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W Ox, Troy WYMHD two opening, W two forty opening, Fox Sports
nine eighty ninety five point nine.Fact, it's time for the Top four
four with Levac and Goza. Ohmy goodness, I'm ready for the Top
four four. If there were thebiggest stories in the world of sports,

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we could have done more, butthat just feels greedy. It's brought to
you by Mohawkana, where they alwaysgo out of their way to please you,
and then we have their grand openingon the eighteenth of this very month.
I talked to a lot of peopletoday involved in that grand opening.
I don't know where we're gonna go. There's been conflicting reports, but come
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Levac, I feel like that's theonly thing I do know. That's
because they're opening it for a grandlevel. We'll be in Mohawkanta with the
go out of the way to pleaseyou. I feel like a way you
can grade how old you're getting inlife is how excited you get about the
masters. I'm starting to know thisthis about myself, the older and older
I'm getting. I'm like, Oh, they announced the pairings today. That's

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where I'm like, I didn't inthe past, that didn't really mind.
How much of the Masters do youwatch every single day? Sunday? Hello?
Friends? And then the pairings wereannounced for the Masters Tiger Woods.
T's off at one twenty four onThursday with Jason Dane, Max Homa,
Jordan Speith, one forty eight,Dustin Johnson two o'clock. He's with Tommy

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Fleetwood, Justin Thomas ten eighteen,John Ram at ten thirty. Well,
Mac, do you get excited thisBrooks Kopka by the way one thirty?
You know, some people want tofind out where he is. Are you
at that level for this year's Mastersthat you're locked in on the pairings?
And you feel like as you getolder, you care more and more about
what of golf's most prestigious events,if not the most prestigious. I care

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when there's a story like, uh, when when d Chambeau and Kopka wanted
to like fight and they were likegonna put him in the same pairing like
the like I don't remember what turnbut that wasn't be perfectly honest with you,
but those kind of things like wherecan I can can I watch some
drama build out of who's playing withwho. That's really all I all I
care about when it comes to thatstuff, is it? Do I care

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more about the Masters because I'm older? No? Do I care more about
the Masters because I do play alittle bit of golf now and most importantly
I can bet on it. Yesand yes, Pete Doherty, he's still
working, by the way, onwhat allegedly on reading. He just wrote
a story about some young girl fromSouth Glenn's Falls thirteen years old, got

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to play it at Gusta National.That's some deep work, Pete. Well
done that you found a thirteen yearold playing at Augusta that he still gets
to play. That's what it was. He's got a kiss up to Augustus
so he gets to play every year. I'm on to you, Pat Doherty
as here is, Pete. Butit's like, remember women weren't allowed to
play there for a while. Nowyou have a thirteen year old girl a

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local plan. That's pretty cool.I don't think i'd read it, but
I also don't know how to read. But like I think the to that
story, I think he did agood job. Listen, Just because you
guys beef don't don't be like that. You a good story. You shared
it. I gave it a shoutout. No, I'm on to him

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a shout out like you were likelike you were throwing him under the bus
kind of thing where it's like it'sa good story. I think you know,
as a girl, Dad, Ithink it's you know, I really
think like you're just not sensitive withsome of these issues because you have you
have seventy five sons. I haveissues with Pat. You do you do
well? And again he he woulddo stories that he heard on our show

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and he wouldn't credit us. Thereyou go, that's all and the like,
and then he would come after usfor the dumbest thing we ruined.
You know, did you know thatwe ruined ruined more me than anyone ruined
the Sports Center update on the radio. Yes, he annihilated me for that
for I think up nationally. Andthe best part about it is, do

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you ever hear it anymore? Wewere the last ones to do it,
and we did it. And youwant to know what you want to feel
really good about yourself? Pat Doherty, Pete Doherty, don't worry whatever your
name is. By coming up withthat segment, we kept our producer employed
because they were like, we don'treally need him is to do anything,
So we came up with a wayto bring him into the show and keep

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him employed. But you mocked it, and that poor kid got fired.
Yeah, not for that reason,but still we'll cut that out of the
podcast, so that part will cutout. Story number three. It's Major
League Baseball action. If you're aBoston Red Sox fan, I've heard from
you today. Thank you for yourcalls, Levac, sir, get ready
before we sign off today, Ihave to send some things over to involved

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in the Red Sox. They're trailingright now three to one against Baltimore Orioles
and their home opener. Also,games of note tonight include the Marlins taken
on the Yankees first pitch set forseven oh five, New York Mets back
in action against the Atlanta Braves.To keep an eye on that matchup,
as well as Rangers, Nationals,Giants, Padres Cups get the late night
national broadcast. I will give youthis tease, Lavac. Tonight, I

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will have a parlay for the playof the day and about forty five minutes,
about fifty minutes thanks to the MohawkChevy involving three games tonight, three
games tonight plus money by the wayright around plus two forty you can win
on this action. So there's mylittle teas for you coming up. Uh,
we can talk more about the Yankeescoming up as well, involving their
matchup with the Marlins. I knowthat he got bumped off the A block

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today the opening segment. Anything elsejump out to you tonight involving the Major
League Baseball slate of games. Imean, like, legitimately, the only
thing I really care about right nowis the Yankees, the way they're playing.
That's later in the year. Youknow, we'll talk in a little
bit about how I'm watching Knicks games. It's very different than how I watch
Yankees games obviously, but like we'reeleven games in nine and two, a

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lot of fun to watch. Idon't have to worry about who's behind us,
who's in front of us. Yet, it's all Yankee baseball for me.
I might have to, you know, put up put it up on
the old uh, the old iPad, sit out back with cigar and some
bourbon. Oh, tonight's one ofthose goals. It was beautiful out,

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beautiful out, that means it's abig game. That means it's a big
game when you're going out there inthe backyard with the pouring the bourbon and
having it on. Do you wantto know what started it? For real?
Because I did it? No,no, no, I mean why
I started this year. Last night, I had, uh we have a
sick dog, you know, alittle little tummy, little tummy ache.
And I may have come home touh poopa palooza. So I got him

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out, got him cleaned up,and then I sat outside and let my
daughter and her boyfriend cleaning him.After your dog, But I sat outside
and I had the egg game onthe iPad, cigar in the hand.
They're on the ball for the dog. Once he was feeling better. Nope,
a g paw as they call me, a out poopa palooza duty.
No no, no, no,no no no. So And it was

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nice. It's a beautiful nightout.So I did that, got some work
done on the laptop. So I'mgonna do again tonight. That's a big
game. I'm gonna still say it. When you're out and you're doing that,
I'm gonna have a no. I'llpromise you this. We can leave
the show with it tomorrow. Okay, well, unless something big happens right
exactly, don't feel don't promise menothing. Starry. Number two is their

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NBA's slated games today. The NBAregular season's gonna wrap up here soon at
the end of the week. Somegames of note tonight if you're a Knicks
fan include the Celtics and the Bucks. That's a seven thirty tip off in
that one. Don't worry Nicks fansa little tease about what's coming up here
for story number one. Thunder inKing's Nuggets and Jazz, Warriors and Lakers
is the game of the night.How will these teams shake out when it
comes to that playing game coming theweek of the sixteenth Flippers and Suns as

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well. In fact, this isa stacked slate of games in the NBA,
a lot involving the Knicks, someof the Eastern Conference as well.
We'll throw the Pasters and Raptors inthere too. This is about a whip
around. You know what I feellike tonight for the NBA, And I
know they don't have this, butI've been spoiled by the red zone.
I've been spoiled by Allegedly there's gonnabe Olympic coverage like this too, coming
up for NBC. Then I needeverything in one commercial. Excuse me,

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no commercials one? I mean thiswould be a fun whip around night in
the NBA because of all the differentmatchups. Yeah, well that happens.
We have to take a night off. They were like, they were nice,
they took a night off for theNational Championship and now you know,
a little catch up game, littleget everybody rolling. Everybody had in the
right track. I mean, Idon't know how we could be in a

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situation where the Bulls feel it's appropriateto have a game tip off at eight
pm Eastern Standard time. What kindof kind of life do they think we
all live out here? You know? Story number one Bulls hosting the next
year in the top five four eighto'clock tip off. You know what,
just for that, we won't startour coverage till eight o'clock, eight o'clock,
our covers to get underway. Yeah, take that. It's just you

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know, it's like I said yesterday, national championships starting after nine? What
kind of world is this? KnicksBulls starting at eight? I got places
to be you heard it earlier.My head coach is getting to the office
before four point thirty of the freakingmorning. I can't let him be the
only one there. I gotta gotoo. I had a great dad moment
yesterday. That's the top fourth part. We'll talk about the Nickson Bols.

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But like you heard me complain aswell. I know there's a little sarcast
in there about that nine twenty tipoff. I was ready. I'd got
up at five o'clock that morning,i was locked in, I'd prepared myself.
Baby Wes was not sleeping. Hejust said, tonight's not the night,
Dad, I'm not going to bed. I'm in this with you.
Yeah, that's what it was.He was like, solidarity, my brother.
I'm gonna watch some Monday night Rawwith you. I'm gonna watch the

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National CHAMPIONSO. I wasn't watching rawyet. When you and Boston Dan,
we're having the best time ever.And I but like I was in the
text message and I serious, fomobecause I wasn't in a position to do
it, to switch over ageat andI'm just letting you two are like,
oh my god, that was great, Oh my god, that was great.
I'm like this part of me waslike, could you guys take this
outside please, like I don't wantto. So Wes at one point,

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right around like nine to thirty justdecided, you know what time to call
it a night. But I'm notgonna cry. I'm gonna crawl up on
Dad and just go to sleep.Which there's no better feeling in the world.
Oh how I'm dad with the babyon like, and Wes is like
that, so be sleeping on me. It's probably only two or three times
ever done. He just likes togo in his own bed, go to
sleep. So having that dad moment, the baby's sleeping on me, I'm

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flipping between our coverage here, flippingbetween pro wrestling, flipping between television,
and then Mom came down and said, what's he doing? I said,
he's sleeping. He goes upstairs,he goes, he sleeps in his bed,
and I'm like no, because Iknew. I knew if Wes had
stayed with me, then I'm kindof awake, kind of a sleep.
But you gotta be prepared to getthe count. How do you stay awake?

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That's like I've always do. Ifthe kids sleeping on me, even
some of my pets, like ifthey sleep on me, that's a track
dark. I'm out, Like justif if you can feel the warmth and
everything of the kid across just right, and you're like, all right,
that was fine. I'll watch themand you're out. That's I can't believe

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you can stay awake if you getssleeping on you. I know you get
very relaxed when it happens. Alot most people do fall asleep. But
for me, maybe this is becauseI'm a bigger guy. I think like,
okay, if I move too muchto the left or the right,
he might fall off. You mightslip off. I've seen you. I
think those are recks. I'm prettysure that you get to point A to

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point B, Like why is heconcerned about West? How many times did
Rex fall off of him? Whatdoes he learned from? You're like uncle
Jeff can and push you right off? Anyways, West comes off? And
of course there I am fighting atlike a boxer in the twelfth round?
What you cons winning? I justsaw Purdue They had a seven four kid?
How are they so nix bulls tonight? Just like we were talking about

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I'll stay up for that one eighto'clock, but next we're gonna talk Yankees.
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Sports Radio. She had a roughday. I used to three hours.
No, that's dropped yesterday. Shedidn't get a raise. She didn't realize
that, did you? What?Oh all right my last show? All
right? No I did not.By the way, how dare you somebody
shit? All right? I swear? What is that you're crumbling up?

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That was a gym rome bit.I just have money, the money.
I got money in there. I'mstarting to sound like Quinn, you got
money, you got money in there? Like what did it? A little
bit? Really good? The problemis that like once I get one,
I lose the other. Like Iused to do a really good hull coke
of now I do Macho man,and they're close enough. You can't do

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both. So I used to dolike I thought I had a decent cantara.
But the more I hear Quinn,the more I'm into it. And
when you did that, oh yeah, you gotta cook a call in there.
Yeahause you gotta get away from itand like look like you're what do
you do? That's the key tothe quid in fresh And you have to
look like you're searching for something constantly. But we first did a. By
the way, Kantar's gonna join uson the eighteenth, which will be fun.

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We usually have been very welcome tothe Picks one on sixth morning show
by those guys. We get towelcome then, but we're both welcome.
I just show up, you know, every Thursday Morning eight twenty Quit at
one point dumped out as like walletduring what if it was actually searching on
the air for something. Yeah,so constantly if you feel like you're lost,
that is the quid impression mentally andphysically emotionally. I just yeah,

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you're gonna fill with the quid impressionthere and awkward, I did. I
stopped paying attention to you. Notman, this this Yankee team is so
much fun. It's my favoritest myfavoritest thing ever. Is what's going on
with the with the Yankees Hip hipVolpei By the way, I think is
can we can we get that startedhip hip Bullpey? Somebody else had that

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though, of course, right,yeah, but still that's all right,
I tell you, But I don'twant to be depressing. I don't.
I don't know how much longer we'regonna have old uh, mister Sterling,
you read the Post article was thePost. I didn't even see that.
I just I heard the game lastnight. Somebody wrote an arty. I
believe it's the New York Post whohad basically did like the the follow around

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with Sterling, and the opening quotewas, how much more do you think
you have doing this? He notmuch? Jeez. There's the belief is
like he wasn't feeling well last night, but he It's like, that's the
Marlins, Like you know what Imean, you would never get to miss
a game, period. Then youwould never get him to miss a home

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game. You know. COVID changeda lot of things obviously. Now it's
you know, it's the Marlins.You can you can take the Marlins.
You can take them. They're oneand ten. I don't want I'm okay,
But like his home run calls,whether you are a fan or not,
they're iconic. So it's kind ofsad to me that I think that's
almost done. I really do.He has had a very long career.

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I'll say this about John stan therewill I truly believe this. There will
never be a broadcaster like him againin the future. Like we've seen broadcasters
who may have been more influential intheir craft. Maybe this is no disrespect,
may have been opinion wise better thanwhat he did did different sports.

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Like there's as many iconic calls,there are mess ups, and it's one
hundred and sixty two. It's thefocus of the Yankees. But a baseball
broadcaster, Susan Wallman's a part ofthe broadcast, But a voice calling every
pitch of every inning. I don'tthink even New York sports fan gets that.
That's rare. Like usually it's threeinnings with one voice, a different

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voice for four or five, sixon radio, and then seven, eight
nine. Usually it's six' three. And I don't even know if people
realize if you don't follow the Yankees, that's usually how it goes, and
different teams have their different styles.But I don't know if we're ever gonna
have a voice like that in NewYork sports in particular, No disrespect the
Red Sox fans or Tigers or anyother sports that have had long term broadcasters
that, in particular New York Mannever happen again. Yeah, well,

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I mean the longevity of it.Yeah, that's that seems a little a
little more difficult to predict. Butthe I think there's guys out there because
all right, let's let's you know, pivot to a different one is coming
to the end. He I meanof broadcasting. I don't you know,
he's not who he used to be. There's moments and I never liked the
kirkurb Street Ohio State Michigan fan,you know what I mean. Whatever,

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But the way he handles, theway he blocks for him on TV,
the way he takes care of him, it's special. But I would say
this not exactly the same. ButPat McAfee is like a modern day version
of Corso. Like it's he'll saywhatever he wants to say. He's gonna
do things a little different. Hecan be a little hokey at times,

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but he's endearing in his own right. So I think that that that guy
is out there. It's just aquestion if you find him and does he
want to do that. There isa big difference between Corso and Sterling,
not not the top we're talking aboutas the impact they've had in the sport.
And when you think about Yankees,when you think about college football,
that's what you're getting at, isthat that voice maying become so familiar with

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is at one point get a stepside, and a new voice will probably
have to do that, but theyreally shouldn't have that pressure. There is
a huge difference between Sterling and orSo, and it's the medium. There's
a lot of vanity involved in television, like to not in radio, so
great to age on television, it'sgotta be really difficult, Like everyone sees

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the flashback of what you used tolook like when you were younger. John
Sterling, to his credit, wearsa suit and tied to the radio broadcast,
like he dresses up what he doesn'thave to. But there is something
about vanity aging on television compared toradio, like you might not be able
to tell the difference of a voiceon radio. You couldn't. Maybe I
always thought radio see I see theother way, right, because when you

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watch it on television, it happensgradually, Like like somebody who is on
TV every day, they don't justshow up one day fat, you know,
they don't just show up one daywith gray hair. It happens over
time. Somebody on radio, likeif you haven't seen me since GNA,
you are like, what the hellhappened? Like you know what I mean?
Like you still look young, butyou look like you hate the dude

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I knew from back, like I'vegot gray in my beard now because of
the because working with Mike Korda overat belfour and the Firebirds. This is
crazy, Well that will look likethat. It usually I'd say ninety nine
percent of radio hosts who've ever donethis when you listen to stuff from the
past, as they've gone through theircareers, their voices have gotten deeper because

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they've aged. I'm the only oneI think in history that's voice has actually
gotten higher. Well because you knowwhy, because you did cast fake voice.
It was so deep, man,I was doing the here's what it
was like, Syracuse University trained voice, Like if you hear someone from Sarah,
I'm telling you, if you hearsomebody from Syracuse, especially ages twenty

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two to twenty six, it's thesame voice. And mine was the Hobart
version of SYX. But that's thebest way to describe it. Like,
I dude, I can watch abroadcast right now and I can tell you
every kid who goes to Syracuse becausethey all sound the same. But I'm
the only one whose voice got higher. So there you go. You different,
You've got gray in your beard,and I'm the only one whose voice

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got higher through the career. Fullof vacking guys, I've got I can't
remember where I found it. Idon't even I don't even know if I
kept it. I found one oflike my cassettes from the New School and
this is I was gonna just talkabout great the Yankees were. But all
of a sudden, now it's aboutus. Why wouldn't it be on the
guys. Yeah, there's three hoursthe rest of that it will be sports.
Right now it's us, and itwas, uh, I remember it

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was. I remember making that.I've never listened to it because it was
crap. I knew that I wantedto be on what was called the edge
back then. That's what I wanted. And the one teacher, Tom Hahn,
who had the best voice, waslike, I hear ao R in
your voice. You need to beon Picks one O six, And I
was like, okay, cool,I need a job. They're cool.

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I like Picks. End up gettingan internship at Picks. I worked there
first. Now I hang out withthem every Thursday morning, so it's kind
of cool. And the edge isgone. I was there for a couple
of years too, but that waslike I would love to. Maybe I
do need to dig out that tapeand just hear how bad it was I
got. I almost got kicked outof New School of Rio on television because
I burped during one of my showsbecause I thought it was funny that criticism

(26:11):
you have of yourself. What I'vecome to learn. And there's a point
here with Anthony Vaulpe, It's gonnacome all around here in this response.
Right, So we get back tothe baseball kids when we Whatever you do
for a living, whether you're adentist, whether you're a teacher, whether
you are a firefighters, whatever itis, you will look back in your
career and say it sucked. Iwould have done it differently. I would

(26:33):
have handled that I wasn't good becauseyou've learned like oh, I would have
gone into the break saying this.My perspective on life would have been.
Writers do the same thing. Soit's not like we all think we sucked
earlier in our career. It's noteven that we were. Bet. I
guarante if I listen to the tape, I bet it's not as bad as
you think. But it's because youwould have done it a different way because
you're like this is what I considerto be good because you've done it for
so long. Again, that's everybody, teachers, writers, sales, whatever,

(26:59):
But Anthony Vaulpa is the spot inhis career. Can he actually get
better than what he's doing right now, Like if he looks back in his
career five years from now, thestart that he's on right now, what
he's doing at this level, thisis about as good. It's just gonna
get. Like I'm saying this facetiously, I wouldn't have known that word six
seven years ago, but like he'sthe best player in baseball right now.

(27:19):
It's a super small sample size.We just started the season. But like
Vulpe can look back at his careerand say, you know what, in
these moments when we're winning, whenit's April, when it's still young in
my career, whatever I'm doing nowis working. A scouted report can get
out on me, like people listening, people could learn your weaknesses and try
to be competitive against you. ButVulpe's killing it right now, and like

(27:41):
this is great of what he's doing. As an oriole fan, I got
to give it up to him,hat tip and be like, you're doing
it just as good. As anybodyright now in the sport. Do you
know that can't full circle come out? That's really good. Horton would be
happy with that. Han and TomHan, both Horn and Hun They did
a show together at one point.Volpe leads the Yankees in batting average,

(28:07):
on base percentage plus slugging and Ibelieve war So that is good, all
right, It's pretty good. Ain'tbad? Yeah he is. He actually
leads major League Baseball in batting averageright now with the four seventeen like he's
And this is again, this isa kid that they have film on.
Usually it goes the other way.You come out, you light everything on
fire. They figure you out.You either have to adjust or you go

(28:30):
away. He came out it waspretty decent. Early they figured him out.
He was a defensive player for theYankees. Now he's made the adjustments
in the offseason, fixed his swing, worked on it all year long,
and now look at him. He'sout there. He's he is the most
productive player for the Yankees right now. And that's a lineup with Juan Soto
who's right behind him, Aaron Judge'sbehind him, but John Carlos Stan's got

(28:52):
three home runs, He's right there. Now he's starting to wake up a
little bit. The bat's moving alittle faster like so, let's all.
It all comes down to the pitching. Nasty Nestor was actually nasty last night.
Can Carlos Rodin come out and giveus back to back good starts as
Yankees? If he can, I'mgonna start getting real obnoxious kids. It's

(29:15):
gonna be a problem. Is gonnabe a problem. It's a fun team
to watch. That's that's the bottomline. Fun team to watch. They're
having fun, they're coming back towin games, they're doing all those things.
I don't want to neglect the otherteam because the Mets all of a
sudden are getting it together. Yeah, the Mets. They leave town and

(29:37):
now they look like an actual bonafide baseball team, winning five of the
last four games, and one ofthose games against the Braves. They play
the Braves tonight. So major LeagueBaseball in New York State doing pretty good.
Pretty good. Mets still below fivehundred met fan has calmed down Met
fan, if it's a friend ofyours or a family member, they're able

(30:00):
to breathe without panicking, which isgreat. Blood pressures down a little bit
those are all good things. Thisis one of the oddest things, and
baseball feels like it has more thanany other sport. You look at the
Met roster in April of twenty twentythree, and you and I did this,
and I know we keep bringing backa bad prediction by us, but
it makes sense here that was theWorld Series roster. Like the talent that

(30:23):
was on the twenty twenty three NewYork Mets, Verdlander and Sures are obviously
Hall of famers who were traded asthat season went on, But you step
into April twenty twenty three, youlook at that roster and say that team
can win the World Series. Someof those pieces have been removed, obviously,
but some of the talent that wetalked about as a World Series containing
team is still on the roster.There's no way they got that bad that

(30:45):
fast in one season. So thereare times when the Mets play well and
the Mets win, and the Metsare talked about as a contender of the
National League East, where I'm like, maybe the expectations preseason should have been
a little bit higher, because youtalk to some Mets fans that they're like,
it's fourth in the division. It'sbarely five hundred. But how did
they get that bad? That fest? Was it Cohen spent it too much

(31:06):
money where guys getting fat and lazy? Was whatever? The still odd Alonzo
locker room rumor that he was abad leader, but no one says why
he was a bad leader. Butit sounds good to be a bad leader
because we don't have it, knowho it's to blame because Buckshio Walter just
quit. They're still really talented,and games like that prove it, like,
Okay, they got some guys whocan make plays still, I mean

(31:26):
I think I think realistically they tooka massive swing last year. Right,
so you're bringing you spend money,get all these guys, you go,
they're older, but hey, they'regonna win their win now, guys,
we're gonna give them two year,eighty to ninety million dollar contracts. We're
gonna go crazy and we're gonna winright now. Oh, they both explode

(31:47):
in your face. You have totrade them away for reasonable prospects, probably
not even as good prospects as Baltimorewas pulling back in a lot of their
trades not too long ago, andkeep paying them well. And then Steve
Cohen, who who is supposed tobe the golden parachute of all golden parachutes.
When it comes to spending money.There's rules named after him, and
how he spend money goes no,no, no, no, it's not

(32:09):
unlimited. There is a faucet.It does turn off. Sorry, I'm
paying. I helped pay for theRangers to win a World Series. I'd
like to pay for the Mets towin a World Series in the next couple
of years. So I think himsaying I'm pulling back freaked a lot of
people out. That starting rotation isnothing to write home about. That's the
biggest problem. Seth Rogan played mein a movie. I don't want that

(32:30):
to happen again. That was itwas Seth Rogan, right. No,
Seth Rogan was another character, theguy from Parks and rec played him.
No, he was played by byKingpin Oh. Vincent Yes, yeah,
I don't know why. I cannever remember Viceadonafria do the same thing.
Vinceentanafria played me in the movie lookingbad at my money. We won't do
it again and almost like came offweird, weirder than normal, weird.

(32:52):
Vincedinonaphria, but it was Yeah,I I do. I think that there's
enough talent for the Mets to bedangerous. Is there enough for them one
at all? Somebody somebody have tostep up and become a legit like two
or three starter that's just out ofcontrol, or the bullpen has to be
so strong that they don't burn outby the end of the year with the
way they're gonna need to be used. But it's there, there's talent there.

(33:15):
The biggest debate for Mets fan isdo you want to see what you
can get back for Alonso? Why? Why? Right now? Because that's
that's what this year is really about. Can you be good enough long enough
to keep Pete Alonzo? Let youwant to talk more about it, because
I'm not done if you want to. I mean, you just depressed me.
We gave them all this hope andyeah, we I need to go

(33:36):
deeper into that topic. I mean, that's what this year is about.
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uh, and if that makes meold, so be it. So we're
ped Alonzo and to a lusher degree, I would ideas. I think those
two names are that those are theguys that if you're a Mets fan,
those are the names that you're eithermost excited to hear or most afraid to

(39:13):
hear. If you're a Mets fanwho's seen other teams move big talent to
just you know, add a turbobooster to the future development of their farm
system and ultimately their team, you'reexcited to see what those kind of guys
might bring back. If you're somebodywho thinks that you've got a lot of
the pieces and you can add eitherin free agency or some of these other

(39:36):
trades are going to develop faster thanpeople think. You need to be a
five hundred or better team all yearlong. You need to be in the
hunt all year long, because thesecond you fall out, there's a chance
those guys are gone. You needto be a team that looks like they're
going to the postseason all year long, at least past the trade deadline.
If you don't want to lose oneor both of Peter Lonzo and Edwin Das

(39:57):
Okay, So if they suck iswhat we're getting that like to a degree,
if break the team up, they'reawful, and that makes a little
bit more sense to me. Okay, Like if you feel like Atlanta is
so and Philly too is in thatmix because Philly's gone to World Series.
If you feel like they're that farahead of you that the only way to
get better for the future is toblow this thing up and you feel like

(40:20):
there's gonna be no point ever again, you can get more. Okay,
that's still depressing, though. PeterA. Lonzo is on the verge of
getting paid right, this is it. He goes into free agency next year.
He didn't do the deal early.He did the Aaron Judge thing.
He is about to be thirty,and he is about to be paid now.
If he is the completing piece ofa championship run over other checkbook,

(40:44):
let's get to work. If heis somebody you can pay a bunch of
money to sell some tickets and you'reokay with the fact that you're still behind.
You still got to do a lotof building. Sure, pay the
man if you think he's the guythat can bring back real, real talent
on a prospect level and jumpstart yourfarm system and then not pay him.

(41:06):
Yeah, fans are gonna be kickedoff. They'll get over it. Yankee
fans lost their mind over Robinson Cano. Well okay, now we didn't.
You know what, was it?Not the worst guy to ever leave,
not the worst thing that wrapped TheYankees truly did benefit from Canon out signing
because Cano just got ridiculous at theend of that. It's like, no
matter what the Yankees were gonna say, even everybody in the media is like,
Okay, you're just playing games nowwith the Yankees. Patrick Corbin's another

(41:30):
example of that, Like he reallywas never gonna go to the Yankees.
He was using the media his agentto get leverage out of other teams,
and it eventually for them, itworked out for New York. It worked
out actually for both as well,so they did benefit for sorry Nationals and
Mariner fans. But this was evenmore different because you don't have to pay
him, you can still benefit fromhim. You're talking about Alonzo. Yeah,
yeah, uh. I guess thereason I was bothered by that comment

(41:52):
that ended the last segment, itwas because I believe you worded it something
along the lines of the real purposeof this season is to move on for
Pete Alonzo. Oh no, no. The major storyline of the season is
whether or not you're going to becauseI don't listen. Can they make a
run? Can some of these pitchersbecome lights out guys and represent the National

(42:14):
League in the World Series? Kindof happened last year. Nobody really expected
a lot and all of a sudden, here's Arizona, you know, knocking
doors now? So could it happen? Sure? Is it far more likely
that you have a good season,and Peter Lowns was a good season.
He probably competes for the National Leaguehome run title, the whole nine.
But you fall short, maybe missthe playoffs by a game or two.

(42:37):
That's that's a lot more likely thanyou go on a full blown tear and
compete for a World Series title.What's wild about that statement and why it
caught me off guard, why Ifeel for metfans, is that that statement
is never ever said about a Yankeeteam, at least the last twenty to
twenty five years. I've never heardhappen, but it's never never as well,

(43:00):
like Jodge to a degree, lastyear, the reason we didn't talk
about last year two USAR. Thereason we didn't talk about it was he
was an MVP all year. Hecarried them to greatness. So you're like,
well, here's your check. Putthe numbers on you want. If
he had played poorly and the Yankeeshad played poorly, he might have got
traded. U Raldash Chapman, likethose that group that got kicked to be

(43:22):
brought back and win it all.I would say going into the last season,
the expectations for both the Yankees andMets were extremely high. Both were
World Series aimers. We'll call itAMers, aim e rs. There's a
nice Syracuse accent for you AMers.They thought the Fall Classic was realistic expectations.
Now I feel like I feel likeanybody from like Syracuse area whose name

(43:43):
is Amy just thinks you called itas what's that anna, Anna? I
ams? Here's how you know someonefrom Syracuse. Just have him read the
sentence my aunt balances on an ambulance. I did okay with that. Trust
me. The further west you getmy aunt balances on an ambulance anyway valance.
So uh with that team. Twentytwenty three Mets twenty twenty three Yankees,

(44:06):
the Mets and the Yankees finished sevengames apart. When we talk about
wins and losses, seven games,five games, it's out of one sixty
two. I mean, they bothdidn't make the postseason. Like, it's
not really that big of a differencewhen you think about it. And right
now there's only five games different.Now there's nobody on the Yankee roster like
Alonzo or is there wait a second? Juan Soto is sort of like Pete

(44:31):
Alonzo, Like what wear it out? Right? Like they both have one
year left on their contract, they'reboth heavy hitters, they both want to
get paid, and both are aroundthe expectations of what the Yankees and Mets
can do the season. Because let'ssay the Mets and Yankees hit the All
Star break with the same record.Okay, let's say the Mets and the
Yankees. I'll just throw a numberout there. I don't know, forty

(44:52):
five, fifty and thirty Okay,twenty games? About five are pretty good?
Like competing for first place in thedivision. Both would say, neither
players moving, neither one's going They'refighting for a first place. They're gonna
make this thing happen. Let's pushtheir record closer to five hundred. Let's
say they're forty five and forty uhoh, now you come off and Met

(45:14):
fan might agree with you. Theymight say, you know what, if
the Mets are forty five and forty, it's time to deal with Lonzo.
Look for the future. Are Yankeefans gonna have that same mindset about Juan
Soda in a more competitive division,by the way, they won't, which,
no, that's the difference between theYankees and the Mets. But there's
difference between Juan Soto and Pete Alonzo. Like five years and the Yankees traded

(45:35):
to bring Soto in, hoping tobe able to sign him long term and
make him part of this run thatthey want to go on. You also
have to remember this year already isn'twhat was drawn up, and it started
off great. Garrett Cole is supposedto take the ball every five days.
That hasn't happened yet. There's otherguys who have been hurt and stuff like

(45:57):
that. Like, there's a lotof injuries that have been through this lineup,
and they've they've marched through them.Soto is supposed to be the piece
that gets you over the top tothe World Series. Peter Alonzo could be
that piece to somebody else if youalready have the pitching stats. Yeah,
I don't see it the same wayyou do on this. I look at
five years's a lot of time inbaseball. Oh, definitely. Like I
think Peter Alonzo's had any better careerright now than Juan Soto. Yeah,

(46:22):
absolutely, you don't think so.No, he's a better power hitter.
I would say he's had a bettercareer than you. Don't think Peter A.
Lonzo's had a better career than WanSoto, Like I thought, if
you give if you give me fiveyears, I'll take the five years,
Like I think Peter Alonzo's done moreright, Like, but I mean All
Star Game an you know, allStar games appearances impact in the league.

(46:43):
I'm just going off sheer math here, Like if I got an All Star
caliber player in Peter Alonzo and Igot Juan Soto, I would take Alonzo.
That's who I would take, reallyaccomplished so far through their career.
Not for the future. Oh no, no, if you told me who's
getting more money for the future,I would take Wan so for sure.
But the idea that like Peter Alonzo, all those things he listed off about

(47:04):
a team being a contender, ateam being a World Series, a team
needing a heavy hitter, like allthose things you just described to me for
Juan Soto or all the things METfans wanted Peter A Lonzo to be.
They wanted him to be the future, the face of the franchise and n
L m VP contender and everything else. I'm gonna give you the out.
Okay. I think you're being contraryto what Sodo and I think you saying

(47:24):
that you would that you think Alonzois a better player than Soto is because
you want to because you want tocounterpoint me where you're going. No,
No, I think Peter Alonso hashad a better career than Jan Soda.
Did that? Is that what Isaid? Peter A Lonzo has had a
better career than Wan Soto? Youdid say that. I'm hoping you didn't
mean it. Why not? BecauseSODA's played longer even though he's younger.

(47:47):
Yeah, he's he has All right, hold on, let's let's do it.
Let's do it. We're gonna dothe We're gonna we're gonna break it
down. Let's go with total homeruns, all right, total home runs?
Juan Soto one hundred and sixty twohome runs. Okay, Pete Alonzo,
he has one hundred and ninety fourhome runs, So advance one.

(48:09):
Last season advantage will be Pete Alonzoby Okay, Soto averages twenty, Alonzo
averages thirty two. Let's go withrookie season. The rookie season. Soto
I believe entered the majors young,well much younger. Yeahah, because they
both so Alonzo started in twenty nineteen, Sodo started in twenty eighteen. He

(48:31):
just he's a prodigy. So rookieyear. Of course, you want to
go with the fifty three home runsfor Alonzo. I believe that was a
record at that point major League Baseballhistory. If I'm not mistaken, it
was arguably the greatest season in rookienationally history. But I mean, but
like, okay, so that's that'sthat's how you want to get down.
Those are my first two. That'show you want to get Let me set

(48:52):
the rules in the SAR all right, rookie year to sixty average for Alonzo
to ninety two for a career.Best batting average for Soto is three fifty
one. Career best batting average foryour boy is two seventy one, Can
I can I pause that? Ihonestly don't have that set up for Soto?

(49:14):
Was that the COVID year for thethree to fifty? Is that twenty
twenty? By chance? Yeah?Yeah? Okay, so that's that's three
thirteen and twenty twenty one. That'svery good. I'm saying three to fifty.
I could sniff that out because thatwas a deflated season. We'll call
that. Yeah, still though,did it? He did it one hundred
and sixty two games last season?Very good. I'm I'm a big fan

(49:38):
of the polar Bear. Me too. I like what he's done. I
like the fact that they said,hey, you're defensively, you're not a
very good first baseman, and he'she's worked his craft to be a very
good defensive first baseman, not great, very good. Wan Soto's a better
player, and he's five years younger. Okay, so maybe you and I
were having a different argument. Betterplayer who i'd want for the future,

(50:00):
Hell, who i'd want right now? I'm giving you Sodo for all those
But who's had a better career rightnow? I'd say Pete Alonso. Now,
there is one big difference that somebody'sprobably gonna yell and screaming, Guys,
you're missing the biggest example of thedifference between Sodo and Alonso. Soto
does have a World Series. He'sa world serious champion. I'll give him
that. That's pretty impressed. Hedid win a World Series. That's pretty

(50:22):
good. I hate ROSA doesn't happen. No, no, no, no.
I thought that would have. Ithought that was your first one out
of the gates. I was preparedto, like ay, like a b
rabbit Nate Mile. I was readyready, all right, all Star games.
Who do you think has the lead? Oh? Gosh, I would
say, gosh, I know what, just because you brought it up.

(50:43):
I bet it's really close. Ibet it's like one difference for Sodo.
They both are tied at three.Oh okay, All MLB First Team in
twenty nineteen, A Rookie of theYear, NL MLB home run leader all
twenty nineteen, n l RBI leaderin twenty twenty two. That's Pete Alonzo.
Those are some of his career bestWorld Series Champion in twenty nineteen,

(51:05):
two times All MLB First Team intwenty and twenty one, All MLB Second
Team in nineteen four times Silver Slugger, Babe Ruth Award, NL Batting Champion.
We're all, mister Soda, thoseare all pretty good. At the
end there, for Soda, thepoint that this whole Soto Alonzo discussion was
going into was this, and Iguess I was defending met fan and not

(51:28):
trying to take a shot at theYankees. It really wasn't my only point.
I just think he's different, likeI would if I love Anthony Rizzo,
a very nice guy. Great,But if you told me the Yankees
could bring Pete Alonzo over, I'mtaking Pete Alonzo and I want him,
and I want him now. Iwant him right now. I'll pay him
whatever. I don't. I don't, it's not my money. I don't
care. I'm just saying that they'rein different places. One team just traded

(51:50):
to bring a guy in well awareof his circumstances, in an attempt to
woo him. I mean, isStephen A Smith and every other guy's like,
he's gonna stay, He's gonna stay. The other team had a chance
to lock their guy up long termlast year in the year before, and
they didn't do it yet. Sothat's what that's the old That's the big
difference. If five years younger teamwent and actively pursued this guy to be
the missing piece, five years olderteam could have locked this guy up and

(52:15):
haven't done it yet. And Ilook at it like this, coming off
the conversation we had with Alonzo andMet fans, and maybe maybe Mike Suz
is working on a sales package forhim, and I'm kissing up to him
and cut on Met fans right now. That if the Yankees and Mets have
the same finish they had last season, some people could predict the Mets to
finish in fourth place in the NLEast. There are some people who believe
the Yankees are going to finish infourth place in the NL East. That

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if both those teams are pacing towardsfive hundred or that, and you told
me who's more likely to get dealtat the deadline. If that's the pace,
again, a lot could happen betweennow in July and right now.
The pace is not saying the Yankeesare going in that direction. It says
the Mets are going in that direction. Juan Soto would be more likely to
be traded than Alonzo because the valueof Soto is bigger than Alonzo. It's

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like, if you don't think Soto'scoming back, or you don't think you're
gonna be good, you can geta lot more. You can definitely get
a lot more from Soda than youcan for Alonzo. Yeah, I mean
I agree with that, but you'realso a lot less likely to trade him
for that very same reason, unlessyou unless at some point he looks like
he looks into the camera in theoutfield and goes no more signing autographs.

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I'm believing as soon as this isover, I can't wait to get out
of New York. We're getting that. That's thank goodness we have a third
hour because if we did not getto the Sodo autograph thing today, I
would have been ticked because I gota lot to say about that. Uh.
This is also weird usually to besigning off right now, but we
have to give our play the DayLovak before we get into three o'clock hour
play today thanks to mauks ever,let you got a bunch. Yeah,

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I kind of went a little.You know, we're gonna blow by.
I had mine written down, butI wonder you that stupid Jim Rome bit.
All right, I play the DayI had it written down. No,
no, no, I got allright. So if the Cardinals listening,
this is not gonna sound like it'sgonna pay you that much because take
three heavy favorites. But I didthe math today and that's why I wrote
it down on a piece of paper. I'm taking the Yankees' money line over

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the Marlins. I'm taking money lineRangers over Athletics, and I'm taking money
line Dodger's over Twins. Now,those are three heavy favorites today, but
that gets me to plus two fortyfive. I'm dropping a whole eleven dollars
on that game. Baby. Ifyou know, if that hits, if
you flop out your Rangers for theGuardians, that's one of the things I
have. Wow, it's two thirtyplus two thirty seven. Ten blocks brings

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back thirty three bucks and change.I'm gonna I'm staying with Judge. I
think Judge hits a home run.So I got Judge hitting a home run,
and then my pinstripe parlay is Yankeeswin. Judge gets a hit,
Sodo gets a hit, Vulpay getsa hit, Rode on five plus strikeouts.
Let's make that my play of theday. The pin stripe Parlay,
Yankees, money Line, Judge Sotovulpay All get a hit and rode on

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five plus strikeouts. The positive ofthis show going three hours too is by
the time those games get started withI think is right around seven o'clock Eastern.
Maybe we can mind. Maybe I'llthrow the Guardians in mind. Maybe
I'll rout and robin it make astory, right. You know what?
The only thing that scares me aboutthe A's and Rangers in the Guardian game.
You get those divisional games, justmath is eventually going to catch up.

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You'd be like, there's no wayunless it's the Yankees and Orioles of
the past, where you just geta divisional team you think you're gonna get
clipped once in a while, itcould happen early. Sorry you and not
going favorites to pay off. Well, that's why the Pinsroy Party is my
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