8-26-24 Hour 2

Goz misses a big story in Top 4 at 4
Mets fans is it bad? Is it good?
Plus mistakes not to make in future wagering 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for the Top four four with Levac and Guz.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time of the four biggest stories in the world of sports.
It is rock by Molokan.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
But they always go out of their way to please you. Gosh,
what's the fourth biggest story?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is gonna be one of these top four fours
where someone listening on the podcast side is gonna or
somebody who listen.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Kickstarter and everything else. So it's you know, we're we're
covering as much as we can here, peeps.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I don't know if you love this one. But story
number four is there's a new prospect. There's a new proposal.
We're off to good start here. A new proposal to
eliminate the spring transfer portal window. Yeah, it is worthy,
as I thought. The NC DOUBLEA is thinking about changing
the rules in which you can actually go to the
portal now right now, it's all over the place. If

(00:50):
the NC Double A decides to accept this, the fifteen
day portal window in April will be gone. They'll figure
out the one time you can do it. Hey, you
have this amount of time, thirty days. Everybody's in, everybody's out.
Under the new proposal, football players could only enter the
transfer portal during that thirty day window, which would start

(01:14):
after the conference championship games, and they would end right
around January seventh, think and dates on that still being
moved around a little bit, eliminating the April window. This
is very worthy, but's it can have a huge impact
on college football. So for instance, well, back, let's say
this happens. Okay, uh, I'm a player for Syracuse. Okay,
SIACUS doesn't make the conference championship game. Hey, I'm gonna

(01:36):
go on. I'm gonna go play Clemson. Make that decision
in a month rather than hey, I play for Syracuse
right now, let me go to springball. Let me see
how I stack up with the recruits. I don't like it. Actually,
I'm gonna leave. I feel like it's a great idea,
you know. Let me ask this first, what do you
think about having some type of regulation on the transfer

(01:58):
portal window for college football.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I think we're I think we're there. I think there's
been It's a mockery at this point, DJA DJ. You
is only gonna have transfer six more times where it
turns out to play college football and.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
One day he'll figure out how to throw the football.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Right, it's not.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
It's too much right now, Like and I get it,
like you should be able to go where you want
to go, do what.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
You want to do. That's not the case. That's not
how it's built.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Like it's it's school, it's commitment, it's it's making committment
to your team, your teammates, your school, everything like that.
I think, I don't know if this is the restriction
that needs to be made on it, but I do
like the idea of of not making it so simple,
like let's let's have some structure to it where you know,
you can't every fifteen minutes decide you're going to a

(02:45):
new school.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
So I'm in it seems like the right decision. But
I asked this question, and everyone hold your laughter here quickly.
What about school, Like I just think about like a
regular college, Like they could leave in the spring semester
and say I'm going to go to a new school
in the fall. They don't have to decide by the
winter semester whether or not they're going to go to

(03:08):
a new school. Like what if you just graduate? I guess, okay,
grad transfer is probably a little different here than transfer
portal fair enough. Yeah, I just wonder like how do
you enforce this? So now if you transfer in the spring,
you can't play for the team. What if you're a
walk on? Well, walk ons are being eliminated, so you
have to be a scholarship player by this certain time. Okay,

(03:29):
I feel like the idea is good, but I need
to see the execution of it and I actually watch
you go through because you are still a college student
who can leave when you want to leave.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, as part of it too, is like we
do say student athletes still to a degree, So the
whole transfer transfer transfer thing, like, how much could you
actually retain knowledge wise if you were doing that every
five seconds? Again, it's I agree that you should be
able to leave under a lot of circumstances, one of

(03:59):
which is being I've decided I have a better chance
to play here. Hey, like for you like the school part,
like you go to school hopefully to get a great job.
If I feel like I get a better job playing
for Oregon than I could have for Oklahoma, oh, so
be it.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
I'm gonna go do that.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
But it does it it's too loose right now, it's
too much a mockery. It's too much of a joke.
Rated it a little bit. This is a good first step.
Let's see what happens next. Oh, let's move on a
story number three. Is this a big deal.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Little deal, or no deal at all? We've got a
lot of these this summer. This one involves the Kansas
City Chiefs and it's a wide receiver that's been to
end to their team. That's Juju Smith Schuster, who announced
today he's signing with the Kansas City Chiefs. Remember Juju,
not too long ago was the leading wide receiver on
the Kansas City Chiefs. That's twenty twenty two Super Bowl

(04:48):
Championship season. He's back with the Chiefs today. Mister where
Juju smith Schuster was the past year and a half?
I think so did the team he was playing for,
that was the Newland Patriots. Caught less than thirty pass
sagged up?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Is he heard like? Is? He is never gonna be
the same?

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Allegedly, that's what we've been told. The Patriots cut him
earlier this month. Barely got over three hundred yards in
less than twelve games for New England. He's only twenty seven.
He was one of these young players who entered the league.
Doesn't feel like he's twenty seven. He's had five years
in the NFL. How about when Juju's first started breaking
out in the scene for Pittsburgh that twenty eighteen season

(05:23):
one hundred and eleven catches for fourteen hundred yards plus,
and then twenty twenty he caught ninety seven passes. Lovack
Juju Smith Schuster was a fantasy football darling looked to be,
in serious conversations, a top ten wide receiver in the
NFL before he turned twenty five. What do we make
of Juju heading back to Kansas City? Big deal, little deal,
no deal at all?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
With why?

Speaker 1 (05:44):
I don't think I need to add in reports coming
from Kansas City that Hollywood Brown suffered dislocated shoulder in
that preseason open in September fifth, the question he is
gonna be rich Hollywood Brown may or may not be
ready for September for this kickoff against the three. If
that's an important thing here.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
I think a big deal, mainly because it doesn't matter
who's catching the ball as long as Pat Mahomes throwing it.
This is the guy who's comfortable with you, knows your
offense should be able to stem the tide until you
get Hollywood Brown back, not nearly as fast as the
guys that you got out there that you want out there.
But he was, he was leading receiver. She isn't saying

(06:23):
a ton at that point, but no, I'd say a
big deal, just one more. This is what teams that
get continuous championships due is they bring in veterans who
fill plug a hole and then they move on for
them as soon as they need to.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Was it TikTok? Like what happened to Juju?

Speaker 2 (06:42):
That's a big part of it.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I think I think his focus was really on social
media and being a star instead of being a football player.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's gotta be because like I can't even use the
excuse as well he had bad quarterback like he played
for my homes in twenty twenty two. Yeah, like he
hit a lot of backups during the time in Pittsburgh
who took the field. It has to be something about
maybe the skill set, like you said, maybe the offseason workout.
I would have it as a little deal because he
can still be in that pactful player with Xavier Worthy,

(07:09):
who's a rookie who's unknown, and we mentioned the injury
to Hollywood Brown, he could have some decent games out there.
He's worth drafting in fantasy leagues because of the past production.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think that's a smaller deal for me the fantasy
football aspect.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I wonder you know I've done this a bunch of
you about the Patriots. There needs to be a study done.
I know our guy Steve the Tiger is a big
Steeler fan, and our guy Dubs and Scotti. Who's gonna
be yelling about the artist that Matt Canada used to be?
Think about the Pittsburgh Steelers the Patriots. I used to
always tell you, like, look at everyone post Patriots. Nobody
was really good in that Belichick era I'm talking about

(07:44):
here when they left. Well, Chandler Jones was a great example,
and then Antonio Brown and Tom Brady won a Super
Bowl with Tampa Bay. Tom Brady maybe the exception of
the rule, but maybe the large example of some people
were good post Patriots. Three to five.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Guys left a different term. Yes, Yes, the guys that
Bill Belichick said I've had enough, goodbye, I don't need
you anymore for no other reason than play on the
field usually did nothing.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
I struggle much more to get an example of Pittsburgh. Now,
maybe guys just like playing for Pittsburgh and they don't
want to leave. But Le'Veon Bell never the same player,
heines Ward, never did it. We already got example right
now at Juju Smith Schuster. Never the same. Mica fits
you want to know, No, we're close again. He won

(08:32):
the seerworld like production wise, he was on a Hall
of Fame pace that he wasn't the same. Mica Fitzpatrick's
the closest am I missing a defensive lineman, a linebacker,
Like I'm struggling off the top of my head to say, well,
this guy played for the Steelers, then went to another
team and was better. Shazir got hurt, Joan Jarvis Jones,
Kenny Pickett's got a chance.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like went to the bat, came No the defensive the linebacker, the.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Monster, Vontas Burfett, No Raymond Leuga. He went to the Bengals. Oh,
James Harrison. I would say he also was better than Pittsburgh,
but he was, yeah, he.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
And he then he came back to Pittsburgh played well again.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
He's just a beast. I feel like there's a I
feel like there's a raven I'm missing who went from
the Steelers to the Raven. Carel Sugs.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
No, it's not it. Rod Woodson had a good career for.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
You left he got that's a long time ago though.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, Raiders and the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
But I think it's a comment to the Steelers. So
I'm getting in here. I think maybe Pittsburgh has done
a great job of we know the type of player
we want to go somewhere else was huge, that's it
in the mid nineties. We're going back thirty years here.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah. Well, I mean they're an average team. What do
you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
We'll move on to story number two. We've got major
League Baseball action at the Jeff Levak at Tomas tmjsas.
We've got some baseball actions scheduled for today. But the
one that jumps out to me Levank involving non New
York teams, he'd I'll usually run through the schedule here.
Let's not even mess around. Let's talk about the Chicago
White Sox, who are taking them the Detroit Tigers in
the eight ten first pitch it guaranteed rape field. The

(10:08):
White Sox are thirty one and one hundred, the second
fastest team in baseball history to get to one hundred losses.
There's rumors that they're calling up their best prospect that
he's going to make his debut coming up here soon.
The White Sox are so bad, historically bad.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
It's not I mean like it's there's nothing add to that.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
They are. They're historically bad.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
They could ultimately end up being one of the worst
baseball teams of all time.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Dalan Cruz, by the way, he's the one who's expecting
to make it, say, but you know what, I want
to talk about the White Sox anymore. I think we've
covered it pretty well. They stink the end.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Terrible, terrible. We're in that home run that Dingers thing.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I'll look and see if they're facing the team that
I like at any point.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Thank you for saying we Oh that's right, I'm in it.
Bryce Harper smells Okay. They play the Astros tonight. I
want to jump off this because look at all these
other matchup and just Royals and Guardians. Actually is a
great game. I know they had a doubleheader going today,
Braves and Twins, the matchup between playoff teams. I'm a
little bitter. I just wanted to go well on the
White Sox thing myself. Field I liked I liked your

(11:12):
pick Bryce Harper was a good pick, didn't plan, didn't
pan out. I was a little nervous show Tony wait
un till late in the week to give me one.
And now I've got Wan Soto for this week, so
I'm I think I'll be all right. I want Soto
was gonna play his former Washington. Let's do all those
storylines here for story number when I mentioned the prospect
coming up on the national side, it's getting more attention
to the white Sox side. Yankees and Nationals interleague matchup

(11:35):
six forty five's the first pitch scheduled in the nation's capital.
Nester coartens on the mound for the Pinstripes tonight, Washington
not very good farm system. We'll find out if it's
pretty good. But it feels like a long time ago
where the Nationals for a World Series contender, had the
pieces made the run. Maybe a lot of that is
due to the fact that the end at least got
a little bit more competitive, But the New York Yankees,

(11:55):
after another inter league matchup over the weekend of the Rockies,
seems like a very similar storyline. A bad National League
team where the power in New York's lineup can dominate
and be on display.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
I hope, yeah, I hope. So it's it's a very intriguing.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
End of the seasons as you start to look at
where we are and how things are gonna go. You
know where the Mets still are. Didn't do a ton
over the weekend, but got the split. But yeah, no,
I want to see more power come out of the
come out of the Yankees. So you're you're all right,
that's what I want.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Thank you, Yankees Nationals. In your league matchup, that's your
top four to four, I said going into it, I
was gonna face some criticism. I was ready. I was okay.
It was an okay top four four. We have a
lot better ones on the week. I'll be better from today.
Fridays will be better, Thursdays will be better. I make
that promise to you. Maybe not tomorrows. I don't feel
good about tomorrow's. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be okay.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Our guy Tom Malty said like people whose birthdays are today,
and he's like, you know, none more famous than our boy,
you know, being really nice to me, which is I
appreciate it. But like, as I look through the list
real quick, just because you know you got the first
British Prime minister or Robert Walpole. Okay, cool, Mary Ann Nichols,
English prostitute, first victim of Jack the Ripper, All right, wow, mom,

(13:19):
we made it. Me is a famous prostitutaste? Oh no,
wait all the Teresa baby. Wait, we're back and we're back.
It averages out, it averages out. We're good now.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
A tough legacy to leave.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Huh yeah, well you know that, like, Jack the Ripper
is like the serial killer I'm most fascinated with because
there's people who believe it the reason nobody ever caught
him is it wasn't him, It was a her.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Now I'm fascinated, right.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I Mean, there's all kinds of different stories and different theories,
but that's always been one of mine that like, I'm like,
can you imagine if all that time, all these dudes
are back there and you know, the old eighteen hundred,
it's like.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well we most finn who did this? And is it
you sound? Does he?

Speaker 4 (14:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (14:08):
No, no, no, no no it was It wasn't a
sir at all.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Now I've got two reasons I'm fascinated. One was because
what you just laid out there, and that I'm thinking about, like, oh,
only crimes backward Jack Rippers from Solved by Sherlock Holmes,
just like we saw in the television show and Watson
was helping himself murders and two. There was a big
discussion over the weekend of My house about Justin Bieber
just had a baby. Don't know if you heard this litleact.
Justin Bieber had a baby well himself. Believe her name

(14:33):
is Haley Baldwin. I think that's what her name is.
And the baby's name is Jack Jack Blues Bieber. My
wife was convinced that he was gonna have a girl.
So it was a hot debate is Jack a boy
or girl name? Because she thought right, she thought he
went Hollywood and did like, you know, a name that's
not conventional for a girl, and went Jack, which leads

(14:55):
back to Jack. The ripper is a female.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Boom Bieber facto. Thank you very much, sense please buy
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kind of watched what's going on in the American League East?

(17:39):
We could have one hell of a finale in the
American League East as the MLB season comes to a close.
It is Levac Guys, Fox Sports Radio ninety five, nine
and nine eighty.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
It's Lovack and guys on the Voice of the Capitol
Regions Sports Fan Fox Sports ninety five, nine and nine eighty.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
It's a big weekend for the New York match.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
They, you know, trying to navigate their way back in
to that third wildcard spot. We were hopeful that as
part of this road campaign that they got going on,
they'd be able to move up maybe to that second
wildcard spot. The good news is you split with the Padres,
so you're still five and a half back from them.

(18:21):
That's the good news. The bad news is the Arizona
Diamondbacks took the Boston Red Sox behind the woodshed and
just slapped the daylights out of them. So you're now
two and a half games back in the third spot
behind the Braves, and you are a full seven games
behind the Diamondbacks.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now for the first the number one wildcard.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
We don't need the number one wildcard, right, if you're
the match, you just want to get to the dance.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
You don't care who brings you.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
That's exactly right, just get to the dance. We've seen
examples of this, most recently the past two years of
the National League across basball. The great part about the
bags ball expanded postseason. It's got a little bit more
of the NCAA men's basketball field. You get in the
dance that anything as possible. Which, by the way, I well, Mac,
I just gotta take a quick detour here. I've been
hearing some stuff that people are like, well, you shouldn't

(19:10):
build a roster now in baseball to win one hundred
and five games or one hundred and ten games because
you're gonna get to the playoff format you could play
has eighty games, and it's the same thing. No, it's not. No,
it is not.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
No.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
It is not like people are like, well, you know,
you get a bye week and it doesn't really help
your chances. Yes, it does. What do we like? Sometimes
people put the calculators down, put the numbers down. This
is easy. If you get an advanced end of the
postseason because you have a better record, it gives you
a better chance to succeed. Sometimes it doesn't happen like that,
but if you advance another round because you have a

(19:43):
better record, it helps. In this case the Mets, if
you're in, it'd be wonderful if you get a matchup
with a team you match up with better, no doubt.
Just get in. I guarantee. This is gonna sound so stupid,
but it needs to be said for some people want
to dive so deep in numbers. You aren't gonna win.
If you're not in the postseason, you're not gonna win.
You're not. Just get in. Stop it, stop it, where's warpick?

(20:04):
Knock it off?

Speaker 2 (20:05):
You know he's not he's not invited.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
If you can too deep in a Major League Baseball reddit,
those theories out there.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, you got to stop. You have to stop reading
that stuff.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
By the way, there's still only at this point, with
about thirty thirty one games left of the season, there's
only one team eliminated. It's still the White Sox that
we just talked about, like you like, it's thirty one wins,
one hundred losses for for for the White Sox.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
All right.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
The interesting thing for me now again, Mets, you're six
and four and last ten.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
That's great.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Unfortunately for you, the Diamondbacks have the longest win streak
right now. It's six, six wins in a row. The
Blue Jays have the second longest active win streak at four.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Right now. It is it's.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Times running out, but you're not out of it. You've
got three against the Diamondbacks. They've got they they've six
game win streak. You need to and that win streak.
You need to win some games. Then you get the
White Sox. So if you can somehow take two from
the Diamondbacks and then bring the brooms out against the
White Socks, who stinking they're not as good as you, you're.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
In this thing, but you need to do that. That's
what you need to do right now.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Now, thinking about that White Sox series coming up this weekend,
it would be wilder the response. And again, you were
in Disney when it happened, when the Yankees lost one
game to the White Sox and people were freaking out.
If the Mets lose in late August early September to
this White Sox, b fire everyone. We can't fire Bucks,

(21:34):
show Walter a second time. We can't still trade Pete
a lot. The chaos that's gonna be felt in that
series is gonna double, maybe triple the outrage that came
from one loss for the Yankees. Because the season's on
the line.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
You mentioned the Diamonbacks matchups coming up starting tomorrow and
the hottest team in bang spawling everything else here. It
is the most important series of the season, more important
than anything coming up, more important than the Philly matchups,
more important than Atlanta. If you get your butt kicked
by Arizona, that might be it. If you get pounded
by Arizona and you lose Combina, I'm just throwing numbers

(22:06):
out here. Let's say you lose Combined in that series
fifteen to five. Seventeen to six. That's it, not catching
them like Atlanta. You gotta hope that Atlanta kids injured again.
You gotta hope that San Diego in Arizona's math with
the Dodgers falls back. You get pounded by Arizona. That's
about as low as it's gonna get because you're gonna
sit at five back. You hope you beat the White

(22:28):
Sox and better teams than you record wise ahead of you.
That's well that the dirt and the shovel could be
coming out very soon for Mets fans.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
It's around the corner, like you get. It's that part
where they hide it from you so you can't see it.
But we're at that point now where you canna start
looking at who you have ahead of you, you know
what I mean, Like like you've got this dominant Arizona
team that just just buried the Red Sox. You've got
the White Sox, which you should bury even though it's
on the road. But then you're home for Boston, your
home for Cincinnati. You're at Toronto, Toronto, I'm gonna tell

(22:59):
you some about TROLLI.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
You're gonnat here.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
You're at Philly, you're home for Washington. You got a
lot of Philly games left, a lot of Atlanta games left.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
But look out for Toronto.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
No, it's too deep.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Look out not not not for not no, no, not
for a playoff team. How about as a team that
is going to make some noise and and take great
joy in you not playing in the postseason two. So
they won four straight. Now they've got a Boston team
that's coming off of a three game sweep that they did.

(23:32):
They've they've lost three games straight. I don't think Toronto
will be in the bottom of the AL East by
by the end of the season. I think Toronto might
be third in the AL East by the end of
the season.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
I'm not sure what's motivating Toronto.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
I still think I'm the best of the game. Like
that's I think they know that they're not playing up
to their standards, but you know, finish strong.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I guess it is what it comes down to.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
Because no, no, no, technically they're nine and a half
back from the third wild card, so technically they're not eliminated.
But I think they'll I think they will surpass the
Rays and maybe the Socks in the America League.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Eest something's wrong with my mind sometimes you know what
I just thought about when you described the Blue Jays
in that scenario. And maybe it's because of where I
sit during the show. Maybe it's because I'm a pro
wrestling fan. I just think about like the parking lots
here to our right, yep. And I know arena football
fans don't like when I use this term, but the
Grim Reaper, like Mets fans for the twenty twenty four season,

(24:37):
the Grim Reaper just parked parked. He's getting out of
his car right now. I see you. I'm not the
door yet. I haven't asked for it to be over,
but I'm coming. And then Toronto just real woo. Now
I'm here to destroy some lives too, So Toronto's the
American League version of that. And then the Green Reaper
could end it right this week for the Mets. But death,

(25:01):
the end is coming for a lot of teams, and
the Blue Jays want to join in on the party,
which is a sad, extremely depressing party.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Your Orioles are a game and a half back. Now,
the Yankees, what are your what are your admirations? What
are you thinking for them?

Speaker 1 (25:15):
I got a good idea now, I just did a
whole Grim Reaper thing. If we can get a third
team to kidnap Aaron Judge. I know he's a large man,
but if somehow he stops playing for the Yankees, I
feel like the Oreos have a much better chance to
catch up. My confidence continues to go down for the Oars.
And it's not because they don't have talent, not because
they don't have good players, not because of the pitching staff. Okay,

(25:38):
it's better. It's not the best, it's better. What's because
of Aaron Judge. Like sometimes in sports history, whether you're
a football fan, hockey, baseball, basketball, you run in into
it at the wrong time. If you're a Houston Rocket fan,
you caught the Warriors. We could do this with the
Knicks and the Suns and all these other teams that
went off against Jordan and the Bulls, the Rockets. I'm
talking about the Warriors. It happens. Bill's fans. You get this, Bengal,

(26:00):
you kind of get it a little bit. You're in
the air of the Chiefs right now. So right now
it's tough to have those things happen. And it kind
of feels that way for the Orioles. The wrong time
in history Hopefully that'll change, Levac. Maybe Aaron Judge, could
you ask him, like, stop doing this? No, stop hitting
so many home runs.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Oddly enough, I just don't even have the ability to
say those words to Aaron Judge. I can say to
a million other people. I can show Hey to stop,
I can ask Devors to stop. But somehow, whenever Aaron Judge,
would you please hit more home runs? I can't help it.
I can't.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
That's how I feel here. The state of the Orioles
is that someone in their division is playing at a
historic rate and there's nothing we can do about it.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah, there it is, and I'm not mad about it.
I need I need historic rate. I need people to
pay more attention to it, and then I'll feel better
about everything. It's gonna be crazy. Everything's good. I'm fired up.
Are you sleeping, buddy?

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Huh uh?

Speaker 2 (26:54):
I was.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
You're gonna be shocked by this. So Saturday at a
very busy Saturday, and it may or may not have
dozed off on the couch when both the boys were
asleeping and main laws over and allegedly again, all these
things happened while I'm sleeping. Allegedly, one of the in
laws my sister in law said, is he okay? I
was snoring allegedly. I think they want me to go
to the Integrative Sleep Center and boss and spot.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
There's so they're snoring, which is bad because it means
you're not getting good rest. But then there's obstructive sleep
at me. And that's why I learned about from the
Integrative Sleep Center in Boston, SPA doctor Fredreer is a
diplomat of dental sleep medicine. That's why you know he's
taking the time. He's learned about all these different mouthpieces,
different ways to do it where it keeps your airway open.
That way you don't need the surgery, you don't need

(27:37):
the hoses, the wires. It's easy to travel with. It
is just a life changer for me, maybe for you too.
Maybe it's one of those things where you're sleeping on
the couch, you have it over on the side, nobody
realizes there. You pop it in real quick when you
feel yourself starting to head bob and everybody's like, wow,
Thomas doesn't snore anymore, and you're like, yep, that's right,
I don't because I'm the best. Because I want to
see doctor Fred Dreer and the Integrative Sleep Center of

(27:58):
Balls and Spa. The energy iss gonna be better. Everything's
gonna be better after a good night's sleep. Give him
a call five eight eight five six eight eight five
six eighty five doctor Fred Reier and the Integrave Sleep
Center and bass at Spot help him me sleep better.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
They're canna help you sleep better too.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
You're ready for the Play of the Day.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
I am.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
I got a lot to talk about in the Play
of the Day. I think you do as well.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Are you? I thought we were already gone. I was.
I was like, one step out the door to go
pee real quick.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Go go by, it's avakan guys on ninety five nine
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Oh yeah, y'all going out there. It is time for
the Play the Day. It is brought to you by
Mohawks Chevrolet, where they always go out of their way
to please you. A little bummed because I predicted that
Judge would go for the most consecutive games with a
home run, and that night he pops one, so it's
up to four, and then uh, the fifth game he

(28:52):
didn't hit one, and then he's been a tir sents,
so that that fifth game screwed it up. That wasn't
like necessarily a play of the day, but you kind
of see where my mind was at as far as
the play today goes.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Uh, you're upset because that play would have been unbelievable.
I'm upset because I'm out. I'm out on our home run, firelane,
Bryce Harper's and no talent bum He's never been good.
Stink's awful, the Philly stink. I'm out. So you are
the only one now left.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
No pressure everybody, Why are you put all this pressure
on me? Man?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
I want to get your pick. I want to find
out who it's going to be. But I need to
ask your advice here because a lot of people are
about to do what I'm about to do here. Okay,
we are at what some people would consider to be
the next two weeks their favorite time to wager on sports.
We do a lot of plays of the day, whether
it's daily, whether it's the weekend. The next two weeks, Levak,
I would venture a guest to say this will be

(29:43):
the most active wageram the Super Bowl March Madness wonderful.
But we have a combination over the next two weeks
of both weekly plays, daily plays and future plays. Because
these are your preseason Super Bowl picks, your preseason conference champions,
over under win totals, everything else. We'll offer some of

(30:04):
those again one week from today with two on RFL
preview show, and this is the week goes on through
college football. But I have to ask you this piece
of advice. I loved the SMU Mustangs to win the
ink CC. I placed not one, but two different bets
on SMU to win the ink CC. Florida State lost
a conference game to Georgia Tech, so that helps my adds,

(30:25):
but not again, anybody who lose that game would have
been only one. I watched them play. They don't have
a very good quarterback, or offensive line or wide receivers,
but aside from that side, hey, they have a six
foot four tight end that nobody could cover. It felt
like a basketball game in high school. Nobody could cover him.
That's why they won the game. And his dad played

(30:47):
for the Dallas Cowboys. Is one week too early to
dive out on your future place? Is that because they're
not offering cash outs yet?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
No, but that's definitely part of it.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Okay, why would you say one week after what I
just saw us too early to get out because a.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Lot can change, a lot can adapt, and you got
the w some of these, some of these are wake
up wins. Is there's a chance that Nevada is better
than you thought they were. You know that you can't
give up yet, especially because I have them as a
playoff team and I need.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
And that's my fault. If it goes down, that will
be an issue.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
If not not your fault. You were talking them up
pretty good. I looked at them, though, I do, and
I think our logic is still sound of if they
were the best team paying players when you weren't allowed to,
they've got to be even better at it than everybody
else now that you are allowed to.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
It like sound logic. At the time they won, they
won the game under two minutes to go. Wasn't the
best game to watch. And I know that's gonna be
the complaint of Week one of the NFL, with how
bad the preseason's been, that there's gonna be some terrible tackling,
some terrible coverage. The overs might play a factor in
a lot of these games. But something to remember is
one of those things it's too early to get out
on future wagers. Okay, that's one thing. Let's do a

(32:00):
second piece of advice here for our amateur wagers. We're
not judging. This is what the play that they're supposed
to be. If you want to wager on sports, now
is the time to do it. You and I were
texting this morning, this is our life. By the way,
it's Lavac's birthday. I wish to be a happy birthday.
At about seven forty five am, the conversation went from
happy birthday, how are you too? Any thoughts on Oklahoma
State's South Dakota State. That's how quickly our life change

(32:23):
from all right, the birthday stuff's over.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
There, the good Yeah, you did it, you did it,
you survived.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Another one, let's talk why eighty seven percent of the
public's on Oklahoma State. Now, for those who don't know
who have involved the show, this is year first time. Welcome.
We appreciate you listening. We found a rule on the show,
and many people have known this rule that when Joe public,
when the public money is on a certain team, that's
when you go the opposite way. Lavac has preached that
for a long time. I've learned that South Dakota State's

(32:48):
and FCS team. We saw Montana State beat New Mexico.
I love Oklahoma State. That is my favorite, even more
so than SMU my favorite play of this season. Should
even though I wagered on Oklahoma State to do great
things in the Big Twelve and maybe get to the
final four of the College Football Playoff, should I be
concerned in Week one that they're not even a ten

(33:10):
point favored over an FCS school? Is it just one
matchup's bad for them? Someone might see something I did.
How would you approach this scene? What's going on now
involving Joe Public and my Cowboys?

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Your Cowboys? Is it your accuse? You?

Speaker 1 (33:26):
They are my orange, but the Cowboys are now second
this year?

Speaker 2 (33:29):
You financially, you.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
Need to relax. They haven't even played a game yet.
You need to relax. It's a long season. There's twelve
playoff teams now four get buys and then more play.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
You breathe. It's they haven't even played. You're freaking out.
It's on Monday, the game Saturday.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Right, I'm saying, you've been freaking out for days now.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
If freaking out is what I'm doing, then I probably
should stop telling myself, Hey, it's not a bad thing
if they lose, because then the odds for them to
get back to the college football playoff will increase and
you can double down on them. That should be taken
out of my brain. I'm gonna stop thinking that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
No I think.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
I think what's gonna happen is right now, your brain
has nothing else to do right like like it's that
gambling part of your brain. It's sitting here, going, we
have to do this. We do this well. We got
we got Georgia Tech, right, we gotta get all these
other ones right now too.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
What's it? And because nothing no one's playing. So between
now this.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Weekend with a full slate of college football games, and
then starting on the fifth, ten days from now, a
full slate of NFL games, your brain is gonna get
bogged down with other stuff, so you won't freak out
as readily about these other things that have nothing going
on right now, like you, you need to breathe, You
need to breathe.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
I got this.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
You gotta calm down.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
We got a lot of games Thursday, at a lot
of games Thursday when we're rivers, and I gotta all right,
I'm gonna have horse raincing college football and baseball on
the rivers. Okay, those are good. Well that thank you.
I think everyone needed that. Calmed down about your future wagers,
Remember your bank roll. Remember you don't have to text
your friends about South Dakota State football at eight o'clock

(35:09):
in the morning on their birthday.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
No you can't.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
I mean, that's fine, that's because I'm also broken. But
it's you know, but and I like, I like, out
of those, what did you send me ten teams that
are being heavily, heavily played by the public.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
I think Boston Dan sentate, but I'll take credit.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Was it Boston Dan?

Speaker 3 (35:26):
I'm sorry, Boston, I mean to do that to you.
Of those, I probably have about three I'm gonna play.
I'm gonna fade the public. One of the problems is
they're all on a Michigan which, hey, calm down, but
Michigan doesn't cover a lot. That's not what they do.
They bludgeon you, they don't always cover. So but I
of those, I will I will fade the public at
least three of those games.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Speaking about Michigan real quick, I know we had a
little time here in the play of the day. Are
you surprised to find out our guy Andrew Shampayne, Texas
that he is also a Michigan football fan.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
No, because I've always said he's a smart man. I've
always liked him. I've always thought, you know, very knowledgeable.
And even when I pick on him, it's because I
want him Intosantis to just throw hands. And it explains
why he has such a fascination with bad weather, because
everyone knows Big ten football is better than bad weather.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
That explains it all. He's not a ninny at all.
He's just a Big ten football fan, That's all it is.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
I was caught so off guard by that text. I
actually read the text wrong.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Oh my godness. Well, because he didn't.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
He's like, he said, basically, like, you know, you didn't
tell me the backs of a Michigan fan. That might change
the way I feel about the team or the show
or whatever. And you took it as yeah, bleep blevac whatever.
And he was like, no, No, I'm a diehard Michigan fan.
He's like bleep you Ah. Now I got the Santists
and Champagne. I can play both sides.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
I texted back, I said, well, I'm a Syracuse fan.
Go or in sixteen and known He wrote back, haven't
they been rebuilding this entire millennium.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
I thought that was rude. That was not nice. It's
the long rebuild. This is a slow build. This is a
slow slow burn. If you will, nothing he said wasn't right.
You know what, I'm gonna move on to Mina. By
the way, there's an account that's like every day it
tweets out how long it's been since Ohio State has
beat Michigan. It's like fourteen hundred days.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Now.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
I never thought accounts like that would work. They're pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yeah, that in the Jurassic Park account where it's just like.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Uh, yeah, we're not really sure what the big one is,
so we're gonna shut the park down for the day
like that for whatever reason.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
That will cracks me up on that one.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Did the Sixers win? Or there's one guy who's get
like millions of views. It was just somebody introducing ladies
and gentlemen the weekend had he just posted on Fridays
at four thirty and it works. Oh, here's my play.
Cubs pirates Under after all that hype about college football
futures and NFL previews and what you can do, I
go to the Cubs and the Pirates, two teams barely
at five hundred. Both have really good pictures on the mound.

(37:49):
Both teams in a rarity here, I know what some
books depend on. Where your wagering could find the Pirates
at plus one twenty, I like Keller on the mound.
Why Pittsburgh can't be better baffles me? For how could
these pitchers are? I will take an under in Pirates
Cubs tonight at eight and a half. That's boring, Yes,
it's extremely boring. That's why I needed to stall for most.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
Of the ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
My name is Jeff Levac and I represent the pin
Stripe Parlay.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yankees money line over.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Nine hun solo with a home run, Judge with a hit,
and Nestor Cortes with four plus strikeouts.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
This is on the road. I'm betting Nasty nest on
the road to.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Get four plus strikeouts. That's an all line. So again,
Yankees to win over nine runs total. One Soo to
hit a home run, which will propel me forward in
our Dinger's challenge. Judge just to get a hit. I'm
sure it'll be over the wall, but let's just get
lit a greedy and then Cortes four plus strikeouts, that
is plus eight. That means actually I bumped it up too.

(39:00):
I had a little twenty five percent booster there, so
plus fourteen forty eight. So, uh, we're well ring back
about one to say, let's see one.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
So do the plays. He mentioned that, all right, Uh,
I'm curious about this one. So usually sometimes they inviuy
your pins raight parlay. I wonder if the success of
Judge fuels Stanton and Soda. Hey, this big guy in
the lineup's tearing it up. Now it's my time. I
might get some better pitches. They might try to pitch
around him. They might be smart and try to walk him.

(39:31):
This is my moment on concssion. Was that your theory
when selecting Soto with your play this week?

Speaker 3 (39:37):
It's I'm just I think he's heating up, and I
think the better the rest of the lineup gets, the
more it's gonna be a problem for everybody. I've already
played Judge. I'm saving Stanton for when he's fully heated up.
And uh, I think him he's gonna take his Nationals,
his former team over the wall. I think he's gonna
do it. So that's that's that's where that all came from.
And then I put him in the diggers and I'm

(39:57):
going to go. And I can't believe you didn't rep
it's my Paul Hayman.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
I thought it was great. I didn't want to get
in the way. It was fantastic. I thought you're gonna
finish it off the promo. I was gonna be like
one finger is gonna go in the air, the tribal chief.
I didn't want to get in the way of Paul Hayman.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Acknowledge me. No, I'm just I'm fired up, man. I
feel good. I think it's a good parlay. I think
it's very reasonable, it's got a good chance of hitting.
It's a good it's a good payback. And I'm gonna
use that money when it gets back to me, Not
for a PS five, not for a PS nothing. I'm
gonna use it to reinvest in football this weekend, for
college football.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
I'm sorry, I'm laughing. Mind the microphone in the bag,
not because Eddie's takes just said, but right when needed
to acknowledge me thing, uh Rex, my son is you know,
so he's a little kid, so he's learning like hey,
sometimes it's somebody else's turn to talk. Somebody needs so
you know, most kids in school would raise their hand.
Hey it's mi. But what Rex is deciding to do.
He's actually doing the Roman reigns thing. So he's got

(40:50):
it up here acknowledge me, like, hey, hey, that's good.
The best part is I keep laughing at it. Jordan,
my wife had has no clue what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
She does know.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
She thinks he's killing it. Look, he's got his hand up.
He's not one. She doesn't have any reference to what
the Roman reigns thing is.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Let's let's be real. As long as it's not this,
that's right. He's doing good. I showed it different. I
didn't do the number one thing.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
We're getting to the point he needs to learn. He's
taking his time. He's waiting to be acknowledged for the
conversation exactly.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
It's gigantic too, because when I was younger, I was
that kid who always had too much to say. I know,
it's totally grown out of that, and I would jump
all over people and they're talking. It's the most annoying habit.
It's the most annoying habit.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Real quick, we got like ninety seconds here, we got
to talk about Mohawks every lece. But we have today
our sales manager, Chris Big, Ohio State football fan. But
Chris has worked in different media, chops, So he's worked
in newspaper, he's worked in radio, He's worked a bunch
of different stuff. Well THATAK knows this. I know this.
Sometimes when you get in meetings with radio people, as

(41:54):
the fact sort of was getting out of it, it's
non stop by like people are getting their material, people
are showing off their personality. Was the sales team and I
want to make sure they can sell. People are just
going a mile a minute. We've got six radio people
in this meeting and two aur on Skype or zoom
teams whatever. So everyone's getting their stuff and I can
see poor Chris is getting like exhausted. And the worst
part is like the Poughkeepsie people are getting their jokes

(42:16):
in and he's like it's on delay. So there's like ha,
ha ha, what's going about.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
I'm like pork Chris Man, you didn't know what he
signed up for, you know with these fools.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Now, well he's not how to stay. He should be
glad he is a job, you know what. I'm glad.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
I have is my beautiful Chevrolet Silverado.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
My name is Jeff Levac and I represent Mohawk Chevrolet. Together,
let's drive actually twelve off of the North Way in Boston, SPA.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Every doorsman should be done right, teach in school.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
As you sit here and you look around the Capital
region for your next driving experience, No, you will find
none greater, better, or more suited for your.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Greatness than Mohawks Chevrolet.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
Acknowledge Mohawks Chevrolet and Andy Glcher and Travis Horn as
they are the number one and with sellers placing, you
will save thousands on sedans, SUVs.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
And pickup trucks. Right there on the lot.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Actually had a little a little back and forth the
body of I like my my my trucks cooling years.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
It looks like a I look at an FBI agent.
I'm like, my truck is so cool.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
And I was like, we both got on the same spot,
so we know we're doing We're not stuping. It was
CATU so on uh And I was like, did you
see the d see what I've been doing here? I've
been I've been super up a little bit.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
He doesn't matter. I love my truck.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
I'm like, see this is what we do every time
he and I get back and forth. If he does
e Scarjo and like her better, his daughter, the assistant
general manager, Katie Duncan, will be forced to get him
a new vehicle.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Well, that's all right with that. I acknowledge her greatness
as well.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Together, let's drive at Malalk Chevy where they always go
out of their way to please you.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
We've got our number three on the way and including Levak,
a different style of the show to close out. We're
moving the dump up to our second segment, Jordan and
Morty Modianna. We've got a different way to close out
today's show. Lovak, Jordan Modiano from Expressphones. We'll close out
the show of this next, iur number three on the
way next Fox Sports ninety five nine nine.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
There's a lot of happening