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It's Troy wgy FMHD two Olbaning Wtwo forty, Fox Sports nine eighty ninety

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nine after us on ninety five nineFox Sports Radio about an hour ago,
maybe an hour and a half ago. That is a real fun way.
I want to start today's Levac andguys right here in the GT Toys studio.
That's toys with a z uh.First, I want to thank Martel's

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Bar and Grill over on Console Road, the town of Colony golf course.
Great host yesterday, great food.A lot of fun was had for the
Capitol Cup for kids packet pickup eventthat we were doing. Had a blast
over there, had a blast thatrecovery room. Later at night again,
had a blast watching hockey. Nono blast for me in the NBA right

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now. The only blast in theNBA right now was like a double barrel
shot to my fund center. Boom. As the word is out, Julius
Randall's done for the year, myfriends, that's right, Yeah, this
is the guy that I mean.It's a roller coaster of emotions for next

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fans when it comes to Julius Randall. There was a point where it was
like wow, he's really he's reallygood. Then it was like, well,
he doesn't really want to fit in. It doesn't seem to make sense.
Maybe need to get rid of him. Then you get the right players
around him, you find out thatnot only does he belong, you never
want him to leave. One ofthose players, of course, being Jalen

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Bronson. But waiting to see ifthe reevaluation of the shoulder tear was going
to result in in returning, theword is out. Doctors believe that he
could do significant further damage, longterm damage to his shoulder if he were
in a place. He's having seasonending right shoulder surgery, which means done

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for at least this year, maybepart next year. Let this be a
lesson for young athletes, maybe businessowners, maybe anybody who does something athletic,
or maybe just had to happen atwork, whatever it might be.
If you've ever heard somebody, friends, family members, coworkers say this expression,
Oh you won't believe it. Myshoulder just popped out and I popped

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it back in. Bad, bad, bad. Wait not if you don't
know that's bad. You're no longerallowed to just take care of yourself.
There's gonna be a conservatorship put inplace. Do you know how many people
though, well back. I don'tknow if it happens common often to you
in your life, where someone hasjust said the expression of my shoulder popped
out, I popped it back in. I'm good to go, like I've

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seen my finger. Well, thereyou go. That's also a problem.
I've learned. People will just popfingers back in, or they'll pop shoulders
back in, knees, but moreso the shoulder than anything else. There
is only one injury I really know, and I'm not a doctor, although
you and I did some doctor stuffyesterday on the air. That's the only
one I know about it, huh. All I know is that when a

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shoulder pops out of its joint,imagine it's a ball in a socket,
and once that pops out, thereis a rip, There is a tear.
You just can't magically put it backtogether because you're strong and did it
and thought it was funny after abeer pong game or your buddy popped a
tear has happened. Now the significanceof the tear front of the shoulder,
back of the shoulder, I don'tknow what it is, but you did

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not magically have it come back together. Julius Dwald did everything he could,
whether it was rehab, whether itwas Hey, doesn't feel that bad today.
It was never gonna be what hehoped. Now, maybe it's in
the front and it's small. Hecould play through it. But the doctors
are right. Hey, you poppedyour shoulder out back in January. That's
it. Like it's out. It'sdone, your toast, it's over.
You tried to come back. Theinjury sucks, Like you said, he

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could be out more than this,a few times, a few more months,
depending on how deep this tear isand how much damage has been done.
This sucks. Julius Randall was supposedto be the piece of this diddic
team that could get to the commonIts Finals. Maybe you in the East,
this roster was in such a goodplace, and you don't get to
find out what the Knicks really couldhave done with a piece. What four
years ago? Five years ago,that was a serious conversation for the MVP

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of the NBA. Do you allright? This number caught me off guard.
How many games did Julius Randall,Jalen Brunson and ogn Ando we played
together? Ooh, I know it'sless than ten. I'm pretty positive.
I'm gonna say eight fourteen Oh wow, I was positive it was less than

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ten Wow. Number one defense inthe entire NBA in those fourteen games.
You know, it's upsetting about that. I'm pretty sure you sent me a
YouTube video with that stat I definitelygave you the number one defense when they
played together. I don't know ifI gave you the fourteen all right,
No, but like I guess,fourteen games not enough. I get you

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know, if you're a Knicks fanlike myself and Goz has been a Knicks
fan ever ninety five, nine nineeighty, Fox Sports Radio became your home
for New York Nicks basketball in theCapitol Region. But like you gotta really
yeah, watch the games man,like it's funny, Like I hear this
a lot about the Firebirds Arena footballin the Capitol Region. I'll talk to

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somebody like, oh, yeah,but what are you gonna leave in three
years? No, But at thesame time that if we did, you
would just throw away three years ofwatching great football inside the MVP Arena because
it might leave one day. Likeagain, not that's obviously not the business
model, but you never know it'sgonna happen. I know that like sports

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fans here are a little snake bit, but it's like that always gets me.
And then when I hear fourteen gamesof realistic greatness, it was greatness
to those fourteen games number one defensehave fun. I know I watched probably
nine of them, or listen totwelve if you count what I did here
on Fox Sports Radio. But Ididn't realize that fourteen entire games, I

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had a great basketball team. Ithat wouldn't make me feel a little better
if I realized, like, it'sfourteen, it's amen. It's like it's
more than eighth of a season.It's pretty good. And the Pathenics took
to get there is just as impressivebecause for a decade plus it's been got
to get the superstar, Gotta getthe superstar, gotta get the big name,
Gotta do that, and it wasn'tworking. So they said, Okay,

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maybe we can't get Lebron Durant,Kyrie Zion Harden. Who's the next
best bunch of those guys, JalenBrunson, Lucas number two that can work
og up in Canada. His stylecould work. Let's go trade RG Barrett.
We'll go get him Julius Randall,the top ten pick out of Kentucky,
the one who was with the Lakersand the Pelicans. Uh sure,

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will you try? Remember you hadJulius Randall. Oh yeah, those two
and you couldn't quite make it work. Whoever realized, like Jalen Brunson is
the truth, Like like it's it'sreal to the point where hey, let's
pay a fine, let's cheat,let's get him, Like it's not lost
on me. I'm not I'm notgonna. I'm I can't be the guy

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who makes fun of the Red Soxfor cheating and the Astros for cheating and
you know, listen, I knowthat there's a there's a letter out there,
this is the Yankees that I haven'tseen it, But like I can't
be the one who does that andnot go, hey, look they tampered
and they got him, and youknow what, go tamper more, go
pay more finesse. Kind of thesame thing with Ogo because the whole like

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who is the agent, where's theage? All those things? But like
that's great vision because we watch andlisten to a ton of basketball. I
I listened to you know every youknow, WOJ and jumps and Windhorse and
every every NBA insider out there,nobody I can think of whatever went?

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All right, So for your coreof a championship caliber team, you're gonna
need Jalen Brunson, you mean theshort, little undersized point guard. Yeah
yeah, oh yeah yeah. Og Nnoby you mean the guy with like
flares are brilliance but not really notreally on the map in Toronto, you
can see he's good but not great. Yeah, okay. And Julius Randall,

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you mean the guy who almost forcedhis way out of New York twice
already. Yeah. Yo, thosethree guys together and you're on your way,
and so like you gotta love,yeah, love the way this thing
is built. So sucks. JuliusRandall done for the year, season ending
right shoulder surgery going on. Theonly hope I have right now is as

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I look at the injury reports andwe'll talk about the other team that the
Knicks are playing tonight's injury, whichis very close to home. In a
second, Julius Randall out for season. O g Noby game time decision,
Mitchell Robinson game time decision. JoshHart game time decision, of course.
Dwayne Washington Junior, the most importantgame time decision. But I'm joking.

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The if those like game time decisionleads me to believe if everything is handled
appropriately, there's a scenario where you'regetting minutes from oj Nobi, Mitchell Robinson,
and Josh Hart in the playoffs.And if that's the case, in
Jalen Brunston's number one thing is JalenBronson. If Jalen Brunston is good to

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go, nobody wants to play you. I mean, they might prefer to
play over some teams, But ifyou get Jalen Brunson, oj Nobi,
Mitchell Robinson, Josh Hart, DontinsEvincenzo out there. I no longer feel
like you're gonna take down the Eastwithout Julius Randall. But you're gonna get
people fits you're taking, You're takingseries to sevens. How can Hartenstein and

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Robinson respond without Randy? Now youget to even the postseason? Can they
handle Bam out of Bayou for Miami? Can they handle the Greek freaking Milwaukee?
Can they handle Portzingis in Boston?Can the big guys for the Knicks?
Are they just that out good enoughto hang with the best. I
didn't even mention him beat like there'sa bunch of other better big men Pascal

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Siakam in Indiana, Like all ofa sudden, it starts going down the
list of it by Hardenstein and Robinsongood enough to hang with these guys.
Could Jandon Brunson put the team onhis back and go for thirty five or
forty a night? Can you playsmall ball? Mate? Tom Thibodeaux has
some big decisions to make. Canthe Nicks win with four guards out on

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the floor? Can they outshoot teams? We hope he has big decisions to
make, because he may not becausehe's all game time. Decisions could go
the wrong way. Like you know, if the decision is what mixture of
hard and steeing Robinson precious at Youua? You know og Anobi? Like if
what mixture of those guys shuts downthe big sure of their team, I'm
thrilled to see what tips comes onwithout that one. If the decision he

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has to make is okay, SoI don't have Robinson, I don't have
Ohgobi, I don't have Josh Hart. How do I stop these big guys?
I think the answer dump soda onthe court, go full Jason Kidd
I think you gotta go Jason kiddon it. Yeah. So, I
mean, because, like I said, like, they're in fifth spot right

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now. Yeah, it's so weird, man, because it was such a
slam dunk. Pun intended that theywere gonna be they were gonna be a
top five seed, and it waslike, hey, can they get to
two? Can can they get right? Can they nuzzle in behind Boston and
set everything up for a possible NewYork Boston Eastern Conference Final? And now

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it's do they have eleven men?They have nine? Because Tim's only really
runs nine to Gibson. Yeah.Please, Where in the world is Dodge
Gibson's I'm shocked that wasn't the JuliusRandall done for season? Todd Gibson signs
again with New York Knicks, stillhere, never leaving man. That's sticks.

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The other injury Sacramento Kings. Guys, it's almost it's the same injury.
Laborum tear, dislocated shoulder pops outKevin Herder. The report came a
few days ago that herder season waslikely to be over. It now it's
basically confirmed today as he undergoes surgeryto repair the torn laboram that happens late
last night. If you're here withyou're listening on the East coast, but

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it happened on the West coast becausehe plays for Sacramento. So he's done.
He's expected to be back for thestart of next season. So you
get Kings Knicks tonight and you havethe two in back players that Capitol region
sports fans were most looking forward toseeing a combination of both, not on
the court tonight when you listen tothe action here and you're home for the
Knicks ninety five nine to nine eighty. The thing with Herder is that the

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Kings are really good now and incomparison to what they were supposed to be,
which was bad for a long time. They had a stretch. I
believe it was the longest North Americanprofessional sports team who had made the postseason.
Once they took that away from theMariners and the Bills, it was
the Kings, and they ended itwhen Herder got there in the year one
and they pushed Golden State. Howdifferently do we view the Kings if they

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actually clip Golden State and last year'spostseason and statistically, last year's Kings team
was one of the best offensive scoringteams ever in the history of the NBA
until this year's Boss team. Shutup. It's not gonna end Herder's career.
Herders still got a bunch of seasonsleft. He's likely gonna still roll
with Sacramento because they're now competitive.It just sucks when you have an injury
to a player we all follow andknowing Jim rats too cliche, but we

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know what I'm talking about. Likeas he rehabs back the competitor and Herder's
gonna want to go one thousand milesan hour, and the fact that you
got to slow him down and belike, you got some basketball left,
don't rush to this thing is gonnabe hard to tell somebody like that.
It's just and it's it's one ofthose deals like I will, I'll admit,
you know, never got never gota sniff from the NBA. Remember

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uh Colony Hide Joach Marky. Thatwas I was kidding my class. I
was like, you know what,if anybody's ever gonna, you know,
make their way through college hoops andget a sniff, it's gonna be Joe
is nephew or son played, Yeah, yeah, family, good genie for
basketball. Never had any of that. So you see a guy like Kevin
Herder come from your hometown do whathe's done, and then you can look
at your kid and pretend you knowmore about basketball than you really do,

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and go, that's how you play. That's how you do it. You
play your defense, you shut yourmouth, you pass the ball, and
when you're open, you bury it. That's how you play basketball, right,
That's how you do it. That'sthe way. And then and then,
oh, you know him. Italked to him twice. I called
him red Velvet before anyone else,but really, no, don't worry about

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that far. And even if youdid, he hates it. So yeah,
I mean, you know, it'sjust yeah, he is. And
it just never complains, at leastnot publicly, Like I don't care you're
supposed to complain privately. He justdoes his job. I love watching that

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dude play basketball, like you toldme, like normally, when I say
I love watching the way pay basketball, it's like Lebron and the way he's
just a freakish ass leading Jalen Brunsonwhere it's just every shots kind of open
and you don't know what he's gonnado. Is he gonna pass it is
it gonna be some weird whatever.But like Kevin Hurder is just he just
does the right thing. Like hejust does the right thing. It's just

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fun to watch and go, that'swell sn hoops right there, buddy,
what that is a little bit offwhat you're talking about? I call that
the good play player. Like youwatch them, good play. The next
thing that's good play, good play. You just keep saying, oh my
god, every play he makes asgood, whether it's defense, whether they're
shooting, whether it's switching out onthe everything he does is good. Bum.
We won't see him competing in thatWestern Conference for the Kings, and

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it starts tonight as well. Yeah, I mean, oh so two players
if you if you told me thattonight they both hey, miraculously both in
the lineup. I'm shutting everything downand watching. I'm sorry, listening to
the Knicks right here. I shallbe watching it. You can't play with

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one arm, right, I sawthat kid in the NC double A his
name Hans played with one arm.Get out there, hurt her and random.
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Fox Sports Radio. Guess what soundthe attack would make? You can do
a great elephant noise. You knowthat? Can you do it? Chris
Jones just left to do it?Everybody? All right? The coolest thing
on TV last night was the Rangersand the Devils. I'm I am not

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the world's largest hockey fan, maybeby pounds, but not not by a
passion. The it was like somekind of a movie. Guys like this,
if you haven't watched, like,maybe you're not a Rangers fan,
maybe you're not a hockey fan.Whatever. When the Rangers are good,
I'm a hockey fan, a fairWeather fan. Whatever you want to I

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I'm not offended. Say however youwant to say it. I like going
to the games, but I'm notIt doesn't dominate my sports brain unless the
Rangers are good. It's kind ofthe perfect fan relationship. The Rangers suck.
I didn't even know there's hockey ona whatever doesn't hurt me. Rangers
are great, I know, isn'tit an awesome Like I'm only I'm a

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complete Fairweather fan. I'm glad youhave the attitude about last night. And
I know, like you have enoughstress in your life going on right now,
and I see your phone. We'llget to that second. The thing
about the Rangers last night, youcan take two takes about it. You
and I are in the same waywith the Rangers. That was cool,
That was different, That was uniqueetead of like a movie. Yeah,

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right, dude, So for everybodyis no twenty one year old six foot
seven two and forty pounds of MattRempei is the most fun thing I've ever
seen. He takes me back tobook a Boom from from the mid nineties
where it was like somebody would somebodywould smack Messier all of a sudden,
next line, boots hopping over awall, Harry Collins, He's gonna pop

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somebody. Rebbye has a a areputation for being a fighter since he's been
in the NHL, which is notvery long because he's been suspended and he's
been benched five fights. Then he'sbeen in five fights and he's the guy
now twenty one years old. Hehas the respect from the bangers out there,

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Matt Martin for the Islanders before theyeven gave it, you want to
know, Yeah, yeah, no, it was like and it's like an
honor to fight him. So hethe last couple of games against the Devils
has handled his business. Will sayhe's been on the he's he's been on
the upside of the fights. TheDevil like added dudes to fight him in

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this game, the final game thatthey meet each other in the regular season.
They look at each other for thelike literally Rebbye even been in the
lineup. They put him back inthe lineup just to get this over with.
Oh you see him line up?Touch sticks? Look are we doing
it? Yeah, we're doing weredropping, the gloves were dropping. Okay,
cool, They're not the only one. Like what eight eight freaking punishments

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come out of this thing? Twoseconds in gloves everywhere people fight. It
was like something out of a movie. How you described it and your fandom
for the Rangers is probably the reasonwhy you and I feel the same way
about this, because it was cool, it was different, it was unique.
It was capturing national headlines. Youdon't see stuff like that. They
got really hurt. Now. Yeah, but we'll do a crossbor comparison.

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Okay, let's say you're a fanof the Yankees, and the Yankees are
the best team in the American League. You got less than ten percent of
the season and the regular season leftto go, and all of a sudden,
they want to start a fight withthe Orioles. Some Yankee fans would
be like, not today, guys. The playoffs are around the corner the
Knicks. The Knicks are having areally good season in comparison to seasons of
the past decades. Hey, theclinch a playoff, you're getting a brawl

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at the Hawks. Can you not? Some Ranger fans looked at that last
night and said, not this timein the season, you might be the
favorite to win the Eastern Conference.Theying goodness, nobody got hurt, and
you got the fire clicks, yougot the fans into it, you got
remp you becoming this cult hero.But maybe not this Ranger team, not
a team that could have cost themselves. We just cat you off talking about

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Julius Randall. The Rangers put themselvesin a position last night where somebody could
have got hurt and potentially could havecost them the conference or the Stanley Cup.
That would be the concerned Ranger fan. It didn't happen, but some
Ranger fans probably feel that way.You and I don't, but a lot
of fans could have that take.You said it, so I'm angry at
you about it. Here's here's here'syou're what guys, Here's yeah, here's
where your bed wedding woo's face iswrong. Okay, the last couple of

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years actually a little longer back,even like because the Rangers were getting good
and then they tore it down andput out the letter that hey, we're
not good We're not gonna be goodfor a minute and then then begin the
bill to become a very very goodteam leading the met right now, If
you can't instill some kind of fearin other players, they are going to

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smash Panerain. They're going to smashyour your good players all day long.
You need not a goon, youdon't have to go that far, but
you need an enforcer. You needa guy who it's like, literally,
hey, if I lead the leaguein penalty minutes and it makes it keeps
you guys think twice, I'm I'llput my guys in the glass, so

(28:33):
be it. That's it. You'reactually dare I say, limiting injuries by
by making people stay on the upand up you know, uh, I
don't know about that last far?Limited injuries by fighting? Well, you
know you get you one. Ifyou know, if you walk into a
room and you're everybody in there justtowers, you're not afraid of any thing.

(29:00):
You can do what you have todo. You can go full WWE
WrestleMania and slap people around if youwant to. If you want to be
a scofflaw, one person steps up, push puffs their chest out will be
like, okay, well, atleast I know one is gonna's gonna push
back. Maybe I don't want tofight today. It just makes you think
twice about it. I had afriend who called that the AKP of the
room, the ass kicking potential.Certain spots like if someone goes down,

(29:23):
who can I take in this room? Right now, right right? And
Reby he's one of those dudes likewhen he on his plate, the ice
man, he isn't the game.I can take him down. He's skating
out the ice bloody mouth laughing,twenty one years old. I'm proud of
you for getting through this segment becauseI can see from where I sit your

(29:44):
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(30:07):
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(30:51):
five to nine Fox Sports Radio.Get off the phone. That's my thing
during the show. Get off thephone. Listen. I'm a very very
busy man, very very important man. My house smells of rich mahogany and
leatherbound books. Only I could bedistracted by emails and random down So was
that two calls you got during thebreak? Got to threw one out as

(31:15):
well? So oh yeah, justsee. You know, you know how
you kind of ambushed me. You'vebeen ambushing me with information lately, whether
you meant to or not. Youknow, hey, you know Monday,
you're working later, stuff like that. Uh. We have levangs lavangas dot
com as a as a business entityof all of our own We have signed

(31:41):
our first ever athlete whoa we have. We have entered a handshake agreement right
now with the goat, Darius Princenice. So we're so. Darius and
I are efforting to get a newDarius Prince logo made. Once we have
that, we will open a lineof Darius Prince t shirts, hoodies,

(32:05):
and other apparel at lavagangods dot com. So we'll announce that one once we
get everything done. But you know, he's the goat, and he's been
the goat for a very long time, often imitated, never duplicated. So
we are going to We're gonna comeup with the right logo for him,
something that he can use for therest of his life. Very proudly.
We're gonna help him get his hisbrand up and running. And you know,
hey, if people hang around thereand buy some Lolovagan Gods stuff too,

(32:28):
so be it. So be it. Ninety nine percent of the time
I would now follow up and sayhow much money while I make from this?
But because I like DP, becauseI like Darius Prince, I'm not
gonna ask that publicly. Also,I'm not going to pay for the website
and set everything up and everything.Is that is that part of what do
we make from this? Directly?We make zero dollars. Oh we are,

(32:50):
But there's there's things in the works, okay, because we're just listening,
you know, we're doing public service. Well yeah, and we're helping
it. We're helping a good frienddo something that he's been trying to get
done for a very long time.We're in a position to help, so
we're helping. Also, he's gota great following on on social media,
so if we bring it open,yeah, they come and buy. When
they buy his stuff, they buyour stuff. I see what we're doing,
and don't forget. It's open now. So if you want to buy
something for the holiday season, wedon't have the Darius print stuff, but

(33:14):
Dad's after Dark is on there.Well, vacking gos here. People have
been asking guys, it's all there. It's ready to go, T shirts,
hoodies, We got more common.We're building it as it goes.
I did, I've been working.When don't we talking about elevation because I
would I may not want to goover there and earlier. That's right,
I'm not I'm not exactly welcome thereat at this exact moment in time.

(33:37):
I reached out to Christian for likethe fifth thing today and he was something
like McDonald's mc bleeping hates me orsomething like that. And when he said,
I'm about mic bleeping hat it withyou and I and I went,
I'm sorry, could you do thisplease? And he said fine, uh
yeah no. So that's that's thebig story. So that was so.
Darius was the first call. Andthen some guy Lee Hutton don't know if

(34:00):
you ever heard of them, whoathe Commission the Big Boss gave you a
call today A few moments ago.All right, we're just now that I'm
apparently out of purgatory, just catchingme up on a lot of stuff and
uh, and then I called Mikeafter that went, oh my god,
Hee called me. He doesn't haveto call you all the time anymore,
call me. Uh so that's yeah. So I've been working here, guys.

(34:22):
Okay, I've been working. Ican't just sit around and you know,
tell fart jokes all day. Ohmy god, I had the worst
gas last night. By the waitwait wait, no, no, no,
no, no, do not distractfrom the conversation. What did the
commissioner say during the phone call?Is that not allowed to be public INFOLI?
Then, uh, it's just it'sit revolves around just launch him a

(34:44):
couple of things. Okay, thatsounds like the answer was yes to my
question that it's private information that wewill soon enough. Yeah. Yeah,
I mean just details on how he'dlike to move forward with things like travel
and and other stuff, but leaguepartners that might be announced in your future,
and how he'd like to do it. Okay, good, you left
me a loophole there for a followup, and you can say no further

(35:04):
questions. But does it involve anythinginvolving the NFL Network because of the news
today. No, so no,no, And I actually, man,
I'm sorry I didn't talk to himabout that at all at this point because
it's like where we are at thispoint, as you know, a team
in a league and building and everythingabout how close you are to kick off
things that are known. I don'teven think twice about. But this is

(35:28):
crazy. So yeah, to fillpeople in if you don't know what we're
talking about, Good Morning Football,which is the flagship show of the NFL
Network, is moving the whole thing. It's based in New York City,
It's going to California. So there'sbeen rumors of like who's going, who's
not going? Is it gonna bethe same show? It's super popular.
They had layoffs on the NFL Networkabout eighteen months ago, sixteen months ago,
and then today they announced more layoffs, including on air talent. So

(35:50):
a lot of people are looking atthe NFL Network as an entity insane.
Are they still going to be ownedby the NFL? Is something happening?
How if it all will affect theAlbany Firebirds. So that's why I asked
that question, because they're in thenews today Andrew Siciliano, who I believe
the former guest on this show,Like a lot of stuff is moving involve
Antel networking, Capitol region sports fansprobably did wonder how if it all affects
the Firebirds. So yeah, SoApril twenty seventh, our game kicks off

(36:14):
the season. We will be onNFL Network, and I just I'm noticing
the NFL Network parting ways with MelissaStark, Andrew Siciliano, James Palmer,
and Will Selva, so four ofthem. So I'm wondering if maybe they
got a little bit of tape fromsome Gazi Bear exclusives back in the day
during the games when you were doingcolor commentary for for our other football team,

(36:36):
and maybe they're sitting there going,you know what, let's make a
little room. Let's make a littleroom. April twenty seventh, that if
Tom mcclowsky, Tom Goazlowski, GazzieBarrow, if he goes out there and
he you know, he really shakesit down for us, maybe we'll add
him to our NFL Network family.I would say that's the furthest thing from
the truth. I would I wouldsay that Andrew Siciliano I mean there's a

(36:59):
there's some there's there's there's some correlationsto be drawn here for pro wrestling fans.
That sounds like the fake Razor,fake Diesel. Look if we just
changed into Antilos the Ciliano, noone's gonna notice. They're the same characters,
they're the same people. This guy'staller, you know. No,

(37:20):
that is not effecting. No onehas called me from the NFL network.
It's a lot of change going on. I appreciate the pump of the NFL
network potentially bringing me on as abroadcaster if that happens, but uh,
as long as it's not affecting thegames. For the coverage, that's the
most important thing. That's good.No, No, yeah, that's that's
of course. Those people are supertalented. I almost like underestimated this part.
Those four people listen off are gonnabe fine. They're way too good.

(37:44):
Like, even though they're no longerpart of the NFL network, I
have no issues of any of thosefour people getting gigs, So I'm not
even there is an issue. Right, Like the the mainstream media job seems
to be dwindling. The amount ofpeople like you know, you know,
we had all many of our friendswho worked for Sports Illustrated dot com and

(38:06):
Fanside and that that that all kindof went away and they're all very talented.
Okay, so where are they goingnext? Like, where do these
people go next? Like CBS gonnapick them up maybe, you know,
sure, whatever, but there's gonnabe a point where they're looking at offers
and you know, maybe it's barstooldot com, maybe it's vaggays dot com.

(38:29):
Whatever. If they picked the wrongone, they could end up out
of the public eye. And thelonger out of the public eye, and
that in that industry, the harderit is to get back into it.
Yeah, there's lots of that conversationof what is the public eye? Now?
How do people consume content? Well, just quickly from a local perspective,
obviously we're in the audio business,but from the visual business television.

(38:49):
Yeah, oh, I just sawus. The two people that have been
affected I would say locally the mostthe company Sinclair which I own CBS six
and Spectrum. Like if you watcha Spectrum broadcast now it's from Buffalo to
Syracuse to Rochester to Albany. Theyhad so many layoffs a Spectrum that they
just cycled it out of the stories. You don't even know where the anchors
are based anymore, because they justweave in and out of what you consume

(39:12):
as content. Sinclair, This isnot a secret. I worked for Sinclair.
Sinclair would put stories up from Buffaloand Rochester, also on the Albany
News. I believe they still dothat, no disrespect to Aj Pinkowski or
the guys over at CBS six andthe team, Like they just weave stories
in and out for content you don'tknow where it's coming from, and unfortunately,
sometimes the viewer can't tell the difference. And I don't know if that's
a good thing or a bad thing, because if the contents good, it

(39:36):
doesn't matter where it comes from.And I see your point you make it
too, like, hey, ifyou work for the NFL network, great,
but if you dropped the rumors outthere from the athletic is that this
is up for sale, so likeESPN or Fox or Amazon's gonna buy it,
and so you don't even know isit the NFL Network, is it
Google? Is it Amazon? That'swhat I think. The NFL network looks
at their overall media company and saylike, hey, anybody can do this.

(40:00):
You guys can have this. Wethink the price on the word NFL
can sell and so far they've beenproven right every single time about stuff with
the logo and the name selling fora huge number. Yeah, but it's
also man, every every layer youput between that logo and yourself is a
is a chance for somebody to notproperly protect the shield too. So I

(40:24):
don't think they'll ever fully like sellit off or rent it out or lease
it or whatever. But at thesame time, yeah, if you can
bring you bring in a company that'smore suited to it, you take it
with my cost. You give mea very large amount of control over how
things are going to be utilized.I could see, I could see a
little lectra love for it, likeand it does it. My ears do

(40:44):
perk up on some of these things. Because as as the AFL has has
re emerged and it's it's a verydifferent league than it ever was before.
It's a more ambitious league than itever was before. And that's talking about
a league that used to have ateam completely best done kiss, So what
does that tell you about this one? Like I start thinking about like rumors

(41:06):
of partners I heard in the past, like some of these places are up
and comers. Some of these placesare dominant media. So some of these
some of the people that I've spokento is like, hey, we're considering
partnering, Like maybe one of thosecompanies is the one that's coming in because
they're part of it all. It'sit's it is a it's it's a weird
world in business when you can startto see, like a lot of these
places there is a third party partytie that before they get together. So

(41:30):
I would, you know, Idon't know anything, pure speculation, completely
reckless. I'd keep an eye onwho the AFL partners with and who the
UFL and the NFL partner with,because someone tells me they could easily easily
be one of those things like,well I worked over there, you want
to try it over here, Okay, let's go. Like I could see
that'd be a pretty pretty easy wayto problem solve some stuff. Did you

(41:53):
see this story? By the way, I know we only got a few
minutes here before the top forward forabout Stefan Diggs and somebody who's claiming to
have gotten it right. I didn'teven want to do this, but I
need to squeeze think because people areagain tagging. Can we make This is
why I d stop tagging Levac andpost about him. Stop tagging. I
got a story for you about anhour about the Albany Empire. Again.

(42:15):
I'm gonna save for about an hourfrom now. Stop doing this to Livac.
I don't me. I didn't workfor him either. I wasn't a
broadcaster. I never tragging us inthe stuff. I never worked for,
received a check from, was paidby, or even told really what to
do by Antonio Cletus Brown. Idon't know what his real name is.

(42:35):
I can't remember. I did getone check from him, I did,
right, but even that, Imean I cash. He actually wrote it.
That's what he wrote. His signaturewas on it. How about I
rephrased that somebody had to be acheck with his name? I catched it.
Well, there was that video ofhim signing checks at what is now
my desk. That's what that wouldhave been one for me? Right,

(42:58):
Yeah? So his c T ESPNsite or or social media what like mid
March put out a picture of StefanDiggs in Houston, Texans here, so
like obviously someone's working for him,Like you know what I mean, there's
no way that dude knows how towork the AI he's had in certain certain

(43:21):
posts, or or comes up witha lot of the things he comes up
with. There's a there's people workingfor him who are doing these things.
Hopefully they got pre paid, butthey it credit word's due. The first
person to put digs in that thatTexans uniform, to my knowledge, was
Antonio Brown's post. Credit to AntonioBrown for knocking it down. He is

(43:45):
a big jay journalist when it comesto the NFL. Some have called him
the Roger WiLAN of reporting, hadit before anybody else got it right.
Credit where credits do it's? Imean, G Matt called him out.
G Mack had fun with that.Hey, we said when Roger got it
right, but give him kudos.He got it right. You all right,
hold on, son, let's go. Let's let's Antonio Brown. You

(44:07):
got one right. Good for youwhatever broken clocks right twice a day and
you stole millions of dollars with thejewelry from a dude. Sorry, I
can't let it go. Yeah,but that joke from Jerry McNamara during his
press conference was phenomenal, and itwas good because it was funny and there's

(44:29):
no way on God's Green Earth.News Channel thirteen's Roger Wiland didn't love that
joke. Do you mean you were? You were the one to show it
to me, so I thought itwas hysterical and to go further with that,
I'll tell you if if Jerry McNamaramade that joke about me, that
would be on this board right nowand I might play it once a day.
The fact that show, I've textedyou some ideas about what I want

(44:54):
to do for Coach Backdamara when hecomes on the show. No, no
one's responding to our emails, whichtalk to our guy Tom Nolty yesterday about
when coach could. Nobody's responding tome. I'm not happy about it.
There's only one person left to reachout to, and I don't really feel
like reaching out to him. Idon't want to. I'm gonna be a
baby about it. Actually, beenhaving numerous conversations of when it will make

(45:14):
sense maybe not. Why am Ino longer in the loop on this?
How's it feel? Is it becausewhat I said about the sniffing thing?
Is he not over that? That'sdefinitely a thing. No. Everybody knows
that I'm negotiating for the both ofus. Good. You heard the idea
I proposed to you, and Ican't say that publicly. Not. I
hope Coach McNamara comes in the studiowith it for you. Get for you

(45:35):
who haven't heard this or don't know. Guys. Wants four area coaches to
come and sit in studio. Godswould be blindfolded and he wants to see
if he can tell which one's Jerrymcnamurre by sniffing them. That's not what
I texted. And by the way, Coach Rolands on the phone today,
you're supposed to join us in thestudio. Coach Rowland joins us in about

(45:57):
thirty five minutes. Be clear aboutsomething you didn't just say. That's not
what you wanted to do though.Now that's no, no, no,
don't you said it is not whatyou suggested. That's right, but you
would like to do that? No, no, no, no. I
want about the show. I wantCoach Rolling on the show. Will Brown
can come back if he wants.I have no proms to Coach Brown,
Coach Burke and Skidbore anybody Coach Drock, coach. The fact that Coach Trock

(46:21):
the coach I played for in collegehas not been on the show yet.
He's busy, he's running spring ball. We can have a coaching carouseling here.
I will promise that I probably won'tsniff any of the coaches. And
if I could smell any coach,Coach Trock say, I promised that I
probably won't stiff any of the coaches. I would be able to know the
scent of John Drock better than anycoach. But that isn't mcnamair is the

(46:44):
focus right now. Don't distract me. Coach gmc is the focus. I'm
not gonna stiff a coach, allright? Is that what you want me
to say? I will not sniffthe coaches in the studio. Done.
I didn't want you too. Iwill promise you and whoever somebody get back
to my emails. I coach myconversation with somebody over at Sienna about they're
just figuring out what it makes sensebecause of his travels. I don't believe

(47:07):
that. I don't believe him.I think they're full of it. I
think they're all full of it.Unless I find out it's somebody. I
don't believe that conversation. I don'tbelieve this person. I believe you had
the conversation, but I'm a littlesketched out about how that's going down,
knowing behind the scenes of how thisstuff comes together. I don't believe that
person is being truthful. Wow,not knowing who it is, it's it's

(47:28):
the person is being truthful. DoI know who they are? Yeah?
Do I have a mass text ofthem? I'm sure you have a mass
test with everyone. I'm gonna askyou in between the breaks. Oh,
it's it's I don't want to know. I don't want to know. I
don't want to know because I reachedout. I'll tell you, I'll listen,
I'll do I'll do the whole thingright now. I'm not scared.
I'm not I'm not like you.I communicate here on Fox Sports Radio ninety

(47:51):
five, nine nine eighty plevac Guys. I so, a very good friend
of mine works at Sienna. Hername is Lynn. She runs the marketing
and she's I honestly don't even knoweverything she does anymore. She's got to
hit her hand in many pots.I have always worked well with her,
and I've always tried to sabotage herother careers to force her to come back

(48:13):
and sell radio for me, becauseshe's amazing. She almost never answers my
calls, and she'll call me back, like, I'll leave a voicemail.
She's very smart, So I doa lot of people leave me a voicemail,
set me at text so I knowwhat I'm getting into, and then
I'll talk to you because I don'twant to talk about it. Why would
I bother I pay for my cellphone, you don't. Jake just did
that to me in sales moments ago. So I call. I was calling

(48:36):
just because I know how much workshe's put in over the NCAA tournament everything
else, because because is a bigpart of it, and I just want
to tell her how proud I wasof her. But I was like,
perfect, I'll get a voicemail becauseI don't want like whatever she answers the
freaking phone. So here I amlike, uh, you did good work,
and she's smart, and you youshould come to sell radio for me.

(49:00):
And then I was just like,hey, when can we get When
can we get When does it makethe most sense? When can we get
Coach mac McNamara on the show Godneeds this in his life? I was
like, is this would be.This would be like Derek Jeter coaching the
Valley Cats for me, Like that'swhat that's what would be for me,
you know, And and she's like, there's just there's a lot going on.
Obviously it is, you know infront of my mind. I'll stay

(49:22):
in contact with everybody who's putting aschedule together, will get it done.
I just don't know exactly when I'llbe able to get it done. But
I was like, I said,gods, thinks I ob the October.
She's like, what is he anidiot? And I was like, yes,
so it'll it won't it won't bethat long off. I believe Lynn.
I believe you. I believe bothof you. I believe n.
I don't believe me. I won'thold my breath, not because of what

(49:43):
Lynn does. She does a greatjob. I think there's other factors that
no one would care about besides youand I that will factor into that happening.
That's not true. It's not thatthat almost is a beer bet for
me. That's almost the beer bet, Like if he gets on the show,
I win the beer. I saythat other things will play a factor
in this building that will provide valuefor that content. Is that? Is

(50:06):
that coded enough for you? Yeah? So here's so, here's why.
Here's why you're stupid, because whylet it We're we're number one afternoon drive
sports. H Yes, I agree. So that's what I'm leveraging. Hey,
let's get coach mac on. Iwant them on the show. I
do. But yeah, but you'reso negative. I'm not. I am
not negative about this. I justknow there's other factors that people behind the

(50:27):
scenes will play a factor of thempreventing him to come on the show.
Not Lynn, not Linn, notlin not you, not our sales team,
other people, you know. Idon't want to name their names.
I don't think that's fair. Idon't want to do that. So you
think another radio station outside of ourbuilding is going to try and stop it?
Of course one it's not gonna happen. I want to I want to
agree with you. I want toagree with you. I want you to

(50:50):
be right. I do. ButI feel like there's people who are very
jealous of the show in this marketthat are gonna do everything they can and
not have them come on the air. Not because of Lynn, this all
the more. Yeah, it's that'dbe stupid. Can you imagine that you
make a hiring about, you know, a sports superstar, and you go
tell a quarter of the market becausepeople get upset with these two guys,

(51:14):
I'd be stupid. I' you madgwhoever asked me to do it? It
was stupid. Coach Karen wasn't onour show this past season. Now I
get like, you know that wholeseason hip hop station. I think those
things are stupid. You know,but we also didn't. Okay, I
didn't ask for karm after because Iwe were busy when I have a two
hour show. I asked, Now, people like me, I share the

(51:37):
building with them. What are theygonna do? Is that Captain Phillips?
I'm the captain because when wasn't.I I mean, come on now,
talk about Mohawks. I'm gonna getfine. We're way over on the salary
here, do what I want.This is how I do things. See
how I've got I've made you dothings you don't want to do. I
can make coach back the Mary dowhat he is I want to do and
be smelled by gods. Ah,I have power. Now listen, three

(52:00):
times today I had somebody tried tomake fun of my truck so you know
that this is the beauty of it, right. So I've got my Mohawks
Chevrolet Silverado. It is a blackWidow edition. I was on with Picks
this morning. They were talking aboutit. They made a joke about what
it meant to, you know,my pants size. I said, it's

(52:20):
one hundred percent of the commentsator fifteenhundred and I don't care. I love
it. And then our engineers like, can imagine over your name on the
side of the truck. I'm like, what would you give me that you
own to trade for that truck?He goes pretty much everything I have,
I go exactly, just like allthese peoples. You don't have to be
jealous of other people's vehicles anymore becauseyou've got friends at Mohawks Chevrolet. Together,
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(52:44):
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(53:04):
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fun. We'd love you come byand maybe, just maybe you'll fall in

(53:25):
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we have? Top four to fourYes, top four four Top four reasons
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