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We got some aces going tonight, you know, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.880 with Synder Guard my man James Paxton going. It feels good. 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.000 We're talking about big time fights that maybe coming up 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:25.560 a little bit later on. I'm gonna talk to you 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.520 about why even more uh kind of smoking fire around 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.399 this Connor McGregor, uh Floyd Mayweather fight. I'm even you know, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.360 I'm getting excited about so many different things. But here's 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.320 the funny part. The NFL is still kind of king. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.560 I heard earlier today, uh that the NFL was releasing 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.400 its schedule tonight, and I was like, oh, yeah, that's 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.280 what I'm excited for. If you got this playoff action. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.960 I want to see if my Jets on Week five, 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.040 you know when they have Sunday Night football, that sort 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.680 of things. It's really incredible, how you know, NFL is 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.520 still king. But I got a couple of polls up 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.480 that I wanted to you guys about. Also here on 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.320 the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Uh, 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.360 you know, big shout out of course to our sports 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:10.200 Byline affiliates around the country and the American Forces Radio Network, 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.000 making this truly a global show. Big shout out to 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.320 the service men and women getting a little taste from home. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:16.800 But I got a couple of polls up there and 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.519 right now. This first poll is fifty fifty, which I 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.920 think is interesting. In the NBA playoffs right now, if 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.640 I gave you a choice, would you take the Golden 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:29.400 State Warriors or the field like everybody else or the 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.480 Golden State Warriors. I think it's interesting. We'll checking on 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.920 the polls. We're gonna do speed starting lineup that have 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:35.519 the cipher. You know how it is. Give me a 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.440 holler if you want eight four four eight four three 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.200 six eight seven nine, I'm your boy. Dame Martinez a 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.079 k A to spitting statistician does the fantasy Freestyle here 0:02:43.240 --> 0:03:04.640 on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. 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But also if you can't listen live 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.480 and then this way you wouldn't be able to holler 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.280 at me at eight four four eight four three six 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.160 eight seven nine. You can still download us okay. You 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.560 can get it anywhere you subscribe to your podcast. You 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.480 can get it on plenty of plenty of websites. You 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.640 could also download the Fantasy Sports Radio Network app this way. 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.440 Whether it's got Angle, whether it's Benny Riccardi, whether it's 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.920 Joe Pisappila, whether it's Greg Sussman, whether it's j Seeley, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.480 everybody here, we're giving you what you need to win 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.600 your leagues and win that. That's just why were the 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.440 Rookie of the Year, you know for the f S 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.480 t w A. You know, I think I got that 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.080 acronym completely wrong, but that's okay. You know they recognize us. Okay, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.000 that's what I'm saying, So let's get right to it. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:12.600 He has speed starting line up here on the Fantasy 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.200 freestyle Tonight News and Notes. Steve ce Check. Okay, he 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.000 moved up to Triple A Tacoma for the Seattle Mariners. Okay, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.840 remember he's rehabbing from a hip I think, um, this 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.960 is interesting. He will be right in line for the 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.960 set up role. And remember Diaz, they're the closer in Seattle. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.960 He's kind of new to the game, so keep an 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.839 eye on this. Steve ce Check progressing nicely in his 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.520 rehab stint. Cargo left the game yesterday with a bruce 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.480 right hand. Listen, he got hit by Clayton Kershaw fastball. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.760 He is day to day. I would be too that again, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.520 aren't we all? Jason Worth he also left his game 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.120 against the Braves last night with a groin injury. They're 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:47.880 gonna sit him out a couple of days. He's also 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.599 day to day. Travis Darno, he left the game with 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.599 a right wrist injury. He was actually hit on the 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.840 on with a backswing. You know he's catching when he 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.320 was making a throwback, a backswing hit him in the wrist. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.240 He's day to day. Interesting note um. Major League Baseball 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.800 has cleared free agent Cuban outfielder Luis Robert to sign 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.160 with the club. This is a nineteen year old stud kid. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.960 So we think think about all the Cuban players recently, 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.640 from Jose to Bray to not my ns, not our 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.919 n As. He's Yo n s Sesspenis, you know. But 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.640 we also talked about that Cuban smuggling issue a few 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.000 weeks back, so it's interesting that MLB has cleared this 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.520 kid to sign with a club. My boy Joe Galina, 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.640 who you can catch on Fantasy First Look here on 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.960 the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. He tweeted something now today 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.200 that David Price, red Sox pitcher was slowed in his 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.159 rehab process by a little nagging arm injury. They're gonna, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.240 you know, step back and re evaluate that as well. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.039 You're as familiar closure of the New York Mets. He 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:47.159 is officially back after his fifteen game suspension served for 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.680 this kind of domestic violence case that he had in 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.760 the off season. Let's keep it moving here, were on 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.680 a fantasy freestyle. You know what it is. If you 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.960 want to hollow you candidate four four eight four three 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.640 six eight seven nine. I got some poll questions up. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.560 The first one it's literally fifty fifty about the NBA championship. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.000 Let us know about that. And also I asked, what 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.279 trades do you think might go down? A week from today? 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.320 We'll be, you know, doing big things with the NFL Draft, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.440 and there's some you know, this is when trades happened. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.719 I was reminded that, uh on four twenty, which today is, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.240 which is a whole another story, right, Donnie Burns today 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.520 being four twenty, the last couple of years, this was 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.159 the day last year when the Eagles and the Browns 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.960 made that trade for Carson Wentz. This was the day 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:33.239 in when Joe Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.360 This is the day, I believe, in two thousand and 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.960 one when the Atlanta Falcons acquired the number one overall 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.080 pick from the San Diego Superchargers and used that to 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.080 draft Michael Vick. So I've been saying for a couple 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.040 of days that it's like, you know, you know, smoke, smoke, 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.760 fire times. We gotta pull up there right now. What 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.560 what trade is most likely to happen? Will it be 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.280 a top ten pick? Will it be one of these 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.719 cornerbacks we keep hearing about, Malcolm Butler or Richard Sherman. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.599 Will it be a one of these quarterbacks. We keep 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.680 on hearing about guys like Jimmy Garoppolo, or could it 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.520 be brock Oswiler or will it be uh, you know 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.240 my guy from the Jets defensive lineman, Sheldon Richards, and 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:11.800 so let us know you can do that and at 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.000 an f n T s Y radio Twitter handle, you 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.920 could always follow and hollow at your boy spitting speeds. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:21.960 Ask me some questions, I'll answer him on the air. Um, 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.640 you know yesterday I told you yesterday, I told you 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.840 the starter I was going with was Dallas Kaikel. I 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.400 said I was paying the nineties for him. Check it out. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.080 Here's what he did. Seven innings, pitch one earned runs, 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.120 seven strikeouts. He now goes to three and oh with 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.560 a sub one e r A on the season. This 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.680 is FISA s fitting statistician. This is what I do 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.120 for you. I also told you I think a mere 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.960 Garrett might keep it going for Cincinnati. What he do 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.400 seven innings, pitch tour and runs, twelve strikeouts, got a 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.920 quality start. Although the Reds did lose two to one 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.360 to the Baltimore Orioles. I'm telling you about this pitching. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.720 That's what you need to do. That is the way 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:03.200 to win this cash Baseball DFS and tonight tonight, let 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.400 me tell you something. There's some options tonight between four nowhere, Syndergard, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.920 Danny Duffy, Steven Strasbourg. That's all chalk. That's fine to me. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.840 I will say this, I'm fading four. I'm fading Thor 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.920 today because of this blister, this fingernails. My man Tony 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.240 Sencott on the DFS Lineup Block Show told you that 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.560 Thor tonight is wearing like fake fingernails. Let's takes some 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.480 getting used to. He has these blister issues. Only four 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.240 strikeouts last time. I like that, but I don't like 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.480 having to pay eleven thousand, two hundred on fan duel 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.600 for it. So here's where I'm going tonight. And I've 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.560 been I've been hot lately. Hopefully you've been listening to me. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.560 James Paxton. James Paxton Tonight, nine thousand at Oakland. Let 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.200 me tell you something. This again, combined stuff I'm talking about. 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.120 I've liked James Paxton all year long. I've told you 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.280 about that. I told you I would take James Paxton 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.319 over King Felix Hernandez earlier in the sea, earlier in 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.040 the season. In the preseason, I was telling you in 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.959 drafts James Paxton twenty two strikeouts in twenty one innings. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.360 Pitch still has yet to give up a run so 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.120 far this season, and we've talked about the ballpark factor 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.880 at Oakland. I like that. I like that. Okay, Like 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.960 I'm Kirk Cousins going up against Valdez making his first 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.840 career start in place with Kendall Graveman today also, so 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.079 I like Paxton. That's the way I'm going. If you 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:19.719 want to put Danny Duffy, if you want to take 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.520 Steven Strausburg, Okay, I'm cool with that, of course. But Yo, 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.200 this is what I'm doing. I'm giving you what you need. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:26.800 You know who else gives you what you need. Rhoto 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:31.240 Experts dot Com and their exclusive edge in season Fantasy 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.080 Baseball packages your ultimate bench coach for the two thousand 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.360 seventeen season. Stay ahead of the pack with our in 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.840 depth statistical breakdowns, trend analysis, and player insights. Become a 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.560 waiver wizard and learn how to scan the numbers like 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.480 a Rhodo scientist. We help you set the ideal lineups 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.360 every week this season. 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You know your head is bobbing because 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.600 your neck knows what's up and you win in that cast. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.920 I want to tell you something about that I've been seeing. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.480 You know, we know it's real still early in the 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.240 season for baseball, but I want to give you a 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.160 little something of what stats actually still matter at this point. Okay, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.679 here's some of the things you can see. I think 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.360 velocity and pitch movement are things that are important to 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.680 see for pictures. We've talked about these the Major League 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.520 Baseball the radar guns in a different place and how 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.679 some people and you know, everybody's having a little bit 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.240 of a tick up, but there are some people that 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.680 have even a bigger jump. And there are some people 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.199 that dropping. I told you about Sam Dyson here. You know, 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.360 Shelby Miller up this season, Dan Strali up this season, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.520 but Jake Garrietta down this season. This is velo. I'm 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.040 talking about velocity. That is something that normalizes pretty quickly. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.240 You know, your things like your bad BIP, your things 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.960 like your FIP, those take times to normalize throughout the season. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.640 But the things, the inputs that the pictures can actually control. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.880 And I'm talking about velocity. I'm talking about pitch movement data. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.880 I think that's real interesting and uh, you can actually 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.680 start to look at and get efficiencies early on things 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.040 like contact rate or a little bit different. For example, 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.160 Clayton Kershaw, who everybody thinks is the best picture in baseball, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.679 his hard contact rate has gone up from sev so 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.280 far already this year. But that's too much of a 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:38.440 small sample size that's gonna regulate. However, Sam Dyson has 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.160 gone from nine two miles an hour to ninety three 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.640 point nine. That drop and you add the miles per 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.520 hour difference with the radar guns this year. I think 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.600 that's a big difference. Here's the other thing I'm gonna say, 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.320 and you know, I might have to talk about this 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.080 a little bit more coming out of break, but we 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.800 are moving to such a three outcome game with the 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.560 home run, to strike out, and the walk, and that's 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.720 really what baseball is looking thinking about about this. Everybody 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.079 with their swings, the launch angle, trying to hit home runs. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.880 It's all about k rate, you know, and people looking 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.360 to get on base percentage, walks, those three outcomes, trying 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.720 to take the defense out of it. That's what's happening. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.400 And I have some stats to back it up. Okay, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.280 So when we come back in the cipher, that's one 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:16.839 of the things we're gonna talk about. We're gonna check 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.560 it on the polls. I'm also gonna give you news 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.440 and notes from around the league, you know how we 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.040 do here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.200 Radio Network of course around the world with the American 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.080 Forces Radio Network. One of the other things we're gonna 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.559 talk about. I mentioned to you Dana White talking again 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.319 about this Conno McGregor, Floyd Mayweather your big money. We're 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:39.200 talking about your big money. We're talking a rap money. Okay, 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.199 let's get into it. You know when we come right back. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:13:03.480 Dave Martinez Fantasy Freestyle. Ah, you know what it is. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.600 It shouldvoid Dane Martinez, a k a. To Spit and Statistician. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.000 You're listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.880 Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Big shout out to the sports 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.400 byline affiliates in the American Forces Radio Network as well. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.480 Before the break, one of the things I was mentioning 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.840 was that baseball, I think is really trending towards the 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.840 three pure outcomes. And for those of you who don't 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:24.679 know what I'm talking about when we talk about these 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.200 pure outcomes, is the where something where the defense, the 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.760 players on the field are completely independent of the outcome, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.719 where there is no potential for for innescence, for them 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.080 to mess it up or for a shift to change something. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.440 We're talking about the pure outcomes. There are three of 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:42.560 them in Major League Baseball, the strikeout, the walk, and 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:46.160 the home run. Okay, and this has really, in my opinion, 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.160 become the focus. You're gonna hear me talking about this 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.800 a lot during the Major League Baseball season. We talked about, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.120 you know, the evolution of the leadoff hitter. How home 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.760 runs are even there we're talking about. We've talked to 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.280 you about the launch angle that people are going for, 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.160 trying to hit more fly balls, trying to hit more 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.520 home runs. You obviously probably have already heard about moneyball, 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.200 and you know, taking pictures pitches and what was the 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.520 on base percentage revolution Greek, you know, the Greek god 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.520 of walks and all of that. But also now what 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.640 we're looking for on the flip side of our our 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.600 strikeout pitchers, big horses that can strike, have strikeout stuff 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.920 once again, trying to take this out and the game 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.840 is trending. Check this out. Home runs are up again 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.680 this year. I know it's still a small sample size, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.280 but close to ten pc up over the pace at 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.280 this point last season. Okay, one point one two home 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.720 runs per game from each team so far. Okay, in 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.040 many days you'll have something like thirty home runs in 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:46.440 eight games. All right, Never have there been one point 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.520 to home runs per game per team. Okay, even in 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.960 the steroid error, even in the height of the steroid 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.800 erra Barry Bonds, Remember I told you about guys like 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.480 Richard Hidalgo Louis. When Luis Gonzalez was hitting fifty seven 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:04.400 home raw, we didn't have this number. Okay, players players 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.960 last year combined to hit five thousand, six and ninety 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.000 three home runs last year. That was just short of 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.120 the record established in two thousand and it stands. The 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.800 fall this year after the steroid. Ever, because people are 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.760 trying to the strikeout is also jumping. The strikeout rate 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.640 is jumping at eight point two two per nine innings, okay, 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:26.520 above last season, you know, almost like two above ten 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.240 fifteen years ago. Okay, this is where people are going. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.720 Is this more entertaining? I'm not sure. I've always heard 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.320 chicks dig the long ball. I I think people like 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.800 striking for the two strike clap, you know, the slow clap. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.240 People do like strikeouts. But this is interesting. I think 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.400 they're trying to take defensive error and the shift out 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.640 of the game, and people are building teams that way. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.760 I find it very interesting, and I've you know, I've 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.960 talked to you guys about this a lot, in terms 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.000 of strikeout rate, in terms of launch angle, you know, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.680 in terms of you know, walk great. So this is 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.640 something you're gonna be hearing about I'm not sure if 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.320 it's good. We're gonna I'm gonna talk if I ever 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.520 get a guy like Tony Sencado, Benny Ricard. We're gonna 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.560 talk about this on the show. But let's keep it 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.560 moving here. Let's get into the cipher news of notes 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.880 around the NFL, which, like I said, the NFL schedule 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.360 gets released tonight. The draft is a week from tonight, 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.080 and there is a lot of smoke screening going on 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.800 in my opinion. Again, e VP of the brown Sashi 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.360 Brown says he is open to trading up from the 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.760 twelve pick, maybe to get a quarterback. He says, ni quote, 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.760 we don't want to force things that just have to happen, 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:28.080 but we'll stay aggressive at all positions. Remember, like just yesterday, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:29.840 I told you the Browns were not planning to make 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.120 a move for a quarterback. Remember like two days ago 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.280 and I told you to Browns were considering letting Brock 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:40.120 Osweiler and Cody Kessler have a competition at quarterback. You 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.640 hear everything this time year, Like I said, this is 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.560 a day for twenty. Happy for twenty and also happy 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:49.320 high five Day, Happy High five days. Slap hands slap 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:53.840 hands like my man the water boy Adam Sandler out there. Um, 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.000 we're gonna hear a lot of stuff in the next week. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:57.680 It's gonna be very interesting to try and sift in 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.720 mind for the truth. That's why I have that poll. 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.240 Quite sho up. We'll check in on that pole right now. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.320 Of you think a top ten pick will be traded. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.159 Of you think Malcolm Butler or Richard Sherman will be traded, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.679 fourteen percent of you think that Garoppolo Oswilder will be traded. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.840 And and you know my man'son Shy Braden has said 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.840 everything under the sun around that fourteen percent of you 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.480 think that Sheldon Richardson, the Jets stud linebacker will get 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.560 traded as the Jets go into full rebuild. And remember 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.600 they already have Mohammed Wilkerson. They have um a growing 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.359 Leonard Williams. All right. Speaking of which, maybe this is real, 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:34.400 maybe this is another smoke screen. Eagles, uh Philadelphiagles say 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.320 they may be targeting Joe Mix and he's off troubled 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.240 running back out of Oklahoma. But I don't understand this. 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.520 I think the Eagles have have running backs, whether it 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.280 be Sprowls. They like that kid when those small wood 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.600 you know, Ryan Matthew injury prone. I get it, So 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.439 we'll we'll see about that. But uh, I got my 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.600 boy Donnie Burns with me here on Thursday. I don't 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.240 have him on Friday, so I gotta be able to 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.920 utilize him. Now. I'm gonna have my man, Chris Bovona 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.560 back with me on the ones and two is on Friday. 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.720 I do believe here on the Fantasy Freestyle. But Donnie 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.440 Burns is my resident NBA. You know, he's the love 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.760 doctor for me if you listen to the Fantasy Freestyle. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.320 He's also my NBA correspondent. And I put up a 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.320 question here on on the poll today, don as we 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.040 keep it moving here in the cipher, would you pick 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.399 the Warriors or would you pick the field? You know, 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.600 and like right now on the on the poll question, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.399 it's very interesting. Right now, fifty one percent say the 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.159 field percent say they would take the Golden State Warriors 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.879 to win the championship over everyone. Listen, they won yesterday 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.800 a tight one. This is without Kevin Durant. Remember last 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:36.920 year when Steph Curry like rested his ankle for a 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.000 few games in the first round. It really reminds me 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.679 of this. And also it does not surprise me that 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:44.760 Kevin Durant now has you know, what I would say 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.400 is like a compensation injury right the calf, after the knee, 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.720 the opposite leg. Listen. I think everybody besides maybe San Antonio, 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.240 so far, everybody else has struggled. We talked about Lebron 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.760 struggling and the Calves with their defense. We've talked about 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.119 the way the Celtics look. We talked we saw how 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.399 the Raptors all even went down a game. You know, 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.360 we see the way the you know, the thunder will 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.520 probably pose a challenge here, we saw the Jazz. I mean, 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.600 everybody else. The Warriors look like their cruising with or 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.880 without Kevin Durant. Um. So I think it could be 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.120 don't look, you know, and I know, Donnie Burns you've 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.720 said this also. I would love to see a run 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.520 out of the Washington Wizards. I would love to see. Yeah, 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.359 thank you. I would love to see my boy, John 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.760 wall I would love to see. I would love to 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.879 see that. Oh as right now, it looks like the 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:31.960 Montreal Canadiens get first blood in that game against the 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.440 New York Rangers in a pivotal Game five in the 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.080 first round of the Eastern Conference Partople. It looks like 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.560 the Canadians will go up one one nothing. But yeah, 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.840 I like the way John wall I think Washington is 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.640