5-31-24 Hour 2

Top 4 at 4 includes MLB talk and UFC 302
Yankees pitching staff future decisions
Caitlin Clark and Play of the Day 

Episode Transcript

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It's time for the Top four fourwith Levac and Guz. Time of the
four big stories in Orland Sports.It's called the Top four for it's brought
to you bye Mohawk Connor where theyalways got out of the way to please
you. Guys. What's the fourthbiggest story? We've got no MBA.
You gotta wait a little bit,so they're not even in the top four
for it's been a long time sincewe have an NBA story in the top

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four to four. So we're turningto another event this weekend, Lavac,
how about UFC three to oh twoStrickland versus Costa one of the fights.
I can't I'm done with Strickland,Levac. It's just it's awful, man
Like, how can Dana White tellthis guy shut up? Please? It's
just racist, awful things like he'snot entertaining. Do you have any interest

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in buying UFC three zero two?Where's the big fight later on the summer?
McGregor, Chandler or maybe overall isa sport MMA UFC The excitement is
struggling because the superstars. You know, I've done to take a thousand times,
but for real, like, thereshould be a big on pay per
view and it doesn't feel like that. And Strickland's the reason why. Well,
you got Portia going for about RememberPaulo Costa was like a bad bad

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man. Yeah, now he's theseventh seated fighter and Strickland. Strickland's a
polarizing character because you know me,I'm all about freedom of speech. I
think the only way we can reallybe a tolerant society is to tolerate the
intolerant, and he's definitely that.But I also so you can either like
root for him or hope he getshis face smashed in hope that Polo Costa
breaks out some of his old skillsand just plumps him up. MAKA Jeff

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Makachev like me putting that nice accidenton it as well. Have you seen,
by the way, the beef he'sin with Connor McGregor, No he
is, Yeah, so Connor McGregorsaw this. Here is the king of
staying relevant, Like he's just sogood at staying relevant. Islam Makavev,
who is the champion. By theway, he's the light heavyweight together light

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heavy light weight, light weight.How about he congratulating myself for nailing it
then missing it a second right,it was. It was impressive. Like
usually when you when you debate yourself, one of you is right. This
is the first time I think you'vedebated yourself and and both of you are
wrong. Complimented myself on getting thename right in real time, then corrected

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myself on missing the weight class right. Would was impressive? I like it
the head. Would you rather bouncearound it my head? Or Jameis Winston
said yours. I don't think Iever make it back for like yours is
probably like there's probably a lot ofsnoring, like I hear Bluey in the
background. Uh, there's a debateover whether Carmelo Anthony could like dunk away

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poverty, you know, like FranBrown using that transfer portal. Right,
yeah, in you know, there'sthere's definitely like some random stuff in there.
But like Jameis Winston, like there'sjust w's trying to eat you.
He's grabbing you by the you know. The point I was trying to make
about McGregor is that he took apicture of his left leg. Makoviv Its

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picture sure of his left leg,and it is a nasty looking leg,
like it's all like black and blue. It looks like it has like a
gunshot wound on it. The feetlook like they might be an animal's foot,
and he just zoomed in on itand people started roasting him, and
I'm like, oh my gosh,that's all that takes is for Connor McGregor
to take a picture of somebody's legfrom the weighings, from the from the

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I guess it's the uh what isthe shot? They call it the glam
shot. That's what they call itin television. That's how McGregor stays relevant,
just taking random pictures of UFC fighters. That's the biggest storyline. A
racist, horrible person and Sean Stricklandand Connor McGregor taking legs of fighters.
Have you found have you seen thepicture yet? No? I believe it's
on McGregor's acts, his Twitter pagethere. So that's what you got at

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UFC three zero two and McGregor's fightsa little later on the side. All
right, but hold on, letjust let's just put some of this out
there. Though. There are likeKevin Hollins, a bad man, he's
fighting. I I if for youwrastling, how about a little little little
Mickey gall in your life? Youremember Mickey go still around. Yeah,
do you remember do you remember hisclaim to fame? It's beating CM punk

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right smashed him. He beat himbad. Uh No, So there's like,
there are some Jake Matthews is fromAustralia, is a decent fighter.
There's a couple of fights that areworth checking out. Roman Kopolov he's a
bad, bad dude. Like there'sthere's some dudes. There's some fighters on
it. It's definitely not top heavy, like you like, I don't.

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I'm not. Yeah, I don'treally care about strengthening. I don't think
Poier is gonna win this fight,but the rest of the fights I'm kind
of I'm kind of into. I'ma little bummed out about the Fury thing
still because my new rationale if I'mgonna buy a fight is I'm gonna wager
that amount of the fight what itcosts and then try to and then try
to just make it break even.And I lost for the Fury one,

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and now technically I bought two fights. That's how that math would work.
So no, I'm not said aboutyou, f C three zero two,
but I give you some storylines,so maybe fight fans are Let's move on
to story number three that involves theNew York Mets. We touched on them
earlier in the show. Our numberone missed it, Apple, Spotify and
the iHeart app. The New YorkMets continue on with this series against the
Arizona Diamondbacks. Tonight's seven to tenfirst pitch in Queens at City Field,

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and then the Mets look forward tothe weekend. Is they will wrap up
that series with the Diamondbacks and lookforward to maybe having that same type of
success with other teams in the future. Get four to ten on Saturday,
by the way, before that seriesends. Oh my gosh, this continues
on throughout the entire weekend. Backit's a four game set, so it's
Diamondbacks all weekend long. Dare wesay a potential sweep on the way?

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Are you ready to be that bowltonight? What the what's the series record
at the moment? Twenty of thelast twenty two games? Is the stat
I heard the Mets have beating theDiamondbacks. Okay, what's the record of
this series at the moment? Oneto nothing and a four game series?
Yes, I'm not ready yet.I'm away if they do that, though,
that we do we got the littlemoue turner, little momentum turner,

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you know, cleaning house audition bysubtraction. I I definitely I after their
performance last night, I gave thema far better chance of being competitive for
the next couple of games. Nomatter what I keep saying that stat ole
line, someone's gonna check me andbe like, there's no way that's true.
Guys. I'm positive. I feelgood about it. Arizona is the
defending National League champions. By theway, tonight on the mouth, they

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got Jordan Montgomery. Keep a littleeye on that game, Sevarino versus Montgomery.
I have a feeling that might bepopping up in the play of the
day for me again up coming atfour forty five. The Mets, thank
you very much, cashed in forme yesterday. That went over the Diamondbacks
might be going back. Lavac's gotthe pins right parlay the Mets continue to
do what they're doing. Maybe I'llfigure out my own met style parlay if

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they cash tickets for me. Let'smove on a story number two that involves
the New York Yankees taking out ofthe San Francisco Giants. That series gets
underweight to nine ten fifteen Oracle ParkerCalm then now out at San Francisco McCovey
Cove Gosh, that's one of themost beautiful stadiums in the country. Ten
to fifteen Livac. We can divedeeper into this if you want later in
the show. But are you fascinatedat all about what the potential reaction of

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Aaron Judge will be on the WestCoast? Is that a storyline that everybody
loves him? Though? Like,isn't he he's like a universal good?
Is that nobody dislikes him? Right? Wouldn't you think besides the Red Sox
fans, the fan base that woulddislike Aaron Judge the most would be Giant
fans because there was rumors that hewas going to be a Giant possibly,
But like, if you're a Giantsfan, do you blame the player or

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do you blame the team? Youblame the player really because they didn't sign
with you. Yeah, but theygave a ton of money. They gave
him a ton to come there.Well, the Yankees matched it, though,
I thought, right, Yankees gavehim more, all right, Well,
then you could have given him more. I want to do that a
little bit later in the show,all right, maybe five o'clock hour we
talked about whether or not Judge shouldbe booed by Giants fans. Is there

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an issue with that fan base overall? I love that question to ask their
about player versus management. I thinkthere's a little bit more to that story,
a little bit more meat on thebone. We can dive into it
in hour number three. Let's moveon to story number one. It is
hockey again. The New York Rangers. Let's do that. Hockey three two,
currently trailing the series with the FloridaPanthers after their loss in Game five,

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eight o'clock puck drop Saturday night inFlorida vac By the time you and
I come back on Monday, I'mgonna force you to make a pick.
Here. Are we gonna have aGame seven when we're back on the air
on Monday, or we'll Florida endthis over the weekend. I don't feel
good. I don't feel good.I'm scared. I don't know. They're

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just not they. I have toadmit again, I just don't know enough
about hockey. I'm sitting there watchingand like Rangers are pressing with an empty
net and they give them a goal, It's like, wait, why what
are we doing? What's going on? I I think maybe they're maybe they're
a little too smart for their owngood. They're not ready to get down
and fight just like Florida will.But now they're going to Florida, the

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ice is supposed to be better.Like there's all these issues with the massive
square garden ice. It's pretty sadthat an ice field building in Florida it's
allegedly better kept than an ice fieldbuilding in New York. But whatever,
what are you gonna do? Yeah, it's coming back, It's come back.
It's going seven. There we gothat. I didn't know what you're

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gonna do there at the end,I didn't. I didn't need That was
a very gosslike move. Do allthe do all the storylines, you believe
it, and then flip the pick, right. I like the Rangers in
this game, and I like theRangers to win in seven on Monday.
And here's why. Remember Ranger fans, remember people who've been following this series.
Leavak, you and I did thisvery similar takes in the Carolina series

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where New York's up big in thatseries. They're up three to zero in
that series, the game goes togame six. In game six on the
road at Carolina, remember the Rangersare down two nothing and then three to
one, and not only do theycome back in that game, they win
that game outright in game six togo the Eastern Conference Finals, they could
do the same thing in game six. Heer even if they're trailing on the

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road against Florida. We've seen thecomeback happen before in at game six,
So don't count out the Rangers untilyou see three zeros up on the scoreboard
in Florida goes on. I believein the Rangers because we've had examples of
them heavy to comebacks before. I'lleven push this a second step for you.
We constantly keep doing the nineteen ninetyfour reference to the Rangers. Yes,
if you go back and look atthe nineteen ninety four Eastern Conference Finals,

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everything is matched up result wise forthe Rangers. So for instance,
the game they lost in ninety fourmatches what they did in twenty twenty four.
It's all matched except Game six becauseit hasn't been played yet, And
except game seven. I think youknow where we're going here. In Game
six and games seventy, the EasternConference Finals in nineteen ninety four. The
Rangers won both of those games,So that's exactly right. The ninety four,

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who's gonna pull Messier? Then somebodyhas to go ahead and guarantee the
victories. Somebody has to do it. If that's the case, who's gonna
be Messier? Did Messier to itBolt? I think he did. He
did in the Eastern Conference Finals andthe Stanley Cup Stanley Cup, I just
know. I think he said itduring I don't know, man, somebody's
gonna have to make a prediction.I something's got to happen. I rally
the troops, gotta rally them up. That's the top four four. I'm

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scared. I am not I'm notcomfortable with what's going on. Uh in
the the Stanley Cup Final, I'myou know, the the Eastern Conference Final.
I'm not not comfortable, not oneone little bit. Okay, That's
that's all there is to I'm justnot comfortable. Guy, stop yelling at
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does on the voice of the CapitolRegions Sports fan Fox Sports ninety five to
nine and nine eighty. You know, a couple of streaks broke last night
for the Yankees, guys. Imean, they're not perfect, they're just
really dang close. Vulpez twenty onegame hitting streak ended. That's that didn't

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make me happy, but you know, the fact that the kid had a
twenty one game hit streak made mepretty happy. The other streak that was
broken in last night's win was CarlosRodonne give a three runs in six plus
innings, ending a starting the startingstaffs MLB record run of sixteen games going

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at least five innings and allowing tworuns are fewer. I can't believe that
stat. I know, I knowwe mentioned it on yesterday's show, but
there are certain stats who say outloud, You're like, I don't feel
confident, insane that because it's twooutrageous. There's no way that's a real
stat. I'm glad it's been confirmed. I know it's over. I know
it's over, but still like it'syou again, get the victory. But

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then also, uh, the streakthat has continued is that the Yankees have
not lost a series since May second. Since May second, they have either
won I believe they tied once.Uh yeah, Seattle two and two in
Seattle. Aside from that, theYankees have They've won, They've won.

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They swept the Tigers, they tooktwo of three from Houston, they took
two of three from Tampa, sweptthe Twins, swept the Socks, two
and two with Seattle, two andone San Diego one with the Angels,
and now they head to the Giants. So this machine that is the Yankees,

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this is just Harry American winning machine. Continues on my friend Judge the
eighteen home runs after last night eighteenguys, I also heard a stat that
it's twelve and twelve. He's gottwelve doubles in twelve home runs in the
month of May. Which was itVerdugo who said that's my season. Yeah,

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Well, here's the thing. Doyou know the significance of eighteen home
runs right now? No, thatwould put him two home runs against above
Gunner Henderson and tie him for thelead with Kyle Tucker from Houston. That's
right, Judge, who basically didn'tplay in April is now tied for the

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league lead in home runs with eighteen. Yeah, it's pretty how you do
it, it's pretty good. That'sMVP stuff. That is. I get
it. Like people get fatigued byme bringing up sports awards too early in
the season when like thirty to fortypercent of the season has only been played.
But that's everything you'd want out ofAaron Judge right now. I know
Soto. It would be one ofthese odd and I don't want to make

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politics in the news this week.Here we go. It'd be odd to
have Soto and Judge both in therunning because they could split votes and then
the third place got We saw thatwith Verlander a few seasons ago, right,
Like Verlander didn't win the Cy Young, but he had the most first
place votes. We could see thatplay a factor if Gunnar Henderson stays in
the conversation. But Judge is absolutelyon fire. He is crushing everything that

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needs to be done and he's havinga fantastic may So this like, can
you imagine, like Carlos Rodin,you come to the you come to the
dugout three runs and six innings,He's like loser sixteen games. We didn't.
We didn't give up three. Weonly gave up two. You had
to go out there and give upthree and six sixteen games, five plus
innings per starter, no more thantwo runs per game. Oh and by

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the way, Garrett Cole's not backyet, and and and I'm waiting patiently
waiting for the guys overreaction slash jinksof Louise Hill. What what do you
mean? What do you mean?I don't even know how you remember?
Do you do? You remember you? When you how early in the year

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you started saying that Domingo Herman neededto be in the running for the cy
Young potentially the MVP. I thinkI think you gave him Hall of Fame
status. Halfway through the year.You were all in on that dude,
like right from the rip in likea weird over the top way where I'm
like, are you trying to jinxto him? Like? Is that?

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Is that what we're doing? Isthat where we're at? That wasn't my
intention. I'm gonna go I wantto triple check myself here, because I
believe, off the top of myhead that Domingo Herman season you're talking about,
he might've won his first nine startsthat season, I think it was
nine and oh. At one point, it's like, if this guy's doing
this right now, he's gonna wintwenty five games. And I know the

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stat nerds, the war pigs.I'm sure war pigs outside today for once,
thank god, because the outside that'swhy he's not outside. The suns
out that wins don't mean anything forbaseball pitchers. They think it's a meaningless
stat which is so dumb. Buttwenty nineteen was the season he was pacing
for like twenty five wins, finishedeighteen. So no, I will not

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jinx him. I will not getI didn't think I was doing it.
No, he's not even okay.Rotation wise, where is he in the
rotation? Fourth Strowman I think wouldbe better. Still, rodn would be
better, Cole would be better.He's gonna be the fourth pitcher maybe if
they bringing a guy the deadline.Yeah, I think fourth probably. I

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mean, but like like a resoundingfor like because and and it's weird because
it seems to be every year somebodypitches out of their cleats, like like
you said, we went out todo Domingo Herman Nester Cortez last year,
this year's Luis Hill, uh giaLuaisca had that that run out of the

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pen where he was just he wasjust electric now with with Carlos Rodin getting
that win, this seventh win,Right, Carlos Rodan came into last year
and just lookedn't look right like ayear like last year at at Anaheim is
when he blew the kiss and everything. Yeah, he has had twelve starts,

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eight quality starts. He's seven andtwo with sixty seven innings pitch and
an ER of three point zero nine. Where does that put him a complete
comparison to Lease Hill. Hill haspitched in eleven games, six quality starts,

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seven wins, one loss, andan ERA that ballooned up the other
night to one point nine to nine. Okay, I thought that was gonna
be an easier answer there. He'svery good. I mean, that's the
thing, Like everybody's been so productive, so good. The reason I asked
of where he was gonna sit inthat rotation is that I don't like this

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idea, but I think it needsto be discussed. If he's that good
and you know you're gonna make adeal, one of the two things would
happen. Either you are so competentin that staff that it doesn't matter if
it's four, if it's five,and whatever it might be. You're going
to let him stay on the staffbecause he's that effective. Like why would
you trade somebody if he's pitching thatwell, or if you want to be
I guess negative about it. He'snow going to be better than he is

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right now. Now's the time todeal him because the team might find some
type of value in him and youcan get something higher. Those are tough
decisions. Again, it's the endof May. You're probably gonna have a
better idea of that by mid Julyof what you do with those arms,
and it's never a bad thing tohave more arms when you're going for a
postseason stretch. So it's a toughdecision I think Yankees have to make,

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especially when Cole gets healthy. Andjust quickly back to Rodani You mentioned he
has seven wins so far, andthe final day of May, when Domingo
Herman hit June first of that twentynineteen year, we just referenced, he
was ten and two. Yeah rightnow, yeah, ten and two on
that June first year. Now rightnow in Major League Baseball, for perspective.
In twenty twenty four, nobody hasten victories, So what maybe what

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should have changed about you? Though? Oh? Because yeah, like you
at this point you were already likehe's got to be the front runner for
the cy Young Now Louis Hill's outthere just wreck and shop and you're like,
I don't even know if he's yourfourth picture. You changed. No,
it's not changed, Thomas. Thesethese results have changed, the variables

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of baseball have changed, that's all. There. There is one thing I
don't necessarily like about mister Hill.The God blessed me tattoo on his neck.
It's like right here, it's likeright in the front. You have
tattoos. I thought, I like, I I judge people tattoos just much

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expect people judge me because of mytattoos. Like you know, my daughter
has has a tattooer too now.And I'm just like, yeah, I
don't know if I would have donethat. If are you? You actually
look good? You're pretty? Iyou know whatever he's I'm basically this is
like graffiti on like a big skyscraperfor me, Like you mess with like
you don't put art on art,that's right. You don't put a bumper
sticker on a CRV. I mean, I'm I can't. I mean,

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yeah, all right, uh dareyou? Thanks the mohawk Kanda? But
uh wait wait so it says Godbless me? Yeah? Yeah, what
is your issue with it? Imean maybe that's why. Maybe that's why
he's so good. Because again,same with Cody Roads, who has taken
over my building. That's why Iwas. I was at the iHeart Ranch

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all day, Cody Roads, LuisHill. They have put themselves in a
position where they better, they betterkeep going because I can't, like,
what are you qualify to do withGod blessed me across the front of your
neck like it's only a tattoo.Yeah, it's only a tattoo. We
talked about Drew Prescott earlier. IfDrew Prescott had you know, cash rules

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everything around me tattooed around his neck, he wouldn't be my financial guy.
No, no, it would Itwouldn't be the deal. If doctor Fred
Dreer had the like an American flagskull tattoo on the side of his neck,
I may not go to the IntegratedSleep Center. As much as I
love DoD Dreer, like the necktattoo is. I liked it, and

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I used to look at it asa Wow, you just maybe you hate
your parents. I don't know.Now I look at it as a I'm
gonna make sure that I can neverhave a quote normal job. Imagine somebody
if some financial advisors have cream rightthere on the yeah, getting the money
dollar dollar bills, y'all. Imean, like top five, he'd have
to be amazing at it for meto even consider you at that point.

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All right, Cody Roads can't becounted in this even though he is an
athlete. I would consider him anathlete. Quickly, you're mount rushmore of
athletes with neck tattoos. I havemine ready, Like how about neck and
op ooh, neck it up?All right? Number one is Mike Tyson
with the face like he went rightto the face. That's that's that's different.

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You know what. I won't debatethat. We'll let it slide,
Okay. I don't know a lotof other people's face tattoos. I would
go Mike Tyson, the Birdman,Chris Anderson, remember him flying around doing
his Max Crosby. I believe stillhas a neck tattoo. He's got all
over his body. He just coveredthe condor, so I would say he's
three. The fourth one's tough.Maybe the God blessed me tattoo makes it
here. That's I mean right now, for pure relevancy, he's it's got

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to be it's got to be Louisehill On there. But I don't know
the neck tattoos just and it alsolooks super painful, like that's the other
part of it, Like there's Ihave a I have a friend who actually
was like a step down from aprofessional poker player, Like he would get
invoted, he would get invited tolike regional tournaments and stuff like that,
but he wasn't like a pro pokerplayer. And I think he said he

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read it in a book somewhere,but whatever. But his rule was that
he loved sitting down at a pokertable with anyone who drank while playing or
had tattoos, because it just provedthat they made bad decisions. He made
a lot of money play poker.I beat him once, and I have
tattoos and drink, so I wishI had the time to play poker again.

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I feel like I could still begood. I was much better when
I was much younger. I'll addthese two. And the only thing I'm
good at with poker's reading people,Like I'm good at reading people. That's
a huge skill in that massive skill. Remember Stefan Marberry had the three on
the side of his hat for awhile. Okay, remember when Kenyan Martin
had the I believe it was hiswife's lips on the side of his neck.
Yeah, that's a weird one,but you know, okay, those

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are my other ones. I wouldhave had. My sister in law she
has like the behind the ear tattoos. Oh, because that's not really your
neck. Behind your ear is notyour neck. That's that's borderline face tattoo.
Who's the which sister the youngest theend? Yeah, she's. I
don't feel like she's made any baddecisions. I feel like she's I feel
like your sister in laws are.They're they're very very well rounded, smart

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women, got it locked in.Yeah. I think they've got themselves.
They've got to figure it out.I feel like, yeah, I don't.
We were talking about trying to thinkof other ones, like, I
don't. I think I kind ofwrite you off. What you have neck
tattoos off the list? Wow?Yeah, nobody for the Firebirds is gonna
work with you with the neck tattoos. What you're telling me, I don't

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do that. That like the rosteris Damon waars, like there's a Damon
went might very well look at youa neck tattoo. Dude's gotta succeed.
I don't like. I don't know. I don't know. It's just it
freaks me out. It looks painfulas holl too. I haven't I don't
have the numbers to back me uphere, but it feels like more people
are popular, not with face tattoosthan ever before. Post Malone, Jake

(27:26):
Tyson, jelly roll, jelly roll. You see post Malon's like in shape
now. He was in the NewRoadhouse movie. I saw it. He's
doing some country with Morgan Wallen.Yeah, face tattoo is a lot.
That's a lot. I used toMy joke used to be, if you
have a tattoo above your collar,you're just screaming. I really want to
work at a gas station overnight forthe rest of my life. Teddy Swims,

(27:48):
Who's that? I think it's likethe other version of jelly roll.
Wait, there's another jelly roll.Yeah, Teddy Swims. You never heard
of Teddy Swims. No, literally, seriously google google Teddy Swims. I
believe I'm saying his name right.I think he's like just basically like the
R and B version of Jelly Roll. Jelly Rolls like the country version,
and Teddy Swims is the R andB version of him. You know what

(28:10):
I think about Now I'm flashing backto earlier today. We already talked about
this. We did the influencer videowho's your favorite musical artist? I said,
Pearl Jam without thinking You're like,I think I'm gonna go. Jay
Cole and Simone, the young ladywho was shooting the videos like I'm impressed.
I'm like, you like Pearl Jams. She's like, no, with
gods, I'm like what, Ohmy god, Right, that's just jelly
ro Eddy Swims. Yeah, he'sgonna face tattoo. Right? Is this

(28:33):
the guy you went to dinner withfive times? That's not Charlie, No,
that's not no. I want oneof his pictures. He's got the
do rag time where it's like theoh yeah, bow's on the front.
Think about this for a second.You're a Yankee fan, right, We
just we just joked around about thetattoo, the neck tattoo. What do
you think the late George Steinbrunner wouldhave done? Oh he's spinning. He

(28:55):
is spinning in his grave right nowover the God Blessed Me tattoo? Like
I can misimagine Steinbroter walking too?What do you sneeze? A lot?
Like? Why do you need?Why do you need? Are you should?
There be a question mark at theend, like what is it God
blessed you? Or you want tobe blessed? Like where are we at
here? Buddy? What are wetrying to do? I'm very convinced I

(29:15):
will put money on this that beforeI get kicked off earth that that yankee
You know, it's not how itworks, right. There's like an eviction
guy who comes up because yeah,you'renn have to beat it, buddy,
Like, are you sure that's nothow it works at least? I mean
I gotta get off? Who amI? Yeah? You're d're on a
roller coaster. Time to get off? Well, whatever that day comes,

(29:36):
I believe before they kick me offor he or she, that that Yankee
rule is gonna go away about facialhair, because it's gonna be harder and
harder for generation of generation of peopleto explain why it was a rule because
the tattoo thing would have been tougher. Like, imagine if that was a
rule right now, if you dropthe rule in twenty twenty four, of
if you are playing for the RedSox or the Orioles or the Rangers,
you're not allowed to have a necktattoo or a face tattoo or any tattoos.

(29:59):
Like I think some people would say, you can't do that in twenty
twenty four. Here's why you're wrongabout the fish layer. Guys. If
I gave you five thousand dollars,would you clean shave for a full year?
Of course I would. Yeah,how about a couple of million if
you really wanted to push it intwenty twenty four, Like Andrew mccutch,
I believe, at least in mostrecent time, was the closest it was
gonna push it. There was rumorsabout Clinn Frasier. If somebody really wanted

(30:22):
to take a moral stance on thisand sue the Yankees, they would win.
They would win, no stress code. I think they would win the
case. But again that will employmentdid see. We talked about this yesterday.
The non competes are going away,and that means it's at will.
So like those kind of things,and you know it when you're walking in,
you don't you don't have to takethe employment like it's you know,

(30:47):
I guess, I guess if somebodywas drafted by the organization, it could
we could have a conversation about it. But you don't have to take the
employment. You don't have to workthere. You can have a real job.
You go make fifty grand or twentygrand overnight with your neck tattoos and
your full your full beard like II you know, saying if it was
a Major League Baseball rule, thenmaybe again this is legal stuff. I

(31:07):
would believe someone, but it's dresscode. I have seen a lot of
these rules in sports disappear in mylifetime. I've seen college athletes now get
paid. I've seen Augusta allow womento play. I've seen stuff happen.
I'm sure older sports fan than mehas seen way more than I have with
the adjustment of rules and sports andwho and who isn't allowed to do stuff.
I will stick by that, whetheror not Yankee tradition will be broken

(31:30):
by that. With a Yankee Fanmilycould upset I believe that's gonna But again
to the base of the argument,they would really have to force. You've
got twenty nine other teams you couldpotentially play for, or five or six,
or if you're really that worked upabout not wanting to shave your face
or cut your hair, get atattoo, you don't have to sign with
the Yankees. And sometimes I've saidthat before, like I want to do
it, sir, But the pointwas Seinbrunner, like, because of who

(31:51):
he was that era, it wouldnever fly in twenty twenty four, but
he would be going insane for fivehundred dollars. No, what's so a
thousand? Oh, I think fivethousand was my number. My hair is
actually growing quicker now in my midthirties than it ever did. I had
to shave three times this week,which is like, oh gosh, right,
you're an adult congrat. Usually thisfacial hair is very slow to go.

(32:14):
Not anymore. Hey, guess whatin my forties, I have to
trim ear hair like three times aweek. Okay, so three times a
week. Yeah, if I wantto stay on top of it. That's
just yester thing. You don't seeit, but you just when you're doing
it. You hear that? Alright, I got one. I gotta look
good when I'm out there with thewindows down the moonroof open in scar Joe

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Sports Radio ninety five nine and nineeighty. It's Lavak and guzz on ninety
five to nine Fox Sports Radio.I'll spray, I will call you us
X pass, but I will findout what we use to get rid of
large people? Go away? Whatthat was nice of our sales. It's
a Friday, it's the end ofthe month, it's during all good things.

(34:06):
They came in and like you andI were supposed to be communicating during
the break to figure out exactly howwe wanted to do the next break.
Any on the fly changes and allof a sudden it's a little like uh
sales pow wow. Uh. Thesales sales director or whatever the hell director
of sales, Chris is in there. He's you guys are doing a lou

(34:29):
hour or something. And then MikeSusa, one of our sales reps,
he's in there, and you guys, I'm sitting over here, like,
are we gonna talk about this?Are we gonna do? You still want
to do this? You're over like, you guys are funny? What was
it? And nobody's talking. Nobodycame in here to talk to me,
okay, and you keep saying yesto me doing stuff I don't want to

(34:50):
do. So I don't think anythinggood came out of what just happened.
A lot of good came from whatjust happened. A lot of am I
doing another seventeen days at Belmont.We've got a lot of sponsorships on the
way. It's very good stuff.It's a good show. Well most days
we were looking forward to our Belmontcoverage. From everything I've heard, We're
gonna have a great partnership on theway with our friends at Nyra Betts and

(35:13):
our pal Tony Alvada. He mightjoin us every day. I know he's
kind of busy, but there's achance. Tony's gonna join us every single
day? Can we be clear aboutthat? Like they're patting themselves on the
back of that. Do you knowhow they got Tony's number? Jee?
Who they got Tony's number from?Guess somebody on the show? Yeah,
somebody they weren't just talking to,because you know what, they couldn't brag
about it to me. Oh mygod, Tony likes us? No crap,

(35:35):
he's my buddy. We talked throughoutthe year. Has he checked up
on us since Vegas? By us? You since Vegas? Yeah? We
talked, yeah about my shaved head. He goes, he goes, how
is Vegas? I was great,guys, that's not what happened. I
go, goys, oh you stillyou guys? Still do that? Okay?

(35:57):
Cool? You mean the xylophone player? Yeah? He was like,
He's like, who a lot?So that's what I got A lot.
I started. I started calling youJim the Anvil Nightheart, because because everybody
goes, look back and who who'sthat? Are you on the news this
weekend? By the way, canwe talk about that? I don't know.
I'm not positive, all right?Do you want? I mean,

(36:19):
yeah, we can talk about itif you want. I'm a little confused.
There's a lot happening behind the scenesin this building today. Well that's
the thing too, is like Ihave stuff I need to do, so
you need to get out of myway. So I knew, so Sam
Israel supposed to talk to me.I don't know. For those who don't
know, Sam Israel the newest reporterfor CBS six year locally, I thought
everybody knew that. I didn't.You know, I realize, you know
whatever, Like I'm just gonna talkto nobody's like whatever. No, yeah,

(36:40):
so he was. He's he's doinga piece about mental health and athletes
and stuff like that. So,uh, you wanted to wanted to pick
my brain a little bit, andso you know, you know me man
of the people here to help.Can I ask an odd question here?
Have you ever asked a non oddquestion? I'm not trying to be insensitive
or not. Is the idea ofthat piece over what's happened in the sports

(37:06):
world about the PGA golfer? Isthat why he's doing the piece? Now,
there's a lot I'm not trying tocriticize what other people do in the
in the overall area of the Capitolregion, but I'm gonna do it.
But the Patroons last night, Iknow there's been coverage on Cross. I'm
still trying to catch up on whathappened with Patroux. So the Patroons beat
the Frederick Flying Cows last night,but there's a brawl at the end of
the game, and there's fights andthe game gets called with forty seconds left,

(37:28):
but they win at home. It'slike, that's a pretty good local
story. We mentioned earlier in theshow. The Firebirds are off the Nashville
that's a pretty interesting story. Youknow. I've talked about you all been
in the Cross potentially being a finalfour team. That's interesting. High school
sports is wrapping up, they're goingfor states. Like, there's other stuff
going on. I'm not criticizing thepiece. Maybe someone above him asked them

(37:49):
to do that story. I'm justa little surprised by the time. That's
all. You know. The onlyreason that I even like agreed to talk
about it is it is it issomething you don't always think about, right,
especially when it comes to to sportsand athletes and everything, because you
know, we're menly men and whatever, and like I've I've seen guys in

(38:12):
the past try to hide physical injuriesso that they don't lose playing time and
potentially lose their gig. So likeit is, it is something that we
do talk about, we do thinkabout, and we try to get better
at to like, you know,get these guys to you know, hey
I hurt my leg, Hey Ihurt my this. Hey hey I need
treatment on my ankle, Hey Ineed whatever. But we also do you

(38:34):
know, and I damn, where'sgreat at this? Like a lot of
times if you listen, people willtell you what's going on. And you
know that's so it's important to talkabout mental health. Like I like to
make a lot of jokes. Ilike to talk about people being crazy and
say stupid things. I like todo a lot of stupid stuff. The
only way I can live with myselfis if I actually take the time to
do some good with it too.So you know, so I'm glad Sam

(38:58):
was you know, asked me?And then you know we did it.
You know in the studio, wellyou you know, we're running around and
kissing up to the sales team,right, which is you know, here
I am trying to make the worldof better plays. God's over going.
What else can we pick from Levc'scarcass and I'm like, whatever, so
oh yeah, so very cool.But I appreciate Scott asking me, yes,
Sam, or what Steve South.It's still it's still Sam Sam right

(39:22):
right, right, right right,you know what. I know you did
that joking on her, Bill Walton, so I will appreciate you. Is
it, Dave? We're selling onthe play of the day. As we
know, the picks that you cando for the play of the day are
getting smaller and smaller now at theNBA now and pause, it's really down
to hockey and baseball. So I'mgonna stretch a little bit longer here because

(39:43):
I know you really wanted to talkabout Caitlin Clark. Do you want to
do it here? I can squeezesome time into that. Caitlin Clark.
Take kay, She's interesting, youknow what I mean? Like like there's
times you watch sports you don't watchbecause someone is polarizing and interesting, and
like Ronda Rousey I think is thebest example recently. A lot of people,

(40:07):
yeah, women Connor, A lotof people who don't even watch mixed
martial arts did that. Hockey's alittle tougher, Like there's not like there's
we're now like Barstool, I givethem credit for getting the personality of hockey
out to the rest of us.But like, I've never been interested in
WNBA. I'm not. I'm notsaying that to be a jerk. I

(40:28):
know I make a lot of jokes. Whatever, I've never been interested.
She has made it interesting in theshort period of time she's been there.
She has made it interesting. Ifyou tell me one time in the history
of our of our working together orour friendship, that I could tell you
a score from a WNBA game,besides last night when the Fever lost one

(40:52):
hundred and three to eighty eight tothe Seattle Storm, and it's because of
her, and she still hasn't gother feet completely under her. But the
fact that she got into it withwas Vivian Victoria I think her name is
or is it that kind of soundslike a villain doesn't know I'm sorry,
Victoria, Vivian I did. It'sstill a villain name with double v's there

(41:14):
well, and also like they're bothguards, but uh, Caitlin Clark is
like I think maybe two inches taller, thirty pounds lighter, and got right
in her face after burying a thirtyfooter and like it's just like one of
those. It was, and itwas one of those moments where you go,
all right, rookie, you knowwhat I mean, Like like this
rookie's gonna go ahead, and andand you know, stick her neck out.

(41:35):
They both got teed up. Youknow, it was double text.
But like again, on one hand, I can tell you the amount of
times I've talked about the WNBA besidesmaking fun of it, and it usually
was about man that what's her faceis hot? Whatever? Because again I'm
a dude, whatever. I admitit. I'm flawed. But like she

(41:59):
has me watching and I didn't.I stayed away from the MVP arena when
she was here because I was like, I'm not gonna I'm not getting wrapped
up in that nonsense. I don'tlike crowds. And now I'm sitting here
watching I'm watching damn highlights. Istill haven't like watched the game. I
still don't know when they happen orwhat or how I would access them,
but I watch highlights and I readabout it. She's she is, she's

(42:20):
compelling, and she's polarizing. Ican't argue with any of those things.
She's done something that really truly whenyou think about like the history of women's
athletics, we haven't seen in alifetime for her to do the fever do
stink? Though they're one in eight, they're likely not going to go to
the postseason. By the time it'sall said and done, they might be
the worst team in the WNBA,which also makes sense as to why they
had the number one pick to getCaitlyn Clark. They are already a bad

(42:44):
team. They tried Katelyn Clark tobe the best, and I'm sure those
will be the takes on the wayit's Katelyn Clark done enough? What does
she need to do more? That'swhy would have happened in male sports,
by the way, like we couldtalk about I believe we're going to a
certain number one draft pick and theimpact he can have on a team coming
up here third hour, that howquickly those things can change. But that
would be the pressure placed on amale athlete. I wonder. I hope

(43:06):
not. I hope not. Ihope the positivity rules over, but I
wonder if we're not too far awayfrom Oh, why did the fever stink?
I thought Caitlin Clarke was the greatestathlete of all time. Why I
guarantee that's happened. That might thatmight be coming up in about a month
for the Caitlin Clark. Why isshe not this? We we already got
the Jamel Hill takes out there ofwhy she's popular. I might have referenced
before her and I should have putit online. But I get what you're

(43:29):
saying, like, it's not justbasketball that makes you want to tune in
to watch Kitlin Clark. It's what'shappening on the court now she's not herself
as being the hero and then alsonow being targeted and people are making it
like more of like, oh yougot the fan Katelyn Clark. I can't
believe she's being treated like this.It is intriguing. It is different.
You don't know what to expect,and those type of things is how you

(43:50):
sell television. Well, and it'sI'm starting, man, I'm probably gonna
watch a game because I'm also curious, like is this one of those things
where you are you're over beating thestar and not playing team basketball because she
is getting better, her numbers aregoing up, Like she played against LA
they lost eighty eight to eighty two. She played thirty I'm sorry, Yeah,

(44:13):
thirty four minutes, scored thirty points. Like she's twenty points in forty
minutes last night. But like she'sshe's getting it, she's hitting her shots
more. But it's like, whyare they get so bad? This is
just a bad team and it's numberone Traffick probably is, but I I
wish I'd watch the LA game forother reasons, But I just I don't

(44:34):
know. Like I said, shehas gained my interest, which is something
that has never happened on a sportslevel with the WNBA. I'm a big
Kelsey Plump fan. Is it Brink? Is that the cam? Yeah,
big Cameron Brink fan. I've gonnaI even learned her name a second ago,
like for the wrong reasons, AndI admit it, I admit it.

(44:58):
I'm not perfect, But she's gotme watching. Kaitlyn Clark has me
watching a game because she's compelling.I want to see if she gets her
feet on her I want to seeif she starts being a dominant. I
want to see if she becomes uhsteph Anee Curry. You know, like
I think there's there's a lot,there's a lot going on there? It

(45:19):
really is. Are you are youwith me? Are you starting to watch?
I have all? By the way, court is ugly. I have
not sat down for I have smallamounts of personal time and thought, tonight's
the night. It's a w NBAnight. I just haven't had that moment
happen. Maybe it's well, allright, but do you but do you
look to see how she did thenext day? Look? I would say

(45:40):
my fandom of Kaitlyn Clark is probablylower than most sports fans right now.
And I don't think it has anythingto do with Katelyn Clark. I think
it has more to do with mepersonally. Of I got two little ones,
I got a third one on theway, I got a pregnant wife.
You get a few moments to yourself, where's the w NBA on your
list? It's still lower on thelist. That's that's an honest answer.
I got NBA, I got hockey. You know I'm a pro wrestling fan.

(46:02):
I like fight sports. I gota few minutes. W NBA has
not carved their way into the gazeconsumption of what he needs to. By
the way, some stuff happened onthe Sister station last night that I worked
for. I don't know if peoplehave been following politics a little busy with
that last night. Yeah, souh, look Caitlyn Clark WNBA, June
and July are still on the way, so maybe they'll find themselves into that.

(46:25):
I just, like I said,I'm i'm uh. I'm checking it
out more than I did before.And it's and it's and it's about the
actual game. If you had toldme that I was gonna eat, Like
even in the NBA, I'm notas enamored by Steph Curry as a lot
of people are. Like in theNBA, I love I do love a
good three. I love all thatstuff, but I think too many people

(46:47):
do it. You get me somepaint players, you get me some dunking,
you get me some big defense.I get excited about it. I'm
a part of that. She she'sshooting and I watch. I don't.
It's it's it's it's different, butI'm here for it. I'm also here
for the play of the day,even though I lost everything last night.
Do you have a Player of theDay? I do. I will probably

(47:10):
say this a few times this summer. It's one of my favorite takes.
I don't know if it's still areal thing that when it's a Friday night
in the college game, especially inthese like prep leagues, the perfect game
collegiate baseball. You know there's alot of Capital region connections there. I
know that it's a New York collegiatebaseball league. They used to always throw
your best picture on a Friday night. And the reason you threw your best

(47:31):
pitcher on a Friday night is becauseyou knew the scouts are going to be
there. They were traveled into thecity. Your best player is going to
be in front of the scouts.It helps the team, It helps future
players, and helps the team allthat stuff. So tonight for the Mets
and Diamondbacks, you can make anargument that Severino versus Montgomery is the Friday
night college style game. So ifyou're giving me the spotlight game, and
I don't think they did it onpurpose because it was a Friday night,

(47:52):
the showcase, like just the schedulelanded that way, give me the under.
I did this the other day withVerlander and Kirby. I'm gonna do
it again here. I haven't sitat seven and a half. I believe
it's gonna close at seven. Giveme under tonight in Mets Diamondbacks Montgomery versus
Severn. No, remember earlier thisweek I swore off taking unders in baseball?

(48:13):
Not yet? How that go?Not? I'm one to oh swearing
it off? Didn't last the week? All right, I'm gonna bounce back.
Pennstripe Parlay Yankees money line. Ithink Judge shows out for the reasons
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(48:34):
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