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Back back and guys on the Voiceof the Capitol Regions Sports Fan Fox Sports
ninety five, nine and nine.Get on your feet, We're going,
dude, what's our number? Threetoys? Toys with a Z the back
and guys. We at one pointin our history, what we were like

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a five hour show, five hoursof Lavac and gods. And I think
that when we covered Radio Row,I think we were a six hour show.
Some consultant said, we got anidea, you guys, a five
hours. Just just keep going,just no seven hours, Yeah, just
keep talking. Just there's probably aGuinness record out there. We were in
the runs for uh and now weare you gotta stretch for for the third

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hours? Now I used to anymore. We had podcasts for a while.
This is I hate this microphone soI can't stay here, Fahl, there's
other there are people might use atport in here though, or Doug from
g Y. It's gonna get realthrown off. I think it's just like
there's there's times I like, Ilike to stand the FM jock and me.
That's how you used to know thedifference. If you sat in the
studio, it was an am studio. If you study it was an FM

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studio. That's right, because theenergy better energy. When you stand up
here, I am with better energy, just like Jalen Brunton, Oh gnawb
and anwvy New York Nicks. Thisis uber steak. Is that how you
guys do it? No, notexactly, that's how we haven't asked.
It's close. It was it wasat oh you meant g and brunts And

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I'm sorry to interrupt you with arandom two thousand rock reference. I got
caught you haven't out to disturb bya couple of the Dayane Hollis and Darius
Prince that I was driving away fromwhere the guys are staying, you know,
windows down, beautiful days, scardJoe rocking the pick up, cranked
it up just and they're just likelooking at me like what is going on?

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Hairs blowing in the breeze, havinga day. Man. I tell
you this, This next team,just when I think I'm out, they
pull me back in. I thoughtwith Julius Randall, like you know,
my hopes needed to be dashed alittle bit, taking down a peg.
Stop thinking that you're gonna win thiswhole dang thing. I think that's I
think that's bad fan on me.I think tonight going against the Bulls,

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Bulls are guaranteed a spot in theplaying game. That's where they are.
Okay, that's where they live.That's who you are. It's like it's
like Hitch where he's like your handsstay here, alow the waist, like
that's the way coming back, nojudgment. You could live there, that's
right. I lift, I'm wrongwith that. That's where we are out

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of state. I'll dance however Iwant. But right now, this is
the next team that is fighting forthat third spot and they're very much alive
in the third spot in the East. If you you know, Orlando goes
out and they but Cleveland's not playingtonight, you could jump up. You

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could jump up to that third spottonight. It could happen. Look out,
look out in Milwaukee right behind you, Chicago's in a spot because of
that play in situation where in Levac. To your credit, you called this
about two weeks ago. Nobody wanteda piece of Philly. They're the hottest
team in the East. And ifPhilly plays their cards right, they get
out of that playing round, theyget as high as five. Potentially,

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if they get things to fall intheir favor. Chicago doesn't want to see
them. Chicago wants the best benefitbecause of how this play in lays out.
So the hope, of course forKnicks fans is that you get a
team that's gonna bomb the final fewgames, hope to increase their lottery pick.
Get a team like the Mavericks lastseason. It didn't even hide it.
They're like, no, no,we're sitting Luca. No, no,

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no, we're improving our chance todo this that. You don't get
that in Chicago tonight. This isgonna be one of the best games of
the season. Like competition, playofffield, all right, stuff Chicago,
lay down, lay down, Chicago, you had your time. Lay down.
They're not they're in the play INDs, they're not in the playoffs,
all right, So let me letme let me pick your brain here,

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old guys, you bear all right, four spot versus the Calves not a
terrible place to be for the nextThey've they've been successful against the Calves in
the past. I believe last season. You don't really want the Pacers right
now? Right then I would leantowards that's a favorable matchup for Indiana and

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Indiana knew that when they made thosetrades earlier in the season that would potentially
be the so UH Cavaliers would bea better matchup than Neanda for sure.
Miami heat. Gosh, that's thehardest one to read because the number exactly
right. Miami UH Eastern Conference representativerecently, they've been in this spot before,

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They've had more veterans. They beatthe Knicks pretty recently, and not
just that, but double digits victoryover the Necks. Ah, gosh,
I would lean towards still Indiana's theleast favorable matchup, then Miami, then
Cleveland, so again, you'd leastwant to play Indiana. Still, Miami
squeeze in the middle there, butit's close between them and Indiana. Wrong.

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The least favorable matchup is the seventyfreaking Sixers. Stay away from them
at all costs. I dream.Listen, I know a lot of you
are sitting down to dinner. I'dlike to lead you and grace as you
enjoy your meals. Dear dear,dear God, and Baby Jesus. Please
please, please please, let theseventy six Ers be the eight seed go
toe to toe with the Celtics inthe first round, so at least one

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of the top teams in the Eastis blown out before the next have a
chance to face them. Please please, please now pass the mash potatoes.
I'm hungry. That's like, that'sthose The seventy six ers Celtics first round
would be the most amazing weird story, probably in the last like I don't
know NBA six season, seven,eight, nine, ten seasons, because
the seventy six ers are so freakinggood if em beat is healthy and they're

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so freaking pedestrian if you not andnot just Inbeid, because you and I
definitely gets embiid his factor v.Everything else. But look, he's a
huge part of that. Obviously,he's a great player. Tyrese Maxie.
I don't know if he's taking itpersonal. I don't know if he's been
hearing people say that across Philadelphia,across the East Coast, that it's all
about Embiid and Bead and bead.He goes, oh it is. How

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about I go and drop fifty two? Fifty two good enough? Thirty seven
the night before How many games doyou want like this out of me to
prove to everybody that there's other peopleon this team besides Joel Embid. Even
when Embiid is back, everyone saysit's about Embiad and you not like Maxie's
taking it personal. Which again,if you're a Nick phantom with you Lovac

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on this that you don't want tosee Philly in that first round, you
don't want to see it happen.Boston would be the fair ruble matchup if
you're a Nick fan to watch themface off. But watching Tyrese Maxie versus
Jalen Brunton would be kind of fun, like if you could just get them
in a matchup, if you hadno dog in the race, watching those
two trying to take over a gameby themselves would be a lot of fun.
But Philly not to make boring radiohere, But I totally agree with

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you, Like I did not thinkPhilly would turn on the switch that fast.
With Maxi doing what in the worldhe's doing and Embeid to be the
hottest team in the East. Theyfeel like a horse at Saratoga right,
Like you didn't wage ra on it. Your buddy told you got to look
out for the seven, and you'relike, why he stinks the jockey change?
What do you do? The seven? And then you see him coming

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right down the stretch. We seethose guys all the time at rivers,
Yeah, yelling and screaming at thetelevision, hitting themselves at the bot with
a rolled up program that moment,Tyrese, Maxie, Kyle Lowry, Joe
Embiid day to day, Harris out. So they're banged up. I'm not

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gonna pretend it not banged up.But if they if they're feeling one hundred
percent, I don't want no partof them. I'd love to see what
was left of whatever came out ofBoston versus a healthy or mostly healthy seventy
six ers. Because again, beforehe goes, oh hey, I'm never
I'm not getting mostly healthy knicks,I'm not getting Julius Randall back, he
said. Julius Randall's not coming throughthat door. O Gnobs, baby,

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Yes he is. And Nick fan, you can do it right now if
you want, I think more thanwelcome to. Now's the day to complain
about. I hate that the NBAexpanded their postseason. If it was just
eight teams, the eight of thebest, you don't want to have these
bad teams make a run because ifit was still eight teams, Chicago would
be out, they would be layingdown tonight and it would benefit the Knicks.

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So Nick fan more than at theJeff Loovaca on Twitter at Tom Guys
TMG, it was easy. Youwanted a nice, easy shot out on
the show, say I told you, terrible idea and expand the postseason you
get the Bulls twice still too.Yeah, oh man, I just this
team is so fun though, LikeI just I need them to keep playing.
It's It's brought me such joy.I've been a Knicks fan for as

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long as I can remember, butit's it's one of those ones where you
almost have to ignore the fact you'rea Knicks fan from time to time because
it's such a disappointment. But forthis team, this team, the way
this team is playing, they theysnuck up on you. You knew that
you had good talent because Brunston camealong, and you knew Jewish Randall was
fitting in better than he used to. But like if you had told me

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before the season started that they weregonna get rid of R. J.
Barrett and Emmanuel quickly and they weregonna be a far better team for it,
I'll be like, what you whatdid you get, you get jo
oun beat. Do you figure no, it's gonna be a name that you
barely know to be a couple ofnames you barely know. As a matter
of fact, the second you hearthe second name is part of this trade.
You're gonna make jokes about a largeblack woman in a movie, Precious.

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If you haven't seen it, you'regonna do that. It was a
bad joke, but it was there. I did it was sitting there.
What do you want me to do? Pressure, I don't know a lot
of people name precious. I don't, okay, And that she was sounds
like he sneezed after Okay, I'msorry, I have I have to do
a follow up here on that scenarioyou laid out with me about all those
teams of who the Knicks could faceoff against, because you did leave at
two that they could face off against. Now, I understand why you probably

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didn't mention Milwaukee, because you andI have covered that match up a bunch,
and I know they recently put himso And maybe just because of time,
because you've got a few minutes hereand our clocks are all different and
everything else. Maybe you just wantto do it for a time, but
you didn't mention Milwaukee. You alsodidn't mention it Orlando, because I was
talking about the first round. Statistically, from what I see and how this

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lays out, like Milwaukee, Orlando, New York are all separated by just
one game, and when you getall the way down to Indiana, that's
two and a half. The reasonI start doing that math is because this
has really happened today. So weaired the games here for the Knicks,
of course. So I had myemail ready to go to our Knicks representative
today, like ready, it's ina draft somewhere. I said, Hey,

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Ari, just want to check inwith you about our Knicks coverage for
the postseason. Hope all as well. Let us know if the clocks change.
Clock in radio term means like howmany commercials. I didn't send the
email. You know, I didn'tsend the email because there's so much that
can still happen between all the wayat two and all the way at eight,
where Orlando could choke this like Milwaukeecould. Could you imagine Milwaukee blew

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this? How insane that if Milwaukeeblew this this would feel like Philly last
year. Doc Rivers is done,done, done, never to coach again,
maybe high school. I don't theybegged Budenholzer to come back. Please,
It's not that bad as for Orlando. I thought maybe the reason you
didn't mention Orlando's because they are thegreatest question marking the Eastern Conference. I
think some people are still shocked Orlando'sgone this high this season. And what's

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also bizarre about Orlando is in theNBA. In comparison to Major League Baseball,
the NFL, even the NHL,the NBA feels like the one league
that when you draft, well itdoesn't matter because if you don't have a
superstar, well that's cool. Youhad three picks you made, they all
aren't very good. If you lookat Orlando's roster, it's actually the guys

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they drafted, Jero Cole, AnthonyFronz, Wagner. They actually have got
a Alen Sugs from Goddans. Theseare all the guys they picked, and
it's like, huh, this isweird. You can have the guys who
work out the draft, so it'sfunny to say. And Markel Folts,
of course the former number one pickhe got drafted by Philly. But Orlando,

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I maybe that's why I don't knowI'm putting words in your mouth to
lest convenues, but maybe that wasthe read you had on those times.
No, I just I feel likethey don't fall below four. Knicks don't
get above three at this point.That's where I am. And I know,
look, the two is there.You're right, it's only what one
game ahead of the Knicks right now. It's there, but I'm kind of

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in my head I'm hoping for three, even though the more I look at
it, four is probably the cherryspot where you want to be at the
moment. You want Cleveland again.You've had success against them in the past.
You can mentally tell yourself this isa very winnable series and go after
it. That being said, theMiami Heat, you're better than You're better

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than the Heat, but they playbetter than you do. When you play
total to seventy six ers, ifthey're healthy, I don't want no part,
no thank you, goodbye. Afterthat, you should feel good against
everybody who's not named Boston. Let'splay this game. You're ready. Let's
say the Knicks don't do well againstChicago. Let's see I want to say
that. Let's play this scenario outof here, right let's say in the

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Knicks somehow fall the six. Nowthey're the sixth seed, and somehow,
by this math, Orlando ends upat three. So now you get Orlando
with the home court advantage. Okay, the Knicks at six, and how
the bracket is structured, you getto avoid Boston to the conference finals even

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though you lose the Garden as ahome court advantage could potentially the analytics at
every I feel like the answer isno, because there's way too much it's
too close in the standings to tryto blow a game. But maybe you
could live with six. Maybe well, I mean, honestly, again,
I'll live with whatever, because thisisn't how you drew it up, right,
But no, thank you, andand don't forget. Just because you

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don't have home court advantage doesn't meanyou can't get it with the first game
win. So you can always homecourt advantage has always one went away.
You're going to Disney in July.What if I told you we're going to
Disney it's the Knicks take on theMATCHI no, no, we're not.
But one more sel for I'm inAugust. That's what I'm going to.
By the way, it's even hotter. Wait, they're going July, no

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August, my daughter. Oh that'sway different. Okay, I could have
sworn he said you were going Julyeleventh. Yesterday, that's that's potentially playoffs
for the UH for the AFL.Wow, I misunderstood you yesterday. I
thought I said you're off for theopening day of the track, and then
I might be on the road.I might be with the team. Oh,

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wow, I really are. Thatmakes a lot more sense going to
August than July. Okay, yeah, I know. Because so last year,
my daughter's boyfriend turned twenty one rightbefore we went. He got the
drink around the World and Epcot withme or best of he's responsible young man.
And your daughter's birthdays in August andshe wants to do it, so
we bought the trip right after herbirth. I was convinced you told me

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Hey, I'll sign it. It'sfine, It's okay. All right,
good fans, they're everywhere, They'reeverywhere. Get out. That's a studio.
What do you Yeah, I'm sorry, sorry, kids, back to
the oar for this. God saidyou can't be here for your autographs.
He said, go go make gomake a soup out of shoes or something.
Say that you're so mean, guys. Uh. Sometimes the crowd wants

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with the crowd wants. Okay,that's sometimes you get sign an autograph.
You know, sometimes you got toprioritize, like Wan soda. Oh yeah
one soa. I dude, II love that there was a there's a
contingent of fans out there. Andfans sounds like a weird word for people

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hate everything but pretend they love itso that they can yell about it.
Who are just so angry that hesigned autographs at the beginning of the game.
Nothing went wrong, nothing happened it. If it did, maybe I'm
singing a different tune, but like, nothing happened. You're mad because something

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could have happened, like you hadthat like probably the wife must do it
to you. You probably do itto the life. I'm not I'm mad
because you could have made me late. I'm mad because you could have made
me look bad. She does thatto me. She does that constantly.
You don't do it at all.You probably do it a little bit.

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I might maybe things like today thismorning, I was looking for a polo.
I'm like, I knew I waswearing this style. It's nice aroute
today, Like were are the dressshorts? Where are the polos? I
just see the stack of stank Likeyou know, I would have done the
laundry. You knew I needed stuffto Yeah, but she usually gets me
out in knee What do you meanto and lock the door? I was
like, we're awake, who's gonnano, this door should be locked.

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I'm like, we're we're in thisroom. What would happen if someone walked
in? We would be So shegets does that now too? Yeah?
Because it's yeah, because they're Itused to be my ritual to lock the
house up at night. Now Idon't have to. It's already locked.
It's always locked. Like it's whereI went outside of the smoke of the
guard turned out the door was locked. I'm like, I'm I'm I'm by
the door. No one's getting in. They're not getting past me. And

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if they do, if they canget through my big butt. They're getting
through a door. But yeah,no, that's I'm with you on that
one. But like, yeah,see, we just got mad about doors
being locked. We just like like, I feel like that's what we're dealing
with. And maybe I'm wrong.You can tell me if you think I'm
wrong. I think, yeah,nothing happened. So it's like, for
all these people are freaking out likethere was a there was the one tweet

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out there. Uh, he hasto be stopped. He does this all
the time. It's disrespectful to signautograph. Became disrespectful at some point.
I wonder if and you can answerthis, well, because you follow this
team, this is your team,if this would be a story if it
wasn't the Yankees, Like a Yankeeathlete, a Yankee player is held to

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a different standard. When you putthe pinstripes on, people view you differently,
and not just people like the fanbase, but the media and New
York citizen. There are people wholook at the Yankees and say you have
to do it a certain Yankee way, whether that be with the facial hair,
how you conduct yourself. I wonderif a Yankee player is held to
a higher Center and that's why he'staken more of this heat. I guess,

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I guess it's possible, but Ibut I do want to remind everybody
that the Yankees do roll call,which is one of my favorite things of
all time. So that the theinning has begun, you know, they
are in the field and the bleacherscreatures and everybody on the know will start
chanting, you know Andy Russo untilhe turns and does something acknowledges the crowd,

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and then they will go through theentire lineup until they get everybody to
acknowledge them in game like this isthe was one of the coolest things in
the Yankee stadium in game, likethere's things you there's things you know about
your ballpark, what like in Baltimore, everybody goes oh right during the national
anthem, like really loud, likefor the Yankees, the ground screw and

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the seventh thing especially they're gonna comeout to ymc A. The the roll
call is the coolest fan engagement thingthe Yankees do. Sweet Caroline for the
Red Sox, I was talking aboutgood clubs. Oh okay, please,
we don't. We don't cater tothose people anymore. But like I just
think I think this is one ofthose like it's it's one of those over

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like the the fun Police are out. In effect, I kind of wanted
you to be on the side ofthe fun Police so I can have somebody
explain it to me in a wayI don't cause. Again, like if
you said to me, Jeff,you're okay with it for two reasons,
One nothing went wrong, and twoit's Juan Soto and you want him to
stay in New York forever, Likethat's the only reason okay with it.

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If you didn't like Juan Soda,you'd be pissed off. Right now.
I think it's awesome. I thinkit's amazing. Here's probably why my opinion,
and you know me usually taking thebig Jay journalist Tommy Corporate, the
sanctity of sports. You would thinkthat I would be on that side.
But I feel like two stories inmy life, and I know you have
one involved with Dion Sanders too,I think apply to this. Okay,

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you want to have to Did yougot two about this? That's probably why
I feel a lot different about thisbecause one of my stories involved Carlos Delgatto.
When Carlos Delgatto played for the thenSyracuse Chiefs, even the Sky Chiefs.
Then I had like front row seats, which does not sound that impressive
if you've been to a game ofTriple Aid Syracuse. So we're sitting around
the third baseline and my cousin couldspeak Spanish and her boyfriend, so they

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were trying to get carlostil Gotto tosign a baseball and he wasn't doing it,
and all of a sudden they saidsomething to him in Spanish and he
spun back around and said after thegame. But I remember, I'm like
cool. I remembered like as akid, thinking well, why did and
he just signed it now like itwas cool he signed it, but I'm
like, why I need sign Andthen I remember as a kid the Auburn
Double ed As, which is singlyaffiliated the Blue Jays. I remember getting
a foul ball and no, No, the player I had done a camp

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with got a foul ball and Iknew his name, and I think it
was like Emmanuel. I'm like,at Manuel, Manue signed the ball before
we throw it back, and helike gave me a dirty look, like
you can't do that during the game, and I'm like, what do you
mean you have the ball and Iknow you you gotta give it to me.
I'm a kid, I like,but those two interactions I didn't piece
it together. And now even asan adult, I'm like they could have.

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I think the word I'm looking forhere is pretentious. Where whether it's
athletes, whether it's people in ourfield Novak who can sometimes get rubbed like
this, whether it's people who havea job they're like, no, no,
no, I'm too You did itas a joke to lead off the
segment. I'm too important to acknowledgeyou. Hey, hey, I'm working
here, please, I'm a professional. Well you did that, I was

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signing autograph. I think the levelof pretentious is so high with athletes and
coaches that they take it too serious. And maybe that's because what you and
I do, like you work asthe team president of the Albany Firebirds.
We've touched on the Firebers today.One of the great things about whether it
be even the Empire was the greatfan engagement of indoor football, arena football

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connected with the fans after the game. You and I I know we're making
about ourselves, but seriously, like, if you ever come out to an
VET with us, I can't tellyou how many times the back and I
have stopped the show to goof aout and have fun. I think it's
a little endearing. I think forWan Soto comes off as endearing to me,
like I liked him more after that. So I think, hopefully in
the future, I feel like I'vebeen doing that. Hopefully in the future,
think a lot. But we've hada lot of cultural topics here on

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the show recently. This is cool, Like, this is what supports is
supposed to be. Again, nothingwent wrong. He's playing out of his
mind. It's all it's all gravyto me. It's it's really like,
it's just it's funny to me.How much this is hurting people's feelings that
he's interacting with the fans and andif he's if he's if he's playing like

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garbage, who knows. You know, I've told the Dione Sanders story before.
You know, he was doing astint with the Auburne County Yankees.
He pulled in in his primetime BMWpersonalized license plates stay prime time, you

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know, probably wearing more than myhouse is worth. And I had a
old baseball yeah and sign this whateverthis guy's trying to get a football signed
whatever, and uh, he's likeafter the game. So my mother's like,
yeah, you know what, thatmakes sense. Wait till after the
game. Let him focus on hiswork, which you know, come on,
let's be honest. He wasn't focusedon baseball. Tim McCarver will tell

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you that. So the end ofthe game comes, he doesn't want to
sign it. He still won't signit. He walks bright past me,
brushes me off. My mother likechasing down a little bit. I see
her like, talk to him.He signs the ball. I sold it
at a card show the next dayover at Polis Community Center for one dollar.
I didn't want it anymore. Sothat was like that. It's like
you can ruin a fan by justbeing rude. You know, if he

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said from the beginning, I'm notgonna do I don't I'm sorry, man,
I don't do that, or whateveris what it is, I'd be
a little upset. But the factthat my mom had to go argue with
him to get him to sign it, I'll never be a Dean Sanders fan.
Now. Conversely, I got togo to an Expos game when I
was in grade school on part ofa class trip. And I had a
full conversation with Tony Gwynn, Likehe's in the outfield for the Possible and

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he's talking. I'm I think I'mjust gonna pop my mouth off because that's
what I do. Nobody's gonna hearme. He hears me and starts talking
to me, and we're having areal conversation. And I'll never forget that.
That was one of my favorite momentsfrom there on out. All Right,
that dude's good. I don't knowabout everybody else. I like that.
That guy is cool, But likethose those moments. Now obviously number

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one. Gotta gotta pay attention tothe game, Gotta do your job.
I get that. I'm not notsaying it's not okay, But to take
the time to interact with the fansat all costs, I think is what
it should be. The ones thatbreak my heart, because you and I
have watched this in person is trainingcamp at the NFL. Now, the
Jets, Giants and Bills and thePatriots. We've covered all four do about

(27:14):
as good as they can with theautographs post practice because fans are leaning over
and trying to get it. Butwe know those guys gotta go to meetings,
they gotta go to address the media, they gotta shower, they gotta
go to film. They they areon a tight schedule, and I see
it all the time where I feeland my heart breaks for the young kids
who feel like they're getting pulled away, or a certain athlete doesn't want to

(27:36):
sign something, and I'm like,oh no, I'd rather you just have
like a two hour autograph session likeJosh Allen. Josh Allen was actually the
best I've ever watched to do itthough, but hey, coming up at
one to three today, Josh Allen'scoming for autographs and if you get in
line, you get your autograph.I almost don't even want to see the
autographs at the end of training campbecause these guys are moving and the stories
you just told, like you're gettingpulled away. You're having this happen.

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If it's during the game, likeif some guy's like, can you get
off first base? I just gotback to my seat, the beer lines
insane. That's a little different atthe end of the games, like some
leagues have that availability to do it. Other times teams have to travel.
It'd be great because you're always interactingwith the fans, so I have zero
issues with du Wan Soa doing this. I think I feel like Yankee fan

(28:22):
in baseball. By the way,for those who want to criticize baseball for
not doing enough for the fans,figure out what lane you're in today,
Because if you're gonna criticize soda,but I also criticize baseball for you get
to pick a lane, stay init, don't try to cross over,
and just crush baseball anytime you can. And the funniest part, like the
one thing that changes it all forme, Like if if I was going
to admit to any kind of hypocrisy, if he was playing like trash,

(28:45):
I'd probably mad at him. I'dprobably looking for a reason to be mad
at him. But the fact thathe's playing so well and again every single
thing he does now and we're whatten eleven games of the season. Every
uh, he's still in New York, he's leaving the Yankees. He's to
live the Pitts Pester life. Ilike, That's what I'm like. There's

(29:07):
no way anybody, any real Yankeefans not giving him any attitude right now.
None, No, twenty five yearold you what do you want you
want me to I'm gonna hang overthe wall and astronograph. I'll do it.
You'm gonna give you a ride onmy shoulders in and out of the
stadium to wherever you need to be. I'll do it whenever you want Soto
to stay. I heard people talkingtoday about start writing up your version of

(29:30):
the show. Hey Otani, deal, because you're gonna have to give it
to him at twenty five years old. No, no, no, he
doesn't pitch. No Oani No.I just like when is Otani's not pitching,
Oh Tani when he wants to pitch. If the Dodgers paid him all
that money to not pitch, it'sa bad deal. It's a bad deal
anyway. I don't like it.I don't like the way. I'd rather

(29:52):
give it to a twenty five yearold who's gonna be lighting the league on
fire. Who said the Scott Morris, the Scott Bors, don't who leaked
that start? I don't want totalk about it. I just wonder.
I just wonder about the Sodo stufftoo, like doing the autographs and ring
through the fans. If there wasa time in history where there was like
a sports radio hosting Green Metheric.Oh did you see this? Thing they're
doing now, leaping into the standswith the beer drinkers. Oh god,

(30:17):
I would could you imagine doing that? Did you hear the phase they have
now and sports where once the teamis victorious, the fans will run on
and touch them. I god,e what's the wrestling? Why am I
blanket on the gorgeous George is atthe name of the wrestler? Who would
like? Eh? Away? Yeah? I think so. There's a couple

(30:38):
an autograph during the game. Didn'tHarley Race pull that routine for a little
while too, Yeah, clutching ofthe pearls? No, not at yet.
You stadiums the mecca of basebattle,man, I just more autographs more
every first inning, throw them up. I was so shocked that that was

(31:00):
what people were upset about. Ireally like I was. I was sitting
there like, what are they madabout? Oh? I'm like, oh,
did he like tell him I'm notgonna sign or something like that?
Like I couldn't. I couldn't livethat. That's what we were mad about
today. I'm a little naive tothis, so please, if you're a
soccer fan, footy football at TomGoys TMG, it was easy or the
Facebook box sports ninety dot com whereverisn't in soccer? Don't they come out

(31:23):
with young players all the time,Like they actually walk onto the pitch right
the kit. Yeah, I don'tknow how that happens, Like is it
a local team? Is it justa tradition? Do they pick kit?
I have no clue how that is. But I've never heard soccer fan be
like, h do you see thisRex and West around the field? What
is he telling them a knock knockjoke before the game, before the match,

(31:44):
Like no, let's just calm down, everybody. This is supposed to
be fun. Pretentious is the wordof the day. Young kids try to
figure out. Google that because that'swhat if you feel like that was a
problem. Good gosh yeah, likeyeah you forgot what well you forgot what
fun is? As Twitter likes tosay, touch grass, Oh okay,
touch grass, go outside, gooutside, pretend you pretend? Oh my

(32:07):
god, yeah now I'm with youI again. I just I love watching
that dude play. He plays andlike the I know not to you know,
beat a dead home run, buthe doesn't hit a ton to left.
So there's like I think that wasanother thing, like to hit that
three runner and just have it kindof pop over the wall. If I'm

(32:29):
him, I'm looking around, goinghow do I stay? Like like,
I don't want to look. Idon't want to give it away that I
want to be here. I wantto keep it kind of chill. I
want to keep it all right?But how do I stay? How do
I make this for a forever thing? Because that should have been a that
that's a pop out in San Diegoto pop out in Washington. It's a
home running Yankee Stadium. Let's goScott Boris every single day, whether it's

(32:52):
that Leads story you're talking about,which has got to be him, It's
got a singerprints all low for it. Boris is gonna be banging on the
door for the Yankees and cash Man. You see what he did could be
yours. He's gonna test the market. Heard that Otani story is out there.
You leaked that, Scott. No, I didn't. Can't prove that,
can prove nothing. Look he didthat with Strasburg. Strasburg came off
a great season. Strasburg had beenconstantly injured. He signed a mega deal

(33:15):
with Washington. He never was evenclose to being the same pitcher. Then
the weird stuff happened where Strasburg didn'tlegally retire so he could still get paid,
but then the Nationals poise they'd retirehis number. He's like, well
I didn't. I'll put some onTwitter, like he's the king of this
Scott Pors is the best, andI'm sure this is the reason as to
why. But SODA's playing great andhe's engaging with the fans. I love

(33:37):
all that stuff, is my boy. I'm excited. It's it's fun.
It's so far, so good thisseason. Stee keeping up against the terrible
Marlins team, who I'm like,I don't want to talk too bad about
him, you know what I mean. Like, it's like it's one of
those like last year I didn't thinkthey could do anything, and they actually
were competitive, and I'm just afraidof I don't want to wake them up.
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You will not regret it. Youlove this like I feel like you've become
more of a Red Sox hater thanI have. I feel like since you
became Tommy Corporate and we're able tocrowbarrow the Red Sox away from them.

(35:30):
Here on Fox Sports Rating ninety fiveto nine and nine to eighty, you
hate Red Sox fan more than Ido. No, no, no,
look, Red Sox fan, I'mnot a fan of yours is an Oriel
fan. But I'll explain why.I'll explain why this segment has returned.
Coming up? How about that Igot some real numbers behind this. Apparently
I have some emails I have toread. I'm not allowed to look at

(35:50):
them yet. I I actually haveseventy five emails today. So let me
see what if I can find thesethings. Let's have some fun at the
expense of the filthy Red Sox fansin the world. No hurt your feelings
again. It's Fox Sports Radio ninetyfive, nine eighty. It's love Aking
guzz on the voice of the CapitolRegions Sports Fan, Fox Sports ninety five,
nine and nine eighty I like cheeringus on on our final segment in

(36:13):
the three o'clock. Now we're doingit like I feel like you're back at
the gym sort of like, comeon, get that worked out. Shit,
there's the bite. Uh man,what yeah, I I it's it's
a long day and it's not youknow the worst part about it. It's
not a long day usually because ofhere. It's justly a long day because
of everything else I've walked into.And then you know, there'll be a

(36:35):
couple like like negative nancies in thehalls and stuff that make me just want
to go full revolt, like whenlike I'll get I'll get harassed by the
engineer and then he'll start pep talkingto me at the same time, and
like pick a lane. You caneither tear me down or you can build
me up. I can't. Ican't allow both. What's your brand?
All right? Everyone else is gottafigure out brands in this building for program.

(36:57):
I mean, what is your brand? Dave? Yeah? Yeah,
what's your brand? He's actually inthe room next door saysday like beeal juice
all up here. No, it'sjust it's been it's been a day,
man, I've had a day andI'd like to complain, but I'm a
bigger person than that. I don'tjust complain to complain. Well, you
don't have to complain here because backby popular demand, the numbers are in.

(37:17):
This is the fun I enjoy aboutthe digital side of our company.
The numbers are in in the mostlistened to segment so far in the twenty
twenty four year for Levaki guys,with all the love to the fire Wolves
and the fire Birds and our guestson the show. Back by popular demand,
it's Levac reads Angry Boston Red Soxemails. This has been the Most's

(37:40):
still coming. They're still coming.And not only are they coming, they
are now in your inbox. Youfollowed yet Yep, you've got a few
in there. Let me see.I see one. Oh no, there
should be two. There's two.Two, and if you don't have maybe
a third, I can find thatone as well. But I don't think
we have time for three. Ithink we have time for just two today,
And we have an intro again,here we go, and now we

(38:04):
return to another thrilling episode of AngryBoston Red Sox fan emails read by your
lovable, entertaining host Jeff Levac ohMan. Let's see here because I only
have the one. I only havethe one, so you might have to
send me. I will send itto your Gmail as we speak. The
first one should be for a guynamed Tom the first. Tom First,

(38:29):
Yes, okay, okay. Whereare the Boston Red Socks? They haven't
been on this season? Do youstill carry the games? It was all
capture the Boston Red Sox. Iwanted to be extra painful. Would you
like to reply? True? Hewould like the reply, Tom, I'll

(38:54):
tell you where the Boston Red Soxare. They're in Boston. Actually,
I believe what. They're hosting Baltimoretoday, Yes, Opening Day today at
Fenway Park. Yeah, so that'swhere they are. Why are they not
on this station? Well, becausechoices were made. Choices were made,
and you didn't cut the mustard RedSox. You know what. I kind

(39:14):
of want to try these LITVC.I want to steal your thunder. I
got some on Facebook here. Thisone comes from Bob Hello. Will Red
Sox games beyond nine eighty this year? I sometimes the NC Double A Tournament
bumped them early in season. Ithink I got this another one, Eric,

(39:34):
are you still broadcasting Red Sox.You steal like a British rod casting
radio this year. Oh, Ido it as well as you. I
mean, I don't know, butyou know, but it's you know,
it's it's difficult. I can feeltheir pain. I feel I feel their
pain. I feel that, Ifeel the the anger, and I enjoy

(39:58):
it. I like, I absolutelylove it. Like I'm sorry that you
are upset. I'm sorry that youryour life is so terrible. There's one
more here, Levac, that Ithink might be the king of all the
emails. This one came at eightthirty this morning. Did you receive it?
Uh, it's a little it's alittle curious because technically they didn't complain
about the Red Sox. They gota little creative with this email. Send

(40:22):
it over again. This one asksabout the Baltimore Orioles instead confusing. I
like that. I like, Ilike, uh, oh, here you
go, all right? I likeI like like, you know, throwing
the curveball if you will, curiousif you'll have the Oils game broadcast today.

(40:44):
Here's my favorite part. When askedif they'd like to reply false,
No, I don't. I justwanted to put the question out there under
the ether. Do you mind readingwho that came from? Your mom at
gmail dot com? Mom? Mom? Is that you mom? Can you

(41:06):
please send your emails to your momat gmail dot com? Is your name
your mom? Li'sten? Your emailyour mom dot com? Now do you
think there's an email that exists andthey're the ones that have your mom at
gmail dot com? Or do youthink they just put in a fake email
just because they didn't want us toemail back to them. I mean it's
weird though, because again they asked, like, curious if you'll have the

(41:28):
Orioles broad game broadcast today, Sothey're not even actually asking for the Red
Sox, so they're just angry,like is this somebody who knows you?
Is it your mom? Is shelike Thomas, so, are you gonna
have the socks? You're gonna dothe Arios? I sent that in a
mess text today. My wife wasin the mass text. She wrote,
Wow, that's really really nice inyour mom asking all the way from Europe
they're gonna air the Orioles game todayin Europe this week celebrating have fun,

(41:52):
joined life. Yeah, I mean, it's it's just I wish my biggest
problem was whether or not the RedSox we're gonna be on Fox Sports nine
eighty. I wish that was mybiggest issue. My issue is just trying
to figure out which one of mycommemorative Yankee whiskeys I'm going to drink when

(42:15):
they win the series this year,because they're just world beaters. I mean,
they're just absolute world beaters. Like, you know, it's got like
that's gotta be kind of the worstpart of it, right, Like you're
you're a Red Sox fan. Youknow, you struggle daily with tying your
shoes and whatnot. Your team gets, you know, blown out because it's
just it's time. You know,it's just time. And then you gotta

(42:37):
listen to me, you know,listen to old Pinstripe Pants over here,
just enjoying life as a Juan Soto, just blowing up Anthony Volpey hip Hip
Bullpay. It's just it's gotta bea terrible time to be a Red Sox
fan. Well, the Red Soxopening day is not a time to celerate
for Yankee fans like you. Asyou mentioned throughout the show today, Yukon

(42:58):
is a national champion. Not veryfun for me, don't really enjoy that.
But we hope for the worst rightas you compete against your rivals,
although all in good fun, youhope for the future of your arrival to
stink. For the future, youuse a Yankee faner hoping for the demise
of the Red Sox me. Ihope this is the peak of Yukon basketball.
I hope we've seen enough of thisnonsense this season. We can all

(43:20):
move on. But you know,here's what I do hope for Red Sox
fan. If you're listening today andyou're gonna listen to the next two weeks,
now that the Ncuble termus officially endedand the Knicks playoff push is gonna
be here, I don't want theangry emails to end. That is very
on Tommy Corporate of me. Sorry, I'm I gotta be clear here,
huh. You gotta bring in alittle bit though, Like if you're gonna

(43:43):
come at us, come at us, like if you're gonna if you got
a problem, you know, spellit hot a little bit, Like I'll
throw a little caps in there.That's nice. Even if you don'na swear
a little bit, that's fine.I don't care. That's okay. We
can we can have fun with that, like, you know, be heard.
This is your chance to be heard. Heck, you can go to
the app. There's that microphone button. You can record a message and have
it sent right to us. Likethis all get into it a little bit,

(44:05):
like right now, I don't evenfeel sorry for you. I don't
even think you don't deserve it.You don't deserve the Red Sox. You're
gonna cancel the segment if it's asegment, if it's literally like, hey,
where are the Red Sox? No, I'm out, can't do it.
If it's you know, listen,I've been a socks fan, you
know, since my first hate rally, and uh, you know, I

(44:27):
just I gotta, I gotta,I gotta hear my socks. And you
go on a little bit and elaborate. I'm in. I want to be
a part of it. But ifit's just again, if it's just over
and over like where, hey,hey it's your mom, where are the
socks? Oh you're good mom.You'd know where my clean socks were.
That's all I'm saying. But whatever, I will say this though, I

(44:47):
do think the best thing that's happenedtoday as far as the Red Sox go.
Did you see the story about KurtShilling skipping the celebration of the the
Old Four Socks. Why why?Uh? Well, I think he's skipping
because nobody likes him anymore. Andwhat it comes down to is, remember

(45:08):
he he gave out Tim Wakefield's personalinformation right before Tim Wakeel passed away,
that's right, and his wife bothyes. Way recently, Derek Lowe,
who was also part of that team, he's he publicly said I'm glad he's
not here because of the bs hebuilt, he pulled. So here's where
we're at. Right. First ofall, mind yours, you know,
mind George doesn't cost something to mindyour own business. More importantly, if

(45:31):
enough teammates and in Red Sox playersturn against Kurt Schilling, someone might ultimately
admit that was catchup and not bloodingthe sock one day. That's my goal,
That's what I'm living for. That'swhat I'm dreaming about, is somebody
to come out publicly and just say, hey, listen, you know what
else about Kurt Shilling I don't like. Yeah, sure he bankrupted an entire

(45:52):
town making a video game that nevercame out. Sure he's he's made some
some terrible, terrible statements that youknow are not not to ask we'll ketch
him in his sock, pretended itsblood trying to get rallies. Uh,
you've been on that for a longtime, that that was ketchup. Just
the math and the medical way inwhich that happened. There's enough articles out

(46:15):
there that you've convinced yourself it doesmake sense. Shame on me for my
first thought for chilling going right tobaseball, even when you asked, like
what did he do? Because Ithought he should be in the Hall of
Fame. We should take all thatstuff away. He's the only way he
should be in the Hall of Fameis if he pays full price for a
ticket. And he insulted the writersthat taped me off the ballot, how
dare you even not put me inbefore? And he's been a jerk and

(46:35):
good for the Red Sox and theteammates formerly of Tim Wakefield saying no,
you're not welcome here. Well,he said he wasn't going first, so
I guess like a little self awarenessfor him, which is nice, but
no, listen, hey, lookdude, I'm just saying, sooner or
later we gonna find out what condomisis. Were in your socks. It's
all over you shilling. How dareyou? How dare you? Lot of

(47:00):
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Rich was on earlier today. Whoknows, I's all four hours. I'm
I'm just gonna go for all right. Good point, good point. I
don't know if we're good enough forthree yet. We'll figure it out,
all right. Hey, listen,everybody, thank you so much for listening

(48:25):
today. We will be back againtomorrow on the GT Toys Studio that's Toys
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Mystery, Oh my god, mystery, and then some so who knows,
who knows? Maybe we'll do ithere. I don't know. I
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