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Speaker 1: my boy Donnie Burns like we've been doing. I've been
Speaker 1: talking about this launch angle and exit velocity all baseball season,
Speaker 1: and I think my man Mr. Yadi Alonso on the
Speaker 1: Oakland A's is a great test case. We're gonna dive
Speaker 1: into that a little bit more. We also have a
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Speaker 1: around Major League Baseball. The Giants have placed their closer
Speaker 1: Mark Melanson on the d L with an elbow issue.
Speaker 1: With an elbow issue, they're hoping for the minimum stay there,
Speaker 1: so check out. You may need to get saves elsewhere
Speaker 1: if you had Melanten or remember I told you going
Speaker 1: into the season he was not a closer I wanted,
Speaker 1: not because of the injury risk, but more because he
Speaker 1: was just not a a strikeout kind of guy. Didn't
Speaker 1: have the ratios that I liked in my closer. So
Speaker 1: he didn't wind up on any of mine teams. Hope
Speaker 1: he didn't wind up on any of yours. Kendry Morales
Speaker 1: left game last night versus the Indians with the tight hamstring.
Speaker 1: They're keeping him out day to day. And also in
Speaker 1: the Washington Closer news, you got two uh two guys
Speaker 1: trying to get back healthy. Coda Glover had a rehab
Speaker 1: inning recently and Sean Kelly went for a simulated game,
Speaker 1: so one or both of those goals guys could be
Speaker 1: back sometime soon. Also want to let you know that
Speaker 1: Deck of Fowler is out for today's matchup for the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals with a shoulder issue. Let's talk about how
Speaker 1: we win that cash. Last night in DFS, I told
Speaker 1: you that I liked some mid level starters in the
Speaker 1: seven thousand range that I thought you could win with.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you listen to me, but once again,
Speaker 1: if you did, you might have been good, especially in
Speaker 1: cash lineups. I told you I like Hector Santiago fading
Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox at SRED yesterday. He went out
Speaker 1: and went six and two thirds innings, only gave up
Speaker 1: two runs and struck out six guys. He got you
Speaker 1: a quality start and they win in FanDuel scoring as
Speaker 1: they won uh seven to two against the White Sox
Speaker 1: in Chicago, so that probably helped you out. I also
Speaker 1: told you about Matt Andrew's going against the Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 1: He did not get the win, but he uh or
Speaker 1: the quality start. Unfortunately, he did strike out seven though,
Speaker 1: and only gave up two runs, so he uh you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't blow up your lineups today. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: I am once again at this point where I am
Speaker 1: fading the Kansas City Royals offense, especially if they're in
Speaker 1: a ballpark like the one down in Tampa Bay, especially
Speaker 1: if they're facing Tampa Bay's ace, Chris Archer. So I
Speaker 1: am on Chris Archer tonight at ten thousand, four hundred
Speaker 1: on fan duel, the Kansas City Royals nineties six runs
Speaker 1: scored is the worst in the America Ankan League. And
Speaker 1: on the other side, I'm looking for a team in
Speaker 1: the National League that does not score a ton of runs,
Speaker 1: and that is the San Diego Padres. There. You know,
Speaker 1: They're hundred and twenty two runs is more than only
Speaker 1: really the San Francisco Giants, and I think it's tied
Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL, and they are
Speaker 1: going up against you. That's you Darvish for the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1: I get that he's at eleven thousand, two hundred, but tonight,
Speaker 1: unlike last night, is one of the nights I think
Speaker 1: you need to pay up for pitching to get, especially
Speaker 1: the strikeout artists like you Darvish. One of the things
Speaker 1: we've been talking about all season long, as we keep
Speaker 1: it moving here on speeds, is starting line up on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle is this idea of launch angle and
Speaker 1: how a lot of people are consciously making changes to
Speaker 1: their swing because of the data that is coming out
Speaker 1: around launch angle and around EGXIT velocity. And I want
Speaker 1: to talk specifically about my man, Yonder Alonso, and Yonder
Speaker 1: Alonso is a guy that Benny Riccardi has been giving
Speaker 1: you out on DFS Lineup Lock for the last couple
Speaker 1: of days. I know a lot of people have been
Speaker 1: high on all these guys that take that transition and
Speaker 1: are actually looking to change their approach to hit more
Speaker 1: fly balls. If I have to say it again, You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to hear it again because I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: saying it all season long. Guys are systematically and strategically
Speaker 1: changing their approach to hit more fly balls. Listen to
Speaker 1: Yonder Alonso himself that he said in training camp in
Speaker 1: spring training and I quote, I did some mechanical things,
Speaker 1: but also the intent is important. I'm trying to punish
Speaker 1: it more and get it in the air. And then
Speaker 1: he later are you know, says that this is part
Speaker 1: of really the swing that he's trying to have. Well,
Speaker 1: let's see if it works for him. He now is
Speaker 1: hitting three oh nine with eleven homers and seven ribbies
Speaker 1: already on the young season with an ops of one
Speaker 1: point eight six. But more importantly, his fly ball rate
Speaker 1: is absolutely crazy. Fangraphs just did a thing, and his
Speaker 1: fly ball rate from over the last couple of years
Speaker 1: to this year literally looks like you're about to ride
Speaker 1: the beginning of the screen machine out there in six flags.
Speaker 1: It is a steep climb up and this year seventy
Speaker 1: five per cent of Yonder Alonso's batted balls are in
Speaker 1: the air. If you combine his fifty fly ball rate
Speaker 1: with his line drives okay, and according to him trying
Speaker 1: to quote unquote punish the ball, his eggs and velocity
Speaker 1: is up on average from ninety four miles an hour.
Speaker 1: This is what he is literally consciously trying to do.
Speaker 1: And the power has come as a result. Again, one
Speaker 1: point oh eight six ops coming out of first base
Speaker 1: of problem a position that we've always had power, but
Speaker 1: I've said you could have got power late. And you've
Speaker 1: seen guys Ryan Zimmerman, j Bruce, Yonder Alonzo all making
Speaker 1: the same kind of change. You also see other extreme
Speaker 1: cases in the National League, guys like Trevor's story are
Speaker 1: doing this. Guys like Ryan Shrimp for the San Diego
Speaker 1: Padres are doing this. Okay, we give it out sometimes
Speaker 1: as a diamond in the rough, but I'm trying to
Speaker 1: tell you that now in two thousand and seventeen and
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, this three true outcomes approach is not
Speaker 1: only what pictures are looking for with strikeout, but this
Speaker 1: is okay, this is offense in baseball two thousand and seventeen.
Speaker 1: And here's more to support that, Yonder Alonzo, because he
Speaker 1: is trying to punish the ball, hurt the ball. He
Speaker 1: used to be a guy that was hard to strike out,
Speaker 1: that would take his you know, be discerning at the plate.
Speaker 1: His k rate has also gone up this year. His
Speaker 1: k rate has gone up from fourteen percent too, but
Speaker 1: they don't care. Let me tell you something. Fan Grabs
Speaker 1: did a big stat um, a form of weighted on
Speaker 1: base Okay, and all the guys that are scoring high
Speaker 1: on this are guys that are making this change this year.
Speaker 1: His teammate Chris Davis, Ryan Zimmerman, Aaron Judge, Miguel Soon
Speaker 1: know who we've also talked about making this change. Matt Kemp,
Speaker 1: who's also doing the same thing. Freddie Freeman again in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: These are guys that are looking to quote unquote punished
Speaker 1: the ball, increase their exit velocity, literally hit the bottom
Speaker 1: of the ball for their launch angle. This is a
Speaker 1: sustainable change, okay. And I say it's a sustainable change
Speaker 1: because I'm telling you here's the other thing about Yonder Alonso.
Speaker 1: He's only forty eight percent owned in season long leagues.
Speaker 1: Right now, if you're at the bar at happy hour,
Speaker 1: which boys having to drink or which girls having to
Speaker 1: drink after work? One of the two of you are
Speaker 1: in a league where you can right now go get
Speaker 1: Yonder Alonso and his three O nine average, eleven homers
Speaker 1: and seven ribbies. And I'm here to tell you speeds,
Speaker 1: the fitting statistician is here to tell you that this
Speaker 1: is sustain annable for the rest of the season. He's
Speaker 1: only forty some odd percent owned. Go out and get
Speaker 1: Yonder Alonzo. And when you're looking for other guys that
Speaker 1: I have a fast start, check to see if there's
Speaker 1: a dramatic shift and things like their launch angle, because
Speaker 1: that has become a tell tale sign. Like I said, though,
Speaker 1: I got this pole up about should the MLB should
Speaker 1: Baseball focus on more fun. Also, you know, Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: talking about let's make baseball fun again, and people were
Speaker 1: talking about the pace of play. Remember I did a
Speaker 1: poll recently about you know, how do we get millennials
Speaker 1: in It was that streaming coverage. But one of the
Speaker 1: things is like the idea of the bat flip. You know,
Speaker 1: we talked about like the quote unquote unwritten rules of Baseball.
Speaker 1: I even said how the WBC should kind of be
Speaker 1: for the title of unwritten rules in baseball and if
Speaker 1: like Korea, Japan or the Dominican wanted, then bat flip
Speaker 1: should become all the vogue and part of the quote
Speaker 1: unquote written rules of baseball. That's ultimately not what happened,
Speaker 1: but this is happening all over sports. You know, in
Speaker 1: the NFL we call it the no fund League, getting
Speaker 1: flags for celebrations. We talked about the celebrations and flexing
Speaker 1: and dances and high fives with Lebron James and the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA. So I ask you, does
Speaker 1: it bother you? We got a poll question up there
Speaker 1: right now and that f N T S Y Radio
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. We have a poll up there. Do these
Speaker 1: kind of team or individual celebrations like bat flips and others.
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown with the three pumps, does it bother you? Yes,
Speaker 1: it shows up the other team know it's okay to celebrate,
Speaker 1: or it's okay, but don't go overboard. We're gonna check
Speaker 1: in on those polls when we come back, and we
Speaker 1: got a lot more going on in the cipher. We
Speaker 1: got NBA Playoffs Game five Boston, Washington to check in on,
Speaker 1: and a whole lot more. You are listening to Dane
Speaker 1: Martinez Speeds the Spitting Statistician here on the award winning
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Speaker 1: at me if you want, because we can talk about
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Speaker 1: a little Matt Harvey. I have reasons why he's acting
Speaker 1: like a middle school well girl. We'll come on back
Speaker 1: to that. We'll get into the starting site for all
Speaker 1: that and more here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the
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Speaker 1: your boy, Dane Martinez Speeds and spitting Statistician. If you're
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Speaker 1: and win that cash rams gm less Sneed says the
Speaker 1: goal for Tavon Austin is to be ready for training
Speaker 1: camp that after he had risk surgery in India off season.
Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, they say he wants uh. Less Needs says
Speaker 1: they want Tavon Austin to be quote unquote more like
Speaker 1: Deshan Jackson. Things don't happened that way, Okay, just because
Speaker 1: they're short, fast wide receivers, you can't just reasonably approximate
Speaker 1: what a pro Bowl wide receiver can do. Less Need,
Speaker 1: of course, probably wants that because he also spent a
Speaker 1: lot of money signing Robert Woods in the offseason. They
Speaker 1: now have around eight five ninety million dollars invested into
Speaker 1: what I would describe as number two or three wideouts
Speaker 1: in Tavon Austin and Robert Woods. That's really the way
Speaker 1: to support young, growing quarterback Jared Goff, and that's really
Speaker 1: the way to keep um, you know, Todd Gurley with
Speaker 1: only uh you know, seventy eight hundred thirty four men
Speaker 1: in the box against him. So we'll see about that.
Speaker 1: Colts wide receiver coach Sanjay Laal says Dante Moncrief quote
Speaker 1: unquote has all the tools to be one of the
Speaker 1: best wide receivers in the league and actually questioned the
Speaker 1: coaching that he received in the past. Now Dante Moncrief
Speaker 1: is coming up on a contract year, watch out the
Speaker 1: the um excuses are running dry for the Indian Apple
Speaker 1: List Colts. Okay, they you know, change GMS. They're starting
Speaker 1: to build up that defense and that offensive line. Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck will be healthy. They are loaded with weapons. I think,
Speaker 1: uh as some of these other teams in their division,
Speaker 1: most notably, in my opinion, the Tennessee Titans start to grow.
Speaker 1: You really need to try and chime in when you
Speaker 1: can before the Texans have a rock star quarterback, before
Speaker 1: the Titans and the Jaguars take the next step. Andrew Luck,
Speaker 1: Dante Moncrief, your time is right now. I believe Alberto
Speaker 1: River your own is now. The new head of officiating
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He replaces Dean Blandino. Remember Blandino left
Speaker 1: where uh for what would be a TV job. I
Speaker 1: believe last month, and Alberto Rivion is now also. Don't
Speaker 1: forget he's gonna have the role of that centralized instant
Speaker 1: replay that's happening now replays. Remember they're not going under
Speaker 1: the hood back in the New York City office. So
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting. Vikings have signed wide receiver Michael
Speaker 1: Floyd to a one year, one point five million dollar deal.
Speaker 1: It can grow to a bit with incentives, but you
Speaker 1: gotta think about it. What really is there on that roster?
Speaker 1: You know, you got like Stefan digs out wide out,
Speaker 1: so maybe Floyd can see some opportunities there. In an
Speaker 1: interesting move, the Pats extended the May nine tender to
Speaker 1: Legarrett blunt Um at one point well one million dollar tender.
Speaker 1: I think that is very interesting, especially because the Pats have,
Speaker 1: you know, invested in guys like Rex Burkehead and gillies
Speaker 1: Ley already this offseason. This may be just be a
Speaker 1: move to block rivals like I told you about, like
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens from potentially signing him, because now when
Speaker 1: you put that tender on, it does in fact impact
Speaker 1: the compensatory picks, Otherwise it would not. I was talking
Speaker 1: about what it would happen this week. So the Pats
Speaker 1: kind of you know, playing business and chess, trying to maybe, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, prevent someone like the Ravens from signing Legarrett Blunt.
Speaker 1: As we're moving on here in the cipher, I want
Speaker 1: to bring my boy Donny Burns into the discussion. Not
Speaker 1: only is he the love doctor, but he is my
Speaker 1: basketball corresponded here on the fantasy freestyle. We've been checking
Speaker 1: on all playoffs long, and uh, last night, you know,
Speaker 1: was what I thought was gonna be a swing game
Speaker 1: in this Rocket Spurs series. And it went the way
Speaker 1: of Donnie Burns, not the way of speeds and spitting statistician.
Speaker 1: The Spurs win one ten to one oh seven in overtime.
Speaker 1: All we gotta do is look at the critical stat
Speaker 1: that we have been telling you guys about all series long.
Speaker 1: Houston went sixteen of forty nine from three point range
Speaker 1: of sixty eight. That is thirty three percent. We have
Speaker 1: been saying all series long, Donnie Burns, that is just
Speaker 1: not enough to get it done. The other big number
Speaker 1: that I'll leave you with, that I think tells the story.
Speaker 1: Albeit in an overtime game, Mr Aldridge showed up with
Speaker 1: eighteen points and fourteen boards. We also got production out
Speaker 1: of Patty Mills who had twenty Danny Green as well.
Speaker 1: They combined to go nine for twenty from three point land.
Speaker 1: Things started clicking on the Spurs side. However, Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: may have gotten banged up a little bit. But Donnie,
Speaker 1: if the Rockets don't don't hit that number, like we said,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard for them. Huh, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: real hard for them. And unfortunately for the Spurs. Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard update is it's a sprained ankle, but he is
Speaker 1: expected to play next game. However, it was good that
Speaker 1: LaMarcus Old had showed up because, like I said, if
Speaker 1: they were able to move on, he's gonna be big
Speaker 1: time against the Warriors and he needs to show up.
Speaker 1: We just need to see how Kauai plays this next game.
Speaker 1: Do you rest Kauai? I can't just because of how
Speaker 1: the series has gone. You can't like take it for
Speaker 1: granted that you would win a game seven back home.
Speaker 1: It's playoffs. It's not the regular season. If it was
Speaker 1: the regular season, obviously i'd say, you know, rest him,
Speaker 1: but you need to. You need to run him out there,
Speaker 1: I guess so, And as even James Harden said throughout
Speaker 1: the season, remember Hooper's got a hoop, you know, he
Speaker 1: was playing out there with a bad risk. I believe
Speaker 1: it was for a long part, a large part of
Speaker 1: the season. Tonight in Boston, though, here's the thing, Donnie,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the same exact thesis that I
Speaker 1: had last night. I believe at Game five is the
Speaker 1: swing game, and just like I thought in the Western Conference,
Speaker 1: tonight in the Eastern Conference, I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 1: road team being the Washington Wizards. Let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: the Celtics have been no great shakes in Boston all
Speaker 1: playoffs long. If you remember, the Wizards were up, you know,
Speaker 1: in the first half by over by double digits both
Speaker 1: Game one and Game two against the Celtics. And don't
Speaker 1: forget that in the first round the Chicago Bulls were
Speaker 1: not afraid of going to Boston either, winning some games there.
Speaker 1: This has not been a strong home court advantage in
Speaker 1: my opinion for the Boston Celtics, unless Isaiah Thomas decides
Speaker 1: to go off again, I think Washington is going to
Speaker 1: try to put the clamps down and double Isaiah for
Speaker 1: someone else to beat them. I'm going to go out,
Speaker 1: I guess on a limit. I'm taking the road team,
Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards in Boston tonight. What say you, Donnie Burns? Yes,
Speaker 1: so I still have the season this However, we talked
Speaker 1: about this the other day. I feel like Scott Brooks
Speaker 1: has figured out with this kind of sw wing offense
Speaker 1: to the weak side with Isaiah Thomas. If Otto Porter
Speaker 1: shows up with that quiet eighteen points again, you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna be hard to to to beat. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stay with the season. Had to see the season
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this bet, I know your boys
Speaker 1: had the Wizards. Yeah, I was with you. I was
Speaker 1: with you with the season. They're gonna come on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: right when the conference finals are getting to go in,
Speaker 1: so we can go over that, you and me, we're
Speaker 1: on Boston overall. Uh, they were on they were on
Speaker 1: the Wizards. So this will be a big, a big
Speaker 1: matchup to decide who has bragging rights when we're talking
Speaker 1: on Tuesday on Fantasy Freestyle. Yeah. And the one thing
Speaker 1: that you know people are talking about is even though
Speaker 1: the Wizards are a four seed, they would match up
Speaker 1: a lot better against the Calves in the next round.
Speaker 1: I just feel like the Wizards. A lot of people
Speaker 1: think the Wizards are missing another you know, uh, front
Speaker 1: court player, but I really think they need that one
Speaker 1: bench player to really make that next move. You know,
Speaker 1: they have, they have Wall and Beal, and they just
Speaker 1: need that one more that bench player. Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: big on them. I don't think they could push them
Speaker 1: to the next level, but they do match up better
Speaker 1: with you never know. I hear there's a team in
Speaker 1: l A that might be getting broken up. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: that would be very interesting if one of those guys
Speaker 1: on the front court wants to make the cross country trip,
Speaker 1: we shall see um check it out here on the
Speaker 1: UH on the Fantasy Freestyle. One of the things you
Speaker 1: you know, Donnie Burns, You know, I've been talking about
Speaker 1: this all, you know, since its inception. Here this idea
Speaker 1: of pain management in the NFL. Remember we had licensed
Speaker 1: athletic trainer Thomas low come on talking about the torre doll.
Speaker 1: I have been talking about this for a while. Well.
Speaker 1: The f NFL Players Association has officially filed a grievance
Speaker 1: with the NFL over the abuse of pain medication in
Speaker 1: the Collective Bargaining Agreement, Article thirty nine and Article two
Speaker 1: are about the quote unquote non compliance on federal law
Speaker 1: and ethical standards on the administration of federally scheduled drugs
Speaker 1: and pain killers. CBA was rewritten in two thousand eleven
Speaker 1: to comply with these federal guidelines, and they are now
Speaker 1: citing examples where that has not been the case, and
Speaker 1: that is, in fact the grievance they're going, you know,
Speaker 1: putting forth actually about the use of painkillers. They say,
Speaker 1: you know, there was an expose in the Washington Post
Speaker 1: recently describing multiple instances where team and league officials were
Speaker 1: made aware kind of you know, had problems record keeping
Speaker 1: and they did not, in fact comply. Quote from the
Speaker 1: Washington Post article indicts UH to be honest. Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 1: head trainer Paul Sparling, for example, they have an email
Speaker 1: where he says, and by quote, can you have your
Speaker 1: office facts, a copy of the d A certificate to
Speaker 1: me I needed from my records. When the NFL pill
Speaker 1: counters come to see if we're doing things right, don't worry.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at keeping them off the trail. So
Speaker 1: there's that, and there's other examples out there, okay, And
Speaker 1: in response, you know, I have been advocating. We've been
Speaker 1: talking also about, you know, the idea of marijuana for
Speaker 1: safer and more effective treatment. The Gridiron Cannabis Coalition is
Speaker 1: advocating for this as well. Kyle Turley, who I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be talking about his doing an incredible series with Vice
Speaker 1: Sports called Chasing the Strains. We're gonna get into that
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper tomorrow. But what I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about. I saw something and a former NFL lineman
Speaker 1: Ryan Miller really opened up about his concussions recently, um
Speaker 1: in interviews with the Denver Post, talking about talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, after concussions, remember waking up in his hospital
Speaker 1: bed with splitting headaches and everything, how bother him light sound,
Speaker 1: you know, he couldn't even open his phone to dial
Speaker 1: N on one. He described his memory loss. You know,
Speaker 1: he would go to the grocery store to buy groceries.
Speaker 1: He'd come home and go right back to the grocery
Speaker 1: store in half an hour later. And he wouldn't, you know,
Speaker 1: speak out about this because he said, as a football player,
Speaker 1: he was trained and taught to sweep things under the
Speaker 1: rug and be tough, you know, and you don't talk
Speaker 1: about being hurt. Here's the point I wanted to make
Speaker 1: about this guy, Ryan Miller. This is a very serious issue.
Speaker 1: He only played eight games in the NFL. He had
Speaker 1: his and he had a concussion when he was doing
Speaker 1: blocking drills at rookie training camp. He had a concussion
Speaker 1: when he was at during practice when he was on
Speaker 1: the Chargers practice squad. This is a guy who has
Speaker 1: not been in the league for years and years and
Speaker 1: years going through all this contact, just just being you know,
Speaker 1: on the on the practice squad, having a two year career.
Speaker 1: You can do this and need therapy and need to
Speaker 1: contry to once again control your life. That is what
Speaker 1: the NFL players are going through. We need to find
Speaker 1: ways to help them manage their pain without the opioids
Speaker 1: and the pain killers that are out there. Your boys speeds.
Speaker 1: The Spitting Statistician is going to continue to bring this
Speaker 1: to light here on the Fantasy Freestyle. But when we
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna shift gears a little bit, but
Speaker 1: the Fun and Functional Sports Radio, we're gonna talk a
Speaker 1: little bit more about the details of uh. Basically what
Speaker 1: my Matt Harvey just went on a bender, all that
Speaker 1: and more on the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Network. Jeff, you know what it is. It's
Speaker 1: your boy, Dame Martinez, speeds and spitting statistician. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Let's get you caught up real quick on some early
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Speaker 1: what I was talking before about this guy Ryan Miller,
Speaker 1: who was a guard in the NFL, but you know,
Speaker 1: only played like eight games in his career, was more
Speaker 1: like on the practice squad, this sort of thing. I
Speaker 1: read an article about him, and the craziest thing about
Speaker 1: this whole article was at the very end they made
Speaker 1: it a point to say that Ryan Miller has committed
Speaker 1: to donating his brain to science for the study of
Speaker 1: CTE after he dies. And to me, that's the craziest
Speaker 1: part of this entire situation. Why are we waiting, Why
Speaker 1: are we waiting to study or acknowledge that this exists.
Speaker 1: Why are we waiting, for example, to have clinical trials
Speaker 1: on the on the value of cannaboids on things like
Speaker 1: the brain. We've already talked about it with epilepsy and others.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about that going on this week.
Speaker 1: But I gotta ask you, Donnie Burns, you know, is
Speaker 1: the fantasy freestyle the only place you're hearing about this
Speaker 1: is it speeds bringing it to the masses. What do
Speaker 1: you think you think that like this is important enough,
Speaker 1: we're shining a light on this. Do you think this
Speaker 1: is getting enough attention done? I don't think it is,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad you do cover this because, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's not like you hear this on like every single
Speaker 1: radio station, so it's kind of rare and people do
Speaker 1: need to touch on it for sure. Thank you, Thank you,
Speaker 1: Donnie Burns. You know what we do. Not only do
Speaker 1: we help them win their leagues and win that cash,
Speaker 1: but we uh, you know, I give you what you need,
Speaker 1: and we also keep the fun in functional sports radio.
Speaker 1: I want to keep it moving though, you know, lighthearted.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about Matt Harvey, I guess for the
Speaker 1: better part of a week at this point, because I
Speaker 1: was about a week ago where he was, you know,
Speaker 1: playing prankster, playing prankster with his boy Kevin Pluecki. Basically,
Speaker 1: you know, putting a dildo in the locker room. That's
Speaker 1: what happened there. And then we have now more details.
Speaker 1: You know, we thought, you know, the suspension, the three
Speaker 1: days suspension, what was it he didn't come on Saturday. Well,
Speaker 1: more details have come to light, and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: Leave it to our friends here in New York at
Speaker 1: the New York Post for shining light on what went down.
Speaker 1: And this goes back I don't know if you guys know.
Speaker 1: But here in New York there was a big event,
Speaker 1: uh last weekend called the met Gala. Okay, it's very,
Speaker 1: it's very it's very you know, all the beautiful people
Speaker 1: are there. And apparently Matt Harvey saw his ex girlfriend
Speaker 1: Adriana Lima there. And his ex Adriana Lima was not
Speaker 1: there alone. Donny, you know who she was with? I know,
Speaker 1: you do, I actually don't. You don't know, I don't really.
Speaker 1: She was there with her new man Patriots wide receiver
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: and then Harvey also saw them together at the after
Speaker 1: party downtown at One Oak. This isn't ah, this isn't
Speaker 1: the week of Matt Harvey exactly so, and then it's
Speaker 1: now coming out that in essence, he saw this, okay,
Speaker 1: and basically felt some kind of way. So what did
Speaker 1: he do? He went on a bender, like most guys
Speaker 1: would do in that situation. You see your ex with
Speaker 1: another famous guy, you know, new flavor of the month,
Speaker 1: whatever the case. Maybe he got a little bit upset,
Speaker 1: felt some kind of way, didn't know how to deal
Speaker 1: with it, decided to go clubbing. You know, to try
Speaker 1: and reclaim his glory a little bit, went on a
Speaker 1: bender and then couldn't make it to work. That's basically
Speaker 1: what happened, Donny. This is not a good look for him.
Speaker 1: Remember I've been saying for a while. We even had
Speaker 1: a poll question up on it earlier this week. My
Speaker 1: thesis is this, he just needs a little bit of
Speaker 1: a break from the New York scene. He needs a
Speaker 1: little bit of bit of break from even having the
Speaker 1: potential to worry about his model dancer, singer ex girlfriends.
Speaker 1: You know he doesn't need that anymore. He's now thirty
Speaker 1: one with a rising career e r A. He is
Speaker 1: not a kid that is painting the town read anymore.
Speaker 1: Leave it to me your boys speeds and spitting statistician.
Speaker 1: You know, he's in his thirties himself. He ain't going
Speaker 1: out like he used to when he was back in
Speaker 1: the day when he was the man. You're trying to
Speaker 1: Netflix and chill with your boy speeds and if you
Speaker 1: do so, watch tramps. Don't forget about that. But yo, done,
Speaker 1: I think I mean you tell me, bro, he did
Speaker 1: this just he just sounds like kind of like a
Speaker 1: jilted lover who didn't know how to respond, felt some
Speaker 1: kind of way and went on a bender. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty much like he completely forgot that he is a
Speaker 1: major league baseball pitcher. But I mean I did watch
Speaker 1: his apology. We played it on and if you watch
Speaker 1: the video we touched on this, I guess yesterday or
Speaker 1: the day before. Nothing was written down. You know, it
Speaker 1: was very heartfelt, but like, you can't do that really,
Speaker 1: And so I'm telling you now that it's coming out
Speaker 1: that this is some kind of you know, I where's
Speaker 1: a Rod and j Lo and Mark Anthony when you
Speaker 1: need them? That's what I am. That's that's what I'm asking.
Speaker 1: But in any event, I mean, I don't know, you
Speaker 1: think A Rod, Jlo and Mark Anthony is weirder now
Speaker 1: than Matt Harvey, Adriana Lima and Julian Edelman. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: still think it's weirder, but it's weirder that they actually
Speaker 1: get along the twist with Harvey completely missing the game. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: he couldn't handle it. He couldn't handle it. Imagine if
Speaker 1: Mark Anthony, Imagine if Mark Anthony saw, you know, like
Speaker 1: saw these guys j Lo and uh a Rod and
Speaker 1: like couldn't handle him like, I don't know, went on
Speaker 1: some bender and didn't show up for his next concert
Speaker 1: with Harvey's A night game was in the morning. It
Speaker 1: was no, no, no, it was that he didn't show
Speaker 1: up for a day that he wasn't even the starting
Speaker 1: pitcher and Saturday, I believe it was an afternoon. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think it's an option he would I
Speaker 1: would play golf that morning. I don't think that's an option.
Speaker 1: It's not like, hey, you know what, I'm not coming
Speaker 1: today exactly. No, I completely agree with you. I completely
Speaker 1: agree with you. Yo, check it out. The other thing,
Speaker 1: if you know, if you've been listening to the Fantasy Freestyle,
Speaker 1: you know one thing that Donnie Burns and I have
Speaker 1: been getting into big time is the Big Three ice
Speaker 1: Cube League. Okay, and I told you one of the
Speaker 1: best things that ever happened to that league was having
Speaker 1: Michael Rappaport as the sideline reporter. And Yo, they're at
Speaker 1: it again. Remember we had ice Cube and Michael rep
Speaker 1: report explained some of the differences of the rules of
Speaker 1: the Big Three. Well, uh, that was fun, but we
Speaker 1: have them talking a little bit more. It's not only
Speaker 1: the four point shot It's not only the hand checking
Speaker 1: stuff like that. They are talking about how deep the
Speaker 1: competition is in the Big Three. Check it out. This
Speaker 1: is Michael Rappaport, roving reporter for Big Three and the
Speaker 1: league's founder, Ice Cube, talking about how heated it got
Speaker 1: at the Draft Combine, that these guys really want a ball.
Speaker 1: This is not a publicity stunt. This is ball is
Speaker 1: trying to still ball. Let's play that, Donny Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 1: What can people expect? What do you think is gonna
Speaker 1: be the biggest surprise about the games that are airing
Speaker 1: on FS one Monday Night, Basketball Monday Night. What do
Speaker 1: you think is gonna be the biggest surprise? The biggest
Speaker 1: takeaway that people see right off the bat, the competition.
Speaker 1: How competitive day are You know we had to break
Speaker 1: at the at the Combine yesterday because guys are getting
Speaker 1: at it. Did you ever think you would see the
Speaker 1: day where Charles Oakley is playing peacemaker any sort of basketball,
Speaker 1: you know, a little beef. That's why that's why this
Speaker 1: league is great, because we got some dogs out here. Man,
Speaker 1: we got some dogs that's really down with football. And
Speaker 1: you know they ain't all about the glamor that glitz.
Speaker 1: People don't have to know they here because they want
Speaker 1: to be here. They want to play and to see
Speaker 1: Charles have to break up a fight. At this the
Speaker 1: essence of where we're about. What is the world coming
Speaker 1: to when Charles Oakley is breaking up fights? The Big Three? Baby?
Speaker 1: All right, qubo, I can't wait to see it. I'm
Speaker 1: so happy to be a part of it, um. And
Speaker 1: you know, I just appreciate you having me and like, Yo,
Speaker 1: the dude is a big idea. Man like you. You've
Speaker 1: broken the mold many many times. And I feel like
Speaker 1: with the Big Three starting on FS one June, the
Speaker 1: mold is gonna be broken again. And it's all you know,
Speaker 1: your idea without a doubt. But this is not about me,
Speaker 1: I know, I know. It's about basketball fans. It's about
Speaker 1: having something to do in the born, something boring. But
Speaker 1: don't just respect the baseball. Don't disrespect the base Olympics
Speaker 1: going on this car and all that stuff. You want
Speaker 1: to watch some Nascar, Watch some Nascar. You want to
Speaker 1: see some ballers. I love Nascar. I love baseball, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna love the Big Three? Do you really love Nascar?
Speaker 1: Have you ever sponsored the car? Like a cute car.
Speaker 1: Never sponsored the car man, you know, man, but I
Speaker 1: respect that game. I'm driving that that close. The most
Speaker 1: viral sporting event of the summer of two thousand seventeen
Speaker 1: the Big Three starting jun FS one, Big Three Basketball
Speaker 1: Pro three on three with every single player, every single
Speaker 1: name you'll recognize, we're going at it. Yeah, so they
Speaker 1: you have. There's ice human Michael Rappaport once again hyping
Speaker 1: up the Big Three, and uh, I think there are
Speaker 1: two things that are really interesting there. One is they're
Speaker 1: talking about trying to own the summer, you know, that
Speaker 1: share of time after the NBA Finals until say preseason
Speaker 1: football gets started. They talk about, you know, no disrespect
Speaker 1: to baseball. And I heard my boy Jake Seely and
Speaker 1: the Fantasy executive talking about this on the Fantasy Sports
Speaker 1: Network a little bit earlier on this week, about like
Speaker 1: does baseball really own that time at all? I think
Speaker 1: the Big Three is going to take a share of
Speaker 1: viewers and eyeballs and really, uh, I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: eat into uh I think they're gonna eat into the
Speaker 1: shares of sports fans. In July, Donnie Burns, I know
Speaker 1: you and me, we're really excited to see it, right,
Speaker 1: I think they do. You think they got a chance to,
Speaker 1: you know, siphon off some fans during the long days
Speaker 1: of summer. I mean I do. And and here's the
Speaker 1: thing that's kind of bias, I guess, because I find
Speaker 1: baseball to be somewhat slow. Until that said that, their
Speaker 1: young players are great, but they have to figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, on the networks, how to make it not
Speaker 1: so slow. Like people will tune into this Big Three
Speaker 1: because it's something new, like Rappaport said, it's something fresh,
Speaker 1: it's something we haven't seen yet. So I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: excited for it. Like I said, hopefully we can go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope so too. We'll see, we'll see if our
Speaker 1: fearless leader can split the bill. The other thing he
Speaker 1: said was Charles Oakley is playing peacemaker. How funny is
Speaker 1: that after what we saw earlier this year at Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden. Charles Oakley actually playing peacemaker. The last story
Speaker 1: I want to tell you guys here as we put
Speaker 1: the fun and Functional sports radio here on the Fantasy Freestyle. Yo,
Speaker 1: Charles Oakley might be playing peace maker, but uh shack
Speaker 1: might be playing sheriff. Okay, he is going to run
Speaker 1: for sheriff apparently in two thousand and twenty. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's in Georgia or Florida. Remember, he
Speaker 1: has been a police officer before. He says he's doing
Speaker 1: this as a means to try to bring bring people together,
Speaker 1: as you know obviously in some communities where we talk
Speaker 1: about you know, police violence and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: Shack putting himself out there once again as an example,
Speaker 1: saying he'll, you know, he'll build a team of people
Speaker 1: that are in fact smarter than him. I think he's
Speaker 1: saying he's been before, I think with Atlanta with their
Speaker 1: actual law enforcement. So again, if you're listening right now
Speaker 1: in w w w AM in Atlanta through our Sports
Speaker 1: Byline affiliates, let me know if you see Shack at
Speaker 1: the training academy, because I think that is gonna be
Speaker 1: very interesting and then maybe you know, he can be
Speaker 1: deputized to help Charles Oakley out there with the competition
Speaker 1: that there will be in the Big three three on
Speaker 1: three league this summer. When we come back, We're gonna
Speaker 1: tie a nice neat little Bow on this episode of
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle. We're gonna check in on the polls.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you updates on the scores. Capitals and
Speaker 1: Penguins have just gotten started. All that and more as
Speaker 1: we end the show here on Wednesday on the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Network. It should boys speeds, the spitting statistician
Speaker 1: Dane Martinez holding you down on Fantasy Freestyle, come on
Speaker 1: right back. We do want big things here on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle, which your boy Dame Martinez holding you down
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, and maybe some early scores.
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball tonight, the Marlins are up for nothing
Speaker 1: at home on the Cardinals. Orioles have taken jumped out
Speaker 1: to a three nothing lead in the Battle of the
Speaker 1: Beltway series with the Nationals, Indians and Blue Jays now
Speaker 1: tied at three in Toronto, and the Rays have a
Speaker 1: one nothing lead on the Kansas City Royals. Remember I
Speaker 1: said use Chris Archer tonight the raysor of one nothing
Speaker 1: Archer so far holding down the Kansas City offense like
Speaker 1: everybody has done so far. Midway through the first period
Speaker 1: in Game seven the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins, they
Speaker 1: are still scoreless and I want to let you guys know,
Speaker 1: thank you for following the Fantasy Freestyle. Keep it tuned
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network where we're gonna
Speaker 1: have in this league with my man Chris Welsh up next.
Speaker 1: One thing I want to get at also is tell
Speaker 1: you how we're doing on the poll. Remember we had
Speaker 1: a poll question up today, how do you feel about
Speaker 1: bat flips after home runs and other kind of celebrations
Speaker 1: in the NFL or in the NBA kind of individual
Speaker 1: or group celebrations. Right now, fifty of you would probably
Speaker 1: be kind of what I would say, which is it's okay,
Speaker 1: just don't go overboard. You guys say it's fine in
Speaker 1: any situation, go as hard as you want. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty hard to hit a home run, it's pretty
Speaker 1: hard to score touchdown in the NFL, So do what
Speaker 1: you want, which to me means only six percent of
Speaker 1: you guys out there, And thanks to everybody for voting
Speaker 1: on that f n T s Y radio Twitter handle
Speaker 1: or following me at spitting speeds. Remember, if you have
Speaker 1: any questions, send them on out. Only six percent of
Speaker 1: you say that it shows up the other team. And
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, you know, we have all these stuffy
Speaker 1: unwritten rules we talked about the No Fund League. This
Speaker 1: is the people just saying it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: Let them celebrate, let them bring more flameivor to the game,
Speaker 1: especially in baseball. That maybe what keeps the millennials coming back.
Speaker 1: That and of course, as we learned, the video games
Speaker 1: and the streaming coverage is what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: So I was very interested to see that when it
Speaker 1: comes down to it, only six percent of you actually
Speaker 1: think that there's any problem. We are, in fact in
Speaker 1: the millennial era. Check it out tomorrow, Come on back.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we're gonna talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about the Kyle Curl Turley um video series of Vice
Speaker 1: Sports about marijuana as a pain alternative, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the NBA playoffs. Will see what happens Game
Speaker 1: five Wizards and Celtics tonight. Dave Martinez, Donnie Burns here
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports radio networks. See out tomorrow.