the same
3:43:25
Jamal Murray. I don't know what's happened to
3:43:27
him. And then on in the other thing,
3:43:29
Golden State's old. They're an old team.
3:43:31
I if they win this series, I'll be shocked.
3:43:34
The Timberwolves are interesting.
3:43:36
I the Timberwolves should this might be the easiest path to the
3:43:40
championship that they ever had. And and I think they could beat.
3:43:43
OK, see, I think they could be any one of those teams, the
3:43:46
Nuggets. If Anthony Edwards is playing at
3:43:48
the top of his game, I just ain't.
3:43:49
I think Andy Anthony Edwards, his problem is he forgets that
3:43:53
he is Anthony Edwards and not a third person.
3:43:56
Reminds me of Kyler Murray, who just likes to talk in 3rd 3 pers
3:44:00
three people like he's this guy, that guy and the other guy and
3:44:04
he's got to stop playing those video games.
3:44:06
I, I, I don't know, he's playing with Anthony Edwards, dude, all
3:44:08
he's doing on the site, everything he's posting on
3:44:11
social media, It's oh, who's what's my highest score?
3:44:14
I don't care what you're doing on Twitch.
3:44:16
I don't care what you're doing on a video game.
3:44:18
Control yourself and concentrate on the basketball game and
3:44:22
knocking off the Golden State Warriors who right now you have
3:44:25
an advantage because you don't have to deal with Steph Curry.
3:44:28
So that's my opinion to that. But Derek, man, I'm I'm happy
3:44:32
for you, man, You're married. What's going on with you?
3:44:34
What you what have you been doing?
3:44:35
Are you been going to school? What's going on?
3:44:37
I I've been going to I have not been available for the show
3:44:41
because I have been going to law school part time in the evening.
3:44:46
I just had my last exam last night, which I was a doozy, but
3:44:51
I got through the first year one down 3 to go.
3:44:55
But you know, it was good. You know, Brian's done it
3:44:58
before, but so it was fine. I didn't, I, I thought I would
3:45:03
kind of, you know, dread it, but it was actually, it was, it was,
3:45:07
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
3:45:09
But it's, it's, it's tough. It's a family business.
3:45:12
Your father's a lawyer, your brother's a lawyer, and now
3:45:14
you're going to be a lawyer. But they're different lawyers.
3:45:16
They're they you don't, you don't want to be a sports agent.
3:45:19
I I would. I do not.
3:45:21
I do not, no. I think you want to do something
3:45:23
else, but I'm hey, listen, man, I wish you nothing but the best
3:45:27
and like us. So we're going to, we're going
3:45:29
to make announcements at the end of the show as well, where
3:45:33
we've, we have an opportunity to and moving forward.
3:45:37
I, I know your brother knows the situation.
3:45:40
We're very excited. There's there's a great
3:45:42
opportunity and where we're going to be going in the very
3:45:44
near future. And I, I, it's been a long road,
3:45:48
but it's, it's, there's always a light at the end of the tunnel.
3:45:51
So, and hopefully it's not raining when we get out of the
3:45:54
tunnel, that's for sure. Anyways, Derek, we love you.
3:45:57
Come on next week. If you have time, we'd love for
3:46:00
you to come on. And absolutely.
3:46:01
Give us your take. Really appreciate you guys
3:46:03
having me on. Always good to see you guys.
3:46:05
Absolutely. The one and only Mountaineer
3:46:08
himself, Derek Mountain. Finally, our final segment of
3:46:14
the night, as we call this the one and only, ain't no lytics.
3:46:19
Ladies and. Gentlemen.
3:46:20
And now it's analytics. I want everybody together to go.
3:46:26
Ahead and say penis, penis, penis, vagina, vagina, vagina.
3:46:32
OK, guys, welcome to Analytics, a quality educational
3:46:37
experience. Yes, this is where we have our
3:46:40
contest at the end of the show every week between Errol and
3:46:44
Speedy, and they will have a type of analytical competition.
3:46:48
They will each have a mystery clue, a mystery term they have
3:46:52
to solve, and they'll have up to three clues to solve it.
3:46:55
Whoever solves it in the fewest amount of clues is the winner.
3:46:58
Now the clues are different. Now Speedy is our resident, you
3:47:02
know, statistician, sports analytical, you know, sports
3:47:07
scientists of analytics. So Speedy is going to give Errol
3:47:11
A, an analytical term from sports.
3:47:14
Now Errol, you know, is a big sports fan as you know, as a
3:47:17
loyal listener. He's just more of a
3:47:19
traditionalist, more of an eye test man when evaluation comes
3:47:24
down to it. So he doesn't know all these
3:47:26
terms. Speedy on the other hand does
3:47:28
know all these terms. So we have to give Speedy a type
3:47:31
of term that he doesn't know. And those terms are what Speedy
3:47:34
affectionately used to call sexual crap.
3:47:37
Yes, they will be sexual innuendos that usually fly over.
3:47:41
Speedy said Speedy will try to solve that analytical term
3:47:45
before Errol solves this sports analytical term on tonight's
3:47:49
show. Boys, Are you ready to play?
3:47:51
All right, I'm trying. I'm trying to figure out the
3:47:54
best way of attacking him tonight, tonight.
3:47:57
But yes, I'm ready to play. All right.
3:47:59
So Speedy, we'll start with you. And tonight we'll get the music
3:48:03
on. What is your sports analytical
3:48:08
term? So this week where we got
3:48:09
baseball. So we have a 4/4 initials for
3:48:12
this one IRAPIRAPI rap. And what is this?
3:48:19
It's baseball. It's baseball percentage.
3:48:24
Percentage is right rating. Nope.
3:48:35
That's it. That's it for me.
3:48:37
All right, you got the wild guests run, so you got
3:48:39
percentage. We need the IRA part of it.
3:48:42
All right. Now, moving on to Errol's big
3:48:46
reveal of the analytical term of the evening.
3:48:50
Where? Where's Goody?
3:48:52
Goody's not in his Oh, he's he's hiding backstage.
3:48:54
Hiding backstage. He doesn't want to be in.
3:48:56
Stage he said his allergies all. Right, that's fine.
3:48:58
Goody, I made you real little so no one could see your allergies.
3:49:02
Oh, we're good, man. All.
3:49:05
Right here it is. Now the real question is where
3:49:06
Nathan disappear too. He's the cake of this cycle.
3:49:10
Let's to a leash. All right, here it is.
3:49:14
The flaming Amazon. Oh, God.
3:49:19
All right, well. I'm going to have to look this
3:49:21
way you. Like you like to call you like
3:49:23
to call my thing the Amazon ring forest.
3:49:26
So maybe I'll go with a a freaking frat boy dare of
3:49:30
putting like some kind of hot sauce on somebody's penis.
3:49:41
What did you just say? Look at.
3:49:45
You on his face. I'm assuming that's wrong.
3:49:55
It's wrong. It's definitely.
3:49:56
Wrong. What the hell just happened?
3:50:00
Alright. So let me just recap.
3:50:03
We got the flaming Amazon, Yes. Alright, OK.
3:50:12
Shut the front door and here's. What that is?
3:50:15
All right, that's delightful. Let's go back the other
3:50:19
direction with our first clue. For the sports.
3:50:23
Analytical term of the evening. So it has to deal with a relief
3:50:27
pitching stat and it has to deal with a pitcher that comes into
3:50:31
the game in a tricky situation. And this is what What's the
3:50:34
IRAP? You already got percentage right
3:50:42
Assist. I know, I think I'm trying to, I
3:50:46
think I know what this one. Is.
3:50:50
I'm just trying to. Figure out what the A stands.
3:50:52
For. I don't know.
3:50:57
This is going to be hard for me. All right, let's give you the
3:51:02
wrong answer buzzer. We'll see if we can get a little
3:51:05
bit better clue next time. Errol clue for the flaming
3:51:09
Amazon. Boy.
3:51:11
OK. What in the hell?
3:51:14
I just looked up flaming Amazon. You didn't see my face bro all.
3:51:20
Right. I'm not.
3:51:21
I'm not really seeing much right now.
3:51:24
You pull out with this particular thing.
3:51:31
You pull out with this particular thing and then
3:51:39
Sprint. OK.
3:51:45
No. And then flaming.
3:51:49
Pull out. Carol, have you ever tried this?
3:51:54
No, I've never tried this, but I've heard about it.
3:51:57
That's why it was something that I wanted to use.
3:51:59
How have you heard about? That's why I asked does it work?
3:52:02
Like does it really work? This is something that Speedy
3:52:05
should definitely do. You know, the Mayans called it
3:52:10
slash and burn agriculture. Clean that hair of his, if you
3:52:13
know what I mean. Yeah.
3:52:15
All right. Yeah.
3:52:15
I'm going to go on that angle with the hair and I'm going to
3:52:19
say it's a it's a dare that you light the hair on fire.
3:52:27
What hair? The penis hair and then and then
3:52:33
you drive it into a woman's vagina.
3:52:37
Wait, that bad while it's on fire, Speedy?
3:52:44
That's that's you're, you're getting like the way that your
3:52:47
mind is working now that I that's the best one you've came
3:52:50
up with. So here's.
3:52:51
The deal Speedy, Although that's wrong, it's actually
3:52:56
particularly close, except for the part where you are literally
3:53:01
trying to torture a woman with a flaming.
3:53:07
A flaming little speedy. A flaming.
3:53:12
Hey, I wouldn't do that to people now, Nathan.
3:53:14
You got a, you got a reaction from Brittany.
3:53:16
So you're, you're definitely coming along.
3:53:19
No, no, Brittany's the number 3 fan of this segment after Carl
3:53:22
and Jamie Lee, so I'm not surprised.
3:53:26
All right, well, that was that ended up with no reward at the
3:53:30
end, so let's keep giving clues. Errol, we're going to give you
3:53:34
another clue here. That's your I wrap.
3:53:37
So it's a relief pitcher coming into the game dealing with
3:53:40
baserunners and then how well they manage them.
3:53:46
That's a really good clue. That's basically the whole.
3:53:50
Thing arguably too good. That's literally he told you
3:53:52
exactly what he just used different different vernacular.
3:54:00
This is a stat for relievers. It's pretty important.
3:54:04
I don't know, especially I'm probably not going to.
3:54:07
Get this one tonight. It's here.
3:54:08
Here's the here's. The last part of the clue,
3:54:11
especially now. That runners start on 2nd and
3:54:13
the 10th. Intentional.
3:54:22
No, no, I don't know. I don't know.
3:54:27
That is incorrect. I think I'm going to, I think
3:54:30
I'm going to fail this one today.
3:54:31
To the second clue. On the flaming.
3:54:35
Amazon. OK, You understood that you
3:54:41
obviously burn the hair, right? You got to put it into something
3:54:49
and then. Pull it out right.
3:54:51
Oh, oh, there you. Go and.
3:54:54
You got to put it out with something, right?
3:54:57
OK. Question is what is?
3:55:00
That that's a good question. I don't.
3:55:01
Get it but don't. Stray too.
3:55:04
Far from where you. Were at last time let's.
3:55:06
Put it out. Put it.
3:55:07
Move it out. Put it out.
3:55:09
We'll. Go back to the match we.
3:55:10
Arrange the variables so we'll. Go back to the matches you light
3:55:14
the penis hair. On fire, then you put it out.
3:55:20
With water and then you do a wet one in a woman's vagina.
3:55:33
What's a wet one? That's what I'm thinking.
3:55:36
What the hell is a wet one? It's.
3:55:39
Hands with after they eat a wet wipes.
3:55:43
That's like a wet Willy like Speedy, I'm pretty sure.
3:55:48
You should have learned at some point in.
3:55:50
Like health class that sex is not like getting a.
3:55:53
Wet Willy, it's a little bit different, but not in all.
3:55:59
Cultures like you're describing. The Mayans, well the Mayan clue
3:56:03
would have helped you if you were a good.
3:56:06
Social studies student. All right.
3:56:10
We'll go back to the last round of clues, guys.
3:56:15
Here we go. I wrap error.
3:56:17
Do the best you can, you've got. Most of it we just need to.
3:56:22
Find a way speedy to get him over the finish line.
3:56:25
Give him one more clue. So you're trying to another term
3:56:28
for prevent is. Is that the opposite kind of the
3:56:33
opposite of prevent is the A and then the I is another term for
3:56:41
like accumulated or gathered something like that.
3:56:47
And this is for. This is for.
3:56:49
Preventing it's. Like it's a.
3:56:51
It's a percentage of like preventing base runners from
3:56:54
scoring. So if you have.
3:56:54
A good eyes of. What you get and this is for a.
3:56:57
Pitcher, right? Yes, it's for a really.
3:56:59
Yes, sometimes when you come into a game and you have runners
3:57:05
on, what are they called with an eye If you if you get a lot of.
3:57:12
Money. When somebody dies, that's a
3:57:14
good clue. It's.
3:57:15
Called an earn I something. With an I Jabba.
3:57:20
Actually gave a really good clue I.
3:57:23
Don't know. Yes, I was thinking earn.
3:57:26
Run prevention. But I I OK, but I think I'm all
3:57:32
right. So Errol, you.
3:57:33
Didn't get too much of it. Yeah, I'm pretty.
3:57:35
Bad tonight, I'm Speedy. Right about tonight, Speedy's in
3:57:38
the ballpark. But I think you're still ahead
3:57:41
of him. It's.
3:57:43
Speedy. Who's still ahead of him?
3:57:45
Speedy. Speedy's for sure ahead of
3:57:46
Arrow. No, he's not.
3:57:48
He's. For sure dude.
3:57:50
Arrow got really not. Arrow got the P and that, but
3:57:54
he's insulting. He released, yeah, but Speedy
3:57:58
got the fire. He's got the.
3:58:01
He's definitely got the fire. Hopefully he can burn it out.
3:58:03
If he has the fire, he doesn't have the right.
3:58:05
Location of fire, all right. Speedy but.
3:58:08
Speedy, here's your last chance. You just I want.
3:58:11
You to win this, I'm going to give you.
3:58:13
I want you to win this one too, Speedy.
3:58:15
What comes out of your ball sack?
3:58:18
What comes? Out of my.
3:58:20
Hold on hold. On, Hold on.
3:58:21
Here we go. Hold on, Hold on.
3:58:22
Here we go. Here we here, Here it goes.
3:58:26
This person and that person. Have.
3:58:29
Intercourse. OK, OK.
3:58:33
As. They're.
3:58:34
Having intercourse, something happens.
3:58:37
When you pull out. You don't have to pull out,
3:58:41
that's true, but you. Do you have to do this with
3:58:44
this? But or else it doesn't count.
3:58:47
It wouldn't work, but you got to do something.
3:58:50
To the woman to put it out with this wonderful.
3:58:55
Juice OK, so the fire, the fire I guess happens during the
3:59:02
intercourse. How does it happen?
3:59:04
By accident? You a fire happened how?
3:59:08
How does it happen? How?
3:59:10
Do you by accident? How does fire?
3:59:12
Just by accidentally burn? What the hell you got to do
3:59:15
something with? That so it's like the.
3:59:17
It's like. My Moses.
3:59:19
Saw the burning. That's your clue.
3:59:24
And how did he, how did he put it out?
3:59:28
I don't well. They didn't put that part.
3:59:29
In the Torah. I said how?
3:59:33
Would. You put it out.
3:59:35
They didn't have. Stuff to put it out in freaking.
3:59:37
Moses this. Time.
3:59:40
It was in a desert. Very tough for him by.
3:59:42
By the way, I figured why you're.
3:59:43
Slow if we pull, if we actually. Pulled out the Ethernet cable
3:59:49
and put you on Wi-Fi. I think it would be better.
3:59:51
So. I pulled out.
3:59:54
Hold out. We're trying to get you over the
3:59:56
finish line here. Speedy going to need an answer.
3:59:59
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out. I'm going to give you a hint.
4:00:01
Trying to figure out where I'm going to give you even a better
4:00:03
hint. It's a man and a woman.
4:00:06
OK, I got that part. That's not hard.
4:00:08
OK, I got the intercourse part. I'm trying to figure out the.
4:00:10
Fire. Brittany says.
4:00:17
Brittany says nobody should use. I've tried to tell him that for
4:00:20
six years. Sells on this.
4:00:25
I've tried Brittany, I've tried telling him for six years.
4:00:29
All right, sweetie, here's We got to end the show at some
4:00:32
point. Let's get this going.
4:00:33
What do you think? OK, so obviously the penis
4:00:36
pulls. Out of the vagina and somewhere.
4:00:39
In between. There is a lighter OK that is
4:00:48
involved by a third person coming in.
4:00:53
OK, OK, what do you like the penis?
4:00:57
Think about again the hair of. The penis.
4:01:00
Think again. The hair of the woman.
4:01:03
'S hair as well. OK, all right, all right.
4:01:07
And then it goes back. In.
4:01:08
OK. And how do you, how do you put
4:01:10
it out the semen and shit and the the girl is on fire.
4:01:16
I'm going to get. I'm going to give.
4:01:18
That. You got to give it to him.
4:01:19
You got to give it to him. I think he, I think Speedy is
4:01:21
going to be the winner tonight, even though that's not right
4:01:25
technically. Well, I mean the first part was
4:01:27
right, he added the. Shit on the backside.
4:01:29
I don't know what the well, that is all about random bottling I
4:01:32
don't have. You to know the name of.
4:01:35
All about butt stuff and pooping.
4:01:37
And all that, all of that. That's Tommy's expertise.
4:01:41
That's the that's the world we live in, buddy.
4:01:43
It's the world we. Live in SO.
4:01:44
Tell. Tell Speedy what the framing?
4:01:46
Amazon. Is it's.
4:01:47
When a woman, it's the woman. When?
4:01:51
You're having sex with a chick that far, this one right when
4:01:55
you're about to come speedy, You know what come is right gross.
4:01:59
You pull. Out and quickly grab.
4:02:01
The. Nearest lighter and set her
4:02:04
pubes on fire and then extinguish it with that
4:02:08
wonderful juice coming. Out of your what penis?
4:02:12
Penis That's right, Speedy and you won tonight's analytics.
4:02:17
Let's give them a golf clap, ladies and gentlemen.
4:02:21
So you specifically got to make sure you like.
4:02:24
Hey. Hun do we want to do the flaming
4:02:26
Amazon? Can you not shave for like 3?
4:02:30
What the first of all? How does it magically go?
4:02:33
On fire, That's what I'm. I said accidentally, no.
4:02:36
How does something accidentally go on fire unless you light it?
4:02:40
I think Speedy thinks there's. Like Flint and like in there,
4:02:45
you know, you want to get a fire starter, you get a fire starter.
4:02:48
You, you like, you click it a little bit.
4:02:50
You know what I mean? You get it going.
4:02:52
I got to. Say something, that guy.
4:02:55
This. Kid he is.
4:02:57
This guy has like a. He's like, like gold, OK, and.
4:03:02
This this part. Of the topic and just having a
4:03:05
conversation with this, it's like gold.
4:03:07
It doesn't matter what he says, it's going to come out the wrong
4:03:10
way anyways. So it's just some of the fun.
4:03:13
My buddy just text me and he goes.
4:03:15
Did that really just happen like, yeah, Speedy, how do you
4:03:22
feel tonight? I don't know.
4:03:24
There's. AI guess a fiery victory.
4:03:29
Oh, all right. Here here's another.
4:03:31
Option all right. Britney wants to be on.
4:03:33
Britney wants to be on the segment.
4:03:35
I vote Britney versus Nathan next week.
4:03:41
No, I think he put Britney with a tie a leash to Britney and
4:03:45
take her for a walk. He would do that.
4:03:49
He's always telling me I want. Britney.
4:03:51
I want Britney that. Would be the dream for Nathan.
4:03:55
Hey, lot of hot ladies dirty say it say.
4:03:58
It Mr. Steal your girl. Hello.
4:04:02
This is This is Nathan here. Ready.
4:04:04
Ready. This is for Nathan.
4:04:05
Mr. Steal your Girl. They call me the ladies man Lot
4:04:12
of hot. Ladies Speedy.
4:04:14
'S mom. Nathan Nathan, the ladies man
4:04:19
remember the. SNL skit the.
4:04:21
Ladies man Nathan. Here makavathi.
4:04:24
Hey. We we do have to get Brittany on
4:04:30
this. For one time, and it has to be
4:04:32
like it. Yes, this will be fantastic.
4:04:36
Let's put. It.
4:04:37
Let's be it could be. It could be a double segment.
4:04:39
Like let's put let's put Britney versus your fiance now.
4:04:44
That. That would be great.
4:04:47
That would be. Great.
4:04:49
Remember, like the What's the old 80s game?
4:04:52
Like the dating game. Oh, the wedding, wedding,
4:04:54
wedding where like you ask like Brittany, write something down
4:04:59
like what the answer is. And you ask Errol, and then she
4:05:02
reveals if it was like the wedding and then that was the
4:05:04
one that went famous. Is like, where's the where's the
4:05:06
weirdest place you've had sex? And he goes in the butt.
4:05:08
Bob in the butt. What was that called?
4:05:15
A loose cannon? That's a loose cannon, Speedy.
4:05:18
You know what a loose cannon is, Speedy?
4:05:20
Hopefully it explodes. In your ass, what happens?
4:05:23
Hopefully it explodes in your ass, he said.
4:05:26
A wedding couple. Or the newlyweds, newlywed game.
4:05:30
Newlywed game, Speedy says. I hope it explodes in your ass
4:05:33
and then you get you you you getting geared.
4:05:38
Up for a fold it out of my ass on later.
4:05:40
Not even sort of pulled it out of my ass.
4:05:43
You guys really like butt stuff over here you just made money
4:05:45
at. Least if you're doing the.
4:05:46
One you did that you gave us tonight.
4:05:48
As long as she's using dude wipes and taking care of my 2
4:05:50
hole, I'm good. Yeah, I'll probably need plenty
4:05:54
of dude wipes. OK, so let's let's let's be
4:05:58
realistic would like would if it does go on fire.
4:06:02
I don't know if hair I. Mean, I know hair.
4:06:05
Is on fire. But usually because there's
4:06:07
like. Product in it like.
4:06:08
I don't know if they put product down.
4:06:10
There, I don't know. So they said they do.
4:06:12
Here's the last history lesson, Cleopatra.
4:06:14
They don't tell you about Cleopatra's.
4:06:16
She was a horny little made of braided pubic hair that was
4:06:20
perfumed and oiled if you lit. Cleopatra's pubes on fire.
4:06:24
It would have been like like that, like a cartoon where it
4:06:27
was like the Long Trail and. Then yeah, where it starts.
4:06:29
And just keeps going. Yeah.
4:06:30
It was. Like that, Well, you're not
4:06:32
going to. I mean, unless you've been
4:06:34
backed up for about a year and a half, you're not going to have
4:06:36
enough good schnoz too on Cleopatra, for the record.
4:06:39
But you're not going to have enough to.
4:06:41
Put that out. Hold on one second.
4:06:43
Where did we go from you know what we were just talking about?
4:06:46
Most famous flaming Amazon person.
4:06:49
To Cleopatra, to lighting her. Her.
4:06:54
Private, you know, cooter on fire and then and then Britney
4:07:06
says I thought this was a sports show lol goody.
4:07:10
And a conspiracy theory show makes the goody well, I guess.
4:07:14
Underground society. Underground society on Monday.
4:07:17
Aliens last month. What's next?
4:07:20
Whatever it is, it's been a good show.
4:07:22
Hasn't an arrow. Doesn't matter what it is.
4:07:29
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we will be back on Monday.
4:07:33
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4:07:35
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4:07:37
Quick announcement announcement obviously and we'll make another
4:07:39
announcement on. Monday.
4:07:42
We're the announcement is, is that we are signed for a year
4:07:45
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4:07:49
show on their platform moving forward for a year.
4:07:52
It will be out there on social media.
4:07:55
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4:08:01
it up. And it's a great opportunity for
4:08:03
us to really put ourselves center stage with some of the
4:08:06
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4:08:11
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4:08:15
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4:08:18
over there. We really appreciate it and
4:08:20
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4:08:24
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4:08:26
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4:08:27
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