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Speaker 1: some fun later tonight. So I wanted to actually start
Speaker 1: off with what just happened for a Now you don't
Speaker 1: actually care, but it's worth mentioning the Federal night. Do
Speaker 1: you watched Tenny Tennis? You're a tennis guy? What he means?
Speaker 1: I played tennis in high school. I don't watch or
Speaker 1: follow it at all. I really like the video game
Speaker 1: Mario Tennis, all right. So it was Roger Federer versus
Speaker 1: his arch rival, longtime rival rival, Raphael and Nadal in
Speaker 1: the semifinals. You know who they are. Yes, I've heard
Speaker 1: of those names, all right. So it was another classic
Speaker 1: between They won four sets, with Roger Federer taking this
Speaker 1: one home. So it will be once again in the
Speaker 1: Wimbledon final on today's Friday. On Sunday, it will be
Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic versus Roger Federer once again in the finals. WHOA,
Speaker 1: well you got, Greg? You're gonna do that? What you
Speaker 1: don't have to do that? What do you got? So
Speaker 1: my point was, isn't one of them really good on
Speaker 1: the both that's the dollars. He's really good on clay,
Speaker 1: but this is on grass, It's Wimbledon, Okay, So does
Speaker 1: that favor either one of these? The dollars? Not in that.
Speaker 1: I'm not in this, No, I understand. I mean between
Speaker 1: who's playing? Actually Djokovic better at this point their careers,
Speaker 1: Joker is probably better player. Joker is minus two fifty?
Speaker 1: Would you just call him the Joker? The joker it's
Speaker 1: a nickname? Or no, that joke? Yeah, there's only one
Speaker 1: of those, Greg, Nicola Yokich, What are you doing? Now?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Djokovic was a joker long before Nikolo.
Speaker 1: No no, no no, no, no no no, no, there can only
Speaker 1: be one. Probably should be called the Yoker because that's
Speaker 1: he pronounced his name. There can only be one joker.
Speaker 1: So there's a joker in a yoker. Actually it's Heath Ledger.
Speaker 1: If we're being honest, technically it's it's it's not because
Speaker 1: there was a joker before Heath Ledger. Jim had the
Speaker 1: rid level. There's a joker before Jack Nicholson. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he was awesome at it. But I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: Heath Ledger as a joker, come on, he's great. Isn't
Speaker 1: another one coming out? No? No, no, no, it's a
Speaker 1: guy who played in um Gladiator, the bad guy Wakin Phoenix. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's who it is. Yeah, yeah, I can see why
Speaker 1: you would. I think he's gonna do a phenomenal job.
Speaker 1: Have you seen any of the trailers? Actually, yeah, weird dude.
Speaker 1: He's like, really weird dude. But that's kind of the
Speaker 1: dude you need to play as absolutely anyway, speaking of joker,
Speaker 1: I don't know how we went all the way from
Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic to Heath Ledger ker, but but I will.
Speaker 1: My original point is, uh, there can only be one
Speaker 1: in Nikola Yokich is the joker absolutely Wimbledon Finals via
Speaker 1: five times no Vak Djokovic's minus two fifteen, Roger Federer's
Speaker 1: plus one seventy. Who do you got? Joker? The joker
Speaker 1: and they laying the money there. I like feder I'm
Speaker 1: a Federer guy. Admittedly, Djokovic at this point in his
Speaker 1: career just seems like a better player for me. I agree, Greg,
Speaker 1: thanks man. I don't know, Like, yeah, admittedly I don't
Speaker 1: watch a lot of tennis, so I like why Jean Tennis,
Speaker 1: Like when it comes to golf and tennis, I watched
Speaker 1: the Majors. I'm sure I'll bet on the British Open
Speaker 1: with my friends next week. We always like draft players
Speaker 1: and I love it. Is this stuff that you just
Speaker 1: get into once you turn thirty. Now, Like am I
Speaker 1: gonna get into this stuff once I turned thirty? No?
Speaker 1: Do it now? You won't be into it. Like I
Speaker 1: used to watch golf, um ever, so the Masters always
Speaker 1: around Passover and I was always in Florida with my
Speaker 1: grandparents or Passover, so we'd always watched like the Masters
Speaker 1: together and because of that, I kind of grew a
Speaker 1: love for golf. And then tennis is like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's one of the best athletes in no more like
Speaker 1: Serena Williams and you know, I saw you sort of.
Speaker 1: She's thirty seven years old the best. She's still amazing.
Speaker 1: She's thirty seven years old, Greg, Remember, and she's still
Speaker 1: killing it in tennis. I feel like once you get
Speaker 1: to thirty seven, you probably shouldn't be as good as
Speaker 1: you once were in tennis. Tennis is something that requires
Speaker 1: a ton of stamina. That's how much that's how much
Speaker 1: better she is than everybody else. Yeah, that is crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm not off base in saying that tennis and golf
Speaker 1: are probably two of the more fluent sports rights. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know, they're they're like country club
Speaker 1: ish kind of thing. I totally I totally get why
Speaker 1: you're saying that's why you like it. Probably not, probably
Speaker 1: not the discussions I heard this morning. Greg is rich.
Speaker 1: Greg is rich. Definitely not rich richer than me, probably,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you live in the city, Greg,
Speaker 1: do you live in the city. I live in a
Speaker 1: basement in Queens. But I'm I'm much more broke than
Speaker 1: New York because of it. That that's true. You aren't
Speaker 1: digging your own grave. You bought your lunch, You were
Speaker 1: able to buy lunch. I'm not happy about that either
Speaker 1: if you're watching or listening. King, I'm not happy about this.
Speaker 1: She's not watching or listening. I'd bring my lunch and
Speaker 1: we were. We couldn't even afford more regular well true story.
Speaker 1: Last night I had dodgeball, Greg. We won shout out
Speaker 1: to Balls of Teal that's a team name. But by
Speaker 1: the time we got home, we went to the bar
Speaker 1: afterwards to hang out with all of our dodgeball compadres.
Speaker 1: I got home at one am. We can't make salads
Speaker 1: at one am when you're like half drunk. I can
Speaker 1: you take it? This morning? I don't wake up nearly
Speaker 1: early enough to do that, Greg, I wake up with
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes to spare. I brushed my teeth, normally
Speaker 1: do my hair. I didn't feel like doing my hair
Speaker 1: to it. That's why I'm wearing a hat. And that's
Speaker 1: how we got here. Yeah, it's funny. I got out
Speaker 1: of shower. I told you my mom staying with me
Speaker 1: this week, And how's that going? Fine? All right? I mean,
Speaker 1: so I got it. Looks it looks you got a shower.
Speaker 1: My mom was like, why why are you hanging out?
Speaker 1: You gotta go, Like my I have plenty of time like,
Speaker 1: I'm fine. I just like my mother's mothering name ten
Speaker 1: years old, plenty one years old and my I'm old
Speaker 1: apartment how old? Now, I thought, all right, I want
Speaker 1: to take a break. I went into baseball. No, no no, no,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Russell Westbrook. We'll do baseball.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I want to talk about baseball
Speaker 1: later on all the games tonight when we come back.
Speaker 1: How Russell Westbrook affects days in the West. Hey, thanks
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Speaker 1: the balance of power in the Western Conference Let's Against
Speaker 1: shifted a bit yesterday, and I feel like I mentioned
Speaker 1: at some point over the past couple of weeks that
Speaker 1: the Rockets have been eerily quiet. But you knew that
Speaker 1: Daryl Morey has the itch that he can't not do
Speaker 1: way anything, and yet very sad. And I believe Frank,
Speaker 1: you're the one who's like, listen, what can he do?
Speaker 1: There's not all that much for them to do. Until
Speaker 1: he did, Chris Paul traded over to Oklahoma City in exchange.
Speaker 1: We're also Westbrook Houston also giving up a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of draft picks since the beginning. Since the NBA Draft,
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder have acquired eight new draft picks,
Speaker 1: including first eight first round draft picks, including five from
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, two from Houston, UH one from Denver. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't include the four pick swaps in the first
Speaker 1: round that they have at their disposal as well. They
Speaker 1: did give up two superstars. But listening, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: rebuild and you have to rebuild, this is all that
Speaker 1: you could do. This will not be the first time
Speaker 1: Chris Paul is playing in Oklahoma City, as if you remember,
Speaker 1: the Hornets split time in Oklahoma City for a season
Speaker 1: when he played for them. Now, Mayor David Holt, thing's
Speaker 1: not going well for him, as he tweeted out um
Speaker 1: on June thirty. Frank, he tweeted this out. He is
Speaker 1: the mayor of Oklahoma City, if you asked me, a
Speaker 1: quiet free agency is a blessing when you got an
Speaker 1: m v P and an MBV finalist on your roster,
Speaker 1: presuming better healthy second full year to home, the dynamic,
Speaker 1: the return of roverson plus renewed league parody, a Leger
Speaker 1: squad just fine, hashtag good to be a Thunder not
Speaker 1: so good anymore. I don't think that they're gonna be terrible,
Speaker 1: but obviously losing a former m v P and an
Speaker 1: MVP candidate in Paul George and Russell Westbrook, it's going
Speaker 1: to have your effect. But you know this, this reminds
Speaker 1: me a lot of what the Boston Celtics and Danny
Speaker 1: Ainge did when they um ultimately traded away Kevin Garnett.
Speaker 1: And you know that that all those trades that he made.
Speaker 1: You know, it seems like we're still getting first round
Speaker 1: picks now that the Boston Celtics were, you know, got
Speaker 1: from that trade. It seems like almost a decade ago.
Speaker 1: So shades of Danny Angel in the Celtics heater with
Speaker 1: what Sam Presty and the oklahom A City Thunder are
Speaker 1: putting together eight first round picks they have acquired from
Speaker 1: now until and Greg mentioned it with the right to
Speaker 1: uh swap first round picks with those teams as well.
Speaker 1: And you know, by the time rolls around, Greg Houston Rockets,
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows what their team is gonna look like.
Speaker 1: Same thing for the Clippers, right in what is that
Speaker 1: team gonna look like? No one knows. I mean, Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard has an opt out in two years from now,
Speaker 1: So I think that you know it's gonna be an
Speaker 1: accelerated rebuild process. Here for the Oklahoma City Thunder, they
Speaker 1: still have Chris Paul under contract, they still have Danilo Gallinari,
Speaker 1: they got Shay Gil just Alexander and the Paul George trade.
Speaker 1: So you have your point guard of the future. And
Speaker 1: if there's anyone that you want them to learn from
Speaker 1: on how to be a pro and how to be
Speaker 1: a professional point guard, it's Chris Paul. So it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see. Now they can't trade Chris Paul right
Speaker 1: away now right, Greg? Isn't how it works in the
Speaker 1: NBA is once you acquire someone, you have to wait
Speaker 1: a certain time period before you only when you sign
Speaker 1: them signed. Okay, so they can flip Chris Paul. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if they do, so, I don't. Again,
Speaker 1: we question originally Chris Paul. We didn't know what the
Speaker 1: market would be, and I still because Chris Paul would
Speaker 1: be It's it's a massive contract from what from here
Speaker 1: on out? I think it's three years and it's like
Speaker 1: over a hundred million if he opts into that year,
Speaker 1: which he obviously will from what I read, they acquired
Speaker 1: Chris Paul with the expectation that he will play for them,
Speaker 1: and I think their win total is at forty and
Speaker 1: so so that's exactly what I was pulling up. Now, Um,
Speaker 1: the NBA? Where was OK? The NBA, they'll still be
Speaker 1: slightly competitive because Chris Paul, Gallinari, Steven Adams, Shay Gil
Speaker 1: just Alexander. Nine and a half is their win total.
Speaker 1: It's not like they have nobody on their team. Greg.
Speaker 1: They still have some really good players. I'm really interested in.
Speaker 1: You'll just Alexander even though they acquired Why is that though,
Speaker 1: christ the usage going to be tough for him to injurious? Yeah,
Speaker 1: guess you're right, but but really you're gonna draft Shakil's
Speaker 1: Alexander for fantasy purposes, hoping that Chris Paul gets hurt,
Speaker 1: knowing that Chris Paul will get hurt. Yes, and is
Speaker 1: just leave about this for a second, Frankie, this quartet
Speaker 1: of Lebron and his friends. Look at where they've ended up. Right, Lebron,
Speaker 1: best player in the NBA, still playing in l A
Speaker 1: with the Lakers, the bright lights, everything you could ask for. Carrella,
Speaker 1: Anthony forced out of the NBA, forced out of New York,
Speaker 1: lay in Oklahoma City, actually went to Houston. Does he
Speaker 1: ever play another game in the NBA's Ober Dwayne Wade
Speaker 1: left Miami for his home in Chicago, went and was
Speaker 1: gonna be a bench player for Lebron Cleveland as a
Speaker 1: nice want song Miami. He's done. Chris Paul forces his
Speaker 1: way to l A forces his way. I guess there's
Speaker 1: a free agent really, a Sun and trade to Houston
Speaker 1: blows up with James Harden and now he's basically playing
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma to end his career. Crazy how quickly it
Speaker 1: all goes by, Yeah, it does. Look there's a changing
Speaker 1: of the guard in the NBA right now. This isn't
Speaker 1: Lebron James NBA anymore. I know that he is the
Speaker 1: second favorite in the NBA to win the finals. Right now.
Speaker 1: But if I were an odds maker, I probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: have the Lakers as the second favorite to win the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals. And you know, there's a there's a ton
Speaker 1: of you know, budding superstars that are that are up
Speaker 1: and coming. Here Greg with with Jana Santa Koumpo and
Speaker 1: uh Kawai Leonard. Obviously, I think those are the big
Speaker 1: names in the NBA. And and now obviously you're gonna
Speaker 1: have the Zion Williamson's of the world as well r J. Barrett.
Speaker 1: So UH, times are changing here in the NBA, So
Speaker 1: the odds haven't been adjusted just a little bit over
Speaker 1: on the Vanduel Sports book. I talked about the Rockets before,
Speaker 1: and I thought they were actually very very good value.
Speaker 1: They're now the fourth most likely team UH to win
Speaker 1: the NBA Championship their plus eight hundred right now to
Speaker 1: win with Russell Westbrook and James Harden. I saw all
Speaker 1: the jokes about is this is there was only one ball?
Speaker 1: How is anybody else on this Rockets team go to
Speaker 1: touch the ball? When I saw a really good um,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a gift or a meme
Speaker 1: or whatever of when Russell Westbriga, James Harden, or want
Speaker 1: us to a wave a triple double? And it's that
Speaker 1: meme of it was Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, whether
Speaker 1: they're both on the Clippers passing it back and forth
Speaker 1: to each other. And that's what it's gonna be with
Speaker 1: Russell Westbriga James Harden, neither of whom are really known
Speaker 1: for their defense. I'd say, I don't know how this
Speaker 1: is gonna work out, Greg. I mean, two of the
Speaker 1: top ten highest usage rates in the NBA. James Harden
Speaker 1: led the NBA and usage rate last year at thirty
Speaker 1: nine point six percent. The next closest was Joel Embiad
Speaker 1: at thirty two point seven percent. James Harden had a
Speaker 1: seven percent higher usage rate than the second highest usage rate.
Speaker 1: Just think about that. If you combine James Harden and
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook's usage rates from last season, that is seventy
Speaker 1: nine point seven percent usage Rake, Greg, they both ranked
Speaker 1: inside the top ten. It's gonna be really interesting to
Speaker 1: see how this works out. I know that they played
Speaker 1: together in the past. That was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: That's when you know Russell Westbrook was still young in
Speaker 1: his career. He wasn't the triple double machine that he
Speaker 1: is today. Back then, James Harden was the sixth man
Speaker 1: for that Oklahoma City Thunder team and a lot of
Speaker 1: the times they would stagger those minutes. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be really interesting to see how this works out for
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets as of now, my initial lean look,
Speaker 1: I think both players are obviously super talented. Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: is like in the top three percent in the league
Speaker 1: in terms of physicality. He is a physical freak what
Speaker 1: he can do on the court, but his decision making
Speaker 1: is baffling to me at times. Greg. I mean, his
Speaker 1: his turnovers are very high and his shot selection is
Speaker 1: not very good. I don't think that Russell Westbrook is
Speaker 1: a winning basketball player. I have said that before and
Speaker 1: I'm going to stick by it, and I think you
Speaker 1: can make a similar argument for James Harden. I don't
Speaker 1: know how it's gonna work out together as of now
Speaker 1: today on July twelve, I don't think that they finished
Speaker 1: in the top four in the Western Conference next year.
Speaker 1: I don't love how they could co exist either. Though.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I looked at this picture I have here
Speaker 1: of Paul George and Russell Westbrook. It's lovely five right.
Speaker 1: I looked at it quickly. I thought it was James
Speaker 1: Harding and Russell Westbrook. Harden used to rock the third
Speaker 1: team for the Thunder. Of course, Russell Westbrook James Harden
Speaker 1: now together in red in Houston, and will see how
Speaker 1: they come seeing the photoshop pictures already now, Westbrook look
Speaker 1: looks weird and red man. Looking up on Twitter, you
Speaker 1: could find a picture of Russell Westbrook. It's just you've
Speaker 1: seen him for so long in that blue jersey, that
Speaker 1: white and blue of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Not to
Speaker 1: see him in red. It's just such a stark contrast.
Speaker 1: It's very weird. It's gonna it's gonna take some getting used.
Speaker 1: It's weird. There's one for you right in the middle there.
Speaker 1: That's weird. It's very weird. It's weird, is what it is.
Speaker 1: It'll take some getting used to for sure. Oh. Here's
Speaker 1: I think the exact picture I was looking at almost
Speaker 1: with the shop. Yeah, that's that's the picture I saw yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's actually a pretty cool picture. I'm man, people will
Speaker 1: be I've become so good at photoshop. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know how I don't know how you put a
Speaker 1: different jersey on some and they haven't more. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: you know. You know what it will say, Greggy think
Speaker 1: Capella Russell Westbrook. No, but that that pick and roll
Speaker 1: because of Russell Westbrook used to run that pick and
Speaker 1: roller tu with click cappella, man, I mean his efficiency
Speaker 1: is gonna be off the charts. All right, we'll come back.
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Speaker 1: we get copyright infringed. I'm digging that song. We should
Speaker 1: just do a whole hour where we play music like
Speaker 1: that in the background and we dress up like Stranger
Speaker 1: Things characters. Why not uninterested? Danny's in, You're out, Danny's in.
Speaker 1: We'll we get the popping Off hour? How about that?
Speaker 1: You can you can come on every Tuesday and Thursday
Speaker 1: night and be U Pierre and Popping Off of the
Speaker 1: popm for the actual or we could just make a
Speaker 1: second hour of BFFs to Popping Off. Would love that.
Speaker 1: Pick you out, ring Danny up here, play some Stranger
Speaker 1: Things music again. You could appear tonight. It is Friday
Speaker 1: next to pop It Off is on Tuesday evening, Greg,
Speaker 1: why are you no fun? Telling like it is? You
Speaker 1: don't wanna You don't want to listen to eighties music,
Speaker 1: You don't want to dress up like stranger things? What
Speaker 1: do you want to do? I want to eat and
Speaker 1: watch baseball. Yeah. He wants to sit in his patio,
Speaker 1: his his couch, his rich man condo patio, his penthouse.
Speaker 1: He wants to read his book. He gets one of
Speaker 1: those like long cigarette holder things in his mouth with
Speaker 1: his monocle and his cigarette in my life, and he
Speaker 1: reads his book and he drinks his shot and a
Speaker 1: come on, Greg, a beersho come like you skipped your thirties.
Speaker 1: You went from twenty nine to forty in my thirty
Speaker 1: from fifty in earty you went from twenty nine to sixty. Right,
Speaker 1: have a little fun, Greg? You want? Have you all right?
Speaker 1: What's the breaking news? I'm very scared now. Actually it
Speaker 1: regards as someone that you like, Frank, It regards Darius. No,
Speaker 1: don't do this, don't I'm ready for this. On a Friday,
Speaker 1: Darius Guys will not be ready to rock when training
Speaker 1: camp begins. As Darius Guys now has a hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: he is questionable for the story of training camp. This
Speaker 1: is entire rookie season based on a torn a c L,
Speaker 1: and I have to wonder if hurting his hamstring is
Speaker 1: related to the fact that the A c L recovery
Speaker 1: has not exactly smoothly. You know, sometimes, Greg, I think
Speaker 1: that Virginia's Sakusen inside injuries have a crystal ball. She
Speaker 1: legitimately called this yesterday. She said she wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if Darius Guys suffers some kind of compensatory injury coming
Speaker 1: back from this A c L. And the fact that
Speaker 1: he dealt with the infection. God gosh, this sucks, man,
Speaker 1: And mean, I feel bad for the guy. You can't
Speaker 1: ask for a worst start to your NFL career, then
Speaker 1: getting a few carries in a preseason game, tearing your
Speaker 1: A c L, having to undergo multiple surgeries after the
Speaker 1: torn a c L to clean up an infection, You're
Speaker 1: still not right now. You suffer a hamstring and going
Speaker 1: into your second season, you're not going to be ready
Speaker 1: heading into training camp because of this injury. It sucks, man,
Speaker 1: It sucks. Greg. I'll throw this your way. I'll ask
Speaker 1: you a little bit fantasy fantasy football question here you're
Speaker 1: a fantasy expert. Hey, you trying to be in my
Speaker 1: home league keeper league, same league as Michael Florio. Actually
Speaker 1: one of my keepers already, zach ERT's Round four, I'm
Speaker 1: keeping him. No issue there, super FLEs twelve teams have PPR.
Speaker 1: I'm keeping Zacher it's in the fourth round. The other
Speaker 1: keeper that I was gonna submit was Darius Guys in
Speaker 1: the thirteenth round. Graham, Now, my other options are they're
Speaker 1: just not good value, but they're good players. For shod
Speaker 1: Penny in the seventh, Dante Pettison the sixth, Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: in the seventh. Super Flex. See he's shaking your head.
Speaker 1: None of those excite me. But how can you be
Speaker 1: excited about Darius Guys? Now? I mean, I guess in
Speaker 1: thet there's no harm there, zero. But I mean, at
Speaker 1: this point, what's what's the upside gonna be for a
Speaker 1: running back coming off a torn a c L already
Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury, Greg, what's the upside going to be?
Speaker 1: He's legitimately not going to contribute anything until October at
Speaker 1: the earliest. It wouldn't surprise me if he starts here
Speaker 1: on the pub Greg and all everything that we said
Speaker 1: earlier in the week about Adrian Peterson being a value.
Speaker 1: You kissed that goodbye. You know his adp just jumped
Speaker 1: rounder too. So what are you doing with Darius Guys?
Speaker 1: Keeping even the thirteenth rod doesn't cost me anything? Alright,
Speaker 1: But you're absolutely right, Adrian Peterson's value goes up. Darius Guys,
Speaker 1: who was going in the seventh round. How much has
Speaker 1: he fallen now? I would say at least two. Absolutely absolutely,
Speaker 1: look at the tenth round for him. Round m that sucks, man.
Speaker 1: I feel bad for Darius Guys. Excited. I just three
Speaker 1: going over him in my fishball. Good call, work that
Speaker 1: all right? Work that all right? Um. So that's the
Speaker 1: big news is Darius Guys versus hamstring. He will not,
Speaker 1: excuse me, not be ready for the beginning of training camp. Frank.
Speaker 1: The Yankees lineup is out, and that brings me to TV.
Speaker 1: Brings me to the fact that baseball is back. The
Speaker 1: All Star Game happened couple of days ago. Baseball was
Speaker 1: back last night. We had one game, whatever one on
Speaker 1: our picks. It's a nice little start there, a pretty good,
Speaker 1: not bad. I remember about a month ago this time,
Speaker 1: maybe a month and a half Saturday in this chair,
Speaker 1: and I said, lance Lynn is awesome. He's throwing a
Speaker 1: cutter slider more this year. I mean in years past,
Speaker 1: he was a guy who relied on his fastball over
Speaker 1: seventy of the time. He throws like two or three
Speaker 1: different iterations of a fastball. So it's not just like
Speaker 1: a Freddie peralta great fastball four seamor that he throws
Speaker 1: every single time. Lance Land has like three different kinds
Speaker 1: of fastballs that that he uses. But this year he's
Speaker 1: also working in a cutter slash slider, which has been
Speaker 1: awesome for him. I mean, to strike out the Houston
Speaker 1: Astros eleven times and goes seven shoutout endings. Phenomenal job
Speaker 1: by lance Land. I love him for fantasy purposes. Moving forward,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about this as well. Greg Chris Woodward
Speaker 1: and what he's done with the Texas Rangers. You can't
Speaker 1: say enough good things about how quickly he has turned
Speaker 1: this team around. And a lot of that goes to
Speaker 1: obviously him, A lot of it goes to what they've
Speaker 1: done with the pitching staff, turning around guys like Mike Minor,
Speaker 1: lance Lynn, and how about Joey Gallo Joey Gallow, I mean,
Speaker 1: even missing a couple of weeks because of because of
Speaker 1: the what was oblique oblique with Joey Gallow. He's having
Speaker 1: a phenomenal season career year finally, you know, but lifting
Speaker 1: that batting average and uh and putting together that that
Speaker 1: monster season that we thought he could have. So shout
Speaker 1: out to the Rangers. They're doing a great jobs here.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Chris Woodward, first year manager. Way. It's
Speaker 1: so weird to me that, like Wilson Contar didn't play
Speaker 1: today first day after they all start freak, why are
Speaker 1: you playing? What are we doing? Greg? Well, he caught
Speaker 1: three or four innings in the All Star Game. Guess
Speaker 1: he needed a break. Unless it's say, you, Darvis has
Speaker 1: a personal catcher thing. I don't know. That might be
Speaker 1: a thing. Maybe it is, maybe what's going on in
Speaker 1: that game? Actually, can we get it up to here?
Speaker 1: Sure it is nothing nothing? Oh bottom four. I started
Speaker 1: Chris Archer in one of my homeses. No, well, actually
Speaker 1: I started Chris Archer in the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational,
Speaker 1: and I started you Darvish in one of my home leagues.
Speaker 1: You're gonna love this then, right, it's Chris Archer three
Speaker 1: and two thirds, one hit, no walks, six ks, no.
Speaker 1: But he has first and second right now against him.
Speaker 1: Victor Karattini up, I could do one better for you.
Speaker 1: What do you got you, Darvish? Four innings, perfect, seven strikeouts,
Speaker 1: zero walks, zero hits for you, Darvish? Well good. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: Look if we can get these guys back on track
Speaker 1: for the second half, that that could be huge for
Speaker 1: fantasy purposes. You, Darvish and Chris Archer, we know what
Speaker 1: the upside can be for these guys. It's been a
Speaker 1: disastrous season for Chris Archer. And look, I will take
Speaker 1: the l I'll hold it up on my forehead. I
Speaker 1: was wrong about Chris Archer. It was it was the
Speaker 1: first year that I was in on him because I
Speaker 1: thought that you were finally getting him at that discount
Speaker 1: that you've deserved. You gotta discount, yeah, but not a
Speaker 1: big enough one because he sits right now at a
Speaker 1: five point to five e r A. I think he's
Speaker 1: still a talented player, but let's see if he can
Speaker 1: put it together for the second half. And you, Darvish,
Speaker 1: you know I've continuously talked about how since that six
Speaker 1: walk performance against the Marlins. He's upped his cutter usage
Speaker 1: tremendously and it's basically like intense starts. Since then, his
Speaker 1: X fit is like three seven or three eight. So
Speaker 1: I think better days are coming for you. Darvish starts
Speaker 1: right now. Full slate of games tonight on the MLB schedule.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a look at all. We'll give your
Speaker 1: best bets a little bit later on, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: go with the game by game because what we're trying
Speaker 1: to help you to win some money. Do you have
Speaker 1: a Jason Stark trivia question today? Greg, It's Friday. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit later. I ever got is Friday. It's Friday, Friday,
Speaker 1: the Jason Stark trivial question of the day. I gotta
Speaker 1: get our Jason Stark trivia question on Friday. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go. You're Jason Stark trivia question. Let me
Speaker 1: see if I find it. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: has one, dude, it's kind of it's kind of dick,
Speaker 1: is it not. I guess this is normally this thing.
Speaker 1: It's normally your thing. You get very excited about it.
Speaker 1: I love it. All right, Well, if there's no trivia
Speaker 1: question Greg, then we can start to preview the baseball
Speaker 1: games for tonight. Maybe, Hey, Alex, do you have a
Speaker 1: trivia question for us? By a chance? Why would Alex
Speaker 1: have a trivia question? Now? Do you want, like just
Speaker 1: a basic pop culture trivia question? Do you have one
Speaker 1: something about Long Island? There's a lot going on with
Speaker 1: Long Island right now, this whole bagel thing going on.
Speaker 1: I didn't really want to question. I'm based on the
Speaker 1: bagel thing. I didn't really know much about this bagel
Speaker 1: thing until I heard Gabe and Joe Verniery talking about
Speaker 1: it a lot this morning, and then I Alex fill
Speaker 1: me in. Alex is basically the guy who's been filling
Speaker 1: me in on anything that's going on in the world,
Speaker 1: which is good. I mean that was my job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you've been slacking, all right, I mean you didn't
Speaker 1: you didn't tell me about the bagel guy. Well, I
Speaker 1: think you just watch your programming. Well, what's going on
Speaker 1: with this Area fifty one thing right now? Do you
Speaker 1: want to fill me in on that? Four hundred thousand
Speaker 1: people sign a petition to go store Area fifty one.
Speaker 1: Why it became a Facebook event and uh, about four
Speaker 1: hundreds of people now have signed up to a storm
Speaker 1: area fift to one because they can't stop all of us, apparently,
Speaker 1: quote from the post September twenty frank nine days before
Speaker 1: my birthday. They can't stop all of us. What does
Speaker 1: that mean? You're gonna store? Anie? Is? I know that.
Speaker 1: I think it's a map in Tony Hawk pro Skater
Speaker 1: the first game. All right, so let me start there.
Speaker 1: Something about aliens I think they have. I think it's
Speaker 1: an area where they have a bunch of hidden things
Speaker 1: locked away. Is that kind of the gist of it?
Speaker 1: That's the thought? Yeah, So I'm gonna read you, like
Speaker 1: the first a lot of area fifthing. To Wikipedia, the
Speaker 1: United States Air Force Facility Common Knows Everything one is
Speaker 1: a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base
Speaker 1: within the Nevada Test and Training Range. Basically, it comes
Speaker 1: from a term of the CIA used during the Vietnam War,
Speaker 1: and there is a thought that aliens landed there and
Speaker 1: they are being kept there for observation. Aliens are that's
Speaker 1: the idea, and they're gonna storm and they're gonna find out. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what you do when you tell them what
Speaker 1: you're going to do is if there are aliens there, right, Greg,
Speaker 1: You give them the opportunity to move them somewhere else.
Speaker 1: That's right, And it isn't that right? Am I missing something? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: You tell them that you're gonna do something. They know
Speaker 1: it's coming. If there is anything there, they're just gonna
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Speaker 1: Enjoyed the show and thanks for listening. Danny, What the
Speaker 1: song is this again? Uh? That breaking the habit? Look
Speaker 1: at parksons? No, if you want to tell you, you you
Speaker 1: want to guess he's looking park centuries? So yep, a
Speaker 1: park break all right? It was centuries, all right, But
Speaker 1: I thought it was like breaking the hay look at park.
Speaker 1: I was fine, it's wrong, all right. We got fourteen
Speaker 1: minutes ago, Frank, I thought it was the all my brothers.
Speaker 1: You needn't get my olmin brother's joke. O't wait. I
Speaker 1: know that old people listen to them, and you fit
Speaker 1: that category. A true story. When was your older brother's
Speaker 1: conversation when we were talking about Greg Allmond, the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Bucks beat reporter for the That was Wednesday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: I got a text from me why and you did too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was awesome. He's listening to the Allmen brothers. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's cool, like you. We we got the All Brothers
Speaker 1: in your head like you, you're listening to them. And
Speaker 1: he's like, no, I literally just pulled out a record
Speaker 1: listen to you during dinner and there's your older brothers.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is weird and awesome. It was
Speaker 1: weird for sure. Um Gee, when you and King have dinner,
Speaker 1: do you listen to music in the background? No, maybe
Speaker 1: we'll try it. I never thought about it, Like, so,
Speaker 1: usually watch a television show in Brooklyn nine or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so sometimes that we're eating dinner we have we have
Speaker 1: it in the back way, like music in the background.
Speaker 1: I like it. My dad, It's just my dad has
Speaker 1: always done it, and you do it. I like it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't listen like hardcore rat in the background, but
Speaker 1: like just some like background music. You don't have the
Speaker 1: next episode playing in the background with you and Judy
Speaker 1: slopping down some Yoki. Yeah, oh my god, it makes
Speaker 1: the next week. I might have to all right tonight.
Speaker 1: The Nats and the Phillies lead us off six o
Speaker 1: five start from Philadelphia. What do you think about this one, Frank?
Speaker 1: The Nats and the Phillies division matchup here, Greggy pulling
Speaker 1: up the odds. Here you have the National Steven Strasburg
Speaker 1: against Nick Pavetta, the Nationals even on the road here
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, a minus one fifty favorite total at nine
Speaker 1: and a half. There's nothing I really love here. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to take Pavetta and the Phillies at plus
Speaker 1: one thirty. Pavetta just hasn't pitched a well recently, and
Speaker 1: that's obviously where the value is. Like, you can lay
Speaker 1: minus one fifty with Strasburg, but I don't really love
Speaker 1: that either. And these nine and a half totals with
Speaker 1: one questionable picture and like one good picture, they're kind
Speaker 1: of hard to figure out. I think this game is
Speaker 1: just an overall avoid for me. What do you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not messing with this one. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: like it. Have anything. I'm betting on the Gnats. It's
Speaker 1: not great. Yeah, I don't know. You have to lay
Speaker 1: too much, all right? You have the raise in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Aoni Torenos versus Dylan Bundy's being a laying too much?
Speaker 1: Mus want seventy four for the raise? Certainly can't be
Speaker 1: betting on the Orioles. No, No, not killing Bundy either.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, look their home they're in Camden Yards. Plus
Speaker 1: one fifty for the Baltimore Orioles here, minus one seventy
Speaker 1: four for Yanni Tornos and the Tampa Bay Rays again
Speaker 1: a nine and a half total here. Yanni Torenos, for
Speaker 1: the most part, has pitched well this season. Dylan Bundy
Speaker 1: has shown I guess flashes at times, but this it wouldn't.
Speaker 1: This is a game that wouldn't surprise me if it
Speaker 1: goes over the number. Greg just because it's warm here
Speaker 1: in the Northeast today, I can see the ball flying
Speaker 1: out in Camden um, and Dylan Bundy is prone to
Speaker 1: giving up home runs. So I guess if I had
Speaker 1: to lean on anything here, it would be the over
Speaker 1: nine and a half. But again, I don't really love
Speaker 1: this game. What do you think? I agree, I can
Speaker 1: mess with this. It's again ultimately just too high between
Speaker 1: the raison and and the Oh's. Maybe I go over
Speaker 1: the nine and a half number. It's not calling out
Speaker 1: to me Yankees in Blue Jays from the stadium. These
Speaker 1: are minus three tonight. That seems excessive. That seems excessive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's what it's only Domingo Harmon's second start. Man man
Speaker 1: over un there's eleven some over run. There's eleven and
Speaker 1: I know Aaron Stage sucks, but like that is a
Speaker 1: huge number. You can't take the under tonight, No you can't.
Speaker 1: I agree, Um yeah, I mean there's nothing to do
Speaker 1: here unless you're a Blue Jays fan and you're just like,
Speaker 1: let me throw some money on plus two fifty because
Speaker 1: it's just great value, huge underdog. But again, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that has called out to me so far
Speaker 1: in these first three games that we've talked about. Craig, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: after keep it rocking now, this is a good one.
Speaker 1: It is Marianna Rivera Captain America at the stadium. I
Speaker 1: did want to go to this game. So if you
Speaker 1: live in the New York New Jersey area, and you
Speaker 1: want shot a shot at a Captain America Marvel bobblehead, Danny,
Speaker 1: if you want to send someone there to go pick
Speaker 1: that up for you? That is going on tonight at
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. You want to go for me? If you
Speaker 1: pay me, I'll go for you. You pay for my ticket. Oh,
Speaker 1: cheapest ticket is only fifty bucks getting stadium tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fifty bucks a little bit expensive for a bubblehead. Doesn't
Speaker 1: even know from Danny. You didn't say no, What do
Speaker 1: you think, Danny want to send me? I mean if
Speaker 1: we can get a pool together, I'm not paying anything.
Speaker 1: You pay five bucks everybody down here so you can
Speaker 1: get a bobble Yeah, yeah, so that I could go
Speaker 1: to the game. Frank, it's only five bucks. I get
Speaker 1: to go to the game. Send you pictures. Danny gets
Speaker 1: a bobblehead. It's a win win for everybody. I'll send
Speaker 1: your pictures. Yeah, I'm good. Well, even we can put
Speaker 1: it on the desk for the show. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: We'll share it. We'll share it. I'll even throw another
Speaker 1: five myself another five. There? Who else we got downstairs?
Speaker 1: What about Steve? What about Sean? And we got five dollars, right,
Speaker 1: you're just gonna go alone. Yeah, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: the game, all right, prove that point calls you right
Speaker 1: out there? All right? Uh, Battle of the Ale Central.
Speaker 1: You're Twinkies against the Indians, And like Clevinger, min there's
Speaker 1: one Footy or the Indians tonight. Yeah, this is an
Speaker 1: interesting game because the last start that Clevinger had, he
Speaker 1: looked dominant. He looked awesome in that in his most
Speaker 1: recent start, but in the few starts before that, since
Speaker 1: returning off that long I Yellston, he didn't look himself.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of been a mixed bag here for
Speaker 1: Mike Clevinger, and he's going up against a really dangerous
Speaker 1: lineup in the Minnesota Twins Division match up here again, Greg,
Speaker 1: I think it's just a tough slate tonight because because look,
Speaker 1: you're coming out of the All Star Break, all these
Speaker 1: teams are going to be fresh tonight. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't really have a strong lean on this one.
Speaker 1: The total is only nine, but the Indians lineup has
Speaker 1: been playing better, so would it surprised me if they
Speaker 1: go over the number? I mean, much like Clevinger, Kyle
Speaker 1: Gibson has been mostly inconsistent. Like he goes through stretches
Speaker 1: where he pitches really, really well, but he also has
Speaker 1: these games where he gets blown up. So I don't
Speaker 1: really love this game either. It's a Clevinger in the Indians,
Speaker 1: laying minus one forty, they're the favorites at home. Kyle
Speaker 1: gives it in the Twins at plus one two. I
Speaker 1: think if I had to choose something here, I'd probably
Speaker 1: take the Twins at plus I'm doing that half to
Speaker 1: choose something. I'm taking Minnesota as well, but I don't
Speaker 1: love it. Mets Caesar in Miami Caleb Smith Jason Varies
Speaker 1: a battle of the two worst teams in the nlink.
Speaker 1: The Mets are not one of the worst teams in
Speaker 1: the NL. Greg, I know that we like to bash him,
Speaker 1: but are they actually satistically? I don't. I have my
Speaker 1: standings right here in the NL, the the Mets. So
Speaker 1: the Marlins are the worst team, they have three wins.
Speaker 1: The Mets are the second worst team with forty wins.
Speaker 1: As I said, the Mats are the second worst team.
Speaker 1: You actually hit that one on the head. I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I knew that. I knew that. I'm telling like I knew.
Speaker 1: I knew that for a fact. I did not realize
Speaker 1: how bad the Mets are. You know, it's interesting. They're bad,
Speaker 1: but the and l's bad as a whole. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they're not gonna trade Synderguard. Yeah, great job, mass The
Speaker 1: Mets and the Knicks are the same franchise. They are
Speaker 1: the same Francise. You know what's crazy? I just ordered
Speaker 1: r J. Barrack Jersey too. What a mistake. That's Jason
Speaker 1: Vargas against Caleb Smith here, Greg, Caleb Smith's return, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna get here? Obviously he was mostly dominant
Speaker 1: earlier on in the season, a few of the starts.
Speaker 1: Right before he went on the I l where if
Speaker 1: he the Marlins are home, the Mets lineup is better
Speaker 1: than the Marlins. You can't deny that. So I don't
Speaker 1: like this one either, Greg. I don't like this game.
Speaker 1: I don't like any of the games tonight. So Brodie
Speaker 1: then was actually was on Frances right now, I believe
Speaker 1: or somewhere he's talking right now. That must be awesome too,
Speaker 1: maybe later, But Brody van Wagen and you know how
Speaker 1: he said the offseason, like come and get us. He said,
Speaker 1: quote they can't and got us. Really. Yeah, at least
Speaker 1: it's a good sense of humor, I guess right. Without
Speaker 1: saying the word, he indicated the Mets will be sellers
Speaker 1: at the deadline. He plans on moving expiring contracts. Zach Wheeler,
Speaker 1: it's probably, but he does expect Syndergard and de gram
Speaker 1: to remain with the team. Do you think that's the
Speaker 1: right call for the Mets? Greg, yes, to keep because
Speaker 1: Sydergard does have two years of arbitration control. Still, Syndergard
Speaker 1: can get you the most of any picture on this market,
Speaker 1: So it depends what's out there. You can be able
Speaker 1: to turn this around rather quickly. We were talking about
Speaker 1: this last night down in the pitch, what's it like?
Speaker 1: And we both said, as Yankee fans, that the picture
Speaker 1: we would want to trade what we would want them
Speaker 1: to trade for most sard So, but if the Yankees
Speaker 1: go to the Mets and go give him Clint Frasier,
Speaker 1: they give him Denmi Garcia, give stabout Florial for instance.
Speaker 1: For the accepting that that would be a pretty quick turnaround.
Speaker 1: I think they have to accept that. But they wouldn't
Speaker 1: because they're the Mets. They wouldn't trade us. Who was
Speaker 1: j Bruce A couple of years ago because they just
Speaker 1: didn't want to deal with the Yankees. Do you think
Speaker 1: they're gonna trade them two guys? I mean, we were
Speaker 1: just throwing it around hypotheticals. But I think if you
Speaker 1: if you offered the Mets right now as the Yankees
Speaker 1: Mcgueli and new Hard, Clint Frazier and Devi Garcia, or
Speaker 1: you offer him those three, that should get you Syndergarden
Speaker 1: zec Whieler. But I don't think it's gonna happen. I
Speaker 1: like the Mets tonight, by the way, you like the Mets. Yes, again,
Speaker 1: like there's nothing. There's two games that stand out for me.
Speaker 1: We haven't got to either one yet. It's probably not
Speaker 1: this one either Garrett Cole versus the Rangers and Jesse Chavez.
Speaker 1: So I was looking into trying to parlay the Houston
Speaker 1: Astro's moneyline with something else. But it's like, even if
Speaker 1: you put together the Astros and the actually this isn't
Speaker 1: add Gregg. If you parlay the Yankees and Astro's money
Speaker 1: lines tonight, it comes out to minus one oh four.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're the two biggest they're the two biggest
Speaker 1: favorites on the board, but you know, Garrit Cole did
Speaker 1: face the Rangers earlier on this season and he got
Speaker 1: blown up, so it's not I realized that the odds
Speaker 1: say that their minus two ten money line, but I
Speaker 1: don't think that in actuality they should be that big
Speaker 1: of favorites. I know how good Garrett Cole is, but
Speaker 1: he's already got blown up once by the Texas Rangers
Speaker 1: so far this year, and they just came out swinging
Speaker 1: last night and they won five zips. So um that
Speaker 1: that parlay isn't terrible at minus one oh four, but
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me if the Rangers win tonight, so
Speaker 1: I'm probably not doing that. Let me continue on. I
Speaker 1: re only have a couple of minutes left and I I
Speaker 1: want to try to get to the games as possible.
Speaker 1: It's about all the Grays, Sonny Gray, Geery Gray, what
Speaker 1: do you think? I like this game, Greg, and I
Speaker 1: like the way that the line is moving right now
Speaker 1: as well. Earlier before the show, you were getting Sonny
Speaker 1: Gray and the Cincinnati Reads money line at plus one eighteen.
Speaker 1: It's now up to plus one four over on the
Speaker 1: FanDuel Sports book. You know that I am not a
Speaker 1: John Gray guy. Admittedly, he has pitched a lot better.
Speaker 1: Specifically in the month of June he pitched well. But
Speaker 1: let's not forget that start that Sonny Gray put together
Speaker 1: right before the All Star break as well, right before
Speaker 1: July four, a completely dominant performance. I realized that they're
Speaker 1: in corps Field. But Sonny Gray has pitched well. I
Speaker 1: think he is the better of the Grays. I think
Speaker 1: the red win tonight at plus once twenty four. I
Speaker 1: like them. Alack Craig, all right, do you like anything
Speaker 1: in this game or now? No, like anything in this game?
Speaker 1: I mean the Reds should be able to put together
Speaker 1: good at bats in coorps Field against John Gray. That's
Speaker 1: like I think using Jesse Winker to night in DFS
Speaker 1: is like a really good play. I gave you the battle.
Speaker 1: The Grays not only get to the battle the Anderson's
Speaker 1: as Sean Anderson, Chase Anderson in Milwaukee, and I mean,
Speaker 1: how can this game excite you in any possible way?
Speaker 1: You have to lay minus one night with Chase Anderson
Speaker 1: and the Milwaukee Brewers going up against the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 1: There is just not a lot of value here, Greg,
Speaker 1: and the total is a weird one too, because at
Speaker 1: nine and a half, Yeah, the Briant the Brewers should
Speaker 1: be able to put up some runs against Seawan Anderson,
Speaker 1: but you don't. You don't really have a lot of
Speaker 1: faith in the Giants being able to score anything here.
Speaker 1: This game is the pass for me. White Sox Athletics
Speaker 1: is a minus one ninety favorite at home against Ivan
Speaker 1: Nova in the White Sox. That seems a little out
Speaker 1: of whack to me, Frankie. Yeah, that's a big number, right,
Speaker 1: ninety for the Oakland A's best better than night is
Speaker 1: a White Sox plus one sixty four. You love Ivan Nova.
Speaker 1: You cannot get enough of Ivan Nova. He did not
Speaker 1: allow home run his last start. I believe it was
Speaker 1: the first time all year five and two thirds. Let's
Speaker 1: go Ivanova in Oakla Night Baby, That's exactly why Chris
Speaker 1: Davis has taken him deep Tonight Greigners and Angels, Bravos
Speaker 1: and Padres Raves got him at minus one oh eight
Speaker 1: in San Diego. Yeah, that was my other best better
Speaker 1: than night, my two of the night Braves money line
Speaker 1: at minus one oh eight. It's Dallas Kaiko on the
Speaker 1: mountain against and Nelson Lament and I like the Reds
Speaker 1: money line at plus the Braves and the White Sox
Speaker 1: with plus money. Frank Stample, I'm great, Exaus, everybody downstairs,
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Speaker 1: So what did happen? What did happens? Here's what you
Speaker 1: missed on the BFS. How early would you take early?
Speaker 1: Why are you believing him? Uh? What makes you so
Speaker 1: high on Girley? I think he's in play as early
Speaker 1: as the late first round, but I prefer him in
Speaker 1: the second round. But the reason I'm in on Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley has more to do with the rams offense and
Speaker 1: and how it's going to lead to whoever is the
Speaker 1: running back there being successful. And Todd Gurley has been
Speaker 1: off the charts efficiently good if he was not healthy,
Speaker 1: I mean, if he was not an injury risk with
Speaker 1: the knee, he'd be going first overall, ahead of Sae
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley, no questions acts And I just looked at
Speaker 1: that as We're hearing a lot of negative reports this year,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them have been the same few
Speaker 1: things over and over again, clickbait, it's offseason stories. We
Speaker 1: also have heard positive reports that Sean McVeigh himself has
Speaker 1: said Todd Gurley is still going to be the focal
Speaker 1: point of this offense. Maurice Jones Drew, who is their
Speaker 1: radio play by play announcer and NFL said he's gonna
Speaker 1: see fewer snaps, but the touches could still be upwards
Speaker 1: of twenty a game. We've seen reports that have said
Speaker 1: seventeen to twenty two touches per game for Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: and I broke it down, if he does what he
Speaker 1: did last year on a per touch basis, he's easily
Speaker 1: worth this pick. But even if his efficiency goes from
Speaker 1: last year, it was one point one eight PPR points
Speaker 1: per touch. Let's say we scale that all the way
Speaker 1: back down to one PPR point per touch. If he's
Speaker 1: seeing seventeen touches per game on average, he will finish
Speaker 1: at least as of last year as the RB eight.
Speaker 1: So there's really, in my opinion, it's being overblown, and
Speaker 1: a big part of it is because of how efficient
Speaker 1: the rams are going to be. This this is a
Speaker 1: crazy stack. Todd Gurley had eight defenders in the box
Speaker 1: last year eight point two percent of the time. The
Speaker 1: only running backs with fewer were terkoh And and and Wendel Smallwood.
Speaker 1: We're talking past catching specialists who like in Smallwood's cases
Speaker 1: out there on third downs. Todd Gurley, the guy who
Speaker 1: leads the league in touchdowns the last two years. They
Speaker 1: can't stack up boxes against him because the rams spread
Speaker 1: the ball out so much. Additionally, it leads to him
Speaker 1: being very effective in the passing game. Last year, Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley was one of eight running backs with a minimum
Speaker 1: thirty five targets to average over seven receiving yards per target.
Speaker 1: So he's going to gain I believe yardage still in chunks.
Speaker 1: I still believe he can lead the league in touchdowns,
Speaker 1: because if the Rams keeps saying he's going to be
Speaker 1: the focal point of their offense, we know that when
Speaker 1: they get near pay dirt, it's going to go to
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley up the middle. So unless you think he
Speaker 1: is really going to miss a lot of time, I
Speaker 1: think that is the only way I would be avoiding
Speaker 1: him because I to me, this doesn't seem like a
Speaker 1: scenario where yeah, they drafted Darryl Henderson, but I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going to try to limit Todd Gurley to
Speaker 1: less than fifteen touches per games. So just on the
Speaker 1: efficiency alone of the Rams offense, there is a lot
Speaker 1: of room for upside and the floor. I still think
Speaker 1: it's higher than people want to give him credit for
Speaker 1: the status. Provided are all well and good. I mean
Speaker 1: they're they're awesome, But I didn't need you to convince
Speaker 1: me how awesome Todd Gurley is. Right like I know
Speaker 1: it's Todd Gurley is a percent healthy and there are
Speaker 1: no there are no issues. He's number one overall pick.
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