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KNICKS hold players only meeting: Are they due for a BIG trade? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. After the Knicks got blown out
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114 and 97 by The Mavericks on Monday, and after being booed
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off the court on at MSG, trailing at halftime by 30,
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Jalen Brunson called a players only meeting.
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Since winning the NBA Cup, the Knicks had a 2 and 9 record,
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including a four-game losing streak before meeting.
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Before the meeting, Bronson spoke about caring enough to do
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what they have had to do to be successful while Josh Hart Yep
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said the team needed to do some soul searching but also said
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that the national media was over blowing the Knicks slump and
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players only and the players only meeting because they do
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that a lot. By the way, ESP NS Ramona
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Shelburne mentioned that the players are not looking to Mike
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Brown to fix their problems and are taking responsibility of
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their woes but there are some questions on their chemistry and
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performances. Performance issues, notably the
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one and only Carl Anthony Towns and consistent play during the
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stretch has been a glaring issue which the team defense has
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suffered. The Knicks got back on track on
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Wednesday night Wednesday night, thrashing the Nets by 54 points,
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but questions remain about the team's ability to go toe to toe
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with the best in the league as currently constructed.
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Despite the struggles, the Knicks are still the number
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three seed in the East with a 26 and 18 record, but are now seven
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games back of the Pistons for the number one seed and two
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games behind. I mean, only and only two games
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ahead, head of the magic who are in are the the first play in
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team and as the number seven seed.
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I, I want to say something about this because people forget about
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the Celtics who are the number two seed and the Celtics have
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had an unbelievable season. Missing Jayson Tatum missing
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they traded Kristaps Porzingis. They moved a lot of players in
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the offseason. They have white and they have
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Jaylen Brown and they've been unbelievable.
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So I, I know when you're when you're writing these monologues
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and you're looking at it, people forget.
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I don't care care about the the Orlando Magic.
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The Orlando Magic don't scare me.
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And if you're a Knick fan out there and you're afraid of the
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Orlando Magic, shame on you. The Orlando Magic has as many
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weaknesses right now as a fourth seed that any team in the
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Eastern Conference. I'm not worried about them.
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I'm worried about the two teams ahead of them.
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And I'm not worried about Detroit because Detroit is going
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to run away with this this division.
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They're running away. They're running away with the
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conference. They're going to be the Eastern
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Conference champions. Deal with it.
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The Knicks are not catching them.
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Cunningham is one of the best point guards in the NBA.
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I've said it. Everybody asks me why do I have
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Cunningham? Even some people believe that
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he's better than, you know, a guy over there in OK C I know
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everybody's going to sit here and and they're going to say
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you're a Knick fan. So you're going to you're going
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to try to find a way out of this.
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There is no way out of this right now.
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Why did Josh Hart go to the Jimmy Fallon show when the
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Knicks were playing this bad? Why would I know he was invited
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to the Jimmy Fallon show? And I love you, Josh.
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Why did you go? You're not playing good
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basketball. You should not be out there
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prancing and dancing over there with Jimmy Fallon.
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I know you'll love your Mike and Ikes and that's fine.
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That's great. And and you like to make jokes
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and you're obviously have one of the best podcast, basketball
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podcast out there. I love everything about what you
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do. You're one of my favorite
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players in the league. But when your team is playing
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like this, you should not be going over there and, and
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talking about it and, and, and bringing it out in front of, you
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know, the fans. New York is is a basketball
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place, as big as hockey, baseball and football is, it is
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a basketball place. And again, when the Knicks are
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playing this bad after winning the Cup, I have a Cup hat.
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It took me like 4-4 weeks to get it, but I got a Cup hat.
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It might be the only hat I I'll ever actually struck or or show
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off because I don't know if the Knicks will ever win a
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championship. And I'm going to tell you this,
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Carl Anthony Towns better wake the F up.
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They better wake up because he's going to lose his job because
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there's a guy over there in Milwaukee that wants to be
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there. And the Knicks will move them.
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The Knicks have pieces to get Giannis.
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And there's a lot of other guys that would love to come and play
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in New York right now. The way it's constructed.
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I know everybody's going to sit here and make excuses.
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I know a lot of Knick fans on social media is going to make
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excuses for this team. I'm not Jaylen Bronson needs to
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play better. Josh Hart, Mitchell Robertson,
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McBride, Kollek, Carl Anthony Towns, Bridges, OG Ananobi, all
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you guys need to play better. Better team basketball, better
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team defense. Stop letting Carl Anthony Town
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Chuck up 80 foot jumpers. Why is he chucking up 80 foot
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jumpers? This team isn't good enough to
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make the mistakes. You saw what happened against
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Indiana last year and look, they have a free ride this year.
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They don't have to deal with Hal Burton.
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They don't have to deal with Jason Tatum and the Celtics.
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If they're matched up against the Celtics, who do you think
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has the advantage? The Knicks do?
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Why are the Celtics ahead of the New York Knicks right now?
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You know why? Because they play team defense.
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The Knicks don't. The Knicks never play team
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defense. And that's the problem.
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And Mike Brown came here pushing this offense, wanting to make
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this offense faster, which he has, and he uses his roster
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very, very well. But guess what?
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When these guys are soft and they're not playing good
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basketball and, and you can see that the rotation is not working
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out, Mike Brown's reaching. He's trying to find somebody
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that's going to get hot. And when they get cold, the
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Knicks, they're all cold. Nobody's hot.
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And I don't want to see isolation basketball with Jalen
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Brunson. I want to see more ball
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movement. I want to see that triangle
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offense. That's what I want to see.
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Mike Brown comes from the Spurs, he comes from the Golden State
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Warriors, Greg Popovich, Steve Kerr.
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He comes from that old style of game with a little new style.
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Why isn't Mike Brown pushing the envelope?
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And I don't want to hear from the player saying, oh, we're not
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blaming it. We don't want to get Mike Brown
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involved with this. Why not?
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Mike Brown has everything to be blamed for this.
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He's the coach. He's calling the plays.
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You're not. It's embarrassing.
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It's embarrassing losing against The Mavericks.
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I'm sorry, you're better than The Mavericks.
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Cooper Flag's a great player. He's their only player.
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They're not playing. I mean, seriously, Kyrie
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Irving's not playing right now. This is this is pathetic.
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It's pathetic basketball. And I don't want to hear it from
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anybody saying that this team is championship bound.
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They're not championship bound. This team is not.
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If this is going to be constructed the way they are,
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and I love Leon Ross. Leon Ross trade all of them, get
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rid of all of them. I don't want to hear it.
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And why is Jalen Brunson's father a part of this coaching
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staff? Why is he a part of this
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coaching staff when we heard before the season started that
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he wasn't going to be a part of this coaching staff?
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What made these changes happen? Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, who
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knows? Is Mike Brown really in control
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of this team? That's the question.
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Is he really calling the shots? Because if he is, I would I
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would question a lot of things that's going on and at these
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team meetings, they've been always having team meetings.
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Last year in the playoffs they had a team meeting against
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Indiana. That's.
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Nothing new. Stupidest things ever, by the
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way. I'm sorry.
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The stupidest things ever. Like I played with a lot of
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great people and I I would consider Jalen Brunson being a
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great player, but they don't like nobody gives a shit
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honestly. Like why are we having a players
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only meeting? Like why?
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Like we know where we're at. Like our job is to patrol
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ourselves. Like we don't need to sit here
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and have a kumbaya and do all that.
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Miguel Cabrera literally is like these are the dumbest things
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ever. Like why?
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Like this gets nothing accomplished because you don't
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get it. Like, we accomplished stuff
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between ourselves. We don't need to just have like
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a meeting by ourselves. But you're 100% right too, with
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Jalen Brunson's calling the shots because obviously his
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dad's now involved. And you guys see it more close
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than I do. But I mean, it's just these,
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these are dumb Jabba. Jabba Jabba OG and Anobi too,
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man. OG and Nanobi this is he is the
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highest played player. He him and Karl Anthony Towns
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because they made the trade for Karl.
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Karl's making over 50 and OG and Nanobi's making 45.
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I think 45,000,000. OG and Nanobi got a lot of
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money. They paid him a lot of money for
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him to be a Kawhi Leonard type of player.
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And he's he's hot and cold. He he can hit a shot, he misses
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a shot, he hits a shot, then he misses three shots.
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I, I, I he's not consistent. He's inconsistent.
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There's too much inconsistency with this basketball team.
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And you cannot win an NBA championship like this.
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Go look at all the great teams. Go look at the Western
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Conference right now, the Nuggets.
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The Nuggets are playing great basketball.
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OK CS playing good basketball. The Houston Rockets are playing
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good basketball. Is it a winky dink?
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No, it's not. You know why?
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They play great team defense and the Knicks don't.
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They got 3 or 4 good defensive players and the rest of them
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don't play any. Not a stick of it, not a lick of
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it, not any of it. It's embarrassing.
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And you go and you do it on your you do it on your own basketball
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floor at MSG. It's embarrassing.
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I don't want to hear it, but the fans born, who cares what the
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fans say? I don't give a crap what the
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fans say. I don't care what the media
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says. I care about what everybody in
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the locker room has to say, what was said in that locker room.
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And I don't want to see Josh Hart go out there in the public
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eye with Jimmy Fallon after the fact that they had this players,
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this players conversation, this players meeting and him saying,
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well, we're we're right now in a slump, but we'll get out of it.
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We're you know, we're having a great season.
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Really, you're having a great season, great season.
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The Easter Conference sucks, Josh.
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It sucks. There's nobody good.
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The best teams are right at the top.
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Detroit, the Celtics and you. And don't give me the Orlando
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Magic. I don't want to hear about a
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what until Orlando does it. I don't trust them.
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I don't trust them. They don't have enough secondary
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offense to do anything in the playoffs in A7 game series
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against an elite team. They might get out of a wide
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like in the first round, but when they're matched up against
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one of these teams, good luck. Well, I'm not betting on
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Orlando. I know Goody does, but I'm not
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going to bet on him. Am I wrong about this?
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Yeah, it's one of those weird circumstances with the Knicks
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where everyone is slumping on the secondary offense all at
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once. And then when you combine that
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with just not having good team defense and transition defense,
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is it the same problems that you ran into last year towards the
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end of the season? And obviously last year was a
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difference of OK, these guys are getting hurt or these guys are
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getting worn down because of the playing time, because of the Tom
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Thibodeau, the way he coaches, 4 out of the six players were
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leading the NBA. It's played per game.
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It's not that same circumstance this year.
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Now you have a case of three guys, Michael Bridges, OG Anobi
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and Karl Anthony Towns. All it randomly cold at once and
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all of a sudden you have a losing streak again.
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Some teams that are pretty bad too.
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And like you said, some of them are at home.
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Atlanta has a team in transition right now that just traded Trey
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Young. They loose to them by 12.
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The Suns, yeah, they're better than expected, but there's still
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nothing special. They just lost to the Kings like
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they lost to the Clippers. The Clippers team that's in a
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betting scandal or a money laundering scandal or whatever,
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like they're no good and they barely survive.
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Teams like the Pelicans, that might be the worst team in the
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NBA. I want to say something too, for
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all the Knick fans that are having excitement after them
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pulverizing the Brooklyn Nets, the biggest win total the Knicks
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have ever had in their history since they've been in the
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league. Stop it.
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This is the Brooklyn Nets. They're trying to lose.
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They're trying to get the number one pick.
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Are you really bragging about knocking off the Brooklyn Nets?
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Are you Knick fans really excited about this?
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Come on guys, I am so fed up with hearing Nick fans tell me,
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oh, next year we got it, next year we got it, next year we got
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it, next year we got it. How about this year we got it.
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How about if you don't find it, we're going to find somebody
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that has it. And I'm going to tell you this
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right now, if this team doesn't wake up, there is going to be
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trades, there is going to be movement.
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Carl Anthony Towns, I've heard. Portland reaching out to the
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Knicks about Carl Anthony Towns. I've heard Orlando reaching out
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to the Knicks about Karl Anthony Towns.
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There are a couple of teams interested in Karl Anthony Towns
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because they already know that the Knicks are probably going to
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shop him because he doesn't fit with this rotation.
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He never liked Mike Brown. He never liked the hire.
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He didn't like Tom Thibodeau. He we all know he didn't like
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Tom Thibodeau because he didn't want to be over there with the
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Timberwolves anymore. So he had to deal with Tom
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Thibodeau because he was Leon Rose's client.
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That's why he came here. It to me.
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The Knicks got lucky getting him.
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But even though even that, look what the Timberwolves are doing
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with the trade. Julius Randall's been pretty
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damn good over there. I mean, seriously.
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So I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it from
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these guys. I don't want to hear of making
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excuses. There's no excuses to this team
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anymore. It's not Jaylen Bronson, put up
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or shut up, Josh Hart, keep everything inside the locker
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room. I don't want to see you go on
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any of these shows anymore. You want to talk about it on
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your podcast, do it on your podcast.
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I don't want to hear it on the Jimmy Fallon show.
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I don't want to hear about Mike and Ike's.
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I don't want to hear about this runway show that you're in.
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I don't want to. I care about wins.
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I go about. I care about a championship that
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this team has been dreaming about since 1973.
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Yeah, it's very, very well put because you're looking at a case
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of maybe they don't even know how to handle it yet.
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And this is a core that isn't inexperienced either.
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Now. Yeah, they're new pieces.
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Towns was one year, OG trade was another year.
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I get that. But it's not like it's a core
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that's just rising now either. And it's not like it's a core
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that is does not have veteran leadership.
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Like Jalen Bronson's still young, but he's come off as a
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good veteran leader. We've seen McHale Bridge is a
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time to be a good veteran leader.
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But at the same time, like you can't let these Eagles clash
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where it affects your performance on the basketball
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court for a team, like you said, in an Eastern Conference that is
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wide open because there's really one dominant team right now.
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The Celtics are over performing good.
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Give them credit. Joe Missoula is actually
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coaching for once in his career and Cleveland's been better now.
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But there's really no forces in the East.
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And yet you're just lollygagging pretty much on a whole West
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Coast road trip. You're playing even though some
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of the wins they've had were all close and they just can't beat
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good team if you're going to do like do stuff like that.
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You know what the Knicks are? You know what they remind me of?
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They remind me of an orange. You got to peel them, right?
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To actually get the juicy part to the middle, You know what I
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mean? When you open up an orange, if
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it has green on it, it's probably not going to be juicy.
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It's usually those nice, you know, orangey and hard kind of
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oranges are the ones that have that that juicy taste when you
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when you peel them off. Then I don't think I would ever
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like thought you referred to a reference from the Knicks to
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peeling an orange. That's who they are.
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I mean, I don't know what I'm I don't know what I'm going to get
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out of the New York Knicks. Are they going to, are they
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going to show up in a game or am I peeling and am I going to get
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the juice from them? It's that's the problem with
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them. They they're flat.
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There are games that they look so damn flat.
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It's boring. And it and they, they try to
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pick up the pace and, and then you see Mike Brown sitting on
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the sidelines calling timeouts and he's trying to figure out
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what rotation I'm going to put in.
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This guy can't hit a shot. That guy can't hit a shot.
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That guy can't hit a shot. That guy can't hit a layup.
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I mean, how many times I've seen Mitchell Robinson miss a
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freaking layup? I mean, come on, you're a
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professional basketball player, you're playing in MSG, and
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you're gonna tell me that this is the best you have?
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This is the best you're going to put you put up or shut up.
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That's what basketball in MSG is all about.
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And the New York Knicks, let's let's be honest, it's all been
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shut up because the Knicks haven't been good in years.
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They finally have a good basketball team.
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It was put together by Leon Rose.
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He's the mastermind. And I'm going to tell you this
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right now, as much as I have so much respect for Leon Rose, this
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team playing the way it is, I'm I'm making calls right now.
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I'm making calls right now. You want Karl Anthony Towns?
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What are you offering me? You want OG and OB?
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What are you offering me? You want Mikhail Bridges?
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What are you offering me? I'm getting rid of the whole
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kitten caboodle if they're not going to show up and play hard.
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That's it. Look, look, Errol, it's the
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slightly different problem than last year, the same, same type
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type of crap defense. But I think the problem is, you
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know, Tibbs played 7-8 guys tops, right?
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They're playing 13 guys right now.
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They had a bunch of guys get hurt and come back.
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Now they don't really know their roles.
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There's not enough minutes to give out.
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Jordan Clarkson's not even in the rotation anymore.
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I don't know if you knew that. No, I know he felt that.
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It's been 2 games now. He hasn't played.
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He played like 2 minutes. Because he can't hit a.
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Shot well, it's not only he can't hit a shot, he can't play
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defense. And if he's not hitting a shot,
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then there's no reason to play him.
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So if his shots off, you know, then how does he then get his
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shot to get back on if he's not getting any?
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He can't hit a free throw. A free throw.
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So the point it the point I'm bringing it up is now you have
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guys that have shown they've played minutes in the league in
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the NBA, put them together in a package, trade them, upgrade.
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I I don't know if Towns can play defense the way that it seems to
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be Tibbs, not certainly not the way Tibbs wanted.
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And I don't know if Mike Brown, you know, Mike Brown seems to
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want them to play a different style of defense that requires
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them to hustle a little bit more than they're used to.
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Like they, he wants everyone to be Josh Hart, you know, out
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there. And Josh Hart's been hurt.
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So he hasn't even been Josh Hart in the way that he's been used
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to being. So it's, I don't know if
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they're, they've bought in to what Brown wants them to do or
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more importantly, have the right guys, I think.
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And if Towns isn't the guy, he's got to go.
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I think they've bought in earlier in the season and then
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they got lacks a days ago and they just, they seem like after
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they won the Cup off, this is going to be a smooth sailing
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season. We're going to the playoffs,
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we're winning the NBA title. We're the best.
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And and let's be honest, the New York Knicks have never had a
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smooth sailing season. I'm sorry.
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Every season they go into these runs where they lose like 8 out
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of their next 10 games and you're like, what?
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Where does this team come from? I mean, seriously, I'm
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embarrassed sometimes watching this team.
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When you lose against the Sacramento Kings, OK.
23:05
When you lose against a team like that, it's embarrassing
23:09
because they're looking to move pieces, they're looking to
23:12
rebuild, they're looking for that number one pick and you
23:15
lose against them by almost double digits.
23:17
I think you did lose against double elevens.
23:19
Yeah. So I I mean, it's embarrassing
23:22
and there's no excuse to it. And Jaylen Brunson's got this
23:25
isolation game with Jaylen Brunson.
23:27
It's got to stop it. It has to, it has to be.
23:30
I mean, when the Knicks were efficient against Indiana in
23:33
that series in the in the playoffs last year, they were
23:35
moving the ball around the perimeter.
23:37
The ball never stopped. They were shooting shots.
23:40
OG got a touch. Mikhail Bridges got a touch.
23:42
Jalen Brunson got a touch, Carl Anthony Towns got a touch.
23:45
When they were playing that kind of basketball, feeding the guy
23:48
that was hot. They were playing great
23:50
basketball. They're not doing nobody's hot.
23:52
They're all horrible and they're all trying to reach.
23:55
They're trying to reach into Santa's little bag and find out
23:58
if they're going to get the right present, OK, Because And
24:01
it's probably going to be cold the way the Knicks play, All
24:04
right? I'm tired of watching it.
24:06
I'm tired of it. There's no excuse.
24:08
And if I was Leon Rose and I was the GM of this team right now,
24:12
I'm right now making phone calls.
24:13
I'm getting rid of the problems right now in my locker room.
24:16
And we all know who they are. We all know who it's not.
24:20
It's not a surprise right now what's going on with the Knicks.
24:24
This always happens to the Knicks about the same time,
24:27
before the All Star game, same time.
24:29
Then the Knicks get hot. They get hot.
24:32
They they're, they're playing. They're dancing and prancing.
24:34
And then the last two weeks of the season, they suck.
24:37
And then they go into the playoffs, they play, oh, they
24:40
play OK, They play OK. And then and then the second
24:43
round, they get eliminated. This is this has been the Knicks
24:46
the last couple of years except last year when they went to the
24:49
Eastern Conference Finals and they play like crap against the
24:52
Indiana Pacers. Absolutely horrible after that
24:55
dagger with Hal Burton and and Amnesty.
24:57
That was the dagger. That series was over after he
25:01
hit that unbelievable lucky 3 pointer which sent it to
25:05
overtime. I'll imagine they blew a 15
25:06
point. Leader, it wasn't a three.
25:07
I'm sorry. It was a 2 because he stepped on
25:09
the line. It should have been a three.
25:11
And you know, I mean, he tried to make it a three and tried to
25:14
disguise it in every kind of way.
25:16
But embarrassing. And the New York Knicks, if
25:19
you're a Knick fan, you can't. You can't honestly tell me that
25:22
this is something that you're proud of and you're OK with
25:26
honestly, because I'm not. Anyways, we got inside baseball.
25:30
Now let's go deep. Deep inside what?
25:34
I am excited. This is inside baseball.
25:38
There's been a whole bunch of baseball news.
25:40
We're going to get it started with the big one.
25:42
The Mets obviously had to make a big splash move.
25:46
They did it and they traded a bunch of prospects for Brewers
25:51
All Star pitcher Freddy Peralta. Yes, he was the big name that
25:55
was on the market this winter. He goes for top pitching
26:01
prospect and Sproat and Speedy. What was the second guy, second,
26:06
third? Williams, All right.
26:08
And an infielder. That's a highly touted
26:10
infielder. It's a pretty big haul
26:12
considering Peralta's only under contract Errol for this season.
26:16
Here's the thing. It's a great move for the Mets.
26:18
It is. It's a great move.
26:20
They get their number one guy, they have McClain.
26:22
They got a great 1-2 punch. You gave up two top prospects
26:26
for a rent a player, 2 top prospects for rent a player.
26:30
They made a trade for a rent A player and now a lot of Met fans
26:34
sitting here today, you're probably saying, oh, we have a
26:37
chance to win a World Series. We we added one of the best
26:40
hitters in baseball and Beau Boschet, but he's playing third
26:42
base. Oh, we added, we added an
26:45
outfielder out there. Finally I could catch the ball,
26:47
but he can't hit. He hasn't hit since 2023.
26:51
I mean, honestly, I am not going to bet on Peralta signing back
26:56
with the Mets. One reason why next year it
26:58
could be a strike and then the Mets are interested in Scrubal.
27:03
So if they give Peralta the money before the seasons end,
27:07
there's no way they're going to pay Tarek Scubal after the
27:10
strike. There's no way he's going to
27:12
want 400 million. So that's not happening when the
27:15
Mets and the the Dodgers are almost at, well, the Dodgers are
27:18
over 500 million. The Mets are right there.
27:20
It's not going to happen. So all you Met fans that were
27:24
dreaming a dream about Tarek Scubal, you could take that
27:28
dream and blow it away because it's not happening.
27:31
You like Peralta, we'll see how he does in New York.
27:34
We've seen pictures not work out in New York.
27:36
I can name a couple of them. But it's it's a good move as of
27:40
right now on paper. You did give up two top
27:42
prospects that you know, Milwaukee, they know how to,
27:45
they know how to draft and they know how to trade and they know
27:47
how to pick guys off of other teams just like the Tampa Bay
27:51
Rays. Yeah, they're going to.
27:53
They were waiting on the Mets offer because of the Mets.
27:55
We're going to give them the most.
27:56
And I think maybe they added a little more incentive to get
27:59
somebody like Jet Williams, who probably could come up this year
28:01
and make an instant impact for the Brewers and Sprout, who
28:04
again, maybe doesn't have the upside that Tong and McClain
28:07
have but is still a good prospect.
28:08
But they do have to sign him. I I would sign him now.
28:11
Like you can't take the chance that OK just because maybe scuba
28:13
is going to be available. Maybe you sign him, you get
28:15
scuba. I I they might not get him
28:17
anyway. I'm not going to take the chance
28:19
of losing 1 pitcher just because you might still.
28:23
Fan knew they were going if they didn't get Tucker this year,
28:25
they were going all in and Taric school ball and now all of a
28:28
sudden the week of Stearns. That's my story, ladies and
28:32
gentlemen, go check it out on the World Wide Sports Radio
28:34
Network. It's a great article.
28:36
I attacked every single thing David Stearns did because he was
28:40
reaching on every single one of these moves.
28:42
Peralta is the best one, but you're you took a red to player
28:46
for two of your best prospects. Yeah, and we saw pitchers that
28:49
have been making these types of trades in the past get signed
28:52
right away. The Red Sox said it with
28:53
Crochet. They signed him six years, 160
28:55
right away. The Dodgers said it with both of
28:56
their guys that they got. The Mets need to do that kind of
28:59
thing. And yeah, you maybe you still
29:00
get school. Maybe you still get somebody big
29:02
next season. Maybe Peralta doesn't want to do
29:04
that. I hope if you're going to trade
29:06
those types of levels prospect that you're going to do that.
29:08
But again, you don't know what the Mets with the way they're
29:10
operating, but they still have to trust that kind of process.
29:13
In the same way he's 28, he's still young enough.
29:14
Since he came back from that Tommy John surgery four years
29:17
ago, he's been healthy. He's a top 20, probably top 15
29:20
pitcher. Yeah, but he's not a top ten and
29:21
he's going to get paid like a top ten pitcher.
29:24
Still, you need to. I still think you need to seal
29:25
it if you're going to trade that much in order to do it.
29:27
If they don't, it's going to be a big mistake that'll backfire
29:30
on Stearns. If they do, they get a top 15
29:32
pitcher. It's something they needed for a
29:33
while to help out these young guys and not put as much
29:35
pressure on them. I look at the Stearns thing in
29:37
the in the article that you wrote and this this might be the
29:44
caveat to either he sinks or swims because you give up the
29:49
prospects, none of them obviously big league ready, none
29:53
of them like 2 of them obviously big prospects, but none of them
29:57
there were in the top 100 of MLB.
30:01
So yeah, you're giving away a little bit of your farm system,
30:05
but were they going to help you now?
30:07
I don't think they were. There was.
30:08
No room for Williams Vale I infielders.
30:11
Right, and so and So what what I think when I say sink or swim,
30:15
it's like phone wants to win now.
30:18
And you I thought pitching was going to be one of those things
30:22
and and you got a guy and it can be a rent a year, but he's going
30:26
to see what they're doing and and what they brought in.
30:30
Did they touch on everything that they needed?
30:32
Probably not, but he's going to see it.
30:37
And is it just going to be a rent a player?
30:40
It might be, it might be. But he also made me like, oh,
30:44
well, we can do this and my owner is going to do this.
30:47
And but I think it's if they don't do something this year, I
30:52
think you have to look at Stearns and be like, see you
30:55
because you're making moves that haven't translated anything like
31:00
where I don't really know with rhyme or reason either.
31:04
But obviously they made some moves.
31:06
They gave some guys away but really when you look at it from
31:12
the whole scheme of things, are they are they winning now?
31:14
Are they, are they setting themselves up to win?
31:17
I don't I don't know that answer.
31:18
Is still somewhere in between right now and because they're
31:21
young enough, but they still have a lot of pieces in the
31:23
wrong place. Well, I mean, I I love Peralta
31:28
as a fantasy guy. He's always one of those low
31:31
WHIP guys with the low ERA gets a bunch of strikeouts about a
31:35
strikeout and inning. He's he's a borderline ace.
31:39
I think Errol, I think we talked, we talked about it
31:41
earlier today. I don't know if you want him to
31:42
be your number one. I think you're hoping McClain
31:45
becomes that number one. You're hoping on this roster.
31:48
But you know, they the Mets didn't stop there.
31:50
The Mets before this big trade made a little smaller trade for
31:54
another notable name. I wouldn't necessarily he's a
31:57
good player anymore. But they did trade for White,
32:02
former White Sox outfielder Louise Robert.
32:05
Now, Robert had 38 homers in 2023.
32:10
But he's also been hurt a lot. He's batting average has dipped
32:16
below 200 on occasion. He has some speed but isn't
32:21
particularly using it at times. It's just one of those guys.
32:26
He's A5 tool player Errol, and he's got all the talent in the
32:30
world. He just hasn't put it together.
32:33
So the Mets, they sent the Louis Angel, Louis Angel Lacuna, Ron
32:39
Lacuna brother off in this deal. Another infielder, another
32:43
pitcher in the minor leagues. Robert Louise is a good player.
32:49
He was a good player in 2023. He's no longer a guy that can
32:52
hit the ball in the big leagues. He probably is going to hit
32:56
between 2:20 and 2:10 with the Mets.
32:58
If he could get on base and walk if he if he can, if he has that
33:02
kind of speed, maybe he can cause a little bit of havoc.
33:05
He's a great defensive player. He's a good center fielder,
33:07
which the Mets have been lacking for a while.
33:10
But guess what? This is the way I looked at it
33:13
and this is the way I put it in my story.
33:15
You traded a fan favorite. Fan favorite.
33:18
Brandon Nimmo could actually hit, can actually defend, maybe
33:22
in the second-half of the season, was up and down, but
33:25
still a really good player. For a player that is less of a
33:30
man than Nimmo is, it makes no sense.
33:33
Nimmo was on the field. Nimmo player.
33:36
I'm taking Nimmo over this guy. And then I listened to David
33:39
Stearns and his interview recently, which it was yesterday
33:42
he was talking about, and he says, oh, I love this move.
33:45
This is one of the best, better moves I made this offseason.
33:47
If you think this is one of your better moves, you need to be
33:51
out, out, out because you don't belong here.
33:54
It doesn't it doesn't make sense to me because if if you're like
33:58
trying to get your and and speedy you can speak on this
34:01
too. more than I can because I'm not a Mets fan.
34:04
But if you take one of your home grown dudes that is liked and
34:08
loved lived in Long Island. I'm very biased because I know
34:13
the Nimmo family and I played with his brother in college.
34:16
But the dude did everything the right way.
34:18
Like he was a great clubhouse guy.
34:21
He did it. And yeah.
34:23
Did he have peaks and valleys? That's the game of baseball.
34:26
That's that's what it was. But was he productive?
34:29
Did he do things that you didn't think he was probably going to
34:33
do because you didn't really know?
34:35
Yeah, he did. And that's why he got paid the
34:38
money. He got paid.
34:39
And now you get rid of them and you lose like you're losing your
34:43
clubhouse. And that's why I just.
34:46
I going back and forth and and YouTube with jam and I I don't
34:50
know what Stern's thinking is like.
34:52
You still have to have staples in the clubhouse.
34:56
And now, OK, you got Frankie, but you got rid of Pete, you got
35:00
rid of Nimmo and now you're trying to bring all these pieces
35:03
that I don't know. You don't have any like McLean
35:07
yet. We're we're going to have that
35:09
person. But like he he's only done it
35:12
for this amount of time. Nimmo did it forever.
35:15
Good job of think job of think about this.
35:18
We were just talking about their field.
35:20
Now they're bringing in all players from all different
35:22
teams. They have nobody really on their
35:25
roster besides their pitching staff that are really homegrown
35:28
Mets, except maybe Alvarez. That's it.
35:30
There's no homegrown Mets out in the field.
35:33
None. So and I, and that's, that's
35:36
where I don't know what Stern's thinking is like.
35:38
You have to have staple. You have to.
35:40
Every team that wins has staples.
35:44
You talk about the DD in the deferred dodge, they have Will
35:48
Smith. Will Smith was there.
35:50
That's their dude. You have to have something that
35:53
has stability from where you come from, and that is my
35:56
opinion. You can tell me to go fly a kite
35:58
and I'm wrong and that's OK, I'm OK with that.
36:01
But you now get rid of that and try to create a different
36:05
dynamic. I just don't know what his
36:06
thinking is. Like, if you're running a
36:08
player, Louise Robert, however you want to pronounce it, has
36:14
had flashes of what he is. He's a freak of a human.
36:17
Like he is a gigantic human, but what are you?
36:22
What are you creating? Like, I don't know the dynamic
36:28
of what his vision is because obviously I'm not in his pocket
36:31
and I don't know that. But for me to be a successful
36:36
organization, you got to have some capacity of understanding
36:41
that you have to have some glue that works in the club out and
36:46
you got rid of some glue with the meth.
36:49
How about you? And you're trying to add pieces.
36:50
I I don't. Yeah, I've, I've always said
36:52
what I like the Simeon Nimmo trade at the time, but if you're
36:55
going to overload on all those infielders at that point after
36:57
that, then you could have probably saved Nimmo for a
36:59
different trade or if you really wanted to get rid of him or just
37:02
hang on to him. Yeah, you're going to get some
37:03
losing out on defense in center field.
37:05
But if you're going to trade McNeil?
37:06
Let me ask you a question. Nimmo if if you had a choice
37:09
between Nimmo and Robert. I'm taking Nimmo.
37:11
Definitely taking Nimmo now, Robert.
37:13
Robert as an upgrade over their center fielder rotation they had
37:17
last year with Tyrone Taylor and Cedric Mole.
37:19
He's a lot more powerful than that now.
37:20
Yeah. Low batting average?
37:21
Fine. The Yankees found Grissom.
37:23
I mean, seriously, the Mets could have found somebody of
37:25
that magnitude. Not this guy who can't hit a
37:28
lick. Yeah, again, the low batting
37:30
average is going to come because they're going to have that kind
37:31
of issue. Unless Carson Bench played
37:33
center field this year and like had an impact as a batting
37:36
average guy, you weren't going to get that anyway.
37:37
So Robert has more power than that.
37:39
Now. Again, this is not a case where
37:40
I would sign the guy right away. He still has a lot to worry
37:42
about. Jabba, the other factor with him
37:44
is he was part of that White Sox.
37:47
I talked about this years ago, one of those Clubhouse says that
37:49
were broken with Tony Larussa and they like didn't listen to
37:52
the rules and stuff like that. And Robert was.
37:54
One of those you're preaching the choir.
37:55
I know. Yeah, I worried about, I worry
37:57
about that. Maybe a change of scenery helps,
37:59
but I don't know what type of culture guy he is necessarily.
38:02
So don't sign him right away. He's an offensive upgrade.
38:05
You don't have to trade much. Fine.
38:06
But yeah, I'd rush, rather have an MO and just the process of it
38:08
seems flawed. It just seemed like a panic
38:10
move. And they're again David Sterns
38:12
overloading any fielders and guys out of place.
38:15
You know, in 2023, he played 145 games.
38:18
That's the most he ever played in his career.
38:20
He's he played 100 the last two seasons.
38:24
I, I, it's just an illogical move, guys.
38:28
I, I don't know, I still don't think they have a first baseman
38:31
on their roster. I, it's a very strange offseason
38:35
for the Mets, but let's just pretend like it was great
38:38
because that's what a lot of people are doing in the media.
38:40
Let's do it. Let's keep the pretending going.
38:43
I know you're a fan of the deal. I'm a fan of the deal too.
38:46
The Yankees finally resigned Cody Bellinger to A5 year deal
38:51
worth 162 and a half million dollars with opt outs after both
38:56
year two and three. It includes a $20 million
39:00
signing bonus, which means basically, I guess all signing
39:04
bonuses really mean for cat purposes, it's front loaded
39:08
contract. It'll decrease in value over
39:11
time. Meaning it's more likely he
39:13
would want to opt out because there's less money later in the
39:16
contract. So I guess they got every why
39:19
all the sides got what they wanted.
39:21
The Yankees may have done a little bidding against
39:23
themselves here, but I don't think it was that bad of a deal,
39:28
even if they had to pay a little extra no bidding.
39:31
I think this was a great deal for the New York Yankees.
39:33
They didn't go a six year. It was either five year or six
39:36
year. Me and Jabba were talking about
39:38
this off air. We talk about this on air.
39:41
This is a great move. If you would ask me right now,
39:43
Bellinger is a better player than Tucker, all around better
39:45
player than Tucker. Tucker got a huge contract for
39:48
four years from the Dodgers and Bellinger got less money and
39:53
he's a better player. He can play multiple positions.
39:55
He's a great left-handed power hitter.
39:58
He he can do all those things. He was one of the best.
40:01
He was, he was one of the best to hit against lefties all
40:04
season last year. And the Yankees have had a lack
40:06
of that kind of offense really every single year since Joe
40:10
Torre. So I, I, I like this move.
40:12
I don't. Brian Cashman didn't break.
40:14
He said he wanted five years and he stuck at that.
40:17
He started, he stood at that and he got him for five years.
40:20
It was a slam dunk for Brian Cashman.
40:22
I don't think they overpaid him. They gave a great player a lot
40:26
of money. That's it, That's baseball.
40:29
Yeah, they stuck to his, they stuck to his guns with knowing
40:32
the way that Cody Bellinger splits in his career have been
40:34
with, you know, after he left, the daughters went to the Cubs
40:36
too. And that's why I think a lot of
40:39
people were skeptical to give him the seven-year deal that
40:41
Bellinger was trying to push for and they just did it with opt
40:45
outs instead. Maybe Bellinger thinks he can
40:46
get that in a second deal or get a combined value in a second
40:49
deal. So he got what he wanted.
40:50
I think the Yankees got the the deal that they needed to get
40:53
because they had to get him back to get that offensive production
40:55
that you know is going to be there in that line up again.
40:59
I, I, I literally said it all year, I go sign this dude now.
41:03
But what Errol and I talked about and I, I talked about it
41:07
on other podcasts and, and other stuff, I go years are going to
41:11
be the difference. That's going to be the thing
41:13
that holds it up and where we talked about and we touched on
41:18
it and years in age come into factor now because teams have
41:24
been burnt with giving longer contracts to dudes that are
41:27
older and I think Kyle Tucker is younger than Cody Bellinger.
41:32
By one year. By one year.
41:34
Yeah, but that's a big difference.
41:37
But where I think Cody, and I've said this numerous times where
41:43
his versatility that gets underrated a lot is defensive,
41:47
but also he's played in it, he's note and he grew up with it.
41:50
He grew up with it. He knows what it is and LA is
41:54
different than New York, but it's two big markets, right?
41:56
This for me was like, you should have done this a long time ago.
42:00
You should have done this a long time ago because that's where he
42:03
wants to be. And I would I, I, you can
42:08
footnote this, bookmark it, whatever the hell you want to
42:10
do. I will give cash credit on this
42:13
one for staying on the five year.
42:15
I will, I will give, I will give him credit for staying because
42:19
that was the one thing that I, I was like, years are going to be
42:23
different because if he wants 6 or 7, then it's not going to
42:28
happen. And I was like, damn, he might
42:30
go back to the Cubs. Like they just got braggy.
42:33
I'm like, oh, this might actually happen because the
42:37
longer it goes it, it, it sways to like, it's not going to
42:41
happen. But I think the number was the
42:45
number was correct and the years were perfect for him because
42:50
realistically he could still get another contract after.
42:53
That yeah, and he will. And.
42:54
And I think the Yankees know that and I and.
42:56
And I think the next contract won't be with the Yankees and.
42:59
And I think. Again, that's fine, but for him
43:01
to make the money to, to have the stability and whatever, but
43:05
you, you, you, you have to take all of the things that Cody has
43:09
done in his career. Yes, 1 MVP, yes.
43:13
Did he hit below the Mendoza line in 200?
43:16
Yes. He's that.
43:16
We've seen it and numbers don't lie, but numbers all aren't
43:22
all-encompassing of what you get in the value of a person and the
43:28
understanding, like there's things we can't quantify and the
43:31
understanding of playing in a place like New York, and we've
43:35
seen it with multiple people where that's just, they're not
43:38
built for. That and I want to say I want to
43:40
say something a lot of fans are saying, and I'll say this on
43:43
Josh Silverberg show go game on. He him and his father said, I'll
43:49
be very surprised if the Yankees make the playoffs.
43:51
This team is first of all has one of the best rotations in
43:54
baseball when Garrett Cole comes back this year and I wouldn't
43:58
even question that they're not going to make moves at the trade
44:01
deadline. I know everybody says, well,
44:02
what have the Yankees done? They sided They signed a very
44:05
important piece in Cody Bellinger, who's important to
44:08
this lineup defensively and offensively.
44:10
So stop Yankee fans saying that the Yankees didn't do enough.
44:13
The Yankees are doing a lot more than you think they're doing.
44:16
This is what Brian does. He waits and he he pounces on
44:20
players that he thinks are freeloaders or guys that he can
44:24
fix to put into that rotation or that bullpen.
44:28
I think the Yankees are fine with their as far as their
44:30
lineup is concerned until the trade death.
44:33
What you're saying don't add. You always have to add like you.
44:37
You can't say because you can't stay with the same team and be
44:40
in the same position. No, I'm saying, I'm saying right
44:43
now I don't see the Yankees adding, and I think they'll be.
44:46
But realistically, they they didn't add anything great.
44:51
Let's just be honest, they didn't add anything great.
44:53
I don't. Think they need to?
44:56
They have no. Who's the closer one?
44:58
So what are we like, what are we saying?
45:00
Fish? You're right, You're 100%.
45:02
Right. So we're going in with Benar on
45:04
an expired icon. She's a closer as our closer
45:07
right now. No and no setup, man.
45:10
We've lost guys. We added nobody Bellinger we had
45:13
and wasn't good enough last year.
45:15
So how I mean, look, if Gerrit Cole comes back, that's a huge
45:18
shot in the yard. The.
45:19
Yankees have another young pitcher going to be called up
45:21
this year that I've been reading about.
45:23
They love. Him so.
45:24
Great, yes. They love him.
45:26
They love him right and then and every Warren could be a trade
45:29
spot or they can move him into the bullpen and he could be your
45:33
close. He's got great stuff.
45:34
No. So we're this, we're the same
45:36
team, so we're going to be in the same position, right?
45:39
So how, how are we going to any better?
45:41
How are you going to be a playoff, you know, a, a Pennant
45:46
winning team, at least I, I don't see it.
45:48
The Blue Jays added the Blue Jays added the.
45:51
Blue Jays always choke and and they lost and.
45:54
And they didn't this year. They lost Bob Bishop one year,
45:57
one year you're bringing up and. They gave away boba shet.
46:00
They didn't want boba shet. Whatever, Boba.
46:03
Shet, but this it's you're literally putting the same
46:06
product and you're going to get the same product.
46:09
Not necessarily. I've seen the Yankees come out
46:12
year in and year out in the 90s. What?
46:15
I'm sorry. Jericho yeah, that's, I mean,
46:17
that's obviously a game changer, but that's the same thing cash
46:20
does every year. It's like, oh, we're going to do
46:23
back at the deadline and that's like adding a free agent cash.
46:27
We've heard that every year. I just like to see them use some
46:30
of these pieces. You know, they got Dominguez
46:33
waiting there. He plays the same position as
46:35
Bellinger right now with Ben Rice is for his base, Bellinger
46:37
left field. Well, so is Jason Dominguez.
46:40
The Yankees will be. Fine.
46:41
You gotta do something. They'll gotta do something,
46:43
Cashman. I'm sorry, I just as a Yankee
46:46
fan, you didn't do shit. This here's my prediction.
46:48
The Yankees win the division this year, and I'm not saying
46:51
this because I'm a Yankee. Fan, the Yankees are going to
46:53
win God's ears. Man, the Yankees are going to
46:54
win the division this year. I'll put a bet on that, that
46:57
they don't win the division, OK? Well, a team that has a guy, the
47:00
Rangers, the Rangers that I wish the Yankees would call about
47:04
their shortstop, They added a piece that's a real interesting
47:08
arm going forwards. They traded a bunch of young
47:11
prospects including their first round pick this in the 2025
47:16
draft for Mackenzie Gore from the Nationals.
47:19
Now Mackenzie Gore had 19 first half starts and was had a
47:24
three-year A and a 12 WHIP and 138 KS.
47:28
He was a no brainer All Star but after the All Star break.
47:33
He should spend. Mackenzie Gore that most of us
47:36
remembered from previous years. He went one and seven with A7
47:40
ERAA, 17 WHIP and still struck out a bunch of guys, but people
47:45
lit him up. Jekyll and Hyde type of
47:49
strikeout pitcher here. It just kind of came through
47:53
again. Gavin Fine, he's a third
47:54
baseman. He was the first round pick.
47:56
He's the big name in this deal. Listen, Kenzie Gore, he he has
48:01
good stuff. He's going to be playing behind
48:04
a great pitcher and Jacob degrom, veteran pitchers that
48:07
can help him out. I think he's going to be fine.
48:10
And and I like what the Rangers have done all season, all
48:12
offseason. They've added some bats, they've
48:15
added some pitching. They've done what they needed to
48:17
do. And I think the Rangers are
48:19
dangerous. I think they're probably the
48:21
most dangerous team in their division with all the
48:24
acquisitions they've made this offseason.
48:26
So I like the Mackenzie Gore move it.
48:28
It's definitely something that you you could look at and and
48:31
add to the rotation, which they definitely need depth in.
48:33
Yeah, it's. One of those guys you look at
48:35
high strikeout, maybe he's just a home run rescue.
48:37
Saw that with Dylan sees. You've seen that with Noah
48:41
Syndergaard when he was in his peak, Like sometimes that.
48:43
Happens. They had someone last year that
48:44
was like that too. Yeah, and a lot of the reason I
48:47
like. Played for the Yankees.
48:48
Played for the Red Sox. Yeah, a lot of the guys that
48:50
Evaldi, yeah, that's why same guy, that's why I was going to
48:53
bring up like Evaldi. Give me involved in the playoffs
48:58
though. Yes, we're not talking about
49:00
that. I'm not talking about the
49:01
playoffs, John. Is that that he has in the
49:03
playoffs? Give me that all day.
49:05
But I was more talking about the fact that they needed a young
49:07
guy to really grow that cord. If they have the guys that are
49:11
injury prone or guys of the future to do that, I I trust the
49:14
Ranger system to kind of make that thing work in addition to
49:16
like rebirthing of ALDI too. Also, John Grade was a guy that
49:19
was under under raid for a while that they Raven like work.
49:22
I think the system is good for this, even with a new manager,
49:24
with Skip Schumacher we'll say, but I think the Rangers analytic
49:27
department is a lot better at. Developing the pitching yeah, I
49:30
see why is brilliant. I I was I was so fortunate to
49:34
play against him, but then be his teammate.
49:37
See why thinks outside of the box and like he he's so smart,
49:42
but he doesn't let things such as numbers get in the way of the
49:47
move that he makes. And I I just if I had an
49:52
opportunity to to be in the Rangers organization with
49:55
somebody like that, that lead in the way that he's, I guess
50:00
making moves and doing it in a chess match instead of a checker
50:05
game. Cy is great and he he has all
50:08
control and and he is he is one of the most brilliant men that
50:12
I've been around. And to see him in the game of
50:15
baseball and he gave me one of the best compliments I've ever
50:19
had in my career. No, it didn't give me a toe job,
50:23
but he just was like, man, you repeat your delivery And I was
50:29
like, my delivery sucks. Like I would never teach us to
50:32
anybody. That's just the way I throw.
50:34
And he's like, but you repeat it.
50:35
That's why you're successful. And that one over like that good
50:40
and that smart. And now to see him succeed.
50:43
Obviously when a World Series and now make moves that some
50:47
people like don't think like, oh, this really makes sense.
50:51
He he thinks about it before anybody thinks about it.
50:53
And that's why the Rangers organization is going to be in
50:58
in very good hand for a long time.
51:00
This makes my pecker hard. All right, we got one more guys
51:04
and that is the Baseball Hall of Fame.
51:07
I know it was you guys talked about it earlier in the week
51:10
with Carlos Beltran and Andrew Jones getting in.
51:13
But I want to talk about the guys that climbed big
51:16
percentages that are going to be the likely ones that we look at
51:20
going forwards at getting in. So Chase Utley had the biggest
51:25
climb to 59 point 1%. Again, you need 75% to get in,
51:32
so Beltran got in that 84.2. Andrew Jones had a 78.4.
51:37
Utley was third at 59.1, which was an increase in almost 20%
51:43
from his previous year. Looks like he's going to get in.
51:47
The next highest was Andy Pettitte.
51:49
Andy Pettitte went up to 48 1/2%, up from 27.9.
51:56
That's a big deal and King Felix a massive gain up to 46.1% from
52:02
20%. Other names up there that have
52:05
kind of hung around this value. Bobby Abreu actually jumped a
52:09
little bit, but a rods at 40%. Manny Ramirez just under 40.
52:13
Bobby Abreu AT30I Interesting numbers.
52:17
I like Chase Hudley. Utley.
52:19
I couldn't stand playing him in the World Series, but this guy
52:21
can hit. He was a great defender.
52:23
It was one of the best timely hitters we've ever seen in the
52:26
last 20 years. That guy can hit and, and King
52:29
Felix, I, I, he was so hard to, to watch play against the
52:33
Yankees because you always kill the Yankees.
52:35
You always completely dominated the New York Yankees in, in
52:38
Seattle and at Yankee Stadium. But the guy that really sticks
52:43
out to me is Andy Pettitte and Andy Pettitte 48%.
52:46
This is this is one of the best playoff pitchers the Yankees
52:50
have ever had. One of the greatest
52:52
personalities, yes, he did HCH and he admitted to it.
52:56
He did. He did do bad things, but he
52:59
admitted to it and it came back and he was still a dominant
53:02
force. He helped so many young Yankee
53:05
pitchers like Joppa Chamberlain. He's helped a lot of people out
53:08
over the years. He goes and he helps the Yankees
53:11
at spring training. This is a great person and a
53:14
very likable person. He should be in the Hall of Fame
53:17
and he is close to 300 wins. I mean, how many guys can you
53:21
remember has as many wins and as his many wins in the playoffs is
53:25
Andy Bennett? It's this, this was fun.
53:28
It was like I text Chipper, I text Andrew.
53:33
He was obviously a teammate and you know, it's about time like
53:37
they they got there, they got their due.
53:40
Felix was always fun. It's his numbers speak for
53:44
himself. Chase.
53:45
Chase was never a fun at bat for me.
53:48
Never a fun at bat for me. He didn't do well off me, but it
53:53
was never fun because I did. He was just, he was squirrely in
53:57
the box to me, like it was just something I could never figure
54:01
out. But I always had decent success
54:03
against him. But those guys climbing and
54:07
everything. But I'll touch on Pettit and
54:10
obviously, and he was very special to me and the fact that
54:14
he taught me how to be a father and be a baseball player at the
54:19
same time. I literally have his number
54:20
tattooed on my arm because it's that somebody that means
54:24
something to me. And yes, he admitted he was like
54:27
when he said he did it one time. If there is anybody that I
54:31
believe in this world, and I've played with a lot of guy that he
54:34
said he did it one time, he did it one time.
54:38
And that's just that's just who he is.
54:40
Like he is he is salt of the earth.
54:43
He is one of the best human beings I've ever met that I've
54:45
been around with and still to this day, like birthdays always
54:51
attack, always a text me and him and he's just deserving because
54:58
you look at his numbers, look at his postseason.
55:02
The dude has a whole career in the postseason, like you could
55:07
say in the postseason, obviously mode there, but Andy Pettitte
55:11
and John Smoltz and both of the guys that I just mentioned
55:14
before are in the Hall of Fame. Andy Pettitte deserves to be in
55:18
the Hall of Fame. Yeah, Yeah, Any pen and I, we we
55:22
talked about that last year. I think it was with Jeff Nelson
55:25
or one of the other Yankees gets it.
55:26
I think it was that, yeah, somebody like that with a good
55:29
playoff track record, it still was steady enough in the regular
55:31
season. Steady.
55:32
He had over 250 wins I think. And somebody like that
55:35
definitely deserves to be in the Hall of Fame for sure.
55:37
So hopefully you get the bigger climb the next time.
55:39
King Felix, I think should be in again, peak value you're looking
55:42
at just didn't have the longevity the same way.
55:44
But he was the top three pitcher in baseball at his best.
55:47
So again, that's I think something that should be
55:49
rewarded. We'll see if these new, newer
55:50
writers and these newer voters rewarded Chase Utley.
55:52
One of my guys I couldn't stand as a Mets fan.
55:55
He. Was but speedy that's that's
55:57
that's to where like we kind of touched on with Brian Hoke and
56:01
and those guys that have now like have both yeah Internet.
56:04
I think the younger, the younger generation now is, is like
56:09
having boats where I think that climb that you saw that you
56:13
pointed out fish is perfectly accurate.
56:17
What is happening now with the voters and and and their votes
56:21
is because they actually got to see him.
56:24
Well, let's and they got to see their value.
56:25
Let's hope that Barry Bonds at some point gets in and Roger
56:30
Clemens and obviously Alex Rodriguez, who I know he has 40%
56:35
and I know he's done a lot of bad things.
56:38
And a lot of people don't like Alec, don't like don't like
56:41
Alex. But Alex was one of the greatest
56:44
baseball players of all time. He's he's going to go to the
56:47
Hall of Fame as an analyst. He's the best analyst right now
56:49
in baseball. I don't care what anybody says.
56:51
I want to hear Alex Rodriguez. I don't want to hear Derek
56:53
Jeter. I don't want to hear David
56:54
Ortiz. I don't want to hear anybody
56:56
else. I want to hear what he has to
56:57
say because the guy knows baseball.
56:59
The guy knows everything, the insurance and the outs of the
57:02
game. He studies baseball as good as
57:04
anybody. So that's the guy I want to see.
57:06
So that's my opinion. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
57:10
my deuce of the day. The deuce of the day.
57:13
You log, not a log. I don't have a log but.
57:24
Oh my deuce of the day, ladies and gentlemen, this is a doozy.
57:28
Heather McPhee, the NFLP as associate general counsel since
57:34
2009, revealed in a court filing that the union fired her at
57:40
December 30th. The dismissal came less than two
57:43
weeks after she sued the union. It's formerly former it's former
57:49
executive and director Lloyd Howell junior and two current
57:54
senior executives for allegedly conspiracy, you know, conspiracy
58:00
to keep her from corporating with cooperating with a year
58:04
long federal criminal inquiry into the union finances.
58:09
You know, it's so funny and I, I mentioned this because Fish
58:12
wanted me to, to pick something and I I had to look at
58:15
something. And this story seems to be a
58:17
story right now with the NFL and the NFL is going to get into a
58:20
lot of trouble for this. The NFL, we all know what
58:24
happened with the shooting a couple of years ago or a year
58:27
and a half ago and how the NFL and Roger Goodell handled that.
58:30
They didn't handle it very well. And now you're seeing this.
58:33
They're firing guys because of conspiracies and criminal
58:37
inquiries. And and now all of a sudden
58:39
they're firing a female and you know what they're going to do.
58:42
You know what her lawyers are going to do?
58:43
They're going to say, well, it was a sexist, you know, firing.
58:47
It was this. It was that the NF LS going to
58:49
get in a lot of trouble for this.
58:51
And it it's it to me, it's very fitting because the NFL do not
58:54
know how to control some of the executives and some of the
58:57
owners don't know how to control some of their players.
59:00
And now you're hearing this story.
59:02
I I'm sure this story is going to grow.
59:03
There's going to be legs and there's going to be something
59:05
grown that we haven't heard about this story and it's just
59:08
going to continue to grow and grow and grow.
59:10
So very interesting story. I read it in bits and pieces and
59:16
Heather McPhee is going to get herself a lot of money because
59:20
the NFL is, has, has a lot of a lot of information they're going
59:25
to have to bring out. Because when you fire 2, you
59:28
know, 2 executives and then fire her.
59:30
It's it, it sounds like they're trying to hide something.
59:34
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Right, so we have a a new guy Raiders running back.
1:00:23
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1:00:24
His name is Chris Collier. He's actually from Long Island,
1:00:26
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1:00:29
Cedarhurst. I think it is high school.
1:00:31
He's one of the Raiders backup running backs.
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1:00:35
Time to be determined is a guy that's currently in the NFL,
1:00:38
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We'll see what time eventually. Foye.
1:00:42
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We could talk about the Jaguars. He had a great season this year.
1:00:47
He was one of the best tacklers again in the NFL.
1:00:51
He's an elite player. He really is.
1:00:53
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Jaguars and his new coach what Travis Hunter, we're playing
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1:01:07
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1:01:10
how does he feel about next season and if they have a chance
1:01:13
to win a Super Bowl? So we'll get into that with
1:01:15
Foyer on Thursday. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
1:01:18
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