June 5, 2026 • 37 mins
Stu and company discuss Jalen Brunson. Friend of the show Adnan Virk joins to talk French Open and NBA Finals. Plus, Taylor explains why you shouldn't text him during a Knicks playoff game.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
At Nan Vurkin to join us.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
At about fifteen minutes, we are reeling I mean, Nix
and Spurs tonight Game two.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's such an interesting game.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's why Game two is so fascinating to me, because
you know, you have the Spurs trying to get back
into the series and you have the Knicks trying to
end the series. What is Shay Serrano saying here, Taylor,
I am told that he has a a Stugotts type
take here about Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What is the take?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
So Shae is a Spurs fan, but he's also just
a great NBA commentator too. He said, if Jalen Brunson
pulls this off, it's gonna be like a Dirk Nowitzki
level championship where the one championship is actually worth like
three championships.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Put it on the poll.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
If Jalen Brunson wins a championship this year, isn't like
winning three. I never thought that with Dirk. I know
it validated his career. He needed a title to be
considered one of the all time greats. I didn't feel
like when Dirk won that NBA championship, though he won
three titles. This is different though. This is the Mecca.
It's not Dallas. This means more.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I am willing to get Brunson three championships if he
merely wins one. But I am not willing to agree
with anybody who says Dirk on that night where he won.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
His championship is only championship that he won three. No,
not willing to do that. Yes, Mikey, So is.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
He saying that because it's the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Is he saying that because of Jalen Brunson's career arc
up till this point where he was doubted everywhere? Or
is he saying just because the West is supposed to
be so much better right now and Wemby's this alien
that's gonna dominate the NBA for the next two decades.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Why exactly is this one worth three.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So I think this one is worth three because so
they're different championships. Right, So Jalen Brunson is still on
the ascent, He is still on the upward trajectory.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Right, he has not done winning championships.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Where Dirk won his championship late in his career, everyone
kept saying Dirk needs to win a championship to kind
of validate being one of the all time greats. I
did not at any moment think to myself that Dirk
winning this was like Dirk winning three. No one cares
about the Mavericks. They care about Dirk. He validated his career.
I'll give him one and a half. But Jalen Brunson,
this is three. I mean, the Knicks have been starving
(02:44):
for this, and it's the NBA's most important organization. I
don't care about Boston, I don't care about the Lakers.
This is the NBA's number one market. It's everyone's number
one market. Every league wants the teams in New York,
whether they admit it or not, to be just good,
but championship good. And the Knicks are here. And so
for Jalen, I am fine. One equals three for Dirt
(03:06):
one equals one and a half.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
How about that.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
So I've been working on this formula one. It's just
the title.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It counts as one title already for Jalen Brunson, just
like it would for any standard person.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
The second title than.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
You is because he's six foot two and under and
the best player on the team. And we've heard Becky
Hammond say you can't win with a player that short.
The second title is because of Jalen Brunton's height. The
third title, Stu, is exactly what you mentioned. If you
win in New York, it counts for a bonus. That's
where That's where I think the three titles is coming from.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So this is weird because Mikey everyone expected Dirt to
eventually win a title, and he eventually did. I don't
think anyone ever expected Jalen Brunson to be the best
guy on a team that's going to win an NBA championship,
including Becky Hammond.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You know what I'm saying, Like it's crazy?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I agree, I mean it is, just I was curious
as to Serrano's thinking as to why exactly he's giving,
why he's comparing it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, I understand that, and I gotta be honest with you.
I love Shay.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, he's on my Mount rushmore of Spurs fans along
with Michelle Beadle, and I don't have two more for you, Okay,
I don't like to take I like it if it's
just isolated on Brunson. I don't need any sort of
comparisons to Dirk. What Brunson is doing is vastly different
than what Dirk did.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And by my formula, Derek Jeter's five titles since all five.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Were one in New York. Yeah, Derek Jeter actually has
ten titles.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
No he doesn't. He has five? Right, No, actually he
has three in my personal record book. Those teams were
too good, right place, right time, Hall of Fame and
put him on the Pirates.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Tell me howmy titles? You now?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
If he won one on the Pirates, Okay, if Derek
Jeter won one in Pittsburgh, that would count as five.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But there's no way. I'm like, you're getting carried away.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You're excited about the Nicks, you're excited about Brunson winning
three championships at once. I am not going to allow
you to use this opportunity to tell me that Derek
Jeters five World Series championships aren't doubled, and now they're ten.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'm not allowing it.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
No, Wow, Jogi Bears got twenty exactly this guy, you
get it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
This coming from the guy who says Elajah Won doesn't
have any, Durant doesn't have any, and Jordan has eight.
But those make sense. Jeter's five counting is ten, don't
make sense. Brunton's one counting is three, that makes sense,
but not Jeter's five counting is ten.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You stop sp Mikey? Why you all fired up about
the Bears moving to Indiana? What has happened to that.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
The Bears had some vote where they're now starting to
move forward with moving their stadium, their home field to Indiana,
outside of not only Chicago, but outside of the state
of Illinois. And now I'm looking at it and I'm
going Indiana College the Bears they're coming up.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Yeah, it is Indiana, the mecca of football.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Now I don't think it's Indiana College. You made it
sound like some sort of community college. It's Indiana, Indiana, Indiana, right.
I understand, no one knows Indiana right now. They just
started taking over. Uh, it's gonna be weird because Caleb
Williams took a picture from Madden for the cover with
the Chicago skyline behind them, and they have to change
(06:16):
that up now, right, It's Gota does.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Like Hendersonville or something in India.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Taylor put it on the poll. Does Indiana have a skylight?
Does Hammond, Indiana have a skylight? And is that skyline
always cloudy?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
To me, this this Bear story is just a bluff, right,
Like I won't believe the Bears will be playing football
in Indiana until I actually see that stadium being built
and the Bears play that first game in in Indiana.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, I don't think most people will believe it until
it's done. It seems like a leverage play, but I
think Mikey's saying it's getting pretty close to not being
a leverage play anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
They're almost at a time Chicago, Yes.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
That's that's really what is.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
A year ago, I would have agreed with you, But
like the more and more we keep doing this and
nobody is blinking in Chicago.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
To be like, all right, fine, we're gonna do this
and this and this, and we're gonna keep the Bears
in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It seems like they're bluffing to the point where they're
gonna actually have to go through with it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Right, Well, the Bears aren't bluffing.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The Bears are just trying to get a stadium deal,
and of course they would love it to be in Chicago,
but no one in Chicago was responding the way they
want them to respond, so therefore they have to go.
It seems like they're going to have to go to Indiana.
But again, I'm with tell her on this. I won't
believe it until I see it.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
So the be and Bear stands for bluffing and not blinking.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Right, yeah, yeah, you proud of that one.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I was just gonna let you have it.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
They have the best quarterback I think in the NFL,
or he's gonna be the best quarterback of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That guy signed up to play games in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
He did not sign to play games in Henderson or
wherever the hell it is Indiana.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Where where did Sims have him?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Caleb Williams just well, he had him crying apparently.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But I believe seventh, yes, seventh, seventh on his list
right now, that's a guy who could easily be number
one by next year. The Bears are going, why are
you saying he's overrated now the Chicago Yeah, but he
has lessened his expectations, because you would agree the Indiana
Bears they have no expectations. The Chicago Bears major expectations.
(08:32):
Perhaps this works out for Caleb Williams in some sort
of weird way.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Caleb Williams is going to be the fourth best quarterback
in the state of Indiana. It's going to be Daniel Jones,
whoever is in Bloomington and whoever is in South Bend.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Indiana is going to have two NFL teams.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
And Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yes, well how do you navigate? And Notre Dame right?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And of course the greatest of them all, Kurt Signetti
and the Indiana Indiana University.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Indiana College is what you.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Called Adana College.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You made it like ICC. Wow. What a state now,
seriously wow.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
So actually I'm looking at Simms's rankings. Caleb Williams was
not seventh.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
He was sixth.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh wow, I hosted the show with him. You would
have it was seventh.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
You would have thought Justin Herbert was seventh.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Oh, that's a terrible thing. Herbert.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I wanted, I wanted to crush him, but I can't.
I can't defend Justin Herbert.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So in Indiana, we'll have two football teams, two college
football teams, an NBA team. Indiana, Man, they're really growing
its stature in terms of sports.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
They are I mean, they are the They're the capitol
of football right now. They own football.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
That's what happens when you get the Pat McFie show,
built the whole infrastructure off.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It is that what happens.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Should move the Hall of Fame to Indiana from Canton?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
From Canton, Taylor put that on the pole.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Should the NFL move its Hall of Fame from Canton, Ohio,
where it's been forever to somewhere in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's absolutely it's absurd. I don't think. Well, it's going
to be interesting to see if this actually happens.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I do agree with Taylor. I'm not gonna believe it
until it actually happens. I'd like to think the city
of Chicago will come to some sort of resolution here
and keep the Bears in that city because that's an institution.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It's an institution. I don't know what I just tried
to say. I'm tired, man, it's been a long week.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I got to tell you, I cannot imagine that happening
because I just can't imagine the people of Chicago, whoever's
in charge over there, allowing their football team, the thing
that they love most along with the Cubs.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
To move to Indiana. I just can't see it. I
can't see it.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So anyway, Adnan Vurk is going to join us. Next,
we're gonna talk some tennis. I'm sorry, I know we're
headed into the NBA Finals game too, but I had
to talk French Open with that the next.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
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Speaker 1 (11:14):
The last time we had ad Nan Burk on, he
was desperately rooting for Djokovic to lose in the French Open.
He does not want him tacking on one more major.
He is all about Roger Federer. He hates Novak Djokovic.
So that begs the question, ad Nan, put us where
you were when Joker lost. I mean, had a wide
open path to win a French Open here and he
(11:35):
didn't get it done. So put us there when Djokovic
goes down and you realize that Federer, in your mind,
is still the greatest tennis player of all time.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Yeah, in my mind and the right opinion. Quite frankly, Stu.
It takes me back to the US Open. I was
et years ago. It is Federer versus Djokovic and jokes
beat Roger in four sets. But it was a really
compelling match and the few I was somehow stuck in
the Serbian contingent.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I'm like, wow, how did this happen?
Speaker 9 (11:58):
I'm got a literally these three loud eyes, the flags,
everything and efforts. They're shaking my hand like, you know,
like a good match thing, and I'm like, cut out
of here. I don't I don't know what you guys.
And they said to think that we love Roger, it
wasn't for no back, you know, he would be our
favorite player. And I said, of course, everyone's second favorite
player if it's is Roger Feeder, because everyone knew it's federal, right,
and they go and it kind of waited for the
return of the compliment, like you know, like and I
was like, yeah, everyone hats no back, thought care for like,
(12:20):
I hope he loses endless late.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So it's your point.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
All this vitraws and built up over the ears and
that moment when he lost in the French ship, and
like literally it's on a platterform on a platter to
win Major number twenty five, nice big round number five
over Roger Everence.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
The debate's over.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
I was like a pinata, like when you smash it open,
the candy goes flying. That was me just unbridled joy,
like I'm just watching here, just popping fish, just le
my mind. Taylor sent me a text congratulations and just
a little cryptic. I knew exactly what he was talking about,
like I'm over the moon. I'm like anything to preserve
the sanctitude of Roger and to diminish Djokovic Stu.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I'm stunned that he lost, quite honestly, was he got
to a semis.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
I'm watching, by the way, G andt's coverage right now.
Andre Agassy, fantastic Agassy comes on. He kind of busts
balls with Sam Querry and John Isner. Definitely he knows
left coast who's joking with him, and then he's just
openly thirty with Carolyn was Niak. He was like even
more beautiful in person, like we know Andre Leves the
blonde because the Stephanie Graff is almost a little uncomfortable.
But the point is, by the way, is there can't
take a joke. Andre said something like playfully and is
(13:22):
there's just rocks. I'm like, is there is still six
seven looking to serf right now he does not want
to dig any jokes or any gup from agacy. But
think about this, I'm watching an all Italian semifinal, like
this is ludicrous that this is happening. It's the first
time ever to major two Italian men hooking up in
the semis. They can't make the World Cup. This is
a soccer mad country that they they're unable to make
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the World Cup. But somehow the can an all male
semi final. Because Djokovic choked, because Sinner who is Italian choked,
Alcorazz hurt. It's one of the stupider and weirder French
opens in a while, and it clears the table for
Sasha Zverev.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
Zverev went earlier today in four sets.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
He should win.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
He's zero and three in major finals all time. The
pathway with success reserve is there. Most importantly, as you
and I know, Djokvic loses, I don't care who wins
quite frank at this point, Yes, Veris wins, the Italians win,
Hey all, good bye me.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I have to be honest here, it's an odd thing
to get a congratulatory text when Novak Djokovic loses. I mean,
you're the only one in America, anywhere in the world
getting those texts.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
It's crazy what I loved about it.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
It was without context, like some text and you knew, right, Mike,
grats you know, and your baby's christening up.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Congrats.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
I'm like, awesome, a great, wonderful moment, sad joke which
go down, and now I mean, let's just hope Alcarez
gets healthy.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
And that's alcaraz Ciner Wimbledon. That I feel much better
again if one.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
Of those two were out of the equation, that Jokerich
might get to a final, the all things can go.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But thank god he lost the friends. This was it
was wonderful, wonderful lows. It was even close.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yep, mikey a, this feels like a seventy two Dolphins situation.
He is part of hashtag team, and I feel like
they crack a bottle of champagne every time Djokovic is
in a major or the nick. It's an odd celebration,
(15:14):
but it's your celebration. Nonetheless, I can't tell you what
to celebrate, and that is celebrate it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Uh my French Open take that the French Open should
not be a major because it's unlike any other tennis
tournament in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Man, that take looks good today.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It is look good for about a week because no
one cares who wins this French Open and why because
people who normally make it to the Grand Slam semi
finals somehow just don't make it when they play on
the red clay at Roland Garris.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
It's one hundred percent accurate stat and it's one. My
argument Federer versus dadall is so easy. I'm like, just
discount the French Open and then Roger wins in a
route like Rafa has twenty two majors fourteen French Opens,
so really he's got eight majors.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That's it. Argument's over. Let's tell thank you sport team, right,
and your point is bang on.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
When I'm trying to think in other sports, imagine if
like the Chiefs are the prohibitive favorite of the football
in Super Bowl, but then when they play in a
different arena.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
They're like an indoor football league. I'm like, well then, yeah,
that proves.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
That surface is so underwhelming, like moms just throwing for
basically well, obviously it's not the coylber of the team,
it's the surroundings, it's the environment. The French Open has
never been a haven for the great players. Like as
I said before, it's wimbled in the US Open, those
are the ones. If you're big at those tournaments, people
will always love and respect you, no matter the player.
But the French Open, like, that's the joke tournament. That's
(16:35):
that's that's the ringo. Quite frankly to make the Beatles analogy, Yeah,
the French Open's ringo. You come on, you're not Paul McCartney,
you're not John Lennon, like Jege Harrison.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You're the French. You got clay. It's the only place.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
By the way, they still don't use the hawkeye technology
because what they do is they go, well, no, you
can check by the clay where the ball is, like,
but there's more than one ballmark.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Think of stupid this is in baseball.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
We have people challenging it's been an unqualified success in
the other sports it's very accurate French Jopan. We'll just
go by the ballmarkings. It's clay easier that way. What
do you say that just said you've got no names
competing and winning. That tells you all you need to know,
just to discredit the entire tournament.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
The great thing about clay as it relates to cheating
is if you just find one ballmark, you can use
that ballmark for the remainder of the match.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
You know what I'm saying, like, Hey, no, look I
got a ballmark right here. It was out. I was
the last one. No, how do you know you keep
a track of ball marks?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
As you know, d Nan, I have done sports updates.
I've done them many many times, and the tennis majors
of the most difficult time for her sports date A
sports update anchor. Dan Byer is as professional as they get.
I'm going to play some audio here. Here's Dan Byer.
He's professional, he is great. He can pronounce just about
(17:48):
every name. But here is Dan Byer, even the great
Dan Byer polers dan Byer getting caught up. Why because
he's pronouncing names that he shouldn't have to pronounce.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
Go ahead, play it and stop seed all right, Ariana Ceblenca,
arena Seblenca.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
And that's one of the easy.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
Ones that did I was, I was worried. Even one
of the harder ones. Blanca is pretty good. But there's
that moments too. You know what it's like when you're
reading it, especially with updates, quick quick, quick, right, be efficient,
get it in, get it out and you see it.
It's like an encore, you know, on on course collision
like you see it coming? How do I had on
collision avoids? Is there anyway I can say this in
other ways?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Right?
Speaker 9 (18:26):
And that's the hardest job, is the update guy, because
if you're on air, you can say, you know the
Swedish player, the Swedish defense right place, you can get
around a little bit, the big center, the Frenchman whatever.
Rather than say women Yama, you've gotta say Ariana sebelaka.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
You can't say as what do you get throwing names?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
The fact that you just give me that quickly, mumble
it and just fight for him, that's it. Dad's gonna
be so mad. Played again.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
And Women's seed all right, Ariana sebalanc assembled.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
We need to isolate that first sound that he made.
It was a roadbump. Yeh, conversation makes the wrong company sucker.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yes, How do you feel about Taylor being in New
York because he wants to be close to everything New
York Knicks even though the games at San Antonio tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Well?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I think it's a remarkable situation.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
I mean one of my dearest friends, Benji golds With
wonderful director MLB Network, diehard Knicks fan like Taylor, he said,
I got to get to a game. We were discussing
conference finals because again, as I told you guys, I
was going to take my son Shaz. I mean, the
Ticks for six hundred and fifty bucks. It's not my team,
why would I go, etcetera. But Benji different story.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
He's liked.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
No, I was going to go to a Knicks game
conference finals if it was below five hundred. Of course,
the prices were never got that low for the conference finals.
I know the NBA Finals had been ridiculous. So Benji
was smart about this. He didn't go to a conference
finals game, and he quickly said, okay, I'm on it.
Booked this fight to San Antonio, going with a couple
of buddies for the marry up points, but took the
flight without securing NBA Finals ten. I says, you're flying
(20:01):
to San Antonio, you have otell me you don't take
this in the game, and he goes, no, that's the
easy party, that's the easy part.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Whose trust me.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
Anyways, I'm watching the game, obviously a thrilling game, wonderful
for the Knicks. I'm happy they won. And I see
as shot up Mike Breen saying, oh the Knicks fans dropping.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I go, oh, my gos' benchy.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Behind the Knicks bench.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I text him, I said, how much?
Speaker 9 (20:21):
He goes, twelve hundred bucks, absolute steal at the garden.
These are twelve thousand, maybe one hundred and twenty thousand.
And then on the outrope Charles bark and they show
shot those fans again.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Brock.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
He goes, look at these cockroaches. Look at these cockroaches
coming all the way from New York. I'm like, betchy again, unbelievable. Well,
one hundred behind the Knicks bench, Taylor, that's the play.
You should be in San Antonio, not being New York.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
And so I land in JFK. My Uber picks me up.
He turns to me, and he says crime has hit
historic lows. Fewest murder shootings in the first five months
of a year ever.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, I go.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Nobody wants the risk getting locked up for a k next.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Title, no doubt, and it unifies us. Everyone's happy for
a change. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yes, right, remember that.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
The great Listen as always stus on top of the
table for one conversation we had months ago Judge versus
bruns and I said, Listen, Brunson is the great unifier.
He brings the entire eight point eight million pop places together.
Judges out four to six. Now, Taylor, your boy, I
mean Yankees are in trouble now, thank god it's not
season ending. They could they could have been thoracic. He's
done for the year at least to be back at
some point. But right now the fans we focused so
(21:25):
much on the Knicks, they don't really care about the
Yankees for the month.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Go ahead, Yeah, And and they said they're reevaluating him
in four to six weeks.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
He's gonna rest. What would have the outlook, ben if
it was the the ratic out diagnosis.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
That that's almost as good as the update. Prenciation There
were so many tough words.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
There at I mean, I almost want to give you
a try to ask it again. I mean, just to
see if he could do worse.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
He avoided a theoretic outlet diagnosis.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
I thought he was gonna say, thoracic park.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Got you gotta go Tod there.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
I mean, exactly if you don't do it to be fantastic,
everyone knows what that means.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
We got that more serious injury.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, I mean, the four to.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
Six is absolutely a blessing because again, as you know,
he's not coming back in four to six. It just
means reevaluated. So just rest, recovery, just hang out. Okay, great,
So let's fast forward to July nineteenth. They'll go, okay,
give another two more weeks.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
He should be good.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
So let's say he plays August first. That to me
is a massive win a couple months. Listen, the American
League is awful. The Yankees and the Race are both excellent.
Cleveland should win the Central and the Mariners ripped off
atrit wins, they're gonna win the West.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
After that, there's no good teams. There's four good teams.
That's it. So the Yankees are one of those four
Ben Rice, as you know, is leading the ops.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
He's an MVP candidate, so thank god he'll be okay
and Judge will be back.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
At that point, again, there's still a worst case scenario.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
The worst case would be the thorascic outlet and then
all of a sudden he's done for the year. But
what if in four to six it has improved, right,
the fracture of the rib injury, which I don't know
how it wouldn't improve four to six. You doing nothing,
it's gonna get better, But that would still be the Conservatives.
All right, Sorry, Judge, wait another month to wait another
six weeks. Another four weeks would not be good. That's
like the old joke from Goodfellas. Yeah, yes, give four
to six weeks to heal. It couldn't pay his bill.
(23:06):
Give another four to six weeks. So for Judge it
could be four to sixty's okay. If you're not okay,
another four to six hopefully they'll be okay. But yeah,
would have been absolutely catastrophic. Look at the Yankees record
with it without Judge it is it's no bueno. Even
his numbers this season. You only hit two forty eight
nine oh seven ops. I mean by Judge's numbers, those
are low.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
H Taylor, You're gonna be okay if the Yankees don't
have the success you want him to have as long
as the Knicks win an NBA title, or you get
to be so spoiled, like if the Knicks win the title,
you should be okay for a couple of years on
all your teams, right, No, not all my the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
He go into every season it's World Series or bust mentality. Yeah,
and that's exactly what Brian Cashman wants at man. He
wants the Knicks to win, and he wants some attention
to go elsewhere. I'm looking at Brian Cashman right now
and looking at him being like, you better address this
bullpen at the deadline, buddy, because this bullpen sticks.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
He's got his eyes on the necks and oh, he's
has an eye on Cashman.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Yes, I like, I mean that that is the right approach,
because you're right, a lot of fans will go, hey,
nixt one, let's just enjoy the Knicks. It's been fifty
three years, not Taylor. Taylor will enjoy for twenty four hours' parade.
He's right on broadcast. Seriously, let's help out David Bendner
a little bit in the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
How much would you love Taylor to be on the street,
right around the garden, just playing one table with Nick
fans as they're walking by on live radio would be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It's why I sent him, and he's not gonna do
what I feel.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
I mean, I mean, listen, I listened to the pocket
so that you guys are great. Three more wins for
the for the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Stu.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
You talk of the fact that you thought, once Bunson's injury,
that's it. Seriously, you and among every other New York
are thinking that's it. The series is over if it
happens to him, and I'm still like an Vince, He's
a hundred percent right the knee buck a little bit.
How about what Taylor's we actually wins? He goes, what'd
you think of the dagger?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
He's what do you mean?
Speaker 10 (24:45):
He's like, well, that that brunts and shot Like, I
don't know, it's all a blur.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
I thought you watched it five times saying it's the
shot that went a minute left swish six ozer running, Yeah, yeah, Tailor,
Taylor's just gonna blake out if if the Knicks win,
he's gonna like forget the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
He's just too emotionally invested right now. Yes, the problem man,
And there.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Was too many plays that Jalen Brunts and.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Mete at the end of that game, right, so many
you can't remember them all right, Yes, I love that
where he missed it and then bad the offensive Rabound
got the shot back hit the three.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
To me, that was like Brunton at his best.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It was great. We are guaranteed a lathered up New
York City. Just listen.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Even if they lose tonight, it's gonna be one to
one and the pressure is gonna be on both teams.
But god forbid the Knicks come back to oh in
the NBA Finals. That place is going to be a madhouse.
Great points to so price the tickets again.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
Before the NBA Finals, the cheapest I saw was three
thousand dollars just to get in that. It was around
four thousand aut of times of Game one. After the
Game one win. It's now surge to eight thousand dollars
cheapest ticket Game three in Game four, and if they
win tonight, you're right, Game four is going to be
over ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Just to get in the building with a potential sweep.
And this is why my plan is.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
On Wednesday, I'm going to go to the city the
great Scott Rogowski, my old friend now lives in LA
but he's back in New York.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Wow. I said, do you want to do a Knicks
watch party. He's like, let's do it. So I don't.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
I don't forget to be at the Knicks watch party
that's at MSG, but I want to see it.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I want to.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
I want to see the drunkenness. I want to see
the debauchery. I want to smell the weed smoke. I
want to see Knicks fans losing their minds, especially for
even if it's two one, it'll be great seeing fans
losing their minds. Don't have pivotal that game is going
to be so I will get a little bit of
that New York atmosphere. Taylor, You're welcome to join me
next Wednesday, game four if you want to join us.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Specially, I feel like I'm not that pleasant to watch
a game with that man. I get way too stressed out.
I kind of just have to isolate by myself.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
That's a fair point.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
I thought you were going to see you're very superstitious
and say, well, I watched Game one at home, so
I have to watch the rest of the games at home.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I thought you might go that route, but I get it.
I totally understand. You want to be in your environment.
It's all good.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
It's kind of like Mikey when he's watching the Bananas. Yeah,
he likes to watch the Savanna Bananas with families locked in.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I wrote something down, I circled it. I'm just going
back to the start of this conversation. What was Agasy doing,
like overt flirting with Caroline Wose in the ACU, Like,
can you explain that? Because Stevie Graft's going to be pizzed.
That's a dangerous game, man.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
So imagine if you know, I'm hosting a show on
MLB Networking Amy and I brought ste on, So it's okay,
guys here he is my dear friend John Wiener. He
knows by Steve got And then you come on and
rather than just going right to your stuff, you make
it a point to being clearybody else You're like, hey,
I just want to send Albert Pools. You know I'm alivable,
Come my god, dude, Like I grew up watching you
your your your legend. Hey, Harold Reynolds, geez being Mariner's back,
(27:16):
Nati is so great.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
And then you turn to Jessica Mendozego and I gotta say, Jessica,
you look even better in person.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
That was the equivalent. I wash. So that's what I did.
Speaker 9 (27:27):
He goes, John, you know what, I respect you, that
great serviyor you're the man made a joke and Isnor
did not crack a smile, something like, hey, maybe lower
the cherry a little bit tall. These they're just stone
face and agacy. Then's some stam query leftco he busted
his balls again. You're not really gonna jugging on that.
And he goes, Carolyn, I gotta tell you, look at
you in person. You're even more beautiful in person than
you were on the court.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Okay, yeah, So if you're Stephie Graft, are you upset
when he gets home like what's going on there?
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Yes, like he's gonna said at least give it like
a hey, you know, my buddies were saying, Caroline, how
pretty you are? And I got to say, you do
look great? Right, You're blame the buddies. You soft for
the bit you stare right in your eyes direct floor
means him, David Leaf. They're trying to watch the next
one a championship. Say hey, it's Audrey Ax with my
wife over here.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Come on, Caroline, I gotta tell you. I'm getting text
after text after tax from my friends and they say,
you look fantastic.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Thank you. Yes, yes, that's how you state you go.
I got to verify it's totally true something like that.
That's it easy. Yes, Yeah, Audrey's going to make a
move here. Is I still got some game left? Yes,
it seems like a gas is gonna have to go
to some workout classes with Stepfie. I mean the way
it does with his wife to make her happy. I
gotta be honest.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
I've I finally pushed back on the zoom, but it
was just too emasculating and tech. Yes, I said, like,
what are we doing there? Like unless this is significant
improving my sex left? But I did too soon, and
that's it. I'll do the weights in a class like
I think, twice a week.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Is it good?
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Hey, I'm making it that for to spend time with
my spouse. But the Zoomer was awful in retrospect. I
still can't but I did that.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It was bad. All right. We love you, buddy. We'll
talk to you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Thank you, enjoy the weekend. Don't enjoy the Friend Well
you're you're enjoying the Friend show. But because joke of that,
it's a celebration. It's a weekend. It's worth of celebration
for Roger Feeder, who retired five years ago.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
I just love you because, aside from mad Dog Russ,
there's no other media outlet North America doing as much
fronts jumping conversation.
Speaker 10 (29:16):
I think it's gonna be Nix, Aaron Judge, but a
little high.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
We led with it with the French j Open. We
end with tennis.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yes, I love tennis, I mean, and I love you.
Get out of here, have a great weekend. We'll talk
to you soon, buddy.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Thanks boys, Nixon four and if they lose, it's Taylor's fault.
I told you.
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Speaker 1 (30:04):
All right, thanks to ad Nan Burg for joining us.
Mikey A has a question for Taylor. I also need
to get to a beef with Nick Fans and Elmo,
and plus we have the poll questions to wrap up
the week. Mikeya, what is your question here for Taylor's
We head into a big game too, Nixon Spurs NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I want the Knicks to put it away tonight, but
go ahead, mikey A.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
So, Taylor, we were listening to ad Nan and Stu
Gott's talk about how they don't like to be on
texts group checks during games and stuff, and I'm wondering
with you being the way you are during Knicks games,
do you want anybody texting you?
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Or are you just like leave me alone even not
being in the same room.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
So if you're just a casual fan, I don't want
you texting and popping in and checking in with your
ill and formed takes. If you're like a diehard Nick
fan and one of my close friends, I don't mind
texting you during the game.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Okay, So no one can really text you unless they're
a diehard Just so we're understanding this qu quickly, right,
unless you see them at your level of Nick fandom,
they're not allowed to text you.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Is that the deal?
Speaker 8 (31:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Like, I don't need somebody texting me like, oh no,
Jalen Brunston rolled his ankle, Like yeah, I'm watching the game.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
I could see that. Jalen Brunston rolled his ankle.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Thanks, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Yeah, give me the Mendoza line.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Give me the person that's like this is this is
his best a Nick fan that can't text me?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I think it's me? I do? I think it's me.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I have a feeling that it's me because he views
himself as a bigger Nick fan than I am, even
though I've been rooting for this team for forty five years.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah, you took a convenient like ten to fifteen years
off where you started rooting for Mario Chalmers and those boys.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, when Carolina has down years, I mean, are you
rooting the same way as you are when they're having
great years?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Seriously, who does that? No one does. Well.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I haven't had kids yet, so my level of fandom
hasn't really shipped off.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Sure, are you blaming it on the gime? Is that
what you're doing there?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (32:01):
It seems like everybody's point of like when their fandom
really takes a dip. It's either like your team wins
a title and you stop caring less, or that you
have kids and you start caring less.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
For me, it was kids. Priorities change.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
It's not about not loving sports as much as I
used to, which just my priorities have shifted where sports
is no longer the most important thing in my life.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
They used to be Now it's my children. I apologize,
I guess.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I mean, so, is it Nicks or is this like
every team? So like Yankees are in the World Series,
you want people texting you or it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
For the most part, I, like I said with Adnan,
I isolate during the game. Ideally my phone is off
to the side and it's like on do not disturb
and I'm not even thinking about my phone. Like during timeouts,
I'll go to Twitter and just check to see what
people are talking about. But in terms of communicating with people,
I already really don't like communicating with people, So during
(32:57):
a game that I care about, I want to communicate
even less.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Epjason is familiar with your work. Epjason, come to the microphone, please.
Has Taylor been ignoring your text during Knicks games? I mean,
what's going on here?
Speaker 6 (33:08):
You know we have a show group text, right, and
I sent some A plus material the other night in
the middle of the first quarter, and just for the listeners.
Because it's A plus material, I feel compelled to read it.
This is what I wrote to you, guys. I wonder
what David Stern would say if he was told that
the New York Knicks would be playing in their first
NBA Finals in twenty seven years and they'd be wearing
(33:30):
their traditional home whites and their starting center would be
wearing lime green and fluorescent yellow sneakers. I mean, that's
hilarious material ignored by the room. I'm wondering for Taylor.
Is this the problem that I violate the rule of
texting you during the game.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
You sure did listen.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
I'm going to battle. I'm going to war right now.
I can't be thinking about what David Stern would be thinking.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And also, Jason, I hate to tell you, you're not
at his level. Do you understand what he's saying. He
doesn't view you as a Nick fan. He doesn't want
to hear from you. I mean, he likes you and
he respects you, but he doesn't want to hear from
you during a Knicks game.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
That's all. That's fair. That's fair, Okay, okay, And just
so you know, same with me, that same with Mikeya.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
And really is he knows the most basketball of all
of us and he doesn't want to hear from him.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I'm not even certain if Charles Oakley texted him, he responds,
I mean he's not on Taylor's level. What is going on?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Nick fans are very sensitive right now and they'll look
for anyone to argue with. By the way, what do
you guys make of Colin Cowhort saying you open the
show that I saying the Knicks lovable team.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Gotta love this team.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I don't want to hear from him. I don't want
to hear from these people, seriously, who have made fun
of the Knicks and their fan base for a couple
of decades. Now and now, because we have this lovable
team that is somehow scrappy underdogs on the verge of
winning an NBA championship, I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Want to hear how lovable they are.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
You hated them for two decades, You made fun of
me and Nick fans for two decades. You cannot jump
on the bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Not now. I am sorry. Not now.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Don't want to hear from Colin, and I certainly don't
want to hear from anyone else who wasn't a Nick
fan who made fun of Nick Van's for the last
two decades.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Go ahead, Taylor, Yeah, I have sound clips of Colin
Coward that will get for Monday, of him at the
start of the playoffs saying that Jalen Brunson isn't a
superstar that could take a team to a title, which
is kind of weird.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
We're three games away from said title.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yes, well, in his defense, you closed your eyes once
and said you couldn't see Karl Anthony Towns winning the
championship with the Knicks. To you right, because you're on
the level. Yes, you are the level and a lot
has got quickly before the polls. What is going on
with Nick fans and Elmo?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
So Elmo tweeted out before Game one. Elmo hopes both
teams have fun and New Yorkers are enraged because Elmo
Sesame Street is in New York. Elmo, show some loyalty
to your city one time and just tweet out.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Let's go, Nick, we're looking for anyone. If it's not
Colin and it's Almo.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Somebody's gonna throw Oscar to Grouch through his front window
or something.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
We are so sensitive, ads to God seven nine the
odd ex. Let's wrap up the week the way we
always do with the poll results. Taylor, go ahead, take
it away.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I'll look at that. I was saying with music Man.
Speaker 8 (36:19):
Do the Rams lead the league in going all in?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yes? I mean yes, I tut it.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
They're all in.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I mean no, one's more all in every.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Year than the Ram overwhelming ninety seven percent. What sounds
better coach fired or coach sacked?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Coach sack, no question about it. Yeah, it's a soccer
term right where they sacked the coach. Yes, I like
sack better, Mikey, you like sack better?
Speaker 7 (36:45):
Yeah, I think it's an English term, not a soccer term.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Okay, sorry, same thing.
Speaker 8 (36:51):
Seventy two percent of the audience said sacked sounds better.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
All right.
Speaker 8 (36:56):
Should the World Cup have to wait to start until
the next season is over?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yep, it should. We've been waiting for this for a
long time. I don't like this, no rest between games,
shortened scheduled. Nope, let's take our time and enjoy this.
What are we gonna rush for to see no goals
go ahead?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Sixty four percent of the audience said yes, it should wait.
It's a good audience statue of liberty. What a weird gift.
I forgot about that, Michelle Beatle. Seventy five percent of
the audience said yes, yep. Final poll this week was
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the Was that the greatest three point game in NBA history?
Speaker 8 (37:36):
By Josh Harten?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
It was yeah, no doubt. Yes.
Speaker 8 (37:40):
Sixty one percent of the audience said yes. Those are
the polls.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
All right, those are the balls. Have a great weekend, everyone,
go NIXT
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
At about fifteen minutes, we are reeling I mean, Nix
and Spurs tonight Game two.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's such an interesting game.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's why Game two is so fascinating to me, because
you know, you have the Spurs trying to get back
into the series and you have the Knicks trying to
end the series. What is Shay Serrano saying here, Taylor,
I am told that he has a a Stugotts type
take here about Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What is the take?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
So Shae is a Spurs fan, but he's also just
a great NBA commentator too. He said, if Jalen Brunson
pulls this off, it's gonna be like a Dirk Nowitzki
level championship where the one championship is actually worth like
three championships.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Put it on the poll.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
If Jalen Brunson wins a championship this year, isn't like
winning three. I never thought that with Dirk. I know
it validated his career. He needed a title to be
considered one of the all time greats. I didn't feel
like when Dirk won that NBA championship, though he won
three titles. This is different though. This is the Mecca.
It's not Dallas. This means more.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I am willing to get Brunson three championships if he
merely wins one. But I am not willing to agree
with anybody who says Dirk on that night where he won.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
His championship is only championship that he won three. No,
not willing to do that. Yes, Mikey, So is.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
He saying that because it's the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Is he saying that because of Jalen Brunson's career arc
up till this point where he was doubted everywhere? Or
is he saying just because the West is supposed to
be so much better right now and Wemby's this alien
that's gonna dominate the NBA for the next two decades.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Why exactly is this one worth three.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So I think this one is worth three because so
they're different championships. Right, So Jalen Brunson is still on
the ascent, He is still on the upward trajectory.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Right, he has not done winning championships.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Where Dirk won his championship late in his career, everyone
kept saying Dirk needs to win a championship to kind
of validate being one of the all time greats. I
did not at any moment think to myself that Dirk
winning this was like Dirk winning three. No one cares
about the Mavericks. They care about Dirk. He validated his career.
I'll give him one and a half. But Jalen Brunson,
this is three. I mean, the Knicks have been starving
(02:44):
for this, and it's the NBA's most important organization. I
don't care about Boston, I don't care about the Lakers.
This is the NBA's number one market. It's everyone's number
one market. Every league wants the teams in New York,
whether they admit it or not, to be just good,
but championship good. And the Knicks are here. And so
for Jalen, I am fine. One equals three for Dirt
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one equals one and a half.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
How about that.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
So I've been working on this formula one. It's just
the title.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It counts as one title already for Jalen Brunson, just
like it would for any standard person.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
The second title than.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
You is because he's six foot two and under and
the best player on the team. And we've heard Becky
Hammond say you can't win with a player that short.
The second title is because of Jalen Brunton's height. The
third title, Stu, is exactly what you mentioned. If you
win in New York, it counts for a bonus. That's
where That's where I think the three titles is coming from.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So this is weird because Mikey everyone expected Dirt to
eventually win a title, and he eventually did. I don't
think anyone ever expected Jalen Brunson to be the best
guy on a team that's going to win an NBA championship,
including Becky Hammond.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You know what I'm saying, Like it's crazy?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I agree, I mean it is, just I was curious
as to Serrano's thinking as to why exactly he's giving,
why he's comparing it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, I understand that, and I gotta be honest with you.
I love Shay.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, he's on my Mount rushmore of Spurs fans along
with Michelle Beadle, and I don't have two more for you, Okay,
I don't like to take I like it if it's
just isolated on Brunson. I don't need any sort of
comparisons to Dirk. What Brunson is doing is vastly different
than what Dirk did.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And by my formula, Derek Jeter's five titles since all five.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Were one in New York. Yeah, Derek Jeter actually has
ten titles.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
No he doesn't. He has five? Right, No, actually he
has three in my personal record book. Those teams were
too good, right place, right time, Hall of Fame and
put him on the Pirates.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Tell me howmy titles? You now?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
If he won one on the Pirates, Okay, if Derek
Jeter won one in Pittsburgh, that would count as five.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But there's no way. I'm like, you're getting carried away.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You're excited about the Nicks, you're excited about Brunson winning
three championships at once. I am not going to allow
you to use this opportunity to tell me that Derek
Jeters five World Series championships aren't doubled, and now they're ten.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'm not allowing it.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
No, Wow, Jogi Bears got twenty exactly this guy, you
get it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
This coming from the guy who says Elajah Won doesn't
have any, Durant doesn't have any, and Jordan has eight.
But those make sense. Jeter's five counting is ten, don't
make sense. Brunton's one counting is three, that makes sense,
but not Jeter's five counting is ten.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You stop sp Mikey? Why you all fired up about
the Bears moving to Indiana? What has happened to that.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
The Bears had some vote where they're now starting to
move forward with moving their stadium, their home field to Indiana,
outside of not only Chicago, but outside of the state
of Illinois. And now I'm looking at it and I'm
going Indiana College the Bears they're coming up.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Yeah, it is Indiana, the mecca of football.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Now I don't think it's Indiana College. You made it
sound like some sort of community college. It's Indiana, Indiana, Indiana, right.
I understand, no one knows Indiana right now. They just
started taking over. Uh, it's gonna be weird because Caleb
Williams took a picture from Madden for the cover with
the Chicago skyline behind them, and they have to change
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that up now, right, It's Gota does.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Like Hendersonville or something in India.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Taylor put it on the poll. Does Indiana have a skylight?
Does Hammond, Indiana have a skylight? And is that skyline
always cloudy?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
To me, this this Bear story is just a bluff, right,
Like I won't believe the Bears will be playing football
in Indiana until I actually see that stadium being built
and the Bears play that first game in in Indiana.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, I don't think most people will believe it until
it's done. It seems like a leverage play, but I
think Mikey's saying it's getting pretty close to not being
a leverage play anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
They're almost at a time Chicago, Yes.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
That's that's really what is.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
A year ago, I would have agreed with you, But
like the more and more we keep doing this and
nobody is blinking in Chicago.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
To be like, all right, fine, we're gonna do this
and this and this, and we're gonna keep the Bears
in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It seems like they're bluffing to the point where they're
gonna actually have to go through with it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Right, Well, the Bears aren't bluffing.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The Bears are just trying to get a stadium deal,
and of course they would love it to be in Chicago,
but no one in Chicago was responding the way they
want them to respond, so therefore they have to go.
It seems like they're going to have to go to Indiana.
But again, I'm with tell her on this. I won't
believe it until I see it.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
So the be and Bear stands for bluffing and not blinking.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Right, yeah, yeah, you proud of that one.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I was just gonna let you have it.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
They have the best quarterback I think in the NFL,
or he's gonna be the best quarterback of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That guy signed up to play games in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
He did not sign to play games in Henderson or
wherever the hell it is Indiana.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Where where did Sims have him?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Caleb Williams just well, he had him crying apparently.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But I believe seventh, yes, seventh, seventh on his list
right now, that's a guy who could easily be number
one by next year. The Bears are going, why are
you saying he's overrated now the Chicago Yeah, but he
has lessened his expectations, because you would agree the Indiana
Bears they have no expectations. The Chicago Bears major expectations.
(08:32):
Perhaps this works out for Caleb Williams in some sort
of weird way.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Caleb Williams is going to be the fourth best quarterback
in the state of Indiana. It's going to be Daniel Jones,
whoever is in Bloomington and whoever is in South Bend.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Indiana is going to have two NFL teams.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
And Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yes, well how do you navigate? And Notre Dame right?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And of course the greatest of them all, Kurt Signetti
and the Indiana Indiana University.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Indiana College is what you.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Called Adana College.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You made it like ICC. Wow. What a state now,
seriously wow.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
So actually I'm looking at Simms's rankings. Caleb Williams was
not seventh.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
He was sixth.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh wow, I hosted the show with him. You would
have it was seventh.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
You would have thought Justin Herbert was seventh.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Oh, that's a terrible thing. Herbert.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I wanted, I wanted to crush him, but I can't.
I can't defend Justin Herbert.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So in Indiana, we'll have two football teams, two college
football teams, an NBA team. Indiana, Man, they're really growing
its stature in terms of sports.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
They are I mean, they are the They're the capitol
of football right now. They own football.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
That's what happens when you get the Pat McFie show,
built the whole infrastructure off.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It is that what happens.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Should move the Hall of Fame to Indiana from Canton?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
From Canton, Taylor put that on the pole.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Should the NFL move its Hall of Fame from Canton, Ohio,
where it's been forever to somewhere in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's absolutely it's absurd. I don't think. Well, it's going
to be interesting to see if this actually happens.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I do agree with Taylor. I'm not gonna believe it
until it actually happens. I'd like to think the city
of Chicago will come to some sort of resolution here
and keep the Bears in that city because that's an institution.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It's an institution. I don't know what I just tried
to say. I'm tired, man, it's been a long week.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I got to tell you, I cannot imagine that happening
because I just can't imagine the people of Chicago, whoever's
in charge over there, allowing their football team, the thing
that they love most along with the Cubs.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
To move to Indiana. I just can't see it. I
can't see it.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So anyway, Adnan Vurk is going to join us. Next,
we're gonna talk some tennis. I'm sorry, I know we're
headed into the NBA Finals game too, but I had
to talk French Open with that the next.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
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Speaker 1 (11:14):
The last time we had ad Nan Burk on, he
was desperately rooting for Djokovic to lose in the French Open.
He does not want him tacking on one more major.
He is all about Roger Federer. He hates Novak Djokovic.
So that begs the question, ad Nan, put us where
you were when Joker lost. I mean, had a wide
open path to win a French Open here and he
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didn't get it done. So put us there when Djokovic
goes down and you realize that Federer, in your mind,
is still the greatest tennis player of all time.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Yeah, in my mind and the right opinion. Quite frankly, Stu.
It takes me back to the US Open. I was
et years ago. It is Federer versus Djokovic and jokes
beat Roger in four sets. But it was a really
compelling match and the few I was somehow stuck in
the Serbian contingent.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I'm like, wow, how did this happen?
Speaker 9 (11:58):
I'm got a literally these three loud eyes, the flags,
everything and efforts. They're shaking my hand like, you know,
like a good match thing, and I'm like, cut out
of here. I don't I don't know what you guys.
And they said to think that we love Roger, it
wasn't for no back, you know, he would be our
favorite player. And I said, of course, everyone's second favorite
player if it's is Roger Feeder, because everyone knew it's federal, right,
and they go and it kind of waited for the
return of the compliment, like you know, like and I
was like, yeah, everyone hats no back, thought care for like,
(12:20):
I hope he loses endless late.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So it's your point.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
All this vitraws and built up over the ears and
that moment when he lost in the French ship, and
like literally it's on a platterform on a platter to
win Major number twenty five, nice big round number five
over Roger Everence.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
The debate's over.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
I was like a pinata, like when you smash it open,
the candy goes flying. That was me just unbridled joy,
like I'm just watching here, just popping fish, just le
my mind. Taylor sent me a text congratulations and just
a little cryptic. I knew exactly what he was talking about,
like I'm over the moon. I'm like anything to preserve
the sanctitude of Roger and to diminish Djokovic Stu.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I'm stunned that he lost, quite honestly, was he got
to a semis.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
I'm watching, by the way, G andt's coverage right now.
Andre Agassy, fantastic Agassy comes on. He kind of busts
balls with Sam Querry and John Isner. Definitely he knows
left coast who's joking with him, and then he's just
openly thirty with Carolyn was Niak. He was like even
more beautiful in person, like we know Andre Leves the
blonde because the Stephanie Graff is almost a little uncomfortable.
But the point is, by the way, is there can't
take a joke. Andre said something like playfully and is
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there's just rocks. I'm like, is there is still six
seven looking to serf right now he does not want
to dig any jokes or any gup from agacy. But
think about this, I'm watching an all Italian semifinal, like
this is ludicrous that this is happening. It's the first
time ever to major two Italian men hooking up in
the semis. They can't make the World Cup. This is
a soccer mad country that they they're unable to make
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the World Cup. But somehow the can an all male
semi final. Because Djokovic choked, because Sinner who is Italian choked,
Alcorazz hurt. It's one of the stupider and weirder French
opens in a while, and it clears the table for
Sasha Zverev.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
Zverev went earlier today in four sets.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
He should win.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
He's zero and three in major finals all time. The
pathway with success reserve is there. Most importantly, as you
and I know, Djokvic loses, I don't care who wins
quite frank at this point, Yes, Veris wins, the Italians win,
Hey all, good bye me.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I have to be honest here, it's an odd thing
to get a congratulatory text when Novak Djokovic loses. I mean,
you're the only one in America, anywhere in the world
getting those texts.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
It's crazy what I loved about it.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
It was without context, like some text and you knew, right, Mike,
grats you know, and your baby's christening up.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Congrats.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
I'm like, awesome, a great, wonderful moment, sad joke which
go down, and now I mean, let's just hope Alcarez
gets healthy.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
And that's alcaraz Ciner Wimbledon. That I feel much better
again if one.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
Of those two were out of the equation, that Jokerich
might get to a final, the all things can go.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But thank god he lost the friends. This was it
was wonderful, wonderful lows. It was even close.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yep, mikey a, this feels like a seventy two Dolphins situation.
He is part of hashtag team, and I feel like
they crack a bottle of champagne every time Djokovic is
in a major or the nick. It's an odd celebration,
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but it's your celebration. Nonetheless, I can't tell you what
to celebrate, and that is celebrate it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Uh my French Open take that the French Open should
not be a major because it's unlike any other tennis
tournament in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Man, that take looks good today.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It is look good for about a week because no
one cares who wins this French Open and why because
people who normally make it to the Grand Slam semi
finals somehow just don't make it when they play on
the red clay at Roland Garris.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
It's one hundred percent accurate stat and it's one. My
argument Federer versus dadall is so easy. I'm like, just
discount the French Open and then Roger wins in a
route like Rafa has twenty two majors fourteen French Opens,
so really he's got eight majors.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That's it. Argument's over. Let's tell thank you sport team, right,
and your point is bang on.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
When I'm trying to think in other sports, imagine if
like the Chiefs are the prohibitive favorite of the football
in Super Bowl, but then when they play in a
different arena.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
They're like an indoor football league. I'm like, well then, yeah,
that proves.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
That surface is so underwhelming, like moms just throwing for
basically well, obviously it's not the coylber of the team,
it's the surroundings, it's the environment. The French Open has
never been a haven for the great players. Like as
I said before, it's wimbled in the US Open, those
are the ones. If you're big at those tournaments, people
will always love and respect you, no matter the player.
But the French Open, like, that's the joke tournament. That's
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that's that's the ringo. Quite frankly to make the Beatles analogy, Yeah,
the French Open's ringo. You come on, you're not Paul McCartney,
you're not John Lennon, like Jege Harrison.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You're the French. You got clay. It's the only place.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
By the way, they still don't use the hawkeye technology
because what they do is they go, well, no, you
can check by the clay where the ball is, like,
but there's more than one ballmark.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Think of stupid this is in baseball.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
We have people challenging it's been an unqualified success in
the other sports it's very accurate French Jopan. We'll just
go by the ballmarkings. It's clay easier that way. What
do you say that just said you've got no names
competing and winning. That tells you all you need to know,
just to discredit the entire tournament.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
The great thing about clay as it relates to cheating
is if you just find one ballmark, you can use
that ballmark for the remainder of the match.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
You know what I'm saying, like, Hey, no, look I
got a ballmark right here. It was out. I was
the last one. No, how do you know you keep
a track of ball marks?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
As you know, d Nan, I have done sports updates.
I've done them many many times, and the tennis majors
of the most difficult time for her sports date A
sports update anchor. Dan Byer is as professional as they get.
I'm going to play some audio here. Here's Dan Byer.
He's professional, he is great. He can pronounce just about
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every name. But here is Dan Byer, even the great
Dan Byer polers dan Byer getting caught up. Why because
he's pronouncing names that he shouldn't have to pronounce.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
Go ahead, play it and stop seed all right, Ariana Ceblenca,
arena Seblenca.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
And that's one of the easy.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
Ones that did I was, I was worried. Even one
of the harder ones. Blanca is pretty good. But there's
that moments too. You know what it's like when you're
reading it, especially with updates, quick quick, quick, right, be efficient,
get it in, get it out and you see it.
It's like an encore, you know, on on course collision
like you see it coming? How do I had on
collision avoids? Is there anyway I can say this in
other ways?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Right?
Speaker 9 (18:26):
And that's the hardest job, is the update guy, because
if you're on air, you can say, you know the
Swedish player, the Swedish defense right place, you can get
around a little bit, the big center, the Frenchman whatever.
Rather than say women Yama, you've gotta say Ariana sebelaka.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
You can't say as what do you get throwing names?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
The fact that you just give me that quickly, mumble
it and just fight for him, that's it. Dad's gonna
be so mad. Played again.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
And Women's seed all right, Ariana sebalanc assembled.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
We need to isolate that first sound that he made.
It was a roadbump. Yeh, conversation makes the wrong company sucker.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yes, How do you feel about Taylor being in New
York because he wants to be close to everything New
York Knicks even though the games at San Antonio tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Well?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I think it's a remarkable situation.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
I mean one of my dearest friends, Benji golds With
wonderful director MLB Network, diehard Knicks fan like Taylor, he said,
I got to get to a game. We were discussing
conference finals because again, as I told you guys, I
was going to take my son Shaz. I mean, the
Ticks for six hundred and fifty bucks. It's not my team,
why would I go, etcetera. But Benji different story.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
He's liked.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
No, I was going to go to a Knicks game
conference finals if it was below five hundred. Of course,
the prices were never got that low for the conference finals.
I know the NBA Finals had been ridiculous. So Benji
was smart about this. He didn't go to a conference
finals game, and he quickly said, okay, I'm on it.
Booked this fight to San Antonio, going with a couple
of buddies for the marry up points, but took the
flight without securing NBA Finals ten. I says, you're flying
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to San Antonio, you have otell me you don't take
this in the game, and he goes, no, that's the
easy party, that's the easy part.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Whose trust me.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
Anyways, I'm watching the game, obviously a thrilling game, wonderful
for the Knicks. I'm happy they won. And I see
as shot up Mike Breen saying, oh the Knicks fans dropping.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I go, oh, my gos' benchy.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Behind the Knicks bench.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I text him, I said, how much?
Speaker 9 (20:21):
He goes, twelve hundred bucks, absolute steal at the garden.
These are twelve thousand, maybe one hundred and twenty thousand.
And then on the outrope Charles bark and they show
shot those fans again.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Brock.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
He goes, look at these cockroaches. Look at these cockroaches
coming all the way from New York. I'm like, betchy again, unbelievable. Well,
one hundred behind the Knicks bench, Taylor, that's the play.
You should be in San Antonio, not being New York.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
And so I land in JFK. My Uber picks me up.
He turns to me, and he says crime has hit
historic lows. Fewest murder shootings in the first five months
of a year ever.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, I go.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Nobody wants the risk getting locked up for a k next.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Title, no doubt, and it unifies us. Everyone's happy for
a change. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yes, right, remember that.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
The great Listen as always stus on top of the
table for one conversation we had months ago Judge versus
bruns and I said, Listen, Brunson is the great unifier.
He brings the entire eight point eight million pop places together.
Judges out four to six. Now, Taylor, your boy, I
mean Yankees are in trouble now, thank god it's not
season ending. They could they could have been thoracic. He's
done for the year at least to be back at
some point. But right now the fans we focused so
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much on the Knicks, they don't really care about the
Yankees for the month.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Go ahead, Yeah, And and they said they're reevaluating him
in four to six weeks.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
He's gonna rest. What would have the outlook, ben if
it was the the ratic out diagnosis.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
That that's almost as good as the update. Prenciation There
were so many tough words.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
There at I mean, I almost want to give you
a try to ask it again. I mean, just to
see if he could do worse.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
He avoided a theoretic outlet diagnosis.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
I thought he was gonna say, thoracic park.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Got you gotta go Tod there.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
I mean, exactly if you don't do it to be fantastic,
everyone knows what that means.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
We got that more serious injury.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, I mean, the four to.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
Six is absolutely a blessing because again, as you know,
he's not coming back in four to six. It just
means reevaluated. So just rest, recovery, just hang out. Okay, great,
So let's fast forward to July nineteenth. They'll go, okay,
give another two more weeks.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
He should be good.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
So let's say he plays August first. That to me
is a massive win a couple months. Listen, the American
League is awful. The Yankees and the Race are both excellent.
Cleveland should win the Central and the Mariners ripped off
atrit wins, they're gonna win the West.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
After that, there's no good teams. There's four good teams.
That's it. So the Yankees are one of those four
Ben Rice, as you know, is leading the ops.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
He's an MVP candidate, so thank god he'll be okay
and Judge will be back.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
At that point, again, there's still a worst case scenario.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
The worst case would be the thorascic outlet and then
all of a sudden he's done for the year. But
what if in four to six it has improved, right,
the fracture of the rib injury, which I don't know
how it wouldn't improve four to six. You doing nothing,
it's gonna get better, But that would still be the Conservatives.
All right, Sorry, Judge, wait another month to wait another
six weeks. Another four weeks would not be good. That's
like the old joke from Goodfellas. Yeah, yes, give four
to six weeks to heal. It couldn't pay his bill.
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Give another four to six weeks. So for Judge it
could be four to sixty's okay. If you're not okay,
another four to six hopefully they'll be okay. But yeah,
would have been absolutely catastrophic. Look at the Yankees record
with it without Judge it is it's no bueno. Even
his numbers this season. You only hit two forty eight
nine oh seven ops. I mean by Judge's numbers, those
are low.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
H Taylor, You're gonna be okay if the Yankees don't
have the success you want him to have as long
as the Knicks win an NBA title, or you get
to be so spoiled, like if the Knicks win the title,
you should be okay for a couple of years on
all your teams, right, No, not all my the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
He go into every season it's World Series or bust mentality. Yeah,
and that's exactly what Brian Cashman wants at man. He
wants the Knicks to win, and he wants some attention
to go elsewhere. I'm looking at Brian Cashman right now
and looking at him being like, you better address this
bullpen at the deadline, buddy, because this bullpen sticks.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
He's got his eyes on the necks and oh, he's
has an eye on Cashman.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Yes, I like, I mean that that is the right approach,
because you're right, a lot of fans will go, hey,
nixt one, let's just enjoy the Knicks. It's been fifty
three years, not Taylor. Taylor will enjoy for twenty four hours' parade.
He's right on broadcast. Seriously, let's help out David Bendner
a little bit in the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
How much would you love Taylor to be on the street,
right around the garden, just playing one table with Nick
fans as they're walking by on live radio would be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It's why I sent him, and he's not gonna do
what I feel.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
I mean, I mean, listen, I listened to the pocket
so that you guys are great. Three more wins for
the for the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Stu.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
You talk of the fact that you thought, once Bunson's injury,
that's it. Seriously, you and among every other New York
are thinking that's it. The series is over if it
happens to him, and I'm still like an Vince, He's
a hundred percent right the knee buck a little bit.
How about what Taylor's we actually wins? He goes, what'd
you think of the dagger?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
He's what do you mean?
Speaker 10 (24:45):
He's like, well, that that brunts and shot Like, I
don't know, it's all a blur.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
I thought you watched it five times saying it's the
shot that went a minute left swish six ozer running, Yeah, yeah, Tailor,
Taylor's just gonna blake out if if the Knicks win,
he's gonna like forget the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
He's just too emotionally invested right now. Yes, the problem man,
And there.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Was too many plays that Jalen Brunts and.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Mete at the end of that game, right, so many
you can't remember them all right, Yes, I love that
where he missed it and then bad the offensive Rabound
got the shot back hit the three.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
To me, that was like Brunton at his best.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It was great. We are guaranteed a lathered up New
York City. Just listen.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Even if they lose tonight, it's gonna be one to
one and the pressure is gonna be on both teams.
But god forbid the Knicks come back to oh in
the NBA Finals. That place is going to be a madhouse.
Great points to so price the tickets again.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
Before the NBA Finals, the cheapest I saw was three
thousand dollars just to get in that. It was around
four thousand aut of times of Game one. After the
Game one win. It's now surge to eight thousand dollars
cheapest ticket Game three in Game four, and if they
win tonight, you're right, Game four is going to be
over ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Just to get in the building with a potential sweep.
And this is why my plan is.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
On Wednesday, I'm going to go to the city the
great Scott Rogowski, my old friend now lives in LA
but he's back in New York.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Wow. I said, do you want to do a Knicks
watch party. He's like, let's do it. So I don't.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
I don't forget to be at the Knicks watch party
that's at MSG, but I want to see it.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I want to.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
I want to see the drunkenness. I want to see
the debauchery. I want to smell the weed smoke. I
want to see Knicks fans losing their minds, especially for
even if it's two one, it'll be great seeing fans
losing their minds. Don't have pivotal that game is going
to be so I will get a little bit of
that New York atmosphere. Taylor, You're welcome to join me
next Wednesday, game four if you want to join us.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Specially, I feel like I'm not that pleasant to watch
a game with that man. I get way too stressed out.
I kind of just have to isolate by myself.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
That's a fair point.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
I thought you were going to see you're very superstitious
and say, well, I watched Game one at home, so
I have to watch the rest of the games at home.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I thought you might go that route, but I get it.
I totally understand. You want to be in your environment.
It's all good.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
It's kind of like Mikey when he's watching the Bananas. Yeah,
he likes to watch the Savanna Bananas with families locked in.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I wrote something down, I circled it. I'm just going
back to the start of this conversation. What was Agasy doing,
like overt flirting with Caroline Wose in the ACU, Like,
can you explain that? Because Stevie Graft's going to be pizzed.
That's a dangerous game, man.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
So imagine if you know, I'm hosting a show on
MLB Networking Amy and I brought ste on, So it's okay,
guys here he is my dear friend John Wiener. He
knows by Steve got And then you come on and
rather than just going right to your stuff, you make
it a point to being clearybody else You're like, hey,
I just want to send Albert Pools. You know I'm alivable,
Come my god, dude, Like I grew up watching you
your your your legend. Hey, Harold Reynolds, geez being Mariner's back,
(27:16):
Nati is so great.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
And then you turn to Jessica Mendozego and I gotta say, Jessica,
you look even better in person.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
That was the equivalent. I wash. So that's what I did.
Speaker 9 (27:27):
He goes, John, you know what, I respect you, that
great serviyor you're the man made a joke and Isnor
did not crack a smile, something like, hey, maybe lower
the cherry a little bit tall. These they're just stone
face and agacy. Then's some stam query leftco he busted
his balls again. You're not really gonna jugging on that.
And he goes, Carolyn, I gotta tell you, look at
you in person. You're even more beautiful in person than
you were on the court.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Okay, yeah, So if you're Stephie Graft, are you upset
when he gets home like what's going on there?
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Yes, like he's gonna said at least give it like
a hey, you know, my buddies were saying, Caroline, how
pretty you are? And I got to say, you do
look great? Right, You're blame the buddies. You soft for
the bit you stare right in your eyes direct floor
means him, David Leaf. They're trying to watch the next
one a championship. Say hey, it's Audrey Ax with my
wife over here.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Come on, Caroline, I gotta tell you. I'm getting text
after text after tax from my friends and they say,
you look fantastic.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Thank you. Yes, yes, that's how you state you go.
I got to verify it's totally true something like that.
That's it easy. Yes, Yeah, Audrey's going to make a
move here. Is I still got some game left? Yes,
it seems like a gas is gonna have to go
to some workout classes with Stepfie. I mean the way
it does with his wife to make her happy. I
gotta be honest.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
I've I finally pushed back on the zoom, but it
was just too emasculating and tech. Yes, I said, like,
what are we doing there? Like unless this is significant
improving my sex left? But I did too soon, and
that's it. I'll do the weights in a class like
I think, twice a week.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Is it good?
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Hey, I'm making it that for to spend time with
my spouse. But the Zoomer was awful in retrospect. I
still can't but I did that.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It was bad. All right. We love you, buddy. We'll
talk to you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Thank you, enjoy the weekend. Don't enjoy the Friend Well
you're you're enjoying the Friend show. But because joke of that,
it's a celebration. It's a weekend. It's worth of celebration
for Roger Feeder, who retired five years ago.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
I just love you because, aside from mad Dog Russ,
there's no other media outlet North America doing as much
fronts jumping conversation.
Speaker 10 (29:16):
I think it's gonna be Nix, Aaron Judge, but a
little high.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
We led with it with the French j Open. We
end with tennis.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yes, I love tennis, I mean, and I love you.
Get out of here, have a great weekend. We'll talk
to you soon, buddy.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Thanks boys, Nixon four and if they lose, it's Taylor's fault.
I told you.
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Speaker 1 (30:04):
All right, thanks to ad Nan Burg for joining us.
Mikey A has a question for Taylor. I also need
to get to a beef with Nick Fans and Elmo,
and plus we have the poll questions to wrap up
the week. Mikeya, what is your question here for Taylor's
We head into a big game too, Nixon Spurs NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I want the Knicks to put it away tonight, but
go ahead, mikey A.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
So, Taylor, we were listening to ad Nan and Stu
Gott's talk about how they don't like to be on
texts group checks during games and stuff, and I'm wondering
with you being the way you are during Knicks games,
do you want anybody texting you?
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Or are you just like leave me alone even not
being in the same room.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
So if you're just a casual fan, I don't want
you texting and popping in and checking in with your
ill and formed takes. If you're like a diehard Nick
fan and one of my close friends, I don't mind
texting you during the game.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Okay, So no one can really text you unless they're
a diehard Just so we're understanding this qu quickly, right,
unless you see them at your level of Nick fandom,
they're not allowed to text you.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Is that the deal?
Speaker 8 (31:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Like, I don't need somebody texting me like, oh no,
Jalen Brunston rolled his ankle, Like yeah, I'm watching the game.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
I could see that. Jalen Brunston rolled his ankle.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Thanks, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Yeah, give me the Mendoza line.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Give me the person that's like this is this is
his best a Nick fan that can't text me?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I think it's me? I do? I think it's me.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I have a feeling that it's me because he views
himself as a bigger Nick fan than I am, even
though I've been rooting for this team for forty five years.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah, you took a convenient like ten to fifteen years
off where you started rooting for Mario Chalmers and those boys.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, when Carolina has down years, I mean, are you
rooting the same way as you are when they're having
great years?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Seriously, who does that? No one does. Well.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I haven't had kids yet, so my level of fandom
hasn't really shipped off.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Sure, are you blaming it on the gime? Is that
what you're doing there?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (32:01):
It seems like everybody's point of like when their fandom
really takes a dip. It's either like your team wins
a title and you stop caring less, or that you
have kids and you start caring less.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
For me, it was kids. Priorities change.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
It's not about not loving sports as much as I
used to, which just my priorities have shifted where sports
is no longer the most important thing in my life.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
They used to be Now it's my children. I apologize,
I guess.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I mean, so, is it Nicks or is this like
every team? So like Yankees are in the World Series,
you want people texting you or it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
For the most part, I, like I said with Adnan,
I isolate during the game. Ideally my phone is off
to the side and it's like on do not disturb
and I'm not even thinking about my phone. Like during timeouts,
I'll go to Twitter and just check to see what
people are talking about. But in terms of communicating with people,
I already really don't like communicating with people, So during
(32:57):
a game that I care about, I want to communicate
even less.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Epjason is familiar with your work. Epjason, come to the microphone, please.
Has Taylor been ignoring your text during Knicks games? I mean,
what's going on here?
Speaker 6 (33:08):
You know we have a show group text, right, and
I sent some A plus material the other night in
the middle of the first quarter, and just for the listeners.
Because it's A plus material, I feel compelled to read it.
This is what I wrote to you, guys. I wonder
what David Stern would say if he was told that
the New York Knicks would be playing in their first
NBA Finals in twenty seven years and they'd be wearing
(33:30):
their traditional home whites and their starting center would be
wearing lime green and fluorescent yellow sneakers. I mean, that's
hilarious material ignored by the room. I'm wondering for Taylor.
Is this the problem that I violate the rule of
texting you during the game.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
You sure did listen.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
I'm going to battle. I'm going to war right now.
I can't be thinking about what David Stern would be thinking.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And also, Jason, I hate to tell you, you're not
at his level. Do you understand what he's saying. He
doesn't view you as a Nick fan. He doesn't want
to hear from you. I mean, he likes you and
he respects you, but he doesn't want to hear from
you during a Knicks game.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
That's all. That's fair. That's fair, Okay, okay, And just
so you know, same with me, that same with Mikeya.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
And really is he knows the most basketball of all
of us and he doesn't want to hear from him.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I'm not even certain if Charles Oakley texted him, he responds,
I mean he's not on Taylor's level. What is going on?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Nick fans are very sensitive right now and they'll look
for anyone to argue with. By the way, what do
you guys make of Colin Cowhort saying you open the
show that I saying the Knicks lovable team.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Gotta love this team.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I don't want to hear from him. I don't want
to hear from these people, seriously, who have made fun
of the Knicks and their fan base for a couple
of decades. Now and now, because we have this lovable
team that is somehow scrappy underdogs on the verge of
winning an NBA championship, I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Want to hear how lovable they are.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
You hated them for two decades, You made fun of
me and Nick fans for two decades. You cannot jump
on the bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Not now. I am sorry. Not now.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Don't want to hear from Colin, and I certainly don't
want to hear from anyone else who wasn't a Nick
fan who made fun of Nick Van's for the last
two decades.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Go ahead, Taylor, Yeah, I have sound clips of Colin
Coward that will get for Monday, of him at the
start of the playoffs saying that Jalen Brunson isn't a
superstar that could take a team to a title, which
is kind of weird.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
We're three games away from said title.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yes, well, in his defense, you closed your eyes once
and said you couldn't see Karl Anthony Towns winning the
championship with the Knicks. To you right, because you're on
the level. Yes, you are the level and a lot
has got quickly before the polls. What is going on
with Nick fans and Elmo?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
So Elmo tweeted out before Game one. Elmo hopes both
teams have fun and New Yorkers are enraged because Elmo
Sesame Street is in New York. Elmo, show some loyalty
to your city one time and just tweet out.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Let's go, Nick, we're looking for anyone. If it's not
Colin and it's Almo.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Somebody's gonna throw Oscar to Grouch through his front window
or something.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
We are so sensitive, ads to God seven nine the
odd ex. Let's wrap up the week the way we
always do with the poll results. Taylor, go ahead, take
it away.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I'll look at that. I was saying with music Man.
Speaker 8 (36:19):
Do the Rams lead the league in going all in?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yes? I mean yes, I tut it.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
They're all in.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I mean no, one's more all in every.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Year than the Ram overwhelming ninety seven percent. What sounds
better coach fired or coach sacked?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Coach sack, no question about it. Yeah, it's a soccer
term right where they sacked the coach. Yes, I like
sack better, Mikey, you like sack better?
Speaker 7 (36:45):
Yeah, I think it's an English term, not a soccer term.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Okay, sorry, same thing.
Speaker 8 (36:51):
Seventy two percent of the audience said sacked sounds better.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
All right.
Speaker 8 (36:56):
Should the World Cup have to wait to start until
the next season is over?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yep, it should. We've been waiting for this for a
long time. I don't like this, no rest between games,
shortened scheduled. Nope, let's take our time and enjoy this.
What are we gonna rush for to see no goals
go ahead?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Sixty four percent of the audience said yes, it should wait.
It's a good audience statue of liberty. What a weird gift.
I forgot about that, Michelle Beatle. Seventy five percent of
the audience said yes, yep. Final poll this week was
(37:33):
the Was that the greatest three point game in NBA history?
Speaker 8 (37:36):
By Josh Harten?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
It was yeah, no doubt. Yes.
Speaker 8 (37:40):
Sixty one percent of the audience said yes. Those are
the polls.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
All right, those are the balls. Have a great weekend, everyone,
go NIXT
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