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Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if Tracy Morgan is the Knicks 'good luck charm now. The Dodgers are so good even the BULLPEN looks bulletproof. And we play the world famous TRUtv or not TRUtv! Plus, a wild take on Arch Manning.

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You said, first four is that like some religious thing?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, doing it.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's a first four. It's the first four, first four.
First we're inca games. They called the first four, first two,
the first two games fourteen. This is the first two,
but it's called the first four.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Did they put like smoke come out of the stadium
when they know the winner?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yes, exactly, yes, depending depending on but it may take
a while. Sometimes they take away is it in the
colors of the school that one, It's it's in the
colors of North Carolina because they clearly had a favor
done for them to make the tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
So everything is in Carolina blue. You know what shocked me,
And I'm glad to be back with you all.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I'm sorry I missed yesterday on the road and traveling
because I missed the great controversy of oh wait, the
NC Double A was gonna do something wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
We were all.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Shocking way bigger than that. You missed something way bigger. Yeah,
you missed, I mean you missed.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
We had we had to look back at the life
and career of Tracy Morgan.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
I mean you killed him off.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Now hey, now let me tell you Okay, okay, listen,
we'll get to the tournament a second. We had the
first four game come in Alabama State Saint Francis, of course,
you know, and these two teams get to get you
throw the record absolutely because Saint Francis is actually under
five hundred. That's why you throw the records out. It
comes down to a last second layup. Right now, you're
the second game with North Carolina and San Diego State,
and clearly maybe San Diego State shouldn't have been allowed

(02:13):
In thirty seven sixteen, UNC lead San Diego State. Now,
so is that the case?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Does Bubba get an extra like one hundred grand if
North Carolina wins tonight? Well, for every game they advance,
did they get an extra hundred red spot every time
they win?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
And it's going rate as one forty k? Okay?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
So one?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
So they win tonight, which looks like they're gonna do,
so one hundred and forty k for him? I mean,
this is the game you're supposed to win, right, well,
but it's more difficult now.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
But in San Diego State, a lot of people puffing
out their chests expecting great things for that. They have
as many turnovers as they do made shots with under
four minutes remaining here in the.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
First Yeah, that's that's that's not gonna win.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
They're two of thirteen from the three point line, six
and twenty five from the git for the game.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
What's the in game betting on UNC winning it all? Now?
What do you think that?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
What do they mean?

Speaker 3 (03:00):
All? I want to take you look at it. They
came out so motivated. Great, it's one hundred and forty
k to one.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I mean this is well the fact that you also
got in I did. Is it because they didn't want
to make the guy feel bad for the lane violation?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Is that it they they didn't want it.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
It was you know, we got to look out for
the kids, protect the children, look out for the.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Children, and they also looked out for him because you know,
the San Diego State's not a Quad one team, so
you know this is game that North Carolina can win.
If it was a quad one team they were playing
be in a lot of trouble. Now quad will be
their next game, but still.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Not No suddenly North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
But you talked about Tracy Morgan, a story that looked
a little weird last night. Yeah, like could have been
a little dangerous. Now turns out to be okay. And
do I have the best part of this Tracy Morgan
story to tell you? I have the best part?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Okay. So last night Nick's win over.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
The heat, Tracy Morgan bloody nose, throwing up. You know
he's got court sights, he's been a Nick fan forever
and he gets taken out on a wheelchair. We didn't
get any real updates all through the entire night, there
were no updates on Tracy Morgan's status, how he was doing.
Of course, he had a lot of health problems in
the last few years. We're all hoping the right things.
Frostburg keeps playing sound Hey, we have sounded Tracy Morgan.

(04:10):
He would Heartburg conference. He wasn't wrong, right, But then
we find out today Tracy Morgan's okay, puts a video
up on social media from the hospital. Food poisoning is
what led to what happened last night, and whatever the
story is, clearly he is okay, and he said, hey,

(04:32):
you know I brought the Knick's luck.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Okay, that's great.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Maybe to me, I gotta throw up at every game,
and I'm moving past the whole Yes, get Tracy Morgan
at the game and have him throw it before every game.
I mean, if that's what it takes to the Knicks
to win, he's got to do that, right, You got
you gotta do that, man, you gotta go, you gotta
get there.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
And you got to throw up.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
But here's the biggest thing, and this is what nobody's understanding,
is what nobody's talking about, is that the Knicks have
their grimace. We now have our own guy, like the
Mets had Grimace, and now.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Tracy Morgan is the Nicks Grimace. I don't want to
gonna lose again.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
We're gonna run all the way to the Eastern Conference
Finals with Tracy Morgan pretending to throw throw up videos everywhere.
It's gonna be him at the sideline pretending to throw up.
We have argument. He is then pretend Grimace. He's there, Grimace.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
He's gotta have raw sausage or pork or something before
every game.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Now, there were people dressing like him going to games,
like when Grimmace would get on the subway going out
to the city fields.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
We have our Grimace.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
We tried to buy you a Grimace outfit.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, we're exorbitantly expensive, unless you really wanted that bootleg
one that just didn't look that.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Would I look like a guy that got kicked off
of Sunset Boulevard.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah no you can't. Here's the guy.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
You're the fake Grimace Hollywood Boulevard. They kicked his ass
and sent him packing.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Now the Knicks are gonna now, of all, because remember
the last couple of weeks and said, look, let's be honest.
There's the list of the teams contending at the top
of the NBA that consists of the Cavaliers and the
Celtics and the Thunder and everybody else is the next
level contenders like the Knicks and the Lakers. All the
Lakers could make a run long as Lebron gets healthy.
The Lakers like Sprite the Sun's championship game. Yeah no,

(06:10):
I mean it looks like the groin was feeling all right.
I'm thinking after six games and eight nights, Lebron's gonna
miraculously be well enough to play Saturday.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Oh yeah, really that I really send out another post
that just has that, you know, with the the slash
through it, and hey, we we navigated that.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yay.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I mean three sets of back to back. Yeah no, no, no, no, oh,
I'm gonna be good on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Uh. So there's that.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
There's that that group of absolute title contenders where everybody
else you're saying, okay, we're just laughing.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
We think we can beat one of these three teams.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
But that next group is led by teams like the
Knicks and the Lakers, and the Nuggets are right there.
But now the Knicks have leaped frogged ahead because now
we have Grimace We have our grimace. We have Tracy Morgan,
and now we're going to win. Watch watch how many
get We're just gonna roll through teams. Now it's gonna
be what happened. We have our thing. Right, All teams
need a thing to get them, especially when your starters

(07:01):
play forty two minutes a night. And this is gonna
be what it is. Grimas is gonna be the burst
of energy that gets the next into the Eastern Conference
Finals and beyond at Tracy Morgan is going to be
the Nick's grimas well.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Here's where it gets difficult though, right, I mean, because
he's sitting courtside and he has this issue. Immediately people
are like, well, hey, is it a stroke?

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Is it? Like?

Speaker 4 (07:21):
What's going on? And our future team's going to be
as repped up or I should say distracted, distraught maybe
as as Miami was dealing with it, right, because if
it becomes a bit, Tracy's gonna throw up and then

(07:41):
they're gonna do the whole you know, wheelchair thing and
everything that they're are you they gonna commit to the
bit and fail to no like this was legitimately you
have no idea what kind of emotional resonance, a man
of Tracy Morgan's status and stature calling ill on the sideline,

(08:02):
throwing up. I mean, clearly you had a lot of
patrons nearby that were concerned, maybe more so for their
one thousand dollars bags and shoes, then they weren't necessarily
Tracy Morgan in the.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Moment, especially when you saw the video of the Knick's
locker room attendance.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
And we don't have a MOP.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Now, yeah, we don't have I don't know you want
me to do, Scott Foster, we don't have them MOP.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
I don't know if it's like I mean, you'll prepare it.
I mean doling them in budget cuts. I mean it's
a real thing, no matter what to do. But all
of that to say, you know, you're waiting for the
triumphant return like Cooper Flagg. Remember he left in a
wheelchair and he was a heap, and all of a
sudden there he was on the bench chair and everybody
on for Duke in their you know, conference tournament final

(08:45):
stages there, but for Tracy Morgan. Yeah, if you can,
if you can ride it to some level of success,
if it gets those guys an extra five minutes of
rest because you got to calculate where you're gonna use
this now, because it's it's an important stretch for a
Knicks team doesn't go very deep. You're gonna have to
use this judiciously. All right, Brunson is looking a little winded.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Tim's gonna need to get him a couple of minutes here.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Tim is gonna say, you know who else was winded?
Tracy Morgan when he had to throw up in the
middle of that game. And what did he do? He
found a way to get in that wheelchair. They wheeled
him off. He posted a good luck message from the hospital.
That has guts you, Brunson. You're tired because you played
a lot of basketball. Suck it up, get out there,
hit a couple of shots. Grimace Grimace, he's the Nicks Grimace.

(09:29):
But did he out what kind of food he ate?
Was it in stadium? Did he go somewhere before and
did he have street meet? And he doesn't want to
out the guy on the court. I mean, I don't know,
hopefully it was. I got a lot of questions.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
If it was.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
McDonald's, that would really kind of kill the Grimace, that
would hurt the Grimace thing. So you know it would
it would be okay if it was something else. You know,
I wouldn't want that to be.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Carrio was on the meal. But look that look.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
And because you know you can claim food poisoning off oftentimes,
won't you know the demon alcohol.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Has surface but doesn't matter. I'm not trying to cast
a spurs.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
He's okay, yeah, because I mean that was scary as
hell because the initial video, because the worst time it
was he went out at a good time, went to
a game, got sick and you had he wheeled off,
his nose was bleeding and he got the throw up.
Was just every the picture that was out there of
just the mid vomit like the like like they got
that boom, like that shutter speed just went wow, you
got that picture while it's it's hitting the ground and bouncing.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
So did you do you do you think they had
been tipped off? You know someone noticed on Celebrity Row, Hey,
Tracy's kind of rocking back and forth. Watch out just
get end badly you stay fixed on him. I don't know,
I got the game.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
You you do that?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
It looked like it sort of just happened really quickly,
like it's one of those just came upon you like,
oh wow, Like not one of those I'm gonna get,
because those are always the word the ones that that
I would always rather if I when I think about
the times of my life where I got sick because
you know, I just didn't eat the right thing or
I drank the wrong thing, and I think about how
many times I just would lay there at the times
in misery just I just got to throw up. I

(10:59):
just have to, but I can't. But you can't, and
you just wait and you know what's gonna happen. And finally,
I would rather day take me by surprise. I don't
care where, I just take me by surprise. Ah.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
I mean I'm getting sick, right, okay, boom right here.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah see if I'm if I'm not feeling it, I'm
a if I swallow anything evil, stick your finger down
my throat when I tell me some bad news before
I throw up.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
At the Knicks game, well there's act like a fool.
Just be done with it exactly.

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Yeah, you know this isn't a great thing. You're trying
to make it good, but it's.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
I mean, they won. Now, look he's a lot ninety
five percent. Just build Grimace from literally puke.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Sure you can. You could build out of anything. No,
have anything grimas throughout the first ball to the Mets game.
Something grimis grimas, crimis grims. Tracy Morgan throws up at
the Knicks game. The Knicks win by twenty He's, okay,
this is what now? Ninety five percent when I say
this here you say, ah, we're having fun. Yeah, of
course we're having fun. We entertained, we did what we do.
But five percent of it is, like you know what,

(11:52):
winning teams tend to have a thing, right, They tend
to have that bit of that bit of intangible that
gets you through. Whether it's the Mets with Grimace or
the OMG, all teams have a right. When the White
Sox won, it was it was journey and don't stop believing, right,
that was the.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, I mean would winning ugly and yeah slapping, you.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Know, because they went out to a karaoke night and
they told the bartend to play some bleeping journey and
they did and they laughed. They won the next day. Like,
winning teams tend to have that fun rallying cry keeps
the team loose, it keeps you focused, and it's a
fun thing to go along with a team with and
you think, hey, we have extra powers that are helping us.
And in a weird way, like Tracy Morgan really could

(12:34):
be the Knicks Grimmas. Like, hey, okay, it was it
was horrible that he threw up, but I'm glad he's okay,
and he's he's our He's our Grimace. Now maybe Tracy
Morgan she e would just dress up as Grimace. Now
he dressed up his Grimace. But you see Tracy Morgan's
head and you see his face, and that's how it works.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
For the next Am I a horrible person?

Speaker 4 (12:50):
From pointing out the fact that he just had a
comedy show picked up about a disgraced former football player
on a mission to rehabilitate his image.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Oh so wait so you think this could be a
whole thing? Oh wait wait wait you think this could
be Okay, I'll literally.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Just got Nixon, Tina Fey led with Bobby and everybody
out board. So they found out that that got a
green light and now this happened to him atter next year.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Oooh so it got green time before? Yeah? Oh if
it got different greenlit on St. Patty's Dawn before, well
I would say this, I would say definitively, because I
know what bad they do things in Hollywood is that.
I would say, if it was up in the air
of being greenlit and then this happened, and then it
got green lit, I would say, yes.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
But you're telling me got green lit before. Maybe it's
a little bit too much celebration. I'm bauta day lit,
Liz Lemon, Liz Lemon, I'm back, Liz Lemon, grim back lit.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, let's go. I liked it now I'm with you there.
But uh, it doesn't matter because no matter what, he's
the next green He's Grimace. He's Grimace now. Now we're
gonna win. Now, there's a big difference between entertaining and lying. Uh,
what do you mean?

Speaker 1 (13:55):
What do you lie about? What do you lie about?
He got sick of the next game of the next
one by twenty.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
That's all matter because he was watching you guys play. No,
he's watching the heat plays science. Well, watching the heat play.
It was science. He threw up after very bad basketball.
He saw four straight misses by Tyler Hero and that
was enough for me.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Could he couldn't he couln't take it? Remember him saying
that postgame, No, I saw the video. It's we heard
the audio. Yeah, no, no, no, the same. Hey, look
Bubba getting some airtime.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
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Speaker 4 (17:42):
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I don't believe to try to just outright steal this one.

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So again, we are twenty minutes away from the first
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Speaker 3 (18:01):
But big, middle or low.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
I mean, but as we got set and again it's
it's North Carolina in a runaway right now against San
Diego State.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
In the second game of the first four, I.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Heard the folks in San Diego saying, it's, you know,
a shame that we even have to play on this
like that was the pre games, Like what are we
doing in this game?

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Look what you did? Oh wow, hang on, we're losing
by twenty four at half time, not a second, forty.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Seven to twenty three at a half. Di both games
tonight on True TV. But today was also opening day
in Major League Baseball. Yes in Japan, where we're about
seven hours away from the second game of the regular
season in Japan, Roki Sasaki's MLB debut the Dodge and
the Cubs game that began at six am Eastern times. Jason,

(18:48):
you had me at rok I figured I did, but
you know, hey, just for grins and giggles, this is
how Game one of the MLB regular season went down
Raziers to two, and time Rips just wanted to right
field us down the ladder to the corner.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Show around first. He will rumble in the second.

Speaker 7 (19:07):
With a ninth in angle lead off double going to
swing and a miss strike three. The Dodgers pitching was
overwhelming behind hometown hero Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Otani delivers a couple
of hits and the Dodgers win four to one in
the MLB opener.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
So there it is on AM five seventy show.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Hey, O Tani sang after the game, I've never been
this nervous before a game before playing his first game
back in Japan, and he had a couple of hits
and the Dodgers win a very workmanlike game over the Cubs.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
And I know there's a right, what do we take away?
It's one game regular What do we take away? What
do we take away?

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Should we be playing the games in Japan? Should we
not play play somewhere else. I'll tell you what I
took away watching this game, and this is it's one
game of the regular season.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
It's one game watching the Dodgers seamless go to their
bullpen and you see that as good as they were
last year with guys like Vesia and trying in and
whether it's it's Banda coming in or somebody else. You
saw the bullpen in the postseason really just help rally

(20:19):
the team against the Padres and throw good enough baseball
to win the World Series. Right, you need your bullpen
to come through, and the Dodgers' bullpen did. You had
Bueller closing out the World Series in the ninth inning,
and that was something because the bullpen was really the
Dodgers one Achilles he like, you get in the bullpen,
you can hit them, and there look there's relievers that
you can hit on the Dodgers. But now watching how
easy it was to go Yamamoto Trinon's got the eighth inning,

(20:43):
Tanner Scott comes in and easy ninth inning for him. Right,
Kirby Yates didn't even pitch. He's having a little bit
of a rough spring. But it doesn't matter. This guy
they're paying thirteen million dollars a year or two like
this is the scary part for me is that the
Dodgers have three guys that can close, and they have
the everyday revers that have been through the pressure cooker
of winning, of winning big playoff games and winning a

(21:05):
World Series, and the one Achilles heel that you can
talk about a team where hey, you get into their bullpen,
that that changes things Like I watched going how are
how are the Dodgers gonna get beat?

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Exactly? Like?

Speaker 1 (21:18):
How are they gonna get beat? Because the starting pitching
bringing in Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki? Okay, right, you
brought into terrific pitchers. You're not paying Sasaki anything to
go along with Yamamoto. That's a huge strength. And now
the bullpen is this right like Taylor Glass now as well, Right,
you have you have a huge starting staff where last
year you were kind of all right, let's get to

(21:38):
the end and see what we can squeeze.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Out of our starters.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Right, Kershaw will pitch at some point during the season
and what is probably his last year. So the Dodgers
fixed that. But the fact when you fix the bullpen
like this and they can throw three closers at you
and they can just you know, seamlessly go hey, Vesia
for two thirds an inning and then then you're coming
in with with with trying and or it's it makes
it really disheartening because I think, how is this team

(22:01):
gonna get beat? And again, I know it's one game,
but I could just see how the Dave Roberts, who
loves the bullpen, you know, find someone who loves you
as much as Dave Robert loves the Dodger bullpen. But
when you see that these are now the easy options,
like the game is gonna be easy this year?

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Like I I.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Could manage his team and say, okay, Yate's and the seventh,
Trying in the eighth and and Scott in the ninth.
Scott pitched the last two days. Guess what, Blake Trying,
you have the ninth inning today, and Vessia you have
the seventh.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Like it just seems.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I mean, well, somebody's got to walk out there and
tell Kershaw, I need the baseball.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
I mean, that's what you gotta get. You got it's
combat pay for that. Hey, Kurk Clayton, I just want
to let you know I can take it out of
the game now. But I mean that, that's that's what
I take away from this going.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Man. Just this Dodger team, as great as it was
last year, there's no week you try to find a
weakness and injuries could always be right. Mookie Betts is
ill not playing in this in this series, obviously, but
he's gonna be okay. Freddie Freeman was a late scratch
with an injury that hurt him at the end of
last year. But you can't you can't predict that and
come out for that. It's just okay. Everybody's got a weakness.
And the Dodgers their bullpen, it's just now they're just

(23:03):
gonna roll through relievers and they have three guys capable
of fixing the back end of the of any game.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Well, but look what they were able to do last year.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
I mean they were they were still a top five
team bullpen e r A last year, and they were
battle tested because you had so many starters go down
due to injury, and you were just begging guys to
get through four or five innings.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
So by the time you got to the playoffs, they'd
seen it all.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
They'd come in in every situation imaginable and so to
jump off.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
As you did.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Here Yamamoto having a great start, him and Imanaga a
great battle up at the top. I mean that that
was the fun thing to watch, the two battle. They
were the beneficiaries of a very generous strike zone.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
I think we would say all pitchers were for that matter.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
But to that end, yeah, your your bullpen analysis, absolutely right.
A great luxury to have in this day and age
that you can do the.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
All right, here's here's the best laid plans.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
And then obviously they've got a lot of arms coming
back off injuries. So watching to see how the front
office and Dave Roberts agree to their reinsertion. You mentioned Kershaw,
but you had so many other guys miss time that
it's a luxury that they're afforded that no other team
really is. I mean, Dave Roberts loves his bullpen, and

(24:23):
they loved him back by performing as well as they
did so earning the trust to where you can flip
the switch, and certainly in today's baseball, how many times
are you gonna get it, even with your top guys,
that you're gonna get a start that goes seven innings.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
It's rarefied error.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Right, We laugh, and we look at the back of
baseball cards from the seventies.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Look how many complete games this guy threw?

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Right?

Speaker 4 (24:47):
Ah, yeah, twenty five complete games and his thirty five starts.
Now you have twenty five for a league because you
need your bullpen at the ready and.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Certainly playing these early games.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
That's the other thing to take away from it is
you're not gonna stretch guys too far. You're going to
take every opportunity, uh to to manage your bullpen. Because
while these games are important, you know the standalone nature
of them, the global impact because right now Rob Manford
is putting out his best Adam silver hats.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
See what we're doing overseas.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Look at the Gonzoe numbers overseas ESPN.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
You'll rue the day that you ripped up and didn't
want to negotiate with us further. But all all of
that to say, you've.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Got a long season to manage.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
So Dave Roberts being able to at least come out
of the gate and say, all right, we've got this.
That works. Man, he's gonna tanker with it. That's that's
gonna be the fun of watching the Dodger team and
all thoughts out to Mookie Betts because as of now,
they've not diagnosed what the hell went on yet. He
had to be sent home for more tests and he
dropped fifteen pounds, is what David Roberts.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
That's usually wait, that's the flue slash food poisoning.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
He was hanging out with Tracy Moore. That's what I'm saying.
We got to tie it all together.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
We weave a rich tapestry here on the flight.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Oh oh wow, that's so wrong. Funny, it's funny. Run
it's so so wrong. But I mean, like even the
bullpen looks bulletproof, and that is so disheartening. That's just like,
oh man, after day one, it's like, yeah, we're just
gonna roll our guys out right, and.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
We didn't even need yates, right. I mean, this is
just it really is. It's really really difficult for it
and I'm sitting here, I'm excited. I can't wait for
Soto and everything with the Mets. I feel so great
and I'm continuing to buy Mets gear every day it's on,
and I just go, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
I don't know what it's gonna take. Really, I mean,
I really don't know. Because if the bullpen continue to
be bullet bulletproof and and the interchangeable relievers at the
back end, I mean, it's I don't know what to say.
I really don't don't. But in the end, it's it's
in the margins, right.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
That's the beauty of what baseball has always been is
that you can line up these super teams. We do
it for the NFL. It's like, all right, this team
is gonna be unbeatable. The guy gets hurt at the
wrong time, or one bad pitch, one bad decision, and
it all goes to hell. I mean, look at go
back to the World Series. Dodgers are World champions. Aaron

(27:11):
Judge catches that fly ball. Who the hell knows what happened?

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh yeah, right, I mean, well they were still down
three to one at that point.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
It's still I'm still gonna come back and win.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
You got it, but got a winner game.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
But the door is still open.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
If everybody else can put all these series to bed
because of botches. Uh in the other way? Ah, you
know when Bill Buckner you know that? Yeah, well, no.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
I mean still again, it was the game here. It
might have gone, but it might have gone the other
way where you might have been able to.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Keep going and find some momentum. It could have. But
still if they won that, they had to finish winning
that game. Yeah, no, I get that.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
They had to come back by point where there is
still an opportunity. Oh sure, and now you can watch
your season die on a vine very quickly, because that
wasn't one air no, no we it was three table
came Yeah, yeah, full force. But I'll tell you it's comedy.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
It's really difficult when I'm because I tape the gu
I'm like, I'm not going to stay up and watch.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Come on, you didn't take a nap and get back up,
stay up till three in the morning, And I'm like,
all right, I gotta go, i gotta go to bed.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
I'll stay up if it's like like the last time
I stayed up when I woke up early to see
that was the United States game in the World Cup
when the US women got knocked out on on penalties.
I like, oh wow, that was the last time. I said, like,
I'll stay up for that, but like, okay, day one
of the bit when I can watch it and I
can wake up and kind of not have to worry
about knowing the result because yes, it's day one of
the baseballs, But okay, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
No, I did it was fine. I was I was happy,
happy to see.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Pikachu before the game, dueling Pikachu's before the game.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
But I'm just you got to see something that you'll
never probably see for the first two weeks.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
What's that a win? Win?

Speaker 1 (28:51):
It is? It is still spring training for another two
weeks after you guys come back.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
You know you guys need all the spring trade again.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
I'll see you in the NLCS. I don't know what
the show, but I'll I'll see you in the NLCS,
and I'll see whatever one of your relievers has a
two to on two odd situation in the eighth inning
against Lindor and Soto, and we'll see you who comes
out on top.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
You can pretend it's live all you want, but we
all know it's last year's games.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
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Speaker 3 (29:27):
Time out to check in with a guy to find
out what's trending for a man who's been called the
Dave Roberts of Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
He sits around, does nothing for a while, and then
just goes to the bullpen. It's Steve Dizeger. Clearly you
were talking about our contracts. I thought, oh, by the way,
and the Dodgers, who would have had to have an
all bullpen game after losing at Yankee Stadium if they
had in Game five?

Speaker 8 (29:50):
So I looked up when they were against the Mets
in the NLCS, they had two all bullpen games. The
Dodgers gave up seven runs in the first one and
five runs in the other one.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
He also had the all bullpen game in they beat
the Padres in a winner, go home game. Yeah, we're
down to one in that series.

Speaker 8 (30:04):
It's just unlikely that they won that title last year,
and they're better on paper this year. As for whatever's
going on for San Diego State against North Carolina, tonight,
the Yikes Aztecs were down thirty three to thirteen after
about thirteen minutes against the tar Heels. They're just about
to start the second half. Carolina leads forty seven to

(30:25):
twenty three. Keep in mind the context. Out of about
three hundred and fifty college basketball teams in Division one,
San Diego State was number one in the country in
field goal percentage defense.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
They only allowed.

Speaker 8 (30:39):
Less than thirty eight percent shooting from the floor for
the season. North Carolina shot sixty one percent from the
floor in the first half tonight. Alabama State is gonna
play Auburn on Thursday in the first round. Bama won it.
It's playing game. Bama State must call him. Against Saint Francis, PA,
seventy to sixty eight was the final out of all

(31:00):
last second layup after a length of the court passed.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Nick Saban coached that game. Didn't he You know, I
haven't seen him lately. Maybe he was free, all right?
It is kind of.

Speaker 8 (31:09):
Funny that it's Alabama State against Auburn in the Thursday matchup.
Texas plays it's playing tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Do you think they'll be really full of Iron Bowl
rivalry there? It's Alabama State Auburn on Friday.

Speaker 8 (31:22):
It is true TV. How are you gonna.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
It'll be the big Alabama in big front Alabama and
then the little state versus Auburn.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
It'll be Alabama colors and Auburn colors. That'll be a
headshot of Cam Newton, headshot of Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Watch Friday night, seven o'clock.

Speaker 8 (31:38):
Get in there and sell, sell, sell twenty type eight
type Alabama State NBA, By the way, only four games.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Tonight.

Speaker 8 (31:45):
Boston did not have the injured Jason Tatum or Jalen
Brown and came back to beat Brooklyn one oh four
ninety six Kristaps Porzingis twenty five points and thirteen rebounds.
Atlanta Cruise did Charlotte one thirty four to one oh two.
Hornets record seventeen fifty one. Golden State does not have
Steph Curry tonight, out resting as stray and lower back.
Warriors are leading late first quarter twenty five, twenty two

(32:08):
against the Bucks. Late game about to start in La.
The Clippers going for a four straight winner hosting Cleveland,
Oklahoma City. Shay Gilgess Alexander is out for the Wednesday
game against the sixers for rest. Among the nine NHL games,
Washington a four to one winner over Detroit. The Green
Bay Packers signed wide receiver Mcole Hartman, and the Patriots
sign quarterback Joshua Dobbs. Dodgers beat the Cubs for to

(32:31):
one in the season opener in Tokyo. The Cubs led
one nothing after four innings, but their offense went three
for thirty today with nine strikeouts. Freddie Freeman was a
late scratch with a sore rib. Dodgers left eleven men
on base. Dodgers and Cubs play again, this time on
FASS one Wednesday, also at six a m. Eastern times
See who's on the mound?

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Thank you Stevoski. Yes, yeah, get ready, Frostbur's gonna you
are gonna watch this Waki Ready, you're gonna you're gonna
watch this one all the way live? Right? Oh yeah, okay,
Oh it's morning Sake with Sasaki. Come on, Oh hey,
patting that idea talk about you beget about coffee with
the cops. Man, let's go. You could just do sake

(33:11):
with Sasak like that's the thing, Like it doesn't need
to be And you got out at Dodger stadium.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
During the season. People holding up the little sell that.
I don't know how they would serve sake a at
a baseball.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah, a little plastic, a little yeah helmet to do
that too.

Speaker 8 (33:28):
Well, there's nothing they're not going to be selling considering
the payroll.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
So oh this is true, saying they're going to charge.

Speaker 8 (33:33):
For the kids to run the bases after the game
on Sunday, I.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Rich thought that should have been I'm sorry, sir, that's
five dollars.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
All I did was walk to my seat. Yeah, but
you walked on the concourse level air charge. If you
walk in the on concourse level, it's five dollars. Oh
all right, great, I appreciate that. Thank you, Steve O.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
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Speaker 3 (33:53):
And it can do attitude.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
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(34:17):
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there lead to fifty one to two over Sandy at
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up next, how about this after NFL developments today, there
is one team that can get absolutely screwed when it

(34:39):
comes time for them to pick in the draft. And
it's early in the draft. Oo, It's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
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Speaker 3 (35:37):
Now. I need to apologize because it was a few
minutes ago I said, yeah, we have the NFL story
coming up.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
I say, oh up, we will do that. However, we
got to do it in ten minutes. Beare there's a
really good tease. I promised very first thing this hour
the first edition of True TV or Not TV. So
we play it every year this week. Sometimes we go
two weeks because games are on games are on True

(36:06):
TV longer. Hey, you know that people are finding True
TV for the only time of the year because both
games tonight are on True TV True TV Week. One
of the of the NCAA tournament is True TV. So
here's the game. It's very simple. It's called True TV
or Not TV. I give you a show title and description,

(36:26):
and you tell me if this is one of those
crazy ass shows that True TV has on or if
it is made up entirely by me playing tonight, Mike Harmon,
Steve de Seger, Justin Frosburg, Alex Tischer.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Are you ready for true TV or not TV? Call tonight, Rookie.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Okay, Roki Frostburg, Rokie Frosburg, al right, Rokye Frostburg.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Here we go. Are you ready?

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, it's true to You're not TV. Blood Bath and
Beyond a clip show highlight adding the wildest videos from
retail stores on Black Friday. Bloodbath and Beyond a clip
show highlighting the wildest videos from retail stores on Black Friday.

Speaker 8 (37:12):
You'd have enough for a show, but I'll say, no.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
You have enough for many, many shows on that.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, season fifteen of Bloodbath and Beyond, I was going
to say, if we can get the old seventies and
eighties footage, we got something cabage patch out.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
No, No, Okay, I don't know if I'm gonna have
enough time. Well why not maybe some home depot.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Tight shirt Bloodbath and Beyond. No, but that sounds dope,
doesn't It sound like it would be a great show.
In fact, this show is. It's not a true TV.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Show, but we it wrote Rokie got that one right.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
True TV execs a going I gotta write that down,
that title, But I think I got that title from
a Simpsons episode. I think there was on one of
the Treehouse of Horror episodes they went to bloodbath and.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Being right, wait for the Sinker. How great would that
show be?

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Right? It's all these great Black Friday videos of people
fighting over clothes and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
That one of the best is a lot of it
is nobody can really sue you. It's a statute of
limitations because they're gonna be old videos.

Speaker 8 (38:13):
Also, bloodbaths could be the game on True TV right now?

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, what is It's eighty seven to four right now,
North Carolina with the lead.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
Good job, good effort. But the Aztecs have a mini
dickcat the spread wi three and a half. Oh mind,
it's gonna be thirty shortly, you say thirty and a
half or three and a half, thirty and a half?

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Okay, got it all right? Rock You Like a Scorpion?
Rock You Like a Scorpion? A nature show in the
vein of Meerkat manner that follows groups of scorpions and
how they survive desert and suburban conditions in Arizona, hosted
by a member of the Scorpion, hosted by Klaus Mind,
the lead singer of the Scorpion Rock You Like a

(38:57):
Scorpion Nature show in the vein of Meerkat, Manner follows
groups of scorpions and how they survived desert and suburban
conditions in Arizona.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
I'm all forgetting a guy named Klaus back in, but
the answer is no.

Speaker 6 (39:09):
I'll say no, Okay, isn't that who sang the song
the Scorpions?

Speaker 1 (39:14):
The Scorpions sang rock You Like a Hurricane. That's why
this show was called Rock You Like as you got
it from. It's not it can't be a show. Then
how did where do you think anybody gets ideas from?

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Well?

Speaker 6 (39:23):
You mostly from Snapple caps, Okay, I do trivia off
a Snapple cats.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
I like the trivia, all right, tight shirt? Rock You
Like a Scorpion?

Speaker 5 (39:31):
They still make Snapple Jason, that sounds as believable as
San Diego State almost coming back in this.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Gay do you even know who the Scorpions are? San
Diego status? What's okay? What state in the country do
you think San Diego State is?

Speaker 3 (39:44):
In? Aztecs? Wow, California. I'm in the state of asttes
and I'm looking for my gold. I think you've been
in the desert kind of belonged to the Aztecs. And
then there was yeah, a long long time ago, there
was a guy in the place. There were pyramids. They

(40:05):
played basketball for keeps.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
Yeah, boy, is this never forget a San Diego State party?

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Is this a loser goes home much? No, loser doesn't go?
Rock you like a scorpion?

Speaker 6 (40:17):
Is?

Speaker 1 (40:18):
No?

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Take it elsewhere? Is? How do you know I haven't
given these? How do you know you're not that clever?

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Rock you like an arrow? But I went on rock
you like a scorpion? Is there's your opening theme song
to a show. Let's go to Arizona. Check out the scorpions.

(40:47):
Where do you invade your suburban home and garage? Big
a question? Will the winds have change? Health the Aztecs?
In the second half?

Speaker 3 (40:56):
It is not a show on tru TV.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
We'll play again next hour coming up next that big
story out of the NFL Fox stickers. It's not deserving
to get in themselves. And what's what we do to
that game?

Speaker 3 (41:09):
All right? And how we're going? Yeah, Hubert Davis, just guys,
I need whatever you got. Yeah, I gotta have forty minutes.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
I know it's gonna probably end for us on Thursday,
but let's just just just you just give me fair,
give me a good forty minutes. Everybody's watching us tonight.
No one's gonna care about us if we lose later
on in the week. We're in the middle of all
kinds of again, but everybody's watching. Just just give me
a good game today.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
Yeah, as I was driving in right, you're you're listening
to a pregame and in between some music in general chaos.
Our guys over at KFI and Tim Conway Junior're talking
to Rick DZ whatever else. But they're on the San
Diego State broadcast and be like, yes, now I'm twenty
one and nine. I mean, what do they gotta do.
I mean the resumes there and the history recently, you know,

(41:53):
benefit of the doubt.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
Now they're getting their asses in like they didn't show
up at all. What is that? I know?

Speaker 1 (42:00):
I'm handing you your ass. Wait a minute, Oh it's gone.
I can't follow your head giving it. Thank you very man.
If we can play, I got your nose, got you,
I got your ass.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
I'm gonna hand you your ass. That's we're gonna tell
you what's a game for a thousand? I don't.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
Okay, very nice prospect, very nice you want today, I'll
let that slope you leave alone.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
I don't think I don't think that's a good game
to play with kids. I think you want to stick
with got your nose. I think you want to stick it.
I don't think you want or finger in the door,
or finger finger in the door, put your finger right here,
trust me? Or the strengths tests the men women. You
know women are stronger than menu the strength test and
what people want to hitting themselves with the things. Uh so, again,
if this game warrants and I always say, we'll keep

(42:41):
you updated on this game. If North Carolina and San
Diego State warrants an update, we will bring it to you,
but likely not. Instead we go to seventy one to
thirty nine, We go to an episode of in Practical
Jokes already in progress.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Uh so, yes, we'll have another version coming up of
True TV or not.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
Hey, the Bucks rode up too, Yeah, so they're playing
about it is slightly better? Yeah, with no Steph Curry,
he's doing a good job cheering for the Warriors with
a fifteen point lead in the second Yeah, this is sort.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Of transitive property. Last night where the Nuggets rested everybody
and they beat the Warriors. The Warrior's saying, oh, let's
do that tonight. Now they're resting Steph and they're thumping
the Bucks by fifteen. Late in the second quarter, Adam
Silver is pulling wait, he doesn't have any hair.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
No, the less guys out there the better.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
But after today's drama, there is And this would be
delicious if it had I mean, like a deep dish
pizza delicious if this happens, Because there is one team
that you think is going to walk away in free
agency or the draft with a quarterback, and I'm here
to tell you they could absolutely screw themselves and be

(43:47):
stuck tanking hoping that Arch Manning wants to come play
for them next year. Now, the last few days has
been a little weird when it comes to quarterbacks. Right,
we're still waiting for the decision on Aaron Rodgers and
Russell Wilson Cam Hayward of the Steelers today, I can't tell.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
We gotta wait for Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
Did see it literally though, like I've been using the
I need to go walk on the beach and figure
things out.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
It is Rogers was walking on the beach trying to
figure things out work.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
It almost looked like at the beginning of music video
almost looked like the video of Darren Waller taking Tom
when he got divorce from Kelsey.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
See I was just gonna take it back to Linel
Ritchie and Hello taking Tom.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
He also everyone I see we ever see that angle
that they showed of Rogers.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
I think about the the Apollo and Rocky race and
Rocky three when Rocky finally beats him. Oh yeah, the
most awkward awkward.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
Yeah, that's kind of the same thing right there, directed
like just do it feels natural and it's like, all right,
is there a high five?

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Can we have bro hug? Now we're jumping around? Can
we have Rogers and Wilson race? And then they hug
each other at the end, like can we have that?
Like the first race? Blown Achilles waiting the first race,
Wilson wins by a lot like like Apollo does, and
he says, when are we gonna we'll get going tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Don't you me? Never? Right? And then and then it
goes again and then Rogers beats Wilson and the second
one and they a like that, like er.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Do they both have the same apparel company. They both
have the same apparel company. We can do that commercial
like that would be awesome.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
Even if they don't. We can bring this, make it
super brands come together.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
For because because the companies do that, now we're gonna
split the commercial of two two brands. How awesome would
that be? Will Wilson drinking the nano bubbles? Rogers just
like has is that Paoti, don't worry about it?

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Isn't worry about it. I'm good, I'm good Siowa. He
just keeps ying it's legal. Now, don't don't if I
we're in California. Everything is fun. Uh.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
So the Steelers and the Giants ostensibly waiting for the decision. However,
the Vikings, as more time goes on, could potentially be
the big winner. And I put winner in quotes because
you don't want either of these guys, but you gotta
have somebody.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Rogers apparent desire is to play for the Vikings for
some ridiculous reason. I don't know why he wants to
continually just I'm gonna follow Brett Farres steps entirely, Like
why why would you want to go to a team
where you know they want to start the other guy.
It's again the Vikings Aaron Rodgers part is a different conversation,
but you now have the Vikings, Steelers and Giants in

(46:09):
for Aaron Rodgers. If the Vikings get Aaron Rodgers, the
Steelers are gonna grab Russell Wilson. Okay, They're gonna say, hey,
come back here. And if Wilson is faced with the
choice of going back to Pittsburgh after being left out
there or going to the Giants, he will pick Pittsburgh
because of the familiarity, because they brought in a big
wide receiver. Hey, I have a better chance to succeed

(46:31):
than I do with the Giants because the Giants are terrible.
Understand the Giants think the Steelers' roster is much better,
So he'll go back there. Now, the Giants said, okay,
well we picked third. Seeing the momentum the last couple
of days, cam Ward number one, number two, the Browns
definitively linked to a quarterback today. There's a lot of
linkage to them to Shador Sanders, and you actually had

(46:53):
cam Ward say. Video emerged of him saying I'd love
to play for the Saints. Maybe the Saints have a
huge draft haul, they trade up with the Titans, they
get to number one so they can take cam Ward.
But now we are swinging back to Hey, the quarterbacks
might go one to two overall, and guess who that screws.
That screws the Giants because there's four guys out there,

(47:16):
and there are five teams that need quarterbacks, whether for
this year or beyond, and the other four teams are
gonna get him, and the Giants aren't, and they're gonna
be stuck hoping that Arch wants to come play where
his uncle was so good for a long time, right,
Like he wants to really come, Like I know it's
gonna be all Hey, Manning Manning, and he's never gonna
be able to escape the shadow of Eli Manning and
his two Super Bowls. But he really wants to come

(47:36):
play here, doesn't he. That's a the Giants can wind
up getting completely screwed, and it's really easy to see
how that'll happen. I know that none of these guys
you want, but if you're the Giants, you got to
go out and say, okay, let's go over the top.
I mean, I don't want him because he stinks. But
you can't go out with Tommy DeVito again. I go
over the top and say, what's it gonna take for

(47:57):
Russell Wilson to commit here? Let let just dealers figure
their stuff out, let them figure everything else out.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
What is it going to take?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Because clearly if the Giants had a trade in mind
for quarterbacks somewhere else, they would have done it.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
They would have made it.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
And now you can find yourself saying, hey, we're really
on the outside looking in.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Now you get.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Russell Wilson, and then let's say one of the quarterbacks
falls to you at three. Okay, there's nothing hurting you
from having Wilson, and then it's Shador Sanders or it's
cam Ward whoever winds up being there. There's nothing that
hurts having that. That's a good quarterback room to have.
In the beginning.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
Wilson will play a little while one of the other
guys will come in. But if you're the Giant, you
need to do something. Man. You can't just sit here
and wait.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
You got to say you gotta suck it up and say, Okay,
I don't really like the choices out there, but I
gotta choose one of them right. It's like me saying, hey,
what are the choices for dinner? Well, we have cook
spinach and raw asparagus. I don't like either of them. Well,
then you don't eat dinner. No, but okay, there's got
to be another choice. No, it's cook spinach or asparagus.
I would say, all right, I guess I'll have asparagus.

(48:55):
I don't really like it. And well, if you really,
if you like a Chris Bitt and you put butter
on it, I like a sperry, but just like raw sparits,
like I really.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Thought you were gonna be wrapping it in bacon and whatever.
But well, that's something I would have then.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
But then if it's like, okay, but they gotta have dinner,
I gotta eat something, So all right, I'll have the aspires.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
I really really don't want the cook spinach. Like you
have to make a choice.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
And the jud the longer the Giants let this go,
the more they look like they're gonna lose out on
a quarterback and go into a lame duck season where
guys are gonna get fired. The GM is gonna get fired,
Chain's gonna get fired, Dable's gonna get fired. All new
things are gonna happen, and they're not guaranteed to have
the quarterback of the future in this year's rereat. They'll
take somebody in the second round that they'll probably have
to play way early because hey, we can't keep throwing

(49:38):
out Tommy Cutlets. You know, hey like Quinn, you weers
you're taking over week three and it's gonna be an
absolute mess. The Giants can get screwed. They gotta act
soon now.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
At some point, and it goes back about maybe a
little over a week ago, we had the the odds
were even say that really fast, very good, that the
Giants and Titans were co favorites to make the number
one and pick.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
And then it.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
Becomes a question of what kind of hall are the
Titans getting Because if you're not convinced that Ward or
should or Sanders or Jackson dart or or go all
the way down to your guy when we look at
McCord or Milrow or any of these guys are the
answer that maybe you just go get as many draft
picks as you can still draft a guy in the
second or third round. Because we've talked about that next

(50:22):
tier and the tier beyond that of developmental guys, and
then you just keep building the roster, which is if
I were GM, that's the tact I'm taking. If I'm
doing my due diligence. I'm not convinced either one of
these guys is taking me to great heights because I
still need to build around them. If I'm Tennessee and
you're still gonna get a first round pick somewhere in
the top ten because someone trading up, whether it's the

(50:46):
Saints to finally rid themselves after this year of Derek Carr,
or maybe they're able after all the renegotiation to spin
him off somewhere that you do that. But for the Giants,
it doesn't include to a selection of Jackson Dart if
they are still sitting there at three.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Because we've talked about it, right.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
The quarterbacks, desperation logic flies out the window at points
where you feel like you're gonna be left at the table.
The Russell Wilson thing when it comes to Pittsburgh is
just interesting to me because all the reports of he
and Arthur Smith didn't get along, well, it's not been
categorically ruled out by anybody. You think there would have
been a definitive statement of like, no, we had a
good time with Russ. No, he's still out there, whether

(51:27):
it's for negotiating purposes on Rogers to try to, you know,
keep pushing him along. He's going to do things when
he wants on his own timeline hate. I hate to
break the news for folks that haven't paid attention.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
But is like, if you have an offer from the Steelers,
are you really just sitting here saying no, I'd rather
go to the These are like we do we really
sure that he's got an offered We're just sitting there
waiting or has that just been a narrative thrown out
there so Aaron Rodgers can seem like he's in control
of the situation, because I have a hard time believing
if the Steelers, who are a playoff team with a
really good roster, he would sit here and say, yeah,

(52:02):
I don't know if I want to play it. But
really that's why the choices are the Steelers or the
Giants or the Vikings, And really the Vikings might not
even want you, So your choice are the Steelers are
the Giants?

Speaker 3 (52:10):
The Giants are terrible?

Speaker 4 (52:11):
Okay, Steelers it is, yeah, but you're still waiting for
something to happen.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
So Kevin O'Connell falls in love the team.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
I sent him old tape of your games when you
were playing with the.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
Packers all those years ago, and roll on.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
But for Russell Wilson, like it seems to be based
on the personnel, you have the perfect fit. All right,
his old guy in DK Metcalf and George Pickens, assuming
you know he stays in the fold and stay two.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Guys that all they do is go along. Isn't that great?

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Oh, by the way, that every time you mentioned the
Steelers wide receiver room, that's DK Metcalf And if they
keep George Pickens, Like no one says Metcalf and Pickens,
but if they keep George, Yeah, we had it. We
had it for about a day where it's like, wow,
that's pretty cool, right, two guys.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
With average eart yards and all this game. And then
it's like, if he.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
Sticks around, if they keep George Pickens, because you're also
at a point where you have to start thinking about
his contract. If he stays around, there's two deep ball options.
Steele is also reportedly a meeting with Jalen Milroe. Uh
they draft twenty first in this year's draft, but yeah,
being left at the altar for all of the GM.

(53:18):
Frequently if you're on the you know, the hot seat
and in New York coach and GM like, what what
are the what are the directives from mahraor right now?
You need to win this year or you need to
prove that you're putting a team that can be competitive
in twenty twenty six together.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
Yeah, you need to. You need to.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
You need to either win or we need to tank
and lose and hopefully get arch Manning hopefully. Guy like,
but you think you tried to tell you you did
it last year and look what happened? You want it
with the third pick in a two quarterback draft. Really,
you got the third pick of the two, just not.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
To decide you are.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
It's not necessarily that you're gonna you're gonna get that guy, right,
you would have thought going in if you pick third
in the draft, oh you're getting a quarterback you want?

Speaker 3 (53:58):
No, Now you might not. Now you might not get
that guy.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
What is great is for Tennessee and Cleveland. And look,
Cleveland's a wild card. You have no idea. What Haslum's
going to try to directly?

Speaker 1 (54:08):
They kind of they have no choice to take a
quarterback though, I mean this is where if you if
you don't, I mean, this is where you get one
because you're paying Deshaan Watson all the money you need
to get a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
When you're not paying him like that in theory. In theory,
that's great. They also put up a proposal for a
dome stadium. You see how well that went over. But
all of that to say, yeah, it's logically dictate that.
But if you know the Giants are in a state
of desperation, perhaps they'll be willing to grossly overpay to

(54:37):
move up one spot to secure the guy they want.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Telling you they that could be the team that completely
gets screwed. Watch the Giant boys that had won another
off season Hall absolutely, Hey, I can't over there.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
I told you.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
They're just walking around the office fighting each other. They're
just it's like Inspectorcluso and Kato like every day they
tried Shane and Dable and Mark come in. They try
to jump in each other's offices and fly through the
roof and tackle each other.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Oh that'd be so Fanny.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
Does Shane's kid have a video game account like where
we can watch him play live?

Speaker 3 (55:07):
Because I'm sure we can get him to talk. Be
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