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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the best of Stu Gotson Company Live on
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Oh yeah, back on the radio, and I'm excited to
be in for Stue today. Thank you for the opportunity.
Let's get into it, Taylor, Mike Da You know I
listen to you guys all the time. Now that's the
show that I listened to. You know, since I no
longer do a radio show, this has become my show.
So it's weird to be here as opposed to driving
or listening on the free iHeart app. So very happy

(00:42):
to be You're gonna have a lot of fun today,
a lot of topics to get into, and I just
want to start right off to gate with the Dexter
Lauren stuff. You know, we were talking about this a
little bit last night, and it's not just about Dexter
Lawrence and the Giants. To me, think about it. In
any sport, I don't care what sport it is. Shouldn't
you be in the business of acquiring good players and

(01:03):
then developing those players, and then keeping those players. If
you put yourself in a position as an organization that
you have to trade those players because they're unhappy for
whatever reason, I think you have already failed. And a
big part of why John horrible everybody's talking about horriball
the greatest thing ever, the greatest coach. And I do
think it was a great hire. But a big part

(01:24):
of that should be because you figure, well, you know what,
dex Lawrence had a down year year ago. He's one
of the best tackles in the sport. You would think
John Horball coming in would maximize his potential, not be
in a position where, oh there's some turmoil, some problems
here with Dexter Lawrence and the Giants. I wouldn't be
in the business of giving them up. I don't care
what the cost is.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
If you want to win this year, and that's what
Harball said, you want to win this year, you better
make sure you pay him because there's nobody in that draft,
especially this year's draft, that's going to replace what Dexter
Lawrence could do.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Sal correct me if I'm wrong, and I agree with
you one hundred percent, but weren't you one of the
guys that gave me flack for when I said the
same thing when the Jets traded away Quentin Williams and
Sauce Gardner, I.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
Said, it's not about the return.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
Yeah, they got all those picks, but when you have
guys that are supposed to be some of the best
at their position, you don't let those guys leave.

Speaker 6 (02:18):
You try and get those guys right.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
But Mike, yeah, you realize the big gass here, right,
the Jets.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
The Jets did. The Jets stink.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
The Jets did the right thing. Listen, I said, you
failed as an organization if you put yourself in a
spot where you have to get rid of those guys,
that's the spot that Jets wins. So I give the
Jets credit. And we've seen other teams have this issue before.
I mean, the Jets have been doing it forever, dating
back to Darrel Revis and the thought was, well, okay,
you trade Derel Reeves. Well now they're just going to
draft a corner. How'd that work out with Dean Milner?

(02:49):
So it's the same thing, you don't The Jets weren't
a different spot a year ago, which is why I
thought it was the right move because they had already
failed as an organization not being able to maximize what
Williams or Sauce Gardner can do. The Giants right now
with Harball should be able to maximize what Dexel Lawrence
can do.

Speaker 7 (03:05):
Sal And it also feels like correct me if I'm wrong.
The Giants expectations are to compete in year one under Harball,
where the Jets really don't have those expectations, and it's
more about maximizing the capital that you can get for
some of those players in return.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Well, that's the point, right. The Jets are the spot
where they need to rebuild. Their timeline is not going
to be with Quinn Williams and Sauz Gardener winning. They
want to restock the form. And by the way, good
luck with that. All the draft picks that they got
this year's draft. Look at it. Look at the top
of the draft. It's like, Eh, I don't know, I
like this guy, and he's all right, yeah he could
be Okay. That's how they're going to rebuild their team.
And what the Giants is different because Harball comes in

(03:41):
and they want to win.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Now.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
He said that we are going to make a priority
to win every game. I'm paraphrasing, I forget the exact quote.
Forgive me we want to win every single game. Well,
if that's the case, you don't trade a guy like
Dexel Lawrence. And think of it this way. Look around
the league. Pick any team in the league that is
serious about winning. If a player the caliber of Dexter
Lawrence becomes available, they're gonna be all in on a

(04:04):
player like that. That's how you know.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
Is this another? Is another?

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Is this another failed attempt by their GM Joe Shane
to sort of put his foot down with a star
player and said, you're not gonna dictate this to me.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
Look what I did to Saquan.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
The problem is that Joe Shane and the Giants, prior
to Horrball's arrival, put themselves in a bad spot as
a franchise letting go of Dexel Lawrence's best balls on
one want to win super Bowls afterward, and Lawrence is
sitting there saying last year was a down year. There's
no issues about it. But if you take I guarantee
you if he does truly become available, other teams that
know what they're doing are going to say, we want

(04:43):
this guy because he could change our front line. He
can change our entire defense. That's what winning football teams do.
They take advantage of the teams like like the Jets.
I'm sorry to say it, but that's what winning football
teams do. They go out there and get the good players.
And it happens in all sports. That's why I wanted
to start with this toy. It could be baseball too,
the same thing. Oh, this team can't pay this guy.
The Tigers aren't going to pay school Ball. Oh guess

(05:04):
what whose fault is that? That's your own fault. And
now the other teams, the rich teams are gonna feast
off of you. It's been going on forever in sports.
And if the New York Giants, big blue, big bad
New York Giants want to consider themselves a top high
end organization like they were in the past and like
they should be now with Harball, I don't think that
being in a position where you, for whatever reason, you

(05:25):
can't pay Dex Lawrence and you have to trade him,
that's a weak position. I wouldn't expect that to be
the case with Harball. You're never going to get the
proper return for a guy like that, certainly not in
this draft, and certainly not for a team that's talking
about winning now.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
And if you've heard Harball talk about Lawrence's importance to
the Giants, it feels like a non story where Lawrence's
problems with the Giants don't have to do with the
coaching staff, it doesn't have to do with his role.
It just can you guys meet me at this dollar amount?
And then it kind of comes down to if Harball
wants Dexter Lawrence, the Giants are going to keep Dexter Lawrence.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
I would think that this is a horriball decision, which
makes me feel comfortable about it, right, I have to
trust horriball. Now, if Harball says the biggest question to me,
wouldn't I want the player? I believe in the player.
But if Harbaugh doesn't and he thinks that dex Lawrence
isn't motivated, I'm choosing to look at it from he
just wants to get paid. He feels underpaid. And there's

(06:21):
no excuse for last year. I mean, he was out
of shape, he said all the wrong things. So that
could be a deterrent, right if it were Brian Dable
here or a rookie head coach. Then I'd be saying
maybe they should move on from dex Lawrence and you
trade him to a spot where a proven head coach,
Sean Payton, Andy Reid, Sean mcvagh, whatever, pick a proven
head coach that's going to make the most of what
he can bring. But being that you have horriball here,

(06:42):
one of the first thoughts that I had was instantly, okay, good,
Dexel Lawrence is now going to be fixed. If Harball
can't do it, who can. So the Giant should be
in a spot where they need to keep their player.
And the other thing is what would be the return
of if you're trading a player like dexe Lawrence. Magnitude?
Is the return? Really? Word that even if you believe,
let's say you believe that Dexel Lawrence isn't going to

(07:02):
be motivated and it's negative thing last year with him
being out of shape and saying the things that he said,
and he's not passionate about football. He just wants the money.
And you're on that side of it, you're gonna trade
him for what are you getting anywhere near the proper
value for him? Like for me, that caliber player that
type of game wrecker. He should be two ones and
they'd be lucky to get a one. I would think it.

(07:23):
Maybe it's gonna be a late one. So there's a
lot that goes into this when you talk about the
value of the player, the motivation of the player, the
history of the player. But isn't that a big part
This is not a rebuild. Isn't that a big part
of why Hardball was here? If you have a great
head coach like that, a super Bowl winning head coach
who's built a sustained, successful organization before, wouldn't you think

(07:45):
that the best thing to do use any sport period,
the best thing to do wouldn't that be to keep
the good player. Hard enough to find the good player.
And we know when you talk about New York football,
of course, but in general, hard enough to find the
good player. Will you identify one in the draft? Then
hard enough to develop him into a stud. Then he
becomes a stud, you can't move on from him. That's
a failure. Is an organ If the Giants have to

(08:08):
trade Dexter Lawrence, they have failed before Harball even coached
a game with the New York Giants.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
Is it is it?

Speaker 6 (08:20):
Are we doing too much.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
You guys gotta tell me. Should should we learn to
know what we were talking about? What do you think
dex Lawrence diet is? Do you think you came you
came out of the gate so hot that we are
so not used to this.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
I love it, I love it, but I'm out of
practice with Let me ask you this, is it a
question if Dexter Lawrence, who's only twenty eight years old,
if they say, you know what, go ahead and get
your trade, go and get your your big contract.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
Is that John Harbaugh saying I don't think this is
the play. I don't think this player can be what
we saw.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Because if he can be what he saw, there is
no way in hell Harball allows that talent from that position,
because because he could do something that so few can do.
I saw a stat like he has one hundred and
seventy one pressures from the nose position and the next
highest was like twenty eight over over, like the course.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
Of two seasons.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
He could do something at an elite level that no
other guy can do. But if they let him go,
it's them saying we don't think you can do it
anymore in.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
My opinion, right, And then it comes down to and
I do trust Harball. That's why I don't think they're
ultimately going to move him, because I trust Harbor to
make the right decision here. If he does move him,
that would mean that he not Joe Shane, not Donaponte,
whoever's run things with the Giants, not the financial people.
Harball said, for whatever reason, football based reason, he doesn't

(09:46):
believe that dex l Lawrence is gonna fit his program
or is worth the money that they would need to
pay him to keep him here. I don't believe that's
going to be the case. So I think there is
much ado about nothing. But the fact that you can
even get here just shows you how bad the Giants
organization has been. Why Dexter Lawrence is frustrated with what's
going on. Harball's got to clean it. I think that
he will, because if he doesn't, they're all going to

(10:07):
be teams lined up across the NFL. Pick a team
that needs a defensive player or needs to upgrade their
defense to get them over the hump, and there are
tons of them out there. The upper rational on team,
They're going to be trying to do anything they can
to go get dext Lawns maybe that drive the price up.
Who knows, but I would believe that a player like
that caliber, all the smart teams, the good teams are
going to go out there and try to take advantage

(10:27):
of the giants, miss Q.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
The other interesting part of it is John Harbaugh is
not a defensive guy. He's not an offensive guy. He's
a he's a CEO guy, He's a he came from
special teams. So it's not that he wants to get
rid of Dexter Lawrence because he's not a scheme fit.
His scheme is these are the players I got, this
is the coaches I'm hiring, this is what we're going
to do.

Speaker 6 (10:47):
Listen.

Speaker 7 (10:48):
Let me be the first to say I love the
sports Talk. I was on the phone with a couple
of executives at Fox Sports Radio a couple of days ago.
We were talking about who should be the guest co host.
We were between Salakata and an AI version of Colin Coward.
And let me tell you, sal I think we chose right.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
I'm still ufens even the ah, even the Ai Coward
has to be more expensive than I am. I don't
know what to do when you guys, I listened to
the show and you're talking about Dave Taylor your softball games.
I figure we get into that, but not out of
the gate. I mean, come on, I haven't done a
radio show since December. I need to talk some sports.
The podcast isn't cutting for me. These nice studios here
at iHeart. I mean, this is fun. I can hear
myself clear. I got the zooms going on.

Speaker 6 (11:28):
This is great.

Speaker 7 (11:28):
We got to talk some sports to start, so sal
I also have to admit too, I'm a bit distracted
because bordoup Ricardo. If there's day game baseball, bard up,
Bricardo's gonna have it on. And as a Yankee fan,
I'm watching the Yankees versus the Athletics. Right now, Yankees
are being no hit through six INNX. I'm getting a
little worried.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
That is music to my ears? Wouldn't that? It's sweet
if they could get no hit here?

Speaker 6 (11:51):
It's it's an a level pit like it's Paul Skeens
or something. No hitting them? Right? Who? Who's yeah? Right?

Speaker 3 (11:57):
A guy that we never heard of before?

Speaker 6 (11:58):
Who is it?

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Do we even know his name? He's on the eight
that he can't be that relevant. It's somebody named Jeffrey Springs.
Jeffrey Springs. I mean, wouldn't that be fitting how they
get no hit? Is the guy walking pitching around Aaron Judge. Finally,
you know that's the other thing. I would do baseball
all day long, but doing a national show. I was
once told, if you're doing a national show, you can't
do baseball. And now things have changed in the year

(12:19):
since I was doing a national show. I get it,
but we gotta do some baseball. I figured we can't
start with the baseball. Although if the Yankees get no hit,
light up the phone lines eight seven to seven ninety
nine on focks, give us a call. We'll wait for
the tailor all day long. When his Yankees getting no
I mean, they're gonna come. You know what's gonna happen.
We've seen this play out a million times with the Yankees.
They get no hit for the first five innings. Great, okay,

(12:39):
the A's think they have him dead to rights, and
then the Yankees come back with a barrage in the
eighth inning. Trent Grisham gets on, Judge hits a two
run homer, and so on. We know how it's gonna
play out already. WAPs, How do you guys, because I
grew up hating the Yankees. I'm sorry now, Boonie's my guy.
I love him, but I grew up hating the Yankees.
The one thing around we get every great setup. I

(13:01):
don't have the TV on. I'm missing the Yankee game.
I didn't realize the Yankees are playing this afternoon. You
want to do the show? Sure, I can't wait. I
gotta get back in the radio. Oh, the Yankees. I
get a TV show at six. I'm in the city here,
I'm lonky. Don't get beat up by you know, the
people on the street trying to get here. I gotta
get downtown for a TV show at six. I can't
even watch the Yankees and mean while they're getting no hate.
Go figure. It seems like you need a board up
Ricardo in that studio. Yeah you do.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
We all need a board up Ricardo.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
You know. We all we need is Iowa was Sam
to make sure it doesn't screw up any sound today.
All right, we got Iowa Sam on the board, port
off Priccado. How many guys you got here? And producer Jason,
producer jac I know he's talking with everybody's getting emails
three not four, not five?

Speaker 6 (13:45):
Right, right?

Speaker 3 (13:45):
We don't do sports. Let's talk about everything but no
and and we'll get into the Basterds and some of
the baseball stuff in a little bit. I just feel
like the NFL, you can talk about anything when the NFL,
and I was listening a little bit to Colin Coward
this morning talking about the NFL. Think about how many
teams be salivating to get the player a caliber of
dex Lawrence, especially when you look at the draft. Now,
I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I'm some draft guru.

(14:07):
I'm not. I'll look at the draft and I'll look
at some of the right ups on some of the players,
and then they're like, Okay, I like this guy because
of so and so his motor or the way that
the way that he handles the interview, all those different things,
certain things about players that will jump out to me
outside of the measurables, which I don't get caught up on.
This draft is weak. There's no way you're going to

(14:28):
replace a player that's an all pro like Dexter Lawrence,
which to me makes it fascinating if the Giants, in
my opinion, do the wrong thing and can't can't come
to an agreement on him. I think other team's gonna
be looking at Pounce to go get Dexter Lawrence salvating Locata.
It's all that, that's his that's all you get.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
He's had his hand up. He's had his hand up
for five minutes for that.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
I have been salivating you, all right. I'm thinking the
whole night. Last night he stressed a little bit. A
matter of fac I'm feeling like a little I don't
know if it's stress, head ache, kawanum. I want to
make sure I come out of the gate hot. But
do I have fun with the guys? Do we hit
him with the sports right away? Normally my philosophy and
maybe I should throw that philosophy out the door because
we've seen how far that's got me before. Normally my
philosophy would be just come in hot, let's go sports talk, baby.

(15:15):
We'll have fun throughout the course of the two hours.
Two hours like a breeze. I used to do five
six hours on the overnight. Nobody's calling. I mean, in
two hours of breeze with you two guys, mikey A
and Taylor. We're having some funn here. But I figureed
I hit him with the sports. I think I knocked
you both guys out. I'm like, usually there's hands up
all over the place. You're both like, oh, what's happening here?

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Sports talk?

Speaker 3 (15:33):
I don't know what we're doing.

Speaker 6 (15:35):
You came in, ready, go set.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
I don't mess around? Are you kidding me? It might
be my last one. Treat every radio show like at
your last And that's what I've been doing for a
long time.

Speaker 7 (15:45):
So on the topic of the no hitter that the
A's have right now, it felt like when a pitcher
has a no hitter, where me and Mikey A didn't
want to interact with you near the dugout. We just
want to let you go out do your thing. We
don't want to jinx you. You're talking Dexter Lawrence. You're
you're in this little groove, You're in this little rhythm.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
We were just letting you go, baby, what's the what inning?
W in with the no hitter? And I appreciate that
because other people jump in and get in my way.
But I figure with you guys, and now I don't
jump in and help out. Let's go whatitting way up.

Speaker 6 (16:13):
With this game.

Speaker 7 (16:14):
We're in the seventh inning, one out in the seventh inning.
Big g up, It's getting real.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
It is getting real. Make sure you stay tuned live
no hit watch right here live on Fox Sports Radio.
We see the Yankees go down. As a matter of fact,
I don't even want that, Like I'm joking around and
it would be fun to make fun of you guys
and are the Yankee fans. But I actually do this
baseball pool throughout the course of the year where you
pick a team for a week and they have to win. Like,

(16:42):
if they play seven games for that week, you have
to go four and three. If they only play six,
you have to go minimum three and three. It's like
a survivor and you get three strikes. And the buddy,
the guy that I'm doing the pool with, my buddy,
he picked the Yankees this week. And of course the
Yankees are one and one so far versus the A's
and if they get no hit today, that's no good.
One and two. That man, They do play a Tampa which,
by the way, house of horrors for the Yankees in

(17:02):
Tampa Bay. So maybe this will be the week. Fig
go figure the week I take the Yankees, They're gonna
one hundred and five games. The one week I take
the Yankees. They're gonna get no hit. I mean, that's
how these pools usually work. Somebody get a hit. What
am I talking about rooting against the Yankees. I want
that ball. I want to win that pool. I can
use the money. You guys big in there. I know.
Tell you're a big into baseball, Mike Yea, where are
you at with the baseball? I'm not familiar.

Speaker 6 (17:20):
I'm a big I'm a big Yankee fan, a big,
bigger Yankee fan.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's a big Yankee fan. Taylor, Yeah, I watch all
one sixty two. Oh, you're a one sixty twur. Mike.
Ye's a come and go as you please man.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
He at least eighty ninety eighty to ninety. You know,
if it's on, I'm not staying up. I'm not staying
I'm not staying up.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
For for any West Coast games.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
And the West Coast games they bond you as a fan.
You bond with the West Coast games. Everybody's asleep. You
gotta stay up and watch those games late night. So Sally,
you'll respect this move of me and you. This is
the move that you could tell that I don't have kids,
or a family or much responsibilities we do the show
from three to five. When the Yankees have the ten
o'clock game, I get home around five point thirty after traffic,

(18:05):
take a nap until that game starts.

Speaker 6 (18:07):
Oh look at you.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Live in the life, you know. That's another reason why
I like listening to the show. I live vicariously through you.
Because you have a softball team, You're just moving in
with your girlfriend. You could take naps so you could
get ready to watch the games. And I'm like, yesterday,
I'm taking my daughter to chuck e cheese, Like my
life is over. People are asking me, are you one
of the Masters. I'm like I used to be, Well,
what happened well, and not just Tiger and Phil, but

(18:29):
like I got married. That's what happened. Instead of sitting
there on Thursday, Friday, certainly Saturday or Sunday watching the
Masters like I used to do, or college basketball, the
NCAA tournament, filling on a bracket, I got married. That's
the problem. During the week I could say, well, I
gotta watch the Mets and Yankees. I gotta watch a
lot of sports on the weekend. It's like, Okay, what
are you gonna do for us? Now? That's that's the problem.
So if you want to be a sports fan, be

(18:51):
weary of where you're gonna go with your future, even
if you're just dating.

Speaker 7 (18:54):
Right now, we have a massive update, John Carlos, stay
and walk, Ben Rice go.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Okay, So there, oh hit r over. Well that ended,
Now you go to break.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Gotson Company
Live weekdays at three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific on
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Speaker 3 (19:17):
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 does you
have on the rundown here? So?

Speaker 7 (19:27):
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.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Do me a favor.

Speaker 7 (19:49):
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
from the ticket offer fifty eight percent? What was the

(20:10):
point of calling out the fan base like that?

Speaker 3 (20:14):
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 him free tickets
and complained about it. Wouldn't you if I had people

(20:35):
over 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 6 (20:50):
I'll go do me a favor. TV streaming executives, all
this stuff.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
Come up with an original idea, okay, because I am
sick of everything being.

Speaker 6 (21:03):
Another version of something else.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
You've got seventeen NCISS, You've 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 having to understand fourteen other shows to
watch this show.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
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. Extreame what you want,
Promote what you want.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
I'll moll for it.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Email me, Sally, he look at it, you bord Off Bercarado,
You're on next.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (21:37):
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
inter league more special.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
But every day? Enough with it?

Speaker 3 (21:55):
All right? Fair enough? I hate anybody else? Go here?
Who I was? Sam? Does he ever do me a favor.
I could go left them there you go, I would say,
im hop in there, give us to do me a favor,
Do me a favor.

Speaker 9 (22:06):
Other sports franchises 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

(22:27):
profits off a little bit and just cut us all
a break because everything's too expensive right now.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
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, how they're stadium.

Speaker 9 (22:37):
You know what I'm saying, 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 in
stead of nine dollars. This feels like twenty eighteen again.

(22:59):
It's like the good days. So let's go back to that.
At least I feel like I'm saving something. But you know, Masters,
Atlanta Falcons do that. Other franchises, some go real cheap
with their concessions.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
I love it.

Speaker 9 (23:09):
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. What are your sal's five
year old daughter? I gotta get listen, beer, turkey, sandwich chips.
I gotta get something healthy in there.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
She does love the apple slices, good yard apples.

Speaker 9 (23:27):
Yeah, that was some hardsider.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
M McDonald's little chicken nuggets, French fries and the apple slice.
You can't go healthier, 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's a scrub. I'm sorry. I know he beat up

(23:49):
the Yankees here in this series, and I know we had. Okay,
he was an old star one. Jeff McNeill wasn't very
good scrubs, maybe disrespectfull. You get the point. I want
to exaggerate for a fact. Just do me a favor.
If you get to acknowledgejeffmcgil means we gotta now to everybody,
Pete A. Lonzo would be one thing, the all time
franchise leading home run hitter. You talk about former grades
that move on because at the end of their career,
whatever it may be, pick a team, pickup player, pick

(24:10):
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'd that work?
Was that? Okay? But that was a great to me
a favorite?

Speaker 6 (24:22):
That was awesome.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
That was awesome. You wait any more games to play?
Actually this is not a game, but this is something
I was thinking about. I'm 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 mandic. Oh, I just
not I want to be on the air. I want
to just be a part of that family and hang

(24:44):
out with those guys. And I was thinking about it,
like with with Stu. For me, maybe the thing would
be to 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 Stue. Are those the two things? Maybe
that wou like, what would you want to do with
Stue if you could do anything to experience being part
of these Stu Gots and Company family.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (25:06):
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 gonna play,
play fount and then he hits then and then all

(25:29):
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 6 (25:44):
All right?

Speaker 3 (25:45):
So on second thought, maybe I want to pop a
gummy with Stue 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 feel like that's the thing
I want to experience now from a listener standpoint, you
talk about it. You know, if Ian could do it,
how bad could things be. I'm sure I could go

(26:05):
down there. Is that something that's possible? Maybe to play
some softball with you? Taylor definitely could do softball.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
Sow.

Speaker 7 (26:11):
My dream for you would be me and you. We
just have a catch like field of dreams. Just a
kid in just a kid and his dad, but just
a kid and somebody he used to listen.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
To on w f A N. I mean, we can
make that happen. We could have a catch and then
maybe go play softball. Mikey, I was thinking about it
with you, like I feel like with you, I just
want to hang out and pound some beers and a pie. Right, Uh?

Speaker 5 (26:36):
Yeah, you want to you want to eat pizza and
watch football with me if you want, If you want
to get the full experience, that's what you want to do.

Speaker 6 (26:43):
I do that.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
We can do that, hopefully you can.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
Here.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Here's the thing I get. 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 10 (26:52):
Now.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
The other thing is with Izzy. I don't know, Like
do I want to work out with is He? I
don't like, what do you want to do? I want
to go to a game with is He? 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 Isazy? What
would be the dream there?

Speaker 7 (27:11):
I think it would be you have to play flag
football and I'm telling you football. I'm telling you right now,
Sal I consider myself a great athlete. My quads were
not ready for flag football.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
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 7 (27:34):
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.

(27:56):
He's got to be our version of Poka Nakua. And
I'm a lot closer to whoever's backing up Pooka Nakuah
than I am Pooka Nakulah.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
I'd love to get to know, Isy. I am not
playing flag football under any circumstances. I would be an
injury waiting to happen.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
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 6 (28:17):
Would it be? Would it be go sit next to
Jerry Seinfeld? And wow?

Speaker 3 (28:21):
But that's not me. 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 show with me.
It's all I know how to do. I can't do
anything else.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
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

(28:55):
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 (29:09):
Oh dude, you gotta give me a heads up April
and Anthelic next week. For goodness sake, I watch next week, Yeah,
next wed next week. You don't even want to know
what I have planned for next weekend. My daughter's birthday
is on the sixteenth. I told you the eighteenth. We
promised her we're gonna go to Pepa Pig's house. It's
in It's of course, there's not one in New York,
because why would there be a Peppa Pigs house in
New York. It's in Virginia or something. So we have

(29:31):
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 Pooni's available.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
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Speaker 3 (29:48):
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 Yankees have been in the hottest team
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

(30:08):
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,

(30:30):
I mean you guys, get the A's came into your
house and took two out of three, and then you
gotta go to the House of Horrors, Tampa Bay back
up and running in the at the trop I'm assuming
they still call it that, and maybe the Yankees sitting
a little bit of a bump on the road here.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
I blame you, so I blame you for betting on them,
for for taking them in your pool that they're gonna
win what four of seven or three of seven or whatever.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Three they get the EU doingthing you.

Speaker 6 (30:56):
Can to jinx them, and you're doing well.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
The Al East is over. Maybe as soon as they
said that, the Eggies getting no hit, you know.

Speaker 6 (31:03):
What, they only had to do with the ZL West
apparently two.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Out of three. You know. 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,

(31:30):
what's going on? Maybe that's what 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 two out of three to
lowly Oakland.

Speaker 7 (31:41):
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 Sally.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
You go to a Rangers game, they're still doing the
pop bands. Sucks. Good point, and I love that, and
I take fid and doing the pop vand sucks.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
I respect it.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
You got me with Alan, Yeah there, I 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 that pop vinsuck has just been a thing
as far as I know going on Ranger games.

Speaker 7 (32:18):
But doesn't all good traditions have to have a ground
floor to start on, 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 (32:33):
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. I don't want to exaggerate,
but maybe in the history of sports it is the
lamest that you.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
Like that Mike Ye, come on, man, I love First off,
when you say bleacher creatures, we're dealing with like the
water down like version of the bleacher creatures. When you
talk about the old bleacher creatures that ended the role
call with box seats suck. That was the bleacher creatures.
They don't even do that anymore. It's you can now

(33:14):
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.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
What it looked like behind Home Plitt you were stuck
in the bleachers. Now it's different. But I love the
role call. My kid loves the role call. It's one
of the better parts of the game to me.

Speaker 7 (33:32):
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 (33:51):
You know, that's an interesting point because even listening. You
do profile as anti Yankee, you kind of do, but
then you a 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 don't to get
at this specific of the chance hip hip hoor hey.
I mean, what are we doing here? The yes, the

(34:13):
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 cot Night Joe stuff. You
got the judges Chambers, you got the roll call, the
hip hip hoor hey Chance. I mean, come on, that
stuff is corny. The Yankee should be above that.

Speaker 6 (34:33):
But Salad, you can't look. You can't tell me.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
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 6 (34:41):
This is who I am. You can't tell me. That's
the that's the truth.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
No, no, you got me. It's why I don't go
to City Field that month, not often anymore.

Speaker 6 (34:49):
It used to be me.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Not me anymore.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
And most of the times when Sald's going to games,
I've seen styles stories like I saw him at the
Islanders game, Mikey.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
He's sitting in the owners week by the way, next
to Jerry. Yeah, exactly the last two games. I was
with Jerry Seinfeld in a met game and the owner
suite at the Islander game. And I'm talking about the
golf being elite. Things change? How dare these elitists?

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Sally?

Speaker 3 (35:16):
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 be the
sweet because if it is, I'll be there and wants
to freeze their rear Endolph in the stands. You know,
baseball is making some news here nationally. We know it's
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

(35:37):
of all teams. I never thought I'd be 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 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 Schemes talks about him being the face of the franchise,

(35:58):
which you know, this kid is gonna be here a
long time. Who knows. With Paul Skens, I just have
an issue with the Pirates. If they're gonna commit that
money 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

(36:20):
draft and develop. Trying to prevent that with Connor Griffin,
but it's probably gonna happen with Paul Skeens at some point.
I did not have a problem with Skeen's comments though myself,
I didn't think it was a big deal. I think
he's just trying to hype up his guy, Connor Griffin.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
Yeah, Skeens, 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. This
does feel like a small market team thing to do,

(36:53):
where I can't imagine the Yankees ever giving an extension
to Dominguez or ti Volpi before they ever.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Make these moves.

Speaker 7 (37:02):
But for me, when it comes to Griffin verse schemes,
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 (37:22):
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,

(37:44):
one hundred and forty million. The Yankees and Mets have
looked 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 it would be pitching because
in the event those guys do hit and become the

(38:04):
studs 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 the one hundred and fifty million guaranteed. You don't
think he take that. Now you're gambling. You're taking a gamble.
But if he won, you know, if he it's free agency,
you to be paying three times that.

Speaker 7 (38:26):
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

(38:50):
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.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yeah, it's when you put it that way. The ballpark
is great, the team is stunk outside of what 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, a Jeff fan, like,
why would you bother? As a Jet fan? Maybe a

(39:23):
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 Pirates is a

(39:46):
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 it with the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers in the
higher So if I'm a Pirate fan, I just all
you have is a ballpark. At least you do have
a nice ballpark.

Speaker 7 (40:06):
When I saw the headline that Paul Skeins made cryptic comments,
I was like, Oh my god, what did Paul Skins say?
And then I watched the clip and watch how he
delivered it. So when I clicked on that video, I
thought he was going to say, like, I can't wait
to strike out Connor Griffin when I'm a meta of Yankee.
That's how they were kind of prefacing how bad the
comment was.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
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, 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 5 (40:46):
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 6 (40:51):
That is going to be great for him, Like good
for him. The Pittsburgh should be happy that.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
They've got a guy who's just awkward and nice enough
to not talk about how he wants out. But it's
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 gonna be here very long.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Yeah. 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 Pirates,
I'd be 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 he hit
Tree Agent. Three years, you may get him in. I'm

(41:31):
not trading him to you. And if you are gonna
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, say 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 Skeens, well,

(41:52):
what are we doing here? 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 Skeens is destined to be
a New York Yankee, doesn't it.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
But do you think there's a number that Paul Skins
is like, yeah, I'll stay like a real question number.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
Well, I mean, what are we talking about if if
you're him.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
Everybody has a number, I said, a realistic number.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
Okay, well, what's talking if they go if they say
four hundred million for what five years?

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Is that five years? That's not realistic. That four hundred
million isn't really isn't realistic for the pirates, I mean
ten yeah, yeah, okay, well yeah, if they offer 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 don't think he would, but he should.
I was doing this a little prep work for the

(42:46):
TV show later on, because we're talking about Noel McLean
and how this would tie into that. Right, another young picture,
Cam Schlitz or Paul Skins whatever. Schein's different level. We
know that, but it goes 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

(43:07):
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 twenty twelve and it's saying,
we'll give you one hundred and fifty million guaranteed. He
probably spinted you. What are you insane? One hundred 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

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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 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

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from spending any money. They never spend any money anyway,
So what's the worst case scenario? Here? Skin's gonna be Yankee?

Speaker 10 (43:56):
I know it.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Just braced yourself for it. I am you guys could
get except about it. Go buy your skiens Jersey. He'll
be Yankee sooner then later.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
We all know it is it just Gonn Taylor. Does
he say Dodger weird? He's having Dodger like Yankee.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
You think he's going to the Dodgers, skeins.

Speaker 6 (44:14):
I think everybody's going to the Dodgers, because that's what caps.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
The report was last year that one of his I
think it was his teammates who remained anonymous, said that
he believes, you know, his his his his wife or girlfriend,
Libby Done. 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 Skeens
wanting to be a Yankee because he just wants the
power of the pin stripes, the history, and then I
think he's gonna be Yankee. I mean, I would bet
that 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. Mike is online Long Island. Mike, You're on

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Fox Sports Radio. Fox. What's up? Mike?

Speaker 10 (45:05):
Hey, how you doing? So?

Speaker 6 (45:06):
We really miss you over here in Long Island.

Speaker 10 (45:09):
In New York City.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
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
just go on the internet so I know it's stop
being lazy. Will you look it up Google? Out of
YouTube you can find me speaking of being lazy.

Speaker 10 (45:26):
I actually downloaded iHeartRadio for you for this show.

Speaker 6 (45:29):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
That means the world to me. Thank you, There you go, Mike,
Thank you very much for that. We appreciate what's on
your mind.

Speaker 10 (45:36):
So if Uncle Stevie were listening, could you just give
me like only you can speak for us, speak for
the met bands 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 (45:55):
I'll take requests here today, especially if you download the
free iHeartRadio app and listened 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. David Peterson has to go. He's been terrible.

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Last year. He couldn't give you three pregod 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. He can't play Mendy his best picture.
Peterson couldn't give it to him. And then this year
he gets another start. What's he done? He's been terrible
in two starts.

Speaker 6 (46:39):
I'm out out of the rotation.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
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.

Speaker 6 (46:56):
Where are we talking?

Speaker 3 (46:56):
David 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 of the first half of last year, fell
off the cliff in the second half of last year.
We're talking about paying these guys long term. I still though,
if anything, I would do with the pitching and not
the position players, especially if you're from a powerhouse team.
Dan Tel, you're going to a baseball game this weekend.

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When are you going? You're taking your nephews here? What's
going on with that?

Speaker 7 (47:22):
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 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 (47:56):
Oh no, no, it's not gonna be a bit of
a challenge. It's going to be a massive challenge for you.

Speaker 6 (47:59):
Now.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
I didn't I said 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 6 (48:15):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Done it with a ten year old and a seven
year old?

Speaker 2 (48:17):
No?

Speaker 7 (48:17):
So that's what I'm kind of need help from the
dads here what to expect because I'm 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 troths?

Speaker 6 (48:30):
Dude?

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Are there? Do I need court seats? I'm trying to
get a course and.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
Just just fly me or sal down there just to
help you out, because oh man, no, you're done.

Speaker 7 (48:45):
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 going to go to the game as early as possible,
go to the team store, let them kind of run
around the 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 3 (49:09):
Yeah, that's the easy part, and that's fun easy. 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 6 (49:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
I'm not really a big soccer man, but like, you
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,

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But surrender yourself for 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.
So the only tips I have so far are surrender.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
Yeshrender, be ready to referee fights.

Speaker 5 (50:01):
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 going
to start throwing a fit. But because he's not going
to get what you about having to go to the bathroom,
he's going to go with his brother. So him and
his brother are going to start fighting because all three
of you now have to go to the bathroom. Yeah,
that's that's what you're in for.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
At least you have they're 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 (50:30):
Like?

Speaker 3 (50:31):
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 going
to be trying to do the best that I count by.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
Yeah, you cannot buy a ten or a seven year
old's love, but you can just rent it for about
twenty minutes.

Speaker 7 (51:00):
Okay, So my 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 (51:11):
Right, well, why would you do that? I mean that
would be that that would be the worst thing, taking
them something to or on ice.

Speaker 6 (51:19):
Yeah, I've done that.