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Speaker 1: Kenley Jansen should be available on Thursday against the Phillies.
Speaker 1: Jansen did suffer a bruised right ankle when he got
Speaker 1: struck by a comebacker in the ninth inning Tuesday night
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia. Blue Jays manager Charlie at Montoya confirmed Thursday
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Speaker 1: That will either be Sunday in Detroit or Monday at
Speaker 1: home against the Indians. Jean Sagoura is back in the
Speaker 1: Phillies line up on Thursday, good news as he's been
Speaker 1: out with a heel issue the past two starts and
Speaker 1: in the NBA check Tiano has agreed to a two
Speaker 1: year deal with the Sun's Pelicans didn't pick up the
Speaker 1: qualifying offer, and Reggie Bullock is going to miss some
Speaker 1: time to start at the twenty season. The new Knicks
Speaker 1: guard had surgery on his back. The team said they'll
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Speaker 1: welcome back to the BFFs hour to hear the action hour.
Speaker 1: I am Frank sam Full no brake Susman. He's out
Speaker 1: celebrating his basselor party. I should have got great to
Speaker 1: skype in. I don't want to bother him, though, you
Speaker 1: know he's out doing his bachelor thing. He probably got
Speaker 1: his legs up somewhere. We saw the image earlier. He
Speaker 1: likes his fruity drinks. He might be in a pool somewhere.
Speaker 1: I hope the weathers are right in Florida. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you. It's kind of it's kind of crummy
Speaker 1: here in New York City. That's what That's the word
Speaker 1: I would use today. It's crummy. But joining me for
Speaker 1: hour two is uh. Alex Fosano. You can fall on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Alex Fozzano with a Z A K A
Speaker 1: the fast, a k A body barn. What's going on? Alex?
Speaker 1: I'm good to be here, Frankie, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: I don't know where the name body Barn came from.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get exact, but apparently we're gonna get into that.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Honor to be here today. It's
Speaker 1: an honor to have you in studio here. Alex. Alex
Speaker 1: is one of our video producers downstairs. He's a great
Speaker 1: job helping out. There's a lot of behind the scenes stuff.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of graphics with us as well. And
Speaker 1: you know, no Greg Susman, I figured give the young
Speaker 1: the young gun a shot here. Appreciate that. I'm going
Speaker 1: to appreciate. You're gonna talk about some some future bets
Speaker 1: that Alex wants to throw down here tomorrow. He he
Speaker 1: mentioned this earlier on in the week. He's got some
Speaker 1: time to kill tomorrow. He's gonna go out to Jersey
Speaker 1: maybe with Gabe. I don't know. Don't get yourself in
Speaker 1: too much trouble if you end up about that. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that, but he's gonna end up in
Speaker 1: Jersey tomorrow. He wants to put in some NFL futures.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about some MLB and some NBA stuff. That
Speaker 1: I like as well. We'll do that after we come
Speaker 1: back from the break here. But I mentioned Alex Fossano
Speaker 1: a k a. The Faz first of all before we
Speaker 1: get into the boarty bar thing. Where does the Faz
Speaker 1: come from? So my last name Fossano F A S
Speaker 1: A I O UM. In middle school, I went to
Speaker 1: a Catholic high school, Cathee Middle School. So I had
Speaker 1: a lot of uncles and family members that went to
Speaker 1: this school, and they actually ended up graduating with one
Speaker 1: of the gym coaches who ended up teaching there. And
Speaker 1: when they were in school together, the gym coach who
Speaker 1: told he just there now called my uncle who was
Speaker 1: there at the time, Faz. And then my other uncle
Speaker 1: who went there got the name Faz, and my brother
Speaker 1: who went to high school got a name for It's
Speaker 1: just like a family name. It's actually pretty cool. I
Speaker 1: wasn't expecting that cool of the story. I thought you
Speaker 1: were just gonna say, well, you know, my, my, my,
Speaker 1: I couldn't get my my Twitter handle with the S,
Speaker 1: so I just went with the and that's why it is.
Speaker 1: But that's actually a pretty cool story. And you know,
Speaker 1: I thought it might have been like the fons kind
Speaker 1: of thing like, yeah, I've gotten the Fonds and I've
Speaker 1: also gotten that seventies show Fez. You know, I said,
Speaker 1: good day. You haven't watched that seventies show. I actually haven't,
Speaker 1: but I know I understand why it's so post Yes,
Speaker 1: it was great show, and so Fez is one of
Speaker 1: the other names that I've been confused with, but it
Speaker 1: is faz, Fazzano, Fizzano, Fasano, whatever you want to call me.
Speaker 1: You know, while we're on the topic of that seventies show,
Speaker 1: I feel like Greg is always flabberg Acid is the
Speaker 1: word I would use to describe how little I know
Speaker 1: about anything that's going on in the outside world or
Speaker 1: just in general. I haven't watched that seventies show. I
Speaker 1: haven't watched Seinfeld in my life. Does that surprise you?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you get do you get flabberg acid
Speaker 1: when you find out some of these things about me?
Speaker 1: I will say this, not not only about you, but
Speaker 1: in general. The lack of common knowledge that I've been
Speaker 1: around over the last couple of weeks is appalling. I mean,
Speaker 1: just the couple of the day, you know I'm going
Speaker 1: with this. We asked the people in the pit downstairs
Speaker 1: who invented electricity, to which some people responded, who frank
Speaker 1: who invented electricity? I was one of those people, I said,
Speaker 1: Thomas Thomas Edison. The answer is Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Edison
Speaker 1: invented the light bulb. And it finds you Alex is
Speaker 1: younger than me. How old you? I'm twenty years years old, Philly,
Speaker 1: one of those old guys. I remember when I was
Speaker 1: twenty three. Live it up. I am twenty seven this year.
Speaker 1: You're like a grandfather to me. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta figure this out. I gotta. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it's gotta be a company wide thing
Speaker 1: where we all kind of just study up on things
Speaker 1: that we should know general knowledge. You know, it's pop culture,
Speaker 1: it's politics. Look, I don't like to get into the
Speaker 1: politics side of things because there's obviously a lot of
Speaker 1: division in the world right now, and I'll leave it
Speaker 1: at that. Um, there are obviously other reasons that I
Speaker 1: just kind of think it's boring overall as well. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get involved in politics like a
Speaker 1: lot of pop culture stuff. I don't watch the news.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm just kind of like having a revelation
Speaker 1: on the air right now. So excuse me for that, Alex,
Speaker 1: because it seems like at times I'm reminded that, like
Speaker 1: you know more common knowledge things than I do. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: that though. I mean, I'm right with you. I don't
Speaker 1: like politics myself. I don't ever care for politics. To me,
Speaker 1: we lose in the end because people are gonna be
Speaker 1: upset no matter what happens. And we just lost the
Speaker 1: Greg Susman demographic that was listening for some political updates
Speaker 1: here exactly. And that's sorry to the Greg demographic. We
Speaker 1: apologize for political talk, yes we do. We do apologize.
Speaker 1: The other side of of that nickname was Bordy Barn. Now,
Speaker 1: unless you live in New York or specifically in Long Island,
Speaker 1: that's where this takes place, correct it, you don't know
Speaker 1: what Bordy Barn is. You probably didn't know what Bordy
Speaker 1: Barn is. I will let Alex describe what Body Barn
Speaker 1: is because a lot of my friends, my cohort has
Speaker 1: been a part of Body Barn. I have never gone.
Speaker 1: I've seen many pictures that you've heard of it I've
Speaker 1: seen many a catastrophe involved with body Barn. Please break
Speaker 1: it down to the viewers, now, Alex, all right, well,
Speaker 1: I guess the short version with we call on Bardi
Speaker 1: Barn because he has attended body Barn before. I mean,
Speaker 1: I I go to body Barn one. You know you
Speaker 1: go only for the summers. Let me let me just
Speaker 1: preface that you can only go to body Barn during
Speaker 1: the summer. So it's only open from Memorial Day the
Speaker 1: Labor day. What the hell is a boardy barn? Now?
Speaker 1: A body barn is this giant circus tent that's just
Speaker 1: sitting in an open field in the Hampton's out of
Speaker 1: east on Long Island, Eastern Long Island, the Hampton Bays,
Speaker 1: to be quite specific. And all you gotta do is
Speaker 1: you go in, you give them a cover charge, and
Speaker 1: it's what's the cover charge? It's a twenty dollar cover
Speaker 1: charge charge? All right? But there are hundreds of people
Speaker 1: in basketball jerseys, in tank tops and Hawaiian shirts and
Speaker 1: it is the perfect day drinking atmosphere for anybody who
Speaker 1: attends nineties music. I love nineties music. Giants speakers and
Speaker 1: giant speakers, and I'd say about twenty to thirty bars.
Speaker 1: I like all of those things. What I fit in.
Speaker 1: I might be a little too old to go. I
Speaker 1: don't think you would, because there are people who have
Speaker 1: this is like bud Light, and they do have shot,
Speaker 1: they do have shots and drinks available. But the bud
Speaker 1: light is only two dollars, so why would you pass
Speaker 1: that up? And there are two dollars all right, so
Speaker 1: that makes sense, so they give you two dollar beers.
Speaker 1: There's a twenty dollar cover charge. The reason I bring
Speaker 1: this up, Barty Barn is a very ratchet experience. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about more ratchet experiences when we come back here
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Sports Network. Here the BFS. That's Alex
Speaker 1: Sano I'm for example'll be back right after this. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the BFS. Here frank Sample with Alex
Speaker 1: Passano up in studio to day. No Greg Sussman. He's
Speaker 1: out celebrating his bachelor party. Before the break, I was
Speaker 1: reminded that Benjamin Franklin did, indeed discover electricity, was not
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison. I would fail horribly at are you smarter
Speaker 1: than a fifth grader? It's not just like a public
Speaker 1: school system thing. I actually learned all this stuff. I
Speaker 1: just don't remember any of it. Admittedly very bad memory.
Speaker 1: Probably stop drinking, not the best retainer of information. Probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't go to Barty Barn anytime soon. To wrap up
Speaker 1: the party barn conversation. So I intend a lot of
Speaker 1: people drunk. When you drink a beer, they put a
Speaker 1: yellow smiley face sticker on you, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: a it's a disaster. It's I use the word ratchet,
Speaker 1: going to break urban dictionary. Ratchet. It's very it's sloppy, sloppy, right,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a fun time. Yeah, But I think
Speaker 1: you would you would thrive there. I would thrive with
Speaker 1: you would thrive stand up on They have these like
Speaker 1: shelvings that you could stand up on. Look everything like
Speaker 1: it's a it's a great time. I think we need
Speaker 1: to get the whole crew out there, the whole, the
Speaker 1: whole stad We probably should make something work. I mean,
Speaker 1: Greg Sussen is not The Hampton's works very well for
Speaker 1: Grace Sussman. He's very familiar with the I don't know
Speaker 1: that for fact that I'm just assuming based on, you know,
Speaker 1: his attire at but the Hamptons. All right, we'll have
Speaker 1: to make our way out there. He doesn't like bud
Speaker 1: Light though, so that's not gonna work. He likes fancy
Speaker 1: expensive I Sunrise. Yeah, I like tequila. But all right,
Speaker 1: let's jump into some of these some of these future bets,
Speaker 1: do it. Let's let's jump in here. You said you
Speaker 1: have time available tomorrow. You're trying to kill some time.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go out to Jersey. You're gonna place these bets.
Speaker 1: You can talk in a lot about future bets. Admittedly,
Speaker 1: there's some baseball going on today. I'll give you my
Speaker 1: best bets for baseball later on in the show. Actually
Speaker 1: gave you a two leg parlay last night. Both of
Speaker 1: those hit that was the Kansas City Royals money line,
Speaker 1: that was the Padres, the christ Paddock led Padres last night,
Speaker 1: who took a no hitter deep into that game. Those
Speaker 1: were the two legs of the of the parlay and
Speaker 1: they both hit last night. So I'll give you two
Speaker 1: more picks tonight that I really like in baseball. But admittedly,
Speaker 1: outside of golf, it's kind of a dry time right now.
Speaker 1: So we're looking towards the future where start talking a
Speaker 1: little bit about division winners. We throughout the Vikings earlier
Speaker 1: on in the week. Our buddy big Timer in the
Speaker 1: chat really likes the Vikings as a as a sleeper
Speaker 1: super Bowl pick. So let's start off with what are
Speaker 1: some of the things that you're looking at it. Admittedly
Speaker 1: you are a Pittsburgh Steelers family, let's start there with
Speaker 1: the a f C. North Is that is that something
Speaker 1: that you're going to look into wagering on tomorrow when
Speaker 1: you're laying down some futures. So just again disclaimer, this
Speaker 1: is going to be my first time adding anything in
Speaker 1: my life in terms of sports. I'm gonna go on
Speaker 1: the app. I'm not gonna go to the actual sports book.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use the app. So you're going to see
Speaker 1: Caucus use the app. It's exactly what I used to do. So, right,
Speaker 1: if you take the Path train to the Caucus, you
Speaker 1: get off, there's a bunch of bars right over there,
Speaker 1: so you can legit just sit down and turn a
Speaker 1: couple of beers. And they have like promo codes in
Speaker 1: there for actually for the apps as well, so like
Speaker 1: you can use all that stuff. You can use our
Speaker 1: promo codes as well. Absolutely so, but yeah, it's actually
Speaker 1: not bad. That's something that I've actually done myself. Have
Speaker 1: to keep that in mind, look out for some good bars.
Speaker 1: But um, going off that, so, I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: n f C North and I don't usually like Like
Speaker 1: I said, I know, this is my first sports bet,
Speaker 1: but I never like to wager with my team. I'm
Speaker 1: sure a lot of people who who bet feel the
Speaker 1: same way. I ain't betting crap on the Jets here,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. I know we all know how
Speaker 1: you feel about the Jets. Rankie. I hope they go
Speaker 1: O and six seen and fire Adam Gaze. We'll continue, Alex.
Speaker 1: That's that's a big hope. Um. So Cleveland Brown is saying, up,
Speaker 1: what's more likely the Jets go O N sixteen or
Speaker 1: they go sixteen and uh it's it's an easy answer.
Speaker 1: I know, O and sixteen, but I feel like they're
Speaker 1: not gonna go oh and sixteen to see. I'm a
Speaker 1: little taking with you. I kind of like the Jets
Speaker 1: heading Ina well you you're a Steelers fans, so they
Speaker 1: have someone that's close to your heart. I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: keep cutting you up. I'll let you go. Alex all right,
Speaker 1: AMC North Division winners. If I'm gonna bet my team
Speaker 1: with the Steelers, I'm gonna pick winning the division over
Speaker 1: anything else. I don't want to put them in winning
Speaker 1: the super Bowl because if they don't even make the division,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna go to the playoffs. So what's the point.
Speaker 1: So Steelers just in a plus one seventy right now
Speaker 1: to win the division, Browns are plus one thirty five
Speaker 1: of the favorite, and you got the Ravens plus two
Speaker 1: eight and the Bengals forget it there plus t hundred.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's not leading since anywhere, so I know, not
Speaker 1: even how dare you come on? I mean, what about
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor. I'm let coach unless uh Tyler Boyd is available,
Speaker 1: uh in the slot being the Ravens till they go
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. I'm not watching any Cincinnati Bengals game.
Speaker 1: That's fair. Yeah, I mean, come on, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: I think the offense should at least be fun to
Speaker 1: watch this year for the Cincinnati Bengals A J. Green,
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd. But overall I agree with you this Inincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals are plus eighteen hundred to win this division. That
Speaker 1: is the a f C. North. I heard Gab Gabe
Speaker 1: ranting and raving this morning about Baker Mayfield and how
Speaker 1: he hasn't accomplished anything, and that the Cleveland Browns are
Speaker 1: walking around like they're this hot shot team right now.
Speaker 1: They are the favorite to win this division at plus
Speaker 1: one thirty five. I actually agree with you and Gabe wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1: The Browns haven't done it, and I understand that we
Speaker 1: are projecting forward, and that's a lot of what we
Speaker 1: do for fantasy football as well. We have to look
Speaker 1: towards the future. There's a big target on the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns back this year, something that they have not had before.
Speaker 1: Let's as great as Baker Mayfield is, as much as
Speaker 1: I love them, this year for fantasy there's a target
Speaker 1: on his back. He is somebody who talks a lot.
Speaker 1: Teams are going to want to go out there and
Speaker 1: make him pay. This is like, this is a situation
Speaker 1: like when the Super the defending Super Bowl champ comes
Speaker 1: to your building, or for any sport. We've heard this
Speaker 1: across all sports, right. You know, when once the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors started winning their championships, it was harder for
Speaker 1: them to put up the same type of numbers in
Speaker 1: the regular season. And look, they didn't win this year.
Speaker 1: There's a target on your back once you win before.
Speaker 1: Browns don't have that, and they still have a target
Speaker 1: on their back because of their quarterback Baker Mayfield. He's
Speaker 1: making things very difficult for them. I think he's talented.
Speaker 1: I have question marks about the offensive line. They traded
Speaker 1: away Kevin Zeitler in order to get Odell Beckham. The
Speaker 1: offense is gonna be awesome. There's no doubt. Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: electric number one wide receiver. Him and his buddy Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry they played together at L s U. They have
Speaker 1: a dynamic running back in Nick Chubb, who I know
Speaker 1: you like a lot because you have him as your
Speaker 1: keeper in fantasy football. We talked about that a lot together.
Speaker 1: But there is a target on their back. Will the
Speaker 1: defense show up? They have Myles Garrett, they have Olivier Vernon,
Speaker 1: so they have the pass rushers. They have Denzel Award,
Speaker 1: who at times last year looked like a show down cornerback.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. All of these things have
Speaker 1: to culminate and work together. Is Freddie Kitchens going to
Speaker 1: be able to keep things from unraveling when Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: isn't getting the ball thrown his way and he starts
Speaker 1: throwing temper tantrums or Baker Mayfield's doing stupid stuff in
Speaker 1: the media and saying stupid stuff in the media. I
Speaker 1: think it's very lazy to compare him to Johnny Manziel.
Speaker 1: I understand why people do it. White, spunky quarterback can
Speaker 1: run a little bit. I think it's kind of a
Speaker 1: lazy comparison. I said this downstairs. I think on the field,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is probably closer to Russell Wilson than he
Speaker 1: is Johnny Manziel And I understand that that is a
Speaker 1: that is a high, high praise for him. But I'm
Speaker 1: with you, man. I like the Pittsburgh Steelers at plus
Speaker 1: one seventy to win this division. They have a quarterback
Speaker 1: who has done it before in Ben Roethlisberger. They have
Speaker 1: one of the three best offensive lines in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I think that the defense is going to be better
Speaker 1: this year. I don't think that the offense really takes
Speaker 1: that big of a step back, even with Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: I don't want to discount Antonio Brown. But this is
Speaker 1: a team that just played without Levian Bell and they
Speaker 1: didn't miss a beat. I think Juju is gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dante mon Creef and James Washington are gonna
Speaker 1: be awesome. I like it. I like it at plus
Speaker 1: one sevent so we heard the closing down stairs. The
Speaker 1: Browns are still gonna win the division. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I love the Steelers at plus one
Speaker 1: se The biggest thing I want to stay with the Steelers,
Speaker 1: And they've been saying this since the beginning of reports
Speaker 1: about training camp and prepping for the season and this
Speaker 1: and that. The one thing, the constant that the Steelers
Speaker 1: players and coaching staff has said over the weeks, everybody's
Speaker 1: against us, were the underdogs, everybody's counting us out, and
Speaker 1: we love it. We thrive off that they are actually
Speaker 1: the underdogs compared to the Browns here, not like some
Speaker 1: fake little thing that Julian Edelman made last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're the underdogs. Were the underdogs New England Patriots and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady you have the goat on your team. You
Speaker 1: weren't underdogs the Steelers based on these odds, they are
Speaker 1: underdogs compared to the Cleveland brown and they love it,
Speaker 1: and I love it too. I think this is one
Speaker 1: of if you're looking at division winners, I know you're
Speaker 1: not getting them at crazy odds, but if you look
Speaker 1: at a team that you're getting at plus money right now,
Speaker 1: I don't. I can't find a team that I like
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Speaker 1: Frank Standfeld with Alex Fasano here in studio. No Greg
Speaker 1: Susman for today and tomorrow. He's out celebrating his bachelor party.
Speaker 1: This is the Action hour. We were talking about some
Speaker 1: division winners with potential division winners before we get back
Speaker 1: into the NFL. I'm gonna throw it your way Alex,
Speaker 1: to give us a little bit of an update here
Speaker 1: on the British Open. What do you got? So the
Speaker 1: day is pretty much coming to an end. Round one
Speaker 1: is wrapping up nicely. Sitting at first places JB. Holmes,
Speaker 1: the American at minus five is five under Shane Lowry,
Speaker 1: who has been holding the number one spot all day.
Speaker 1: The Irish Irish Man Shane Lowry, he's in minus four
Speaker 1: under two, and you got Webb Sampson, Sergio Garcia and
Speaker 1: Alex Nori in all three under. You know they're kind
Speaker 1: of dancing around the third place spot. But you just
Speaker 1: asked me where your boy Rory. I want to hear
Speaker 1: where some of the big heavy hitters were. Give me Rory,
Speaker 1: Rory mcelroyd, right, now through round one of the British Open.
Speaker 1: What do you got Rory McElroy sitting at eight over,
Speaker 1: tied for aft. Is that is that bad? That? It's
Speaker 1: pretty bad? That's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. He was
Speaker 1: the favorite heading into this thing, Rory McElroy at plus
Speaker 1: eight right now through round one of the British Open.
Speaker 1: You mentioned there were someone right around him as well.
Speaker 1: Who might that be? Yeah, tied for a four, sitting
Speaker 1: at seven over Tiger Woods at seven over right now
Speaker 1: through the first round of the British Open. Where does
Speaker 1: Brooks kept go land? He was one of the betting favorites.
Speaker 1: He is still in this tied at third, sitting at
Speaker 1: three under alright, alright, so he's showing up so far. Look,
Speaker 1: there's a lot, there's a lot of golf to play.
Speaker 1: Not really a great start there for Tiger Woods and
Speaker 1: specifically Rory McElroy, who was the betting favorite here in
Speaker 1: the British Open. Ah for that. Brooks is still sitting
Speaker 1: at plus four fifty to win the whole thing, and
Speaker 1: he's at three under now, tied for third. Okay, so
Speaker 1: that's live betting, live betting, all right. They pretty much over.
Speaker 1: So the standing of the top standings right now, are
Speaker 1: not necessarily gonna change the clue. This guy who's still
Speaker 1: going is Ashton Turner. He's tied for third with three under.
Speaker 1: He's on the whole four team. So are you gonna
Speaker 1: throw anything down on golf tomorrow, Brooks? I mean, if
Speaker 1: I throw a couple of shackles on that, he's still
Speaker 1: in this thing. He's probably the only uh, big name
Speaker 1: American that we able. Web Simpson's up there too, but
Speaker 1: like he's uh, he's competing his heart out and he
Speaker 1: has a knack for winning championships, So a couple of
Speaker 1: shakes on Kepka couldn't hurt. There you go. That is
Speaker 1: the British Open update with Alex Passano here on the
Speaker 1: BFS action. Now, I want to jump back into some football.
Speaker 1: You mentioned during the break, Alex that you were looking
Speaker 1: at some Super Bowl champion futures as of now. I
Speaker 1: threw two of these in before the season. Last year.
Speaker 1: I had the Chargers and the Rams. Both teams made
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Obviously, the Rams made the Super Bowl. The
Speaker 1: Chargers looked like they were poised to go deep ran
Speaker 1: into the buzz saw. That is the new England Patriots.
Speaker 1: Of course, Philip Rivers arch to meet Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. Just can't figure those two out. So I
Speaker 1: think I don't want to have recency bias and just
Speaker 1: fade the Chargers. But as someone who has bet on
Speaker 1: the Chargers in the past, I feel like I don't
Speaker 1: know that it's ever gonna happen because in the postseason,
Speaker 1: I just we we've seen enough of Philip Rivers at
Speaker 1: this point where I just don't know if it's ever
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I mean, are there is that one of
Speaker 1: the ships that you might be looking at the sitting
Speaker 1: plus nine hundred right now to win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: But I wish there was a way to bet making
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl within due Unfortunately don't have that option.
Speaker 1: You can, you can due to win the AFC Championship.
Speaker 1: They have the charges at plus seven fifty for that,
Speaker 1: but that would also require them to beat the New
Speaker 1: England Page. So you're probably better off betting on someone
Speaker 1: to make it to the NFC Championship if you're not
Speaker 1: betting on the Patriots. Yeah, I mean, I I got
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Saints. How do you bet against
Speaker 1: the Patriots? That's the thing. And they're sitting at seven two,
Speaker 1: so you might as well grab them now while they
Speaker 1: have the value. Patriots seven to one to win super
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty four this season, which will be held in Miami.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one team who will not be in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, Adam former team. That would be the
Speaker 1: Miami Telphants. They're hosting the Super Bowl. There's virtually no
Speaker 1: chance of them making the super Bowl, let alone winning
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They actually have the worst odds at
Speaker 1: plus fifteen thousand. Yes, I love it. That would be
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty one. I don't think that Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen and Ryan fitz Magic is going to uh is
Speaker 1: going to make that happen. Who were a few teams
Speaker 1: that you were actually looking on throwing some money down here?
Speaker 1: The Saints obviously, because they were one play away from
Speaker 1: making the Super Bowl. And again I do I do
Speaker 1: agree with betting on NFC teams more so than AFC.
Speaker 1: I just don't really want to bet against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, And even even without the Patriots, you
Speaker 1: look at the Chiefs, who I'm also considering for the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Championship. They're sitting at plus eight hundred, and
Speaker 1: you said that the a f C is just filled
Speaker 1: with the Patriots, the Chiefs, the Chargers, the Steelers. You know,
Speaker 1: I had to throw them in there. Um, it's just
Speaker 1: you're right, the NFC teams of the way to go.
Speaker 1: So the Saints at plus nine hundred, I'm looking at even.
Speaker 1: I know this might sound crazy, but the Bears at
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred, I think their defense could carry them a
Speaker 1: little bit. And I like Mitch Drabinski heading into this season.
Speaker 1: You said it a little bit earlier in the day.
Speaker 1: He's not the best quarterback, but he's a game manager
Speaker 1: and he could run around a lot of uses his
Speaker 1: legs very well. Uh So I kind of like the
Speaker 1: Bears sitting at the plus seventeen hundred. Um even, you
Speaker 1: said it before. If you're looking back at the division winners, uh,
Speaker 1: the NFC North is wide open. So you got the
Speaker 1: Vikings to win the championship at plus three thousand, and
Speaker 1: we spoke about that earlier in the week, myself and
Speaker 1: the closer Chris Venture. You're getting them at thirty to
Speaker 1: one right now plus three thousand on the Fandel Sports book.
Speaker 1: I know our our buddy big Timer in the YouTube
Speaker 1: chat has placed a seven hundred and fifty dollar wager
Speaker 1: on the Vikings that would pay out over eighteen thousand
Speaker 1: dollars if they win. So, uh, you're to say he'll
Speaker 1: be throwing out a few skull chances this season when
Speaker 1: it comes to the minute sort of Vikings, I'll throw
Speaker 1: an NFC team your way. How about them Cowboys? You
Speaker 1: know I was gonna say them because they're right next
Speaker 1: to the Bears one plus Legitimately, Look, they made it
Speaker 1: to the postseason last year. They made it past the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, partially thanks to Brian Schottenheimer thinking that, you know,
Speaker 1: we're playing football in the nineties seventies and they're just
Speaker 1: running the football when Russell Wilson is the highest paid
Speaker 1: player on that team, one of the highest paid players
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So the Cowboys have the Seahawks to
Speaker 1: thank for that. They ran into the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: couldn't get past them. But I look at the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: it's kind of similar to the Chicago Bears. I heard
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Chicago Bears A plus seventeen hundred. I
Speaker 1: don't love those odds because I think when you need
Speaker 1: your quarterback to make a play, I don't trust Mitchell Robinsky.
Speaker 1: You trust the little Dack over Mitch. I think he's
Speaker 1: kind of in a he's in a similar range. But
Speaker 1: I do trust Dak little bit more. I think if
Speaker 1: you have both of those guys as quarterbacks and you're
Speaker 1: and you're asking me which one. If you need a
Speaker 1: quarterback to drive down the field and win you a
Speaker 1: playoff game, who do you trust more? Between Dak and
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trabiskie. I trust Dak Prescott and that's just me.
Speaker 1: But he hasn't necessarily done it. He still needs to
Speaker 1: progress as a quarterback. As a passer. It seems like
Speaker 1: at times he's a little bit too scared to turn
Speaker 1: the ball over, so he doesn't take chances. He's got
Speaker 1: to take more of those chances. He can make plays
Speaker 1: with his legs. Hopefully Zeke is on this team, but
Speaker 1: I heard Greg talking about it yesterday that he expects
Speaker 1: Zeke to play this season, that he's not going to
Speaker 1: hold out. I think that they have a very good
Speaker 1: defense as well, and that's what it comes down to,
Speaker 1: right So when you get to the postseason, if you
Speaker 1: could play good defense and you can run the ball
Speaker 1: and keep an opposing really good quarterback off the field
Speaker 1: like a Drew Brees, like a Russell Wilson, or keep
Speaker 1: an offense off the field like a like the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams. They couldn't do it last season. But I
Speaker 1: think the Dllas Cowboys that to one, are an interesting team.
Speaker 1: You know, going off that you said it, defense is
Speaker 1: the biggest player in this and you're looking at the
Speaker 1: defense of death chart. I mean Vander esh who had
Speaker 1: a great season last year, Byron Iron Jones, Xavier Woods
Speaker 1: in the secondary for this team, You're right, Dallas should
Speaker 1: be a team to consider, and you're right, you got
Speaker 1: to one odds a couple of shekels on the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: As much as I don't want to throw it on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys because a you don't want to have to
Speaker 1: root for the cow exactly. I am a Steelers fan.
Speaker 1: I don't want to root for the Cowboys. But even
Speaker 1: if I wasn't a Steelers fans, is that an actual
Speaker 1: rivalry kind of right, because like they're the two like storied,
Speaker 1: most storied franchises. And you consider America's team and I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people are gonna disagree with me
Speaker 1: with this, but America's team today is not just the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: the Steelers, the Eagles, even the Patriots, the executive during
Speaker 1: the break, you can call whoever you'd like. But you
Speaker 1: look at the fan bases and and you just see
Speaker 1: the support that they get worldwide, even because now football
Speaker 1: is a global sport. I mean, see the Steelers fans,
Speaker 1: You see the Eagle fans, because Eagles specifically because of
Speaker 1: the new Super Bowl with the Steelers and the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: two of the most traditional and historical franchises, LEA, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt in that. Would you put the Jets in
Speaker 1: that mix? I'm just kidding. I don't think you can.
Speaker 1: I mean, was it get it right? Come on? Super
Speaker 1: Bowl three? Super Bowl three? Mets Jets year. I know
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine as a Mets fan, I feel
Speaker 1: you so that I wasn't. I wasn't even a twinkle
Speaker 1: in my father's eye in nineteen and I was, no,
Speaker 1: you were not. Your father was three. But at least
Speaker 1: you've seen the Steelers win, that's true. I do not
Speaker 1: take that for Agda very humbled to two Super Bowls too,
Speaker 1: Steelers super Bowls. In my life. Honestly, the the deep
Speaker 1: playoff run that the Jets had under Rex Ryan, back
Speaker 1: to back years they make the a f C Championship.
Speaker 1: Of course, losing to your Pittsburgh steel I remember that game.
Speaker 1: You want to know a funny story about that game.
Speaker 1: Who'd you guys not even that game? The year after
Speaker 1: that or a year around that, you guys got knocked
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs one year a week sixteen seventeen
Speaker 1: by the Bills. Correct, Yes, Yan Fitzpatrick, thanks and uh
Speaker 1: for nothing a quarterback by the name of Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor, that's correct. And uh right after that game,
Speaker 1: we made the playoffs the wild card spot because of
Speaker 1: you guys. So I said to my dad and I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, we gotta get a talied about Taylor jersey.
Speaker 1: I have a white, red, white and blue pins stripe,
Speaker 1: a white, beautiful Buffalo Bills Tyrod Taylor jo as he
Speaker 1: singing in my closet, because he knocked you guys out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. That is so random, But look, I
Speaker 1: can't blame you. Um that run where the Jets got
Speaker 1: eliminated by Ben and the Steelers was my most fawn
Speaker 1: memories of being a Jets fan. I mean to be
Speaker 1: able to knock out Peyton Manny and Tom Brady in
Speaker 1: the same playoff dude, like, there's nothing like it. And
Speaker 1: it was Mark Sanchez. I mean, it was just smash
Speaker 1: mouth football. It was Thomas Jones, Rex Ryan LaDainian Tomlinson
Speaker 1: chipping in as well. I mean that that would Those
Speaker 1: are my most fondest memories of being a Jets fan.
Speaker 1: You know, I have close friends of mine that are
Speaker 1: Patriots fans, so watching that game with them and beating Honestly,
Speaker 1: it was it sucks that they got knocked out by
Speaker 1: the Steelers, your Pittsburgh Steelers, but it was almost like
Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl. Yeah yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: you eliminated Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in the same
Speaker 1: playoff run. It was phenomenal. I haven't seen much of
Speaker 1: that since. But at me for coming in the next
Speaker 1: day saying the Steelers meet the Pageots this year, the
Speaker 1: Stealers meet the Pageots. Well they did in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: it would have been I have to agree with Greg.
Speaker 1: I mean regular season game. That's Alex Pisano, Frank Stanford.
Speaker 1: We'll be back right after the bag the break, talk
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Speaker 1: what did you end up with here? As your final
Speaker 1: bets that you're going to be placing tomorrow. We got
Speaker 1: three future Super Bowl champion bets. We got one division
Speaker 1: winner where you go with the Chiefs, the Saints, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Steelers to win the division. All right,
Speaker 1: stop bad, I like it there, Chiefs. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you could argue that they should have won that game
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. I mean, they didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to touch the ball. I mean, you know everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: make the argument, well, play better defense, don't put yourself
Speaker 1: in that position. Then all right, I get it. They
Speaker 1: fired their defensive coordinator. We're hoping that the defense is
Speaker 1: better this year. But I mean, just from a pure
Speaker 1: football perspective, we wanted to see that game go for
Speaker 1: as long as humanly possible. I mean, that was just
Speaker 1: a ridiculously fun game to watch between Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs going up against Tom Brady and the Patriots.
Speaker 1: So hopefully, and you know, we're probably destined to see
Speaker 1: that once again this year, whether you know it's in
Speaker 1: the a f C Championship or earlier on in the postseason,
Speaker 1: but we're probably going to see that once again. And
Speaker 1: you know, the Chiefs came close, they came within. You
Speaker 1: know that a play you know, a drive and overtime drive,
Speaker 1: a coin flip of of beating the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: and being in the Super Bowl. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that that's if you're gonna been on someone in the
Speaker 1: a f C. You know the Chiefs and their offense.
Speaker 1: The way that the NFL is trending. I know everyone says,
Speaker 1: you know, defense wins championships. You gotta get to the championship.
Speaker 1: The way you get to the championship, you need an
Speaker 1: electric offense. The Chiefs have one of, if not the
Speaker 1: best in the NFL, So I don't I don't hate
Speaker 1: that one. And then obviously I talked to you into
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. I think that they have, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the three best defenses in the NFL. Jak
Speaker 1: Prescott has to make, has to take that next step obviously,
Speaker 1: and we need Zeke Elliott to not hold out. And
Speaker 1: then the other one was the New Orleans Saints. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, pass interference, we all saw it last
Speaker 1: They have a really good defense as well. They have
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame quarterback. Everything is in place here
Speaker 1: for the New Orleans Saints. So yeah, I like those.
Speaker 1: I I could get behind those. I'm probably gonna put
Speaker 1: in my bets closer to when the season starts. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: hopefully the odds don't change all that much. But hey,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to just just to throw
Speaker 1: it out there, injuries are gonna happen during training camp
Speaker 1: and things are gonna happen that are gonna end up
Speaker 1: affecting the odds. Here. Obviously speaking odds, if you want
Speaker 1: to go division winner, just the Cowboys instead of going
Speaker 1: all the way to the super Bowl, they're at plus
Speaker 1: one forty to win Division. Eagles of mine is one ten. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been talking about the Eagles that I still all
Speaker 1: things consider, I like the Eagles to win the division
Speaker 1: if I if I were betting on it, if I
Speaker 1: were betting on it, I would say I agree with
Speaker 1: them being the favorite to win. But what I've also
Speaker 1: said about the Eagles is that there is a lot
Speaker 1: of volatility involved. They have a high ceiling because of
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz in that elite offensive line, and I think
Speaker 1: the defense bounces back. But there's also a big downside
Speaker 1: because Carson Wentz does have this serious back injury, and
Speaker 1: they don't have Nick Foles anymore. They don't really have
Speaker 1: that competent backup quarterback that they've had in years past.
Speaker 1: So there's more volatility involved with the with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: But all you gotta do is make it. You gotta
Speaker 1: make it into the postseason, and then you give yourself
Speaker 1: a shot. And I think the Dallas Cowboys would have
Speaker 1: a pretty good shot at that point. I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: a few MLB futures your way that I really like that.
Speaker 1: I've been looking at here the National League East, and
Speaker 1: I actually talked about this with a few people downstairs
Speaker 1: in the pit. I talked about this two months ago.
Speaker 1: You could have got the Washington Nationals to win the
Speaker 1: division at plus seventeen hundred. Right now they are plus
Speaker 1: seven hundred. They are hot. They were at some point
Speaker 1: at that point they were I think they were twelve
Speaker 1: games out of the division. People don't realize how long
Speaker 1: the baseball season is. They see, you know, in the
Speaker 1: month of May or June, a team that's ten games out,
Speaker 1: twelve games out, and they say, oh, it's over there.
Speaker 1: You go, oh yeah, it's let's already crown the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Braves the National League East champions. I like the nashal
Speaker 1: I like the Atlanta Braves and they had key where
Speaker 1: it had a twelve game lead in the division. Now,
Speaker 1: over the course of two months, a month and a half,
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals have cut that lead in half to
Speaker 1: six games. What's stopping them from Right now, it's July eighteenth,
Speaker 1: we have another month and a half of football baseball
Speaker 1: to play. What's stopping them from cutting that again? Cutting
Speaker 1: that six games? I mean it sucks because I loved
Speaker 1: it at plus seventeen hundred, and I would have threw
Speaker 1: it in then. I still like it now. It's just
Speaker 1: one of those things where it's like, Okay, I should
Speaker 1: have done it when the odds were highest because I
Speaker 1: had trust in this team. I had the Washington Nationals
Speaker 1: making it to the World Series against the Houston Astros
Speaker 1: before the season. I mean, this is a team with
Speaker 1: Max Scherzer, Stephen Strassburg, and Patrick Corban. I mean, you
Speaker 1: are going to be hard pressed to find a better
Speaker 1: one to three in baseball at the top of your rotation.
Speaker 1: I love to watch the Nationals right now throwing a
Speaker 1: few down on them at plus seven hundred to win
Speaker 1: this division, even you know, being six six and a
Speaker 1: half games out. Yeah, I mean you said it, Frank,
Speaker 1: plus seven hundred with the Nationals. And you want to
Speaker 1: know something crazy, you probably already know this. Next four
Speaker 1: games the Nationals plays against the Braves, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a huge swing. You want to jump in
Speaker 1: on that now. If they four, if they sweep the
Speaker 1: Praise four games, this is down to like plus two
Speaker 1: difference plus three hundred, that's what you're looking at. So
Speaker 1: that's a great call there. I mean, they're I mean,
Speaker 1: they're probably not going to sweep them for you never know,
Speaker 1: but if they were to hypothetically sweep them four games,
Speaker 1: this number goes from plus seven hundred to probably plus
Speaker 1: three hundred most realistically. And Max Scherzer is expected to
Speaker 1: return over the weekend for one of these starts. You know,
Speaker 1: last night was a bad loss for the Nationals. You
Speaker 1: can't lose two teams like the Baltimore Orioles. You have
Speaker 1: to capitalize on those games. I realized that. But you know,
Speaker 1: the same thing could be said about the other team
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna bring up right now, the Cleveland Indians.
Speaker 1: You could have got the Cleveland Indians at like plus
Speaker 1: eight hundreds to the win the division a month ago
Speaker 1: because they were ten games out. Don't look now there
Speaker 1: are four games out. There are four games out. The
Speaker 1: Twins had a ten game lead. Who is trusting the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins pitching staff right now? I mean Jacodoreesi got hurt,
Speaker 1: he was pitching awesome. He started to regress. I don't
Speaker 1: trust his Twins pitching staff. Now. Maybe they go out
Speaker 1: there and they trade for a start. They still have
Speaker 1: Jose Burrios, He's been a little bit more inconsistent over
Speaker 1: the past month or so. Maybe they go out you
Speaker 1: heard them link to like a Marcus Stroman Madison bum Garner.
Speaker 1: That helps. I just don't know much like the Washington Nationals,
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians, if Corey Kluber can get healthy, they
Speaker 1: have Cluber, they have Clevinger, they have Shane Bieber. That
Speaker 1: might be second to the Washington Nationals in all of
Speaker 1: baseball in terms of a one to three punts. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a very good one to three When you have
Speaker 1: those pictures at the top of your rotation. As Kevin
Speaker 1: Garnett would say, anything is better. I mean, I like
Speaker 1: those two. If I'm just looking at division winners, I
Speaker 1: would have done it like a month ago, just because
Speaker 1: of the odds that you were getting. Baseball is a
Speaker 1: very very long season. The Indians in the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking at. Their respect. I mean, I
Speaker 1: like it. You got the Indians to plus three fifty
Speaker 1: right now, unfortunately, but those are still really good odds.
Speaker 1: And you're looking at the schedule too. They got a
Speaker 1: game tonight against the Tigers. Then they got a series
Speaker 1: against the Royals, the Blue Jays and the Royals. Again,
Speaker 1: all winnable series, very much winnable series. So if the
Speaker 1: the Indians hit a hot streak, they can close in
Speaker 1: on this Dinny. They're on a hot street if they
Speaker 1: can keep riding the hot streets. Look now, Jose Ramirez, Yes,
Speaker 1: that Jose Aremira is the one that burned everybody in
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball. I'm looking at you. Constant team, longtime friend,
Speaker 1: listener of the program. He's drafted, Josie Ramire is everywhere
Speaker 1: got burned by him. He's turning it around over the
Speaker 1: past month. The guys batting over three hundred finally coming
Speaker 1: around for Jose Ramirez. So I out throw those too
Speaker 1: out there as well. We're talking about futures. The Cleveland Indians,
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals. Alex, we're gonna throw you on the spot.
Speaker 1: They're completely switching gears here. Don't be too nervous. You'll
Speaker 1: be all right here freaking out. If you had to
Speaker 1: bet on one player to win the NBA m v
Speaker 1: P for next season, who would you bet on? Not
Speaker 1: looking at odds, not looking at odds before you look
Speaker 1: at the odds. I'm not gonna loo at the odds.
Speaker 1: I had to pick one player to win m v P,
Speaker 1: I have to go with a back to back title,
Speaker 1: back to back. You're going with the chalk, going with
Speaker 1: the chalk, honest, the Greek free to Greek freak. Okay,
Speaker 1: So if I were asking you who was the favorite,
Speaker 1: you would have got that correctly. He's plus two seventy
Speaker 1: right now. So yeah, I mean, look he's the favorite.
Speaker 1: I mean you're not getting great odds. James heard of
Speaker 1: number two at plus five fifties. The reason I bring
Speaker 1: this up is because there was an update yesterday. I
Speaker 1: got an update from Bleacher Report that said, here are
Speaker 1: the latest m v P. It's from from Caesar's Palace.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking over at the Fandal Sports book and
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, all right, NBA MVP futures kind
Speaker 1: of in the news based on that update from Caesar's Palace.
Speaker 1: So I look over at the Fandal Sports book, and
Speaker 1: you know who's jumping off the page to me, Nikkola
Speaker 1: at Plust. And I'm going to explain my logic for this, Alex,
Speaker 1: can you tell me if I'm crazy? We know how
Speaker 1: great Lebron James is, we know how great Anthony Davis is,
Speaker 1: we know how great Hawai Leonard is. Those are three
Speaker 1: of the top six candidates to win the MVP this year.
Speaker 1: They all have higher odds than Nikolaiokis to win it.
Speaker 1: While those guys are probably most likely better than Nikola Yokich,
Speaker 1: the NBA m v P is a regular season award,
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at those three specifically, and I think
Speaker 1: that Lebron's gonna get time off this year. I think
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is gonna get time off this year. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't be It would not not surprise me one bit
Speaker 1: if we staggered this at some point where if we
Speaker 1: have back to backs, Lebron plays one game, Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: sits out the other, and then the next night Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis plays, Lebron sits out the other. That would not
Speaker 1: surprise me one bit. And while we're on that topic,
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard played sixty games last year and he he
Speaker 1: won the NBA Championship with the Toronto Raptors. Who do
Speaker 1: you think that the Los Angeles Clippers are going to
Speaker 1: do something similar to what the Toronto Raptors just did.
Speaker 1: It worked, it works for them. I think that we
Speaker 1: see some load management here for all three of these guys,
Speaker 1: and that's going to affect They're probably all going to
Speaker 1: finish in the top four seats in the Western Conference.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that that ultimately they care about
Speaker 1: the regular season all that much. I think that the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets finished with the best record in the Western
Speaker 1: Conference alex and they finished second. No, no, they finished
Speaker 1: with the second best Western Conference record. I believe they
Speaker 1: were first. They were first, The Warriors were second. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were first. They finished the first. So I think
Speaker 1: they do that again this year. They bring back everybody.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't worry about the Denver nugg Gets
Speaker 1: resting any of their players. I don't worry about load
Speaker 1: management there. I think Nikolai Yokich, at his age, just
Speaker 1: continues to get better puts up monster numbers. This year,
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets finished with the best record in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference and because of that, Nicola Yokish wins the
Speaker 1: NBA M v P. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: I like where your your heads at. That they're gonna
Speaker 1: try and you know, give a little bit of a
Speaker 1: break to whoever they can. But the thing is, the
Speaker 1: whole point of the the NBA this year is I
Speaker 1: feel like everyone's gonna be watching, and everyone's gonna be
Speaker 1: looking at these duos, and everybody's gonna tune in to
Speaker 1: see Lebron play and Paul George play and whoever they're
Speaker 1: playing with. So I don't know how much they're gonna
Speaker 1: sit the two of them like that. I feel like
Speaker 1: if they're gonna sit them, they're gonna sit both of
Speaker 1: them and give the people what they want. They're gonna
Speaker 1: play two at a time because the people are paying
Speaker 1: to see Lebron James and Anthony Davis played their game.
Speaker 1: They're gonna pay to see Gordon Hayward and who's in
Speaker 1: Kemba Walker in Boston. So I think that the duos
Speaker 1: this year, everything's gonna be kind of like a duo format.
Speaker 1: So to speak. But I like where your head's at.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, the Denver finished first, so
Speaker 1: Yokich was the driving force of that team. I think
Speaker 1: you you got the good odds. You know. I'm just
Speaker 1: stating with honest because he said he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be a called mp P no more so. His head
Speaker 1: is in the right spot and he knows what he
Speaker 1: has to work on, obviously in terms of shooting and
Speaker 1: becoming a better outside shooter. I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 1: By one counter to that would be, like, it's never
Speaker 1: stopped teams from resting players before. They don't say I
Speaker 1: was first had a duo last year and DeMar de
Speaker 1: Rosen and and LaMarcus Aldred's like, I mean, it's first
Speaker 1: still wrest players right, It's it's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: when have they ever cared about the fan, the working
Speaker 1: man coming to watch people play before? There's always been
Speaker 1: eyes on basketball. I think they do a great job
Speaker 1: in terms of marketing their players and their stars and
Speaker 1: their product. My one counter to that would just be
Speaker 1: it's never stop. Maybe in l A it might be
Speaker 1: a little different, fleshy. Well, we'll see what happens. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens, that is Alex Fasano. I want to
Speaker 1: thank you Alex for joining me today on the show
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Speaker 1: Brooki at plus thirteen hundred to win the m v P.
Speaker 1: That is one of my bets for the future. Frank
Speaker 1: Stanfeld for Alex the BFS. We'll be back tomorrow, we hope.