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Speaker 1: things baseball. The baseball continues in this episode. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: we are going to continue our NL West preview. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the bats in the NL West. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the arms in the NL Central. Um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get you ready because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: baseball going on right now. Spring training is afoot, although
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like that after that crazy snowstorm we
Speaker 1: had over here in NYC earlier this week. Um, but
Speaker 1: it is getting going. Okay, it is getting going, and
Speaker 1: it's also a very interesting time in the NFL calendar.
Speaker 1: We're gonna catch you up on what's going on there.
Speaker 1: It's a very you know, we're right at the end
Speaker 1: of the league year. Okay, so things are happening. There's trades,
Speaker 1: there's people getting cut, you know, a lot of people
Speaker 1: positioning themselves for what will happen next week, the start
Speaker 1: of the new league year, and a free agent frenzy.
Speaker 1: So we'll get you caught up on that. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do h some heavy baseball previews in this
Speaker 1: episode of the Fantasy Freestyle. And then you know though,
Speaker 1: at the end, as always, we're gonna put the fun
Speaker 1: in functional sports content as we uh, you know, get
Speaker 1: down with the hashtag stats, will beat Cipher and have
Speaker 1: a little bit of fun. I got some interesting things,
Speaker 1: including which Panthers player is apparently uh you know, like
Speaker 1: saving lives out there in the wilderness. Well, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that a little bit later on, but first what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do first to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about football, because check this out. It is, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's the end of the league year. Okay, so we've
Speaker 1: been talking about the franchise tag and that process had
Speaker 1: gone through, you know what I mean, and then it
Speaker 1: was like, okay, these guys, you know, the Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: the Sammy Watkins, they are fifteens, the case Keendoms, these
Speaker 1: guys would not be tag, so they're gonna be free agents.
Speaker 1: But the last thing to be honest that people the
Speaker 1: things that happened at the end of the league year
Speaker 1: is that um, trades happened other ways of trying to
Speaker 1: clear cap space, you know, so that you can start
Speaker 1: to sign people. So, um, the Bennett brothers had a
Speaker 1: very interesting week. I mean, the black Unicorn Martelis Bannet
Speaker 1: got cut by the Pats pat trying to in one case,
Speaker 1: in this case, save six point two million dollars, right.
Speaker 1: But then Michael Bennett he gets traded. He gets traded
Speaker 1: from Seattle to the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Eagles may have been losing Vinny Curry on that line.
Speaker 1: But listen, they're gonna get Michael Bennett to add to
Speaker 1: that crazy rotation, which is really something they rode and
Speaker 1: was very important to their Super Bowl. You know, remember
Speaker 1: still uh Cox and Joern again in the middle, Brandon Graham.
Speaker 1: They not the you know Barnett. They now add Bennett
Speaker 1: to that mix. And listen, I've been telling you guys
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks and months that this was,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the end of the l O B.
Speaker 1: I talked about this on previous episodes of The Fantasy Freestyle.
Speaker 1: I said, I thought this was the end of the
Speaker 1: Legion of Boom, and you know it really is. Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman looks like he is in fact next UH to
Speaker 1: go for Seattle is a camp Chancellor has a very
Speaker 1: interesting injury Dicey. They don't know if he's gonna play again.
Speaker 1: So what what does this Seahawks team? Do? You know?
Speaker 1: And that is our pole question UH for this episode
Speaker 1: of the Fantasy Freestyle. Do you think do you think
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks are still a playoff contender in the
Speaker 1: NFC UM after the way they're trying to it looks
Speaker 1: like remake their roster and coaching staff. Hit me up
Speaker 1: at Spitting Speeds. If you want to get down on
Speaker 1: the pole, statue of feat site will always be getting
Speaker 1: down to the pole. So that's interesting that's going on.
Speaker 1: But the trade don't stop. The Rams have traded um
Speaker 1: Ogul Tree, that linebacker over to the New York Football
Speaker 1: Giants for some draft picks. You know, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: cool with this as Giant has people who know a
Speaker 1: lot of Giants fans getting a linebacker fine, but they
Speaker 1: still have that number two pick and most Giants fans
Speaker 1: wanted at this point maybe them to go Mrs say
Speaker 1: Kawan Barkley from the Bronx. That would be a good
Speaker 1: New York fit. Looks like the Broncos maybe interested in
Speaker 1: He's keenom. That's interesting to note. Does that mean that
Speaker 1: the Broncos kind of see the writing on the wall
Speaker 1: and know that they are no longer kind of like
Speaker 1: that finalist for Kirk Cousins. To me, what I'm hearing
Speaker 1: your boys, Speeds and Spitting Statistician is hearing that the
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins sweepstakes, in my opinion, is going to come
Speaker 1: down to the New York Jets and the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, I'm a Jets fan, and
Speaker 1: I do not want the Jets to get Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: I don't want them throwing three million dollars a year
Speaker 1: at a quarterback position where they are more than a
Speaker 1: quarterback away. They need to be building smartly from the
Speaker 1: interior on the offensive line, at the on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, and then a little bit later
Speaker 1: on in a year or two, what Tom Brady is
Speaker 1: actually moving away from that division and retiring, then you
Speaker 1: put the cherry on top or hopefully you've been able
Speaker 1: to develop a kid by then. I hope they don't
Speaker 1: do that, and I would go to Minnesota if I
Speaker 1: was Kirk Cousins anyway, you know what I mean? Um, Stephen,
Speaker 1: can you digs in Adam? I got a feeling as
Speaker 1: options are returning Dalvin the top three defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be a great situation for me.
Speaker 1: You would be the cherry on top in that situation. Um,
Speaker 1: And Minnesota, you know, has just as much money to
Speaker 1: spend if they wanted to. So maybe the Broncos no,
Speaker 1: and are now maybe turning their attention to a guy
Speaker 1: like his Keenom who maybe you know, in on the
Speaker 1: revolving door if Minnesota does in fact make that move. Okay.
Speaker 1: And also remember we talked about how Goodell is gonna
Speaker 1: find Jerry Jones and it was really a retribution for
Speaker 1: legal fees as well. He Jerry Jones has, in fact,
Speaker 1: want to vote reimbursed the other owners two millions dollars
Speaker 1: in legal fees. Um, So that situation, it seems to
Speaker 1: be closed, and you know, it's just part of the
Speaker 1: by laws, right, part of the biblass Listen. We talked
Speaker 1: last episode of the Fantasy Freestyle about the combined of
Speaker 1: my man Keem Griffin, who really wowed everybody with his um,
Speaker 1: you know, with his speed, with his polish, shall we say,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that only had one hand. But um,
Speaker 1: what I want to talk about in the combine this
Speaker 1: is kind of less reported this year is that um,
Speaker 1: nobody really had got popped for drup desk, if you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm actually hearing a lot of people were saying
Speaker 1: that this is kind of just because the teams themselves
Speaker 1: do not consider marijuana that big of a deal anymore,
Speaker 1: you know, um, because they know where this country is
Speaker 1: going societally on marijuana. They know where the pain management
Speaker 1: is going on marijuana. And if you're a friend to
Speaker 1: the show, hashtag Dilley Dilley hashtects, that's overbeats. You know
Speaker 1: that we have been talking about this for a while, right,
Speaker 1: pain management used marijuana hashtag can a can athlete. You know,
Speaker 1: we've been talking with license certified trainer Tom Slow. We've
Speaker 1: been we've been bringing these stories to the forefront about
Speaker 1: pain management players. And it looks like, listen, even if
Speaker 1: the NFL won't come out and say something, that the
Speaker 1: teams themselves are almost like decriminalizing it. You know, it's
Speaker 1: almost like weed is not a federal law anymore, right,
Speaker 1: but the states. It's legal in so many states, and
Speaker 1: they're taking action to decriminalize it. It's almost like the
Speaker 1: teams are doing the same. Remember Ruben Foster got caught
Speaker 1: last year. You know, he said he had food poisoning
Speaker 1: water rehydrated him because of a diluted sample. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, come on, that was obviously not true. But
Speaker 1: that like these fly these days because no one's really
Speaker 1: thinking about it. People are turning a blind eye to it,
Speaker 1: and I think, in fact, on purpose, you know, um One,
Speaker 1: a f C team official in this article I read
Speaker 1: literally said we just don't care about it as much.
Speaker 1: You know, they have to worry about things like domestic
Speaker 1: violence right now. You know, that's what they don't want
Speaker 1: their players to be doing. It's not about marijuana. It's
Speaker 1: it's almost being decriminalized. So I did I also wanted
Speaker 1: to bring that to you guys because I did think
Speaker 1: that was interesting as it related to coming out of
Speaker 1: the combine, like that's always something that happens. And it's
Speaker 1: basically like an idiot test, right you know, you're getting
Speaker 1: a drug test. You know, can't you like quote unquote
Speaker 1: study for the test. You know, just my knowing what
Speaker 1: You're going to get a drunk that's okay, and this
Speaker 1: is gonna be your professional career. But you don't smoke
Speaker 1: for you know, the thirty days we get that joint,
Speaker 1: audea system whatever it is. I mean, this is your
Speaker 1: you know, your interview for your million dollar job, right so,
Speaker 1: but so that's why it has been an idiot test.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, I think this analogy holds right
Speaker 1: that the states taking control of marijuana policy or in essence,
Speaker 1: just like the teams taking control, so like, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: they don't even administer the we test anymore in a
Speaker 1: couple of a couple of years, you know, And I
Speaker 1: think that would be very very interesting. Check it out.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're gonna do here on the Fantasy Freestyle.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little bit about baseball. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be a baseball heavy episode. I did just want to
Speaker 1: get that combined story. And but let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: Next week, with free agents getting started, I'm gonna preview
Speaker 1: which teams Because here's the way you gotta think about it.
Speaker 1: If you're about fantasy football twelve months a year, like
Speaker 1: you always speeds has been statistician, you gotta start thinking
Speaker 1: about like I'm thinking, I'm talking about dynasty leagues talking
Speaker 1: about you gotta start thinking about what team, what what what?
Speaker 1: What offenses? Compositions are gonna look a little bit different.
Speaker 1: You know, who's gonna take advantage of it? For example,
Speaker 1: like in all my dynasty leagues last year, I wound
Speaker 1: up I picked up Trey Burton in a ton of leagues.
Speaker 1: Why because I knew he was a free agent. He
Speaker 1: was gonna get out from under Zach Ertz. You know,
Speaker 1: stuff like that. You know, go grab yourself a little
Speaker 1: Patty Mahomes stuff like that. You know that's gonna happen. Right,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give you a little bit of preview
Speaker 1: about what teams are going to kind of change shape
Speaker 1: at the running back position and what teams are going
Speaker 1: to kind of change shape at the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be some football content in the next episode
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Speaker 1: switch gears as we've been doing it, you know, Bo Jackson,
Speaker 1: Dian Sanders, Brian Jordan's status to sports. Let me give
Speaker 1: you some stuff out of baseball real quick, and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into really the division previews. Like I
Speaker 1: was saying, um, each year, oh is going back to Seattle. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's important to note. I think I think it's
Speaker 1: actually a great Swan song. He's got a one year
Speaker 1: deal there and Ben Gamble is out there out now
Speaker 1: for Seattle each yeo. Okay, but he's still two five
Speaker 1: and a hundred thirty six games last year. He's an
Speaker 1: icon in Seattle. He's still play outfield. Tell you that
Speaker 1: his arm is probably still good. So I love this
Speaker 1: move each all. I love it. Um. The Cardinals have
Speaker 1: extended shortstop Paul Jong through five season. He gets an
Speaker 1: extra twenty six million, all right, Um, they certainly believe
Speaker 1: in this kid. I I don't know, I'm i'm I
Speaker 1: have cause for pause for some of the St. Louis
Speaker 1: Cardinals um backs this year. You're gonna hear that when
Speaker 1: we get into the NL Central. But year old did
Speaker 1: go for an eight fifty seven ops. Homer's hundred and
Speaker 1: eight games. That's rookie last year. But shortstop is deep,
Speaker 1: all right, shortstop is deep. And I've noticed that in
Speaker 1: a couple of drafts that I've been in, when guys
Speaker 1: like young Deeed Gregorious, Uh, Trevor's story, these are guys
Speaker 1: that are going shortstop, you know between seven and ten.
Speaker 1: You know that I think are solid. Okay, that's solid power, Okay,
Speaker 1: jun home runs Trevor's story can get your twenty five
Speaker 1: home runs. D Gregorious can get your twenty five home runs.
Speaker 1: Imagine d D in that line up. Where's DD gonna
Speaker 1: hit in that lineup. That's crazy. But listen this little
Speaker 1: news and notes. Are there things happening in string spring training? Yes?
Speaker 1: But do you get over excited of them? No? You know,
Speaker 1: like Jason Kidness is going, is going Ham already like
Speaker 1: five six home runs doesn't Maybe he'll have a good year,
Speaker 1: you know, but you can't get into it that much.
Speaker 1: Um and it has like five home runs for the Yanks,
Speaker 1: you know, will he be able to get a spot? No,
Speaker 1: the Yankees made a move. It's gonna be Brandon Jewelry, right,
Speaker 1: Maybe Andrew Hark can get in. Maybe Glabraatrres has the
Speaker 1: way until some service time goes. You know, Pax James
Speaker 1: Paxton because up seven runs in an inning in two
Speaker 1: thirds Does that matter to me? No, I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to get James Backton. I still want him to be
Speaker 1: my my SP two this year. I want him to
Speaker 1: be my SP two this year. Okay, I wanna in
Speaker 1: my draft that I'm going with. What I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do is I think I'm trying to wind up with
Speaker 1: my SP one. I'm getting I'm winding up with Synder
Speaker 1: Garden a lot of my teams, and then I want
Speaker 1: to get a little James packs. Then, um, in that
Speaker 1: area I'll get I'll take a I'll take a Dallas
Speaker 1: Kikool as my SP two. But I'm winding up because
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not taking I'm taking my sp one.
Speaker 1: I'm taking my sp one. It looks like for me
Speaker 1: usually in round three. Al Right, I'm getting two. I'm
Speaker 1: getting two bats, um early on in drafts. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: getting that power bat, and then I'm getting that maybe
Speaker 1: that crazy middle and fielder bad you know, I'm getting
Speaker 1: that trade turner that all those Korea that j L. Tove,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to get. And then I'm getting
Speaker 1: the power back, you know, I'm getting the getting the
Speaker 1: judge something like that. Um. And then I'm getting my
Speaker 1: and then I'm getting my sp one. Um. So i
Speaker 1: don't care about the stats though, and I'm still getting
Speaker 1: packed in this MASP two. I'm I'm right or three?
Speaker 1: Shall I say? I mean I'm happy about that, you know. Um.
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say that I think it's
Speaker 1: funny that I've seen from spring training so far is
Speaker 1: that John Lester is literally bouncing throws to first base,
Speaker 1: um purposely, you know, John less has for a long
Speaker 1: time been struggled to feel this position, struggled to pick
Speaker 1: off runners from first base. But he is. Now they're
Speaker 1: trying something new out, you know, like why not? You know,
Speaker 1: springs training is the time to do it. That's something
Speaker 1: I'm looking for. I'm looking for noticeable changes in and practice.
Speaker 1: Someone who's adding a new pitch, someone who's trying something different.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking for, not like if someone happens
Speaker 1: to be hot right now, but check it out. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take a quick break here on the Fantasy Freestyle
Speaker 1: when we come back, but we're gonna do is. We
Speaker 1: are going to go deep into the National League. We're
Speaker 1: gonna continue our digital previews that we're doing getting everybody
Speaker 1: ready for the Fantasy Baseball drafts. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about the bats of the NL West, and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the arms in the NL Central. I'm
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Speaker 1: Freestyles told you what we're gonna get into here is
Speaker 1: as going my division by division previews, um giving you
Speaker 1: the NLST. I'm gonna give you the bats, the scare ranks.
Speaker 1: That's what I've been doing here in the NLS. And
Speaker 1: then we're also gonna do is We're gonna double it up,
Speaker 1: back to back. You know what it is, double better action.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go straight to the NL Central and give
Speaker 1: you my take on the arms of the NL Central
Speaker 1: here in this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle because a
Speaker 1: lot of people are starting to get get it in
Speaker 1: on these fantasy baseball drafts. I've been doing some mock drafts.
Speaker 1: I got a Rhodo league popping off. I got ahead
Speaker 1: to eat d Lee popping off pretty soon. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna get you ready. And if you want, you can
Speaker 1: also ask me questions at any point in time at
Speaker 1: spitting speeds. If you've got any specific questions highatch boy.
Speaker 1: This way we could try to answer them. We could
Speaker 1: do that on the show. Um, even next week when
Speaker 1: we got the live chat going from Studio thirty four. UM.
Speaker 1: But check out, all right, let's get into this, um
Speaker 1: obviously an OST for me. Let's go. We'll go five.
Speaker 1: We'll go five through one. We'll go five through one
Speaker 1: for me, the bottom the fifth offense is the San
Speaker 1: Diego Fathers Padres for you know, I'm I'm not sold
Speaker 1: on Hosmer. I'm not sold on Hosmer adjusting. Well, Listen,
Speaker 1: he's going to a new ballpark, a ballpark that is huge.
Speaker 1: You know, he just got an eight year, hundred forty
Speaker 1: four million dollar deal, right and I mean and last year, honestly,
Speaker 1: last year his babbit was three fifty one and his
Speaker 1: strikeout rate was only fiftcent. Those were both career highs
Speaker 1: for him. So that's kind of like regression indicators to
Speaker 1: start with. Then he's going to a new ballpark, to
Speaker 1: a new team, learning a new league of pitchers. To me,
Speaker 1: Hazma is a fool gazzy I like Manny Margo a
Speaker 1: little bit that could be a cheap, little fifteen fifteen
Speaker 1: kind of potential to have in your your line up
Speaker 1: on daily you know, on daily changes. I like that.
Speaker 1: You know, Renfro is a lot of buzz as a rookie. UM,
Speaker 1: but he's got strikeout rate, you know, Will Myers I like,
Speaker 1: But he also has seven percent strikeout rate. You know,
Speaker 1: He's another one of these kind of like three true
Speaker 1: outcomes kind of guys. What I like about Will Myers, though,
Speaker 1: is he out, you know, more than more than any
Speaker 1: other first baseman maybe outside of Goldschmidt. Right, Myers will
Speaker 1: steal basis to um. Myers will also steal basis for you,
Speaker 1: which is very interesting. I'm gonna find you, like, how
Speaker 1: many bases did Will Myers steal last year? You would
Speaker 1: be surprised, you know, And that's a very interesting kind
Speaker 1: of source. You know, that's an interesting source of steels
Speaker 1: if you could ever get that, right, twenties stolen basis
Speaker 1: thirty Homers and twenties stolen basis for Will Myers. You
Speaker 1: do not get that kind of stolen basis out of
Speaker 1: your first basement position. So I like Will Myers for that,
Speaker 1: and it sneaks up on people a little bit. So
Speaker 1: I like Will Myers, but I'm down on Hasma. Hasma's
Speaker 1: kind of fool gazzy to me. I think you need
Speaker 1: to forget about him and the Padres. Forget about them overall.
Speaker 1: They are the fifth offense for me in the NL West,
Speaker 1: fourth for me, and this is where I start to
Speaker 1: surprise people. This is where I start to surprise people.
Speaker 1: Fourth for me, as the diamond Backs. Fourth for me
Speaker 1: is the diamond Backs actually, okay, And I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people like them a lot more than I do. Okay,
Speaker 1: But um, they lost J. D. Martinez, and I think
Speaker 1: that's actually a big blow for them. Okay. He was
Speaker 1: a big comper. His ops last year was out of
Speaker 1: control and actually led the majors, you know, and I own.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't even a full season, but um,
Speaker 1: I think that they missed him in that offense. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. I was talking about Will Myers and steals.
Speaker 1: Goldie Goldschmidt is a top ten player. Um, a first
Speaker 1: round pick absolutely all right. He had thirty six one
Speaker 1: twenty last year with eighteen stolen basis ops nine sixties seven.
Speaker 1: He's still a first round guy, Okay. Um, A J.
Speaker 1: Pollock is interesting to Okay, if he is healthy, I
Speaker 1: can see him going twenty home run thirty thirty five
Speaker 1: stone basis. I can see that happening. Okay. I'm in
Speaker 1: fact rooting for it. I used to I I had
Speaker 1: A J. Pollock? What was that two years ago? Was
Speaker 1: it not three years ago? The team? Maybe when he
Speaker 1: completely blew up and he came out of I loved him, right,
Speaker 1: but and so I would love I would love to happen.
Speaker 1: The thing is, I am not going to take the
Speaker 1: chance onto a J. Pollock at you know where he's going.
Speaker 1: He's going pretty much like thee like the round through
Speaker 1: like three or four, and that it's a little too early.
Speaker 1: That's too early for me. I'm not I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do it on a J. Pollock, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do it on YASMANI Toomas. I mean, he seems to
Speaker 1: be someone who's gonna continue to have his strikeout rate
Speaker 1: up in the high twenties, and that's a little bit
Speaker 1: too much for me. Um, Jake Lamb could be something.
Speaker 1: You know, I like Jake Lamb. And if you need
Speaker 1: a source of power late, you know, in a corner
Speaker 1: and field spot thirty out dirty homers, a hundred, a
Speaker 1: hundred five ribbies. You know. I can see that. I
Speaker 1: can see that. You know, that's steel At third base.
Speaker 1: There's a third basis deep. And part of the reason
Speaker 1: I'm saying wait on third base this year, um, is
Speaker 1: Jake Lamb. That's another one. I told you. Um, there's
Speaker 1: one in the al Central I'm gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: as well. There there's third base is all over the place. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you could wait on that, but still, like to me,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see who is going to be
Speaker 1: that bad. That really backs up gold Schmith this year.
Speaker 1: You know, that's my concern. And because of that. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, I think Goldie is gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: I think I'm cheering for Pollock, you know, but I
Speaker 1: think the Diamondbacks will take a step back offensively this year.
Speaker 1: And they are actually my fourth offense in the National
Speaker 1: League West. Third for me is San Francisco. Okay. San
Speaker 1: Francisco has not been an offensive team for years, years
Speaker 1: and years and years, even like Bonds and Tent I
Speaker 1: think we're talking about okay, And it's always been known
Speaker 1: that they're like that. They're a low scoring team, and
Speaker 1: it's it's been the pitching, like Maddison pump Gardener in
Speaker 1: there in there in their um World Series campaigns right
Speaker 1: earlier on this decade. What I think I think they
Speaker 1: could be better this year. I think they could be
Speaker 1: better this year. I know a lot of people will
Speaker 1: say that, you know, they just signed these guys that
Speaker 1: don't have much left, that are aging vets that may
Speaker 1: not be able to you know, still Hack it or gel,
Speaker 1: But I actually think this could be the the opposite.
Speaker 1: This could be the guys coming together, fitting into roles,
Speaker 1: not trying to have to do too much. Guys like Listen,
Speaker 1: Devin Longoria and Andrew mccutcheons have both been in places
Speaker 1: where they were m v P candidates for small market
Speaker 1: teams that poked their heads up, but they had the
Speaker 1: weight of the entire organization on their shoulders. Both of
Speaker 1: these guys, Longoria and McCutcheon, now they go to a
Speaker 1: place that has a winning culture. They're not necessarily asked
Speaker 1: to be the main guy. This is still Buster Posey's team, right,
Speaker 1: and they could be solid versions of themselves. I mean,
Speaker 1: Andrew McCutcheon for nine years has had thirty doubles, you know, twenties,
Speaker 1: a home runs hit around three hundred. He has had
Speaker 1: m v P consideration. He's done this remarkably for nine years.
Speaker 1: He could even have it down here and be a
Speaker 1: nice piece in the middle of that offense. You put
Speaker 1: Longoria similar thing you put done with Posy, and and
Speaker 1: and if if Hunter Penn's can stay and just think
Speaker 1: about these other names. I mean, Brandon Crawford, solid professional hitter,
Speaker 1: Joe Panic, Brandon Belt, Austin Jackson. They have that's solid,
Speaker 1: that is eight deep in that line up. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: thinking that the Giants are gonna surprise some people. I
Speaker 1: told you that the Giants are my surprise team in
Speaker 1: this division. I actually have the Giants finishing I believe,
Speaker 1: second in this division, ahead of the Diamondbacks, ahead of
Speaker 1: the Rockies. I think it would be the Giants, who
Speaker 1: are you know, making the run all the way to
Speaker 1: the end for something of a wild card in this division.
Speaker 1: And I think if if these guys stay healthy, this
Speaker 1: offense could be a big part of it. They are
Speaker 1: my third best offense in the end L West. Second
Speaker 1: for me is the Dodgers. Um, listen, the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: you know, when you look at them, they are a
Speaker 1: very strong team all over the place right For some reason, though,
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be a team that suffers
Speaker 1: that hangover you know that you know there's always that
Speaker 1: the next year after the Super Bowl losing team. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing that here to this. My feeling of the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and specifically the Dodgers offense, I think that I can
Speaker 1: see a lot of regression here. They had a number
Speaker 1: of kids that were under twenty twenty six years old
Speaker 1: hit really really well, play really really well, and I
Speaker 1: I fear that they could have some regression. Couldn't couldn't
Speaker 1: couldn't Seeger Bellinger and even Turner for that matter. Couldn't
Speaker 1: they all like have worse years? You know? I mean
Speaker 1: Seeger in his age twenty three season. What he's gonna
Speaker 1: take another step after a season where he had a
Speaker 1: three fifty two babbit and got relatively lucky with some
Speaker 1: of his stats to hit what couldn't he easily instead
Speaker 1: of two nine? Couldn't he easily hit two seventy three
Speaker 1: this year year? Couldn't he easily have only twenty home
Speaker 1: runs this year? Couldn't he easily have seventies seventy five
Speaker 1: Ribbies this year? Clay Bellinger at thirty nine home runs
Speaker 1: as a twenty two year old. He's got a twenty
Speaker 1: six percent strikeout rates, still had had people found holes
Speaker 1: in the swing in the second half. He bounced back
Speaker 1: a little bit in the World Series, but he was
Speaker 1: twenty two. Do you think he's gonna hit thirty nine
Speaker 1: home runs again? Couldn't he only hit twenty eight this year?
Speaker 1: Couldn't we say similar things for guys like Jock Peterson,
Speaker 1: yasi help we who finally put together a year. We're
Speaker 1: gonna rely on him to have another solid, overall kind
Speaker 1: of year. I don't know, I don't know, Okay, I
Speaker 1: think there's some potential fool gayz he's in here. Bellinger
Speaker 1: is a fool gayze potential to me, we gaze potential
Speaker 1: to me to not replicate what he did Seeker as well.
Speaker 1: So I I listen, I think that you know their
Speaker 1: arms are good enough to back there, back into their
Speaker 1: bothend is good enough. This often still on the whole.
Speaker 1: Like Turner, I mean, he don't think he's gonna hit
Speaker 1: three twenty two again. He could hit three oh five,
Speaker 1: which is still good. You know they'll be good. They'll
Speaker 1: be good, but I wouldn't be surprised if they take
Speaker 1: a small step back, which is why I have them
Speaker 1: as the number two team in the NLS in terms
Speaker 1: of their offense. Number one for me is the Rockies. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm all over the Rockies. Draft these Rockies. I mean, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: coors Field is part of it, but they're gonna put
Speaker 1: the balls in the Homa this year, right, You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So but but these guys they mash anyway,
Speaker 1: and I don't care from a fantasy perspective, I don't
Speaker 1: care if they play half their games and cores that
Speaker 1: I get inflated stats. Bring them on. I mean, from
Speaker 1: top to bottom, you gotta love these guys. Nolan Arronado,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is the number one corner infielder in baseball. Okay,
Speaker 1: he for me is a top five pick in drafts.
Speaker 1: In my opinion. He has been the best player in
Speaker 1: the National League over the last three years, and the
Speaker 1: production bears it out. Okay, so you know, check right.
Speaker 1: Charlie Blackman was absolutely bananas last year. Okay, he was
Speaker 1: literally a top top five outfield of last year. He
Speaker 1: was a top ten player last year. You probably missed
Speaker 1: it unless, like you know, you really part of the
Speaker 1: status over beat Cipher, you really listened to the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Sports Network. I mean, my man went three thirty one average,
Speaker 1: thirty seven homers, a hundred and four ribbies, hundred and
Speaker 1: four ribbies from the leadoff spot, with a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven run scored. I love it. He had an
Speaker 1: ops over a thousand. But the years to deal two
Speaker 1: days about Charlie Blackman. He will not be on any
Speaker 1: of my teams. You're gonna need to spend a first
Speaker 1: round pick on Charlie Blackman this year, a late first
Speaker 1: round pick, and I won't do it. Okay, for me,
Speaker 1: he had a three seventy one Batman that it has
Speaker 1: to regress a little bit, Okay, Dad has to regress
Speaker 1: a little. The other thing for me is he's a
Speaker 1: free agent at the end of this year, okay. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if that maybe puts a little pressure.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that means he could get traded.
Speaker 1: And and sometimes, you know, sometimes the trade rumors is
Speaker 1: a good thing, you know, sometimes that's a good thing,
Speaker 1: But not in Charlie Blackman situation where you might get
Speaker 1: traded to not having your happier games at Corsefield, you know,
Speaker 1: so keep an eye out for that. But I love
Speaker 1: Charlie Blackman. I love Trevor's story. Trevor's story is one
Speaker 1: of these guys I'm telling you between between story and
Speaker 1: and and Deeed Gregorious. Um, these are shortstops that make
Speaker 1: shortstop very intriguing if you don't get in yourself a turner.
Speaker 1: A Korea and the Lindor that's a bow guards. That's
Speaker 1: someone not what you're trying to do. I would be
Speaker 1: very happy in the eighth round, the ninth round getting
Speaker 1: myself adeed Gregorious, getting myself a Trevor Ending story. Worry,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He's a power guy. In
Speaker 1: this line up. He's gonna hit like sixth or seventh
Speaker 1: in this line he's gonna hit give ribbies. Last year,
Speaker 1: in only nineties seven games, he had twenty four in
Speaker 1: Homer's a two ribbies. Okay's he's going as like shortstop
Speaker 1: eight or nine or ten. Okay. I love that he's
Speaker 1: part of this offense too. We haven't even talked about
Speaker 1: guys like para Ian desmond Um, the potential kid Ryan
Speaker 1: McMahon coming up in first, or or DJ Lemayhew, like
Speaker 1: between Aronado Blackman story, Para Desmond Mayhew. We're talking six seventieth.
Speaker 1: He's in another one of these lineup that goes six,
Speaker 1: seven deep, eight deep. All right, And I really really
Speaker 1: liked this offense. I think the Colorado Rockies offense is
Speaker 1: one of the tops in the entire National League. I'll
Speaker 1: put them right up there with the Nationals. I'll put
Speaker 1: him right up there with the Dodgers, as I'll put
Speaker 1: him right up there with the Cubs as the best
Speaker 1: offenses in the National League. Those are my offenses. And
Speaker 1: so then we get to the actual projections, right, the
Speaker 1: actual predictions. I do think the Dodgers wind up winning
Speaker 1: this division. But I'm telling you, I like the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants. I think they are surprize wild card this year.
Speaker 1: I think that two Giants as a surprise wild card.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you another surprise wild card a little
Speaker 1: bit later on in our division by division previews. But
Speaker 1: I think the NL is gonna be a little bit
Speaker 1: different than most. And then listen, when it comes to
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks and the Rockies, I think they're, you know,
Speaker 1: on the door knocking, but it's not gonna happen for them.
Speaker 1: I think they both kind of take a step back
Speaker 1: in their development. They're still young. I think the Padres
Speaker 1: still have a long way to go. So that you
Speaker 1: have it in the UH National League West, I don't
Speaker 1: think the Dodgers get any further than maybe the NL. Pennant,
Speaker 1: I like other teams coming out of the National League,
Speaker 1: and you'll find out who those guys are a little
Speaker 1: bit later on in our division by division previews. But
Speaker 1: when we come back, what we're gonna do is we're
Speaker 1: gonna go to the NL Central. I'll give you my
Speaker 1: pitching preview the NL Central. We come back on the
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Speaker 1: On the Fantasy Freestyle, we talked about the bats in
Speaker 1: the nl O West. Now I want to get into
Speaker 1: the arms of the NL Central. That's how I've been
Speaker 1: doing it, giving you my division by division previews, both
Speaker 1: on the pitching side and on the offensive side, getting
Speaker 1: you ready for fantasy baseball drafts as they are going
Speaker 1: around in the next couple of weeks. In the next
Speaker 1: two weeks, So next two weeks are really gonna be
Speaker 1: really it, you know, three weeks. The baseball season starts
Speaker 1: in about three weeks, so definitely drafts are getting going
Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks. In the n L Central.
Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting everybody expects the Cubs to
Speaker 1: kind of win this division. I agree with them that
Speaker 1: the Cubs should be the class of this division when
Speaker 1: it gets to second place, and any other potential wild
Speaker 1: card contenders. You know, some people like the Cardinals, some
Speaker 1: people like the Brewers. Um, I don't think anybody really
Speaker 1: thinks much of the kind of the Pirates who are
Speaker 1: you know, selling off MLB is investigating them for you know, tanking.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that works in the NL Central
Speaker 1: and the Reds are also a long way away. I
Speaker 1: like Milwaukee better than St. Louis. I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: down on St. Louis. Will hear a little bit more
Speaker 1: about why um as we go on in my previews,
Speaker 1: but we'll go through the arms right now. So let's
Speaker 1: start at the top of the cubs. UM. I think
Speaker 1: John Lester is a big time food gazing Okay, I
Speaker 1: think you need to stay away from John Lesler. I
Speaker 1: want no part of John Leslie. He will not be
Speaker 1: on any of my teams this year. His e r
Speaker 1: A jumped from two four four to four three three
Speaker 1: last year and his velocity dropped. He is in his
Speaker 1: age thirty four season. That is no good. We also
Speaker 1: just talked about his you know, defensive struggles. He's bouncing
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, as a strategy to get it
Speaker 1: over there. I think it could be unraveling for Lester.
Speaker 1: I would I would rather look elsewhere at, you know,
Speaker 1: in that tier. I am not gonna have John Lester.
Speaker 1: I do love you, Darvish for this organization, and this
Speaker 1: is one of the best strikeout per nine innings starting
Speaker 1: pitchers of all time. Literally like over eleven strike us
Speaker 1: for nine innings as a starter. I like his move
Speaker 1: to the National League, you know, I know he was
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers for something last year, but like generally
Speaker 1: an American lead pitcher going to the National League, I
Speaker 1: like that. Um. I like the situation for you, Darvish.
Speaker 1: I think you know he'll he'll put up two hundred
Speaker 1: strikeouts again, and that's what you want out of your
Speaker 1: elite pictures, right out of your sp two. Let's say
Speaker 1: you want someone who's gonna strike out two hundred guys,
Speaker 1: and that you, Darvish, could be on this staff. I
Speaker 1: like Contana. You know we talked about with you and
Speaker 1: other pictures people moving from the A L to the
Speaker 1: NL or vice versa. Right, Well, Kintana did that last year,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so I think he
Speaker 1: takes another step. I think he improves on his four
Speaker 1: point one five e r A. I think he keeps
Speaker 1: a strikeout rate of above nine. You know, I think
Speaker 1: this guy is a diamond in the rough. It is
Speaker 1: Kintana that I like best, relatively speaking, out of all
Speaker 1: the starters on the Cups, and I am down on
Speaker 1: John Lester. He is a fool, gazy. You need to
Speaker 1: forget about John Lesson. Let's go to the Cardinals and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals listen. Carlos Martinez is an ace. All right,
Speaker 1: let me say that again. Carlos Martinez is an ace.
Speaker 1: If he is your SP two, Oh my god, are
Speaker 1: you sitting pretty this season? Okay? I would love to
Speaker 1: be able to have Carlos Martinez as my SP two
Speaker 1: men at two hundred seventeen strikeouts and only two hundred
Speaker 1: five innings last year. Listen. His his three point six
Speaker 1: four e ar A sounds like a little higher than
Speaker 1: other elite guys, but his ex fit was basically the
Speaker 1: same at three point six three right, and and and
Speaker 1: and that three point six three XP is pretty much
Speaker 1: the same levels that he had for the last couple
Speaker 1: of years when he had like a three point oh
Speaker 1: one r A three point oh four e r A.
Speaker 1: I love Carlos Martinez. I like Michael Waka. Also remember Waka,
Speaker 1: you know, because he came on the scene when they
Speaker 1: were in the in the in the World season at
Speaker 1: this point, like five six years ago, when he was
Speaker 1: real young. Waka is still only twenty six years old.
Speaker 1: Wakas still will get you eight and a half strikeouts
Speaker 1: for nine innings. I think Waker can get back to
Speaker 1: a sub four e r A. I like Michael Waker
Speaker 1: this year, especially if he keeps the ball down, keeps
Speaker 1: on working on those on on those um you know
Speaker 1: that changeup and and other and sliding other pitches that
Speaker 1: keep the ball down if you continue that development. I
Speaker 1: like Michael Wauka this year. The reverse for me would
Speaker 1: have to be Adam Wayne Right. I listen, I tipped
Speaker 1: my cap to Adam Wayne Right as a Yankee fan. Um,
Speaker 1: a guy who's you know, made fun of Mets fans
Speaker 1: for a long time. Adam Wayne Wrights pitch to Carlos
Speaker 1: Beltran when Beltran is bad. I think it's still on
Speaker 1: his shoulder. Um that Like, I got a lot of
Speaker 1: pleasure out of that. So I tip my cap to
Speaker 1: Adam Wayne Right. Adam Wayne Right has battled back from
Speaker 1: injury a few times, but last year the wheels came
Speaker 1: off right you know five point one r A. Um,
Speaker 1: I I just completely passed. He will not be on
Speaker 1: any of my teams. I do like love Carlo's routine
Speaker 1: as though I think he's really a top end SP two.
Speaker 1: As we go to Milwaukee. Listen, this is gonna define
Speaker 1: because I do like Milwaukee, but I think Milwaukee needs
Speaker 1: to hop in right now and get and like get
Speaker 1: Jake Garriotta, like right now. If they put they needed
Speaker 1: to put him at the top of their damn rotation
Speaker 1: because you know, I love their offense, the rules, and
Speaker 1: they went after it, you know, getting like yellinch getting pain.
Speaker 1: I like what they did, you know, I like what
Speaker 1: they have there, right But Chase Anderson, Zack Davies, these
Speaker 1: guys are streamers. These guys even if Zack Davies does
Speaker 1: put up a sub four y r A, which he
Speaker 1: it's possible, it's possible, men strikes out like five percent
Speaker 1: of the batters stead he faces. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: There's the guys that pitch to contact. These are not
Speaker 1: people with power arms like you see out of the Nationals.
Speaker 1: You know, the power arms you see out of the
Speaker 1: Yankees bullpen, that's what it takes these days. And then
Speaker 1: you know the power arms you can see in Houston,
Speaker 1: that's what it takes. If you don't have that kind
Speaker 1: of arm debt, that's you're not gonna win if you
Speaker 1: want to go into the playoffs, It's not gonna happen
Speaker 1: with these kind of arms. They need Arietta at least. UM.
Speaker 1: So I think this is a big concern for me
Speaker 1: with Bilwalk as it relates to Pittsburgh, Um, the Pirates.
Speaker 1: I like Jamison Tyone, and we gotta you know, stats
Speaker 1: over beat Cipher. We need to tip our cap to Jameson.
Speaker 1: Tyone came back last year from testicular cancer. He has
Speaker 1: already come back from Tommy John surgery, has had other
Speaker 1: troubles like shoulder troubles. I mean, and I like him
Speaker 1: as a excuse me as a as an elite kind
Speaker 1: of prospect and developing. But he only went, you know,
Speaker 1: a hundred thirty three innings, so what are we gonna
Speaker 1: get out of one maybe one fifty this year? I
Speaker 1: like also that he had a fifty too bad up
Speaker 1: against him, so that should regress in a positive way.
Speaker 1: Maybe that helps the r A go down. His r
Speaker 1: A last year was four four and his X fift though,
Speaker 1: was a lot lower three eight nine, So I like that. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I like a lot of things about Tyon,
Speaker 1: but he's not gonna pitch He's not gonna go a
Speaker 1: hundred eighty innings this year. You know. I'm you're gonna
Speaker 1: be lucky if you get one fifty out of him.
Speaker 1: So I like him, but you can't really rely on
Speaker 1: him in Pittsburgh. Then you've got other kind of interesting guys.
Speaker 1: You got Evan Nolan who had a great first half
Speaker 1: but a bad second which will happen, which will stabilize
Speaker 1: right for him, I agree, it's also for him about
Speaker 1: keeping the ball down, much like by Goawaka. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: guys have banned him. Then Pittsburgh guys like what Joe
Speaker 1: Musgrove at cool not forget that. And then Cincinnati, I
Speaker 1: don't think, listen, similar to how when we talk about
Speaker 1: the Colorado Rockies and other small ballparks, the Great American
Speaker 1: small park is not a place where you want your
Speaker 1: pitchers pitching half their games. Okay, So I don't really
Speaker 1: like many of the Reds. I will say this, Anthony Discoflani,
Speaker 1: you know, missed all of last year, but it's still
Speaker 1: only twenty seven years old. We've seen him, you know,
Speaker 1: perform well at the major league level. We've seen him
Speaker 1: with a three point to a d R, A We've
Speaker 1: seen him with you know, almost a strikeout an inning, right,
Speaker 1: so there could be value there if he pitches all right.
Speaker 1: So I would take a flyer on Disco Flani later
Speaker 1: in drafts. But you're not gonna see me getting much
Speaker 1: of Brandon Finnegan. You're not gonna see me getting much
Speaker 1: of Hold or Bailey or Castillo. I'm passing on that.
Speaker 1: When it comes to closers, I think it's interesting in
Speaker 1: this division, right, Like in Cincinnati, Glessias, how many chances
Speaker 1: is he gonna get? I'd say this all the time
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. I don't care if it's Filipper Rivero or
Speaker 1: Daniel Hudson, how many chances they're gonna get? Right, Let's
Speaker 1: look at these good teams. I like Corey Knebel. I
Speaker 1: like him from Milwaukee. I like he had thirty Unite
Speaker 1: staves last year, an improving team. I like his almost
Speaker 1: fifteen strikeouts per nine innings. Okay, enable is a top
Speaker 1: seven closure. Okay, he's the kind of guy. He and
Speaker 1: I like Nabel. He's I'm gonna have some Nabel, I
Speaker 1: bet because when you start to see the run happening, right,
Speaker 1: and you start to see Chapman go, you start to
Speaker 1: see Jansen go, you start to see Kimberal go. Right, then,
Speaker 1: for me, that's gonna cute. Okay, I need to get
Speaker 1: one and then, but I'll wait till the next time
Speaker 1: it comes around, and who's gonna be staring there? For me,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Nabel and I kind of like that.
Speaker 1: So I like having him winding up with him on
Speaker 1: some of my teams. In St. Louis. I think we
Speaker 1: got a potential Himan in the rough here. I think Gregorson.
Speaker 1: I think Luke Gregson's gonna take this role. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna do it well. I believe his strikeout stuff plays,
Speaker 1: I believe. I believe he had interesting stats last year
Speaker 1: at four five seventy r A, but his x FIP
Speaker 1: was down at three forty five, so there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some regression there. I like the role he's in four team.
Speaker 1: I like Gregorson. Interestingly, in Chicago, they'll try to do
Speaker 1: it with Brandon Morrow. He's not gonna be on many
Speaker 1: of my teams. I like his stuff. If he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he could be a top tier closure right with a
Speaker 1: lot of chances for a team that many people believe
Speaker 1: will win you know, ninety games, so I like that,
Speaker 1: but his health is really a factor. Okay, that's how
Speaker 1: I think the arms. That's my Quod brieview of the
Speaker 1: arms of the NL Central. What I will say is this,
Speaker 1: I'll also say that um in the next episode of
Speaker 1: the freestyle, what we're gonna do is we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the bats of the n L Central. Then we'll keep
Speaker 1: it going. We will have done four of the six divisions.
Speaker 1: We still gotta go east. You know, we're going west
Speaker 1: to east like jet stream. That's how we're doing it.
Speaker 1: And so then after that we'll talk about the n
Speaker 1: L East. We'll talk about the a L East as well.
Speaker 1: I kept the a L East for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1: One was, you know, my Yankees, but also because I
Speaker 1: knew J. D. Martinez was gonna eventually sign in Boston,
Speaker 1: so I didn't want to talk about that until that
Speaker 1: big domino fell. But yo, let's uh, let's keep it
Speaker 1: moving here on the Fantasy Freestyle, here in the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Sports Network, which boy Dame Martinez speed spitting statistician. You
Speaker 1: know what we do, We always we put the fun
Speaker 1: in functional sports radio, sports podcast, sports TV sports video.
Speaker 1: All the different ways to get this content, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. We got the we got the video podcast,
Speaker 1: we got the audio podcast. We also have it on
Speaker 1: the radio on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network or on
Speaker 1: TV as well. You could catch me doing the in
Speaker 1: play NBA videos in from a Girl and uh this
Speaker 1: first team all lit Maria Marino last week. A lot
Speaker 1: of ways to get at speeds. You can also always
Speaker 1: follow me at spitting speeds on Twitter. Remember we got
Speaker 1: the poll question up as well. In essence, has the
Speaker 1: window closed on the c outle Seahawks Let me know
Speaker 1: about that, But if it has, one of the teams
Speaker 1: that could be vying for that spot. You know in
Speaker 1: the in the NFC packing water is the Carolina Panthers, Right,
Speaker 1: they were in the playoffs last year. On the Rise
Speaker 1: still a young quarterback in cam and Christian McCaffrey and
Speaker 1: checked this out. Christian McCaffrey is the guy I was
Speaker 1: talking about at the top of the show. He was
Speaker 1: hiking with some of his friends outside of Denver, right,
Speaker 1: and he saw a seventy two year old man named
Speaker 1: Dan Smoker Sr. Who felt he felt like twenty ft
Speaker 1: onto this rock. The guy was with his grandson, Eli
Speaker 1: Smoker and McCaffrey and his boys, um save the day basically, okay,
Speaker 1: they called nine one one, They stabilized this guy. Even
Speaker 1: one of McCaffrey's friends had to do chess compressions on
Speaker 1: this guy. Okay. CMC himself called nine one one. Okay.
Speaker 1: This guy then checked was diagnosed with a broken femur,
Speaker 1: a broken pelvis, internal bleeding, bleeding on the brain, nine
Speaker 1: fractured ribs, and a broken neck. This guy could have
Speaker 1: died out there with his grandson in the middle of
Speaker 1: the woods if it wasn't for Christian McCaffrey and his friends.
Speaker 1: So you know us the status over beat cipher here
Speaker 1: we give a big shout out Daily Dilley to Christian McCaffrey. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: Dan Smoker said, my dad is and like cool. My
Speaker 1: dad is laying there and there's nothing I can do
Speaker 1: for My son is there freaking down. There's nothing I
Speaker 1: can do for him. It was the worst experience both
Speaker 1: his father and his son. Can you imagine that this
Speaker 1: guy in the middle your father and your son in
Speaker 1: that situation. So they're very obviously thankful to Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: Then they went to visit him in the hospital. So listen,
Speaker 1: McCaffrey getting all the love right now. And also, you
Speaker 1: know Panthers also wanted up just cutting Jonathan Stewart. So
Speaker 1: mccaffy knows his his his his role is stable. He's
Speaker 1: out there saving lives. Dilly Dilley to Christian McCaffrey, I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you guys about that um here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle. Also, I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: saw this. I don't know if you guys saw this.
Speaker 1: I think this is crazy. Um The Los Angeles Clippers,
Speaker 1: you know, all these teams now the end the NBA,
Speaker 1: they're doing more advertising. Were like logos and pat just
Speaker 1: on the jersey and stuff like that, which I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw the Clippers. The Clippers they have
Speaker 1: a new patch on their uniform. It's on the left
Speaker 1: side and it's Bumble. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: know Bumble. Bumble is an app. It's an online dating app.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of like Tender. Your swipe left,
Speaker 1: swipe right. But here's the thing with Bumble is the
Speaker 1: girls have to initiate the conversation. I've talked about this
Speaker 1: with Danny otto down there in the bit of misery before.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great concept. The girls have to
Speaker 1: initiate the conversation, right, but so check this out. So
Speaker 1: because of that, also, the it's not just the patch
Speaker 1: that're putting on. The Clippers are selling this as it
Speaker 1: checks out a quote unquote empowerment badge to promote gender equity.
Speaker 1: Steve Bomber, the owner, says, we wanted to do something
Speaker 1: where we could really stand out and do something meaningful.
Speaker 1: The way it is positioned, it becomes part of the game.
Speaker 1: It's an opportunity to have more meaning for everybody. Hey Bomber,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? I have no clue what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. How is a How is a patch an
Speaker 1: empowerment thing for women because it's an online dating app?
Speaker 1: Just because the women initiates the conversation. What so she's
Speaker 1: free of dick picks? That's women empowerment, says the CEO
Speaker 1: of the Clippers. Come on, this is very awkward, even
Speaker 1: without the obvious bumble jokes. Why are they making it
Speaker 1: more awkward trying to do something bigger? They're going they're
Speaker 1: doing hashtag Stronger with her. It's a joint campaign. But
Speaker 1: the Bumble and the Clippers. What people like promoting on
Speaker 1: social media? Um times when women supported men hashtag stronger
Speaker 1: with her. This is poor marketing. This is awkward to me,
Speaker 1: and I think it's even more awkward when we think
Speaker 1: about Remember Clippers. We talked about my boy Lou Williams
Speaker 1: on the Clippers. Who you know he has one lady.
Speaker 1: It didn't help, didn't stop him from swiping right because
Speaker 1: he had two girlfriends as we knew, blonde and brown
Speaker 1: at one point. If you remember that, so you know
Speaker 1: it comes full circle with the Clippers and they're dating habits.
Speaker 1: Last thing I want to tell you guys here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle because we close it down, remember I
Speaker 1: was telling you to pay some play how I wanted
Speaker 1: to eliminate Mount Vesiness altogether. I also got nostalgic and
Speaker 1: talked to you guys about back in the day. I
Speaker 1: was a Yankees fan in the eighties. They had the
Speaker 1: bullpen cart to take a guy out from the bullpen.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's a pace of play thing. Why
Speaker 1: don't they do that? You know? They Dave for Ghetti
Speaker 1: came out in like the Dots and they had golf
Speaker 1: carts and stuff. Well, the Arizona diamond Backs are bringing
Speaker 1: it back. Big shout out, Dilly dilly to the diamond Backs.
Speaker 1: They are bringing back the bullpen cart Um. Derek Call,
Speaker 1: the President CEO, said it may even speed up play.
Speaker 1: I like it. And it's another shot called by your
Speaker 1: boy's speeds and spitting statistician. I'm telling you, I like
Speaker 1: this idea. Big shout out to the diamond Backs. I
Speaker 1: want to see this, and I hope the rest of
Speaker 1: the team's follow suit. All right, and this this is
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Let's talk pace of play. Maybe
Speaker 1: it'll help, uh, you know, maybe my man Fernando Perez
Speaker 1: will be excited about it. Um. That's about it, though. Guys,
Speaker 1: here for the Fantasy Freestyle this week on this week's episode.
Speaker 1: Catch me next week early on from Studio thirty four.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing a big on the Fantasy Sports Network.
Speaker 1: I've given you you know kind of uh you know
Speaker 1: what teams are gonna take shape at running back and
Speaker 1: wide receiver in advance of the free agent frenzy. Will
Speaker 1: continue our baseball previews. We're gonna still have put the
Speaker 1: fun and functional sports content. We got more rapping athletes
Speaker 1: to breakdown with everybody down there in the status over
Speaker 1: beat cipher and the pit of misery. Remember holler at
Speaker 1: me at Twitter at Spitting Speeds answered the poll about
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, and uh, you know, tell a friends to
Speaker 1: tell a friend and they could be down with the
Speaker 1: status over beat cipher to a right. You know what
Speaker 1: it is, boy Dan Martinez, a k A Speeds a
Speaker 1: ka to Spitting Statistician a ka to stable Genius and
Speaker 1: vocal minority. And this has been another episode of the
Speaker 1: fantasy Freestyle. You know what it is. I'm out Peace,