Speaker 1: Catch and Michael Thomas, wide receiver from New Orleans Saints,
Speaker 1: did not report for the start of Saints training camp
Speaker 1: on Thursday. That's also according to Rapp Report, Thomas has
Speaker 1: been in negotiations with the Saints for weeks, but apparently
Speaker 1: he's not showing up until a deal gets done. He's
Speaker 1: reportedly seeking upwards of twenty million dollars annually in contract
Speaker 1: talks that would make him the highest paid receiver in
Speaker 1: the NFL. In Major League Baseball, X rays have comeback
Speaker 1: negative on Enrique Hernandez hand. Matt Carboner will remain on
Speaker 1: his rehab assignment through the early part of the weekend
Speaker 1: at the print of Colonel's manager Mike Shilt, and finally,
Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil will be out of the Mets line up
Speaker 1: on Thursday due to what the Metropolitans are calling heavy legs.
Speaker 1: I'm Dan Strafford. This has been your Fantasy Sports the
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Speaker 1: on the b f F S Frank Stample, Gregg Saucepan
Speaker 1: here hanging out for the next hour. Virginia Zankis will
Speaker 1: join us coming up at about three twenty eas gonna
Speaker 1: go over all the latest injuries. We'll make sure we'll
Speaker 1: call Virginia get her online coming up at about three
Speaker 1: p m. During time. Right, we had his raking baseball
Speaker 1: news that occurred during that hour, and that's that Blake
Speaker 1: Snell is going to have this um a loose body
Speaker 1: removing his elbow. That's a six week or so, four
Speaker 1: or six week injury, and the rays abot the playoffs
Speaker 1: standing at that point eat over the year. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: say he's going to miss around four weeks with this injury.
Speaker 1: That seems a little bit optimistic to me, and obviously
Speaker 1: hasn't pitched up to the standards we were hoping this season.
Speaker 1: He's got a four point to eight e r A
Speaker 1: a one point to five whip is. Underlying numbers are
Speaker 1: much better than that, but perhaps this is something that
Speaker 1: he has been dealing with. So yeah, Blake Snell, it's
Speaker 1: a huge blow for fantasy baseball owners. It's a huge
Speaker 1: blow for the Tampa Bay Rays. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: they're they're right in the mix for the wild Card obviously,
Speaker 1: and you know they have a bunch of competitive games
Speaker 1: coming up with the They just played the Red Sox
Speaker 1: to have another series coming up soon against the Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox, so obviously they need Blake Snell healthy in
Speaker 1: order to make some noise here. Greg, do you think
Speaker 1: this opens up the opportunity for Tampa Bay to become
Speaker 1: buyers in the starting pitcher market, No, not at all. No,
Speaker 1: I think this. I think there's ultimately could have them
Speaker 1: be sellers more than more than any that's sellers, but
Speaker 1: like kind of really, they'll just sit tight, they won't
Speaker 1: be sellers. Yeah, I see them more of that. I
Speaker 1: see them more of sitting tight and seeing what they
Speaker 1: have and ultimately even they're pitching, I mean, you could
Speaker 1: always make noise with pitching like that in the postseason.
Speaker 1: It's like you just get in if you anything, you're healthy.
Speaker 1: They have one starter right now, probably Morton, that's it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We saw Jail and Beaks as a starter. That didn't
Speaker 1: work out very much, right, I mean their starters are
Speaker 1: only cherinos. Ryan Yarbro, that's it, man. You know if
Speaker 1: I asked you right now, Greg, and I don't you
Speaker 1: might know this off the top of your head. Do
Speaker 1: you think Tampa Bay has a wild card spot right now?
Speaker 1: I have it up right in front of me. They do.
Speaker 1: They do not. They're out of the second wild card
Speaker 1: spot right now. It's Clan and Oakland, Oakland in Oakland.
Speaker 1: That yeah, So that's why people wouldn't even realize that,
Speaker 1: Like that's how far off the Tampa Bay race have
Speaker 1: actually fallen. There's still eleven games over five hundred, but
Speaker 1: you know they've they've taken some lumps here. So the
Speaker 1: Gland A's have now jumped them to Cleveland Indians are
Speaker 1: leading the wild card. Don't with now that the Indians
Speaker 1: are like two games out of the American League Central,
Speaker 1: But huge blow for fantasy owners for the Tama Bay Rays. Again,
Speaker 1: I think that four week timetable for Blake Snell. It
Speaker 1: might even be that what I said, I said six weeks,
Speaker 1: probably six four to six weeks at that point. What
Speaker 1: are we looking at mid September? Ideally the Rays would
Speaker 1: want to stay afloat kind of be like right in
Speaker 1: that mix for that second wild card spot and if
Speaker 1: they could sneak in and get maybe two to three
Speaker 1: starts out of Blake Snell down the stretch in order
Speaker 1: to just kind of like, you know, get his arm
Speaker 1: back in motion, get his legs underneath them a little bit,
Speaker 1: get him back in the flow of everything. If they
Speaker 1: can get those two starts down the stretch, and he
Speaker 1: would probably be good to go for a wild card start.
Speaker 1: I agree with that, and obviously that's the guy that
Speaker 1: they would want on the mount, even as well as
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton has pitched. I think Blake Snow still the
Speaker 1: guy they would want on the mount. But that's a
Speaker 1: long time coming, in a long time away. Blake Snell
Speaker 1: out four to six weeks. But he's not the only
Speaker 1: star that's going to be out for a while, as
Speaker 1: Joey gallow is undergoing surgery to repair a broken hammate
Speaker 1: bone in his right race. The tweet yesterday, everyone was
Speaker 1: making fun of the the Beat reporter who reported it
Speaker 1: some someone from who covers the Texas Rangers. You wrote
Speaker 1: hamster bone. You probably got like auto corrected on his phone,
Speaker 1: and everybody was just quote tweeting it with like penny
Speaker 1: state type stuff. It's pretty funny. Greg. You don't enjoy puns, Like,
Speaker 1: what do you like? I mean, honestly, let's get down
Speaker 1: to this here. You don't like puns. I can't talk
Speaker 1: about or superheroes, villas. You don't like chocolate. You don't
Speaker 1: like bacon. You clearly like balsa mcvinegar because it's all
Speaker 1: over your shirt. Again, huh? You like dodgeball or I
Speaker 1: mean not? You like kickball? But do you even like kickball?
Speaker 1: You like bunting in kickball. You don't even like kicking
Speaker 1: the ball. But you don't like kicking the ball. I
Speaker 1: just think my be like like nudging the ball with
Speaker 1: your foot. It's not kickball, right, it's nudge ball. You're
Speaker 1: playing nudgeball. You're playing bunt ball with your foot. So
Speaker 1: what are your top five things that you like in life? Greg?
Speaker 1: This is this is where we've where we've come. She's
Speaker 1: like a hard question. Can we talk about Joey top
Speaker 1: five things that you like in life? Greg? Everything? Judy salad,
Speaker 1: balsamic vinegar salad or not? Spike ball ball and uh
Speaker 1: and Rob Susman and obviously Boma Susan, the entire Salesman family.
Speaker 1: All right, that makes the list for top five? It
Speaker 1: but Yeah, it's it's Judy, It's salad, balsamic vinegar, Spike Ball,
Speaker 1: and and the Salesman Family. That's the top five things
Speaker 1: that Gregg loves in life. I don't think that salad
Speaker 1: or balsamic vinegar may get in there. And the movies
Speaker 1: that were nominated for whatever the award is Oscars. I
Speaker 1: don't like all Oscar movies. But I do feel like
Speaker 1: we were talking downstairs about the Ventors movies and superhero movies,
Speaker 1: and of course Greg's like they're all the same. I
Speaker 1: hate them. But the only movies you like are like
Speaker 1: these hippie movies that are not hippis. It's true. I
Speaker 1: don't just like hippie movies. Don't even like hippie movies.
Speaker 1: I like good movies. I'm using the term hippie very
Speaker 1: loosely here. Clearly I like good movies, man, I like
Speaker 1: good movies. To name a good movie, this is this
Speaker 1: is dangerous, This is very dangerous, Like I think Team
Speaker 1: Going Up thirty it's a good movie. I used to
Speaker 1: like that movie. When I was younger. I was a
Speaker 1: big Jennifer Garner. Yeah, Everard was awesome. Yea, I used
Speaker 1: to I used to watch Alias religiously with my mother. Actually, really,
Speaker 1: it's a great show. Twelve years old and I love dude.
Speaker 1: I loved Alias. So was it good when you were
Speaker 1: I was twelve to you were probably thirty? Right, it
Speaker 1: was good, thay, But if I said that joke, you
Speaker 1: would have looked at me, like, oh, what an idiot.
Speaker 1: I would have laughed. It was a callback to a
Speaker 1: conversation we just had. Alright, So name a good movie.
Speaker 1: It's part of the movie. The depart is a very
Speaker 1: good movie. Yeah, Inceptions are good movie. So you're just
Speaker 1: gonna go down to Leonardo DiCaprio movies. Now it works
Speaker 1: for me, Yeah, it works. These all also nominated for Oscars.
Speaker 1: They probably Exception was not. Island was a bad movie? Really?
Speaker 1: I liked it, really, yeah it was. I got really
Speaker 1: annoyed by the ending. I like, uh, sure, of course Island.
Speaker 1: I was annoyed by the end of it. So you
Speaker 1: liked Inception is not close for you? No? No, not
Speaker 1: close for you, just pretty close. I think I gotta
Speaker 1: go back and rewatch them. I saw both in theaters.
Speaker 1: Actually I don't think I did. At least I'll give
Speaker 1: you the Department. It's actually good. All right, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about Joey Yallow and a whole out more how it
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Speaker 1: with you on the BFF. Sturgen Zak is coming up
Speaker 1: in about nine minutes or so from now. But you
Speaker 1: were I was joking from joking before, I was telling
Speaker 1: you before, and you turned into a joke, Frank. With
Speaker 1: Joey Gallo undergoing surgery on his hand made bone in
Speaker 1: his right wrist, we know that SAPs power, uh, definitively
Speaker 1: from these guys, Joey Gallow all power as strong as
Speaker 1: you get. Brutal injury for joe Gallow and for the
Speaker 1: Rangers absolutely, I mean he was having a career year
Speaker 1: this season to fifty three two home runs. Uh, he
Speaker 1: was still striking out a ton, but he was hitting
Speaker 1: more line drives. This season. He was hitting the ball
Speaker 1: harder than ever that I could have imagine that being possible,
Speaker 1: fifty one point nine percent hard hit rates. So this
Speaker 1: is a pretty big blow. Obviously, you missed some time
Speaker 1: earlier on in the season with the oblique injury, and
Speaker 1: now he's got this hammate bone. So it looks like
Speaker 1: the Rangers are going to be sellers here at the deadline.
Speaker 1: If they do anything, they probably end up moving Chris
Speaker 1: Martin and maybe they move Mike Minor, maybe and Andrew
Speaker 1: Cashner or something like that. But you know, if they
Speaker 1: do that, Greg, I'll throw this back your way. They
Speaker 1: probably just shut down. Joey Gallo. No, what's the timetable
Speaker 1: for this injury? Probably should ask, you know, Virginia, not you,
Speaker 1: you're you're not an injury expert. I just thought if
Speaker 1: you if you read the report, they might have had
Speaker 1: a timetable next to it. He'll be sidelined through all
Speaker 1: of August, and so by the time they get to
Speaker 1: September they're not competing. It wouldn't surprise me if he
Speaker 1: doesn't play another game this year. I agree that the
Speaker 1: same thing goes for Adelberto Mondassey was dealing with the
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. Like, what kind of incentive do the Royals
Speaker 1: have to rush him back? He's literally a huge part
Speaker 1: of their future. So just again, big blows for fantasy owners,
Speaker 1: and you know, I would say they're big blows for
Speaker 1: the team's obviously they are. But the Royals and Rangers
Speaker 1: are not competing for anything, so it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: If you are a in Texas playing fantasy baseball, are
Speaker 1: you running to pick up Willie Calhoun again? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think that obviously makes some sense. They can um, they
Speaker 1: can use Hunter Pence again at the at the d H,
Speaker 1: they still have no more Mazara. They have shintsu Chu
Speaker 1: who has had an awesome season. So yeah, especially in
Speaker 1: deeper leagues, Willy Calhoun was demoted recently. Uh did they
Speaker 1: make that? The corresponding move is that for Shure greg Or? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, I love Willie Calhoun is this guy has
Speaker 1: been a professional hitter every single level of the miners
Speaker 1: And I think that that injury that he suffered when
Speaker 1: he first came up and he was mashing then he
Speaker 1: suffered the injury. I think that really kind of derailed
Speaker 1: him because when he was first called up, Willie Calhoun
Speaker 1: was crushing it for the Texas Rangers. I think he
Speaker 1: just had a really, really weird start to his career.
Speaker 1: He's not a good fielder, so he's kind of an
Speaker 1: odd man out. He can't play d H because they
Speaker 1: have Hunter Pence and they have Shinsu Chu. He's not
Speaker 1: a good outfielder. He's like a second baseman converted outfielder.
Speaker 1: It's been a really really rough go the first couple
Speaker 1: of seasons here for Willie Calhoun. But he's going to
Speaker 1: be someone that I'm just going to continue to buy,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's in a really good ballpark, really
Speaker 1: good lineup, and I really do believe that he is
Speaker 1: a professional hitter, someone that can hit for batting average
Speaker 1: and power. So from a fantasy perspective, yeah, but let's
Speaker 1: see if that's actually what they do. If they make
Speaker 1: that the corresponding move. From a betting perspective, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe this will lend itself towards you choosing the under
Speaker 1: more so in Texas Rangers game now, or you know,
Speaker 1: betting against them because they don't have that big Joey
Speaker 1: Beallo Gallo bat in the lineup, and now is there
Speaker 1: something to potentially for the Red Sox. It's like you
Speaker 1: made the wild card now because the Razors falling back,
Speaker 1: the Rangers falling back. Obviously mentioned that the A's and
Speaker 1: the Indians in two games out right now, right, the
Speaker 1: Red Sox can surgery of a big series the Yankees
Speaker 1: this weekend to be a wild card team. Right now,
Speaker 1: here's the problem, Greg, You're just not getting great odds.
Speaker 1: You're getting the Boston Red Sox to be a wild
Speaker 1: card team. You could bet specifically on to be a
Speaker 1: wild card team on the Fandel sports book. Boston Red
Speaker 1: Sox at plus one thirty. Yeah, they probably make it.
Speaker 1: But money's money. That's fine. Like if you end up
Speaker 1: doubling your money or you know, a little bit more
Speaker 1: than that. Obviously here at plus one thirty, that's fine.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're a Red Sox fan, it's probably
Speaker 1: something you should jump on. You probably should have jumped
Speaker 1: on it a couple of weeks ago when they were
Speaker 1: even further out. But yeah, I mean, you can never
Speaker 1: count the Red Sox out. They're probably going to make
Speaker 1: a move or two here at the deadline. I don't
Speaker 1: think that they make anything too crazy, Greg, because everything
Speaker 1: I've read says they want to stay under this luxury tax.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that they're going to, you know,
Speaker 1: acquire some huge name. You saw them already pick up
Speaker 1: Andrew Kashner. But I think that they go out there
Speaker 1: and they get another reliever. I don't know that they trust,
Speaker 1: you know, Nathan, of all your Brandon Workman as the
Speaker 1: I think they do. I don't think they do anything crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised they never really signed Craig Kimber. I always
Speaker 1: thought just there's no urgency there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the Red six, it's really weird.
Speaker 1: I know that they just won the Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm so in on football right now. He just won
Speaker 1: the World Series. But it feels like this year they're
Speaker 1: just kind of going through the motions. Is that fair
Speaker 1: to say? It feels that there's just no urgency. It
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like they need to get back to the urgency.
Speaker 1: We have this weekend. Obviously we'll watch these games a
Speaker 1: little bit closer'n. It should be fun. Hopefully, Uh the
Speaker 1: Yankees will um yes, bats will continue to hit now
Speaker 1: this is what you should be betting on. Greg the
Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox. This is heresy for Yankees fans to
Speaker 1: here cover your ears that the Boston Red Sox and
Speaker 1: the win the divisions that think Tanner Levin. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of games. It's a lot of games. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of game. The Nationals are on their way to
Speaker 1: doing it though. No Greg, and more time though. But
Speaker 1: the thing is, if there's ever a time to do it,
Speaker 1: it's now. Because the Red Sox, the Red Sox at
Speaker 1: plus seventeen hundred, right they have would They have a
Speaker 1: four game series coming up against the Yankees right now,
Speaker 1: and I think next week they face the Yankees three
Speaker 1: more times. If they go five and two in those games,
Speaker 1: again I hope not as a Yankee fan, but it's
Speaker 1: not intermountable. If they go five and two, six and
Speaker 1: one in those games, the Red Sox make a huge
Speaker 1: ground in the A League half at plus seventeen hundred.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I wouldn't do it, but it's just
Speaker 1: it's just big odds, you know, Yeah, those are those
Speaker 1: are good odds. Plus seventeen hundred not something you would do. No,
Speaker 1: I can't talk you into this. You're just getting them
Speaker 1: at such a such a great value. And it's just
Speaker 1: the fact that they're going to face the Yankees seven
Speaker 1: times in the next two weeks. They can make up
Speaker 1: a lot of ground. I'll just throw it out there. Um.
Speaker 1: Other baseball news, Uh, we mentioned Blake's now we've now
Speaker 1: mentioned Joey Gallow. Both of those stories worth monitoring. Here
Speaker 1: is Zekiel Elliott talks about it last hour. Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: did not report is not expected to report the training
Speaker 1: camp in l A with the Cowboys. The team playing
Speaker 1: left from Dallas to go to l A. You can
Speaker 1: find yourself there obviously, but Ezekiel Elliott not expected to
Speaker 1: be there when camp opens in LA for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: As I've mentioned, I believe the date is either the
Speaker 1: sixth or the eighth, when this becomes in a crude season.
Speaker 1: And you brought this up as well, Greg, Yes, that's
Speaker 1: the date that you really have to pay attention to that.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't arrive by then, then he's pretty much
Speaker 1: you know, okay, I'm doing this thing. I'm holding out.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me if Jerry Jones still you know,
Speaker 1: breaks the bank for Ezekiel Elliott. But yeah, it's obviously
Speaker 1: a huge storyline to pay attention to. I don't know that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we would feel as good about the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys potentially winning the NFC or the NFC East with
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard as they're starting running back. So yeah, this
Speaker 1: has a huge effect on things, both for fantasy and
Speaker 1: from a betting person. Absolutely, it's insane, absolutely obviously huge,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott news. We certainly used that we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to follow Thomas too. I don't feel nearly the same
Speaker 1: as I do about Zeke as I do about Melvin Gordon.
Speaker 1: I feel much more strongly about Melvin Gordon holding out
Speaker 1: than I do Ezek And I think it's clear because
Speaker 1: the agent even than this whole statement, the Melan Gordon
Speaker 1: had this whole statement, and the charges came out of
Speaker 1: the statement. It's a lot of back and forth. Zek
Speaker 1: Elliott's like, here's my and he's younger though he's here's
Speaker 1: what I want. Less years already on, let's be like,
Speaker 1: give me what I want. World show up a little late.
Speaker 1: He's going to be he's going to want to be
Speaker 1: the highest paid running back in the NFL. Why not.
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, three out of the four years.
Speaker 1: How many years does he play? I think he's played three, right,
Speaker 1: Zeke with one suspension, He's led the league in rushing
Speaker 1: each of the two years that he wasn't suspended. In
Speaker 1: the year that he was suspended, he led the league
Speaker 1: in rushing yards per games. So he would have led
Speaker 1: the league in rushing if he didn't get suspended. There's
Speaker 1: a huge There's obviously a huge ideology, and there are
Speaker 1: a lot of statistics that back it up. Right now,
Speaker 1: people that are way smarter than me in the fantasy
Speaker 1: industry and the football analytics industry that say running backs
Speaker 1: don't matter. And there was a story that came out
Speaker 1: recently from the gentleman who actually created the air Yards
Speaker 1: website and founded air Yards First Go Josh on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Of course, he wrote an article about why Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: is not worth the money that he would be asking for.
Speaker 1: So I employed, I would tell everyone to go out
Speaker 1: there and check it out and read it, so you
Speaker 1: can kind of get an analytics perspective of things. But
Speaker 1: obviously every pure football fan, Cowboys fan is going to
Speaker 1: come out and say, how can you not pay Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is one of the best running
Speaker 1: backs in the league, but there are analytics and stats
Speaker 1: that show that he may not be worth the money
Speaker 1: that he's asking for. Greg. That's Ezekiel Elliot I would
Speaker 1: probably pay the guy. We're gonna have a lot more
Speaker 1: news on a whole lot more players, including franchise players
Speaker 1: like Julio Jones and Julian Edelman because of Virginia Fox injuries.
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Speaker 1: Injuries are a good friend, Virginia is occus. What's up Virginia?
Speaker 1: You guys, good afternoon. How are you doing well? Excited
Speaker 1: to talk some NFL? Absolutely before we do. How nervous
Speaker 1: does we be about Gary Sanchez? Yeah? This is not good?
Speaker 1: Oh so in this grind injuries to his left side.
Speaker 1: Last year he had two serious grind strains to his
Speaker 1: right side. Um. Even though it's to the opposite side,
Speaker 1: it's still a huge concern. Um graind strnges, highly recurrent,
Speaker 1: especially difficult for a catcher of course, and not crouching position.
Speaker 1: UM he did say that this one doesn't feel anything
Speaker 1: like the ones he dealt with last year. But minimum
Speaker 1: optimal recovery time according to our algorithm, is three weeks.
Speaker 1: He absolutely should not return before then, especially because of
Speaker 1: his history. UM, he was already a high risk. It's
Speaker 1: now jumped up to fifty eight percent, which is incredibly high.
Speaker 1: So pretty concerned about Gary Sanchez. UM think he can
Speaker 1: return maybe by late August, but he really should not
Speaker 1: return before then. We were talking downstairs about this and
Speaker 1: we all kind of agreed that it wouldn't surprise us
Speaker 1: if he sits out until September. Obviously. You know he's
Speaker 1: dealt with the groin strains. Last year was to the right,
Speaker 1: this year it's to the left. I don't even know
Speaker 1: how he ended up hurting his growing great because he
Speaker 1: left the game the other day. He likes sprained his
Speaker 1: ankle running the like at first base, so I don't
Speaker 1: even know where the groin came from. But overall, again
Speaker 1: another huge blow for Fantasy. We've already got a ton
Speaker 1: of injuries that came out today, like Blake Snell and
Speaker 1: and Joey Gallow and now Gary says is obviously being
Speaker 1: placed on the I L I think he's not back
Speaker 1: until September. Greg. I totally agree. He said that when
Speaker 1: rosters expands when he comes back. Tough break obviously for
Speaker 1: the Yankees Virginia. I know you don't have this available.
Speaker 1: It's all breaking news for us before we get into football.
Speaker 1: I I do want to try to mention and see
Speaker 1: if you have any information on it. And that's both
Speaker 1: Blake Snell and Joey Gallow, two players that just came
Speaker 1: out that how serious or injuries are. And I'll start
Speaker 1: with I'll start with GALAXX. This is not something that
Speaker 1: we've heard about many times before. What you break your
Speaker 1: hammate bone and have surgery on it in your right wrist?
Speaker 1: How that totally totally SAPs the power? And how long
Speaker 1: typically is a recovery from a surgery on a broken
Speaker 1: hammate bone. Yeah, so it's actually not quite as serious
Speaker 1: as a lot of other hand or finger fractures. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's one of those injuries. We still are showing
Speaker 1: for him that he needs seven weeks for it to
Speaker 1: heal and then it's going to be roughly another four
Speaker 1: weeks before he gets his power back. UM. With these
Speaker 1: wrists and hand injuries, it just it takes a lot
Speaker 1: of time coming back from a fracture because you really
Speaker 1: can't do anything for at least a month or two
Speaker 1: all that bone heels, UM, and then you have to
Speaker 1: get the strength back in your wrist and hand and arms.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be surprised if he's back maybe five
Speaker 1: to six weeks, but it's gonna take a couple of
Speaker 1: months for him to get the strength back. UM. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna hurt his performance probably for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season totally. That power is gonna be relatively sat
Speaker 1: for Joey gallow until next year. Same a question though, Virginia.
Speaker 1: When it comes to floating bodies in your elbow, it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound very good. Yeah. Again, it's pretty painful. UM,
Speaker 1: not too serious. It is realistic to see him back
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, but we are showing
Speaker 1: an eight to nine week optimal recovery time UM pictures
Speaker 1: can return. We've seen him returning as soon as maybe
Speaker 1: six or seven weeks. That's that's too fast. UM. Elbow
Speaker 1: is still recovering. UM, and you're putting yourself at a
Speaker 1: very high risk of suffering a compensatory injury just because
Speaker 1: the elbow and the arm are not fully healed. But
Speaker 1: you know, realistic to see him back in nine to
Speaker 1: ten weeks. Don't think he'll be quite the same picture
Speaker 1: until he has the offseason to fully recover, but is
Speaker 1: realistic to see him later in the year. Greg, It's July.
Speaker 1: I was not a math major, but eight to nine
Speaker 1: weeks basically brings us to to the end of the seasons.
Speaker 1: He's out Blakes Now. That sucks. That does suck for
Speaker 1: fantasy owners and raise fans alike. Let's move forward to
Speaker 1: the NFL Virginia. I'll say Sony Michelle for Greg because
Speaker 1: that's his guy, and I'll let you give him all
Speaker 1: the bad news about Sony Michelle. I want to start
Speaker 1: off with A J. Green, where I'm hoping we can
Speaker 1: get some optimistic news here. Last year he dealt with
Speaker 1: a toe injury, but he has been prone to other
Speaker 1: injuries in years past as well. Is A J. Green
Speaker 1: passed his toe injury and how much is he at
Speaker 1: a risk of re injury this upcoming season? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: got some good news and bounties here um. Good news
Speaker 1: is A J. Green just hit his thirty week optimal
Speaker 1: recovery time following surgery. UM. So that means he should
Speaker 1: be ready to get back out there start practicing, maybe
Speaker 1: not full speed doing all of the drills, but he
Speaker 1: should be pretty close to being a full participant UM
Speaker 1: and I expect him to be ready to go by
Speaker 1: week one. UM. The bad news here is we now
Speaker 1: have UM at least three documented toe injuries for him.
Speaker 1: And these injuries, as we've seen, are highly recurrent, especially
Speaker 1: for wide receivers, because they have to push off of
Speaker 1: that foot in that till. It puts a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on the ligaments. UM. And once they've been surgically
Speaker 1: repaired and have also been UM seriously sprained other times,
Speaker 1: they're just they're not going to be the same as
Speaker 1: they were before the injury. UM. So right now it's
Speaker 1: looking like he's going to be an elevated risk right
Speaker 1: around twenty percent by the time the season starts. All right,
Speaker 1: So that's A J. Green. Just what. I don't love that, man,
Speaker 1: I don't love that. It's totally expected. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: he's dealt with these toe injuries before. He's a risk.
Speaker 1: I think he's what thirty thirty years old now, he's
Speaker 1: actually turning thirty one on July thirty one, so he's
Speaker 1: been around a while. Greg, Well, the player that we've
Speaker 1: always prepared to A. J. Green for years has been
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, who's battled his own foot injuries for years
Speaker 1: and years and years. The last couple of years, it's
Speaker 1: pretty well for Julio Jones. Those that street continue this year, Virginia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're actually showing that Julio is at a higher injury
Speaker 1: risk than A J. Green, which kind of surprised me
Speaker 1: when I looked at it, But it's because he's had
Speaker 1: a lot more injuries. Um. A J. Green's problems have
Speaker 1: been mainly to his toe, also to his hamstring, but
Speaker 1: Julio has in the last four seasons we have hip, calf, ankle, toe, hamstring,
Speaker 1: hip flexer, and then he also had that Jones fracture
Speaker 1: back in so he's just had a lot of lower
Speaker 1: body injuries. Um. Now, Julio, he's one of those kind
Speaker 1: of breaks of nature who can somehow find a way
Speaker 1: even if his body isn't, you know, less than fifty,
Speaker 1: he finds a way to go out there and play Um,
Speaker 1: so he's at a very high risk of injury. Um,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be banged up throughout this season. I just
Speaker 1: feel like that's a given, um, knowing his history. But
Speaker 1: he is at above average. His HPF is an above
Speaker 1: average right now, So we actually do think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to play pretty well as long as he
Speaker 1: can stay on the field. Virginia is right that this
Speaker 1: guy just plays through injury. For the past five seasons,
Speaker 1: he's missed just three games. Like every single year, it
Speaker 1: seems like he pops up on the injury report, but
Speaker 1: he still finds a way to play through. I will
Speaker 1: say about this season is that he's already kind of
Speaker 1: missing practice, Like he's starting off with his foot injury.
Speaker 1: They said ten to fourteen days he could be said
Speaker 1: out of practice. Is he just at that point where
Speaker 1: he's like, I don't want to do the training camp
Speaker 1: thing anymore. Yes, that's probably it. Yes, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: thinking here. I don't I don't really I don't worry
Speaker 1: about him as a late first early second round pick.
Speaker 1: Well I don't worry about him either in that spot,
Speaker 1: but like those creeping in my mind, like gosh, I
Speaker 1: just think Michael Thomas instead of him like that someone
Speaker 1: was holding out. Should I just take him? Should I
Speaker 1: just say Odell Beckham over him, so you don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about the injury. Like Beckham has his own
Speaker 1: injury risk. Maybe I should just say Juju over him.
Speaker 1: There's no risks. Yeah, I mean, look, you can, you
Speaker 1: can talk yourself into it. I'm I wouldn't do it,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure someone someone could talk themselves into it. Virginia.
Speaker 1: We were talking earlier today about the Denver broncos in
Speaker 1: particularly Emmanuel Sanders, who's coming back very very quickly from
Speaker 1: an achilles injury. He didn't want to guarantee himself to
Speaker 1: be ready for week one, but he's not on the
Speaker 1: pup list and he seems to be practicing and seven
Speaker 1: on seven drills. How healthy should we expect Manuel Sanders
Speaker 1: to be? Yeah? So right now, not surprising. He's still
Speaker 1: a high injury risk. UM, but we are actually showing
Speaker 1: that he'll be in the above average HPF category by
Speaker 1: the time Week one rolls around, if he can avoid
Speaker 1: any sort of a setback over the next month. UM,
Speaker 1: he is about to hit his optimal recovery time. UM.
Speaker 1: But that's really just for the achilles to heal. UM,
Speaker 1: you still have concerns when someone's coming back from an
Speaker 1: achilles injury, the rest of the body just needs time
Speaker 1: to catch up. You have to build up your strength. UM.
Speaker 1: Many players we've seen calf strains, maybe a hamstring injury.
Speaker 1: We've got to keep a close eye on other injuries
Speaker 1: like that as he's returning. UM. And we've also seen
Speaker 1: that players that are over thirty years old, like Sanders,
Speaker 1: they just tend to have a harder time coming back
Speaker 1: from this type of injury. UM, He's probably gonna lack explosiveness. UM.
Speaker 1: And he's just, especially in the first half of the season,
Speaker 1: he's not going to be the standers that we've seen
Speaker 1: in the past. But I do think he's got a
Speaker 1: pretty good shot at being ready to go week one.
Speaker 1: Manuel Sanders a pretty good value, Nettie to go week one.
Speaker 1: He's currently wide receiver fifty one off the board, and
Speaker 1: I'll take that value as a wide receiver five or
Speaker 1: wide receiver six on my team. Uh, He's just I
Speaker 1: don't know how he's doing it right now. I've seen
Speaker 1: videos of him, you know, running up and down the field,
Speaker 1: already stopping and going, and it just seems crazy that
Speaker 1: he's recovered this quickly from an achilles injury. Virginia, someone
Speaker 1: that I had to bring up. We all kind of
Speaker 1: got duped this morning about a Leonard four net report
Speaker 1: of him leaving the field. You saw the Inside Injuries tweet.
Speaker 1: I tweeted about it as well. Uh, it turned out
Speaker 1: that report was a little fugazy is the word that
Speaker 1: I would use. But Leonard four Nett has dealt with
Speaker 1: ankle injuries, hamstring injuries, chronic foot issues Virginia. What is
Speaker 1: Leonard four nets HPF and what is h his chance
Speaker 1: for re injury heading into the season. So his HPF
Speaker 1: is actually now back in the peak category currently at
Speaker 1: nine two percent, which is really good. UM. I was
Speaker 1: actually pretty surprised by that when I saw it. But
Speaker 1: of course his i r C as at twenty three,
Speaker 1: which is right on the border of elevated and high. Um,
Speaker 1: it's pretty concerning for a guy who was posedly currently
Speaker 1: healthy and had a relatively healthy off season. Um, he
Speaker 1: had multiple hamstring strains last year and he has that
Speaker 1: long history of foot and ankle injuries. UM, He's never
Speaker 1: had surgery, but those things tend to recur. Once you, you
Speaker 1: you know, sprain a ligament in your ankle or your foot,
Speaker 1: the ligaments get stretched out and you're more susceptible to
Speaker 1: a future ankle or foot injury. So, and those are related.
Speaker 1: They are different body parts, but they're very closely related.
Speaker 1: So it's not really a surprise that he's had issues
Speaker 1: with both his ankle and his foot. Um. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: concerned about him this year, of course. UM. I think
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of time before he gets hurt. UM.
Speaker 1: And those, you know, hamstring strains and foot injuries are
Speaker 1: two of the top officed injuries for running backs to
Speaker 1: both play through and to fully recover from. UM and
Speaker 1: they're highly highly recurrent. So I think it's only a
Speaker 1: matter of time before we see something that's burnett. Um.
Speaker 1: But right now he seems to be good to go, right, Virginia,
Speaker 1: do you have any more time hang out with us? First?
Speaker 1: All right, beautiful, all right, we know come more players
Speaker 1: you want to talk to Virginia about. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: that on the other side where you get to our
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Speaker 1: minutes here of the program, Virginia Zakis is still here.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure we get to all the
Speaker 1: players that we had requested to talk about with her,
Speaker 1: so let's get right back into it. I mentioned Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Sanders before his ex teammates, and Marius Thomas. He also
Speaker 1: saw Achilles last year. It's kind of weird that Bill
Speaker 1: Tt and Emmanuel Sanders have the same injury, and it's
Speaker 1: Marius Thomas quietly signed with the New England Patriots, but
Speaker 1: we haven't heard as much about him getting healthy. Those
Speaker 1: prizes comes from the Patriots, so we haven't heard all
Speaker 1: that much about him getting healthy. How healthy is he
Speaker 1: and how healthy will he be. Yeah, so he actually
Speaker 1: looks a lot worse than Emmanuel Sanders right now. UM,
Speaker 1: he's high risk and his HPF is currently below average. UM.
Speaker 1: One concerning thing here is that this is his second
Speaker 1: tourn achilles. The other one was to the opposite side.
Speaker 1: It's actually pre common, UM when a player tears one
Speaker 1: achilles to eventually later to the other achilles. UM, and
Speaker 1: that's what happened here. So it just it just makes
Speaker 1: his recovery a little more complicated complicated. UM. The other
Speaker 1: thing that's not working in his favor is that he
Speaker 1: wasn't hurt until late December. UM, so he's actually got
Speaker 1: a lot less time to recover before week one. UM.
Speaker 1: We're showing that he's not going to hit his optimal
Speaker 1: recovery time until September. UM. And I've even seen one
Speaker 1: report that he could start the season on the pup list,
Speaker 1: which would mean he has to miss the first six games. UM.
Speaker 1: I actually think that would be good for him, UM,
Speaker 1: to really get him healthy and work on his lower
Speaker 1: body strength so that he can be UM out there
Speaker 1: and ready to go and not suffer a stepback or
Speaker 1: another injury later in the season. It'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see what the Patriots do. They obviously could use some
Speaker 1: help on the outside when it comes to their wide receivers.
Speaker 1: They drafted rookie nikkil Harry. They have Julian Edelman in
Speaker 1: the slot, but they need some pass catchers there with
Speaker 1: Gronkowski no longer around, and that's where I want to stay.
Speaker 1: I want to stay with New England Patriots and Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1: It came out recently that he has a broken left thumb. Typically,
Speaker 1: how long does an injury like this take to heal.
Speaker 1: Is it something that could pop up later on in
Speaker 1: the season as well? It kind of sucks the timing
Speaker 1: isn't good because you know, I was actually really excited
Speaker 1: about Julian Edelman, as were a lot of other people
Speaker 1: for fantasy football this season. Yeah, we're sharing an eight
Speaker 1: week optimal recovery time for his thumb fracture. Actually, think
Speaker 1: this is one of those injuries that once it has
Speaker 1: time to fully heal, as long as he doesn't come
Speaker 1: back too soon, he should be good to go. UM.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna have any lingering issues, but
Speaker 1: if he does try to start really catching passes in
Speaker 1: the next few weeks, UM, I think that's a concern. Now,
Speaker 1: we don't know exactly when he was hurt. It sounds
Speaker 1: like it was roughly three weeks ago. Um. If that's
Speaker 1: the case, he should be healthy and ready to go
Speaker 1: right around week one. Um. Of course, it's always a
Speaker 1: concern though when a player essentially misses the entire preseason.
Speaker 1: But in this case, because it's an injury to his hand,
Speaker 1: he um, you know he should be in good shape.
Speaker 1: Conditioning shouldn't be an issue. Not the same as being
Speaker 1: out there and taking hits. But I think he has
Speaker 1: a good shot at being ready to go week one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Julian Edelman, we don't know exactly when this thumb
Speaker 1: ligament um where where he broke his thumb. We know
Speaker 1: he's gonna be out for like the next three or
Speaker 1: so weeks in training camp. He won't play in the preseason.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be fine for Week one. I'm not
Speaker 1: moving him down like my fantasy draft board or having
Speaker 1: affect my Patriots thoughts. Rankie. Sunday, September eight is the
Speaker 1: first game for the New England Patriots, going up against
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. So depending on when this injury occurred
Speaker 1: at timetable is gonna probably end up pretty close to
Speaker 1: that point. So across your fingers. I hope Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: is good to go because he could be in line
Speaker 1: for a monster season. Greg. I also hope that Julian
Speaker 1: Edleman's teammates Sonny Michelle, is ready to go. He has
Speaker 1: some injury issues thus far in his early career here Virginia.
Speaker 1: A lot of people in the fantasy community. They don't
Speaker 1: like Sony Michelle. Do you Nope, UM, we warned about him. UM,
Speaker 1: even before he was drafted by the Patriots. UM. He
Speaker 1: had an He's previously tours a c l he had
Speaker 1: multiple shoulder injuries farm fracture. UM. In college, he had
Speaker 1: another knee injury, and he had an ankle spring all
Speaker 1: in college. UM. That's incredibly concerning. Then you now add
Speaker 1: in the fact that he's had Arthur Scott knee surgery. UM.
Speaker 1: He missed the preseason last year along with two games
Speaker 1: because of his knee. UM. They haven't really said what
Speaker 1: exactly has been addressed. But when a player suffers a
Speaker 1: series a torn a c L UM, there's often cartilage damage. UM.
Speaker 1: There's just all sorts of stuff that happens. UM. Where
Speaker 1: and tear on the knee as time goes on, So
Speaker 1: these follow up Arthur Scoppet procedures are pretty common. It
Speaker 1: might help in the short term, but long term there
Speaker 1: are some major red flags here. Um. I don't really
Speaker 1: see him being ready to go week one, but you know,
Speaker 1: too soon to tell until he really gets back on
Speaker 1: the field. But even if he is back in the
Speaker 1: first few weeks of this season, I think it's only
Speaker 1: a matter of time before he gets hurt again and
Speaker 1: misses more time with either a knee injury or another
Speaker 1: compensatory injury, could be a hamstring or something like that.
Speaker 1: I was right. Sorry, Greg, just reminding you that I
Speaker 1: was right about Sony Michelle. I want to stick with
Speaker 1: the a c L s here and uh past knee
Speaker 1: injuries and will Fuller coming off the a c L.
Speaker 1: By the time week one rolls around, he will be
Speaker 1: eleven months removed from the a c L. And I
Speaker 1: know a lot of the sports medicine and technology that
Speaker 1: we have now, these guys are able to bounce back
Speaker 1: from the a c L injuries quite quickly. Is that
Speaker 1: going to be the case for will Fuller by the
Speaker 1: time Week one rolls around? Virginia. Yeah, so he tores
Speaker 1: a c L back in October, UM, where you showed
Speaker 1: roughly a nine month optimal recovery time for him, which
Speaker 1: means he should be just about fully recovered from that
Speaker 1: tourn a c L. UM. Now, what I'm concerned about
Speaker 1: here is that, you know, we saw it with Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook last year. Players coming back from a tourn a
Speaker 1: c L often suffer injuries such as a hamstring string.
Speaker 1: Will Fuller has a very concerning history of hamstring injuries. Um.
Speaker 1: He had him in twenty six, and he had him
Speaker 1: last year, and he's had a few other injuries as well.
Speaker 1: So while I think his knee is gonna be okay,
Speaker 1: I think at some point he's gonna get hurt again.
Speaker 1: And we already heard a report that yesterday he might
Speaker 1: have heard his hamstring. Not sure yet how serious it is,
Speaker 1: if he's okay or not. Um. I think he is okay.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's anything, but again, it's just something
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. UM. I would actually be
Speaker 1: pretty surprised if at some point he doesn't tweak his hamstring.
Speaker 1: This is something to pay attention to closely, Greg, because
Speaker 1: obviously we want as much exposure to the Texans wide receivers.
Speaker 1: We've seen what will Fuller has done with Shawn Watson
Speaker 1: in his career. But on the other side of that,
Speaker 1: you know, if will Fuller misses any time, Kicky qt
Speaker 1: S target share is just going to go up. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: We're talking about hamstrings and Kiki qt has dealt with
Speaker 1: hamstrings as well. So we just need these guys to
Speaker 1: stay healthy and then ultimately the Texans offense should be
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league. Absolutely. One last
Speaker 1: player who seems to always be a joe. We're talking
Speaker 1: about theim a lot of on tomorrow show. That's Sandy
Speaker 1: Watkins here Virginia. Sammy Watkins has certainly that was his
Speaker 1: injury issues over the past several years. Will it be
Speaker 1: different this year? Unlikely. He he had his two surgeries
Speaker 1: on to address a Jones fracture back in and then
Speaker 1: last season he missed about half of the season with
Speaker 1: an issue with his other foot. Um. The Chiefs never
Speaker 1: really admitted what was going on, but we do know
Speaker 1: that when he was originally hurt in Week nine, he
Speaker 1: returned two weeks later, which we said was two weeks
Speaker 1: too soon, especially considering his injury history. And then he
Speaker 1: didn't play again until the playoffs. UM. Again, don't know
Speaker 1: what exactly it was, but there was likely either maybe
Speaker 1: a stress fracture in his foot or a very serious
Speaker 1: ligament sprain um. Either of those could very easily recur UM.
Speaker 1: And then on top of that, he's also had a
Speaker 1: calf injury, ankle injury last year. He battled hip and
Speaker 1: hamstring injuries in the first half of the season, So
Speaker 1: it just kind of always seems like it's something with
Speaker 1: him UM And and if he continues to try to
Speaker 1: play before he's fully healed, he's just going to keep
Speaker 1: piling up the other injuries. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be ready to go at the start
Speaker 1: of the season. He's looked fine so far, but I'm
Speaker 1: just not optimistic that he can make it of the
Speaker 1: season without missing a big chunk of time. People want
Speaker 1: exposures to the Chiefs often so bad that they're willing
Speaker 1: to overlook the injury history of Sammy Watkins. And you know,
Speaker 1: his ADP has fluctuated because the news about Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: just came out recently. He's kind of settling in now
Speaker 1: in that like sixth round range, which isn't really dissimilar
Speaker 1: from last year, but we know that he comes with
Speaker 1: some pretty big baggage in the injury department. Absolutely, absolutely,
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins for years has never been able to get
Speaker 1: fully healthy. Virginia is Occus. We appreciate all the time. Today.
Speaker 1: We know we had a lot of players to get to.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you sticking around with us to make sure
Speaker 1: we got through all of them. Thanks awesome. There you go,
Speaker 1: Viscus foam at inside Injuries Virginias with us each and
Speaker 1: every week. Right, he's a time of the day. Is
Speaker 1: our best bets tonight, the best bets forever. We have
Speaker 1: to have Bivona make some kind of music bed so
Speaker 1: that we can kind of talk over it while we
Speaker 1: do this. Um, we we're hot, Greggy, We are hot normally.
Speaker 1: You know you've been doing your thing all year. Admittedly
Speaker 1: you've been crushing it in the baseball department. But now
Speaker 1: we together, Greggy, are getting it done. We went a
Speaker 1: combined three and o last night, including you hitting on
Speaker 1: your upset special once again. I had the uh the
Speaker 1: Miami and White Sox under nine. That game finished to zip.
Speaker 1: That was that gallant against for knowledge had Cleveland and
Speaker 1: Toronto A pictures duel Shane Bieber going the complete game
Speaker 1: shutout against Marcus Stroman. That was actually a great game
Speaker 1: to watch. I watch it was four zero, you had
Speaker 1: under eight and a half, yeah, is correct, and you
Speaker 1: hit the upset special, which was the Angels narrowly pulling
Speaker 1: out the win against the Dodgers. So on the week,
Speaker 1: that makes me four and two. That makes you technically
Speaker 1: three and two in your best bets, but two and
Speaker 1: O and upset specials. So if we can bind those,
Speaker 1: you are five and two on the week. We're doing well.
Speaker 1: It's a good week for the b FFC this week. Alright, Franky,
Speaker 1: let's get into it right now. Let's start with tonight
Speaker 1: main event of the evening Yankees. In most socks, poor
Speaker 1: Cello Tanaka. As hot as we've been this Thursday slate
Speaker 1: is disgusting. I don't know if you feel the same way,
Speaker 1: but I'm looking at this Yankee game. Tanaka has a
Speaker 1: four point zero zero e ar a. We I was
Speaker 1: looking at this downstairs in the pit yesterday. Over his
Speaker 1: last nine starts, he has an e ar a over five.
Speaker 1: You remember last time he pitched in London. Everybody got bombed.
Speaker 1: I realized that, but he was going up against Boston
Speaker 1: and Tanaka also got destroyed in that start. Rick Porcelo
Speaker 1: has a five point six one ear a, Greg, you
Speaker 1: kind of are you picking up when I'm putting down
Speaker 1: right now? You feel it? You feel it? I mentioned
Speaker 1: the ear as of these guys. The total is eleven,
Speaker 1: kind of like the over, it's a big number. Yankees
Speaker 1: are hot right now. They just scored ton of runs
Speaker 1: in that series against the Minnesota's wins. Porcelo's not pitching well,
Speaker 1: to Naka is not pitching well. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I want to mess with the side here in Fenway,
Speaker 1: but if I had to lean something, I would take
Speaker 1: the over eleven runs. It's not one of my best bets.
Speaker 1: That a lot of runs scored here in this game,
Speaker 1: or sorry, scored by the Yankees and the Twins in
Speaker 1: the last series. Do they keep those bats humming the night?
Speaker 1: Do you like anything in this game? Grade? You're out?
Speaker 1: All right? What do we got next? Jose Barrios Lucas
Speaker 1: gelto white Sox in twinkies. Twins are a heavy favorite
Speaker 1: here in this one. Uh totals it's eight and a half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna choose a side in this one because
Speaker 1: I think this is a I think there's a close game.
Speaker 1: It reminds me a little bit of yesterday Shane Bieber
Speaker 1: and Marcus Stroman's call. It was a It was the
Speaker 1: same line actually in terms of the run line. So
Speaker 1: we're here at a total of eight and a half.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the undergrad This is one of my best
Speaker 1: bets of the night. You get the under eight and
Speaker 1: a half at minus one oh two. That is Jose
Speaker 1: Berrios going up against Lucas Gilto and the White Sox.
Speaker 1: Gelto has been awesome, He's pitched better as of late.
Speaker 1: Jose Berrios has been a little bit inconsistent up and down.
Speaker 1: But I just don't trust this White Sox lineup right
Speaker 1: now to score any runs with out Eloy Jimenez in
Speaker 1: this lineup. Yes, they still have Jose A bray you,
Speaker 1: but outside of that, I think like John j has
Speaker 1: been in this lineup, so I don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of faith in this offense. I love the over tonight,
Speaker 1: I mean under at eight and a half. Greg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the under, uh certainly seems to be what I would
Speaker 1: prefer in this game. Not one of my best bets, however,
Speaker 1: Indians and Royals Adam Pluco Mike Montgomery. Oh gosh, what
Speaker 1: a disaster of a game. Here you have the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Indians who are surging right now minus one forty two
Speaker 1: favorites with a total at ten Adam Pluto against Mike Montgomery.
Speaker 1: You know, I'd want to be interested in the total
Speaker 1: here at ten. But much like the White Sox and
Speaker 1: these bad teams, right it's like White Sox, Royals, Tigers.
Speaker 1: It's like, can you count on them to score enough
Speaker 1: runs to help contribute to that total. I don't know
Speaker 1: that I could count on the Royals, Greg, I'm staying
Speaker 1: away from this game. Here we go. My best bet
Speaker 1: of the night is in this game, I'm taking the
Speaker 1: under between the Royals and the Indians Adam Pluca Mike Montgomery.
Speaker 1: I don't think they get over ten runs. Three more
Speaker 1: games ago, whose Suarez and the Angels. Jimmy Yaka bone
Speaker 1: is opening for the Oh's Angels are a heavy favorite. Frank, Greg,
Speaker 1: shouldn't you take this one? I mean, it's your boy.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Yaka Bonus opening up for the Baltimore Oreos the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Angels have Jose Jose Suarez on the map
Speaker 1: minus two forty with a total at ten and a half.
Speaker 1: The game is taking place in Anaheim. Just a huge,
Speaker 1: huge favorite here for the Los Angeles Angels, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: touch them unless you're parlaying it with something else. The
Speaker 1: total again, it's like I would take the over ten
Speaker 1: and a half just because I don't trust the Orioles pitching,
Speaker 1: but I also don't trust their hitting. Not touching this game.
Speaker 1: Razors and Athletics a's are a heavy favorite. Games totals
Speaker 1: nine Yeah, minus one ninety four for the Oakland A's.
Speaker 1: You know i'd be interested in parlaying the A's with
Speaker 1: someone else. Man, Mariners Tigers, Barers are heavy favorite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not touching that game. I don't like wait to
Speaker 1: do things like that. Thanks the E one, Thanks the Virginia,
Speaker 1: Thanks to Danny, Thanks to Andy Thinks the Venture. He's Frank,
Speaker 1: Oh Greg, Well do it all again one more time
Speaker 1: this week tomorrow, we hope. From the NFL to the NBA.
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Speaker 1: did happen? Here's what you missed on the BFx and
Speaker 1: the big story, of course surrounding the Los Angeles Chargers
Speaker 1: is Melving Gordon entering the final year of his contract
Speaker 1: before the fifth year option, and he said, Hey, I
Speaker 1: want a new deal. I am worth a new contract.
Speaker 1: Show me the money. Thus far, the Chargers have not,
Speaker 1: and they don't appeared to be close. Guys, we all
Speaker 1: know how serious a holdout can get. We saw Levon
Speaker 1: Bell who actually held out the entire season last year.
Speaker 1: Where do you feel comfortable taking Melvin Gordon? I mean,
Speaker 1: if I'm being completely honest, this is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite running backs of all time. I was massively high.
Speaker 1: If you guys can remember um last year or the
Speaker 1: year before, and had a huge breakout season. I think
Speaker 1: he can do everything. Um, but this is scary. I
Speaker 1: was a guy that in one of my really important leagues,
Speaker 1: I drafted Levan Bell and I suffered. I suffered all year.
Speaker 1: Uh so this is definitely you know, you have to
Speaker 1: let him slide. But I mean this is no different
Speaker 1: than you know, the risk of starting running back getting
Speaker 1: hurt in the first game. Look drafting in the first
Speaker 1: part of the driver drafting anywhere, there's risk to every
Speaker 1: single player. They can get hurt, they can get that,
Speaker 1: they can have contract stuff. This is it is a
Speaker 1: real concern. Um. I'm going to side with the players
Speaker 1: on you know, almost a of the things I sided
Speaker 1: with Levian Bell. I signed with him with Melvin Gordon.
Speaker 1: He should be higher paid than he is. And uh,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't hold out, they're not going to give
Speaker 1: him the money willingly. San Diego is famous for being
Speaker 1: a very cheap team. Uh. Last year they held out
Speaker 1: and waited, waited Bosa out. Um. He ended up getting
Speaker 1: some money, but but not what I think he wanted.
Speaker 1: So this is something that could happen. I believe they
Speaker 1: need Melvin Gordon. I think they proved last year that, Um,
Speaker 1: he's their best running back and best chance at making
Speaker 1: a bit deeper in the playoffs, so they want him
Speaker 1: in camp, but he's going to slide. I had him
Speaker 1: as a top five, but now I think he's uh,
Speaker 1: he's in my bottom he's close to my bottom twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually agree. The only leverage that players have right
Speaker 1: at to try and get the money that they want
Speaker 1: is what Melvin Gordon is doing right now and holding out,
Speaker 1: and especially the shelf life of a running back in
Speaker 1: the NFL is not long. You have to get paid
Speaker 1: while you end and while you're healthy. And we know
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon has been dinged up here and there, so
Speaker 1: he's trying to get paid. So I agree on him
Speaker 1: holding out, but obviously that has its effect on fantasy football.
Speaker 1: If he were in camp and everything was good, I
Speaker 1: think he's a top five, top six pick, you know,
Speaker 1: no questions about it. Right now. I have lowered him
Speaker 1: down to my RB thirteen, which might seem crazy. I
Speaker 1: have him just behind Dalvin Cooke, Nick Chubb, and Damian Williams.
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