WEBVTT - Pace of Play, Former Rays Pitcher Fernando Perez, Wonderlic Test! 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.760 Are you new to Daily Fantasy are you a veteran? 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.520 Either way, you can better your chances of winning money 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:14.520 and lots of it by going to Daily Rodo dot com. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.080 Multiple people have become millionaires thanks to the guys at 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.680 Daily Rodo. Why not take advice from the experts. You 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.720 can become a millionaire to just go to Daily Rodo 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:34.080 dot com to rock daily Fantasy Sports. You're listening to 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.600 the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You are now about to 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:48.000 witness the strength of fantasy knowledge Fantasy Sports Radio Network. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.479 You are now tuned in to the Speeds and Spitting 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:56.800 Statistician on Fantasy Freestyle. Next on that site book on 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.080 the microphone. You know that I'm one of the best. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:06.000 Yet as you know what it is, it should boy 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.280 Dane Martinez a k A. Speeds a k A to 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.679 Spitting Statistician a k a. The stable Genius and vocal Minority, 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.200 And welcome to another edition of the Fantasy Freestyle right 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.080 here on the Fantasy Sports Network. Welcoming back. You know 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.319 the stats overbeat cipher. We are in full effect. Let's 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.360 give a big shout out right away to my folks 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.560 down on the fourth floor on the Fantasy Pit of misery. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.160 I got Danny Auto, I got my best friend forever, 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.400 Mike Florio. They are on the ones and tools, keeping 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.080 it so hot that we sweat steam. They are blowing 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:37.759 up like a Samsung sebe. But we got a good 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.800 show for you today. You know, check this out. Interesting 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:45.440 time in the NFL calendar. Okay, you got people getting cut, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.400 You've got people. Will they put the franchise tag on 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.560 you or not? We had the NFL combine that just happened. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.720 We're gonna talk a little bit about the NFL combine 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.440 as well. And then next week, let me tell you something. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.840 Next week, starting on Monday, we have what's called the 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.200 legal tempering period. Okay, you gotta love that. For a 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.200 couple of days people can kind of cheat on each other. 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.320 And then um, next Wednesday, free agency starts. Kirk Cousins 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.960 about to get paid. Looks like after some decisions that 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.359 were made, uh today, looks like Sammy Watkins might get 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.519 paid a R fifteen. Allen Robinson will get paid. But 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.320 we're gonna talk about who I think took the cake 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.360 in the NFL combine over the course of the last weekend. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.239 We're gonna do that in a couple of minutes. We 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.520 gotta pull question up on Twitter as usual. Okay, hit 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.600 me up on Twitter at Spitting Speeds, and my question 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.919 is who was the most important or the most talked 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:38.040 about or your favorite story from the NFL Combine. Wasn't 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.520 Lamar Jackson, who you know is a quarterback. Okay, just 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.000 like listen straight up, he is a quarterback, all right. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.919 He's not gonna do wide receiver. It's not like to 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:47.919 ask Josh Allen to do tight end drills. You know 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.800 what I'm saying is it was it se Kwon Barkley, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.760 my man from the b X, from the Boogie Down, 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.000 who did absolutely ridiculous at like two and thirty pounds. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.799 This kid ran a four four flat al right, which 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.800 is absolutely ut. I think he's shooting up draft boards rightfully. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.480 So the New York Football Giants, I think they can 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:07.800 wind up taking a shot at him of number two. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.519 As you know, as your boy speeds, the spitting statistician 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.320 is you know from the Buginea on Bronx as well, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.480 Big ups the sae Kwon Barkley or was it SHAKEM Griffin? 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.400 This is a kid who really opened a lot of 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.200 eyes at the combine. Got a late invite to the combine. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.000 We'll talk about him a little bit more, and then 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.760 later on in the show, I'm gonna be very excited 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.079 to have my man joined me with the status of 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.240 each side. For we're gonna have Fernando Perez come on 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.880 the show. He's a former Major league who played a 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.000 couple of years with the Tampa Bay Rays. We're gonna 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.440 talk to him about all things, you know, baseball related 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.400 before we get into the season. It's good to get 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.040 it from a player's perspective, you know, because we're on 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.520 the Fantasy Sports Network, right, so we're talking about Whoba, 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.560 We're talking about groundball raids, We're talking about bad and stuff, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.320 right and rightfully so and rightfully so right, but it's 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.000 interesting to get some takes on from the player's perspective 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:57.960 on some of these issues that are going on in 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.440 Major League Baseball. And then, as usual, we put the 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.520 fun and functional Sports Radio when my boys down in 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.680 the Fantasy Pit of Misery down there on the fourth floor, 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.360 we're gonna take the Wonderlick test, and we're gonna see 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.680 how Danny Otto does. We're gonna see how speeds does. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.320 We're gonna see if we are you know, are smart 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.960 enough to play quarterback in the NFL. I gotta tell 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.040 you guys early on, though Danny Otto has been cramming, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.640 he has been seeing these wonder Lick questions. He doesn't 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.760 want to embarrass himself in front of the stats over 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.000 beat cipher. We got the chat room going. Let me 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:28.760 know what you think. Who do you think will do 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:33.559 better on the Wonderlick text Mike Florio, Danny Otto, boys speeds, 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.160 the spitting statistician. Let us know and hit us up 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.200 on the pole question as well. Let's start with news 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.279 and notes from around the NFL. First of all, the 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.680 franchise tag is on and popping. Okay, uh, Levyan Bell 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.680 did in fact get tagged for a second year okay, 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:53.240 fourteen point five million dollars to play running back. They're 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.239 kicking the can down the road. I think this reminds 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.719 me very much of what happened last year. Okay, they're 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.479 kicking the can down the road, and I think this 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.400 is smart for both sides, because, to be honest, if 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.080 I'm Levian Bell and I've said it before, I'm gonna 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.120 say it again all season long. This is Big Ben's 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.360 probably last year. This is their last ride in the 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.960 sun when Big Ben walks away. Why if you're a 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.039 Levy on Bell entering your prime, would you want to 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.600 stay with the Pittsburgh Pirates as they cycle back to 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.040 a young quarterback. I don't think you would, So I 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.240 think him having that kind of flexibility down the road 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.760 is a good idea. Um. Other people that did not 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.760 get tagged, I think we're very interesting and they are 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.560 going to hit the free agent market. I told you 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.960 about Kirk Cousins. He's gonna get paid. There has not 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.640 been a quarterback under the age of thirty that is 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.880 actually healthy that has hit the open market in a 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.840 very long time. Will it be the Vikings who are 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:43.280 where I think he's gonna go. I think he's gonna 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.360 go to Minnesota because he wants Stefan Can you digs it? 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.360 And Adam I gotta Fellen. Will it be the Jets 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.479 who are gonna throw money at him? Will it be 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.559 the Cardinals, the Broncos. We'll see, but he's gonna get paid. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.120 Sammy Watkins, Alan Robinson, these are people. Jervis Landry via Trade, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:00.880 these are names you're gonna hear or about. Um. A 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:02.920 lot of teams want whiteout We're hearing that the Washington 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.320 football team maybe in on a R. Fifteen Chicago Bears 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.360 want to get down with Jarvis Landry. So there's going 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:13.000 to be some movement, all right. Also, rumors abound Seahawks 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.080 and Jimmy Graham probably are not gonna be resigning him. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.279 Could he go back to the Saints? Wouldn't that be interesting? 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.400 You know, they've been trying to replace him for a 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.159 couple of years. That hasn't happened in a while. There's 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:26.919 also reports coming out of New York that the Giants 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.680 might be cool with Eli Manning. Okay, And I'm reading 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.000 the tea leaves here, and I think that, Like I said, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.520 I think they're gonna go ahead and and try and 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.200 get Sae Kwon Barkley at number two. Overall, let Eli 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.440 have his swan song. And let me tell you something. 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.520 Sae Kwon Barkley and old Dell Beckham outside of Leavian 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.760 Belle and Antonio Brown, can you name me another combo 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.599 at wide out and running back more explosive than that 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.800 would threaten to be for Eli Manning. Of course, they 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.719 still need an offensive line, but maybe, you know, maybe 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.680 they make their investment there otherwise the rest of the 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.320 draft and growing some money around in free agency. Speaking 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.280 of free agency, um, the cap in the NFL has 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.760 gone up, okay, increase about ten million dollars, given teams 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.080 even more opportunity to sign these players. The cap is 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:11.200 going up to one seventies seven point to million dollars 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:15.960 a year UM. So people are definitely going to get paid. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.600 A last note, I'll give you to the I guess 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.000 most famous referees or calling it quits, Ed Hockeyly the 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.160 guns show. That's why I have my guns out today, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.400 you know, representing my line of verse. Everybody wrote a 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.360 where you know what it is Ed hockey Lely with 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.280 his guns out, and also Jeff Triplett, he of the 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.760 flip coin fame. They're gonna be moving on. I've been 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.240 saying they need younger revs to keep up with the 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.640 speed of the game and the technology of the game. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.960 These guys were doing it for a long time. Maybe 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.920 they can go retire and sit on some rocking chairs 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.800 and use their asthma pumps. Moving forward to big big 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.840 shout out from Stattoo of Beachside for d Hockilee and 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.880 Jeff triplet all Right, I wanted to talk about the 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.120 combine real quick before we bring in my boy Fernando 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.760 Perez to talk about Major League Baseball. If you don't know, 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.880 I'm about to let you know about Shakim Griffin. Okay, remember, 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.080 first of all, earlier in the college football season where 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.640 I've been on the University of Central Florida Golden Knights, 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.480 I said they were the true national champions because they 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.560 went undefeated at thirteen and oh this season, and I've 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.840 been talking about them hanging banners and you know how 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.240 they should have actually got a chance against Alabama because 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.920 they beat Auburn in the regular season and they and 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.560 they really could have been. They got screwed in this 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.240 new you know formula. Well, one of their linebackers was 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:28.360 Chakeem Griffin. She came. Griffin put up a four point 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.040 three eight in the forty yard dash over the weekend. Okay, 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.640 that is the fastest for a linebacker since the year 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:40.000 two thousand and three. She came. Griffin had twenty reps 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:45.160 in the bench press. Okay, she came. Griffin last year 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:49.000 had forty four solo tackles, fourteen tackles for lost, seven sacks, 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.760 and three turnovers. That after a junior year, were at 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.040 fifty seven solo tackles, twenty tackles for a loss, eleven 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.400 and a half sacks and three turnovers. Oh but I 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.440 forgot to tell you she came. Griffin only has one hand. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:07.200 King Griffin does not have a left hand. Had a 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.080 has a rare disease where he had to have his 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:14.280 hand amputated right his His twin brother, Shaquille Griffin actually 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.120 was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks last year in the 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:18.920 third round. I do believe it's kind of an up 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.000 and comer in the league, if you want to know 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:24.360 the truth. Okay, but Shachim this year ran the same 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.800 forty time, but his twenty two point pounds heavier than 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.400 his twin brother. That's a big difference, right. This kid 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.520 has ridiculous speed, is right away a special teams player. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.320 But the question is will he get a chance in 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.240 the NFL. He has legitimately one hand, and so people 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.319 kind of close minded, you know, like, how, how, how, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.640 quite frankly can he play? I have seen footage of 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.160 this kid jump route to make interceptions and take him 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.199 to the house. Okay, every time someone tells you he 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.840 can't do it, he turns around and does it. He 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.440 turns around and does it. And there's a great article 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.640 in the Players Tribune. And I like to Players Tribune because, 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.720 you know, you get the stories from the athletes directly themselves. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.480 And I think that's really cool. I think that's really 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.080 um getting straight from the horse's mouth, right. And he 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:09.720 tells a story about like when he was eight years 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.719 old and a youth coach UM tried to tell him 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.480 he couldn't play in a playoff game because he thought 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.920 he was saving himself from you know, from himself. But 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.120 instead he went out and made the game winning play 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.280 in that game to beat this other, this coach's team, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.400 and it's stuck with him, you know, it's stuck with him. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.400 He said in this article. I got up. I ran 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:34.960 off the field, holding the ball in the air with 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.320 my one good hand, thinking that from that moment forward, 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.720 no one was ever gonna tell me that I didn't 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.079 belong on a football field, and no one was ever 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.800 going to tell me that I couldn't be great. That's 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.240 what this kid has been doing for a very long time. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.480 I am certainly rooting for Hikine Griffin. They were saying 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.720 early on that you know, despite his you know, despite 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:59.760 his all first first All team conference play in the 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:04.199 Athletic Conference for a team that went thirteen and oh, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.000 despite the fact that he did work in the Senior Bowl. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.439 He didn't even get an invite to the Combine. Then 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.200 he blows it up and puts up stats that people 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.400 haven't seen in over a decade. This kid is improving 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.400 his stock, and I I I challenged the NFL to 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.920 go ahead and take a stand and you know, think 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.720 clearly about what this kid can do to add to 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.840 your team. You know, he said, so many people are 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.520 gonna have doubts about what he can do. Some people 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.680 thought he could do three, maybe five reps. He did 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:38.280 twenty reps with a prosthetic hand. Okay, if you don't 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.840 want that in your locker room, if you don't want 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.320 that on your squad, showing how you battle, showing how 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.600 you you know, grind hard, showing how you use that 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.360 fuel against you, if you don't want that on your roster, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.320 I defy you to not go ahead and you know, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.440 take a mid round pick on this kid. Okay, yeah, 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.920 obviously there are probably some limitations there, but this kid, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.760 it showed up, showed out, and so I want to 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.080 let you all know about that on the stats overbeat Cipher. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.719 Let y'all know about Chechin Griffin from you U c F. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.040 I've been talking about the whole time shot called by 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.199 your boy Speedes it's bitten Statista, and I think he 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.880 was the biggest story of the NFL combriine. Like I said, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.280 we got a poll question up fifty six percent of 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.400 you agree. Alright, I've only had this pole question for 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:22.960 like an hour. We got a couple of hundred people 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.880 that have voted already. Fifty six percent say Shakim Griffin, 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.600 thirty eight percent say say Kwon Barkley, four percent say 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.680 Lamar Jackson were the big stories of the combine. Okay, 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.640 So next week though, when I'm back here inside Studio 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.960 thirty four here on the Fantasy Sports Network, um, it 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.280 is going to be free agent frenzy. Alright. We're gonna 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.960 be talking about money getting thrown around at wide receivers 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.760 and what the fantasy impact is going to be. So 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.199 I can get you ahead of things because if you're 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.160 in like dynasty leagues or something like that, to help 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.320 you win your leagues and win that cast. But we're 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:55.800 gonna do right now, is we're gonna bring in my 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.560 man for Nando Perez, for Nando Perez former Major League 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.120 or yeah, Fernando, you can come on in. What we 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:03.880 get Fernando? All set up? Let me also tell you 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.679 about all people over at fantasy factor dot com. Come 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.959 on in, Fernando. Did you know Fantasy Factor, though, is 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.160 the perfect daily fantasy site for the casual recreational player. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.640 They have flatter prize pools, smaller contests, and you could 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.400 do single entry contests. Okay, this way you're not competing 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:23.000 against people with all those um algorithms and whatnot and 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.600 multiple entries. I really like that to do in free 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.400 free rolls every week NBA NHL free rolls, the free entry. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.239 All you gotta do is sign up and enter www 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:37.560 dot fantasy factor dot com. All right, we got we 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.800 got my man, Fernando Perez in the building. Fernando, they 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.360 say down there that you got. You can't be in 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.720 the corner though. They want you to, yeah, get in 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.520 the shot. They want you to get in the shot 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.200 because so you know, you're so handsome and whatnot. They 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.719 want to get you in the shot. So right here 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:56.400 on the Fantasy Freestyle, now we have my boy, Fernando Perez, Fernando, Um, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:57.920 you know, a couple of years in the majors. Yeah, 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.240 with the Rais. Yeah, yeah, a couple of years is generous. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.000 W is generous. But you know you were out there, 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.960 you were out there now there, you know, done some 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.320 work in the past for vice for MLB as well, 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.840 you know, and um, thanks for stopping by. How you feeling. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.839 I'm doing great? You got me kind of hyped up 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.840 talking about about your man, the one hand man, Yeah, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.280 Keen and Griffin man. Would you mean catching interceptions and 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.320 running them back to the house, jumping routes? Yeah, what 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.840 do you think do you think? I mean he shows 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.000 you know, objectively sta for stat at these combines, being 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.840 able to do what he has the production on the 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.520 field as well. You know, do you think, um, he 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.280 will go where he should go in the NFL draft 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:45.240 next month? I don't know. I don't know that much 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.920 about the NFL, um, but I'm just saying, how do 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.440 you I hope you know, you always hope when there 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.560 was a story, right, when there's a guy and he's 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.520 easy to root for, you hope he's good at the sport. Actually, yeah, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.360 well it looks like at the very and at the 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.000 very least, hope he gets himself a Wheenie's commercial or something. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.360 He should definitely get him endorsements in the end in 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.760 the NFL ever, definitely get endorsements. But yeah, I hope 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.160 he's actually actually good. Production seems to be there. But okay, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.560 so maybe not football, but you do know about baseball, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.440 no stuff about You do know about baseball, and that's 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.560 why we wanted to bring you in. Okay, we were 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.520 talking before the show about a lot of things, from 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.880 advanced stats to pace of play, to how to make 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.200 the game more exciting for the fan. Let's start with 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.160 the pace of play, because one of the things I 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.880 thought was interesting is you mentioned that are we really 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.320 bringing more fans into the tent by change like trying 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:44.120 to make these changes like limiting mound visits or um, 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.680 you know, trying to put pop in ads and shorter 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.760 commercial breaks. And you said that from a player's perspective, 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.040 you don't really feel the pace of play as much, 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.120 and you don't think necessarily you know, it's gonna bring 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.880 new fans to the game if the game is shortened 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.120 by ten fifteen minutes. I have a lot of feelings 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.120 about it, and they're not all cohesive. There's some nuance 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.280 in the situation. A lot of people who are are 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.520 die hard fans of baseball. When you watch baseball, you 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.680 want more of it. I'm not. I'm not there thinking, oh, 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.520 this game was three hours and thirty eight minutes. Why 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.080 couldn't it have been three hours and fifteen minutes. No, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.480 you want it, you want more of it. And so 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.320 I think that it's a matter of of the actual 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.960 product not being that compelling. What are we worried about 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:31.920 when we're talking about worrying about baseball? Right, there's a 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:37.680 multi billion dollar enterprise. We're worried because we're losing. Are 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.120 following right, and and then they're gonna be fine. Baseball 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.520 is gonna be fine. But we're not attracting young people. Well, 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.440 why aren't we attracting young people? It wouldn't even be 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.360 having this conversation if the product was compelling. And the 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.000 product is not compelling, I will take you back. I 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.240 have to say this. I have to say this. Two 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:58.880 years ago, I was watching the opening day footage. It 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.880 was live I think on ESPN, don't I mean, I 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.720 roughly know who was broadcasting. It wasn't really the point 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.320 who was on the broadcast. But it was the first game, 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.840 the opening day. You should be brimming and and and 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.760 just full of interesting things to say, an encitement, Oh 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.560 my god, and and four minutes, four innings into the game, 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.320 these guys are talking about Balding and their and their 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.520 kids little league careers and things like that, and so 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:29.040 we there is now it's this whole problem is not 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:34.280 uh necessarily encapsulated in in this awful stretch of television 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.639 that I that I watched. However, um, it just shows that, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.400 you know, you know, these people, what are they doing. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.080 They're imitating something that they've seen before. But there's a 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.440 there's a part of the stadium experience and as well 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.760 as the broadcast that's just not super fascinating. If I'm 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.359 some kid, you know, pick a country that is not 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.679 the United States, that knows nothing about football, and I 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.800 come over from the said country, whatever it is, and 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.119 I see a little bit of basketball, I want some 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.520 more of that. I see a little bit of football. 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:10.679 If especially if I'm like, you know, into physicality, I'm like, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:15.600 give me some more of that. I see baseball, and 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.040 I'm not sure necessarily if I want all that and 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.320 This is is coming from a person I want all 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.440 the baseball all the time. Right, So you know that 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:27.520 bottled gift product that we you know, that we see 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.159 on ESPN, it isn't quite as compelling as the other sports. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:34.119 So there are lots of reasons, right, Uh, do the 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.960 condensed games and I'm wonderful, that's wonderful, But you know, 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:39.920 there's so many things at play. I think the unwritten 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.760 rules make the product a little bit a little bit 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.439 less interesting, right, I think there are some things we 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.639 could we could Uh, you know, I've sat and talked 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:54.560 with Tony Clark a few times. Tony Clark Clark one 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.720 of my favorite humans. Immediately when I met one of 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.639 my favorite humans I've ever met, Tony Clark as the 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.720 closest man that we have two Morpheus on the run 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.399 the Purl, and we we talk about it about you know, 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:10.080 well there should be some diplomacy here where players and 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.119 you know start to talk and just like listen, you know, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.119 maybe we should stop being in our feelings about so 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:15.879 many of these things. We could make the TV a 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.520 little bit better, right, So that's pulling it a little bit. 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.320 But what about from the suspective you played outfield. Right, 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:22.919 So some of these things that they're talking about, like 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.879 the mound visits, but what are you doing during the 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.879 mound visit? Look, you want that when you're playing defense. 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.919 You there's incentive for that game to go quicker. You 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.240 want a picture that works fast. So some of that stuff, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.560 like we're saying, it works itself out in the game. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.320 But of course you gotta ice the kicker, right, You 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.720 gotta go out there sometimes and make mound visits that 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.560 you don't need. And it's just a technology. Though in 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.879 two thou eighteen they can't have a speaker. I'm not 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.840 not against shortening the game. I'm not against shortening the game. 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.400 It's just that, you know, as I would say, it's like, 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.000 you know, baseball's my cousin, and it's just like I 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:00.560 tell you, like you want to short in the game, 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.040 my cousin is gonna be very very upset, because they 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.199 will be very very upset. But I think, you know, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:10.600 baseball players are the world's premier improv athletes. Uh, And 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.320