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Speaker 1: be doing a lot of good things. I got a
Speaker 1: great guest for us later on in the show in
Speaker 1: studio we're gonna hear from Stomic Gross, who produced the
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Speaker 1: back to back schedules. Well, Tomic is gonna join us
Speaker 1: a little bit later on in the show, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out the actual impact. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be talking about some studies, absolutely incredible. Benny
Speaker 1: Riccardi and Tony Sencata, they need to understand this for
Speaker 1: their DFS lineup block. I'm telling you some real good
Speaker 1: information later on. As usual, in this last week of
Speaker 1: the preseason, before we hit opening Day this Sunday in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, Speeds the Spitting Statistician will preview and
Speaker 1: give his spotlight on a team. Today it is the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants. And also, as you know, we are
Speaker 1: getting down to it when it comes to the TV
Speaker 1: Greatest of All Time tournament, so we got some matchups
Speaker 1: in the animated region to preview as well. If you
Speaker 1: want to hit me up at any point this hour,
Speaker 1: you can do that At eight four four eight, four, three, six, eight,
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Speaker 1: you need to win your league and win that cash.
Speaker 1: But we get started with, as always, top five that
Speaker 1: are alive. I want to start with a couple of
Speaker 1: news and notes from Major League Baseball, like I said
Speaker 1: last week before the season, and we have found that
Speaker 1: the Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias will start the season in
Speaker 1: the minors. Okay, a lot of people thought he might
Speaker 1: have made that opening rotation. Speeds was not one of them.
Speaker 1: I think he uh he, I thought he was gonna
Speaker 1: start in the minors. He is going to start in
Speaker 1: the minors. But I tell you what, I like this
Speaker 1: move because these new young kids who winds up happening
Speaker 1: is they have an innings limit on them as they're
Speaker 1: you know, stretching themselves out. And I would hate for
Speaker 1: you to have your reus on your team and then
Speaker 1: he hits his innings cap right when you need him
Speaker 1: in uh, you know, July or August, competing for Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball championship or layoff run. So keep your eye on him.
Speaker 1: He will get called up. I'd say, right after that
Speaker 1: service time is up. Urban Santana will be the opening
Speaker 1: day starter for the Minnesota Twins. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's good news or bad news for the Twins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Urban Santana is a rosterable picture, maybe as
Speaker 1: an sp for but the fact that he is the
Speaker 1: opening day quote unquote ace for the Twins does not
Speaker 1: bold Well. We have another opening day start announcement, this
Speaker 1: one for the San Diego Padres. Your list shot scene
Speaker 1: is going to get the start for the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something right now, anybody that just
Speaker 1: realized that Major League Baseball the slates are now live
Speaker 1: on Fan Duel and on Draft Kings, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, my opening day slate will be stacking some
Speaker 1: Dodgers against shah Sin on that Monday slate. Carlos Worldon
Speaker 1: looks like well, he will start the season on the
Speaker 1: d L. He got a second m R. I good
Speaker 1: news is that they showed no structural damage, but that
Speaker 1: original diagnosis looks to be correct. That is versitis in
Speaker 1: his arm. You will probably start and miss most of
Speaker 1: April on the d L. We have a trade in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball today, as well, the Temper Bay Rays.
Speaker 1: They get Peter Borgeous from the Chaie Socks for the
Speaker 1: player to be named later. And I gotta ask you,
Speaker 1: Frankie standfull, how do you feel about the infamous player
Speaker 1: to be named later? I kinda, I kinda wish I
Speaker 1: was a player to be named later. No, well, Dan,
Speaker 1: we can't trade you, you know, to be part of
Speaker 1: any trades. We need you around here. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Now Monday through Friday, seven eight p m. Here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, A Frankie,
Speaker 1: we got some news and notes in the NFL as well.
Speaker 1: It looks like the Saints are taking a long, hard
Speaker 1: look at Malcolm Butler to see if they want to
Speaker 1: maybe try to acquire him via trade or ready to
Speaker 1: pounce if he does not sign his tender with the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. And you know what, I realized, these
Speaker 1: Saints and the Patriots have had joint practices, you know,
Speaker 1: in training camp for the last few years. And then
Speaker 1: what do you see? You see the trade of Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks from the Saints to the Pats. I think Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick is using this strategically to get a good look
Speaker 1: at some guys that he may target in the future.
Speaker 1: I think it's an interesting strategy. Keep an eye on
Speaker 1: which teams have joint practices once we head into August.
Speaker 1: For the Indianapolis Colts, Chuck Pagano has said that getting
Speaker 1: a young running back is paramount as they look to
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. It makes me wonder if they will
Speaker 1: spend a first round pick on someone like, you know,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, Leonard four Nette. I'm even hearing
Speaker 1: some reports that have Alvin Kamara running back out of
Speaker 1: Tennessee in the front first round. I like it. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I think that's cool. But if I'm the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts, I'm looking to build up that defense and
Speaker 1: I'm looking to build up that offensive line. So Mr
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck and be up all night to get Lucky.
Speaker 1: Interesting though, I will say this, Jim Ursay gave some
Speaker 1: quotes owner of the Colts yesterday. He said that it
Speaker 1: is not I repeat, is not a win or else
Speaker 1: situation this year for head coach Chuck Pagano. I kind
Speaker 1: of think it should be. I mean, they fired the
Speaker 1: GM in this offseason. Andrew Luck is entrenched as the
Speaker 1: highest paid player in football? So who else's head will
Speaker 1: roll if the Indianapolis Colts do not impress like I
Speaker 1: think they need to and that imminently winnable division that
Speaker 1: is the a f C south over in Baltimore. Uh
Speaker 1: Mr Harbaugh says that Terrence West is his lead back.
Speaker 1: That right now, Terrence West is his number one back.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be in a committee. But Terrence
Speaker 1: West is probably the first guy you want to get
Speaker 1: in Baltimore unless it's a PPR league. Okay, don't forget.
Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens signed Danny Woodhead from the San Diego
Speaker 1: I mean Los Angeles super Chargers in the off season.
Speaker 1: Danny Woodhead is a beast in PPR formats. And if
Speaker 1: you remember, Kenneth Dixon, the young promising back, rookie back
Speaker 1: last year, was suspended. He's gonna miss the fourth first
Speaker 1: the first four games for violating those performs enhancing drugs.
Speaker 1: He got suspended there. Also in the NFL, Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: they're reporting, has no restrictions. He'll be fine going into
Speaker 1: O T A S. They say he feels like a percent.
Speaker 1: Remember after that what looks like a pretty gruesome knee
Speaker 1: injury late in the season as we keep me moving vance.
Speaker 1: Joseph New, head coach of the Denver Broncos, has come
Speaker 1: out and said that listen, this Tony Romo stuff is
Speaker 1: a quote unquote non issue. Okay. They like the young,
Speaker 1: developing quarterbacks they have there in Paxton Lynch and of
Speaker 1: course the starter out of Northwestern, Trevor Simeon. So it
Speaker 1: looks like they're gonna go to war with Simeon see
Speaker 1: if they could develop and bring Lynch along. That Tony
Speaker 1: Romo is a non starter. We keep it in news
Speaker 1: for you know, I guess on the decline quarterbacks or
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks. I don't know if you saw this, Frankie,
Speaker 1: but Jay Cutler is currently unemployed, but it does not
Speaker 1: seem to matter because he's enjoying himself. It looks like
Speaker 1: if you check Twitter, you may have seen some pictures
Speaker 1: of him on the beach showing his bare ass. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about that, Frankie Stamfell, I actually havn't
Speaker 1: seeked out these pictures. Seek them out? Come on, and
Speaker 1: you're not following this. What's his wife's name? That Christian
Speaker 1: Cavalieri is at her? I think that's She's like beach
Speaker 1: kind of yeah, yeah, yeah, So maybe that's what they
Speaker 1: do on the beach. But here's what I'm thinking. It
Speaker 1: brings me to our first pole question of the day
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy Freestyle. It made me thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: you got Cutler in the news, Romo in the news.
Speaker 1: Now that free agency has sort of settled down, there
Speaker 1: are a couple of quarterbacks out there that don't really
Speaker 1: have a seat now that the music has stopped. So
Speaker 1: the first poll question today on the Fantasy Freestyle is
Speaker 1: who would you prefer your team go get as a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback if it was obvious to them and the
Speaker 1: money was there and they knew that they were there
Speaker 1: to be the backup for your team. Would you prefer
Speaker 1: Jay Cutler, would you prefer Tony Romo? Or how about this?
Speaker 1: What about the blacklisted Colin Kaepernick? Obviously the NFL owners
Speaker 1: have done something aligned and around um with you know,
Speaker 1: forty five to basically shut him out. If Geno Smith
Speaker 1: can get a job, I don't see why Kaepernick can
Speaker 1: get a job. Or is it my boy r G
Speaker 1: three that you would want to maybe bring in as
Speaker 1: a backup. That's the poll up there, right now you
Speaker 1: can check it out at F and T s Y Radio.
Speaker 1: We want to hear your thoughts. Will be checking in
Speaker 1: on that throughout the show, keeping it moving here Top
Speaker 1: five Dead or Alive. You're listening to Day Martinez here
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.
Speaker 1: My next topic, now, we know the Raiders are moving
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. We've heard about this already. I personally
Speaker 1: think it is a sad day in football because that
Speaker 1: is a fan base that has been so loyal with
Speaker 1: the Black Hole and the Silver and Black, whether they
Speaker 1: were in l A or in Oakland. Um, but check
Speaker 1: this out. This move to l A is going to
Speaker 1: have some ripple effects. I'm sure you've heard. When you
Speaker 1: think Vegas, you wonder, well, why haven't they been in
Speaker 1: Vegas ever before? And obviously the answer is because of
Speaker 1: the concerns around potential gambling and scandal and point shaving.
Speaker 1: You've heard of these things. Is now it's not only
Speaker 1: the players though. Okay, there was an article out there.
Speaker 1: Did you know that NFL referees are not allowed to
Speaker 1: even go to the city of Las Vegas as soon
Speaker 1: as the preseason starts until the end of the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: they're not allowed to set foot in Las Vegas for
Speaker 1: fear of perception and of scandal, or they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to change that rule as the Raiders have moved to
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. But I gotta tell you something. I think
Speaker 1: that whole perception is absolutely ridiculous. This rule has been
Speaker 1: around for a long time and people thought that we
Speaker 1: shouldn't have a team in Las Vegas. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you something. I'm a lot of things, but I am
Speaker 1: not concerned about that. This is not the days when,
Speaker 1: like you know, when when the mob was controlling Vegas.
Speaker 1: You know, this is not Hyman Roth and that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff in Vegas. Let me let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: In these days, if you want to gamble, you can
Speaker 1: use that new thing called the interwebs and you can
Speaker 1: still gamble. It don't matter where you set foot. And
Speaker 1: I gotta also tell you, listen, what are you worried
Speaker 1: about visiting teams coming and wiling out in Vegas? Like
Speaker 1: you can't get anything done in New York City, in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, in New Orleans, in Miami. These are all
Speaker 1: cities where players, young players, rookie players can get into
Speaker 1: some some dirt. I gotta call it. Shout out to
Speaker 1: the unicorn hashtag personal responsibility. If these athletes, whatever control
Speaker 1: they have, whatever that locker room is, this should not matter.
Speaker 1: I am all for the Raiders, you know, or a
Speaker 1: team moving in Vegas. I don't think we have to
Speaker 1: worry about like what concerns might happen. Okay. I do
Speaker 1: feel bad for the Oakland Radars fans because now for
Speaker 1: the next two seasons, as the Raiders are improving, getting
Speaker 1: better and better, they know they're in essence lame duck fans.
Speaker 1: And I saw a report today actually that they realize
Speaker 1: that and they may move to San Antonio as an
Speaker 1: interim home, okay, as a temporary home for the two
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen and two thousand nineteen season before their stadium
Speaker 1: is ready in Las Vegas. If you want to talk
Speaker 1: to me about this or any of the moves that
Speaker 1: we've mentioned so far, hollerd me at eight four four,
Speaker 1: eight four, three, six, eight seven nine. But let's keep
Speaker 1: it moving here. Top five that are live on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle. The Wouldn't Award finalists in college basketball have
Speaker 1: come out. Uh, the All American teams have been announced,
Speaker 1: and I think it's interesting that there are very few
Speaker 1: players from teams that are still playing. I think that
Speaker 1: part of what happens with this one and done culture
Speaker 1: in college basketball is that if you have anybody who
Speaker 1: like actually is nice and it's still there, they are
Speaker 1: in position where they can dominate some games. The only
Speaker 1: person who is on a team still playing is Nigel
Speaker 1: Williams Gross at a Gonzaga. This is a guy who
Speaker 1: got sixteen point seven points a game, five point nine
Speaker 1: rebounds the game, four point six assists a game. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, all American to be sure, and the only
Speaker 1: All American still playing. Only first team All Americans, shall
Speaker 1: I say? Other Wooden Award finalists are Josh Hart at
Speaker 1: a Villanova eighteen points seven points a game, leading the
Speaker 1: defense the national champions from the guard position, calebs want
Speaker 1: to get out of perdue. This guy eighteen and a
Speaker 1: half points a game in twelve boards a game for
Speaker 1: the boil Makers. A lot of people thought that was
Speaker 1: your team that maybe could have made a run. Frank
Speaker 1: Mason leading to Kansas Jayhawks with over twenty points a game.
Speaker 1: And then yes, that team is rounded out by Mr
Speaker 1: Lonzo Ball from u c l A leading the second
Speaker 1: highest scoring offense in the country almost ninety points a
Speaker 1: game U C l A and rated by Draft Express
Speaker 1: as the second best overall prospect for the NBA. You
Speaker 1: hear that, You hear that LaVar Ball the second best prospect.
Speaker 1: Don't get it twisted, though. We're gonna talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about Mr Ball a little bit later on
Speaker 1: in the show when we put the Fun and Functional
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. The second team, though, had some people still playing.
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks out of Oregon watched that yesterday's show, Donnie
Speaker 1: Burns and I talked about Dylan brook Brooks as a wingman.
Speaker 1: Mike Camp in the league. Is Jimmy Butler someone who's
Speaker 1: a big kind of guard that can play the wing.
Speaker 1: Watch out for Dylan Brooks. You got Justin Jackson out
Speaker 1: of Carolina who is still playing on the second team
Speaker 1: along with Josh Jackson, Luke Kennard and the true study
Speaker 1: at Kentucky, Malik Monk. Last thing I want to tell
Speaker 1: you here on Top five Dead or Alive on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know,
Speaker 1: our new president has done away with a lot of
Speaker 1: traditions and a lot of institutional memory. To be quite frank,
Speaker 1: but there is one tradition that will remain Monday Opening
Speaker 1: Day in Washington, d C. It will be five throwing
Speaker 1: out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener.
Speaker 1: I'm all about this tradition. I don't care what you
Speaker 1: feel about the president. I think the president should be
Speaker 1: able to throw out the first pitch. But it makes
Speaker 1: me wonder he got four percent of the vote in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. I wonder what's gonna happen in that crowd.
Speaker 1: I will say this. You know, at least it will
Speaker 1: be a huge crowd. It will be a sold out crowd.
Speaker 1: There will be no debating the crowd size on this.
Speaker 1: But you know, and Bryce Harper last year was trying
Speaker 1: to make baseball grade again, you know, will bring in
Speaker 1: a little bit more fun. He was trying to do that.
Speaker 1: So I wonder. But the biggest question I have for you,
Speaker 1: we all know about hands. Do you think he can
Speaker 1: palm a baseball? That's my question. So if you want
Speaker 1: to talk to me about any of that, holler at
Speaker 1: eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine
Speaker 1: when we come back. Speed Spotlight today is on the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants will preview the Giants. It's not an
Speaker 1: even number year, but I still think they can make
Speaker 1: a run. All that and more Fantasy Freestyle in the
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Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit about the San Francisco Giants,
Speaker 1: my man, Frankie Standfell. Feel free to chime in the
Speaker 1: way I've been doing it because you know, I know
Speaker 1: it's been it's been a long time. I shoulding left you, Frankie.
Speaker 1: But um, what I do is I first look at
Speaker 1: the offense a couple of people. I might want to
Speaker 1: spotlight a couple of people that I think are good
Speaker 1: and rosterable where I think you need to get them.
Speaker 1: Then I turned it to the you know, to the
Speaker 1: arms rotation bullpen. I give people a um, you know,
Speaker 1: I give people a diamond and a fool gaze. That's
Speaker 1: how we do it on the Fantasy Freestyle. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you who's the foul gayze, who you need to forget about,
Speaker 1: and I tell you who the diamond and the rough
Speaker 1: is then, because I need to give you what you
Speaker 1: need to win your leagues and win that cash. Another
Speaker 1: way to win some cash is on these baseball over
Speaker 1: unders for the wind totals. So I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: Vegas has as a wind total for the Giants, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I would do with that. So
Speaker 1: let's start it off to San Francisco Giants. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. This is not a powerful team. Okay.
Speaker 1: The guy Brandon Belt led the Giants last year with
Speaker 1: seventeen home runs. That is not a high total. Eduardo
Speaker 1: Nunez was second on the team with sixteen home runs. Granted,
Speaker 1: granted that Mr Pennce did not play a full season.
Speaker 1: Granted Buster Posey had a little bit of a down year,
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm talking about. This is not a
Speaker 1: you know, big time offense. Like for example, I'm previewing
Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners tomorrow. They have like three or four
Speaker 1: guys that hit thirty home runs. That's not what you're
Speaker 1: gonna see here with San Francisco. And I gotta start
Speaker 1: with Buster Posey himself. Now, listen, I know that everyone
Speaker 1: like automatically considers him the top catcher. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm among that group. Okay, did you know last
Speaker 1: year he was actually the fourth rated catcher. He was
Speaker 1: behind Jonathan luke Roix. He was behind Evan Goddess and
Speaker 1: his thirty two home runs. He was behind Wilson Ramos,
Speaker 1: who had a bounce back year for what was the Nationals.
Speaker 1: He's now gonna be with Tampa. So I also think
Speaker 1: that now Posey has sort of gone into a tear.
Speaker 1: He used to be the standalone best catcher out there.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I wait a little bit longer. I
Speaker 1: will not be the guy who starts to catcher run
Speaker 1: or who drafts the first catcher. And I gotta league.
Speaker 1: I got a draft coming up in literally an hour.
Speaker 1: I'm telling everybody in my league I will not be
Speaker 1: drafting Buster Posey. He's in this tier with Schwarber, with
Speaker 1: Gary Sanchez, with Lukroix. And here's the other thing. Buster
Speaker 1: Posey has had five straight years of playing over a
Speaker 1: hundred and forty five games. This kid is not a
Speaker 1: kid anymore. I think there is some attrition there. I
Speaker 1: remember last year saying the same thing would happen with
Speaker 1: a guy like Salvador Perez who kept on playing, who
Speaker 1: played into the postseason. And I honestly think it is
Speaker 1: starting to impact Buster Posey. His two eight eight average
Speaker 1: last year was the lowest average of Buster Posey's career.
Speaker 1: When you're drafting Buster Posey, you're expecting him to hit
Speaker 1: three twenty. That is not the case anymore. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit fading Buster Posey. Brandon Crawford led
Speaker 1: the team with eighty four r b I s let
Speaker 1: me tell you too, That's why I like Brandon Crawford
Speaker 1: at shortstop one. He's gonna be in the five hole
Speaker 1: in this lineup. In my opinion, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be hitting in the middle of the lineup, and there
Speaker 1: are not many shortstops out there that hit in the
Speaker 1: middle of the lineup. Okay, that we'll have those RBI opportunities.
Speaker 1: He's probably gonna be hitting right behind Pence in that lineup.
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you I like Brandon Crawford. If you
Speaker 1: miss out on that top tier of shortstops, the Lindors,
Speaker 1: the Seegers, the Koreas, the bow Guards, those guys. Brandon
Speaker 1: Crawford is not a bad option. I see him as
Speaker 1: a top ten, top twelve shortstop for Shure. I also
Speaker 1: want to talk about a hundred Pence Hunter Pence played
Speaker 1: in only a hundred six games last year, played in
Speaker 1: only fifty two games in two thousand fifteen. That's after
Speaker 1: a stretch of like six or seven years in a
Speaker 1: row where he did play a hundred fifty hundred sixty games.
Speaker 1: So I wonder about him as well. Um, last year
Speaker 1: he had a three forty eight babbit that's batting average
Speaker 1: on balls and play that that's kind of what helped
Speaker 1: him to a two eighty nine average. Three eight babbit. Boy,
Speaker 1: Frank Stanfeld knows that is not sustainable year over year
Speaker 1: for a guy who's not, you know, not a leadoff
Speaker 1: hit or not a groundball hitter. I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: regress a little bit. I think there's no reason why
Speaker 1: you couldn't project Hunter past actually fall back to about
Speaker 1: a two seventy average, And with that injury risk, he's
Speaker 1: slated as kind of like a third outfielder. I would
Speaker 1: rather take an upside flyer, a young kid on the
Speaker 1: come up, than a guy like Hunter Pence. However, this
Speaker 1: rotation is good stuff. Okay, Um, Madison bum Gardner, you
Speaker 1: know about him. Johnny Quato, you know about him. These
Speaker 1: two are about as solid as of of a one too,
Speaker 1: as it gets anywhere in baseball. I'll with those two
Speaker 1: up against the Mets, top two, up against the Nationals,
Speaker 1: top two, up against the Cubs top two, or anybody
Speaker 1: else you want to name. Give me mad bum and
Speaker 1: Johnny Quato. The question I have and I want to
Speaker 1: bring in, uh, Frankie stanfil here right there is when
Speaker 1: you look at the number three and four pictures for
Speaker 1: the Giants. Frankie, we're talking Matt Moore and we're talking
Speaker 1: Jeff so Marger. Which of these two would you prefer
Speaker 1: this year? Frank I'm a Jeff some margin guy. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not in on Matt More. I mean I've seen
Speaker 1: enough out of Matt More that I know who he is.
Speaker 1: He's always gonna have a high whip, walks a ton
Speaker 1: of batters. You can try and sell me on the
Speaker 1: strikeout upside, but look, I've seen him pitched long enough.
Speaker 1: He did the same exact thing when he came to
Speaker 1: the National League Lands. Here the walks actually went up.
Speaker 1: So I'm not in on Matt More. He's never really
Speaker 1: been a guy for me. Uh. I just think too
Speaker 1: many injuries that they've taken their toll on Matt More.
Speaker 1: Jeffson Margin, I feel like he's kind of underrated, like
Speaker 1: on a consistency basis. It might not be there to
Speaker 1: start by start, but at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna get out of him at three
Speaker 1: point six to three point eight e r a. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a lot of volume. He's gonna go
Speaker 1: over two pitched and because of that, he's gonna get
Speaker 1: you a hundred and seventy eighty strikeouts. So I think
Speaker 1: that Jeffson Margin is actually a guy who is underrated
Speaker 1: for fantasy purposes. Alright, alright, I'm gonna take the other side.
Speaker 1: I think Matt Moore slightly underrated. I know you talked
Speaker 1: about how we moved to uh the Giants in the
Speaker 1: middle of the season. I think now at a full offseason,
Speaker 1: and I think moving first of all to the Enna,
Speaker 1: going from the A L East to the N o
Speaker 1: West is nothing but fantasy goodness in general. Right, the
Speaker 1: ballpark change is a lot better. The offenses he's facing
Speaker 1: are a lot better. I think he's gonna wind up
Speaker 1: on some of my teams, not as a stud that
Speaker 1: I invest in, but as one of those guys that
Speaker 1: are gonna be around. Remember, I like to make a
Speaker 1: murderers row. I invest heavy on offense. So Matt Moore
Speaker 1: might be the kind of guy that I think with
Speaker 1: a full year and in new ballpark, new league, I
Speaker 1: mean also going to the National League facing the picture,
Speaker 1: and when I look at the different a DP s
Speaker 1: I mean more is going sometimes fifty sixty picks after
Speaker 1: Jeff Somarja. So I think that that provides a little
Speaker 1: bit of value keeping it moving though. I also want
Speaker 1: to talk about Mark Mlanson, their closer. Okay, now, m
Speaker 1: Lanson is a guy. Listen. He's gonna get thirty saves
Speaker 1: this year. Okay, I'm telling you right now, he will
Speaker 1: get thirty saves. But unlike most closers in the majors,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have like what I would call quote unquote
Speaker 1: like closer stuff, pure strikeout stuff. Okay, I love his ratios.
Speaker 1: He's coming off at one point six nine r a
Speaker 1: a zero point nine whip. You gotta love that. But
Speaker 1: in your closer, I expect the better k rate. This
Speaker 1: guy only sixty five strikeouts in seventy one innings pitched
Speaker 1: last year. I'm looking for guys that have more than
Speaker 1: a strikeout per inning for my closer, because he's one
Speaker 1: of the you know, he's one of the you know,
Speaker 1: first or second tier closers. If I'm gonna spend that
Speaker 1: draft pick or spend that money in an auction, I
Speaker 1: want a guy where it's not only the save opportunities
Speaker 1: and those ratios. I want a guy that's gonna be
Speaker 1: striking out more than a batter per inning. Let me
Speaker 1: give you my diamond in the rough for the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants, and it is Eduardo nun Yez Okay. I
Speaker 1: like a lot of things about Eduardo nun Yez, Frankie,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you three of them, and you tell
Speaker 1: me if I can convince you that he might be
Speaker 1: a little bit of a diamond in the rough. I
Speaker 1: like that he's eligible at third base and that shortstop.
Speaker 1: In more formats, I like that multi position eligibility. I'm
Speaker 1: not drafting Eduardo Nuniez high. He's a diamond in the rough,
Speaker 1: But when I'm trying to get guys later on in
Speaker 1: the draft, I like having some of that flex ability.
Speaker 1: Let me also tell you this, did you realize that
Speaker 1: Eduardo Nunez was one of only five players in the
Speaker 1: major's leagues last year that stole forty basses? Now, Frank,
Speaker 1: I know that you have been saying that there's been,
Speaker 1: you know, a dearth of speed. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: like it used to be. This guy stole forty basses
Speaker 1: last year. I don't think he's gonna get forty this year.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna maybe get thirty. But out of
Speaker 1: the players that did steal forty bases, only Jonathan VR
Speaker 1: had more home runs. Adwardo. Nuniez had sixteen homers forty
Speaker 1: stolen bases. The only person who stole about forty that
Speaker 1: had more home runs than that was Jonathan VR with nineteen.
Speaker 1: And here's the last thing, Frank, I think Eduardo Nunez
Speaker 1: is gonna be their leadof hitter against lefties. I don't
Speaker 1: you know. Denard span is probably their leadoff man against rights,
Speaker 1: But against lefties, I think Nunez could be their leadoff man.
Speaker 1: A lot of attention, a potential there. I think that's
Speaker 1: an interesting DFS look against lefties when he's at the
Speaker 1: top of the order. I can see people using Eduardo Nunyez.
Speaker 1: Did I sell you, Frankie? Yeah, I like all those points.
Speaker 1: I was actually gonna say, we could sit the over
Speaker 1: under at stealing basis at thirty. I think that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. That's a start with Edward on Nuniaz this year.
Speaker 1: And another thing, you know, people might look at him
Speaker 1: playing in San Francisco and say, all right, he can't
Speaker 1: hit home runs there, But if you look at it,
Speaker 1: for a right handed bat, hitting towards left field park
Speaker 1: is much better than hitting towards right field because we
Speaker 1: know that it gets much deeper out there. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I think he's not gonna get sixteen home runs, but
Speaker 1: we get ten to twelve of him. I certainly think
Speaker 1: that's possible. Yeah, he could. He could easily wind up
Speaker 1: with you know, thirteen and thirty three steals, which is
Speaker 1: which is you know, not easy to find. I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you that with eligibility at multiple positions, my fantasy
Speaker 1: Gazy the person you need to forget about on the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants. In my opinion, is Brandon Belt. Listen,
Speaker 1: I think that you know, you've heard the term post
Speaker 1: hype sleeper. Whatever the inverse of post hype sleeper is.
Speaker 1: I think that's Brandon Belt. Okay, I've heard a lot
Speaker 1: of hype for the last one two years. Oh, Brandon
Speaker 1: Belt is gonna break out. This is the year we
Speaker 1: see power from Brandon Belt. All that got him last
Speaker 1: year was seventeen home runs. I don't think he necessarily
Speaker 1: crack cracks twenty again. And at a first base I
Speaker 1: can get that wherever I want. I can get that late,
Speaker 1: and I can get that late in the draft Ken
Speaker 1: DRIs Morales, I can get that out of Greg Bird.
Speaker 1: And part of the reason that people were liking Brandon
Speaker 1: Belt is because he ran a little bit, which you
Speaker 1: don't get out of a corner infielder. However, from two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen to two thousand sixteen, his stolen bases dropped
Speaker 1: from nine in two thousand fifteen to settle that Spanish
Speaker 1: for zero in two thousand and sixteen. So without his
Speaker 1: speed or the potential, I got no reason why I'm
Speaker 1: spending that much on Brandon Belt. Vegas says that the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants put the over runder at eighty seven
Speaker 1: and a half games. Frankie, would you take the over
Speaker 1: on the under on the San Francisco Giants at eighty
Speaker 1: seven and a half? God, damn, that's a good number.
Speaker 1: It's a good number. I'm gonna tell you something, I
Speaker 1: personally because and this is mostly to be honest, because
Speaker 1: I am not as high on the Los Angeles Dodgers
Speaker 1: as most people are. Okay, I think the San Francisco
Speaker 1: Giants can be slightly over that. I can see the
Speaker 1: Giants being one of those teams that are competing for
Speaker 1: whether it be the Division against the Dodgers or the
Speaker 1: Wild Card against teams like the Mets, like the Pirates,
Speaker 1: like the Cardinals, you know, other teams in the West.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be competitive all year, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you the truth. If they get into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: I would ride mad Bum and Johnny Quato. I think
Speaker 1: they could do a little bit of work. I'm high
Speaker 1: on the San Francisco Giants. I don't think they're gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, win more games than the Cubs in the
Speaker 1: regular season. I don't think they're putting out wins or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But I can see them winning games
Speaker 1: and then be making noise in the playoffs with a
Speaker 1: leader like Posey and arms like bum Gardner and Quato.
Speaker 1: So there you have it, that speed spotlight on the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants. When we come back, I got a
Speaker 1: guest in the studio. It is Mr. Tomic Gross, the
Speaker 1: producer of Sleepless sent America on the National Geographic Channel.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into all the impacts of sleep and
Speaker 1: why this maybe the new market inefficient inefficiency in fantasy sports.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Dane Martinez Speeds, the spitting Statisician. You're
Speaker 1: listening to the Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.
Speaker 1: You know what it is. It's a boid, Dad Martinez Speeds,
Speaker 1: the spitting statistician. You're listening to the Fantasy Freestyle and
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I am overjoyed right now
Speaker 1: to have with me for the next segment. Stmic Gross.
Speaker 1: He was the producer of Sleepless in America on National
Speaker 1: Geographic where they went into kind of a little bit
Speaker 1: on the science of sleep, the effects of sleep. Quite frankly,
Speaker 1: why it's so important that you get to bed tonight
Speaker 1: and get that full eight hours of sleeptomic. My main man,
Speaker 1: my good friend, how you doing. Today's pleasure to be here.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, absolutely absolutely so listen. If you've
Speaker 1: been listening to Whether It Shock it was a fantasy freestyle.
Speaker 1: If you've been listening to day Martinez for a while, now,
Speaker 1: you know that I talk about this. I talk about
Speaker 1: you know, the West Coast teams flying to the East
Speaker 1: Coast for one o'clock games in the NFL. We've been talking.
Speaker 1: It's in the news big time right now, the NBA
Speaker 1: schedule and the impact of back to back games, A
Speaker 1: big conversation right now on teams resting their players. You know,
Speaker 1: these assets, these commodities that these human beings actually are.
Speaker 1: So why don't we start from the beginning? What do
Speaker 1: humans need when it comes to sleep? Um? You know
Speaker 1: I hear eight hours of sleep? Right? But like, is
Speaker 1: that the same kids, adults, old people, Like, what is
Speaker 1: it that I actually need? When do I need to
Speaker 1: go to bed tonight? So, in the year that we
Speaker 1: spent making this piece, we spoke to all the leading
Speaker 1: experts on sleep science, and it does turn out that
Speaker 1: for adults of us needs seven and a half to
Speaker 1: eight hours of sleep at night. Kids need a little more.
Speaker 1: As you're a teenager, it kind of starts to taper
Speaker 1: off and we all kind of even out at seven
Speaker 1: and a half to eight. Now, there's five percent of
Speaker 1: us that can do with less. I think I'm part
Speaker 1: of that five percent because like I never sleep. There's
Speaker 1: five percent of us who need more. Alright, alright, So
Speaker 1: so obviously that's some of the stuff you've but like
Speaker 1: what can go wrong? You know, like if I'm a
Speaker 1: finely tuned athlete, right and I'm worried about you know,
Speaker 1: how I go to the gym and what I'm eating.
Speaker 1: You know, sleep is also a part of that equation.
Speaker 1: What are the risks there? What are actually in my performance?
Speaker 1: How might that be impacted? So originally all of this
Speaker 1: research was done about drivers, let's say doctors, let's say
Speaker 1: new parents, people who were short on sleep and seeing
Speaker 1: what kind of effects you know, short sleep had on them.
Speaker 1: And of course, just like everything, you know, people turned
Speaker 1: to sports and started to really look at sports. And
Speaker 1: the mother of all of these studies was started in
Speaker 1: this woman Sherring my University of Stanford and she decided
Speaker 1: to do a study with the Stanford College basketball tea. Okay,
Speaker 1: and what happened then, So what she did was she
Speaker 1: she took four weeks of data of them with their
Speaker 1: regular SEEPS schedules, and then she took seven weeks of
Speaker 1: data with what was known as a sleep extension study.
Speaker 1: So they were supposed to be trying to sleep for
Speaker 1: ten hours a night. Really they were getting more like
Speaker 1: eight and eight and a half. And compared to the
Speaker 1: four weeks that they were sleeping, you know, their regular schedules, studying,
Speaker 1: staying up late, hanging out. Uh, they're shooting accuracy improved, right,
Speaker 1: as well as their sprint times. But the really shocking
Speaker 1: number was free throw percentage increased by nine and their
Speaker 1: three point field goal percentage increased by nine. That's legitimate data.
Speaker 1: That's really important, right. Yeah, and you mentioned so, you know,
Speaker 1: you talked about in the college level. You mentioned, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, off air before we came on today, you
Speaker 1: told me that um Andrea Guadala on the Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 1: he actually had a dramatic change, right and started thinking
Speaker 1: about this himself and saw a noticeable change in his
Speaker 1: game as well. Yeah, So Andrea Guadala did something interesting
Speaker 1: when he first joined the Golden State Warriors. He was
Speaker 1: a guy who was self professed pretty bad sleeper. He
Speaker 1: would get super hyped after games. He would stay up,
Speaker 1: he'd play video games. He would be, you know, two
Speaker 1: pumped up to go to bed. And when he got
Speaker 1: to the Golden State Warriors, he teamed up with one
Speaker 1: of these technology companies that measures your sleep and he
Speaker 1: recorded his sleep over the whole course of the season
Speaker 1: and released the data on what he was doing during
Speaker 1: a game on a good night's sleep, which again we're
Speaker 1: talking about seven and a half to eight hours versus
Speaker 1: a bad night's sleep, which is really six hours or less.
Speaker 1: So on nights that he slept well on average, he
Speaker 1: had a nine percent increase in free throw percentage. He
Speaker 1: had a two percent increase in three percent consistent with
Speaker 1: the Stanford study right at decrease in fouls committed. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. So maybe he's like more alert or
Speaker 1: more focused not making what they call silly fouls. That's
Speaker 1: sort of thing that's very and that leads some more
Speaker 1: time on the court, that leads more production. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: thirty seven percent decrease in turnovers. And more time on
Speaker 1: the court. He had twelve percent increase in minutes played.
Speaker 1: So you bring up a very good point. One of
Speaker 1: the things you see across all these sleep studies people
Speaker 1: who are short on sleep. Whether you're driving a car
Speaker 1: or whether you're an elite athlete, your decision making, your
Speaker 1: split second decision making is impaired a lot of studies,
Speaker 1: of course, as you would imagine on driving cars because
Speaker 1: people are concerned about safety. But in sports, especially the
Speaker 1: level that these guys are playing in, you know, these
Speaker 1: these things make a big difference. And there's an even
Speaker 1: better NBA study an anonymous player. An anonymous over twenty
Speaker 1: four games, wore another measuring device and was rated every
Speaker 1: night before the game on their sleep. They either got
Speaker 1: a low medium or a high raking right, high is
Speaker 1: your eight hours, let's call low six or let's compare
Speaker 1: this low on the high. Howd it work out? All? Right?
Speaker 1: So low on their assists was three point five right
Speaker 1: over twenty four games, bad night's sleep, three point five assists,
Speaker 1: they're high eight assists. So this guy over the span
Speaker 1: of tw four games, which is in essence, you know,
Speaker 1: almost a third of the NBA season. So I think
Speaker 1: it's a legitimate sample size this NBA player. The impact
Speaker 1: was going from eight assists down to three and a
Speaker 1: half assist per game. That's okay. What about their points?
Speaker 1: Their points eight team point five low, they're very good
Speaker 1: result twenty one point three high, so on three points more.
Speaker 1: And I know another stat you talked about before that
Speaker 1: I thought was interesting with the turnovers, right, that's right,
Speaker 1: so when he wasn't sleeping well, five turnovers a game
Speaker 1: on average, but when he was one turnover a game again,
Speaker 1: better focus, split second decision making, not getting into those
Speaker 1: risky behaviors. Frank Stanfield, I think this is kind of
Speaker 1: interesting because when we're reading off these kind of stats
Speaker 1: right now, that's a difference in DFS man going from
Speaker 1: eight assists to three point five four more turnovers the game,
Speaker 1: three more points a game. I don't know, Frankie Stanford,
Speaker 1: what do you think? I mean? Benny Riccardi and Tony Sincada,
Speaker 1: they use like usage stats and paste stats of which
Speaker 1: teams are playing fast. But maybe we have found an inefficiency.
Speaker 1: Frank what do you think you buy this? You think that, um,
Speaker 1: maybe we need to get like reports on who slept
Speaker 1: well last night? Well the proof is all in the
Speaker 1: put right there. The stats don't lie, and so we
Speaker 1: say everything is all about the number. So I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, once I get to Stupe on audio Boom,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to send this over to Tony. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: so you can use this. I think this is legit.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to find out about this. So so
Speaker 1: Tomic and again we're talking to Tomic Gross this day
Speaker 1: Martinez and Tomic Gross on the Fantasy Freestyle on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network. My Man Tomic Grows, a sleep expert,
Speaker 1: producer of Sleepless in America that you can find on
Speaker 1: National Geographic. Here's a question I have for you, man.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm reminded, and I know Frankie Stanfield knows
Speaker 1: about this. I'm reminded of Chip Kelly, who was the
Speaker 1: NFL coach, you know, with the Eagles. Obviously made his
Speaker 1: bones at University of Oregon, and he was big on
Speaker 1: this health like what people were eating, what people were sleeping,
Speaker 1: you know, how much people were sleeping. What is really
Speaker 1: like the next horizon on this, how are some teams
Speaker 1: and if you maybe even know what teams are like
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve, Yeah, in this area, and what
Speaker 1: are they doing to be ahead of the cred Yeah?
Speaker 1: So uh. The Seattle Seahawks are really kind of the
Speaker 1: the team most well known, yeah, most well known for
Speaker 1: sort of thinking about sleep. Early. Richard Sherman was saying
Speaker 1: a lot about how Pete Carroll, you know, it's the
Speaker 1: complete coach and is making them all think about their
Speaker 1: sleep as well. But really what's happening is the league's
Speaker 1: like the NHL, like the NBA. You know, Adam Silver
Speaker 1: is taking a look at the travel schedule, right NHL
Speaker 1: has already taken a look at the travel schedule. They're
Speaker 1: making sure that teams have nine hours between when their
Speaker 1: flight lands on their on an away game before they
Speaker 1: have to practice the next day, not even play. But
Speaker 1: a lot of people are are recognizing that this is
Speaker 1: something to take into consideration right now. There's individual players
Speaker 1: who are at the forefront, Like I said Richard Sherman,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. Lebron has talked about how inven he credits
Speaker 1: a piece of the loss to the Mavericks in the
Speaker 1: finals to not having good sleep and trying to turn
Speaker 1: that around. Yeah, he's just looking for excuses. The Giants
Speaker 1: who you mentioned before. San Francisco Giants are very well
Speaker 1: known for consulting with sleep experts when they put together
Speaker 1: their road schedules to make sure that the team has
Speaker 1: enough time to recover between games when they travel. So
Speaker 1: it's out there, people are paying attention, and I think
Speaker 1: you're going to you know, if you're looking for that information,
Speaker 1: A lot of that information is there. Great. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you one more thing, Tomic here and remember this
Speaker 1: is speedis fitting statistician and Tom and gross on the
Speaker 1: fantasy freestyle. Um, even if you get a lot of sleep,
Speaker 1: let's say you're in that range that eight hours of sleep.
Speaker 1: One thing during the football season that I was talking
Speaker 1: about where teams that are based on the West coast
Speaker 1: that fly east and then play a one o'clock Eastern
Speaker 1: time game on Sunday like jet lag, Right, so you
Speaker 1: know you could sleep paid hours a night, but then
Speaker 1: when you have that kind of jet lag and your
Speaker 1: body clock is thrown off. Can you tell me a
Speaker 1: little bit about that and let me couch you in
Speaker 1: this question. If you were of these sleep consultants from
Speaker 1: a team, when should they fly? Should it be the
Speaker 1: night before the game, two days before the game, like
Speaker 1: so that your body can sort of normalize for optimum performance.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know what is pretty high stakes an
Speaker 1: NFL game. Well, funny enough, there is a ton of
Speaker 1: research that's been done about this East coast West Coast
Speaker 1: football thing when it comes to Monday night football. And actually,
Speaker 1: as opposed to worrying about the West Coast teams who
Speaker 1: are coming east, the teams that are really losing out
Speaker 1: are the East coast teams that are flying to the
Speaker 1: west really and playing these the night games, playing the
Speaker 1: night games where they think it's eleven thirty at night.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's the reverse. So it's worse to be
Speaker 1: have your body think it's eleven thirty at night when
Speaker 1: you're kicking off and you're almost ready for sleep, than
Speaker 1: than being west to east and playing when your body
Speaker 1: thinks it's ten am. Well, the money night football games
Speaker 1: are at eight thirty, regardless of their on the East
Speaker 1: or the West coast. So imagine a team happening on
Speaker 1: the West coast. Your West coast team is starting at
Speaker 1: five thirty. The bodies of your East Coast team, I
Speaker 1: think it's eight thirty by the time the first quarters over.
Speaker 1: Those guys are kind of getting ready to go to bed, listen.
Speaker 1: So if it's a if it's a tight game these
Speaker 1: night games, if they're tight, if they're tight, I'm riding
Speaker 1: with the West Coast teams late in late game situations.
Speaker 1: You got anything to back that up on West Coast team.
Speaker 1: Twenty five years of Monday night NFL games East versus
Speaker 1: West Coast, the West Coast team wins of the time
Speaker 1: by an average of two touchdowns. When the East Coast
Speaker 1: team won, the average margin of victory was nine points.
Speaker 1: So West Coast teams are blowing them out. They are
Speaker 1: blowing them out. Now when you have West Coast team
Speaker 1: playing a West Coast team or an East Coast team
Speaker 1: playing at East Coast team, it's about right. So there
Speaker 1: was no So it's really when and that The only
Speaker 1: variable there is the time zone difference, right, so your
Speaker 1: body clock is just you know, a couple of hours later.
Speaker 1: If you're from the East Coast, you know that is
Speaker 1: very interesting. Frankie Standfeld, I think Tomic is giving us
Speaker 1: some stuff here that we could turn into hash money.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start betting on these West Coast teams. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you that. Can you stick around for a little
Speaker 1: bit time fantastic when we come back, I'm just still
Speaker 1: you know, give my man Tomic the third degree about
Speaker 1: this sleep. But you know, we have the TV tournament
Speaker 1: going on as well. We got big time matchups in
Speaker 1: the animated region. I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 1: We'll check in on the polls. We'll we'll see if
Speaker 1: I can get some sleep myself. This is Dane Martinez
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.
Speaker 1: You know what it is is your boy, Dame Martinez
Speaker 1: Speeds has been satisticition. You're listening to the Fantasy free
Speaker 1: Style on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We are joined
Speaker 1: here by Tomic Gross, sleep expert, producer of Sleepless in
Speaker 1: America on the National Geographic Channel. We're learning some good stuff.
Speaker 1: I got Frankie Standford with me on the ones and
Speaker 1: twos helping me blow up like a Samsung seven. One
Speaker 1: of the things I was talking to Tomic about during
Speaker 1: the break is, you know, and and frank you can
Speaker 1: attend to this or like NBA players notorious for like
Speaker 1: taking naps in the afternoon, maybe after right after practice.
Speaker 1: So I asked you, Tomic, does that count as part
Speaker 1: of the eight hours of sleep. Is there anything out
Speaker 1: there that says that that's actually a good or bad strategy?
Speaker 1: All these NBA players maybe taking a nap at three
Speaker 1: o'clock and then playing at seven. Yeah, So the science
Speaker 1: of napping, it shows that, you know, especially if you're
Speaker 1: short on sleep, a nap really does count towards that
Speaker 1: eight hours. Kylie does help you round it out. And
Speaker 1: the other thing to know about napping, there's lots of
Speaker 1: studies that show that, for example, if you're cramming for
Speaker 1: a test and you take a short nap, you're gonna
Speaker 1: do better on that test when you wake up than
Speaker 1: someone who is cramming right up to the last minute.
Speaker 1: And never so if they're installing new plays or something
Speaker 1: like that. In that's right, they're thinking about coverage of,
Speaker 1: you know, of a certain player, or how they're going
Speaker 1: to handle, you know, a certain situation. And we don't
Speaker 1: totally understand why that's that's happening yet that a lot
Speaker 1: of people think it's you know, the brain is processing
Speaker 1: and practicing even when we're sleeping. So but the bottom
Speaker 1: line is that napping is a good thing. Okay, And
Speaker 1: you mentioned things like turnovers in the NBA, I would
Speaker 1: also think that there's some correlation to injuries across sports.
Speaker 1: So again, you know, if you think about your slower
Speaker 1: reaction time, your poor decision making you know less, less
Speaker 1: able to to look ahead. So that the real sort
Speaker 1: of big study that was done on this by the
Speaker 1: National Institutes of Health teen Athletes and the studies then
Speaker 1: in teen athletes showed that student athletes who are getting
Speaker 1: less than eight hours asleep of night were nearly twice
Speaker 1: as likely one point seven times to have a sports
Speaker 1: related injury than those who got their eight plus hours.
Speaker 1: So again, those those are pretty significant numbers, alright, no
Speaker 1: doubt they certainly are. And Frankie, we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: get this info to Benny Riccardi and to Sencato when
Speaker 1: they're doing the DFS lineup lock for the basketball slates.
Speaker 1: I think if we could find out, for example, that
Speaker 1: Lebron got a bad night's sleep, we might need to
Speaker 1: fade him this because this is anybody, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining us here at TOMIC. I hope to
Speaker 1: have you back again. You're in a fantasy freestyle sometime.
Speaker 1: Are you a fan of television? I M all right,
Speaker 1: so you should know here that Speedza spitting statistician because
Speaker 1: you know, it's March Madness and it's bracket you know, Frenzy.
Speaker 1: We are doing a contest here to uh crown the
Speaker 1: greatest TV show of all time, and we're getting down
Speaker 1: towards the end. And yesterday's show we had the Elite
Speaker 1: eight or excuse me, the sweet six scene in the
Speaker 1: sitcom bracket, and the number one seeded Seinfeld took out
Speaker 1: the number five seed Curb your enthusiasm by getting seventy
Speaker 1: of the vote. You like that festiveus con Stanza. And
Speaker 1: at the bottom half of that bracket the chalk held true.
Speaker 1: The number two seed, The Office defeated number three seed
Speaker 1: Cheers with sixtent of the vote. So now it'll be
Speaker 1: one seed Seinfeld up against two seed The Office to
Speaker 1: make it to the final four out of the sitcom region.
Speaker 1: How do you think that's gonna break out? Now? Is
Speaker 1: that the US Office or the UK Office all out
Speaker 1: to think about it however they want. I think that's
Speaker 1: a good question, but we had to group them a
Speaker 1: little bit all together. For example, in the drama region,
Speaker 1: the seven seed was Law and Order, and people ask
Speaker 1: the same kind of question. But we're talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: actual victims, criminal intent, all of them. I think the
Speaker 1: office is great, but nine seasons of Seinfeld pretty perfect,
Speaker 1: went out on top, didn't burn it out. I think
Speaker 1: Seinfeld's got it locked fair enough. Well. Today we turn
Speaker 1: our attention to the animated bracket, where we have four
Speaker 1: contenders still remaining and a little bit of note out there.
Speaker 1: I've been catching a lot of flak from you guys
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Trollers are gonna troll. People are talking about like, oh,
Speaker 1: the seeding is so messed up? What about this? What
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you is, in the sitcom region, we
Speaker 1: got the number one two seed and the number two
Speaker 1: seed still standing, so someone who seated them knows what
Speaker 1: they're talking about. And the same thing can be said
Speaker 1: for the animated bracket. We got two matchups right now,
Speaker 1: we got polls up on that f N T S
Speaker 1: Y radio and at spinning speed you can find them.
Speaker 1: In the animated bracket, we have the upset of this region,
Speaker 1: the Cinderella of this region, the thirteen seeded Looney Tunes.
Speaker 1: It's still alive, but it's going up against the number
Speaker 1: one seed, the Simpsons, and right now it's closer than
Speaker 1: you might think, but with of the vote, the Simpsons
Speaker 1: are ahead. I feel like that's probably right. But shout
Speaker 1: out to Looney Tunes though, right, you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a generational thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they broke a lot of boundaries Looney Tunes,
Speaker 1: But the Simpsons, I mean still going to time right,
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. And in the other matchup we have here
Speaker 1: in hashtag animated region, the number two seed South Park
Speaker 1: well is going up against the number six seed, who
Speaker 1: pulled up an upset in the last round. The number
Speaker 1: six seed is Beavis and butt Head. So we got
Speaker 1: Beavis and butt Head against South Park right now, Tomic,
Speaker 1: what do you think about that one? I think I
Speaker 1: grew up on Beavis and butt Head. But South Park, man,
Speaker 1: they It's just they've got more range there. They're a
Speaker 1: triple threat, triple threat as you are, and you are
Speaker 1: correct right now, south Park is holding strong with seventy
Speaker 1: three percent of the vote. And again to all you
Speaker 1: rollers out there, if these results hold true, that would
Speaker 1: mean the regional final in the sitcom is one seed
Speaker 1: verse two seed. That would also mean the regional final
Speaker 1: in the animated region would be one seed verse two seed.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the seeding committee for the TV greatest
Speaker 1: of all time? A Frankie, standful, How do you think
Speaker 1: these are gonna break out? You think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: another one verse two regional final. I actually just voted. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. We appreciate the love. South Park
Speaker 1: is a lock for me. That's as tu because I
Speaker 1: grew up on that. I still watch it now. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I hope no one comes and tries to find me.
Speaker 1: I've never been a big Simpsons guy. Okay, and you
Speaker 1: know what, Okay, And I am mad at you. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. In the previous round, Simpsons
Speaker 1: faced Family Guy in the one eight matchup, and and
Speaker 1: it only one it was it was really close. So
Speaker 1: I am mad at you. If Simpsons doesn't make it
Speaker 1: all the way through. First of all, they gotta get
Speaker 1: past Looney Tunes and Frankie Stanfords Verson for Looney Tunes,
Speaker 1: so who knows, But then they see see South Park.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gonna tell you a little bit
Speaker 1: later on this week when we go to the reality region.
Speaker 1: The number five seed in that region is the Real
Speaker 1: World road Rules. We are going to once again have
Speaker 1: Iralan from the Las Vegas season we interviewed her going
Speaker 1: into the first round. We're gonna have her on the
Speaker 1: show again as a real world has made it to
Speaker 1: the Sweet sixth team. We'll see how far they go.
Speaker 1: Checking in Checking in on another poll that we did
Speaker 1: remember earlier in the show. I asked you, guys, who
Speaker 1: would you prefer for your backup quarterback? And right now,
Speaker 1: with votes so far, sixty eight percent of you have
Speaker 1: Tony Romo as the answer. And I gotta tell you something.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about that. Tony Romo
Speaker 1: was in essence to take it all you comic book
Speaker 1: guys that know Tony Romo was missed her glass. So
Speaker 1: why would you want that guy as your backup? Because
Speaker 1: you only need even an emergency and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're gonna be trusting Tony Romo for a three, four,
Speaker 1: five game stretch and then he gets hurt too. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I feel that. I gotta tell you something.
Speaker 1: I might ride with the blacklisted Colin Kaepernick. What do
Speaker 1: you think about this? Frankie Standful, if you needed a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback? Our j E. T s Jets Jets Jets
Speaker 1: need uh you know, backup starter, all sorts of things,
Speaker 1: no disrespect Josh McCown. Ryan Fitzpatrick could have been another
Speaker 1: you know nomination on this poll. What are you? Where
Speaker 1: are you going with this? Frankie Well? I thought it
Speaker 1: was a great point that you brought up with Tony
Speaker 1: Romo being made of class, but not only that, he's
Speaker 1: a guy that if he's the backup, people are gonna
Speaker 1: be clamoring for him to be the right fans right
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the team gets off to a
Speaker 1: bad start, or you're trying to develop a young kid,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be people clamoring for Tony Romo. I think
Speaker 1: that's a very excellent point. Thanks so much to my
Speaker 1: man Frankie Stanfell, you know on the ones and twos
Speaker 1: yet again so hot that he sweat steam, hot to
Speaker 1: death like Corey Stringer. And of course thank you so
Speaker 1: much Stomic Gross on the sleep Expert. Can we find
Speaker 1: that study natural geographic? Can we see the Sleepless in America? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they put it. They put it for free on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Just check out Sleepless in America when you go into YouTube.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so you could get it there. Thank you to toomic.
Speaker 1: Thanks to my boy Frankie Stanfill. We're gonna keep going
Speaker 1: with that TV tournament Tomorrow you can catch me day.
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