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Thanks to Tony Sencada for 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.960 you know, talking about Fantasy Freestyle and all the different 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.360 brackets we've been doing. I promise you, Tony, next time around, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.720 your boy Eminem will make it in. He's one of 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.000 my favorite rappers of all time. I must say, but uh, 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.280 he didn't make the cut. And what we did last week, 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.160 I apologize. I apologize. I got Donnie Burns went me 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.400 on the ones and twos. He's helping us get so 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.319 hot that we sweat steam. And uh, we got a 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:13.920 lot of things to get to. We got a lot 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.679 of things to get to today. We've been spotlighting every 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.440 team in the major leagues as we had to opening Day. Today, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.600 we preview the Oakland Athletics with the Fantasy Freestyle Bay 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.319 Area correspondent, that's Mike Rettberg. We have a huge matchup 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.520 in the Drama region of our TV Greatest of All 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.240 Time Tournament. A lot of people have been talking about 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.240 the seedings in this Drama region. We're gonna get at that. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.440 We got a lot of news and notes as we 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.360 head into Opening day of Major League Baseball, so let's 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.880 get it started right now. Top five Dead or alive 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.680 here on the Fantasy Freestyle, Blake Trinian has been named 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.480 the Nationals closer. Going into this, we knew that Dusty 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.320 Baker was gonna make a call this week. A lot 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:51.960 of people thought it might have been code to Glover 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.080 coming out of nowhere to be the closer. No, no, no, 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.320 it is not code to Glover. No no, no, it 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.120 is not Sean Kelly. It is this guy. He's been amazing. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.880 Go get him right now, Go pick him up right now. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.440 If there's like a waiver period in your league or 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.600 something like this, this guy will be getting saves for 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.040 a team that many people project to win ninety plus games. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.639 So if you like Saves, go get him. Gen Mark 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.600 Gomez has been named the Phillies closer. This is far 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.680 less surprising and far less exciting to me one because 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.880 we kind of knew this already. Hector Nourice and Joakim 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.680 ben Wah will be setting up in Philly. And also, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.959 Philadelphia is not gonna win as many games as Washington, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.520 not as many save opportunities. But if you're about to 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.760 still have your draft or something like that, those are 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.239 where the roles are going. John Gray is that to 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.760 start opening day for the Colorado Rockies. I actually believe 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.840 that John Gray is gonna be the first pitcher I 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.200 don't know since maybe Mike Hampton to actually buck the 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.720 trend and be a legitimate ace out there in Colorado. 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.440 I think he can do that. I like him. This year, 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.200 Rugnan Odor signs a six year, forty nine and a 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.440 half million dollar extension with the Texas Rangers. I got 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.200 my boy, Zack Segans from that Sports grew Up. I mean, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.959 tomorrow he's gonna be previewing the Texas Rangers with me 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.520 along with Spece of spitting statistician. But yo, that is 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.959 good money for a guy that when I was given 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.240 a little diamonds and before I might be fading old door, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.239 I didn't like his on base percentage. Uh, the power 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.320 is real. Texas must obviously see something in him to 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.120 give him that kind of money. The Mets have announced 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.440 a couple of things as it relates to their pitching staff. Uh. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.839 Stephen Matts has been shut down for three weeks because 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.640 of that elbow injury his m R. I came back okay, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.639 but they're still gonna shut him down. He's probably gonna 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.160 wind up missing all of April. So what does that 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:38.000 mean for the Mets rotation. Well, the number four starter 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.160 is going to be Zach Wheeler. He coming back from 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.480 his own Tommy John had some setbacks over the courts 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.200 of the last couple of years. He's gonna be in 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.400 that fourth spot. Of Robert Gazelman is going to be 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.040 the fifth starter for the New York Mets. Remember, if 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.440 these stud young pitchers for the Mets can stay healthy, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.960 I show you a definite playoff caliber team. But Matts 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.960 is already gonna be shut down, shut down in Boston 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.040 and his Drew pal Moran he's going on the ten 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:03.920 day deal with a flex or strain and I think 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.080 something that's interesting. You're gonna be hearing it a lot 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.560 this year. Everybody is used to hearing the fifteen day 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.360 d L. It is now the ten day d L. Okay, 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.600 So that has implications in fantasy depending on the format. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.800 I'm gonna tell you right now, Rule number one of 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.680 the Fantasy Freestyle is no your league's settings. That is 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.520 the way to win your leagues and win that cash. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.479 You have to know your settings. And the fact that 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.040 now was it is in you know, weekly ads, daily ads. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.200 Are you making roster changes? How does that? How many 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.440 DL spots do you have? Are you able to stash people? Listen? 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.360 Sometimes at the back of my draft, depending on how 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.880 many DL spots I have. Sometimes at the back of 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.159 my draft. I actually like to draft people that I 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.839 know are gonna wind up on the d L and 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.000 have the potential to come back pretty good, you know, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.960 in a little while, in a month or so, Guys 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.200 like the Carlos Rodan's of the world. I have him 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:50.960 on my squad, I'm gonna be just moving him to 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.839 my d L as soon as that designation, um, you know, happen. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.680 So that might happen with a guy like Stephen Matts 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.560 might happen with a guy like Drew pal Morans as well. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.440 And in New York also, the New York Yankees have 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.960 announced that Aaron Judge, the Judge eto will be uh 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.920 the starting right fielder for the New York Yankees. Was 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.920 between him and Aaron Hicks. We got some news and 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.520 notes also in the NFL. I want to make this point. Okay, 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.320 this is a guy that I'm telling you now and 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.760 and and then when it starts to pop off and 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.919 you hear everybody else talking about this literally five months 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.520 from now, remember that your boy speeds. The spitting statistician 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.520 was the first person to say it. I said it 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.400 the day the New England Patriots signed Rex Burkhead. I 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.960 said they have big plans for Rex Burkhead, and that 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.320 is being reinforced yet again. Hugh Jackson, head coach of 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:40.560 the Cleveland Browns, is saying that uh, Rex Burkhead is 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.880 amazing and that he's gonna be a great fit in 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.359 New England. Remember they were together in the on the 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.839 offense with Cincinnati back with the Bengals when he was 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.880 the offensive coordinator over there. The other thing is and 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.680 I've said this before. The New England Patriots paid three 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:58.320 point one million dollars for Rex Burkhead. Okay, they have 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.320 not invested this amount of money in a running back 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.760 in a long, long time. Bill Belichick wanted to go 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.960 out and get this guy. Keep an eye on Rex 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.240 Birkehead as crazy as that mad sound going into training camp. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.240 Bruce Arians, like we said yesterday, wants to get d 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.479 J two K thirty touches. He is absolutely going to 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.120 be a workhorse. I believe he could be the number 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.320 one overall pick. And remember Andre Ellington is moving to 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.360 wide receiver for the Cardinals this year, even clearing the 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.120 way for more opportunities and more touches for David Johnson 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.840 out of the backfield. More coach talk, okay, and you're 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.400 gonna get a lot of coach talk today with the 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.159 meetings happening this week. Um, you know you heard about 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.040 what Hugh Jackson had to say, what Bruce Arians has 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.680 to say. Doug Peterson, the Eagles head coach, was talking 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.760 a little bit today too, saying that he thinks al 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.200 Shan Jeffrey will actually help the other Eagles wide receivers 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:50.880 get better, which I guess I believe and that Jordan 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.680 Matthews still has a big part of what they do 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.119 in the Philadelphia Eagles offense. I don't think I believe that. Okay, 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.760 check this out. I think, um, the Eagles have done 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:05.120 a lot to support new uh you know, developing quarterback 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.120 and going into a second year Carson Wentz. And I 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.640 actually think that Philly is primed to make something of 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.400 a little bit of a jump next year. But there's 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.800 somebody who is going to lose targets um in Philadelphia. Okay, Um, 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.960 there are now just simply too many mouths to feed. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.480 So here's the way I think targets are gonna wind 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.720 up going in Philly next year. Also on Jeffrey will 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.400 probably get the most looks, but don't don't sleep. I 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.760 actually think Zach Ertz is primed in this Doug Peterson 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.400 offense to do big things despite other additions. So I 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.080 think it goes Jeffrey, then arts, then Torry Smith, then 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.720 don't forget about Darren Sprawls, and then we get to 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.080 Jordan Matthews. So uh, I'm sorry, despite what Doug Peterson says, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.920 I do not believe and I'm fading Jordan Matthews. I 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.120 think he's gonna be a fantasy fool gaze, someone you 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.320 need to forget about. Last note, I'll say in the 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:54.960 NFL cam Newton today having surgery on that torn rotator cuff. 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:56.680 We wish you well. We'll see if he's gonna be 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.320 back in time for training camp with that right shoulder. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.320 But the only miss I think he's still gonna wind 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.520 up getting hit in that right shoulder. Hashtag All quarterbacks matter. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.680 Let's keep it moving up top five that are live. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.880 We've got a couple of poll questions up on that 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.320 f n T s Y Radio Twitter handle and Yo. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.280 Part of the reason that I love being in the 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.880 cipher here at the Fantasy Freestyle Speeds the Spitting Statistician 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.600 on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Net, because this 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.520 is the place where you could call your shot, okay, 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.160 so many ways. If y'all want to holler at me 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.280 at eight four four eight four three six eight seven 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.160 nine this hour, you can do that. If you want 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:28.520 to hit me up on that f n T s 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.120 Y Radio Twitter handle, you can do that. If you 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:32.920 want to follow me and hit me up ask me 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.120 questions at Spitting Speeds, you can do that. Someone yesterday 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.680 disagreed with our perspective on the polls, and that was 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.320 all good. We talked about it on air. So today 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.200 we got some polls up there for you. Got two 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:48.800 questions for you. The first is about the Oakland Raiders. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.120 It's about the Oakland Raiders because a lot of people 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.040 are talking about how this is really a lose lose 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.959 for everybody. Okay, if you're the Oakland fans, you know 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.120 your team is just about to get good and they 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:01.400 rip it away from you. But the thing is they're 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.360 not actually moving until So what do you do there 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.480 for the next three years? What do you do? If 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.520 you were in Oakland Raiders fan and you're in Oakland 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.200 for the next three years, you know, like, do you 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.320 go out and support the team? Do you go to 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.800 the games? Do you tailgate? You get dressed up in 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.360 those crazy like spiky shoulder pay at pads, paint your face, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.640 go out and rally for a team that you absolutely 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:26.360 know has swiped left on you. Or do you protest right? 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.959 Do you like, do you do protest that not renew 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.360 your season tickets? Do protests outside the stadium on a 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.400 Sunday morning? Why would you do that when all of 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.120 a sudden, you love this team. You love this team, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.400 you love the up and coming uh Derek Carr at quarterback, 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:46.520 you love you know, um what they're doing with Khalil Mack. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.080 You love that team that they're growing on you. So 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.760 what do you do? I want to know? And you 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.839 have the ability to vote on f N T S 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.000 Y Radio. That Twitter handle right now, you can do that. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.760 We also have another poll question up there for you. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.400 Over the last couple of days, I've heard some astounding 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.040 feats by athletes in their uh you know in there 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.120 what I thought was the end of their career, but 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.120 it turns out that it may not be. Um And 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.440 the last couple of days, both Tom Brady, who we 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.200 find out wants to play maybe another five to seven years, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:25.199 and each ch it all, each r Suzuki, who is 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:26.959 I guess currently forty five, thinks that he can play 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.080 until he's fifty, which would also be around five, you know, 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.640 five six years. So I asked you, who do you 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.840 think it's gonna actually live out those goals and play 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.160 a little bit longer. Will it be Tom Brady or 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:38.760 will it be each eye roll? Let me tell you 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.520 what I think I think it's gonna be TV twelve. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.240 I think it's gonna be Tom Brady. And here's why. Listen. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.040 I love each Row and all, Okay, I love each Ero, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.400 but he's on his last stop. I know his wa 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.920 his his clutch spirit. But I think Brady has long longer, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:54.719 you know, my leage in the tank. This guy is 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.720 an athletic freak. Not to say that each Row is not. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.840 But here's the thing. Also, Tom, he hasn't even like 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.600 hit that like last two years with another franchise part 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.600 of his career, you know what I mean? Like, that's 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.240 what That's what happens with everybody, you know. Think about 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.880 thinking about Joe Montana with the Kansas City Chiefs, think 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.319 about Joe Naimith with Rams, think about Brett Farve with 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.160 a lot of teams, I guess when it comes to 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.000 Brett Farve, right, but that hasn't even happened yet. Belichick 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.480 hasn't even done him wrong and traded him like to 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.320 the Tampa Bay Bucks or the Detroit Lions to finish 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.520 his career, you know what I mean? Um, and then 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.240 he's gonna still have another little while. But let me 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:32.120 know what you think, because each year Oh obviously used 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.400 that whah, I love me some each year. Oh but 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.160 you know so, whether it's that Oakland Raiders conversation, or 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.200 whether it's this conversation of which guy could actually play 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.000 into their late forties or maybe even until he's fifty 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.800 in each rose case, feel free to vote, all right, 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.959 feel free to vote. Keeping it moving though here Top 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.240 five that or live you're listening to Dane Martinez on 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.200 the Fantasy Freestyle and Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Next up 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:55.240 is listen. Russell Westbrook is out of control. Russell Westbrook 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.840 is absolutely out of control. Last night he drops fifty 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:02.120 seven points also as third, teen and eleven in Orlando 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.760 UM with a crazy like clutch three while he's being 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.280 double team to send a game into overtime. He's going 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.880 absolutely crazy, and quite frankly, I think this was all 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.080 in response to the fact that Russell Westbrook was probably 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.079 listening to me last last night on the Fantasy Freestyle 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.480 when when we were talking about James Harden and how 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.720 James Harden was talking about Hooper is Gonna Hoop and 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.760 how he thinks the m v P should actually have 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.680 to play all eighty two games. Hey, Donnie Burns, you 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.400 were producing the show. It had Franks Standfeld with me 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.240 all week and um we talked that was the pole. Yesterday, 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.280 James Harden says that to be considered for the m 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.439 v P, you should have to play all eighty two games. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.040 He's playing through a risk injury right now when all 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.520 these other guys are resting. I think he's lobbying for 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.520 the m v P award. I talked about it on 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.599 Fantasy Freestyle and then Russ just had his drop the 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.560 mic moment. What do you think about that? Should uh 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.520 NBA players actually have to you know, play in order 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:54.840 to be it? Should that be one of the criteria 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.480 for m v P. Yeah, of course. And you look 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.640 at the two front runners from VPS, James Harden and 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.920 Russell Westbrook don't miss game at all. And not only 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.240 did they not miss games, they're the most active in 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.240 those games. So to kind of pull that away from 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.640 them is is not you know, not smart at all. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.200 And I feel like Russell Westbrook just clamped on that 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.520 m v P. I really thought James Harden had a chance, 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.320 not even a chance. I really thought he was gonna 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.679 win at one point. But I think Russell Westbrook man 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.680 fifty seven, eleven, and thirteen. I don't know how you 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.400 even have enough time to do that. In a game 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.920 he was getting he was getting m v P chances. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.040 They were on the road and the nets too, he 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.240 was getting MVP chance. That's absolutely crazy. You talked about 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.000 their usage, Donnie Burns real quick is a status spitting 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:38.400 statistician wants to give you. Alan Iverson's like biggest shot 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.000 output of his career. And this is Alan Iverson we're 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.440 talking about. Okay, one season, he had nineteen hundred and 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.320 forty shots when he played forty two minutes a game. Okay, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.200 this year, Russell Westbrook has already got nineteen hundred and 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.960 seventy seven shots more than that playing in eight less 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.559 minutes thirty four minutes a game. He's basically actually a 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.720 one man team. Yeah, watching these two players just it's 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.360 absolutely out of control. But do you know about basketball? Though? 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.480 You know about basketball? Thill Donny isn't like James Harden 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.600 basically the perfect pick and roll kind of player though, 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.600 and making an incredible value for his team, you know, 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.280 because he's a little step and pop and like all 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.040 the options, Like that's why he's leading the league and 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.200 assist so when you talk about value, is it most 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.200 valuable player and most like outstanding season. See, it's hard 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.680 to judge because Westbrook is doing the same thing. He's 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.880 not doing the assist at a high rate as much 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.080 as James Harden is doing. But he's also got He's 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.920 a point guard getting ten rebounds a game. Not even 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.960 some centers can do that. So you're really picking and 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.240 choosing with that. Until last night's Russell Westbrook you think, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.200 so you think I want to drop the mic moment, 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.280 drop the mic, drop the mic moment, but hasn't hasn't hardened. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.800 Also had like two fifty point trouble doubles this year, 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.080 So what do you mean? So what are we talking about? 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:49.880 I saw the stat that, um, you know, like it 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.920 hasn't been done in like fifty years, but then both 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.280 of them have done it twice this year. I mean, 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.040 it's out of control. What about this idea of co 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.920 m vps. But here's the thing, it's really a math question. Okay, 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.440 it's a math question. It's not like they can just 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.080 the writers can just decide and be like, okay, we'll 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:06.560 give it to both of them. You know, there's like 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.280 it's a tiered system. Right when you got a first 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.360 place vote, is this many points a second place vote? 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.960 So if you really, if you really wanted to screw people, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.080 remember Kate Upton and Justin Verlander when the a L 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:17.800 m v P came out and Kate Upton was like, 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.840 how can people not leave my man off the ballot? 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:24.200 If you really really really wanted, um, you know, like 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.160 James Harden, Let's say to be the m v P. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.280 You could vote for James Harden as one, right, and 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.760 then say vote like Kauahi Leonard to Lebron James three, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.960 Isaiah Thomas four, and then I vote Russell Westbrook until 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.560 the fifth and you would actually be dramatically impacting the 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.520 odds there, right, Yeah, well yeah, and to think you're 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.080 kind of if you're picking most Valuable Player, you could 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.440 lean more towards James Harden. But on the same note, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.920 what if the Thunder didn't have a restaurant, they wouldn't 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.720 even be a five dred team. You know what we're 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.560 gonna do, We're gonna have our own m v P vote. 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.760 Um don I don't know, are you producing the show tomorrow? 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.640 I won't be here him all right, Well tomorrow, maybe 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.800 it's Chris Bavona. That's what's gonna be the poll question tomorrow. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.800 Who's your NBA n V p okay and and am 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.760 I right? It'll be do you think we should go 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:13.640 just Harden in Westbrook? Or should we include Lebron and Roastbrook? 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.240 At this point, you don't want to include the Kauai 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.800 and Lebron. I would include Kauai if we have to, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.920 but I don't. You're not gonna include Lebron. They're not 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.600 gonna give it to him, but they really are. But 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.400 maybe the voters will. I will find out. We'll find 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.040 out tomorrow. I'll let you know that for sure. You'll 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.480 check it out when we come back here. In the 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.080 Fantasy Freestyle, I'm really excited. I got my boy Fantasy 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.600 Freestyle correspondent Mike Repberg to help me preview the Oakland 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.040 A's as Speeds does the spotlight on MLB teams as 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.320 we had to opening day, and I also because he's 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:40.880 out there in Oakland, I had to ask him a 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.560 few other questions as it relates to the Raiders move, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.240 as it related to these Golden State Warriors that we're 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.360 talking about um in the NBA's Western Conference, all that 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.640 and more when we come back. I mean, boy, Dame Martinez, 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.080 you're listening to the Fantasy Freestyle on the award winning 0:16:54.080 --> 0:17:13.159 Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know what it is. This 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.840 is your boy, Dame Martinez, speeds and spitting statisticians. You're 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.639 listening to the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports radio 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.359 network Speed Spotlight today as we go through all thirty 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.960 teams in advance of opening day this weekend, we're going 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.760 to the Oakland A's to the Bay Area and yo, 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.760 now that we always freestyling over here, I'm bringing in 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:37.080 my boy, longtime AI's fan, to join me on this segment. Uh. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:42.520 Mike Reptberg joins the show. Mike, how are you doing today? 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.720 For sure? For sure? For sure? Now we go way back, 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:47.719 and we have been talking about the aids back and 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.680 forth for a long time. But I gotta tell you, man, 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:56.240 the A's have the lowest over under in Vegas in 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:00.119 the entire American League, sitting at a sixties six that 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.920 half wind total. I mean, this is a sad day 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:05.600 for Oakland. I remember back in a day when it 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.080 was Hudson, Moulder and zero. How's it feel to be 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.360 out there as an ace? Fan. Yeah, you know, every 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.879 ever since we traded Josh Donaldson, that's been nothing but 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:20.400 bad news and uh seven lasses since the Donaldson trade. Um, 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.480 I suspect we're gonna add significantly to that total this year. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.840 Wow wow wow, so wow. Setting the tone, it does 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.879 not sound optimistic. We'll get to our over run to 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.040 a little bit later on, but let's look at this 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.520 offense you talk about. Obviously, without Donaldson, there is um 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.679 a couple of bright spots that I think could be 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.000 some fantasy goodness. I want to talk a little bit 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.720 first about the up and coming kid, Ryan Healy. Yes 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.080 that is Ryan spelled our y o and this could 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.600 broke out onto the scene in the second half of 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.680 last year. Do you think that this is sustainable this year? 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.600 Up and coming we'll see. I mean his goln surprise 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.800 that Glee was better than advertised, His bat was good. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:01.919 So I'm excited to see what we can get out 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.159 of Heally this year. I'm a little bit nervous about 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.280 the age signing Trevor Pluke, who I think is gonna 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.479