Speaker 1: From the King of Sports Books comes the King Sports
Speaker 1: Podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Joanna's
Speaker 1: Papas and Olivia Harlan Decker. Welcome to Unleash, brought to
Speaker 1: you by bet MGM. Another big weekend of sports is
Speaker 1: in the books. Johanna's Papas is my co host. How
Speaker 1: are you, Janice? I'm doing good. It was a great
Speaker 1: weekend of sports. I enjoyed it. UFC Masters the end
Speaker 1: of the NBA season, watching the fourth string guys play.
Speaker 1: It was incredible. But there's some drama. That's why I
Speaker 1: love the playing system, like I love that the last
Speaker 1: week really matters. I guess it always does to wrap
Speaker 1: up the eight seed, but I love that teams are
Speaker 1: really to miss the play in tournament. And I just
Speaker 1: I like the new the new layout. Honest, do you
Speaker 1: notice anything different about me? Um? Let me see blonde
Speaker 1: hair check, spright, tan check, pregnancy check for the core
Speaker 1: so far, blue eyes check, hoop earrings. You tipped me
Speaker 1: off because you kept showing him to me. That a
Speaker 1: presider to ask you it's a push president. I just
Speaker 1: picked him up the other day and I still have
Speaker 1: a month left. But I haven't pushed anything yet, but
Speaker 1: I'm dying to ask you. Have you heard of a
Speaker 1: push president? Did you get your wife a push president? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, when it comes to that type
Speaker 1: of stuff, guys have real short term memory. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like at the time, I remember there was a
Speaker 1: such thing called the push present. It's much like the
Speaker 1: baby shower, all that stuff. You kind of put it
Speaker 1: in your head for a couple of minutes and then
Speaker 1: you go right back to sports when it's over. So
Speaker 1: can you remind me again to push present? Because if
Speaker 1: there's one thing you guys don't get enough of is
Speaker 1: fucking presence. Well you're kind of right about that right
Speaker 1: now with baby showers, I feel inundated. But no, I
Speaker 1: think I need to make a p s A because
Speaker 1: I know we have a high male audience. So my
Speaker 1: husband also did not know what a push present was,
Speaker 1: and he started nicknaming it a pushover present. Because I
Speaker 1: started talking with our jeweler just kind of let him
Speaker 1: know about it, and then he started showing me some watches.
Speaker 1: He started sending me some links to some watches for him,
Speaker 1: and I said, what, what what are these? He said,
Speaker 1: it's for my push present. No, no, no, we don't
Speaker 1: eat get a push present. Oh, be honestly gets worse.
Speaker 1: So he ends up talking to our jeweler also, so
Speaker 1: we're both talking to our jeweler behind each other's back.
Speaker 1: I picked out these lovely earrings, which I thought were
Speaker 1: very appropriate for what I'm about to do. And Sam
Speaker 1: got himself a watch and he said, yeah, do you
Speaker 1: mind going to pick it up? Blah blah blah, So okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: I go to pick it up and he said, and
Speaker 1: I got it engraved. But we ended up changing our
Speaker 1: baby's name, so Sam got the wrong initials of our
Speaker 1: baby on the watch engraved. I mean, that is hilarious.
Speaker 1: And he thought, oh, one day, you know, when he's eighteen,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll give him this watch. And I got it,
Speaker 1: you know, right before he's born. So anyways, I just
Speaker 1: have to say, a push present is just for the
Speaker 1: person doing the pushing. And just because Instagram now has
Speaker 1: pregnant man emojis does not mean that men now get
Speaker 1: pushed presents. And Sam missed the ball on that one.
Speaker 1: Very very funny, Sam, I feel you man, listen, you
Speaker 1: deserve a present. Okay. Guys are very underappreciated in there.
Speaker 1: Do you know we have to stand there for a
Speaker 1: couple of hours. You know, hard to stand there and watch,
Speaker 1: very difficult. And I hear you have to sleep on
Speaker 1: a little couch. I mean that's miserable. It's really miserable.
Speaker 1: It is. We get to sleep on a little couch,
Speaker 1: we get to order food, and we get to just
Speaker 1: watch you. So watching you, that's not easy. It's very
Speaker 1: traumatic to watch you do that. Nobody sticks easy, nobody's
Speaker 1: thinking about our feelings. It's very he deserves we deserve
Speaker 1: a standing there present. So you know, I'm with you, Sam.
Speaker 1: But it looks like that watch is gonna be on eBay.
Speaker 1: I'll be searching for it so you can find someone
Speaker 1: who maybe is going to have that name. I know,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this men, come on, But I know
Speaker 1: that's our audience. I wanted to just let you all know. Anyways,
Speaker 1: it was an awesome weekend for my jewelry collection. And
Speaker 1: in the world of sports, the Masters was so good.
Speaker 1: Congrats to Scottie Scheffler and winning his first Masters in
Speaker 1: green jacket. Honest, did you see that? Now? This one
Speaker 1: high school in Dallas, Highland Park High School, which very
Speaker 1: ritzy area Highland Park now has a Master's champion, a
Speaker 1: super Bowl champion, and a World Series champion. Did you
Speaker 1: know that? I did not know that, and uh, now
Speaker 1: that you told me about it, it's I mean, what
Speaker 1: better advertisement for a Highland park to get athletes. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're going to have a very very easy time recruiting
Speaker 1: people to move to Texas to Dallas. It used to
Speaker 1: be families would come to get some tax breaks. Now
Speaker 1: they're coming to have their kids play some sports. Amazing,
Speaker 1: how about that. Yeah, Scottie Scheffler, Matt Stafford, and Clayton
Speaker 1: Kershaw they all went to that high school and funny enough,
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw was the center on the football team for
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford. So that's pretty incredible. Uh yeah, nice area,
Speaker 1: nice part of the country. But it really was great
Speaker 1: to see Tiger Woods back and in the mix. He
Speaker 1: made the cut after not playing in a tournament in
Speaker 1: nearly a year and a half. If anyone wants to
Speaker 1: go back and listen to our episode last week, we
Speaker 1: really put that into context. With Luke Donald, he was fantastic.
Speaker 1: He has all this firsthand experience with Tiger, so that
Speaker 1: was it was really fun to talk about that last
Speaker 1: week with Luke. It's still a great listen, even though
Speaker 1: with Masters is wrapped up. Yeah, so everyone was following
Speaker 1: that story so closely. He started off so hot, Tiger did,
Speaker 1: and then it was just really inspiring to watch him
Speaker 1: finish at the end. It was an uphill climb to
Speaker 1: say the least. Yeah, it was just great to see
Speaker 1: him out there, and of course you could see those
Speaker 1: flashes of greatness still there. I mean, still holds the
Speaker 1: record there right like one it by like twelve shots
Speaker 1: or what was it. I mean, he's he's still the
Speaker 1: king of the Masters, and it was really inspiring just
Speaker 1: to see him back out there plan after what he's
Speaker 1: gone through. Unbelievable. And then of course we had the
Speaker 1: u f C. What a Card to seventy three in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: which I thought was part of America, But after watching it,
Speaker 1: I got some things to unleash on and they're very patriotic,
Speaker 1: so it was an amazing card. I watched it as usual.
Speaker 1: I shelled out the eighty bucks. I mean, at this point,
Speaker 1: Dana White, it's eight bucks for every pay per view.
Speaker 1: They happen all the time. You can pay your fighters
Speaker 1: a little bit more. I see what they're making. You
Speaker 1: can pay them a little more just by how much
Speaker 1: I've given you in pay per views. That's so expensive.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm not a big fight girl, but
Speaker 1: that I can't imagine people coughing that up. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine you coughing that up. I cough it up. Listen,
Speaker 1: you can't imagine coughing it up because it's not ear rings.
Speaker 1: If it was ear rings, you'd buy them every weekend.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true, or an inappropriate watch persons. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: So now the baseball season is underway. So if I
Speaker 1: was mad at my husband for the watch purchase, now
Speaker 1: I've just really lost him. He's the biggest baseball fan.
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of wives across America
Speaker 1: who just hate baseball season. But it is fun to watch.
Speaker 1: We've got a great guest joining us today to discuss it.
Speaker 1: The first woman actually to win a gold Glove and
Speaker 1: newest member of the bed MGM family. So we got
Speaker 1: to give her a very very warm welcome. Jannice, go
Speaker 1: easy on her. A. J Andrews is joining us. I'm
Speaker 1: very excited, a very excited ambassador for women's softball. Gold
Speaker 1: Glove winner. I mean, welcome to bed MGM, and I
Speaker 1: can't wait to talk to her about some baseball. But
Speaker 1: you know what, before we get into her, we do
Speaker 1: have to get serious for a second and talk about
Speaker 1: the horrible tragedy that happened last week, the passing of
Speaker 1: former Ohio state standout in Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins.
Speaker 1: Just twenty four years old. He accomplished a lot and
Speaker 1: it's just clear he was beloved by his teammates. Are
Speaker 1: condolences to his family and friends. Just an absolute tragedy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it was really hard to stomach because so much
Speaker 1: of the attention this weekend was on the initial headline,
Speaker 1: which was the tweet from Adam Schefter. It broke the
Speaker 1: news of his passing, and let's just say it wasn't
Speaker 1: worded right at all. It was it was hard to read.
Speaker 1: He ended up deleting it and then reposting it. He
Speaker 1: has apologized. You know, it's a tough business. News breaks
Speaker 1: so fast, everyone's rushing each other to the news. But
Speaker 1: this was a death. This was a death of a
Speaker 1: young man, and the tweet was about his failings at
Speaker 1: his sport, which was I mean, he was still a
Speaker 1: current NFL player. Like I, It just it really, it
Speaker 1: upset my stomach. Married to an athlete, I cannot imagine,
Speaker 1: and I hate even going here, and I hope I
Speaker 1: don't cry because I am hormonal and pregnant. But I
Speaker 1: can't imagine if something ever happened to my husband and
Speaker 1: the headline mentioned anything about his career, especially something negative
Speaker 1: about his career. I can't imagine how that felt for
Speaker 1: his family to read that. And I mean, schefter has
Speaker 1: been buried for this, so I don't mean to do
Speaker 1: it anymore, but come on, we gotta have perspective. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was a mistake. It happens with Twitter
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, he was the first to break
Speaker 1: the story. That is the type of story where you
Speaker 1: kind of take off your sports journalism hat and just
Speaker 1: report exactly what the tragedy is. And unfortunately he got
Speaker 1: his signals cross. But you know, I just hope we
Speaker 1: we understand people flawed, you know, we forgive them. It
Speaker 1: was a mistake. I think his apology. I believe he
Speaker 1: apologized on his podcast, right. I think it was appropriate.
Speaker 1: I think he acknowledged what he did and it was wrong,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, nobody's perfect. But you know, the
Speaker 1: real tragedy is is the actual tragedy. It's just it's
Speaker 1: horrible when you hear something like that, and you know,
Speaker 1: just hug everyone and tell everyone you love him, because
Speaker 1: you never know life. Life is very uncertain, and that's
Speaker 1: why sports is so great. You know. It gives us joy,
Speaker 1: gives us a little mental break from some of the
Speaker 1: things that make life hard, this being one of them.
Speaker 1: So really condolences to the family, to the organization, to
Speaker 1: all his friends, and just just a horrible loss. It
Speaker 1: absolutely is, absolutely is. So let's switch gears a little
Speaker 1: bit to the part of the show where we unleached
Speaker 1: its conto. So the NBA Playoffs are finally here. Games
Speaker 1: every single night for the next two months. Hallelujah. I personally,
Speaker 1: like I said, love this new playoff format. It makes
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season so much more important.
Speaker 1: More teams matter, more games matter, and most importantly, a
Speaker 1: little bit more betting. So two teams that many people
Speaker 1: thought would be in the NBA Finals now need to
Speaker 1: play their way into the playoff bracket, the Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 1: and the Los Angeles Clippers. These make or break games,
Speaker 1: I think are really great for the sport. They're easy
Speaker 1: to sink your teeth into and get people into playoffs
Speaker 1: nice and early. But I want to unleash on one
Speaker 1: team that will not be there. The Los Angeles Lakers,
Speaker 1: the team that many thought would be back in the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals, couldn't even qualify for a spot in the
Speaker 1: play in round, and on Monday, the Lakers made it official.
Speaker 1: They fired their coach, Frank Vogel after three seasons, despite
Speaker 1: winning a championship just two seasons ago. I think this
Speaker 1: is horrible. He's out after a thirty three and forty
Speaker 1: nine season that was good for the NBA, but come on,
Speaker 1: he's taking all the fall for a season filled with injuries,
Speaker 1: very questionable roster moves by Rob Polinka, and a team
Speaker 1: that seemed that they could just never jel Lebron picked
Speaker 1: this team. Lebron picked this team, like what why are
Speaker 1: we acting like this was? This was a coaching error,
Speaker 1: a d S always hurt. Westbrook wasn't a fit, and
Speaker 1: even Magic Johnson came out recently that DeMar Derosen was
Speaker 1: supposed to come to La La Land. It was never
Speaker 1: supposed to be Westbrook. Lebron and him started talking and
Speaker 1: he made this happen. So Lakers had to get rid
Speaker 1: of all these great young pieces to get Lebron's guys,
Speaker 1: and it was a disaster. So look, that's what you
Speaker 1: get with Lebron. Now. Even Steph Curry have it. Last
Speaker 1: week he was saying, no, I'm good when Lebron said
Speaker 1: that he wanted to play with him. That's where we're at.
Speaker 1: Lebron is still great. No one is questioning his greatness.
Speaker 1: He may be the best ever that's another argument. But
Speaker 1: if I'm an M B A G M, I am
Speaker 1: not falling for that same script again and going the
Speaker 1: Lebron route. Now, he may get you a title, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna blow up your franchise in the process. He
Speaker 1: may get you one title and then it's over. That
Speaker 1: time has passed. So Rob Polinka saying all the right things,
Speaker 1: but he did say on Monday there's a great amount
Speaker 1: of trust and he's referring to him and Lebron, or
Speaker 1: the front office and Lebron to get it right this summer.
Speaker 1: But now look ahead. At this summer, only seven players
Speaker 1: are under contract, and that alone has them at twenty
Speaker 1: seven million dollars over the salary cap. They're paying these
Speaker 1: old guys way too much and it's not producing, and
Speaker 1: they don't even have a first round draft pick until
Speaker 1: this is not going to turn around quickly. So it
Speaker 1: seemed like Frank vocal was the least of the Lakers problems,
Speaker 1: but he's the one that took the fall for their struggles,
Speaker 1: and the Lakers hope to find a new coach by
Speaker 1: the draft in June. So this is a very intriguing story.
Speaker 1: But I I have a hard time thinking that firing
Speaker 1: Frank Vogel was the right move. That was an amazing
Speaker 1: unleashed I couldn't emphatically agree any more. This is really
Speaker 1: I hope gonna shine a light on this sort of
Speaker 1: play with your friends, giving players this much power, super
Speaker 1: team nonsense that has really in some way ruined the NBA.
Speaker 1: Lebron has taken a lot of flak for this because obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, he went down to Miami originally and held
Speaker 1: a big press conference, and you know, he kind of
Speaker 1: redeemed himself a little bit by going back to Cleveland
Speaker 1: and winning that title with Kyrie. But yet this move
Speaker 1: was all Lebron. It was all the organization just bowing
Speaker 1: to him and what he wanted. He gave away all
Speaker 1: these young role players to get Russell Westbrook. It was
Speaker 1: a tragedy and it's just it's sat to see the
Speaker 1: coach scapegoat. I could not agree with you more on this.
Speaker 1: I mean, the only good thing about the Lakers season
Speaker 1: is maybe the emergence of of Austin Reeves. The kid
Speaker 1: looks like he can play. I think he had a
Speaker 1: triple double in the last game. I like him. He's athletic,
Speaker 1: he's got a handle, he can shoot. I mean, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see him get out of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's gonna get himself a little bit of a
Speaker 1: nice contract. That's about it. But yeah, I mean it's over.
Speaker 1: I think Lebron's reign is over. And you know, when
Speaker 1: when the Lebron Jordan's conversations come up amongst fans, you
Speaker 1: got this is a stain on Lebron's legacy, the way
Speaker 1: he just always kinda pursues players and tries to be
Speaker 1: the GM. Jordan played for one team. He brought home
Speaker 1: the chip six times, and it was an arrow where
Speaker 1: he didn't make friends with people on opposing teams. Lebron,
Speaker 1: why don't you keep your off season friendships in the
Speaker 1: off season and keep the killer instinct in the court
Speaker 1: because you and Russell Westbrook and your secret handshakes can
Speaker 1: go blues. Well. To be fair, mj did go to
Speaker 1: Washington and did kind of what Lebron's doing, of scoring
Speaker 1: a ton of points on a bad team, And I
Speaker 1: do feel like people have a short memory, like even
Speaker 1: that you didn't mention it, Like, I think people will
Speaker 1: forget that. I'm not saying people forget Lebron as a Laker,
Speaker 1: but I think people will gloss over the struggling final
Speaker 1: years maybe. But this is what you said is so
Speaker 1: right about the legacy of trying to build these teams
Speaker 1: and basically being a bad GM. I think do, like
Speaker 1: you said, kind of staying Lebron's legacy a bit. But
Speaker 1: you know, if the Last Dance taught us something, it
Speaker 1: was that that was not what Michael Jordan wanted that
Speaker 1: the franchise wanted, so he wanted to continue to play
Speaker 1: one of retirable. They wanted to blow up the team
Speaker 1: and in retrospect, obviously premature, so you can't really blame
Speaker 1: Jordan for that. You know, he went and played the
Speaker 1: rest of his career, but that's not what he wanted,
Speaker 1: So that was sort of the opposite in my opinion
Speaker 1: of this where Lebron is basically the GM. It's brutal,
Speaker 1: It's absolutely brutal. Talking of brutality, let's move to a
Speaker 1: brutal sport that I love, that America loves, that the
Speaker 1: world loves, and it really is bringing just so much
Speaker 1: excitement every weekend, whether it's beyond you know TV or
Speaker 1: pay per view. The UFC always delivers. To borrow an
Speaker 1: adage from our previous guest, the legend Mr Kellogg himself,
Speaker 1: it always delivers, not just the March Madness Tournament, the
Speaker 1: UFC does as well, and this was no exception. Down
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, sold out arena, What a card, exciting fights,
Speaker 1: especially watching Hamsat and Burns go at it fight of
Speaker 1: the night obviously. But one thing that did surprise me
Speaker 1: that I want to unleashan is what is going on
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. Okay, we had a rematch title fight between
Speaker 1: al Jermaine Sterling and the Russian. Can I say that
Speaker 1: more emphatically? The Russian who happens to be from a
Speaker 1: country that is in a war that we oppose and
Speaker 1: we support the other side, and al Jermaine Sterling Jamaican heritage.
Speaker 1: But he's a Long Island kid. He's a Long Island
Speaker 1: king from a Long Island gym. His coach has a
Speaker 1: Long Island accent. You can't get more American the Long Island.
Speaker 1: And here we are. The crowd in Jacksonville is booing him,
Speaker 1: booing him and his intro, booing him throughout the fight,
Speaker 1: booing the decision that he won, and cheering the Russian
Speaker 1: Peter Young or Peter Young, however you pronounce it in
Speaker 1: what that COMI language. Here's the deal. I'm an American, Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't care who's president. I don't care anything. I
Speaker 1: support my country, that's what it is. And when you
Speaker 1: got an American going up against Russian, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know how many times you gotta watch Rocky to
Speaker 1: know you cheer for the goddamn American. Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: care what it is. I expect more out of you, Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 1: I expect more out of you. Now. I know that
Speaker 1: the booing was because you want to claim that your
Speaker 1: UFC fans and Al Jermaine Sterling won the title in
Speaker 1: controversial fashion because of a disqualification. That's not his fault.
Speaker 1: That wasn't his fault that the Russian illegally kicked him
Speaker 1: while he was on the ground in the head. Okay,
Speaker 1: he was also fighting in that match with like a
Speaker 1: messed up neck. He dominated Petre Young. However you pronounced it,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna learn it, Peter Young. I'm gonna americanize it,
Speaker 1: Peter Yawn. He dominated him and around uh two and three,
Speaker 1: took his back, wrote him like a backpack for most
Speaker 1: of it, and he was just getting booed the whole time.
Speaker 1: When he was trying to submit him. He couldn't submit
Speaker 1: him because Peter Peter John is very good. He didn't
Speaker 1: submit him, but he won the fight, and um, it
Speaker 1: was just very disappointing to hear those booze for a
Speaker 1: guy who executed a game plan, beautiful jiu jitsu and
Speaker 1: ground control the whole match. Well, really rounds two and
Speaker 1: three and that first round, I don't see what the
Speaker 1: controversy is. He outstruck him in that first round. So
Speaker 1: when you go back and watch that fight, he outstruck
Speaker 1: him in that first round. So and even if he didn't,
Speaker 1: even if the judges gave it to him, and it
Speaker 1: was wrong. You still cheer the American or you get deported.
Speaker 1: That's my new law. I'm lobbying. I'm calling I'm calling
Speaker 1: data white right now, and save anyone cheers for rushing
Speaker 1: against an American. Ever again, they're getting deported, They're getting deported.
Speaker 1: I've had enough, Usa, USA. I'm going to watch you
Speaker 1: do the rest of the episode. I love it. That
Speaker 1: was so patriotic, very good. Now And I always like
Speaker 1: because you always educate me on UFC two, on this show,
Speaker 1: so I appreciate that you always keep us up to date.
Speaker 1: But man, that is that is horrible. I I didn't
Speaker 1: even know this happened until you told me. That's doble. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And during the match, even Joe Rogan was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I mean the crowd is rooting for Russian. He's like,
Speaker 1: you know, we're in Florida. Weird things happened in Florida. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really I get it. Like I said, part
Speaker 1: of the reason they were doing is because they thought
Speaker 1: he won the title illegitimately. But again it wasn't his fault,
Speaker 1: like I said. And secondly, I mean, you know, he
Speaker 1: proved himself this second fight. He want so it's like,
Speaker 1: give the guy a chair. I mean, he got booed
Speaker 1: the whole time. It was really it was really weird.
Speaker 1: So that was my only problem. Otherwise, great card, expensive card,
Speaker 1: but good. I know. I know you are upset, like
Speaker 1: you are heated. I think like a cartoon, their steam
Speaker 1: coming out of your ears. But you know, if it
Speaker 1: might be as upset as you is, are bad beat winner,
Speaker 1: Bad Beat all the week. So it's Paul Mansaur. Listen
Speaker 1: to this Twitter name. You should you should be happy.
Speaker 1: I'm reading this one at Paul Man two two three
Speaker 1: five nine two two three. Do you think that's some
Speaker 1: phone number? What is that social Yeah, I was. You're
Speaker 1: not supposed to put your social Security number when you
Speaker 1: screen any buddy. We're all the other Paul Man's one
Speaker 1: to three and four. Where all those taking anyways? But yeah,
Speaker 1: he won our bad Beat of the Week winner, which
Speaker 1: is amazing because he gets a hundred bucks of bet
Speaker 1: MGM credit to try his luck again. But listen to
Speaker 1: how he lost. He hit us with two four leg
Speaker 1: parlays that he lost out on by one leg. It
Speaker 1: always is that way. Three out of four ain't bad
Speaker 1: except in betting. But he's gonna get a hundred bucks,
Speaker 1: So that's awesome. Let's switch gears over to baseball and
Speaker 1: go ahead and bring in our guest. A. J. Andrews
Speaker 1: is next. She's a professional softball player who became the
Speaker 1: first woman ever to win a Rollings Gold Glove. That's incredible,
Speaker 1: the first woman ever, and now she's helping you win
Speaker 1: money on baseball and more as a member of the
Speaker 1: bed MGM family. A J. Andrews, what's going on? Welcome? Hello, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me. We're so excited
Speaker 1: to have you. This is so excited. Welcome to the family.
Speaker 1: Everyone here is so awesome. I think you're going to
Speaker 1: be very happy with bet MGM. I know we are.
Speaker 1: But let's tuck a little baseball and softball of course.
Speaker 1: But first I've got to ask you about this. This
Speaker 1: is so cool. I'm not sure if many of our
Speaker 1: listeners know this. Last year you trained with the US
Speaker 1: Olympics skeleton team. What was it like picking up an
Speaker 1: entire different sport. I mean, softball and skeleton only have
Speaker 1: one thing in common, and that's that they begin with
Speaker 1: an s yeah, and sliding. They're sliding in both growth.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, for me. It's um, it was
Speaker 1: really interesting. I'm one of those people that just love
Speaker 1: trying new things. I don't know if it's a toxic trader,
Speaker 1: for it's a great quality that I truly think I
Speaker 1: can do anything. And so, you know, I went into skeleton.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine, a lot of myers, who is
Speaker 1: a renowned olympian and Bob sled. She played softball in
Speaker 1: college and so we've just been connected throughout the years
Speaker 1: and I just kind of asked her, I sail, I
Speaker 1: want to win a gold medal, Like, let me know
Speaker 1: more about bob sled. How can I get involved? And
Speaker 1: so I went to a camp June of lat One
Speaker 1: and did both bob sled and skeleton there and it
Speaker 1: was on a push track, so no ice. But I
Speaker 1: don't have the size for Bob sled, and so went
Speaker 1: more into skeleton, and you know, it was it was
Speaker 1: really interesting my first time on the ice act very terrifying,
Speaker 1: very terrifying, but um, it redirected and you know, kind
Speaker 1: of rewired the way that I viewed fear, or at
Speaker 1: least embraced fear, because every time I felt so I
Speaker 1: mean I felt nerves before a softball game, but I've
Speaker 1: never been genuinely afraid right going up to the play
Speaker 1: to going out on the field. And I was terrified
Speaker 1: go on the ice even after the first one, Like
Speaker 1: every single time, I was nervous and so but I
Speaker 1: still did it. And so it kind of completely changed
Speaker 1: the way that I addressed fear as to allowing myself
Speaker 1: to feel it rather than try to write it off
Speaker 1: or get rid of how afraid I was. No, feel
Speaker 1: those emotions, feel how I am feeling in this moment,
Speaker 1: but then allowed to pass. And I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: how that's going to translate when I get back on
Speaker 1: the field for softball. And I've never been someone that's
Speaker 1: afraid of failure, but I've also always been someone that's
Speaker 1: tried to purn my mind and Okay, you got this
Speaker 1: versus feeling it and letting it pass. So yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: How you know, the two sports, while very different, will
Speaker 1: complement each other and my success and hopefully both of them. Wow,
Speaker 1: you mentioned sliding. Was your love of sliding part of
Speaker 1: why you pick skeleton because you're known for sliding reaching
Speaker 1: for balls. You even famously broke your hand once and
Speaker 1: then continue to play the whole season with a broken hand,
Speaker 1: and you broke your hand from sliding, so you're definitely
Speaker 1: you may have gotten over your fears, but it sounds
Speaker 1: like you have no fear of pain. Yeah, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I definitely fear of pain. Yeah, I don't have a
Speaker 1: fear of that. I guess I don't have a fear
Speaker 1: of I don't think about those things. So, like in
Speaker 1: the moment, the only thing I can think of is
Speaker 1: my goal. Right, So when I broke my hand, I
Speaker 1: was just thinking about to rob this girl of a hand, right,
Speaker 1: I just want to make this diving catch and that's it. Um.
Speaker 1: And then like there's times I run into the wall,
Speaker 1: I'm not concerned or even thinking that the wall is there.
Speaker 1: I just want to make the catch, so my brain
Speaker 1: turns off to the things around me. And yeah, so
Speaker 1: I think that that's as far as sliding and um,
Speaker 1: what I'm going into, I just think it's it's a
Speaker 1: part of who I am. Just trying to try to
Speaker 1: slide in and make the best place so hopefully in
Speaker 1: skeleton I can slide in and win a gold medal.
Speaker 1: I love that very aspirational. Yeah, how did you play
Speaker 1: softball with a broken hand? Like did you take advil?
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you continue to play with a
Speaker 1: completely broken hand? Yeah? It was rough. I mean I
Speaker 1: would have like rap patting around my hand. It was
Speaker 1: my glove hand, so thankfully it only hurt when a
Speaker 1: ball landed in my glove. But uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: would have patting, and then when I would swing, my
Speaker 1: swing got pretty jacked up. I started to, you know,
Speaker 1: really let go early and just kind of swing with
Speaker 1: one hand. But for me, it was just I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna stop. And you know, honestly that the year that
Speaker 1: I broke my hand was the year that I won
Speaker 1: the Gold Glove. So you know, I'm happy and I'm
Speaker 1: thankful I didn't stop. And I remember, actually, I think
Speaker 1: the play that really solidified me winning the Gold Glove
Speaker 1: was it was the first time I had a dope.
Speaker 1: It made a diving catch after breaking my hand, and
Speaker 1: it was a really great catch going backwards. And I
Speaker 1: remember always we'll talk about fear, right, I've been fearful
Speaker 1: of landing on my hand wrong. If I made a
Speaker 1: diving catch again and just completely shattering it and not
Speaker 1: be empty back on the field. They're all these thoughts,
Speaker 1: and then in that one play. I was kind of
Speaker 1: solely back on focused to my goal, and I had
Speaker 1: been the first time since I broke my hand that
Speaker 1: I wasn't thinking about what might happen if I land
Speaker 1: on it. I just wanted to catch the ball, and
Speaker 1: that was the play that I think got me to
Speaker 1: win the gold Glove. So it's a it's a really cool,
Speaker 1: cool story and a cool you know aspect of not
Speaker 1: allowing I guess you know, even a broken hand to
Speaker 1: stop you from your your goals and your destiny. That
Speaker 1: is awesome. My blood is pumping. I don't feel like
Speaker 1: I need to go run a mile or something. Now.
Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about coaching or aspirational speaking in
Speaker 1: the future. Yeah, I actually I worked with a lot
Speaker 1: of young girls. I I coach. I used to do
Speaker 1: a lot of lessons outside of when I was in
Speaker 1: college with a lot of the young athletes, and it
Speaker 1: really is a passion of mine talking to two young
Speaker 1: girls and just women in sports in general. And so
Speaker 1: it's really cool to be able to see, especially a
Speaker 1: young athlete that didn't have the confidence, like when you
Speaker 1: get done working at them, feel a little bit have
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a pep in their steps.
Speaker 1: So it definitely is something I enjoyed to do. You
Speaker 1: keep mentioning a gold medal, you want a gold medal.
Speaker 1: The US softball team was at the Olympics. They'll be
Speaker 1: back at Olympics. Uh and has placed silver at the
Speaker 1: last two. So what do you think is in the
Speaker 1: future as we look ahead in US softball? What's the
Speaker 1: state of US softball? Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping it
Speaker 1: continues to grow. And being the fact that the Olympic
Speaker 1: committee in the country that the Olympics will be in
Speaker 1: each year or each four years, decides what sports are
Speaker 1: in it. I mean, softball hadn't been fired to this
Speaker 1: past Olympics for it, I don't know, like ten years.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a while. That's so crazy. I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people know that. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: And I don't think people a lot of people understand
Speaker 1: that the countries choose the sports to get to be
Speaker 1: in the Olympics. So if it's not a big sport
Speaker 1: in that country, it's not going to be in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: So softball big in America and big and jip hand right,
Speaker 1: So of course it was in this past Olympics. But Olympics,
Speaker 1: the Summer Olympics are going to be and I believe
Speaker 1: Paris in the next Summer Olympics, and it's not big
Speaker 1: in Paris, so it may not be in Paris. And
Speaker 1: so then you have the girls then having to wait
Speaker 1: eight years because after that it will be in l
Speaker 1: A And so you know, it's hard to not you know,
Speaker 1: you in eight years, a lot of girls are gonna retire,
Speaker 1: and it's sad to think that every four years you
Speaker 1: don't get that opportunity, and sometimes you have to wait,
Speaker 1: like Japan for a lot of softball players like that
Speaker 1: was it, Like if I didn't make it to this one,
Speaker 1: then that's probably gonna be That's probably gonna be the
Speaker 1: end for me. And hopefully softball continues to grow to
Speaker 1: where we don't have to have the weight of hoping
Speaker 1: that the Olympics is going to be in a country
Speaker 1: that like softball and it can continue to move on
Speaker 1: and be solidified every four years and something we can
Speaker 1: all watch right on. So let's go back to l
Speaker 1: s U for a second. You were there during a
Speaker 1: time that there was another big star there, Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: jew Year, oh b J. Did you guys ever get
Speaker 1: a chance to hang or train together. Do you know
Speaker 1: him at all any stories? Yeah, me and him were
Speaker 1: came in at the same time, so we're the same age.
Speaker 1: Were freshman at the came in a two thousand eleven
Speaker 1: and then also Odell but also Alex Bregman was there
Speaker 1: at the same time as a and so yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of There are a lot of tigers out
Speaker 1: there doing it big in the big leagues. But yeah,
Speaker 1: me and Odub we were really cool. We were cool
Speaker 1: in college. He was somebody. We lived in an apartment
Speaker 1: departments on campus and we called it w c A,
Speaker 1: but we called it as the Athletes Club Dub. All
Speaker 1: the athletes lived pretty close to each other. He lived
Speaker 1: in the infamous Building eight, and if you were ever
Speaker 1: talked to him or any athlete or football player that
Speaker 1: lived in building, it like that was that was the building,
Speaker 1: and so you know, it was. It's very cool and
Speaker 1: it's fun too, you know, whenever I get to see
Speaker 1: I see him sometimes at different events or at s
Speaker 1: b s and it's cool to connect after so many
Speaker 1: years of you know, the grind that we put in
Speaker 1: wearing purple and gold, and to see it now being
Speaker 1: shown to the world in the professional sports. So really
Speaker 1: proud of him and all that he's accomplished and now
Speaker 1: that he's a new dad, and you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's really cool to watch him sixty. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Let's shift gears a little bit to the baseball season
Speaker 1: right now. Is that is what you're going to help
Speaker 1: with bet MGM doing. You know, baseball to me is
Speaker 1: evolving every season. They are continually trying to figure out
Speaker 1: ways to bring in more fans from the speed of
Speaker 1: the game, eliminating the shift to making up players during
Speaker 1: telecasts this year. What's something you would like to see
Speaker 1: the MLB do or maybe something they've already done that
Speaker 1: you think has made a big impact. Yeah, I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, just continuing to give athletes, the players more
Speaker 1: of the spotlight, to just show who they are as people. Um,
Speaker 1: what makes them unique, what makes them authentic. I think
Speaker 1: what different leagues like the NBA or bold UP do
Speaker 1: so well is that you, yes, you're a fan of
Speaker 1: the league. You may be a fan of a team,
Speaker 1: but you also are a fan of a certain player
Speaker 1: and just the pizzaz that they bring about, whether it
Speaker 1: be their style, whether it be things they like to
Speaker 1: do off the field, right, you know more about those
Speaker 1: players and what they do off the field as well
Speaker 1: as you know their stats on the field. And I
Speaker 1: think if Baseball can do the same and really be
Speaker 1: able to portray those athletes in that way to where yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I love watching Mike Trout play or judge play, but
Speaker 1: I also really like him as a person. Right, Knowing
Speaker 1: those personal stories about those people, I think that's what
Speaker 1: makes people real fans of people, even when they're not
Speaker 1: doing well. You know, I think it's easy to be
Speaker 1: a fair weather fan unless you actually know the person
Speaker 1: and you enjoy who they are as in their character.
Speaker 1: And I think be able to tell more of those
Speaker 1: stories with the MLB will continue to allow people to
Speaker 1: connect more with Major League Baseball and the people that play.
Speaker 1: This year, I think he's a little bit before your time, maybe,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you're aware of each row you know,
Speaker 1: as a softball player baseball fan. He's getting into the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game I consider maybe the best hitter
Speaker 1: of all time because when you look at his Japanese numbers,
Speaker 1: he has more hits than Pete Rose and Ty Cobb.
Speaker 1: Who is your favorite hitter? Who you've watched someone who's
Speaker 1: wowed you with their ability to do the hardest thing
Speaker 1: maybe in sports, which has hit a baseball and get hits. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I definitely love each row because when you
Speaker 1: talk about that, I think so much when people think
Speaker 1: of hitting, they think of just the bombs, right, they
Speaker 1: think of the big hits, they think of the home runs,
Speaker 1: and they don't think about the players that get on base.
Speaker 1: So allow those people who do hit the home runs
Speaker 1: every single game or every other game to score the runs.
Speaker 1: And it's about being efficient and being consistent softball and baseball.
Speaker 1: And so I I was actually have a conversation with
Speaker 1: Kenny lofton this past weekend, who is one of the
Speaker 1: best base dealers to ever be an MLB, and he
Speaker 1: was talking about how that's missing in the game, right,
Speaker 1: everyone's considering and keep talking about having the big hits
Speaker 1: rather than just being consistent, and how you don't really
Speaker 1: see players that anymore. And so m I would say
Speaker 1: that from I mean, Jan Carlos standon, even though he's
Speaker 1: a big hitter guy like that's that's been one of
Speaker 1: my favorite players to watch for a really long time.
Speaker 1: But I do think that players that can just put
Speaker 1: the bat on ball and be really efficient can help
Speaker 1: the big hitters when they come up. You mentioned Kenny Lofton,
Speaker 1: who did steal a lot, and that's an art and
Speaker 1: baseball that's kind of that's kind of change. A lot
Speaker 1: of guys don't run anymore when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: yet Ricky Henderson, Vince Coleman, guys who would put up big,
Speaker 1: big steel numbers. Do you think that's something that metrics
Speaker 1: has done to the game. Would you like to see
Speaker 1: more of it? You were someone who's who was very
Speaker 1: fast and stole bases. Why do we see less bases
Speaker 1: being stolen? You know, I don't know. I think that
Speaker 1: stolen the basis adds so much electricity and excitement to
Speaker 1: the game. And you know there's players that are speed players,
Speaker 1: and you look at the athletes they go on it's
Speaker 1: just exciting, right, someone gets on base and you're like,
Speaker 1: what are they gonna steal? What are they gonna do?
Speaker 1: And then also when you have someone that's fast as
Speaker 1: an athlete, it makes you nervous even if you're in
Speaker 1: the outfield because now it adds more pressure onto you
Speaker 1: where you have do you missed this ball? You know
Speaker 1: that that single is gonna be a double or triple
Speaker 1: for said person because they're fast, and you know if
Speaker 1: they get on base. As a picture, now you're concerned
Speaker 1: about whether they're gonna steal on you. Now you're you're distracted.
Speaker 1: You have so much more to think about than just
Speaker 1: trying to throw a strike. And so I think that
Speaker 1: I don't know what has made that shift. I don't
Speaker 1: know why it's changed so much, but I do think
Speaker 1: if baseball can get back to that again, we talked
Speaker 1: about how baseball is a dying sport and it's not
Speaker 1: exciting anymore. Bringing more the exciting elements back into the games,
Speaker 1: such as base stealing, I think would do baseball so
Speaker 1: much justice. It's it's fun to watch those fast players.
Speaker 1: It's fun to watch a home run. But to me,
Speaker 1: when you have someone fast on base, like when I
Speaker 1: was on base, I would love to create havoc right,
Speaker 1: pretend like I'm stealing, then go maybe not go delay steal.
Speaker 1: I mean, you you see a team become depleted when
Speaker 1: someone is just taking control out on a base path.
Speaker 1: So I would love to see more about again, that's
Speaker 1: good perspective too, about what it's like when you're out
Speaker 1: there trying to create that havoc that's exciting. You mentioned
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman earlier, your fellow Tiger. He looked really good
Speaker 1: opening week, Astro's All star third baseman. Astros looked really good.
Speaker 1: A team like Toronto who had a lot of attention,
Speaker 1: with a lot of young talent, a lot of offseason moves,
Speaker 1: they had a good opening week. What else sticks out
Speaker 1: to you from this first handful of games that we saw,
Speaker 1: any early reactions, I don't necessarily have too many early reactions.
Speaker 1: I think I'm excited to see more about what the
Speaker 1: Braves are doing. I think always seeing a team bounce
Speaker 1: back from winning, uh from winning the whole thing is
Speaker 1: what's interesting. I think they had a decent weekend, but
Speaker 1: just more improving, especially after losing a leader, and just
Speaker 1: what a young team like that can do moving forward
Speaker 1: and see if they really still had that pizzas that
Speaker 1: they had the past year. For me, I just think
Speaker 1: it's just kind of watching the teams. There's been so
Speaker 1: many moves, so many moves in this offseason, so many trades,
Speaker 1: and just consistently watching how those play out. For me,
Speaker 1: it's hard to really tell from the first weekend. But
Speaker 1: I think once we continue to get more into the season,
Speaker 1: second week and third, that's when you really see what
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna what's gonna play out for the rest
Speaker 1: of the year. All Right, we gotta talk about my team.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Yankee fan. I'm from New York. These
Speaker 1: are my squad. That's my squad. I liked it when
Speaker 1: you said standing there. But Aaron Boone. Aaron Boone, he
Speaker 1: gets a three year contract extension this offseason, which doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like the Yankees. They don't do that. Do you
Speaker 1: think he deserved it? Like? Do you think he should
Speaker 1: have more postseason success before he gets that big extension?
Speaker 1: What's your thoughts about that? I? You know, to me,
Speaker 1: it does seem uncharacteristic, because I feel like anytime a
Speaker 1: Yankee gets those extensions, they have proven them somebody. It's
Speaker 1: undeniable that so and so deserves whatever they're going to
Speaker 1: be getting. But I think it proves to how much
Speaker 1: they believe in him. It proves to how much they
Speaker 1: believe in his potential and what's to come. And maybe
Speaker 1: it's a shift in the Yankee organization. They're very old school, right,
Speaker 1: and so potentially this is something you see changing. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about that? I mean you're being a
Speaker 1: huge Yankee fan, Like do you like seeing things change
Speaker 1: or would you like it to remain the same. That's
Speaker 1: a good question. I mean I like them to remain
Speaker 1: the same because they do a lot of winning. So
Speaker 1: if it if it, if this change means they're not
Speaker 1: gonna be doing a lot of winning, then I'm not
Speaker 1: a fan of it. I love the evil Empire. And
Speaker 1: you know, if if this is a change that's gonna
Speaker 1: affect the you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 1: So I'm a little worried. I mean, Aaron Boone, he
Speaker 1: hasn't proven himself. Giving him this type of security after
Speaker 1: you know, not really having the success the Yankees are
Speaker 1: used to in the playoffs is a little concerning because
Speaker 1: I just don't want it to get too comfortable sitting
Speaker 1: there was chew or sunflower seeds and thinking he's got
Speaker 1: a coushy job. Now. I mean, look, we have high expectations.
Speaker 1: I want you to you maybe we need you on
Speaker 1: the Yankees to steal some basis. Listen, I would love to,
Speaker 1: but you talk about a winning team, I don't know,
Speaker 1: they haven't won the World serious since point nine. It's
Speaker 1: been a minute, so maybe maybe there needs to be
Speaker 1: a little bit of a change. I mean it's great
Speaker 1: second place. It doesn't count, almost doesn't count, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Honest, Like you get close, but untell
Speaker 1: you until you win it. You really don't get any
Speaker 1: bragging rights. You are right, it has been a little while.
Speaker 1: I always forget that, but it has been I mean
Speaker 1: that's a long time ago. Forget you know. The other
Speaker 1: team in New York, though, has a lot of expectations too.
Speaker 1: I think if the Mets can get to the postseason
Speaker 1: with the healthy Scherzer and de Gram, they could be unstoppable. Honest,
Speaker 1: you can plug your ears if you don't want to
Speaker 1: hear any of this. But staying healthy might be the issue.
Speaker 1: As Schozer is older Gram's already out for a couple
Speaker 1: of months. How care or full are the Mets going
Speaker 1: to be or how careful should they be? Really with
Speaker 1: the season where we only see them make ten to
Speaker 1: fifteen starts with those two, I would say being careful
Speaker 1: just because I feel like the talent that they've acquired
Speaker 1: this year is I mean, their chances of going a
Speaker 1: really a long way. I think are high. So I
Speaker 1: think making sure that you have a strong pitching staff,
Speaker 1: also keeping the players, you know, your your best batters
Speaker 1: in the lineup healthy, making sure they're not getting targeted.
Speaker 1: You know, when they're up to bat. A lot of
Speaker 1: them got we're getting hit this that past weekend. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm hoping that I think that I think
Speaker 1: that you know, being careful, just because I think they
Speaker 1: have so much talent and this is a this is
Speaker 1: a really talented Mets team, and I think moving forward,
Speaker 1: if they can keep everyone healthy, I think they may
Speaker 1: have a better chance than even the Yankees. Yeah that
Speaker 1: was that was gonna be my follow up question, but
Speaker 1: you just answered it. So okay, you going the Mets
Speaker 1: are gonna have a better season the Yankees. All right.
Speaker 1: You know I'm not going to take that personally. You know,
Speaker 1: I hope you're wrong. Let's just say that, Well, a
Speaker 1: j we always like to play a game with our
Speaker 1: guests that kind of transcends sports a little bit. So
Speaker 1: this is part sports, part real life. So are you
Speaker 1: ready to play our game? Yes? What's the name? Well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. We don't really have a name for
Speaker 1: this one. It's it's more unwritten rules, unwritten rules in baseball,
Speaker 1: and they're yeah, unwritten rules, and there are unwritten rules
Speaker 1: in life. So let's start with a baseball one. You
Speaker 1: tell us what you think. We're going to give you
Speaker 1: the situation. You tell us what you think. So an
Speaker 1: easy baseball one. An unwritten rule. You should not show
Speaker 1: up a picture after you hit a home run and
Speaker 1: flip a bat or dance around the basis yes or no? No? No,
Speaker 1: I mean like no, yes, and you can do it. Oh, okay, no,
Speaker 1: I don't believe. Okay, let the guys have some fun
Speaker 1: to come by, Like, let people celebrate that excitement. You
Speaker 1: worked hard for that. If you don't want the guy
Speaker 1: to celebrate, don't throw it down the pipe. I don't
Speaker 1: really know what. I don't understand, like being upset about it,
Speaker 1: like you. You allow that to happen, and now you're mad.
Speaker 1: I just I've never understood that. I like, I like it,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, I agree with you, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm hearing what you're saying. You're basically saying, hey, hey, baseball,
Speaker 1: get into the modern era. Let these guys show a
Speaker 1: boat a little bit. Well, let them show their personality,
Speaker 1: it's fun. Yeah, I agree. Okay, another baseball one unwritten rule,
Speaker 1: never bunt to break up a no hitter. Yeah you're naight.
Speaker 1: Um oh, I don't care. You can do it just
Speaker 1: because it's a bunch of hit, Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand why that's uh, I say, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can do it. Yeah you're ruthless. Yeah, she's a
Speaker 1: she's a competitor, she's like whatever. Look if whatever it is,
Speaker 1: these unwritten rules, I just think, first of all, what's
Speaker 1: alma was bunting? You see them about to bunt, you
Speaker 1: have ample amount of time potentially to go run up
Speaker 1: and get it. Hopefully your third baseman or first baseman
Speaker 1: is athletic enough, or if it comes back to the picture,
Speaker 1: you've done up p fps to figure out how to
Speaker 1: get over the first base. I just think that a
Speaker 1: bunch of hit and for you to be upset for
Speaker 1: someone boosting their batting average, like no one wants to
Speaker 1: how to be the team that someone got a no
Speaker 1: hit her off of Right, So yeah, I'm a bunt.
Speaker 1: Do what you gotta do. Okay, I already know how
Speaker 1: you're going to answer this next one because I know
Speaker 1: how you are. You are ruthless. Don't steal bases when
Speaker 1: you're up big late in the game, you're stealing bases. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: this one is probably different from what you think. I
Speaker 1: think if you're up by a lot and there's no
Speaker 1: probably about no chance the team is going to come back,
Speaker 1: you know, have a little, a little, a little, a
Speaker 1: little mercy and not steal bags. I think that's the
Speaker 1: least you can do. You gotta hit, you can stay
Speaker 1: at first. You don't have to take a second. Ye
Speaker 1: all right, just a little. You're showing a little. You're
Speaker 1: showing a little herd for the for the losing team.
Speaker 1: I like it only because I'm winning, only because I'm
Speaker 1: all right. Let's move into some non baseball unwritten rules. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have some fun. Never text someone you're flirting with
Speaker 1: after ten pm? Can you do it? Yeah? He means,
Speaker 1: like the up you can do it up? Text is fine?
Speaker 1: You at ten o'clock. Like, I'm probably up right, But
Speaker 1: if you texted me at I don't know twelve and like,
Speaker 1: hey you up? You know? Could I text you after twelve?
Speaker 1: If I'm asking you about oton if the scouting report
Speaker 1: on oh towny is going to hurt him this year.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but no you ups. But if if I'm
Speaker 1: talking baseball, can I tell you can't want them in
Speaker 1: the morning. As long as you're it's understood, I'm probably
Speaker 1: not gonna respond. I'm just actually back, like you really
Speaker 1: couldn't wait like eight more hours? Yeah, okay. What about
Speaker 1: unwritten rule don't wear white to a wedding? Oh for sure,
Speaker 1: do not do Yeah, yeah, okay, we agree on that one.
Speaker 1: You would be escorted out on my wedding if you do.
Speaker 1: Oh everyone knows that. You know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: if you do that, that's just like you wanted. You
Speaker 1: wanted to start some drama. I've heard of people's mother
Speaker 1: in law showing up in white to their wedding, like
Speaker 1: not planned, like not like let's all wear white thing,
Speaker 1: but their their grooms mom wearing white. No, there's this
Speaker 1: thing on TikTok and it's am I the a whole?
Speaker 1: And like people tell their stories, and so a woman
Speaker 1: on there said, am I the a hole? That I
Speaker 1: got my bridesmaid to her in a law were white
Speaker 1: to pour red wine on her mother's dress accidentally to
Speaker 1: make her change. First of all, bride I would have
Speaker 1: thought to do that. But now why is that, I'll
Speaker 1: ask you. Is that just not to compete with the bride?
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Is that? What? Why is
Speaker 1: that a rule? I don't know. She would be one
Speaker 1: person wearing white at the wedding and it's the bride.
Speaker 1: You guys, Yeah, you guys are vicious. Women are vicious.
Speaker 1: Like it's the bride white. You know that if you
Speaker 1: want to be the center of attention, just wear some
Speaker 1: other kind of gown. You don't need to wear white. No,
Speaker 1: it's her wedding, like, I don't know. That's a lot,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, all right here, I'm a comedian,
Speaker 1: so I'll ask you this one. Never heckoed comedian while
Speaker 1: he's on stage or else he's allowed to unleash all
Speaker 1: hell on you. Yes, now you you back the comedians?
Speaker 1: Are you will speak with Chris Rock? I thought I
Speaker 1: thought comedians liked a little bit of heckoing. No, because
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I don't know. I'm not. You
Speaker 1: don't they don't know. We never we never like okay
Speaker 1: because sometimes I've seen it and they like go in
Speaker 1: on the person and it it makes the whole thing,
Speaker 1: Not that it wasn't already funny, but it's it brings
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot more humor to it. And
Speaker 1: so um, yes, I believe you're gonna heckle. You should
Speaker 1: understand that. All right, you wanted this time there, it's
Speaker 1: time for them to shine on you. So if you're
Speaker 1: gonna heckoll be ready for what's to come. I believe it,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Alright, I thank you for backing us.
Speaker 1: Here is the last one to sum us all up.
Speaker 1: Unwritten rule. Never brag about your bet or someone else's
Speaker 1: bet that is about to win before it officially wins.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think I agree with that. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like when you go into a game, or it's
Speaker 1: a like when you're it's a no hitter, right, everyone
Speaker 1: in the deck outs like it's no hitter, talk about
Speaker 1: like you're supposed to talk about it if you're the
Speaker 1: team that's about to get there have no hitter against.
Speaker 1: But if you're on the other team, you don't talk
Speaker 1: about it. Right, if your pictures about have a no hitter,
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to speak on it, not to mention
Speaker 1: it or all. It feels like it always jinks it
Speaker 1: And so I think that's kind of like the same
Speaker 1: thing applies. Don't talk about it. You're gonna jinks it like,
Speaker 1: let it play out. Let it play out. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love it. A J. You are awesome. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining us today and previewing some of the
Speaker 1: MLB action to come. You can follow a J. Andrews
Speaker 1: on Twitter at a J Underscore Andrews and thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining us than guys for having me. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we've kind of previewed some of the NBA playoffs,
Speaker 1: but let's get into the nitty gritty. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the betting lines and bring in bet MGM betting expert.
Speaker 1: Man take a shot every time I say bet Peter
Speaker 1: andrew is joining as Peter, how you doing. I could
Speaker 1: use a shot right now if anybody wants to take
Speaker 1: a gamo with me. So, hey, you and me both
Speaker 1: thirty five weeks pregnant. I could use a shot right
Speaker 1: down too. Let's take a closer look at the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They start Saturday, Sons and Bucks two highest odds at
Speaker 1: bet MGM to win it all, so they're the favorites
Speaker 1: to meet again in the championship. Will history repeat itself?
Speaker 1: I don't think so first off, I don't like the
Speaker 1: Suns at plus two sixty, and I think the Bucks
Speaker 1: are like five fifty. I don't think that's a good
Speaker 1: price to take right now. I think you have to
Speaker 1: start leaning the different direction. It's funny that you have
Speaker 1: teams like the Nets that are in the playing game
Speaker 1: at seven and one and the third third highest odds,
Speaker 1: So I think you have to look elsewhere. Both the
Speaker 1: East and the West. There's a little bit of parody.
Speaker 1: I'd say more so in the East. You look at
Speaker 1: a team like the Celtics that could come in and
Speaker 1: swing in obviously mentioned the Nets. Even teams like um,
Speaker 1: you know, like the Bulls. They can make some noise.
Speaker 1: I know they have a tough first round match up,
Speaker 1: but there's lots of parody. I don't think it's worth
Speaker 1: while looking at two of the Chalk favorites. And we'll
Speaker 1: get into some of my picks in a second. But
Speaker 1: or for the series, I should say, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be an interesting first couple of rounds. You never know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. I know we're recording on Tuesday here
Speaker 1: before all the playing games are settled, But where did
Speaker 1: the Nets end? Do they end in that seven spot.
Speaker 1: What's everybody's assuming Did they end up in the eight
Speaker 1: seed and playing the one? A lot to tell over
Speaker 1: the next couple of days. That's interesting that you say that, though,
Speaker 1: because don't you think the NBA playoffs always end up
Speaker 1: going real chalk because of the seven game series. It's
Speaker 1: usually the better team that wins, the healthier team that wins.
Speaker 1: And right now we're looking at a healthy Bucks team
Speaker 1: and we're looking at a healthy Phoenix team. So I'm
Speaker 1: surprised you say that the Phoenix part, the West part
Speaker 1: of it is more of the price. If they were
Speaker 1: sitting at four or five to one, I think it's
Speaker 1: worth laying a couple of Bucks. But the East, the
Speaker 1: East doesn't have that powerhouse that it's always had when
Speaker 1: Lebron was there, when the Celtics had the Big Three.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of teams there that can win
Speaker 1: a string of two or three games and make it
Speaker 1: a series. I mean, we'll talk you know, Sixers Raptors
Speaker 1: in a second. That's a team right there off the
Speaker 1: bat that Philly has not played well against them. That's
Speaker 1: the I think it's the four five or the three six,
Speaker 1: but they have not fared well against them, and and
Speaker 1: I love the Raptors in that series. You never know
Speaker 1: what a team can do when they get hot. I
Speaker 1: know we probably said it a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: that they could they could farewell against the Bucks. Obviously
Speaker 1: that matchup has changed. But there's so much parity in
Speaker 1: the East, where what if the Hawks get in and
Speaker 1: get that eight seed, can they make a little bit
Speaker 1: of noise, do what they did last year where they
Speaker 1: just completely disrupted the Knicks. It's gonna be tough, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be harder than last year. But there are
Speaker 1: a lot of complete teams without a team that has
Speaker 1: three superstars, you know, in their starting five. So stick
Speaker 1: in the East. Something I've been looking at the Miami Heat.
Speaker 1: The best team have the six best odds to win
Speaker 1: the NBA Championship, and in their own conference, the Bucks,
Speaker 1: the Nets, and the Celtics have better odds than them.
Speaker 1: Why is Vegas cold on the Heat? Do you like
Speaker 1: the way I worded that? Too? Pretty clever? Perfect? You're
Speaker 1: good you. I think you'll see those odds change a
Speaker 1: little bit depending on what happens in the playing game.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, but I think it's the potential that
Speaker 1: they end up playing the Nets in the first round.
Speaker 1: So if the Nets lose versus the Calves beat the
Speaker 1: Hawks of the Hornets end up getting the eight seed,
Speaker 1: things drastically change. If the Nets win Nets to take
Speaker 1: care of business, I think it's tonight and take the
Speaker 1: seventh seed. I think you'll see those odds shift a
Speaker 1: little bit, especially if they pay a team like the Hornets.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you're gonna look at them and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: that plus a thousand becomes way more likely because they're
Speaker 1: gonna sweep their first round matchup and then make their
Speaker 1: way into a second. So they may not change drastically,
Speaker 1: but I think it has everything to do with the
Speaker 1: play in series and what could happen. Because if the
Speaker 1: Nets end up playing the Mining Heat in the first round,
Speaker 1: Nets are probably the favorite in all honesty, so that
Speaker 1: will vary. I think what happens once that's complete and
Speaker 1: we're looking into Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Let's look at the
Speaker 1: West a little bit. Let's talk about the West, the
Speaker 1: mighty mighty West, where the sun is, where the Suns are,
Speaker 1: and where a questionable Warriors team is. What's the line
Speaker 1: looking like for the Warriors and steps return and how
Speaker 1: much does that determine? Is that line gonna move based
Speaker 1: on when he comes back? So he it looks like
Speaker 1: he's good to go and it looks like he's healthy.
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson coming off a pretty strong performance. I think
Speaker 1: he had forty one versus the Pel's last last week
Speaker 1: to wrap up the season. I think people are underrating
Speaker 1: that team. I think they're getting healthy at the right time.
Speaker 1: They're going to be playing well together Versus a Nuggets
Speaker 1: team that frankly doesn't have much more than nicolea Yokich.
Speaker 1: You still have Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr. Not sure
Speaker 1: when they're slated to get back. The only real call
Speaker 1: it perimeter slash interior defender they have is Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 1: That's worth speaking about. What's going to happen in terms
Speaker 1: of spreading the floor out for the for the Curries
Speaker 1: in Clay Thompson's the World, I think it's gonna be really,
Speaker 1: really tough. I like Warriors so series minus one and
Speaker 1: a half. So to win by more than one game
Speaker 1: to close up the series, and then I think to
Speaker 1: win the series four one is plus four hundred. I
Speaker 1: really like that. I think Nuggets school will speak one
Speaker 1: out at home, but otherwise, I don't think that these
Speaker 1: teams compare when they're not healthy. If Murray and and
Speaker 1: Michael Porter Jr. Were healthy, not coming in cold whenever
Speaker 1: they do come in, I think you're talking a completely
Speaker 1: different series. Absolutely, what's your favorite first round series to
Speaker 1: bet on? What looks like such a lock. It's I'm
Speaker 1: pandering again, like you called out last week when I
Speaker 1: was in Ontario. But I love this Raptors team versus
Speaker 1: the Sixers. Like, I don't know, he's still doing it.
Speaker 1: I thought Raptors podcast. I we just opened up in Canada.
Speaker 1: Baby Pete's got He's a good company man. You know what,
Speaker 1: when Sam officially got signed, I was like, that's it,
Speaker 1: I'm changing my allegiance. Unfortunately things changed, but I still
Speaker 1: love the Raptors. Okay, that makes one of us. That
Speaker 1: makes more of us. Right, It's more about the Sixers team.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a hot mass. I mean, they can
Speaker 1: defend with the rest of them and anyone, but on
Speaker 1: the offensive side, you look at a lot of their
Speaker 1: statistical analytics when they got hardened. Things have not changed,
Speaker 1: and you know where you're getting out of MBID, but
Speaker 1: you need to know what you're getting out of Harden
Speaker 1: and the rest of the core game in game out.
Speaker 1: The Raptors have taken them to the tool shed. I
Speaker 1: think they won three one season series, or maybe it
Speaker 1: was four one but games without van Fleet, games without Sakum,
Speaker 1: a couple of games. Granted didn't have Harden because he
Speaker 1: wasn't on the team yet. But Sixers just seem like
Speaker 1: a messy team. You see Doc Rivers coming and yapping
Speaker 1: it at the media, trying to, I guess defend his
Speaker 1: team between in the wrong way. It just seems like
Speaker 1: they're all over the place. So for that, I'm probably
Speaker 1: gonna probably gonna take the Raptors. I think they're plus
Speaker 1: one fifty. I might take the series to go six games,
Speaker 1: so either way, plus two hundred, I think that's a
Speaker 1: fair number. It's not a sweep by any means either direction.
Speaker 1: This probably becomes a little bit of a chippy series.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, I like the Raptors. Yeah we know. Yeah, Pete.
Speaker 1: Let me just ask you a question about Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: over there in Philadelphia. Do you think someone should just
Speaker 1: get that guy a hot tea? Because doesn't he just
Speaker 1: sound like he always needs a tea with lemon? What's
Speaker 1: up with his voice? Whish we should be he And
Speaker 1: the funny thing is it's like it's not like it's
Speaker 1: gotten progressively worse. It's just stayed the same for twenty years.
Speaker 1: Every time you ever hear about him, it's uh yeah, cracking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the voice is terrible, but just get I mean, just
Speaker 1: made the guy some honey with some tea, that's it.
Speaker 1: But are you even coaching if you don't lose your voice?
Speaker 1: You know, if you talk to a coach after a
Speaker 1: game and they have their voice. As a former sideline reporter,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm like, you weren't even giving it
Speaker 1: all you had, right, Yeah? I picture like Frank martin
Speaker 1: my head, or someone like in college circuit that just
Speaker 1: absolutely lose their marbles. The guys sweating through his suit
Speaker 1: jack and stuff. Yeah, how about Sean McVeigh super Bowl run,
Speaker 1: He couldn't talk at all. Yeah, I don't know, it's true.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at Quince Snyder over at Utah.
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like I want to get that
Speaker 1: guy as zen x every game. But then the exception
Speaker 1: to the rule was, of course, the zen master himself,
Speaker 1: Phil Jackson. But now in retrospect, when I look back,
Speaker 1: I'm like, look, i'd be pretty relaxed too if I
Speaker 1: had the most dominant players on my team for every
Speaker 1: team I coach. And I mean he always talked about zen,
Speaker 1: go with the flow. He never got out of his seat.
Speaker 1: And now I look back and look, dude, I think
Speaker 1: if I had Michael Jordan's Shack and Colby, I probably
Speaker 1: would have slept through the games. Yeah. Also, also LSD
Speaker 1: is now illegal, so that doesn't help Phil Jackson's future stage. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: justin thank you get a little spicy. I think it's
Speaker 1: a great place to wrap. I always kind of watching
Speaker 1: with YouTube. Peter, thank you so much for the laughs,
Speaker 1: for the pandering, for the Betty mines. We appreciate you.