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Ox, Troy WGYFMHD two, OlbeningW two forty opening Fox Sports nine eighty
ninety five point nine f Fact,It's time for the Top four four with
Levac and Goz four talk for thefour bigger stories in the world of sports.

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It's brought you by Mohawk Honda withAy always go out of their way
to please you. Owe Guz,what is the fourth biggest story? It
feels like the final week in May. It feels like there should be bigger
stories than this, and maybe youcan give me a grievance, say Gays.
There's a ton of bigger stories,bigger than this, but I don't
know if that's true because it involveslebron James Junior. Ronnie James is again

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confirming to everybody that he's staying inthe NBA draft. That says also from
his agent, Rich Paul. Ifyou don't know the name Rich Paul,
you might know him as Adell's boyfriendand one of the most powerful agents now
in the NBA with a very longlist of clients. Ronnie James staying in
the NBA draft in Levaca even gofurther than that, Bronni James is a
top fifty five prospect according to ESPN, but he's had ten scheduled workouts with

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NBA teams he's canceled all of them. According to reports, He's only gonna
do two workouts, one with theLakers and one with the Suns, a
guy who averaged less than five pointsa game last season. In fact,
what do you make this story aboutagain? Bronni James stating in the NBA
Drafted now canceling team workouts and saying, I'm only working out for the Sons,

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who have the twenty fourth pick,I believe the top twenty five pick,
and then the Lakers. Yeah,the Sons are a team that are
allegedly, you know, very veryinterested in bringing Lebron James into the full
there him only willing to work outfor two teams screams. This is all

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part of the you know, thethe play play with Dad thing. And
the only thing worse than when youand every other freak o under the sun
stalked and watched every single thing ofhigh school in a young college not even
college guy because he ever went tocollege player named Lebron James did, would
be to do the same thing witha guy who doesn't have a quarter of

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the talent like Bronnie James. Thisis this is kind of obnoxious at this
point, not only are you nottalented enough to be an NBA draft pick,
now you're dictating where you're gonna go. Come on, just to please
we all just say it. I'mnot drafting Bronnie James. I'm drafting a
lebron James lottery ticket. I believeI said they had the twenty fourth pick,

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the Suns, and I corrected myselfthe Nicks again, twenty four and
twenty five, Phoenix at twenty two. So you remember, Levac, I
was very upset about the Tim Tebowcircus when the New York Mets signed Tim
Tebow and he was working his wayup the minor league system when he really
was in Everyone said, well,what about all the jerseys he's selling?
Okay, how many? Well,he's selling a lot how many? No

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one ever had any of these prices. But Tim Tebow slowly but surely worked
his way up the minor league systembecause he was Tim Tebow, and allegedly
I'll stick by that claim forever.Allegedly was bringing fans to the ballpark.
Not true. He was a dhwho had beat ninth in the order and
was Batten below two hundred. Butmaybe if not for COVID, Tim Tebow

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could have pulled off this magical momentand gotten a major League baseball being a
terrible hitter. Now, why isTim Tebow catching astray in the Bronni James
story? Because a lot of thosethings are similar. He was given opportunities
because of who he was. Hehad an opportunity to perform at a level
that may or may not be asgood as other people competing for that same
spot. But because he had connectionsand more thought the marketability of the player

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would benefit the business of the team, they benefited from that. It's very
similar the t Bow ascension up theMets system to Bronnie James. I'm now
convinced he's going in the first round. Like again, a top thy five
per prospect. There's only sixty picksand a lot of those guys are European
players who will never see the NBA. I'll ask you that. Are you

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more convinced less convinced? There nonothing that he's going in the first round?
Now? All right, all right, so hold on, here's the
difference between Tebow and Bronnie is alegit minor league system from INJ League Baseball,
where you're taking up a spot thatwas probably gonna go to somebody who

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wasn't gonna make anything anyway. Listis the popularity, ticket sales, stuff
like that. I know now Ican't quantify it for you, but I
believe, I believe it happened.Ronnie James comes up, Well, you
can send to the G league fora little bit. That's not what he's
doing. He's there to get hisdad in like he's he is. This
is worse. This is this isbait. This is this is nepotism at

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another at like a steroid ridden level, is what it is. We move
on a story number three. It'sMajor League Baseball action going on on a
Wednesday afternoon, Cardinals leading the Redsfive to two, Rangers on top of
the Diamondbacks as they entered the sixtheating four to nothing. Tigers won nothing,
lead on the Pirates as they headedto the third, and Philly's Giants
won nothing top of the third.Will combine that with the two games that

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are gonna get underweight here in aboutfive minutes. The Marlins and Padres,
an African actor on the West Coastfour to ten eastern. First pitch,
they're you Darvish on the mound forthe Fathers. And then it's the Los
Angeles Dodgers taking on the New YorkMets. Peterson on the mound for the
Mets. Mets lose to the Dodgerslast night. I know met fan has
heard this saying a lot throughout theirten years a fan of the team.

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I feel sorry for the Mets.I feel bad for Met fans. The
Dodgers are a lot better than them, and looking at that met roster,
they're very bad. They're not asgood as I had hoped. They're not
going to be a playoff team.This quickly turned into hey they might have
a chance. Hey they might becompetitive, they might rise above of expectations.

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Dude, No, no, no, they're bad. They're not very
good. Well, even their goodplayers are playing bad. You know,
Pee Alonzo's not Pee Alonzo. EdwinDiaz is the Edwin Diaz you first got
to the Mets. Like it's likeI said, even your when when you're
when your stars are underperforming on ateam that doesn't have a lot of stars,
you're you know, you're up againstit, you know. But the

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difference. I think right now betweenyou know, the Mets and I don't
know. We'll just throughout the Oriolesis the Mets fan can prepare. They
know it's gonna be a collapse.Orioles fan is gonna be blindsided by it.
Oriole fan will not only not beblindsided by they can potentially win the
World Series. Fantastic team. StupidCleveland Guardians. Still in that conversation.

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I thought you guys were toast.Now you're still up there. Uh.
We'll get to the other team therein a second that plays in the Alias.
But first, one other look atMajor League Baseball. You know you
mentioned the team right now in theMets that is ten games below five hundred
met fan, just do the mathfor yourself real quick. Okay, The
Phillies are going to the postseason.The Dodgers are going to the postseason,
The Braves are going to the postseason. The aw Central winner is going to

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the postseason. So two spots remain. Are you better than the Nationals?
Are you better than the Cubs orBrewers? Are you better than the Giants,
the Padres, the Diamondbacks. Ifyour answer is to know, then
more than half of the teams Ijust listed off. Then you're not going
to the postseason. Spl season?Yeah, well, I mean you can
you just get to buy tickets orhope that you get traded. I think

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that the end of your hope.Right now. I feel bad because again
the Mats of I always want theMets to be the second best team in
baseball. I'm a diehard Yankee fan. I'm never gonna root for somebody to
be better than the Yankees. SoI always want you to do the second
best team. But this is thisis just not this year's This is a
very forgettable year. Let it goaway, be done with it. But

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man, it is it is alot o gooder than even I thought it
was gonna be. We move ona story number two. Here am I'm
gonna bump up that New York Stortystory number one. Even though you weren't
very nice to be I'm still gonnado it. Story number two. Stars
and Oilers eight to thirty puck droptonight out in Canada. Uh the Star
leading that series two games to one. Well back, now that we're a
little deeper into the Western Conference Finals, do you feel yourself feeling a little

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different about what you're rooting for forthe Stanley Cup Finals representative from the West?
Are you hoping for a team fromDallas? So you can see potentially
one city having two teams competing fora championship in the Stars and the Mavericks,
and then people can make fun ofwhat is the Dallas Cowboys? I
guess you can count the Rangers rightArlington. It's all in the same area

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there. It's like Arlington Dallas.It was called North North Texas at one
point for a Super Bowl. Sowe'd have three teams potentially in one area
winning championships and the Cowboys being madefun of, or just seeing a team
from Canada going for a Stanley Cuphas your opinion changed of what team you're
rooting for storyline wise to potentially faceoff with the Rangers come June. You

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know, honestly, any any partof me that was watching the Western Conference
side of the Stanley Cup Finals wentright out the window when the Rangers played
like Dukie last night. Like Iwent from you know, all right,
Lake, you and I on thisjust to see if I have an idea
who I want to face too?Oh my god, why are they playing
with Doe Hart? Why are theythe ten band of hockey right now.

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So I'm so dialed in on justgetting to the Stanley Cup Final that I'm
I'm not even whoever's there. That'sgreat. Hopefully the Rangers play with heart
against them and beat them. Butas of right now, the only thing
I'm really concerned about is the oneand only Florida Panthers, because they are
playing really good hockey and they tookout They took it out in overtime.

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Finally, I feel myself now acknowledgingthat I've been rooting against the Dallas Stars
secretly. I don't know if it'sthat Canada storyline. I want to see
a Canadian team do well in advanceto the Stanley Cup. I don't know
if it's this. Dallas Stars don'thave the players that jump out like a
Connor McDavid. So I'm rooting forthe Oilers. But the only thing that
makes me pause about rooting against theStars is that I know you're on a

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show. Yesterday, Doug Gotti wasthe WG I mornings Tonine. His son
is a big hockey fan. He'sabout ten years old now and he's a
Dallas Stars fan. So the moreand more I root against the stars.
I'm thinking back in my head,I'm rooting against the happiness of a child.
Why would I do that. I'vemet this kid. Why am I
rooting against this poor kids team?That's not fair. I've never met another
Dallas star saying in my life,and here I am rooting against them.

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What about poor Owen? What aboutthe poor little Owen is out there playing
in the Capitol region Darrin. Whatif we figure out how many years has
it been since Dallas has been tothe NFC Championship side, I believe twenty.
We'd landed on January of ninety five, I believe is what we landed
on. Okay, so how aboutOwen thirty for Dallas making it to the

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thing. It's just you listen,just have fun with it. That's all
it is. These kids got tolearn. I remember crying as a kid
over sports. It happens. Yougot to live with it, you know
what. Welcome, Welcome to myworld, child, And let's move on
a story. Number one. TheNew York Yankees on the Angels at the
Angels Stadium in Anaheim, California.I wanted to call them the Anaheim Angels.
There the California Angels. I didn'tdo that though. Nine to forty

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first pitch set Levak, another fakeplayer for the Angels, plays tonight yesterday.
If you missed the show, weput it over under three and a
half fake names on the Angels roster. One of those fake names could be
listed as Tyler Anderson. Allegedly,he was born in Las Vegas and he's
thirty four years old. He'll turnthirty five in December, and he looks
like a character from the Matrix vac. The Yankees also lost at the Angels

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yesterday. Are you concerned that theseason now maybe over? The Yankees will
fall behind the Orioles after clearly oneof the worst losses, one of the
worst teams in the American League?Was that? Was that real? Are
you drinking? What did? What? What are we doing here? Was
that? What happened? Are youokay? No? Because that's that's the
that's the that's the toughest question Iever heard. That was a bad game.

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It's just a bad game. Comeon, now, you're not worried
about play Homes. No, beenworried about Clay Homes all year, But
no, not to the level thatI'm I'm actually losing sleeper concern. I
mean, you gotta think about it. One of the worst games the Yankees
have played all year, right,I mean you lost to the Angels.
That's a team they should be alayup, that should be an easy win
for you. One of the worstones you lost. How many games did

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you, guys pick up as asthe Orioles on my beloved Yankees last night
after that loss? Mathematically no games, which is so no games? So
none? So you want to hearone of the best chances you were going
to have all season to make upground on the Yankees, and you didn't
take advantage of it. And youwant you want to act, you want

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me to act like I'm scared ofthe Orioles. Please please, please,
please please wait till Boston overtakes you. Then we'll see. That sounds like
fear to me. I can smellit all the way from MVP Arena.
I can't fear. I can't waitto hear what you're play The day is.
Did I intentionally do that to getLevak fired up even more about what's

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coming up in here in the nextfive minutes about a local story? Did
I intentionally drop a seed and tryto get him fire. I'm not gonna
answer your question, even though Iasked it to myself out loud into a
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Head over the Facebook page, justpull it up on your phone and
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We all know that I go tothe Integrave Sleep Center and to make

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sure I sleep. But every oncein a while I wake up and it's
not it has nothing to do withmy my sleep device or anything like that.
A lot of times it's anxiety,it's stress, it's uh, you
know, just my brain. Youknow, gods, my brain will start
spinning. And I was sitting therelast night. I woke up, but

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it had to be like three o'clockin the morning, and I started thinking
about this time last year, becauseyou and I have been doing this version
of the show. Now it's ayear and a month, and last year,
at this time I was getting requeststo be on every podcast. I

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was being interviewed by Yahoo Sports,ESPN National, Fox Sports National, all
these people a local like you know, Griffin has a j PICKESSI they were
all they were all calling me JacksonWying over at at Spectrum. They're calling
me around the clock they were textingme asking me questions about football, and

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it struck me that I'm a littleupset because as I posted, and you
know, sometimes you just got tovent it out, and I just decided
to vent it out on social medialast night, Facebook and Twitter. This
is what I wrote. Quote.I have to say, it kind of
bothers me. How much more mediaattention, both nationally and locally I got
last year over a one win teamI no longer worked for than a five

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and oh team. I'm so proudto be a part of this year hashtag
forest and fire, and it's it'sone of those deals. Man, I'm
mad, like like Times Union,you're good. You've been here the whole
time, like you've been You've beenpart of this from the beginning. And
and you know, I love ajan I love Griff, I love Roger,
I love all those guys. AndRoger did called me last week and

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cover the game, But like,where are you at now? Like where
are you at now? When it'sthis good of a game, it's this
good of a team. And thenI realized, I'm not even that mad
at you as much as I am. One comment that I got that I
hear over and over and over.Uh, guys, should we go back

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to his old monker will call themthe janitor? Yeah, yeah, before
you off from the Jenner spot,I just I just want to push you
on this though, Like I wantto make sure people are clear about this.
I don't think you're calling out thelocal TV reporters and the local I
think you're bothered by the industry overall. Like why does everyone want to focus
on negativity rather than positively? Thisteems undefeated, playing great classic games finishes,

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but everyone wants the sky to fall. Everyone wants the Arena Football League
to fail. In twenty twenty four, everybody wanted the controversy of Antonio Brown.
Everyone won the live tweet and havethe footage of practice. Now the
team's five to zero winning going viralhopefully with some of these moments, and
you're like, this is wrong.What's happening with the And maybe it leads
to this comment from the janitor whoused to be a contributors too strong for

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a term, someone who would writein a lot more often than he is.
Okay, fine, he was atroll back in the day. He
hasn't been lately. That's why thiscomment caught me a little off guard,
but I knew it would come,and I, you know, I am
kind of calling out local media alittle bit, and I'm not doing it
to be a jerk. It's justwhen when people thought the AFL was gonna

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fall, my phone was ringing itwhen we have, you know, two
instant classics win four games on thefield five and oh, you know,
with everything, I don't hear fromanybody. But here's what the janitor had
to say. The reason that we'renot getting media coverage his belief is quote

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because a lot of people are afraidto get excited for something that will just
be taken away. Let's be honest, nothing ever sticks in this area.
And I lost my ever loved mind. I lost my mind, and I
just because that's that's such a selfof self professing prophecy. It's such a
It's like if you if you wantto get rid of a team, keep

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telling yourself that they're just gonna betaken away. And I'm not gonna get
into it because you just be takenaway. So this is this is exactly
what I wrote back to the janitor, quote, that's ridiculous. With what
we've pushed through to bring you footballthe last four years. That's nothing about
a lazy excuse to not come togames. We push through COVID and AB

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and we keep coming back, andwe actually added more local owners to make
our team even stronger. By theway, if this doesn't last, you
can look at the comments like thisone in the mirror for who to blame.
Come on, man, what moredo you want? We've brought you
two titles in three years, worthfive and a zero just to admit you

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don't care. Sorry to be soblunt, but if if you care about
football, you can't keep saying thesame tired excuse we want you at the
games. And that's how I feel, man. I think it's become a
tired excuse in the Capitol region.I don't know anyone who would have pushed
through COVID, who would have pushedthrough multiple owner changes, who would have

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pushed after the AB thing. There'sonly three guys I know who would have
who were ready to rally and dothis right after the Antonio Brown debacle.
And that's Mike Corda, Andy Gelcherand Richie says it three local just I
mean, these guys are pillars.Bro. You may not like everything every
one of them has ever done orsaid. But these are three guys who

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owned businesses and pump money into theCapitol region and didn't do this to get
rich. In a perfect world,they would break even every year with this
football team and know that the communityhad football for the rest of their lives.
These this this whole like, oh, it's just me taking away from
us, dude. We kept playingduring COVID when nobody was allowed to come
to the games. We kept playing. We came back right after the ab

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thing happened. We if we paidthe workers' comp that we were supposed to
pay, even though it was alot higher than what anyone else would pay.
And like, I'm not looking fora pat in the back or pity
or anything like that. But don'ttry to blame anybody but yourself. If
you're the one who says, well, I'm not gonna go to a Firebirds
game because I don't know how longthey're gonna last. Bro Belmont's coming,

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it's only gonna be here a year, maybe two. You're gonna go to
that? Uh the NLL, it'sI mean they're here, the p LL.
They come and they leave. Butthis team has been built. We
have built this team to last.The only thing that can kill this team
is you not caring. Don't blamedon't blame anyone else. If you don't

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come to the games, it's yourfault. And that goes not just for
the Firebirds. I know that's wherethe intention was for the post and the
team. You're defending threat. Right. I moved out here in twenty fifteen.
You've been out here your entire life. When I moved out here in
twenty fifteen, I remember people wouldtalk about things like this, where it'd
be like, well, the CapitolRegion has lost professional sports teams in the

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past because of the lack of supportor sometimes not even the lack of supportive
The team got shifted to a differentmarket for whatever reasons, in a bombed
than that market. It always confusedme. It's always the term I used,
though, is like why, like, Albany is a bigger city than
Utica. Albany is a bigger citythan Syracuse. You can call it the
tri city Albany, Schenectady, Saratoga. If you can bind it all the

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Capital region. What am I missing? Why aren't there more sports fans supporting
local teams? Is it the adjustmentof you Albany football going from a lower
FCS program to now a Final fourcontender. Is it the emergence of you
Albany basketball that I believe was aD two school for a lot of sports
fans, emerged into a march menace? Is the lack of tradition with no

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disrespect to Seattle, like Sienna wasthe big dog here for a long time.
They haven't been good in a longtime. They just haven't. I
could change it if you want.You can change those three. Go look
at the record in the last twentyyears. Then out of above five hundred,
there aren't twenty years. So it'slike and then you have the Firebirds,
you have the Empire, you havethe Patroons, you have the Devils.
You've had all these teams of thefire Wolves. I hope I didn't

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miss anybody. That wasn't the intentionof that. I know you got some
great local teams Union hockey win ina championship. I can't understand if it's
travel where it's like, hey,there's teams playing in downtown Albany and there's
teams playing in Troy and Schenecty thatmaybe it's just a travel situation where like
people outside of the capital region don'trealize how long it takes to get to
games. That's kind of odd becauseI remember bigger cities you have to sit

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in traffic and parking and lines andeverybody has issues to get to a game.
But let's just go further with thejanitor's point, too, right,
because like the janitor, even thoughhe's getting called out on that, that's
not the first take of social mediacomment we've seen, he's the one who
said it. This time, it'sbeen said. It's again. It's the
rally cry of the person who doesn'treally care but doesn't want to admit they

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don't care. They want to blamesomebody else for why the Alumni Colony Yankees
aren't here. They want to blamesomebody else for why the river Ats the
Devils aren't here. They want toblame somebody else for why the original Firebirds
left. That was That one's alittle questionable, but but like it's it's
a really easy one. It's theit's the reverse field of dreams. If

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you if you come, we willbuild it. And we have built that.
We have built Listen, we builtan empire. It got ruined.
I was I listened. I waspart of it getting ruined. But here
we are raising from the ashes witha literal firebird five and oh and we're
and and I still got people going, well, you're gonna take it away
from me, dude, you wantto talk about resiliency, look at what

(28:56):
we've done. And and I'm onlya very very very small piece of this,
but I mean, look at whatthis group has done. Incredible to
see where it's at this right nowwith the victories and the national brand and
getting through hell, getting through ithad in the last month, he's folded.
Allbody was the leader. Allbody wasthe leader of This is the right
way to do it when you're runningan arena football team, then indoor football

(29:18):
team. This is the standard thatpeople want to fall. It is for
I feel your frustration again. Youcan let us know how you feel at
the Jeff Levaco on Twitter, atTom Gods too. I'm Jews Easy the
elevation. Ten thousand phone lines areopening you at six nine zero nine a
zero if you want to hop onwith us at five eight six nine nine
eight zero and express your thoughts aboutCapitol Region teams and more. I understand

(29:40):
the frustration because to his point too, Like, Okay, let's say he's
right. You know what, allbodyteams lose. Okay, let's play your
weird dark timeline scenario out, Janitor. So you're telling me that the Firebirds
would go away, and the Patroonswould go away, the fire Rulves would
go away, and the Valley Catswould I know they don't have their affiliate.
Okay, we'll play your scenario out. What does that leave the Capitol

(30:00):
region? Yeah, there's wonderful collegeteam you just lost, Saint Rose.
Saint Rose is a Division two teamthat a national championship contender women's soccer,
a team that I believe had goneto the Elite eight, which is the
Final four equivalent, and men's basketballat the D two level. So what
are you rooting for? Ah?I told you so told you they couldn't

(30:21):
support. Okay, like the goalshould be and I don't. I've never
love I don't know if you've everseen a social media post in the nine
years we've known each other ever froman Albany sportsman and hopefully it starts today
of hey, you know, iflike you support the Valley Cats and go
and get five six, seven thousandfans somebody might notice and move the Valley
Cats to a Double A affiliate ora Triple A affiliate. Why do you

(30:45):
think these cities like Vegas are gettingmore sports teams. Why do you think
Nashville almost got another sports team?Why do you think certain cities get elevated
to another level because they can lookat the fan base and be like,
they want it so bad. Hell, you could do this with Albany,
like the Firebirds and the Empire didhave some fans in comparison to other teams,
they said, this is the citywe want to be in. I've

(31:07):
never heard, hey, if weget a big enough crowd, we can
go to another level, Like wecan take this to another league. You
already football is in another league.Like you laugh, But it's like,
how has that never been thought about? Like, hey, if we do
well enough at this, we canget ele of it. That is literally
happening in the sports world right now. Well it's and also like can I

(31:30):
the whole Like I don't want toget you hit. If I go to
the game, I made it outof it, I may have a great
time, And then what happens ifthree to six years down the road they're
not here? And I've only hadtwenty great times with my family and my
friends. What how would I livewith the loss like this? I mean,
dude, this ain't a summer romance, bro, this is football.

(31:52):
I saw how many of you camehere to watch Caitlin Clark. Guess the
next time Caitlin Clark's gonna play anAlbany Never, but you still came to
see her play because it was agreat time. Like that's the that's the
dumb part of it, man,Like like it's I'm afraid I'll lose it,
It'll be taken away from me.It's you can't lose have it taken

(32:12):
away for you if you never grabbedhold of it. And again, the
only way you can make sure it'sgonna go away is for you not to
take a part of it. Ijust the whole thing just makes no sense
to me. I just I wouldrather people just legitimately wrote out there and
be like, yoh, man,I just don't care. I just don't
want to do it. I'd rathersit on my couch and you know,
play Madden Er the new NCAA.At least that I'd be like, Okay,
listen, now I know what I'mcompeting with But to sit here and

(32:35):
pretend that it's just like love lossand you know you're part of a Steinbeck
novel. Stop it, just stopit. Just go watch football and enjoy
yourself. I'm trying to explain thatto younger sports fans too. They're like
no, no, no, Likeif you're the parent of the young sports
fan, you're like, no,no, we can't go to that.
That might go away, that mightend at one point. Like I'm thinking
about to explain to my four yearold son, like, wait, dad,

(32:57):
the school year is over in June. Yeah, so preschool's over.
Yeah, so why did I go? What do you mean it's over?
What do you mean it's over?Dad? Like yeah, well things end,
like the season ends and then stuff. Yeah, but I should never
have went if it was gonna end. Like that's the mindset of people in
the Capitol region. Seriously, Well, I can't go. It might end
at one point, like everything elsein life, everything else. Can't go

(33:20):
to third grade, it's gonna wrapup in gum. Mom can't go,
Sorry, can't go to college nightafter my senior year. Yeah I will
if you stay for all four That'show it works. You have me you
have meny, you have my BaltimoreRavens games. My daughter's been to one
on one one right right, yeah, she's you know what, she's still
a Ravens fan. It's just it'sjust stupid. I just it bothers me,

(33:44):
Like that bothered me, Like thelack of attention right now for something
as special as what this is.And this is special, like this is
I keep saying it and I needyou guys to see it. Like se
Say just went to a school,Brandon se Say, the Incredible Hulk went
to his school and with a coupleof other guys and like read to kids

(34:04):
and was a part of it.The Flames are always out doing stuff.
Coach where Coach Hollis are always outin the community doing everything they can.
Like that's who we want to be. It's a great group of people.
Like all these years I've been partof teams against Darien Townshend and stuff like
that. Now that he's on theseam, Like what a great guy.

(34:27):
We have a great group. Wemay never have a group this great again,
top to bottom talent to who theyare as people. And somebody is
sitting home going, oh yeah,but how long will the team last,
like, dude, don't miss thisis magic. What's happening right now?
Absolutely magic. Not to make thisabout you and I, but I think
we have to offer this as thenumber one sports show in the Capital Region,

(34:50):
the voice of the Capitol Region sports. And there's a reason I picked
that as the moniker when we launchedrelaunched Fox Sports twenty five nine to nine
eighty and on the digital side thatsince this launched about fourteen fifteen months ago,
and you and I have been doinga show together as partners since September
of twenty sixteen, I will bevery confident in saying you and I have
never covered local sports deeper than whatwe've done the last fifteen months. We

(35:12):
didn't have owners and players from thePatroons on weekly. We just didn't didn't
happen. The Firewouls weren't around whenour show signed off on our other station
in January of twenty one. Wecovered There's one team we covered like this,
Oh yeah, I would say itwas you Albany football, well,
our kids in two and the AlbanyEmpire at eighteen and nineteen. I would
say this about the well we weredoing that show man that we were because

(35:34):
we were. There's a reason that, like George MANIASI, there's a reason
we got rings, and it was, you know, half because of the
joke, but it was also becausewe opened the door to those guys and
we we got like it was achance to meet those guys and that we
I'm proud of the way we coveredthose teams too. Yeah, I love
to cover the Empire, but there'sa big difference between what we did with
the Empire and the Firebirds because yeah, we had players and people from the

(35:57):
team on once a week, butI also have the team on five days
a week who runs the Turn ofFirebirds along with a coach, along with
a coach a show, and we'vedone a few more shows. I'd say
at MVP are et to covering theFirebirds of the Empire. Again, we
covered the Empire, not like we'vecovered the Firebirds. So look, we
and I get that was not forbreak. The point of that is that

(36:20):
we all now have an understanding.I think even more so Lavak and I
doing this a little bit longer onthe local coverage of like when the FireWolves
do well, it actually does positivelyaffect the Valley Cats and the Firebirds and
the Patroons, like, it's veryrare in any market that actually top sixty
markets, top any market that whenother teams are doing well and the sports

(36:44):
scene it does well, it reallygets people charged up. In the Capital
region, I'm like, well,this team's doing great, wait to go
out and see them. Like,that's not how it goes in every other
market. It is cutthroat in othermarkets of if there's a hockey team and
a basketball team, they hate eachother. If there's a lacrosse team and
a baseball team in the Sea season, they hate each other. Rival colleges
is accepted that the college is different. That's a rivalry. That's that's how

(37:05):
it works very close Duke and Carolinaand all these others. But like we
understand now that local sports, whenthey all do well, people want to
be a part of it. That'swhat discourages me about what's happen in the
last fifty months and even over thelast month, where it's like people wanted
this to end. People wanted theArena Football League to crash and burn,
and they enjoyed refreshing Twitter updates ratherthan like, what do you mean they
fixed it? That Antonio Brown guy'sout there anymore. Oh man, he's

(37:29):
a whack job all right. Backto the North. There are people who
wanted to watch the thing burn ratherthan cheer the thing on one hundred and
then they would complain that it wasgone. Well, you know what,
enough we got it at home.We have one more regular season home game
coming up. It's June and fifteenth. Be there, Just be there and
if it sucks, if you don'tenjoy it, don't come back. But

(37:52):
be there for that one give itone chance, and then I'm I'm willing
to bet you going to come back. I Am just willing to bet you're
going to come back. Because actuallythis, like I said, this team,
you know, we've had two instantclassics. They're going on the road
this week to Nashville. I spentmost of today booking, you know,
well, flights for book Now,just make sure that the right flights,

(38:12):
booking, buses, booking meals,booking this booking so that the guys you're
taking care of. All I wantyou to do is come put your button
a seat and see how long youget staying before you get them to start
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Fox Sports ninety five nine and nineeighty for the play of the day,
which is Rocky by Mohog Honda wherethey always go out of their way at
to please you. Guys. Ihave a play. Do you have one
you want to go with? First? I do have a play. This

(44:29):
is getting to the dog days ofsummer. I thought about firing off I
heard off at NHL bet Nope,don't like it all. I told you're
earligan show it already. I don't. I don't know if I'm gonna like
that. I don't know. Idon't like anything in basketball. I don't
know if I can handle ever wageringon the w NBA. I have not
reached that point yet. Maybe thesummer I'll fire off a w NBA.
But instead I'm going will minus oneoh four Mariners Astros tonight nine to forty

(44:58):
first pitch on the Pacific Northwest Astrolsare throwing Justin Verlander. George Kirby on
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baby a Major League Baseball radio producer'sfavorite pitcher. Under seven runs combined minus
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(45:22):
under two hours and thirty minutes ongame time tonight. Game ends before midnight
on the East Coast. I lovewhen you give out the bets that you
just can't make, like like thatwas the play of the day. Was
always supposed to have a little bitof that to it. But you know,
we hit a couple. We hada cold place here and there,
and it's it's changed it a littlebit and nobody, nobody focuses on how

(45:44):
long a game goes quite like Tomlast third. I will tell you this
right now. I am plus.I'm putting out a plus five to sixty
eight. Who sixty eight? Youasked a very poignant question yesterday, when
I have ever a pinstrip parlay togetherthat didn't have the Yankees winning, and

(46:06):
I said, sure I would,and I probably should have last night.
I would have had a chance ofcleaning that thing that and left the strikeouts
out. I would have been inthere. But I'm not doing it again
tonight. I am gonna go aheadand go with that money line. They're
like minus two something against the angelI don't think they'd lose back to back
games to the Angels. So giveme the Yankees money line. Give me
a hit for Aaron Judge, ahit for Juan Soto, and a home

(46:29):
run for Jean Carlow. Stanton,drop the mic, John Carlow. That's
a home run and that's plus fivesixty eight. My friend, when was
the most recent pinstrip parlay cash?It was last Friday, right, that
was the plus I think, soyeah, by fifty pay. See this
is the interesting math on the pinstrikeparlay, which I'm I'm starting to slowly

(46:49):
become more and more of a fanof Levat can fire off five pinstrip parlays
in a week and can go onefor five, and if they're around that
plus five hundred plus six hundred,that's a winning week. All you gotta
hit is one out of five,one out of six. That's a winning
week for the pinstroy parlays if youkeep the investment that saying like ten dollars
each one, and you know youhit a five to one, Yeah,

(47:12):
you're golden, You're you're in.You hit two in a week, now
you're living in a dream. Youhit three, it's it's crazy time.
We won't get after it. Andnow you know here I am. I
feel like this is a good onetonight. I don't know why I think
John Carlos stand is gonna go ayard out of the out of the guys
we mentioned, but I do.And and his eyes he was like plus
two something too, so it kindof negated the minus two something of the

(47:32):
Yankees money line. So pinstraight parlays. I'm rolling with the pinstrike parlays until
we get new where. You knowmy most comfortable place, which is football.
So you know, learn to loveit, hate it, ignore it,
do what you want with it.But it's happening. Okay, it's
here, and it's and it's gonnakeep happening. Guys, I don't know,
Like, don't try to stop me. I networking close to the third
hour here, just quick note formet fans, this happened ready to the

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top four to four in the thirdhour, Edwin Diaz is going to the
fifteen day eye. Is it fora head cramp? Since it's not what
they're listing it as at mets OnTwitter Edwin Diaz fifteen day iow with right
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(48:15):
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