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Speaker 1: This is your boy, Dane Martinez. You're listening live to
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I
Speaker 1: got my boy Donnie Burns with me on the ones
Speaker 1: in two so hot that we sweat steam and Donnie,
Speaker 1: oh my god. It is opening day. Teams are out
Speaker 1: in full force. I feel really good. I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's getting warm outside. I feel a sense
Speaker 1: of hope, a sense of optimism from my fantasy team
Speaker 1: for my real team. A lot of good stuff going on.
Speaker 1: I feel really really good. If you want to holler
Speaker 1: at me this hour, you candidate four four eight four
Speaker 1: three six eight seven nine. As usual, we got a
Speaker 1: couple of polls up there for you on the f
Speaker 1: n T s Y Radio Twitter handle. You can also
Speaker 1: catch me at spitting speeds. You know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We gonna We're almost at the final four of our
Speaker 1: TV Greatest of All Time tournament. We're gonna change it
Speaker 1: up and now that we are in full swing with
Speaker 1: the baseball season, we're gonna go around the league a
Speaker 1: little bit, give you my plays for tonight and UH
Speaker 1: as usual, though, we're gonna get it started with top
Speaker 1: five dead or alive, some news and notes for you
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Let's start with Major League Baseball. As
Speaker 1: you know, yes, it is kind of opening day. A
Speaker 1: couple of teams got started yesterday, but I would call
Speaker 1: today opening day in earnest. But um, Roberto Rozuno will
Speaker 1: not be closing for the Toronto Blue Jays right now.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go on the d L, the ten day
Speaker 1: d L, not the fifteen day d L. Remember that
Speaker 1: Jason Grilly looks like he's gonna start, um first man
Speaker 1: out to get saved chances for the Blue Jays. I
Speaker 1: will say this, he just got the loss in a
Speaker 1: game against the Baltimore Orioles at their home opener in
Speaker 1: Camden Yards a little while ago. Uh. College rold On
Speaker 1: also going to the d L for the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 1: He's got a biceps issue. Remember him also on the
Speaker 1: ten Day d L. I don't think he's making it
Speaker 1: back when the time is up. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: probably be out until May. They told you guys about
Speaker 1: that a little bit earlier on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Um Yadiya Malina signed a three year, sixty million dollar
Speaker 1: extension over the weekend with the St. Louis Cardinals. He
Speaker 1: becomes the highest paid catcher in Major League Baseball. UM
Speaker 1: coming off one of his best offensive seasons in a
Speaker 1: little while. You also saw what he does for his pictures.
Speaker 1: You also know what he does for the clubhouse. Remember
Speaker 1: seeing him as a leader for Team Puerto Rico in
Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic. We go back to New York
Speaker 1: and the Mets. Stephen matts Um has a flex or
Speaker 1: tendon strain and he's gonna be shut down for about
Speaker 1: three or four weeks. Uh, not necessarily on the not necessarily,
Speaker 1: uh you know, calls for alarm just yet. But Matt
Speaker 1: has been injury riddled. Remember, if he's gonna be on
Speaker 1: your team, you may want to protect that with some
Speaker 1: other guys. I wouldn't. I wouldn't invest in Stephen Matt's
Speaker 1: opening day. Some interesting lineups coming out. Okay, And remember
Speaker 1: I've been telling you guys all season, especially in DFS,
Speaker 1: it's about where they are in the lineup. I love say,
Speaker 1: for example, that two spot in the lineup Minnesota. The
Speaker 1: Twins had a very interesting lineup. I thought these two
Speaker 1: guys would be flipped. But no, no, no, Um, Brian
Speaker 1: Doesier is leading off for the Twins and playing second
Speaker 1: base today, and uh, Brian Buxton is actually in the
Speaker 1: third hole for the Twins. I could see that flipping.
Speaker 1: You know, those are of the of the forty home
Speaker 1: runs last year in Buxton with the great speed. But
Speaker 1: we shall see you. And And I gotta tell you something,
Speaker 1: watching all these games yesterday and today, are you with me?
Speaker 1: I missed the intentional walk. I missed the intentional walk. Um,
Speaker 1: if you don't realize it just yet, there is no
Speaker 1: more intentional a walk in Major League Baseball this season.
Speaker 1: All the manager has to do is put out a
Speaker 1: little signal and uh, he'll automatically get first base. You
Speaker 1: don't actually have to throw the four pitches. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was always interesting because you know, there's still
Speaker 1: the potential for a guy like Vladimir Guerrero to step
Speaker 1: across and rope a double to the right center field.
Speaker 1: But let me know, let me know if you miss
Speaker 1: the intentional walk. I also want to go to football
Speaker 1: some news and notes there, you know on the fantasy
Speaker 1: freestyle speeds and spitting statistician is always gonna give you
Speaker 1: your football knowledge twelve months a year. The forty Niners
Speaker 1: have signed running back Tim high Tower. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be the prime candidate to back up Carlos Hide
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Sorry to Dwan Harris who did have
Speaker 1: that role, but high Tower I believe it's gonna be
Speaker 1: backing up Hide in San Francisco. Case Keenum signs a
Speaker 1: one year, two million dollar deal with the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: To me, that is an interesting signal on whether this
Speaker 1: organization believes that Teddy Bridgewater will be healthy come this fall.
Speaker 1: And it does not look good in my opinion, with
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater. If they're gonna actually make roster moves and
Speaker 1: signing Case Keenum. Case Keenum is not a third string quarterback.
Speaker 1: Case Keenum is a backup quarterback, So if they're signing
Speaker 1: him to backup quarterback money, to me, that means Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater could be in trouble. Adrian Peterson visited the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots today. Um, however, he has left the building
Speaker 1: with no offer in place, no deal in place. They're
Speaker 1: saying that there are three to five teams that are
Speaker 1: interested in Adrian Peterson, but I don't know who they are.
Speaker 1: There's another report out of Tampa Bay there from the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Time saying that Adrian Peterson is not in
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Bucks plans. So who are these teams?
Speaker 1: Remember speeds and spitting statistician. My called shot was, I
Speaker 1: believe Adrian Peterson is gonna wind up with the Oakland Raiders. Um,
Speaker 1: at least they were in Oakland for the next couple
Speaker 1: of years. UM. In the quarterback market, remember I said
Speaker 1: they signed case Keenum, but um, Colin Kaepernick still goes unsigned.
Speaker 1: And I thought something was funny. I found online what
Speaker 1: they're calling a Colin Kaepernick excuse jen a rator. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been talking about it all last week. At this point,
Speaker 1: there's got to be some kind of black ball going on.
Speaker 1: If Geno Smith and now case Keenum can get a deal,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, your boy Colin Kaepernick cannot. I
Speaker 1: think that is very interesting, guys, like Kaepernick, Guys like
Speaker 1: r G three, guys like Jake Cutler, guys like Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick are all still out there on the running back market.
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, Marshawn Lynch, Jamal Charles all still out there.
Speaker 1: Have Geno Smith and now Tim Hi Tower can get deals.
Speaker 1: I think this shows you that the NFL is trying
Speaker 1: to skew cheaper and skew younger. We don't know what
Speaker 1: kind of contract details these guys are kind of demanding.
Speaker 1: Will they be playing for you know the minimum? Would
Speaker 1: would in fact, you know, would Colin Kaepernick take a
Speaker 1: one year, two million dollar deal like case Keenum did.
Speaker 1: That is the piece of information that we don't know.
Speaker 1: But I still think it is very very interesting. And
Speaker 1: I know it's Major League Baseball and opening Day, but uh,
Speaker 1: that football calendar twelve months a year O t A
Speaker 1: s are beginning for the Buffalo bill and the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers today. Today is the beginning of off season
Speaker 1: training activities for those two NFL teams, just as the
Speaker 1: baseball season getting started. And I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know one more football note. Anybody who saw WrestleMania yesterday?
Speaker 1: And I know some guys on this network. I know
Speaker 1: Greg Sussman Susmania, I know Frankie Standfull, Mike Florial, they
Speaker 1: probably did. You might have seen Rob Gronkowski out there
Speaker 1: in WrestleMania. He uh you know, came out there. Uh
Speaker 1: body blocks somebody helped another guy win some battle royal.
Speaker 1: So I can very much remember during the football season
Speaker 1: when I talked about how ron the rousis next move
Speaker 1: might be to the w W. I can easily see
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski in that path as well. All right, let's
Speaker 1: keep going. The top five that are alive here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. As
Speaker 1: I said, I have some polls up there on that
Speaker 1: f n T S Y Radio Twitter handles. Let's look
Speaker 1: at them right now. Donnie Burns put him up first.
Speaker 1: One is quite simple. What's your favorite part of hashtag
Speaker 1: Opening Day? You know? Um I told I opened the
Speaker 1: show saying how excited I felt. You know, spring has sprung.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like no one's gonna beat my
Speaker 1: fantasy baseball team this year. I gotta tell you, playing
Speaker 1: this DFS slate today, I'm doing big things. Had Yasmani Grandal,
Speaker 1: Who's hit two home runs today, had Jack Peterson who
Speaker 1: had a Grand Slam at steven Strasburg, who got a
Speaker 1: quality start and a win going seven innings. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you may want to listen to your boys speed that
Speaker 1: spitting statistician, because I'm giving you everything you need to
Speaker 1: win your leagues and win that cash. But as we
Speaker 1: go to opening day, what's your favorite part is it?
Speaker 1: You know, the optimism for your team, you know, because
Speaker 1: everybody zero and zero, you know, everybody's a playoff contender.
Speaker 1: And and you know, I feel that because I'm a
Speaker 1: big New York Yankees fan and for the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, you know, my team has been out of it,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty much in any real way. As we
Speaker 1: hit summertime, I didn't expect big things. Now with the
Speaker 1: youth movement going on, the Baby Bombers, I feel like, uh,
Speaker 1: I might have a chance. So I feel good optimism.
Speaker 1: I feel like what's rending in the right direction? Or
Speaker 1: is it, like I mentioned before, is it the start
Speaker 1: of spring. You know, you get to start to put
Speaker 1: some of those venture coats, away birds a chirp in
Speaker 1: everybody's happy. Everybody just kind of feels better as the
Speaker 1: weather gets nice out. So maybe that's what you feel
Speaker 1: like most about Opening Day? Or is it just straight
Speaker 1: up fantasy baseball? And uh, you know, here on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network, I can see many of you
Speaker 1: out there pretty much thinking that fantasy baseball might be
Speaker 1: the reason we got that pole up there on the
Speaker 1: f n T s Y Radio Twitter handle. Right now,
Speaker 1: we got a very tight three way race Donnie Burns,
Speaker 1: and I will check in on that throughout the show.
Speaker 1: The other question I have, and I want to bring
Speaker 1: my boy Donnie Burns in right now as the resident
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle college basketball expert. We define a champion tonight.
Speaker 1: Who do you think will take it home? North Carolina
Speaker 1: or Gonzaga Right now? This pole that's up on the
Speaker 1: fn T s Y Radio Twitter handle, it's pretty close
Speaker 1: with fifty percent of you saying that the tar Heels
Speaker 1: of North Carolina will be cutting down the nets and
Speaker 1: around midnight tonight. Donnie Burns, I know you've been following
Speaker 1: this tournament. I know you're my basketball college basketball go
Speaker 1: to guy. I have been saying the entire tournament that
Speaker 1: I believe the best ball is played out on the
Speaker 1: West Coast. So I'm gonna ride with Gonzaga I'm gonna
Speaker 1: fade the public a little bit, especially if you know,
Speaker 1: maybe if North Carolina knows how to box out after
Speaker 1: missed free throws, I don't know, did you catch that,
Speaker 1: don and and uh what do you what are you
Speaker 1: thinking about this game tonight? Yes, so I'm leaning. I'm
Speaker 1: leaning more towards you and seeing this matchup. The reason
Speaker 1: for that being if I feel if Justin Jackson and
Speaker 1: Joel Berry can get second chance from Kennedy Meeks getting rebounds,
Speaker 1: offensive rebounds, I feel like they can, they can drop
Speaker 1: enough points to lead them to a victory. However, the
Speaker 1: Gonzaga big men play very fundamentally sound. They have Carnowski,
Speaker 1: they got Collins. So it's gonna be as close as
Speaker 1: this voting on this poll probably is. So you expect
Speaker 1: U n see in a fair enough, fair enough so
Speaker 1: we shall see. One other note out of college basketball
Speaker 1: that um I feel, uh, I feel like I want
Speaker 1: to share with everybody. Georgetown has hired its new coach,
Speaker 1: a new head coach. They fired John Thompson the third
Speaker 1: and they're keeping it in the family. And they have
Speaker 1: decided to hire someone who I really wanted to get
Speaker 1: a job for the last five or ten years. I
Speaker 1: thought that, to be quite honest, he was um had
Speaker 1: some prejudice views against him as to not getting interviews,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people think that players who are
Speaker 1: big men. You know, you see players who become head coaches,
Speaker 1: they're usually point guards, not a lot of big men.
Speaker 1: But I want to give a big time shout out
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy Freestyle to Patrick Ewing. And Patrick
Speaker 1: Ewing is the new head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas,
Speaker 1: so I feel really good about that shout out to him.
Speaker 1: I know he's wanted to get a head coaching job
Speaker 1: for a while. Let's keep it moving. The top five
Speaker 1: that are alive here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Also out of the NFL, I
Speaker 1: thought I found some intriguing quotes and comments by the
Speaker 1: owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Mr Jerry Jones. Checked this
Speaker 1: out Jerry Jones, and uh, what I also find interesting, Donny,
Speaker 1: is I'm I'm I'm getting this report out of Mike Florio.
Speaker 1: No not the Mike Florio of the Fantasy Sports Radio
Speaker 1: Network who will be coming on next at eight to
Speaker 1: ten with Fantasy First Look, but Mike Florio pro Football Talk.
Speaker 1: He's reporting that Jerry Jones has said he wants to
Speaker 1: end marijuana testing in the NFL and he wants to
Speaker 1: end player conduct investigations. Now, I think if you if
Speaker 1: you've listened in to Speed and Spitting Statistician during football season,
Speaker 1: you know that I have been on this for a
Speaker 1: while that the NFL needs to move away from the
Speaker 1: pain killers. We are. We had the athletic trainer on
Speaker 1: a little bit over the playoff season. But um, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be collectively bargained, if anything, with the NFL
Speaker 1: p A. But they are saying that they are quote
Speaker 1: unquote willing to listen to the medical community. If you remember,
Speaker 1: Speeds has been saying that the NFL has an opportunity
Speaker 1: here with it legal into when the eight States and
Speaker 1: with the idea of the pain management for the NFL
Speaker 1: players they have and I they have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: become a leader in this space, and I challenge Mr
Speaker 1: Goodell and the NFL to do just that. It looks
Speaker 1: like Jerry Jones is on the bandwagon as well. However,
Speaker 1: they're saying that they are not going to really look
Speaker 1: into change changing their stance on the personal conduct policy
Speaker 1: and those investigations. Roger Goodell is still going to be
Speaker 1: you know, investigator, judge, jury and executioner. But I find
Speaker 1: it interesting because maybe why is Jerry Jones mentioning this?
Speaker 1: That is my question And the only thing that I
Speaker 1: can think about is he might be a little bit
Speaker 1: worried about his star rookie running back is Zekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: As you know, um, he has been kind of in
Speaker 1: the news um a few times a few times as
Speaker 1: it comes to um, you know, his potential DV cases
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. So, uh, maybe Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: getting ahead of the game right there. One of the
Speaker 1: topic I want to give you real quickly before we
Speaker 1: go to break here on the Fantasy Freestyle and the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network is that I saw over the
Speaker 1: weekend that NBC has declared that the Olympics coming up
Speaker 1: are actually gonna be on live. You know, when I
Speaker 1: watch the Olympics, I see that tape delay stuff and done.
Speaker 1: You know, as a millennial, how can you can't go
Speaker 1: these days without knowing what the results are? You know,
Speaker 1: they want to put the prime time sports, the big
Speaker 1: time sports on a prime time in the United States,
Speaker 1: but that's not really working. You know who wins the
Speaker 1: track and field, you know who wins the basketball games.
Speaker 1: You already know all that, so I think this is
Speaker 1: a good move not to have those tape delays anymore.
Speaker 1: That's your top five dead or alive. Here in the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, I'm your boy,
Speaker 1: day Martinez Speed, the Spitting Statistician. When we come back,
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a spotlight
Speaker 1: on opening Day. We gotta change it up now that
Speaker 1: baseball is in full swing. So we're gonna do a
Speaker 1: segment every day, remember Monday through Friday, now seven eight
Speaker 1: p m. On the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, where I
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of a preview, sometimes into
Speaker 1: full series, sometimes into the action that has already happened,
Speaker 1: sometimes previewing tonight's slate. We're gonna do a little bit
Speaker 1: of all of that. 're also I didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to give you on Friday my season award predictions
Speaker 1: and my futures predictions to help you win that cash.
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Speaker 1: leagues and win that cash. We got a couple of
Speaker 1: polls up right now. Fifty six percent of you guys
Speaker 1: are thinking that the tar Heels are gonna cut down
Speaker 1: the nets a little bit later on tonight. And then
Speaker 1: I'm very intrigued by this. You know, we gotta pull
Speaker 1: question up. What is your favorite part about opening Day?
Speaker 1: The three choices are optimism for your team, the start
Speaker 1: of the spring, or the start of fantasy baseball. And
Speaker 1: right now it is literally it is literally a three
Speaker 1: way tie um with just over fifty votes. Between fifty
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Speaker 1: before we get into that, I realized that another way
Speaker 1: that I can tell you how to win that cash.
Speaker 1: I was giving you season total over unders over the
Speaker 1: last few weeks when speed spotlighted thirty teams over spring training.
Speaker 1: But one thing I did not give you were my
Speaker 1: actual futures picks for the Major League Baseball season. And
Speaker 1: I want to do that right now because I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I got some good ones here. I really, uh,
Speaker 1: I feel good about some of my picks. I was
Speaker 1: shocked to see the World Series odds on my World
Speaker 1: Series pick. So I think I'm gonna help you win
Speaker 1: some cash right now. And just so you know, I
Speaker 1: get my odds right there from that good old Sports
Speaker 1: Action app. They they give you the great odds. They
Speaker 1: also do because they give you what the public is picking.
Speaker 1: And you know speeds this fitting statistician. I love to
Speaker 1: fade the public, so I like having that information. You
Speaker 1: may want to check that out that Sports Action app.
Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Let me start with the Alcs. Let
Speaker 1: me start in the American League. You can get future's
Speaker 1: odds to win the Pennant. And I'm fading the Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox. I do not believe in the adjustment for
Speaker 1: Chris Sale. I think David Price is hurt and despite
Speaker 1: his home run a little bit early today, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure about Andrew h Bennet Tandy the number one prospect. However,
Speaker 1: I like a repeat Pennant winner um the Cleveland Indians.
Speaker 1: I think Tito Francona. I have faith in him. I
Speaker 1: like this pitching staff between Klueberg, between Carrasco, between Salazar
Speaker 1: um So. I like them obviously. You like the bullpen
Speaker 1: with Cody Allen and UH Andrew Miller. They are they
Speaker 1: are co favorites at five to two. If you don't
Speaker 1: like that, my second pick is a little off the
Speaker 1: beaten path. I like the Houston Astros. I like the
Speaker 1: Houston ashe strows because I love that lineup. I love
Speaker 1: that lineup. I think they're gonna match. I think Altuve
Speaker 1: has even more groomed to grow. I think koa It
Speaker 1: thinks a step forward this year. I think the addition
Speaker 1: of Carlos Beltrn is huge for them. I kind of
Speaker 1: like the Houston Astros at at UH five to one
Speaker 1: to win the a L in the n O, in
Speaker 1: the NL Okay A lot everyone loves the Cubs as
Speaker 1: huge favorites, and then a lot of people love the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: I'm picking two other teams that are tied up for
Speaker 1: the third choice at six to one. I like the
Speaker 1: Washington Nationals to beat the San Francisco Giants in the NLCS.
Speaker 1: The Gnats and the Giants both at six to one.
Speaker 1: I think that's decent value. Um, I am going to
Speaker 1: be looking at number one and two starters, Okay, I
Speaker 1: think that you need that. You know, you need that
Speaker 1: Randy Johnson, Kurt Schilling, you need that combination. And I
Speaker 1: really love the combo of Sherzer and Strausburg, and I
Speaker 1: really love the combo out west of mad Bum and
Speaker 1: of course Johnny Quato there in San Francisco. So those
Speaker 1: are my you know, A L and N L Pennant picks.
Speaker 1: You can win some money on that. And then here's
Speaker 1: the thing. The Washington Nationals are twelve to one to
Speaker 1: win the World Series, and I, um, that's where I'm
Speaker 1: putting my money. That's where I'm putting my money. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they mentioned it earlier on Today, Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: having maybe a bounce back season. I mean, dude had
Speaker 1: a pretty good season to begin with last year, but
Speaker 1: to bounce back and do even better. I love Adam
Speaker 1: Eating at the top of that lineup, and I love
Speaker 1: the young stud trade Turner. I think they're gonna do
Speaker 1: big things. I think, um the biggest issue will be
Speaker 1: the back end of their bullpen. But they did good
Speaker 1: work today. Today it was okay, you know, Strausburg did
Speaker 1: what he was supposed to do, and then um, Trenton
Speaker 1: got his first save looking good in the ninth innings.
Speaker 1: So I think that's um, that's where I'm going with
Speaker 1: my World Series pick. I'm picking the Nats over the
Speaker 1: Indians twelve to one. Uh, you can get some cash
Speaker 1: right there. I also did some prop bets, you know,
Speaker 1: futures of a L N L Cy Young and m
Speaker 1: v P that I want to give out my pick
Speaker 1: because you know, I want to have it on record
Speaker 1: when Speedies has spitting statistician could help you win that
Speaker 1: cash and you're gonna come back and call me at
Speaker 1: eight four, three, seven nine and be like, oh my goodness, Speeds,
Speaker 1: you had another called shot. You were right again. So
Speaker 1: listen in the American League and if you remember, I
Speaker 1: like Houston and I Cleveland right. So I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: Corey Kluber as your A L s. I young. He's
Speaker 1: the second choice behind sale Uh in the odds at
Speaker 1: plus three hundred, and I think you uh, I think
Speaker 1: Cluber is a great pick. I think the Indians are
Speaker 1: gonna run away with that division, win the division by
Speaker 1: the widest margin, have the most wins in the American League,
Speaker 1: and um, Cluber is gonna help get him there with
Speaker 1: about eighteen to twenty wins and great ratios. In as
Speaker 1: far as the m v P in the American League,
Speaker 1: I'm going with the sixth choice at plus twelve hundred. Um.
Speaker 1: I think this is great value at plus twelve hundred.
Speaker 1: And it's my h you know, five ft six second
Speaker 1: baseman Jose al tove I think Altuve is gonna be
Speaker 1: the m v P the American League. I mean, my
Speaker 1: man is hitting three thirty three, forty, stealing bases, scoring runs,
Speaker 1: surprising power. But if you remember, I did a piece
Speaker 1: a segment a few weeks ago about the importance of
Speaker 1: Carlos Beltron in that lineup, and I think he is
Speaker 1: going to even push al tove A to new heights.
Speaker 1: I think there is room to grow for Altuve. And
Speaker 1: if he does that and the Houston Nashrows do, in fact,
Speaker 1: when the a L West, like I am predicting them
Speaker 1: to do, I think Altuve will be in line for
Speaker 1: some some m v P votes. So at plus twelve hundred,
Speaker 1: I like that. Going to the n L going to
Speaker 1: the n l M. When you talk about cy Young,
Speaker 1: you're basically trying in essence to beat Clayton Kershaw. Right,
Speaker 1: that's what you're trying to do because you're not gonna
Speaker 1: make any money going with the Chalk and Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1: I'm going with the third choice in the NL for
Speaker 1: the cy Young and uh, he looked real good today.
Speaker 1: He looked real good today in New York. And that's
Speaker 1: Noah synder Guard out there in city Field. And you
Speaker 1: can get him at plus eight hundred, okay, And I
Speaker 1: like that. I like that as my Nelsy Young. I
Speaker 1: think his stuff is absolutely ridiculous. If you tell me
Speaker 1: Noah Syndergard makes thirty starts this year, I will show
Speaker 1: you a cy Young candidate, um, you know, with two
Speaker 1: hundred strikeouts with great ratios and because he's on a
Speaker 1: pretty good team, I think, uh, you know, I have
Speaker 1: a nice little record there as well. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to the n L m v P. Remember I
Speaker 1: told you my pick was the Washington Nationals to win
Speaker 1: the World Series. So I'm gonna go on Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1: I think people, I think the hate has gone too
Speaker 1: far on Bryce Harper. I think he had a just
Speaker 1: a just fine season last year. It wasn't an m
Speaker 1: v P caliber season, No, But at only age, he
Speaker 1: got off to a good start today with a home
Speaker 1: run on opening Day. And now before his twenty fifth birthday,
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper has hit a home run in on opening
Speaker 1: Day five times. That's how long this guy has already
Speaker 1: been in the league. At only five year old, he
Speaker 1: has done that already. Let's do uh, let's take a
Speaker 1: look around the league though. It is opening Day, and
Speaker 1: one of the things we're gonna be doing is I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what's going on because sometimes, listen, it's
Speaker 1: very different. This is not the DFS lineup block show
Speaker 1: with Tony Sncada and Benny Riccardi. They get to tell
Speaker 1: you what's going on up until seven o'clock. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to do a little bit of looking back,
Speaker 1: a little bit of looking ahead. So We're gonna do
Speaker 1: a couple of things here. One, there's a couple of
Speaker 1: news and notes that I definitely want to give you
Speaker 1: from some of these early games that popped off. And
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna preview what I'm looking for in this
Speaker 1: first week, opening week of the season. I gotta start
Speaker 1: off with this game that just finished down in Baltimore
Speaker 1: with the Baltimore Orioles in eleven innings beat the Toronto
Speaker 1: Blue Jays. And let me tell you something, I thought
Speaker 1: it was funny that buckshow Walter six months later does
Speaker 1: in fact put his all star closer Zach Britton into
Speaker 1: a tie game and extra innings. Maybe he learned his
Speaker 1: lesson from the wild card. But that Blue Jay's bullpen
Speaker 1: not looking so good. Remember I told you Roberto was
Speaker 1: sooner going to the disabled list. Jason Grilly gave up
Speaker 1: the winning run. Uh, he's gonna have an inflated e
Speaker 1: r A. Now it's at nine after just one appearance.
Speaker 1: He did not get the job done. Blue j has
Speaker 1: win in eleven innings, three to two. Another game I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you guys about really quickly was, um,
Speaker 1: this Rockies Brewers game. I think there's an interesting note
Speaker 1: here in the Rockies Brewers game. The Rockies had. The
Speaker 1: Rockies wind up winning this game seven to five. But
Speaker 1: what I find interesting is the Rockies had a two
Speaker 1: run lead going into the bottom of the ninth, and
Speaker 1: so you might want to know who did they bring
Speaker 1: in to close this out. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people are talking, uh Greg Collins, the others talking Adam Montavino.
Speaker 1: It was in fact Greg Holland that came in, pitched
Speaker 1: a scoreless ninth for the Colorado Rockies and he gets
Speaker 1: the first save of the season. Now, if you're new
Speaker 1: to baseball DFS, maybe you were playing basketball DFS, maybe
Speaker 1: you're playing football DFS. If you're new to baseball DFS,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you my my first piece of advice
Speaker 1: is this, pay up for your pitching. Okay, you gotta
Speaker 1: pay up for your pitching. And so what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: probably be doing is I'm gonna be looking at starting
Speaker 1: pitchers that I think have the best matchups. And today,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you something, I'm having a great DFS
Speaker 1: day so far. Okay, guys, I'm I had Steven Straussburg
Speaker 1: who got the win. I have yas Money Grandal with
Speaker 1: two Homer's you know got Harper who when you ared,
Speaker 1: I got Jack Peterson who with a grand Slam. So
Speaker 1: I'm doing all right? Maybe you want to listen. So, um,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at these pictures to see if they are
Speaker 1: um in essence, performing the way they should be for
Speaker 1: the money that I'm paying them. Right. So the first
Speaker 1: guy I look at it Steven Strausberg, And you can't
Speaker 1: complain seven innings pitched, you went, only gave up to
Speaker 1: earned runs, struck out three and got the win. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that is what you're looking for when you're gonna
Speaker 1: pay up for these starting pitchers. That that's what you
Speaker 1: really need. You need a great outing. Remember now, they
Speaker 1: they're also giving you points for the quality start at FanDuel.
Speaker 1: And this Dodgers Padres game, the Padres scored a runoff
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw in the first inning. However, it was unearned
Speaker 1: and Kershaw continues to give you exactly what you pay
Speaker 1: for if you're paying up all the way at the
Speaker 1: top of the slate for Clayton Kershaw, this is what
Speaker 1: you want to see. He gave you seven innings pitch
Speaker 1: only one earned run, striking out eight and getting the win.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of uh you know, that's the kind
Speaker 1: of output that you want from your big time starters.
Speaker 1: Same could be said for Nowhere synder Guard as well.
Speaker 1: He had a nice little outing six innings pitch, did
Speaker 1: not give up an earned run and had seven strikeouts.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard Tony Sincott at the
Speaker 1: top of the hour in the news read he did
Speaker 1: leave the game with a blister, but they're saying that's
Speaker 1: no problem. His next start is being pushed back from
Speaker 1: Saturday to Sunday, so if you have him in week long,
Speaker 1: he's still getting the two start week out of four
Speaker 1: Nowhere synder Gard, and they're saying it should be just fine.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, though, what a problem is. Some of
Speaker 1: your closers so far have been uh, nothing to write
Speaker 1: home about, right um, whether it is uh mr oh,
Speaker 1: the final decision out there in St. Louis. There was
Speaker 1: also blown saved by San Francisco Mark Mlanson yes day,
Speaker 1: so watch out for that. Especially in the San Francisco case.
Speaker 1: The Giants went ahead and spent money to bring in Molansen.
Speaker 1: I was telling you in speeds of spotlight that yeah,
Speaker 1: he gets saved, but I didn't like him too much
Speaker 1: as a closer because he didn't have that strikeout stuff
Speaker 1: in those ratios. It came back to bite him on UH.
Speaker 1: It came back to bite him yesterday in that uh
Speaker 1: in that game against the St. Louis Cardinals, I do
Speaker 1: believe he did not get the save. Um. So those
Speaker 1: are some things to look at. What I'll tell you
Speaker 1: if you're doing the nighttime slate this Texas Cleveland game
Speaker 1: where you have you Darvish and Corey Klueber too cy
Speaker 1: young candidates going at it, I really hope that you
Speaker 1: wind up picking one of those guys if you're on
Speaker 1: DraftKings and you needed too, if you got some late
Speaker 1: swaps to still happen, I'm telling you, I do not
Speaker 1: mind Kendall Graveman tonight. Okay, Graveman at home is decent.
Speaker 1: This Angel's lineup is not the best outside of obviously
Speaker 1: Mike Trout. And don't don't forget in that ballpark out
Speaker 1: there in Oakland. While it is a dumpster fire that
Speaker 1: is to be replaced by the Oakland Alameda County, it's
Speaker 1: a ton of foul ground, and those starters out there
Speaker 1: at home are viable. It's the lowest total with eight
Speaker 1: runs on the board for the nights late. So I
Speaker 1: think it's an interesting play looking at Kendall Graveman as
Speaker 1: you know, your non obvious nighttime starter obviously with Kluber
Speaker 1: and Darvish on the slate, so there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of baseball. We're gonna be doing it different, but we
Speaker 1: are gonna be looking at the baseball scores every day
Speaker 1: because it is a marathon, not a sprint. For the
Speaker 1: next six months, the Boys of Summer will be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll be holding us down here on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle when we come back. I want to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit more about Opening Day. I think there's
Speaker 1: a few interesting things that we can only talk about
Speaker 1: on Opening Day. Uh, the San Diego padres with a
Speaker 1: couple of interesting roster decisions, a couple of interesting things
Speaker 1: on Twitter. We're also gonna talk a little bit. We're
Speaker 1: getting into it with the TV Greatest of All Time Tournament.
Speaker 1: I got some interesting matchup right now. We have the
Speaker 1: final of the Sitcom Region Seinfeld versus the Office. Polls
Speaker 1: are open right now at spitting Speeds at fn T
Speaker 1: s Y Radio. And then in the reality bracket, we
Speaker 1: have Real World road Rules who you know, I've been
Speaker 1: riding with my homegirl Irelon for the Las Vegas season,
Speaker 1: going up against the steam roll that is Cops. So
Speaker 1: we'll talk about those preview those matchups, tell you how
Speaker 1: we're gonna crown a champ, all that and more when
Speaker 1: we come back. This is Dave Martinez speeds and spitting
Speaker 1: Statistician on Fantasy Freestyle and the award winning Fantasy Sports
Speaker 1: Radio Network. Do you know what it is, sho boyd
Speaker 1: Dave Martinez speed spitting Statistician. You're listening live to the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I got
Speaker 1: my boy Donnie Burns with me on the ones in twos.
Speaker 1: A couple of updates right here, as some of these
Speaker 1: games are going final. The Dodgers do. In fact, when
Speaker 1: fourteen to three, that game has gone final zero zero
Speaker 1: with the Indians and the Rangers. Remember I told you
Speaker 1: interesting pitching matchup there you Darvish and Corey Kluber. The
Speaker 1: only day game that I believe is still going on
Speaker 1: just finished. Yen Mar Gomez gets to say for the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies, it's always sunny in Philadelphia. They beat the
Speaker 1: Reds four to three, and what that also means is
Speaker 1: that the daytime slate is done. Your boys speed just
Speaker 1: put up a one eight four on fan duel that
Speaker 1: was good enough to cash. So remember, I feel good
Speaker 1: about this. That's what I feel good about. We asked
Speaker 1: you on the FM t s Y Radio Twitter poll,
Speaker 1: why uh you know, why are you happy about Opening Day?
Speaker 1: And right now thirty six percent of you are saying
Speaker 1: it is because of Fantasy Baseball. That's your favorite part
Speaker 1: about Opening Day. So I'm happy. You know, I'm starting
Speaker 1: a little bit with some cash. So so that's good.
Speaker 1: Let's keep on talking about Opening Day. Over the weekend,
Speaker 1: I saw something when the Padres fin analize their rosters
Speaker 1: and they are gonna have Christian Bettencourt as a two
Speaker 1: way player. They're gonna have him as a catcher, slash
Speaker 1: outfielder and as a reliever, okay officially, like he's really
Speaker 1: gonna be in the bullpen actually doing some mop up duty.
Speaker 1: This was a guy who you know, and it's always
Speaker 1: funny when a team is down by like ten runs,
Speaker 1: you throw in a position player. See we could do well.
Speaker 1: That happened for Mr Bettencourt a few times last year
Speaker 1: and he got out and he had a fastball that
Speaker 1: was touching nineties six. So they went through this kind
Speaker 1: of experiment there, like, hey, maybe we can save a
Speaker 1: spot on our roster and have a mop up guy. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, be okay in these situations. Well, what do
Speaker 1: you know? On Opening Day against the Los Angeles Dodgers,
Speaker 1: remember I gave you that score. It got out of control.
Speaker 1: Dodgers won the game fourteen to three. Clayton Kershaw getting
Speaker 1: that win, you know, on his campaign to you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, get another Side Young Award. Remember I'm
Speaker 1: fading him, going with Noah Sindico. It's my pick. But
Speaker 1: all it took was one game because Christian Bennoncourt got
Speaker 1: in the game as a long relief pitcher. Maybe he
Speaker 1: would have if he was a position player this time
Speaker 1: around anyway, but it didn't go so well. It didn't
Speaker 1: go so well. He threw one in the third innings,
Speaker 1: he gave up three earned runs. So maybe they're got
Speaker 1: a short circuit that experiment. I don't know, but it
Speaker 1: makes me wonder, like, in these situations you put him
Speaker 1: in his pictures? Do you put him in his hitters?
Speaker 1: When you're playing fantasy? And I'm reminded of that, because yesterday,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw it, but Madison bum
Speaker 1: Gardner hit not one, but two home runs on Opening Day.
Speaker 1: I really wonder what mad Bum would do if he
Speaker 1: was given five hundred at bats. And I really wonder
Speaker 1: if the San Francisco Giants and bocci if at any
Speaker 1: point in time when when Bumgardner's starting, if they're gonna
Speaker 1: you know, I know some managers toy around and putting
Speaker 1: the picture in the eight spot. I really wonder if
Speaker 1: days that mad Bum goes because you're not really replacing
Speaker 1: him much with relievers and messing up the lineup. I
Speaker 1: really wonder if they put mad Bum and sort of
Speaker 1: in the middle of the lineup at some point. But uh,
Speaker 1: that's something we will see as we continue to keep
Speaker 1: it moving throughout the season. I wanted to mention one
Speaker 1: other thing here for Opening Day, and uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I need my uh, I need my millennials over here,
Speaker 1: because when you're on Twitter, apparently there are new um
Speaker 1: hashtags for every major league team, Okay, and you know
Speaker 1: they're trying to Some of them are trying to be funny.
Speaker 1: For example, the Atlanta Braves are hashtag chop on you
Speaker 1: know the Marlins hashtag let's go fish, um the tigers
Speaker 1: or hashtag who's your tiger? You know, Birdland for the Orioles.
Speaker 1: But I got so many questions if you want to
Speaker 1: use this in Twitter, because you know, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: still new to the game at spitting speeds if you
Speaker 1: want to follow the man, But um, how do you
Speaker 1: know that this is the that this is the hashtag?
Speaker 1: How do you know that instead of just going like hashtag, uh,
Speaker 1: you know cubs, you have to go hashtag that's cub
Speaker 1: to get that cool, fun logo. I want to get
Speaker 1: the cool fun logo, but I don't really know how
Speaker 1: to do that. And what I don't get is how
Speaker 1: do you like a no that these things are out there?
Speaker 1: That's what I don't get. I'm gonna have to ask
Speaker 1: my boy Frank Stanfeld, who's my millennial friend coming up
Speaker 1: later on the Fantasy first Look, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: ask him this. How how you find this? How you
Speaker 1: know this? But I did think some of them were
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. So let me give you my uh my favorite,
Speaker 1: you know, my favorite three. The first is the Brewers.
Speaker 1: The Brewers, you know, sometimes they're known as the brew Crew.
Speaker 1: So if you want to tag the Brewers this season,
Speaker 1: go hashtag this is my crew. You know I like
Speaker 1: that crew love this is my crew. I think that's interesting, right.
Speaker 1: Another one that I want to challenge, I want to
Speaker 1: throw a challenge flag on, to be quite honest, and
Speaker 1: that is, uh, the Boston Red Sox. As you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a Yankee fan, but um, the hashtag for the
Speaker 1: Red Sox is hashtag win dance repeat. As though they
Speaker 1: do this all the time, you know, for a long time,
Speaker 1: there was a big gap there from nineteen eighteen all
Speaker 1: the way to two thousand and four. Now it's all
Speaker 1: of a suddenlike they do that all the time when
Speaker 1: dance repeat. I don't know about that. Yes, you are
Speaker 1: my pick to win the Al East, but I'm fading
Speaker 1: you when it comes to the A. L. Pennant but
Speaker 1: my absolute favorite one. And this connects to my boy
Speaker 1: Mike Repberg, who was on helping me preview the Oakland
Speaker 1: A's last week. When we talked about, you know, the
Speaker 1: juxtaposition of the Oakland Raiders leaving, he mentioned that was
Speaker 1: right when the Oakland A's were doing like their fan
Speaker 1: friendly events, raising the flag and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: So I think the Oakland A's with a subtle dig
Speaker 1: to the Warriors who are moving, to the Raiders, who
Speaker 1: we know are moving. If you want to talk about
Speaker 1: the A's this season, it is hashtag rooted in Oakland.
Speaker 1: Maybe throwing a little bit of shade to the other
Speaker 1: Pro short sports teams, but there's playing of them out there.
Speaker 1: I might send them out of my own Twitter. So
Speaker 1: if you want to, you know, getting the conversation out there,
Speaker 1: you can do that with all of these different teams. Um.
Speaker 1: Another place that I want to hear you on Twitter
Speaker 1: is as we vote. As you know, the Fantasy Freestyle
Speaker 1: is crowding the greatest TV show of all time. We
Speaker 1: are getting down to it this week. You know, college
Speaker 1: basketball will crown it's champion on the women's side. It
Speaker 1: was not the Yukon women Huskies. We're gonna crown a
Speaker 1: champion tonight. Right now, you still think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the University of North Carolina. I'm gonna ride with the
Speaker 1: West Coast Zags instead, because you know, Speeds likes to
Speaker 1: fade the public. But the important, the important polls right now,
Speaker 1: the important things to vote on right now is the
Speaker 1: TV tournament that we got going on, and it is
Speaker 1: getting down to it. So I want to recap where
Speaker 1: we are and talk to you about the two matchups
Speaker 1: that we have up there right now. In fact, so
Speaker 1: this week, uh, we've got big boy matchups. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: in the inite eight. We're good into the final four.
Speaker 1: And for those of you who are new to the show,
Speaker 1: maybe tuning in, you know, maybe between football and baseball season,
Speaker 1: didn't listen much to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network and
Speaker 1: coming back now that Baseball seven started, we're doing this
Speaker 1: great tournament in the Sitcom region. We had a lot
Speaker 1: of conversation, there were some upsets, but in the regional
Speaker 1: final it is the number one seed Seinfeld up against
Speaker 1: the number two seed, the Office. Right now, what you
Speaker 1: can do is you can get on that at f
Speaker 1: n T s Y radio Twitter handle, you can get
Speaker 1: at Spitting Speeds and you can vote on this. But
Speaker 1: right now, um, it is in fact Seinfeld the number
Speaker 1: one seed that looks poised to move on to the
Speaker 1: TV Greatest of All Time Final four with over a
Speaker 1: hundred votes. Right now, Seinfeld has fifty eight percent of
Speaker 1: the vote. But if you are a big fan of
Speaker 1: the office, Jim and Pam, Dwight and Michael, all the
Speaker 1: whole crew there. There is still time to vote. Get
Speaker 1: out there. I have seen matchups flip um a little
Speaker 1: bit back and forth in the time that we have
Speaker 1: out there on the poll. And then Donnie, we've got
Speaker 1: the Reality Regional Final up here tonight and um that's
Speaker 1: been very interesting. This has been upset City from the
Speaker 1: very beginning. The one to three and four seeds all
Speaker 1: lost their first round matchups. The regional final, Pit's five seed,
Speaker 1: real world road rules up against what I think has
Speaker 1: been the surprise of the torn Amen For me, I
Speaker 1: have been surprised at how much the viewers, the listeners,
Speaker 1: the twitters, the followers have supported the number seven seed, Cops.
Speaker 1: So we have real world road rules up against cops
Speaker 1: in the Reality Regional final. If you've been listening to
Speaker 1: the show with speeds has been statistician. You know. I've
Speaker 1: had my homegirl Arellan on from the real world. She
Speaker 1: was in that Las Vegas season helping maybe helping a
Speaker 1: lobby for her cause. Right now we got an interesting
Speaker 1: we got an interesting vote going on. Cops has been
Speaker 1: steamrolling people left and right. This battle has been back
Speaker 1: and forth. I have seen the lead switch in the
Speaker 1: last couple of hours. Right now Cops does have a
Speaker 1: slight lead. Before I saw a real world up at
Speaker 1: the I saw Cops up in. Right now, Cops is
Speaker 1: at fifty seven percent of the vote, but there's still
Speaker 1: plenty of time. If you do not want Cops to
Speaker 1: move on, get up on that Twitter handle and let
Speaker 1: us know. We're gonna be tracking that throughout the show.
Speaker 1: Um administrative note here at a studio thirty four and
Speaker 1: rock and at least there was a big event going
Speaker 1: on tomorrow, so there will be no Fantasy Freestyle. I'll
Speaker 1: be back on Wednesday. And on Wednesday we'll have the
Speaker 1: regional finals in the animated region Simpsons versus the South Park,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be big. And then in the drama region,
Speaker 1: which has gotten so much drama, we have the Sopranos
Speaker 1: up against Breaking Bad. I know Benny Riccardi out there
Speaker 1: is gonna be riding with Breaking Bad. I know Mike
Speaker 1: blew It out there is gonna be riding with the Sopranos.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing that on Wednesday show. Then on
Speaker 1: Thursday show we'll do the two final four matchups and
Speaker 1: then on Friday, we will crown a champion. So get
Speaker 1: out there and vote at F and T s Y Radio,
Speaker 1: at Spitting Speeds and YouTube can call your shot as
Speaker 1: we uh crown the greatest television show of all time.
Speaker 1: But when we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: little bit of fun. Um. You know, there's been so
Speaker 1: much a drama with you know, Tom Brady's jersey. Uh,
Speaker 1: the case has been solved. There was another case that
Speaker 1: happened this weekend as it relates to the Super Bowl. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know hardware of the Pats. Some interesting things happening
Speaker 1: at Fenway. We're gonna cover that and um, you'll never
Speaker 1: guess which former football player is now looking to become
Speaker 1: a two sport athlete and the second support sport might
Speaker 1: surprise you. That's what we call a t S in
Speaker 1: the radio. All that and more with your boy, Dame
Speaker 1: Martinez Speeds and Spitting Statistician. You're listening to the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what it is. As the beat drops, Donnie Burns laying
Speaker 1: the track. We're on the Fantasy Freestyle live on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I'm with you for a few
Speaker 1: more minutes. And then we got the Fantasy sous Joe Galina,
Speaker 1: we got Mikey Florio, and we got Frank Stanfeld. They're
Speaker 1: coming up next with Fantasy First. Look, they're gonna go
Speaker 1: eight to ten and like I said, give you everything
Speaker 1: you need to win your leagues and win that cash. Hey,
Speaker 1: Donnie Burns, Uh, I didn't get your thoughts here Seinfeld
Speaker 1: versus the Office? Uh? Do you like any of these shows?
Speaker 1: Who do you think is gonna come out of the four?
Speaker 1: I've been lobbying for your sign fell for a minute.
Speaker 1: That one I can't really see it losing. And that
Speaker 1: same side, do you think Seinfeld is gonna win it all?
Speaker 1: I think so? Okay, So I gotta get on record here,
Speaker 1: So do you think Seinfeld is gonna win it all?
Speaker 1: Because you know, we got all these we gotta start
Speaker 1: tracking all these things. Remember we got a couple of
Speaker 1: bets that we want to make with Ted Giddon Jr.
Speaker 1: We gotta start tracking these because I've heard Donnie Burns
Speaker 1: that now you may in fact be the Fantasy Freestyle producer.
Speaker 1: Monday through Thursday is that true, fantastic. I'm glad that
Speaker 1: we're gonna have my baseball corresponding here, Donnie Burns. How
Speaker 1: are the kids doing? By the way, they're good. We're
Speaker 1: getting ready, right. I think we're gonna end up going
Speaker 1: where we travel into Tampa nice like like sounds good,
Speaker 1: sounds good. And let's talk about this reality TV bracket here,
Speaker 1: real world road rules. You remember my homegirl Arolon came
Speaker 1: on the show not once, but twice, helped move the needle.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna help her against cops though.
Speaker 1: What do you think is gonna happen here? Like I said,
Speaker 1: we mentioned last time I was on the show, I
Speaker 1: think people like Cops so much because they really want
Speaker 1: to see what happens next. And I feel like it's
Speaker 1: just gonna keep steamrolling, even though it's not steamrolling real World.
Speaker 1: I know Rolan did a good job lobbying for it,
Speaker 1: but the Cops is too fun to watch. All right,
Speaker 1: So you've got you've got Cops, and you've got Seinfeld
Speaker 1: coming out. We'll see what happens in the animated region
Speaker 1: and in the drama region when I'm back on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Donnie Burns will be here to hold me down as well. Um,
Speaker 1: like I said, a few more minutes we got here.
Speaker 1: But what we do here are the fantasy freestyles. We
Speaker 1: put the fun in functional sports radio. So I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you about this um, the Lombardi Trophy
Speaker 1: that the New England Patriots one. Did you know it's
Speaker 1: an accident, Donnie over the weekend? Of course, so of
Speaker 1: course it was right, So you know, I guess they
Speaker 1: take the trophy around. It's not like the Stanley Cup
Speaker 1: where everybody gets the trophy and can do whatever they
Speaker 1: want with it for a day. But there was like
Speaker 1: a team official driving it to an appearance at the
Speaker 1: Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine. We were in Maine.
Speaker 1: That's deep Patriots country, right there at the top of
Speaker 1: New England, and not the Pacific Northwest, but the uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the Atlantic Northeast, shall we say. And the
Speaker 1: team official that was driving the Lombardi Trophy to this
Speaker 1: appearance at this insurance center got an accident. Got in
Speaker 1: a car accident, okay, but don't be alarmed. Everything is okay,
Speaker 1: nobody was hurt, The trophy is fine. I do hear, however, though,
Speaker 1: that the um they had to reinflate the tires after
Speaker 1: that accident because the tires were a little bit deflated.
Speaker 1: Are are are are? Um? If you know? Also they
Speaker 1: remember after the Super Bowl there was this whole big
Speaker 1: controversy of Tom Brady's jersey. Well, in fact, as you know,
Speaker 1: the jury, the the the mystery had been solved, there
Speaker 1: was a Mexican member of the media who had them.
Speaker 1: You know, we got the we got the FBI involved.
Speaker 1: The wall was not good enough to stop this thievery.
Speaker 1: But um, Tom Brady had his jersey back in hand
Speaker 1: today throwing out the first pitch for the Boston Red
Speaker 1: Sox in Fenway Park. And if there was nothing that's
Speaker 1: gonna get the Boston Red Sox crowd riled up and
Speaker 1: ready to go for the Bred Sox opener. Remember hashtag win,
Speaker 1: dance repeat whatever that means. Um. You know, Brady came
Speaker 1: out and displayed his jersey to a huge pop at
Speaker 1: the audience, and then Gronk being Gronk, Gronk runs out
Speaker 1: onto the mountain snatches the jersey away from Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Brady literally chases Gronkowski into the outfield grass, where they
Speaker 1: like crumple into a heap together laying on the ground
Speaker 1: to huge fanfare and celebration for the Fenway Park faithful. Um,
Speaker 1: so everybody, it's okay. The Lombardi Trophy is okay. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's jersey has been recovered, so you know, and Gronk
Speaker 1: is still being Gronk snatching jerseys and at WrestleMania. What
Speaker 1: a life to live. If there was anybody in sports,
Speaker 1: I think I might trade places with a Gronky? Can
Speaker 1: we literally do? Absolutely? He was on WrestleMania last night,
Speaker 1: at Fenway Park today doing big things. Listen. I got
Speaker 1: one more story I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 1: Before we had the break, I mentioned that there's a
Speaker 1: football retired football player out there who wants to come
Speaker 1: back and become a two sport athlete. You'll never guess
Speaker 1: who it is, and you'll never guess what sport they
Speaker 1: want to play. You got any guesses for me? You
Speaker 1: got no clue, alright. So Randy Moss, Randy Moss of
Speaker 1: you know Fame, obviously, great wide receiver with a couple
Speaker 1: of teams mostly the Vikings. Was part of that historic
Speaker 1: season with the Patriots as well, where they went undefeated
Speaker 1: in the regular season. But get this, Donnie Burns. Randy
Speaker 1: Moss wants to play soccer. Oh boy, yep. And not
Speaker 1: only does he want to play, but last week he
Speaker 1: signed a contract with the Charlotte Independence of the USL
Speaker 1: to be their goalie. Okay, now, I know you might
Speaker 1: think this is crazy, but I think this has some legs.
Speaker 1: Randy Moss, you know, six ft four, obviously knows how
Speaker 1: to track the ball on those corner kicks, on those crosses.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not the soccer expert. I'm not the soccer expert,
Speaker 1: but I think this is interesting. Check out what Randy
Speaker 1: Moss had to say, and I quote, Renewing my career
Speaker 1: is something that I've always thought about for a long time.
Speaker 1: Now I'm excited to get started with the Charlotte Independence
Speaker 1: and show the world that I can be a two
Speaker 1: sport athlete, trying to be like Bo Jackson, Dion Sanders,
Speaker 1: and don't forget about Brian Jordan. And that's so head
Speaker 1: coach of the Charlotte Independence, guy named Mike Jeffrey, says,
Speaker 1: and I quote, our team stands to gain a lot
Speaker 1: by bringing in Randy. Obviously, he's a proven winner and
Speaker 1: his athleticism is an attribute that translates to any sport
Speaker 1: he plays. I'm gonna tell you something. The Charlotte Independence
Speaker 1: had their season open or over the weekend. Um, they
Speaker 1: played the Charleston Battery. Yeah, they us two to nothing.
Speaker 1: Randy Moss was not the starting goalkeeper. And and then
Speaker 1: there was actually questions about if this was an April
Speaker 1: Fool's Day joke or not. But all reports so far
Speaker 1: so even that this is serious. Randy Moss literally wanting
Speaker 1: to be a two sport athlete. Um, there were some
Speaker 1: April Fools jokes though, played by athletes out there. One
Speaker 1: that I want to tell you about is Michael Phelps
Speaker 1: tweeted out to people that he is considering a comeback
Speaker 1: for the Olympics. But that was clearly an April Fool's
Speaker 1: Day joke. That was not the case. So you know,
Speaker 1: people are trying to people trying to have fun out there.
Speaker 1: But now that we have gotten into the actual, the
Speaker 1: actual baseball season. I got my man, Frankie Stanfill with me.
Speaker 1: He's come into the studio Fantasy first look coming their way.
Speaker 1: I got a question from Frankie Stanfill as it relates
Speaker 1: to these opening day hashtags on Twitter. Every team apparently
Speaker 1: has a different hashtag you can help me out because
Speaker 1: you're the millennial here, do you know, Like, how am
Speaker 1: I supposed to know that? For example, instead of doing
Speaker 1: hashtag red sox, I'm supposed to find out that attashed
Speaker 1: tag win dance repeat, How the hell do I know that?
Speaker 1: Or for the Brewers that attashtag this is my crew?
Speaker 1: Am I supposed to like have some kind of like
Speaker 1: table of contents at the ready for me or something?
Speaker 1: Frankie Stanfield, my man, my millennials given me a big
Speaker 1: shrug of the shoulders and a you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna find out. I got the fantasy, Hey sous.
Speaker 1: Also in the building, fantasy, Hey SEUs, we are coming
Speaker 1: down to the regional finals of the TV tournament right
Speaker 1: now in the Sitcom region, we have number one seed
Speaker 1: Seinfeld up against number two seed The Office where you're
Speaker 1: going on that one. He's saying, you gotta go Seinfeld.
Speaker 1: He's with you, Donnie Burns, and right now Seinfeld does
Speaker 1: have a lead at fifty seven percent. And then Joe Glina,
Speaker 1: we have the Reality region, the five seed Real World
Speaker 1: road Rules going against the seven seed Cops. Who you
Speaker 1: got fantasy, Hey SEUs? Is going cops. So we're fifty
Speaker 1: percent of you right now. I'm your boy, Day Martinez.
Speaker 1: This has been fantasy freestyle, Fantasy first look up next.
Speaker 1: Remember no show for me on Tuesday, but I'll be
Speaker 1: back here on Wednesday, giving you what you need to
Speaker 1: win your league and win that cash. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun, talk ballpark food, We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff. Top five that are a live
Speaker 1: fantasy freestyle. Let me boy Dan Martinez and we out