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Top 4 at 4 includes NBA talk and a surprising #1 storyWill the winner of the AL East be the American League favorite? Should it be?Odell Beckham and Saquon Barkley... traitors?

Episode Transcript

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It's time for the Top four orfour with four? Yeah, there you
are. Okay, I've got alittle weird there. In the last ten
minute. I saw Lisa at thegame. I just she said, you
can't do four, only I cando four. I gotta give Lisa some

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credit. Welcome back. By theway, I know you're very busy today
on a Friday. There's a lotgoing on in the world, so we
appreciate you having you back into thisLavac and guys here Lisa, I noticed
something. Is that a Levaka jersey? She's rocking? Yeah, yeah,
she was there. I wouldn't mind, so she order one. Just like
it. Very cool. Shout outto Lisa' speed on it. We're gonna
get to four stories, trust me. We're gonna talk about the four biggest

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stories for the weekend and on thisFriday and everything else, you know,
on the Friday Top four four,do a little weekend preview. Can I
give some love to our guy TomGross. I know, I know we
talked firebirds earlier in our number one, but if you remember earlier this week
on the show, I made ajoke about our friends over at Modello.
This might be all the way backat the Albany County Hockey Facility. So
please tell our friend Jess about thisthat I made a joke along lines of

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hey, if someone ever brings mea hot dog and fries up in the
broadcast booth, I will buy youa modella. I was sitting there in
pregame and Tom Gross came up tome and said, hey, guys,
I got your food. And Iturned around and he had a hot dog
and fries. That was so cool. He is the man. I'm like,
all right, let's go get yourbeer. He's like, I don't

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even want the beer. I think, he said, I just want to
get mentioned on the air. Soyou know what. There you go,
man, Very cool thing you didfor me yesterday. Well appreciated the number
one Firebird fan. Him and Lisacan battle it out, Lisa thing,
you buy me hot dog? Sofour before though, this is what I
do for love. Sit there andbeg on the air for more affection.

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Let's move on a story. Numberfour here, and that is the Kentucky
Derby, the run for the RosesLevac we're gonna have. Andrew champagnejoined us
about an hour and a half topreview the big race. If you missed
it. Our guy Brian Mariano joinedus yesterday listening that on demand the Albany
Petrum Bra podcaster, the artist formerlyknown as Closer You al Buty sports as
well. The storyline about this yearis Kentucky Derby is that Bob Baffert not

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allowed to be there, none ofhis horses either. Some cheating going on
involving the guy who looks like amix between Rick Flair and Will Ferrell's character
from east Bound and Down. Isay it looks just like Will Carroll's Will
ferrells Will Carroll's character from Eastbound andThat's that's him to me, Like,
that's the same guy. Now I'mgetting mad that neither one of us could

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remember the name of the character.I believe his name was Leslie, but
I know Leslie is the name ofoh my goodness, goodness, the doctor
Ken Jong's character in The Hangover.There's no way both those characters are named
Leslie. It's kind of a swarmyname. It feels like for a guy,
doesn't it. It feels like ifyou wanted to make, you want
to make a bad guy. It'skind of swarmy. Ashley Schaeffer was the

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name of his character. Oh that'sgood, that's good. I guess my
mind was going in that odd malefemale. Anyways, The Kentucky Derby back
on a scale of one to ten, with ten being you're gonna get your
wagers and you're gonna lock in,you're gonna move your day around to watch
the race, and one being yourinterest level is about as low as it
can be. Give me your interestlevel on this year's run for the Roses

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this Saturday. Where is it thatI just found out the Kentucky Derby's happening
like a day or two ago.Oh no, and I'm still gonna bet
on it? What like? Whatnumber is that? Okay, I'm gonna
put that in a three for you? Okay, three? Who's running it?
Are still horses? Are we usingrobots yet? We're not using We're

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not using robot horses yet? No, okay, I'll be back. I'm
waiting. I'm waiting for the robothorses. That's the actual beginning. Like
everybody things, Terminator starts with skyNet. It's sky Net with robot horses.
That's the real that's how it really. Did you know O? J.
Simpson was almost the Terminator? Ididn't know. I did not know
that. I did not know that. I know last year at this point

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meij won the Derby and that's notthe that's right for those who don't know
that story. I hit that hitthe winner the exactly the try. And
it's the moment where my son,then two years old, saw his dad
yelling screw at the television and hewas actually concerned until he realized he won
and then did an impression of meand mocked me on the air this time
last year. So that's my goalfor the Kentucky Derby to hit my play

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and have my son mock me againas a yell for the television, hoping
my horses will win. Now,there was another moment when Ma's ran at
the travers this year and I wageredon him and had my son Rex picked
up to watch the race with me, and then he said, Dad,
where's Maggie And he wasn't on thescreen because he got to smoke so much.
So it could go either way aslong as it's fun, as long
as they're seeing what horse race itis. Obviously, I'm not having to

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make three year old wager on theraces. You weirdose on social media,
young Kentucky Derby is awesome, andI feel like the lead up to the
Derby is gonna feel a little differentfor Capitol region sports fans, because if
you get a good horse with agreat performance, that maybe in about a
month we might see that horse ofthe derby run for a potential triple crown.
Here at Saratoga's Saratoga is the hostof the Belmont. I knew that,

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Yeah that I knew. I knewabout that one thought they all move
here. I kind of want tomake this a version of what did the
levatkno here in the top four?And for us, he's lived in his
own world. Baseball? Did youknow the Yankees are playing the Tigers this
week? I knew that. Iknew. I didn't know that. Yeah,
the Yankees take on the Tigers.That series gets underway tonight, first
pitch inside Yankee Stadium. In theBronx set for seven oh five, the

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Mets take on the Tampa Bay Rays, little intern League match of Other interleague
games of note include the Blue Jaysand Nationals on Apple TV. Plus I've
already done that joke like three timesthis year. I'll move on from that.
Orioles and Reds and other interleague lookout for that Hunter Green, the
original Otani. I love waygger onHunter Green games, Red Sox and Twins

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and more Tigers is a hard oneto figure out. I'm talking about evaluating
teams so far because the AL Centralseems to be a little bit better,
and we can dive into what weactually think can come out of the Central
a little bit later. You know, I want to do that next.
Actually, So there you go.There's the set up here in the top
four. I was gonna give youa baseball storyline, but I want to
talk all about the East and theCentral and everything else next. Is there
anything else you'd like to discuss herebefore I punp this to the next segment

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In the world of baseball, anystoryline that jumping out to you. Mike
Trout's injured? Is it weird?They stopped playing for like a week then't
play it all in like a week. Last four games never happened. They
don't count towards the record. Notyou can. Actually they put out a
note you can erase three of thelast four games from your memory if you

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want. Now. I was like, you know what I will I did.
We're gonna move on to story numbertwo here, and I'm battling back
and forth still moments before I haveto decide what I want to do.
You know what, let's go with? This is story number two. It's
two games in the NBA Playoffs tonight. The Cleveland Cavaliers taken on the Orlando

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Magic. The Los Angeles Clippers takeon the Dallas Mavericks. The New York
Knicks would have potentially been into Gameseven this weekend. That would have been
story number one. But the Knicks, we told you earlier in the show,
took down the Philadelphia seventy six ers. But that we have two teams
that can close out a series tonight, the Cavaliers and the Mavericks. Do
you see either one of these teamsgetting any further in the postseason. Could

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you see Luca and Kyrie maybe pullingup set and get to a conference finals
again? Last time that happened itwas Luca and Jalen Brunson. Or even
if the Cavaliers win tonight, youfeel like they can even test the Boston
Celtics and potentially the next round.Uh No, they can't. No,
No, the only team that Kenand will beat the Celtics have to get
through the Pacers first. That's that'sit. It's the only one. There's

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only one team that's got that dog. You know, you got that doll.
You know, see I get reallylow down because of my throat.
I think it sounded really smooth whenit came out, you know how to
Nick. They got that. Youknow. There's a player now for the
Panthers. His name is Xavier Leggett, and uh that had of him.

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Xavior Leggett's voice does sound like thecoach from water Boy. Now. I
didn't know what is that actor's namebecause you made a joke about him on
the river before. Brian. Isthat Brian Dennahey, the late Brian Denny.
Who does that? Yeah? Different? No, Brian Denny's dad,

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dude, I think he played.I think it's Farmer Fran in the water
Blow he played Tommy. He isnot the same. Am I getting Brian
Dennyhe confused with sew Sewan Ryder's nothis name? Is it Shawn Ryder?
I think whoever played Farmer Fran inThe Water Boy is also Sean's dad on

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the show Boy Meets World, SoI might be crossing up my actors.
Blake Clark is Blake Clark still withus? Is Blake Clark's still alive?
It appears to be all right.So I've got Blake Clark and he was
all right teacher for a little while. On Community he talked to yeah wow,

(09:07):
played naked pool against Joel McHale's characterthere to name excase me at the
moment. If you haven't watched Community, what a great shows? Great?
Are we getting the movie? Arewe getting six seasons in a movie?
Gosh, man, we waited along time for that. All right?
Oh, because I don't trust once? This face child is Gambino? Oh,
gosh man, Troy and Abet inthe morning. All right, this

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is a shocking number one story,but I feel like it's well deserved.
Here. We are going across theboard in lacrosse. That's right, lacrosse
makes the number one story here.On a Friday, Siana men had an
opportunity to continue their season, butthe Scianta men's team got bumped yesterday by
the top seeded Sacred Heart squad fifteento thirteen. The U all but in

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men's squad, which you're gonna getto in a few moments, still has
an opportunity to continue their season.The women's lacrosse team had an afternoon game
against UMass loll today and they couldpunch their tickets to the finals if it
comes away with the victory. Theydon't want to give away that score quite
yet. So action involving that squaduh Siana women. How about they've got

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a game going on right now againstNiagara. They win, they go on
to the MAC Championship. Let's lookbit back to you, Albany U.
Albany defeats Merrimac yesterday eighteen to seven. They'll get Vermont in the one versus
two game at home at bob Fordfieldat three o'clock. Oh, if that
wasn't enough you, Albany's lacrosse teamis going viral. Lovak. You watched

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the video before the show today withthe pregame singing of Pearl Jams Alive.
What'd you make in the video?I know you're a big Pearl Jam fan.
Well they stole that from much forwho the Colony Raiders back in ninety
one, nineteen ninety three. Oh, we were all big Pearl Jam fans,
was the thing. But you know, I like it. I like
all license it to them. Itwas they did a good job you know

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your great days, so you knowwhat that means. They got And if
that's not enough, the Albany FireWolvesare in semi final action this weekend.
We're gonna be joined in our thirdhour by Nathan Grennan live in San Diego
as they prep for the game todayagainst the Seals ten thirty. Face off
is set you flip it back onSunday. The FireWolves host the Seals in

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Game two of that series three o'clockSunday inside MVP Arena in the semi final
matchups, the Albny FireWolves looking topunch their ticket the championship series in the
NLL In twenty twenty four BC,Let's do this, Did you miss the
part with a whole like all manyFirebirds two and zero against two of the
best teams. Yeah, in theANFL. Yeah, but like we're just

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you know what, Yeah, no, no, you know we're previewing the
games with too the headlines. Weled the show talking about the Firebirds,
the fire Let's do this. Let'stalk about one of the partners for the
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are we doing next? Oh,you're talk about the AL East. We're
gonna talk about the American League Eastand why the Yankees are superior to everyone
else. Next right here, FoxSports Radio ninety five nine and nine eighty.
Here's a hint. Yeah, it'sLevac and Gus on ninety five nine
Fox Sports Radio. Oh yes,where am I? Well, we're into

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our second segment here in the fouro'clock hour. This is just the second
time in the past two weeks asof kickoffs involving the Firebirds. We touched
on the firebirds second victory earlier inthe show. If you miss it,
if you're a Firebird fan listening toApple, Spotify, the iHeart app,
and more. While you were outof studio, Levac I did have some
conversations about the Baltimore Orioles series withthe new York Yankees. And as much

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as I would like to spend thenext twelve to fifteen minutes talking about the
greatness that is the Baltimo Orioles andour wager and all that other thing,
I feel like there's actually more importantstoryline that came out of that series than
what you and I will likely betalking about for the next few months.
Do you was that? The storylineI feel like now is whoever wins.

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Maybe it's home with an m there, whomever wins the AL East, Baltimore,
New York. I don't want towrite Tampa off quite yet, even
though I despise them. Whatever teamends up winning the AL East will be
the favorite to win the American League, will be the team to beat in
this league this season. Now,that didn't that was the case in twenty

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twenty three, even though the talentof those teams was pretty good, because
out of the AO West you stillhad the Houston Astros, Texas and the
West Overalls. The division got bettertowards the end of the season, and
Texas needed everything at the end tohold off Seattle. The A's aren't great.
The Angels still had Otani and Trout. When Trout was healthy, but
the West was pushing it and eventuallythe Rangers come out win the World Series

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after a series in April slash Mayinvolving the O's and the Yankees. And
however you believe about the Rays maybecoming back, or how we can toss
the Red Sox and Blue Jays inthis conversation if we want, do you
believe the winner of the Al Eastmore likely Baltimore and New York will be
the favorite to win the league?When you hit this fall, Yeah,
no, I do, And Ithink you you know, you bring up

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a good point. Like in twentythree, it didn't feel that way because
in twenty three we knew it wasit gonna be the Yankees. Oh my
gosh, what in twenty four it'sgonna be the Yankees. And as I've
taught you many times, it's notalways at the best team to win,
which the Yankees would be, butit's also about the team that you get

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ever ready to bet on. Andif you make the Yankees the shortest odds,
you're gonna get the most bats becausethey're the Yankees. People are gonna
bet the Orioles because Yankee suck.I hate the Yankees. People are gonna
bet the Guardians or whatever. Everybodythinks the Yankees and then the rest of
us who actually understand baseball, you'regoing about the Yankees because well they're the

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Yankees. I'm trying to do thequick math in my head. I yeah,
the math dows that up there.Okay. Uh. If you look
at the AL East last season,the most combined victories of the top three
teams in the division came from theAls, so Baltimore one one hundred and
one, Raised ninety nine, Jay'seighty nine, and all three of those

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teams competed in the postseason. Soyou had more wins for the top three
teams combined than any other division inbaseball last year, which sounds like a
very bizarre stat and when I wastrying to figure it out, it did
sound bizarre while I was looking forit. But I bring it up because
when you have that many wins goto the top of the division, that
signms like an even division with acontend You're still in it. And that,

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I guess was what confused me andmade me look differently at the AL
West is that we saw teams likeTexas and Seattle and Houston battling for that
postseason spot, but they just weren'tgood enough at the end, except Texas
went in the championship. So eventhough you believe the Yankee factor is the
reason why more people will try towager on the AL East Division champion,

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or maybe even just flat out isyou're pointing out trying to draw action on
the team from the Bronx, therefeels like there's a little separation now in
twenty twenty four. The Cleveland Guardiansare gonna hang around a little bit.
They were below five hundred last season. I get they're playing really good right
now. But if someone's gonna puttheir money where their mouth is and drop
a Cleveland Guardian bet, tweet itat us at the Jeff Lovak at Tom

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Goss t ymgo is easy. TagJustin Latt at Jail Underscore base all the
biggest Guardian fan we know who coversMajor League baseball. I'm not ready to
drop that wager. Seattle, Texas. Are we going to do the whole
thing again? We all went throughthat already. So you got a Baltimore
team that won one hundred games lastseason and is now more prepared. Whether
it comes with maturity, whether itcomes with a more balanced lineup when it

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comes with better pitching. All thosethings are true, and a New York
team that what do you want tosay? From twenty four to twenty three
has been the biggest improvement, Sotohealth, the youth movement, youth movement.
Something's put the Yankees in a betterposition at least here in May than
they were last season at the sametime. And mean about a month awave't
getting called back? So what's up? How you do it? Now that

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Houston has fallen off? There isn'tthat like definitive power in the Al West.
The Central is scary because they're goingto cannibalize each other, like we
talk about the Guardians the Royals sittingthere. The Twins have just won ten
Street, Like, hello, let'snot let's never get there there. You

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know, that's gonna be an interestingdivision to watch for for a lot of
the season. But actually, waitmore than ten now, I think?
Not still ten? Yeah? Ithought it was up to eleven already four
three three, okay, yeah,I was, Oh that's right. I
was already counting the win against Boston. It's a wild thing to win ten
games in a row and still bein fourth place in your division. But

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I mean, yeah, think aboutit. They won ten games in a
row before they went on this tengame bender. They were seven to thirteen
team, you know, and they'reI'm coming for you. It'd be interesting
how far they can make it.But the Guardians are good. They're very
very good. I just I dothink the two best teams in the America
League right now are in the AmericaLeague East. Yeah, Yankees in the

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Red Sox. No, no,no three or four? No, No,
that stants. I know that didn'tfeel good for you letting that come
out of your mouth. The RedSox are going to be the example team.
Yeah, it's just fun to messwith you. No, it's gonna
be. It's gonna be a funyear fundraise. I don't. I don't
think it's gonna be the Saturday timesoon because again, you you Orioles,

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you keep tinkering with your farm systemlooking for a savior. I haven't found
it yet. Where very cautiously waiting, chilling because we know at some point
Garrett Cole's coming out of that bullpen. He's he come running out for warm
ups and get ready. Also,Martian will return, Jason Domingos will be

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back. I feel like he's beengone for a long time. He actually
flew off to another planet. It'sbeen hibernating sudden. I mean, you
know that Interstellar, I thought Ithought he actually went through his space.
McConaughey came back as a ninety yearold. Nobody knew who he was.
All right, pretty good there,Tonga. You know, I like Christopher
Nolan is a director, But nowthinking back to some of his movies,
there's just some plot lines from likeokay, so like Interstellar, so we

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all know who the guy is whocame back at the end of the movie
that saved Earth, but we're alsolike not gonna talk to him at the
end. That seemed like that wasa missing plot angle. Like if you
had a great grandpa comeback and saveEarth and he's in the hospital, you're
at least gonna chat it up withhim a little bit more than an Interstellar.
So I don't know what's gonna happenwith Jason Domingez, but just rewatch

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at some point and not travel backin time and try to save the planet.
Oh, you don't have to anythingtravel forward when you're in a series,
it's it's gonna Orioles. I feellike we know who you are,
right you're You're a young, solidteam that's getting better maturing, you added
pitching. Most of what you saidis true. Yankees. I think we're
still figuring out who these guys arebecause I thought they'd be better than last

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year. They got up to anamazing start. They kind of languished a
little bit recently. But you're doingthis without your best pitcher, maybe best
player, your best picture. You'redoing this without some of your bullpen.
They're all hurt Lelisica, kine Lee, all those guys, and again Domingo
has shown he had spark. He'sspecial. He's a special little dude.

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He's big but short, he's aweird. He's a Martian. He's literally
a Martian. So I think we'regonna find out what the Yankees are and
who's Brian Cashman now? Because BrianCashman reinvents him Sellary so off. Everybody
thinks he's the same dude, buthe's different. What's he gonna do is
he gonna make the moves. He'sgonna get some arms, he can get
some make some moves, bring somepets and talented. I know what you
mean. By that exactly right.He's usually ahead of the curve or understands

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the curve of baseball how the sportis shifting. But just because Brian Cashman's
been around a long time and theway you describe it as Brian Cashman reinventing
himself, I just thought about likeDavid Bowie, who might be like the
most famous one of the entertainers whoused to reinvent themselves. Right, So
like Cashman's gonna start showing up withlike blonde hair or something different style suits.

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He wants to be called Brion Cashman. But all of a sudden,
a line's gonna go through the esin his last name, like a cash
situation. They're reinventing of Brian Cashman. I don't think. I don't think
all that's gonna happen, all right, I can imagine it, though,
I mean, yeah, you feelfree, feel free to imagine all you
like. It's the cash Man.I go by now and then rips off

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sunglasses, reinventing myself. Levac toldme to yep, Brian Cashman. Do
you trust cash I try not,Brion, I don't trust is a little
crazy. Well no, I mean, like in Necessarty that like for the
first part of his career, itwas bye bye bye bye bye bye bye.

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Get it what everyone gets. Thenyou had to learn stay underunerneath the
salar cap. Then it was bya little bit. Now we know,
I don't know where he's gonna be. I don't know what they do.
We'll find out, but I thinkyou know it'll result in another World Series.
I'll play this other game with you. That's how I consider ranking these
teams. Games in my head aboutthe Orioles and the Yankees, or the

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AL East winner being the favorite tocome out of the American League and already
claiming that on the first Friday showin May do this with me that it
feels like if we had to wage, I'll pull out my phone here in
a second. But the AL Eastfavorite, the winner, Oriols or Yankees,

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I'll even play the field. You'reone of those two would actually have
a more likelihood to get and winthe World Series than a team coming out
of the National League because the potentialwildcard bursts underneath. So like, let's
say, for instance, you believein the Dodgers. You think the Dodgers
are going to be the team thatbreaks through the Dodgers have been stacked at
the start of the season. Youthink, la because they're gonna win the

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West, will be the favorite towin the World Series, which likely they
should be, even the price hasbeen all over the place. But you
would think, just because of seeding, the Dodgers are the braves. One
of them is gonna get Philly inone of those divisional rounds. So it's
like Philly would be the best nondivision winner that would test anybody out of
the National League. So, becausethat's almost a fifty to fifty coin toss

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of who would draw that team,I don't think there's anybody besides Baltimore or
New York who would likely face eachother in the ALCS, And comparison to
this spot, like the best contenderwould have to take on one of those
two Teamses that make sense to youwhat I'm talking about here to a degree.
I mean, that's that's baseball,Susan. You know, that's just
what happens. You gotta you can'tworry about until you get there. Also,

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the Dodgers choke a lot in thepostseason, so maybe that should have
been what I led with. It'strue Clint Kershaw is still there. You
love Clinton Kershaw. What a chokeartist. I can't believe they brought back
that bum. He's your favorite?You love it? He stinks you talk
about him all the time. No, it's it's it's been a fun baseball
season so far. If only wehad a team. I'll keep working on

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that. Just please get back tomy emails. Keep winning Nicks making that
a lot easier for me, andI appreciate you doing that. You just
looked over. I saw the fourLetter Networks power rankings. Do you have
them in front of you? Ido, But by the way, I
know, I've been playing around withthe odds. Would be the Dodgers right
now, Court Fandeler plus three twenty. They're still listened as the world's your
favorite. The Orioles much further downthan the Yankees. Twelve to one for

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the O's, seven to one forthe Yankees. Braves four I'll say,
four hundred and sixty to four hundredand sixty one. Could you imagine a
plus four sixty and plus twelve hundredfor the Phillies. So we're sandwiched in
between there as well. All right, The Yankees favored over the Orioles to
win the American League evact by almostdouble according to fan Duel plus three to
twenty plus five fifty. I don'tlike that. I don't know who did

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that. I do I like thatso much for my orioles that depending on
how I do on the Ponies thisweek, and a reinvestment might be going
into my o's. Well. Iguess we're the Some of the rankings here
or what hower rankings here? FromMajor League Baseball? Real, qui,
this is from the Four Letter Network, not for our fans at Fox.
Okay, I would say the Dodgersare number one. You'd be wrong.

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Really twice I would say the ohgosh, this is awesome. Don't am
I gonna give ESPN credit and say, my Baltimore Ore are the number one
team in baseball. I'm guessing Baltimore'snumber one. I told you to be
wrong twice. Alright, Atlanta andI'm Doneanta's number one? All right?
There you're going okay, all right? Uh, if Atlanta's one, I'll

(27:11):
do the same team again, Baltimore. Yeah, and then the Dodgers three.
There you go, all right?At Atlanta is pretty awesome. And
then and then the Guardians would benext. No, the Yankees. Yeah,
and then the Guardians, No,the Phillies, yeah, alright,
and then the Guardians yeah. Alright, alright, so you know what,
stop stop it right there, though, Stop the poll, stop, stop

(27:34):
the count. Levak. I gotseven teams I got listed right there,
correct, I've got a few divisionleaders, a few second place teams.
I would say, right there isa significant drop off. So I'm gonna
go out of order here, butmaybe I'll mention your team here Phillies,
Braves, Dodgers, Orioles, Yankees, Guardians. I think I got everybody

(27:56):
there one more time, Oriols,Yankees, Guardians out of the American League,
Braves, Phillies, Dodgers. Sosix, excuse me, six teams.
Would you agree there's a significant dropoff after those six teams right now?
Uh? Yeah, yeah, I'mwith you, because that it goes
Seattle, Chicago, the Cubbies,Texas, Milwaukee, Boston. You go

(28:22):
go all the way down to eighteento find the New York Metropolitans. I
would have stopped the ranking right there. I'm very happy you kept that at
the end of the segment, becauseif I had to go another four or
five, I disagree with every singleone of those now, out of curiosity,
who do they have? Let I'mgonna say they had the White Sox
at thirty in the Rockies at twentynine. I bet they have the White

(28:45):
Sox versus the Rockies, even thoughthe Rockies looks hilariously awful earlier this week,
more so than the usual. Yougot both right. I gotta find
the stat about the Rockies. Iknow we got I know we got to
play the day coming up. Iknow we have still a lot to talk
about on today's show. I gottaget the stat from the Rockies. Our
guy zach By, the pride ofScotia's own, he covers the Rockies.

(29:06):
Here's the stat again, at Bye'sline. Our guy zach By. At
some point you've heard his voice hereon the history of ninety five nine to
nine eight Fox Sports Radio. Zachrode at Bye's line. The Colorado Rockies
and assumed dormat in twenty twenty four, have become such dormat. They're now
featured in this stat trailed at anypoint in a game this season. The
Rockies have now trailed in thirty sevenconsecutive games. Wow. Wow. The

(29:33):
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nine eighty. We've got the playof the day coming up. And you
just wrote on our sheet it sayn'tbig letters, traders, just just traders.
I don't know if it's there youare, Okay, I thought it
was the reality show. It's notthe reality show Traders. Oh it's awesome,
but I don't think that's what shemeant. No, no, no,
you'll find out. Coming up nextright here, Fox Sports Radio ninety
it's Levac and Goz. On ninetyfive nine Fox Sports Radio Traders, Derney

(31:29):
filed the stinking Traders. Pour yourlove into the into them and cheer for
them, and all all they dois leave you. Earlier day, we
found out that Odell Beckham Junior issigning a one year deal with the Miami
Dolphins. How dare you? Howdare you? Miami? After everything New

(31:56):
York did for you to you?Obie Jay Direction, take that? O
doubt Mike McDaniel. You just wantspeed? Huh? Like Mike McDaniel's just
gonna start hanging out at the ParisOlympics. Be like, I like that.
I'll take him. I'll take thisguy too, just pure speed.
Didn't they draft a running back aswell? With just nothing but speed?

(32:20):
There's no doubt what Mike McDaniel wantsto do on this Dolphin. Dolphense two
still seems to be the quarterback fornow, But Odell for the Dolphins really
is a pretty cood fit. Doyou think about it? More concerned?
Like he has to sign one yeardeals for rest of his life. It
feels like he doesn't like He's notnot like a two with a third option

(32:40):
anymore, doesn't feel like it anymore. He was considered statistically to start off
his career one of the best receiversin the league. Because then the NFL.
God, we all feel old,don't we. He was putting up
unbelievable numbers, like numbers we've neverseen my rookie wide receiver ever. And
then we all know the story.I wanted to get paid No, then
they get traded one year deals.Is a little interesting now. He probably

(33:02):
was poised to have a pretty goodend of his career with the Rams,
and he gets his knee blown upin the Super Bowl and he's having one
of the arguably the best game ofhis career in the Super Bowl. Baltimore.
Gosh, that didn't work out,Baltimore, I did. They just
never came together. And I don'tknow if that's more about Lamar Jackson just
wanting to throw the football to otherguys or more so tight ends. Even

(33:24):
though Andrews got hurt last season.But if you look across the NFL,
who else would have been the spotfor Odell? Like I felt like he
was running out of options for wherehe was gonna go, the Giants,
back to the Giants. The weirdthing about OBJ is now, mentally have
you ever have you ever had anathlete that you mentally linked to another athlete

(33:47):
that maybe nobody else does, likelike something happened where that athlete made news
the same time, or in astory you associated with a different athlete,
and now every time you see thatperson's name, you think of the other
person. Uh, this is nota spoiler, but it actually is probably
happening. In the next twenty minutes, we're gonna talk about Patrick Beverley coming
up to lead off the third hour, the five o'clock hour. I get

(34:09):
him and Lance Stevenson confused, okay, because they're very similar, both defenders
who are known to cause trouble,who go at superstars. Remember it was
Lance Stevenson who blew in Lebron's ear, and the two small t is Patrick
Beverly. Those two are actually theones that get confused. So like Lance
Stevenson, no, like it triggersanother thought for me, not confused.

(34:30):
So like Lance Stevenson, I instantlythink of Lebron because of the blowing in
the air and then I think ofwhat a waste of talent, mister New
York Basketball, all that stuff.Odell Beckham Junior now triggers thoughts of Antonio
Brown for me, Oh no,what so bear with me because we did
this on the show. When OBJannounced he was signing with the Ravens,

(34:57):
is the same time that A heswitched. He flipped the switch because remember
he had been posting himself photoshopped intoa Raven's uniform that he had signed with
the Ravens, and then was whatwas two weeks later that they signed OBJ
instead. I think he legitimately thoughthe was going to the Ravens. As
crazy as he is, I thinkhe thought he was going to the Ravens.

(35:19):
They went with younger, way lesstroubled, even though kind of troubled,
Odell Beckham Junior, instead of AntonioBrown. Antonio Brown then moved to
New York and became a total headachefor everyone. So now when I see
OBIJ sign somewhere, I think ofAntonio Brown. Do you think there's a
chance Antonio Brown is about to goon a full blown meltdown because Obi J

(35:45):
just signed with the team closest towhere I believe closest to where Antonio Brown
lives now, No, I don'tthink so. And for those I think
you're wrong, for those who coming, for those who don't know how the
studios set up. Levac is inthe gy studio, O, the GT
Toys Studio, Toys at the ZI'm in more like a behind the glass
scenario, but more of a producerbooth. Yeah, but but what you

(36:07):
can't see is behind me there isan actual couch and this would has Yeah,
well, I was gonna say thisis a therapy couch because this would
be the time where you and Iwould switch spots and be like, lay
down and tell me more about whatyou think is gonna happen to Antonio Brown,
because I don't. I would neverhave gone that way. The thing
with Antonio Brown saying it's it's somethingthat happen usually in the news, right,

(36:29):
So like if I if I seea story about the Bash Brothers,
Jose Cansako, Mark Maguire, Ithink of the earthquake during the World Series
Instantly, it's the next thing thatpops up when I see OBJ sign.
Now because of what I saw happen, I think of Antonio Brown, and
I think what he's gonna do next. That's crazy to me, crazy in

(36:51):
the sense of, like, mymind doesn't go anywhere close to that.
But I understand totally why your mindwould go to that. Even back to
the Odell Raven thing last year andthis year with the Dolphins, it was
set about a month ago. Peoplethought it was a done deal a month
ago. And I believe it wasMcDaniel who went to the media and said,
contracts take a while. It's notas simple as like I want him
here. He wants to be here. We have to sort some things out.

(37:14):
So I wonder if Antonio Brown thoughtthe same thing of well, I'm
already gonna sign here. We justgot to figure it out. I don't
want to dive into the mind inAntonio Brown. All right now, I'm
starting to understand a little bit ofwhere rational thinking was. And I know,
but I just clarify the troubled satmenthe said about Odell. I think
more of that has been when itcomes to how people perceive him of a

(37:37):
freema donic, cause I don't rememberhim getting in trouble with the law.
In comparison to Brown, Oh,he's he's like weird little things like the
trip with the boots and the andthe jeans. You know, people photoshopping
with adult film stars, or youknow he's always popping up on the TMZ
sites, whether it's his fault,you know, stuff like like he's he

(37:58):
comes off slightly entitled. That's whereAntonio Brown is a felon, you know
what I mean, Like it's ornot a full fellon, but he's borderline
whatever. The degree is a feelingentitled if you had to, well,
no one is legitimately broken the lawmany many times. What one is literally
a jewel thief, Like if youreally think about it, Antonio Brown is

(38:20):
walking around with over a million dollarsworth of jewelry that he has stolen,
and no one's arresting him for it. There's levels of this. Or it's
like Antonio Brown if he asked thequestion, what did I do wrong?
Where do you want me to start? We've got a laundry lest let's just
tell you what she did? Right, Odell, what did I do wrong?
Well, it's not as bad asthe other guy we just mentioned,
but it's also not as good asthe guy we're about to mention. You
put yourself in spots where people couldperceive you're making the wrong decisions. While

(38:45):
it kind of leads to this,he said the word traders that lead off
this conversation sa Quon Barkley's lower wherehe's like, what did I do wrong?
Well, we know that answer.You signed with Philly New York fan
is still relentless. Saquan had togo to social media yes day to be
like something along the lines, soI can't go to a basketball game is

(39:06):
not wrong? Like, all right, Giant fan, I'm sorry, Saquon
is not the problem. All right. I want you to look in the
mirror. Saquon did not leave you. You kicked him out. It's like
it's like people were like, Ican't believe she left me. It's like,
God, he cheated on her.You told her to get the bleep
out, and then you filed fordivorce. Yeah, she gone, there

(39:30):
you go. Saquon was at theU Nick six Ers game at the Wells
Fargo Center and when he got oncamera, the the Knicks fans all started
booing him. Evan Roberts from thefan WFA and the biggest radio station,
the biggest sports radio station in theworld, second only the Fox Sports Radio
ninety five nine eight, he postedabout it. Well, Saquon did not

(39:54):
did not just lay it out andtake this one. Suon posted, let
me educate some of you fans here. I can't bail or become a trader
if I never got an offer tocome back. So I went to the
organization I felt was the best fit. And after already being here for a
month, man, I'm excited tobe an Eagle. Go Birds. And

(40:19):
he went on to say side notethat game was crazy lit got me geeked
for home games at the link.That part was a little you never go
that far. That's what I means. Any emojis he used, you know,
he likes his emojis City emojis andthe first one that he actually did
the bird emoji, and this oneit was the face emoji with steam coming
out. Yeah, he likes toseem which if it was my emotion,
no, those would be boogers.Those are boomers, all right. But

(40:43):
yeah, see it's unfair to classifySaquan as a trainer. In New York
fans relentless, they feel like Iwonder if, like, if Saqua throw
teams out there, he'd signed withthe Tampa Bay Buccaneers, if he had
signed with the Raiders. If hehad signed with anybody else not named Dallas,

(41:04):
Phillier, Washington, would they stillbe doing that to him. Probably
not to this level. It's theindivision because I remember when Kevin Boss,
the tight end of the Giants,left and became a Raider, not nearly
the fan favorite Saquon was, buthe was a fan favorite. My Giants
fans friends were steamed. They weremad, Like we would watch games and

(41:28):
Kevin Boss catch touchdown. They're like, yeah, you're welcome, welcome.
We did that for you, wegave you. Kevin Boss. I think
he decided a contract, but likeI guart, there would still be Animossy,
but only when they saw it likethis happens like this, Sequan's there
now he's living rent free and allof the all of the Giants fans heads.
I don't believe that these three backto the comparison we had about like

(41:53):
the blame game of how much goesthat? But now I realize there is
a similarity between Antonio Brown, OdellBeckham Junior, a former Giant, and
now former Giant Saquon Barkley. Careful, I think, are you gonna say
they're all black. No, Okay, all right, I can just say
that. I mean, I justyou never know people say what I was

(42:15):
going to say. The best partis nobody sees it. Guys is like
the nicest person. If this personin the world who really doesn't see color,
it's probably Goz. So whenever Ido that to him, he looks
like I hit him with a stungun. Like he just like a legit
stun gun. What I was goingto say, well, just doesn't make
me feel better now about my takeof awareness level. Awareness level is what

(42:37):
I was going to say. Awarenessbecause whoever was advising Saquon, no one
told him there was gonna be backlash, Like, no one Like did they
really think a press release was gonnabe put out with the thank you Saquon?
Is that what he thought with Odellwhen he goes out and goes club
and and dances and has the crazyvideos on his Instagram following? Is that?
What did he think the reaction wouldbe when he was good in Baltimore

(43:00):
and left LA and clean and AntonioBrown? That's it. We don't have
to cover the awareness, good gosh, but like there has to be LEVK.
Is this an age thing where youand I are a little bit older
than the players we're talking about now, and the awareness level is different.
Is it the athletes that are genzers are expected? Is it arrogance?

(43:23):
Is it exception? That's what Istruggle with with all these guys, and
I'm sure these aren't the only three, but the idea that like, they
didn't think other things would result fromtheir decisions is baffling to me. And
they can't say they don't care.All three of them care because they go
to social media and constantly comment aboutpeople being criticism giving them criticism towards them.

(43:44):
At this moment, I cannot putsqual with the other two. At
this moment. I still can't,because at this moment is done everything I
think you could possibly ask if adude to not hoes, you like,
not sure you over like if youthink about it again. He had every
reason to hold out last year,every reason to hold out except for one.

(44:07):
He signed a contract and he wantedto He wanted to be with his
guys, which is amazing. It'shonorable. I love it here, you
know. I think I think whathe's I think what he was hoping is
that giant fan would realize that theGiants had made him an offer, he
would have been a giant for life. The Giants didn't do it, and

(44:28):
let's let's never get dude went toPenn State. Eagles are a lot closer
to Penn State than the Giants are, So I think I think he unless
he goes spirals and this just makesthem spiral. I don't put him with
the other two. Like, likeyou said, AB is the most extreme.
If we're gonna like scale of oneto ten extreme diva delusional actions,

(44:52):
AB is twelve. OBJ is probablyliving a round of five, maybe maybe
be six sometimes and I thinks maybelike a one and a half. I
think he's he's literally just trying tolive his best life and doesn't understand why
people don't want him to succeed.Was like on the on the on the

(45:13):
diva scale, not very high.We gotta get to the play of the
day. We've talked a lot aboutFORBA joints. We gotta get to the
play of the day here the playthat he thanks to Mohawk, Chevrolet Levak,
I've gone three and oh on mythree most recent picks here because you're
taking like giant fans on the moneyline. No, no, no,
no. I took the maple leafsbecause I was guided by Doug Goudy hating
on his bruins. I had asmall parlay in the NBA plaffs. I'm

(45:36):
going back to the parlay land here. I feel way more confident in one
game than I do the other.It's the Dallas Maverick game seven and a
half. The line is still leftfor the Mavericks at home. Kawhi Leonard's
not gonna enough with Kawhi. Leonardstinks. He came back in, played
for a month and now he can't. How is it because he's a weirdoh
is because he doesn't talk talking aboutdivas? My gosh, Kawhi is gonna

(46:00):
cost the Clippers. So give meDallas with the points tonight to win that
to finish off the series, soMavericks will move on. Give me all
seven and a half points for Dallas. I don't like round numbers when it
comes to over unders. This isa two hundred and a half for Calves
Magic under under two hundred points tonight for Cavaliers Magic and Mavericks minus seven

(46:22):
and a half. That was ourmy plays. And see if we can
go five and oh to finish offthe week and by the way, Kentucky
Derby play. I'm probably gonna tweetthat I do want a Derby play.
I no interest. Champagne's coming upin about forty minutes, but my Derby
play will be posted on social mediaat Tom Guys TMG. It was easy.
Can I find Maggie again? Maje? I called it called it last

(46:43):
year, should have said it onthe air, but there was a scratch.
I will post my pick this yearon Twitter. Do you know that
you want to know something I shouldn'thave met. I didn't know that the
Kentucky Derby was this weekend until Tuesday. It's because I'm trying to think of
the calendar layout, trying to thinkof an excuse for you. Now I
got no excuses for you. I'mpresident of an arena football team that you

(47:06):
know. Wait, but yeah,usually, but usually it's the first Saturday
in May. I don't know ifit's because you thought Thursday was a Saturday.
I don't know what day it isat all. I know what I
know what game day is. Rightnow, I'm getting ready to go to
Minnesota. I hate Minnesota. I'mgonna do remember I'm my Parlay almost hit.
Yes, if embatd scored a littleless, I thought it would get
hurting out the floor earlier. That'swhy I thought that was good. The

(47:28):
only I missed pittstroke. Parlay's back, baby. Then Yankees are back on
it. They're gonna make a makean example of the filthy Tigers. Give
me the Yankees money line. Giveme hits from Anthony Volpi, Juan Soto,
and Aaron Judge, and then giveme five plus strikeouts from Marcus Strom
and the bread Man. So Yankeeswin. Volpe, Soto, Judge get

(47:52):
hits. Strowman five plus strikeouts.Yankees win. The Yankees win plus three
sixty three. It's back the pinstripepartly. All right, we're about to
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