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Levack believes in Carlos Rondon. Why is Nestor Cortes a weirdo?
Coach Damon Ware Albany Firebirds 
War Pig returns and MLB stats don't make sense

Episode Transcript

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ninety five point nine. Fact it'sLevac and guzz on ninety five nine Fox
Sports Radio. You see me herefreaking out. I saw you. I
thought you were dancing in there.I wasn't sure. You're just bopping left
and right. Cay how you're feelingthe music. I was like, I'm

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nailing this. He's feeling this allright, just real quick of just real.
So I was able to get acontact of mine to put together the
Firebirds ven jerseys this year, andfor the first time ever, we're gonna
do custom I saw that really cool. Yeah, So if you went and
ordered it, I asked you acouple of questions on the sheet. You

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know, the number you want,the size you want to name you on
the back right and on the bottomit said just you know, to be
clear, and I'm paraphrasing this.We're up against it because you know,
the jerseys weren't released on time,so we're gonna do everything our power to
have them for you by the homeopener. However, there is a realistic

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chance it would be like the weekafter or whatever because of timing faster everybody
orders and pays better chance we haveto have it here for the home opener.
Everybody's cool, cool, cool cool. A lot of people played around
whatever. Still there's a chance thehome very clear, like I'm sending it
out to be made special, likethese don't. These don't exist. I
don't. I don't have a GaziBear sixty nine jersey two XL in the

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truck like I don't have that.I was gonna ask for that and the
kids. I was actually gonna textme with, oh, I'm gonna get
rex in west one for the youknow, Toddler's size, but I can
get them at no we have.I can do Toddler's. I can do
all of them, and I'm gonnado enough. I took everything down for
now because at this point, there'sif I have, there's no way I
can get them to you before thehome opener. At this point, like
if you already that first order,we're fighting. I've got those kids aren't

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making any nikes until these jerseys aredone, so like, but it's clear,
like, dude, it's gonna bea minute, Like I don't I
can't go in the back again.I can't get Gussie Bear sixty nine fan
jersey is not Oh you want that? Here you go, Like they're getting
made, they're getting shipped back whatever. Literally a dude that I'm like,

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I like this guy. I don'tthink he knows. I don't think he
knows I'm the one who's messaging becausehe's messaging me through the invoice. Can
I pick up my jersey? Yes, probably right at the hopefully at the
home opener where you can't pick itup anywhere yet. It's it's in China
right now, it's being stitched.That's one of many, you know,

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that's just the star Oh the waydid not stop. It's been like there's
another guy who paid his invoice superlate, and luckily I just I knew
him through a fan thing. SoI was like, you know what,
I know he's gonna come through.I'll get the order, right. Do
you think it'll be here in time? It would have been quicker if you
had done what I asked you todo. I don't know. It's just

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sorry, it's stupid. It's justsomething. But I can just tell you
this. As soon as this batchgets here, I'm gonna open up for
another batch. They take two tothree weeks from order to complete. That's
how the undertake. And it's justbut I'll keep doing it if you get
off my back, all right?So, uh, tonight public service.
By the way. By the way, in about twenty minutes, Coach Damon

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Ware is gonna join us. Donot complain to him either. So coach,
where's gonna join us? And he'sgot enough going on? He's got
enough going on tonight seven oh seven. First pitch, Yan, he's blue
Jays. You wanted to ask mea question? I assume what's about this
game? Yeah, you have alevel of confidence in tonight's starting pitcher that
I was almost cut off guard bybecause, in almost a similar fashion of

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the Nick conversation, the Nicks havea chip on their shoulder. They have
to prove people wrong. Are youfeeling that same vibe here about the Yankee
starting pitcher? You know, here'shere's this situation. Carlos rode On when
he got to the Yankees, youyou knew he was a boomer bus guy.
He has ace caliber talent, buthe has the potential to go on

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and pitch like like a guy whodoesn't even belong to your roster. Happens
like it's who he is when he'son. He's great when he's off.
But as I'm as I'm looking ateverything, and again we're uncharted territory.
Yankee fan, you lost two ina row? Kind of cock cause that

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is that poop sandwich I was talkingabout earlier. It'll catch up. So
if when the Yankees last year,when they lose a couple of games in
a row, you look up,you look ahead, like, all right,
where's Cole? Where's Garrett Cole?That's your slumpbuster, that's the dude
that no matter. You know,at least even if he's two three games
out, you know you're winning thatgame, or at least you believe you're

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gonna win that game. So withouthim, who is it? Because now
you've lost too and you know,he'll pitched very well prior to this game.
He just couldn't locate and everything likethat. But Nester Cortes is inventing
a new pitch. So he's doinga freaking chicken dance out there. I
mean to stop your point here aboutRodan, but I need we can please
quickly talk about the nest protest thing. What is happening. It's tough to

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describe this on a radio. Wewill fully admit this. I know a
lot of that video of that pitchis out there. So he's doing this
like fake out whiffle ball. Here'sthe ball here? It's not Ah,
it is very hard to describe.So I would go out there and find
it that he's like hiding the ball. You'd to call the chicken dance.
It's not working. I don't thinkhow is he not got called for a

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back yet? I was missed him. My gosh, what is he doing?
And honestly, like I've seen alot of like I've seen a lot
of outrage over it from other otherteams and stuff. Let it go because
you know what, like it's farmore likely that doing this ruins his delivery
then he has invented the new pitch. That's the new Fernando Valenzuela where it's

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just so awkward you're like, whatthe hell's he doing? You called it
the chicken dance. I would describeit as let's say I was playing uh
baseball in the backyard with my oldernieces like six seven, eight, and
I wanted to be goofy, likedelivering the balls to the play and make
him laugh. Yeah, I woulddo the nester quartest thing like it's almost
to that level of being ridiculous outthere. Well, you know what I'm
saying, Like, it's more it'smore likely it screws up his regular delivery

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it than it actually turns into somethinguseful. I would believe so, but
knowing how math is dominating baseball,I got a bunch of that. By
the way, maybe we'll squeeze thatintie math math number statistics that someone's told
him to do that. I don'tthink he was goofing around in the bullpen
and said I got a great asomeone told him to do. That is

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my take on the cortet, becauseit's too you know, I stupid.
It's too stupid to have it justpop out of nowhere. Well and it's
it's one of those situations where Ican see it. Maybe he was,
maybe he's playing around with it,and then all of a sudden somebody went,
wait minute, he might be ableto make that work. I watched
someone the next time they see Cortesin a replay of that, just to

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scream out, I give you aperfis stinky cheese. Here it comes,
here comes this super fast bell zoom. I want him to have like some
type of cartoon noise before he deliversit home next time. This is why
we need John Sterling back to givethe play by play quickly of that too
nice? No, all right,it's but I think back to your Rodin

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to be I think he needs tostep up and be the guy right now,
and I think I'm thinking he will. So that's why I like it.
So that when I saw Boston Dantry to bite the pinstraight parlay,
he did Yankees money line, hedid Judge and Soto to get hits,
I was like, the only thinghe's missing is road on. Because I
always put the I almost always putsome kind of strikeout, like I'll buy

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it down if I have to playa shorter price whatever. But that's I
think, you know, some guysare really good under pressure, some guys
aren't or not he I think hesaid, well, he'll be fine.
The Blue Jays are not as goodas the Yankees. They they outperformed them
in the first game of the series. They won't do it again. That's
what I think. Toronto is stillabout five hundred. At some point this

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week, flat Gurero Junior is gonnahit a home run. Toronto isn't.
It's gonna happen. I feel it. I don't know what day, not
today, maybe tomorrow that Toronto is, aren't They sort of like the Mets.
We've done the Mets take a lotabout Are the Mets gonna rebuild?
Are they gonna contend? Are theygonna stay put? Are they gonna be
active? Toronto is that team inthe American League because the divisions are both

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super competitive, the AL East morecompetitive than the NL, least because of
how bad Miami is. But Toronto'sgotta have that same test. What are
they gonna do with lad Junior?What are they gonna do with Bashett What
are they gonna do with Bgo?You have these big names that author Dad
has played in the league, Butare you gonna keep this core of players
together or is there another way tobuild Toronto to be better? And the

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expectations for the Blue Jays and ifyou don't believe it had happened this past
offseason when they made a lot ofchanges, Toronto believed they should have been
a playoff team last season. Whateverything that happened with Baltimore, they thought
should have been them. When everything'shappened with the Rays and building prospects,
Toronto thought it should have been them. Look, they got real close with
the Jose Bautista team, and whenthey made a move for David Price and

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when they made a move for Tulowitzki. They're not there yet, but they
are the Mets of the American League. Of it's either now or it's rebuild
time for the Blue Jays. That'sfair this this series. I don't know
if it's too early to say thatdecision is going to be made, but
I think it's a good barometer tomeasure of Okay, are the Yankees going
to dominate us? Are the Yankeesway better than us? Or do we

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feel like if this is the topteam in the American League, we still
got the horses to do this It'sso weird because they were everyone was so
in love with their farm system andit just never panned out. That's got
to scare the hell out of allthe Oriole fans. No, no,
no, no farm system is fine, Okay fine. The Oriels Orioles won

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one hundred and one games last season. Probably the difference with Toronto was Toronto's
won eighty nine games last year ninetytwo. The year before the difference with
Toronto, ninety one broke if Manoa'sout like Manoa had all the all the
dressing and looked like he was goingto be the next big thing literally and
I don't mean the next fat thinglike he he was. He dominated the

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Yankees with the first six times hefaced them, and then all of a
sudden, now he can't pitch toanybody. Can you imagine having a guy
big that'd be like CC Sabathia comingout of the gates strong and then like
when he got to Milwaukee' just fallingapart, never being because he's just just
like where I thought that dude wasgonna be a beast for years. I

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thought he was gonna be a problem. There's probably some Blue Jay fans,
like really crazy Blue Jay fan,who's thinking, if we were the Rangers
last year, we would have wonthe World Series because Texas only finished the
game up on him last year,Like they fought to the end of the
season last year to figure out whothat final playoff team was gonna be.
I know a lot of that hadto do with the Al West and other

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teams in competition in that division.But Toronto looks back at their season last
year, They're like, we canstill do it. We choked, we
blew it, we had the wewere the best team in like the summer
people talked about the Blue Jays asthe team to wager on and everything else,
and they put they weren't but youbut you get like Sevarno Yankees get
to the playoffs the year against theTwins where he blew up in the first

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first inning and then got it backtogether and they ended up winning the game.
Like when your ace self destructs,it sets you back. It's it's
probably as close as drafting the wrongquarterback in the first like five spots as
you can get Inmajor League Baseball.Like when you have you have a guy,
this is our guy. We're gonnabuild everything around that in our rotation

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and then that guy just goes goessquirrely in the brain like there's nothing and
it's not even like like with Manoaand even with Severrena, Severino got hurt
a lot, but like when theymelted down, both of them, it
was melted. It was mental,it was the yips, it was whatever
whatever you want to attribute it to, Joebu whatever like in baseball, that
went wrong with them. You can'thow do you You can't rebound from that

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right away? You just can't.Who that'd be like, uh holiday there
just not doing anything. You stillcan move on from that. Now,
all of a sudden, like fourof your guys or your pitching staffs fas
football apart, which probably will happenedin Baltimore. No, no, no,
then you're just like, you know, what do we do now?
It's just just feels like Baltimore theywants some boogs barbecue besides the pitching falling

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apart, which it feels like foreverthat's been an issue for the Blue Jays
and they thought they thought they hadit figured out going back. I don't
know why I keep making all thesepoor Canadian people like super arrogant, which
is like the opposite of our conversationswith the Canadian athletes this year, like
they're arrogant, they think they're betterthan everyone else. I feel like Lance
Storm, there's a wrestling reference.Lance Storm is like out there, Brett
Hard is Alberta, Canada. Butthere are probably some Blue Jay fans,

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despite their season, not any ofthe way they wanted to last year,
who right now think this roster isbetter than the Yankee roster because they finished
above the Yankees last year in thestandings. They have younger talent that they
feel like can help them. Theybattle with Texas who want There are probably
some arrogant Blue Jay fans who think, no, no, no, New
York has to catch up to us. We don't have to catch up to

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them as they drink their maple syrup. That's not bad, damn okay,
I guess. But the weird thingabout the the Blue Jays is I don't
feel like any one of their singleplayers has ever actually become what they expected
them to become. Even if youlike Garrel Junior's good, but she's good.

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These are there's like good players,but these are guys they thought were
gonna change the game. I lovethat so much because look, you look
at flat Garrel Junior, You're like, yeah, he's good, kind of
fat. You know. I sawhim dogs and balls when I saw his
debut week. I was actually inToronto that week and everyone went crazy and
they're like, you gotta run though, you gotta move, move, you
gotta go bigio, nice player,Smaller than I thought. Yeah, but

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shet he's okay. I thought hecould hit the ball a little farther,
thought he had a little bit morepower like his dad did. There are
these like really obvious cracks of theseBlue Jay young stars. It's like every
single one of them has the thing, and it's like, you know,
oh well yeah, but they're allsecond generation guys. They're gonna be special
like that with the Holiday guy,and then he's never live up to it.
I haven't checked his ops. Okay, I know the internet told that

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Jackson Holiday had the low Guys.You guys look a lot like the Blue
Jays three years ago. You justI mean, I'm just saying, you
know, that's you can kind ofsee it, right. I believe that
was a podcast only reference we're talkingabout for those who haven't listened to No
Credentials Required. I mentioned during theshow. That shout out to Ryan McCarthy
for having us on that the internetwas telling me that Jackson Holiday, through

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his debut through then Saturday morning,had the lowest ops of any recorded Major
League Baseball player in the history ofbaseball. Yeah, I hope it's changed.
I haven't researched, say, butyou can see it right, there's
a lot of there's a lot ofparallels. No, I mean Baltimore has
been better than Toronto, like onenot no, for one season. Yeah,

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one season. But like you say, a lot of a lot of
hope on these young players coming up, some second generation talent. You bring
in a big name picture to youknow, get you over the top.
Everything kind of just there are alot of similarities on how this team was
built. Is that what you wantto be to say? That's fun?
I enjoyed that. I'm good.Yeah, whatever else should I do today?

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I'm good. I don't want todo anything else. That's all I
do. Know what. I'm gonnago home right now. I'm not even
gonna look up Holidays ops. Somebodysent it to me because I'm gonna talk
about MOHAWKNDA where you and I aregonna be Thursday. We cannot wait for
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It's Mohawk Conda where they always goout of their way to please you.
We've got coach Jamon Ware join usLavak here in about four minutes. I'm
just looking up this dude's fifty threeaverage. Oh my god, all right,
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I nineties. So backing guys onninety five nine Fox Sports Radio, we
are joined by the head coach ofthe Albany Fireberds at Damon Ware and uh,
coach, it's it's it's getting tooclose now, Like it's any comfort

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I had in the universe is kindof swept away from me. Do you
feel any anxiety with how close weare to the to the home opener?
Not anxiety, but but just excitement. We're getting down to the nitty gritty
evaluate these kids and nitpicking their effortsand gonna find the best twenty four to
help us win a championship. Sothis is a fun time for us coaches,

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is we You know, we reallygotta be real critic and like I
said, we're gonna cut some reallygood players and that's part of the game.
See that's the differting coach, AndI like the main answer is no,
excited. I'm like, oh,I'm anxiety coach for Firebird fans.
What does that drop date? Whatis the time when we will hit Actually
that number twenty four for this roster? Saturday afternoon, So we're going to

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do a forty play final scrimmage onSaturday morning. US coaches will run into
the office right after that, breakdown the film for the final time and
determine our best twenty four right thenand there, and then we'll go out
and do a couple of community eventsand see some people and enjoy hanging out

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with our community, and then onMonday, it's game week and get ready
for Orlando. I think it's acompliment to how good this squad is right
now, even before the twenty four, that it's very possible, and maybe
you already know this in your staffknows this, that some of those players
were likely to not make this teamcould likely be opponents later on in this
season. Yeah, we knew cominginto this season that we we recruited a

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really darn good football team. Andso we knew, I mean, you
bring in thirty five really good guysand you know, never of those guys
have to go. We knew forwithout you know, any shadow of a
doubt that some of these guys willbe starting for other teams through the course
of this season. So that alsomakes it challenging as far as the coaching

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evaluation, because you know, howmuch can you put in or how much
time do you spend on guys,and all of those things got to kind
of play in your mind because ultimatelythey're gonna be somebody else's guy here pretty
soon. And that's like we've seenit historically, because like this isn't your
first rodeo just because it's the firstyear as a Firebird, just as the
first year in the AFL. Butwe've seen it, and those guys do

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they I always see a coach andit's I want people to know, like
the respect that you command, it'sthe you see them play a little bit
harder in that game, but thefirst hand they go to shake when it's
over is yours. You know,Like I said, we've built a great
culture. I would consider myself somewhatof a player's coach, so but but
but very serious, still kind ofold school principles. I believe in hard

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work, I believe in tough love, I believe in constructive criticism, and
you know, but ultimately I thinkthat everybody that comes through the program leaves
as a better player and understands thatI will keep it real with them.
I'll tell them exactly where they standwith the organization. And so those guys
usually you know, keep an armslengthdistance and hope they can come back.

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And so, you know, andthat's a good thing too, is you
always want to be, you know, keep a good relationship with these players
because you never know, there's someof these players that just need a year
or two under their belt and theybecome really, really good football players.
And so you never want to castanybody out and believe that they won't,
you know, come back around ina couple of years. Getting ready for
the kickoff on April twenty seventh,Head coach the Firebers David Ware on Fox

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Sports N eighty. There's definitely somefamiliar names for al many Capitola Region Arena
football fans, Darius Prince and NickHaigu and Sean Lockett returning. There's names
that people are familiar with. Butthe quarterback position is going to be very
interesting, I think here locally,when we find out, especially with the
bar so high, what fans expectout of the quarterback position. As you've
evaluated that spot, what are someof the performances that have stout out to

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you and some of the names fansmight get used to as this season starts
to roll on later this month.Hey, that's one of our most exciting
battles is we've got three guys thatare all got some really good skill sets
and and some really good young menall competing for the job. And so
just with the experience level. Westarted off with Jake as our number one

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going into camp, and he's donewhat a VET should do with He's led
the room and got better and betterand learned the process and you know,
commanded respect from guys and built camaraderieand all those things. But all of
our guys have been doing that.It's been really fun to watch, just
the batuation of our quarterbacks. Uh, We've got a really good battle of
who's going to be the final twoguys that are here. And so I've

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been real happy with what everybody's doing, just from a leadership aspect, a
hard work aspect, of rebel aspect. So it's gonna be exciting. Uh.
You know, the Calvin region willget to know a new guy this
year and That's a good thing too, is you know, you can't always
keep the same quarterback for many yearsto this level, and so they'll get
to used to know a new guythis year. Coach in the in the

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past, we've been in what I'veheard called a quarterback league where if you've
got the best quarterback, you're gonnawin. With the AFL rules being in
place, that's not one hundred percentof the case anymore. You got to
have a full roster, right youknow, I've I've heard that in years
past. And is there some truththat, yes, if you've got a
really good quarterback, your chances ofwinning or go up. But that's at

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any level. That goes all theway to the NFL. So you take
Patrick Homes off the Kansas City Chiefsto they win all these championships. Well,
no, so that that really isthat goes to the high school coaches.
I mean as well, it's ifyou've got a really good quarterback,
your chances of success are are better, but you've got to have a full
football team. It starts in thetrenches. For us are our bigs and

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and what they're doing and our coaches, you know, with with coach c
Say and Coach Bowen, they're doinga great job of getting our bigs ready.
That's where the game starts for me. So quarterback is really an important
position, but our offensive defensive lineswill have a huge impact on us winning
this year. So Coach, asyou know, you and I we have
been a winning pair everywhere we've we'veworked together rings follow So obviously Flock University

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uh and pushed us to some addictionalpeople. We appreciate you. I think
our show has been great. We'vegot a great following. Uh, We've
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the replay the audio version now apart of Fox Sports twinty five nine
to nine eighty. Coach I didn'tget you any gear. I feel like
you should be signing day. Ishould get you like the hat, the
polo. All I can do heasked me for a hat. That doesn't
matter. All right, you haveto I did love back for the hat
and polo. But come on,all we like our gear. I got
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what I can give. No gearput food. Recommendation is what I can
offer. Come on, come on, Fox, you gotta you're big.
You're you're swimming with the bigger sharks. We need some good fishing bowls.
Let go. You know what,just ensured coaches that I'm gonna have to
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the Fox logo. Our boss isalready here today. I swear there's issues.
Well we'll figure it out. Keepit clean, coach, don't swear

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this week. He is good.If you need me to come and talk
to the bosses, I'm available.I like, like you know, I'm
in for that one. Let's goany uh any idea. I feel like
we should have a guest maybe tomorrow, so uh you figure out who you
want to have on with us asfar as the players go. I know,
we got Steve Who from Fox support. He's gonna join us for a

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couple of minutes. Everybody know howthey can help out and support the team.
But uh, I feel like Ihave to put more work into it
now that we're we're you know,it's not just you, me and the
boys cutting it up. It's it'sa radio show. Now. Hey,
I'm gonna uh, I'm gonna invitethe whole team out to the show tomorrow
and we'll uh, you know,we can pull it a couple of them,
let's uh, let's do it.Let's introduce some of the new guys

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to the community. Uh, let'sdo as much as we can. I
mean, these are people that theCaptain region will be well known to them
in the future here, so uh, let's just keep having fun with it.
That's why. That's why he's thehe's the host. I'm the co
host. He has the connections.That's what I do the reverse of here,
guys, I get it. Iget it now. Coach Man.
We appreciate you. We can't waitto I can't wait to see you.

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Well, I'll see you in themorning. But Gos will see you whenever
he gets around to, you know, finally paying for anything. Uh the
gears coming. I think, Coach, we're losing connection. By the way,
I think I don't know what happenedthere. Gear Come on, coach,
there you goes Coach Damon ware,the head coach of the Almony Fibers,
I don't know what happened there atthe end of the connection. You
heard it breaking up, right,I heard something. I heard you breaking

(26:41):
up. I heard the amazing soundof of of short arms and deep pockets.
That's what I heard. I heard. I heard you. I heard
your h One of your superpowers isuh, go go alligator arms. It's
pretty impressive. They just never quitereached the middle of the tables. How
that comes together. I just wantto clear if one thing coach said during

(27:02):
the Jake Metlock, Now, thisis what happens when you're a coach going
through the season. You're giving thenicknames you're addressing. Jake Metlock is the
name of the quarterback he referenced inthat interview. Because look, I think
everybody knows the history, right TommyGrady, one of the all time great
players, Sam Castanova and MVP candidate. There are quarterbacks who have gone under
center that are the best of thebest. Like, that's a lot of

(27:23):
pressure with Jake look back. Iremember covering that storyline back in twenty twenty
two when a different quarterback was supposedto be the quarterback and then caster Nova
takes over. Oh I mean,dude, you think about it like you
and I have a weirder We knowmore about it than a lot of people
realize. Like if you remember ourshow, our former show was used to

(27:45):
recruit the first quarterback of the Empire, so we had not just Tommy Grady.
You ended up being the quarterback anddoing a great job moving here,
being a part of the community,earning every penny. He was eventually given
careful on Twitter, but there wasyeah, we b locked each other.
That guy can go go pound salt. I found his police record. He

(28:07):
can shut his mouth, So Daryl, I know, no, but all
that, but like we there wereother like great Arena league quarterbacks that came
through our studio because they were like, hey, you get here, you
get to talk to these guys,and like I'm like that's a selling point,
Like all right, cool, thatfeels pretty cool. And then you

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know, Tommy took off. Tommy'sbackup in year one was Mike Faithful.
Faithful went on to win a coupleof games with the Sharks. He comes
back to us, actually his backupin the in the next year went on
to being the best quarterback in theNAL that wasn't on the Empire. But
you Tommy goes back to us fortwenty one. We went again. Then

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Mike faith was supposed to be ourquarterback in twenty three. In twenty two,
I mean his understudy Sam Castanova,and they were competing, but Faithful
was the more game ready dude atthat moment. Sam Kashnova's coming off a
rough year in Carolina where he hadthe fumbles, Faithful decides he wants to
go back home. Sammy steps up. Sammy makes a huge name for himself,

(29:15):
gets better each and every day.Turns out, the football itself was
more conducive to his game, andhe was. He likes he lights out.
He's the He's the best part ofwhat oh to three San Antonio Gunslingers
team right now. He still looksgood. He's still every time play breaks
down, Sammy runs for twenty yards, bowls people overs. It's a lot
of pressure to be I love thatquestion you asked Coach about It's not as

(29:37):
simple as have the best quarterback,have the best team. This is a
different leak. People might remember thatfrom the Empire, and people might remember
it from either version AFL or nAL that yes, it's great to have
a great quarterback, but there areso many other parts of this game that
are gonna matter. There's gonna beso many different personalities. I love that
Coach is gonna add a bunch ofpersonnalities to our debut show. Here on
the Fox side again ninety five nine, nine eighty nine o'clock. It's gonna

(29:59):
air the replay version. Can't waitto find out more personalities. And you
mentioned it to lead it off theback. We are so close, so
close to kick off. We've gotsome lot of cool things on the way
for the Firebird kickoff. Where youlistening right now, could be a chance
at that opening game. Who's who'staking out all my swear words? Probably
me. I'm gonna try and hidehim. Oh see, if I go

(30:21):
past the goalie, I'm gonna startcalling you Tommy the goalie instead of Tommy
coreforate. How many hey can Iget past Tommy the goalie. You know
guys, It's it's like I said, just make sure you have a good
plan. It's the plan doesn't guaranteesuccess, but failing to plan it's planning
to fail. I'm finally telling oneof my things. John Wooden, Jeff
Levac twenty twenty three into twenty four. Look, Drew Prescott, that's my

(30:45):
dog. That's my guy dog.That's my dog. You sit down with
Drew a little bit, you getfirst thing first things first is very relaxing,
Like it's not one of those I'vesat down with financial people and been
like like I felt like I justhad a colon oscary, Like it's like
it's the worst. It's like whathappened? Where am I? Where you
sit down with Drew, it's like, all right, here's how you know?

(31:06):
How holy how much money you havehere? How what do you have
there? What are you doing this? What are your chief concerns? Are
you? Is does life insurance?Is that something we should be focused on?
Is it? Is it where weput your money? How we put
your money? Is it? Isit? You know, trying to keep
the most and all like the thingsthat you're you're gonna matter to you are
gonna become part of this plan.No plan is for sure, but knowing

(31:26):
you have a plan gives you thebest chance to succeed. PRESCOTTPW dot com.
Drew Prescott, great guy, andhe's the one you're working with.
He's he's very selective because he's theone you're working with. He's not handing
off to some assistant who may ormay not know how a wallet works.
It's Drew Prescott. Prescott PW dotcom. Check him out to day coming

(31:48):
up. I almost want to,like, come up with a cute name
for the end of the show whereeverything falls. Maybe the Dump. How
does that sound? Oh? Imean we're only right down the road for
the colony dump right, Uh huh. We'll see. Maybe maybe it sticks,
maybe it does. I got somethingfor the dump, A lot.
I got a lot of the dumpperfect the dump tank. Uh, it's

(32:08):
coming up to actually hear Fox SportsRadio ninety five nine and nine eight sleeve
Oh one button wrong, she's onthe floor, Jason, who it is?
And button? It's how I learnedItalian put a sheet of paper down?

(32:28):
Why's your sheet on the tablet?Was your sheet on the floor?
The smell comedian I can't remember whatit was. Steve the Tucker, by
the way, I offered up somecompliments on Twitter the other day. He
was enjoying some of the new music. Yeah. I talked to him today
and he was like, Hey,what do you think of my tweet?
And I'm like, I see.I'm sorry, man, I don't see
everything. All right. I'm verybusy. I'm a very important person.

(32:49):
My house smells a cat pee.I wanted to say rich mahogany and whatever,
but I can't because it doesn't.It smells like I gotta sick hat.
So I gotta take the cat tothe vat. And it's a little
Tasmanian devil. Trust she's gonna shreadme. Last time I took it to
the vat lost blood. I justI didn't mean to go off on this

(33:10):
tangent, but I wanted to sayagain my houst wills of Rick, Rich,
mahogany and leather reround books. Butno, it doesn't. And I
was like, sick cat. God, the windows are open, all right?
Where was Kelly? She just threehour show? Kelly. Okay,
you're in for a penny, you'rein for a pound. Okay, let's

(33:30):
see you wrote here on the sheetthe dump, which has become this five
forty five segments become what have wenot gotten to today? I have a
lot I like to see. That'swhat I'm saying, Like I love it.
I almost want to get sound produced, like I think get tristed out
to. It's the Dump, youknow, deuces sponsored by so dude wives.

(33:51):
I was so proud of my Angelshit yesterday with Patrick Sondeval is my
play of the day. The Angelsare winning, Okay, explain this to
me though the BAC. The LosAngeles Angels with Mike Trout playing some fantastic
baseball smashing dingers are winning without Otaniwith a competitive al Wes. I'm like,
you know what everybody knew and Iheard it for years. Everybody wants

(34:12):
to go crazy about Mike Trout andanytime he's having any type of success,
everyone votes him as the MVP.I'm like, you know what, for
all the years that Trout has had, his war has to be through the
roof right now. So I lookedat it today and he's not even in
the top seven, and I'm like, who comes up with these stats?
And then I found myself deeper intostats today the unluckiest team so far in

(34:32):
baseball with the most barreled balls thatresulted in outs. The most unluckiest team
in baseball so far barreled balls.That's all right, that's right, Okay,
it's the New York Yankees, accordingto the Internet's telling me, so
the most they hit, the mostbarreled balls that became outs. Is that

(34:52):
what you're saying? Yeah, that'sthat's what I found today. Turned hit.
I'm right at people, you see. The thing is you gotta I
realize this, guys, when youbarrel your balls, you don't want to
hit him right out of dude,because then he might get it out.
You gotta hit you. You wantyour barrel balls to find the gap,
you know. And then all ofa sudden I looked up, who is

(35:15):
this during my research? Your earlyleader for when probability added this season?
Jordan Westburg from the Baltimore Orioles whowin hold on a second win probability added.
So this person adds the most potentialwins or the ability to win.

(35:37):
The WPA stat is what I foundtoday. Wait a minute, what is
it? I mean, there's certainstats that make sense. You can live
by barrel balls. You know,I gotta feel I understand what that's all
about. When probability added, whatis this dungeons and dragons? If I

(35:58):
roll the seventeen sided die and itlands on the edge, I gotta win
probability at it? Is that howthat works? I needed somebody to like
try to explain that to me,if what it all meant? And like
what's the difference between w PA andwar? And what are you doing?
What did you how did you getit? Don't worry about how I can

(36:19):
hang back? It's warm back.You can't write an ish you got you
could hide forever for me. Noclear you're you're hiding probability time, discreetness,
very small, the very low frecentage. And I'll have you know yet
now I became the highest war ofthe whole show. War pick. You

(36:44):
were the reason baseball went the wrongway that everyone cared about. Ecuse me,
excuse me? Wrong way? Didyou hear yourself at deacond Ago Gods
listen heerently, I'm like beetlejuice.You bring like three excuse me chats,
and I come out of the woodwork. That balls unlucky barrel ball, God,

(37:04):
barrel ball. Mayor beat battle Ball. Galactica wins added per probability,
and that's the thing. And then, but most important is we all know
each War win above replacement. Godwins above. So what I'm telling you
is if I replaced you, wewould win more. And I actually have

(37:28):
a quottion to prove it. Withthat and dabt it to back it up.
Well, explain this to me,war Pigs, I doubt you understand
it. You knee on your call. The Houston Astros are six and twelve.
They stink. That means they've losttwice as many games as they've won.
God, how hard is that?But somehow jose L two by leads
all offensive players in War, sothat he is the best player in all

(37:53):
the baseball if so fact, thoughthe Astros WINNO, Okay, they've got
the basket. Everyone knows the WarCup is the only cup that matters.
Work Cup. You want to bewar, that's it. You want to
win at War. And I'm nottalking about a stupid kids game with cards.
I'm talking about wing above replacement.That means that if you replace Todi

(38:16):
Altuve, give me a the warptew about the number is Come on,
stupid. See if you can repeatit one point six, one point more
wins because of Oja Altuve. Youthought they were bad at six th twelve.
Imagine who's the sort stop for theBaltimore Orioles parfect. Can you explain
to me how the third pitcher inbaseball right now with war at one point

(38:38):
three is Paul Blackburn, who waspitched in three games for the Oakland Athletics
but has only won one. Howis he third? How does that make
any sense? Well, I wouldn'texpect you do on your canton because there's
Matthew Bob. There's other mitigating factorsthat come in to play to what you
have to do. Why is itthe wet here what you have to do?
I don't believe that to be throughit all? I don't see that's

(38:59):
any where I go when I believethat. You don't understand it. There's
a certain amount of fielding percentage involved. There're the the the strikes versus non
strikes involved. If ball didn't playbarrel balls, barrel botted balls and thought
of this too, you don't understand. You have to. If no one
barreled the ball against Blackburn, thenhe is a better picture by far.

(39:22):
Thank you War. You have toleave because you've soaked the studio with your
side. I will leave when I'mgetting ready to leave. Get out.
Oh okay, Dungeons and Dragons,I haven't seen you in almost a year.
Yes, you haven't seen me becauseyou haven't looked for me. I
don't want to. You can findme in the tears of kids. You
can't do math. You can findme on the diamond. Daddy to my

(39:42):
mom's basement, and I will workfor fruit cusher. Goodbye War, Goodbye
Ruins, baseball. Your your nameis the whitest of ball. Kowsky,
clean up that Mic, Please forDougac. None of this makes sense.
The Angels are winning without Otani.The War stats don't make sense for trout.
Guys who were barely actually winning baseballgames are leading. Oh my gosh,

(40:07):
I can't understand any stats that aregoing on. They're just made up
and War picks behind it allyed.Yeah, I listen, you know me,
man, I'm not. I'm I'venever liked War. I don't know
what it was good for. Absolutelynothing. These some of these stats like
it. It is funny, likebaseball has been around, you know,

(40:29):
as long as any sport. Itfeels like, you know, sort of
like Greco Roman wrestling. Baseball hasbeen around. Abner double Day was not
sitting there when he put it togetherand went, I really hope mathematicians and
breaks my invention. I really hope. I mean, there's like, but
you look at it. The fieldlooks like a freaking pro tractor. You
know, there's everything's about exit velocitynow and everything else it is. It's

(40:52):
it's like you miss the days ofdudes just getting absolutely ripped all night,
a couple of caffeine pills, eatsome coffee, grounds go out there and
play baseball. Now it's all likeI've gotta I've got to make sure that
I hit it at a specific angleto make sure the ball leaves the bat
the proper way. And it's like, dude, just swinging the bat,

(41:12):
swing the bat. But on RBI, how about stop and those runners at
second base? How about working thecount a little bit? How about choking
up? Huh? How about anyof those things? It's insane. It
is insane, and it's you know, I'm not gonna say the stat again,
but it started. I think theone that the one that nerdy reporters
rally behind the most is wr itwins above replacement. That's the one that

(41:37):
started off. And now all ofa sudden, like you can't like you
can hit a button on Prime andit gives you, like all the science
of the of the game. AndI'm sure there's somebody out there who love
the acclass. He was one hundredand two point eight. That's amazing,
all those things. I just I'mperfectly okay, Like every once in a
while, I want to see theextra velosity because like sometimes when Stanton hit

(42:00):
or Judguar, that thing's a messile. It's gonna you know, it's gonna
put a hole through someone's chest whenit hits them. But like the fact
that we got to see it allthe time instead of just holy cow,
look look how fast the ball's moving. You know what I mean, It's
just that ball is that's a screamer, But no, we gotta know the
exit velocity. And then the theworst part of it all is I love

(42:22):
the fact that Mickey Mantle hit thefacade at Yakee Stadium, but when you
see what people hit now, it'slike that guy's four hundred and forty.
That's amazing, And all of asudden Mantles hit them five, five fifty,
and it's and I still I'll alwaysbelieve it because you know, a
ball bat whatever. I'll make upsome other reason, just more beer,

(42:43):
I don't know, like, butit just it makes the It makes the
the myths of the game harder tobelieve, just like Warpick did, just
like the internet did to me hoursago. I feel dumber. I felt
like I nowed a really good tick, Like, Hey, the Angels figured
something out because Trout's so good andthey're playing good baseball and they're winning,
that it must be a historic season. And finally trouts on a winning team.

(43:05):
Nope, Hey, the A's arenever good, so they're probably at
the bottom. Nope, there's theirpitcher who's barely winning. Like, none
of this makes that. I needthe Michael Scott scene in the office where
Oscar walks in and Michael has tosay, don't explain this to me,
like I'm five. That's what Ineed somebody to do when it comes to
these stats in baseball. I thought, honestly, like with the shift in,
with the pitch clock and with morehome runs, I thought we were

(43:30):
gonna get a little bit away fromthe analytics that hasn't happened. Not a
guest on this show, but he'sone of the few people actually stood us
up and no called, no showedthis show. But Drew Carter, who
we've known since he's been in college. I caught him this morning on a
Sports Center and he couldn't wait tobash the White Sox. I don't know
why. He's from Minnesota. DrewCarter, Yes, that's his name.

(43:51):
He's he does some college basketball.He does the Celtic games on TV.
Now, he was so excited toget on Sports Center this morning and say
that the White Sox almost threw eighteengames. I believe it is. Are
everything almost less than two runs agame? Now that's a Now, that's
a stat. That's not the windsabove replacement per added per Say it again,
coming back, say it again,He'll come sliding right back in here

(44:14):
like a slug. I dumped itall here in the dump segment sponsored by
stats in math. I think itshould be dude Wich right, like we
should just they should just jump somewheresomewhere someone in that office went someone just
came up with a poop reference.We need to own it. Yeah,
it's it's isn't it too early inthe season to get wrapped up in all

(44:35):
the math? Like, isn't thattheir problem right now? I wish you
would have told me that three hoursago or five hours ago, because I
would have saved myself from war pigsspitting all over the studio and me yelling.
He cracks me up. So I'mfine with that. That's you know,
I'm all about it, Cutter Crawford. By the way, Red Sox
fans, because I know they havenot stopped. By the way, we're
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(44:59):
market book market tomorrow or Friday.We're giving you another edition of Red Sox
Angry Emails. This might be thebest one yet. But Red Sox fans,
Cutter Crawford on there. We've gotsome hilarious emails on the way.
And one no, no, I'mnot gonna tease it. I'm not gonna
tease it. What you have teasit now? One email came from within

(45:20):
the home your home, not myhome. It's not your home. Who's
not anger? Who's anger is inthis building? Oh? Somebody in the
building. We're on it. I'mangry. Oh is it Cantara? Not
cant Sarah? No, not Doug. Wait so this hold on? So
this is the person angry that we'renot playing the Red Sox anymore. And
it's not the two loudest Red Soxfans in the building. That's a tease.

(45:40):
It is not those two. Waittill you hear it later this week,
I am. I know you're alreadythinking about Wednesday or Friday? Who
it is? I just want tobe clear. Just while you were writing
it, did you realize what wasgoing to come back at you? Like?

(46:02):
Do you realize the venom and animosityI have for life right now?
Let alone other people that I haveto work with every day. Only someone's
driving home and it's like, ohboy, all right, what day is
it? Wednesday or Friday' gonna makesure I'm not in the office that day.
What day is it again? Whatare we doing it? We're not
sure yet. It's either tomorrow oryou know what, I'm making an executive
decision. Tomorrow we close the showthis time tomorrow, we will give you

(46:24):
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most listened to segment. It willbe back tomorrow, angry. Have we
seen a difference in nights like whenthey used to be here. Have we
seen any difference you're asking within theradiance so far? Yeah, we have
seen no difference. That's also alittle tough to tell because the Knicks have

(46:45):
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(48:15):
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