May 9, 2025 • 35 mins
The Mariners are smoking hot, and there's nothing that can stop them at the moment! Let's ride until the wheels fall off! We got some interesting news as reports are coming out that Bill Belichick's girlfriend Jordon Hudson has reportedly banned from UNC Football Facilities! MJ goes in on LeBron James, but is he moving the goal post, Christopher also weighs in... (fasten your seatbelt)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Got back from Vegas a month ago. This upcoming Sunday
and literally the I think I'm just gonna say this.
I've been here three months already. I think Seattle gets
a bad rap for bad weather. I think the weather
around here has been beautiful. So I don't know this
what you speak of all the weather's so bad? Oh,
it's this now. When I first got here, it was
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dreary and it you know, and it was a little cold,
the cold side from New Englands. It wasn't that bad.
But for the last month since I got back on
tell me see tenth eleventh, April thirteenth, which was a Sunday,
the weather here has been fall football weather, absolutely perfect.
I wish I could bottle it up Chamber of Commerce,
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mother nature weather.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I just love it.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I what is this bad weather? What are you guys
talking about. I haven't seen anything about it yet. I
think it's I think it's all just a bunch of hype.
I'm waiting for this bad weather. I haven't seen it.
We've hardly gotten any rain in the last four weeks,
slight drizzle here and there, but it's been beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Please keep it up. I love this weather.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I love it, and I could everyone just commute to
work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays the way you do
on Fridays, which is basically nobody in Seattle goes into
work on Friday. My commute in today was probably thirty
thirty six to thirty eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I love it. Let's keep that going. I wish, you know, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays is just like, oh, I just don't
you know. I mean, man, this weather and I haven't
even experienced the weather here in the summer, which I
heard is you know, I experienced it one week in
June of twenty sixteen filling in for Softy when he
had one of his twenty six weeks of vacation that year. Now,
(01:51):
I think he's probably at the thirty two weeks of vacation,
but he's earned it because he's been here thirty one years.
You're here thirty one years, you should get thirty one
weeks of vacation. That's how it works. But yeah, so
I love this weather and I don't care what I mean.
It's just perfect. You want to go outside in a
T shirt, you can do a T shirt. You want
to do zip a puddy do a zip a puddy shorts,
whatever you want. I just don't believe Seattle has bad weather.
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I'm sorry, I just don't believe it. Now, the Seattle Mariners,
this has been nothing short of shocking, twenty two and
fourteen best thirty six games starts since two thousand and three,
baseball's best record over the last month six game home stands.
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Starting tonight, blue Jay's coming down. We will better not
see any Blue Jay gear and Vlad Guerrero Junior jerseys
in the Mariner's flagship store. We've already talked about that.
I'm just I've got my I've got my minions and
moles out there. They're gonna be monitoring the situation outside
the stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's all I don't have. I mean, outside the state.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
If you want to sell and I'm not saying this
but as a Insama Bin Modern jersey, they're not regulated,
they're not official vendors, so.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
They're gonna sell what they're gonna sell. It depends whether
or not you want to buy it. So that's that's
a completely different story. Inside.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You know, once you get inside that premise of the
premises of t Mobile Park and you walking inside the
gift store should be nothing. Now, I do understand they
sell all thirty Major League Baseball hats, which I think
is actually cool.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But no T shirts, no jerseys, no nineteen ninety two,
ninety three World Series champion Blue Jays merchandise. We don't
want to see any of that crap, none of.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It all right, So.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I'm I'm just shocked about how this team is doing it.
Only the Yankees right now, Only the Yankees, which I
mean that tells you the rare of fied Air and
company that the Mariners are in. Only the Yankees right
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now have a higher weighted run created plus, which is
a metric that measures how hitters perform relative to league average. Okay,
so Mariners, it's one hundred and twenty four. Okay, so
that shows you how great they've been. I guess the
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average is about one hundred. Mariners are second in home
runs to the Yankees. They have fifty one, Yankees have
sixty two. But it's it's just something much more than that.
And then you know, there's an article in the Seattle
Times by Adam Jude, and he did a really good
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job breaking this thing down and I'm gonna quote, and
he said the Mariners three forty on base percentage ranked
second in MLB, behind, of course, the Yankees at three
forty two slight percentage points averaging five runs a game,
up a full run from their twenty twenty four average.
They average four runs a game last year, seemed like
they averaged two. Can't believe they averaged four from last
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year anyway, I guess they did.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That was the shocking thing, not that they're averaging five.
I thought they the way they've been playing recently, they've
been averaging six runs a game, but they're averaging five
runs a game. And they cut down on their strikeout
rate significantly from twenty six point eight percent last year
to twenty one point six percent now the league average
is twenty one point nine percent. So they're doing just
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a phenomenal job. How about this eleven comeback wins for
the Ems tied for the most in the American League.
Their three ninth in income from behind wins are the
most in Major League Baseball. So they're doing it right
in those my word, clutch situations. And this to me,
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and this is a great thing by the Seattle Times
and compiling this since Dan Wilson took over on August
twenty second last year. I kid you not if you're driving,
have both hands. On ten and two, the Mariners have
the best offense in the American League as measured by
what I talked about weighted runs created plus. And of
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course you know, Dan Wilson was the guy who convinced
Edgar Martinez to come back for the second time. Only
the Dodgers, with a one twenty nine WRC plus have
a better across all of baseball. So since August twenty
second of last year, which is and normally I'm like,
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you can find any statistics to back up your point
if you want to, the Mariners are fifth in runs
since Dan Wilson took over. Okay, so this is the
important part. Since Dan Wilson took over, fifth in runs
tenth and back average, that's decent two fifty, fifth in
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home runs ninety three, third in stolen bases with eighty five,
tied for first, and on base percentage with three forty three,
fifth and ops with seven fifty nine. They're K percent
fifteenth twenty two point six, walk percentage first ten point seven,
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and as I mentioned, second only to the Dodgers with
the weighted runs created plus with one twenty five. My
question is this, how long can this thing sustain? A
mirage is something that you It's like this uh great
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thing that you see and you.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Just kind of well.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It's defined as an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert
or at sea, by which the image of some object
appears displaced, above, below, or to one side of its
true position as a result of spatial variations of the
index of refraction of air, something allusory without substance or reality.
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Synonyms fantasy, hallucination, illusion, delusion, and fantasm. Yes, that's what
a mirage is. I don't think this is a mirage.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I think this is absolutely the real freaking thing.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And I can't wait until Aaron Judge and John Carlos
Stanton and the Yankees come in here on Monday. You
want to see how your best is against the best,
and that to me is the ultimate tell.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
How great are.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You against the team that went to the World Series
last year, the New York Yankees.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We'll find out everything then.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Now it's only a three game series, so even if
the mayor is not if they get swept, well, there's
an issue but it's three of one, P.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Sixty two.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But I gotta tell you, man, I don't know what
it is, but I just look at this team. Maybe
because my first year when I landed a job in
Tampa is two thousand and eight, and I'm just saying
I was the good luck charm. I got there before
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baseball started, and then the week after, into the first
week of the regular season, they called up a guy
you might have heard of named Evan Longoria, pretty good
third baseman. Right then, right around after the MLB trade deadline,
I'm like, gotta call up this guy named David Price.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They did it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
David Price was on the mound closing out the Red
Sox in Game seven of the American League Championship Series
that year. Oh by the way, the Red Sox ended
up going excuse me, the Rays ended up going to
the World Series that year, knocking off the defending World
Series champion Red Sox at that time. So maybe I'm
the good luck charm. I don't know, but could be
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some good karma here for Seattle. Might be some October
and November baseball coming up. But all I'm saying is this,
it's the Dan Wilson, Edgar Martinez and Kevin sites are effect.
It really is what they've done here and you can
just see it. Gerard Depoto was quoted, I think our
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players they believed in this from the day we stepped
foot in spring training. And that sounds cliche, but that's
half the battle, just believing that you can end quote
not wrong, not wrong. And it's the things that have
come out of his mouth fifty four percent. Uh, we're
doing the Mariners fans of favor. That's fine, it's fine,
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but I think this is sustainable. Something changed, and I
think it's the Dan Wilson effect. Sometimes you need a
new voice in the clubhouse, in the locker room, and
Dan Wilson was that guy, and I think everybody has
bought in.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I mean, that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Since he took over, they're fifth in runs, tied for
first in on base percentage, fifth and ops number one
in drawing walks at ten points. I mean, these things
they don't just happen by accident. They happen on purpose,
and they happen because everything. The ship has finally been
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rated and it's oh, I I'm telling you, man, I've
seen this before. I saw it with the Rais and eight,
and it just starting to feel kind of like that
all over again. And maybe this Mariners can be the
first team. I know we're getting ahead of ourselves here,
but maybe they could be playing in the Fall Classic
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for the first time.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
In franchise history.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Then I will take all the credit in the world
because I will be the good luck charm on that.
I mean, think about it, having one ninth straight series
since two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So something's happened.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So I don't know, you know, and I come in,
Bye Bye nor Strom rat quarterback, Hello, Sam Darnold, you know,
I just I don't know, just saying, just saying, well,
you know, you wake up every day and there's something
new in the Bill Belichick, world's most currently most famous
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gold digger, Jordan Hudson Saga soap opera Pablo Torre on
his podcast Pablo Tory finds out had a revelation.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Well, no, actually he did some sourcing and he came
up with this breaking news story.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
A couple of breaking news updates since what has happened
publicly since we last gathered number one two sources at
the University of North Carolina telling me that there has
been a decision was made last week by the higher
ups inside the athletic department that have hired Bill Belichick
to be the highest paid public employee, not just coach,
in the state of North Carolina at ten million dollars
a year, and that decision was that Jordan Hudson is
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no longer allowed in the football building. She is not
allowed on the football field.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Don't think you'll be hearing much from Jordan moving forward,
not building.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I feel.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, Pablo Tori is a respected member of the media. Guy,
you see him all the time on PTI. So when
you get that kind of run you're on with Cornheiser
and Belichick, you've done something well. The University of North
Carolina has released a statement quote while Jordan Hudson is
not an employee at the University of at the university
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or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina football facilities.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
The school said in the statement.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Jordan will continue to manage all activities related to Coach
Belichick's personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina football
in the university. Now on the podcast, Pablo Torri also
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said sources close to Belichick were quote worried that Hudson
would diminish the six time Super Bowl champion head coaches legacy.
So after North Carolina's statement came out, Pablo Torre issued
a statement quote, the University of North Carolina can choose
to describe or change its position on Jordan Hudson's involvement
however it wishes. Following the publication of our episode, we
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requested comment and filed dozens of FOIA requests that were
not satisfied, and we stand by this specific reporting in
our episode, which came from the highest levels of the
football program. End quote foia's Freedom of Information Act.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I I believe Pablo Torre. Am I a fan of his, No, no,
not at all, But I believe him. He's reputable and
he has attained a certain level of success in this business.
And here's what I think happened. Now, I can't prove it.
This is just me from the outside looking in, spitballing,
(15:37):
but here's what I think. I think Pablo Torre was
the one who nailed it. And then all of a sudden,
Bill Belichick calls up athletic director Bubba Cunningham and says,
if you don't put out a statement, I'm well, I'm
just again I'm just pair. I'm coming up with my
own just sort of theory here, hypothesis if you will,
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he said, if you don't put on a state, I'm gone,
or might have even used an F word in there,
I'm gone. So UNC had to put out a statement
to just say no, no, no, everything's fine. Nothing to
see here. It is a mess, man, It is an
absolute mess. You know my parents told me. My dad
(16:19):
said one of his biggest heartbreaks was, besides my Mets
beating the Red Sox in the eighty six World Series,
was the Beatles breaking up because he loved the Beatles
and Yoko Ono. He used to tell me about Yoko
Ono and she broke up the Beatles. Let me tell
you something. Yoko Ono got nothing on Jordan Hudson. Jordan
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Hudson makes Yoko Ono look subservient. Okay, So all I know, Bill,
is your brand, your reputation, and your legacy is being
sullied by your gold digging girlfriend because that's what she is. Okay,
Because I got news for you, Bill. Here's this isn't
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a predictions spoiler alert. Let me just tell you something
right now. If Tom Brady was in a room alone
with your girlfriend, and you were over in London recruiting
some guy that nobody had ever heard of. Do you
really think your girlfriend wouldn't do everything to get with
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your former quarterback Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Of course she would. Of course she would.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
She'd get younger, right, she'd go from seventy three to
forty seven whatever Brady is.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Of course she would.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So Bill, I hope it's worth it, man, I really
hope it's worth it. And Pablo Tory, I believe you.
I believe you. I think you nailed it. And UNC
had to go and death con five mode and say,
oh we got to release those statement Oh you know, yeah,
(17:55):
Oh it's a mess. My friend texting me today from
Florida and he goes, hey go, he even thinks he goes.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I don't think he goes.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I think there's a chance Bill Belichick doesn't ever end
up coaching one game at UNC. He doesn't think he'll
even get to September. I said, you know what, you
might be right. You might be right on that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Man. This thing is wow.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Every day we wake up and it's a new scandal, soap, opera, saga,
whatever you want to call it, whatever, And it's sad.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It really is sad.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
But Bill, just so you know, your former quarterback who
could have your girlfriend anytime he wanted with a snap
of a finger. He didn't even give you an interview
for the Raiders job. He hired a guy that you
beat in the Super Bowl, who has five less Super
Bowl rings than you do. He hired him. You know why,
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because Pete Carroll was a better hire for the Raiders
than Bill Belichick would have been. Oh and I found
out another thing. I thought that Robert Kraft's sandbag Belichick
on getting the Falcons job to owner Arthur Blank, which
I believe he did that. But guess what else I
heard Arthur Blank's right hand man, Rich McKay, He said
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about Belichick, no f and way and they went with
raw Raheem Morris, their former DC. They said no f
and way on Belichick, Bill Belichick's career in the NFL.
I can't say enough.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
It is done.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
That ship has sailed, Hey is way, it's lost at sea, gone,
probably being ravaged by sharks right now.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
It's gone. It is over, And.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I have a feeling this UNC crap will be over
with soon too. And I just wonder if they're gonna
want to stick with the head coach in waiting, Steve Belichick,
and I feel bad for Steve. I feel bad for
his brother Brian, and I feel bad for their sister, Amanda,
because your father is making that entire your family look
like fools right now. And I am embarrassed for the
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Belichick family. And I feel sorry for Bill Belichick's kids
and his grandkids because he does have grandkids. It's just sad.
Sad fellows. Don't ever let a gold digger rule your world.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I who did I.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Interview in time a keep to Leap when he was
the first round pick by the Buccaneers in eight and
he said, do you have any suggestions for me? And
I said, yes, beware and watch out for all thirst trappers.
And he laughed his ass off, said a key by.
I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Man. You right now, you are you are.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You are prime cut choice meat that costs three hundred
dollars a plate at the world's best steakhous, which was
burn Steakhouse in Tampa. Watch out for the gold digging
thirst trappers because they're dared to get you. Oh yeah,
it happens all right, coming up next each You know
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what I coin this, I'm the one who made up
this saying it's time to each your crow bro. Coming
up next right here on MJ in the Midday Sports
Radio ninety three to three KJRFM, The University of Texas
will reportedly spend thirty five to forty million dollars on
its football team in twenty twenty five. Remember last year
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when people talked about Ohio State being a twenty million
football roster. They're gonna spend nearly double that. So if
you don't if they don't win the national championship next
year with the number one pick in next year's draft,
arch Manning, they are the biggest failure, one of the
biggest failures in college football history. Thirty five to forty
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million dollars. Pretty soon, you're gonna be getting near NFL.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I wonder when that starts to escalate into seventy to
eighty and one hundred to one hundred and twenty, you're
gonna get near NFL rosters. It just one of the
things I will say to all the people that talked about.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Ooh, student athlete new.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, I got your student athlete right here. It was
all a total sham. It was all a total fraud.
We all knew that the revenue producing sports, there's only
two of them, college football and men's college basketball. Now
women's college basketball at Yukon, Iowa, Tennessee South Carolina. There's
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a handful of programs that produces there. But in terms
of the overall, yeah, eat that crow bro all right? Uh?
Leon dry Citle I mentioned them we'd clutch yesterday and
Leon dry Citle last night from the Edmonton Oilers scored
his second overtime winning goal in these playoffs and they're
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own only in the second round. They've only played eight
games and he's got two overtime game winners. He is
proving to be absolutely totally clutch. Okay, So now you
know how I feel about clutch. That is so Now
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in the NBA, there's a definition for clutch. The NBA
defines clutch situations as the final five minutes of the
fourth quarter or overtime when the score is within five points. Okay,
let me repeat that, the final five minutes of the
fourth quarter overtime when the score is within five points,
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that's clutch.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Now, if someone is nineteen for one oh seven and
clutch shots for seventeen point eight percent, is that clutch, Chris,
do you think that's clutch?
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Probably not, I would let's.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Not say probably, it's seventeen point eight percent is not clutch.
That's absolutely an abortion.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Okay. How about three pointers in.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Terms of clutch shots as a three pointer twenty seven
of twenty six, which equates to twenty six point nine percent.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Is that clutch?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Probably not, No, it is not.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
How about this.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Field goal percentage in game winning or tying situations in
the fourth quarter or over time, twenty of one sixteen
for seventeen percent.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Not clutch, right, not clutch at all.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Now in the NBA Finals in clutch situations seven of
twenty six for twenty six point nine percent, and regardless
of three point situations twenty three of seventy five for
thirty point seven percent. Anything below thirty six percent is trash.
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Thirty point seven is awful. Twenty six point nine percent
three point percentage is awful. And then when you're talking
twenty for sixteen for seventy percent in game winning or
tying field goals in the fourth quarter overtime is an abortion.
I just gave you, Lebron James, so you said on
this show yesterday, Lebron James is clutch. That's Lebron james career.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
That is not clutch.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Chris. That is not clutch, Chris. That is choke. That
is the definition of choke. Chris. Now, you can like
someone all you want. My girlfriend could be Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Is she hot?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
In my eyes? She might be, but to the world
probably not there. That's not clutch. You can google all
you want, sweetheart. These are the stats. That's his career.
Those are facts. Now, facts don't give an f about feelings.
Turn narratives into verdicts. That's a verdict. Yesterday you said
Lebron James was clutch on the show.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
I think he's still clutch.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
He's not clutch, Chris. You also said, you know Smith
was a star on the Seahawks. Yes, no, he was
not a star. He made a Pro Bowl one time,
Matt Shop made a Pro Bowl one time, Vince Young
made a Pro Bowl one time.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
But you've also equitted like four different definitions of clutch,
which we talked about.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yes, I'm just talking about shooting and shooting.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Okay, well see now you're changing it again.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
No, no, you're talking about We're just well, well, don't
you get paid to hit shots. Sure, Okay, to play basketball,
I agree, Okay, now I'm not played to play defense
those things, and I admitted you have changed the definition
of clutch. But we're just talking about shooting. Is this
clutch shooting clutch shooting? No, that's not what we're talking about.
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Clutch this.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You want to bring up shooting.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And talk about Steph because he's the greatest shoot of
all time because you love step Steph's another cha can't
talk about it. Bring up Gary Payton shooting? How about
how about Danny Ainge? You know what we were talking
about yesterday with Liso.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Would love to see that stat because I guarantee you
it's probably not even he doesn't even taken that many shots.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Right, Okay, fair enough, but I'm sick. I'm just talking
about for Lebron. It just goes to show No, but
trist these are stats.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
This is facts.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
I know it's facts.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
But you literally went from oh, it's a shooting thing
to clutch in general. Yes, we're talking about the clutch
just having being clutch. It could be this now that
did no, but did he?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Okay, We're just talking because clutch shooting, clutch shooting.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I'm thinking of a in the last five minutes, which
if I looked on here last five minutes, final five minutes,
he's fifty percent.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
He's fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
So what is that from?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
What? For?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
What?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Clutch field goal percentage? No, that is wrong, that's wrong.
That is wrong. I have get listen, are you talking finals?
You talking regular season?
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I'm talking about you have clutch overall finals, which you
mentioned thirty point seven percent, clutch three four percent which
you mentioned, twenty six point nine, clutch field goal percentage
all situations, seventeen point eight clutch field goal percentage final
five minutes fifty.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
No, here's what I have. Career clutch shots. He's taken
one hundred and seven shots in his career. He's made
nineteen for seventeen point eight percent. I don't know where
you're getting fifty.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
I literally just told you the same. Okay, just broke
it down.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I mean, it just says career clutch shots seventeen point
eight percent read nineteen.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I want to say clutch field goal percent It is
all situations.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
That's seventeen point nine percent.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
That I said, clutch field goal percent in final five minutes.
So that clutch definition that you originally stated from the
jump the final five minutes they're encountering that, which is fifty.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Well, that's all counted in here. It's all counted in here.
It's all within the last five minutes a fourth quarter, overtime.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I think that's the all situations. That's okayring to.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
But what I'm saying in terms of listen, has he
made passes, has he made blocks?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
He's a clutch player regardless.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Okay, shooting stats you could have, Okay, I'm not worry Well, that's.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
What I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
That's well, And that's why he said yesterday when you
said I would take I was.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Thinking, and one hundred guys is crazy. You're not taking
a hundred guys.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I would listen, I had ten Celtics that It's.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Fine, ten Celtics, that's great, that's fine. I'm kind of
taking one hundred players over.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
All, easily easily current former I I came up with
that list. And this was even before and this was
even before Tenny Edwards even came the league.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
If you bring up the same stats for one hundred
other players, I guarantee you none of them are even
this close or even putting up that many shots in
clutch situations.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
So it's not even a fair comparison.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Well, here's for example, you could probably say, like I mean,
you listen, Michael Porter Junior would have a better clutch
percentage because you only took nine shots and he made
five of them.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Doesn't mean he's a better shooting them because he had
he didn't go to eight straight NBA finals. Well, this
is not an NBA statement, No, no, it's not.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
This is this is basically in his entire career, defining
clutch situations in the five final five minutes of the
fourth quarter overtime when the scores win five points seventeen
point eight percent.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
All I'm saying is I think you gotta stop just
mixing what clutch is.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm just about shooting. Yeah, I don't care about shooting.
That's fine. Shooting is a pretty big part. It's a
big part. But it's the end all be all.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
No one's gonna go like, dang, you know what, Lebron
might be the greatest of all time, but he just
couldn't be.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Like, no one's worried about that. Now, has he been
clutching other things? Like blocking Andre? He's been clutching okay, Andre,
blocking in Andre Iguodala yes, getting the ball to Kyrie
Irving too.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
We can nitpick those.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
What I'm saying, I can find a flaw on Steph Curry, Like, defensively,
he is not clutching the moment when it comes down
to it, he can't play defense.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
But that's just nitpicking. I'm not gonna do that to
him because I know he's.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
He can't play defense, He's not a defense but.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
I would not nitpick it.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
I wouldn't come out and be like, he's one of
the worst defenders of all time. And here's my percentages
as to why I would never do that, because this
greatness exceeds that it does.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
But he's not the greatest defender. We know that.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
But yes, and Lebron's not the greatest shooter. So to
bring the shooting aspect of it.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Well, here's my thing.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Well, my thing is just about shooting. So I'm telling
you if I went through, but I don't think there's
one hundred guys you would pick though. To be honest, well,
I can tell you I could go I've done it before,
I did it. No, I've done Chris, We're talking all time.
I know that. But listen, he's not that bad. I'm
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not man, I'm talking about to win a game. He
was shot, and even then he is not that bad,
right Hey, lit the stats say that he's here. Let
me just give you right off the top of my head.
And I'm not writting this down. You can see I'm
not reading from that thing. Larry on the Celtics. Just
the Celtics. I'll pick them out of that fine Larry Bird,
Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett.
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Kevin Garnett ain't hit. Okay, this is what I'm listen.
I'm just telling you. I pull up the KG stats
like you just did for Lebron, I would take Garnett
over him in my opinion, because I would trust Garnett
with the game on the line more in my opinion.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Can't even name three game when he shots.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
He's But by the way, Rashid Wallace was a Celtic,
I would he was a great three point shooter.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
We're talking about clutch.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
I didn't say great th point shooter.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
We're talking about the clutch shooting gene that you were
talking about, Not shooting gene, but the clutch shooting percentage
that you were.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I'm sorry, by the way, you could say, Okay, you
can move Garnett, how you can remember how about Bob Couzy,
John Halchek, Okay, I don't have to look at well,
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I just gave you nine off the top of my head.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Up their stats. I don't think you know, I know.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I'm saying that these guys were were certainly guys I
would trust with the ball if I was a head
coach to win the finals just on one shot.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Well, Kevin Garnett probably wouldn't even get the ball in
that situation.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
You could take him off the list. I just I
could give you don't even know if she's getting I
could get what Drashid was a good three point shooter.
He was a good three point shooter. But I don't
know if in the NBA finals are like need to
go with the Pistons. He hit some big shots with them,
and so has Lebron. So that's what you're telling me
seventeen point nine percent. I would argue that Kevin Garnett
and Raida, but you're not okay, Okay, Rashid Wallace was
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a really good three point shooting. He's one of the
first guys in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
You're not talking about clutch with these guys. You're talking
about shooting. She one finals, he went to three of them.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I say he didn't, right, You see where I'm going
with this. No, I'm telling you Lebron is not clutched
as a shooter. And I don't think Rashid is as
clutch as Lebron.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
But listen, listen to you.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
If you don't know who John haveletcheck and and I
know who they are, Bob Cruzy, I mean, but because
you don't need a stats their hall of famers, and
I mean, I mean, come on, sevent Chris, you're wrong,
you were wrong. You gotta eat your crow, bro. You
already well then you don't know what you're talking about.
That just changing, Chris, Chris, I didn't change anything. I
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did shooting. You did shooting, and you're do not understand that, Chris.
You think you said you know Smith was a pro Christers,
you don't have to let me start anything you said yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I'm talking about shooting. You were wrong. Can you ad
you were wrong?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Then?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
But you did you already met you were wrong on shooting.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
You just said.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
You said, I'll give you the clutch Chris. Chris, first
of all, you I didn't change anything. I'm talking about shooting.
You already said I'll give you the shooting thing.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You just admitted it.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
And then what did you say?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
You said shooting? You No, do you agree he's not
a clutch shooting? Do you agree he's not a clutch shooter?
You just said I'm talking about shooter. You won't do it, dude, Chris,
I'm sorry you grew up. You gotta make a wish
Michael Jordan. You got you ordered Michael Jordan, and you
gotta make a wish Michael. He's not better than Michael.
He's not better than Larry. He's not better than Magic.
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He's not better than Kobe. He's not better than Kareem.
He's not better than Steph. We can start. Charles Barkley said,
if he loses in the first round, he's not one
of the top.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Five the first round.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I'm just I'm just telling you seventeen point nine percent.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
We're not talking about point nine percent. Chris. You can't
admit when you're wrong. I admit when I'm wrong. You
can't admit when you were You just admitted it. It's
not clutch shooting. You just admitted it. No, I'm not rapping. No,
you just admitted it.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Now you won't rap because you're Oh, you're idyl Lebron
seventeen point nine percent.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Chris, eat your crow, bro, just eat it. How does
it taste? I just want to know how it tastes.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Seventeen point nine percent for all of Lebron stands out
there right now. Lebron can't shoot in the clutch.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
He's he can't shoot.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
And this is before guys like Jalen Brunson and Anthony
Edwards who have even come into the league that I
would take over Lebron. I take og Nanobi, I take
Latrelle Spreewell, Alan Houston, John Starks.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I just gave you.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Six nicks off the top of my head. I didn't
even get to Walt Clyde Fraser. Lebron is a fraud, lefraud.
Whatever you want to say. He can't shoot. Eat your crowbo.
This is MJ in the Midday
Got back from Vegas a month ago. This upcoming Sunday
and literally the I think I'm just gonna say this.
I've been here three months already. I think Seattle gets
a bad rap for bad weather. I think the weather
around here has been beautiful. So I don't know this
what you speak of all the weather's so bad? Oh,
it's this now. When I first got here, it was
(00:22):
dreary and it you know, and it was a little cold,
the cold side from New Englands. It wasn't that bad.
But for the last month since I got back on
tell me see tenth eleventh, April thirteenth, which was a Sunday,
the weather here has been fall football weather, absolutely perfect.
I wish I could bottle it up Chamber of Commerce,
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mother nature weather.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I just love it.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I what is this bad weather? What are you guys
talking about. I haven't seen anything about it yet. I
think it's I think it's all just a bunch of hype.
I'm waiting for this bad weather. I haven't seen it.
We've hardly gotten any rain in the last four weeks,
slight drizzle here and there, but it's been beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Please keep it up. I love this weather.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I love it, and I could everyone just commute to
work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays the way you do
on Fridays, which is basically nobody in Seattle goes into
work on Friday. My commute in today was probably thirty
thirty six to thirty eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I love it. Let's keep that going. I wish, you know, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays is just like, oh, I just don't
you know. I mean, man, this weather and I haven't
even experienced the weather here in the summer, which I
heard is you know, I experienced it one week in
June of twenty sixteen filling in for Softy when he
had one of his twenty six weeks of vacation that year. Now,
(01:51):
I think he's probably at the thirty two weeks of vacation,
but he's earned it because he's been here thirty one years.
You're here thirty one years, you should get thirty one
weeks of vacation. That's how it works. But yeah, so
I love this weather and I don't care what I mean.
It's just perfect. You want to go outside in a
T shirt, you can do a T shirt. You want
to do zip a puddy do a zip a puddy shorts,
whatever you want. I just don't believe Seattle has bad weather.
(02:14):
I'm sorry, I just don't believe it. Now, the Seattle Mariners,
this has been nothing short of shocking, twenty two and
fourteen best thirty six games starts since two thousand and three,
baseball's best record over the last month six game home stands.
(02:36):
Starting tonight, blue Jay's coming down. We will better not
see any Blue Jay gear and Vlad Guerrero Junior jerseys
in the Mariner's flagship store. We've already talked about that.
I'm just I've got my I've got my minions and
moles out there. They're gonna be monitoring the situation outside
the stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's all I don't have. I mean, outside the state.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
If you want to sell and I'm not saying this
but as a Insama Bin Modern jersey, they're not regulated,
they're not official vendors, so.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
They're gonna sell what they're gonna sell. It depends whether
or not you want to buy it. So that's that's
a completely different story. Inside.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You know, once you get inside that premise of the
premises of t Mobile Park and you walking inside the
gift store should be nothing. Now, I do understand they
sell all thirty Major League Baseball hats, which I think
is actually cool.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But no T shirts, no jerseys, no nineteen ninety two,
ninety three World Series champion Blue Jays merchandise. We don't
want to see any of that crap, none of.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It all right, So.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I'm I'm just shocked about how this team is doing it.
Only the Yankees right now, Only the Yankees, which I
mean that tells you the rare of fied Air and
company that the Mariners are in. Only the Yankees right
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now have a higher weighted run created plus, which is
a metric that measures how hitters perform relative to league average. Okay,
so Mariners, it's one hundred and twenty four. Okay, so
that shows you how great they've been. I guess the
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average is about one hundred. Mariners are second in home
runs to the Yankees. They have fifty one, Yankees have
sixty two. But it's it's just something much more than that.
And then you know, there's an article in the Seattle
Times by Adam Jude, and he did a really good
(04:47):
job breaking this thing down and I'm gonna quote, and
he said the Mariners three forty on base percentage ranked
second in MLB, behind, of course, the Yankees at three
forty two slight percentage points averaging five runs a game,
up a full run from their twenty twenty four average.
They average four runs a game last year, seemed like
they averaged two. Can't believe they averaged four from last
(05:11):
year anyway, I guess they did.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That was the shocking thing, not that they're averaging five.
I thought they the way they've been playing recently, they've
been averaging six runs a game, but they're averaging five
runs a game. And they cut down on their strikeout
rate significantly from twenty six point eight percent last year
to twenty one point six percent now the league average
is twenty one point nine percent. So they're doing just
(05:35):
a phenomenal job. How about this eleven comeback wins for
the Ems tied for the most in the American League.
Their three ninth in income from behind wins are the
most in Major League Baseball. So they're doing it right
in those my word, clutch situations. And this to me,
(05:59):
and this is a great thing by the Seattle Times
and compiling this since Dan Wilson took over on August
twenty second last year. I kid you not if you're driving,
have both hands. On ten and two, the Mariners have
the best offense in the American League as measured by
what I talked about weighted runs created plus. And of
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course you know, Dan Wilson was the guy who convinced
Edgar Martinez to come back for the second time. Only
the Dodgers, with a one twenty nine WRC plus have
a better across all of baseball. So since August twenty
second of last year, which is and normally I'm like,
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you can find any statistics to back up your point
if you want to, the Mariners are fifth in runs
since Dan Wilson took over. Okay, so this is the
important part. Since Dan Wilson took over, fifth in runs
tenth and back average, that's decent two fifty, fifth in
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home runs ninety three, third in stolen bases with eighty five,
tied for first, and on base percentage with three forty three,
fifth and ops with seven fifty nine. They're K percent
fifteenth twenty two point six, walk percentage first ten point seven,
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and as I mentioned, second only to the Dodgers with
the weighted runs created plus with one twenty five. My
question is this, how long can this thing sustain? A
mirage is something that you It's like this uh great
(07:50):
thing that you see and you.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Just kind of well.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It's defined as an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert
or at sea, by which the image of some object
appears displaced, above, below, or to one side of its
true position as a result of spatial variations of the
index of refraction of air, something allusory without substance or reality.
(08:18):
Synonyms fantasy, hallucination, illusion, delusion, and fantasm. Yes, that's what
a mirage is. I don't think this is a mirage.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I think this is absolutely the real freaking thing.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And I can't wait until Aaron Judge and John Carlos
Stanton and the Yankees come in here on Monday. You
want to see how your best is against the best,
and that to me is the ultimate tell.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
How great are.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You against the team that went to the World Series
last year, the New York Yankees.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We'll find out everything then.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Now it's only a three game series, so even if
the mayor is not if they get swept, well, there's
an issue but it's three of one, P.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Sixty two.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But I gotta tell you, man, I don't know what
it is, but I just look at this team. Maybe
because my first year when I landed a job in
Tampa is two thousand and eight, and I'm just saying
I was the good luck charm. I got there before
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baseball started, and then the week after, into the first
week of the regular season, they called up a guy
you might have heard of named Evan Longoria, pretty good
third baseman. Right then, right around after the MLB trade deadline,
I'm like, gotta call up this guy named David Price.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
They did it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
David Price was on the mound closing out the Red
Sox in Game seven of the American League Championship Series
that year. Oh by the way, the Red Sox ended
up going excuse me, the Rays ended up going to
the World Series that year, knocking off the defending World
Series champion Red Sox at that time. So maybe I'm
the good luck charm. I don't know, but could be
(10:11):
some good karma here for Seattle. Might be some October
and November baseball coming up. But all I'm saying is this,
it's the Dan Wilson, Edgar Martinez and Kevin sites are effect.
It really is what they've done here and you can
just see it. Gerard Depoto was quoted, I think our
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players they believed in this from the day we stepped
foot in spring training. And that sounds cliche, but that's
half the battle, just believing that you can end quote
not wrong, not wrong. And it's the things that have
come out of his mouth fifty four percent. Uh, we're
doing the Mariners fans of favor. That's fine, it's fine,
(10:57):
but I think this is sustainable. Something changed, and I
think it's the Dan Wilson effect. Sometimes you need a
new voice in the clubhouse, in the locker room, and
Dan Wilson was that guy, and I think everybody has
bought in.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I mean, that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Since he took over, they're fifth in runs, tied for
first in on base percentage, fifth and ops number one
in drawing walks at ten points. I mean, these things
they don't just happen by accident. They happen on purpose,
and they happen because everything. The ship has finally been
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rated and it's oh, I I'm telling you, man, I've
seen this before. I saw it with the Rais and eight,
and it just starting to feel kind of like that
all over again. And maybe this Mariners can be the
first team. I know we're getting ahead of ourselves here,
but maybe they could be playing in the Fall Classic
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for the first time.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
In franchise history.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Then I will take all the credit in the world
because I will be the good luck charm on that.
I mean, think about it, having one ninth straight series
since two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So something's happened.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So I don't know, you know, and I come in,
Bye Bye nor Strom rat quarterback, Hello, Sam Darnold, you know,
I just I don't know, just saying, just saying, well,
you know, you wake up every day and there's something
new in the Bill Belichick, world's most currently most famous
(12:37):
gold digger, Jordan Hudson Saga soap opera Pablo Torre on
his podcast Pablo Tory finds out had a revelation.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Well, no, actually he did some sourcing and he came
up with this breaking news story.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
A couple of breaking news updates since what has happened
publicly since we last gathered number one two sources at
the University of North Carolina telling me that there has
been a decision was made last week by the higher
ups inside the athletic department that have hired Bill Belichick
to be the highest paid public employee, not just coach,
in the state of North Carolina at ten million dollars
a year, and that decision was that Jordan Hudson is
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no longer allowed in the football building. She is not
allowed on the football field.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Don't think you'll be hearing much from Jordan moving forward,
not building.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I feel.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, Pablo Tori is a respected member of the media. Guy,
you see him all the time on PTI. So when
you get that kind of run you're on with Cornheiser
and Belichick, you've done something well. The University of North
Carolina has released a statement quote while Jordan Hudson is
not an employee at the University of at the university
(14:02):
or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina football facilities.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
The school said in the statement.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Jordan will continue to manage all activities related to Coach
Belichick's personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina football
in the university. Now on the podcast, Pablo Torri also
(14:29):
said sources close to Belichick were quote worried that Hudson
would diminish the six time Super Bowl champion head coaches legacy.
So after North Carolina's statement came out, Pablo Torre issued
a statement quote, the University of North Carolina can choose
to describe or change its position on Jordan Hudson's involvement
however it wishes. Following the publication of our episode, we
(14:52):
requested comment and filed dozens of FOIA requests that were
not satisfied, and we stand by this specific reporting in
our episode, which came from the highest levels of the
football program. End quote foia's Freedom of Information Act.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I I believe Pablo Torre. Am I a fan of his, No, no,
not at all, But I believe him. He's reputable and
he has attained a certain level of success in this business.
And here's what I think happened. Now, I can't prove it.
This is just me from the outside looking in, spitballing,
(15:37):
but here's what I think. I think Pablo Torre was
the one who nailed it. And then all of a sudden,
Bill Belichick calls up athletic director Bubba Cunningham and says,
if you don't put out a statement, I'm well, I'm
just again I'm just pair. I'm coming up with my
own just sort of theory here, hypothesis if you will,
(15:58):
he said, if you don't put on a state, I'm gone,
or might have even used an F word in there,
I'm gone. So UNC had to put out a statement
to just say no, no, no, everything's fine. Nothing to
see here. It is a mess, man, It is an
absolute mess. You know my parents told me. My dad
(16:19):
said one of his biggest heartbreaks was, besides my Mets
beating the Red Sox in the eighty six World Series,
was the Beatles breaking up because he loved the Beatles
and Yoko Ono. He used to tell me about Yoko
Ono and she broke up the Beatles. Let me tell
you something. Yoko Ono got nothing on Jordan Hudson. Jordan
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Hudson makes Yoko Ono look subservient. Okay, So all I know, Bill,
is your brand, your reputation, and your legacy is being
sullied by your gold digging girlfriend because that's what she is. Okay,
Because I got news for you, Bill. Here's this isn't
(17:00):
a predictions spoiler alert. Let me just tell you something
right now. If Tom Brady was in a room alone
with your girlfriend, and you were over in London recruiting
some guy that nobody had ever heard of. Do you
really think your girlfriend wouldn't do everything to get with
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your former quarterback Tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Of course she would. Of course she would.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
She'd get younger, right, she'd go from seventy three to
forty seven whatever Brady is.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Of course she would.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So Bill, I hope it's worth it, man, I really
hope it's worth it. And Pablo Tory, I believe you.
I believe you. I think you nailed it. And UNC
had to go and death con five mode and say,
oh we got to release those statement Oh you know, yeah,
(17:55):
Oh it's a mess. My friend texting me today from
Florida and he goes, hey go, he even thinks he goes.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I don't think he goes.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I think there's a chance Bill Belichick doesn't ever end
up coaching one game at UNC. He doesn't think he'll
even get to September. I said, you know what, you
might be right. You might be right on that.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Man. This thing is wow.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Every day we wake up and it's a new scandal, soap, opera, saga,
whatever you want to call it, whatever, And it's sad.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It really is sad.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
But Bill, just so you know, your former quarterback who
could have your girlfriend anytime he wanted with a snap
of a finger. He didn't even give you an interview
for the Raiders job. He hired a guy that you
beat in the Super Bowl, who has five less Super
Bowl rings than you do. He hired him. You know why,
(18:53):
because Pete Carroll was a better hire for the Raiders
than Bill Belichick would have been. Oh and I found
out another thing. I thought that Robert Kraft's sandbag Belichick
on getting the Falcons job to owner Arthur Blank, which
I believe he did that. But guess what else I
heard Arthur Blank's right hand man, Rich McKay, He said
(19:14):
about Belichick, no f and way and they went with
raw Raheem Morris, their former DC. They said no f
and way on Belichick, Bill Belichick's career in the NFL.
I can't say enough.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
It is done.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
That ship has sailed, Hey is way, it's lost at sea, gone,
probably being ravaged by sharks right now.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
It's gone. It is over, And.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I have a feeling this UNC crap will be over
with soon too. And I just wonder if they're gonna
want to stick with the head coach in waiting, Steve Belichick,
and I feel bad for Steve. I feel bad for
his brother Brian, and I feel bad for their sister, Amanda,
because your father is making that entire your family look
like fools right now. And I am embarrassed for the
(20:04):
Belichick family. And I feel sorry for Bill Belichick's kids
and his grandkids because he does have grandkids. It's just sad.
Sad fellows. Don't ever let a gold digger rule your world.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I who did I.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Interview in time a keep to Leap when he was
the first round pick by the Buccaneers in eight and
he said, do you have any suggestions for me? And
I said, yes, beware and watch out for all thirst trappers.
And he laughed his ass off, said a key by.
I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Man. You right now, you are you are.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You are prime cut choice meat that costs three hundred
dollars a plate at the world's best steakhous, which was
burn Steakhouse in Tampa. Watch out for the gold digging
thirst trappers because they're dared to get you. Oh yeah,
it happens all right, coming up next each You know
(21:02):
what I coin this, I'm the one who made up
this saying it's time to each your crow bro. Coming
up next right here on MJ in the Midday Sports
Radio ninety three to three KJRFM, The University of Texas
will reportedly spend thirty five to forty million dollars on
its football team in twenty twenty five. Remember last year
(21:22):
when people talked about Ohio State being a twenty million
football roster. They're gonna spend nearly double that. So if
you don't if they don't win the national championship next
year with the number one pick in next year's draft,
arch Manning, they are the biggest failure, one of the
biggest failures in college football history. Thirty five to forty
(21:44):
million dollars. Pretty soon, you're gonna be getting near NFL.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I wonder when that starts to escalate into seventy to
eighty and one hundred to one hundred and twenty, you're
gonna get near NFL rosters. It just one of the
things I will say to all the people that talked about.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Ooh, student athlete new.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, I got your student athlete right here. It was
all a total sham. It was all a total fraud.
We all knew that the revenue producing sports, there's only
two of them, college football and men's college basketball. Now
women's college basketball at Yukon, Iowa, Tennessee South Carolina. There's
(22:34):
a handful of programs that produces there. But in terms
of the overall, yeah, eat that crow bro all right? Uh?
Leon dry Citle I mentioned them we'd clutch yesterday and
Leon dry Citle last night from the Edmonton Oilers scored
his second overtime winning goal in these playoffs and they're
(22:59):
own only in the second round. They've only played eight
games and he's got two overtime game winners. He is
proving to be absolutely totally clutch. Okay, So now you
know how I feel about clutch. That is so Now
(23:20):
in the NBA, there's a definition for clutch. The NBA
defines clutch situations as the final five minutes of the
fourth quarter or overtime when the score is within five points. Okay,
let me repeat that, the final five minutes of the
fourth quarter overtime when the score is within five points,
(23:41):
that's clutch.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Now, if someone is nineteen for one oh seven and
clutch shots for seventeen point eight percent, is that clutch, Chris,
do you think that's clutch?
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Probably not, I would let's.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Not say probably, it's seventeen point eight percent is not clutch.
That's absolutely an abortion.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Okay. How about three pointers in.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Terms of clutch shots as a three pointer twenty seven
of twenty six, which equates to twenty six point nine percent.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Is that clutch?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Probably not, No, it is not.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
How about this.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Field goal percentage in game winning or tying situations in
the fourth quarter or over time, twenty of one sixteen
for seventeen percent.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Not clutch, right, not clutch at all.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Now in the NBA Finals in clutch situations seven of
twenty six for twenty six point nine percent, and regardless
of three point situations twenty three of seventy five for
thirty point seven percent. Anything below thirty six percent is trash.
(25:14):
Thirty point seven is awful. Twenty six point nine percent
three point percentage is awful. And then when you're talking
twenty for sixteen for seventy percent in game winning or
tying field goals in the fourth quarter overtime is an abortion.
I just gave you, Lebron James, so you said on
this show yesterday, Lebron James is clutch. That's Lebron james career.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
That is not clutch.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Chris. That is not clutch, Chris. That is choke. That
is the definition of choke. Chris. Now, you can like
someone all you want. My girlfriend could be Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Is she hot?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
In my eyes? She might be, but to the world
probably not there. That's not clutch. You can google all
you want, sweetheart. These are the stats. That's his career.
Those are facts. Now, facts don't give an f about feelings.
Turn narratives into verdicts. That's a verdict. Yesterday you said
Lebron James was clutch on the show.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
I think he's still clutch.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
He's not clutch, Chris. You also said, you know Smith
was a star on the Seahawks. Yes, no, he was
not a star. He made a Pro Bowl one time,
Matt Shop made a Pro Bowl one time, Vince Young
made a Pro Bowl one time.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
But you've also equitted like four different definitions of clutch,
which we talked about.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yes, I'm just talking about shooting and shooting.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Okay, well see now you're changing it again.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
No, no, you're talking about We're just well, well, don't
you get paid to hit shots. Sure, Okay, to play basketball,
I agree, Okay, now I'm not played to play defense
those things, and I admitted you have changed the definition
of clutch. But we're just talking about shooting. Is this
clutch shooting clutch shooting? No, that's not what we're talking about.
(26:47):
Clutch this.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You want to bring up shooting.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And talk about Steph because he's the greatest shoot of
all time because you love step Steph's another cha can't
talk about it. Bring up Gary Payton shooting? How about
how about Danny Ainge? You know what we were talking
about yesterday with Liso.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Would love to see that stat because I guarantee you
it's probably not even he doesn't even taken that many shots.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Right, Okay, fair enough, but I'm sick. I'm just talking
about for Lebron. It just goes to show No, but
trist these are stats.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
This is facts.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
I know it's facts.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
But you literally went from oh, it's a shooting thing
to clutch in general. Yes, we're talking about the clutch
just having being clutch. It could be this now that
did no, but did he?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Okay, We're just talking because clutch shooting, clutch shooting.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I'm thinking of a in the last five minutes, which
if I looked on here last five minutes, final five minutes,
he's fifty percent.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
He's fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
So what is that from?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
What? For?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
What?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Clutch field goal percentage? No, that is wrong, that's wrong.
That is wrong. I have get listen, are you talking finals?
You talking regular season?
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I'm talking about you have clutch overall finals, which you
mentioned thirty point seven percent, clutch three four percent which
you mentioned, twenty six point nine, clutch field goal percentage
all situations, seventeen point eight clutch field goal percentage final
five minutes fifty.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
No, here's what I have. Career clutch shots. He's taken
one hundred and seven shots in his career. He's made
nineteen for seventeen point eight percent. I don't know where
you're getting fifty.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
I literally just told you the same. Okay, just broke
it down.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I mean, it just says career clutch shots seventeen point
eight percent read nineteen.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I want to say clutch field goal percent It is
all situations.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
That's seventeen point nine percent.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
That I said, clutch field goal percent in final five minutes.
So that clutch definition that you originally stated from the
jump the final five minutes they're encountering that, which is fifty.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Well, that's all counted in here. It's all counted in here.
It's all within the last five minutes a fourth quarter, overtime.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I think that's the all situations. That's okayring to.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
But what I'm saying in terms of listen, has he
made passes, has he made blocks?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
He's a clutch player regardless.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Okay, shooting stats you could have, Okay, I'm not worry Well, that's.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
What I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
That's well, And that's why he said yesterday when you
said I would take I was.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Thinking, and one hundred guys is crazy. You're not taking
a hundred guys.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I would listen, I had ten Celtics that It's.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Fine, ten Celtics, that's great, that's fine. I'm kind of
taking one hundred players over.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
All, easily easily current former I I came up with
that list. And this was even before and this was
even before Tenny Edwards even came the league.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
If you bring up the same stats for one hundred
other players, I guarantee you none of them are even
this close or even putting up that many shots in
clutch situations.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
So it's not even a fair comparison.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Well, here's for example, you could probably say, like I mean,
you listen, Michael Porter Junior would have a better clutch
percentage because you only took nine shots and he made
five of them.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Doesn't mean he's a better shooting them because he had
he didn't go to eight straight NBA finals. Well, this
is not an NBA statement, No, no, it's not.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
This is this is basically in his entire career, defining
clutch situations in the five final five minutes of the
fourth quarter overtime when the scores win five points seventeen
point eight percent.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
All I'm saying is I think you gotta stop just
mixing what clutch is.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'm just about shooting. Yeah, I don't care about shooting.
That's fine. Shooting is a pretty big part. It's a
big part. But it's the end all be all.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
No one's gonna go like, dang, you know what, Lebron
might be the greatest of all time, but he just
couldn't be.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Like, no one's worried about that. Now, has he been
clutching other things? Like blocking Andre? He's been clutching okay, Andre,
blocking in Andre Iguodala yes, getting the ball to Kyrie
Irving too.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
We can nitpick those.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
What I'm saying, I can find a flaw on Steph Curry, Like, defensively,
he is not clutching the moment when it comes down
to it, he can't play defense.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
But that's just nitpicking. I'm not gonna do that to
him because I know he's.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
He can't play defense, He's not a defense but.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
I would not nitpick it.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
I wouldn't come out and be like, he's one of
the worst defenders of all time. And here's my percentages
as to why I would never do that, because this
greatness exceeds that it does.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
But he's not the greatest defender. We know that.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
But yes, and Lebron's not the greatest shooter. So to
bring the shooting aspect of it.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Well, here's my thing.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Well, my thing is just about shooting. So I'm telling
you if I went through, but I don't think there's
one hundred guys you would pick though. To be honest, well,
I can tell you I could go I've done it before,
I did it. No, I've done Chris, We're talking all time.
I know that. But listen, he's not that bad. I'm
(31:09):
not man, I'm talking about to win a game. He
was shot, and even then he is not that bad,
right Hey, lit the stats say that he's here. Let
me just give you right off the top of my head.
And I'm not writting this down. You can see I'm
not reading from that thing. Larry on the Celtics. Just
the Celtics. I'll pick them out of that fine Larry Bird,
Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett.
(31:35):
Kevin Garnett ain't hit. Okay, this is what I'm listen.
I'm just telling you. I pull up the KG stats
like you just did for Lebron, I would take Garnett
over him in my opinion, because I would trust Garnett
with the game on the line more in my opinion.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Can't even name three game when he shots.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
He's But by the way, Rashid Wallace was a Celtic,
I would he was a great three point shooter.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
We're talking about clutch.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
I didn't say great th point shooter.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
We're talking about the clutch shooting gene that you were
talking about, Not shooting gene, but the clutch shooting percentage
that you were.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I'm sorry, by the way, you could say, Okay, you
can move Garnett, how you can remember how about Bob Couzy,
John Halchek, Okay, I don't have to look at well,
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I just gave you nine off the top of my head.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Up their stats. I don't think you know, I know.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I'm saying that these guys were were certainly guys I
would trust with the ball if I was a head
coach to win the finals just on one shot.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Well, Kevin Garnett probably wouldn't even get the ball in
that situation.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
You could take him off the list. I just I
could give you don't even know if she's getting I
could get what Drashid was a good three point shooter.
He was a good three point shooter. But I don't
know if in the NBA finals are like need to
go with the Pistons. He hit some big shots with them,
and so has Lebron. So that's what you're telling me
seventeen point nine percent. I would argue that Kevin Garnett
and Raida, but you're not okay, Okay, Rashid Wallace was
(32:52):
a really good three point shooting. He's one of the
first guys in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
You're not talking about clutch with these guys. You're talking
about shooting. She one finals, he went to three of them.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I say he didn't, right, You see where I'm going
with this. No, I'm telling you Lebron is not clutched
as a shooter. And I don't think Rashid is as
clutch as Lebron.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
But listen, listen to you.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
If you don't know who John haveletcheck and and I
know who they are, Bob Cruzy, I mean, but because
you don't need a stats their hall of famers, and
I mean, I mean, come on, sevent Chris, you're wrong,
you were wrong. You gotta eat your crow, bro. You
already well then you don't know what you're talking about.
That just changing, Chris, Chris, I didn't change anything. I
(33:35):
did shooting. You did shooting, and you're do not understand that, Chris.
You think you said you know Smith was a pro Christers,
you don't have to let me start anything you said yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I'm talking about shooting. You were wrong. Can you ad
you were wrong?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Then?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
But you did you already met you were wrong on shooting.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
You just said.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
You said, I'll give you the clutch Chris. Chris, first
of all, you I didn't change anything. I'm talking about shooting.
You already said I'll give you the shooting thing.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You just admitted it.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
And then what did you say?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
You said shooting? You No, do you agree he's not
a clutch shooting? Do you agree he's not a clutch shooter?
You just said I'm talking about shooter. You won't do it, dude, Chris,
I'm sorry you grew up. You gotta make a wish
Michael Jordan. You got you ordered Michael Jordan, and you
gotta make a wish Michael. He's not better than Michael.
He's not better than Larry. He's not better than Magic.
(34:24):
He's not better than Kobe. He's not better than Kareem.
He's not better than Steph. We can start. Charles Barkley said,
if he loses in the first round, he's not one
of the top.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Five the first round.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I'm just I'm just telling you seventeen point nine percent.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
We're not talking about point nine percent. Chris. You can't
admit when you're wrong. I admit when I'm wrong. You
can't admit when you were You just admitted it. It's
not clutch shooting. You just admitted it. No, I'm not rapping. No,
you just admitted it.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Now you won't rap because you're Oh, you're idyl Lebron
seventeen point nine percent.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Chris, eat your crow, bro, just eat it. How does
it taste? I just want to know how it tastes.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Seventeen point nine percent for all of Lebron stands out
there right now. Lebron can't shoot in the clutch.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
He's he can't shoot.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
And this is before guys like Jalen Brunson and Anthony
Edwards who have even come into the league that I
would take over Lebron. I take og Nanobi, I take
Latrelle Spreewell, Alan Houston, John Starks.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I just gave you.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Six nicks off the top of my head. I didn't
even get to Walt Clyde Fraser. Lebron is a fraud, lefraud.
Whatever you want to say. He can't shoot. Eat your crowbo.
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