April 9, 2026 • 37 mins
Sal filling in for Stu as he and company talk about comments made by Paul Skenes about the face of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Sal and the fellas play a game of "Do Me A Favor". Sal takes calls.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Let's give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Now, how did the Yankees lose to the A's two
out of three to the A's to start? I mean,
come on, and the Yankees have been in the hottesteam
in baseball, right, they had the best record. They were
eight and two coming into last night's game, where they
then got beat by the A's, and then this afternoon.
I wasn't trying to jinx it. I just thought, matter
of factly, they're at home, they'll come back against the
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A's once they get to that bullpen. And the Yankees
go down one zip. Man. Now I still look, I'm
not gonna go nuts about it, but it does show
you that even with the Yankees high octane, powerful offense
and that loaded rotation, Weathers was terrific today gave them
actually some length which they needed eight innings. It is
getting beat by the A's two out of three. That
can't make you Yankee fans feel good. Mikey A. Taylor. No,
(01:08):
I mean you guys, get the A's came into your
house and took two out of three and then you
got to go to the House of Horrors Tampa Bay
back up and running in the at the trup. I'm
assuming they still call it that, and maybe the Yankees
is sitting a little bit of a bump on the
road here.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I blame you, so, I blame you for betting on them,
for for taking them in your pool that they're going
to win what four of seven or three of seven
or whatever?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Three they get the louser doing because.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
You ken to drinks them and you're doing well.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The Al East is over. Maybe as soon as they
said that, the egg is getting Oh you know what,
they only.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Had to do with the AL West apparently.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Two out of three.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
One thing on the Yankees and their fans, I think
it's been a rough Look, have you guys heard the
chance the Soto thing? Whatever? Like they're still bothered by Soto,
but he's not in the ballpark. You mentioned the AL West.
It's still with Al Tuvey, like, if the Astros were here,
so be it. If the Mets were in town, so
be it. What's what the channing bleep this player when
they're not even there. What's going on? Maybe that's what
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caused the problem here. Maybe the Yankee fans taking their
attention away from focusing on their team, trying to get
them to play their best, channing bleep this guy, bleep
that guy. Maybe that's what calls them to lose too
out of three to lowly Oakland.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
A's I respect that level of hate, especially in a
city like New York where hate is such so prevalent
in their sports teams like sal you go to a
Rangers game, they're still doing the pop vans sucks.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Good point, and I love that. And I take fid
and doing the pop van sucks.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I respect it.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You got me with that one. Yeah, Ary can't combat
that one. Yeah, but that's like, come on, that's like
tradition and it's not I mean, you know, it's at
least a clean word like pop vinsucks. But I took
my daughter and I'm like, oh, you know, that's the
or my nephew when he's starting to learn hockey. I
teach them the pop vnsuck. It has just been a
thing as far as I know, going Ranger games.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
But doesn't all good traditions have to have a ground
floor to start, Like maybe in fifteen years the Soto
sucks is what the Bronx is known for instead of
the bleacher creatures. And don't get me started on the
bleacher creatures. I can't stand that guy who leads them.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We may have found a common ground here, Taylor. I'm
I think it's the lamest thing in sports. And this
has nothing to do with not being a Yankee fan.
It is the roll call is the lamest thing, maybe
in the history of sports. Ah, I don't want to exaggerate,
but maybe in the history of sports. It is the
lamest that you like that, Mike Ye, come on, man,
(03:30):
I love First off, when you say bleacher creatures, we're
dealing with like the water down.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Like version of the bleacher creatures. When you talk about
the old bleacher creatures that ended the roll call with
box seats suck, that was the bleacher creatures.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
They don't even do that anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
It's it's you can now go from the bleachers to
the rest of the park. They used to separate the
bleacher the bleacher creatures from the rest of you. Like,
if you had a bleacher ticket, you couldn't go see
what it looked like behind hop Plitt. You were stuck
in the bleachers. Now it's different. But I love the
role call. My kid loves the role call.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
It's one of the better parts of the game to me.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
So my most shameful admission is that when I go
to Yankee games, and I love the Yankees. Grew up
thirty two years old. Yankees are my number one favorite
team in all of sports. But my most shameful admission
is that when I'm at Yankee games and I'm sitting around,
I'm looking at a lot of Yankee fans, I'm going
I kind of hate everybody here.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You know, that's an interesting point because even listening to you,
you do profile as anti Yankee, you kind of do,
But then you're a big Yankee fan and that's your people.
I mean, come on, you can't be hating everybody in
the stadium. The oh Neil Chance, I mean, we need
to get at this specific of the chance hip hip
or hey, I mean, what are we doing here? They
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the Yankees won't evolve to the point where they could
wear a modern day Jersey like a third you know,
a city connect Jersey. Yankees won't do that, but yet
their fans come up with the cotton I Joe stuff.
You got the judges chambers, you got the roll call,
the hip Hip or Hay Chance. I mean, come on,
that stuff is corny. Yankee should be above that.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
But Sally, you can't look, you can't tell me.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You go to city Field and you look around at
Met fans and you go, these are my people, every
single one of these people.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
This is who I am. You can't tell me that's
the that's the truth.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
No, no, you got me. It's why I don't go
to city Field that month. Not often anymore. It used
to be me, not me anymore.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
And most of the times when Sal's going to games,
I've seen styles stories like I saw him at the
Islanders game, Mikey. He's sitting in the owner.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Suite by the way, next to Jerry.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, exactly the last two games. I was with Jerry
Seinfeld in a Met game and the owner sweet at
the Islander game. And I'm talking about the golf being elite.
Things change. How dare these elitistsstro you, Sally? You want
to go to these games? Where where are the seats?
Are the tickets? A are they free? There's a couple
of free parking and it's gonna to sweet because if
it is, I'll be there and I wants to freez
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their rear Endolph in the stands. You know, baseball is
making some news here nationally. We know it's a local
sport primarily, but it is starting to come into the play,
come into play where they think being more national. And
how about the Pirates, the Pirates of all teams. I
never thought I'd been talking about the Pittsburgh Pirates doing
a national radio show, but here we are. Connor Griffin
signs one hundred and forty million dollar extension with the
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team before he even plays a game. I don't was
that even before he played a game. I don't know
the exact time it. I know we just got called up.
He's barely been in the big leagues here and they
give him that money. And then Paul Skeins talks about
him being the face of the franchise, which you know,
this kid is going to be here a long time.
Who knows what Paul skens. I just have an issue
with the Pirates if they're going to commit that money
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to Griffin. Why wouldn't they have done the same thing
with Paul Skeens years ago, and then you could have
two phases of the franchise moving forward like a well
run you know, kind of playing off of what we
started the show with with Dexter Lawrence. The Pirates have
been in the business of being in a bad spot
where they lose all the good players that they draft
and develop. Trying to prevent that with Connor Griff, but
it's probably gonna happen with Paul Skeens at some point.
I did not have a problem with Skien's comments though myself,
(07:05):
I didn't think it was a big deal. I think
he's just trying to hype up his guy, Connor Griffin.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Yeah, Skeens.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
I don't think Paul Skeens would be offended if I
say this, But he's not the most charismatic guy, so
him just talking to the media already is a bit
out of character for him. And sell to your point
of giving long term extensions to these these prospects or
these guys that really haven't played too much.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
This does feel like a small.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Market team thing to do, where I can't imagine the
Yankees ever giving an extension to Dominguez or ti Volpi
before they ever.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Make these moves.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
But for me, when it comes to Griffin versus Skeens,
it does feel easier to project what a everyday position
player is going to be and justifying that long term
contract instead of a pitcher who won bad injury and
that picture is gonna miss, you know, a year to
a year and a half with Tommy John.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But don't you think, because this is where I sit
on this, and it does vary on the team. If
you're the Pirates, you need to do whatever you can
to take your best shot and gamble and take a
chance on Connor Griffin. Now, let's use him as the
current example and bet that he's going to be a stud,
because if you don't, you're not going to be able
to keep him. I mean, think about how pathetic that
is that that's the largest contract in their franchise history,
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one hundred and forty million. The Yankees and Mets have
lit that on fire. The Dodgers, other team, whatever, the
top teams, they light that on fire. However, I would
say that if you're a powerhouse team Yanks met whoever
you Dodgers. The one area that I would be open
to extending a young player would be pitching, because in
the event those guys do hit and become the studs
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that you expect them to be. If they get to
the open market, the price is astronomical and you're paying
for their latter years as opposed to getting Let's say
Cam Schlitzler, if the Yankees go to him right now,
give them a hundred and fifty million guaranteed. You don't
think he'd take that. Now you're gambling, you're taking a gamble.
But if he, you know he it's ree agency, you
got to be paying three times that.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
I'm happy for that Pirates fan base because it feels like,
for the first time in a while that that fan
base has hope. You look at Paul Skiings, he's twenty three,
Bubba Chandler, another great starting pitcher, he's twenty three, Connor
Griffins nineteen. They have the number three farm system according
to MOB Pipeline. So the past three decades the Pirates
have had four winning seasons, which sounds crazy. And I
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think you can make the argument that there's no bigger
gap in sports than the one between how gorgeous PNC
Park is and then how unwatchable. The team that's been
playing inside has been Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It's when you when you put it that way, the
Bullpark is great. The team is stunk outside of one.
You know, they finally got back to the postseason with
McCutcheon years ago. That was great wildcard to have a
team that has been that bad consistently for that long.
As a fan, why would you bother? Like the Mets
have been bad obviously, the Jets have been all fun.
I would say the same thing to you, Mike yea
Jeff fan, like, why would you bother there? As a
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Jet fan. Maybe a little different with the NFL because
it's not as long of a season and the hope
is kind of there. You could cross your fingers and
hope for arch Manning, which I don't think is gonna happen.
But in the event that you do happen to hit
on one, it could change the entire course of the franchise.
Whereas with baseball, they're never gonna have the money. The
Jets isn't a money issue. It's a personnel issue. The
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Pirates is a financial thing and that's not changing. It's
unless there's a cap, and that's a whole other issue.
For a lockout on work stoppage. It's never gonna change.
For the mid market, low market, small market teams, they're
never gonna be able to keep with the Mets, Yankees,
Dodgers and the higher team. So if I'm a pirate fan,
I just all you have is a ballpark. At least
you do have a nice ballpark.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
When I saw the headline that Paul Skins made cryptic comments,
I was like, oh my god, what did Paul Skians say?
And then I watched the clip and watch how he
delivered it. So when I clicked on that video, I
thought he was gonna say, like, I can't wait to
strike out Connor Griffin when I'm a meta a Yankee.
That's how they were kind of prefacing how bad the
comment was.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I mean, he didn't have to say face of the
franchise if you were a pirate fan. If I were
a pirate fan, I probably be hurt by that. If
I hear my guy's skiing saying that, so because you
know he's leaving anyway, you already know it, but now
he's hitting me in the face where they're like, this
is a face of the franchise. Moving forward.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, I read that as Paul Skin's like, man, he
is going to be the face of the franchise when
I'm elsewhere.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
That is going to be great for him, Like good
for him.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
The Pittsburgh should be happy that they've got a guy
who's just awkward and nice enough to not talk about
how he wants out, but has sort of been like, yeah,
I'm gonna be out, like I'll do what i can
while I'm here, but I'm not going to be here
very long.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I mean, I think when you look at it with Skens,
he's destined to be a Yankee. I mean, the writing
has been on the wall for a while. Unfortunately, Yankees
believe that so much so that they try to trade
for him, which is ridiculous. If you're the like, get
the hell out of here, don't even don't even call
my phone. We're not trading him. You may get him
in four years, whenever you hit tree agent.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Three years, you.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
May get him in. I'm not trading him to you.
And if you are going to consider a trade, you
better start with Cam Schlitzler. Then the whole conversation. Would
you do that? Even now if you're the Yankees, Well,
if I'm the Pirates. It starts with Cam Schlitler, but
the Pirate, there's no point. The Pirates, I hate to say,
might as well fold because they have such great history
and great uniforms and a great ballpark. But like, if
you can't keep Paul Schmes, well, what are we doing here?
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The sport has a problem. It's got to be better
than that. I'm not saying the cap is salary cap
is an answer here, but it does seem like Paul
Skans is destined to be a New York Yankee, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
But do you think there's a number that Paul Skins
is like, yeah, I'll stay like a real question number.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Well, I mean, what are we talking about if if
you're him, everybody has a number?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I said, a realistic number? Okay, what's talking if they
go if they.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Say four hundred million for what five years?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Is that five years? That's not realistic? That four hundred
million is real? Isn't realistic? For the Pirates?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I men ten?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, yeah, okay, well yeah, if they offered a four
hundred million dollar deal, I'm not even so sure he
would take it. He might pull a Soto and be like, no,
I'm good he would, but he should. I was doing
this a little prep work for the TV show later on,
because we're talking about Noel McLean and how this would
tie into that. Right, another young pitcher, Cam Schlitzer, Poul Skins, whatever,
Skin's a different level. We know that, but it goes
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into the thought of trying to lock these guys up.
What would be a fair price. If you go back
to twenty thirteen where Matt Harvey took the Baseball world
by storm and started the All Star Game like I
would tell you, oh dude, I did say I wouldn't
trade this guy for anybody in the Mets. Better pay him.
Harvey in his career ended up I think netting under
fifty million bucks. So imagine going to Matt Harvey in
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twenty twelve and it's saying we'll give you one hundred
and fifty million guaranteed. He probably spitted you. What are
you insane? Undred and fifty million. I'm gonna have free agency.
I'm gonna get three hundred million. And yet here we are,
And there are endless other examples of that. But there
are also the examples the other way, where if you
did pay, it's all about getting Yankees did it with
Louis Everarino tried to lock him up, and even that
was a four year, forty million that whatever was it
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was a real cheap deal, but he never lived up
to the expectation. It's a gamble that the rich teams
don't have to take and the teams like the pirates
have to do it. What's the worst case for the pirates?
This contract prevents them from spending any money. They never
spend any money anyway, So what's the worst case scenario here?
Skin's gonna be Yankee? I know it. Just braced yourself
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for it. I am you guys could get excited about it.
Go buy your skiens jersey. He'll be Yankee sooner than later.
We all know it.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Is it just Ann Taylor? Does he say Dodger?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Weird?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
He's going to Dodgers having Dodger like Yankee?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You think he's going to the Dodgers Skins.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I think everybody's going to the Dodgers, because that's what HAPs.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
The report was last year that one of his I
think it was his teammates who remain anonymous, said that
he believes you know, his his his wife or girlfriend
Libby Donn. She maybe prefers New York. And we've heard
this story before, but he grew up a Yankee fan
or whatever it is. He probably wants to pitch for
the Yankees. And if that's the case, if he wants to,
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then if it comes down to just money, I think
the Yankees will get out bit, whether it's the Dodgers
or the Mets. But if it comes down to Schemes
wanting to be a Yankee because he just wants the
power of the pinstripes, the history, and then I think
he's gonna be Yankee. I mean, I would bet that
would be the case. Yankees have shown that they have
not been able to go out there or not been
willing to spend the most money. Speaking of the Yankees,
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Mike is on Long Island. Mike, You're on Fox Sports
Radio at eight Fox. What's up, Mike?
Speaker 8 (15:43):
Hey? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
So?
Speaker 8 (15:44):
We really miss you over here in Long Island in
New York City.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Okay, well, I mean I didn't die. You could look
at my YouTube channel and podcasts and Fox Sports Radio. Now,
I mean it's it's not what are you missing? Just
go just go on the internet so I know it's
stop being lazy. Will you look it? Up Google, look
out of YouTube you can find me speaking.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Of being lazy.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
I actually downloaded iHeartRadio for you for this show, So.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
There you go. That means the world to me. Thank
you that. Here you go, Mike, Thank you very much
for that. We appreciate what's on your mind.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
So if Uncle Stevie were listening, could you just give
me like only you can speak for us, speak for
the met fans and tell him how we're feeling about
David Peterson because we need a break, sou We can't.
I can't keep doing this over and over again, spotting
the other team five runs in the first inning.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I'll take requests here today, especially if you download the
free iHeartRadio app and listen to us. So for you,
for you, Mike, and we appreciate that very much, Thank
you for your loyalty. We appreciate you making the effort.
Download the app and listen, and I will take the request.
If Steve Cohen is in fact listening to this, and
maybe he is, I mean I think he might be
a fan. Who is it. Here's what I'll do for you.
Speaker 9 (16:53):
David Peterson has to go. He's been terrible last year.
We couldn't give you three fregod innings. The Mets needed
a starter to give him some length. The guy was
an All Star in the first half of the year.
Then he comes out. He couldn't get you through the
third inning. You can't play Mendy, his best pitcher. Peterson
couldn't give it to him. And then this year he
gets another start. What's he done.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
He's been terrible in two starts. I out out of
the rotation. That's it now the problem that you have.
Hopefully that was good for you there, Mike. We'll take
more requests if you like. We're here for another forty minutes,
and it feels good to get that out of my system.
I would not go that nuts realistically yet with Peterson,
but I think it's trending that way. I didn't trust
Peterson to start the year. Where are we talking, David
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Peterson is a national show. But the Mets rotation does
have some issues here and it shows you. That's why
the pitching is tough to predict. Guy was an All
Star in the first half of last year, fell off
the cliff in the second half last year. We're talking
about paying these guys long term. I still though, if anything,
I would do it with the pitching and not the
position players, especially if you're from a powerhouse team, Dan teyl,
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you're going to a baseball game this weekend? When he going,
you're taking your nephews here? What's going on with that?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
So I'm taking my little cousins to the inter Miami
soccer match to see Leo Messi and sal What complicates
even further. They're ten and seven, but they live in Italy,
so this is speak English. They do speak English, so
they moved to Italy probably five years ago, so they're
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both fairly young. They're both bilingual. But this does feel
like it's going to be a bit of a challenge
for me, not only the kids, but having little Italian kids.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Oh no, no, it's not going to be a bit
of a challenge. It's going to be a massive challenge
for you. Now. I didn't realize that it was a
soccer game. I thought it was like a Marlins game,
And I'm like, good God, what are you doing? At
least you going to see Messi? Who is worth the
price of admission. I'm not a huge soccer fan, but
I've seen him play when he came to New York.
It is lights out, dude. You know what you in for.
Have you ever done this before? Gone to a soccer match?
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Yes? Done it with a ten year old and a
seven year old?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
No?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
So that's what I'm kind of need help from the
dads here what to expect, because I'm sending texts like, Hey,
do I need to go to the bathroom with them?
Do I need to, you know, hold their hand when
we're crossing your troth?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Dude?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Are the done? Do I need course seats? I'm trying
to get a course.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And just just fly me or sal down there just
to help you out, because oh man, no, you're done.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
So the thing I'm not worried about is the spending part,
Like I've already bought like the closest parking pass to
cut one of the challenges. And then I think we're
just gonna go to the game as early as possible,
go to the team store, let them kind of run
around the fan zone area, and then I'm just gonna
I'm just gonna try to buy their love with like, Hey,
do you guys want messy jerseys? Do you guys want
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cotton candy? Do you guys want soda?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
That's the easy part and that's fun.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
That's easy.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Everything else that is a nightmare. I gotta go to
the bathroom. I gotta go to the bathroom. Wow, we're
trying to watch Messi come down here or it's a
penalty gig or whatever happens in soccer.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I'm not really big soccer, but like you're gonna be missing.
Put it this way, you'd be lucky if you see
Messi on the field period, you're gonna be doing everything else.
Can we get this? Can we get that you have
any idea of you? You just need to surrender now.
That would be my advice. Surrender. If you think you're
gonna go there and watch a game or see a
performance from Messi, you're not. It's gonna be all about
those kids, as it should be. But surrender yourself for
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a day of complete exhaustion and a lot of frustration
as well. And you're gonna need a nap after that.
Set your clock good thing you take naps. You canna
need a nap after that one.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
So the only tips I have so far or surrender.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeshrender, be ready to referee fights because when the seven
year old has to go to the bathroom, and that
means all three of you have to go to the bathroom,
and the ten year old doesn't want to go to
the bathroom, so he's gonna start throwing a fit. But
because he's not gonna get with you about having to
go to the bathroom, he's gonna go with his brother.
So him and his brother are gonna start fighting because
all three of you now have to go to the bathroom. Yeah,
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that's that's what you're in for.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
At least you have the both boys. Like I had
the issue, I don't know these things, Like I'm a
first time parent, I have a daughter. Do I go
in the men's room? Do I go in the women's room?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
What do I do here? I don't if somebody helped
me out, I have no idea. It's crazy the first
time you experienced it, I don't know. You learn from doing.
But in that spot, I mean, can't be having any mistakes.
So good luck with all that tailor. That's what I
would say. Just know that you're in for. Know what
you're in for. This is not Taylor, Uncle Taylor gonna
be enjoying a game. This is oh man, I'm gonna
be trying to trying to do the best that.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
I can buy.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah, you cannot buy a ten or a seven year
old's love, but you can just rent it for about
twenty minutes.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Okay, So my best hope is that since they're Italian
and we're going to a soccer match, that at least
I'm not taking them to something that they don't want
to watch.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Right, Well, why would you do that? I mean that
would be that that would be the worst thing, taking
them something or on ice. Yeah, I've done.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
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Speaker 3 (22:10):
I've been talking too much sports on this show. Apparently
Taylor and Mike Ye were just getting on me for
that during one of the breaks. So tell me about this.
What's this Do me a Favor? Taylor? What s does
you have on the rundown here?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
So? Do me a Favor is a staple for Stu
gottson Company Live where we go around and we say
do me a favor and you just call out somebody
in the sports world. So I was Sam, give us
the do Me a Favor music like it so I
could start sell so you could kind of get an idea.
(22:40):
Do me a Favor? Mets owner Steve Cohen stay off Twitter.
The Mets move their start time up because of how
cold it is in New York, and because of that,
they offered a limited number of free tickets to the game.
After the game, Steve Cohen tweets out the free ticket
giveaway was fully subscribed within hours yesterday. Guess the percentage
of no shows the ticket offer fifty eight percent. What
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was the point of calling out the fan base like that?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I mean, he's not wrong, He's given free tickets. He's
trying to tell you know why, you try to do
something nice for people, and here we are, I'm doing
something nice giving you free tickets. You'll claim it. You
don't even show up. What's going on here? He did
do Met fans a favor giving him free tickets, and
now you're ripping him because he gave them free tickets
and complained about it. Wouldn't you if I had people
(23:27):
over in my house or say hey, you go eat
up and they're like, yeah, no, I'm good, Or you
buy food for people that are supposed to come to
your house and then they don't show up. What are
you supposed to say? You wouldn't go to social media
or call somebody at least and complain about it. I
feel like I might in that spot. Who's next up
with to do me a favor?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I'll go do me a favor. TV streaming executives, all
this stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Come up with an original idea, okay, because I am
sick of everything being another version of something else. You've
got seventeen NCIS's got seventeen Chicago Chicago Fire and all like.
Come up with one original idea, one original show that
we could watch and we don't have to deal with
(24:10):
having to understand fourteen other shows to watch this show.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
All Right, there you have it. I mean, I'm currently
looking for employment, so I am not going to rip
any TV executives anywhere for anything. Stream what you want,
promote what you want. I'll moll for it. Email me, Sally, Hey,
look at it, you bard Off Ricardo, You're on next?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (24:30):
Major League Baseball, do me a favor. Enough with the
constant interleague games. I don't mind a small section of
the season like we had in the early two thousands,
but just not every day. I like the league separated,
and it gives us more division games and it makes
interleague more special. But every day enough with.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It all right, fair enough? I hate anybody else?
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Go here?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Who iowa? Sam? Does he have to do me a favor?
I could go left them here you go? I was
Sam hop in there. Give us a do me a favor,
Do me a favor?
Speaker 12 (24:58):
Other sports fans es match the wonderful prices at the Masters,
because I could get everything on the menu for under
eighty dollars. I think I'd go with a beer eight masters,
a club sandwich, some apple slices and some chips, and
that'll run me twelve dollars. Let's go back to the
days of pre pandemic prices and just maybe slice your
(25:19):
profits off a little bit and just cut us all
a break because everything's too expensive right now.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
But the problem is they could do that because they
don't care if you go like they know, what's a
limited audience? Now ow, they're stated, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 12 (25:31):
It's all the math game. They're all working us. But
at least the perception of something coming off cheap. Like
if I go over to Whole Foods when we got
across the street here at Sherman Oaks at the studio,
some of their food is like the day it's the
day of sell by date and they mark it down
fifty percent, and I'm like, I can get this sandwich
for four to fifty instead of nine dollars. This feels
like twenty eighteen again. It's like the good old days.
(25:53):
So let's go back to that. At least I feel
like I'm saving something. But you know, Atlanta Falcons do that.
Other franchises, some go real cheap with their concessions. I
love it. It makes people feel like it's more accessible.
So Master's concessions prices, do me a favor. I want
other people to match that apple slices.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
What are you Sal's five year old daughter, you gotta
get listen, beer, turkey, sandwich chips.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I gotta get something healthy in there.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
She does love the apple slices.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
Goody as Yeah, that was some hardsider.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
McDonald's little chicken nuggets, French fries and the apple slice.
You can't go real healthy, all right, do me a favor.
Let's stop with the damn video tributes to former players.
Do me fair enough. Jeff McNeil's gonna return to City
Field like as if he's some conquering hero with the Mets.
He was a scrub. I'm sorry. I know he beat
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up the Yankees here in this series, and I know
we had okay, he was an old star one Jeff
McNeil wasn't very good scrubs, maybe disrespectfull. You get the point.
I want to exaggerate for effect. Just do me a favor.
If you get an acknowledgejeffmcdeil means we gotta acknowledge everybody.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Pete A.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Lonzo would be one thing. The all time franchise leading
home run hitter. You talk about former grades that move
on because the end of their career, whatever it may be.
Pick a team, pickup player, pick a sport. But enough
with these video tributes because it's just now teams feel
obligated to do it. So do me a favor. Got
it out all right? How that work? Was that okay?
Speaker 6 (27:13):
But that was a great to me a favorite?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
That was awesome. That was awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Wait any more games to play? Actually this is not
a game. But this is something I was thinking about
and getting to hang out with you guys here today,
Like because as a listener of the show, right becoming
a fan of the show, you know, working with you
guys in the podcast, there are certain things that I
feel like, like I used to feel this way about
Mike and the Madic. Oh, I just not I want
to be on the air. I want to just be
a part of that family and hang out with those guys.
(27:38):
And I was thinking about it, like with with Stu.
For me, maybe the thing would be to like play
golf with him, right, even though I'm not a big golfer,
would that be the thing? I mean, it's either play
golf with him or get high with him. And I've
never gotten high with anybody, but maybe it would be
with Sue. Are those the two things? Maybe that like
what would you want to do with Sue if you
could do anything to experience being part of these Stu
Gotson company family.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
So I've played golf with him a couple of times.
One of the things you have to kind of prepare
yourself for some of the slowest rounds you'll ever play
in your life. Like, not only is he slow, just
kind of like waddling up to the ball. He stands
over the ball for like three minutes, And I'm like, Stu,
come on, if you're gonna if you're if you're.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Gonna play, play found and then he hits.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Then and then all you hear about is how much
golf he plays. And then you're out there and he's
just he's just hacking it out. He's in the woods.
And then you finish the hole and you're like, Stu,
what'd you get there? And He's like, just put me
down for a par I'm like, wait, what.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So on second thought, maybe I want to pop a
gummy with Stu instead of that with Taylor. I feel
like I want to play softball, Like that's the thing.
I'm like, Wow, I wonder if I go down there
one day, if I happen to be in Miami and
hang out, maybe I could be like a walk on
for a softball team. I like, that's the thing I
want to experience now from a listener stadpoint, you talk
about it. You know, if Ian could do it, how
bad could things be. I'm sure I could go down there.
(28:58):
Is that something that's possible to play some softball with you?
Speaker 7 (29:01):
Taylor definitely could do softball.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Sow.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
My dream for you would be me and you. We
just have a catch, like the field of dreams. Just
a kid in just a kid and his dad, but
just a kid and somebody. He used to listen to
on w f A n.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I mean we can make that happen. We could have
a catch and then maybe go play softball. Mikey, I
was thinking about with you, like I feel like with you,
I just want to hang out and pound some beers
and a pie.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Right. Uh?
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Yeah, you want to? You want to eat pizza and
watch football with me?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
If you want to, If you want to get the
full experience, that's what you want to do.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
We do that. We can do that. Hopefully you can here.
Here's the thing. I can invite you over to my
place in New Jersey. You could bring the good pizza
from Connecticut. We watch some football. I mean Taylor's inbody
it as well. But that's what I feel like I want.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
The other thing is with is He. I don't know,
like do I want to work out with is He?
I don't like, do you want to do I want
to go to the game? What's what? What's the thing
with we don't want to play? He doesn't want to
play softball. I know he loves the heat. I know
he's in shape. I'm trying to think of things that
what do we want to do with easy? What would
be the dream there? I think it would be you
have to play flag football.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
And I'm telling you football.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
I'm telling you right now, Sal I consider myself a
great athlete. My quads were not ready for flag football.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
But you're a football player. You played football in North Carolina.
That's your whole thing, that's what you do. You're not
a softball player. You're not, in fact, Andrew Jones. You're
a football player that you weren't ready for.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
I'm a retired I'm a current athlete. I'm a retired
football player. And so the entire drive over, I was like, man,
should I just text Izzy that? Like my stomach kind
of hurts and and kind of fail out of this
because I know going in there as a former North
Carolina wide receiver that people are going to be looking
at me and be like, hey, we have to get
this kid the ball, you know, twenty times a game.
(30:49):
He's got to be our version of Pooku Nakua. And
I'm a lot closer to whoever's backing up Pooka Nakula
than I am Pooka Nakua.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I'd love to get to know, Izy. I am not
playing flag football under any circumstances. I would be an
injury waiting to happen.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
What about us for you, sal if we wanted to
be part of you in your world, if you what
would we join you to do?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Would it be? Would it be go sit next to
Jerry Seinfeld? And wow?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
But that is maybe maybe hang out at a game
like in the Islanders owner suite or something. I mean,
maybe something like that. I don't know. I don't really
have any do a radio.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Show with me.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
It's all I know how to do. I can't do
anything else.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
So I'm actually I live in Fort Lauderdale, South but
I'm coming back home to New York for I think
a week and maybe a week and a half. In
the middle of April. I have a wedding and that
I have my sister's baby shower. And I'm looking at
the Yankee schedule. Fun, I'm looking at the Yankee schedule
and it's during a homestand it looks like the Royal
(31:48):
series the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth in April. And You've
mentioned that if I come to a Yankee game with
you, you'll connect me with Aaron Boone. So I think I'm
reaching into my pocket and I'm pulling out this favor.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Oh dude, you gotta give me a heads up.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
April and Anthel the next week.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
For goodness sake, I will next week, next Friday.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
It's next week.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You don't even want to know what I have planned
for next weekend. My daughter's birthdays on the sixteenth. I
told you the eighteenth. We promised her We're gonna go
to Peppa Pig's house. It's in It's of course, there's
not one in New York, because why would there be
a Pepa Pigs house in New York. It's in Virginia
or something. So we have that schedule for the eighteenth.
But either that Friday or the Sunday, maybe we could
work on that. We'll go hang out of the Yankee
game and see if Boony's available.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
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videos from our original podcast. Right, let's finish up with
a call here. Randy is in Idaho Falls. What's up, Randy?
You have some advice for Taylor.
Speaker 10 (33:17):
Well, listen, this is just my opinion, and maybe I've
seen too many take in movies, but Taylor, you're talking
about this, and my palms just instantly start getting sweaty.
I'm like, man, I feel like I need to tell
this guy what I would do. But I think a
worst case scenario. Right, I'm gonna have to put these
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kids on leashes. You know those kids have backpacks that
you know kids wear, Adults kind of yank them back
because I think a worst case scenario, someone's gonna take
these kids. I ain't worried if they're gonna enjoy the
game or not. I'm gonna be worried that they're gonna
take them. So, Taylor, I'm gonna pray for you.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
Man.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
I'm gonna think about you and watch the game and
hope that everything goes well.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Excellent point, Randy. Safety first, and thank you for the
cold Taylor. You didn't even bring that up. You weren't
even concerned at all about the well being of your
what is it again, your cousins, your nephews. I'm confused
by this a little bit.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Yeah, so it's my cousin's kids. So I'm pretty sure
they are still my cousins. So did you say excellent
point to that?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
I think it is an excellent point. You gotta be
careful a soccer game, no less how many people are there. Yeah,
you let go that kid for one second, you be screwed.
You never know people are sick out there. You get
safety first. You're worried about cotton candy, you absolutely need.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
To be worried about it. Leasha's a little fuck.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Well, I didn't say leashes. I wouldn't do that, although
those are that's that's where it is a thing, and
that would that would help make sure, Taylor. I'm telling
you like you do it a second in a second. Things.
I remember my daughter was upstairs on my office once
and I was like, okay, yeah, yeah, whatever, and Daddy
was playing on his phone and the next thing I know,
she comes back upstairs with wet socks, and I'm like,
(34:54):
how'd your socks get wet? She opened the back door.
Thank goodness, there's a fence around the pool. Open the
back one outside and came in. You just blink of
an eye. Man, you don't know when you're going with
two kids around fifty thousand people. You got to be careful.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
So this is like when I'm driving ten and two.
I'm a great driver ten and two looking blinders on
when I when I have the kids, I'm just gonna
go into Now I don't have a kid, but I'm
gonna almost just go into dad mode. And I feel
like talking to a couple of dads prepared me for
this moment.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Yeah, it's an Mike, YEA. Wouldn't you agree that that's
an excellent point. You have to be locked in at
all times, That's what I'm saying. Like, you're not gonna
enjoy this. You're on all time. You're on. There is
no just ah, let me sit and relax and watch
the game. No, No, you gotta be. You got to
be locked in. You're right ten and two, hands on
the wheel, focus, you lose, you lose grip for a
second and your day could be derailed. You'd be in
(35:44):
big trouble.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
If you can sit between them. Okay, but you've got
you've got peripheral vision on both.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
How long is how long is a soccer game? Usually
so it's ninety minutes. It's ninety minutes every soccer match.
Forty five minute half, forty five minutes second half. Yeah,
and plost the bathroom is gonna be crowded that half time.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Like I would make sure they go to the bathroom
before and try to you know, maybe maybe do like
a little contest with your cousin, be like, all right,
whoever can hold their their pep the longest can get
surprised at the end of the day. You don't want to,
you know, just limit what you need to do throughout
the course of the day.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
So one of the biggest challenges is enter Miami Stadium.
This is only their second game there. It's called New Stadium,
and you but it is a new stadium. And what
I'm worried about sal is since I've never been there.
It would be one thing if I was going to
Yankee Stadium, I have a lay of land of Yankee Stadium.
Going to New Stadium for the first time. That's where
a little concern starts to creep in.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
I'm gonna tell you where you're gonna be at.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
The most dangerous is the store, because one wants to
go that way to see that. One wants to go
one way to see that. Got to keep everybody together,
it's important.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I'm telling you, mike Y, how many.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
Kid you have?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I have two, ten and seven, so you you are
the right person to speak to with it us. We
had one? Oh, you gotta have another? What another one?
What do you? Are you insane? It's like asking if
I'd ever get remarried. You should out of your mind.
I did it once, never again. I don't care what happens.
It's over. That's it. One and done. One kid is
(37:13):
too much for me. I can't handle. I don't imagine
the people do it too. And tall. You're going to
a spot where you're the rookie year. You're inexperienced. I
don't care how many games you played at UNC, how
many receiver snaps you took there. Good luck, my friend,
you're gonna need it all right. Thatt you guys for
having me. It was a pleasure. Hopefully we see you soon.
Still be out to be back tomorrow at least, I
think thanks to everybody who helped, everybody behind the seats,
we appreciate it. We'll see you later.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Let's give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Now, how did the Yankees lose to the A's two
out of three to the A's to start? I mean,
come on, and the Yankees have been in the hottesteam
in baseball, right, they had the best record. They were
eight and two coming into last night's game, where they
then got beat by the A's, and then this afternoon.
I wasn't trying to jinx it. I just thought, matter
of factly, they're at home, they'll come back against the
(00:45):
A's once they get to that bullpen. And the Yankees
go down one zip. Man. Now I still look, I'm
not gonna go nuts about it, but it does show
you that even with the Yankees high octane, powerful offense
and that loaded rotation, Weathers was terrific today gave them
actually some length which they needed eight innings. It is
getting beat by the A's two out of three. That
can't make you Yankee fans feel good. Mikey A. Taylor. No,
(01:08):
I mean you guys, get the A's came into your
house and took two out of three and then you
got to go to the House of Horrors Tampa Bay
back up and running in the at the trup. I'm
assuming they still call it that, and maybe the Yankees
is sitting a little bit of a bump on the
road here.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I blame you, so, I blame you for betting on them,
for for taking them in your pool that they're going
to win what four of seven or three of seven
or whatever?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Three they get the louser doing because.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
You ken to drinks them and you're doing well.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The Al East is over. Maybe as soon as they
said that, the egg is getting Oh you know what,
they only.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Had to do with the AL West apparently.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Two out of three.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
One thing on the Yankees and their fans, I think
it's been a rough Look, have you guys heard the
chance the Soto thing? Whatever? Like they're still bothered by Soto,
but he's not in the ballpark. You mentioned the AL West.
It's still with Al Tuvey, like, if the Astros were here,
so be it. If the Mets were in town, so
be it. What's what the channing bleep this player when
they're not even there. What's going on? Maybe that's what
(02:08):
caused the problem here. Maybe the Yankee fans taking their
attention away from focusing on their team, trying to get
them to play their best, channing bleep this guy, bleep
that guy. Maybe that's what calls them to lose too
out of three to lowly Oakland.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
A's I respect that level of hate, especially in a
city like New York where hate is such so prevalent
in their sports teams like sal you go to a
Rangers game, they're still doing the pop vans sucks.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Good point, and I love that. And I take fid
and doing the pop van sucks.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I respect it.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You got me with that one. Yeah, Ary can't combat
that one. Yeah, but that's like, come on, that's like
tradition and it's not I mean, you know, it's at
least a clean word like pop vinsucks. But I took
my daughter and I'm like, oh, you know, that's the
or my nephew when he's starting to learn hockey. I
teach them the pop vnsuck. It has just been a
thing as far as I know, going Ranger games.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
But doesn't all good traditions have to have a ground
floor to start, Like maybe in fifteen years the Soto
sucks is what the Bronx is known for instead of
the bleacher creatures. And don't get me started on the
bleacher creatures. I can't stand that guy who leads them.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We may have found a common ground here, Taylor. I'm
I think it's the lamest thing in sports. And this
has nothing to do with not being a Yankee fan.
It is the roll call is the lamest thing, maybe
in the history of sports. Ah, I don't want to exaggerate,
but maybe in the history of sports. It is the
lamest that you like that, Mike Ye, come on, man,
(03:30):
I love First off, when you say bleacher creatures, we're
dealing with like the water down.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Like version of the bleacher creatures. When you talk about
the old bleacher creatures that ended the roll call with
box seats suck, that was the bleacher creatures.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
They don't even do that anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
It's it's you can now go from the bleachers to
the rest of the park. They used to separate the
bleacher the bleacher creatures from the rest of you. Like,
if you had a bleacher ticket, you couldn't go see
what it looked like behind hop Plitt. You were stuck
in the bleachers. Now it's different. But I love the
role call. My kid loves the role call.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
It's one of the better parts of the game to me.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
So my most shameful admission is that when I go
to Yankee games, and I love the Yankees. Grew up
thirty two years old. Yankees are my number one favorite
team in all of sports. But my most shameful admission
is that when I'm at Yankee games and I'm sitting around,
I'm looking at a lot of Yankee fans, I'm going
I kind of hate everybody here.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You know, that's an interesting point because even listening to you,
you do profile as anti Yankee, you kind of do,
But then you're a big Yankee fan and that's your people.
I mean, come on, you can't be hating everybody in
the stadium. The oh Neil Chance, I mean, we need
to get at this specific of the chance hip hip
or hey, I mean, what are we doing here? They
(04:50):
the Yankees won't evolve to the point where they could
wear a modern day Jersey like a third you know,
a city connect Jersey. Yankees won't do that, but yet
their fans come up with the cotton I Joe stuff.
You got the judges chambers, you got the roll call,
the hip Hip or Hay Chance. I mean, come on,
that stuff is corny. Yankee should be above that.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
But Sally, you can't look, you can't tell me.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You go to city Field and you look around at
Met fans and you go, these are my people, every
single one of these people.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
This is who I am. You can't tell me that's
the that's the truth.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
No, no, you got me. It's why I don't go
to city Field that month. Not often anymore. It used
to be me, not me anymore.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
And most of the times when Sal's going to games,
I've seen styles stories like I saw him at the
Islanders game, Mikey. He's sitting in the owner.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Suite by the way, next to Jerry.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, exactly the last two games. I was with Jerry
Seinfeld in a Met game and the owner sweet at
the Islander game. And I'm talking about the golf being elite.
Things change. How dare these elitistsstro you, Sally? You want
to go to these games? Where where are the seats?
Are the tickets? A are they free? There's a couple
of free parking and it's gonna to sweet because if
it is, I'll be there and I wants to freez
(06:02):
their rear Endolph in the stands. You know, baseball is
making some news here nationally. We know it's a local
sport primarily, but it is starting to come into the play,
come into play where they think being more national. And
how about the Pirates, the Pirates of all teams. I
never thought I'd been talking about the Pittsburgh Pirates doing
a national radio show, but here we are. Connor Griffin
signs one hundred and forty million dollar extension with the
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team before he even plays a game. I don't was
that even before he played a game. I don't know
the exact time it. I know we just got called up.
He's barely been in the big leagues here and they
give him that money. And then Paul Skeins talks about
him being the face of the franchise, which you know,
this kid is going to be here a long time.
Who knows what Paul skens. I just have an issue
with the Pirates if they're going to commit that money
(06:44):
to Griffin. Why wouldn't they have done the same thing
with Paul Skeens years ago, and then you could have
two phases of the franchise moving forward like a well
run you know, kind of playing off of what we
started the show with with Dexter Lawrence. The Pirates have
been in the business of being in a bad spot
where they lose all the good players that they draft
and develop. Trying to prevent that with Connor Griff, but
it's probably gonna happen with Paul Skeens at some point.
I did not have a problem with Skien's comments though myself,
(07:05):
I didn't think it was a big deal. I think
he's just trying to hype up his guy, Connor Griffin.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Yeah, Skeens.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
I don't think Paul Skeens would be offended if I
say this, But he's not the most charismatic guy, so
him just talking to the media already is a bit
out of character for him. And sell to your point
of giving long term extensions to these these prospects or
these guys that really haven't played too much.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
This does feel like a small.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Market team thing to do, where I can't imagine the
Yankees ever giving an extension to Dominguez or ti Volpi
before they ever.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Make these moves.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
But for me, when it comes to Griffin versus Skeens,
it does feel easier to project what a everyday position
player is going to be and justifying that long term
contract instead of a pitcher who won bad injury and
that picture is gonna miss, you know, a year to
a year and a half with Tommy John.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But don't you think, because this is where I sit
on this, and it does vary on the team. If
you're the Pirates, you need to do whatever you can
to take your best shot and gamble and take a
chance on Connor Griffin. Now, let's use him as the
current example and bet that he's going to be a stud,
because if you don't, you're not going to be able
to keep him. I mean, think about how pathetic that
is that that's the largest contract in their franchise history,
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one hundred and forty million. The Yankees and Mets have
lit that on fire. The Dodgers, other team, whatever, the
top teams, they light that on fire. However, I would
say that if you're a powerhouse team Yanks met whoever
you Dodgers. The one area that I would be open
to extending a young player would be pitching, because in
the event those guys do hit and become the studs
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that you expect them to be. If they get to
the open market, the price is astronomical and you're paying
for their latter years as opposed to getting Let's say
Cam Schlitzler, if the Yankees go to him right now,
give them a hundred and fifty million guaranteed. You don't
think he'd take that. Now you're gambling, you're taking a gamble.
But if he, you know he it's ree agency, you
got to be paying three times that.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
I'm happy for that Pirates fan base because it feels like,
for the first time in a while that that fan
base has hope. You look at Paul Skiings, he's twenty three,
Bubba Chandler, another great starting pitcher, he's twenty three, Connor
Griffins nineteen. They have the number three farm system according
to MOB Pipeline. So the past three decades the Pirates
have had four winning seasons, which sounds crazy. And I
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think you can make the argument that there's no bigger
gap in sports than the one between how gorgeous PNC
Park is and then how unwatchable. The team that's been
playing inside has been Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It's when you when you put it that way, the
Bullpark is great. The team is stunk outside of one.
You know, they finally got back to the postseason with
McCutcheon years ago. That was great wildcard to have a
team that has been that bad consistently for that long.
As a fan, why would you bother? Like the Mets
have been bad obviously, the Jets have been all fun.
I would say the same thing to you, Mike yea
Jeff fan, like, why would you bother there? As a
(10:00):
Jet fan. Maybe a little different with the NFL because
it's not as long of a season and the hope
is kind of there. You could cross your fingers and
hope for arch Manning, which I don't think is gonna happen.
But in the event that you do happen to hit
on one, it could change the entire course of the franchise.
Whereas with baseball, they're never gonna have the money. The
Jets isn't a money issue. It's a personnel issue. The
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Pirates is a financial thing and that's not changing. It's
unless there's a cap, and that's a whole other issue.
For a lockout on work stoppage. It's never gonna change.
For the mid market, low market, small market teams, they're
never gonna be able to keep with the Mets, Yankees,
Dodgers and the higher team. So if I'm a pirate fan,
I just all you have is a ballpark. At least
you do have a nice ballpark.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
When I saw the headline that Paul Skins made cryptic comments,
I was like, oh my god, what did Paul Skians say?
And then I watched the clip and watch how he
delivered it. So when I clicked on that video, I
thought he was gonna say, like, I can't wait to
strike out Connor Griffin when I'm a meta a Yankee.
That's how they were kind of prefacing how bad the
comment was.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I mean, he didn't have to say face of the
franchise if you were a pirate fan. If I were
a pirate fan, I probably be hurt by that. If
I hear my guy's skiing saying that, so because you
know he's leaving anyway, you already know it, but now
he's hitting me in the face where they're like, this
is a face of the franchise. Moving forward.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, I read that as Paul Skin's like, man, he
is going to be the face of the franchise when
I'm elsewhere.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
That is going to be great for him, Like good
for him.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
The Pittsburgh should be happy that they've got a guy
who's just awkward and nice enough to not talk about
how he wants out, but has sort of been like, yeah,
I'm gonna be out, like I'll do what i can
while I'm here, but I'm not going to be here
very long.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I mean, I think when you look at it with Skens,
he's destined to be a Yankee. I mean, the writing
has been on the wall for a while. Unfortunately, Yankees
believe that so much so that they try to trade
for him, which is ridiculous. If you're the like, get
the hell out of here, don't even don't even call
my phone. We're not trading him. You may get him
in four years, whenever you hit tree agent.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Three years, you.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
May get him in. I'm not trading him to you.
And if you are going to consider a trade, you
better start with Cam Schlitzler. Then the whole conversation. Would
you do that? Even now if you're the Yankees, Well,
if I'm the Pirates. It starts with Cam Schlitler, but
the Pirate, there's no point. The Pirates, I hate to say,
might as well fold because they have such great history
and great uniforms and a great ballpark. But like, if
you can't keep Paul Schmes, well, what are we doing here?
(12:30):
The sport has a problem. It's got to be better
than that. I'm not saying the cap is salary cap
is an answer here, but it does seem like Paul
Skans is destined to be a New York Yankee, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
But do you think there's a number that Paul Skins
is like, yeah, I'll stay like a real question number.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Well, I mean, what are we talking about if if
you're him, everybody has a number?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I said, a realistic number? Okay, what's talking if they
go if they.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Say four hundred million for what five years?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Is that five years? That's not realistic? That four hundred
million is real? Isn't realistic? For the Pirates?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I men ten?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, yeah, okay, well yeah, if they offered a four
hundred million dollar deal, I'm not even so sure he
would take it. He might pull a Soto and be like, no,
I'm good he would, but he should. I was doing
this a little prep work for the TV show later on,
because we're talking about Noel McLean and how this would
tie into that. Right, another young pitcher, Cam Schlitzer, Poul Skins, whatever,
Skin's a different level. We know that, but it goes
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into the thought of trying to lock these guys up.
What would be a fair price. If you go back
to twenty thirteen where Matt Harvey took the Baseball world
by storm and started the All Star Game like I
would tell you, oh dude, I did say I wouldn't
trade this guy for anybody in the Mets. Better pay him.
Harvey in his career ended up I think netting under
fifty million bucks. So imagine going to Matt Harvey in
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twenty twelve and it's saying we'll give you one hundred
and fifty million guaranteed. He probably spitted you. What are
you insane? Undred and fifty million. I'm gonna have free agency.
I'm gonna get three hundred million. And yet here we are,
And there are endless other examples of that. But there
are also the examples the other way, where if you
did pay, it's all about getting Yankees did it with
Louis Everarino tried to lock him up, and even that
was a four year, forty million that whatever was it
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was a real cheap deal, but he never lived up
to the expectation. It's a gamble that the rich teams
don't have to take and the teams like the pirates
have to do it. What's the worst case for the pirates?
This contract prevents them from spending any money. They never
spend any money anyway, So what's the worst case scenario here?
Skin's gonna be Yankee? I know it. Just braced yourself
(14:35):
for it. I am you guys could get excited about it.
Go buy your skiens jersey. He'll be Yankee sooner than later.
We all know it.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Is it just Ann Taylor? Does he say Dodger?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Weird?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
He's going to Dodgers having Dodger like Yankee?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You think he's going to the Dodgers Skins.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I think everybody's going to the Dodgers, because that's what HAPs.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
The report was last year that one of his I
think it was his teammates who remain anonymous, said that
he believes you know, his his his wife or girlfriend
Libby Donn. She maybe prefers New York. And we've heard
this story before, but he grew up a Yankee fan
or whatever it is. He probably wants to pitch for
the Yankees. And if that's the case, if he wants to,
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then if it comes down to just money, I think
the Yankees will get out bit, whether it's the Dodgers
or the Mets. But if it comes down to Schemes
wanting to be a Yankee because he just wants the
power of the pinstripes, the history, and then I think
he's gonna be Yankee. I mean, I would bet that
would be the case. Yankees have shown that they have
not been able to go out there or not been
willing to spend the most money. Speaking of the Yankees,
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Mike is on Long Island. Mike, You're on Fox Sports
Radio at eight Fox. What's up, Mike?
Speaker 8 (15:43):
Hey? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
So?
Speaker 8 (15:44):
We really miss you over here in Long Island in
New York City.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Okay, well, I mean I didn't die. You could look
at my YouTube channel and podcasts and Fox Sports Radio. Now,
I mean it's it's not what are you missing? Just
go just go on the internet so I know it's
stop being lazy. Will you look it? Up Google, look
out of YouTube you can find me speaking.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Of being lazy.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
I actually downloaded iHeartRadio for you for this show, So.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
There you go. That means the world to me. Thank
you that. Here you go, Mike, Thank you very much
for that. We appreciate what's on your mind.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
So if Uncle Stevie were listening, could you just give
me like only you can speak for us, speak for
the met fans and tell him how we're feeling about
David Peterson because we need a break, sou We can't.
I can't keep doing this over and over again, spotting
the other team five runs in the first inning.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I'll take requests here today, especially if you download the
free iHeartRadio app and listen to us. So for you,
for you, Mike, and we appreciate that very much, Thank
you for your loyalty. We appreciate you making the effort.
Download the app and listen, and I will take the request.
If Steve Cohen is in fact listening to this, and
maybe he is, I mean I think he might be
a fan. Who is it. Here's what I'll do for you.
Speaker 9 (16:53):
David Peterson has to go. He's been terrible last year.
We couldn't give you three fregod innings. The Mets needed
a starter to give him some length. The guy was
an All Star in the first half of the year.
Then he comes out. He couldn't get you through the
third inning. You can't play Mendy, his best pitcher. Peterson
couldn't give it to him. And then this year he
gets another start. What's he done.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
He's been terrible in two starts. I out out of
the rotation. That's it now the problem that you have.
Hopefully that was good for you there, Mike. We'll take
more requests if you like. We're here for another forty minutes,
and it feels good to get that out of my system.
I would not go that nuts realistically yet with Peterson,
but I think it's trending that way. I didn't trust
Peterson to start the year. Where are we talking, David
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Peterson is a national show. But the Mets rotation does
have some issues here and it shows you. That's why
the pitching is tough to predict. Guy was an All
Star in the first half of last year, fell off
the cliff in the second half last year. We're talking
about paying these guys long term. I still though, if anything,
I would do it with the pitching and not the
position players, especially if you're from a powerhouse team, Dan teyl,
(17:54):
you're going to a baseball game this weekend? When he going,
you're taking your nephews here? What's going on with that?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
So I'm taking my little cousins to the inter Miami
soccer match to see Leo Messi and sal What complicates
even further. They're ten and seven, but they live in Italy,
so this is speak English. They do speak English, so
they moved to Italy probably five years ago, so they're
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both fairly young. They're both bilingual. But this does feel
like it's going to be a bit of a challenge
for me, not only the kids, but having little Italian kids.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Oh no, no, it's not going to be a bit
of a challenge. It's going to be a massive challenge
for you. Now. I didn't realize that it was a
soccer game. I thought it was like a Marlins game,
And I'm like, good God, what are you doing? At
least you going to see Messi? Who is worth the
price of admission. I'm not a huge soccer fan, but
I've seen him play when he came to New York.
It is lights out, dude. You know what you in for.
Have you ever done this before? Gone to a soccer match?
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Yes? Done it with a ten year old and a
seven year old?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
No?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
So that's what I'm kind of need help from the
dads here what to expect, because I'm sending texts like, Hey,
do I need to go to the bathroom with them?
Do I need to, you know, hold their hand when
we're crossing your troth?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Dude?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Are the done? Do I need course seats? I'm trying
to get a course.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And just just fly me or sal down there just
to help you out, because oh man, no, you're done.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
So the thing I'm not worried about is the spending part,
Like I've already bought like the closest parking pass to
cut one of the challenges. And then I think we're
just gonna go to the game as early as possible,
go to the team store, let them kind of run
around the fan zone area, and then I'm just gonna
I'm just gonna try to buy their love with like, Hey,
do you guys want messy jerseys? Do you guys want
(19:44):
cotton candy? Do you guys want soda?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
That's the easy part and that's fun.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
That's easy.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Everything else that is a nightmare. I gotta go to
the bathroom. I gotta go to the bathroom. Wow, we're
trying to watch Messi come down here or it's a
penalty gig or whatever happens in soccer.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I'm not really big soccer, but like you're gonna be missing.
Put it this way, you'd be lucky if you see
Messi on the field period, you're gonna be doing everything else.
Can we get this? Can we get that you have
any idea of you? You just need to surrender now.
That would be my advice. Surrender. If you think you're
gonna go there and watch a game or see a
performance from Messi, you're not. It's gonna be all about
those kids, as it should be. But surrender yourself for
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a day of complete exhaustion and a lot of frustration
as well. And you're gonna need a nap after that.
Set your clock good thing you take naps. You canna
need a nap after that one.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
So the only tips I have so far or surrender.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeshrender, be ready to referee fights because when the seven
year old has to go to the bathroom, and that
means all three of you have to go to the bathroom,
and the ten year old doesn't want to go to
the bathroom, so he's gonna start throwing a fit. But
because he's not gonna get with you about having to
go to the bathroom, he's gonna go with his brother.
So him and his brother are gonna start fighting because
all three of you now have to go to the bathroom. Yeah,
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that's that's what you're in for.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
At least you have the both boys. Like I had
the issue, I don't know these things, Like I'm a
first time parent, I have a daughter. Do I go
in the men's room? Do I go in the women's room?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
What do I do here? I don't if somebody helped
me out, I have no idea. It's crazy the first
time you experienced it, I don't know. You learn from doing.
But in that spot, I mean, can't be having any mistakes.
So good luck with all that tailor. That's what I
would say. Just know that you're in for. Know what
you're in for. This is not Taylor, Uncle Taylor gonna
be enjoying a game. This is oh man, I'm gonna
be trying to trying to do the best that.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
I can buy.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah, you cannot buy a ten or a seven year
old's love, but you can just rent it for about
twenty minutes.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Okay, So my best hope is that since they're Italian
and we're going to a soccer match, that at least
I'm not taking them to something that they don't want
to watch.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Right, Well, why would you do that? I mean that
would be that that would be the worst thing, taking
them something or on ice. Yeah, I've done.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
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Speaker 3 (22:10):
I've been talking too much sports on this show. Apparently
Taylor and Mike Ye were just getting on me for
that during one of the breaks. So tell me about this.
What's this Do me a Favor? Taylor? What s does
you have on the rundown here?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
So? Do me a Favor is a staple for Stu
gottson Company Live where we go around and we say
do me a favor and you just call out somebody
in the sports world. So I was Sam, give us
the do Me a Favor music like it so I
could start sell so you could kind of get an idea.
(22:40):
Do me a Favor? Mets owner Steve Cohen stay off Twitter.
The Mets move their start time up because of how
cold it is in New York, and because of that,
they offered a limited number of free tickets to the game.
After the game, Steve Cohen tweets out the free ticket
giveaway was fully subscribed within hours yesterday. Guess the percentage
of no shows the ticket offer fifty eight percent. What
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was the point of calling out the fan base like that?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I mean, he's not wrong, He's given free tickets. He's
trying to tell you know why, you try to do
something nice for people, and here we are, I'm doing
something nice giving you free tickets. You'll claim it. You
don't even show up. What's going on here? He did
do Met fans a favor giving him free tickets, and
now you're ripping him because he gave them free tickets
and complained about it. Wouldn't you if I had people
(23:27):
over in my house or say hey, you go eat
up and they're like, yeah, no, I'm good, Or you
buy food for people that are supposed to come to
your house and then they don't show up. What are
you supposed to say? You wouldn't go to social media
or call somebody at least and complain about it. I
feel like I might in that spot. Who's next up
with to do me a favor?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I'll go do me a favor. TV streaming executives, all
this stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Come up with an original idea, okay, because I am
sick of everything being another version of something else. You've
got seventeen NCIS's got seventeen Chicago Chicago Fire and all like.
Come up with one original idea, one original show that
we could watch and we don't have to deal with
(24:10):
having to understand fourteen other shows to watch this show.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
All Right, there you have it. I mean, I'm currently
looking for employment, so I am not going to rip
any TV executives anywhere for anything. Stream what you want,
promote what you want. I'll moll for it. Email me, Sally, Hey,
look at it, you bard Off Ricardo, You're on next?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (24:30):
Major League Baseball, do me a favor. Enough with the
constant interleague games. I don't mind a small section of
the season like we had in the early two thousands,
but just not every day. I like the league separated,
and it gives us more division games and it makes
interleague more special. But every day enough with.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It all right, fair enough? I hate anybody else?
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Go here?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Who iowa? Sam? Does he have to do me a favor?
I could go left them here you go? I was
Sam hop in there. Give us a do me a favor,
Do me a favor?
Speaker 12 (24:58):
Other sports fans es match the wonderful prices at the Masters,
because I could get everything on the menu for under
eighty dollars. I think I'd go with a beer eight masters,
a club sandwich, some apple slices and some chips, and
that'll run me twelve dollars. Let's go back to the
days of pre pandemic prices and just maybe slice your
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profits off a little bit and just cut us all
a break because everything's too expensive right now.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
But the problem is they could do that because they
don't care if you go like they know, what's a
limited audience? Now ow, they're stated, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 12 (25:31):
It's all the math game. They're all working us. But
at least the perception of something coming off cheap. Like
if I go over to Whole Foods when we got
across the street here at Sherman Oaks at the studio,
some of their food is like the day it's the
day of sell by date and they mark it down
fifty percent, and I'm like, I can get this sandwich
for four to fifty instead of nine dollars. This feels
like twenty eighteen again. It's like the good old days.
(25:53):
So let's go back to that. At least I feel
like I'm saving something. But you know, Atlanta Falcons do that.
Other franchises, some go real cheap with their concessions. I
love it. It makes people feel like it's more accessible.
So Master's concessions prices, do me a favor. I want
other people to match that apple slices.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
What are you Sal's five year old daughter, you gotta
get listen, beer, turkey, sandwich chips.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I gotta get something healthy in there.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
She does love the apple slices.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
Goody as Yeah, that was some hardsider.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
McDonald's little chicken nuggets, French fries and the apple slice.
You can't go real healthy, all right, do me a favor.
Let's stop with the damn video tributes to former players.
Do me fair enough. Jeff McNeil's gonna return to City
Field like as if he's some conquering hero with the Mets.
He was a scrub. I'm sorry. I know he beat
(26:42):
up the Yankees here in this series, and I know
we had okay, he was an old star one Jeff
McNeil wasn't very good scrubs, maybe disrespectfull. You get the point.
I want to exaggerate for effect. Just do me a favor.
If you get an acknowledgejeffmcdeil means we gotta acknowledge everybody.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Pete A.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Lonzo would be one thing. The all time franchise leading
home run hitter. You talk about former grades that move
on because the end of their career, whatever it may be.
Pick a team, pickup player, pick a sport. But enough
with these video tributes because it's just now teams feel
obligated to do it. So do me a favor. Got
it out all right? How that work? Was that okay?
Speaker 6 (27:13):
But that was a great to me a favorite?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
That was awesome. That was awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Wait any more games to play? Actually this is not
a game. But this is something I was thinking about
and getting to hang out with you guys here today,
Like because as a listener of the show, right becoming
a fan of the show, you know, working with you
guys in the podcast, there are certain things that I
feel like, like I used to feel this way about
Mike and the Madic. Oh, I just not I want
to be on the air. I want to just be
a part of that family and hang out with those guys.
(27:38):
And I was thinking about it, like with with Stu.
For me, maybe the thing would be to like play
golf with him, right, even though I'm not a big golfer,
would that be the thing? I mean, it's either play
golf with him or get high with him. And I've
never gotten high with anybody, but maybe it would be
with Sue. Are those the two things? Maybe that like
what would you want to do with Sue if you
could do anything to experience being part of these Stu
Gotson company family.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
So I've played golf with him a couple of times.
One of the things you have to kind of prepare
yourself for some of the slowest rounds you'll ever play
in your life. Like, not only is he slow, just
kind of like waddling up to the ball. He stands
over the ball for like three minutes, And I'm like, Stu,
come on, if you're gonna if you're if you're.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Gonna play, play found and then he hits.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Then and then all you hear about is how much
golf he plays. And then you're out there and he's
just he's just hacking it out. He's in the woods.
And then you finish the hole and you're like, Stu,
what'd you get there? And He's like, just put me
down for a par I'm like, wait, what.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So on second thought, maybe I want to pop a
gummy with Stu instead of that with Taylor. I feel
like I want to play softball, Like that's the thing.
I'm like, Wow, I wonder if I go down there
one day, if I happen to be in Miami and
hang out, maybe I could be like a walk on
for a softball team. I like, that's the thing I
want to experience now from a listener stadpoint, you talk
about it. You know, if Ian could do it, how
bad could things be. I'm sure I could go down there.
(28:58):
Is that something that's possible to play some softball with you?
Speaker 7 (29:01):
Taylor definitely could do softball.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Sow.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
My dream for you would be me and you. We
just have a catch, like the field of dreams. Just
a kid in just a kid and his dad, but
just a kid and somebody. He used to listen to
on w f A n.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I mean we can make that happen. We could have
a catch and then maybe go play softball. Mikey, I
was thinking about with you, like I feel like with you,
I just want to hang out and pound some beers
and a pie.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Right. Uh?
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Yeah, you want to? You want to eat pizza and
watch football with me?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
If you want to, If you want to get the
full experience, that's what you want to do.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
We do that. We can do that. Hopefully you can here.
Here's the thing. I can invite you over to my
place in New Jersey. You could bring the good pizza
from Connecticut. We watch some football. I mean Taylor's inbody
it as well. But that's what I feel like I want.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
The other thing is with is He. I don't know,
like do I want to work out with is He?
I don't like, do you want to do I want
to go to the game? What's what? What's the thing
with we don't want to play? He doesn't want to
play softball. I know he loves the heat. I know
he's in shape. I'm trying to think of things that
what do we want to do with easy? What would
be the dream there? I think it would be you
have to play flag football.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
And I'm telling you football.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
I'm telling you right now, Sal I consider myself a
great athlete. My quads were not ready for flag football.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
But you're a football player. You played football in North Carolina.
That's your whole thing, that's what you do. You're not
a softball player. You're not, in fact, Andrew Jones. You're
a football player that you weren't ready for.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
I'm a retired I'm a current athlete. I'm a retired
football player. And so the entire drive over, I was like, man,
should I just text Izzy that? Like my stomach kind
of hurts and and kind of fail out of this
because I know going in there as a former North
Carolina wide receiver that people are going to be looking
at me and be like, hey, we have to get
this kid the ball, you know, twenty times a game.
(30:49):
He's got to be our version of Pooku Nakua. And
I'm a lot closer to whoever's backing up Pooka Nakula
than I am Pooka Nakua.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I'd love to get to know, Izy. I am not
playing flag football under any circumstances. I would be an
injury waiting to happen.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
What about us for you, sal if we wanted to
be part of you in your world, if you what
would we join you to do?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Would it be? Would it be go sit next to
Jerry Seinfeld? And wow?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
But that is maybe maybe hang out at a game
like in the Islanders owner suite or something. I mean,
maybe something like that. I don't know. I don't really
have any do a radio.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Show with me.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
It's all I know how to do. I can't do
anything else.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
So I'm actually I live in Fort Lauderdale, South but
I'm coming back home to New York for I think
a week and maybe a week and a half. In
the middle of April. I have a wedding and that
I have my sister's baby shower. And I'm looking at
the Yankee schedule. Fun, I'm looking at the Yankee schedule
and it's during a homestand it looks like the Royal
(31:48):
series the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth in April. And You've
mentioned that if I come to a Yankee game with
you, you'll connect me with Aaron Boone. So I think I'm
reaching into my pocket and I'm pulling out this favor.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Oh dude, you gotta give me a heads up.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
April and Anthel the next week.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
For goodness sake, I will next week, next Friday.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
It's next week.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You don't even want to know what I have planned
for next weekend. My daughter's birthdays on the sixteenth. I
told you the eighteenth. We promised her We're gonna go
to Peppa Pig's house. It's in It's of course, there's
not one in New York, because why would there be
a Pepa Pigs house in New York. It's in Virginia
or something. So we have that schedule for the eighteenth.
But either that Friday or the Sunday, maybe we could
work on that. We'll go hang out of the Yankee
game and see if Boony's available.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
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Speaker 3 (32:40):
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videos from our original podcast. Right, let's finish up with
a call here. Randy is in Idaho Falls. What's up, Randy?
You have some advice for Taylor.
Speaker 10 (33:17):
Well, listen, this is just my opinion, and maybe I've
seen too many take in movies, but Taylor, you're talking
about this, and my palms just instantly start getting sweaty.
I'm like, man, I feel like I need to tell
this guy what I would do. But I think a
worst case scenario. Right, I'm gonna have to put these
(33:37):
kids on leashes. You know those kids have backpacks that
you know kids wear, Adults kind of yank them back
because I think a worst case scenario, someone's gonna take
these kids. I ain't worried if they're gonna enjoy the
game or not. I'm gonna be worried that they're gonna
take them. So, Taylor, I'm gonna pray for you.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
Man.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
I'm gonna think about you and watch the game and
hope that everything goes well.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Excellent point, Randy. Safety first, and thank you for the
cold Taylor. You didn't even bring that up. You weren't
even concerned at all about the well being of your
what is it again, your cousins, your nephews. I'm confused
by this a little bit.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Yeah, so it's my cousin's kids. So I'm pretty sure
they are still my cousins. So did you say excellent
point to that?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
I think it is an excellent point. You gotta be
careful a soccer game, no less how many people are there. Yeah,
you let go that kid for one second, you be screwed.
You never know people are sick out there. You get
safety first. You're worried about cotton candy, you absolutely need.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
To be worried about it. Leasha's a little fuck.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Well, I didn't say leashes. I wouldn't do that, although
those are that's that's where it is a thing, and
that would that would help make sure, Taylor. I'm telling
you like you do it a second in a second. Things.
I remember my daughter was upstairs on my office once
and I was like, okay, yeah, yeah, whatever, and Daddy
was playing on his phone and the next thing I know,
she comes back upstairs with wet socks, and I'm like,
(34:54):
how'd your socks get wet? She opened the back door.
Thank goodness, there's a fence around the pool. Open the
back one outside and came in. You just blink of
an eye. Man, you don't know when you're going with
two kids around fifty thousand people. You got to be careful.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
So this is like when I'm driving ten and two.
I'm a great driver ten and two looking blinders on
when I when I have the kids, I'm just gonna
go into Now I don't have a kid, but I'm
gonna almost just go into dad mode. And I feel
like talking to a couple of dads prepared me for
this moment.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Yeah, it's an Mike, YEA. Wouldn't you agree that that's
an excellent point. You have to be locked in at
all times, That's what I'm saying. Like, you're not gonna
enjoy this. You're on all time. You're on. There is
no just ah, let me sit and relax and watch
the game. No, No, you gotta be. You got to
be locked in. You're right ten and two, hands on
the wheel, focus, you lose, you lose grip for a
second and your day could be derailed. You'd be in
(35:44):
big trouble.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
If you can sit between them. Okay, but you've got
you've got peripheral vision on both.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
How long is how long is a soccer game? Usually
so it's ninety minutes. It's ninety minutes every soccer match.
Forty five minute half, forty five minutes second half. Yeah,
and plost the bathroom is gonna be crowded that half time.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Like I would make sure they go to the bathroom
before and try to you know, maybe maybe do like
a little contest with your cousin, be like, all right,
whoever can hold their their pep the longest can get
surprised at the end of the day. You don't want to,
you know, just limit what you need to do throughout
the course of the day.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
So one of the biggest challenges is enter Miami Stadium.
This is only their second game there. It's called New Stadium,
and you but it is a new stadium. And what
I'm worried about sal is since I've never been there.
It would be one thing if I was going to
Yankee Stadium, I have a lay of land of Yankee Stadium.
Going to New Stadium for the first time. That's where
a little concern starts to creep in.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
I'm gonna tell you where you're gonna be at.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
The most dangerous is the store, because one wants to
go that way to see that. One wants to go
one way to see that. Got to keep everybody together,
it's important.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I'm telling you, mike Y, how many.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
Kid you have?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I have two, ten and seven, so you you are
the right person to speak to with it us. We
had one? Oh, you gotta have another? What another one?
What do you? Are you insane? It's like asking if
I'd ever get remarried. You should out of your mind.
I did it once, never again. I don't care what happens.
It's over. That's it. One and done. One kid is
(37:13):
too much for me. I can't handle. I don't imagine
the people do it too. And tall. You're going to
a spot where you're the rookie year. You're inexperienced. I
don't care how many games you played at UNC, how
many receiver snaps you took there. Good luck, my friend,
you're gonna need it all right. Thatt you guys for
having me. It was a pleasure. Hopefully we see you soon.
Still be out to be back tomorrow at least, I
think thanks to everybody who helped, everybody behind the seats,
we appreciate it. We'll see you later.
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